Articles by BoingBoing from December 2016

Biomimicry in robotics has led to robots that can climb, fly, and swim better. Now researchers have developed hair-like filaments for robots that allow them to have more fine-grained senses of touch...

Andr Roubo's series on carpentry called L'Art du Menuisier mentions a polissior, a small device made of broom straw for polishing wood. In the two centuries since Roubo's book, the device had faded ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWddXUCBsYDuge Beipanjiang Bridge crosses a gorge 565 meters above China's Nizhu River. That's a bigger height than One World Trade Center, and beats the previous reco...

Tens of thousands of fish, starfish, scallops, crabs, lobsters, and other ocean life washed up dead this week at Savory Park on the western coast of Nova Scotia. The cause of the massive fish death i...

Since I last presented a year-end videogame wrap-up for Boing Boing readers, it's become an exponentially harder task. The number of games released per day has - even just since 2014! - risen a few ti...

Cardistry wizard Zach Mueller works his magic on the Santa Monica Pier. Special guest appearance by cardist CJ Ocampo. ...

In May 1984, George Michael and Morrissey, promoting respectively Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and The Smiths' "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," appeared on the BBC program Eight Days A Week. They dis...

Eric Schlosser's book and film Command and Control look at the terrifying prospects of nuclear friendly fire, where one of America's nukes detonates on US soil. It also looks at what might happen if...

SabbaticalHomes.com is like Airbnb for academics looking to rent their homes during sabbaticals. Sounds genteel, but many states allow long-term guests to establish tenancy, often after 30 days. Mothe...

Hot water on a ring of Skittles! (via The Kid Should See This)...

Robert Hulseman, creator of the iconic Red Solo Cup seen at frat parties, sizzurp celebrations, and Midwestern family reunions everywhere, has died at age 84. Hulseman, with friend Jack Clements, foll...

The world's oldest male panda, Pan Pan, has died in China. Pan Pan, 31, was diagnosed with cancer six months ago, having lived almost all his life in captivity. He was captured in Sichuan as a six-mo...

In the 1860s, illustrator and idiot Leopold Trouvelot deliberately brought gypsy moths from France to America. Some outsmarted him and escaped, and they now cause hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

Pete Warden reports in from the ARM Research Summit, where James Myers presented on "energy harvesting" by microscopic computers -- that is, using glints of sunlight and the jostling of motion from b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73kd6wsBq0In the ingenious world of consumer electronics, we often have the thought "why didn't anyone think of that?" The Creative Prodikeys instead leads to the thou...

This extremely informative video describes in detail how scientists discovered a huge gravity anomaly under the Antarctic ice. Even better, they slowly draw viewers in to their theory that the likel...

Touted as Earth's "first mobile kiss messenger," Kissenger is a rubbery-looking dock that humans put their phones in. It has a tactile surface they depress with their meat. The movements are then tran...

After considerable thought, Jenny Nicholson weighs in on why the Dark Side doesn't make sense. In what would make an excellent PowerPoint presentation to the Sith, she lays out her five key objectio...

Here's an inexpensive little project that's pretty easy and looks cool: LED-filled glass lights with concrete bases. Glen at DIY Creators takes you through the process. (more…)...

Here's a fun and easy decoration for your new year's or award show viewing parties, or a craft to do with kids: make some 3D kirigami stars with just some paper and a pair of scissors. (more…...

Twitter's wonderful, but it's also horrible a lot of the time &endash; especially for the people using it. And we all complain about it, too! Anil Dash weaves the obvious and not-so-obvious threads o...

Mohammed Kerawia shot this charming interview with Elmer Long, owner of the Bottle Tree Ranch on Route 66 in Oro Grande, California. Elmer accepts donations but it is free to enter. (more…)...

Petra Haden is a talented violinist and singer who has performed with everyone from The Decemberists to Victoria Williams to Sunn O))). On her YouTube channel, she also posts really impressive a cap...

Thanks to an online platform overhauled and reopened last month, visitors can now view hundreds of thousands of images in the George Eastman Museum collection. Works include vintage materials like Ead...

Compared to 75 years ago, Americans spend less on reading, alcohol, tobacco, clothing, and food. They spend more on education, entertainment, and transportation, but the real bank-breaker is how much ...

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Running a cloud-based service requires much more than just software developers. Developer Operations engineers are crucial to the growth, maintenance, and security of online products. Mastering the sk...

The Fun is strong with these two....

Leia Organa's commitment to the cause placed her at the heart of the Rebellion, the Republic and the Resistance. Her uncanny ability to predict the actions of enemies and allies alike made her essenti...

Sebastian Wac designed and made this fantastic 3D-printed "Nuke Lamp." He posted the parts and plans for free at MyMiniFactory, or you can purchase one pre-made directly from him. (via @pickover)...

How ridiculous the British police are! You'd think they'd arm up with guns, what with more than 20 of them getting killed so far this century....

The Legend of Zelda turned 30 this year and in celebration, Nintendo posted development artwork from the game hand-drawn by legendary designers Takashi Tezuka and Shigeru Miyamoto! More at Nintendo.co...

This is Wham's "Carless Whisper" (1984) before George Michael took matters into his own hands. (The visuals are from the music video we know and love.) From Wikipedia:The song went through at least ...

Yes, it's one of those videos where pro models cycle through a sequence of casual yet comically robotic poses as a camera clicks speedily away. But this one is better than the others....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5bMD3_JlFYEver try to move a sofa down a hallway that has a corner? The underlying math behind it inspired a math problem that's been a puzzler since 1966. Gerver's So...

San Antonio, Texas has what is probably the world's largest collection of toilet seat art under one roof: Barney Smiths Toilet Seat Art Museum. Take a couple of minutes to enjoy Wes Plate's profile ...

This behind-the-scenes look at architect Jean Nouvel's creative process and his philosophy behind some of his most iconic buildings is worth watching even if you're not an architecture buff. (more&h...

Last month, more than 200 red-winged blackbirds dropped from the sky above Cumberland County in New Jersey. It's the second time in less than a month, and the third this year. From Philly.com:"They ju...

In 2004, under then-governor Rick Perry, the Texas Education Agency secretly instituted a plan to cap the number of students receiving special education support at 8.5% -- far less than the national a...

Moonlight Gliders is a beautifully shot and reported piece on mating season for Montana's flying squirrels. Among the amazing facts shared by Alexander V. Badyaev: they can glide while carrying rather...

Yesterday, Donald Trump claimed to have gotten Sprint to bring 5,000 jobs back to America. This claim is false; the jobs have been coming for months. But a lot of media instantly published Trump's cla...

Trump promised not to take away peoples' health care, but of course he's going to do that: Bernie Sanders has joined with the Democratic Party leadership to send a letter to the Democratic caucus in C...

Since 2014, we've chronicled the reality-challenged internet proposals of the scandal-haunted EU Commissioner Gnther Oettinger; now, on the eve of Oettinger's promotion to EU budget chief, MEP Julia R...

One thing thats consistent among amateur pool players is that they unknowingly stand up during their shots. Just as in golf, pool players need to keep their heads down and stay still after they shoot ...

Fitness trackers are effective forgauging your progress and holding yourself accountable to your exercise goals. But competitive triathletes and multi-sport enthusiasts often need more capabilities th...

Donald Trump said today that U.S. telecommunications company Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs back to the United States from overseas, while he said another company OneWeb will add 3,000 jobs in the Unite...

If you're concerned about what, if anything, the outgoing presidential administration can do to fight back against Russia hacking the U.S. elections for Trumpstay close to your phones as this lame du...

Harold von Braunhut (1926-2003) was the inventor/marketer behind X-Ray Specs and Amazing Sea-Monkeys. (Apparently von Braunhut was also a nasty racist who, even though he was Jewish, supported the K...

Above, My wife made me a bidenbro desk calendar for Christmas,says IMGURian Brookoll. (more…)...

No, Mark and Carla didn't name bOING bOING after Dr. Seuss's wonderful story. (The far stranger truth is right here.) But nonetheless, the story of young Gerald McCloy, aka Gerald McBoing-Boing, is ...

I turned an 1907 Upright Piano into a luxurious desk. What an amazing share, via IMGUR. Seeing how this piano serviced the great depression, WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and to this day, br...

Vesna Vulovi was a JAT Yugoslav Airlines flight attendant when her plane exploded mid-air in 1972, sending her hurtling toward earth in the tail of the aircraft. Her miraculous survival remains the re...

Tree wells are a natural phenomenon in deep mountain snow. Evergreens basically act as flour sifters, causing snow around the trees to have less density than surrounding snowpack. Backcountry snowsp...

Its that time of year when we look back on those weve loved and lost in 2016, but for the tabloids, its worth remembering those we havent lost - the stars we were promised had just days to live, yet w...

"Sardine Run" by G. Lecoeur edged out a competitive field of remarkable images to take National Geographic's 2016 title. (more…)...

There's no question of ISIS batallion leader Abu Taha's guilt. But Taha's is a nom de guerre, so when Taha is executed for killing dozens of Iraqis, Malik Khamis Habib dies with him. Rotting in a jail...

Flower-bombing is the new yarn-bombing if Geoffroy Mottart has his way. He creates flower crowns and beards for statues around Brussels, then posts his handiwork online. (more…)...

This strange object fell from the sky over Milwaukee, Wisconsin last week and smashed the roof of a van. (Image below). According to the van's owner, Michael Robinson, the large, heavy object "looked ...

Carrie Fisher kills it at the American Film Institute's 2005 Life Achievement Award honoring George Lucas....

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PES's classic stop-motion animation The Fireplace, newly remastered in 4k....

A World of Disputed Territories maps all the countries in the world fighting over territority. Sometimes the disputes are quaint, even comical—visit Rockall or Hans Island!—but others are ...

Pleated Jeans's Jeff Wysaski selected the best dog tweets.Also: 21 Photos That Get Funnier the Longer You Stare at Them, some of which are quite amusing. [via MeFi]...

Believe it or not, Florida is only the 14th worst state for accidents, according to The Daily Beast's breakdown of per-capita stats. But its unique combination of aggression, stupidity and good weat...

If your next hookup app "date" has this strange white contraption on the nightstand, it's not a high-tech reading lamp. It's Pulse, a personal lubricant warmer and touchless dispenser. It's also a g...

In this footage from Europe, the autopilot on a Tesla warns driver Frank van Hoesel of an accident about to happen. He doesn't even realize why his car is braking suddenly until he sees the crash oc...

Some cute competition below, but Wendy Robbins gets my vote. (more…)...

Seattle-based artist Brittany Cox creates "dreamboxes," gorgeous hand-cut layers of paper framed and backlit. Most have fantasy or literary themes. (more…)...

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles to test your wits and stump your friends -- play along with us as we try to untangle some perplexing situations using yes-or-no questions. (more…)...

Australian photographer Tom Blachford found a way to make vintage cars and midcentury modern Palm Springs homes look classic yet strikingly modern: shoot them on long exposures under a full moon. The ...

The end-of-year episode of Jesse Thorn's Bullseye podcast (MP3) highlights the funniest bits from 2016's best standup comedy albums, an hour and a half of seriously funny stuff that I've enjoyed more ...

Malcolm Gladwell has an article in this month's New Yorker that dismisses Edward Snowden's claims to legitimacy and legal protection, while elevating Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers breach to an act...

Denimu (aka Ian Berry) is a collage artist whose medium is discarded denim clothing. This portrait of Debbie Harry shows the painterly feel of the strips of cloth. (more…)...

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With over a 100 million videos uploaded daily, YouTube has an endless stream of content. But consuming even the tiniest fraction of this content heap is impossible without steady internet access. With...

Drone Sweaters: knitted or crocheted woolen garments to keep your aerial drones snug and warm in flight.While this may at first appear to be a light concern to those who would scoff at the idea of dre...

Here's a free 853-page Kindle edition of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian Stories. I got it and the formatting looks good, which is not often the case for free/supercheap ebooks. I read the revi...

Exciting news from Heritage Auctions: it's selling the largest number of hobo nickels ever offered in one lot.A lot of 23 Buffalo Nickels from assorted years the largest such lot ever offered in Heri...

One of my most useful tools is invisible, infinitely recyclable, and free well, in a sense. Its AIR. You do need another substantial tool (compressor) to use it; but then endlessly refilling your tan...

My friend and frequent Gweek podcast guest Josh Glenn put together a terrific list of Golden Age science fiction novels (which he classifies as 19341963). It includes YA sci-fi, comic books, science f...

Comic book historian Craig Yoe has a new book out called Super Weird Heroes, a 320-page compendium of Golden Age comic book stories featuring some of the strangest superheroes ever concocted. Nature B...

Cigar Box Nation has just updated their archive of free DIY musical instrument plans. More than 20 new projects were added. These include cigar box guitars, ukuleles, lap steel guitars made from 2x4'...

Arnold Spielberg (Stevens father) developed the computer that first ran the BASIC programming language on May 1, 1964. Here's an interview with 99-year-old Arnold on the exciting early days of compu...

Videographer Ron Risman, who we've featured on Boing Boing many times, specializes in nature and night sky time lapse video (and also conducts workshops). This time, Ron made a gorgeous video of the...

Making pasta. pic.twitter.com/1vYnpe95Gm— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) December 27, 2016I don't know what kind of pasta this is. I looked at this one page "encyclopedia of pasta" and still couldn'...

Griffin McElroy presents his favorite games of 2016. His first choice is a farming RPG called Stardew Valley, which looks like fun, in an Animal Crossing kind of way....

Last weekend, actor Carrie Fisher had a heart attack while flying to Los Angeles. She was rushed to UCLA Medical Center as soon as her flight landed, and was under medical care since. Earlier today, T...

Kirkus Reviews is one of the publishing industry's toughest gauntlets, used by librarians and bookstore buyers to help sort through the avalanche of new titles, and its reviews often have a sting in t...

Darren Cauthon, annoyed at LG's refusal to fix a family member's broken TV, went public with the problem. But this isn't about bad pixels or a bum warranty: the set's been laid low by malware displayi...

Here's Bill Bailey moonwalking at the Apollo Theatre in 1955, a good decade or three before Michael Jackson perfected the move. Below, a video compiling that and other similar moves from the period....

The only entry in the "it gets faster" genre worth watching; the ultimate substitution of actual content with an indicate tone makes it....

The folks at Kurzgesagt are decidedly in the camp that believes in the grand scheme of things, the "legend of overpopulation" is not a cause for concern. Their case is based on a four-stage theory o...

Those "flushable" baby wipes marketed to adults are causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to North American sewers and water treatment plants. Halifax Water put together a helpful and e...

Ukranian artist Yuliya Kosata makes felt dwellings for cats that look like something out of Dr. Seuss. (more…)...

This modular piece of art would be cool with the intricate woodcarving alone, but the meticulously placed beads in the style of indigenous Caments artists from Colombia take it to the next level. (mor...

Peter Kogler projects or applies patterns to the surfaces of rooms that can be quite disorienting for anyone who enters. Most of his work uses warped black and white lines to distort the size and shap...

What's a driver to do to kill time between rideshare gigs? For Noah Forman, the answer was trying to set a record for most consecutive green lights. He hits about 240 green lights in a row in this v...

