Student Deena Herr, 22, has recently become a very unlikely superstar in the East African nation of Uganda. Read the rest

Kate from Feminist Frequency (previously) writes, "Feminist Frequency has just released a supplemental mini-episode in their Tropes vs Women in Video Games series." Read the rest

A cool addition to my growing cabinet of curiosities. Read the rest

Dan/Ridetheory's amazing mashup of R2 & 3PO with Chico and Harpo from A Day at the Races is brilliant.

The doyenne of punk design drove the tank to the UK prime minister's house in Chadlington, Oxfordshire to carry out a spoof "chemical attack" in protest over new fracking licenses in 27 residential areas (but not near David Cameron's home). Read the rest

Legendary musician David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets is collaborating with Detroit's Theatre Bizarre Orchestra to create an immersive performance experience involving a studio recording, DVD, and tour. Read the rest

8 years ago, Universal Music sent a takedown notice over Stephanie Lenz's 29-second Youtube video of her kids dancing in the kitchen to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy." Read the rest

Just look at it.

“President Barack Obama meets 4-year-old Malik Hall during departure photos with Malik's uncle, Maurice Owens, center, in the Oval Office, Sept 4, 2015.” Read the rest

Can you remember the childhood zen of scribbling with crayons atop the outlines of your favorite superhero? Ever wish you could go back? Read the rest

YouTuber 44alimorris shot a video of a taxi driver stealing her friend's phone. Here's her report of the incident: Read the rest

Fulvio Obregon, an illustrator from Cali, Colombia, created a series of portraits that show younger and older versions of the same celebrity as if they are in the same room together.

Nick Berlin was "yards away" from a windshield repair shop when he was pulled over by an Adams County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy who gave him a ticket for having a broken windshield. Berlin's windshield was broken when a vandal threw a rock at it. Jeremy Jojola of KUSA Channel 9 reported the story and spoke to Denise Maes, the public policy director for the ACLU: Read the rest

Over at eBay, fashion designer/stylist Kelly Sparks, who moonlights as my wife, wrote about how to bring the trends seen in the crazy couture of fashion show runways into a woman's everyday wardrobe: "Five Fall Fashion Trends That Aren't Just for Supermodels" Read the rest

Meet the SKEYE Pico Drone, the smallest drone in the world Read the rest

Fortean journalist Cat Vincent have a presentation at London's Treadwell's esoteric bookshop about the strange mysticism of bOING bOING patron saint Robert Anton Wilson, author of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Prometheus Rising, and Cosmic Trigger, a book that changed my life in weird and wonderful ways. Read the rest

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This toddler is having a nice time in a parking lot when she is startled by a stranger who silently sneaked up to her. She panics and flees, but like the monster in It Follows, the stranger pursues her relentlessly.[via]

If you've gone to great lengths, spending big bucks to get a new digital camera that looks like an old film slr, you might as well have the ugly camera strap to match! Read the rest

Walruses sleep in a big pile. Hippos bob to the surface to take a breath and then sink back underwater. (more…)

Great write up on Mac Sabbath at The Village Voice.

This incredible photo is an example of "crown shyness," a phenomenon in which the crowns of trees maintain a little personal space between each other. Read the rest

Surf the web with ultimate peace of mind – both at home and on the road – over proXPN’s fully-encrypted, lightning-fast servers. Read the rest

Looks like Disney wasn't lying when they portrayed forest animals helping clean homes.

Being well known can make it harder to rest in peace. Read the rest

Wu, a protege of Larry Lessig who coined the term "Net Neutrality," will be on sabbatical from Columbia Law while he works for the AG: "If I have a life mission, it is to fight bullies" Read the rest

This steel statue of Dennis the Menace, swiped from a Monterey, California playground in 2006, has turned up at a scrapyard in Orlando, Florida. Police don't know who forcibly removed Dennis from his home and sent him across the country, but I wager the culprit's last name is Wilson. Read the rest

Previously forbidden from the vintage 'n' handmade marketplace, companies that make large numbers of any given item now have a home at Etsy. Read the rest

They're the work of Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientist and artist whose meticulous illustrations of wildlife were mostly forgotten until a late 20th century reappraisal. Read the rest

A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine (great name for a soul album) finds that gay haters Read the rest

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Mark Karpeles, the operator of Bitcoin exchange/scam Mt. Gox, was charged Friday with embezzlement in connection to its collapse. Read the rest

It's fun to design your own games, but here's why you should slow your roll. Read the rest

A Washington state court judgment marks the first time the operator of a successful Kickstarter got fined for failing to follow-through. Read the rest

The most exciting news out of last week's Apple event was its 12.9" iPad Pro, complete with Wacom-style stylus for artists and designers. Read the rest

MIT researchers developed a new system for 3D printing transparent, colored, and strong glass structures from digital files. Read the rest

On Vine, less is more. This 16 year old Vine star's most popular clip, “Who Is She,” doesn't really contain much—but it's perfect. Read the rest

We laughed pretty hard. Read the rest

I have never seen a cat do what this cat is doing vocally in this video, but that's the thing about cats. They have a million different ways of being pissed off. (more…)

A 28-year-old paralyzed man became the first person to gain a sense of touch with a prosthetic hand. It was developed by DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics program. Read the rest

A restaurant server in California has a problem: customers that just won't stop touching her. Unfortunately, she now has two problems: she went to "Dear Abby" for help. Read the rest