Boing Boing

Primitive Technology's handyman starts with a stone axe and a fire-stick, then painstakingly builds up a 2m^2 hut with a bed, fireplace, chimney and thatched roof. Read the rest

Vivian Gabb, 59, of London, was in the middle of buying a house and somehow a criminal learned of the details, impersonated her solicitor, and emailed her with instructions to wire the money to the "bank." After she lost the money she went back and looked at the email and noticed that the email address the scammer used was missing an "s" in "partners." She lost £50,000, her life savings. Read the rest

Christophe Szpajdel rebranded the hopefuls with more elaborate and distinctive imagery than is permitted by the blandly inoffensive standards of election campaigning.

The perception is that they finish last, but "jerk perks" are overrated, reports Olga Kazan: "other research shows that in many situations, it pays to be nice. Read the rest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Chaos Butterfly, Marital Mirth and more! Read the rest

Even excluding the Charleston massacre, white supremacists and their like are way ahead of Muslim extremists, reports The New York Times. Read the rest

Christopher Ferguson's Comcast bill was bullshit. When he complained, the company offered him alternatives that cost more. So he turned them in to the FCC and got relief. Read the rest

Most people in the United States and the rest of the west have easy access to iodine, an essential chemical for our health. Read the rest

Paul writes, "Pogues founder Jem Finer created Longplayer in the late 1990's, a one-thousand-year-long piece of transcendent music which started playing at the stroke of midnight as the year 2000 started. It's finally available as an app, so you can hear it whenever you want and contemplate what it will take to keep the song playing for the remaining 985 years it has to run."

The action starts around 25 seconds in. (more…)

Over at Backchannel, Andy Warner's delightful comic about how a naval engineer invented The Slinky. Read the rest

I would like to know Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's thoughts about this outsider musician's YouTube masterpiece: a cover of 'Stairway to Heaven,' played on this dude's hands.(more…)

Okay, it's an “intake vortex” of water in an Oklahoma waterway, but it looks like a giant endless black hole of sludge, which is how human interaction on the Internet feels sometimes. Read the rest

Dang, Jon Stewart sure has grown up over those many seasons. Read the rest

“Boils! Cow Plague! Frogs!”(more…)

What a terrible person this man is. I mean, we all know already. But come on. Read the rest

A lot of games are about explosions, but rarely is it this joyful and whimsical to make people explode. Read the rest

A cop in Karlsruhe, Germany was in no mood for playful art installations. None too pleased with artist Erwin Wurm's red Mercedes truck arching up against a building, he issued a ticket. And what's the going rate for parking halfway up a wall? Apparently $33 (or 30 Euros). That'll teach the sculpture from blocking a pedestrian sidewalk!

Following the announced removal of the popular symbol of slavery and racism from state capitols, license plates and big box stores, online retail giants are following suit. Read the rest

The records will be online by late next year, to coincide with the opening of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. Read the rest

I asked Lenore Edman, the founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, the open source hardware, hobby electronics, and robotics company, to write a Medium post about what it's like being a badass female maker. Read the rest

Dick Van Patten who famously played Tom Bradford on TV's "Eight Is Enough" (1977-1981) and also appeared in several Mel Brooks movies, Westworld, Soylent Green, I Remember Mama, and many other movies and TV shows died today at 86. Read the rest

Four of Amazon's ten top-selling flags are currently Confederate in the wake of proposed bans across the U.S. The trend echoes spikes in gun sales when 'Muricans fear the government is going to impose new restrictions on firearms, or when Coca-Cola announces a new formulation. Read the rest

Texas governor Greg Abbott OK's ban on healthcare provider's non-abortion-related services for the poor. Read the rest

One the world's worst invasive species is the New Guinea flatworm, a double-pointed 2-inch-long worm that causes serious damage to bio diversity. Read the rest

Those grunts.(more…)

Aeroacoustics expert Nigel Peake of Cambridge University leads a group of engineers mimicking owl wing feathers to reduce noise on wind turbines. Read the rest

Longing for a relaxing rainy day? Open a window with rainymood.com and feel your stress dissipate. Discover relaxing music by clicking the random song option to overlay on your rain.

The American Museum of Natural History sorted it out. (more…)

Yeah, yeah, pareidolia, but damn that's amazing. (more…)

These colorful shuriken (retractable ninja stars) by YouTuber ProudPaperOfficial are surprisingly easy to make. Read the rest

Ruby was a brightly colored lamb with transparent skin. She carried jellyfish DNA and belonged to "Green Sheep," a research project in France studying the effects of implants on humans. Read the rest

Above, a map of the "Square and Stationary Earth" (1893) by a Professor Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Read the rest

Oops. Read the rest

Legislation sponsored by Los Angeles Assemblyman Mike Gatto is returning these iconic license plates to the street. LA Times shares the story.Read the rest

Alternet reports that Farris "had no prior criminal record but had struggled with a history of mental illness." Read the rest

"We'll call it the Horsing Around Club, and we'll just f***in' go to town on each other, just visceral disturbing sh*t, y'know?" The only thing that would be better than Chuck Palahniuk reading Fight Club 4 Kids would be if this book were real. (via) Read the rest

It's unlocked and it includes a year of Prime, which costs $99 a year. Read the rest

Alex Boese has a great article on About Entertainment on the history of people who claimed ownership of stars, moons, and planets and then sold deeds to plots of land on the heavenly bodies. Read the rest

Terry McAuliffe announced the decision today, citing the recent killing of nine people at a black church by a white supremacist. Read the rest

Sharon Green is madder than a snail in a salt mine over a christening cake she purchased that has teddy bears with creases that remind her of female genitalia. Read the rest

Alex Bellos' Monday puzzle in The Guardian is the Three Switches Probem:Downstairs in a house are three identical on-off switches. Read the rest

Good Art Hlywd remade the classic green army men toy figures in sterling silver. Read the rest

Perhaps not the model you remember, but in Japan in 1983, this was where it started. YouTuber Satoshi Matrix has uploaded many many more like it. Read the rest

"Protection? What the fuck are you talking about? You have guns because you like guns." [NSFW. video link]

Are you occasionally confused by the sparkly, shrieking jubilation of political rallies? Easily put down to partisan ardor, it is like so much else, often plainly fake. Read the rest

The IdeaCenter Stick 300 isn't much larger than a USB dongle, but claims to offer enough grunt to turn any monitor or TV into an "entertainment station." Read the rest

America's largest retailer is to rid its shelves of flags and other tat sporting the popular symbol of slavery and racism. Read the rest