On Twitter, Kelloggs mascot Tony the Tiger began blocking furries who made lustful remarks about the hunky cartoon feline, ultimately telling them to knock it off because cereal is "family-friendly."Enter Cheetos mascot Chester Cheetah.Let there be no doubt about what Chester is up for.The world is a wonderful place.

CETA is a Canada/EU "free trade agreement," negotiated in secret and containing the notorious "Investor-State Dispute Settlement" (ISDS) clause, which lets corporations sue governments in confidential tribunals in order to force them to repeal their environmental, safety and labour laws. (more…)

Emily Sears has a longstanding, devastatingly effecting procedure for handling the unsolicited dick pix, wanking videos, and sexist come-ons she receives from creepy Internet randos: she researches their girlfriends and messages them with screengrabs of the whole thing. (more…)

Ad agency Boone Oakley created a provocative campaign in posters and stickers for hospitals to promote breastfeeding to first-time moms.(more…)

In Los Angeles but ending this weekend, you can check out an #ArtistsForBernieSanders show in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. My beautiful friend Souris Hong is one of the curators/organizers/promoters, and you should really read her personal story of involvement. “I live in a country where I can come from a refugee camp and end up on the campaign trail,” she writes.Included in the exhibition are artists and performers we've blogged about here at Boing Boing over the years--Kozyndan, Ron English, and Shepard Fairey among them. The organizers plan to take the show on the road to more cities, when the Los Angeles kickoff closes.(more…)

https://youtu.be/g02M5s5QwuQ“We asked young girls what they think about traditional Barbie dolls, and then we showed them the new Barbies to see how they'd react to her new shapes and sizes. Here's what they had to say.”(more…)

https://youtu.be/-cA0NM5RAY0Peter Serafinowicz says, "I gave Mr Trump a tough guy cockney accent. No words were changed."Did you know the Kray Twins were really the Kray Triplets?

People are more likely to experience complications caused by having their wisdom teeth pulled than they are from keeping them in their head, according to several studies cited in this Fusion article by Rob Wile.

See sample pages of Akira at Wink.At the far too early age of seven I watched Katsuhiro Otomo’s film Akira. In a time before the internet, my parents had made the mistake of thinking that since it was a cartoon it couldn’t be that bad. If you’ve seen the movie you know just how wrong my parents were. If you haven’t, what followed was two hours of high-octane animated violence, drugs, and mind-bending psychokinesis. Being too young to really appreciate what many critics believe to be one of the greatest animated movies of all time, which helped bring Japanese anime into American culture, I retreated to the warm comfort of Disney. Thankfully as I got older I rediscovered this great movie, and this even better comic series.This isn’t me just saying “Well, I read the book which is far better than the movie.” (Imagine me saying that with a snooty condescending accent). The movie barely skims the surface of the comics. It would be like if HBO took all the Game of Thrones books and turned them into a single two-hour special.Spanning over 2000 pages the Akira series is a sci-fi epic. The story follows a teenage delinquent as he unknowingly gets caught up in psychic warfare that leads to an all-out revolution. Like the amphetamine that the main characters eat like candy, you’ll get addicted to this book – also, you might lose your teeth, but that could be unrelated.Dark Horse did an exquisite job reprinting the comics into six volumes (although I did notice a typo in Volume 2 on page 228, so someone might want to contact Dark Horse about that). Each book starts with some beautifully colored pages, and then transitions into amazingly detailed black and white illustrations. If you liked the movie, like comics, or just like impractical yet totally cool future-bikes, read Akira.Bonus: If you like the Akira series check out Domu: A Child’s Dream. It’s much shorter but still very enjoyable. It feels very much like a precursor, a Hobbit to Lord of the Rings (Okay, I think I just reached my nerd-reference quota for this review). – JP LeRouxAkira Vol. 6

YouTuber Matthew Br made a gadget that senses when the rude people in the apartment next to him play loud music and blasts especially annoying music back at them through the wall. The device gives the neighbors a short grace period that stops it from triggering if the neighbors sneeze or drop something heavy, but if the loud music goes on too long, the device kicks into action and punishes them with a high decibel onslaught.[via]

The latest self-portrait from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand.(more…)

TORTUS: SPIN from Tortus Copenhagen on Vimeo.It looks like the room and everything in it is spinning around a fixed potter's wheel.[via]

James "New Aesthetic" Bridle writes, "I wrote an SF short story about satellites, space weapons, UN inspectors, and the end of personal data! I hope you like it." (more…)

