Articles by BoingBoing from October 2016

A decade ago, I made note of the fact that the iconic UK Teasmade alarm-clocks (which automatically brew a cup of tea using an improbable, Wallace-and-Grommity/Heath Robinson set of mechanical actions...

Almost one in seven of the worlds children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution six or more times higher than international guidelines UNICEF said today, in...

Hillary Clinton's email woes won't die. Federal investigators today obtained a fiercely-sought warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails sent to or from Huma Abedin, longtime confidante and s...

By every measure, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton's five year run as governor has been a stellar success: while Tim Pawlenty, his tax-slashing, "fiscally-conservative" Republican predecessor presided o...

In honor of Halloween, the Boing Boing Store is featuring an awesome Egg/Cookie Mold Set. Naturally, many have tried and many have failed to use egg molds in the past - and today we're celebrating tho...

On October 25, thousands of Icelandic women went home at 2:38PM, after 86% of their work-days had passed, to protest the fact that they only earn 86% of their male counterparts' wages. (more…)...

Earlier this year, companies like Silverpush were outed for sneaking ultrasonic communications channels into peoples' devices, so that advertisers could covertly link different devices to a single use...

The Icelandic Pirate Party did not score the overwhelming victory predicted by early polling, but with 14.5% of the total vote, they are still in position to be the senior party in a ruling coalition ...

Vancouver makeup artist Mimi Choi has a Hallowe'en-themed series of confounding dazzle face makeup pics in her feed that will give you the best kind of headache, and possibly some very good last-minut...

Uploaded by redditor Ins1der, who attributes it to Instagram user Cblimagery, an Indiana resident....

Soylent, makers of meal-replacement drinks, bars, slime and so forth, have recalled another product after consumers reported trouble down below after consumption.On Thursday evening, food replacement ...

More and more people are using dashcams to record the road as they drive, and insurance companies are beginning to take the footage more seriously, too. At just $24.99, the Dash-Cam Hi-Res Car Video C...

My dear friend Bruce Tomb -- accomplished architect and creator of Maria del Camino, a "flying" art-car made from a 59 El Camino and a tank -- is renting out office space in his building in the middle...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh3HWTwDNzUEdward Snowden videoconferenced with a journalism roundtable at Editors Lab participants at Sddeutsche Zeitung (home of the Panama Papers) about the effect...

Boing Boing-beloved artist Chris Locke (previously) writes, "World-famous artist and middle-school art teacher Christopher Locke has published a new drawing tutorial book, packed with lessons from his...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=190&v=3GSwl21-ZwIDave from Imperial College sez, "We've taken observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Planck mission and turned them into...

North Carolina is one of many states in which telcoms lobbyists have gotten the state house to ban towns and cities from selling high-speed internet to the public -- even in places where the cable/pho...

George Clinton has spoken. George supports Hillary for President. Via APP:But George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic has built an empire of funk and he has this to say: "No funk in da Trump."Clinto...

Al Kooper's amazing album Super Session includes 'Season of the Witch' with Steven Sills on guitar. Donovan says this song is about anxiety, but it gets a lot of play around Halloween....

FBI Director James Comey writes in a letter sent Friday to congress that the bureau is investigating more emails related to Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server.In previous congressional t...

FBI Director James Comey writes in a letter sent Friday to congress that the bureau is investigating more emails related to Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server.In previous congressional t...

I just bought this ten-pack of 16-ounce pub beer glasses on Amazon for $12. They have great reviews on Amazon. I don't know how long they will be at this price. They been as high as $25 recently....

I'd like for you to meet one of my favorite people in the whole world. He's a private guy and though he's okay with my writing this post, he'd rather I kept his identity a secret for now. He calls him...

This'll save you a lot time going forward....

In 1896 two New Jersey clam diggers made a bold bid for fame: They set out to cross the North Atlantic in a rowboat, a feat that had never been accomplished before. In this week's episode of the Futil...

Its a big world we live in, full of fortune-telling fox-woman hybrids, libraries where books are chained to the shelves, rusting shipwrecks, and amusement parks at the bottom of salt mines. The websit...

Ive often wondered, as I suppose any parent has, what would continue to bind me to the earth if my child died.I dont know, is the answer. I have two close friends whove had young children die, and ano...

(Image: Flickr/Jeff Kubina)I was Googling the name of a talented juggler named Lindsay Benner one evening to find out if her first name was spelled say or sey. As usual, I often search in Images becau...

A few weeks ago my good friend John Park created a video demonstration of how to hack the famous Happy Chewbacca mask to trigger your very own audio files. Andwhen my sister Christina told meshe was b...

Weve come to a pretty pass when the National Examiner report that Frozen Zombie Killers Coming to Life is actually one of the more accurate stories in this weeks tabloids.Never letting the facts get i...

Nintendo sales training video from 1992. Er, as the fellow says, "Hasta Luigi, baby."...

https://youtu.be/W9f_0YQ0cpAOregon artist James Landgraf designed a cute little Dabuccino water pipe that looks like a Starbucks Frappuccino. He made 500 to sell, but Starbucks was not amused, and suc...

As republicans seem to do these days, incumbent GOP senator Mark Kirk tossed a racist slur at his opponent, Representative Tammy Duckworth, out of pure reflex.Via NPR:In a debate on Thursday night, ...

With a 20 percent increase in patients during the Major League Baseball playoff games in Chicago, the Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is preparing for a very busy World Series weekend there. ...

My darling Cavalier, Pretzel, gets yucky tear stains that don't smell too great. Well and Good Tear Stain for dogs cleans them up.Pretzel, like many of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, I've lived w...

I don't know the source of this hip glossary that translates beatnik slang into the King's Jive but it would be such a gas if tuned-in cats spoke like this (even if they never really did). (via Weird ...

If you're like me, you get frequent calls from scammers based in India pretending to be from the IRS. They threaten to come to my house or place of work to arrest and jail me unless I pay them alleged...

This thrilling stabilized video of Steve Storey tearing down a mountain bike trail reminds me of the speeder bikes ripping through the redwood trees on Endor. Only real....

I enjoy Samuraiguitarist's spaghetti western cover of Europe's "The Final Countdown" much more than the 1986 original below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw...

What's the difference between modern memes and old ones? Edwardian-era bigots used paint, not MS Paint. Adrienne LaFrance writes on "The Weird Familiarity of 100-Year-Old Feminism Memes." Even the sam...

Andrew McGill's internet-connected toaster isn't really a toaster: it's a "honeypot" designed to resemble the insecure "internet of things" gadgets— cameras, LED lightbulbs, fridges, etc—t...

Brian Feldman explains why Twitter's decision to kill the Vine looping video service makes the internet worse.The point of Vine was never to generate the next Fellini. It was to have dumb, stupid free...

With Xamarin, coders can develop native apps for both iOS and Android without learning two different programming languages. Obviously, hiring one programmer rather than two is beneficial for companies...

Seth Everman distills a certain video game musical score down to 80 seconds of sheer brilliance. Somewhere in the space between Link To the Past and Secret of Mana, the perfect Nintendo role-playing...

This fellow cobbled together an AC motor and some weed-eater filament, and attached it to a long pole. He then used it to get rid of a bunch of wasps that had taken residence near the top of his hou...

Ants Eating Stuff to Stock Music is "Nothing more than oddly satisfying time-lapse videos of ants eating stuff all set to random stock music."It's interesting how the ants covered the Rice Krispie T...

Duterte has vowed to stop using "epithets" (for example, he called Pope Francis a "son of a bitch" and told Obama to "go to hell") because God threatened to crash the airplane he was flying home from ...

A resident student paid $41 (not sure if that's a year or semester). Adjusted for inflation, it's $340.[via]...

I want to thank Boing Boing for allowing me to introduce my music collection titled The Triumph of the Will Not. (more…)...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "As a so-called rogue archivist, I'm not often the bearer of good news, so I thought folks might be cheered by 3 very positive developments on the open standards f...

An all-star team of comics and science fiction people -- impressario Glenn Hauman, writer David "Tribbles" Gerrold, and illustrator Ty Templeton -- had their kickstarter for a Seuss/Trek parody "Oh, T...

Gollancz have announced a gorgeous set of new editions of William Gibson's seminal Sprawl books, which began with 1984's Hugo, Nebula and Philip K Dick award-winning novel Neuromancer, designed by Dan...

Shane Bauer, the investigative journalist whose four month stint in a privately run Louisiana prison was one of 2016's most important pieces of journalism, has published a new piece in Mother Jones, t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHp-mc4JFVkRecent Trump rallies have prominently featured an African-American guy holding a "Blacks for Trump" sign, standing behind Trump himself. That guy is Michae...

Donald Trumps grandfather Friedrich Trump operated a wild and crazy restaurant/bar/brothel in British Columbia during Canada's gold rush era. Bloomberg writer Natalie Obiko Pearson reports quite the s...

Just as skyscrapers allowed cities to use limited land more efficiently, urban air transportation will use three-dimensional airspace to alleviate transportation congestion on the ground.Ride-sharing ...

Brothers Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five followers charged over a 41-day armed takeover of the Malheur federal wildlife sanctuary in Oregon last January were today acquitted of federal conspiracy and we...

I bought this leather wallet for $6 from Amazon a month ago. I liked it right away, and after having taken about eight flights since then, I have come to appreciate how great it is to be able to slide...

Jim from Open Rights Group sez, "MPs have worked out that attempts to verify adult's ages won't stop children from accessing other pornographic websites: so their proposed answer is to start censoring...

Ive always been fascinated with the cosmos (who isnt?), and I even once splurged for a telescope to put in the garden for my family to enjoy. But with only one college astronomy class (101) under my b...

I sometimes fast instead of eating when I travel, but I usually don't go more than 16 hours between meals. Cristi Vlad, a ketogenic diet enthusiast, describes what it is like to go 44 hours without ea...

Musical Cars (A sequel to 15 point turn)The guy on the scooter just wanted to add a bit of a challenge into the mix....

"Our guys are behind your father. We need him in there," Dick Yuengling Jr. told Eric Trump this week as he gave the wealthy young scion of the Trump empire a tour of his brewery Pottsville, Pennsylva...

It took me a while to figure out what the deal is with this photo. I thought at first someone coated their thighs in oil. But then I saw it for what it really was. It reminds me of a Necker cube, on...

I learned that there are two forms of mimicry in nature -- honest mimicry (e.g., bees and wasps look similar and advertise that they can sting) and dishonest mimicry (e.g., some flies look like bees...

TV antennas are making a comeback, andthe Ghost Indoor HDTV antennais a great example of why. Unlike the old bunny ear-style antennas, this compact antenna is barely noticeable and picks up channels e...

Kendall Seifert loves squirrels and swingers, and operates gathering places for both types of creatures at Squirrel Creek Lodge. Seifert is 53, and operated a wildlife rescue center *and* a swingers c...

Donald Trump Gets Sassy at the Third Presidential Debate, a new Sassy Trump collab featuring Peter Serafinowicz's voice, Vic Berger's editing genius, and Donald Trump's own words, at Superdeluxe.[Vi...

As promised by the headline, nothing more, nothing less, just kittens photographed mid-pounce. The raw adorable feed: Seth Casteel....

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus were beautiful, moody video games; games with a sense of place, of weird looming silences. Before gamers realized they didn't want games to be art after all, these were ...

As a nonprofit, the Yale Record has never endorsed a political candidate. Even in this most momentous of elections, some things have to remain sacred.In particular, we do not endorse Hillary Clintons ...

The Internet Archive has a wonderful front-end: GifCities, a search engine for the myriad of GIFs that once graced legendary website hosting service Geocities. [via Andy Baio]GifCities: The Geocities ...

With nearly $28 million in the pot, the eight minutes of "speech play" between Will Kassouf and Griffin Benger came to a very satisfying end. Everyone is debating which of the two players crossed th...

Created by developer Brian Folts, this nifty program "will take in either a starting point and end point, or a provided file of a route and provide a playthrough of the Google Streetview images that a...

Five years ago, Derek Deville launched an amateur rocket into the stratosphere in less than a minute. It still stands as a remarkable achievement, and the onboard camera gives a dizzying sense of th...

Ten years after the original series, BBC's widely-acclaimed Planet Earth returns to television in the UK in November and in the US in January 2017.The first episode, Islands, looks at how animals ca...

Samsung's got problems: its Galaxy Note devices are bursting into flames, and have been banned from the skies. (more…)...

All through 2016, Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) has sent us a stream howtos for of amazing, artistic pies -- an HR Giger pie, a James Bond pie, and a Predator pie. Now she's kickstarting ...

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Last June, the Economist ran this chart: "Lies, Damned Lies, and Directives," which documents decades of flat-out lies about EU regulations that were published in the tabloid press (many invented by t...

Last April, the Icelandic government nearly toppled when Parliament was dissolved, after the Panama Papers revealed that Prime Minister Sigmundur Dav Gunnlaugsson was laundering money with Mossack Fo...

University of Malaga scientists were studying the cardiovascular systems of Atlantic sawmill catsharks (catshark (Galeus atlanticus) when they found one with two heads. This is the first time that dic...

The Newark Public Library is the scene of Philip Roth's novella Goodbye, Columbus. Now, Roth is donating his personal book collection to that same library. From the New York Times:Mr. Roths library, s...

I'venever really felt the need topurchasea smartwatch because a lot of them aren't very functional, but at just shy of $30, the Martian Notifier Smartwatchwas worth checking out. For that low of a pri...

Jane Espenson is not only a talented TV writer who has worked on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, and Once Upon A Time, she is also quite adept at constructing impressive Pringles struc...

Dominic Patten reports that Donald Trumps Hollywood Walk of Fame star was destroyed early Wednesday morning by a man dressed as a city construction worker.The vandal smashed it up with a sledgehamme...

In 1960, parapsychologist Anthony Donald Cornell donned a bed sheet and attempted to scare an audience watching an X-rated film in a movie theater. Why? Cornell, a believer in ghosts himself, wanted ...

Shinri Tezuka, 27, sculpts candy into beautiful, creepy, and very sweet creatures like goldfish and octopuses. The centuries-old practice is called amezaiku, but according to Great Big Story, "today...

There are lots of books about baby boomer toys, but this fun collection is presented from the viewpoint of the kids who played with the toys and includes lots of personal memories and photographs. Sur...

Japanese culture website Tofugu has a rundown of the best Japanese horror movies of all time. Number 6 on the list is Hausu, a cartoonishly gory flick from 1977.https://youtu.be/NN0HVJ5tkIMThis is wha...

Hillary Clinton's campaign team "scrambled" after coming to believe Joe Biden would oppose her for the Democratic presidential nomination, reports Fox News. Some delicious, if insidery machinations tu...

It's free for anyone to take, and Finns can get credit at the Open University of University of Helsinki (yes, that's what it's called). (more…)...

Keeping a cat in a NYC bodega is technically against the rules, but everybody loves bodega cats. Everybody but a certain Yelp review, who is now getting a lot of flak for complaining about a bodega ca...

Ken Crossland has a good explainer piece on the Hillary Clinton email issue that conservatives have used to bludgeon her campaign for months.Hillary Clinton isnt a technophile. She viewed her set-up a...

Welp those two...Cats squabble over a saucer of milk, until they are both hit by a crisis of conscience....

Andrew Lekashman offers a brief pictorial a history of mechanical keyboards, from adding machines to dumb terminals to Symbolics monstrosities to modern blank-key hacker totems. There was a lot of ing...

The YouTube channel INDUSTRIAL JP is a wonderland of machinery and music operated by a label in Japan. [h/t Joel] (more…)...

According to Google Trends, the search term "memes" is now more popular than the search term "Jesus," a fact noticed by Dominik Vincent Salonen, @Kuwaddo on Twitter. https://twitter.com/Kuwaddo/status...

Trump hotels are slashing their rates to try and maintain occupancy, and similar stories are emerging from other corners of the Trump brand-licensing empire held to be the source of The Donald's wealt...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so mu...

The fakers at ADDYOLOGY posted a scam video purporting to create a homemade wireless smartphone charger that is both dangerous and useless. The always-entertaining ElectroBOOM did this epic takedown...

Recent revised estimates upping the number of galaxies in the universe seem even more mind-boggling when contemplating this image released from Hubble this week. It shows NGC 362, one of about 150 glo...

YouTuber Barb Ackue (get it?) was kind enough to upload an important moment in US history: Commander John Young complaining about flatulence while Apollo 16 was on the lunar surface. After working t...

Liza Mandelup directed this lovely short documentary on a camp for children with xeroderma pigmentosum, or XP, a genetic skin condition which makes those with the trait extremely sensitive to sunlig...

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The Kiberkhunta hacker group has dumped 2,000 messages from Putin aide Vladislav Surkov's email, including two documents related to the Kremlin's plans to consolidate their annexation of Ukraine: "Pri...

It's been more than 20 years since Congress told the FCC that it should do something about the cable and satellite companies' monopolies over set-top boxes (American households spend more than $200/ye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-KeVBNz0APussy Riot's video for "Straight Outta Vagina" frames the poppy, danceable song with visuals calculated to enrage the Kremlin, with LA's Ace Hotel standing...

Paul Fuog pieced this together out of 15 TED talks: it's pretty great, except what's with the low-energy narration? It's not very TED-like....

Warner Bros has sued talent agency Innovative Artists for running an internal-use Google Drive folder that let its clients and staff review movies in the course of their duties. They say the company r...

