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07:15 pm PDT - Sat, March 30, 2019
BoingBoing Animated David Byrne/Big Suit enamel pin
PSA Press's $15 Stop Making Sense pin is jointed for moving Big Suit action, just like in the greatest concert movie ever made; I just bought one at Wondercon and it's superb. Read the rest ...
07:11 pm PDT - Sat, March 30, 2019
BoingBoing Frazetta sweatta
The $100 Frank Frazetta Death Dealer Xmas sweater is licensed, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Frazetta museum in East Stroudsburg, PA. Read the rest ...
03:10 pm PDT - Sat, March 30, 2019
BoingBoing Come see me this weekend at Anaheim's Wondercon!
This weekend, I'm wrapping up the tour for my new book Radicalized at Anaheim's Wondercon, where I'm giving a keynote appearance on Saturday at 4PM (Even if You're Paying for the Product, You're Still...
03:09 pm PDT - Sat, March 30, 2019
BoingBoing Researchers find mountains of sensitive data on totalled Teslas in junkyards
Teslas are incredibly data-hungry, storing massive troves of data about their owners, including videos of crashes, location history, contacts and calendar entries from paired phones, photos of the dri...
02:33 pm PDT - Sat, March 30, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook owns Netscape
AOL bought Netscape, renamed it New Aurora Corporation, sold it to Microsoft, who sold it to Facebook, where it is a "non-operating subsidiary." Netscape veteran JWZ writes, "That makes Facebook the c...
11:05 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing I want to go to the cast iron market in Brimfeld, Mass
I want to go there.My favorite pan is a Wagner I got at Goodwill in San Francisco.I especially like to refinish cast iron waffle irons.(Thanks, David Wolfberg!) Read the rest ...
09:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Second try with my neglected sourdough starter
Sourdough is not the complicated, finicky bread baking technique some folks might like you to believe. Sourdough baking takes very little effort and is mostly an art of patience.This loaf is an exampl...
08:52 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Alex Jones's deposition over his role in the harassment of Sandy Hook parents is a total shitshow
As the lawsuit against Alex Jones for his role in directing and encouraging the vicious harassment of the parents of children murdered at the Sandy Hook shooting has led to a lawsuit, and that has led...
06:55 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Watch Betsy DeVos smirk and smile as she ignores questions about her attempt to gut the Special Olympics
Watch CNN's @ryanobles try to ask Betsy DeVos about proposed federal cuts to the Special Olympics. pic.twitter.com/69yzJsq5Hy— Daniel Lewis (@Daniel_Lewis3) March 28, 2019This week inherited...
05:11 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Brexit Crisis: Church of England to host Emergency Tea Parties
With the Prime Minister's Brexit deal failing for the third time to receive Parliament's blessing and the looming possibility of crashing out the EU without a deal, or a snap general election, or a se...
04:26 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Oklahoma Republicans introduce bill forcing doctors to warn abortion patients about the existence of an imaginary "reversible abortion"
On Tuesday, the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 614, which forces doctors to counsel patients seeking medical abortions with false statements claiming the procedure is reversib...
04:04 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing War criminal and snowflake Erik Prince cancels Beloit College talk after student protests, threatens lawsuit
Genie Ogden writes, "Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince (previously) was invited to speak at Beloit College last night, by the right wing group Young Americans for Freedom. A couple of weeks ago, a Bel...
03:57 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing The Chinese Communist Party's newspaper has spun out an incredibly lucrative censorship business
People.cn is a publicly listed subsidiary of The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party; its fortunes are rising and rising with no end in sight as it markets itself as ...
03:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries
The Sacklers (previously) are mostly known around the world as "philanthropists," with their names adorning the wings of galleries, museums and institutes of higher learning; but the Sackler family fo...
03:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing UPDATE: New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries
Update: We have received a legal letter from Thomas A. Clare, of Clare Locke LLP, writing on behalf of the Sacklers expressing the family's concern that the image of a guillotine and the "guillotine w...
03:03 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing After the Parkland shooting, NRA official reached out to Sandy Hook denier to discuss possibility that it was an anti-gun conspiracy
NRA training instructor and program coordinator Mark Richardson is a veteran of the organization, having worked there since at least 2006; in the immediate aftermath of the Parkland shooting, Richards...
02:59 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing British parliament rejects Prime Minister May's Brexit plan for third time
This time she'd promised to resign if they approved it, paving the way for new leadership to execute Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with the European Union for Britain to depart the bloc. Dangling ...
02:35 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Come see me this weekend at Anaheim's Wondercon!
This weekend, I'm wrapping up the tour for my new book Radicalized at Anaheim's Wondercon, where I'm giving a keynote appearance on Saturday at 4PM (Even if You're Paying for the Product, You're Still...
02:31 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing Soviet space dog shoes
Belka and Strelka, who both survived their trip to orbit, are immortalized here on a pair of shoes. Soviet Space Dog Shoes [$59, octophant.threadless.com] Read the rest ...
01:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 29, 2019
BoingBoing How to save your ass if the Boeing 737 MAX you're flying decides to nosedive
In the extremely unlikely event that you end up piloting a Boeing 737 MAX jet and it decides to nosedive, here's a 20 minute tutorial from Mentour Pilot on how to turn off MCAS. Don't forget your duty...
09:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Grooveless metal engineering
In this otherwise unsourced video (via Singaporean news site Mothership) we may enjoy seeing parts so finely engineered that when they are socketed together, they appear to become single blocks of met...
09:11 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Grooveless metal engineering (Electrical discharge machining)
In this otherwise unsourced video (via Singaporean news site Mothership) we may enjoy seeing parts so finely engineered that when they are socketed together, they appear to become single blocks of met...
08:55 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Inexpensive adjustable smart phone stand for desktop
This desktop phone stand has a heavy base and a platform that swivels up to 45 degrees. The platform is coated with silicone rubber so as not to scratch your precious device. It also has silicone pads...
08:18 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing AOC is going to Appalachia to talk to coal miners
After Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a blistering rebuttal to Rep Sean Duffy's [R-WI] charge that the Green New Deal and environmentalism were "elitist" concerns that ignored the nee...
08:06 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Former NSA contractor Harold Martin pleads guilty to 'willful retention of national defense information'
Former NSA contractor Harold Martin today changed his plea to guilty, on charges of willful retention of national defense information. Harold Martin was originally charged with 20 counts of violating ...
07:57 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing NSA domestic surveillance debate returns to Congress with 'Ending Mass Collection of Americans Phone Records Act'
Its time, finally, to put a stake in the heart of this unnecessary government surveillance program and start to restore some of Americans liberties, Wyden said in a statement....
07:35 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Russian agent Maria Butina to be sentenced in U.S. on April 26
The admitted agent for Russia was connected with the NRA and pro-Trump U.S. political groups....
07:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing How hedge funds, Goldman Sachs, and corrupt executives used Gymboree's chaotic bankruptcy to cash out while destroying the careers of loyal employees
Gymboree is one of the many companies acquired by Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, through a "leveraged buyout" through which the company was loaded up with debt so that the hedge fund could cash out; the ...
07:22 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Trump's U.S. Energy Secty. Rick Perry gave 6 secret authorizations to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia: Reuters
U.S. Department Of Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports, based on a copy of a docume...
07:22 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave 6 secret authorizations to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia
U.S. Department Of Energy Secretary Rick Perry gave six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, Reuters reports, based on a copy of a docume...
07:15 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Twitter update lets iOS users go Lights Out, adds automatic dark modes
Today, Twitter announced expanded 'dark mode' options for iOS users. Previously, Twitter offered a blue/gray dark mode theme, but they've added a true black/white Lights Out mode, and an automated dar...
07:07 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Leaked Apple docs describe support program for 3rd-party repairs, just as right-to-repair bills in 20 states would require
Documents from Apple leaked to reporters describe a program of support for third-party repairs, and the details sound like it was intended to comply with the requirements of a slew of new right-to-rep...
06:58 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Cat post: Wait for the mlem
Wait for it. Wait for the mlem.:PHere it comesThere it is.:P:P[via] Read the rest ...
06:39 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing U.S. government now caging asylum seekers under the international bridge in El Paso, Texas
Photographs we're seeing online today, including one by Mark Lambie of the El Paso Times, below, capture the desperation of the unknown number of men, women, and children currently penned in, inside c...
06:08 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing The Economist's visual data journalist fixes magazine's "crimes against data visualisation"
Sarah Leo is a visual data journalist at The Economist. In this Medium piece, she gives some past examples of Economist charts and graphs that were confusing or misleading and shows her revisions.Mist...
06:03 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Creature from Black Lagoon attends confirmation hearing
Things keep getting weirder.Look in the background during Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt's opening statement.Watch LIVE on C-SPAN3 https://t.co/i3oegv9okf pic.twitter.com/UiiaVfV8h2...
05:53 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff blasts GOP stooges calling for his resignation
US Representative Adam Schiff responds to all 9 Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee calling for his resignation. Read the rest ...
05:10 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Baking with an ignored sourdough starter
Unlike all the breadcore pals I have baking loaves with hand-ground sorghum and Bolivian yeast strains kept at 75% hydration, I left my sourdough starter on the kitchen counter for a week and didn't b...
04:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Reviews of New York City's subway bathrooms
New York Times reporters Andy Newman and Ana Fota took one (and sometimes two) for the team by visiting subway station restrooms across New York City. It was a shitty job, but someone had to do it. I ...
04:20 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing This robot is very skilled at tossing bananas
TossingBot is a robot that teaches itself how to pick up and toss objects with great accuracy. Eventually, the robot -- designed by researchers from Google, Princeton, Columbia, and MIT -- could lead ...
03:42 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing "Edge of the Knife" is a Canadian film made in a language spoken by only 20 people in the world
Sgaawaay K'uuna, or Edge of the Knife, is the first feature film to portray the Haida a group of people from Haida Gwaii, aka the Queen Charlotte Islands (off the west coast of Canada's British Colum...
03:37 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing A tour of part of Kim Dotcom's mansion, including the panic room where he was arrested
Now this is a bedroom suite. "But wait, there's more!" says mansion-explorer Erick Tseng. Even the panic room, which it took cops half an hour to find, is larger than most London apartments. Read the ...
03:18 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Conservative commentator: trans people will replace humanity with 'New Species' that's 'Human and Part Machine'
No-one can make you sound quite as great as your enemies can. Here's Dr. Paul Nathanson, responding to conservative host Laura Ingraham's suggestion trans people are merely destroying traditional fami...
02:59 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Teen girl's DIY glitter-shooting unicorn horn prosthetic arm in museum exhibit
Jordan Reeves, 13, was born with a left arm that doesn't extend past her elbow. Last year, Jordan dreamt up a curious prosthetic arm that resembles a unicorn horn and shoots glitter out of its tip. Th...
02:29 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Footage of American freestyle canoeing master Marc Ornstein
Relaxing, and ever so slightly peculiar, is this footage of an American Freestyle Canoeing master at work. American Freestyle canoeing is the art of paddling a canoe on flat water with perfect control...
02:13 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Seattle! Come see me TONIGHT at the Central Library with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Anaheim for Wondercon!
We had a fantastic time on Tuesday at the Ft Vancouver Library Revolutionary Reads event for Radicalized, my latest sf book. Tonight, I'll be in Seattle, appearing at the the Central Library at 7PM. F...
02:08 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Of $208m in fines leveled against robocallers, the FTC has collected ... $6,790
The Wall Street Journal reports that robocallers go largely unpunished, with all those headline-grabbing fines virtually uncollected.As syndicated to Fox News:An FCC spokesman said his agency lacks th...
02:08 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Of $208m in fines leveled against robocallers, the FCC has collected ... $6,790
The Wall Street Journal reports that robocallers go largely unpunished, with all those headline-grabbing fines virtually uncollected.As syndicated to Fox News:An FCC spokesman said his agency lacks th...
02:01 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing The Cardiff giant, one of the greatest hoaxes of the 19th century
In 1869, two well diggers in Cardiff, N.Y., unearthed an enormous figure made of stone. More than 600,000 people flocked to see the mysterious giant, but even as its fame grew, its real origins were c...
02:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Study finds 95% of all Bitcoin trading volume is fake, designed to lure in ICOs
A report from Bitwise -- an investment firm lobbying for FEC approval for a cryptocurrency based exchange-traded fund -- found that 95% of the trading volume in Bitcoin was fake, ginned up through tec...
01:45 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Sting operation: the NRA explains to white nationalist Australian political party how to deflect gun control calls after a massacre
Australian Al Jazeera reporter Rodger Muller infiltrated a meeting between the US National Rifle Association and Australia's far-right/white nationalist party One Nation, where the NRA gave party boss...
01:44 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Office Depot, OfficeMax fined over faked malware scans
Office Depot, OfficeMax and other retailers will pay $35 million to the FTC over their use of fraudulent software that falsely reported malware infections on customers' PCs.Customers who took their co...
01:23 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Generation Z in their own words
The New York Times asked youngsters what they liked and what they wanted. The results perhaps as is to be expected are unexpectedly insightful, uncannily familiar, and disturbingly unready for the c...
01:01 pm PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Millennials are killing McMansions
It all seemed so innocent when architecture grad student Kate Wagner started pushing her charming brand of millennial snark on us with her acerbic critiques of gaudy, poorly executed monster homes, bu...
07:18 am PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Michelin three-star restaurant French Laundry serves mushroom soup from a bong
Let's talk about the French Laundry's bong course. https://t.co/cSdEvoydR0 pic.twitter.com/G80R4u06Wm— Paolo Lucchesi (@lucchesi) March 26, 2019In a New York Times review of celebrity ch...
07:02 am PDT - Thu, March 28, 2019
BoingBoing Bad things happen when local TV news tries to appeal to teens
Toledo's WTOL 11 crew thought they were on fleek. Da fuq?(Thanks UPSO!) Read the rest ...
10:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Mueller snubbed, Harry and Meghan exiled, and suicidal airline pilots in this weeks dubious tabloids
The Mueller Report is conspicuously absent from this weeks tabloids, despite landing with ample time for their deadlines. Its a measure of how far the Trump-loving propaganda rags have publicly distan...
10:21 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing This cute MicroSD card for the Nintendo switch is on sale
My 16-year-old insists on buying cartridge versions for her Switch games, while I prefer the downloadables. To each their own, even though I'm right and she's wrong. And what better way to store my do...
09:59 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Mystery solved: why has a beach in France been blighted by washed-up parts for toy Garfield phones for more than 30 years?
For more than thirty years, the beaches of France's Iroise Marine Nature Park have been blighted by a seemingly endless stream of a highly specific form of washed-up plastic waste: part of a toy Garfi...
06:59 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing A Strange Harvest (1980): Creepy documentary about aliens and cattle mutilation
A Strange Harvest (1980) is a documentary about unexplained cattle mutilations that were widespread in the American West in the 1970s and 1980s. (From a Wikipedia article on cattle mutilation: "A 1979...
06:52 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Black attorney gets detained because sheriff thinks he's just pretending to be a lawyer
Maryland attorney Rashad James, who happens to be black, was packing up his things after a day at Harford County District Court when he says a sheriff's deputy detained him, thinking James was just pr...
06:47 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Hr's how to protct your Appl MacBook kyboard
At the Wall Street Journal, Joanna Stern reports that the ultra-thin butterfly keyboards on current MacBooks are still failing. The online version of her column is brilliantly funny, with options to r...
06:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook says white nationalist and white separatist content now officially banned from platform
In a statement announcing the official ban, Facebook says the ideologies are "inherently hateful."...
06:39 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's 13 tips for better writing
In January on Twitter, cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, author of Enlightenment Now, shared 13 tips for writing:Reverse-engineer what you read. If it feels like good writing, what makes it good? If ...
06:28 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing "I am an Uber employee and I support the drivers strikes."
The authenticity of the following anonymous op-ed has been verified by Mediums editorial staff.A person identifying themselves as an anonymous Uber employee has written an essay that's getting a lot o...
06:20 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing FTC fines four robocallers behind billions of US calls
The FTC says the 4 companies made 'billions' of pre-recorded calls to phone numbers throughout America....
06:15 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Brunei has a new law: death by stoning for gay sex
The kingdom of Brunei has instituted a law that will punish gay people for having sex by stoning them to death.From The Independent:New laws due to come into effect next Wednesday will see the tiny ki...
05:56 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Border Patrol holds asylum seekers in tent under a bridge, calls it a "transitional camp"
In El Paso, Texas, the U.S. Border Patrol has confirmed that it is holding asylum seekers in a "transitional" camp under the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry bridge. A photo was making the internet rounds...
05:46 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Make a giant DIY moon wall art
Caleb Clark of Make magazine found a shower curtain with a photo of the Moon on it, and turned it into illuminated wall art, using a minimum of tools. The end result is nice. Read the rest ...
05:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Energy drink banned after it was discovered to contain Viagra
A man drank a Power Natural High Energy Drink SX, a product made in Zambia, and got more energy than he bargained for. He ended up with a six-hour erection. Turns out the drink contained Viagra.Now th...
04:46 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Elizabeth Warren's latest campaign plank is a national Right-to-Repair law for farm equipment
Senator Elizabeth Warren is hoping to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020; she distinguishes herself from other left-wing Democrats like Bernie Sanders in her belief that capitalism is a fo...
04:41 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Pennsylvania has a seriously racist digital billboard
What the hell is going on in Pennsylvania!!!!???? How is this sign even allowed??? pic.twitter.com/a3InZfiDP4— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) March 26, 2019From the State that gave us Rick Santorum an...
04:27 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Vinyl and leather stick-on repairs
This Masta Plasta textured faux-leather patch covered a nasty hole, and stopped a vinyl armchair from needed an immediate re-upholstery job. Read the rest ...
04:05 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez schools Republicans on the true costs and beneficiaries of the Green New Deal
AOC's two minute speech in response to Rep Sean Duffy's [R-WI] characterization of environmental concerns as a matter for coastal elites is inspired and heartfelt, and entirely on point: the people at...
03:51 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Front-line programmers default to insecure practices unless they are instructed to do otherwise
It's always sort of baffling when security breaches reveal that a company has stored millions of users' passwords in unencrypted form, or put their data on an insecure cloud drive, or transmitted it b...
02:53 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing McDonald's will drop opposition to increases in the federal minimum wage
US federal law sets the national minimum wage at $7.25/hour, a number that hasn't budged for a decade and is in part responsible for the nation's wage stagnation, which has seen working peoples' earni...
02:45 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Brief guide to Gen Z lingo
"How to speak Gen Z" is a new video from Carll. Facts. Read the rest ...
02:35 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Don't set your Twitter birthdate to 2007
Contrary to the viral tip, setting your brithdate to 2007 in Twitter will not grant you access to an easter egg. It will get your account automatically suspended because you are too young to use Twitt...
02:19 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Edward Snowden to keynote London's ORGCON!
ORGCON19 is the annual conference put on by the UK Open Rights Group (disclosure: I co-founded ORG and volunteer on its advisory board); it is "the UKs largest human and digital rights conference," an...
02:13 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Apple's still lumbering iMacs with 5400 RPM hard drives
Apple, in 2019, weds fantastic 5k displaysalmost impossible to find anywhere elsewith storage technology so obsolete you can listen to it in a quiet room. What people generally don't know, however, is...
02:13 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Apple is still lumbering iMacs with 5400 RPM hard drives
Apple, in 2019, weds fantastic 5k displaysalmost impossible to find anywhere elsewith storage technology so obsolete you can listen to it in a quiet room. What people generally don't know, however, is...
01:56 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Seattle! Come see me Thursday at the Central Library with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Anaheim for Wondercon!
We had a fantastic time last night at the Ft Vancouver Library Revolutionary Reads event for Radicalized, my latest sf book; on Thursday I'll be in Seattle, appearing at the the Central Library at 7PM...
01:49 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing What the actors in The Disney Channel's awkward "Wand" idents were actually drawing
It took me a while to realize the actors in Disney's "Wand" idents were supposed to be drawing Mickey Mouse's head.Previously: Disney deletes "Dead Inside" tweet. Read the rest ...
01:24 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing New York county declares emergency over measles outbreak, tells unvaccinated kids to stay home
Rockland County in New York, in the midst of a measles outbreak that so far has 153 people infected with the disease, is declaring a state of emergency and banning unvaccinated kids from public spaces...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Super-Fun-Pak Comix, feat. Lady-Superhero-Man, and More!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Emil the Bacterium Physicist, Actually-Man vs. Frankenstein, and much, MUCH more....
06:59 am PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Cartoonist Kayfabe Show and Tell: Jack Kirby Original Art (Eternals issue 9, Page 17)!
The title says it all, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli got their grubby hands on some Jack Kirby artwork (inked by Mike Royer) from his 1970s period at Marvel. No ink-line or artistic decision goe...
03:13 am PDT - Wed, March 27, 2019
BoingBoing Donald Bell reports on the DIY game goodness from the alt.ctrl showcase at GDC
Our friend Donald Bell put together an excellent little tour of some of the game designs from the alt.ctrl showcase at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. And here's a handy link ...
09:57 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Yale rescinds admission for student whose parents allegedly paid $1.2 million to get her in
Buzzfeed's Julia Reinstein reports that Yale has rescinded admission for a student whose family allegedly paid $1.2 Million to get her into the school.This is believed to be the first such rejection o...
09:48 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Does Donald Trump blocking certain Twitter accounts violate First Amendment?
The DOJ argued that while Trump tweets in official capacity, blocking users is personal....
09:31 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Cat boops prickly hedgehog friend
Now hold on there, pokey-boy. That's an ouch.Some observations:That cat has extremely cute white poofy paws.The hedgehog is proudly unperturbed. Brave little pokey-boy.Ouch!Lesson learned, kitteh: No ...
09:18 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Dog thinks he's a bunny and also wants lettuce, now cat wants some too
My pupper thinks hes a bunny, says hauntedmarshmallow.Puppy noticed bunny was getting treats every morning and started wanting a handful of lettuce too. Now they eat lettuce together every day.Kitty s...
09:09 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Puppy gets a brushy brushy
Look at his little back leg twitch with delight.He's too cute.Brushy brushy[via] Read the rest ...
08:58 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Brexit: Actual footage of UK trying to leave EU
Accurate.The guy-on-fence-falling-into-water GIF joke has been made a number of times, as has the dude running into traffic and bumbling out. I'm not sure who was first. Here are a few others that mad...
08:40 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Who let the dogs out? (unmute this pupper)
Woof, woof, woof.With each bark, the most adorable flop of those fuzzy puppy ears.This is possibly the most adorable pup I've seen all week.[via] Read the rest ...
07:42 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Article 13 will wreck the internet because Swedish MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong voting button
In the EU, if a Member of the Parliament presses the wrong button on a vote, they can have the record amended to show what their true intention was, but the vote is binding.Today, the European Parliam...
