Articles by BoingBoing from February 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAobW4PtoMYPea Hicks writes, "Here's a nice circa 1971 Super 8 home movie I picked up at a garage sale recently. I scanned it with a Moviestuff Retroscan Universal fi...

You know how when youre playing around on your favorite app and youre tapping and swiping and it all feels so easy and looks so good? Thats UX and UI and someone built and designed it so that your exp...

https://youtu.be/e9geYl9J_McIn an interview on CNN this morning, Donald Trump said he would not disavow the support of white nationalist and ex-Ku Klux Klansman David Duke, or white supremacist groups...

On April 1, 22 states will roll back their food stamps rules to pre-crisis levels, so adults without dependents or disabilities will only be entitled to "three months of food stamps in any three-year ...

In Anaheim, California, three people were stabbed, one critically, and several others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally erupted in violence. (more…)...

Sculptor/machinist Chris Bathgate (previously) has posted the details of his latest piece, "BT 622212453353." (more…)...

PC Mark McKay, a police officer in Camberwell, London, tweeted this warning to locals to beware of bike racks that thieves have sawn through and camouflaged with gaffer tape; once the bikes are locked...

Youve seen the movies. James Bonds 007 and Mission Impossibles Ethan Hunt always have one of those super smart, OK, scary smart, tech guys who can seemingly run the world from their phone or laptop, a...

https://youtu.be/qsd7ogqfSHYDo you need a phone that's difficult to track and trace? Brian Brushwood and Jason Murphy (host and producer of NatGeo's Hacking the System) show you how to get an $8 dumb ...

"Crafted from a 2-foot-long gummy worm, Haribo gummy bears, black licorice string, yellow sprinkles, and rock candy crystals! A scene from the great science fiction novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Here w...

Chinese law makes independent mapmaking a crime (you may not document "the shapes, sizes, space positions, attributes, etc. of man-made surface installations") and requires tech companies to randomly ...

Rain isn't the only reason to stay in and watch a movie. Here is a list of films appropriate to watch based on the weather:Overcast: Das Boothttps://youtu.be/2zajdE5U2e8Typhoon: Das BootEarthquake wea...

The way these schoolchildren in rural Uganda react to a hobbyist's drone flight demo is so delightful. Honestly, my reaction when I first saw a friend navigate his UAV into the air was about the sam...

Photographer Kelly Alvesteffer shared photos on Facebook of the ice below the Mackinac Bridge over the weekend.View the entire gallery here. An interview with the photographer is here....

Donald Trump is the Gamergater of U.S. politics. He and his social media team uses Twitter in abusive ways that few might have predicted a serious contender for President of the United States would em...

Regular Boing Boing readers have seen me credit This Isn't Happiness many times for wonderful visual and audio finds. We've been linking to Peter Nidzgorski's work since way back in 2008. Recently, hi...

Simon writes, "With just 3 days to run, this Kickstarter to make 'Beep Beep Yarr!' a fantastic, pirate-themed programming book for kids needs your support to graduate." (more…)...

Beverly Cleary's Ramona books delighted generations of young readers. Elly from Microcosm Press (previously) writes, "Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland is the first ever guidebo...

Few artists in the history of jazz have played piano with the expression and soul of Fred Kaz. The master spent over 30 years as the musical director for the Second City, and was the most magical im...

I'm incredibly skeptical of the project of teaching kids about copyright and fair use -- not because it's unimportant, because it's so dire. (more…)...

The highly-rated Tribesigns WDJ7009 Smart Digital Meat Thermometer is on sale at Amazon for $7 when you use code OT6WGNN9. It has a lot of bells and whistles, but the large display is the best thing a...

Tito4re poured molten scrap copper on a 1 pound jawbreaker. It put up a good fight, but eventually succumbed to the heat....

We are heartbroken to share the sad news that Irene Larsen, the charming, beloved co-founder of the Magic Castle, has passed on. She died at age 79. Irene is revered by generations of magicians and pe...

The University of Wollongong has kindly scanned every gorgeous issue of OZ, a psychedelic magazine from the UK, which ran from 1967 to 1973.OZ was founded by Martin Ritchie Sharp (1942 2013).[Sharp] ...

See sample pages at Wink.Unfamiliar with sci-fi artist Simon Stlenhag, I was sucked into his eerie dystopian history the instant I cracked open Tales from the Loop. His hyper-real digital paintings de...

Londa Edwards recorded this landslide in Elk City, Idaho, which occurred on February 18, 2016. It's alarming to see how quickly it goes from a few rocks and dirt sliding down the mountain to giant b...

Tony Schwartz is acknowledged as "co-writer" on the cover of Trump's bestselling business book "The Art of the Deal," which is publishing code for, "The famous person with his name in big letters didn...

https://youtu.be/aGe9Hr_9YEUThe Freedom 251 is a 3G Android handset with a 4-inch display, a Qualcomm 1.3-GHz quad-core processor and 1 GB RAM. It was introduced a couple of weeks ago in India for the...

The anti-choice movement likes to claim that abortion is a big business, that the doctors who risk their lives to help women are in it for the money. (more…)...

Junior doctors in the UK National Health Service have been attempting to negotiate a decent wage and decent working conditions in their new contract with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is a terribl...

The remote access Leaf app has been recalled by Nissan, more than a month after researchers went to the company to report that they could remotely drain the battery and download the log of all the car...

Police responding to reports of a unicorn on the loose chased down the mythological beast to find a suitably-augmented pony that had escaped from a children's birthday party."She was kind of running...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHOmforqxkCardinal George Pell presided over decades of horrific abuse of Australian children by his clergy; now the active, vigorous crime-boss says he's too weak t...

People who spent years, even decades, behind bars in California's prisons before being exonerated are not entitled to any services or compensation, not even the normal reintegration counselling, fundi...

The town council of Williams Lake, British Colombia has unanimously passed a motion to implant GPS trackers in "high risk offenders." Implantable GPS trackers don't exist. (more…)...

The secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership will cost New Zealand a fortune -- the extension of its copyright from 50 to 70 years alone will suck NZD55,000,000/year out of its economy -- but i...

It doesnt always fit. Sometimes youve got a bunch of movies, a library full of music, or maybe that novel youve been working on or those photos from that one weekend that you just cant ever delete bec...

Since 2001, authoritarians in the South Korean government have been attempting to pass mass surveillance legislation, and they have seized upon the latest North Korean saber-rattling as the perfect ex...

Epic surf is up in Hawaii this week. The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau big-surf competition, a contest spoken of on the islands with reverence, is in full swing at Waimea Bay on the island of Oa...

[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...

Univision and Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos interviewed former Mexican President Vicente Fox this week. Fox says he is troubled by the GOP presidential frontrunner's success in the recent Nevada caucus. T...

Protesters gathered in Seoul this week, the night before South Korean President Park Geun-hye's third anniversary in office, to condemn his administration's growing crackdown on free speech. But these...

Brent Underwood uploaded an ebook, comprising of a photo his foot, to Amazon. He sold 3 copies and was an Amazon Bestseller. tl;dr: avoid the busy categories....

Brent Underwood uploaded an ebook, comprising of a photo of his foot, to Amazon. He sold 3 copies and was an Amazon Bestseller. tl;dr: avoid the busy categories....

Spider-Man made his debut in Marvel Comics' Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962). This week, a near-mint copy sold for $454,100 at Heritages Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction.A copy of Amazing Fantasy #15, t...

In a mass mailing to employees, CEO Bob Iger asked Disney people to make a regular contribution to Disney PAC to help the company lobby for expanded copyright laws, and the Trans Pacific Partnership. ...

This video, of Anastasia Synn performing at Scot Nery's Boobie Trap, a fantastic Los Angeles area variety arts review, gives me the willies! Anastasia's gleeful routine literally had me squirming in...

Back in the early 90s, I clearly remember the buzz surrounding the fledgling internet industry, arguing the paradigm shift this young industry, run by young folks, would create. I didn't realize tha...

This month, Examiner.com has been profiling "noted atheists who experienced dramatic shifts in their views, eventually becoming Christians." This week, it has a story about Douglas Ell, a former athei...

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Kamasi Washington -- the incredible saxophonist and composer who is carrying the spiritual jazz torch pioneered by the likes of John Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, and Albert Ayler -- is in San Francisco ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.From Acromantula to Yeti, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them is a delightful romp through a Hogwarts textbook. JK Rowling fashioned this little edition a...

The Internet Archive's amazing Pulp Magazine Archive includes all 176 issues of If, a classic science fiction magazine that ran from 1952 to 1974. (more…)...

Objects of Desire: A Showcase of Modern Erotic Products and the Creative Minds Behind Them by Rita Catinella Orrell is a coffee table book that has photos of 100 design-centric sex toys and interviews...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=266gn07TUYwThe Howard Buffet Foundation owns 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photos of civil rights hero Rosa Parks. They've loaned them to the Library of Congress, who'v...

Robot legal theorist Ryan Calo writes, "I thought you might enjoy my new paper, canvassing decades of American case law involving robots. Courts have had to decide, for instance, whether a robot repre...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died among high-ranking members of the International Order of St. Hubertus, an Austrian hunting society that began in the 1600s. The members jetted in on private p...

https://youtu.be/Qu-jDrGQJLUI don't like watching fail videos where people get injured. But this video focuses mainly on people accidentally breaking things, from water pitchers to giant signs on the ...

This 61-year-old woman, who has never taken psychedelics before, decided to take 1 gram of psilocybe cubensis (a very small dose). In this video, shot by her son, we get to watch her go through the ...

Matt Taibbi is one of our decade's best observers of corruption and abuses of power, combining careful research with flamboyant, HS Thompson-esque verbal pyrotechnics, an absolute gift for coinages (G...

The spawn of Russia's 0.0001% are alive and well, enjoying police escorts, helicopters, ski resorts, private jets, gold-plated Bentleys, megayachts, luxury wristwatches, pet lion cubs, photo opps wit...

Best ASMR ever. She can read the full text of boring Wikipedia entries to me any time. (more…)...

Religious paraphernalia -- from gilded goblets to huge Jesus statues to "high-tech" electronic rosaries -- is a $5 billion business. The International Exhibition of Church Furnishings, Liturgical Item...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "The Librarian of Congress is a pretty obscure position in our government, but they have a huge impact on our Internet freedom. They have a major say in things l...

Get this man to Gilroy, STAT! (The Food Surgeon)...

Meet maker Gary Hug who built his own home observatory, including a DIY reflector telescope, and discovered more than 300 asteroids. ...

Two business-school researchers have published a literature survey in the Harvard Business Review that makes the case against using performance-pay to motivate senior managers. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqiF5Duh0U&feature=youtu.beInsecure desktop operating systems (and even server/CMS vulnerabilities) has led to the creation of enormous, powerful botnets comprised o...

A book of John Wilcock comics is now available...

Matthew Garrett "bought some awful light bulbs so you don't have to." And you really, really shouldn't buy the iRainbow light bulb set: the controller box runs all sorts of insecure services, includin...

This could happen to anyone, anytime: its a beautiful day and youre driving along your normal route to work. Radios on, windows down, youre just thinking about the hours ahead as you cruise, turn and ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU8vXDoBB5sThe outgoing Librarian of Congress was a technophobe who refused all gadgets more advanced than a fax machine; he was in charge of the nation's copyright, an...

A beached boat in Inverness has been the subject of many, many, many a photographer's afternoon. If the sky and reflections off the water near the Point Reyes were right, you could expect to find quit...

No kitchen is complete without a snot nosed egg separator. It's $14 on Amazon....

Directed by David Terry Fine and based on the essay "Seeing at the Speed of Sound" by Rachel Kolb, who narrates this short film....

With this year a leap year, February 29 is coming up next week. To celebrate, Alex "Weird Universe" Boese posted "5 Weird Facts About Leap Years" over at About.com:2. The Extra Day SwindleIn February...

2012: "Mass surveillance is fine -- if it wasn't, you'd see major corporations trying to court new business by building in crypto tools that kept out the surveillance agencies. The fact that they're n...

Under The Weather is a single-person pop-up shelter to sit inside that my big brother Rick came up with a while back. (He was sick of getting soaked at his kids' soccer games and was inspired by a por...

Stephan Urbach is part of Telecomix (previously), activists who worked tirelessly to keep the Internet on during the Arab Spring, when endangered despots were killswitching net links in a bid to keep ...

Dion McGregor (1922-1994) was a songwriter who penned a hit for Barbra Streisand but he has cult (and now scientific) fame as a prolific sleep-talker, or rather sleep-storyteller. While asleep, McGreg...

Yesterday, drivers on the M60 motorway in Great Manchester, England called police when they spotted a man carrying a small child on the highway. Turns out, the fellow was actually carrying a garden gn...

The lithium battery pack for a Nagra 6 digital recorder costs $700. Markus Fuller opened one and found out it has a small battery in it (with 6 cells worth a total of $30), and a large sponge. It mu...

Donald Trump thrashed his Republican rivals so completely in Nevada's caucus that he won about as many votes as Marc Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich combined. For Republicans hoping it would all go aw...

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https://youtu.be/qePpmu_bF7QCompetitive eater Kate Ovens devoured a monster burger from Jam Jar in Newcastle in under 9 minutes, 21 seconds. The burger weighed nearly two pounds and contained beef, pu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCOHD2RBsRY&feature=youtu.beSamuel writes, "The mathematics podcast Relatively Prime (previously) is currently running a Kickstarter to fund a third season, this time...

Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard? Low? High?) What kind of tables big working slab...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.After the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Ted Danforth, the owner of a print shop in lower Manhattan, wondered why. Why did these attacks happ...

Even within the batty realms of North Korea's propaganda, the invective thrown at South Korean President Park Geun-hye is remarkable.In perhaps its lengthiest and harshest verbal attack on Park since ...

Britain is to hold a referendum on leaving the European Union, and the "Brexit" grouplargely represented by the country's nativist UKIP partyhave a fabulous music video to promote their cause.Based ...

My latest Guardian column, The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use but wanting it doesnt make it possible, draws a connection between vaccine denial, climate denial, and the demand for backdoors in ...

When the Hogwarts kids finally got fed up at the lack of Internet access at school, the administration caved and hired Jonathan Dart, a muggle IT guy, who needs to figure out how to get the wifi worki...

General YK Museveni has been president of Uganda for 30 years, presiding over a grinding and brutal civil war as well as a series of far-reaching laws that limit the human rights of Ugandans. (more&he...

There are incredible moments in life that you just wish you could live again over and over. Epic parties, friend reunions, gorgeous views, amazing meals, proposals, weddings, family time, high fives, ...

Robert Carlson, the archbishop of St Louis, MO, has circulated a two-page letter to his flock in which he raises the question, "Can I still buy Girl Scout cookies?" (more…)...

Robert Carlson, the archbishop of St Louis, MO, has circulated a two-page letter to his flock in which he raises the question, "Can I still buy Girl Scout cookies?" (more…)...

The tainted water that poisoned an entire generation of children in Flint, MI, was the most expensive water in America. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fkIf Star Wars were directed by Paul Verhoeven: what the stormtroopers actually march to, far from John Williams' anti-Imperial minor key propaganda....

Chinese Internet giant Baidu -- a combination between Google, Facebook and Twitter, with key investments in many companies, including Uber -- makes its own Windows/Android browser, long believed to be...

When most of us gaze upon an eight-place setting of fine porcelain china or a curvaceous ceramic vase, we see exactly that, but when Jim Robinson of Rookwood Pottery looks at such objects, he sees roc...

In this episode of the Flash Forward podcast we travel to a future where humans have decided to eradicate the most dangerous animal on the planet: mosquitos. How would we do it? Is it even possible? A...

Arduino is awesome. It goes beyond coding to actually connect the physical world of gadgets to computer programming. So many rad devices are built using this language and now its easier to learn than ...

I keep Flexisnakes in all of our bathrooms, and use them frequently to pull out gross blobs of matted hair clogging the sink drains. It's kind of like a long pipe cleaner with a crank. You insert it i...

The Freewrite started life as a successful Kickstarter campaign and now it's an object of commerce: a $500 keyboard with a sharp frontlit e-ink screen that gets more than a month's use from a full bat...

It's always fun to watch a master craftsperson at work. In this case, we get to observe a watchmaker named Harry service a Omega Speedmaster Professional, which has 234 parts, and costs $3,444 on Amaz...

That is one pottymouthed bird. (more…)...

Is he going to eat me? I thought he was. Ahhh! I thought he was real! Is he real? Go away. You go away I say, dinosaur. (more…)...

Thirty years ago, 66 chimpanzees who had been used (and horribly mistreated) by the New York Blood Center for hepatitis research were abandoned on remote islands off Africas Ivory Coast. One of the ...

Planes that carry passengers should be prohibited from carrying large quantities of lithium batteries in cargo, a United Nations aviation watchdog says. (more…)...

They are grooming Neil for 2020.[via]...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ8jkZQxyjAJames Kingston makes POV videos as he climbs tall structures around the world. In this video, he climbed the world's tallest residential building, which us i...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Doreen Green is a totally normal teenager. Shes starting college, shes a fan of the Avengers, shes trying to get her new roommate to like her... and she has the...

Two lawmakers are reported to be planning to unveil details of a major encryption bill Wednesday, as the FBI's battle with Apple continues and a debate grows over what role government should play in r...

This is a terrific 45-minute video profile of actor Crispin Glover, produced by Brandon Hardesty, who makes video profiles about character actors. The series is called No Small Parts. He also made a...

Photographer Robert Benson visited the uncanny valley to capture the making of a RealDoll, the $6500 hyperrealistic sex doll first made famous by Howard Stern. His photo series is surreal, provocative...

It reminds me of that disorienting sensation when you hear a very familiar song in a TV commercial but the lyrics were changed to talk about the product. From Wikipedia:"Thriller" was written by Rod...

"If your thoughts were in the future, you loved electronics and music, and you had a vivid visual imagination, what profession would you choose?" A laserist for a psychedelic light show at a planeta...

Bill Gates has joined Donald Trump in condemning Apple for refusing to backdoor its products at the behest of the FBI, promising that the company that he founded, a waning firm called Microsoft, would...

In less than an hour, Wikileaks will publish a set of TOP-SECRET/COMINT-GAMMA documents -- "the most highly classified documents ever published by a media organization" -- that document NSA spying on ...

Netroots movements -- grassroots programmers who pitch in on political campaigns -- have been significant factors in US electoral campaigns since the Howard Dean era, and indeed, some of the key playe...

https://vimeo.com/148156899Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, an Iraqi/German artistic duo, covertly scanned a famous looted Egyptian treasure, the Bust of Queen Nefertiti, from its contested perch...

Reminder: even if cannabis is now legal in 23 states, including recreationally in some, Facebook does not want you posting about it on its website. The BBC reports on its recent crackdown on accounts ...

ABC News reports that President Obama has sent a plan to close Guantanamo Bay to congress. Good luck, Mr. President!"We recognize that this is going to be a challenge," he said. "We are going to keep ...

Toast tastes great. I can't have toast, because I'm on a keto diet. So I hate all of you toast-eating people, right now. But I still love Taste Cheshire's toast identification chart, upon which I can ...

Ben Carson, a Republican candidate in this year's general election, hopes to be America's first black president that wasn't raised as a white person in Indonesia."He was, you know, raised white. Many ...

Kriszti Bozzai, a Hungarian maker who sells on Etsy as Copypastry, will turn your photos into a line-art caricature, extrude it into the third dimension, and 3D print it, so that you can bake cookies ...

Trick or Treat Studios is accepting pre-orders for their $70, official They Live Donald Trump Hallowe'en mask, the first in a series of masks based on the 2016 presidential candidates, which will be r...

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Rooney Mara has found her guilt regarding her lily-white turn as Tiger Lily in the derided and disastrous Peter Pan prequel "Pan," which set fire to about $200m all told.Even before Joe Wrights live-a...

Rooney Mara has found her guilt regarding her lily-white turn as Tiger Lily in the derided and disastrous Peter Pan prequel "Pan," which set fire to about $200m all told.Even before Joe Wrights live-a...

Lawyer and journalist Sarah Jeong is one of the net's best writers, and her new ebook, The Internet Of Garbage, grapples with misogynist harassment and threats online. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRDql6wBIQ&feature=youtu.beAdorn your laptop with whatever stickers you want, in whatever places you want, but for pete's sake, make sure you do it to last!...

Philadelphia's Wooden Shoe Bookstore is 40 years old: it's a collectively run, volunteer "anti-profit" bookstore; they're hoping to raise $25,000 for much-needed remodelling and refurbishment. (more&h...

Ever since the Supreme Court ruled that states could restrict access to abortion provided the restrictions weren't "unduly burdensome," Republican thinktanks have been spreading "TRAP" ("Targeted Re...

Chelsea Manning's helpers write, "Citing potential copyright infringement, the Army censored materials on prison censorship from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that weresent to Chelsea by one of h...

Scout Sinclair Brody (previously) is executive director of Simply Secure, a nonprofit I volunteer for that works on impriving the usability of privacy tools so that normal people can understand and be...

NASA has released recordings of weird sounds Apollo 10 astronauts heard while flying around the far side of the moon, and the crew responding to the strange phenomenon. (more…)...

Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler legendarily had only one testicle. But he also had a "tiny deformed penis," according to researchers who claim to have uncovered the truth in medical records. (more…)...

Sometimes you just need to set the mood. And if youre lucky that mood is super romantic and you can put on some red lights and were very jealous. But in all likelihood, many times the mood is sleepy o...

https://youtu.be/9IUhqhkmd3gLuna plays popular music on a Korean traditional instrument called the gayageum....

https://youtu.be/9IUhqhkmd3gLuna plays popular music on a Korean traditional instrument called the gayageum....

"Brian Jones co-wrote this jingle with the J. Walter Thompson ad agency. It was only shown in England in 1964. Nice one Brian!"[via]...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.When most people think of professional cycling today, the name Lance Armstrong probably still comes to mind. Between 1999 and 2005, Armstrong won a record seven...

"Watch 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin fulfill her dream of visiting the White House and meeting President Obama."...

"Watch 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin fulfill her dream of visiting the White House and meeting President Obama."...

Troy Walker of Farmington, Utah was cooking dinner for a church function when she opened a can of green beans and discovered a snake's head inside! As I got closer to lift it off the spoon, I saw eyes...

Apple has published a letter explaining why it's not complying with the FBI's request to develop a unique version of iOS that would make it trivially easy for the FBI to unlock an iPhone. The FBI has ...

Black decks of cards certainly get a lot of attention. This Bicycle reversed deck may is my current favorite. They rule, even outside of a 90s dance club! The stark contrast over the reversed rider ...

In 1979, MIT professor Christopher Schmandt and colleagues developed "Put That There," a voice and gesture interactive system, in the Architecture Machine Group (that later evolved into the famed MI...

Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the most respected experts in bitcoin and blockchain technology, and he regularly shares his expertise with businesses and organizations around the world. His 2014 book,...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine seeks religious and spiritual leaders to participate in a research study on psilocybin and mystical experience!Psilocybin, a substance found in certain sacr...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine seeks religious and spiritual leaders to participate in a research study on psilocybin and mystical experience. (more…)...

Huw Parkinson created this short film, entitled "Winter is Trumping."...

Tubesockor pokes away at three Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators to play the music from the 1987 Commodore 64 classic game Delta. The original game music is by Rob Hubbard, inspired by Philip Gla...

"YOU CANT UNDERSTAND A DAMN THING RAPPERS BE SAYING THESE DAYS" (Warning: noises vaguely resembling racial slurs)...

A man accused of killing at least 6 people in Kalamazoo was an Uber driver who picked up fares between shootings, reports CNN. The rampage continued for seven hours, according to their source, and Jas...

Salon's Heather Digby Patron summarizes the consensus opinion that the Republican party is responsible for his "creation"but also suggests that it still doesn't understand him and enjoys little prospe...

Britain is to hold a referendum this summer on whether to leave the EU. Proponents of "Brexit" want to see less immigration and more self-determination; advocates of staying in the union anticipate ho...

https://youtu.be/b5Qh72h8vkkBy Tal Prints. See below for "Chebacca screaming like a grown man in a torture porn movie." [via Kotaku] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SaJYW-vrwM...

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Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]'s campaign was backed by American, Continental, Delta, Jetblue, and Southwest as well as airline PACs; airlines were the largest donor to Rep. Bill Shuster [R-PA]'s campaign, ...

Rep. Rodney Davis [R-IL]'s campaign was backed by American, Continental, Delta, Jetblue, and Southwest as well as airline PACs; airlines were the largest donor to Rep. Bill Shuster [R-PA]'s campaign, ...

In the 19th century, the nascent advertising industry took notice of the fact that postmasters could send each other letters for free, and bribed them to forward packets of mail to one another to pass...

For 13 years, Iraq's post-Saddam elites have run amok, looting the country's riches while creating a pervasive culture of corruption that spreads all the way down -- only the continuous injection of n...

Maybe you took Spanish in high school, or French. Or if you were really academic maybe you dug into Latin. How much do you use those today? Spanish, maybe, but Latin? Nope. And how often do you whip o...

Dan Kaminsky is master of all that is terrible and wonderful about the Internet's Domain Name Service, a vital piece of Internet infrastructure dating back to 1983, whose criticality and age make it a...

Some of Sanders' Democratic Party adversaries have claimed that the Senator's history of principled stands has been short on racial equality, a charge that has required those opponents to claim that p...

Once Seattle became the first city where Uber drivers were allowed to unionize, the drivers started getting "customer service" calls that polled them on their satisfaction with the company, while ham-...

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I wanted a Space Opera, and found Nathan Lowell's series Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper. I've spent 2 weeks reading through the series, and am worried about what I'll do when I reach t...

Inspired by the Library Freedom Project's uncompromising bravery in the face of a DHS threat against a town library in Kilton, NH, that was running a Tor exit node to facilitate private, anonymous com...

There's a hard-fought lawsuit underway about whether California schools failed in their duty to provide special ed to students, and as a part of that, the court has ordered disclosure of the school re...

There's a hard-fought lawsuit underway about whether California schools failed in their duty to provide special ed to students, and as a part of that, the court has ordered disclosure of the school re...

A federal judge called America's move to forced arbitration and bans on class-action suits -- bans favored and enabled by Scalia -- "among the most profound shifts in our legalhistory." (more…)...

Irregular Choice make pretty gloriously crazy shoes, and they've teamed up with Disney to make crazy, flamboyant heels and flats themed after 1951's Alice in Wonderland, which will premiere at their C...

It happens. You felt a little parched and ended up downing a few too many glasses of water, (or lets be real, beers), before you went to bed. And now its the middle of the night, pitch black and youre...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump ended a rally in South Carolina Friday by recalling, approvingly, the probably-apocryphal tale of General Pershing's execution of Muslims. an apparent my...

