I absolutely loved Robert Repino's Mort(e), his first installment in the War with No Name series.The ants are pissed off. Their queen has spent hundreds of years plotting complete victory. Humanity, of course, is totally surprised when giant ants burst forth from the earth and besiege their cities, and totally overwhelmed when the rest of Mammalia suddenly becomes sentient and goes on the attack.Mort(e), a former house cat once named Sebastian, becomes a hero of the War. His heart, however, is set on finding Sheba, the neighbor's dog who was also his best friend. This post-apocalyptic future where animals are just as human as humanity is just wonderful! Repino builds an amazing world where the animal characters are vivid and understandable, and the story gripping. I have not yet read Cul de Sac or D'arc, the second and third books in the series, but will report in short order. Cul de Sac was a wonderful character in the first book, and I enjoyed the small bits we got of his perspective.Morte (War with No Name) by Robert Repino via Amazon

Benjamin writes, "Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has called for a special session to basically make Saint Louis less of a 'sanctuary city' for those seeking abortion. This special session will lead to some pretty hefty taxpayer expense, of course, and has faced some opposition. In an inexplicable turn of events, this has lead to state Representative Mike Moon [R-Ash Grove] [@realmikemoon, +1 573-751-4077, Mike.Moon@house.mo.gov] a member of the Tea Party, to literally slaughter/Indiana Jones de-heart a live chicken, on video. Because, abortion." (more…)

In Washington today, a bizarre development that breaks with years of political and press tradition. This can't have anything to do with their secret plan to take away health care, could it? (more…)

Woodland Mall in Kentwood, Michigan made Hannah Pewee leave because they claimed her outfit was inappropriate. Meanwhile, the posts on Woodland Mall's Facebook page feature posts advertising tank tops.From NYMag:Pewee’s Facebook post about the incident has been shared more than 7,000 times. “I was out having a fun time with my sister and next thing I know, I’m out on the street,” Pewee wrote in the post. “Slut-shaming how girls are dressed is deplorable and outdated, and it needs to stop.” She later followed up with another post, writing she had spoken with management at the Woodland Mall, who apologized and told her “they’re going to revise their clothing policy on their website so it is clearer what is and isn’t acceptable.” The mall issued a statement, which read:We apologized to the shopper and the public for the way that this was handled. We've already spoken to her and are working to make things right. We work to create a fun and safe shopping and dining destination but failed to deliver on that message for this shopper. We're working internally to make sure we fully deliver on excellent experiences at our Mall immediately.

Otto Warmbier, the college student who was detained in North Korea almost 1-1/2 years ago for trying to take a propaganda sign and was sentenced to prison for 15 years of hard labor, is finally being sent home – but in a coma. And it looks like he's been in a coma for over a year.According to The Washington Post:Warmbier, 22, is due to arrive home in Cincinnati on Tuesday evening, after a stop at a U.S. military facility in Sapporo, Japan.The family said they were told by North Korean officials — through contacts with American envoys — that Warmbier fell ill from botulism sometime after his March trial [in 2016] and fell into a coma after taking a sleeping pill.There is no way of knowing yet whether the North Korean version of events is true, but the Warmbiers were told their son was in a coma the whole time.North Korea has "woefully inadequate medical care," according to The Washington post, and at this point it's not clear what kind of care Warmbier received "for more than a year in an unconscious state."Image: Roman Harak

Well, that escalated quickly. Last week, Jerry Seinfeld refused to hug Ke$ha at some red carpet event. Within 48 hours, mural artist Lushsux had captured the awkward moment on a brick wall in Melbourne, Australia. (Seinfeld2000)Previously: Jerry Seinfeld rejects Ke$ha's hug, funny people turn it into scenes from Seinfeld

Stuck in the wilderness without matches or a lighter? If you have access to a Ziploc bag and some water, you can still start a fire by creating a liquid magnifying glass. The YouTube channel Veritasium shows you how along with some basic fire-building skills.

