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10:38 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Rage Against the Machine bassist apologizes for Limp Bizkit
Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford: "I do apologize for Limp Bizkit. I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit." (Rolling Stone)Remember the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000 w...
08:53 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun" (1964)
The beautiful 1964 promotional film for The Animals' "The House of the Rising Sun," a truly timeless number that the band recorded in just one take. From Wikipedia: Like many classic folk ballads, t...
08:17 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing How To Recognize and Handle Abnormal People: A Manual for the Police Office
In 1954, the National Association for Mental Health first issued the book "How To Recognize and Handle Abnormal People: A Manual for the Police Officer." Included were techniques on dealing with all k...
08:17 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing How To Recognize and Handle Abnormal People: A Manual for the Police Officer
In 1954, the National Association for Mental Health first issued the book "How To Recognize and Handle Abnormal People: A Manual for the Police Officer." Included were techniques on dealing with all k...
07:37 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Mentally ill man jailed over $5 worth of snacks dies in cell after waiting months for mental health care
Man, the first few paragraphs of this Washington Post story about a mentally ill man who died in a jail while waiting for medical care are so devastating. (more…)...
07:08 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Sure, Fall's a great season. Unless you are Native American.
This, according to the Huffington Post, is a photo of a man playing Indian during a Washington football team game in New Jersey against the New York Giants. (more…)...
04:33 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Hundreds of Canadian artists call for repeal of surveillance law
Bill C-51 is a sweeping, radical mass-surveillance bill proposed by the current Canadian Tory government, which will be fighting an election next month. (more…)...
04:27 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Statues of recently-canonized Junipero Serra vandalized
My California public school education was filled with romanticized stories of the Spanish Missions. What we were taught was not accurate. The folks already living here were abused and enslaved. It com...
04:17 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Zeroes: it sucks to be a teen, even with powers
The Zeroes' powers aren't quite the sort we're used to seeing in, say, X-Men or Teen Titans. These kids -- all born in the year 2000, and maybe it was something about all those zeroes that made the di...
03:02 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Kanye West thinks home 3D printing is killing the shoe industry
"This is what I'm afraid of right here, 3D printing. Because the Internet destroyed the music industry and now this is what we're afraid of right now with the textile industry. There will come a time ...
01:11 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The geometric horror game Euclidean is Lovecraft levels of scary
Tentacles made of cubes reach for you from within the watery abyss. "You're not supposed to be here," an unseen being informs you as you descend into the first level of the game Euclidean. Deep sea cr...
12:56 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing I built my rabbit a cart and now he delivers me beer!
Says the uploader of this superb video, I built my rabbit a cart and now he delivers me beer! This event marks the release of an epic accomplishment.Sure does, bro. Sure does.https://youtu.be/oc9rYaX9...
12:28 pm PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Cool $200 analog Moog synthesizer kit
I just found my Christmas present - the Moog Werkstatt-1! It's about $200.The Moog Werkstatt-1 is a patchable, 100% analog synthesizer whose design is based on classic Moog circuits. Assembly is ext...
11:57 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The Mercator Puzzle reminds you how deceptive maps can be
The Earth is round, and maps are flat. While we have may mapped nearly every inch of our world, figuring out how to translate that information from three dimensions to two remains a problem.Most maps ...
11:21 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing An artist is Kickstarting a jigsaw puzzle of his awesome toy ray gun painting
John Padlo has a huge collection of vintage science fiction toys. He has been working on a giant-size painting of a bunch of his toy ray guns, and is almost finished. Now, he is Kickstarting a 500-pi...
11:18 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Doctor punches patient for too many ER visits
A physician at an emergency room in Aomori Prefecture, Japan was so annoyed with a man who showed up at the hospital three times in one night that he socked the patient in the gut. Apparently the fell...
11:06 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Two guys switch places in the driver's seat and freak out the drive-up window people
https://youtu.be/OaohPXGZG-sRahat and his buddy are very good at quickly switching places in the driver's seat. They put this unusual talent to good use by driving to fast food places and making the d...
10:43 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Animated interview with Tom Waits
Interviewed by Chris Roberts in 1988. (Blank on Blank)...
10:41 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing How to break into a Brinks lockbox in seconds
We already know that Brinks' computerized safes can be hacked within a minute, but did you know their traditional lockboxes are even easier to get into?YouTuber jcazes provides instructions, complet...
10:33 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Bowling pin mascot pursues TV reporter
A seemingly innocuous news segment, about a charity event in a bowling alley, goes awry when Tommy the Tenpin strikes. [KMPH News 26, via r/videos]...
10:30 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The Golden Compass could be a masterpiece or a dangerous book that shouldn't be in the hands of children
See sample pages from this book at Wink.Depending on who you ask, Philip Pullmans The Golden Compass could be a masterpiece or a dangerous book that shouldnt be in the hands of children. The former op...
10:26 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Papal threat display
Author Jim C Hines is in fine form....
10:17 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing A Belgian photographer was allowed to photograph the inner circle of Japan's yakuza
In 2009, Belgian photographer Anton Kusters went to Japan and gained the trust of high-ranking members Japan's organized crime families, known as the yakuza. He was allowed to photograph them for tw...
10:14 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing John Oliver on racism and the Syrian refugee crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqvYhb3wf4This is Oliver at his best, using weaponized bathos that ricochets between rage-making clips of racist political figures trying to terrorize Syrians into s...
10:06 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing 10-foot-long inflatable Jabba lawn decoration
At $170, the 10' long, 6' tall light-up Jabba inflatable isn't a cheap lawn decoration, but he'll certainly make an impression on the neighbors. I think he'd go well with my brand-new custom lawn-flag...
10:00 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Secret chambers found in King Tut's tomb, say archaeologists
Evidence has been found of "two hidden chambers" behind the painted walls of King Tutankhamun's resting place, say expertsand one of them could be the tomb of Queen Nefertiti.Egypt's antiquities minis...
09:57 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Ta-Nehisi Coates wins a 2015 MacArthur Genius award
The awards -- whose selection process is a closely guarded secret -- come with $500,000 over five years.Coates is an accomplished writer and thinker, whose long-form work has distilled many of the i...
09:44 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Apple removes an app that tracks U.S. military drone strikes from its Store
The Metadata+ app which tracks U.S. military drone strikes by was created by Josh Begley, research editor for The Intercept. Begley changed its name from Drones+ after it was rejected as "objectionabl...
09:32 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Edward Snowden is now @snowden
The exiled whistleblower signed up for Twitter today, using @snowden.Twitter turned the three-years-dormant userid over to Snowden, who is operating his own account (which has only one entry to it, to...
09:30 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Our dog dreaming, snoring, hiccuping
Heather shot this spectacular, breakneck footage of Tricksy (random New Mexico desert dog; rescued) asleep on the couch, dreaming of another fine breakfast....
09:23 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing With Roca Labs smackdown, the FTC slams non-disparagement clauses for the first time
I cheered the news that the Federal Trade Commission was suing Roca Labs, the sleazy "weight-loss" company that sold people industrial food thickeners as "non-surgical gastric bypasses" and made them ...
09:05 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing New X-Files trailer
"They police us, and spy on us, and tell us it makes us safer," said Mulder. "We've never been in more danger."...
08:57 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing My new e-book: how to make cool magic trick card decks
Trick Decks: How to Hack Cards for Extraordinary Magic is my $2.99 Kindle e-book that will show you how to easily make different kinds of magic trick card decks. You can make the decks from ordinary...
08:46 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Interactive map lets you be global warming, shrinking the ice cap
The Atlantic: "On September 11 of this year, the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum. 2015s minimum was the fourth-smallest ever recorded, and it nearly tied with the third-smallest...
08:31 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The newspapers couldn't figure out skateboards
Ratter offers a brief history of skateboards made of reactions to their ever-increasing popularity from contemporary newspapers.Here's the most stupid/brilliant, from The Evening Independent in Masill...
08:10 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to the Lyre of Ur, a 4,500 year-old musical instrument
"You think you know what a Lyre looks like."I love the fact that the website dedicated to the world's oldest musical instrument is itself made of the world's oldest HTML. [via Metafilter]The instrum...
08:05 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Kickstarting an encrypted email game about the Snowden leaks
James writes, "A blend of fact and fiction, players take on the role of an NSA agent tracking down the source of the leaks. They'll discover the journalists involved, and the real messages sent by Sno...
07:59 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Fabriano EcoQua notebooks
For taking notes, sketches and generally just having paper with me that works well with my fountain pens, I've been using Fabriano's EcoQua notebooks.The dot-ruled, staple bound sheets of 85gsm off-wh...
07:57 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Execspeak singularity: the spectacular bullshit of Blackberry's CEO
It takes a top-notch MBA and years of training to be able to improvise and enunciate statements like "I'm going to really frame our mobile architectural distinction. We've taken two fundamentally diff...
07:50 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing The FBI has no trouble spying on encrypted communications
Every time the Bureau wants to spy on someone whose communications are encrypted, they just hack them.The FBI has made a huge deal out of wanting back doors in encryption -- back doors that could be e...
06:45 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Rush Limbaugh: water on Mars is a leftist conspiracy
Who needs the Onion? "Don't know how long it's going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda."I don't...
06:40 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Jamaica wants slavery reparations from the UK
Members of Jamaica's Parliament are threatening to turn their backs on David Cameron during an official visit unless he agrees to discuss reparations for slavery during the meeting.General Sir James D...
06:38 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume
I'm considering this inflatable Stay Puft Marshmallow Man costume for Halloween. Every few years my Ghostbuster costume comes out of storage, but I feel like stepping on a church. A friend has this co...
06:36 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Run DMC's King of Rock
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!https://youtu.be/qXzWlPL_TKw...
06:00 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Animated phone interviews with Charles Manson
"Old Man" is a curious and compelling animation of phone chats between Charles Manson and Marlin Marynick, author of "Charles Manson Now." Directed and animated by Leah Shore. (via Devour)...
02:00 am PDT - Tue, September 29, 2015
BoingBoing Save over 25% on the SKEYE Pico Drone - the world's tiniest drone
[embed]https://youtu.be/Mi_HMUhhMMU[/embed]Take flight in fresh air or zip the mini SKEYE Pico Drone through your office in between meetingswe guarantee its more fun than a coffee-break. This nimble q...
03:29 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Smart little 11-month-old baby figures out a clever way to climb off this bed
Proud papa Francisco Aguilar posted this video of his 11-month-old son, whose budding intelligence was captured perfectly in this short video....
03:14 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Tinder swipes left on billboard that implies dating apps give you STDs
Tinder is not happy about an LA billboard campaign urging users of popular dating and hookup apps to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases, for free. In a provocative LA area billboard campaign...
03:10 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Carly Fiorina boasts: I sold the NSA its mass-surveillance servers
When National Security Agency director Michael Hayden told then-CEO-of-HP/now-Republican-presidential-hopeful Carly Fiorina he needed servers to put the entire USA under unconstitutional surveillance,...
03:02 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Professional skeptics on misinformation & hoaxes: anti-vaxx, Planned Parenthood
Gabriela writes, "Hopes&Fears starts the week with this roundtable in which we invite four professional skeptics to discuss the ins and outs of busting a hoax. From Ben Radford, deputy editor of The S...
02:42 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing An online Java course for kids, taught via Minecraft
At the beginning of the summer my son Ronan, age 12, and I built him his first high-powered gaming PC. Me being a dad and all, I did so happily, but with one proviso -- hed have to dedicate time every...
02:38 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Florida monkey escapes and wreaks havoc on Orlando. Again.
Zeek the monkey escaped his owner's home in a suburb of Orlando, Florida. Within hours after escaping, he accomplished a lot. He chewed on a neighbor's mail, pulled molding off a police car, and was ...
01:09 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing How does the iPhone 6s camera compare to every Apple smartphone before it?
Thinking of buying an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus? If photographic quality matters to you, check this out first. Camera+ founder Lisa Bettany does her annual "ultimate comparison" post with Apple's latest iP...
12:54 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Marijuana arrests in U.S. increased last year for the first time since 2009
The FBI reports that 700,993 people were arrested for marijuana-related offenses in 2014. More than 88% were for simple possession. This is the first time the number of arrests have increased since 20...
12:43 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Righstcorp's terrifying extortion script is breathtaking in its sleaze
Rightscorp is the notorious publicly traded shakedown outfit that accuses people of online infringement and threatens them with titanic fines and jail time for allegedly listening to music or watching...
12:09 pm PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Excellent tailgate puppet theater in traffic jams
https://youtu.be/8zoLY0HVuIYIf you're stuck in gridlock in Ljubljana, Slovenia, you might be lucky enough to be entertained by a tailgate puppet show from the Mini Teater."It demonstrates a true power...
11:28 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing This puzzle game makes me want to learn about opera
I've never watched an opera before, but the new iOS game Magic Flute by Mozart makes me want to.Created by Polish game developer Lablike, Magic Flute is a block-shifting puzzle game that not only feat...
11:05 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Hand-crank LED lantern $11
This nifty collapsable lantern has a built-in lithium battery. You can charge it with a USB cable or by turning the crank. The manufacturer says you can also charge your phone in an emergency by turni...
10:14 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Bored kid walks away from fence seconds before a car smashes through it
https://youtu.be/h5h_-tAxGaIHow soon before this shows up in certain Facebook circles as "proof" of guardian angels?...
10:11 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Ambient weather report display generates rain, lightning, sunshine in a box
Ambient displays translate online information into a simple presentation that's meant to be glanceable, easy to understand, and non-intrusive. I've always appreciate artistic ambient displays, like Na...
10:03 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Testament: A Celebration of the Life and Art of Frank Frazetta
See sample pages from this book at Wink.Many people first encountered the work of the painter Frank Frazetta (1928 - 2010) from his 1960s and 1970s paperback covers for Edgar Rice Burroughs' adventure...
09:59 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Cycleworld celebrates the iconic BMW R90s
Peter Egan has written a wonderful tribute to my favorite motorcycle of all time, the legendary BMW R90s. The R90s was a hail mary play by BMW. Having realized that their stoic, stolid, black-mit-whit...
09:57 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Bonnie and Clyde bank robbers busted after posting pics of stolen cash on Facebook
John Mogan, 28, and Ashley Duboe, 24, were arrested in connection with an Ohio bank robbery after Mogan posted a series of photos of himself playing with a thick wad of cash. In one photo, he pretends...
09:43 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Why students are forced to buy this expensive and obsolete Texas Instruments calculator
Twenty years ago, Texas Instruments released the TI-83 graphing calculator, a stupidly expensive piece of old technology that most high schools still require their juniors and seniors buy for around $...
09:41 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Public school suspends 8-year-old girl for wearing wrong shade of green
An elementary school in the pleasantly named town of Sicklerville, New Jersey suspended an 8-year-old girl for the crime of wearing a kelly green polo shirt. According to AP, "Winslow Township School'...
09:39 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Water on Mars, NASA reveals
[caption id="attachment_424275" align="alignnone" width="1650"] NASA says these streaks are proof that water flows on Mars. NASA[/caption]Well, this is big. NASA today revealed that new findings from ...
09:22 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Blindsight: weird phenomenon deepens the mystery of consciousness
Blindsight is a strange phenomenon that sometimes occurs when people have lost sight due to visual cortex damage but still respond to visual stimuli outside of their conscious awareness. New research ...
09:07 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Groovy 1970s Japanese psychedelic orgy anime
Jen Yamoto of The Daily Beast describes Belladonna of Sadness (Kanashimi no Belladonna) from 1973 as a "long-forgotten X-rated psychedelic animation gem about one womans violation, persecution, and se...
09:07 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing The Sea Devil: the gentleman pirate who made friends of his enemies in World War I
Felix von Luckner was a romantic hero in the Great War, a dashing nobleman who commanded an old-style sailing ship. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Luckner's uniqu...
09:00 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Win free tickets to the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco!
Want free VIP tickets to Boing Boing's favorite annual music event, the Treasure Island Music Festival taking place on the San Francisco Bay, October 17-18? This year, you will be thrilled by the uniq...
08:58 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Wil Wheaton on voice acting and the virtues of therapy through Mario Kart
Greetings, Offworlders! We're proud to team up with our friends at Critical Distance to bring you a special digest edition of their popular This Week in Videogame Blogging feature, showcasing games di...
08:56 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Republican debate, sans words
https://youtu.be/4vUYeQwUTZwDemocracy at work. (The Woodcreek Faction)...
08:55 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Cool bullet-time video of man breathing a huge fireball
Inferno - Bullet Time Camera Array from Mitch Martinez.[via]...
08:45 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Read Only Memories is a Quest From A Queer Future
There was a gloomy scent to the phrase, one very characteristic of Akhmatovas unique style, and it seems well suited to a cute blue robot who brings tidings of their own through the medium of a videog...
08:45 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Read Only Memories breathes life into queer characters in Neo San Francisco
There was a gloomy scent to the phrase, one very characteristic of Akhmatovas unique style, and it seems well suited to a cute blue robot who brings tidings of their own through the medium of a videog...
08:20 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Manifesto: dreamy pop with a computer-world music video
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/139909203Luca Pozzi Statement's wireframe dreamworld illustrates the calm electronic music of Sarc:o, whose album, Manifesto, is out now.Music video from Luca Poz...
08:00 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Leatherworker shares method for making wallets
Kevin Lee (proprietor of Fides Leather and a master with the knife), makes it look so easy! But the devil is in details that are easy to miss: perfect creases made with heated irons, carefully skiving...
07:46 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Yet another study suggests prolonged sitting kills
A report on sedentary behavior among middle-aged Korean men links prolonged sitting to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Published in the Journal of Hepatology, the research will increase attention to...
07:44 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing The steampunk statues of Medellin, Colombia
Herman from Colombia's Proyecto Liquido writes, "This is part of Medelln Steampunk a city project that resulted from a partnership between Fractal and the Secretary of Culture of the Medelln Mayor's O...
07:10 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Reminder: don't set fire to spiders while you pump gas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lFhpByO2sA foolish motorist was lucky to escape unharmed after trying to kill a spider in Center Line, Michigan, with fire. At a gas pump. While pumping gas.After spo...
07:03 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing AP will use "climate doubters" instead of "climate skeptics"
The new agency's new stylebook entry advises against using "deniers" as well, but at least it acknowledges that the true skeptics are adherents to the scientific method.The change was made to "help o...
07:00 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing What does "probability" mean in your profession?
Distorted by the jargon and cultures of various disciplines, the concept of probabilityand the terms we use around ittend to be somewhat misleading. Math with Bad Drawings probably has your profession...
06:56 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Distinguished scientists call for RICO prosecution of climate deniers
The scientists point out that RICO threats were critical to ending big tobacco's program of denying the link between cancer and smoking. We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative us...
06:46 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Dismaland will be dismantled, used for refugee shelters in Calais
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqEk&feature=youtu.beBanksy's brilliant piss-take on theme-parks has run its course and will now be dismantled, shipped to Calais and turned into temporary shelt...
06:45 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Marijuana falling from the sky
Earlier this month, a huge bundle of marijuana fell from the sky over Nogales, Arizona, crashing through the roof of a carport and destroying a dog house. Bill and Maya Donnelly turned the 23.8 pound ...
06:44 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Marijuana bomb falls from sky, crushes doghouse
26 pounds of pot were found in the wreckage after a doghouse in Nogales, close to the US-Mexico border, was pulverized in the night by a package that fell from the sky.The bundle of joy, worth $10,000...
06:27 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing WV emission test cheat scandal expands to subsidiaries Audi and Porsche
German automaker Audi has admitted that it fitted "defeat devices" to 2.1m vehicles to cheat on emissions tests. Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, whose use of the gadgets on some 11m diesel engines...
06:27 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing VW emission test cheat scandal expands to subsidiaries Audi and Porsche
German automaker Audi has admitted that it fitted "defeat devices" to 2.1m vehicles to cheat on emissions tests. Audi is a subsidiary of Volkswagen, whose use of the gadgets on some 11m diesel engines...
06:01 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Animals attacking drones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F8sPBsR9LoThey've already made up their minds about annoying buzzing noises we humans are in two minds about....
06:00 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Custom motorcycle to carry surfboard
Deus Ex Machina is a custom motorcycle and lifestyle brand launched by Australian surfers. Seen here is their "Red Pill" bike, built by Jeremy Tagand. The bike is based on a Kawasaki W650 that's been ...
06:00 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Receive a Mystery Box of Geek & Gamer Gear Each Month With Loot Crate
Loot Crate is the first ever subscription service for those that live and breathe the geek and gaming lifestyle. With this 3-month subscription, you will join a network of looters who have access to t...
05:59 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing An opera for sleep-deprived parents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uiTtt8JFZoFor anyone who has raised children: sing along, you know the words. ...
05:20 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing Cruz: Unleash Booming Reagan
https://vine.co/v/exHYKIiQn5iActual GOP finds the deeper truth to be found in the roaring elocution of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz....
03:22 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing This Metal Gear Solid spoof is heavy on the 'snake'
Imagine you are playing the classic arcade game Snake against your friend, except the "snakes" are Solid Snake and Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Well, your imagination is real. Snake? Snake! has...
02:55 am PDT - Mon, September 28, 2015
BoingBoing For disabled players, Twitch offers community and a second income
https://youtu.be/nhnKRg9SBQ4Simon Parkin has done an interesting profile at the Guardian of players with disabilities who have found a community—and a supplemental income—via online stream...
04:34 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Top 1 road rage incident in northern England
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQKSPEO6TzY&feature=youtu.be&t=1m40sRude language abounds in this splendid confrontation on a dreary street somewhere north of Hull. ...
04:09 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Wouldn't it be cool if Dune was an animated series?
Concept artist Matt Rhodes gives the science fiction classic a look rarely imagined for it: the look of TV animation. Click through for a look at those sexy Harkonnens. [via MeFi]...
03:55 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Popular man's closet now "90% womens' clothing"
Rapper Young Thug has declared that almost all his clothes are womens' clothes.The clothes I got on right now, theyre womens. Because womens clothes are [slimmer] than mens clothes The jeans I got on ...
03:40 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Black burners on race and Burning Man
Steven W Thrasher, a self-described "black burner" interviewed 20 burners of color on their experience at and motivations for attending Burning Man, where the population is 87% white and 1.3% black.Ja...