At first glance you're probably wondering: what is this, a drone made for ants? In fact, this tiny drone operates just like a full-size drone, but with the benefit of being extremely nimble.The quick-...

Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic's Chaos Communications Congress presentation details their research into becoming a "Secret travel agent": they figured out how to force the various portals to the...

I'm often asked why I like living in Los Angeles. I tell them it's because LA has a never-ending supply of hidden pockets of wonder. On Saturday I accidentally discovered a wonder-pocket in Reseda, a ...

Video of the aftermath of a boulder slide on January 21st 2014 in Termeno, Italy. After plowing through a farmhouse (the family living inside was unharmed) the boulder came to rest near another gian...

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China is on a massive bitcoin buying spree, with the US and Brazil coming in a distant second and third. Fiatleak has a live map. Bitcoin is currently trading at $902. Last year at this time it was tr...

Blameitonjorge presents nine Pixar/Disney ripoffs, including Kiara the Brave, A Car's Life, Raratoing, and Toys Story. ...

One of the best children's shows of all time. This is what life SHOULD BE LIKE. Also, I love the themesong, Hey Sandy! by Polaris....

Ironically named Whitefish, Montana seems to be a hotbed of American anti-Semitism. Blessed with a number of Jewish residents, as well as the mother of Richard Spencer, leader of the white supremacist...

I wanted to be able to control a light above our bed without having to get out of bed. The Philips Hue Wirealess Dimming Kit ($32 on Amazon) was an easy way to do it. The kit comes with an LED bulb th...

Nigel Sylvester is back with the third in his crazy GO! video series, this time heading to Tokyo for a dizzying array of match-cut adventures on a simple red bike. (more…)...

Wes Anderson is raffling a chance to make dog sounds for his upcoming film Isle of Dogs, among other cool prizes. Proceeds benefit the non-profit Film Foundation, which has restored nearly 700 films...

Bo-taoshi (pole toppling) is a contact sport in which two teams each try to keep a large pole upright. Half of each team is on defense, and the other half plays offense. There's a player who stands ...

Fake plastic rice—totally convincing by sight, but potentially lethal to eat—has gone from urban legend to horrifying controversy in Nigeria, where a shipment of the stuff was intercepted ...

Russian animator Alexey Zakharov (aka seccovan) created this lovely short animation of dewdrops, plants and insects. (more…)...

A Chinese man learned that the device he'd been using to crack walnuts for 25 years is, in fact, an old hand grenade. Alex Linder at Shanghaiist reports that he realized what it was after picking up a...

After he became a global phenomenon, George Michael considered retirement to get away from the demands of fame, telling the L.A. Times' Calendar magazine that he planned to reduce the strain of his ce...

English singer-songwriter George Michael died December 25 at his home in Oxfordshire, reports the BBC. His publicist said he died peacefully. Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, Michael rose to fame as...

Roz Kaveney, Laurie Penny, John Scalzi, and Jo Walton: "Democracy was dead to begin with.There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The election proclaimed it and the electoral college confirmed it and...

I sprang to the bridge to see what was the matter (via Atomic Chronoscaph)...

In the age of fast fashion, it's too slow and expensive to pay humans to hand-distress denim for impatient shoppers. Golden Laser makes machines that laser print fades onto jeans—as in literal...

While generally good for maintaining household cleanliness, banishing my pets from my furniture isn't realistic. With hopes of keeping mycouch free from dirty paws, hair, and slobber, I picked up one ...

Randy sez, "Maccabees and Menorahs is a one page RPG played with a dreidel and gelt. Designed to run over 8 short sessions, one for each night of Hanukkah." (more…)...

This is why I eat at Dennys....

This is why I eat at Denny's....

This is why I eat at Denny's....

Many Alan Watts fans try to help others connect with his ideas by layering them with images and music. This worthy entry by David Lindberg examines the nature of the self and our relationship to the...

Evan Greer writes, "Anne Feeney has been raising hell with an acoustic guitar since you were in diapers. She's toured the world, rambling from protest to picket line with the likes of Pete Seeger and ...

It only takes 100 seconds for a crack SNL crew in stage blacks to clear a multi-panel set from downstage between the Trump cold open and host Casey Affleck's monologue. The teamwork is incredible in...

Everybody knows that North Korea is a failed state basket-case full of starving people and multigenerational concentration camps, but South Korea is hardly the model of good governance: from the long-...

Will Geary created this colorful and soothing data visualization of a day's worth of subway routes around the Big Apple. (more…)...

Although typically pricey ($229), Rosetta Stone is clearlythe gold standard for learning a language outside of full immersion. I took advantage of the 38% off discount and found it well worth the cost...

Star Wars star Carrie Fisher suffered a "massive heart attack" Friday while traveling from London to LAX as part of a book tour, reports TMZ. There's no news yet of her condition. Fisher lately repris...

Plop! was a humor magazine published by DC from 1973 to 1976. I bought most of the copies when they were on the newsstand, and I still have them. It was an unabashed rip-off of Harvey Kurtzman's 1950...

The trolling heats up at the 3 minute mark.From YouTube description:Audio clips of CB, or Citizen Band Radio, as it was heard in 1969 in the Philadelphia PA area. The original tube CB radio that mad...

The Chocolate Watch Band perform "Are You Gonna Be There (At The Love-In)" in this excerpt from the 1967 LSD exploitation film, The Love-Ins.Here's the full movie:https://youtu.be/f2WrQqoIa78YouTube...

ZZ Top hit a Billboard's "Hot 100" charts at #8 with a song about a Sleeping Bag. Completing their transformation from 70s boogie-woogie blues band to 80s boogie-woogie synth stars. No one rocked th...

On Dec 21, Jacqueline Craig called the Fort Worth, TX police to report that her neighbor had choked her 7-year-old son; the cop who arrived was belligerent and dismissive, blamed her son for littering...

Plagued by bad battery life, that is inconsistent from machine to machine in testing, Consumer Reports can not recommend people purchase Apple's newest Mac Book Pro.Apple launched a new series of MacB...

https://youtu.be/JOEui5FBtzAWashtenaw County Sheriff Lt. Brian Filipiak does his best to talk his way out of a drunk driving arrest, but the arresting officer has to threaten him with a taser to get...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kErHiET5YPwMaciej Cegowski (previously) gave this talk, "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People," at Web Camp Zagreb last October, spending 45 minutes de...

My favorite Star Wars characters are the droids, and the best of them all is cantankerous C1-10P, or Chopper from Star Wars Rebels. Seems someone agrees with me, as Chopper was the one Rebels characte...

DJDarren says: "A Darth Vader wood burner I made got stolen yesterday. If you live in Somerset in the UK and you see one, it's probably mine."...

Jerry Lewis is in no mood to suffer a fool today.https://youtu.be/xDllXqN684o...

Morgan Stanley's pre-crisis fraudulent mortgage activity cost the firm $2.6B in federal fines, $550m in New York state fines, and $22.5M in Illiois state fines -- and part of the evidence against it i...

Tony from Starshipsofa writes, "StarShipSofa is very proud to have Hugo winning author Nnedi Okorafor on this week's show (MP3) with her story 'Spider the Artist,' first published in the anthology See...

Worlds in Worlds is a beautiful proof of concept by Goro Fujita, who wanted to test just how deep the VR illustration tool Quill by Story Studio could go into an animation. Marvel at how well it wor...

This viral tweet from Byron C. Clark is more relevant now than ever: https://twitter.com/byroncclark/status/628702214391902208...

Spike Jones was one of those rare talents who stayed playful with his art. He recorded a ton of holiday music, sadly crowded out these days by insipid and derivative renditions that feel more like m...

Simple brilliance from Matt Amys....

Planet Earth is not journalism, and the BBC is open about the various tricks and techniques it uses to create compelling stories from wildlife footage. So Pohjankonna Oy's video retiming these jumpi...

If you end up at some fancy event this month where gold leaf decorates the food, that gold leaf will be far thicker than traditional Japanese hand-pounded gold leaf, which can be as thin as 0.0001 m...

Legendary nutcase John Bolton, said to have been denied a cabinet position in the Trump administration due to the president-elect's dislike of moustaches, has vowed not to shave his off."I appreciate ...

Lights On! is a beautifully shot timelapse of cities as they transition from dusk to lighting up the night. Filmmaker Aaron Keigher includes Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, New York and all over Califor...

Spring. Summer. Fall. Winter. Boring. Ancient Japan had 72 microseasons each lasting about five days. They each have wonderfully evocative names like "Spring Winds Thaw the Ice" and "The Maple and Ivy...

Finding a quality vape can be a minefield of false promises and burnt lips. From clunky, conspicuous designs that look like tactical gear, to low-quality toys made of cheap materials, its not difficul...

On Tuesday November 8, 2016, tens of millions of Americans enthusiastically cast their presidential ballots for a tax-cheating, racist demagogue who literally said anything to get the votes of common ...

Artist Randy Regier created the submarine model for this fake cold war era commercial."Remember the good old days when American Presidents were afraid of Russia? Rare found footage of a 1950's TV co...

It might not have dawned on you, because the media and social networks have a certain way of making everything seem unreal or contingent or liminal. But we're all going to die....

The Butties....

Directed by Michele Lupo, "Un Uomo Da Rispettare" (A Man to Respect) is a 1972 Italian/German crime flick starring Kirk Douglas and Florinda Bolkan. Released as The Master Touch in some countries, thi...

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My friend, author A.J. Jacobs has a new podcast on Gimlet Media called Twice Removed. I listened to the premiere episode and I love it. Here's how A.J. describes it: "We take a notable person (e.g. Da...

Vashi Nedomansky cut together 46 shots that were seen in the various trailers for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story but didn't make the final film....

Its always fun to read about a rascally creature who does terrible things. In Dragon Was Terrible, Kelly DiPucchios frank, conversational telling and Greg Pizzolis bright, clear illustrations create a...

At r/mildlyinteresting, people are suggesting that's either Chewbacca in the background of this photo posted by Redactor lolarsystem, or the back of a hirsute woman's head. Both are incorrect. It's qu...

Deuterium is a hydrogen atom with a neutron in it. Heavy water is made from molecules of two deuterium atoms and one oxygen atom. Because of the extra neutrons, it weighs about 10% more than regular...

Megan McArdle's annual kitchen gift guide hipped me to these POURfect Mixing Bowls ($45/6 bowls), which have spill-guards and spouts, and of which McArdle writes, "after youve sifted your dry ingredie...

Nerdy piesmith Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin celebrates Xmas in style with these Nutella-filled Boba Fett pie-pops, and explains how to make your own....

Nathan writes, "My son and I decided gingerbread houses were boring, so we built a gingerbread Apple II computer instead, including the interior with power supply, motherboard, and an expansion card."...

Etsy seller Steampunk Interiors (AKA Meleny Chamberlain) of Bend, OR created this $65 plasma-cut 1/4" steel steampunk lightswitch and many variants, including the $95 triple-throw switch with a garden...

Steve Jobs explains why successful "companies forget what it means to make great products." In short, it's because sales and marketing push the "product people" out.[via]...

We hope you can join us for this urgent conversation hosted by Institute for the Future, where Mark Frauenfelder and I are researchers:Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California invites you to ...

Tonight at 10pm on Hate Thy Neighbour: @jamalimaddix meets members of the infamous EDL, an anti-Islamic, anti-immigrant 'hate' group pic.twitter.com/QjU2P6L1wf— VICELAND UK (@vicelanduk)...

This book on America's favorite supreme court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a hell of a lot of fun! Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg serves as a rollicking tribute to the oct...

Based on Berkeley Breathed's 1991 children's book A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story, this TV special aired on December 18 of that year. In a 2003 Washington Post interview, Breathe...

Drew Toothpaste tweeted: "Thank you to Google for helping me compile the most popular search queries for each state in the US this year!"Finally, some real news for a change....

Enter your home address at Run for Office and you'll see a list of all the government positions you can run for. The site also offers a free online course on how to run for office....

Whitney Reynolds of Eater interviewed the director of FinalFantasy XV to find out why the food in the game looks so mouth-wateringly delicious. "Recipes were just one element of the camping scenes, b...

Ryan McGeehan, who specializes in helping companies recover from data-breaches, reflects on the worst year of data breaches (so far) and has some sound practical advice on how to reduce your risk and ...

Canadian "kinder, gentler" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau loves the oil industry, just like his mean old predecessor, the petro-Tory Stephen Harper: not only has he approved two new pipelines for Canad...

Beauty of Science decided to dissolve M&Ms in water, and the result is surprisingly spectacular. It's like watching solar flares or the birth of a nebula. Be sure to watch in 4K! (more…)...

Indiana is one of many GOP-led states that assume that the poor performance of schools in poor neighborhoods is the fault of bad teaching -- and not, say, systemic poverty, the absence of funds raised...

Oddly satisfying reverse melting watermelong popcicle gifTo create this illusion of entropy going backwards, additional entropy was introduced into the universe. Enjoy it while there's still time....

In the first act, we visit planet after planet without any sense of place or structure. I almost tuned out in fear of ending up at BOOP CHOWBAH, IMPERIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT MOON. But once the Death ...

In "Sensation Seeking, Sports Cars, and Hedge Funds" Three business school researchers analyze a huge data-set of previous and current hedge-funds that have been hand-matched with the vehicle-ownershi...

Aluminum, mylar, and space-age plastics await you as you take a trip through Christmases past with 43 prime examples of middle aged women posing by their mid-20th century Christmas trees. Apparently, ...

Gaetan Hadjeres and Francois Pachet at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris created DeepBach, then entered Bach's 352 chorales. The resulting composition is certainly in the style. So why...

Apollo 17the last manned mission to the Moonlanded on the lunar surface on December 19, 1972. To celebrate, heres some delightful footage of astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison Jack Schmitt sin...

Legendary nutcase John Bolton was in the running for a high-level cabinet pick in millionaire president-elect Donald Trump's administration. Multiple sources claim that he was denied serious considera...

Kreepsville's $65, 8" x 10" x 6" Skull Collection Handbag glows in the dark, gets top marks from reviewers, features a spooky lining and an inside pocket, and can be delivered by Dec 24! Also availabl...

A leaked memo from Apple CEO Tim Cook to his staff explaining why he met with Donald Trump -- a guy who called Apple traitors for refusing to defeat their own security -- explains the rationale: "tax ...

Colin Gordon at Dissent summarizes new national income statistics for America's wealthiest, something that seems likely to worsen under Trump. Since Reagan, the US has been been edging toward income s...

In this new episode of the Cracked series Everything Boring Is Awesome, the show digs into the secretly insane, raucous world of classical music....

Desire De Len is a Neuroscience PhD student and artist who shares these gorgeous minimalist designs on her Instagram. Len selects a small everyday object and then designs a playful drawing around it. ...

Lookin classy.[via Tumblr]...

Biomimickry continues to improve and refine specialized drones and flying robots. Mindy Weisberger at LiveScience dives into an issue of The Royal Society's journal Interface Focus on coevolving advan...

Shopping for the person who has everything (or your boss) last minute is practically impossible. Luckily, everyone loves afruit and chocolate gift basket. Not only is ita tasty (almost healthy) respit...

