Nerd sculptor-laureate Paul Pape will make you a custom mini you-frozen-in-carbonite for an extremely reasonable $50 plus shipping. He promises to get them done in time for the Solstice Holiday… Read the rest of the article: You, frozen in carbonite

COICA is back: that's the proposed US law that would establish a "Great Firewall of America" used to nationally censor the Internet to block putatively infringing websites. Progress on COICA… Read the rest of the article: Understanding COICA, America's horrific proposed net-censorship bill

A Redditor is seeking advice for a young friend-of-a-friend who, tired of having his Mountain Dew stolen by a bully, filled the MD bottle in his backpack with urine and… Read the rest of the article: Lad tricks bully into drinking urine, needs advice

"BacillaFilla," is the pet-name given by University of Newcastle researchers to a gengineered bacterium based on Bacillus subtilis that has been modified to fill and bond cracks in cement caused… Read the rest of the article: Gengineered concrete-patching bacteria: BacillaFilla

London police demanded that the website Fitwatch's hosting company shut it down, despite the lack of any court order or proof of wrongdoing. Fitwatch publishes advice for demonstrators, including a… Read the rest of the article: London cops shut down anti-police website; mirrors spring up all over the net

According to WrascalBC's translation on this Vintage Ads post, the text on this Tokyo subway poster reads, "I look like Santa because you've had too much to drink. It's only… Read the rest of the article: Tokyo subway poster: that's not Santa, you're just drunk

A whopping $30.99, proving that trademark infringement isn't always your best entertainment value. Junk Search (via Aetherczar)   Make the TSA Meet the Resistance – Boing Boing TSA demands testicular… Read the rest of the article: TSA tee: "We get to touch your junk"

Aaron Swartz sez, "Bold legislators in New Jersey and Idaho have introduced bills stopping the new porno-scanners, but that's not enough — we need to pass these bills in every… Read the rest of the article: NJ, ID legislators ready to ban airport pornoscanners – your help needed!

Two years after its initial publication, I've finally gotten around to reading Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan's The Indie Band Survival Guide: The Complete Manual for the Do-It-Yourself Musician, which… Read the rest of the article: Indie Band Survival Guide: soup-to-nuts, no-BS manual for 21st century artistic life

This insanely swell 3D printed, rubber-band driven gearbox is Michael Curry's entry into the Thingverse Rubber Band Challenge. 3D-printed, rubber-band-powered gearbox Boing Boing: Cheat-code for new BMW gearbox

NDR, the German public radio broadcaster, reports that airport pornoscanners are unable to cope with pleats: While some passengers are being asked to remove thicker clothes such as jumpers, NDR… Read the rest of the article: New aviation risk: pleats

Jeffrey from 360Cities sez, "I spent 3 days shooting, and 6 weeks stitching and editing this 80 gigapixel, fully spherical panoramic photo. Now it's up. Ok, another big boring photo?… Read the rest of the article: 80 gigapixel London panorama

These weird, blobular forms (orignally featured in the Swiss magazine Hochparterre) are misprinted houses generated by automated prefab concrete machines: "Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as… Read the rest of the article: Misprinted prefab houses

Here's a selection of WWI-era photos showing large groups of people meticulously arranged to form pixels in enormous, low-rez patriotic images. They're from the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago. PEOPLE… Read the rest of the article: WWI-era photos of people pretending to be patriotic pixels

@Skytee made this gorgeous, Arduino-powered steampunk bandwidth gauge based on a similar project by Tom Igoe from Make Magazine: "I needed a linear scale from 0 through 100, saying Mbps,… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk bandwidth gauge

Madeleine Robins called this picture of ISS astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson watching the spin far below, "The perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when… Read the rest of the article: Astronaut watches the Earth from an ISS porthole: perfect cover for a nonexistent sf novel

Gordonmcdowell sez, "One of Calgary's newly elected mayor Naheed Nenshi's campaign platform was improving City Council transparency and accessibility. I'm illustrating how this can be done (has been done) with… Read the rest of the article: New Calgary mayor sets bar for transparency with searchable vids and realtime audio streams of council meetings

A couple booked in for a sumptuous meal at London's L'Autre Pied in Mayfair under the name "Lupin." They rang up a £572.74 tab (including £409 for two bottles of… Read the rest of the article: London dine-and-dashers skip out on $919 dinner

A man in Hudson, Ohio called the police to report a suspicious package on his doorstep. When the officer arrived, he noticed the "AMAZON.COM" printing on the box and asked… Read the rest of the article: Police called to suspicious package: it was an Amazon order

In the UK, the police can stop and search you without cause or a warrant, as part of the special "anti-terrorism" rules. Justice is far from blind (or fair), though:… Read the rest of the article: UK gov't wants to legalize racial profiling