(more…)

1.4 million people in Puerto Rico lost power yesterday in an outage that lasted for a day and left part of the island without power even after service was mainly restored. (more…)

Oakland, California-based stop motion/GIF artist Headexplodie (aka Annie Wong) thinks that society is overreacting to menstruation, an ordinary biological process that affects half our population. That's why she created "Ovary Actions" (get it...? Overreactions = Ovary Actions), an ongoing series of lovely animated gifs based on period euphemisms. She's hoping they'll take some of the stigma out of "that time of the month."She writes:

Drummer Jason Barnes, who only has one arm, has been collaborating with engineer Gil Weinberg of Georgia Tech's Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines to develop a cyborg arm that enables Barnes not only to play his kit again, but to "play at speeds not humanly possible... and play strange polyrhythms that no human can play." Weinberg and Barnes have now launched a Kickstarter to build another prosthetic cyborg arm that Barnes can take on the road. From IEEE Spectrum:

Tesla was extremely upset to learn that the employees who'd been injured and maimed in its factories spoke to Reveal News about the unsafe working conditions and culture of cover-ups at the Tesla plants. (more…)

Mr. Friendly is a waterless public urinal that integrates a video screen to show you ads while you pee. This is just begging for "gamification." From the Dutch manufacturer:

Photographer Pelle Cass takes dozens of photographs of the same location and then combines the people into a single image. His photos of sporting events make the games look much more fun! From Cass's artist statement:

Cincinnati police are looking for a woman caught on video stealing a live Menelaus blue morpho butterfly from a special exhibit at Krohn Conservatory. From WCPO:

Where is Facebook located? Well, if you're the taxman, Facebook's global HQ is a tiny shed somewhere in Ireland, where Facebook can escape virtually all taxation; but on the other hand, if you're the EU, Facebook is headquartered in America, where the General Data Protection Regulation doesn't apply. (more…)

"Jell-O by the Sea" by home cook Kate FulbrightThree (m)old friends -- Kate Medley, Emily Wallace & Kate Elia of North Carolina -- have a long-standing relationship with Jell-O and its molds. So, they recently got folks together to create gelatin masterpieces for "O Moldy Night," their pop-up museum celebrating molded food.They write:

Heath Knuckles created this beautiful burl and resin sculpture he names "Red Dawn." A very satisfying and relaxing video, in large part thanks to the great music choices. (more…)

YouTuber euverus modded Cities: Skylines to demonstrate how 30 different types of intersections have dramatically different amounts of traffic flow. A four-way intersection with no traffic lights gets a flow of 191 vehicles per minute, where a stack interchange can handle 1099 vehicles in the same time frame.The mods used, Traffic Manager: President Edition and Network Extensions 2, are both available for free on Steam.The big surprise for me was the roundabout, because we rarely have them in the Midwest or the West Coast. They seemed like a lot of extra space needed for an incremental benefit, but it appears they can be more efficient and safer, even weird ones.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo• Traffic flow measured on 30 different 4-way junctions (YouTube / euverus)

Rick Astley is getting around lately. We recently saw him on a Canadian morning show for a live, in-person rickroll. Now he's singing his 1987 hit song, "Never Gonna Give You Up," with Choir! Choir! Choir! in Toronto.Here's what Choir! Choir! Choir! wrote about it:

Sculptor Fred Eerdekens created aluminum and copper works that look like abstract squiggles until lit from the right angle. When lit just right, each spells out a word. (more…)

Since 1847, non-discerning Americans have been eating slices of flavored chalk branded as NECCO wafers. With the company possibly closing soon, they're panic buying the inedible grim-tasting "candy" to torture one last round of guests or trick-or-treaters with their terrible taste in candy. (more…)

Russia tried to get the creators of the private messaging service Telegram to create a back-door so its cops could spy on Telegram users; Telegram refused and Russia banned Telegram in retaliation. (more…)

