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07:56 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Georgia criminalizes routine security research
Georgia is a hub for cybersecurity research, with leading university computer science and security programs and a new $35m state cybersecurity research center underway; but the Georgia state legislatu...
07:27 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Mac OS update adds support for fancy external video cards
Matt Burns at TechCrunch: "The additional horsepower isnt needed for general use, but the added graphics cards supercharge Macs for VR rendering and gaming. Only a handful of eGPUs are compatible with...
06:49 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing 'The Unbitten Elbow' by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Reader recommended, and absolutely delightful, The Unbitten Elbow depicts the fervor and zelotry of the Soviet state as it rots from the brain to the heart.Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky is another fantasti...
06:02 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing California coffee cups to get cancer warning
The National Coffee Association failed to demonstrate that a known-carcinogen produced during the coffee brewing process is not harmful. A judge in the Bear Republic ruled coffee cups need to carry a ...
05:52 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Trump administration will require every visitor to the USA to divulge all social media identities
Today, the US State Department published a notice in the Federal Register seeking comment on a plan to require 15,000,000+ foreigners who get a US visitor visa to disclose all their social media ident...
05:44 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction?
What do you call someone who derives pleasure from the bread of affliction?A matzochist.###Why do we have a Haggadah at Passover?So we can Seder right words.Share your own in the comments! Happy Passo...
05:34 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing How to fold World Record-setting paper airplanes
John "The Paper Airplane Guy" Collins shows us how to fold "Suzanne," the aircraft that set a 2012 world record for flying 69.14 meters. "I bring paper airplanes into classrooms and start talking ab...
05:12 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook deathwatch: a decade ago, it was impossible to imagine the fall of Myspace
In 2007, the Guardian's Victor Keegan published "Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?" in which he enumerated the unbridgeable moats and unscalable walls that "Rupert Murdoch's Myspace" had erected ar...
04:48 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Referendums and low-engagement voters produce catastrophic outcomes (but what about corruption?)
The idea of representative democracy is that we pay lawmakers to give serious attention to the nuances of policy questions and cast votes on our behalf in accord with their understanding of our prefer...
04:44 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing This is the first 3D visualization of a melting snowflake
Developed by Jussi Leinonen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, this is a visualization of the first ever 3D model of a snowflake melting in the atmosphere. Eventually, a deep understanding of how snow ac...
04:19 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Oklahoma teachers walk out, sensing weakness from GOP legislators who caved on taxing the oil industry
Oklahoma teachers will walk out en masse this coming Monday, despite a historic agreement from the ailing state legislature to give them a long-overdue pay raise which will be paid for by increasing t...
02:52 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Five years after Google conquered and abandoned RSS, the news-reader ecosystem is showing green shoots
RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media; we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay informed) for nearly two decades now; in 2005,...
02:10 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing "Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo": Game designers review the CIA's declassified tabletop training game
Douglas Palmer got wind of a classified CIA program to create board games to train spies, so he used a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to get copies of two of these games: the first is c...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Learn Python for a price that works for you
Hailed for its versatility and user-friendly design, Python is one of the best first languages for aspiring programmers to learn. However, not all of us have a natural affinity for programming, but yo...
01:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing When Joan Rivers and Martha Stewart decorated matzo houses for Passover
The late-great comedienne Joan Rivers was a frequent guest on Martha Stewart's daytime show. One year for Passover, they built gingerbread-like houses with sheets of matzo and decorated them with othe...
12:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Confession: You can't trust a junkie with a new laptop
There's still plenty of life left in my 2015 MacBook Pro. But sooner or later, I'll ditch my computer in favor something new.The nerd in me is wicked excited with the notion of using an ultra light la...
11:30 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Earthworm jerky exists, unfortunately
Today on "WTH is Walmart trying to sell my friend Terry through a Facebook ad"**: Earthworm Jerky. (Last time it was funeral potatoes.)At first, I thought he was pulling my leg. But he's not one to jo...
11:00 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing People from 70 countries imitate the sounds cats and dogs make
Not everyone around the world agrees that cats say "meow" and that dogs "woof." Watch in this Conde Nast Traveler video as 70 people from 70 countries share their interpretation of how pets sound. I...
10:30 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Patti Smith 'Horses' concert documentary announced
In 2015, Patti Smith went on tour with her band to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her debut album, Horses. Now it's been announced that a new documentary titled Horses: Patti Smith and her Band has...
10:22 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Will Smith gets friendzoned by Sophia the human-like robot
Sophia is an advanced social robot in her second year of development by Hanson Robotics. In this video, she's on a date in the Cayman Islands with actor Will Smith. He turns on the charm, goes in fo...
10:21 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Carrie Fisher slap the pretty right off of Oscar Issac's face
A lot of Star Wars fans were butt hurt over the Last Jedi's treatment of iconic Star Wars characters. Others, not so much--I'm one of those. I think it was a fun film that pushed the franchise forwa...
08:00 am PDT - Fri, March 30, 2018
BoingBoing Pope won't apologize for brutal treatment of Indigenous Canadians
For more than a century, the Canadian government was responsible for perpetuating horrendous abuses against native peoples who were unfortunate enough to be living in an area where a imperial colonial...
08:41 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Adnan Sayed of the Serial podcast wins right to a new trial
As listeners of the Serial podcast know, Adnan Syed was a Baltimore, Maryland high school student sentenced to life in prison for the 1999 murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee. Now, he's getting a...
07:59 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a cheetah jump into vehicle during a safari
"A cheetah decided to explore our vehicle on a safari I was leading for Grand Ruaha Safaris (in the Serengeti National Park," wrote wildlife photographer Peter Heistein on Instagram. "Another one ju...
06:25 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Help crowdfund the Harlem Cryptoparty and 100 unlimited, privacy-protecting wifi hotspots for Puerto Rico
https://vimeo.com/124474617Calyx is an amazing nonprofit, privacy-oriented activist ISP (they were the first ISP to successfully resist a secret Patriot Act warrant); they are notable for offering a...
06:22 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this bizarre Komputer Tutor supercut of the phrase "floppy diskette"
An absurd and wonderful example of semantic satiation, starring the "Komputer Tutor" Kim Komando, best known for her bestselling 1990s instructional videos sold via infomericial. And in case you wer...
05:40 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Hacking particle accelerators for unexpected science
As advanced atom smashers like the Large Hadron Collider come online, older ones are sometimes abandoned or, better, used for unexpected science experiments. Examples range from recording high-speed...
04:54 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Science determines mysterious source of that knuckle cracking sound
There are bubbles in your joint fluid that POP! when a joint is "cracked." Via Phys.orgUsing a mathematical model alongside a geometrical representation of the joint, experts from Paris' Ecole Polytec...
03:39 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Timely video about "dark patterns" the tricks websites use to manipulate you
If you've tried to delete your Facebook account and found yourself mysteriously lost and frustrated, welcome to the world of Dark Patterns, the website and app trickery designed to make you agree to...
03:39 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Timely video about "dark patterns," the tricks websites use to manipulate you
If you've tried to delete your Facebook account and found yourself mysteriously lost and frustrated, welcome to the world of Dark Patterns, the website and app trickery designed to make you agree to...
02:18 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Throw out metal grill brushes, say doctors
The sharp, thin metal bristles of grill brushes end up in your food and then in your throat, from where there is "no surefire way of removing them," say surgeons. Throw them out.That was the case for ...
02:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Make your WordPress site stand out with 170 themes
The web may be vast, but competition to get noticed is still fierce. That's why it's essential to ensure your site is responsive, sharp, and SEO-oriented, so you can attract visitors and retain them. ...
01:56 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Paypal blacklists payments for a World Socialists pamphlet about the Iranian opposition
The Struggle Against Imperialism and for Workers' Power in Iran is a $3.50 pamphlet by Keith Jones of the Socialist Equality Party of Canada; published by Mehring Books and distributed by the World S...
01:34 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Private equity killed big box retailers, leaving empty big boxes across America, and architects have plans
The traditional explanation for the retail apocalypse is that Walmart and Amazon killed malls and big-box stores, but that account is incomplete -- the real story includes massive asset-stripping by d...
01:05 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing There's a notorious Nazi concentration camp guard living in New York City and ICE won't deport him
Jakiw Palij is a convicted Nazi war-criminal who helped train the force charged with murdering every Jew in Poland, guarded the Trawniki forced labor camp -- where 6,000 prisoners were murdered in a s...
12:51 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter
Palantir is the surveillance company founded by authoritarian "libertarian" Peter Thiel; their business-development employee Alfredas Chmieliauskas was part of a cohort of Palantir employees who worke...
12:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Sinks that look like turntables
Check out these groovy turntable sinks. The collection is called "Vinyl" and it's the creation of Italian designer Gianluca Paludi for Olympia Ceramica. It appears, appropriately, that speakers are an...
12:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Larry King on "To Tell the Truth" game show (1981): Watch
In 1981, the four To Tell the Truth panelists -- Soupy Sales, Pat Collins, Henry Morgan, and Peggy Cass-- weren't yet familiar with Larry King. Watch as they try to figure out who is the man behind ...
12:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing Funeral potatoes are not as grim as they sound
Walmart has been advertising to my friend Terry in his Facebook feed. He showed me screenshots of the ads. They were all strange (octopus, anyone?) but the first one was particularly odd, one neither ...
12:10 pm PDT - Thu, March 29, 2018
BoingBoing TIL: You can buy bottles of fake bubbly for boat christenings that are designed to break
For more than 15 years I've lived in Alameda, a lovely island city in San Francisco's Bay Area. Because we're surrounded by water, there's a boating community. Thus, we have marine stores. I am not pa...
10:01 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Racist rant wins South African white woman 2 years in prison
A few years ago Vicki Momberg launched into a racist rant as a black police officer attemtped to help her. Shockingly, the video went viral. For verbal racist abuse a South African court has given her...
09:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Trump fires VA Sec. Shulkin and tweets his replacement pick: WH doctor Ronny Jackson
President Donald J. Trump today fired Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin, then tweeted that the White House doctor Ronny Jackson is his nominee to replace. (more…)...
08:33 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this Pakistani boy's WWE fan videos with his action figures wrestling in a homemade ring
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Monday Night Rock. [cue heavy metal theme music] Hosted by Asad Vlogs. (more…)...
07:52 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Russia poisoned Skripal at home with nerve agent, say UK police
The first contact with the nerve agent novichok for former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter was right at home, say British police -- literally at the front door. (more…)...
07:18 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Dodger Stadium springs mid-game on-field sewage leak
An exhibition game between the California Angels and the Los Angeles Dodgers was cancelled mid-game due to sewage on the field.Via SF Gate:The exhibition finale between the Angels and Dodgers was cu...
07:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this trick shot artist hit an egg at 300 yards while standing
Sharpshooter Kirsten Joy Weiss got a brand new .22 and hit an egg three football fields away while standing. The hit happens at 8:15 for the impatient. (more…)...
06:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Now Peeps are being enlisted to surveil our children
As if the Elf on a Shelf wasn't creepy enough, now they've put Peeps in the faux-surveillance game.A new book and plush Peep sold together as Peep on a Perch is encouraging parents to start a new "Eas...
05:19 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a Chinese space station fall to earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=hFWaEdXjvlwLaunched in 2011, Tiangong-1 was China's first space station. In the past seven years, it hasn't gotten a lot of use only two crews of a...
05:13 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Bloodsucking mice are attacking the albatrosses of Midway Atoll
Now that is not a headline I thought I'd type when I got up this morning.Nonetheless, science! So, here are the grisly details: Black-footed and Laysan albatrosses have thrived for decades on Midway A...
05:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing ACLU steps in to defend anti-Trump mural in New Orleans
A mural quoting a sexual assault comment made by the President of the United States led to a threat of jail time from the city of New Orleans. Neal Morris, owner of the property and commissioner of th...
05:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing The vagina/vulva plush you didn't know you needed
Behold, The Great Wall of VaginaI Heart Guts has a long history (since 2005!) of making super-cute anthropomorphic plushies in the shape of body parts (organs, glands, joints, etc.). Well, they've jus...
05:08 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing The city of Madrid will help police dogs to live their best
While police dogs are typically treated well by their handlers, they don't have the best life a doggo could imagine. While much of their training is framed as play and through task/reward, stuff pups ...
05:08 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Madrid will help police dogs to live their best dog lives
While police dogs are typically treated well by their handlers, they don't have the best life a doggo could imagine. While much of their training is framed as play and through task/reward, stuff pups ...
05:03 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Firefox users: keep your personal information safe from Facebook with this browser extension
As our Cory Doctorow points out, the tools to protect yourself from non-consensual online tracking are already out there. He uses and recommends the EFF's free Privacy Badger browser plug-in to keep h...
04:57 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing A mystery Instagram account is only following people named "Paul Williams"
A 19-year-old named Paul Williams discovered someone named "LisaJames419419" had started following him on Instagram. He idly checked her account and found ... she was following dozens and dozens of ot...
04:50 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing This hog ain't no pig watch how he tidies up the room
Paul is a VERY good pig. Watch as, at his owner's behest, he cleans the heck out of his belongings, putting them back in his toy box, where they belong. I'd give so much if I could teach my dog to d...
04:46 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing How to evaluate secure messengers and decide which one is for you
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is running an excellent series on the potential and pitfalls of secure messaging app -- this is very timely given the ramping up of state surveillance and identity t...
04:17 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Data Defenders, a media literacy game about data collection and targeting for kids in grades 4-6
Mediasmarts (previously), a Canadian media literacy nonprofit, has just released Data Defenders, a timely video game about data collection and targeting aimed at kids in grades 4-6. (more…)...
04:04 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing The Wall Street Journal on the decade since the crash: inequality, giant banks, regulatory failures, looming catastrophe
It's been ten years since the financial crisis, when barely regulated banks destroyed the world's economy, kicked off wars, and directly and indirectly killed millions. (more…)...
03:57 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Police investigate the reported stabbing of Corey Feldman only to find no wound
Superstar and master of many forms of art Corey Feldman believes he was stabbed. Admitted to the hospital in stable condition, law enforcement claims no physical wound was observed.https://youtu.be/fO...
03:44 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Robbie Barrat's AI-generated nude paintings make Francis Bacon look like a genteel pre-Raphaelite
Robbie Barrat is generating warped, surreal paintings using artificial intelligence and the results are really something.Usually the machine just paints people as blobs of flesh with tendrils and limb...
03:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Machine learning projects for kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2drwelVD4QwDale Lane's Machine Learning for Kids project uses extensions to the popular Scratch programming environment to teach the basics of machine learning to chi...
02:44 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Young people hate Facebook because it forces them to have a single identity
Social media has always had a real-names problem. Social media companies want their users to use their real names because it makes it easier to advertise to them. Users want to be able to show differe...
02:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Social media use in 2018 charted
Here's a chart of social media usage from Pew Research. YouTube and Facebook are by far and away ahead of the pack, but Facebook's been stagnant for a few years, at least in the U.S.Facebook and YouTu...
02:27 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese jaywalkers are identified and shamed by facial recognition, and now they'll get warnings over text message
Last April, the industrial capital of Shenzhen installed anti-jaywalking cameras that use facial recognition to automatically identify people crossing without a green pedestrian light; jaywalkers are ...
02:12 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Teachers on four continents stage mass strikes
In the USA, there are tens of thousands of teachers in open rebellion, in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, Kentucky, and things are heating up in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Colorado. (more&hell...
02:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing How to make furniture porn
Self-taught stop-motion filmmaker PES made his first animated short in 2001. It was a saucy little number called "Roof Sex" that featured furniture getting it on. The film won several awards and its...
02:10 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing See 1372 robots dab simultaneously
A team from Italy recently broke the Guinness World Record for the "most robots dancing simultaneously." At an event in Rome, 1,372 Alpha 1S robots danced and dabbed in unison earning Team TIM S.p.A...
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Become bilingual on the move with uTalk
Learning a second language is no easy feat, but taking the time to do so not only opens up opportunities for travel and tourism but can also produce a host of positive benefits for your mental health....
01:59 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Lobbyist for AT&T and Verizon publishes a threat to "aggressively" sue any states that pass net neutrality laws
Jonathan Spalter is the CEO of Ustelecom, a telcoms lobby group funded by AT&T and Verizon; in an op-ed on the lobbyists' site, he threatened to "aggressively" sue any state that passes net neutrality...
01:41 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Chart generates pitch ideas for writers
Halimah Marcus and Benjamin Samuel's "Handy Chart Automatically Generates a Pitch for Your New Novel"The Electric Literature auto-publicist pitch generator does all that work for youand its easy to us...
01:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Will Ferrell and Joel McHale visit the Hammer Museum
"It's definitely art. I would say... I think." -- Joel McHaleNo, it's not a museum of hammers. That's in Alaska.What UCLA's Hammer Museum does have is an exhibit called Stories of Almost Everyone th...
12:12 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Very cute hedgehogs announce NPR's Tiny Desk Concert contest
Hedgehogs dream of musical glory in these charming announcements for NPR's annual Tiny Desk Concert competition. (more…)...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Occam's Razor, Actually-Man, & More!
FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.ACTUALLY, you can join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra com...
11:12 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch military swarm drones lock on and surround a target
Autonomous weapon bans (previously) are currently being debated, but in the meantime, the US Department of Defense continues work with its Perdix Micro-Drone project. Ostensibly for surveillance, it...
11:10 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Tin foil hats for humans and cats
Protecting your noggin from undesired electromagnetic fields and thought control requires something reflective, yet fashionable. Everyone knows that the tin foil hat has been the go-to choice for year...
10:57 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Websites archive vintage cassettes
At Vintage Cassettes, "you will find the beatiful pictures of sealed compact cassettes." Cassettes from 1970-1990 are covered the most. Collecting vintage cassettes is a great hobby and brings all goo...
01:35 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping secretly met in #Beijing for historic first visit
Kim Jong Un secretly met with China's Xi Jinping in Beijing, an historic first visit by North Korea's leader. (more…)...
12:45 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing California Sues Trump Over Citizenship Census Question
The state of California filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 U.S. Census form. (more…)...
12:30 am PDT - Wed, March 28, 2018
BoingBoing The Atlantic explains why it hired a columnist who wants a quarter of American women put to death
Last week, The Atlantic hired Kevin Williamson, a conservative famous for his flamboyant bigotry, a flair most famously exhibited when he wrote that women who have abortions should be hanged along wit...
10:06 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Law professors and computer scientists mull whether America's overbroad "hacking" laws ban tricking robots
Robot law pioneer Ryan Calo (previously) teamed up with U Washington computer science and law-school colleagues to write Is Tricking a Robot Hacking? -- a University of Washington School of Law Resear...
09:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing The Internet Archive is hosting a symposium on John Perry Barlow on April 7 (and I'm emceeing)
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow died last month, and though his death had been long coming, it's left a hole in the hearts of the people who loved him and whom he inspired. (more…)...
09:05 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Cops routinely unlock phones with corpses' fingers
Since 2016, when an FBI agent first used a dead suspect's finger to unlock his phone, police forces across the USA have made a routine practice of unlocking phones using suspects and victims' dead fin...
07:31 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Holocaust survivor's death in Paris being investigated as a hate crime
As a child in 1942, Mireille Knoll escaped the capture of Jews by police in occupied France during The Vlodrome d'Hiver roundup. The majority of those arrested during the roundup were sent to Auschwit...
07:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Apple doesn't give a shit about your kids
Apple doesn't give a shit about your child's education. But then, neither does any other tech company: they only care about what they can sell to schools and parents.This likely isn't news to anyone r...
07:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this incredible restoration of an extremely rusty butcher's knife
YouTuber Andre Will Do It found a butcher's knife that was coated in rust, with pitting over 2 millimeters deep on both sides. He almost gave up before eventually restoring it to excellent working co...
07:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Canadian University launching law program that draws from Indigenous culture
After close to a decade of preparation, University of Victoria is preparing a law program that will incorporate the laws, customs and traditions of indigenous cultures from around Canada with a tradit...
07:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Yuri's Night L.A., April 7: Bill Nye, astronaut Nicole Stott, David Pescovitz and the Voyager Golden Record
On Saturday April 7, celebrate the wonder of space exploration during the Yuri's Night bash taking place under the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Center! Special guests include astro...
06:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing HP Lovecraft meets Billy Joel
Julian Verland's "HP Joelcraft," an unholy union between the spine-tingling words of HP Lovecraft's "Nemesis" and Billy Joel's "Piano Man" music. Thro the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, ...
05:56 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Some idiot vandalized the brand new David Bowie statue in England
An asshole with a spray can vandalized a bronze David Bowie statue just two days after it was unveiled in Aylesbury, England. The individual wrote "Feed the homeless first," "RIP DB," and made a gener...
05:36 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Weird and funny vintage photos of the Easter Bunny
Intrepid vernacular photography collector Robert E. Jackson curated a delightful selection of creepy, fun, and funny vintage photos of the Easter Bunny. More at Flashbak....
05:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Cufflink lighters
I generally don't wear French cuff shirts, but I like the idea of Uncrate Supply's Lighter Cufflinks, $70. Problem is, I'd most certainly fiddle with them, leading to scorched sleeves or worse....
05:12 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Fight back against Facebook overcollection with EFF's free Privacy Badger plugin
Privacy Badger is EFF's free privacy plugin; it blocks trackers and ads from companies that practice "non-consensual tracking," in which your browser's "do not track" instructions are not honored. (mo...
05:08 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing A self-winding winder will wind your self-winding watch
This automated watch winder automatically winds my favorite watch!I rarely wear a watch, I just don't remember to put them on any more. My favorite watch is a self-winding one and when I did go to put...
04:14 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing The business-logic of Silicon Valley means that it can only make creepy, surveillant, pointless "smart" sex toys
People who buy sex toys generally want "high-quality, ergonomically designed toys that are intuitive to use," but Silicon Valley keeps delivering "innovative" and commercially unsuccessful sex toys wh...
04:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing A detailed, cross-disciplinary syllabus for a "Cybersecurity Law and Policy" graduate course
University of Texas law professor Bobby Chesney has developed a detailed syllabus for a course in "Cybersecurity Foundations: Law, Policy, and Institutions" that is aimed at grad students from law, bu...
03:28 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing No charges for cops who pinned Alton Sterling to the ground and executed him
Surprise! Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry declined to criminally charge the two white Baton Rouge police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man, in J...
03:08 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Attacks that unmask anonymous blockchain transactions can be used against everyone who ever relied on the defective technique
In An Empirical Analysis of Traceability in the Monero Blockchain, a group of eminent computer scientists analyze a longstanding privacy defect in the Monero cryptocurrency, and reveal a new, subtle f...
03:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing The 'Seinfeld' theme song was different for every episode
In 2017, Great Big Story talked to the creator of the Seinfeld theme, composer Jonathan Wolff (whose URL is amusingly https://seinfeldmusicguy.com), to tell the story behind the iconic song. He says...
02:13 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Zuck to Parliament: Drop dead
Mark Zuckerberg has responded to the summons from the Mother of All Parliaments to explain the way that Cambridge Analytica was able to plunder his company's databanks: he's told them to go fuck thems...
02:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing For 13 years white geologist Clarence King maintained a second identity as a black man in New York
American geologist Clarence King led a strange double life in the late 1800s: He invented a second identity as a black railroad porter so he could marry the woman he loved, and then spent 13 years liv...
01:42 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Zuckerberg to Facebook users: you agreed to this
Vanity Fair's Maya Kosodd points out the consequences of tapping or clicking through the little popups when you sign up for Facebook: these are contracts that let Facebook do everything that you're no...
01:16 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Corgi thrown from sky
What a sad and enraging video; I hope they track down the monster responsible. As posted on Twitter but embedded below, since they'll presumably remove take it down. [via]...
01:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Intelligent engineering and planning brings (some) life back to the Aral Sea
The Aral Sea is one of the worst human-authored environmental disasters in history. It used to be the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake, until the Soviet Union in the 1960s diverted its two main ...
12:51 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing New Zealand: we'd expel Russian spies but there don't seem to be any here
New Zealand set about expelling any Russians who might be spies, but couldn't find anyone who fit the profile. Apropos of nothing, there is a subreddit called "Maps Without New Zealand" dedicated to w...
12:45 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing What social media is now
Simple comedy, perfectly executed, by voice actor SungWon Cho. Here's his YouTube channel....
12:30 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing A small star grazed our solar system 70,000 years ago
Some new calculations suggest that a small red-dwarf star -- accompanied by a smaller brown dwarf -- flew so close to our solar system 70,000 years ago that it passed through the Oort Cloud.This blows...
12:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Dung beetles save us from drowning in poop
"A pile of elephant dung can attract 4,000 beetles in 15 minutes." It's a fact that you never knew you'd want to know, but trust me, you totally do. This short video on how dung beetles save us from ...
12:16 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Kids write sketch comedy and grownups perform it live
San Francisco's Killing My Lobster troupe teaches sketch comedy to kids in a program through the 826 Valencia writing center. Then, as KML writes, grownups "take their work, rehearse it, add zany prop...
12:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy this very relaxing surfing video from Java
Jenya Ivkov documented a tropical paradise surf safari, and even the waves are nice and relaxing. It includes some lovely footage around the island. (more…)...
11:00 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Why NordVPN is the last VPN you'll ever need
The fight for net neutrality has been an arduous one ever since the FCC voted torepeal a set of Obama-era regulations that protected against data throttling and blocking by ISPs back in December of la...
12:11 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this induction forge turn metal red-hot in 12 seconds
Timothy Miller of Spirit Ironworks shows how to use a induction heater to heat metal extremely quickly. (more…)...
12:10 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Trailer for Elevation, a film on how drones will change cities
Dezeen interview leading architects and designers around the world for Elevation, a new documentary on how drones will change cities. Speculative architect Liam Young points out, "Now that drones ar...
12:08 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Couture platform Crocs
Demna Gvasalia, luxury brand Balenciaga's creative director, has reimagined Crocs by adding a five-inch thick sole to them.Of course, the main difference between the two pairs of shoes, besides the pl...
12:05 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Body language expert analyzes Stormy Daniels' appearance on 60 Minutes
Dr. Jack Brown is a body language expert. On his site Bodylanguagesuccess.com, the Las Vegas physician shares his analyses of the nonverbal communication exhibited by people in topical videos. I've be...
12:03 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Africa is littered with abandoned poorly-planned aid projects
What Went Wrong? is a citizen journalism project started in sub-Saharan Africa to document all the unsustainable aid projects started by Westerners who fail to follow through after their PR blitz. Jou...
12:00 am PDT - Tue, March 27, 2018
BoingBoing Discover the joy of watching a guitarist hear Stevie Ray Vaughan for the first time
It's easy to undervalue how much joy music can bring into a life.Rafael is a guitarist from Guantanamo, Cuba. He doesn't have reliable access to the Internet, so a lot of the music that we take for ...
11:53 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Human Grey Poupon stain Ethan Couch to be released from prison
Being rich might not buy you happiness, but it can get you out of prison pretty damn fast, even if you kill four people. In the holy-shit-what's-gonna-kill-us-today fast-paced world that we live in, i...
11:14 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Kickstarting a print revival of Amazing Stories, the world's oldest sf magazine
Ira Nayman writes, "I'm the Managing Editor of Amazing Stories, which was the first true science fiction magazine (Hugo Gernsback published the first issue in April, 1926; yes, the Hugo Awards were na...
08:53 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Stormy Daniels files defamation lawsuit against Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
"Defendants plainly intended to prevent American voters from hearing Plaintiff [Clifford] speak about Mr. Trump," the suit says.Stormy Daniels has amended her lawsuit against Donald Trump to say Trump...
07:57 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing ICE uses Facebook's backend to hunt immigrants, with help from Palantir
Public records requests have shown that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- who have continued and intensified Obama's program of mass deportations and separation of families under Trump -- use...
06:38 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Trump denies Stormy Daniels claims via WH Press Sec, but hasn't tweeted a word
Trump's White House spokesman 'strongly, clearly, and consistently' denied Stormy Daniels' affair claims the day after her interview with 60 Minutes aired. (more…)...
06:35 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Invisible, targeted infrared light can fool facial recognition software into thinking anyone is anyone else
A group of Chinese computer scientists from academia and industry have published a paper documenting a tool for fooling facial recognition software by shining hat-brim-mounted infrared LEDs on the use...