Jakub "Mr Werewolf" Rozalski is a prolific Polish painter whose longrunning series of painters depict rural Eastern European folk fighting against mecha warriors, werewolves, and demons. (more…...

I got into woodworking recently after buying my first house. I started building furniture not so much as a hobby, but because after buying a house I couldnt afford furniture to fill it. My thinking wa...

After decades of allowing anti-competitive mergers in the TV, radio, phone and internet sectors, Canada's telcoms regulator, the CRTC, has taken an important step to address the underperformance of Ca...

What happens when the tabloids hit bottom? We find out this week, when the Globe brings us five photo-filled pages of the worst butts in showbiz, along with some of the worst picture captions and most...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and more. And JOIN TODAY, and a ...

DJ Riko writes, "Pour a glass of egg nog and break out the gingerbread -- DJ Riko is back with another Merry Mixmas (MP3)." (more…)...

Shawn writes, "A gaggle of Chicago comedians came together to produce an authentic 1950's radio show about how Frasier's parents met while solving the murder of a young Seattle waitress. Featuring yo...

Here's the sad story of a Chicago woman who got locked up in 2016 because the court system made a mistake about minor marijuana possession charges from 1993.From Reason:Eatman was ordered held without...

from sad to happyThis works with other currencies, too, but this example is spectacular....

One of the highlights of our family vacation to Japan was a day spent at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Tokyo. Carla wrote an article for Tofugu about how to get tickets to the museum, which isn't as ea...

White Ops, a security firm, has published a detailed report on a crime-ring they call "Methbot" that generated $3M-$5M by creating 6,000 fake websites to embed videos in, then generating convincing bo...

Tim Wu's book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (review) was one of the best books I read in 2016; on Rick Kleffel's Narrative Species podcast, Wu discusses the book (...

On Dec 15, an amendment to Thailand's 2007 Computer Crime Act passed its National Legislative Assembly -- a body appointed by the country's military after the 2014 coup -- unanimously, and in 180 da...

In March 2015, IOActive's Ruben Santamarta privately disclosed his findings on the major bugs in Panasonic's Avionics IFE in-flight entertainment systems; 18 months later, it's not clear whether all a...

Cennydd Bowles's essay on "Datafication and ideological blindness" attacks the business/product-design vogue to base every decision on "data" on the grounds that data reflects objective truth, free fr...

"The Procedure: A Parking Lot Kidnapping with Unexpected Consequences" is indeed unexpected. Note: you won't be able to unsee one of the more unexpected aspects of the kidnapping. (more…)...

It's not from Superman. It predates the Stussy logo. Why did schoolchildren around the globe get infatuated with this stylized S? Vice takes a (kinda shallow) dive into the provenance of the stylized ...

Last month, Melbourne's Deakin University published Car Wars, a short story I wrote to inspire thinking and discussion about the engineering ethics questions in self-driving car design, moving beyon...

In a holiday season dominated by generalist gift guides (our own among the best) I wanted to add something different to the mix: a deep-dive roundup of a particular class of product. So I asked myself...

To be honest, this parrot has a way better singing voice than I do....

And she says I'm hard to shop for.Guzzle Buddy is a wine glass with a cork-sized stopper instead of a stem. You put it directly into the bottle, so as to enjoy the contents directly without sacrificin...

The 2015 UK Employment Tribunal case that determined that Uber drivers were employees means that Uber will have to give the UK government 16.67% of its drivers' earnings for Value-Added Tax, going bac...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmZq6hCg2R4A Kentucky woman was banned from JCPenneys after directing a racist tirade against shoppers ahead of her in the checkout line.Just go back wherever the fuck ...

Stock buybacks are the preferred form of financial engineering in corporate America, through which companies borrow like crazy and give the money to their shareholders, artificially increasing their e...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLLIngIKV8After a pair of Belgian teenagers made a viral sensation with a Youtube video documenting their unauthorized sleepover in an Ikea store, at least 10 other ...

A European court has ruled that the UK cannot subject its citizens to indiscriminate data collection unless the data retained is being used solely to fight serious crime, reports the BBC.The verdict c...

Last July, the European Court of Jutice's Advocate General ruled that the UK's mass surveillance regime was unconstitutional, triggering an appeal to the ECJ itself, which has affirmed that under Euro...

Martha and Oscar, two spaniels, required a trip to the vet to make sure they were OK after lapping up a bottle of Advocaat. The slimy booze was knocked over by Brecon (middle), a third dog, who did no...

When it comes to understanding American culture one of the most important things is to listen to a diverse set of voices. And with that in mind, NPRs Code Switch makes a perfect addition to your podca...

From superhero blockbusters to Oscar contenders to indie dramas, the YouTube channel Sleepy Skunk looks back on all that 2016 films had to offer in this mega-mashup.[via Nerdist]...

Just in time for the holidays, Marvel released a set of 10 different hour-long fireplace videos. So if you dont have an actual hearth, you can cozy up next to a virtual one owned by Captain America,...

Poynter collects the wildest journalistic corrections of the past year. Among the best, here's one from the New York Times.Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about a theological battle ...

Written by and starring Alex Jacobs and Brendan Scannell, Stage Dad is a six-part web series about a father/son duo trying to make it in Hollywood despite a complete lack of skill or common sense. T...

In this spoiler-free Twitter thread, comedian and Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani explains why Rogue One's diverse castand especially fellow Pakistani actor Riz Ahmedmeant so much to him:https://t...

Turning on the light makes it almost impossible to get back to sleep after a late-night trip to the bathroom. The close-only-one-eye trick almost works, but youll be hard-pressed to teach that to a po...

A hacker called up T-Mobile and convinced the customer service representative that he was Jared Kenna. T-Mobile believed the hacker and transferred Kenna's phone number from T-Mobile to another carrie...

Dan Ozzi, over at Vice, took the fan theory that Elvis made a cameo in near forgotten holiday classic Home Alone and ran with it. Ran and ran.Seems a fan spotted someone who looks like an older Elvis ...

Three posts from the Electronic Frontier Foundation dispassionately recount the on-the-record policies of Trump and his advisors on issues that matter to a free, fair and open internet: net neutrality...

I've not read Wuthering Heights but Carla read it twice and keeps telling me too. I found out Amazon has the Kindle edition for free, which isn't a big deal because you can get it on Gutenberg for fre...

My daughter and I are planning a road trip to Yellowstone this summer in our VW Westy. When I asked her what would make it more fun, she said a fan. I saw the $84 Happy Camper fan and passed as it was...

Way back in the early 1970s, during the prior pre-Photoshop millennium, my fellow industrial design students and I labored to create photo-realistic renderings of products and cars with old-school, an...

I don't know what to say other than here's a man playing "Imperial March" (Darth Vader's Theme) from Star Wars with a coffee-stirring stick....

This website shows you all the data any website you visit can find out about you: your location, operating system, browser plugins, previously visited web page, local and public IP, service provider, ...

I've seen about half of these examples of products that are smaller, grosser, crappier than expected, but there are some excellent new ones in here, too....

...and the result is oddly satisfying.[via]...

Unpleasant logorrheic Alex Jones removed one of his videos in which he claimed "Pizzagate is real," and that it needs to be investigated after one of his fans went to DC's Comet Ping Pong and fired hi...

Show here: "Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who attempted to use this contraption as a parachute. Reichelt died after he jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing his invention, which failed to operate as expecte...

The Embassy of Kuwait cancelled a contract for a major event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington D.C. a few days after the presidential election, "citing political pressure to hold its National Da...

People who use the encrypted messaging app Signal on Egyptian IP addresses have reported that it stopped working. Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, confirmed the problem, promising a solution ...

Numerous residents of a Spokane, Washington suburb reported hearing unsettling trumpet sounds overnight on December 14. Listen to a recording of the noise below. Non-believers suggest that it may have...

Around Christmas, many KFC restaurants in Japan see 10 times their average daily sales. Customers order their KFC special Christmas dinner weeks in advance or wait in line for hours to score a Kentuck...

My enormous head is about 62 centimeters around. That's 24 inches. This has had two consequences for my life. Firstly, no matter what I do, I look vaguely like a bobblehead doll. Secondly, hat acquisi...

Stephen McMennamy created this brilliant and delightful series of montages that he calls "Combophotos"! You can see more on his Tumblr and Instagram. Also below, a CNN interview with the artist!https:...

"There are kids who had a security blanket; I had a security string," says Coffin Nachtmahr. Invisible Thread, directed by Early Light Media. (National Geographic)...

Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution -- a proud record that includes the most effec...

Newt Gingrich did a radio interview where he said that Donald Trump could fill his White House with his family members, allow them to enrich his businesses with insider deals, and then just pardon the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DXSCpcz9EEverybody knows about the ridiculous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit where a lady who spilled coffee on her lap got millions out of McDonald's in damages for...

According to a federal indictment, Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht and four others faked the hedge fund's books for years to allow them to siphon off one billion dollars to their personal acc...

This isn't your usual kinetic pachinko balls-in-a-gravity-maze toy, but a mindbending demonstration of magnets. It starts getting really crazy at about 2m in but one should enjoy the subtle pleasur...

Ulna-Stina Wikander's many pieces include a wide variety of household objects (chairs, mirrors, etc) covered in meticulous cross-stitched fabric; bracelets and belts made from toy cars, lamps made fro...

Re-Tales, a blog specializing in the wonders and horrors of retailing, has an excellent selection of creepy vintage toys to enjoy. [via Metafilter]The implicit appeal of these, I think, is that they w...

In December 1914 a remarkable thing happened on the Western Front: British and German soldiers stopped fighting and left their trenches to greet one another, exchange souvenirs, bury their dead, and s...

In addition to performing on the Casey Affleck-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, Chance the Rapper also starred in this stellar Run-D.M.C. homage alongside Kenan Thompson, Leslie Jones, and D.M...

In this pitch perfect homage to classic Hollywood musicals, New York actors Royer Bockus and Mark Bedard dance down Fifth Avenue, earning both odd and delighted looks from passersby. Reenacting the ...

Jeffrey Stephenson's latest deco desktop is the Clean Slate. The design concept is to eliminate the usual case and instead give each component its own box, each air-cooled and installed on a beautiful...

In a set of photos posted to his Instagram, White House photographer Pete Souza detailed a snowman-related prank the staff pulled on President Obama. Here's a photo of the snowmen in question:https://...

Tom Cruise is starring in a reboot of The Mummy. The film's distributors uploaded a version of the IMAX trailer missing most of its audio. The result is a surreal dreamy silence, punctuated by the ...

A new version of the classic 80s cartoon DuckTales debuts on DisneyXD in 2017. And the new cast got together to sing the shows catchy theme song. Woo oo!...

James Mazi writes, "Wole Talabi, a Nigerian SF writer and editor who lives in Malaysia, has rounded up his ten favorite African science fiction and fantasy stories of 2016. This is a follow up to his ...

EFF has run a full-page ad in this month's Wired, addressed to the technology industry, under the banner "Your threat model just changed," warning them that the incoming administration has vowed to sp...

Jamie "JWZ" Zawinski was an early Netscape employee; observing that the dotcom bubble that enriched him had gutted the San Francisco arts scene with rising rents, he sank his money into opening the DN...

There is still enough time to buy cool tools as gifts and have them arrive before Christmas. Here's Cool Tools' complete list of gift ideas for 2016....

The great Richard Feynman said that if someone cant explain something simply to a novice -- at the freshman lecture level -- its because they dont actually understand it themselves. This is not only a...

Bad Dads lets the art do the talking. This collection stems from an annual gallery exhibition of artworks paying homage to Wes Anderson films. Theres brief introductory text by Anderson himself, as we...

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel tries to convey the vastness of space by inviting you to side-scroll through our Solar System with (you guessed it) the scale of 1 pixel to the diameter of the moon. Thes...

Just look at them. (more…)...

We've all heard that Nazi soldiers were fueled by methamphetamine. (This isn't uncommon in military history. For example, see the US army's use of "pep bills" in Vietnam.) But new research gets way mo...

There's many to choose from, but come on. Let me put you in the picture! (Thanks, Miles!) (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSa3jEXEWw&feature=youtu.beJason Klamm from the Comedy on Vinyl podcast (previously) writes, "My comedy duo just set a world record with the world's smallest playabl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnqMbc7jdEcElly from Microcosm Publishing (previously) writes, "We decided to try something different this time, and put up a project to help fund and spread the word...

For better or worse, video game designer/programmer Howard Scott Warshaw is perhaps best known for the Atari 2600 game "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982). That game is considered by many to be the ...

An entire book of 80s themed cat photos. It is like someone has figured my generation out.Cats of 1986: The Book via Amazon...

What will happen to Trump's promise to revive the coal industry as the price of solar energy continues to drop?From Computerworld:"Not only did solar create almost 2% of all new U.S. jobs last year, t...

Enjoy Moskovskiy Kreditniy Bank's special Christmas commercial, wherein Grandfather Frost helps a businesswoman learn to appreciate her daughter and perhaps her place. [via]...

Somebody put liquid mercury in a balloon, then dropped it on the ground to see what would happen....

South Carolina State Rep. Bill Chumley pre-filed a bill requiring retailers to install porn-blocking filters on computers sold in the state. However, Rep. Chumley added a part to the bill so the state...

As discussed on r/OldSchoolCool, this 1956 photograph depicts either the "world's largest cat dancing with his pet man" or the "world's smallest man dancing with his pet cat."Further investigation rev...

"Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem."In theaters October 6, 2017....

Betsy DeVos is the self-described neo-Calvinist and wife of the heir to the Amway fortune who's devoted her life to fighting against public education through a system of vouchers that allow for public...

Today Product Hunt gave out its Golden Kitty awards to its favorite hardware and software products. Winners include Gboard by Google, Tesla Model S P100D, Tesla Solar Roof, a plug-n'-plant automatic c...

In 1980, WMTV in Madison, Wisconsin produced this feature about early personal computers and the geeks who loved them. I enjoyed the discussion of The Source, which was the first online experience I...

The Tor Project's "Ten Principles for User Protection in Hostile States" is both thoughtful and thought-provoking -- it's a list that excites my interest as someone who cares about the use of technolo...

What would you do? Not much if you are my daughter. She offered me the remaining half of hers, not enjoying her few bites. I bought the Heath Bar variety....

In a society buffeted by technological change, the discipline of "engineering ethics" raises some of our most significant and difficult-to-answer questions: from last year's Moral Character of Cryptog...

An anonymous reader writes, "After snap elections on December 11th in Macedonia, when designers united against a dictatorship, Nikola Gruevski, the leader of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party gave a Milosev...

It's been a year since the Law and Justice Party won the Polish election, on familiar-sounding promises to drain the swamp and restore Poland to its former greatness: now school textbooks are being re...

Come to see how far we have come since the crude ethnic stereotypes of the 1960s, stay for HAL 9000's explanation of chips. [via r/videos] (more…)...

Microsoft Word might make an adequate typewriter, but it wont save you from a chaotic writing process. Since its initial release in 2007, Scrivener has become the gold standard for writing and structu...

