Ralph Mirebs' gallery of the abandoned spaceship evokes scale, sadness, and what might be described as Soviet sound judgment. [via Ars Technica]

Notepad++ is the latest popular app to leave increasingly-unpleasant code repository SourceForge. Read the rest

On Saturday in Gothenburg, Sweden, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg but returned an hour later to finish the show. (more…)

TechRax destroys gadgets. In this video, he destroys an Apple Watch—a $10,000 model, apparently!—with two gigantic magnets. [via The Next Web]

Young people have stopped moving to coastal cities—they'd rather live well in Riverside or Pittsburgh than be poor in New York or San Francisco. Read the rest

Chris Pratt stopped by Conan to demonstrate the only three faces he makes in Jurassic World. (more…)

In their new video, Craig Benzine and Matt Weber of the YouTube channel The Good Stuff take viewers through the surprisingly long history of robots (more…)

Creativity and Doom have gone hand in hand for decades—the first user-created level appeared in 1994—and now the new game will come with fresh, easy-to-use mod tools. Read the rest

The strange menu of Bompas & Parr—séances, cooking with lava, and flaming fish murder—reminds us that food is fashion in the age of Instagram Read the rest

Sketch group Practical Folks give Jaqen H’ghar his own ballad inspired by Titus Andromedon's iconic “Peeno Noir.” Read the rest

Unfortunately this floating fish dome is currently unavailable on Amazon. Read the rest

Tara Shultz, 20, of Yucaipa, CA along with her parents and friends are protesting the inclusion of four award-winning graphic novels that are taught in an English class at Crafton Hills College because they feel they are too violent and pornographic to be read by college students. Read the rest

The kamisama of manga. The Japanese Disney. The godfather of anime. Tezuka-san has had many labels bestowed upon him both before and after his untimely death, but very few do justice to his contributions to a truly transatlantic medium, one which has dramatically surged in popularity in the last decade. Read the rest

This sleek battery is your ticket to avoiding a dead mobile device at the most inconvenient of times. The Intocircuit Power Castle ($34.99) features a brushed aluminum shell and LCD display, making it both hardy and stylish, and boasts enough capacity to charge a device several times over. Read the rest

An elderly woman in Lynden, Wa., somehow got turned around on her 6 mph scooter and ended up on the highway. Read the rest

Kate Milford made a name as a young adult writer able to tap into a rich Bradburian vein of lyricism with the Boneshaker -- now she shows us that she's an expect mystery writer as well, in Greenglass House, an illustrated middle-grades novel that will keep you guessing. Read the rest

A 65-year-old man in Buchen, Germany was collecting bottles and cans on an early morning walk when he was attacked and killed by a circus elephant who had somehow escaped her enclosure. Read the rest

Valery Spiridinov, a 30-year-old Russian man with the severely debilitating Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, intends to undergo the world's first human head transplant. Read the rest

The Cthulhu Mythos is turned into a game of dice in Steve Jackson's Cthulhu Dice. The demonically beating heart of the game is a large, beautiful, and gem-like 12-sided die covered in Cthulhu-related runes. Read the rest

Dragon Dictate for Mac Version 4 ($99) merges fast, accurate speech recognition and versatile transcription to fit the way you work. Read the rest

The fact that many Amazon reviewers were aghast to realize that this stainless steel double spoon holder resembled a scrotum was reason alone to buy it.Culina Stainless Steel Double Spoon Rest 7" ($10) on Amazon

Exhibit A: Chimpanzees found to drink alcoholic plant sap in wild.Exhibit B: Chimpanzee smoking and acting like a gangster.Previously: Chimp fight at the LA Zoo. Chimp with a stick knocks drone out of sky.

Darryl Anka telepathically channels a space alien from the future named Bashar who lives on the planet Essassani; on this basis, he has claimed many copyright infringements in the creations of Tumblr's GIF artists. Read the rest

Our field requires ethical frameworks we accept, instead of rules that remain technically unbroken while we hackers violate their spirit with as much ingenuity as we can muster. Read the rest

The first collection starring Phoebe and her unicorn friend Marigold Heavenly Nostrils was the strongest new syndicated strip I'd read in years; with Unicorn on a Roll, Dana Simpson demonstrates that she's got plenty more where that came from. Read the rest

If you liked the solar-powered spinning Mars globe, but wanted something more exotic, there's the spinning Titan globe, and for something closer to home, there's the Lunar edition. Read the rest

Cross a judiciously edited briefing scene from Star Wars with the audio from the briefing scene in Ocean's Eleven, and what do you get? (more…)

“Time lapse, one second intervals. Canon 5dmII. Wide angle lenses.” Read the rest

The past, set into motion. Read the rest

1943 U.S. Employment Service propaganda poster. (more…)

“The state is reaching back more than a century in the hierarchy of California water rights,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Read the rest

Director: Maxime Dardenne. Read the rest

"Born Like Stars" (2011) by Brent Hoff. (more…)

Why do these little tableaus of neatness delight us so? Read the rest

Columbia University paleontologist Paul Olsen: "Absolutely nothing about this... is even vaguely correct." (more…)

Boing Boing reader Drew Pion shot these wonderful images. Read the rest

You can't fool us, Roscoe you rascal you. (more…)

Inexpensive designs that you can use to make your own wonderfully weird low poly masks, with nothing more than paper and glue. Read the rest

You may have heard that a lawsuit targeting Gawker, over its posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape, is going to trial, and that Gawker may have a long and unpleasant fight ahead of it. The Awl explains it best: in numbers! Read the rest

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Beautiful, with a simple, elegant design, but built to survive the apocalypse, I am in love with this Levenger L-Tech 3.0 Stealth fountain pen.Read the rest

In The Little Mermaid, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen tells the story of a young mermaid who has her tongue cut out with a knife, grows legs that cause excruciating pain with every step she takes, and commits suicide by throwing herself into the water, which causes her to disintegrate into foam. Read the rest

They ordered customers on the ground, made fun of a disabled (amputee) worker, then gorged on edibles. Read the rest

The star and producer of a timely new series have words of wisdom for those who want to create social change through the media. Read the rest

For anyone planning a trip to the moon, MIT has just designed a pill-shaped inflatable moon tent that fills with oxygen and comfortably sleeps two. Read the rest