Boosted Boards got a big push thanks to enthusiast Casey Neistat, whose reviews of V2 prompted many to buy one. Daniel Dahlberg's joy quickly turned to dismay when Vancouver cops pulled him over and fined him $600 for riding it on the street. (more…)

Brazilian comedians Hermes e Renato front Massacration, South America's answer to Spinal Tap. At long last, they have released the NSFW video for their instant classic track Metal Milf, starring DJ Sabrina Boing Boing (no relation) as the eponymous heroine. (more…)

Keep the excesses of one of the world's cruelest, most corrupt nations top-of-mind with this $80 Kim Jong Un men's romper suit, which is, conveniently machine wash/wrinkle free. via Crazy Abalone)

Bruce Sterling is one of the foremost advocates of design fiction and the use of science fiction as a tool for understanding and influencing the world, but despite yesterday's long, positive article praising many of the projects he's involved with, he's skeptical of the idea that science fiction makes the future better. (more…)

Automattic -- the company behind Wordpress -- has a fantastic teleworking policy that lets workers chose whether to come into offices in Portland, MN, Capetown, South Africa, and San Francisco, or to spend up to $250/month on a co-working space near them, or to work at any coffee shop with a stipend to pay for the coffee. (more…)

Gersh Kuntzman's serialized novel "Coup!" is notionally the memoir of a retired CIA operative ("Deep State") who, having discovered he had terminal cancer, decided to help Mike Pence invoke the 25th Amendment and stage a coup deposing Donald Trump and installing himself as President Handmaid's Tale, with a coterie of morally flexible billionaires who'd been bought off of Trump's cabinet with promises of special favors and steady leadership. (more…)

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and much more. GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue” -Publishers Weekly) Book One here. Book Two here. More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

Jupiter has at least 69 natural moons, reports Scientific American, with the latest distant dots of joy uncovered via images taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.Until recently the cataloged satellites totaled 67 in number. But only the innermost 15 of these orbit Jupiter in a prograde sense (in the direction of the planet's spin). The rest are retrograde, and are likely captured objects - other pieces of the solar system's solid inventory that strayed into Jupiter's gravitational grasp.That population of outer moons is mostly small stuff, only a few are 20-60 kilometers in diameter, most are barely 1-2 kilometers in size, and increasingly difficult to spot.Now astronomers Scott Sheppard, David Tholen, and Chadwick Trujillo have added two more; bringing Jupiter's moon count to 69. Perfect for your pirate base/villain lair/secret Space CIA prison/unsettling scientific experiments lab/taco stand.

Yehuda Devir and his wife Maya are both artists, so it was natural for him to create a charming illustrated blog of their relationship. (more…)

Benhaz Farahi continues to experient at the intersection of technology and fashion, this time with Bodyscape, a sculpted form that's underlit with LEDs. As the wearer moves, the lights shift around the garment. (more…)

Arumugam and a friend make quick work of 100 raw coconuts as they prepare coconut oil, then use it to cook some really tasty-looking grilled chicken legs, one of his specialties. (more…)

In this new Cut video, Amin Lakhani (a.k.a. “The Dating Coach On Wheels”) speaks to kids about his life and, specifically, his experience with muscular dystrophy. As Lakhani wrote on Instagram:I used to avoid kids–with their staring and their questions. This would totally kill the vibe on dates, because the girl could tell that I was very uncomfortable. So I started to accept and invite their curiosity, and shared lots of laughter in the process. I'm so thankful to @storiesbycut for inviting me to capture this with their incredible @hihokids!https://www.instagram.com/p/BVGCORgFsih/

TED-Ed explores the life (and death) of Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win one twice, and the only person to win one in two different sciences.

Mind Over Munch’s Alyssia offers a guide to some not-completely-terrible-for-you food choices at fast food restaurants like McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and Dunkin’ Donuts. She also has a guide to vegan fast food options that aren’t just salads:https://youtu.be/WDQgAh0fOBY

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Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy tries to find one wallet to rule them all.

Four video game audio designers explore the psychoacoustics of vintage video games, from the accelerating heartbeat of Space Invaders to the dramatic woosh of Myst's linking books. From Wired:With only a few channels of audio to play with, early videogame designers had to get very creative if they wanted their sounds to stand out. Pong, created in 1972, took a single tone and made it iconic, while Donkey Kong utilized the limited sounds of a Game Boy to trigger a range of cues and emotions.As the games got more complex, so did the audio, and the theories behind it. A loop, or short, repeated section of audio, acts as a recurring cue. Dissonant sounds communicate failure, while consonant ones—think of the sympathetic vibrations of Super Mario Bros.—encourage players to continue. The tones can even mimic human sounds—a modulating synthesizer approximates laughter, like the “wawawawawa” in Duck Hunt.