AT&T's secret "Hemisphere" product is a database of calls and call-records on all its customers, tracking their location, movements, and interactions -- this data was then sold in secret to American p...

The election's basically over now and everyone's just having "fun". Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump has accepted Vice President Joe Biden's challenge to a fistfight."I'd love that. I'd...

Drew Mackie's video above, remixing the homoerotic glory of 80's anime Saint Seiya, is your shot. Meg Elison's short story at McSweeney's, "If women wrote men the way men write women", is your chas...

Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's going to vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton instead of his own party's candidate, millionaire reality TV star Donald Trump. I am voting for Hillary ...

*deep inside the Apple lair, Tim Cook approaches his captive adversary*"There will be no escape for you, Mr. Bond."Images of New MacBook Pro With Magic Toolbar Leaked in macOS Sierra 10.12.1 [macrumor...

This years Star Wars Advent Calendar does not end on Wookie Life Day, but I like the minifigs.LEGO Star Wars 75146 Advent Calendar Building Kit (282 Piece) via Amazon...

This was so much god damn fun....

The Guinness World Record for breath-holding belongs to Aleix Segura Vendrell, who managed 24 minutes and 3 seconds floating in a pool. How do Vendrell and others, like free divers and, er, David Blai...

In this Scientific American video, Rubik's Cube master Ian Scheffler, author of the new book Cracking the Cube, explains some of the math behind "speedcubing." Scheduler's book sounds fascinating even...

A new study by IDC shows the market for smartwatches is shrinking. I think they are ugly, and mechanical watches are art. Via IDC:The worldwide smartwatch market experienced a round of growing pains ...

The hot new amenity that NYC developers are building into their plans for luxury apartment buildings is a porte-cochre, aka a fancy driveway. In fact, in Manhattan an opulent private drive may actuall...

Researchers from MIT and the University of Southern California 3D printed tiny, and quite beautiful, sculptures out of two different materials that usually expand when heated. But the specific archi...

Waiting til Monday night did nothing to damper Samantha Bee's awesome analysis of the Trump third debate flame-out....

Just a pilot and his pal, a deadly Titan. I'm looking forward to Titanfall 2 as a welcome break from Destiny. It launches on October 28th....

@nathan: "Barack Obama is the Nickelback of presidents."@DJ_lcpl: "Barack Obama...bro, do you even lift!?"(Obama's response: "Well, I lifted the ban on Cuban cigars, that's worth something.")@realDo...

Let Shub-Niggurath teach your child the alphabet with C Is for Cthulhu: The Lovecraft Alphabet BookI wish we had this book when my daughter was younger. Things would be much different!C Is for Cthulhu...

I received the shocking and sad news that Jon Lebkowsky's 16-year-grandson Carson died suddenly this week. Jon was one of the early editors at bOING bOING (the zine) and a great supporter of Boing Boi...

YouTube has a policy to remove the channel of anyone that receives three complaints of copyright infringement that go uncontested. Bad people use this rule to blackmail innocent YouTubers who don't ...

I still love Twitter and hope it finds a way forward. But it looks like all the potential suitors have passed on buying it, and job cuts are in the offing.Twitter Inc., having failed to sell itself, i...

Whisk yourself back to the days of bulky devices, outmoded physical media, and painfully obvious visual puns with these 1990s high-tech stock photos. Literal surfing and literal webs! Large format hig...

In 1912, Herbert Ponting captured remarkable film and images of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition. Amateurs and pros have all worked to restore and colorize Ponting's wor...

Pierre Michel-Estival created this fabulous short film Prayer.9 "Your subconscious is not an intimate possession anymore." (more…)...

Megan Rosenbloom at Lapham's Quarterly delves into anthropodermic bibliopegy, the strange history of books bound in human skin, like this pocket book created in 1829 from murderer William Burke of the...

You can buy high-res versions on Etsy, with Europe and other countries also on offer.High resolution map of all the permanent and temporary streams and rivers of the contiguous 48 states in beautiful ...

Yesterday, we learned The Wirecutter (with sister site The Sweethome) was headed to New York City. It's the sort of good ending that's also a good beginning: they succeeded in their mission and have b...

I love computer games but don't have time to plow through countless hours of padded-out nonsense. As I've enjoyed several of the picks in Joshua Rivera's roundup of 21 games you can finish in 6 hours ...

The Shuttleworth Fellowships hand millions directly to people starting out on a journey to radically transform the world to make it more open; this year, I'm Honourary Steward, meaning I'll help pic...

I've been noting humorous updatings of Ambrose Bierce's 1906 humor classic The Devil's Dictionary for years -- there was the publishing edition, and this corker on copyright -- but the Educational Tec...

The stainless steel shakers are designed to have a lot of heft (the Enterprise is 7oz empty, the Bird of Prey is 5 oz): they're $60 from Thinkgeek. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xdMteqm994The Dirty Cow vulnerability dates back to code included in the Linux kernel in 2007, and it can be trivially weaponized into an easy-to-run exploit that al...

[Full size]The 281 People, Places and Things DonaldTrump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List [Jasmine C. Lee and Kevin Quealy/New York Times]...

Five Republican Congressional candidates -- Reps. Bob Dold (R-Ill.), Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), David Jolly (R-Fla.), John Katko (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) -- have threatened broadcasters with...

No one is sure how 51 year old British man ended up dead, pantsless, tied to a bench in front of the Barcelona airport with luncheon meat on his buttocks and his penis in a can of tuna fish. (more&hel...

No one is sure how 51 year old British man ended up dead, pantsless, tied to a bench in front of the Malaga airport with luncheon meat on his buttocks and his penis in a can of tuna fish. (more&hellip...

Scott Edelman writes, "Science fiction writer Thomas S. Gardner says in a 1940 issue of the fanzine Fantasy News that science fiction comic books hurt science fiction, but don't worry -- he also says ...

Daily Show writer Daniel Radosh's son came home from school with a permission slip that he'd have to sign before the kid could read Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, which is widely believed to be ...

Gerald Daugherty, a Republican county commissioner in the Austin-area Travis County, has produced one of the best ad-spots of the season, depicting him as a politics-obsessed public servant whose lo...

The company says it will start selling Caramel Crunch and Thin Mints breakfast cereals in January. It's not clear how the deal is structured and whether the cereals will be promoted as a way to make a...

Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine has a history of blocking his critics on social media, including Grant Stern, who runs the Photography is Not a Crime group. (more…)...

Reporters posing as representatives of a Chinese tycoon approached Trump and Clinton PACs and offered them $2 million; only the Giuliani and Trump, Junior-backed Great America PAC agreed, and moreover...

Since 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been representing "Mr Kidane," an Ethiopian-born US citizen whose computer the Ethiopian government hacked while he was living in DC, in order to ext...

Though the Dawn of Justice movie is bound to be a disappointment (see eg Batman vs Superman), the $45 Wonder Woman Dawn of Justice onesie (with cape!) (and gold foil tiara on the hood!) is not a bad ...

Despite the fact that minor possession has been a misdemeanor since 1976 (and medical weed has been legal since 1996) between 15,000 and 20,000 Californians are arrested every year for marijuana offen...

Arbitration was conceived of as a way to allow giant corporations to avoid costly court battles by meeting with a mediator and talking things out: but since the Supreme Court ruled (in a series of mid...

In 1967, Philippa Foot posed the "Trolley Problem," an ethical conundrum about whether a bystander should be sacrificed to rescue the passengers of a speeding, out-of-control trolley; as self-driving ...

Rhode Island dickhead Alan Sorrentino wrote a letter to the editor of the East Bay RI, the local paper of record, chastizing women over 20 for wearing yoga pants in public because they lack the "bene...

Science fiction great -- and 2015 World Fantasy Convention lifetime achievement honoreee -- Sheri Tepper died yesterday, at the age of 87. (more…)...

(Image: ccPixs.com) Im not a medical expert. My science career ended in Mr. Maciels high school biology class. I remember the basics, were all made of cells and whales eat krill, but world governmen...

In the face of overwhelming listener demand,Boars, Gore, and Swordswill be deviating from their stated cause of Game of Thrones to cover all of HBO's video game vacation series Westworld.IvanandRedwor...

Twenty-nine years ago I photographed people at play for a series in my portfolio. I wanted to shoot Tom Hayden, who I knew as the right fielder on a team in the mens baseball league I played in. He ...

This 20-minute explainer video lays down three rules for becoming a dictator:1. Get the key supporters on your side.2. Control the treasure.3. Minimize key supporters.The video is based on a book ca...

Geek Fuelis a subscription delivery service that caters to those of us that love comics, gaming, and generalgeek culture. Every month, Geek Fuel will assemble a box of goodies with a value of $50 or o...

In acknowledgement of evangelical comic artist Jack Chick's death yesterday, please enjoy this classic animation of the Chick tract "Somebody Goofed," created in 1998 by longtime Boing Boing pals Sy...

Pete Burns, fabulous freak singer of 1980s dance-pop group Dead or Alive, died yesterday of cardiac arrest. He was 57. From The Guardian:Burns rose to fame in the 1980s with the bands hit song You S...

For redheads, and people who love them, get past the slightly disturbing title and enjoy this collection of people, places, and things, all with red on top. The subjects are diverse, from movie stars ...

Things Jack Chick hated (a partial list): Dungeons and Dragons, Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, Jews and Satan. (more…)...

Police are investigating a Canadian man in a British Columbia border town after a video went viral that shows the man yelling racial slurs at another person, apparently over a parking ticket. (more&...

In a deal reportedly worth "more than $30 million," The New York Times announced today that it has purchased The Wirecutter and The Sweethome, consumer product review sites created by our friend Brian...

The world's most sophisticated security experts have been bombarded with recruiting offers from UAE-based company Darkmatter, which bills itself as a major state security contractor -- but people who'...

A China-based maker of surveillance cameras said Monday it will recall some products sold in the United States after a massive "Internet of Things" malware attack took down a major DNS provider in a m...

The Texas Park and Wildlife Department recently posted this photo of a particularly stylish Western rat snake. We mustache you to #lookclose have you ever seen a snake with sunglasses?! Thanks to Kar...

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), funded by billionaire Paul Allen's, is developing projects like an AI-based search engine for scientific papers and a system to extract "visual k...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbelhLT5veE"With the right tension, and the right distance of "travel" it doesn't even hurt your hand...much." (Essential Craftsman)...

A woman walking around Sacramento with a skull on a stick led police to a homeless encampment where she found the cranium. Apparently someone spotted the woman marching around with the skull and calle...

Security experts hired by the short-selling firm Muddy Waters said in a legal brief filed today that cardiac implants made by St. Jude Medical can be hacked. If hackers can pwn your heart device, the...

People are dying for a ride in Ellena Funeral Car's Maserati Hearse: Multifunctional steering wheel- Dual-zone automatic climate control- Windshield wiper with rain sensor- Body in fiberglass- Hydraul...

If you like to DIY and you like helicopters, youre going to really love the Flexbot Hexacopter Kit. This copter blows traditional models out of the water: it includes everything you need to actually b...

Activist Tom Hayden has passed away at the age of 76. (more…)...

Sadly, ElectricTrousers' binary mechanical keyboard has off-brand switches, making it less useful that it might otherwise have been.It has multiple modes and type in ones and zeroes, or in ASCII text!...

Trump wants to end criticism of Trump. But more than that, he wants to silence the women he boasted about groping.Specifically, he wants America to be more like England, where "they actually have a sy...

Trump wants to end criticism of Trump. But more than that, he wants to silence the women he boasted about groping.Specifically, he wants America to be more like England, where "they actually have a sy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvOMHoLRBY&feature=youtu.beThis video depicts craftsman Tanegi Zukuri making extraordinarily beautiful and precise examples of Japanese marquetry....

Down but clearly not out, the presidential campaign of millionaire Donald Trump just issued a map of states that places him in a commanding position: "those colored red are states that we can safely a...

Theres the stuff about science, and ranking, and surveys, and strata, we say that every year. Theres the extra layer about experimental proof, rigorous data analysis, metrics of repeatability. Got it,...

A whistleblower has provided The Intercept with leaked documents about Endace, an obscure New Zealand company based in Auckland, revealing that the company -- which received millions in government fun...

"Sick isn't weak." Toronto's Hospital for Sick Kids has a perceptual challenge with "sick" in their name, so they created a great new ad called VS. that presents their patients and employees as hero...

Italian makeup artist Lucia Pittalis transforms herself into Han Solo and others in this charming video. It's a follow-up on her remarkable self-transformations into The Blues Brothers, Iggy Pop and...

Centron Corp. was good enough to prepare this helpful safety video for pre-helicopter parenting days. Oh, for the days when you'd send your kids out for a night of trick-or-treating at strangers' ho...

German artists Tarek Mawad and Friedrich van Schoor, aka 3hund, create beautiful works that juxtapose light forms with nature. Their latest, Lucid, is a hypnotic journey to remote places. All effect...

San Francisco's 419-apartment, 58-story luxury Millennium Tower has been sinking since at it opened in 2009, and now it's begun to lean alarmingly. (more…)...

Hayden (previously) was a political radical who was tried alongside Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin during the notorious "Chicago Seven" (nee "Chicago Eight") trials following on the 1968 D...

Veracrypt was created to fill the vacuum left by the implosion of disk-encryption tool Truecrypt, which mysteriously vanished in 2014, along with a "suicide note" (possibly containing a hidden message...

I was just flicking through Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece and the climactic fight scene seems to be more relevant than ever. Surprised no-one else noticed this!...

This week's top deals from the Boing Boing Store range from lobster to wine to desk organization.1. Get Maine Lobster (50% Off)With these discounted packages from Get Maine Lobster, you can experience...

The Nightmare Machine is an MIT project to use machine learning image-processing to make imagery for Hallowe'en. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esdU-l2ckS4I wouldn't vote for either of these jokers....

The long awaited Star Wars: Ahsoka offers a glimpse into the time between the fall of the Republic and the beginning of the rebellion against the Empire. Ashoka Tano, dedicated padawan Jedi and appren...

A bunch of dudes who lack college degrees figured out how to make a video, and they hate Donald.I also left school early, and can't stand Donald. (Thanks, Eric!)...

Nothing is more frustrating than needing to edit or sign a PDF and not having access to the original document. Thats whyPDFpenPROis a must-have app in our books.With this extremely useful app, you can...

When estimating his net worth, Pepe the Cheeto is apt to include a multibillion dollar valuation for the "Trump" brand-name; but new Trump Hotels will be called "Scion" hotels, "a nod to the Trump fam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba1OLoPIBfYThe Skunklock is a $109 crowdfunded gadget that contains pressurized vomit-inducing gas the creators call "Formula D_1," and which is intended to induce im...

I made a generator to provide images from Twitter after The Fourth Debate. It picks random frames from TV footage and draws conspiracies on them. Reload the page for another set! (more…)...

Facebook -- which accounts for as much as 75% of the traffic to popular websites -- tweaked its algorithm to downrank those same publishers, who had been engaged in an arms-race to dominate Facebook u...

The billboard went up in Dearborn, MI, which has a large number of Arabic speakers, and reads "Donald Trump, he can't read this, but he is afraid of it" (a riff on the bags printed with "This text has...

The Stormtrooper Decanter is on back-order, but you can pre-order one from the next batch for £22 -- it's based on Andrew Ainsworth's original movie helmet moulds from 1976, and will provide end...

Some of the internet's most popular, well-defended services -- including Twitter -- were knocked offline yesterday by a massive denial-of-service attack that security experts are blaming on botnets ma...

Some of the internet's most popular, well-defended services -- including Twitter -- were knocked offline yesterday by a massive denial-of-service attack that security experts are blaming on botnets ma...

Conservative justice minister Sam Gyimah staged a sucessful filibuster during the Parliamentary debate over "Turing's law", which would make the 65,000 men convicted of "gross indecency" under various...

What's not to like about this 12-in-1 Stanley Multitool, especially when it costs just $8 on Amazon? I grabbed a couple to have around the house so I don't need to get my toolbox from the garage for m...

I didn't think an IoT voice assistant was for me, but at $50 I couldn't resist the Amazon Echo Dot. I'm finding Alexa to be handy for lots of little things. Amazon's hockey puck like Echo Dot gives yo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcSolt0TIa4Andrew Holzschuh took a photo of his shoes every day as he hiked the Pacific Coast Trail, then made a fun timelapse of his shoes' daily wear and tear.Many hi...

No one else thought a talking dog teaching us about God's love was weird? I kinda enjoyed these as a kid but always felt something was off......

The Inbetweeners is a great British comedy series that bombed when remade for an American audience. How can the same characters, plot lines, and jokes work so well in one case and fail in the other?...

Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes isn't talking to presidential candidate and alleged friend Donald Trump. National Political Director Jim Murphy quit. Trump's Campaign CEO, Kellyanne Conway, is reduc...

In previous books, like the strange and cinematic Big Questions, Anders Nilsen has used his gorgeous pen and ink, stipple, and hatch technique, amidst generous white space, to create surprisingly den...

Skateboarder Rick McCrank hosts Abandoned, a series from Vice where he explores abandoned malls, amusement parks, racetracks, and even nuclear missile silos. Many of these are excellent places to sk...

YouTube users who post videos mocking Samsung's recently-recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone report they get removed because of copyright claims by Samsung.The claims center on a popular add-on to the g...

This gentleman didn't want a tow truck to take his car away, so he tried to drive off the truck's bed. You will believe what happened next....