In 2005, a former AT&T engineer named Mark Klein walked into the Electronic Frontier Foundation's offices and revealed that he had helped the phone company build a secret NSA surveillance outpost at t...

In his excellent technical explainer about the Iphone decryption order, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Joseph Bonneau discusses the actual process of cryptographically signing a new release of...

Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, writer and semiotics professor, is dead at 84, reports the BBC. Eco is most famous as the author of elaborate historical novels such as The Name of the Rose and ...

Five years ago, the city of Calgary gave in to a scientifically illiterate campaign against fluoride in its water supply; five years later, Calgary's grade two children each have an average of 3.8 ex...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSCL4YOd5EZip Zaps wired up a bunch of servos to a voice-recognition system and taught them how to type on a mechanical typewriter, like a dozen robot fingers, and n...

In 2013, a hacktivist group calling itself Konstant kOS raided one of the governments most secure computer networks. Their target was a list of more than a million American citizens monitored as poten...

You don't know how good it feels to watch the main creator of Photoshop struggle with the magic wand tool just like I always do....

See more photos at Wink Fun.Odins Ravens is a gorgeous, quick, and easy-to-play card game for two players. The story behind the race at the heart of the game is simple: The Norse god Odin has two rave...

Paper Magazine's "Girl Crush" series pairs notable women for fascinating conversations, which they transcribe and publish. The series is spectacular, and this interview, between author/feminist/activi...

Maybe help packing? I wonder if he ever moved. He's was talking about it a lot....

My santoku was dull, and my chef's knife was a disappointment! Dull knives can be dangerous to work with, don't ask how I know. This $20 set of diamond whetstones, and the video above, really helped...

Michael Hayden sure does love him some drone-killing. (more…)...

Apple said no to the government, and the government is pissed. (more…)...

Silicon Valley has managed to break apart the long-locked cable TV bundle. On Thursday, The Federal Communications Commission okayed a proposal to let cable TV customers swap out their Comcast or TWC ...

No less than 375 new slogans have been approved for use by authorities in North Korea, the backward hermit kingdom often-lampooned for its use of old-timey Communist-style wooden-language. (more&helli...

Burning questions that you're desperate for answers to, and their answers, courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. (more…)...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is preparing its comments to the US Copyright Office on the notoriously abuse-prone DMCA takedown process, which is widely used to commit Internet censorship with pe...

Jesse Walker says: "In 1970, Hunter Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, on a Freak Power ticket, promising to sod the streets, put dishonest drug dealers in stocks, and change Aspen...

Jesse Walker says: "In 1970, Hunter Thompson ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, on a Freak Power ticket, promising to sod the streets, put dishonest drug dealers in stocks, and change Aspen...

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Bad News: Das BootUgly break up: Das BootTired after a long day: Das BootParty at my place: Das BootDepression: Das Boot, Uncut miniseries versionDivorce: Das Boot, Directors CutLost a pet or family m...

Gweek is back - at least for now! For those of you who are new to Gweek, it's a podcast where the editors and friends of Boing Boing talk about media, science, science fiction, video games, comic book...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2viza8aHlToMartin Gottesfeld and his family were rescued at sea, near Cuba, by a Disney cruise ship, then Gottesfeld was arrested by FBI agents dispatched from a Baha...

The evidence against tipping is voluminous and damning: it plunges workers into sub-subsistence wages, subjects woman servers to sexual harassment, encourages servers to deliver poor service to people...

In an "essay in 50 tweets," Clay Shirky explains how the growth of direct-to-voter channels has ruptured the mainstream political parties in America, who relied upon party power-brokers to enforce a p...

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by HPs newest Color LaserJet Pro, the MFP M477!Boing Boing is a truly distributed company. Each member of the team maintains a separate office, or lair, from which the...

German newspaper Bild am Sonntag received leaked internal Volkswagen memos and emails that suggest that then-CEO Martin Winterkorn and his executive team were informed in 2014 of the lethal Dieselgate...

Last December, the town council in Camarillo, a small town in southern California, a man called Prince Jordan Tyson stood up and delivered a three minute speech as a "concerned citizen" about a planne...

Throughout latinamerica, many countries ban abortion under any circumstance, an historic artifact of the states' close relationship with the Catholic Church. This ban on abortion has always put women'...

Rancher Cliven Bundy and his sons are to be charged over the headline-grabbing 2014 standoff in Nevada where militiamen pointed guns at cops and forced them into a humiliating public retreat.They were...

Legendary game series Civilization is 25 years old this year, and Dean Takahashi reports on its long journey from revolutionary god game to a cultural touchstone in its own right.Few game franchises l...

Queinteresante's chemistry-themed crayon labels come in sets of 24 for $3, or $8 for 64, or go big with 120 for $15! (more…)...

An independent review board has ordered an unspecified health insurer in the northeastern USA to reimburse a patient for a $69,500 exoskelton from Rewalk, whose products enable people with spinal cord...

A drunk monkey turned "belligerent" at a bar in Brazil, reports Arede, grabbing a knife, pursuing patrons and climbing onto the roof. After the tiny primatesaid to live at the bardowned a glass of r...

Why does United States President Barack Obama have a soft spot for homosexuals? Because he was a gay hooker in the '80s, reports Mary Lou Bruner, a Republican candidate for the Texas State Board of Ed...

These days, everyones a bro-grammer. To really step it up and make your resume pop from the coding crowd, you need a whole new skill set. And thats where Ruby comes in. Ruby on Rails allows developers...

Dude. 500 episodes of The Simpsons, all in one spherical, 360 video space. I'm trippin' so hard. (more…)...

They're not comin' for your guns, America. They're comin' for your phones. (more…)...

Apple is doing the right thing in challenging the federal court ruling requiring that it comply, reads a New York Times editorial today on the battle of the backdoors brewing between the government an...

Limacina helicina, a mini sea snail, moves using "underwater flight," write researchers in the Journal of Experimental Biology. In a remarkable example of convergent evolution, we show that the zoo...

The Kindle edition of Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances is on sale today for $2.Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle,...

Be Expert with Map and Compass has been in print for more than fifty years and remains one of the standard guides on land navigation and orienteering. In easy-to-follow sections, the book lays out how...

Handing out toy turtles is as bad as wearing a "kick me" sign on your back.[via]...

A New Jersey mail carrier was trapped inside his truck when aggressive wild turkeys surrounded it. His postmaster called 911. From abc7ny.com:When officers arrived, they scared the turkeys away by wal...

The Minnesotastan says: "One of my prized possessions is a walking stick that was hand-carved for me by an elderly man in Kentucky when I used to live and work there. The one above was carved by a c...

Apple has apologized to users whose phones were bricked by a recent update that interpreted third-party repairs as attempts to hack the device. It also released a new update that revives the dead hand...

It's the pop-up book zombie fans have been clamoring for as they shambled through the countryside, acting as proxies for mass free-floating anxiety about the other. (more…)...

David Milch, the famed creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, earned upwards of $100 million during his career. But his fondness for horse racing wiped him out, according to this fascinating piece by Step...

3D Creations' 3D Printed D20 Dice Box are giant D20s that you store your D20s (and other polyhedra) in. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/f6MAOyIfOmA18-year-old Malachi Love-Robinson does not have a medical license, but that did not stop him from opening the New Birth New Life Medical Center in West Palm Beach, Florida....

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The first time I used Gogo's expensive inflight Wi-Fi, it was horrible. Web pages wouldn't load, email wouldn't send or receive. I decided to give them another chance a couple of months later and it w...

Pope Francis, according to ABC News, suggested that U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump is "not Christian" due to his building of symbolic walls rather than bridges.The pope's strong dismissal of...

Lawrence H. Summers a former U.S. treasury secretary believes the 500 euro note and $100 bill are such strong enablers of crime and corruption they should be eliminated. His argument for doing so is r...

A restored high-definition digital scan, taken from 35mm prints of the original, unmolested version of Star Wars, is now available online to those who are looking. May the celluloid be with you. Alway...

Read Elspeth Reeve's fabulous article about Pizza, one of the most popular Tumblogs, the "secret lives" of Tumblr Teens, and mistakes made.It has everything. The wonderful creativity of the users; its...

Another oldie, doing the rounds today thanks to Twitter, is a 2011 "values" poll from Pew Research which found striking differences between how Americans and Europeans think about stuff. (more&hellip...

It's a few years old, but if you missed McDonalds explaining not only how to make a Big Mac but disclosing the specifics of its "secret" Big Mac sauce, you'll enjoy Mickey D Executive Chef's Dan Cou...

The iPhone battle between the FBI and Apple isn't about getting help unlocking a terrorist's phone. It's about our government forcing Apple to invent a customized-on-demand version of its iOS operatin...

Team Negative 1, an all-volunteer Star Wars nerd squad, have spent thousands to source, digitize and restore an original 1977 theatrical print of Star Wars (known in contemporary canon as "Star Wars E...

Last week, hackers bricked Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, encrypting all the data on its devices and demanding 9,000 Bitcoin (~$3.6m) to give the hospital's IT staff the keys needed to reboot ...

"And the Americans headed to the West, the final frontier, to boldy go where no man has gone before, and kill a lot more Indians." (more…)...

"And the Americans headed to the West, the final frontier, to boldy go where no man has gone before, and kill a lot more Indians." (more…)...

China's millionaires, having looted their country, are anxious to get their money out of reach of the Politburo, to guard against confiscation should the political tides turn. Only one problem: the go...

Youre a coffee connoisseur. None of that watered down swill or repulsive sludge, thanks very much. You respect the process, from the grind to the filter to the pour. Each step is precious and your pal...

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Over 9,000 Chinese villagers must leave their homes to make way for aliens or for the possible echoes of them, reports Ed Wong in the New York Times. (more…)...

Who cut the cheese? FDA inspectors investigating that very question raided a popular parmesan cheese supplier, and discovered they had indeed been cutting the cheese liberally with wood pulp. (more&he...

Rachel "Datapunk" Kalmar is a brilliant data scientist with a background in neuroscience, connected devices, sensors, and wearables. (more…)...

[I received the sad and shocking news this morning that Alvin Buenaventura died in his home in Oakland, California last week. Alvin was a publisher and promoter of cartoonists I love, including Dan Cl...

When the text of the secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership was released, we were warned that it hadn't been "legally scrubbed" and checked for translation errors, but the new text that's been ...

When the text of the secretly negotiated Trans Pacific Partnership was released, we were warned that it hadn't been "legally scrubbed" and checked for translation errors, but the new text that's been ...

There are so many incredible things to see in this world. Puppies running across a field. A sunset over the ocean. Your friends and family members singing behind a birthday cake. If only you could cap...

The tiny Aukey CC-S1 4.8A Dual USB Car Charger doesn't protrude from your car's 9-volt adapter port. It's regularly $12, but if you use code JZMYBJHC on Amazon you can get it for $6....

https://youtu.be/zAyPk12Ylk8A Drink with Shane MacGowan was a new form of chat show hosted by the notorious Pogues frontman, and commissioned in the 1990s by Channel 4 arts supremo Waldemar Januszczak...

https://youtu.be/UqcXstB7UJ0Pilot Tim Morgan describes what to do when you find yourself in the captain's chair of a Boeing 737 and need to land the plane safely.[via]...

The Russian Central Bank has withdrawn licenses from at least three banks who are alleged to have hired hackers to break into their own systems and empty out depositors' account, secretly giving the m...

After literally decades of trying to make it to one of 2600 Magazine's legendary HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) events, held every two years in NYC, I will be coming to town this year for it -- and gi...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Sandman: Overture calls itself a tale two decades in the making, and happily lives up to that challenge. Overture is mainly a prequel to the original series...

https://youtu.be/PnvAu3C0Gb4I wasn't expecting much from jazz bagpipe, but this is great."Rufus Harley, the first jazz musician to adopt the bagpipe as his primary instrument, appears on "I've Got a S...

Adam Savage has a nice collection of bullwhips. In this video he shows off a new addition to his collection - a nylon bullwhip made by a 17-year-old fan....

https://youtu.be/dZ4E2gHoz6gMoyo the baby elephant was saved From drowning when he was only four days old. His rescuers delivered him to Roxy, a woman who rehabilitates wild animals. As the baby eleph...

Fight For The Future is organizing rallies at Apple store locations nationwide to protest a court order pressuring the tech company to build a backdoor that would give the FBI the power to hack the iP...

Moyo the baby elephant was saved From drowning when he was only four days old. His rescuers delivered him to Roxy, a woman who rehabilitates wild animals. As the baby elephant has grown, he has beco...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkrgUT70MboTim from Grand Illusions (which sells cool cabinet-of-curiosity style stuff) demonstrates the Assassin's Teapot:This teapot comes from China, and it is a tri...

Here's a good tip for Mac users. When you get a PDF contract needs your signature, you don't need to print it, sign it, scan it, and email it. You can just add your signature in Preview and email it.[...

Here's a good tip for Mac users. When you get a PDF contract needs your signature, you don't need to print it, sign it, scan it, and email it. You can just add your signature in Preview and email it.[...

That feeling when you hit a million followers, make more money than your mom, push a diet pill scheme, lose your blog, and turn 16. Not something most of us can relate to, but most of us aren't Tumblr...

Issue #72 of Josie and the Pussycats, published in October of 1973 ran a story in which bikini-wearing Josie becomes possessed by Satan, and has to be exorcised by her bikini-wearing bandmates.Dangero...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. And/or buy Ruben Bollings new book series for k...

