Sonia Livingstone, an LSE social psychology prof, gives us a peek into the results from The Class, a year-long, deep research project into the digital lives and habits of a class of 13 year olds at an ordinary school. (more…)

“Pie Another Day“: James Bond No-Bake Oreo Pie Recipe by Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) (more geeky pie goodness) (more…)

An Egypt Air flight from Paris to Cairo went off radar Wednesday night, a tweet from the airline reported.(more…)

Behold the Clan Trump, God's gift to women. Ivanka Trump, daughter of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, is speaking out on reports that her father is occasionally less than chivalrous with the ladies.

The folks behind Riverside's Dickens Festival are putting on a steampunk ball!If you are in the area, and so inclined, tickets are $33. The Paper Moon portrait you can take home, by one of my favorite photographers, Star Foreman, is worth the price alone!

[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he must read all the weekly tabloids. For the past couple of years, he's been posting terrific weekly tabloid recaps on Facebook and has graciously given us permission to run them on Boing Boing. Enjoy! - Mark]Superstring theory suggests there are ten dimensions, while bosonic string theory posits as many as 26 dimensions of spacetime.But I’ve discovered an additional dimension: the alternate universe inhabited by the tabloid magazines, where the laws of reality rarely apply.What do Kim Kardashian’s new sex tape, Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss’s celebrity-packed little black book, Janet Jackson’s two secret love children, John F Kennedy’s secret love child and Jennifer Garner’s pregnancy have in common?They all spring from the quantum mechanics of this week’s National Enquirer, which approaches events with the certainty of Schrodinger’s Cat. If a story could conceivably have happened, that’s good enough for these fact-challenged folk.Inspired by allegations that Cuba’s Fidel Castro has ordered celebrities’ hotel rooms to be fitted with hidden cameras and listening devices, the Kardashian-bashing Enquirer screams: “Kim in new sex tape shocker,” claiming “she’s caught on film Havana romp with Kanye in Cuba.” But read the story, and you’ll find the Enquirer admitting that “cameras probably caught” the couple - because without evidence the story is sheer conjecture.As is the list of “A-List stars in Hollywood Madam’s black book.” The Enquirer names Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck, Hugh Grant and Justin Bieber in its recreation of Fleiss’s contacts book.Let’s not quibble about the inclusion of Justin Bieber, who was born in 1994 - one year after Fleiss’ arrest and the collapse of her vice ring. The Enquirer undoubtedly had insiders in his mother’s womb who witnessed Justin’s embryo hiring hookers. The Enquirer even admits that these celebrities are not in Fleiss's black book; rather, they are the result of “an exhaustive Enquirer probe.” A host of other stars allegedly named in the book - if it exists, since even Heidi isn’t certain - may have simply been friends or acquaintances of Fleiss, rather than clients, the Enquirer admits. But that doesn’t stop it smearing the lot of them.Janet Jackson allegedly had not one secret love child but two, both given up for adoption, claims the Enquirer. The singer supposedly had these children while married to pop star James DeBarge in the ‘80s. “I hadn’t known,” DeBarge reportedly tells the Enquirer - because you know how easy it is in a busy modern marriage to miss little details like your wife's pregnancy. There’s the trash to take out, the dog to walk, a world concert tour to arrange - who has time to notice that your wife is pregnant? Twice.Why is the Enquirer interested in Jack Worthington II, who first claimed to be JFK’s love child way back in 2008? Because he’s endorsing the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and Enquirer favorite Donald Trump, saying: “Donald’s the one to lead the nation.” How does Mr. Worthington know his own parentage? Through a failure in planning, the Enquirer did not have an insider in his mother’s womb. But when Mr Worthington wondered why he had different DNA from the man he always assumed was his father, his mother gave the perfectly natural explanation that she had a fling with JFK. Presumably because Elvis wasn’t available. And his saintly mother couldn’t possibly be lying, could she?Jennifer Garner has reunited with estranged husband Ben Affleck and is expecting their child, claims the Enquirer, based on nothing more than a photo of Garner in a blouse that could be showing a modest baby bump, or merely a slight gust of wind. I’m not sending a baby gift until I receive the official announcement.Not to be outdone in the fan fiction department, the Globe has sensational photos of Prince Charles tenderly kissing and hugging a young “toy boy” lover. It seems remarkable that Charles and his team of bodyguards could have allowed photographers up close to snatch these intimate images, in which the unidentified young man lovingly straightens Charles’ tie, pulls the Prince toward him and embraces in a passionate lip lock on a public street. “Shocking proof of secret life dooms fight to be King,” proclaims the Globe. But wait . . . what are those tiny words tucked away in a small corner of one image? “Photo recreation.” So these “explosive pictures” aren’t real at all. In fact, the Globe provides no evidence that such photos even exist, but that doesn’t stop the mag from quoting an “insider” who concludes: “The photos have undoubtedly clinched the crown for William and his wife, Kate, who have disowned him.” Undoubtedly.Marilyn Monroe’s missing private journal has been “found at last,” claims the National Examiner, which publishes two pages of excerpts, allegedly revealing the star’s anger that the Kennedy brothers and Mafia mob boss Sam Giancana all treated her like “a whore” and promising “I’ll get revenge . . . I know all their dirty secrets.” It seems a highly convenient explanation for her suspicious drug overdose death, but it’s there in her journal, so its must be true - though the Examiner confesses that it “cannot independently verify claims the diary is genuine.” Well, I never saw that coming.With summer and swimsuit season approaching, People magazine brings us its “bodies of the year” issue, an excuse for 23 pages of celebrities baring flesh. Two pages alone cram in 39 actresses, aged from their 20s to 50s, in bikinis and swimsuits, while another page squeezes in 18 hunky actors baring their pecs. Celine Dion is given People mag’s cover, explaining how her heart will go on after the death of husband René, and how she explained his passing to their five-year-old twins by throwing a “glitter-and-balloon” party (doesn’t every widow?) and explaining that their father had “gone up,” floating away on balloons like the old man in the Disney movie Up. Will Dion's children grow up believing that their father is still alive in a small house on the top of a cliff surrounded by a pack of talking dogs? Squirrel!Fortunately we have the investigative team at Us magazine to reveal that Kerry Washington wore it best (not much of a contest when you’re compared to Tina Fey), Joe Biden’s favorite meal is pasta, singer Jennifer Nettles carries sunglasses, a protein bar and hairbrush in her Madewell purse, and that the stars are just like us: they pump their own gas, snack on the go, run on the beach, and (branding Her Majesty the Queen a “star,” which seems something of a demotion) color-coordinate.Us mag devotes its cover and eight pages inside to a “tenth anniversary special” on TV series The Hills. Because that’s what America really cares about today: what happened to Lauren, Kristin, Audrina, Spencer and Heidi. Perhaps we’ll also find their names in Heidi Fleiss’s little black book, and on a Cuban secret police sex tape in some alternate universe. Because if you can think it, then in the Tabloid Dimension it must have happened.

Customers of a Burger King in downtown Helsinki, Finland can relax in an in-store sauna before enjoying the restaurant's fine cuisine. According to the restaurant chain's brand manager in Finland, Hanne-Mari Ahonen, the goal is to mix the local Finnish tradition of saunas with the universal taste of, er, a Whopper. You can also watch TV or play video games while shvitzing. Apparently food is not permitted in the sauna though."No, no, the sauna is for sweating it out, and our hamburgers taste all the better for it afterward," Ahonen said.(CNN and AP)

Not sure about the StayPuft Marshmallow Man at the end, but the rest looks great to me. I love that theme song!