In this week's Cool Tools Show podcast, Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Nick Bilton. Nick is a Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair and author of three books, including Hatching Twitter and his latest, American Kingpin, which chronicles the rise and fall of the Silk Road and the Dread Pirate Roberts.Here's a bit from the interview:Mark: I feel, in a lot of ways, the story of the Dread Pirate Roberts, aka Ross Ulbricht, is kind of like Breaking Bad. Nick: Yeah, it's a kid who was the sweetest, nicest kid, who decided to build this website where you could buy and sell drugs, because he believed they should be legal and it spiraled out of control. Next thing you know he's running an empire that's making hundreds of millions of dollars, and ordering hits on people from the Internet, and selling guns and drugs and you name it in between. Mark: And every three letter acronym government agency after him and competing with each other to get him. Nick: Yeah, every single one. IRS, DHS, HSI, FBI, you name it. Kevin: Sounds like a movie. Mark: Yes. More than one of those agencies going rogue too. It's got everything. The way you tell it too, it's like a novel. The amount of research you must've put into this is incredible, because the conversations you have, there's stuff ... Kevin and I were saying, we follow this story, but it's like your other book, Hatching Twitter, it's being there ... Nick: It's interesting because I think that some of the most successful technologists talk about how they don't want you to think about how the technology actually works. Apple, of course, has been amazing at that. For somebody like me who writes narrative non-fiction, I don't want you to think about where the reporting came from, I just want you to understand the story. But there are certain times, of course, where you're like, "Woah, how did they figure this out?" It's definitely a wild, wild tale. I think, just one other little thing that you mentioned, it is like Breaking Bad. One of the funnest parts of the story is when Ross Ulbricht is growing magic mushrooms to sell on his website, he actually was really into Breaking Bad at the time, and he would wait for the mushroom stuff to cure and the gypsum and all that stuff to do its thing, and he would be sitting in there watching Walter White become Heisenberg in the middle of that. Mark: Wow. Oh my God. Yeah and Walter becoming Heisenberg, Ulbricht becoming Dread Pirate Roberts, the parallels are uncanny. (more…)

Greg Gianforte, the congressman-elect who punched and "bodyslammed" a Guardian reporter, will perform 40 hours of community service and pay a $300 fine after pleading guilty to assault. He must also attend 20 hours of anger management courses.Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs was asking Gianforte a question on May 24 when the Republican candidate threw him to the ground."A Gallatin County judge sentenced Gianforte to 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management classes and a $300 fine," Montana Public Radio's Eric Whitney reports.According to Whitney Bermes, a reporter for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, the judge initially gave Gianforte four days in jail, where under the terms of a jail work program he would be able to spend two of those days working.The judge, for whatever reason, reportedly change the sentence within minutes to specify community service instead of jail time.

This apartment house spans Beebe Plain, Vermont in the United States and Stanstead, Quebec in Canada. The owners, who have dual citizenship, put the fixer-upper on the market for $109,000. There are entrances from both Canada and the United States. From the Associated Press:Beebe Plain is a community in the Vermont town of Derby, which along with Stanstead, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northeast of Montpelier, or 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of Montreal, have become the cliché of security changes on the U.S.-Canadian border brought on by the 9/11 attacks on the United States.Residential streets that used to be open were blocked by gates. The back doors of an apartment building straddling the border in Derby Line village have been locked shut. The street next to the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, deliberately built in both countries, is blocked by flower pots, although Canadians are still allowed to walk to the library's U.S. entrance without going through a border post....Troy Rabideau, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant port director for the area that includes Beebe Plain, said the agents know who live there, but keeping track can be a challenge."It's always a fine line," Rabideau said. "We do the best we can to keep an eye on it. We do what we have to do, security first, but we also want the support of the locals."

In the 1970s, legendary Disney animator Art Babbitt, creator of Goofy, worked at Hanna-Barbera directing the studio's commercial division. His anti-drug PSA above, circa 1970, is a masterpiece of psychedelic cartooning.

Diana Smith, principal of Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington DC, offered rising 8th and 9th graders $100 each to stay entirely off their screens one day each week this summer. “Kids have these phones under their pillows at night — they’re going to bed, they’re texting each other at 3, 4 in the morning,” Smith told WTOP. "I challenge them to stay off of any screens — so television, games, phones, tablets, everything — for the 11 Tuesdays that we have of summer break."The students must provide two signed letters from adult witnesses to be eligible for the cash price.