[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...

Twitter today announced that it's adding GIF search to the composer for tweets and direct messages. (more…)...

The president's NSA advisory board grew teeth in the wake of the Snowden revelations, and they have done good service in identifying the civil liberties issues raised by the NSA's program of secret ...

As China's banks struggle under the weight of never-to-be-repaid subprime loans (which were turned into bonds using the same trick that produced the US/EU subprime crisis), the Chinese government is t...

Student debt is a life-destroying trap, engineered by Wall Street and backed by the US government. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_gThe most entertaining chess match you'll watch all year: Grandmaster Maurice Ashley, with the black pieces, takes on a trash-talking, fast-fingered hustler. ...

The FBI has ordered Apple to provide it backdoor access to the iPhone operating system, writes CEO Tim Cook in a letter to customers published Wednesday. Apple opposes the order, he says, because it w...

The only people who turned up to the much-hyped Anti-Beyonce rally in New York? Fans, one of whom waved a placard asking "Where yall at?"New York magazine's The Cut reported a grand total of three ant...

He spent $125 of other people's money. It was time to pay the debt.RE: Jeb Bush tweets picture of engraved gun with the title "America" ...

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead in his room at a luxury hunting ranch in Texas a few days ago, and conspiracy theories that he was assassinated are flying all over. Who among the c...

https://youtu.be/eScwDM8DDW8Alex Steffen writes, "Our culture is full of dire predictions, disaster scenarios and post-apocalyptic tales. Its astonishing, though, how few stories we tell about futur...

Google's Eric Schmidt today broke the news that the 'Google Ideas' thinktank will become a technology incubator to be called Jigsaw. (more…)...

The internet was very angry at Manny Pacquiao today. (more…)...

The Fantasy Sports Gambleis a must-see Frontline documentary investigated with The New York Times about fantasy sports and online sports betting. (more…)...

A 14-year-old basketball player was impaled by an uneven floorboard while sliding across the court.The girl was stuck four inches deep, but the wood missed major organs and she was not seriously inj...

Xeni here, professional fangirl. I have long been a fan of Barry Eisler, former CIA covert operations guy turned novelist, and did we mention he's also a martial arts master? The dude is a walking fut...

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship sez, "A Florida parent thought 'This One Summer' was too graphic for an elementary school library. The district agreed, and then went further; they...

https://youtu.be/IiQyDY6mUXUI love Loog 3-string guitars. They use open-tuning, which makes them very easy to play. Amazon is selling the new Loog electric model for $199, a savings of $100 off the re...

The Wall Street Journal has a searchable database of Hillary Clinton's emails from the time when she was secretary of state. I haven't poked around too much, but the thing that stands out is her sched...

https://youtu.be/Quo-Oen1wkYThe takeaway from this upcoming Netflix movie is that Paul Reubens (63) is immortal. (more…)...

Adam J Calhoun wrote on Medium: "I wondered what did my favorite books look like without words. Can you tell them apart or are they all a-mush? In fact, they can be quite distinct. Take my all-time fa...

One of the most indelible images in art is Vincent van Goghs portrait of his bedroom in the Yellow House in Arles, France. Im sure youve seen it dozens of times. You can learn more about it in an arti...

Today we travel to a future without lies. What would it be like if we all wore accurate lie detectors around all the time? Flash Forward: RSS | iTunes | Twitter | Facebook | Web | PatreonIn this episo...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Terry Gilliams memoir is as unique as the man himself. Known for his work with Monty Python and as a director of films like Brazil, Time Bandits, and Twelve Mon...

A cyberattack on Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center's computer system has locked up access vital patient data, and the hackers responsible are demanding payment of over 9000 bitcoins ($3.6 million)...

Dutch design house Nightshop sourced soft urethane nonskid foam, which starts off as a liquid that you squirt out of a syringe, and they proceeded to weave a series of handmade rugs out of it. (more&h...

https://youtu.be/MVI87HzfskQApple is warning people not to change the date on iPhones to May 1970 or earlier because it "can prevent your iOS device from turning on after a restart." Apple has promise...

Ordnance Survey, Britain's official mapping agency, has made available for download a massive map of Mars in its classic style. The planet Mars has become the latest subject in our long line of iconic...

Mike McCormick is a 2nd year medical student at Glasgow University. His Instagram account has illustrations of organ, microbes, molecules, and other biological structures that he's made out of candy. ...

This short excerpt from a documentary on AI pulls together clips from a variety of 1960s interviews with some of AI's most storied pioneers, including Claude Shannon, Jerome Wiesner and Oliver Selfr...

The Financial Times ran a column critical of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman. The company's marketing chief, Henry Gomez, threatened to cut the advertising it ran in the newspaper. Lucy Kel...

When Meshach Babcock was a teen, his friend gave him a denim vest ("It was his grandpa's old biker vest") and it became part of his life. He festooned it with patches of the bands he lost, and was dis...

The queen-sized poly-cotton cover is $150 and comes with a pair of pillowcases that look like packets of sauce and Parmesan. (more…)...

Thinkgeek's all-cotton Star Trek: TOS sleep shirts come in Command Gold, Science Blue, or Expendable Operations Red, and cost $24. (more…)...

Craig Mod reports on six months in the field with the $4,000 Leica Q, a compact, fixed-lens camera for professionals and for amateurs who are very serious indeed. He loves it with an intensity that wo...

Researchers have taken a second look at the NSA SKYNET leaks, as well as the GCHQ data-mining problem book first published on Boing Boing, and concluded that the spy agencies have made elementary erro...

A hospital is a computer we put sick people into, so when ransomware creeps infected the hospital's IT systems and encrypted all their data, they asked for a whopping $3.6m to turn the data loose agai...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXzyCM23WPIChris from Clickspring is building a skeleton clock from scratch using a home machinist's shop, and documenting it in lavish, hypnotic detail in his Youtub...

Super creepy Prosperity Christianity preacher-scammer Mike Murdock is endorsing Donald Trump for president. Seems a good fit. Says Murdock, I aint seen a woman as good looking as a $100 dollar bill. ...

How does TMZ get the videos and photos that celebrities want to hide? Because like any good intelligence operation, their spies aren't above paying for intelligence. TMZ pays its sources good money fo...

I could watch this all day. (more…)...

Hi wyclef. As a young songwriter myself, I have a question for you. What's a good fake charity I could start up to rob people of money who really need it? Thanks so much. (more…)...

It started with an email from a source at Interpol. The subject line of the email said: "Brace yourself." Attached to the email was a video that showed four men at sea, swimming frantically and trying...

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after being outed as Client 9 in a now legendary sex worker scandal, is said to have choked a woman at The Plaza hotel in New York City...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHFOwlMCdtoJohn Oliver hosts his first show of the new season -- and his first-ever election-season episode -- and as you might expect, it's amazing. (more…)...

The thing about learning is, sometimes you need a break. Sometimes on that break, you take a nap or make a sandwich or watch TV and actually its more like a mini-vacation. With this set of training vi...

$20 is the lowest price I've seen for a 128GB flash drive. The PNY Attach has 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon with over 3,000 reviews. Here's the obligatory image of a 5MB hard drive being loaded on a pl...

https://youtu.be/dDeR8ZLE4uUTechRax, the guy who runs a wildly popular YouTube channel destroying brand new Apple gadgets in creative ways, has a new video that shows him boiling an iPhone 6s in melte...

https://youtu.be/IjeKw0B8PG8Have you ever seen something that makes your skin tingle and for some unknown reason provides you with a sense of unbridled peace and happiness? Gears working in perfect sy...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.If you are a serious (and I mean serious) fan of the frog, you are in for a real treat. The Book of Frogs is a meticulous field guide to 600 diverse species of ...

https://youtu.be/P8NRh9UI1aQSimon Pierro's iPad Magic delights an mystifies chimpanzees, especially because the magic tricks involve peanuts, which the chimps like to eat....

Presidential candidate Ben Carson, famous for insisting that he really did try to gut stab a classmate when he was 14, closed the Republican debate on Saturday with a fake quote from Joseph Stalin. Jo...

https://youtu.be/ucpGlWnq8EETim Friede, 37, has been working on a snake venom vaccine for 16 years, allowing himself to be bitten by venomous snakes nearly once a month.To prove his self-immunization ...

I'm flying across the ocean and I'm soaring, Back home to the place I was born...

Australian billionaire Cliver Palmers says his $432 million replica of the Titanic will set sail in 2018. From Sick Chirpse:Titanic II looks virtually identical to the Belfast-built liner that sank i...

Last year I posted about a Hawaiian mushroom that allegedly induces orgasms in women who sniff it. Christie Wilcox, a writer for Discover, read the post and went on a mission to track down and test th...

John Markoff reports on an important area of research: how to make a talking computer sound friendly and approachable to humans? The trick, as exemplified by IBM's Jeopardy-winning Watson and Apple's ...

Pea Hicks writes, "This is an album of scans I made from the 1931 Los Angeles University High School, CHIEFTAIN - 'Martian Number.'" (more…)...

Pea Hicks writes, "This is an album of scans I made from the 1931 Los Angeles University High School, CHIEFTAIN - 'Martian Number.'" (more…)...

What a delight: NASA itself published a series of retrofuturistic tourism posters for other worlds. Better yet, the images are less unfree, though they also sell prints. I'm off to the exoplanets, see...

These feel like the winners of a photoshopping contest, but if they are, I can't find the source. (more…)...

In Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, a new Caribou Digital report funded by Mozilla, surveys the top apps from 37 countries and analyzes where they come from and how the revenue from them flow...

Relitigating the 1980s is always fun. Up today: did the Commodore 64 or the Amstrad CPC have the best colors?Both machines were technically similar, with the most practical option being a 320x240 scre...

Dimitri Tsykalov, a Russian-born sculptor living in Paris, sculpted a series of gorgeous, haunting skulls out of fruits and vegetables in the mid-2000s (previously), documenting his work with photogra...

Scarfolk, you will recall, is a Wyndhamesque horror-town in the English countryside, trapped in a continuous loop from 1970-1980, whose strange artifacts slowly leak into our world. (more…)...

It's no secret that "resisting arrest" is the go-to excuse for violence committed against suspects by corrupt cops -- it's practically a running gag. (more…)...

Jessica Norris, wine director at New York City's Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, worked with Vivino to develop 12 wine-pairings for Girl Scout Cookies, so that you can extract maximum pleasure f...

Hackers are people too. And sometimes, theyre the good guys. The fundamentals of hacking have created an entire new level to the security industry and one that you can totally dominate with this certi...

The only thing better than getting a package in the mail is getting a package filled with awesome, DIY kits! Thats why we have teamed up with Quarterly to curate their inaugural Maker Box. Think of al...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at 79. The longest-serving judge on the court, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and became its most outspoken conservative, joining tex...

I got quite a treat yesterday afternoon when my email and Twitter filled up with people letting me know that I was mentioned in a Jeopardy! clue! (more…)...

The Force of the Sun Ladies is an all-woman brigade of fighters who were formerly enslaved by ISIS during the occupation of Mosul. (more…)...

The Force of the Sun Ladies is an all-woman brigade of fighters who were formerly enslaved by ISIS during the occupation of Mosul. (more…)...

Science fiction titan Nalo Hopkinson appears in this week's Geek Guide to the Galaxy podcast, talking about race, diversity, and sf. (more…)...

This is found net.stuff, but my cursory research suggests it might come from Manama, Bahrain. That dude is s-m-o-o-t-h. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

Writer/editor Scott Edelman is legendary in science fiction circles for organizing outings from conventions to spectacular, out-of-the-way restaurants where the food is cheap and mind-blowing (I've ea...

A New York State Supreme Court judge has confirmed that Staten Island Borough President James Oddo can name three streets in a new property development with words that imply greediness and deceitfuln...

Light used to just be one of two things: on or off. Simple as that. Either a flood of yellow or total darkness. Then the dimmer switch happened and you could adjust the brightness to meet your seducti...

A man who decided to shoot a bunch of puppies was himself shot by one of his intended victims. NBC News reports that Jerry Allen Bradford, 37, of Pensacola, Florida, sustained a gunshot to the wrist w...

The Barbuzzo Banana Flask is perfect for your drinking needs. Just look at it!...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "Third year Harvard Law School student Kendra Albert did a very nice job on her powerful opinion piece in the Harvard Law Record, the student-run newspaper." (more...

Projects will always need management. And now with the tech gold rush it feels like there are more projects than ever with fewer managers than theres demand for. But it takes too much time and money t...

When a prick on Twitter attacked Gamergate arch-nemesis Brianna Wu's game dev credentials, sneering that her latest game looked "like something that would've been shitcanned on the ps1," Wu proceeded ...

Looking for something to do this Valentine's Sunday? Nothing says I love you like silence. Cinefamily is screening Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, matched with a live performance of Lindsay Benner's am...

I cant tell you how many times over the past five decades I needed a bookmark when none were around. Bookmarks are designed to reside most comfortably between the pages of a book, which makes them awk...

The highly-rated Tronsmart Titan 10A/90W 5-Port USB Charger Charging Station with Quick Charge 2.0 Technology sells on Amazon for $38, but if you use code USBTITAN you can get it for $24....

LADY: Cody! Coooodyyyy! CODY: *scream of despair and terror* CODY: *wags tail*...

In celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday today, our friends at Imaginary Foundation reprinted their classic "Natural Selecta" t-shirt! The IF Director kindly provided BB readers with a site-wide 10...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.I saw the sour plums on the cover of Preserving the Japanese Way calling out to me from the highest bookshelf at teeny-tiny Moon Palace Bookstore, Minneapolis. ...

Forrest J Ackerman -- editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland, collector, agent, writer, and superfan -- died in 2008. (more…)...

Has-been rock musician Ted Nugent made shockingly anti-semitic and idiotic posts to Facebook this week, spurring many pro-gun advocates to call for his removal from the board of the National Rifle Ass...

https://youtu.be/m9daxtL90XYI love this hand-cranked shell game automaton, built by Per Helldorff.And here's a flesh-and-blood shell game artist plying his trade on Westminster Bridge in London:https:...

Trapped in a Human Zoo is a documentary about Abraham Ulrikab and his family, who were lured from Labrador to Europe with false promises and then exhibited in zoos along with animals in the late 1800s...

This is Edgar Latulip of southwestern Ontario. The developmentally disabled man has been missing since 1986 but was just found about 120 kilometers from his hometown. Or rather, he found himself. Latu...

The critically acclaimed War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict examines the ways in which the newspaper happily propagated the Bush Administration's lie...

https://youtu.be/N682eopajzAIn this first episode of Scamalot, a new weekly series from Mashable, comedian James Veitch trolls a scammer who wants to give Veitch 50kg of free gold....

https://youtu.be/qklUjcHxWCEHenry Rosario Martinez died at the age of 31. He loved poker, so his friends played one last game with him by propping up his corpse and giving him a large pile of chips. D...

Anorak received an urgent email from the cousin of Nigerian Astronaut, Air Force Major Abacha Tunde:Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come HomeDr. Bakare TundeAstronautics Project ManagerNational S...

Trendy idea: America's bookstoresBorders, Barnes and Noble, etcfailed not because of Amazon, but from adopting a doomed big-box retail model that cannot be escaped. The evidence: UK bookstore chains a...

He sent Kanye West a public offer of $10M for West's next studio album, which Shkreli alone would be able to listen to and enjoy. (more…)...

In this video, employees at the Carrier Air Conditioner factory in Indianapolis are gathered together by a manager who explains that the company's profit-margins dictate that all 1400 of them will l...

A beautiful essay in the London Review of Books traces the twists and turns of the Robin Hood story over time, to the era of austerity, where "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" takes on a ...

Before resiliency was a buzzword, it was an area of serious psychological study. (more…)...

The Exoplanet Exploration Progam at NASA/JPL has commissioned a set of absolutely gorgeous posters for significant planets, moons, exoplanets, and nearby stars, each accompanied by text explaining the...

Here's how you actually get fired sharpish if you're a bad cop: you go up to your ex-wife's new husband, put your service gun in his face, then tell him you're going to kill him.Although [victim] Knup...

Ayn Rand's personal life was an unmitigated disaster, fueled by personality cultists who literally, legally, changed their names in tribute to her and her fiction, whom she alternately possessively cl...

Patchtogether's Chumbuddies are a full range of plush machine mammal sleeping bags that you craw inside of before bed. (more…)...

During a House Transportation Committee hearing on a proposal to ban vaping on airplanes, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) took a hit from his vaporizer and exhaled a cloud of mist, saying, There is noth...

Results from What-Dog.net have become awful exciting, in my family. Submit photos via the website or app for instant results of widely varying accuracy. My dogs both got great matches the first time, ...

Sinbad certainly looks like he's having fun too....

Gravitational waves are real, and scientists have detected them. In the video above, PBS Space Time explains the discovery by researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (...

[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...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Who: 50 Years: The Official History charts the history of what some claim is the greatest live rock band from infancy to now by way of text and pictures. Lo...

A sparrow followed an elderly Japanese woman home from her job as a crossing guard in November, and now lives with her and her husband. "He's like a family member - he's very comforting. It's fun, com...

Though India's independent telcoms regulator has banned services like Facebook's "Free Basics" -- which bribed phone companies to exempt Facebook's chosen services from the carriers' punishing data-ca...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_RD0uwA3dIEdward Snowden said that Britain's spies have "some of the most extensive surveillance powers in the world," and those powers are about to be dramatically ...

Andrew Taylor, 36, weighed 332 pounds on January 1st. He decided that was too much for him, and he resolved to eat nothing but potatoes for a year, in the hope that it will cure his binge eating. He s...

Graphic designer Sean Tejaratchi made a couple of images depicting so-boring-they're-fascinating View-Master reel. Sean's site, Liar Town, USA is NSFW and very funny.I love everything he does:...

https://youtu.be/1DHYbFpRMS4Clip'wreck says: "Birds can be jerks, and the internet is full of proof. Be they duck, ostrich, swan, goose, crow, parrot, penguin, chicken or seagull, none can be trusted....

Carly Ayres of the design website Core77 interviewed Crave designer and co-founder, Ti Chang about her considerations when designing the Bullet vibrator.The shape of the vibrator itself was developed ...

"Working with Daito Manabe, Motoi Ishibashi and their team at Rhizomatiks Research in Tokyo, the goal is to create an intimate and artistic interaction between man and machine," says Marco Tempest o...

Paul Strasburger sits in the House of Lords as a Libdem peer; he sits on the Joint Select Committee that is the latest Parliamentary group to scrutinise the Investigatory Powers Bill (AKA the Snoopers...

January 30 was Nick Panayiotou's lucky day. He was standing in a boat shed in Sydney, Australias Oyster Bay filming the storm outside when...(Thanks, UPSO!)...

In the early 1900s telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell became interested in kite building as part of his research into powered flight. He focused in kites made of tetrahedron cells.From Mashable:...

In 1936, postal worker Victor H. Green worked with his colleagues in the Postal Workers Union to create a guide for black travelers navigating a country where many restaurants, hotels, and shops were ...

Researchers used a huge dataset of Github activity, up to April 15 2015, to examine the relationship between gender and the acceptance of a suggested revision by a project's maintainer. (more…)...

My pal Terry Ashkinos, a veteran of the San Francisco indie music scene (Elephone, El Terrible) keeps the dark wave dream alive with the deep and expansive new track "Close," from Fake Your Own Death'...

It's interesting that OK Go released "Upside Down & Inside Out" on Facebook instead of YouTube. The masters of meticulously choreographed music videos, OK Go, just released their latest: a three-min...

Universal can not sit quietly and let Paramount's Star Trek and Disney's Star Wars franchises rule the roost! It appears Battlestar Galactica is due for yet another reboot! The 1978 series was wonde...

Ellen Chisa, the VP of product for Lola Travel, writes about how she strikes a balance between having a social life and enjoying her alone time as an introvert.Know your limits, and set rules.Ive trie...

The Clinton campaign has struggled to win support among young voters of every description, including traditional Democratic Party voters: women, African-Americans, people of Latinamerican or Hispanic ...

"HondAnonymous" is a commenter on Jalopnik, a Gawker site about cars, who claims to work at Honda's R&D facility. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-cA lovely piece of nostalgic datadiz: the squeals and chirps, converted to a stream of glowing pixels. (more…)...

Dating from 1915 to the 1920s, these suffragist Valentines cards are collected by the League of Women Voters, who worked tirelessly to win the vote for women. (more…)...

Nelson E. Ross's "small booklet" sets out the principles of sending telegrams "in the most economical manner possible," so you can take full advantage of a communications medium that "annihilates dist...

Lee Baca is a piece of work. The former LA County Sheriff -- tied with Arizona's Joe Arpaio for worse in the nation -- presided over a series of scandals, none so grotesque as the ring of corrupt depu...

The Rightshears don't exist yet, but the inventors have promised a crowdfunding campaign to conjure them into reality, soon. (via Oh Gizmo)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZmxdVHIes4The Daily Show alumnus is the only woman on late night, doing 30 minutes (minus commercials) once a week, on politics, gender and current affairs. (more&he...

At The Malware Musuem you can enjoy the experience of DOS-era viruses, trojans and other digital beasties without any of the risk. Many of them manifested as wild graphical tricks and other spectacula...

Rocky Houston was a felon in possession of a gun, and is headed to jail for years for that crime. How did they catch him? They installed a video camera on a utility pole near a family-owned property u...

Airbnb's New York data reportostensibly an anonymized listing of all its hosts in the citywas intended to make the company look honest and to make its hosts look like normal, everyday homeowners. This...

Airbnb's New York data reportostensibly an anonymized listing of all its hosts in the citywas intended to make the company look honest and to make its hosts look like normal, everyday homeowners. This...

If youve been blessed enough to avoid them yourself, youve definitely heard the horror stories. Late night, crushing out a ton of work, writing, coding, anything, then boom - your computer crashes. Th...

On Wednesday, after many quarters of slowing user growth, Twitter said its monthly visitors in the fourth quarter totaled 320 million exactly the same as the company reported in the previous quarter,...

The City of Cleveland has filed a creditor's claim against Tamir Rice's estate. Tamir Rice is the unarmed 12-year-old kid shot dead on sight by a Cleveland cop; they want his parents to pay the EMS bi...

Itchy gitchy ya ya dada? Itchy gitchy ya ya here? ...

Last year, Pittsburgh Police officer Sgt. Stephen Matakovich was captured on camera beating up a 19-year-old outside Heinz Field. After lying about the circumstances, he was charged with assaultonly...

Evil Mad Scientist Labs have released their latest set of nerdy Valentines ready for you to print, glue on cardstock, and use to win your true love's heart. (more…)...

Enreverie's $20 "Little Black Gun" earrings are studs made from shells have have been fired, affixed to surgical steel posts, nickel-plated and set with Swarovski crystals. (Thanks, Kyle!) (more&hell...

1993's epic hero, Doomguy, is back! The next installment of DOOM, the video game that defined our vibrant, gib filled world of FPS play is set to launch on May 13th. Naturally, this is a Friday.I'm ...

A must-have for the with-it cyberpunk, and it's appropriately hard to get ahold of, being sold only through a Japanese website that uses translation-software-resistant graphics of Japanese text set ag...

Atelier Iwakiri handmakes its nubuck goldfish purses to order, with a two-week to three-month lead time between orders and delivery. (more…)...

A 2012 lawsuit from the Navajo Nation, against Urban Outfitters, drags on. Uncomfortable with the retailer's now cancelled "Navajo" line of clothing, the suit was brought to defend The Navajo Nation's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KeAZho8TKoJon Schwarz, a former Moore staffer, reviews Michael Moore's first movie in six years, "Where to Invade Next," which Schwarz calls Moore's "most subversive...

Poor 15 year old cocker spaniel, Otis! He was stolen while walking his human down the street, off leash, in Claremont, California on Monday afternoon. Upon witnessing the dognapping, Otis' buddy Mike ...

Poor 15 year old cocker spaniel, Otis! He was stolen while walking his human down the street, off leash, in Claremont, California on Monday afternoon. Upon witnessing the dognapping, Otis' buddy Mike ...

Amazingly, this is an improvement on last year, when hackers took 300,000 taxpayers' records from the IRS. (more…)...

Melt chocolate into slabs, coat with blue candy-melts, and stud with broken oreos and edible googly eyes and voila: it's as though you blenderized a thousand Cookie Monsters, rolled them flat, and bak...

Brendan Chilcutt's Museum of Endangered Sounds preserves the sounds made by "old technologies and electronics equipment." (more…)...

Remember when it looked like the Senate committee that oversees the CIA was writing the notorious CIA Torture Report, and caught the CIA searching their Senate bosses' files to find out what they kn...

Fabulous Beasts is a new game from indie studio Sensible Object, which combines stacking/balancing (think Jenga) with smart, sensor-enabled blocks that talk to your mobile device as you play the gam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=780&v=mSJmxN-L300Ta-Nehisi Coates, Macarthur-winning author of the outstanding Between the World and Me, was widely criticized when he condemned Bernie Sand...

An ancient mystery revealed. (more…)...

On the day of his inauguration, Stephen Blades, the 44th president, finds a letter left on his Oval Office desk simply marked 44. In it, outgoing President Carroll reveals a dark secret that hes kept ...

When an alternate explanation for what is being depicted in his Year of the Monkey poster was offered to illustrator Lehu Zhang, he said:that he can now see some sexual things in the work, but swears ...

https://youtu.be/xf2oMz_ECSQIt's a ciliate eat ciliate world. Filmed by Wim van Egmond of the Micropolitan Museum in the Netherlands.[via]...

Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the weirdesthistory may be the Perelson house... where, deep in the night of Decemb...

https://youtu.be/Mh5LY4Mz15oBill Wurtz made this fun and informative 9-minute history of Japan....

Here's how to make a bad game worse for everyone:With a second monopoly completed, your next task is to improve those properties to three houses each, then all of your properties to four houses each. ...

A basic best-practice for email servers is to use TLS (Transport Layer Security) when they connect to one another, which guards against "man in the middle" attacks that would allow attackers to read o...

Brian, a graduate student of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, has a Tumblr called Fouriest Series where he posts his math and physics visualizations. His explanations are clearly written. H...

Last-Minute Gifts for LoversShare this on Twitter and Facebook. Where available we use affiliate links, which help support Boing Boing. Thank you for clicking.Silver heart pill container pendant / $10...

"Bentonite Me Baby" is a brand of "detox clay" that you spread on your face, or eat, to rid your body of mysterious, nonspecific "toxins." It is full of lead. (more…)...