06:20 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Cyber-arms-dealer Grey Heron really, really doesn't want you to know about the connections between them and the disgraced Hacking Team
When Grey Heron surfaced this month selling anti-Signal and anti-Telegram surveillance tools at a UK trade show for cyber-arms-dealers, sharp-eyed journalists at Motherboard immediately noticed that t...
06:07 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Gorgeous scrap-electronics wearable cyberpunk assemblages from Hiroto Ikeuchi
Tokyo designer Hiroto Ikeuchi creates amazing wearable cyberpunk assemblages out of scrap electronics and other odds and sods. (more…)...
05:56 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Women (but not men) with high GPAs are less likely to get job offers
Ohio State sociologist Natasha Quadlin set out to study the effect of high academic achievement on women's employment, so she created 2,106 fictional job applicants, half male, half female, across a s...
05:49 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing NY's Gov Cuomo : Jewish people 'without rhythm'
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo joked about how folks of various religious faith dance. Evidently Judaism is dead last.Via the Root:The 60-year-old governor, who is facing re-election this year, ma...
05:32 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing How Russian investigative journalists working for precarious free press outlets exposed the "troll factory"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r_VAxvu4l8St Petersburg's Internet Research Agency -- AKA "The Troll Factory" -- is in the news since Robert Mueller indicted 13 of its employees, but it first came ...
05:21 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Some hotel room doors can easily be unlocked with a piece of paper
"Using only the paper pizza menus that were pushed under our door during the day, I can shim open our hotel room door defeating both the striker and the top swing arm latch in under 30 seconds," wri...
05:07 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing A patchwork of state "incompetence" laws cost tens of thousands of Americans their vote every year
States have a patchwork of arcane, antiquated laws that disenfranchise citizens deemed to be "incompetent," "incapacitated," "idiots" or "insane persons." Tens of thousands of people -- especially eld...
05:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing 2008 was the earliest use of the word "mansplain"
Rebecca Solnit's 2008 essay "Men who explain things" popularized the concept and the general awareness of this gentlemanly practice, but the word itself was not used therein. Instead, "Mansplain" was ...
05:02 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Deer semen as currency
Last month in Texas, Ana Lisa Garza, a Democrat running for a state House seat, received a campaign donation of deer semen valued at $51,000. The semen is stored in straws that are worth $100 to aroun...
04:48 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Freaky orange snow falls on parts of Eastern Europe
Pats of Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, and Moldova was covered with orange snow this weekend. The odd hue was caused by sand blown into the atmosphere from the Sahara Desert that mixed with snow ...
04:31 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Jim Nabors rap-sing his pitch for "Gomer Pyle, USMC" (1964)
"I'm better than any piss-ant who ever lived."Jim Nabors, who died last year, apparently recorded this fantastic clip to promote his new television series, "Gomer Pylse, USMC," to TV execs and possi...
04:21 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing You can own the actual furniture from Mad Men
Screenbid is holding an online auction for furniture, props, and other items seen on Mad Men. The high ticket items are Don's 1964 Chrysler Imperial (asking bid $40,000), Don's box of secrets from Ada...
04:14 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing The LEGO 'Surfer Van' is gnarly
This LEGO Camper Van is far more accessible than the VW branded one.Growing up in Southern California instilled a love of all things camper van in me. My daughter loves our VW Westy so much that she c...
03:35 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing List of meteorites that hit people, houses, and other objects
Courtesy the International Comet Quarterly, here's a list of meteorite strikes that focuses on situations where the meteorite hit something -- ranging from houses to cars to mailboxes and even a dog. ...
02:46 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 07
Here's part seven of my reading (MP3) (part six, part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015's Hieroglyph: Stor...
02:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing The psychological design tricks that McDonald's trusts to tempt you into buying its preferred menu items
McDonald's deploys a number of design tricks that are intended to tempt you to buying from its more expensive, higher-margin new menu: they're largely trivial and obvious (putting up big pictures of t...
02:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing The psychological design tricks McDonald's uses to tempt you into buying its preferred menu items
McDonald's deploys a number of design tricks that are intended to tempt you to buying from its more expensive, higher-margin new menu: they're largely trivial and obvious (putting up big pictures of t...
02:00 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing How to learn the Adobe Creative Cloud without breaking the bank
If you have aspirations of becoming any sort of digital designer, you'll need to get comfortable with Adobe Creative Cloud, a leading suite of design and editing software hailed by creative gurus. Tha...
01:42 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Rail barons and the new gilded age: one-percenters travel in style by hitching private "super-luxe" railcars to Amtrak trains
The Wall Street Journal profiles rich "train buffs" who buy vintage Gilded Age railcars and refurbish them, then pay to have them hitched to Amtrak trains and pulled between their city houses and thei...
01:22 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Poll: Facebook is the least trusted custodian of private information, majority of Americans do not trust it
A Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2,237 subjects found that the majority of Americans (59%) "do not trust Facebook to obey US privacy laws." (more…)...
12:26 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Kitchen knife made from aluminum foil
kiwami japan (previously at Boing Boing) shows us how to turn a pack of kitchen foil into a ready-to-chop kitchen knife. See also the pasta kitchen knife and the chocolate kitchen knife....
12:13 pm PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing $1 piano vs $1000 piano
I enjoyed the recently-viral comparison of a $600 craiglist piano with Yamaha concert grands, but was disappointed with the lack of experimental rigor. Thankfully, a more scientific comparison is no...
11:43 am PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Lumberjanes 8: families, they f*ck you up
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11:42 am PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Stormy Daniels tells all
In an interview aired last night on CBS, Storm Daniels described her affair with Donald Trump and the threats she received to stay quiet about it.Watch the video and read the transcript at CBS News....
11:36 am PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Die With Me: a chat app that only works when you have 5% battery life remaining or less
Dries Depoorter & David Surprenant's Die With Me is a chat app available for iOS and Android, but only if your device is on its last legs: "The chat app you can only use when you have less than 5% bat...
12:01 am PDT - Mon, March 26, 2018
BoingBoing Cool new art project/magazine from Singapore: EYEYAH!
While it sure is a sight to behold, theres much more to this magazine than meets the eye. I met Steve and Tanya, the duo at the top of the Singapore counterculture scene best known for curating Kult, ...
09:24 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Flat earth-preaching rocketeer finally gets off the ground
You likely read about "Mad" Mike Hughes in the news last year you know, when you weren't busy stockpiling canned goods and potassium Iodide tablets to help deal with the existential dread that's cu...
04:30 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing London police finally admit they fed intel to UK construction cartel to build illegal blacklist of labour organisers
It's been six years since investigative journalists published their expose accusing London's Metropolitan Police of colluding with the UK's construction cartel to blacklist workers who complained abou...
04:12 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Services that deliver the same functions as Facebook, for after you #DeleteFacebook
After you #DeleteFacebook (here's step-by-step instructions, because they make it damned hard), you'll be wanting to replace the services it provided like instant messaging, event planning, and social...
03:58 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Enamel origami unicorn lapel pin
There's too much to chase, these days, so deputize yourself. The Origami Unicorn Lapel Pin [Amazon] evokes three cool things for me: Blade Runner, pride, and this very website. It's $10, 1.5" wide, 2m...
03:44 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Secrets of the World's Greatest Hitchhiker
After the Argentine economic collapse in 2001, Juan Villarino realized that he was probably going to be poor for the rest of his life; he tried moving to Belfast and working low-waged jobs, but couldn...
03:24 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Utah passes America's first "free-range kids" law
After years of free-range kids campaigning, a state legislature has taken heed: Utah just passed the Child Neglect Amendments, affirming that common activities like letting your kid walk to school or ...
03:09 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Republicans and Trump kill anti-wage-theft rule, will funnel your taxes to companies that rob and endanger workers
The Obama-era Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule was intended to prevent companies with a history of wage-theft and unsafe working conditions from getting federal government contracts; the GOP in the S...
02:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing This converter transfers your old cassettes to MP3
Whether you were an avid collector back in the day or simply inherited a collection from your parents' mixtapes, you likely have a stash of cassettes you're hanging on to for nostalgia's sake. And, wh...
01:33 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Zodiac killer's unsolved code "behaves like fake ciphers" and therefore probably a ruse
A statistical analysis of the unsolved Zodiak killer cipher shows that it is like fake ciphers and unlike true ones, such as the Zodiak's other, cracked ciphertext. In the chart above, created by Tom ...
12:50 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Dashcam auto accident footage recreated in video game
Welcome to the convergence point in a venn diagram of video games, youtube and J.G. Ballard.A very short comparison between BeamNG and reallife traffic accidents. That's pretty much how much attenti...
12:36 pm PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Mesmerising stroboscopic Easter egg designs
"No computer graphics tricks were used in this video," writes Jiri Zemanek of Czech Technical University in Prague.Various patterns are generated in MATLAB using mathematical equations similar to on...
11:58 am PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Nissan spent years trying to swipe a domain name
Uzi Nissan registed Nissan.com for his computer business 25 years ago, long before the web was of interest to big corporations. Later on, the car manufacturer Nissan knew his ownership was legitimate ...
01:20 am PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Platypuses sweat milk, use electricity to see underwater, and are composed 100% of wtf
Every time I think I understand how weird platypuses are, I obtain additional information that further weirdifies them.Popular Science has a great little piece that kicks off by talking about a new st...
01:16 am PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing On the psychological value of "griefbots"
Can a "griefbot" help you mourn?In recent years a few computer scientists have created chatbots of deceased loved ones, by training AIs on transcripts of the deceased's online utterances. There's the ...
01:11 am PDT - Sun, March 25, 2018
BoingBoing Trump Administration moves to stop transgender members of the military from honorably serving their country
In its latest bigoted move against anything that doesn't share DNA with a loaf of Wonder Bread, the Trump Administration unveiled a new policy on Friday that will all but eliminate the ability of tran...
07:38 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing There are two Amazon results for the search term "healing crystal dildo"
Exhibit A (above) is the Jovivi Handmade Natural Rose Quartz Gua Sha Scraping Massage Tool Massage Wand For Acupuncture Therapy Stick Point Treatment. It is 10cm long, $14, and comes with a free bag.E...
06:41 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing 11 year-old Naomi Wadler's moving speech at the DC 'March for Our Lives'
Watch an 11 year-old give a powerful speech. I cried....
05:41 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Fox News explains why Mr. Rogers was an "evil, evil man"
Fred Rogers is the subject of a documentary and a biopic starring Tom Hanks, both out later this year. Though most Americans assume he's a national treasure, he's widely loathed by conservatives who...
05:05 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Meme star "Hide The Pain Harold" takes trip of lifetime to Manchester, England
If you want to express a uniquely compelling mix of superficial happiness and deep melancholy, there is nowhere better to go than Manchester, England. "Hide the Pain" Harold (AKA Hungarian model And...
04:16 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Stormproof survival matches light in awful weather
Matches that will light just about anyplace there is oxygen can come in really handy.https://youtu.be/BQAkZYYdXkUKeep this waterproof case of storm matches in your survival kit. I have one in my campe...
03:54 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Jimmy Kimmel got a colonoscopy on camera
Jimmy Kimmel turned 50 recently, the age when men and women are encouraged to get their first colonoscopy. Instead of having the exam done privately, he chose to do it on camera in the hopes of enco...
03:41 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Guccifer 2.0 identified as Russian intelligence officer
Surprise! The hacker who delivered all those stolen Democratic National Committee emails to Wikileaks turns out to be a Russian intel officer.The Daily Beast has the story:Guccifer 2.0, the lone hacke...
03:40 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing How a cow-clicking parody game harvested Facebook user data
Back in 2010, the video-game designer and scholar Ian Bogost created Cow Clicker, a withering satire of Farmville and other clicker games that were, at the time, wildly popular on Facebook. (Wired wro...
03:23 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Technology is landscape in Yuri Shwedoff's art
I love Yuri Shwedoff's subdued, atmospheric renderings of vestigial technology and the people who still see it, still wear it. The lansdcape wears it, too, and it evokes for me a deeper relationship w...
02:53 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Precocious 6-year-old Scottish boy can Irish dance like nobody's business
Dance like America's watching, Oscar! ('Cause they are!)This is from the Steve Harvey-hosted show, Little Big Shots....
02:00 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing 10 e-books for mastering DIY electronics with Arduino
Contrary to what you might think, you don't need to be a scientist or programming prodigy to create robots and DIY electronics. Thanks to the Arduino platform, anyone can get their feet wet building w...
01:54 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing UK Information Commissioner's Office raids Cambridge Analytica's London office
The London offices of soi-dissant Facebook mind-control sorcerers Cambridge Analytica were raided by the UK Information Commissioner's Office, after a judge issued a search warrant for material relate...
01:53 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Your passports are full of tech
In close to a decade of work as a full-time journalist, I can't recall a single instance where I referenced my work for one outlet at another. There's a few reasons for this.First, outside of an occas...
01:42 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Cambridge Analytica became a US powerhouse thanks Mercer's laundered money and a judas goat named John Bolton
After interviewing Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie and other CA sources and reviewing leaked documents, the Washington Post has pieced together the story of how the dirty-tricking ...
12:55 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing These modern-day 1920s' style swimsuits are for any body
Self-proclaimed tomboy surfer Mel Wells of Portland, Oregon was inspired by the modest, one-piece bathing suits from the twenties to create her own line of similarly-cut swimwear. Her company is calle...
12:54 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing NASA's got a computer model for predicting landslides
Landslides are bad news. In parts of the world where heavy, sustained rains can rapidly give way to flash flooding, they're responsible for tragic loses of life, property and transportation infrastruc...
12:54 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing You can have a giant lollipop made of your face
This is what separates us from the animals: tutti-frutti flavored lollipops in our likeness. The Face Licker is the latest bespoke product from quirky UK online retailer Firebox who also makes face cu...
12:52 pm PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing People who make their own mechanical watches
Here's Chris Baraniuk on people who make their own mechanical watches, from scratch: an intricate and delicate traditional craft that is, for once, not lost to time.He started reading forums, research...
01:42 am PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing NYT: Uber's autonomous vehicles are crap, requiring constant human intervention
The New York Times reports that Uber's autonomous vehicles require human intervention every 13 miles, on average, while Google's go 5,600: they were "not living up to expectations months before a self...
01:42 am PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing Uber's autonomous vehicles require frequent human intervention
The New York Times reports that Uber's autonomous vehicles require human intervention every 13 miles, on average, while Google's go 5,600: they were "not living up to expectations months before a self...
12:41 am PDT - Sat, March 24, 2018
BoingBoing A tour of the manipulative, creepy bullshit Facebook pulls to stop you deleting your account
Ramy Khuffash takes us on a journey through the dark patterns, emotional manipulations and annoying hurdles Facebook uses to prevent users from deleting their accounts. I hope this doesn't become a co...
09:09 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing This $2 illuminated magnifier will allow you to see tiny things
I have three or four of these Lighted Hand Held Magnifiers. And at just $2.16 including shipping on Amazon, why not. It works with 3 x AAA batteries (not included) to power the two bright white LEDs, ...
07:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing The oil industry just told a judge that climate change is undeniably real, but they still found a way to weasel
Judge William Alsup in San Francisco is presiding over a case in which California cities are suing the big oil companies over the climate-related disasters they're experiencing; Judge Alsup asked for ...
06:57 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Watch "Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future" (1985)
Before Max Headroom shilled for Coke and collaborated with the Art of Noise (below), he starred in this fantastic and prescient 1985 UK TV movie about a dystopic future. This brilliant bit of cyberp...
05:50 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Life-size animatronic T-Rex bursts into flames at dinosaur theme park
A life-size animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex at a Colorado dinosaur theme park went down in flames yesterday. Zach Reynolds, co-owner of Royal Gorge Dinosaur Experience, says it was probably caused by ...
05:42 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Artist David Henry Nobody Jr. on how impersonating a wealthy Trump fan "kind of drove me insane"
"I INHABIT IMAGES" is the Instagram bio chosen by David Henry Nobody Jr., the playful yet apt moniker of New York artist David Henry Brown Jr. Nobody's artwork often involves being totally engulfed b...
05:34 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Massive cruise ship sliced in half to embiggen it
Silversea Cruises has sliced their massive Silversea ship in half so that they can inset a 15 meter (50 feet) extension and increase the ship's capacity by 15 percent. While this kind of thing is comm...
05:25 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Children not getting things quite right
I feel kinda bad about enjoying this video of kids smashing trikes into things, and other minor mishaps. This did not stop me from watching it, however....
05:17 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing DIY model rocket with drone nosecone for vertical landing
RC Lover San built this killer model rocket that uses a standard engine to launch before firing up its nosecone quadcopter to stick a vertical landing. "Landing a Rocket Vertically, Without Being a ...
05:17 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing DIY model rocket with drone nose cone for vertical landing
RC Lover San built this killer model rocket that uses a standard engine to launch before firing up its nose cone quadcopter to stick a vertical landing. "Landing a Rocket Vertically, Without Being a...
05:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing A $16 pad to stop stray cat litter from migrating about the house
This wonderful litter trapping pad keeps litter from being scattered all over my home.I figured out my cat needed a 2nd litter box, and felt pretty smart. A few days later my home office was full of l...
05:03 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Rodney Brooks on the present and future of robotics & AI
Rodney Brooks is the father of the Roomba, the founder of iRobot, and the creator of both the Baxter and Sawyer product lines from Rethink Robotics. Hes arguably the worlds most accomplished roboticis...
05:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Friday Tunes: The Imagined Village
The Imagine Village is what you'd call a super group. Over the years, its lineup has included members of the United Kingdom folk music royalty such as Billy Bragg, Eliza & Martin Carthy, Simon E...
04:59 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Watch woman torture husband with relentless Alanis Morissette impressions
Well, can you feel it? My poor, poor husband.I Morissetted him for over a month.But let me ask you this, how the hell could I ever stop? pic.twitter.com/R6UVdjmHuL— Lisa Shmeesa (@LisaRieffel) ...
04:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing School superintendent arms students with rocks as protection against school shooters
Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone," says David Helsel, superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "If an armed intruder ...
04:45 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing The incredible science illustrations of Paul Mirocha
I met science illustrator Paul Mirocha through a personal Discord server I set up and when Paul started posting his illustrations in the "Show your creations" channel, I was blown away. His style remi...
04:28 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing How to get food in Japan without knowing how to speak Japanese
This is a fun video introduction to feeding yourself in Japan, even if you don't know Japanese. Really, it's pretty easy to get food in Japan if you're a foreigner, but this video shows you differen...
04:13 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing The worst Halloween animatronic (NSFW, NSFL)
Did the scene in the new IT movie where Pennywise bites Georgie's arm, only for the camera to cut to an exterior shot of the drain, leave you frustrated and hankering for more? If you want to dwell ...
03:49 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Geometry teacher breakdances for caramel apple pie
This cool geometry teacher didn't take offense when a student told him his class was boring. Instead, he asked her, "Would it help if I breakdanced?" She said "Yeah," and even offered to bake him a ...
03:09 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt
Naomi Klein's l(ooooo)ongread in The Intercept about the state of play in Puerto Rico is the comprehensive summary of the post-Maria fuckery and hope that has gripped America's colonial laboratory, th...
03:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing What happens when you tack $80 in cash on corkboards
Zarinah Agnew lives at the Red Victorian, a modern-day commune in San Francisco's Haight neighborhood. Six months ago, as an experiment, she and her roommates thumbtacked $80 in cash on three differen...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Stripping the music from this 'Spider-Man 3' scene makes it even more uncomfortable to watch
Strip the funky music from this Spider-Man 3 scene, add some more "realistic" audio, and Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) just seems like a cocky douchebag strutting down the street. Awkward.Ok, he seem...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Certify your design skills with this trio of training courses
Companies are always looking for creative ways to reach their audiences, and oftentimes, this involves designers whipping up stunning images and photos to make the connection happen. As such, having a...
01:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Greeting cards Silicon Valley geeks will surely appreciate
Designer Irina Blok lives in Silicon Valley and is the creator of Google's now-iconic green Android logo. A couple of years ago, she started producing Only in Silicon Valley, a line of on-point greeti...
12:02 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Michael Bolton lip synching Gangsta's Paradise
There's a new TV show where celebrities lip synch to other people's songs, and they've put out a clip of Michael Bolton uneasily mouthing Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise to offer a taste of what's in st...
12:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Gad Elmaleh's new comedy special 'American Dream' is worth a watch
There are a lot of comedy specials on Netflix and I do my best to watch them all, as I have a voracious appetite for seeing professional comedians perform their craft.Now, I don't normally do this b...
11:56 am PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Ketchup slices: shaped like cheese singles but look like fruit leather
Los Angeles-based food entrepreneur Emily Williams is hoping that the next best thing since sliced bread is... sliced ketchup. With her business partner Thac Lecong, she's currently crowdsourcing fu...
11:06 am PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Street style photographer Bill Cunningham left behind a secret memoir
When legendary (and deeply private) New York Times street style photographer Bill Cunningham died in 2016, he left behind a photo archive valued at $1M. His family soon discovered he left the world an...
04:40 am PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Craigslist personals shut down indefinitely due to recently passed 'FOSTA'
The personals section of Craigslist was shut down indefinitely by its management on Thursday, a response to Congresss passage of a law that holds websites liable for users who misuse personal ads. Tha...
04:40 am PDT - Fri, March 23, 2018
BoingBoing Congress passes FOSTA, Craigslist personals vanish. 'Casual encounters' & 'missed connections' gone.
The personals section of Craigslist was shut down indefinitely by its management on Thursday, a response to Congresss passage of a law that holds websites liable for users who misuse personal ads. Tha...
10:46 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Trump NatSec advisor HR McMaster to resign. Fox News analyst John Bolton to replace.
This is the darkest imaginable timeline. (more…)...
10:23 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Russian nerve agent attack may leave Skripals with 'limited mental capacity'
The military-grade nerve toxin attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia may have left the victims with 'compromised mental capacity,' a British judge said on Thursday. It is unclear whether the...
09:40 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Flight crew member smuggles 9 pounds of cocaine worth $160K in his pants
A Fly Jamaica Airline crew member tried to smuggle $160K worth of cocaine in his pants, from Montego Bay into John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. His ingenious transport method for the ...
09:21 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this powerful #MarchForOurLives video spot. See you Sat. March 24.
We see these lawmakers representing the NRA, and not their constituents. We see our leaders making excuses and refusing to act. On Saturday, theyll see US. pic.twitter.com/7OGttnRSsz— March Fo...
08:29 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Dave Pell on "The Flight of the Zuckerberg"
The inimitable Dave Pell, managing editor of the Internet, shares 20 quick (and brilliant) insights about the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. Here are a few:2. Facebook is constantly urging you ...
07:16 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Genetic analysis reveals that bizarre extraterrestrial skeleton isn't extraterrestrial
This is Ata, a bizarre, tiny mummified skeleton found in a deserted mining town in Chile's Atacama Desert in 2003. Just six inches tall, Ata has been described as an extraterrestrial, unidentified pri...
06:53 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Earwigs' incredible "origami" wings inspire robotic gripper design
Earwigs can fly but they mostly live underground, intricately folding their wings into a surface area that's 10 times smaller than when they're opened up. According to new research, the folds "cannot...
06:52 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Gun-porn turns to horny-porn in the search for new digs
Earlier this week, YouTube updated its policies surrounding what sort of gun-related nonsense people are allowed to get up to while using their services. Selling gun parts? Outta here. You wanna show ...
06:45 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Ukrainian war hero detained for maybe trying to start a coup
Nadiya Savchenko's worn a lot of hats (including furry ones) over the past few years. She was military pilot in the Ukraine Air Force and a training officer for a volunteer Ukrainian infantry unit dur...
06:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Pouring water down a 165 foot well sounds surprisingly odd
At the Nuremberg Castle in Bavaria, Germany, there is a 50 meter (165 foot) well. The delay between when water is poured into it and its splash at the bottom delivers a surprising thrill of anticipa...
06:27 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Johns Hopkins University seeks DMT psychonauts who have met machine elves!
Neuroscience researcher Roland Griffiths at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is leading a scientific study on "the experiences of people who have had encounters with seemingly autonomou...
06:17 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing The Rich and the Normal
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06:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Nifty $5 power outlet tester
Use code QAXI6QOK at check out and get this power outlet tester for $5 on Amazon. It'll indicate if an outlet is wired correctly and, if not, what the problem is....
05:58 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Zuckerberg talks about how important Facebook privacy is in 2009
Yowza. Here's a 2009 BBC interview with Mark Zuckerberg, with an excerpt below. Reporter: So who is going to own the Facebook content, the person who puts it there, or you?Zuckerberg: The person who...
05:42 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Charges dropped against Turkey's presidential thugs who were filmed brutally beating protesters in Washington
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Washington DC last year, he brought along his gang of goons beat protesters so brutally that nine were hospitalized. US prosecutors dropped charge...
05:34 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Data shows young people are free speech advocates, but mainstream support for censoring "anti-American" speech is rising
America's right-leaning pundit class is really worried that young people, especially students, have become "illiberal" and "intolerant" of free speech because they heckle and protest the likes of Rich...
05:26 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Children's book about Mike Pence's gay pet rabbit storms Amazon
A childrens' book about a fictional gay bunny belonging to Mike Pence has stormed Amazon, displacing the memoir of fired FBI chief James Comey from the #1 slot and outpacing another childen's book abo...
05:22 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Dropbox has some genuinely great security reporting guidelines, but reserves the right to jail you if you disagree
Dropbox has published a set of guidelines for how companies can "encourage, support, and celebrate independent open security research" -- and they're actually pretty great, a set of reasonable commitm...
04:59 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook says giving Cambridge Analytica info on 50 million people wasn't a breach. It was a feature
Writing for Bloomberg Businessweek, Paul Ford says Facebook's "not-a-breach" of personal information on 50 millions of its users is just the latest example of why it's time for a digital protection a...
04:55 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing MS Paint enamel pin
Studio Cult sells a large enamel pin in glorious effigy of MS Paint for $18.3" x 2 5/8" metal alloy with 3 pins on reverse side Thickness varies from 2mm - 3mm 28 soft enamel colors Silk scre...
04:54 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing A proposal to stop 3D printers from making guns is a perfect parable of everything wrong with information security
Many people worry that 3D printers will usher in an epidemic of untraceable "ghost guns," particularly guns that might evade some notional future gun control regime that emerges out of the current mov...
04:26 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Meltdown Comics, a Los Angeles landmark, is shutting down
Last night I learned that one of my favorite things about Los Angeles -- Meltdown Comics on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood -- is closing its doors after 25 years. It was always much more than a comic b...
04:10 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Bozo the Clown's big red shoes have shuffled off this mortal coil
A number of fellas have played Bozo the Clown over the years. Frank Avruch was the best. The world became a little bit less joyful earlier this week in the wake of his death at the age of 89. Avruch...
04:05 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's Russia inquiry lawyer quits
John Dowd, the lead attorney for President Trump in the Russian inquiry, quit today. Here's Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, in the New York Times:Mr. Dowd, who took over the presidents legal team...
04:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing These 'naked pendulum dances' are quite the feat
This is Akira 100% and he likes to play with balls, silver ones. Wearing just an oversized golden sequined bowtie, this Japanese entertainer removes that metal tray covering his junk at the perfect ...
03:59 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Orthodox Rabbi declares cloned pork kosher
Yummy! Cloned meat is not subject to the same dietary restrictions as normal, factory farmed pork says Rabbi Yuval Cherlow of the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization.Via JTA:A prominent Orthodox rabbi in I...
03:40 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Tinkercad has a nifty Arduino simulator
Tinkercad is a web-based 3D design application. It's free and easy to use. I've been using it for years to design models for 3D printing. What I didn't know until recently is that Tinkercad also has a...
03:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the Philharmonic Turntable Orchestra remake classical music with vinyl
In this video, a room full of deejays (including a few world champs) create a cacophony of noise by using vinyl to reconstruct classical music. They call themselves the Philharmonic Turntable Orches...
03:09 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing John Bolton starred in strange video asking Russia to loosen its gun laws
John "Bolton" Mustachio, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a hot pick to become Trump's National Security Advisor when he gets around to firing the current one, appeared recently in a b...
03:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Gamer makes edible polyhedral dice, scores a crit hit
German pastry chef, gamer, cosplayer, and Twittizen, Sonja decided to make a batch of edible candy RPG/polyhedral dice. She posted pictures on Twitter and all the nerds came running to her yard. Reali...