This patient police officer does not take much stock in the legitimacy of the sovereign citizen movement.Best part:Cop: "You're under arrest."Sovereign citizen: "NO I'M NOT!"From Wikipedia: "The sov...

You can really see the dogs adjusting their balance and controlling the boards! Haole and Hanzo are both awesome!...

Dangit human. put some muscle in itThis little monkey is trying her hardest to train a limp-limbed human how to crack open a nut with a rock. When she realizes the human isn't making much of an effort...

From self-driving cars to stock market predictingsoftware to the recommendations you get on Amazon and Netflix, machine learning is at the core of modern technology. You could find yourself buildingte...

On November 12th, and for one night only, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will portray the Duchess of Krakenthorp in the Washington National Opera's production of "The Daughter of the Regime...

(Above, Chuck Berry in 2014 performing "Johnny B. Goode.")John Lennon said "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.'" The man whose name is synonymous with r...

In keeping with Boing Boings mission of being a directory of mostly wonderful things, heres a new video by Frank Sinatras bastard son, performing an updated version of The Dead Kennedys song "Califo...

J.T. Sexkik offers a "glimpse into the wonderful world of Yahoo! Answers." It would be inappropriate not to add the original:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-lia-FEIYHot take: Yahoo Answers remain...

Some partygoers were looking forward to their evening treats, but sadly it was not to be. (Insert Samsung Galaxy joke here...) [via]...

Much of the web struggled to stay on its feet today, with outages bringing down U.S.-based services and sites such as Amazon, Twitter and Netflix. A massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack...

At the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation white-tie event in New York last night, presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton sat within groping distance of one another—and deliver...

Yahoo has released a machine-learning model called open_nsfw that is designed to distinguish not-safe-for-work images from worksafe ones. By tweaking the model and combining it with places-CNN, MIT's ...

Historically, being an elected prosecutor was a sweet gig: operating with "unchecked power and no transparency," you generally got to run unopposed for re-election, and on the rare instances in which ...

I dote on fidget gadgets -- soothing gizmos intended to give your hands something to keep busy with, like modern worry-beads -- and while you can't buy Chris Bathgate's amazing machined sliders, and t...

Join the Emperor's Bridge folks for a short adventure and a fun celebration! Help celebrate Emperor Norton's bridge's birthday!If you're in the Bay Area on November 12th, please join The Emperor's Bri...

Join the Emperor's Bridge folks for a short adventure and a fun celebration! Help celebrate Emperor Norton's bridge's birthday!If you're in the Bay Area on November 12th, please join The Emperor's Bri...

2013's Kool for the Holidays didn't really serve as the comeback I was hoping for....

The stolen emails recently published by WikiLeaks reveal that President Barack Obama's email address during the presidential transition at the end of the 2008 campaign was [email protected]. (more&...

Ezra Klein has a wonderful piece on Vox, "Hillary Clintons 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins," that well describes the master class in managing a bully into hanging himself these ...

If the Zap Comix collective hung out in Gary Larson's basement rolling numbers on psychedelic record covers while giggling about those motivational calendars where you tear off one earnest aphorism ea...

This die cast Hot Wheels Retro Entertainment collection Batmobile brings me a ton of joy. I also have the Mystery Machine....

A former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor who worked with the National Security Agency will face charges of espionage in a case involving 50 terabytes or more of highly sensitive NSA data the government...

In 1943, fed up with modernist poetry, two Australian army officers invented a fake poet and submitted a collection of deliberately senseless verses to a Melbourne arts magazine. To their delight, the...

HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network, is back for its fourth season. This week:What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experi...

Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia and friends created this surreal edit of the third 2016 presidential debate, which took place last night and creeped everyone out big league. (more…)...

Tesla released a video of a commute from home to office, including parking as a demonstration of its fully self-driving hardware. "The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He i...

My friend Rachel shot this great video of a cute spider making her web. Anyone know what kind it is?...

This Python Mega Course will help you learn to codeby teaching you to build 10 real-world apps that each highlight a unique use of Python.Job prospects for coders are still growing steadilyand with Py...

These notebooks are all blank, calm, and satisfying. All three have attached ribbon bookmarks, elastic bands to hold them shut, and pockets in the inside back cover to tuck ephemera into.SketchyNotebo...

Oscar Owen has a nice tutorial for doing three different tricks with a standard Sharpie pen.[via]...

My colleagues at Institute for the Future are hosting a "Positive Platform Design Jam" November 30-December 1 at our Palo Alto, California gallery and offices. The goal is to hack on software or conce...

Yes, Starbucks coffee IS that good(story in comments)(x-WTF)Come hell or high water, this gentleman is going to have his Starbucks....

This is a boiled egg shell cracker. It works like a charm every other time you use it.[via]...

Four-year-old Bella speaks 7 languages and does improvisational dancing at the same time....

I'm not going to spoil the fun by telling you what this guy found in a dusty old lunchbox hidden in the basement of a 1940a house he was remodeling. Just go here and enjoy each of the photos that slow...

The Radiotopia podcasting collective is home to most of my absolute favorite podcasts: 99% Invisible, The Memory Palace, and Song Exploder. Roman Mars, founder of Radiotopia and 99% Invisible, and the...

IMGURian Ryan S. Miller posted this wonderful series of images: Here is Jeremy's Costumer this year...The Ghostbusters Ecto-1!Every year we've tried to step up the scale of the costume builds we do fo...

University of Zurich researchers used transcranial magnetic stimulation, a noninvasive method of inhibiting activity in parts of the brain, to "turn off" people's ability to control their impulses. Th...

The morning after America's third and final presidential debate, a new woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault. By my count, Karena Virginia is at least the 10th women to accus...

Are you jonesing for a dose of optimism and possibility? In the mood to contemplate the cosmos? Want to experience a musical message for extraterrestrials the way it was meant to be played? The Voya...

Nasty Woman vs. Bad Hombre is a nifty new number on the nutty 2016 presidential campaign by Jonathan Mann, who writes and publishes a new song every single day, as he's been doing for the last 7+ ye...

Remix of the 3rd un-presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump from with a hip-hop "Hail To The Chief" backing track, by Eclectic Method....

Hilarious infomercial from 1994 for a guardian angel phone hotline. (more…)...

Nintendo's Switch is a touchscreen tablet with removable physical controls that turn it into a traditional handheld game console. It comes with a chunky dock to hook it up to a TV set for high-defin...

VPhone is a wee "phone", surely the most wee of them all. It has a 1.54-inch touchscreen display, Bluetooth, FM radio, pedometer, 128MB (megabytes!) of storage, a heart rate monitor, some social netwo...

Gaia is an interactive 3D map of the galaxy, coded by Charley Hoey and sourced from the eponymous mapping satellite's data: click, drag and scroll/pinch to change the viewpoint. It took a long time to...

The amazing Harry Potter Alliance (previously) -- who harness fandom for social good -- are raising funds for their Wizard Rock the Vote campaign, to get new voters into the polling booth this elect...

Beagle mix Geraldine visits the vet. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be any information about this wonderful dog or her career as a foley artist at ILM....

Charlie Cook performs cover versions of songs with a gunslinging twist....

JWZ documents his adventures in bringing a 1982/3 vintage Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 terminal (a rare portrait-orientation terminal) back into service -- fitting it with a Raspberry Pi and a new power-...

Mauri Helme made a pixel art "cover version" of the King of the Hill intro, and it's incredible: perfectly faithful to the original, yet completely translated to a different medium. Here's the origi...

The Troll Trump campaign has a simple, ingenious mechanic: it lets you pledge a small donation every time Trump posts a new tweet, meaning that the more Trump loses his temper and posts enraged tweets...

The ACLU and the Yale Law School Media Freedom Clinic have filed a motion demanding the release of 23 judgments from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret, closed courtroom that evalu...

District Judge John McKeon sentenced an unnamed man to 60 days in prison plus a suspended 30-year prison sentence (which he will avoid if he completes a sex-offender treatment program and other parole...

Skyler Johnson created an interactive infographic that charts the use of magic in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. The spells are organized by count or time, with instances color-coded by the book ...

Here's a fun interactive map of global shipping. ShipMap allows users to selected color coding for ship types: container, dry bulk, tanker, gas bulk, and vehicles. It even lets you select animated shi...

Shavkatbek Saipov was vacationing in Turkey in 2013 when he was hit in the eye by a teargas cannister fired by police during the brutal crackdown on the Occupy Gezi protests; he lost the eye and sued ...

Since 2009, the Chicago Police Department has seized $72M worth of property from people who were not convicted of any crime, through the discredited civil forfeiture process, keeping $48M worth of the...

Charles Wasko, as mayor of West York, PA, had a bad Facebook habit, issuing a string of racist and sexist postings that finally cost him his job. He regrets nothing, reports the BBC: "The racist stuff...

The scandal-haunted bank has been de-accredited by the Better Business Bureau, a punishment meted out to companies that violate the BBB Standards of Trust, which include "tell the truth," "build trust...

At the third presidential debate last night, Donald Trump indicated he will refuse to accept the election results, ranted about ninth-month abortions, and generally went full conspiracy-theorist. But ...

Austrian artist Martin Roth created an installation of grass sprouted in worn Persian rugs at the UK's Korean Cultural Centre; the grass sprouts, dies, and ruins the rugs. In between, the room looks a...

Ryan Scott Miller outdid himself with this terrific wheelchair costume that Jeremy will be sporting this Halloween: "This year we put it to a vote and our friends choose the Ghostbusters Ecto-1!" We...

Croc Coulter works with an apprentice to revive the lost art of ttatau, traditional tattooing done with sticks and bone. So that's how they made such straight lines in geometric tattoos! (more&helli...

Technically, cloth is a "deforming non-rigid surface," so projecting a stable image onto clothes is a big technological challenge. To solve it, Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory combined two new techniqu...

Projection mapping is one of the most profound visual effects that computers can generate; themepark fans will have seen it in effect on the revamped opening scene to the Indiana Jones ride at Disne...

When the Crown pardoned codebreaking war-hero and computer science pioneer Alan Turing in 2013, we noted that 50,000 other British men who were also convicted of "sodomy" remained criminals in the eye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A33PJJw5HM&feature=youtu.beMagicPeaceLove writes, "Magician Justin Willman makes the case for why Donald Trump's proposed border wall between America and Mexico is a...

Millionaire Republican Donald Trump isn't just on the ropes: he's practically upside-down and tangled up in them, trailing his opponent by huge margins and seemingly finished in the race to become the...

Swedish brewery S:t Eriks created a box of fancy potato chips that costs 499 kr (~$56). There are five chips in each box. Obviously a marketing/fundraising gimmick, but they certainly sound like quit...

Hilaritas Press, the publishing company started by Illuminatus! co-author (and Boing Boing Patron Saint) Robert Anton Wilson's daughter Christina and Bob's friend Rasa, have been doing a wonderful job...

All lies lead to the truth. For over 20 years, Snopes.com has been the Web's primary bullshit detector and debunker, from death by Pop Rocks to political lies. We need Snopes more than ever. For a Web...

A series of recent, influential design books and articles have convinced the web's designers to go for grey-on-white type, despite the fact that many people can't read low-contrast type (and it's even...

I have four USB powered external hard drives, which I keep plugged into my iMac all the time. My old USB hub was not able to reliably supply power to all of the drive. I got the Plugable 7-Port USB 3....

The music book we've all been waiting for: Black Sabbath For Ukulelehttps://youtu.be/03rpV07S68MYoutuber seesocovers is pretty amazing!Black Sabbath For Ukulele via Amazon(Thanks, Peter!)...

Fight off the zombie hordes! cries a full-page ad in this weeks National Enquirer, featuring a hand-crafted and hand-painted shattered human skull with a bloody axe embedded in its cranium.Its a Hallo...

I've found that weighing ingredients makes a huge difference in my baking, so I've added a digital scale. This simple scale zeros out easily, and its maximum capacity of 11lbs pretty much ensures I wo...

Yekutiel Sherman invented a selfie stick that collapses into a smartphone case. He launched the project on Kickstater. Chinese manufacturers were selling it on Ali Express before Sherman's funding win...

Wow! Maybe tighten down those bolts next time?(Thanks, Tim!)...

A Los Angeles School teacher named Cara Viramontes used Expedia to book travel for an upcoming family vacation. After she used the service, Viramontes filled out the survey that Expedia sent her. In t...

Karl Herlinger is one of the best ventriloquists in the world, and he'll be performing at Scot Nery's Boobie Trap tonight in Los Angeles!Every Wednesday at 8pm Scot Nery gathers a cast of ridiculous...

Im going to be upfront here: this book made me cry. As a woman, mother to a daughter, and formerly outspoken little girl in a time and place where feminism was was an anachronistic term for bra-burnin...

Remember Joey Salads, the "social experiment" guy who made a candid camera style video that showed him at a bar, sneakily dropping pills into women's drinks? He said he did it as a public service, but...

The Atmos R2 may be bigger than the brand's previously-releasedvapes, but we argue that in this case it's definitely a good thing. A bigger heating chamber means more room for packing it full. And the...

Oregonian Jason Owens wanted a snowmobile and had a little over a pound and a half of marijuana. Craigslist seems the obvious path to success, right? Sadly, the craigslist seller Mr. Owens contacted w...

Esteemed vernacular photography collector Robert Jackson shares his favorite snapshots of people with their record albums. According to Mashable, "These faded prints and Polaroids recall a time when a...

Wondering what to get your loved one this holiday season?...

David MacGowan is recreating Blade Runner shot-by-shot as Microsoft Paint illustrations. He tells Motherboard:I like the idea of having a blog but basically feel as if I have very little to say about ...

Melania Trump's re-emergence, after her bout with plagiarism, finally allowed Stephen Colbert to bring back the fantastic Laura Benanti. Bennati's impersonation of Mrs. Trump is as wonderful as last...

In this wonderful animation, billionaire Russian physicist and investor Yuri Milner explains his effort to launch tiny probes, powered by 12 foot solar sails, on an interstellar mission to the neare...

In a trademark infringement case filed against Mobile Star LLC, which it claims is a prolific counterfeiter, Apple says that more than 90% of the "official" gadgets sold in its name at Amazon are fake...

In a trademark infringement case filed against Mobile Star LLC, which it claims is a prolific counterfeiter, Apple says that more than 90% of the "official" gadgets sold in its name at Amazon are fake...

European Digital Rights has created a free, CC-licensed kids' booklet about privacy called Digital Defenders. (more…)...

Simple DIY rainbow magic with Skittles candies. Form a circle with Skittles on a plate (colours should be in repeated order, preferably according to colours of the rainbow e.g. purple, green, yellow...

The New York Times' presidential forecast has millionaire Republican Donald Trump at his lowest ebb of the campaign, with only an 8 percent chance of winning the Nov. 8 general election. A victory by ...

According to Biff Hutchison's description, this 11'½" breaks the Guinness World Record of 10'6". Rolling Stone has more.Not happy with sharing the title with [friend and rival Dalton] Smith wh...

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FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and very much...

Here's a version of We Will Rock You that actually rocks instead of sounding like a stadium full of drunk teenagers. It's from a 1970s BBC session, according to the liner notes. Right on!...

Adam Curtis' latest mind-blowing project just dropped a trailer, and it's a doozy. HyperNormalisation uses a tale of two cities (New York City and Damascus) to trace how we got to Trump, among other...

When 60 Minutes profiled child math whiz Jacob Barnett, he demonstrated how he imagined numbers as shapes. Numberphile's Simon Pampena analyzed Jacob's thought process. (more…)...

Wanting to see some new animal reaction pics? Swing by The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards and be inspired by some of 2016's best. Something for every occasion. (more…)...

The state of the art for drone-based lighting options continues to improve rapidly. Check out some of the great footage rctestflight got with a drone-mounted 1000-watt LED light bar. (more…)...

Today sees the publication of Bonnie Burton's (previously) long-awaited new book, Crafting with Feminism: 25 Girl-Powered Projects to Smash the Patriarchy. (more…)...

Researcher Yarden Katz scraped the database of Intellectual Ventures, a giant business that buys up patents, but produces nothing but lawsuits (previously), and discovered that IV claims ownership of ...

Artist Mike Kelley creates "Airportraits" of the world's airports by photographing all the planes that take off on a given day, then compositing them together into a kind of time-lapse of a day's wort...

In Rich do not rise early: spatio-temporal patterns in the mobility networks of different socio-economic classes, a group of transportation engineers analyze an open data-set about the commutes of peo...

The Ecuadoran Embassy in London has confirmed Wikileaks' accusation that it terminated Julian Assange's access to its wifi network because it disapproved of Assange and Wikileaks' "intervention in the...

A Gambler's Anatomy is the latest novel from Copyfighting certified genius Jonathan Lethem (previously) -- a book about an international backgammon hustler who believes he is psychic -- and who sports...

Shearer's $125 million lawsuit against Studio Canal and Vivendi enumerates a parade of horribles that the entertainment companies have visited upon him, from ripping him off with crazy, corrupt accoun...

In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg defends his company's ongoing association with Peter Thiel -- Facebook investor/board member and major donor to white-supremacist/pro-rape presidential candidate Donald ...

Update: The screengrab below appears to come from some internal Facebook forum, not Zuckerberg's public-facing account. A discussion on Hacker News says that the F in the UI indicates a private forum....

This video released today from the social media campaign Humanity for Hilary features Meryl Streep, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and other women sharing their own ex...

