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Books about book covers and jackets have long been a favorite of publishers, in part, I’m assuming, because the subject is at once self-congratulatory and economical. Read the rest

"Indiana Jones 4 and the Echoes of the Past" (more…)

His name is Braco (pronounced braht-zo), though his devotees call him "the gazer." When the 48-year-old Croatian healer is in public, he remains perfectly silent. His followers claim that his ability to relieve mental and physical anguish is so strong that it can be felt by gazing at a live video feed of his face. He also sells jewelry that transmit "life, light and energy." You can buy a Yellow Diamond Encrusted Sun Pendant (which provides “connection to [the Golden Sun's] energy”) for $6345. Read the rest

Postmodern Jukebox does retro versions of popular contemporary pop songs. Their latest video is a cover of The Stroke's 2002 hit "Someday." It features Cristina Gatti on vocals. The versions are very different from each other, but I like them both.

This weekend I'll be watching Max, Fang, 99, and the rest of CONTROL keep the world safe from KAOS ...and loving it!Read the rest

If lacking the attention they got in times past, those who believe in conspiracy theories concerning the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are still going. Read the rest

The low-budget found-footage creepyflick is being hailed as his best since at least The Village. The tl;dr: starts great, becomes a bit contrived, ends preachy. Read the rest

Starry Kitchen, the fun-loving pan-Asian pop-up restaurant darlings of social media, will be joining us at Boing Boing's Weekend of Wonder. Om nom nom! Read the rest

Level design is its own kind of playful art: part theatre and part architecture, you’re making spaces to challenge and delight other people. Read the rest

The Slow Mo Guys said "do tase me, bro"—and filmed the results for posterity. The footage was captured with the Phantom v2511 camera. [via Digg]

From the Future of Storytelling Summit. Read the rest

A woman who sprained her ankle in Cheltenham, England, is just the latest to trip after the installation of a new street curb that is a different color to the old one. Read the rest

Most cameras capture the position of light rays, producing your average static 2D image. The Lytro dares to be different. Its cutting-edge technology records the direction of these rays, generating images you can later refocus, change perspective within, or view in 3D. Read the rest

“Blacklisted and Lovin' It.” $50 on the official store.tedcruz.org site. Jezebel has the backstory. Still would not have sex with.This is a thing that's real. Read the rest

Three energetic ducklings standing on top of a capybara who is just trying to take a bath. (more…)

“This video made me laugh out loud,” said paleontologist Leif Tapanila, director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History. Read the rest

Early this week I gave an online Arduino sensor workshop, and without this LED jeweler's loupe, I wouldn't have been able to read the tiny markings on many of the components. The battery has lasted for years. It's $2.72 on Amazon with free shipping even if you aren't a Prime member. I'm very happy with mine.

"It's a funny sort of war that produces a lower body count than there was before the war began," writes Jesse Walker for Reason's Hit & Run blog. Read the rest

I want this $190 rock almost as much as I want that $98 stump.

Paul Dawson, a professor of Food Science at Clemson University, investigated the history of the "Five Second Rule" and ran experiments to see how much bacteria actually transfers from the floor onto dropped food. Read the rest

The estranged husband of Amber Telford, 33, hired a private detective to surveil his wife, a dance instructor in Taylorsville, Utah. The detective caught Telford having sex in the dance studio with a fellow who turned out to be the private investigator's own 17-year-old son. Read the rest

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village on the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, UK. Nice work, Liam Dutton of Channel 4.

Above: a stump for sale for $98 at Design Republic. Below: a video about an artisanal firewood maker. It doesn't really matter that one is real and which one is a parody.

Designed by both Elan Lee (Xbox, ARGs) and Shane Small (Xbox, Marvel), and illustrated by Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal), Exploding Kittens is a self-proclaimed “kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette.” This humorous, tension-building card game was both the most-backed and most-funded project in Kickstarter history in early 2015. Read the rest

R.I.P. Mr. Darcy.

At first I was adverse to posting this fulsome list of 58 commonly misused words and phrases, due to its sheer enormity, but I decided to proscribe it anyway because it is pretty bemusing. Read the rest

A porn app developed by Russian hackers takes your photo, locks your phone, and displays a scary looking message from the "FBI" that says you have to pay a $500 fine for accessing "forbidden pornogaphic sites."This piece of ransomware is called Porn Droid and affects Android devices. Read the rest

"Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men," Stipe said, responding to Trump playing REM's hit "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" at a rally yesterday. Read the rest

Jim Stickley of Stickley Online Security uses his handy $8 Utili-Key to open a locked hotel safe at the Horseshoe Hotel in Bossier City, LA. He unscrews the nameplate on the safe, which reveals a physical lock. He then unbends a paper clip, wiggles it around for a while, and viola! the safe is open. He says a thief could use this method to take something from the safe without any sign that the safe had been opened.

San Francisco painter Kelly Tunstall and the People's Print Shop teamed up on this wonderful fine art print, "Cloud Chat," limited to 30 signed/numbered copies for just $40 each! Read the rest

At first, it seems like just another day at the beach for just another seagull. Then you open your tiny yellow beak and sing the song of fire. Read the rest

In South Africa, scientists have unearthed a humanoid species from what appears to be a burial chamber hidden deep inside a system of caves. Read the rest

My friend Stanford neuroscientist Melina Uncapher and her colleagues are piloting a new public project called mymntr meant to create a "user guide for your brain" through brain tests for self-knowledge, interviews with fascinating creative folks to get a sense of the minds behind the madness, and lots of other cool stuff at the intersection of science and culture. Read the rest

Dave Witlock is a practical man. "I have not taken a shower in over 12 years," says the chemical engineer and Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate. Read the rest

Bertie the tortoise broke the world record for the fastest animal in his species, moving at .28 meters/second, beating a tortoise named Charlie's 1977 record of .125 meters/second. Meet Bertie in the video below, celebrating his entry into the new Guinness World Records book.

Having watched Attack on Titan, I enjoyed this video of a live action fight over a slice of pizza at a party, edited anime-style. Every line of dialogue is delivered as a seething throaty whisper or a confused angry shout. There are close-ups of throbbing eyeballs and trembling fists. One second glimpses of complex infographics. Slow camera sweeps over static scenes. They nailed it.[via]

Fans of the Judge John Hodgman podcast know that the harder you interrogate the category "sandwich," the less definitive it becomes, until you find yourself raging over tacos and hot-dogs. Read the rest

Primož Ravnik thought it would be cool to ride down the face of a 200-ft dam. Damn, Primož! Daaaaamn! [Sploid]