In The New New Civil Wars, a poli sci paper included in this year's Annual Review of Political Science, UCSD political scientist Barbara F. Walter describes the profound ways in which civil conflicts have been transformed by the internet, and makes some shrewd guesses at what changes are yet to come. (more…)

A fellow in Tiverton, Rhode Island paved his access road with tons of unwashed clam shells, which still had chunks of meat attached to them. His neighbors saw him doing it, and warned him that the meat would rot and lead to problems, but the man couldn't be dissuaded. Rain fell on the shells for three days. When the sun came out it brought maggots and the smell of death.The town has issued a cease and desist order to no avail. Residents have erected signs that read “Honk if it Stinks,” and “Stop Unwashed Clam Shells.”From Oddity Central:“Everything is sort of taken over by this stench of decaying,” says Blair Moore, who lives close to the decaying clam road. “The smell. The smell is atrocious”“It’s like bodies decaying,” Sharon Moore, another local, added.

Does anyone remember the Newton MessagePad, Apple Pippin, McDonald's Arch Deluxe, Ikea's lovely snail hat, and the more recent Google Glass? Well you can revisit these flops along with many other has-beens at the new Museum of Failure in Helsingborg, Sweden.Curator Samuel West says he collects his failed products from eBay as well as from people who donate them to the museum. He bought two of his failures in a dark alley from vendors who insisted on cash only, but he won't say which ones. And what do these companies think of their failed experiments being put on display? West says he's had "one legal threat from New York, but we're in Sweden. You can't sue me!"https://youtu.be/PfdBTsyrqaI

Lots of languages are hybridized from multiple, overlapping waves of conquerers, "but English’s hybridity is high on the scale compared with most European languages," which gives us a realm of weird pronunciations, weirder spellings, inconsistent grammar, and a near-unique situation whereby speakers of languages that are close cousins to English can more-or-less understand English, too.The amalgam of inconsistently blended Celtic, Norse, French and Latin make English a nightmare to learn, speak and spell -- which makes the language's success in the world something of a miracle.As long as the invaders got their meaning across, that was fine. But you can do that with a highly approximate rendition of a language – the legibility of the Frisian sentence you just read proves as much. So the Scandinavians did pretty much what we would expect: they spoke bad Old English. Their kids heard as much of that as they did real Old English. Life went on, and pretty soon their bad Old English was real English, and here we are today: the Scandies made English easier.I should make a qualification here. In linguistics circles it’s risky to call one language ‘easier’ than another one, for there is no single metric by which we can determine objective rankings. But even if there is no bright line between day and night, we’d never pretend there’s no difference between life at 10am and life at 10pm. Likewise, some languages plainly jangle with more bells and whistles than others. If someone were told he had a year to get as good at either Russian or Hebrew as possible, and would lose a fingernail for every mistake he made during a three-minute test of his competence, only the masochist would choose Russian – unless he already happened to speak a language related to it. In that sense, English is ‘easier’ than other Germanic languages, and it’s because of those Vikings.Old English had the crazy genders we would expect of a good European language – but the Scandies didn’t bother with those, and so now we have none. Chalk up one of English’s weirdnesses. What’s more, the Vikings mastered only that one shred of a once-lovely conjugation system: hence the lonely third‑person singular –s, hanging on like a dead bug on a windshield. Here and in other ways, they smoothed out the hard stuff. Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? [John McWhorter/Aeon Essays](via Making Light)

When you drop this flat-pack penguin on the floor, it "explodes" into a 3D penguin, like a Nintendo character come to life. [via Dooby Brain]

https://youtu.be/ytpJdnlu9ug?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63WbdFxL8giv4yhgdMGaZNAInterested in learning Python? You can watch all 38 videos for MIT 6.0001 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python from Fall 2016, for free on YouTube.[via]

Binky is an app equivalent of a baby pacifier. It presents an endless scroll of image posts that you can "like" or "re-bink" (which does nothing). It's easy to comment on a post, too. You just press random letters on your keypad to automagically generate words that write out coherent sentences. (more…)

Dorian Bracht's supremely satisfying videos of crafting exotic wood joints from Japanese and European traditions are both inspiring and envy-inducing. (more…)

English Wikipedia participation peaked ten years ago and is down about 20,000 active users a month from its high point. Three big factors often get cited: deletionism, poor mobile editing options, and a lost spirit of inclusiveness. Everipedia wants to address all three with the latest attempt at an encyclopedia of everything. I spoke with co-founder Sam Kazemian about the project, which often pops up as a top search result for college-related news and people. Can they crack the code of next-gen participation? (more…)

Because sometimes you just need to watch something that’s purely good, The A.V. Club invited Parks And Recreation’s Jim O’Heir (a.k.a. Jerry a.k.a. Larry a.k.a Terry) to play with some puppies and kittens at PAWS Chicago. You can learn more, make a donation, and even adopt a pet on the PAWS Chicago website.

