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11:54 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Wikileaks threatens to sue "fake news producers"
Wikileaks, furious about a report in The Guardian claiming that founder Julian Assange met with Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, said that it plans to sue it for libel. Moreover, it expects to cr...
11:47 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Google engineer calls for a walkout over China censorship and raises $200K strike fund in hours
Liz Fong-Jones is a Site Reliability Engineer for Google's cloud division; she took to Twitter after reading today's story in The Intercept in which ex-Google security engineer Yonatan Zunger and thre...
10:08 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Correlates of Trump voting: searches for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, how to get girls, penis enlargement, penis size, steroids, testosterone and Viagra
The precincts that swung hardest for Trump in 2016 and for the GOP in 2018 also had the highest incidence of Google searches for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, how to get girls, penis enlargement, p...
09:51 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Google's secret project to build a censored Chinese search engine bypassed the company's own security and privacy teams
Google's Project Dragonfly is a formerly secret project to build a surveilling, censored version of its search engine for deployment in China; it was kept secret from the company at large during the 1...
09:27 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store
Bypass Paywalls is a popular extension for Firefox and Chrome that does what the name implies: allows your browser to manipulate its cookies so that websites with "soft paywalls" that allow a small nu...
08:59 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Sennheiser's headphone drivers covertly changed your computer's root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks
Your computer ships with a collection of trusted cryptographic certificates, called its "root of trust," which are consulted to verify things like SSL connections and software updates.A recent report ...
08:51 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing When Ted Cruz asked for free Nine Inch Nails tickets, Trent Reznor told him to fuck off
During a Nine Inch Nails concert in Irving, TX two nights ago, Trent Reznor asked the crowd who voted for Ted Cruz. The room exploded with a resounding chorus of boos. He then told his fans, "He was b...
08:38 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing New York City's municipal debt collectors have forged an unholy alliance with sleazy subprime lenders
New York City's "marshal" service is a throwback to the Dutch colonial days; the 35 marshals are appointed by the mayor, draw no salary, and earn their livings by skimming a percentage off of the deb...
08:05 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Scientist discovers type of spider that nurses its babies with high-protein milk
Last year, scientist Chen Zhanqi from China noticed a baby jumping spider behaving in a way that baby mammals do: it attached itself to its mother the way baby animals do when suckling milk. Zhangi de...
07:43 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Here's how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures
Remember when the Department of Defense's own internal auditor revealed that the agency had committed $6.5 trillion in accounting fraud in just one year? Now, an in-depth investigation into the Pentag...
07:19 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Remember the Vectrex videogame system from the 1980s? It had a little brother
For those who don't know, the Vectrex was Milton Bradley's videogame console with an integrated vector graphics display that was introduced in 1982. As cool and unique as Vectrex was, it was only on t...
07:01 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing World War II Enigma cipher machine up for auction
A rare, fully-operational Enigma cipher machine from World War II will go up for auction at Sothebys tomorrow as part of an amazing History of Science & Technology auction (also including Richard...
06:35 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Gentleman steals $2,100 from an office safe, then gets busted after falling asleep mid-robbery
A man on the federal wanted list for repeated crimes in Russia broke into an office building and stole 140,000 rubles ($2,100 USD) from a safe. He had brought a toolbox worth of tools, including "scre...
06:30 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing The Grav Menorah: Hannukah suddenly a high holiday
A Hannukah miracle I can get behind.The world has burnt enough oil.You can buy it here for $399. Read the rest...
06:03 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Sometimes I just need to watch Fred Berry dance
Fred Berry's dancing, largely on the incredible sitcom What's Happening! serves as an incredible anti-depressant. Read the rest...
05:37 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing On Twitter, Trump cancels Putin G20 meeting, but Kremlin says they have not been notified of cancellation
Trump today canceled, via a tweet, his planned G20 meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He said he was cancelling their private, one-on-one, nobody else in the room visit because of Russian ...
05:35 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this incredible record-setting backflip
In Leeds, England, Ashley Watson, 26, set a new Guinness World Record with a backflip between horizontal bars nearly 20 feet (5.87 meters) apart. In this case, Watson didn't fly through the air with t...
05:34 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing The prosecutor who helped a rich serial child rapist escape justice is now a Trump Cabinet member
In 2007, Florida multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to two felony prostitution counts in a sweetheart deal that sent him to a private wing of a minimum security prison, with a work-releas...
05:30 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Massachusetts racks up $2.2 million in marijuana sales in 5 days
The first two recreational marijuana dispensaries opened in Massachusetts last week to blockbuster numbers. The two dispensaries, located in Leicester and Northampton sold over $2 million dollars of p...
05:17 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Reddit takes a stand against the EU's plan to break the internet
Reddit has posted a punchy, impassioned warning about the likelihood that it will no longer be able to function if the EU's plan to mandate copyright filters and limit linking to news without permissi...
05:15 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Pens in the shape of iconic space race rockets
Retro 51 has issued this handsome series of rocket pens that celebrate NASA's launch vehicles of the space race era. The line includes a Mercury-Redstone, Gemini-Titan II, and the Apollo-Saturn V that...
05:15 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Pens painted like iconic space race rockets
Retro 51 has issued this handsome series of rocket pens that celebrate NASA's launch vehicles of the space race era. The line includes a Mercury-Redstone, Gemini-Titan II, and the Apollo-Saturn V that...
04:42 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing NRA shenanigans too much for some gun owners
Another story came out this week about gun owners letting their NRA memberships lapse.My gun-owning family admittedly more my husband than me falls into that middle ground. He chose to drop his NRA ...
04:02 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Reggae is now on UNESCO's list of protected cultural heritage
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) has just added reggae music to its list of more than 300 practices and expressions of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humani...
03:36 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Horrid sriracha merch
The Worst Things For Sale explores "the terrible world" of sriracha sauce-themed merchandise, such as the official water bottle of Huy Fong Foods, the geniuses behind the distinctly-flavored red spoog...
03:12 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Google sister company is trialing a mosquito eradication plan in Fresno
We live at the confluence of two ages: the first rush of climate change, which is bringing new species and new pathogens to territories they've never been known in; and the nascent age of genetic engi...
03:00 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing A store for flat earthers by flat earthers
It's not too late to get your conspiracy-theory-lovin' sweetie something they really want for the holidays: validation that the earth is flat. Start with this flat earth calendar ($13.22) and stay for...
02:25 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Russia Trump real estate project
It's getting hot in here.Michael Cohen, President Donald Trumps former lawyer, plead guilty today to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate project in Russia. Cohen has secured a new plea deal w...
02:16 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing The secret history of science fiction's women writers: The Future is Female!
Eminent science fiction scholar Lisa Yaszek (Georgia Tech Professor of Science Fiction in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication) has edited "The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Ficti...
02:00 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Payless punks fashionistas by opening a fake luxury store and inviting them to comment on its 'designer' shoes
Bargain shoe chain Payless recently took over a Santa Monica retail shop and turned it into Palessi, a luxury store selling their bargain shoes. Then they invited influencers to the store's grand open...
01:34 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing 8-bit style sheet for websites
You'll need to be handy with CSS to make use of it, but NES.css offers boxes, buttons, containers, forms, speech balloons, icons and more to make your web projects looks like 8-bit games. It's by @bc_...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Make your to-do list more doable with this revolutionary app
Are you actually running those errands or are they running you? Whether it's for that big work project or just your everyday life, you need an organization system that doesn't take up more time in ent...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Girl Scouts in Indiana learn about mortuary science
A restorative art project that teaches girls how to create a nose with mortuary waxTo show that mortuary science is a field for anyone, reps from the Mid-America College of Funeral Services in Jeffers...
12:11 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Today in the day of action to push Congressional Net Neutrality action over the finish line
We're just a few Congressional signatures short of triggering the Congressional Review Act on Net Neutrality (we've already got the Senate); and that will push Trump to have to publicly reject Net Neu...
12:11 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Today is the day to push Congress to act on Net Neutrality
We're just a few Congressional signatures short of triggering the Congressional Review Act on Net Neutrality (we've already got the Senate); and that will push Trump to have to publicly reject Net Neu...
12:00 pm PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing UK retailer offers Christmas trees for cat lovers
Cat lovers who celebrate Christmas, your tree prayers may have been answered. Argos, a UK retailer is selling six-foot-tall "half parasol trees" with the description, "Keep your perfectly placed baubl...
11:00 am PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Bohemian Chanukah: 'Is this the eighth night, we light with family?'
Jewish a cappella group Six13 spun their own adaptation of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" in their delightful "Bohemian Chanukah.":Is this the eighth nightWe light with family?Recall with great prideOur ...
04:18 am PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Redaction ineptitude reveals names of Proud Boys' self-styled new leaders
The Proud Boys suck at redaction: as the white nationalist extremist organization struggles with a succession crisis following founder Gavin McInnes's departure (precipitated by a Freedom of Informati...
04:06 am PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Redaction ineptitude reveals Facebook's 2012 plan to sell Graph API access to user data for $250,000
Six4three sucks at redaction: its court filing in its lawsuit against Facebook (previously) was redacted by drawing black rectangles over the text, which can still be copied and pasted to read it. Thi...
01:33 am PST - Thu, November 29, 2018
BoingBoing Quantum mechanics and Kevin Spacey, JFKs five assassins, and proof of reincarnation, in this weeks dubious tabloids
If Schrodingers cat could read hed feel right at home with this weeks tabloids.Quantum superposition and tabloid supposition seem interchangeable in the way that this weeks tabloid tales might be aliv...
11:05 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Papadopoulos allegedly told confidant in 2016 he was pursuing Russia deal that would help Trump: Report
The disgraced former foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign was boasting about a Russia business deal after the election, a newly unearthed letter reveals.George Papadopoulos allegedly told a co...
11:00 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Online customer service agents are watching what you type
When something goes wrong with a product you own or a service you pay for, it's reasonable to expect quick, effective customer service from the company responsible for whatever it is that's giving you...
10:57 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Dell reset all Dell.com customer passwords 5 days after cyberattack, didn't bother telling customers at the time
Dell released a statement on Wednesday that says the computer giant reset passwords for all accounts on the Dell.com online electronics store on Nov. 14. That was a full 5 days after they discovered a...
10:45 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Roger Stone & Jerome Corsi harassed Seth Rich's family with conspiracy lie after privately admitting hackers stole DNC emails
Takes a special kind of evil to pull off what longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone and his pal Jerome Corsi did to Seth Rich's family. The political provocateurs and their paid assistants harasse...
10:11 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass. Pre-order it for $40.
You can preorder an Alexa-enabled Big Mouth Billy Bass for $40.As Boing Boing pal Morpheus says, Big Mouth Billy Bass, the legendary talking robotic centrarchidid, is now available with Amazon Alexa s...
09:38 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Toronto 2033: science fiction writers imagine the city of the future
Toronto 2033 is a shared-world science fiction anthology edited by the incomparable and multi-talented Jim Munroe (previously), where authors like Zainab Amadahy, Madeline Ashby, Al Donato, Kristyn D...
09:15 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Trump ordering military to occupy US-Mexico border through Christmas
The President extends a lump of coal to our troops along the border, in a gesture of Trumpian holiday slime. A Merry Christmas to all, and to the immigrant children locked in ICE dog cages, enjoy your...
08:38 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing THE BUREAU: Part Five, "The President Has Been Shot!" with an RF Nomad Shortwave Radio Receiver
From the weekly series The Bureau....
07:02 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Unintentionally self-working magic
Magic lifts the spirits. Read the rest...
07:02 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing This week: donations up to $140,000 to EFF will be doubled with matching donations
It's the Electronic Frontier Foundation's annual Power Up! week, when donations to the charity are matched by a group of challenge donors, making every tax-deductible dollar you give count twice! I'm ...
07:01 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Video warns of "illuminati pyramid" clocks
16 thousand people have watched this ambient yet vaguely sinister YouTube video alerting viewers to the existence of "illuminati pyramid" clocks. I recently found a 1984 Seiko original at a garage sal...
06:41 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Behold! A 400,000 megapixel panorama of Prague!
Jeffrey Martin (previously) writes, "I shot this gigapixel image last year in mid November. It's made of 8000 photos, shot with a fullframe SLR and a 600mm lens. It was shot from thetop of Prague's 'O...
06:06 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores
Jenny Odell is an artist and critic whose Bureau of Suspended Objects report on dropshipping (previously) was a fascinating dive into the weird, scammy world of crapgadgets and farcically poorly made ...
06:02 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing The joy of textured plastic balls
It doesn't matter if you're an Onlie or a grup, these colorful textured plastic balls are fun to hold and squeeze. If moisture enters the small holes in the balls and results in black mold, they can b...
05:39 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Princeton's interdisciplinary Center for Information Technology Policy is seeking visiting scholars
Are you a PhD with interest in "the intersection of digital technology and public life, including experts in computer science, sociology, economics, law, political science, public policy, information ...
05:30 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Houston's "inchworm bandits" create performance art while robbing restaurants on their bellies
CCTV footage from a wave of after-hours robberies in Houston has birthed a viral sensation, thanks to the robbers' tactic of commando-crawling on the floor, which has led to them being dubbed the "inc...
05:29 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing The C64 Mini: a gaming blast from the past
In 1982 the 8 bit world was rocked by the Commodore 64, or C64 home computer. For $60 you can relive the glory.Once the most popular home computer around, Commodore's C64 was an amazing follow-up to t...
05:22 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Dutch church holds 27 days of round-the-clock services to protect immigrant family from deportation
A family of Armenian refugees have been sheltering in Bethel Church in The Hague for 27 days, avoiding a deportation order because officials are not legally permitted to interrupt a service -- and the...
05:13 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Marble run machine with 11,000 marbles
This marble run is at a playground called Monkey Town in the Netherlands. The creator says it has "4 tipping containers which can release up to 10,000 marbles in one go! If the biggest 2 containers (w...
05:12 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Comcast cranks up extra charges on cable bills, again, even for people who signed contracts promising a lower rate
Once again, Comcast is repeating its annual tradition of hiking "broadcast TV" and "regional sports network" hidden fees at a rate far above inflation, typically raising them from $14.50 to $18.25/mon...
04:58 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Prince's entire catalog of obscure, hard-to-find music videos, collected and annotated
Prince's music videos are a lot more obscure than his catalog of 40 albums; he was ambivalent about the form and many of the videos he created were only released on VHS or interactive CD or as pop-up ...
04:53 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing The 'Fuller House' season 4 trailer draws out complex emotions
I really do not know how to feel about Fuller House, but Kimmy Gibbler rules.I never intentionally 'watched' Full House, but I have been under the influence while it played on my television. This has ...
04:50 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Before Youtube nukes annotations, take one last look at these amazing, creative projects that showed how much annotations could do
On January 15th, Google will disappear all Youtube annotations, which have lots of structural problems (spammy, don't work well on mobile or big screens), but which have been a font of creative inspir...
04:00 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Netflix to adapt Roald Dahl works into animated series, including 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Matilda'
Netflix's latest "golden ticket" is an original animated series based on the stories of late author Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The BFG, and The Twits are just some of the ...
03:59 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing NASA's hand soldering guide
Did you know that Rusty Blazenhoff, who writes for us here at Boing Boing, has a wonderful newsletter called Rusty's Electric Dreams? You can subscribe to it here. The current issue of the newsletter ...
03:44 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Great NY Times video parody: A Voice of Hate on America's Internet
Last year the New York Times ran Nazi sympathizer sympathizer article titled, A Voice of Hate in Americas Heartland ("He is the Nazi sympathizer next door, polite and low-key..."). To make well-deserv...
03:34 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Trevor Noah smacks around Trump and other climate change deniers on The Daily Show
"Why can't you respect science as much as Maury Povich does?" It seems like a reasonable question, but these are unreasonable times. An unreasonable man has been put in charge. He refuses to listen to...
03:09 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Master Lock opened with plastic iPad wrapper
Here's how to open a Master Lock: 1) Buy an iPad. 2) Remove the iPad's stiff plastic protective wrapper. 3) Throw away the iPad. 4) Follow Bosnian Bill's instructions for making a lockpicking rake fro...
03:00 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing The legendary console Led Zeppelin used to record 'Stairway to Heaven' goes up for sale
Boy, oh boy, if this Helios console could talk, it would have some serious stories to tell. Not only did Led Zeppelin use it to record their now-classic hit "Stairway to Heaven," but many other musica...
02:56 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Labour report on executive pay proposes giving customers a vote on compensation, ending share-based compensation for execs
Ten years of austerity in the UK have produced a definitive answer to the question: does austerity drive economic growth? (Spoiler: No)The past decade has seen the UK dead last in advanced economies f...
02:09 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Live-action Cowboy Bebop coming to Netflix
Classic anime hit Cowboy Bebop is to become a live-action show at Netflix, reports The Hollywood Reporter.The live-action take tells a jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, F...
01:47 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Giant steer too big to slaughter
Say hello to Knickers, a 6'4" 3000-pound steer too big for the slaughterhouse to slaughter. Knickers will get to live out its natural life.The AP reports:The black-and-white Holstein Friesian won soci...
01:15 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing The first American sports spectacle was an 1823 horse race between North and South
America's first national sports spectacle took place in 1823, when the North and South sent their best horses for a single dramatic race that came to symbolize the regional tensions of a changing nati...
01:08 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Why restaurants are so loud nowadays
The overwhelming clatter and presence of restaurant noise is thanks to the fashionable minimalism of modern decor. Kate Wagner (of McMansion Hell fame) writes that if you want a peaceful meal out, go ...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Behold, the digging dog butt tissue holder!
I thought I had seen it all but now there's this... the Digging Dog Butt Tissue Holder ($28). "Get laughs as you pull tissues from this diligently digging dog's behind."Oh, I will."Great way for a tea...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing True PC power is now in a smartphone-sized package
Ever wonder why, in this age of smartwatches and VR, we're still cluttering our desk with PC towers? If you need a home computer for the tasks, screen size and storage that a smartphone can't handle, ...
12:45 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing News of the Times- Scientists: Doomsday Asteroid to Collide with Earth; GOP: We Feel Like It Won't
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Republicans are doomsday asteroid skeptics....
12:44 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing A&E postpones documentary series on North Carolina church
"The Devil Next Door," A&E's six-part documentary series on the alleged abuses at the Word of Faith Fellowship Church in North Carolina was scheduled to premiere Tuesday night at 10:00 PM EST. But...
12:30 pm PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Guerilla street artist makes her emotionally-expressive warning signs available
Seattle-based guerilla artist April Soetarman writes she was "working through some sad feelings" when she made and hung her first sign, "I anonymously put it up in on a chain link fence in a public pa...
03:19 am PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Mississippi Senate runoff: Openly racist Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) defeats Mike Espy (D)
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith has defeated Democrat Mike Espy in the Mississippi Senate race. This brings the Senate count to 53 (R) — 47 (D).Mississippi, Goddam. The state just elected an openly ...
02:00 am PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Trumps lawyers were briefed on what Manafort told investigators, inflaming tensions with Mueller: NYT report
A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the presidents onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trumps lawyers on his clients discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed to coo...
01:09 am PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Climate change is fueling wildfires, warns National Climate Assessment
Climate change is why California is burning, and thousands of its citizens displaced, injured, or killed by the wildfires that spread with never-before-seen intensity. Says who?The just-released U.S. ...
01:06 am PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing Canadian Intelligence warns against buying tech from state-owned companies
According to documents obtained by the Canadian Press, the Canadian government has been warning against investing in technology served up by state-owned companies as it's highly likely that the hardwa...
12:21 am PST - Wed, November 28, 2018
BoingBoing In this interview, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson had sex on the mind
Can one learn to look? According to street photography pioneer Henri Cartier-Bresson, the answer is, um, sex. (via PetaPixel) Read the rest...
11:03 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Billboards are using sensors to identify, target and track individuals
I can't believe this has to be said (again), but cyberpunk was meant as a warning, not a business plan.It turns out that you need very few identifiers to make a guess about who a person standing in fr...
11:00 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Instant Pot Ultra 6 Quart electric pressure cooker on sale
The Instant Pot Ultra 6 Quart electric pressure cooker usually sells for about $150, and right now Amazon has it for a bit more than half that price. I use my Instant Pot a few times a week or more, a...
10:48 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Man arrested for rape after his Playstation mic allegedly broadcast audio from the crime to other players
Last June, 18-year-old Daniel Fabian of Pasco County, Florida was playing Grand Theft Auto Online, when he informed the other players in his team chat that he was going to take a break to "smash" (hav...
10:39 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing MIT Media Lab announces this year's Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM
For the second year now, the MIT Media Lab has awarded a "Disobedience Prize" of $250,000, no strings attached, awarded to people whose disobedient work has benefitted society; this year's prize is sh...
10:38 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Giant rolling rock almost crushes man
A large boulder on Mt. Spantik in Pakistan tried to kill a man, but missed by an inch or two (that's 2.54cm or 5.08cm for our non-US readers).Image: YouTube Read the rest...
10:21 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Tricking a monkey
[via BIOTV] Read the rest...
10:06 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing TV-B-Gone inventor Mitch Altman's rad new $30 DIY Music Synthesizer!
Boing Boing pal and maker superhero Mitch Altman, creator of the amazing TV-B-Gone, spent several years designing a simple-yet-powerful DIY music synthesizer that he could use to teach creative electr...
10:06 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Video: why flipping a coin is completely deterministic
If you knew what all the initial conditions were before you flipped a coin, you could predict with 100% accuracy whether it would land heads or tails. In this video the Action Lab Man conducts a numbe...
09:47 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Listen to Jh Division's dub covers of Joy Division
Back in 2005, I posted about Jh Division, a Brooklyn dub consortium that covers Joy Division songs. They produced a very limited edition 12" titled "Dub Will Tear Us Apart" that they mostly sold at th...
09:30 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Carl Sagan's classic lecture series for kids and adults
In 1977, just a few months after Voyager 1 and 2 began their grand tour of the solar system, Carl Sagan gave the esteemed Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. You can watch th...
09:01 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Pee-wee Herman's TV commercial for Japanese securities firm
In 1990, Pee-wee Herman recorded this delightful TV commercial for Japanese company Wako Securities. As we know, the following year, Pee-wee (aka Paul Reubens) was arrested for indecent exposure in an...
08:38 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Breed weird critters with machine learning and Ganbreeder
Ganbreeder uses a machine learning technique called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate images that seem like photos, at least a first glance.GANs use a pair of networks, one of which p...
08:25 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing SpongeBob Squarepants creator Stephen Hillenburg has died of ALS. He was 57.
Stephen Hillenburg, who created the Nickelodeon megahit cartoon TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, died on Monday. He was 57.The cause of death was Amyotrophic Lateral Scleroris, or ALS, which Hillenbur...
08:23 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Researchers got 6 people to eat Lego heads and then search for the toys in their poop
Kids eat the darndest things. Dead flies, half-sucked candy found on the ground, erasers... and one of the most popular items, besides coins, are small toy parts. But once swallowed, do these toys alw...
08:01 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Florida police chief gets 3 years in prison for framing innocent Black men
For framing innocent black men, a police chief in Florida will go to prison for three years. Impunity is the norm in America for cases like this, so the conviction is a big deal.Raimundo Atesiano, the...
