Weve got a new shirt in our fabulous series of Boing Boing artist series T-shirts. Its by illustrator Kevin Dart, the creator of Yuki 7. Its $16.95 in the Boing Boing Shop! Boing Boing Ship Demolish ...
Tofugu has a short article on this unusual and beautiful Japanese island: Aogashima. Aogashima (“blue island”) is a tropical, volcanic island in the Phillipine Sea. Despite being over 200...
[Video Link] TV news reporter: "The wind blows with incredible power, there are moments when it is impossible to stand up here. The wind blows the sand at over 60 km per hour. The wind blew away ...
Lloyd Kahn, author of Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter, posted this photo of a 120-square-foot house built on a trailer chassis. The house will feature a full kitchen, composting toilet, outdoor shower, sl...
A Miami police officer spotted a naked man chewing off another mans face on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp at 2pm on Saturday. When the naked cannibal ignored the officers commands to stop, the offi...
[Video Link] I like the band Best Coast because listening to them makes it feel like a California summer no matter what season it is. They have a great new album out, called The Only Place. Last week...
My old pal John Curley is on tour with his reunited band The Afghan Whigs and he snapped this beautiful photo at Ναός της Αθηνάς Νίκης (Temple of Athena Nike) on the Acropolis of Athens. The building...
Above is an excerpt from Jim Hensons 1965 experimental short Time Piece, nominated for an Academy Award. It was unique because, for one thing, it doesnt feature any puppetry! The surreal film stars H...
An oil-exploration team in Egypt stumbled upon a crashed World War II fighter plane thats apparently been sitting in the Sahara desert for 70 years. Apparently, the Royal Air Force P-40 Kittyhawk is ...
The current volume of The New Yorker is the "Science Fiction issue." In it, a previously unpublished 1973 essay by Anthony Burgess about his novel, A Clockwork Orange. In “The Clockwork...
The Sex Pistols have reissued "God Save The Queen" on a limited-edition 7" picture disc to celebrate the songs 35th anniversary. From the official Sex Pistols site: Originally released on...
Last week, Gary Connery, wearing a wingsuit, jumped from a helicopter at an altitude of 2,400 feet and landed safely. "Stuntman Takes a Superhero Plunge" (New York Times)
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BIPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85 compiles cold wave and Casio-dominated robot music that emerged from the unholy matrimony of post-punk and the nascent electro-pop scene of Europe. Above, Acts "Pi...
[Video Link] When I was at TED earlier this year, I happened to sit down next to film maker Louie Schwartzberg. He makes gorgeous nature films. I recently watched the videos on his YouTube channel. T...
The Firefly Gathering is one of several "rewinding" or "primitivism" camps for learning self-sufficiency and wilderness skills and crafts like fire-making, mushroom hunting, canning, ...
Ken Doyle, a professional safecracker whos been practicing his trade since 1978, explains the ins and outs of safecracking to McSweeneys Suzanne Yeagley: Q: How often do people get locked in vaults? ...
[Video Link] The newest video from Joe Sabias CDZA project.
In the New York Times today, Brian Lam (formerly of Gizmodo, now the creator of Scuttlefish and Wirecutter) writes about OpenROV, a low-cost submarine designed to be an affordable tool for "curio...
The key difference, writes blogger Jason Bittel, is in the biting. Venomous animals internally create a toxin and then inject it into prey or foes. Poisonous animals usually secrete their toxins on t...
Step 1, naturally, is to be in Manhattan. Im in New York City today and Scientific American contributing editor Steven Ashley was kind enough to reminded me that my visit is coinciding with Manhattan...
Chris Sims, Laura Hudson and Colleen Coover have executed as series of "Great Comics That Never Happened" for Comics Alliance, and theyre fabulous. Exhibits A and B: Great Comics that Never H...
Alexandra sez, "Im writing to tell you about Modkit, a new interface for microcontrollers like Arduino. Modkit uses a graphical programming language based on the kids programming language, Scratc...
Mike sez, "Photographed a wedding reception in upstate NY this weekend -- the cake was awesome! The couple are both geeks and have three geeky teenaged daughters who helped design it.... Take a l...
André Kuipers, a Dutch physician and astronaut with the European Space Agency, was on board the ISS when the SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed. He took this photograph, and wrote, Inside of the Dragon mo...
The Moscow-based security firm credited with solving various mysteries around Stuxnet and Duqu today announced the discovery of Flame, a data-stealing virus said to have lurked on thousands of comput...
Gayle from the School of Visual Arts in NYC sez, "Acclaimed multimedia artist Laurie Anderson gave the commencement address this year at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) graduation ceremony, held ...
Sergei Skorobogatov, a postdoc in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge has written up claims that reprogammable microchips from China contained secret back-doo...
Suxamethonium chloride is a common hospital anesthetic that has, off and on, moonlighted as murder weapon. Used to paralyze patients so that doctors can more easily put insert a breathing tube, the d...
Artist Peter Madden builds these cool collages out of photos he cuts from back issues of National Geographic, vintage encyclopedias, and old nature books. Theyre really lovely! Via Thisiscollossal, t...
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