03:32 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Dungeons & Dragons game delayed
These demonic presences are angryeven angrier than usual!because eagerly-awaited retro-style game Sword Coast Legends has been delayed....
02:47 pm PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Saga Volume 5: proving you can do big SF with crazy aliens and deep politics
I had exactly one complaint about this comic: Staples and Vaughan just took too damned long to publish new issues. The stupendous third collection took nearly a year to surface, and then the fourth ca...
11:17 am PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Jen Wang author visit at LA Public Library, Oct 7
Jen is the incredible artist who adapted my short story "Anda's Game" for last year's middle-grades graphic novel In Real Life.You might also know her from her 2010 debut graphic novel Koko Be Good (w...
11:07 am PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Making a Princess Peach/Furiosa costume
Seelix set out to make an incredible costume that mashed up Imperator Furiosa from Mad Max Fury Road and Princess Peach from the Super Mario franchise -- she succeeded.She documented her process in a ...
10:56 am PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing Phone Call from Paul: new literary podcast from Paul Holdengraber, with Neil Gaiman
Paul Holdengraber, host of the New York Public Library's legendary literary interview series, has started a new podcast called "A phone call from Paul," which he has inaugurated with a two-part interv...
06:00 am PDT - Sun, September 27, 2015
BoingBoing TruBrain: It May Not Give You 'Wings', But It's Sure to Increase Productivity & Awareness
TruBrain is a cognitive enhancer that increases focus, attention, mental acuity, complex reasoning, productivity, and overall performance. Designed by top neuroscientists whove studied cognitive optim...
02:00 pm PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Neighbor insulted during dispute
https://youtu.be/QqqVSMLV5UkI hope you're having a better weekend than this couple, surreptitiously filmed here insulting their neighbor.Posted to YouTube and Reddit by "K," the claimed target of the ...
11:57 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Missing: Saudi prince accused of sexually abusing women held in his $37m Beverly Hills compound
The 'despicable' Saudi prince accused of sexually assaulting 'multiple women' over 3 days in a $37 million Beverly Hills compound has disappeared. Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 29, was arrested Wednesday o...
11:50 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Grids and Guides An ideas book for makers, engineers, and creative types of all stripes
See sample pages from this book at Wink.Grids & Guides is an ideas book as suitable for engineers and makers as it is for visual artists and other artsy types. Rather than the usual lined pages, t...
07:20 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth, a fantastic middle-grade adventure comic
The new kid is Hilo, the titular boy who crashed to Earth, and now he lives in Daniel's bedroom -- and follows him to school, after reading the family's encyclopedia set and dictionary (in 20 minutes)...
06:57 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Godzilla high-heels
They wouldn't be much use if you were running away from a giant killer monster, but Irregular Choice's $250 Roarsum boots are pretty badass nevertheless. (Thanks, Alice!)...
06:18 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing AT-AT dog costume
Thinkgeek's $30 AT-AT Walker dog costumes come in S-XL.Should you be a fan of dressing up your dog, we offer you this fine option from the Star Wars universe. This Star Wars AT-AT Walker Dog Costume i...
06:10 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Molly Crabapple's illustrations from Syria
The illustrator collaborated with Syrian writer Marwan Hisham (a pseudonym), who sent her mobile-phone photos from Syria that she used as the basis for a striking and moving series of illustrations fo...
06:00 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Ultimate Data & Analytics Bundle - 97% Off
The modern business creates mountains of raw datathe challenge being the ability to effectively analyze it. Big data analytics is the ticket to uncovering hidden patterns, correlations, trends, and mo...
05:58 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing 1 in 40 London cops have been arrested in the past five years
One UK police officer is arrested for criminal behaviour every day with the Metropolitan London Police accounting for the lion's share.The majority of police arrests are for sexual offenses.The Met is...
05:47 am PDT - Sat, September 26, 2015
BoingBoing Tomorrow's Catalan elections are a referendum on independence
The Catalan independence movement is a perennial factor in Spanish politics, but it's had a new lease on life since the financial crisis and the imposition of brutal austerity by the country's banker-...
05:09 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Cat discovers an effective method for dog shutdown
https://youtu.be/wu93UW0d__QWorks every time. We've been monitoring our pup at home to get a sense of how much barking he's been doing, Devon Meadows explains. Chazz had just started barking after my ...
05:02 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Doge proprietor of corner store in Japan greets customers with happy Shiba Inu wag
https://youtu.be/E6CcUj2mDbIMiki Kotevski, who shot this video, says: This Shiba Inu has brought more people together from across the world than most politicians and other figures will ever be able to...
05:00 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Dustin Yellin's stupendous, life-sized glass-pane humanoids made from NatGeo clippings
The human figures are part of a series called Psychogeography, and each one contains thousands of painstakingly clipped and collaged images from National Geographic back-issues, augmented with painted...
04:44 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Eat these 5 things and live to be 110 years old, says 110 year old guy
https://youtu.be/gcTjS1mKMdYThis 110-year-old man says he managed to keep living for more than a hundred years in part by eating sensibly. Sensibly, to him, means including these 5 foods in your diet:...
04:25 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Obama and China's Xi Jinping make a deal on commercial cyber espionage
The Financial Times reports that U.S. President Barack Obama has negotiated a commitment from Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that China will not conduct commercial cyber espionage. In what were report...
04:04 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Dad encourages his little girl as she hauls in a 5 pound bass with her Barbie fishing pole
https://youtu.be/KXYpJupNLSADid I get one? Um, yeah. Yeah you did, Avery! What a beautiful loving moment between a dad and his daughter. If this doesn't make you smile, you should probably go fishing ...
02:41 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Amazon Prime is on sale today only for $67/year
Today until 11:59pm PT you can sign up for an Amazon Prime subscription for $67. I use the hell out of Amazon Prime's free two-day shipping on everything from huge boxes of toilet paper to books and r...
02:30 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Dual USB charger with 10000mAh for under $10
Kmashi's Dual USB portable charger packs a beefy 10000mAh and is just $9.29 when you use coupon code MHLSNM2R at checkout in the Amazon store. It also includes a micro USB charger cable. I have one of...
02:04 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Ornate Cthulhu stein
Munkstein's forthcoming, $70 Cthulhu mugs are billed as "official" which actually sounds kind of sinister, in that it implies that there's a nest of true Elder Gods cultists who are in a position to g...
12:12 pm PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Incredible new paintings by Richard Colman, art opening in SF tonight
Richard Colman opens a show of glorious new paintings at San Francisco's Chandran Gallery tonight! Above is my favorite Colman painting that I've seen so far, the mindblowingly beautiful "Figures, Fac...
11:55 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Motherfucking tarantula on a motherfucking plane
A baboon tarantula loose on a Delta plane caused a three hour flight delay in Baltimore on Wednesday that ended when the airline brought in another aircraft to fly passengers to Atlanta. According to ...
11:35 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to the new Portal song by Jonathan Coulton
While delightful on their own terms, the icing on the cake of the Portal games has always been the songs by Jonathan Coulton that play over their end credits. In the first game, Coulton gave us a tale...
11:19 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing 104-year-old knitter yarnbombs her town
Grace Brett, 104, is part of a guerrilla knitter group called the Souter Stormers who yarn bombed landmarks in Selkirk, Ettrickbridge and Yarrow, Scotland. The installation was tied to an arts festiva...
11:19 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing 104-year-old crocheter yarnbombs her town
Grace Brett, 104, is part of a guerrilla crochet group called the Souter Stormers who yarn bombed landmarks in Selkirk, Ettrickbridge and Yarrow, Scotland. The installation was tied to an arts festiva...
10:36 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing A Princess of Pluto
I knew the new Pluto images reminded me of something!The originals: Frank Frazetta's legendary painting "A Princess of Mars," and "The Rich Color Variations of Pluto," published by NASA....
10:34 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Pay what you want for these great indie games and play all weekend
If you've got a few bucks and some time to burn this weekend, there's a bundle of worthwhile indie games that can help you pass the time for the affordable price of pay-what-you-want.Humble Bundle is ...
10:33 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Watch the trailer for the new Daft Punk documentary!
https://youtu.be/3I3maTRmiYUDaft Punk Unchained, a French documentary by Herv Martin Delpierre about the mysterious robot musicians, has just premiered in the UK with English subtitles. It looks kille...
10:24 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Appeals court rules Batmobile is a "character" and is copyrighted by DC
Judge Sandra Ikuta wrote the opinion for the 9th Circuit panel that heard DC Comics vs Mark Towle, in which the comics company was suing a guy who sold expensive kits to make your car look like the Ba...
10:07 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Vintage '60s soul version of Outkast's "Hey Ya!"
https://youtu.be/TXLKpLNGhVAThe latest Postmodern Jukebox cover features Sara Niemietz singing a great soulful rendition of Outkast's "Hey Ya!"...
10:00 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing KARMA POLICE: GCHQ's plan to track every Web user in the world
The KARMA POLICE program is detailed in newly released Snowden docs published on The Intercept; it began as a project to identify every listener to every Internet radio station (to find people listeni...
09:56 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Carry a galaxy in conflict around in your cargo shorts with Pocket Imperium
See sample pages from this book at Wink.Pocket Imperium is a surprisingly big game in a very small box. The Pocket in its name refers to its microgame stature, while Imperium offers a clue to its gala...
09:43 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing The Snowden Treaty: protecting the world's whistleblowers in the age of privacy breaches
The Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection AgainstImproper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers [PDF] (AKA "The Snowden Treaty") was created by David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner, w...
09:38 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Pickup for cigar box guitar promises "authentic 1960's pawn shop guitar tone"
https://youtu.be/iQ52OkyNp8QCB Gitty is an online store that sells parts for people who like to make cigar box guitars. On of their new offerings is a Teisco Del Rey-style Gold Foil Clip-in Magnetic P...
09:26 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Jailers watched as man arrested for unpaid traffic fine dies naked on cell floor
David Stojcevski, 32, was sentenced to 30 days in Michigan's Macomb County jail for failing to pay a traffic fine. He was addicted to drugs but the jail refused to treat him so he died. Reason reports...
09:25 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Have a Twin Peaks dance-off with a sobbing Leland Palmer
Whether it was Leland Palmer's grotesque waltzing or the silent shimmy of The Man From Another Place, dancing played a key role in the cult favorite mystery show Twin Peaks. Now you and a friend can p...
09:25 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Not just emissions: manufacturers' dirty tricks fake everything about cars
VW's diesel firmware detected when it was undergoing emissions testing and changed the engine tuning to produce 1/40 of its normal toxic output, fooling regulators. But though they're the only ones wh...
09:25 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing The Henty Wingman is my favorite travel bag
I try to keep business travel as light, and fast as I can. The Henty Wingman is a bag that matches my style perfectly.The Henty Wingman fits two or three sport coats, or two suits, in its garment pock...
09:08 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Latest Pluto image is most amazing yet
From NASA's New Horizons Image Gallery, this is described as a "high-resolution enhanced color view" of the distant world.Getting to see Pluto up-close has only made it a more mysterious place:The ima...
08:59 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Homemade steampunk neck-brace
What do you do about the huge, ugly neck-brace your doctor wants you to wear after spinal fusion surgery?If you're an awesome maker like redditor Penguinz90, you decorate it to turn it into your own, ...
08:58 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: How to make ten cool optical illusions
https://youtu.be/UiQQ3kLtyiMPsychology professor Richard Wiseman of Quirkology shows how to make ten optical illusions. The one with the straw is a good magic trick! Download the floating dice templat...
08:54 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Woman questioned by police for wearing shirt with Arabic writing near 9/11 memorial
The T-shirt of Terror's scary Arabic glyphs were enough to get Miru Kim pulled aside by New York City's finest for a chat.Stopped while walking a dog near the 9/11 memorial, Kim says the officers poin...
08:49 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing This is what happens to mailboxes when the Pope comes to town
Apparently the Pope, or one of his attachs, likes to put popsicles in mailboxes when they roll into town. The D.C. Post Office was prepared.[via]...
08:45 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Collapse in filial piety, poor social net produces cohort of elderly Korean prostitutes
South Korea has a Confucionist tradition of children supporting their elderly parents in South Korea whose existence meant that the country never had to develop an advanced social safety net for carin...
08:41 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Trump debates Trump
https://youtu.be/DKqW4gw4wsg?t=16sYo dawg....
08:27 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing No gay nudity on Twitch, but blue alien boobs are fine
Designer Robert Yang has done a suite of unique and challenging games recently, small but considered works on consent, embodiment and masculinity, among other themes. In Stick Shift you jerk off a car...
08:17 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing FIFA President Sepp Blatter prosecuted
FIFA, the comically corrupt governing body of international soccer, has suffered hard times of late: several executives were collared by the law, it became apparent that World Cup hosting rights float...
08:00 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Game show contestant won $110k by memorizing "random" board pattern
Press Your Luck was a mid-80s game show modeled along similar lines to Wheel of Fortune. But instead of a wheel, its flashing board was digital, supposedly random and unpredictable.Sadly, no, writes P...
07:32 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing The "Medieval Monsters" of England's ancient forests
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/138236113Beautiful footage, perfectly narrated by Phil Reynolds, of the billions of beasties underfootand undergroundin the New Forest. Beetles, bugs, dragonflies...
07:25 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Double Union woman hackerspace needs help with funding finding a new space
Double Union is moving from its space in San Francisco's Mission -- their building was sold out from under them and the new landlords evicted all the tenants -- and needs help finding somewhere new to...
07:16 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing FTC clobbers Roca Labs, the terrible weight-loss company that banned negative reviews
If you follow my tweets of interesting stories from one year ago, you'll have seen the Roca Labs saga popping up again. Roca sold a "non-surgical gastric bypass" that was mostly made from industrial ...
07:06 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Republican House Speaker Boehner announces resignation
Under pressure from the right wing of his party, John Boehner is to resign from congress and from his role as speaker of the House of Representatives at the end of October.https://twitter.com/RepHuize...
06:55 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Aquarium coral poisons sleeping Alaska families and pets with toxic gas
Zoanthid corals are a favorite with aquarium hobbyists -- beautiful and easy to grow (easy being a relative term -- coral's always a pain in the ass).Most people who keep coral know that they have to ...
06:49 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Supercut of people destroying their old iPhones
https://youtu.be/7aaoNEVfF_8Most of them are already broken, by the looks of it. But many of our gadget-demolishing heroes are obviously just too dumb to realize the residual value of old phones, so i...
06:43 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing What the Internet looks like when it's not a patent drawing
In contrast to yesterday's post about the way the Internet is depicted in patent drawings, check out these photos of the Internet's secret actual infrastructure. Photographer Heinrich Holtgreve's The ...
06:34 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Marijuana "forest" discovered in London
More weed than you can smoke in a long summerhundreds of marijuana plants!have been discovered amid the urban environs of London. Amused police published images of the pot paradise after learning of t...
06:26 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Playful, pacifist IEDs
Sculptor Petros Eftstathiadiadis makes these "pacifist bombs" as a commentary on the Greek political/economic situation, constructing them from materials chosen to seem absurd, playful and harmless. D...
06:19 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Paid-for adblockers also cutting "whitelist" deals with publishers
In the wake of iOS 9's new ad-blocking functionality, The Wall Street Journal reports that makers of ad-blocking apps are accepting payment from publishers to let ads through.Eyeo GmbH, the company be...
06:00 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing The Noun Project Unlimited Icons: 2-Yr Subscription - 83% Off
Inspired by the universality of symbols, the founders of Noun Project began to collect thousands of hand-drawn icons. The concept has since transformed into a massive digital collection of 150,000+ un...
05:48 am PDT - Fri, September 25, 2015
BoingBoing Gallery: Outside the Lines Too, more adult coloring brilliance
Souris "Hustler of Culture" Hong-Poretta has followed up on her amazing 2013 coloring book Outside the Lines with a second edition: Outside the Lines Too.Both books feature fantastic and inspiring des...
10:21 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing OZ: page designs from the most beautiful psychedelic 'zine ever
Dig these covers and spreads from OZ, the psychedelic magazine launched in Australia in 1963 and reborn in the UK in 1967 under the visionary editorship of Richard Neville, Martin Sharp, and Richard W...
09:58 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Simple way to make popcorn on the cob
https://youtu.be/IawMV4Ll1AoThis looks fun and delicious! (I'd definitely listen to Scott Joplin while eating it too.)...
08:59 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Watch an octopus disappear into "quicksand" on the sea bottom
https://youtu.be/LSeYVTo7DFsThe southern sand octopus (Octopus kaurna) whips up some seafloor "quicksand" lined with mucus and burrows into it to rest during the daytime. From New Scientist:(Universit...
06:26 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing The other ad-blocking ecosystem: blame-ducking
Anil Dash is on fire in his editorial on all the ways that publishers, advertisers, brokers, readers, OS vendors, browser vendors, and users pass the buck when it comes to intrusive ads, ad-blocking, ...
06:19 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Saudi prince jailed in LA on sex crime charges, bleeding woman screaming for help survived
Police were called to a gated property in the exclusive Los Angeles community of Beverly Glen today after a caretaker at the home reported a disturbance. A man identified as 28-year-old prince Majed ...
02:27 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing History of the hoodie
https://youtu.be/OKTR6kMs--8From Champion's creation of the hooded sweatshirt in the 1930s through Rocky Balboa to today's high-end cashmere designs to Trayvon Martin, writer Gary Warnett explores the...
02:15 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Steamer trunk with built-in minibar
Posh luggage brand Globe-Trotter and boozemaker Chivas teamed up on this steamer trunk design that includes a minibar. Good for long flight delays, I reckon. They'll make you one for just $18,000. Fea...
01:52 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Beautiful, dreamy chamber pop from members of Afghan Whigs and Wussy
Imperial Phase by Plastic AntsCincinnati's Plastic Ants, purveyors of lovely "maximum chamber pop," follow up their release this year the gorgeous full-length debut LP, "Falling to Rise," with a new ...
01:32 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing I was once a student leader
This is cracking me up, from Santa Monica College's 1989 course catalog:As a member of the Associated Student board of directors, Jason Weisberger feels like part of a family. He is one of a dozen stu...
01:21 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing One Night Ultimate Werewolf spot the werewolves in the room or be destroyed
See more photos at Wink Fun.One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a bluffing and role deduction game for between 3-10 players. During the game you'll be assuming one of a dozen different roles in a village o...
01:02 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Take a look at how much fun we had at Weekend of Wonder
Carla, Cory, David, Jason, Xeni, and I are still giddy from our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza, held at the Mission Inn resort in Riverside, California on September 18-20. In three fun filled days we ...
12:41 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Adorable toys for Nekoatsume, your favorite Japanese cat game
In the charming, compulsively playable Japanese iOS game Nekoatsume (aka Cat Collector), you spend a lot of time acquiring virtual toys to attract a coterie of virtual cats to your virtual backyard. B...
12:39 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Cox cable: Rightscorp is a mass copyright infringer
Rightscorp is the publicly traded extortion racket that tries to force/bribe ISPs into disconnecting their customers from the Internet unless those customers pay "settlements" for unproven allegations...
12:33 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Cheaper and safer pet brush
My dog groomer told me the brushes I've been using on my pals are not good for them, or their coats. She recommends I use this slicker brush.A few weeks ago I reviewed the Furminator, a brush that rem...
12:13 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Kentucky Republican state Senator: the First Amendment protects my right to receive bribes
Republican Kentucky state Sen. John Schickel is suing to overturn the state's ethics laws so that he can accept gifts worth more than $1,000 from lobbyists without reporting them, because he thinks th...
12:12 pm PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Defendant instantly loses case
https://youtu.be/sSUXTFceiloOn arbitration show Judge Judy, the plaintiff describes the possessions allegedly stolen by the defendant. But she never gets to finish the list. [via r/videos]...
11:43 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing The future of photography, education, sharing, news, privacy and learning (seriously)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BORMZ8UoUEJonathan Worth is a celebrated, successful, internationally recognized award-winning photographer who saw the writing on the wall for his business -- selling...
11:33 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing More than 700 killed in Hajj stampede
Hundreds of people taking part in the pilgrimage to Mecca are dead after a stampede in nearby Mina, according to reports from Saudi Arabia.The death toll stands at 717, with 863 more injured, say the ...
11:26 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing GOP Vice Chair of House Energy committee is a climate denier and creationist
Marsha Blackburn has represented Tennessee's 7th district for more than a decade, on behalf of the Republican party, whose caucus has elevated her to the vice-chair of the House Committee on Energy an...
11:13 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Fake traffic is "rotting" the Internet
Traffic is for sale. You can buy "good" traffic and "bad" traffic. But much of it is, as they say, "nonhuman"and amounts to the normalization of click fraud on an epic scale.During the interview, ["Bo...
10:53 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Map shows you if leaves are falling without you having to leave house or approach window
SmokyMountains.com has a delightful interactive graphic to show the turn of the season by county. Slide it and see! [via Kottke]...
10:49 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Lifehacker reviews The Womanizer - it will "give you one of the best orgasms of your life"
The Womanizer is a German-made sex toy looks like an ear thermometer or a vaporizer. It comes in a variety of garish, bejeweled, leopard-spotted, and tattooed designs. It's not a vibrator. It's a gadg...
10:22 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Statue punishes people who give it eye contact
Norwegian artist Erik Pirolt sculpture, No Eye Contact Allowed, is on exhibit in Kristiansand, Norway. It is a human bust in a glass enclosure. A small sign on art instructs visitors not to look into ...
10:13 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Little budgie likes preening this cat, and the cat likes it
https://youtu.be/XKijMZhZ_Z0This white budgie is grooming a cat friend, and the cat seems to like it. [HT: Falcor!]...
10:10 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Giant snapping turtle vs. pineapple
This kindly snapping turtle has been trained to open pineapples for his human companion. ...
09:56 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing The new Glowforge laser cutter is amazing
https://youtu.be/ysCaqh38JVQLaser cutters are machines that cut and engrave flat material such as plywood, acrylic, chocolate, leather, cardboard, seashells, glass, even sheets of dried seaweed. Toda...
09:52 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing In Undertale, you can choose to kill monsters or understand them
Like a lot of roleplaying games, Undertale asks you to become a child. When you fall down a hole into an underworld populated with monsters, your path seems clear: set off on a brave journey across a ...
09:42 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing In Volkswagen emissions fraud scandal, proprietary software is the real villain
Proprietary software is an unsafe building material. You cant inspect it. Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen made that observation 5 years ago. It's timely today, as the Volkswagen emission...