07:41 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Enjoy watching this fancy smartphone car entry system fail utterly
"Unlocking your 100,000 car is now easier than ever," writes lex Barredo.Unlocking your 100,000 car is now easier than ever pic.twitter.com/3hSs9pswoO— Alex+ (@somospostpc) March 26, 2019Not to...
06:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Remake of teen witch classic "The Craft" is underway
After a few false starts and rumors, the classic 1996 teen witch film The Craft will be remade, according to a fresh listing in industry trade Production Weekly. Not a big shock as right now there's a...
06:11 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Great deal on a 6qt enameled cast iron dutch oven
This enameled cast iron dutch oven should last longer than we do.I use a dutch oven for baking sourdough bread and cooking with my sous vide circulator. It is also wonderful for cassoulet, which I hav...
06:07 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Use this discount code to get this cordless drill at a discount
I bought this Tacklife cordless driver/drill earlier this year and really like it a lot. The speed can be varied with the trigger button and it has adjustable torque. It comes with the battery pack an...
05:51 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Volunteers spend 60 days in bed... for space science!
Yesterday, 12 adults in Cologne, Germany climbed into special beds where they will remain for 60 days to help scientists better understand the impact of longterm space flights on the human body. The A...
05:50 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Man "driving around a college campus without pants" arrested
A 23-year-old South Carolina man was arrested Saturday after being seen driving around the campus of Winthrop University without any pants.Campus police were called before 8 p.m. Saturday after two st...
05:46 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Unvaccinated minors banned from public places in NY's Rockland County
In response to a spreading measles epidemic in NY State, Rockland County has banned unvaccinated minors from appearing in public.Failure to vaccinate an eligible child should be a crime.Daily Beast:Ro...
05:40 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Air Wolf hand dryer
Apologies in advance. Previously: Jan-Michael Vincent dead at 74 Read the rest ...
05:35 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Listen to David Bowie hear a touching birthday message from Scott Walker
On January 8, 1997, David Bowie became quite emotional after hearing happy birthday message from the pioneering pop/experimental musician Scott Walker, who died yesterday. It was a touching moment the...
05:32 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing A writer explains why she quit big cities and moved to the midwest
Nicole Dieker (who has written for Boing Boing) is a journalist from Iowa who lived in Minneapolis, DC, Los Angeles, and Seattle before moving back to Iowa. In this story for Vox she explains why she ...
05:22 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Libby is my very most favorite app because free books
With the help of my public library, books magically appear on my eReader.Libby is the app my local library uses to make it's ebook and audiobooks collections easily available to the public. Discoverin...
05:22 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Man breaks obscure English laws, tried to get arrested
Lots of crazy fun laws still on the books in Blighty, though I'd hazard a guess that many of them have in fact been formally overturned or superceded. Some, though, are new enough.The Salmon Act 1986 ...
05:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Procrastination is an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem, says psychologist
People don't procrastinate because they are lazy, says Dr. Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done. Its self-harm, he told The ...
05:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Lead Belly sings about Mr. Hitler (1942)
My favorite blues singer Huddie William Ledbetter (1888-1949), aka Lead Belly, sung about traditional blues topics like relationships, prison, and poverty, but he also wrote about current events and n...
04:56 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing A mathematician found a solution to the much-studied problem 33 = x y z
Solving 29 = x+ y+ z is easy (29 = 3 + 1 + 1). Solving 33 = x + y + z has confounded number theorists for a very long time. As far back as 1955, they've been using computers to grind away at a solutio...
04:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing The lousy lives of lice
If you have young children, it's highly likely that at some point you will be sharing your home with lice. Best to know your enemy. From KQED:Head lice can move only by crawling on hair. They glue the...
04:34 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing A visit to Japan's most remote ramen restaurant
Rishiri Ramen Miraku is on one of Japan's northernmost remote islands, Rishirit (pop. 5,000), and many people go out of their way to eat its famous charred-soy seaweed ramen. The restaurant, which tak...
04:21 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Motorcycle racers get into bizarre fight on racetrack
I predict that fighting while racing motorcycles will become the next big thing in spectator sports.From Guardian Sport:Two motorcyclists have been suspended for two years following a fight that erupt...
04:16 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing A fun quickie on how wolves evolved into Chihuahuas (and other doggos)
How did humans' "oldest rivals," the grey wolves (canis lupus), become our slobbering, shoe-chewing, bone-fetching, protective best friends? TED-Ed brings us this brief history that shows how wolves e...
03:52 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Jussie Smollett cleared on all charges after emergency hearing
Prosecutors today dropped all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of orchestrating an attack on himself and falsely reporting it to the police. Smollett, 36, was seen arriving at a ...
02:48 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors
Ray Metcalfe ("two term Alaska state legislator, Alaskas 2016 Democratic Party Nominee for U.S. Senate, and whistle-blower whose actions resulted in the indictment of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens") has pu...
02:28 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Portland! Come see me tonight in Fort Vancouver with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Seattle & Anaheim!
Thanks to everyone who came out to last night's book tour event with Richard Kadrey at Berkeley Arts and Letters; I'm in the final stretch of the tour now, with a keynote tonight at 7PM at the Ft Vanc...
02:24 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Record companies sue Charter because providing high-speed internet contributes to piracy
A new complaint against Charter Communications filed on Friday by Sony, Universal and Warner asks for legal redress for Charter's alleged failure to disconnect people repeated accused of copyright inf...
01:58 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing EUs Parliament signs off on disastrous internet law: what happens next?
In a stunning rejection of the will five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technolog...
12:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 26, 2019
BoingBoing Name your price for this complete Adobe CC design class
If you're going to pursue a career in graphic design, videography or web development, there are some essential tools you need to have - and all of them are included in the Adobe Creative Cloud. And wh...
11:22 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Chinese censors incinerate entire run of a kickstarted Call of Cthulhu RPG sourcebook
Julio writes, "Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of p...
11:08 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing London developer makes last-minute changes to lock poor kids out of "communal" playground
Henley Homes got permission to build a 149-home development on the site of the Baylis Old School complex on Lollard Street by promising to include some subsidised, below-market-rent units and "a netwo...
10:08 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Peak Indifference: are we reaching climate's denial/nihilism tipping point?
I use the idea of peak indifference to describe the moment when activists no longer have to try to convince people that a problem is real (the problem does that itself, by ruining ever-more-people's l...
10:01 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Why are creators paying for TikToks mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Tr...
09:49 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Great deal is back on LED light bulbs
For some reason, Amazon won't ship these super-inexpensive Sylvania LED bulbs to California. I was able to get a box of 24 by having it delivered out of the state and picking it up on a road trip. The...
08:34 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Venezuela hit by second electrical blackout in one month, capital city of Caracas mostly without power
Reuters reports that all lights were out across many regions of Venezuela including much of the capital city of Caracas on Monday. This blackout follows a previous and prolonged blackout, for which el...
08:15 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Here's what Jair Bolsonaro, Trump, and Putin have in common
The first line of Jon Lee Anderson's long-awaited profile of Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro in the New Yorker is a real killer. The authoritarian leaders taking power around the world share a vocab...
08:03 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Sarah Sanders invents treason, suggests death penalty for Democratic leadership
Sarah Sanders: "They literally accused the President of the United States of being an agent for a foreign government. That's equivalent to treason. Thats punishable by death in this country.&#...
07:24 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Apple launches credit card, gaming service
Made from laser-etched titanium, Apple's new credit card appears to use the company's San Francisco typeface, not Silian Rail.The Verge:Daily cash back of 2% on purchases with external vendors; and 3%...
07:13 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Gentleman spikes co-workers' drinks with LSD because they were "too uptight"
A 19-year-old Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee from Missouri decided to unwittingly dose his c0-workers with LSD because they had "negative energy." Theemployees were hospitalized and the young man was ...
07:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Experiencing awe is linked to decreased inflammation
In the Savvy Pscychologist, clinician Ellen Hendriksen of Boston Universitys Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, looks at the profound psychological and physiological impacts of feeling awe, whe...
07:01 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Violinist shows four levels of musicianship by playing the Mario theme
Rob Landes shows how to play the Mario theme as in noob, amateur, hardcore, and elite levels. Read the rest ...
06:46 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing The functional LEGO Pop-up Book kit
This new 859 piece LEGO Pop-Up Book is at the top of my must-have LEGO list.This new for 2019 set comes complete with pieces to build two functional pop-up scenes from two different fairy tales.Little...
06:44 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Telegram allows you to "unsend" messages coming from either party, and has no time limit
Although the private message app Telegram already had an "unsend" feature, you were only able to delete messages that you had sent, and only up to 48 hours after you had sent it. But yesterday they an...
05:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Father of Sandy Hook victim dead of an apparent suicide
Just days after the suicides of two Parkland school shooting survivors, the father of a six-year-old girl who was killed during the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut has apparently taken his...
05:51 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing This sushi-making robot can churn out 2400 nigiri balls and 200 sushi rolls in an hour
One of the many amazing things about Japan is their abundance of robots, from a robot-staffed hotel to robot waiters to robots that teach English to children. This cool robot, made by the sushi-robot ...
05:49 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Tour of an off-grid house in Australia
Paul and Annett built a self-sufficient, off-grid house in New South Wales with air conditioning and electrical appliances. They use just 25% of the solar energy that their rooftop solar voltaic syste...
05:47 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Been eliminated? You need a Cuddle Team Leader plushie
Aw! Cuddle Team Leader is cute and vicious.This pink badass is my number one favorite skin to load up and the one I rack up my most solo wins with. Usually, I wear little red riding hood's red cape an...
05:27 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Michael Avenatti charged with attempting to extort Nike for $20 million
Details are sketchy at this point, but The New York Times reports federal prosecutors in New York have charged attorney Michael Avenatti, the lawyer who represented Stormy Daniels, with attempting to ...
05:20 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Attorney and former Presidential hopeful Michael Avenatti charged with extortion
No longer representing Stormy Daniels or running for President, attorney Michael Avenatti will still be appearing in court.CNN:The Manhattan US Attorney's office said Monday that it is charging attorn...
05:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing High school stages "Alien: The Play"
The drama club at New Jersey's North Bergen High School brought the classic sci-fi/horror story Alien to the stage for Alien: The Play. From Quartz:A student playing a xenomorph expertly creeped about...
05:03 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Hollywood accent coach looks at 28 actors portraying US presidents
Erik Singer is a dialect coach who has appeared in a lot of Wired videos to talk about actors' accents in popular movies. In this video, he takes a fascinating look at the way actors have played US pr...
04:58 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Shazam! is the first DC movie my daughter and I really enjoyed
Last Saturday night both my 11-year old daughter and I really enjoyed DC's new Shazam!True to my memories of the Shazam/Captain Marvel of my youth, but much, much more fun, Shazam! delivered on the 2 ...
04:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Do you suffer from latchkey incontinence?
In a recent scientific study on overactive urinary bladder syndrome, researchers used the term "latchkey incontinence" to describe "the loss of urine that occurs when one arrives home and puts the key...
04:30 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Scott Walker, pioneering art rock singer, RIP
Legendary singer Scott Walker, whose journey as a musician took him from blue-eyed soul to baroque pop to heady avant-garde experimentalism, has died at age 76. Walker counted the likes of Radiohead, ...
04:16 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing A delightfully bad US Army animation starring a talking floppy disk (1985)
From TMeeks01:This bit of ancient animation history was programmed in GW-Basic on a Mindset Computer.The "live" sets included full size props, such as the typewriter and schoolroom desk, and doll hous...
04:03 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Plane lands safely, at wrong airport, in wrong country
A British Airways flight from London City Airport headed off to Dusseldorf, in Germany. Unfortunately for those aboard, it landed safely in Edinburgh, Scotland due to a "mix up". That's 350 miles in c...
03:52 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Becky Chambers' 'A Closed and Common Orbit' brought me to tears
Chamber's second novel, A Closed and Common Orbit, in her Wayfarer series is so wonderful I cried several times.A Closed and Common Orbit picks up immediately after Chambers' first story, Long Way to ...
02:45 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Key net neutrality vote Tuesday: The whole Internet is watching
Tuesday morning at 10am ET the House Communications and Technology subcommittee will meet and vote on the Save the Internet Act the best bill we have to restore net neutrality. As soon as the hearing...
01:36 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol) is a venerable, non-hierarchical networking protocol that was used as transport for early email and Usenet message boards; its intrinsic decentralization and its coop...
01:32 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Asus unwittingly pushed malware to 500k laptops after hack
Kim Zetter reports that Taiwan tech giant Asus unwittingly installed backdoors on half a million of its own customers' computers after hackers compromised its software update servers.The researchers e...
01:22 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing The works of William James Sidis, the "smartest man who ever lived"
Hans Henrik Honnens de Lichtenberg writes, "Here is a fine selection of books by the extraordinary man, William James Sidis. A January morning in 1910 hundreds of students and professors gathered in t...
01:07 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Frightening footage from inside Viking cruise ship tossed by rough seas
More than a thousand passengers are being evacuated from a Viking cruise ship hit by 26-ft waves between Norway and Britain, with terrifying footage posted to YouTube from inside the lurching vessel. ...
01:01 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing The Vessel: a perfect symbol for the grifter capitalism of New York City's privatized Hudson Yards "neighborhood"
Hudson Yards is a notorious (and spectacularly badly timed) new "luxury housing development" in New York City: a massive, gated, privatized "neighborhood" in Manhattan, a city that has been literally ...
12:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing The Oscars' speech for Best Film Editing, edited in the style of winner Bohemian Rhapsody
I haven't seen Best Editing-winner Bohemian Rhapsody, but I have seen a certain viral scene about five times. Is it fair to characterize the whole movie by an insanely jump-cutted scene of some guys b...
12:38 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Hello World
Enjoy Louie Zong's sweet song, just perfect to start the week with. Zong used a 2006 app called Virtual Singer. Read the rest ...
12:34 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing N-rays: a case of scientific self-deception
In 1903, French physicist Prosper-Ren Blondlot decided he had discovered a new form of radiation. But the mysterious rays had some exceedingly odd properties, and scientists in other countries had tro...
12:00 pm PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Get behind the camera with this cinematography master class
Got a vision to put on film? The Film & Cinematography Mastery Bundle shows you how to put it there, with classes covering gear, lighting, production - even marketing.Even in this age of indie cin...
06:59 am PDT - Mon, March 25, 2019
BoingBoing Cartoonist Kayfabe: Wizard Magazine issue 17, January 1993
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue down the 1990s comic book speculation rabbit hole to discuss Wizard 17 from January 1993. In this issue: Brutes and Babes: Bart Sears on Cover design including Hip Hop ...
08:05 pm PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing How Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU CopyrightDirective
Censorship before or censorship after? The EU Copyright Directive rekindles the oldest fight in the history of free speech debates, first waged by John Milton in 1644. Then, like now, policy-makers ...
05:40 pm PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing Dora the Explorer live action trailer
I've spent the last 11 years with a daughter who looks just like cartoon-Dora, relegating me to the role of Boots. Read the rest ...
12:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing Kickstart your mad science with this Raspberry Pi boot camp
If you're into tech at all, you should definitely consider unleashing your inner tinkerer on a Raspberry Pi board. If you're intimidated, don't be. It's a statistical probability that people half your...
11:34 am PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing San Francisco! Come see me and Richard Kadrey in Berkeley on Monday with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim!
I've had a fabulous weekend at Chicago's C2E2 festival as part of my Radicalized book-tour, and now I'm heading to San Francisco for an appearance on Monday night at Berkeley Arts & Letters at 7:3...
11:28 am PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing Chelsea Manning is being held in prolonged solitary confinement, a form of torture
Chelsea Manning -- whistleblower, torture survivor, hero -- is back behind bars for refusing to testify before a grand jury about her whistleblowing activity; for 16 days, she has been held in solitar...
11:22 am PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing Man stole $122m from Facebook and Google by sending them random bills, which the companies dutifully paid
Last week, Evaldas Rimasauskas of Lithuania plead guilty to US wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and money laundering charges, admitting that he had stolen $99m from Facebook and $23m from Google...
01:16 am PDT - Sun, March 24, 2019
BoingBoing Watch this film of magical hand shadows from 1933
"Just a pair of hands -- and a whole lot of clever imagination."(via Juxtapoz on Instagram) Read the rest ...
10:03 pm PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing Video from the Radicalized launch with Julia Angwin at The Strand
Last week's NYC book launch for Radicalized took the form of a fantastic conversation with the journalist Julia Angwin; the Strand folks were kind enough to video it and they've posted it to Youtube. ...
05:12 pm PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing More than 100,000 Europeans march against Article13
Today marksed the largest street protests ever in the history of internet freedom struggles, with more than 100,000 Europeans participating in mass demonstrations across the region -- more than 50 cit...
04:12 pm PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing Talking Radicalized on CBC's Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail
This morning, CBC's flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Maughan, the author of an outstanding debut novel called I...
12:07 pm PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing Robocopyright: Dan Bull's rap anthem for the defeat of Article13
Just in time for a continent-wide day of street demonstrations against Article 13 and the new Copyright Directive, British rapper Dan Bull (previously) has released a furious, amazing new song about t...
12:00 pm PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing This super organized luggage has compartments for everything
Are you super organized? You're going to love the Genius Pack G4 and its seemingly limitless, well-placed compartments. Not that organized? You're still going to love this piece of luggage because it'...
11:58 am PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing Procedurally generated infinite CVS receipt
Sure, CVS receipts are farcically long, but they're not infinitely long: they could be, though, as Garrett Armstrong's CVS Receipt generator demonstrates, using nothing more than HTML, CSS and Javascr...
11:47 am PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing British schoolchildren receive chemical burns from "toxic ash" on Ash Wednesday
Between 73 and 100 students (as well as at least 17 teachers and administrators) from St Augustines Catholic High School in Redditch, England received chemical burns to their foreheads from "toxic ash...
11:37 am PDT - Sat, March 23, 2019
BoingBoing DCCC introduces No-More-AOCs rule
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a long history of being reactionary assholes who support the worst kind of corporate Democrats while libelling progressives and selling out to Ameri...
07:35 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing GoFundMe says anti-vaccine fundraising campaigns violate terms of service, will be taken down
We are conducting a thorough review and will remove any campaigns currently on the platform. GoFundMe...
07:18 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Secret emails show Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica earlier than they've said, DC AG claims
The general public itself has little or no interest in this Document that could warrant exposing Facebook to the risks that would inevitably accompany disclosure. Facebook...
07:11 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Can you guess the meaning of these Droodles?
One day in the early 1970s, while looking for Dennis the Menace paperbacks at a used bookstore in Boulder, Colorado, I discovered a copy of a book of "droodles," which were simple yet mysterious line ...
07:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Cat does a danger dance
There is a monster in the bed. Wazzat?!? Wazzis?!? ImmaGEDDIT!When there's a monster in the bed, we do a danger dance.He Do A Danger Dance! Read the rest “Cat does a danger dance”...
06:49 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing You could own this zoo complete with menagerie
York's Wild Kingdom Zoo & Fun Park in York, Maine is up for sale. For just $14.2 million, you could be the proprietor of this beachside attraction complete with the likes of lions, monkeys, lemur...
06:43 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Human and opossum are best friends
Meet Kika my opossum, says IMGURian overlordzelli.I am a huge sucker for yawning animals. She's very excited for outside cuddlesFor years I thought my spirit animal was a cat but now I'm realizing I'm...
06:37 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Unnamed stalkerware company has left gigabytes of sensitive personal info unprotected on the web and can't be reached to fix it
Security researcher Cian Heasley discovered an unprotected online storage folder accessible via the web that contains all the data that stalkers and snoops took from their victims' devices via a comme...
06:14 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Revenge of the dead cow
A man working in an Aalen, Germany slaughterhouse was hospitalized with serious injuries last month after being kicked in the face by a cow. The curious thing is that the cow had already been "killed ...
06:01 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing This Could Be It: Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 27 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things...
05:46 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Breakthrough programmable computer made from DNA running chemical software
For more than two decades, researchers have explored using DNA as a chemical computer. Until now though, DNA computers have only been capable of solving whatever mathematical problem they were built t...
05:29 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Court sides with cheerleader punished for writing "fuck cheer"
A cheerleader in Pennsylvania has won a free-speech case against her school, which tried to punish her for insulting it on social media.The case involves a First Amendment challenge to the Mahanoy Ar...
05:15 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing New video from the Alt-Right playbook explainer series: "Always a Bigger Fish"
The Innuendo Studios YouTube channel has been producing a video series on the culture of the alt-right. The latest video is called "Always a Bigger Fish" and it's about the way conservatives believe i...
05:14 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Spanish pop-goth performance featuring Freddy Krueger in high-waisted jeans
The singer is Mara Olvido Gara Jova, aka Alaska, performing with her band Dinarama. Along with singing in another electro-pop-goth band Fangoria, Alaska has hosted a children's TV series, appeared on ...
04:59 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Stranger Things 3 trailer improved with cheery old-timey music
The Stranger Things 3 trailer with a delightful original score by Michael Hearst of "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" fame."Survive, pack up your synths! Hearst, crank up the calliope!" Read the rest ̶...
04:02 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Philadelphia city council candidate says his secret AI has discovered disqualifying fraud in the nominations of 30 out of 33 candidates
Devon Cade -- a former bureaucrat who now describes himself as a "philanthropist" -- has asked a court to disqualify 30 out of the 33 other Democrats standing in the primary for the city's council ele...
03:48 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Gollancz has published its first anthology of South Asian Science Fiction
South Asia is a hotbed of brilliant science fiction writing, as well as writings in all the related genres capture by the Bengali word "kalpabigyan (encompassing literature that is "science-dependent,...
03:34 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing After fatal crash, Boeing reverses sales policy that made locked out some safety features unless airlines paid for an upgrade
The Boeing 737 Max is out of service around the world, following a fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines and an Indonesian Lion Air flight and there is intense investigation and speculation as to the c...
03:34 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing After fatal crash, Boeing reverses sales policy that locked out some safety features unless airlines paid for an upgrade
The Boeing 737 Max is out of service around the world, following a fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines and an Indonesian Lion Air flight and there is intense investigation and speculation as to the c...
03:31 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes
Good morning, Happy Mutants.Previously: 10 minutes of Elizabeth Holmes' creepy unblinking stare with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Read the rest “Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes”...
02:49 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Mario theme performed on violin at four levels of expertise
Level two, "Amateur", sounded so good that I suspected a joke was afoot. It was, but only the sort of joke a virtuoso like Rob Landes could pull off. Read the rest “Mario theme performed on viol...
02:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Online privacy tips for 2019
Keith Axline at The Tools We Need, writes that if you haven't already, switch to Firefox and install Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, CanvasBlocker and Smart Referrer. U...