08:01 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Florida police chief gets 3 years in prison for framing 3 innocent Black men
For framing innocent black men, a police chief in Florida will go to prison for three years. Impunity is the norm in America for cases like this, so the conviction is a big deal.Raimundo Atesiano, the...
07:35 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Christine Blasey Ford to donate extra money raised for her security to help trauma survivors
A crowdfunding campaign to cover security costs for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford raised $647,610 in two months, which far surpassed the initial goal of $150,000. The woman who stood up to Trump Supreme C...
06:59 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Amnesty will stage global protests over Google's spying, censoring Chinese search engine plan
For years, a secret Google team planned a Chinese search-engine that would censor search results and spy on users for the Chinese state authorities; when the existence of this plan was leaked, thousan...
06:47 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Supreme Court looks ready to let customers sue Apple for abusing its App Store monopoly
The Supreme Court hearing on Pepper v Apple has not gone well for Apple; the Supremes are considering whether App Store customers are entitled to sue Apple over its monopoly control over the Ios App S...
06:23 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing 'Knight Rider' FunkoPop looks just like David Hasselhoff in a Trans Am
David Hasselhoff makes a fairly accurate FunkoPop.At one of the many times American cars were regarded as nothing but awful, technologically backwards, fuel inefficient, rattle-y hunks of junk, the gu...
06:22 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing A visual guide to America's concentrated, uncompetitive markets
Our New Gilded Age is defined by its oligarchic concentration of wealth and power: not just how much wealth is controlled by the 0.001%, but how many of our key markets are dominated by just a handful...
06:16 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Watch man's horrifying hang gliding trip when instructor forgets to strap him in
This guy from Florida decided to try hang gliding for the first time while vacationing in Switzerland, and ended up clinging on to the instructor and the glider for dear life. Turns out the profession...
06:09 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations
Between Trump's massive tax-breaks for the super-rich and rules like California's disastrous Prop 13 have cities perennially cash-starved and have led to the erosion of the same public services that m...
05:19 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker
The same disinformation campaigns that epitomize the divisions in US society -- beliefs in voter fraud, vaccine conspiracies, and racist conspiracies about migrants, George Soros and Black Lives Matte...
04:09 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing A previously undiscovered Jim Steranko swipe
A friend of mine (who wishes to remain anonymous) shares my interest in finding swipes of famous illustrators and comic book artists. Neither of us begrudge these artists for swiping (that's the comic...
01:37 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Why every company has its own font now
Spoiler: a mix of corporate vanity and to avoid recurring licensing fees, though Arun Venkatesan elaborates a complex trend.Sadly, much of the justification behind typefaces from some very admirable c...
01:00 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Become a certified Excel expert with this online master class
In the business world, it's hard to find a job where you don't need Excel expertise. And it can be tough to prove that expertise to employers without an extensive background in data entry. Enter the M...
12:54 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Prince's 1979 TV debut
He loathed interviews from the outset of his career. If you're a fan of Prince loathing interviews, be sure to watch the classic BBC one embedded below.(Previously, previously) Read the rest...
12:41 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters
Michael Lewis is a national treasure, whose gift for explaining how finance grifters think and operate has spawned a whole genre, which he dominates with books like Liar's Poker (an insider view of th...
12:33 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Google to delete all YouTube video annotations
Google killed the YouTube video annotations editor last year, and in an "update" to the announcement now says it will be deleting existing annotations in 2019.Update: We will stop showing existing ann...
12:13 pm PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing "Rainbow swamp" caused by natural oils on water
This photo, taken by Allison Goz, was posted to Reddit by her boyfriend, Brent Rossen. They were curious about why the swamp was rainbow-colored. The BBC reports:The couple were walking at First Landi...
04:24 am PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing NASA InSight robot lander's amazing first images from Mars
After sticking a perfect landing on the Martian surface this afternoon, NASA's InSight robot lander has successfully deployed its solar panels. Tomorrow, InSight will fire up its scientific instrument...
12:44 am PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Trump says he looked like Elvis
President Trump at today's rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis:Youll say Im very conceited. Other than the blond hair when I was growing up they said I look like Elvis.(CNN) Read the res...
12:16 am PST - Tue, November 27, 2018
BoingBoing Mueller says Manafort violated his plea deal by lying to investigators
Breaking News: Robert Mueller says former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort violated his plea deal by lying to investigators.Paul Manafort and Donald Trump thinking they're going to outmaneuve...
09:30 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing CGP Grey on 'What is Federal Land?'
Wow, two CGP Grey videos in one month? I'll take it! In his latest one, he talks about the United States' federally-owned land and the complexities of what that actually means.Previously: Who owns the...
09:16 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Video: What fascism is...and isn't
Fascism is a word we've been hearing a lot of over these past few years, but are the mouths it's falling out of using it correctly? Some times, yeah. Many times, not so much.This brief video delves in...
08:59 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Melania's 2018 White House holiday decor includes blood-red trees and a 'Be Best' pencil wreath
This morning, an official video was released of Melania Trump walking through the White House, silently admiring its new Christmas decorations. Holding leather gloves in one hand, the FLOTUS first mak...
08:51 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects
Many open source projects attain a level of "maturity" where no one really needs any new features and there aren't a lot of new bugs being found, and the contributors to these projects dwindle, often ...
08:46 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Machine-knit Cyber Scarf ships with its source code
I'm really digging this retro-styled reversible Cyber scarf ($109) by Seattle-based KnitYak, maker of "generative mathematical" machine-knit goods. The yarn used is a 100% machine washable acrylic in ...
08:38 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Babysitter vetting and voice-analysis: Have we reached peak AI snakeoil?
The ever-useful Gartner Hype Cycle identified an inflection point in the life of any new technology: the "Peak of Inflated Expectations," attained just before the sharp dropoff into the "Trough of Dis...
08:37 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Cops catch Canadian clairvoyant and charge her for creeping on clients
Our current news cycle pushes out stories, scandals and tales of catastrophe faster than shit through a goose. There's no keeping on top of it all anymore. With this being the case, it's little wonder...
08:16 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Ohio becomes first state to accept bitcoin for tax payments from business owners
Ohio has become the first state to allow businesses to use cryptocurrency bitcoin, specifically to pay their taxes. And the state doesn't plan to HODL, either. As soon as they receive it they will s...
07:36 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing After 18 days, California's deadliest fire in history is contained
The most devastating fire in California history has been contained.From The Washington Post:The Camp Fire the deadliest, most destructive blaze in California history, which has killed 85 people, dest...
07:21 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese AI traffic-cam mistook a bus-ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
China's war on jaywalking went to the next level last spring when AI-based facial recognition systems were integrated into some crosswalks, to punish jaywalkers by squirting them with water, sending t...
07:21 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
China's war on jaywalking went to the next level last spring when AI-based facial recognition systems were integrated into some crosswalks, to punish jaywalkers by squirting them with water, sending t...
07:08 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing The winners in a massive roundup of the 100 Best Pens are surprisingly affordable
The writers of New York Magazine's Strategist tested "dozens upon dozens of gels, rollerballs, felt-tips, ballpoints, and fountain pens" and published a ranked list of the top 100 pens in existence.Wh...
07:08 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing PlayStation sneakers from Nike
Oklahoma City Thunder basketball star and retro-videogamer Paul George worked with Nike and Sony on a new pair of PS1-inspired sneakers. Due out December 1, the PG 2.5 x PlayStation design follows on ...
06:51 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power
China-watchers observed the rise-and-rise of Chinese premier Xi Jinping with caution and sometimes alarm, but also held out some hope that despite his authoritarian tendencies and thin skin, Xi was ge...
06:39 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Can you figure out what number comes next?
Take a look at the sequence. What number comes next? The answer is a no brainer once you know the answer, that is. Neil Sloane, founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, starts explain...
06:39 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Woman spent 3 months in jail for cotton candy that cops insisted was meth
What happens when drug warriors in Monroe County, Georgia jail a woman for several months because they used a known-unreliable drug test that causes cotton candy to test positive for methamphetamine? ...
06:39 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing New high-end electric scooter with slick form and function
When my friend David Hyman is passionate about something -- whether it's digital music, online games, or audio gear -- he immerses himself in the subject entirely, completely, obsessively. Once he's d...
06:20 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Red Dead Redemption 2's multiplayer world about to launch
Until now the most uplifting thing in Red Dead Redemption 2 has been killing Klansmen. If current video gaming culture is any indication, multi-player online play won't be much different.Says The Verg...
06:17 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Great deal on the Gerber Dime multi-tool
The Gerber Dime multi-tool has needle nose spring-loaded pliers, a wire cutter, a blade, a package opener, scissors, a flat driver, a crosshead driver, a bottle opener, tweezers, and a file, and it's ...
06:12 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Use this guide to buy the right memory card for your Cyber Monday purchases
If you want to get the most out of dedicated digital audio players, smartphones, cameras, drones, tablets or game systems, you'll need to pair it with the right memory card. No problem: head down to B...
06:05 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Man gets $300 ticket for using phone while driving, but argues the phone was actually a McDonald's hash brown
Jason Stiber in Connecticut was pulled over for talking on his cell phone while driving. The cop then gave him a hefty $300 ticket for distracted driving. The only problem, according to Stiber, was th...
06:00 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Interview with the top male host in Japan
Akaya Kunugi makes a nice living entertaining women at a host bar in Tokyo. One of his clients even bought him a $370,000 car. In this Asian Boss video, Akaya, who was formerly homeless, describes his...
05:43 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Watch what happened to the lion who was surrounded by 20 hyenas
Last week I posted a clip of the BBC nature program, Dynasties, which showed a young male lion defending itself against 20 or so hungry hyenas. The clip ended with the lion getting worn out, and the h...
05:35 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing 1980s 'Masquerade' shows how hard spies had it
Gradient shaded sunglasses, microfilm and a super early version of the Apple phone all make an appearance in dated TV spy drama, Masquerade. None of this stuff looks fancy or secretive today.Distrust ...
05:35 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: a visit to the mysterious Georgia Guidestones
No one knows who erected the Georgia Guidestones in 1980. The Stonehenge-like monument is inscribed with 10 guidelines in eight languages:Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with ...
05:16 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Meet John Horgan and the BC NDP - North Americas most progressive government
If you live outside province you likely havent heard much about our new government, but here in British Columbia changes are happening fast, and you should know about them. From 2001 until May of las...
04:57 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Breaking boards is awfully cute
Funny Video of the day for sure! from r/funnyCould this be the cutest board breaking video of all time?Strike first, strike hard! Read the rest...
04:53 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Man-on-the-street interviews: Is there life on other planets? (1962)
With NASA's InSight spacecraft scheduled to land on Mars today, it's fun to watch this vintage ABC News Australia segment from 1962: "Is there life on other planets?"One of my favorite responses: "I h...
04:39 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing LEGO's Saturn V rocket on sale for $79
Holiday pricing on giant LEGO sets continues as the LEGO Apollo Saturn V Rocket goes on sale for $79.Cleverly this LEGO set comes with 1969 pieces. I bought it last year for $119, and do not regret a ...
04:13 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Perhaps not the best way to burp a baby
Todo mundo do twitter quando tiver filho, ir comprar esta ferramenta super efetiva pra fazer o bebe gorfar pic.twitter.com/UCwpdEpGek— KLAUS (@Klausitox) November 24, 2018 Twitter makes this M...
04:00 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Without social organizations, social technologies will eat us alive
The bane of the futurist's existence is that almost daily you see, hear, or read something and want to scream, "I told you so." Sometimes, it's a cause for exhilarationwe got it rightand other times, ...
03:44 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Save 20% on the Voyager Golden Record 2xCD/Book edition
Last year, my friends Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad and I released the Voyager Golden Record on vinyl for the first time ever and were blown away to win a Grammy Award for the box set. It's really a t...
03:34 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a rocket launch from space
European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst captured this beautiful video of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft launching into space from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome.The images were ...
01:30 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing 'P Is for Pterodactyl' alphabet book teaches kids some anomalies of the English language
P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever is a fun new alphabet book written by rapper Lushlife that shows kids just how nutty the English language really is (rules schmules!): Turning the tr...
01:30 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing A toy vacuum for kids that actually workssort of
Dyson has made a smaller, battery-operated version of their famous ball vacuum, with actual suction power, for children. Don't get too excited, it's not time to pass off your heavy-duty floor-cleaning...
01:00 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Behind the scenes with Hollywood's creature making wizards
Immortal Masks make a lot of masks, prosthetics and horrific creatures we see in films that later end up haunting our dreams. This video shows exactly how they do it. Read the rest...
01:00 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing 9 can't-miss early Cyber Monday deals on games and tech
Grab that mug of hot cocoa and warm up those mouse-clicking fingers. We're ramping up to the best time of the year for holiday stocking-stuffing, and the only downside for online shoppers is narrowing...
12:00 pm PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing Will The Lion King remake be better than the original?
I never saw The Lion King when I was growing up. I was a little on my way out of high school by the time that it popped. But I know a lot of folks adore the film. Despite having never watched it, some...
08:00 am PST - Mon, November 26, 2018
BoingBoing When Barney got gloriously wrecked at the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Do you remember when Barney parade balloon ate it during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1997? The internet sure does. Footage of the schadenfraude-inducing incident is making the rounds again, ...
09:35 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing LEGO's massive 4163 piece "Big Ben" is currently $50 off
At 4163 pieces Big Ben is a massive LEGO set. I have sat on the Apollo Saturn V kit for a while and it a mere 1969 pieces.When will we find the time?The kit is $50 off today, $199 on Amazon.LEGO Creat...
05:15 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen
The US Department of Homeland Security has published a new proposed rule that would make people ineligible for US citizenship if their credit-scores were poor.Notionally, the rule-change is meant to p...
04:44 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing New Scientist calls for the end of the scholarly publishing industry: "more profitable than oil," "indefensible"
In a stirring unsigned editorial, the New Scientist calls the scholarly publishing industry "indefensible," noting that the business of publishing tax-funded research and then selling it to tax-funded...
04:21 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing British Parliament seizes internal Facebook documents by threatening to jail a rival exec
Ted Kramer is CEO and co-founder of Six4Three, a creepy US-based machine-learning startup whose debut product was a Facebook app called Pinkini that let you search your friends' photos for pictures of...
03:47 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing Missouri's latest senator is part of a wave of (extremely selective) Republican enthusiasm for trustbusting
When Josh Hawley was Attorney General of Missouri, he was an (extremely selective) firebreathing trustbuster who used his office to chase Google up and down the state, investigating the company's anti...
03:11 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing Taylor Swift makes a payout to all Universal artists a clause in her new record deal
Taylor Swift's latest record deal contained a clause in which Universal finally committed to sharing any gains from a future sale of Spotify (which the company invested in along with Sony and Warner) ...
01:00 pm PST - Sun, November 25, 2018
BoingBoing Get this arsenal of Mac apps at Black Friday prices
Christmas is coming early, Mac users. If you've been waiting to "deck the halls" of your computer with the software that will stretch its potential, pick up the Award-Winning Black Friday Mac Bundle F...
03:21 pm PST - Sat, November 24, 2018
BoingBoing While serving, Trump's comms director will get a $7M Fox News bonus for his mishandling of sexual abuse
Bill Shine was forced to resign as co-president of Fox News over his personal mishandling of the rampant culture of sexual abuse, in which he abetted the company's culture of harassment, fondling, and...
02:53 pm PST - Sat, November 24, 2018
BoingBoing On Thanksgiving Eve, Facebook quietly admitted to hiring dirty tricksters to publish an anti-Semitic Soros hoax smearing its critics
When the New York Times published its insider report detailing how Facebook executives had hired the Republic PR firm Definers, known for it dirty tricks campaigns, and then directed it to spread lies...
02:00 pm PST - Sat, November 24, 2018
BoingBoing 4 Bluetooth headphone deals to please any audiophile
If you're keeping those ears to the ground for deals on headphones, get them warmed up. There's some quality tech to be had whether you're looking for yourself or a music-loving friend. Here are four ...
06:09 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing The story of "Lenny" -- a chatbot designed to make telemarketing unprofitable
I get several robocalls a day, along with Microsoft tech support scams, and IRS scams. The calls get forwarded to Jolly Roger Telephone bots that engage in inane conversations with the pests. From Jol...
05:49 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Prisoner escapes by telling jailer a cobra is in his cell
A 23-year-old man jailed for drug possession complained to his jailer that a snake was in his cell. When the jailer entered the cell, the prisoner walked through the door and locked the jailer in the ...
05:34 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: young male lion attacked by pack of 20 hyenas
In this preview from the upcoming episode of BBC's Dynasties -- a young male lion finds himself surrounded by a pack of 20 hyenas. The video ends before we find out whether or not he prevails, I guess...
05:23 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Recomendo: A new book with 550 recommendations
Every week for the past two years, Mark Frauenfelder, Claudia Dawson, and I briefly recommend 6 things to our friends. Sometimes we suggest tools, but most items arent tools. Rather we recommend stuff...
03:53 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Insurance companies gouge on CPAP machines and consumables, use wireless modems to spy on your usage
Sleep apnea is a fast-growing health complaint among Americans, and that has triggered a set of deceptive and unethical measures by US health insurers to shift the cost of using CPAP machines (the for...
03:29 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Chinese Iphone ownership is a marker of membership in the "invisible poor"
China's "invisible poor" are poor people who successfully project a facade of affluence through consumer goods, clothing, etc: a research report from Shanghai's MobData found that Iphone ownership is ...
03:06 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing A science-fiction-inspired desktop UI for your Lin/Win/Mac system
Squared (AKA Gaby) is a French hacker who created edex-ui, a science-fiction inspired desktop "heavily inspired from DEX-UI and the TRON Legacy movie effects," which gives you a terminal and live tele...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Catch a glimpse of the BBC's The City and the City
I take a lot of comfort from China Miville's The City & the City. It's a book I return and read at least once a year. It's a novel that dances on the cusp of the fantastical, but never seems to te...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing 11 must-have Black Friday deals for anyone on your list
The holiday season isn't even waiting for a proper chill to set in in much of the country, but that's not necessarily a bad thing - especially for those of us getting our shopping done early, and from...
12:53 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing Famed bike lock lasts 16 seconds in independent test
The LiteLok Gold bike lock is marketed as being all but impossible to beat, with a 17-minute ad showing various tools and an "Ironman" triathlete unable to get in. An independent tester picked one up ...
12:27 pm PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing All-wheel drive and four-wheel drive explained
Winter's here and, like clockwork, everyone's started driving like idiots. If you recently bought a vehicle with part-time four wheel drive, four wheel drive, all wheel drive or anything else in betwe...
02:01 am PST - Fri, November 23, 2018
BoingBoing FedEx driver delivers racist attacker to the afterlife
Working as a delivery driver is an easy path to a long dark night of the soul. Eight hours of folks wondering why their package wasn't delivered earlier, miserable traffic conditions and heavy carryin...
09:33 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Holiday activity: make up a story to explain what's going on in this video
There has to be a reason why this happened, but I can't begin to guess. Please help by making up a fake news story to explain this short video.https://weirdrussians.tumblr.com/post/180031084056/monday...
06:39 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Archive of 15,000 Golden Age Comics
The Digital Comics Museum has over 15,000 Golden Age comic books (all in the public domain). It's a treasure trove of clip art and inspiration for designers and artists.[via Open Culture] Read the res...
06:27 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Patent granted for a bra that falls off when you clap your hands
Michael M. Ahmadshahi Ph.D., Esq. is the inventor of the patented Signal-Activated Lingerie:Lingerie, such as bras which are worn by females, have a fastening mechanism, such as a hook-type fastener, ...
06:11 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Forklift driver accidentally destroys a large warehouse
Most expensive chain reaction video ever."Clean-up crew needed on aisle one... and two.... and three... and four...."[via Nag on the Lake] Read the rest...
06:00 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Bread expert challenged to tell the difference between cheap and expensive loaves
I like these Epicurious videos where food and drink experts are given blind taste tests and asked to identify the cheap and expensive samples and explain their reasoning.In this episode of 'Price Poin...
05:34 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Twitter is the ultimate antidote to Donald Trump's Twitter
Wanna see how an insurgent, anti-establishment candidate can use snark, personality, and a combative spirit to advance the political dialog? Stop following Cheeto Hitler and start following the younge...
04:42 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing CBC's longstanding tech columnist condemns the broadcaster's cozy relationship with Facebook
Jesse Hirsh the CBC Toronto's longstanding and deservedly respected tech columnist, a fixture for many words, interpreting the tech news of the day for the public broadcaster's nonexpert audience, exp...
01:11 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Why software feels slow
Most software, writes Ink & Switch, is slow. Slow Software works as a FAQ about all the reasons this is the case, from input latency to inefficient design. Read the rest...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing the International Space Station has been in orbit for 20 years!
You read that headline right: the ISS has been bopping around our planet for two long decades. How do you celebrate one of the greatest collaborative scientific undertakings in human history? If you'r...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing 5 best-sellers in online courses at Black Friday prices
Ever wanted to give yourself a whole new you for the holidays? Online learning is a great way to kickstart a new career or enhance an existing one. And whether it's art, coding or business, there's a ...
12:44 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Amazon won't say how many accounts were affected in security lapse
Amazon admits that it leaked some users' email addresses and names. But it's not saying how the information was exposed, how many were affected, or otherwise talking to those affected or to the press....
12:30 pm PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing New EU border security pilot program is all kinds of creepy.
If you're planning on traveling to the European Union in the near future, you'd best grease up as a new border security project is planning on sliding into your background, personal story and biometri...
08:01 am PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing A Thanksgiving prayer from William S. Burroughs
And in accordance with tradition, Uncle Bill will now lead us in "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (1986). Read the rest...
01:32 am PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Monster shirts based on an episode of Leave it to Beaver
My friend Mitch O'Connell, "The World's Best Artist," recreated the cool shirts featured in an episode of Leave it to Beaver and is selling them on his site. If you never saw the peewee version of The...
01:26 am PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Freedom of Information Access ninjas force Gavin McInnis out of the Proud Boys
After Property of the People (previously) used clever Freedom of Information Act requests to learn that the FBI classed the Proud Boys as 'an Extremist Group with Ties to White Nationalism', the orga...
01:15 am PST - Thu, November 22, 2018
BoingBoing Let's get artists paid by making Big Tech pay them, not by creating EU copyright filters
The EU wants to punish Google for allegedly underpaying artists for the use of their works on YouTube, and so they're proposing copyright filters that block anything that appears in an anonymously cre...
07:39 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing THE BUREAU: Part Four, "The Appearance and Assassination of President Jung Thug"
From the weekly series The Bureau....
06:24 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Good deal on teeth whitening strips
With all the coffee and tea I drink, my teeth become yellow pretty quickly. I use these Crest 3D White Whitestrips Vivid Plus whitening strips to keep my teeth white. They are usually pretty expensive...
06:19 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing In a weird way, Donald Trump is the most honest American president in history
Yes, Trump is a pathological liar, but he's also the first US president to call Ted Cruz a liar, the first to admit that the Saudis were likely behind 9/11, the first to admit that the Saudi royals ca...
06:11 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Americans pay some of the highest prices for wireless data in the world, and it's going to get worse
In The State of 4G Pricing, Finnish researchers Rewheel identify the US as having some of the most expensive wireless data (fifth highest prices) in the world, and they predict things will get worse t...
