If you were a child in the 1960s, then no one has to remind you of the utter coolness of the animated TV show, Jonny Quest.It was great for many reasons which I’ll leave you to discover on your own, but what most of us remember now are the opening credits and the music.Four years ago Roger D. Evans recreated the animated title sequence in stop motion and animation.Kick start your time capsule, folks!

Thomas Manning, 64, is recovering after receiving the first penis transplant in the United States. Manning had his penis amputated in 2012 due to penile cancer. It took 15 hours for surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital to complete the transplant, medically known as a "gentitourinary vascularized composite allograft." The surgery involved "grafting the complex microscopic vascular and neural structures of a donor organ onto the comparable structures of the recipient." According to the surgeons, the procedure could someday be used for gender reconstruction. From CNN:

The agency says that the angle of the sunlight that strikes its tracks creates glare that blinds the CCTVs that train-drivers use to ensure that the platform is clear before pulling out of the station. (more…)

Our pals at the excellent art magazine Hi-Fructose partnered with MOCA, which curated what appears to be an incredible pop surrealism retrospective opening next week at the Virginia Museum of contemporary Art. Last week, one of the commissioners on the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission saw a painting by renowned artist Mark Ryden and flipped out. From WAVY:

A nurse shark bit a woman in Boca Raton, Florida, and did not want to let go. Doctors were able to separate the two, and the woman was released into the wild.Via The Hamilton Spectator:

Ultraman is awesome! The funky theme, the goofy dialog, the not-so-special effects? This 1966 television masterpiece is every bit as fantastic as my childhood memories recall.Monsters are always attacking Earth! Lucky we've got the Special Science Search Patrol to fight them off! Aided by Ultraman, a weird looking alien who uses exaggerated kung-fu movements to defeat evil, rubber suited monsters, the UN will always prevail!Ultraman was really one of my favorite shows as a kid, and evidently he still has a strong following in Japan. Watching this hilarious update on Youtube led me to order season 1. It holds up and is really a lot of fun to watch.Episode 1 is above, and you can get the first season via DVD on Amazon for $5.Ultraman: Series One, Vol. 1 via Amazon

Google Chrome will soon be preferring to use other video playback methods, and will be asking users if they want to enable Flash when no other options are available. They will turn it on by default for YouTube, cause you know.Via the BBC:

Comedy genius Louis CK just emailed his fan list (I'm sure as hell on it) the summer and early fall dates of his 2016 tour. Go here to buy tickets. In LA, he's playing Inglewood! The hood! Holy shit, I'm going to THAT show. (more…)

https://youtu.be/0olpSN6_TCcThis well-made video from Practical Engineering explains why soil is not a good building material, and then shows how to mechanically stabilize it so it can bear weight.

Louis Theroux's ability to establish a rapport with subjects is legendary, even with people who are aware that he may be, from their perspective, implicitly hostile. His affectation of ignorance and naivety is part of it, obviously, but it's more than that: he lets subjects take a position of superiority, remains emotionally detached, yet exposes himself to scrutiny.In this video, Ryan Holligner explains just how good Theroux is at this stuff.

The BBC's Finlo Rohrer laments the "slow death of the purposeless walk," an activity replaced by modern transit and planned, regimented leisure/exercise activities. But there's hope!

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater

Father-and-son tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming received a ticket for putting a bison calf in their rental car because they thought it was too cold.

The Let's Melt This YouTube channel put together a video of their most oddly satisfying clips, including Melting A Giant Jawbreaker, Melting A Sock With Sulfuric Acid, Melting A Light Bulb, Melting A Golf Ball With A Welding Torch, and Melting An iPad With A Mini Foundry.

This dog remains perfectly calm and alert until it sees a knife, then it instantly responds to disable the attacker. Amazing training.

Zeos Pantera gives a high energy tour of how he keeps his apartment humming. He's funny and the tips are pretty good!