I laboriously prepared the following accurate transcript of this video of an African Gray parrot.WOMAN: OK GoogleBIRD: Bloop!WOMAN: Good job (more…)...

I have a round face, like a cartoon squirrel submerged unevenly in Nair. Thanks to the "Shirinkongumu Face Slimmer" and its promise to make my skin "youthful and pliant," I can now look forward to a s...

Actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor is dead at 99, her publicist said Sunday. The Hungarian-born American actress appeared in more than 73 films and married nine times. Here she is ripping off Johnn...

Under the cruel austerity of Michigan governor Rick Snyder -- whose policies led to the mass-poisonings of children in Flint -- any claims for unemployment insurance were vigorously investigated, with...

Pam and Robyn in San Francisco run an Etsy store called Frankestuffies, selling "monsters for lovies or lovies for monsters, lovingly re-assembled by hand from cleaned, recycled and, um, dismembered s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhKMu8jrfw&feature=youtu.beThree members of Halifax's Maritime Bhangra Group appear in this beautifully choreographed dance routine on a snow day, using shovels as p...

Lets take a step back from all the holiday craziness, and talk about some of the ridiculously strange things you can buy this week. Here are 3 of my favorites, all up to 74% off in the Boing Boing Sto...

Brilliant Games Studios wanted to show off its new crowd rendering system, so they created 15,000 virtual characters -- 11,000 penguins and 4,000 Santas -- and loosed them on each other in an "epic ...

The Remains of LA blog has a mission: to "visit all the cool old places in LA (not all at once)." I met its proprietress today, working at my local Burbank library, and I share her passion for LA's ol...

Madeline Ashby (previously) writes, "This is a protest song in the vein of Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger, written by the wonderful John McDaid (previously, and it's great."...

We've followed the saga of Prenda Law for years year, documenting the bizarre, criminal conduct of the firm's principles, Paul Hansmeier and John Steele, who used shaky methodologies to identify peopl...

After years of guesswork -- in which civil society groups and government stats bodies produced radically divergent estimates of killings by police in America -- the Bureau of Justice Statistics has fi...

Ian Welsh says that the USSR collapsed because its promises -- "a cornucopia and a withering away of the state" -- conspicuously failed to materialize; now, neoliberalism's promises ("If the rich have...

A thirty year old joke by Will McLean in the first edition of the Dungeon Masters Guide features a group of fantasy adventurer types crowded around a table playing an RPG where they pretend to be "wor...

The Neurological Institute at Montreal's McGill University is host to the "Tanenbaum Open Science Institute," endowed by a $20M contribution; since last spring, the unit has pursued an ambitious ope...

In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll explore some more curiosities and unanswered questions from Greg's research, including a pilot who saved Buckingham Palace, a ghost who conf...

Noise cancelling headphones can be pricey, and the A-Audio Legacy Headphones are no exception. Retailing for $299, these headphones are currently on sale for just $79.99. You won't find a lot of quali...

Predator-Elect Donald J. Trump has made it clear which American newspaper he likes the least: The Washington Post. (more…)...

If you aren't following Clifford Pickover on Twitter, you are missing out....

The AmazonBasics line offer great quality gear at a low price. These felt laptop sleeves are $10 for 11- and 13-inch laptops and $14 for the 15.4-inch version....

The platform economy can have something for everyone. People needing goods or services get what they want, people who have the time and skills to provide the goods and services get paid, and people wh...

A guy named Guy emailed me to let me know about his web video series called Coolest Thing I've Ever Made, which "showcases regular people who built incredible things." The latest episode features "a...

Lisa Hix of Collectors Weekly has just published a great interview with Sarah Archer, whose new book, Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970, explains how companies lik...

A couple of weeks ago I linked to an article Carla wrote at Tofugu about the Japanese word, tsujigiri, which means "to cut someone down to test out a new / newly sharpened katana." Today, Tofugu po...

U.S. President Barack Obama met with reporters today for the final press conference of 2016, before the new administration is due to take over. Live tweets below. (more…)...

Anyone whos waded any distance into the murky waters of legend surrounding British occultist Aleister Crowley has likely heard the stories about his involvement with British intelligence in WWII. He h...

Federal Bureau of Investigations chief James B. Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper today indicated the FBI and ODNI support a recent CIA assessment that Russia committed interne...

NERVANA is an award-winning gadget aimed at helping people calm down and regain focus with just a generator and headphone set. By sending a gentle electrical wave through the left ear canal, NERVANA s...

I just ordered a thermal cooker, they sound like wonderful camping tools. Anyone got recipe suggestions? (more…)...

Temporarily embarrassed millionaires will be pleased to know that Donald Trump has filled his cabinet with people just like them: the "17 cabinet-level picks have more money than a third of American h...

The Cold Drone Wars have begun. In a first-of-its-kind military standoff, the Chinese Navy has taken possession of an underwater autonomous drone deployed by a U.S. oceanographic vessel in the South C...

https://youtu.be/NpN9NzO4Mo8After Anthony van der Meer's phone was stolen, he installed spyware on a new phone and intentionally allowed someone to steal it. He then remotely recorded audio, photos, a...

https://youtu.be/NpN9NzO4Mo8After Anthony van der Meer's phone was stolen, he installed spyware on a new phone and intentionally allowed someone to steal it. He then remotely recorded audio, photos, a...

The United States intelligence community has promised lawmakers it will provide as soon as January 2017 a public estimate of the number of Americans whose digital communications were subject to surve...

Ghost sharks, aka chimaeras, are elusive relatives of sharks and rays that live in the black depths of the ocean, as far down as 2,600 meters. The Ghost Shark was captured on video by a remotely op...

Fred Couch, father of the drunk driving teenager who got his wrist slapped for killing four people in 2013, got his own wrist slapped yesterday for falsely identifying himself as a peace officer. From...

Lil Manlet had difficulty receiving a parcel that was being delivered by Hermes, so he made a short film about how awful Hermes was at helping him. Calls, emails, and web chats to Hermes all proved ...

Are you meeting a romantic partner's family for the first time this Christmas and at a loss for a gift idea that will impress them with your suitability as a potential addition to the clan? Look no fa...

James Earle spent a summer studying a single painting, Paris Street, Rainy Day, by Gustave Caillebotte, and made a short video about what he discovered....

Wells Fargo didn't merely open 2,000,000 fraudulent accounts and bill its customers for them; it also tricked its customers into signing up for insurance policies, at mass-scale. (more…)...

This fellow has zero fucks to give as THREE oshiya (pushers) try their hardest to get those doors to close.(via Marco Patella Photography)...

My friend and Cool Tools business partner Kevin Kelly spoke at TEDSummit about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. The talk is based on his excellent bestselling book, The Inevitable."The act...

In The Personal Wealth Interests of Politicians and theStabilization of Financial Markets, researchers from the London Business School and Tillburg University demonstrate the likelihood of US members ...

My friends in Reboot and Partners In Crime opened a fantastically cool Reboot Hanukkah Pop-Up Shop on Union Street in San Francisco (and online too)! The physical shop is only open this weekend and th...

My friends in Reboot and Partners In Crime opened a fantastically cool Reboot Hanukkah Pop-Up Shop on Union Street in San Francisco (and online too)! The physical shop is only open this weekend and th...

The ACLU of Northern California recently published a leaked email showing that Dataminr -- a Twitter-monitoring company partially owned by Twitter itself -- was selling access to US domestic surveilla...

Back in 2010, John Holbo created a beautiful, illustrated cthuhoid version of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas called "Mama in Her 'Kerchief and I in My Madness," and this curiousity has lurked on Fli...

Paul writes, "Embroidered in lovely Copperplate letters on a Democratic blue hat. I set the price as low as it allowed so there are unlikely to be much profits. But any there are will go to border col...

Singer Anohni released a striking song and video asking for Chelsea Manning to be released:"If you leave Chelsea Manning in prison for whistle blowingYou send the final message to our nationthat the...

Kirby Sloan writes, "The Fanac Fan History Project has posted a humorous video made in 1983 based around general science fiction fandom culture at the time. This was the time I was most active in a...

The $30, 4" x 3" die-cast zinc alloy tool includes four hexkeys, two screwdrivers and an adjustable wrench, with tool storage inside a magnetically sealed compartment. (more…)...

Belatedly, I've finally read Hao Jingfang's novelette "Folding Beijing," which won the Hugo Award last summer in Kansas City: it's a story about a future in which the great cities continue to be engin...

Artificial Intelligence already hastons of applications in countless industries, making it an incredibly lucrative skill set. Its an exciting time to get involved in AI, and this bundle is an excellen...

Artificial Intelligence already hastons of applications in countless industries, making it an incredibly lucrative skill set. Its an exciting time to get involved in AI, and this bundle is an excellen...

Of course you do. (more…)...

Hin Mizushima creates whimsical felt sculptures that combine insects and plants into adorable new life forms, like this Venus Anttrap Beetle, or this Amanita Beetle: (more…)...

Animator Leigh Lahav and writer Oren Mendez created this wizarding world-salute to the holiday season. (more…)...

AxiDraw is a computer-aided pen plotter that uses any writing instrument inserted in the device. The latest and greatest demo hints at just some of the possibilities. (more…)...

Broadway stars Laura Osnes and Christopher Rice pay homage to classic MGM films in this holiday performance....

This video from the sketch comedy show Studio C images a world in which a mans face is the best possible volleyball block....

If you've ever played a car racing video game, some of these shapes may be familiar, but Matt Dunlop built on the work of several others to create this fascinating map of the world's famous motorsport...

The Camera Collector tells the story of a vintage camera collector who fell in love with cameras in the 1960s, against the wishes of his father. After saving all summer for his first Leica, his fath...

With winter officially here, its time to revisit the unique practice that is Chicago dibs. (more…)...

Zip through 105 years of popular baby names in this interactive map by Mike Barry. Toggle for boys or girls. We've come a long way from John and James and Helen and Mary. (more…)...

Finnish photographer Oscar Keserci braved brutal temperatures in and around Kirkkonummi, Finland for his breathtaking Blue Night series of photos. (more…)...

From Verge social reporter and cartoonist Dami Lee. (more…)...

James Cordens 'Carpool Karaoke' segment is almost always a delight. This latest Bruno Mars edition is no exception....

Check out this astonishing workmanship by mulletsaurus, who hand-painted The Black Knight from Kingdom Death. Here's the blank for comparison: (more…)...

Presentation is usually the last thing on my mind when Im making dinner, but if I had more patience, this rice bear would make for an adorable dinner companion. (more…)...

As part of his Project One Life series, Matt Bray has uploaded videos of himself performing the same dance routine for 100 days in his bedroom as well as performing the routine in 100 different plac...

Australian science fiction author Sean Williams writes, "I first met Kim Stanley Robinson in Hobart, 1995, when he was on his way to the South Pole. Stan suggested I look to the Australian Antarctic D...

As the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo continues to grow, many people are looking for ways to help. (more…)...

Artist Geoffroy Amelot created this Lego-centric replica of Vincent Van Goghs famous self-portrait. (more…)...

John Park writes, "Check out what Tony D just posted at Adafruit after he visited the Living Computers Museum + Lab." (more…)...

Monocle interviewed Ed Cooke, the founder of the language learning site, Memrise.During a three-month hospital stay when he was 18 years old, Ed Cooke studied memory techniques to overcome boredom. By...

A jury in South Carolina today convicted Dylann S. Roof in the racially motivated killings of 9 black people in a church in Charleston. He faces the possibility of a death sentence. (more…)...

Secure the News periodically checks in with news-sites to see how many of them implement HTTPS -- the secure protocol that stops your ISP and people snooping on it from knowing which pages you're look...

1. Fight the fights (against more government and commercial surveillance; backdoors, government hacking); 2. Prepare for those fights (push companies to delete those logs; remind everyone that securit...

Thomas writes, "Shortly after closing a post-election special session to fund relief for counties afflicted by flooding from Hurricane Matthew or mountain wildfires, North Carolina GOP legislative lea...

During the Standing Rock confrontations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation got reports of police use of IMSI Catchers -- secretive surveillance devices used to gather data from nearby cellphones, oft...

The Australian National Dictionary Centre has declared the two-word compound phrase "democracy sausage" to be its 2016 Word of the Year, defining it as "A barbecued sausage served on a slice of bread,...

David A Banks argues that the boom in NPR explainer podcasts -- Radiolab, Note to Self, Hidden Brain, Freakonomics Radio and others -- are ideologically bankrupt, presenting individual, often neurolog...

The Opennews project has published a set of annotated links to digital operational security tutorials that are relevant to journalists looking to defend themselves against various kinds of attacks, co...

From the CEO of Palm predicting that Apple would fail at making phones to IBM's chairman predicting that Walmart would crush Amazon, the history of technological upheaval is littered with the ironic d...

https://vimeo.com/99889856The Mininch Tool Pen uses the "pop a point" mechanism used in mechanical pencils to hold and switch magnetic screwdriver bits; it's made from machined aluminum and weighs 9...

Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown told an audience of scientists at the American Geophysical Union that the state would launch its own "damn satellite" and continue climate research if the Tr...

Shinz Abe, the xenophobic, autocratic prime minister of Japan, has been dismantling Article 9 of the constitution, which forbids acts of war by Japan. (more…)...

The financialization of everything is just as real in the boardrooms of technology as it is everywhere else; though the deferential press likes to paint the tech-sector leaders as geniuses, superheroe...

Germany's DEAL project, which includes over 60 major research institutions, has announced that all of its members are canceling their subscriptions to all of Elsevier's academic and scientific journal...

I thought it was a trail for a movie, but this is a real product. Its advertised as a virtual wife for men who live alone.Gatebox is a holographic home "robot" in the vein of Siri or Alexa. It's bas...

Putin had at least two reasons to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. First, he had a grudge against Hillary Clinton (she called him a "tough guy with a thin skin" in 2014). Second, he wanted...

Are you an "artist, designer, biohacker, or other cultural practitioner" who's interested in synthetic biology? You could spend 4-6 weeks in Zurich at the Bioprocess Laboratory, where you will "active...

Myanmar has been a technologically backwards authoritarian state for much of the past 50 years, with less than 1% of the country connected to the net, until 2015, when the country held its first elect...

Friends and loved ones told Adam Rosenberg he talked in his sleep. They were right. (more…)...

Art collective The Principals put together Sound Journeys, an immersive multimedia project focusing on how sounds shape human response to environment. (more…)...

Dayna Corbitt of WhimsyCalling makes impossibly cute clay figurines of whimsical and mythical animals. (more…)...

Hazel Hayes is an Irish YouTuber and filmmaker, and she recently uploaded this sitcom excerpt called Hot Mess on her YouTube channel. (more…)...

Proofpoint has identified a new version of DNSChanger EK, a strain of malware that changes your DNS settings so that the ads on the websites you browse are replaced with other ads that benefit the att...

Barcelona-based sculptor Xavier Maosa created Skate Fails, a series of ceramic sculptures that look like Dali-esque melted skateboards. (more…)...

Jacob T. Swinney compares the short film "Whiplash" with the feature it became. It's an interesting study in the shot-for-shot remake. With the exception of the location and the switch to Miles Tell...

