Articles by BoingBoing from October 2015

Al Molinaro, most famous for playing Al Delvecchio, proprietor of Arnold's Drive-In on TV sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984), has died. He was 96. Yeppp, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep... Prior to his role on Happy Da...

Its day one of the 2015 Trivia Championships of North America (TCONA) and already theres been an incident. Were oblivious to the unfolding disaster as we mill around the Havana Room of the Tropicana H...

https://youtu.be/cAlnykGHjwwThe fun-loving Chinese journalists in this segment manage to out-VICE VICE. On the Road is billed as a homemade outdoor reality showfeaturing an "extreme couple" who love ...

https://youtu.be/YivkSpt70NMTrigger warning, obviously. (more…)...

Enigma Caf in Romania claims to be the first kinetic steampunk pub in the world. (more…)...

A windless sail and a waterless sea, a rusted ship and a discontinued journey....

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer th...

It's fall and my buddy Marcus is at it again. The Extra Life 2015 Video Game Marathon is just a couple weeks away and gamers across the country are preparing to play for 24 hours straight, raising mo...

Every 80s baby remembers Bob Ross, the gentle-voiced art instructor whose public television show brought "happy trees" and "almighty mountains" to life before your eyes, often using nothing more than ...

This morning, the hosts of the TODAY show dressed as ridiculously bizarre and frightening interpretations of the Peanuts characters. "I'm actually Charlie James Brown!" Al Roker said."TODAY goes nuts ...

Who can resist an $11 bluetooth smartwatch with a touch screen display, even if it is an utter piece of junk? Not me! I just ordered one on Amazon. It will supposedly pair to an iPhone.Features1.48" C...

Watching TV as a little kid in the early 1960s, I yearned very deeply an insatiable craving sucking at my guts for a Hootin Hollow Haunted House, a tin toy produced by Louis Marx. I saw this commerc...

Postmodern Jukebox covers Red Hot Chili Peppers' 1991 hit, "Give It Away."...

If you really want to be scared this Hallowe'en, spare a moment to ponder six ways that the state engages in widepread and indiscriminate surveillance, from social media monitoring to license plate an...

I've been following news about a company called Steorn for many years now. They claim to have developed a technology that generates more energy than it consumes. Every time they've had a public demons...

"My son's Chipotle cup says 'reproductive sex' on it," wrote a mom who posted this photo to Reddit. It also looks like the cylindrical object is penetrating something. The text below it reads, "Who wa...

The jewelry looks just as good as these pieces but their production doesn't harm any octopuses; they're made from high-quality Sterling and the rings come with three different finishes. The earrings a...

This parent doesn't want to check their kid's candy haul for nut products, so they put up these obnoxious posters instead. See full size image here....

The 285-281 vote was nonbinding and thus "largely symbolic" but it's a hell of a symbol. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Pick up Lonely Planets Wild World, flip through a few pages, and I dare you to put the book back down. It isnt easy. From the emerald spiraled snake of Cameroon...

Cat collectors rejoice: the cult favorite mobile game Neko Atsume has finally made its way to Android—and soon, to iOS—in English under the name Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector.Originally cre...

Susan Delson of the Wall Street Journal profiles the Japanese sister duo Charan-Po-Rantan, featuring accordion music that "glides from klezmer to Balkan beat to zydeco, from French chanson to blues an...

When the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 passed, pharmacies moved all cold-medicine with the actually-works ingredient pseudoephedrine, only available on request and with a copy of your ID...

A new plan from Tory Home Secretary/Sith Lord Theresa May will require ISPs to retain one year's worth of Britons' online activity, and hand it over to the police and security services on demand, with...

New Mexico Second Circuit Court Judge Christina Argyres told an 18-year-old first time offender who'd pleaded guilty to burglary that she would grant him probation because if he went to prison he'd be...

New Mexico Second Circuit Court Judge Christina Argyres told an 18-year-old first time offender who'd pleaded guilty to burglary that she would grant him probation because if he went to prison he'd be...

https://youtu.be/VZIK5g1n3igWhen I think of torture devices, my mind flashes back to Mel Brooks singing about The Inquisition in The History of the World, Part I.Others might focus on Italian horror f...

The Koch brothers give a lot of money to universities, but on the condition that they get to approve the economics faculty. They give to public television, but only if they can cancel the airing of do...

It's been nearly a decade since a single thumbnail image of Michaelangelo's David's willie caused a censorware company founded by a registered sex-offender to block Boing Boing for all its clients as ...

Complete with an adorable toy Uzi, the $27.44 Israeli Soldier Costume comes in various sizes of small and features a red beret, belt, and fatigues with Hebrew text on a lapel pocket. It's off the shel...

Police in Waco, Texas, have released video of the biker shootout that left 9 dead, 18 injured, and reportedly involved 5 different gangs.CNN acquired the video, captured on security cameras at the T...

Bad cops respond to disorderly teens with contempt and violence. Good cops get down and dance. (more…)...

Creepypasta, for those somehow unawares, are short, shonky, mutated ghost and horror tales, nth-generation copies of something dimly-remembered. Gizmodo's Kiona Smith-Strickland collects some of the b...

Forebears.io charts the worldwide prevalence of your surname and offers interesting stats on its distribution. [via]Pictured above is "Beschizza," which originates in northern Italy (allegedly a loca...

The team behind Macaw is changing the way we design websites with their powerful, one-of-a-kind image editor and code generator. With Macaw on the market, suddenly writing flawless HTML from scratch i...

Chris Grayling, UK Tory MP and leader of the House of Commons: The Freedom of Information act isn't for journalism, it's for "those who want to understand why and how government is taking decisions." ...

In 2004, Helen Linehan terminated a pregnancy she had conceived with her husband, IT Crowd/Father Ted creator Graham Linehan, after discovering that the fetus had acrania and could not survive for...

Trick Decks, my e-book about making your own trick magic decks is just 99 cents today. Tomorrow the price goes to $1.99, and the day after that it goes to its regular price of $2.99. Learn more about ...

Ever since VE Holding, a 1990 Federal Circuit decision, patent holders have been able to sue their adversaries in practically any court in America, leading to competition among jurisdictions to see wh...

Ever since VE Holding, a 1990 Federal Circuit decision, patent holders have been able to sue their adversaries in practically any court in America, leading to competition among jurisdictions to see wh...

Ever since VE Holding, a 1990 Federal Circuit decision, patent holders have been able to sue their adversaries in practically any court in America, leading to competition among jurisdictions to see wh...

LA Makerspace co-founder Tara Tiger Brown shares a project that her kid-friendly maker workshop is trying to make a reality. (more…)...

If you opened a box of Quaker Oats in 1955, you'd find a deed to one square inch of land in northwestern Canada. (more…)...

Paul Messing emailed me and said, "I watched the footage Boing Boing had on Facebook yesterday - the dancers from another time and place - and I added some music of mine and edited all so the clip i...

People operating under the Anonymous banner took over a KKK-linked Twitter account during the Ferguson uprising in retaliation for Klan threats to attack the protesters. Now people under the #Intelgro...

It took 40 years for someone to make a motorcycle that looks nearly as pretty as BMW's R90s. Enter Triumph's 2016 Thruxton R!What do I find most exciting about these new Triumph models? SI like is the...

The web-hosting service 000Webhost stored user passwords as plain text. We know this because 13 million of them were exposed in a five-month old hack whose consequences are only now becoming clear. (...

This looks cool. The American Bystander Humor Magazine is going to be a "lavish print quarterly featuring comedy all-stars from SNL, The Simpsons, Monty Python & National Lampoon." It looks a lot li...

Reviews of the app-capable, Siri-equipped new Apple TV box are filtering in, and the consensus is that it's OK.Walt Mossberg writes that it's a much "smarter" box, but one that lacks visionand has UI...

Hassan Abdo Ahmed Mohammed, his wife, and four children escaped the Syrian civil war to settle in Russia. The Kurdish family landed in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport but the Russian government says the...

Alison Moritsugu paints beautiful landscapes, including some on slices of trees that make the logs resemble portals onto the natural scenes in which they grew. Her new work, a collection called titled...

I'm sold on wrist pads. I've been using them for many years. When I don't use one, the bony parts of my wrist that come in contact with the desk get sore. This wrist pad from 3M ($14 on Amazon) is fil...

Erebus is a vampire who seeks psychiatric treatment for his hemophobia. Turns out he really likes mambo sauce....

Erebus is a vampire who seeks psychiatric treatment for his hemophobia. Turns out he really likes mambo sauce. [vimeo]...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.As a kid, my favorite thing about MAD was Spy vs Spy. (I didnt know that vs stood for versus so I pronounced the comic spyvisspy.) The strips were excellently d...

Very clever and also practical!(via feed-me-tacos, r/pics)...

Michael Witwer's Empire of Imagination is a new biography of Dungeons and Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax that not only tells the tale of this marvelous wizard but also explores the profound impact D&D ...

Your partner can touch you almost anywhere and you won't feel uncomfortable. A friend can touch your head, shoulders, hands, and upper back without ruffling your feathers. Your mother can touch you in...

David and I love Blank on Blank, a video series that animates recorded interviews with notable people. It's produced by PBS Digital Studios, and the latest one is a 1982 interview with kidnapping vi...

David and I love Blank on Blank, a video series that animates recorded interviews with notable people. It's produced by PBS Digital Studios, and the latest one is a 1982 interview with kidnapping vi...

Kittify accomplishes exactly what its name promises. Here's the Kittehsburg Address:Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought furth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Lipurrty, and...

Halloween is almost upon us; apropos of the season, heres a tale of terror in a Manhattan movie theater, and a horror film that changed cinema. Living in New York City in my 20s, I was one of those ge...

https://youtu.be/Q_bfPm4UQFsLexie Kahanovitz and her colleagues made a two-minute, hand-drawn Schoolhouse Rock-style PSA about "what to do if your student debt has your food budget at zero. It's funny...

Reelscary accepts public votes on the scariness of films, divided into three different genres of scariness: disturbing, gore and suspense.1979 classic "Alien" is currently leading the suspense categor...

Computing pioneer Paul Niquette's memoir begins with the tale of how he came to coin the term "software" in 1953, to the ridicule of his colleague, and how the idea of a computer whose code was separa...

Silicon Valley angel Ron Conway told the CEOs of his investments who to vote for, and instructed them to pass the picks to their workers. (more…)...

Frequent Boing Boing contributor Bill Barol has a new podcast, called Home: Stories from L.A., and it's about the concept of "home." Within his broad definition of the word, Bill reports on stories ab...

A lesbian couple were arrested after kissing in a grocery store, and now the Hawaii cop who targeted them is the target of a lawsuit.The Honolulu Police Department has also opened an internal investig...

Lisa Rein writes, "While the San Francisco Aaron Swartz International Hackathon is going on downstairs at the Internet Archive, we're having a little privacy-enabling mini-conference upstairs." (more&...

It's a lovely piece of narrative theory from Wycliff Aber Hill's 1919 book Ten Million Photoplay Plots: The Master Key to All Dramatic Plots, part of a tradition of stage-play manuals that presented r...

The UK government continues to exhibit its historic, dangerous cluelessness about crypto. After promising to ban working crypto in the previous election campaign, the Tory government has advanced a no...

The UK Prime Minister has doubled down on this Great Firewall of Cameron, which is an arrangement whereby the UK ISPs "voluntarily" agreed to block websites that had been secretly ruled to be pornogra...

Stay prepared without rocking a tool belt. The multipurpose MyKee may look like a simple key, but can open boxes, pop tags, peel vegetables, remove staples, work as a screwdriver and wrench, and open...

The always-brilliant David Malki ! of Wondermark writes "I love greeting cards, but what if you need one for a super unusual occasion, or have a very nuanced sentiment you want to convey? The answer...

Sarah Hardy's megaladon (£28) and T.Rex (£28) teeth are full size, convincing, and made from gorgeous, single-origin chocolates. (more…)...

I'd long wondered who recorded this, I'm not surprised to learn it is the famous Bob Crewe....

The FBI has warned the New York Police Department that a group called the National Liberation Militia has planned a "Halloween Revolt" that involves attacking NY police officers, and news organization...

I've written about my enthusiasm for melamine sponges before. I used one on Sunday to remove some stubborn rust stains from a plastic table. They are amazing tools. Right now, Amazon is selling a 4-pa...

The Walt Disney company has been trying to extend its reach into China for years. After the years of sputtering trying to get Hong Kong Disneyland on its feet, they built three more lands in the last ...

Out of the Abyss, the new mega-adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, came out in September. Its part of the Rage of Demons multi-product launch, which includes board and video games, novels and an offic...

Out of the Abyss, the new mega-adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, came out in September. Its part of the Rage of Demons multi-product launch, which includes board and video games, novels and an offic...

Out of the Abyss, the new mega-adventure for Dungeons and Dragons, came out in September. Its part of the Rage of Demons multi-product launch, which includes board and video games, novels and an offic...

There's something a little mysterious about the programs you can find in strange corners of the internet, and doubly so if you happen to find them in the bowels of someone else's computer. In Memory o...

Officials in Oklahoma claim to have halted the first attempt in the state to smuggle contraband into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle. (more…)...

A plagiarist was caught after eagle-eyed readers spotted the novel Coming Home Texas was nearly identical to My Kind of Trouble, by New York Times bestseller Becky McGraw.Author Laura Harner's trick, ...

A few weeks ago I was on a plane flying to Oakland and the guy sitting next to recognized me. He told me he liked Boing Boing and, after chatting with him for a while, I learned that his name is Woodr...

Nick Cole's novels are hard to put down, and as usual I read straight through The End of the World as We Knew It. This story is reminiscent of his stellar, post-apocalyptic Wasteland saga, as it intro...

Writing about yesterday's landmark Copyright Office ruling on the right to jailbreak, law-and-3D-printing expert Michael Weinberg says, "The 3D printer unlocking decision by the Librarian of Congress ...

Josh Winkler is the engineer & inventor behind Cripple Concepts - an innovative startup that provides assistive tech for people with disabilities, made and designed by people with disabilities. ...

Josh Winkler is the engineer & inventor behind Cripple Concepts - an innovative startup that provides assistive tech for people with disabilities, made and designed by people with disabilities....

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See more photos at Wink Fun.A cream pie in the face! Its an ageless slapstick comedy routine that is also the inspiration for Hasbros Pie Face Game. Thanks in part to a viral video thats making its ro...

https://youtu.be/tTnxmn2jWjoAustralian Kye Smith's video is a tribute to Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney's fantastic drumming for the Beatles....

MIT researchers developed this "Soft Cube Capable of Controllable Continuous Jumping." From IEEE Spectrum:Inside of the robot there are two motorized rotors, each connected to one end of four flatte...

Dave Maass from the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "Earlier this year, security researcher John Matherly alerted us to potentially massive vulnerabilities in a certain vendor's automated licen...

The DC Appeals Court has just ruled against Amir Meshal, a US citizen who was arrested in Kenya by a joint US-Kenyan-Ethiopian law enforcement operation, held for months, tortured with FBI agents pres...

This creepy crocodile-buffalo hybrid turned up in High Rock, Thailand this month. The beast bears a striking resemblance to the half-aquatic, half-terrestrial Hindu god Makara, and is now on display i...

Political scientists and economists who've undertaken peer-reviewed research into policy outcomes have concluded that all over the world, and at every level of government, wealth inequality is correla...

https://youtu.be/d3gK7_jXurgOn his YouTube page, Stovie Wan Kenobi describes his rotten experience with some plainclothes Chicago cops who harassed him and his Lyft driver just because he was recordin...

From Columbia University's Earth Institute:Ben Carson (retired neurosurgeon) believes that climate change is happening in the sense that theres always going to be either cooling or warming going on an...

Ben Fields, the South Carolina sheriffs deputy who was video-recorded beating up a black schoolgirl who was sitting peacefully at her desk, has been fired. (more…)...

Deputy Ben Fields, the school cop filmed dragging and throwing a disobedient teen, was fired today by Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott.Lott announced at midday EST that Fields has already been reliev...

Amir Meshal, an American citizen, claims the FBI falsely imprisoned and tortured him for months, but on Friday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said he can't sue the FBI ...

The largest carriers in the world partner with companies like SAP to package up data on your movements, social graph and wake/sleep patterns and sell it to marketing firms. (more…)...

The New York Times reports on how the motorcycle jacket lost its cool an got it back again. (more…)...

I want them all, and so you do. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/-VOtlZvQzrQLen Peralta writes, "Ken Plume, John Robinson and I have been releasing different celebrity readings of our book There's A Zombie In My Treehouse just in time for Halloween...

Colored and embiggening contacts are done. The hot thing is contacts that include cartoon twinkles and other reflections. Brian Ashcraft reports on the latest thing from Japan.The difference here is t...

In this beautifully shot and un-narrated half-hour video directed by Baptiste Buob, we get to watch Dominique Nicosia use hand tools to make a violin. It's interesting to see him use specialized too...

The US Library of Congress has created an exemption to copyright law to make it legal to preserve abandoned video games, including online server code required to play them. (more…)...

At $700, the beautiful Iikone single-cup coffee brewer is quite an extravagance, albeit one made of precision-milled, polished surgical steel. The coffee it produces will doubtless be delicious, becau...

If you love tree-climbing and lack upper-body strength, look no further: here's Canopystair, an ingenious system from Robert McIntyre and Thor ter Kulve, two RCA design postgrads. It uses ratchet stra...

The Wah Wah Machine translates your text into the unintelligible trombone vocalizations of all adults in the Peanuts movies. It's a very clever promotion for The Peanuts Movie out next month. (Bonus s...

Far fucking out! Weirdo space jazz prog-rock from French composer Jean-Pierre Massiera and his Visitors ensemble 1974. Here's what reissue label Lion Productions had to say when they re-released The...

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. HEY, the second book in Rube...

Discovering intelligent and automated ways to solve cyber security issues is the key to going from budding to booming IT professional. This bundle is the perfect step towards career excellence as it n...

