It would be pretty scary to see what he does to a pumpkin spice latte.

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The job-posting has expired, so presumably The Walt Disney Company found an enthusiastic team player with "superior writing and research skills" and "effective use of the open source and the internet resources" with international experience and a BA in International Relations, Political Science, Global Security Studies, National Security or Regional/Cultural/Area Studies. (more…)

The Naval Academy is digging sextants out of their storage spaces and asking the Merchant Marine Academy (which never stopped teaching celestial navigation) and training its students in celestial navigation so that the ships will still be able to find their way after their adversaries infect the GPS system with malware. (more…)

The tiny board, made from fossil ivory and ebony, flips up on wincy hinges to reveal 32 minuscule chess pieces. The ring itself is sterling silver, and there's only one of them, made by Arduosity, who notes "I can tell you it is impossible, near imposible to set up."

“The Singing and Rotating Birthday Candle” in this suddenly very popular video is only $3 on Amazon.(more…)

"Hollywood Home Movies: Disneyland" screens tomorrow night at the Linwood Dunn Theater in LA and it's sold out. It sounds amazing. (more…)

Despite his grandiose claims to having served as "an outside paramilitary special operations officer" for the CIA from 1973 to 2000, Wayne Simmons was really a shlub who'd once done a brief military intelligence stint. (more…)

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https://youtu.be/VY_GrAgvF2wIn what looks like a deleted scene from A Clockwork Orange, a leering droog pushed an elderly fisherman into a pond while his sociopathic pal recorded it and laughed, "It's funny innit?" The pusher, Brendan Cleary (45), received a suspended sentence, though he was jailed for 12 weeks and ordered to pay £150 compensation. He is probably not very popular in Hillfields now that the video has been seen by many people there and around the world.The videographer remains at large.[via]

The Public Domain Review came across a 19th century book called Die Heilgymnastik in der Gynaekologie.

Hobo Nickels are bas relief carvings of coins, and were especially popular during the great depression, when people sold them as novelties.From Wikipedia:

The Intercept's Dan Froomkin played turd-in-the-punchbowl at outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder's victory lap party at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press reception on Wednesday, asking why Holder had declined to put one single banker in jail for the monumental frauds that collapsed the world's economy in 2007-9. (more…)

This is the eye of a honey bee peppered with dandelion pollen, magnified at 120x.The image, by Ralph Grimm, won Nikon's Small World 2015 Photomicrography Competition.“In a way I feel as though this gives us a glimpse of the world through the eye of a bee,” says Grimm. “It’s a subject of great sculptural beauty, but also a warning- that we should stay connected to our planet, listen to the little creatures like bees, and find a way to protect the earth that we all call home.”Below, the second, third, fourth, and fifth place winners.Kristen Earle, Gabriel Billings, KC Huang & Justin Sonnenburg's "Mouse colon colonized with human microbiota (63x):"Dr. Igor Siwanowicz's "Intake of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba), a freshwater carnivorous plant (100x):"Daniel H. Miller & Ethan S. Sokol's "Lab-grown human mammary gland organoid (100x):"Dr. Giorgio Seano & Dr. Rakesh J. Jain's "Live imaging of perfused vasculature in a mouse brain with glioblastoma:"

Artist Amy Crehore came across this odd 1810 illustration after searching Wikimedia for "Females with pink dresses in art."

See sample pages at Wink.There's no way the words “I’m bored” will be uttered in a house that has the Unbored series on hand. Unbored: Adventure is the third action-inducing book by Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen that inspires fun, innovation, and yes, real adventures. Split into four chapters (Adventure-ize, Adventures Close to Home, Urban Adventure, and Nature Adventure), these boredom-bashing pages show you how to make and hide a time capsule, build a kite, make a solar oven out of a pizza box, play after-dark outdoor games, “train your grownup” to let you climb a tree, learn survival science like purifying stream water with a bowl, plastic wrap and the sun, and loads more. There’s something wholesomely retro about Unbored, with its mostly outdoor projects, experiments, games, and old-fashioned fun. For more unboredness, make sure to check out the Unbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun and Unbored: Games.Unbored Adventure: 70 Seriously Fun Activities for Kids and Families

If Jurassic World was released in 1978, this would have been the trailer. (ChiefBrodyRules)

When the food riots come and the ocean waves are pounding against the Chrysler and TransAmerica buildings, where will the rich people be? Inside their spacious disaster bunker, eating gourmet meals and playing board games with other 0.01 percenters.From Core 77:

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First things first: if you want to break into the world of gaming, it’s essential to master Unity 3D, the premier development tool for mobile and web-based games. This course will have you knee deep in Unity 3D and C#, as you build you own real indie games from scratch along with the instructor. As you move from lesson to lesson, you will continue to build upon your skills in order to complete production-ready games by course’s end. Tap into a lucrative market of game-hungry web surfers willing to pay for you trade with this detailed course.

