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All in the Family producer Norman Lear made this one-minute TV commercial to challenge the political ambitions of the well-financed Moral Majority organization of the Christian Right. The commercial objected to the Moral Majority's propaganda that you had to vote a certain way in order to be a good Christian.[via]

About two-thirds of the way through NK Guy’s enormous, gorgeous, and thoughtful new Taschen book, Art of Burning Man, the author/photographer makes a small confession: “For all the wonders of Burning Man, it has to be said that not all the art is inspiring. Read the rest

The Hotspur was a boy's story newspaper from Britain that launched in 1933 and featured fantastical covers with giant monsters, robots, and extraterrestrials in conflict with stalwart humans. Read the rest

"No matter what we at Ranger School say the non-believers will still be non-believers. We could have invited each of you to guest walk the entire course, and you would still not believe." Read the rest

Join a former flying tiger, his awesome dog and a Grumman G-21 Goose as he explores the south Pacific, fights Nazis, and has a broken relationship with a pretty singer/spy. This should have been my life, not a one season tv show you've never heard of!Read the rest

Jim Fouts, mayor of Warren, Michigan, has proposed a ban on flamethrowers.Chris Byars, seen above, is CEO of Detroit-area flamethrower firm Ion Productions Team. He says that to automatically assume people will do stupid things with his company's products is "insulting and discriminatory." Read the rest

If you are traveling through the San Francisco International Airport during the next four months, don't miss the exhibit Classic Monsters, featuring fantastic items from the collection of Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, on view in the Terminal 2 gallery of the always-fascinating SFO Museum. Read the rest

An excellent video for Lil Grit, Nathan Cobb's Kickstarter project to fund the manufacture of a small grippy pad that sticks to the side of your phone so it doesn't slip out of your hand. There are quite a few funny moments in the short promo.[via]

Seems lawyers for national chain "AutoZone" have sent a nastygram to a Mom and Pop shop, named "CycleZone," claiming consumers will be confused by the similarity. Read the rest

I use Yelp and Trip Advisor reviews to help me decide which restaurants and hotels to visit. I assumed many businesses purchase shill reviews to boost their ratings and try to take that into consideration, but I did't know that the "review dealer" business was so large. Read the rest

Magician Dan White performed a great trick on the Tonight Show on Friday. He gave Jimmy Fallon a quarter asked him to pocket the coin. Then White turned his back and told Fallon to put his hand back in his pocket and either put the coin in his hand or not, then hold out his closed fist. White guessed correctly all three times, and ended with a great surprise. I'm 100% fooled.

Presidential candidate Chris Christie, who commands a 3% support rating among registered GOP voters, is trying hard to win over conservatives who are disgusted with him for hugging Obama during the Hurricane Sandy cleanup in 2012. Read the rest

News reportage has focused on the propaganda messages, but this, relentlessly blasted across the border at such volume it can be heard 12 miles in, is surely what's really keeping DPRK leader Kim Jong Un up at night.The track—"DJ, put it back on!"—is called "Tell Me Your Wish," by "Girls' Generation." It has 33m YouTube views, so far.

Politiwoops, already dead in the U.S., now dies in 30 more countries. They rely on Twitter's API, after all, which the company has long made clear is not a public service. Read the rest

If we learn anything from this video, it's that road rage is incredibly embarrassing, but also that the phrase "PUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT" should live forever. Read the rest

Most people tie their shoes with the inefficient "bunny loop" shoelace knot. Let kindly Professor Shoelace show you the superior “Ian Knot."

I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction. Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction!

Game-making apps tend to evolve into intimidating tools aimed at pros. Beginners need something useful to non-coders—and Nintendo has the right idea. Read the rest

Follow the desperate journey of 20 surviving seamen stranded a thousand miles from land. Read the rest

Machines will "steal our jobs, but give us new ones," writes Cade Metz. Read the rest

This grim little flat in Manhattan is practically uninhabitable, but someone's paying $1,100 for it. Read the rest

Once again, with feeling: Body Mass Index doesn't tell us much about who is and is not overweight. Albert Sun weighs in for the NYT:The illustrations here were created from scans of six people, who were all 5 feet 9 inches tall and 172 pounds. Read the rest

A simple methdology: compare the IMDB rating of the final episode vs the show's average. Dragonball Z and Dexter share bottom spot, but who wins?

Granted, by "top" they mean "top 1000," but still: what on Earth are you thinking, parents? Read the rest

Charlotte Shane reports on women-on-woman harassment cases and their relationship to the false intimacy of the internet. Read the rest

It's Monday, which means an amusing and blistering John Oliver segment! Last night's subject: that it's legal to remove someone from their job or rented home on grounds of their sexuality.

Last week we pastiched some nightmare dinosaurs, learned some Chinese vocabulary, and had a serious chat about piracy and poverty. Make Monday less dreary with wonderful memories of last week. Read the rest

Perhaps this massive eagle thought the ball was a strange egg? Regardless, that's some impressive claw control.

This video is 100% accurate. My brother has two pit bulls. They're awesome—but he's an ass.

I hated this song, but it's growing on me now.[via]

The Land Art movement was part of the anti-gallery uprising of iconoclastic artists in the 1960s and 1970s. This new film by James Crump is an excellent primer, and it features the movement's largely-reticent voices, including Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, and Michael Heizer. Read the rest

SunCalc is a nifty site and app by Torsten Hoffman that allows visitors to enter any location and date and find out all the details of that day's local solar path: Read the rest

It only takes 90 seconds to tell the story how we wish it had been told. Read the rest

Kevin Norton and James Stumbo were arrested this weekend near the Pokémon World Championship after showing up with a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 they boasted about on social media. Read the rest

"You poop uncontrollably. Your purpose is to poop on things." Read the rest

The homophobic, anti-semitic morons of Westboro Baptist Church were protesting outside the Foo Fighters' Kansas City concert on Friday, so the Foo Fighters drove by in a pickup truck and rickrolled them.Below, the time the Foo Fighters trolled the Westboro protestors back in 2011.

"Match Head Bomb at 2500fps." (more…)

A beautiful and strangely haunting trip to a compilation of the Geocities-era web, made of carefully-rearranged bitmaps & bitrot. Read the rest

Face to face, out in the heat! Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry!

The Snowflake’s ($39.99) smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360˚rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced anti-collision technology. Read the rest

There’s a better way to listen to your favorite jams…Oust the obnoxious wires and cumbersome buds, and opt for the Jarv Nmotion PRO earbuds ($29.99). Read the rest

Good god.

Already sold: most of Greece's airports -- for sale: gas transmission, oil refineries, power company, post office, national highways, water company. Read the rest

The jet crash at the Shoreham airshow near Worthing, England, also left one person critically injured and 14 in hospital. The BBC has more. Read the rest

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "I got mugged by a bunch of Boston hooligans. Readers of Boing Boingmay be familiar with my FedFlix project which has resulted in 6,000 government videosgetting posted to YouTubeand the Internet Archive." Read the rest