Amazon is offering an HD rental of It Follows for 99 cents. I'm ready to watch it for a 3rd time! Here's my March 2015 review of the movie:I stopped being scared or creeped out by horror movies abou...

It is often observed that I do not like strangers to hug me! A recent study by Oxford University shows I'm not even close to alone. Many folks are uncomfortable hugging, or kissing, strangers too.The ...

Inventor, director and tinkerer Bob Partington made what he claims is the world's slowest Rube Goldberg Machine. (more…)...

CISA won't make you and I any more secure, and it threatens what's left of our online privacy. The very helpful sounding Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act will definitely help the government, thou...

A guy who works by day as a pharmacist in Korea makes these funny video compilations of himself singing Asian pop hits. His supercut is going super viral in Korea and Japan. (more…)...

In Koren Shadmis The Abaddon, five dysfunctional roommates are trapped in an otherworldly apartment, echoing Jean-Paul Sartres classic 1944 play No Exit. In the beginning of The Abaddon, central chara...

Let it hang out baby, do the Baltimore jig!...

I've got no idea what the Kawasaki Festival is all about, but a float with a gigantic fiberglass penis shows up, so obviously it's a good one....

See sample pages at Wink.According to artist David Shrigleys message on the back cover of his book, Weak Messages Create Bad Situations, We are in a bad situation and weak messages are to blame. Lots ...

The playful condom company Einhorn is in trouble with the law over their claim that a packet of seven rubbers corresponds to up to 21 orgasms. (more…)...

The Kentucky county court clark who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples sent email on the matter using her work address, and the AP gained access to it under that state's freedom of...

Auto maker General Motors today announced a recall of some 1.4 million cars in which a known oil leak problem can cause engine fires. All of the affected vehicles are over 10 years old, and the oldest...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is all, like, I've had it with these mothafuckin' vapes, on this mothafuckin' plane! Citing in-flight fire hazards, DOT announced a ban on vape pens, e-cigarettes...

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Following up on their highly successful data-driven charticle about toddlers shooting people to death in America, the Washington Post publishes a new infographic about all the people being shot to dea...

The shell of the Earth is about 800 miles thick before it opens up to a massive hollow containing its own sun. Entry points are at the North and South Poles. The residents include the Lost Ten Tribes ...

In the Mexican state of Zacatecas, authorities announced today they have found the severed heads of four men. The heads were left in Styrofoam coolers, along with gang messages that appear to have bee...

Wes Anderson // Centered, on Vimeo. Music: The New Lobby Boy by Alexandre Desplat. (more…)...

We're launching the new paperback edition of "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, my book of practical advice and theory for artists trying to make sense of the net (it features intros by Neil Gaiman...

The European Parliament has voted to allow the telcos who supply European Internet access to hold their customers to ransom. When Europeans request data from Web sites and services that didn't pay the...

Last night at midnight, Halo 5 launched. Will this be the last epic adventure for video gaming's mightiest champion? The Master Chief is back, but all the cockamamie advertising colors our hero as ...

The Orwell estate filed a bogus copyright and publicity right theft against an inactive Cafepress store where no one had ever bought one of the "1984 is already here" shirts or tea-towels on offer fro...

Alewis sends us the Royal Institution's video: "A scene of explosive Halloween mayhem as one Jack-o'Lantern spews molten iron into another filled with gun cotton, all in the name of science."...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lebczVnFLTU&ab_channel=willmatherlyFootage of a South Carolina cop picking up and throwing an uncooperative schoolgirl galvanized the internet Monday.Videos, recorded f...

https://youtu.be/rSPixmsLfn4VEC9 is the first vector arcade game to be released in 30 years, the only true 3d vector arcade game to be released besides Star Wars -- and the only one to let you smash c...

My friend Kevin Kelly wandered down the Silk Road (the one in China) and took many stupendous photos. He wrote, "Technically this region is called Xinjiang (New Province), also once known as East Turk...

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

A new study in Current Biology has found an inverse correlation between the volume of howler monkeys' notoriously loud hoots and the size of their testicles. (more…)...

Lara writes, "Time traveling gamers, levee-breaking mermaids, and frayed sanity on the first manned mission to Europa. It's all packed between the pages of The Orange Volume. The cohesive Clarion clas...

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"For great art, you have to perceive the object, the situation, and watch the everyday lighting," 3D painter Stefan Pabst told Booooooom. "You have to see something like you did the very first time ...

I've been known to sport a denim jacket and bluejeans with some regularity, making me the butt of my chums' "Canadian Tuxedo" barbs. Yet I never knew the origin of that phrase until now! Turns out tha...

In this video, MonotoneTim converted The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive to MIDI: the sound of the song, rather than its individual notes. The result, an endless mash of piano noises, eerily and rather unpl...

Mark Goffeney has more musical talent in his big toe than I do in my entire body. The San Diego musician was born without arms and has studied guitar since he was eleven years old. This short film, ...

It's that time of year, again, when eggs are sometimes used in pursuit of fun Halloween shenanigans. So, naturally, their sale is being banned by some grocers and supermarkets. If your supermarket has...

I would go bonkers trying to play dominoes with these, a perfect gift for the person in your life who has a nice set of dominoes already but would like to have something fancy out.Edge Dominoes are ma...

The only thing that Disney seems certain about regarding any future Indiana Jones films is they don't plan on subbing in another actor as Indy. There are a lot of rumours, the franchise's producer Fra...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/142671617"Poetic Fractals," writes Julius Horsthuis. "I use fractals for developing skills they are exercises in framing, composition, typography, color and styl...

The A3 Aluminum Wallet turns the traditional wallet concept on its head with its unique, futuristic construction. With three aluminum plates sandwiching your cards and cash, and two o-rings securing t...

Alex from Copy-Me writes, "We've just released its fourth episode, called 'Pirates Are The Best Customers' - which talks about piracy and artists." (more…)...

Lorq writes, "This brilliant piece of investigative research shines a light on one of the mechanisms of wealth inequality -- the secretive field of wealth management for the one percent. It's one thi...

People walk around they don't know what they're doing, they been lost so long they don't know what they've been looking forWell, I know what I'm a looking for but I just can't find it.I guess I gott...

People walk around they don't know what they're doing, they been lost so long they don't know what they've been looking forWell, I know what I'm a looking for but I just can't find it.I guess I gott...

DEA agents descended on Menominee County in Wisconsin last Friday, to destroy what the tribal authorities say was an industrial hemp crop. The DEA says it was high-grade marijuana,and they're not apol...

https://youtu.be/ibUzDIWhsFgIt's a few years old, actually, but this video of a cute baby owl "dancing" to a fuzzy owl-shaped comforting toy that sings Monster Mash is well deserving of a viral reviva...

https://youtu.be/gEC0pKHJKNMI love Qawwali music, and I am really loving this cute viral Qawwali-themed ad for India dating service TrulyMadly. (more…)...

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Edward Snowdenhands, you guys. EDWARD SNOWDENHANDS. (more…)...

A man with physical disabilities was forced to crawled off a plane at Reagan National Airport in Arlington VA, when United Airlines failed to provide him with help disembarking. (more…)...

Four women tabletop designers have put together a collection of four short pen and paper roleplaying games for $10—with a portion of the proceeds going to support the cancer treatment of a frien...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us the Jonathan Franzen of videogames, "girl gamers", and new books about games!Fusion's Latoya Peterson begins her series "Girl Gamers" by exp...

I was ready to love Murder from the moment the game opened on a female police lieutenant waking from a rain-soaked cyberpunk nightmare about murderous robots, and walking out on her balcony to smoke a...

"I hate to think that people are watching this and we walk among them." (more…)...

Lego has refused to sell bricks in bulk to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, lest he use them for political expression.Weiwei, among the country's most famous dissidents, wrote in an Instagram post that he co...

They're terrible, don't buy them.If you own the new 12" Macbook, you have one USB-C port. It's also the power port, which means if you have anything plugged into that port, you're losing battery charg...

Mars is currently 2.24 astronomical units away.We tend to think of places as being a fixed distance from one another, and this works on scales terrestrial (it's 3,459 miles from London to New York) an...

This is the best price I've seen for a 15,000mAh battery pack. (Just two years ago I paid $100 for a 6000mAh Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation Duo.)If you use code RJTZMPYG you can get the Kmashi 15,000m...

https://youtu.be/APLz2bTprMAThe Idaho beaver population explosion of 1948 was a big problem. Sarah Palin was still just a twinkle in her father-to-be's eye, so she couldn't be hired to shoot them from...

https://youtu.be/X_cAzTn3c0YHere's a 2009 clip from Dish Network informing anyone watching a special channel that they are a "satellite pirate." It's not too harsh, actually, and Dish quickly goes fro...

The UK's NHSs National Institute for Health Research announced it will embark on a 12-year study involving 11,000 patients to study the effects of aspirin on different types of cancer.From Motherboard...

Makeup artist Shonagh Scott photographed herself as dead Disney princesses. See her full Twisted Princess series here....

In August Patrick Quinn, a 27-year-old police officer in a Houston, Texas suburb, pulled over a driver and spotted marijuana paraphernalia in her car. He told her he would not arrest her if she would ...

Created by Latvia's Slavatech, these glowing, copper-chased USB drives come in 8/16/32/64GB starting at $39 -- they glow LED blue when plugged in. (via M1k3y)...

Bill Boegeman racked up a student loan debit of $82,961.02 to get a B.S. in social studies education from Minnesota State University, Mankato. It's going to take a very long time to pay it off. (more&...

Dutch designer Etienne Reijnders rescues discarded shopping trolleys made by Wanzl, purveyor of the world's largest trolleys, and remakes them into beautiful, minimalist pieces of mid-century-modern-i...

As part of the launch of Youtube Red, the company's new porny-sounding ad-free pay TV service, top creators are being told that they must allow their work into the paywalled/ad free zone, or be exclud...

Expensive fountain pens are lovely, but I want to cry when I lose them. This $15 Metropolitan by Pilot does a nice job of bridging that gap.The weight of its brass barrel gives the Metropolitan a feel...

James Losey's new, open access, peer-reviewed article in the Journal of International Communication analyzes how secret laws underpinning surveillance undermine democratic principles and how transpare...

In Saudi Arabia, drug smugglers are routinely executed. But it's hard to imagine that the Saudi prince, who is being held in Lebanon after officials found two tons of amphetamine stuffed in his privat...

Yoga Joes started life as a wonderful, weird Kickstarter to produce a set of nine "Green Army Men" in yoga poses; having raised over $100K in direct sales at $20/set ($10 for military personnel) Broga...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Funnybone has yet another award-winning strategy game available for your enjoyment Juxtabo. Much like a colorful, 3D version of dominoes, Juxtabo has simple rules that all...

I was raised to play chess in the most boring way imaginable, with both sides developing their pieces into a big symmetrical knot before anything even gets taken. Worse, most chess books basically ima...

For generations, members of the Kashia band of the Pomo people have been landlocked. For the first time in 200 years, the coastal tribe will have unmitigated access to the sea. NBC Bay Area shares the...

For generations, members of the Kashia band of the Pomo people have been landlocked. For the first time in 200 years, the coastal tribe will once again have unmitigated access to the sea. (more&helli...

Disney Princess Femslash by simonbaz (via BUST)...

Mitch Martinez licensed a stock footage clip to a Sony music label to use in a video; when the company proceeded to file a Youtube copyright complaint against him and refused to take his calls, he fil...

Former hedge-fund manager Martin Shkreli became a poster child for greed and sleaze when he bought the only company that was tooled up to make an off-patent drug called Daraprim that people with HIV u...

Julian Bleeker and his Near Future Laboratory have followed up on their amazing Skymall-of-the-future catalog with an imaginary near-future Ikea catalog that jam an insane amount of witty futuristic s...

"Please advise."A letter sent to Columbia Records art director John Berg and others by Teo Macero, producer of Miles's revolutionary 1970 jazz fusion album. Below, a live performance of the title trac...

"Hello, you're watching Dish Network's Pirate TV Channel." Apparently only viewers with unauthorized access to Dish Network would see the "Pirate TV" channel that consisted of this message, looping...

"Hello, you're watching Dish Network's Pirate TV Channel." Apparently only viewers with unauthorized access to Dish Network would see the "Pirate TV" channel that consisted of this message, looping f...

In 1837, Italian physician Camilo Golgi devised a reaction to stain the wispy dendrites and axons of neurons, making it possible to see brain cells in situ. In 1875, he published his first scientific ...

The BBC quoted an anonymous Saudi source who insisted that the arms the country imports en masse from the UK are only funnelled to the good Syrian rebels and not the Al Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front...

If, like me, your attempts to peel potatoes result in a tiny potato cube surrounded by gigantic coiling domes of potato skin, pain, and despair, this tip is for you. The tl;dr: gently score the circ...

If oil stays below $50 a barrel for five years, the Saudis' cash reserve will be exhausted, and with it will also go the social stability that lavish spending for the Saudi elites brings. (more&hellip...

Reversed video of a backwards running competition. (WerkProof)...

If youve even pondered the concept of front-end development as a future career, drop everything and learn JavaScript. This dynamic programming language is not only the engine behind all modern browser...

Republican presidential contender Chris Christie was told to leave a train's "quiet car" after people complained he was shouting into his cellphone, according to passenger Alexander Mann.Mann told Gaw...

https://vimeo.com/143234795While this video has less cute cats than the last one we shared, it does a great job of showing why folks are getting so excited about Arpeggio, a new portable sequencer! ...

Having raised $1.7M from an auction of Disneyland memoribilia and rarities earlier this year, Van Eaton Galleries are holding a second auction of cast-offs from the Disney themeparks. (more…)...

Claire sends us the video for "YACHT's 'I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler', possibly the first pop music video to include Soylent, self-balancing scooters, humans being walked on leashes by drone...

A survey of 1541 randomly selected US adults ranked the country's fears as of 2015. Items that ranked above climate change included corruption, mass surveillance, cyber-terrorism, bio-warfare, identit...

11 year old Mira Modi, daughter of privacy journalist Julia Angwin, has a startup through which she hand-generates secure Diceware passwords for $2, which she mails in sealed letters through the USPS,...

11 year old Mira Modi, daughter of privacy journalist Julia Angwin, has a startup through which she hand-generates secure Diceware passwords for $2, which she mails in sealed letters through the USPS,...

A group at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulla University of Science and Technology have developed a new carbon-nanotube-based material that absorbs 98 to 99 percent of light between 400 and 1,400nm, from all...

Wikimedia -- Wikipedia's parent org -- has had its case against the NSA dismissed by a Federal judge who said that the mere fact that the site is one of the most popular destinations on the net was no...

SMFX is adjusted straight from your iOS or Android device so you can dim, brighten, change the color, or turn on/off your light without lifting more than a finger. SMFX will instantly transform the am...

Tiffiny from Fight for the Future writes, "New information has surfaced about Facebook's position on S. 754, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). Sources on the Hill tell us that Facebook...

Jason writes, "An indie film company here in Denver called Mythos is crowdfunding an adaptation of China Mieville's short story 'Familiar' with full cooperation from Mieville himself (he's even cont...

Canada's rock-ribbed bastion of pro-trade, pro-Tory ideology has come out against the Trans Pacific Partnership's Intellectual Property chapter in a leading editorial signed by the paper's editorial b...

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

Confidential files on mass human rights abuses in El Salvador were stolen from a human rights organization in Washington just weeks after that same organization sued the CIA for refusing to release do...

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Litigation finance (AKA champerty) is the practice of investing in other peoples' lawsuits, with the expectation that you will share in any court awards or settlements should your side win the case. (...

In a way, you can simply will yourself into a new physical form – that is if you use your will to routinely move heavy things, run around, or eat fewer tacos.Just as you can change your body at ...

I like it when Jason comes to LA and takes me to the Magic Castle for dinner. I don't enjoy putting on my old suit and digging around for my necktie to comply with the Magic Castle's strict dress code...

Tomorrow (Saturday 10/24), Providence, Rhode Island's experimental art space AS220 celebrates its 30th anniversary with a cabaret gala starring the Pope of Trash himself, filmmaker and author John Wat...

The Atlantic: "Many on the right grudgingly say the former secretary of state avoided missteps and bested her interrogators in Thursdays House committee marathon."Gawker: "Why Angry Old Men Calling a ...

A 14-year-old girl who chucked a 1.75" baby carrot at a teacher has been suspended from school and told that she faces charges of battery, according to reports from Henrico County, Va.Local newsman Jo...

Barbara van Schewick from the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society sums up the problems with Europe's impending Net Neutrality rules, which are anything but neutral, and have loophole...

Mimic implements a sick, sick idea floated on Twitter by Peter Ritchie: "Replace a semicolon (;) with a greek question mark (;) in your friend's C# code and watch them pull their hair out over the syn...

A map of Middle-Earth annoted by Tolkien himself has been found tucked in an old copy of Lord of the Ringsand it reveals that Hobbiton is on the same Latitude as the professor's beloved Oxford, Englan...

Researchers at Incapsula have discovered a botnet that runs on compromised CCTV cameras. There are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of these in the field, and like many Internet of Things device...

The DoJ is currently trying to force Apple to decrypt data stored on a defendant's Iphone, and Apple, to its great credit, is fighting back, arguing that on the one hand, it doesn't have the technical...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Scott Snyder's Wytches really worked its creepy magic on me. This trade paperback edition collects the first six issues of the popular comic series, which has r...

Pulp Flesh has a nice but too-small gallery of swamp erotica paperbacks. ...

The most recent Gallup polls shows that 58% of the U.S. population favors legalizing cannabis (and that number will grow as the current generation of senior citizens dies off), but most of the preside...

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The private phone companies that charge prisoners' families up to up to $12.95 for 15 minutes' conversation are not the worst prison profiteers, but they're pretty high up in the rogues' gallery of gr...

Look who is up for a promotion: Rear Adm. Brian Losey. He's the gentleman who went on an illegal witch hunt to find the whistleblower who anonymously reported Losey for a minor travel-policy infractio...

The $150 Smarter Ikettle lets you start your water boiling from anywhere in the world over the Internet -- and it also contains long-term serious security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to extra...