06:05 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Machine learning hucksters invent an AI racist uncle that predicts your personality from your facial bone structure
Phrenology (the fake science of predicting personality from the shape of your cranial bones) is like Freddy Kruger, an unkillable demon who rises from the grave every time some desperate huckster deci...
06:00 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Adam and Eve were aliens, soul transplants, and an exploding squirrel in this weeks dubious tabloids
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, lets be grateful for the short memories of the tabloids, which gleefully forget what theyve previously written the moment its inconvenient for them.Prince Harrys wife Me...
05:55 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Assessing Snowden's legacy, five years on
Five and a half years ago, Edward Snowden put his life on the line, gave up his country, and went into exile, just to reveal that he had been part of a widespread, illegal mass-surveillance program wi...
05:38 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Remote "uncontacted" island tribe killed an interloping missionary with arrows
The Sentinelese are one of the world's last "uncontacted" indigenous peoples, a hunter-gatherer tribe who live on the remote North Sentinel Island in India's Andaman Islands chain. This week, John All...
05:33 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Best data erasure method ever: longbow
John Oliver ("Critical Engineer, artist, immigrant and educator. Shoots arrows, eats plants") has found a novel and by all appearances very satisfying way to safely erase the data from old hard drives...
05:32 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Sphero's app controlled R2D2 for $40
Sphero makes great RC style toys that teach kids programming. R2D2 is now available for $40.R2-D2 App-Enabled Droid via Amazon Read the rest...
05:27 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Videos from this year's XOXO Festival
The XOXO festival (previously) is one of the best events I've ever attended; and this year's was the biggest, most inclusive one yet, but one of the things that makes XOXO so special is the cap on att...
05:15 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing 150-piece Fallout 76 Pip-Boy 2000 construction kit
From Thinkgeek, the $150 Fallout 76 Pip-Boy 2000 Construction Kit, a full-sized, wearable replica of the Pip-Boy 2000 Mark VI, in a vegan leather case, with a "completely in-world instruction manual."...
04:59 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Make: a gingerbread house zoetrope
Andrew Salomone writes, "I work as a preparator for The George Eastman Museum at the Kodak founder's historic estate in Rochester, NY. It's the world's oldest photography museum and has an extensive c...
04:50 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing UK minister says airlines used "exploitative algorithms" to split up families unless they paid extra
UK Digital Minister Margot James has vowed to crack down on "exploitative algorithms" used by airlines that deliberately split up families' seat assignments if they did not pay for pre-assigned seats;...
04:27 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing The billionaire family who profited off the opioid epidemic are finally facing legal reprisals
The Sackler Family (previously) are a family of self-styled philanthropist billionaires who have been largely successful in their campaign to whitewash their family name by giving away a few percentag...
03:30 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing This incredible LEGO grand piano has moving parts
Prepare to be impressed: While it doesn't actually play music, this 2,798-piece miniature LEGO model of a concert grand piano does have 25 independently working keys, a removable keyboard, and a heigh...
03:23 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Godot, the musical
Seth Kaufman sends his video for "Godot the Musical," saying: "It is, I venture, the funkiest promotional book video ever made. The script appears in my new book Metaphysical Graffiti: Rock 'n' Roll &...
03:00 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing The Great Stork Derby rewarded the Toronto mother who had the most babies between 1926 and 1936
When Toronto attorney Charles Vance Millar died in 1926, he left behind a mischievous will that promised a fortune to the woman who gave birth to the most children in the next 10 years. In this week's...
02:38 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing How to make a hollow geodesic plywood ball
The patterns that emerge from plywood once it's sanded to a sphere are beautiful, but it all comes down to step 1: get the maths, the measuring and the cuts exactly right. Step 0 is, of course, "own a...
02:30 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing One Day in Donald Trump's Army
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH two soldiers in Donald Trump's Army bravely defend the political goals of Donald Trump...
02:16 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing What Mobile Diablo is going to be like
The announcement of Diablo: Immortal was met by howling dismay. That the ultimate PC nerd action RPG would end up looking like a reskin of the mobile-industry monogame is illustrative of changing time...
01:32 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old is a stunning act of remembrance
Everyone raised in my hometown learned to recite In Flanders Fields in school. Every year, as November 11th, Remembrance Day, drew near, we were taught about the First World War. We made poppies. We p...
01:30 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing CDC: don't eat romaine lettuce
If you're planning on taking a salad to your Thanksgiving potluck this year, be wicked careful of what you throw into it: The Centers for Disease Control is currently warning everyone, frigging everyw...
01:26 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Study: first drug more likely to be cannabis than nicotine or alcohol
When I was 12 years old, a kid that I thought was my friend but turned out to only be into me for my Nintendo, tempted me to try a little something that he snuck out of his mother's liquor cabinet. We...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing These military-grade flashlights are an emergency kit must
At some point, it happens to everyone: Your car breaks down. Your electricity fails at home. And if it happens at night, the first tool you need is your vision. There's a more reliable way to get it b...
12:31 am PST - Wed, November 21, 2018
BoingBoing Cranberry orange-bread, 50 years later
Patrick Costello (previously) writes, "My mom shares her recipe for cranberry orange bread with help from my dad. They have been married for fifty years and they are still crazy for each other. The fu...
11:36 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Mareli Miniutti gets restraining order against Michael Avenatti, claims he was violent
Things are not looking good for Michael Avenatti. His ex-girlfriend Mareli Miniutti says he violently dragged her out of bed and called her a 'f--king bitch.'Mareli Miniutti, 24, is described as an as...
09:05 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Heavy denim "Starfleet" jackets
I love the clothes from Volante Design ("Superhuman Streetwear"); their latest is the "Starfleet 2364" line of men's and women's jackets inspired by Star Trek: The Next Generation uniforms.The jackets...
08:44 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Copyright and the "male gaze": a feminist critique of copyright law
Film theorist Laura Mulvey coined the term "male gaze" to describe the "masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the male viewer": i...
07:31 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Diners use chest-mounted robot arms to feed each other in unusual social experiment
Researchers at Melbourne, Australia's RMIT University devised these bizarre "third arm" chest-mounted"robots to experiment with what they call "playful eating." For science. Video below. From RMIT Uni...
07:07 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Leaks reveal the health care industry's playbook for smearing and spinning Medicare for All out of existence by 2020
The Intercept has published slides from Partnership for Americas Health Care Future -- a lobbying group representing the for-profit health-care sector -- detailing the organization's plan to kill Medi...
07:06 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple released a pre-Jonestown gospel album
On November 18, 1978, more than nine hundred members of the Peoples Temple, under the guidance of cult leader Rev. Jim Jones, killed themselves or were murdered in the jungles of Guyana. Five years be...
06:29 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing A relentless stream of great movie insults, now with a dance beat
Sticks and stones may break my bones but supercuts never hurt me. (NSFW) Read the rest...
06:15 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Worthwhile Fortnite guide to aiming
If you are looking to improve your Fortnite performance this video tutorial may prove supremely helpful.I had not messed with my sensitivity settings in months. A quick tweak led to a few multi-kill g...
06:00 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing "The End of Trust" - EFF/McSweeney's collaboration on privacy and surveillance - is in stores and free to download now!
The End of Trust (previously) is a special issue of McSweeney's, produced in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the themes of technology, privacy and surveillance: it's in store...
05:57 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Massachusetts mayor first in line to legally buy recreational weed
Today, Massachusetts' retail marijuana shops opened for business, and Northampton, Mass mayor David Narkewicz was first in line. Massachusetts is the first state east of the Mississippi to approve rec...
05:55 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Amazon employees snapped up NYC real estate before headquarters announcement
Like the billions in public money destined for Amazon's benefit and that of the world's richest man, it's all perfectly legal.The two employees decided to the buy units just before the first press rep...
05:54 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction
Fantasy and science fiction author and political activist Steven Brust (previously) was this year's Guest of Honor at Philcon, an excellent Philadelphia-area science fiction (I have also had the privi...
05:34 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing The Trumpturd: a squishy that benefits ACLU, Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, or the Institute for Free Speech
$5 from the $17 purchase price of each hand-painted Trumpturd squishy is directed to the charity of your choice, from among the ACLU, Greenpeace, Planned Parenthood, or the Institute for Free Speech. ...
05:27 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived
Trump's "Operation Faithful Patriot" was a $200,000,000 exercise in which 6,000 US troops were deployed within the USA, to the US/Mexico border, nominally to repel the migrant caravan of desperate, po...
05:26 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Do you know this pigeon who wears a glitzy rhinestone flight suit?
This fancy pigeon showed up on a Glendale, Arizona woman's back patio. She called in rescue organization Fallen Feathers who are now seeking the bird's owner. From AZFamily:"He was in her back patio a...
05:21 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Population of England named "longest data series"
The population of England is said here to be the longest-running data series. The source is the Bank of England and other enterprises of the English state (the Doomsday Book!), but presented here by t...
05:12 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists
Writing in Wired, frequent Boing Boing contributor Clive Thompson praises the rise of rural broadband co-operatives that are springing up to provide internet access to their far-flung, widespread comm...
04:56 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Pilot "V" disposable fountain pens travel well
Every year or so I buy another 5 pack of these Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens.I keep these in my travel bag. Unlike refillable fountain pens, of which I have far too many, these do not dry out...
04:43 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Twitter redesign boasts slightly smaller font for follower count
BREAKING NEWS The Verge confirms that "Twitter redesigns iOS app to de-emphasize follower counts". Posted with the subheading "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been touting a redesign like this for month...
04:38 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD's new less-lethal weapons
There's the "Laser-Induced Plasma Effect" (one laser dislodges atmospheric electrons and spins up plasma; a second blows up the ionizing gas "to release an ear-splitting burst of sound energy"); there...
04:35 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Billie Eilish asked same interview questions, one year after becoming a much bigger star
2018 was a big year for 16-year-old singer/songwriter Billie Eilish. Her rise to stardom can be measured in numbers. Last year at this time, she had 257,000 followers on Instagram and she now has 6.3 ...
04:34 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Make Disney's 'Goofy's Kitchen Peanut Butter and Jelly Pizza' at home
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Jason Weisberger (@jlw) on Nov 18, 2018 at 1:39pm PST Peanut butter and jelly on a warm pizza crust is pretty darn incredible.Hidden in the bowels of Dis...
04:00 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Sarah Silverman and John C. Reilly answer web's most-searched questions about themselves
This is cute. To promote their new animated movie Ralph Breaks the Internet, John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman answered the internet's most-asked questions about themselves in the latest WIRED Autoco...
03:35 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Washington State county sheriff refuses to enforce new gun laws
On January 1st, 2019, Washington State will be rolling out some of the toughest gun laws in the United States. If you want to buy a semi automatic rifle in Washington next year, you'll have to be 21 y...
03:20 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Vard, the witch capital of Norway
Chelsea G. Summers' beautiful article about a beatiful place recalls its ugly history: the murder of 91 "witches" in Vard, Norway, part of a century-long persecution against which the Salem witch tria...
03:08 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Portrait of a fake news troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes
In the Washington Post, Eli Saslow profiles Christopher Blair, a 46-year-old "liberal" hoaxter whose Facebook group, "Americas Last Line of Defense," is full of far-right hoaxes that he creates and th...
03:00 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Jimmy Dean offers sausage-scented wrapping paper
Sausage brand Jimmy Dean is offering wrapping paper that smells like their product line as part of a promotional "recipe gift exchange." To get some of this sausage-scented wrapping paper, you just ha...
02:55 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Wherein Werner Herzog gives voice to a lonely plastic bag
Werner Herzog is responsible for many strange, wonderful things. Everything he's involved in is kissed by a brutal beauty--even that first Jack Reacher movie, starring Tom Cruise. In this video from F...
02:48 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing The Wormhole (2018), a kaleidoscopic 4K timelapse
Enjoy this trippy kaleidoscopic ultra-HD short film posted by Michael Shainblum.I am proud to share my latest abstract mirror timelapse video The Wormhole. I knew after creating Mirror city I wanted ...
02:30 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing That time the 'Wicked Witch of the West' stopped by to see Mister Rogers (1975)
To show kids that she was just a nice person playing a wicked witch, Wizard of Oz actress Margaret Hamilton dropped by Mister Rogers' neighborhood in 1975. Hamilton, a former kindergarten teacher, tal...
02:25 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Hackers (1995) for free
YouTube is (legally) hosting a full-HD copy of Hackers, the seminal 1995 movie introducing mainstream America to the world of amateur logging and hack-and-drag tree poaching in the old Yukon. Read th...
02:23 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government
Republican state AGs were in the majority...until this months election, when the majority flipped, with the most climate-denying AGs (in Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin and Nevada) losing their jobs to ...
02:05 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing What's missing from machine learning research: an East African perspective
CIT computer scientist Milan Cvitkovic conducted 46 in-depth interviews with "scientists, engineers, and CEOs" and collated their machine learning research needs into an aptly named paper entitled "So...
02:00 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Maybe using butane to extract weed oil isn't the best idea
No one's ever satisfied with what they have. If you're given a piece of cake, chances are, you'd be happy with another helping. You've got a job, but you'd like a better one. You can enjoy the view fr...
01:00 pm PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Learning a new language is easy and inexpensive with Mondly
The key to learning any new language is feedback. When you're immersed in conversation, it's easy to pick up key phrases and pronunciation, but not all of us have the means to jet off to Spain, France...
11:00 am PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing Give Women Your Money: Shoppable spreadsheet of women-led businesses
Editor's note: We love this one-stop spreadsheet of women-led businesses created by Krystal Plomatos, and encourage you to share it with friends and family. Give women your money, this holiday season ...
12:41 am PST - Tue, November 20, 2018
BoingBoing But Her Emails: Ivanka Trump used personal email account for messages about her government work
Yes, irony is dead. The Washington Post reports that Presidential Daddy Daughter Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to receive and send emails about her work for the government of the United S...
10:40 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing "In Loving Memory of Saddam Hussein" memorial plaque appears on London park bench
A brass plaque memorializing Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein was spotted Sunday on a park bench in London. No-one's exactly sure how long it's been there, but it was gone by Monday evening. Victoria Richa...
10:22 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Chicago: Shooting at Mercy Hospital, police officer and suspect among 'multiple victims'
A Chicago police officer was shot and multiple victims are reported in an active shooting situation near Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Shots were fired both inside and outside the hospital.It is not known...
08:09 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Snoop Dogg gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
From Eastside Long Beach Crip to rapper to celebrity chef, there's pretty much nothing the Dogg can't do. Today, the entertainer and Los Angeles icon Snoop Dogg received a long-deserved star on the Ho...
08:05 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: abolish Columbus Day, replace it with Voting Day
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (previously), the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, has proposed abolishing Columbus Day (which honors a raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile) and replacin...
07:56 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Make: a 3D printed Deadpool knife block
Got a 3D printer? Britt Michelsen Deadpool Knife Block Instructable will show you how to modify a 3D mesh of Deadpool, print it, paint it, and make the greatest kitchen-counter accouterments you could...
07:35 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Collapsable water bottle
A lot of airports have filtered water stations, but even if they don't I will just refill a bottle from the drinking fountain. This collapsable water bottle is better than the plastic bag style water ...
07:31 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing A successful no-platforming means we can talk about Alex Jones again
Zeynep Tufekci (previously) says that Big Tech's "engagement maximization" algorithms meant that any time you talked about Alex Jones critically, the algorithms would start relentlessly recommending t...
07:12 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Concealed Carry scammers spent $2m on gunhumper scare-ads on Facebook during the 2018 midterms
Concealed Online is an anonymously owned (the owner won't divulge his identity due to fear of reprisals) company whose customers complain scammed them by tricking them into taking its online curriculu...
07:00 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing A beautiful time-lapse film of the changing sky
We've featured the stunning work of filmmaker Ron Risman before. His latest time-lapse video captures the changing sky above the plains.Image: Courtesy Ron Risman Read the rest...
06:56 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Finns to Trump: We don't rake our forests
Donald Trump says that the reason California's forests are on fire is that Californians don't rake their forest floors to clear potential fuel, the way the Finns do.There are a lot of things wrong wit...
06:54 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Hot Cheetos Thanksgiving Turkey
Do you like Flaming Hot Cheetos? Well, heck. Why not enjoy a Flaming Hot Cheetos Thanksgiving turkey dinner with the whole family this year.Reynolds Kitchens shared a "Hot Turkey in an Oven Bag" recip...
06:43 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Apple's CEO: tech regulation is "inevitable"
Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that the free market "is not working" and as a result, regulation of the tech sector is "inevitable."Cook made it clear that he was referring to the welcome and long-over...
06:33 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Celebrate the mystery of D.B. Cooper at this weekend's DBCooperCon in Portland!
In 1971, "DB Cooper" hijacked a plane from Portland, Oregon and eventually parachuted into the Pacific Northwest wilderness with $200,000 strapped to his body. He was never seen again. The D.B. Cooper...
06:29 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing FBI describes 'Proud Boys' as 'extremist group with ties to white nationalism' in law enforcement document
The FBI describes the group Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalism in a document provided to reporters by law enforcement in the state of Washington. This marks the first time...
06:23 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Stan Lee on "To Tell The Truth" game show (1970)
Here's Stan Lee on a 1970 episode of To Tell The Truth, a fun game show where a panel of celebrities had to identify an individual with an unusual profession (in this case, comic book creator) among a...
06:14 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing California Fires: Why doesn't cable news cover them as much as East Coast hurricanes?
It's not your imagination. The big cable news networks like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox pay way more attention to hurricanes and extreme weather on the east coast than they do to major firestorms in Californi...
06:13 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Easter bunny wanted for deer camera theft
Berkeley County, South Carolina police are seeking the easter bunny and an accomplice for a rash of stolen trail cameras. "We know some-bunny knows them," say the police.(MyFox8) Read the rest...
06:12 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Artist Drew Friedman remembers Stan Lee: "a complex man"
Portrait artist extraordinaire Drew Friedman worked as an intern for Marvel boss Stan Lee, and went on to draw Lee's likeness many times. On his blog, Drew remembers Lee:Stan Lee (1922-2018), Born Sta...
06:02 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Man restores rusted cast-iron vise to pristine condition
The host of the My Mechanics Youtube channel bought a rusted Gressel vise for $20 and made it look brand new again. It was fun to watch him restore this ugly boat anchor into a good-as-new vise. The r...
05:53 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Flatulence lends a hand at the Grand Slam of Darts
Dutch dart enthusiast Wesley Harms claims he could not play his best in the Grand Slam of Darts semi-finals due to poor air quality.From Deadspin:In case you missed it, Scottish dart player Gary Ander...
05:47 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Pope condemns the "wealthy few" who hoard the riches that "belongs to all"
Pope Francis continues his streak of fighting for economic justice (though he's an unrepentant monster on abortion, women's rights, and the rights of queer people).His sermon last Sunday lamented the ...
05:38 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing If today's streaming services were around in the 80's
Motion graphics wizard Future Punk is back with his reimagining of what opening titles for video streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, and Twitch might have looked like if they'd been around in the 1...
05:34 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Sheryl Sandberg's fingerprints are all over every one of Facebook's scandals
Fuck Zuck, sure, but what about Sheryl Sandberg?Despite a string of ever-worsening scandals, the Facebook COO has managed to remain largely above the fray, so that she's thought of as that great "Lean...
05:25 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing How to use science fiction to teach tech ethics
Science fiction writer/lawyer Casey Fiesler is a maven in the field of tech ethics education (she maintains the amazing spreadsheet of tech-ethics syllabi); she uses science fiction stories as a jumpi...
05:25 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Junk science promoted by bots and trolls results in North Carolina chickenpox outbreak
North Carolina is reporting the worst chickenpox outbreak since a vaccine for it was introduced more than 20 years ago. Ground zero for the outbreak is the Asheville Waldorf School, where 36 children ...
05:18 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Insurer won't pay murdered gunshot victim's family because he didn't disclose his high blood-sugar
In March 2018, Nathan Ganas was murdered in his driveway in Durban, South Africa, during a botched hijacking; now Momentum, the insurer who wrote the 2.4m Rand (USD 170,700) policy on his life, is ref...
05:01 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's FCC seems to have ended the practice of releasing its ISP speed-tests, leaving Americans in the dark about what they're paying for
When Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality (by deliberately ignoring comments from actual humans in favor of comments left by obvious bots), he said that removing regulation from telcos ...
04:55 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Do moth balls repel mice?
For the last few weeks Shawn Woods has been trying various popular suggestions for keeping rodents away. Nothing has worked. Irish Spring bar soap: the rats ate it. Fabric softener sheets: they used i...
04:52 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Shocking discovery of Strigiformes from planet Sol III!
Video evidence of owl-like extraterrestrials found in an attic:Baby owls in the loft, or visitors from another planet? pic.twitter.com/F3efPV30Qc— Daily Owls (@Daily__Owls) November 14, 2018 Rea...
04:48 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Distracted Lego boyfriend
Iain Heath writes, "I recreated the 'distracted boyfriend' meme using LEGO bricks." You certainly did, Iain, and very well, too! Read the rest...
04:45 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Ford CEO frankly admits that the car of the future is a surveillance device that you pay to spy on you
The era of finance capitalism is marked by a curious shift in the desire of the business world: to get out of the business of making things people use, and into the business of getting money for ownin...
04:43 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing A visit to a giant reverberation chamber
Scotland's Inchindown oil tanks, located underground, make for excellent reverberation chambers. In this video, someone fires a starting pistol in the chambers and Tom Scott records the one-minute plu...
03:20 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Watch Ellen punk Michelle Obama while she's signing books at Costco
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has a new book, a memoir of her life's journey getting to the White House called Becoming. To promote it, she went to Costco with Ellen DeGeneres for a signing. But it...
02:20 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Man learns life lesson: Don't remove sweatshirt while on a treadmill
"I meant to do that."(digg) Read the rest...
02:15 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Why humans are suddenly getting better at Tetris
In this video [via Kottke], John Green explains why competitive players are suddenly getting much better at Tetris despite the number of players being much smaller than in its heydey: "a group of enth...
01:50 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Unscii: a new unicode font set for old-school text-art
Viznut created a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts for use on your bulletin boards.Years ago, I noticed that Unicode had a bunch of pseudographic characters that could be used to enrichen Ansi art. Howev...
01:37 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Rude guest stories
While it's true that everything is political, I appreciate the opportunity to also be filled with rage about something unrelated to the specific issues, personas and parties of contemporary political ...
01:20 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing A drone's eye view of the thick wildfire smoke in San Francisco
My pal Shalaco (previously) shot this bleak video of the smoke in San Francisco using his drone. He writes: ...A look at SFs skyline. San Franciscos Air Quality seems to be getting worse, current AQI ...
01:00 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Jump on these early holiday deals for tech toys and gear
Got a gadget-minded geek on your holiday list this year? Don't wait for Black Friday. The prices are already dropping on some quality tech toys, and we've got a roundup of some of our favorites.Force ...
12:20 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing A look at some quirky, and downright strange, 2019 calendars
It hurts me to say this but 2019 is nearly here, and that means stores are filled with calendars.Well, my daughter and I are traveling this week and while out at one of our favorite stores in Arizona,...