02:51 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Nebraska bar rewards patrons who don't drive home drunk
Instead of towing vehicles, the owners of the Union Bar and Grill in Gering, Nebraska instead reward folks who park overnight in their lot with a free meal. On Facebook March 18, Janelle Martin posted...
02:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Photographer positions horses to look like landscapes
This may look like grasslands, but it's a horse carefully positioned and beautifully photographed by Lee Diegaard, part of her Equuleus series. Below: Copper Valley. (more…)...
02:21 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias
In 2010, Steve Almond started work on a Tea Party-inspired novel called Bucky Dunn Is Running, about a racist demagogue businessman who comes within a whisker of the Republican nomination for their pr...
01:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Wonderful marble run made out of fidget spinners, and a parable about accessibility and able-bodied people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5WT12B_88Fidget spinners are wonderful. (more…)...
01:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Wonderful marble run made out of fidget spinners, and a parable about accessibility and abled people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR5WT12B_88Fidget spinners are wonderful. (more…)...
01:25 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Will this Unreal Engine real-time ray tracing demo run on my 486DX?
What better way to show off a second mortgage's-worth of parallelized GPUs (Eight Nvidia V100s, apparently) raytracing a scene than Star Wars' Captain Phasma?The Unreal Engine's been knocking socks ...
01:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Clinically pleasant Invisalign ad dubbed with Bill Burr's ambivalent remarks about having to wear one
This ad, featuring happy people grinning in clinically perfect environments, is immeasurably improved by having its soundtrack replaced by remarks from comedian Bill Burr concerning his experience w...
01:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing This artist alters books into haunting 3D sculptures
Isobelle Ouzman turns altered books she finds in SEattle dumpsters into fantastical nightscapes and placid forest scenes. (more…)...
12:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Beautiful art made from ashes of euthanized shelter animals
For her Stardust and Ashes project, Shannon Johnstone wanted to memorialize local shelter animals "with nobody to mourn their passing," so she used their ashes to make cosmic cyanotypes. (more…...
12:25 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Dashcam video of fatal Uber collision released
The footage here shows the moment an autonomous Uber vehicle struck a pedestrian, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who later died in hospital from her injuries. The Uber had a human backup driver, but was...
12:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy some of the most satisfying pop-up card designs ever
Peter Dahmen is a world-renowned pop-up book designer. In addition to books, he makes cards, sculptures and displays. Here he picked ten of his most satisfying. (more…)...
11:47 am PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this robotic fish frolic in the deep
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MITCSAIL) created this graceful fishbot that can swim around a lot like a regular fish. (more…)...
11:41 am PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Trump insists he could beat Joe Biden in a fight: "He'd go down hard and fast, crying all the way"
Joe Biden, who thinks he understands what America wants from its presidential candidates, said at high school he'd have taken Trump out back and "beat the hell" out of him for the things he's done to ...
11:30 am PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this street artist turn trash into enormous color-soaked sculptures
Bordalo II creates massive sculptures from junkyard artifacts. Here, he creates an underwater scene. (more…)...
11:00 am PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Pointillist paint swatch art: Peter Combe's portraits
Artist Peter Combe turns hardware store paint swatches into gorgeous pixellated portraits. (more…)...
01:10 am PDT - Thu, March 22, 2018
BoingBoing Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this weeks fact-challenged tabloids
When Hillary Clinton slipped on steps polished slick by centuries of wear while clad in smooth-soled sandals during her visit to Indias Jahaz Mahal last week, it was clear to every observer that her l...
10:34 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Illinois Nazi wins GOP primary for Congress
The Illinois Republican Party was unable to draft a candidate against Holocaust denier Arthur Jones, and now he's won the Republican primary in Illinois' Third Congressional District. Jones is a forme...
10:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Excellent dimmable LED candelabra bulbs
I like my lightbulbs to be very warm. Early LED bulbs had a harsh whitish blue color that made every room look like a 7-Eleven at 3am. These amber glow Emotionlite LED dimmable bulbs (6-pack for $20...
09:17 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Mueller is investigating Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica
ABC News reports that sources have told it that the special counsel investigating Russia-Trump collusion in the 2016 election has turned its attention to Trump campaign ties to Cambridge Analytica.Cam...
08:26 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook 'Made Mistakes,' says Mark Zuckerberg in first words on Cambridge Analytica crisis
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. He admitted the social media company made mistakes, and pledged to protect your data. (more…)...
07:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Ars Technica is hiring a senior writer
Are you "an experienced writer who loves to help readers understand new technology and innovative ideasand why they matter?" Ars Technica is hiring....
06:57 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Swing district poll suggests that progressive policies could deliver a 2018 "blue tsunami"
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake surveyed 600 likely voters in 30 "swing" districts (districts that are considered too close to call in the 2018 midterms), along with 300 "surge" voters (who are less ...
06:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing You know who does creepier stuff with your data than Cambridge Analytica? Your ISP
Chances are, your ISP has been repeatedly caught sucking up all your clicks, and also chances are that it's a de facto arm of the US spy network, making bank selling your data to the NSA; AT&T has pro...
06:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Lindsay Lohan is Lawyerdotcom's new exclusive spokesperson
Actor Lindsay Lohan has a new job! She's a spokesperson for Lawyer.com. It's a truly brilliant move on both their parts. Here's the details from Lawyer.com's "About Lindsay" page:Lindsay Lohan is La...
06:39 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Puzzle maker creates fully functional chocolate Rubik's cube
Puzzle maker Tony Fisher, who was in the 2017 edition of Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's largest Rubik's cube, may have just created the world's most scrumptious Rubik's cube...
06:31 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Police shoot and kill unarmed black man holding a cell phone in his backyard
Two Sacramento police officers were placed on administrative leave after shooting an unarmed black man to death in his backyard on March 18, 2018. The officers were responding to a call about car win...
06:17 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Police say the Austin bomber killed himself as they closed in on him
five bombs have gone off in the Austin area this month (a sixth bomb was defused); they seemed to target people of color. (more…)...
06:03 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing To save the Earth, stack humans in green cities and leave the wilderness for other animals
Science fiction writer and ecologist Kim Stanley Robinson (previously) writes that we need to "empty half the Earth of its humans" to save the planet -- but not by the Green Left's usual (and potentia...
06:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Alexa Ruins Families, cartoonified
Cartoonist Lauren eLL secretly recorded a funny family video, then turned it into a charming cartoon about how Alexa Ruins Families. (more…)...
05:33 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Teen's devastating bug-report on a "tamper-proof" cryptocurrency wallet shows why companies can't be left in charge of bad news about their products
Saleem Rashid is a 15 year old self-taught British programmer who discovered a fatal defect in the Ledger Nano S, an offline cryptocurrency wallet that is marketed as being "tamper-proof." (more&hell...
05:21 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Macbre and creepy, I like the Karnival Dose deck of playing cards
This elegant, yet faux-distressed set of playing cards is just lovely.A bit more shocking, while every bit as lovely as the Arch Angels or Skulls I have been using, these offer a bit more a gonzo elem...
05:21 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Macabre and creepy, I like the Karnival Dose deck of playing cards
This elegant, yet faux-distressed set of playing cards is just lovely.A bit more shocking, while every bit as lovely as the Arch Angels or Skulls I have been using, these offer a bit more a gonzo elem...
05:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Jeff Sessions officially sends memo asking prosecutors to give drug dealers death penalty
Although Trump has already given support to the idea of executing drug dealers, today it was made official. Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent out a Bradburyesque memo to US attorneys that strongly e...
05:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing House-sized rubber duck escapes; is later recaptured
Daphne the Duck escaped during the Cockburn Masters ocean swim competition in Perth. She was only able to make it about 5 miles, where she was discovered a week later hiding near Rottnest Island west ...
04:46 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Joe Biden would rather 'beat the hell' out of Trump than debate him
Joe Biden continues to say what he thinks, and advocates violence against sexual predators. Via the Daily Beast:Appearing Tuesday evening at a University of Miami event, the former vice president decl...
04:34 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Cougar visiting Oregon hotel drugged, then killed
A cougar (Puma Concolor) decided to go wandering about a hotel in The Dalles, Oregon. Cougars populate the woods around this suburb of Portland, but they rarely frequent the shops, restaurants or othe...
04:09 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing CIA's Brennan: Trump is "afraid" of Putin and "has something to fear"
Former CIA director John Brennan fears for the future of the United States with "impetuous" Trump at the helm and is speaking out.This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe he expressed a deep concern "abo...
04:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Intricate staircases made by secretive French woodworking masters
An art collector who died earlier this year donated a remarkable collection of escaliers to Cooper-Hewiit Museum. The tiny staircases were fashioned by French compagnons, a secretive trade group of ma...
03:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Upload your own image to this online waving flag
"Flag Waver" is a fun online tool that lets you upload any image and have it displayed as a flag, waving in the wind....
02:41 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Online copyright infringement is up, and water is still wet
During the Napster wars, Bruce Schneier famously quipped, "Making bits harder to copy is like making water less wet." (more…)...
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing New York Filmed in 1929 with Sound
I was in New York City this past weekenda place where no one uses the word Manhattanand spent some time fighting the other pedestrians in order to walk down the street, and fighting the cars to cross ...
01:54 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing In Chicago primaries, a string of defeats for the Democratic establishment at the hands of progressive Democrats
Four Democratic challengers backed by United Working Families (linked with the progressive Working Families Party) have successfully challenged establishment Dems backed by Chicago's legendarily unass...
01:34 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing YouTube hides The Atlantic's coverage of "Heil Trump" salutes at Nazi speech
The Atlantic's video coverage of Nazi salutes at a Trump rally was removed from YouTube's search results under its hate-speech policy. It reinstated the video after the magazine noticed and complained...
01:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing How to download and save your Facebook data before deleting
As #DeleteFacebook sweeps across the web in the wake of data misuse, some users are resisting because their account contains valuable information they don't want to lose. Saving all your data is easy ...
01:27 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing White House Chief of Staff in a rage after leak reveals that Trump congratulated Putin against Cabinet advice
After Vladimir Putin stole another Russian election, Trump placed an official call to the Kremlin; his national security advisors' briefing notes for the call included the all-caps instruction "DO NOT...
01:05 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Mortgage debt back at 2008 levels
Just in time for the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to disappear! The chart was created by Jaydub.Data Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/data/mortoutstand/current.htm To...
01:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to make lactose-free milk
YouTuber NileRed was curious about how lactose-free milk is made, so he did a little research and came up with this helpful explainer. (more…)...
12:51 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Why no WHITE PANTHER?
Strangely reminiscent of Big Train.Exhibit B:https://twitter.com/Chiaunbae/status/975415570765148171Exhibit C:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbGnzmidsw&feature=youtu.be&t=21s...
12:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing I experienced the Stash House escape room with friends and we had a blast
I've experienced other incredible interactive-type adventures (for instance, 49 Boxes, Meow Wolf's House of Eternal Return, and the Jejune Institute along with its offshoot, the ongoing Elsewhere Phil...
12:27 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Forthcoming Ataribox renamed "Atari VCS"
The Ataribox, announced after Nintendo scored surprise hits with its popular NES and SNES classic consoles, is going to be called "Atari VCS" instead -- the same name as Atari's original, way back in ...
12:07 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Reuben Wu's science fiction landscape art
Reuben Wu's latest series of landscapes (Instagram; previously at BB) are "traditional landscape photography influenced by ideas of planetary exploration, 19th century sublime romantic painting, and s...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this freediver find a crystal-clear spring under Florida swamp gunk
Freediver Jake Koehler, better known as DALLMYD, ignored posted alligator warnings to explore what looked like a garden variety Florida swamp. Below the duckweed covering the surface, he found a cry...
11:30 am PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Count Dankula convicted for Nazi pug antics
YouTuber Count Dankula turned his girlfriend's pug into the star of several Hitler and Holocaust jokes. He was arrested, charged under hate crime statutes, and convicted yesterday. (more…)...
11:24 am PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Particle accelerator reveals ancient medical manuscript replaced with religious text
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California recently found a 6th century manuscript by Greek physician Galen, which had been scraped from its pages 500 years later and replaced ...
11:00 am PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Is this what your Facebook feed looks like?
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 much more...
11:00 am PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Watch neural networks see only what they've been trained to see
Memo Akten created Gloomy Sunday, part of his Learning To See series in which he juxtaposes mundane video with how deep-trained neural networks percieve the same input. (more…)...
10:00 am PDT - Wed, March 21, 2018
BoingBoing Easter Island musical stone went from priceless to worthless
Pu o Hiro is a roadside rock in the Easter Islands, but at one time its value was so great that factions fought over its possession. The rock's natural holes allowed it to be played like an instrume...
10:19 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica legal primer: 'Breach' of data? No. Trust? Yes.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal devouring Facebook may not have been a 'breach' of data, but it was a breach of trust. (more…)...
09:54 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Why did Facebook pitch in over $1 million to fight this CA privacy ballot initiative?
Facebook recently joined Google, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T and contributed over $1 million to a PAC fighting this California ballot initiative that would have let you opt out of data sharing with Cam...
08:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Pornhub confirms Fortnite as their top searched video game
Fortnite is the most popular game to be searched about in Pornhub's online database of videos. I am not sure what that means, really. While I am enthusiastic about both forms of entertainment-art I fi...
07:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Ben Carson now blaming his own wife for the $31,000 dining set
Nothing like a husband who throws his own wife under the bus. And that's just what "The Honorable Ben Carson" (yes, take a look, his desk placard actually says that!) did when he explained to a House ...
07:05 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Fantastic $13 set of accessories for using and cleaning your cast iron
These three tools are invaluable when cleaning up, or cooking with, your cast iron skillet.This threesome of scraper, chainmail scrubber and a silicone hot-handle-holder is pretty great. I use all thr...
06:43 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing New "Cobra Kai" trailer: the Karate Kid is a car salesman and Johnny is still a prick
Get him a body bag! Yeahhhhh!!!!Update: There was previously a much longer new trailer but it appears YouTube Red Originals has now removed it....
06:18 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Weird video of "ghost train" pulling into China railway station
This unbelievable video was reportedly captured earlier this month by CCTV cameras in Inner Mongolia's Baotou Railway Station. From Mysterious Universe:Is this a video of a ghost train? The comments...
06:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Marx's birthplace celebrates his bicentennial with Communist traffic-lights
Karl Marx was born in the German city of Trier 200 years ago and lived there until he was 17; to celebrate his bicentennial, the city has installed a Marx-themed pedestrian signal light designed by Jo...
06:07 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing A barista champ's latte art doesn't come any cuter than this
Latte artist and barista champ Jaewon Choi at OUTRO NYC creates cute latte pop art that looks like it belongs on someone's wall or T-shirt rather than inside their coffee cup. Going beyond your typi...
06:07 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese surveillance/tech giant Alibaba joins ALEC, will start co-authoring US legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a big-business think-tank that authors "model legislation" at the local, state and national level that benefits corporations at the expense of every...
06:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing 100,000 payphones still haunt the United States
You may not have noticed, what with there being a cellphone in pocket of almost all Americans, but according to CNN, there's still 100,000 payphone in the United States. This is great news for Maroon ...
05:56 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Mysterious sea monster photographed on Georgia shore
Over the weekend, Jeff Warren and his family spotted this mysterious sea monster washed up on the shore of the Wolf Island National Wildlife Refuge near Darien, Georgia. It is either: Altamaha-ha (aka...
05:52 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing The future legal shenanigans that will shift liability for pedestrian fatalities involving self-driving Ubers
This week, a self-driving Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona, the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle; in his analysis of the event, Charlie Stross notes that Arizona's laws tre...
05:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Alabama Sheriff legally appropriated $750K from prison meal budgets to build himself a beach house, locked up his whistleblowing gardener
Etowah, Alabama County Sheriff Todd Entrekin took advantage of a Great-Depression-era rule that lets the sheriff pocket any "excess" from the budget for prisoner meals (provided he makes up any shortf...
05:14 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the new trailer for Mr. Rogers documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?"
Today Mr. Rogers would have turned 90, and to celebrate, here's the trailer for the upcoming Mr. Rogers documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor. Via EW:From Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (20 F...
05:10 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing 1.7 million viewers tuned into Bernie Sanders' Inequality Town Hall webcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JBi8L84BLcBack in January, a million people tuned in to Bernie Sanders' town hall on universal health-care; yesterday, 1.7 million people tuned in to watch Sanders, ...
05:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing How The Damned wrote and recorded New Rose
The Damned are responsible for a number of ear worms that routinely refuse to leave me alone. Formed the same year as I was born, they were raw, angry and too much fun. New Rose has been on constant...
04:57 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed
New York's cyclists and bus-riders are certain they're being slowed and endangered by an epidemic of illegal lane-obstructions from delivery vehicles, taxis and Ubers, but policymakers have refused to...
04:53 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Make your Keurig as messy as a French press and as tasty as motel drip coffee with this reusable plastic k-cup
After several attempts to get something drinkable out of the Ekobrew Classic Reusable Filter, I figured it out: just grind it finer than the normal stuff in a k-cup and tamp it down a bit. The results...
04:44 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Billionaire Cartier boss returns from fishing holiday gripped with terror that the poors are going to start building guillotines
Tobacco heir Johann Rupert is worth $7.5B; he's head of Cartier, Montblanc, Chloe and other luxury goods labels, having returned to the helm of his Richemont holding company after a year-long fly-fish...
04:22 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Why you can't flick a tick
Why can't you flick a tick off you or your pet's skin? The answer is in the tick's mouth that's covered with hooks evolved so the tick can hang on for a several day feast of delicious blood. From KQ...
04:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Why no one has made a tool to turn off Facebook oversharing
The debate over whether Cambridge Analytica's harvesting of tens of millions of Facebook profiles was a "breach" turns on the question of whether Cambridge Analytica did anything wrong, by Facebook's ...
04:14 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing FBI on the scene where legendary Civil War treasure of $54 million in gold may be buried
In June 1863, a Union shipment of 52 bars of gold now worth $54 million was said to be lost near Dents Run, Pennsylvania. Over the years, many treasure hunters have tried to locate the cache but the a...
04:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Grill mats are excellent for cooking vegetables on an outdoor grill
I never cease to be amazed when I put one of these flimsy, plastic-feeling mats on my charcoal grill to cook chopped vegetables. Somehow, it withstands the heat of the red hot coals just inches below....
03:03 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Once-a-day birth control pills for men are one step closer to being a thing
I'm getting a vasectomy this summer. I'm 42 years old and neither I nor my wife want kids. It's time--at least for me. I know that going under the knife isn't the right choice for a lot of guys. The g...
03:02 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Brothers Homer and Langley Collyer filled their Harlem townhouse with 140 tons of junk
In the 1930s, brothers Homer and Langley Collyer withdrew from society and began to fill their Manhattan brownstone with newspapers, furniture, musical instruments, and assorted junk. By 1947, when Ho...
02:46 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Parawormal activity
This video, posted by "Ghost Worm," shows a mysterious myriapod suddenly leaping onto a countertop late at night. The spooky infra-red footage gives the whole thing a "paranormal activity"-esque atm...
02:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it
Unilever founder John Wanamaker famously said, "I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. My only problem is that I dont know which half." It's an odd testament to the power of adve...
02:36 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing The last male white rhino in the world has died
The last male white Rhino in the world has died at 45 years of age.The rhino, named Sudan, had been suffering from age-related ill-health for some time, according to AFP.During the 1970s and 1980s the...
01:55 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing RIP Anna Campbell, a British woman who joined an all-woman Kurdish Protection Unit in Syria
Anna Campbell, from Lewes, England, has died fighting in the Kurdish Women's Protection Units ("YPJ") in Syria; she was likely killed by a Turkish airstrike. She was 26. (more…)...
01:45 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing British Parliament summons Zuckerberg to explain "catastrophic failure" and "misleading" statements
Seemingly in hiding these last few days, Mark Zuckerberg's plans are anyone's guess. But a committee chairman in the UK's House of Commons would like a word. He doesn't have to go, obviously, but just...
01:30 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing VHS is making a comeback
Free VHS rentals are part of the planned fun at Video Vortex, a new venture by Alamo Drafthouse. The first one is under contstruction in Raleigh, North Carolina. (more…)...
01:18 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing The world's average flag
Technically, the flag you see here is the mode of the world's national flags, calculated by first reducing the amount of colors to match heraldic norms. The mean average flag is more subtly detailed, ...
01:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Bill Nye provides insight on science slang
Sporting a purple paisley bowtie, "Science Guy" Bill Nye breaks down the meaning of some science slang like "arsole," "hinny," and "jedi."Nye's new documentary film Bill Nye: Science Guy premieres W...
12:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Imagining Netflix in 1995
YouTube channel Squirrel Monkey has imagined what it would be like to stream movies through Netflix on a 56K modem in 1995. It's a hoot, whether you lived through the ancient days of early computing...
12:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing In this 1967 IBM training video, the Cookie Monster eats a talking computerized coffee machine
Fandom has a description of this funny video starring the Cookie Monster and a talking coffee machine. The Coffee Break Machine was used for an IBM training film and performed on The Ed Sullivan Sho...
11:30 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing How to permanently delete your Facebook account
By now, every sane person realizes that Facebook is horrible. It uses your personal data in unsavory ways. It sells your data to unscrupulous companies. It encourages businesses to build their online...
11:30 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Beginner painters try to learn from the master: Bob Ross
Most of us have enjoyed the soothing, soft-spoken art instructions of public TV painter Bob Ross, but how many of us have actually tried to paint using his methods? I guessed "not many" but I was wr...
11:12 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing 1979 Disco World Championship
Note the early tastes of breakdancing, here and there. The exaggerated fraternity of nations is nice, too!The event took place at the Empire Ballroom in London; the winner was Julie Brown [citation ...
11:00 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing Build instructions for Starbucks' new Crystal Ball Frappuccino
A little birdie sent me this photo and said I couldn't reveal its source. It's the recipe** for the new Crystal Ball Frappuccino drink, which debuts in Starbucks shops March 22.https://www.instagram.c...
11:00 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing JOHN WILCOCK: The East Village Other's Nasty Review of Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQauv_eK8d0&t=141shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrCLi9lxjhEFrom an ongoing biography of John Wilcock, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall. (See previous Boing Boi...
10:51 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing What it's like to live in the house from "American Gothic"
So, in the famous Grant Wood painting "American Gothic", there's a little white farmhouse in the background.It turns out you can rent it and live in it. That's what the writer Beth Howard did from 201...
10:50 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing How Thomas Dolby helped create the first polyphonic ringtones
Here's a piece of tech history that was new to me: Apparently Thomas Dolby played a crucial role in the development of the first polyphonic ringtones.Tedium has a great piece on the history of rington...
01:26 am PDT - Tue, March 20, 2018
BoingBoing A recipe for the deliberately obscured task of changing your Facebook settings to opt out of "platform" sharing
With news that Facebook shows all your friends' data to companies when you interact with their Facebook apps, many people are interested in figuring out how to turn that setting off in their Facebook ...
08:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Married couple notice they're randomly both in a photo taken 11 years before they met
In 2011, a Mr. Ye and Ms. Xue met in Chengdu, China, fell in love, and married. Going through family photos earlier this month, Mr. Ye spotted a shot of his wife at a landmark in the city of Qingdao. ...
08:00 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Top execs at Cambridge Analytica boast about using sex workers to blackmail politicians
Executives at Cambridge Analytica, the data mining firm that worked with Facebook to develop a microtargeted propaganda campaign that helped Trump get in office, were secretly recorded boasting abou...
07:51 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Google Earth image of crashed UFO may not be that
This Google Earth image of Antarctica's South Georgia Island depicts either a UFO that crashed and skidded across the snow or a hunk of ice that rolled along after an avalanche. According to this YouT...
07:29 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing The Cuban "sonic weapon" attacks may actually have been "bad engineering," not attacks
Last year, US and Canadian diplomats and their families in Cuba suffered from weird illnesses that led many to speculate about a "sonic weapon" of some kind. After analyzing a reported audio clip of t...
07:14 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Anti-vaxx spokesperson also paints fairly accurate portraits of politicians
An anti-vaxx spoksesperson best known for his comedic portrayal of a 'pet detective,' also enjoys painting portraits of people....
06:25 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Afghan toddler was named "Donald Trump" for "good fortune," but name has brought family only bad fortune so far
In August 2016, 28-year-old Sayed Asadullah Poya and his wife Jamila from Afghanistan had a newborn baby to name. Sayed had just read Donald Trump's book, Trump: How to Get Rich, and when he saw that ...
06:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing What makes good deli meat?
Gourmet charcuterie expert Elias Cairo of Olympia Provisions knows from good meat. I still like Oscar Meyer bologna....
06:02 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook insists that Cambridge Analytica didn't "breach" data, but "misused" it, and they're willing to sue anyone who says otherwise
Yesterday's bombshell article in the Guardian about the way that Cambridge Analytica was able to extract tens of millions of Facebook users' data without their consent was preceded by plenty of dama...
05:39 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Oklahoma Republicans are tearing themselves apart as they confront the economic wreckage of their policies
Oklahoma spent eight years under full GOP rule, with Republicans controlling the governorship and the legislature, passing a fully ALEC-compliant slate of laws that benefited the wealthy at the expens...
05:31 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing SF Bay Area on Thursday: Meet Frank Drake, the father of SETI, at Institute for the Future's "Voyager Record" celebration!
A reminder that this Thursday (3/22), Institute for the Future, the nonprofit thinktank where I'm a researcher, is hosting an event celebrating the Voyager Golden Record at our Palo Alto, California o...
05:19 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing People are stashing irrevocable child porn links, dox, copyright infringement, and leaked state secrets in the blockchain
By design, data placed in the blockchain is visible to everyone in the world and can never be removed; everyone who mines bitcoin makes a copy of the blockchain, and so any illegal content stashed in ...
05:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing GPS routing increases city throughput by shifting traffic jams onto residential streets
A trio of engineering researchers from UC Berkeley modeled the effect of heavy reliance on GPS routing on municipal road efficiencies and found that people who are GPS-routed are likely to move to sur...
05:03 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing This Great Pyrenees does not care it is at a dog show
Great Pyrenees like to think for themselves, and don't much care what you want them to do.I took my buddy Nemo to agility training. He can do all the tricks. He will not do any of them once he has h...
05:02 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing First pedestrian killed by autonomous vehicle
KNXV in Arizona reports that a pedestrian died last night after being hit by an autonomous vehicle.The Uber had a human safety driver but was self-driving when it collided with the victim, according t...
04:51 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Machine learning has a reproducibility crisis
Machine learning is often characterized as much an "art" as a "science" and in at least one regard, that's true: its practitioners are prone to working under loosely controlled conditions, using train...
04:48 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Egoistic Altruism - a selfish argument for making the world a better place
Kurzgesagt, the maker of the world's best explainer videos, is back with an explain about the "selfish argument for making the world a better place." The entire video is worth watching but the gist...
04:40 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing A simple cordless handset that sounds good and doesn't record voicemail
I needed a new cordless handset for my home POTS line. I wanted no-frills, just a phone. This works wonderfully.Every decade or so I need a new phone for my landline. My former AT&T model's reception ...
04:38 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing More than a decade's worth of Facebook catastrophes
In the wake of the latest Facebook data breach catastrophe, Josh Constantine rounds up more than a decade's worth of major catastrophes wrought by Facebook's recklessness, greed, and foolishness, from...
04:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing For Goldman Sachs execs, momentarily working for the government means hundreds of millions in tax savings
When Gary Cohn left Goldman Sachs to to work for Donald Trump, he was required to sell off his Goldman Sachs stock, but he didn't have to pay capital gains tax on that sale, saving him a cool $150,000...
03:44 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Demonstrating the Magnus effect for fun and fun
To show off the Magnus effect, again, 5 balls of varying size are thrown off a 200m cliff. Fun ensues....
02:56 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Now that public companies must publish the CEO-median worker wage ratio, cities and states can tax the most unequal firms
The Dodd-Frank act mandated that publicly listed companies would have to publish an annual figure listing the ratio between their CEO's pay and their median worker's pay: now, after nearly a decade of...
02:24 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing The fashion boutiques that line the "Champs-lyses" of a massive Syrian refugee camp are a fascinating lens on the crisis
Sara Elizabeth Williams' long, beautifully written profile of the merchants who established illegal storefronts on the Champs-lyses, a stretch of road in Jordan's Zaatari refugee camp -- home to 93,0...
01:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Chirpss: a bookmarklet that makes your website chirp whenever anyone visits or leaves
If you add Chirpss to your website, it will make a chirping noise whenever anyone comes or goes. You have to have Google Analytics installed (it relies on the realtime tracking GA provides) and the wi...
01:25 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Phone room still running in abandoned building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlvbcZEaIB4Exploring a disused and marvelously creepy building, urban spelunker shiey runs into a still-functioning PBX room. The environment isn't so decrepit that it ...
01:05 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Can you hear the difference between cheap and expensive pianos?
It's obvious when comparing an untunable yet adorable craigslist clunker with a high-quality modern piano, but I was surprised to find myself noticing the difference between a $15k grand and a $50k ...
12:41 pm PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Nordstrom confirms that it did not "like" tweet claiming "dick suck" is the true meaning of Nintendo DS
The Twitter account of upscale retailer Nordstrom confirmed this weekend that it did not "like" a tweet that claimed the "DS" in "Nintendo DS" stood for "dick suck." Another twitter user had reported ...
11:58 am PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Elite: The Musical turned the classic space-trading video game into a glorious epic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hxWLoOjgwElite was the original 3D space-trading game, spinning a vast universe to explore from a few lines of code, birthing a series that's still going strong. It f...
08:00 am PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Duracell wins battle of the alkalines, but cheap brands do well
Chris "The Crispiest Bacon" Hill made this perfectly-designed chart showing how long different brands of alkaline battery lasted in the same flashlight. The surprise would seem to be the Rite Aid and ...
07:01 am PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Will this water trap stop a cunning cat from opening the door?
"You scare me," he says. Then: "*sigh*"...
12:53 am PDT - Mon, March 19, 2018
BoingBoing Materials science for goths: graphene hair-dye
A team of material scientists from Northwestern University figured out how to make hair dye in various shades of grey, all the way to a very, very black black, out of graphene sheets. (more…)...
03:20 pm PDT - Sun, March 18, 2018
BoingBoing Raleigh cops are investigating crime by getting Google to reveal the identity of every mobile user within acres of the scene
Public records requests have revealed that on at least four occasions, the Raleigh-Durham police obtained warrants forcing Google to reveal the identities of every mobile user within acres of a crime ...
03:01 pm PDT - Sun, March 18, 2018
BoingBoing Local UK governments say identifying buildings with Grenfell cladding would be a gift to arsonists and terrorists
The lethal fire at Grenfell tower had many proximate causes, not least the defeat of a bill in Parliament that would have required landlords to render their properties safe and habitable, voted down b...
02:03 pm PDT - Sun, March 18, 2018
BoingBoing The 'WKRP in Cincinnati' closing theme lyrics are all gibberish
Remember that rock song at the end of WKRP in Cincinnati? The one that ends with a kitten meowing? Well, today I learned that its lyrics are complete gibberish. Go ahead, listen to it, I'll wait.All...
02:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 18, 2018
BoingBoing This charger case doubles your Nintendo Switch's battery life
The Nintendo Switch is king when it comes to gaming on the go, but it's tough to lose yourself in Zelda: Breath of the Wild or Skyrim if your battery dies out. That's where thisNintendo Switch Battery...
01:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 18, 2018
BoingBoing Pickle juice slushies are coming to Sonic Drive-In this summer
This June, fast food chain Sonic Drive-In will rollout a pickle juice snow cone slush, according to Food & Wine (who's already taste-tested the new beverage):We tasted the drink at Sonics headquar...
02:09 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Richard Spencer says that antifa sucked all the fun out of college appearances, calls it quits
Elements of the left say that antifa tactics -- direct, physical confrontations with fascists and racists -- are a "gift to the alt-right," letting them play victim and validating their paranoid fanta...
02:00 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Launch a design career with help from this huge bundle
Creative designers play a pivotal role in engaging target audiences and customers, and while companies are eager to bring more of these professionals on board, you'll have a hard time getting your foo...
01:55 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing XOXO is back!
XOXO is the much-loved culture and tech conference in Portland, organized by Andy Baio and Andy McMillan; they took 2017 off and would not confirm when or if the conference would be back, but a year l...
01:51 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Wells Fargo accused of ripping off rich people, too
When you look at the list of people that Wells Fargo stole from -- ordinary depositors, struggling mortgage borrowers, 800,000 car loan borrowers, mom and pop businesses, medium businesses and home ow...
01:30 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy this daily delight of miniature origami
Ross Symons wanted to improve both his photography and origami skills, so he challenged himself to create a fun photo of one of his miniature origami each day, something he started for fun in 2014. (m...
12:30 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Watch these test flights of Cora, an all-electric air taxi
According to their website, Cora is a fixed-wing craft powered by 12 independent lift fans, which enable it to take off and land vertically like a helicopter. Therefore, Cora has no need for a runwa...
12:00 pm PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Pantone coffee mugs to match how you take it
Here's a little something for artsy wired types. Pantone has a number of colorful mugs, some of which may match how you take your favorite hot beverage. Note: they do not seem to have any dark enough ...
11:30 am PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this whirlwind tour of a completely incompetent roofing job
Even if you don't own a home, this fascinating glimpse into the world of terrible roofing contractors is worth a watch. This inspector says it's the worst he's ever seen, then shows a dozen reasons ...
11:00 am PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing There's a "Weird Al" Yankovic remix of Portugal. The Man's "Feel it Still"
If I had a hit pop song that was fresh off a Grammy win, I would follow Portugal. The Man's lead and do all the things. First, I'd want to perform on Ellen like they just did. But that's not big eno...
10:00 am PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing How to make those fancy geometric pies by lokokitchen
Seattle-based self-taught baker Lauren Ko of Loko Kitchen was inspired to start making her now-viral geometric pies after seeing some cool ones on Pinterest. For Pi Day, Tasty posted this video of K...
09:03 am PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing Comic book bouquets and boutonnieres
Ooo, betrothed comic book nerds, this one's for you. Mallory McKenney of Wisconsin makes wedding bouquets and boutonnieres by cutting up upcycled comics. From Batman to the Wolverine, and just about a...
01:54 am PDT - Sat, March 17, 2018
BoingBoing John Kelly boasts about firing Rex Tillerson while he was on the toilet
Meet John Kelly, the White House's "adult in the room":Reporters gathered at the White House on Friday were stunned when Chief of Staff John Kelly shared a very embarrassing story about outgoing Secre...
11:47 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Ireland lost a musical giant this week
Irish music lost one of its legends this week, with the passing of Liam O'Flynn.A player of the Uilleann pipes, O'Flynn, or as he was known by the Gaeilge iteration of his name, Liam g Floinn, was ...
11:35 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Journalist charged with Criminal Harassment for attempting to set up an interview
Two of the largest parts of a journalist's job are waiting and making phone calls. When you're waiting, it's likely for someone to return a call. When you're making a phone call, it's likely to set up...
07:20 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Terry Gilliam: women "knew what they were doing" with Harvey Weinstein
Looks like Terry Gilliam is one of those guys: Harvey opened the door for a few people, a night with Harvey thats the price you pay.In a an interview with AFP on Friday, the filmmaker, a member of th...
07:12 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Little girl works hard at jumping onto stool
This reminds of the saying that goes something like, "A mistake is when you fall. Failure is when you don't get back up." This little kid is the opposite of failure.no *youre* crying pic.twitter.com/g...
07:12 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Little kid works hard at jumping onto stool
This reminds of the saying that goes something like, "A mistake is when you fall. Failure is when you don't get back up." This little kid is the opposite of failure.no *youre* crying pic.twitter.com/g...
07:02 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Three teens get corporal punishment for participating in national school walkout
Greenbrier Public School in rural Arkansas didn't take too kindly to the national school walkout that took place on Tuesday to protest gun violence in response to last month's deadly Parkland shooting...
07:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing The Kindle Oasis is stupid expensive and stupid lovely to use
I've mentioned it online before, but here we go: Two years ago, my wife and I decided to leave our rented home behind and move into a 40-foot RV. We spend our spring and summer in Alberta, Canada wher...
06:58 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing James Bond poster for Thunderball expected to fetch $10k at auction
Take a gander at this huge poster from 1962 for Thunderball, starring Sean Connery as Agent 007 (in my book, Connery will always be the only 007, just as Shatner and Jeffrey Hunter will always be the ...
06:47 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Small wireless keyboard with built-in touchpad for $10
My daughter and I are building a portable device to play the 1981 RPG computer game, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. We're running it on a Raspberry Pi using a a DOS operating system em...
06:22 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Do the "Funky Robot" (1973)
The wonderful Rufus Thomas and friends do the "Funky Robot" on Black Omnibus, a short-lived 1973 TV interview/performance show hosted by James Earl Jones and featuring African-American artists and c...
06:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Replica of 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000 powered by Amazon Alexa
Master Replicas Group will soon sell a limited edition Hal 9000 interface that integrates an Amazon Fire tablet and Echo. Sadly, Alexa doesn't sound anything like Douglas Rain.Hal 9000 Replica (via Un...
05:56 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Captain Kirk, Spock, and Uhura want you to stay off hard drugs
In 1973, the National Association Of Progressive Radio Announcers released "Get Off," a 1973 vinyl record featuring dozens of musicians delivering anti-hard drug warnings. Along with personal warnin...
05:52 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Washington State lawmaker thinks the courts will uphold state Net Neutrality law because the FCC abdicated its duty
Washington State was the first to pass a true Net Neutrality law that restored all the public protections the FCC withdrew when it killed Net Neutrality late last year; the move is symbolically awesom...
05:46 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Review: Lynx Sonoma smoker makes the perfect turkey
Every year we invite a bunch of friends over for Christmas dinner. We always have oven roasted turkey. But for 2017, I was given a loaner unit of the Lynx Sonoma Propane Gas Smoker, so I decided to sm...
05:44 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing No Man's Sky as a Commodore Amiga slideshow
No Man's Sky is a beautiful game of interstellar exploration: something about its epic psychedelic wonder stays with you even after you've internalized its procedural patterns. Blake Patterson wante...
05:40 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing This startup promises to preserve your brain for uploading, after they kill you
What if we told you we could back up your mind? asks start-up Netcome. According to MIT grad and co-founder Robert McIntyre, he has state-of-the-art technology to preserve your brain in a near-perfect...
05:30 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing The final trailer for Avengers: Infinity War is upon us
Looks great, but honestly it could use more Hawkguy....
05:12 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Big Telco hates "regulation," but they love their billions in government handouts
When it comes to killing Net Neutrality, Big Telco's major talking point is that "government regulation" has no place in telcoms; but the reality is that the nation's telecommunications providers are ...
05:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing How a photographer captured Elon's Tesla hurtling through space a million miles from earth
Deep-sky photographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo did the calculations, then managed to catch footage of Starman and the Tesla Roadster that were launched via the Falcon Heavy rocket. (more…)...
04:53 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Austin bombings: literal American carnage meets with Trumpian indifference
Remember when Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to make Americans safe, and promised an end to "American carnage" at his inauguration? Yeah, neither does he. (more…)...
04:49 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how this woman wins contest after she devours entire cotton candy in 3 seconds
Eating an entire swab of cotton candy in three seconds flat is a fascinating thing to watch, and this woman does it like a champ. Actually, she is a champ. This GIF, by @DelightDestiny, shows how the ...
04:32 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Podcast: The Man Who Sold the Moon, Part 06
Here's part six of my reading (MP3) (part five, part four, part three, part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015's Hieroglyph: Stories and Visi...
04:30 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Scientists discover hundreds of new genes that may affect cognitive ability
Scientists analyzed almost a quarter million DNA samples in the UK Biobank and found 538 new genes that appear to have a role in intellectual capabilities. (more…)...
04:03 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Out-of-control ski lift speeds downhill and flings skiers off their seats
A ski lift in Georgia (the country, not US state) went haywire went it lost its brakes and sent passengers downhill, picking up speed and flinging skiers off the lift. The stuff of nightmares.Snowboar...
03:30 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Check out this fun song performed on instruments made of LEGO
LEGO invited YouTuber Andrew Huang to make a song using only instruments he constructed from the colorful plastic bricks. Some very creative instruments were the result. (more…)...
03:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Someone cut Tommy Wiseau's Joker performance into The Dark Knight
Remember when Tommy Wiseau dressed up as The Joker and delivered some iconic lines from The Dark Knight in his most-imitable style? The fine folks at Bup cut Tommy into the movie, and it's as hilari...
03:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Video: How the Red Arrow Aerobatic Team does their thing
I used to go to a lot of air shows when I was a kid growing up in Canada. I used to love seeing the American, British and French air forces show off their aircraft. It was always a thrill to see Can...
02:58 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Mlem chorus performs Moscow Nights
Enjoy this unusual performance of Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and Mikhail Matusovsky's Moscow Nights. Then enjoy the video again, muted. Then enjoy a nice, hot, cleansing shower....
02:54 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Bruce Sterling's 2018 SXSW keynote: Disrupting Dystopia, or what the tech arts scene could and should be
Since the first days of SXSW Interactive, Bruce Sterling has closed the festivities with a haranguing, funny, provocative keynote and nearly every year (2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012 etc) we link to it...
02:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing How to tell good meat from the mediocre
Meat master Eli Cairo explains how to spot good meat from the not-so-great. Epicurious challenged meat expert Eli Cairo to guess which one of two deli meats was more expensive. Cairo breaks down cut...
02:45 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Watch divers harvest hardy "super corals" in hopes of repopulating reefs
Great Barrier Reef Legacy is one of a number of organizations racing to collect and study coral colonies that miraculously survive major bleaching events. The hope is that these "super corals" can h...
02:38 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Clearchannel took over America's local radio, Bain Capital took over Clearchannel, Clearchannel went bankrupt
As I've written, the demise of newsmedia can't be blamed on tech -- rather, it was the combination of technology and deregulated, neoliberal capitalism, which saw media companies merged and acquired, ...
02:36 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing Dopey, a podcast on the 'dark comedy of drug addiction'
A few years back I wrote about Dave, one of the hosts of Dopey podcast. It was before Dopey though. Back then, he was working on another project that caught my fancy. It was good but can't tell you ab...
02:35 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing 96-year-old style icon Iris Apfel gets her own Barbie
So, Mattel recently caught some slack after announcing a Frida Kahlo Barbie. Kahlo's estate is saying that the toy manufacturer didn't get permission from them to use her image and likeness. Mattel di...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing A Texas brewery made a purple, glittery ale with Peeps
Easter is on April Fools Day this year but what I'm about to share is not a joke. A brewery in Texas, The Collective Brewing Project in Fort Worth, has crafted a Peeps-filled ale that will be ready f...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 16, 2018
BoingBoing These 3 courses will prepare you for Lean Six Sigma certification exams
As more companies aim to reel in costs and boost productivity, project managers are becoming an essential part of many operations, and they're paid handsomely for their expertise. But, while demand is...
11:55 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Donald Trump Jr.'s wife Vanessa filed for divorce
Vanessa Trump once told The New York Times that Donald Trump introduced her to Donald Trump Jr. (one of Trump's dumb and dumber boys) during a fashion show in 2003. They chatted during a break at the ...
08:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this literal cheeseburger melt
By stacking layers of multi-colored, hand-carved cheese, Tastemade created this meatless "CHEESEburger."Now watch it melt, creating the world's priciest cheese fries:https://www.facebook.com/tastemade...
07:24 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Surgical resident judges the accuracy of medical scenes from film and TV
In this Wired video, Columbia University general surgery resident Annie Onishi watches ER and operating room scenes from some film and TV scenes, including Uma Thurman's adrenaline-to-the-heart one ...
06:45 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Music to poop by
A lot of terrible things go on inside of your average porta potty. This is one of them....
06:41 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Killer gets 180-day sentence for YouTube stunt gone wrong
Lifehack: Killing someone in cold blood, passion or even accidentally can land a person in jail for years, if not decades. But, if you film it, you could get off with a significantly less stringent se...
06:31 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing How to use an eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher
For those who want to know how to use their eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher properly, here is a tutorial that explains it in simple steps.And for the rest of you who just want to know what th...
06:28 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Miami pedestrian bridge collapses, 'several dead,' multiple vehicles trapped beneath
Several people died when a 950-ton pedestrian bridge collapsed over a roadway near Florida International University (FIU). Live video footage of the incident shows 5 or 6 cars flattened beneath, pinne...
06:25 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Self-adjusting wire strippers make removing wire insulation a snap
This is a good price for self-adjusting wire strippers - just $11 when you apply promo code YM3I4WHC. It will strip wires between 10-24 AWG. I've used them before, but didn't own a pair, so I bought s...
06:05 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Snapchat removes ad that asks people if they would like to "Slap Rihanna"
Rihanna criticized Snap for running an ad on its platform that asked users if they would rather "Slap Rihanna" or "Punch Chris Brown." In 2009 Chris Brown beat Rihanna so badly that she was hospitaliz...
05:56 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Mueller subpoenas Trump Organization, demands Russia documents
Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has issued a subpoena to the Trump Organization for an array of documents, including those related to contact with Russia. (more…)...
05:54 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Funny collection of combined gifs
Combined gifs - the art of taking clips from two or more different videos and mixing them together to create a funny little story - are hitting a new high water mark. Here's a collection of some good ...
05:49 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Drivers are successfully not dying in their Ford-made vehicle, thanks to this one simple trick
My Grandfather used to say that Ford stood for "Found Off Road, Dead." It was funny to a kid growing up, but it isn't true: Ford makes some damn fine vehicles.Mostly.According to The Washington Post, ...
05:39 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Star from 1971 "Willy Wonka" surprised fans when he appeared on Jeopardy
https://youtu.be/B65mtQv6NxsOnly the biggest fans of the 1971 classic film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory were able to figure out that the actor who played the cowboys-and-TV-obsessed Mike Teevee...
05:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Dog has been stopped too many times by hard air to accept treat from owner
This dog has bumped his snout into the sliding glass door enough times to know that taking a treat offered by its human companion could have painful consequences.Good Boye Ran Into Glass Door Too Many...
05:23 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing NYPD Commissioner "troubled" by news of cop arrested for running an international heroin ring
New York Police Department Officer Yessenia Jimenez was arrested by Drug Enforcement Administration agents on weapons and drug trafficking charges following a month long investigation. According to AP...
05:05 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing OK Go explains the incredible math behind their "The One Moment" music video
As brilliant as OK Go's "The One Moment" music video is from their Hungry Ghosts album, the math that went behind it is even more genius. Using spreadsheets and an incredible amount of math, you'll ...
04:57 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Hugo nominations close tomorrow!
If you attended either of the past two World Science Fiction Conventions or are registered for the next one in San Jose, California, you're eligible to nominate for the Hugo Awards, which you can do h...
04:55 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Watch - people react to looking at the moon through a telescope
This guy set up a telescope in public areas around Los Angeles and invited people to look at the Moon. They react with astonishment and joy. (more…)...
04:52 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Crowdfunding an official, licensed Scrabble mechanical keyboard
On the crowdfunding site Massdrop, board-game fan Cassidy Williams is taking preorders for a $160 Scrabble-themed mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches (if you've got a mechanical keyboard...
04:23 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing A short explainer on why we all turn green on St. Patrick's Day
In just two days the entire U.S. and much of the rest of the world will be green (green clothes, green hair, green balloons, green beer...). (more…)...
03:34 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Caped one-percenters: how superheros make out like bandits under the Trump tax-plan
Tax lawyer Jed Bodger has publised an analysis in the journal Tax Notes detailing the expected gains for superheroes under the Trump tax plan. (more…)...
03:22 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing China's mass surveillance and pervasive social controls are based on a rocket scientist's advocacy for "systems thinking"
In 1955, MIT- and Caltech-educated Qian Xuesen fired from his job teaching at JPL and deported from the USA under suspicion of being a communist sympathizer; on his return to China, he led the country...
03:02 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing SEC charges former Equifax CIO with insider trading
Jun Ying was serving as CIO of Equifax when he avoided more than $117,000 in losses by exercising and liquidating all of his stock options before the public was notified of the company's catastrophic ...
02:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing The Jamstik Smart Guitar is your personal music teacher
Learning how to play the guitar is no easy feat, and plenty of aspiring rock stars wash out due to either lost interest or simply lousy teaching. The Jamtik+ aims to remedy both of these issues with a...
01:57 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Los Angeles: come see me talk with Jen Wang about her amazing graphic novel the Prince and the Dressmaker TONIGHT!
Hey, LA! Molly "Strong Female Protagonist" Ostertag, Tillie Walden and I are going to be talking with Jen Wang about her amazing, genderqueer middle-grades fairy-tale/graphic novel The Prince and the ...
01:49 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Pounded in the Butt by My Own Podcast: Chuck Tingle comes to your earbuds
The good folks from Night Vale have launched Pounded in the Butt By My Own Podcast, a new audio treat in which guest-readers read the extremely NSFW and utterly delightful erotic fiction of Chuck Ting...
01:46 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Wells Fargo gives its CEO a $4.6m raise on flat earnings and more scandals
Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan has only been on the job since October, but he's earned a 35%, $4.6m raise, despite flat earnings and a series of scandals since Sloan took over from the cartoonishly villain...
01:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Map of the dark web
The so-called dark web is now so big that mapping efforts are afoot. It feels a bit like the web in the 1990s! The creators explain:The Dark Web Map is a visualization of the structure of Tor's onion ...
12:03 pm PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Britons struggle to walk up icy hill in Swanage
It's a silent video, but for a few chuckles from the camera operator. I recommend Maurice Ravel's Bolero as a soundtrack:https://youtu.be/dZDiaRZy0Ak?t=5m51s...
11:27 am PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Cheap eBay solder vs the good stuff
Androkavo tests some of the cheap eBay solder against the brand-name stuff; it gets there in the end, but it's surely not the advertized 60/40 alloy and needs to be close to 400° before it behav...
11:13 am PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing When you're singing about being the only passenger in the subway car, and then realize you're not
A woman named Stevie was so stoked to have an entire subway train car to herself, that she started singing a song about it while recording it with her phone. Then she noticed someone else was in the c...
01:22 am PDT - Thu, March 15, 2018
BoingBoing Chris Slane's privacy-oriented editorial cartoons are painfully funny
Online privacy is pretty much a dumpster-fire, but it's a funny dumpster fire in the world of Kiwi editorial cartoonist Chris Slane, whose one-panel strips are hilarious in a kind of oh-shit-we're-doo...
09:28 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing United f*cks up again, this time accidentally sending 2 dogs to the wrong countries
When a Kansas family taking a United flight yesterday from Oregon to Kansas City, Missouri boarded their dog on the plane, they probably hadn't yet heard that United had just killed a passenger's pupp...
08:25 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Burt Reynolds skid marks, Prince Charles long-lost brother, and another Obama cover-up in this weeks tabloids
The British Royal Family is nothing more than a lurid soap opera to the tabloids, which this week come up with a few wild and fact-free plot twists of their own.The tabloids have long indulged their s...
08:03 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Tiny finger hands for your finger hands
First there were Finger Hands, little vinyl hands that fit on your finger, much like finger puppets. Now, there are Finger Hands for Finger Hands, even smaller hands that fit on the fingers of your Fi...
08:01 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Allow these birds to chirp away your misery
Everything is kind of terrible right now. Do yourself a solid by spending a few minutes watching this fine fellow feed a flock of finches....
07:58 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Drummer documents 13 years of skill improvement
Adam Tuminaro gathered clips from his earliest days of drumming to the present, and comments on what he learned at each point. It's a great motivational template for any creative endeavor. Nobody st...
07:57 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing "Shark Tank" with no dialogue
Immerse yourself in the awkwardness that is Shark Tank with all the talking removed. Makes ya sweat a little, don't it?Previously: Dr. Phil with all the talking removed...
07:44 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Let's build a robot to kill the creator of "I am not a robot" CAPTCHA image grids
The distorted text was bad enough, but these grainy photos with slivers of this and that are getting ridiculous. I'm with the people who suspect it's some kind of free labor mechanical turk AI bot tra...
07:42 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Someone tracked all the songs played on "WKRP in Cincinnati"
Someone watched reruns of WKRP in Cincinnati, tracked all the songs played on the show, and then put them in this spreadsheet. Dr. Johnny Fever played the first song played on the show, Ted Nugent's "...
07:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing This Dremel rotary tool clone is a great deal at $21
Dremel rotary tools are useful but pricey. I bought this $21 clone in 2017 because the Dremel tool I owned was cordless, and not really strong enough to rough out the wooden spoons I was whittling. It...
07:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Disneyland announces a date for removal of sex-slave trafficking scene from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride
The Pirates of the Caribbean was the last ride Walt Disney personally supervised; it has undergone many replications and revisions over the years, but last year Disneyland Paris removed the "Buy a Bri...
07:34 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook bans British bigots
Hey, remember when that dangerous orange toddler that runs America retweeted the online blather of a bunch of English facists? Good times. Today, a company that's made some hilariously poor choices in...
07:29 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook once boasted of its ability to sway elections, now it has buried those pages
Facebook maintains a repository of success stories trumpeting the advertisers who have attained greatness by buying Facebook ads; most of these are businesses, but until recently, Facebook also trumpe...
07:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Huge air bubble discovered in otherwise healthy dude's head
Brains are so overrated. Sure, they let us know when it's time to poop and help us to find our car keys, but that's not very impressive for an organ that takes up just about all of the space in a skul...
07:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing European Parliament ambushed by doctored version of pending internet censorship rules that sneaks filtering into all online services
For months, the European Parliament has been negotiating over a new copyright rule, with rightsholder organizations demanding that some online services implement censoring filters that prevent anyone ...
07:12 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Scenes from today's national gun control student walkout
Today at 10AM local time, students across America walked out of their classes for 17 minutes, in memoriam of the 17 students murdered in the Parkland massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School i...
06:56 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Stephen Hawking's final words to the internet: robots aren't the problem, capitalism is
The last message Stephen Hawking posted to a public internet forum was an answer to a question in a Reddit AMA, querying how humanity will weather an age of technological unemployment. (more…)...
06:47 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing A high school teacher accidentally fired his gun in class, injures 3 students
Highly trained with firearms, Police reservist Dennis Alexander was teaching his high school class about gun safety when the handgun accidentally went off. Splintered fragments of the bullet ricochete...
06:39 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Melania leads low-effort battle against the cyber bullies
Slovenian immigrant and reluctant First Lady of the United States Melania Trump is gearing up her long awaited battle against cyberbullying. She's going to hold a meeting where no one expects her to a...
06:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Study finds that for-pay scholarly journals contribute virtually nothing to the papers they publish
In the open access debate, advocates for traditional, for-profit scholarly journals often claim that these journals add value to the papers they publish in the form of editorial services that improve ...
06:10 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Badass Army: revenge-porn survivors teach each other digital and legal self-defense
Battling Against Demeaning & Abusive Selfie Sharing (AKA the Badass Army) is an activist group founded by revenge porn survivor Katelyn Bowden to offer self-defense training against the tactics of tra...
06:02 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing GOP candidate for Maine legislature says he's sorry for calling Parkland massacre survivor a skinhead lesbian
Leslie Gibson, who is running unopposed for Maine House 57th District seat, says he is sorry, so sorry, for calling 18-year-old Emma Gonzalez a skinhead lesbian. Gonzalez, who survived the February 20...
05:59 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Hereditary ultraestablishment Democrat Dan Lipinski funded by railroad industry, whose safety regs he has held at bay
Dan Lipinski literally inherited his Illinois seat from his father, and has held it since 2004, despite voting against a $15 minimum wage and against a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. (mo...
05:37 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing United moves on to literally killing puppies
United Airlines has repeatedly attained viral fame for its mistreatment of its passengers and their belongings, and has even dabbled in pet murder, but now the airline has crossed another item off its...
05:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Teacher trained in use of guns accidentally fires weapon, injures a student
A teacher who has received gun training as a reserve police officer accidentally shot his gun on Tuesday at a California high school. A boy was struck in the neck by debris or fragmentation from somet...
05:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes accused of fraud by SEC, pays it off
Theranos, touting fast and easy blood tests, was a billion-dollar Silicon Valley beast. But it all came crashing down after its tech turned out to be unreliable and it emerged the company used traditi...