Season six of HBO's Game of Thrones continues, with sibling reunions and fiery declarations aplenty. Each week following the show, Boars, Gore, and Swords recaps everything that goes down in the world of Westeros. For this week's "Book of the Stranger," Ivan and Red discuss Ramsay Bolton's trolling, the High Sparrow's torture by backstory, Brienne and Tormund's sexual tension, and yes, they cover the flatulence of Pycelle which they somehow missed last week.To catch up on previous seasons, the A Song of Ice And Fire books, and other TV and movies, check out the BGaS archive. You can find them on Twitter @boarsgoreswords, like their Facebook fanpage, and email them. If you want access to extra episodes and content, or just want to show your support, you can donate to the Patreon.

This toy seems too perfect to be real, mangling Alien so thoroughly that it turns unseen 7'2" actor Bolaji Bodejo into the star and, completely accidentally, radically improves upon the high concept of Alien 4. [via Mike Drucker]Alien Man completes an existential trio of Engrish knockoff toys that already includes Robert Cop and Feddy Kruger:

A study by the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration found that half of American Internet users are "deterred" from engaging in online transactions because of fears over privacy and security breaches. (more…)

The Nebula Awards -- voted on by members of the Science Fiction Writers of America to recognize excellence in science fiction and fantasy -- were given out in Chicago yesterday, and every prose award went to a woman (the film award went to the writers of feminist action film Mad Max: Fury Road). (more…)

Inbox by Gmail combs through your email looking for frequent correspondents and puts the people who email you the most in a "speed dial" sidebar (that you can't edit) that puts their names and pictures front-and-center for you every time you go to your email. (more…)

I really like this strap-based handlebar mount for my GoPro cameras! The rubber, strap-based sizing system is superior to most others I've tried.I've got a few different bicycles and motorcycles I like to mount GoPro cameras on, and different diameter handlebars make that a pain. Other mounts I've tried use various adaptors and sizing rings to try and get a snug, vibration light fit. This strap mounted system works great! The strap is easy to use and fits in places where maybe there really isn't enough space.Arkon GoPro Bike Motorcycle Handlebar Strap Mount for GoPro HERO Action Cameras via Amazon

In a new scientific review paper published in World Neurosurgery, a group of Oxford neurosurgeons and scientists round up a set of dire, terrifying warnings about the way that neural implants are vulnerable to networked attacks. (more…)

FBI Director James Comey told reporters that "viral video effect" (which is his latest term for what used to be called the "Ferguson effect") is responsible for increased violent crime in some US cities, in that police are scared to do their jobs because they might end up on Youtube in an unflattering video. (more…)

If you like tech (and if you’re reading a post here on Boing Boing, that’s a pretty safe bet), then you already know of - and likely love - Newegg. They’re one of the elite computer retailers on the planet, and a guaranteed place to get trapped in a gee-whiz vortex as you spin through literally millions of ultra-cool items.Now, you can have ‘em...well, a lot of ‘em at least, if you win this Newegg $1,000 Gift Card Giveaway drawing.If you’re the lucky winner, you’ll get $1,000 shopping spree to either upgrade your current rig or maybe even just start over from scratch. A $1,000 boost can put together a pretty sick set-up, from top-flight monitors, CPUs and memory cards to peripherals like networking gateways, operating systems and pretty much everything in-between.Or you can burn it all buying over 200 mousepads. Look, we’re not advocating that, but hey, it’s your money...spend it how you want.Just sign up via Facebook or email and then be that lucky person who gets their name randomly selected.You can even earn yourself an extra shot at the big prize if a friend of yours (whose 21 or older, of course) also enters the Sweepstakes by following the Additional Entry instructions on the screen.Enter now: registration ends June 14. Good luck!

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I was using Spotlight on OS X to find my Zen Desktop Cleaner app when "The Zen of Making" showed up. I forgot all about it, but I'm glad I came across it again.

I lived in Gunbarrel, Colorado for about six years when I was a kid. True to its name, people like guns in Gunbarrel. I was once shot by fellow who objected to my trespassing on his property (my friends and I were exploring the caves). Fortunately he was far enough away that it only stung. We probably went back the next day.Here's a story about a Gunbarrel gentleman who got into a fight with his neighbor over squirrel-feeding and shot him in the buttocks with his pistol. Jon Marc Barbour, 59, was arrested for second-degree attempted murder and first-degree assault.