This video released today from the social media campaign Humanity for Hilary features Meryl Streep, Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham, Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and other women who share their own ...

Here's Vic Bergers hilarious and disturbing edit of Melania Trumps interview with Anderson Cooper on the Trump tapes. (more…)...

Vogue today endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the first ever female president of the United States of America, and ran this gorgeous portrait of our future POTUS by photographer Annie Leibovitz for V...

A kitten interpretation of the Bene Gesserit Litany of Fear, from the David Lynch movie masterpiece Dune, based on the great Frank Herbert science fiction novel. (more…)...

Filmmaker Michael Moore has an October surprise for America: A stealthily and quickly made movie about the presidential campaign of GOP nominee and accused serial sexual predator Donald Trump. (more&h...

One in two American adults is in a law enforcement face recognition network.The Perpetual Lineup report out today from a Georgetown Universitythinktank makes a compelling case for greater oversight of...

Nationally the High School graduation rate has been on the rise. NPR reports the rise is due to a combination of hard work that benefits students, and some states simply lowering standards so they ear...

No, there's never been a planet Janet hasn't seen....

Measuring tapes can be a pain to use solo, and just wanted to measure some stuff around the house. This compact laser measure is perfect.Honestly, I was sold at compact and laser, but the ability to m...

Here's a small sampling of the dozens of Halloween costumes posted for the purpose of ridicule on io9....

I raved about Heroes of the Comics when it came out in 2014. Now I'm going to rave about More Heroes of the Comics, the new companion volume. This large book has 100 meticulous color paintings of peop...

"All Trump's Words." (more…)...

Former People magazine contributor Natasha Stoynoff recently went public with her claim that she was sexually assaulted by the GOP Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump. (more…)...

These days, there is huge demand for ethical hackers. Companies pay these professionals to identify and remedy security holes in their networks before malicious hackers find and exploit them. What's g...

Lets Split! causes me no end of joy and pain. It is my favorite Nietzsche quote come to life. (Madness is rare in individuals but in groups, parties, nations and ages it is the rule.) It is also a 63...

https://youtu.be/YjNt_8qeLD8In this commercial for headphones, a young woman dances in an eerily empty Piccadilly Circus, London's famously crowded tourist attraction. The creative director of the ad ...

Tommy Edison, the very funny "Blind Film Critic," who has been without sight since birth, answers the question: "Does it bother you that you don't know what you look like?"...

A USB light (above) for $0.11. A USB fan for $0.45. A 32GB Micro SD card for $2.13. A Smart watch for $9.74. An iPhone-controllable camera drone for $9.74. These were just some of the things this guy ...

At last weekend's rainy and wonderful Treasure Island Music Festival on the San Francisco Bay, there were myriad sublime moments on and off the stages. My highlight was the evening set by Sylvan Ess...

Noah Swartz writes, "Parts and Crafts, a youth and community makerspace in Somerville, MA, is kickstarting a series of Creative Commons/Open Hardware licensed educational kits and projects for kids. T...

In 1971, Shirley Cromartie, a housekeeper for President Richard Nixon at his Key Biscayne retreat, was arrested for shoplifting four dresses. According to Cromartie, she was hypnotically coerced into ...

A waitress employed at a Cracker Barrel in South Carolina sent this "tip" written on a napkin that she got to The Bitchy Waitress website. (more…)...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History launched a Kickstarter project to save Dorothy's Ruby Slippers in their collection from further deterioration. The museum is seeking $500,000 for ...

From the YouTube description: "In preparation for the reopening of the Rose Main Reading Room, watch 52,000 books being shelved...in just two minutes. Video credit: Max Touhey Photography. Music cre...

The first few seconds of this video promises to be an insightful look at utility knives. It soon becomes clear that we will learn less about knives and more about the reviewer's prejudices, grudges,...

The UK government says it wants to stop people under 18 from looking at pornography, and so it's going to make all the porn sites operating in Britain collect some kind of age-verification in order to...

Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali is the much-anticipated story of one of the more esoteric, fascinating casualties of the flower power generation. ...

Swiss "writing instrument" manufacturer Caran d'Ache and watchmaker MB&F collaborated to create the Astrograph fountain pen, an otherworldly pen with the astronomical price of $20,000. There will only...

For Halifax, Nova Scotia's Nocturne arts festival animators from the province recreated the 1967 Spiderman cartoon "Vulture's Prey" in their very different personal styles. To him, life is a great b...

This week, Boars, Gore, and Swords breaks from the ASOIAF book club to watch the first episode of HBO's robot cowboy apocalypse series Westworld. Ivan and Red discuss the commentary on gaming woven th...

Kevin Deldycke has collected a "curated list" of "awesome falsehoods programmers believe in," sorted by subject into meta, business, dates and time, emails, geography, human identity, networks, phone ...

Security researcher Kevin Beaumont had a look at the mail servers operated by the Trump organization and found a veritable dumpster fire: systems running Windows 2003 (!), unpatched, badly configured....

The creepy clown ebb and flow is currently in full flow, so Atlas Obscura has created the definitive creepy clown incident map, replete with dates, details, and outcome. (more…)...

Not only is the song catchy, but this delightful homage by Pogo has fantastic production values, to boot! Warning: you may be singing this the rest of the day. (more…)...

Can something be un-memed? Matt Furie hopes his creation Pepe the Frog can have a second metamorphosis back from being a go-to troll image of the alt-right. He's teamed with ADL to #SavePepe. He even ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shqJR_0WdrIIt's difficult to comprehend the onset and severity of the 2008 financial crisis, but this timelapse map of US unemployment data from 1990 through July 2016 ...

Somewhere Over The Rainbow has never sounded this exquisite....

We've all experienced the frustration and delay caused by thoughtless motorists who block driveways and parking spots with their vehicles. The key thing is to remain calm, take a deep breath, and do...

When you conduct a poll of human beings and ask them who won each of the two presidential debates (the third is tomorrow) they mostly say Hillary Clinton. But millionaire Donald Trump overwhelmingly w...

It's widely-suspected that there's more out there of millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump boasting about assaulting women, but the obvious sources—TV producers and radio hosts, say&md...

Mini Materials posted a video showing you how to make 1:24 cinderblocks (they sell a kit). Finally I can embrace my lifelong desire to have a train set, having hitherto been unable to do so due to t...

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The Atomteller plates update the Dutch tradition of plates that feature windmills with more up-to-date power-generation -- nukes: "Monuments of error - hope of yesterday - folklore of tomorrow." &euro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2p1OapkTNMJohn Park, the maker's maker, explains in detail how to make this glowing mad scientist test-tube rack that you can use as a Hallowe'en decoration and/or h...

The California DMV has rejected Opendns founder David Ulevitch's application for an "1NFOS3C" vanity license plate because it includes "a term of lust or depravity." (more…)...

Despite his support for Trump opponent Hillary Clinton, radio shock jock will not release the recordings of old radio broadcasts he made with Trump in which Trump made offensive sexual remarks, becaus...

Matt Taibbi (previously), the best, angriest Rolling Stone writer today, turns in the definitive column on Trump's death-spiral as the mercurial millionaire realizes that he isn't going to win, and st...

Kim Stanley Robinson, whose seminal Mars trilogy (coming soon to TV?) changed the way we talk about our neighboring planet, says that Musk's Mars colonization plan "is sort of the 1920s science-fictio...

The independent tribunal ruled on a case brought by Privacy International, concluding that the UK spy agency GCHQ was acting illegally for 17 years while it amassed huge databases of "bulk collection"...

Project Include -- a "group effort to accelerate diversity and inclusion solutions in the tech industry" -- has announced that it will no longer work with the Y Combinator accelerator because of its t...

Kids' author/droid builder Kurt Zimmerman created "Artoo Deco," an Art Deco take on R2-D2, capable of movement under radio control, and with an in-built sound-system that makes cool, droidish noises. ...

The Department of Justice has announced that it has arrested three Kansas men who called themselves "Crusaders" and planned "a bloodbath" in an apartment complex where many Somali people lived, which ...

Following on their earlier statement that "Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party," the Wikileaks organization has accused Ecuador of being that state party. (m...

The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club continues its reading of the Boiled Leather chapter order combining George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons with this week's episode,"Erec...

The new Star Wars film, Rogue One has released a bunch of new character posters today. You can download them here.Brand new character posters from ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY are here! Featuring Jyn ...

Last week I bought a 64GB SanDisk Cruzer Flash Drive for $15.49. Today I found out that the 128GB model is on sale for $22. Shoot....

Ceramic artist Tim Kowalczyk makes clay mugs that look like distressed cardboard. From Colossal:Kowalczyk is drawn to objects of little material value crushed tin cans, ripped up cardboard, and Polar...

This is what happens to cars that misbehave....

Followable:Cartoonist Danny Hellman did a lot of illustrations for Boing Boing when it was a zine in the 1990s. His Instagram feed reveals his fascination with European cemetery statuary (pictured abo...

Mary Forgione, a US citizen, was stopped and detained by Turkish border patrol when she attempted to reenter Turkey while on vacation. She wrote about her interesting experience for the LA Times. Take...

Rysa Walker's Chronos Files series is some of the best time travel science fiction I've read in a long time. Her new novel The Delphi Effect deals with the paranormal, and does not disappoint!The Delp...

Dylan Matthews has a wonderful piece up on Vox, Taking Trump voters concerns seriously means listening to what theyre actually saying, which points out that in order to heal the great divide in the Un...

Anarchic Adjustment was a pioneering streetwear brand and artist collective that emerged from the London punk-skate-BMX-Xerox art scene in the mid-1980s and spread like a virus when founder Nick Phili...

The Boing Boing Store features tons of headphones with a range of functionality,quality levels, and prices. Today we're featuring 2 of the best additions, fresh to the Store this week.The first set of...

This is even smaller than the compact drum kit Charlie Watts used when recording Exile on Main Street....

"You cant tell who is craziest: the refugees, the police or those women," said a local shopkeeper. He made a cross over his chest, to express his sincere Serbian bewilderment.He had just witnessed te...

For the first time in more than 125 years, the Arizona Republic endorsed a Democrat: Hillary Clinton. Some of the paper's readers responded with death threats -- and worse. Editor Mi-Ai Parrish's resp...

My skin doesnt have a single tattoo, but I am touched by the art in tattoos, particularly traditional ones. The Japanese have a long and deep affinity for skin paintings, and have devised a complex ic...

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Late yesterday, the @wikileaks account tweeted "Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans." (more…)...

German designer Marcus Blttermann created this nifty series of scalable pixel illustrations based on Greek mythology (Tantalos shown here). Drag your cursor around at his site to alter the image. (mor...

In the entry of Prince's home-turned-museum, visitors walk past a 3D-printed ceramic replica of the building they just entered. What some may not realize is that the scale replica is in fact an urn co...

Data visualization has its own Cake Wrecks or PhotoShop Disasters type site to mock bad examples of the craft. WTF Visualizations (viz.wtf) has answered the call. Perhaps a good name and shame campaig...

What could make a miserable commute worse? How about an advertising drone hovering above your car mocking those who commute alone? Uber Pool is rolling out in Mexico, and as part of their campaign, th...

https://youtu.be/jEMz_LyLlkcHis name is McBain. Judge McBain. If you're a walking protection order violation trying to intimidate your victim in court, God will not save you from the contempt citation...

Derek, 27, was set to follow in the footsteps of his dad, Stormfront creator Don Black. He had his own white nationalist website for kids, his own radio show, and gotten elected to local government in...

Withdrawn by Samsung and recalled from store shelves, the explosion-prone Galaxy Note 7 is now forbidden in the skies. The Federal Aviation Administration has officially banned it, via an emergency pr...

Marmite is a popular, exceedingly British food product spread on toast, crackers or directly onto one's tongue. It is dark, sticky, and delivers a stark "love it or hate it" kick to the tastebuds. Mar...

https://youtu.be/w6j70qBvJOA"All Trump's Words." From a series of Sassy Trump voicedubs by Peter Serafinowicz, using Donald Trump's very own words, but with an entirely new new tone....

The Sunday 'Pay What You Want' RoundupInternet of ThingsThe Internet of Things movement is one of the most exciting areas of technology, particularly because you can try it at home. ThisDIY Hardware &...

Luke Perry, best known for portraying Bevely Hills 90210's Dylan McKay, has turned 50! The AARP found this notable enough to put him on the cover of their monthly magazine!Happy birthday, Luke!...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMW_1aZXRkWe laughed so hard, we woke up the neighbors -- if you need any further enticement, look no farther than this endorsement from the pencil-neck Hitler wanna...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GnspatjPQScott Teplin, (previously) is kickstarting another giant, insanely detailed poster/coloring book, Big School, "a gigantic 6-foot-wide maniacal architectura...

My friend Daniel Martin Diaz's exquisite paintings lie at the intersection of science, art, and magic to provoke questions about technology, physics, theories of mind, and the nature of reality. He ha...

It's no secret that project management is one of the fastest growing and versatile career tracks out there today.TheComplete PMP Project Management & Certification Training Bundlewill do more than...

Crissle West slurs through the story of Stonewall from the perspective of transgender pioneers Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, portrayed by Alexandra Grey and Trace Lysette. Laugh and learn! (mor...

They're $10 for knee-highs or midcalf, 58% cotton, 40% polyester, 2% spandex. Love the design! (via The Everyday Goth)...

Despite the denials of its new CEO, Wells Fargo had a serious, widespread cultural problem that led it to commit at least 2,000,000 financial crimes. But the crimes and the culture are widespread acro...

Sequoia Capital Chairman Michael Moritz and angel investor Ron Conway have donated to San Francisco's Proposition Q: if passed, "the city would give residents of tent encampments 24 hours notice to re...

The developers behind the hotly anticipated Shadow Warrior 2 have gone on record explaining why they didn't add DRM to their new title: they themselves hate DRM, and understand that DRM disproportiona...

What do you do if your ailing internet giant has been outed for losing, and then keeping silent about, 500 million user accounts, then letting American spy agencies install a rootkit on its mail servi...

The Elfman score highlights the triggering, abuser body-language and pro-wrestler grimaces but Mahna Mahna deploys Jacob Two Two's law: "Monsters can't abide the laughter of children." Genius editin...

A global agreement to cut a heat-trapping chemical used in air conditioning units and refrigerators was announced today, with participation from over 170 nations. The deal could have a greater impact ...

Superhirocat is easily entertained. What came first? (more…)...

https://youtu.be/f38Y0i0-mHADUR KER DURRRR. (more…)...

He was a madman with an evil mind....

I guess Viacom decided Martha Stewart needed an adult to supervise her next creative endeavor. Perhaps soon they'll swap in Snoop as a far more lovable Sumner Redstone. (more…)...

Nice place!Via PBS:The discovery occurred earlier this month in the Florida Keys, where the U.S. Department of Agriculture detected the New World screwworm, a parasite that lives inside open wounds, i...

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This woman ran up to a police officer in Melbourne and pushed him over, possibly on a dare. She seemed perplexed when she was arrested shortly after....

Danny Elfman reacted to last sunday's debate by writing a soundtrack to Donald's stalking.Via Funny or Die:Heres what Danny the Elf Man Elfman had to say about the inspiration for his latest horror ...

MK Wren was the pen-name of Martha Kay Renfroe, whose novels we featured in 2014. Martha died at age 78 last August, but I've only just found out. She was 78. (more…)...

Jorge Luis Borges's short story The Library of Babel describes an infinite library containing all possible books ("its polished surfaces represent and promise the infinite ... Light is provided by som...

Beam is a lightbulb replacement that screws into any light-socket and turns it into a remote-controlled LCD projector. (more…)...

There was a time when I had a lot of multitools: it started innocently, with a classic Leatherman "pocket survival tool," which I carried everywhere, and because when you have a multitool, everything ...

Turns out that when your giant, tax-dodging global furniture enterprise pitches itself as a kind of flat-pack-on-tap public utility, it gets treated like one. (more…)...

Bawston & Tucker Solid Cologneis the best deal out there when it comes to finding a cologne that works for you. Getting a full bottle of cologne can be a big, expensive commitment, and even travel...

Our guest on the Cool Tools Show this week is Ron Hale-Evans, the open source software blog, Planeta Diego: Linux Y Software Libre, once described Ron as "writer by profession, game designer by vocati...

Jason Allemann built a neat LEGO Drawing Machine, inspired by a Spirograph and a 1950s toy called the Hoot Nanny or Magic Designer. It can create many different patterns by changing the configurat...

The New York Times' Timothy Egan writes on the stark, sudden demise of American civility under the force of millionaire Donald Trump's presidential run: "Hes made America vile. Hes got angel-voiced ch...

"A Longitudinal Measurement Study of 4chans Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effect on the Web" [PDF] is the first UN-sponsored study of one of the internet's worst places: /pol/. (more…)...

My new obsession is the Rex Factor podcast, which examines every king and queen of England from Alfred the Great to Elizabeth II in order to determine which was the greatest ruler of all time. The pod...

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Yesterday, Donald Trump denied forcing a kiss on Temple Taggart McDowell, who accused him of doing so when she was Miss Utah in 1997. (more…)...

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Yes, it's illegal, dangerous, and annoying, but Austin Augie's video on how to skitch is a real love letter to the activity. (more…)...

After maps showing the likely electoral map if only men (or women) voted, Twitter went crazy with the remixes. What if only bears voted? What if only memes voted? If only people never gonna say goodby...

