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Episode 9 of the "100 Years of Beauty" series looks at Italian hairstyles and make up from the 1910s to the 2010s.See also:

My daughter got a Mini OgoSport Discs set as a gift last March and we finally broke it open last week. Read the rest

On March 14, 2005 "William O" received an anesthetic for root canal surgery. The next morning when William woke up, he thought it was still March 14 and that he had a dentist appointment. Read the rest

This mystery where you solve a crime with a search engine is brilliantly made—but it has one big problem. Read the rest

Imagine checking into a hotel with a robotic dinosaur receptionist behind the front desk. You then hand your bags over to the bell-bot, or trolley robot that takes them to your room. Read the rest

Coulrophobics were unable to convince England's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to ban a movie poster with a sinister-looking clown. Read the rest

Reddit's army of seething adolescents found a target for their anger in the form of Ellen Pao, the site's caretaker CEO and the presumed feminist fascist monster who presided over the censorship of r/fatpeoplehate and other bastions of free speech. Read the rest

After more problems with the plugin, Firefox temporarily blocked it, a Facebook executive requested a sunset plan, and web advocates just want the proprietary, closed-source, notoriously unstable platform dead. But not everyone's happy…

It is exactly what it says it is. It is $6. [h/t Heather] (more…)

The skull of FW Murnau, the director of the classic vampire film Nosferatu (1922), has been stolen from his grave in Stahnsdorf, Germany. Read the rest

IN WHICH master sleuth Donald Trump investigates why all those illegal immigrants are coming to the U.S. Read the rest

Cops in Gardena, Ca., didn't want the public watching them kill a man who took his hands off his head, but a federal judge decided it was in the public interest, reports Richard Winton and Joel Rubin at the LA Times. Read the rest

Game developer Tom Fracis has distilled the essence of this marvelous show into something that covers 70% of all episodes: "the exceptions are kind of nuts." Read the rest

In Artificial Killing Machine, visitors sit in a chair below cap guns that fire for each drone strike death reported publicly, which print out on a tally from a public database. Read the rest

Frank Kidd, 83, is the proprietor of Kidd's Toy Museum, a private collection of 20,000 antique toys, from cars and trucks to figurines to, Kidd's favorite genre, mechanical banks like the one above. Some of the toys reveal a lot about the era they're from. Read the rest

In a very special episode, Rudy teaches Fat Albert that getting friendzoned doesn't mean no, thanks to "Rudy's Little Helper." Hope this doesn't trigger the Cos! (more…)

These parasitic corpse plants (Monotopa uniflora) don't need chlorophil for energy, so they are white or pale pink. Krik & stony of Black Owl Outdoors found some in the wild. Read the rest

If you've ever stressed out about the new batch of timed CAPTCHAs that involve math equations, games, or inaudable audio, this video on CAPTCHA anxiety by videogamedunkey may feel all too familiar.

“We have a healthy spacecraft, we recorded data on the Pluto system, and we're outbound from Pluto.” Read the rest

The Oscar-winning documentarian, who directed Citizenfour, was detained and searched over 50 times, but the breaking-point was when the US Government refused to respond to her Freedom of Information Act request for the reasons for her harassment. Read the rest

Marketed as packing twenty-three functions into one pocketable gadget, the Kelvin 23 is a screwdriver with 15 bits, a hammer, a level, an LED light, a tape measure, and a magnetic picker-upper. Read the rest

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is expected to radio home any minute now. We're watching on NASA TV. The moment will end a nearly 22-hour radio blackout as the probe focused on a series of close-up observations of Pluto and its moons. Read the rest

Donald and Rudy!

Lindsay is a silent comedian, and her performances are unlike anything I've seen. Besides being clever and funny, Lindsay is a very skilled juggler and magician. Read the rest

echochamber.js creates a fake comment form on your site. The clever part: it stores the comment in the user's browser storage, so when they come back later it's still "there." (more…)

“Their non-planetary status is a handicap because these are the worlds that we need to get Earthlings excited about exploring.” Read the rest

A sponsored review of Ernest Cline's much anticipated Armada Read the rest

Citing Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the Church of Cannabis is suing the state for preventing it from using its religious sacrament of choice. Read the rest

Currently selling for $7.85 for a 4-pack on Amazon, these normcore reading spectacles are a great deal. Available in a wide range of strengths.

Israeli researchers created a "Nano Bible," all 1.2 million letters of the Old Testament engraved on a gold-plated silicon disk the size of a sugar grain. Read the rest

When it was pointed out that a Donald Trump campaign graphic posted to the candidate's Twitter and Facebook accounts included a photo of people dressed in Nazi soldier uniforms, Trump's people quickly found an appropriately defenseless scapegoat to blame: Read the rest

The wit and wisdom of the Oklahoma Republican Party on Facebook:“The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. department of Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of free Meals and Food stamps ever, to over 46 million people. Read the rest

How is it possible that a movie with the catchy title of Zyzzyx Road, staring Tom Sizemore and Katherine Heigl, could only gross $30 at the box office? Read the rest

In 2012 Coloradans voted to legalize retail sales of recreational marijuana to adults. But a Marijuana prohibition organization in Washington DC, run by a Reagan/Bush-era "Just Say No" wacko named James Wootton, is abusing a Federal racketeering act to sue Colorado cannabis retailers out of business. Read the rest

Who knew caffeine, aspirin, and LSD were so darn beautiful up close? Read the rest

The mystical, lilting sounds of the great Indian vocalist Lata Mangeshkar feature prominently on this two-track record. Read the rest

The Ugly Volvo deconstructs the spatial, safety, and existential problems with the baby bunny's bedroom in the iconic children's book "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown with pictures by Clement Hurd. Read the rest

Global warming deniers are posting olde timey photos of the Thames River Frost Fair of 1814 and claiming that a new scientific model reveals we are going to enter a mini-ice age in 2030. Read the rest

As skulls are a beloved design motif at Boing Boing, it is no wonder this deck quickly became a favorite!Read the rest

After taking a punch to the face, a motorcyclist subdues his attacker. (Via WSHHP)

Did you know that if you post a photo of a car parked across two disabled spaces in Abu Dhabi you can go to prison for “writing bad words about a person?” Jodi Magi, 39, did not know that. Read the rest

On a panel at Comic-Con last Thursday, William Shatner shared his opinion about the green shirt he had to wear as Captain Kirk on Star Trek. Read the rest

Some of New York's public trash cans do more than just collect junk. A few hundred of them can detect when they're too stinky, when to compact the trash, and when it's time to empty them. Read the rest

Quolls are marsupials native to Tasmania and Australia, though very few live in the wild in Australia due to decimation by foxes and feral cats. Perhaps the cutest pics are from Craig Borrow of the Herald Sun: Read the rest

Increasingly obnoxious "prank" videos are a global phenomenon, and Latvian TV show Spediens takes things to extremes with a string of them in this sendup of the genre. Read the rest

Leia is a beautiful dog whose sharp eyes spotted a struggling fellow mammal on the beach. Leia's owner recorded his rescue of the little guy. Read the rest

YouTuber Eric Nordrum found a beautiful cecropia moth being attacked by a robin, then used online instructions to repair the moth's damaged wing before releasing it. Read the rest

With vivid colors and charming humanized animals, Edmond: The Moonlit Party looks like a neon version of a Richard Scarry book. Read the rest