Is it a wise social strategy to make self-deprecating comments? Hopes and Fears asked this question to a psychologist, two personal-brand consultants, a motivational speaker, and a women's life coach....

Texas A&M Professor of Management Markus Fitza used a technique called variance decomposition to evaluate the extent to which the performance of companies can be attributed to astute leadership versus...

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An Omaha, Nebraska policewoman substituted her ignorance of the law with an authoritarian compulsion to shame a mother who was feeding her infant the way mammals have done so for 65 million years. R...

Bernie Sanders hit the skins for a perfect rendition of Ben Harper's "Burn one Down." The other candidates approve and the audience goes wild....

Custom furniture maker Craig Thibodeau created this showpiece "Automaton Table" to illustrate all the different ways that he can hide secret compartments in the pieces he builds. (more…)...

The dream of desktop manufacturing is now a reality. Take a look at the incredible variety of things you can make with a Glowforge laser cutter, from wallets to leather sandals, lamps to dollhouses,...

In 1935, Clifford Clinton opened his Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria location in downtown Los Angeles. With its neon sign declaring Pay what you wish, Clifton's was dubbed the Cafeteria of the Golden Ru...

In 1935, Clifford Clinton opened his Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria location in downtown Los Angeles. With its neon sign declaring Pay what you wish, Clifton's was dubbed the Cafeteria of the Golden Ru...

This 1928 London Underground ad is a beautiful and witty example of using data to help people get the best use out of public services. By listing the tube's load at different times of the day, LU help...

This 1928 London Underground ad is a beautiful and witty example of using data to help people get the best use out of public services. By listing the tube's load at different times of the day, LU help...

Joey from Arizona State University writes, "ASUs Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative is holding its first-ever Climate Fiction Short Story Contest. First prize is $1,000, and three more winner...

The largely unregulated supplement industry sells a variety of weird and sometimes dangerous stuff that it wink-nudge promises will cure what ails you, but even the most accurately labeled, evidence-b...

Learn to program from scratch in just 6 weeks. This Complete Learn to Code Bundle of 8 courses includes over 74 hours of training for $59, including web development, Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and mo...

What a gem was released upon the internet today! This video of Bob Ross: A Walk in the Woods, was Season 1 Episode 1 of his long-running anyone can paint television HOWTO show. (more…)...

During his visit to Washington last month, China's President Xi Jinping vowed to stop the commercial trade in ivory in his nation, but didn't say much about when or how. (more…)...

Arizona tried to illegally import a lethal injection drug that is banned in the U.S., but the state never got the drug after federal agents halted the shipment at Phoenix airport. The Associated Press...

Ever wonder how Birdman director Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki got that one incredibly long continuous shot? Well, technically, they didn't. (more…)...

Hopes&Fears has a beautiful feature up today on the lives of service dogs for people with psychiatric disabilities and mental illnesses. (more…)...

Laurie Penny's science fiction story "Blue Monday" is a mean little kick up the ass. I workshopped this story with her last summer at the Clarion West workshop in Seattle and it doesn't get any less p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOB-tNcw02sPeter writes, "We spent the summer doing user-centered design (researching, designing, prototyping and building) around fire-fighting - specifically rural an...

If you're looking to replace your chipped, mismatched drinking glasses with a new set, look no further than the classic Bormioli Rocco bar glasses. A set of six 16-ounce glasses will set you back just...

In 1915, Swedish glass blower Alexander Samuelson designed the iconic Coca-Cola bottle. The form was inspired by the cocoa bean, while integrating the grooves in the glass apparently made it possible ...

The US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are funding a new project to develop musical robots that can improvise a solo when playing with human jazz musicians. A collaboration betwee...

Meg Neal's guide to synthesizers gets right to the nitty gritty: how do they do that wonderful thing they do, which is make noise? It's a history lesson with benefits. (more…)...

In the annals of inappropriate communications, anonymously sending threats to one's neighbors ranks highly. But few have ever ranked so highly as Carrie Pernula, who wrote "The children look delicious...

It's not in English, but you won't miss it in this amusing collection of pranks played on bike thieves. My favorite part is the ceremonial chasing of the confused thief after his downfall. [via]...

What if the Axis won World War II? An America occupied by Germany and Japan is the premise of Philip K Dick's novel, The Man in the High Castle, and it's been filmed by Amazon Studios as an exclusiv...

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Alex Q. Arbuckle of Retronaut published this gallery of 1968 photos of the Wonderland Arcade in Kansas City, Missouri....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The story of Harry Potter is so well known that I wont focus on that here. Instead, Im going to talk about what makes this new edition so spectacular, and why i...

In its luminous, rainbow-hued absurdity, the Nox is so delightful that it seems like a dog toy, perhaps, or a wedge of playdoh colors that one's child has only just rolled together. But it is, in fact...

Tim Fitzgerald shot video of naked people. Then he shot video of the same people holding the same pose, but wearing clothes. Then other people smeared and splashed green paint on the people's clothes,...

This teacher thinks his/her correct solutions are better than his/her student's equally correct solutions....

Oakley Latch sunglasses have an ingeniously simple special feature: a clip in the temple so you can attach them securely to your shirt when not wearing them. They were designed by skateboarders Eric B...

I went to college in Ft. Collins, Colorado. It was a sleepy place in the 1980s. For excitement, goat ropers would drive their pick ups around town and look for people with new wave haircuts to beat up...

Seems obvious, but... New research shows that the amount of gratitude expressed by spouses toward each other is a very good predictor of marital happiness. "We found that feeling appreciated and belie...

This week, Michigan State University's Spartan Marching Band paid tribute to Marvel superheroes....

The DEA has been raiding medical marijuana providers in defiance of a recent bill that bars the Justice Department from using federal funds to "prevent such States from implementing their own State la...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "Like almost everyone else in the J. Edgar Hoover era, Alfred Hitchcock managed to catch the attention of the FBI, leading to a 16-page file. Did it investigate the rumor...

Justin Trudeau is certainly an improvement on outgoing Pherime Minister Stephen Harper. He's unlikely to go on burning Canada's archives and warring on its scientists, and he'll probably stop ignorin...

Back in 1975, Dick Cheney, the worst person in the world, was Deputy Chief of Staff in Gerald Fords White House. Here's a memo he wrote to Staff Secretary Jim Connor complaining that his boss, Donald ...

Glowforge is a 3D laser printer that uses a beam of light the width of a human hair to cut, engrave, and shape designs from a variety of materials. In this video, Glowforge founder and CEO Dan Shapi...

You dont need years of drone-piloting experience to have a ridiculously fun time with SKEYE Nano. This smooth black quadcopter automatically calibrates each time it hits the sky, so youre promised an ...

If you're poor in Jackson, MO and you get a fine that you can't pay, the City of Jackson will sentence you to a "pay or stay" forced labor farm where you will work off your debts at $58/day literally ...

If you're poor in Jackson, MI and you get a fine that you can't pay, the City of Jackson will sentence you to a "pay or stay" forced labor farm where you will work off your debts at $58/day literally ...

A hiker in Norway found a 1200-year-old sword in excellent condition.County Conservator Per Morten Ekerhovd described the discovery as "quite extraordinary.""It's quite unusual to find remnants from t...

It's not just the 11 million VW diesels that the company admits to having converted to secret mobile gas-chambers; VW is now probing whether earlier models also used the "defeat devices" that detected...

Mint condition Apple Messagepad 110s are rare enough in their own right, but the clear plastic Developers Edition that just hit eBay is a real prize. I am the original owner of this mint condition ext...

Mint condition Apple Messagepad 110s are rare enough in their own right, but the clear plastic "Developers Edition" that just hit eBay is a real prize. I am the original owner of this mint condition e...

As university tuition has skyrocketed and bond-holders have become more and more reliant on student loan payments for a source of reliable passive income, successive US presidential administrations ha...

Following a mistrial in the Dewey & LeBoeuf case -- a complex financial fraud involving a tony white-shoe law firm -- Bloomberg tries to analyze what happened to the jury, who were unable to convict d...

Paolo Kiefe writes, "I love 3D printing and the maker movement. I thought that you might like this design from an open hardware project called #3DBenchy that aims to create more public awareness for...

On October 9, the Supreme Court of Vanuatu found that fourteen members of the government had accepted bribes from the opposition in exchange for a promise of support in a vote of no confidence. Vanuat...

The DHS's newly released policy statement on the use of Stingrays (stationary fake cellphone towers used to track people in a specific location) and Dirt Boxes (airplane-mounted surveillance that trac...

The jackalope, the mysterious cryptozoological combination of a jackrabbit with the horns of an antelope, has apparently been photographed at Ontario's Bruce Peninsula National Park. According to Gill...

After the 14 year old maker/tinkerer was arrested on bullshit terrorism charges in his family's adoptive home in the small Texas town of Irvine, many Americans spoke up in support of him, including Pr...

Next season of Mythbusters is the last one. The fantastic television series starring our friend Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, and a wonderful cast of makers and explosives, will end after the 14th se...

Wikileaks has posted a collection of documents ganked from CIA director John Brennan's email account, which was reportedly hacked by a "teen stoner" earlier this week. (more…)...

Jacob Smyth edited together all the footage available so far from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. ...

Petra Laszlo is the unpleasant human who tripped a Syrian refugee called Osama Abdul Mohsen as he walked past her with a child in his arms. (more…)...

Tara Tiger Brown is the founder of nonprofit organization LA Makerspace, the premier STEAM service provider for the Los Angeles Public Library. Shes also the co-founder of Kithub, creative electronics...

Join a group forging through the desert in search of a pyramid, as your skin begins to blister mysteriously away. Or explore the ruins of a sigil-painted village as the slick bodies of giant hornets l...

Infamous occultist, drug addict, and mountaineer Aleister Crowley also wrote more than 70 dark, and darkly comedic, short stories, including five that have never been published until now. Wordsworth E...

Our man in the White House, Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, alerts us to the Administration's celebration of Back To The Future Day t...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Great Khan is dead. So begins the rich backstory to Golem Arcana, an exciting new hybrid miniatures and computer game. The world of the game, Eretsu, is thr...

Just watch the animated GIFs, and click on the links to make important, heroic choices about whether or not to pet cats, fight turtles, or go to the bathroom. (more…)...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "The privacy-killing law CISA -- which gives legal immunity to corporations when they share your private data with the U.S. government -- is back on the Senate f...

It's Back to the Future day, the day in 2015 that Marty McFly travels to in the distant hoverboard future. Hoverboards remain nonexistent-to-bullshit, but Thinkgeek does make a very nice $25 Flux Capa...

It's Back to the Future day, the day in 2015 that Marty McFly travels to in the distant hoverboard future. Hoverboards remain nonexistent-to-bullshit, but Thinkgeek does make a very nice $25 Flux Capa...

Nick Sousanis became a Boing Boing favorite for his 2015 doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form, and since attaining his PhD, he's become a postdoctoral fellow in Comics Studies at the University...

Derek Bruff teaches a first-year college writing seminar in mathematics, an unusual kind of course that covers a lot of ground, and uses a novel as some of its instructional material -- specifically, ...

Melbourne, Australia's Lab 22 produced a 3D printed, custom set of ribs and artificial sternum that were implanted into a 54-year-old male Spanish cancer patient's chest-cavity at Salamanca University...

The Conservative Party's "anti-radicalisation" laws call on teachers and other public servants to report brown children who espouse "radical" ideologies -- and now the other shoe has dropped, with the...

Russell Stover's innovative Eskimo Pie treats were the smash-hit of 1920, and represented the culmination of long and careful experimentation with different techniques for adding a chocolate coating t...

Reframing is one of those psychological tools that just plain works. Its practical, simple, and with practice and repetition it often leads to real change in people with a variety of thinking problems...

If you're experiencing difficulty coming up with appropriately benign things to say about a friend or relative's new offspring, this generator is here to help. [babycompliments.com] (more…)...

Typedrummer is exactly what it sounds like: type letters into the window and hear them interpreted as rhythms. "qhkh," for example, results in a standard 4/4 rock beat in the default sample set (q is ...

Last summer, thousands of organizations and individuals wrote to ICANN to defend domain-name proxies that keep registrants' personal information private -- a crucial facility used by people in danger ...

The creators of a crowdfunded food-scanning gadget have threatened to sue Pando Daily after the website reported its failure to deliver the device.Depicted in a crowdfunding pitch as a keychain-sized ...

Anyone who's paid close attention knows that the series should really be called "Hermoine Granger and the Repeated Rescue of the Lazy, Glory-Hogging Boys," but as usual, Mallory Ortberg (previously) b...

The barely-edible cattle-slurry battles are heating up in Asia! Move over, Burger King Japan's Red Burger and Black Buger; McDonald's China is selling a burger with a bun that looks like it was made f...

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. READ Ruben Bolling's new boo...

St. Louis Fire Department captain Garon Mosby calls the fires "arson," but despite the shocking string of racist attacks, major media have hardly breathed a word about the fires. (more…)...

It's been ten years since Danny O'Brien, Suw Charman and I announced the formation of the UK Open Rights Group at the 2005 Open Tech conference and asked the assembled people to pledge to pay £5...

A nondescript, forgotten box is probably the real source of all your wi-fi woes: the router. (more…)...

Whats your ultimate adventure? Bungee jumping in New Zealand? Learning Spanish with Costa Rican locals? Bottling vino in Tuscany? We want to take you on a trip of epic proportionsand handle the bill.B...

Bobby Glushko writes, "Something's going on at the University of Toronto's Robarts Library. A concerned group of citizens is investigating a conspiracy hiding facts about the mysterious and controvers...

The lack of a universal charging cable is one of my biggest gripes as an iPhone user. I never have there right combination of chargers and connectors with me on any given trip, so this $9 dual chargi...

Last September Noise Pop, Boing Boing and Joie de Vivre Hotels hosted Widowspeak at Chicago's fantastic Hotel Lincoln as part of our Good Measure tour! The next installment will feature Surfer Blood...

Austin "Steal Like an Artist" Kleon has posted a fantastic meditation on the idea that "creative people say no" -- the idea that you have to say no in order to get your work done. The piece includes a...

Michael Froomkin writes, "We Robot is a cool conference that brings together lawyers, engineers, philosophers, robot builders, ethicists, and regulators who are on the front lines of robot theory, des...

As concepts for games go, this is a new one: propelling a regenerating fungus through a long series of puzzles by surgically destroying it and forcing it to regrow. And it works. Mushroom 11 is one of...

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I'm not much of a drinker. I like to have an occasional sip of my wife's wine when she has a glass. I do enjoy opening wine bottles, though, and this opener by Brabantia is my favorite. It's easy to u...

It is multi-purpose.It is brown.It is tough.It is packaging tape.Give that copywriter a raise...

We're shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that prosecutors for the county of Los Angeles will not file charges against a Saudi prince arrested for sexual assault at a glamorous compound on the edge ...

Its like Clue meets Password, with a little Wheres Waldo thrown in, but with the addition of dreams, interpretations and sances. In Mysterium, a person was murdered in a house and their ghost now haun...

Fantastic vintage graphic, minimalist, and op art paperback covers animated by Henning M. Lederer. See the full video below. More GIFs over at Dangerous Minds! For the source material, check out the J...

Nick Gillespie of The Daily Beast offers up a list of compelling reasons to fear for a Biden presidency. Biden is a military hawk, a willfully-ignorant drug warrior, an academic cheater, and a plagiar...

Sean Tejaratchi, the excellent book designer and creator of the Crap Hound zine, made this parody calendar called Michelle Duggars Sacred Blessings 2016 Motherhood & Marriage Nature Calendar. It uses ...

Many more tips on Ian Fleggen's classic "Professor Shoelace" site....

At the Black Hat hacker convention in 2013, Former NSA director Keith Alexander asked hackers to help the NSA come up with ways to protect Americans' privacy and civil liberties. "How do we start thi...

https://youtu.be/swdBQ2nC4cA"All the sudden I felt this tremendous stinging in my left leg and I thought it was a wasp or something and I didn't know it was a spider bite," said William Crum (68), the...

Brandon Hodge has a world-class collection of ouija board planchettes and other devices for talking with the dead. My favorite Fortean filmmaker Ronni Thomas shot this mini-documentary about Hodge a...

From Ape Lad: "I have a shirt up for sale on Cotton Bureau for a couple weeks. Perfect for the disloyal robot in your life!"...

People in Peru, who were enjoying the spectacle of a bull being tortured to death, had their fun spoiled when the bull jumped over the barrier and made them uncomfortable....

Brooklyn-based artist/designer Scott Albrecht created this fantastic typographical piece with Billykirk, makers of killer bags, wallets, and other leather goods. The release party is tomorrow (10/21) ...

Dan Gillmor has been playing with Google's new Nexus phones, the humungous 6P phablet and the smaller 5X, and he's written a shrewd and thorough review of what these phones do -- and more importantly,...

A battle at the Montreal Swing Riot: Modern Street Dancers represented waacking, locking, popping, breaking, hip hop and krump: Taminator, Venom, Wook, Rawss, Bourrik, Ddimplz, Treklock , Scramblelo...

Amid growing fears about safety and security risks from unauthorized drone flights, federal regulators say they plan to require pretty much all recreational drones in the U.S. to be registered. (more...

If you live in a state where Bill Minick and his company Partnersource has done its dirty work, your employer can opt out of Worker's Compensation plan and replace it with one designed by Minick -- he...

Kevin Kelly and I surveyed over 1600 people to come up with this list of the top 50 most popular non-fiction podcasts. From our introduction to the list:We made a list of the best factual podcasts by ...

Zero-days -- bugs that are unknown to both vendors and users -- are often weaponized by governments, criminals, and private arms dealers who sell to the highest bidders. The market for zero-days means...

The New York Times profiles the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit that serves as the midwife to new emojis. People who aren't nerds never cared much about the Unicode Consortium until everyone starte...

In the EU and the USA, high-profile, high-budget programs are underway to simulate a human brain. While these produce some pretty pictures of simulations, they don't display much rigor or advancement ...