"A Dogs Life, a heartwarming short film made by director Kristenn over those summer months. GOBO brought this loyal friend In vivid and realistic 3D as he humorously follows his master's exercise ro...

"Was there anybody in there?" asks someone on the boat. Not anymore!On a recent great white shark cage diving trip we experienced a very rare event, a shark breaching the side of the cage. What migh...

https://carrie-onn.tumblr.com/post/141383859787/anyone-who-tries-to-tell-you-theatre-is-easyThese are a few of my favorite things....

Calligraphers continue to explore the possibilities of portable tablets for enhancing their craft, and few are doing more than Ian Barnard. Here's his latest tutorial, turning handwritten script int...

Molly Manglewood offers a succinct but thorough verdict on Swedish Fish flavor Oreos. (more…)...

Shared by Downtown L.A. Life and Dangerous Mind, these gorgeous photos are dated around 1860 to 1901. I've collected a few of my favorites, but both sites have even more portraits on display. They're ...

James Coker and Marshall Stratton star as Eric and Donald Trump Jr. in Trump Bros. Watch the whole series here. (more…)...

In the 1990s, Hubble surprised astronomers by revealing just how packed the universe is with galaxies: they estimated some 200 billion of them based on its observations. But now we know these estimate...

An analysis of five decades of police records by The Chicago Tribune found that a small group of Chicago police officers have racked up over 100 complaints each over the course of their respective car...

On Thursday, Lou Dobbs appears to have doxxed a woman who said Donald Trump sexually assaulted her. The Fox Business Channel anchor tweeted what is believed to have been Jessica Leeds' home address an...

Melania Trump is demanding that People Magazine retract a portion of a story that claims her husband sexually assaulted a reporter. Which part of the story? Not the part about sexual assault. (more&he...

Amy Goodman, award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now, has been facing an outrageous arrest warrant in North Dakota for criminal trespass since early September. The charges are a result of h...

A blistering new Sassy Trump lipdub from Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)...

In 2012, more than two-thirds of Iceland's population ratified the most democratically crafted constitution in world history, written in public and drafted by a representative committee of 1,000 Ice...

My dog Pip turned 12 the other day and we gave her a Big Mac to celebrate, says IMGURian Amandazander1d. A+ doggo, would boop snoots again. It should go without saying, but just in case: People food i...

In just 10 minutes, John Green takes a deep dive into both candidates proposals....

Joe Sparks animation makes me smile every time....

"With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee. Those were the memorable words of inventor and bon vivant Peter Schlumbohm, praising his creation. A Chemex costs $40 on Amazon, but you can buy wh...

Its a classic problem: two turtles, one hat. Well, maybe not classic, but you get the idea. In the just-released and last book of his Hat series, Jon Klassens wit shines. Though his previous two Hat s...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump boasted of groping women. This opened the gates, and women came forward with claims of Trump groping them. The New York Times reported their allegations....

Yesterday, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf announced his "early retirement" from the scandal-haunted company, with the CEO seat being filled by former COO Tim Sloan. (more…)...

An exploitation documentary that looks at Los Angeles youth culture in the 1960s. Without mobile phones they had to amuse themselves with sex, drugs, music, surfing, and motorcycles.From the YouTube...

LudoSport is an international network for "sporting lightsaber combat" and they've just landed their first US location in San Francisco. Via the SF Chron:Light saber fighting is really a thing and h...

Here's Mel Blanc channeling Bugs Bunny, Daffy Dick, Porky Pig, Sylvester, and other Looney Tunes characters decrying the use of hard drugs....

Yesterday my daughter insisted we go to the bookstore and get the third installment in Chris Colfer's Land of Stories series. These addictive fantasy adventures have her reading rather than asking to ...

There's nothing wrong with "big noses, weak chins, and sloping foreheads" but if you want to adjust your selfies to make them less distorted, give this a try. It's based on a research project called "...

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The Clinton campaign has released a tool that compares notable events in the Democratic and Republican candidates for President lives, year over year. Someone at the Clinton campaign has a wonderful s...

Those who enjoy digital-rights-management coffee will be attracted to the $437 Flatev. It's a large kitchen appliance that makes tortillas (in a variety of flavors). Simply pop in a proprietary pod ...

Eli Bishop currently holds the Guinness World Record for most claps in a minute (1,020). And here he is clapping to music too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_4035691037&fe...

Social scientist Kate Crawford (previously) and legal scholar Ryan Calo (previously) helped organize the interdisciplinary White House AI Now summits on how AI could increase inequality, erode accoun...

Michael Weinberg writes, "After over a year of community development, the Open Source Hardware Association has released its new certification program. Hardware with the certification logo is guarante...

Ijeoma Oluos latest for The Establishment is one of the best, most empathetic pieces I have read on this election. Here's an excerpt:I would really love it if I lived in a country where bragging about...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 went to Bob Dylan "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". From the New York Times:Sara Danius, a literary scholar...

Dont mess with Emani....

From the sublime to the ridiculous, the U.S. National Archives' new curated page of GIFs on Giphy has an animated bit of US history for every occasion, like Woodsy Owl or this analog odometer from the...

A large crowd came out to watch The Broadway Bridge in Little Rock, Arkansas be demolished. Either the bridge builders were very good, or the demolition team was very bad (maybe both), because the b...

5MadMovieMakers revealed how they make their cool POV videos of Hot Wheels cars flying down tracks: a GoPro Hero affixed to Pharadox Hot Wheels Chassis. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElTUqFNhWFwImagine trying to shape a red-hot 75-pound glob of honey for 90 minutes, and you'll better appreciate watching as Davide Salvadore creates a vessel in his si...

YouTube personality Tyler Oakley sat down with Tim Kaine to quiz the Vice Presidential candidate on millennial lingo. It turns out Kaine's just as much of a nerdy dad as youd expect, right down to h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tSwJ8zesOMSadly for him, the car he honked at, screamed at, then angrily overtook had front and rear dashcams rolling. No-one gets hurt, but he's likely to lose his li...

"Jyn Erso leads a group of unlikely heroes to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empires ultimate weapon of destruction." Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hits theaters December 16....

Jason Klamm stopped my office to interview me for his Comedy on Vinyl podcast, where I talked about the first comedy album I ever loved: Allan Sherman's My Son, the Nut. (more…)...

Legendary jazz saxophonist Bhumibol Adulyadej is dead at 88 following a series of illnesses. Strongly influenced by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet and Benny Carter, Bhumibol specialized in dixieland a...

"The Beatles LEGO Yellow Submarine vs. the Sea Monster," a promo video for The Beatles Yellow Submarine set due out next month. And yes, there's a Blue Meanie included. The concept for the set came ...

Noemi writes, "After closing down Hungary's largest opposition paper (online archive included) Hungarian Prime Miniter Viktor Orban is steadily and methodically turning back the clock on 27 years of h...

Japanese joinery is a kind of practical discipline of puzzle-boxes, in which precise, clever wooden interlocks are used to made secure joints without glue or nails. (more…)...

In Five Beliefs That Propel Groups Toward Conflict, published in American Psychologist, a pair of researchers lay out the five beliefs that, when transmitted by leaders to their followers, creates a "...

The standard format for a New York Times lead obit headline goes NAME, AGE, Dies; STATEMENT OF ACCOMPLISHMENT (e.g. "Suzanne Mitchell, 73, Dies; Made Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders a Global Brand. (more&...

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh had thoughts yesterday on the problems faced by Donald Trump, whose campaign for president is falling apart after a recording emerged of him boasting about sexual...

The fantastically brief press release from the Nobel Prize hivemind says, simply, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". (more…)...

Last month, Poland's ultra-right government collaborated with the Catholic Church to progress an extreme abortion law that would have sent doctors who performed operations to save fetuses (or their mo...

Gina Miller, an "investment manager," has brought a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Brexit referendum, arguing that UK law requires a Parliamentary vote on the matter before the gover...

Following new allegations of sexual assault aimed at Donald Trump by women, the millionaire presidential candidate is threatening the New York Times for publishing them.In a "demand for retraction," T...

The month after the Brexit vote, recorded racist verbal and physical assault rose -- and even arson -- by 41% in the UK. (more…)...

The Braven 705 Bluetooth Speaker(50% off)may belightweight and minimalist, but it delivers an impressive sound quality that's rare for its size. Braven is known for creating speakers that are easy to ...

Tonight the New York Times published two women who claim to have experienced acts of sexual abuse by the Republican candidate for President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. With great speed the ...

Soylent, makers of ironic yet humorless meal-replacement slime and snack bars, are asking its consumption nodes to "discard any remaining bars in their possession" after a number of them reported "gas...

First he was flayed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, then Congress had a go, then everyone got to gnaw on the fact that he'd done some seriously criminal stuff, then it emerged that he'd been a party to t...

The New York Times reports that two women have come forward to accuse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of inappropriately touching them. When asked about the claims, he became angry and ...

Two maps published by the stats wizards at Fivethirtyeight depict likely electoral maps if only men or women voted. Women prefer Hillary Clinton; men prefer Donald Trump. In both cases, it's a landsli...

Beehive Books is kickstarting a super-deluxe book of the work of Herbert Crowley, who was kind of an early 20th Century Jim Woodring.The cartoonist, painter, illustrator, and sculptor Herbert Crowle...

https://twitter.com/politico/status/786249821988368384It's going to get much nastier than this, too. 26 days left....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPR2RTq7xIThe government of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand imposing an energy-company-backed tax on people who put solar panels on their homes. Greenpeace's petition in su...

Crystal writes, "'Dark rides' like the Spookarama at Deno's Wonder Wheel Park, those single-cart rides that take you through a haunted house full of ghosts and scares. They're prime for teenage maki...

Sens. Deb Fisher of Nebraska and John Thune of South Dakota both condemned Donald Trump's boasts of groping women and urged him to quit the race. Surprise! They've changed their minds."I plan to vote...

Niall from the online speculative fiction magazine Strange Horizons writes, "Our annual fund drive has just 6 days to run, and we still need to raise at least $3,000! Why should you, the fine readers ...

An ultra-right Russian politician aligned with Vladimir Putin says American voters should elect Donald Trump for president, or prepare for nuclear war. Vladimir Zhirinovsky likes to compare himself to...

Jarware makes cute specialized lids to convert mason jars into things like cocktail shakers, tea infusers, honey dippers, juicers, and piggy banks.[via]...

All Donald Trump's own words, newly voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. Somehow this makes it even creepier.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz0E4I_yVhEMore Sassy Trump in our archives.[video]...

These birds seem calm about sinking into grain. Some of them even fly into the pit as if they want to be buried in grain.[via]...

Aliens is one of my all-time favorite movies. A perfect mix of action, sci-fi and horror, which I would argue hasnt been replicated. Then theres Alien 3, and everything that came after it. I dont like...

I have these TaoTronics 60 Watt LED equivalent bulbs and like them a lot. At $13 for 6 (when you use code RSHKZDMQ on Amazon), it's a great deal. I prefer the Soft White (3000K) because the Daylight o...

The iKettle is advertised as the worlds first Wi-Fi kettle. Mark Rittman got one and said it took 11-hours to make a cup of tea. From The Guardian:A key problem seemed to be that Rittmans kettle didnt...

Seems Google doesn't diagnose quite folks as well as human doctors do... yet. Clearly, the doctors in this article are clinging to the hope that they'll still be relevant in a few years.Via Huff Po:Do...

https://youtu.be/ltU3ms9rt5wSamantha Bee should be championed and revered for explaining why Paul Ryan is an awful person....

I'd never heard of this genre referred to as 'LitRPG', but Awaken Online: Catharsis is a fantastic trip into MMORPG land!Things are always clear in a MMORPG, right? Kill the bats and rats to get a big...

Forty five years after Richard Nixon launched the war on drugs as a way to persecute black people, little has changed, according to a new ACLU/Human Rights Watch report.The ACLU/Human Rights Watch rep...

The Award-Winning Mac Bundlefeatures13 premium Mac apps that are designed to help you get your work done faster and smarter. This suite of apps (valued at $672) was curated to make your Mac work bette...

iamlindoro says: "I built a site that builds you custom budgets for 600 cities around the world based on your lifestyle, family, housing, and other needs."...

Behold the Tunda Cyat, one of the many delights from P5YCKONOMIXXX. NSFW.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkiXbUCs1yAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsdHRg0gDcM...

Michelle Obama is exposing Hillary Clintons secret sex life and financial dealings, Bill Clinton plans to live in Arkansas to study young interns, Prince Charles wife Camilla has branded William and K...

Joi Ito (previously) -- director of MIT Media Lab, former Creative Commons chief, investor, entrepreneur, and happy mutant -- interviewed Barack Obama for a special, Obama-edited issue of Wired. (more...

When I first heard the lovely music Leyland James Kirby creates as The Caretaker, it instantly reminded me of The Shining's ballroom ghost scenes. Turns out, that's where Kirby found his original insp...

Sweet-toothed cannibals rejoice! Yolanda Gampp's Halloween bloody buttercream and vanilla leg cake looks absolutely delicious....

The Justice League collection from Hero Within works subtle DC hero insignia (Batman, Superman, Flash, Green Lantern, Hal Jordan) into hoodies, blazers, and pea coats. Costs range from $150-$250; coat...

The Womens Reserve Camouflage Corps were a group of 40 woman artists from NYC and Philadelphia ("in perfect physical condition") who devised camouflage systems for fighters and materiel during WWI, te...

Blake Fahrenhold serves Texas's 27th Congressional District. Last night, he was asked in an interview if he would continue to support a candidate who boasted about enjoying rape. Fahrenhold said tha...

Andy at the Jerx elaborates on a great way to set up a magic trick: "the peek backstage." (more…)...

Explosive growth and change in China means many things must be built. They are not built well, writes British ex-pat James Palmer.The apartment is five years old. By Chinese standards, its far better ...

Modal VR, the new stealth startup co-founded by Atari and Chuck E. Cheese creator, has opened the doors a crack. According to Bushnell, their portable VR system is built for business applications (e...

Bernie Sanders' brother Larry is a longtime UK politician in the Green Party (I was a UK Green Party member until I emigrated to the USA last year); he's now running in a by-election triggered by Da...

From Great Big Story:America's movie and film archive is located in an underground bunker in Culpepper, Virginia. The bunker was originally a gold storage unit that doubled as a fallout shelter for ...

Superstar security researcher Dan Kaminsky (previously) wants to create a "National Institutes of Health for computer security" -- a publicly funded research institution that figures out how to preven...

The Chemical Weapons Convention has a giant loophole in that it allows for the stockpiling and use of chemical agents in law-enforcement; with the Eighth Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin ...

In a brand new series for the Webby Awards where I'm editor-at-large, I commissioned the talented comic artist Andy Warner to illustrate the wild history of the Web, from inspiring eureka moments to c...

Mark Rittman is a "BI, DW & Big Data specialist, Oracle ACE Director" who dabbles in home automation and smart appliances: he spent 11 hilarious hours locked in an epic struggle with a wifi-equipped s...

If the UK wants access to the EU markets, it's going to have to pay billions of pounds, something that the Brexit Leave campaign conveniently neglected to mention (they also conveniently neglected to ...

Looking for a way to talk to young kids about LGBTQ issues? The fantastic web series Queer Kid Stuff is here to help! Along with her teddy bear friend Teddy, host and creator Lindsay Amer breaks dow...

A popular conspiracy theory about millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump is that his campaign is really just a big advertising effort for his "brand": the Trump name he licenses out to anyone...

A popular conspiracy theory about millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump is that his campaign is really just a big advertising effort for his "brand": the Trump name he licenses out to anyone...

Ive been playing with my FEEL FLUX for weeks and its hit rate in the amazement department is 100%.Each time you drop the metal ball through the copper tube youd expect it to zip out the other end but ...

A hapless skydiver who lost his shoe shortly after jumping from the plane was able to recover it mid-air, even having time to put it back on. (more…)...

Observer writer Dana Schwartz (the person behind the account) nails the voice of a generation:https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA/status/774326049513570304https://twitter.com/GuyInYourMFA/status/6637519...

The Hagstrmer Medico-Historical Library is a treasury of the past, in particular its online Wunderkammer, where glorious high-resolution scans of old artwork and book illustrations pile up insufficien...

When William Harrison disappeared from Campden, England, in 1660, his servant offered an incredible explanation: that he and his family had murdered him. After the family was executed for the crime Ha...

The cats out of the bag: Cats are great. Bonus: Kittens are also great for stress relief.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35T8wtmTbVg...

According to Culture N Lifestyle, French designers Maxime Derrouch, Typhaine Le Goff, and Emeline Marty created this installation for the Architectures Vives Festival. It joins together modern and anc...

Rule 34 strikes again, this time in the form of a childhood memory that was apparently titillating to some: accidentally turning into a swollen blueberry. (more…)...

Geofeedia bills itself as a way for marketers to reach potential customers through geotagged "hashtag listening," but they also sell it to police departments for "predicting, analyzing and acting on s...

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Luke Cage, the series chronicling a wrongfully-convicted ex-con with superpowers, is making waves with its timely commentary on political and cultural issues. It's so good it even works well recut a...

It's been a rough couple of weeks for millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump. Despite making a fuss on Twitter by announcing that the "shackles were off" in the wake of criticism from his own...

Yesterday, I predicted that a lot of Wells Fargo whistleblowers were going to come forward, given how terribly ...