In 1968, the Supremes ruled in Terry v. Ohio that the police did not need "probable cause" to stop a person, it was sufficient that they have "reasonable suspicion." (more…)

Is a seismic shift underway at the Trump-loving supermarket tabloids?For the past two years American Media Inc’s National Enquirer and Globe magazines have slavishly served as Trump’s attack dogs, unwavering defenders and unofficial mouthpieces for the White House. Trump, good friends with AMI publisher David Pecker, has suggested that the Enquirer deserves a Pulitzer Prize, and AMI returned the love by buying off the president’s alleged mistress and a source claiming a Trump extra-marital pregnancy, and killing their stories in the run-up to the 2016 election.Which makes this week’s Globe all the more remarkable, as it devotes its cover story to Trump’s alleged mistresses in a story that does not even attempt to challenge their claims, let alone denounce the women as liars and con-jobs, as Trump has previously done.Trump’s special relationship with AMI suggests that this story has his blessing, and it’s positioned as a slap in the face – and perhaps, as a warning – to his long-suffering First Lady.“Humiliated Melania!” screams the cover, above the teaser: “Shocking reason she’ll NEVER divorce Trump!”The answer is so far from shocking, it’s banal: “Trump’s third wife will swallow her pride and endure public humiliation for the sake of their 12-year-old son, Barron.” What’s surprising, however, is the rag’s blithe acceptance of Trump’s long-contested affairs. “Melania wasn’t blindsided by the billionaire politician’s womanizing ways,” claims the Globe, which adds that Trump’s reported affairs with porn star Stormy Daniels and a Playboy pinup did “not surprise” Melania. “This is not anything she didn’t know beforehand.”And the Globe goes further, citing 19 women who accused Trump of “unwanted sexual advances” and “at least five women” who claim to have been lovers or sex assault victims of Trump since his marriage to Melania. The rag also quotes Ronald Kessler, author of a book critical of Trump, reportedly claiming that “Melania knew Trump was a two-timer from their very first meeting.”Yes, it’s what every other news outlet worth its name has been saying for more than a year, but the Globe and Enquirer have never suggested for a moment that the allegations could be true, serving as a virtual White House Press Office for those whose journalistic tastes run the gamut from A to B.This is akin to Trump telling Melania: “You knew what you were getting into, I’m too sexy for my shirt, so shut up and don’t complain!” Sadly, this sudden intrusion of reality in the tabloids is a momentary aberration, as they revert to their trademark flights of imagination in other coverage.O.J. Simpson’s son Jason watched his father murder Nicole Brown, claims the Enquirer, quoting O.J.’s friend Thomas Scott, who conveniently died last month and can’t contradict the allegation.“Angelina’s Fury as Brad Builds Hot New Romance!” is another Enquirer fever dream, which claims that Pitt’s ex-wife Jolie is fuming that he is dating an MIT professor. But the story fails to live up to its promise, and the closest they can come to Jolie’s outrage is an unnamed insider claiming: “Brad’s team is extremely concerned how Angie will react now that he’s openly seeing another woman…” So it’s not even Pitt who’s worried, and “Angie's Fury” is non-existent.The Enquirer also claims a “JFK Conspiracy Bombshell” involving Lee Harvey Oswald, presenting “evidence to substantiate the irrefutable connection between Oswald and a murder conspiracy rooted in rogue elements of the CIA!”This word “irrefutable,” it does not mean what you think it means. The rag revives information released from FBI files in 1975, which purported to show that Oswald tried to make a jailhouse phone call to a number in Raleigh, N.C., later identified as John Hurt, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence agent. But Hurt was questioned by the FBI at the time, and denied any contact or connection with Oswald, whose call was never put through by the operator. Yet the Globe now claims that because Oswald tried to phone a former military intelligence officer, he must have been linked to the CIA. Presumably, had Oswald tried phoning the White House, that would be “irrefutable” evidence that it was a government conspiracy. Or if Oswald had tried calling Universal Studios, it would be irrefutable proof that Doris Day and Rock Hudson were the other shooters on the grassy knoll.The Globe claims that country singer Kenny Rogers is “battling killer bladder cancer” because he has cancelled a tour for health reasons, that lifestyle maven Martha Stewart has gained 34 pounds (not 33 pounds, not 35 – precisely 34 pounds) and is “eating herself to death,” and that Prince Charles is a “terrible tyrant” and a “petulant, self-pitying jerk” according to unnamed “palace insiders.” All without any more evidence that hearsay, wishful thinking, and the power of an impressively accurate team of amusement park midway "Guess Your Weight" barkers.Royalty, British and American, also preoccupy the celebrity mags this week. Us promises on its cover to spill “All The Top Secret ‘I Do’ Details” of Prince Harry’s coming wedding to Meghan Markle, only to disappoint with such tedious details as the bride preparing more than one wedding gown, and both bride and groom planning to exchange his ’n’ her rings. Us also gives copious column inches to American pop culture princess Khloe Kardashian, with People magazine devoting four pages to “her shocking betrayal” by NBA star-boyfriend Tristan Thompson. “Will she stay with Tristan?” asks its cover. The answer won’t surprise you: People magazine doesn’t have a clue.People celebrates its annual "Beautiful Issue 2018” with singer Pink as its cover girl revealing: “How I’m Raising Strong Kids.” Apparently she makes them work out in the gym two hours daily and trains them for triathlons on weekends. No – I’m kidding. There’s little in the interview to suggest that she’s actually raising strong kids, physically or mentally. “There’s not really a style or a philosophy,” she says of her parenting. “I tell my daughter the truth. I let her be 6, but I want her to know about fairness and kindness and that you have to fight for your rights.”People naturally goes overboard on its “Beautiful Issue,” bringing us beautiful celebrities, beautiful people with makeup, beautiful people without makeup, beautiful moms, beautiful Real Housewives, beautiful stars’ dogs, beautiful stars’ friends, childhood photos of beautiful stars, even 50 ways to live beautifully, all designed to make you feel as ugly and inadequate as possible in your coffee-stained sweatpants and smudged mascara you forgot to take off last night.Fortunately we have the crack investigative team at Us magazine to tell us that Karlie Kloss wore it best, that TV host Willie Geist hates it “when the restaurant table is wobbly,” that ballerina Misty Copeland carries pointe shoes, an eyelash curler and Advil in her Louis Vuitton Neverfull bag, and that the stars are just like us: they sunbathe, sip water, and eat McDonalds (actually, that’s something you’ll never see me do. Ever. Because I’m not a star).Kudos to the National Enquirer for stretching credulity by reporting that "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin’s daughter Bindi is dating “the mirror image of her late father” simply because her boyfriend was seen wearing khaki shorts and shirt, and also reporting that Drew Barrymore’s “look-alike niece” (who looks nothing like her) is a stripper. Best of all, the Enquirer calls Barrymore’s niece a “heavily tattooed tootsie.” Which strikes me as irrefutable evidence that the Enquirer has access to a time machine and is recruiting its reporting staff from the 1950s.Onwards and downwards . . . .