Dan Colman of Open Culture recommends Star Trek Continues, "a critically-acclaimed, fan-produced webseries created by director and actor Vic Mignogna." I second his endorsement. The creators did an ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIX5zcitEaYA Boing Boing exclusive premiere: Fire is Ours • Lyrics and Music by Makana • Directed by Zac Heileson. (more…)...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. And/or buy Ruben Bollings new book series for k...

You travel around a lot. It might be that jet set life from New York to LA to London to Tokyo, or it might be back and forth from the coffee shop to the office, or from the kitchen to the couch. Any w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIX5zcitEaYA Boing Boing exclusive premiere: Fire is Ours • Lyrics and Music by Makana • Directed by Zac Heileson. (more…)...

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders won their respective primary elections in New Hampshire today. Trump, with about a third of the votes, prevailed over John Kasich, with Ted Cruz and...

Hold on to your wigs, people, the 2016 U.S. presidential elections are about to get weirder. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are the winners of the New Hampshire primaries. (more…)...

The White House released an announcement today on President Obama's Cybersecurity National Action Plan. In thousands of not actually bad at all words about cybersecurity, they managed not to say the ...

Americans are likely to die earlier than folks from other developed nations. What could it be? (more…)...

Archie Comics is on a years-long tear to reinvent Archie Andrews and his friends as a thoroughly contemporary, hilarious, and brilliant new series -- Archie has reappeared as a zombie hunter, he's got...

Today we travel to the year 2086, a world where sex robots are on the market. What happens when we can buy a humanoid robot as a partner? Who wins and who loses? And where do you store the darn thing?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWQS_GKCg5MA book of John Wilcock comics is now available...

Its 2016 and we like our technology really small. Our phones fit in our pockets, our remotes are lighter than ever, and even our cars seem to be shrinking. So your new drone shouldnt be an exception. ...

The Kikkerland Animal Multi-Tool ($20 on Amazon) is cased in beechwood and has with a flathead screwdriver, Phillips head screwdriver, wire stripper, file, hole punch, bottle opener, and utility knife...

Last December, Vtech, a crapgadget/toy company, suffered a breach that implicated the data of 6.3 million children, caused by its negligence toward the most basic of security measures. (more…)...

The Philip K Dick Award is given to the best paperback original each year (past winners include Tim Powers' Anubis Gates, Rudy Rucker's Wetware, William Gibson's Neuromancer and Meg Elison's The Book ...

https://vimeo.com/154562935Ari Fararooy writes, I digitally animated my photographs from the Burning Man festival to create a surreal illustration of my experiences. (more…)...

A classic from 1959 by Professor Longhair.You will see the Zulu KingDown on St. Claude and Dumaine(via Greg Dulli)...

The Princeton Bitcoin Book by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten,Andrew Miller and Steven Goldfeder is a free download -- it's over 300 pages and is intended for people "looking to truly ...

Virtually all the climate scientists working at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation -- Australia's answer to NASA -- have been fired or moved out of climate research. (more&h...

Nathan Yau created an interactive visualization of Consumer Product Safety Commission data on emergency room visits spurred by product-related injuries. At the top are floor and stair injuries followe...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Yay! Another captivating DK book for children has just come out today. 100 Events that Made History is an encyclopedia of ideas, inventions, wars, scientific br...

Peters, Pennsylvania Police Chief Harry Fruch has ordered his police force to investigate middle school students who are taking and sharing naked pictures of themselves.If the photograph was taken by ...

Indie rock stalwarts Rogue Wave catch a new(er) wave with "What Is Left To Solve," the killer synth-driven new track from their forthcoming sixth album, Delusions of Grand Fur, out April 29. They ta...

Today is Safer Internet Day 2016, and to celebrate Google is giving users 2GB of free Google Drive storage. The only "catch" is that you have to go through a 2-minute security update, which you should...

Mathematician Tadashi Tokieda is having a great time creating op-art patterns by overlaying sheets of plastic printed with dots. He also does a great job of clearly explaining why the patterns are f...

For decades, Warner/Chappell Music claimed to own the rights to the Happy Birthday song, despite the reams of copyright scholarship and historical research showing they had no legitimate claim. (more&...

On Saturday, a falling meteorite is thought to have killed V. Kamaraj, a bus driver at Bharathidasan Engineering College in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. A four-foot crater is under investi...

On Saturday, a falling meteorite is thought to have killed V. Kamaraj, a bus driver at Bharathidasan Engineering College in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. (more…)...

This tea diver is as heavy as a cauliflower and as transcendent as a monkey. You need splendiferous aquatic infusion like a minute flute on the winds of the sea!ASTONISHING! Hoopy froods and slovenly ...

The FBI have arrested five of the six top officials of the town of Crystal City, Texas, accusing them of taking bribes and allowing an illegal gambling operation to run in the town of 7,500 people.Acc...

Danish photographer Jacob Erhbahn captured metalheads mid-headbang at music festivals around Europe. The result is Headbangers, a full-color book compiling the best of these unrestrained moments of me...

It's usually OK to wear a piece of fabric on your head, provided it's got a shape that doesn't frighten other domesticated primates. Unfortunately for Waris Ahluwalia, an Indian-American actor and des...

It's usually OK to wear a piece of fabric on your head, provided it's got a shape that doesn't frighten other domesticated primates. Unfortunately for Waris Ahluwalia, an Indian-American actor and des...

Americans are being evicted from their homes at record levels, and the evictees are disproportionately single mothers of color. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/b_ji5MyaLeEA leopard entered a high school grounds in Bangalore India and began attacking people. Six were injured.From HuffPost:Senior police official, S Boralingaiah, said: "It was ...

I'm excited really excited for this May's installment of Beyond Brookledge!Both Mark and I are huge fans of Erika Larsen and Bob Self's amazing weekend of magic, comedy, variety and amazing people! ...

New York City's Ivan Ramen proprietor/chef Ivan Orkin gives pro tips on noodle slurping....

Tina Hunt, a 49-year-old grandmother received a felony conviction for aggravated battery of a peace officer when she kicked a sheriff's deputy in the shin during a struggle in a lockup. At her trial, ...

Clearly we love multimeters at Boing Boing! This great video, passed on via my friend Dan Rodarte, gives you a quick run down on using this diagnostic tool....

Just look at it.(Thanks, James!)...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated a word suggested to him by a follower to describe rival Ted Cruzpussyat a campaign rally last night in New Hampshire."I never expect to hear t...

Trade agreements like TPP and the US-EU TTIP are notorious for their Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses, which let corporations sue governments in secret proceedings, in order to force t...

Last year's AI Video Competition featured Mario Lives! An Adaptive Learning AI Approach for Generating a Living and Conversing Mario Agent, in which researchers from Germany's University of Tbingen ...

Last June, the founders of Portland's XOXO Conference announced a new co-working space; now they've formalized it, calling it "XOXO Outpost" and promising "something more than just a place to sit on y...

A Utah State House of Representatives bill would outlaw doxingpublishing someone's private info with the intent to facilitate harassmentbut the EFF says the planned law's language is so broad it would...

https://youtu.be/Si9duk125SEA Florida man "tossed" an alligator into a Palm Beach County Wendy's, reports WPTV, earning 23-year-old Joshua James of aggravated assault and unlawful possession of an all...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCe7m7mhUxYJulldozer created an amazingly clever digital sundial ("Cadran Solaire Numrique") that precomputes the angle of the sun throughout the day and uses those c...

Drum tracks for jam offers more than 300 drum loops in various genres, neatly organized by beats-per-minute. [via Hacker News]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmKgbT3PFA...

Does Cyberspace Exist? Is It Free? (more…)...

Youve heard the news: cyber security is the new and very scary frontier. Hackers are out there just waiting for you to relax for a second and let them in. But thats not going to happen to you. With a ...

Bennett Foddy, of QWOP and Sportsfriends fame, has already destroyed your brain with Zebra. Though a very simple implementation of the classic "3D maze" genre, it renders the walls as alternating angl...

Right up until Gerry Ford, American presidents routinely refused any kind of directorships, paid lecture tours, or other opportunities to commercialize the office -- instead, they relied upon the gene...

Cocktail Chemistry explains the drink's mechanics: you create an iceball using a cheap latex ice-sphere mold, melt a hole in the top with a soldering iron and extract the water from inside with a syri...

Michigan is one of the last states to keep an "anti-sodomy" law on the books, which criminalizes oral and anal sex -- most states dropped theirs when the Supreme Court ruled that law like these are un...

Smiley Face binder clips cost about the same as no-face binder clips. Amazon sells 40 3/4-inch smiley face clips for $6.20....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Martin Vargic, the 17-year-old cartographic wunderkind from Slovakia responsible for the "Map of Stereotypes" that went viral last year, has done some seriously...

https://youtu.be/riG85oA6Wy4It's hard to believe that fifty years ago, The Monkees' television series premiered. The band is often denigrated as phony, but I don't care. They had some of the best song...

In 1969 the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation took a break from making planes to drop bombs on Vietnamese villages and turned their attention to making films about dropping acid. The results of both the...

https://youtu.be/CbdGVRywBV0According to WorldNews247 the fellow in this video pushed the elevator button, and when it didn't open, he gave the door a flying kick, which dislodged it. He walked throug...

Nicole He, Katherine Pan, and Chino Kim created the Soylent dick at the the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon at NYU's ITP on Saturday. (more…)...

I was clumsy, and I spilled some beer on the keyboard of my Mac Air laptop, bought July 9, 2014. I immediately started drying my precious computer, overturning it, and my greedy Mac didn't gulp all ...

Peggy Hartman died on January 20, 2016. She was 91 years old. Hartman's friend Magaret Seaman ordered a floral arrangement in the shape of a Jack Russell terrier to be delivered to Hartman's memorial ...

A hacker has told Motherboard that they have extracted 200GB of data from the US government, including confidential records pertaining to 20,000 FBI employees and 9,000 DHS employees. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/O0mWirIWGKQSome people think the deer is copying the lady, but I think it's the other way around.[via]...

About Blooks is a blog devoted to "blooks," objects that look like books but aren't, such as book-shaped handbags, hollow books used to hide valuables, and booze flasks that are disguised as books. (m...

In The Guardian, William Gibson describes his experience writing his first novel, Neuromancer.I was 34, a first-time parent, married, a recent university graduate with a BA in English literature. I ha...

The world explodes.Unit EX-702 comes back online when UV wavelengths activate its solar plating. Its optics are crusted with red dust; a low-powered system scan concludes that though its left arm is m...

India's Internet activists have scored an epic victory in their battle against Facebook and its attempt to become gatekeeper to the Internet in India. (more…)...

Robert Ito wrote a wonderful profile of cartoonist Daniel Clowes in California Sunday Magazine. It includes some nice illustrations of Clowes by other cartoonists.In the third issue of Eightball, Clow...

https://youtu.be/PgoA84VoYFkWhat rough beast slouches toward Aragon? Shaky footage of what looks like a strange ape-like creature with white fur clambering though the snow was posted online this week....

As the UK government passes increasingly far-reaching surveillance laws that bind companies to capture, store and share data on their customers' activities, US tech giants like Facebook and Google are...

https://vimeo.com/111576518In 1996, in the midst of the Clinton administration's attack on the Internet and cryptography, Grateful Dead lyricist and EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow sat down in Davo...

In the early days of English aviation, journalist C.C. Turner seemed to be everywhere, witnessing bold new feats and going on some harrowing adventures of his own. In this week's episode of the Futili...

We should all have a Walken closet, obviously, even if the verdict's still out on a Kia.Runner up: Helen Mirren's Bud-branded drink-driving PSA.https://youtu.be/Rb2VXVmUga4...

Most of the top officials in a Texas city described as "the world's spinach capital" were arrested last week on corruption charges.A federal indictment accuses Crystal City's administrators of taking ...

Creatures Avoiding Planks is a web toy demonstrating natural selection. Wee blobby creatures wander around avoiding floating planks, which kill on touch. If one lives long enough, it reproduces, passi...

Following the release by hackers of a tranche of police union documents, The Guardian's analysis reveals that "more than a third of police departments allow or require destruction of civilian complain...

Immortan Drew, tiny and roam. Via Imgur....

Football is about one thing and one thing only: dance. As far as I can tell American rules football is where men in elaborate costumes, featuring tight pants, seek to stop other men from dancing.Col...

Free diving holds a special terror for me. I've lost two friends to abalone diving, here in Northern California, and while strenuous and dangerous, it doesn't hold a candle to competitive free diving....

The tripping balls coyotes of Marin county are a real thing. As I drive my daughter to school in the early mornings, this year, we have seen some odd, and entertaining coyote behavior! Theory has been...

A very rich guy, who owns an NFL team, Robert McNair, feels the team name Redskins isn't offensive. McNair confirmed his deep understanding of complex native's rights issues by stating that while memb...

We take all kinds of pills that give us all kind of thrills, but the thrill we've never known,Is the thrill that'll getcha when you get your picture on the cover of the Rollin' Stone!...

New York will investigate high levels of radioactive contamination found in groundwater at Indian Point Energy Center, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. "Radioactive tritium-contaminated water" leake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZd95BCKMYCrowbcat created a Portal setup that had Chell, the game's heroine, trapped between two portals that crushed her. The results were an astounding wonderland...

Jindo Fox writes, "A few years ago, Cory linked to some wonderful pictures in Usborne's 1983 classic Introduction to Machine Code for Beginners. Usborne has made PDF copies available of their whole li...