05:16 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Google launches "plus codes": open geocodes for locations that don't have street addresses
In much of the world, addresses are difficult to convey because they refer to locations on unnamed streets, in unnumbered buildings, in unincorporated townships, sometimes in disputed national boundar...
05:15 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing United Airlines staffer pretends bag is too big for carry on
https://youtu.be/AA6MKeHNLEwA passenger's bag slides into a United Airlines test compartment with ease, but the employee pulls it out, then sets it down on the test compartment at an angle to prevent ...
04:56 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing AMDFLAWS: a series of potentially devastating (but controversial) attacks on AMD processors
https://youtu.be/BDByiRhMjVAIsraeli security research firm CTS-Labs has published a white paper detailing nine flaws in AMD processors that they claim leave users open to devastating attacks with no...
04:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Pi was almost 6.28...
Happy pi day! Today we think of pi as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter (3.14...). But in the olden days (and even today) some people thought pi should be the ratio of a circle'...
03:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Alex Pardee's 'Half a Nice Day'
This patch by LA artist Alex Pardee made me smile, but only partially. It's called "Half a Nice Day" and you can get one at his site for $10. The same design is available on a tee-shirt for $30....
02:37 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing DoNotPay bot launches a cheap airline ticket that automates the nearly impossible business of getting refunds when prices fall
The DoNotPay bot (previously) is a versatile consumer advocacy chatbot created by UK-born Stanford computer science undergrad Joshua Browder, with its origins in a bot to beat malformed and improper t...
02:27 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Google bans cryptocurrency ads
In a bulletin released today, Google announced that it will soon banish cryptocurrencies from its advertising platform. Also nailed are various other scamtastic financial offerings and presentations.I...
02:18 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Happy 20th, Kottke!
Jason Kottke's blog turns 20 today (our online incarnation is a mere 18.3 years old, though we go back in print by another decade-plus); he celebrates with a lovely essay that recalls some of his thou...
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Classy sofas for cats
This luxurious upholstered cat sofa by FelinEva is certainly a favorite of the French maid in the video. Watch her fondle it gently, quietly, as if she herself was a cat, a cat in fishnet stockings....
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Unlock 1TB of cloud storage during this price drop
One of the main reasons why many of us invest in cloud storage is to back up the sensitive files and data that we'd rather not have saved on our computers. Of course, this strategy doesn't hold much w...
02:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Unlock 2TB of cloud storage during this price drop
One of the main reasons why many of us invest in cloud storage is to back up the sensitive files and data that we'd rather not have saved on our computers. Of course, this strategy doesn't hold much w...
01:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Survey: student attitudes about diversity and inclusion vs. free speech are shifting
A new Gallup-Knight Foundation survey suggests that shifting student views are exposing deep rifts in attitudes toward diversity versus free speech among demographic groups. The survey presents this f...
12:41 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Stephen Hawking playing poker with Newton, Einstein and Data
"Wrong again, Albert"Previously: Stephen Hawking has died. The famed physicist was 76....
12:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Diver William Walker spent five years under Winchester Cathedral to restore the building's foundations
In 1905 Winchester Cathedral was in danger of collapsing as its eastern end sank into marshy ground. The surprising solution was to hire a diver, who worked underwater for five years to build a firmer...
12:24 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing How NME, Britain's once-great indie music paper, failed and died
The NME died and I didn't even notice. Once the place to read about emerging bands and scenes in the UK, its obsession with guitar-slinging white boys ossified into an unnerving lack of sexual and rac...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing The century-long fight over how turtles evolved to have shells
Turtles were at the center of a hundred-year evolutionary controversy since the 1887 discovery of a Proganochelys fossil in Germany. AS PBS Eons explains, the question of how turtles got their shell...
11:51 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Dems' Conor Lamb claims victory over GOP in district Trump won by 20 points
Democratic party candidate Conor Lamb is probably the winner of yesterday's special election in west Pennsylvania's 18th district, turning a house seat blue and red faces pale. But there's only a few ...
11:40 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing This Volvo's door chime plays Toto's 'Africa' in 8 bit
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from the door chime in this Volvo 240. Why? Because it plays an 8-bit version of Toto's "Africa." This sweet mod was created by Chris NG, a fan of the YouTube c...
11:00 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Hypnotic animation of how a star-forming galaxy forms
IllustrisTNG, a next-gen simulator for cosmological events, created this beautiful animation of a "late-type" star-forming galaxy. It's fascinating to watch how mind-boggling mass and energy on a mi...
10:00 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing A Bad Lip Reading of Star Wars
Anything A Bad Lip Reading does is a-ok with me. Their latest video is a musical one where Grand Moff Tarkin sings delightful nonsense with Princess Leia.It's called, "It's Not a Moon."Previously: B...
04:11 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Stephen Hawking has died. The famed physicist was 76.
It just seemed that cosmology was more exciting, because it really did seem to involve the big question: Where did the universe come from? — Stephen Hawking, 8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018 Brit...
12:40 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing Puppy dies on flight after United Airlines forces owner to stuff it in overhead bin
A puppy died on a United Airlines flight Monday after "an attendant forced the animals owner to put the pet in the cabins overhead bin." The airline has admitted this characterization of events and cl...
12:20 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing The Kids in the Hall: An Oral History
The Kids in the Hall are Canada's greatest national export.Comprised of Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, and Mark McKinney, they were a comedy troupe that started out pla...
12:14 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing "Buy Local" food labels are often nothing but bullshit
Buying products that are locally grown or made in your community is a great way to bolster your local economy and support small businesses in your community. Unfortunately being able to tell which pro...
12:09 am PDT - Wed, March 14, 2018
BoingBoing The issue of sex doll use is blowing up in Zambia
Loneliness. Fear of catching HIV. Kink. No matter the reason for why someone might want to hump a sex doll, the Zambian government is against it. In fact, Zambia's politicians are so horny to put a st...
09:57 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Over Charles Manson's dead body: grandson to cremate cult leader's remains
I wouldn't feed Charles Manson's corpse to my dog, let alone fight over it. Not everyone's of the same mind: after a whole lotta legal jibba-jabba, the courts have finally decided on who gets possessi...
09:54 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Amazing Tales: a storytelling game with dice for kids and grownups
Tim Harford (previously) turned me on to Martin Lloyd's Amazing Tales, a storytelling RPG designed to be played between a grownup games-master and one or more kids. (more…)...
09:52 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Don't miss one of the coolest real time experiences: The 49 Boxes
I wrote about The 49 Boxes in 2015, describing it as a magical participatory experience that combines art, puzzles, story, music and so much more. Actor and magician Neil Patrick Harris recently ex...
09:48 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Peek inside Casa do Penedo, a house made of four huge boulders
Built in the early 1970s and currently nestled among a Portuguese wind farm, Casa do Penedo is a residence-turned museum. It would be cool to see how this was constructed! (more…)...
09:45 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Mister Rogers' Drunk History
It's been 50 years since Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered on television. Now you can learn the story of Fred McFeely Rogers (played in this episode by Colin Hanks) from comedian Solomon Georgio a...
09:42 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblums a special Jeff Goldblum meal for you
Jeff Goldblum admits that he can't cook. But that won't keep Jeff Goldblum from cooking. In this video Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblums the shit out of a pot of soup. Product plugs abound, but hey: Jeff...
09:36 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Let me tell you a story about Herman Wallace, who spent 41 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit
I read a lot. It's part of my job as a writer. Sadly, most of what I read these days is kind of terrible. We do awful things to one another. We've been doing it for a long time. Here's something terri...
08:34 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Popular tattoos 5,000 years ago were sheep
The art of tattoing is really, really old, according to a new study of some Egyptian mummified bodies that date back to around 3,000 B.C.E. The mummies -- accidental ones, people whose bodies were bur...
08:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Candy shop owner makes 'misfit chocolates' with broken Easter candy
Easter is a busy time for chocolatier Andy Karandzieff (aka "Andy Candy"). He expects to sell over 10K chocolate bunnies this month at his candy shop, a St. Louis institution since 1913. However, wh...
08:22 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing The David Starsky Gran Torino vs them Dukes' 'General Lee'
Vicki from Fifth Gear throws both these massive, monstrous automobiles around the track.One was a show about a handsome Jewish cop and his blonde Steve McQueen-lookin' sidekick, the other some hillb...
06:52 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Binder clips are incredibly handy
I keep a tin of binder clips in the kitchen, on my desk and in my tool bag. They come in all kinds of handy!I didn't think I'd be writing a love song to binder clips today, but they just come in so am...
06:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Good deal on a basic Stanley Toolkit - $11
If you click the coupon checkbox on the Amazon page for this Stanley Home Repair Mixed Tool Set it'll cost just $11. Here's what it has:12' Measuring Tape, 7oz Hammer, 6" Long Nose Pliers, 6" Slip Joi...
06:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Man builds full kitchen in back of tiny electric car
This man made a functional kitchen -- complete with cabinetry, stove, sink, running water, and refrigerator -- in the back of his little electric car. "I learned that making a car kitchen is hard if...
06:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Up to 500 people may have been exposed to poison that killed Russian spy and daughter
Last week a retired Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by novichok, a nerve agent, in Salisbury, England. Officials are concerned that anyone who visited the restaurant or pub the man and his ...
06:16 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Entire boas and iguanas found in Mexican bottles of mezcal
Looks like the worm at the bottom of a mezcal bottle just isn't enough for some folks. Boas and iguanas stuffed into mezcal bottles are now the thing, at least in Oaxaca, Mexico.So far, environmental ...
05:18 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Graph of best-case/worst-case scenarios for smart home security, by xkcd
The Mirai and Reaper botnets were just the beginning. xkcd's graph on the fragility of IoT systems is a warning of things to come....
05:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Man attacks ABC journalist Bree Steffens while she is reporting live
Last night while ABC 10News reporter Bree Steffens was giving a live report in San Diego, we see her pulled off the screen. A growling man appears on camera and then disappears while we hear Steffen...
05:12 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing CIA nominee ran a secret torture prison and destroyed evidence of it
Trump fired secretary of state Rex Tillerson, replacing him with CIA director Mike Pompeo. He nominated deputy director Gina Haspel to lead the CIA. If the Senate confirms her, she'll be the first wom...
04:31 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing This Oregon travel video looks like a Studio Ghibli cartoon
Kudos to Travel Oregon for making a beautiful animated promotional video, called "Only Slightly Exaggerated." It was written and produced by Portland's own Wieden + Kennedy. Animation by Psyop and S...
04:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Watch wonderfully rude Chinese reporter roll her eyes in disgust when another reporter asks a question
One of China's most famous female reporters (according to a translation from the video's YouTube page) spices up an otherwise dull parliamentary session when another reporter asks a long and obsequi...
04:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Learn when a word was first used in print with Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature
While looking something else up, I came across Merriam-Webster's new online "Time Traveler" feature today. It allows you to browse to see what words were first used in print for a particular year.For ...
03:24 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Interview with Daniel Mallory Ortberg
One of my favorite writers has a new book out and was interviewed by The Cut. He talkes about his transition, gender identity, bylines, and the new context of his past work....
03:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Roger Stone had contact with Wikileaks' Julian Assange in 2016: WaPo
Longtime Trump consigliere Roger Stone likes to give slippery answers when grilled by lawmakers or reporters about the specifics of his contacts with Wikileaks and Julian Assange, who are more or less...
03:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing 'Russia or whoever it may be.' Trump not convinced Putin is behind ex-spy's poisoning in Britain
This is very bad and not normal. (more…)...
02:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Trump 'body man' John McEntee abruptly fired, escorted from White House for 'security reasons'
John McEntee, a personal assistant to President Donald Trump, was today fired and escorted out of the White House for unspecified security reasons. His was not the only high-profile White House depart...
02:27 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Trump fires Secty. of State Rex Tillerson in a tweet, plans to replace with CIA chief Mike Pompeo
This is not normal. Today, President Donald Trump has fired Rex Tillerson, and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as America's top diplomat. (more…)...
02:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Get 10 Mac-boosting apps for $2/each
Apple produces some powerful computers, but without the right apps, you're probably not using your Mac to its full potential. Of course, finding the right programs can be a daunting task given the she...
01:05 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Gorgeous lamps made of repurposed corrugated cardboard
Indian design studio Sylvn Studio creates cardboard lamps that are as economical and eco-friendly as they are beautiful. (more…)...
01:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Trump fires Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
The Washington Post reports that Rex is gone. Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker:President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and replaced him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, orchestrating ...
12:42 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing New book documents the Clown Egg Register
TIL: Chronicle Books has published The Clown Egg Register, a book authored by photographer Luke Stephenson and fine artist/clown Helen Champion on -- you guessed it -- the Clown Egg Register:For mor...
12:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing A "digital rosetta stone" for translating obsolete computer files
It's not for the public ("accessible in the Yale library"), but researchers are working on a "universal translator" for old computer files that might otherwise be lost to obsolescence. Jessica Leigh H...
12:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing lossy-compress GIF animations
Who needs mp4 and the mystery meat data within? Kornel Lesiski's lossygif compresses GIF images, including animations, at the cost of noise. Though GIF does not offer true lossy compression, superimpo...
12:10 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Revisiting the Mavica, Sony's 1997 floppy disk digital camera
Sony's Digital Mavica FD was a digital camera that saved pictures directly onto floppy disk: a wonderful convenience in an age when flash cards (and their readers) were expensive and rare. Images we...
12:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Guys build connected treehouses using just bamboo and thatch
The success of the Primitive Technology channel has spawned a raft of other channels like Evolution Technology, who built an Ewok-style primitive treehouse complex. (more…)...
11:54 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Toto's "Africa" playing in an abandoned mall
Cecil Robert posted this remarkably effective video. It should be inscribed on titanium disks, encoded in the simplest possible video format to decipher, so that future generations may understand th...
11:42 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Tommy Wiseau as The Joker
Nerdist got Tommy Wiseau, of "The Room" infamy, to dress up as Arkham Asylum's most famous resident and run through some classic lines. With firm direction, and a lot of takes, Tommy would be a star...
11:30 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this guy make chocolate bars from scratch with cacao beans he grew
Gabe at H.I.S Survival demonstrates the fascinating process of making chocolate from bean to bar. He also describes some of the many kids of cacao pods and has plenty of tips on how to improve the y...
11:04 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Round birds
Finnish photographer Ossi Saarinen has gotten quite adept at taking photos of birds facing directly to camera, making each bird look adorably round, like the cute shot above. (more…)...
11:03 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Psychiatrist who "cured" gays busted for gay sex with clients
Since last time I wrote about Toronto's leading role in "reparative therapy" for curing LGBT people, the worst gender clinic was shut down and its head was fired. Now another "expert" had his license ...
11:02 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Why we should get rid of jaywalking laws
Jaywalking shouldn't be a crime. Everyone does it; it's part of the self-governing behavior of urbandwellers, and is so routine that I've suspected it plays a crucial role in a city's everyday mobilit...
11:02 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump in XXX-rated "Hard and Stormy Night"
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12:09 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing How to tie your shoes with just one hand
US Paralympic Track & Field medalist Megan Absten lost her left arm in an accident when she was 14 years old. In January of this year, the 23-year-old athlete created a YouTube channel to provid...
12:08 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing A skin of Castle Wolfenstein where all you do is pet dogs
In the original 1992 Castle Wolfenstein 3D, you fought off Nazis and their dogs. Now there's a mod called Woof3D -- also known as "Return to Castle Woofenstein" -- which removes all the nazis and the ...
12:05 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Historical Dungeons and Dragons artifacts and an unreleased pilot for an 80s D and D radio show
I am a huge fan of Jon Peterson's beautiful doorstop of a tome, Playing at the World, an exhaustive history of D&D, RPGs, and wargames. So, I was delighted to discover his YouTube channel. Even t...
12:00 am PDT - Tue, March 13, 2018
BoingBoing Learn when a word was first used in print with Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature
While looking something else up, I came across Merriam-Webster's new online "Time Traveler" feature today. It allows you to browse to see what words were first used in print for a particular year.For ...
11:59 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Young girl serenades cattle with her concertina
This is really sweet. A young Irish girl, Grace Lehane of Cork, played "Britches full of Stitches" on her concertina by the side of a green pasture full of cattle. Watch in this video that her dad D...
11:57 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Mega Dance Party Mix, a triptastic animation by Cyriak
UK animator Cyriak Harris celebrated getting 1M YouTube subscribers by livestreaming this trippy Mega Dance Party Mix. It's a 20-minute long retrospective remix of some of his past music and videos....
11:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Daycare owner sent to prison for drugging tots so she could tan and hit the gym
If you've managed to get through the whole of Monday without being driven into a white-hot rage, don't worry, I've got your back: the owner of an unlicensed daycare has been sentenced to decades in pr...
11:14 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing "The Vim Clutch": a footpedal for the code-editor Vim
Vim is a text editor greatly loved by many programmers, because of its radically keyboard-centric design. When you're coding in Vim, you generally never touch the trackpad or mouse; everything is done...
09:10 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Itty bitty Bluetooth speaker sounds great
I can confirm that the little Bluetooth speaker that was on sale for $7 last week sounds great. Despite its diminutive size, the sound is very solid and can be turned up a lot louder than I would have...
09:00 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Photographing Duran Duran nearly ended in blood being spilled and fingers being broken over copyright ownership
Acclaimed UK photographer Andy Rosen, who took many of the iconic photos of the early punk days, has written a nerve-racking, but entertaining piece about his bizarre experience he had after photograp...
08:29 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing After copyright wrangle, Scholastic promises better deal for competition entrants
After 8th-grader Sasha Matthews posted here about the copyright-swiping terms and conditions imposed in Scholastic's annual Art & Writing Awards, the group says it will no longer demand legal ownershi...
08:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Undercover cop runs a red light and tries to ticket driver who recorded it
An undercover police car ran a red light at an intersection in Brooklyn, almost cutting off a driver who made a legal left turn in front of him. The officer pulled him over and took pleasure in repe...
07:08 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing The Baranton Sisters demonstrate their foot juggling skills in the Ed Sullivan Show (1969)
French antipodists Rgina and Yvonne Baranton wow the audience in this 1969 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show. Fun fact: Regina was married to famous juggler Gil Dova:https://youtu.be/mlk1_tmdCro...
06:50 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this atheist get kicked off live Egypt TV show
A young man named Mohammad Hashem caused a furor on a live Egypt television show after telling the host and his "debate" partner, former Deputy Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mahmoud Ashour, that he was an athe...
06:28 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing National Geographic calls itself to task for its racist past
As a species, we've got a long history of being shitty to one another for no other reason than skin color. White folks, myself included, have arguably earned the right to drop the mic on bigotry. Over...
06:16 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Homeless man's camp hidden in decorative tube atop train station
A man has been living in a tent hidden in a tube on top of a train station in Antioch, CA. He was spotted lowering a bicycle from roof and was reported to police, who determined he was maintaining an ...
06:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Stormy Daniels offers to return $130,000 hush money to Trump in exchange for freedom to tell all
Adult film star Stormy Daniels doesn't want Trump's $130,000 hush money anymore. But unlike an unwanted new pair of shoes that suddenly feels too tight around the toes, can hush money be returned? Da...
05:57 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing The world is running out of phosphorus, which threatens global food supply
A good way to scare yourself is by googling "phosphorus shortage." Agriculture requires lots of phosphorus for fertilizer, and after it's spread on crops, most of it gets washed into the ocean, where ...
05:55 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing America, before the EPA: the photos that the EPA commissioned to document the conditions that led to its formation
When Nixon formed the EPA in 1970, the agency had the prescience to send photographers across America to photograph the kinds of environmental catastrophes that triggered its formation: chemical facto...
05:47 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Brexit is deflating the London housing bubble, with prices down 15% in some neighbourhoods
London's housing bubble has appeared unprickable, stabilised by influxes of offshore money from "investors" who saw property in the capital as a safe, easily liquidated bet even after the 2008 crisis ...
05:29 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Brief travel documentary about Oregon
"Only slighty exaggerated," it's titled. "Based on actual events. More or less. "...
05:29 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Highly Likely Russia behind poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal & daughter, British PM Theresa May says
Sergei Skripal was convicted of spying by Russia in 2006.Russia-made nerve agents, chemical weapons of war, were used to poison a former spy who was living in the United Kingdom, and his daughter. Tha...
05:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Ad agencies tell classic fairy tales in the form of six-second commercials
The Greatest Stories Retold is a project that presents classic fairy tales, like "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," in the form of commercials ranging from six seconds to over three minutes. Above, a s...
05:12 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Bionic prosthetic Nerf gun for man without an arm
Maker collective Hackerloop modified a Nerf gun into a bionic prosthetic for their friend Nicolas Huchet. He fires the gun via EMG (electromyography) sensors that detect when he tenses his forearm m...
04:51 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Check out this beautiful and super cheap 3D printed house unveiled today at SXSW
This 3D printed house was unveiled today at SXSW in Austin, TX. A cement house like this 650 square feet, single story takes just 12-24 hours to "print."It's "the first permitted, 3D-printed home cr...
04:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Stevie Nicks belts out "Wild Heart" during an Annie Leibovitz photo session (1981)
In September 1981, Stevie Nicks was sitting in Annie Liebovitz's studio for a Rolling Stone photo shoot just after the release of her first solo album Bella Donna. While Nicks is having her makeup d...
04:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Why animals near the ancient Roman "gate to hell" really dropped dead
Thousands of years ago in Hierapolis (now Turkey), tourists visited a temple named Plutonium built at a cave thought to be a gateway to the underworld. Magically, large and small animals would drop de...
04:08 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's son-in-law's brother Joshua Kushner quietly donates $50,000 to gun-control's March For Our Lives
While the Trump administration is pushing for more guns in schools by arming school teachers and other school employees, Trump's son-in-law Jared's brother Joshua Kushner reportedly donated $50,000 to...
03:52 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing SXSW panel on Thursday: Art, technology, and the Voyager Golden Record
Are you at SXSW this week? On Thursday (3/15) at 12:30pm, I'll be on a panel about art and technology titled: "Why are artists vital to tech's future (and ours?)" Moderated by Heather Sparks of Scienc...
03:35 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Fantastic fingerstyle guitar cover of A-ha's "Take On Me"
Russian guitarist Alexandr Misko delivers another rousing fingerstyle guitar cover. This time, it's the turn of A-ha! Previously: George Michael's "Careless Whisper," The Cranberries' "Zombie," and ...
03:19 pm PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Meet vintage videogaming's archivist extraordinaire
Back in 2012, we published a feature about Frank Cifaldi, one of the world's leading collectors of rare vintage videogames and related ephemera. Since then, Cifaldi founded the Video Game History Fo...
10:16 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Entire TV show just about cake fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwZiodYwXocNailed It is a forthcoming Netflix show that's apparently entirely dedicated to cake fails. Having watched this trailer I'm very eager to binge the season.Ho...
10:06 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Beautiful photos of beautiful vintage computers
I think all modern computers should look like these vintage ones photographed by James Ball a couple of years ago. [via Wired]...
09:58 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Enhance your ZX Spectrum with this glorious backlit keyboard
ZNRenew enhances your old Sinclair personal computer with beautiful colored cases and, soon, a striking backlit version of its infamous rubber chicklet keyboard. https://twitter.com/ZXRenew/status/972...
09:33 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Interactive map of student debt by zip code
Mapping Student Debt illustrates the grim strings attached to higher education in the USA—strings disproportionately attached to latino and black kids.More than 42 million Americans owe a total ...
09:25 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Is this dog God?
Meet Will. The music is from The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion....
08:50 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Betsy DeVos tries to explain why money should be taken away from schools
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose life's work is to take funds out of public education and give it to private religious charter schools, struggled to explain her philosophy on 60 Minutes last n...
08:37 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing "Skyknit": Knitting patterns produced by a neural net
Janelle Shane of AI Weirdness is awesome: She's trained neural nets to invent all sorts of hilarious material, from the names of new colors to odd new food recipes to original Dungeons and Dragons spe...
08:37 am PDT - Mon, March 12, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this fingerstyle guitar maestro cover a-ha's 'Take on Me'
Known worldwide for his incredible fingerstyle guitar covers of popular songs, Alexandr Misko performs a-ha's 1985 hit "Take on Me" in his latest video.The 20-year-old Russian musician writes, "This...
05:44 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing The Necronomicon pop-up book
Skinner, a "psychedelic nightmare painter," created a pop-up edition of HP Lovecraft's Necronomicon, available in a $50 Earth-Dweller edition and a $200 Elder God edition (with embossed foil casewrap,...
05:36 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing RIP Kate Wilhelm, science fiction great and co-founder of the Clarion Workshop
Kate Wilhelm, author of many of science fiction's seminal books and stories (e.g. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang), would have been a titan in the field if she had only wrote; but Wilhelm's prodigious...
05:25 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing EFF awards the Foilies to the government agencies with the worst transparency for 2018
The annual Foilie Awards are out; the Electronic Frontier Foundation hands out these sardonic "awards" to the government entities whose Freedom of Information Act responses were the most heel-dragging...
05:15 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing Singapore, where the government owns most of the land and housing and a stake in most business is the American right's "capitalist ideal"
The Heritage Foundation ranks Singapore as the world's second-most "economically free" country; pro-capitalist economist Bryan Caplan says it approaches the "capitalist ideal." (more…)...
02:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing This app helps you optimize your home's Wi-Fi
Wireless networks are known to be fickle beasts, delivering inconsistent speeds and disconnecting throughout the day. However, there are steps you can take to bring your networkand browsing experience...
12:35 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing The best part of The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
If you need context, and you don't, here it is! [via r/videos]...
12:24 pm PDT - Sun, March 11, 2018
BoingBoing Why Youtube's algorithms push extreme content on every possible subject
Zeynep Tufekci was researching Trump videos on Youtube back in 2016 when she noticed something funny: Youtube began recommending and autoplaying increasingly extreme right-wing stuff -- like white-sup...
08:01 pm PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Bad news: Omega 3s don't confer any significant health benefits; good news: They're mostly harmless
40+ years ago a pair of Danish scientists acquired the mistaken belief that Greenlanders had a very low incidence of heart disease (turned out that people who live in extremely rural conditions withou...
07:44 pm PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Wikimedia's transparency report is a joy
Like many of the most popular websites, Wikimedia -- which oversees Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons among other sites and services -- publishes a transparency report in which it details commercial and...
03:00 pm PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Take on the Italian mob in this hit game
It's not often a video game can create a vibrant open world, fill it with complex characters, and let you play your way through on high-octane adventure. In this regard, Mafia III is not like most gam...
11:50 am PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing You should listen to more Shakey Graves
My wife and I love Shakey Graves. Love. Him.His music is in constant rotation in our motorhome, no matter whether we're parked or on the move. He fills our ears when we're out for groceries or drivi...
11:33 am PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing The psychedelic nightmares of the pop-up Necronomicon
I'm a big fan of Oakland psychedelic artist, Skinner. Back in 2016, I posted here on Boing Boing about his incredible animated video for High on Fire's "The Black Plot."I also love the work that pop-u...
01:06 am PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Trump invited Putin to 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow with this personal letter
Donald Trump so very much wanted Vladimir Putin to attend the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, the reality TV star actually wrote the Russian President a personal letter inviting him. (more&hell...
12:56 am PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Trump goes it alone on North Korea. What could go wrong, other than nuclear war?
In a detailed Washington Post piece at the end of a bizarre political week, David Nakamura writes, The White House dumped its South Korean ambassador nominee, State's top North Korean expert resigned;...
12:17 am PST - Sat, March 10, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's military parade planned for Veterans' Day. No tanks. And, no thanks.
President Donald Trump's fantasy war parade will come to life on Veterans Day, and you're paying for it. (more…)...
11:08 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Apple prototypes hit eBay
A museum's worth of prototype Apple devices--computers, ipods and more--is being auctioned on eBay. Plain, who spends his days working at a Lexus dealership in Monterey, California, is part of the vin...
08:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this guy melt down 1,000 aluminum cans to make huge ingots
Ben at PressTube has branched out from squishing things in a hydraulic press to other impressive metalworking, like this project to shred and melt soda cans into ingots of aluminum. (more…)...
07:52 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Candidate for Wisconsin governor breastfeeds in campaign video
Kelda Roys is running for governor in Wisconsin. She's also a mom, small business owner, and attorney. In the middle of her campaign ad, in which she talks about helping Wisconsin become the first s...