...I'm not sure! This October 1976 issue of Radio Models promises a "full-size Messerschmitt," too![via Pulp Librarian]

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a tiny Linux computer. Ever since they were announced last year for $5, they have been hard to get. But if you are willing to spend about $20, you can get one on Amazon. This Raspberry Pi Zero kit from Argon Forty is $18.50, and it also includes a Mini HDMI to HDMI adapter and a Micro USB OTG to USB Adapter, both of which I needed anyway, so it's a good deal. The Raspberry Pi Zero W is $2 more and comes with onboard Wi-Fi. You will also need a Micro SDHC flash memory card (here's a 16GB one for $7) If you are coming to Maker Faire this year, you can see what I made with it, I'll be presenting at 1pm on Sunday.

On Monday in Zimbabwe, thousands of nurses went on strike, demanding better salaries. The strike came hot on the heels of the country's doctors returning from their own weeks-long strike, which took place for similar reasons. With no nurses standing by to assist doctors or to see patients, hospitals in the African country have been forced to turn away people looking for care. Instead of negotiating with the nurses or passing legislation that would send them back to work, Zimbabwe’s vice-president, Constantino Chiwenga, apparently decided to fire them all.Because doing that always calms things down in a country that's facing growing labor unrest.According to The Guardian, vice-president Chiwenga believes that the strike actions undertaken by the country's doctors and nursing staff are politically motivated and stated that his "...Government has decided in the interest of patients and of saving lives to discharge all the striking nurses with immediate effect." Yep – ensuring that healthcare professions are never allowed to return to their jobs of you know, saving lives, is definitely gonna be in the best interest of any patients they might have treated.Chiwenga called the strike “deplorable and reprehensible," citing the fact that the government had released £12m to boost their pay and allowances. There's no word, however, on how much this amount would increase the state of each nurse's wages, or when the money would actually come into use.But don't worry Zimbabwe, there's good news! The government plans on hiring any unemployed or retired nurses that it can find to fill in the massive hole that your government just created in your country's healthcare system. So, it's totally cool.Chiwenga comes by his terrible ideas honestly enough. Up until November, he wasn't a politician, he was a career military officer who only came into political office after helping to force the country's long-time President, Robert Mugabe, out of office, this past November.It'll be interesting to see how Chiwenga's strong-armed bullshit plays out: in recent days, the country's teachers have also threatened to walk if they're not treated to an increase in pay.As for the ousted nurses, their union has "noted" Chiwenga blathering, but has opted to continue with their strike action.Image via Pexels

Join me, EFF attorney Kit Walsh and iFixit's Kyle Wiens -- along with special guests! -- in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session tomorrow (Thursday) from 11AM-3PM Pacific; we'll be talking about the upcoming Copyright Office hearings on creating exceptions to the DMCA to make room for independent repair and security research. We'll be live here at 11AM tomorrow! Pass it on. (more…)

In Canada, we're just months away from seeing the nationwide decriminalization of marijuana. There's still a ton of legislative junk to work out: the provinces and our Federal government, as well as a whack of NGOs still bickering over important points like how the cops should identify or handle impaired driving, how to use the tax money legalized cannabis will generate, and where – just as with cigarettes – it'll be cool to smoke the stuff. I know it'll all get squared away and, despite the fact that I've no taste for the stuff myself, I think that legalizing the drug will likely leave the country better off than it was when it was illegal.According to The Guardian, The Liberal Party of Canada, of which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau belongs to, is looking to table legislation that could decriminalize other illegal drugs as well. The Liberals will be discussing whether or not they'll adopt decriminalization as a party policy at a meeting on the country's east coast this week.The decriminalization of hard drugs like heroin and crack cocaine can go a long way towards harm reduction among addicts, decrease the spread of infectious disease and take a serious chunk of profits out of the black market. As The Guardian points out, "... Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdose deaths, HIV infection rates and drug-related crimes, while the number of drug users seeking treatment has increased."In Canada, we've been practicing harm reduction around narcotics use for years. In Vancouver, where I lived for close to a decade, injection drug use is rampant on the lower east side of the city. If you want to see what desperation, illness and need look like, all you need do is take a walk through that part of the city's downtown core. To attempt to provide a safe environment for addicts and other marginalized individuals, the city and a number of private interests offer low-barrier housing in the area. The hope is that by getting drug users off the streets and into a safe environment where they can shelter and, if they choose to do so, use narcotics, lives can be saved.Being in a safe place that users can call their own can also save lives: If the time comes where someone decides that they want to kick their habit, the housing's management staff are there to suggest next steps and assist their tenants in getting the help that they need. And that's not the end of it: Vancouver's also the home of a groundbreaking safe injection site. At Insite, drug users are provided with clean syringes, alcohol swabs, and all of the other gear they need to use their drug of choice in the safest manner possible. They can shoot up and stay at the facility as long as they like. Nurses stand by at Insite to offer advice on healthcare, safe injection strategies, getting into rehab and if need be, to intercede in the event of an overdose. It's a facility that has been saving lives and helping to stop the spread of infectious disease for years.I can't even begin to imagine how much good – or what challenges could arise, for that matter – from adopting a national standard for narcotics decriminalization. Should the Liberals adopt the policy that the drugs should be decriminalized, two of Canada's three major political parties will be of the same mind on the concept.Image via Flickr, courtesy of Alex Guibord

