Hackster.io went to the Maker Faire in the East Bay, where they found Tien Pham sporting his latest creation: F.Lashes, interactive LED false eyelashes. (more…)

Samurai Age has created a line of samurai armor for kittehs and doggos, allowing them to show off their noble nature as honored warriors. (more…)

After four months into his presidency, Trump has only filled five top positions out of 53 at the Pentagon, "the slowest pace for nominations and confirmations in over half a century" according to Daily Kos. And 449 other key positions that need to be confirmed by the Senate don't even have a nominee yet. And yet, Trump is blaming these unfilled positions on the Democrats.The foggy Trump seems to forget that most positions don't yet have nominees, and even if they did, Democrats don't control Congress. According to Daily Kos, there are two actual reasons why Trump is so slow in filling these positions.

In 2014 Hai Karate was re-introduced. Perhaps my social life will pick back up!While not Oriental Lime, or any of the other odd scents I seem to misremember, this classic Hai Karate is ready to let you smell like cheap cologne.HAI KARATE AFTERSHAVE by Hai Karate via Amazon

After a year or two of Windows 10, I'm ready to go back to a computer that doesn't hate me. I'd been hoping the iMac Pro, announced today, would come in a relatively affordable form—competitive with the $2700 Microsoft Surface Studio, for example. But no! It doesn't! At $5000 to start, this total monster of an all-in-one is most certainly for professionals: you can have 18 cores, 128GB of DDR4 RAM, 4TB SSD, a 16GB Radeon Vega video card, a 30-bit 5k display and even a headphone jack.To make sure you know it means business, it comes in black and ships December. I'll be sticking with the standard iMac Amateur, I think, which received significant spec bumps: 4.2 GHz Kaby Lake processors, "50% faster" SSD drives, Thunderbolt 3, and Radeon Pro 500 graphics (can't find benchmarks, but isn't this the same as Polaris?)

The White House says President Donald Trump won't invoke executive privilege to block former FBI director James Comey, whom Trump fired, from testifying to Congress this week. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, and it's a very big deal.(more…)

Katie sez, "Mario 'the Maker Magician' Marchese has made a name for himself with his DIY robotic props. This is Mr. Lamp, a full animated lamp that combines elements of 3d printing, DIY electronics, Arduino, and found/repurposed objects. Mr. Lamp has a style all his own."

We don't generally post nasty stuff at Boing Boing, but the sheer intensity of this one—captured by the impassive eye of a security camera at Saint Petersburg Police Department—is something else. My thoughts are with the officer and his family as he embarks on the road to recovery.

A lawsuit is underway in Worth County, Georgia, where Sheriff Jeff Hobby is defending a mass-frisking of 900 high school students, performed in public without warrant or even the pretense of probable cause, during which cops reportedly manipulated student's breasts, inserted fingers inside bras, exposed bare breasts and reached into underwear and cupped and groped kids' genitals. This ostentatious display of power, by cops armed with guns and dogs, was supposedly a drug search. No drugs were found. Not a scrap.

Even Fox News has its faintly-drawn limits, and one of them appears to lie a few inches short of "let's have Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins on to say we should round up the Muslims." Farage, the former leader of the far-right UK Independence Party, and Hopkins, Daily Mail columnnist and shitlord laureate, left Fox & Friends hosts startled, then apologetic, with their easily-anticipated remarks.

Apple makes it hard to not use iCloud, at least for a few things. Since their cloud storage is baked so deeply into iOS, using iTunes on the desktop to manually move files and backup your device can sometimes feel like an awkward step backwards. To give your iPhone more flexibility to manage large files and get some much-needed expandable storage, take a look at the iKlips miReader 4K.This mobile external drive connects to the lightning port to give your device up to 256GB of extra space via microSD card. It bypasses your phone’s internal storage when it’s plugged in, so you can shoot 4K video and transfer it directly to the miReader without using any phone storage. Plus it accepts files from any other microSD device, so you can use it as a portable backup for other cameras as well.You can quickly move files between all of your devices without an internet connection or cloud storage subscription with the iKlips miReader 4K. Pick one up in the Boing Boing store for $46.99.

Wonder Woman earned $100.5m in its first weekend at the box office, breaking the record for a woman director and taking in $223m worldwide. Patty Jenkins's only previous feature film was the very different Monster, an award-winning biopic of serial killer Aileen Wournos. Critics say Wonder Woman is also the first DC universe movie that isn't a grim, tedious trudge through the dark end of superhero fandom.