A number of climate change and indigenous land rights activists were arrested today following an attempt to shut off five major oil pipelines from Canada. (more…)...

Cybersecurity firm Symantec said today a second hacking group has been trying to rob banks with phony SWIFT messages. That same method nabbed $81 million in a high-profile attack on the central bank o...

Mirai, the clumsily written Internet of Things virus that harnessed so many devices in an attack on journalist Brian Krebs that it overloaded Akamai, has now spread to devices in either 164 or 177 cou...

After being missing for seven days, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has made contact. Her prison warders threw her into solitary for a week and didn't tell her lawyers or friends where she was. (more&he...

They're $10 for 12 at Urban Medium, whose awesome designs I've been tracking since 2004....

From Vic Berger at SuperDeluxe, a psychedelically weird edit of the already horrifyingly bizarre second presidential debate in St. Louis last Sunday, with Donald Trump stalking Hillary Clinton aroun...

Illustrator Edward Gorey at his finest with this cover for an out-of-print paperback from 1959, Nineteenth Century German Tales.Here is a PDF of the cover story, "The Black Spider," by Jeremias Gotth...

John Perry Barlow -- author of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace, Grateful Dead lyricist, Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder, character in my novels, and all-round amazing, pioneeri...

Under Section 1201 of the DMCA, a law passed in 1998, people who fix things can be sued (and even jailed!) for violating copyright law, if fixing stuff involves bypassing some kind of copyright lock; ...

IMGUrian Colo1 shared this wonderful series of images documenting a cardboard dinosaur creation. (more…)...

The Associated Press reports that McDonald's restaurants are to lay off using mascot Ronald McDonald for a while, until the current phase of "creepy clown" sightings fades. The burger chain said Tuesd...

This convenient speakerlets you stream your music or podcast straight from your smartphone while in the shower. The speaker is waterproof, so you dont have to worry about any safety issuesjust stick i...

The Elegoo UNO Project Super Starter Kit comes with a bunch of different components, including sensors, a servo motor, a stepper motor, a joystick, a breadboard, and lots more. Most of the reviewers s...

What Am I Doing Here? by Abner DeanNew York Review Comics2016, 168 pages, 7 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches$19 Buy one on AmazonIn the 1930s and 1940s, Abner Dean was a highly sought-after illustrator who drew co...

Donald Trump's favorite movie is Citizen Kane....

Frozen.Somewhere in Japan, this man is taking a very long time to cross the street.[via]...

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Esquire has rebooted the greatly missed SPY magazine from the the 1980s. It exists as a web site and will run new pieces during the 30 days running up to the election.SPY co-founder Kurt Andersen wrot...

It's hard to know who to feel less sorry for - a Silicon Valley company with a portfolio of quackery and deceit or the San Francisco hedge fund that was bamboozled into investing $96.1 million in it? ...

The Trolls is a new indie feature about plucky entrepreneurs who have their lives destroyed by patent trolls, so they patent the act of being a patent troll, and turn the tables!...

Did you catch the delightful duet after Sunday's debate?"...

From Our World in Data: "The US stands out as an outlier: the US spends far more on health than any other country, yet the life expectancy of the American population is not longer but actually shorter...

Men with the heads of dogs appear in stories going all the way back to ancient Egypt and Greece. Over at Mysterious Universe, Brent Swancer introduces us to this common character found in weird tales ...

In a CNN op-ed, President Obama outlines his plan for the United States to partner with private companies to get humans to Mars (and back!) by the 2030s. I still have the same sense of wonder about ou...

"Undercover Economist" Tim Harford (previously) has a new book out, Messy, which makes a fascinating and compelling case that we are in real danger from the seductive neatness of computers, which put ...

All nine of the top Icelandic bankers from the Kauping market manipulation case have been found guilty by the country's Supreme Court, which reversed the district court that had acquitted two of the d...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung is to withdraw the Galaxy Note 7 cellphone for good. Subject to recurring reports of fires, even after replacement, the dodgy smartphone's burned through u...

A week after the revelations that Yahoo illegally allowed American spies to access all Yahoo users' email (possibly via a dangerous rootkit), and two weeks after admitting that 500,000,000 Yahoo Mail ...

If you want to get a piece of information removed from the internet, there are few tools more powerful that a court judgment saying that it is defamatory. A judgment like that will get Google to de-in...

In this video, a man plays Abba's 1976 classic Money Money Money using one of the new 5 notes issued in the UK. They're made of plastic.The new polymer five pound notes have a rather curious ability...

Exhibit A:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNaDrnxp3L0&feature=youtu.be&t=2m12sExhibit B:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iMy0969BTw...

America paid about $16 billion to five companies last year for 80% of our contracted domestic and international surveillance: Leidos Holdings, CSRA Inc., SAIC, CACI International, and Booz Allen Hamil...

Talk about some real-life muses....

Jeb Lund writes about Trump's Vile Game of Distraction, running the wargames for what happens to his party now that he has destroyed its "beautiful dream of a permanent Christian ethnocentric oligarch...

Writing for New Republic, cultural critic Angelica Jade Bastin explains: I have been reading comics obsessively since I was about ten years old. I can probably quote from John Ostranders original Suic...

Written by and starring Jen Richards and Laura Zak, Her Story blows the lid of the stereotypical trans story. According to the shows website:Trans women in the media have long been punchlines, kille...

Photographer Matt Van der Velde traveled the U.S. to document his upcoming book Abandoned Asylums. Most of the locations featured are still in fairly pristine states because entry is restricted by the...

Maria Yablonina developed a system for wall-climbing robots to weave fibers into useful structures on vertical surfaces, like this hammock-like web that can support a human. The bots can even trade ...

Artist/Hamilton fan Risa Rodil has created a gorgeous collection of posters featuring lyrics from the musical. You can purchase them as prints, t-shirts, home dcor and more. Here are some of my favori...

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FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so mu...

As the "cool Pope" and other conservative religious leaders wage a war on "gender ideology," one of the biggest casualties may have been the peace vote to end Colombia's decades-long civil war.Trans r...

We've all been there. (more…)...

Such a bouncy shibber pupper. You need this little fella in your internet today. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Bbq9-SJ74_YDennis Hambek was a Wells Fargo branch manager. In 2005, he found Wells Fargo employees creating fake accounts in their customers' names (i...

Infowars host Alex Jones is one of Donald Trump's more obviously insane supporters. And even for Jones, this latest stunt is pretty insane. (more…)...

In this video from The Royal Institution, University of Oxford Accelerator Physicist Dr. Suzie Sheehy explains about how you go about designing a particle accelerator. (more…)...

New York-based audio artist Matt McCorkle has created an appropriately surreal remix of the second 2016 Presidential debate last night in St. Louis, MO. I can't stop listening. (more…)...

Peter Serafinowicz produces another disgraceful Donald Trump remix voicedub masterpiece. (more…)...

There is no room for objectification of women, or anyone for that matter not even in the locker room, Nancy ODell says on "Entertainment Tonight." (more…)...

Jeffery Russell's The Dungeoneers:Blackfrog Island brings back some of the funniest fantasy I've read! When you need someone to fetch a missing prize from a deep, dank, dark dungeon you call the Dunge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLsTUN1wVrc&feature=youtu.beRobbo sez, "From the 1943 Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza "The Gang's All Here" - this is Carmen Miranda singing: The Lady In The Tutt...

Today our friends Death Cab For Cutie released a new anti-Trump song, titled "Million Dollar Loan," and video directed by Simian Design. The song is the first in DCfC manager Jordan Kurland and auth...

1Voice's new Bluetooth Wirefree Earbudsare taking the concept of Bluetooth one step further. Unlike typical Bluetooth earbuds, these super small,lightweight earbuds fit snuggly in each ear, and requir...

On Saturday, my 13-year-old daughter and I spent a couple of hours sketching, which is one of our favorite activities. I was copying out of a book called Rendering in Pen and Ink, and Jane let me borr...

Vertigo has tapped Cecil Castellucci (previously) and Marley Zarcone to reboot Shade, a Steve Ditko character last rebooted as a weird 1990s comic book about a transdimensional alien shape-shifter poe...

Django/Zorro by Quentin Tarantino (author), Matt Wagner (author/artist) and artists Francesco Francavilla, Jae Lee, and Esteve Polls Dynamite Entertainment2015, 192 pages, 7.1 x 10.4 x 0.9 inches $20 ...

The amazing illustrator Drew Friedman created this art based on the back cover of John Lennon's 1971 Imagine album for the latest issue of MAD. Parody lyrics by Stan Sinberg....

Unblinking Eye, EFF's giant, deep research report (available in Spanish, English and Portuguese) on the state of surveillance law in latinamerica, reveals an alarming patchwork of overbroad powers giv...

He sings this time!...

I love the well-made "Primitive Technology" videos. In this one, the guy (I don't know his name but he live in Australia) makes a few spears and a spear thrower, using only materials he finds in the...

Nanoengineer engineers at Tsinghua University fed silkworms carbon nanotubes or graphene, both of which are approximately 100 times stronger than steel. The silkworms then spun reinforced silk that, a...

Samata Ullah from Cardiff faces six terrorism charges, including "preparation of terrorism..."by researching an encryption programme, developing an encrypted version of his blog site, and publishing t...

On March 19, 1988, Nirvana played Tacoma, Washington's Community World Theater and performed this fantastic, gritty cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising." The song first appeared...

RBS, the bank that UK taxpayers bailed out during the financial crisis, after its reckless speculation drove it to bankruptcy, ran a fake "restructuring unit" that was pitched to business customers as...

The Piper Computer Kitis an innovative kit that will not only teach you to build a computer, but help you truly understand how a computer works. You'll follow areal engineering blueprint to assemble y...

This video describes symptoms of people with narcissistic personality disorder (aka selfish jerks)....

Poor -> Stress -> Drink -> Poor -> Stress -> Stop drink -> Work -> Work -> Collect money -> Work -> Collect money -> Pay debt -> Work -> Collect money -> Get educated -> Stable life -> Help others -...

A slow motion camera captures the squishy, rubbery transformation of a golf ball hitting a steel plate at 150mph.[via]...

Stephanie Pokorny freehand crocheted this out-of-this-world E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial costume for her son Jack, age 2! The project took her four days. "He is free handed and made with no pattern," sh...

Garrett Finucane wrote a generator lets you create your own animated art in the style of the album sleeve for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. You can save your work as an animated GIF and check out ...

Number 1, of course, is the source of the Amen Break. But a surprise or two lurks in the top 10, as calculated by Who Sampled, a truly amazing website that tells you the when and where and what of s...

When it comes to the uncanny valley of video game characters, the eyes have it. Even as digital characters become increasingly (hyper)realistic, the eyes lag behind. At FastCo Design, Mark Wilson look...

The photograph rather explains itself, in terms of craftsmanship, but Christine Friar's guide to making this delightful Halloween piece is worth reading all the way throughSpooping season is here, and...

I'm glad the fellow found room for his accordion. Video titled "Bashkir team goes to work." ...

You're looking at Dorothy Studio's beautiful map of the history of alternative music, available as a poster from their website. (more…)...

Easypoem asks you a few questions, then generates a charming verse for your entertainment and that of your friends. Here's the one is made for me:stood a space houseis this thing on In the space stood...

Ventusky depicts gorgeous animated maps showing where the wind blows—and how fast it's blowing. Pictured above is Hurricane Matthew making landfall on Friday. (more…)...

"Haha look at this goat!!!" writes nevadamountains. "He is funny, and the dog doesn't care!!!" [via]...

The internet's army of enraged anime avatars has a new enemy beyond their comprehension: a Twitter bot created by writer and activist Sarah Nyberg to make fools of them. Some lose themselves to hours ...

The Samsung Galaxy should be renamed the Samsung Supernova: despite recall and replacement, the company's smartphones keep burning up in spectacular fashion. The Korean manufacturer has paused product...

By millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump's standards, the second debate was a success. Hillary Clinton was cagey and tense, leaving him free to blather on incoherently and bicker with the mo...

After the release of the now infamous Donald Trump/Billy Bush tapes, dozens of politicians tweeted their disgust with Trump's behavior on behalf of their daughters, wives, sisters, and mothers.https:/...

You know, people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child.https://www.instagram.com/p/BLRMzuxjgb_/...

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions collaborated with Kurt Vile on this lovely track "Let Me Get There." Hope's languid voice is just a gorgeous as when she started 30 years ago. (more…)...

https://nypl.tumblr.com/post/151067477133/we-love-our-new-book-train-its-helping-toThe New York Public Library shared a video of its brand new book train on Tumblr under the hashtag "library fun." Be ...

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The Westworld reboot and Elon Musk recently renewed interest in "base reality," the concept that one true reality exists, and everything else, including possibly this reality, is a simulation of some ...

Once the domain of countercultural psychonauts, LSD and mushrooms in one-tenth doses are becoming more popular among you professionals, especially in the tech industry. (more…)...

The latest video from Joss Whedons Save The Day campaign encourages American voters to take the heat off Brexit and #MakeAmericaHatedAgain....

"I want to show you something," intones Mister Rogers, showing these pikers how he's been terrifying children with his creepy clown prank since 1968. (more…)...

Researchers from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (previously) obtained a copy of the Predpol predictive policing system that police departments around America have spent a fortune on in order to ...

Long story short: start with a reliable chocolate chip cookie recipe (this one has chia!), bake and decorate with sugar pears, slivered almonds, food coloring markers (I didn't know that these were a ...

Steven writes, "The team (full disclosure: that includes me) that created the award-winning multicultural steampunk anthology 'Steampunk World' are now crowdfunding another steampunk anthology - this ...

After week of ranting at women and being heard boasting of groping them, millionaire Presidential candidate Donald Trump teeters on the precipice. For many Republicans, it's the end, and BuzzFeed's Ji...

After the #trumpwon hashtag topped the Twitter trending charts -- something Trump gleefully noted, saying it proved he'd won the initial debate with Hillary Clinton -- @DustinGiebel's claim that the t...

Muphry's Law predicts that "if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault in what you have written." (more…)...

Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Mitch McConnell reaffirmed their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, offering only milquetoast rebukes to his boasts of groping women.Ryan:I...

Chloe Eudaly, whose zine emporium Reading Frenzy (previously) and publishing makerspace the Independent Publishing Resource Center are PDX institutions, is running for Portland City Council, campaigni...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

Five Four Clubis an LA-based mens clothing brand that delivers clothes hand-picked by personal stylists, at off-the-rack prices. The idea is to make dressing well an afterthought, and that's exactly w...

On the latest Planet Money podcast (MP3), a former San Francisco Wells Fargo banker describes the bullying and coercion she faced from senior management while working at the bank's head office, and ho...

Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump apologized last night for hot-mic boasting about groping women. He did drone on, though! So I edited all the bullshit out, leaving only the sincere an...

When registered dietitians like Roseanne Rust, Sylvia Klinger, Carol Berg Sloane tweet about proposed taxes on sugary drinks and claim that these will be used to impose "stealth tax" on other food, p...

Leroy Switlick, a 67-year-old visually impaired man who has voted in every election for the last 40 years may not get to vote this year, because he lives in Wisconsin, where Republican governor Scott ...

A day after hot-mic audio emerged of millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump boasting of groping and forcing himself on women, he has promised to be "a better man." In a taped statement about ...

https://gfycat.com/OnlyKeyDobermanpinscherThere's so much Florida goodness in this footage. Vertical video Stayed to enjoy the hurricane Big tree with 6 inch deep root system Vertical video of big tre...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic discussing things he enjoys. The WaPo obtained a recording it describes as "lewd" but mostly consists of boasts of pursuing and ...

We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russias senior-most officials could have authorized these activities, said a statement today from the Obama administration ab...

Do you like the Highline park in Manhattan? There's a subterranean version coming soon. The Lowline looks like it's going to be amazing. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/Bv2uJRkeSY4"Music isn't the same nowadays. Not at all. ... The cuss words were bleeped out, but I'm not stupid."Then she breaks down in tears at the memory of Vince Staples, whose "No...

A sublime incarnation of the WoW-playing "mad gamer" from that epic South Park episode, "Make Love Not Warcraft." The man (can't find his name!) deserves all of the prizes, and I hope Blizzcon rewarde...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network writes, "Chelsea has missed three planned calls so we are worried about her and sofar we don't know why. The support network can be reached at staff@chelseamanning....

Deji from Access Now writes, "How much does it cost to shut down the internet? A new report by the Brookings Institution assesses costs during a one year period between 2015-2016 and found immense los...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943 by Peter WaltherTaschen2016, 608 pages, 5.9 x 7.9 x 1.7 inches (hardcover)$16 Buy a copy on AmazonIf you purchase a copy of ...

Next time you see Cory, ask him to show you one of his rubber band magic tricks. We've been learning them at our monthly meetup "for people who aren't good at magic." My old rubber band ball is worn o...

Marietje Schaake (previously) is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament who has a fantastic track-record for getting it right on issues related to technology, free speech, human rights, and privacy...

Dan Howland from the dearly departed Journal of Ride Theory snapped these all-the-feels tombstones at this year's Davis Graveyard (previously) haunt. (more…)...

Ealth Club or Healthh Club? It can only be one or the other.The first "H" on this sign is represented by the weights but the second is not.[via]...

In September 2014, Iranian authorities ransacked Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee's house and found an unpublished fictional story about stoning to death. She has been sentenced to five years in prison for insu...

