A new DHS policy that will go into effect on Oct 18 will force everyone who's ever been naturalized as a US citizen or who is currently residing in the USA on a Green Card (I currently reside in the USA on a Green Card) to hand over "social media handles and aliases, associated identifiable information and search results" for permanent scrutiny in our government files. (more…)

A couple weeks ago, we learned that pharma giant Allergan had transferred title to its most profitable eye drugs to New York's St Regis Mohawk band in order to invoke the band's "sovereign immunity" in proceedings that sought to invalidate its patents and make its drugs universally available at low costs. (more…)

Wells Fargo analyst William Warmington Jr has upgraded shares in Equifax to "outperform," predicting that the company will bounce back from the 30% haircut its market cap took when it was revealed that the firm committed the worst commercial data-crime in world history and then twiddled its thumbs for a couple of months before telling anyone and then allowing its CEO to resign. (more…)

Southwest Airlines had to call police to forcibly deplane a woman who became disruptive after crew members didn't obey her instructions to remove two dogs on her flight. She said she was allergic, but didn't provide documentation. In the video, she can be heard shouting that she is a professor, which didn't stop the police from kicking her off.

Stanford University psychology professor Robert Sutton defines an asshole as "someone who leaves us feeling demeaned, de-energized, disrespected, and/or oppressed." He wrote a new book and how to deal with assholes, called The Asshole Survival Guide.In this Vox interview, Dr. Sutton discusses ways to manage assholes. One is trying not to care:

Puzzle designer Fleb takes a look at the Instant Insanity puzzle, which was patented in 1899. It reminds me of a cross between Rubik's Cube and sudoku.I like Fleb's videos because he teaches you general principles of puzzle solving, not just how to solve a particular puzzle.

The Dragettes were a Kansas City drag racing team that operated out of the legendary Kansas City Timing Association drag strip. They preferred souped-up convertibles over hot rods. LIFE magazine's Francis Miller showcased them in a lovely series in 1955. (more…)

A gentleman was politely awoken by someone who reported that the house, and therefore the bedroom and the bed he occupied, were not his own. I believe this took place in Canada because there is no yelling, beatings or gunplay.

Roy Moore's judicial career died not on a hill but a tacky Christian cut of the 10 commandments inside the courthouse and hatin' on the gays. But he's back in style, thrashing incumbent Alabama Republican Sen. Luther Strange to take his party into the next election.He's shamelessly racist, thinks parts of Illinois are under Sharia, wants homosexual behavior punished, and will look just fabulous in President-select Mike Pence's first cabinet.https://twitter.com/mike_pence/status/912867571015258113President Donald Trump, who supported Luther Strange, spent election night deleting his Tweets supporting Luther Strange.Here's an excerpt from one of Moore's poems.

Cards Against Humanity put $1M into a permanent trust that pays for an annual full-ride scholarship for women in science, technology, engineering, or math who are high-school seniors or current undergrads. (more…)

r/TFABAARBI, as in That's Fucking Awesome But Also A Really Bad Idea, is my new favorite subreddit, featuring all sorts of cool things that are, nonetheless, serious mistakes. I have selected a few here for your context-free enjoyment.Last, but not least, quicksand fun!

Push your monitor, processing speed, and internet connection to the limit all at once with this remarkable 8K timelapse of Iceland. (more…)

This is a photo of the voice actors behind some of the animated characters in the Peanuts gang. Notice that all the kid roles are actually voiced by children.Kristy Sproul of Voice Chasers, a voice-acting forum, writes:

Someone in marketing got a hold of this box of el wire and gave it the alternate badass name of "electric spaghetti."This is the DIY Neon Light Kit by UK brand Fowndry and you can get it in either pink or blue for $21.https://youtu.be/J9wtJOm1jcw(bookofjoe)

The board of directors thanked Richard Smith "for his 12 years of leadership" as Smith showed himself the door while he reminded the 140,000,000 Americans whose lives he'd destroyed through insanely lax security and months of shambolic inaction that "I have been completely dedicated to making this right." (more…)

I've been using this Wen rotary tool for a few months and I'm really happy with it. It accepts Dremel bits, which I already have in abundance. If you don't have any Dremel bits, no problem -- it comes with a good starter assortment. The flexible shaft is an added bonus, because it gives you more control than holding the tool itself. It's a great way to rough out the shape of wooden spoons I've been whittling:

Kasper Kubica wants to know what the hell these companies do.For example, a company with the catchy name 84.51Ëš describes itself thusly:

I'm pretty sure no game in our home has its original dice. I replace what the dice fairy doth steal, I bought this useful pound bag of dice.I do not know where the dice go. The only thing I'm sure of is that my dogs aren't eating the missing dice, as I'm pretty sure I'd see them when cleaning up the yard. Regardless, somehow every game that needs dice loses those dice. If this happens to you, I suggest a pound bag of dice. There are 6, 8, 10, 12, 20 and 30 sided die in the bag. Sparkly, opaque, marbled, solid colors, speckled... dice.Chessex "Pound-O-Dice" via Amazon

US officials say intelligence efforts found no evidence of an Iranian ballistic missile launch after President Donald Trump tweeted about a launch reported from an Iranian-run news broadcast, according to CNN.Trump — who has said he likes to “know the facts” before making a statement — referenced the questionable report, while seemingly criticizing the Iran nuclear deal. "Iran just test fired a ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel,” he tweeted. “They are also working with North Korea. Not much of an agreement we have!"