09:00 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing The ethical ad blocker
Yes, advertisements on websites are annoying at best, but they're also a large and important part of how websites make money so that they can keep providing you with sweet, sweet content. So what's an...
06:55 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing That Arctic doomsday seed vault? There's backup copies of cannabis in there, too. Lots.
This week, the Svalbard "doomsday seed vault" (as it's known in headlines, anyway) made the news because scientists made the first "withdrawal" from the remote arctic store. [caption id="attachment_42...
06:41 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Walt Disney's plan for the FBI of tomorrow
Michael from Muckrock: "Union-busting Walt Disney became cozy with J. Edgar Hoover, the iconic animator's FBI files show, helping shut down dissident workers while infusing Disney programming with fon...
06:34 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing All this bulletproof glass couldn't stop an RPG
https://youtu.be/_J-uKNb6TaICrash Zone knew you had been wondering about this ever since you decided to become Lord Protector of the forthcoming New English Republic and know you'd need some breathing...
06:33 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Study: tracking every RPG book in every public & academic library in the world
Edd writes, "I am a professor at Ithaca College in New York. Recently for a research study I tracked almost every Role Playing Game Book circulating in every public and academic library in the world."...
06:23 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Dooce quits mommyblogging amid toxic pressure from advertisers
As the supply of publishers went up, advertisers gained leverage they could use to insist on more invasive ads and more unethical editorial practices.It all grew too much for Heather "Dooce" Armstrong...
06:06 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing UK film industry: our cinemas patrolled by Silence of the Lambs nightvision LARPers
For more than a decade, the UK movie industry makes a big deal out of announcing that audiences at the latest blockbuster movies will be surveilled by bored teenagers who get to LARP Buffalo Bill with...
05:55 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing The shape of the Internet (according to patent drawings)
The stylized art of patent drawings is instantly recognizable. Before the information age, the drawings were drafter's jewelboxes, designed to make the workings of new mechanical inventions legible to...
05:49 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Sexy Donald Trump costume
This is yuge. You can buy it right now from Yandy for seventy dollars. For this sum, you get a "sexy" navy "suit" of equal of greater quality to an actual Trump suit, a red "Make America Great Again" ...
05:33 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Help this girl band survive its breakup, a trippy forest, and a wall of Harry Potters
Dorothy, Wendy and Alice are frenemies who disagree on everything, and it's breaking up their band, D.S.A (Dynamic Squid Antithesis). In a cool, handmade adventure game, you have to help the friends m...
04:09 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Try a stylish, Saul Bass-inspired two-player duel
https://youtu.be/MedgUUah1fwDesigner Adam Curtis has made a two-player flash game called NotDOBA, inspired by the aesthetics struck by 60s graphic designer Saul Bass. Visually it looks as neat as you'...
04:00 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing Ditch your annoying bulky key ring with the KeySmart 2.0 Titanium Key Organizer
Say goodbye to your annoying, bulky key ringKeySmart organizes your keys in one convenient, compact, and lightweight place. Easily attach up to 10 keys, and use the included loop to latch on your car ...
03:27 am PDT - Thu, September 24, 2015
BoingBoing I can't stop touching this minimalist, mysterious puzzle game
https://youtu.be/F6PliZbgt4sSPL-T is a brand-new black-and-white puzzle game for iOS about the simplicity of splitting up space. You're compelled to touch and divide squares much in the way you create...
06:24 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Baby meets beagle
https://youtu.be/Liv-EMavw0QMy wife and I were worried about how the dog would react to a baby, so we kept them apart for a few months. This is when they get introduced to each other.[Scott Moore, You...
06:11 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Dog steals ice cream from fellow dog
https://youtu.be/tHvExOg4NI0Cooper and Daisy go through the drive up window at Mcdonalds. Not cool, Cooper. Not cool. [YT]...
05:59 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Wired's recent native ad for Volkswagen vanishes as emissions scandal worsens
Volkswagen's sponsored content may be disappearing around the internet, but the stink about their emissions scandal ain't going anywhere just yet. Just last week on social media, Wired was promoting c...
04:30 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing 80 great movie posters with the annoying text removed
Joinyouinthesun posted 80 classic movie posters, in his-resolution, with the text removed.80 hi-res, textless posters (some of my favorites)...
02:22 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing 5-port USB desktop charging station great for family travel
When we were at the Mission Inn for Weekend of Wonder, this 5-port USB desktop charging station, on sale at Amazon for $10 kept 3 iPhones and a tablet well-fed. I used the additional port to charge a...
12:30 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing HOWTO make a physical, papercraft GPG box
Shiro writes, This is a tutorial by @shiromarieke and @nsmnsr on how to make a 'GPG BOX' [PDF], a tool to easily explain GPG encryption. It has been made for CryptoParty Berlin.gpgboxENG.pdf [Shiromar...
12:18 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Thai agricultural fertilizer TV ad may be the best fertilizer TV ad ever
https://youtu.be/kXSz9ZNCmOIHubba Hubba. [YouTube]...
12:04 pm PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Dig these groovy, diverse jazz sounds from Italian cinema
Imagine you're in a hip, swinging Italian movie with this killer compilation "Library of Sound Grooves: Jazz Expressions from the Italian Cinema (1963-1975)." The vinyl release is a gatefold double LP...
11:30 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Why biometrics suck, the Office of Personnel Management edition
The nation-state hackers who stole 5.6 million+ records of US government employees (cough China cough) also took 5.6 million+ fingerprints. But it's no problem: those people can just get new fingerpri...
11:04 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Babymetal is coming to Rock Band 4, so let's listen to Babymetal
https://youtu.be/WIKqgE4BwAYThe Babymetal song "Gimme Chocolate!!" will be available as a bonus track for the soon-to-be-released Rock Band 4 if you preorder the game on Xbox One, which is important b...
11:00 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Comics historian Craig Yoe celebrates Banned Books Week with the Forbidden Comics bundle
Banned Books Week is just around the corner and to help prepare readers for this event, the folks at Humble Bundle have put together a collection of challenged and banned comics. A portion of the proc...
10:55 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Donald Trump confirms, then denies, father's arrest at Klan rally
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally responded to Boing Boing's uncovering of a 1920s-era story reporting the apparent arrest of his father at a Ku Klux Klan Rally in Queens. As one ...
10:36 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Watch the Angry Birds movie trailer!
https://youtu.be/1U2DKKqxHgEApparently, next summer "we'll finally find out why the birds are so angry." ...
10:18 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing A game where you catch lightning bugs until the sun comes up
Lightning bugs are a sort of magic when you're young, the kind that feels like it escaped from the halls of Hogwarts and somehow reclassified itself as science under the cover of darkness. It's the so...
10:14 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Beautiful video of the giant redwood trees of Northern California
https://vimeo.com/139893505More Than Just Parks (MTJP) immerses us in the Redwood National and State Parks to see the tallest trees in the world. What you see in this video is literally in my backyard...
09:39 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Giant rocks close highway in Zion National Park
A rockslide shut down Mount Carmel Highway in southern Utah's Zion National Park last night. No one was injured. "Crews will have to blast the rock and use heavy machinery to clear it. Due to the rock...
09:30 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing These tech giants just asked US government for more surveillance; call Congress now!
Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Salesforce / Heroku, and a handful of other tech companies just betrayed billions of people's trust. They signed a letter endorsin...
09:25 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing A book about Theo Jansen's amazing wind-powered creatures
See sample pages from this book at Wink.You may have seen my earlier Wink Fun review of Elenco’s terrific Mini-beest Kit, a working miniature model kit of one of Theo Jansen’s amazing anim...
08:59 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing I went to Tokyo Disneyland Cosplay Day and it was spectacular
If I have to pick the single best Disney theme park in the world, its always going to be the one Walt built Disneyland in Anaheim, California. It really is different, and better, than anyplace else a...
08:45 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Big dog patiently plays tug o' war with puppy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFa_ms4qVI0Full-grown American Bully Prince Hector is the paragon of patience with his itty-bitty playmate, King Rambo. ...
08:20 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing A capella version of Rammstein's Du Hast
https://youtu.be/f7AblTjKTHkAs performed by Viva Vox in May 2011. The arrangement is by Boris Balunovi, and it is conducted by Jasmina Lorin. Ivan Propadovi is the soloist. [via r/videos]Heather says ...
08:07 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Dashcam captures emergency plane landing in road
https://youtu.be/CZydrXAq2pYIt's not something you see every day at the lights: a small aircraft barreling through the intersection after making an emergency landing on Red Hill Avenue in Irvine, Cali...
08:03 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing How to save online advertising
My latest Guardian column, How to save online advertising, looks at the writing on the wall for ad-blockers and ad-supported publishing, and suggests one way to keep ads viable.The mistrust between ad...
07:58 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Just look at this photo of Last Gasp comix founder Ron Turner holding a banana.
Just look at it.(Thanks, Ron!)...
07:58 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing 100 movies mashed up into one Uptown Funk video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=6&v=EmnSm_d2ll4Don't believe me? Just watch....
07:54 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing McDonald's Japan's straws: designed to mimic experience of nursing at your mother's breast
According to McDonald's Japan founder Den Fujita, the design brief for the company's straws specified that they pass liquid at a rate comparable to the rate at which breast milk flows to a nursing bab...
07:32 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Sheer variety of Oreos sells Pope Francis on capitalism
The Onion proves that it's still got it (and that you can distill the entire joke to a single headline if you have the right shooping skills): Pope Francis Reverses Position On Capitalism After Seeing...
07:31 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Yankees Hall of Fame catcher and character Yogi Berra dead at 90
https://youtu.be/Ey-QATIO4ewFrom the New York Times:Yogi Berra, one of baseballs greatest catchers and characters, who as a player was a mainstay of 10 Yankee championship teams and as a manager led b...
07:28 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing It's surprisingly easy to set up a convincing, highly regarded fake online business
Kashmir Hill invented a totally imaginary business -- "Freakin Awesome Karaoke Express" or FAKE -- and paid people on Fiverr to follow it on Twitter with thousands of fake accounts, and to flood Yelp ...
07:20 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Box full of abandoned guinea pigs found
If you're in central Missouri and have been thinking about fostering a guinea pig, now's your time.From KQFX, Missouri:A Good Samaritan rescued the animals after discovering them next to a dry creek b...
07:19 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Don't discuss the environment if you're brown and British (Ahmed Mohamed with UK characteristics)
A 14 year old London student was questioned by school officials about his possible involvement with Islamic State after he raised the subject of environmental activism in a classroom discussion.The ad...
07:02 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Free speech versus "compelled attention"
Yesterday's story about a woman who made her Twitter account private because of harassment from men sparked a lot of discussion about how blocking and free speech interact with each other. Here's my $...
06:54 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Scientists remove first seeds from doomsday Arctic seed vault. Why? War in Syria.
The ongoing war in Syria has led researchers to make the first withdrawal of seeds from a "doomsday" vault in an Arctic mountainside, to protect global food supplies.The Crop Trust reports that the n...
06:45 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Western movie mega-supercut: Gunslinger
https://vimeo.com/92271187Smash TV's Gunslinger mines more than 50 classic and modern westerns and creates a hypnotic hyper-movie that shows off the formal requirements for a great hay-burner.It's an ...
06:33 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing VW con produced as much extra air pollution as all UK power generation, industry, ag & vehicles
Volkswagen's intentional fraud resulted in an extra 1,000,000 metric tons of air pollution being spewed into the skies over America; if they'd extended the con to Europe (where there are far more dies...
06:16 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing 100 bold ideas the BBC can use to fight back
With five more years of Tory government on the horizon, the BBC is at its most perilous moment. Government ministers are attacking it in every way, from wanting to cut the license fee to demanding tha...
06:06 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Name your price for 11 (!) Philip K Dick award-winning novels
The PKD Award is given for the best paperback original this year, and has been awarded to such classics as Neuromancer. Storybundle's DRM-free collection of name-your-price ebooks includes some of my ...
05:30 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing TOM THE DANCING BUG: Unpopular Mechanics, the Magazine for Young Muslim American Makers
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.And FURTHER, please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE for advance access to comics and more stuff. And READ Ruben Bolling's new...
04:21 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Watch Mad Max:Fury Road in glorious shiny monochrome
https://player.vimeo.com/video/140069127Inspired by director George Miller's own statements on the ideal presentation, Black and Chrome makes the brilliant action flick black and white.One thing I've...
04:05 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing Nutella addict punches old man in face
The Burbank Leader reports that a 78-year-old man was attacked after telling a fellow shopper that they had taken quite enough free Nutella from the sample cart.Writes Alene Tchekmedyian:Burbank resid...
03:56 am PDT - Wed, September 23, 2015
BoingBoing When you will die
Flowing Data has a remarkably depressing animated chart. Plug in your age and sex and watch 'em drop....
03:52 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Happy 40th Birthday to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. It's a good time to celebrate that moment, when the portals opened and a stream of cosmic creative force spilled into our real...
03:08 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Economist Paul Mason's blockbuster manifesto Postcapitalism suggests that markets just can't organize products whose major input isn't labor or material, but information, and that means that, for the...
02:02 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Hypnotically captivating video of CGI Silly Putty
"There's something mesmerizing about watching little dragons made of semi-viscous cookie batter falling helplessly into heaps and melting into each other." Read the rest...
01:28 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Everything is a Remix: the remastered fifth anniversary edition
Kirby Ferguson writes, "Everything is a Remix has been polished, merged and rereleased for its fifth anniversary." (more…)...
01:25 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Non-religious woman who refused judge's order to meet with Christian counselor loses her sons
Holly Salzman of Albuquerque, New Mexico went to court to resolve coparenting issues with her ex-husband. The judge ordered Salzman to attend 10 sessions with a counselor named Mary Pepper (Photo). R...
01:21 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Trunk Archive abandons its ink-blot shakedown of 2600, likely still shaking down others
Emmanuel from 2600 Magazine writes, "Trunk Archive has apparently looked over its recent claim against 2600 for its Spring 2012 cover and realized how wrong they were. Read the rest...
12:44 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Generic version of Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is like TiVo. You don't "get it" until you get it. It's a plain looking white sponge that looks like a chunk of cheap mattress foam. Read the rest...
12:35 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Happy 40th Birthday to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. It's a good time to celebrate that moment, when the portals opened and a stream of cosmic creative force spilled into our real...
12:27 pm PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: hang out with Xeni, Jason, David, Cory, and Mark
Last chance to join us at our 3-day extravaganza this weekend in Southern California! Read the rest...
11:53 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing What it's like to be black and work in tech
Why arent there more Black people roaming the campuses of technology companies? Mark S. Luckie has some ideas. Read the rest...
11:39 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Economist Paul Mason's blockbuster manifesto Postcapitalism suggests that markets just can't organize products whose major input isn't labor or material, but information, and that means that, for the...
11:09 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing How Miss America winners body types have changed from 1921 to 2015
PsychGuides.com created the Miss America Morph, which shows how the winners' body mass index has declined over time, while the average American woman's body mass index has increased of the same period...
10:59 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing The best children's music compilation record and turntable!
Most contemporary "kids music" sucks. However, my favorite reissue label Light In The Attic is releasing a killer children's vinyl compilation titled "This Record Belongs To______" that includes the l...
10:40 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Luxury Star Wars wristwatch is $28,500
Devon's new Star Wars wristwatch is $28,500, but at least they make it worth it by throwing in a pair of TIE Fighter cufflinks. Read the rest...
10:11 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing The best children's music compilation record and turntable!
Most contemporary "kids music" sucks. However, my favorite reissue label Light In The Attic is releasing a killer children's vinyl compilation titled "This Record Belongs To______" that includes the l...
09:59 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Delightful abstract animations controlled by drum kit
Colin Toup set up his electronic drum kit to trigger animations. Simple idea and wonderfully executed! (more…)...
09:44 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing The antique tech shortage that hurts the vinyl boom
As the vinyl record resurgence continues, the problem is that there simply aren't enough record pressing plants to meet the demand. Indie labels get pushed to the back of the line when the majors plac...
09:41 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Duck Army bomb
And now I present to you ... the DUCK BOMB. #duckarmy https://t.co/4oOMXgvfVN— Adam Savage (@donttrythis) September 14, 2015Adam Savage is becoming obsessed with this thing. He's created a "...
09:38 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Dust and Grooves: fantastic photo book about vinyl record collectors
“Contrary to what conventional wisdom would have you believe…record collecting isn’t about music. Not entirely, anyway,” says music writer Jeff “Chairman” Mao in Du...
09:32 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing We Know The Devil is a horror game about being the odd friend out
We Know The Devil is a visual novel about three friends consigned to a miserable Christian summer camp. Eventually they'll have to confront the Devil, which might just be allegorical for how, in a gro...
09:29 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing How Miss America winners body types have changed from 1921 to 2015
PsychGuides.com created the Miss America Morph, which shows how the winners' body mass index has declined over time, while the average American woman's body mass index has increased of the same period...
09:20 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing 4-year-old twin girls request Hulk Princess cake, get one
NobodyLikesASmartAss said, "My 4-year old twin girls wanted a Hulk Princess cake for their birthday. So I made one!" [via]...
08:32 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Economist Paul Mason's blockbuster manifesto Postcapitalism suggests that markets just can't organize products whose major input isn't labor or material, but information, and that means that, for the...
07:42 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing What it's like to be black and work in tech
Mark S. Luckie writes that about two percent of his colleagues shared his skin color.So why arent there more Black people roaming the campuses of technology companies? Read the rest...
06:45 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Kids getting wasted on hand sanitizer (still)
American children are "getting drunk off hand sanitizer like they never have before," reports Vice. Read the rest...
06:44 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Kickstarting an inclusive RPG based on HP Lovecraft's works
Becky writes, "My partner and I are launching our Kickstarter today for a role-playing game based on the works of HP Lovecraft." Read the rest...
06:32 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Interactive map of the swathes of England owned by offshore tax-dodgers
Whole regions of England are now owned by holding companies in tax-havens "from Panama to Luxembourg, and from Liechtenstein to the South Pacific island of Niue." Read the rest...
06:14 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Pizza receipt warns of labyrinth, minotaur
In your head, hear this pizza receipt's delivery instructions in the demanding, sinister voice of Brad Dourif....
05:46 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Leonard Cohen, Donald Sutherland and Ellen Page's vision for a better Canada
The Leap Manifesto calls for a Canada remade as "a country powered entirely by renewable energy, woven together by accessible public transit, in which the opportunities of this transition are designed...
05:35 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing World map with countries the size of their stock markets
Created by Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett, this illustration shows "free-float equity market capitalization" in billions of dollars....
05:32 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing LISTEN: Back From the Dead?
Was an Australian butcher really a long-lost English aristocrat? Read the rest...
04:37 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Knuckle-scanning anti-cheating software won't say what it's doing with Rutgers students' data
Rutgers students taking exams are required to pay $32 in fees for Verificient's Proctortrack, an anti-cheating program that collects, audio, video, web activity and "scans the ID, face and knuckles" a...
03:41 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Someone re-did the whole True Detective intro in Grand Theft Auto V
Sometimes the creative things people do with games are even more interesting than the games themselves. Read the rest...
03:30 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Read a bold new magazine for interactive fiction fans
The ambitious new Sub-Q aims to create a brand new venue for interactive fiction and the players who love it. Fans believe the form is going mainstream in a big way, and there are ever more ways for y...
03:10 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing Drive-in snack-bar movie as David Lynchian horror-movie
It's a surprisingly good fit: from the FITC Toronto 2011 Festival. (via JWZ)...
03:03 am PDT - Tue, September 15, 2015
BoingBoing A hide and seek game where you murder your friends in a field
Badblood reminds me a little bit of playing Manhunt in the woods as a kid, except for the part where I got brained with a hammer. Read the rest...
09:51 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Nutty vintage ads for drug paraphernalia
Far out vintage ads for drug paraphernalia, from a water pipe that looks like a set of bathroom fixtures to "The Boosters," a brand of additives that moisten weed and act as a desiccant for cocaine. ...
09:38 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Watch David Blaine do magic for Kanye, Woody Harrelson, Bryan Cranston, and Will Smith's family
"If he fails, I'm going to leave extremely shortly after," says Kanye. (more…)...
07:31 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Get lifetime access to the ultimate design & animation bundle - 98% off
If you crave a life in design, computer animation or game development, this is the one-stop career-defining package you need. Through more than 200 hours of expert instruction, youll learn all aspects...
06:28 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Jeb Bush: Leave NSA Alone
We must stop demonizing these quiet intelligence professionals and start giving them the tools they need. Read the rest...
05:55 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Chris Christie support at 1%
New Jersey governor Chris Christie's presidential favorability ratings have been falling since December 2014. He is faring so poorly that a Langer Research poll conducted for ABC News and The Washingt...
05:52 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Bad driver gets his due when he runs into a truck
This dashcam owner didn't show much sympathy for a driver who cut her off and and then tried to get around a large truck, only to crunch into it. The driver backed up to extricate his car from the tru...
05:37 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Artist paints excellent Donald Trump portrait with her menstrual blood
Artist Sarah Levy painted a good likeness of Donald Trump using her menstrual blood, a tampon, and a paintbrush. She says her "goal is to auction it off and give the money to an organization that help...
05:29 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing 10 photos of dogs that sure do look funny floating mid-air
Pups of various breeds lurch, flop, and float through the air in German photographer Julia Christe's wonderful Freestyle Series. Read the rest...
05:25 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Conservative Christian students at Liberty University are feeling the Bern
Liberal presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told an audience of conservative Christian students at Liberty University that he knew they didn't agree with his views on abortion and gay marriage, but ...
05:08 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Look at how this artist turns a dumb "doodle pad" into amazing illustrations
Several years ago, artist David Jablow came across a doodle pad printed with a partially completed drawing of a naked woman. Read the rest...
04:31 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing "Crisis actors": a conspiracy theory that re-victimizes shooting survivors
"Social threat" is the psychologists' term for the urge to recast events that threaten our identities in new lights; it's the phenomenon behind some gun advocates' insistence that mass shootings are ...
04:17 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Watch this ice cream vendor in Turkey blow tourists' minds with magic
In Turkey, an ice cream vendor on the streets offers passers-by some wonderfully entertaining magic. (more…)...
