Articles by BoingBoing from May 2016

Season six of HBO's Game of Thrones soldiers on, with family reunions both fortunate and unfortunate. Each week following the show, Boars, Gore, and Swords recaps everything that goes down in the worl...

Jedediah Voltzby's Somewhere Small sculpture series is composed of 25 tiny treehouses painstakingly built around houseplants, drawing on Voltzby's extensive experience as a props-master for films. (...

In Global proliferation of cephalopods a paper in Current Biology, an esteemed group of marine biologists reports that the population of octopuses (and other cephalopods) is booming thanks to its abil...

This interview with UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld is as neat a case study in financial corruption as you could ask for: Birkenfeld's disclosures detailed 19,000 US tax evaders, including the bank'...

This interview with UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld is as neat a case study in financial corruption as you could ask for: Birkenfeld's disclosures detailed 19,000 US tax evaders, including the bank'...

Depending on how much credence you give to "whisper listings," there are between 27 and 50 $100,000,000+ houses on the market; last year, only two houses in that bracket sold worldwide. (more…)...

Depending on how much credence you give to "whisper listings," there are between 27 and 50 $100,000,000+ houses on the market; last year, only two houses in that bracket sold worldwide. (more…)...

The Library of America has just published String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis, a slim volume of beautifully written, never collected essays by one of the great tragic figures of American lit...

A new research report from Citizenlab painstaking traces the origins of a series of sophisticated hacking attacks launched at Rori Donaghy, a UK journalist for Middle East Eye who founded the Emirates...

Big telcos and cable operators demand the right to impose data caps that punish their most enthusiastic customers for using too much Internet (with exceptions to the caps made for services that have p...

Billionaire Pierre Omidyar "steps into the ring" in the long-running legal fight over privacy and journalistic freedom, fought lately between Hulk Hogan and Gawker Media. The intervention, on Gawker's...

The planter of this fir tree used railroad ties to create a deeply-embedded square border around it. As it grew, the roots took their shape, to be revealed after removing the now-rotten wood many year...

I'm thrilled my kid loves the water, but she grows so fast that I'm afraid a wetsuit that fits in May will be outgrown by August. I've learned, however, that my child is not unique in this, and most s...

Giant sharks? Pirates? A family of former Navy SEALS turned mercenary monster hunters? In Mega, Jake Bible, author of the well loved Zburbia series, takes to the high seas!Bible packs action, and come...

Wed all love a 75-inch TV screen on which toview our favorite shows. Butnot all of us can drop the cashneededto get one of those broadcasting beauties (or even have the space needed to house them).Tha...

Amazon has released Echosim.io, a browser based emulator of its Alexa Voice Service flagship unit, Echo. I've been playing with various voice service apps, trying to decide if they are at all approach...

A minecrafter, infered5, has decided to recreate all of Bungie's Destiny, inside of Minecraft. It is pretty amazing!Kotaku shares the story:Some Minecraft players like to build houses, or castles, o...

So many of my devices want micro-USB to charge, and somehow the cables keep disappearing. This pack of 7, at $1.85 per cable, should keep me going for a while.I am not sure if the dogs are chewing the...

You dont treat all of your beliefs equally.For some, you see them as either true or false, correct or incorrect. For others, you see them as probabilities, chances – odds. In one world, you live...

Michael from Muckrock found a reference to "Untangling the Web," an internal NSA guide to the Internet, on Google Books, so he requisitioned a copy from the NSA under the Freedom of Information Act. (...

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If you want to add some real firepower to your programming repertoire, learn Java--one of the most adaptable, widely-used programming platforms around. You can easily do that with this Ultimate Java b...

So this happened: a Texas man, relaxing in a trailer park with his marijuana, was bit by a dog. Shocked, and believing the bite was a gun shot wound, he called the cops. Raucous hilarity ensued.The Ho...

Colombia wants to produce Novartis's leukemia drug imatinib under a compulsory license, something it is allowed to do under its trade agreement with the USA, to bring the price down from $15,161/year ...

Nyree Holmes is a senior at Cosumnes Oaks High School in Sacramento County. When Mr. Holmes tried to express his African heritage by wearing a kente cloth (a cultural cloth from Ghana) to his graduati...

Demonia's Women's Stomp 314 Boots are goth as fuck, knee-high, made of shiny polyurethane and ringed with ammo for that je ne sais quoi. (via The Everyday Goth)...

Thinkgeek's launched a trinity of Star Trek: TNG swimwear for the summer: $60 one-piece suits (sciences blue; ops gold, command red); $40 cover-up rompers; and $50 "Deanna Troi" rashies/swim shirts (m...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Botanical Treasury: Celebrating 40 of the Most Fascinating Plants through Historical Art and Manuscripts by Christopher Mills (editor)University of Chicago ...

Justin Shafer was roused from his bed this week by thunderous knocking at his North Richland Hills, Texas home, and when he opened the door, found himself staring down the barrel of a 'big green' assa...

Kevin Sheehan, a koi enthusiast in the UK, has been ordered by the local housing association to remove the fish pond in his backyard.A spokesman for Sovereign Housing said: "This is not about burglars...

Chinese engineer Song Youzhou has been trying to get traction for his straddling bus, a huge elevated bus that goes over, rather than through, traffic, since 2010. (more…)...

In Millionaire Migration and the Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data, Stanford sociologist Cristobal Young builds on his substantial research on "millionaire migration," to show t...

Inequality in Childrens Contexts, USC Sociologist Ann Owens's paper in American Sociological Review (Scihub mirror), investigates the factors that contribute most to the unequal lives of wealthy and p...

In 1991 the dome of the Unzen Volcano in Japan collapsed. This video captures the pyroclastic flow. The running guy's scream is more chilling than the Wilhelm scream.From Wikipedia:A pyroclastic flo...

Every year, the Senate passes a secret bill (that is, a bill whose text is a secret during its debate) that re-authorizes intelligence agencies' surveillance powers; this year, someone (possibly chair...

When you get goosebumps from listening to music, it's called a frisson (pronounced free-sawn), which means "aesthetic chills." About two-thirds of the population feels frisson. Music is the most commo...

Wells Fargo has been widely criticized for its predatory, deceptive practice of targeting black mortgage borrowers with subprime mortgages (whose teaser rates ballooned into unsustainable long-term ra...

Many years ago, EFF co-founder John Gilmore and I were discussing the prevalence of botnets, which are commonly used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that overwhelm websites with...

A lovely demo by MIT researchers Xiao Xiao and Hiroshi Ishi of Andante, a system for interactive music learning:Andante visualizes as animated characters walking along the piano keyboard that appear...

I wish Scott Barry Kaufman had been my college professor. Scott told me that he gives extra credit for daydreaming in his classes. That would have been an easy A for a space-case like me.Scott is the ...

Developer of the Heimlich Maneuver, Henry Heimlich, now 96, used his anti-choking technique for the first time to save a person's life. The Cincinnati, Ohio physician was in the dining room of his ret...

Vintage interview with Jonathan Wolff, composer of the iconic Seinfeld theme (and music for Caroline in the City, Full House, Saved by the Bell, and many other shows). "I started with (Seinfeld's) v...

Last weekend, at Beyond Brookledge, I had a chance to hang out with actor, comedian, and proud sword swallower Brett Loudermilk! Brett is a high energy, fantastic performer with a pretty intense se...

"When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues,...

Anonymous Analytics describes itself as "a faction of Anonymous" that uses its "unique skills to expose fraud and corruption among public companies." (more…)...

Wisconsin Governor and balanced-budget hawk Scott Walker's failed bid for the GOP presidential candidacy left him with $1.2 million in debt. (more…)...

In Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata, a paper by researchers from Stanford's departments of Law and Computer Science published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the legal threats from Landis and Gyr against the Freedom of Information service Muckrock, which had received documents from the City of Seattle detailing the workings...

Earlier this week, I wrote about the legal threats from Landis and Gyr against the Freedom of Information service Muckrock, which had received documents from the City of Seattle detailing the workings...

Every company wants to harness the power of social media, but few understand how to make that happen. Be one of those select few with this Social Media Marketing Course & Certification package, no...

But Jacky Chen, who manages the Jinhua Partytime Latex Art and Crafts Factory, believes that Trump will win and his mask will sell out. (more…)...

Have you tried to find a box of Cracker Jack lately? You can buy boxes online or if you trudge to Costco (and are forced to purchase a bulk package of 24 boxes). Other than that I havent seen Cracker ...

This little Cree flashlight has a very bright beam, especially when you use it with a 14500 battery (rechargeable Lithium Ion) battery. It has a pocket clip and adjustable focus. It also works with a ...

When Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, they acquired Java, Sun's popular programming language, pitched from its inception as an open standard for the networked computer. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Gardenby Niki Jabbour, illustrations by Anne Smith, Elayne Sears and Mary Ellen Car...

In 1979, the Duke of Lancaster -- a cruise liner turned car ferry -- was retired from service and moored at Llanerch-y-Mor, North Wales, where it was made over as a "Fun Ship," whose car-deck was refi...

https://vimeo.com/157414762Jongha Choi's Master's thesis for Design Academy Eindhoven involved the creation of "De-dimension" furniture, which collapses into a flat, easily stored form when it's not...

[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...

If you think that your phone may have been hacked so that your adversaries can watch you through the cameras and listen through the mics, one way to solve the problem is to remove the cameras and mi...

For more than four years, we've been writing about Prenda Law, a prolific copyright troll (that is, a company that sends dire legal threats and demands for money to people they accuse of copyright inf...

Michelle Duchouquette gave Prestigious Pets of Dallas a 1-star review on Yelp. She was unhappy about being charged an extra $5 for dog care and the way the water in her fish bowl became cloudy. Now ...

When Purdue Pharma's patent on the MS Contin was close to expiry, the Sackler family who owned the company spent millions trying to find a product that could replace the profits they'd lose from gener...

An Object at Rest from Seth Boyden on Vimeo.An "Object at Rest" is a 6-minute animated cartoon by Seth Boyden. He says, the cartoon "follows the life of a stone as it travels over the course of mill...

From The Washington Post:And theyve just appeared in an extraordinary video published online by Minjok Tongshin, a pro-Pyongyang news service based in the United States that runs the kind of stories...

The Federal Election Commission has deadlocked on a complaint about an employer who coerced his salaried employees into donating to a PAC he had started; the three Democratic commissioners voted to ta...

The City of West Hollywood is using automated parking to fit more vehicles into a garage. It's neat, but I wish Los Angeles would use its resources for better public transportation.The garage requir...

In A2: Analog Malicious Hardware, a paper given at the 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, a group of researchers from the University of Michigan detail a novel, frightening attack on the int...

Dan Benjamin is a podcaster, writer, software developer, and ex-corporate stooge. He is the founder of 5by5, a podcast network where he hosts a handful of shows. He is the author of baconmethod.com an...

Samuraigutarist recorded his cover of The Beatles' "Here Comes The Sun" at a very slow tempo that lengthened the song to around 30 minutes. Then he sped up the video and audio 20x. The result sounds ...

Over at MAKE, Shane Walton explains a neat technique for turning coins into beautiful rings. Instead of hammering the edge with a hammer, he suggests tapping it with a spoon... for hours. ...

Each one of us has a relationship with our own ignorance, a dishonest, complicated relationship, and that dishonesty keeps us sane, happy, and willing to get out of bed in the morning.Part of that ign...

Ewan McGee writes, "Creators of the YouTube channel H3H3 productions are being sued by the creator of the YouTube channel MattHossZone for showing/talking about one of his 'pick up' videos. YouTuber...

This week, Marvel Comics published the first issue of Captain America: Steve Rogers in which it's revealed that since his earliest days, Captain America has been a double agent for Hydra, the thinly v...

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have more or less agreed to debate one another. (more…)...

In a new report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office reveals that the "Department of Defense uses 8- inch floppy disks in a legacy system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation...

Next April, Tor Books will publish Walkaway, the first novel I've written specifically for adults since 2009; it's scheduled to be their lead title for the season and they've hired the brilliant desig...

From Jonathan Marcus's YouTube:water... frozen reverse spherification (calcium alginate membrane)... flour... egg... panko... 375F peanut oilA dozen of these were prepared for and given away at the ...

Roadside snapshot by my pal Rachel Demy in Twisp, Washington. (via Rachel's Instagram)...

Random number generators are the foundation of cryptography -- that's why the NSA secretly sabotaged the RNG standard that the National Institute for Standards and Technology developed. (more…)...

If you've got a killer app idea, but dont have the technical expertise to pull it off, geta crash course in all thingsapp development with the Comprehensive Android Development Bundle, now over 90% of...

I love TV theme songs. I play old science fictions standards in the car or fast roads, funky 70s cop and public service show themes when I drive around big cities, and children's television workshop...

Arduino is an electronics prototyping platform that gives non-engineers the ability to add interactivity to their projects. (I teach an online Arduino course on Skillshare that 1,163 have taken with a...

This cinma vrit style documentary follows a Marine Corps drill instructor and his crew of fresh recruits in San Diego during the 13-week training program known as boot camp.From Wikipedia:In Helmet ...

The questions posed by David Cay Johnston include some tough-to-avoid queries about Trump's involvement with the mafia, the regulatory findings against his company for unfair and unsafe employment pra...

I don't know enough about grammar to be able to tell if this Sentence Tree is accurate or not....

Here's a gentleman taking a nap while his Tesla drives for him.From Electrek:Teslas Autopilot requires the driver to always monitor the vehicle and be ready to take control. If the system lacks data...

Over 90 tents, sleeping bags, coolers full of food, and of course trash were left strewn about California's Lake Shasta. Some of the detritus was proudly emblazoned with University of Oregon logos, an...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.World of Warcraft Chronicleby Blizzard Entertainment, Peter Lee (artist) and Joseph Lacroix (illustrator)Dark Horse2016, 184 pages, 9.3 x 12.3 x 0.7 inches $25 ...