12:15 pm PST - Mon, November 19, 2018
BoingBoing Tiny Emus: play old games online without hassle
Tiny Emus has in-browser emulators for all the classic 8-bit systems, but also ready links for specific games so you don't have to spend ages tracking them down and configuring them. Creator Andre Wei...
10:50 pm PST - Sun, November 18, 2018
BoingBoing Skulls and bones with magnifying-glass-burned "tattoos"
Damien Noll sez, "My skulls and bones are all burned (like black line tattoo) using just a magnifying lens and sunshine."My latest work is solar pyrography on animal skulls and bones, boar, beaver, ca...
10:44 pm PST - Sun, November 18, 2018
BoingBoing White supremacy, minus gerrymandering: California GOP reduced to "third party status"
The only way for the party of old white dudes, rape, forced pregnancies, Islamophobia, homophobia, selfishness, pollution, climate denial, unchecked police violence and murder, xenophobia and hatred o...
04:00 pm PST - Sun, November 18, 2018
BoingBoing Perfectly-sized wool socks that ripen avocados in 24 hours
Today I learned that if you can put an avocado in a wool sock, it will ripen faster. I also learned that there's a company that makes special avocado-sized wool socks for just this purpose. Simply ins...
03:00 pm PST - Sun, November 18, 2018
BoingBoing New webseries by daily trivia newsletter 'Now I Know'
Dan Lewis' wildly-popular daily trivia Now I Know newsletter is expanding its presence to YouTube. Yup, he's bringing us a Now I Know webseries.Dan himself is not an "on-air" kind of guy, so he brough...
02:00 pm PST - Sun, November 18, 2018
BoingBoing Focus in on a photography career with this online course
Ever wondered what it takes to make the transition from amateur photography to a full career? If you answered "a better camera," you're half right. Before you get the equipment, get the know-how to us...
06:24 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Sole and Despotic Dominion: my story about the future of private property for Reason
Reason's December issue celebrates the magazine's 50th anniversary with a series of commissioned pieces on the past and future of the magazine's subjects: freedom, markets, property rights, privacy an...
06:18 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Classic film streaming service FilmStruck rises from the dead...sort of
When it was announced last month that FilmStruck, a streaming service dedicated to dishing up the greatest films of all time, would be shut down at the end of November, movie geeks, like yours truly, ...
06:10 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Google donated $5k to GOP Senator who "joked" about attending a lynching with her Black opponent
Cindy Hyde-Smith is a Mississipi GOP Senator is going into a runoff election against her Democratic opponent, Black man named Mike Espy who might end up the first Black Mississipi Senator since 1883; ...
05:41 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street -- now they're ducking property tax
For a generation, big box stores have swept across America, using predatory pricing and other dirty tricks to kill the independent retail sector; they used their corporate lobbying muscle to tempt cit...
05:29 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing A most incredible NASA promotional video
"We Are NASA" thrills me more than any science fiction movie trailer, and it's real. Read the rest...
05:14 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Kentucky Kroger shooting suspect to face hate crime charges
On October 24, Gregory Bush was said to have opened fire at a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown, Kentucky on 69-year-old Maurice Stallard, shooting him in the back of the head. 67-year-old Vickie ...
05:00 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Ted Danson learning to floss
On the set of The Good Place, Ted Danson (or is that "Ted Dancing"?) got a lesson from his co-stars on how to floss. Not "floss" as in dental care, but as in the dance craze that's sweeping the nation...
04:58 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Exec who oversaw Google's failed babykiller projects and cozied up to Saudis quits after employee uprising
Diane Greene was the CEO of Google's cloud business, and it was she who tried to convince Googlers to back her bid to sell AI services to the Pentagon's drone program, as a warmup for bidding on JEDI,...
04:38 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing San Francisco Uber driver distributing filter masks to passengers
At times this week, wildfires made San Francisco's air the worst in the world, and the city's stores have largely sold out of the N95 filter masks that make the air barely breathable, leading to at le...
04:14 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Amazon's NYC digs being built on land that would have been used for low-income housing
Amazon is already known for providing dangerous working conditions, anti-union activities and treating their blue collar workforce like a disposable commodity. Since they're already screwing folks at ...
04:00 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Oxford Dictionaries' crowns 'toxic' as its 2018 word of the year
Collins Dictionary named "single-use" as their 2018 word of the year and now Oxford Dictionaries' has dubbed "toxic" as theirs. They report that the word was looked up 45% more times on their site ove...
03:00 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing These U.S. senators are (on) crackers
My 14-year-old pointed me to the cool work of artist Christian Faur. I see Mark featured his crayon portrait pieces on Boing Boing in the past but not pieces using his more recent medium of soda crack...
02:00 pm PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing Learning piano is as easy as ABC (DEFG) with this new approach
Anyone can learn piano, but don't tell that to the bored kids who had to endure hours of "Chopsticks" and similar drills in their music lessons. Today, there's a better way. Pianoforall lets you jump ...
07:24 am PST - Sat, November 17, 2018
BoingBoing GPU-accelerated dismemberment demo: 10,000 zombies in a giant blender
Brilliant Game Studios follows up on their 2016 video that showed off a crowd-renderer by pitting 11,000 penguins against 4,000 Santas with a new video demoing "our new GPU accelerated dismemberment a...
11:27 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Sealing up wounds with a laser beam
OK, it's not quite Dr. Crusher's dermal regenerator (seen above), but Arizona State University researchers have demonstrated a laser system for sealing wounds. The system involves a sealing paste -- m...
10:49 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Direct from the Uncanny Valley: Affetto, the freaky child android head
This is the new version of Affetto, the robot child head that's a testbed for synthetic facial expressions. According to the Osaka University researchers who birthed Affeto, their goal is to "offer a ...
10:16 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Listen to Tiny Tim's unreleased cover of "House of the Rising Sun"
In 1994, pop artist, songwriter, and filmmaker Martin Sharp produced a covers album for legendary singer/ukulele maestro Tiny Tim. The album, "Tiny Tim's Pop Album," was never officially released but ...
09:52 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Trump claims, without evidence, that he is "extremely happy"
File with "I can change the 14th Amendment with an executive order" and "no collusion". [via] Read the rest...
09:45 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Shaming Ocasio-Cortez for her clothes is a classic ruse to deflect attention from real issues
The right-wing disinfotainment machine is making a big push to shame New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for not dressing in rags as befits a person of modest means. The purpose of the sm...
07:51 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Ouch! This man tries to take off his hoodie while running on a treadmill, and it ain't pretty
Running on a treadmill is my number one aerobic activity, and I've taken off my sweatshirt many times while treading. Never again after watching this! Read the rest...
06:08 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Scotty of Strange Parts takes a tour of Akihabara, Tokyo's geek culture headquarters
Akihabara got its reputation for being Tokyo's "Electric City" -- both for its consumer electronics as well as for its electronics components stalls. In more recent years, it's become more well-known ...
05:38 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Here's the new $25 Raspberry Pi 3 Model A
The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced a new model in its line of very inexpensive Linux computers: the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+. It has many of the same features as the top-of-the-line 3B+ (including a...
05:28 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing New iPad Pro bend test
The new iPad Pro looks pretty cool (I'd buy one if it also ran OS X). But how durable is it? Jerry of Jerry Rig everything puts it (and the Apple Pencil) to his classic durability test by scratching, ...
05:08 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing MAGA Blocks are the perfect holiday gift for xenophobes-in-training
After you've ordered your Trumpy Bear, be sure to pick up the Build the Wall set of MAGA Blocks. This 101-piece block set will have your kids turning away desperate refugees in no time. Comes with a P...
05:04 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing What's new in tabletop gaming (November edition)
Here are some recent game releases of note and some of what I've been up to in hobby gaming over the past month or so.Strontium DogWarlord Games, $63, 2-4 players, Ages: 12+In this skirmish game from ...
05:04 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Welcome To The Internet, the tracksuit
The Welcome To The Internet tracksuit [Getonfleek.com] features a classic image so thoroughly buried in sedimentary layers of meme and merch that it's no longer easy to locate the original through the...
04:15 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Instagram "influencers" phished and accounts stolen
Instagram influencers are easy marks for phishers: they are unlikely to be security-savvy, are easily taken-in by marketing patter, have huge easily-grifted audiences, and Instagram won't even give th...
03:43 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Pricier, more powerful Mac Mini reviewed
I'm tempted by the finally-upgraded Mac Mini (pictured above with the new 13" iPad Pro configured as its display), long the black sheep of the Mac lineup but loved for the promise of compact power it ...
03:32 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing UN poverty envoy calls UK poverty a "political choice" that inflicted "great misery"
Philip Alston, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, has followed up his scorching condemnation of US poverty with an even more damning report on poverty in the UK, which he calls a "...
03:20 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Quick how-to on making great scrambled eggs
As a graduate of the "rubbery mutilated omelet" school of scrambled egg preparation, I am mocked by this chef's obvious yet perfectly successful method. The secret ingredient: staying with the eggs fr...
03:05 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Dale Gribble's thoughts on Facebook
He calls it "The Beast", which is, all things considered, about right. [via] Read the rest...
02:55 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing For $20, you can make a DIY Stingray in minutes, using parts from Amazon
Stingrays were once the most secretive of surveillance technology: devices whose existence was so sensitive that the feds actually raided local cops and stole their crime files to stop them from being...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing This cat in Japan has the most disturbing meow: 'ololiloliloliloliloliiiloli'
This is Chibi Maru, a Japanese cat with a demonic cry! His human companion LLR recently posted this video of Chibi Maru vocalizing in a most unusual way. He seems to say, "Ololiloliloliloliloliiiloli,...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing This color-matching widget takes the guesswork out of painting
There are two times you never want to just "eyeball" it: Conducting brain surgery and matching shades of paint for your walls. Whether you're painting or repainting, make sure you're never just "close...
01:37 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing The 1995 Anime Ghost in the Shell is more relevant than ever in todays technologically complex society
When the anime movie Ghost in the Shell was released in 1995, the world wide web was still little more than a novelty, Microsoft was just beginning to find its GUI-feet, and artificial intelligence re...
01:30 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing The latest sign of the Apocalypse: Sour Patch Kids, the cereal
An open letter to Post Consumer Brands: In regards to your new Sour Patch Kids cereal, I quote Dr. Ian Malcom (and if there was EVER a time to pull out this quote, it's now):"Your scientists were so p...
01:24 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing A leaky database of SMS messages is a reminder that SMS is really, really insecure
Berlin-based security researcher Sbastien Kaul discovered that Voxox (formerly Telcentris) -- a giant, San Diego-based SMS gateway company -- had left millions of SMSes exposed on an Amazon cloud serv...
01:14 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing The Lie Behind the Lie Detector: how to beat the pseudoscientific polygraph
George writes, "AntiPolygraph.org has released the 5th edition of its free ebook, The Lie Behind the Lie Detector, which provides a thorough debunking of the pseudoscience of polygraphy and explains h...
01:10 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Terror as disappearances follow Chinese student communists' solidarity with striking workers
China's increasing inequality and rocky transition to market capitalism has created a rising tide of wildcat strikes from independent trade unions, who have found powerful allies in national student c...
01:06 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Court document refers to U.S. charge against Julian Assange; source says prosecution planned
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been charged with crime in the U.S., according to one court document, while anonymous sources tell the Wall Street Journal the Department of Justice is planning to...
12:59 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing EU antitrust enforcers investigate Amazon's predatory private-label products
Amazon's best selling wholesales have long accused the company of mining their sales data to discover which products are most profitable; then Amazon clones the product and offers it for sale at a low...
12:43 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Illumipaper: paper that can selectively illuminate to provide interactivity
Illumipaper is a well-developed prototype from Interactive Media Lab Dresden; the researchers behind it used a variety of techniques to create regular-seeming paper with all the traditional characteri...
12:39 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Watch 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' for 24 hours straight this Thanksgiving
The secret word of the day is: Marathon.As in, IFC is hosting an 24-hour marathon of Pee-wee's Playhouse on Thanksgiving. Aaaarggghhhhh! (That was me screaming real loud.)Starting at 6 AM, you'll be a...
12:32 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Taiwan's "Pokemon Grandpa" has 15 phones arrayed around his bike handlebars
70 year old Taipei fengshui master Chen San-yuan is known locally as "Pokemon Grandpa," and is a viral sensation thanks to the 15 phones he's mounted on his handlebars to help him play the 2016 augmen...
12:25 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Our homes are designed for stuff, making them unsuitable for people
Kate "McMansion Hell" Wagner continues her unbroken streak of excellent and incisive architectural criticism with a new piece that riffs on Stewart Brand's classic "How Buildings Learn" to discuss how...
12:16 pm PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Thousands of sleep apnea sufferers rely on a lone Australian CPAP hacker to stay healthy
An Australian developer named Mark Watkins painstakingly reverse-engineered the proprietary data generated by Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines and created Sleepyhead, a free/open pi...
03:23 am PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Why we never forget how to ride a bike
There's scientific truth to the saying that you never forget how to ride a bike. Even if you can't remember phone numbers, birthdays, or where the hell you parked your car, it's likely that even if yo...
03:11 am PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing The thinnest piece of paper in the world
Japanese specialist paper manufacturer Hidaka Washi Ltd makes the world's thinnest paper using 1,000-year-old methods. The paper is then sent to museums and libraries around the worldincluding the Bri...
12:54 am PST - Fri, November 16, 2018
BoingBoing Bernie Sanders introduces the Stop Walmart Act: no stock buybacks without a $15 minimum wage
Bernie Sanders's latest legislative proposal is the Stop Walmart Act; Sanders describes Walmart as the "poster child for corporate greed" and uses that as a launching point to propose a ban on stock b...
09:51 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Do you think that we're living in a simulation?
Do you believe that we're living in a simulation? Has that belief affected your life? My old pal Rodney Ascher, director of fantastically freaky documentaries like Room 237, about weird theories surro...
07:00 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Garry Shandling hosted secret pickup basketball games at his home for 25 years
Nearly every Sunday for 25 years, Garry Shandling held a secret pickup basketball game for his friends, including celebrities like Sarah Silverman, David Duchovny, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell, Kev...
06:45 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing My life on the road: watching life roll by from the corner of my eye
Two days of waiting in Casper, Wyoming, $1,200 and two new tires later, we were back on the road. Casper is a small city. It is one of Wyoming's most populated cities. It is a city flanked by mountain...
06:45 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Generative adversarial network produces a "universal fingerprint" that will unlock many smartphones
Researchers at NYU and U Michigan have published a paper explaining how they used a pair of machine-learning systems to develop a "universal fingerprint" that can fool the lowest-security fingerprint ...
06:10 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Raccoons may not be rabid, just drunk
In Milton, West Virginia, concerned citizens called police to report rabid raccoons but it turns out that the animals (the raccoons that is) were more likely just drunk. We have had calls [of] suspect...
06:00 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, 2017 documentary about 'Tales of the City' creator
In anticipation of the brand new Tales of the City series (!!), Netflix is now playing the documentary about its creator, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN exam...
05:49 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Only three hours left to win a role in "Bill and Ted Face the Music"
The strongest news we've heard that Bill and Ted Face the Music will actually be made is that they are now auctioning off a walk on role for charity.There are three hours left to bid. The proceeds go ...
05:23 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Delorean hovercraft for sale
You can own this DIY hovercraft Delorean for $45,000 "or best offer." After all, where you're going, you don't need roads. The seller is donating 10% of the sale to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for P...
03:18 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Here's the secret details of 200 cities' license-plate tracking programs
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Muckrock teamed up to use the Freedom of Information Act to extract the details of 200 US cities' Automated License Plate Recognition camera programs (ALPR), and...
03:08 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Homeless man and couple made up story, say cops, and everyone's getting charged
A homeless man, Johnny Bobbitt Jr., was famously seen to give his last $20 to a young woman, Kate McClure, who had run out of gas. Then McClure and her husband, Mark D'Amico, raised $400,000 on GoFund...
03:04 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Gilded Age watch: America's firefighting is turning into a two-tier system, with private services for the 1%
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's $50,000,000 Calabasas, California mansion was spared from last week's wildfires thanks to the actions of private firefighters working on behalf of insurers who've writt...
02:40 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing One year later: kids smart-watches are still a privacy and security dumpster fire
A year ago, the Norwegian Consumer Council commissioned a study into kids' smart watches, finding that they were incredibly negligent when it came to security and incredible greedy when it came to sur...
02:31 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Poo found in pound store
The Bolton News, covering Bolton and other communities in the hinterlands of northwest Greater Manchester, England, between Wigan and Bury, reports that a poo was "discovered in Poundland" Wednesday.N...
02:27 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Mark Zuckerberg to the governments of Canada, UK, Australia, Ireland and Argentina: "Go fuck yourselves"
Mark Zuckerberg has told the governments of the United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, Australia and Ireland that he is "not available" for a planned hearing on political disinformation and Facebook.In hi...
02:22 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Man shouts 'Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!' in Baltimore theater during 'Fiddler on the Roof'
Amid a growing number of lethal anti-Jewish hate attacks, including a gun massacre at a synagogue that left 13 dead, a man shouts Heil Trump in a crowded theater. Audience members told a reporter they...
02:11 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing New York's corporate welfare for Amazon enrages the Koch Brothers, Bernie Sanders, Tucker Carlson, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc...
Amazon's new headquarters will be split between northern Virginia and parts of Queens, New York, and will net the company billions in corporate welfare, branded as "incentives."In New York alone, the ...
02:00 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing HDR Projects 2018 enhances any image into professional grade
In photography as in film, all the real artistry is in post-production - increasingly so, with the new possibilities cropping up in digital imaging. If you're ready to get serious about your photograp...
01:45 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Japan's new cybersecurity minister admits never having used a computer
Yoshitaka Sakurada might not be Japan's best pick for the cybersecurity portfolio: confused by a USB drive, he was forced to admit he'd never even used a computer.In parliament on Wednesday however, ...
01:38 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Companies keep losing your data because it doesn't cost them anything
Data breaches keep happening, they keep getting worse, and yet companies keep collecting our data in ever-more-invasive ways, subjecting it to ever-longer retention, and systematically underinvesting ...
01:30 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing 20,000 Dear Abby letters analyzed in study of "American" anxieties
"30 Years of American Anxieties" is a report on what 20,000 letters to Dear Abby reveal about the alarming things in life and a great data presentation.Spend a few minutes reading the the questions th...
01:30 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Chef makes Sno Balls from scratch
Bon Apptit pastry chef Claire Saffitz is at it again. You probably remember that she's tried her hand at making all kinds of popular junk food from scratch -- Oreos, Lucky Charms, Skittles, Kit Kats a...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Over 690 Netflix envelopes got fashioned into a fancy gown
What would you make with over 1500 Netflix DVD envelopes? Joanna Wilson of Akron, Ohio dreamed of making a dress and, as part of their 20th anniversary, the company made that happen.Since 2005, Wilson...
12:49 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing A plant so spicy it can destroy nerves, giving pain relief
The Moroccan Euphorbia resinifera plant produces a resin so spicy that it attains a whopping 16,000,000,000 on the Scoville scale, 10,000x hotter than a Carolina reaper chili.The active ingredient in ...
12:46 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Denver and Orlando the nicest big U.S. airports, New York's the worst
The Wall Street Journal ranked America's 20 largest airports. The rankings contain few surprises.The top three airportsDenver, Orlando and Phoenixhave one major factor in common: strong competition am...
12:39 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing If you're an American of European descent, your stupid cousins have probably put you in vast commercial genomic databases
Remember when they caught the Golden State Killer by comparing DNA crime-scene evidence to big commercial genomic databases (like those maintained by Ancestry.com, 23 and Me, etc) to find his family m...
12:30 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing 600 lighted drones in murmuration over Black Rock City
This past year at Burning Man, 600 drones light up the sky -- accompanied by live piano music -- one evening in a beautiful "flying sculpture" called "Franchise Freedom." This is the recently-released...
12:20 pm PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Sense About Science awards go to research on coral bleaching and naturopathy
Sense About Science (previously) is a UK group that advocates for evidence-based policy; as part of that mission they give out the annual Maddox Prizes for people who brave political and social retali...
10:54 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Competitive book-sorting event pits New York library workers against Washington State's
Big library systems struggling with the task of sorting interbranch requests for distribution on the library's delivery vehicles can buy a $2 million Lyngsoe Systems Compact Cross Belt Sorter, whose c...
10:37 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing The EU can #fixcopyright, but they're not
The European Union's new Copyright Directive contains two hugely controversial, poorly drafted and dangerous clauses: Article 11, which limits who can link to news articles and under which circumstanc...
01:14 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Challenge yourself by building this DIY wooden combination lock
Is a wooden lock as tough as one made out of metal? Nope. Is buying a lock easier than building one? Absolutely. Is a lock you made with your own two hands significantly more badass than anything you ...
12:51 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Matt Whitaker and Daredevil's Kingpin, separated at birth?
It's been driving me crazy. I knew acting Attorney General slash Cult45 tool, Matthew Whitaker, reminded me of someone. Someone awful. My first thought was Lex Luthor. But yesterday, I figured it out....
12:38 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Comcast forced to provide refunds to 20,000 customers in Massachusetts
If you were living in Massachusetts a few years back, you might remember that Comcast was offering what seemed to be a screaming deal: a $99 lock-in rate plan. I say "seemed to be," because Comcast's ...
12:29 am PST - Thu, November 15, 2018
BoingBoing Federal judge: Lawsuit against Andrew Anglin of 'Daily Stormer' can proceed, Nazi hate speech isn't protected
In Montana today, a federal judge said the First Amendment doesn't protect a pro-Nazi internet publisher from being sued for instructing his readers to unleash a "troll storm" that materialized in a b...
11:59 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Roger Stone and Randy Credico talked about WikiLeaks plans, their leaked texts show
"Big news Wednesday... Hillary's campaign will die this week," Randy Credico texted Trump ally Roger Stone, just 6 days before the WikiLeaks email dump.These text messages obtained by NBC News show th...
11:13 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested on felony domestic violence allegations: LAPD
Michael Avenatti has been arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of domestic violence.Avenatti is best known as the spotlight-thirsty and Trump-baiting attorney for Stormy Daniels, in a matter involving...
10:57 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Bread faces
Carbo pareidolia. Artist: Sabine Timm, artist, creator, beach-trash collector, flea-market lover and photographer. She's on Instagram as @virgin_honey. View this post on Instagram topless versionA...
10:20 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's Acting Attorney General was an active participant in a scam company that marketed "masculine toilets"
Donald Trump fired Jeff Sessions and replaced him with Matthew Whitaker, a giant tool who thinks Biblical law should prevail in America's courtrooms.He's also a scammer.Back in 2014, Whitaker joined t...
09:55 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook hired GOP oppo firm to smear protesters by linking them to George Soros, an anti-Semitic trope: NYT
We are watching Facebook unravel in real time. I hope.From the New York Times, a story I can hardly believe -- had to read some grafs twice: When Facebook users learned last spring that the company ha...
09:48 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing The Florida of ballot-design mistakes is...
Florida.Andrew Appel takes us on a tour of the selectively bizarre design decisions that have plagued Florida voters since 2000, when the infamous butterfly ballots allowed GW Bush to steal the presid...