When Kiro'o Games first set out to raise money for its debut video game, the Cameroon-based company ran into an unusual problem: investors thought was a scam. "It was really hard to get funding," explains founder Olivier Madiba, partly because of negative stereotypes about African scammers. But if the idea of a Central African game studio seemed implausible, it's also because Kiro'o Games is doing something that simply hasn't been done before. They're the first game developer in the entire country, according to Madiba, and while they might be breaking ground, he says it's still "weird for Cameroonians to make video games."Maybe not for much longer. While some investors may have balked, the internet at large has proved more open-minded about opening their wallets; Kiro'o Games just successfully funded a $45,000 Kickstarter for Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan, a fantasy-themed action roleplaying game. Unlike most fantasy titles, where European lore and history serves as the backdrop, Madiba's game looks much closer to home for inspiration, drawing on African mythology and culture instead.The hero of Aurion is Enzo Kori-Odan, the prince of a fictional country called Zama. After his wedding day and coronation is interrupted by a coup, he must fight with his bride Erine to save their country and regain their throne. There are no dragons or elves here, and the hero's power originates not inside himself or a magical object, but rather in the collective energy of his ancestors, a force known as the Aurion.Like Africa itself, the world of Aurion is diverse and populated by numerous distinct cultures and ethnic groups. But the game isn't just inspired by African history—it actually imagines an entirely new history for the continent, one free of the imperialist aggressions that affected so many of its countries. Aurion's story takes place in a universe where Africa has "had 2,000 to 10,000 years to evolve without colonization," said Madiba. "We don’t just put African clothes on old and classic games. We really tried to put our own signature on it.https://youtu.be/N-llfbapv40Madiba grew up playing video games, and like a lot of kids in the late 1990s, he fell in love with the Japanese roleplaying game Final Fantasy VII. "I finished it six times," he tells me via email. After high school, he decided to study computer science at the University of Yaounde and soon, he wanted to make games of his own. Unfortunately, his classes didn't have much to offer about game development specifically and he didn't know anyone who could help him.So in 2003, he decided to declare his intentions to the world, and see what the world said back. He wrote an announcement that read, "I am searching for guys who want to make games," and plastered it throughout the streets of Yaounde. Like the skeptical investors he would encounter later, many people found it hard to believe. "Everyone thought it was a joke," says Madiba. The one exception was a young man named Wouafo Hughes, who saw the announcement and called him on the phone; an instant friendship was born. A year later Madiba met another aspiring game creator named Dominique Yakan, and the trio have now been working on Aurion—first as an amateur project and now as a professional one—for over a decade.It hasn't always been easy. Since Madiba founded Kiro'o Games in 2013 and assembled a team to develop the current version of Aurion, the company has had to deal with persistent power outages, which cut the electricity numerous times during their successful Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigns. ("We lost almost two months of work, maybe more," says Madiba.) But one of the biggest challenges facing the company is that there is simply no history or community of game development in Cameroon, and so they have to build one—socially and technologically—as they go."Making video games in Cameroon at this level is still completely new," says Madiba. "Here, there is no school to learn how to make them. You can learn designing or coding, but not oriented towards video games. So our team is completely made up of self-educated designers and coders, guided by their passion for video games. They were hard to find, but they all came because of interest of the project and the challenge it represents."Despite the lack of formal training available for making video games, Madiba says most young people in Cameroon are very interested in playing them. "For those who don't have consoles, they play at arcades, or in public game rooms with consoles," says Olivier. He also notes that they're starting to see more and more casual gamers, including people who transcend the stereotype of the young male gamer. "It is really weird to have your mother ask you to put [The Treasures of] Montezuma on her phone," he says.Madiba hopes that Kiro'o Games will help pave the way for a broader community of video game developers both in Cameroon and throughout the continent. "Many studios have been emerging these last few years," said Madiba. "We hope that this community grows and evolves together... That’s one of our greater and [more] exciting challenges: building a real entertainment empire [for] videogames and more in Africa."The Kickstarter campaign for Aurion ends on October 20, and the game is slated for release in April 2016.

"Sure to stand out at the next party," promises BigMouth Inc.'s advertising copy. "Fits most adult heads." Say hi to Patty The Poodle and her "remarkably detailed" faux fur and skin."Clean with soap and water," the product description helpfully adds.And here's Buck the German Shepherd, so popular that orders are backed up for a week.Barry the Boxer (right) is, to my eye, not so well-designed, but the unnamed mutt above from Kennel Klub has the look and the most enthusiastic marketing blurb, too.

