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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

20-year-old Ayan Zhademov of Kazakhstan wanted to help his 17-year-old girlfriend who was concerned that she would not do well on an upcoming exam. Read the rest

Three fun facts about worms:1. The largest worms in the world are 10 feet long (that's feet, not inches!). 2. Read the rest

Simplism's Hibiki Acoustic iPhone Case is a curious-looking wooden iPhone case, crafted from white ash in Japan, designed to enhance the "acoustical capacity" of the device. Read the rest

Indonesia has some of the most draconian drugs laws in the world. Smugglers and dealers face execution. (Earlier this year Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were put to death by firing squad for attempting to smuggle heroin into Australia). Read the rest

Alas, there is no video, but we have something better: farmer Tom Hamilton's wonderful narrative of how border collie Don took off in the vehicle. Read the rest

Japanese animation often specializes in presenting a distinctive and detailed future. Hopes and Fears rounds up some of their favorite visions.

Scientists have confirmed that Tom Wagg, now 17, discovered a new planet in a solar system 1000 light years away. Read the rest

The first European Games are kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan. This tiny web browser game stands in protest, highlighting the unlawful detention of political prisoners in the country. Read the rest

Reporter Katya Leick, 24, was accosted by cicadas while covering a story for KSNT.

Surviving family dinners can feel like a gauntlet at the best of times, especially when it's your potential in-laws. Read the rest

If there's one thing every lab needs, it's appropriate warning signs. Read the rest

Wikihow has five methods of determining if a mirror is actually one-way glass, the kind used by government snoops and perverts. (Is there a difference?) Read the rest

A few days ago, Reddit began applying its new anti-harassment policy, shuttering subreddits (such as r/fatpeoplehate and r/shitniggerssay) found to be regular originators of personal attacks. Read the rest

Residents in Iliff, CO have not had running water for 12 days so far, and it could be weeks before water returns to their pipes. This means no showers, no toilet flushing, no dish washing, no way to clean laundry... unless they drive for 12 miles one way where water is available. Read the rest

If a person who snubbed you offers food to your dog, your dog will refuse to eat it. Or so say Japanese researchers who studied social cooperation in canines. Read the rest