Articles by BoingBoing from March 2016

Ted Cruz, on Jimmy Kimmel's show:But first, "Who do you like better, Obama or Trump?" To which Cruz diplomatically answered, "Donald is a unique individual," before getting more graphic. "If I were in...

Well, that didn't take long, did it. Just days after the Justice Department dropped its high-profile case against Apple over the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone, the FBI offered Wednesday to help a pr...

Luna and Lily have grown from helpless little chicks to near adult barn owls and now they're beginning to learn how to fly. (more…)...

Meet Saqib, a Microsoft dev in London who lost the use of his eyes at age 7. Here's a neat little profile of his artificial intelligence development work from Microsoft Cognitive Services: (more&hel...

Today, President Obama met with Americans who have received commutations on prison sentences during his presidency, and under previous administrations. Today, Obama commuted the sentences of 61 more p...

The Justice Department says that security features on San Bernardino shooters iPhone were bypassed by an outside party, making that one important case against Apple moot. But many other similar cases,...

Daniel Shaver said "please don't shoot me" moments before Officer Philip Brailsford shot him five times. Shaver was unarmed. (more…)...

Daniel Shaver said "please don't shoot me" moments before Officer Philip Brailsford shot him five times. Shaver was unarmed. (more…)...

Reporters from Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post obtained a huge trove of email from Unaoil, a business run by a rich Monaco family, that reveal that the family ran a corrupt bribery empire that s...

Envelope-pushing tech satisfies on two levels...it not only stimulates the gee whiz, whatll-they-think-of-next pleasure center of your brain, but it opens you up to tantalizing possibilities that olde...

Three of America's sharpest copyright scholars have released a landmark study of the impact of copyright takedowns on free expression in America: Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice, by Jennifer ...

As America's prison populations swell, as mental heath services for inmates are withdrawn, and as the range of offenses for which inmates can be sent to inhumane solitary confinement soars, the prison...

Thinkgeek's $25 NES-themed shower curtain will class up your bathroom a treat; pose in the see-through panel to be the star of the cartridge (try to look as 8-bit as possible). (via Geekymerch)...

I really like Finger Ease guitar string lubricant. While I doubt the spray does a thing for the sound of my strings, I find it allows me to play for quite a bit longer. (more…)...

Once pro-choice, the leading Republican presidential candidate now thinks that women who terminate pregnancies should be punished. Donald Trump's going to ban it, but is not sure yet just what he's go...

Once pro-choice, the leading Republican presidential candidate now thinks that women who terminate pregnancies should be punished. Donald Trump's going to ban it, but is not sure yet just what he's go...

Unlike the Hollywood hospital shutdown in Feb and the Kentucky shutdown in March which got in by phishing attacks on employees, the two hospitals in Baltimore that were taken offline by ransomware wer...

Bruce Francis transferred some money to his dog walker to pay for services to his pit bull, and wrote the dog's name, "Dash," in the notes field. (more…)...

Karen Hallion, a frustrated Disney animator, has updated her brilliant Princess Leia/Haunted Mansion mashup from 2014 with an inspired, complete set of Star Wars inspired Haunted Mansion stretch-galle...

Mr Yogato, a DC frozen yogurt store, has a pretty rad set of discount offers for the discerning Seinfeld fan, Thriller zombie-dancer, and/or Scottish accent enthusiast. (more…)...

Mr Yogato, a DC frozen yogurt store, has a pretty rad set of discount offers for the discerning Seinfeld fan, Thriller zombie-dancer, and/or Scottish accent enthusiast. (more…)...

Natalie Bursztyn created this fantastic pattern for a Wonder Woman sweater, which she has prototyped and modelled herself. (more…)...

Historically, MIT Media Lab students who released their work under free/open licenses had to get approval from a committee (that always granted it). (more…)...

"Tay," Microsoft's attempt at creating an artificial millennial, returned to twitter. Nothing that chatbot said helped Microsoft's situation, and the world should question if this technology giant is ...

The Pyxis Supplystation from Carefusion is an automated pharmaceutical drug cabinet system that's still widely used despite being end-of-lifed by its manufacturer -- a new report from CERT discloses t...

"A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean its just wrong," Sagan told Studs Terkel in 1985. (Blank on Blank)...

Here is a startlingly compelling implementation of the classic Windows Solitaire victory animation: simply click and win! The creator is Richard Cabello, who has perhaps played enough Windows Solitair...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.1766. A ship named the Kraken. A little girl tied to the mast, her face darkened by the shadow of a fearsome sea monster. Its approaching, closer, closer, its t...

[While I'm away for a week, I'm posting classic Boing Boing entries from the archives. Here's a gem from 2006.]I've been playing with this time-stopping test off and on all day, with surprising result...

Artist Matthew Herbert successfully created edible record albums that he laser-etched into a variety of foodstuffs and played/displayed at London's Science Gallery. (more…)...

Artist Matthew Herbert has successfully created edible record albums that he laser-etched into a variety of foodstuffs, then played and displayed at London's Science Gallery. (more…)...

My two favorite foods are sweet potatoes and butternut squash. I typically cut them up like french fries and put them in a roasting pan with a lot of coconut oil and salt, then bake them at 425 degree...

I've been whining for months about the crap sandwich Apple and Google created by adopting USB-C for their new laptops without supporting the ecosystem: a writhing sea of dangerously low-quality third-...

Police violence is America is a statistical black hole, where data collection on shootings and killings are kept in haphazard or nonexistent form across local, state and federal levels, leaving schola...

The most toxic debt in America is student debt: your student loans (originated by universities, backed by the federal government, and handed off to banks, who securitize them) are subject to virtually...

eL Seed, a Tunisian-French artist, painted a mural whose Arabic calligraphy reads "Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first," spanning 50 buildings across Manshiyat Na...

CNBC's Big Crunch blog put up a well-intentioned, but disastrously designed tutorial on secure password creation, which invited users to paste their passwords into a field to have them graded on how d...

The World Wide Web Consortium's decision to make DRM part of HTML5 doesn't just endanger security researchers, it also endangers the next version of all the video products and services we rely on toda...

Instagram just increased the time limit on user video uploads to a full minute long. (more…)...

Two amateur astronomers in different countries captured space images that astronomers say depicts an amazing cosmic event: something basically crashing into the planet Jupiter. (more…)...

Designer Cornelius Commans gives us this amazing twist on the Piaggio Ape, a camper scooter. From Commans' website:This is my bachelor thesis in Industrial Design which I have finished this month. Bas...

Designer Cornelius Commans gives us this amazing twist on the Piaggio Ape, a camper scooter. You can't buy it yet. It's just a concept--for now. (more…)...

If you love and collect minifigs, May will be a big month for you! This via LEGO's twitter feed. (more…)...

I used to think Star Wars was the story of C3P0 and R2D2, but The Force Awakens suggests Anakin's lightsaber may be the talisman that ties the room together. This fantastic video by youtuber Christo...

My favorite and most influential professor was a Michigan born artist named David Barr. He created iconic public sculptures and conceptual art that can be found throughout the world and if you've ever...

The FCC is considering expanding the Lifeline program, which currently subsidizes home phone service for Americans who can not afford it, to include internet connectivity. They absolutely should.From ...

When youre in the mood to light up, theres not much else you want to have to think about. Relaxation is the goal and thus, the focus, not remembering your last temperature or chastising yourself for n...

With the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I've been lobbying the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which sets the open standards that the Web runs on, to take measures to protect security researchers (a...

I love fountain pens, but handing one to a kid seemed like a bad idea. These simple, disposable Pilot Varsity pens are a pleasure.I bought this pack of five Pilot pens to let my kid see what writing w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGz5DPqU-p0With the release of more footage showing Donald Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski manhandling Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, he's been charged wi...

Like you, I know some people who are really hampered by an irrational belief that the people around them are judging them; I've long thought that these beliefs were linked to a sense that their lives ...

The median parental income of the parents of new med school students in America is $100,000 -- twice the national average. In Cuba, America's brilliant, working class med students pay nothing -- free ...

Pumping all that waste water into the ground has really helped Oklahoma and Texas catch up to California! Man-made earthquakes in those regions are now as likely as the real ones in some of California...

Pumping all that waste water into the ground has really helped Oklahoma and Texas catch up to California! Man-made earthquakes in those regions are now as likely as the real ones in some of California...

Nixon's War on Drugs, Reagan's three strikes rules, and Clinton's "superpredator" crime bill turned America into history's greatest imprisoner, a carceral state where a racially biased justice system ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Back in the 1970s, a 14-year-old boy walking down a residential street in Springfield, Missouri found a cool-looking handmade, hand-bound book in a pile of tras...

The problem with power strips is that chunky adapters will cover some of the outlets. I keep a Powersquid outlet multiplier under my desk and never have to worry about that problem. It's a 1-to-5 spli...

A Philadelphia-area police department is warning locals about fake emails sent in its name to try and get people to install malware. The clever part: the emails contain accurate speeding data, targeti...

Philosopher John Danaher's new paper "Will life be worth living in a world without work?Technological Unemployment and the Meaning of Life" assumes that after the robots take all our jobs, and after t...

I'm away from the office this week on a top secret mission, so instead of posting new stuff, I've scheduled a few vintage Boing Boing posts. I don't remember posting most of these, and I hope you don'...

Sociologists describe the "spiral of silence": people with socially unpopular ideas fear that they're the only ones who think that way, and say nothing, and their silence convinces others that they, t...

Stephanie Cegielski was in the Trump campaign from the beginning, first serving as communications director of the Make America Great Again Super PAC, then shutting down the PAC "in order to position h...

It's an open secret that the pharmaceutical industry spends billions marketing to doctors, deliberately misleading them about their products, raking in record profits that they shift into offshore tax...

Benjamin Stark explains how to make a Bowie knife. You'll need some AEB-L stainless steel, a bandsaw with metal cutting blades, a grinder with lots of rough belts, a drill, material for the handle, ...

Landsat imagery of the Ucayali river in Peru shows it meandering over a period of several years; an oxbow lake forms, islands grow and fade in the channel, and a smaller river is "eaten" at the top le...

The US Republican Party welds together two separate and sometimes conflicting ideologies: dogwhistles to Christian conservatives on abortion, LGBTQ issues, etc; and a doctrinaire commitment to "free m...

The Turkish government privately contacted Germany's ambassador to demand the censorship of a video satirizing the thin-skinned, famously corrupt Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan, he of the 1,000-...

The Turkish government privately contacted Germany's ambassador to demand the censorship of a video satirizing the thin-skinned, famously corrupt Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan, he of the 1,000-...

Married moments earlier in New Zealand, Sarah and Matthew Oke were posing for photos at Lucy's Gully when they ran into the Maori and Polynesian Black Power gang, who were paying their respects to dea...

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Herman Yung is an enthusiastic photographer/taxi-spotter and over the years, he's managed to spot seven NYPD police cars disguised as yellow cabs (cab numbers 2W97, 6Y19, 6Y17, 2W95, 2W68, 6Y13, and 6...

The #FBIvsApple legal case may be over, but the fight over security, privacy, and the right to live free of surveillance has just begun. The Justice Department is expected to drop its legal action aga...

A bizarre glitch in Super Mario World, and an incredible amount of patience, and the SNES classic is transformed into Flappy Bird.It's incredible to watch SethBling in action. Once the glitch (trigg...

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Ancient alchemists referred to H2SO4 as "oil of vitriol." ...

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Last week, Boing Boing pals Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and Marina Gorbis, executive director at Institute for the Future (where I'm a researcher), took the stage at ...

In a world dominated by Instagram, SnapChat, and Facebook, its easy to think that technology comprises only the Internet. But of course, its more than that, also encompassing computer hardware we can ...

On a stretch of Route 66 between Albuquerque and Tijeras, New Mexico, engineers at Sand Bar Construction, the New Mexico Department of Transportation, and the National Geographic Channel installed a...

Monosodium Glutamate. I grew up in an era of terrifying tales about how MSG was a horrible scientifically engineered food additive that was killing me. Now I know the truth: this magic sodium salt of ...

Michael from Muckrock writes, "Watch what you say: That next taxi you hail could be driven by New York's Finest. A MuckRock FOIA request has found that the NYPD has at least three undercover cop cars ...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "There's been a lot of talk about computer-assisted medicine, but in most cases these are tools to help you talk to a doctor. For a year, I've been tracking a rema...

Teen hacker Gibson Vaughn embarrasses a US Senator, and is made an example of. Now, ten years later, the same folks who turned him into a pariah need his help solving one of the greatest abduction sto...

Not to be mistaken for the legitimate American Academy of Pediatrics, which has 60,000 members! (more…)...

Bruce Sterling's 2010 short story Black Swan (a cyberpunk story) comes to life in a fine reading by Paul Cram (MP3) on the Starshipsofa podcast. (more…)...

In just a few short years, ransomware -- malware that encrypts all the files on the computer and then charges you for a key to restore them -- has gone from a clever literary device for technothriller...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.It was right before Christmas and for a present I was desperate for a Magic: The Gathering player. When I asked knowledgable friends if there was such a thing a...

If you are a seller on Alphabay -- a darkweb site that sells "drugs, stolen data and hacking tools," you'll have to use two-factor authentication (based on PGP/GPG) for all your logins. (more…)...

Alec Smecher built a wireless electronmechanical system that enables him to robotically raise and waggle his eyebrows via remote control. Because, you know, he could. From MAKE:Beyond its obvious pr...

A feel-good film for the whole family. (Mashable)...

Italian police spokesman Lt. Colonel Domenico Grimaldi says that Bilal Erdoan was able to jump bail on money laundering charges because the Saudi embassy paid the mafia to help get him clear, assistin...

Japan's recently expanded prisons are already at 70% occupancy, an incarceration epidemic blamed on hungry pensioners who account for 35% of the nation's shoplifting, with a high rate of re-offending....

I bought a book about rock painting in 2001, and posted about it here. I still have the book, and more importantly, we still have some of the rocks my family painted 15 years ago. The book has lots of...

Fill in the registration form and agree to the code of conduct and you can participate in San Francisco's annual Bring Your Own Bigwheel race. (more…)...

Jo Edkins' online design a tessellation widget makes it easy to create tessellating patterns in a style similar to that of M.C. Escher albeit without the fastidious pencilwork. There's also a simpler ...

Linify Me accepts JPG uploads and redraws the images using only straight lines. The effect is ghostly yet technical, resembling something human-drawn but not enough to be confused as such. Watching th...

Jack Hughes created The Color Clock, whose background color is always a hexadecimal RGB representation of the current time. You can download screensaver versions too....

Maddscientist39110 is a sculptor and electronic artist who creates beautiful, functional, and, above all, improbable synthesizers and lamps (and such) out of shiny metal and found objects. (more&hell...