12:46 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Wireless vulns in Medtronic's implanted defibrillators allow remote shocks, shutdown, denial-of-service battery attacks and data theft
Medtronic is the most notorious maker of insecure medical implants in America, with a long history of inserting computers into people's bodies with insecure wireless interfaces, toolchains and update ...
12:36 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Grandson of legendary John Deere engineer defends right-to-repair and condemns Big Ag for "taxing customers"
Willie Cade's grandfather Theo Cade was one of John Deere's most storied engineers, with 158 patents to his name; he invented the manure spreader and traveled the country investigating stories of how ...
12:09 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing The General Assembly of European Youth adopts anti-CopyrightDirective motion backed by socialists, conservatives, liberals and green youth organisations
Last spring, a coalition of young European political activists adopted this motion opposing the upload filters and link taxes in the new Copyright Directive, which the EU Parliament is about to vote o...
12:00 pm PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Stop robocalls and phone scams with this top-rated app
Despite government legislation and improving caller ID technology, robocalls and scam artists are rampant on the phone lines - up to 35 billion a year in the US alone. They can be annoying at best and...
11:38 am PDT - Fri, March 22, 2019
BoingBoing Chicago! I'm at C2E2 this weekend with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver, Seattle & Anaheim!
Last night's book tour event in Toronto was a smashing success! Thanks to everyone who came! I just checked in for my flight to Chicago for a weekend's worth of appearances at C2E2, and then on Monday...
11:16 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Deep Space 9 remastered with deep learning
Star Trek's original series and TNG were shot on film, allowing them to be rescanned for high-definition broadcast. Star Trek: Deep Space 9, however, was shot on video at standard definition: there's ...
09:54 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Two Russia-backed hacker groups target Europe ahead of elections, FireEye reports
Security services firm FireEye says two hacker groups known to be sponsored by the Russian government of Vladimir Putin are waging cyber-attacks currently against European government systems.FireEye s...
09:30 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Watch these dogs with floofy fluff-butts bravely tunnel in snow
This very good doggo is either hunting something special, or clearing a path for his human, or who knows? Either way, the dog is obviously a submarine.When you thought you were adopting a dog, but ins...
08:25 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Relaxing music video: 'Can't Help Falling in Love' on kalimba, with dog, in nature
You need this.From AcousticTrench, first published on Oct 15, 2017, from their album. Read the rest “Relaxing music video: 'Can't Help Falling in Love' on kalimba, with dog, in nature”...
08:16 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Adorkable dogs bungle a graceful jump
Such graceful dogs.Frank face planted and Skippy tried to imitate a cat but to no avail.Doggo slow motion moves of grace and utter agilityLink: Doggo slow motion moves of grace and utter agilityby IMG...
07:34 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook stored millions of passwords as plain text
"Change your Facebook password right now" is the instructive title of a news story at Wired today, sourced to a report at Krebs on Security. Lily Hay Newman:On Thursday, following a report by Krebs on...
06:53 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Our social contract demands people able to be vaccinated get vaccinated
If you fail to vaccinate an eligible child you are willfully endangering not only that child but everyone else's. This should be a crime.Scientific American: Read the rest “Our social contract d...
06:05 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Vegan influencer outed for eating meat in video
Raw vegan celebrity Instagrammer/YouTuber Yovana Mendoza Ayre (28), known as @rawvana on Instragam, was seen in a video with a plate containing fish, and now a lot of people are upset about it. In the...
05:53 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Lynn Freer Turner's wild, whimsical, and sometimes absurd paintings
Lynn Freer Turner has been painting for decades, but you had to know the Turner family to see her work! If you got really lucky, as I did with the top image in this post, sometimes Lynn would sell you...
05:49 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing High tech device allows men to breastfeed babies
The Father's Nursing Assistant is made by Dentsu, a Japanese company. It's basically a canteen in the shape of woman's breasts. Of course, it's also wireless with some kind of app to let you know what...
05:35 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Man faces 450 years in prison for poaching Venus Flytraps
Archie Lee Williams, Jr. (41) of Brunswick County, North Carolina, has been charged with 73 felony counts of taking 216 Venus Flytrap plants. He could face 450 years in prison and is being held on a $...
05:29 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Infinite Elizabeth Holmes
Last night I saw HBO's The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company/cult, Theranos. It's very good and surprisingly unsettling. Here's an i...
05:18 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Kindle edition of Neuromancer at steep discount
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.I read William Gibson's Neuromancer for the first time in 1985. I bought a copy at the San Francisco State University bookst...
05:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing PewDiePie fan unleashes ransomware that encrypts hard drives until he gets 100M subscribers
YouTuber PewDiePie has more subscribers than anyone else on the network, and some of his rabid fans have released at least two ransomware strains that encrypt hard drives and display a notice that inf...
04:40 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Bill & Ted 3 announced
Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are to star again as Bill and Ted, a long-hoped-for sequel to the 1990s classics: "The world is about to get a lot more excellent."Weird fact: both Winter and Reeves are B...
01:13 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing New Jack the Ripper claim strains under scrutiny
Every few years, someone figures out who Jack the Ripper was. Science is cited, in a peremptory kind of way, and there might even be a study or paper to show for it. But then the hypothesis falls apar...
12:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Maximize your Mac with a bundle of top organizational apps
If you're a Mac user, you thrive on simplicity. Everything in its place and a place for everything. Unsurprisingly, there's a ton of great organizational apps out there for Mac, and now someone's had ...
11:13 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Two arrested for hiding cameras in motel rooms and charging for access to livestreams
Some 1,600 people were secretly livestreamed while staying in South Korean motel rooms where cameras had been hidden by criminals who operated a 4,000-user service for voyeurs, where a $45/month upcha...
09:48 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Toronto! I'm at the Metro Reference Library tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Chicago, San Francisco, Portland/Ft Washington...
We had a hell of an event last night at The Strand in NYC, and I'm about to head to the airport for my flight to Toronto for tonight's event at the Metro Reference Library, hosted by the Globe & ...
09:48 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Toronto! I'm at the Metro Reference Library tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Chicago, San Francisco, Portland/Ft Vancouver...
We had a hell of an event last night at The Strand in NYC, and I'm about to head to the airport for my flight to Toronto for tonight's event at the Metro Reference Library, hosted by the Globe & ...
09:41 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing The Best of Europes Web Went Dark Today. We Cant Let That Be Our Future.
Were into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europe...
01:12 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Sweet Samoyed dog loves gentle strokes on his floofy head
Aww, so soothing to watch this sweet Samoyed get loving pats on his fuzzy floofy head, from his human. This dog's name is Teddy, and you can find him on Instagram at @samoyedteddybear. He and his huma...
12:55 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Angelinas boozing, Prince Charles divorce, and college entry cheat Lori Loughlin tells all, in this weeks dubious tabloids
Do tabloid editors even read what their reporters write? Its hard to imagine, given the disconnect between headlines and the barely-detectable trace elements of facts contained in the stories beneath ...
12:48 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Border Patrol detains 9 year old U.S. citizen for 36 hours after falsely accusing her of lying about her identify
In San Diego, the United States Border Patrol grabbed a girl who is 9 and a U.S. citizen and on her way to school, accused her of lying about her identity, then detained her for 36 hours. Many familie...
12:48 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Border Patrol detains 9 year old U.S. citizen for 36 hours after falsely accusing her of lying about her identity
In San Diego, the United States Border Patrol grabbed a girl who is 9 and a U.S. citizen and on her way to school, accused her of lying about her identity, then detained her for 36 hours. Many familie...
12:33 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Antivax GOP Kentucky governor exposed his kids to chickenpox on purpose so they'd get sick
Some falsely believe chickenpox is a harmless disease, but it can lead to death in children and adults who suffer complications....
12:02 am PDT - Thu, March 21, 2019
BoingBoing Trump wants Bob Kraft at White House despite despite prostitution sting
Kraft could show up at the White House party before he shows up in court....
09:34 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Auschwitz asks visitors to stop balancing on rail tracks for photos
The rail tracks at Auschwitz, where more than a million Jews, Poles and other victims of the Nazi regime were murdered, have become a popular spot for selfies and other photos. "Balance beam" poses ar...
08:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing The wasabi you think you're eating isn't wasabi
Real wasabi, Wasabia japonica, is apparently one of the most expensive vegetables to grow. That green stuff you're eating? Ground horseradish, Chinese mustard, and, you guessed it, green food coloring...
07:02 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Will 80s hairstyles make a resurgence?
Richard Marx silhouette reminds me of a buffalo for some reason.Flock of Seagulls hair was outstanding. The Go Gos on the other hand just looked good.Cyndi Lauper and Captain Lou would be my inspirati...
07:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Hollingsworth Hound Caught in College Admissions Scandal!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH News of the Times reports on Hollingsworth Hound's illegal bribe to get his son into an elite university...
06:53 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Easy-to-install bidet is a game changer
Having traveled to Europe and Japan many times, I've grown to appreciate bidets. It's a shame they aren't commonplace in the US. Here's a cheap one on Amazon. It's really easy to install. It doesn't h...
06:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing A post by racist Iowa congressperson Steve King threatens a second American Civil War
Steve King, a racist Republican US congressperson from Iowa, is making waves again. King posted a meme to Facebook suggesting GOP-leaning Red states would win a new civil war.LA Times:Folks keep talki...
05:58 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Funko's lovely Stan Lee tribute
If the Captain Marvel opening credits didn't tug your heartstrings enough, perhaps this marvelous Stan Lee Funko Pop will satisfy.The only autograph I ever asked a celebrity for was Stan Lee. "Excelsi...
05:28 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing A new film about artist Gus Harper
This new film by Eric Minh Swenson shares the work of Gus Harper, one of my favorite artists.Harper's work has been featured in film, television and my living room. While he is a phenomenal artist, Gu...
05:28 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Why newsletters are the best form of social media: You dont have to fight an algorithm to reach your audience
In The New York Times, Mike Isaac explains why newsletters are a better way of communicating than Facebook and Twitter.For me, the change has happened slowly but the reasons for it were unmistakable. ...
04:45 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Wyld Stallyns speak from the Hollywood Bowl
The world is about to get a lot more excellent. Watch this special announcement from your two favorite dudes! 8.21.20 pic.twitter.com/miOtBhinlC— Bill & Ted 3 (@BillandTed3) March 20, 2019T...
04:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Short video about life on a Japanese wasabi farm
According to this video and article from by The Atlantic, most of the wasabi eaten around the world is horseradish with green food coloring in it. Shigeo Iida, a 75-year-old farmer in Japan, grows the...
04:33 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing "Ayn Rand is a Dick" - excerpt from a new book by Mike Monteiro
Mike Monteiro, co-founder and design director of Mule Design, has a new book called Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It. He posted a sample chapter from t...
04:33 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Corroborating evidence that Herodotus wrote accurately about a boat
Prior to its recent discovery the baris was a ship best known through Herodotus', widely regarded as the father of history, description. There were other references in literature but no physical sign ...
04:19 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing The song stuck in my head is the 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' theme
I just realized the theme song I've been singing about my dog Nemo is set to the Black Sheep Squadron opening tune.After starring in what would be my favorite TV show of all-time The Wild Wild West, R...
04:12 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Look at all the dead projects in this Google Graveyard
I use lots of Google products (Chrome, Gmail, Gcal, YouTube, and Google itself) and like them, but I'm wary of using new Google projects because the company has a history of releasing something, allow...
03:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Odd and gruesome workplace safety ads that aired on TV
Ontario, Canada's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board created these splatterpunk workplace safety ads in 2012. "This is not a feel-good campaign," said WSIB Chair Steven Mahoney. "Well feel good when...
03:23 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing IBM supplied surveillance gear to Davao while Duterte was mayor and cheering on the city's police-linked death-squads
During the long years when Philippines strongman Rodrigo Duterte (previously) was mayor of Davao (circumventing term limits by periodically allowing his daughter to run for mayor and serving as her vi...
03:02 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Watch the new Stranger Things 3 trailer
They had me at the opening reference to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Read the rest “Watch the new Stranger Things 3 trailer”...
02:38 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Health industry lobbyists are posing as "ordinary citizens who don't want Medicare for All"
Here are some "ordinary citizens" who have recently been featured in the press as people who are completely OK with the state of American healthcare and totally opposed to Medicare for All or any othe...
01:54 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Ars Technica is looking for a "technology and society" reporter
If you've got 3+ years of experience and want to cover "the growing political and cultural Big Tech backlash,' copyright clashes, the culture of Silicon Valley firms, tech-policy battles, and importan...
01:49 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing California's Right to Repair Bill, killed by Big Ag and Apple, has been reintroduced
Last year, California was one of several states to introduce right to repair legislation that would force companies to end practices that discourage the independent repair sector, creating a requireme...
01:20 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Sponsor of the "Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act" sues Twitter cow-account for $250 million
Devin Nunes (previously) is a Trump-loyalist whose scandals have ranged from secretly moving his family farm to make it easier to hire undocumented workers to a bizarre obsession with the Steele Dossi...
12:45 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Business systematically videos people getting towed from its parking lot
The parking spot has "NO PARKING" and tow-warning signs, and is so notorious for enforcement that legitmate customers tell anyone parking their car there what is going to happen. This is all being fil...
12:10 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the CopyrightDirective
The EU's Copyright Directive will be voted on in the week of March 25 (our sources suggest the vote will take place on March 27th, but that could change); the Directive has been controversial all alon...
12:05 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing NYC! I'm coming to The Strand tonight at 7PM with my new book RADICALIZED! Next up: Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco...
Thanks to everyone who came to last night's launch event at San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy! The next stop on my tour is an event at 7PM at The Strand in NYC where I'll be appearing with the award-winni...
12:00 pm PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Fly space missions in your yard with this Star Wars drone
Seems like drones are doing a lot of jobs these days, from reconnaissance to delivery. Now, we can add "keeping the Death Star safe" to that list. Whether you're a drone enthusiast or a Star Wars fan,...
12:12 am PDT - Wed, March 20, 2019
BoingBoing Ten year old son of the late, great drummer, Dennis Davis, interviews Tony Visconti about his father's work with Bowie
This is so wonderful. Hikaru Davis is the son of the late session drummer, Dennis Davis, who died in 2016. Among many others, Davis played with Stevie Wonder, George Benson, Roy Ayers, and Iggy Pop. B...
10:10 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Apex Legends Season 1 starts today
Apex Legends engages in the Seasonal format for managing major and minor game updates. With Season 1 comes a battlepass, a paid-for ticket to cool but not game influencing bling.I enjoy Apex but gravi...
09:44 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Reusable produce bags to limit even more bag waste
My mother told me I should be using reusable produce bags. She's right.The logic behind reusable grocery bags is pretty hard to shake. The bags create less waste, save money, resources, and hold more ...
09:31 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing San Francisco considers banning the sale and manufacture of nicotine e-cigarettes
In an aggressive move to block youth access to addictive products, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor Shamann Walton have introduced legislation that bans the physical sale or d...
09:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Jabba the Hutt, Bruce Wayne, John Cleese among interns praised in Trump's Economic Report of the President
They're acting like it was intentional now, because Trump....
08:49 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing The worst toy: Flushin' Frenzy
Flushin' Frenzy [Amazon] is a toy wherein you push a plunger until a poop pops up. All the fun of clearing out a blocked toilet! The game's tagline is "Poop there it is!"Game night just got gross - in...
08:44 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Warning: Do not press the wrong tooth
Do not press the wrong tooth. Only press the correct other tooth. When you press the wrong tooth, something very surprising will happen, it is a big bamboozle.When you press the wrong teeth[via] Read ...
08:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Man films suspected burglar working on his front door, then opens it
Guy tries to rob house but the owner is there from r/PublicFreakoutIn this video of a resident quietly filming a man trying to pick his front door lock, the stellar direction makes it. It's Coen-esque...
08:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Dog walks perkily through rain in spiffy raincoat and booties
Hey. Are you coming, or what?Unmute this one for the swishies.Swish, swish, swish, swish.This dog is almost entirely water resistant. I mean, golden retrievers are naturally pretty water resistant any...
08:13 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Meet 'Spread The Vote,' a nonprofit helping voters get IDs, rides, support so they can vote
We believe voting is the sacred right of every American, and every American should be able to exercise it. spreadthevote.org....
08:07 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Warren calls for end to the Electoral College
US Senator from Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren supports directly electing the United States President and ending the electoral college.Make all votes equal. Read the rest “Warren calls for end t...
08:05 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Shadows: Amsterdam - a game where you guess what the other people are guessing about ambiguous pictures
Shadows: Amsterdam (Libellud, 2-8 players, ages 10 and up) is the newest entry in the micro-genre (that includes Dixit and Mysterium) of guess what the other people are guessing about ambiguous pictur...
07:57 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing An astounding gigapixel panorama of Paris affords "an eyeful of the Eiffel"
[Editor's note: Gigapixel panorama impressario Jeffrey Martin (previously) offers us "an eye full from Eiffel" in this astounding gigapixel pano of Paris -Cory]I shot this gigapixel photo in autumn 20...
07:46 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook blocked Trump's social media director because they thought he was a bot
Facebook says it temporarily blocked Dan Scavino because he was behaving like a bot. Seems reasonable....
07:37 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Kickstarter employees want to unionize under OPEIU and have formed Kickstarter United to make that happen
Kickstarter United is organizing Kickstarter employees under the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 153, joining other tech startups like Gimlet and Vox in a bid to un...
07:35 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Feds to audit Boeing 737 MAX's FAA certification
U.S. Transportation Secretary Chao told DOT inspector general to conduct an audit of the FAA's certification process for the Boeing 737 MAX 8....
07:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Uber used spyware to surveil and poach drivers from Australian rival service Gocatch
A senior source at Uber has confirmed to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Four Corners programme that Uber Australia illegally deployed an in-house piece of spyware called Surfcam in order to...
07:11 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Google Stadia sounds like a bad idea
I will take 6 GPU teraflops hardwired to my 1ms refresh rate monitor over 10 GPU teraflops and a BGP-4 routed TCP-IP backbone for gaming.While presented as a wonderful way to buy a videogame and insta...
06:59 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Cartoonist Kayfabe Show and Tell 08: Ed Piskor's Strategy for Publishing His First Graphic Novel
A comic book can go through many stages before it reaches its final form. This Show and Tell episode with your hosts Ed and Jim tracks Piskor's comic, Wizzywig, from its humble beginnings as a xeroxed...
06:48 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist
New Zealand is one of the Five Eyes countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ) who collaborate on mass surveillance, and it has a notoriously off-leash, invasive surveillance apparatus that has been c...
06:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Matt Taibbi finally makes sense of the Pentagon's trillions in off-books "budgetary irregularities"
The finances of the US armed forces have been in a state of near-continuous audit for decades and despite spending billions of dollars and thousands of person-years trying to make sense of what the mi...
06:25 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Sounds like even the Theranos CEO's voice was fake
Elizabeth Holmes, well-known Theranos fraudster, apparently also deepened her voice in an attempt to command more gravitas. Read the rest “Sounds like even the Theranos CEO's voice was fake̶...
06:24 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing 6-pack of supposedly MFi certified Lightning charging cables for cheap
I just ordered this 6-pack of Lightning charging cables for a very low price using promo code VW2PVZLM. You get 3-foot, 6-foot, and 10-foot cables (2 of each). The reviews are very positive (though it...
06:17 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing There was a 'Battle of the Planets' movie
Unbeknownst to me until just now, several episodes of Battle of the Planets, the classic American adaptation of Science Team Ninja Gatchaman, were edited into a "feature length movie."I loved 7-Zark-7...
06:06 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Trailer for a new Zombie series on Netflix: Black Summer
Mark your calendars for April 11 - that's when Black Summer starts streaming.Set in the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, Black Summer stars Jaime King as Rose, a mother torn from her daughter ...
05:40 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing First, Anglique Kidjo paid tribute to Talking Heads; now she's honoring Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa
Anglique Kidjo is a three-time Grammy-winning musician and activist from Benin; for more than a week, all I have listened to is her tribute to Talking Heads' 1980 album "Remain in Light," an album so ...
05:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing This is a 1960s TV commercial for prunes starring Ray Bradbury
This TV commercial for prunes (directed by Stan Freberg) stars Ray Bradbury, who keeps insisting he never mentioned prunes in any of his stories. I like the futuristic home with the people-moving tube...
05:28 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Super bloom creates new California natural disaster: tourism overflow
Fires, earthquakes, floods and now overwhelming throngs of flower seeking tourists: California has it all.Intense rainfall has caused California's deserts to bloom. Tens of thousands of folks just wan...
05:19 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing What it is like to spend a night at the cheapest hotel in Manhattan?
The Bowery Lodge is the cheapest hotel in Manhattan. At $45 a night, the Chinatown hotel costs about 1/5th the average price for a hotel room in Manhattan. In this video, a checked into the Bowery Lod...
05:02 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Star Wars origin story for Grand Admiral Thrawn is as wonderful as I hoped
Thrawn begins the backstory of Grand Admiral Thrawn, perhaps the most fearsome non-Force user in the Empire.Timothy Zahn's Heir the the Empire series introduced Grand Admiral Thrawn. The blue-skinned,...
04:50 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing The European Copyright Directive: What is it, and why has it drawn more controversy than any other Directive in EU history?
During the week of March 25, the European Parliament will hold the final vote on the Copyright Directive, the first update to EU copyright rules since 2001; normally this would be a technical affair w...
04:44 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Sightseeing train station has no exit or entrance
A train station in Japan is apparently unique, in that it has no exit or entrance other than the platform. Get off the train, check out the beautiful scenery, and get right back on again.https://twitt...
04:29 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Politician who opposed mandatory chickenpox vaccine has been hospitalized after getting chickenpox
Massimiliano Fedriga, a member of Italy's far-right League party, is dead-set against the country's mandatory vaccination laws. Guess who contracted chickenpox and had to spend four days in the hospit...
04:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing This 3D printed box looks like a large Oreo cookie
Mike Hutchinson designed a screw-together box that looks like a 4X Oreo cookie (of the Double Stuf variety). He printed it on a 3D printer and it looks great! Here's the Thingiverse model. Read the re...
01:47 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing San Diego! I'm coming to town tonight with my new book Radicalized! (next: NYC, Toronto, Chicago...)
Thanks to the folks who came to last night's LA launch for Radicalized, my latest book of science fiction for adults; I'm about to hop a train to San Diego for an event tonight at Mysterious Galaxy a...
12:36 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing The Forbes Pigment Collection
How do you know for sure if your carefully-recreated 18th-century paint would fool pass muster as art dealers a legitimate recreation long enough to get away with it? of the authentic originals? Tom S...
12:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 19, 2019
BoingBoing Grab an extra discount on the our store's best sellers
It's spring clearance time for the Boing Boing Store, when some of the best deals from the holidays return even cheaper than before. From top-rated apps to educational software to the cutest record pl...
08:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Sloth very clear on importance of chewing food slowly
Tell tha chef it's excellent.Definitely thought this was just a looped clip, but hold on. Nope.This slow eating sloth is very serious about eating slowly.Tell tha chef it's excellent[via] Read the...
08:16 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing This 'Belle' cosplay is some pretty impressive Disney princess-ness
Seriously impressive Disney Princess fabulousness from cosplayer thesarcasticginger, who totally pulls off this Belle. Amazing! Also some adorable photos of her cat friend, fidget.Here's the whole ser...
08:08 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing God of Hammers cosplay with LED eyes (don't try this!)
Thor is in the house....
07:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Los Angeles! I'm launching my new book Radicalized with Lexi Alexander tonight (next: San Diego, NYC, Toronto...)
Tonight is the launch for my latest book of science fiction for adults, Radicalized: I'll be at the Barnes and Novel at The Grove in Los Angeles, in conversation with director/activist/stuntwoman/cham...
07:13 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Believing in "meritocracy" makes you act like a dick
The term "meritocracy" was popularized in the UK sociologist Michael Young's 1958 novel, "The Rise of the Meritocracy," in which aristocrats insist that they are the natural rulers of their society ba...
06:56 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Drunken gentleman on a high-speed train threatens the engineer with a fire extinguisher for speeding
A sloshed gentleman thought the high-speed train he was traveling on was moving too fast and became aggressive, grabbing a fire extinguisher and smashing a window in hopes of saving the day. According...
06:48 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing What's wrong with blaming "information" for political chaos
David Perell's 13,000 word essay, "What the Hell is Going On?" presents a reassuring -- and contrarian -- view on how our current dysfunction in politics, media, and business has come to pass, drawing...
06:43 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing LA Magazine wrote an entire article on how cool Souplantation is
I do remember eating at Souplantation when I lived in LA. Buffets were soul-less and scary unless they were at an Indian food restaurant where they became pretty hilarious. All you can eat and drink s...
06:39 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Good deal on USB C portable charger that can charge a MacBook and a Switch
I got one of these RAVPower portable chargers for my nephew a couple of years ago, and he told me it was great to use with his Nintendo Switch, because he could play the Switch with the charger connec...
06:29 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing John Oliver looks at public shaming on the internet
John Oliver shows how innocent people's lives can be destroyed by unwarranted public shaming. As an example, he gives the example of the woman who "sued her nephew" for injuring her by hugging her too...
06:12 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing SGeek goes nuts for Audeze Mobius headphones
I recently received a pair of Audeze Mobius to review and I have to agree with Lisabel's "HOLY SHIT!"I am too new with these cans to give them a thorough review but my initial impression is that Audez...
06:04 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing NYT reviews Citizen, a live map of crimes in your city
After reading this NY Times review of Citizen, which seems to be a Next Door on steroids, I downloaded the app to see what's happening in the part of LA I live in:FLAMING TRASH TRUCK ROLLED DOWN STREE...
05:59 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook's year-old "improvements" to the newsfeed have elevated enraging Fox News posts to the service's dominant form
A year ago, smarting over public criticism of its role in promoting division and stoking racism, Facebook announced a major shift in its newsfeed algorithm which would downrank posts from media organi...
05:58 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Humans have a sixth sense for Earth's magnetic field
A new study suggests that humans can subconsciously sense Earth's magnetic field. While this capability, called magnetoreception, is well known in birds and fish, there is now evidence that our brains...
05:43 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Imaginary dream computer from 1984
The funny folks at Squirrel Monkey made a fantasy promotional video for a computer that never existed, called the DC 640. It had a number of cutting edge features, including a built-in LED alarm clock...
05:21 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Truck-eating bridge claims a new victim
On March 13, the driver of a Ryder truck missed multiple warnings signs and ran into infamous "can-opener" bridge in Durham, NC. People have been offering solutions for this problematic bridge for yea...
05:18 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing For sale: home that inspired Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights
Ponden Hall, a nine bedroom house in Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England, is considered to be the inspiration for Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights and sister Anne's Wildfell Hall. The Bronts spent a grea...
05:12 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Unvaccinated high school student is suing the health department for banning him from school during a chicken pox outbreak
An 18-year-old high school senior is suing the Northern Kentucky Health Department for banning him from school and sports during a chicken pox outbreak. He refuses to get vaccinated because of his "Ch...
04:41 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing A glowing, 3D printed rose that "blooms" when you touch its petals
Daren Schwenke's 3D printed blooming rose embeds a capacitive touch sensor -- a magnetic wire -- in one of the leaves, which trips an Arduino-controlled actuator that changes the rose's lighting and c...
04:40 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing How this cute little steam-powered walker works
I-Wei Huang (aka Crabfu) makes all sorts of cool steam-powered mini-robots. In this video, he explains how he made a walking robot. Read the rest “How this cute little steam-powered walker works...
04:40 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Video of Coney Island rides from the 1930s and 1940s that would never fly today
Michael Hearst, composer of the classic "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" and author of the excellent Unusual Creatures, shares this delightful video of seemingly quite dangerous rides at Coney Island in t...
04:21 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing I woke up my long refrigerated sourdough starter
Everyone I know is on a sourdough kick. My sister was talking some stuff she learned in a class, so I took these photos to show her what "waking up the starter" means to me.When I took my starter out ...
03:25 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Electronic Health Records: a murderous, publicly subsidized, $13B/year grift by way of shitty software
In 2009, the bipartisan HITECH Act pledged $36 billion to subsidize the adoption of Electronic Health Records throughout America's fragmented, profit-driven health system, promising that the system wo...
02:56 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Psychedelics pioneer Ralph Metzner, RIP
Pioneering psychonaut Ralph Metzner who co-led the seminal psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) and co-authored The Psychedeli...
02:38 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Where does consciousness come from?
"Consciousness is what allows us to be aware of both our surroundings and our own inner state." In the first of a three part video series, "Kruzgesagt - In a Nutshell" examines "how unaware things com...
01:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing One dead and three wounded in Netherlands tram shooting
Police are hunting for a gunman who shot at least four passengers on a train in Utrecht, killing one of them, then fled. BBC:Police say the gunman is still at large. Trains and trams have stopped runn...
01:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Three dead in Netherlands tram shooting
Police are hunting for a gunman who shot at least four passengers on a train in Utrecht, killing three of them, then fled. BBC:Police say the gunman is still at large. Trains and trams have stopped ru...
12:59 pm PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing New iPad Mini, iPad Air
Android tablets being crummy and Microsoft ones being dismembered laptops, it's nice that Apple's unexpectedly announced new models of its aging iPad Mini and iPad Air. The 10.5" iPad Air weighs one p...
11:53 am PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Watch French people try to say difficult English words
Hitting them with "Throughout" first is pretty sadistic. But that they stumble on "choir" suggests that they are hamming it up, un peu? Read the rest...
11:43 am PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Report: U.S. Dept. of Transportation and Justice Department investigating FAA over Boeing 737 MAX
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Transportation has launched an investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of Boeing's 737 MAX jets. Two of the new ai...
06:59 am PDT - Mon, March 18, 2019
BoingBoing Cartoonist Kayfabe: Wizard Magazine 16, December 1992
Ed and Jim's investigation into the 1990's comic book speculation boom and bust continues! In this issue:*The second wave of Image Comics creators is officially upon us with the release of Darker Imag...
11:42 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
It's been a year since the music links on Myspace stopped working; at first the company insisted that they were working on it, but now they've admitted that all those files are lost: "As a result of a...
11:34 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers"
Property developers in London built more than 1,900 luxury flats in 2018, the majority of which have so far failed to sell; all told, there are 3,000 luxury flats on the market, a high-water mark for ...
10:26 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Review: What Do You Call That Noise? An XTC Discovery Book
Two years ago, I reviewed Andy Partridge and Todd Bernhardt's highly-recommended Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC, a collection of deep-nerding conversations between these two musicians about...
10:16 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Legendary surf rock guitarist Dick Dale, RIP
Dick Dale, the "King of the Surf Guitar," has died at age 81. RIP, maestro. Dale's pioneering sound was inspired by his Lebanese uncle who played the oud and taught his nephew the tarabaki, a goblet-s...
08:03 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing School secretary loses job after racist tirade captured on video
"Don't you dare talk in front of kids like that, motherfucker!"Jesse Leavenworth, for The Hartford Courant:The video shows the woman, identified by a school district spokeswoman as Corinne Terrone, re...
06:11 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Four great SoundCloud songs you've probably never heard
I use Apple Music for the majority of my music listening. It works well and lets me add most of my favorite songs, but theres a lot missing from it. From what Ive heard, it takes a little bit of work ...
03:29 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing To do in San Francisco: Future Perfect: A Postcapitalist Adventure from Free Machine on March 24
[Editor's note: I'm on the advisory board for Free Machine, a nonprofit that describes itself as an "LA-based collective of UX designers, artists, urban planners, and policy wonks. By using the tools ...
03:18 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing Chinese enthusiasts are serving global Thinkpad fans by making modern motherboards that fit in classic chassis from the Golden Age of the Thinkpad
After Lenovo bought out IBM's Thinkpad business, they began to tinker with the classic and famously immutable laptop designs: in small ways at first, and then in much larger ones. I buy a new Thinkpad...
02:55 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias
"Fruit Belt" is a 150-year-old predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo that has faced a series of systemic hurdles, each worsening the next, with the latest being the erasure of its very name, wit...
01:38 pm PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing China's "pawn shops" have loaned $43B, mostly secured by real-estate
In reports of China's looming debt crisis, it's common to see references to the "shadow finance" or "shadow banking" system, but it's not always clear what these terms mean. One concrete -- and growin...
03:38 am PDT - Sun, March 17, 2019
BoingBoing J.K. Rowling: Dumbledore and Grindenwald had Incredibly Intense' sexual relationship
J.K. Rowling earlier declared wizarding headmaster Albus Dumbledore a gay man. Much discussion centered on why it wasn't on the page or the screen. Once again, she highlights a sexual dimension to her...
06:38 pm PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing Crowbar-wielding unicorn raids Maryland store for cash and cigarettes
A unicorn armed with a crowbar robbed a convenience store near Baltimore, say police, then fled.Police say the suspect had fled in a silver car. They located what appeared to be the same car after it ...
06:14 pm PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing Anthony Edwards stars in 1985's 'Gotcha!'
Even at age 13, I knew there was more to college than Gotcha!This forgotten campus-game-turns-spy movie played endlessly on either Z Channel or as an HBO Feature Presentation. Gotcha! was supposed to ...
03:27 pm PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing The Lego Apocalypseburg Set: YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!
The second Lego movie includes a memorable scene in Apocalypseburg, an homage to the final scene in Planet of the Apes, complete with a Beyond Thurderdome-style settlement in Lady Liberty's tilted sha...
02:49 pm PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing The latest Right to Repair battle: fake, corporate co-option of Right to Repair measures
The Right to Repair movement is gaining so much ground that the corporations whose profits it threatens are making tiny, symbolic concessions in the hopes of diffusing the energy behind it.Farm equipm...
11:14 am PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing Racist Australian Senator egged by teen after saying Christchurch massacre will eventually be "accepted"
Fraser Anning is a far-right Australian politician in the news for saying that Muslims were themselves responsible for the mass-murder of 49 people in two New Zealand mosques by a white nationalist. A...
01:41 am PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing Man jailed after boasting of pelican abuse
Meet William Hunter Hardesty. Hardesty posted video of himself "manhandling and jumping on top of" a pelican in Key West, boasted about it to other vacationers, and ended up charged with animal cruelt...
12:18 am PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing Ocelot of bouncing around
Boing Boing!It'd be even better if this beautiful ocelot were not in a cage.Wonder if this is what 'Tigger' was based on.That's one big happy kitty.[SOURCE: That's one big happy kitty by OctopussS...
12:12 am PDT - Sat, March 16, 2019
BoingBoing 'Pirates of Caribbean' theme song on a calculator
Genius! You're gonna want to unmute, and turn your sound up.Pirates of Caribbean ThemeFrom TheStrongestBrain on IMGUR. Read the rest...
08:52 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Calls of 'active shooter' lead to evacuation of Century City Mall, Los Angeles police respond to reports of 'Man with a Gun'
Nothing has been confirmed, an LAPD officer told LA Times. Were trying to resolve the situation....
08:07 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Tesla's autopilot anti-collision software tested by attempting to hit wife
Akin to going hunting with Dick Cheney, this bad-idea-with-a-Tesla begs for catastrophe. Read the rest...
08:05 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Radicalized is one of The Verges picks for March!
Well, this is awesome: Andrew Liptak picked my next book, Radicalized as one of The Verge's picks for March! The tour starts Monday!Cory Doctorow is best known for novels, but his new book is a little...
07:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Beto O'Rourke was in the Cult of the Dead Cow and his t-files are still online
Investigative tech journalist Joseph Menn's (previously) next book is a history of the Cult of the Dead Cow (previously) the legendary hacker/prankster group that is considered to be "America's oldest...
07:37 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Bernie Sanders cut his head on shower door, got 7 stitches, shows up to a health care town hall 2 hours later
Bernie Sanders cut his head on the edge of a shower door, received 7 stitches at the hospital, and will pursue his schedule as planned in South Carolina and Nevada, says to his campaign. Bernie Sander...
06:43 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing I used Prague Powder to make corned beef
I've been experimenting with curing meat, cause life has been too long already. Prague Powder is the secret ingredient.While I've tried a couple of different recipes for corned beef I am not ready to ...
06:08 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Surreal on many levels, enjoy this commercial for spray-on maple syrup
From the culture that brought you Cheese-in-a-Can, it is The Maple Stream.Not a Canadian superhero nor a trough urinal at Toronto's Oktoberfest celebration -- this is pressurized maple syrup lazily ...
06:01 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Mysterious bundles of hair turning up on Santa Barbara streets
Mysterious bundles of hair have been turning up on streets in Santa Barbara's Mesa neighborhood. It's not known yet if the hair is human, non-human animal, or synthetic. From KEYT:We reached out to co...
05:46 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators
Using software-defined radios, researchers from Trend Micro were able to reverse-engineer the commands used to control massive industrial machines, including cranes, excavators and scrapers; most of t...
05:22 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Letterlocking: the long-lost art of using paper-folding to foil snoops
"Letterlocking" is a term coined by MIT Libraries conservator Jana Dambrogio after she discovered a trove of letters while spelunking in the conservation lab of the Vatican Secret Archives; the letter...
05:19 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Curious robotic syringe-in-a-pill completes successful human trial
The RaniPill is another syringe that you can swallow to deliver drugs to the bloodstream from the inside. It's triggered by an interesting and complex mechanism involving a chemical reaction that infl...
05:09 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Some pretty impressive machine-learning generated poetry courtesy of GPT-2
GPT-2 is Open AI's language-generation model (last seen around these parts as a means of detecting machine-generated text); it's powerful and cool, and Gwern Branwen fed it the Project Gutenberg poetr...
04:51 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Even Mrs. Gump used the back door to get her boy into school
There's buying school buildings, making million-dollar "donations," photoshopping your kid's head onto a real athlete's body, hiring a grown man to take your child's SAT test, and then there's an admi...
04:37 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Self-insurer Walmart flies its sick employees to out-of-state specialists to avoid local price-gougers
Walmart self-insures its workforce, rather than relying on an outside insurer like Cigna or Blue Cross; this means that it gets to make judgment calls that other firms cannot, and that has led the ret...
04:34 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Gooey, melty, sizzling, steamy fun with lava and dry ice
I've had quite a few fun afternoons playing with dry ice from making spooky fog in the kitchen to exploding plastic bottles in the yard. But I've never had the opportunity to pour hot lava over dry ic...
04:20 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase," a wonderful claymation from 1992
Joan C Gratz's animated short "Mona Lisa Descending A Staircase" is a lovely and trippy 2D claymation of iconic artworks transforming one into another. After spending a decade on the piece, Gratz won ...
04:08 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Big Chemical says higher pollution levels are safe in West Virginia because residents don't drink water, and are so fat that poisons are diluted in their bodies
West Virginia Manufacturers Association (whose major member is Dow Chemical) wants to do something about the frequent "boil water" advisories in the state: specifically, they want to relax the criteri...
02:57 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing This is Birdpunk, the intersection of DIY, environmentalism, and birdwatching
Birdpunk is the quite natural intersection of two subcultures, punk and birding. From a feature article by Steve Neumann in Audobon:The overlap between birding and punk might seem strange to outsiders...
02:43 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Rocket launch seen from the International Space Station
It took place a few weeks ago, but it's a good day for it all the same.Credit: NASA, ISS, Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) Music: Inspiring Adventure Cinematic Background by Maryna Details: https://apod.nasa.gov...
12:08 pm PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Gunman kills 49 in New Zealand mosque shootings
A white man in his 20s was taken into custody after killing 49 and wounding dozens more at two Christchurch mosques, reports the BBC. Authorities described him as an "extremist right-wing terrorist"; ...
12:48 am PDT - Fri, March 15, 2019
BoingBoing Cool project: "I used pi to compose a song that lasts for 999,999 hours"
Canton Becker, an electronic music composer and programmer, composed a procedurally generated song that uses the first billion digits of pi as its input.I haven't listened to all 114 years of the song...
09:34 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing There is a federal criminal investigation into Facebook's data-sharing deals
The Eastern District of New York empaneled a Grand Jury into the dirty data dealings of Facebook....
08:36 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing You'll never guess what app teens use for sexting these days
What's the hottest teen chat app right now? Not Snapchat. Not Tiktok. And not Facebook Messenger (like, eww).Nope. It's none of those. what the media thinks teens like: sextingwhat teens actually like...
08:15 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox & WhatsApp VP Chris Daniels are leaving
Facebook executive shakeup comes one week after company announced "privacy-focused" brand makeover....
08:12 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook Instagram WhatsApp outage 'resolved,' blamed on 'server configuration change'
'Sorry,' and it wasn't a DDOS, says Facebook....
07:07 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing UK parliament votes to delay Brexit
Britain's parliament voted Thursday to delay Brexit, giving the government breathing room after its repeated failure to gain approval for an exit deal with the European Union. The EU must also agree t...
06:51 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Department of Justice explains why it won't release Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman's booking photos
Celebrities Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were among those arrested this week in an unfolding scandal wherein rich people bribed officials at elite colleges, through an intermediary, to accept th...
06:19 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Walt Disney's Frozen Head: a science fiction movie secretly shot at Walt Disney World
Filmmaker Benjamin Lancaster spent four years secretly shooting a science fiction movie called "The Further Adventures of Walt's Frozen Head," working with actors Daniel Cooksley and Ron Schneider to ...
06:16 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Twistable snake reminds me of my childhood
Picking up one of these twistable snakes pretty much makes an hour disappear.Instantly I immediately remembered how to make the soccer ball and the little terrier. I would never have known to consider...
06:07 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Polish newspaper offers anti-semitic tirade "proving" Poland never did anything anti-semitic
The headline How to Spot a Jew graced Poland's right-wing national weekly newspaper Tylko Polska. Said headline was an angry response to a panel discussion of Poland's complicit citizenry during the H...
05:44 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing USC says it will deny all students linked to admissions scandal (and has denied six already)
The University of Southern California, one of the schools heavily involved in the college bribery scandal, said yesterday that they will deny any current applicant who is involved with the scam. In fa...
05:17 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing These prism binoculars are cheaper than ever
The binoculars I bought at a very steep discount are on sale again, and this time they are even cheaper. Use code 63U3YPBN to get them at the sale price. I bought a second pair so Carla and I will eac...
04:31 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing World Citizen Comics: a new line of graphic novels for young activists
Firstsecond Books (previously, publisher of In Real Life, which I created with Jen Wang) has announced a new line of YA-oriented graphic novels called "World Citizen Comics," on contemporary activist ...
04:31 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Watch: Strong winds in Texas blow this semi truck completely on its side
"Oh my god, oh my god," says a bystander as powerful winds blow a moving semi truck over on its side. The sideways truck skids for a bit, knocking down a sign in its path. According to the YouTube pag...
04:20 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Epic colony simulator Dwarf Fortress coming to Itch.io and Steam
Dwarf Fortress, the astonishingly elaborate and in-depth simulation of a community of dwarves settling somewhere in the middle of a vast randomly-generated world, is getting a graphical update, a pric...
04:07 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing A massive victory for fair use in the longrunning Dr Seuss vs Star Trek parody lawsuit
Back in 2016, the Dr Seuss estate won a preliminary court action against "Oh, The Places You'll Boldly Go!" a crowdfunded parody of Dr Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go!" and Star Trek, written by vete...
04:04 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing New York mob boss whacked for first time since 80s
Gambino head Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali was shot eight times then run over outside his Staten Island home Wednesday night. The Daily Beast:The triggerman left 16 holes in Calis body, and investigator...
03:49 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook and Big Tech are monopsonies, even when they're not monopolies
Big Tech is often in a monopoly situation (for example, Amazon's Audible owns something like 90% of the audiobook market), but even where they aren't monopolies, they are often monopsonies: a single b...
03:45 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Lockpicking Lawyer wins $100 proving a fancy padlock can be opened in less than three minutes
Enjoy one minute and eleven seconds of fun from the Lockpicking Lawyer, who makes short work of a Smartkey Kwikset Padlock [Amazon], which you absolutely shouldn't buy as a gift for someone whose prop...
03:19 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Ketamine works great for depression and other conditions, and costs $10/dose; the new FDA-approved "ketamine" performs badly in trials and costs a fortune
Ketamine is a sedative first synthesized in 1962; its patents have long elapsed and it costs pennies; it has many uses and is also sold illegally for use as a recreational drug, but in recent years it...
02:40 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Public transit seating covers reviewed
Feargu O'Sullivan rounds up the good, the bad and the ugly of public transit seating options.Seat cover designs, we believe, need to consider four things:• Memorability. They need to be striking...
02:28 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Happy Pi Day
One for the olds and one for the kids.I have not seen the new show yet, but a friend tells me it is great. Read the rest...
02:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Excellent prank featuring a creepy porcelain doll
From Drayton Valley, Alberta, Canada comes this devilish prank. A woman noticed that her sister was selling a porcelain doll through Facebook's marketplace so she secretly bought it and sneaked it bac...
01:38 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Learn about adjustment layers and layer masks in Photoshop
I've been using Photoshop for years, but I don't know what I'm doing. When I get stuck, I often turn to the YouTube channel Phlearn to learn how to do something. In this easy-to-understand 10-minute v...