If at a certain point you were into arthouse movies when youre young, Wim Wenders was your best friend, my friend Bilge Ebiri tells me the other day, and I can put it no better way. The German filmmak...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9V7GVcRzTUDavid Wirth 3D printed a 20lb railgun that fires copper-plated tungsten slugs with 1,800 joules of energy, firing them at 560mph, with so much force that the...

David Wirth 3D printed a 20lb railgun that fires copper-plated tungsten slugs with 1,800 joules of energy, firing them at 560mph, with so much force that they vaporize on contact with a steel-backed...

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Michael from Muckrock writes, "MuckRock's crowdfunding campaign to fund a series of FOIA requests and an investigation into America's Private Prison industry is in its last weeks, and the project's re...

No one's exactly sure how fraudsters stole over $680,000 from hijacked chip-and-PIN credit cards in Belgium, because the cards are still evidence and can't be subjected to a full tear-down but based o...

What's worse than courts demanding that poor people pay extortionate fines to the state for minor offense? Asking them to literally pay with their own blood. (more…)...

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When it comes to putting your faith in the Cloud, no solution is more reliable than Backblazethe worldwide leader in unlimited online backup. This best-in-class solution not only allows access to data...

On Tuesday evening, Disney released the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. (more…)...

"Its true. All of it. The Dark Side. The Jedi. Theyre real."...

A Chinese national flag flies as students practice Tai Chi on a high school playground during a Guinness World Record attempt of the largest martial arts display ever. (more…)...

You can do whatever you want to him / He's a Donald Trump Sex Doll. (more…)...

As Popehat tweeted: "The #BoycottStarWarsVII tag -- you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy, plus people making fun of them." (more…)...

Verizon got broadband franchise agreements in cities across the USA in exchange for promises to get fiber into residential homes and businesses, arguing that without the exclusive right to wire up cit...

In February, the Guardian reported stories about the Holman Square, the Chicago Police Department's off-the-books black-site, where (mostly black and brown) suspects are denied counsel while being bru...

Just in time for election day, the best show on late-night TV reports on the decade-long reign of error from Stephen Harper's Conservative Party, and finishes on a note of surreal triumph. (more&hel...

Pizza Rat was just the most brazen example of the rats that are apparently ravaging New York City this year. Apparently it's a record year for the number of rodent complaint calls that citizens have m...

It's easy to feel like an automaton in the world of modern office labor. The game Human Resource Machine takes that one step further, by imagining an office building that functions like an actual comp...

Yoshimi Tsujimoto and company burn through Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" on shakuhachi (bamboo flute) and koto. Sure beats Alien Ant Farm's attempt. ...

A pair of self-described teen stoner hackers say they breached an AOL account used by CIA Director John Brennan, the New York Post reported today. (more…)...

Facebook says that starting today, they will notify users if we believe your account has been targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state. (more…)...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a look inside the videogame concerts helping to prop up symphony orchestras, as well as a player discovering her asexuality in Borderlands.F...

Subterfuge is a mobile group battle among submarines, all fighting for might and territory on the bottom of the sea. One game can last around a week, during which you manipulate, negotiate and often b...

We recently got a new car, and I opted not to get the built-in car navigation. It's never as good as Waze, Google maps, or iPhones. It's a waste of money. My wife is the primary driver of the car and ...

There was some serious excitement in our home this weekend, as my daughter and I prepared to watch Star Wars Rebels: The Siege of Lothal, and then the Season Two opener. Star Wars: Rebels may be my ...

https://youtu.be/uEzvw9tfMJMIf this little gadget called Airing really does prevent obstructive sleep apnea, then it's a big deal. The Indiegogo-funded project is described as the first hoseless, mask...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Pengoloo is a fun game that encourages memory and color recognition. Young players will love the game design, with 12 adorable penguin characters and colored eggs (6 colors...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4XXLb_VuwPoint this gernsbeckian invisible ray gun at a drone, and it will drop from the sky, according to Battelle, the non-profit company that made it. The DroneDef...

Fiverr.com is a website where people will do all sorts of things for as little as $5. People will draw illustrations, fix problems with website code, promote things on their blog, or compose a podcast...

https://youtu.be/Y_b2i_FvYPw"One month a year, giant Himalayan bees, the biggest bees in the world, come to collect nectar from a poisonous flower, giving the honey they make certain medicinal, aphrod...

Accuracy in Media (AIM) has removed Wayne Simmons (62) from its Benghazi commission after he was arrested on "charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements ...

Mudhoney, the Seattle punk band that emerged in the late 1980s from the ashes of Green River and inspired the entire "grunge" genre, are performing a livestreaming concert today at 2pm PDT on Pressu...

This looks much more fun to me than whatever's coming next year. (YouTube)...

An excerpt from the new book Chicago, "A Portrait of the Cartoonist as a Young Virgin Living in Suburbia, Featuring Cameo Appearances by R. Crumb, Muhammad Ali and the Authors Suicidal Thoughts." Publ...

The Fuck Yeah Psychedelic Cats blog is honestly and accurately named. Note that the web design has the sensibility and orderliness of Louis Wain's crayon tray on a bad day (and flashing lights). If yo...

Actually, there are a lot of things men shouldnt say to women in bed. But its this innocent-sounding statement that wounds us most:Thats never happened before.Sooner or later, it erectile dysfunction...

I have no idea what this thread on a Malay web forum is all about, but the depictions of Western superheroes as Wayang Kulit shadow puppets are incredible. It's the work of Fusion Wayang Kulit, per ph...

The video to Stealing Sheep's latest song begins with an apparently mundane folk dance, but as anyone familiar with such things knows, it's going to get just a little bit stranger with every step.Di...

https://youtu.be/zgat4a1TrEMOgo is a battery powered wheelchair that has a hands-free control system. The creator says people can even mow their lawn while sitting in it. They say "we are currently in...

https://youtu.be/9PprNdIKRawThis walking robot has its own eye in the sky - a flying drone that surveys the landscape to give it the best path to get from point A to point B. Flying and walking robots...

These $40 stickers go onto your high-end and give it a wonderful new look. There's an entire collection of the coatings, in fact, designed to look "leathered" but which, with that faintly glistening t...

Imagine this flying down the street after you on a dark Halloween night, while you run screaming and drop all your candy! [via Popular Mechanics]...

Almost missed it. The movie's release is about two months out, and this is the one we'll be seeing everywhere until then. Interesting aside: It's not by Drew Struzan, but apparently designed by one Br...

When the wonderful science fiction writer Ellen Klages (previously) tells a fantastic tale about a shuttered library where seven eternal librarians tend the shelves, it doesn't come out reminiscent of...

In the 1850s, settlers in western Nevada were cut off from the rest of the world each winter by deep snow. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll learn about their lifeline, Norwe...

Someone has put high-quality signs on park benches in a fancy British town to mock its contemptuous treatment of locals, especially the poor. The signs have been removed, on the grounds that they migh...

It's a third-party clip, not sanctioned by Disney, so it's pretty remote/long-lens, but there's still some tantalyzing stuff in this video. From what I know about the Shanghai park, it's going to be...

Cracked's Adam Tod Brown takes us through the evidence that cheesy 1990s Scandinavian pop band Ace of Base are obviously, totally a Nazi band. (more…)...

Rep Mark Takano [D-CA] posted a help wanted ad to Craigslist seeking a new Speaker for the House of Representatives, a position that's been vacant since Speaker Boehner dropped the mic and walked out ...

XKCD 149, AKA Sandwich, is justly treasured as a classic of nerd humor, but there are plenty of other potential punchlines. (more…)...

Philippe Lang is looking for $140,863 from fellow Amiga enthusiasts, which he'll spend producing a run of new cases for Amiga (and Amiga-alike) computers, in 12 colors of UV-resistant plastic. (more&h...

Harvard Medical School's Per-Olof Hasselgren moved from Sweden to the USA more than 30 years ago, and ever since he got here, he's been noting down the large and bizarre universe of anatomical idioms ...

The Guardian's story about wealth therapists, who help one percenters cope with the stress of being rich in an era of widening wealth inequality, features quotes from some really awful-sounding, cluel...

Raspberry Pi may appear to be just a simple miniature computer, but is in fact the key to unlocking limitless hardware and programming projects. With Raspberry Pi, you can develop strong Python coding...

Loadingicons should loop, use a constrained color palette, and be fun enough to look at that they could distract a user while a computer or network churns away in the background. (more…)...

In IEMI Threats for Information Security: Remote Command Injection on Modern Smartphones, French government infosec researchers Jos Lopes Esteves and Chaouki Kasmi demonstrated a clever attack on sm...

The $825,000 Z Backscatter Vans the NYPD drives around the city look like regular police vans, but are equipped with powerful X-rays that can see through walls and vehicles. US Customs uses these thin...

When The fraternal organization was founded in 1892, it was a racist, sexist club for men associated in some way with the lumber industry. Today, Hoo Hoo International accepts members of all genders a...

It would be pretty scary to see what he does to a pumpkin spice latte. ...

No--this is not a dream, our best ever Pay What You Want for the design-minded crowd is finally here! We've gathered 10 of our favorite online design destinations and handpicked the greatest assets of...

READ THE FIRST CHAPTERDownload the first chapter free of charge, complete with CONVULSIONS AMONG THE LILIES, an essay by Bijan Stephen. (Don't forget the footnotes.)Material, Volume 1 is available fro...

In 1910, four Alaskan gold miners set out to climb the highest peak in North America just to show that it could be done. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the surprising...

The job-posting has expired, so presumably The Walt Disney Company found an enthusiastic team player with "superior writing and research skills" and "effective use of the open source and the internet ...

The Naval Academy is digging sextants out of their storage spaces and asking the Merchant Marine Academy (which never stopped teaching celestial navigation) and training its students in celestial navi...

When 23andme and Ancestry.com began their projects of collecting and retaining the world's DNA, many commentators warned that this would be an irresistible target for authoritarians and criminals, and...

The tiny board, made from fossil ivory and ebony, flips up on wincy hinges to reveal 32 minuscule chess pieces. The ring itself is sterling silver, and there's only one of them, made by Arduosity, who...

So your dream nest is on the beaches of Hawaii? Sorry, cant help you therebut were giving away three epic home automation products that will turn your house into a modern fortress. One lucky winner wi...

The Singing and Rotating Birthday Candle in this suddenly very popular video is only $3 on Amazon. (more…)...

"Hollywood Home Movies: Disneyland" screens tomorrow night at the Linwood Dunn Theater in LA and it's sold out. It sounds amazing. (more…)...

When I need to weigh luggage, I use a health scale. First I stand on the scale holding the piece of luggage, then I stand on the scale without holding the luggage. By employing an ancient sorcerer's s...

That this happened in Canada is notable, as here in America fans at sporting events can abuse our children with racial epithets, and physical assault, while barely facing any repercussions!Via Fox Can...

Police in Toronto, Canada arrested a man at a baseball game for hitting a baby with the spray of a beer can he threw from his seat in the stands. (more…)...

Despite his grandiose claims to having served as "an outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the CIA from 1973 to 2000, Wayne Simmons was really a shlub who'd once done a brief military ...

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https://youtu.be/VY_GrAgvF2wIn what looks like a deleted scene from A Clockwork Orange, a leering droog pushed an elderly fisherman into a pond while his sociopathic pal recorded it and laughed, "It's...

The Public Domain Review came across a 19th century book called Die Heilgymnastik in der Gynaekologie. As the title implies the gynecological exercises are based on those invented by the Swedish obste...

Hobo Nickels are bas relief carvings of coins, and were especially popular during the great depression, when people sold them as novelties.From Wikipedia:About 100,000 (and possibly as many as 200,000...

The Intercept's Dan Froomkin played turd-in-the-punchbowl at outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder's victory lap party at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reception on Wednesday, askin...

Learn it. Know it. Live it. (National Geographic)...

This is the eye of a honey bee peppered with dandelion pollen, magnified at 120x. The image, by Ralph Grimm, won Nikon's Small World 2015 Photomicrography Competition.In a way I feel as though this gi...

Shoppers at a Target in Campbell, California on Wednesday were surprised by the sounds of a porn film played over the store's loudspeaker system. Gina Young, shopping with her two 3-year-old childre...

Artist Amy Crehore came across this odd 1810 illustration after searching Wikimedia for "Females with pink dresses in art."...

See sample pages at Wink.There's no way the words Im bored will be uttered in a house that has the Unbored series on hand. Unbored: Adventure is the third action-inducing book by Joshua Glenn and Eliz...

If Jurassic World was released in 1978, this would have been the trailer. (ChiefBrodyRules)...

When the food riots come and the ocean waves are pounding against the Chrysler and TransAmerica buildings, where will the rich people be? Inside their spacious disaster bunker, eating gourmet meals ...

A bit of bizarre silliness from Markiplier, who said it is "the result of 8 hours of wasted time in an effort to make the stupidest video I possibly could!"...

https://youtu.be/C0s0LSah6R0[via]...

First things first: if you want to break into the world of gaming, its essential to master Unity 3D, the premier development tool for mobile and web-based games. This course will have you knee deep in...

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When Kiro'o Games first set out to raise money for its debut video game, the Cameroon-based company ran into an unusual problem: investors thought was a scam. "It was really hard to get funding," expl...

"Sure to stand out at the next party," promises BigMouth Inc.'s advertising copy. "Fits most adult heads." Say hi to Patty The Poodle and her "remarkably detailed" faux fur and skin."Clean with soap a...

The present status of this quixotic and strangely persistent quest: 16 ducks carefully compressed into a square compartment with a quick-release cable, suspended vertically from the ceiling. It meet...

Shawn James' American Sanctuary warms the cold Colorado winter enough to get the locals joining in. We had so many awesome experiences during the Colorado tour. Not only was this the highlight of th...

Sony's Cyber Shot RX1R II is its new flagship compact full-frame camera, with a 35mm f2 fixed Zeiss Sonnar lens, a 42.4-megapixel Exmor R sensor (the same one as in the A7S2), a moire-reducing low-pas...

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Maggie Goldenberger and her fourth- and fifth-grade pals used to amuse themselves by dressing up in weird clothes, doing crazy stuff to their hair, and posing for polaroids holding funny objects and m...

In 1966, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson told MPs that the UK spy agencies weren't allowed to tap their phones and that if that changed, he'd tell them about it first. In 1997, Prime Minister Tony Bla...

In 1966, UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson told MPs that the UK spy agencies weren't allowed to tap their phones and that if that changed, he'd tell them about it first. In 1997, Prime Minister Tony Bla...

Well, obviously, we need to get Congress to start imposing adult supervision on the NSA, but until that happens, there are some relatively simple steps you can take to protect yourself. (more…)...

Researchers from Japan's Chiba Institute of Technology demonstrated this spherical robot that rolls around until its four legs pop out for scurrying. Like a quadruped robot disguised as a Spheero! F...

Anesthesiologist Jonathan Bourne, of Mammoth Lakes, Ca., has been indicted for 21 felony counts of allegedly looting Native artifacts from private lands and national parks. Indian Country Today shares...

On November 9, 1965, a massive blackout impacted more than 30 million people over 80,000 square miles in the Northeast United States and parts of Canada. This is a live recording of the weirdness th...

Dave writes: "Boing Boing has been nice enough to post my past yearly round-ups of terrible deeds done by Canada's Conservative Government. Here is the round-up of the round-ups. My summary of all o...

In the United States we get a Raptor Encounter at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, where the beastie is kept in a paddock and limited in its interaction with visitors. Hes playful ...

On November 7th the final show in the Good Measure tour hits Miami. Surfer Blood, "the cleanest, and nicest band in existence!" will spend the day hanging out at The Hall, Joie De Vivre's new 'Bohe...

For years seeing a Torx head, that starry topped bolt of frustration, gave me pause.I always seemed to be missing the right size Torx wrench! If I had the right size, it lacked the security dimple. Th...

Teruyuki and Yuki Ishikawa are a husband-and-wife team of freelance 3D computer graphics artists from Tokyo. Their latest creation is Saya, and she is going to be the star in the movie they are self-p...

In the cyberdelic daze of 1995, I was part of a group of San Francisco riot nrrrds and fashion designers, including my now wife Kelly Sparks, who staged what was likely the first fashion show transm...

I've been using my Montar smart phone mount when I drive, but it has been so blistering hot in Los Angeles lately that the sun's rays coming through the windshield are overheating the phone, causing i...

Where is the girl I loved all along?[video link]...

Jacques Hyzagi of The New York Observer has a long interview with cartoonist Robert Crumb. It's called "Robert Crumb Hates You." He's as cranky and fascinating as ever. The cover image was illustrated...

A high-level of cosplay sophistication on display at New York Comic-Con 2015. The thing that surprised me is that people are allowed to bring fake pistols. I know that they have the red tip, but sti...

Jupiter is more beautiful than ever in this footage from NASA, as used by Adrienne Lafrance to illustrate her splendid article about the gas giant. rom far away, the planet looks vaguely beige. But ...

Mitch O'Connell has designed not just one, but two T-shirts depicting Donald Trump as one of the elitist alien creatures from John Carpenter's cult classic movie, They Live. ...

The incredible visual effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013) bringing a stop-motion skeleton to life. Below, the classic skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts (1963).(via r/movies)https://y...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "Before rock legends KISS embarked on their 1980 'Unmasked' Tour of Europe, then FBI Director William H. Webster put out a request to field offices for information regard...

In the cyberdelic daze of 1995, I was part of a group of San Francisco riot nrrrds and fashion designers, including my now wife Kelly Sparks, who staged what was likely the first fashion show transm...

Elizabeth Dean's Etsy store has these great, $12 Star Trek: TOS hand-towels in Science Blue, Command Yellow and, of course, Expendable Security Red (also available in TNG). (more…)...

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And now a word from my pal Dave Pell, managing editor of the Internet and author of the essential daily read NextDraft, who urges us to vote for 826 Valencia in the Google Impact Challenge: They say t...

A couple of weeks ago Adam Savage made a screaming rubber bird bomb. Now he has made an even bigger, more awesome, screaming rubber bird bomb....