I'm away from the office this week on a top secret mission, so instead of posting new stuff, I've scheduled a few vintage Boing Boing posts. I don't remember posting most of these, and I hope you don'...

The above clip from a U.K. television show compiles dashcam footage of turkeys attacking police officers. It continues below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEgvAzHVvk8The following video of a terri...

I feel well-informed and educated by Chris Wheatley of Hot Tub University and will therefore not be purchasing a 12-person hot tub from Costco after all....

Where are our petabyte drives? Brian Hayes takes us through the reasons storage is "stuck" in the low terabytes. The tl;dr is that we got such exceptional capacity growth in the late 90s and early 00s...

Its been a long time since you saw your first drone. That flying black magic up in the sky that snaps incredible photos and videos that you cant get enough of. And it was love at first sight, but unti...

Catholic Church Insurance, Ltd, owned by the Australian Diocese, assembled thousands of pages of dossiers on rapes committed by paedophile priests in the 1990s when survivors of the assaults started c...

JWZ reminds us that all social media is some variation on the walled garden strategy, designed to lock you in and lock value away from the open, interoperable Web into a silo where it languishes and r...

Jennifer Null is impossible: her name can't be entered into most modern databases (plane reservations, wedding registries) because "null" is used to separate fields in databases themselves. (more&hell...

This 'Trump Deep Nightmare' video is insane. Insanely accurate, that is. Don't watch while using psychedelic drugs, unless highly experienced. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_hywFWkjUoThree officers from the Caldwell County, Texas Sheriff's Department -- Sgt. Dustin Yost, Deputy Michael Taylor and Deputy Houseston -- beat the shit out of...

Summer is around the corner, and thats what we like to call Road Trip Season. When youre ready to hit the open highway, youre going to need all the essentials with you in the car, and that means more ...

Cool Tools reader Joe Stirt recommended the Durascoop cat litter scoop. I bought one, because the little plastic scoop Id been using for a couple of years had gotten flimsy from use and would often bu...

Adam "Ruins Everything" Conover was asked to give a keynote to a conference on marketing to millennials, and he brought the house down with an amazing speech about the absurdity of generalizations a...

Microsoft Research deployed a tween-simulating chatbot this week, only to recall it a few hours later because it had turned into a neo-Nazi, and the next day, they published a bewildered apology that ...

NC State University researcher Max Scott and colleagues have engineered a strain of transgenic blueflies whose maggots secrete human growth factor, which they hope to use to fight infections in patien...

Since the 12th century -- and up to this very day -- tourists venture to Somerset's Glastonbury Abbey to see the grave of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, allegedly buried in the churchyard by 12th ce...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmCUSb-ZVoGothamist sent a video crew out with dumpster diving comedian Jeff Seal on a trip through NYC's nighttime streets, in which he raided the trashbags of the ...

A new shipment of science, spacewalk gear and crew supplies is on its way to the International Space Station, NASA says. Astronauts on the International Space Station will grapple an arriving Cygnus s...

Forty-seven years ago today, John Lennon and Yoko Ono celebrated their honeymoon with a weeklong Bed-In For Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. Was it a prank or a protest? Yes."It's part of our po...

A man wearing a mask takes part in a parade marking the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim outside the Bialik Rogozin school in Tel Aviv, Israel March 22, 2016. (more…)...

Learning from Tays introduction, a blog post dated March 25, 2016 by Microsoft Research Corporate VP Peter Lee: (more…)...

Just days after bloody attacks blamed on ISIS claimed scores of lives in Brussels, today dozens more people were killed by an ISIS-claimed terrorist at a soccer stadium near Baghdad. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Im a gigantic snoop. I love to peruse peoples bookshelves, rifle through the magazines on their toilet tank, look at their media Likes on Facebook, etc. I am en...

A woman in San Diego, CA is reported to have contracted the Zika virus through sexual transmission. (more…)...

The Republican presidential campaign just got even weirder. After a pro-Ted Cruz group ran a nasty ad about Donald Trump's wife, Trump said something nasty about Cruz's wife, and a too-timely story a...

For several years, The National's Bryce and Aaron Dessner have been collecting musical tributes to the Grateful Dead by a variety of their fave artists, from Sharon Van Etten to the Flaming Lips to Re...

Previously on Boing Boing: Easter Bunny hates you...

The Pentagon says U.S. forces have killed a top Islamic State commander in Syria, as part of a series of military actions targeting ISIS leadership and its storage sites for explosives. U.S. Defense S...

Concetta Antico, who made the paintings above and below, is an artist known for being a tetrachromat, meaning a genetic difference in her eyes enables her to see approximately 100 times more colors th...

Legendary punk Bob Mould (Hsker D, Sugar) has a killer new album out today, Patch the Sky! One of Bob's pals is singer-songwriter Ryan Adams who was a fan before becoming a friend. Earlier this week, ...

https://youtu.be/SLoukoBs8TEI've been avidly watching these Primitive Technology videos. The fellow who makes the videos lives in "Far North Queensland, Australia," and so far has made a hut with a ki...

There are rubber bouncy balls in between my couch cushions, under ever piece of furniture, and filling my desk tray. I feel like someone re-wrote the Trouble with Tribbles, starring bouncy balls.It st...

https://youtu.be/kDno-4eqFWU?t=7s(I've started the above video at 7 seconds so you don't have to watch a woman get hit and run over by a van.)From CCTV News in China, a video about the rescue of a wom...

The BBC reports on China's use of a "digital camo"a pixelated look believed to offer superior concealment than traditional patternsso exaggerated it resembles the video game Minecraft. (The United Sta...

London is a ghost of all the things that were once there, and The Lost London Tube Map shows off some of the most famous forgotten landmarks. Biscuit Town and Bedlam are long gone, but others (like Va...

The Monarch butterfly is headed to rapid extinction in the eastern US, reports Scott K. Johnson, because its complex ecosystem continues to collapse. humans are responsible. The life cycle of the mona...

Seemingly safe in northern New England, the residents of St. Albans, Vermont, were astonished in October 1864 when a group of Confederate soldiers appeared in their midst, terrorizing residents, robbi...

Games are awesome. They were awesome when you were a kid, slamming buttons on the old Nintendo controller. And now games are extra awesome with all the technology at hand for mobile play and now, virt...

Games are awesome. They were awesome when you were a kid, slamming buttons on the old Nintendo controller. And now games are extra awesome with all the technology at hand for mobile play and now, virt...

A month after a hospital in Hollywood was shut down by a ransomware infection that encrypted all the files on its computers and computer-controlled instruments and systems, another hospital, this one ...

More Americans are riding public transit than ever before, and not a moment too soon, because between oil's direct and indirect costs, climate change, the expense of roadworks, and the scaling problem...

You can't walk up to the Treasures in the Trash collection in the New York City Sanitation Department's east Harlem warehouse, but if you're lucky enough to get an in, you'll find retired sanitation w...

Disappointingly, these heatmaps of human bodies whose owners are experiencing various emotional states were not produced with infrared cameras, but rather with self-reporting by subjects being asked t...

Comedy legend Garry Shandling passed away in Los Angeles, today, according to the Los Angeles Police. Shandling was well respected and loved. E! Online shares a long collection of goodbyes from his ...

Theyve been very busy at the far corner of Universals Orlando theme park Islands of Adventure constructing an enormous building to house their latest attraction, Skull Island: Reign of Kong.Those with...

@kirin_nico has created a large robotic die that, when rolledif any side other than six comes upit unfolds and then refolds itself so the six side is upward.It does this slowly and spastically, reveli...

57% of New Zealand voters prefer the current design (r) to the proposed replacement (l), reports the BBC. One can't help but think of it more as a judgment on the new design than an explicit preferenc...

Familiarize yourself with the underside of myriad animals, from turtles and birds to bats and cats. (Wakaleo Animal Channel via Laughing Squid)...

Reading Julie Prodis Sulek's Mercury News story I'd hoped for more science and excitement, but it seems some NOAA scientists stumbled upon an interesting find while cataloging wrecks near the Farallon...

A group of NOAA scientists stumbled upon an interesting find while cataloging wrecks near the Farallon Islands, off the coast of Northern California near San Francisco. Reading Julie Prodis Sulek's Me...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.When an author who writes books for grown-ups is successful at translating his voice into books for kids its a win-win. Jeffrey Brown, author of graphic novels...

A Southwest Airlines passenger is allowed to check two pieces of luggage weighing up to 50lbs each for free. It's a generous allowance. But if one bag weighs 55 lbs and the other weighs 45 lbs, you'll...

Belzberg Architects built the magnificent "Skyline Residence" on a ridge in the Hollywood Hills. The 5,800 home consists of two separate structures, a main house and guest house, with a gathering spac...

Since 1993, Jake Phelps has been the top editor at legendary skateboarding magazine Thrasher. At 53, he's still a skate punk through and through. From Willy Staley's fantastic profile of Phelps in Cal...

If youve never heard of it before, you might be picturing a large, terrifying snake. But those in the know, as in, everyone whos ever used a computer like a boss, knows that python is the programming ...

Why isn't National Public Radio allowed to promote its terrific podcasts and NPR One ("the lauded, loved app that is basically the future of NPR") on air? Because NPRs board is made up of local statio...

The Ideal Conceal is a double barreled .380 that folds up into a small package that resembles a smartphone. The manufacturer says it will be available this summer for $400.From the Firearm Blog:The tw...

George Reeves remains my fave. Previously: The Evolution of Batman....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhY2JFISi2UWhen an unmarked police car drove very close to mailman Glenn Grays in Brooklyn, Grays shouted at the car. Four plainclothes officers got out of the car and ...

https://youtu.be/clbbMt2sl0kSreedharan Subramaniam shot a video of impatient waterfowl walking over to the tardy man who feeds them every morning....

Would you like to see how a sewing machine works? How braces straighten teeth? How a key and lock works? How an ant walks? This collection of 25 GIFs will show you....

https://youtu.be/_oraOhB_MigJames Meyers of Concord, North Carolina was driving his daughter to school when police pulled him over for a broken brake light. The police officer looked up Meyers' inform...

Brooklyn-based artist/designer Scott Albrecht has launched a new series of limited t-shirts designed in collaboration with a variety of other rad artists. Each shirt in the project, called Artifact, i...

Fecal transplants cured 93% of diarrhea cases in a pioneering study, reports Ars Technica's Beth Mole.By digging into the data on fecal transplantswhich are highly effective at treating dogged gut inf...

How hot is that steak? How hot is the grill it is sitting on? Is my bedroom heater vent actually warmer than the bathroom, just one a few feet away? These and many, many more mundane questions are bei...

Bosian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was jailed for 40 years for war crimes today after being found guilty of genocide in the mid-1990s Balkan conflict.The court sentenced Karadzic, 70, to 40 years in ...

Microsoft has pulled the plug on on Tay, a twitter AI chatbot that went from zero to Nazi in a matter of hours after being launched. And not the strangely-compelling Kenneth Branagh-type Nazi, either....

I'm giving the closing keynote at this year's Information Security Summit, which is being held at the Universal City Hilton in Los Angeles. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnv2ZhUqVRsJoey Muha is a heavy metal drummer of enormous skill and verve and long, beautiful flowing locks who has filled his Youtube channel with dozens and dozens ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qhzdxYnwhgSan Francisco's Office of Citizen Complaints found that the San Francisco cops who arrested public defender Jami Tillotson after she told them to stop phot...

CGI artist Jim Kazanjain's work is both surreal and hyper-real, looking for all the world like photos of true, improbable things. (more…)...

CGI artist Jim Kazanjian's work is both surreal and hyper-real, looking for all the world like photos of true, improbable things. (more…)...

Afrika Bambaataa concluded his inaugural three year term as the visiting scholar at Cornell's Hip Hop Collection by donating his personal library of 450 containers of 20,000 hand-annotated vinyl recor...

Back in 2014, RSA published a report documenting a new tactic by criminal gangs: they were hacking into the digital video recorders that stored the feeds from security cameras to gather intelligence o...

Back in 2014, RSA published a report documenting a new tactic by criminal gangs: they were hacking into the digital video recorders that stored the feeds from security cameras to gather intelligence o...

Early one morning in 1912, the residents of Villisca, Iowa, discovered a horrible scene: An entire family had been brutally murdered in their sleep. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podca...

[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...

[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...

The crowning paradox of the touring comic's life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and security of home you may not have anything to say. This week on HOME:...

[caption id="attachment_453888" align="alignnone" width="400"] Greg Stanton[/caption]The Arizona primary was a mess. Photos and videos of would-be voters standing in lines hundreds of people long circ...

Anti-Vaxxers are responsible for the rise in two infectious diseases we'd nearly eliminated from the United States. Researchers at Emory and Johns Hopkins Universities have determined, through a Natio...

Jaime Gilt, an obviously Floridian, gun-regulation-hating, 31-year-old mother, was shot in the back while driving. Her 4-year-old son whom she'd been training as a child marksman is reported to have s...

Jaime Gilt, an obviously Floridian, gun-regulation-hating, 31-year-old mother, was shot in the back while driving. Her 4-year-old son whom she'd been training as a child marksman is reported to have s...

The Obama administration will formally charge Iranian hackers for a coordinated campaign of digital attacks in 2012 and 2013 on several U.S. banks and a New York dam, Reuters reported today. The charg...

Sure hope this isn't a stealth viral ad campaign. On Florida's Interstate 95 today, one truck carrying beer and another truck carrying Frito-Lay chips crashed and littered the highway with the state's...

Officials shut down Denver International Airport on Wednesday, canceling over 1,000 flights after a mega snowstorm temporarily knocked out power and created conditions unsafe for plane takeoffs and la...

Stop by the Collector's Shangri-La booth at WonderCon this weekend, and check out this beautiful collection of "Cabinet Cards" by artist Alex Gross. From Collector's Shangdi-La's website:His (Alex Gro...

In what the Los Angeles Times reports was a 'freak event' at a Fresno home last Sunday, sunlight bouncing off of a mirrored headboard discarded in the back of a home magnified the sun's rays and start...

Boing Boing pal Isabel Lara writes to give us a heads up about a new NPR series, Changing Minds. NPR launched the project this week and it looks at stories of people whove changed their positions in w...

https://youtu.be/nhH0EDPSNhIGender Bender. (more…)...

Everything requires a login these days, and youre only one person. Experts tell you to mix it up with your passwords, never use the same one twice, add numbers, then symbols, on and on. But how to rem...

We've been making tacos a lot lately, and I was getting tired of my tacos tipping over and dumping the contents on my plate. I bought a set of these stainless steel taco stands. You will burn a couple...

Malik Taylor, aka Phife Dawg, of pioneering hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest has died at age 45 from complications arising from diabetes. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.There are only five pages in each of these books despite their 3-inch thickness. That is because each page is stuffed with layers and layers of ingenious intera...

