Quickly peel a hard-boiled egg by shaking it in a glass of water
-I haven't tried this fast eggshell-peeling method yet, but I hope it works as well as it does in the video.
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Video: Super Bowl commercials in LEGO
-A+C Studios (quickly) reproduced the 2015 Super Bowl commercials in LEGO.
Watch videoMusic: "This will be (an everlasting love)," Natalie Cole (1975)
-This performance is fantastic. I am in love.
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A Hypnotic Supercut of Passageways in Yasujirō Ozu Movies
-"Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese of all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family," writes Donald Richie in his definitive study Ozu: His Life and Films, "and but one major theme, its dissolution."
Read the restMajor retailers accused of selling phony herbal supplements
-The New York State attorney general’s office investigated herbal supplements being sold at GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, and found that many don't contain the ingredients on the label.
Read the rest"To Kill A Mockingbird" sequel to be published in July
-After a 50 year break, Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will publish her second book, titled Go Set A Watchman.
Read the restClose Personal Friend: A 90s Music Video-Style Profile of Douglas Coupland
-Given his equally literary, visual, and technological interests, I'd imagine that Douglas Coupland appeals to a great many Boing Boing readers.
Watch videoVintage Monster Valentines
-In 1966, Topps issued a series of "Frankenstein Valentine Stickers" that have only improved with age.
Read the restMary and Vincent Price's incredible recipe book
- This book is as much an adventure as it is a collection of recipes. Read the restRelae – Michelin-star chef offers recipes and inspirational bite-size essays
-Relae: A Book of Ideas is marketed as a cookbook, but it’s so much more.
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Davy DMX, Influential Early Hip Hop Mega-Producer
- The career of Davy DMX spans Hip Hop before Rap records up to his music being sampled today by a new generation of artists. He's the focus of this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Read the restWatch 50 Years of Korean Cinema Free from the Korean Film Archive
-Whenever I meet someone Korean, I talk to them in Korean. Inevitably, they respond by asking how I could possibly have found interest enough in their country to study its language for seven years and counting.
Read the restMash-up: Flock of Sabbath
-Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" meets A Flock of Seagulls' "I Ran (So Far Away)," courtesy of Andy Rehfeldt. (via Laughing Squid)
Watch videoThe BBC Visits Los Angeles, "City of the Future?" in 1991
-Not long ago, I interviewed renowned UCLA urban theorist Edward Soja on my podcast Notebook on Cities and Culture. In researching what he'd said before about this ever-fascinating, ever-confounding city, I came upon Los Angeles: City of the Future?
Read the restCurious case of the disappearing Polish S
-Marcin Wichary, my colleague at Medium, tells tales of typography that amazing, confound, delight, and startle me, and I'm not a designer.
Read the restMassive vintage Disneyland auction
-Later this month, more than 1,000 pieces of Disneyland memorabilia will be auctioned off, including a doll from It's A Small World, a skeleton from Pirates of the Caribbean, original Tomorrowland art by Bruce Bushman, and a ton more.
Read the restThe Queen of Code, a FiveThirtyEight film on Grace Hopper
-Grace Hopper intended the world's first compiler, and this wonderful video, directed by Community's Gillian Jacobs, is a brilliant introduction to her career and position in the history of computing. My only objection is that it's not a full-length documentary.
DiscussCanarywatch: fine-grained, high-alert system to detect and reveal secret government snooping
-In the age of secret government snooping warrants -- which come with gag orders prohibiting their recipients from revealing their existence -- "warrant canaries" have emerged as the best way to keep an eye on out-of-control, unaccountable spying, and now they've gotten better.
Read the restTim Schafer and dev team watch Psychonauts speed run
-Tim Schafer and members of the Psychonauts development team sit down with speed-runner Stephen "SMK" Kiazyk to watch him do a run of the game and witness the different ways he's found around their painstakingly crafted work in order to complete it as fast as possible.
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The Sculptor: Scott McCloud's magnum opus (about magnum opuses)
- Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds. Read the restPhilip Glass will score The Fantastic Four
-Avant-garde minimalist composer Philip Glass will compose the score for Josh Trank's forthcoming film The Fantastic Four (trailer below).
Read the restGordy's leather lug-mount camera wrist strap
-Over the past decade I've been annoyed with traditional camera straps that go around your neck or diagonally across the body.
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Money talks: policy with a business model
-It must be Groundhog Day, because British politicians are making us debate their repeatedly-failed spying legislation -- how is it that some policy initiatives never die, while others can't get any traction at all?
Read the restThe best adventure stories for kids from 1965
- The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature. Read the restLinkdump: Robotic newspaper archive, NY cop vs teen snowball fight; Dune coloring book; LOVEINT; Canada's PATRIOT Act & more more more
Read the rest#Leftistshark: Katy Perry's Super Bowl Left Shark plus Noam Chomsky quotes
-From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome.
Read the restCustom Jackhammer Jill skateboard by Andreas Ekberg
-I love my new Jackhammer Jill skateboard deck designed and made by Andreas Ekberg. Check out his website of beautiful creations.