Rotten Tomatoes compiled a highly subjective list of striking movie posters. Since the Moonlight and Sausage Party posters are well-known, here are a few lesser-known posters they list. Note: poster q...

College student Abby Jo Hamele shared this amazing email she sent to her philosophy TA while she was still loopy from the hydrocodone from her wisdom surgery: (more…)...

He's been dead for 225 years, but Mozart can still top the charts in terms of CD sales. The Mozart 225 box set was named Billboard's Biggest-selling CD release of 2016. Take that, Kanye and Taylor Swi...

Accepting the #SeeHer award at the Critics Choice Awards earlier this week, Viola Davis emphasized the importance of seeing diverse types of women onscreen. (more…)...

Trichinosis will seem like a walk in the park after what Captain Link Hogthrob has to endure in this Muppets Alien sendup starring First Mate Piggy. (more…)...

As a final project for a photography class, 18-year-old Oregon college student Aria Watson created a series called #SignedByTrump. (more…)...

The folks at HealthTrends.com put together this GIF that tracks Obama from childhood to present day. (more…)...

Watching a real yule log burn is cool and everything, but Yule Log 2016 has outdone all previous years with 54 fantastical animations on a yule log theme. All proceeds go to Camp Interactive, a kids' ...

"What is the precise moment, in the life of a country, when tyranny takes hold? It rarely happens in an instant; it arrives like twilight, and, at first, the eyes adjust." The New Yorker's Evan Osnos,...

In 1944, a bizarre criminal assaulted the small town of Mattoon, Illinois. Victims reported smelling a strange odor in their bedrooms before being overcome with nausea and paralysis. In this week's ep...

Unlike typical portable monoculars with a magnification range from 4x 10x, this universal lens attachment enables a remarkable 40x 60x zoom in a backpack-friendly package.Using a simple clip, it atta...

Yahoo's 500-million account breach was followed by a 1 billion account breach, and the hackers took everything: hashed passwords, names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and possibly th...

I had completely forgotten about this, probably one of the most thoughtful and emotional Christmas messages from a major media corporation ever televised. It aired starting in 1966, the year after A...

Amazon Prime Air has delivered the first customer order by drone, in England. When will I be able to choose Prime Air as a delivery option?We will deploy when and where we have the regulatory suppor...

Photo: Donald Trump speaks as PayPal co-founder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel (C) and Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook look on during a meeting with technology leaders at Trump Tower in New York U.S., D...

DBO writes, "A new report by Deflect Labs tracks the complex ways that hackers have sought to take down the Black Lives Matter website. The attacks, which relied on harvesting Wordpress sites, increas...

If you're an aging comic book fan, say in your late 40s or early 50s, Comic Book Fever will scratch the hell out of any nostalgic itch you've ever felt about the hobby. George Khoury's picture-heavy ...

From YouTube: "Master impressionist Jim Meskimen reads "The Night Before Christmas" as 27 different celebrities, including Robert De Niro, Anthony Hopkins, and Robin Williams."[via]...

One Shared House is a website/documentary about co-living, that is, unrelated people living together. It reminds of a visual 99% Invisible. You can pause at any time to read extra tidbits. Really cool...

Wonder Woman's job as an honorary UN ambassador lasted less than two months. The UN fired the non-existing cartoon character after mounting pressure from people who signed a petition that said, "It is...

The election may be over, but this week's tabloids see it as their constitutional duty to continue slinging political mud. Donald Trump has taken charge, Malia Obama is in rehab, and Bill Clinton is r...

From Imgur: "A decent breakdown of all things real and fake news." Here is is full size....

Bungie's massive online FPS/RPG Destiny has brought back it's holiday celebration, featuring one of its most fun add-ons: Sparrow Racing. Destiny's guardians spend 11 months a year mowing down invad...

Yesterday they drew hands on the mitten thumbs to spread good cheer. Today they poked a hole in the cup to release a tubful of holiday joy. (more…)...

Luigi Serafini's 1984 tribute to Punch the clown, Pulcinellopaedia Seraphiniana, is now available in a beautiful reprint by Rizolli.Much like the earlier reprint of the Codex Seraphinianus, this editi...

A Comacast repairman in Indianapolis has "a job to do" on a slushy, slippery steet. If cars slide of the road and collide because of it, so be it....

The Martian mVoice G10 has the trappings of a typical activewear watch. The retro-military aesthetic, rotating bezel, and IPX4 water resistance are common features to expect in a modern timepiece. But...

Salt Lake City's Wyre Art, AKA Kyle Wyatt, makes these amazing, $30 skull and crossbones bun covers, which are so popular that they're on back-order, and which ship in three sizes: "5" x 2" for longe...

Before Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines, he was the mayor of the southern city of Davao, where he boasted of authorizing death-squads that murdered suspected drug-users and dru...

Documentarians and news-gatherers who record sensitive material from confidential sources live in terror of having their cameras seized and their storage-cards plundered by law-enforcement; they strug...

Edward Snowden's Periscope interview with Jack Dorsey -- hosted by the Pardon Snowden campaign ranged over a lot of territory, including the special problems of metadata surveillance (metadata can be ...

The two famous Chicagoans joined forces to remind everyone that December 15 is the deadline to get covered for healthcare for 2017. (more…)...

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Lalah lives at the Boulbaka Bouldering Gym in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. (more…)...

Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp couldnt be more jazzed that their Netflix show was nominated for Best Drama Series (along with a nod to Winona ...

Lish Laynette posted her amazing Prince-themed Christmas tree on YouTube and Facebook. (more…)...

We are given many things in our childhood, most of which are lost along the way. When I was six months old my uncle, Alan Soffin, gave me (well, my parents) a copy of The World of Pooh by A.A. Milne b...

The Department of Energy has rebuffed Donald Trump's demand for the names of employees and contractors involved in shaping and executing government climate policy -- which was widely viewed as a prelu...

Last night, Dan Jackson shot video of a mysterious, gigantic game of Super Mario Bros being projected onto the side of a building over a store in San Francisco's Lower Haight. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2N6fsPjjgI bought a Kinekt fidget-ring when I first learned about them in 2010; I've since logged many thousands of miles worth of aimless spinning (ZOMG escalator ha...

A state appeals-court judge in Florida has broken with the precedent that the courts may not compel suspects to reveal the unlock codes for their devices as this would violate the Fifth Amendment's pr...

Kidnapping ransom markets are really tough: it's hard to convey the demand, hard to arrange the payoff, hard to get the kidnapping victim back in one piece -- but Lloyds of London has largely solved t...

Los Angeles-based graphic designer Holly Fox combines her love of baking and design with these amazing iced sugar cookies. You can see more of her designs on Instagram and even order some cookies for ...

Libby Prison was one of the most infamous prison camps of the Civil War -- thousands of Union prisoners were packed together in a converted warehouse, facing months or years of starvation and abuse. T...

The sad, misguided former heroes of Eggo took a left turn and ruined it all. I have tried their Sausage, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich and lived to regret it. LEGGO MY EGGO! We would all yell as c...

The sad, misguided former heroes who make Eggo brand frozen waffles took a left turn and ruined it all. I recently tried their Sausage, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Sandwich and lived to regret it. (more...

I'm pleased with this cheap Suaoki K12's ability to jump start smaller cars and motorcycles.I gave my last USB battery kit away, a young lady was needing her car jumpstarted an awful lot and seemed it...

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

Besides white supremacy, one of the key drivers of the last election was trade, with outsourcing being the main scapegoat (even though any economist able to count to 10 will tell you that it was techn...

From the 1930s to the 1970s, Aerolux Light Corporation manufactured "artful gas-discharge light bulbs," lightbulbs containing tiny sculptures that glowed when switched on. From Wikipedia:Aerolux gas d...

Skitts Law says that any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to spot the typo on this angry grammar scold's mug....

Behold the Muriwai Monster, a horrifying beast that washed up last weekend on Muriwai Beach in Auckland, New Zealand. It's thought that the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit New Zealands South Island,...

I've had these beautiful antique glasses for well over a decade. Retrospecs & Co., the folks who sold them to me, have also taken fantastic care of getting me lenses, and an upgrade, over the many yea...

Huge New York Times investigation on Russia's role in the elections, and Trump's upset victory: "The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the US. It's a riveting tic-tock narrative, and no d...

Anthony Bourdain is an idol of mine. I read his breakout book Kitchen Confidential while I was working in a dingy Teriyaki Bar. Ive watched as hes eaten his way around the world. Ive read every book h...

Jess shows the host of Real Future what a vishing call is by taking over his mobile phone account in 30 seconds. It involves a recording of a crying baby....

In the latest episode of the Cool Tools podcast, Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Alan Henry, editor in chief of LifeHacker. He's also a recovering physicist, music lover, and self-proclaimed lover of do...

Riding out the stormI didn't know that The Rover was so strong.https://youtu.be/I6Ffr1U7KMY...

Women Who Draw has a seemingly endless directory of women illustrators. I love looking at artists portfolios and I could spends days going through the ones here....

At a market in northern Myanmar (Burma), China University scientist Lida Xing found a piece of amber containing a remarkably well-preserved dinosaur tail, complete with feathers. It likely belonged ...

Redditor justice recreated the crashing Enterprise from Star Trek Generations in gingerbread. Then Redditor nicholmikey promptly composited the sweet and spicy starship into the scene from the film, b...

In July 2002, The New York Times Magazine published Gary Taubes' article "What If Its All Been a Big Fat Lie?," which made the case for carbs, not dietary fat, as the cause of heart disease and obesit...

Now how the hell are Starbucks cups in the news again and no one's talking about a guy spreading his cheeks open on McDonald's cups pic.twitter.com/QmIuZiDJst— Sam Sykes (@SamSykesSwears...

A Charlie Brown Christmas won the 1966 Emmy for Outstanding Childrens Program. Half of US viewers watched it when it aired. But the project was under threat of being killed every step of the way. From...

A Charlie Brown Christmas won the 1966 Emmy for Outstanding Childrens Program. Half of US viewers watched it when it aired. But the project was under threat of being killed every step of the way. From...

The Macro Room sliced numerous objects in half -- from a toothpaste tube to a seashell to a digital camera -- to reveal the beautiful mysteries inside. (via Laughing Squid)...

ArkadiusBear posted this photo to Reddit, saying:This thing is 40 years old. It looks like it was thrown away yesterday. When you throw away plastic, it will basically never go away, ever. IF it break...

It's been a week since the Army Corps of Engineers announced that they would not grant a permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the river that the indigenous Sioux people relied upon for their...

"No President" is an unsigned editorial in N+1, and is, along with Ta-Nehisi Coates's My President Was Black, the best postmortem on the events of November 8 yet published: it begins with the door-to-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LUAC_zmO_sThanks to the archival spelunking of the crowdfunded documentary WHO THE F*@% IS FRANK ZAPPA?, we can now watch this amazing piece of video of Frank Zappa be...

Execs representing the biggest tech companies in America are gathering for a meeting with Donald Trump tomorrow in New York; these companies have it in their power to spy on us, locate us, censor us, ...

Wired kicks off its first-ever science fiction issue with a short story by NK Jemisin, whose novel The Fifth Season won the best novel prize at the 2016 Hugo Awards. (more…)...

The European Parliament's Chief Negotiator plans to offer British nationals the right to opt into "associate citizenship" in the EU, with the right to travel and work in the continent. (more…)...

ESNC, a German security research firm, discovered a critical flaw in PWC's enterprise software, which would allow attackers to hack into PWC customers' systems; when ESNC gave PWC notice of its intent...

Ta-Nehisi Coates's 17,000-word history of the Obama presidency in the Atlantic is called "My President Was Black," but it's about the very special kind of blackness that Obama embodied -- not because ...

This big cat cosplay is just about purr-fect. (more…)...

Public Citizen's extraordinary new 74-second political ad features audio of Donald Trump promising to end the role of big money, lobbyists, and special interests in politics, contrasted with headlin...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the a href="https://bit.ly/1EikWTm">INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comic...

This 3-pack of 10-ft Samsung-certified cables is one of the best deals I've seen on micro USB cables.For the price of one regular length cable, you get three quality, extra long cables. Most important...

When they werent filming HBOs lastest smash hit Westworld, it turns out Evan Rachel Wood (Dolores), Jimmi Simpson (William) and Ben Barnes (Logan) were busy recording Dubsmashes. And the app was kin...

If you don't live in a state that allows recreational marijuana yet, perhaps this fabulous Hopalong Orbits Visualizer by Iacopo Sassarini will tide you over till then. (more…)...

Much of San Francisco's Financial District used to be Yerba Buena Cove, where Gold Rush ships were abandoned in such numbers that many just rotted away till they sank. (more…)...

Beckett does not mess around when it comes to Whole Foods....

Iggy Pop's beloved cockatoo Biggy Pop has his own Instagram account, where he and his famous owner seem to be best friends: (more…)...

This quirky short film was made in just 48 hours, and was named a national runner-up in The HP 48Hours Filmmaking competition. (more…)...

In the 1950s, car enthusiasts began playing around with illuminated tires made of translucent synthetic rubber that could be tinted any color. Goodyear soon got in the game in case it took off, which ...

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "In keeping with best practices for major Internet providers to issue periodic transparency reports, Public Resource would like to issue two reports. (more…...

As news of the CIA's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election spreads, top Hillary Clinton adviser and likely Russian hacking victim John Podesta today publicly voiced ...

Continuing in his totally consistent and predictable pattern of wacky authoritarian behavior, President-elect Donald Trump said today he'll postpone telling America how he plans to deal with a wide ar...

This is what happens when a terminally ill child dies in Santas arms. (more…)...

This totally out-of-control gorgeous gingerbread castle is replete with elegant reclining peppermint bark reindeer and inlaid candy glass windows. (more…)...

My old MAKE colleague Collin Cunningham made an entertaining and educational video that explains battery specs: milliamp hours, voltage, chemistry type, etc. I've never opened a 9-volt battery but C...

Many thanks to J. Kenji Lpez-Alt for "boiling and peeling hundreds of eggs" to learn the best way to make a boiled egg so the shell doesn't stick. His finding: "For the most evenly cooked, tender ha...

The Echo Dot, Amazon's voice-controlled device that play music, audiobooks, radio shows, podcasts, news alerts, and more is just $40 right now. I bought it a couple of months ago when it was $50. My f...

Thom Leavy of PopSci shows how to make a wind-powered record player. (more…)...

Last night Eric Garland, a strategic analyst for businesses and government agencies, posted an epic Twitter rant explaining How We Got to Where We Are. It stars Putin, Snowden, Manning, Trump, Cheney,...

As I've posted previously, Under The Weather is a single-person pop-up shelter to sit inside that my big brother Rick came up with a while back. (He was sick of getting soaked at his kids' soccer ga...

Twitter user @pmxpvrtmx posted images of an astonishing spherical cloud over the city of Fujisawa, south of Tokyo."When I saw the cloud it was an even more spherical shape, so I regret not taking the ...

Over at the Vinyl Factory, Anton Spice shares a wonderful collection of 1960s and 1970s stereo systems designed for Space Age bachelor pads. Above, the classic Electrohome Apollo 711 (1970); below are...