Portugese artist Tomba Lobos sculpts bizarre facial deformities out of Play-Doh and then uses Photoshop to apply them to his subjects."I would like to think this project as a low budget tribute to old school Special Effects wich can be seen, for instance, on Cronenberg's movies like Videodrome and Chris Cunningham's music videos like Rubber Johnny," Lobos writes.

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by Ray, the super remote!About a month ago, Boing Boing received a Ray Super Remote in the mail and for a moment we thought we were looking at a new smart phone. From the clean white minimal box it was packaged in, to its sleek glass face, we were impressed by the simplicity and beauty of this new take on an outdated, but important everyday object... the TV remote.One of the most striking aspects of Ray is that it’s not cluttered with a bunch of plastic buttons. Instead, it is a touchscreen. Ray sports smooth Gorilla glass on its front and back, and has an elegant machined aluminum sidebar on the right with just three buttons, which you can use to easily turn the device on and off, hit mute, and control the volume.The Ray’s packaging did not include an instruction booklet. Instead, Ray walks you through the set-up process with its user-friendly touchscreen after you turn it on. It asks about your program and channel preferences as well as more basic questions in order to customize your Ray to work with your equipment. Which premium movie channels do you have? What types of shows do you watch? What are your favorite channels? Who is your cable provider? What devices (TV, DVR, Apple TV, Fire TV, Xbox, etc.) do you use? You answer by simply tapping on icons or “yes” and “no” boxes, depending on the question.Ray is so easy to navigate that even the biggest technophobe on the planet could tap through this process without a sweat. It took 10 minutes before we were completely set up and ready to go with a new remote experience that offers more control, and search and discovery that is lightyears ahead of competition.So, how well does it work? The answer is very well, indeed. To use Ray, you first wake it from sleep mode by pressing the top button on the side. The touchscreen displays a menu to choose which device you want to use or which genre you are in the mood to watch. We set up our Ray to display TV, DVR, Apple TV, and Fire TV, but you could have a much longer list that could also include things like Roku, DVD, On Demand, Kids (a kid-friendly Ray app), Sports (a sporty Ray app), Soundbar, Media Player, Xbox, and, well, Ray can actually connect to thousands of devices and is constantly upgrading through its built-in WiFi radio as new devices enter the market.Let’s say you choose TV. Ray’s touchscreen then displays thumbnail images of what’s playing right now on your favorite channels, from HBO to ABC to Syfy. You can also click on the menu icon at the top of your Ray screen to access a general TV guide, or to see a list of what’s currently on in a specific genre, such as arts, news, kids, sports, and documentaries. If you instead choose DVR or one of your other devices, you can tap and swipe Ray’s touchscreen to control the devices’ menus on the TV screen.Ray works from up to 33 feet away from your home entertainment center, but make sure you don’t have anything blocking the way from your Ray to your devices – the infrared signal needs a clear line of sight to control them. Ray comes with a USB power cord and adapter, as well as a simple black charging stand that’ll fill up Ray’s lithium-ion battery for 10 days at a time. As an added bonus, and stepping stone into the world of smarthome control, you can also control Phillips lights and the Nest Learning Thermostat, but we don’t have these family room luxuries so we can’t tell you how that works.Using Ray is remarkably easy, intuitive, and user-friendly, and after four weeks of uninterrupted fuss-free boob-tubing, we are ready to toss our other four remotes in the trash bin. It’s our first universal remote, and we’re glad we found it.Learn more about the Ray Super Remote!

After initially denying Liseanna Yazzie's request to wear ceremonial Navajo moccasins during her commencement, the Salpulpa Public Schools have changed their mind.Via KJRH.com:

The video is titled "Gothenburg Shuffle." See more on Noel Heath's Instagram.

At the Rusborg 2016 Middle Ages festival in Russia, a re-enactor spotted a drone in the sky and did what anyone in the 9th century would: He knocked it out of the sky with his spear.(more…)

In 1982, David Letterman screen-tested for the role of Ted Striker in my favorite comedy film of all time, Airplane! (1980). I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley.