04:02 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Chris Christie support at 1%
New Jersey governor Chris Christie's presidential favorability ratings have been falling since December 2014. He is faring so poorly that a Langer Research poll conducted for ABC News and The Washingt...
03:57 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing In Uganda, a white German aid worker becomes an unlikely local pop star
Student Deena Herr, 22, has recently become a very unlikely superstar in the East African nation of Uganda. Read the rest...
03:53 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Anita Sarkeesian on women's bodies as prizes in video games
Kate from Feminist Frequency (previously) writes, "Feminist Frequency has just released a supplemental mini-episode in their Tropes vs Women in Video Games series." Read the rest...
03:34 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Chunk of gallium melts in your hand
A cool addition to my growing cabinet of curiosities. Read the rest...
02:17 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Hypnotically captivating video of CGI Silly Putty
"There's something mesmerizing about watching little dragons made of semi-viscous cookie batter falling helplessly into heaps and melting into each other," says Dinotopia artist James Gurney. Read th...
02:14 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Harpo-Deetoo and Chicopio in "A Day at the Pod Races"
Dan/Ridetheory's amazing mashup of R2 & 3PO with Chico and Harpo from A Day at the Races is brilliant....
01:55 pm PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Vivienne Westwood drives a tank to David Cameron's house
The doyenne of punk design drove the tank to the UK prime minister's house in Chadlington, Oxfordshire to carry out a spoof "chemical attack" in protest over new fracking licenses in 27 residential ar...
11:44 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Support an ambitious new project from David J (Bauhaus/Love and Rockets)!
Legendary musician David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets is collaborating with Detroit's Theatre Bizarre Orchestra to create an immersive performance experience involving a studio recording, DVD, an...
11:38 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Read Ben Hatke's original Adventures of Little Robot
Gina from First Second writes, "Cory reviewed Ben Hatke's wonderful graphic novel LITTLE ROBOT last week -- this week, tor.com celebrates it by reprinting Ben's charming robot comic strip that inspire...
11:26 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing EFF scores a giant victory for fair use and dancing babies
8 years ago, Universal Music sent a takedown notice over Stephanie Lenz's 29-second Youtube video of her kids dancing in the kitchen to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Read the rest...
10:54 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Just look at this Japanese 100-yen store banana chipper
Just look at it....
10:48 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Chunk of gallium melts in your hand
I already own a chunk of aerogel (aka "frozen smoke"), which I pull from its little plastic container every couple of years to marvel at. Read the rest...
10:43 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Surely this is the most Norman Rockwell photo ever taken of President Obama meeting a little boy
President Barack Obama meets 4-year-old Malik Hall during departure photos with Malik's uncle, Maurice Owens, center, in the Oval Office, Sept 4, 2015. Read the rest...
10:11 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing A quirky coloring book with images of a typewriter and a giraffe with an overbite
Can you remember the childhood zen of scribbling with crayons atop the outlines of your favorite superhero? Ever wish you could go back? Read the rest...
09:55 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Video captures taxi driver stealing customer's phone
YouTuber 44alimorris shot a video of a taxi driver stealing her friend's phone. Here's her report of the incident: Read the rest...
09:49 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Younger Bill Gates poses with older Bill Gates
Fulvio Obregon, an illustrator from Cali, Colombia, created a series of portraits that show younger and older versions of the same celebrity as if they are in the same room together....
09:45 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Man trying to fix broken windshield ticketed on way to repair shop
Nick Berlin was "yards away" from a windshield repair shop when he was pulled over by an Adams County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy who gave him a ticket for having a broken windshield. Berlin's windshi...
09:40 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing How to bring the look of women's high fashion into your closet for cheap
Over at eBay, fashion designer/stylist Kelly Sparks, who moonlights as my wife, wrote about how to bring the trends seen in the crazy couture of fashion show runways into a woman's everyday wardrobe: ...
09:34 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder is unveiling SKEYE Pico Drone - world's tiniest drone
Meet the SKEYE Pico Drone, the smallest drone in the world Read the rest...
09:18 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Video: the occultism of Robert Anton Wilson
Fortean journalist Cat Vincent have a presentation at London's Treadwell's esoteric bookshop about the strange mysticism of bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Tri...
08:59 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Watch child ruin magician's trick on television, and his return 20 years later
What a twerp. (more…)...
08:56 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Little girl scared of her own shadow
This toddler is having a nice time in a parking lot when she is startled by a stranger who silently sneaked up to her. She panics and flees, but like the monster in It Follows, the stranger pursues he...
08:56 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Ugly camera strap like your dad's? $6
If you've gone to great lengths, spending big bucks to get a new digital camera that looks like an old film slr, you might as well have the ugly camera strap to match! Read the rest...
08:55 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Why snoozing puppies twitch cutely and other facts about animal sleep
Walruses sleep in a big pile. Hippos bob to the surface to take a breath and then sink back underwater. (more…)...
08:51 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "Frying Pan," Mac Sabbath
Great write up on Mac Sabbath at The Village Voice....
08:39 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Crown shyness - when trees don't like to touch each other
This incredible photo is an example of "crown shyness," a phenomenon in which the crowns of trees maintain a little personal space between each other. Read the rest...
07:54 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Watch child ruin magician's trick on television
What a twerp. (more…)...
07:45 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Ashley Madison users chose passwords like "whyareyoudoingthis"
Now that 11.7 million Ashley Madison users' passwords been shown to be crackable, we're learning that password security has not improved since the last giant dump of user passwords. Read the rest...
07:32 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Raccoon sweeps the floor
Looks like Disney wasn't lying when they portrayed forest animals helping clean homes....
07:31 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing The Strange Misadventures of Famous Corpses
Being well known can make it harder to rest in peace. Read the rest...
07:29 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Tim Wu joins the New York Attorney General's office
Wu, a protege of Larry Lessig who coined the term "Net Neutrality," will be on sabbatical from Columbia Law while he works for the AG: "If I have a life mission, it is to fight bullies" Read the rest...
07:28 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing The Filming of Andy Warhol's EMPIRE (1964)
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07:18 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Dennis the Menace statue stolen ten years ago shows up across country
This steel statue of Dennis the Menace, swiped from a Monterey, California playground in 2006, has turned up at a scrapyard in Orlando, Florida. Police don't know who forcibly removed Dennis from his ...
06:35 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Etsy to allow manufactured goods
Previously forbidden from the vintage 'n' handmade marketplace, companies that make large numbers of any given item now have a home at Etsy. Read the rest...
06:22 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing 17th century illustrations of butterflies
They're the work of Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientist and artist whose meticulous illustrations of wildlife were mostly forgotten until a late 20th century reappraisal. Read the rest...
06:11 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Tim Wu joins the New York Attorney General's office
Wu, a protege of Larry Lessig who coined the term "Net Neutrality," will be on sabbatical from Columbia Law while he works for the AG: "If I have a life mission, it is to fight bullies>" Read the rest...
06:06 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Homophobic attitudes linked to psychological problems
A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (great name for a soul album) finds that gay haters Read the rest...
05:54 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing "Trendy font" blamed for bottle of "POO" sold by UK grocer
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05:46 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Australian PM Tony Abbot ousted in own-party coup
Australia's Liberal Party voted out its own leader, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and replaced him with Malcolm Turnbull. Read the rest...
05:23 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Bitcoin exchange operator charged with embezzlement
Mark Karpeles, the operator of Bitcoin exchange/scam Mt. Gox, was charged Friday with embezzlement in connection to its collapse. Read the rest...
05:05 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Your Super Mario Maker level has no chill
It's fun to design your own games, but here's why you should slow your roll. Read the rest...
05:04 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing In a first, court fines operator of delayed Kickstarter campaign
A Washington state court judgment marks the first time the operator of a successful Kickstarter got fined for failing to follow-through. Read the rest...
04:45 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Survey: most designers still brainstorm on paper
The most exciting news out of last week's Apple event was its 12.9" iPad Pro, complete with Wacom-style stylus for artists and designers. Read the rest...
04:27 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Harry Potter sets skinned in Hogwarts House livery
Juniper takres the Scholastic editions and wraps them with gilded Gryffindon, Hufflepuff, Slytherin or Ravenclaw jackets. Read the rest...
04:15 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Collapsible silicone pots would be amazing in small, urban kitchens
Camp-gear company Sea to Summit makes a line of collapsible silicone cook-pots with anodized aluminum bases. Read the rest...
04:04 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Ashley Madison users chose passwords like "whyareyoudoingthis"
Now that 11.7 million Ashley Madison users' passwords been show to be crackable, we're learning that password security has not improved since the last giant dump of user passwords. Read the rest...
03:56 am PDT - Mon, September 14, 2015
BoingBoing Your Super Mario Maker level has no chill
It's fun to design your own games, but here's why you should slow your roll. Read the rest...
10:19 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing 3D printing beautiful glass structures
MIT researchers developed a new system for 3D printing transparent, colored, and strong glass structures from digital files. Read the rest...
09:54 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Chloe LMAO: Who is she?
On Vine, less is more. This 16 year old Vine star's most popular clip, Who Is She, doesn't really contain muchbut it's perfect. Read the rest...
09:51 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Save 89% on a premium lifetime subscription of proXPN VPN
Surf the web with ultimate peace of mind both at home and on the road over proXPNs fully-encrypted, lightning-fast servers. Read the rest...
09:35 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing A better solution for astronauts who drink their own piss
Aquaporin A/S made this new small and lightweight filter that uses aquaporins, membrane proteins, to turn urine, sweat, and wastewater into drinkable water. Read the rest...
09:27 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Hilarious instant noodle TV ad turns 17-year-old Liverpool actor into tankini-clad superstar
We laughed pretty hard. Read the rest...
09:05 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing This cat is adorably psycho
I have never seen a cat do what this cat is doing vocally in this video, but that's the thing about cats. They have a million different ways of being pissed off. (more…)...
08:36 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing This cat is adorably psycho
I have never seen a cat do what this cat is doing vocally in this video, but that's the thing about cats. They have a million different ways of being pissed off. (more…)...
08:29 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Sagan, Hawking, and Clarke have a gabfest (1988)
Watch these three guys discuss "God, The Universe and Everything Else," which includes extraterrestrials, creativity, science fiction, education, the Cold War, fractals, and so much more. ...
07:56 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Robots wish you a happy Rosh Hashanah!
A robotic Shanah Tovah (Happy New Year!) from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology! (more…)...
04:52 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Ukranian guys have fun directing microwave beams out of the oven
I doubt it's safe to do what these guys are doing in this video, but it's fun to watch them use the guts of a microwave oven to illuminate and pop light bulbs and vaporize metal objects. Read the rest...
04:44 pm PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Basketball sized chunk of ice crashes through roof of California home
It was just an another quiet 100-degree day in Modesto, California when a large chunk of ice fell from the sky an crashed though the roof of Monican Savath home, and landed on a car in the garage, dam...
11:19 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Brewster Kahle for Librarian of Congress!
The Library of Congress is about to get its first new honcho in a generation, and not a day too soon, given that the guy who presided over the past generation's worth of copyright policy in America is...
10:27 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Paralyzed man becomes first person to feel sensations through a prosthetic hand connected to his brain
A 28-year-old paralyzed man became the first person to gain a sense of touch with a prosthetic hand. It was developed by DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program. Read the rest...
09:02 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing "Dear Abby" to harassed waitress: keep your sense of humor and stand out of reach
A restaurant server in California has a problem: customers that just won't stop touching her. Unfortunately, she now has two problems: she went to "Dear Abby" for help. Read the rest...
07:53 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing 27-year-olds: don't forget your D10K party!
If you were born on April 27, 1988, today is your 10,000th day on Earth (assuming you didn't go to space for a while). Read the rest...
07:43 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Empty Epson "professional" inkjet cartridges are still 20% full
If you've wondered why it matters that the Internet of Things is being born with the inkjet printer business model, here's why. Read the rest...
07:09 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Chest-height puking toilet in a nightclub bathroom
This Czech nightclub has a special standing-height toilet for puking into -- but I bet they don't have urinals that sort piss by the booze you've consumed (meanwhile, check out that "puke here" ped-gl...
07:02 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing Behold the multi-ax
For the dwarf who has everything: the $550 Ti-Klax Ax, whose head incorporates 10 tools: Ulu blade, knife, hammer, cutting/gut hook, hex wrench, 1/4" bit drive socket, bottle opener, lanyard hole and ...
06:50 am PDT - Sun, September 13, 2015
BoingBoing The next universe I choose to be born into will have more cooperative inanimate objects
philosophy,murphy's law,sod's law,science fiction...
07:53 pm PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing OXO's Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker
The $50 cold-brew maker makes some important design improvements over its pioneering competitor, the Toddy, but you get the same quality coffee with easier cleanup for $10 with my nut-milk bag method...
07:44 pm PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing MIT and Boston U open legal clinic for innovative tech projects
The Entrepreneurship & Intellectual Property Law Clinic was partly inspired by the death of Aaron Swartz, who was hounded by federal prosecutors with MIT's complicity. Read the rest...
03:00 pm PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing My novel "Utopia" will hit shelves in 2017
My biggest (and, IMO, best) adult novel has just sold to Tor for a very pleasing sum of money; it will hit shelves in 2017. Read the rest...
02:36 pm PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing My novel "Utopia" will hit shelves in 2017
My biggest (and, IMO, best) adult novel has just sold to Tor for a very pleasing sum of money; it will hit shelves in 2017. Read the rest...
02:02 pm PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing UK Labour Party elects its first left-wing leader in more than 20 years
After decades of Blairite, New Labour politics that catered to banks, built out mass surveillance and attacked unions and the working poor, the UK Labour Party has elected a genuine left-wing leader, ...
09:40 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing Tokaido - a game about traveling the eastern sea road from Kyoto to Edo
Tokaido is a set-building game about traveling the eastern sea road in Japan from Kyoto to Edo. You'll be playing the part of one of 10 different characters with unique powers, vying to have the most ...
09:35 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing Man charged with urinating on other flight passengers
A 27-year-old man on a JetBlue flight allegedly stood up and "began urinating through the crack between the seats in front of him - and onto the passengers sitting there," according to AP. Read the r...
08:20 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing UK Labour Party elects its first left-wing leader in more than 20 years
After decades of Blairite, New Labour politics that catered to banks, built out mass surveillance and attacked unions and the working poor, the UK Labour Party has elected a genuine left-wing leader, ...
07:59 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing NYPD cop who beat up tennis star James Blake has a long, violent rapsheet
Officer James Frascatore's only been on the NYPD for 4 years, but has racked up a long history of complaints for unprovoked acts of brutality -- and for lying about them. Read the rest...
07:30 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing 97% Off 500 Online Courses For Coders, Designers, IT Admins & More
Welcome to your personal online classroom, where you can finally study at your own pace, on your own time (and pajamas are encouraged). Read the rest...
07:26 am PDT - Sat, September 12, 2015
BoingBoing OXO's Good Grips Cold Brew Coffee Maker
The $50 cold-brew maker makes some important design improvements over its pioneering competitor, the Toddy, but you get the same quality coffee with easier cleanup for $10 with my nut-milk bag method...
03:58 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Copyright Office seeks your comments on its crazy, broken plan to deal with orphan works
The orphan works problem has obsessed the Copyright Office -- as well as authors, publishers, libraries, scholars -- for years. Read the rest...
03:30 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Coyote/Golden Retriever mix dog adopts 10 baby chicks
They showed up in our yard one morning and it was love at first sight,the YouTube uploader says of this sweet video. (more…)...
03:18 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Here's the video NYPD released of a plainclothes cop brutally attacking tennis star James Blake
James Blake made a terrible mistake. He was outside in public while black. Here is video proof, released today by the New York Police Department. Read the rest...
03:12 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Skull face tube mask
When I go out trick-or-treating with my daughter, she asks me why I won't wear a costume. My answer is that I can't be bothered wearing uncomfortable makeup and clothes. Read the rest...
02:56 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing This $1 head massager is awesome
When my family settles down at night to watch an episode of Project Runway or The Walking Dead, we give each other foot massages. Read the rest...
02:55 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: last-minute surprise additions you won't want to miss
Some special elements are coming together in these final days leading up to the event that are just-- well, wonderful. And you should not miss them. Read the rest...
02:20 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing George R.R. Martin plays a zombie signing his new book on Syfys 'Z Nation'
Nothing will stop George R.R. Martin from completing his Game of Thrones novels. But the author and fantasy/science fiction icon will show up in the eighth epsiode of Syfy's series 'Z Nation,' which r...
02:11 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Silicon Valley is raiding tech academia: Uber would like to buy your Robotics Department
Silicon Valley is raiding technology departments of universities around the U.S.can tech academia survive? Read the rest...
01:57 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Keith Richards tells his kids to snort his cremation ashes
"I'll give them a straw," he said, according to The Mirror. You might recall that Richards also made headlines years back after claiming that he snorted his own father's ashes. Read the rest...
01:39 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Wonderful alphabet of superhero letters
Australia-based illustrator Simon Koay reimagined the letters of the English alphabet as superheroes. Read the rest...
01:31 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Meet Martin Riese, water sommelier
"The most interesting part for me about water is it all looks the same... but still there's a huge taste profile to it." (more…)...
01:20 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Trademark Office gives not one fuck for "No Fucks Given" trademark application
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office refused the mark on grounds of it being "scandalous" in what must surely be the most brilliant trademark determination of all time. Read the rest...
12:05 pm PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing A great brief video introduction to consciousness and its myriad mysteries
Here's what we know, and what we know we don't know, and what we don't know we know, and what we don't know we don't know. (more…)...
11:48 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Bud Light's weird and bad "Grunge" commercial from the 1990s
"Want some Bud Light, want some Bud Light, hey, yeahhhhhh!" (more…)...
11:46 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Steampunk power-plant ring
Thinkgeek's new $30 Hi-Voltage Toric Generator Ring is a copper-plated pewter fancy that looks a tiny power-plant on your finger....
11:44 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "A Question of Temperature," Balloon Farm (1967)
"I'll tell it like it is, girl you gotta keep your distance. Cause the doctor says I've got a very low resistance."...
11:39 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing For the first time in 22 years, New Zealand has banned a book
Into the River by New Zealand author Ted Dawe is an award-winning young adult novel about a teenage boy who moves from the sticks in New Zealand to a posh boarding school in Aukland. Read the rest...
11:25 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing San Francisco tomorrow (Sat): Noise Pop's 20th Street Block Party
Our pals at Noise Pop are hosting their third annual 20th Street Block Party of music and local food tomorrow (Saturday) in San Francisco! It promises to be a rocking and rollicking good time with the...
11:21 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Actual textbook physics problem
You are kidnapped by political-science majors (who are upsetbecause you told them political science is not a real science).Although blindfolded, you can tell the speed of their car (by thewhine of the...
11:07 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Animated interview with Rashida Jones
An animated interview with Rashida Jones in which she discusses the "perfect, idyllic, hippie-meets-suburban vibe" of her Los Angeles childhood, including the time her father, legendary music producer...
11:00 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Stock photos of menacing punk rockers
Remember when MAD magazine was still making fun of hippies well into the late 1970s? Dangerous Minds' gallery of stock photos of punks going wild in streets has a similar vibe.Top Image: Shutterstock...
10:52 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Driver using selfie stick drives his Jeep into a canoe
If you are driving, it's probably not a good idea to pay more attention to your selfie stick than the road. But if you do it anyway, be sure to record yourself running into the canoe tied to the truck...
10:35 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Over 60 dead after crane collapse in Mecca's Grand Mosque
Images and video in this post contain graphic images of death, and may be disturbing. Read the rest...
10:34 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing What's the difference between a $20 ukulele and a $1000 ukulele
The answer is, not much, but if you are serious about playing, an extra $980 is probably worth it. In this video George Elmes compares his super cheap yellow starter uke with his most recent uke purch...
10:24 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic reveals a society's struggle for its identity
Books about book covers and jackets have long been a favorite of publishers, in part, I’m assuming, because the subject is at once self-congratulatory and economical. Read the rest...
10:22 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing See the shot similarities between all of the Indiana Jones films
"Indiana Jones 4 and the Echoes of the Past" (more…)...
10:20 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing For the first time in 22 years, New Zealand has banned a book
Into the River by New Zealand author Ted Dawe is an award-winning young adult novel about a teenage boy who moves from the sticks in New Zealand to a posh boarding school in Aukland. Read the rest...
10:12 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Gory wound bandaids
The actual injury under your Boo-Boo bandage is almost certainly less disturbing than the one printed on its surface. (more…)...
09:51 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing People believe they will be healed by gazing at a video feed of this guy's face
His name is Braco (pronounced braht-zo), though his devotees call him "the gazer." When the 48-year-old Croatian healer is in public, he remains perfectly silent. His followers claim that his ability ...
09:22 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Postmodern Jukebox does a lounge version of The Strokes' "Someday"
Postmodern Jukebox does retro versions of popular contemporary pop songs. Their latest video is a cover of The Stroke's 2002 hit "Someday." It features Cristina Gatti on vocals. The versions are very ...
09:19 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Get Smart, the complete series
This weekend I'll be watching Max, Fang, 99, and the rest of CONTROL keep the world safe from KAOS ...and loving it! Read the rest...
08:55 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Get Smart, the complete series
This weekend I'll be watching Max, Fang, 99, and the rest of CONTROL keep the world safe from KAOS ...and loving it! Read the rest...
07:04 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing 9/11 Truthers still not done
If lacking the attention they got in times past, those who believe in conspiracy theories concerning the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are still going. Read the rest...
06:58 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Data is a liability, not an asset
Programmers know it, management reject it: code is a liability, not an asset. Read the rest...
06:52 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing 9/11 Truthers still not done
If lacking the attention they got in times past, those who believe in conspiracy theories concerning the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are still going/a. Read the rest...
06:32 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Missing from the computer science curriculum
"Unlearning Object-Oriented Programming," "Classical Software Studies," "Writing Fast Code in Slow Languages," "User Experience of Command Line Tools," and "Obsessions of the Programmer Mind." Read th...
06:30 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Reviewers say M. Night Shyamalan's "The Visit" isn't bad
The low-budget found-footage creepyflick is being hailed as his best since at least The Village. The tl;dr: starts great, becomes a bit contrived, ends preachy. Read the rest...
06:16 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Mid-Century Misery: the discontented delights of Stevan Dohanos
Dohanos was a prolific American painter and illustrator with over 125 Saturday Evening Post covers to his credit. Read the rest...