Radio Garden is a beautifully designed interface for listening to live radio. Just roll the planet around and click on a dot.By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. Radio G...

All Trump's words. (more…)...

This one squeaked past the list of prohibited personalized license plates.[via]...

In 1945, police initiated a campaign to stop people from beeping their car horns in Morse Code to "signal out 'vile and filthy language,'" according to the Ottawa Journal on January 18. Amazing that ...

Joe Howard says, "One of my students asked me this question and I couldn't stop thinking about it."...

This fellow, possibly inebriated, messed with the wrong cone....

The performance is from the 1977 TV special "Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas." From Wikipedia:Bowie's appearance has been described as a "surreal" event, undertaken at a time that he was "active...

In Cryptomancer, players inhabit a fantasy world populated with elves, dwarves and humans, but they win out by designing and undermining cryptographically secured networks of magical gems that allow d...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbYInILDj6QI just got through dropping off several bags of groceries and wrapped presents for my daughter's school's annual, very successful charitable drive that ben...

If youve ever wondered how to build a computer, how the brain functions, or any number of other things about how the world works, this bundle of coursesis for you: The Scientific Essentials Bundle.Thi...

Our friends at Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment are co-hosting a benefit concert headlined by Primus on December 14 to support the Oakland Fire Relief Fund raising money for victims of the d...

America's international broadcasters -- Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty -- have fallen on hard times, failing to keep pace with other nations' superpower foreign broadcasters, li...

Kameron "Geek Feminist Revolution" Hurley notes that writers like Octavia Butler crafted stories that feel eerily prescient of our present moments with books like Parable of the Sower and Parable of t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuXMiu2184&feature=youtu.beDJ Cummerbund's latest mashup does real justice to Rick James's "Superfreak": Featuring Rick James, Foo Fighters, The Beach Boys, and Led...

Some of the most notorious criminals of South and Central America and China have resettled to the USA with money they looted from their countries' treasuries or defrauded their fellow citizens of. (mo...

J. M. De Cristofaro used an ex-Soviet IVL2-7/5 VFD tube as the core for his Cyberpunk Wristwatch, which adds steampunk notes in the form of a brass "roll cage" around the tube. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbS0oHXZ8LoUniversal Health Services (UHS) is the largest chain of psychiatric facilities in the USA, with 2.5x more beds than its closest competitor, and dozens of w...

The AirJamz Bluetooth Air Pick & Music Toy creates music out of thin airliterally. It looks like a big, electronic guitar pick, but the accompanying iOS/Android app packs over 100 instruments and ...

The Trump administration will put a fox in every henhouse, from the Goldman Sachs execs who'll run the treasury to the working conditions repeat offender who'll run the Department of Labor to the publ...

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This 2012 performance of Carol Of The Bells should be redubbed Carol Of The Balls....

30 years ago, the Just Say No anti-drug campaign launched. In response, Cliff Roth created one of the first analog viral videos passed around on VHS: The Reagans Speak Out on Drugs. (more…)...

Saw this sign in a window in Andersonville. pic.twitter.com/XTdvKXI3wK— Caroline Siede (@CarolineSiede) December 7, 2016I spotted this anti-Trump sign in a window on Chicagos North Side. It's bo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm_F0i176d8Dang, I never knew Satchmo could be that funky. (via Marginal Revolution)(Images: Louis Armstrong, Ben In for Peace, Nationaal Archief, CC-BY-SA)...

Dean Hutton is a South African artist whose most notorious project involves walking around in a custom-printed black and white suit and absorbing the responses from strangers. (more…)...

My cousin just posted this picture of his son. Look how excited and proud he is of where he put all the carrots. I'm cracking up pic.twitter.com/fVETR5FXZU— $HMADI (@madddiiison) December 3,...

Robbo writes, "Lloyd Kaufman is best known as the uber super epic producer/director who runs Troma Films, creators of such cinema icons as 'The Toxic Avenger' and 'Surf Nazis Must Die.' Lloyd is also ...

These strange wooden boxes by Paolo del Toro have whimsical designs that open at the mouths to reveal a secret compartment. Just loosen the drawstring and add whatever you'd like. (more…)...

French watchmaker Jean Jerome created the HDD Watch in 2014 with a successful Indiegogo campaign, recycling 1" hard drives for the movements. (more…)...

These days, there's definitely no shortage of touchscreen gloves available, but the key is finding ones that consistently work well. These iGloves Touchscreen Gloves are super reliable, and are on sal...

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The Washington Post reported Friday evening that the CIA says Russia intervened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win, rather than just to undermine confidence in the politic...

The Facial Fitness PAO is a rubbery device with weighted wings that you put in your mouth and then, apparently, shake up and down to train your face muscles to look young. [via JWZ] (more…)...

Authorities say in recent weeks there has been an unprecedented wave of hate crimes targeting library buildings, books, and the people who read them. The officials told the New York Times they'd rarel...

Two brothers well known in the world of magic and cardistry...

Let's take the path less traveled for some holiday gift giving. Two brothers well known in the world of magic and cardistry , Dan and Dave Buck, have a number of enterprises going, including a website...

Fidel Castro confessed on his deathbed to killing JFK, Prince Harry has impregnated his American actress girlfriend, Priscilla Presley has six months to live, and President Donald Trump will save 25 m...

Besides being an editor at Boing Boing, I'm also an editor at Cool Tools. Cool Tools has an annual gift guide, and it's worth sharing. It's got felt guitar picks, stainless steel can insulators, mushr...

Russian science fiction authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky created worlds and shared stories so fantastic, so well imagined, and so terrifyingly believable their work may create an existential crisis...

Russian science fiction authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky created worlds and shared stories so fantastic, so well imagined, and so terrifyingly believable their work may create an existential crisis...

Since 2011, the UK's Government Digital Service has radically transformed the way Britons interact with their government, streamlining bureaucratic processes, opening up data, and making APIs availabl...

Apple -- which is one of the multinational poster children for tax dodging, along with Google, Amazon, Ikea and others -- has billions of dollars "offshore" and in theory they can't bring that money i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a5aBs_ih9oAliaksei Zholner's Youtube account features various small, clever papercraft engines that he's made over the years, but the latest one, measuring a mere 18...

Actor Judge Reinhold was flying out of Dallas Love Field on Thursday and his bag set off an "alarm" on a TSA scanner, so security personnel demanded to pat Reinhold down; Reinhold objected that he'd a...

The Mirai worm made its way into information security lore in September, when it was identified as the source of the punishing flood of junk traffic launched against Brian Krebs in retaliation for his...

Fans looking for tie-ins between the various Star Wars properties spotted a ship that looks an awful like the Lothal rebels "Ghost" at :07....

The Black Friday Mac Bundle 2.0 is one of the Boing Boing Stores best-selling Mac bundles yet, and its about to come to an end. If you dont get your copy now, heres what youll be missing:This bundle c...

Boing BoingHere's a guide to the charities the Boingers support in our own annual giving. Please add the causes and charities you give to in the forums!Planned ParenthoodBecause we deserve health care...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe7-MYliEzMGulzada Ryskulova's musical version of the Manas epic -- a folkloric tale usually recited by Kyrgyz men -- is nothing short of amazing, as is the tale itse...

Shivan, a computer science student in Montreal, applied for a job at Amazon; the second round interview was conducted remotely by a proctor from an online service called Proctor U who insisted that Sh...

Publio Delgado provides jazz guitar accompaniment to an advertisement for Jones Big ASS Truck Rental & Storage: "In my yard, I don't care!"Here's the original, which now seems naked and bereft of wo...

Arthur Boycott borrowed a copy of Dr William B Carpenter's The Microscope and its Revelations from Hereford Library in 1886 or thereabouts. His granddaughter, Alice Gillett, just returned it. The 7,44...

Rio Tinto is a giant UK/Australian mining corporation that operates many facilities in Australia's remotest reaches, where there is no housing for workers, so the company ends up building "company tow...

Drew Magary offers The 2016 Haters Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog. I was on the Jersey Turnpike when I saw it. I was driving my family to New York for Thanksgiving and there, along the shittiest...

Distractify has thirty mall santas to be on the lookout for. There's plenty of listicle filler here, but would you just look at those vintage masked bastards. There's even a website dedicated to creep...

KINO demonstrates ways in which Tarantino's The Hateful Eight pays homage to John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing. (more…)...

As part of her Ordinary Women series, Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency examines the impressive achievement of Ada Lovelace, the mother of computer programming. You can also watch the Ordinary ...

Following the tragic fire in an Oakland warehouse space called Ghost Ship, engineer and designer Gui Cavalcanti put together a guide to help ensure that unconventional homes, studios, and galleries ar...

Israeli artist Uri Shapira creates beautiful photos and timelapse videos of chemical reactions and algae growth, generating beautiful patterns that seem otherworldly. (more…)...

"What's your handle, creep?" "Don't tell us to move to another channel!" "You sound like you're dying... why don't you go ahead and drop dead!" Trolling was alive and well on CB radios in the 1960s,...

BuzzFeed shared this awesome story about an Oregon artist named Crispin Young Wilson who created a stunning galaxy ceiling for a friends four-year-old son, Ben. Ben was anxious about having his own ro...

Visteon makes high-definition dashboard displays for instrument clusters, navigation panels, and entertainment systems. They also know the future is autonomous driving, and to help anxious customers...

I recently stumbled across Dutch designer Rommy Kuperus work and I cant get enough of it. Her purses and accessories look good enough to eat (literally), and theres a really great sense of humor to he...

Kirby Ferguson, who created the remarkable Everything is a Remix series, has a new podcast hosted by the Recreate Coalition called Copy This and he hosted me on the debut episode (MP3) where we talked...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new series, 12 Days of 2FA, in which every installment explains how to turn on two-factor authentication for a range of online services and platforms....

Xiaolizi is a design collective in Jiaozuo in Henan province, China; they've produced a remarkable line of gorgeous and moderately priced dieselpunk women's coats that are just on the line separating...

John Glenn, a war hero and the first American to orbit planet Earth, has died after being hospitalized in Ohio for the last two weeks. (more…)...

Social scientist/cybersecurity expert Susan Landau (previously) and Cathy "Weapons of Math Destruction" O'Neil take to Lawfare to explain why it would be a dangerous mistake for the FBI to use machine...

Evan from Fight for the Future sez, "Chelsea Manning has already spent more time behind bars than any other whistleblower in U.S. history. She's been systematically mistreated, subjected to torture, a...

Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong, Mario, The Legend of Zelda, and countless other videogame masterpieces, sits in with Questlove and The Roots....

The Data & Society institute (dedicated to critical, interdisciplinary perspectives on big data) held an online seminar devoted to Cathy O'Neil's groundbreaking book Weapons of Math Destruction, which...

Annabel Lector of Conjuror's Kitchen makes rather spectacular, macabre chocolates: gilded crow's skulls, kitten's skulls, conjoined fetal skulls, barn owl skulls and even a chocolate life-mask of Vinc...

In a thoughtful New York Times editorial, science fiction giant William Gibson mediates on the difference between the privacy that individuals have and deserve, the privacy that governments assert ("W...

An "authorized" reproduction of the legendary Voynich Manuscript is finally available in print form, published by Yale University from new photographs taken for the purpose. Yale's Beinecke Library ow...

The comedians performance is even Lin-Manuel Miranda approved:https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/806203896024694785...

Yesterday morning, Matthias Kirschner opted out of the "voluntary" full-body scanners at Berlin's Schnefeld, and discovered that "voluntary" means that "if you don't do it, they will barrack you endle...

We've posted previously about Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), the weird sounds in electronic recordings that some paranormal researchers insist are actually voices of spirits. But I didn't realize t...

IDNYC is New York City's ID card program, and it has served as a critical means for undocumented migrants to get identity papers that they can use to establish utilities accounts, bank accounts, and s...

Emergency response times in Zalgo county are superlative! [via]...

The Pantone Color Institute announced its "color of the year" and it is Pantone 15-0343, aka "Greenery."We know what kind of world we are living in: one that is very stressful and very tense, Leatrice...

In the (soundless) video above, @thumb_tani demonstrates his masterful coin balancing. (via Laughing Squid) pic.twitter.com/11TZp0IkBo— (@thumb_tani) December 3, 2016 1 pic.twitter.com/c5b29p...

Le Monde has published a new collection of documents from the whistleblower Edward Snowden, showing that the British spy agency GCHQ targeted the leaders of allied countries in Africa, as well as busi...

Bora Barroso created a compilation of imagery from postapocalyptic movies, creating the ultimate depressing-yet-curiously-liberating vision of human doom. A Tribute to the Post-Apocalyptic Cinema.Fi...

I can't wait to finally see Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch's documentary about Iggy Pop and The Stooges! ...

It's not bad. In fact, this is a triumph: a Christmas song written entirely by an artificial intelligence at the University of Toronto. Yet it has that uncanny neural network je ne sais quoi in spad...

If you arent already watching The CWs stellar musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, you should definitely check it out. You'll be treated to plenty more slightly demented musical numbers like t...

Miami-based artist Topher Cody makes T-shirts stenciled with bleach like these cool Overwatch designs. (more…)...

An anonymous reader writes, "(Anonymous) Macedonian designers have submitted posters calling for a vote against a dictatorship on the 11th December. Their motto "#GlasamProtiv [#VoteAgainst] is an ini...

If you were missing the classic Where You Lead theme song during Netflixs four new Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life mini-movies, this impeccably edited video is just what you need....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSCMwOiczCsQuadriplegic alcoholic John Callahan was one of the most controversial American cartoonists from the age of newsprint. Now he may finally be getting a long-a...

London-based designer Katheryn Benedict-Perri takes embroidered text to the next level with intricate overlapping letters using multiple colors. (more…)...

Writer and animator Natalie Gray creates a lot of great fan art, but one of her coolest pieces is this Harry Potter-themed What do wizards have in their pockets collection. The four GIFs represent the...

These bespoke tree-shaped ornaments by Forge Creative might look great hanging from a tree, but they would also be right at home on a mantlepiece or in a curio cabinet.Quoth Forge:These collectible tr...

Skier Mathieu Bijasson didn't think it was insane enough to ski down the steepest faces of the French Alps during the day, so he rigged up some skis and poles with LED lighting and did it at night. ...

The 88kncorbett Instagram account is a treasure trove of amazing photos of the most patient animals in the world.https://www.instagram.com/p/BMkYR5PgjHU/https://www.instagram.com/p/BL4I5DLgvSZ/https...

You can find more information on the Sandy Hook Promise website....

Azerbaijani artist Tnzale Memmedzade spent three years writing out the Quran in gold ink on transparent black silk, and the effect is just beautiful. (more…)...

While my wife was at work today, I had some fun modding our daughter's Magic SleepSuit, from imgurian Bruck. (more…)...

John Glenn, a war hero and the first American to orbit planet Earth, has been hospitalized in Ohio for over a week. (more…)...

John Glenn, a war hero and the first American to orbit planet Earth, has been hospitalized in Ohio for over a week. (more…)...

Texas passed a new regulation requiring "cremation or burial" of fetal tissue after a miscarriage or medical abortion, and to hear the lawmakers who passed this idiotic rule, this requires grieving wo...