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Your Idea Starts Here: 77 Mind-Expanding Ways to Unleash Your Creativity

FindFace is a new Russian smartphone app that lets users take photos of strangers and identify them with 70% reliability/From The Guardian:

"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid." - Bertrand Russell, "In praise of Idleness"

Robby Leonardi is a designer and animator, and his interactive resume showcases his impressive skills.

In this video, Kipkay shows you how to make a hollow pencil, perfect for hiding one rolled up square of toilet paper, which will become the coin on the realm in the coming toilet paper shortage riots.

The Raspberry Pi has always been one of the cooler DIY computing pieces out there. This credit card-sized micro-computer is a hit for tech-savvy tinkerers to explore programming as an interest--even a career.Now, the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation are upping the ante with the new Raspberry Pi 3, which you can get now along with a bundle of associated coursework for only $199.99 in the Boing Boing Store.While the Pi 3 is still the same size as the Pi 2 (about 3 inches by 2 inches), the retooled model has a lot of improvements under the hood--including a 50% boost in processing speed, plus built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities.That connectivity upgrade frees up one of the Pi’s four USB ports for other peripherals, so now you can plug in that monitor, mouse and keyboard and still have room for more.In addition to the Pi 3, you’ll also get seven courses to help you make the most of your device:

It looks like the Australian government hired rotten.com to design their cigarette packages. [image NSFL]

Is this a restaurant? Bonus points for the unintentional Minecraft mobs sound effects.