For half a decade, studies have been demonstrating a link between sitting and dying, prompting many of us (including me) to try out standing desks. (more…)...

In the pending Canadian federal election, Matt Masters Burgener is running against the incumbent war-criminal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He conceived of a spectacular campaign ad that plays on ...

An excellent essay by Penn law prof Jeffrey Vagle describes how the deployment of really easy-to-use, good crypto by Google and Apple is a game-changing shift in the ability of ordinary people to be s...

When security-researcher/hornet-nest-kicker Brian Krebs outed Sergey "Flycracker" Vovnenko as administrator of a darknet crime site and botmaster of a 13,000-PC-strong botnet used to attack sites and ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a 1981 collection of creeptastic tales for kids penned by Alvin Schwartz and originally (and fantastically) illustrated by Stephen Gammell. It was also widely ch...

Adafruit Industries takes a fascinated look at the VIDEOBLLST_R, an arm-mounted electronic buckler that projects line-art on any night-time surface you aim it at, giving you the power to produce vi...

Adafruit Industries takes a fascinated look at the VIDEOBLLST_R, an arm-mounted electronic buckler that projects line-art on any night-time surface you aim it at, giving you the power to produce vi...

There have long been rumors, leaks, and statements about the NSA "breaking" crypto that is widely believed to be unbreakable, and over the years, there's been mounting evidence that in many cases, the...

From Scott Westerfeld, tweeting from the tour for his new, brilliant book "Zeroes": "Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of bill...

Ever dreamt of making your own robot? Now you can. Arduino, a microcontroller board, reads sensors in order to control motors, lights, and more. This bundle gives you the tools and training you need t...

Ever dreamed of building your own robot? Now you can. Arduino, a microcontroller board, reads sensors in order to control motors, lights, and more. This bundle gives you the tools and training you nee...

This year in America, people are being shot by toddlers on a weekly basis. Check out this infographic on 2015 U.S. shooting stats, from the Washington Post's grim data-crunchers. From The Washington P...

Carla didn't like the glass citrus juicer we've had for years. She said it hurt her wrist when she twisted a lemon half on the cone. I agreed with her. It's an unnatural way to move your wrist. She al...

8-Bit Cinema's vision of Mad Max: Fury Road as a vintage Sunset Riders-style side-scroller looks like possibly the greatest game ever. It's a good thing that this wasn't a) real b) 25 years ago, or ...

This really is a distillation of the discussions I have with my daughter. Every. Single. Day. If it wasn't so funny, I'd be weeping. (more…)...

Michael from Muckrock says, "Over the past ten years, the Drug Enforcement Administration has spent millions of dollars on cell phone tracking. Federal purchasing documents that are already posted onl...

Over the years, when most patients have first met psychiatrist Michael I. Bennett, they have tended to believe they would soon to get to know a trusted confidant who would sit quietly, listen intently...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.EON Productions was founded in 1961 by Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman for the express purpose of turning Ian Flemings novels about a ruthless, wo...

I thought a Viewmaster Viewer would be a funny joke on my daughter, as she was complaining about a lack of screen time. Now I'm hunting for vintage reels on eBay. You're likely familiar with the curre...

Silent Hill is one of games' most iconic horror brands, having spawned some 14 titles and two visually-faithful, if thematically-insulting, movies. If you're not acquainted, I wrote about the founding...

Geoff Marcy, a famous and respected American astronomer, has announced his intention to step down as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, according to an email obtained by BuzzF...

"Jimmy was having a rather beautiful day until he bumped into Jack and things got weird." Directed by Adrien Dezalay, Emmanuel Delabaere, and Simon Philippe. (Vimeo)...

Toronto's nonprofit Hand Eye Society's annual WordPlay festival is one of my favorite curations of a given year's niftiest narrative and text games. In recent years this space has become one of the mo...

A few readers have expressed doubt about the orgasm-inducing mushroom I mentioned yesterday. It was in reference to an article titled, "Spontaneous Female Orgasms Triggered by the Smell of a Newly Fou...

A 16-pound pine cone fell on Sean Mace's head in San Francisco, and crushed his skull. He is suing the U.S. government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, and the San Francisco...

A 16-pound pine cone fell on Sean Mace's head in San Francisco, and crushed his skull. He is suing the U.S. government, the National Park Service, the Department of the Interior, and the San Francisco...

Can you spot the baby in this image? Researchers at the Universities of Cardiff and Cambridge found that volunteers who showed early signs of psychosis were much better at recognizing the baby than a ...

Can you spot the baby in this image? Researchers at the Universities of Cardiff and Cambridge found that volunteers who showed early signs of psychosis were much better at recognizing the baby than a ...

No sweat, guys. It happens to the best of us....

Even Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the long-dead impressionist painter, cannot escape the internet's disdain for pretty things that are also smarmy. (more…)...

In "Beyond Zero and One," neuroscientist Andrew Smart investigates the relationship of hallucinations to consciousness, and raises some provocative and cool questions about how this relates to AI: (mo...

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 OBTAIN Ruben Bolling's n...

The "Word Gap" theory holds that poor kids' school performance is the result of their parents' inability to expose them to rich vocabularies at home. (more…)...

Tony from Starshipsofa writes, "This week on StarShipSofa, I interview (MP3) Serah Eley about her remarkable transgender journey from Steve Eley creator of Escape Pod to Serah. We delve into some of t...

A beautiful piece of writing on Slaks presents the history of Web authentication as a series of conversational gambits and ripostes between someone who wants to let users prove their identity online, ...

Good photo-collages are pretty easy to make, just contrasting things in ways that are quirky and eye-catching. But great photo-collages are hard, and when they work: woah. (more…)...

Clay Shirky writes, "I wrote about the mobile phone manufacturing powerhouse and tech innovator, Xiaomi, for Columbia Global Reports, looking at both what makes Xiaomi so successful (they were founded...

Ever tried writing a novel in Microsoft Word? Trust us, you dont want to. Thats why writing professionals around the world use Scrivener 2, the word processor and project management tool that stays wi...

Tanner Stokes of Herp Derp fame has done it again. He invented what we have all longed for, since the internet began: an effective way to shut people up.https://youtu.be/Lz3GuYEpTqEPlasma ball destroy...

Once upon a time in Los Angeles, the Tower Records store on the Sunset Strip was a sacred hotspot for rock and roll culture. Since the store closed, a victim of the internet as then reported, there ha...

Wisconsin's Gravedigger Candles makes beeswax candles cast from a real human spine, where each vertabra burns for about three hours. Comes in large ($36.80), medium ($25.30) and small ($13.80)....

Carol writes, "The first Cheapass Game ever was Kill Doctor Lucky, back in late 1996. After multiple editions, and being licensed out for a number of years, it has come back home to Cheapass Games, an...

The Joint Photographic Expert Group, which oversees the JPEG format, met in Brussels today to discuss adding DRM to its format, so that there would be images that would be able to force your computer ...

Jennifer Connell says that in 2011, her nephew -- then 8, now 12 -- jumped off his bike and ran to her, giving her a huge hug and shouting "I love you, Auntie Jen," and that the hug resulted in her br...

UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology employ a colony of flesh-eating beetles to clean the meat off the bones of animals whose bones they want to preserve for posterity. (KQED's Deep Look)...

This little flashlight is great for packing in a travel bag. It has three brightness modes and is small enough to clip to the bill of a cap, making it a head-mounted flashlight. It's regularly $17 on ...

What our brains learn, they can also unlearn—including what makes us anxious. That's the idea behind Neurotic Neurons, an interactive work by Nicky Case that explores the neuroscience of anxiety...

The Muse Miniature et Cinma in Lyon, France is home to more than 100 miniature scenes painstakingly crafted by Dan Ohlmann. The artist is a former cabinetmaker and interior designer who has spent two ...

https://youtu.be/q-T9M7wN7bESwedish police swarmed on this gentlemanly beard club who were taking a group photo, because the cops received a call from a worried onlooker who believed the group was a a...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Roll for the Galaxy is a dice game where you and up to 4 other players can expand across the galaxy, conquering worlds and utilizing your citizenry. The individual dice rep...

A fellow was recording rattlesnakes when one struck the device, knocking it into a pit teeming with the serpents. More footage below:https://youtu.be/avtZJKydB-E...

Dave Black snapped this astounding photo of the infamous cryptid known as the Jersey Devil in Galloway Township, New Jersey. Photo evidence is always welcome, as residents of Southern New Jersey and t...

HBO's Westworld sounds like it will be quite a show. The drama, which premieres in 2016, is executive produced by J.J. Abrams and is described as a "dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial conscious...

The popular television series Law & Order: SVU will present its semifictionalized spin on the Duggar family of 19 Kids and Counting and pedophilia impunity fame. (more…)...

Breaking news from 84 years ago:BRICK TIED TO COW'S TAIL KNOCKS MILKER UNCONSCIOUSTOLEDO, Ore., Jan 18 Jack Horsfall, Toledo high school student, decided to stop his cow's practice of switching her t...

MuckRock spotlights some of the complaints -- some utterly bizarre, others downright stupid -- filed with the FCC by viewers upset with MythBusters. My favorites are the one about the subliminal penis...

MuckRock spotlights some of the complaints -- some utterly bizarre, others downright stupid -- filed with the FCC by viewers upset with MythBusters. My favorites are the one about the subliminal penis...

https://youtu.be/Ga00s9_aQX4Aiden Sinclair claims he was a con man who spent five years in prison after turning himself in to U.S. Marshals. Today, he is a magician and performer who shares stories of...

Using a whisk makes for better beaten eggs, hot chocolate, and the list goes on. I avoided using my wire whisks because the cleaning was always a bit more trouble than I cared for. Having been introdu...

Get me in a fight I like dirty tricks....

Tom Kucy dug into the incredible motherlode of NASA's Project Apollo Archive of photos released last week to create this beautiful short film "Ground Control." (more…)...

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Recently, a merry gang of happy mutants gathered for the ninth and final time to revel in Bob Self's incredible Baby Tattooville event. Over the past nine years, artists, entertainers, creative minds ...

A study from the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms reports that Dictyophora, a mushroom that grows on lava flows, induces spontaneous orgasms in about 1/3 of the woman who sniff it.From Wik...

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

Under TPP, signatories are required to give their judges the power to "order the destruction of devices and products found to be involved in" breaking digital locks, such as those detailed in this yea...

UK artist Kerry Hughes made her Pneumatic Anatomy series of detailed anatomical replicas out of twisted balloons. I love the bronchioles in the lungs especially. (Photos by Aaron Tilley) (via Neatoram...

They've only got four ingredients and unlike many elaborate, fondant-based Hallowe'en treats, they taste good. (more…)...

Playboy will no longer publish nude images of women. None of Playboy's efforts to adjust to the way that the net changed the availability of porn were successful, though it fared better than Penthouse...

This gallery of public Blue Screen of Death crashes on screens is a great reminder that, as Vice's Rachel Pick says, "life is a farce." (more…)...

Obama's 2008 run at the presidency was remarkable and game-changing, drawing huge crowds, raising huge sums in small money donations, and mobilizing a massive army of volunteer campaigners. There'd ne...

Ben Kraft teaches a unit on gerrymandering -- rigging electoral districts to ensure that one party always wins -- to high school kids in his open MIT Educational Studies Program course. As he describe...

Three years and £12 million later, London's Metropolitan police has ended its 24/7 surveillance of the Ecuadorian embassy, through which officers kept vigil for the day that Wikileaks founder Ju...

James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jessen are psychologists who took in almost $85 million in CIA contracts to design and oversee torture programs used on Guantanamo Bay detainees. The contracts ran from...

Lean Project Management, as it name suggests, is a popular method that aims to waste less time and effort during the duration of a project. By focusing on prioritizing tasks, PMs are able to boost pro...

DEFEND AMERICA t-shirts. Says Mike Monteiro of Mule Design:Freedom is going to school without fear of getting shot. Freedom is taking your kids to the movies without fear of taking a bullet. Freedom i...

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I'm sad to share the news that Dennis Eichhorn, creator of the autobiographical comic book series, Real Stuff, died on October 8, 2015. Dennis wrote for the bOING bOING zine, and we've run many excerp...

Jef Raskin (RIP) was the creator of the Macintosh project at Apple. I got to know him pretty well in the last five years or so of his life. He was a delightful curmudgeon, and very creative. He wrote ...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us further discussion on one of the most interesting works of game criticism ever to be playable, the untold story of the Net Yaroze homebrew c...

The moment I tried to start the demo for the upcoming horror game Calendula, it broke. "FATAL ERROR," read the pop-up message when I tried to start a new game. "Current video configuration not support...

Does the idea of inexpensive, biodegradable, everyday teabags horrify and disgust you? Ensure your tea drinking has a chain of environmental destruction all the way back to the bowels of the Earth its...

Sponsored by Assemblymember Luis Alejo, today California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB30, a bill barring schools from naming teams or mascots "redskins." NBC News shares:The state Assembly overwhelmi...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.$9 Buy a copy on AmazonIt is perhaps a sad testament to our disembodied lives that we need a deck of cards to coax us into interacting with strangers in meatspa...

The video starts with Kansas City Officer Dale Secor asking Short Stop Mini Mart clerk Damian Words for his ID. Both men are standing next to Words' car, which is parked perpendicularly in a drivewa...

The video starts with Kansas City Officer Dale Secor asking Short Stop Mini Mart clerk Damian Words for his ID. Both men are standing next to Words' car, which is parked perpendicularly in a drivewa...

On Wednesday, October 21st, in San Francisco, CA, the Internet Archive will honor the Grateful Dead at what they bills as their biggest celebration of the year!Seems the awesome approach to business t...

Help kickstart Arpeggio. This 'new instrument' has friends in Chicago and Los Angeles going nuts. The Arpeggio reminds me of the fun I used to have with my Casio VL-1....

A crowd watches as a Great White Shark eats a seal off the coast of San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island.Clearly, one young gentleman was seriously impressed! Also, please note the videographer's art...

In 2003, the TSA fined Mary Hostein of Michigan for trying to take a a jar of apple butter through airport security. When an agent told Hostein that the spread was a liquid, and therefore subject to t...

The DC SuperHero Girls line is aimed at 6-year-olds and the look great. Mattel designer Christine Kim says the action figures are were designed by women for girls, not by men for boys. (more…)...

In 1965 Yves Saint Laurent introduced the cocoon bridal dress. Said to be inspired by Russian nesting dolls, it makes me think of a different kind of red wedding....

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Three. The left ear, the right ear, and the final frontier.(Thanks, Cash Ashkinos!)...

"The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien" is a new collection of the drawings, maps, diagrams, and sketches that Tolkien drew to help him navigate Middle-earth, and the entire complex unive...

Which is a notable improvement on its tax bill for 2013, which was 0 on earnings of 223m. (more…)...

This cracker that survived the sinking of the Titanic will be on the block October 24 as part of an auction of rare Titanic, Hindenburg and related memorabilia. The cracker was recovered by James Fenw...

The Myers-Briggs personality test is the internet's sorting hat, beloved of twittering nerds, Tumblr addicts and Facebook oversharers alike (I'm in House ESFP!) But it's also plainly pseudoscientific,...

Stick it out until the end. (Mike Long via Neatorama)...

Like most self-styled provocateurs, it turns out Lou Reed meant the bad things that he said. A new biography illustrates a racist, sexist wife-beater with so little personal charm he would be regularl...

Specific color palettes are used by filmmakers to manipulate our emotions, from warm red tones for romances to blue, cold tones for horror flicks. The Dust Bowl-toned "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2...

The current Canadaland podcast (MP3) carefully parses out the implications of the Trans Pacific Partnership from the perspective of Internet freedom, censorship, free speech, business, and transparenc...

Andrew C. Chang and Phillip Li undertook a study of "67 papers published in 13 well-regarded economics journals" for the US Federal Reserve and attempted to replicate their conclusions, using the code...

Amir captured this video of O'Hare Airport's hygiene-freakout toilets that automatically and in a hands-free fashion wrap the seat in fresh, germ- and piss-free plastic film between each user. (more...

Pee-Wee Herman will play the father of Oswald Cobblepot -- AKA The Penguin -- in season two of Gotham, a role he already nailed in 1992's otherwise meh "Batman Returns," where he depicted Daddy Peng...

Vox parsed out the Bureau of Justice Statistics' numbers on incarceration in prisons (excluding jails) and produced this ghastly visualization tracking the transformaiton of America into the country ...

They're available for pre-order from the Big Bad Toy Store, with delivery estimated for Christmas 2015. They Yahtzee ($35) features a Cthulhu figure dice cup; while the Monopoly ($45) has a selection ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw3omlO0vj0Sweden's MOVITS! (presently touring the USA) plays music they call ppelknyckarjazz ("Apple swiper jazz") that combines big-band swing with hip-hop that's i...

Press Start to Play is an anthology of video-game-related science fiction, edited by John Joseph Adams and Daniel "Robopocalypse" Wilson, with stories by some of Boing Boing's favorite SF writers: Ern...

ThisSmartphone Photo Lens Kit arms you with six unique smartphone photography accessories, so you can take high-quality and well-composed photos of any subject from small insects to expansive landscap...

Mark Davis worked at a Kmart in Naperville, IL in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Each month, the corporate office mailed a cassette tape to all the stores, which contained easy-listening elevator mus...

Originally written as a web serial, this novel about a gamer transported into the world of MMORPGs is hilarious! I read The Bathroom Knight as a novel, and so I can only review it as such. I think it'...

Students at the University of Texas at Austin will protest a new law that will allow more guns on campus.Instead of signs, the students are protesting by "strapping gigantic swinging dildos to our bac...

Students at the University of Texas at Austin will protest a new law that will allow more guns on campus.Instead of signs, the students are protesting by "strapping gigantic swinging dildos to our bac...

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I don't know what's going happen to you baby, but I do know that I love ya....

Collar Clips from Migardian Treasure in Gravesend, England makes collar clips in a variety of pop-culture motifs, some obvious and some very subtle indeed: Captain America shields, Captain America sta...