A Pittsburgh-area man was charged with disorderly conduct after telling Verizon store staff that he was "definitely part of ISIS" and talking about ISIS on the store's demo handsets. When asked to lea...

I bought this foldable step stool in January and we use it a few times a week to get out of reach stuff in the kitchen. It's 11 inches high, and is only 1.5 inches thick when folded up. It has replace...

On Common Dreams, Paul Buchheit rounds up a ton of scholarly/economic papers on the ways that automation is coming to employment niches occupied by well-educated middle-class professionals, who face t...

James Cawley is a 50 year old Elvis impersonator from Ticonderoga, NY; his friend William Ware Theiss was costume-designer for the original Star Trek series, and left Cawley the blueprints for the ori...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAOj0H5c6YcLast year's Hello Barbie chatbot toy sent all your kid's speech to cloud servers operated by Mattel and its tech partner, but only when your kid held down ...

The Vorrh is Brian Catling, an accomplished visual artist's, first foray into novel writing. It is a magnificent display of world building, and perhaps sheer madness. The Vorrh is a vast, perhaps endl...

Neil Gaiman writes: "A little over a year ago I released my rarest, earliest, and hardest to find work -- books and comics -- through Humble Bundle to fund charities that do good work. People were al...

When you sign up for a Wells Fargo account, you're required to sign an arbitration "agreement" giving up your right to sue the company, and requiring you to have your case heard by an arbitrator paid ...

Fun remix of Gerry and Silvia Anderson's supermarionation classic Thunderbirds.Thunderbird 4 would have been mine. MINE....

Environmental lawyer-turned-Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick has a cool use for the new SEC rules requiring companies to disclose executive pay starting in 2017: he's going to impose special ta...

For the past week, Naked Capitalism has run a series of articles by transportation industry expert Hubert Horan on the economic shenanigans of Uber, which cooks the numbers it shows investors, drivers...

In much of the world, copyright ends 50 years after the creator's death, in some of the rest of the world, it ends 70 years after the creator's death; in the USA, things have stopped going into the pu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q85iELbijAk&feature=youtu.beDiguo's Luxury Royal Family Balance Syphon Coffee Maker is an amazingly elaborate coffee siphon, a brewing method dating to the 1830s whic...

Eset's report on Stegano, a newly discovered exploit kit, reveals an insanely clever, paranoid, and devastatingly effective technique used by criminals to infect their victims' computers by hiding mal...

Annoying song stuck in your head? This BrainCraft video explains that listening to it from beginning to end may free you from its burden. It's a technique based on the Zeigarnik effect, the tendency...

Firefighters and police have announced that they completed their search of Oakland's smoldering Ghost Ship warehouse, the artist community that burned during an electronic music party Friday night. A ...

If you're one of the 60% of Pebble employees who didn't get a job offer from Fitbit, the company's new owner, you're probably not having a great Christmas season -- but that trepedation is shared by 1...

Several years back, we posted about the wonderful site youarelistening.to, a strangely soothing mix of ambient music and police radio chatter (!) from various cities. Youarelistening.to isn't the only...

Published by the fine fringe culture explorers at Daily Grail, the new essay anthology Spirits of Place features stories by the likes of Alan Moore, Maria J. Prez Cuervo, Warren Ellis, Gazelle Amber V...

The Intercept continues its work analyzing SID Today, the NSA's internal employee newsletter, with a fresh release of 262 articles -- these are in addition to the 166 articles published last spring. (...

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 so much m...

Gabriella Coleman is the "hacker anthropologist" whose book on the anthropology of Anonymous is among the best books on hacking I've ever read; her new paper in Current Anthropology, From Internet Far...

Mr Robot is the most successful example of a small but fast-growing genre of "techno-realist" media, where the focus is on realistic portrayals of hackers, information security, surveillance and pri...

Mary (AKA @sapphicgeek) works in an Indiana comic shop, and Saturday, she met a customer, a distraught teen girl, looking for Supergirl. (more…)...

My pals in Creeper Lagoon are reuniting for the 25th anniversary of San Francisco's Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival in February! The indie troupe emerged in the early 1990s from Cincinnati and San...

The first formal modern anger room was Donna Alexander's 2008 experiment on Chicago's south side, where customers paid $5 to smash things she'd found set out on neighborhood curbs on garbage days -- n...

Snow White: A Graphic Novel reads like a silent movie. Matt Phelans cinematic re-telling of the classic fairy tale, film noir style, uses watercolor to soften the edges of the film genres brash tropes...

It seems younger NSA employees are bummed out by the agency's lying and lawbreaking and are leaving for private sector jobs. Former NSA Director Keith Alexander is sad about it, and blames Edward Snow...

"Note to Breitbart: Earth is not cooling, climate change is real and please stop using our video to mislead Americans."...

SethBling says: "I built an Atari 2600 Emulator in vanilla Minecraft using a couple thousand command blocks." Download the world and watch the technical video here....

The Independent reports that "more money was spent on vinyl than album downloads last week for the first time ever, new figures have revealed."The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) said vinyl ...

With some clever editing, YouTube user John C. Worsley helps the DS9 crew get into the holiday spirit with their rendition of Wonderful Deep Space Nine....

Indiewire critic David Ehrlich crafted this lovely video essay celebrating the best cinema of 2016....

Brazil-based artisan Guilherme Casagrande makes handcrafted wooden sunglasses from reused skateboard decks. (more…)...

On a brisk wintry day, this clever moose decided to use a car's exhaust to get a faceful of warm air. The best part is the car owner who keeps scraping his windshield. (more…)...

The Boing Boing Store's Gift Guide is full of ideas for pretty much anyone in your life like hipsterice cub trays, Xbox controllers, Halo Boards, and even diamond necklaces. As always, all products in...

Adrien Mauduit captured these noctilucent clouds above Denmark on not just one night, but two consecutive nights. He explains how he documented the unusual weather phenomenon: (more…)...

For years, entomologist Brandon Hopkins has argued for the establishment of a germplasm repository for cryopreservation of honey bee semen. Unfortunately, bee semen us very hard to collect and even ha...

Unlike traditional lighters, theSaberLightfeatures an electronic plasma beam that's both rechargeable and butane-free. This sleek lighter is even approved by TSA, so you'll never be stuck buying light...

Having settled into orbit around Saturn, the Cassini probe has begun returning new images of the gas giant. The BBC reports that it will be "making a series of daredevil maneuvers" in the coming month...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nViIUfDMJgSeth Bling built a functioning Atari 2600 emulator in Minecraft. Not just the processor, or the box, but the whole thing, complete with cartridges and a tele...

Spectrograms of dolphin calls are closer to written English than the signatures I'm able to scrawl on credit card machines in grocery stores. We really should stop messing with these people—who...

Nadieh Breme's Royal Constellations is a delightful starry visualization of a millenium of familial connections between European royals, and it gets right down to business: "Royal & aristocratic famil...

Mark Marcino writes, "Boingers might be interested in this new free 3-week course I'm co-teaching with UnderAcademy College founder Talan Memmott: How to Write and Read Fake News: Journalism in the Ag...

Two years ago, the NoPhone launched to rave reviews as the most minimalist yet secure handset on the market. The NoPhone Selfie is the long-awaited follow-up, adding the ability to picture the user th...

Veronica Birkenstock is Practical Employee Solutions, a company that boasts of having brought "over 40,000" cheap H-2B workers from 80 countries to the USA to work in "hospitality, landscaping, weldin...

I knew I was going to love writing a book about Bill Murray -- but I didn't realize that my favorite part of the whole process would be my collaboration with a comics genius. (more…)...

I knew I was going to love writing a book about Bill Murray -- but I didn't realize that my favorite part of the whole process would be my collaboration with a comics genius. (more…)...

To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war...

I discovered Alton Brown during the last few seasons of Good Eats, and I was instantly a fan. Youve got to appreciate someone who can make a good martini. Browns Monty Python humor and Bill Nye nerdin...

Except you, you badass. Welcome. (Airport greeting in Helsinki, Finland.)...

Three wind turbines installed at a cost of $107,516 in a Image of Port Angeles by brewbooks/flickr, Washington park are expected to generated $1.50 in electricity each month. That's 25 cents more than...

Asian Boss interviewed a couple of young North Korean defectors, who talked about life in the nation-sized cult. Starvation, public executions where everyone over the age of 12 is commanded to watch...

UPDATE: As I had cautioned, The Mirror indeed had its "facts" muddled. According to this October article in Vice, the photos seen here are actually from the woods around the University of Virginias Mo...

The ingenious design of the dippy bird heat engine is revealed in this thermal imaging video.The liquid inside dippy birds is called Dichloromethane. Commenters who were alarmed about the grave haza...

It appears to be a prop from the show Channel Zero, but I'm going to be spreading it virally with a caption about the plight of children born with supracutaneous dentata. [via r/wtf]...

City buses, utility trucks, snowplows, and police cars get in on the action on this icy street in Montreal....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTniw3nluYIThe Grammy nominations were announced today and along with Beyonce, Drake, Adele, and Kanye there was a nomination that went to music recorded by Ira D. Sa...

You might not know this, but the editors of Wikipedia maintain an automated list of all the world's cookies. The have everything from Germany's Aachener Printen to Neutrassian Zalgowafers, but somehow...

In a new experiment at the University of Washington, test subjects navigated a virtual maze without seeing it. The only input they had were cues delivered in the form of magnetic zaps to the backs o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Q_jpINtqIdj BC writes, "My best Christmas mashups from the past decade are collected for this year's Santastic (previously) holiday music sampler. You can also dig on...

The human population reached 1 billion in its first 200,000 years. It took just 200 more years to reach 7 billion. This data visualization video from the American Museum of Natural History presents ...

The unprecedented denial-of-service attacks powered by the Mirai Internet of Things worm have harnessed crappy, no-name CCTVs, PVRs, and routers to launch unstoppable floods of internet noise, but it'...

Private Snafu was the US Army's series of instructional cartoons from World War II, written and/or directed by the likes of Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, Chuck Jones, and PD Eastman. The voice of Priv...

Boeing stocks tumbled Tuesday after president-elect Donald Trump tweeted about canceling a $4bn Air Force One order. But it was a typical Trumpism: the number is plucked out of nowhere, and Boeing was...

More than 800 American energy and Earth science researchers have signed a letter to Donald Trump outlining six steps they're urging him to take to address human-caused climate change to protect Americ...

No escape from reality. (Corridor)...

reMarkable's 10.3" tablet has an e-ink display with a paper-like texture, a digital pencil with 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity, and promises to finally replace all that paper in your workspace....

A mere $5,700 (as of current writing) gets you the 1974 first printing of the game that Tactical Studies Rules used to change the world(s). (more…)...

"And Im proud to say that when we get there, it will be as the Alt-Warmth. Just think: under the old name, we couldnt even get anybody elected dogcatcher." (more…)...

Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: more than a hundred great ideas for prezzies: technology, toys, books and more. Scroll down and buy things, mutants! Many of the items use Amazon Af...

It's been six years since I quite Facebook and not a day goes by that I don't realize that my life is better for it. (more…)...

Soon-to-be-former Italian PM Matteo Renzi just lost a referendum he called on a set of reforms to Italy's constitution, promising to resign if he lost, which he did; many of Italy's far-right, trumpis...

Many "progressives" looked the other way while the Obama administration asserted unprecedented presidential powers, like the right to murder anyone the president feels like, anywhere in the world, usi...

Holiday shopping is in full swing, andthe Striiv Touchis one of the best gift ideas I've landed on. Its simple design works for females and males, and its wide range of features makes it suitable for ...

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Elite engineering and robotics design firm Boston Dynamics released this holiday video for the holiday 2015 season, and it holds up well in the weird year that followed. [via Laughing Squid]...

https://youtu.be/3vcqwq1fnHURoux the Pomeranian is best known for spectacular sneezes. (more…)...

I'm looking for feedback on this solar panel. I am looking to charge a 37 qt ARB portable fridge while rolling about Baja in my Vanagon. I believe this panel, with good sun, should out put more than e...

We have a large tree in our front yard. For the holidays I usually wrap a couple of strands of colored LED bulbs around its trunk. I can't put lights into the branches because my ladder isn't long eno...

Look, its Indian design! Everyone has heard of Japanese and Scandinavian design, but few know that India also has a long history of design. It doesnt permeate the culture as deep as Japan or Scandinav...

I knew I went to a conservative school, but I didn't anticipate getting 0/100 points for my assignment because the subject was inappropriate pic.twitter.com/aUysuztNH9— winter waverland (@...

This photo, frequently seen described as an ancestor of virtual reality goggles, depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his "teleyeglasses" in 1963. Gersnback, an inventor of such innovations as a combination...

The Pocket Tripod PRO had massive Kickstarter success in 2013, raising almost $85,000 in a single month. But this isnt just another case of pre-release product hype.This ingenious little device folds ...

This little dog patiently waits for its treat, but its impish human companion would rather trick it....

Amazon Go, an 1,800-square foot min-supermarket in Seattle, doesn't have human cashiers or checkout lines. Sensors and cameras see everything you add to your cart or bag and charge your account when...

This fellow cut the polarizing film from a $20 thrift store monitor and put film on a pair of eyeglasses to make a display that looks like a black screen to everybody but him. This is a good way to ...

Liftware makes two kinds of spoons - one for people with hand tremor, and another for people with limited hand and arm mobility....

Enjoy this "creature featurette" with director Gareth Edwards and Creature Effects Supervisor Neal Scanlan introducing us to the strange characters in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story....

Id like you to meet a man that I've worked with for over a decade. His artist name is Ekundayo and I'll be darned if I know what else to call him. He pours his life into his work - it's everything to...

I've never admitted this to anyone before but I feel especially comfortable with you.I was sitting in an oversized La-Z-Boy chair when it first saw this clip, and luckily there was no one around to se...

Start your own odditorium by spending $15,000 on "Mike & Ike - they look alike," a purportedly real two-headed calf taxidermy mount that was previously part of the the Museum of Lost Arts Internation...

This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.:Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, images of the American family at midcentury....

RAWIllumination.net announced today that a manuscript by Robert Anton Wilson has been found and will be published by RVP Publishers in the first half of 2017. The manuscript appears to be substantial,...

Back in the early 1900s, the German biologist Jakob Johann Baron von Uexkll couldnt shake the implication that the inner lives of animals like jellyfish and sea urchins must be radically different fro...

From the Akron Beacon Journal, January 1, 1948, as spotted by the esteemed curators of Weird Universe:...

Rev. Peyton of the Big Damn Band plays a three-stringed "Guitgun" that he designed and Bryan Fleming fabricated....

"Information Doesn't Want to Be Free" is my 2014 nonfiction book about copyright, the internet, and earning a living, and it features two smashing introductions -- one by Neil Gaiman and the other by ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an amazing, long-running open standards body that has been largely responsible for the web's growth and vibrancy, creating open standards that lets anyone make w...

Eric Heisserer adapted Ted Chiang's novella Story of Your Life as the screenplay Arrival. Both are brilliant, but in different ways. It wasn't easy.In all my draft work on the adaptation, I spent the ...