07:51 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Excellent keyboard case for iPad Pro - the Logictech Create
The Logictech Create iPad Pro keyboard (on sale for $81 on Amazon) has changed the way I use my iPad. Mainly, I'm using my iPad much more often, now that I can enter text with a keyboard. If I'm on a ...
07:51 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Excellent keyboard case for iPad Pro - the Logitech Create
The Logitech Create iPad Pro keyboard (on sale for $81 on Amazon) has changed the way I use my iPad. Mainly, I'm using my iPad much more often, now that I can enter text with a keyboard. If I'm on a s...
07:20 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing How denialists weaponize media literacy and what to do about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNgdanah boyd's SXSW Edu keynote, What Hath We Wrought? builds on her essay from 2017 about the relationship of media literacy education to the rise of conspi...
07:04 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Martin Shkreli weeps as he is sentenced to 7 years in prison
Martin Shkreli, the entrepreneur famous for hiking the price of a life-saving medicine and defrauding hedge fund investors, was sentenced Friday to serve 7 years in prison. Convicted in August on secu...
07:01 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Study: Fake news "reaches more people, penetrate deeper into the social network, and spread much faster than accurate stories"
A team of MIT researchers "analyzed every major contested news story in English across the span of Twitters existence" and found that "fake news and false rumors reach more people, penetrate deeper in...
07:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing This spare and clean animation asks some cosmic questions
In I Am Here , director Eoin Duffy addresses the strange sensation when we realize our entire lives have led up to one fleeting moment. (more…)...
06:57 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Machine learning models keep getting spoofed by adversarial attacks and it's not clear if this can ever be fixed
Machine learning models use statistical analysis of historical data to predict future events: whether you are a good candidate for a loan, whether you will violate parole, or whether the thing in the ...
06:56 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this gymnast's incredible performance with six hula hoops
Olivia Watts, a Melbourne-based circus performer, combines gymnastics with some sort of magic in this highly-skilled 6-hoop performance....
06:45 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Progressive Democrats in rural red districts are getting funded by lefty Silicon Valley techies
Maciej Ceglowski (previously) is one of Silicon Valley's sharpest critics, admonishing technologists for failing to consider ethics as they build and deploy products; one of his post-Trump initiatives...
06:32 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Study finds that false news spreads faster than truth online, thanks to humans (not bots)
An MIT research team has published a paper in Science detailing their analysis of the virulence with which truth and falsehood spread on Twitter; they analyzed 126,000 stories tweeted by 3m people 4.5...
06:20 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing RIP John Sulston, open science hero and father of the Human Genome Project
John Sulston has died at the age of 75; I worked with him through the Wellcome Sanger institute, where he undertook the Human Genome Project, where a fully sequenced human genome was decoded and publi...
06:20 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese have lost control of space station -- it will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in weeks
If you were hoping that a person you detest will get hit by a piece of the out-of-control Chinese space station when it crashes to Earth the in the next few weeks, I have bad news: The European Space ...
06:09 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Deputy sheriff jails ex-wife after she complained on Facebook about him
Corey King, a sheriff's deputy in Washington County, Georgia put out an arrest warrant for his wife, Anne King, after she posted on Facebook: "That moment when everyone in your house has the flu and ...
06:07 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Obama working on deal with Netflix for TV series that he would produce with Michelle
Former President Barack Obama is in the late stages of negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of stories with his wife and former First Lady Michelle. The Obamas would be paid for exclusive con...
06:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing These striking sculptures invoke floating cities on stilts
Spanish artist David Moreno draws, 3D renders, and even sculpts thin wire-like material into striking floating cities, sculptures that have an architectual feel. (more…)...
05:52 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Cop charged with assault after beating "jaywalking" pedestrian
Leaked footage of a police officer repeatedly punching a pedestrian led to charges for Christopher Hickman, the Asheville, NC cop who also lost his job after the attack on August 24 last year. Hickm...
05:45 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Two people were very disappointed with Hamilton
Hamilton has traveled to the city of my birth, Denver, Colorado. I don't know either of the gentleman who wrote letters to the Denver Post expressing their displeasure about the cast and costumes, but...
05:44 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Hear "Weird Al" Yankovic's unreleased parody of The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again"
In June 1980, "Weird Al" Yankovic first performed "Won't Eat Prunes Again" on The Dr. Demento Show. Shortly after, he rocked it live at Cal Poly. Audio evidence above.(via r/ObscureMedia and Weird A...
05:34 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Wave under frozen sea breaks up ice, forcing people fishing to run to shore
People who look like they're fishing on ice suddenly shout and scramble to safety as a wave underneath them creates wide cracks, breaking up the ice into large pieces. Yikes!...
05:17 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Watch gymnast perform incredible backflip from a seated position
Championship gymnast Bradley Burns, 20, is reportedly one of only two people in the world who can do this trick. I am not the other. ...
05:03 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Lord Birthday's How to Appear Normal at Social Events
Who is Lord Birthday?Hes a brilliant cartoonist who has a new book that just came out, How to Appear Normal at Social Events. But its more complicated than that.His cartoons started on an Instagram ac...
05:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Couple commits to painting 365 mini birds, one a day
Nayan and Vaishali originally planned to make one piece of miniature art daily for 30 days, but following a great response for the first month, they decided to go for a full year. Lucky us! Above: a B...
04:57 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing What happens when helicopters land too close to one another
It'll buff right out....
04:51 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Mark Mothersbaugh from DEVO has a line of rad eyeglasses
DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh has a line of fantastic spectacles for booji boys and girls. Guaranteed to help you stay focused on the smart patrol! Here's Mothersbaugh on how eyeglasses improved his vision...
04:06 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Child gets first taste of wasabi
"Wanna try it?""No."...
04:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Behold these trippy optical illusion centerpieces
Valerio Sommella just won a 2018 design award from The German Design Council for these disorienting centerpiece plates he created for Il Coccio. (more…)...
03:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing This 1936 film celebrates maker culture (boys only, please)
The 1936 All-American Soap Box Derby is a fascinating look at the ethos and mores from the height of the soap box derby craze. While it's cool to see maker culture valued and celebrated, it's certai...
03:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing How these Microsoft tools can elevate your earning potential
When a company is considering pushing forward with a significant initiative, like a rebrand or new product launch, they're likely to consult insights from their business data first. That's why compani...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing These deliciously geometric pies are almost too pretty to eat
Lauren Ko of LOKOKITCHEN in Seattle bakes up pies and tarts that are so creative that fans might feel bad slicing into them. (more…)...
01:30 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing World's oldest message in a bottle (probably) discovered
A nearly 132-year-old message-in-a-bottle was found in late January (or was it?). Here's the story: While walking around Wedge Island in Western Australia, beachcomber Tonya Illman discovered the ol...
12:30 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to make a wood table with a "river" of glass flowing through
Woodworker John Malecki created this amazing river table with a massive piece of gnarly claro walnut and a lot of elbow grease. The end result is worth all the effort. (more…)...
12:00 pm PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Listen to valiha music, official instruments of Madagascar
A valiha is a special zither traditionally made in Madagascar from a local type of giant bamboo. It has a lovely sound, and there's a clear throughline from traditional songs played on a valiha to m...
11:00 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Yarn bomber strikes Guggenheim Museum, enrobing toilet in golden yarn
Hyperallergic reports that a prankster festooned a Guggenheim Museum toilet with gold yarn, an apparent response to the 2016 gold toilet installation at the same museum (above). (more…)...
10:00 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing This orchid has at least 7 camouflaged predators on it
Imagine being a bug or small bird who spots a beautiful orchid, only to learn upon closer inspection that it's covered in bugs who want to eat you. (more…)...
02:56 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing George Nader, witness to 2 secret Trump transition meetings, faced child porn charges in 1985
George Nader, the international businessman of mystery who is now cooperating with special prosecutor Robert Mueller, was indicted in 1985 on obscenity charges involving child pornography. Nader is a ...
12:56 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing This famous actor has a face you've probably never seen
Actor and contortionist Doug Jones got his start in show business as a mime. His big Hollywood break came in the late 1980s when he got the role of McDonald's moon crooner, Mac Tonight. Thirty-one y...
12:54 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Clocks in Europe running six minutes slow because of a power-grid dispute
This is fascinating: Millions of clocks across Europe have lost time, because of a dispute over electricity generation.Citizens across Europe had been noticing that clocks in certain devices -- LED-st...
12:51 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing There's a documentary on badass Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 'RBG'
Here's a film I'll be lining up to see.It's the story of U.S. Supreme Court Justice/hero/dissenter Ruth Bader Ginsburg and it will be told on the big screen in the upcoming documentary, RBG.At the age...
12:49 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing When staying at a hotel, tip the people who clean up after you
Working as a housekeeper at a hotel is a disgusting, thankless job.Cleaners aren't paid well, but they're expected to contend with our dirty towels, garbage cans full of personal products, and bed she...
12:45 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing Meet the mother of the Canadian civil rights movement
Viola Desmond was the badass mother of the Canadian civil rights movement.Born in 1914 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she grew up in the predominately pale-faced province avoiding notoriety until until sh...
12:19 am PST - Fri, March 9, 2018
BoingBoing North Korea invites Trump to denuclearization talks. Breakthrough or power stunt?
South Korea's national security adviser today announced he told President Donald Trump that Kim Jong Un says he's committed to denuclearization, and that Trump agreed to make it happen by May, as Nor...
08:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Students honor teacher at his funeral with a moving haka
When a beloved teacher at Palmerston North Boys' High School in New Zealand passed away in 2015, young men from the school -- both past and present -- performed a rousing haka in his honor. Powerful...
07:59 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Coca-Cola is launching its first alcoholic beverage
Coca-Cola will soon be offering a canned cocktail, a "Chu-Hi," to its Japanese market. The Coca-Cola Chu-Hi will be the first beverage in the brand's 130-year history made with alcohol, a popular dist...
07:53 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Florida lawmakers just approved to keep Daylight Savings Time all year long
Florida might become the third state after Hawaii and Arizona to be done with the hassle of changing their clocks twice a year. Yesterday the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Sunshine Protection Act...
07:53 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Florida lawmakers just approved to keep Daylight Saving Time all year long
Florida might become the third state after Hawaii and Arizona to be done with the hassle of changing their clocks twice a year. Yesterday the Senate overwhelmingly passed the Sunshine Protection Act...
07:26 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Portable version of the 1974 computer educational game, The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail adventure game, published in 1974, was a classroom favorite, teaching students about managing resources and making good decisions in order successfully cross 2000 miles of rugged terr...
07:01 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Colorado is a land of private affluence and public squalor
https://youtu.be/Cp4LUMl2994Colorado has a booming economy and high employment, yet its schools and infrastructure are seriously underfunded. The reason, according to this Full Frontal segment, is tha...
07:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Make your own 'bagpipes' with a garbage bag and recorders
Maybe you don't want to shell out a heap of cash for real bagpipes. Or maybe you just want to make a trash-bag instrument.Whatever the reason, I'm not here to judge you or what DIY projects you jury...
06:54 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing A mechanical, wooden Turing machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0Richard J. Ridel's all-wooden, mechanical Turing machine uses the smallest set of data elements capable of computing any calculation: 0, 1 and blank; it wa...
06:47 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Florida students succeed where so many have failed, force state legislature to pass gun control rules despite ferocious NRA lobbying
On March 7, the Florida legislature passed a gun control bill in a bipartisan 67-50 vote, banning bump-stocks and imposing a 3-day waiting period on long-gun purchases and raising the minimum age for ...
06:37 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Vendor lock-in, DRM, and crappy EULAs are turning America's independent farmers into tenant farmers
"Precision agriculture" is to farmers as Facebook is to publishers: farmers who want to compete can't afford to boycott the precision ag platforms fielded by the likes of John Deere, but once they're ...
06:35 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Bag containing 53 human hands washed ashore a Russian island
A gruesome discovery on a frozen island in Siberia: 53 human hands in a bag, and another hand 18 miles away. The Siberian Times reports that it remains a mystery over who the sinister hands belonged t...
06:35 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Bag containing 53 human hands washed ashore on a Russian island
A gruesome discovery on a frozen island in Siberia: 53 human hands in a bag, and another hand 18 miles away. The Siberian Times reports that it remains a mystery over who the sinister hands belonged t...
06:35 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Bad cartoon character art on daycare center walls
The bootleg_daycare Instagram account is a fantastic stream of poor representations of famous cartoon characters emblazoned on the walls of dodgy daycare centers, ice cream trucks, and other locales. ...
06:28 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing A critical statistics education that fits on a postcard
Economist and maths communicator Tim Harford (previously) presents a riff on Harold Pollack's aphorism that "The best financial advice for most people would fit on an index card," and comes up with a ...
06:22 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Itty bitty Bluetooth speaker on sale for $7
This 3-ounce Bluetooth speaker is highly rated on Amazon (and Fakespot gives the reviews an A grade for authenticity). It also comes with a built in mic so you can use it as a speakerphone. It's norma...
06:20 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing An algorithm that converts 3D meshes into machine-knitting patterns
A group of CMU researchers have created a generalizable approach to converting the model files generated by 3D design packages into knitting patterns that can be fed into a variety of computerized kni...
06:18 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Man learning to juggle shows us difference between Day 1 and Day 30
What a difference 10 minutes a day makes. This man wanted to learn how to juggle, so he practiced for 10 minutes every day for 30 days. This comparison video shows us how far he progressed from Day ...
06:18 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Cheerleading competition may have been ground zero for mumps outbreak
Someone with mumps attended a national cheerleading competition last February, prompting Texas health officials to contact all the attendees and warn them to be on the lookout.Via Live Science: Thous...
06:10 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing After Airbnb hosts converted New York's available housing stock to unlicensed hotel rooms, rents soared
Airbnb hosts are supposed to be smallholders: people who rent out a spare room or let out their homes while they're out of town -- but in New York (and other cities), the system is dominated by profes...
06:08 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Police arrest 14-year-old who dressed as sheriff and "responded" to crimes
This week Victorville, California police arrested a 14-year-old boy who dressed up in a sheriff's uniform, put emergency lights on his grandfather's car, and drove around "responding" to various crime...
06:01 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing If you are a podcast co-host, here is the sleeveless top you've been waiting for
I prefer to think that the name and description for the "Podcast Co-Host Sleeveless Top in Fog" was written by a neural net:Even a late night in the studio deserves your best style effort. Show you ag...
06:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Burger Boogaloo 2018 lineup: DEVO, The Damned, and more, hosted by John Waters
Tickets just went on sale for Burger Boogaloo, Total Trash Productions' annual rockin' two-day music festival. This year's lineup is impressive with DEVO headlining on day one and The Damned on day tw...
05:58 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Eerily realistic animal heads that you can wear created by Japanese artist
These animal heads are hyper-realistic, but no, they aren't taxidermy. Created by Japanese artist and modeler Kamonohashizokei, these heads of lions, cats, dogs, wolves and birds are made to be worn. ...
05:55 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Google service finds artworks that share similar color palettes
If you upload an image to this experimental Google website, it will return art with similar color combinations....
05:55 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing The company that turned Grenfell Tower into a deathtrap reports profits up 50% and anticipates no downside from the disaster
The fire in Grenfell Tower had many causes: Tory MPs protecting their rental incomes by voting down basic tenant safety; the Conservative Party's campaign against "safety culture"; but much of the blo...
05:53 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Incredibly lucky motorcyclist
Watch as a gentleman hops up completely amazed to be alive! After losing control of his headshaking bike, this brave motorcyclist slid under a moving semi and shot out the other side!...
05:45 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing The benefits of social withdrawal
Artists and scientists are less interested in socializing than other people are, according to Gregory Feist, who studies the psychology of creativity at Californias San Jose State University. In this ...
05:44 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Nick Cave will answer your questions on stage
Nick Cave is heading out on a short speaking tour titled "So What Do You Want to Know?" during which he will spend his stage time just answering questions from the audience. It reminds me of some of H...
05:31 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Men: Rest your weary head while urinating
In 2002, Eric D. Page was granted US patent #6681419B1 for a "Forehead support apparatus" enabling men to rest their head (the one atop the neck) while standing at a urinal. The device includes a "mou...
05:30 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Buy this guy's bed
If you need a bed and you're in the Brooklyn area, I strongly suggest you buy this one. Why? Well, for one..."Ain't nothing bad ever happen on this bed." At least that's what its current owner, Bria...
05:29 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing I tried Obenauf's Heavy Duty LP on my motorcycle boots and jacket
My favorite leather motorcycle jacket was starting to feel stiff and dried out. I decided to try Obenauf's Heavy Duty LP leather treatement.For years I've used Pecard motorcycle leather dressing on my...
05:26 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Humans who attack robots
Six collisions involving self-driving cars have taken place in California this year. Two of those collisions were caused by humans attacking self-driving cars. This article in The Guardian also recoun...
05:24 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Super Monster Wolf protects crops in Japan
Ordinary scarecrows cower in fear at the Super Monster Wolf, an animatronic beast invented to protect rice and chestnut crops from wild boar. The Super Monster Wolf has proven its value during trails ...
05:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing This ginormous egg had another smaller egg inside of it
Some poor hen in Australia squeezed out an egg-stremely large egg, one so egg-ceptional that it had another smaller egg inside of it!At Stockman's Eggs in Queensland, the farm's egg collector "Zippy" ...
04:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Spend 5 Minutes as a Piece of Sushi
When I was a little kid, really little, my mother used to take me to a luncheonette in Rego Park, Queens, where there was a model train running on a circular track around the counter. They would put y...
03:04 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Motorist charged after running over self
Isaac Bonsu, 30, faces charges of DWI and weed possession after "a police pursuit in which he ended up running over himself."Fairfax County Police released dashboard video from Tuesdays incident showi...
03:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing A web magazine you can read only if you turn off your wifi
The Disconnect is a literary magazine published on the web with a fun wrinkle: You can only read it if your wifi is off.You can load the magazine by going to its URL, but once you're there, it display...
03:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing This nostalgic iPhone case turns your smartphone into a retro arcade
Today's video games are technological marvels, boasting life-like graphics and immense open worlds. But, there's still something to be said about the games we played when we were younger, like Tetris ...
02:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing A 1788 dictionary of vulgar slang
I am having too much fun reading A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published in 1788 to provide definitions of the sort of vile, unmannerly slang employed by 18th-century streetfolk.It was ...
01:43 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Machine solves Rubik's cube in the blink of an eye
This machine solves Rubik's cube in no more than 0.38 seconds. This is much faster than the previous world record of 0.637 seconds and its creators, Ben Katz and Jared Di Carlo, think there's plenty...
01:13 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Study: Bones found on Pacific island in 1940 are likely Amelia Earhart's
Aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, and almost made it around the world: her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. Many hypotheses cropped up ov...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Intricate handmade model of a skate park
French designer FA makes models from scratch, like this cool imaginary skate park titled 1490 - sk8park #01. (more…)...
12:52 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Every Oculus Rift headset knocked offline after certificate expires; midnight brings relief
Oculus Rift headset users were unceremoniously dumped out of virtual worlds and back into the real one, yesterday, and it was all because of an "expired certificate". The workaround, until they fixed ...
12:45 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Malleable sculptures of interlinked chainlike metal
Erika Rejka creates intertwined metal shapes into sculptures that can be manipulated by the viewer. (more…)...
12:43 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Two photographers, unbeknownst to one another, shoot the same picture at the same moment
When Ron Risman posted a photo of the Whaleback Lighthouse in New Hampshire, a commenter accused him of ganking a photo just posted by Eric Gendron. When Risman saw Gendron's photo, he suspected he ha...
12:28 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Hollywood Stars in Bizarre Japanese TV Commercials
Many movie stars who would never deign to lower themselves to making TV commercials in the United States have been cashing in by doing exactly that overseas for years, knowing full well that their ima...
12:25 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Custom-made meat-themed backgammon set
Artist Marija Tiurina created this tasty backgammon set by repurposing a fancy Jaques London set to look like meat: (more…)...
12:25 pm PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Super-cute balloonfish teapot serves up tea in style
Yuchen Pei is a Beijing-based toy designer, but he dabbles in other fun stuff too, like this whimsical balloonfish teapot. (more…)...
11:25 am PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Here's a charming giant paramecium made of felt
For a group gallery show titled, "The Kingdom of Specimens," longtime fave Hin Mizushima created these delightful felt paramecia. (more…)...
12:53 am PST - Thu, March 8, 2018
BoingBoing Twitter's anti-abuse algorithms unfairly target #BlackTwitter
Surprise! The Root shares a well documented case of anti-abuse algorithms gone wrong, and then Twitter mercilessly stripping a user of their account. A decade of tweets gone without a chirp!Genie Laur...
09:53 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing U.S. Army war dogs deserve better than to be neglected or put down after their tour of duty is finished
A war hero who's saved American lives under fire deserves the best care that the U.S. government can muster. It's the very least they deserve for bravely serving overseas. Unfortunately, not all soldi...
09:42 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Alabama is home to the worst poverty in the developed world
In a country that has so much, it should be a crime to leave the less fortunate with so little. But it isn't, so here we are: As part of a United Nations study on poverty and human rights abuses in Am...
08:20 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Prince Harrys love child, Trumps revenge, and Teri Hatcher homeless, in this weeks highly dubious tabloids
Truth bears little relation to this weeks big tabloid exclusives, which give fake news a bad name.Surrounded by traitors! screams the National Enquirer cover. Donald & Melania Fight Back! No, they don...
08:15 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Packets, Please: fastpaced game challenges you to run a corrupt, non-neutral ISP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDnhgWkcsQ4In Packets, Please, you are the boss of CosmoCast, a corrupt, post-Net Neutrality ISP; your job is to "boost, throttle or disconnect" people based on their...
08:08 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Gary Cohn served Donald Trump for 14 months, and made billions for his old bosses at Goldman Sachs
When Donald Trump announced that he would "drain the swamp" by filling his cabinet with lobbyists, billionaires, and political operators, we all braced for an onslaught of rules that benefited the fat...
07:57 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing A new government malware company, fronted by Hacking Team's old spokesjerk, says it can spy on Signal and Telegram
Grey Heron is a new cyber-arms dealer offering to sell hacking tools to governments; it is fronted by Eric Rabe, who previously represented the disgraced, hacked Italian malware company Hacking Team, ...
07:53 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Get the Anker PowerCore 20000mAh charger for $35
The Anker PowerCore is on sale on Amazon for $40 today, and you can get it for $35 if you click the link that says "3 Applicable promotions" to the right of the product photo. This is the one I use wh...
07:42 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Illinois Democratic Party Chair is funding mailers smearing progressive Democrats with ridiculous lies
Michael Madigan has served as chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party for 20 years (prior to that, he was Speaker of the Illinois House for decades); if you donated to the party in Illinois, Mr Madi...
07:33 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Gentleman jumps on car hood to fake an accident, driver doesn't give a damn
If you have a dashcam, you don't need to worry about scammers pretending you hurt them in an accident, as demonstrated by this driver who encounters a spectacularly unconvincing scammer who jumps on...
07:29 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Toronto's real estate market is imploding
Toronto is one of the many great world cities that has been rendered nearly unlivable by real-estate speculation, both from onshore investors and offshore ones. (more…)...
07:07 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Suggested Media Diet
'What's the right balance for a healthy mind?" (more…)...
06:55 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing College professor caught on video telling couple to "go back to your home country"
Golden West College professor and counselor Tarin Olson from Long Beach, CA was caught on video telling a couple to "go back to your home country." Not only is she a racist, but she's also ignorant,...
06:50 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing FCC chairman Ajit Pai receives heaps of insults after tweeting about his love for The Big Lebowski
Ajit Pai used his power as FCC Chairman to kill net neutrality. (more…)...
06:33 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing San Francisco: New contemporary and experimental dance from ODC
Next Thursday (3/15) to Sunday (3/18) in San Francisco, the visionary dancers of ODC will culminate their 47th season with the premiere of Brenda Way's "News of the World" at Yerba Buena Center for t...
06:08 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Meet Twitchy, my new dashboard owl
Better than Jesus, this cute, solar-powered owl is twitching away on my dashboard.I've always wanted to have a bobblehead on my dash, and I still don't! This owl comes close tho! He twitches his ce...
05:55 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Norway increased its whaling quota for no good reason
Whaling isn't as cool as it used to be, and it's far from necessary. Many of the products we used to make from whale carcasses, such as lamp oil or whale bone baleen which was used to make everything...
05:53 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Size does matter, sex shop too small for SFO
Apparently officials at San Francisco International airport are size queens. When selecting vendors for the terminals, SFO uses gross revenue as an indicator a business can handle their scale.Evidentl...
05:51 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing You need to drill a hole in your head like you need a hole in the head
Back in 1999, I wrote a Boing Boing Digital article called "Head Like A Hole," about trepanation, the intentional drilling of a hole in your skull for medical reasons or, according to its contemporary...
05:38 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing CNN's economics analyst told cringeworthy joke about Stormy Daniels and no one was laughing
On a CNN Tonight's panel last night with Don Lemon, CNN economics analyst Stephen Moore cracked a stupid joke about Stormy Daniels, and it didn't go over well with Lemon and the other panelists. On ...
05:36 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing This is why museums matter
"History isn't a a cold, dead thing but always contested and in flux." In this short video, PBS's The Art Assignment does a fine job explaining why museums matter:The powerful and privileged have ho...
05:34 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing The primitive technology guy made lime mortar from the shells of rainforest snails
Lime mortar was used for millennia to adhere stone blocks together. It was the primary mortar until Portland cement was introduced in the 19th century. In this video, the Primitive Technology guy ma...
04:23 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Arabic version of Sega's early-1990s logo
This marvel of design was posted to Twitter by VGDensetsu; it's said to be official, and apparently romanizes as "Seja" as Arabic lacks a hard "G".The Japanese company uses the classic Latin-alphabet ...
03:53 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing San Francisco: Voyager Golden Record event at Tunnel Records this Saturday
This Saturday (3/10) from 5pm-7pm, my friends at San Francisco's Tunnel Records + Beach Goods are kindly hosting a Voyager Golden Record Party with complimentary beverages! I'll be there to talk abo...
03:32 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Best Buy's Geek Squad paid to find and report criminal images
Best Buy staff are paid by the FBI for reporting child abuse imagery, reports the EFF, moonlighting as snoops since the 2000s. This long-suspected activity was finally proven last year – a case ...
03:23 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Delightful clip of soccer player juggling gum
Below, German football player Felix Passlack demonstrates masterful gum control:When you spit your gum out, but your hands are dirty...
03:00 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing This online training will help you become a project manager
On its surface, project management sounds relatively simple: do what it takes to ensure company initiatives are achieved on budget and on time. But, the reality is that project management encompasses ...
02:07 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Silence retweets with the aptly-named Retweet Disabler
Retweet.RIP is a service by Will Cosgrove that, once given access to your Twitter account, systematically turns off retweets for everyone you follow. You can turn them back on again, too, but let's fa...
01:42 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Samia Halaby is an 81-year-old Commodore Amiga artist
"Use a material for what it's capable of doing," Samia Halaby says. "You don't make something out of wood that should be made out of Iron."She's not dinking around in Duluxe Paint either like that h...
12:44 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Dog finally convinced to howl
"It took quite a while to finally get her to howl," writes Hugh Nibley, "and when she did we were not prepared for the majesty of her regal voice."Is it just me, or is that dog a dial-up modem?...
12:32 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing The parable of the Broccoli Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESyJop31cmY&feature=youtu.beSeth Radley posted a picture of a tree that resembled a frond of broccoli. Then another, and another. That's where it starts.The tree is the...
12:13 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing "Secret family recipes" mostly plagiarised
Perhaps mom still has a twinkle in her eye when she makes pancakes with that special ingredient, coyly hidden from you since early childhood, a ritual that speaks to a parent's enduring love, the smal...
12:03 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Whipped cream in a vacuum chamber
https://youtu.be/n-H6zIeMiUs?t=1m26sCan you de-whip whipped cream and meringue in a low-pressure environment? This important question was posed by The King of Random. The results are expansive.The exp...
12:00 pm PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing TOM THE DANCING BUG: Hard Times in VHS Country
Join Ruben Bolling at An Unlikely Story, in Plainville, MA this Friday, March 9, where he'll be joined by Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), and talk about comics, his hit kid's book series, The EM...
11:45 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing The "Slip Chair" looks too unstable to sit in, but isn't
The folks at Snarkitecture collaborated with the Portuguese design firm UVA to create the "Slip Chair", which looks like it's tipping over, but is safe to sit in.Or so they say! Me, I'd like to see a ...
