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Susan Goldberg: “How cool is this? The @NASANewHorizons #Pluto team autographed our fab July @NatGeo cover, written by @nadiamdrake.”More: Pluto coverage on Boing Boing.

I bought this camera lens kit for the heck of it, because it cost only $3.14 including shipping, via Amazon. The package arrived from China. Read the rest

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives (PC) are calling for the removal of a collage titled "Sacred Circle VI" by French-Canadian artist Rosalie Maheux. Read the rest

Growing up as an Asian-American kid in Texas, Greg Pak loved Westerns and fantasy stories. He's bringing both to Kingsway Law, the tale of a Chinese gunslinger in an Old West overrun with magic. Read the rest

Fans of recursion rejoice: someone has put a playable version of Doom... inside Doom. Read the rest

Before reading this article about the Sphinx, I knew just three things about it: It was large, it was old, and it was in Egypt. Read the rest

A family ignored warning signs along a highway in South Africa, and ended up being held captive by a band of criminal baboons who ransacked their luggage for food. Read the rest

Peter from the National Coalition Against Censorship sez, "At a public hearing over whether or not to remove LGBT children's books from a public library, one mom's comments stole the show."

All ISS systems continued to operate normally while the Russian cosmonauts and NASA astronaut sheltered. Read the rest

“A key Interior technology official who had access to sensitive systems for over five years had lied about his education, submitting falsified college transcripts produced by an online service.” Read the rest

On Friday, July 31, Xeni, Jason, Mark, and the other folks helping to create our upcoming Weekend of Wonder (WoW) extravaganza will gather in a special Los Angeles location to eat tacos and have fun! Read the rest

Let's hope the man didn't damage those janitorial supplies when he slid in to them.

This no-pull dog harness turned my Great Pyrenees into a perfect gentleman! It also may have saved my rotator cuff.Read the rest

It looks like this fellow believed he could stop the train with the power of his mind, but at the last minute realized the train wasn't going comply with his command. He ends the performance by shaking his fist and uttering a curse at the disobedient train.

I'm not quite sure why Geoff McGhee describes these vintage-style charts of modern data as "steampunk," but they sure are gorgeous! Perhaps … lithopunk? Mimeopunk? [via]

YouTuber IncredibleScience has a great at-home science project that's kid-friendly: making waterproof sand. Read the rest

Taking the kids to see The Vamps? Might as well bust some old school moves and have more fun a than those bored dads at One Direction concerts. Read the rest

Artist Zhao Chuang rendered this cool illustration of a newly-discovered Zhenyuanlong. It was over six feet long and had copious feathers, as shown in a beautifully preserved Chinese fossil below. Read the rest

Artist Thomas Mailaender placed negatives from the Archive of Modern Conflict on models' skin, then irradiated it with UV light to create a sunburn print in his book Illustrated People. Read the rest

Reddit's proposed new policies continue its principled ideological commitment to ignoring problems. But it also wants to do something about copyright infringement. Perhaps Reddit can brush its white supremacy and rape advice subreddits under the rug! But can it live without copyrighted material? Get real, Reddit! Read the rest

A lot has changed since 1997. Read the rest

Stir hopes you'll be convinced. The Verge's Dan Seifert reports that "it’s hard to come away from the experience unimpressed." Read the rest

A "clerical error" allowed Charleston spree killer Dylann Roof's purchase of a firearm. Rep. James Clyburn wants the loophole that permitted this closed off. Read the rest

It's OK, they're the government. Read the rest

America's preferences for naughty words, mapped by state by Jack Grieve.

Kiss goodbye to tv/records/the web/religion/carbs, part 2395823958: "In fact, Kordestani says that YouTube now reaches more 18 to 49-year-olds than any single US cable network. Those numbers sound insane, but keep in mind that they probably include people listening to music on YouTube, as well as views on tablets" [Wired]

With this deck of cards, you can ask a spectator to name a card, then riffle the cards to play a flip-book movie that ends with a little cartoon character pulling the named card out of a hat. Read the rest

Here's a sexy, aspirational trailer, just released by Los Angeles-based aircraft firm ICON for the A5, an amphibious light sport aircraft beginning customer deliveries this Summer. Read the rest

Granted, I'm slightly less murderous. With Quentin Tarantino's Hateful Eight set to feature the first Ennio Morricone score in forty years, it's time to revisit the source. Read the rest

Brett Dickins (previously, previously) writes, "This compilation features five of my mechanical artworks -- I chose five sculptures all featuring gears and mechanisms that are radically different from each other in design and function."

Art from New Media Rights writes, "We spend our time working with online video creators on fair use, so we created The Fair Use App. We filtered down our experiences working with video creators to create an app that can help them better understand:" Read the rest

Over at Backchannel, I wrote about how brain tech could transform how we work in the future, from displays that react to our mental state to offices that respond to our brainwaves. Read the rest

Sinaloa drug cartel boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was barely out of maximum-security prison when musicians all around Mexico started uploading hot musical takes about his (again) escape. Read the rest

I love all of the boxed postcard collections that are being published these days. There's something of a resurgence of interest in mail art, snail mail correspondence, zines, and other mail-borne art forms and these postcard boxes might be a reflection of that. Read the rest

My friend and Cool Tools business partner Kevin Kelly and I are podcast fanatics. We’d like to find out what your favorite non-fiction podcasts are and why you like them. Please take this survey to help us create a Guide to the Best Non-Fiction Podcast Series.

Chelsea Manning's extraordinary act of whistleblowing continues to enrich journalism, the public, and the historic record to this day. Chelsea is currently appealing her unjust conviction and 35-year jail sentence under the Espionage Act, but her legal team is deeply in debt. Freedom of the Press Foundation is helping to raise money for her appeal by offering a way for people to donate to her legal defense here. Read the rest

Because there are plenty of turkey testicles for everyone who is inclined to eat turkey testicles. Read the rest

Earlier today, I posted about a "poisonous" cobra. Boing Boing reader cryoutlaughin corrected me in the comments. Snakes are venomous, not poisonous. Read the rest

Enter a red-hued glitch dream where you explore your grandmother's house to find seeds, skeletons, frogs and songs by Patsy Cline. Read the rest

A venomous monocled cobra has escaped near Austin, Texas after biting and killing an 18-year-old pet store employee who was keeping it at his home. Read the rest

A spokesman for police told reporters that both journalists were denying that the letter was classified. Read the rest

Last week Patrick Rushing, mayor of Airway Heights, Washington, posted a comment to Facebook which read, “Gorilla face Michelle, can't disagree with that. Read the rest

When someone complains on Facebook about an unsatisfactory experience at particular business establishment, there's a chance that Ben Palmer and Nick Price will respond as if they were representatives for that business. Read the rest

"We've never had such a violent, obnoxious celebrity on Sesame Street ever!" said Elmo. Pesci looked at it for a moment, then spat on it. [via r/videos]

In 1995 Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog (described by Steve Jobs as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”) wrote a book about how buildings adapt to the changing world around them, called How Buildings Learn. Read the rest