Secret Life of the Human Pups is a Channel 4 documentary that takes a "sympathetic look at the world of pup play, a movement that grew out of the BDSM community and has exploded in the last 15 years...

In this video from the Florida Institute of Technology, professor Ningyu Liu at the Geospace Physics Laboratory "caught a beautiful lightning show from a recent storm. Its recorded at 7000 frames pe...

When Brandon Li, a 34-year-old American, went to Hong Kong, he was so taken by the city that he made this stunningly beautiful short video about it, which shows the people, both rich and poor, eatin...

Zurich-based Illustrator and graphic novelist Martin Panchaud created a massive infographic adaptation of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. If printed, the document would be more than 400 feet long. ...

Tristan Harris was Google's "Design Ethicist" where he studied how design choices directly affect people's behavior in conscious and unconscious ways. He's also a practicing magician! As he says, "Mag...

A Chinese government official told the South China Morning Post that a Foxconn factory has "reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots. It has tasted success...

Bubble machines tend to be flakey, touchy things that break a lot. Dan Das Mann, creator of the Funn Machine, the Funn Beast, and now the Funn Pack swears by the Bubbletron. Designed to be an entire f...

Lions Gate Entertainment is auctioning off a slew of screen-used props from Mad Men, including Don Draper's 1964 Imperial Crown Convertible. Less than 1,000 of this car were made and fewer than 200 ar...

Supaidman () aired in Japan for one season from 1978-1979. Spider's suit is familiar, but in this series his main power is that he, um, pilots a transforming robot named Leopardon. From Wikipedia:Al...

May 25th is celebrated as Towel Day! a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams, 1952-2001. From Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection arrested a Nogales, Arizona woman for allegedly smuggling $3000 worth of methamphetamine from Mexico inside two faux burritos. From UPI:A narcotics-detecting canine ...

I'd never heard this Sammy Davis Jr. cover of Jos Feliciano's charming Chico and the Man theme! Chico and the Man told the story of Ed, an alcoholic garage owner in 1970s East L.A., and Chico, a str...

As I type this, the consumer rights organization has been broadcasting its live-reading of terms of service for Instagram, YouTube, Kindle, Spotify, Snapchat and other popular apps for more than one d...

Join Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE in May, and more than the amount of your cost to sign up will be donated to help protect journalists around the world! You get exclusive access to comics and oth...

When a computer stops behaving, the solution often involves looking up an obscure command and pasting it into the terminal -- even experienced administrators and programmers aren't immune to this, bec...

Long before Sergio Argones filled the margins of MAD Magazine with tiny, weird cartoons, the margins of medieval manuscripts were a playground for bored monks with crude senses of humor. (more…...

The Freedom of Information Act specifies that government agencies must give a discount to "educational institutions" when they file requests, but for years, agencies led by the Department of Defense h...

A new Pew Research report finds that the number of single adults still living with their parents is at historically high levels -- in the US, the number of singles still at home outnumber the cohort o...

In a recent high-stakes basketball match between the Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder, Golden State Warrior player Draymond Green kicked Thunder player Steven Adams directly in the ...

Faception uses 15 secret classifiers of facial features to accuse subjects of terrorism and pedophilia, as well as predicting their poker abilities. (more…)...

Why would billionaire Peter Thiel want to bankrupt Gawker? That's the question circulating today, after Forbes reported that Thiel secretly backed Hulk Hogan's high-profile lawsuit against Nick Denton...

Phil Mocek filed a public records request to find out how Seattle's new smart meters -- supplied by Landis and Gyr -- will work. As Mocek writes, these meters are based on "unspecified and unverifiabl...

The National Rifle Association (NRA) tells the "ayatollahs of Iran" to "listen up" to a new ultra-nationalist dis track featuring country music has-been Charlie Daniels. (more…)...

NASA today announced that astronomers studying data from NASAs Great Observatories have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive black hole...

Forget "disrupting" some industry -- work at EFF and you can write code to make a better future for everyone! (more…)...

When you desire meaning, when you want things to line up, when looking for something specific, you tend to notice patterns everywhere, which leads you to ask the question, “What are the odds?&...

On Thursday May 26, Red Nose Day will return for the second year. Its all about giving to children to fighthunger, sickness, and homelessness.In the video above, the most famous magician in the worl...

On Thursday May 26, Red Nose Day will return for the second year. Its all about giving to children to fighthunger, sickness, and homelessness.In the video above, the most famous magician in the worl...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Injectionby Warren Ellis (author), Jordie Bellaire (illustrator) and Declan Shalvey (illustrator)Image Comics2015, 120 pages, 6.4 x 10 x 0.4 inches $7 Buy a cop...

In 1979, Roger Mainwood, just out of the Royal College of Art, created this wonderfully trippy animation for Kraftwerk's "Autobahn." It was a commission from the band's record company but Kraftwerk...

The biggest banks in the world have admitted to rigging LIBOR, a key interest rate that determines the value of trillions of dollars' worth of assets -- they paid billions in fines as a result. (more&...

I've been keeping a ChicoBag in my travel kit for about ten years. It's small enough that I could almost hide it in my fist. But when opened, it's large enough to carry a laptop and charger, or a beac...

The heroin epidemic in America has a death-toll comparable to the AIDS epidemic at its peak, but this time, there's no movement coalescing to argue for the lives of the economically sidelined, financi...

"Zero rating" is a widely practiced business among mobile carriers: they solicit bribes from Internet companies in return for their services being exempted from the carriers' data-caps -- products fro...

A police detective in Rock Falls, Illinois has been arrested for stealing more than $1,700 in cash found on the body of a man who died of a heroin overdose. Detective Sgt. Veronica Jaramillo, 43, was...

Rodrigo Duterte is the new president of the Phillipines: he ran on a promise to be a "dictator" and endorsed execution by vigilante death-squad as a way of combating crime; now he's announced that he ...

Rodrigo Duterte is the new president of the Philippines: he ran on a promise to be a "dictator" and endorsed execution by vigilante death-squad as a way of combating crime; now he's announced that he ...

Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen -- who is fighting a contested election this year -- put deputy public defender Zohra Bakhtary in handcuffs and made her sit with the criminals in the dock ...

The Turkish five lira note, issued in 2009, has a DNA helix. But Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar noticed that the note "shows a left-handed Z-DNA helix winding from left to right, when it should be the oth...

When a team of "vested up and gunned up" U.S. Marshals in Tennessee apprehended Tracy Hinson and began interrogating her about selling 10 Xanax tablets in 2012, she gave them answers that made it clea...

Could you recover a murder victim's last sight of their killer by extracting it from the retina? Little more than a century ago, forensic scientists thought it might be possible. After all, in 1877 ph...

In this video a butterfly is trying to eat something but a turfy any won't let it....

Yes, I know that isn't really Ryan Gosling.(Joey Thompson/YouTube)...

It starts with a simple ear of corn. Then, it is drenched in pools of viscous liquids, topped with layers of crumbled something, and sprinkled with spices. Over and over again....

Pixelsynth is a lovely and compelling Web app by Olivia Jack that enables you to easily turn your own images into weird electronic music and tweak the tones (and graphics) in real time. PIXELSYNTH (vi...

DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the establishment candidate's establishment candidate: she co-sponsored SOPA, blocked reform of loan-sharking payday lenders, voted against marijuana law reform, ...

Researchers at Stanford have developed face-capture technology that can alter pre-recorded videos in real-time on low cost computers. In other words, you can make George W Bush or Donald Trump appea...

Pleased to present for your consideration, this quote from the creator of The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling: "The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they dont walk through life; th...

Courts around America and the world increasingly rely on software based risk-assessment software in determining bail and sentencing; the systems require the accused to answer more than a hundred quest...

Dissernet, a leaderless collective of Russian scientists and journalists scrapes the doctoral dissertations of Russian elites -- who have been attaining advanced degrees at an unprecedented rate -- ru...

A tumblr that does exactly what the title suggests: Guns replaced with Selfie Sticks. (more…)...

Jared Sinclair developed the RSS reader app Unread, whichmade $10,000 in its first 24 hours on the iOS market.And weve all heard the story of Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen, whose creation was repo...

In 1989, Canadian activist, engineer and thinker Ursula Franklin gave a series of extraordinary lectures on the politics of technology design and deployment called "The Real World of Technology." (mo...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration head of security is out of a job. TSA won't say he's fired, but it sure sounds like he's fired. (more…)...

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration asked its head of security to turn in his badge and bright blue gloves. Kelly Hoggan has been 'removed from his post.' (more…)...

Dolores Park is a symbol of the clash between of the Mission District's low-income, non-white traditional residents and the flood of gentrifying tech world. (more…)...

Virginia authorities handcuffed a middle school student and charged him with larceny for "stealing" a milk carton from the school cafeteria earlier this year. The child has also been suspended from s...

According the the filings in a lawsuit brought by Equal Justice Under Law against Harris County, Texas, 77% of the inmates in Harris County Jail -- largest in Texas, third largest in America -- are th...

Before we knew him as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Elijah Wood was a child actor. In a recent interview with Britain's Sunday Times, Wood spoke out on s...

Hate passwords? Google does too, and may begin doing away with conventional passwords on Android devices this year. At Google I/O, the company announced the next steps in its plans to begin using a pa...

California holds semi-closed primaries: that means that if you want to cast a vote for Bernie Sanders, you have to be registered as an independent (not as a member of the racist, homophobic "America...

The Isis River, which flows through the English university city of Oxford, has inspired many place names that include "Isis," including "Isis Close." (more…)...

A second Baltimore police officer involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray was acquitted Monday. Gray, who was black, died in police custody one year ago, in Maryland. (more…)...

Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar, Netflix announced today in a blog post. The blockbuster Netflix/Disney deal from 2012 goe...

https://youtu.be/hgMfFBLpaD8Watch this (please, the whole thing). Its title is "The Present," and it's a gift to you from Jacob Frey....

Season six of HBO's Game of Thrones continues as we bid a tearful farewell to the kindest and purest soul given unto this series. Each week following the show, Boars, Gore, and Swords recaps everythin...

The Anker PowerCore is advertised as the "smallest and lightest 10,000mAh portable charger." That may be true. It's smaller than a deck of cards, which is smaller than any 10,000mAh charger I've seen....

Stanislaw Lem predicted ebook readers in his 1961 novel, Return from the Stars.I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century...The bo...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Enormous Smallness: The Story of E.E. Cummingsby Matthew BurgessEnchanted Lion Books2015, 64 pages, 8.4 x 11.5 x 0.7 inches $12 Buy a copy on AmazonEnormous Sma...

Scientists at the University of Maryland, College Park, have developed see-through wood by removing the material that gives wood its yellowish color and then injecting the wood with epoxy to strengthe...

His picks, with Amazon links:Seveneves, by Neal StephensonHow Not to be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg The Vital Question, by Nick LaneThe Power to Compete, by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi MikitaniSapie...

https://youtu.be/p4RLi2EWmkUPyroGirl took one of those rubber squeeze toys with the popping eyeballs, put 2000 match heads in it, and ignited them.2000 matches chain reaction - match bomb fail. Stress...

A man who goes by the single name of Obaidullah was never convicted of of a crime, yet remained in Guantnamo for 14 years, even after charges against him were dropped in 2011. From The Guardian:US for...

https://youtu.be/pNIvdmJUlVEDeveloped at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genoa, the iCub robot resembles a baby or a drunk trying to track a moving ball.Our humanoid robot, the iCub (I as in I ...

Weird Universe shares the tale of Larry Canaday, the 1970s football coach at Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, who would bite the heads off live frogs to psych up his team before games. "O...

On last night's episode of The Simpsons, the couch gag was animator Michael Socha's excellent spoof of Ikea's instruction manuals. (more…)...

Impressive drone footage of more than 70 tiger sharks chowing on a whale near Shark Bay in Gascoyne, Western Australia. Eco Abrolhos Cruises posted the video to the company's Facebook page:Passenger...

On this day, May 23, in 1934, police killed infamous outlaw couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow outside of Sailes, Louisiana. Several weeks before they was killed, Parker penned a poem titled "The ...

The Jerx (previously) gave an audience at a magic show an app that let them tap when their suspicions were aroused. (more…)...

The Jerx (previously) gave an audience at a magic show an app that let them tap when their suspicions were aroused. (more…)...

Last week, 30 students used a House Judiciary Committee hearing room to hold a debate on mass surveillance in America. (more…)...

Last week, 30 students used a House Judiciary Committee hearing room to hold a debate on mass surveillance in America. (more…)...

In Using (bio)metrics to predict code quality online, presented at the ACM's 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, two Swiss researchers presented their work on monitoring programmers...

In Using (bio)metrics to predict code quality online, presented at the ACM's 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, two Swiss researchers presented their work on monitoring programmers...

Investigative journalist Mark Hertsgaard's new book Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden tells the story of modern intelligence community whistleblowing; in a fantastic longread excerpte...

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet demonstrate the Barbie Doll Illusion experiment. In this experiment participants experience ownership of a tiny (30cm and 80cm) or a huge (400cm) body. Partici...

Crooks hit 1,400 convenience store ATMs in the space of two hours, using forged ATM cards based on data stolen from a South African bank. (more…)...

Crooks hit 1,400 convenience store ATMs in the space of two hours, using forged ATM cards based on data stolen from a South African bank. (more…)...

Crooks hit 1,400 convenience store ATMs in the space of two hours, using forged ATM cards based on data stolen from a South African bank. (more…)...

If you or your companys IT system are besieged by black hat cyber attacks, an ethical hacker might be all that stands between crippling damage and a companys long-term prosperity. Its no wonder that t...

https://youtu.be/g224A2cMORITruculence and bellicosity in the vegetable kingdom, slowed down for your viewing pleasure....

The $80 Ramones 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition collects 3 CDs, one LP and a hardcover book, in a limited, numbered box (the edition is limited to 19,760, which is a number you can interpret as either...