Michael Graziano, a psychologist, lost 50 lbs in 8 months by experimenting on himself to see how different dietary choices affected his feelings of hunger, reasoning that the major predictor of weight control isn't calories consumed versus calories burned -- but the extent to which your unconscious mind exerts pressure on you to eat more and exercise less. (more…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qChpapWBljEBrant from Climate Truth writes, "A fishing boat captain, a restaurateur, and a Cuban refugee being displaced by rising seas in South Florida are setting off for New Hampshire next week to harangue Rubio for being shitty on climate change." (more…)

In Rigged Justice: 2016How Weak Enforcement LetsCorporate Offenders Off Easy, a 12-page booklet, Senator Elizabeth Warren documents corporations that were caught undertaking grossly fraudulent, highly profitable actions, and were made to pay a trivial fraction of those profits in fines -- fines become a part of the cost of doing business, not a deterrent to criminal behavior. (more…)

The tl;dr: hit the water at a 20% angle. But the answer isn't as interesting as the question…

I can't quite explain why I love John Greene / Fleen's generative computer art so much. It's cold and mechanical, yet seems to encode a spookily human sense of culture (see also: the Kingdom of Aurillia)Be sure to catch the full set of this particular form. [via]

Microsoft long ago stopped saying how many XBox Ones it had sold, but figures released by Electronic Arts expose numbers far short of rival Sony's Playstation 4.On a financial call with reporters, CEO Blake Jorgensen said the combined install base of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 was about 55 million units. With Sony boasting of 36 million PS4s shifted, that makes for 19 million Xbox Ones.The numbers tally with rumors, but both machines are doing well given that we're still only 2 years into the current generation of hardware. The big loser this time around is Nintendo, thought to have sold only about 11m Wii Us.

Rodney sez, "Wayne Pollock, a Computer Science instructor at Hillsborough Community College (FL), has this on his office wall. He says, 'I had that idea years ago, and my dad made the darn thing one year as a gift.'"

Paul Kantner, founding member of Jefferson Airplane and icon of the sixties San Francisco rock explosion, died today. He was 74. Earlier this week, he suffered a heart attack, and had for years been dealing with serious health issues.His death was confirmed by longtime publicist and friend Cynthia Bowman, who told reporters he died of multiple organ failure and septic shock.[caption id="attachment_445727" align="aligncenter" width="701"] Paul Kantner and Grace Slick and daughter China of the Jefferson Airplane, photo dated 10/08/1971[/caption]From the San Francisco Chronicle:

[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]A sensational medical breakthrough means you’ll never have to go to a doctor or psychiatrist again for an accurate clinical diagnosis.How else does one explain the extraordinary medical assessments of the stars in this week’s supermarket tabloids, based on just a photograph or two?AMA could learn a few things from these tabloids medical experts.TV’s Friends star Matthew Perry is suspected of a “drug relapse because the actor “looks horrible,” says Dr. Stuart Fischer, “who has not treated 46-year-old Matthew but reviewed recent photos of the actor,” according to the National Enquirer. “He looks ill-kempt and homeless,” says the doc, which as any dedicated tabloid reader will tell you, is a dangerous medical condition.Angelina Jolie is an “anorexic wasting away,” alleges the Enquirer, riding one of its favorite rail-thin hobby horses. They enlist Dr. Art Mollen of Arizona to determine, based on photographs, that Angie needs hospitalization “immediately,” plus a team of “psychiatrists, cardiologists, nutritionists and even the family” to save her life. The Enquirer adds, in stark red headlines almost two inches tall, that she weighs "82 lbs” - an assessment that can only mean they are now hiring former fairground hucksters who used to “Guess Your Weight” at carnival midway stands. That, or Enquirer reporters slipped a bathroom scale onto a red carpet while Angie wasn’t looking.Oscar winner Michael Douglas, looking thinner than in recent months, “has three months to live as cancer returns,” the Enquirer claims - though it goes on to say that this is only “his worst fear.” Well, isn’t that the worst fear of even the healthiest person in the world? Dr Art Mollen, proving his value to the Enquirer yet again by giving them a two-for-one special, says: “There’s definitely a possibility of a recurrence of cancer here.” But isn’t that always a possibility for any former cancer patient?When medical experts aren’t available, the Enquirer is happy to accept clinical diagnoses from passing strangers.Another Oscar winner, Warren Beatty, “seems headed for a breakdown,” according to an eyewitness who saw the star in Los Angeles last week. After all, who needs a team of psychiatrists performing weeks of studies, when an untrained paparazzi can see a patient from across the street and reach a diagnosis of mental capacity?The Globe magazine uses its team of eyewitness citizen medics to determine that Angela Lansbury “could be facing the end” after seeing the 90-year-old actress walking in the street. “Her age is showing, for sure,” says the observer, using their psychic powers to determine: “It looked as if she was having a heart attack.”It’s another fact-challenged week in the wishful-thinking tabloids. The hardest working man in the rock ’n’ roll graveyard, James Brown, “was murdered” by poison, the singer’s son Daryl Brown reportedly tells the Globe, based on the irrefutable logic that: “It just seems strange to me that everybody said he was fine, and then all of a sudden he was dead.” Yep, that definitely sounds like poison.The “bathtub murders” of singer Whitney Houston and daughter Bobbi Kristina “are related,” claims the Enquirer, elevating both deaths to the certitude of murder and noting that the demise of both involved drugs, a bathtub, and Bobbi Kristina’s boyfriend Nick Gordon, “who was either near or at both death scenes.” Bad timing, yes, but by the same logic you’d have to consider Ted Kennedy a suspect in the deaths of JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne . . . okay, scratch that last one.People magazine goes back to the future with its cover on O.J. Simpson’s slain ex-wife, promising “shocking new details” and “justice for Nicole.” Those shocking new details? Despite Nicole being portrayed during O.J.’s trial as as a drug- and alcohol-loving party girl, People tells us: “She was actually a homebody . . . she loved hanging out with the kids.” I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you.Us magazine trumps the tabloids with its cover story by wannabe First Lady Melania Trump: “The Donald Only I Know.” But either she barely knows The Donald or she’s not telling, because the interview reveals next to nothing. What do they disagree on? “I will keep it private,” she says. What suggestions has she made for his campaign? “I give him my ideas.” Anything she can share? “No, I will not.” Politics? “I don’t discuss politics.” What about Michelle Obama? “I don’t want to talk about that.”Melania admits: “He’s on the road a lot and not home much.” Well, that could explain why “The Donald Only I Know” is pretty much a blank slate.Fortunately, Us mag’s crack team of reporters tells us that Amber Heard wore it best, DJ Khaled’s favorite animal is a lion “because I am a lion,” actress Lisa Edelstein carries scripts, a thermos of hot tea and headphones in her faux leather purse, and the stars are just like us: they bargain shop, they cruise the streets on bikes, they walk their pets, and focus on their cell phones.And everywhere they go, the stars can take comfort in knowing that their medical health is being continually assessed by trained teams of psychic paparazzi.Onwards and downwards . . .