When I was ten, my friend and I got excited by the rumor that if you play Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" backwards, it says "Smoke marijuana." We tried it and it sounded clear as day! Then we ...

On the terrific Song Exploder podcast, Iggy Pop and Joshua Homme tell the story of their song, American Valhalla, which appears on Iggy's 23rd album, Post Pop Depression. [soundcloud url="https://api....

Civil Comments - How It Works from Civil Co. on Vimeo.I'm glad the comments on Boing Boing are civil for the most part. Our readers are intelligent and polite, and it shows. Other websites aren't so l...

Georgia has become very friendly to entertainment companies looking to create media there, however the state is far less friendly to folks not identifying as heteronormative. If Georgia's Governor Nat...

Shon Arieh-Lerer goes public with his love for the industrial food-processing videos on YouTube. (Slate)...

Panorama photos of scenery are nice. Panorama photos of things that move from shot-to-shot are better. Huh magazine has a gallery of some great ones.[via]...

ESPN SportsCenter tweeted this photo of a poor urban area next to the Havana stadium where Obama attended a baseball game. The photo was accompanied by the caption, Meanwhile, next to the stadium in H...

Former US Navy frogman Mike Nelson led a life of adventure, and Sea Hunt inspired generations to explore beneath the sea. Last weekend a group of Sea Hunt reenactors took to the water in Florida to ...

https://youtu.be/uyWKoB_StKg?t=14sFormer US Navy frogman Mike Nelson (played by Lloyd Bridges) led a life of adventure in the 1958 to 1961 action-adventure television show Sea Hunt. The show inspired...

For $20 I really like this new Matone dual USB battery pack! I haven't found anything better at this price.The Matone battery is a great combo. I've tried water and damage resistant batteries, and sol...

The Marxophone is a 1912 toy instrument that combines a zither with a keyboard linked to flexible hammers that repeatedly strike the strings. The resulting sound, over the years, has earned a strang...

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...

Tens of thousands of rape kits remain untested. Samantha Bee wonders why the time is taken to complete the kits, a lengthy and unpleasant process, but authorities and politicians are so enthusiastic...

It's a good time to be a US airline: the 10 listed US carriers made $24.2B in profits last year, up from $7.3B the year before. (more…)...

Tassos writes, "Im one of Coney, who make all kinds of play where the audience can take meaningful part. Im writing and game-designing REMOTE, a new piece of ticklishly interactive theatre, explorin...

O'Reilly's venerable, essential OSCON is in Austin, Texas this year, meaning that you'll get to combine brain-thumpingly good talks and workshops on free/open source tools and techniques with some of ...

Andy from The Jerx points out that the traditional conjurer's technique of tapping once, twice, thrice-and-VANISH is a fundamentally unsound way to do a vanish, because you're showing the audience wha...

Textbook giant Houghton Mifflin publishes Randall Munroe's amazing Thing Explainer, and a lucky accident happened when someone in the textbook division noticed Munroe's amazing explanatory graphics, a...

Just look at it....

The perfect accompaniment to your home-made poop emoji peeps: a marshmallow Jabba the Hutt. (more…)...

Rentdownstairs was expecting a new baby, so they commissioned Atlanta woodworker Garrick Andrus to carve this amazing tentacled crib out of walnut for the impending bundle of joy. (more…)...

An exceedingly rare and historically important Beatles record sold at auction today for $110,000. The 78 RPM 10" acetate includes "Hello Little Girl," apparently the first song John Lennon ever wrote ...

These 12" x 16" microfiber cloths are going to break me of my paper towel addiction. You can get 24 for $9.88 on Amazon. If you use Subscribe and Save, you can get them for $8.40....

Artist, and Boing Boing pal, Gus Harper continues to create beautiful things. This collaboration with videographer Isaac Rodriquez is lovely. Gus has been experimenting with body painting.Gus had th...

Todays episode is a minipod, a smattering of time travel, future travel, and news about the show. Flash Forward: RSS | iTunes | Twitter | Facebook | Web | PatreonIn this episode we hear a bunch of mes...

In my kitchen, or in my camper, this single burner cast iron griddle is a huge boon. Recommended by a friend when I complained about clean up when cooking for one, this griddle is pretty sweet.The thi...

Since April of 2013, Cory has posted frequently about Scarfolk for Boing Boing. Now, Hunter Oatman-Stanford has interviewed Richard Littler, the creator of this fictional 1970s dystopia. Even in the t...

A gentleman was evidently outraged that fellow diners wanted him to take his snake and leave a sushi restaurant. He did leave, and returned with a very large snake. After throwing the snake into the r...

Youre a saver. Maybe even a little nostalgic. You want to hang on to all your data, all the time, because you just never know when youre going to need it next or want to look at it again. Those old pi...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Shaped like a hexagon to mimic the dimensions of a cube, Minecraft: Blockopedia is designed for full-on Minecraft geeks, although those of us who have only watc...

In Dan Baum's excellent article in Harper's about the devastating consequences of the US government's war on drugs, there's a revealing quote from John Ehrlichman, Nixon's Watergate co-conspirator:Id ...

A two hour celebration of the C64, from its birth year of 1982. (Thanks, UPSO!) ...

In response to the terrorist bombings in Belgium, Ted Cruz said, "We need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized." Of course, sending secur...

Phil Foglio, co-creator of the amazing Girl Genius comics, writes, "We are Kickstarting our latest Girl Genius collection; City of Lightning through April 12." (more…)...

Alice writes, "Held at BAFTA (195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN) Level Up will boast a discussion and celebration of digital storytelling in gaming led by a panel of renowned author-gamers, including aca...

A group of German researchers from ADAC have published their work on extending last year's amplification attack that let thieves steal Priuses with a $17 gadget that detected your key's unlock signa...

Michael C Ford has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, having pleaded guilty to running a sextortion/phishing operation from his work computer at the US embassy in London for two y...

My condolences to his family, who deserved a better person in their lives. (more…)...

Rob Ford, the former Toronto mayor famous for political scandals and drug abuse, is dead at 46. He was suffering from pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer.In 2013, the Star revealed that For...

After asking the public to decide upon a name for a $287m research ship, Britain's Natural Environment Research Council is feeling stupid, because they've picked "Boaty McBoatface."The storm that has ...

The BBC reports that several blasts hit the airport and a metro station in Brussels, killing at least 26 people.Two blasts hit Zaventem airport at about 07:00 GMT, and another struck Maelbeek metro st...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "Readers may recall a long-simmering dispute over the use of common abbreviationsrequired in citations, a technical standard known as the Uniform System of Citatio...

Happytoast made this amazing thing for B3ta's video game art challenge. Someone make it into a real game, plz? (more…)...

Silverpush, the company that pioneered covert ultrasonic audio beacons that let advertisers link your activity on phones, tablets and laptops, says it will no longer sell the technology and does not w...

Nixon aide/Watergate jailbird John Ehrlichman confessed to Dan Baum that Richard Nixon started the War on Drugs because "We knew we couldnt make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but b...

The World Wide Web Consortium, the decades old champion of the open Web, let down many of its biggest supporters when it decided to cater to Hollywood by standardizing DRM as part of the spec for HTML...

Just in time for Easter, an easy recipe for making your own marshmallow poop emojis! (more…)...

Pittsburgh's Sugar Bakers preserves gorgeous edible flowers in clear lollipops: root beer daisies, blueberry stained glass, candied pink rose-petals, watermelon violas, giant ice pansies and many more...

https://vimeo.com/157579053Burgerfiction assembles a greatest hits reel of scenes where filmmakers have ingeniously dodged the bullet of a PG-13 or R rating by having characters substitute their own...

The latest figures on government-backed student loans are in, and with them, the news that the US government took $176 million out of ex-students paychecks and Social Security in the last three months...

In a surprising turn of events, the U.S. government on Monday paused its battle with Apple over an iPhone, and what may be its greater goal of mandating backdoors in consumer encryption. On Monday aft...

After porn actress Stoya claimed that James Deen raped her, nine other women came forward with stories of his violent misdeeds. With Deen's career not quite over, Zak Smith profiled him for "A Very Ol...

Not for the squeamish!What might human flesh taste like? It's apparently illegal to eat people, even yourself, so Greg Foot of the BBC's Brit Lab settled for having a tiny morsel of his own thigh re...

As part of its big iPhone/iPad launch event today in Cupertino, Apple also released a software update that fixes a flaw which made it possible for iCloud-stored images or video sent via iMessage to be...

"Everywhere they went, the attackers left behind their throwaway phones." Buried in the New York Times story Mark poked fun at earlier for its Crypto Panic vibe, a confirmation of sorts that there's r...

Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History is a video series about women overlooked by history raising production funds at crowdfunding site Seed & Spark. Creators Anita Sarkeesian, Laura Hudson (recent...

This is the first USB battery I've seen with a Lightning input port (instead of a micro USB port). It's got 3600mAh and you can buy it for $8 when you use the YCOIWN27 coupon code at checkout....

This March 30th, on DisneyXD's 'Star Wars Rebels,' Darth Vader will face off against his former padawan! We already know Vader survives, will I be heartbroken?...

This March 30th, on DisneyXD's 'Star Wars Rebels,' Darth Vader will face off against his former padawan! We already know Vader survives, will I be heartbroken?...

Drones are so hot right now. Plain old pictures from your human-height point of view, or videos taken from the ground are old news. Everyones shooting from the sky and you should too because the image...

Edward Aubry's Unhappenings is a smart and satisfying time travel novel. I love stories about paradox created by folks moving around in time, and this novel has it in spades.At age 14 Nigel Walden sta...

https://youtu.be/IANBoybVApQDestin of the YouTube show Smarter Every Day went to a company called Polymagnets and learns how they are making programmable magnets that can behave like springs or door l...

From a March 19, 2016 New York Times article:One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gib...

Last night my eight-year-old daughter and I enjoyed Pee-wee's Big Holiday. This is a fantastic return for Pee-wee Herman, and Paul Reubens has done a masterful job. Pee-wee's charm, innocence, and a...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Hes the one who makes your whole world possible. This is a world of noble heroes, and savage villains. A world where men and women of great power die everyday. ...

From Brent Watanabe:San Andreas Deer Cam is a live video stream from a computer running a hacked version of Grand Theft Auto V, hosted on Twitch.tv. The hack creates a deer and follows it as it wander...

Wayne Propst says that the snail fossils he unearthed in his backyard landed there during Noah's Flood. According to 60abc, Joe Taylor, director of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in Crosbyton, Texas, "a...

https://youtu.be/8YLGXa6Na6UA North Texas man refused to pull over for police, leading them on a chase through five counties. He was forced to stop after cops set up spikes in the road and shot out hi...

Shinygreencloud says: "This map has hung in my firehouse for years. I just looked at it for the first time."...

Last week, the United States Navy launched exercises at the new Ice Camp Sargo in the Arctic Circle. Seen above, the nuclear submarine USS Hampton surfaces through the ice. It's a majestic sight, bu...

https://youtu.be/T3_5rvTKewUChuck Ungar did a terrific job pasting the heads of Cruz, Rubio, and Trump onto Grandpa, Eddie, and Herman. Great lettering, too.Here's the original for comparison:https://...

https://youtu.be/LjBUZ43bLjERgraves says: "I literally had JUST built this fence to keep Stella in the yard and was admiring it..."[via]...

https://youtu.be/K-Zg1-fR9kURigoni Ironworks of Spring, Texas, forges bottle openers. They cost $28.[via]...

Author John Biggs, who cranked 'em out for Techcrunch and Gizmodo, is quitting blogging. He writes about the things he's learned and earned generating 11,000 posts.The first thing, of course, was the ...

https://youtu.be/Kpu8pNcANbkStep 1: Buy a catnip banana for $3 on Amazon.Step 2: Give the catnip banana to your cat. Step 3. Record a video of the cat playing with it. Step 4: Edit the video, using th...

If your website looks like the above, it just got old. HEY LOOK, IT'S EVERY BOOTSTRAP WEBSITE EVER [adventurega.me]Want to make an original website yourself?Forget that! Who would ever want to put in ...

Hulk Hogan's courtroom sex-tape victory signifies how much the web has already changed, writes John Hermann: casual privacy invasion only disgusts readers who are all-too-aware that they might be next...

Adam West still wins....

Hanson Robotics makes expressive robot heads so obviously uncanny that uncanniness itself seems to be the objective. (more…)...

Minecraft's combat system always reflected its simplicity, and basically amounted to clicking things until they died. It's just been overhauled with a game update centered entirely on combat. Ideas th...

Studies have found writer's block to be a simpler problemunhappinessthan the legends around it suggest. But there are different kinds of unhappiness, and it's the blockee's job to be honest about whic...

Ken Shirriff embarked upon a teardown of counterfeit Apple laptop chargers. On the outside, they're typo-free and very convincing. Inside, though, they're a dangerous mangle of cheap parts and inexpli...

We all know who the number one most important person is at any company. The man or woman who solves all our problems, makes our dreams come true, and somehow, every time achieves the impossible. Yes, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arOkGC9lCAkLove Hulten writes, "The Echo Observatory is a handcrafted tribute to fractals and self-similar patterns. It's a mysterious artifact that both generates an...

It's his 30th consecutive closing address to the attendees of SXSW Interactive, and as always, Bruce delivers: an overarching, everything-in-the-world tour of everything weird, dystopian, screwed up, ...

Though they are legally required to disclose the names of any members or donore who give them more than $5K, the Commercial Energy Working Group -- which lobbies against energy sector regulations -- r...

The Things Organized Neatly blog (previously), which celebrates the kentucky art of knolling, is now a gorgeous, essential book filled with photos of meticulously arranged wonders of all description. ...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Everyone is focused on the high profile fight between Apple and the FBI, which is a good thing, because the outcome of this case will affect all of us." (more&h...

Everyone has an idea for an app or a website, but only the few and the proud know exactly how to make it happen with real, live, tangible tech skills. Those do-ers are coders and you too can learn how...

LL Cool J, seeking to return to his rap music roots, has been recording a new album with pal Eminem. Vibe tells us:While LL Cool Js new album has yet to get an official title or tracklist, the rappe...

Russian law provides for a national censorwall that entertainment companies can populate with the URLs of websites they dislike, without much oversight or review (it's similar the system used in the U...

Time to see how much money is in those Cayman Island accounts.— Joel and 9 Others (@joeljohnson) March 18, 2016A Florida jury today ruled in favor of Hulk Hogan's privacy claims instead of Gawke...

Chris Nichols of LA Magazine interviewed Paul Reubens, creator of Pee-wee Herman, about his big Los Angeles adventures. And don't forget, Pee-wees Big Holiday premieres on Netflix today. (more&hellip...

Owen Labrie received a light one-year jail sentence after sexually assaulting an underage girl at his New England prep school. While his victim was subjected to scorn and disbelief from peers and the ...

