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Maison Margiela, the fashion house who made those let's-make-this-awkward camel-toe pumps, debuted ankle iPhone holsters recently on the Couture Fashion Week runway. Maybe they were going for the modern version of these?https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk-e3E0nxRz/?taken-by=maisonmargielahttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bk0Eg4-nZPG/?utm_source=ig_embed(Geekologie)

Turkish media artist Refik Anadol has created Archive Dreaming, a new installation that makes viewers feel submerged within a massive electronic archive. (more…)

Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Ben Carson has asked for Congress's approval to hike rents on people living in federally subsidized housing, with a planned increase of more than 300%; he claims the rent hikes will incentivize public housing tenants to seek work. (more…)

Kevin De León has done the impossible: he flipped nearly every undecided vote on the California Democratic Party executive board to win the party's endorsement in the upcoming Senate race with 65% of the vote, defeating the incumbent, far-right Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who has a long track record of backing the finance industry, war, and mass surveillance -- who scored a mere 7% of the vote. (more…)

Summer's here, which brings not only warmer weather but also the unsettling realization that the year is more than halfway over. So, for those who weren't as productive as they would have liked during the first half of 2018, we've rounded up 5 skill course bundles you can start learning today to help you finish the year strong and with some employable knowledge under your belt. Read on for details:1. Back-end DevelopmentMSRP: $2,786Sale Price: $49 (98% off)While front-end developers focus on building the portion of the website viewers experience, back-end developers work behind the scenes, ensuring vital information makes it from the guts of the website to the front without issue—a critical role that commands high-level pay. This 14-course collection will get you familiar with SQL, Bootstrap, and the other tools these experts use to keep websites running.Get this deal >2. The Complete 2018 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle: Lifetime AccessMSRP: $4,329Sale Price: $59 (98% off)Virtually every sector needs IT professionals to keep their operations online, and they're willing to pay a hefty sum for their services. However, demand alone isn't quite enough to get your foot in the door to this field. This 12-course training will prepare you to ace a number of certification exams from CompTIA, so you can stand a head above the competition. Jump in, and you'll start developing skills in a host of different IT disciplines from cloud computing to cybersecurity.Get this deal >3. The Complete Adobe CC Training BundleMSRP: $673Sale Price: $29 (95% off)Whether you're an aspiring photographer, illustrator, or animator, you'll likely be using the Adobe Creative Cloud suite in your line of work. This 65-hour training covers the essentials of Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and a host of other key Adobe tools, so you can start producing your own content as a creative professional.Get this deal >4. The Complete Project Management BundleMSRP: $2,189Sale Price: $29 (98% off)Project management is undeniably one of the most versatile fields to break into, as virtually every company can use professionals skilled in cutting costs and boosting efficiency. Make your way through all 11 parts of this training, and you can join their ranks with knowledge in JIRA, Scrum, and other project management essentialsGet this deal >5. Videography BootcampMSRP: $1,728Sale Price: $39 (97% off)From the cinematography essentials to editing with Final Cut Pro, this 8-course collection can help you elevate your videography skills and work toward making your own creative projects. Plus, it even includes a course on drone videography, so you can learn how to integrate some stunning aerial shots into your own work.Get this deal >

Elon Musk, an avowed utopian anarchist, is one of the top fifty donors to the Republican Protect the House PAC, having funneled $38,900 to support the group's mission of protecting Republican Congressional seats. (more…)

A now-fixed bug in Ios caused Chinese-localized Iphones to reboot any time the user tried to enter the character combination for a Taiwanese flag or the word "Taiwan"; the bug was caused by Apple's China-only censorship and surveillance software. (more…)

The "next billion" are the holy grail of tech and mobile companies -- the next billion users to come online, from the poor world, whose preferences and norms regarding technology have yet to be formed. (more…)