Wanna see what a total clusterfuck the beginning of last night's presidential debate was? Watch this video. (more…)...

Drone Deploy is an analytics and automation package that uses drones to create accurate 3D terrain and architectural models. (more…)...

Joerg Sprave -- "CEO of a mid size consumer electronics company located in Kronach/Germany" -- makes homebrew firearms out of rubber bands, wood, and various and sundry materials, and features his c...

Joerg Sprave -- "CEO of a mid size consumer electronics company located in Kronach/Germany" -- makes homebrew firearms out of rubber bands, wood, and various and sundry materials, and features his c...

Remember back to the time when people thought java was just a hip way to talk about coffee? Or you vaguely remembered from geography class that its an island in the South Pacific? Weve come a long way...

Saturday evening's GOP debate was a shitshow for Marco Rubio, who sweated profusely and robotically repeated one line four times, even after presidential rival Chris Christie mocked his use of that ex...

Cute, and useful, this skull shaped tea spoon is perfect for removing and straining tea bags. For $3.50 this novelty spoon is worth having. SUCK UK Sugar Skull Tea Spoon via Amazon...

Due to inactivity IKEA lost its trademark to a small Indonesian manufacturer of rattan furniture. Will people be confused by their Wickerdjammar? Rattanfoljer? International Business Times reports:PT ...

The Black Mill is a New Weird comic from Paul Di Filippo, a treasure of science fiction, drawn by Orion Zangara and colored and lettered by Derek Chase. (more…)...

Retired Marietta Police Officer Matt Hickey thought it'd be simple to retire and take his partner, Ajax home with him. Policy stated that retired dogs could be bought by their handlers for $1. The wri...

Retired Marietta Police Officer Matt Hickey thought it'd be simple to retire and take his partner, Ajax home with him. Policy said retired dogs could be bought by their handlers for $1. The wrinkle in...

Tinder is for romantic love, not political. TPM reports Tinder has banned two young women using the service to court voters in early primary states. Imagine the disappointment when you find out that 2...

The folks who make these trailers are awfully clever. You can pre-order the game via Amazon.LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens via Amazon...

All over the world, couples have caught a memetic virus that causes them to festoon fences, trees, railings and other objects with padlocks that represent the love between them. (more…)...

If you've ever locked yourself out of your home and googled for a locksmith, you've seen that it's virtually impossible to reach a real local locksmith. (more…)...

Plastic is so 2013. You dont want to buy something only to throw it away or lose it and barely care. You like nice things and want to hang onto them. The Plazmatic lighter here is a high quality, high...

Barry Petchesky:Don't forget the high-five!...

NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has died. He was 85 years old.Mitchell was the sixth human to walk on the moon. He died Thursday night after a short illness. It was exactly one day before the 45th anniv...

https://youtu.be/VakUHHUSdf8Pussy Riots leader, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, spoke with the Daily Beast about their new music video, which makes fun of the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Y. Chaika.My Amer...

Vietnamese gentleman Thi Ngc claims that ever since he suffered a terrible fever in 1973, he hasn't slept a wink. There's also Ines Fernandez who says she's been awake for decades. Of course, these cu...

The general impression of the View-Master Virtual Reality viewer is that it's an excellent Google Cardboard viewer for any Android phone or iPhone, but that the View-Master app "reels" aren't very goo...

I live near San Francisco, where there seems to be a thing going on for Superb Owls. I like owls. Here are a few. Many were gifts, some I have collected. The one pictured above is by artist Gus Harper...

Sometimes I just don't need to carry a big battery with me, but I know my 1 year old iPhone battery can't be trusted to call a ride home after a full day out and about. Anker's lipstick battery saves ...

Stare at the dot. Enjoy the magic! (via r/gifs)...

Fresh Comfy is a Thai scarf-seller whose gauzy chiffon scarves come screened with motifs from literary classics, in a variety of finishes (grey, black, off-white, full color): Anne of Green Gables cov...

Unsure what to do about local Satanists wanting to present a meeting opening prayer, generally reserved for adherents of Jesus, at a Phoenix, Arizona City Council meeting, said council has ended the t...

Dead on Paper makes many beautiful, strange things, but I'm most taken by two of its custom coins. (more…)...

Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center has a special wing, 10-South, in which terrorism suspects who have been kidnapped from foreign territories are imprisoned and tortured in secret, before be...

Maurice White, founder of the incredible psychedelic R&B group Earth, Wind & Fire, has died at age 74.Although we were basically jazz musicians, we played soul, funk, gospel, blues, jazz, rock and d...

Writing in Slate, Cathy "Weapons of Math Destruction" O'Neill, a skeptical data-scientist, describes the ways that Big Data intersects with ethical considerations. (more…)...

My favorite avant-garde classical group Kronos Quartet are holding their Kronos Festival 2016 this weekend at the SF JAZZ Center! I attended the Kronos Festival 2015 and it was easily one of my favo...

There's no question that Belgian cyclist Femke van den Driessche had a motor hidden in a bike she rode in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships over the weekend, because race officials discovered it ...

Roger Anderson, a telephony expert, developed the Jolly Roger Telephone Company to block and madden robocallers. (more…)...

I kept thinking it had something to do with the pigeon.[via]...

https://youtu.be/slWLa82XdBsAll of us who've held mushrooms and microphones at the same time have done this. And it's funny every time we do it.[via]...

Maryland attorney general Brian E Frosh has filed a brief appealing a decision in the case of Kerron Andrews, who was tracked by a Stingray cell-phone surveillance device. (more…)...

See more photos at Wink Fun.It's exciting to get a new game in its pristine box, wrapped in cellophane, begging to be opened. Inside you find the game board, colorful game pieces, cards, and, of cours...

Ban GMO Pokemon. The sick creation of Alex Osager, Pokemon Fusion will take two Pokemon of your choice, or at random, and create a horrifying mutant combination thereof....

On February 1, Amy Rios tweeted: "Write the saddest story you can using only 4 words." Since then, the replies have poured in, and they are excellent. Most of them are darkly humorous or sarcastic, in...

A huge crane toppled in New York City this morning, killing someone in a parked car and injuring several others. CBS reports that high winds were blamed for the collapse. (more…)...

Seems the charges are "reckless endangerment and aviation in and over the city."Via Philly.comA New Jersey man was arrested on Thursday after a drone he was flying crashed into the 40th floor of the E...

The design perfectly transmutes the cheap minimalist beauty of the classic ZX Spectrum home computer into a unique handheld game console. But does the ZX Vega capture the experience of the early 80's ...

Civil rights activist DeRay McKeeson is running for mayor of Baltimore. He would get my vote if I lived there. I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional poli...

Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson is running for mayor of Baltimore. He would get my vote if I lived there. I have come to realize that the traditional pathway to politics, and the traditional poli...

Iphone 6s that have been repaired by independent service centers are bricking themselves, seemingly permanently, with a cryptic message about "Error 53." (more…)...

After years of fumbling, deference and mismanagement, Canada's telcoms regulator, the CRTC, laid down a landmark net neutrality rule and demanded that Bell, the nationally founded telcoms giant, would...

Chelsea Manning appears in the current episode of Amnesty International's "In Their Own Words" podcast, voiced by actor Michelle Hendley. Chelsea tells us, "The awesome thing about this podcast is tha...

Real engineers build things. Super cool engineers build things with their hands and fingers, like our engineering forefathers did. No idea where to even begin to do that? This step by step Arduino cou...

The power of simple animation can be overwhelming. This film, I Will Always Remember You by Hugo Guinness, done for The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, is shattering.The technique used by artist Hugo ...

Many people have noticed that the female lead character Rey is notably underrepresented in the tsunami of Star Wars: The Force Awakens toys. (more…)...

My favorite Vonnegut novel, Cat's Cradle (1963), is just $1.99 as a Kindle ebook today. I read it when I was about 12 or 13, and the idea of "Ice-nine" has intrigued me ever since. Ice-nine, as descri...

They started as "Millennials for Jeb" and now they're called "Millennials Rising," but since the beginning, the dark-money-spouting Super PAC has been 95% funded by rich white guys over the age of 60....

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Smart bathroom mirrors with Internet connections and integrated displays have been fodder for futurists (including me) since the early 1990s at least. Google engineer Max Braun decided to build his ow...

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a secretly negotiated agreement between 12 countries, including the US, Canada and Japan, which establishes punishing regimes for censoring and controlling the Interne...

Podcasters have largely mastered the art of setting up a great home recording setup, something that's gotten steadily easier over the years, but then they interview someone over Skype and suddenly the...

Frinkiac allows you to type in a quote from The Simpsons and it'll find the matching stills from a database of 3 million screen caps. I expect that its creators will be acquihired soon by Compu-Global...

Another amazing Shmoocon talk is "Users Are People Too: How to Make Your Tools Not Suck for Humans," presented by two key people from Simply Secure, a nonprofit devoted to improving security tool usab...

The design idea of "counter-constraint" is to create things in such a way as to get around some constraint -- for example, open source hardware works without patents or copyrights. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.They say that truth is stranger than fiction, so that may explain why The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities almost fooled me into believing its real....

When a UN panel from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention upheld Julian Assange's claim that he was being unlawfully detained in London's Ecuadorean embassy, they also stopped Assange from turning...

This person has three problems with the new Uber logo. The first problem ("It can be recreated in under one minute using three of the standard shape tools) does not bother me. I actually think that's ...

Laura Poitras is the Macarthur-winning, Oscar-winning documentarian who made Citizenfour. Her life has been dogged by government surveillance and harassment, and she has had to become a paranoid OPSEC...

A UN panel has concluded that Julian Assange is being "arbitrarily detained," reports the reports the BBCAssange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012, knowing that he will ...

In December, Comedian Alison Leiby tweeted, "As a woman, I just hope that one day I have as many rights as a gun does." After a popular conservative Twitter account retweeted it, some people who disag...

In January 2015, security researcher and beloved, prolific geek Michael "Hackerjoe" Hamelin died in a head-on collision that also hospitalized his widow, Beth Hamelin. (more…)...

Bunnie has a years of experience partnering with manufacturers in Shenzhen, so he knows what he's talking about. This looks like a fantastic resource for hardware entrepreneurs.Bunnie Huang, the inf...

Shmoocon is a security conference that ranks with other top-tier events like Defcon, CCC, HOPE, Black Hat, etc: this year's talks are all on the Internet Archive for streaming or download. (more&helli...

Summoned to a congressional hearing into price-gouging, entrepreneur Martin Shkreli smirked, dodged and insulted those before him, even when all they wanted to talk about was Wu-Tang Clan.I dont thi...

Animal Creative in Stockholm created Trump Donald, an interactive website that lets you blast a virtual trumpet at a virtual Donald Trump....

On McSweeney's, Susan Harlan rounds up some less-objectionable alternatives we can use to describe so-called "Resting Bitch Face," such as "Yes I Really Do Just Want to Sit Here and Read My Book Unmol...

I'm a hardcore traveler and Google Flights is my tool of choice for figuring out my weird, complex, ever-changing plans. (more…)...

Securedrop is a robust, secure, anonymous system for whistleblowers to convey documents to news organizations, created by Aaron Swartz and taken up by the Freedom of the Press Foundation after his dea...

How do Google and YouTube really work? It turns out, Python kind of runs things around those parts. And with this bootcamp, youll get whipped into shape and ready to start programming yourself. Whethe...

Skier and snow artist Simon Beck stomps around in the snow for 11 hours or more to make each of his beautiful fractal snow art masterpieces. He has to walk around 25 or 30 miles to stamp a design of a...

For his Low Pixel ceramic sculpture series, Japanese artist Toshiya Masuda pixelates common objects. Soda cans, flowers, liquor bottles, all are reduced to low rez video game style facsimiles. (more&...

The original Rollerball (1975) is a fantastic dystopian science fiction film in which corporations run the world and crowds go crazy for an ultraviolent sport called, you guessed it, Rollerball. (Watc...

CBS announced today that ailing and aging media mogul Sumner M. Redstone, who is 92, has resigned as the company's executive chairman. Leslie Moonves, CEO, has now taken the role of chairman. (more&he...

Making the rounds online this week: this footage shot by a camera-equipped drone of the Syrian city of Homs. After 5 years of civil war, the city is largely reduced to abandoned rubble. (more…)...

Racist cops in Inkster, Mi., set out to pull over a black motorist and beat him up. One of them, William Melendez, was jailed for no less than 13 months today for his part in the attack, and Judge Von...

Our pals at surreal clothiers Imaginary Foundation bring us this fine enamel pin emblazoned with an essential insight of the ages, captured by a simple Venn diagram. Just $10!...

The contents of this jar make me think of the old dinner table insult, "Do we eat it, or did we eat it?" Swell drawing, though. I wish I had hands twice the size of my head, too. [via 10 years ago on ...

BB pal Mitch Horowitz, noted author of esoteric and downright weird books, writes:The CIA (the funniest guys ever!) is now taking a humorous approach to its UFO files, releasing reams of info and invi...

Dennis Fechter is the creator of the Rock-afire Explosion, the animatronic band that made greasy memories at Showbiz Pizza throughout the 1980s. He also insists he's the inventor of Whac-A-Mole, based...

This deal is probably for US customers only, but it's a good one. The highly rated Poweradd Pilot X1 5200mAh Portable Charger External Battery Pack is regularly $13, but if you use code E879NFK8 at fi...

iBleeedorange posted this pretty GIF that shows the 5-fold pattern traced out by an imaginary line between the Earth and Venus.Sunsunsun made an audio representation of the orbital relationship betwee...