11:44 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Dictionary.com now offers definitions for emoji
Another marker of the mainstream-ization of emoji: Dictionary.com is now offering entries that explain their meaning. As Time reports:As Dictionary.com can now make clear with authority, having resear...
02:44 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Trump Justice Dept. to sue California over 'sanctuary city' policies to protect undocumented
President Donald Trump makes good on his year-long threats to attack the state of California and its residents with harsh new immigration lawsuit. (more…)...
01:43 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Atlanta's Darius explains Florida Man
Atlanta's Lakeith Stanfield voices the fear we all know as Florida man....
01:00 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Porn actor Stormy Daniels sues Trump, claims NDA invalid because he never signed
Stormy Daniels' new lawsuit against Donald Trump says their "hush agreement" is invalid because 'David Dennison' (the president's sex pseudonym) never signed it.Donald Trump never signed the nondisclo...
12:40 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing A meditative online game where you draw gorgeous flowers
Untitled (the flower game) is a gorgeous game -- playable online, or via a downloadable app -- where you draw a gradually evolving flower, using the left-right keys. It offers two styles of play -- an...
12:19 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Yet again, Kellyanne Conway violates Federal ethics rules
The Office of the Special Counsel, a Federal ethics watchdog agency, has once again found Kellyanne Conway in violation of the Hatch Act.In publicly supporting child molester Roy Moore from the White ...
12:16 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing U.S. says North Korea killed Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong-Nam with chemical warfare agent VX
The U.S. State Department today announced the United States has determined that the North Korean government used chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong Un's half-brother. (more…)...
12:00 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Impressive look at how Rachael got recreated in Blade Runner 2049
Visual effects house MPC offers a fascinating glimpse into the remarkable work they did to digitally recreate Rachael in Blade Runner 2049. Each iteration of these technologies inches close to indis...
12:00 am PST - Wed, March 7, 2018
BoingBoing Impressive look at how Rachel got recreated in Blade Runner 2049
Visual effects house MPC offers a fascinating glimpse into the remarkable work they did to digitally recreate Rachel in Blade Runner 2049. Each iteration of these technologies inches close to indist...
11:23 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Hey, Wellington! I'm headed your way!
I've just finished a wonderful time at the Adelaide Festival and now I'm headed to the last stop on the Australia/New Zealand tour for Walkaway: Wellington! (more…)...
11:13 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Stunning image of airglow bands around the Milky Way
Xiaohan Wang was driving near Keluke Lake in Qinghai Province in China, but stopped to snap this lovely image of airglow bands framing the Milky Way. (more…)...
10:30 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Myspace hasn't tweeted since 9/11, and we're starting to worry
Myspace picked a symbolic day to stop tweeting: September 11, 2017. What happened? Are they among the exodus to other cooler platforms like everyone but the most hopelessly addicted? Maybe they got si...
10:13 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy the soothing sounds of a kendo competition
Kendo is a Japanese martial art with a tradition of ki ken tai icchi, meaning "spirit, sword and body together." Part of that is screaming, which may have several purposes. Scientists have recently b...
09:59 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing North Korea willing to 'denuclearize,' says South
North Koreas leader, Kim Jong-un, told envoys of South Korea today he is willing to negotiate with the United States to end his countrys nuclear weapons program. South Korean officials say the North K...
09:53 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Six immortal superweapons the Democrats made for the president, which Trump gets to wield
Through the Obama years and even into the Trump administration, Democrats have voted a range of powers for the president that gives him almost unlimited authority, out of a combination of the foolish ...
09:51 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Why neuroscientist David Eagleman thinks we live in the past
When David Eagleman was a kid, he and his friends infiltrated a nearby construction site. Soon enough, he was tumbling three stories to the ground. The fall seemed to take an eternity! But years later...
09:41 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing How 401(k)s created a class of suckers to be fleeced by the investor class
America's 1% have waged a long war on defined-benefits pensions, insisting that America could prepare for retirement by putting their money into 401(k)s, despite the stark evidence to the contrary. (m...
09:24 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Clear plastic cases for iPhone 7 and 8 on sale for $5
My iPhone 6 Plus was glitching out and a restore wouldn't help, so I took the easy way out and bought an iPhone 8 (not a Plus this time, I was sick of stuffing it into my pocket for years). I didn't w...
09:05 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Rhode Island proposes blocking all online porn and charging $20 to unblock it
Rhode Island Democratic state Senators Frank Ciccone (@senatorciccone) and Hanna Gallo (@hannagallo27) have proposed grandstanding, unworkable legislation, "Relating to Public Utilities and CarriersIn...
08:52 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing To do at SXSW: Cypherpunks Strike Back! and Cyborg Pride Parade
EFF-Austin's Jon Lebkowsky writes: "Every year while thousands flock to a certain large festival that temporarily colonizes Austin, EFF-Austin throws a honking big geek soiree. Keynote speakers are th...
08:49 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Geek Squad's secret spying on behalf of the FBI went on for a decade and involved constant, ongoing collaboration
A 2017 prosecution of a California doctor charged with possessing child pornography revealed that the FBI had been tipped off by a Best Buy technician the doctor had paid to service his computer; the ...
08:45 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Explore Disney's parks in 360-degree panoramas via Google Street View
Fans of Disney theme parks, prepare to fritter your day away. Google announced Tuesday that its Map's Street View feature is now available to explore all of Disney's U.S. theme parks, from California ...
08:34 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Stalkerware vendor Retina-X capitulates to vigilante hacker, shuts down "indefinitely"
Retina-X sold a bunch of spyware apps (PhoneSheriff, TeenShield, SniperSpy and Mobile Spy) that they advised parents to sneak onto their kids' devices, jealous men to sneak onto their girlfriends' dev...
08:24 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing US smart traffic flow systems vulnerability would allow a single car to mess up intersection timing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV1sAxPuL0All new cars are equipped with "Connected Vehicle" signaling technology, which allows them to send messages to other cars and to traffic lights and other f...
07:28 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing French graphic designer is upset Disney copied his work for Star Wars ads
It's pretty clear that whoever designed the four teaser posters for Disney's Solo: A Star Wars Story, drew a great deal of inspiration from the 2015 album covers designed by Hachim Bahous for Sony Mus...
07:08 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing 42% of Americans have less than $10k saved for retirement
About 42% of Americans will be broke at retirement age, according to study released today by GoBankingRates. Top three reasons why: "I don't make enough money (40.1%)," "I'm struggling to pay bills (%...
06:56 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing The difference between Australia and New Zealand
p>I spent about 7 weeks in New Zealand and a couple of weeks in Australia in the early 2000s. People in both countries told me something along the lines of "If Australia is the United States, then N...
06:47 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Woman demonstrates her ability to fit herself into small boxes
Rhett and Link invite Sofie Dossi, the "human pretzel," to fold herself into suitcases, drum cases, aquarium tanks, and suitcases....
06:24 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Martin Shkreli ordered to give up $7.4 million, including his one-of-a-kind Wu Tang Clan album
A federal judge ordered Martin Shkreli, who was convicted of fraud last year, to forfeit $7.4 million. This forfeiture includes a Picasso painting, his $5 million bail posting, and the one-of-a-kind W...
06:10 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Here's how a high school teacher's "Mystery Box" works
High school teacher Bruce Yeany makes "mystery boxes" and challenges his students to figure out how they work. The one in this video hangs from the ceiling by a string. Another string protrudes from...
05:49 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing The Dude's 1973 Ford Gran Torino
The Dude's Gran Torino got a little dinged up. He did get the Creedence tapes back, tho.This model will tie whatever space you put it in, together.GreenLight The Dude's 1973 Ford Gran Torino (1:43 Sca...
05:42 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's touted ICE raids damaging California economy
California is the United States agricultural juggernaut. Produce from California feeds the world and drives one of the largest economies on the planet. A side-effect of Trump's beloved, family destroy...
05:20 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing 'The Big Lebowski' turns 20
On March 6, 1998, twenty years ago, perhasps the most quote-able movie of all time was released. Tonight, I am watching The Big Lebowski!He never did get those Creedence tapes back....
04:31 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Watch VW buses jump
Tomorrow I'm putting new shocks on the front of my Vanagon. It will never do this.(Thanks, Jamie!)...
04:23 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing In 1958, two pilots managed to stay aloft in a small plane for two months straight
The world's longest airplane flight took place in 1958, when two aircraft mechanics spent 64 days above the southwestern U.S. in a tiny Cessna with no amenities. In this week's episode of the Futility...
04:14 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Juicero spotted on slightly dirty thrift shore shelf
Photo: anfael_Juicero was a fantastically over-engineered $400 juicing machine whose key innovation was DRM fruit slime that you can just squeeze out the bag anyway. The company went out of business s...
03:47 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Woman declares she is god, attempts to open airplane door while in-flight
This video shows passengers of a Boise to San Francisco flight subduing a purported GOD.Questionably a deity, verifiably in need of help, this passenger became agitated and then decided to exit the ...
03:00 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing This pocket-sized gadget takes the guesswork out of matching colors
Our world is a colorful oneand not just in the metaphorical sense. It's filled with vibrant, lush colors that many of us would like to replicate when it comes time to repaint a room or design a websit...
12:40 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Could you pass the chicken test?
To ensure that its graduates can discharge their duties with the absolute minimum of human warmth, Indiana University Police Academy challenges recruits not to laugh when a squeaky rubber chicken is...
12:32 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Diver encounters underwater trash cloud
Searching for Mantas, the poster of this video instead found trash.The ocean currents brought us in a lovely gift of a slick of jellyfish, plankton, leaves, brunches, fronds, sticks, etc.... Oh, and s...
12:30 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Zen out on Bob Ross peeling off contact paper
Need a meditative moment? Try watching the late great Joy of Painting host Bob Ross peel off contact paper and masking tape from his paintings for nearly four minutes. Ahhh... that's better.(Digg)...
12:11 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Styrofoam heads dissolved in acetone in music video
I found out about Shit Ghost from this Reddit thread: "My seemingly normal project manager abruptly quit his nice paying job a couple years ago for unknown reasons. I facebooked him today out of cur...
12:00 pm PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing This is how you cut a deck of cards, or ten
In their latest video, the Hydraulic Press Channel team shows how to plow through 10 decks of cards (and other things like a rubber band ball and CO2 cartridges) using their extra-sharp "Guillotine ...
11:00 am PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing The story of 'cool'
Etymology is fascinating! Follow the journey of the slang word "cool" from its early days to now in this whiteboard video by linguistics expert Arika Okrent. (Neatorama)...
10:12 am PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing What's inside the Oscars gift bag, valued at $120K apiece
Even if you don't win an Oscar (the golden statuette itself is only worth $1), if you're an Academy Award nominee you walk away with a gift bag filled with some seriously lavish schwag. Town & C...
08:12 am PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Modest Silicon Valley home breaks record for highest price paid per square foot
They say that, in real estate, it's all about location, location, location. That's especially true if you're a Silicon Valley worker who wants to avoid a horrible commute.The 848-square-foot house a...
02:14 am PST - Tue, March 6, 2018
BoingBoing Teacher who hosts white supremacist podcast suspended
According to The Hill, a Florida middle school teacher who moonlighted as a hate-spewing white nationalist podcast host has been removed from the classroom by the school board she worked for. Her susp...
10:57 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing How to be better at being pissed off at Big Tech
My latest Locus column, "Lets Get Better at Demanding Better from Tech," looks at how science fiction can make us better critics of technology by imagining how tech could be used in difference social ...
09:27 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Can you solve the seven planets riddle?
Created by esteemed riddler Edwin F. Meyer, co-author of The Gedanken Institute Book of Puzzles. (Ted-Ed)...
09:19 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Humans have left 500,000 pounds of "garbage" on the moon
Humans have left approximately 400,000 pounds of "trash" on the lunar surface. That includes probes, rovers, landers, a metallic olive branch, a hammer and falcon feather (for a gravity experiment, im...
09:19 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Humans have left 400,000 pounds of "garbage" on the moon
Humans have left approximately 400,000 pounds (181,000 kilograms) of "trash" on the lunar surface. That includes probes, rovers, landers, a metallic olive branch, a hammer and falcon feather (for a gr...
08:54 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Thousands of Oklahoma teachers, inspired by West Virginia, are planning a walkout
West Virginia's teachers across the state are participating in an unsanctioned wildcat strike with no end in sight -- thanks in part to the widespread support for their cause among West Virginians, an...
08:53 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Shower curtain with pockets for phones and tablets so you can stay connected while wet
File under No Thank You: The Screenholder:Watch, play with or listen to your phone or tablet in the shower. 100% waterproof. Even use your camera. Features multiple phone and tablet sized pockets on o...
08:42 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing The UK government declined a chance to get 364m out of Carillion before it failed, and British taxpayers are now on the hook for that money
Last December, the accounting giant EY presented a proposal to the failing mega-business Carillion to break it up and sell its profitable parts, keeping it from collapsing and sticking the British tax...
08:28 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Second Steele memo alleges Kremlin blocked Romney from becoming Secretary of State
Remember last year when Trump was considering Mitt Romney to become secretary of state after he was elected? In the end Trump dumped the idea of Romney and Rex Tillerson got the job. Now, a second Ste...
08:27 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Goob: a notional paltrovian newage woozine generated by Botnik's AI
Botnik used its predictive AI to generate a Gwyneth Paltrow-style website full of woo: goob! It's all very Poe's Law. (more…)...
08:10 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Retro 1980s brickphone with 2000s technology
AliExpress has this and various other cellphones designed to resemble ancient first-gen mobiles of yore. This one can also be used as a battery pack for another phone. All the models are 2G GSM and wi...
07:41 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Scrimish is a card game of strategy, memory, and misdirection
I've heard good things about Scrimish, "an epic 10 minute battle of strategy, memory, and misdirection." It's on sale on Amazon for $7 (regularly $15) so I just bought it. The sale ends today. I'll ...
07:26 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Nice Oscars commercial, Twitter -- now how about doing something about misogyny on your platform?
We stand with women around the world to make their voices heard and their presence known. To bring them front and center, today and every day. Join us as we say #HereWeArehttps://t.co/bVXGJ1NibP&mdash...
07:15 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing DARPA wants to slow down the human body to save lives
According to Engadget, America's futurist military think tank, DARPA, wants to figure out the means to slow down the biological functions of the human body to provide more time for medics and doctors ...
07:10 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing U.K. winter storm kills thousands of starfish
Storm Emma, a massive weather system that brought bitter cold and snow to the U.K. this past week did a lot of damage to power grids, forced the closure of schools and caused havoc for anyone lookin...
06:46 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Sign painter has excellent penmanship
Watch this sign painter use a brush and a pot of ink to flawlessly draw Japanese and Roman letters....
06:35 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Man steals McDormand's Oscar, prances around party claiming it's his, finally gets arrested
Soon after Frances McDormand received her Oscar for Best Actress for her brilliant performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the statuette was stolen. After searching high and low fo...
06:26 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing This Florida public school teacher has a white nationalist podcast
Dayanna Volitich is a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Florida. She is the host (under the pseudonym Tiana Dalichov) of a white nationalist podcast called Unapologe...
06:22 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Some fireflies have a dark side
From Deep Look:Females of one firefly group, the genus Photuris, have learned to copy other fireflies flashes to attract the males of those species. When one arrives, she pounces, first sucking his ...
06:10 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Secret NYPD files show hundreds of cops committed serious crimes and kept jobs and pensions
Lying to grand juries. Beating innocent people. Stealing money. Lying on reports. Dealing drugs. Drunk driving. Threatening people with death. Sexually assaulting people. These are some of the serious...
06:00 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing This prosthetic thumb shows you what it's like to have two thumbs on one hand
London product designer Dani Clode has created a prosthetic thumb, not to replace a missing digit, but simply to offer people an extra thumb, and therefore add to the human experience. She calls it ...
05:54 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Meet the Giant Anteater
It has no teeth, a 2-foot long tongue, and a stick-like head. The giant anteater has lived on earth for 25 million years. But because of overhunting, its existence is being threatened.Image: Great B...
05:31 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing These are the world's oldest known tattoos
Researchers have found the world's oldest known tattoos -- a bull and a goat-like animal -- on a 5,200-year-old Egyptian mummy in the British Museum. From The Independent:Along with a Copper Age Europ...
05:22 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Why flight attendants hate Diet Coke
Traveling by air's thirsty work. When you're flying, the cold air sucked into an airplane at 30,000 feet keeps everyone alive, but it doesn't have a whole lot of moisture in it. An hour of breathing i...
05:06 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Support the Terence McKenna archives!
Terence McKenna (1946-2000) was an ethnobotanist, psychedelic pioneer, philosopher, and shamanic scholar who boldly explored the mysteries of consciousness and the fringes of reason with rigor, wit, a...
04:07 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Chewbacca's bandolier seatbelt pad
To further the fantasy my VW Westy is the Millennium Falcon, Chewy's bandolier seatbelt pads!Fuzzy, padded and they'll cover luggage straps as well as seat belts. Looks just like you;ve got ammo for y...
03:36 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Playboy lawsuit over
In January, we let you know that Playboy had sued us. On Valentine's Day, a court tossed their ridiculous complaint out, skeptical that Playboy could even amend it. Playboy didn't bother to try.We are...
03:00 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Learn to code in 2018 for a price you pick
Coding is one of the most valuable skills to have in today's job market, but with the plethora of programming languages out there, picking the right ones to learn first can be challenging, not to ment...
02:01 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing What to do in an emergency
Hey, at least now you know. Buy yourself a coke to celebrate:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbWedVYNFA...
01:53 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Escaping Twitter's numbers game with the Twitter Demetricator
Everyone knows about the trolls and nazis, but The New Yorker's David Zweig wrestles with the other strange pallor that descends on Twitter: the feeling that every moment is a self-conscious baring of...
01:42 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Cool linux handheld computers coming in 2018
Giant Pockets rounds up the options for owning an ultraportable, ultra-light computer that run an easily-accessible distribution: The World of Linux Handhelds in 2018. Thanks for Android, this is more...
01:34 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Noodle Pi is a powerful 3D-printed pocket computer
Noodle Pi is described as "the smallest, lightest, most open handheld / wearable computer," a Raspberry Pi tightly packaged with a high-resolution multi-touch screen, battery and camera in a compact 3...
01:20 pm PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Motorist decides not to proceed through tunnel
The human being watching the live feed has perfect comic timing....
01:19 am PST - Mon, March 5, 2018
BoingBoing Floral CCTV wallpaper
knt.remembr is a pretty great track from Knxwledge, but man, what I would give to have that wallpaper! (via Dark Roasted Blend) (Hi rez)...
09:47 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing French Polynesia says it didn't renew its deal with the Seasteaders, a group of libertarian separatists
The Seasteading Institute is a group of libertarian separatists who dreamed of building an autonomous, contract-governed mini-state on a set of floating platforms in the south Tahiti lagoon of Atimaon...
09:38 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing CEO of Trustico emails 23,000 HTTPS private keys, triggering panicked mass-revocation
On Tuesday, the CEO of UK certificate reseller Trustico decided to settle an argument with Digicert executive VP Jeremy Rowley by emailing him the private keys for 23,000 TLS certificates that had bee...
09:17 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing United axes its employee bonus program, replaces it with a lottery, saving millions
United employees who helped the airline hit key goals got a $300 bonus -- until now. (more…)...
08:59 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Don't give a dime to the DCCC, they'll just use to front DINOs and smear Justice Democrats
I donated to Democrats in 2016, so that means that the DCCC calls me about once a week to ask for money. I always tell them no, because I support Democratic candidates through organizations like Our R...
05:00 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Jennifer Lawrence takes a lie detector test (to promote her new movie)
Celebrity movie-promo videos are getting stranger and stranger. In this one, produced by Vanity Fair, actress Jennifer Lawrence is strapped up to a lie detector machine and asked a series of reveali...
05:00 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Earth Wind Map
Earth Wind Map shows the winds blasting over a beautiful, rotatable 3D animated globe. Various modes (click the text on the bottom left) show air, oceanic, particulate and even auroral maps....
03:00 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Stunning footage of flowers submerged, burned, and frozen
Thomas Blanchard (previously) has returned with a video project called DANCE DANCE. (more…)...
03:00 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing This travel-sized adapter helps you get a charge in 150 countries
One of the biggest struggles for jet-setter is managing to charge their devices abroad. But, thankfully, theOMNIA TA502 Travel Adapter is here to put an end to that. This pint-sized charger lets you p...
02:00 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this scientist make identical snowflakes
Southern California might seem like a strange place to study snowflakes, but that's where Ken Libbrecht perfected his technique for making identical snowflakes. (more…)...
01:18 pm PST - Sun, March 4, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a virtual 360-degree tour of BookBot library retrieval system
BookBot is a nifty book retrieval system at North Carolina State University's James B. Hunt Jr. Library. Here's a panoramic book's-eye view of the retrieval process. (more…)...
11:57 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Ban on discussing Poland's complicity in Holocaust draws worldwide attention to Poland's complicity in Holocaust
We all know that Poland resisted the Nazi invasion and that Poles and Polish Jews bore the brunt of the Holocaust. But the world is now finding out all about Polish complicty in the Holocaust, thanks ...
09:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Here's the catchiest ode to breakfast burritos in human history
Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito, a delightful earworm by Parry Gripp, will make you want to do one of three things: dance, eat a breakfast burrito, or try to forget that you ever clicked the play button. ...
08:19 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Crowdfunding to help West Virginia's striking teachers
West Virginia's public school teachers have walked out en masse in a wildcat strike, demanding an end to decades of real-terms wage cuts that have left them among the poorest-paid teachers in America,...
08:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Amazing moments captured by this very patient street photographer
Street photographer Pao Buscat has gained a reputation for finding moments that feel impossibly coincidental. (more…)...
07:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke's daughter Maya cast in 'Stranger Things 3'
On Friday, Netflix announced a new cast member for the upcoming season of Stranger Things. Maya Thurman-Hawke, the 19-year-old daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke, will join the hit show as Robin,...
06:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Jeff Sessions rolling papers
As you're probably aware, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is against the legalization of cannabis. At a Senate drug hearing in 2016, he even said, "Good people dont smoke marijuana."Now some enterprisi...
04:30 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing "Ass" is the most complicated word in the English language
Finnish comedian Ismo Leikola makes a compelling case that "ass" is the most complicated word in the English language. (more…)...
04:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing The world's first reusable tampon applicator
Celia Pool and Alec Mills used to sell period products and soon realized what a tremendous waste it all was, especially those single-use plastic applicators on tampons. So they launched a company call...
03:30 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing A neural net that generates weirdly evocative sentences
Robin Sloan, the author of wonderful novels like Mr. Penumbras 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough, also spends his time messing around with neural nets that compose and transform language in delightful w...
03:20 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Roy Moore begs for money in legal fight against "gays, lesbians, transgenders" and his victim
Former judge and failed Senate candidate Roy Moore is begging his supporters for money to fight a lawsuit filed against him by a woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her as a youngster.I have ...
03:11 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Gun injuries go down by 20% during NRA conventions
Here's a fascinating finding: When the NRA holds its annual convention, the national rate of gun injuries goes down temporarily by 20% -- seemingly because the 80,000-odd attendees are hanging out and...
03:11 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Ever wonder how land surveying devices work? Watch and learn
A theodolite is that gizmo on a tripod used by land surveyors. This explainer shows how they work, and discusses how they shifted from analog devices to the modern digital ones. (more…)...
03:10 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Jeopardy!'s first sudden-death tie-breaker: Watch
On Thursday, the first ever tie-breaker in regular game play (it's been used in tournament play) happened in Jeopardy!'s nearly 54-year history. After all three contestants answered the Final Jeopar...
03:00 pm PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing It's as good a time as ever to learn the top cloud computing platform, AWS
While many tech innovations tend to follow a boom and bust cycle, it's safe to say that cloud technology is here to stay. As more companies go digital and leverage data to boost their bottom lines, de...
03:45 am PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Olive Garden threatens to sue satirical twitterer for tweet congratulating it for no longer selling AR-15s
Counsel for Darden Restaurants, owners of the Olive Garden, sent a legal threat to the Seinfeld Current Day Twitter account over a tweet reading "respect to @olivegarden for no longer selling AR-15s a...
02:22 am PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Accused child molestor Roy Moore is begging for money to "prevail against the unholy forces of evil"
America's favorite cowboy cosplayer/accused child molestor/senate race loser Roy Moore is pleading to his fans to give him $250,000 to "prevail against the unholy forces of evil" that prevented him fr...
02:22 am PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Accused child molester Roy Moore is begging for money to "prevail against the unholy forces of evil"
America's favorite cowboy cosplayer/accused child molestor/senate race loser Roy Moore is pleading to his fans to give him $250,000 to "prevail against the unholy forces of evil" that prevented him fr...
12:09 am PST - Sat, March 3, 2018
BoingBoing Who may swim in the ocean of knowledge?
I've written an op-ed on The Wire, a prominent nonprofit publication in India about access to knowledge. Access to scientific knowledge has been colonized by a few publishers who have improperly laid ...
10:42 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Survivor, a story from Black Candies: The Eighties
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10:29 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing I'm coming to the Adelaide Festival this weekend (and then on to Wellington, NZ!)
I'm on the last two cities in my Australia/NZ tour for my novel Walkaway: today, I'm flying to Adelaide for the Adelaide Festival, where I'm appearing in several program items: Breakfast with Papers o...
09:42 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing As students take the lead in the gun control fight, check the ACLU's resources for students and their First Amendment rights
The ACLU's Josh Bell just wrapped up a livestreamed training session for students on their free speech rights and then released the video and slides; these are a great complement to the ACLU's exist...
09:36 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Ajit Pai forced to return the gun the NRA gave him as a prize for his neutracidal rampage
The annual CPAC freakshow reached a new absurdist peak last week when Trump FCC Commissioner was awarded the NRA's Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award for his cowardly back-shooting of America's ...
09:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing All the songs from The Greatest Showman, ranked
Though its lackluster opening weekend led many to dismiss it as dead on arrival, The Greatest Showman has gone on to become one of the biggest surprise success stories in film history. Hugh Jackmans g...
08:41 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Super Seducer is a Playstation/Steam game where players grab women's "boobs" and "asses"
Super Seducer is a simulation game for Playstation on Steam advertised to help players "learn state-of-the-art seduction secrets from the master himself, Richard La Ruina, in this incredibly valuabl...
08:28 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Free speech more popular than ever; only racists are less tolerated
We hear so much in certain sectors of the press about how "illiberalism" is overwhelming free speech, but if this chart is to be believed it's a very selective intolerance, counterbalanced by a greate...
08:25 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing The ingenious perpetual flip calendar from the 1920s
This Perpetual Flip Calendar has a nifty way of displaying the date every time you rotate it 180 degrees. The Measured Workshop YouTube channel got the 1926 patent application and recreated one out o...
08:18 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing American fighting ISIS returns home to have gunshot wound patched up in Chicago
We don't hear as much about ISIS as we used to, but the fight against their particular brand on evil is still being waged.In Syria, for example, a Kurdish militia group called YPG is still waging war ...
07:52 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Trump pal Carl Icahn dumped $30 million of stock in a steel-dependent company right before tariff announcement
Think Progress reports that billionaire Carl Icahn, one of Trump's BFFs, sold 1 million shares of Manitowoc Company Inc. right before Trump announced his tariffs on foreign steel. After the announceme...
07:31 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing MSNBC's Donny Deutsch says his former friend Trump is "cornered, unhinged," would start war "to protect his hide"
A regular on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch, who says he was close friends with Trump for 20 years, tells Joe Scarborough, "You felt something shift this week. You really felt the noose tighteni...
07:17 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing I interviewed science fiction author Madeline Ashby about her favorite tools
The guest this week on my Cool Tools show is Madeline Ashby. Madeline is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, was a finalist for the 2017 CBC B...
06:53 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Hiring a scammer to be a documentary filmmaker
A man from Nigeria named Tobi tried to pull an online scam on a guy in the United States. The would-be victim hired Tobi to make a short documentary of life in his town. The scammer accepted the job...
06:41 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Woman dries her underwear with airplane fan
A typical day over the skies of Russia:"While on the plane, I watched for twenty minutes as a woman dried underwear over a fan of an airplane. None of the passengers made any remarks. The stewardess...