Who doesnt like playing games? If your high school and college educations had been all playtime instead of studying, you probably wouldve liked it all a lot more. Well, even though youre all grown up ...

The Tri-State Freethinkers are raising funds to place billboards around Kentucky's creationist theme park. They want folks to know that the Noah's Ark story is one of genocide, and incest, and may n...

The Tri-State Freethinkers are raising funds to place billboards around Kentucky's creationist theme park. They want folks to know that the Noah's Ark story is one of genocide, and incest, and may n...

The Tri-State Freethinkers are raising funds to place billboards around Kentucky's creationist theme park. They want folks to know that the Noah's Ark story is one of genocide, and incest, and may n...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.A is for adorable and thats just the beginning of the attributes youll want to ascribe to this sweet account of anthropomorphic animals and the alphabet. Teagan...

I haven't read T.W. Piperbrook's Contamination post-apocalyptic zombie series but it has 4.1/5 stars with 744 customer reviews on Amazon. Right now you can get the first 4 books as the Kindle editions...

Cuepoint looks back at the storied career of Giorgio Moroder, the pioneering producer who paved the way for nearly all electronic dance music since the 1970s and is still pushing new beats. Below, my ...

Cuepoint looks back at the storied career of Giorgio Moroder, the pioneering producer who paved the way for nearly all electronic dance music since the 1970s and is still pushing new beats. Below, my ...

Jason E. Kozan, 30, of Euclid, Ohio was charged with vandalizing his 85-year-old neighbor's house over 100 times by pelting it with eggs.From an earlier article atCleveland.com before Kozan was arrest...

Get your groove on with the incredible opening sequence to Tilt, a 1979 Italian disco TV show hosted by Stefania Rotolo. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. (via r/ObscureMedia, thanks UPSO!)...

On Tuesday, Jason Thompson and his four-year-old son Xavier were riding home on a Toronto bus. Suddenly the bus stopped and the driver told everyone to stay in their seats. A police officer got on the...

Emma Caresimo, 40, was surprised when a bailiff came to her home in Magor, Wales and put a clamp on her car. When she asked why, he told her she'd failed to pay a fine for dropping a cigarette butt in...

You'll a few more things -- some copper cotterpins, some zinc nails, insulated wire, and steel wool. You make a battery out of the lemon, short it against the steel wool, which makes it red hot, and...

In 2001, a Mississippi chicken breeder claimed a lumber company inflicted $300,000 worth of damage to his pasture. The New York Times' Brett Weiner dramatized a bizarre deposition from the lawsuit, ...

Marko Rakar writes, "The TV show 'Montirani Proces' is a popular show very much like "The Daily Show" and the crew which creates it is very much like The Onion. They have produced six episodes of thei...

More proof that all devices in the modern world are just computers in fancy cases: the FBI's joint warning issued with the DoT and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration tells drivers ...

This video, taken by Kristina Shafer, seems to portray an arctic fox laughing. It is, in fact, asking if the room can be tidied up.Kristina has cared for Archer the Arctic fox since he was young. He...

On Wednesday night, the person who runs the Twitter feed for San Francisco's BART system began answering riders' frustrated tweets with frank, honest statements that eschewed the bland "thank you for ...

Kirkwood, Atlanta, looks like a standard-issue gentrified urban neighborhood, a mix of yuppies and old-timers. Josh Green moved there and found a community ambivalent about the changes in its fortunes...

Fanfreak's Space Skull tee is $20 at the Neatoshop; how is it that I've never seen this design concept before?...

Imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning writes, "I filed my Freedom of Information Act request in 2014 for Training Material related to theInsider Threat Program. I had almost forgoten about it, when...

If you're one of the few engineers at Apple qualified to code up the backdoor that the FBI is seeking in its court order, and if your employer loses its case, and if you think you have a solemn duty a...

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For Christianity Today, theologian Michael Horton explores the "theology" of Donald Trump and his followers. It reads as superficially civil, yet completely contemptuous and comically unprepared: a gr...

>[?Today we travel to a future without pets. What would it take for us to give up our fuzzy, slithery, fishy friends? Should our pets get more rights? And if we didnt have dogs or cats, would we domes...

Bloomberg reporter Dune Lawrence relates her two-year online ordeal at the hands of Benjamin Wey, a disgraced business consultant and harasser who writes crudely libelous "news" stories about her (and...

Marcus Sakey's Brilliance trilogy takes us to an alternate United States crippled with bigotry, and being torn apart at the seams by self-serving politicians. I could barely put it down, I almost thou...

Ladar Levison shut down his secure email service Lavabit in 2013, when the Feds served a warrant and gag-order on him, seeking to get him to backdoor his service to let them snoop on someone. Everyone...

Join me in the liminal space between deep culture horror and ironic satisfaction: Awkward metal band photos...

The original Hamster Dance** website was an early indicator of the terror that the internet would become. ** This silent bullshit is a mockery of the insidious, horrifying, original Hamster Dance. ...

Hugh sends us this "beautifully made mashup video of the Republican candidates as Munsters."...

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh El Damati announced today that there are almost certainly two hidden chambers in King Tutankhamun's tomb. A recent radar scan that indicates the existence of the ...

Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh El Damati announced today that there are almost certainly two hidden chambers in King Tutankhamun's tomb. A recent radar scan that indicates the existence of the ...

Carryingsmall pliers and screwdrivers can behelpful and comforting.When travelingwithout checked baggage, I feel strangeleaving behind my small multitools.Beingwithout tools is weird. (more…)...

Carryingsmall pliers and screwdrivers can behelpful and comforting.When travelingwithout checked baggage, I feel strangeleaving behind my small multitools.Beingwithout tools is weird. (more…)...

By the time Carla Squitieri of Chesterfield, Missouri realized she had accidentally dropped her $400,000 wedding ring in the trash, the garbage collectors had already come and gone. She and her husban...

I wanted a stand for my iPhone 6 Plus, and after looking around, I took a chance on this $5 TaoTronics adjustable kickstand. I wasn't disappointed. The body is made of anodized aluminum, and the kicks...

Google is already selling Boston Dynamics, the robotics startup whose nightmarish-yet-adorable battlefield deathbots are already the stuff of internet lore. It acquired the company three years ago.beh...

Medium/Robert Del Naja created this lovely video, starring Kate Moss, for Massive Attack's "Ritual Spirit" (a collaboration with Azekel) from their killer EP of the same name. "Me and Kate have been...

Vinyl is where its at. The sound quality is so warm, so pure, its like every song was written and performed just for you. If only everyone listened to music as it was intended to be heard like this. W...

https://youtu.be/dm8Q4fgv8QoIt's hard to tell if this baboon is astonished or angry about the behavior of the tailless primate on the other side of the glass....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.As someone who spent many misguided years of my youth drinking poorly-eyeballed gin and tonics out of coffee mugs, I never really understood: How exactly can yo...

Alicia Tan reports on an online "challenge" trend in China in which women prove that the have a thin waist by covering it completely with a sheet of office paper.For the challenge, women are required ...

"Spider in a Bitter 18-day Fight Against Time." This headline reads like Upworthy clickbait, but it's from a 1932 newspaper article about a tiny arachnid in Ohio that became famous for repeatedly atte...

Next month, the Isle of Wight Zoo in England is opening a National Poo Museum! The new exhibition will include preserved feces from a wide array of animals, from the Lesser Madagascan Tenrec to lions,...

MinutePhysics responds to CGP Grey's video "The Trouble with Transporters," below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI...

SeaWorld, battered by criticism over its captive orcas, has promised to acquire no more of them. The decision comes after years of fading business fortunes in the wake of a disturbing documentary abou...

Italian model and actor Fabio Lanzoni has become a United States citizen, reports NBC News."This is one of the happiest days of my life," Fabio said in a statement. "Over the course of my career I've ...

I've owned a 12" Retina MacBook for about nine months and feel rather ambivalent about it. It's surprisingly powerful and effective for work, but Apple seems to have given up on the USB-C ecosystem at...

Researchers at Duo Labs bought a "stack" of OEM laptops and audited the preinstalled shovelware they came with, looking specifically at the security implications of the default settings. (more…...

The police in Charlton, Massachusetts (one of the fifty safest towns in America) have issued a warning to the citizenry that they've heard tell of young men in a black SUV who are driving around town,...

The UK government has passed rules banning academics who receive public funding from "lobbying" ministers and MPs about their research, meaning that the people whom the government pays to acquire expe...

Russian soldiers who screw up are made to carry gigantic wooden props that illustrate their sins: for example, if you're caught looking at your phone, you have to run around with a massive fake wooden...

In Understanding overconfidence: Theories of intelligence, preferential attention, and distorted self-assessment, an open access paper published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, psych...

The Cancer of Superstition, a non-fiction treatise commissioned from author H.P. Lovecraft, was found in a memorabilia collection in a defunct magic shop.Magician Harry Houdini asked Lovecraft to ghos...

The Cancer of Superstition, a non-fiction treatise commissioned from author H.P. Lovecraft, was found in a memorabilia collection in a defunct magic shop.Magician Harry Houdini asked Lovecraft to ghos...

Watch to the left on this Sportcenter interview in an airport. One of the women by the carousel walks in front of another, and the the woman behind just disappears. Did she duck and shuffle off at ...

Nice country you got there, America. It'd be a shame if something bad happened to it. Noted soothsayer and shitbag Donald Trump can see into the future, and he promises 'riots' and other very 'bad thi...

[caption id="attachment_452875" align="alignnone" width="944"] Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and first human in space[/caption]"!" (Let's Go!)The long-running annual celebration of space culture Yuri...

The government of Iran claims to have obtained thousands of pages of information from devices used by the U.S. Navy sailors briefly detained in January. (more…)...

Above, "Game of Thrones" before the computer graphics. Guardians of the Galaxy:Pirates of the Caribbean:Life of Pi: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: See more at Design You Trust. (via Neatorama)...

On YouTube, a gentleman with an unplaceable but heavy European accent crushes things with his hydraulic press. Above, he crushes Barbie. ("Beautiful but for how long?") (more…)...

The MIT Media Lab's "Flying Pantograph" is a pen-wielding tele-robot controlled by a drawing interface. From MIT's Fluid Interfaces research group:A drone becomes an expression agent - modified to c...

Library workers at Western University's Graduate Resource Centre in London, Ontario, had a workshop from Alison Macrina, the library organiser whose Library Freedom Project won a battle with the US DH...

After Gene Wilder saw early sketches of his costume for the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, he had some strong opinions to share with director Mel Stuart. From Letters of Note (via Dang...

If you're like me, you've learned a few "everyday magic" tricks that you can do with things normal humans carry around in their pockets, and if you're like me, you've discovered that it's hard to casu...

Bingham County, Idaho Sheriff Craig Rowland told a TV interviewer that he opposes a bill to centrally collect and track rape kits because "the majority of our rapes that are called in are actually con...

I much prefer this 1950s Egyptian television commercial for Coca-Cola to the brand's much better known 1971 jingle "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) Buy the World a Coke." In...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Gappers are creepy little orange, multi-eyed, round creatures that love nothing more than to hang out on or near goats, shrieking all the while. As you might im...

I wrote an essay called "Fuck Optimism" for a print project from F-Secure, about how we'll make the Internet a 21st century electronic nervous system that serves humanity and stop it from being a tool...

There are so many ploys and scams out there that promise to teach you just enough Japanese to enjoy your big once-in-a-lifetime trip that even contemplating which one to choose is impossible.My trips ...

But can he chew gum at the same time? (RuboCubo, via Brad Kreit)...

But can he chew gum at the same time? (RuboCubo, via Brad Kreit)...

Improv Everywhere (previously) keeps on bringing the hits, but seriously, this one takes the cake. (more…)...

Since 2014, Suckfly, a hacker group apparently based in Chengdu, China, has used at least 9 signing certs to make their malware indistinguishable from official updates from the vendor. (more…)...

Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider are two artists who spent more than a year working with prisoners to identify CEOs who presided over terrible crimes without any personal penalties, and paired convicts...

2.6 million people die in the United States each year.Stroke is the fifth leading killer in the United States. 795,000 people have a stroke each year.I had a friend who had a massive bleeding stroke a...

So much to do, so little time. Youre super busy and when youre in the zone, working on something you love or simply have to crush out, you need the right tools. The last thing you want to do is deal w...

[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...

https://youtu.be/a83PBf1UrIsWhy hasn't Trump been arrested for inciting violence?...

https://youtu.be/3gLeUdpHkUoWhen they aren't patrolling the state highways of Missouri, the Missouri State Highway Patrol is making videos about making meth. In this episode, Sgt. Jim Wing reveals his...

In 1975, Playboy had a circulation of 5.6 million copies a month, and copies could be found in 18% of households. Over the next four decades, circulation eroded. As of June 2106, worldwide circulation...

When Obama appointed Tom Wheeler, formerly the top lobbyist for both the cable industry and the mobile phone industry to run the FCC, many people (including me) were outraged at the idea of putting su...

In 1921, the Custer Wolf -- a predator so prolific and terrifying that it rated its own documentary and biography -- was finally killed. (more…)...

Chris writes, "I bought my first e-book in 1998, before my e-reading hardware had even arrived yet. Yesterday I discovered that Barnes & Noble has effectively stolen that book from me, mistakenly repl...

Tony from the Starshipsofa podcast writes, "This week I talk (MP3) to freelance science journalist Mark Zastrow about his visit to a controversial Korean lab, led by Woosuk Hwang who is cloning puppy...

Scarfolk is a fictional English horror-town stuck in a perpetual loop, from 1970-1980, from which beautifully weathered artifacts escape onto our modern Web. (more…)...

Javier Arcos lives in Madrid, where he scouts junk to turn into some of the sweetest, snazziest junkbots I've ever seen (and I've seen a few). (more…)...

12/8/15 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 serie...

12/8/15 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 serie...

Daniel Holland made the striking observation that if you faceswap The X-Files' Scully and Mulder, you get a synthpop duo. (more…)...

The intensifying legal battle between Apple and the Government of the United States of America is blowing my mind. The legal briefs coming out of Cupertino are awesome reading for those of us who care...

Thrashed by Donald Trump in today's Florida GOP primary election, Marco Rubio is quitting the race to be the party's pick to run for President. The NYT reports that his youth did him in. And one cruci...

I'm working on a campaign with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to document and change the way DRM stuff -- ebooks, music, videos, games, and devices -- are marketed and sold, and I need your help! ...

California Governor Jerry Brown signaled today that the people of California will not take a Trump Presidency lightly. The Sacramento Bee shares the story:If Trump were ever elected, wed have to build...

California Governor Jerry Brown signaled today that the people of California would not take a Trump Presidency lightly. (more…)...