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Maggie Goldenberger and her fourth- and fifth-grade pals used to amuse themselves by dressing up in weird clothes, doing crazy stuff to their hair, and posing for polaroids holding funny objects and making weird faces. Years later, Goldenberger uploaded some of her favorites to her Myspace and Facebook accounts, which led to Jeff Davis, who she didn't know, posting it to Reddit, where a Redditor called Plantlife ganked it and captioned it with "GERSBERMS. MAH FRAVRIT BERKS" -- and a meme was born. (more…)

Well, obviously, we need to get Congress to start imposing adult supervision on the NSA, but until that happens, there are some relatively simple steps you can take to protect yourself. (more…)

On November 9, 1965, a massive blackout impacted more than 30 million people over 80,000 square miles in the Northeast United States and parts of Canada. This is a live recording of the weirdness that Dan Ingram, a DJ on NYC radio station 77 WABC, experienced as the voltage drop slowly wreaked havoc on the audio system. From Wikipedia:

Dave writes: "Boing Boing has been nice enough to post my past yearly round-ups of terrible deeds done by Canada's Conservative Government. Here is the round-up of the round-ups. My summary of all of the bad things that have happened over the last four years. (more…)

In the United States we get a “Raptor Encounter” at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure in Orlando, where the beastie is kept in a paddock and limited in its interaction with visitors. He’s playful and sometimes snorts in a mildly scary way.In Japan, on the other hand, they get an Allosaurus stomping around onstage, terrorizing the audience, who bites a spectator’s head!Which do you want to see?Read the full Rocket News article.

I've been using my Montar smart phone mount when I drive, but it has been so blistering hot in Los Angeles lately that the sun's rays coming through the windshield are overheating the phone, causing it to shut itself down.I was given a Kenu Airframe+ Leather Edition car mount ($40 on Amazon) to try out. It clips onto a car's heating/aircon vent. Because I have the air conditioner blasting at all times, it keeps the phone cool. The phone feels a bit more wobbly than the Montar, but it has not yet bounced out of the Kenu's spring-loaded grip, so it's not a big deal. If the temperature ever drops below 90 degrees F again, I will probably switch back to the Montair, but for now, the Kenu is what I need.

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Jacques Hyzagi of The New York Observer has a long interview with cartoonist Robert Crumb. It's called "Robert Crumb Hates You." He's as cranky and fascinating as ever. The cover image was illustrated by the incredible Drew Friedman.

This video showcases the high level of cosplay sophistication on display at New York Comic-Con 2015. The thing that surprised me is that people are allowed to bring fake pistols. I know that they have the red tip, but still.

Mitch O'Connell has designed not just one, but two T-shirts depicting Donald Trump as one of the elitist alien creatures from John Carpenter's cult classic movie, They Live.

Michael from Muckrock writes, "Before rock legends KISS embarked on their 1980 'Unmasked' Tour of Europe, then FBI Director William H. Webster put out a request to field offices for information regarding instances of 'civil unrest' associated with the band's concerts, particularly an incident in Texas which escalated to open attacks on police. The field officers' response was unanimous - they had no idea what the Director was talking about. That and more details await in the FBI's files on KISS." (more…)

Elizabeth Dean's Etsy store has these great, $12 Star Trek: TOS hand-towels in Science Blue, Command Yellow and, of course, Expendable Security Red (also available in TNG). (more…)

And now a word from my pal Dave Pell, managing editor of the Internet and author of the essential daily read NextDraft, who urges us to vote for 826 Valencia in the Google Impact Challenge:

A couple of weeks ago Adam Savage made a screaming rubber bird bomb. Now he has made an even bigger, more awesome, screaming rubber bird bomb.

In the pending Canadian federal election, Matt Masters Burgener is running against the incumbent war-criminal, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He conceived of a spectacular campaign ad that plays on the idea that he's a longshot (more…)

An excellent essay by Penn law prof Jeffrey Vagle describes how the deployment of really easy-to-use, good crypto by Google and Apple is a game-changing shift in the ability of ordinary people to be secure from snooping by crooks, spies (and yes, cops), but how that isn't enough, by a long stretch. (more…)

When security-researcher/hornet-nest-kicker Brian Krebs outed Sergey "Flycracker" Vovnenko as administrator of a darknet crime site and botmaster of a 13,000-PC-strong botnet used to attack sites and launder stolen data, Vovnenko allegedly masterminded a plot to frame Krebs by mailing him heroin. (more…)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a 1981 collection of creeptastic tales for kids penned by Alvin Schwartz and originally (and fantastically) illustrated by Stephen Gammell. It was also widely challenged at public libraries around the country and even banned at many school libraries. Why were they so controversial and what was their allure for a generation? Filmmakers Cody Merck and David Thomas investigate in their forthcoming documentary Scary Tales.You can still find all three volumes of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" with Gammell's illustrations at used bookstores and Amazon.