Wage stagnation in the USA has many causes: both the destruction of trade unions and the erosion of labor protections in the law (these two things are connected) are obvious culprits, and do much to explain how real wages could be falling even as unemployment has gone down. (more…)

It's good to be proactive, but when it comes to preparing for an emergency situation, one of the most important items you can pack is a flashlight. After all, whatever else you include in your kit won't be of much use if you can't see what you're doing. The Viper 1000-Lumen Tactical Flashlights not only keep your surroundings illuminated when disaster strikes, but they're also designed to help bail you out of a dangerous situation. Two-packs are available in the Boing Boing Store for $29.99.Engineered with a titanium alloy shell and tactical breaker tip, the Viper 1000-Lumen Tactical Flashlights excel at smashing glass or even fending off violent threats. They're small enough to stash inside your car's glove box or under your seat, making them handy for shattering a window if you find yourself in an accident and need to escape from your vehicle. They're also designed to be shockproof, weatherproof, and rated to shine for up to 100,000 hours before you need to replace the bulb.Two packs of the Viper 1000-Lumen Tactical Flashlights are available in the Boing Boing Store for $29.99.

Chances are you took a handful of language classes in high school, and aside from a smattering of conjugations and vocabulary words, the only things you likely remember are the dry, rehearsed sentences that did little to make you speak like a true native. If you're still hoping to learn a new language but want to take an approach that will make you sound more authentic, Mondly's AI-powered curriculum might just do the trick. Lifetime subscriptions are available for $69.99.Using state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, Mondly knows how to listen to your words and phrases and only gives positive feedback if you speak clearly and correctly, giving you just the right amount of difficulty to make sure you communicate like an actual native speaker. Mondly also includes a dictionary and verb conjugator to aid you in your education and lets you learn your new language in your native tongue—even if it's not English.Lifetime subscriptions to Mondly are available in the Boing Boing Store for $69.99.

It’s raining military secrets! Earlier this week, it was revealed that a group of hackers got their meathooks on an operator manual for the United States military’s MQ-9 Reaper UAV. The manual was fair game: a U.S. Air Force captain had it stashed away on his under-protected home network—you know, as one does with sensitive documents that could fuck with national security. My guess is that the captain wasn’t aware of the case against military contractor Jared Sparks. The company Sparks was employed by was developing an underwater drone for the U.S. Navy. While he was drawing a paycheck from them Sparks decided it’d be cool to upload scads of documents that detailed trade secrets to his personal Dropbox account.The Navy, Sparks’ former employers and the U.S. Department of Justice? They weren’t really comfortable with that. Today, the Department of Justice announced that a federal jury has found Sparks guilty of multiple counts of the theft and of uploading of trade secrets, with each count carrying a penalty that could land Sparks in the clink for a decade.From Gizmodo:

Did you know a baby peacock is called a peachick? I didn't until I started writing this post up. I'm not even sure I had ever even seen a baby peacock, er peachick, before in my life. This peachick's name is Drew and he was rescued by the folks at Hairy Farmpit Girls in White Oak, Georgia. Last week, they captured him strutting around with his new big-bird feathers for the first time and it's really, really cute.News4Jax reports:

These putty-colored pumps by Maison Margiela ($825) are described as "cloven toe." I might be 12, but wouldn't a better description be "camel toe"?A similarly racy shoe is available in red for $1080.Thanks, Caroline B.!

Step aside couture platform Crocs, you've got some competition for world's most ridiculous spongy-soled shoes. Crocs now come in high heels. I wish I were kidding. Check it and see.