This weekend Hollywood is about to make history with The Angry Birds Movie, the first feature film ever to be based on a smartphone app. The Angry Birds bird-slinging game, made by the Finnish company Rovio, has enjoyed over 3-billion downloads of its various versions since it first launched in 2009, and is the most downloaded game of all time. So it’s understandable that the film industry, which makes gazillions of dollars adapting best-selling books like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, would want to branch out and bring a best-selling app to the big screen.But when I first heard that Angry Birds was being developed into a movie, I was perplexed – and intrigued. How in the hell could this smash-’em-up game be turned into a full-blown movie? My 13-year-old daughter and I both love Angry Birds, but it’s so simple. In fact, there’s hardly a storyline at all.For those not familiar with the game, it goes like this:1. Aim a slingshot that hurls a flightless bird into the sky. 2. Watch the bird crash through a structure and smash the green bug-eyed piggies hiding inside – or miss its mark. 3. Retry until the birds have squashed all of the snorting pigs. 4. Level up.That’s it! No character development, no personalities besides the strange gravelly sounds and chuckles coming from the pigs and the occasional bird caws, no story arc, etc. I wondered how they would flesh this game out. Would these speechless birds and snickering pigs finally have voices? Which of the many different angry bird characters would star in the film? And for gad’s sake, why are the birds so damn angry?Then last month I was invited to Maui to watch a screening of The Angry Birds Movie. First off, let me tell you that if I had not liked the movie, I wouldn’t be writing about it. Sony Pictures did send me, along with a bunch of other journalists, to Hawaii and treated us to the movie, as well as a fabulous zip-lining excursion where we flew like angry, er, I mean happy birds. We also had an anger-management yoga class, and ended the 2-day trip with an intimate luau. Had the movie been a rotten egg I would have felt guilty about having such a fantastic time on Sony’s nickel, but I would not have written a word about it. [caption id="attachment_462413" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Red, played by Jason Sudeikis[/caption]Fortunately, The Angry Birds Movie, directed by Frozen animator Clay Kaytis, is an adorable, upbeat 3D animated movie that had the audience – many of them children – hysterically laughing out loud. In an eggshell, the movie is about a colorful tropical island filled with flightless happy birds. Well, mostly happy. But it’s not a complete paradise, as there are a few misfits who have anger management issues. First there’s Red (played by Jason Sudeikis) who was teased as a little bird because of his big bushy eyebrows. Now he’s irritated by anyone who gets in his way. And then there’s hyper-active Chuck (Josh Gad), who has no filters, and Bomb (Danny McBride), who has a case of IED, or intermittent explosive disorder – you never know when he’s going to blow up. These three angry-but-loveable misfits become friends as they attend their compulsory anger management courses, led by the mostly sweet (but I can tell she has her own bottled-up anger management issues) Matilda (played by Maya Rudolph).The plot thickens when the island is invaded by boatloads of green pigs who, to most birdies, seem so nice and friendly. They just want to party! But Red sees something else and tries to warn the happy birds around him. They scold him and blame his anger for his party-pooping delusions. When it’s almost too late, the flock of happy birds realizes their mistake, and must depend on angry Red and his misfit friends to save all of the eggs – and the island – from the greedy deceitful pigs before it’s too late. The actors do a fabulous job of bringing the characters to life, and the movie is smart, humorous, heart-warming, and engaging for all ages.After watching The Angry Birds Movie, the biggest takeaway for me was that the movie actually breathed more life into the game. As charming as the movie was, the only thing I could think of when it ended was running back to the hotel room and playing the Angry Birds game. Now that I knew who Red, Chuck, Bomb and Matilda were, I wanted to see if playing the game would be any different. And I have to say, it was different.In the way that MTV cemented images and storylines to songs, The Angry Birds Movie has cemented a story and personality to the app. What used to be one-dimensional feathered projectiles are now brave heroes on a mission to save their island from the sneaky pigs. The birds now have stories we can relate to and root for. As an Angry Birds player, it’s really fun to see how the different aspects of the game now make perfect sense. The slingshot, the eggs, the pigs, the bushy eyebrows, the anger… all of it has a place in the game’s story and nothing in the game is left to question.At the luau I met John Cohen, one of the film’s producers (the other being Catherine Winder). Standing near the buffet table of poi and roasted pig (heh heh), I asked Cohen, who also produced Despicable Me, what inspired him to make a movie based on Angry Birds. He said he has always been a huge fan of the game. “I’m proud to admit that I’m even an addict. I spent so much time playing the game that I couldn’t help but think about all the possibilities there would be in bringing these characters to life in a story.” [caption id="attachment_462411" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Screengrab of the Angry Birds app.[/caption]Then, Cohen explained that in 2012, he found out that David Maisel, the founder and chairman of Marvel, had approached Rovio and had become a special advisor to explore the idea of turning Angry Birds into a movie. Cohen immediately began calling Maisel and chased Rovio until he convinced them to bring him on board.I spoke to Cohen again over the phone once I was back in Los Angeles, and we continued our conversation. The thing I found most interesting about this app-turned-movie is that Angry Birds was so fantastically well-known and popular and yet the filmmakers didn’t have a plot or story to follow. With so many millions, if not billions of fans, that seems like a lot of pressure.Cohen agreed. “When you have something that is that well known, it’s normally properties like Harry Potter or Spider-Man, where there is already a detailed mythology that’s been created and developed with so many fantastic nuances and information about backstories for each of the characters and for the world in which it takes place.” But the Angry Birds team had to start from scratch.In the beginning, Cohen and the folks at Rovio, along with Maisel, who became one of the movie’s executive producers, spent months just talking about what the story would be. “In the beginning of the process, we went back to the question that I think Rovio gets asked more often than anything else, which is, “Why are the birds so angry?” We started with that fundamental question and made this movie the origin story of how that strange conflict came to exist between these flightless birds and these cute green piggies.”As far as choosing which characters to feature, Cohen says in 2013 they launched a Toons TV app with cute animated shorts that presented a birds-versus-pigs theme reminiscent of Bugs Bunny or The Roadrunner, except instead of Elmer Fudd or the Coyote doing the hunting, in the Angry Birds cartoons it’s green pigs who are always hunting for the birds’ eggs. “The characters that we focused on in the movie were the most popular ones in the games and in the Toons.”For those who want to watch The Angry Birds Movie on opening weekend, there’s a special bonus and surprise waiting. Download the new Angry Birds Action game and turn it on during the movie’s end credits. The sounds coming from the credits will unlock a new area of the game as well as a secret scene from the movie that “is so good, so funny,” according to Cohen. “It’s a fantastic scene that I can’t tell you anything about because it’s a surprise. The only way you can see it is if you have your phone with the [Angry Birds Action] app downloaded on it.”Good thing my daughter hasn’t seen the movie yet. Gives me an excuse to see the movie for a second time with my iPhone on and ready for any slingshot surprises coming my way.Carla Sinclair is the co-founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of Wink Books.