Muckrock has been sending Freedom of Information requests to state police forces to find out how they're using "cell-site simulators" (AKA IMSI catchers/Stingrays), and they hit the motherlode with th...

Detectives from Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit decided the easiest way to get around their suspect's careful use of full-disk encryption and strong passphrases on his Iphone was to trail him until he...

In SoundNet: Learning Sound Representations from Unlabeled Video, researchers from MIT's computer science department describe their success in using software image-recognition to automate sound recogn...

The Intercept's Sam Biddle asked nine tech companies if they would help authorities create a national registry of known muslims—one of president-elect Donald Trump's campaign suggestions. Only T...

The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's leading research centers for cybersecurity analysis, and they are the first port of call for many civil society groups when t...

Data journalists pulled 26,234 of Trump's 34,062 tweets (dating from Jun 1 2015 to Nov 17 2016) from the Twitter API and analyzed them for news-sources, producing a long, detailed analysis complemente...

Jan Hoffman writes about recent research into the effects on psychedelics such as psilocybin on anxiety and depression: "About 80 percent of cancer patients showed clinically significant reductions in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEzJTMf1ZF8&feature=youtu.beRobbo writes, "Peter Sellers recorded a series of performances, in a variety of voices, reciting the lyrics of popular Beatles songs. It i...

As things stand now, something nearly miraculous has happened: the protesters have won, indigenous people will not be forced at gunpoint to allow a danger to their drinking water that their settler ne...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwvjZGKwKvYIn Does The Online Card Payment Landscape Unwittingly Facilitate Fraud?, a new paper in IEEE Security & Privacy, researchers from the University of Newcast...

I look at this election not as a victory for Mr. Trump, who wins the election as the most unpopular candidate in perhaps the history of our country, but as a loss for the Democratic Party." -Senator B...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTAIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is an authoritarian war criminal who is part of the worldwide surge of trumpist leaders and hopefuls, including Philipp...

Yesterday, Wesley Clark Jr -- son of retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark -- met with North Dakota law enforcement officials on behalf of the 2,100 members of the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock g...

Though the October polls that predicted a great showing for the Pirate Party in the Icelandic elections turned out to be wrong, that election did end with a deeply divided parliament that has been una...

5 years ago, Boing Boing described James Gleicks The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood as "a jaw-dropping tour de force history of information theory... The Information isn't just a natural hi...

James Delingpole is an invective-hurling anti-climate science columnist who has candidly admitted that he doesn't bother to read scientific papers, calling himself a "an interpreter of interpretations...

"How am I gonna get this in there? Gimme my glove back!"...

Trump's Muslim database promise was extreme, even by Trump's standards; worse news, the US tech industry has built out a surveillance capability that would let him do it. (more…)...

Loot Crate is a totally different kind of subscription service that mails subscribers monthly boxes filled with curated geek, pop culture, and gamer paraphernalia. Its cult following awaits a box ever...

Steven Mnuchin, Trump's pick to lead the Treasury, worked for Goldman Sachs for 20 years. In 2008 Munchin and his partners founded a bank (funded in part by George Soros) that tried to evict a 90-ye...

Erik Knutzen of Root Simple tried out two ways to block telemarketers from calling his mother: the Sentry Call Blocker and Nomorobo.If youre in possession of an AARP card, you also probably have a lan...

Here's a Tumblr of tweets from Trump voters who are surprised that their President Elect is already breaking the promises he made to them. Some are angry that he is not prosecuting Hillary. Others are...

Enjoy the third and final part of this year's gift guide: toys! Also included are everything else that doesn't quite fit into our picks among the books and gadgets to enchant and enwonderize us in 201...

Every year, the Religious Liberty Project puts Festivus poles on the lawns of public buildings that sport Christian religious holiday symbols; this year, RLP's Chaz Stevens put a "Distrestivus" pole a...

Turns out that long stints in outer space affect levels of cerebrospinal fluid. That explains why many astronauts who had 20/20 vision before space missions needed glasses upon return, according to a ...

Australia's Westfield ultramarathon had a surprising entrant in 1983: a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young who defied all expectations to win the 500-mile race against a field of professional...

LEGO is reviewing this nifty Addams Family mansion as a possible box set. It even has Morticia on her rattan chair with a black fan. (more…)...

When the heat goes out during Finnish winter, it's a matter of life and death, so when two automated buildings controlled by Valtia systems suffered DDoS attacks that shut off the heat, Finns were und...

https://vimeo.com/71952791What happens if you allow a group of onlookers to do anything they want to you for six hours? Marina Abramovich found out in 1974 when she laid out dozens of items on a table...

Etsy seller Chet Phillips sells his amazing science-fiction/vintage Japanese matchbox art remixes as 5"x7" signed prints with mats and backing boards at $12 each. (via Kadrey) (more…)...

Google's Earth Outreach just published a series of nifty decades-long views of how world landmarks of changed, like this one of the Aral Sea from 1984 to present. Some of them are like watching slim...

VP-elect Mike Pence's political career has consisted of a series of attacks on the rights of LGBTQ people and women, and his new neighbors in the navy blue precincts of DC know it, and they want him t...

The University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (previously) continues its excellent work, this time with a deep investigative piece on a sneaky form of censorship in China's popular We Chat service, where me...

Last February, Carrier announced that it was offshoring its US air-conditioner manufacturing jobs to Mexico, despite having made a $7.6B profit that year, despite having received more than $6B in US m...

Hinterland's Pink Sea Urchin Jellyfish are a $13 set of three air plants (Oxacana, Scaposa, Medusa) set in 2-3.5" sea-urchin shells that you hang in a way that simulates jellyfish -- keep 'em misted a...

A pair of data-scientists in Washington State are convening a meeting of "Data Scientists, Data Science Enthusiasts, and Advocates for Civic Liberties and Social Justice" who want to figure out how "D...

Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash Broadway musical Hamilton -- which recounts the events of 240 years ago -- keeps looming large in our very current political discourse, from Hamilton's role in the establish...

Terrapin Joe built these animatronic laughing sailors. Buy a half dozen, secretly put them in your friends living room and set them to go off at 3am. They will enjoy the surprise!...

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It looks like this fellow has done this kind of thing before....

The UK lumpenproletariat will surely accept, nay, cheer, the fact that their betters are too well-bred to be expected to follow the same rules as the rabble.From The IndependentPoliticians have exempt...

The Snoopers Charter is the most invasive surveillance law ever passed by a "democracy", requiring service providers to retain records of virtually everything you do online and with your phone, and th...

We have officially entered the post-fact American era. Donald J. Trump presidential surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes, known for being one of the most wack in Trump's pack, explicitly said on public radio...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duG55M8t0sc&feature=youtu.beHere's the 32 minute video of my presentation at last month's O'Reilly Security Conference in New York, "Security and feudalism: Own or be...

I hope this isn't related to #Pizzagate. (more…)...

I'm at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA today (I'm on staff) at the Positive Platform Design Jam, where we had Cornell historian Louis Hyman give a presentation called "Unnatural Capitalism: ...

The Telegraph created an interactive data visualization of cannabis use in countries around the world. Here are the winners: Iceland - 16.2% (prevalence of use as percentage of population) US - 16.2% ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has disclosed that it has won two key victories for clients who'd received the FBI's notorious, gag-ordered National Security Letters -- a form of secret warrant tha...

Aaron at the Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "Every dollar you give during the Power Up Your Donation campaign meanstwo dollars for EFFthats double the support for buildingprivacy-enhancing too...

Earlier this week I posted this video of a motorcyclist paying back an asshole in a car. Here's a somewhat similar video. This one features a driver who cuts off a motorcyclist, then flips the bird ...

Since Daguerre's first images of the moon in 1839, we have sought to capture the essence of the heavens above us through photography. We built observatories equipped with bigger mirrors and better cam...

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to walk on the moon, was medically evacuated out of Antarctica where he was on a tourist expedition. No specifics about his condition have been reported.The to...

A man found a strange round, gelatinous blob in a bag at a train station in Maroochydore, Australia. Concerned that the object was a breast implant belonging to a murder victim, the citizen contacted ...

To be specific, it's a model of a first year Mustang coupe, known as a 1964 1/2 model. From LEGOLAND Florida Resort where it's on permanent display:Made out of 194,900 LEGO and DUPLO bricks, the gia...

The Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) developed a control algorithm enabling Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot to walk across a short stretch of rocky terrain. It's much har...

Michael Geist writes, "The global music industry has spent two decades lobbying for restrictive DMCA-style restrictions on digital locks. These so-called "anti-circumvention rules" have been actively...

This isn't a self-aware Trumpkin or media supplicant, or an internet anti-semite putting names in brackets. She's an American who voted for Donald Trump. She believes not only that millions of illeg...

When he was 16, Martin Wallace worked at a gas station with a man named Greg. Wallace says Greg showed no outward signs of being a serial killer, but he turned out to be one.From Wallace's essay in Th...

The Barnacle is a replacement for the Denver Boot (that wheel-hugging device used to immobilize a car that's racked up too many parking tickets). The Barnacle attaches to the car's windshield by suc...

A flashlight review that begins with the promise "I'm about to hike through a remote canyon to an abandoned mine, and I gotta tell you there's a storm raging outside" should end on an interesting no...

A flashlight review that begins with the promise "I'm about to hike through a remote canyon to an abandoned mine, and I gotta tell you there's a storm raging outside" should end on an interesting no...

Using Japanese sharpening stones of various grits and considerable prices, Junskitchen set out to try and make an edge of a $1 kitchen knife. The results are impressive—but how long will they ...

Reflectacles, the hyper-reflective Ray Ban-style $75 glasses frames that Scott Urban is Kickstarting have a new feature: now you can get ones doped with materials that reflect the infrared light that ...

The ARMOR-X Mini Flexible Phone Tripodis a smartphone tripod that is designed with flexible legs to rest on virtually any type of surface. Other tripods have proved useless unless I conveniently have ...

The smirking, villainous pharma-hedge-douche-bro Martin Shkreli (previously) bought the rights to the anti-parasitic drug Daraprim -- used to treat malaria, a disease that disproportionately affects t...

The New York Times indulged a bit of wishful thinking last week when it reported on Trump's surprise that his likely secretary of defense Marine Corps General James Mattis thought torture didn't work,...

Kratom (previously) is a widely used herb that has been very effective in treating opioid withdrawal and other chronic, hard-to-treat conditions -- it also became very controversial this year because ...

Brandon Hall, a Michigan man who worked Donald Trump's election campaign, forged signatures on a petition in 2012 and faces up to five years in jail. At the time he was working for judicial candidate ...

Isis Shiffer just won a Dyson design award for the EcoHelmet, an ingenious paper helmet that folds down to the size of a banana but offers significant noggin protection. (more…)...

The perils of modern online life even affect the Man of Steel. Jimmy Olsen's snap run through Facebook's evil autotagging is more observant than Lois. Lots more brilliant stuff by Brakken here. (more&...

The Empowerment Plan is a Detroit-based organization that creates manufacturing jobs making EMPWR coats that double as sleeping bags:Via designboom:the empowerment plan is a detroit-based, nonprofit...

Bubble porn is where a non-nude photo or video gets a swiss-cheese-like opaque overlay that gives the illusion of nudity. Since its meme heyday, the practice, known as bubbling, now uses translucent o...

It was a projection mapper's dream: a white canvas 30 feet high and wider than a football field. Megavision Arts was able to make the most of it with a dizzying and hypnotic projection mapped lights...

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: "During the campaign, Donald Trump told the American people that he was going to change Washington by taking on Wall Street. Donald Trumps choice for Treasury scre...

Deji writes, "Gambia is a small country but this story is pretty crazy. The president, who is seeking his 6th term, is using Trump rhetoric surrounding the 'rigging of elections.' People are voting by...

It's come to this, folks. The office of the United States that oversees ethics in government is sending sarcastic tweets to president-elect Donald J. Trump. Yes, he of the still unreleased tax returns...

Heather videoed this charming collection of solar-powered bobbleheads....

A series of realistic illustrations focused on the zoology and taxonomy of Pkemon by Joshua Dunlop. (more…)...

After briefly scrambling every available neuron my brain had to offer, this VW Van shaped tent makes perfect sense. You wanted to go camping in your VW camper, but it wouldn't start! Instead you take ...

In a curious study, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles showed that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) -- altering brain activity by zapping specific regions with magnetic pu...

Fantastic work from Italian street art collective Collettivo FX....

Today President-Elect Trump took to Twitter in an attempt to assure the world he will not let it look like he is making money off the Presidency. Via the New York Times:Noah Bookbinder, executive dire...

Typewriter historian Martin Howard (previously) writes, "I was able to pick up a rare and exquisite Waverley typewriter (1896) this summer in Scotland and have just the other day posted it to my websi...

Sinclair Lewis' chilling political novel of a journalist's struggle against a fascist regime is available free via Feedbooks....

A staggering array of gadgetry gets posted to Boing Boing every year, which makes picking just some of the stuff seem like a big job. But it's easy when you just ask yourself: what made our lives bett...

We may be living in a "post-truth culture where feelings trump facts (and Trump ignores facts) but the tabloids have been living there for years, and this weeks tabloid flights of fantasy are no diffe...

You dont need to get an advanced degree and take out massive loans to become a coder. This bundle of 10 courses was designed to teach anyone to code at home for less than it costs to go out for dinner...

EDM (electrical discharge machining) cuts through thick plates of steel within +/- 0.0001".From Core 77:In the variant of this production method known as wire EDM, the cutting is done with a thin br...

Miles McDermott is a modern-day millennial hepcat from Phoenix who has set up the most impressive 1960-vintage pad I've seen outside of a soundstage. (more…)...

Legendary Phoenix getting in on the timely political commentary. Darth Sidious hasn't been seen in public since the election. Coincidence? (more…)...

Stefano Furlani lives near the beach, and as a father-son project he started collecting rocks for collages. The results are pretty neat! (more…)...

What happens when a professional cartographer needs a break? For Sasha Trubetskoy, it meant making a map of the Bay Area based on Urban Dictionary entries. Berzerkely, Freakmont, Pathetica, and The Yo...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.NOW MORE THAN EVER, JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, to support the comic strip, and to get exclusive early access to...

Here's a GoPro view of mountain bike racer Dan Atherton, who broke his neck in 2010, riding down a treacherous mountain trail.From the https://youtu.be/DhBPFr3RRso description:See firsthand what it'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvM8n408iYwSo far 864 people in the UK have reported instances of "webcam blackmail" to police in 2016, more than double the number of reported incidents in 2015. (mo...

Paris-based artist Anastassia Elias created these papercraft cityscapes inside toilet paper cores. It was part of November's World Toilet Day, and it was commissioned to bring awareness to the sad s...

https://youtu.be/a9aM7WPXyLYA crabby dog chased a half-dozen walruses (or are they sea-lions?) relaxing on a dock (or is it a pier?) Whatever....

Last week, the San Francisco Municipal Light Rail system (the Muni) had to stop charging passengers to ride because a ransomware hacker had taken over its network and encrypted the drives of all of it...

People need toilets, or the poop starts piling up, so video games that are supposed to simulate human environments need toilets to attain willing suspension of disbelief. (more…)...