During wargames in Louisiana in September 1941, the U.S. Army found itself drawn into a tense firefight with an unseen enemy across the Cane River. The attacker turned out to be three boys with a toy ...

During wargames in Louisiana in September 1941, the U.S. Army found itself drawn into a tense firefight with an unseen enemy across the Cane River. The attacker turned out to be three boys with a toy ...

Your laptop and mobile devices are top of the line...so why are you trotting out that raggedy decades-old suitcase when you go somewhere? Time to up your travel game with a complete 5-piece Herschel T...

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Tristan Harris, formerly Google's Design Ethicist and Product Philosopher, delves into the way that technology design can "hijack your attention," by introducing casino-like intermittent reward; by fr...

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Abrams directed the first two Star Trek reboot movies and is producing the third one for Paramount; he says he convinced the studio to drop its controversial lawsuit against Axanar, a crowdfunded fan-...

Abrams directed the first two Star Trek reboot movies and is producing the third one for Paramount; he says he convinced the studio to drop its controversial lawsuit against Axanar, a crowdfunded fan-...

WordPress, JavaScript, Drupal, Joomla, SEO, HTML, CSS, PHPif youre looking to jump on to the web development career track, youve got a lot of learning to do. And those programs, platforms and discipli...

My latest book just came out: Why I Hunt Flying Saucers & Other Fantasticals. The title comes from the short story of the same name, which was nominated for an Aurora Award in 1991. (more…)...

The @DungeonsDonald parody Twitter account combines shooping, RPGs and politics to make D&D great again. (more…)...

Arch-conservative Patrick J Buchanan's May column in American Conservative (an organ he founded) traces the history of the Republican Party's position on free trade, arguing that the "party of Lincoln...

The flights operated between NYC and Chicago and LA and San Francisco, came with complimentary cigars and specially prepared meals, and were off-limits to women and children; some services were co-bra...

William J. Hager of Port St. Lucie, Florida is a 86 year old man who confessed to shooting his 76 year old wife, Carolyn Hager, in her sleep, because the couple could no longer afford her medications...

The NRA's chief spokesmurderer told Republicans, "Now is the time to unite. If your preferred candidate dropped out of the race, it's time to get over it." (more…)...

Ewan writes, "In Septempber of last year, American YouTube musician Kina Grannis embarked on a tour of Asia. As usual, her social media presences detailed the process beautifully (I've interviewed Ki...

Authorities say a uniformed Secret Service officer shot and wounded a man who brandished a gun outside the White House on Friday afternoon. President Obama was and is off site. The White House is now ...

Tom Vanderbilt, author of the classic book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, has just published You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice, about the science and business of personal pref...

Mike Wallace interviews the amazing Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, about censorship and marketers trying to push around writers of the TV shows they were sponsoring. ...

Your old fashioned spud gun has got nothing on NightHawkinLight's cheese ball automatic assault blower. ...

Candace Payne, your joy is infectious."Absolutely wonderful!" writes Peter "Chewbacca" Mayhew over at Reddit.Amazon has 'em for sale, but YMMV. ...

If you don't know, now you know. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)...

A Paris based Associated Press correspondent was flabbergasted to receive a freedom of information request from the Public Health Agency of Canada that had been censored with scotch tape and paper. Iv...

The March 29 edition of Airbnb's terms of service requires that people who rent out their homes acknowledge that despite the company's widely advertised Host Protection Insurance program, "you underst...

See sample pages at Wink.Mick Rock: The Rise of David Bowie, 1972-1973 by Mick Rock (photographer)Taschen2016, 300 pages, 10.8 x 15 x 1.2 inches $44 Buy a copy on AmazonWhen I asked Taschens PR perso...

There should be a three-strikes-and-you're-out rule for any individual or corporation that issues bogus DMCA takedown notices. From Torrent Freak:This week's episode of Family Guy included a clip fr...

As recently as 5 months ago, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was promising his customers that they could play the software they bought from the Oculus store on "whatever they want," guaranteeing that the...

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Nintendo continues its long-running campaign of legal harassment against its biggest fans: this time, they're targeting fan-videos showing gameplay from the official, licensed Mario/Minecraft mashup p...

My former EFF colleague Kevin Bankston writes, "For Boing Boing readers in the Washington DC area, heres a great event: this coming Tuesday, science fiction writer (and Cory's occasional collaborator)...

Augmented reality, where stuff is visually superimposed on the real world using special glasses or whatever, is often touted as a more convincing and likely future than, say, everyone ending up in s...

Adrienne Lafrance reports on largely futile efforts to make the Internet "safe for women". It's not just that law enforcement doesn't take it seriously, even after "real world" consequences such as sw...

We all rely on our smartphones for pretty much everything these days. So pick up some essential accessories thatll have your phone turning out high-quality digital images, checking whether youre good ...

It's not entirely clear where this image originates from, but the nightmarish interior of the Leatherback Turtle's mouth is attested to by many other ones just like it. Hey, at least it doesn't pee th...

Commanding two thirds or so of the browser market, Google's decision to turn off Adobe Flash by default in Chrome before 2017 seems like the end of an era that's always said to be ending.Later this ye...

The Chinese government's comment army generates nearly half a billion comments a year on apps and social networks, doing all it can to sway opinion in favor of the party. The vast message-managing ope...

On Sunday evening, I attended Helder Guimares spellbinding card magic performance, Borrowed Time in Los Angeles. I was excited because Helder was the 2006 winner of the close up card magic awards at t...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "From May 11, 1947 until January 29, 1948, Gandhi gave a speech after prayer meetings 129 times. It was a narrative of his life and of the times. All India Radio b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELczJ07XPnwSammus -- AKA Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo -- gave an opening keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Austin, Texas this week. It opened with an amazing ...

"Project Earth is leaving beta," JW Alden's arch, funny short-short science fiction story in Nature, is a delightful little piece of design fiction in the form of a letter to the backers of planet Ear...

Contrary to popular belief, productmanagers arent just the employees who somehow get things done. Product managers receive special training togarner their particular skill sets, allowingtheir employer...

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is serving 35 years in prison, in part due to a conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the overbroad, antiquated statute made notorious by its role in the pro...

In 1986, Aerosmith and Run-DMC collaborated on a remake of the former's 1970s song "Walk This Way." Masterminded by producer Rick Rubin, then 22, the resulting jam was a gamechanger for both hip hop...

"Famous Cellphone Ringtones Played On The Piano (Tony Ann Arrangement)."...

I knew someone who lived in a house with a driveway that was very popular with drivers who used it to turn around. He didn't mind people doing it in the day, but it also happened all night and he hate...

This is the lede to CNN's story about a man whose vaporizer battery exploded during use:"Kenneth Barbero of Albany, NY was enjoying a nice millennial vaping session when the hand-held device he was us...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Horrorstrby Grady HendrixQuirk Books2014, 240 pages, 7.4 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches (softcover)$9 Buy a copy on AmazonImagine a store much like Ikea, but not quite up t...

Weird Universe alerts us to the curious case of Gerald Mayo, who in 1971 filed a class action lawsuit in the Western District of Pennsylvania against Satan "and his staff." According to the sui, "Sata...

Liyla and the Shadows of War (Google Play link) is a game about a child's struggles living in the Gaza strip, and Apple says it is ineligible for consideration for inclusion in the Ios App Store becau...

Communion Cups with Wafers: prefilled and pretransubstantiated for your convenience. A box of 500 is only $95.Prefilled Communion cups with wafers are the easiest, healthiest way to share the Lord's S...

https://youtu.be/QtMAHm4ZfIsMathew Tizard says, "Something I made in 2005 - A zoom into the microstructure of a mosquito's eye, created using scanning electron microscope imagery. The white dots you s...

Math teacher at Dana Hills High School in southern California, late 1970s. Pitted. So pitted.Posted by the engaged educator's son on r/OldSchoolCool and making the rounds again....

Taxi companies and Uber are both awful, so it's fun to watch them fight each other. On Tuesday, El Paso's City Council voted to reduce regulations imposed on taxi companies, instead of increasing regu...

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Christian Faur makes art by stacking crayons. Each crayon is a photo. Here are more examples of his work....

Jenna Vecchio says she was working out with her husband at Movati Athletic Club in Orleans, Ontario when a supervisor told her that she would need to change her tank top because other clients at the g...

Sammus -- AKA Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo -- gave an opening keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Austin, Texas this week. It opened with an amazing musical performance but moved swiftly on to...

Florida man has prior art!From The Guardian:The patent, which was granted on 17 May, is for a sticky adhesive layer on the front end of a vehicle, which would aim to reduce the damage caused when a pe...

Riding Light from Alphonse Swinehart on Vimeo.This video lets you hitch a ride on a photon emitted from the sun. It takes about 45 minutes to get to Jupiter.In our terrestrial view of things, the sp...

Riding Light from Alphonse Swinehart on Vimeo.This video lets you hitch a ride on a photon emitted from the sun. It takes about 45 minutes to get to Jupiter.In our terrestrial view of things, the sp...

Pavlok is a wristband that one can use to deliver mild electric shocks to oneself, an experiment in Pavlovian self-conditioning. Intelligent Environments is a UK firm that has invented a "platform" ...

Kirby Ferguson's amazing Everything is a Remix series (previously), turns its keen eyes on JJ Abrams's record-breaking reboot of Star Wars, itself a mashup of classic films, and shows what happens w...

Sex in the City's IMDB ranking is 7.0, slightly below average -- but among women, it scores a hefty 8.1. Why is its overall score so low? Because men have given it an average rating of 5.8. (more&hell...

Lured by the internet's pervasive insistence that it represents a superior, more comfortable typing experience, I recently went back to an old-timey mechanical keyboard. This was a mistake. I am now a...

Olivia Jack's Pixel Synth turns images into music, scanning across the pixels horizontally and interpreting brightness values as notes. The results are peculiar, obviously, but also strangely melodic....

Bernie Sanders's fans in the venerable virtual world Second Life have established a HQ, "a Roman-themed hangout space in a peaceful meadow, where Bernie supporters often gather to share news of their ...

Chris Wood is a councillor from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a xenophobic party known for its leader and lawmakers' racist and sexist gaffes; this week, he added to the annals of UKIP inanity whe...

Sonia Livingstone, an LSE social psychology prof, gives us a peek into the results from The Class, a year-long, deep research project into the digital lives and habits of a class of 13 year olds at an...

Sonia Livingstone, an LSE social psychology prof, gives us a peek into the results from The Class, a year-long, deep research project into the digital lives and habits of a class of 13 year olds at an...

Pie Another Day: James Bond No-Bake Oreo Pie Recipe by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) (more geeky pie goodness) (more…)...

An Egypt Air flight from Paris to Cairo went off radar Wednesday night, a tweet from the airline reported. (more…)...

Behold the Clan Trump, God's gift to women. Ivanka Trump, daughter of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, is speaking out on reports that her father is occasionally less than chi...

The folks behind Riverside's Dickens Festival are putting on a steampunk ball!If you are in the area, and so inclined, tickets are $33. The Paper Moon portrait you can take home, by one of my favorite...

The sale of Time Warner Cable to Charter Communications is completed today, and former TWC customers (including me) can probably look forward to a whole new era of crappy service, Netflix throttling, ...

Streaming video service Netflix today launched Fast.com, which shows you your internet connections in megabits per second. You can use it on your mobile or over your home broadband connection, and it ...

[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...

Hero of the Public Domain Rick Prelinger writes, "Many of you know of Prelinger Library, an independent, experimental research library in San Francisco's South of Market district." (more…)...

Customers of a Burger King in downtown Helsinki, Finland can relax in an in-store sauna before enjoying the restaurant's fine cuisine. According to the restaurant chain's brand manager in Finland, Han...

Not sure about the StayPuft Marshmallow Man at the end, but the rest looks great to me. I love that theme song!...

Portugese artist Tomba Lobos sculpts bizarre facial deformities out of Play-Doh and then uses Photoshop to apply them to his subjects. "I would like to think this project as a low budget tribute to ol...

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by Ray, the super remote!About a month ago, Boing Boing received a Ray Super Remote in the mail and for a moment we thought we were looking at a new smart phone. From ...

After initially denying Liseanna Yazzie's request to wear ceremonial Navajo moccasins during her commencement, the Salpulpa Public Schools have changed their mind.Via KJRH.com:After initially being de...

The video is titled "Gothenburg Shuffle." See more on Noel Heath's Instagram. ...

My kids and I like to sketch together on the weekends. My older daughter and I also frequently go to a weekly figure drawing session here in LA. For me, using charcoal sticks is more fun than pencils ...

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In 1982, David Letterman screen-tested for the role of Ted Striker in my favorite comedy film of all time, Airplane! (1980). I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity by Carolyn EckertStorey Publishing2016, 224 pages, 5.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches $10 Buy a co...

FindFace is a new Russian smartphone app that lets users take photos of strangers and identify them with 70% reliability/From The Guardian:Unlike other face recognition technology, their algorithm all...

FindFace is a new Russian smartphone app that lets users take photos of strangers and identify them with 70% reliability. (more…)...

"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and il...

Robby Leonardi is a designer and animator, and his interactive resume showcases his impressive skills....

Two gentleman broke into a watch store in a mall during business hours. A person standing a few feet away shot video of the whole thing. The two burglars didn't get away with the heist, which involv...

In this video, Kipkay shows you how to make a hollow pencil, perfect for hiding one rolled up square of toilet paper, which will become the coin on the realm in the coming toilet paper shortage riot...

I couldn't see it for a long time, but once I did, it was impossible to unsee. Spoiler at The Irish Examiner....

The Raspberry Pi has always beenone of the cooler DIY computing pieces out there. This credit card-sized micro-computer isa hit for tech-savvy tinkerers to explore programming as an interest--even a c...

It looks like the Australian government hired rotten.com to design their cigarette packages. [image NSFL]...

Is this a restaurant? Bonus points for the unintentional Minecraft mobs sound effects....

