Spend enough time in progressive circles, and you'll run into the type of guy lampooned here: the guy who uses progressive catchphases as pickup lines. This skit feels ripped from the headlines of recent podcast drama. (more…)

Fanda is a guy who lives in his car, but doesn't just live in it. He never gets out of it. Aside from the interesting pragmatic aspects, it's a remarkably moving film about how some people respond to deep loss. Spoiler alert: (more…)

22,000 mile per hour winds, magma clouds that rain rocks, and planets where you could fly by flapping your arms in a wingsuit. These are some of the remarkable phenomena scientists believe are possible on nearby planetary bodies. (more…)

This is how it happens: the bad guys break into computers, steal all the information, and then Yahoo! sells for a whole lot less. (Comparatively.) After that, white hat hackers are called in to crack the same susceptible networks, evaluate their security, and plug the holes in the digital dam, all for a very cool wage. Ethical hackers are in constant demand these days as organizations seek to avoid becoming the next cautionary tale, and you can learn how to become one yourself with the Ethical Hacking A to Z Bundle.This bundle includes 9 courses and 45 hours of hands-on learning on topics ranging from keylogging to DARKNET and wireless attacks. An extensive training in ethical hacking and penetration testing with a variety of tools and operating systems, this bundle will even go so far as to prepare you for the pinnacle of security certification exams, Certified Ethical Hacker.Start working towards a career in netsec with the Ethical Hacking A to Z Bundle, on sale now for $49.Explore other Best-Sellers in our store:

Daniel Solé is the creator of @FutureCNN, an icily satirical Twitter account that depicts CNN freeze-frames from a few months in the Trumpian future.In his new video, all the soulstring-tugging marketing techniques AirBNB put to use in its anti-Trump superbowl ad are recast in the same way: the same voice, but addressing the direr straits of an indefinite but imminent tomorrow.There's a weird power to it. Like @FutureCNN's chyrons, which ridicule both Trump's grossness and CNN's inanity, this targets two things: Trump's grossness and the glassy manipulations of advertising. The satirical notes are exactly the sort of thing that a marketing agency would deploy to leaven an ad trading in holocaust imagery to appeal to its progressive market (albeit taken to a mocking extreme.)That said, the implication that startups will remain liberal-oriented is at least optimistic! I, however, anticipate a future where these ostensibly progressive tech companies flip their script without dropping their smile. Same voice but new values, with the proverbial unannounced floorboard inspections buried in the small print."Ads from the future" is just my cup of tea.

Seth Kranzler created "Steve Reich is calling," a delightful composition for two iPhones that celebrates (and parodies) legendary minimalist composer Reich's early phase music. This form of composition employs two or more identical phrases of music played at slightly different tempos so that they shift in and out of phase. Reich's most famous phase music compositions are "Clapping Music" (1972), "Piano Phase" (1967), and the fantastic tape music pieces "Come Out" (1966) and "It's Gonna Rain" (1965). Listen to the latter two below.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vugqRAX7xQEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WVh1D0N50

Trump just can't seem to get his facts right. This morning he tweeted, “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!”In reality, 93 percent – or 113 out of 122 – of those prisoners were released during the Bush administration, while only 9 were released under Obama's administration.According to ABC:

Ruben Bolling, the brilliantly funny creator of comic strips we're proud to debut each week here at Boing Boing, has won the 2017 Herblock Award. His scathing and insightful treatment of Donald Trump, as featured in many episodes of Tom the Dancing Bug throughout the election campaign, were key to the Herb Block Foundation's pick.

Gary Wolf of Quantified Self writes:

Indie-folk group Fleet Foxes announced their third album, Crack-Up, and posted a nine-minute epic song, "Third of May / ÅŒdaigahara," to kick it off.The album, like my birthday, is expected to happen in June.(The album cover photo was also used on 1996's In The Streams of Inferno, by Mysticum. What a difference a typeface and filter makes!)

Wikileaks posted a tranch of documents Wednesday under the name Vault7, detailing CIA activities, capabilities and ambitions.The #Vault7 hashtag is furious with activity as activists, journalists and perhaps the CIA itself combs through the release for hot topics. Some standout claims and exposures:Gaping security holes in all major operating systems [Wikileaks]

When detectives arrested H.H. Holmes in 1894, they thought he was a simple con man. But they were shocked to discover that he'd been operating a bizarre Chicago hotel full of blind passageways, trapdoors, hidden chutes, and asphyxiation chambers in which he'd sadistically murdered dozens of victims. In today's show we'll follow the career of America's first documented serial killer, who headlines called "a fiend in human shape."We'll also gape at some fireworks explosions and puzzle over an intransigent insurance company.Show notesPlease support us on Patreon!

The awkward, creeping humorlessness of The Big Bang Theory (and perhaps all studio sitcoms) is famously revealed by removing the audience laughter. But it is made truly unsettling by replacement with Ricky Gervais.BONUS: The Big Bang theory with the laugh track replaced by children screaming:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgrOHQY7KU

Stuart Wright has two tattoos, writes Sam Charles of The Chicago News: one says "Jesus is love" and the other is a swastika. This educated accountant from the suburbs was arrested late February and charged with a hate crime after someone smashed the window of a downtown synagogue and stuck swastikas on the doors.