Don Cheadle directed and stars in Miles Ahead, the film portrait of the jazz legend that opens in theaters April 1. How did Cheadle get the role? Well, he never auditioned or even talked to anyone a...

Once the senators who oversee the science committee see this graph, they will pass a law forbidding Miss America to be over the age of 12.[via]...

What surprised me about this map is how far north the UK and Portugal are. The UK is above the continental US, and I would have thought Portugal would be closer to Mexico's latitude.[via]...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.A tangle of vines pushes its way across a trellis over two chairs. Dangling birdcages squeak in an imaginary wind as their inhabitants sing softly. Further in, ...

See the extended director's cut gif here....

During the rainy season I a always looking for new toys to entertain my Cavalier King Charles, Pretzel. The Orbee-Tuff Snoop is a simple, clean and easy toy that buys me 30-45 minutes of fascinated wi...

Unreal. Starbucks in Saudi Arabia refused to serve women. Note on their door, plus official response from company. pic.twitter.com/d4tCSqqQOv— Muhammad Lila (@MuhammadLila) February 3, 2016The S...

A Delta flight that departed from Los Angeles and was bound for Minneapolis had to make an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after a fight broke out between two flight attendants.On Jan 28th 2016 Th...

The Bagel Store in Brooklyn has been making rainbow bagels for 20 years. They serve them filled with cotton candy and rainbow-sprinkle-cake-flavored cream cheese....

Fatboy's $250 "picnic lounge" is a 9'x 7', weather-resistant, picnic/beach blanket with a built-in pocket (inside the Fatboy logo-tag). (via Geekologie)...

Have you ever tried to draw a brain? I find it hard to get the wrinkles to look right. Scientists at at the University of Jyvskyl in Finland made a solid model of a fetal brain out of gel that devel...

[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...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. And/or buy Ruben Bollings new book series for k...

Take a deep breath. Now exhale. Wouldnt that whole breathing thing be a lot better with an amazing vape in your hands? How about a vape thats specifically engineered and designed for dry leaf and craz...

(Thanks, Dimitrios!)...

No one will look twice at your tiny knife hidden in a JFK 50-cent piece, assuming your deep cover identity is as a harmless numismatist. (via Red Ferret)...

Solid Oak Sketches has filed copyright registrations in the tattoo designs that decorate the bodies of some of basketball's biggest stars (LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kenyon Martin, DeAndre Jordan, Eri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNoxKxphYBEKnights and Bikes is a fictionalised recreation of co-creator Rex Crowle's boyhood in Cornwall, riding around on his bike and pretending to be a medieval k...

Americans spent more last year on legal marijuana than they did on Cheetos, Doritos and Funyuns combined. The Denver Post reports that the $5.4 billion total includes medical and recreational sales.Bu...

An exceptionally broad proposal before the Council of the EU lumps the traffickers who cram refugees into unsafe boats with the volunteers and NGOs who rescue drowning refugees when those boats sink. ...

Only after assault charges against Pittsburgh police Sgt. Stephen Matakovich were dropped did the public get to see the video of him beating up a teenager.The off-duty cop, working as a security gua...

Maryland Judge Robert Nalley pleaded guilty Monday to ordering deputies to shock a defendant with a 50,000-volt charge. Nalley, who presided over Charles County Circuit Court, reportedly agreed to a p...

The Oldschool PC Font Resource is your one-stop shop for the fonts bundled with classic PC-compatible computers of the 80s and early 90s. It even has little reviews!AT&T PC6300The rebadged Olivetti M2...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drwl5M3m8YEDavid sez, "The Tesseract Dice are unique, science themed dice, with shapes ranging from 4-D cubes, to Tesla coils to atomic explosions. Its goal is to bri...

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"I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier." --Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, interviewed by Gloria Steinem in 1983. (Blank on Bl...

In GQ, Eric Perry writes about how a brain hemorrhage left him "depressed, stuck in a rut, and strangely fearful of death." Then he learned of new medical research on the benefits of psychedelic thera...

Fleet & Freddy's "Pad" (1958). Can you dig it? I knew that you could. (via Jazzman)...

David Lynch looks like a kid, but his voice is unmistakable, in this 1979 interview conducted by a couple of UCLA students. The interview took place on the oil fields in West Hollywood where Lynch s...

I bought a pair of these magnetic clip lights last year and they've proven to be incredibly useful when I have to do repair work. The light has 8 LEDs and it throws a pretty wide beam of bright light....

I bought a pair of these magnetic clip lights last year and they've proven to be incredibly useful when I have to do repair work. The light has 8 LEDs and it throws a pretty wide beam of bright light....

See more photos at Wink Fun.First off, this is not a review of ping pong. We already know that ping pong is great. It doesnt matter if you like to overhand smash like Kramer, or you have a nuanced bru...

Needs Apollo and Zeus....

The most common way to die from taking a selfie is falling from a heights, followed by drowning. From Priceonomics:One-third of all people who met their demise in the midst of a selfie fell from heigh...

The Stratio LinkSquare is small spectrometer that connects to a smartphone. This video shows the reflected light spectrum of three pills - a "fraud" Viagra pill, a generic pill, and the real thing ...

Id tell you, but Id have to kill you. This is what I shout at the TV (or the Youtube window) whenever I see a surveillance boss explain why none of his methods, or his mission, can be subjected to scr...

Id tell you, but Id have to kill you. This is what I shout at the TV (or the Youtube window) whenever I see a surveillance boss explain why none of his methods, or his mission, can be subjected to scr...

You knew it would happen: Trump barely beating Rubio for second place in the Iowa Republican Caucus means that something must be up. The Washington Post reports on the conspiracy theories emerging fro...

Hello and welcome to newest addition to the Boing Boing podcast family! Flash Forward is a podcast produced and hosted by me, Rose Eveleth. Every week we really overthink what the future has in store ...

At least 100,000 people became stranded at the Guangzhou Railway Station southern China. They were trying to get a jump on Chinese New Year, which starts next week. The image above is a small portion ...

Canada is Cool is a beautiful canvas-based single-serving website that, to my mind, successfully establishes the fact that Canada is cool. There are shirts to buy....

It's like something out of Mad Max: a Russian biker gang-cum-militia wearing wolfy helmets, operating in the ruins of Eastern Ukraine. They are "fiercely loyal" to Vladimir Putin and to Christ, but ...

Late last year, Katherine Clark [D-MA] introduced a bill that specifically criminalized swatting (tricking the police into thinking that there's an armed standoff in your victim's home in order to get...

Ted Cruz, the right-wing psycho largely despised by his own party, prevailed yesterday over Donald Trump, the nativist inflatable Cheeto largely despised by everyone, to claim most of Iowa's Republica...

A group of anti-Choice extremists have come to Washington, DC to protest at the site of a future Planned Parenthood office, but because they are barred from the Planned Parenthood site, they've set up...

One of my favorite podcasts is Oh No Ross and Carrie, in which two investigative journalists join cults and fringe religions, and try out new age remedies and practices, and report back on the experie...

images from @mimo (via Laughing Squid)...

Vulture presents a lengthy (and very funny) annotated history of "100 jokes that shaped modern comedy," with embedded audio (and sometimes video) of the jokes themselves, going all the way back to 190...

A Chatham-Kent, Ontario man allegedly attempted to buy a 12-year-old boy's fish with fake marijuana. When the boy smartly protested about the unfair deal, the man reportedly hit him in the head. And n...

Whether you want to take your career up a notch or simply secure your computer against hackers, this course bundle is for you. Dont worry if you dont know much about programming or coding, this set of...

Another brutal attack is reported to have taken place in Nigeria, led by the Islamic armed group Boko Haram. On Saturday night, Boko Haram militants carrying machine guns rolled into the village of Da...

You never go full Hitler, bro. (more…)...

As protests continue over the death of Mario Woods, who was shot and killed by an SFPD cop in December, the Justice Department announces it will conduct a comprehensive review of the San Francisco Pol...

The potent drug Fentanyl is widely used in medicine as a painkiller, and in anesthesia for major surgery. The intensely concentrated opiate is also a recreational street drug, with a growing number of...

With the release of its fourth-quarter earnings report today, Google parent company Alphabet became the world's most valuable company, and kicked Apple out of that coveted spot. (more…)...

I've been cutting back on coffee, and have switched over to drinking mainly green tea. I don't get as jangly from drinking green tea as I do from coffee, probably because it has less caffeine than cof...

The war on encryption waged by the F.B.I. and other intelligence agencies is unnecessary, because the data trails we voluntarily leak allow Internet of Things devices and social media networks to trac...

The first novel in Jake Bible's series Z Burbia hooked me. What appeared to be a jokey take on zombie fiction quickly develops some great characters and story.Jason "Long Pork" Stanford and his famil...

Rheney Williams, a former attorney from Charleston, SC, sells a line of unofficial Disneyland-scented candles themed after the rides, food, and environments of the park. (more…)...

In Mumbai, cab drivers vie to make their vehicles stand out from their competitors', decorating them with exuberant expressions of the driver's personality. (more…)...

The Dutch National Police are attempting to train eagles to take down drones. (Here's an unintentional example of an eagle doing just that!) From IEEE Spectrum:The Dutch police have partnered with G...

Amateur Radio Club visited the border of Area 51 and noticed some new "no drone" signage added to the classic warnings signs around the infamous US Air Force facility. I assume that policy also appl...

Bo and Matthew, "two best friends, achieve lifelong dream of sneaking into a movie theatre in one set of clothing." So fun!...

Erowid Sarah Palin is a Twitter bot that melds Sarah Palin speeches with psychedelic trip reports posted to the excellent Erowid drug information clearinghouse.I washed my hands of the establishment a...

Last week, professional surfer Tom Dosland fell 40-feet down the front of a wave at Jaws, Maui's legendary surfing break. See the intensity of it all in the video above. Surfer magazine interviewed ...

For a government class in 1982, college sophomore Gregory Watson argued that a long-forgotten constitutional amendment could still be ratified. His instructor found this implausible and gave him a C o...

La Fabrique DIY built a cool Frisbee launcher using a bike wheel an electric drill....

What is a game if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? (more…)...

Since 2008, the Church of the SubGenius has been waiting for Time Warner to pay $30 for the unauthorized use of Bob Dobb's likeness. It should totally pay the fee, because it will become a SubGenius...

Ed Piskor, creator of Hip Hop Family Tree (which debuted right here at Boing Boing) shared with us some of the ancient artistic tools that inspires his unique technique.While drawing a splendid Happ...

According to Wikipedia, "Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968." This film shows some of ...

According to Wikipedia, "Cybernetic Serendipity was an exhibition of cybernetic art curated by Jasia Reichardt, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1968." This film shows some of ...

In Investigatory Powers Bill: technology issues, the UK Parliament's Science and Technology select committee takes the government to task for its signature mass surveillance law, the "Snoopers Charte...

Keepalive is Aram Bartholl's fake hollow boulder in the woods of Neuenkirchen, Germany. It conceals a thermoelectric generator that powers a router configured to serve documents related to wilderness...

Bloomberg Pursuits' Hannah Elliott took a 1914 Model T for test drive. It has three pedals, but none of them are for accelerating.Starting in 1908, Henry Ford sold his novel Model T cars as the fir...

Last week, I suggested that Donald Trump is a walking mashup of Star Wars' Imperial March and Yakety Sax.Markleford Friedman has provided....

Dungeon Crawlers are those pseudo-3D maze games where you stomp around one square at a time, turning at 90 degree angles. The purpose of Dungeoncrawlers.org, then, should be obvious: to build "an onli...

John Green of Mental Floss tested 30 different "life hacks" found on the Internet. About 40 percent of them really worked. The others were failures and semi-failures. He didn't test some of life hac...

https://youtu.be/Qu3xxq5F3GwHere's behind-the-scenes footage of Jack Nicholson muttering, running in place, and taking practice chops in preparation for the famous "Here's Johnny!" scene in The Shinin...

Fingerpainting is for kids. If youre a serious artist today, or even just someone who wants to be, youre going to need a set of real tools. Adobe takes you most of the way there with its unparalleled ...

Nete, from Denmark, created this astonishing perler-bead pixel-art portrait of the 151 first-generation Pokemon. The design has so far required 45,544 beads, is 1.27m wide and 87cm high, she writes. O...

Legendary folk singer, activist and countercultural icon Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, but we're only now learning that the FBI thought he was a communist as a young man because of the ar...

When Forrest Fenn, a retired antiquities dealer, hid $2m worth of gold, jewels and artifacts in the Rockies and teased the location of the treasure with cryptic clues in his self-published memoir The...

Years before the complaints from Flint's citizenry about their water provoked action from the state, Governor Rick Snyder spent $440,000 to supply better water to the GM factory, where the new water s...

This video depicts an angry cop lying about the law"it's illegal to take photographs of me"then, after he confiscates the camera but forgets to turn it off, his discussion with a fellow officer abou...

The ninth Share Festival, held in Turin, Italy in May 2016, awards a "Share Prize" for best electronic art on the festival's theme of "House Guests," which raises a series of questions about everyday ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYddqczPAbs&feature=youtu.beBen Hansford writes about his Kickstarter campaign for a short film called "Uprising - A Post-Apocalyptic Robot Comedy,"On the surface it'...

We can all snap a photo these days. We can even adjust some red eyes and slap on a filter, post it up and call it a masterpiece. But if you really want to take your pics to the professional level, you...