01:32 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing A detailed analysis of American ER bills reveals rampant, impossible-to-avoid price-gouging
For more than a year, Vox's Sarah Kliff has been investigating hospital price-gouging in America, collecting hospital bills from her readers and comparing them, chasing up anomalies and pulling on thr...
12:00 pm PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing "Bomb cyclone" snowstorm hits Denver
Denver experienced a "bomb cyclone" snowstorm on Wednesday, with hurricane winds that shut down the runways at Denver International Airport, and parts of the freeway system. CBS news is calling it "th...
04:08 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Loving German Shepherd eyes. Wait 'til the end.
Meet Dogbert the German Shepherd. Such a loving gaze from this German Shepherd to their owner, who's rolling video. Dogbert is rolling, too. Watch it all the way to the end.Loving German Shepherd eyes...
04:02 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing White bats chilling out peacefully in their leaf tent
Honduran white bats in their tent made out of leaves.Photographed by globetrotting rainforest photographer Supreet Sahoo, whose Instagram is amazing. Honduran white bats in their tent made out of leav...
03:47 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing This dog has the most hypnotic eyes
Hypnopup.Australian Shepherds or "aussies" are such intelligent, loyal, work-oriented dogs. Really incredible breed.#HypnoticFrom iwasdoingfinelurking on IMGUR. Read the rest...
03:33 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Bulldogs cleverly try to 'play dead' to avoid being scolded
Who among us has not tried to come up with a novel technique for escaping the consequences of our own foolishness?These dogs try playing dead to avoid getting in trouble for doing something naughty. T...
03:14 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing Dog enjoys riding on his wheelie board
You might say this dog is a wheelie good boy. You might also say the dog is riding a roverboard.A wheelie good boy.From OctopussSevenTwo, via IMGUR. Read the rest...
02:56 am PDT - Thu, March 14, 2019
BoingBoing DIY Giant Epoxy Resin Handle Screwdriver
This epic Giant Epoxy Resin Handle Screwdriver making of video is really something to behold. Jackman Works has outdone himself. Watch the video, below. he's fun on camera. Hope he makes lots more. He...
09:57 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Spotify's antitrust complaint against Apple is a neat parable about Big Tech's monopoly
Spotify has asked the EU Commission to intervene in its business relationship with Apple, citing the fact that Apple takes a 30% vig on all customer revenues from people who join the service or buy so...
09:04 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing The Queen dying, Brad Pitts bigamy, and official approval for hand jobs, in this weeks dubious tabloids
Like a dog chasing a stick thrown a great distance by a trebuchet, this weeks tabloid stories are far-fetched. Did the Queen catch her left hand in a closing door? Not if you believe this weeks Nation...
07:42 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing UK Parliament votes not to leave EU without a deal
Ending the widely-feared possibility of Britain crashing out of the European Union without a Brexit agreement, Parliament voted narrowly against the no-deal "option" Wednesday evening.MPs have voted b...
06:53 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Trump grounds Boeing's deathliner, in a tweet video
pic.twitter.com/2qWkPuFDL6— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2019After Canada grounded it earlier today, the U.S became the last major country where Boeing's troubled 737 MAX jets co...
06:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Dog rescue: A helicopter 1,000 feet above snow happens to spot a stranded pup and gives him a lift
During a winter-training outing in a helicopter 1,000 feet above a snowy region in Scotland, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency happened to spot a dog perched on the ledge of a mountain, stranded in t...
06:20 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Canada bans Boeing's 737 MAX; U.S. now the last major country where it can fly
Canada's aviation authorities grounded Boeing's 737 MAX jets today, leaving the U.S. as the last major air travel market where they can fly. Two of the brand-new airliners have crashed, killing hundre...
05:43 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing With days to go until the CopyrightDirective vote, Article13's father admits it requires filters and says hes OK with killing Youtube
The new EU Copyright Directive will be up for its final vote in the week of Mar 25, and like any piece of major EU policy, it has been under discussion for many years and had all its areas of controve...
05:40 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Ringleader of college admissions scandal now admits he helped over 750 families sneak their way into college
Yesterday, news broke out that the Feds had uncovered the biggest college admissions scandal in US history. This involved over 30 families, including the families of actresses Felicity Huffman and Lor...
05:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Police officer gives pretend ticket to pretend car made from snow
After this weekend's snow in Chadron, Nebraska, Jason Blundell and his kids spent the afternoon sculpting a snow replica of their 1967 Ford Mustang GTA. Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Mick Downing spotted...
05:01 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Gimlet staff announce unionization plan following Spotify acquisition
Gimlet Media, creator of such excellent podcasts as Crimetown, Reply All, and Science Vs, was recently acquired by Spotify for $230m; in the wake of the acquisition, the staff have announced a success...
04:58 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Listen to Tame Impala with Justin Timberlake
so...the less i know the better by tame impala and sexyback by justin timberlake have the same bpm... pic.twitter.com/X9TmmUXfqs— (@benadrylled) March 10, 2019Take 'em to the bridge. Read the r...
04:45 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Cheap sunglasses that evoke the King of Cool
These cheap sunglasses remind me of Steve McQueen's Persols.I take a lot of fashion cues from the King of Cool. McQueen's signature sunglasses were the Persol 714 with blue lenses and damn if they are...
04:44 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Watch a mechanic restore this old watchmaker's micrometer into a gorgeous shiny object
This Swiss watchmaker's micrometer, which was purchased on eBay by a CNC-mechanic for $25, is a rusty, beaten-up old thing that has seen better days. Until the mechanic restores it to a beautiful shin...
04:25 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Save the ARC, the largest popular music library in the United States
New York City's ARChive of Contemporary Music (ARC) is a cultural treasure packed with actual treasures. Inside the walls of this not-for-profit private research library in TriBeCa are 3 million physi...
03:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Bootleg Comics, Cartoonist Kayfabe: Show and Tell 07
Controversial subject matter in this week's episode. Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg showcase a small sample of their favorite unauthorized comics.Subscribe to the Cartoonist Kayfabe youtube channel for update...
03:30 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Bootleg Comics in this week's Cartoonist Kayfabe
Controversial subject matter in this week's episode. Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg showcase a small sample of their favorite unauthorized comics.Subscribe to the Cartoonist Kayfabe youtube channel for update...
03:18 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Fortnite adds "the Baller" and shenanigans commence
The Baller looks like crazy fun! Can't wait to give this a t new vehicle a try. Somehow I think my party will need more than one try to get properly airborne.Can't wait to see this next-level pro-...
02:49 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Chickens kill fox
A fox got trapped in a coop and the chickens fucken murdered it.The unusual incident in Brittany took place after the fox entered the coop with 3,000 hens through an automatic hatch door which closed ...
02:28 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Watch this voice actor's excellent prank on a scammer
Well played, IRLrosie! Read the rest...
02:26 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Man with no free hands rings doorbell
This video illustrates the second-best way to ring a doorbell if you have no free hands. Read the rest...
02:16 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing A delightful snail takes a magic carpet ride full of wonder and joy
I can open your eyesTake you wonder by wonderOver sideways and underOn a magic carpet rideCredits: Hiskm and Dahlek88 (r/Aquariums, thanks Dustin Hostetler!) Read the rest...
01:42 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Airline pilots have been complaining for months about Boeing's deathliner
With the European Union grounding the 737 MAX, North America is one of the last places on Earth you can get a ride on Boeing's deathliner. Despite the brand-new jet's disturbingly similar crashes and ...
01:36 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal
Yesterday, federal authorities announced 50 indictments of college personnel, wealthy parents, and fixers who ran a multi-million-dollar bribery ring that ensured that the slow, plodding, undeserving ...
01:24 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing In 1799 a shark gave evidence for the Royal Navy
In 1799 two Royal Navy ships met on the Caribbean Sea, and their captains discovered they were parties to a mind-boggling coincidence that would expose a crime and make headlines around the world. In ...
01:24 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing They were... Socialist Invaders from the Future!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH scary Socialists from 2019 invade the 1950s to spread their evil brand of radical collectivism....
01:11 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Prince's shoe-maker used to supply 30-40 pairs of high-heeled boots/month, totaling 3,000 pairs
Prince was self-conscious about his height -- 5'3" -- and wore high-heeled boots (either 4" or 3 1/3") whenever he went out in public, and moreover, he did not like to be seen wearing the same pair of...
01:05 pm PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Acoustic meta-material: a shape that reflects sound but passes light and air
A Boston University team have developed an acoustic, 3D-printed metamaterial whose topology is such that it reflects 94% of human-audible sound; the researchers' demonstration involves inserting a rin...
10:42 am PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms
Switzerland is about to have a national election with electronic voting, overseen by Swiss Post; e-voting is a terrible idea and the general consensus among security experts who don't work for e-votin...
09:50 am PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing This superb Straight Outta Compton/Brexit mashup is so good it nearly alleviated my Brexit anxiety for a fraction of an instant
As Theresa May continues to pilot the United Kingdom toward a catastrophic, epochal collision with the Brexit iceberg -- even as her ministers are busy slashing every available lifeboat -- Politics Jo...
01:34 am PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI
63Red Safe is an app affiliated with 63red, a far-right news site, that is a sort of Green Book for racists, identifying restaurants and other establishments that will serve people sporting MAGA hats ...
12:39 am PDT - Wed, March 13, 2019
BoingBoing Watch incredible restored footage of the first nuclear bomb detonation
On July 16, 1945, US Army detonated the first nuclear weapon in New Mexico's Jornada del Muerto desert. Codenamed Trinity, the test was part of the Manhattan Project. Three weeks later, the United Sta...
09:55 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Neal Stephenson's Seveneves Kindle edition at a steep discount
If you haven't yet read Neal Stephenson's 880-page science fiction novel Seveneves, here's your chance to get it at a fraction of the regular price. Read the rest...
08:53 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing I'm going out on tour with my new science fiction book RADICALIZED and I hope to see you!
Radicalized is my next science fiction book, out on March 18 from Tor Books: it contains four novellas about the hope and misery of our moment, from refugees resisting life in an automated IoT hell to...
07:44 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing British parliament rejects Brexit deal again, this time by 149 votes
Prime Minister Theresa May's "Brexit" deal with the EU crashed to defeat for the second time Tuesday. Even with the now-likely prospect of Britain exiting the EU without a deal (or not exiting it at a...
07:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Watch the weird way Mitt Romney blows out the birthday candles on his Twinkies cake
My team surprised me with a cake made out of my favorite snacktwinkies! Looking forward to all this year has in store. pic.twitter.com/lQfyIrQ9Qe— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 12, 2019This is...
07:12 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Woman buys 30 lottery tickets with the same numbers after seeing them "a couple of times during the day" and wins $150,000
A woman in Virginia saw the same group of four numbers, 1-0-3-1, "a couple of times during the day" and decided it was a sign. She went with her gut, bought 20 lottery tickets choosing those same numb...
06:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Star Wars Trench Run LEGO set
For under $25 the X-Wing Fighter and Turbo Laser LEGO set is getting snapped together soon!With Luke, R2 and Storm Trooper minifigs, this new smaller Star Wars kit is one of many I'll be picking up th...
06:20 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Fortnite forces console cross-play for Xbox One and PS4
Evidently, Xbox and PlayStation console players will now share a single competitive pool. PlayStation long resisted letting their units connect with players who had not offered fealty, but Fortnite is...
06:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing A righteous mother charged in the college cheating scandal scolded others about cheating on Instragram
Jane Buckingham is the founder of a boutique marketing agency called Trendera, which counts Target, Nickelodeon, Hearst, Stubhub, and Hilton Worldwide among its clients.On May 8, 2018Buckingham posted...
05:56 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing How to turn a chocolate easter egg into a pinhole camera
In this delightful project, Will Gudgeon turned a frozen chocolate easter egg into a fun and effective pinhole camera. The first step is to eat the contents. "The main challenges were it melting, crac...
05:26 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Parents and college prep agent allegedly deepfaked photos of kids to make them look athletic
In today's stunning news of a college bribery scandal alleging that ultrawealthy, well-connected, privileged elites conspired with a college preparatory business to falsify their children's test score...
05:26 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Watch: The Inventor documentary trailer about the rise and fall of Theranos grifter Elizabeth Holmes
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, HBO's documentary about fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, who started her multi-billion-dollar healthcare company Theranos when she was 19-years-old, airs on M...
05:15 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Poll shows old white men lead the Democratic presidential race
According to a new poll, two old white guys with troubled records on everything from race, misogyny, and guns lead the Democratic party's list of potential Presidential candidates.The Hill:Former Vice...
05:04 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Watch a pedestrian just miss getting crushed by a collapsing building
This unidentified fellow barely missed being crushed by bricks and rubble falling off a building on London's Stoke Newington High Street. According to the BBC, the collapse was likely caused by high w...
05:00 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Man tweets that his dad's new donut shop has no customers, response is overwhelmimg
"My dad is sad cause no one is coming to his new donut shop ," tweeted the son of the proprietor of Billy's Donuts in Missouri City, Texas. The brilliant marketing move resulted in a sell-out of donut...
04:58 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Maintaining my target weight and somewhat managing back pain with a homebrew Peloton bike
I've been holding steady at my target weight for over 5 months, despite numerous back injuries and setbacks. At the heart of my fitness routine is a homebrew Peloton cycle.More often than not I forget...
04:55 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing New York public school lunch program will have "Meatless Mondays"
Next year, New York City public schools will initiate "Meatless Mondays" as part of their lunch program. Students will be served all vegetarian food for breakfast and lunch. (Note: photo above for ill...
04:07 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Man missed doomed Ethiopia flight by 2 minutes
Antonis Mavropoulos ran through the airport to catch his flight, missing it by two minutes. He demanded to be let on, for them to open the gate. He watched the passengers in the bellows board the plan...
03:59 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Trump's FCC relies on telcos to self-police anti-robocall measures and they're planning on gutting existing regs, so John Oliver is robocalling the whole FCC every 90 minutes
Every 90 minutes, the office phones of all five FCC Commissioners rings and John Oliver's voice comes out of it, demanding that they take action on robocalls, reversing FCC Chairman (and former Verizo...
03:38 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Rise of the Surveillance Scooters?
Imagine being falsely accused of a crime, and even though you know you did nothing wrong, youre forced to wear a tracking device that monitors every time you leave the house: where you go, when, and f...
03:30 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Beninese musician/activist/genius Anglique Kidjo has released a tribute to Talking Heads' Remain in Light and IT. IS. FUCKING. AMAZING.
Anglique Kidjo is a Beninese musician of enormous talent and repute (and three Grammys!); with 10 brilliant albums to her credit; album number ten is special, though: a tribute to Talking Heads' 1980 ...
03:18 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Offshore illegal GOP campaign megadonors receive record FEC fines after The Intercept reveals their crimes
Back in 2016, The Intercept ran a blockbuster series revealing how foreign businesspeople were illegally laundering massive campaign contributions to Jeb Bush and other GOP presidential hopefuls.Yest...
03:06 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing What ephemeral messaging is good for
A few years ago, a friend of mine, Nico Sell (who runs the Defcon kids' programming track r00tz) asked me to join the advisory board for her startup, Wickr, which does "ephemeral messaging," a subject...
03:02 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Clicker games honored, decried
You know that what you're playing is a little more than an attention trap devised by ironists or perhaps even psychologists, barely fun in any meaningful sense, a dopamine reward mechanism veiled only...
02:39 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing One company bought all the retail outlets for glasses, used that to force sales of all the eyewear companies and jacked up prices by as much as 1000%
If you wear glasses, you might have noticed that they've been getting steadily more expensive in recent years, no matter which brand you buy and no matter where you shop.That's because a giant-but-obs...
02:01 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Stockholm bus explosion caught on dashcam
No-one was killed in the bus, which was empty of passengers, but the driver suffered serious burns. The explosion was caused by a "traffic accident," say authorities; the vehicle runs on natural gas, ...
12:48 pm PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Australia, Singapore, China ground Boeing's 737 MAX
The BBC reports that Australia and Singapore have disallowed Boing's 737 MAX series from flying in or our of their airports, joining other countries in grounding the jets.The decision comes after an E...
02:37 am PDT - Tue, March 12, 2019
BoingBoing Streaming 2003's Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: I am a padawan
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is one of the most beloved video games of all time. Ride along as I miserably stumble my way through an award-winning game 16 years after its release.There is som...
11:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Dachshund enjoys snuggling bunny
Because it's nice to cuddle up with a friend sometimes.Poppy the dachsie tucking himself in.Prepare to say awww....[Source] Read the rest...
11:50 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Clever bird adapts to pecking order
Sometimes life comes at you fast, and you just have to make the best of a challenging situation.This clever birdie finds a way to make it work.Clever Read the rest...
11:36 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Moose enjoys treats
He is very gentle when he takes his treats.Just a note.... I would not recommend feeding a random moose, they are incredibly powerful animals.Treats for Bruce[via] Read the rest...
11:24 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing After taking them down, Facebook restores Elizabeth Warren ads calling for breakup of Facebook
This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook's advertising policies, the ban notice read....
11:04 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Larry Page approved $150M stock grant to Andy Rubin despite sex abuse allegations & without board's OK, lawsuit claims
Alphabet and Google co-founder Larry Page did not ask his company's board of directors for approval before personally approving a $150 million dollar stock grant to disgraced Android executive Andy Ru...
10:51 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Here's a big pile of snoozing doggies
All aboard the bedtime train, puppers.Three dogs, one fluffy mammalian cuddle pile. Weimaraner, German Shorthair Pointer, and a big old Chocolate Lab.All aboard the bedtime train..[via] Read the rest...
10:37 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Kazoo-ing metalheads vs Westboro Baptist Church
A group of metalheads playing kazoos drowned out the hate-spreading 'Westboro Baptist Church' cult at the Virginia state capitol. I am proud of my home town.Photos and article by Ned Oliver at the Vir...
10:21 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Sleep is a brain-repair mechanism, new study proves
Scientists Lior Appelbaum and David Zada in Israel publish new proof that sleep serves to help our brains repair damage. Their study, published in the journal Nature, used genetically engineering tran...
07:58 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing My favorite ice cream scoop is on sale today
The Zeroll Ice Cream Scoop feels good in your hand. The scoop is designed to bite into hard ice cream and roll the ice cream onto the scoop. It has some kind of heat conductive liquid inside the handl...
07:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Watching this toddler try and try to stack cups is highly engaging
There is something so satisfying about watching this toddler struggle and then finally succeed in stacking her colorful nesting cups. After trial and error and deep concentration two-year-old Clari...
06:35 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Visually impaired 6-year-old practices Bohemian Rhapsody
Six-year-old Avett Ray knows how to play the piano and can really belt out a song. Here he is practicing "Bohemian Rhapsody." Read the rest...
06:32 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing A brief history of the bizarre, unholy offspring of Tetris
In 1984, Alexey Pajitnov, then working for the Russian Academy of Sciences, completed his masterpiece, Tetris. It was perfection and, sadly, could only go downhill from there, as the inimitable videog...
06:31 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Watch: Angry kangaroo punches paraglider as soon as he lands
An Australian paraglider who makes a smooth landing gets a hostile reception from an angry kangaroo. When paraglider John Bishop lands, a kangaroo comes charging towards him, with its friend following...
06:20 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing These otherworldly caves in Bermuda were the birthplace of Fraggle Rock
In Bermuda, the enchanting Crystal Caves attract tourists with their huge stalactites and stalagmites above the clear water pools. As a child, Michael K. Frith frequently visited the caves and never f...
06:10 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Cute at any size
Just when you think it can't get any better, it does pic.twitter.com/FKgYZlDHKW— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) March 10, 2019Nothing like a giant breed dog who won't stop growing. Read the res...
05:47 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Listen to the last song John Lennon recorded
On November 14, 1980, John Lennon recorded three rough songs at the apartment he shared with Yoko Ono in New York City's The Dakota apartments. "You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love)" was the last d...
05:46 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Here's a video montage of Gordon Ramsey being served execrable seafood dishes
"When you take a bite of that cod it's almost like you've got a breaded condom in your mouth." -- Gordon Ramsay critiques fish and chips served at a seafood restaurant specializing imitation crab and ...
05:42 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing The science behind Lil Bub's supreme cuteness
Ever wondered why that cute cat Lil Bub is so cute? These scientists discovered a rare genetic disorder that basically gives the beast 'kawaii.'Inforum:First, they compared her genome with that of a r...
05:38 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Woman demands that plane turn back mid-flight when she realizes she forgot her baby at the airport
A woman flying from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia over the weekend insisted the plane turn back mid-flight when she realized she had forgotten something important at the airport: her baby. Following protoc...
05:30 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Exquisitely engineered "soft" robotic arm is powered by air
Several years ago, I wrote a feature for Bloomberg Businessweek about soft robotics, "in which steel skeletons and power-hungry motors make way for textiles." The idea is that soft robots, often power...
05:26 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing The "Dutch Reach" car-door opening technique prevents injury to cyclists
One of my fears is opening my car door just as a cyclist is coming by, causing a dangerous collision. I always look before I open, but I'm going to start opening the door with a "Dutch Reach" as an ad...
05:26 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing I absolutely loved Becky Chambers' 'The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet'
Recently, I noticed Becky Chambers' runaway hit The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet was available via Kindle Unlimited. I regret having waited so long to read this widely acclaimed novel.A Long Way ...
05:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing How to easily draw a fantastic optical illusion of a 3D city
As a high school student, I would have enjoyed learning to use ruled paper to draw anamorphic illusions instead of (not) taking notes. (via The Kid Should See This) Read the rest...
05:05 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Three minute explainer of the Brexit paradox
An agreement was made long ago to maintain an open border between Northern Ireland (part of the UK) and the independent country of Ireland (part of the EU). The problem is, when the UK leaves the EU, ...
04:45 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Short video about the last Fascination-for-cash arcade
Fascination used to be a popular arcade game at carnival boardwalks around the country. It's like a cross between Bingo and Skee-Ball. Players compete against each other to roll balls down a table wit...
04:14 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Why Article13 inevitably requires filters
When the German MEP Axel Voss took over the new EU Copyright Directive and reinstated the controversial Article 13, he was explicit that the idea of the rule was to make all online services use filter...
04:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are "BreedReady"
Security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered an insecure Chinese database of 1.8 million women, aged 15-39, along with phone numbers, GPS coordinates, photo URLs, ID card numbers, marital status, ...
03:26 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Good deals today on 2018 iPad Pros
I finally pulled the trigger on the new iPad Pro because of today's deals at Amazon; affiliate links follow below. Every year I throw all my computers in a dumpster and make another desperate, clawing...
02:54 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing House Republicans propose poisoning Net Neutrality bill with Article-13-like liability
Last week, House Democrats introduced the Save the Internet Act, to enact the Net Neutrality protections favored by 83% of Americans; in response, Rep Greg Walden (R-OR, @repgregwalden, +1 (541) 776-4...