The UK humour site Daily Mash nails the UK's transformation into a Torified, bank-centric place where the need for shelter is a vulnerability to exploit in order to enrich yourself at the expense of t...

Inspired by the universality of symbols, the founders of Noun Projectbegan to collect thousands of hand-drawn icons. The concept has since transformed into a massive digital collection of 150,000+ uni...

You'll find yourself lost and alone. On a darkened street....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Theres only one thing in your life that youve never yet done but are guaranteed to do. It is our single greatest unsolved mystery and therefore causes a lot of ...

I apparently made a mistake somewhere down the line when I was setting up my family accounts on iCloud. (It's confusing, at least to me.) Now Apple is punishing me by locking me out of my purchased iB...

You know, I thought it wasn't possible to create anything funnier than Farting Priest,a now classic viral video in which scamming televangelist Robert Tilton is revealed as the gassy fartbag he trul...

We should all be so lucky to be loved this much. (more…)...

The McClatchy Company, a chain of more than 30 U.S. newspapers, is expected to close its foreign bureaus by the end of the year. The media giant's chief executive denies the rumors, but it kind of sou...

Watch as a crowd of high school students gloriously jeer and taunt the Westboro Baptist hate mongers into a full retreat. (more…)...

Living in a place where my daughter frequently has to find creative ways to entertain herself provides me with endless entertainment. Luckily, if I keep her well stocked with art supplies, I get a con...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnPkM3_jposElections Canada has made an awful mess of voter registration this cycle, mailing cards to old addresses and providing incorrect information about where yo...

You wont need to think twice about going hands-free on the road with Exomounts easy-to-use car mount. It mounts your smartphone so easily, you literally only need one hand to quickly secure your phone...

Tiny1 is a bit of a cosmic mystery: a pocket-size camera dedicated to astronomy. There's little information about it other than it shoots low-light 2.5k timelapses and long exposures, and will come wi...

Wikileaks has published a leaked draft -- dated Oct, 5, and thus possibly the final text -- of the "Intellectual Property Chapter" of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and it's grim reading. (more&hellip...

This delightfulLovelace & Babbage Analytical Engine is gathering support on LEGO Ideas (formerly CUUSOO) where the communitycan up-vote fan-madeplay sets into consideration for production.Featurin...

Under the Stephen Harper government, $8M was given to the John McCain-chaired International Republican Institute, a non-governmental organization started by the US Republican party to advocate for rig...

In the latest episode of the Cool Tools Show podcast, Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Andrew Leonard about some of his favorite tools. (more…)...

As Boing Boing's King of Typos, I enjoyed this gallery of misspelled signs written by people who love English. Here are a few samples: (more…)...

In a Reddit AMA, the eminent physicist warns that while increasing automation could give us a world of "luxurious leisure," that "most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successful...

Got a spare 12 bucks? If youre a fan of the Mouse and you live someplace other than California, Nevada, and Arizona, then you might have fun with this collapsible umbrella that appears to be normal a...

Eliza writes, "A researcher from Lehigh University has invented a light-based pacemaker for fruit flies, and says a human version is 'not impossible.' The pacemaker relies on the new technique of 'o...

These 4-packs of MFi-certified Lightning cables are $9. That's $2.25 per 3-foot cable the lowest price by far I've ever seen for MFi-certified cables. (You can get non-MFi certified cables for less b...

After reporting 700 pilgrims dead in a stampede near the holy city of Mecca two weeks ago, Saudi authorities have come clean with the true number killed after pressure from investigators: 1,453 were k...

America, wow. Great job. You've really outdone yourself. No longer satisfied with a mere one mass shooting a day, which has been our nation's average so far in 2015, we've upped it to two school shoot...

In China, teens and twentysomethings are wearing little plastic accessories on their heads in the shape of tiny little sprouts, fruit, or flowers. Nobody's exactly sure where or how the trend started,...

With a style and sound to die for, if you are in the LA Area keep an eye out for Marquis and the Rhythm Howlers!...

A federal judge says a New York transportation agency was wrong to label some funny subway posters for a documentary on Muslim-American comedians as "political," so they could ban the posters from th...

Beijing, China. If this fascinates you, so long as you are not sitting in it, I highly recommend Tom Vanderbilt's fantastic book "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)."Bel...

Ida Lockett, of Sacramento, California, was helping her 5-year-old son put together a Playmobil pirate ship kit he'd been given for his birthday when she saw that the instructions told her to put shac...

Everybody's talking aboutRevolution, evolution, masturbationFlagellation, regulation, integrationsMeditations, United NationsCongratulationsImagine Peace...

In the TIME Magazine article "All the Ways Darren Wilson Described Being Afraid of Michael Brown," the former Ferguson police officer describes the August 2014 confrontation that left the teenager dea...

See more photos at Wink.Everyone has their favorite space ship. For some, its the Enterprise, for others its Red Dwarf, or Battlestar Galactica. It might even be the TARDIS. But for my money, it is, a...

"All I ask is that there's a way to take off the pounds without exercising, or changing what I eat, or how much of it I eat," says Stephen Colbert. "Other than that I am willing to do anything. Well...

https://youtu.be/k6N_4jGJADYMicrolattice is "a lattice of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness of 100 nanometers, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair." It's made from nickel and is 99.9...

Judge Jerri L. Collins sentenced a woman to three days in jail for contempt of court after refusing to testify at her abuser's trial. (more…)...

Rule 63 is a rule of the internet that reads as follows: "For any given male character, there is a female version of that character." This rule's exceptions are only in the instance that A: the male c...

Andrew Mayne (one of our star presenters at Weekend of Wonder 2015) spotted this bizarre sign in Burbank. It implicates the Burbank Police Department in burying a sick man while he was still alive. Wh...

Looks like a scene from a Kubrick film, but it's just a snapshot of a cat hiding under the blankets. Uploaded by Redditor attigirb....

Inkcase is exactly what you just guessed it is: a phone case with an e-ink screen that provides a simpler, more economical view on your communications. (more…)...

This is a scary video. It's a first-person video of a French guy hiking with other backpackers in New Zealand. When they go across a suspension bridge a cable snaps, and one or more of hikers fall o...

Frank VanderSloot is a major Republican donor -- he funneled more than $1M to the Romney campaign -- who is tapped to be one of the kingmakers in the party's leadership race. But the multi-level marke...

Governor Jerry Brown has signed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which "bars any state law enforcement agency or other investigative entity from compelling a business to turn over any metada...

https://vimeo.com/141628319San Francisco recently doubled the number of walls it was coating with hydrophobic paint, which is supposed to deter wall-pissing by making the urine spray back all over t...

Remember Lynndie England, the 21-year-old low-ranking Army Specialist who, along with ten other low-ranking Army personnel, was determined to be responsible for years of systematic torture in Iraq's n...

Squatty Potty is a $28 footstool that slides away under your toilet; you use it to bring your knees up to a squatting position while you poop, which makes pooping much, much easier. (more…)...

Its time for a power upgrade throw out that tired-out power strip and swap in this family-size USB charger, packed with 6 high-speed ports. With a built-in control chip, Kinkoo optimizes each port to...

After this year's San Diego Comic Con, I talked to Joelle Jones, the artist and creator of Lady Killer, a hit comic about Josie Schuller, a midecentury housewife who also happens to be a professional ...

Mirko Hanen puts inline skates on his hands and insanity ensues. (YouTube via Laughing Squid)...

On Monday in Prescott Valley, Arizona, a banana-human hybrid opened the door of a business, yelled "Banana!," and tossed in a banana. Then he took off.According to police, the banana was male and wear...

If it weren't for Chef Paul Prudhomme, we wouldn't have turducken, and Cajun/Creole cuisine would not have become the global sensation it is today. When the charismatic television chef popularized bla...

Ed Piskor drew this cool pin-up of an X-Men family tree (abridged). Each row represents a decade of the X-Men from 1963-1992....

Harald Albrigtsen shot this beautiful footage off the coast of Norway. (YouTube)...

The impossible architecture puzzle game Monument Valley is pretty soothing—it's inspired hours of ASMR videos, if that's your jam—but the newest iOS release from Monument Valley developer ...

This smallish portable USB charger from Kmashi is rated at 5000mAh and is on sale now for $8.38 when you use promo code: PIRVWBWG on Amazon. I have a few different Kmashi chargers, and have used them ...

See sample pages of this book at Wink.I have always had a great attraction to obsessive hobbies. When I was a teen, I didn't just want to have model trains, I needed the fully detailed train board, wi...

Alex Schomburg's cover for Speed Comics #35, published by Harvey Comics, November 1944, has a lot going on: bondage, sadism, racist depictions of Japanese soldier, gunfire, and a scantily clothed woma...

Bikram Choudhury, the millionaire accused serial rapist who popularized hot yoga in America, sued other hot yoga studios in 2003, including "open source yoga" practicioners, asserting that he held a c...

Artist Rebecca Cohen posted her interpretation of six sexy halloween costumes on Deviantart: a sexy cockroach, a sexy frying pan, sexy poo, a sexy tampon, a sexy fetus, and sexy late-stage syphilis....

In Brazil, a 70-year-old woman was killed when directions she followed from the driving app Waze led her and her husband into a neighborhood controlled by a violent drug gang. The destination they mea...

The Star Wars merchandise machine is in full death-march, and we're already sick of the Force-sploitation. But this offbeat little gimmick has us smiling--and jonesing for some sweets. (more…)...

Oct 31 2005: Security researcher Mark Russinovich blows the whistle on Sony-BMG, whose latest "audio CDs" were actually multi-session data-discs, deliberately designed to covertly infect Windows compu...

Oh, Taiwanese Animators, you rarely disappoint. (more…)...

CBGB, the iconic punk rock venue in New York's East Village that launched the careers of The Ramones, Blondie, Richard Hell, and Patti Smith, shut its doors in 2006. This year, hyperrealist sculptor R...

The only 3D printing company anyones heard of,MakerBot, is laying off 20 percent of its staff for the second time in the last six months. (more…)...

Mary Yordy made a set of 16 cards called Women In Espionage. You can buy them through Etsy. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/EvPvQjDU7_cThis is an incredibly cool edit of the trippiest episodes of Spongebob Squarepants cut to accompany "Warpigs" by Black Sabbath.(Thanks, Matthew!)...

Online retail giant Amazon just launched a marketplace for handcrafted goods: Handmade at Amazon. It's an arts-and-crafts bazaar online that squarely takes aim at a niche but growing market dominate...

Prisoners families often must pay $12.95 for 15-minutes of phone time to stay in touch with an incarcerated spouse, child, or parent. Global Tel-Link Corp. and Securus Technologies are the two main pr...

The biopic, starring Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs, is getting good writeups: "brilliant, when not breaking your heart," is Time Out's summation of both man and movie. An early dissent, from Rex Re...

Authorities in Tennessee say an 11-year-old boy has been detained on first-degree murder charges after shooting and killing an 8-year-old neighbor with a shotgun because she would not show him her pet...

A sneezing monkey, a walking fish and a jewel-like snake are just some of a biological treasure trove of over 200 new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas in recent years, reports the World Wil...

The Wikipedia co-founder is also the UK government's special Internet advisor. In the previous election cycle, Tory PM David Cameron promised to ban strong crypto if re-elected, and when the US survei...

Deep Fried Art's t-shirt "Scoundrels" ($20 with shipping) depicts Gossamer (the Looney Toons monster) and Bugs as Han and Solo: "I wonder what their ship would look like? The Millenium Carrot??"...

The New York prisoners team is composed of people convicted of violent felonies who have gone on to take continuing education classes in prison through Bard College. They debated the proposition that ...

Ali Kashani, a data-scientist, has run the numbers on Canada's electoral constituencies (called "ridings") and concluded that if the candidates from the NDP and Liberal parties in sixteen of those ri...

Watching Netflix, Hulu or other streaming services can unfortunately be difficult while traveling outside the US. Rather than bypass these restrictions with the help of a complex and slow VPN, choose ...

That was bullshit.— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) October 7, 2015A jury in Sacramento, California, today found former Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys guilty of computer hacking...

This is what happens when people come back from vacation in China and try to get into Beijing. And you thought your puny traffic jams were crazy. (more…)...

Endorphins may have been getting too much credit for runner's high, that euphoric lift we get when we exercise intensely. (more…)...

Andrew Wardle suffers from a rare medical condition that prevented him from developing a penis. The 40-year-old man claims that he has been intimate with more than 100 women and most of them never kne...

Doctors Without Borders received an apology from President Barack Obama today for the deadly U.S. bombing of its hospital in northern Afghanistan. The international medical aid organization released a...

Amazon's book editors compiled their list of "100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in a Lifetime." It's a compelling list, even if they skipped two of my favorite SF authors, JG Ballard and Rud...

If you're on the East Coast, keep your eyes on the skies this evening--you might see something rare up there. (more…)...

Edward Scissorhands has got nothing on Chuck Berry's two-handed Christmas tree trimming at Berry's Christmas Tree Farm in Covington, Georgia. (via Digg)...

The flashlights in our household have a tendency to wander off. Where do they go? I gave my last remaining one to my daughter for a camping trip, so I just reordered an 8-pack of metal LED flashlights...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR6sB5r1xHUA cell phone store owner, whose business had been repeatedly burgled, decided to set up a trap room to capture the next person who tried to steal things from...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "This time, she's falling short on responding to public records requests, particularly one relating to her controversial visit with Pope Francis." (more…)...

Kim Davis isn't doing her job again. Michael from Muckrock writes, "This time, she's falling short on responding to public records requests, particularly one relating to her controversial visit with P...

In 1969, my friend Jacques Vallee published Passport To Magonia, the first study of how modern UFO sightings are just the latest interpretation of weird "visitation" experiences that people throughout...

Three scientists won the world's top science prize today, for their "mechanistic studies of DNA repair." Their work mapped how cells repair deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to prevent damaging errors from ...

The severed, animated, flopping zombie appendage is a staple of horror films, and these zombie-mouth cupcakes look like someone has decorated an amuse-bouche with a bouche coup. (more…)...

If you live in Austin, Texas and need a vasectomy, how could you choose a physician other than Dick Chopp!Dr. Richard (Dick) Chopp is well known in the Austin community for performing Vasectomies. He ...

For more than a year, once every week or so, Benjamin Bennett sets up his video camera, sits in front of it, and smiles at it for four hours straight while recording. (more…)...

In the last five years, criminal gangs in Moldova have been stopped four times from selling radioactive materials, including bomb-grade uranium, on the black market. You have to wonder if they have al...

In World War II, the Nazis made a bunch of different booby trapped items, including thermos flasks, mess tins, motor oil cans, watches, and even a chocolate bar designed to kill Winston Churchill whe...

The appeal of visual novels usually lie in their wish fulfillment, their ability to transport you into fantasies about dating beautiful boys (and girls), becoming a celebrity or a pop star, or acquiri...

See more photos at Wink Fun.Katamino is a wooden puzzle and board game that can be played solo (puzzle) or with two players (puzzle game). As a two-person game, players must arrange the twelve differe...

I am frequently asked about this beautiful telescope! People think it is a bong! The Edmund Scientific Astroscan sits in the center of my living room coffee table. I have heard astronomy buffs screech...

A defective bootleg Rosa Parks still won't let the gays get it. #KimDavis SONG: "My Lovin'" by En Vogue A video posted by Jan Bonito (@jkbonito) on Oct 5, 2015 at 10:05am PDTMake ...

A defective bootleg Rosa Parks still won't let the gays get it. #KimDavis SONG: "My Lovin'" by En Vogue A video posted by Jan Bonito (@jkbonito) on Oct 5, 2015 at 10:05am PDTMake ...

Everything in my home is looking at me! You'd be surprised, when you have a bag of 500 googly eyes, what they get glued to! This is a bargain price for an art supply my daughter loves having around. I...

https://youtu.be/MPql1VHbYl4Writer Michael Pollan provides play-by-play commentary on these time-lapse videos of plants striving to reach a pole. It really does seem like the plants have a conscious i...

DataScience@smu (Southern Methodist University) has compiled a list of recommended podcasts that are based on popular science books. Some of them I've heard of before (like Freakonomics Radio), but mo...

Maciej Ceglowski (previously) spoke to a O'Reilly's Strata Big Data conference this month about the toxicity of data -- the fact that data collected is likely to leak, and that data-leaks resemble n...

Umbracity aims to solve the problem of unexpected urban showers with a shared-umbrella service. They've rolled it out in soggy Vancouver, and the deal is that you get to use an umbrella from any of th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ctE_Rf6NFgHow To Cake It's "Deep Red Velvet Brain Cake with Fondant Brain Tissue and Raspberry Jam Blood" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, only it has to ...

https://youtu.be/gE6zS6Z9FGQI loved Mariel Cartwright's art for radical fighting game Skullgirls, and now she's working on a big new roleplaying adventure called Indivisible, inspired by classic explo...

Ted Chiang (previously) may be the best short story writer in science fiction today; though he produces very infrequently, he wins accolades and awards for every story. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/HYM-fp1AiXMPsychic Cat is a fascinating, neon-luminescent landscape you traverse as a cat, galloping and leaping through the suggestion of a place that shimmers brightly all around yo...

Some day, you may be the defendant in a criminal trial that turns on whether the software in a forensic device reached a reliable conclusion about a DNA test or other piece of evidence. Wouldn't you l...

That baby in the snugli is no baby: it's a hollow baby doll fitted with a booze-filled rehydration bladder with an access-straw in the forehead, beneath its wooly cap. (more…)...

COME MEET Ruben Bolling at New York Comic Con, this Sunday (10/11), 1-2pm. Signing, sketching, selling, PLUS a limited number of copies of the upcoming second adventure of The EMU Club, Ghostly Thie...

Shake, stir, and muddle your way to delicious homemade cocktails with this must-have bar set. Expect only the finest quality tools from MakersKit enabling you to unleash your inner mixologist.Top 12 ...