Ever dreamt of making your own robot? Now you can. Arduino, a microcontroller board, reads sensors in order to control motors, lights, and more. This bundle gives you the tools and training you need to master Arduino, so you can build awesome electronic devices that interact with their environment.Here is what's included in the bundle:1ARDX Arduino Starter Kit$69.90 Value2Arduino Step-by-Step 'Your Guide to the Internet of Things' Course$200 Value3Arduino 'Make a Remote-Controlled Car' Course$150 Value4Beginning Arduino 'Make Your Own Environment Monitor System' Course$100 ValueSave 85% on the Complete Arduino Starter Kit & Course Bundle in the Boing Boing Store.

This year in America, people are being shot by toddlers on a weekly basis. Check out this infographic on 2015 U.S. shooting stats, from the Washington Post's grim data-crunchers.From The Washington Post's Wonkblog:

8-Bit Cinema's vision of Mad Max: Fury Road as a vintage Sunset Riders-style side-scroller looks like possibly the greatest game ever. It's a good thing that this wasn't a) real b) 25 years ago, or I'd have taken ten years to get out of high-school instead of seven.Mad Max: Fury Road - 8 Bit Cinema(via Kotaku)

This really is a distillation of the discussions I have with my daughter. Every. Single. Day. If it wasn't so funny, I'd be weeping. (more…)

Over the years, when most patients have first met psychiatrist Michael I. Bennett, they have tended to believe they would soon to get to know a trusted confidant who would sit quietly, listen intently, and eventually deliver something he says is scientifically impossible: a way to make all their bad feelings go away.“I’d say, ‘Well, what’s your goal with this problem?’ explains Bennett. “And they would say, ‘Of course, it’s to feel better. It’s to improve it. It’s to solve it,’ and I’d be essentially saying, ‘Fuck that! That’s not going to happen.'”Download – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS – SoundcloudThis episode is brought to you by The Great Courses. Get 80 percent off Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior presented by Professor Mark Leary along with many other fantastic lecture series by visiting this link and ordering today!This episode is sponsored by Wealthfront, the automated investment

See sample pages from this book at Wink.EON Productions was founded in 1961 by Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and Harry Saltzman for the express purpose of turning Ian Fleming’s novels about a ruthless, womanizing Secret Intelligence Service officer named James Bond into movies. EON has produced 24 Bond movies to date (quite a feat, since Fleming himself wrote a total of twelve Bond novels and two short story collections).These two books are a deep dive into EON’s James Bond archives. Bond by Design was written by Meg Simmonds, EON’s archivist, and is a breathtaking collection of location sketches, plans for villains’ lairs, outrageous vehicles, exotic costumes, and, my favorite, the dual-purpose gadgets used by agent 007, such as a thermos/grenade, a briefcase/sniper rifle, and the fantastic gadget-filled Aston Martin D85 from Goldfinger.James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters is loaded with movie posters from all over the world. Paging through the book, it becomes clear that James Bond was and is as globally famous as Mickey Mouse (and a heck of a lot more sauve). It also contains many never-before-seen concept sketches for posters, making it a must-have for any serious Bondophile.After going through these books, I’m ready to watch the Bond oeuvre again. If you are new to Bond I recommend starting with Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. (Skip the 1967 version of Casino Royale, Octopussy, and the Man with the Golden Gun – they stink!)James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters

I thought a Viewmaster Viewer would be a funny joke on my daughter, as she was complaining about a lack of screen time. Now I'm hunting for vintage reels on eBay.You're likely familiar with the current trend in parenting, where we decide our kids spend too much time staring at screens. I don't get it, I remember waking up at 6am to watch TV, and buying radios that'd let me secretively listen to David Letterman, long after my bed time. TV built my imagination up! Regardless, I had taken the iPad away from some reason and tossed Hannah my Viewmaster, long dormant in a curio cabinet, as a joke.She asked what it was and I took out the very few reels I still had. With a satisfying Ka-CHUNK, we were off. Looking at a faded photos of Disneyland in the late 60s or early 70s, we had a fascinating discussion about the pros and cons of change. Did I miss the Disneyland I remember as a kid, or do I like the one we visit now?"Are there new reels?" she asked. Amazon certainly has a lot to offer us. Minions, Star Wars and Hello Kitty were instant, popular additions to what is now "our" collection. I wanted to find more of the reels I'd have seen, as a kid; nostalgia has a way of taking me over. I turned to the internet's great flea market, eBay.eBay has a ton of great stuff. Disney collections, Thundercats, and lots of amazing tourist relics from places like Yosemite or Yellowstone. I'm having a wonderful time collecting these.Viewmaster collecting reminds me a quite bit of Brian May's collections of stereoscopes.Viewers and contemporary reels are readily available cheaply on Amazon.