I love the look of this iron and wood swing arm lamp. It's regularly $35 on Amazon, but you can get it for $25 if you use code Z59QY7OB at check-out. They come in green and black models.

A 22-year-old Canadian woman visiting Times Square mistook a man's "free hugs" sign to mean that she could get a free hug. When she didn't pay up, the gentleman punched her in the eye. Jermaine Himmelstein, 24, was charged with robbery and fraudulent accosting. He has been arrested 16 times in the last four years.From abc7NY:

Carnegie Mellon University researchers developed a system that turns your arm into a trackpad. Video demo above. From their scientific paper:

In the 1970s-1990s, reporters covering Trump would sometimes chat on the phone with Trump's PR men John Barron or John Miller. Turns out, Barron and Miller were Trump himself. It'd be funny if, well, y'know... From the Washington Post's great article by Marc Fisher and Will Hobson about this weirdness:

Pie designer Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin made these mouthwatering Jabba the Hutt turnovers! Ingredients:– 2 apples

Take a look at these beautiful images of computers at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park by photographer Docubyte and production studio Ink.

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Penn and Teller's classic takedown of anti-vax bullshittery. And if you don't know, now you know.

Cornell economist Robert Frank drew the ire of the nation's business press when he published an article that said something most economists would agree with: hard work and skill aren't enough (or even necessary) to succeed; but luck is. Rather than back down from the angry reception, he's expanded the article into a book, Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, which came out last month. (more…)

Katherine Dunn, the author of the incredible macabre comedic novel Geek Love, about the strange shenanigans in a circus sideshow, has died at age 70 from lung cancer. From a Los Angeles Times profile of Dunn at the time of the book's release in 1989:

Remember when "Turd blossom" was the affectionate nickname the President of the United States used to refer to his chief advisor? (more…)

The term "tendril perversion" was coined in 1998 by mathematicians Goriely and Tabor to describe the long-observed phenomenon of coiled cables, vines and other helixes that have one kinked loop that goes the other way. (more…)

Starring pop culture characters that many of us can identify with, this comic hits home. It is a brutal look at how abusive families shape their childrens' future relationships—but also shows the reality of what triggers are, and what effective therapy looks like. Finally, it shows that even when our parents don't get us, things turn out okay if they love us and let us be who we are.

Sarah Jeong's covering the Oracle v. Google trial, whereby the two companies are fighting over Java, copyright and the difficulty of explaining things like APIs to "normals." Most interesting is how the trial reveals not only how completely alien "nerd subculture" is, but that normal people -- judges! juries! -- are surprisingly good at spotting and exposing Silicon Valley's hypocrisy and narcissism.

Shanghai Disneyland, opening on June 16, is now in “soft opening,” with castmembers, families, and invited guests allowed in while they slowly open the rides and get everything working properly.The first video is a 92-minute piece shot by one such guest, and shows a lot of amazing things at the new park, including many complete ride-throughs of the major attractions. (His camera isn’t up to the low lighting of the all new version of Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and someone else took care of that—look at the second video.)

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Hagaman Musson says: "So I was waiting for my son to come home from school and I see this woman trying to get a close up of the squirrel trying to get a selfie with it. Next thing I know he's chasing her down the street and she's rejecting the close up. Now she's in front of our house and the squirrel comes into view still chasing her. So now she's filming him screaming for him to get away. "

This brilliant billboard on the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto, Canada is actually a PSA to discourage texting and driving. After this, if Wathan Funeral Home were real, people would be dying to get in. (Sorry.)Excellent work from the john st. advertising agency and Cieslok Media.(Adweek)

This mouthwatering morsel is an origami robot that once swallowed, unfolds itself in the gut and can be steered by magnets outside the body. According to the MIT researchers, patients may someday swallow similar robots to patch wounds or retrieve foreign objects. In a new test, the robot successfully removed a button battery lodged in a faux stomach and esophagus. Video below! Yum!From MIT: