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

“I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history,” writes Reddit's recently-departed interim CEO Ellen Pao in a Washington Post op-ed today. “And I have just been blessed with the most astonishing human responses to that attack.” Read the rest

Police noticed an odor and alcohol, and Henry admitted to drinking a six-pack of Hamm's beer. Read the rest

Yesterday, President Obama defined rape in a news conference. Last week the Cosby rapes and disclosure by The Runaways' Jackie Fox were in the news. Read the rest

The Chandler Arizona police department explained that one of its police officers barged into a naked woman's home without her permission and handcuffed her because the woman was "trying to agitate" him. Read the rest

Oregon State University researchers created and patented a new strain of the protein-rich red marine algae known as Dulse. When cooked, this new stuff really tastes like bacon. The engineered strain is high in protein, and purportedly offers twice the nutritional value of everyone's favorite vegetable-du-jour, kale. Read the rest

Astounding photographer Star Foreman aims to complete 30 of her unique and breathtaking photoshoots in 90 days. Please help her via kickstarter.Read the rest

It's listed as Adavi Donga (1985), but I am not sure what I just watched.

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Snag Your Free Copy of this New York Times' Bestseller. Read the rest

A young man with colorblindness received a pair of EnChroma colorblind-correcting sunglasses as a gift from a friend, and when he tries them on, he is overcome with emotion at seeing certain colors for the first time.RELATED: Color for the Colorblind

Under threat of an advertiser mutiny, TLC announced today that it was canceling its popular reality television show 19 Kids and Counting, which starred a conservative Christian family. Read the rest

Sarah Jeong reports on the bizarre and public wrangling over Reddit, whose free-for-all atmosphere blew up just in time to singe new investors expecting rapid growth. Read the rest

Don't trust Dr. Google, says The Atlantic's Julie Beck: "On average, they included the correct diagnosis in the first three results 51 percent of the time, and included it in the first 20 results 58 percent of the time." As for Yahoo! Answers…

Canadian cops are on the hunt for a gang of cows that allegedly drooled on and scratched a woman's car in Val-des-Monts, Quebec, causing $1,000 in damages. Read the rest

The BBC reports that after two "hackers" spotted security holes in its website, United rewarded them with a million miles each. Read the rest

Is it being sweet? Or is it fattening them up? For later.

The Ultimate Deck by Stranger and Stranger is one of the most impressive decks of cards in my collection. The luxurious design of each playing card is absolutely, without a doubt, the most over the top, detailed and decorative set of 52 that I have ever seen. Read the rest

I sort of have a love affair with beautiful boxes and my friends and family know it. Recently, I received a couple of wonderful trick boxes from a new friend, Marcel. Read the rest

The legendary Lemony Snicket is headed to the high seas for a new adventure under his other name. But where's he coming from? Read the rest

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore the Metrics Read the rest