Swiss Army Knives are pretty standard everyday carry items for their utilitarian bent, which has made them the standard bearer for competing EDC multi-tools. This one, however, is a little different. It's been engineered specifically for smokers.The beauty of The High Knife is that it comes with all the tools you would expect from a Swiss Army Knife—a screwdriver, bottle opener, corkscrew, can openers, specialized blades, etc.—but it also knows its audience. Also built into the knife are a roach clip, pipe cleaner, pipe sleeve, and, as you may have predicted, a pipe itself.Whether you’re camping in the woods, urban exploring in Denver or Portland, or Doug Benson getting ready for a round of Doug Loves Movies, you’ll be moving a little more smoothly with this multi-use knife, available now for a 33% discount at $39.Explore other Best-Sellers in our store:

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and other stuff too cool to mention here.GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”A book for the curious and adventurous!” -Cory Doctorow) Book One here. Book Two here.More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

For years, John Steele has been half of a criminal enterprise masquerading as a copyright law firms, "Prenda Law," whose owners, clients and employees were a mix of lies, impersonations, and crumbs of reality. In a guilty plea, John Steele admitted that the whole thing was a con, that they stole $6,000,000 from innocent internet users by threatening them with draconian copyright lawsuits, and then laundered the money. (more…)

America is in the midst of an "invisible water crisis" as the post-war water infrastructure reaches the end of its duty-cycle and cash-strapped public utilities struggle to find the money to rebuild it. In cities like Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Detroit, families increasingly find themselves in water debt, and in Detroit, 50,000 households have had their running water cut off because of delinquency. (more…)

Looking through these books, I find myself wanting to shout out phrases I haven’t thought of in decades: the Triangular Trade! Crispus Attucks! Isthmus of Panama! (more…)

Canadian citizen Manpreet Kooner was on her way to a day spa in Vermont when she was stopped at the US border. The 30-year-old Montreal resident, who works at a science lab, was held for six hours before being denied entrance into the US.(more…)

Former NJ Port Authority Chairman David Samson -- a "staunch ally" of Chris Christie -- got United to schedule an extra, largely empty Friday night flight from Newark airport to Columbia, SC, where he had his weekend place (the flight returned early Monday in time for him to go back to the office). A court has now accepted his guilty plea for accepting bribes and sentenced him to one year of house arrest and four years of probation. (more…)

Water is viscous. With heat, the viscosity drops. And you can hear the difference in its splash.

The son of Babar The Elephant creator Jean de Brunhoff writes that internet toilet men are soiling the purity of his noble, sweet creation, the elephant-king Babar.

If the TSA thinks that you're suspicious -- or if you opt out of the "optional" full-body scanner -- you get a junk-touching "secondary screening" in which the screeners "pat you down" by rubbing the backs of their hands on your genitals and other "sensitive areas" (they can be pretty rough -- a screener at ORD once punched me in the balls to retaliate for me asking him not to rest the tub containing my bags on top of my unprotected laptop). (more…)

The AmazonBasics Metal Monitor Stand ($15) was just what I needed to give my monitor a 4.25 inch boost. My laptop fits under the monitor, too, freeing up desk space.

Liza Minnelli, John Byner, Aretha Franklin, William F. Buckley are the guests in this TV special, "Woody Allen Looks at 1967." The opening title sequence is 10 times too long for today's audience. Allen's opening monologue as a weird long joke about a hate crime. Aretha Franklin performs a couple of songs, including "Respect," Liza Minnelli lips syncs "The 59th Street Bridge Song" and "Up Up and Away" on a set that looks like she's in the clouds, and William F. Buckley provides comedic entertainment.

https://youtu.be/h2UhedFomxMProduced by Bell Labs in 1973, The Far Sound looks at the latest developments it telephony, electronics, and computers. The intro has Peter Max-ish graphics and a song that sounds like a Partridge Family instrumental.

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research has a bunch of great photos and videos from a recent expedition to American Samoa. Photo above is the Cosmic Jellyfish.

If you have breakfast while traveling in Ireland you are bound to come across brown soda bread. Soda bread is super easy to make and a fantastic comfort food.(more…)

In This video, professional skeptic James Randi demonstrates his new powder (called tal-kom or something like that) that demagnetizes a magnetic man.

Here's a virtual Mac Plus running Mac OS System 7. It's got MacPaint, MacDraw, Kid Pix, and Teach Text.

I probably strip 50-65% of screws that I install. (I know, I'm doing it wrong. For starters, I should step away from my power drill until I learn to be more delicate.) Until I break my bad habits, Mikesaurus's Instructables post "5 Ways to Remove a Stripped Screw" will come in handy. (I've long ago mastered the bonus sixth step: "Leave it.")This rubber band method is surprisingly effective and doesn't require anything you may not have at home:

Educator/musician Annie Bosler and peak performance coach/author Don Greene provide simple tips to optimize the practice of practicing. (TEDEd)

I've often wondered if this is a song about physical therapy and rehab.

