Every year, the readers of Locus Magazine collaborate with its editorial board to nominate and vote on their favorite science fiction and f...
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John Kelly calls Trump an idiot, mocks his ignorance
Chief of Staff John Kelly is said to have referred to President Trump as an idiot. Accurate. (more…) from Boing Boing https://ift.tt/2r...
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When cleaning slides, film or just my lenses, I use PecPads
When cleaning off slides for scanning, or the lenses on cameras that haven't been made for decades, I use PecPads . I used to ruin pos...
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Good deal on a box of nitrile gloves
Nitrile gloves are a cheap way to keep your hands clean. I've used them for bike and car work, clearing rat traps, wiping cat puke, cle...
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For $4k/year, Moscow cyber-arms-dealer Gleg will sell you 25 0-day bugs for attacking hospitals
https://ift.tt/2KqiWEs Gleg is a cyber-arms-dealer based in Moscow, selling zero-day vulnerabilities it has uncovered in widely used syste...
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A LaTeX mod to draw coffee cup rings on your technical papers
LaTeX is the venerable, gold-standard layout package favored for scholarly papers, especially technical papers; back in 2009, Hanno Rein re...
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Congressional candidate Brianna Wu explains Net Neutrality with cookies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iApE28eq7I4 Frank Wu writes, "Brianna Wu, progressive Democrat and cybersecurity expert, is running f...
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US military unveils experimental HERF gun that can immobilize cars, boats
The Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program has demonstrated the Radio Frequency Vehicle Stopper, an experimental "direc...
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Social Media ads are a bad deal for small businesses an individuals
Journalist and advertising consultant B.J. Mendelson (author of Social Media is Bullshit ) was interviewed in the C-Realm podcast about th...
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These award-winning earbuds deliver crisp Bluetooth audio
Contrary to what you might think, you don't need to invest in a bulky pair of high-tech earphones to enjoy your music in its full aural ...
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Debullshitifying Microsoft's smear campaign against the recycler it helped send to prison
Eric Lundgren is the PC recycler who is going to jail for 18 months for having a Chinese factory duplicate the obsolete Windows restore CD...
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Stormy sues Trump for defamation
Stormy Daniels has filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump for his defamatory comments on Twitter. Via Talking Points Memo : P...
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Trump: Singapore and DMZ possible sites for North Korea Summit with Kim Jong-Un
In a White House press briefing with Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari at his side, U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes a s...
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In just 7 months, the US public domain will get its first infusion since 1998
In 1998, the US Congress retroactively extended the copyright on US works, placing public domain works back into copyright and forestalling...
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Cool animated examples of the Muller-Lyer illusion
German sociologist Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857-1916) created an optical illusion that showed how changing the direction of angle brackets ...
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Kickstarting a metal, reusable, self-extracting straw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4TaVt7R7vk The "Last Straw" is a cleverly named, cleverly engineered reusable drinking straw th...
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The French Republic claims France.com as its own
Long held by French ex-patriot Jean-Noel Frydman, France.com has been taken from his control. Emails are bouncing and the URL has been for...
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"The Biology of Disinformation," a paper by Rushkoff, Pescovitz, and Dunagan
My Institute for the Future colleagues Douglas Rushkoff, Jake Dunagan, and I wrote a research paper on the " Biology of Disinformation...
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Learn how to move one eye with moving the other
Steve Mould made a video to teach you the essential skill of moving one eye independently of the other. You'll also learn interesting t...
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The UK's surveillance regulator changed names and dropped its domain, which is now squatted by a premature ejaculation scammer
The Interception of Communications Commissioner was a watchdog created by the UK government to produce annual reports on the government...
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Enjoy a tarantula burger in Durham, North Carolina
When I was in elementary school, one of my classmates liked yanking the legs off Daddy longlegs spiders and popping the body into his mouth...
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The UK is finally cracking down on its Russian money-laundry, but hasn't hired people to do the job
Scottish Limited Partnerships are a preferred money-laundering tool of the world's criminals, looters and oligarchs, especially favore...
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Watch the back-story of the Han Solo back-story
Director Ron Howard and the stars of Solo: A Star Wars Story tease us with more context and scenes from the forthcoming film out on May 25....
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Watch a dolphin knock a stand-up paddleboarder right off his board
Andrew Hill was stand-up paddleboarding off Gracetown, Western Australia when a pod of dolphins interrupted his fun. “Eight or nine of the...
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Neurobollocks with Chinese characteristics: Chinese employers use "brain wave sensors" to tune workforces
Giant Chinese companies are outfitting millions of employees -- everyone from factory workers to military personnel to pilots and train dri...
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Surfer sets record for riding the biggest wave ever
Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa set a new Guinness World Record for riding the biggest wave ever sufed, an 80-footer in Nazaré, Portugal. “I...
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Gun ban at Pence-featured NRA convention has Parkland students baffled. Why more guns at schools, but zero at conventions?
As you recall, after the Parkland school shooting in February that killed 17 people including 14 students, the NRA was adamant that school...
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Koch is abundant and low value: how the super-rich are buying American politics
In Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century , he advances a theory that as the rich acquire a critical mass of the national wealth,...
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Most paintings in French art museum turn out to be forgeries
The Etienne Terrus Museum in France learned that 60 percent its collection was forged . Etienne Terrus worked a century ago and died in 192...
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The most common words in movie titles
AC-- on Reddit used IMDB's dataset to create a good old-fashined word cloud of the most common words in movie titles. The inevitable V...
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The Simpsons overtakes Gunsmoke as America's longest-running scripted TV show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ODTAhD8rOo With episode 636 on Sunday, The Simpsons finally outran Gunsmoke as America's longest-runni...
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Revengers: Intentional knockoffs of Avengers action figures
Obvious Plant's Jeff Wysaski made some knockoff Avengers action figures and they're perfectly hilarious in their bootleggedness. S...
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What airplane cabin depressurization looks like
I was expecting to see an explosive worst-case scenario, a can-opener at 30,000 feet. But this simulation of a less explosive leak has a ni...
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Watch cops mock a driver they pulled over after the cops ran a red light
Here's yet another reason to install a dashcam. Joshua was rolling through Brooklyn around midnight when an undercover cop car ran a re...
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This cat is even grumpier than Grumpy Cat
Loki the Sphynx is eight years old, but he looks like a grumpy old man. His resting grump face is quite possibly grumpier than his furrier...
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With these smartphone 'swinging cradles,' people are cheating to get to 10K steps
Apparently in China people can get discounts on their health insurance (and avoid punishment ) if their phone hits 10K steps a day. That...
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Facebook warns investors to expect bigger and worse scandals than Cambridge Analytica
The Cambridge Analytica affair wiped billions off of Facebook's valuation and prompted millions of users to #DeleteFacebook, but inevit...
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100 US Mayors sign a pledge to boycott ISPs that commit Net Neutrality violations
As states pass a wave of laws barred non-neutral ISPs from providing services to state agencies, more than 100 US mayors have pledged to d...
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The teachers' strikes are spreading
From Labor Notes, a weekly report-card of teachers' strikes, which are spreading from state to state, with North Carolina -- the labora...
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The US gave its client states hundreds of millions for anti-terrorism, then crooked UK military contractors ripped it all off
Defense Secretary James Mattis has announced a criminal investigation into the misuse of $458,000,000 that the US government gave to Iraq a...
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In a time of "driving while black," the Negro Motorist Green Book gets a new edition
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a series of annual guides for African-American drivers and holiday-makers who wanted to know where they ...
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Start making your own games with this 120-hour training
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be a computer science whiz to create video games. In fact, even if you're a complete ...
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RIP Larry Harvey, Burning Man founder
A few weeks ago, Burning Man founder Larry Harvey suffered a massive stroke . Today I have learned that he has passed. He was 70 years old....
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Reach new audiences with this animation studio
When it comes to telling a story, animation is a powerful tool, especially in the realm of marketing. Whether you're pushing a new prod...
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What's new in tabletop gaming? (April edition)
Last month, I posted the first of what I hope will be a series of Boing Boing articles looking at the latest tabletop miniature, board, c...
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