Shake, stir, and muddle your way to delicious homemade cocktails with this must-have bar set. Expect only the finest quality tools from MakersKit enabling you to unleash your inner mixologist.Top 12 ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=280&v=ouCgdnz1RKYMy friend Yasuo Amano, who lives in the town of Shizuoka about an hour outside Tokyo, runs a Japanese blog called Hey Presto. It is mostly concerned wi...

Another Kevin writes, "Last September, the NYPD pulled Kamilah Brock, a black woman, over on suspicion of DUI marijuana. They found nothing but seized her BMW anyway. When she claimed it, they decided...

https://youtu.be/UwRX7p5MIfgWatch Jim Berger's hilarious edit of televangelist Jim Bakker recalling his recent End Times dream. (more…)...

Just days after yet another mass shooting in America, Tennessee's Lieutenant Governor says Christians who are serious about their faith should consider buying guns. The unbelievably idiotic decree to...

Urine is golden so it must have some link to gold, thought medieval alchemists seeking to devise methods to transmute base metal into gold. Not quite, but they did discover that pee is rich with the...

Urine is golden so it must have some link to gold, thought medieval alchemists seeking to devise methods to transmute base metal into gold. Not quite, but they did discover that pee is rich with the...

These photos were taken at a crossing in South Devon. The junction is locally known as "Dead Man's Cross" and is reportedly the former site of a gallows. Creeeeeeeepy!A fellow named George Johnston no...

This/next week, I'm speaking in events in Park City, Utah (Future in Review); Boston (The Freedom to Innovate Summit, the Berman Center and Suffolk University); Toronto (Seneca College); Markham (In C...

The Dallas Six is a group of prisoners who were beaten, shocked and gassed by prison guards who had previously beaten them in retaliation for complaints about abuse in solitary confinement. (more&hell...

David Bowie composed a dark, haunting, and excellent new track, "Blackstar," for the title sequence of The Last Panthers, a European crime drama launching in November. I can't wait to hear the whole...

Applicants need to be US permanent residents or citizens who's attending college in 2016/7. To apply, you'll need to record a short video explaining "a scientific topic you're passionate about." (mo...

Mostly it's your record locator and frequent flier number, but with that, an attacker can access the ticket record, see your future flights, your email address, and the details of the emergency contac...

Back in 2009, SF author Peter Watts had dinner with a retired investment banker from TD who described the bank's "vulnerability index" -- a numeric score that expresses how desperate you are for your ...

Shaken is a UK startup that sells subscriptions to "the best cocktails you've ever made." Every month, they send you a handsome box with several bottles of rare and delicious booze, small-batch bitter...

Unlike a multimeter, this battery tester isn't battery powered. Instead, it measures the voltage across the terminals of 9V, AA, AAA, C, D and 1.5V button type batteries. It's also easier to use than ...

The Chinese government has announced a new universal reputation score, tied to every person in the country's nation ID number and based on such factors as political compliance, hobbies, shopping, and ...

You remember the Sega Genesis game Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, right? That was an unusual one. Against the backdrop of Michael's greatest tunes pumped out by the Genesis' good old chunky soundchip, ...

Augustus Sol Invictus, a Tallahassee, Florida candidate for US Senate, once walked from Florida to the Mojave Desert as part of a ritual that culminated in him sacrificing a goat and drinking its bloo...

An official New Zealand government bulletin on yesterday's conclusion of the still-secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations accidentally confirmed something we all believed was in there...

Police responding to a 911 call turned up at an the Austintown, Ohio home to find the 22-year-old man who called for emergency help "laying on the floor, in the fetal position... surrounded by a pleth...

You might best know Spry Fox for games like Triple Town or, more recently, Alphabear, designs so timeless and solid that they firmly wedge themselves into your regular mobile play rotation. The studio...

A 54-year-old priest at St. Margaret of Cortona Roman Catholic Church in Little Ferry, New Jersey was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child and aggravated assault by pointing a firearm. Fath...

Did you see the news that the world is going to end tomorrow? Watch this video and you'll be convinced."Monsoon II" by Mike Olbinski...

Tim Harford, the Financial Times's Undercover Economist, writes about the Happy Birthday to You court case, which finally settled the question of whether the familiar birthday song was still in copyri...

I've heard -- and repeated -- the theory that addiction rates among indigenous people in the Americas was caused by genetics -- specifically, that "new world" populations hadn't gone through the Europ...

The leader of the Christian organization eBible Fellowship warns that October 7 "will be the day that God has spoken of: in which, the world will pass away. Itll be gone forever. Annihilated. "Theres ...

Chuck E. Cheese is hoping to market itself to "millennial moms" by expanding its beer and wine offerings, selling lattes, and amping up the salad bar. They should put in a boxing ring to ensure better...

See sample pages at Wink.The term "cabinet of curiosities" means different things to different people. For the author of this wonderful book for kids, it was a cigar box full of treasures that he star...

Popular among artists, Microsoft's Surface tablets have carved an unexpectedly well-respected niche on the top shelf. And now they're being joined by a laptop edition, with a proper keyboard to impres...

Here's bd594's catchy cover version of the Doors' 1966 hit, Break On Through (To the Other Side) performed using old computer equipment. The first half of the video is an instrumental version. The s...

Warren Ellis ruminates on the the way that the old idea that the Internet was birthing an "attention economy" has been transformed by Facebook, which has literally monetized attention, charging you mo...

With its plain, understated looks and classy black and white UI, the Punkt MP 01 looks like everything a smartphone addict might want to kick the habit: a gadget focused on communication without the d...

The Nameless Coaltion, a global alliance of women's groups, LGBTQ groups, human rights and digital rights groups has asked Facebook to abandon its "Real Names" policy, which puts Facebook users in dan...

"They have blocked your website," reports an anonymous reader. "You are considered a harmful website by the Ministry of Education."Can anyone confirm this exciting news? *Adding "considered harmful by...

I've been staring at F R A C T A L I S M for a fair few minutes. (more…)...

Blamo's $220 "adventurewear for the urban jungle" come in the forms of tiger, monkey, bear, bunny, panda and more. The mildly adventurous can avail themselves of $145 cardigans and balaclavas instead ...

https://youtu.be/c_orOT3Prwg?t=4m51sThis guy was showing off his cigarette lighters and matches when he accidentally started a small fire. While he was putting it out, he started an even bigger fire, ...

Jean-Paul Gaultier's "JPG" jacket is covered in scenes from a four-color, vintage horror comic. I can't tell if the comic is "real" (that is, if it was once a comic-book) or a simulacrum. (more&helli...

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

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's new Law Enforcement Technology Primer for Civilian Oversight Bodies is a short, easy-to-understand guide for non-technical people that explains the new surveillanc...

Historically, US companies have been able to get around the (relatively stringent) European data-protection rules thanks to a "Safe Harbor" agreement between the US and the EU -- but Max Schrems, an A...

Sponsored PostAdventure Time: The Enchiridion & Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook!!! is like having two books in one . . . because it is two books in one! Don't believe it? Just peek under the dust jacke...

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The Lytro Illum dares to be different, boasting even more robust features than its first generation predecessor and a sleek design reminiscent of professional DSLRs. What's so cool about it? Most came...

Quentin Tarantino's Foot Fetish. A supercut by Pablo Fernandez Eyre....

I really, really, really like Brooklyn band Celestial Shore, so I'm not sure how I missed Julian Glander's sweet interactive music video for their song 'Animal Ratio'. At first it seems like there's n...

This week, our partnership with Critical Distance brings us a takedown on 'empathy games' from one of the field's most well-known independent designers, as well as a unique collection of games inspire...

Intelexit is an activist group whose mission is to get spies to quit their jobs; they've recently installed billboards around spy complexes in the US and UK. (more…)...

Intelexit is an activist group whose mission is to get spies to quit their jobs; they've recently installed billboards around spy complexes in the US and UK. (more…)...

80 Days is a game based on the Jules Verne novel Around the World in 80 Days, but with a significant steampunk—and anti-colonial—twist. You play Phileas Foggs valet, Jean Passepartout, who...

Protesters angry over proposed layoffs stormed an Air France executive meeting and cornered Director Pierre Plissonnier and Resources Director Xavier Broseta, tearing off the men's jackets and ripping...

No, you're not tripping. And these aren't CG. You're looking at Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish captured by Florida-based photographer Aaron Ansavor who finds them on a local beach."It's an opportunit...

For most of a decade, government negotiators from around the Pacific Rim have met in utmost secrecy to negotiate a "trade deal" that was kept secret from legislatures, though executives from the world...

The Saudi royals -- you know, the charming people who exported intolerant, extremist Wahabiism and whose scions get to rape their US-based servants with impunity -- have hired the biggest, most ruthle...

Ionel Talpazan, who saw a UFO as a child above his village in Romania, painted spacecraft until he died two weeks ago at 60 years old. As a young man, after escaping Romania by swimming across the Dan...

Adam Conover latest "Adam Ruins Everything" is five depressingly hilarious minutes on aviation security, security theater, privacy, and ritual humiliation, with a guest-appearance by Bruce Schneier....

The house that starred as Marty McFly's home in the Back to the Future trilogy is at 9303 Roslyndale Ave in Arleta, California. While "Back to the Future Part III" was in production, a neighbor shot...

In a new episode of the BBC's Panorama, Edward Snowden describes the secret mobile phone malware developed by GCHQ and the NSA, which has the power to listen in through your phone's mic and follow you...

An excerpt from Monical Helsey's new book I Can't Believe it's Not Better: A Woman's Guide to Coping With Life called "Getting a Job, a Short Story by Your Parents" shows off both Helsey's razor wit a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGY6DqB1HX8John Oliver's segment on mass-shootings and mental health makes all the right points: making the issue about mental health instead of guns stigmatizes ment...

I thought it would be impossible for an eBook to inspire me to get me working on a watch. (more…)...

Alan Turing and the codebreakers of Bletchley Park invented modern crypto and computers in the course of breaking Enigma ciphers, the codes that Axis powers created with repurposed Enigma Machines -...

Grammar: It's boring to talk about, unless you're that type of person. Which personally I am, though I recognize that the eyes of most normal humans glaze over like donuts at the very first mention of...

Maciej Cegowski's posted another of his barn-burning speeches about the Internet's problems, their origins and their solutions (previously), a talk from the Fremtidens Internet conference in Copenhage...

Audrey Elaine Elrod was divorced, depressed and broke when a romance-scammer targeted her on Facebook, posing as a widowed Scottish oil-rig worker who admired her photo and sympathized with her plight...

Quick, make something creatively fulfilling before time runs out! (more…)...

The crooks that Edward Snowden outed (and their complicit overseers in government) like to talk about how Snowden violated an oath when he gave journalists documents that established that security ser...

Valhalla! They are coming!The Louisville Leopard Percussionists is a non-profit organization offering extracurricular music opportunities to local children at little or no cost. Please help us keep ...

At Launa Hall's public school, they do regular "lockdown" drills with all the kids, including her 4- and 5-year-old kindergarten students, who have to be crowded into a locked closet and convinced to ...

Nathan Peterson built this fantastic "juggling" robot that can be programmed with different juggling patterns and handles five balls."I believe this is the first juggling robot to juggle more than 5 b...

Nathan Peterson built this fantastic "juggling" robot that can be programmed with different juggling patterns and handles more than five balls."I believe this is the first juggling robot to juggle mor...

Marie Kondo's Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up became a global bestseller by advising you to get rid of everything that doesn't bring you joy, and advising you to anthropomorphize your belongings and...

I've always wanted a Mickey Mouse watch. This model is on sale for $18 on Amazon, and looks better than more expensive ones. Until I can afford this Masonic watch (which David and I have both been cov...

Ritual interviewed Bronwyn, the woman behind the [NSFW] Internet K Hole, a "deep and vast collection of found and collected photographs from the late '70s, '80s and early '90s."Where abouts do you col...

The Unexpected Dimension is a 1960 paperback anthology of science fiction short stories by Algis Budrys. It only merits 3 out of 5 stars on Goodreads, and even this 5-star review on Amazon gives me pa...

Doris Prechel reads Ammi-ditna's incredibly hot hymn to Itar in Babylonian (MP3) as transcribed by D. O. Edzard. (more…)...

Jason wrote a terrific foreword to my $3 card magic e-book, Trick Decks: How to Hack Playing Cards for Extraordinary Magic, and has kindly given me permission to reprint it here. Jason was instrumenta...

Jason wrote a terrific foreword to my $3 card magic e-book, Trick Decks: How to Hack Playing Cards for Extraordinary Magic, and has kindly given me permission to reprint it here. Jason was instrumenta...

I'm not as much of an ukulele fanatic as I once was, but when my daughter and I were in Little Tokyo on Saturday and came across U-Space, a store that sells ukuleles and espresso, I had to check it ou...

The concept of Big Bear little chair is a common one: teaching kids to differentiate between large and small. We start off with Big Bear, little chair, move on to Big Plant, little cocoon, and carry o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyKI6UgI1JkI tried betel nut in Singapore many years ago from an old guy in a market off Bencoolen street. He gave me a packet with some leaves, some of the nut, and so...

Choi + Shine, an architecture firm, has proposed modifying Iceland's existing power-transmission pylons to turn them into looming giants whose arms are poised to reflect their positions -- pylons asce...

BGI, the genomics institute in Shenzhen credited with a number of breakthroughs in genomic sequencing, is applying its expertise on making tiny pigs for pets. According to Nature.com the pigs will wei...

Sandra Mills of Spokane, Washington claims this photo depicts infamous outlaw Jesse James and Robert Ford, a member of James's gang who shot him in 1892 to score a $10,000 bounty. "This photo was take...

A 23-year-old man was arrested in Cambridge, England for stealing a 23.78 engineering magnet after he went into a police station to complain that a wanted poster with his photo on it was embarrassing....

George Osborne, born to a titled millionaire, has explained that he is cutting the tax-credits that let the working poor survive, despite the Tory party's election promise not to do any such thing -- ...

SitePoint Premium is the ultimate e-learning library for web developers, designers, and digital professionals. Famous for their web development books written by industry leaders, theyve expanded their...

Sir Simon McDonald, Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office -- the country's most senior Foreign Office official -- told MPs that his department had sidelined human rights work in favour of global t...

In 1948, the Institute of Applied Science commissioned an unknown illustrator to depict a fistful of squirming, terrified criminals caught in an authoritative fist, under the headline "CAUGHT BY THEIR...

Gold to Go is a gold-plated vending machine that dispenses gold bars in various sizes and gold bullion coins. The first one was installed several years ago in Abud Dhabi's Emirates Palace hotel. The p...

A gentleman in Moultrie, Georgia pawned his Sega Genesis console but was arrested later after the pawn shop employees found a stash of crystal meth in the console's cartridge slot.According to WALB, "...

Congratulations to Boing Boing reader MarieFury who won our annual Treasure Island Music Festival haiku contest! On October 17-18, MarieFury will groove to The National, deadmau5, FKA Twigs, The War O...

On Friday, a visibly upset President Obama addressed the nation after yet another mass shooting. A young gunman killed his English professor and eight others at an Oregon community college, then commi...

The use of the term "accident" gives cops and courts the cover to excuse murder. In a brutal editorial, Hsi-Pei Liao talks about his daughter, who was killed by a driver when she was three. The driver...

Skip the technical jargon and get right to taking amazing, professional-quality photos with this complete training. The Hollywood Art Institute Photography Course includes 22 modules filled with tutor...

Skip the technical jargon and get right to taking amazing, professional-quality photos with this complete training. The Hollywood Art Institute Photography Course includes 22 modules filled with tutor...

My daughter loves Minions and she loves Star Wars. It is no surprise she insisted on having these figures. At $33 shipped, this is the cheapest set I could find. It appears there are a bunch of knock-...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.I love arcades, I love board games, I love pixel art. And Kemble's Cascade ties them all together beautifully with a unique game mechanic that simulates a scrol...

We've seen Disney princesses reinterpreted as men, as minions, and even as velociprators, but this—this is something different altogether.[Lucky Peach]...

Lessig raised $1M for his amazing, unprecedented presidential bid, where he promises that, if he wins, he'll immediately pass campaign finance reform and then resign, handing over the presidency to hi...

Princess Leia's actual slave bikini sold for $96,000 at auction yesterday. No news on who bought it. The costume came complete with the collar and several links in the chain she used to strangle Jabba...

Larkin Jones is a hardcore Pokemon fan who loses money every year on his annual Pokemon PAX party; he makes up the shortfall from his wages managing a cafe. This year, Pokmon Company International sue...

After sending the sex-video to his entire contact list, Republican Indiana Rep Jud McMillin sent out a mass-text saying that his phone was stolen in Canada and had only just been returned; he asked re...

Mayor Anthony R. Silva was on his way back from a mayor's conference in China when the DHS border guards confiscated his laptop and phones and detained him, telling him he would not be allowed to leav...

When your scorn cannot be contained in the anatomy of a bilaterally symmetrical life-form. Baffle your enemies! Win the admiration of your friends! Improve your manual dexterity! (via Super Punch)...

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Power up your gadgets in the most unexpected places with the extremely compact SolarJuice battery pack. SolarJuice charges up at home like your average battery pack, but also lets you add extra juice ...

Space fans, rejoice: today, just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions is now on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account. There are some 8,400 photographs in all at a res...

If ever there was a 'Missed Connection' that should be a Bogart and Bacall film, this one is it. (more…)...

Sam writes, "I've been releasing a lot of graphic design resources, turning the plants and animals I see into colour palettes and web or print design textures. (Disclaimer: no animals were harmed in ...

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship writes, "Some say book banning isn't even a problem anymore, so we should ditch Banned Books Week altogether. That's a terrible idea." (more&hellip...

Kate in Dorchester, England makes gorgeous brass wrist-cuffs decorated with vintage literary, cartographic and scientific imagery: there's Poe's Raven; the periodic table; anatomical dentistry drawing...

This handheld magnifying glass has two bright LEDs and is powered by 3 AAA cells (not included). The manufacturer says the magnification is 40X. I think it is less than that, but it is still plenty po...

The PocketLab is billed as a "Swiss Army Knife of science." Launched via Kickstarter, the small device contains numerous sensors to measure acceleration, force, angular velocity, magnetic field, press...