Amlie Lamont, a former staffer at website-hosting startup Squarespace, writes that she often found herself disregarded and disrespected by her colleagues. One comment in particular, though, set her re...

The Daily Dot got a copy of the six-page, unenforceable, flaming pile of shit that Donald Trump's campaign revealed to prospective volunteers on Saturday. Even by trumpian standards, it's a conscience...

Neil Cicierega's "Bustin." (Thanks, UPSO!)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WENeil Cicierega's "Bustin." (Thanks, UPSO!)...

Iconic action hero Indiana Jones will be returning to the silver screen, portrayed once again by Harrison Ford and directed by Stephen Spielberg. The movie is set to release in 2019.Raiders of the L...

US Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) introduced a House resolution to recognize magic as a "rare and valuable art form and national treasure." Yesterday, the bill (H.Res.642) was referred to the Hou...

David Proctor writes, "I'm a Master's candidate at Minot State University doing research for a thesis on the Maker Community. Specifically I am trying to understand what motivates people to make and ...

The Snooper's Charter is the mass-surveillance bill the UK government is trying to ram through Parliament. It's incredibly, irresponsibly broad -- and that's been the conclusion of every independent e...

Laurie Penny's latest, sacrelicious short story on Tor.com, "Your Orisons May Be Recorded," is a hilarious thought experiment about the working conditions for the angels who answer customer service pr...

In response to the FBI's attack on Apple's use of encryption-based security methods, some of the biggest names in technology are reported to be planning an expanded use of encryption for user data tha...

Go back to school. Think about those days of lounging on the quad, reading a book while laying on your stomach in the sunshine, then grabbing coffee between study sessions and waltzing to class in a b...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.In 1982 John Belushi died from an overdose in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont when he was 33 years old. At his memorial service, his friend and collaborator, ...

NASA, the Japan Meteorological Agency and other climate research groups report that February was the planet's warmest seasonally adjusted month on record. Last month was also the world's most unusuall...

Today Phil Lesh celebrates his 76th birthday! Happy birthday!...

ILM has just revealed 45 concept illustrations from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. What secrets will they contain? (more…)...

Famed author JK Rowling has been in the news of late. Her recently released History of Magic in North America stumbles over a number of insensitive cultural hot points, not least of which is her chara...

Disney has announced a series of three monthly subscription loot crates from the Haunted Mansion, released by the "Ghost Relations Department." (more…)...

Gris Grimly, author/illustrator of some wicked nursery rhymes, created this fantastic print for our friends at Collector's Shangri-La. You can meet Mr. Grimly, and I suspect Collector's Shangri-La's c...

Stanford engineers demonstrated how six tiny microTug robots -- with gripping, adhesive feet inspired by geckos -- can work together to pull a 4,000 pound car on polished concrete, albeit very very ...

In the late 2020s, NASA plans to send a probe to Jupiter's moon Europa to determine if there's oceanic life beneath its crust. Before then, Draper Laboratory hopes that its novel sensor system of Cube...

A blockchain is an online database that stores information across a network of personal computers, making it not just decentralized but distributed. This means no central company or person owns the da...

Silicon Valley is all its "we can save the world" mindset when it comes to education, income inequality, and green tech. But where is the Bay Area's tech industry when it comes to gun violence? Over a...

Conservative organ The National Review published a scathing attack on poor white communities, part of its general disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's support base. If you eve...

Conservative organ The National Review published a scathing attack on poor white communities [paywall], part of its general disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump's support base. ...

James Gleick, the science writer who established himself with classics like Chaos: Making a New Science but whose later books, like the important and brilliant The Information: A History, a Theory, a ...

Ian Clark's long academic paper in the Journal of Radical Librarianship takes a while to get to the point, but when it arrives, it's a very, very good one: in the post-Snowden era, we can no longer ad...

Ian Clark's long academic paper in the Journal of Radical Librarianship takes a while to get to the point, but when it arrives, it's a very, very good one: in the post-Snowden era, we can no longer ad...

David "Utopia of Rules" Graeber (previously) is in magnificent full throat in a long essay in the Baffler about the long-overdue threat to UK's greatest export: security for the world's ultra-wealthy ...

Public and private universities alike have been transformed into financial shell-games for Wall Street's wealthiest hedge-funds, while tuition and student debt soar, adjuncts are exploited, and the li...

Barcelona design firm Bel & Bel makes chairs out of the front farings of old Vespa scooters, with the option of working turn-signals (no side-mirrors in sight, alas). (more…)...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his nation will soon conduct a nuclear warhead test by launching ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads as a test, the official KCNA news agency r...

A police officer in Fort Worth was taken off patrol Monday after video surfaced showing him pepper-spraying passing bikers from the side of the road. WFAA reports that a force spokesman admitted "pe...

https://youtu.be/qDjts_FgKfwThe Orange County Weekly reports that the O.C. District Attorney's office (OCDA) has filed charges against three of the police officers who were seen in a widely-shared sur...

The chief health and safety officer of the NFL today acknowledged a connection between football-related head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), in what is the first time any senior foo...

Last month, an anonymous work-colleague at Alberta's Party City sent's Degas Sikorski a homophobic "Valentine" that he posted last week. (more…)...

For the past year or so, I've been paying for and using a VPN service called VPN Unlimited. I use it on my Macbook Air and my iPhone. I've never experienced any downtime with it, and it seems to be fa...

To celebrate Pi Day (3/14), have fun with MyPiDay, developed last year by Stephen Wolfram and company. Enter your birthday or any other number and see where it first appears in pi. Background in Wolf...

Above, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Below, "The Graduate," "The Shining," and "Star Wars: A New Hope." Many more at The Walk Of Life Project" (via WAXY)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp9AFQqGDbEhttps://w...

I want the playlist for this weird video. (more…)...

Cruise Loch Ness has just commissioned construction of a 1.4 million custom catamaran that can take more than 200 passengers on a quest for Nessie. According to the company, purchase of the new vessel...

Portland's incomparable Ready Frenzy is offering six postcards from Sean Tejaratchi's acerbically brilliant Liartown, USA (previously). One dollar each (cheap!). (more…)...

https://youtu.be/qhriETwPf10A European-Russian spacecraft headed out from our humble little planet to space today, in search for life on Mars. (more…)...

Vladimir Putin says Russian troops will begin withdrawing from Syria starting Tuesday, the day which marks 5 years since the start of Syria's bloody civil war. Putin's pledge is a move to help advance...

North Korea has responded to the resignation of high-profile staff at Breitbart and the site's spiteful (and quickly-deleted) response. The lies of the venomous she-bitch Michelle Fields against Trump...

From Vox:Two people made Wingdings happen: Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes (proprietors of the firm and husband-and-wife team). As designers of the font Lucida, they crafted pioneering type uniquely...

In honor of Pi Day (3/14/16 = 3.14160), here's a page from The Giant Golden Book of Mathematics (1958) that shows you how to calculate Pi by dropping toothpicks on a wood floor.We see circles everywhe...

On Thursday (3/17), the pioneering artists from San Francisco's contemporary dance company ODC will launch their 2016 season with a stunning array of world premiere pieces at the Yerba Buena Center ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bnxgN3_8fUKellogg cereals are investigating a video posted online that purports to show an assembly-line worker pissing on an assembly line. The good news, Kellogg rep...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.I love the tidbits of history, the unique visual style, the subtle humor, and the breadth of coverage in Timeline: A Visual History of Our World. On each 10x29-...

https://youtu.be/8S0FDjFBj8oWill Smith is an SNL writer and UCB Comedy who manages to pull off a five-and-a-half minute TED talk that isn't about anything excerpt the talk itself. Through gestures and...

Amos Dudley, a broke undergrad, casted a mold of his teeth using "cheap alginate powder, Permastone, and a 3d printed impression tray," then 3D printed and vacuformed a series of alingment trays for a...

In 1954, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were the guests of honor on the TV show, This is Your Life. According to RexHurst on /r/ObscureMedia, this is the the "only time they appeared together on live TV...

We've posted about the world's best animal before: Adorable tiny baby ducklings love taking a bath with patient capybaraCapybaras enjoy hot springsEscaped capybara spotted at sewage treatment plant In...

Identical twins Bridgette and Paula Powers think of themselves as a single person.Frank Robson profiled them for the Sydney Morning Herald:Before we meet, I phone identical twins Paula and Bridgette...

Michael Geist sez, "For the past two and a half months, I have been writing a daily series on the trouble with the Trans Pacific Partnership. The 50 part series wrapped up today with the case against ...

Bassist Iggy Jackson-Cohen is a genius. HuffPo made the source supercut....

Microsoft plans to turn Minecraft into a test suite for artificial intelligence research, reports the BBC. As a simplified but all-encompassing model of the world, it's perfect for tutoring 'bots.Micr...

John Oliver continues to deliver the best comedy tech analysis in the business, with an epic rant/explainer that delves into Apple vs FBI and the new crypto wars with scathing wit and deep, technica...

After Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields was beaten up by one of Donald Trump's aides while covering a Florida campaign event, the company's senior management sided with Trump, ordering staff to cease...

Pirate Party MP Birgitta Jonsdottir has long sat in the Icelandic parliament, later joined by two more MPs, being part of the reform movement that has repudiated the Icelandic establishment, which hel...

The 2016 Car Hacker's Handbook expands on the hugely successful 2014 edition, in which the Open Garages movement boiled down all they'd learned running makerspaces for people interested in understandi...

Fast-talking, doodling math genius Vi Hart (previously) really hates Pi Day, and every year, she celebrates her loathing with a fresh video pooping on your 3/14 parade. (more…)...

Mark Marino writes, "Kick your Norton Anthology to the curb, and check out the latest collection of digitally born literature. Published by the Electronic Literature Organization, the collection cont...

The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was on track to deliver deploy 20,000 MW of grid connected solar power by 2022 ("more than the current solar capacity of the worlds top five solar-producin...

Two things are inevitable: death and taxes. Unless, of course, you are a transhuman, immortal artificial life form that uses humans as gut-flora (that is, a major corporation). Then they're both optio...

Chase Alan Sherman experienced a psychiatric episode after taking the drug spice, that prompted his family to call the police and an ambulance. When sheriff's deputies from Coweta County, GA arrived, ...

Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab and former CEO of Creative Commons, founder of the first ISP in Japan, and former Sony board-member, has penned an outstanding editorial describing the ways in w...

Everyone codes. Thats just the way the world works these days, and its certainly the way the job market works. Its an essential job skill that everyone who doesnt already know should try to wrap their...

Remember when the idea of printing any object you could dream up was total sci-fi bologna? Those days are over. The future is now, and 3D printers are here. Were giving one away from Makerbot, your ch...

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Obama's SXSW appearance included the president's stupidest-ever remarks on cryptography: he characterized cryptographers' insistence that there is no way to make working cryptography that stops workin...

Donald Trump rallies are notoriously violent, as his supporters, security staff and even Secret Service detail beat up protesters and members of the press who get too close to violent incidents (Drump...

Plug your router into it, and the WiFi Reset Plug does just one job: it monitors your Wifi network and resets your router whenever it loses its connection. If you're thinking it's a great idea, maybe ...

Matthew Garrett checked into a London hotel and discovered that the proprietors had decided that "light switches are unfashionable and replaced them with a series of Android tablets." (more…)...

My publisher, Tor Books -- the largest sf/f publisher in the world, a division of Macmillan -- is hiring two editorial assistants, one to work for my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden (as well as editors ...

Kathe Koja is one of literature's most versatile writers -- once the doyenne of "splatterpunk"; then the author a run of brilliant, touching YA novels; then the author of a darkly erotic war-trilogy -...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "President Obama has said he's running the 'most transparent administration in history.' But new documents reveal that his administration secretly lobbied to kil...

A court upheld the sealing away of Lee's will from public view, so it's impossible to say for sure what prompted the move, but this much is clear: schools that assign "To Kill a Mockingbird" -- one of...

Newport Beach based Staminus Communications offered DDoS protection and other security services to its clients; early this morning, their systems went down and a dump of their internal files were dump...

Los Angeles County's Animal Care and Control department is investigating "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan after he allowed a dog to attack and bite a pet pig on his show, Cesar 911.In the February 26 show...

It took me about 1 second from hearing about the Doctor Who Coloring Book to order one. I have been tearing sheets out of coloring books and using my office combo-printer to scan and print pages for m...

Of course, brake-checking is a terrible idea because it could lead to a disastrous accident, and the brake-checker could indeed be liable....

Enjoy the psychotronic grandeur of the first DEVO short film, "In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution," from 1976. Directed by Chuck Statler, the video took the first prize at th...

In an IP infringement case involving the manufacturers of competing children's suitcases the UK's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the makers of the quasi-knockoff. From BBC:Supreme Court Justice Lord ...

Attention crackers - his Micronet password is 1234."How to send an e mail 1980's style. Electronic message writing down the phone line. First shown on Thames TV's computer programme 'Database' in 19...

Attention crackers - his Micronet password is 1234. (more…)...

Almost every motorcyclist has suffered a long, extended wait at a traffic light. Sometimes you just wait, and wait, sometimes you go for it. Walter F. Kern offers these helpful tips:Here's How to Trip...

David W Niven began collecting jazz records in 1925, when he was 10 years old. He continued to collect until 1991, amassing a nearly unparalleled collection of 78s and LPs, whose highlights he eventu...

Core77 looks at different ways to keep computer cables from falling off our desk and making you go on your hands and knees to retrieve them and disturbing the dust back there so you have a sneezing fi...

This wonderful illustrated ad appeared in the July 1971 issue of African-American culture magazine Ebony. (via Weird Universe)...

Bella is 8 months old, and Juma is just 1 month, but both enjoy taking a bottle together. Bella's father, biologist Airton Katsuyama, rescues hundreds of wild animals in Mineiros/Gias. His daughters...

It takes its own sweet time. Bonus points for looking like a face near the end....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Big Kidsby Michael DeForgeDrawn & Quarterly2016, 96 pages, 5 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches $12 Buy a copy on AmazonI have been fascinated by the work of Canadian comic...

This Pilot Parallel Pen ($8) comes with two ink cartridges (red and blue), but you can a box of 12 cartridges with different colors of ink for $7.Here are some videos of talented people using this pen...

Japanese researchers discovered a bacterium that eats polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the stuff used to make plenty of single-use plastic products that sit in landfills. The bacterium, named Ideonel...

Today I received the following email regarding my daughter's science fair project...Other Parent, Jason's Ex-wife, & Jason,I will put Other Kid and Hannah's Science Fair proposal in Hannah's backpack...

There are two Trumps, says Carson, one more cerebral than the other.Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who recently ended his campaign, said he and Trump have buried the hatchet after trading nasty words ...

They say the entire world is made up of ones and zeros. Well, when youre running a business it sure looks a lot messier than that. It looks like meals cooked, widgets built, products out for delivery,...