09:21 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing UFOs invade Arctic, John the Baptists sandals, and worms from hell, in this weeks dubious tabloids
Coming back from the dead is a tabloid staple just ask Elvis, Michael Jackson and Princess Diana, all still alive and well, hiding in plain sight, according to the rags. But this week sees the most e...
08:11 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing 'The Amazing Spiderman Web Shooter' was a favorite childhood toy
GenX kids had better toys.I once shot my friend's mother in the eye with a web-slung Spiderman wrist dart. It had to be an accident because you couldn't aim these wrist mounted, weakly sprung dart pus...
06:53 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine
Your supervisor would like to speak with you today at 10:53am. Good thing you have a great tasting sandwich to deal with that unreasonable feedback....
06:50 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing "Privacy Not Included": Mozilla's guide to insecure, surveillant gadgets to avoid
"Privacy Not Included" is Mozilla's Christmas shopping (anti)-guide to toys and gadgets that spy on you and/or make stupid security blunders, rated by relative "creepiness," from the Nintendo Switch (...
06:40 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Alex Jones blames "leftist stay-behind networks in US intelligence agencies" for malware on his site
Alex Jones, starved of attention since he was no-platformed by Big Tech, has launched a desperate bid for notoriety, releasing an unhinged (even by Jones's standards) statement blaming the credit-card...
06:25 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Coalition of small cable operators calls for antitrust investigation into Comcast (Trump agrees)
The American Cable Association (ACA) represents 700+ small/medium US cable operators; they've written to the Assistant Attorney General calling for an "immediate" antitrust investigation into Comcast'...
02:38 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Melania Trump publicly orders husband to fire administration official
Melania Trump publicly called for the firing of an official in her husband's administration late Tuesday, flexing her political muscle and giving the distinct impression that no-one is really in charg...
02:30 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing HTTPSTER tee
One of my all-time favorite tee-shirts is available again: the HTTPSTER by Christopher DeCaro ($25). The hypertext-transfer-protocol antithetic hipster shirt for nerds, geeks and unicorns. Read the r...
02:00 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Turn your photography and videography hobby into a career
A picture can be worth a heck of a lot more than just a thousand words. If you've squinted for ages trying to get just the right photo, you might have the right passion for a career behind the camera....
01:52 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Serial swatter off to jail for "at least 20 years"
Tyler Barriss, a serial hoaxer whose SWATting calls to 911 we've covered before, is off to jail. He'll serve at least 20 years, according to his plea deal, but won't be sentenced until January.A Calif...
01:30 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing For Sale: Fan-made Pizza Planet pickup, like the one in 'Toy Story' and other films
If you're a Disney-Pixar superfan, this $2500 is a solid investment. A fan from Colorado recreated the Pizza Planet pickup from Toy Story (which has also made several cameos in other Disney-Pixar film...
01:14 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Nigerian telco says it accidentally routed Google traffic through China
BGP is a notoriously insecure process by which routes for internet data are advertised and discovered by routers; its ubiquity and insecurity make it a prime suspect whenever it seems that national sp...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look at the Midterms
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH little Donald uses his spunky imagination to come up with a nifty way to handle some tough midterms!...
12:57 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Elephant vs. Goose
A suprisingly evenly-matched battle at the Hogle Zoo in Utah. At least one more confrontation is posted to YouTube featuring a young elephant there, named Zuri, who evidently has a geese problem. Read...
12:33 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Lyudmila Pavlichenko was the deadliest female sniper in history
Lyudmila Pavlichenko was training for a career as a history teacher when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. She suspended her studies to enlist as a sniper in the Red Army, where she discovered...
12:31 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Rainbow Jell-O being smashed through a tennis racket, captured in slo-mo
The Slow Mo Guys whacked some rainbow Jell-O (aka "jelly") through a tennis racket for their latest video. As they're known to do, they captured it all in its slo-mo glory using a Phantom v2640 high-s...
12:26 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing 70 of the world's leading human rights ask Mark Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content
Pam Cowburn from Article 19 sez, "Over 70 civil society groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg asking for Facebook to review its content removal processes and give all users the opportunity to appeal ...
12:26 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing 70 of the world's leading human rights groups ask Mark Zuckerberg to create due process for censored content
Pam Cowburn from Article 19 sez, "Over 70 civil society groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg asking for Facebook to review its content removal processes and give all users the opportunity to appeal ...
12:21 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Apple's world-beating financial engineering is teaching the corporate world how to exploit Trump's tax cuts
After Trump's tax-cuts and forgiveness program, Apple repatriated $260 billion it had stashed in offshore tax havens (or, more truthfully, had funneled through offshore tax-havens to buy onshore finan...
12:00 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Jay Rosen's "Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent"
This is for everyone who follows me on social media, or who has read my press criticism. All my former students. Fans of my blog, PressThink. Anyone who owns my book. Anyone who's heard me speak. It i...
12:00 pm PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Researchers keep finding Spectre-style bugs in processors
In January 2018, researchers made a blockbuster announcement of seemingly unpatchable security bugs lurking in Intel processors; after a round of initial reassurances about the mitigations for these b...
11:37 am PST - Wed, November 14, 2018
BoingBoing Toy construction set made from real bricks, wood, and concrete
Mini Materials are 1:6 scale construction toys made from brick, wood, concrete and other real construction materials: everything from breeze blocks to Jersey barriers to pine pallets (marketed as drin...
10:47 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing California Fires: 83% of Santa Monica Mountains federal parkland burned by Woolsey Fire
In addition to destroying hundreds of homes and claiming human lives, the Woolsey Fire that began last Thursday burned 83% of federal park land in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, ...
10:12 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Newly divorced woman blows up her wedding dress
Simply setting fire to her wedding dress wouldn't do for Kimberly Santleben-Stiteler. The newly divorced woman from outside San Antonio, Texas (shocker!) attached 20 pounds of Tannerite to the dress a...
10:08 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Phone booths in NYC turned into co-working spaces by prankster group
The good folks at Improv Everywhere made a couple of old phone booths in New York City a "little more useful" by converting them into co-working spaces.Watch how they break some people's brains:Improv...
10:06 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing California Fires: From space, NASA JPL maps damage from Woolsey and Camp blazes
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, created these Damage Proxy Maps (DPMs) that show the areas in California that were prob...
09:47 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing China reinstates ban on using tiger and rhino parts in traditional medicine
After the whole damn planet declared its disgust with China's lifting the ban on using tiger bones and rhino horn in medicine, the Chinese government has decided to back peddle on its declaration: usi...
09:20 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing FBI report shows thousands more hate crimes in Trump's first year, a record high
In news that will not surprise anyone who is Black, Latinx, Jewish, Muslim, queer, or a member of any other group targeted by hateful idiots, hate crimes in America are way up under Trump. Says who? F...
08:55 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Black security guard shot dead by police after preventing a mass shooting
Jemel Roberson was working as an armed security guard at Manny's Blue Room Bar in the Chicago suburb of Robbins early Sunday morning when he asked a group of intoxicated men to leave the bar. The men ...
08:45 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Cop who killed black man in his own apartment could face murder charges from new District Attorney
Just shy of three months ago, Amber Guyger, then a Dallas police officer, burst into her 26-year-old neighbor's home and shot him. Botham Shem Jean was murdered in his home, unarmed--a threat to no on...
08:38 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Moment is offering a new telephoto smartphone lens and I'm so there for it
I'm a big fan of Moment's lens system for Android and iOS smartphones. The company is staffed by folks who are just as passionate about mobile photography as I am. More importantly, they seem to under...
07:35 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Watch four tires get changed in less than two seconds
"Ferrari delivered a rare sub-2 second pit stop for Sebastian Vettel during the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix." (Formula 1 via Next Draft) Read the rest...
07:28 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Watch boy accidentally save his friend who fell three floors
On Sunday in Pusad, Maharashtra, India, an 11-year-old boy climbed to the third floor of a building to retrieve a stuck kite. He tossed the kite down but then slipped. Fortunately, his buddy was in th...
07:11 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Livestream killer whale songs and other ocean sounds
Orcasound is a citizen science project (and app) enabling you to listen to livestreams of audio from underwater microphones off Washingtons San Juan Island. Mostly, you'll hear ships moving through Ha...
06:03 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Gentleman purposely crashes car into courthouse to tell police someone stole his drug paraphernalia
A 28-year-old gentleman in Gulfport, MS crashed his pickup truck into a courthouse in order to report that someone had stolen his drug paraphernalia. After his truck smashed into the courthouse's glas...
05:43 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Aviation authority investigating UFOs over Ireland
The Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) is investigating multiple reports of UFOs over the coast of Ireland on Friday. From the BBC:(A British Airways) pilot, flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to H...
05:26 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing A modern mudlarker finds treasures washed up on the River Thames banks
In the 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were people who sifted through the mud on the banks of the River Thames to find things of value. Ted Sandling keeps the dream alive. He compiled his curious co...
05:10 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Trump is bailing out a Chinese owned pork producer to compensate it for retaliatory Chinese tariffs
Smithfield is a Chinese-owned pork producer based in the USA that exports a lot of pork back to China; when Trump touched off a trade-war with China, he committed to compensating US-based companies th...
04:11 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Yanis Varoufakis on capitalism's incompatibility with democracy
It's a not-very-well-kept secret that elements of the libertarian right believe that democracy is incompatible with capitalism (tldr: if majorities get to vote, they'll vote to tax rich minorities and...
03:10 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing My life on the road: stranded in Wyoming
Few things can fuck an RV up worse than a frozen water system. Grey, black and potable water tanks, water pumps and the delicate tubing that run through the undercarriage and into the living area of a...
03:07 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing #AmazonHQ2: Amazon to open New York and Northern Virginia headquarters, plus new Nashville operations center
Amazon has selected New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters. They're re-branding the area of Crystal City in Arlington, VA as "National Landing." Here's the official announcement at A...
02:42 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Tips for overcoming reader's block
I have a lot of trouble reading anything longer than a tweet, these days, so I wrapped duct tape around my head and monitor to force myself to get through Emily Petsko's tips for overcoming reader's b...
02:30 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing A hardcore metal Seinfeld band called Grindfeld exists
There's a Seinfeld-themed hardcore metal band from New York City (of course) called Grindfeld.Born out of a mutual love of Death Metal, comical observations, coffee and Hardcore, Grindfeld is a projec...
02:30 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing CNN sues Trump and White House aides over Jim Acosta ban
CNN is suing President Donald Trump and various White House aides over the administration's ban on chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta.CNN's lawsuit alleges that Acosta and CNN's First and Fift...
02:04 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Baraboo High Schoolers give Nazi salute at junior prom
Baraboo High School's class of 2019 threw Nazi salutes for a staged photo at their junior prom this year. The photographer, named as Peter Gust, apparently removed it from his website and complained o...
02:00 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Got stockings to stuff? Black Friday just came early.
In case you hadn't noticed from the sleigh bell-heavy music and the hues on your Starbucks cup, the holiday season hasn't shown any more patience this year. But that doesn't need to be a bad thing, es...
01:49 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Diamond ring designed by Apple's Jony Ive and Marc Newson
Sothebys is to auction a diamond ring created by Apple design chief Jony Ive and Marc Newson. Theirs will be created by removing material rather than adding an ambition made possible by the extraordi...
01:49 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing 100% diamond ring designed by Apple's Jony Ive and Marc Newson
Sothebys is to auction a diamond ring created by Apple design chief Jony Ive and Marc Newson.Theirs will be created by removing material rather than adding an ambition made possible by the extraordin...
01:25 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing New York City man alarmed by presence of unusual cat (NSFW)
SPOILERS: Yes, it's obviously the back yard of a standard post-war British house. It's actor Michael Rapaport doing a voice-over on this video of Wilfred, a divinely-inbred Chinchilla Persian from Eng...
01:18 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Congressional Democrats' first bill aims to end gerrymandering, increase voter registration and rein in campaign finance
HR1, the first bill that the new Democratic House of Representatives will vote on, is omnibus legislation that takes on some of the most pervasive scourges of representative democracy: vote suppressio...
01:00 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Filmmaker Wes Anderson co-curated a quirky art exhibition of oddball items in Vienna
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna started a program in 2012 that opened its doors for "remarkable creative individuals" to select pieces from their massive historical collection to present in an exh...
12:58 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Common sense: the Chomsky/Piaget debates come to AI
In 1975, Noam Chomsky and Jean Paiget held a historic debate about the nature of human cognition; Chomsky held that babies are born with a bunch of in-built rules and instincts that help them build up...
12:36 pm PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Big Tech got big because we stopped enforcing antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic)
Tim Wu (previously) is a legal scholar best known for coining the term "Net Neutrality" -- his next book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (previously) challenges the accepted wis...
01:35 am PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Wife of GOP mega-donor to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Lost in the chaos of last week's news was the announcement of President Trump's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients. This is the first group of recipients from the Trump presidency and the list f...
01:21 am PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Kyrsten Sinema wins Arizona Senate. Now Dems have 47 seats to GOP's 51.
Kyrsten Sinema, the apparent winner in Arizona's Senate race, is the first Democrat to win that vote for decades. She will become the first woman to ever represent Arizona in the U.S. Senate. She is ...
01:01 am PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Police: kids are being preyed upon by sextortionists while playing Fortnight
In what feels like the one billionth installment of We Can't Have Nice Things, some pervy asshole's been creeping on Fortnight-playing minors. Over the past few weeks, according to police from the Que...
01:01 am PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing Police: kids are being preyed upon by sextortionists while playing Fortnite
In what feels like the one billionth installment of We Can't Have Nice Things, some pervy asshole's been creeping on Fortnite-playing minors. Over the past few weeks, according to police from the Queb...
12:47 am PST - Tue, November 13, 2018
BoingBoing 'Mars' Season 2 is a perfect blend of fiction and science-based documentary
Life on Mars has always been a standard science fiction topic, but Season 2 of National Geographics Mars, which premieres tonight at 9pm EST, shows how real and attainable that focus has become. The f...
11:15 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing The difference between CBD and THC in cannabis, explained
With weed becoming welcome in more locales every week, a lot of folks may be considering partaking for the first time. If you count yourself among them, chances are that you already know what cannabis...
11:10 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Allow one of the world's greatest magicians to melt your brain
Eric Chien's got some nimble fingers, a shit-ton of showmanship, and a magic trick that'll blow your mind. The trick is so frigging good that Chien won a 2018 Fism Grand Prix award with it. Read the ...
09:33 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Good deal on yogurt maker with seven glass jars
If you eat yogurt, this yogurt maker will pay for itself in short order. It makes 7 six-ounce glass jars of yogurt in one batch and can set to ferment for up to 15 hours.Lately I've been making yogurt...
08:37 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy this sick burn on Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter's job is to write unpleasant tweets for the amusement of mean people not smart enough to think of clever insults on their own. In the last few days, Coulter has kept herself busy insulting...
08:33 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Memories from Warhol's Factory
Pegged on the massive new Andy Warhol retrospective opening today at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Times asked the likes of Fran Lebowitz, Mary Woronov, Joe Dallesandro, Viva, and m...
07:52 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Douglas Rain, HAL 9000's voice in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' has died. He was 90.
Im sorry, Dave, Im afraid I cant do that.Douglas Rain, the actor who performed the voice of the computer Hal 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey,' has died. He was 90 years old."...
07:52 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing The first selfie in space was taken 52 years ago today
On this day in 1966, Buzz Aldrin took the first selfie in space while standing on his seat and hanging out of an open hatch as part of the Gemini XII mission. From NASA:This stand up EVA (the first of...
07:35 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Antique phones lovingly retrofitted with Alexa functionality
Artisan maker Dick Whitney modifies beautiful antique phones to offer Amazon Echo functionality. His goal with the "Alexaphones" and other creations is to "combine classical design and usability with ...
07:28 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Local racist angry at protestors in Orange, Texas
This gentleman objected to the presence of peaceful protestors on a street corner in Orange, Texas: "You don't deserve to be in this God-damn country. You don't like it, take your ass home."This man a...
07:27 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Puzzle - how to ensure you get the quarter, not the penny
From our friends at Futility Closet:Here are a penny and a quarter. Make a statement. If your statement is true, then Ill give you one of these coins (not saying which). But if your statement is false...
07:22 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Teenagers getting high from sanitary pads
Police in Indonesian cities report that teens have been attempting to get high by boiling sanitary pads (used or new) and drinking the water. According to Adj. Sr. Comr. Suprinarto, head of the Nation...
07:02 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Archive of old Japanese fireworks catalogs
These old Japanese fireworks catalog scans from the Yokohama City Library are a treat for design lovers.[via Present and Correct] Read the rest...
06:54 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Comics legend Stan Lee dead at 95
The legendary comic-book author, publisher, and film producer Stan Lee has died. He co-created Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black Panther, and many more characters and ima...
06:41 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing A catalog of ingenious cheats developed by machine-learning systems
When you train a machine learning system, you give it a bunch of data -- a simulation, a dataset, etc -- and it uses statistical methods to find a way to solve some task: land a virtual airplane, reco...
06:37 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing This website lets you make your own emojis.
Here's a website that lets you make your own emojis. You can also simply click "randomize" and see what you get:"crying cat face with tongue hanging out and money eyes" -- For those times your cat eat...
06:20 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing My Life on the Road: Headed to Texas - chicken and booze in Bozeman
We left Claresholm after eating a continental breakfast of terrible coffee and decent muffins. The hotels owner chatted lazily with us as we noshed. He had been a manager of Woolworth's department sto...
06:01 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the first Toy Story 4 trailer!
Meet Bonnie's new toy "Forky" and head out on the road. Directed by Josh Cooley (Rileys First Date?), Toy Story 4 comes to theaters June 21, 2019. Read the rest...
05:59 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Elephants evolving to be born without tusks thanks to ruthless poachers
About 90% of elephants living in Mozambiques Gorongosa National Park were slaughtered for their tusks by poachers during Mozambique's 15-year civil war that ended in 1992. The poachers then profited b...
05:51 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing How to make something that's darker than Vantablack
Vantablack is a pigment made from carbon that is so black that anything painted with it looks like a hole in reality. It absorbs 99.965% of visible light. The Action Lab Man made something even blacke...
05:48 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Forbidden Wine: Tide detergent now comes in a dispenser box
Tanya Chen and Katie Noutopooulos asked Tide about the "delicious laundry wine" that teens won't be drinking.When asked if P&G was aware of the dark futility of the internet, and if they had any ...
05:30 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Will the world's hottest pepper keep mice and rats away?
Shawn Woods grew some ultra-hot Carolina Reaper peppers in his backyard to find out if they can be used as a rodent repellent. He first ate a whole pepper himself and it made him cry. Then he mixed up...
05:20 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing John Oliver presents all the swamp creatures Trump has poured in the swamp
If you can make it past the clip of Trump's stomach-churning cameo appearance in a 1980s movie dud, you'll get John Oliver's useful taxonomy lesson on everything that slithers, creeps, and slimes abou...
05:13 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Escape artist rescued after losing consciousness in tank during international magic festival
Pedro Volta, an escape artist from northern Spain, was paying tribute to Houdini at an international magic festival near Madrid by trying to get out of a water tank while wearing a strait jacket. In t...
04:12 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing How medical bullshit and authority helped Larry Nassar get away with it
Larry Nassar, the USA Gymnastics doctor who sexually assaulted hundreds of young girls, will spend the rest of his life in jail. USA Gymnastics circled the wagons and shredded the files, and as a resu...
03:46 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Youtube CEO: it will be impossible to comply with the EU's new Copyright Directive (adios, Despacito!)
Under Article 13 of the new EU Copyright Directive, it will no longer be enough for online platforms to remove materials if someone claims they infringe copyright; instead, the platforms will have to ...
03:37 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Grandson of Winston Churchill declares rain-fearing Trump "pathetic" and "inadequate"
They died with their face to the foe and that pathetic inadequate @realDonaldTrump couldnt even defy the weather to pay his respects to The Fallen #hesnotfittorepresenthisgreatcountry— Nicholas ...
02:55 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Trumpy Bear: 22-inch toy with US flag stuffed inside
Trumpy Bear [Amazon] is a thing this holiday season: an incredibly expensive teddy bear with a blond wig stapled on and a flag stuffed into a "hidden zipper". Wittgenstein's advice is recommended: "Wh...
02:22 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Mississippi Senator jokes about enjoying a public hanging
"If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row," Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said of a supporter who praised her. Hyde-Smith is facing a run-off election; her opponent is a black man."If...
02:07 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Italian prosecutors have given up on catching the person who hacked and destroyed Hacking Team
Hacking Team (previously) was an Italian company that developed cyberweapons that it sold to oppressive government around the world, to be used against their own citizens to monitor and suppress polit...
02:05 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing In-flight "brawl" between American Airlines stewards leads to lawsuit
An American Airlines steward is suing the airline, claiming that a colleague assaulted her during a flight and that it refused to address her complaints. A lawyer representing the airline, as quoted b...
02:00 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Raspberry Pi's potential is wider than you think
What do you get for the techie who has everything? How about giving them a Raspberry Pi and letting them make pretty much anything. Or better yet, do it for yourself with the Ultimate Raspberry Pi eBo...
01:42 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Wells Fargo: We can't be sued for lying to shareholders because it was obvious we were lying
Wells Fargo has asked a court to block a shareholder lawsuit that seeks to punish the company for lying when it promised to promptly and completely disclose any new scandals; Wells Fargo claims that t...
01:30 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Game strategy guide publisher Prima is no more
Gamers of a certain age remember what it was like to walk into Game Stop or Electronics Boutique, pick a game, then be tempted by the siren call of a Prima guide at the front counter. Before the Inter...
01:18 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Global antiquarian bookseller strike brings Amazon to its knees
When Amazon division Abebooks -- the largest platform for antiquarian booksellers in the world -- announced it would blacklist stores in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, South Korea and Russia, ci...
12:56 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing New, "unbreakable" Denuvo DRM cracked two days before its first commercial deployment
Denuvo bills itself as the best-of-breed in games DRM, the most uncrackable, tamper-proof wrapper for games companies; but its reputation tells a different story: the company's products are infamous f...
12:56 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing The Coen Brothers' Ballad of Buster Scruggs looks like too much fun
I will watch anything that Joel and Ethan Coen had a hand in. Anything. When that anything stars Tim Blake Nelson, Tom Waits and Brendan Gleeson, three of my favorite people that I'll likely never mee...
12:52 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing "Monopoly for Millennials" recommends playing in your parents' basement
Just in time for the holidays, Hasbro has released "Monopoly for Millennials", the game where you're encouraged to take a break from the rat race because "adulting is hard." This should go over well. ...
12:47 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing An illustrated tour of Unix history
Unix pioneer Rob Pike was there from the start, physically transporting key elements of the "Toronto distribution" of Unix to Berkeley when he started grad school, and then to Bell Labs, working along...
12:37 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing How many computers are in your computer?
Gwern Branwen asks the deceptively simple question "How many computers are in your computer?"Having defined "computer" as "a Turing-complete device which can be programmed in a usefully general fashio...
12:22 pm PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing The market failed rural kids: poor rural broadband has created a "homework gap"
America's commitment to market-based broadband -- fueled by telcom millions pumped into campaigns against public broadband provision -- has left rural Americans without access to the broadband they ne...