Inspired by a piece of fan art and some lyrics posted on Tumblr, YouTube user Over English Man recorded a Moana-themed intro for Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi. Check out his version above and the original Moana version below:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM

Legal marijuana comprises only about 10% of the total U.S. weed market, but it already eclipses total sales of foods like frozen pizza and services like music streaming, according to Alternet, who looks at other markets that will soon be dwarfed by weed sales. (more…)

Cheryl writes, "The sole African American librarian in Evanston Public Library (population ~75K-- first 'burb north adjacent to Chicago) faced a termination hearing today related to social media posts she made in protest to the library's lack of action related to addressing racial equity in library services." (more…)

The administration of President Donald Trump has started to return to Congress copies of an extensive 2014 report on the the CIA's interrogation and detention practices, U.S. officials revealed on Friday.(more…)

Three surviving Penn State administrators involved in the cover-up of convicted sexual predator Jerry Sandusky will now be convicted felons themselves.(more…)

The French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs tweeted a 🔥 video today on Trump's Paris Accord decision.After president Emmanuel Macron's epic tweet yesterday, this is something else.(more…)

For $9 this is a really nice pen.I'm surprised at how nice this EastVita fountain pen is! I expected very little. The seems well made, hasn't leaked, and puts ink on the page when so applied!Yes, the wood is real.EastVita 8812 Fountain Pen Rose Wood Barrel Vintage Style via Amazon

Good news for Omni magazine fans – all 200 issues are now available on Amazon for $2.99 each, or free if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber.Up until a couple of years ago the science and science fiction magazine, which was created by Bob Guccione of Penthouse and his wife Kathy Keeton and ran from 1978–1995, could be be accessed for free on the Internet Archive, but it was taken down.According to The Verge:

A woman tossed her glove near a soldier at the Tower of London, apparently to find out what would happen. She didn't seem happy with the result.

A better way to simulate viscous liquids is present in this paper: Variational Stokes: A Unified Pressure-Viscosity Solver for Accurate Viscous Liquids

A lot of non-stinging flying insects evolved to have black and yellow stripes as a way to trick would-be predators into thinking they are bees or wasps. In this video, you'll learn how to identify them so you eat them without worry.[via]

There's something magical about this 2014 video, which very suddenly goes from one YouTube genre (the intringuing at-home science experiment) to another (reality is disaster). You wonder why there aren't more of them out there!

Back when GenX stood for something.DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES!

Karl Stefanovic: "The Daily Mail has a long, despicable track record of denigrating women, of ridiculing women, of objectifying women."A London tabloid, the Daily Mail has become wildly successful on the web over the last decade. Beyond the bigotry, its practices (nakedly untrue and plagiarized stories, amateurish editing of photographs, comical yet effective exportation of British tabloid stock stories to new markets) put it at the heart of everything that's gone wrong with news, yet place it almost beyond criticism.It revels in the fact it has no real credibility, because that sort of thinking only matters to people who remember. But the magic of Daily Mail content is that it's about the world it creates for readers to sink into now, the drug of gossip without the moderation of truth or memory. Today water causes cancer. Tomorrow it cures it.Most tabloid writers I've met hate their audience: think of the empty, smirking contempt of a character from a Richard Curtis comedy. I'd say it was a British thing, because it's the sneer talk that the marginally middle-class have for working-class people who make more money than them (think: drunks writing for plumbers) but the formula was internationalized so fast and so well it can hardly be that.Stefanovic famously revealed in an interview that he wore the same suit every day for a year without anyone remarking upon it, unlike female colleagues who receive criticism if they repeat an outfit even twice.

Thinking of buying a car in the UK? Good news! You can get a personal contract purchase (PCP) and it will cost you less to buy a new Merc than it would to buy a used Ford Focus. (more…)

Python is an excellent general-purpose programming language that many professionals consider a good first language for aspiring programmers to learn. It is also one of the tools of choice in the worlds of Big Data and machine learning. To help you get familiar with Python’s extensive capabilities and human-readable syntax, this bundle includes 7 unique courses covering a variety of python topics.Some of what you'll learn:

The always soothing School Of Life YouTube channel offers advice on how to argue “fruitfully and well.”

Here's a great quote from the New York Times interview with Patty Jenkins, director of the well-reviewed new "Wonder Woman" flick and the Aileen Wournos biopic "Monster".

What started as a hobby making clay flowers turned into Russian artist Alisa Laryushkina's charming animal sculptures. (more…)

In this incredibly informative video, graphic designer and YouTuber Karen Kavett shares her process for redesigning a client’s personal online brand. In this case, she’s working with an up-and-coming YouTuber, but her tips could be applied to all sorts of different fields. She shares advice on creating an intention behind the branding and emphasizes the importance of coming up with a unified aesthetic across all platforms. It’s great, practical advice for anyone who uses social media in any kind of professional capacity.