A few weeks back, a number of external hard drives full of state taxpayer information were poached from the offices of Florida's Department of Revenue. Why these drives full of sensitive data were left out in the open where anyone could walk with one is a question I'm betting there's a really entertaining answer to. Maybe we'll get to hear it someday. In the meantime, here we go: the drives have been recovered and the criminal mastermind behind the theft was a janitor that wanted more storage in which to download Xbox games.According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Florida man (of course) Andru Rae’sion Reed was cleaning the offices of the Florida Department of Revenue when he saw the hard drives and decided to take it upon himself to liberate them from the day-to-day drudgery of storing a whack of taxpayer information. As he took them to their new forever home, Reed promised the hard drives that they could spend their days chewing on game files while they were attached to his Xbox.On March 30, FDLE agents dropped by Reed's home to see how he was doing and see if he, I don't know, knew anything about the missing hard drives. Reed came clean on the fact that he did indeed have the drives, stating that he had no idea of what was on them. From what the FDLE has to say, it doesn't look like any of the taxpayer information on the drives was shared by Reed, but they're going to do a little more digital digging, just to make sure.Reed has been arrested on offenses against intellectual property and offenses against users of computer systems, both of which are third degree felonies.That's a tough beef for some fella that just wanted to get his game on.Image via pxhere

Fraudster Martin Shkreli will serve his seven year term at a federal prison in New Jersey instead of the minimum security camp he'd been hoping for. His new home is in the U.S. military base at Fort Dix, which he'll share with 3,945 other inmates.From CNBC:

Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would block a vote on legislation to stop Trump from firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Now that Trump has McConnell's blessing, Pittsburgh is getting ready to deal with riots that could break out if Trump acts on his urge.From The Week:

My first response to this story was "Unbelievable!" but unfortunately in America it's all too real, too frequent, and very believable.Tshyrad Oates says he has been a paying member of LA Fitness in Secaucus, NJ for at least eight years. But when he went to his gym earlier this week, the gym accused him of entering without paying. He showed them his membership card – twice, once to the manager and once to the expressionless clerk at the desk – and both times the computer showed that he was indeed a member of the gym. But that wasn't good enough. Police were called in.By the end of the video above (or the fourth video below), Oates is wondering why the gym is now terminating his membership. He says he doesn't know what he did. Even one of the police officers admits he has no idea why Oates is getting kicked out.The four videos below were taken by Oates' friend, who was with him at the gym. The gym manager told them they had to stop shooting the video, and even tried to get the police to make them stop with the camera, but the police admitted that it wasn't illegal to shoot a video.