11:50 am PST - Mon, November 12, 2018
BoingBoing Britons! Tell the UK government that the compulsory porn-viewing logs need compulsory privacy standards
The British government has decreed that adult sites must collect age-verification data on everyone who looks at material rated for 18-and-over viewing; this amounts to a database of the porn-viewing h...
07:37 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Masks designed to filter smoke will filter smoke, beards will not
With all the smoke in California's air, ABC7 decided to answer the eternal question: will a mask designed to filter smoke and other particulates actually filter smoke and other particulates?Public hea...
06:50 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Bulldog playing with balloon is adorable
this french bulldog playing with a balloon is the most wholesome thing on the internet today pic.twitter.com/9wvypOZafS— Ian Laking (@IHLaking) November 8, 2018 Love the playful puppy. Read the...
06:05 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing 'Alternative Facts' Conway vouches for alternative video
Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered the world an internet sourced doctored video demonstrating CNN's Jim Acosta physically chopping at the arm of a White House intern*. The White House then used that video...
03:38 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing This artist uses jigsaw puzzles, with the same die cut pattern, to make these terrific mashups
Oh boy, I think I have a new hobby. I've just learned that you can combine puzzles, that have the same die cut, to make really awesome pieces of art. It had never occurred to me that manufacturers of ...
02:00 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Write with a pen, save your notes online with this futuristic notebook
Note-taking just caught up to the digital age. For most of us, writing freehand is quicker and more convenient than pecking away on a tablet, but what to do when you need those scribbles on file? Grab...
01:39 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Yves St Laurent sells a $800 "golden brass" penis pendant
This takes some golden brass balls. (via Crazy Abalone) Read the rest...
01:32 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Security chips have not reduced US credit-card fraud
The US credit card industry was a very late adopter of security chips, lagging the EU by a decade or so; when they did roll out chips, it was a shambolic affair, with many payment terminals still not ...
01:23 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Apple's new bootloader won't let you install GNU/Linux
Locking bootloaders with trusted computing is an important step towards protecting users from some of the most devastating malware attacks: by allowing the user to verify their computing environment, ...
01:23 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Apple's new bootloader won't let you install GNU/Linux -- Updated
Locking bootloaders with trusted computing is an important step towards protecting users from some of the most devastating malware attacks: by allowing the user to verify their computing environment, ...
01:08 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Oracle's bad faith with security researchers led to publication of a Virtualbox 0-day
In the debate over "responsible disclosure," advocates for corporate power say that companies have to be able to decide who can reveal defects in their products and under which circumstances, lest bad...
12:42 pm PST - Sun, November 11, 2018
BoingBoing Reminder: ousted California Republican Dana Rohrabacher is a filthy tenant from hell
Dana Rohrabacher was an oddity: a Republican lawmaker sent from Democratic stronghold to the California legislature he's now out of a job).Rohrabacher was a genuinely terrible lawmaker: in ten years, ...
07:02 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing The walls have crumbled for Trump
Political scientist and journalist David Rothkopf says Trump's days in the White House are numbered. In a blistering Twitter thread, Rothkopf makes the case that any high-quality people Trump had supp...
03:36 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Booting Megyn Kelly immediately improved NBC's ratings
Seeing as ratings are the most important metric tracked by the executive branch of the US government, NBC's jump after booting Megyn "Black Face is Cool" Kelly should mean a lot.From the Daily Beast:A...
02:46 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing I had a close encounter with a grizzly bear
I've always felt a spiritual connection with grizzly bears. They're slow, chunky and have an overwhelming affection for peanut butter--just like I do. From time to time, I'm fortunate enough to spot o...
02:00 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Easily create professional-grade 2D animation from any image
Remember the cartoons of your youth? There's a good reason. Nothing sparks the imagination like well-done animation. And whether you need a logo in motion or just want to bring your own imagination to...
01:00 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing A cool retro map of USA song titles
This vintage-style map of the USA puts the titles of songs that mention place names onto their corresponding geographical spot. So, for example, the Beasties Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" is placed r...
12:05 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Master forger Denis Vrain-Lucas sold 27,000 fake letters by everyone from Plato to Louis XIV
Denis Vrain-Lucas was an undistinguished forger until he met gullible collector Michel Chasles. Through the 1860s Lucas sold Chasles thousands of phony letters by everyone from Plato to Louis the 14th...
12:00 pm PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Bay Area organization offers free birthday parties to homeless kids, cake and all
Habitot Children's Museum in Berkeley, California is making an unusually generous offer to the families of homeless kids. They are providing them with the opportunity to celebrate their child's birthd...
10:51 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Kickstarting a Da Vinci-inspired, programmable, mechanical drawing robot-arm
https://drawmaton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/45118351_358662618238424_3396031426926215168_n.mp4Robert Sabuda (previously) writes, "It has long been a dream of the Leonardo da Vinci Robot Society t...
10:34 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Winners Take All: Modern philanthropy means that giving some away is more important than how you got it
Anand Giridharadas was a former McKinsey consultant turned "thought leader," invited to the stages of the best "ideas festivals" and to TED (twice), the author of some very good and successful books, ...
07:41 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Researchers claim to have permanently neutralized ad-blocking's most promising weapons
Last year, Princeton researchers revealed a powerful new ad-blocking technique: perceptual ad-blocking uses a machine-learning model trained on images of pages with the ads identified to make predicti...
07:23 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing ICE and the DEA have secretly hidden cameras in some streetlights
Government procurement data reveals that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Agency have each spent tens of thousands of dollars on products from Houston's Cowboy Streetlig...
07:03 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Apple's war on repair continues: Amazon now bans refurb Apple products from third parties
Apple has long understood that hardware products that last a long time result in falling unit sales, as customers opt to keep their old machines instead of buying the latest models; that's part of why...
06:54 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Gorgeous, illustrated Japanese fireworks catalogs from the early 1900s
The Yokohama Board of Education has posted scans of six fantastic catalogs from Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, dating from the early 1900s. The illustrated catalogs are superb, with minimal w...
06:40 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Canadian regulator wants your comments on ISP rules requiring simple contracts, easy switching
The CRTC has proposed a code of conduct for Canadian ISPs that would "easy to understand, and make it easier for Canadians to switch providers to take advantage of competitive offers" -- but the new p...
06:30 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing Video: Gangstagrass's first live video: authentic bluegrass/hip-hop mashup
Rench writes, "Relix magazine just premiered this live video of Gangstagrass (previoulsy), the pioneers of authentically mixed bluegrass and hip-hop. The energy crackles on this captivating stage perf...
06:19 am PST - Sat, November 10, 2018
BoingBoing 7-Eleven accused of weaponizing ICE raids to shed troublesome franchisees
Most of America's 9,000 7-Eleven stores are owned by franchisees, many of them immigrants; the owners' contracts with 7-Eleven corporate allows the company to pull their franchises if they violate US ...
11:40 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing My Life on the Road: Headed for Texas, crazy cold in Claresholm
With my wife's gig in north central Alberta spinning down for another year and the cold charging hard at us like a bull moose in rut, it's once again time for us to head south. This year, thanks to th...
08:45 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Vectorbeam Outrun
Outrun, the classic racer that blew players' minds with its huge colorful sprites, is getting an ususual port: to the monochrome vectorbeam world of the vintage Vectrex console.Creator Chris Parsons:A...
08:13 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing If you want a large, cheap display for your Raspberry Pi, here's a good one
I use an Acer 25-inch monitor with my Macbook Pro and like it a lot. This 21-inch model (920 x 1080) is a highly rated sub-100 dollar model, and is perfect for people who want a large monitor for thei...
08:05 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Man crushed by trash compactor while looking for cell phone
A Denver man is in critical condition after trying to play hero by rescuing a dropped cell phone from a trash chute.22-year old Scott Walsh was trying to rescue a female friend's phone when he fell fi...
07:54 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Wall Street Journal: Trump personally orchestrated hush payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
The Wall Street Journal [paywall] just published a major expose revealing "several previously unreported instances in which Mr. Trump intervened directly to suppress stories about his alleged sexual e...
07:48 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Happy birthday, Carl Sagan. Wish you were here.
Today would have been Carl Sagan's 84th birthday. I wish he were here. Watch the above, climb aboard your Ship of the Imagination, and make the future. View this post on Instagram My...
07:36 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Astonishing close-up image of Jupiter taken by Juno last month
NASA's Juno spacecraft took this glamour shot of Jupiter on October 29, 2018, from about 4,400 miles (7,000) kilometers above the planet's clouds. From NASA:A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds...
07:30 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing New 3D printed corneas could save millions of people's vision
Researchers have spent decades exploring methods to 3D print organs for transplant but progress is slow due to the complex structure of, say, a kidney or pancreas. Precise Bio, a startup founded by s...
07:29 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing This mobile workstation is my new favorite travel companion
One of the big problems I've had with taking long drives, anywhere, has been that I'm forced into unproductive time when I should be working. This isn't a problem when I'm going on vacation. But here'...
07:23 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Cop chases speeder so hard his car catches on fire
A speeder! A cop! A high speed chase ending in a police cruiser catching on fire!Honestly, this video has everything. Read the rest...
07:20 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Five reasons why Trump's followers love his lies
Amanda Marcotte, author of Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself, explained why Trump's followers embrace his lies even w...
07:09 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Trump is mad that Michelle Obama called him out for being a birther
In her forthcoming memoir, Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama wrote that Trump's racist birther lies about her husband put her family in danger. "What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a...
07:07 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Video shot by survivors of the Camp Fire who escape for their lives shows just how terrifying this fire is
Hearing about Northern California's Camp Fire or any fire for that matter is scary enough. But seeing what it's like to escape for your life by driving right through a massive fire so that you can't...
06:58 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Quantum computing explained in a 2-minute video
If quantum computing becomes practical, it will be able to crack encrypted data in an instant. Forbes has created a good two-minute video that gives a high level overview of quantum computation.If you...
06:49 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Trent Reznor and Shinya Tsukamoto's MTV Japan commercial from 1993
In 1993, Trent Reznor/Nine Inch Nails composed music for the first station ID for MTV Japan created by the inimitable Shinya Tsukamoto, director of cyberpunk/horror films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (19...
06:32 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Guy finds ant colony living behind his television screen. Any suggestions on how he can shoo them away?
What happens when you keep your television off for about two months? Sometimes, once you turn it back on, you'll find it has become home to an ant colony, at least for one guy who posted this video on...
06:26 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Flight attendant: "I breastfed a stranger's baby inflight"
Patrisha Organo (24) is a Philippine Airlines flight attendant. She was working on a flight on November 6 when she heard a baby crying, "a cry that will make you want to do anything to help," she wrot...
06:00 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing New anthology of Michele Mercure's 80s synth music from the cassette underground
In the 1980s, Pennsylvania-based Michele Mercure was composing music for theater, film, and TV animation. After a trip to the Netherlands, she became inspired by the German kosmiche music scene of Klu...
05:30 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Major UK supermarket launches TV ad with Greenpeace against the use of palm oil, but Clearcast bans it from airing
A popular UK grocery store Iceland became the first major supermarket to take palm oil out of all of its own products. The production of palm oil, which is used in everything from cooking oil to sna...
05:15 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing A 1990s "talking paper" technology that didn't catch on
Talking Paper was oddly similar to CueCat. A recorded message up to 50 seconds long is printed onto a photo or postcard as matrix barcode. The recipient runs a handheld reader gadget over it, which pl...
05:01 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Hulk Hogan vs Randy Savage pre-fight rant with the words removed
Edited but not doctored.Here's Alex Jones, needing a doctor:Previously: Dune without words. Read the rest...
04:54 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing People love to eat fermented mullet fish, even though the Egyptian government warns them to avoid it
If you're bored with fugu, give feseekh a try. According to Great Big Story, "Feseekh, or fermented mullet fish, can cause poisoning or even death if not prepared properly."Image: YouTube Read the res...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Subscribe to Scribd for unlimited access to books, articles and more
For readers, Scribd has long been a fountof content, and it's only growing. With 40 million titles to choose from, this service has plenty to offer to its more than 750,000 subscribers.Whether you're ...
02:00 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Texas high schoolers compete in varsity barbecue
Leave it to Texas to have high school varsity teams dedicated to barbecuing. Here's a story about how some students at a high school in northern Texas are learning to compete with meat. WFAA reports:H...
01:38 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing No digital effects were used to animate this indie band's stop-motion music video
Vancouver indie rock band Said The Whale spent over 80 hours putting together the music video for their song "UnAmerican." Impressively, zero digital effects were used to stop-motion animate the 2,250...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing 69-year-old man sues to legally change his age because he identifies as a 49-year-old
Emile Ratelband, a Netherlands media personality and motivational speaker, is 69 years old but believes he has the body of someone 20 years younger. To fix the perceived discrepancy, he has now brough...
07:19 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Europe's collision course with copyright censorship: where we stand today
I've just published a comprehensive explainer on Medium about the EU's new Copyright Directive, which was sabotaged at the last minute, when MEP Axel Voss snuck in the long-discredited ideas of automa...
07:11 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Prototyping the betentacled, inflatable soft robots of zero gee
The MIT Media Lab's Spatial Flux Project was created by Carson Smuts and Chrisoula Kapelonis to imagine and prototype soft inflatable robots that would be designed to operate in zero-gee, where there ...
07:02 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford to rent a DC apartment
Proud Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran an insurgent campaign (working nights as a bartender in NYC with her campaigning clothes stashed in a paper bag behind the bar, changing after h...
06:52 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Microsoft's best Windows 10 customers bear the brunt of the latest license glitch
If you paid extra for Windows 10 "Pro," Microsoft had an unpleasant surprise for you: a misconfiguration in the company's license server resulted in the oldest Win 10 Pro installs (that is, those owne...
06:44 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Shopify no-platforms Nazis (but not Breitbart)
Canadian turnkey e-commerce giant Shopify has kicked its farthest-right customers off the service, banning made-in-Canada racists like the Proud Boys, but not wink-nudging white supremacists like Brei...
06:35 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Choire Sicha, New York Times advice columnist
Internet funnyperson Choire "Awl" Sicha (previously) has a new gig: New York Times advice columnist; Sicha is not fucking around either: "The only circumstance in which you can ask this woman out is i...
06:23 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Bruce Sterling on architecture, design, science fiction, futurism and involuntary parks
In 1918, there was plenty of speculation about 2018; in 2018, no one is talking about 2118. Bruce Sterling discusses the relationship of industrial design to science fiction; the New Aesthetic and Tur...
04:00 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing Receipt checkers aren't there to catch shoplifters
You're wheeling your haul out of Costco only to be accosted by the receipt-checker at the exit. You're fine, though, because you're not shoplifting anything. That slightly annoying feeling that the st...
12:00 am PST - Fri, November 9, 2018
BoingBoing #ProtectMueller protests demand justice, Trump is not above the law. (Video, Photos)
Take it to the streets, America. The investigation into Trump's corruption and likely criminality must not be stopped. Thousands of Americans from Florida to California gathered to defend Special Coun...
09:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing 'Single-use' edges out 'VAR,' 'floss,' 'gammon,' and 'plogging' as this dictionary's word of the year
Glasgow-based Collins Dictionary has chosen their 2018 Word of the Year: single-use. The adjective meaning "made to be used once only" beat out the abbreviation VAR ("video assistant referee"), floss ...
08:53 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing 'Bill and Ted 3' may film next year
Perhaps strange things will yet again be afoot at the Circle K.From Comicbook.com:"Well, we're in pre-prep and are set to shoot in early 2019," Winter told The Hollywood Reporter. "So right now, all s...
08:43 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Collect them all: Venture capitalist trading cards
Who's the VC you most admire? Is it "super angel" investor Marc Andreessen, the 47-year-old billionaire behind over 40 successful startups? Or maybe it's Mary Meeker, the legendary VC who Forbes liste...
08:08 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Hugh Hefner's smoking jacket up for auction
Julien's Auctions is running a large auction of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's stuff, including several pairs of his pajamas, board games, a pipe, and this sharp smoking jacket. Described as "a scarlet...
07:51 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles" coming to TV
Grant Morrison's "The Invisibles," the groundbreaking magickal 1990s comic series about a secret society fighting for our freedom in a world of high weirdness, will come to the small screen as part of...
07:34 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's acting attorney general: Judges should be Christian with a "biblical view of justice"
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Trump's replacement for fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions, thinks that if you're not Christian, you shouldn't be a federal judge. Judges should be "people ...
07:11 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing iPad Pro an excellent if rather large fridge magnet
This is just a glimpse of a photo Charlie Sorrel took of a new iPad Pro affixed, by no greater power than that of magnetism, to his fridge.I wouldnt do this regularly. Its far too scary, and the conse...
07:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Possibly NSFW: A gadget that injects bananas with syrup
I might be 12, but my brain went straight to the gutter when I saw this weird banana-filling gadget. This thing is marketed to kids, even though it seems rather inappropriate!So, this is how the $27 "...
06:37 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Using a dutch oven really improved my sourdough loaves
The biggest single improvement to my sourdough baking hobby has been using a pre-heated dutch oven.Baking sourdough in a dutch oven works amazingly well. I'm seeing improved oven spring, ridiculous cr...
06:37 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Disney's Captain Marvel accidentally puts out an ad with a phone sex hotline number
When Disney's Captain Marvel put out a PSA encouraging their fans to vote, they also, unwittingly, encouraged people to call a sex hotline.In their get-out the-vote ad, Captain Marvel lead Brie Larson...
06:09 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Trump considering Chris Christie as Attorney General
Chris Christie's not my first choice to watch being dragged naked and whimpering to the White House lectern and then chained to a ring on it, but beggars can't be choosers.Former Gov. Chris Christie i...
06:04 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Breaking Bad movie on the way
A Breaking Bad movie will start production this month in Duke City, New Mexico according to the New Mexico Film Office. The film, currently identified as "Greenbrier," "tracks the escape of a kidnappe...
06:04 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Breaking Bad movie on the way but Bryan Cranston hasn't even seen the script
A Breaking Bad movie will start production this month in Duke City, New Mexico according to the New Mexico Film Office. The film, currently identified as "Greenbrier," "tracks the escape of a kidnappe...
04:51 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the UK's Brexit negotiator explain his frank realization that Britain is an island
"I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this," Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union Dominic Raab said, "but if you look at the UK and you look at how we trade in goods, we're partic...
04:20 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Amazing chain reaction marble video
Chain reaction artist Kaplamino used rubber bands to add fun surprises to his latest tilted table marble video. Read the rest...
04:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Borat talks to US voters about "Premiere Trump"
Sacha Baron Cohen became Borat for a day to ask Republican voters some questions, like "Who are the fake news people who say [Trump] is not a racist? I'm a racist and it's nice." Read the rest...
04:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Two airlines made bold choices with their in-flight safety videos: Interpretive dance and RUN-DMC
Airline in-flight safety videos are now more creative than ever.First case in point: Taiwanese airline EVA Air is using interpretive dance in their safety video, over five long minutes of it. Accordin...
03:45 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Mueller's new boss is a Trump tool
Trump fired Jeff Sessions the morning after the midterm elections and appointed lawyer Matthew Whitaker as acting United States Attorney General. Whitaker has a long history of sucking up to Trump and...
03:30 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Custom gift wrap that has your (or someone else's) face on it
Put some floating disembodied heads on your gift wrap this year with Gift Wrap My Face. They will make you wrapping paper custom made with your face on it... or someone else's. Here's what Abraham Lin...
03:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Triumph the Insult Comic Dog mocks Cruz right to his face
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog went to Texas to get close to the Democratic and Republican Senate race candidates. He first visited Beto O'Rourke's rally where he landed a short interview. Then he went ...
02:44 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Talking about the DMCA and 20 years of tech law malpractice on PRI's Marketplace
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act -- tech's stupidest law -- turns 20 this year; I chatted with Molly Wood on Marketplace Tech about the law's history and how dismally little we've learned from it,...
02:15 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Triptastic animations of mid-century op-art paperback covers
This video is really gorgeous and trippy. Animator Henning M. Lederer (previously) has once again taken vintage paperbacks and put their op-art covers in motion. There are 66 animated covers in total ...
02:00 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Make the most of Microsoft Office with this comprehensive course
Microsoft Office tools were created to save you time. We take that for granted in the modern office, but if you truly want to learn how to spur those old Office warhorses like Excel and PowerPoint, th...
01:59 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing This is one lucky, lucky strike
You've probably never seen a bowler knock down a strike quite like this. I mean, what are the chances?Wasn't planned or done over and over, it just happened. Triggers asthma at the end.(digg) Read the...
12:27 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Wells Fargo cuts 26,500 jobs, shutters branches, declares "excess capital" and drops $40.6 billion on stock buybacks
Wells Fargo is America's most scandal-haunted bank, which is quite an accomplishment in a heavily competitive field; now the bank has started closing its branches and cutting jobs (after pressuring em...
12:19 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing 13 dead in California bar after gunman opens fire
At least 13 are dead after a gunman opened fire at a crowded bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The dead include the shooter and a Sheriff's sergeant who tried to stop him.A man dressed in black and we...
12:19 pm PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing 13 dead in California bar after gunman opens fire (Update: shooter identified)
At least 13 are dead after a gunman opened fire at a crowded bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The dead include the shooter and a Sheriff's sergeant who tried to stop him.A man, identified by authorit...
11:29 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Scenes from the Bangalore Literature Festival
I still have Indian dust on my shoes from the city of Bangalore, where I spent almost a week at the international literary festival.I was mind-boggled at the scale of this national Indian event: liter...
06:33 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Gorgeous, stylized portraits of vintage computing hardware
Docubyte's Visual History of Computing 1945-1979 is a mix of superb staging, outstanding photography, and intense nostalgia, and it just made my day.(Thanks, /nev/dull!) Read the rest...
05:57 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing 90% of Canadians want to kill future Saudi arms deals
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- a man who is willing to say the most progressive, laudable things imaginable, provided he doesn't have to do anything -- has steadfastly refused to ca...
04:11 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Trump White House suspends credentials for CNN's Jim Acosta UPDATE: Sanders uses Prison Planet video as "proof"
The White House has suspended the press credentials of CNN's Jim Acosta after President Trump clashed with the reporter during today's batshit crazy press conference.In a statement from Sarah Huckabee...
03:03 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing The hoodie is 3,000 years old
In the video above, the always-fascinating Paola Antonelli, architecture and design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, takes us through the history of the hoodie, "a humble masterpiece," begi...
02:52 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Hundreds of '#ProtectMueller' Trump protests planned for Thursday November 8
Hundreds of #ProtectMueller protests and other events are planned for Thursday, November, 8, at 5pm local time. Here is a list by state and town.From the organizers, civic.moveon.org:NOBODY IS ABOVE T...
02:42 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Tanzania detains reporters Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo
The Committee to Protect Journalists says authorities in Tanzania have forcibly detained Angela Quintal, Africa program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Muthoki Mumo, CPJ's sub...
01:31 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Video shows 1,000 octopuses in Monterey Bay
Each of those white dots is an octopus. Heres a closer view of one of them.And here's the video and story behind it from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.Excerpt:Whats better than one octo...
01:17 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: 'LIMBO,' ambient video loop by Bill Domonkos of 20 (real) death masks
GIF: John Keats, 1785-1921. Enjoy this beautiful, creepy, ethereal short ambient ambient video loop by Bill Domonkos, a filmmaker, GIF maker and stereoscopist. 'Limbo' brings to life 20 animated masks...