Louann Clem of Trenton, New Jersey, is suing her and her husband Rich's former employee, Case Pork Roll Co., claiming that he was fired for farting too much. Both the Clems complained to the Equal Emp...

Someone just pointed me to this hentai/manga porn for sale on Amazon, entitled Boing Boing.Boing Boing is a great name for a creative project! Boing Boing by Yamatogawa via Amazon....

You know, every once in a while you run into a real gem on Amazon. A self-published work by an outsider author who must also function as their own publisher. When you find a gem like that, you drop to...

Ah, the comforts of home. The New York Jets football team landed in London today with their usual equipment, plus 350 rolls of good ol' 'Murican toilet paper. Apparently the toilet paper in London is ...

My latest Guardian column, "Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy," argues that the hard part of the privacy wars (getting people to care about privacy) is behind us, because bad ...

Normally, choosing to dress up for Hallowe'en as a sassy pop-culture meme means you're not going as a terrifying monstrosity from our cultural nightmares -- but with the Deep Dreaming costume, you can...

Two medical marijuana product companies are offering free weed to folks impacted by the catastrophic Valley fire. Recipients must present a valid medical marijuana prescription at one of 5 dispensarie...

That weird meeting between presidential candidate Donald Trump and a number of so-called Prosperity Gospel evangelists sounds weirder the more we learn about who was there, and what they actually say ...

It'll go from 20 years from publication to 70 years after the photographer's death, and it's retroactive, meaning that millions of presently public domain photos reproduced online and in books will su...

The recent revival of all things '80s has spurred a newfound appreciation for the decade's signature sound, which was largely produced by the synthesizer. Until the late 1970s, synthesizers had been f...

With this year's "ag-gag" law, Wyoming has made it a crime to gather evidence of agricultural wrongdoing, from illegal pollution to animal cruelty, even from public land -- and also prohibits regulato...

As I continue to search for a Halloween costume, I thought the kids might be more familiar with a Minecraft creeper!A couple years back, Cory shared this DIY creeper costume. I don't have that level o...

From 1920 to 1933, the only way to drink whiskey in America was to get a doctor's prescription, which would be pasted on the bottle (max one bottle/person/week) -- much like the "medical marijuana" of...

In the 2015 Sense About Science lecture (MP3), Tracey Brown discusses the worst casualty of politicization of science, from fluoride to climate change -- the truth. (more…)...

The Kindle Fire comes with a SDXC card slot that outclasses every other tablet in its price range, accommodating storage cards that can hold as much as 128GB of media -- but it won't read ebooks from ...

IBM division Lexmark (which, a decade ago, lost a key copyright case that tried to ban ink-toner refilling) is headed to court in a patent case called Lexmark v. Impression, where it argues that paten...

Gus writes, "When we created The Media Show (previously) decided the best way to teach about digital and media literacy was to answer the questions people were already asking Google, we didn't antic...

Volkswagen's cars didn't have a fault in their diesel motors -- they were designed to lie to regulators, and that matters, because regulation is based on the idea that people lie, but things tell the ...

The European Commission is probing whether Samsung televisions' sensed when they were being tested for energy efficiency and changed their power consumption to get better ratings than they deserved. (...

A booming biotech business in South Korea has new customers in America, because everyone wants to clone their dog. (more…)...

The winner of our annual Treasure Island Music Festival haiku ticket contest will see The National, Deadmau5, FKA Twigs, The War On Drugs, Chvrches, Father John Misty, Lower Dens, Jose Gonzalez, and m...

https://youtu.be/kowgYcjRTmEI didn't like it when Snoopy suddenly changed from a cute quadruped to an ugly biped and I didn't like it when I saw this video of a bear walking upright like a human in a ...

Priceonomics reports that the DARE anti-drug program has never worked.Students who went through DARE werent any less likely to do drugs than the students who didnt. In fact, theres some well-regarded ...

For over 100 years, the S.S. Adams Company of Neptune, New Jersey has been selling joy buzzers, sneezing powder, exploding cigars, fake vomit, extra salty salt water taffy, toy smoking monkeys, magic ...

Hold your camera to higher standards with the brand-new iBlazr 2, the most advanced LED flash to date. Simply attach to your smartphone, tablet, or DSLR camera. Conveniently sized and wireless, this p...

Wired's Angela Watts reports on something that's been rather widely noted with respect to the forthcoming Matt Damon film "The Martian." It, contra to the usual outcome, is markedly better than the no...

Kim Davis, the bigot who won't issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said she had a 15-minute audience with the Pope, who told her to stay strong. (more…)...

A paper in Obesity Research & Clinical Practice claims that it is now harder to keep the pounds off than it was 30 years ago, even given the same amount of exercise and food consumption. Olga Khazan r...

In 1925, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations of similar size and bargaining power could use arbitration, rather than courts, to settle their differences; today, corporations demand that customer...

A leopard lurched around blindly for five hours in a village in Rajasthan, North India, before wildlife experts tranquilized it and removed a cooking pot from its head.The 150lb animal got stuck aft...

A favored tactic of Tea Party governors this decade has been the imposition of a poll tax in the form of voter ID laws that required voters to present a state-issued ID (usually a driver's license) in...

In September, the British Labour Party elected a new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, a died-in-the-wool left-wing veteran MP who had been marginalised for decades by the increasingly right-wing Labour party --...

The first time I finished The Beginner's Guide, the newest game by The Stanley Parable creator Davey Wreden, I felt furious and sick and sad. I shut my laptop and walked around the block at three in t...

I wonder how many thousands of kids were introduced to the joy of magic from buying TV Magic Cards after watching this commercial that ran on TV ad nauseum in the early 1970s. (more…)...

My friend Rachel Demy has spent a decade managing tours and doing production for bands like The National, St. Vincent, Death Cab for Cutie, and many others. For all those years, she's always had a cam...

In this clip from the new documentary, Brand: A Second Coming, Russell Brand recounts the time he was at a protest in the streets of London. He climbed on top of a police van and took off his clothe...

https://vimeo.com/107262132The idea of Fun Palaces has been incubating among radical librarians for more than half a century, and now it's bursting open as a full-fledged movement. Every library in ...

My favorite sex toy review/sex ed/reproductive health webcomic has just released its second collection, with 328 pages' worth of comics by Erica Moen and her guest-comics-creators. (more…)...

Ghosts, witches and werewolves! Trick, treat and boo! This special edition of Blue Orange Games Spot It! is perfect for the days leading up to Halloween. Like the original Spot It!, the circular cards...

Outspoken Genii forum member Brad Henderson has this fascinating public video calling card. Brad reveals, via an "Explaination," the optical illusion behind his business card.I find this curious as ...

Way back in 1902, a French manufacturer released a set of trading cards designed by artist Albert Bergeret that imagined the "women of the future." The cards envisioned women stepping into roles that ...

At least 10 are reported dead at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon after a gunman began shooting at about 10:30 a.m. The shooter is dead, reports USA Today, citing unnamed police sources. At...

At least 13 are reported dead at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon after a gunman began shooting at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. Though early reports were not clear on whether the assailant wa...

10 are dead at Umpqua Community College in southern Oregon after a gunman began shooting at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday. (more…)...

China's hereditary oligarchy is in its second generation, and the fuerdai -- rich kids born to rich kids -- are a national symbol for corruption and excess, splashing social media with evidence of the...

In 1958, this glowing extraterrestrial appeared on rural Michigan roads, freaking out drivers before vanishing without a trace. According to witnesses, the "little blue man" was just two feet tall, ex...

Content-based App Store takedowns aren't just for drone killing anymore: Apple's also removed the Ifixit App, which offers you third-party manuals for fixing things you own, including your Apple produ...

In 1986, the year before his death, Andy Warhol painted a portrait of Barbie in the style of his famous paintings of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, and so many other celebrities. But in Warhol's mind, it wasn...

The annual "Sex, work and tech" show comes back to San Francisco, Oct 2-4, at the Center for Sex and Culture, featuring "talks, performances, games, workshops, machines and systems." (more…)...

The newly released bugs are part of the Stagefright family of vulnerabilities, disclosed by Zimperium Zlabs. (more…)...

San Francisco's Swedish American Hall, a beautiful 1907 building on Market Street, has been totally renovated while maintaining its historic detail, and now our friends at Noise Pop are curating a mar...

The Slow Mo Guys smash Jell-O with a tennis racket and the super slow motion footage is beautiful. ...

https://youtu.be/-Xqe-O5VnqkKaty Perry invited a KatyCat named Rayane to join her onstage in Rio, and the young woman couldn't help herself from squeezing, neck-kissing, and licking Katy, who handled ...

The Slow Mo Guys smash Jell-O with a tennis racket and the super slow motion footage is beautiful....

As part of California Sunday's "The Thread" series, I asked comedian/actress Margaret Cho and punk pioneer Bob Mould, who are old pals, to have an email conversation about whatever's on their mind. Th...

A big-rig containing millions of bees overturned on the highway, and the swarm promptly attached itself to the first responders. The officers decided to remain in their vehicles for the time being, ...

The leader of this protest group walked into a restaurant somewhere in the US and asked the hapless restaurant hostess why "dog meat" wasn't on the menu. The flustered hostess didn't have an answer ...

Oh, Nemo! My Great Pyrenees is going to look great! He'll be wearing this Bantha costume as we wander the entire .4 of a mile that is our neighborhood designated trick-or-treating run. I wish there wa...

Here's the rule: design a 2-sided die that is not coin shaped. Many people have tried, with varying degrees of success. Core77 has a gallery of some attempts. Here are a few: (more…)...

Companies like GM have engineered their cars so that it's a felony to make independent diagnostic tools for them, or to investigate the official diagnostic tools rented to mechanics in exchange for a ...

djBC writes, "Atlanta nerdcore rapper Tribe One teams up with producer and mashup artist dj BC for this Ghostbusters-inspired rap joint. The video was shot at Bootie Dragon Con and on location at an...

The Canadian-as-maple-pie band's Stealin' All My Dreams is a catalog of all the horrors of the Harper regime, from stifling scientists to strip-mining the CBC to doubling down on tar-sand oil. The O...

After getting caught breaking its own laws with a mass surveillance program, the French government has introduced legislation that mirrors the NSA's rules, giving it the power to spy on all foreigners...

I love reading about all the drugs Hitler was on and the implication that his insane medical treatments made him even crazier and nastier than he otherwise was. Andrea Maurer takes a deep dive into th...

Since the crisis, the number of people renting in the UK has sharply increased, but the number of landlords has decreased, as a smaller and smaller number of richer and richer people control the desti...

"Is your father a terrorist? Because you are the bomb."Guys, just stop. Stop. [via Digg]...

"Eternal September" refers to the Internet as it has been since 1993, when AOL began providing access to USENET. The flood of newbies made the newsgroups feel like the first month of schoolbut this ti...

John Sutter, an Oklahoma native, visited Woodward County, where, at first, he could find no one who'd admit to believing in anthropogenic climate change (not even the headmaster of the local academy, ...

Wisconsin officials have responded to a rumor that they included the state's myriad of charming lawn ornaments in the annual count of deer: No, no we did not.Reuters reports that the hoax was refused ...

John Hodgman's old New York Times advice column -- which transmogrified into a brilliant podcast -- has been restored to its original home, where it provides much-needed color in the Grey Lady's pages...

Jon Hendren, @fart, was mistakenly summoned onto Headline News instead of journalist John Hendren, to talk about whistleblower Ed Snowden. He talked about Edward Scissorhands instead. The clueless, ...

Though famous as the co-creator and illustrator of Elfquest, artist Wendy Pini's career stretches from 1960s zines to cyber-horror, with many strange and wonderful detours along the way. A kickstarter...

Moment of truth: Is "Microsoft Office Expert" on your resume, but not totally accurate? This pay what you want bundle will not only help you brush up on old skills, but teach you advanced techniques t...

These Cthulhu teacups are made by Voodoo Delicious, AKA Michael Palmer from Queensland, Australia. (more…)...

GOP presidential candidate and noted scumbag Donald Trump met with a bunch of televangelists, Tea Party teavangelicals, and preacher profiteers at his Trump Tower office Monday afternoon. The elite g...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Calling this book a kit might be an exaggeration, but The Superhero Comic Kit does pack a lot of fun into its inviting, oversized pages. The front section has i...

You know those people who nod a lot in meetings, appearing interested even when they are either bored to death or have no idea what the hell is being said? Sarah Cooper has "9 Nodding Strategies for Y...

The curved bottom of the cup peeks through your drink as the level drops down, moving the "moon" from full to a fingernail-paring sliver. Of course, it works better if you drink something cloudy and w...

I don't think my mother ever expected to have such a wild daughter as me. She's an accountant, and we have nothing in common. Maybe because of that, I hang onto what little I know of her teen years in...

Historically, the Pokemon franchise has focused its merchandising efforts on the parts of Pokemon characters that were not their butts. But that's about to change, thanks to a new wave of toys, charms...

Historically, the Pokemon franchise has focused its merchandising efforts on the parts of Pokemon characters that were not their butts. But that's about to change, thanks to a new wave of toys, charms...

Historically, the Pokmon franchise has focused its merchandising efforts on the parts of Pokmon characters that were not their butts. But that's about to change, thanks to a new wave of toys, charms a...

The Intercept just published an amazing article by Jim Bamford yesterday talking about how the NSA exploited a backdoor in Vodafone to spy on Greek politicians and journalists during the 2004 Olympics...

It's not easy living in the big city, especially when you're a lost dog. (more…)...

Depending on whether your sound is on or off, this fellow is either painfully enduring or tremendously enjoying high G-force training. (YouTube)...

Architects Louise Harpman and Scott Specht own the world's largest collection of disposable plastic coffee cup lids, a seemingly simple product that raises myriad design questions and challenges. Fr...

This peppermill is really great. Not something I replace more than once a decade, I wanted a grinder that stood out and was fun. I've had a set of Shaker style ones, purchased in my late 20s, that jus...

https://youtu.be/FRHTwVE1eH8Thai authorities are planning to tighten control over the Internet, creating a single international access point so they can better monitor content, reports Voice Of Americ...

There is a fantastic thread running on Genii about Boing Boing's enthusiasm for magic! Internet forums are the source of all truth! Genii is an awesome resource for magicians, new and old, and the par...

Yeah, youve heard of Disneyland (thats the one in California) and you were probably dragged to Walt Disney World (thats the one in Florida) when you were a kid. And, possibly, if you give a rats patoo...

By cpartsalot, who notes: "I have a theory that the reason they have yet to have an official sequel announcement is because the scriptwriters are busy trying to slip in as many Mad Max references as p...

https://youtu.be/NI9xDBH54kwMargaret writes, "Esteemed NYC game-maker Kevin Cancienne (part of the team behind highly adored Drop 7) is launching Home Free, an utterly unique dog exploration game. It'...

Where is your Cool Pope now, America? His PR game is undoubtedly on fleek, but he's still beholden to the same homophobic crap we know and love from the Catholic Church, the world's most powerful supp...

The Prime Minister of Iceland offered to take in 50 Syrian refugees; 10,000 of his countrymen responded to this announcement by offering their homes to house Syrians fleeing horrific violence and dang...

There'salways some kind of mess in my car. Spilled coffee, greasy hands, fogged-up or bird-pooped-on windows. I usually fumble around for whatever paper napkins I might have stashed away, but thenI sa...

Lime Crime, a cosmetic line that's accused of repackaging cheap generic products and infamous for threatening people who give it bad reviews, is the subject of a gripping profile by Arabelle Sicardi.B...

Adzerk, who serves ads for Bittorrent, Stackexchange, Reddit and other high-profile sites, will honor Do-Not-Track messages from readers' browsers, and its ads will not be blocked by the major ad-bloc...

Adzerk, who serves ads for Bittorrent, Stackexchange, Reddit and other high-profile sites, will honor Do-Not-Track messages from readers' browsers, and its ads will not be blocked by the major ad-bloc...

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 GET Ruben Bolling's new ...

Daniel Handler (who wrote the excellent "Series of Unfortunate Events" books under the name Lemony Snicket) and his wife, Lisa Brown, announced the $1 million gift to Planned Parenthood on the eve of ...

In Madison alone, 1,000 black children were arrested in 2013, but only 3,247 black children live in Madison. (more…)...

Atlas Obscura and Digg have generated an incredible interactive map of punnish-named businesses, neatly organized by category.The pain mixed with pleasure of, say, something as evocative as Hannah an...

A study of so-called Millennials (born since around 1980) ranks the things they actually give money for on the internet. News is at the bottom. At the top: entertainment such as movies, TV, music(!) a...

"They even ended up creating their own open-source religion," the creature says, charmed but desponded about the mysterious vanished species. "But in the end, they lacked something."Creator Loc bram...

22 million Americans' most compromising data (from fingerprints to criminal records to identities of family and lovers) was breached in the Office of Personnel Management hack, presumably by hackers w...

Wired has a nice article up today about bus stops built in the Soviet Union, as photographed by Chris Herwig. Some of them look beautiful, some of them look like dead robots, and some look positively ...

When you think of the right wing of American politics, your thoughts perhaps scan a spectrum of things that are at least vaguely associated with this and the last centuries. The "neoreaction" is somet...

New Orleans' city analytics team wanted a computer model that predicts the likelihood any given city block will lack alarm coverage. Enter New York city data experts Enigma, who used public data sets ...

"The officer was shocked and had cause to arrest her," writes the unbylined author of The Shields Gazzette's report on the arrest of Louise Richards, alleged boob flasher and assaulter of police.Richa...

Ann Friedman (41k Twitter followers!) writes on the quixotic, often-futile practice of "personal branding," whereby one tries to intentionally control something that exists only in other people's mind...

If a food additive is "generally recognized as safe," food manufacturers do not have to disclose its presence. And there's a lot of bullshit allowed when it comes to marketing. Eater looks into "natur...

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Whether you're already a Pi addict or tempted by what you've heard, this bundle has everything you need to get going with the next generation of Raspberry Pi exploration. Get a Pi 2 Model B board plus...