06:07 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Internet food funsters Starry Kitchen to join Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder
Starry Kitchen, the fun-loving pan-Asian pop-up restaurant darlings of social media, will be joining us at Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder. Om nom nom! Read the rest...
06:06 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Want to create Mario Maker levels? 7 game designers teach you how
Level design is its own kind of playful art: part theatre and part architecture, youre making spaces to challenge and delight other people. Read the rest...
06:05 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing What getting tased looks like at 28,500 frames per second
The Slow Mo Guys said "do tase me, bro"and filmed the results for posterity. The footage was captured with the Phantom v2511 camera. [via Digg]...
06:04 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Disney animator draws classic characters in 3D with VR headset
From the Future of Storytelling Summit. Read the rest...
06:00 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing New curb leads to chaos in UK town
A woman who sprained her ankle in Cheltenham, England, is just the latest to trip after the installation of a new street curb that is a different color to the old one. Read the rest...
12:06 am PDT - Fri, September 11, 2015
BoingBoing Last Chance To Save 59% On The First Generation Lytro 16GB Camera
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...
03:49 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing How is this Ted Cruz poster not totally homoerotic and weird for a presidential candidate?
Blacklisted and Lovin' It. $50 on the official store.tedcruz.org site. Jezebel has the backstory. Still would not have sex with.This is a thing that's real. Read the rest...
03:37 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Internet food funsters Starry Kitchen to join Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder
Starry Kitchen, the fun-loving pan-Asian pop-up restaurant darlings of social media, will be joining us at Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder. Om nom nom! Read the rest...
03:36 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Adorable tiny baby ducklings love taking a bath with patient capybara
Three energetic ducklings standing on top of a capybara who is just trying to take a bath. (more…)...
01:56 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Is this a real pterodactyl flying over Idaho?
This video made me laugh out loud, said paleontologist Leif Tapanila, director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Read the rest...
01:31 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing This $3 illuminated jeweler's loupe comes in handy
Early this week I gave an online Arduino sensor workshop, and without this LED jeweler's loupe, I wouldn't have been able to read the tiny markings on many of the components. The battery has lasted fo...
01:10 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing The "War on Cops" is a myth
"It's a funny sort of war that produces a lower body count than there was before the war began," writes Jesse Walker for Reason's Hit & Run blog. Read the rest...
01:00 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Library offers Tor nodes; DHS tells them to stop
John writes, "After a library created a Tor node on its network, the DHS and local police contacted them to ask them to stop. For now they have; their Board of Trustees will vote soon on whether to r...
12:58 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Artisanal rock costs $190 at shop in The Hamptons
I want this $190 rock almost as much as I want that $98 stump....
12:47 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing New close-ups from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft show off Pluto's mysterious complexity
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research InstituteThe New Horizons spacecraft sent back new close-up images of Pluto, and they are stunning. Read the rest...
12:04 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Is the Five Second Rule real?
Paul Dawson, a professor of Food Science at Clemson University, investigated the history of the "Five Second Rule" and ran experiments to see how much bacteria actually transfers from the floor onto d...
12:00 pm PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Internet food funsters Starry Kitchen to join Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder
Starry Kitchen, the fun-loving pan-Asian pop-up restaurant darlings of social media, will be joining us at Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder. Om nom nom! Read the rest...
11:52 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Private eye caught woman he was hired to spy on having sex with his own teen son
The estranged husband of Amber Telford, 33, hired a private detective to surveil his wife, a dance instructor in Taylorsville, Utah. The detective caught Telford having sex in the dance studio with a ...
11:42 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Watch weather forecaster nail pronunciation of: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, UK. Nice work, Liam Dutton of Channel 4....
11:22 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Is this a real pterodactyl flying over Idaho?
This video made me laugh out loud, said paleontologist Leif Tapanila, director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. The flying reptiles (pterosaurs) ... Read the rest...
11:07 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Photo of a $98 stump and a artisanal firewood video go well together
Above: a stump for sale for $98 at Design Republic. Below: a video about an artisanal firewood maker. It doesn't really matter that one is real and which one is a parody. ...
10:48 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Watch weather forecaster nail pronunciation of: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, UK. Nice work, Liam Dutton of Channel 4....
10:42 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Exploding Kittens is a "kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette"
Designed by both Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs) and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel), and illustrated by Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Exploding Kittens is a self-proclaimed “kitty-powered version of Russian Ro...
10:26 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Watch Mr. Darcy get rekt
R.I.P. Mr. Darcy....
10:23 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Harvard linguist points out the 58 most commonly misused words and phrases
At first I was adverse to posting this fulsome list of 58 commonly misused words and phrases, due to its sheer enormity, but I decided to proscribe it anyway because it is pretty bemusing. Read the r...
10:11 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Internet food funsters Starry Kitchen to join Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder
We're very excited to announce that Starry Kitchen, the fun-loving pan-Asian pop-up restaurant darlings of social media, will be joining us at Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder. And we'll be noshing on ...
10:08 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Porn app secretly takes photos of you and charges you a ransom
A porn app developed by Russian hackers takes your photo, locks your phone, and displays a scary looking message from the "FBI" that says you have to pay a $500 fine for accessing "forbidden pornogaph...
09:56 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing REM's Michael Stipe to Trump et al.: "Go fuck yourselves!"
"Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men," Stipe said, responding to Trump playing REM's hit "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)...
09:45 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Ashley Madison's passwords were badly encrypted, 15 million passwords headed for the Web
A flaw in the fraudulent dating site's password hashing means that at least 15 million of its users' passwords are liable to decryption. Read the rest...
09:38 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Hotel safes are easily opened with a screwdriver and a paper clip
Jim Stickley of Stickley Online Security uses his handy $8 Utili-Key to open a locked hotel safe at the Horseshoe Hotel in Bossier City, LA. He unscrews the nameplate on the safe, which reveals a phys...
09:38 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Beautiful (and affordable!) Kelly Tunstall art print
San Francisco painter Kelly Tunstall and the People's Print Shop teamed up on this wonderful fine art print, "Cloud Chat," limited to 30 signed/numbered copies for just $40 each! Read the rest...
09:37 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing DoJ says it will consider jailing executives who order corporate crimes
The doctrine under former AG Eric Holder (documented in Matt Taibbi's brilliant The Divide) was to allow executives to pay fines that were less than the profits from their crimes. Read the rest...
09:33 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Heathrow security insists that ice is a liquid
Simon Perry froze a can of Diet Coke solid and took it through security at London's Heathrow Airport to see whether he could find a loophole in the "no liquids" rule. Read the rest...
09:30 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing You are the seagull who will burn the world
At first, it seems like just another day at the beach for just another seagull. Then you open your tiny yellow beak and sing the song of fire. Read the rest...
09:23 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Meet Homo naledi, the distant ancestor you never knew
In South Africa, scientists have unearthed a humanoid species from what appears to be a burial chamber hidden deep inside a system of caves. Read the rest...
09:22 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing New neuroscience-based platform to get to know your mind
My friend Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher and her colleagues are piloting a new public project called mymntr meant to create a "user guide for your brain" through brain tests for self-knowledg...
09:17 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Boston man hasn't showered for 12 years, prefers homebrew bacteria spray
Dave Witlock is a practical man. "I have not taken a shower in over 12 years," says the chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate. Read the rest...
09:05 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing World's fastest tortoise
Bertie the tortoise broke the world record for the fastest animal in his species, moving at .28 meters/second, beating a tortoise named Charlie's 1977 record of .125 meters/second. Meet Bertie in the ...
08:59 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Attack on Pizza! (or: A live-action scene done anime-style)
Having watched Attack on Titan, I enjoyed this video of a live action fight over a slice of pizza at a party, edited anime-style. Every line of dialogue is delivered as a seething throaty whisper or a...
08:51 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Using sandwiches to teach the Socratic method
Fans of the Judge John Hodgman podcast know that the harder you interrogate the category "sandwich," the less definitive it becomes, until you find yourself raging over tacos and hot-dogs. Read the re...
08:12 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Government-run egg board waged high-price, secret PSYOPS war on vegan egg-replacement
The American Egg Board's members are appointed by the FDA, and it was they who funded a secrets, deceptive smear campaign against startup Hampton Creek's vegan egg replacement. Read the rest...
08:02 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing NSA whistleblower James Bamford profiles Edward Snowden
Bamford was the first-ever NSA whistleblower, whose bravery led to the Church Commission and the unprecedented curbs on the agency's spying powers -- his long, sympathetic Wired profile of Snowden is ...
07:08 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Cyclist videos self plunging down a dam wall
Primo Ravnik thought it would be cool to ride down the face of a 200-ft dam. Damn, Primo! Daaaaamn! [Sploid]...
07:02 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Things to add to your building lobby's CCTV warning
Someone in JWZ's building put up a "THIS BUILDING IS MONITORED BY CLOSED-CIRCUIT CAMERAS" sign in the lobby where only the residents and their guests go, so he's been updating it with messages like "F...
06:51 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Fury Road cosplay: wheelchair and amputated arm edition
When Fury Road came out, Laura Vaughn made an iconic post about how her left-arm transradial amputation gave her the potential to be the world's greatest Imperator Furiosa cosplayer -- and now she's d...
06:46 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Fury Road cosplay: wheelchair and amputated arm edition
When Fury Road came out, Laura Vaughn made an iconic post about how her left-arm transradial amputation gave her the potential to be the world's greatest Imperator Furiosa cosplayer -- and now she's d...
06:43 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing WSJ: consumers should be allowed to repair their gadgets
Wall Street Journal columnist Geoffrey A Fowler: "Theres a fight brewing between giant tech companies and tinkerers that could impact how we repair gadgets or choose the shop where we get it done by a...
06:38 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Lawyering is brutal
"Long hours, missed family vacations, and significant burnout" Leigh McMullin on a job so unpleasant there's a cottage industry helping you escape it. Read the rest...
06:37 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Millennium Falcon quadcopter
Skinning drones with iconic spaceship shells is an absolute natural and I expect to see a lot more of it -- here's a salvo, Air Hogs's Millennium Falcon quadcopter, which hits stores on Sept 15 -- par...
06:36 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing How to make bizarre topographical eye art
Jhovany Quiroz's art is "the human eye made weird and psychedelic." [Wired] Read the rest...
06:31 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing 2-star Legend reviewer on the "marketing gold" of bad write-ups
The Guardian's 2-star outlier review of Legend was cleverly misrepresented on the movie poster. Author Benjamin Lee writes on how bad reviews like his can be turned into marketing gold. Read the rest...
06:19 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Is Metal Gear Solid V as big as David Bowie right now?
The musical references of this year's most daunting commercial video game are resonating in surprising and brilliant ways. Read the rest...
06:13 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Join a colorful crew of bounty hunters in this choice-driven visual novel
A team experienced at eerie, atmospheric sci fi is developing a new visual novel with amazing illustrations and a diverse crew. Read the rest...
06:10 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Wes Craven "gentrified" the genre, then "was priced out"
Wes Craven obeyed the gatekeeper's creed: "learn the rules before you break them." Ben Gabriel suggests this is why, despite great success, he never quite earned the same status as Carpenter and Crone...
06:01 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Glitch Runs of Super Mario World
Let's Glitch Super Mario World is a YouTube series about the creative destruction and remaking of a classic game, simply by exploiting its glitches. Read the rest...
05:47 am PDT - Thu, September 10, 2015
BoingBoing Zooming in on the mysterious white spot on Ceres
Looks like it's some kind of volcano poop, but NASA's still hedging its bets. The latest images from Dawn reveal surface features as small as 450 feet across. Read the rest...
10:16 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Burrito, unicorn and middle finger emojis are coming to your iPhone
Developers get a closer look at the emoji riches of iOS 9.1. Read the rest...
05:51 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Light-proof sleep mask, better than a sleep-proof light mask
I suppose if you have a perfectly flat nose, any sleep mask will do. Otherwise light will creep around your proboscis and wreak unholy havoc on your melatonin production cycle. Read the rest...
05:42 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing This $3 illuminated jeweler's loupe comes in handy
Early this week I gave an online Arduino sensor workshop, and without this LED jeweler's loupe, I wouldn't have been able to read the tiny markings on many of the components. The battery has lasted fo...
04:17 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Fight censorship with the new Humble Bundle full of Gaiman rarities
More than a dozen rare and unpublished Neil Gaiman titles are available DRM-free on a name-your-price basis at Humble Bundle this week, with proceeds to benefit the brilliant Comic Book Legal Defense ...
02:30 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Pay What You Want: WordPress Wizard Bundle
Recreate the magic you see around the Web with courses that take you beyond the template. Learn everything about WordPress -- whether you want to know it now or will want to learn it later -- with 12 ...
02:29 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing 97% Off 500 Online Courses For Coders, Designers, IT Admins & More
Welcome to your personal online classroom, where you can finally study at your own pace, on your own time (and pajamas are encouraged). Read the rest...
02:28 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Save Time and Keystrokes with the Award-Winning TextExpander 5 for Mac
The harsh reality is you waste time typing the same thing over and over, whether you notice it or not— but that’s where TextExpander comes in. Read the rest...
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing First and final seconds of 55 movies, shown side-by-side
Jacob Swinney compiled this supercut of the opening and closing shots of 55 films. It's accompanied by Thomas Newman's "Any Other Name."Films used (in order of appearance):The Tree of Life 00:00The Ma...
01:19 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Survivor bandmembers gobsmacked at Kim Davis and Mike Huckabee using 'Eye of the Tiger' at rally
Survivor guitarist and Eye of the Tiger co-writer Frankie Sullivan says nobody in their camp granted permission for their 1982 hit song to be featured at a rally for Kim Davis without their permission...
01:08 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Save the universe (and your relationship) by shooting aliens
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a game about love, about cooperation, and possibly about what it means to save a relationship that's falling apart. Read the rest...
12:59 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Save the universe (and your relationship) by shooting aliens
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a game about love, about cooperation, and possibly about what it means to save a relationship that's falling apart. Read the rest...
12:50 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Movie poster cleverly disguises two-star review
Benjamin Lee of The Guardian disliked the movie Legend, a biopic about 1950s and 1960s British thugs the Kray Twins, and gave it two stars. That didn't stop the movie studio from using it on the poste...
12:28 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Finding the perfect tea strainer and mug
My wife is a tea drinker, and I've been drinking more tea than coffee lately. Carla likes the compressed pu'erh bricks from Numi and I like loose leaf golden monkey. Read the rest...
12:27 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Cosplayers and EFF team up for privacy
Dave from EFF writes, "More than 125 Dragon Con cosplayers posed for privacy during EFF and Access Now's Project Secret Identity 2015 campaign." Read the rest...
12:07 pm PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing New Apple gadgets: iPhone 6S, ginormous iPad Pro, gamier Apple TV
The iPhone 6s and 6S+ (prices unchanged) are much fasterand very slightly thinnerthan last year's models, and come optionally in a new "rose gold" color as well as silver, gray and gold. Read the res...
11:35 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Climate change denier Rupert Murdoch just bought National Geographic, which gives grants to scientists
Rupert Murdoch, the new boss of National Geographic.The National Geographic magazine has been a nonprofit publication since inception in 1888, but that ends today. The long-running American publicatio...
11:17 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Fight censorship with the new Humble Bundle full of Gaiman rarities
More than a dozen rare and unpublished Neil Gaiman titles are available DRM-free on a name-your-price basis at Humble Bundle this week, with proceeds to benefit the brilliant Comic Book Legal Defense ...
11:13 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Take a quiz to see which US presidential candidate matches your views
This nicely made quiz ranks presidential candidates by how closely they match your views on different issues, including domestic policy, healthcare, education, social, foreign policy, the economy, the...
11:12 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing National Geographic sold to Rupert Murdoch
The $750m deal places the legendary nonprofit under 21st Century Fox's control.The first edition of National Geographic was published in 1888, the same year that the National Geographic Society was fo...
11:08 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's Liberty Annual, 2015 edition
The indispensable Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has announced the 2015 edition of its always-brilliant Liberty Annual ("ridiculous adult humor for adults"), featuring an all-star comix cast from Art S...
11:01 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing NYC to-do: "Art, Design, and The Future of Privacy," Sept 17
A night of talks and conversations about privacy and tech, centered on humane design and user-experience -- I'm speaking there! Read the rest...
10:52 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Burning Man's public Fleshlight
Some funny stuff from this year's burn. Read the rest...
10:45 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing First and final seconds of 55 movies, shown side-by-side
Jacob Swinney compiled this supercut of the opening and closing shots of 55 films. Its accompanied by Thomas Newman's "Any Other Name."Films used (in order of appearance):The Tree of Life 00:00The Mas...
10:43 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Dear Internet of Things: human beings are not things
My new Locus column is What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed? Read the rest...
10:22 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Some call Miyazaki's Nausicaa the greatest graphic novel ever
Some call this the greatest graphic novel ever. I tend to agree. Written and drawn by a young Hayao Miyazaki between 1982 and 1994, his final Japanese manga reached 1,100 pages. Read the rest...
10:19 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing British mum bought cocaine for her daughter's 18th birthday, avoids jail
Nicola Austen told police she only wanted to have a good time snorting $450 worth of coke with her 18-year-old daughter. Read the rest...
10:13 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to some fresh avant-jazz from Brian Ellis Group!
Dig this far out avant-jazz/electronic madness from San Diego's Brian Ellis Group that the record label, El Paraiso, rightly says should be filed in the same crate as "Miles Davis, Tortoise, Marion Br...
10:08 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Tongue kissing your Venus flytrap is not a good idea
A peck on the cheek would be a much better idea. ...
10:02 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. The Last X-Vector Fighter, and MORE!
Tom the Dancing Bug IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Bob's Secrets, Stupid Stupid Comics for Morons and MUCH MUCH MORE! Read the rest...
09:59 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing New test purportedly spots psychopathy in babies
Does your little bundle of joy prefer looking at a red ball over a human face? If so, they might be a psychopath. Read the rest...
09:56 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Watch this fellow launch his flaming truck into a lake
Note that he holds his nose before splashing into the water. (more…)...
09:48 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing 1927 news report: Donald Trump's dad arrested in KKK brawl with cops
According to a New York Times article published in June 1927, a man with the name and address of Donald Trump's father was arraigned after Klan members attacked cops in Queens, N.Y. Read the rest...
09:48 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to Tycho's lovely remix of Death Cab for Cutie
Enjoy downtempo electronic musician/producer Tycho's hazy, chill remix of "The Ghosts of Beverly Drive" from DCfC's beautiful album Kintsugi, their eighth LP. Read the rest...
09:28 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Trump felt he served in the military, however he did not
I wonder whose military Trump feels he served in? Politico shares excerpts from an upcoming book wherein Donald mistakes being sent to military academy as service to his nation. Read the rest...
08:44 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Save Over 50% On Scrivener 2 For Mac or PC
Ever tried writing a novel in Microsoft Word? Trust us, you don’t want to. That’s why writing professionals around the world use Scrivener 2, the word processor and project management tool...
08:42 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing LEGO Mystery Machine
It is coolest van a bunch of meddling high school kids ever had! The minifigs are awesome too. Read the rest...
08:32 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Trump felt he served in the military, however he did not
I wonder whose military Trump feels he served in? Politico shares excerpts from an upcoming book wherein Donald mistakes being sent to military academy as service to his nation. Read the rest...
07:45 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Auto body shop with a massive Man Ray collection in the back room
In the backroom of a Long Island auto body shop sit 16 huge safes containing more than 4,000 artifacts from the estate of surrealist/dada artist Man Ray. How did the items -- ranging from hundreds of ...
07:43 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing This 'empathy game' reveals a real challenge for indie games
Anna Anthropy's "sequel to dys4ia" sheds light on the conflicting aftermath of the "empathy games" boom, and the fact so many celebrated creators are still alone and afraid. Read the rest...
07:14 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing My Stolen Life
My handbag was stolen two months ago. It happened in seconds in a mall in Turin, Italy. I never saw the thief, and neither did my husband, sitting two meters from the scene of the crime a fast food Ja...
06:59 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing United CEO and top execs resign over corruption scandal
Jeff Smisek was CEO of Continental and took over United in the 2010 merger and now he and two of his top execs have quit in the midst of a scandal over favor-trading with the NY and NJ Port Authority....
06:51 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Marcel Duchamp's heirs nuke hobbyists' hand-modelled 3D chess-set files
Duchamp -- who gleefully modified others' work and called it his own -- carved a gorgeous art deco chess set (this one) in 1917, which exists now only in grainy archival photos. Read the rest...
06:42 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing The astounding Talking Heads box set I missed 10 years ago
In 2005 (!), Rhino released a dual-disc box set of all eight Talking Heads studio albums with one side mastered for DVD-A surround-sound and the other for stereo, along with a bunch of rarities, all p...
06:04 am PDT - Wed, September 9, 2015
BoingBoing Like words? Play with simile and metaphor in this unusual mystery app
Your revolver is like a trusty assistant. I mean, it is your assistant, and his name is Mr. Smith Wesson. Read the rest...
11:13 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Motrhead launches line of vibrators "that rock"
Speed metal pioneers Motrhead teamed up with sex toy company Lovehoney on a line of vibrators, or, um, "pleasure tools that rock." Read the rest...
10:42 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Dissecting Sphero's Star Wars BB-8
Sphero's Star Wars BB-8 is sure to be the Cabbage Patch Kid of this Christmas, the ungettable gift that will spur mall fistfights, eBay price gouging, and plenty of crying kids (and adults). uBreakiFi...
10:17 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Help crowdfund a relentless tsunami of FOIA requests into America's private prisons
Michael from Muckrock writes, "Investigative news site MuckRock is taking a broad look at how private prisons have rewritten state and local laws to ensure that they profit at the expense of inmates, ...
10:11 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Nanotechnology coming of age (finally)?
For more than two decades, nonscientists and engineers have made molecular-scale motor, switches, propellers, ratchets, and even the "nanocar" above that rolls when its metal "road" is heated. But wha...
09:30 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Ballroom dancing in a busy NYC crosswalk
Charlie from Improv Everywhere sent us this video of their latest piece, "Ballroom Crosswalk," which features some genuinely great dancing in a NYC crosswalk, but even better is staged with a slow bur...