In this new video, the Mango Street YouTube channel shares some quick tips and tricks for improving your photo compositions. Here are some other Mango Street tutorials for beginners:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cOb2qlXsDYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajBIB8K2SYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q_qfSrTcLI

Writer/performer Cole Escola explores the inner life of a bubbly orange juice commercial mom.

Dinotopia artist Jim Gurney says: "Computer modeling tools such as ZBrush and Maya have made it easier to visualize whatever form that a human designer imagines.|And 3D printing has made it possible to translate that design into physical form."

Here's an amazing magic performance by magician Will Tsai from America's Got Talent.Tsai introduces his magic with this suggestion: “I like flowers because they remind of how beautiful life is, but also very fragile. And that’s why every second counts. In the grand scheme of things, life happens in the blink of an eye. So for the next moments, don’t blink.”So I didn't blink as he placed his coins under cards and then magically made them disappear and reappear under different cards. It's a trick you've seen before, but not like this.In the end, Howie Mandel says, “I just want to say that I have seen so much close-up magic. I swear to you, this was ultimately by far the best close-up magic I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Poptone is the new live flashback experience from Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins, being two-thirds of Love and Rockets and Tones on Tail, and half of Bauhaus. Joined by Haskins's talented daughter Diva Dompé, the trio is revisiting tunes from their highly-influential careers at the intersection of glam/goth, psychedelic post-punk, and avant-garde experimentalism. These are artists whose magnificent work shaped the alt.culture underground of the 1980s and 1990s and, for me personally, were a portal to endless streams of high weirdness in art and music. By all accounts, Poptone is a fantastic trip. Tour dates are here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ZZQb_umVwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVbyQ48sLM

Keep your eyes on the guy entering the parking lot in the upper-left. A dumpster suddenly comes his way and engulfs him, but he emerges apparently unharmed.[via]

We don't have to worry about climate change, Congressman Tim Walberg (R, Michigan) told constituents at a town hall in Coldwater. God has it covered. "I'm confident that, if there's a real problem, he can take care of it."Via Time:

Didn't it seem strange that Mylan, the pharmaceutical company that makes the EpiPen, enjoyed a stock price rally when the news came out in October that it was going to have to give the US government $465 million for overcharging Medicare? Well, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General says that Mylan overcharged taxpayers by $1.27 billion, making the half-billion dollar payout a simple cost-of-doing business expense.Mylan, the scummy firm that jacked up the price of a single EpiPen injector from $57 to $500, deliberately misclassified the EpiPen as a generic drug, which allowed them to charge more for the life-saving medication.From Gizmodo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn9-3nG-omAMaria writes, "Funville Adventures is a creative, joyful, and gentle new project that introduces young children to advanced math. Children as young as 5 will enjoy the story and math-rich play; older children and adults can also investigate the deeper mathematical concepts such as inverse function, composition, and functional." (more…)

Lynda Barry blogs about the amazing feels she got when she discovered that she'd been given a guest-appearance in The Family Circus by Jeff Keane, Bill Keane's son and successor. (more…)

Chris Notap made a humane wooden squirrel trap that slams a door shut when a squirrel goes to the back of the trap to retrieve a peanut. He put a camera inside the trap so you can see it action.

The Ninth Circuit's opinion in Santopietro v. Howell marks an important turning point in US jurisprudence, marking the first-ever time that a federal judge has used the phrase "sexy cop" in a decision. (more…)

In this video, ducks hungrily devour peas, then human fingers, offering the viewer a sense of "what it feels like to be attacked by hungry ducks."

A comedy skit from Chris and Jack.

A Pyro Designs prototyped this ingenious animated Mario fidget spinner, designed by Garrett Kearney. Fidgety zoetropic fun!

Vladimir Putin just changed his tune. The Russian president has previously denied having anything to do with hacking America's 2016 elections, but today says perhaps “patriotically minded” private Russian hackers were involved in cyberattacks last year that swung the presidential race for Donald J. Trump.(more…)

The TrailNest is a collapsible hammock that attaches to your car roof bars. At $500+, it's sold as a piece of luxury camping kit but I'd be more likely to use it for a parking lot siesta between appointments. The company says a rain cover is coming soon. TrailNest (via Uncrate)

Media Matters highlighted this terrific clip of Bill Nye explaining how stupid it is that Trump is likely canceling America's participation in the Paris climate accord.(more…)