If your company hasn't "upgraded" your computer to Windows 10 -- a tendril of surveillance capitalism masquerading as a "free OS" -- you may start receiving messages from Microsoft telling you that yo...

Ed from the UK Open Rights Group writes, "Right now, the Government is ramming a new snooping law through Parliament. The Investigatory Powers Bill would force companies such as Sky, BT, Google and Fa...

Paul Bulteel's forthcoming art book, Cycle & Recycle, collects the Belgian photographer's series of images from Europe's massive, advanced recycling program, which captures 43% of the region's waste (...

New York City's Robin Hood Labs at Blue Ridge Laboratories have opening for paid fellowships to develop apps and technologies to give low-income people legal assistance in civil proceedings, like evic...

Carrying on the ancient, honorable tradition of armoring your cat, Print That Thing designed a suit of 3D printable cat armor and uploaded it to Thinigverse for anyone to download and print. (more&hel...

When your identity becomes intertwined with your definitions, you can easily fall victim to something called The No True Scotsman Fallacy.It often appears during a dilemma: What do you do when a membe...

Nisi "Writing the Other" (previously) Shawl has assembled a fantastic (in more ways than one) reading list for people interested in the history of science fiction written by black writers. (more&helli...

On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! And let me tell you it was really great. And I have a great relationship with the Moldavian people. They love me....

The Pittsburgh Craigslist has a hot deal: a gaming PC with "Slight Damage" that in no way impacts performance.Guaranteed to run any new game on Ultra settings! Buy now and I'll throw in a free Zip dri...

So-called "dog whisperer" Cesar Millan thought he had a great idea to fix a dog who had killed two pet pigs. He'd let it off the leash near some more pigs, then inflict whatever pseudoscientific, do...

So-called "dog whisperer" Cesar Millan thought he had a great idea to fix a dog who had killed two pet pigs. He'd let it off the leash near a new pig, then inflict whatever pseudoscientific, dominee...

Bay leaves, writes Kelly Conaboy, are bullshit.What does a bay leaf taste like? Nothing. What does a bay leaf smell like? Nothing. What does a bay leaf look like? A leaf. How does a bay leaf behave? I...

I like how cartoony Spidey looks but he's got nothing on his late-1970s predecessor seen below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYrxQx7RBc...

Video games are awesome. In fact, havent you always wondered how exactly do they pack that much awesome into a little screen with a few buttons? Playing every day certainly hasnt lead to any answers b...

Record Store Day is coming up April 16, 2016 and I'm very excited to acquire the stunning soundtrack to the film Requiem For A Dream (2000) featuring the music of Clint Mansell with our friends the ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.On October 2, 1950 a boy named Charlie Brown first appeared in American newspapers. Peanuts popularity grew steadily and on January 6, 1952, the strips first Su...

This handy USB gadget has three USB 3.0 ports and a RJ45 Gigabit ethernet port. It's regularly $25, but if you use code VK5JTT8L you can get it for $20....

The Obama administration declared itself to be the "most transparent administration in history," but a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that Obama's Justice Department worked tirel...

Nerdwriter Evan Puschak put together a video about The Ren & Stimpy Show, a "seminal cartoon of the animation renaissance." When the psychotic chihuahua and imbecilic cat debuted in 1991, I couldn't...

Designer Ivan Owens showed his daughter how to use Tinkercad to design a ring, print it in PLA plastic on a 3D printer, make a mold, and use the lost wax casting process to make a pewter butterfly r...

Eddy Cue, Apple's head of services, has warned that if the FBI wins its case and can force Apple to produce custom software to help break into locked phones, there's nothing in principle that would st...

I haven't seen High-Rise yet, but I'm looking forward to it. In this article from Creative Review, Mark Sinclair interviews graphic artists Michael Eaton and Felicity Hickson, who designed the stunnin...

This beautiful poster from Pop Chart Lab "traces the trajectories of every orbiter, lander, rover, flyby, and impactor to ever slip the surly bonds of Earths orbit and successfully complete its missio...

Syrian refugees who found their way to Canada have been placed in a hotel hosting a furry convention. Wonderfully surreal scenes of displaced kids dancing with fursuiters were captured on video and ...

These 12 musical "experiments" let you make and tweak pleasant sounds.Chrome Music Lab is a collection of experiments that let anyone, at any age, explore how music works. They're collaborations bet...

Video reveals that a black protestor was sucker-punched by a man at a recent Donald Trump rally in Kentuckyand that the police then tackled the protestor, not the attacker.Posted by the Washington P...

"VR is the next big thing, says Andy Pandy, "and I'm going to make millions with my virtual reality cat petting simulator."VR is the next big thing and i'm going to make millions with my virtual r...

Abu Hamed is a former Free Syrian Army fighter who defected to ISIS, where he served in their internal security forces; after a split with the organization, he stole a thumb-drive containing the induc...

Cothority is a new software project that uses "multi-party cryptographic signatures" to make it infinitely harder for governments to order companies to ship secret, targeted backdoors to their product...

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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...

This "olden style" rendition of the New Order classic Blue Monday uses only instruments available in the 1930s. Performed by Orkestra Obsolete, it features a theremin, a musical saw, a hammered dul...

Hey there, rockstar. Go ahead and let your star shine. You deserve to be heard, and not just by your cat when you play alone in your living room. If jamming out is your jam, youre going to need a bigg...

One of the funny things about Boing Boing is gaining access to the broken ansible in the lair's basement. Due to some as yet untheoretical relativistic cross-wiring, all it can access are random wikip...

The Open Source Initiative, a nonprofit that certifies open source licenses, has made an important policy statement about open standards. (more…)...

The Wachowski Sisters. Deal with it. (more…)...

A beautiful homage to Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman's 'Mythbusters,' the much-loved television show now ending its epic run. (more…)...

Watch this beautiful homage to Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman's Mythbusters, the much-loved show now ending its epic TV run with a 19th and final season on Discovery. (more…)...

Simply Secure is a nonprofit whose advisory board I volunteer for; they're devoted to making usable, human-centered interfaces to privacy tools that anyone can use, and they're hiring. (more…)...

...instead of Spock's great-great-great-grandfather. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement on Twitter on International Women's Day, and invited the public to nominate women to appear on ...

A first edition of Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) will run you about $2000 for a copy in good condition. Amazon has a free Kindle edition.You can also download a free audiobook version.From Abe ...

I got this set of 7 fountain pens for my daughter, who is studying art in college. The pens have a stainless steel nib and come in seven different ink colors. The turquoise is my favorite, but I wish ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.If the enormous hairy solar chimneys that these architects once built in the middle of Long Island City dont make you smile, then your sense of play might need ...

Note: This short story was written in 2009, but I didn't publish it because it was inspired by a real person. That person is now dead. Enjoy!HERSONNISOS, 2009That old media first reported my antics wa...

On Sunday, Oliver Stone showed his Snowden film, due out this Christmas, to a group at the Sun Valley Film Festival with a Q&A following. From the Hollywood Reporter:We moved (filming) to Germany, be...

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Here's an ostrich chasing after two bicyclists. Is the bird mad at them? There's no description on the YouTube page, but I was surprised to learn that ostriches can run fast and for a long time....

Redditor Cakeflourz photoshopped beards onto the 2016 presidential candidates.Bernie look great with that Mitch Miller beard![via]...

Marvel at this computer graphics demo reel created c.1980 by the company Mathematical Applications Group (MAGI). More specifically, you're seeing the work of the firm's MAGI/SynthaVision group, one ...

Claimdog is a new online service that tracks down money owed to you. I tried it this morning and found out that my wife was owed some kind of settlement check for $103.60 from an insurance company fro...

Over at MAKE, Mike Senese comments on this stock photo of a Beautiful Woman Soldering. It's an unintentional "how many things are wrong in this picture?" puzzle.Rather than holding the iron by its ins...

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you've loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the great oc...

I keep having to sign contracts where I waive all rights "throughout the universe." Lately, I've been crossing out "universe" and writing in "solar system." (more…)...

Today we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, ha...

[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...

In 2014, Home Depot disclosed that it had hemorrhaged 53 million customer credit-cards and 56 million email addresses. Now it has settled a consolidated class-action suit for the breach, agreeing to m...

Tiffin pails are the ubiquitous, ingenious and practical lunchpails of Indian workers, delivered daily by an army of spectacularly well-coordinated "dabba wallahs." (more…)...

Tiffin pails are the ubiquitous, ingenious and practical lunchpails of Indian workers, delivered daily by an army of spectacularly well-coordinated "dabba wallahs." (more…)...

Arts group Works Progress Studio have opened Water Bar, which bills itself as the first-ever bar devoted to nothing but public sources of water. (more…)...

Arts group Works Progress Studio have opened Water Bar, which bills itself as the first-ever bar devoted to nothing but public sources of water. (more…)...

Amendment 90 to France's penal reform bill provides for five year prison sentences and 350,000 fines for companies that refuse to accede to law enforcement demands to decrypt devices. (more…)...

Peter from the National Coalition Against Cenorship sez, "A bill requiring schools to notify parents if any 'sexually explicit content' is being taught would undermine First Amendment principles and t...

After an exhaustive (and, no doubt, exhausting) survey of Trump's speeches and interviews with his supporters, Thomas Frank concludes that while Trump's outlandish statements get all the headlines, th...

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Of course, they also ran two neutral ones during that period, so I suppose it all balances out -- it's not like he's raising more money, from more Americans, than any other candidate in history. Oh, w...

https://vine.co/v/iHuir3YZxQ5"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I INSIST THAT YOU NOT." Too late. You're pledged, pup!...

Beatles producer George Martin, who famously signed the band after other major labels had rejected them, is dead at 90, says Ringo Starr. (more…)...

Bernie Sanders won a surprise victory in the Michigan Democrat primary Tuesday, pulling two points clear of rival Hillary Clinton in a late-night nail-biter of a count.With 99 percent of precincts rep...

Pre-orders now being taken, ships Nov 2016. Sterling sez, "A new novella of mine set in an alternate Europe just after the Great War." I know what I'm doing next Nov. What. A. Cover....

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Swiss-German painter Paul Klee kept beautiful notebooks, 3900 pages of which can now be viewed online. [via]...

On the season finale of The Muppets, Jack White and the Electric Mayhem covered Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life." The single will be released as a 7" vinyl single from White's Third...

Vice profiled Boing Boing pal and contributor Maja D'Aoust, co-author of The Secret Source: The Law of Attraction and Its Hermetic Influence Throughout the Ages. (more…)...

And I made an actually-infinite perfect-looping Yul GIF for you:Previously: Infinite Arnie....

When a regular Sharpie line is too thin, get a Sharpie King Size. When the King Size won't do, get a Sharpie Magnum. I bought a red and a black Magnum for a card trick deck (they also come in blue). I...

https://youtu.be/KDc-M4dHr0s?list=PLSKUhDnoJjYmeW6nNasZSaVAGh4u91pEkI'm enjoying James Veitch's weekly video series where he has fun with email scammers. In this episode, James has an exchange with a ...

https://youtu.be/kOjUL8LwUsEEleven minutes of enthusiastic combinatorial use of the words "wanker," "stupid," "cunt," "fucking," "dickhead," "hell," "tosser," "jesus," "asswipe," "prick," "bitch," "id...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.I got my hands on a copy of The Art of Zootopia last week, days before the movie opened, and was so enamored with the fresh yet classic Disney-inspired art that...

https://youtu.be/E2a3MhdsdMUCrazy Russian Hacker overinflated a soccer ball and recorded the pop at 25,000 frames per second....

It's a lucky day for KTVU reporter Alex Savidge and camera operator Vaughan Chip. The two were covering a train derailment east of San Francisco when a car was hit and came barreling right toward th...

The Jelly Bean Problem, told by Tim Urban of Wait But Why is a different way of describing the classic Monty Hall Problem. I think the Jelly Bean Problem is easier to understand for kids who've never ...

Are they Alligator leads or Crocodile clips? This $4 set certainly comes in handy when playing with our Makey Makey, and unsurprisingly have become standard kit when trouble-shooting electrical gremli...

This brilliant dad secured a bunch of fascinating hardware items to a board and let his toddler have at it. The best toy ever and educational.[via]...

They have got ape drapes, yes they do!...

From TED Ed: Can you solve the frog riddle?Youre stranded in a rainforest, and youve eaten a poisonous mushroom. To save your life, you need an antidote excreted by a certain species of frog. Unfort...

Anna Rothschild says, "See the tiny creatures living in a pond or puddle using your smartphone, poster tack, and a laser pointer."Build a microscope stand for your laser pointer lens scope.Create a ...

How to have fun by turning friends into foes. Bonus points for the cameraman's Muttley laugh....

The Arizona bark scorpion is the deadliest scorpion in the continental United States. But the Southern grasshopper mouse happily munches on the scorpions. How? The scorpion's venom actually triggers...

On The Jerx (previously), "Andy" describes a fantastic magic trick that you can only pull off under very special circumstances: a day at the beach. (more…)...

Chalk artist Chris Carlson created a fantastic 3D mural of Street Fighter that comes to life. ...

Last month I blogged about Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles, a pair of artists who released a high-resolution scan of a looted Egyptian bust of Nefertiti in the collection of Berlin's Neues Museum...

Boing Boing is proud to welcome Wikileaf.com as as sponsor. When you want to book a flight or a hotel online, if you're bargain-conscious you probably don't go directly to each airline or hotel's dire...

37 Signals' Jason Fried was there when the company launched Campfire, a pioneering group chat for business that made it easier for whole companies to follow each others' work; 10 years later, he's rea...

The makers of the Coleco Chameleon retro console wanted $2m to manufacture itand raised more than $80,000 in an Indiegogo campaign. Their prototypes turned out to be unsettlingly reminiscent of a) a p...

The makers of the Coleco Chameleon retro console wanted $2m to manufacture itand raised more than $80,000 in an Indiegogo campaign. (more…)...

White supremacists (and vaguely racist uncles on Facebook) occasionally pipe up with the idea that the Irish were, effectively, held as slaves in America. Though often subject to indenture and other f...

Last summer, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were so alarmed at the terrible state of information security in cars that they demo'ed a hack that let them take over GM Jeep Cherok...

Photographer Michelle Marshall shot this beautiful set of darker-skinned redheads: "I am currently interested in documenting the incidents of the MC1R gene variant responsible for red hair and freckle...

Phenomena like the Harlem Cryptoparty demonstrate the connection between racial justice and cryptography -- civil rights organizers remember that the FBI spied on and blackmailed Martin Luther King, s...

Going to the movies is awesome. You get to sit back and watch action, adventure and romance unfold on a gigantic screen. Everything is big and exciting. But you know what else is awesome? Sitting on y...