09:21 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Hackers at San Francisco's DNA Lounge
JWZ, owner of San Francisco's legendary DNA Lounge, writes, "Hey nerds, I think this might be up your alley. It's the 20th anniversary of the movie HACKERS and we're doing a movie screening, dance par...
09:15 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing TopatoCon 2015: games, geek music, webcomics, and donuts!
R Stevens (of Diesel Sweeties fame) writes, "A bunch of webcomics, gaming and geek music folks are getting together in Northampton & Easthampton Mass. later this month for Topatocon. There may ev...
09:11 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing High-ranking chess player caught cheating with wearable tech
Arcangelo Ricciardi was booted from the International Chess Festival of Imperia for cheating using a camera pendant to transmit video of the board to an accomplice and some kind of wireless device in ...
09:10 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Your baby monitor is an Internet-connected spycam vulnerable to voyeurs and crooks
Researchers revealed ten major vulnerabilities in Internet-of-Things babycams from a variety of vendors ranging from spunky startups like Ibaby Labs to rock-ribbed (and deep-pocketed -- attention, cla...
09:02 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Inept copyright bot sends 2600 a legal threat over ink blotches
Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "2600 Magazine is being threatened with legal action for using bits of ink splatter on the Spring 2012 cover that Trunk Archive Images claims it has the rights to. That's ri...
08:57 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Auto body shop with a massive May Ray collection in the back room
In the backroom of a Long Island auto body shop sit 16 huge safes containing more than 4,000 artifacts from the estate of surrealist/dada artist Man Ray. How did the items -- ranging from hundreds of ...
08:49 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing FBI used Burning Man to field-test new surveillance equipment
The FBI's 2012 file on its Burning Man surveillance, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, reveals that America's domestic spy agency for at least five years, and has been using the event ...
08:39 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Fury Road, hieroglyph edition
By @takumitoxin, who composed it in three fits. Read the rest...
08:31 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing For sale: one volcano supervillain lair
The Volcano House, "a saucer shaped mid-century icon perched on top of a 150-foot cinder cone," is $650,000 or best offer -- but you'll have to commute to the Mojave. Read the rest...
05:22 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Dogs get to swim in public pool for one day before it's drained at the end of summer
In Calgary, Canada, public outdoor pools invited local dogs to take a plunge after the pools closed for human swimmers for the season. The event was a charity fundraiser. (more…)...
05:18 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Words about slavery that we should all stop using
"Plantation" = "labor camp"; "slave-owner" = "enslaver"; "Union troops" = "US troops." Read the rest...
05:12 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Little Brother optioned by Paramount
My bestselling 2008 novel YA novel Little Brother has been optioned by Paramount, with Don Murphy (Natural Born Killers, Transformers) as the producer. Read the rest...
05:09 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Record street-marches in Moldova against corrupt oligarchs
The impoverished, corrupt former Soviet state has erupted over a banking fraud that saw $1B disappear from the system, presumably into the offshore accounts of President Nicolae Timofti and his elit...
05:07 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Antihoarding: When "decluttering" becomes a compulsion
If you felt a deep, nauseous tug in your guts when you read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up*, perhaps you're teetering on the brink of a tidying compulsion. Read the rest...
05:02 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Hungarian far-right TV journalist fired after abusing Syrian migrants on camera
Petra Laszlo was fired after images emerged on social media of her tripping a man who was holding a child in his arms while they fled police at a Syrian war refugee camp. Read the rest...
04:57 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Hungarian far-right TV journalist fired after abusing Syrian migrants on camera
A camerawoman for the Hungarian broadcaster N1TV tripped a man with a child in his arms who was fleeing from police at a migrant camp near the Serbian border on Tuesday. Read the rest...
04:55 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing California legislature wants to mandate radio-readable driver's licenses (CALL NOW!)
The new licenses can be read from up to 30' away and at the last minute, nearly all privacy protections were stripped from the bill mandating them. Read the rest...
04:49 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Antihoarding: When "decluttering" becomes a compulsion
If you felt a deep, nauseous tug in your guts when you read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up*, perhaps you're teetering on the brink of a tidying compulsion. Read the rest...
04:49 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Kim Davis welcome out of jail rally played Eye of the Tiger theme song
Gay-hatin' Lord-fearin' American Martyr Kim Davis and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee celebrate Davis' release from jail with an overused '80s sports anthem. Read the rest...
04:33 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing NZ bans award-winning YA novel after complaints from conservative Christian group
Ted Dawe's Into the River won the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book prize; businesses that sell, lend or gift it face fines of up to NZD10,000. Read the rest...
04:28 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Alaska woman steals patrol car in which her just-arrested husband is handcuffed
Alaska Woman is giving Florida Man a run for his money. Read the rest...
04:16 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Immortan Trump
Goddess's friend snapped this shot of a perfect piece of timely cosplay....
03:58 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing TOM THE DANCING BUG: Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. The Last X-Vector Fighter, and MORE!
Tom the Dancing Bug IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Bob's Secrets, Stupid Stupid Comics for Morons and MUCH MUCH MORE! Read the rest...
01:22 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Marching band formation: Star Trek's Enterprise or giant penis?
On Saturday night, the Kansas State marching band's halftime show formed what they say was meant to be the Starship Enterprise battling the Kansas Jayhawks mascot. Many feathers were ruffled though as...
12:53 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing The Making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 An enduring cinematic masterpiece gets a book worthy of its brilliance
“Holy crap! It's a monolith!” After my recent bookworm-o-gasm over Taschen's new William Blake book, I didn't think I'd be having another dreamy out-of-box book experience anytime soon, bu...
12:48 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing 32GB flash drive also has a micro USB connector
$11 is a decent price for a 32GB flash drive. This SanDisk Dual USB drive also has a micro USB connector For Android devices, making it easy to transfer photos, music, and videos....
12:10 pm PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing White House release video making fun of Dick Cheney's lies
I'd say Dick Cheney will go to his grave denying he was wrong about invading Iraq, but he seems to be an ideal heart transplant patient so he'll probably live forever....
11:59 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Hungry deer caught munching marijuana plants at Oregon farm
Oh, deer. Someone has a bad case of the munchies. Read the rest...
11:52 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Colombia seizes 1 metric ton of printer ink diluted with cocaine
Officers at Bogot Colombia's El Dorado airport found 40 sacks of black zinc oxide printer toner that had been adulterated with cocaine. Read the rest...
11:49 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Divers hunt for fossil teeth from the ancient world's largest sharkand find plenty
The teeth of a giant shark known as Megalodon, the ancestor of sharks still found off the South Carolina coast, can be found throughout the Lowcountry. Read the rest...
11:35 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Downhill skate champ zooms down Colorado slope at 70mph
Downhill skateboard champ Zak Maytum flies down one of the fastest runs in his home state of Colorado with speeds approaching 70mph, and rough-ass pavement. Be ready to have your fuckin' face melted. ...
11:06 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Nihilisa Frank finds the existential darkness in the art of Lisa Frank
The rainbow panda knows what you have always known deep down: We are all going to die. Read the rest...
11:01 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Muslim flight attendant says she was suspended for refusing to serve alcohol
Religious freedom warrior Mike Huckabee is keeping curiously silent about the Muslim airline attendant suspended for refusing to serve alcohol as part of her job duties. Read the rest...
10:49 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing It's not always easy being a trans lady at the queer zine fair
The interactive fiction game Zine Fair Lady asks you to step into the shoes of a trans woman who's headed for an LGBTQ zine fair—a space that, in theory, should be inclusive and welcoming. Read...
10:45 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Canadian candidate sorry for peeing in coffee cup
Jerry Bance, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada, was running for office in Toronto. He is also the owner of XPress Appliance Service, a home repair company. In 2012 was caught on a hidden vi...
10:41 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing The Game of Thrones cartographer explains how to draw maps
If you've ever wanted to make your own map—either of the real world or a fantasy world of your creation—these tips are essential. Read the rest...
10:36 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Christian assault rifles now available
Spike's Tactical in Florida is selling a $1,400 assault rifle called the Crusader. It's inscribed with Psalm 144:1, which says, Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for...
10:20 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Website creates fake Brooklyn bar menus on demand
With the click of a button you can create a custom menu and name for a trendy Brookyln bar. There are a lot of places like this in LA, too, which serve pricey tapas portioned for a pygmy jerboa....
10:07 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Kim Davis fundraiser shirt has terrible design
A company in Radcliff, Kentucky is selling T-shirts to support Kim Davis, the woman who is abusing her government position to force her religious beliefs on other people. The design is so hideous that...
10:02 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Fun guide to women's vintage clothing on eBay
Do you dig women's vintage clothes? My wife Kelly Sparks is a fashion designer and stylist who has been a hardcore vintage and thrift treasure hunter since she was in high school. Kelly was asked to w...
09:57 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Amazing beehive cake!
Christine McConnell baked this magnificent "Milk & Honey Cake!" Read the rest...
09:47 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing French to see Star Wars Episode VII first
I have altered a photograph of Darth Vader in celebration of the deal. Pray I do not alter it again. Read the rest...
09:08 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Schoolly D's Influential Hit: PSK, What Does It Mean?
This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip is about the man who created gangster rap. Read the rest...
09:06 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Loch Ness Monster was almost named after Queen Elizabeth
Famed British conservationist Sir Peter Scott, who gave the Loch Ness Monster the scientific name of Nessiteras rhombopteryx as part of an effort to protect it as an endangered species in case it's re...
08:57 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing The last arcades
Polygon's Willie Clark finds out what it's like to operate a video arcade in an age of pocket supercomputers, of Dave and Buster, of booming rents. Read the rest...
08:53 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing French to see Star Wars Episode VII first
I have altered a photograph of Darth Vader in celebration of the deal. Pray I do not alter it again. Read the rest...
08:46 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Escape a shipwreck by skipping stones across the water
Rescue yourself from a desert island in a challenging puzzle game full of rocks, lilypads, and the soothing sounds of the surf. Read the rest...
08:35 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing The true story of Diablo II, legendary action RPG
Diablo II claimed hundreds of hours of my life. I'll never get them back, but I had a great time losing them. Read the rest...
08:20 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing How to spot a liar
The supposed "tells"looking off to the right, body language, nervousness, "microexpressions"fall apart under scrutiny. Read the rest...
08:04 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing The annihilation of the UK's Liberal Democrats
Participation in a Conservative government left the UK's Lib Dems without a support base. But what's not so well known is that the Conservatives knew it all along: "Ffion, I think I've just killed th...
07:38 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Daily Mail insists it isn't a copycat, sues Gawker
The Daily Mail, a notable British tabloid, is suing Gawker after the latter posted "My Year Ripping Off the Web with the Daily Mail Online," an expose of the paper's sourcing habits. Read the rest...
07:38 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Boba Fett bottle opener
This bottle opener, modeled on the nefarious Boba Fett, is awesome! Read the rest...
07:21 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Boy unable to escape own shadow
"She returned to the nursery, and found Nana with something in her mouth, which proved to be the boy's shadow. Read the rest...
07:19 am PDT - Tue, September 8, 2015
BoingBoing Beautiful hand-cranked kinetic spiral sculpture
This fantastic sculpture by Clayton Boyer will delight, amaze, hypnotize, and/or induce motion sickness. He's posted the plans for sale and you can see how others have interpreted his basic design in ...
09:31 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing "The Lick," it is everywhere
Doo ba dih bee dWee doo daah. (more…)...
09:14 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Marching band formation: Star Trek's Enterprise or giant penis?
On Saturday night, the Kansas State marching band's halftime show formed what they say was meant to be the Starship Enterprise battling the Kansas Jayhawks mascot. Many feathers were ruffled though as...
08:51 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Dashcam: Driver steps out of moving car in traffic, crash happens
Watch as Jasmine Lacey, 22, calmly exits her automobile in the middle of traffic allowing it to roll the road, cross into oncoming traffic, and cause a multi-vehicle wreck on Harbor Boulevard in Rowla...
08:50 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Chandra Bahadur Dangi , the world's shortest man, RIP
Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who was just 21 inches tall (54.6 cm), has died at age 75. Dangi is seen in this photo with Sultan Kosen, the world's tallest man at 8' 2" tall (2.48 meters), when the pair met ...
04:57 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Save Over 50% On Scrivener 2 For Mac or PC
Ever tried writing a novel in Microsoft Word? Trust us, you don’t want to. That’s why writing professionals around the world use Scrivener 2, the word processor and project management tool...
04:56 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Get The Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit For 45% Off
Who said mastering electronics and programming can’t be fun? The Makeblock Arduino Starter Robot Kit will teach you about programming a microcontroller board to control physical objects using se...
04:37 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Tiny fluffball dog teaches working ranch dog pups how to herd sheep
From BearKayla's YouTube channel: 16 week old Percy the Pekingese takes control and shows the kelpie pups how to work sheep. Pure. Gold. (more…)...
04:20 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Cheap(er) geocache containers
There's a hidden world beneath your nose filled with 2,709,919 objects waiting to be found by those who are in the know. Read the rest...
04:13 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Larry Harvey on Burning Man's race gap: 'Black folks don't like to camp as much as white folks'
And just in case that line wasn't problematic enough, he added, were not going to set racial quotas. Read the rest...
02:55 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Winter is Coming: Snowflake Stealth Drone Now 70% Off ($29.99)
The Snowflakes smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced an...
02:35 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Cheap geocache containers
There's a hidden world beneath your nose filled with 2,709,919 objects waiting to be found by those who are in the know. Read the rest...
12:10 pm PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Documentary about the rise and fall of Tower records
I loved Tower Records. Not for the records (though I bought a lot of them there), but for the tremendous book and zine section. Read the rest...
11:19 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Mobile game of the week: Wuwu and Co.
It really does feel like a book come to life: With playful music, the crunch of snow and pretty, modern animal illustrations, you tilt and shake the device to interact gently with the stories and char...
10:27 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Man shows gorilla photos to gorilla at zoo
A man showed photos of gorillas to a gorilla at a zoo, and the gorilla was interested....
09:25 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Mobile game of the week: Wuwu and Co.
It really does feel like a book come to life: With playful music, the crunch of snow and pretty, modern animal illustrations, you tilt and shake the device to interact gently with the stories and char...
08:29 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Is decluttering a disorder?
Leslie Garret looks at people for whom decluttering has taken over their lives. Read the rest...
08:01 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing The queer masculinity of stealth games
In games, men's bodies often represent brute strength. Stealth games are the focal point for an alternative masculinity: sleek, illusory, sensitive, and self-reflective. Read the rest...
07:53 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Take a vacation, or die young
Americans don't take real vacations, and it destroys their bodies. This is what 365 days without a vacation does to your health. Read the rest...
07:08 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Schoolly D's Influential Hit: PSK, What Does It Mean?
This week's Hip Hop Family Tree strip is about the man who created gangster rap. Read the rest...
06:54 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing The queer masculinity of stealth games
In games, men's bodies often represent brute strength. Stealth games are the focal point for an alternative masculinity: sleek, illusory, sensitive, and self-reflective. Read the rest...
05:12 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing A '70s sci-fi game about a disembodied head exploring a space station
Set in a world where the rest of humanity has uploaded their minds to robotic bodies, you play as the last vestige of meatspace, a disembodied human head roaming a space station in a rocket-powered he...
04:45 am PDT - Mon, September 7, 2015
BoingBoing Offworld Monday reflection: What's good, Tinder Renaissance zombies?
Last week on Offworld saw us interrogate the millennial tech panic, play games about the Renaissance, watch a couple documentaries and collect Nicki Minaj fanart. Read the rest...
10:47 am PDT - Sun, September 6, 2015
BoingBoing Basketball throw in Walmart leads to mishap
What was in that ball, lead shot? (more…)...
10:41 am PDT - Sun, September 6, 2015
BoingBoing Dismantle the Pyramix one cube at a time in this three-sided strategy game
I’m loving Gamewright these days, the fun factory that churns out Sushi Go, which I reviewed last week, as well as the latest game in my house, Pyramix. Read the rest...
09:53 am PDT - Sun, September 6, 2015
BoingBoing Documentary about the rise and fall of Tower records
I loved Tower Records. Not for the records (though I bought a lot of them there), but for the tremendous book and zine section. Read the rest...
08:21 am PDT - Sun, September 6, 2015
BoingBoing What's in the box?
Pain....
02:31 pm PDT - Sat, September 5, 2015
BoingBoing How to take quality man selfies
Aanand Prasad knows how to take a decent selfie, and helped me take a better one too! Read the rest...
01:32 pm PDT - Sat, September 5, 2015
BoingBoing Our favorite photos of Vladimir Putin cuddling adorable soft fuzzy animals
The authoritarian leader of Russia sure knows how to look good cuddling adorable soft fuzzy animals. Here is proof. Read the rest...
02:44 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: Add butane to a bottle of Coke, get a totally unsafe high-powered bottle rocket
It's always the Russians, beating us in the never-ending arms race of Totally Unsafe Things That Are Fun to Watch. (more…)...
02:34 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Possibly drunk or high bear tries to scratch back on tree, misses repeatedly, is hilarious
We'll have what he's having. Read the rest...
01:42 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Three-ounce silicone bottles to hold your goops when you travel
This set of three 3-ounce travel bottles lets you transfer your favorite shampoo, lotion, and unguent into TSA-compliant squeezable tubes. The also have a suction cup so you can stick them to the show...
01:37 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing 1 Hour of Binaural Nut Sack ASMR,by Ephemeral Rift
It's actually very fun to listen to, ball jokes aside. Read the rest...
01:23 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Find out when your name was popular with Baby Name Explorer app
It's not super scientifically perfect but it's a fun tool. Read the rest...
01:04 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing USDA will no longer refer to small raisins as midgets, after Little People petition
They prefer to be called Little Raisins. Read the rest...
12:49 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing [UPDATED] Cop says photo of him saluting at KKK rally was "taken out of context"
[Update: According to this Vice article, Mott was working as an informant against the KKK, and was fired for fighting against police corruption.]Lake Arthur, Louisiana police officer Raymond Mott does...
12:28 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing 5 videos that prove helium makes opera singing more fun to listen to
No, really. Read the rest...
12:15 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Gorgeous minimalist drone music from Bitchin Bajas/Natural Information Society
Chicago experimentalists Natural Information Society trance out with Bitchin Bajas for Automaginary, a stunning new LP that will launch you into the droney, pulsing minimalism pioneered by the likes o...
12:13 pm PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing China TV news confuses Fleshlight sex toy for rare edible mushroom
A classic example of global news lulz from 2012. Read the rest...
11:45 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing New trend in US: naming your baby after a weapon or act of violence
US parents are weaponizing their babies, christening them with names associated with killing and maiming. Here's a sample of baby names, many of which are on the rise: Danger, Arrow, Rebel, Pistol, Ar...
11:22 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Miss New Jersey performs magic tricks
Lindsey Giannini became Miss New Jersey in June and will soon compete in the Miss America competition against 51 other women. Read the rest...
11:11 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing How Google's latest redesign shrank its logo from 2,145 bytes to only 305
Bit conservation! The redesign makes more sense now. Read the rest...
11:00 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing This is how blue the skies were when Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two weeks
In Beijing, China banned 2.5 million cars from driving for 2 weeks to get this beautiful blue sky for a World War II commemorative parade. As soon as the parade was over, the ban was lifted, and the b...
10:57 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing This is how blue the skies were when Beijing banned 2.5 million cars for two weeks
In Beijing, China banned 2.5 million cars from driving for 2 weeks to get this beautiful blue sky for a World War II commemorative parade. As soon as the parade was over, the ban was lifted, and the b...
10:54 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Gorgeous minimalist drone music from Bitchin Bajas/Natural Information Society
Chicago experimentalists Natural Information Society trance out with Bitchin Bajas for Automaginary, a stunning new LP that will launch you into the droney, pulsing minimalism pioneered by the likes o...
10:48 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Minions soap bottle appears to be crying tears of blood
Photo: @AlsBoyIt would be a good idea not to show this blog post, or buy this shampoo/body wash, for your kids. (more…)...
10:45 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Woman has a meltdown over kebabs
"My kids don't eat green things," says the angry mom who ordered red peppers on her takeaway kebabs. She lectures the restaurant workers about using English, then leaves in a huff, running smack into ...
10:40 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Scary Swedish bedtime stories for awful children
The creators of the game Year Walk have prepared a special treat for us: a free e-book of Swedish scary stories to tell in the dark. Read the rest...
10:33 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Watch this insane video of burning bourbon turn into a fire tornado
The Weather Channel posted this incredible video of a "firenado" that erupted from a pond coated in 800,000 gallons of bourbon after lightning struck a Jim Beam warehouse in Bardstown, Kentucky in 200...
10:03 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing A history of swords and their sharp, pointy, or bludgeoning cousins
The history of weapons is a fascinating subject, but none more so than the history of swords and their sharp, pointy or bludgeoning cousins. Read the rest...
09:59 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Getty charges blog $868 for Socially Awkward Penguin meme images, demands silence
Getty Images recently billed a German women's geek culture blog $868 for a 2012 blog post that contained Socially Awkward Penguin meme images. Read the rest...
09:46 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Watch this impressively strong 5-year-old do pushups on glass bottles
Romanian 5-year-old Claudio Stroe does pushups with his hands and feet on glass bottles. Claudio's older brother, Giuliano, is a World Record-setting child body builder and gymnast himself. Below, see...
09:33 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Woman thought to have attempted suicide wakes from coma, denies jumping from boat, may have been pushed
Laura Stuardo of Turin, Italy has been in a coma since July 19 after it was thought that she attempted suicide by jumping off a cruise ship. She's just woken up and insists she didn't jump, leading po...
09:14 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: 3D printed stand for Plugable's USB microscope
Our friends at Plugable, maker of the super-cool 250X USB microscope I reviewed in July, are sponsors of our upcoming Weekend of Wonder. Read the rest...
09:09 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing 'Flash Kids' elementary school workbooks my daughter and I can agree on
Additional repetition and practice of skills my daughter learns at school really helps to cement them. Flash Kids workbooks are fun for her, and show me she has learned whatever we're working on. Read...
08:59 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Jill Freedman's gripping 1970s NYC documentary photography
In the 1970s, documentary photographer Jill Freedman, now 75, embedded herself with New York City firefighters and police officers, capturing the grit, humor, and humanity of those individuals and oth...