The Super PAC has $417,250 to spend on the upcoming election. $400K of that came from Robert Mercer, a white billionaire hedge-fund titan who is the major funder of the Ted Cruz campaign. (more…)

The photos went as part of the deal that sold Corbis Entertainment's licensing arm to Visual China Group. (more…)

It just struck me that Donald Trump is a walking mashup of The Imperial March and Yakity Sax.

A delightful and simple illusion. (DaveHax)

Matt Ridley, author of The Red Queen and a Conservative member of the House of Lords, reflects on Richard Dawkins' groundbreaking book about evolution, The Selfish Gene, which was published 30 years ago.From Nature:

Josh Jones of Open Culture says, "Of all the archives I’ve surveyed, used in my own research, and presented to Open Culture readers, none has seemed to me vaster than Europeana Collections, a portal of '48,796,394 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across Europe,' sourced from well over 100 institutions such as The European Library, Europhoto, the National Library of Finland, University College Dublin, Museo Galileo, and many, many more, including contributions from the public at large."Image: Museu Nacional D'Art De Catalunya CC BY-NC-ND

This is a kinkajou, or "honey bear," a mammal who usually calls the Central and South American rainforests its home. That's far from Miami, Florida, where one scared the hell out of a 99-year-old woman who woke up to find it sleeping on her chest. The animal ran off into the attic where her son-in-law was able to lure it into a cage. He brought it to the South Dade Avian & Exotic Animal Medical Center where veterinarian Don J. Harris identified it.“I don’t know, I guess her first impression was it might be a cat, but when they both got a look at each other, they both freaked out," Harris said.According to the Miami Herald, the kinkajou's owner has been found.

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Meteorologist Cedric Haynes of East Texas station KLTV tweeted this amazing video recorded by a surveillance cam at Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in Tyler, Texas.

