What's scariest about this animated visualization of American jobless rates? The animation doesn't include the figures released just last week, which would make the final frame even darker.
The Decline: Geography of a Recession, by Latoya Egwuekwe (American Observer, via Jason Calacanis)
Longtime Boing Boing friend Adam Savage is best known as the guy behind tested.com and the co-star of TV’s beloved ‘Mythbusters.’ He’s also a Boing Boing TV guest and fellow nerd traveler we’ve admired since our ‘zine days. Adam is teaming up with YouTube star Michael Stevens (Vsauce) for ‘Brain Candy,’ a live touring explodey […]
What a huge bummer. David Corn is the guy who broke the ‘Steele Dossier’ story, and did a great job of it.
House Democrats just released a trove of data, metadata, Facebook ads, and Twitter accounts run out of the Kremlin’s troll farm. A team of reporters at Daily Beast reports on how ads were created by people working for the Russian government’s cyberwar arm, and literally paid for in rubles with no questions asked by Facebook. […]
The advent of consumer cloud storage has definitely made digital life better for everyone. No longer do you have to abuse email attachments to store and send things to other people. Going all-in on remote drives also means that a dead hard disk isn’t a completely apocalyptic scenario anymore. And since smartphone manufacturers have decided […]
Getting a good view inside tight spaces usually involves some significant discomfort, or unqualified appliance disassembly. If you want to see what’s living in your crawlspace, or making noises in your car’s engine, you can pick up an Endoscopic Android Camera from the Boing Boing Store for $18.99. This flexible camera snake uses your PC […]
That’s the question you’ll answer with the Adobe CC Lifetime Mastery Bundle. Adobe’s Creative Cloud is a quintessential part of any designer’s toolbox, and this bundle will teach you how to use it for everything from web design to motion graphics. This collection has over $300 worth of professional training, and you can name your price when […]