A man wearing a shark costume robbed a gas station in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shark and his accomplice were armed with a knife and a hammer. They robbed the store of "a haul of confectionery," aka candy. From Newshub:

Gareth Davies' viral yarn about a Japanese man crushed to death by his porn collection has been proven false. Gizmodo's Matt Novak reports that it's about time Americans—and especially American media—realized that a lot of what the Daily Mail publishes is fabricated.

After careful study, UC Berkeley's George Lakoff has devised a rigorous taxonomy of Trump tweets to allow the general public to see beyond their superficial qualities and understand the President's complex motivations.It's "strategic." Media liberals love this. Mike Ginn, however, has observed an even more cunning plan.

The last manufacturer of arcade-sized cathode ray tubes is out of the business, with one supplier having only 30 or so in stock and no chance of ordering more. The manufacturing process is difficult enough that it's unlikely anyone will step into the breach; Venturebeat's Jeff Grubb reports that times will be good for skilled repairers.

These featherweight 1Voice Bluetooth Earbuds give you truly wireless flexibility - there's no sneaky wire connecting the two buds behind your head, while an elite CSR Bluetooth 4.2 chipset provides a crisp, static-free audio stream. Even with all that low maintenance, these buds still feature active noise cancellation, a rare feature on any "wireless" in-ear buds, and one that makes 1Voice an ideal option at the gym or your desk.With a five hour battery life, they'll work for the majority of your day, but the included charging case lets you give them a quick, easy juice bump while you step into a meeting or, heaven forbid, get into a conversation. They're backwards compatible with all Bluetooth 4.0 enabled devices (if your phone doesn't fit this description it's time for a new one) and boast a 30 foot working range so you can afford to roam a bit from your computer or phone while listening.Pick them up today and discover what you've been missing - the 1Voice Bluetooth Earbuds are $59.99 right now, 53% off retail.Explore other Best-Sellers in our store:

A team of esteemed scholars including Yochai "Wealth of Networks" Benkler and Ethan Zuckerman (co-founder of Global Voices) analyzed 1.25 million media stories published between April 1, 2015 and election day, finding "a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world." (more…)

What happens when boys completely obsessed with table tennis are given a video budget? The ping-pong bowling is least among their many achievements: "One ball, one mind!"

German photographer Florian W. Mueller has created an interesting series of images about REM sleep. Set in a mossy forest, they feature one out-of-place piece of the forest. (more…)

Korean illustrator Jang Suk-Woo (aka 1000DAY) was inspired by the music of Max Schneider to create some lovely layered illustrations. (more…)

Ian Bogost (previously) describes the "deflationary" use of "artificial intelligence" to describe the most trivial computer science innovations and software-enabled products, from Facebook's suicide detection "AI" (a trivial word-search program that alerts humans) to the chatbots that are billed as steps away from passing a Turing test, but which are little more than glorified phone trees, and on whom 40% of humans give up after a single conversational volley. (more…)

Henk van Ess teaches workshops in online investigative techniques; he worked with colleagues and a team of students from Axel Springer Academie to analyze a viral news video that purported to show a discarded missile launcher that had been discovered near Cairo's international airport in 2011, but only published last month. (more…)

An all-star jury composed of Arduino inventor Massimo Canzi, Arthur C Clarke Center director Sheldon Brown, tech artist Motor Comino, activist Jasmina Tesanovic and OG Cyberpunk Bruce Sterling are judging the Artmaker prize for the tenth annual Share Festival: this year's theme is "Sincerity" and the prize goes to "art works with the virtues of lucidity, honesty and clarity. Our theme for 2017 asks for self-evident truth and heartfelt emotion, and scorns all slyness, demagoguery and deceit." (more…)

The Arkansas legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit "any books or other material authored by or concerning Howard Zinn" in its schools, on the grounds that Howard Zinn says means things about America, like, "It has the kinds of censoring, undemocratic state governments that ban all books by and discussions of critics of America and its actions." (more…)

The $500 Lyft Credit GiveawayDriving to work every day can take its toll on you, no pun intended. Take some time away from your tedious commute and get driven to work by Lyft. This $500 credit is enough to cover a $10 commute and parking for a full month. Even if you work from home, you'll have free transportation to the bar or airport whenever you need it.Check out the Lyft Ride Calculator here. Just select your city, enter your pickup and drop-off locations, and see if this Lyft credit is worth it to you.You can enter the $500 Lyft Giveaway here.Explore other Best-Sellers in our store:

Looking at the cover above, you might be tempted to assume that my scanning skills are waning. While it is true that sometimes an edge lifts, or the warped pages produce a muddy scan (especially when I'm worried about completely destroying the spine), this is not one of those cases. The little halos that you can see particularly well around the tiny astronauts, are actually there in the print. This is fairly common for this era of magazine, and a good reminder that these weren't very costly, or at least the printer didn't spend for high quality printing.I really like the design of the ship on this cover, it is a bit different that what we usually see in this time period. The alluring poses of the obviously feminine tentacle creatures seems like a fairly clever way of using sex to sell the issue while skirting the stigma of having naked women on the cover.Publication:Galaxy