When German chancellor Angela Merkel allowed the prosecution of a comedian who had insulted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, some thought it was strategic: that by doing so, it exposed the country's ancient ban on insulting heads of state to broad legal scrutiny.A court in Hamburg, however, has now banned most of the insulting poem from being read in public there, further rattling those worried about free speech in Germany.

The BBC's Making of Me and You asks a few questions about your age, volume and sex, and derives from that a chart describing your composition. We are all much alike, one presumes, but the details are fascinating. (more…)

The wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump would like to assure voters that he is not Hitler. Politico's Nick Gass reports on Melania Trump's campaign intervention.

Heather Ann, a Dallas costume/prosthetics maker, created these $110 snail shell helmets (tentacles not currently included). (more…)

Elsevier is one of the world's largest scholarly publishers and one of the most bitter enemies that open access publishing has; SSRN is one of the biggest open access scholarly publishing repositories in the world: what could possibly go wrong? (more…)

When We Stand on Guard launched last summer, it made more news in Canada than it did in America, tickling the quintessentially Canadian anxiety about its southern neighbour, and noting with that very Canadian pride that Vaughan was married to a Canadian and that his storyboarder Steve Skroce (who also storyboards for the Wachowskis) was from Toronto.As the series progressed -- and completed, it's a fully self-contained story now, collected in a single, handsome, hardcover volume -- the American media started to take notice, and wasn't always comfortable with what it saw.The premise of We Stand on Guard is this: in 100 years, the President of the United States is assassinated by a Canadian drone. Canadians insist that it was a false flag operation, but the American retaliation is swift and bloody -- and convenient. As the missiles rain down on Canada, enormous machines called "hosers" are maneuvered into place around Canada's prodigious stores of fresh water, diverting them to a USA that has been turned into a dust-bowl by poor regulation and climate change.The Canadian guerrilla fighters who remain are treated without mercy, and vanquished without risk. The American counterinsurgency uses drones -- including building-sized mechas -- to stamp out the underground. When leaders are captured, they're tortured in endless neural-interface VR sims, each crueller than the last, while their interrogators telecommute from comfortable offices in the Beltway.(more…)

Anonymous sources quoted in the New York Times and elsewhere today said Google will introduce a competitor to Amazon's Echo on Wednesday. Its long-anticipated entry into the voice-activated home device market is said to be named Google Home.(more…)

In California today, a grand jury indicted the Plains All-American Pipeline and one of the oil company's employees on criminal charges over the massive 2015 oil spill in Santa Barbara County.(more…)

A subsitute high school teacher in Easton, Pennsylvania was taken into police custody Tuesday and charged with institutional sexual assault after admitting to a judge that she had been having sex with a student since 2015.(more…)

Juan Zarate, 38, was arrested after a dachshund named Henry died in his care on Sunday, police say.The PetSmart groomer was arrested for animal cruelty after an X-ray revealed the the 1-year-old dog suffered from a punctured lung and two broken ribs.(more…)

"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines." – Frank Lloyd Wright(more…)

The LCD display on our old label maker malfunctioned, so I picked up this new model, called the DYMO LabelManager 160, for $10 on Amazon. You can buy a variety of label tapes for it, including clear and neon colors.