I never had an ear for foreign language, and after three years studying Spanish in junior high school, all I could say was Esta lloviendo, aqui! which means its raining or something like that. Pretty ...

Today we travel to a future where everybody knows exactly when theyre going to die. Flash Forward: RSS | iTunes | Twitter | Facebook | Web | Patreon | RedditIf you could know your death date, would yo...

Today we travel to a future where everybody knows exactly when theyre going to die. (more…)...

This weekend Hollywood is about to make history with The Angry Birds Movie, the first feature film ever to be based on a smartphone app. The Angry Birds bird-slinging game, made by the Finnish compa...

When German chancellor Angela Merkel allowed the prosecution of a comedian who had insulted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, some thought it was strategic: that by doing so, it exposed the coun...

The company formerly known as Siemens Healthcare, as august and sterile as they come in the German healthcare business, is being rebranded as "Healthineers" in advance of a public stock offering. At...

The company formerly known as Siemens Healthcare, as august and sterile as they come in the German healthcare business, is being rebranded as "Healthineers" in advance of a public stock offering. At...

The BBC's Making of Me and You asks a few questions about your age, volume and sex, and derives from that a chart describing your composition. We are all much alike, one presumes, but the details are ...

Foundations of the Curtain Theater, where Shakespeare performed early in his stage career, were uncovered by developers in Shoreditch, London. And they come with a surprise: they're rectangular, not t...

The wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would like to assure voters that he is not Hitler. Politico's Nick Gass reports on Melania Trump's campaign intervention.We know th...

Heather Ann, a Dallas costume/prosthetics maker, created these $110 snail shell helmets (tentacles not currently included). (more…)...

Backed by huge donations from vitamin companies, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians is pushing to get naturopathic medicine recognized and regulated in all 50 US states, paving the wa...

Backed by huge donations from vitamin companies, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians is pushing to get naturopathic medicine recognized and regulated in all 50 US states, paving the wa...

Elsevier is one of the world's largest scholarly publishers and one of the most bitter enemies that open access publishing has; SSRN is one of the biggest open access scholarly publishing repositories...

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Martin Gardner's 'Science Magic: Tricks and Puzzles' teaches fun and easy experiments to demonstrate physics. I'm thrilled with the new tricks I'm learning!Gardner shares exciting, and generally simpl...

Anonymous sources quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere today said Google will introduce a competitor to Amazon's Echo on Wednesday. Its long-anticipated entry into the voice-activated home devi...

In California today, a grand jury indicted the Plains All-American Pipeline and one of the oil company's employees on criminal charges over the massive 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County. (more&he...

A subsitute high school teacher in Easton, Pennsylvania was taken into police custody Tuesday and charged with institutional sexual assault after admitting to a judge that she had been having sex wi...

Rightscorp, the copyright trolls whose business-model was convincing ISPs to freeze their customers' Internet access in response to unsubstantiated copyright accusations, and then ransom those connect...

Juan Zarate, 38, was arrested after a dachshund named Henry died in his care on Sunday, police say. The PetSmart groomer was arrested for animal cruelty after an X-ray revealed the the 1-year-old dog ...

Nature Magazine reports that researchers from Imperial College London gave psilocybin to 12 people with depression. All the patients showed "a marked improvement in their symptoms." From Nature:Resear...

See more sample pages from this book at Wink.GoatMan: How I Took a Holiday from Being Human by Thomas ThwaitesPrinceton Architectural Press2016, 208 pages, 5.9 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches $16 Buy a copy on Am...

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines." Frank Lloyd Wright (more…)...

The Mount Washington Observatory published this insane video from weather observers Mike Dorfman and Tom Padham demonstrating the effects of strong winds on top of a New Hampshire mountain. (more&he...

The LCD display on our old label maker malfunctioned, so I picked up this new model, called the DYMO LabelManager 160, for $10 on Amazon. You can buy a variety of label tapes for it, including clear a...

There are plenty of good reasons to get a second phone line. Maybe you need one for business calls that keep blowing up your personal phone. Or youre doing Craigslist sales, and dont want your number ...

https://youtu.be/outmDIi29BoA short but sweet new trailer. Fox is doing a little Time Warp of its own by releasing this brand-new production of the 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's s...

Stella Parks of Serious Eats blows readers' minds twice in the first two paragraphs of her article. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/uZSqx0PJ8XUHere are side-by-side video clips comparing a bunch of fire ants with different kinds of liquid.Fire ants use their claws to grip diverse surfaces, including each other. As...

This Spokane mother of 12 is sick of Target's WICKED pro-Sodomite agenda. Come for the speech, stay for "God's judgment is coming on this nation... and Target!"...

This mom in Port Moody, BC is taking a chance by having her son block a car with his bike so she can swipe a parking spot. A road ragey driver would have bumped the kid out of the way.Has this ever ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPvEaMudocA 4.5-foot copperhead snake, hidden in a tree, bit an employee at the Lowe's in in Denver, North Carolina. WPXI reports that "this could happen at any store ...

Lock expert Bosnian Bill shows the difference between shielded and unshielded padlock, by bypassing the tumblers with a simple tool....

Buzzfeed collected a bunch of drug toy ads from the early 70s. Here are a few:...

Buzzfeed collected a bunch of drug toy ads from the early 70s. Here are a few:...

Watch this talented guy make realistic food by pouring melted wax in a water bath. He's making the samples seen in Japanese restaurant windows.Gujo town in Gifu prefecture of Japan is the place wher...

SpareOne Emergency Phone is a basic cellphone powered by AA batteries. This gives it a relatively short time on a charge, but means that it will have a charge after being stuffed in a drawer or glove ...

Join Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE in May, and more than the amount of your cost to sign up will be donated to help protect journalists around the world! You get exclusive access to comics and oth...

Let's dispel with this fiction that Marco Rubio knows what he's doing. He doesn't know exactly what he's doing. The BBC reports on the former Republican presidential candidate's "Twitter tirade" last ...

It looks like Wargames but with Skittles: colored balls representing immigrants arcing through low orbit to land somewhere within the United States of America—Oklahoma, by the looks of it. Creat...

Visual Center is a website that takes an image and attempts to find its compositional center point. It works well with designy images that have an obvious geometry to them and well-defined shapes to f...

As Boing Boing U's Assistant Deputy President of the Committee on Neighborhood Communications and Principal Vice Liaison to Interdepartmental Technology of the Subcommittee for Academic Communications...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqKwCyA0QM&feature=youtu.be"This is JoeJoe the Capybara, enjoys baths and hanging out with baby ducks." [via]In addition to his YouTube Channel, Joe has an instagram a...

Donald Trump was all set to be interviewed by TV Azteca's Marcos Stupenengo -- a white, green-eyed Argentine expat -- until they overheard him talking on the phone in Spanish, whereupon the interview ...

Following on the hugely successful publications of books one and two, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a third volume, collecting the excellent sex advice, erotic...

Low-cost carrier Easyjet has prototyped "Sneakairs," a pair of shoes that have small vibrating motors and Bluetooth links; they work in concert with your mobile phone's mapping app, buzzing left or ri...

Today marks the publication of Rebels: A Well-Regulated Militia, the first collection of Brian Woods comic about the American revolutionary war that tells "the epic story of the colonists, explorers a...

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Hitherto believed to be a fairly recent innovation derived from the imperative quality of official telegraphy, etc., it turns out that there is a much longer history of using all-caps text to signify ...

If you were a boy in the 1960s, then no one has to remind you of the utter coolness of the animated TV show, Jonny Quest.It was great for many reasons which Ill leave you to discover on your own, bu...

This is why we can't have nice things.Some really stupid visitors to Yellowstone National Park decided that a baby bison they'd seen was "too cold," so they put it in their car to warm it up. After th...

This is why we can't have nice things.Some really stupid visitors to Yellowstone National Park decided that a baby bison they'd seen was "too cold," so they put it in their rental car trunk to warm it...

Thomas Manning, 64, is recovering after receiving the first penis transplant in the United States. Manning had his penis amputated in 2012 due to penile cancer. It took 15 hours for surgeons at Massac...

Moran Cerf, a pen-testing bank-robber turned horribly misunderstood neuroscientist (previously, previously) gets to do consensual, cutting-edge science on the exposed brains of people with epilepsy wh...

The agency says that the angle of the sunlight that strikes its tracks creates glare that blinds the CCTVs that train-drivers use to ensure that the platform is clear before pulling out of the station...

Our pals at the excellent art magazine Hi-Fructose partnered with MOCA, which curated what appears to be an incredible pop surrealism retrospective opening next week at the Virginia Museum of contempo...

Our pals at the excellent art magazine Hi-Fructose partnered with MOCA, which curated what appears to be an incredible pop surrealism retrospective opening next week at the Virginia Museum of contempo...

There are all 166 articles from SID Today, an NSA internal newsletter, cming in the first trenche of Snowden docs that The Intercept will release, with more to come. (more…)...

What a long, strange trip it's been, and continues to be. Just say know. (Retro Report)...

A nurse shark bit a woman in Boca Raton, Florida, and did not want to let go. Doctors were able to separate the two, and the woman was released into the wild.Via The Hamilton Spectator:Paramedics in B...

A nurse shark bit a woman in Boca Raton, Florida, and did not want to let go. Doctors were able to separate the two, and the woman was released into the wild.Via The Hamilton Spectator:Paramedics in B...

Ultraman is awesome! The funky theme, the goofy dialog, the not-so-special effects? This 1966 television masterpiece is every bit as fantastic as my childhood memories recall.Monsters are always att...

Google Chrome will soon be preferring to use other video playback methods, and will be asking users if they want to enable Flash when no other options are available. They will turn it on by default fo...

Comedy genius Louis CK just emailed his fan list (I'm sure as hell on it) the summer and early fall dates of his 2016 tour. Go here to buy tickets. In LA, he's playing Inglewood! The hood! Holy shit, ...

We Will Sell No Wine Before Its Time! Previously: Orson Welles hates the advertising copy he's been asked to read.If you enjoyed this video, Publio Delgado's weirdly harmonized guitar backing is an ...

https://youtu.be/0olpSN6_TCcThis well-made video from Practical Engineering explains why soil is not a good building material, and then shows how to mechanically stabilize it so it can bear weight.Dir...

Madeleine Lebeau passed away at age 92. Best known, in America, for her role as 'Yvonne' in Casablanca, Lebeau was the last known surviving cast member. Lebeau also performed in a number of classic ...

Actress Madeleine Lebeau has died. She was 92. She is best known in America for her role as 'Yvonne' in Casablanca. Lebeau was the film's last known surviving cast member, and also performed in a nu...

Louis Theroux's ability to establish a rapport with subjects is legendary, even with people who are aware that he may be, from their perspective, implicitly hostile. His affectation of ignorance and...

The BBC's Finlo Rohrer laments the "slow death of the purposeless walk," an activity replaced by modern transit and planned, regimented leisure/exercise activities. But there's hope!Across the West, p...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theaterby Eric P. NashAbrams ComicArts2009, 304 pages, 8.6 x 9.2 x 1.1 inches $29 Buy a copy on AmazonManga Kamishib...

Father-and-son tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming received a ticket for putting a bison calf in their rental car because they thought it was too cold.Karen Richardson of Victor, Id...

The Let's Melt This YouTube channel put together a video of their most oddly satisfying clips, including Melting A Giant Jawbreaker, Melting A Sock With Sulfuric Acid, Melting A Light Bulb, Melting ...

This dog remains perfectly calm and alert until it sees a knife, then it instantly responds to disable the attacker. Amazing training....

Zeos Pantera gives a high energy tour of how he keeps his apartment humming. He's funny and the tips are pretty good!...

Laurie Penny reviews Andi Zeisler's We Were Feminists Once and considers the progressive dilemma of popularity: how do you turn new popularity into change, when the idea of change is so easily turned ...

Season six of HBO's Game of Thrones continues, with sibling reunions and fiery declarations aplenty. Each week following the show, Boars, Gore, and Swords recaps everything that goes down in the world...

Use the right tool for the right job. Someone in your life has undoubtedly dropped this line on you at one point, and while it's tempting toblow off -its also correct. Using the wrong tool can often c...

This toy seems too perfect to be real, mangling Alien so thoroughly that it turns unseen 7'2" actor Bolaji Bodejo into the star and, completely accidentally, radically improves upon the high concept o...

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual was published in 1944 by the Office of Strategic Services, the agency that came to be the CIA: it outlined simple tactics for putting bureaucratic grit in the wheels o...

Lumberjanes began life as an 8-issue series written by Marvel/Disney alumnus Noelle Stevenson and a rotating crew of talented woman comics creators -- the entire series is woman-led and -produced -- t...

The video from @KTLA. They handed her a sweater LIVE ON THE AIR because they were "getting a lot of emails." #KTLA pic.twitter.com/ADPb0poVDS— Megan McGrath (@meg_mcgrath) May 14, 2016...

The video from @KTLA. They handed her a sweater LIVE ON THE AIR because they were "getting a lot of emails." #KTLA pic.twitter.com/ADPb0poVDS— Megan McGrath (@meg_mcgrath) May 14, 2016...

"HR Pieger" Recipe by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) (more…)...

The administrators of the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport are apparently considering getting rid of the TSA and replacing them with private contractors, similar to the setup at San Francisco International ...

A study by the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration found that half of American Internet users are "deterred" from engaging in online transactions becaus...

Iceland's elections are publicly funded, with funds awarded based on polls of the electorate; the Pirates have consistently polled higher than any other party, and the incumbent coalition (whose parti...

The Nebula Awards -- voted on by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy -- were given out in Chicago yesterday, and every prose award ...

Inbox by Gmail combs through your email looking for frequent correspondents and puts the people who email you the most in a "speed dial" sidebar (that you can't edit) that puts their names and picture...