06:34 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing How to buy a gun in 15 countries
The New York Times has an article that shows the steps required to buy a gun in 15 different countries. There's actually one country on the list where it's easier to buy a gun than it is in the USA --...
06:32 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Dad finds son's weed and makes youtube video flushing it down the toilet
This dad finds his son's weed, presumably while doing the laundry, and flushes it down the toilet. Reacting to a child's "wrongdoing" by posting the repercussions online isn't new, but it's such a s...
06:23 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing REI has stopped ordering products made by an assault-style rifle manufacturer
REI, which operates a chain of 154 recreational equipment stores in 36 states stores, has stopped ordering products made by Savage Arms, which manufactures assault-style rifles, along with CamelBak wa...
05:50 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing The Pocket Sprite's a game console that's small enough to fit on your keychain
Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Pocket Sprite a $55 piece of game emulation hardware that fits in the palm of your hand. Measuring just an inch wide and two inches tall, t...
05:41 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Teenage Engineering introduces three new pocket synthesizers
Teenage Engineering, maker of the very cool OP-1 keyboard synthesizer, introduced three new pocket synthesizers that cost $89 each.With PO-33, sample any sound source using line in or the built in mic...
05:40 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Drunk man accidentally takes $1600 Uber ride from West Virginia to New Jersey
An inebriated gentleman at a party in West Virginia thought he was ordering an Uber to take him to West Virginia University's campus. But in his drunken state he messed up his order, blacked out in th...
03:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Selective mutism explained by someone who experienced it as a child
Artist Stephi Lee open up about her childhood selective mutism, where she would only talk to her mom and her best friend. It's cool to see that it got resolved. (more…)...
03:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Weird Al's latest is a Hamildrop: Listen to 'The Hamilton Polka'
Fans of the Broadway musical Hamilton have been all in a tizzy because "Weird Al" Yankovic worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the latest "Hamildrop." It's a squeezebox ditty called "The Hamilton Polk...
03:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing The Twisty glass blunt is now... mini!
We lead busy lives, and while it would be nice to decompress when things get too hectic, our schedules often have different plans for us. TheTwisty Glass Mini helps by letting you sneak in a smoke at ...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to etch glass with vinyl stencils and sand
Plotters with precision cutters certainly make glass etching easier that making stencils by hand, but it's still very labor intensive. (more…)...
01:39 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing AI-generated glitchy music video
The track is "Truth," by Lord Over, and the nightmarish AI video is the work of Artificial Nature. There's even a technical paper describing the techniques used: USING CONDITIONAL ADVERSARIAL NETWOR...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Black Panther writer Nnedi Okorafor helps imagine a signature Wakandan dish
Tasty teamed up with award-winning sci-fi novelist and Black Panther comics writer Nnedi Okorafor (Black Panther: Long Live the King) to imagine what a signature dish from the fictional African nati...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a laser cut this bowl from one thin sheet of wood
It's pretty cool to watch a 3-millimeter thick sheet of birch transform into a bowl that's laser cut as one long wooden spiral. (more…)...
12:58 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Avoiding unsolicited advice is the key to a strong friendship
Heres some unsolicited advice: Try avoiding unsolicited advice! At least thats the recommendation of Anna Akana, who realized she would too often respond to her friends emotional woes by making sugges...
12:58 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Zach Galifianakis make the weirdest talk show entrance ever
Famed weirdo Zach Galifianakis decided to make an Alien-style entrance on his latest Conan appearance.[via The A.V. Club]...
12:49 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Do trees really talk to each other?
There's a good, long piece in this issue of Smithsonian about the scientific debate over whether trees talk to one another.Trees certainly communicate. In forests, they're connected to each other thro...
12:30 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Playful guerilla group hang 'swing bombs' around San Francisco
Many locals whine that tech has killed the creative vibe in San Francisco but don't bury it just yet. A merry group of urban pranksters -- who call themselves Swing Bomb SF -- have surreptitiously pla...
12:30 pm PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Playful guerrilla group hang 'swing bombs' around San Francisco
Many locals whine that tech has killed the creative vibe in San Francisco but don't bury it just yet. A merry group of urban pranksters -- who call themselves Swing Bomb SF -- have surreptitiously pla...
11:22 am PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Film noir gets a hilarious send-up in the short film The Case Of The Gilded Lily
When it comes to artists producing smart, genre-hopping comedy, one of my favorite up-and-coming groups is Shipwrecked Comedy. Shipwrecked previously produced the delightful literary comedy series Edg...
10:58 am PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing This RATT and Marvin Gaye mashup is almost too good
Mixing '80s heavy metal hair band RATT with Motown artist Marvin Gaye just shouldn't work, but somehow it does. This mashup by YouTuber Bill McClintock is called "I Heard it Round and Round the Grap...
09:58 am PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Lost Amy Winehouse demo emerges
An unreleased demo by a 17-year-old Amy Winehouse called "My Own Way" has surfaced. NPR Music reports:In 2015, four years after singer Amy Winehouse's death, Universal Music U.K. CEO David Joseph an...
08:58 am PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing Midcentury-inspired matching clothing by Charles Phoenix
Ambassador of Americana Charles Phoenix has announced a new swoonworthy line of his & hers* vintage-inspired coordinated clothing. The matchy-matchy shirt/dress combos are a collaboration with Pin...
01:45 am PST - Fri, March 2, 2018
BoingBoing On tumors, MRIs and telepathy: Mary Lou Jepsen on the future of devices that could read images from our brains
Mary Lou Jepson was finishing her PhD work in holography at Brown University when she started getting sick. Really sick. After a year of steady decline, she was living in a wheel chair and covered in ...
09:32 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Adblock will cache popular Javascript libraries, meaning adblocked pages will be faster and less janky
Years ago, big tech companies stumbled on a brilliant scheme for collecting data on web-users: they started providing incredibly useful free Javascript libraries to web publishers: whenever a web publ...
09:23 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Oh Joy Sex Toy is doing a sex-ed book!
The amazing sex-toy review webcomic Oh Joy Sex Toy (previously) enlivens its weekly toons with sex advice and education; they've just announced that their next collection will be Drawn to Sex, the fir...
09:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Watch these robots measure and saw wood
People who need custom furniture in the future may be able to feed the design into a program and then have robot-assisted carpentry do the rest. (more…)...
08:56 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Prince Harrys Real Dad and Tom Cruises Sex Guru, in this weeks tabloids
Oprah Answers Everything! screams the cover of People magazine, which seems a slight exaggeration since she doesnt explain why my heating system only breaks down on the coldest days of the year, or wh...
08:27 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Gentleman, possibly inebriated, confronts reflection in mirror
The fellow is indignant that his reflection will not let him pass into the mirror world, where everything is so much better than here....
08:04 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Shoplifting couple runs from police, scales a fence, and lands in lot of police department
A couple in Phoenix, AZ were allegedly shoplifting from a gas station and made a run for it when the police arrived. But they didn't get very far.They ran alongside a nearby building and hopped the ...
08:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Baby whales have to learn how to talk, too
Baby whales aren't very good at making various calls, but a new study shows that even adults continue to improve their calling techniques. (more…)...
07:40 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Good deal on a car diagnostic scanner: $11
When the "Check Engine" light turns on, you usually have to take it to a mechanic so they can diagnose the problem and reset the light. Sometimes the problem is as simple as forgetting to screw your g...
07:19 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Belarusian "sex expert" claims to have bombshell dirt about Trump-Russia connection
A post shared by (@nastya_rybka.ru) on Feb 23, 2018 at 11:41pm PST Nastya Rybka (aka Anastasia Vashukevich) (Instagram/NSFW) is a Belarusian "sex expert" who just got thrown into a Thai jail for...
07:14 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Attempted murder by cheesecake for the purpose of identity theft
A Brooklyn resident is lucky to be alive. After allegedly accepting a gift of poisoned cheesecake from Viktoria Nasyrova, she began to feel ill. A friend later found the Brooklyn-ite unconscious and...
07:14 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a virtual reality Haptx glove in action
This Ready Player One fan, who wasn't an admirer of virtual reality, test drives the Seattle-based Haptx haptic glove. The experience converts him into a VR "believer." The Haptx glove isn't yet on ...
07:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Selfie addiction: the struggle is real
Junaid Ahmed takes 200 selfies a day, enough to land him on UK's Obsessed with my Body. (more…)...
06:50 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Ben Carson is super surprised about that $31k dining set he ordered
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson now says he is shocked, just shocked, that the new dining set ordered for his office cost $31,000, which was $26,000 more than legally allowed. "I wa...
06:18 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to set up a food forest
One of the more interesting methods of gardening that people are trying is the food forest, where they convert a yard into a low-maintenance garden that doesn't really look like one.A lot of urban g...
06:16 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Organization nerds: Get inspired by these bullet journal flip-through videos
As Boing Boing has written about before, theres something really satisfying about keeping a handwritten journal. And a concept called bullet journaling is currently all the rage when it comes to freef...
06:14 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing What's new in the world of tabletop gaming?
I've been getting a lot of review copies of games sent to me lately, so I thought, periodically, I'd share some of what looks interesting and fun to me with Boing Boing readers.Stuffed FablesPlaid Hat...
06:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Jailed gentleman holds in possible evidence-bearing poop for 40 days
A suspected drug dealer may or may not have swallowed his wares when arrested, but he's quite determined not to incriminate himself. He vowed "he would die rather than poop." (more…)...
05:57 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Modern day surrealism: Watch donuts defy the laws of physics in this freaky 3D animation
Animation studio Aloe Design uploaded this cool but unsettling video of donuts flying towards a mans face before the laws of physics suddenly change:https://www.instagram.com/p/Bda5yGMB79z/Even the ca...
05:57 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing 9 useful electronics tools under $13
Donald Bell made a great video for Cool Tools about 9 must-have tools for electronic hobbyists. I especially recommend the flush cutters, which cuts wires poking out of circuit board holes. In the v...
05:50 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Data of 2.4 million more Equifax customers leaked
It looks like Equifax, a company that apparently specializes in disseminating unsecured user information to anyone with a smattering of technical know-how, has upped its game. Despite having already l...
05:48 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Here's a great animated explainer video about String Theory
Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell is back, this time with a fantastic 8 minute video about string theory. I finally know why physicists came up with string theory (because the previous model of thinking of ...
05:46 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Behold "David Lynch Teaches Typing"
Rhino Stew Productions has produced a new game David Lynch Teaches Typing.I won't give out too many spoilers here, but suffice to say, it gets weird quickly....
05:42 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing This special forces veteran is rowing across the Atlantic Ocean to raise awareness of PTS(D) and needs your help to do it
I've been transparent about it elsewhere online, but I'll say it again here: my last career left me with a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (you can drop the 'D' from that if it troubles you, I get it) ...
05:33 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Learn to speak like a New York City subway conductor
As anyone who travels frequently by bus, plane or train can tell you, important service announcements are best when they're utterly incomprehensible: being able to hear and understand that your gate h...
05:30 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Why vinyl LPs are better than CDs and MP3s
Science Youtuber Steve Mould explains why vinyl records are better than digital media. Not because they have better audio quality (I'm not getting into that argument, because I don't care much about...
05:17 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Putin releases horrifying video of his new Russian nuke going straight toward Florida
Trump's buddy President Vladimir Putin has just announced that Russia has new nuclear-capable weapons in the works that "renders defense systems 'useless,' according to NBC News. To show off his dev...
05:13 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing This water filter is going in my bug out bag
You should have a Sawyer Mini water filter in your emergency supplies.As a life-long camping gadget freak, the Sawyer Mini may be one of the best tools I've seen yet. Weighing in at only 2oz the Mini ...
05:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Hand-cranked wooden automata
Kazuaki Harada creates lots of charming and funny hand-cranked automata. (more…)...
04:57 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Delightful Disney princess GIFs
I recently stumbled upon artist Debbie Balboas series of Disney princess GIFs, and I love the sense of playful movement they have. Heres the full series:https://debbie-sketch.tumblr.com/post/170203907...
04:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Artist creates enormous phantasmagorical felt masks
Paolo del Toro makes delightful and otherworldly sculptures from felt, most recently working in pastel palettes. (more…)...
03:30 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Tom Hanks changes the ribbon on a vintage typewriter as his 'secret talent'
According to this Vanity Fair video, Tom Hanks has the "secret talent" of changing the ribbon on a circa 1960s (stunning pastel green) Hermes 3000 typewriter. Watch as he does just that. Next up: wa...
03:05 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Delightful Game of Thrones papercuts
Robbin Gregorio created this papercut portrait of Olenna Tyrell, as well as many other fan favorites from Game of Thrones. (more…)...
03:00 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing This adapter adds 7 new ports to your MacBook
Like it or not, USB-C is becoming more common in electronics. However, you more than likely have a few devices you'd still like to plug into your USB-C-only hardware, like the new MacBooks. Therein li...
02:57 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Walking while black, in Jamaica vs. the US
Garnette Cadogan, an old-school flneur and essayist, wrote a fantastic piece describing the differences between walking while black in his home county of Jamaica, compared to New Orleans and New York ...
01:43 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing 9 great videos of oscillating fans, box fans and other types of large fan
My only objection to Oscillating Fan Youtube is that the subculture fails to provide the model, make and specifications of their fans. Above is 10 hours of a Lakewood. Next up, an hour of a Lasko-br...
01:16 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Squirrel eats glazed donut
Donut Squirrel is my new spirit animal....
01:05 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing A concert with instruments made of ice
Deep in the Jostedalen glacier in Norway, musician Terje Isungset puts on an annual concert played on instruments made of ice. It just completed its 2018 run, though they had to move further north t...
12:45 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the US premiere of this concerto for orchestra and ping pong
To celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. the New York Philharmonic played Ricochet, Andy Akiho's concerto for ping pong. (more…)...
12:34 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Cruz fan issues clarification
This week's most widely-lifted viral image is this delight from a car owner whose vanity plate, "Cruz Fan," has evidently led to embarassing misapprehensions in our new golden age of loony conservativ...
12:30 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Sheet pan recipes make weird but efficient party food
Maximize flavor, minimize cleaning....
12:30 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Prepare for the Oscars with this Honest Trailers catch-up
Only one of these nine films will win the coveted title of Best Pictureunless its accidentally given to someone else....
12:29 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Browser plugin replaces the word "blockchain" with "multiple copies of a giant Excel spreadsheet"
Cynthia Blee, inspired by a tongue-in-cheek request by Christopher Mims, created a Chrome browser extension that replaces the word "blockchain" with the phrase "mulitple copies of a giant Excel spread...
12:15 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing What happens if you give an AI control over a corporation?
In this paper, law professor Lynn Lopucki ponders the question: What happens if you turn over control of a corporate entity to an AI?Pretty terrible stuff. Odds are high you'd see them emerge first in...
12:10 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Colorized photo of Pluto
From Nasa; check out the space agency's 3D Pluto globe....
12:05 pm PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Witness the amazing beginnings of a 10,000-year clock build in this timelapse
Friends of mine at Because We Can (a local Bay Area "design build architecture" firm) shared some good news:Congratulations to the Long Now Foundation on beginning installation of the 10,000 year cl...
11:00 am PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Lacoste drops its iconic crocodile to bring awareness to 10 endangered animals
See ya later, er, crocodile. For an extremely-limited edition line of polo shirts, Lacoste is temporarily replacing its iconic green crocodile logo with the likenesses of 10 different endangered ani...
10:05 am PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Wreck-It Ralph sequel breaks the internet
It's been six years since Disney's original Wreck-It Ralph movie. You'll remember that it was focused on video games. Its sequel, due to release at Thanksgiving, is set inside the internet. Taking p...
08:05 am PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Someone put this Jason Voorhees statue under a lake to freak out divers
Friday the 13th's bad guy Jason Voorhees can't die but he can be chained under a lake near Crosby, Minnesota. Dread Central reports:Remember the end of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives where Megan...
02:33 am PST - Thu, March 1, 2018
BoingBoing Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise was mind-blowingly great
Because you are a Boing Boing reader, you probably know who Jonathan Coulton is. He was a computer programmer who happened to be a wonderful singer/songwriter. In 2005 he quit his coding job and becam...
11:19 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Vodaphone and Nokia building 4G network for the moon
Vodaphone Germany and Nokia are designing a 4G network for the moon. The network is meant to support PTScientists's "Mission to the Moon" that involves the Berlin-based company launching a lunar lande...
10:04 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing The Light Phone 2 is designed to be used as little as possible
The makers of the Light Phone 2 want you to leave your smartphone at home, and use this simple phone with calling, messaging, and an e-ink display instead. You can pre-order one on Indiegogo for $199....
09:53 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Premiere of Heathers TV series will be delayed out of respect for those affected by Florida school murders
Viacom issued a statement this afternoon that the Heathers TV series, which was scheduled to premiere on March 7, will be delayed "out of respect for the [Florida shooting] victims, their families a...
09:41 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Here's an expandable vault to protect students during routine school shootings
https://youtu.be/D9nQmKNtOY4If the GOP and NRA have their way, frequent mass murders of students in classrooms will continue to be the new normal. A South Carolina company called Big 6 has developed a...
08:52 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Hey, Sydney! I'm coming to see you tonight (then Adelaide and Wellington!)
I'm just about to go to the airport to fly to Sydney for tonight's event, What should we do about Democracy? (more…)...
08:50 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Video: How old folks talked in 1929
Dinotopia artist James Gurney writes: Old people were lively and well spoken a century ago. Some of the people in these video clips were born earlier than 1840, with one man vividly recalling an eve...
08:44 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing My short story about better cities, where networks give us the freedom to schedule our lives to avoid heat-waves and traffic jams
I was lucky enough to be invited to submit a piece to Ian Bogost's Atlantic series on the future of cities (previously: James Bridle, Bruce Sterling, Molly Sauter, Adam Greenfield); I told Ian I wante...
08:35 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing The latest "reflection attack" gooses Denial of Service attacks by a factor of 51,000
To launch an effective Denial of Service attack, your bots need to overwhelm your target with a flood of requests; the more bandwidth and computing-power your target has, the more you need to knock th...
08:22 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Simone "Shitty Robots" Giertz hunts a robot and eats its tofu
https://youtu.be/c3PLJnKPn6gSimone Giertz is the beloved creator of a series of Shitty Robots, and now she's working at longer lengths, having created hilariously profane, shitty-robot-themed show a...
08:16 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing How citizenship-for-sale and statelessness change cities
James Bridle (previously) is the latest contributor to The Atlantic's excellent series on the future of cities (Bruce Sterling, Molly Sauter, Adam Greenfield); in a new piece, Greenfield discusses the...
08:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this 3D-printed Killmonger spear get made
Darrell aka The Broken Nerd created this cool Killmonger spear from glimpses he caught in Black Panther. It turned out really great. (more…)...
07:53 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: The Yes Men's short documentary on the NRA's murder-happy nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvnyFPKX8-AIn 2016, the Yes Men (previously), everyone's favorite political pranksters, hoaxed the NRA: today, they've released their short documentary, which lays ba...
07:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Cotton balls turned into a colorful garden tool handle
Peter Brown decided to dye some cotton balls, soak them in resin, then turn the resulting form on a lathe to make a delightful colored handle for a refurbished garden tool. (more…)...
07:18 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing As a boy, Ronald Clark literally lived in a New York Public Library
In the 1940s, Ronald Clark's father was a custodian at the New York Public Library's Washington Heights Branch. That meant he and his family lived in an apartment in the library. Here's an animated ...
07:03 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Drugs in the bible
Over at pop archaeology site Ancient Origins, Danny Nemu considers the psychoactive plants referenced in the Bible:The Odyssey and the Vedas include verses still recited today that describe psychoacti...
07:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to make transparent potato chips
Barry Lewis from My Virgin Kitchen decided to make clear potato crisps, and they look amazing, like little starchy dried jellyfish. (more…)...
06:58 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing A list of all 8 fonts used on the Srirachi bottle label
Fonts in Use took a stab at identifying all of the fonts used in the Srirachi bottle label, which breaks all design rules but still looks awesome.Both the packaging and contents of tng t sriracha hot ...
06:48 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Toner 2-pack for Brother laser printers: $8
Life has become immeasurably better ever since I swore off inkjet printers and started using a laser printer exclusively. Unless you must have color print outs, laser printers are faster and less like...
06:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch how to make hard candy that has a sunflower inside
Greg at Public Displays of Confection created this delightful honey-flavored crystal candy with a sunflower pattern inside. It's really cool to see how they did it. (more…)...
06:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Elfquest concludes 40-year run
Elfquest, one of the first breakout indie comics of the 1970s, is ending its 40-year-run with today's issue. There's a farewell signing with creators Wendy and Richard Pini tonight at Things From Anot...
06:24 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing #ENOUGH: Striking instant camera photos memorialize victims of Chicago gun violence
Last year, photographer Jim Young visited murder scenes and memorials in Chicago and documented what he saw with an instant camera. Last year, there were 650 murders in the area with 90 percent of the...
06:11 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Marvel at this master of coin stacking
TANU is a master at the magical art of coin stacking. Don't sneeze... More on Twitter: @thumb_tani(via Laughing Squid)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWU-N6HyhX0...
06:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing The 'mystery' of who built the earthen mounds in the Midwest was nothing but white dude propaganda
I've lived my whole life as a pale, red headed fella. So, I say this, with authority: white people are dicks.According to Smithsonian.com, white pioneers and archeologists in the 18th and 19th centuri...
06:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Video tour of VR World NYC
This video report looks at the current state of consumer arcade VR with VR Worlds Head of Content Tommy Goodkin. (more…)...
05:58 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Criminals are laundering money by selling books of computer-generated gibberish on Amazon
Lower Days Ahead is an Amazon print on demand paperback book filled with nonsense sentences, the kind found in spam email to make its way past Bayesian filters. The author is "Patrick Reames" but when...
05:53 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Scientists in Antarctica watch the movie that inspired The Thing, every year.
Chock up another one for the women and men who work in Antarctica. Not only do they spent months on end slugging away for the betterment of humankind, they also mark the turning of the seasons by wa...
05:40 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Trailer for a game in which you have one hour to rebuild civilization
One Hour One Life is a "multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building" by Jason Rohrer. Your character ages one year every minute. I'm not completely clear on how it works but I l...
05:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Lovely animation of kites for a song of hope
Hannah Jacobs animated this simple and clean kite-themed video for Secret For The Mad by Dodie (previously). (more…)...
04:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Experimental animated film records jazz with a Kinect
Marcin Nowrotek filmed a jazz quartet with a Kinect, then ran the recording through volumetric processors to give NEBULA an otherworldly 3D look and feel. (more…)...
04:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Artificial intelligence brought the freaky visuals to this music video
A loud experimental band from Monaco named Hardcore Anal Hydrogen enlisted the aid of artificial intelligence to generate the trippy, psychedelic visuals used in their music video for the track, "Je...
03:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Artist humorously adds himself beyond the edges of iconic album covers
Russian digital artist Igor Lipchanskiy humorously imagines what's just beyond the edges of iconic album covers. In every case, it's him. He writes, "I like to listen to music and when I peer into the...
03:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing This Floral Tea Story photo series offers a whimsical tea time
As part of her incredibly aesthetically pleasing Instagram account, Russian artist Marina Malinovaya creates these whimsical photographs in which plants and flowers stand in for tea and steam.https://...
02:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Help kids see A Wrinkle In Time for free
The racial justice organization Color of Change has launched the #GiveAChildTheUniverse campaign to make it easier for kids to see Ava DuVernays highly anticipated big screen adaptation of A Wrinkle I...
02:15 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Wildly-popular UK dance party pays homage to Sir David Attenborough
Legendary naturalist and longtime BBC personality Sir David Attenborough is the inspiration for "Jungle Boogie," an ongoing series of all-night raves planned by two students of the UK's Leeds Universi...
02:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Does Marilyn Monroes stuffing recipe still hold up?
Tastys Devon and Jared test out Marilyn Monroes prized stuffing recipe and try to figure out what secrets it holds about her love life....
01:59 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Clerk jailed for refusing same-sex marriage licenses writes of "furious, fist-pounding homosexual men"
Rowan County county clerk Kim Davis famously refused to issue licenses to gay couples after same-sex marriage was legalized in Kentucky. She was briefly jailed for contempt of court after refusing a j...
01:41 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Otherwise professional ad with native English voiceover uses machine-translated script
The ROICHEN EASY TRAY "helps you to stock and pull out your clothes without making a mess" and is an instant classic in the annals of weird advertising....
01:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing The NRA actually used to support gun control
In this video, AJ+s Sana Saeed breaks down the long history of the NRA, from its beginnings as a post-Civil War sports club to its present day pro-gun activism. It turns out the group wasnt always t...
01:24 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Burglar doesn't realize he's being filmed
This burglar doesn't realize he's got about a minute to get his work done before the Scottish police turn up. It's interesting seeing British commenters complain that he was treated too roughly by t...
01:15 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Whirlwind video tour of five fabulous tiny houses
From treehouses to homes on wheels to tiny off-grid cottages, the folks at Living Big In A Tiny House count down their five favorite tiny home tours from last year. (more…)...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a bullet get shot at an axe blade
In this fascinating video, the energy of a bullet is on full display as it's shot directly at the sharp edge of an axe. The first shot from seven yards misses, but the second one sends a visible sho...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Learn how to break a glass with your voice
Mike Boyd of Learn Quick shows how to tune your voice to the resonant frequency of a glass and break said glass using only the unamplified human voice. (more…)...
12:50 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing An oral history of that insane Oscars fuck-up from last year
Its been a year since the infamous Oscars broadcast in which La La Land was briefly crowned Best Picture before it was revealed that Moonlight was actually the real winner. The Hollywood Reporter has ...
12:49 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing In 1856, 19-year-old Mary Patten commanded a clipper ship around Cape Horn
In 1856, an American clipper ship was approaching Cape Horn when its captain collapsed, leaving his 19-year-old wife to navigate the vessel through one of the deadliest sea passages in the world. In t...
12:47 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing A guide to North Indian vs. South Indian bridal makeup
Beauty YouTuber Jovita George has a really cool series in which she contrasts two cultures makeup styles on the two sides of her face. (Shes previously done French vs. American makeup, British vs. Ita...
12:30 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Tissue box covers styled like midcentury modern architecture
Palm Springs just wrapped up Modernism Week, an annual event that celebrates the midcentury modern aesthetic, and no doubt that these swanky tissue box covers were a big hit, even at $75/pop.(If it's ...
12:00 pm PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Cool profile of Canadian wilderness photographer
Stevin Tuchiwsky survived cancer as a child, which he says motivated him to become a renowned nature photographer. (more…)...
09:00 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing How to rock a baby to sleep, as demonstrated by an experienced dad
Jordan Watson, the New Zealand-based father-of-three behind "How to Dad," demonstrates how to rock a baby to sleep in his latest video. It's cute.In my personal experience, the "Invisible Trampoline...
07:15 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Smart phones are designed to be addictive, here are some tips for fighting that
Vox breaks down the ways in which our smart phones are designed to keep us addicted and offers some simple suggestions for how to feel less pulled towards using them all the time....
04:08 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing North Korean rulers attempted to enter the west using Brazilian passports
Being a despot sucks. International sanctions keep you from being able to import Game of Thrones DVDs or yellow cake uranium. No one ever tells you that there's food on your face and the anguished cri...
03:58 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing House passes motion that lets members buy bulletproof vests with your tax dollars
Oh, this is fun: No one in the government seems to be doing much of anything to help curb gun violence, but they're totally willing to use your tax dollars on bulletproof vests to keep their corpulent...
03:46 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing New Orleans Police used predictive policing without telling the city's elected officials
Palantir Technologies is a data-mining firm that loves it some predictive policing: computer-aided sorcery that uses data models to try and predict where crimes may occur and who's got a reasonable ch...
03:15 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing All the fonts on a sriracha bottle, except one
In a tweet that's gone viral, Amsterdam-based designer James Cullen referenced a 2015 Fonts In Use article that uncovers the many typefaces on the iconic Huy Fong sriracha hot sauce bottle label. Nick...
02:15 am PST - Wed, February 28, 2018
BoingBoing Iced cookies that look like beautiful embroidery
Nadia Ka of My Little Bakery decorates cookies to look like gorgeous old-fashioned embroidered designs. In addition to posting photos of her final designs, Nadia also shares really fascinating behind-...