02:37 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing A recursive plaque honoring the installation of a plaque honoring the installation of a plaque honoring the installation of...
Hugh writes, "This plaque commemorates its own commemoration." (Photo by Dr Vicky Forster): "This plaque was commemorated on October 10, 2018,commemorate its own commemoration. Plaques like this one a...
02:33 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Universal Studios is chipping their soda cups to limit refills
A room at a Universal Studios Florida hotel tonight will cost you $197-$536 (plus admission tickets to the park), but make sure that you do all your soda drinking in one compact session, because Unive...
02:23 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Improbably great: a site that reduces complex technical news to a few bullet points
Bullets.tech takes important technical news stories and reduces them to a few salient bullet points that provide a really (really!) good overview of the story; it's very similar to what I try to do he...
02:17 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Former Archbishop of Canterbury cheers on students who are walking out to demand action on climate change
Months of student strikes have roiled the UK as pupils across the country have refused to go to class while demanding action on climate change, inspired by Swedish student Greta Thunberg's one-person ...
02:06 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Defect in car security system aids carjackers, thieves
Since 2016, there have been multiple instances of attacks on keyless entry car-locks, and there's a burgeoning industry of expensive ($5000) aftermarket alarm systems that are billed as protecting you...
01:18 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Captain Marvel storms to $455m opening weekend
Despite a conservative boycott and their relentless online whining about the woman-led blockbuster, Captain Marvel stormed to an epic box office over the weekend, earning $455m. So, for reference, the...
01:09 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing How to build a nice fireplace in Minecraft
It's been a while since I returned to the blocky, charming world of Minecraft, but this video from 2010 is going viral and satisfies the urge. The fireplace tutorial begins about a minute in. Read the...
12:59 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Man invents wasp vacuum and ends up with box of wasps
Today in "I don't know what I expected": former Blackberry engineer and YouTuber Matthais Wandel's ingenious but doom-laden wasp vacuum.Tell you what, Happy Mutants, if you like this and fancy a light...
12:07 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Tucker Carlson concedes child rape is "unpopular" in passionate defense of child rape
In calls to a radio show, Fox News host Tucker Carlson defended a child rapist, justified child rape, and said that women were "extremely primitive." Between 2006 and 2011, Tucker Carlson spent approx...
12:00 pm PDT - Mon, March 11, 2019
BoingBoing Earn certifications in machine learning and data science
Big companies want automation on a big scale. Doing that means diving into the tricky world of machine learning and data science. And no matter what platform you'll be implementing it on, you can lear...
02:25 pm PDT - Sun, March 10, 2019
BoingBoing AOC feints towards fully automated luxury communism
During a talk at SXSW yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got an audience question about automation and jobs and answered by saying, "We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of ...
02:15 pm PDT - Sun, March 10, 2019
BoingBoing The eminently electable Bernie Sanders enjoys strong support from African-Americans and young people
When critics want to dismiss Bernie Sanders's bid to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, the say that he is too old and too white, and incapable of bringing young people and racialized p...
12:00 pm PDT - Sun, March 10, 2019
BoingBoing Get certified in Cisco network security with this course
Big systems need tight security - and the experts who can implement it. Cisco Networking Systems are the go-to providers for network infrastructure, but maintaining it takes a lot of up-to-date knowle...
08:01 am PST - Sun, March 10, 2019
BoingBoing The strangest FOIA redactions (and FOIA releases) MuckRock has seen over the years
[Editor's note: We're happy to help our public record ninja friends at Muckrock celebrate Sunshine Week with this tribute to the censor's heavy hand -Cory]After nine years and over 60,000 requests, Mu...
02:06 am PST - Sun, March 10, 2019
BoingBoing Living dinosaurs could be recreated within a decade, says paleontologist
Genetic research "could engineer dinosaurs back into existence" within a decade, according to the paleontologist who helped inspire Michael Chrichton's novel Jurassic Park.Famed paleontologist Dr. Jac...
01:24 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones
Palmer Luckey (previously) the alt-right financier who was made a billionaire by Mark Zuckerberg's decision to acquire his VR startup Oculus, is now running a Peter-Thiel-backed surveillance startup c...
01:12 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Pentagon reassures public that its autonomous robotic tank adheres to "legal and ethical standards" for AI-driven killbots
The Pentagon is seeking bids to improve its Advanced Targeting and Lethality Automated System (ATLAS) so that it can "acquire, identify, and engage targets at least 3X faster than the current manual p...
01:06 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art
Generative Adversarial Networks use a pair of machine-learning models to create things that seem very realistic: one of the models, the "generator," uses its training data to make new things; and the ...
01:00 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Improve your PC's performance with this top-rated software
Computer slowing down? There are a ton of reasons why that might be, especially if your unit has a few years on it. Junk files and programs can accumulate over time, some even left over from otherwise...
12:53 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Elizabeth Warren reveals her plan to break up Big Tech
Would-be Democratic Presidential nominee Elizabeth Warren (I've donated to her campaign, as well as Bernie Sanders') has published her latest policy prescription: a plan to break up Big Tech monopolis...
12:31 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing The US requires visas for some EU citizens, so now all US citizens visiting the EU will need visas, too
Many countries around the world have a policy of reciprocal border treatment -- I once traveled to Uganda and the visa payment demanded at the border varied on your citizenship, based on what your cou...
12:31 pm PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing The US requires visas for some EU citizens, so now all US citizens visiting the EU will be subjected to border formalities too
Many countries around the world have a policy of reciprocal border treatment -- I once traveled to Uganda and the visa payment demanded at the border varied on your citizenship, based on what your cou...
03:57 am PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing I'm streaming a couple hours of 'Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic'
Watch me fail as a Jedi.Considered one of the greatest videogames of all-time, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic won game of the year in 2003.Are you bored too? Spark a J, grab a drink, and join m...
02:28 am PST - Sat, March 9, 2019
BoingBoing Jussie Smollett indicted on 16 felony counts for faking his assault
A grand jury indicted Jussie Smollett on 16 felony counts of disorderly conduct for falsely reporting that he was assaulted by two men who, he claimed, targeted the Empire actor because he is black an...
09:09 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing These prism binoculars are supercheap with promo code
Carla and I are going to see the Rolling Stones in concert and I wanted to get a pair of binoculars. I found these highly rated ones on Amazon and I used a promo code and the price was ridiculously ch...
08:49 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing When you are ready to go home
Let's get this done and get home. No time for lollygagging.This Pup knows what he's about.Pup knows what he's about. Read the rest...
08:39 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Texas judge told a jury that God personally told him that a sex trafficking defendant should be acquitted
Texas district judge Jack Robison told a jury that his god told him to tell a jury to acquit a sex trafficking defendant. The jury was not persuaded and found Gloria Romero Perez guilty. The Texas Jud...
08:32 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing ICE is detaining 50,000 people under Trump, an all-time high
For the first time in our nation's history, the United States government is detaining over 50,000 people it claims to be undocumented immigrants in jails, prisons, and makeshift detention camps across...
08:24 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Bob Ross through Google's DeepDream
DeepDream is AI software developed by Google to identify things it finds in images. Most people know it for the way it turns photos and videos into hallucinatory kaleidoscopic nightmares, in which fac...
08:23 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Star Wars Clone Wars to return in 2019
This trailer for 12 soon-to-be-released new episodes of Star Wars long-canceled Clone Wars punched me in the gut and then gave me hope. I can not wait to see these missing chapters. Read the rest...
08:22 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Groggy cats recovering from anesthesia are pretty funny
These kitties are coming off of anesthesia, and their tongues are hanging out kind of adorably.Quick pet their soft bellies while they cant defend themselves.Cats recovering from anesthesia Read the r...
07:59 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Accused human sex trafficker gave thousands to Trump campaign and hung out with Don Jr. at Mar-a-Lago
Li Yang, 45, with Donald Trump at the Super Bowl, rooting for the Patriots. Just 2 weeks later, authorities charged team owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution at a spa in Jupiter, Florida t...
07:59 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Alleged human sex trafficker gave thousands to Trump campaign and hung out with Don Jr. at Mar-a-Lago
Li Yang, aka Cindy Yang, 45, with Donald Trump at the Super Bowl, rooting for the Patriots. Just 2 weeks later, authorities charged team owner Robert Kraft with soliciting prostitution at a spa in Ju...
07:50 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing A machine-learning system that guesses whether text was produced by machine-learning systems
Gltr is an MIT-IBM Watson Lab/Harvard NLP joint project that analyzes texts and predicts whether that text was generated by a machine-learning model.Automatically produced texts use language models de...
07:47 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook won't accept ads for Hump, Dan Savage's delightful homebrew porno film-festival
Hump is a festival showcasing homemade pornographic shorts (5 minutes or less), created by beloved sex- and relationship-advice columnist Dan Savage (the guy who made Rick Santorum's name synonymous w...
07:43 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Millions of Americans have left Facebook, led by young people aged 12-34
A new report from Edison Research finds Facebook's American user-base contracted for the second consecutive year in 2018, shrinking by 15,000,000, and that the biggest declines have come from the cove...
07:41 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Thanks to audiobooks, reading's popularity still strong in America
Reading remains solidly popular in America, with the latest figures from Pew showing that print book readership remains at same levels as they were in 2012: about 74% of Americans have read at least o...
07:39 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing The media company paid by the EU Parliament to make a video promoting a copyright law it stood to make millions from once sued a photographer for complaining that they'd ripped him off
Yesterday, I wrote about how MEP Julia Reda resolved the mystery of how the European Parliament came to produce a batshit smear-campaign video promoting the new Copyright Directive and smearing the op...
07:37 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Man, angry at likeness being used to show that hipsters all look the same, learns it's not him in the photo
A man was angry that a photo of him was used to illustrate the claim that hipsters all look alike. But when he threatened to sue the magazine, he learned that the photo was of a different person.The s...
07:37 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing La Croix CEO's wacky 'handicapped' slur makes me want to stop drinking La Croix
Managing a brand is not so different from caring for someone who becomes handicapped. Nick A. Caporella, who is CEO of the company that makes La Croix, said this, in 2019.National Beverage Corporation...
07:29 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Judge tells jury to acquit accused sex trafficker because God said she's innocent
In Comal County, Texas, judge Jack Robison, presiding over the trial of accused sex trafficker Gloria Romero Perez, walked into the jury room after the jurors landed on a guilty verdict and urged them...
07:18 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Cops search dying man's hospital room for weed
Cops raided the hospital room of a Missouri man with stage four pancreatic cancer because a concerned citizen suspected he was using marijuana. The patient said he prefers THC capsules to opioids for ...
07:14 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Bill Shine, former Fox News exec, is out as Trumps communications strategist
Chris Hayes put it best: Luckily for Bill Shine there are lots of organizations desperate for someone whose core competency is covering up sexual harassment....
06:45 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Adnan Syeds conviction reinstated by Maryland Court of Appeals
Court rules Adnan Syed not entitled to a new trial, in case that formed basis for Serial podcast and new HBO docu-series premiering Sunday March 10 on HBO....
06:41 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Andrew Jackson becomes Rambo and other great moments in money art
Illustrator Boden Him makes fantastic money art, transforming US presidents into pop culture icons. See more here: Illegal Tender.(via r/interestingasfuck) Read the rest...
06:40 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Airwolf star Jan-Michael Vincent dead at 74
Twice nominated for Golden Globe awards but remembered mostly for his role in 1980s action show Airwolf, Jan-Michael Vincent is dead at 74.He died Feb 10 at a North Carolina hospital, reports the BBC....
06:40 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Creek Indians donate $180,000 to cover funeral costs for 23 Alabama tornado victims
Recent tornado killed 23 in tiny town on Alabama-Georgia border, including 4 children, and 7 people from one family....
06:33 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing The best quote from Aminatou Sow's interview in The Cut is about Elizabeth Holmes's "fake blood machine"
"The thing I learned in Silicon Valley is that theres a pot of money bigger than I ever imagined. Thats when I realized I dont need to feel some sort of way about asking for $70,000 at work when Eliza...
06:24 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Catchy German cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" but with lyrics about Sherlock Holmes
Famed German schlager-psych duo Cindy und Bert belt out a cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid but with alternate lyrics about, um, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervill...
06:13 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing The Simpsons producers are pulling the classic Michael Jackson episode
The producers of The Simpsons are pulling the 1991 "Stark Raving Dad" episode featuring Michael Jackson, uncredited, from rerun rotation and streaming services. This follows news that a number of radi...
05:38 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Scahdenflying: the super-rich are getting ripped off like crazy on their private jet billings
Private jet companies generate a flurry of impenetrable invoices for their customers, with separate bills for crew, catering, fuel, airport fees, etc, and these represent a bonanza for scammy invoice-...
05:38 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Schadenflying: the super-rich are getting ripped off like crazy on their private jet billings
Private jet companies generate a flurry of impenetrable invoices for their customers, with separate bills for crew, catering, fuel, airport fees, etc, and these represent a bonanza for scammy invoice-...
05:33 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Cartoonist Kayfabe is Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg's new YouTube channel
Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg are well known to readers of Boing Boing, as we had the honor of publishing Ed's epic comic history Hip Hop Family Tree and Jim's brilliant Street Angel. Now they've launched a ...
05:19 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Chelsea Manning has been jailed for refusing to testify at a grand jury about her whistleblowing
Last week, Chelsea Manning announced that she would fight a subpoena to appear before a Grand Jury and testify about her whistleblowing activities, citing her concern that "testimony before grand juri...
05:13 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Towards a general theory of "adversarial examples," the bizarre, hallucinatory motes in machine learning's all-seeing eye
For several years, I've been covering the bizarre phenomenon of "adversarial examples (AKA "adversarial preturbations"), these being often tiny changes to data than can cause machine-learning classifi...
02:15 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Colorado cops draw guns on black man picking up trash on his own lawn
Police in Boulder, Colorado, drew their guns on a black man who was picking up trash on his own lawn. The first responder suggests that the man's trash grabber is a weapon; more cops soon arrive to es...
01:52 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Newly-discovered spider deemed most beautiful
This photo, courtesy of the British Tarantula Society, shows the recently-discovered burrow-dwelling spider [Birupes simoroxigorum] in its full glory.It's been described as the most beautiful spider (...
01:34 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Video of piano performance has twist ending
You may, about thirty seconds in, wonder what's up with terribletan's performance of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16. Stick with it. Read the rest...
01:11 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing Mark Zuckerberg has "secret escape passageway" under conference room
At least he knows how it's all going to end: fleeing pursuers who have located the secret tunnel in his corporate lair.Zuckerberg doesn't typically work in a cordoned-off office like a traditional cor...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing This CMYK color puzzle is maddening yet meditative
Puzzle fanatics, take note. If you're bored with 3D gimmick constructions or complex panorama puzzles, take a gander at this new, minimalist offering that might change your game. A simple concept exec...
12:22 am PST - Fri, March 8, 2019
BoingBoing DIY: Video game cartridges laser-carved in wood
I originally only made NES/SNES cartridges out of wood. Someone kept on bugging me to make him a Soul Reaver cartridge, so I eventually made him one. This was made out walnut, cherry and poplar using ...
11:58 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison in Virginia trial, sentencing in Washington DC case next week
Trump's former campaign chief faced up to 25 years in prison, was sentenced to less than four....
11:36 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Animal photo art search engine
x6udpngx's x6ud is a single-purpose search engine that offers high-quality animal photographs for use by artists seeking reference material. It also has a 3D head that you can rotate Read the rest...
11:32 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Epic DIY medieval castle playroom/bedroom built for grandkids
What an amazing DIY castle playroom-bedroom for some seriously lucky grandkids. Truly epic, from IMGURian jshepherddesign2000.About the top image: Mural and drawbridge bed. Chains are plastic and easi...
11:09 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Email firm left 809 million records exposed online
Security researchers announced at RSAC today announced they have discovered a trove of 809 million personal records exposed on the internet. This time more than just emails and passwords were exposed ...
10:21 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing German couple who tested ricin on hamster charged with 'plotting Islamist attack'
A couple who tested the effects of the poison ricin on their hamster have been charged by the government of Germany with plotting a terrorist attack.On Thursday, German authorities said suspects Sief ...
09:35 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing The Hall Typewriter: the world's first 'laptop'
Martin Howard from Antique Typewriter (previously) writes, "In 1881, Thomas Hall, a Brooklyn engineer, invented the first portable typewriter that would enable a person to type with the machine anywhe...
09:16 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Stylophone business card
Master maker Tim Jacobs created a fantastic business card that's actually a Stylophone synthesizer complete with MIDI capabilities. It's based on the original 1967 Dbreq Stylophone, a small synthesize...
09:14 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Best garlic crusher
I've yet to find a hinged garlic press that I love. The ones I've tried are inefficient, fragile (especially the hinge, which inevitably fails), and not that easy to clean. I end up having to peel the...
09:09 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing There is no fear in this dojo! 'Cobra Kai' is back!
The first season of Cobra Kai was wonderful. I am excited to binge watch Season 2. Read the rest...
08:31 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Brianna Wu announces her 2020 Congressional bid for MA-8
Frank Wu writes, "Today Brianna Wu, progressive Democrat and cybersecurity expert, is launching her 2020 bid for US Congress in MA-8! She has a brand new video, in which she introduces herself, and t...
08:09 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Ajit Pai has been touting new broadband investment after he murdered Net Neutrality, but he's been relying on impossible data from a company called Barrierfree
Ever since he killed Net Neutrality with dirty tricks and illegal tactics, Donald Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has been claiming that his actions had stimulated broadband growth in America, a claim h...
07:41 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing 2001: A Space Odyssey presented as a children's read-along book
This is the audio track from a 1984 children's read-along book adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The person who posted this to Reddit said, "If the abstract themes of this deep sci-fi classic escap...
07:36 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Will the DVD logo hit the corner of the screen?
Remember the scene below from The Office (US) in which the gang was captivated by the bouncing DVD player screensaver as they waited for the logo to hit the corner of the screen? There are now several...
07:26 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing How to make a super-hydrophobic labyrinth game
You're probably familiar with the labyrinth game that challenges you to move a steel ball through a wooden maze that has holes to avoid. This guy made a similar maze, but instead of a marble, he used ...
07:07 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Here's the trailer for the Apollo 11 documentary
The Apollo 11 documentary is premiering in theaters tomorrow. It makes use of a "newly discovered trove of 65mm footage," which is very crisp, making it look like it was shot yesterday instead of 50 y...
06:56 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Measles outbreak sends 800 Washington students home
Measles is no joke. Anti-vaxxers are dangerously inviting infectious disease back into our society.NBC:In the Washington county that is home to one of the nations largest measles outbreaks, the effect...
06:56 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Snail amuses itself with a carrot
It's hard to believe that snails like to play, but that's what this one looks like it's doing with a baby carrot in this time-lapse video.From YouTube description:I have two nerite snails named Randol...
06:56 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Firefox is getting more browser fingerprinting protection courtesy of Tor Browser's "letterboxing" technique
Even if you block cookies, many sites still track you with "browser fingerprinting," that use the unique combination of your screen resolution, browser and OS version, installed fonts and plugins, and...
06:44 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Meet the billionaire Sackler family behind the national opioid crisis
Full Frontal's Samantha Bee presents the Sackler family, "art patrons, cosmopolitans, and, believe it or not, almost single-handedly responsible for the nationwide opioid crisis."The Sacklers aren't j...
06:41 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing It's on: House Democrats introduce their promised Net Neutrality legislation
House Democrats have made good on their promise to introduce the Save the Internet Act, legislation mandating Network Neutrality, which would force the FCC to reinstate the policy that Trump's Chairma...
06:02 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing University dean resigns after school denies Chick-fil-A a location on campus
Cynthia Newman, dean of the college of business administration at Rider University in New Jersey, has resigned from that position after her school denied Chick-fil-A a campus location "based on the co...
05:47 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing I made this cool desktop video game arcade machine with the help of a Glowforge laser cutter
This post was sponsored by Glowforge. Click here to get $100 off a Glowforge Basic, $250 off a Glowforge Plus, or $500 off a Glowforge Pro.This is the second of two videos on how to make a Raspberry P...
05:42 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Watch Johnny Rotten act like an ass to Henry Rollins and Marky Ramone last night
At a panel in West Hollywood last night to promote the new documentary series Punk, John Lydon gave a wonderful performance as Johnny Rotten in which he talked trash to both Henry Rollins and Marky Ra...
05:14 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Pet insurance approved my giant dog's large claim nearly instantly, with no stress
I can focus on helping my Great Pyrenees, Nemo, recover from really miserable surgery rather than worrying about the thousands of dollars it is costing.Five-year-old Nemo blew out his knees. A not-rar...
05:11 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Carolee Schneemann, pioneering performance artist, RIP
Carolee Schneemann -- a performance art pioneer whose deeply provocative and thoughtful work focused on gender, sex, the body, and power -- died yesterday at age 79. My first exposure to Schneemann's ...
02:47 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Brazil's far-right president asks Twitter what a golden shower is
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's recently-elected ultraconservative president, has a question for his Twitter followers: "O que golden shower?"The New York Post:What is a golden shower? Bolsonaro tweeted on ...
02:43 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing The "Tragedy of the Commons" was invented by a white supremacist based on a false history, and it's toxic bullshit
In a brilliant Twitter thread, UCSB political scientist Matto Mildenberger recounts the sordid history of Garrett Hardin's classic, widely cited 1968 article "The Tragedy of the Commons," whose ideas ...
02:26 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Taco Bell employees beat up customer in street after complaint
This Taco Bell in Philadephia has a quick and effective strategy for dealing with customer complaints: beat the crap out of them.It happened around 10:45 p.m. at the Taco Bell at 10th and Chestnut str...
01:58 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive
At the end of February, the EU Commission released a bizarre video "explaining" the Copyright Directive, a controversial and sweeping internet regulation that has inspired more opposition than anythin...
01:52 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Tim Apple
"We appreciate it very much, Tim Apple," said President Bankrupt. Read the rest...
01:35 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Diner carpet cleaned
At a mercifully-unnamed diner, Mike Pailliotet professionally cleans some truly nasty carpet: low-pile commercial pile at a stage far beyond mere filth. It's been transformed into a rubbery, slightly ...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Grab the leading 2D animation software at half off
The moving image is a powerful thing, whether it's telling a story or selling a brand. And with the advent of animation software, what used to be a painstaking process is now easy and available to any...
03:10 am PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Absolutely spectacular first-ever air-to-air images of supersonic jets' shockwaves interacting
For a decade, NASA scientists have worked on an air-to-air photographic technology that will be used to collect data for the agency's next-generation supersonic airplane project. They've just released...