The “warning lights are blinking red again,” said the American government's top intelligence official on Friday.Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned of newly resurgent threats by Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China on critical U.S. infrastructure while speaking at the Hudson Institute think tank.Coats happened to be speaking at the event just after the Department of Justice revealed an indictment against 12 Russian military agents for hacking the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. (more…)

Microsoft on Friday joined a growing number of tech industry voices who want the government to limit the use of facial recognition technology. (more…)

July 27, 2016. Trump: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”Indictment: That evening, Russian operatives targeted Hillary Clinton campaign emails “for the first time.”(more…)

Messages sent by Roger Stone suggest he is the unnamed individual in the new Russia probe indictment made public Friday.(more…)

Journalist Ankit Panda has a bombshell report over at the Diplomat today that identifies the location of Kangson, a covert North Korean uranium enrichment site situated just outside the capital city of Pyongyang.(more…)

Novichok that poisoned a couple in Wiltshire came from a small bottle found in the home of one of the victims, said British police on Friday.(more…)

As Mister Trump and his wife greeted the Queen of England, a reporter on a hot mic broke the embargo that the U.S. is indicting 12 Russian military officers with attacks on the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections, and that Guccifer 2.0 and DC LEAKS were Russian intelligence missions.(more…)

Four men snatched $27,000 in laptops and iPhones from a busy Apple Store in Fresno, California.

There are only three Blockbuster video rental stores left in the United States and two of them, both in Alaska, will be shuttered next month. The lone Blockbuster will be the one in Bend, Oregon. According to Kelli Vey, Blockbuster's district manager for the Fairbanks, Alaska area, the stores do get traffic but it's almost always people stopping for a nostalgic and Instagrammable moment. "I wish they would come in and buy something," she told the Anchorage Daily News:

Spanish film director and cinematographer Segundo Chomón (1871-1929) was a pioneer of movie special effects, camera tricks, and optical illusions at the intersection of technology, art, and magic. See more of his surreal work at the Internet Archive's "Segundo de Chomón Collection."

Above, the soundtrack for today, composed by Harry Manfredini in 1980 and covered by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross below.https://youtu.be/DAbDvqPFXvQHere's another special bonus:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiFd3cjAy0g

Our phones can do some pretty impressive stuff, but all too often it feels like their batteries were an afterthought, hitting that dreaded 20% mark after watching only a handful of YouTube videos. Assuming you don't want to change your battery out completely, you can give it the juice it desperately needs with the Extreme Boost 20,000mAh Battery, available in the Boing Boing Store for $35.99.Boasting a colossal 20,000mAh capacity, this portable battery is capable of powering up your phone multiple over—more than enough times to work through whatever playlist you're watching. It's engineered with overcharge and short circuit protection, optimizing your device's juice intake without frying its battery.The Extreme Boost 20,000mAh Battery is available in the Boing Boing Store for $35.99, 60% off its usual price.

Dune's is the last remaining online fandom that remains pure, writes Sean T. Collins. Spectacular yet sprawling, wondrous yet wooden, prophetic yet problematic, it has everything -- and the best memes, too.

Like all minor league baseball teams, the Montgomery Biscuits, Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, has a robust promotional schedule. There's Harry Potter Night, Christmas in July, and Star Wars night just to name a few. But Saturday night's promotion isn't going over well with a certain demographic.(more…)

The Justice Department today said it will appeal a federal judge’s approval of AT&T’s purchase of, and merger with, Time Warner. The decision prolongs the government’s legal challenge of the merger. (more…)

Misdemeanor charges against Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels were dropped on Thursday, after she was arrested at an Ohio strip club on Wednesday night over a weird law that makes it illegal for strippers to touch anyone with any part of their body while performing.(more…)

Following complaints about his ability to prepare for trial, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was moved today to a different detention center to wait for his day in court. The new digs aren't as swanky as the last place, apparently; here's his new mugshot.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) goes there during the Peter Strzok hearings on Capitol Hill. “How many times did you look so innocent into your wife’s eyes and lie to her?” he asks Strzok. Don't forget now, Gohmert campaigned for Roy Moore, who is a noted child molester, sexual harasser, and liar.(more…)

A private Facebook group for women who are carriers of the BRCA breast cancer gene discovered that marketers were able to harvest their names and personal information because of a Facebook privacy loophole.(more…)

“Facebook invited me to an event today where the company aimed to tout its commitment to fighting fake news and misinformation,” wrote Oliver Darcy.“I asked them why InfoWars is still allowed on the platform. I didn't get a good answer.”(more…)

As early as 2014, Russian operatives working out of the Internet Research Agency (IRC) in St. Petersburg were busy creating fake Twitter accounts for U.S. local news organizations that did not exist.(more…)

Someone give Cyriak a chalk pill: "Some animation experiments that congealed into a video."