I think rubbing them was superfluous -- they seemed to be in a hurry to away....

Ex-Yahoo employees have spoken anonymously to Motherboard about the news that Yahoo had built an "email scanner" for a US security agency, likely the FBI or the NSA. These sources -- at least one of w...

Magician Penn Jillette used to weight about 340 lbs. He was happy with his weight and the way he looked. He said he didn't even mind not having a lot of energy. But his blood pressure was dangerousl...

E.J. Brennan reported that a fax machine called his voice number. Twilio, his phone provider, provided a useful transcription of the message it left him.It's an old tweet (from 2013) but it checks out...

After a careful analysis of millionaire Republican Donald Trump's social media patterns and what precedes them, The Atlantic concludes his late-night Twitter binges follow "moments of stress or triump...

Charlie Brooker's back, and so are six of his stories: "The Twilight Zone for the digital age," as The New Yorker put it. (Previously)...

"All the way up to Jacksonville." (more…)...

There are many ways to change your IP Address from Static to Dynamic, but GFC's tutorial represents the most comprehensive-yet-easily understood method. [via]...

Tips for the wine connoisseur (or amateur) in your life....

Once again, MTV Decodeds Franchesca Ramsey makes a complicated issue easy to understand. It turns out voter impersonation is rarer than getting struck by lightning....

Cat owner Kai Nimura forgot to clean out her bathtub after using a sparkle-filled Lush intergalactic bath bomb. So her black cat Salem, who loves to roll around in the empty tub, inadvertently wound...

Typeroom looks back at ITC Benguiat, the font that so embodied its time that it's now canonical for late 1970s to early 1980s. Turns out its designer and namesake Ed Benguiat was motivated by a potent...

At Adventures in Mapping, John Nelson developed a sobering series of maps that visualize the intensity of the drought gripping much of the US: (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapmUU2d44UForget kids, plenty of adults would love to rock a bike helmet that made them look like a toy figurine. (more…)...

On its official store, the Hillary Clinton campaign sells merchandise centered on specific identities, like Latinos for Hillary, Women for Hillary, and LGBT for Hillary. And now a new independent orga...

I stumbled across this fantastic Tumblr full of traditional hand-drawn animation, and I cant get enough of it. Artist Willow S. Linda reinterprets live action and cartoon characters in her own style, ...

Photochrome is a nifty algorithm that generates a color palette based on a keyword you enter. It compiles all images in their database tagged with your keyword and averages the results into RGB and he...

Lylah, who is five, can now begin training for "American Ninja Warrior" in earnest, thanks to the DIY ingenuity of her most excellent dad. (more…)...

Zoidberg meets Admiral Ackbar. (more…)...

Hurricane Matthew looks like it may become the first major hurricane to directly hit the United States in more than 10 years. The powerful storm has killed 339 people in Haiti, according to updated fi...

Thats it?...

You know what America needs right now? A little perspective. For that, I recommend you head to your local IMAX theater and see Terrence Malicks Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience. It's a psychedelic ...

An outstanding post on the EFF's Deeplinks blog by my colleague Ernesto Falcon explains the negligent chain of events that led us into the Stingray disaster, where whole cities are being blanketed in ...

Our Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia shares this wonderful video his team created for Vanity Fair. (more…)...

Jeremy Shafer shows how to make flexible finger rings that look like reptilian claws by allowing joint movement. He also shows a handy way to maximize the number of squares you can make out of stand...

Design student Sugko at Sejong University used a CymaScope to visualize bird songs, with beautiful results. (more…)...

Dino Everett of USC's Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive shows off a nifty little gadget: a working 3mm movie camera developed by Eric Berndt in 1960 for NASA's Mercury missions. (more…)...

Andrew Saladino of The Royal Ocean Film Society put together a terrific overview of Saul Bass and his contributions to title design, made especially great by relying on footage of Bass himself descr...

https://vimeo.com/54762523I'm the "Honourary Steward" for this year's Shuttleworth Fellowship, this being a valuable and prestigious prize given to people who are undertaking to make the world a bet...

This could be the beginning of a great "found footage" style zombie movie....

Walking passed a Church and seeing this board outsideForgiveness is swallowing when you want to spit.That's the sign that Reverend Bob Marshall placed outside his church in Buckley, North Wales.When I...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Longest Day of the Future by Lucas VarelaFantagraphics2016, 112 pages, 7.8 x 10.5 x 0.6 inches (hardcover)$25 Buy a copy on AmazonOn this Earth-like planet,...

Jon Ronson is my favorite author of book about charismatic charlatans, dangerous lunatics, and interesting weirdos. So I am eager to read his brand new Kindle Single, The Elephant in the Room: A Journ...

For half a century Los Angeles's Stoughton Printing Company has been considered one of the highest-quality printers of vinyl record packaging in the world, manufacturing album art for the likes of The...

In northwest China, archaeologists dug up an ancient corpse in a burial shroud of cannabis plants. The fellow was buried approximately 2,400 to 2,800 years ago. Archaeologist Hongen Jiang and colleagu...

It becomes an argument at the moment you can't let go. In this politically divisive climate we all have our opinions and ideological stances. And that includes our loved ones. But what if we strong...

While "design thinking" has become an overused catchphrase among consultants, it is also a real thing, a formal methodology for solving difficult problems. Bill Burnett, the executive director of St...

The Economic Innovation Group and Ernst and Young surveyed 1200 millennials and found that, basically, everything sucks. (more…)...

Submissions open on Oct 12 for at least three months; they're considering 20,000-40,000 novellas "that fit the epic fantasy, sword and sorcery, high fantasy, or quest fantasy genres, whether set on Ea...

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I get a couple of calls a week from scammers pretending to be from the IRS. I also get calls from scammers telling me that my Windows computer (I don't use Windows) has a virus. I might not get as m...

Three students are taking Valencia College in Orlando because the institution required them to perform transvaginal (penetrative) ultrasound exams on each other.From Washington Post:The probe is also ...

Today marks the launch of Spill Zone, a graphic novel from Uglies creator Scott Westerfeld (previously) and Alex Puvilland: the tale of a brave photographer who ventures into strange, uncanny lands cr...

The more we learn about the Chicago Police Department, the worse it gets -- there's the sabotage of dashcams, the widespread corruption, the investigators fired for refusing to cover up police crimes,...

After leading the Brexit campaign, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage walked away from the mess and left a leadership void in the party that MEP Steven Woolfe was tipped to fill. (more…)...

She was less than thrilled by her Broadway debut. Good thing its now just a distant Memory....

Last year, Benjamin Mackey designed an inspired collection of digital Twin Peaks Tarot cards. Now, Mackey is making the deck real through an Indiegogo campaign! From the project description:The Magici...

My multitalented friend Kate Harmer and her colleagues at Hum Creative generously built an online resume for Donald Trump. It's funny because it's true. (And it's also not funny because it's true.) Hi...

Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood) delivers another Radiohead video from their latest album Moon Shaped Pool. Once again, it stars Jonny, Thom, and the Roland CR-78 drum machi...

The Apple 10-Ft MFi-Certified Lightning Cable: 3 Packis designed tocover all your charging bases for a fraction of the price. With three cables,you can keep a cable at work, one in the car, and one wh...

The 1981 Radioshack computer catalog is beautifully illustrated, but everything in it is complete TRS....

I've just sent Megan McArcle's article, "Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators," to my Kindle. Tell me if it's any good, I'm going to check it out later.Most writers were the kids who easily, almo...

Nerdy best friend Barb immediately became a Stranger Things fan favorite, even though [SPOILER ALERT] she bites the dust pretty early into the season. And since Barb will no doubt be a hugely popular ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGAoFc4Vmt4&feature=youtu.beIt's not a great idea to wear borrowed/inherited/ebayed biker vests. But it seems an even worse idea to film yourself threatening a kid in p...

This helpful video from Como Pronunciar tackles this surprisingly difficult word. You might think you're saying it right—prepare to be surprised! (more…)...

If you start practicing now, you might be ready to debut Desi Perkins' creepy melting skull makeup for Halloween. (more…)...

CBS News's Betty Yu reports that San Jose's Westfield Valley Fair mall is being sued after one of its guards, Francis Lancaster-Abraham Fielding, pulled a gun on a driver who knocked over a traffic ...

@marcoterenzi's Instragram of tiny handmade tools is a joy to browse. He sells his tools, too!(Thanks, Daniel!)...

Give that the Broadway sensation Hamilton is all about celebrating American democracy, it makes sense that the cast would be pretty dedicated to the idea of voting. And in a series of delightful PSAs ...

But they can't hurt! Pins Won't Save The World was just launched to let designers create pins for this year's crazy election. While most designs are anti-Trump, some are pro-Hillary or generally pro-A...

Comics artist Robot Hugs is a pro when it comes to boiling down complex social issues into easy to understand comics. And in this particular comic, they delve into the thorny issue of tone policing. [...

DCA has been presenting their concept for Optic, an AR bike helmet at conferences and competitions this year. It includes cameras, sensors, and a clear visor that displays alerts about obstacles, di...

Chance The Rapper meets Chance The Wrapper. Its hard to imagine anything more adorable....

If you grew up in certain areas of the country, you may have been subjected to a lot of education about the dangers of blasting caps, like this PSA by The Institute Of Makers Of Explosives. (more&h...

In Louisville, KY today, a Southwest Airlines plane that had not yet left the ground was evacuated on the runway, after one passengers Samsung smartphone caught fire. No injuries were reported. (more&...

Ferrofluid is so awesome. (more…)...

The latest news - from decades past - seems to be the theme of this weeks tabloids.Trumps Tax Returns Revealed screams the 'National Enquirer' cover, promising that Hillarys ugly smear campaign fa...

Todd writes, "We the Builders brings together 3D printer operators from all over the world to create sculptures that inspire makers. Our sculptures have toured maker-related events of all sizes around...

A family of happy Spanish Mastiffs. (more…)...

Day 15, they still haven't figured out I am a dog. (more…)...

Welp, this does not sound good. Cooperation between the United States and Russia hit a serious new snag today when the government of Donald Trump's personal hero Vladimir Putin put the brakes on an ag...

With so many recent reports of hacks, software theft, and cloud-based security breaches, this "physical world" espionage case seems all the more mysterious. (more…)...

"Is this a real thing? Or, an early April Fools?" asks long time friend of Boing Boing, Kent K. Barnes of the Microbot Push. These Rube Goldberg-ian wireless button-pushers look amazingly handy for ...

Adam from Bold Progressives writes, "For the first time, questions from the internet will asked to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at a presidential 'town hall' debate this Sunday. Even better, the w...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydXVl0eBaYDocumentary maker James H. Carter II is seeking about $4,000 to complete work on "Foolish Mortals," a documentary about Haunted Mansion fandom that include...

These folks don't seem the least bit flustered with this guillotine train door....

Video of Mike Pence denying Trump sayid any of the horrible, racist, stupid, uninformed and generally embarrassing things he spouts all day long, matched with Trump saying the stuff. (more…)...

There are geniuses in almost every creative field. In the world of magic and magicians, there is Lubor Fiedler. While many magicians create tricks, Lubor did something much more difficult: he create...

Chris Nicholls of the Camera StoreTV demonstrates what to do if you are lost in the woods with only your camera gear.Tying flies is boring.(h/t PetaPixel)...

On Sunday October 2, the Muppets arrived at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World to star in a new show, Great Moments in American History. As expressed by Samuel Johnson in another context in 1777, ...

Halloween is here and it was time for some new face paint. These crayons are very easy to use.A bit less exact than a brush, these crayons are a fast and simple way to put paint on whomever is your ca...

In 1971 a mysterious man hijacked an airliner in Portland, Oregon, demanding $200,000 and four parachutes. He bailed out somewhere over southwestern Washington and has never been seen again. In this w...

Sam says, "Jack has discovered that by playing dead he can scare the shit out of Archie."...

A Reddit user says, "My English teacher has this posted outside her office."...

Sea MonsterThis is a photo of a prehistoric-looking predatory fish called a Longnose Lancetfish, taken by @skipperrutts. According to Wikipedia, "Very little is known about their biology, though they ...

Sometime over the last few weeks, the FBI made a secret arrest of a Maryland man who worked as a Booz Allen Hamilton contractor for the National Security Agency. (more…)...

This fellow has learned to write the word MINIMUM on a computer running a frequency application. Bonus: watch the video with closed captions enabled....

If you've felt intimidated by Raspberry Pi andArduino - we get that. That's why we're excitedto sharethe SAM Inventor Kit, an incredibly simpleDIY kit that was made a reality by over 800 Kickstarter b...

In this entrancing video Olga Podluzhnaya Uutai from the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic of Russia howls like a wold, warbles like a bird, whinnies like a horse, chirps like a monkey, and plays a jaw harp....

No office sounds busy without a dot matrix printer ripping in the background.Also: The HALO theme on 8 floppy disk drives....

The old Canadian Conservative government of Stephen Harper had many controversial policies (cough climate denial cough), with mass surveillance powers very near the top of the charts. (more…)...

This magnetic phone mount is $4 on Amazon when you use code MHE52LAQ. It's usually $9, but occasionally the price drops to $4.I started using a magnetic phone mount for my car over a year ago, and I t...

"My husband freaking out over a potential road rage fight," writes Em Spiers....

John McAfee observed something unusual running on a fridge at the local Home Depot: porn.https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/782724362034118656Previously....

Cheap Novelties: The Pleasures of Urban Decay by Ben KatchorDrawn and Quarterly2016, 112 pages, 8.8 x 10.9 x 0.7 inches (hardcover)$23 Buy a copy on AmazonLike a lot of bourgeois bohemians in the 1990...

Author Sean Williams writes, "Last weekend I was MC of a small con in Canberra, Conflux 12. To keep people limber, psychically as well as physically, I devised a form Sci-fi form of Tai Chi, which G...

Doges are done; sneks are so September. What's next? @Hay_Man's Peasant Memes! (more…)...

Runestone's Interactive Python project has adapted 2012's classic How to Think Like a Computer Scientist textbook, updating it to cover recent programming advances, and creating a fully interactive ve...

A week after his dreadful debate performance with Hillary Clinton, polls have headed south for Donald Trump.Clinton is currently a 72 percent favorite in our polls-only forecast, up from 55 percent ju...

Vancouver has been wracked by a white-hot property bubble driven primarily by offshore speculators, mostly Chinese, who have driven up the price of housing beyond the means of working Vancouverites, ...

Mass protests in Poland and across the world have led Poland's far-right government to drop its Vatican-pleasing total ban on abortion, which was so sloppily overbroad that it potentially criminalized...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so mu...

September is a new website launched by left-wing groups in Ukraine, Belarus, and other former Soviet states, devoted to finding common cause among activists across the region (the name is a bit of an ...

Kody Keplinger's young-adult book, Run, has a queer character in it. In its review, the trade publication Voices of Youth Advocates (Voya) suggested this was inappropriate for younger readers: The sto...

The Trumpettes explain why Donald Trump is well-suited to be president of the United States....

Here's U-Haul's video of a model car towing a trailer, and how too much weight in the back of the trailer can cause out-of-control wobbling.Here's a full-size trailer crash:https://youtu.be/klwaZrDk...

Christopher Jobson of Colossal says, "This quick video demonstrates how to use a long elastic string anchored at the horizon of a canvas to sketch a drawing with two point perspective. "...

Author Clive Thompson once wrote an essay about the experience of reading War and Peace on his iPhone. On his blog, he writes about how Sarah Boxer read Prousts la recherche du temps perdu, all 1.2-m...

Complaints against police dropped by 93% when they were wearing body cameras, according to a University of Cambridge study that examined 2,000 officers in the US and UK. (more…)...

As part of CrashCourses philosophy unit, Hank Green asks, Is it possible to make true assertions about things that arent real? Turns out the answer is pretty complicated....

YouTuber Tommy Edisonwho aims to highlight the funny side of being blind"takes us through the experience of finding and reading braille signs in public places....

The first teaser trailer for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events features Patrick Warburton as Lemony Snicket himself. All eight episodes of the highly anticipated upcoming series drop o...

Using four of the American covers as her inspiration, artist Lena of Illustory has created these portraits that perfectly capture the essence of each Hogwarts house.You can purchase prints over at Red...

The folks at Sneaky Zebra are back at it again with another sleek celebration of cosplay. This one was filmed at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia....

Yahoo email accounts were scanned by the company on behalf of U.S. intelligence services from last year. This represents the first example of a U.S. service provider providing complete access to "al...

In 2015, Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer ordered the company's engineers to build a tool that scanned Yahoo Mail messages in realtime for "characters" of interest to a US security agency, either the FBI or th...

The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club reading of the Boiled Leather chapter order combining George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons continues with this week's "Captain Davos: C...

Sara writes, "This new report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University explores the current state of technology criticism and argues to recognize a wider range of contributors...

Cards Against Humanity raised funds to create a Super-PAC devoted to "driving Trump nuts." (more…)...

Though Twitter brings in a hell of a lot of money, it's not enough to satisfy the company's investors, who are said to be contemplating a sale to Google or Salesforce; in The Guardian, Nathan Schneide...

Rapid7 security researcher Jay Radcliffe (previously) has Type I diabetes, and has taken a personal interest in rooting out vulnerabilities in the networked, wireless-equipped blood-sugar monitors and...

Following the release of the sourcecode for the Mirai botnet, which was used to harness DVRs, surveillance cameras and other Internet of Things things into one of the most powerful denial-of-service a...