I really like this strap-based handlebar mount for my GoPro cameras! The rubber, strap-based sizing system is superior to most others I've tried.I've got a few different bicycles and motorcycles I lik...

I'm excitedly preparing to head down to Beyond Brookledge!This from event organizer Bob Self:Gaze upon this years Beyond Brookledge gicle poster (which will be gifted to event attendees along with a f...

In a new scientific review paper published in World Neurosurgery, a group of Oxford neurosurgeons and scientists round up a set of dire, terrifying warnings about the way that neural implants are vuln...

Jonathan Mathew is one of the bankers at Barclays who participated in the Libor rigging fraud, which cost people all over the world trillions of dollars in higher payments on mortgages, government bon...

FBI Director James Comey told reporters that "viral video effect" (which is his latest term for what used to be called the "Ferguson effect") is responsible for increased violent crime in some US citi...

If you like tech (and if youre reading a post here on Boing Boing, thats a pretty safe bet), then you already know of - and likely love - Newegg. Theyre one of the elite computer retailers on the plan...

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I was using Spotlight on OS X to find my Zen Desktop Cleaner app when "The Zen of Making" showed up. I forgot all about it, but I'm glad I came across it again.Adapted from a talk by Massimo Banzi, co...

I lived in Gunbarrel, Colorado for about six years when I was a kid. True to its name, people like guns in Gunbarrel. I was once shot by fellow who objected to my trespassing on his property (my frien...

I love the look of this iron and wood swing arm lamp. It's regularly $35 on Amazon, but you can get it for $25 if you use code Z59QY7OB at check-out. They come in green and black models....

A 22-year-old Canadian woman visiting Times Square mistook a man's "free hugs" sign to mean that she could get a free hug. When she didn't pay up, the gentleman punched her in the eye. Jermaine Himmel...

U Maryland English professor Matthew G. Kirschenbaum has a new book called Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing that tells the story of word processing from writers' perspectives; an a...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers developed a system that turns your arm into a trackpad. Video demo above. From their scientific paper:It consists of a ring, which emits a continuous high freq...

In the 1970s-1990s, reporters covering Trump would sometimes chat on the phone with Trump's PR men John Barron or John Miller. Turns out, Barron and Miller were Trump himself. It'd be funny if, well, ...

The Russian Embassy in London retweeted a screengrab from Command And Conquer Generals: Zero Hour along with the comment, "Extremists near Aleppo received several truckloads of chemical ammo." People ...

Pie designer Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin made these mouthwatering Jabba the Hutt turnovers! Ingredients: 2 apples bit of cinnamon one package of Pillsbury pre-made pie crust"I Made A Batch Of Jabba The ...

Take a look at these beautiful images of computers at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park by photographer Docubyte and production studio Ink....

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Nod Awayby Joshua CotterFantagraphics2016, 240 pages, 7.8 x 10.2 x 0.8 inches (softcover)$21 Buy a copy on AmazonSometimes the most abstruse and esoteric dilemm...

Penn and Teller's classic takedown of anti-vax bullshittery. And if you don't know, now you know....

This man of the forest enjoys a cool washcloth, even when his young friend tries to take it from him....

Cornell economist Robert Frank drew the ire of the nation's business press when he published an article that said something most economists would agree with: hard work and skill aren't enough (or even...

What do you do if you're a giant corporation devoted to selling people huge, $100/month bundles of TV channels they don't want anymore, but you also have a monopoly on selling high-speed Internet acce...

The vaping phenomenon has exploded over the past decade. Whether its smokers transitioning to a less harmful pastime, or connoisseurs of exotic tastes and textures, the market for vaping enthusiasts c...

Katherine Dunn, the author of the incredible macabre comedic novel Geek Love, about the strange shenanigans in a circus sideshow, has died at age 70 from lung cancer. From a Los Angeles Times profile ...

Remember when "Turd blossom" was the affectionate nickname the President of the United States used to refer to his chief advisor? (more…)...

The term "tendril perversion" was coined in 1998 by mathematicians Goriely and Tabor to describe the long-observed phenomenon of coiled cables, vines and other helixes that have one kinked loop that ...

In What We Buy When We "Buy Now", a paper forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, respected copyright scholars Aaron Perzanowski and Chris Jay Hoofnagle report on an experiment they ...

Starring pop culture characters that many of us can identify with, this comic hits home. It is a brutal look at how abusive families shape their childrens' future relationships—but also shows th...

Sarah Jeong's covering the Oracle v. Google trial, whereby the two companies are fighting over Java, copyright and the difficulty of explaining things like APIs to "normals." Most interesting is how t...

Last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump blithely threatened Jeff Bezos over The Washington Post's investigations of him. It's a preview of exactly what form Trump's authoritarianism...

Public schools should allow trandgender students to "use bathrooms matching their gender identity," reports CNN on guidance to be issued later today by the Obama administration.The announcement comes ...

Billy Corgan, of the Smashing Pumpkins, laments the fact he can't say a certain word without becoming unpopular, which is the result of social justice groups shutting down free speech."It's pretty rem...

Shanghai Disneyland, opening on June 16, is now in soft opening, with castmembers, families, and invited guests allowed in while they slowly open the rides and get everything working properly.The firs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUVR04CMBU&feature=youtu.beIncredible footage of the TSA line at Chicago Midway airport yesterday, which snakes out the airport atrium and into the surrounding transit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byUVR04CMBU&feature=youtu.beIncredible footage of the TSA line at Chicago Midway airport yesterday, which snakes out the airport atrium and into the surrounding transit...

Drew Friedman says:The world's greatest cartoonist Robert Crumb was in Portland, Oregon earlier this week, and paid a visit to the office of a private art collector and mutual friend who also owns the...

Hagaman Musson says: "So I was waiting for my son to come home from school and I see this woman trying to get a close up of the squirrel trying to get a selfie with it. Next thing I know he's chasin...

This brilliant billboard on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, Canada is actually a PSA to discourage texting and driving. After this, if Wathan Funeral Home were real, people would be dying to get i...

A favorite demonstration in high school science classes of yesteryear, dropping sodium into water is spectacularly explosive. In this video, a fellow attempts to skip a pound of sodium across a rive...

This mouthwatering morsel is an origami robot that once swallowed, unfolds itself in the gut and can be steered by magnets outside the body. According to the MIT researchers, patients may someday swal...

Microsoft Office remains the world's most powerful and widely used productivity suite. Right now, you can earn an experts understanding of Office with the complete A to Z Microsoft Office 2016 Trainin...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Alien Invasion in My Backyard: An EMU Club Adventureby Ruben BollingAndrews McMeel Publishing2015, 112 pages, 5.3 x 8 x 0.4 inches $12 Buy a copy on AmazonTV wi...

"Extremists near Aleppo," tweeted the Russian Embassy in London, "received several truckloads of chemical ammo."And just to make sure the news was sufficiently clear, they attached an image of three t...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has made a sea-change: now, in addition to making open web standards that anyone can implement, they're creating a video DRM standard designed to prevent people fro...

The FBI isn't in the mood to discuss why it installed hidden microphones and cameras in and around Alameda Countys Rene C. Davidson Courthouse. It had been conducting secret surveillance for 10 months...

Security researcher Matt Blaze noticed this vehicle in Philadelphia. It had a large Google Streetview sticker on the window, but Matt noticed a Philadelphia Office of Fleet Management placard on the w...

In 1970, journalist Hunter S. Thompson, 32, and artist Ralph Steadman were assigned to cover the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's Monthly magazine. The resulting article, "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent a...

Australian artist Van Thanh Rudd, nephew of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, spent 15 years stealing forks that had been used by the rich and powerful, vacuum sealing them to preserve leftover morsel...

Gen Con, the giant, venerable RPG convention in Indianapolis, has announced its Industry Insider slate of featured panelists, revealing that the con's organizers attained (and surpassed) gender parity...

I think this took place in the Philippines. It's similar to the video of 80 Amish people who picked up a house and moved it:https://youtu.be/hl5bqHQ4YrY...

Putting Middlebury college kids to shame, these sky divers come about as close as you can to playing quidditch....

The Guardian reports that a Republican member of the 9/11 commission is "breaking dramatically" with leaders of the commission by claiming that there is Saudi government employees supported the 9/11 h...

The Swedish Court of Appeal is confiscating two domains of the popular torrent directory Pirate Bay. The prosecution did not go after The Pirate Bay directly. Instead, it targeted filed a complaint ag...

Another attack on North America's power infrastructure by embittered animals has resulted in the death of at least one raccoon. Via KOMO News:The city's electric utility said service was knocked out a...

Upgrading is compulsory!I had to have this Cyberman minifig. The stacked up bunch of pieces that resembles a Dalek is also cute. Dr. Who Cyberman Fun Pack - Lego Dimensions via Amazon...

The Guardian has recreated a 6x9 solitary confinement cell in VR, designed to be viewed with Google's cheap cardboard VR viewers, which uses your phone for screens. (more…)...

In Germany, media that can make or store copies (drives, copiers, blank optical discs) is subject to a "private copying levy" that is meant to compensate rightsholders for the works that will be copie...

Sovereign immunity prevents one government from using its courts to attack another, but Chinese state-backed industries are taking it to new places, arguing that sovereign immunity means that the US c...

Chelsea Clinton's husband Marc Mezvinsky is a Goldman Sachs alumnus; in 2014, he founded Hellenic Opportunity, a hedge fund that raised $25M to bet on distressed assets from Greece's collapsed economy...

Rosebuttboard.com is a forum for people whose sexual activities include inserting large items into their anuses; the site has been breached by a hacker, who now has details on over 100,000 of its user...

George Zimmerman, acquitted in 2013 of murdering Trayvon Martin, plans to auction the gun he used to kill the unarmed teen. The proceeds will be used to "fight violence against Law Enforcement officer...

George Zimmerman, acquitted in 2013 of murdering Trayvon Martin, plans to auction the gun he used to kill the unarmed teen. The proceeds will be used to "fight violence against Law Enforcement officer...

Do not drink and drive. Watch this.[via Metaspoon]...

Since its inception as a 2012 Kickstarter, the Reading With Pictures project has gone from strength to strength, culminating in a gorgeous, attractively produced hardcover graphic anthology of delight...

The new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, says his election in a divisive campaign that drew attention to his faith should send a message to U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump that Islam and Western ...

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed legislation to improve safety planning for babies born dependent on opioid drugs. (more…)...

People who work in chicken and turkey processing plants run by America's biggest poultry producers are routinely denied bathroom breaks. Because of this, some resort to wearing diapers while they're a...

The United Nations Security Council recently passed a resolution reminding members that intentional attacks on medical facilities are war crimes. (more…)...

Remember those funny atheist protest ads mocking a Noahs Ark-themed amusement park being built in Williamstown, Kentucky? Two billboard companies with no sense of humor have refused to run the atheist...

Aching hands don't just ruin a long trip on a motorcycle, they can turn a leisurely ride into a dangerous nightmare. After ruining my last motorcycle vacation, friends recommended the $10 Cramp Buster...

I grew up in Golden and Boulder, but had never heard of Wray, a small town in northeast Colorado, until today when I watched this exciting 360 degree video of a tornado that went past Wray. Use your...

I bought Thinking Physics, by Lewis C. Epstein in 1984. It's one of my favorite books of brain teasers. They are designed to help you gain a qualitative, intuitive sense of physics. The author stresse...

The World Wide Web Consortium has been co-opted into standardizing a DRM scheme for letting entertainment companies control your browser; what's more, they've rejected even basic safeguards for compet...

Negative ESP, or "psi-missing," is when you score far below chance in an ESP test. According to the textbook An Introduction to Parapsychology (2007):It is important to note that this does not indicat...

Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther Theme" (1963) reworked into a major key would make a good soundtrack for a bad 1960s sitcom. (Major vs Minor, via Digg)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Deceptive Desserts: A Lady's Guide to Baking Bad!by Christine McConnellRegan Arts2016, 288 pages, 8 x 10 x 1 inches $19 Buy a copy on AmazonTake a ripened craft...

My friends Bethany and Daniel, founders of Technology Will Save Us, have developed the "worlds first active wearable that kids, young and old, can make and code themselves." It's called the Mover, an...

Who were the Harvey Girls, and what were the Harvey Houses in which they worked? It's actually more innocent than it sounds, as Hunter Oatman-Stanford explains in his latest piece at Collectors Weekly...

[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...

Police in Tallahassee, Florida were on high alert after a message appeared on a sidewalk that looked very similar to the writing and cryptograms written by the Zodiac serial killer in the late 1960s a...

Chris Anderson is the CEO of 3D Robotics and founder of DIY Drones. From 2001 through 2012 he was Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine. Before Wired he was with The Economist for seven years in London, H...

Join Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE in May, and more than the amount of your cost to sign up will be donated to help protect journalists around the world! You get exclusive access to comics and oth...

I appeared on the O'Reilly Hardware Podcast this week (MP3, talking about the way that DRM has crept into all our smart devices, which compromises privacy, security and competition. (more…)...

For his project Velocipedia, artist/designer Gianluca Gimini asked friends and strangers to draw a men's bicycle from memory. Then he digitally mocked up the designs. Gimini writes:Soon I found out th...

For his project Velocipedia, artist/designer Gianluca Gimini asked friends and strangers to draw a men's bicycle from memory. Then he digitally mocked up the designs. (more…)...

In Critical Failures, a pissed off Game Master wants Tim, Dave, Julian and Cooper to respect the game, but they just want another beer. Robert Bevan has clearly had it with some of the guys he plays R...

I upgraded my home storage to a Drobo 5N, in January 2014. Over two years later a disc failed, swapping in a new one was no big deal.I have loved Drobo since my 1st generation unit. Much easier than p...

It's time once again to nominate your digital heroes for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Pioneer Awards; previous winners include Edward Snowden, Carl Malamud, Limor Fried, Laura Poitras, ...

At The New York Times, Lisa Damour tackles the changing vocabulary of talking to teens about marijuana. Once good for standard-issue parental rants about drugs 'n' crime, legalization and research are...