Serenity Caldwell made a video about the iPad using her 2018 iPad and an Apple Pencil. Now I feel guilty for using my iPad mainly as a Netflix streamer.[via Doobybrain]

The National Restaurant Association privately commissioned GOP pollster Frank Luntz and his company LuntzGlobal to poll Americans on their support for raising the minimum wage, a policy they staunchly oppose; that poll has now leaked, and it reveals a nation that stands in solidarity with low-waged workers, with 71% of Americans supporting raising the minimum wage to at least $10, even if they have to pay higher prices as a result. (more…)

Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni doesn't want people to use their mouths in ways he does not approve, so he trying to ban oral sex. This is the same gentleman who made it a crime not to report people suspected of being gay. "“Let me take this opportunity to warn our people publicly about the wrong practices indulged in and promoted by some of the outsiders. The mouth is for eating, not for sex. We know the address of sex; we know where sex is.From The Week:

Don Cardy is a town councillor in Brant County, Ontario; on August 29, 2017, late at night, Cardy replied to a post in Arabic with a two-word post: "Fucking raghead." (more…)

This dog is even worse than my best buddy Nemo. My guy is too lazy to try and catch a snack, he lets it bounce off his big ol' head and then just takes it off the ground.

Brittany Kaiser is an ex-Cambridge Analytica employee who gave written testimony and answered questions at the UK Parliament this week in which she revealed that the Facebook apps that Cambridge Analytica used to covertly gain access to millions of users' data went far beyond the ones disclosed to date, and that the number of total users implicated is "much greater than 87 million." (more…)

I haven't read newspaper comics in years, and I was surprised that Nancy is still around. Yesterday's strip was about computational propaganda. I like the image of Sluggo as a bot and would like it in a T-shirt. The 123 comments on this particular strip are lively. Here are a couple of examples:

Competition in the job market is getting stiff, and while experience and a four-year degree can put you on the map, most employers prefer applicants versed in the tools that power their industry. To this end, certifying your skills with Salesforce is a smart move. The world’s #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform, Salesforce is used by companies in multiple industries for its cloud-based applications in sales, service, marketing, and more, and you can train to validate your skills with it via the Salesforce Trailblazer Bundle, on sale for $29.99.Featuring 65 hours of training across eight courses, this collection will guide you through the nuts and bolts of working with Salesforce and how to earn several certifications, including the Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant Certification and Salesforce Sales Cloud Consultant Certification. You'll start with the basics of Salesforce and cloud computing. Then, you'll move on to more nuanced skills, like managing accounts, analyzing reports, and even building apps on the Salesforce platform.The Salesforce Trailblazer Bundle is on sale today for $29.99 in the Boing Boing Store.

On Reddit, binary_bender charted the stimulant consumption of mathematician Paul Erdős against his professional output. The prolific professor wrote more than 1500 papers in his long, incredibly wired life: "Clearly Meth > Coffee." [via r/dataisbeautiful]For Erdős death was merely a cessation of input, it taking years for his momentum to subside.

Glitch is a simple and powerful open-source canvas for experimenting on the web—and after a year of beta testing, it's ready for artists and coders to get stuck in. If you want to make things online but get put off by complicated frameworks, the headache of server set up, and myriad incompatible platforms your work has to end up running on, Glitch might be for you.I tinkered with it for the first time last week, and within minutes had overcome hurdles that I thought I'd never have the time or energy to figure out.To a casual visitor, Glitch looks like YouTube, but for digital artwork and rudimentary games. You can even embed stuff there on your own site, just like video, though you have to click into the editing tools to get the snippets.Dig in, though, and it turns into a simple but powerful coding environment: one that can't be messed up, no matter how hard you try. For me, it seems to offer all the freewheeling instant gratification of the early web, but with modern tools and technology -- and the chance to collaborate with other people without having to teach them Git. The promise of just focusing on art or application code seems almost alien to the modern web, but here it is, all without having to be my own sysadmin, security expert and full-stack drudge.Best of all, you can take anything anyone's done, clone it, and tinker with it, and see the results change live: the best and fastest way to learn markup and scripting languages. There's even an undo button (which leads to a version control system, though I haven't played with it yet). When you're done, your work can be exported, ready to run anywhere else on the web.In five minutes, I was able to glitch up this psychedelic remix of the classic Mystify Your Mind screensaver, just by tinkering with an authentic replica created by Colin Mitchell.Anil Dash explains "What is Glitch?" in more detail; here's some cool Glitch apps and templates, embedded below. (more…)