01:41 am PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Dog is one happy traveler
You can imagine his little tail wagging so hard inside that rollaboard luggage case he's riding in.Happytraveler Read the rest...
01:14 am PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting
Mark Zuckerberg's 3,000 word blog post about his plan to create a parallel set of Facebook services that contain long-overdue privacy protections has plenty to please both the regulators who are incre...
12:27 am PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing Fly freely around the 3D worlds of your favorite (mostly Nintendo) games
noclip.website hosts the extracted levels of various classic games and a simple interface to fly freely around them. Remember these?(That last one is the collision map of a Dark Souls region.) Read th...
12:10 am PST - Thu, March 7, 2019
BoingBoing You cannot opt out of Facebook's surveillance network
Even if you don't use it, Facebook is embedded across the web and in apps through ads, share buttons, tracking pixels and so forth, watching everything and everyone. Katherine Brindley set out to find...
11:46 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Finally, a t-shirt fit for the Scots
H&M makes a T-shirt with a sequinned message that changes depending on the nap. It says "Skate", and with a swipe of one's hand, it says "Chill". Catriona Black, however, noticed that you can, of...
11:36 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing How to install a trash liner in a trash can the right way
As posted by Stance Grounded: "I've been doing it wrong this entire time " Read the rest...
11:25 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Photos and videos of bugs and stuff with my USB microscope
I bought a USB microscope a few years ago because I wanted to examine kitchen knife edges after I sharpen them using different sharpeners. I'm still having fun with it. The tiny millipede in the video...
11:17 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Barb Noren makes soldering iron unicorns
Barb Noren, of the highly-recommended YouTube maker channel, Barb Makes Things, has a fun and easy new project video. In it, she turns a Rainbow Dash My Little Pony toy into Rainbow Flux, the solderin...
11:12 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing CIA helped Hitler hide after WWII, Prince Harrys real dad, and Freddie Mercurys secret son, in this weeks dubious tabloids
Credulity is stretched like a hamstring before a yoga class in this weeks eco-friendly tabloids, which do their bit for the environment by recycling old stories and passing them off as new again.Princ...
09:24 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing WATCH: Live shark cam, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Having a rough day? Relax! These adorable sharks are on the other side of the glass. Watch them float around being shark-y, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.[via montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com] Read the r...
09:17 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing High school teacher sent home after using the n-word during day of dialogue following racist and anti-semitic incident
Last weekend, a video surfaced showing students from Alabama's Spain Park and Hoover high schools making horrible anti-Semitic and racist comments. Yesterday, Spain Park help assemblies and small grou...
09:12 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Cheap but great JoyCon grips for the Nintendo Switch
These cheap grips make playing Mario Kart against my kid easier.For less than $12 delivered these have improved my Switch experience. JoyCons firmly pop into these ABS grips, and while the firmness of...
09:12 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing VIDEO: Vic Berger's CPAC remix is amazing
Vic Berger makes CPAC 2019 even weirder, with edits that reveal the hidden darkness we missed while watching it unfold live last weekend.Follow Vic on Twitter, or YouTube. Here's his Patreon.[via chri...
08:01 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing 3D printed replica of the Digi-Comp II marble computer
Michael Gardi (the same guy who made the Think-a-Dot "computer" toy replica, and the Dr. Nim game replica) made a 3D model of the mechanical Digi-Comp II marble computer so anyone can 3D print one of ...
07:38 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Creator of Zippy the Pinhead writes a fantastic comic book biography of Schlitzie the Pinhead
Bill Griffith is one of the great cartoonists and storytellers. I've been a fan for decades, both of his absurdist "Zippy the Pinhead" syndicated comic as well as his one-page comics of cultural criti...
07:09 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Just look at Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8's "Boing boing" bouncy ball and a banana
Interesting how these two things managed to find their way into the same Season of Fortnite Battle Royale.Bananas. Read the rest...
06:34 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Eerily prescient 1950s comic book about "The Wall"
My friend Craig Yoe edited a great anthology of old, forgotten comic book stories, called The Unknown Anti-War Comics. Here's a three-page story from the anthology about a group of intergalactic migra...
06:20 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing This bundle covers affiliate marketing, SEO techniques, and more
There's an audience for everything on the web, so if your brand or business hasn't found it yet, it's time to get smarter with your marketing. There are nearly as many ways to reach people as there ar...
06:14 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Inside an incredible "prop library" of vintage electronics and obsolete consumer tech
Brooklyn's LES Ecology Center maintains an incredible library of vintage consumer electronics cherry-picked from the relentless flow of e-waste streaming through their facility. From hulking videocass...
06:12 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Nearly two thirds of Americans think President Trump is a criminal
64 percent of American voters think President Trump committed crimes before becoming President, according to a Quinnipac poll. "When two-thirds of voters think you have committed a crime in your past ...
05:57 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing See the galaxy through the eyes of a frustrated rogue AI in Martha Wells' 'Murderbot Diaries'
All Systems Red is the fantastic story of a self-aware security robot, protecting a team of scientists on a scary planet, that really just wants to watch some crappy cable tv.Martha Well's 'Murderbot ...
05:54 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Omniverse CEO rejects piracy accusations, claims that he has a legit, "mind-blowing" 100-year license to stream TV on the internet
Mitch Wagner writes, "Omniverse CEO Jason DeMeo says a piracy lawsuit against his streaming TV service is full of crap. Omniverse faces piracy litigation from an alliance of content companies. But DeM...
05:46 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing NH GOP lawmakers mocked gun violence survivors by wearing clutchable pearl necklaces to gun control hearing
When volunteers for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America appeared before the New Hampshire state legislature, they were met by GOP lawmakers wearing prominent pearl necklaces as a symbol of cas...
05:38 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech
A new report from Data & Society (previously) goes into depth on the ways that employers are increasingly rolling out workplace surveillance and monitoring technologies that "exert greater contro...
03:58 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops
Early in January, Motherboard's Joseph Cox broke a blockbuster story about how America's mobile carriers sold access to their customers' realtime location data to many shady marketing brokers, who the...
03:46 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Watch the new trailer for the JRR Tolkien biopic
Directed by Dome Karukoski, Tolkien is the new biopic about the author's childhood where, of course, it all began. The film, written by David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford and starring Nicholas Hoult ...
03:40 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing GOP lawmake driven mad by bill that would decriminalize children who take naked photos of themselves, delivers a frenzied rant about anal sex on legislature's floor
Washington State is contemplating HB 1742, legislation that would end the practice of charging children who exchange consensual sexts with child porn offenses that can lead to prison and a lifetime on...
03:40 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing GOP lawmaker driven mad by bill that would decriminalize children who take naked photos of themselves, delivers a frenzied rant about anal sex on legislature's floor
Washington State is contemplating HB 1742, legislation that would end the practice of charging children who exchange consensual sexts with child porn offenses that can lead to prison and a lifetime on...
03:14 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing A brilliant, simple exercise to teach privacy fundamentals
Kate Klonick, an assistant professor at St John's Law School, teaches an Information Privacy course for second- and third-year law students; she devised a wonderful and simply exercise to teach her st...
03:01 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Where to catch me this weekend at SXSW
I'm heading back to Austin for the SXSW Interactive festival and you can catch me three times this weekend: first on the Untold AI panel with Malka Older, Rashida Richardson and Christopher Noessel (5...
02:59 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Dead gardener linked to boobytraps
After Bernhard Graumann, 59, was found dead last week, police linked him to a trap that killed another person and a "explosive piece of firewood" that hurt two more. If you suspect Herr Graumann held ...
02:46 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing A thorough defense of Modern Monetary Theory
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" -- Gandhi's aphorism neatly describes the trajectory to date of Modern Monetary Theory, the latest incarnation of "ch...
01:52 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Co-inventor of handheld electronic calculator dies
Jerry Merryman, who co-invented the handheld electronic calculator in 1965, is dead at 86.Merryman told NPR's "All Things Considered" in 2013, "It was late 1965 and Jack Kilby, my boss, presented the ...
01:33 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Ruminations on decades spent writing stories that run more than 1,000,000 words
Charlie Stross (previously) has spent most of his career writing two very long-running series: The Laundry Files, a Cthulhu-tinged series of spy procedurals, like HP Lovecraft writing James Bond, exce...
01:00 pm PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Homestead High - A typical teen in a typical American for-profit "concentration camp"
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH teens will never forget their time at Homestead High, the punishment they receive for seeking asylum in America....
08:08 am PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing US FDA approved chemical cousin of dissociative psychedelic ketamine to treat depression
Earlier today, the FDA approved esketamine (brand name Spravato), a relative of the dissociative psychedelic/anaesthetic ketamine (Special K), as a treatment for depression. Spravato comes in nasal sp...
08:08 am PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing US FDA approved chemical twin of dissociative psychedelic ketamine to treat depression
Earlier today, the FDA approved esketamine (brand name Spravato), a chemical twin of the dissociative psychedelic/anaesthetic ketamine (Special K), as a treatment for depression. Spravato comes in nas...
03:25 am PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing How to make your own camera lens from sand and rocks
Andy George made his own camera lens with borax, river sand, and soda ash. From PetaPixel:It has been one of the most challenging projects Ive ever done, George says after completing his lens. Every s...
02:41 am PST - Wed, March 6, 2019
BoingBoing Juror's concern that man on trial didn't swear on the bible results in the verdict getting tossed
On Friday, an appeals court judge in Camden County, New Jersey tossed out a verdict against Dr. Abbas Husain who in 2011 a jury found guilty of having sexually harassed an office employee. It came out...
09:47 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel
For years, Something Awful forum members have reveled in user bEatmstrJ's blow-by-blow account of a terrible bathroom remodel, in which he sought to transform his bathroom "with a woman in mind" with ...
09:23 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step
Jibo was a "social robot" startup that burned through $76m in venture capital and crowdfunding before having its assets sold to SQN Venture Partners late last year. Earlier this week, reporter Dylan J...
07:59 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing TSA finds military rocket-propelled grenade launcher in Florida man's luggage
It was non-functioning....
07:51 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Wyden to Trump: End NSA domestic phone spying program permanently.
The National Security Agency is reportedly considering ending the mass surveillance program that gathered data about hundreds of millions of telephone call records each year, including ones by America...
07:49 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Bowing to public pressure, Coinbase announces it will "transition out" the ex-Hacking Team cybermercenaries whose company it just bought
The cryptocurrency service Coinbase recently acquired Neutrino, a forensics startup founded by cybermercenaries who were left unemployed by the collapse of the company Hacking Team, following a dump o...
07:35 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Animated video shows staggering wealth inequality
This Vox video shows the incredible amount of extreme wealth held by a tiny handful of people. Taxing the top 0.05% of Americans between 2% to 3% of their wealth would pay for many public services, in...
07:35 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing The NSA has reportedly stopped data-mining Americans' phone and SMS records
Since 2001, the NSA has secretly ingested the calling records of virtually every US mobile phone subscriber, with the covert participation of the mobile carries; the program -- authorized by a secret ...
07:28 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Dog is on duty to protect sheep but naptime comes first
She protecc, she attack, but first she naap.When counting sheep is part of the job description.She protecc, she attack, but first she naap[via] Read the rest...
07:20 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Sisters, age 5 and 8, talk about how they survived two nights lost in the woods
Two sisters, age 8 and 5, spent 44 hours lost in the woods in Humboldt County, California before they were rescued on Sunday. They had simply gone on a walk from their Northern California house Friday...
07:17 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing The eyeglass industry is a ripoff, with "markups often approaching 1,000%"
I buy my eyeglasses online, paying about $30 a pair (I use Optical4Less, though there are many other online prescription eyeglass stores with equally low prices). I've always suspected brick and morta...
07:06 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Baby and dog sneak cuteness attack
Top 10 sneak attacks of all time, undisputed ...
07:05 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook forces you to expose your phone number to the whole world in order to turn on two-factor authentication
Last September, Facebook drew fire for abusing the phone numbers users provided for two-factor authentication messages, sending spam advertising messages over the same channel -- now, rather than refo...
07:05 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Higher education: cannabis as a college course
For years, college students have unofficially majored in weed. Now universities are beginning to offer cannabis studies programs because, y'know, marijuana is where the money is these days. From the A...
06:49 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Do ducks like peas? A video
Do ducks like peas? If you consider this video to be two successful pulls of a bayesian multi-armed bandit, the answer is probably.ducks love peas pic.twitter.com/XVI2JSxHyL— jon "only ducks...
06:36 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 15-minute "audiobook" version for kids
In 1984, Kid Stuff Records & Tapes released "2001: A Space Odyssey" as a book/7" record set for children along with "2010: The Year We Make Contact" to coincide with the latter's release that yea...
06:35 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing This retro-game player looks like a hamburger
Love Hultn made a Raspberry-Pi based retro-game handheld console in the form factor of a cheeseburger. Below, his making-of video, where we see how hemakes good use of a laser cutter. Brilliant! Read ...
06:34 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Cat bravely fights invisible dream attackers
An hero cat of unknown origin bravely fights off invisible attackers.Hang in there kitteh, you can do it.Fighting off your dream attackers.[via] Read the rest...
06:10 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Former Democrat Governor of Kentucky Steve Beshear explains his party's position
Joe Biden's 2020 message pic.twitter.com/TNNox2kvGz— Thomas! (@Thomasurlatoile) March 4, 2019The last time you saw former Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, he was perhaps delivering the Democrats...
06:08 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing America is not "polarized": it's a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority
Writing in the New York Times, Tim Wu (previously) describes the state of American politics after decades of manipulation dirty tricks and voter suppression, where policies with extremely high levels ...
05:51 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Funny video of high school student calling his teachers by their first names
When I was in high school, it always felt very uncomfortable speaking a teacher's first name aloud, almost like they couldn't really have a first name beyond Ms., Mr., or Mrs. (In fact, it was an odd ...
05:06 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an "anti-fraud" system known to have a 20% failure rate
BAE developed the London Counter Fraud Hub, which uses machine learning systems to detect benefit fraud; after trials in the boroughs of Camden, Ealing, Croydon and Islington, the system has been appr...
04:44 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Critical praise for RADICALIZED, my next book, from Booklist and Publishers Weekly
My next book of science fiction for adults is Radicalized, which will be published on March 19 (I'll be making tour appearances across the US, Canada and Germany starting on March 18); the early criti...
04:31 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing History is made: petition opposing the EU's Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in human history
As of this writing, the petition opposing Article 13 -- the part of the EU's new Copyright Directive that mandates copyright filters for online communities, services and platforms -- has 4,920,535 sig...
02:12 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Second HIV patient reportedly cured after bone marrow transplant
A second HIV patient is reportedly clear of the virus after undergoing a bone marrow transplant during cancer treatment. The operation is so arduous, and HIV-resistant doners so dare, that the procedu...
01:42 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Leaked Sonic the Hedgehog movie design looks like a dollar-store cereal mascot
The live-action Sonic was expected to be overly "realistic" in a possibly-unwholesome way, perhaps even hinting at the unofficial internet life of Sega's "fallen" mascot. But a leaked "style guide" fr...
12:54 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing Pooch pirate: man filmed stealing small concrete dog statue from yard
Some people will nick anything. The sole comment on YouTube: "maybe he has a dog that looks just like it?" Read the rest...
12:46 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing In 1898 two man-eating lions terrorized a railway camp in British East Africa
In 1898, two lions descended on a company of railway workers in British East Africa. For nine months they terrorized the camp, carrying off a new victim every few days, as engineer John Patterson stru...
12:16 pm PST - Tue, March 5, 2019
BoingBoing The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism
Science writer Leigh Phillips's 2016 book Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts was one of the most important, angry and inspiring books I read that year, a passionate argument for a high-te...
11:09 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Stephen Wolfram explains his "personal infrastructure"
Rudy Ruckershared a link to this wonderful and idea-rich piece from Stephen Wolfram's blog. In the article, entitled "Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure," mathenau...
10:54 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Mueller tells judge Roger Stone's Instagram post may violate gag order
Special counsel Robert Mueller today notified a federal judge that yet another Instagram post by Donald Trump's longtime friend Roger Stone may have violated Stone's gag order. If Judge Amy Berman Jac...
10:47 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing 'Whee, I am free!' this cute little baby
This is an adorable tiny human. Their glee at being suddenly released from a baby straightjacket is palpable. No babies were bummed out in the making of this viral video.I'm FREE!![via] Read the r...
10:27 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing From Bears Ears in Utah, a 2,000-year-old tattooing tool is rediscovered
In the same week that Democrats announce they'll hold hearings to probe why Trump's Interior Department shrank Bears Ears National Monument by 85%, the internet is abuzz with this image. Archaeologist...
09:53 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Zinke fingered in Bears Ears corruption probe over uranium mining interests
An energy firm linked to uranium mining interests around Bears Ears National Monument in Utah met with a senior Department of Interior official just one month President Donald Trump issued a surprise ...
09:43 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Terra Nullius: Grifters, settler colonialism and "intellectual property"
Terra Nullius is my latest column in Locus magazine; it explores the commonalities between the people who claim ownership over the things they use to make new creative works and the settler colonialis...
09:03 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing NetNeutrality: Pelosi teases 'Save The Internet Act,' and Senate Democrats will introduce bill to restore Net Neutrality
The text of the proposed legislation has not been released....
08:35 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Morrissey announces a week of shows on Broadway
Time to pre-order some gladiolus. Morrissey announced a week-long residency on Broadway in Manhattan from May 2-11. Moz will hold court at the 1,500-seat Lunt-Fontanne Theater and, according to the po...
08:29 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Boy who stole Life magazine with Beatles on cover returns it to library 50 years later
50 years ago, a boy named Brian stole a copy of Life magazine from an Ohio library that sported a photo of The Beatles on its back cover. But this week he decided to give the book back, along with an ...
08:19 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing A pound of matcha for cheap
I started drinking matcha every day, and the rest of my family decided they liked it, too. The tiny cans I had been buying were only lasting a few days, and it started to get really expensive. I looke...
08:09 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing The Exploding Kittens Random Item "vending machine" was the most popular attraction at Comic-Con
Elan Lee (previously) is part of the team that brought us the amazing card game Exploding Kittens (previously); writing in MAKE: Magazine, Lee explains how they built an awesome Exploding Kittens vend...
08:08 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Astronaut's magnificent photo of SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaching the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Anne McClain captured this astonishing image of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaching her temporary residence, the International Space Station. "The dawn of a new era in human spac...
08:00 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Roger Wood's latest haul of wheeled, steampunk clocks
Roger Wood (previously), the bonkers steampunk assemblage clock sculptor, just sent this to his Klockwerks mailing list: "This is what I created in February." Read the rest...
07:53 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Leaked memo suggests that Google has not really canceled its censored, spying Chinese search tool
Last December, human rights advocates and Google employees cheered when they learned that internal dissent at Google had killed the company's secret plan to launch a search tool in China that would ce...
07:40 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Insect behavior claymation video series thanks Boing Boing
I'm glad Maxwell Helmberger's YouTube channel nearly quadrupled its subscribership over the weekend after I posted one of his videos on Friday. He made a new video thanking Boing Boing (you're welcome...
07:37 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Fox News was always partisan, but now it is rudderless and "anti-democratic"
Building on her excellent work in 2017's Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer takes to The New Yorker with a deeply researched, lively an...
07:32 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Marketers intentionally enrages social conservatives to promote brands
Cottonelle and Walmart have both recently produced social media video commercials starring gay men. Predictably, social conservatives flipped out, calling for boycotts and for their god to mete out pu...
07:32 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Marketers intentionally enrage social conservatives to promote brands
Cottonelle and Walmart have both recently produced social media video commercials starring gay men. Predictably, social conservatives flipped out, calling for boycotts and for their god to mete out pu...
07:11 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Luke Perry RIP
After suffering a massive stroke on Wednesday actor Luke Perry passed away today, surrounded by his children and other family members. He played the role of the troubled yet soulful rich kid Dylan McK...
06:52 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing A new line of heavy denim Starfleet jackets: the Star Trek: Discovery edition
Volante Design (previously) scored a huge win last November with a line of licensed heavy denim, cosplay-adjacent Starfleet jackets that could be worn like Star Trek: TNG uniforms or like motorcyle ja...
06:42 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Man who yelled "guilty!" to get out of jury duty was promptly arrested
I guess it's kind of like yelling fire in a crowded theater: Jacob Maldonado of Honolulu, Hawaii had been called as a possible juror in a misdemeanor assault trial but really didn't want to serve on t...
06:36 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Video of a cute bubble car from 1942
My friend Steve passed along this video of the L'uf lectrique ("electric egg") concept car from 1942, designed by Paul Arzens in France during the Nazi occupation. I'm sure everyone is in agreement th...
06:31 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing How the patent office's lax standards gave Elizabeth Holmes the BS patents she needed to defraud investors and patients
When legendary grifter Elizabeth Holmes was 19 years old, she conceived of a medical device that could perform extensive diagnostics in an eyeblink from only a single drop of blood; she had no idea ho...
06:22 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Five young teens save an 8-year-old boy who is dangling from a ski chairlift
An 8-year-old boy and family were boarding a ski lift at Grouse Mountain ski resort in North Vancouver when the boy immediately slipped out of the chair. His father grabbed on to his son and told the ...
06:07 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Open dataset of 1.78b links from the public web, 2016-2019
GDELT, a digital news monitoring service backed by Google Jigsaw, has released a massive, open set of linking data, containing 1.78 billion links in CSV, with four fields for each link: "FromSite,ToSi...
05:51 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Automated reception kiosks are a security dumpster fire
Hannah Robbins and Scott Brink, two student interns at IBM division X-Force Red set out to study potential vulnerabilities in sign-in reception kiosks, found at many offices and retailers, and discove...
05:47 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Scientific tips on how to cram for an exam
ASAP Science provides some excellent tips for intensive, last-minute studying of just about any subject where you need to remember a lot of information. The video covers a lot of ground, from memory p...
05:34 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing "Catching up" on lost sleep may actually do more harm than good
Sleeping late on weekends not only won't help much when it comes to your sleep debt from the week, it can also lead to weight gain, insulin sensitivity, and nighttime hunger. University of Colorado Bo...
05:23 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Alias: a smart-speaker "parasite" that blocks your speaker's sensors until you activate it
Alias is an open source hardware/free-open firmware "parasite" that fits over your smart speaker's sensors and fills them with white noise; the Alias has its own (non-networked, user-controlled) mic a...
04:49 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Financialization is wearing out its welcome
On the eve of Apple issuing a credit card (and following Carl Icahn's 2013 advice that "Apple should be a bank"), we seem to be reaching the end of financialization's dominance over the economy, a tre...
02:53 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing How do you pass the most unpopular measure in European history? With the most undemocratic dirty trick in EU history: stop the Article13 vote from being moved ahead of day of protest!