08:57 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Experience: "I got stuck hanging naked from a tree"
Hilde Krohn Huse is a filmmaker and a performance artist. In this essay for the Guardian, she recounts her recent experience of ending up getting stuck in a tree hanging upside down from a rope tied a...
08:44 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Kittens stacked in Ikea organizer
Not sure about this new adaptation of J.G. Ballard's High Rise....
08:41 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Adorable Husky puppy can't howl like a dog
My Doglish is rusty, but I think he might be telling the person holding the phone to rotate his phone....
08:33 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Three actors, one Hannibal Lecter scene
This remarkable edit, by Matthew Morettini, splices together three versions of the same scene. It's the one where Lecter's captor, Will Graham, must beg the good doctor for help in a later case. Read...
08:28 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Funny video of professor saying "hello" every day reminiscent of Burroughs cut-up
It reminds me of the film "The Cut-Ups" (1967), below, by William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch. It's fun to play them simultaneously. Yes, hello. Hello....
08:16 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Adam Savage proves Star Wars blasters can't be lasers
Whatever they are, blasters ain't lasers. And they're never described as lasers in the flicks! Like it says in those crazy technical manuals, they're slugs of superheated gas or whatever.Painstakingly...
06:56 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Biscuit package looks like it has naughty word on it
Is the suggestive capitalization the result of bad design or a cunning stunt? Either way, customers complained and the seller has revised the product design. Read the rest...
06:51 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing UK report on ham and cheese pizza found they often contain neither
Attention, residents of Derbyshire, England! You may already know this, but the local pizza is bad. Read the rest...
06:44 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing It's unfair to compare Rowling to Lucas
Harry Potter's creator loves to sprinkle fandom with data that isn't in the booksmost significantly Dumbledore's sexuality, and most lately the house that Harry's son is sorted into. Read the rest...
06:04 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Millennials "don't realize" they are millennials
A report from Pew Research purports to reveal ignorance among young people about what they are. Read the rest...
05:36 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Developers mourn a canceled project in this short 'cave painting' about grief
After a large-scale commercial project abruptly ended, veterans of Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager Interactive decided to make a small jam game about grief and loss. Read the rest...
04:35 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing $10,000 fellowship available to aspiring game developers with disabilities
A nonprofit devoted to advocating for accessibility in video games is now offering a generous fellowship to eligible design students. Read the rest...
04:09 am PDT - Fri, September 4, 2015
BoingBoing Flywrench will kill you until you like it
Flywrench often feels a bit like a zen koan: a game that is both punishing and forgiving, overstimulating and patient, where you die constantly, yet never really stop playing. Read the rest...
08:27 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Celebrate The Warriors film with the cast at Coney Island, NYC on 9/13
OK boppers, The Warriors reunion is coming to Coney Island, New York on September 13 to celebrate the iconic gang film from 1979. Read the rest...
08:01 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Drone footage of Apple's new "spaceship" headquarters under construction
Video by Duncan Sinfield, who writes:Filmed using the DJI Inspire 1, this video gives a unique perspective, as it flashes back to video taken one month ago on August 1, 2015 to provide a month-to-mont...
05:49 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing In 1958 Egyptian audience laughs over proposal for women to wear head scarfs
In 1958 Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt, gave a speech in which he mocked the Muslim Brotherhood for proposing that women be required to cover their heads in public. The audience hoo...
05:45 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing SF Bay Area: Jane Morris' one person show workshop, September 13th @ the SF Improv Festival
If you've ever wanted to put on a one person show, and you're in or around San Francisco next weekend, Jane Morris' workshop is the one for you! Aside from being talented, intelligent, and one of the ...
05:19 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: 3D printed stand for Plugable's USB microscope
Our friends at Plugable, maker of the super-cool 250X USB microscope I reviewed in July, are sponsors of our upcoming Weekend of Wonder. Read the rest...
04:47 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing SF Bay Area: Jane Morris' one person show workshop, September 13th @ the SF Improv Festival
If you've ever wanted to put on a one person show, and you're in or around San Francisco next weekend, Jane Morris' workshop is the one for you! Aside from being talented, intelligent, and delightful ...
03:30 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Presidential hopeful Rick Perry still not sure how clocks work
Unlike clocks, Rick Perry is rarely right even once a day. Read the rest...
03:14 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Bulldog likes going on the boat, but absolutely hates his life-vest
That thing where he slaps his fat belly on the floor in disgust. (more…)...
03:06 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: hypnotizing aerial timelapse videos
Bird's-eye aerial timelapse cinematography. Read the rest...
02:52 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing That Flintstone House in the San Francisco Bay Area is up for sale
If you've ever driven along Highway 280 in the San Francisco Bay Area, you've probably seen this home. Read the rest...
02:32 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Salmon splooges on President Obama's shoes
Awkward. Read the rest...
02:24 pm PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Raccoon tries to 'save' brother from refreshing swim in pool
Waylon the raccoon sure would feel a lot better if his brother Willie would stop screwing around and get back on dry land. If you grew up with a more adventurous sibling who seemed to think they were ...
11:54 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Eric the bird says he is a "fucking legend" and the dog is a "fucking cunt"
Eric the Bird calls the dog he lives with a " fucking cunt." This Corella is indeed a "fucking legend," as he declares himself in the video below. (more…)...
11:32 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Guatemala's President resigns amid corruption probe, faces prison for criminal conspiracy
The former Army general has resigned to face charges that he led a massive customs fraud racket. He is prohibited from leaving the country, Attorney General Thelma Aldana told reporters. Read the res...
11:11 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Kentucky county clerk jailed until she does her job, or quits it
A court has issued a harsh (if eminently Republican) response to the problem posed by Kim Davis. Read the rest...
11:08 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Refrigerated clothing for people who want to lose weight
When your body gets cold, your metabolism cranks up. You burn more calories. Thin Ice is making vests, shirts, and insoles containing battery-powered Peltier plates, which become cold when current pas...
11:06 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing What does English sound like to Italians? Listen to this 1972 pop song
Italian singer Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol" hit the #1 pop song spot on the Italian charts in 1972. The lyrics consist of gibberish designed to sound like English. Read the rest...
10:59 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Kentucky county clerk jailed until she does her job, or quits it
A court has issued a harsh (if eminently Republican) response to the problem posed by Kim Davis. Read the rest...
10:56 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing The Kentucky clerk who is denying same-sex couples marriage licenses has been married 4 times
Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis, who is denying same-sex couples marriage licenses in defiance of the US Supreme Court has been married four times. Read the rest...
10:50 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Underwater robot seeks out starfish and kills them with poison injection
Infestations of crown-of-thorns sea stars destroy coral reefs, so researchers at Queensland University of Technology developed an autonomous robot sub that recognizes starfish and then kills them with...
10:46 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Guatemala's President resigns amid corruption probe, faces prison for criminal conspiracy
The former Army general has resigned to face charges that he led a massive customs fraud racket. He is prohibited from leaving the country, Attorney General Thelma Aldana told reporters. Read the res...
10:46 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Attach your phone to a tripod with this simply and sturdy adapter
I use my phone to shoot how-to videos and this smartphone tripod adapter is just what I need. It has two standard inch x 20 tripod mounting holes (one for a tripod and another for a dashcam mount). ...
10:24 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Old Sierra adventure games transformed into lovely glitch screens
Behold the familiar forests, beaches and old houses you used to wander transformed into oddly beautiful glitches, or maybe just the face of a woman you once knew, but whose name you can't remember, ha...
10:18 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Car cassette slot mistaken for iPhone dock, and also the real deal
A "young driver" reportedly stopped in a car dealership service department "complaining that the iPhone dock in his (old) vehicle isn't working and its scratching his phone..." (more…)...
10:10 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing What does English sound like to Italians? Listen to this 1972 pop song
Italian singer Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol" hit the #1 pop song spot on the Italian charts in 1972. The lyrics consist of gibberish designed to sound like English. Read the rest...
10:04 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing 303 Aerospace Protectant really preserves plastic and vinyl
I like classic motorcycles and cars. I live by the sea. 303 Aerospace Protectant keeps plastic and rubbery bits looking fresh and new. Read the rest...
09:43 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Japan pulls Olympics logo under accusations of design plagiarism
"Let's put a red dot here and call it a day." [via]...
09:36 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Police return woman's stolen car but forget to remove drugs and weapons
Courtney Pickering of Calgary, Canada was thrilled that police retrieved her stolen car but surprised to find a bag of cocaine, crack pipe, knife, lead pipe, and a gun that the thieves left inside. Re...
09:35 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing A travel pillow that might actually work
I have a hard time sleeping on a plane. As soon as I nod off, my head drops and I startle myself awake. Read the rest...
09:27 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing 16-year-old girl who took nude selfie photos faces adult sex charges
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office thinks it made sense to charge a 16-year-old girl with two felony sex crimes against herself for taking nude selfies. Read the rest...
09:26 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing A tiny fedora for your manbun
It "unites the best of contemporary styles in hair and hats for young men," writes an unbylined author at Capitol Hill Seattle [via Stylite, via Dan Savage]...
09:22 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Giant red lips turn you into a cartoon character
French designer Sascha Nordmeyer has commercialized her lip prosthesis art project and has made HyperLip available to selfie aficionados worldwide....
09:21 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: 100 Years of Lingerie in 3 Minutes
To my eye, more is frequently less. Bonus finale with plus-size model Germaine Nichols, cancer survivor Danielle Orner, and androgynous model/activist Rain Dove.(Mode via Laughing Squid)...
09:19 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to Sheriff's deputies' sexist comments on a female reporter's voicemail, after thinking the phone was hung up
A sheriff's deputy from La Plata County, Colorado left a voicemail message for Durango Herald reporter Chase Olivarius-McAllister before chatting like a jackass with his co-worker about her breast siz...
09:06 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing The biblical creation story told as space opera
Lots of myths have been used as fodder for science fiction and fantasy, and some of the more interesting ones turn the gods into cosmic entities, or extensions of our own humanity. Read the rest...
09:04 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Refrigerated clothing for people who want to lose weight
When your body gets cold, your metabolism cranks up. You burn more calories. Thin Ice is making vests, shirts, and insoles containing battery-powered Peltier plates, which become cold when current pas...
08:54 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing 303 Aerospace Protectant really preserves plastic and vinyl
I like classic motorcycles and cars. I live by the sea. 303 Aerospace Protectant keeps plastic and rubbery bits looking fresh and new. Read the rest...
08:42 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: 100 Years of Lingerie in 3 Minutes
https://youtu.be/28ZY-8l6CZgTo my eye, more is frequently less. Bonus finale with plus-size model Germaine Nichols, cancer survivor Danielle Orner, and androgynous model/activist Rain Dove.(Mode via L...
08:19 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing RIP Dean Jones, 1931-2015
Dean Jones, the iconic superstar of so many early Disney films, has passed away. The Chicago Tribune shares a wonderful remembrance. Read the rest...
08:11 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "Shake and Fingerpop." Junior Walker and the All Stars (1965)
I said, do the Boomerang, the Twine, and the Jerk. They're jammin' at the bandstand, so everybody work....
08:00 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Watch this mesmerizing floating cards magic
"Floating Cards" by Zach Mueller. (more…)...
07:48 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Business is "better than ever" for the last audio cassette factory
"I think you could characterize our operating model as stubbornness and stupidity," says Steve Stepp, president of National Audio Company. (more…)...
07:33 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Become a ruthless, noble lady in this 'Renaissance revenge simulator'
Your wealthy father and brother have been killed by distasteful schemers, and now you're to be married off to one of them. Can you plan your brutal revenge without arousing suspicion—while actin...
06:47 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Study: World has 8x the number of trees we thought
There are about 3.04 trillion trees on planet earth, rather more than the expected 400 billion, reports Nature. But it's not good news. Read the rest...
06:33 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing More Star Wars merch than you can possibly imagine
Kevin McFarland is warning you now: toys are coming, you won't be able to escape them, and this time they are backed by a force beyond human comprehension: Disney. Read the rest...
06:21 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Adorable puppies playing in a tub filled with empty water bottles
Thursday is for environmentally-conscious puppies only....
06:21 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing You're a laboratory mistake. Can anybody love you?
In A Heart Between Parts, your first act as a player is to unsnip the thread that sews your lips shut. Read the rest...
06:21 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Chambray shirts and the blue-collar divide
Troy Patterson reminds us that Rosie the Riveter did not shop at J. Crew or RRL. But there is something strange and unstoppable about the mainstreaming of workwear: quality divorced from its origins. ...
06:08 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Evangelical Christians love Donald Trump
He can't stop mocking them even as he courts them, and seems baffled by how much support they're sending his way. Read the rest...
05:55 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Quitting sugar "changed my brain"
Michael Grothaus quit sugar, soon regretted it, but came through after a week or so. Read the rest...
05:37 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Baby trapped in car turns out to be realistic doll
Rescuers smashed their way into the vehicle only to find that the alarmingly still baby in the back seat was merely a toy. Read the rest...
05:37 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing This gamification 'documentary' is a work of art
Gamification is easy for people to get excited about. Enjoy this dark, witty video instead. Read the rest...
05:33 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing iPhone 6S to be slightly upgraded
Good news from the Malabar Front: they will record 4K video, have higher resolution photos, more RAM, faster chips, and come, optionaly, in "Rose Gold." [9to5 Mac]...
05:25 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Office work destroys your body
Max Plenke has a nice roundup of the things that are destroying your body at this very moment, crushing the husk of your corporeal form even as your soul is stapled firmly to it with each mind-sapping...
05:05 am PDT - Thu, September 3, 2015
BoingBoing Try AURA, a meditative, musical twin-stick shooter
It's part twin-stick shooter, part musical exploration game, and it looks lovely. Read the rest...
09:00 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Guatemala's Attorney General calls for the arrest of President Otto Perez Molina
Much jubilation tonights in the streets of Guatemala. Read the rest...
05:47 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Gorgeous drone footage of Fall farm harvest in County Tipperary, Ireland
Right now, in Ireland, it's silage time. Read the rest...
05:37 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Overgrown sheep sheared back to safety
In Australia, an animal humane society brought in a champion sheep-shearer to trim a badly overgrown sheep that was found wandering in the woods near the capital. Read the rest...
05:22 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing LA: internet punk foodies Starry Kitchen resurface at Echo Park video-game bar
Oh how we missed their (crispy tofu) balls in our mouth. Read the rest...
03:36 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Man busted for stealing from pot dispensary has perfect last name
Sheriffs in Cowlitz County, Washington arrested a fellow who attempted to snatch a jar of marijuana from a dispensary. (more…)...
03:01 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: Attendees will get a signed, limited-edition Coop print!
Our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza in Riverside, CA is a just couple of weeks away! Attendees are going to be treated to all kinds of cool stuff, one of which is a signed, limited-edition print by the...
01:33 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing It's cicada season - hear them roar
Late August, and the roar of the crowd is unmistakable. Its the season-ending song sung by the largest chorus imaginable: the Cicada. Read the rest...
12:59 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Man busted for stealing from pot dispensary has perfect last name
Sheriffs in Cowlitz County, Washington arrested a fellow who attempted to snatch a jar of marijuana from a dispensary. (more…)...
12:58 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Man busted for stealing from pot dispensary has perfect last name
Sheriffs in Cowlitz County, Washington arrested a fellow who attempted to snatch a jar of marijuana from a dispensary. (more…)...
12:45 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Women react to really weird old sex advice throughout history
Women sure got some weird sex advice back in the day. Read the rest...
12:23 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Halo 5's cinematic opening
Can the Halo series survive without the Master Chief and Cortana? Halo 5 introduces Fireteam Osiris, a new team of Spartan-IV heroes, but will we care? Read the rest...
12:05 pm PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Visit the imaginary nightclub where movie characters mingle
"Hell's Club," a mash-up. (more…)...
11:57 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Unrelated strangers look like identical twins
Ambra, 23, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Jennifer, 33, of Spring, Texas were brought together as part of the Twin Strangers project. "I did not want to take my eyes off her," said Ambra....
11:52 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Mysterious dead creature found near the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant
A woman in Sosnovy Bor, Russia found this mysterious, tiny, deteriorated creature on a river bank. She named it Kesha. Read the rest...
11:36 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Buy Windows 95, Dances With Wolves and Myst in this vaporwave classic
Don't miss this cool vaporwave game about the end of the "hanging at the mall" consumerist heyday. Read the rest...
11:30 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing What is the lethal dose of various substances?
Drinking six liters of water in a short period could kill you. One gram of vaporized polonium is enough to kill 50 million people. What about alcohol, caffeine, and cannabis? This video will tell you....
11:20 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Donald Trump says it's a disaster
Donald Trump's hyperbole is a disaster.[via]...
11:15 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing 40 Days in the Desert - timeless, eternal mythical tale by Moebius
When you are trying to imagine the details of an alternative world, try Moebius. Moebius (one of the pseudonyms for the French artist Jean Giraud) practically invented the now-common idea of a well wo...
11:08 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Hello Kitty museum exhibit headed to Seattle in November
The massive museum exhibition "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty" will land at Seattle's EMP Museum in November. Read the rest...
11:06 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing What do you do when you've got a plumbing clog?
We live in an older house and the plumbing clogs up frequently (usually an hour before a dinner party). I rarely get good results from Draino or other lye-based clog dissolvers. I end up with a sink f...
11:03 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Teenager faked pregnancy with FakeABaby.com products
FakeABaby.com deals in faked ultrasound images, pregnant belly prosthetics, and other materials. One customer was a Wyandotte, Michigan 16-year-old who managed to trick her relatives, charitable folks...
10:54 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing In Guatemala, a popular uprising may send a US-backed president to prison. It's about time.
Guatemala is a place where justice seldom reaches those who deserve it most. But today in Guatemala, something amazing has happened. And they're calling it Guatemalan Spring. Read the rest...
10:47 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Why deep fry a fish sandwich 7 times? Because it's there
Where are my antacids? ...
10:39 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing The Miracle of Consciousness
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH consciousness makes the human the only animal that can be the master of its own destiny. Read the rest...
10:38 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing In Guatemala, a popular uprising may send a US-backed president to prison. It's about time.
Guatemala is a place where justice seldom reaches those who deserve it most. But today in Guatemala, something amazing has happened. And they're calling it Guatemalan Spring. Read the rest...
10:33 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Amazing video of Prince debuting "Purple Rain" that he doesn't want you to see
Footage from the August 1983 concert at Minneapolis' famed First Avenue club when Prince debuted the magnificent 13-minute original version of Purple Rain - with an additional third verse - that was ...
10:24 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Hello Kitty museum exhibit headed to Seattle in November
The massive museum exhibition "Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty" will land at Seattle's EMP Museum in November. Read the rest...
10:23 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing What Reddit could have looked like in the 1980s
Remember back in the day, when you could dial in to Reddit on your 2400 baud modem and read AMAs by President Reagan and Madonna? This definitely not fake VHS tape explains it all....
10:17 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Existence of Super Mario's penis challenged
A quick inspection of Google Images, Paheal.net or 4chan's yaoi board confirms that Super Mario does indeed have a penis, but Kill Screen Daily's Clayton Purdom finds reasons to doubt these images' cr...
10:00 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing The tiniest kitten loves the tiniest chick
This teeny, tiny kitten grooming a chick is the stuff dreams are made of....
09:57 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Elfquest and Wendy Pini art books
Wendy Pini and Elfquest, the graphic novel series she creates with her husband, Richard, are among my favorite things in the world. Read the rest...
09:29 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Secret gadget to bust prohibition-era speakeasies
Robert Tetro patented this gadget in 1930 to help prohibition-era enforcement agents surreptitiously take drink samples from establishments suspected of selling alcohol. Read the rest...
09:27 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Bicycle 130th Anniversary Playing Cards
Jason and I are both fans of Bicycle playing cards, manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). I have been handling USPCC cards for an hour a day or longer for the last couple of ...
09:09 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Wikipedia bans editors suspected of being paid shills
381 accounts believed to be "socks"--used by editors to make paid-for changes to the site--have been cast out.A posting on the admin board explains how the Checkuser team exposed the dodgy accounts. ...
09:04 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Watch ants weirdly circle an iPhone when it rings
These ants circle an iPhone like it's the Ka'aba in Mecca. Read the rest...
08:55 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Laughter is contagious, even on the subway
A simple reminder of how uplifting laughter can be. ...
08:51 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Existence of Super Mario's penis challenged
A quick inspection of Google Images, Paheal.net or 4chan's yaoi board confirms that Super Mario does indeed have a penis, but Kill Screen Daily's Cayton Purdom finds reasons to doubt these images' cre...
08:49 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Judge gives free pass to elderly man who solicited prostitute
Howard Arthur Klein, 87, was nabbed in Grand rapids, Michigan for soliciting a prostitute. Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth decided not to pursue the matter, saying, "He wouldn't and shouldn't g...
08:47 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Buy Windows 95, Dances With Wolves and Myst in this vaporwave classic
Don't miss this cool vaporwave game about the end of the "hanging at the mall" consumerist heyday. Read the rest...
08:28 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Man regrets stamping on cricket
I think we can pass on GIFfing this one. You'll thank me, just as you will curse your curiosity. (more…)...
08:19 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing The Miracle of Consciouness
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH consciousness makes the human the only animal that can be the master of its own destiny. Read the rest...
08:18 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Run a Renaissance art guild in this Leonardo da Vinci simulator
If you've ever dreamed of being—or perhaps of micromanaging—the great artists of the Italian Renaissance, then it's time to play Painters Guild. Read the rest...
08:17 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Ultimate Chicken Horse is like Mario Maker for asshole animals
Sure, Mario Maker looks like a lot of fun. But will it let you and your friends turn into horses and raccoons and cut each other up with buzzsaws? Read the rest...
08:16 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing "The midnight sun" filmed in gorgeous 4k
Read the rest...
08:08 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Tajikistan creates planet, names it after self
A central asian nation may have no easy path to the sea, but its future among the stars is assuredat least in its dreams. Read the rest...
07:44 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Why Google wants to look simpler
The new logo, announced yesterday, is undoubtedly more pleasant and contemporary than the old one. Margaret Rhodes writes that the company wants you to think that it is your go-everywhere friend. Rea...
07:40 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Racist who threatened Lakota children at a hockey game found not guilty
Trace O'Connell, the racist asshole who ruined an award hockey game for some school kids, is not guilty of disorderly conduct. Read the rest...