The new Netflix series Fuller House is really just about perfect. Discovering this show is like finding an Irish bar in some far-away city you don't know--the show offers you a comfortable, familiar s...

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided not to run for president on an independent ticket. (more…)...

Some bad guys steal your lunch money. Some rob banks, others use guns and swords or blow things up. But today, out on the wild west of the internet superhighway, bad guys hack your data. And there are...

I love reading James Blaylock's novels. His take on humanity, and the super natural, always thrill me. This collection of short stories made my rainy weekend.This collection of 16 stories is wonderful...

In 2014, Verizon was caught sneaking "supercookies" onto its customers' computers -- these are tracking cookies that bypassed the normal cookie system to surveil Verizon users and target ads to them. ...

The ACLU deposed Judge Jack H Weil, a senior judge responsible for training other immigration judges, in a case over whether 3- and 4-year-olds needed legal representation during deportation hearings....

The ACLU deposed Judge Jack H Weil, a senior judge responsible for training other immigration judges, in a case over whether 3- and 4-year-olds needed legal representation during deportation hearings....

Moving into the house we just bought, I found to my delight a mysterious locked safe at the back of a closet. I've asked a few people how to get into it, and the consensus is either to use powerful mi...

Gavin Newsom posted this video to Facebook, saying "This video is shocking. The way that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush talked about immigration and the US/Mexico border in 1980 -- during a pres...

In Ridley Scott's classic 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien, the terrifying creature was played by a 6'10" Nigerian named Bolaiji Badejo. It was Badejo's only film credit. In fact Badejo, who die...

In Ridley Scott's classic 1979 science fiction/horror film Alien, the terrifying creature was played by a 6'10" Nigerian named Bolaiji Badejo. It was Badejo's only film credit. In fact Badejo, who die...

On Saturday evening my friend Sharon Kessler was flying from Boston to Los Angeles on JetBlue flight 487. Sharon overheard a flight attendant tell a co-worker that she didn't like the way two Muslim...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgy37kPOZ4&feature=youtu.beYou've seen Johnny Depp tear off Donald Trump's face. Now learn how to put on your own. F-Comedy's Tess Paras is "really excited to make you...

"Satanic Panic over Dungeons & Dragons" is one of my favorite genres of journalism, and Eric Grundhauser's article about it is a goodun, with all the right YouTube clips.By 1984, fantasy roleplaying h...

You may have caught Funny or Die's "Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie," starring Johnny Depp as Trump. But even stranger is this clip of Depp peeling off his Trump face. Now I'd like to ...

https://youtu.be/OAH0MoAv2CII enjoyed learning about match dissolves, cross cuts, jump cuts, fades, and many other movie cuts and transitions. The video uses examples from famous movies....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Darth Vader and Son is cute, and perfect for the little Star Wars fan in your life. It playfully posits the question What if Darth Vader had actually raised Luk...

VFX pioneer Phil Tippett, creator of Jabba the Hutt's pet Rancor, dropped acid during the production of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi:I took LSD when I was working on Return of the Jedi. I...

Jeff Heimbuch writes, "Return Home is a serialized audio drama, done in the style of radio shows of ages past. It is fully produced, in stereo sound, to make you feel like you are part of the action. ...

Martin Bolton made these gorgeous copper dip pens with lengths of copper pipe, standard nibs and thermoplastic adhesive. He doesn't seem to have any for sale, but I bet they're pretty easy to make wit...

Elena Marimon Munoz won the British Life Photography Award for this fantastic shot of Stonehenge, titled "Past Present." "By the time the sun started to rise above the stones, hundreds, if not thousan...

Daily Grail posted this nightmarish excerpt from the 2014 book Preparing the Ghost, by Matthew Gavin Frank.Squid corpses, even when cooked, retain their sexual reflexes and have been known to insemina...

Not for the Qubcois are such mundane sexual preferences as "lesbians" or "hentai" or "facesitting." No, the French-speaking Canadians search for themselves. [via Vice Canada]...

While our family is lucky to get our kids in their shoes every morning, Melbourne, Australia stylist Shelley Gifford creates these insanely intricate braids in her daughter's hair before school. See m...

Kevin Mao, a designer in Shanghai, recently had two of his photos placed on Apple billboards to promote the iPhone 6S camera. He told Mashable how he edited the photos.For this photo, he used TouchRet...

While ripping apart a bathroom to renovate it, apprentice plumber Dean Materi noticed something in the rubble underneath the old tub. I seen a gold shimmery thing on the ground and I thought it was a ...

Proselint isn't a grammar checker. It's a "style" checker, warning writers when their work is hackneyed, inconsistent or very obviously not great. proselint places the worlds greatest writers and edit...

https://youtu.be/Ii7bhLRy_hoHellen Barnaby used to enjoy a view of Perth, Australia from her apartment balcony. Now she sees a wall from a new high-rise that almost touches the balcony."I don't own th...

Hellen Barnaby used to enjoy a view of Perth, Australia from her apartment balcony. Now she sees a wall from a new high-rise that almost touches the balcony. (more…)...

Pricenomics analyzed the frequency of the final words spoken by death row inmates before being executed.Used by 63% of all speakers, love is the most common word in death row inmates last statements. ...

Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan is nearly 20 years old, and the science fiction story of a journalist who wages truth-war on scumbag politicians 200 years from now could not be m...

Pricenomics looks at the unusually popular cars in Republican and Democratic districts. One group favors American made pickups, the other group likes small foreign cars, especially hybrids.The cars th...

4 Artists Paint 1 Tree is a short documentary released by Disney in 1958, in which four of its best animators (then working on Sleeping Beauty) each paint the same old oak tree. An illustration of t...

Alice Isn't Dead, a new podcast from the Welcome to Night Vale crew, debuts tomorrow -- get a sneak peak with this teaser (MP3), then subscribe....

The Campbell Award for best new writer is voted on and presented with the Hugo Awards -- to be eligible, you must have made your first professional sale in the previous two years. (more…)...

London chocolatier Chocolatician has made a custom Benedict Cumberbunny for Easter, available in milk, dark and white chocolates, dusted with gold- or bronze-coloured finishes (£50), or with a 2...

The Department of Defense sent Muckrock a demand for $660 million as a requirement for fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act request for records about the Hotplug, a gadget that allows you to trans...

John Mininno is an ex-malpractice lawyer who raised money from a Wall Street angel and founded the National Healthcare Analysis Group, which uses public data sources to uncover Medicare fraud, then do...

Seagate has emailed its employees and ex-employees to warn them that someone in the company sent their W2 tax data to a criminal who pulled off a successful phishing fraud. (more…)...

Charlie Stross is on a tear: he's catalogued 22 screens' worth of space opera cliches, grouped by themes: Planetary civilizations, space and cosmology, biology, economics, politics, culture, technolog...

Why do you try to drain the world of color when backed into a rhetorical corner?Why do you have such a hard time realizing that you have suggested the world is devoid of nuance when you are in the hea...

My late father-in-law, Joe, was born and raised in Los Angeles, growing up during the heyday of hot rod culture. When I knew him he drove Corvettes and Camaros. In high school, Joe and his brother bui...

MSU Computer Science researchers Kai Cao and Anil K Jain published a new paper describing a < $500 method for using a 300dpi scan of a fingerprint (which can be captured from a fingerprint sensor it...

After mixed showings in the primaries and a sense that the Democratic Party's profoundly undemocratic "superdelegates" will hand Hillary the nomination no matter what, the press has all but declared B...

The New York Public Library's spectacular Digital Public Library challenged designers to create new covers for some of the public domain's greatest books, which had been previously doomed to an undese...

Nicholas Longtin writes, "I saw the Photoshop of Donald Trump with mouth eyes and I had to see what that would look like in full motions video. It's horrifying. You have been warned."...

Statistician Patrick Ball runs an NGO called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, which uses extremely rigorous, well-documented statistical techniques to provide evidence of war crimes and genocides...

* PHOTOSENSITIVE SEIZURE WARNING *One of our favorite animation artists right now is Kytten Janae. Here are 10 samples of her psychedelic animated visual art as animated GIFs. (more…)...

Got a terrific view of his exquisite hairpiece in person that seemed to have a mind of its own as it was breathing and taking on different forms throughout the whole speech.It may be fact, it may be f...

Wonkblog runs the numbers on the counties with the strongest support for Trump and finds that the typical Trump supporter is likely to live in a place with higher-than-normal mortality for whites (mid...

MAME, the arcade emulator originally created by Nicola Salmora 19 years ago, is now comprised entirely of free and open-source software. It's taken a lot of wrangling, reports MAMEDev.org, due to the ...

Youre never not snapping. Youre the one taking pictures of your delicious food at restaurants, your couple friends smooching, your dogs adorable snuggles, the trees and flowers when the light behind t...

THE TL;DR: Bershukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend is a new vinyl collection of Adnan Othman's sixties psychedelic rock curated and produced by my brother, and released on...

THE TL;DR: Bershukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend is a new vinyl collection of Adnan Othman's sixties psychedelic rock that was curated and produced by my brother, and re...

The ethics of torturing robots is not a new question, but it's becoming more important as robots and AI becomes more lifelike. Author Ted Chiang explored it in his 2010 novella, The Lifecycle of Softw...

https://youtu.be/CwetMm33UnIDo you like spoilers as much as I do? Then watch this video that ruins the surprise endings of 47 and 1/2 movies....

Anika Burgess of Atlas Obscura posted a gallery of images from the book As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society 1850-1930, which has a forward by David Byrne.With the growth of membe...

Kamalkant Shah, who worked as a technician for the State Police evidence laboratory, was accused of faking drug test results by "dry labbing" - which means just making stuff up. Shah worked on 7,827 c...

Oona Tempest is an apprentice sushi chef at New York City's Tanoshi Sushi. I do love my sushi, but I definitely wouldn't have the fortitude or filleting-skills to be trained as a chef. (Eater)...

***PHOTOSENSITIVE SEIZURE WARNING***"Thunder" (1982), a 16mm short directed by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito, with sound by Takashi Inagaki. "Film is capable of presenting unrealisti...

These PSAs from Project Consent (a non-profit that aims to combat and deconstruct rape culture) star anthropomorphic body parts. (more…)...

My latest Locus column, Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies, explains the ways in which "reputation" makes a poor form of currency -- in a nutshell, reputation doesn't fulfill most...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.White Heat has long been my White Whale when searching through used bookstores. Ive wanted this book for going on ten years. The first time I heard the name Mar...

The folks at Biolite sent me a PowerLight Mini. It's a rechargeable LED lantern with a 1350 mAh battery. It has a burn time of over 50 hours in low light mode, and 5 hours in high mode. It can also ...

While the railroad at Disneyland in Anaheim, California is out of service for a year and a half while the route is being changed and The Star Wars Experience is being built, I thought it might be fun ...

https://youtu.be/MBE3CykfD84I had a great time interviewing cartoonist Daniel Clowes at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles about his Complete Eightball anthology. This video was shot in glorious VHS by fi...

When confronted with dogma-threatening, worldview-menacing ideas, your knee-jerk response is usually to lash out and try to bat them away, but thanks to a nearly unavoidable mistake in reasoning, you ...

Today we travel to a future where your microbiome becomes a key part of your identity. From health to your childs kindergarten, here are all the ways knowing about your microbiome might impact your li...

Buying a Sodastream helped our family save big on soda water, reduce our plastic waste-stream, and resulted in us providing a steady revenue stream to a sleazy company that used to run a factory in th...

Buying a Sodastream helped our family save big on soda water, reduce our plastic waste-stream, and resulted in us providing a steady revenue stream to a sleazy company that used to run a factory in th...

Code is speech: critical court rulings from the early history of the Electronic Frontier Foundation held that code was a form of expressive speech, protected by the First Amendment. (more…)...

The Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics (AHA!) group at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has bought these rather good ads on the local city buses, inviting people for whom "relgion has stopped maki...

The Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics (AHA!) group at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has bought these rather good ads on the local city buses, inviting people for whom "religion has stopped mak...

My new Guardian column, Forget Apple's fight with the FBI our privacy catastrophe has only just begun, explains how surveillance advocates have changed their arguments: 20 years ago, they argued that...

Dont pin yourself down and limit your career to one niche. Be a Renaissance person. These days on the tech and startup scene, its helpful to have a wide professional range and for 97% off, the eduCBA ...

An anonymous ER doctor treated a woman who claimed she had a tracking chip embedded in her body. At first he disbelieved her -- lots of people suffer from delusions that they have implanted microchips...

Including a fine example of the disco call. The Groove Line by Heatwave....

Samantha Bee's monologue on the 2010 midterm election -- the election that will.i.am didn't make videos for, the election where progressives stayed away from the polls, the election that put the obs...

Amazon's Kindle devices run a custom version of Android that, until today, supported full-disk encryption. Now they don't. (more…)...

As part of his PhD research for UMass Amherst, Matthew MacWilliams surveyed the psychological characteristics of authoritarians -- not the people who lead authoritarian movements, but the followers, t...

The new Ghostbusters looks fantastic. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth....

This morning Mitt Romney spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah. He said "Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump Universi...

Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone cover-story on Trump was astounding, and the hits keep on coming. (more…)...

Does this sound like anyone you know who is running for president in 2016?He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism. He probably does not know himself just what he wan...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Neil Gaimans stirring narrative of Hansel and Gretel combined with artist Lorenzo Mattottis oppressively black illustrations give the Brothers Grimm fairytale a...

This $8 flashlight extends to 22-inches and has a flexible gooseneck. The business end has a strong magnet and 3 bright LEDs....

Vice today published a 5-part, deeply reported and researched science fiction series about what happens after the a massive earthquake hits an American city. (more…)...

One of the many interesting items in Channel 4's documentary, The Mad World of Donald Trump, is TV presenter Selina Scott's account of how Trump began sending her "extremely abusive" letters after s...

Pop surrealist pioneer Camille Rose Garcia returns to Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery tonight, March 3, with a magnificent new show of phantasmagoric paintings! This remarkable exhibition, titled "Animus...

A sexual predator in the UK who raped five women and attacked two more after meeting them on Match.com has received a sentence of life in prison. (more…)...

A sexual predator in the UK who raped five women and attacked two more after meeting them on Match.com has received a sentence of life in prison. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/ulxoIly3jt4Davie504 took the strings off his electric bass and sampled the sounds of tapping the pick-ups, sticking the patch-cord plug into the jack, and hitting various parts of the...

The DEA, the prison industry, politicians, and drug cartels all know the war on drugs is unwinnable, but they make so much money from the catastrophic effects of drug prohibition that they have litt...

https://youtu.be/7xNnRBksvOU"Be nice, know your shit, but don't take any shit." That's web producer Hannah Birch's advice for getting what is rightfully your from a government bureaucracy that thinks ...