HideMyAss VPN does exactly what it says on the tin: covers your digital footsteps on all of your connected devices.VPNs have proliferated in recent months, thanks to increasing demand for online privacy protection. While there might be tons of cheap VPN services with varying degrees of legitimacy popping up every week, it's wisest to trust a traditional stalwart like HideMyAss to keep your personal information under wraps. Their extensive network boasts over 660 nodes spread across 190 countries to ensure that you get a fast, encrypted internet connection from almost anywhere in the world.This VPN is compatible with most devices, including game consoles and smart TVs, and allows for 2 simultaneous connections. Browse geographically restricted content, and keep your IP address hidden from ISPs with HideMyAss. A 2-year subscription to this VPN usually goes for $157.20, but you can get one in the Boing Boing Store for $54.99.

Nick Sousanis is the comics creator who broke ground in 2015 by being the first doctoral candidate to submit a dissertation in comics form and ever since, he's been doing wonderful nonfiction work in the form, on subjects ranging from entropy to climate change to elections. (more…)

Female-identified people, do you resent conventions related to swimming, the covering of breasts, the removal of hair and the possession of junk? Beloved's $45 Sexy Chest swimsuit may be just the thing! (via JWZ)

Popeyes is now serving a limited-time "Sweet and Tender" chicken dish that involves dredging nuggets of chicken slurry in shortbread-cookie dust, then serving it with high-fructose corn syrup jam. (more…)

When Federico Musto engineered a takeover of Arduino, open source hardware fans were nonplussed, and not least because Musto was caught lying about having received advanced degrees from MIT and NYU. (more…)

The dog is fine, reports owner Billy Hammonds, after being taken for a checkup at the vet.