Farming is a tough gig, made even tougher when racism and greed are plied against you.According to WMC News, a number of African American farmers have claimed that, in March of 2017, they were sold fake seed by the Stine Seed Company. The most likely motivation for their receiving counterfeit seed, according to the farmers: money. If their fields fail to yield an adequate crop, the farmers would become insolvent, making it easy for anyone interested in their property to buy it out from under them. It’s a serious allegation but, thanks to Mississippi State University, the farmers have some serious science to back up the belief that they’d been swindled.After testing certified Stein brand seed against the stuff that the black farmers had been sold in 2017, the University concluded that they had not been given the “certified” seed that they’d paid for. This is a huge deal. Branded seed stock from companies like Stine, does not come cheap. Farmers are willing to pay more for it because they know that the crop yields they’ll see will make it worth while at the end of the growing season. Due to the fact that the farmers spread fake seed on their fields, they suffered millions of dollars worth of losses.From Raw Story:

Amazing as it is to be nostalgic for British Rail, here we are. There's a corporate identity manual, a typeface, and a considerable library of further reading. [via]

The US Drug Enforcement Agency has released its latest edition of "Slang Terms and Code Words: A Reference for Law Enforcement Personnel." Predictably, some of the terms are rather questionable. From Reason:

Over at MAKE:, Bob Knetzger shows how to build your own miniature bagatelle with a clicking ballpoint pen providing the parts for the ball launcher.

Kicking off their joint tour, Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie offer this growling cover of The Beatles' "Helter Skelter." Over at Billboard, Gil Kaufman writes:

Zeynep Marr creates wonderful work in needle and thread. Here's an embroidered and framed Baphomet, yours for $400; see also geisha, dragon girl, and Care Bears.

Yesterday, in absolute crap weather conditions, two U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crews were dispatched to Jumbo Mountain, 39 miles west of Ketchikan, Alaska on Prince of Wales Island: a chaser plane with 11 passengers was reported to have crashed. After making the flight to the purported crash site, battling wind rain and poor visibility all the way, the Coast Guard arrived at the crash site and reported in: all 11 souls on board, while battered from a rough landing on the side of a mountain, were very much alive. From The BBC:

Shayne Holland was asked to leave the pool in his own apartment complex Friday. When he showed proof of residency, an off-duty cop snatched his keys. Video shows both the cop and the property manager ordering him out. He is black; they are white.

Another shady data company emerges from the ashes of Cambridge Analytica. It's fronted by a man who, in an undercover documentary, once boasted of Cambridge Analytica's links to government intelligence agencies. And the new company has already won a contract in an unnamed African state, the FT reports.(more…)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will join a government investigation into 'sonic attacks' that have left more than 25 U.S. personnel with mysterious ailments.(more…)

The MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle is a scary piece of hardware, capable of unleashing hell on an unsuspecting target from miles away, without ever being seen. It’s the sort of hardware that you don’t want falling into the wrong hands—even the details of how it operates are best kept squirreled away.So, of course, a group of hackers got their hands on the Reaper’s operating manual with the intention of selling it online to anyone that wants it for $150 a pop. As with most security flaws, the exploit they used was all too human: they accessed the document through an Air Force Captain’s under protected home network:From Task & Purpose:

There's a long history of TV programs that exploit the personal struggles of individuals for ratings. Now there's a new game show that tackles the student loan crisis. Like its predecessors in this genre, it's bad. (more…)