On March 23, Europeans will take to the streets to demand that Members of the European Parliament vote against Article 13, the part of the upcoming Copyright Directive that will replace the internet w...
02:53 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing UPDATED! How do you pass the most unpopular measure in European history? With the most undemocratic dirty trick in EU history: stop the Article13 vote from being moved ahead of day of protest!
Update: The EPP has backed off of this demand and denied having made it, but Pirate MEP Julia Reda has documentary evidence that the EPP tried to sneak in this vote and only reversed the plan after a ...
02:18 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Wooden fractal curve puzzles
Martin Raynsford makes beautiful and intricate wooden puzzles with space-filling fractal curves and is kickstartering a set of four. The pattern is a single line that crosses all of the two dimension...
01:52 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Report: WWF hires paramilitary torturers and murderers in developing world
A Buzzfeed investigation exposes the World Wildlife Fund's funding of torture, murder and paramilitary violence, which it claims is necessary to stop poaching. Shikharam was in too much pain to swallo...
01:18 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Prodigy vocalist Keith Flint dead at 49
In a message posted to its official Twitter account, UK electronic music group The Prodigy announced the death of singer and songwriter Keith Flint today. It is with deepest shock and sadness that we ...
12:12 pm PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail: a debut sf novel about counterculture, resistance, and the post-internet apocalypse
Tim Maughan has long been one of the most promising up-and-coming, avante garde UK science fiction writers, whose post-cyberpunk short fiction mixed radical politics with a love of graffiti and a post...
04:53 am PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing German data privacy commissioner says Article 13 inevitably leads to filters, which inevitably lead to internet "oligopoly"
German Data Privacy Commissioner Ulrich Kelber is also a computer scientist, which makes him uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Directive. The...
03:24 am PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Watch: "Your Face," the classic Bill Plympton animation and The Simpsons couch gag it inspired
Cartoonist and animator Bill Plympton's wonderfully weird "Your Face" animated short features vocals by Maureen McElheron, slowed down by one-third for maximum slurriness. Nominated for a 1988 Academy...
01:29 am PST - Mon, March 4, 2019
BoingBoing Save the Vulcan! 200 working-class Oakland artists are crowfunding to save their homes and fight the-rent-is-too-damned-high
[Editor's note: Xeno Evil is an Oakland artist fighting to save their home; I'm happy to help them with their campaign -Cory]The historic Vulcan Lofts in Oakland, CA are up for sale and nearly 200 wor...
03:46 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Record label censors copyright lawyers' site by falsely claiming it infringes copyright
SpicyIP is arguably the leading blog for experts on India's copyright system, but links to it disappeared from Google's search index following a fraudulent claim of copyright infringement filed by Sar...
03:30 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Google says it won't remove Saudi government app that lets men track and monitor their wives and domestic employees
Absher is a kind of Saudi equivalent to China's Weibo, an all-in-one service that manages payments, interaction with government services, and, key to the Saudi system of sadistic, totalitarian medieva...
03:11 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Rep Pramila Jayapal's Medicare For All Act fixes America's dire and broken health-care system; take action to support it now!
Pramila Jayapal [D-WA] has introduced the Medicare for All Act, which mandates comprehensive health-care reform so that Americans can enjoy the same basic right to high-quality health care that the pe...
03:01 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Help Chelsea Manning pay for lawyers to resist a Grand Jury subpoena
Whistleblower and torture-survivor Chelsea Manning (previously) has been summoned before a Grand Jury, seemingly to testify about her "2010 disclosures of information about the nature of asymmetric wa...
02:49 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing The FAIR Act will end forced arbitration for employment, consumer, antitrust and civil rights disputes
Forced arbitration "agreements" are how corporate America gets workers, tenants and customers to sign away their legal rights, substituting kangaroo courts where the "judge" is a lawyer paid by the co...
01:00 pm PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Boost your typing speed with this fun training method
If your job involves a desk, it's going to involve typing. If you've never taken a typing class or just don't have the experience that comes with using a keyboard day to day, it can be hard to adapt q...
12:43 am PST - Sun, March 3, 2019
BoingBoing Bartender magic that's impressive even if you're sober
Belly up to the bar for Stephen Molloy's cocktail shaker take on the classic cups and balls magic routine: I was asked to share my handling here. Hope you guys enjoy :) (Instagram molloy894) from r/Da...
07:30 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Study that claimed majority of Copyright Directive opposition came from the US assumed all English-language tweets came from Washington, DC
Members of the European Parliament have been carpet-bombed with a "report" claiming that the historically unprecedented opposition to the pending Copyright Directive was the result of "US meddling in ...
07:13 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Improbably, a Black activist is now the owner and leader of the "National Socialist Movement," which he is turning into an anti-racist group
The National Socialist Movement is one of America's oldest and most influential Holocaust denial/neo-Nazi movements, proprietors of one of the world's most prominent Holocaust denial websites and defe...
06:51 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Coinbase bought a company founded by disgraced cybermercenaries from Hacking Team, and now Coinbase users are trying unsuccessfully to delete their accounts
Hacking Team (previously) was an Italian cybermercenary company that sold surveillance tools to the world's most vicious autocrats and dictators, only to collapse when all of its internal documents we...
06:29 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000
If someone wants to steal your phone number -- say, to intercept the two-factor authentication SMSes needed to break into your bank account or other vital service -- they hijack your SIM by impersonat...
06:01 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing The promise and peril of "sonification": giving feedback through sound
The majority of applications use "visualization" to give feedback and responses to users: think of graphs, alerts, and other visual cues about what is going on inside a computer, or what the computer ...
05:12 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Massive study finds strong correlation between "early affluence" and "faster cognitive drop" in old age
A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science reports on new analysis of the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which tracks outcomes for 24,066 peopl...
04:17 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing San Francisco Giants CEO filmed manhandling wife in public
Larry Baer, the CEO of the San Francisco Giants, was filmed manhandling his screaming wife in public, prizing away a cellphone from her grasp, and finally dropping her to the ground. He claimed she fe...
01:00 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Get certified in R, SAS and Oracle database techniques
On the stormy seas of modern business, data analysts are the navigators. Smart bosses steer where the trends are headed, which makes the techs who can follow those trends invaluable. And no matter wha...
12:35 pm PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Man-Eaters: Handmaid's Tale meets Cat People in a comic where girls turn into man-eating were-panthers when they get their periods
Man-Eaters Volume 1 collects the first four issues of the Image comic by Chelsea Cain and Kate Niemczyk (and friends) and it's insanely great: the premise is that America's patriarchy has been given a...
12:21 am PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Fantastic claymation videos about insects
Human beings are strange. The unimaginative jackass Logan Paul has 18,819,071 YouTube subscribers, while the fascinating and talented Maxwell Helmberger has 105 subscribers. In my opinion, Paul should...
12:06 am PST - Sat, March 2, 2019
BoingBoing Oakland teachers' union declares total victory after seven-day strike
Well, that didn't take long: after seven days on strike, the Oakland teacher's union has received an offer that they say capitulates on every major point at issue in the strike, including the stealth ...
11:43 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing West Virginia GOP hangs a poster calling Rep. Ilhan Omar a terrorist in state capitol
It's West Virginia Republican Party Day at the state's Capitol and Republicans from all across the Mountain State have gathered in Charleston to promote their party's values. Vendors have set up table...
09:05 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Elon Musk's SpaceX plans NASA test launch Saturday
NASA and SpaceX have completed thousands of hours of tests to prepare for this unmanned test flight to the International Space Station....
08:56 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing The Beatles: absolutely wonderful recording studio "bloopers"
The fun is contagious. "I'll try to remember, John, and if I don't it's just too bad INNIT!?" Read the rest...
08:48 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge will include an animatronic Hondo Ohnaka
Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka, tho largely unknown to non-animated Star Wars fans, wins my vote for Star Wars universe most loveable, loveable scoundrel. I am glad to see he'll play a role in the new St...
08:41 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Nanoparticle injections give mice "night vision" superpower
Chinese nanotechnologists injected tiny particles into the eyes of mice resulting in the rodents demonstrating "infrared 'night vision'" that lasted for months. According to nanoscientist Tian Xue and...
08:11 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Uh oh. Amazon is opening up a new chain of grocery stores
After taking over Whole Foods, Amazon is now launching a new, more mainstream chain of grocery stores, according to Business Insider. And it makes me wonder why, when they haven't yet mastered the man...
07:55 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Report of "deranged person" hugging pillow turns out to be cardboard cutout of MyPillow CEO
Police in Jordan, Minnesota, rushed to the scene after locals reported a "deranged person" standing motionless in the cold, hugging a pillow. It was in fact a cardboard advertising cutout of Mike Lind...
07:52 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Any incredibly rare pair of semi-identical twins
Semi-identical twins -- a boy and girl who are identical on their mother's side but share only 78% of their father's genome -- have been identified in Brisbane, Australia. This is only the second know...
07:52 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Incredibly rare pair of semi-identical twins
Semi-identical twins -- a boy and girl who are identical on their mother's side but share only 78% of their father's genome -- have been identified in Brisbane, Australia. This is only the second know...
07:43 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing FDA warns against robotic surgery for breast cancer, cervical cancer, & other women's cancers
The United States Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Thursday about the use of surgical robots in breast cancer surgery. FDA says that use of the robotic medical devices in mastectomy, lump...
07:29 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Excellent starter kit for people interested in learning about Arduino
Arduino is an easy-to-learn prototyping platform that lets you create interactive electronic projects. This Arduino compatible kit is the one I recommend to people who ask me how to get started. The ...
07:29 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing More than 1,000 TSA workers still waiting for their paycheck after Trump government shutdown
It appears as though their effort to partially pay people screwed things up and they are still getting their act together. Anonymous TSA official who spoke to CNN...
06:50 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Common Voice: Mozilla releases the largest dataset of voice samples for free, for all
42,000 Mozilla supporters contributed to Common Voice, a free-open dataset of 1,361 hours of voice recordings in 18 languages, which is now free for anyone to use as a set of "high quality, transcribe...
06:49 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing What if the foldable mobile phone had been released in the 1990s?
The creative minds at Squirrel Monkey imagine what the new Galaxy Fold would be like if it had been released in the late 1990s. I don't know what technology they use to make these videos, but they do...
06:36 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Self-experiment: turning your mobile phones display to grayscale
As an experiment to see how it affected her mood, Megan E. Holstein made her phone's display grayscale. It took her a while to get used to it, but now she likes it that way because the world around he...
06:28 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Amanda Palmer has a new album coming out and NPR is streaming it for free!
On March 8, Amanda "Fucking" Palmer (previously) will release There Will Be No Intermission, her third studio album and the first release in six long years: it's an ambitious 71 minutes long, and the ...
05:57 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Striking West Virginia teachers won swift and decisive victory; Oakland next?
2019 has seen a string of bold and successful teachers' strikes that built on last years' #RedForEd strikes: the new wave of strikes goes beyond paychecks and funding, though, and takes aim at charter...
05:53 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Animated version of Fritz Kahn's 1926 "human machine" illustration
Fritz Kahn was a German physician and writer. In 1926 he created Der Mensch als Industriepalast ("Man as Industrial Palace"), an iconic illustration of the human body as a kind of industrial chemical ...
05:36 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Amazon cancels Dash buttons
The Amazon Dash button has gone the way of the CueCat and other oddball forms of consumer tech that were quickly made obsolete by newer technology. The $5 wireless Dash button was promised to be an ea...
05:35 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Volkswagen microbus made from 400,000 LEGO blocks
This VW van made of LEGO is amazing. There are more photos on the VW site.The van was designed and built by Rene Hoffmeister, one of only 12 officially certified LEGO professionals in the world. Along...
05:33 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Satanic Panic 2.0: The Momo Challenge hoax [TW: Self-harm/suicide]
According to reports from gullible parents' organizations, police departments, and media outlets, Kids on the Internet are spreading memes featuring an image of "Momo" (actually a sculpture called "Mo...
05:31 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing 10-year-old writes brilliant poem about dyslexia and it goes viral
Wow. This poem, titled Dyslexia, was written by a 10-year-old who goes by AO, and it's jaw-dropping.As part of a class assignment, his teacher, Jane Broadis, asked the students to write a poem that co...
05:06 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Best harness for helping my 100 lb dog post-knee surgery
Nemo underwent a Tibial Plateau Leveling Osteotomy. This RuffWear 'Webmaster' harness made a real difference in my dog's recovery. The Webmaster comes with snap-together closures for easy on and off, ...
04:13 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Weezer evidently enjoys Fortnite
Your very own Weezer World on @FortniteGame, created by @FN_TeamCre8 ft. @HELLRAISERGamin, @G_Schway, KK-Slider, @Wertandrew pic.twitter.com/GVopkGvIkr— weezer (@Weezer) March 1, 2019Seems Weeze...
03:46 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing If contemporary singers were around in the 80s
A masterfully-executed selection of LP covers that "imagine how your current favorite singers would look like in a 80s version." The artist is Fulaleo from Australia. Read the rest...
02:54 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Brawl at Texas execution leads to arrests
Two men were arrested Thursday after a fight broke out at the execution of murder Billy Wayne Coble in Huntsville, Texas. As Coble was finishing his statement, his son, a friend and a daughter-in-law ...
02:34 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing University of California system libraries break off negotiations with Elsevier, will no longer order their journals
Elsevier (previously) is one of the titans of academic and scientific publishing, a wildly profitable and politically potent corporation whose market dominance has allowed it to extract ever-larger su...
02:23 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Popping a balloon in a nuclear power plant's cooling tower
A thunderous pop.What it sounds like inside a nuclear power plants cooling tower. Matt Ballos and Kevin Peterson of WSDG were out in Elma, Washington this week to visit NWAA acoustic test labs. The la...
02:18 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing German Data Privacy Commissioner warns at new Copyright Directive will increase the tech oligopoly, make EU companies dependent on US filter vendors, and subject Europeans to surveillance by US compan
Ulrich Kelber is the German Data Privacy Commissioner, and also a computer scientist, and as such, he is uniquely qualified to comment on the potential consequences of the proposed new EU Copyright Di...
01:00 pm PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Build your IT profile with Amazon Web Services certification
Demand for IT professionals is high. Doubly so for those who are versed in cloud-based infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is one of the top platforms out there, and the AWS Certified Architect Develo...
01:56 am PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Portmanteau generator
The Portmanteau and Rhyme Generator accepts two input words and produces weird coinages that are often surprisingly funny. "Rhino" and "Hospital", for example, produces "Boarphanage" and "hotelephant"...
12:11 am PST - Fri, March 1, 2019
BoingBoing Who needs foldable smartphones when you can just clip two together?
Samsung and Huawei wowed early-adopters (and their creditors) this week with cutting-edge designs for foldable tablet-phones. LG's genius answer is to just clip two screens together. The BBC:It has cr...
09:59 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing A belt that won't set off metal detectors
I have a friend who drives seven hours from Los Angeles to San Francisco instead of flying, just so he doesn't have to take off his shoes at the TSA checkpoint.I would rather fly than drive, but I can...
09:37 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing German town seizes and sell's family's dog on eBay to cover their debts
So you think American authorities' taste for asset seizure is bad? Try the city fathers of Ahlen in Germany, who seized a pedigree pug and sold it on eBay.Frank Merschhausm, spokesman for the city of ...
08:15 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Royal bombshells, Obamas boozing daughter, and if Star Treks Captain Kirk was a cat, in this weeks dubious tabloids
How could so much misinformation be packed into so few words?A bombshell psychological report in the latest National Enquirer reveals that Princess Meghan is a ticking time bomb who could explode at a...
08:12 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Russian sailor, possibly inebriated, smashes cargo ship into South Korean bridge
The Yonhap News Agency reports that a 6,000 ton cargo ship under the command of a drunk Russian captain ran into the Gwangan Bridge in Busan today before "turning back to head in the opposite directio...
08:05 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing My favorite 'Baby Shark' remix
This is my favorite Baby Shark remix by default. I do like it a lot tho.Pretty active driving song.Rollingstone:Youd think a song that is everywhere on the Internet exploding on music charts, racking...
07:57 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Here's the CIA's "Phoenix Checklist" for thinking about problems
The "Phoenix Checklist" is a set of questions developed by the CIA to define and think about a problem, and how to develop a solution.THE PROBLEMWhy is it necessary to solve the problem?What benefits ...
07:52 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Watch this massive tarantula drag an opossum it just killed
A team of scientists went to Peru's lowland tropical forest to document invertebrates and saw an uncommon sight: a large tarantula, the size of a "dinner plate" with "massive fangs" catching and eatin...
07:46 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Cohen implicated Trump in at least 14 felonies today
Ken Gude, senior fellow at Center for American Progress in Washington DC, wrote a Twitter thread listing all the felonies Trump may have committed, based on Michael Cohen's congressional testimony yes...
07:35 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing A single tuna fish sold for $3.1 million
In 2019 a single bluefin tuna, weighing 279 kilograms, sold at auction in Tokyo's famous Tsukiji fish market for $3.1 million dollars. That comes out to $315/ounce, making for a very expensive piece o...
07:35 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Facebook is working on a crypto coin for WhatsApp
Facebook is said to be developing a 'stablecoin,' which is a kind of digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar....
07:28 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Oregon becomes first state to pass statewide rent control
SALEM, OREGON: State lawmakers today voted to make Oregon become the first U.S. state to have statewide limits on how much landlords can raise rents. There is no single solution not one entity, or on...
07:24 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing The Lunar Library: nano-etched civilizational archives of 30m pages, designed to last for billions of years
The Arch Mission Foundation is nano-etching 30,000,000 pages' worth of "archives of human history and civilization, covering all subjects, cultures, nations, languages, genres, and time periods" onto ...
07:08 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing FixItAlready: EFF's wishlist for fixing tech's worst privacy and security choices
Android should let users deny and revoke permissions; Apple should let people encrypt Icloud backups, Twitter should end-to-end encrypt DMs; all these and more appear on the Electronic Frontier Founda...
07:07 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Brewers yeast genetically modified to produce THC and CBD
Science will open the floodgates on cheap, reliable high-volume production of THC and CBD. Yeast's rapid growth and ease of culturing will likely enable new stronger-better-faster variants of both.UC ...
07:05 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Sweden arrests tech worker said to be Russian spy
In Sweden, officers of the Swedish Security Service have arrested a person who worked in a high-technology sector and is believed by investigators to be a Russian agent."This individual is suspected o...
07:02 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing AOC's Rolling Stone interview: portrait of a principled, shrewd, brilliant activist/politician
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Rolling Stone interview with Alex Morris paints a portrait of a politician and activist whose brilliance as a tactician is matched by an unwavering, uncompromising commitmen...
06:35 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing YouTube is disabling all comments on videos of young children
YouTube is disabling all comments on videos featuring young children as it attempts to head off an organised ring of paedophiles who were using its site to trade clips of young girls in states of undr...
06:25 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Woman reports a black man to the cops because his dog humped her dog at the park
Yet another idiot calling the cops on a black person for doing normal person things. In this case, a white woman is on the phone reporting to the police that a black man's dog humped her dog at a dog ...
06:12 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler is new EPA administrator
The GOP-led U.S. Senate today confirmed ex-coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler to run Environmental Protection Agency, in a 52-47 vote mostly along party lines.52-47 The #Senate CONFIRMED Andrew Wheeler to b...
05:51 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Insistent not-a-racist GOP Rep. Mark Meadows displays his racism
"We'll send him back to Kenya, or wherever it is," GOP Rep Mark Meadows said about President Obama, while laughing hard. This is the second video to surface today where Meadows promotes th...
05:50 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Videos of Mark Meadows saying "send Obama home to Kenya" resurface hours after he denied being a racist at Cohen hearing
Towards the end of the Michael Cohen's Oversight Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) was highly insulted when Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) suggested he had committed a racist act b...
05:45 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing The "Reputation Management" industry continues to depend on forged legal documents
Back in 2016, a "reputation management" company called Profile Defenders was caught forging court orders in order to get complaints about its clients removed from the site Pissed Consumer. This was a ...
05:28 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Pentagon Inspector General reveals widespread retaliation against whistleblowers with impunity for the retaliators and the wrongdoers
Last November, the Pentagon's Inspector General presented Congress with a "little-noticed" report on whistleblowing in the US military, revealing that those who come forward with claims of misconduct ...
05:17 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8 has pirates, bananas and battle royale
Fortnite Battle Royale Season 8 is here!Season 7 drew to a close with free Valentine's battle passes for everyone willing to brave holiday challenges. Season 8 lands with map changes, new weapons, and...
05:00 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Amazon killed Seattle's homelessness-relief tax by threatening not to move into a massive new building, then they canceled the move anyway
Seattle's immensely popular business tax was designed to do something about the city's epidemic of desperate homelessness, but then Amazon threw its muscle around to get the tax canceled, mostly by th...
04:44 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Bad security design made it easy to spy on video from Ring doorbells and insert fake video into their feeds
Researchers from Dojo/Bullguard investigated the security model of the Ring smart doorbell -- made by Amazon -- and discovered that the video was sent "in the clear" (without encryption) meaning that ...
02:34 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Tiny Type Museum: own a time capsule of the print age
The Tiny Type Museum is a limited-edition handmade box set of traditional printing tech, including hot metal and wooden type, custom-made linotype slugs, plate molds, phototypes, plates, Monotype matr...
02:33 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing London's awful estate agents are cratering, warning of a "prolonged downturn" in the housing market
London's estate agents were notorious profiteers of the property bubble, listing on the stock exchanges and rewarding investors with soaring share-prices that reflected the human misery of a city wher...
02:14 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Russian tanker loses fight with Korean bridge
What happens when a stoppable force hits an immovable object? The stoppable force stops. The Korea Herald reports:The Korea Coast Guard (KCG) said the 5,998-ton Seagrand sailed into the side of the Gw...
02:12 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Yet another study shows that the most effective "anti-piracy" strategy is good products at a fair price
It's been 20 years since Napster burst on the scene, and after decades of lawsuits, draconian criminal penalties, even no-knock gunpoint search warrants, there remains no evidence that "copyright enfo...
02:08 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing Check out this enormous carrot
"Found a bit of a crackin' one" Read the rest...
01:35 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing EFF's roadmap for a 21st Century antitrust doctrine
40+ years ago, extremists from the Chicago School of Economics destroyed antitrust law, pushing a bizarre theory that the antitrust laws on America's books existed solely to prevent "consumer harm" in...
01:00 pm PST - Thu, February 28, 2019
BoingBoing This scratch-off map is a great gift for globetrotters
If you love to travel, you love reminiscing about the places you've been. Aside from the photos, you might turn maps into keepsakes, putting pins or stickers onto each country you've visited. World Tr...