01:01 am PST - Thu, November 8, 2018
BoingBoing Enjoy the animated art of Chacalall Orozco
Chacalall Orozco is a graphic designer from Mexico. All of my work comes from self-exploration, pure expression, and intuition.Here's his Tumblr, and his Behance. [via crossconnectmag.com] Read the re...
08:52 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Red Dead Redemption 2 is depressing as all get out
I've played enough of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2.I didn't remember much of the first Red Dead Redemption. RDR was a massive "open world" western game. You could wander all over the map and ...
08:51 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Good grid paper notebooks
I'm writing a book (a how-to book) and I'm making a lot of measurements, taking notes, and making sketches. These Miliko 8.27" x 5.67" spiral notebooks of grid paper are perfect for the task, and inex...
08:12 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Hiding secret messages in whale song
Most military underwater surveillance systems filter out whale calls along with other ambient ocean noise. This inspired researchers from China's Tianjin University to create a form of "bio-inspired s...
07:50 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns at request of Donald Trump, forced out less than 24 hours after midterm elections
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has submitted his letter of resignation to the White House. "Thank you for the opportunity, Mr. President," he closes.Here is the letter."At your request, I am submittin...
07:29 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Photographer turns nature photos into immersive rooms to explore
To exhibit his photography at large scale, Chris Engman builds rooms with interiors wrapped with his stunning photos of forests, deserts, and other landscapes. They beckon the viewer inside where, of ...
07:19 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Infographic shows the Blue Wave in action
I watched the election results on TV last night with my family. As it became clear that the Democrats were going to win the House, some of the talking heads said the results of the evening overall did...
06:29 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this woman make a bamboo furniture set from scratch
Equipped only with handtools, this woman harvests bamboo from a grove and makes a beautiful furniture set. It is interesting to see how she heats the bamboo over a fire to make it bendable.[via Core77...
06:20 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Driver turns back on train, loses it
An Australian locomotive engineer is very embarrassed.Via Newsweek:For around 50 minutes, the 1.2-mile locomotive sped along with 268 wagons in tow until authorities decided to remotely derail it from...
06:11 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Chicago Pizza, Avatar, How to Draw Doug, and MUCH MORE!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix does feature The Year Christmas Was Canceled, Science Facts for the Misophonic, Ah Life, and quite a bit more!...
06:07 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing JN Chaney's 'Variant Saga' is a wild ride across multiple universes
I recently tore through JN Chaney's Variant Saga, a four novel series that starts as dystopian sci-fi and turns into a fantastic first contact adventure.Once I started reading JN Chaney's The Amber Pr...
06:05 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Soothing photos of donkeys who haul lambs in pouches
Many thanks to New James+, who shared his recent joyful discovery on twitter: "Today I learnt about donkey nannies, which are donkeys that are used to transport newborn lambs from high pastures to the...
06:03 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing THE BUREAU: Part Two, "The President Is Visiting at Noon!" with Soma's Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer
Welcome back. This second installment of The Bureau has you out of your Morning Meeting. It is now 10:03am.Listen carefully to the AB6700 Broadcast System for an important announcement, followed by in...
05:49 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Putin fanboy Dana Rohrabacher has almost certainly lost to a Democrat
Conservative congressman Dana Rohrabacher (left) will likely lose his job serving the interests of the Kremlin in Congress. In office since 1989, he's known for his strong social conservatism, and for...
05:13 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Beto O'Rourke lets loose and uses the F-word on TV in his concession speech
Beto O'Rourke was always a long shot running against incumbent Ted Cruz for Senate in the blood red state of Texas. But with a narrow loss of 51-48, O'Rourke kept it real and went out with a bang duri...
05:00 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing To Protect and Server: The tale of the tape on two top VPNs
Thanks to savvy hackers, desperate ad companies, and increasingly lax government oversight of the internet it's a good bet that even your nana knows what a VPN is by now. In the best case, Virtual Pri...
04:49 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Reflecting on 48 years of congoing, and what the years to come should be
Scott Edelman writes, "I devoted my World Fantasy Convention Guest of Honor speech to talk about my 48 years of attending convention, and about what theyve been, what they are, what they could be, and...
04:26 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Watch: Kitty thinks it can scare a rat, but the rat turns out to be the bully who goes after the cat
Size doesn't really matter, at least not for this feisty rat. Watch how it doesn't take any guff from the cat who thought it could bully a much tinier creature. Turns out the rat is the bully, and doe...
04:02 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the first 8k video from the International Space Station
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) released the first 8k ultra high definition (UHD) video of life and science inside the International Space Station. From NASA:The Helium 8K camera by RED, a digita...
03:38 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Wonderful video of teen with Tourette's cooking an omelette
Ryleigh is a teenager with Tourette Syndrome who makes absolutely wonderful videos like the one below that she hopes will "spread awareness about Tourettes as well as joy and laughter." See more of he...
03:24 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Kim Davis, bigoted county clerk, is replaced
Made famous by her refusal to issue marriage licenses to Kentuckians she disapproved of, evangelical darling Kim Davis has lost her bid for re-election.Via Kentucky.com:Kim Davis, the Kentucky county ...
01:30 pm PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Park ruined by giant always-on TV screen
The problem with "privately-owned public spaces" is that the right of access and enjoyment is easy to subvert or poison by the owner, making clear that they're really just publicly-zoned private space...
09:58 am PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Democrats take House, GOP tightens grip on Senate
For the Dems, what's a 9% lead in the vote good for? Seven governorships, a 20-seat House majority and losing 3 Senate seats. Despite voter suppression efforts, there's much to love in the details, e...
08:53 am PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Evolutionary Space Invaders: shoot the aliens as a genetic algorithm modifies them
InvaderZ is a Space Invaders variant that incorporates a genetic algorithm that mutates the invaders as you shoot at them, with survival for a fitness function: the longer an invader lasts before bein...
06:20 am PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement
It's been five years since America's super-concentrated telcoms sector announced their "voluntary Copyright Alert system" (AKA Six Strikes), a system that said that if your someone in your household w...
05:54 am PST - Wed, November 7, 2018
BoingBoing Evidence for a lapsarian decline: Master of the Universe Christmas wrapping paper
Once we were great, then we committed some unnameable sin and now we endure eternal punishment, fallen from grace. Proof: this long-departed Master of the Universe wrapping paper, the pinnacle of the ...
11:02 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing The All in the Family cast's 1975 protest of 'The Family Viewing Hour'
Once, the 8-9pm time slot was plagued with violent TV shows like All in the Family. This was before the onset of 24 hour news channels offering a live feed of missile strikes or freeway chases with th...
10:54 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Poll worker charged with assaulting black voter, shouting racist remarks
A Texas poll worker was charged with assault today after yelling racist remarks at a black voter who she didn't think should be voting, then shoulder-checking her."The lady questioned my residency," R...
10:00 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing This gimbal brings 'cinema quality' to your smartphone pics
Even on outdated models, smartphones have imaging technology that puts the compact cameras of just a decade ago to shame. If you really care about the pictures you take, stop treating your smartphone ...
09:24 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Delta forced passenger to sit in feces: "sit in your seat or you can be left behind."
During boarding, a Delta passenger noticed that he'd just sat in a seat covered in shit. The shit was all over his leg. Delta's stewards gave him a paper towel and a mini bottle of gin to clean himsel...
09:13 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing The College of Extraordinary Experiences transforms you in the most mind-blowing way
The world is full of places of wonder. Some of them are physical places; others are places of the imagination. The College Of Extraordinary Experiences is both. Once a year, the Czocha Castle in Polan...
08:08 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Germany tries 94 year old SS camp guard as a juvenile
The face of Johann Rehbogen, 94, is blurred by court order because he was a juvenile at the time of his alleged participation in mass murders at Stutthof.The former guard, who uses a wheelchair, faces...
08:00 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing The inflatable air dancer desk toy you didn't know you needed
This "Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Guy" makes me so happy! For $13 (plus an annoyingly steep $9 to ship to the states), you get this inspired desk toy along with a little zine that tells the origin st...
07:58 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Potato chips as architecture - Sou Fujimoto's exhibit at Japan House in Los Angeles
Last week, Carla and I attended Sou Fujimoto: Futures of the Future, a new exhibit of 100 architectural models at Japan House LA in Hollywood. Fujimoto is well-known in Japan and Europe for his striki...
07:38 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing New study discovers why coffee can protect the brain, and it has to do with the kind of roast you drink
Although scientists already believed that drinking coffee could possibly reduce the risk of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, a new study by Krembil Brain Institute in Toronto,...
07:11 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Why you should store your plastic wrap in the freezer
When I was young, my mom banned plastic wrap from our kitchen because it frustrated her so much when it would invariably cling to itself. Apparently you can avoid this problem though just by storing t...
07:07 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Alaska wins election stickers race
For all of you in the U.S., no doubt your feeds are filling up with your friends showing off their "I Voted" stickers (and if they're not, uh, better get some new friends). But are their stickers as c...
06:39 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace" concert film will finally be released
In January 1972, Aretha Franklin performed at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood. The LP of those performances is an absolutely breathtaking celebration of sou...
06:19 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this very funny glass door prank
Well played and certainly worth the effort:I like pranks which do not abuse or insult anyone pic.twitter.com/aiUSUDcC2H— Tyrantasorus (@tyrantasorus) November 2, 2018 Read the rest...
06:17 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Gentleman drives 174 mph on public road, brags about it online, then gets arrested
Earlier this year, a 35-year-old gentleman speed-drove his car a Nissan GT-R down a public street in Osaka, Japan at 174 mph (280 kph) while filming himself. It's considered one of the worst speedin...
06:02 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Can candle wax loosen rusty nuts?
Project Farm wanted to see if candle wax could be used as a penetrating lubricant to loosen rusty nuts, so he set up a rigorous test to find out. His conclusion - candle wax applied to a hot nut doesn...
05:50 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Does fox and wolf urine keep rats and mice away? A test
Did you know you can buy many different kinds of animal urine on Amazon? Fox urine, bobcat urine, coyote urine, wolf urine, cat urine, peak estrus whitetail deer urine, and more. How is the urine harv...
05:37 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Watch this student's perfect eye-roll behind right-wing speaker during Brexit debate
Nothing says "What bullshit!" better than a perfect eye-roll. And 21-year-old student Harriet Ellis said just that to right-wing Nigel Farage, with a perfect roll of her eyes during a Brexit debate ye...
05:15 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Vote by mail in California? Check your ballot status online!
Californian vote-by-mail voters can check with their county to ensure their vote was received and counted. Read the rest...
04:28 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's weirdest lie yet: "The Democrat plan would obliterate Obamacare"
"Which is good," he added. "But it'll leave the bad parts behind."After the Republicans voted more than 60 times to repeal Obamacare, their president has a new lie to peddle: that they're its great de...
03:51 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Haruki Murakami donating his huge record collection to university
Author Haruki Murakami is donating a large collection of his personal materials -- original manuscripts, letters, foreign language editions of his books, and 10,000 vinyl records -- to his alma mater ...
03:29 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers: could the mysterious interstellar object be part of an ET probe?
First discovered a year ago, Oumuamua is the strange cigar-shaped object of interstellar origin that flew through our solar system at 196,000 mph. Since it was first spotted, scientists haven't decisi...
01:44 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Five arrested in UK after burning Grenfell Tower model on bonfire
Seventy-two people, many of them poor people of color, died in Grenfell Tower when the shoddily-maintained tower went up in flames last year. Five men were arrested today in Britain after putting a mo...
01:19 pm PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing New iPad Pro amazing for work, but iOS not up to the job
I want the new iPad Pro, which is in a league of its own but for one thing: iOS still can't be used for work unless your job has no workflow. Nilay Patel's review sums up why it remains a poor tool fo...
11:31 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Vote for Net Neutrality and share your selfie!
Evan Greer writes, "Hey Internet -- it's election time, and shills for Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T are going around telling our elected officials in Congress that no one cares about net neutrality...
08:12 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Find your polling place! Then vote!
It's election day. Your vote fucking counts. In. Every. Single. Race. Here's how to find your polling place. Remember this important phrase: "Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by...
07:52 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing The internet is made up revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary
My latest Locus Magazine column is What the Internet Is For: it describes the revolutionary principle (end-to-end communications) and technologies (general purpose computers, strong cryptography) that...
07:52 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing The internet is made up of revolutionary technologies, but isn't revolutionary
My latest Locus Magazine column is What the Internet Is For: it describes the revolutionary principle (end-to-end communications) and technologies (general purpose computers, strong cryptography) that...
07:39 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing America for sale: 38% of all election funding comes from 0.0001% of Americans (2,210 people account for 25% of the total)
0.5% of Americans given $200 or more in campaign contributions, accounting for 66% of all campaign funding, but that's nothing: only 0.0001% give $10,000 or more, and their donations are 38% of all th...
07:19 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing EFF's first VR app trains you to spot surveillance devices in your community
Spot the Surveillance is the Electronic Frontier Foundation's first VR app: it's part of the organization's Street-Level Surveillance, which has tracked and resisted the spread of ubiquitous surveilla...
07:12 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing My keynote for Ethereum Devcon: without the rule of law, crypto fails
I was one of the keynote speakers at last week's Ethereum Devcon in Prague, where I gave a talk called "Decentralize, Democratize, or Die," about the way that bad tech policy (crypto backdoors, the DM...
07:04 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Steganographically hiding secret messages in fake fingerprints
In Towards Construction Based Data Hiding: From Secrets to Fingerprint Images, published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (Sci-Hub Mirror), two Fudan University computer scientists propose a f...
06:39 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Europe's massive plan to require open access for all science gets two new backers: Wellcome Trust and the Gates Foundation
In September, a consortium of 11 of Europe's largest science funders announced, "Plan S," whereby they would no longer fund research unless the grantees promised that the results would be published in...
06:15 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Unisyn voting machine manual instructs election officials to use and recycle weak passwords
No one knows who wrote this Unisyn optical vote-counting machine manual that has appeared in multiple sites served by the California-based vendor, but only because Unisyn won't comment on whether they...
04:28 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Lyndon Johnson's dire warning is more important than ever
Two days before the 1966 midterms, President Lyndon B. Johnson warned Americans about the danger of catering to "white backlash." His comments at a news conference are as important today as they were ...
02:03 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Ivanka Trump to get 16 new China trademarks, including one for 'voting machines'
Why does Ivanka Trump need trademarks for nursing homes, sausage casing, and *voting machines* in China? Or do we not want to know.The fashion brand of Donald Trump's daughter and presidential adviser...
01:32 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing Listen to Dischord Records' entire catalog for free
Dischord Records was formed in 1980 by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson of Minor Threat fame. Dischord is to punk and indie rock what Def Jam and Death Row Records are to rap. Nothing is more punk than fig...
01:17 am PST - Tue, November 6, 2018
BoingBoing John Oliver nails it with his passionate feature on America's family separation policy
A ton of criticism, anger and pain has come from the family separation policy being enforced on the southern border of the United States. Few pieces of commentary on the subject nail the fine points o...
10:02 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Listen to this stunning cover of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by the man who travels the world singing as Freddie Mercury
My daughter and I saw Bohemian Rhapsody this weekend and came straight home to listen to Queen real loud. As we were digging around YouTube, we came across this incredible "Bohemian Rhapsody" cover by...
08:24 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Unmanned roadside stores in Japan
One of the things I've always really liked about Japan is that once you get out of the big cities, you start coming across these things called mujin hanbai, literally "unmanned selling." Mujin hanbais...
08:20 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Clever 'Yes on Question 3' ad in Massachusetts
Massachusetts voter Question 3 is whether or not to maintain an existing anti-discrimination law. This ad explains why the freedom to just be whomever the heck you are is so important in Massachusetts...
08:05 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Video explainer on how the conservative minority punks Democrats and Republican moderates
"They go low, we go high" has not been a good strategy for the United States. It's led to minority rule. This video by Innuendo Studios argues that "When one party can be counted on to do the exact op...
07:50 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Fantastic time-lapse of house plants "falling asleep"
Darryl Cheng posted this fantastic video below on his Instagram account @houseplantjournal. The entrancing time-lapse video shows the light- and temperature-induced Nyctinastic movement ("sleep" movem...
07:49 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Is Sucking the Opposite of Blowing? The Reverse Sprinkler Problem
The Action Lab Man demonstrates the physics of flowing air in several fun ways to explore Richard Feynman's "reverse sprinkler problem." A hypothetical reverse sprinkler (the sort that spins) is one t...
07:34 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Laser "porch light" could be a beacon for ETs
A feasibility study in the Astrophysical Journal explains how a powerful laser on an Earth mountaintop, focused through a huge telescope, could shine a light of infrared radiation that would be detect...
06:50 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing The Trump Boat is a great parody of The Love Boat opener
The schmaltzy opening for one of the worst TV shows ever is perfect for the worst administration ever. And you thought the TITANIC was a disaster...TURN SOUND ON! (this is great) pic.twitter.com/D8u...
06:47 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Obama gets rock star reactions when he stops to get some tacos
When Barack Obama made a pit stop in Miami to grab some tacos, the reaction from the customers is priceless. They sound like teenagers at a rock concert, with people covering their mouths with their h...
06:39 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Why some people hate Jews and Asian-Americans
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy and her colleagues have developed a "theory of prejudice" that goes deeper than a simplistic us-versus-them mindset. According to her research, when the world feels volat...
06:00 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Barbra Streisand shares Siri anecdote on 'Carpool Karaoke'
James Corden is back with a new episode of Carpool Karaoke. On this drive, he rides, sings, and chats with living legend Barbra Streisand. The 76-year-old singer sat in the driver's seat and shared th...
05:52 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Fortnite solo player achieves new record, 35 eliminations in one game
Player 'Rizart' eliminated 35% of a solos lobby! Blasting through the previous record of 32 players eliminated, this video shows amazing skill!The Dark Bomber skin with the creepy jack-o-lantern rocke...
05:52 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing One day, a computer will fit on a desk
Arthur C. Clarke forecasts the future in 1974. We've come a long way. Kinda.(via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest...
05:49 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Russian fighter jet intercepts US Navy plane, putting US crew "at risk"
A Russian fighter jet intercepted a US Navy plane this morning over the Black Sea, an encounter that lasted for 25 minutes and put put the US crew in danger. Via CNN:...The Russian SU-27 jet passed di...
05:33 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Scientists study the psychology of death metal
Psychology professor William Forde Thompson of Australia's Macquarie University and his colleagues have published a series of scientific papers about the appeal of death metal. The scientists were sur...
05:25 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing White supremacist hate groups find approval in Trump's words
President Trump continues to scream his racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic slogans; Sarah Sanders says he didn't say that.From the NYT:Right-wing extremists a catchall category for a messy constell...
04:35 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Watch a unicorn complete a gymnastics bars routine
WTF? pic.twitter.com/9Ax3NAlZEi— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) November 4, 2018 My daughter competes in the Jr Olympics gymnastics program and loves every minute of it. This video is the k...
01:56 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing "If we love, we grieve," Nick Cave gives fan heartfelt advice
Since September, Nick Cave has been thoughtfully answering fan's questions through his site The Red Hand Files. To answer the latest query, Cave shared his thoughts on death and how he and his wife Su...
01:55 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Pizza delivery man instructed to "scream for Sharon" rather than ring doorbell
I hope he got a good tip. Important reference material: Read the rest...
01:55 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Pizza delivery man instructed to scream rather than ring doorbell
I hope he got a good tip. Important reference material: Read the rest...
01:27 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Goldfish secrets
The BBC reports on "Four secrets your Goldfish is hiding from you."4. Goldfish were originally kept for meat3. The goldfish bowl was a disruptive technology2. Goldfish are an invasive speciesNumber 1 ...
01:20 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing The media "blowing it again" in last days of election, but "not as badly" as last time
Former New York Times ombudsman Margaret Sullivan can't believe the media is making the same mistakes it made in the run up to the 2016 election: "Too many journalists allow Trump to lead them around ...
12:56 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Meow Wolf documentary headed to theaters Nov. 29
The story of Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf is being told in a new documentary. It's called Meow Wolf: Origin Story and it opens nationwide in theaters November 29th. Can't wait!When a group of you...
12:39 pm PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Washington Examiner's twitter account: Trump going to hell
They surely got hacked, but some of those guys are on the strong stuff and you just never know what happens when you mix high-proof conservatism with Jesus and give everyone unlimited access to the Tw...
08:39 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Reminder: I'm speaking in Berlin tonight at the DTK-Wasserturm
I'm in Berlin today, promoting the German edition of my novel Walkaway: the kindly folks at Otherland Books are hosting me tonight at a free event at DTK Wasserturm, where I'll be presenting with Marc...
08:22 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Kenyans from "the toughest neighborhood on earth" trace pixels all day to train autonomous vehicles
The Nairobi neighborhood of Kibera is Africa's largest slum, and it's home to an unlikely, Silicon-Valley-style tech park operated by Samasource (motto: "Artificial intelligence meets human dignity"),...
07:52 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Voting machines in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.
FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's r...
07:52 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Voting systems in Wisconsin and Kentucky are running FTP. Seriously.
FTP -- the "file transfer protocol" -- is a long-supplanted Unix tool for transferring files between computers, once standard but now considered to be too insecure to use; so it's alarming that it's r...
07:27 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Candidate/election-runner Brian Kemp's hacking accusation is a new, absurd low
Brian Kemp is the Secretary of State for Georgia, where is he also running for governor, meaning that he is overseeing his own election -- and in that capacity, he has purged thousands of Black voters...
06:53 am PST - Mon, November 5, 2018
BoingBoing Two Goldman Sachs bankers charged in multibillion-dollar Malaysian money-laundering scam
In 2015, the Malaysian government collapsed after a scandal involving embezzlement from the state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad fund; the scandal shows no sign of slowing down, with fresh accusat...
04:30 pm PST - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing An overworked US postal worker shares what life is like delivering Amazon packages
In late 2013, the United States Postal Service entered into an agreement with Amazon to deliver its packages alongside the regular mail and, on Sundays, to deliver their packages exclusively. Because ...
04:00 pm PST - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing Activist Shaun King relaunching Frederick Douglass' abolitionist paper, North Star
On Thursday, civil rights activist and journalist Shaun King announced that he will be bringing back North Star, the abolitionist newspaper started by Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany 171 years ag...
03:19 pm PST - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing A fun look at how Pixar celebrates Halloween
This cute animated short looks at Pixar's in-house Halloween culture -- from the crazy costumes their employees wear to the unbelievably cool and completely unconventional prizes they receive for wowi...
08:54 am PDT - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing Analyst: Apple's poor earnings will recover now they've switched from innovating to rent-seeking
Apple just had a really poor Q3 earnings report, with hardware sales falling off as people figure out that they just don't need to get a new phone every year or so; writing in Bloomberg, Leonid Bershi...
08:16 am PDT - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing The Gashlygun Tinies: MAD's Edward Gorey satire that takes aim at school shootings
Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies" is a much-beloved, macabre illustrated children's book that is a favorite of remixers of all kinds; but Mad Magazine's Gashlygun Tinies dials up the "trenchant" kno...