The Book Fair Game is a new open/free title from Matt Finch, a game designer with a residency at the State Library of Queensland, Australia. (more…)...

Fab Filippo and friends have a new show, "Save Me," up for production on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which is flush with cash now that the hateful Tories are out of office. (more…)...

Andrew Hacker, a professor of both mathematics and political science at Queens University has a new book out, The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, which makes the case that the inclusion of algeb...

An unnamed shipping company had its unpatched content management system hacked by sea-pirates, who then sorted the ships at sea by the value of their cargo to help prioritize attacks to maximize the t...

Jeffrey Martin writes, "Here is the largest photo ever made of NYC (more than 200,000 pixels wide). Shot handheld from the top of the Empire State Building with a 135mm lens and a 50MP fullframe SLR...

These days it seems like every job description includes a hefty requirement of computer know-how. Coding is the new typing and everyone needs to get hip to it already. But where to even begin? For a n...

The pot smoking scene from Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story never stops being funny. 'Specially after smoking pot. (more…)...

Mixed emotions. That's what NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says he's feeling upon returning to Earth after 340 days on the International Space Station. (more…)...

[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...

Churba writes, "Victor from Frostworks threw together a Markov Chain Bot that randomly generates and spits out eerily accurate Trump speeches at the push of a button." (more…)...

Not me....

Actor Ian McShane will play the central role of Mr. Wednesday in an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel 'American Gods' for the Starz cable television network. (more…)...

Yesterday a Tennessee teenager didn't want to wake up and go to school. After threatening them to no avail, the 16 year old male produced a handgun and shot his 67-year-old grandmother twice. His 6-ye...

Another reason to live in California, In-N-Out burgers is ditching the antibiotic treated beef! While ordering a double-double animal style with chopped peppers will still be powerful tasty, it'll no ...

In-N-Out Burger is ditching the antibiotic treated beef. While ordering a double-double animal style with chopped peppers will still be powerful tasty, it'll no longer induce rage or allow you to chal...

Mark Allen Thornton, a PhD candidate at Harvard's Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab built this wonderfully addictive Interactive Simulation of Collective Animal Behavior in Swarms/Flocks...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Walking through the childrens section of any given book store, this book will immediately catch your eye. The front cover has gears sticking out the side, and i...

If you're searching for some uplifting bedtime reading, you might enjoy this e-book of a 1953 CIA report titled "A Study of Assassination," made public in 1997 as part of a Freedom of Information Act ...

For six months, 5-year-old Khloe Russell was battling what seemed to be a nasty sinus infection. Unfortunately, no antibiotics seemed to help. Last weekend, Khloe's uncle said, "Your nose, it's disgus...

Luna Lee plays Nirvana on an ancient, traditional Korean instrument called the gayageum....

Thanks to meddlesome FBI agents, the San Francisco sheriff's department will no longer be able to operate a fight club in which inmates were allegedly forced to beat each other up gladiator-style, whi...

The Glitch News Network is the latest twitterbot from Shardcore, a prolific purveyor of mad bots (previously). (more…)...

The Glitch News Network is the latest twitterbot from Shardcore, a prolific purveyor of mad bots (previously). (more…)...

Martin Molin's Wintergatan is a musical instrument through which Molin runs 2,000 steel ball-bearings through its many channels and troughs to strike out a musical composition, turning handles, thro...

Laura Poitras, whose 2014 Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour won the Academy Award for best doc, has a show on at NYC's Whitney Museum called "Astro Noise," which attempts to capture the sense of ...

As John Holbo notes, the Ku Klux Klan's extensive, bizarre, fanciful "titles and vocabulary," set out in a 1916 volume called the "Kloran," has enough weirdness to match the Monster Manual for its "hy...

UK culture secretary John Whittingdale gave a speech at the Oxford Media Convention where he compared adblocking to piracy and vowed "to set up a round table involving major publishers, social media g...

Indie sf movie kingpin Jim Munroe writes, "Ever wonder how the Hilton and the Marriott families feel about Airbnb? What would happen if the heir to a hotel chain empire gets fed up and decides to re...

This Gigeresque biscuit barrel, sculpted by Paul Harding, stands 12" tall, and it'll run you $45 at Thinkgeek. (via Geeky Merch)...

Author and former CIA officer Barry Eisler spoke at the Association of Former Intelligence Officers opposite ex-CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on Monday. In front of about a hundred former CIA, ...

The ad-subsidized Web is at a crossroads: faced with pressure from social media platform, publishers are accepting ever-more-intrusive ads, which combine with the mounting public concern over privacy ...

The US government is attempting to force Apple to backdoor its Iphone security, congress is considering mandatory backdoors for all secure technology, and FBI director James Comey insists that this wi...

In a linked series of tweets, @hilzoy offers an empathic, incisive explanation for the rise and rise of Drumpf. (more…)...

There's nothing I love more than public signs (I've photographed over 2500 of them!); they reveal the things that people think other people don't understand. (more…)...

Dan Kaminsky, one of the Internet's essential squad of "volunteer fire fighters" who oversaw the largest-ever synchronized vulnerability patching in Internet history, has written a stirring editorial ...

You might think that your phone is the most important thing in your pocket, but youd be wrong. Your wallet is essential on both sides of the coin. First, youd be screwed without it, but second, it mak...

NASA reports that astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko have returned to Earth Tuesday night, after a historic 340-day mission aboard the Inte...

It took a while, but FBI director Jim Comey got a little bit of the grilling he has earned in the FBI vs. Apple case. Freedom of the Press Foundation's Trevor Timm writes on today's House Judiciary Co...

What's at stake in the fight between the FBI and Apple over those iPhones? Oh, no big deal, just the legal green light for virtually limitless surveillance under the Internet of Things. That's what a ...

The House Judiciary committee hearing today titled, The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans Security and Privacy ended up being full of drama, and riveting moments of confrontation--along with a...

Welcome to what may well be our future, America. (more…)...

Among the many revelations in John Oliver's definitive takedown of Donald Drumpf was the fact that the thin-skinned billionaire had been so wounded by being called a "short-fingered vulgarian" by Vani...

Author and former CIA officer Barry Eisler spoke at the Association of Former Intelligence Officers opposite ex-CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden on Monday. Below, an adaptation of his opening remar...

From the camp of two lawmakers who recently introduced Senate legislation to establish an independent National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges, news that Senators Mark R. Warner (D-VA...

On NPR's wonderful podcast The Hidden Brain, an exploration of what it is that makes some people non-conforming, risk-taking individuals. (more…)...

Never before has Bernie Sanders' Feel The Bern campaign slogan made more sense to me than with this new fuzzy black velvet fluorescent coloring-art poster by Kii Arens. (more…)...

FBI Director James Comey and Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, Bruce Sewell, are scheduled to testify at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today titled 'The Encryption Tightrope: ...

Amazon prime members can get this catnip-filled banana cat toy for $3....

In 1976, Star Trek fans converged on Denver, Colorado's Northglenn Mall for one of the first conventions! One Trekker in attendance captured the experience (Nimoy and Doohan in person!) on Super 8 f...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Featuring hallucinatory, psychedelic art inspired by the classic 1960s comic art of Jack Kirby, Space Riders is boldly drawn and beautifully inked in vibrant ul...

For $5,000 and up, Etsy seller Ultra Violet Production House will ship you a black leather sofa, sewing supplies, white paint pens, and punk band-patches, along with instructions for affixing the latt...

A New York search engine optimization consultant gave two psychics more than $718,000. Now he's broke.He sat in a Denny's restaurant, drinking coffee between cigarette breaks after a long and sleeples...

In 1982, Rochester, NY post-punk/dadaist/political musical group Party Dogs -- cyberculture pioneer RU Sirius (Mondo 2000, Reality Hackers) along with Matt Sabo, Pat Lowery, Hugh Edwards, and Kwashe -...

The media made Trump: he's the perfect, click-driving mashup of fearmongering and demagoguery, and if it bleeds, it leads. (more…)...

For a week, a mysterious high-pitched tone has been interrupting the sleep of people in Forest Grove, a suburb of Portland. The sound has been coming and going for decades. Here's what it sounds like....

We've all heard that there's a federal judge in California who ordered Apple to make a tool to help the FBI decrypt a phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters -- but despite the FBI's ins...

Miserable Men: "Men that went shopping. It's a global epidemic. Send photos to [email protected]"...

xkcd's infographic show the "size of the U.S.'s pipelines if each fluid produced or consumed in the U.S. had to be carried by a single pipe."...

From Steve Jurvetson's YouTube channel: "The robot's lifelike movement catches the attention of a real dog. The uncanny uncanine valley. This is the latest quadruped robot from Google's Boston Dynam...

Rephone makes modular open source hardware cellphone components -- GSM cores, touchscreens, speakers, GPS, miscellaneous sensors, and antennas -- that you can mix and match to build cellular capabilit...

A group of about 30 black Valdosta State University students say that they were ejected yesterday from an on-campus Trump speech by Secret Service agents who told them that Donald Trump didn't want t...

Two key decisions in the history of Disney parks have put them in an eternal war to balance capacity and pricing: deciding not to close the parks to new entrants on crowded days, and doing away with t...

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Besides cozying up to the old boss or making really good cookies to leave in the break room every week, there arent too many ways to get ahead in your career other than good old hard work. Unless you ...

When Vanity Fair asked a bunch of celebrities at the Oscars to swap faces with Leo DeCaprio with the MSQRD app, their responses were pretty funny. Larry David's was very Larry David. No. (more&hell...

Some wonderful person uploaded scans of every Playboy Playmate centerfold to imgur. It's an amazing collection, whether your interests are prurient or lofty. Kind of amazing to see how our standards o...

Here's a report about a Catholic priest said to have been found snorting cocaine in a room adorned with Nazi symbols. In other words, another Monday on the internet. (more…)...

[Peter Savodnik, a filmmaker and founder of Stateless Media, made a short film about Catherine Abegg, a woman who lives in a van with her husband and newborn child. Catherine is a celebrated LGBT we...

Inspired by the "evolutionary tree diagram" format, Talking Heads vocalist, artist, and writer David Byrne drew numerous tree diagrams meant to "explain" everyday phenomena, terminology, and the irrat...

The BLU Vivo Air, a GSM 4G phone, has just 16GB of internal storage (with no microSD expansion), but at $100, this unlocked 0.2-inch thick phone with a 4.8-inch display is a great deal. A newer LTE ve...

I've been told so many stories about why we have daylight savings in America, the stupid tradition is baffling. California is considering doing away with the odd, and annoying bi-annual clock shift. T...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is famous for rarely speaking in court. In fact, he hasn't asked a single question in ten years. But he broke his silence this morning on a case about domest...

In the early 1990s, BB pal Joi Ito (now director of the MIT Media Lab) hosted bOING bOING patron saint Timothy Leary on a trip to Japan. At the time, Tim was energized by the intersection of youth c...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Did you think the classical Greek myths were a dry read? Think again. Written from the perspective of a high school kid, and in the same style as the novels of ...

At around 500 rubber bands, the external pressure forces the watermelon to explode. https://t.co/xqP5IXz9Ht pic.twitter.com/IpJ0TnE3Hr— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) February 21, 2016This is from M...

Life isnt all just couch-sitting and TV-watching. Sometimes its bananas action packed like those Saturdays when youre out trekking in the wild and need to slice through vines to even see your path, or...

Atelier a Pates, a small artisanal pasta shop in Thiefosse, France, has a booming business in radiatori, fusilli, spaghetti and penne made from seven percent pulverized crickets and grasshoppers. From...

Nate Silver, the statistics whiz who founded FiveThirtyEight, tweeted this ominous warning this morning:Anyway, Trump will probably be the GOP nominee and possibly become President. No joke. If you ca...

I really enjoy the composition, but these lyrics are a bit on the creepy side......

Sounding like something out of a mediocre Hollywood movie, SeaWorld has copped to infiltrating animal rights groups and spying, under the guise of protecting them selves from "credible threats." I als...

Michel de Nostradame, the 16th century apothecary and seer, published prophecies that remain chilling to this day. Their power is in their peculiar mix of vagueness and specifics: they describe nightm...

The Last Chance K9 Service in New Albany, Indiana is just one of several companies that sells the services of drug detection dogs to parents who think their kids are hiding drugs in their room. A visi...

Sugar Film from Paul Tuffery. The Video Guys on Vimeo.That Sugar Film is a 2014 documentary about sugar in food, and the effects of a high sugar diet. You can watch the entire movie on Vimeo.That Su...

Filmmaker Candice Drouet "collected images from all the movies I have seen in my life and split them in different themes" for a project titled "My Life In 1.000.000 Frames." The first edited collect...

https://youtu.be/1jJP0CcuJyEMr. Gear shows how to break a padlock by levering a pair of nut wrenches between the shackle, which breaks off a chunk of the padlock body. I don't recognize the brand of t...

"What is Brazil?" is a funny, insightful 1985 TV documentary about Terry Gilliam's classic film Brazil, a brilliant black comedy about a very bleak future.(Thanks, UPSO!)...

The Raspberry Pi got a major upgrade. The third revision of this tiny, $35 Linux computer is 50% faster than the Raspberry Pi 2 and has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE. Alasdair Allan of MAKE has a ...

This bee is clearly smarter than me. [via]Bees are known to perform very complex tasks considering the size of their brains and their simplicity compared to high-level organisms, said Gill. If we can ...

https://vine.co/v/igWT9HBUnXpThis remarkable vine shows various famous Hollywoodites apparently refusing to applaud Jenny Beavans, the costume designer from Mad Max: Fury Road, who won an Oscar for he...

https://vine.co/v/igWT9HBUnXpThis remarkable vine shows various famous Hollywoodites apparently refusing to applaud Jenny Beavan, the costume designer from Mad Max: Fury Road, who won an Oscar for her...

Two years ago, the FBI published its official advice to "protect your mobile device," including a recommendation to encrypt your storage. This year, the FBI is suing Apple to force it to break its enc...

I know, I know a John Oliver segment blogged on Monday morning. But you should watch this one, because it's an attack on Trump of the sort that most media are too frightened and smarmy and self-abso...

This neat map presents Europe not as a collection of countries but as a diagram of its largest cities; the accompanying post argues that large cities effectively transcend their host nations and will ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEbmYp5VVcw&feature=youtu.beSuzuki Kango carved over 400 wooden parts for his senior thesis exhibition project: it uses "four magnetic stylus pens on a magnetic draw...

Marches supporting the Sanders campaign were called for in 70 cities across the USA, and at least 40 had confirmed marches with thousands turning out -- but the press barely noticed. (more…)...

Cheap Internet of Things devices like Foscam's home CCTVs are designed to covertly tunnel out of your home network, bypassing your firewall, so they can join a huge P2P network of 7 million other devi...