Rainier Schoeman apparently didn't receive the letter that Winston Churchill School in Woking, UK had sent to parents asking them not to drop off their children on school grounds. So it's understandable that when Schoeman was told by a teacher that he couldn't drive his car through the gate, Schoeman drove through the gate anyway, with the teacher on the hood of his car. Unfortunately, the court was less understanding and Mr. Schoeman was sentenced to 10 months in jail.

Jared "Go Daddy" Kushner is in the news for using his private server to conduct White House business. It's only a crime if you are a Democrat, so he has nothing to worry about, but that didn't stop prankster @sinon_reborn from convincing Kushner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, that he was Kushner and had been emailing porn through the server.Via Business Insider:

An Instagram video purportedly shows a man clinging to the side of a New York subway cab, while a fellow train-goer praises him for the efforts.The inside passenger designates the surfer as a “gangster” and attempts to give him a fist bump through the sliding door window. The reckless rider has no option other than rejecting the congratulatory gesture—all while regret shows on his face.The Instagram account @subwaycreatures posted the video Sunday afternoon, nearly a week after a 13 year old was seriously injured when he attempted to ride the side of a Brooklyn train, according to the New York Daily News.

Paweł Zadrożniak, aka Silent, created The Floppotron, the greatest new musical instrument in recent memory. Here is it playing Through the Fire and Flames from Dragonforce. (more…)

John Kobuki demonstrates the remarkable patience, dexterity, and craftsmanship required to spend 40 minutes shaping a clear glass sphere with a flower inside. (more…)

Searching for my next ride, I chanced across this ad on craigslist for a 1965 Chevy Van. It wasn't too hot, but then I saw the interior, which appears to be the skinned hide of a luckdragon.

The Idaho Statesman has some great updates on the local push to get a large swath of central Idaho designated as America's first dark sky reserve. (more…)

Garrett Clark & Micah Morris post a lot of cool trick shots, but the between-the-legs ricochet shot below is a testament to their friendship. (more…)

Earlier this year, Tate Modern's Switch House extension included a wonderful installation of fog art by Fujiko Nakaya. (more…)

Ott's Skylon ranks among the century's great psychedelic chillout albums, and now it's set to come out as a double vinyl. Get in on the Kickstarter for box sets and more. (more…)

Within a Millennial's lifetime, depictions of dinosaurs have gone from leathery lizards to feathered floofbeasts as our understanding of ancient biology grew. But it's still speculation, reports Atlas Obscura's Eric Grundhauser, and shaky at that. Check out The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art. Pictured above is what a swan would look like if a dino artist drew one based upon its skeletal remains, as brilliantly rendered by C. M. Kosemen. I am pretty sure that's how swans see themselves, so I'm cool with it (but not with swans closer to me than, say, 70 feet.)

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.THIS WEEK ONLY: Donate to help Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Puerto Rico, and you could win an original Tom the Dancing Bug illustration of your choosing, drawn just for you! Details here!More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

German police, spotting a car that appeared to have been in a horrifying collision, pulled over the driver for a chat. But the enormous blood-spatter was just a realistic decal, and they sent the man on his way.

Agonizingly, the Stranger Things game—a point-and-click adventure in the style of Lucasarts' late-eighties classic such as Zak McKraken and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade—is just a spoof. It's so detailed and pixel-perfect, though, they it seems they must have made the game, complete with ridiculously precise and incomprehensible puzzles, just to record to video of it.

Propagation is the latest from Com Truise (previously), with an excellent video to go with it by Will Joines & Karrie Crouse, shot by Zoë White and starring Trieste Kelly Dunn and Stephen O'Reilly. It has that ideal 2010s look: the technological landscape of the 1950s with the emotional atmosphere of the 1980s and a select reading of everything in between, and nothing before or after. Well-trodden ground, sure, but the footsteps are perfect. From the new LP, Iteration.

The Velcro company has some news for us: they don't want us to call velcro, well, velcro anymore. It's important enough to them that their "legal team" made an amusing music video about it to tell us why.