The Host Committee for this year's Democratic National Convention includes Finance Chair Daniel Hilferty, a health insurance industry lobbyist on the board of Americas Health Insurance Plan (which lea...

Starfish wasting disease seriously reduced the west coast's population of starfish. This crucial member of the ecosystem's absence has contributed to collapse. Urchin populations are booming, and kelp...

Starfish wasting disease seriously reduced the west coast's population of starfish. This crucial member of the ecosystem's absence has contributed to collapse. (more…)...

Minnesota's SF3609, the Personal Rights in Names Can Endure (PRINCE) Act, is the broadest, most ill-considered publicity rights bill in American history. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-ATxSHGU4John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, was ejected from the country's parliamentary debating chamber yesterday when he repeated ignored the Speaker o...

In a desperate attempt to stop that crazy Nigerian Prince communicating with rogue congressional staffers, the House IT department has banned Yahoo Mail! Seems ransomware attacks are on the rise, and ...

As high rises replace their elevator up/down buttons with panels that you enter a floor into, which then direct you to a specific elevator, they create the possibility of adding more cars to each shaf...

Germany's ruling coalition is modifying the country's legal "Strerhaftung" theory, which currently makes people liable for copyright infringement if they operate an open wifi network that someone else...

Test Pilot, a new Firefox plugin from Mozilla, lets you try out features that the company is thinking of launching, contributing both telemetry and explicit feedback that they'll use to plan the produ...

As politicians work the campaign trail, one of two things happens: either the stump speech becomes rote and robotic; or it turns into a full-blown, riveting performance. (more…)...

Give any adult the Makey Makey Invention Kit and theyll all invariably have the same reaction: I wish I had something like this when I was a kid.But its probably best to just put the Makey Makey into ...

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Im not a scientist, but this sounds amazing: a new two-step application of "new skin" developed at MIT that eliminateswrinkles and bags under the eyes and its not bullshit. Watch this video and rea...

Almost all of Canada's oil sands production has been shut down by a raging wildfire in Alberta's Fort McMurray region. (more…)...

Almost all of Canada's tar sands production has been shut down by a raging wildfire in Alberta's Fort McMurray region. (more…)...

Amnesty International says at least 149 detainees have died "in horrendous conditions" at a military detention site in northeastern Nigeria this year. Among them were 11 children under the age of 6 ye...

Mouse says wtf?This is the best and easiest homemade humane mouse trap!. Easy to build, easy to bait, easy to release and best of all, it's humane and there's no springs or levers to wind up or load...

On a conference call with the Ted Cruz campaign's National Prayer Team, the presidential candidate's wife Heidi Cruz said the fight to get her unelectable husband elected is pretty much exactly like ...

Ive known Tomohiro Maeda since he was a teenager.For a period he was well-known in Japan for his many two-hour television specials doing mostly card tricks for famous celebrities seated around a sma...

In the video above, you will see just how deceptive Adore Me is. If you don't pay very close attention to the fine print, you will get suckered into a $40/month automatic payment. You can only cance...

In the video above, you will see just how deceptive Adore Me is. If you don't pay very close attention to the fine print, you will get suckered into a $40/month automatic payment. You can only cance...

Ray Tomlinson created the first networked email system in 1971 while working on his MIT doctorate and collaborating on the early ARPAnet at BBN; he used @ -- the at symbol -- to separate the username ...

UPDATE This is a couple months old -- I read "Mar 5" as "May 5." My apologies.Ray Tomlinson created the first networked email system in 1971 while working on his MIT doctorate and collaborating on the...

Earlier today I posted the news that Megumi Igarashi (pen name Rokudenashiko) was found guilty of obscenity for distributing a digital file containing a 3D scan of her vulva. Today also marks the publ...

NASA announced today that the Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets -- the single largest finding of planets to date. (more…)...

In 1991, The Simpsons episode called Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? aired, in which Homer becomes an auto-executive and designs a car that is used to show why American auto-manufacturing had failed: now ...

"You come upon the track of a bicycle in the mud. Was the bicycle traveling to the left or the right?" Visit Futility Closet for the solution. I haven't looked yet, as I'm still riding a bike in my mi...

Japanese manga artist, Megumi Igarashi, who makes whimsical sculptures from molds of her vulva, was fond guilty of obscenity in Tokyo District Court. She was fined 400,000 yen ($3,670) fine.Megumi Iga...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Unflatteningby Nick SousanisHarvard University Press2015, 208 pages, 7.5 x 10.2 x 1 inches (softcover)$16 Buy a copy on AmazonIt is remarkable how much we learn...

This home was burned to the ground in the Fort McMurray wildfire. The owners watched their living room go up in smoke via a security camera feed sent to their iPhone....

TV astronomer and author Mark Thompson uses a pig eye he got from his local butcher to demonstrate what happens to people who make the mistake of looking at the sun through a telescope....

TV astronomer and author Mark Thompson uses a pig eye he got from his local butcher to demonstrate what happens to people who make the mistake of looking at the sun through a telescope....

Our friend and frequent Boing Boing contributor John Edgar Park built a large cold brew coffee drip tower using laser cut parts, lab glassware, a food-safe solenoid valve, and Arduino-based controlle...

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I met Jeff Veen when we worked together at Wired magazine. Jeff came on board in 1994 and built websites for Wired and Hotwired. After that, Jeff went on to do a bunch of cool things, such as launchin...

Antiques Roadshow appraised this "bizarre and wonderful" ceramic jug from the late-19th/early-20th century at $50,000. Turns out, they were mistaken. A woman named Betsy Soule crafted the mug in high ...

Fuman Musicoloco performing in Zaragoza, Spain. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMl6xg6f9cLen Peralta writes about a Kickstarter for Renfest: "a new episodic comedy series starring Mary Jo Pehl and Trace Beaulieu of MST3K fame and Dave 'Gruber' ...

Fast Company looks into Budweiser's patriotic salute to the upcoming presidential election.The alterations dont stop with the beers name. Almost every bit of type on the Budweiser label has been scrub...

Institute for the Future (where David and I are research directors) has a Blockchain Futures Lab blog. Today, Kathi Vian of IFTF presents a scenario involving a "bottom-up distributed toolset for aggr...

Stunning! The National's cover of "Morning Dew," a song penned in 1961 by Bonnie Dobson and later popularized by the Dead, is one of 59 (!) tracks on the Day of the Dead box set they helped produce,...

The beloved Tower of Terror ride at Disneyland California Adventure features some of the most elaborate themeing and set-dressing of any of Disney's built environments, consisting of a series of stage...

Lynda Carter, the Wonder Woman of 1970s television, with stunt double Jeannie Epper. If you're not hip to the only screen Wonder Woman that matters, watch the original title sequence below.In your sat...

Though most of the world's largest narcotics gang's aircraft are a lot smaller than the Mexican flagship carrier's planes, the Sinaloa have flown at least one Boeing 727; the planes fly drugs, gang me...

It's been nearly a year since Tony Yarber, pastor and mayor of Jackson, Mississippi capital and largest city in the state, tweeted that he believed he could pray away potholes, citing Moses's alleged ...

Exotic polyhedron purveyor Dice Lab's crowning randomizer is its monstrous, $12 120-sided die. (more…)...

The Facebook board member will be a Trump delegate to this summer's Republican National Convention, representing California's 12th district. (more…)...

Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Systrom, and Jack Dorsey changed the social media landscape with their creations, and now Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are all tech giants. Now, you can learn the keys to be...

Oxfam has published an open letter signed by hundreds of respected economists, including Thomas Piketty, which describes tax havens as "serving no useful economic purpose." (more…)...

Between 120 and 150 IT workers will be fired from the McClatchy newspaper syndicate (Scramento Bee, Miami Herald, etc), after they have trained IT contractors from India's Wipro to do their jobs. (mor...

These facehugger facewarmers come from Brooklyn weird textiles queen Knitrocious (previously). They're made to order from acrylic yarn and cost $150 each: "Legs have clips so that they can be worn aro...

Magnanimous president-to-be Donald Trump says that despite his proposed ban on muslims entering the U.S., London's new mayor, Sadiq Khan, may be an exception.There will always be exceptions, Mr. Trump...

How does the internet get routed to Greenland? Just how many cables snake their way through the waters of the Caribbean? Submarine Cable Map is exactly that, but it's beautiful and interactive too. [v...

Filip Timotijevic is a pretty fellow who knows his moves. You can book him for your menswear catalog or robot dance party through Fox Fashion in Belgrade or MP Paris....

There's an obvious answer to the smallness of statues' penises: the manners and religious prudishness of classical elites. But the issue is more about differing standards of beauty and modern mens' pe...

Craig Wright's latest effort to prove himself the creator of bitcoin ended in farce, but some commentators are tired of the whole saga, saying that it doesn't matter who invented Bitcoin because its d...

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The massive wildfire that continues to burn in the Fort McMurray area of Alberta, Canada has been captured from space by NASA imaging satellites. (more…)...

Publishing is in a weird place: ebook sales are stagnating; publishing has shrunk to five major publishers; libraries and publishers are at each others' throats over ebook pricing; and major writers' ...

A man in Florida was cited by state wildlife officers for killing an alligator without a permit after an inspection revealed gator body parts in his pickup truck, and the poor dead critter's foot stic...

A man the U.S. says is a hacker aligned with the government of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will appear in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday. An unnamed source with U.S. law enf...

Eight people were killed in Chicago over Mothers Day weekend. Another 43 people in the city were injured in gun violence. (more…)...

A robin made its nest under our deck, giving us a wonderful birds' eye view of the nest through the boards. Today we noticed one of her three eggs had hatched! Here is footage of the new level 1 rob...

For two years, Vinny Desautels grew out his hair to donate to children with cancer who have lost their hair during treatment. The 7 year old Roseville, California boy was recently diagnosed with an un...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition CatalogueBill Watterson and Robb JennyAndrews McMeel Publishing2016, 160 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 0.6 inches (softcover)$15 ...

My orange Bialetti Moka Express Stovetop Percolator is my version of the red stapler. (I have a real red stapler, too.)Over the years, I've tried to keep my Moka in pristine condition, but my family m...

The World Wide Web Consortium's plan to standardize web-wide digital rights management is based on the idea that if an entertainment company doesn't like a new technology, it should have the right to ...

Created by Kurt Rauffer, who writes:Growing up in the 90s where Star Wars was released on VHS, the franchise really sparked my imagination as a child. It not only let me exercise my imagination but ...

US Federal Magistrate judge Stephen William Smith sounds the alarm about the skyrocketing trend of US courts operating in secret, with their findings (or even the fact that they're hearing a case at a...

Kaplamino made this delightful Rube Goldberg-esque demo using magnets and steel balls. ...

https://vimeo.com/164726039Matthew Callahan's Galactic Warfighters series poses Star Wars action figures in scenes that recreate war journalism from US operations, captioned with AP-style slugs that c...

The Present, Jacob Frey's four-minute short about a young boy who's not sure about the three-legged puppy his mom gives him, won more than 50 awards and played more than 180 festivals -- it's got a ...

The Australian Productivity Commission has published its long-awaited, 600-page draft report on the country's copyright and patent laws, which are largely the product of diplomatic pressure from the U...

Other Music, my favorite New York City record store, is closing down after more than two decades in the East Village. Other Music was a hub of avant-garde culture both locally and via their phenomenal...

A joint report by RNZ, TVNZ and Nicky Hager accuses New Zealand of being at the heart of a gigantic money-laundering operation for the corrupt elites of Latin America. (more…)...

Update: Opposition Labour leader Isaac Herzog, identified in the original article as the source accusation denies having made the accusation; and called the websites claiming he did "unsane."It's har...

Our favorite PhD of high weirdness, Dr. Erik Davis, author of Techgnosis, recently gave a compelling cosmic rap at the Morbid Anatomy Museum about Timothy Leary and his appropriation of the Tibetan Bo...

A group of successful indie game devs are kickstarting Losswords, a game whose premise is that players are the resistance in a totalitarian future in which books have been banned, and games are the on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdBjrURwg-QRicky from Inside the Magic writes, "This weekend Shanghai Disneyland began soft openings and that means the world has now had the pleasure of finally seei...

The Guardian featured essays by UK punks who made the scene when it first emerged in the late 1970s. Above, Terry Chimes, 59, original drummer for The Clash, now a chiropractor."I just wanted to be in...

American toddlers have shot 23 people this year—mostly themselves.Last year, a Washington Post analysis found that toddlers were finding guns and shooting people at a rate of about one a week. T...

It's presumably OK to eat a banana in a seductive fashion in China. But the official word is out that live-streaming the act is now forbidden.The move is the authorities' latest attempt to clamp down ...

Facebook workers "routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers," reports Gizmodo, regarding the "trending" topics that are inserted in readers' feeds. This was apparently an i...

In 1952, French physician Alain Bombard set out to cross the Atlantic on an inflatable raft to prove his theory that a shipwreck victim can stay alive on a diet of seawater, fish, and plankton. In thi...

The sixth season of HBO'sGame of Thronessoldiers on, as the consequences of last week's revival unfold and seemingly long-forgotten characters make surprise returns. Each week following the show,Boars...

Today we travel to a world with universal translation devices.Flash Forward: RSS | iTunes | Twitter | Facebook | Web | Patreon | RedditIn this episode we talk about how machine translation could be me...

For most of us, there are few feelings of deeper hopelessness than waiting for a car mechanic to tell you whats wrong with your car. With all the electronics packed into todays automobiles, its virtua...

State medical boards are hybrids: part independent regulator, part industry association. They are in charge of handing down professional probations against doctors who do wrong, but the details of whi...

With all due respect to web content management systems like Drupal and Joomla, theres a reason why Wordpress is king. Wordpress owns 60% of the CMSmarket and powers more than a quarter of all onlinesi...