07:35 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Sony "took most of the bite out of" football concussion movie to please N.F.L.
The screenwriter claims that cuts make the film better and richer and fairer," but emails exposed by hackers show studio lawyers altered the film to avoid tangling with the National Football League. ...
07:23 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Crow enjoys riding windshield wipers
Hanging on to that wiper must be murder....
07:22 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing "Private room" advertised for rent was plastic shed in corner
If you thought New York City' rental market was crazy, London's is becoming truly demented. Read the rest...
07:14 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing London skyscraper wins award after "melting" car
20 Fenchurch Street, a slightly concave mirror-like office tower in the UK capital, has been awarded the Carbuncle Cup after sunlight reflected from it melted parts of an expensive Jaguar parked below...
07:05 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Taylor Swift's Duck Army
What wondrous times we live in. [Previously]...
06:59 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Criminal protip: don't confess "off the record"
Matthew D. Muller, 38, is in jail after confessing to a kidnapping, off the record and on background to a TV reporter. Read the rest...
06:53 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Users of Popcorn Time, movie streaming app, sued
Mark wrote about the "just works" movie app a while ago, but if you're a fan, you're on a lawyer's hitlist. Read the rest...
06:46 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell
Well-funded arguments are often made that copyright should last forever, replacing its original purpose (encouraging the creation of new works) with a plainly proprietary system of cultural ownership....
06:44 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Google to penalize sites for popup ads touting apps
Ever been to a website, and just when you settle into the second or third sentence, the screen darkens subtly and a giant popup ad covers everything begging you to Get The App? Google hates them too. ...
06:36 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Acer launches Lego-like stackable computer
The Taiwanese machine-maker's taking another look at the modular computing mirage. With neatly-stacking components and a clean, fairly minimal look, it's got as good a chance as anyone. Read the rest...
06:27 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing This underwater nightmare scorpion was Earth's first "big predator"
Meet Pentecopterus decorahensis, the creature that would have eaten you were you a tasty fishy 460m years ago: It was obviously a very aggressive animal. Read the rest...
05:59 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Marijuana wine the next big thing
Kathleen Wilcox on the trend for weed-infused wine, here quoting Dr. Carl Ruck Read the rest...
05:49 am PDT - Wed, September 2, 2015
BoingBoing Yet another new video format touted
This one is open-source and royalty-free, and has the backing of Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix. Read the rest...
07:57 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Pregnant woman to have dolphin as midwife
Dorina Rosin, a "spiritual healer," plans to give birth in the sea with the aid of dolphins. Among other benefits, Rosin and partner Maika Suneagle believe that their baby will speak dolphin. Read th...
07:25 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Secret gadget to bust prohibition-era speakeasies
Robert Tetro patented this gadget in 1930 to help prohibition-era enforcement agents surreptitious take drink samples from establishments suspected of selling alcohol. Read the rest...
06:42 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "Coming On Strong," Brenda Lee (1968)
Boing Boing posts that forgotten song....
04:29 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Bicycle 130th Anniversary Playing Cards
Jason and I are both fans of Bicycle playing cards, manufactured by the United States Playing Card Company (USPCC). I have been handling USPCC cards for an hour a day or longer for the last couple of ...
02:41 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing A book of the beautiful street signs in Paris
I don’t know if anyone knows the magnificent signs of Paris as extensively as Louise Fili. For over 40 years the American-born graphic designer roamed the “City of Lights,” documenti...
02:40 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Gentleman snake
This snake, outfitted in plasticine finery, is ready for a slithering good time....
02:26 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Bad Lip Reading of the first Republican Debate
I never get tired of the Bad Lip Reading videos. This one, made for the first Republican Debate, might be the best one I've seen. Read the rest...
02:18 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing TV spot for a home mechanical bull becomes the "Orgasmic Achiever 2000"
"Don't just stand there, buy this for only $29,000 million."[via]...
02:10 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing White police officer pulls over black driver for making eye contact
John Felton, a black man, was driving to his mother's house in Dayton, Ohio to celebrate her birthday when he was pulled over by a white police officer. Read the rest...
02:03 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Pregnant woman to have dolphin as midwife
Dorina Rosin, a "spiritual healer," plans to give birth in the sea with the aid of dolphins. Among other benefits, Rosin and partner Maika Suneagle believe that their baby will speak dolphin. Read th...
01:30 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Auschwitz installs mist showers that (duh) remind visitors of Holocaust gas chambers
Poland's Auschwitz Memorial installed mist showers to cool down visitors at the former site of the Nazi's largest concentration camp. Somehow, management was surprised that some people found this inse...
12:02 pm PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "Here Comes the Nice," Small Faces (1967)
Here comes the nice, looking so cool. Everyone knows the nice is no fool....
11:43 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Up to 90 percent of seabirds have plastic in their guts
Researchers calculate that as many as 9 out of 10 seabirds have plastic garbage in their intestines. So sad. Read the rest...
11:36 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing I caught a fish with my drone!
I believe this to be very likely faked, but nonetheless fantastic. (more…)...
11:31 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing I had a lot of POLLEN in my HERB grinder
My herb grinder collects a lot of pollen, and I had forgotten it was there. This handy pollen press lets me efficiently store and use it! Read the rest...
11:26 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Learn how to skin a watermelon
What a fine fruit hack! (more…)...
11:05 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Traffic noise annoys songbirds to the point of harming them
New research suggests that traffic noise (apart from pollution and general hectic motion) degrades the natural habitat of songbirds, and perhaps other animals. Boise State University biologists create...
11:02 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Weekend of Wonder: Dinner in a taco shop's folk art garden, made from scrap junk
In the garden behind Tio's Tacos, the owner has created a phenomenal folk art installation. Read the rest...
10:42 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Here is how much of a badass Jorge Ramos is
Jorge Ramos, the Univision reporter/anchor who was famously thrown out of a Donald Trump circle jerk for practicing journalism without permission has a long history of pissing off dangerous, rich, pow...
10:38 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing This Grand Theft Auto V wildlife documentary is surprisingly good
Delve into the lives of the digital cougars, deer, rabbits, hawks, coyotes and cows of GTA V in this strangely realistic nature documentary. Read the rest...
10:34 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Enchantress, book one in James Maxwell's Evermen series
James Maxwell's Enchantress is an engaging, dense fantasy that drew me right in. Read the rest...
10:25 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others join to create royalty-free video codecs for all
The group plans to develop a new generation of royalty-free open source digital media formats for video, audio, and still images. Read the rest...
10:13 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Ice T Deals With A Setback
Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)...
10:10 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Short documentary about Hunter S. Thompson in the 1980s
"The Crazy Never Die" is a 30-minute, straight-to-video documentary from the late 1980s about Hunter S. Thompson in which we see the good Doctor on the loose at several speaking engagements, The Exami...
10:08 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Google's new logo
IMO Paul Rand's best work in 20 years. I would have gone for something traditional, myself, like Zapfino, but I guess they're going for that classy slick design look.Previously....
09:46 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Amazon Prime will soon allow users to download, not just stream, videos
Amazon ratcheted up the streaming video competition stakes today, by offering downloadable videos to Amazon Prime video customers. Read the rest...
09:26 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing In Google's new logo, serifs a no-go
It's all about looking better on increasingly smaller devices. Read the rest...
08:56 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Trailer: Deep Web, new film on Silk Road, Ross William Ulbricht, and the hunt for 'Dread Pirate Roberts'
Deep Web, Alex Winters new documentary about Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht is out on video-on-demand today at Vimeo. Read the rest...
08:55 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Offworld, a must-follow
Wired picked Offworld among its 20 must-follow entertainment feeds, alongside actress Olivia Wilde, The Pitch, Tim Schafer and indie comic hit Saga. Read the rest...
08:43 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Fearless fun with rock-climbing baby
I recently started rock-climbing and have been wanting to find a trainer. This one will do nicely. ...
08:39 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Review: Pimping my Char-Broil TRU-Infrared grill with a rotisserie robot, and all the fixins
Boing Boing's barbecue gadget reviewer found a good, cheap grill on Amazon. But which add-ons, like an automated rotisserie, are worth buying? He investigates and tells all, right after this bite of ...
07:55 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Kubb, a minimalist wooden cube computer
Such things usually come with beautiful and pointless greebling, but this one is a simple 5-inch cube made from three choices of finish: white ash, brown ash, and elm. Read the rest...
07:54 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: guy compares effects of booze vs LSD on everyday tasks
A psychedelic substance advocate who goes by the handle Psychedsubstance makes videos of himself under the effects of different mind-altering drugs. In this video he takes 15 shots of hard liquor and ...
07:18 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing What does your pizza-munching strategy say about you?
A "study" into pizza-eating habits "reveals" what sort of "person" you are. Read the rest...
07:06 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Flint is finished
Pittsburgh has its robots and even Detroit has its dreams, but some rustbelt cities have nothing much left. Flint, Michigan. Read the rest...
06:54 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Which song have you been playing all your life?
For me, it's bouncy Erasure hit Sometimes. But we don't, individually, decide what becomes truly timeless. It's a generational thing, writes Matt Daniels. Read the rest...
06:42 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing You are Bigfoot, so don't let anybody film you
Make sure the legendary sasquach never really appears on film in this sweet "reverse stealth" minigame. Read the rest...
06:31 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Aerial photos of one square mile of land
Named for the founding father's plan to create a nation of "yeomen farmers," the "Jefferson Grid" is a beautiful piece of Instagram real estate. [via Kottke]...
06:22 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing President Kanye
The pop star has announced his 2020 presidential run, but it remains the least interesting thing about him. Read the rest...
06:18 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Smash the city in this riotous 'slam-em-up'
Eff it up hardcore in this all-girl project from New York. Read the rest...
06:17 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Equip all children with scissors, reject capitalism?
I can't survive the fist. I don't know if I've killed the children. Help me out with this one. Read the rest...
06:16 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Little Robot: nearly wordless kids' comic from Zita the Spacegirl creator
Kid or adult, parent or not, you should already be reading Ben "Zita the Spacegirl" Hatke for some of the most rollicking, science-fictional kid-friendly comics between two covers, but now you've got...
06:14 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing LISTEN: Godless in Missouri
What happens to a town founded explicitly to reject Christianity? Read the rest...
06:01 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Can working on violent video games mess you up?
Here are some pictures of tumors, colonoscopy and viscera for reference. Enjoy your next two years of work! Read the rest...
05:39 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing The FUGS First Rehearsal and Lou Reed's Earliest Known Recording of 'Heroin'
A cameo-filled page from John Wilcock, New York Years. With Ed Sanders' Arts Magazine, Edie Sedgwick arriving in NYC, and Nico fainting on stage. Read the rest...
05:39 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Duck army in reverse
Alternative title" "Man gently comforts increasingly agitated duck army."Previously...
05:37 am PDT - Tue, September 1, 2015
BoingBoing Shark footage makes newsman vow off swimming in ocean
His face says it all. ...
10:16 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Lowbrow artist The Pizz, RIP
Pioneering lowbrow artist The Pizz (Stephen Pizzuro) has died at age 57, a tragic loss of a great underground talent. Read the rest...
09:33 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Short documentary about Hunter S. Thompson in the 1980s
"The Crazy Never Die" is a 30-minute, straight-to-video documentary from the late 1980s about Hunter S. Thompson in which we see the good Doctor on the loose at several speaking engagements, The Exami...
09:10 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing SF Bay Area: see David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) play in someone's living room
Alt-rock legend and renaissance man David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, my favorite band of the 1980s, continues his series of occasional living room live shows on September 11, 2015 at a home in...
07:09 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Apple wants to make original movie and TV programming, reports Variety
An Apple representative declined comment, but you knew that was coming. Read the rest...
06:55 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Apple will soon begin producing its own movie and TV video programming
An Apple representative declined comment, but you knew that was coming. Read the rest...
06:46 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing BBC TV host is very excited about this Blue Whale that just showed up
I can see it now! Read the rest...
06:16 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing China state TV airs footage of detained reporter saying he regrets writing stock market story
China's state broadcast network today aired footage of Wang Xiaolu appearing to announce to the world that he solemnly regrets writing his influential story. Read the rest...
05:58 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Man arrested for single Viagra pill sues Brooklyn police officer for humiliation
Viagra is not a controlled substance but that didn't stop Brooklyn police offficer David Esparragoza from arresting Earl McLeod, 33, for possession of a single Viagra pill. Read the rest...
05:55 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing World's most powerful digital camera gets green light from U.S. Dept. of Energy
Construction has been okayed for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera, which would be the worlds largest, at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Read the rest...
03:59 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Interview with man picked by Kennedy administration to be the first black man in space
President Kennedy wanted a white man, a black man, and an Asian man to be the first men on the moon. Read the rest...
03:12 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing US Army helicopter mistakenly releases dummy missile in upstate NY
The US Army graciously requests your assistance in locating their lost missile. (more…)...
02:51 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Man arrested for single Viagra pill sues Brooklyn police officer for humialation
Viagra is not a controlled substance but that didn't stop Brooklyn police offficer David Esparragoza from arresting Earl McLeod, 33, for possession of a single Viagra pill. Read the rest...
01:51 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Wire Cutters, a wonderful short film on the rough lives of off-world robot miners
A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet. Read the rest...
01:12 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing "Play nug-a-nug" and 30 other terms for sex from the last 600 years
Mental Floss has a list of the 31 "most adorable" terms for sexual intercourse from the last 600 years, complied from the massive Greens Dictionary of Slang. Read the rest...
01:03 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Gerber Shard - nifty $5 keychain tool
This little blade-less multitool called the Shard is TSA safe (depending on the mood of the TSA behavior detection officer who is inspecting your baggage and scanning your brainwaves). Read the rest...
12:29 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Man arrested for single Viagra pill sues Brooklyn police officer for humilation
Viagra is not a controlled substance but that didn't stop Brooklyn police offficer David Esparragoza from arresting Earl McLeod, 33, for possession of a single Viagra pill. Read the rest...
12:27 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Meru,a new film on the quest to scale an unclimbable mountain in India
For decades, the Sharks Fin on Mount Meru in Northern India was thought by most elite climbers to to unclimbable. Read the rest...
12:18 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Great white shark bit this California surfer's board, but fortunately not the surfer
On Saturday, Elinor Dempsey, 54, was surfing Morro Strand State Beach near San Luis Obispo, California when she noticed a great white shark approaching her. Read the rest...
12:13 pm PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Chris Christie: The USA should track immigrants like FedEx packages
Chris Christie hopes to win the Republican nomination by being the biggest plain-speaking asshole of the pack. It's not working, though, because the absentee New Jersey governor can't rise above Mini ...
11:00 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Twitter tells James Woods to put down the crack pipe
Woods--who insults people on Twitter with comically hyperbolic accusations of drug use--is suing someone on Twitter who insulted him with a comically hyberbolic accusation of drug use. Read the rest...
10:48 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Boing Boings Weekend of Wonder sounds pretty great
Comic Book Resources gives our new extravaganza a thumbs-up. Come join us for the fun Sep. 18-20, at Southern California's historic Mission Inn Hotel and Spa. Read the rest...
10:45 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing "Play nug-a-nug" and 30 other terms for sex from the last 600 years
Mental Floss has a list of the 31 "most adorable" terms for sexual intercourse from the last 600 years, complied from the massive Greens Dictionary of Slang. Read the rest...
10:26 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Chris Christie: track immigrants like FedEx packages
Chris Christie hopes to win the Republican nomination by being the biggest plain-speaking asshole of the pack. It's not working, though, because the absentee New Jersey governor can't rise above Mini ...
10:22 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Psychological disorder causes you to hallucinate your doppelgnger
In the book The Man Who Wasn't There, Anil Ananthaswamy explores mysteries of self, including the weirdness of autoscopic phenomena, a kind of hallucination in which you are convinced that you are hav...
10:12 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Burning Man said to be "wealthy libertarian fantasy world" and cautionary tale
Though famous for banning ads and appealing to progressive values such as inclusiveness and self-expression, Burning Man is becoming defined by Silicon Valley co-optation and various business shenanig...
10:10 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing A bin of rubber ducks sounds like people screaming in anguish
Charlie Murphy of Ireland came across this shopping cart filled with rubber ducks (or maybe geese, or some other kind of waterfowl). Read the rest...
10:02 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Watch: Toddler and baby gorilla play peek-a-boo through glass at zoo
Every parent knows that baby humans love to play peek-a-boo. But in this adorable video taken at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, a toddler finds an enthusiastic baby gorilla to play the game with him. Read...
09:47 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Watch Donald Trump say China... over and over and over....
Well, 234 times to be exact. (more…)...
09:22 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing This beautiful Tintin tome is full of all wonderful things Herge
If you're a fan of Tintin comics and of Hergé (Georges Remi), this is one book you’ll want to own. Nothing “comic book” or throw away about this beautifully produced volume. Re...
09:16 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Scientists promise ice cream that doesn't melt
Scientists at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh are toiling in their laboratories to create ice cream that stays firm for a long time even in hot weather. Read the rest...
08:59 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Listen to country songs about Bigfoot (c.1970)
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 ...
08:58 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Vogue's guide to Burning Man fashion
Vogue shares this handy guide to dressing for the playa! You can look unique, just like everyone else! Read the rest...
08:53 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Rude tourists in Kyoto receive politeness lessons
The stunning temples and gardens of Kyoto are something my family and I will never forget. The rude tourists tugging the kimono sleeves of beautifully dressed and made-up maiko and asking them to pose...
08:41 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing The millennials are all right, and so are their sex games
The sneering condescension and pearl-clutching panic about young people's relationship to sex and technology willfully misses the fruits of an impressive creative movement. Read the rest...
08:35 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Brows furrow at Trump's "endgame" possibilities
NYMag wonders: what exactly does The Donald want out of all this? Read the rest...
08:30 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing A bin of rubber ducks sounds like people screaming in anguish
Charlie Murphy of Ireland came across this shopping cart filled with rubber ducks (or maybe geese, or some other kind of waterfowl). Squeezing just one duck produces a toy horn sound, but smooshing do...
08:27 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Vogue's guide to Burning Man fashion
Vogue shares this handy guide to dressing for the playa! You can look unique, just like everyone else! Read the rest...
08:18 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Save Over 75% On This Car Plug-In Air Purifier
Leave your car smelling fresh and clean with this Car Plug-In Air Purifier. Its built-in ionizer will boost your vehicles air quality, zapping foul odors and filtering out irritating allergens like du...
08:10 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Mobile game of the week: Sage Solitaire
Computer Solitaire is among the most-played games in the world, so you wouldn't think there's much to refresh, but prolific designer Zach Gage has a brand new idea about a near-universal experience. ...
08:05 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Sexy Cecil the Lion costume finally available
The Cecil the Lion Costume is modeled upon, or at least superficially cobbled-together from generic costume bits to resemble, the animal poached lately by the proverbial Rich Dentist. You can stop sen...
07:52 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Dog goes sleepdigging
It must have found the bone of its dreams!...
07:52 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Cockatoo rocks out to Elvis
Don't be cruelwatch this adorable cockatoo rocking to Elvis....
07:47 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Artisanal globemaking is damned hard work
Peter Bellerby is one of the last people in the business. Occupying an artisanal space between mass-produced tat and astronomically-expensive artwork is "horrendously difficult," he tells Citylab. Re...
07:44 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Music: "Emotion," Samantha Sang (1977)
There'll be nobody left in this world to hold me tight. Nobody left in this world to kiss goodnight....
07:33 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Enormous tree unimpressed by truck
What on Earth was he thinking? [via]...
07:24 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Man regrets having crude drawing of a penis tattooed on thigh
Stuart Valentino, 34, of Southsea, England, was kicked out by his wife as a result. "In retrospect, I'm not surprised, it really is the stupidest thing I've ever done." (more…)...
07:09 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Which airport do you hate the most?
Of the American contenders, Newark is the most-hated, though Turkey's Dalamar airport takes the international honors. Read the rest...
06:46 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Burning Man said to be "wealthy libertarian fantasy world" and cautionary tale
Though famous for banning ads and appealing to progressive values such as inclusiveness and self-expression, Burning Man is becoming defined by Silicon Valley co-optation and various business shenanig...
06:18 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Russian government backs down on Wikipedia censorship
"Because the Wikimedia Foundation uses HTTPS-encrypted connections for all of its sites," reports Parker Higgins, "the government was left with only the option of ordering the entire site blocked, or ...
06:01 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Poster shows 121 types of American house
Pop Chart Lab: THE ARCHITECTURE OF AMERICAN HOUSES [via]...
05:20 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Chrissie Hynde blames self for being raped
The Pretenders singer, 63, told the Sunday Times that women who dress immodestly and get raped are at fault, and should take responsibility for "putting it out." Read the rest...
04:58 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Chrissie Hynde blames self for being raped
The Pretenders singer, 63, told the Sunday Times that women who dress immodestly and get raped are at fault, and should take responsibility for "putting it out."The interviewer asked Hynde whether she...
04:43 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Mobile game of the week: Sage Solitaire
Computer Solitaire is among the most-played games in the world, so you wouldn't think there's much to refresh, but prolific designer Zach Gage has a brand new idea about a near-universal experience. ...
04:09 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Monday reflection: Do-it-yourselfing, monsters and sad subways
Last week on Offworld, we chatted about creation tools, jam games where you're a monster, and we wandered around a dreamy subway full of alien shapes. Read the rest...
02:43 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Donald Trump's fierce drag makeover
SaintHoax decided to give Donald Trump a drag makeover, and the results are glorious. Serving Ursula realness! Read the rest...
02:43 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Man jailed four months for "meth" that was epsom salt
While an Australian man cooled his heels in jail for 16 weeks, forensics took their sweet time in determining the "ice" he was busted for was epsom salt. Read the rest...
02:43 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Comic trailer: Raising Dion, superhero child with a single mom
What's it like Raising Dion, a 7-year-old son with superpowers? Watch the trailer, then read the first issue free. Read the rest...
02:42 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing BWAAAAP! Inception button makes everything dramatic
Need to spice up your next meeting or school presentation? Dave Pedu created this handy button to play the now-ubiquitous musical sting! Read the rest...
02:38 am PDT - Mon, August 31, 2015
BoingBoing Director Wes Craven dies at 76
Famous for horror productions such as Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, and his 1972 debut The Last House on the Left, Craven died Sunday of brain cancer in Los Angeles. Read the rest...