Try and try as she may, this little girl just can't figure out how to play her dad's Game Boy Color. She really can't be blamed though, as she was born into a world where touch screens are the norm.This reminds me of two things.1. When my now-12-year-old daughter was about seven, I got a new laptop. I opened it, booted it up, and she immediately pawed the screen like it was an iPad.2. It also reminds me of this viral video from 2011 of a baby trying to use a magazine like an iPad.(reddit)

Judge Rodney Gilstrap serves the Eastern District of Texas court, the venue from which patent trolls have extorted billions in useless menaces money from US industry; Gilstrap hears 25% of the patent cases brought in the USA, and has a track record for making epically terrible rulings. (more…)

The field of epigenetics continues to make interesting discoveries about environmental effects on genetic material. A team led by Thomas McDade found that children's experiences affected their DNA, which in turn affected suscepitability to certain diseases. Via Smithsonian:

If you're in Mexico, just say no to 7UP. In Mexicali, Meth has been found in some bottles of 7UP, which, among other symptoms, can cause vomiting, burning to the abdomen and esophagus, and can make it hard to breathe. The tainted soda has killed one person and made seven others sick.According to Snopes:

With the wide array of drag-and-drop website builders available, it’s never been easier for non-coders to put together a stunning backdrop for their brand or product. But these tools often make it difficult to break away from the constraints of preset templates. Creating an online experience that’s tailored to your needs usually involves learning HTML and CSS, but Blocs 2 lets you make rich interfaces entirely with a GUI.Visual designers will feel right at home with the Blocs interface. In addition to letting you assemble page layouts by hand, this app provides powerful tools for managing mobile breakpoints, animations, and web fonts. Once your site is built, Blocs can integrate your generated code with several popular content management systems, so you can update copy and images without needing to modify your master design.Whether you’re an impatient developer, or an independent product designer with no time to master web tech, Blocs 2 offers a fully-featured interface for making websites. You can get Blocs 2 for Mac from the Boing Boing Store $39.99.More Deals from the Boing Boing Store:1080p HD Waterproof WiFi Wireless Endoscopic Camera $39.99Pay What You Want: Learn to Code 2017 BundleThe MacX Media Conversion Lifetime License Bundle $19.99

Short Trip is a scenic tram simulator made by Alexander Perrin. Every detail is hand-drawn, it takes only a few minutes to enjoy the ride (controls: right arrow), and it's the most perfect thing on the web today. You can even pick up and drop off passengers at the stations along the way.https://twitter.com/alexanderperrin/status/911789253746503680It's free of charge but you can donate to Alexander through PayPal.

Octopodes were long considered solitary creatures, but the discovery of a second seafloor dwelling with over a dozen inhabitants has scientists rethinking the social behavior of these little sea-geniuses. (more…)

On Twitter, game developer Charles Randall (Ubisoft, Capy, etc) posted the biting truth about why game developers do not talk about their work.https://twitter.com/charlesrandall/status/911987526541430784

Big Four accounting firm Deloitte, with $37B in annual revenues, found out that it had been hacked in March, and the hackers appear to have been inside its systems (supplied by Microsoft through its Azure cloud) since the previous October or March. (more…)

Thắng Sói has released Vietnam From Above II. Unlike many similar drone films, this work mixes the mundane and urban with the country's more picturesque vistas. (more…)

A new species of hermit crab with feathery antennae has been discovered off the coast of Japan. What's especially cool is that they use living corals as shells. (more…)

Pablo Defendini writes, "Fireside Fiction Company has set up the Hurricane Relief Bookstore as a mechanism for all of us to funnel money over to people who need it. 100% of the profits from sales of ebooks on the store will go to three organizations: one for the Caribbean, one for Houston, and one for Florida. The store features DRM-free ebooks from Fireside Magazine, as well as Uncanny Magazine, Lightspeed Magazine, Mothership Zeta, Angry Robot Books, Apex Books, and many more individual authors who have contributed independently.

Lax anti-trust enforcement is destroying American democracy, growth and equality; it laid waste to minority-owned small businesses and "fleeced" the middle class, creating its own parallel "justice" system and laying waste to whole industries, with the complicity of the Democratic party (and the $1,000/hour expert "consulting" by superstar economists), and there's no end in sight, from Yahoo to Whole Foods. (more…)

Kit Reed, a giant of science fiction, died yesterday of a brain tumor at the age of 85. (more…)

Garnet Hertz is the designer/scholar/provocateur behind the amazing Disobedient Electronics project ("Building electronic objects can be an effective form of social argument or political protest"); though he is normally based at British Colombia's Emily Carr University, he's currently touring Europe with the Disobedient Electronics book on a Disobedient Electronics protest tour, with stops in London, Southampton, the Hague, Brussels, Paris, Berlin and Madiera. (more…)