There are plenty of good reasons to get a second phone line. Maybe you need one for business calls that keep blowing up your personal phone. Or you’re doing Craigslist sales, and don’t want your number floating around the Web.Whatever your reason, second phone lines don't usually come cheap. So, get all your phone needs covered with a subscription to Hushed Private Phone Line--only $25, or 82% off MSRP in the Boing Boing Store.With Hushed, you get a dedicated second number, along with a North America 365 Service Plan--good for 3,000 SMS or 500 phone minutes per year. With no monthly fees, you can make calls or send texts from a completely private number.Further protect your anonymity by choosing from hundreds of different area codes across the U.S. and Canada. You can even save on your service charges by using Wi-Fi or data to communicate via Hushed.Manage your second line right from the Hushed app, including call forwarding, customized voicemail and more.Hushed Private Phone Line protects your privacy on either Android or iOS phones, so jump on the 82% discount before the offer expires.

https://youtu.be/outmDIi29Bo“It’s not easy having a good time.”A short but sweet new trailer for Fox's all-new production of the 1975 cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's scheduled to air around Halloween 2016.(more…)

Stella Parks of Serious Eats blows readers' minds twice in the first two paragraphs of her article.(more…)

https://youtu.be/uZSqx0PJ8XUHere are side-by-side video clips comparing a bunch of fire ants with different kinds of liquid.

This Spokane mother of 12 is sick of Target's WICKED pro-Sodomite agenda. Come for the speech, stay for "God's judgment is coming on this nation... and Target!"

This mom in Port Moody, BC is taking a chance by having her son block a car with his bike so she can swipe a parking spot. A road ragey driver would have bumped the kid out of the way.

Watch this talented guy make realistic food by pouring melted wax in a water bath. He's making the samples seen in Japanese restaurant windows.

SpareOne Emergency Phone is a basic cellphone powered by AA batteries. This gives it a relatively short time on a charge, but means that it will have a charge after being stuffed in a drawer or glove box for months.I came across this during my search for the perfect basic phone, but be warned: it has no display, and therefore no text messaging. It has a glow-in-the-dark keypad, a 10-number phonebook, and an "SOS" button that sends texts to 5 contacts with your location.The AT&T GoPhone model is 3G and costs $60 at Target stores, or $50 at Amazon. Some users report that AT&T doesn't really understand the gadget; be sure to activate it according to the handset instructions, not AT&T's instructions, which require you to receive a text message.A 2G GSM model, requiring only a single AA battery, is officially available only in the UK, for some reason. Perhaps because it's a pain to activate on an off-brand carrier and US carriers periodically expire your minutes on SIM-only plans. But it's offered in the US for $30 on Amazon if you fancy your chances.Something tickles me about the first-aid medical design.

Join Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE in May, and more than the amount of your cost to sign up will be donated to help protect journalists around the world! You get exclusive access to comics and other stuff, and journalists get to do their work exposing corruption without being put in jail.Click here to sign up for the INNER HIVE; click here for information.More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

Visual Center is a website that takes an image and attempts to find its compositional center point. It works well with designy images that have an obvious geometry to them and well-defined shapes to find and center — think logotype surrounded by whitespace. I'm not having a lot of success with photographs, though. [via]

As Boing Boing U's Assistant Deputy President of the Committee on Neighborhood Communications and Principal Vice Liaison to Interdepartmental Technology of the Subcommittee for Academic Communications, I insist that we form a committee to investigate whether the "web site" University Title Generator constitutes unacceptable bait speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqKwCyA0QM&feature=youtu.be"This is JoeJoe the Capybara, enjoys baths and hanging out with baby ducks." [via]In addition to his YouTube Channel, Joe has an instagram account and a Facebook page.

Following on the hugely successful publications of books one and two, Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan have launched a crowdfunding campaign for a third volume, collecting the excellent sex advice, erotica, and reviews from their brilliant webcomic. (more…)

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