DiscussMusic: Erik Satie's “Gymnopédie,” the Anamanaguchi chiptune cover
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The best adventure stories for kids from 1965
The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature. Read the rest
There's No Getting Off (The Grid)
Calling a gas-powered engine an “off grid” technology is like “unplugging” from the internet by using cellular data instead of an ethernet cable. Read the rest
David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber follows up his magesterial Debt: The First 5000 Years with a slim, sprightly, acerbic attack on capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy, asking why the post-Soviet world has more paperwork, phone-trees and red-tape than ever, and why the Right are the only people who seem to notice or care. Read the rest
Davy DMX, Influential Early Hip Hop Mega-Producer
The career of Davy DMX spans Hip Hop before Rap records up to his music being sampled today by a new generation of artists. He's the focus of this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Read the rest
The Sculptor: Scott McCloud's magnum opus (about magnum opuses)
Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds. Read the rest
Heavenly Nostrils: If Hobbes was a snarky unicorn and Calvin was an awesome little girl
Phoebe and Her Unicorn is the first collection of Dana Simpson's syndicated Heavenly Nostrils cartoons -- it's a book that I insisted on reading to my kid, because I didn't want to miss a single strip. Read the rest
Let's put the guilt back in guilty pleasures
Guilty pleasures aren't always merely self-loathing elitism or ironic tastelessness. They can also be a sign of genuine ambivalence—a feeling to cherish. Read the rest
Mass Hysteria! An art show about crowds in cult fave movies
Basically, I just wanted to draw a really cute, squeezable Kurt Russell. Read the rest
Street Angel: That Explains Everything!
Can Jesse and Inti strike a deal or is Angel City stuck with Cortez and his time-displaced crew of Conquistadors? Will Cosmick realize where he is before it's too late? Find out in the stunning conclusion of Inca Dinka Doom! Read the rest
JOHN WILCOCK: My First Orgy
It's the Sixties now! - with John's first oily encounter with group sex. Part 1/3 of a serialized encounter from John Wilcock, New York Years. Read the rest
Avatars, rubber hands, virtual reality, and racism
Can changing your body, even just for a few minutes, change your mind? Can a psychological body transfer melt away your long-held opinions and unconscious prejudices? Maybe so. Read the rest
A beginner's guide to the Redpill Right
The gnostic paradox of young, tech-savvy traditionalists, who see through everything except their own conspiracy theories Read the rest
United website breach let fliers see each others' private data
Alice Taylor could have requested a very expensive upgrade on your behalf. The airline isn't saying why. Read the rest
TOM THE DANCING BUG: A Patriotic Debate
In this week's comic, a Patriotic Debate breaks out. Read the rest
The surprising history of hippy crack
People have been having fun with nitrous oxide – even in the name of science – virtually since its discovery more than 240 years ago. Read the rest
I love Kindle Unlimited
If you like self-published fiction or read more than a few books a month, and don't mind giving books up when you're done, Amazon's borrowing service is a great deal. Read the rest
Schoolly D: Inventor of Gangster Rap
This week's Hip Hop Family Tree covers Gangster Boogie by Schoolly D, an influential artist who inspired the west coast direction spearheaded by Ice T and NWA. Read the rest
Game of Thrones board game offers diplomacy, intrigue, and betrayal
Fans looking to get their off-season fix could do worse than setting aside a snowy Saturday for A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Read the rest
Barrett Brown’s sentence is unjust, but it may become the norm for journalists
Jailed, in part, because he shared a link to a stolen document that he did not steal, and despite the fact that this is not a crime. Read the rest
This week's best gadgets
This week Mark and Jason compare tea makers and Xeni talks about her Hario Japanese coffee products. Read the rest
Ninjas vs. Pirates
Angel City's streets explode when ninjas and pirates clash! Read the rest
Journalist Barrett Brown sentenced to 63 months in federal prison
He's already served more than two years in prison on charges related to sources within the Anonymous hacktivist entity. Read the rest
Bobcat Goldthwait does the impossible in his latest film — again
“Call Me Lucky” is a bold and moving documentary about volatile comedian and abuse survivor Barry Crimmins Read the rest
Gweek audio experience: How to 3D print your family
Our guest this week is Maggie Tokuda Hall. She writes books for children and stories for adults. Read the rest
Album covers of imaginary soul superstar "Mingering Mike" to be exhibited
Were it not for dedicated crate-digger and vinyl hoarder, Dori Hadar, his brilliant work might never have been seen. Read the rest
Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self
Will Self suffers from “everythingitis.” Why aren’t we surprised? Read the rest
The God-Man Fan Club vs. … Clod-Man!
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the God-Man Fan Club must avenge the grave insult of… "Clod-Man!" Read the rest
President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns
Here's a good rule of thumb: Any time a president says new tech laws are to protect "our kids," you know something bad is on the way. Read the rest
Why animals eat psychoactive plants
Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, learns about drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. Read the rest
Egyptian Lover: West Coast Hip Hop Pioneer
Taking things to Los Angeles during the early 1980's in this week's Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor Read the rest
Eradicate DRM within a decade!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Apollo 1201 will target it with code, law, norms and markets. Read the rest
I Think You'll Find It's a Bit More Complicated Than That
Over the past decade, pharma-fighting Dr Ben Goldacre has written more than 500,000 words of fearlessly combative science journalism. Read the rest
The invasion boards that set out to ruin lives
Internet harassment doesn’t just stay on the internet any more. Banned from 4chan, the 'net's worst trolls are making life hell for "social justice warriors." Read the rest