The teachers' rebellion is a global phenomenon, and though it's been brewing for a long time, the public was a lot more skeptical of teachers' demands when they were striking in Democratic strongholds under a Democratic president. (more…)

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and much more.GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue” -Publishers Weekly) Book One here. Book Two here.More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

For years, we've been storing nuts, sugar, seeds, and other food items in wide mouth Ball jars and plastic lids. We also use them to store leftovers in the refrigerator. They're less expensive than most food storage options, and wide mouth ball jars are available in many different sizes but the lids work on any of them.

Clue the movie sported an amazing cast who were clearly having a ball with the film. Clue the board game was never very much fun.Riffing on the board game finale of declaring the murderer, location and weapon, the movie came with three alternate endings. Different theaters got different versions.The game never ended fast enough.

Flavio Lamenza, a user experience designer, collected 11 examples of malicious websites, apps, and other designs intended to deceiver users.Here's one:It's gross that Apple allows these kinds of apps in its store. My daughter was tricked by similar jerks and I had a hard time getting Apple to refund the $50 she accidentally spent.

This is a pretty amazing thing for a company as big as Starbucks to do. (more…)

Video, via KENS 5, shows a troop of baboons escaping from the the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, evidently the birth place of The Planet of the Apes. The damn dirty apes rolled a 55gal drum to the side of their enclosure, enabling them to briefly climb to freedom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqLlkgT-pgSurprisingly no one in this open carry state shot down the apes, instead some vertical cellphone video was captured.

Someone is selling this super cute 1958 Nash Metropolitan that runs on batteries for $12,500. It has a range of 45-55 miles. There's no room in the trunk because of all the batteries, but I am tempted to buy it.From Craigslist:

The similarities between this gorilla mama gently kissing and holding her baby and that of a human mama is striking.(more…)

NASA recently gave Lockheed Martin 247.5-million dollars to create a supersonic plane – without the supersonic boom.(more…)

South Wales Police announced they were able to access a WhatsApp user's photos through a backdoor, then extract fingerprint data from a picture of a weed dealer's hand to help convict 11 involved people. (more…)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqnPr470bhcIt's hard to sort Hazmat Modine into a neat musical category. They play the blues, but it's not like anything you've likely heard anywhere else. A lot of folks consider the tunes that the New York City musical collective churn out to be "world music." I think that's just a lazy way of saying that they do a little bit of everything. If you've heard the band's music in person or on any their albums, you'll know that they handle their kitchen sink of influences amazingly well: their work incorporates the best elements of African, Eastern European, Caribbean and American musical traditions: blues, reggae, jazz and Mongolian throat singing, they do it all. The result is a wash of emotional, often joyous sound that's hard not to like.The band's finished work on their fourth album, Box of Breathe. Well, it's mostly finished. The tracks have been recorded (I've heard them and they're fabulous!) but they still need to be mixed. Musicians and production personnel need to be paid. The album, in its physical form, still needs to be pressed. All this is expensive and, as good as Hazmat Modine is, their music isn't the sort of thing that you're likely to hear on top 10 radio these days. As such, the band has turned to crowdfunding in an effort to offset some of the expenses of getting their latest work out to where folks can hear it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1SZRkk_s1IOf course, there are fabulous prizes to be had. You know the game: depending on how much you're willing to throw at the project, you'll be able to enjoy perks like historic post cards picturing old New York City, a copy of their new album, the band's complete catalog, or even a private house concert. For that last one, you'd better have a big house: there are a lot of people in the band.If you love well-played, soulful music or appreciate artists who refuse to compromise on the quality of their work, costs be damned, drop by their crowdfunding page and, if you can spare a few bucks, contribute to the cause.Image courtesy of Hazmat Modine, used with permission.