This is such a wonderful cover. The look on the lady's face, the ridiculous zero-G fighting, and the bullets in the ray-gun are all fantastic. As I was looking over all the details on this cover though, I began to see a different story.Look at their clothing. The style is about what you'd expect from 50's science fiction, with tight boots and over-alls. Her outfit has some common traits from the 50's including a shape that lends itself to a bullet bra, and a waistline that looks impossible. That waistline is what shifts the narrative in my mind though. See all those dials and indicators? how the heck are you supposed to read those? Wait a sec! Those guys in the background are probably just reading each other's belts! That certainly makes her look a tiny bit more malicious with her hand-canon. Publication: The Original Science Fiction StoriesIssue: March 1957, volume: 7 No. 5 Cover art: Emsh from SaturnaliaThe table of contents states that there are illustrations from Emsh, Freas, and Orban. However, I don't see any stories that carry the illustrator credit for Kelly Freas. Usually there's a line on the title page somewhere. There are a number of illustrations in this issue that are simply uncredited, and at least one of them bears his obvious signature. [caption id="attachment_521776" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Orban for Galactic Gamble[/caption][caption id="attachment_521777" align="aligncenter" width="429"] Orban for Galactic Gamble[/caption][caption id="attachment_521775" align="aligncenter" width="436"] Orban for The Quest[/caption]The caption that goes along with this picture is "I saw the other side of the moon...". This is especially interesting to me. This statement seems so cute and silly, but the fact is, at that time it would be 11 more years before we finally orbited the moon! The Apollo 8 mission wasn't till 1968, and that was our first manned mission to orbit the moon. You're probably thinking, "sure, a person didn't orbit till 68, but what about unmanned craft?". Well, we hadn't even done that yet! The Soviets were the first to achieve a lunar orbit with Luna 3 in October of 1959. Also, that guy's helmet kicks ass. [caption id="attachment_521774" align="aligncenter" width="457"] Emsh for Saturnalia[/caption]It was images like this and the cover that fed into my childhood fascination with planetary rings. Space = Saturn, which was obviously the coolest planet. I later learned that other planets have rings as well, and it shattered my views on Saturn. Still totally my favorite planet based entirely on those glorious rings. [caption id="attachment_522349" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emsh for Saturnalia[/caption][caption id="attachment_522350" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emsh for Dark of the Moon[/caption][caption id="attachment_522351" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited for Tempus Non Fugit, but the first illustration for this story bears the signature of Kelly Freas, so maybe this one is as well.[/caption]You may have noticed that the previous 3 images look a bit different. I noticed I missed them as I was scanning, so I just shot them with my DSLR that I had sitting next to me. Kind of interesting to see how they come out differently. [caption id="attachment_521773" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emsh for Salt Lake Skirmish[/caption]Things haven't changed a whole lot in the language learning world. Even with our super fancy computers most methods are just like this one here. Listen and repeat, that's it. I'm not really sure what my point is, I guess the only alternative I can think of is a system of gamification. I'm sure that exists. [caption id="attachment_521769" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited from the section for reader letters.[/caption]There are these tiny illustrations spread through the reader's letters area, and even in some stories. They're uncredited but I love them! I don't know if it is the tiny size or what, but they're truly fascinating. This ship (above) reminds me of the NY State pavilion, built for the worlds fair in 1964[caption id="attachment_521770" align="aligncenter" width="463"] Uncredited from the section for reader letters.[/caption]These simple versions are even more delightful in my mind. Maybe it is the allusion to a story without the follow through. What are those 3 balls? Why is there a tinier one? Are they planets in the distance or floating around that astronaut? [caption id="attachment_521768" align="aligncenter" width="439"] Uncredited from the section for reader letters.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_521767" align="aligncenter" width="448"] Uncredited from the section for reader letters.[/caption]It is also interesting to me that these illustrations in the reader input section are completely unrelated to the letters near them. I read for a while trying to draw a connection and it just isn't there. I think they were just dropped in to break up the pages a bit. [caption id="attachment_521766" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emsh for Tempus Non Fugit[/caption] [caption id="attachment_521764" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Freas for Tempus Non Fugit[/caption]Though this story doesn't credit Freas in the title page, you can clearly see his insignia in the lower right corner. [caption id="attachment_521763" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521762" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521761" align="aligncenter" width="423"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521760" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521759" align="aligncenter" width="427"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521758" align="aligncenter" width="529"] Uncredited for The Downfall Of Alchemy[/caption][caption id="attachment_521757" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Orban for To Have And To Hold Not[/caption][caption id="attachment_521756" align="aligncenter" width="380"] Orban for To Have And To Hold Not[/caption][caption id="attachment_521755" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Emsh for Dark of the Moon[/caption][caption id="attachment_521771" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Uncredited[/caption]The illustration above, and below are both uncredited. Moreover, they're associated with a poem that by L. Sprague de Camp that isn't listed in the table of contents. The robots above are very reminiscent of C3PO from Star Wars. [caption id="attachment_521778" align="aligncenter" width="439"] Uncredited[/caption]This illustration is by far my favorite. There's something just hilarious about the posture and facial expression of the robot. It reminds me of when I lived somewhere that I had to walk my dog frequently and I'd stand there thinking "C'mon you jerk, just take a crap... so I can pick it up".

The Instagram account Gakugakugakugakugaku1 is dedicated to celebrating the beautiful art of Thai fruit and vegetable carving. Here are a few of my favorite examples: (more…)

From his career to his personal life to the machine and test named after him, Crash Course offers, well, a crash course on the father of computer science, Alan Turing.

A few years back, I was in Sun Valley, Idaho for a conference. I learned Adam West lived in the area and I wondered if he was listed in the local phone book. So, I pulled it out of the nightstand in my hotel room and checked.Flipping to the the "W" page, I spotted his name. His listing prompted, “See Wayne Bruce (Millionaire)." Ha, game on!Naturally I flipped to “Wayne Bruce (Millionaire)," which brought me to "Please consult Crime Fighters in the Yellow Pages." Ok, that brought me to "See BATMAN - WHITE PAGES"..Which then circles back to "See West Adam"!Nicely played, Mr. West, nicely played. RIP.(image link)

I defy you to eat dinner while watching this seller in an Okinawan fish market make clam sashimi out of this monster. It would have made a nice prop in a 1950s sci-fi movie.Via Aden Films.