08:16 am PDT - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing The Ghastlygun Tinies: MAD's Edward Gorey satire that takes aim at school shootings
Edward Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies" is a much-beloved, macabre illustrated children's book that is a favorite of remixers of all kinds; but Mad Magazine's Ghastlygun Tinies dials up the "trenchant" kn...
02:16 am PDT - Sun, November 4, 2018
BoingBoing A fantastically fun looper pedal cover of The Cure's "Close To Me"
I've been researching looper pedals for my 12-year-old guitarist son and happened upon this video of Mick Bishop using his Boss RC-300 Loop Station to create a very fun cover of "Close To Me," perhaps...
04:00 pm PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing All six Brady kids reunite at their TV home
HGTV lined up all six Brady kids in front of their iconic television home (well, the LA property that served as the exterior shot) to kickoff the network's upcoming series, "A Very Brady Renovation." ...
03:00 pm PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Pick up some vintage typewriters at this California shop's gone-out-of-business sale
Hey vintage typewriter nerds, there's a store in Carmichael, California (which is outside of Sacramento) that's selling off its machines. The unnamed store went out of business 10 years ago but the fa...
02:11 pm PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Who owns the Statue of Liberty? CGP Grey explains
I had no idea there was such a long and complicated debate over who owns Liberty Island and its crown jewel, the Statue of Liberty. Thank goodness CGP Grey is here to explain it all to us! Get a bever...
02:09 pm PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier
The Swedish ISP Bahnhof has a strong historic commitment to free speech, so when the notoriously corrupt science publishing giant Elsevier (previously) sought to force the ISP to censor connections to...
01:00 pm PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Master Python with this complete training package
Slithering along like its namesake, Python has woven itself into nearly every aspect of web development since its inception the late '80s. Flexible and readable, the possibilities of this programming ...
09:38 am PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Disneyland's laundry used "gamification" as an "electronic whip," leading to worker stress and injuries
A non-negotiable feature of Disneyland's 2008 contract with Unite Local 11 -- which represents the laundry workers who clean linens from the resort's hotels and restaurants -- was a new "work-tracking...
09:19 am PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Facebook blames malicious browser plugins for leak of 81,000 users' private messages and offer of account data for 120,000,000 users
A user called FBSaler is offering personal data for Facebook users at $0.10 each, claiming to have account data from 120,000,000 users to offer; to prove that they have the goods, they've dumped the p...
09:07 am PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing A human being at Facebook manually approved the idea of targeting ads to users interested in "white genocide"
A year ago, Facebook apologized for allowing advertisers to target its users based on their status as "Jew haters" and blamed an algorithmic system that automatically picked up on the most popular dis...
08:40 am PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing "Sixteen Tons": the student debt edition
When I was a kid, we used to sing Merle Travis's Sixteen Tons in the car on long trips: it's a poetic masterpiece, capturing the clash between a worker's proud and indomitable spirit and his impossibl...
08:22 am PDT - Sat, November 3, 2018
BoingBoing Using machine learning to teach robots to get dressed
In the Siggraph 2018 paper Learning to Dress: Synthesizing Human Dressing Motion via Deep Reinforcement Learning, a Georgia Institute of Technology/Google Brain research team describe how they taught ...
07:18 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Roanoke Times reader burned up by pronunciation of "Cockburn"
The best letter to the editor in modern journalistic history was published yesterday by The Roanoke Times. [via Comfortably Smug]Please explain to me why Leslie Cockburn pronounces her name Coburn. T...
07:13 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing 'Bikini airline' places $6.5 billion order for 50 additional jets
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, is one of Asia's richest women. The self-made billionaire, age 47, is the owner of VietJet, Vietnam's first private airline. In recent years, VietJet has rebranded itself as th...
06:52 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Weird 19th-century painting, allegedly by Manet, removed from auction
The Hands Resist Him has nothing on this strange painting, said to be by douard Manet, of a bone-white youth clutching a staring, mouthless mystery mammal. You had a chance of buying it at Sothebys, t...
05:14 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Get a self-healing cutting mat for just $6.24
I bought a self-healing cutting mat in 1988 so I could cut paper when laying out issues of Boing Boing. I still have it and use it all the time. There is no better way to slice paper with a craft knif...
04:41 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Why the Quiznos empire collapsed
Famous for its toasted sandwiches, Quiznos once seemed unstoppable. But in the last ten years, over 90% of its restaurants shut down. This video looks into the reasons way: mainly, a greedy corporatio...
04:38 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Twitter "sorry" for "mistake" of posting "Kill All Jews" as a trend
"Yeah, sure, sorry, whatever," muttered Twitter, while making the "wanking" hand motion."This phrase should not have appeared in trends, and were sorry for this mistake," a Twitter spokesperson said i...
04:31 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing How to cook Brussels sprouts, restaurant style
Poorly roasted Brussels sprouts are awful, nearly as bad as boiled ones. In this video, you'll learn how to cook them the right way -- "charred, dark, and with maximum crunch."Image: YouTube Read the ...
04:12 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Time lapse of a kitten growing up
A photographer embarked on a multi-year project to photograph a kitten as it matured. Read the rest...
03:47 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing A video roundup of the world's most lethal substances
You've probably heard the expression, "the dose makes the poison." This is a shorter version of Paracelsus's basic rule of toxicology: "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosag...
03:09 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing 4K live stream
I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Read the rest...
02:48 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing DeOldify: a free/open photo-retoucher based on machine learning
Jason Antic's DeOldify is a Self-Attention Generative Adversarial Network-based machine learning system that colorizes and restores old images. It's only in the early stages but it's already producing...
02:47 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Turks: Khashoggi was "dissolved in acid"
This week's Saudi State-sactioned Murder Wheel of Misfortune has landed upon "acid bath."A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was disso...
02:27 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Breaking a leg's for amateurs: actor cut off his own arm to land more roles
Film, television and theater are brutally competitive businesses. A lot of actors work to shape their bodies, pay to sculpt their faces and train as singers, dancers or martial artists anything that'...
02:00 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' was about the band's frustration with their sound engineer
The Beastie Boys Book, a meaty memoir penned by the band's Michael Mike D Diamond and Adam Ad-Rock Horovitz, was released this week.Via the books' press junket, some of the stories within its pages ar...
01:30 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Squirrel wearing a 'Scream' mask
Some of the funniest products to come down the pipeline in years are Archie McPhee's line of squirrel feeders. By putting some food inside a tiny head (like a horse or a unicorn), a squirrel will unwi...
01:00 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Starting a podcast? Learn the ropes from the pros.
Starting a podcast is easier than ever just scroll through the variety of voices that are out there today. Getting your podcast heard? That's a whole other level of expertise. Luckily, those trade se...
12:40 pm PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing How to tax big tech
Double-taxation is bad news, for sure, but the use of offshore tax-havens and profit-shifting allows big companies, especially tech companies, to hide their profits from taxation, starving the treasur...
08:34 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing America's most notorious patent troll, now bankrupt, values its bullshit patents at $1
For more than a decade, Shipping and Transit LLC (AKA Arrivalstar) has been aggressively pursuing dubious patent claims against public transit companies, shippers, and other businesses whose practices...
08:10 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Australia's 2015 copyright censorship system has failed, so they're adding (lots) more censorship
In 2015, Australia created the most aggressive copyright censorship system in the world, which allowed the country's two major movie studios (Village Roadshow and Fox) along with an assortment of smal...
07:47 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Senator Wyden proposes 20 prison sentences for CEOs who lie about data collection and protection
Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR] (previously) has introduced the Consumer Data Protection Act, which extends personal criminal liability to the CEOs of companies worth more than $1B or who hold data on more t...
02:34 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Before Robert Bowers killed 11 in synagogue, on Gab he offered to help a white supremacist hate group dox a journalist
It's really hard to keep up with how weird every news story is right now. The Huffington Post's Jessica Schulberg sums her new HuffPo report perfectly: Before Robert Bowers killed 11 people in a synag...
01:50 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Defense officials bracing for possible clashes with armed crackpot militias of U.S. citizens at Mexico border, not Migrant Caravan
U.S. military intelligence analysis documents obtained by Newsweek reveal that defense officials do not believe there are terrorists or other national security threats present within the so-called mig...
01:50 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Border troops bracing for possible clashes with armed crackpot militias of U.S. citizens, not Migrant Caravan
U.S. military intelligence analysis documents obtained by Newsweek reveal that defense officials do not believe there are terrorists or other national security threats present within the so-called mig...
01:32 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, 50 more firms tell Trump to leave trans people alone
In a letter published online today, 56 of America's largest corporations tell Donald Trump not roll back legal protections for transgender people, as he is threatening to do with the midterm U.S. elec...
12:19 am PDT - Fri, November 2, 2018
BoingBoing Bolton unveils extreme foreign policy changes in Central & South America days after autocrat Bolsonaro takes power in Brazil
Hey you know what happens when a superpower declares that it's going to take steps that will allow it to dictate the internal policies of other nations?I'll give you a hint: nothing good. From Vox.com...
10:33 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Roger Stone admits he talked Wikileaks and Julian Assange with Trump campaign in 2016, Steve Bannon and Rebekah Mercer oddly connected
Roger Stone today revealed that in 2016 he was in communication with at least one senior Trump presidential campaign official about forthcoming WikiLeaks leaks that would be damaging to the campaign o...
08:15 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Man pretends empty house is his, rents it out, and becomes official owner under squatters' rights
A man noticed an empty, broken-down house in Sydney, Australia and poked around the neighborhood to find out more about it. Turns out the occupant, who had been renting it since around the 1940s, had ...
08:08 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Man uses his Tesla's summon capability to evade parking tickets
Tesla owner Shawn Kennedy works in downtown Janeville, Wisconsin. The city recently imposed a two-hour parking limit. Kennedy now uses the "summon" feature (meant to be used to have your car drive up ...
07:38 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Here's a test print to make sure your 3D printer is calibrated and in good condition
Autodesk and Kickstarter have teamed up to create a downloadable test model that owners of 3D printers can download and print to make sure their 3D printer is in proper working order.From Core77:Autod...
07:33 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Watch beer can smash into World Series trophy during Red Sox parade
It was with great jubilance at the Red Sox parade in Boston that a flying beer can smashed into the World Series trophy. Some of its flags were bent out of shape, but a team official says the damage w...
07:15 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Profiles of people who hate to drink water
In my opinion, people drink too much water. Imagine a time traveler from the 1970s looking at all the people walking around carrying canteens. They'd wonder what happened. On the flip side, there are ...
06:31 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Lose your mind in this new track from Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)
Boing Boing friend Cosey Fanni Tutti of pioneering experimental/electronic/art groups Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, and Coum Transmissions will release a new solo album, Tutti, in February. T...
06:13 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing The most vomitous $10 million mansions on Zillow
Katie Notopoulos of Buzzfeed has found a new way to amuse herself -- looking at houses on Zillow that cost more than $10 million, yet still suck.So I moved the sliding toggle out of the price range th...
06:10 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Video: cuttlefish, owls, and tarsiers all have remarkable night vision
What animals have night vision and how the hell can they see in the dark anyway? (Nat Geo WILD via The Kid Should See This) Read the rest...
06:03 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Supreme/Richard Prince release t-shirt with composited face of Trump's female accusers
Clothing brand Supreme and artist Richard Prince created "18 & Stormy," a new t-shirt design emblazoned with the composited face of Stormy Daniels and eighteen women who have accused Donald Trump...
05:34 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Kellyanne Conway's husband on Trump: his words on immigration 'just drivel' with 'no comprehension'
George Conway, husband of White House advisor Kellyanne Conway, tweeted last night that Trump's words on immigration are "just drivel" and that "Clearly he has no comprehension of the words hes using....
05:01 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Why most pencils are yellow
I like bright yellow and orange equipment because it's easy to find. I'm less likely to leave something on a hotel room bedside table if it isn't black. I always thought pencils were yellow because it...
04:49 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Where did this rare Mandarin duck in New York City's Central Park come from?
A rare and beautiful Mandarin duck, native to East Asia, has turned up in New York City's Central Park. The bird spends most of its time entertaining curious on-lookers in a pond near 59th Street and ...
04:39 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Drunk gentleman falls asleep in cargo hold of a plane, wakes up in a new city
A drunken baggage handler for Piedmont Airlines was in Kansas City when he took a snooze on the job. Just a bit later he woke up to find himself in Chicago. The gentleman had taken his lie down in the...
04:04 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Judge schools Fox and Friends on why Trump's birthright citizenship plans are so ignorant
Judge Andrew Napolitano sat down with his friends at Fox and Friends this morning to let them know why Trump's plan to end birthright US citizenship to babies whose parents are non-citizens or unautho...
03:55 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Welcome to THE BUREAU - A Story Told in Comics and Electronic Music. PART ONE: "Clocking In and Sitting Down"
Welcome to your new job. Please do not be late on your first day....
03:51 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Google staff stage worldwide walkout
Former Google executive Andy Rubin was credibly accused of "coercing" a colleague into oral sex. Google believed the victim and quietly forced Rubin out with a $90m payoff, according to a bombshell st...
02:51 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Trippy timelapse of two plants over a 24-hour period
Watch as two houseplants, and Oxalis and a Maranta, move throughout a 24-hour period in this cool timelapse video by Instagrammers houseplantjournal.Watch it in its entirety here.If you liked that one...
02:19 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Algorithmic anti-semitism and computational propaganda
Just days before the horrific mass murder at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, my Institute for the Future colleagues Sam Woolley and Katie Joseff published a deeply upsetting study on how social m...
01:44 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Porch thief caught on camera
You'd think that so-called "porch pirates" would have realized by now that everyone has installed cameras to catch them in the act. But this brazen thief couldn't care less. Bill Garner writes: "My ph...
01:28 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Anonymous vs. Ghosthunter YouTube kayfabe somehow rules the web for a day
Welcome to 2018.Here's an archived clip of ghost-hunting vlogger Moe Sargi having an oops moment. This peek behind the curtain was supposedly left in a now-removed original posting due to an editing e...
01:00 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Loot Crate's themed gift packages are pop culture treasure troves
Don't be fooled by our endless dissection of movie trailers; nerds love a good surprise as much as the next sentient being. So if you're looking for a gift idea for the fanboy or gal in your life, a s...
01:00 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Footage from the recording of Chili's Baby Back Ribs jingle
"I want my baby back, baby back, baby back."Is there anyone who doesn't know this incredibly catchy jingle? (I'm guessing Chili's sold a lot of baby back ribs because of it.) Well, the actual footage ...
12:05 pm PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Photoshop nightmare: Gentlemens' hosiery model has no intergluteal cleft
If you're looking for some gentlemens' hosiery, the Men's Sexy Pantyhose Tights Hosiery Seamless Lingerie at Amazon is a well-rated and inexpensive option. But would you look at that product photograp...
07:30 am PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Job opening: senior security engineer to work on SecureDrop and protect whistleblowers
Sumana writes, "SecureDrop (previously) (originally coded by Aaron Swartz) is an open source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can install to securely accept documents from anon...
07:23 am PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing A once-respected academic games conference has turned into such a dumpster fire that Steve Bannon is keynoting it now
Things have been looking weird and ominous for the fifteenth annual International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, a small but respected academic games conference, and now ...
07:05 am PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Cybersecurity class challenged to hack a Raspberry-Pi-enabled "smart pumpkin"
Frequent Boing Boing contributor Sean O'Brien and his colleague Scott J Shapiro built a Raspberry Pi-enabled smart pumpkin and then challenged their Yale cybersecurity students to hack it.The exercise...
06:58 am PDT - Thu, November 1, 2018
BoingBoing Cut the cord NOW: Cable bills are up 50% since 2010
My local cable monopoly is Spectrum, part of Charter, and I refuse to get anything except internet service through them (alas, my city, Burbank, will not sell me access to our amazing, 100GB/s fiber n...
10:03 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Lisa Kereszis creepy photos of low-budget scare attractions
[Note: disturbing photos below]Lisa Kereszi has an eye for the kind of detail that makes you feel like slitting your throat, Sarah Boxer writes in her New York Times review of an exhibition that inclu...
09:55 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Worker at Utah DMV wears best #Halloween costume ever for DMV worker
I love this. A guy working at an office of the Utah state Division of Motor Vehicles wore a sloth costume to work today. I salute you, sir, and also, I happen to love sloths. Meanwhile...at...the...Ut...
09:37 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Steve Bannon, including his Cambridge Analytica activities
The United States Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging investigation into ex-White House adviser Steve Bannons activities during the 2016 election, Reuters reports, and looking int...
09:30 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing 96-year-old Carl Reiner has a message for Americans
Carl Reiner is disgusted with what's happening in the United States these days. In this heartfelt PSA, the accomplished nonagenarian shares his thoughts on what Americans can do to change what's happe...
09:09 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Trump Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Varma tweets obscene Halloween joke
It's not funny.Medicare For All is the idea of you and everyone you love being protected from going bankrupt if you get really sick. That is a thing that happens to Americans. It ruins lives and famil...
08:33 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Trump's US-Mexico border troop deployment could go as high as 15,000.
President Donald Trump said today he may issue an order to deploy more troops, possibly up to 15,000, to the U.S. southern border with Mexico. The midterm elections are next week, and Trump is playing...
08:05 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Exchange unwanted Halloween candy for Reese's with this vending machine
I can't help but love the "Reese's Halloween Candy Converter." It's a vending machine where some fortunate trick-or-treaters can feed their unwanted Halloween candy (cough *Good & Plenty*) to get ...
07:54 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing #JOBSNOTMOBS is Trump's new campaign hate meme, promising full-on fascism if you'll 'VOTE REPUBLICAN NOW'
Full-on white supremacy and fascism, folks. Nothing to hide anymore.'Jobs Not Mobs, Vote Republican Now,' says the sitting president, in an ad with a raised fist. #JOBSNOTMOBS! VOTE REPUBLICAN NOW!! p...
07:50 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Computational propaganda, bots, and the amplification of anti-semitism online
Just days before the horrific mass murder at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, my Institute for the Future colleagues Sam Woolley and Katie Joseff published a deeply upsetting study on how social m...
07:43 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Sample pages from Liz Suburbia's new comic book anthology, Thee Collected Cyanide Milkshake
Artist Janelle Hessig (who was a guest many times on Boing Boing's retired Gweek podcast) has launched a comic book publishing company in Oakland called Gimme Action. Tomorrow Gimme Action is releasin...
07:24 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing What it's like to drive in Japan
I'm pretty used to driving on the left side of the road, having driven in Rarotonga, New Zealand, and Australia for several months. But I would be nervous to drive in Japan, because the roads are narr...
07:24 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing An artificial intelligence populated these photos with glitchy humanoid ghosts
Two of the MIT researchers behind the provocative Deep Angel project, an algorithm that digitally erases objects from photos, have now delivered a strange and beautiful system to "conjure phantasms in...
07:18 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Can you see the penis character found hiding in the Egyptian hieroglyphics unicode block?
There are three Egyptian hieroglyphs depicting penises, each with Unicode characters: Amazingly, no-one seems to know about them despite their being among the most succinct and obviously useful glyp...
06:59 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Picking locks with a cheap battery-powered pumpkin saw
The LockPickingLaweyer modified a cheap battery-powered pumpkin-carving saw into a rather effective electric lock pick! Read the rest...
05:46 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora induced a climate crisis and changed world history
The eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 was a disaster for the Dutch East Indies, but its astonishing consequences were felt around the world, blocking the sun and bringing cold, famine, and disease to ...
05:40 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing First screen test of Henry Cavill in The Witcher
Cast as Geralt in the forthcoming adaptation of The Witcher, Henry Cavill seems to be undergoing an unsettling realization in his first costume test as the monster-hunting master swordsman. Here's a s...
04:33 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Antarctic scientist stabs colleague who kept spoiling the endings of books for him
Russians, obviously. Quality UK newspaper The Sun reports:A SCIENTIST accused of attempted murder in Antarctica stabbed his colleague because he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of book...
04:33 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Antarctica: Scientist stabs colleague who kept spoiling the endings of books for him
Russians, obviously.Quality UK newspaper The Sun reports:A SCIENTIST accused of attempted murder in Antarctica stabbed his colleague because he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books...
03:12 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing High on the hog: what cannabis-fed pork tastes like
What pork from pigs who had a cannabis-infused diet tastes like wasn't a burning question that I needed answered. But damned if I'm not all ears for the answer. Read the rest...
02:20 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween" (1984)
Al Jourgensen may prefer to forget that he once cultivated an English accent and created this underground club hit, but on this day, we happily remember Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween" from 1984....
01:40 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Food magazine editor resigns after joking about "killing vegans, one by one".
William Sitwell, editor of UK grocery chain Waitrose's in-house magazine, has resigned after calling for the killing of vegans. He was responding sarcastically to a pitch from freelance writer Selene ...
01:00 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Outfits to indoctrinate the future postal worker in your life
Just kidding, these are officially-licensed USPS U.S. Mail Carrier costumes for kids and they're adorable at that. At $24.95, I might just buy one for that swell shoulder bag.Thanks, EPS! Read the res...
01:00 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing No logs and no ads make this VPN an excellent choice
Not all virtual private networks are created equal. For masking your IP address and location, just about any service will do. But in an increasingly insecure internet, a no-logs policy is the mark of ...
12:43 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Blackface halloween costume costs nurse her job
Blackface halloween costumes represent a perfectly-formed bubble of bad ideas. Everyone knows they're widely condemned as racist and everyone knows you can get in trouble for doing it. But a frozen pe...
12:21 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing
At $111,000,000, the California dialysis industry's campaign spending against Prop 8 (which caps the price of outpatient dialysis) is now the most expensive in US history.Obviously, the dialysis indus...
12:20 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Watch the Addams Family dance to Joy Division
Last year they danced to The Ramones. This year the Addams Family is grooving to Joy Division.Related: How Wednesday Addams got her name Read the rest...
12:19 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing iPhones hate helium
The bad news is that, due to the sheer tininess of certain components, iPhones are particularly vulnerable to going haywire in the presence of helium. The good news is that helium just isn't a problem...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing These Halloween dog treats are called "Bits O' Brains"
I'm not sure what's funnier about these Halloween dog treats: the fact that they exist or that they're clled "Bits O' Brains"!My friend Lisa just spotted these at a local Bay Area Ta...
11:33 am PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing How to open a walnut with your bare hands
The key appears to be having something other than bare hands to crunch it against, such as concrete. But commenters insist this can be accomplished with just the palms of the hands by pushing against ...
11:20 am PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Voting, an American Choice!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Gramps teaches us all an important lesson about voting!...
10:48 am PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing London's new high-rises: speculators' luxury flats designed never to be occupied
London is the epicentre of the British affordable housing crisis, and while there are over 500 high-rises under construction in the capital, consuming nearly every available lot, virtually every one o...
12:45 am PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Greyhound abandons 400 remote communities in Canada
Greyhound announced that it was pulling its buses out of western Canada earlier this year. For anyone that owns a car? No big deal. For those living in remote western communities without access to a v...
12:04 am PDT - Wed, October 31, 2018
BoingBoing Review: Diablo III for Nintendo Switch is the best way to play this much-loved game
Blizzard games have staying power. They're incredibly well crafted and designed to run on a wide spectrum of Windows PCs and Macs, both low powered and high. New content? They're all over it. I can't ...