It's been a year since David Cameron's Tories took control of the UK Parliament with a majority that gave their free rein to govern UK, plc to their taste. (more…)...

Doesn't University of Pennsylvania economist Guido Menzio know that you should never do Al Gebra on a plane?From FB:UnbelievableFlight from Philly to Syracuse goes out on the tarmac, ready to take off...

Monthly bills are a pain. Rent, power, gas, cable, digital...every month, youve got to do the rounds, either authorizing online payments or sending old-school checks in the mail like your grandparents...

In honor of Free Comic Book Day, we present this essay by Jon Chad, author of Science Comics: Volcanoes: Fire and Life, and the co-author, with Maris Wicks, of "Science Comics," a free comic available...

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Chris writes, "After a recent Kobo software upgrade, a number of Kobo customers have reported losing e-books from their libraries--notably, e-books that had been transferred to Kobo from their Sony Re...

Animator Lee Hardcastle reimagines the quintessential first-person shooter as an even gorier game, starring Claycat, a fearless and fearsome claymation character.(via JWZ)...

After the public overwhelmingly voted to name a new British Natural Environment Research Council vessel "Boaty McBoatface," the UK government pulled a switcheroo, declaring the will of the people to b...

Phrack has been publishing erratically since 1985, but the four year gap between the previous issue, published in April 2012, and the current issue, published yesterday, was so long that many (me incl...

"John Doe," the mysterious whistleblower who released the largest-ever leak of confidential documents in world history -- papers from the Panamanian law firm Mossack-Fonseca, a key player in the offsh...

The practicing Muslim son of Pakistani immigrants has been elected mayor of London. Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan's win today is a major political milestone in the Western world. (more…)...

MicrowaveMe Show Experiment #426: Microwave. Rated G. (more…)...

An assistant principal at a South Carolina high school is under investigation after police say the man restrained a 15-year-old student in a chokehold, and kept her in a chokehold until she passed out...

Listen: "Time Fi Legalize" extra-elevated remix of We Chief feat. Ragga Twins & Gosteffects by Reid Speed. (more…)...

Sometimes the simplest things in online life are the most sublime (more…)...

Marine biologists with a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expedition in the Mariana Trench encountered a luminous red-and-yellow jellyfish in April, Scientific American reports. (more&...

For motion picture use only. Or, for teasing customs and border patrol guards - they are known to appreciate a boredom interrupting joke. Amazon sells it for $54.They also sell fake money with bundles...

A long time, and well loved, resident of Yellowstone National Park, Scarface the bear, has been found shot dead. Scarface has been entertaining photographers, non-threateningly, for decades. It seems ...

This week, Techdirt's Tim Cushing published a story about the Hancock County, IN Sheriff's Department officers who stole $240,000 under color of asset forfeiture. (more…)...

This week, Techdirt's Tim Cushing published a story about the Hancock County, IN Sheriff's Department officers who stole $240,000 under color of asset forfeiture. (more…)...

For flying a really non-threatening kite, in low winds, I find the Prism Atom to be wonderful. For a bit bigger kite flying experience, this Prism Stowaway is just as simple, and fun.Prism specialis...

Seems the animal uprising continues on the North American continent! Vancouver humans are under attack by aggressive crows. Jim O'Leary, an instructor at Langara College, has developed an interactive ...

Seems the animal uprising continues on the North American continent! Vancouver humans are under attack by aggressive crows. Jim O'Leary, an instructor at Langara College, has developed an interactive ...

Sinister conspiracy theories about LSD, the government and MKUltra are not uncommon on the internet. But one anonymous Redditor's comments, easily ignored as odd paranoid tangents on the threads they ...

https://youtu.be/gGCg6M-yxmUThe Moog Model 15 App runs on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It's $30 and judging by the track below, it's worth it!The Moog Model 15 App is an iOS version of the iconic 1970...

It's unfortunate that this deer got its head stuck in a light globe. It must have been terrified. The good news is that Jeff Hull with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation managed to ...

https://youtu.be/2dhHpHOgrUIWhen powered mercury(II) thiocyanate is ignited, it summons Crom Cruach....

This is from a 1994 episode of The Tonight Show host by Jay Leno. This clip begins after Leno interviewed Burt Reynolds, who is sitting to the left of an empty chair reserved for the next guest, Marc ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Parent Hacks: 134 Genius Shortcuts for Life with Kids by Asha DornfestWorkman2016, 272 pages, 5 x 0.8 x 7 inches (softcover)$36 Buy one on AmazonIn 2005 Asha Do...

In 2015, Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect" asked Presbyterian Donald Trump what his favorite Bible verses were. "I wouldn't want to get into it. Because to me, that's very personal," he said. "The Bi...

Money is tight for the great majority of people right now. If renting an apartment is not for you, and you want a small house for less than $40k, then chances are its going to be a so-called tiny hous...

3D printing has been one of those next big thing innovations among early adopters and the tech circle in-crowd for a few years now. However, the prospect of creating your own three-dimensional objects...

QF481, from Melbourne to Perth, was delayed last week because a passenger spotted a wifi network called "Detonation Device." (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9GCkK6oZsA new documentary, "(In)Securus Technologies: An Assault on Prisoner Rights", tracks the rise of for-profit video "visitation" programs, which are being ro...

A new ad campaign from the International Fund for Animal Welfare features rendered images of cross-sectioned endangered animals on the beds of 3D printers, being printed out, layer by layer. (more&hel...

For the second year in a row, a bunch of disgruntled "conservative" sf readers and writers are attempting to destroy science fiction's Hugo Awards by nominating slates of works that are, variously: ra...

Since November 2015, FBI agents have been trying to get Tor developer Isis Agora Lovecruft to meet with them, but they won't tell her or her lawyer why. (more…)...

In 2015, Stanford computer science PhD candidate Andrej Karpathy decided to test out some neural network tools he'd been experimenting with, and set them to generating plausible baby names. (more&hell...

An editorial in The American Journal of Public Health, signed by 2,000 MDs, endorses Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" single-payer healthcare system. (more…)...

Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo -- a former venture capitalist who invested state funds with hedge funds during her tenure as state treasurer -- invited Goldman Sachs to set up a partnership with ...

In 1996, New Jersey's courts heard 500 debt-collection cases; in 2008, they heard 140,000 cases, almost all against black people, almost all of whom were not represented by lawyers. The cases were fil...

For amateur astronomers, tonight is an exciting night. (more…)...

For amateur astronomers, tonight is an exciting night. (more…)...

Matt Ritchie makes "slumps" — whimsical artwork of popular characters slumped over as if falling asleep or theatrically dejected by their latest mishap. Up top are the heroes of Star Wars, who h...

Toy inventor Bob Knetzger alerted me to the new officially licensed Misty Copeland doll from Mattel, makers of Barbie. It has a "new 'ballerina body' sculpt, which in this case means large calves," sa...

The 25th year of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's activism to keep the Internet and its users free was an amazing one. (more…)...

What a stunning portrait of one brave person. (more…)...

NCR reports in-the-wild sightings of "deep skimmers" (tiny, disposable card-skimmers that run on watch batteries and use crude radios to transmit to a nearby base-station) on ATMs around the world: "G...

Here's a puzzle from Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column, which ran for many years in Scientific American. I found it in his anthology, My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, which is only $...

Religion blogger Fred Clark is fascinated with the urban legends and panic surrounding "satanism," so years ago he set up a Google News Alert for the word "Satanic." Over at Pathos, he posted the funn...

This is a good short lesson in public key cryptography. We also learn why a particular prime number that starts with 85650789657397829 and has 1402 more digits is an illegal number. If you have a DVD ...

Alert administrators at a Houston, Texas, public school called police when a 13-year-old student tried to use a $2 bill to buy chicken nuggets from the cafeteria. An officer went to the school office ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign used ultrasound to transmit high-speed data through pork loin and beef liver. Why? They're developing a system for controlling wireless me...

As a true crime journalist who searches for the missing, I am keenly aware of the breadcrumbs Im leaving behind throughout a typical day. If I were to suddenly disappear, these bits of information wil...

In India, 11,000 people die each year in automobile accidents tied to potholes or speed bumps, presumably because drivers fly over them, often on purpose. India's minister of road transport, Nitin Gad...

I hate Allen keys. This set of " drive hex bit sockets means I rarely have to fight one of those stupid tiny things again!Ever tried getting an over tightened socket head screw out of a 40 year old mo...

The once famed HMS Endeavor, Captain Cook's ship as he claimed Australia for the British, later renamed something boring and sunk as part of the Royal Navy's blockade of Newport, Rhode Island, has sor...

My favorite airport in America is changing its name to "Hollywood Burbank Airport," removing the name of racist, reactionary old-timey boob Bob Hope, whose name has been judged not to resonate with th...

The Getty Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the J. Paul Getty Trust, established a program to create opportunities for college under grads, from cultures typically under represented in the arts, to...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam (and Other Stories)by Simon HanselmannFantagraphics2016, 164 pages, 6.6 x 9.1 x 0.8 inches $14 Buy a copy on AmazonThe entire loveabl...

Writer's Block - A Supercut from Ben Watts on Vimeo.Ben Watts and Ivan Kander edited a supercut of scenes depicting writer's block from 53 movies. You can see the list of movies here....

No spandex in the Power Rangers reboot coming to theaters next March. Its tricky finding a new language for a superhero costume, production designer Andrew Menzies (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) told Enterta...

Three legendary synth musicians -- Morgio Zoroger, Xangelix and Carla Wendos -- competed in 1986 for the right to be anointed Lord of Synth....

Fascinating, now gimme a double latte. (AsapSCIENCE)...

After decades of fighting for open Web standards that let anyone implement software to receive and render online data, the World Wide Web Consortium changed course and created EME, a DRM system that l...

White hat hackers get paid to find holes in their own employers online systems, and plug those holes before they become serious security risks. Its a job that pays handsomely...mostly because few job ...

It's World Password Day and you can celebrate it by fixing your crappy passwords. (more…)...

On Monday, Greenpeace leaked the highly confidential negotiating drafts of the TTIP, a top-secret, big-business-friendly trade agreement between the USA and the EU. (more…)...

Thinkgeek is accepting pre-orders for six upcoming 14 oz Star Wars tiki mugs, standing 6.5"-7.5" tall, with contrast-glazed interiors. (more…)...

Aussie entrepreneur Craig Wright backed off from his offer to produce more evidence that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. He's also wiped his website, except for a final, rather ominous messag...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DbsCgwVVIcWith the release of a pair of anti-Trump ads, the Clinton campaign has begun to fight a war on two fronts. (more…)...

Jeff writes, "Combined, Washington State is providing Microsoft and Boeing $1 billion annually in tax breaks. Cumulatively, Microsoft's state tax has saved its shareholders $8.6 billion in costs. Whil...

Alligator sightings are pretty common in South Carolina's Lowcountry region around this time of year. But a genuine gentleman alligator whose momma raised him to ring the doorbell when he comes a-call...

The U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are now testing a new unmanned drone warship.The first Navy drone ship is a 132-foot ACTUV (Antisubmarine warfare Continuous Tra...

Chloe from Portland's Reading Frenzy writes, "Six of our favorite Social Justice Kittens are back in postcard form! Next up: MRA Puppies!Postcards by Sean Tejaratchi/LiarTownUSA (previously) published...

When I was a wee lad, the first LP I owned was Timbertops, a children's "concept album" released by The Buttercups in 1974. I was captivated by the premise—a young girl is visited by all sorts o...

About four months ago, cigar boxes, matchbooks, and coffee tins bearing the name and likeness of 19th-century poet Walt Whitman began appearing on the Show & Tell section of Collectors Weekly. Turns o...

[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...

A day after Cruz threw in the towel, John Kasich follows suit. Trump is not officially the Republican nominee--the Republican convention this summer is when he will be anointed (or somehow shivved) by...

My new favorite subreddit is r/TreesSuckingOnThings, a growing collection of photos of trees growing slowly to encase and envelope signs, railings, motorcycles and other things attached or adjacent t...

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Why buy one of those expensive and confusing universal remotes, clogged with enough buttons to launch a space shuttle, when you could accomplish the same electronic control right on your favorite mobi...

The brilliant Jen Lewis, having untanned Trump to ghastly effect, writes that she "had another terrible thought." This time, she tried her hand at photoshopping his presidential rivals so that they ha...

Behold the space age beauty of the Paam Tube turntable, created by French designer Yonel Lebovici in 1968. On eBay, they appear to range from a few hundred dollars for non-functional units to US$750 f...

You'll know Ben Hatke as author of Boing Boing-beloved illustrated kids' books like Little Robot and Zita the Space Girl, but as this Children's Book Week video shows, Hatke is a literal fire-breathin...

From the classic Meco album, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk (1977)....

The Associated Press reports that the Stonewall Inn, birthplace of America's most fabulous protest, will become the first national monument to LGBT rights in the U.S.The gritty tavern, known colloquia...

LA Times reports that a 113 year-old Japanese American newspaper is in danger of going out of business.For 113 years, the Rafu Shimpo newspaper has chronicled the story of the Japanese-American commun...

Pocket CHIP is a tiny, $50, ARM-based pocket games console with a full keyboard and a Bluetooth interface. (more…)...

Polygraph studio created this great timeline of Billboard Top 10 songs from the last 60 years....

Judy Belushi and Dan Ackroyd are developing a kid-oriented Blues Brothers animated series with Bento Box, the studio behind Bob's Burgers. (more…)...

Judy Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are developing a kid-oriented Blues Brothers animated series with Bento Box, the studio behind Bob's Burgers. (more…)...

After a solar eclipse last month, a fisher in Indonesia's Banggai island region found a female figure floating in the sea. He brought the figure to his remote village where some believed it to be a bi...

https://youtu.be/W3qkdB5bzLYPICO-8 is a virtual game platform with 128128 pixels and a palette of sixteen colors. Because its memory and processing demands are so meager, it can easily run on the $9 C...