In 1978, California ballot initiative Proposition 13 capped property taxes at 1% of assessed value and increases at 2% per year, creating a massive hole in the ability of cities to fund their operatio...

Boing Boing is sponsored in part by Meh.Our sponsor Meh is a daily deals site that deals in a wide range of gadgets, gizmos, geegaws, widgets, stuff, gear, goods, and, of course, things. Recently, the...

Twice, Sacramento police Randy Lozoya and John Tennis tried to run down Joseph Mann with their cruiser, saying "Fuck this guy. Im going to hit him" and "OK, go for it. Go for it," before shooting hi...

Though Wells Fargo had been pressuring its employees to commit fraud since 1998, firing those who couldn't make quota, as well as the whistleblowers who came forward to report the fraud, it wasn't unt...

Sales of Manhattan co-ops and condos have plunged 20% in Q316, relative to the same quarter last year -- sales in excess of asking price dropped from 35% to 17%; days on market before sale increased f...

Understanding advanced mathematics can change how you see the world, so prepare for an eye-opening journey into the world of fixed points, courtesy of Michael at Vsauce. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre by Paul GambinoLaurence King Publishing2016, 160 pages, 7 x 9.8 x 1 inches (hardcover)$22 Buy a ...

Super hero junior college? Drew Hayes has another fantastic series in Super Powereds, adding his humor and irony to the genre!Landers is pretty much your average college, except they have a special co...

Trump hit on something Joe Biden takes very, very seriously....

In 2010, three psychologists published a paper on "power poses", with their finding that people who adopted "power poses" -- think of superheroes on skyscrapers -- felt more powerful and took more ris...

Following complaints and a scathing expos by Review Meta (previously) Amazon announced it will now ban incentivized reviews, a form of shill review written in exchange for free or reduced-cost product...

Bright Sun Films' Abandoned series looks at Circuit City's steady rise and dizzying fall in the world of retail consumer electronics. (more…)...

Red Dwarf never gets old! Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat are back! I just watched season eleven's kick-off episode, Twentica. Reminiscent of Star Trek's famous The City on the Edge of Forever, t...

German prosecutors have dropped an investigation into comedian Jan Boehmermann over a ribald poem he wrote about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reports the BBC.Boehmermann's televised perform...

Science fiction writer/hacker/mathematician Rudy Rucker (previously, a Gold Star Happy Mutant if ever there was one, has reissued five of his classic titles with new forematter and his own paintings o...

Here's the trailer for Louis Theroux's upcoming documentary, My Scientology Movie.Inspired by the Churchs use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization Theroux uses actors t...

SPINNING!The very earliest memory I have is riding my Big Wheel over a ledge and into a small, landscaped stream for an epic wipe out! My mom saved me. Thanks, Mom!Big Wheels are totally cool! No wo...

A steamroller going over a golf ballLess than I expected!...

Meme factory/Anonymous birthplace/alt-right breeding ground 4chan is facing challenges similar to those plaguing all ad-supported sites, but as with all things channish, 4chan's problems have their ow...

If it seems rough that the New York Times would publish an op-ed so plainly holding Twitter responsible for publishing hate speech, remember that it's 2016 and the gloves are off.It warns users they m...

Take care when asking provocative questions at Kansas City's library events: you might end up in jail.The executive director of Kansas City Libraries says he's outraged by the charges against Jeremy R...

Musician and comedian Mike Phirman performs Trust In Me from The Jungle Book using only his hands to create Kaa. Heres the original for comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZY8jUuEzJQ[via La...

In a new video for Soul Pancake, YouTuber So Sonia reflects on the experience of growing up without losing her inner child....

They are by no means the first in the tiny food video genre, but Tiny Kitchen has certainly upped the production values enough to earn a 2016 Streamy Award for fun vids like these Tiny S'mores. (mor...

Bet you didnt see that one coming....

"We are making the plot! Whatever we say is necessary is necessary."...

As Boing Boing has written about before, tiny food is all the rage on the Internet. And the YouTube channel Walking With Giants lovingly crafts mini meals with a truly impressive level of detail. I ...

With help from his cats Shorty and Kodi, Rob Moore of the Sho Ko Show examines all the special skills cats bring to the table.[via Laughing Squid]...

https://youtu.be/0XdC1HUp-rUHere's a da Vinci Surgical System robot performing a delicate operation on a grape....

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The Pax 2 is acompact, high-tech vaporizer that offersa slew of features including versatileheat settings, an upgraded interface, and a system that heats upin less than a minute. Its mouthpiece doesn'...

Get the Recomendo weekly newsletter a week early by email.Backing:I just backed the Kickstarter campaign for a replica of the Voyager golden record sent into space that contained the music of Earth fo...

Sometimes, the color schemes, the cuts and the fabric all line up -- this is one of those times. $100 from Thinkgeek, nylon shell, S-XXL. (more…)...

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When Donald Trump does give money it is for an evil cause. As Donald Trump's personal foundation looks more and more like a slush fund, we find out that one of the charities he supports is the Anti-Va...

Directed by David Dutton, music by Henry Dutton. (8-Bit Cinema)...

Only three days after EFF's open letter to HP over the company's deployment of a stealth "security update" that caused its printers to reject third-party cartridges, the company issued an apology prom...

I've been going nuts with my $22 deep fryer. The thing I don't like is having to replace the coconut oil I use. It starts to get expensive. But here is an interesting article at Serious Eats about how...

Following news reports showed that Donald J. Trump's nonprofit foundation did not have the proper paperwork to raise donations, the office of New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today issue...

This is an experiment to see what part of a blank square people will click. After you do it, you can see the heat map of all the clicks. (The image here is just a detail and hopefully won't influence ...

This song was written by popular vote on which note should follow the previous voted upon note. Now that the melody is complete, CrowdSound is asking the crowd to vote on the lyrics, one word at a tim...

This amazing cake was created by Kathy Knaus.(via Crazy Abalone) (more…)...

Enter a URL into URLify.io and it will give a "shady" URL that takes you to the same place. Here's the URL for boingboing.net: https://6h2.xyz/necro_gxxcz_cheap-krokodil_glkz_isis-dark-net_downloadIt ...

Congress has overridden Obama's repeated veto for the "Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act," which allows US citizens to sue the Saudi government over its alleged complicity in the 9/11 attacks ...

I remember, as a child, actively wanting to eat! Inexplicably, one of the things I really loved was the Swanson TV Dinner!During World War II the United States needed a quick and tasty meal that worke...

Janek runs an online guide to Prague. In this video, he stood in front of an infamous tourist trap exchange bureau in Prague all day and warned people who walked in to go down the street to a legit ...

Keyboard Maestro isMacworld Editors Choice winning productivity software for good reason.The original and main feature is its macro workflow. You can set up macros to do basically anything. Do you use...

Poland's ultra-right government has passed an insane, incoherent ban on abortion that is so badly drafted that it potentially criminalizes miscarriage and surgeries to save the lives of fetuses. (more...

Maciej Cegowski's (previously) speech at the Library of Congress, "Deep-Fried Data," describes the way that data begs to be analyzed and how machine learning is like a deep-fat fryer -- a fryer make...

Lufti al-Arabi, a Tunisian man who was arrested in Pakistan while studying at university, spent 13 years in the CIA's notorious "Salt Pit" prison (AKA "Detention Site COBALT") in Afghanistan, enduri...

Tor will collect Jo Walton's excellent series of essays on the winners and nominees of the past Hugos in a book called An Informal History of the Hugos coming in July 2017. (more…)...

Work, today's XKCD installment, hypothesizes the latent, invisible human effort that went into the everyday things around us, from the hours of meeting-time to decide upon the length of the stem of a ...

Novelist Norman Ohler became fascinated with the Third Reich's reliance on opiods and methamphetamines when DJ Alexander Kramer mentioned it to him in passing; he set out to write a novel, but in Blit...

"Glitch in matrix at my local coffee shop today," posted by oldmontgomeryflange at /r/pics....

MIT researchers developed a method to 3D print robots with soft, shock-absorbing materials that can be "programmed" to desired elasticity to protect bouncing bots, drones making hard landings, and e...

The pro-Brexit narrative insisted that the UK was one of Europe's greatest, most vibrant economies, and that, unshackled from European regulation, the country would be able to soar to the heights it d...

It's officially a suspension, but it lasts the rest of his term: Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was removed from office for gross misconduct Friday for abusing his office to try and block same-sex ma...

Craig Froehle tracks the odd convolutions of his famous illustration of how conservatives and liberals view the notion of equality. It's been simplified, expanded, twisted, tucked in and turned inside...

Over the last year, my colleagues at Institute for the Future's Workable Futures Initiative conducted ethnographic interviews with more than 30 people across the country who use on-demand work platfor...

It's quite surreal and feels rather retro-futuristic. "1st FAI World Indoor Skydiving Championship - Silver Medallists - Czech Team "MAD RAVENS" (FAI Parachuting)...

UK retailer Carphone Warehouse broke Google's embargo on its much-awaited Pixel Phone, revealing it a day early.Both devices will be powered by a Snapdragon 821 CPU clocked at 2.15GHz, with 4GB of RAM...

Curious British Telly has done the work, finally, to assemble the penultimate collection of 1980s fashion errors and exaltations: 22 of the Most Hideous Jumpers on British TV in the 80s. Noel Edmonds ...

This is apparently the work of writer David Gerrold, of "The Trouble With Tribbles" fame. Brilliant!...

I have just met you, and I love you. [via DeviousBSTRD on Reddit]...

KC Green of Gunshow Comics offers a heartbreaking crustacean love story: (more…)...

17-year-old Chou Tzuyu Tzu-yu of the Korean pop group Twice tried her hand at archery on Koreas Idol Star Athletics Championships. And she wound up gracing us with the most badass hair flip ever. May ...

Percy Street is one of those irregular side streets found in older American neighborhoods like South Philadelphia. Cramped and dark, it became a favorite haunt of ne'er-do-wells until the installati...

Daisy Edmonds had enough of gendered clothes at her local Tesco, so she took matters into her own hands in the best way after a mini-rant. She moved some shirts that said "Hero" among clothes intend...

Hubris, man, gets you every time....

Since the average user spends over 40 minutes on YouTube each session, this handy refresher course may manage your experience for the better. Vlogbrothers come to the rescue with this handy video th...

Here's an amusing piece of "editorial code" at Hillary Clinton's campaign site: "Weve developed a formula to calculate how much you would pay in taxes if you paid the same as Donald Trump."...

The Grid Kit makes a range of DIY toys that you punch out of precut cardboard sheets, glue-gun and assemble; the finished toys have working joints and can be painted or left plain. (more…)...

Last month, Senator Elizabeth Warren published an open letter to FBI director James Comey observing that, in revealing details of its investigation into the Clinton email scandal, the Bureau had seemi...

A closed-door unveiling of the forthcoming Google Home smart speaker platform included the nakedly anticompetitive news that vendors whose products support Amazon's Echo will be blocked from integra...

The L.A. Times reports that L.A. County Judge Edmund W. Clarke Jr. was admonished after abusive remarks to prospective jurors in a 2014 murder trial. His "misconduct demonstrates a pattern of discourt...

The New York Times obtained Donald Trump's 1995 tax records. These records show that Trump declared a $916 million loss that year, and because the sum was so substantial, it could have allowed him to...

The Commercial Finance Association, a financial services group, hired former New York mayor and noted windbag Rudy Giuliani to do a speech for them. During this speech, Giuliani made racist remarks ab...

In 2014, the US Office of Personnel Management was hacked (presumably by Chinese spies), and leaked 22,000,000+ records of Americans who'd applied for security clearance, handing over the most intimat...

Evidently on sale at an Oktoberfest someplace. Unattractive at any price. Via Imgur.I've always had a weird thing for women in a dirndl. Kinda the costume of the oppressor, I guess....

Wells Fargo made a habit of firing employees who didn't make unrealistic sales targets, turning a blind eye to the fraud they had to commit in order to keep their jobs (and firing the whistleblowers w...

The internet is reeling under the onslaught of unprecedented denial-of-service attacks, the sort we normally associate with powerful adversaries like international criminal syndicates and major govern...

Amazon'sAudibleis hands-down the most popular place to find audiobooks. With its library of over 180,000 books, Audible has the biggest audiobook selection in the world, and a membership gets you a fr...

GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump made a grotesque little cameo appearance in a Playboy softcore porn video released back in 2000. Do not worry, the appearance was very brief and he kept his cloth...

Kurt Eichenwald writes today in Newsweek: The response of Donald Trump and his staff on September 29 to the revelation that one of his companies illegally violated the Cuban trade embargo during Fidel...

Topps has released a 2016 Presidential campaign themed "Garbage Pail Kids" edition. They're updating the series pretty quickly! There's already a Donald Trump vs. Alicia Machado card. (more…)...

This video depicts a man in the Dijon Apple store smashing up phones and laptops with a metal ball. Everyone just lets him get on with it, presumably for legal reasons or corporate policy. By the ti...

California police departments' license to steal cash from innocent people has been restricted, thanks to a new bill signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown. Let's hope the federal government follows...

Arizona State University's Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative held a short story contest to write "climate fiction," judged by Kim Stanley Robinson and others; now the best stories have been c...

It's time for me to get a new wallet. I just ordered this "minimalist leather slim front pocket wallet" for $5.59 (using coupon code 5TEE8S7P on Amazon). I don't know when the code will expire. I'll g...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story by Peter BaggeDrawn and Quarterly2013, 104 pages, 6.8 x 9.1 x 0.7 inches (hardcover)$15 Buy a copy on AmazonWhen I think ...

A YouTuber who goes my the moniker De Facto has instructions for building a gyroscopic wheel using a little DC motor, a 9V battery, a CD, a hard disk platter, some cork, and a dab of hot glue. Nifty...

Watch what happens when this gentleman throws a carbonated beverage bottle on the concrete.Wait for it...See also:https://youtu.be/qQK00RM3JsI...

What happens when you grow a pumpkin inside a plastic mold,shared by IMGURian "WuTangClams." (more…)...

Meet Ghost Robotics' adorable Minitaur quadruped robot. Here's an excerpt from IEEE Spectrum's interview with Avik De and Gavin Kenneally, who are on the development team at Professor Dan Koditschek...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

JWZ has discovered the greatest Google Image search. (more…)...

Thinkgeek's $40 R2D2 French press coffee-pot starts shipping in early November, in time for Xmas delivery. Holds 32oz, BPA-free, and the carafe is dishwasher safe. (more…)...

It's been thirteen years since we started writing here about the shenanigans of the electronic voting machine industry, who were given a gift when, after the contested 2000 elections, Congress and the...

The winner-take-all economy has turned virtually every industry into a cartel (four record labels, two cable companies, two phone operating systems, etc) who operate without fear of competition regula...

Besides stealing money from customers by creating fake accounts and then charging them fees, Wells Fargo is in trouble for repossessing 413 cars owned by US military service members. The bank did so w...

Machinist/sculptor Christ Bathgate (previously) can't keep up with demand for his latest "pocket sculpture," a kinetic piece that's designed to be soothing to fidget with. (more…)...

In July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Dr Matthew Green, a Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute Assistant Professor of Computer Science; now the US go...

On a Sunbeam is a science fiction webcomic from competitive figure skater/comics creator Tillie Walden. Next year, Firstsecond will publish a memoir about her 12 years as a skater; if On a Sunbeam is ...

Before Pepe the Frog was a hate symbol used to promote white supremacists and Donald Trump, he was a sweet webcomics character in Matt Furie's gently weird webcomic Boy's Club. (more…)...

"Odnarotoop" is Portland spelled backwards with Japanese pronunciation. It's also the name of this Terry Gilliam-esque video with a catchy song.Here's the English translation of the lyrics:These are...

Following on last year's successful campaign to produce a giant anthology of Hugo Award-nominated short fiction, David Steffen is once again raising funds for a second volume. (more…)...

Officer Jeff Thompson of the Little Rock Police Department arrested Arkansas state Representative John Walker for recording their treatment of a black man who had been put in handcuffs during a traffi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtALjfYav0kLancashire Council is shutting down five of its museums, including Burnley's Queen Street Mill Museum, widely known for its appearances in the King's Speec...

Nick Bilton's analysis of his Theranos expos shows how bad actors like Elizabeth Holmes can misuse employees and government regulators, but he is especially critical of access journalism practiced in ...

It's got a catchy beat, I could dance to it! (And Peggy!) (more…)...

YouTuber SolarColorDust likes to coat things in thermochromic dust (the kind in mood rings and some thermometers). Here's a stormtrooper helmet. (more…)...

An investigation by the Associated Press found 675 police officers were jailed or disciplined for misusing police databases from 2013 to 2015, and that's just the ones who were caught.Sadie Gurman a...

The Ghost Minitaur is the latest iteration of terrifyingly cute agile legged robots. I for one welcome our doglike robot overlords. (more…)...

Los Angeles is a car town, so it's controversial to promote "road diets," a form of roadway reconfiguration intended to slow cars and reduce collisions, especially with cyclists and pedestrians. Scien...

Here's the last image from Europe's space probe Rosetta, taken 50m from the surface of 67P. (more…)...

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#1. A-Audio Legacy Noise Cancelling Headphones with 3-Stage Technology The A-Audio Legacy Headphones are the Boing Boing Store's best seller this month, and its easy to see why. With 40mm drivers...