Michael Moore, perhaps Flint, MI's most famous son, has written an open letter to people who are heartsick at the thought of a whole generation of mostly poor, mostly black children being given permanent brain damage through lead poisoning, thanks to the deliberate indifference of the state's Republican administration and the greedy people who elected them. (more…)

Netflix ordered 26 episodes of a new Hasbro-produced cartoon starring Stretch Armstrong, the iconic 1970s action figure whose rubbery body could be pulled and stretched until its skin inevitable tore or was punctured and the gross gel filling dripped out. I hope they do battle with the evil Stretch Monster! (Original TV commercial below.)From Variety:

You may have noticed a surge of articles criticizing the Federal Trade Commission for its innovation-stifling, headline-chasing, out-of-control attacks on business. The timing of these articles, op-eds and jeremiads isn't an accident. (more…)

Mr. Homegrown shows how to make a cat scratching post from some rope and lumber. He writes, 'I’m so satisfied with the results that I’m thinking about creating a integrated cat scratcher/USB charging station/cat perch using a twisty tree branch. I know, that sounds like a bad idea, but as Marshall McLuhan once said, “If you don’t like that idea I’ve got others.'"

Back in 2002, artists at England's Plymouth University teamed up with Paignton Zoo to see if monkeys could write Shakespeare. (more…)

Open letters from the mayors of 15 Florida cities and towns to Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush urge both would-be presential candidates to acknowledge the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and to take urgent action to remediate it. (more…)

Univision, a hugely successful Spanish language broadcaster, bought humor newspaper/site The Onion two weeks ago, and in so doing, transferred control over a site that has produced scathing comedy at Hillary Clinton's expense to Haim Saban, millionaire financier and Democratic power-broker, who calls Clinton "pristine plus" and "great for the country and great for the world." (more…)

Anil Dash writes that a cynical blogger in-joke—"never read the comments"—has become a "bad habit," an excuse for giving free rein to abusive conduct.

Four production assistants are suing Paramount because they say the studio did not pay them minimum wage, forced them to work "round-the-clock," and didn't provide a toilet during the shooting of big budget movies like Wolf of Wall Street, so they had to use bottles instead.From Los Angeles Times:

The anchor chain of the MV Tatoosh, the 43d largest yacht in the world, destroyed 14,000 square feet worth of reef in the Caymans' West Bay replenishment zone, wiping out more than 80% of the reef. (more…)

John Brownlee interviews Chris Costello, the type designer behind Papyrus, described as "that font comedians move onto when their Comic Sans jokebook gets a little dog-eared."

You may remember this outfit from recent videos exhibiting a high internet virality coefficient. It's available for purchase at Amazon—we'll get a cut if you use that link—and at BuyCostumes. There will be many on eBay in a few weeks, but by then it will be too late.There's a kids' size one, too.

Ammon Bundy, the leader of the armed occupation of a Federal wildlife reserve in Oregon, has told the rest of them to leave it following his arrest.

Polygraph and Billboard's HOT RAP SONGS" CHART (1989 - 2015) is a perfect visualization (and audiolization) of how music drifts in and out of the public consciousness, using a generation-worth of rap hits as the raw material.

See sample pages of The Only Child at Wink.The Only Child portrays a lonely tot who becomes lost in a winter landscape. While her parents scour the city and surrounding countryside, the child scampers in snow, clouds, and seas with a mystical buck. This only child left the safety of home to visit Grandma; thankfully, the deer protects the child while guiding their journey. The discoveries made by the pair show how important companions are in life.The book is illustrated in soft charcoal and chalk pastels, some images filling small boxes, others covering a full page. By using charcoal and pastel, images feel gentle and dreamlike, especially in the fantasy scenes. In contrast, artist Guojing’s urban settings have sharper lines and a gritty texture. In each image, the reader feels the child’s loneliness through the absence of color, the blank snow surrounding the child’s adventure, and the utterly silent text. I felt truly lonely reading the book, scanning the tot’s face and accompanying landscape. I saw that the new companions – the buck, a polar bear cub, and a blue whale – must be temporary, for they do not exist in the ordinary world of adults. I heard the longings for friends and family, as each page tugged me toward the next in hopes of being embraced by Grandma and Mom and Dad.The Only Child whispers of loneliness, dreams, friendship, family, and adventure. The book reverberates with the timeless yearnings we all have, drawing the reader into the story with its familiar emotions and contrasting world of fantasy. Both young and old alike will enjoy the tale, especially when shared with a much-loved companion.– Lora Poser-BrownThe Only Child

Gus writes, "How does the Internet cross the ocean? Ask a random person and they will probably guess 'satellites' — it just seems easier than wires, right?" (more…)

Well, that epidemic didn't take long to start scaring the crap out of America.The first confirmed case of the Zika virus in Los Angeles County was reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control today.Separately, cases have been confirmed over the past 48 hours by state agencies in Virginia and Minnesota.No known transmissions of Zika have taken place inside the US. The virus isn't contagious between humans but is spread by mosquitoes. These 3 new U.S. victims are said to have acquired Zika abroad.(more…)

“We all need the D. Even me!” Yes we do, honey. Yes we do.(more…)