Police in Indonesia investigating reports of an "angel" in a remote village discovered not a supernatural avatar of God's will but a blow-up doll. A fisherman found it floating around after a rare sol...

Robin Williams in drag and oldface doing his strikingly-talented thing. It's more unsettling than the movie; he creates the character as the session goes on, moving from anxiety to action, creepy to...

UP Aerospace Inc. launched a 20-foot tall rocket nearly 400,000 feet into the upper atmosphere to test the re-entry of the capsule. Eventually, such a capsule could bring biological samples back to ...

LED light bulbs are still not as cheap as incandescent bulbs, but the price has dropped a lot in the last few years, and they will quickly pay for themselves in lower electricity bills. The highly rat...

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Prince died the day before he was to meet with a California physician who specializes in opioid addiction:Dr. Howard Kornfeld, a national authority on opioid...

https://youtu.be/5QajKC_EyXITodd Harrison says: "I use a Weller solder iron to burn off a stubborn wart that I have tried to freeze off many times and failed." He observes, "It'll be a scar - but it w...

Phytophthora ramorum is a mold, related to the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, that causes some oak and tanoak trees to split open and bleed out all their sap, something called "sudden oak death." (more...

If you were thinking of joining Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE, now's the time to do it. For the rest of the month of May, 125% of all sign-up proceeds will be donated to the Committee to Protect J...

https://youtu.be/Y2o8upCxcqAThe guys at This Old House are back to explain the many reasons why your home plumbing might not be draining water properly. You can play a drinking game by waiting for the...

With Trump headed to an uncontested convention, high-paid conservative columnists like George Will have penned columns defending party bosses who might be planning to overrule the popular votes and ha...

Journalist Paul Daling, creator of the 1001 Chicago Afternoons blog, has created a walking tour of the most corrupt sites in Chicago's fantastically corrupt history, and it's selling out. (more&hellip...

Jenise writes, "Dreaming Robot Press is a teensy little publisher in New Mexico trying to fill a much-needed niche: they publish science fiction for children. In particular, they publish the Young Exp...

Rick Friday has been the editorial cartoonist for Farm News for 21 years, with a weekly slot in every Friday's paper. (more…)...

Over at the Root Simple website, Mr. Homegrown wrote about the fun he's been having learning how to draw Islamic geometric patterns from this book by Eric Broug. Its a book of step by step drawing ins...

China's Internet censors are capricious and impossible to predict -- but this isn't because China's censors are incompetent, rather, they're tapping into one of the most powerful forms of conditioning...

The Supreme Court -- at the behest of the US government -- has announced changes to "Rule 41," a crucial procedure of the US court system, which will give law enforcement sweeping powers to hack into ...

Here's the AKAT-1 from Poland, "the first transistor-based differential equation analyzer, from 1959."From Retrothing:AKAT-1 is an analog computer. Back in the 1960s, this approach offered speed and a...

The Bodleian Libraries at Oxford acquired a recently-discovered map of Middle-earth annotated by JRR Tolkien, "which reveals his remarkable vision of the creatures, topography and heraldry of his imag...

In 1993, I started a radio station on the Internet, engaging in activities that later became known as podcasting and webcasting. I'm pleased to say that I've finished uploaded the archive of Internet ...

The votes in the Indiana presidential election primary tonight are still being counted, but GOP Party chairman Reince Priebus has already declared Donald Trump the presumptive GOP nominee after Ted Cr...

After a brutal thrashing at Donald Trump's hands in Indiana's Republican primary election today, Ted Cruz is calling it quits. Trump, reports the BBC, is now almost certainly the party's nominee for p...

It's the International Day Against DRM, and in honor of the day, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Parker Higgins has written an excellent post explaining why we can't live with DRM, even on media ...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "In 1993, I started a radio station on the Internet, engaging in activities that later became known as podcasting and webcasting. I'm pleased to say that I've fini...

A new scientific study reveals that air rage is much more likely on airplanes where inequality is obvious -- that is, airplanes where there's economy and first class sections. The University of Toront...

The World Wide Web Consortium -- an influential standards body devoted to the open web -- used to make standards that would let anyone make a browser that could view the whole Web; now they're making ...

Puddles, the sad clown with the golden voice, will be one of the many, incredible performers making this year's Beyond Brookledge more fun than ever. Beyond Brookledge is an amazing collection of pe...

In 2014, Allie Brosh's outstanding, hilarious, and gut-wrenching webcomic Hyperbole and a Half made the jump to print with an incredible book (review); now Simon and Schuster have announced a followup...

In 2010, after years of bitter fighting, the French National Assembly passed "Hadopi," the worst copyright law in history, which provided for disconnecting whole families from the Internet if their ne...

Author Timothy Ellis really enjoyed his time in the 1980's, and his Hunter series is certainly pays homage. This, riddled with 80's references, space opera feels like it shouldn't work, but I've had a...

Ferguson's cops aren't just notorious for being an invading domestic military force: long before that, they were notorious for "failure to comply" arrests, where (mostly brown) people who were minding...

Alex Jason, 15, used his lawnmowing money to acquire what Cult of Mac says "is becoming one of the most significant private collections of Apple devices in the United States." Jason converted his fami...

Greenpeace has handed newspapers 240 pages of current negotiating documents from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a secretly conducted trade deal between the USA and the EU, ...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) is a secret court that hears warrant requests from America's spy agencies when they want to wiretap people in the USA. (more…)...

Swiss artists Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger recreated iconic photos from history in miniature, from cardboard, cotton wool, and other craft supplies. Above, "Making of AS11-40-5878 by Edwin Al...

Further Future is a desert festival created by wealthy Burning Man attendees who want to get rid of the conference's DIY/participatory ethic and replace it with a pampered weekend where poor people wa...

University of Cambridge researchers have built the world's smallest working engine. The device, powered by light, could be the basis of future nanoscale machines that are just billionths of a meter in...

Last month, I wrote about Paramount's lawsuit against Axanar, a crowdfunded Star Trek fan-film. (more…)...

Brett Bobley writes, "'Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English and Computer Science at Brown University' is an amazing documentary film from 1976 made by Brown University computer scientist An...

Burn the witch. (Radiohead)...

"Technoheritage" is the movement to preserve vulnerable history through digitization: making detailed scans of precious places, objects and works from which they can be recovered if they are destroyed...

Shiv Integer is a bot created by artists Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Julien Deswaef; it downloads Creative Commons-licensed models from Thingiverse, mashes them up into weird and often amazing new s...

The first McDonald's in Pakistan has opened in Quetta's Millennium Mall, in the militarized Police Lines neighborhood, prompting an official position from the Taliban. (more…)...

The first McDonald's in Quetta, Pakistan has opened in Millennium Mall, in the militarized Police Lines neighborhood, prompting an official position from the Taliban. (more…)...

When Norway -- historically one of the poorest countries in Europe -- struck oil in the North Sea, the country put the proceeds into a "sovereign wealth" fund that invested it in other industries and ...

In August 1980, an extortionist planted a thousand-pound bomb in Harveys Wagon Wheel Casino in western Nevada. Unless the owners paid him $3 million within 24 hours, he said, the bomb would go off and...

Paolo Bacigalupi's new short story "Mika Model" is a detective tale about a murdering sexbot. (more…)...

I'm a research director at Institute for the Future, and I interviewed author Douglas Rushkoff about his latest book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. It's ...

The TSA gambled on millions of wealthy Americans opting out of its pornoscanner-and-shoe-removal process and signing up for its Precheck policy, which allows travellers to pay for the "privilege" of w...

Authors of a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America titled "Physical and situational inequality on airplanes predicts air rage", ...

See sample images from this book at Wink.The Collectorby Sergio ToppiArchaia2014, 252 pages, 8.5 x 11 x 1 inches $23 Buy a copy on AmazonI was delighted to discover this terrific collection of comics ...

After Daniel Ellsberg's astonishingly courageous release of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, he waited 40 years to meet someone like Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, someone else inside wh...

Over at Cool Tools, Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social bookmarking site, Delicious, the creator of GeoURL, and the co-creator of Memepool. He's a fascinating per...

Copyright protects creative expression, but not utilitarian forms: that's why the silkscreened art on your t-shirt is copyrightable, but the t-shirt's design itself is not. (more…)...

Archilogic, an online architecture viewer/editor designed to be easier for laypersons to use and share from than Sketchup, is spectacular stuff... at least on a fast computer. You can upload plans and...

Google Maps and similar services are most useful, but who has the most recent space footage of your neighborhood? Check out mapbox, a Landsat viewer that tells you when the satellite image you're look...

This footage of an "illegal rave" – UK tabloid-speak for a barn party with chemically-stimulated youths in attendance – is so high-quality it seems like a recreation or out-takes from a ...

Infosec consultant Nik Cubrilovic summarizes the evidence for and against Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright's claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the legendary creator of Bitcoin. Cubrilovic comes down h...

You may not love Microsoft Word, but youve definitely used it. Other than being one of the most ubiquitous programs on the planet, its been the go-to word processing system for more than a quarter-cen...

A man in Florida was arrested last week for planning to use a weapon of mass destruction at a synagogue near Miami, federal authorities said today. The ill-fated words that James Gonzalo Medina report...

People who fear the TSA's airport body scanners might start driving more instead of flying, and that will raise the number of traffic deaths. That's the argument behind a new legal challenge filed aga...

A state judge in the Brazilian state of Sergipe has ordered all mobile phone operators in the country to block Facebook-owned WhatsApp for 72 hours, nationwide. Those five telecom providers put the b...

Whenever I go to a restaurant and learn that salmon grilled on a cedar plank on the menu, I order it. The flavor of the cedar mixed with the salmon is incredible. I never put much thought into making ...

Here's a puzzle from Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column, which ran for many years in Scientific American. I found it in his anthology, My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, which is only $3....

Remember Sarah Cooper's brilliant "10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings"? Here are a few choice bits from her new "Meeting Speak Cheat Sheet":This wasnt on my calendar = I deleted this from my calend...

Tobias Gremmler created this magnificent visualization of motion data he captured of a person practicing Kung Fu. (via Laughing Squid)...

Spencer Chen, VP of marketing and business development at Alibaba Group, has responded to complaints that AliExpress has hosted design pirates by tweeting images from a 1989 book called Trademarks & S...

https://youtu.be/LIwdVsNM02EA disagreement between two Florida gentleman ended amicably, with one of them getting a free ride on the hood of the other's car....

https://youtu.be/8f9mhC-low4Granted, the nail was loose, but it is remarkable to see a bee work it out of the hole. Two questions: what was the nail doing in the hole in the first place, and why was t...

https://youtu.be/C01qpmWAeC0Ricky Jay demonstrates his admirable faculty with playing cards. To learn more about this remarkable person watch the documentary, Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Men...

"Youll be dealing with terrorists, youll be dealing with hybrid armies, youll be dealing with little green men, youll be dealing with tribes, youre going to be dealing with it all, and youre going to ...

"Youll be dealing with terrorists, youll be dealing with hybrid armies, youll be dealing with little green men, youll be dealing with tribes, youre going to be dealing with it all, and youre going to ...

The proposed nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, UK is estimated to cost $35 billion. The BBC compares the price tag to other big ticket items:For that sum you could build a small forest...

https://youtu.be/zZA5G2Z06uEThis vehicle picks up and stores traffic cones at nearly half the speed, 10 times the noise, and 20 times the expense of a human crew. But it looks cool....

We already knew of many asteroids, but they have all been baked by billions of years near the Sun, says Karen Meech of the University of Hawaiis Institute for Astronomy. This one is the first uncooked...

Artist, designer, model Kay Pike transformed herself into Superman using body paint. It took 15 hours and she livestreamed it on Twitch....

Artist, designer, and model Kay Pike transformed herself into Superman using body paint. (more…)...

On Saturday, Franky Zapata took his prototype Flyboard Air hoverboard for a rather impressive flight, three miles on the French coast. It's based on Zapata's previous water-powered hoverboard.When t...

The sixth season of HBO'sGame of Thronescontinues, with surprising deaths and unsurprising returns from death. Each week following the show,Boars, Gore, and Swordsrecaps all the newest developments in...

Craiglist has something wonderful on it: a vast collection of more than 600 vintage Smith-Corona typewriters, including accessories and marketing literature. Yours for a hundred grand.My collection co...

Long a prime suspect and claimant to the title, Australian entrepreneur and programmer Craig Wright outed himself Monday morning as the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency...

'Songs of Consolation,' performed at Pembroke College Chapel in Cambridge last month, was the first airing in a 1000 years of a medieval tune the way it would have been. ...reconstructed from neumes...

We're huge fans of portable power gadgets, but this one isn't going in my pocket to help me keep my phone topped up after lunch. Anker's Powerhouse is the size and weight of a concrete construction br...

Almost everyone has their smartphone in a case of one kind or another. Beyond simple protection, finding a case that can charge your phone on its own, but doesnt feel like its also adding a couple pou...

Our pal (and former Artist in Residence at Walt Disney Imagineering) Derek DelGaudio's new show In and of Itself is opening at the Geffen Playhouse on May 3rd and it will be stupidly great. His last s...

https://youtu.be/WzbHi7Lbz00I'm ashamed to admit that I never learned much about the International Space Station. But after seeing the IMAX 3D documentary A Beautiful Planet, I feel like I spent 45 mi...

You never know when new projects, ideas or opportunities can drop into your lap at a moments notice. That may require you to learn a new programming language like Python. Or maybe you need a primer on...

And you thought debt collection tactics in the United States were bad.They have stripped and sexually abused a woman, severely burned a toddler by firebombing a house and broken a womans pinkie as a w...

His name is Mister Bentley, and he's an English Bulldog, and yes these incredible photos of this dog flying in a helicopter over the most beautiful wilderness along Canada's western coast are real.Bra...

In a weirdly hostile and creepy press conference in Alabama this week, the state's Supreme Court Chief Justice complained about a variety of foes including a tranvestite, plus "atheists, homosexuals a...