Did you get dinged in a parking lot? Or did you back into a phone-poll? A little bondo, a little black pinstriping, and voila, you've turned your car's unsightly, damaged… Read the rest of the article: Fixing a car-door dent with fantasy cartography

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail column, Why do people believe the Earth is flat?, which connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise… Read the rest of the article: Podcast: Why do people believe the Earth is flat?

If you live in Venezuela and rely on Adobe products to do your job — whether that's publishing a newspaper, running an NGO, or doing design work, Adobe has a… Read the rest of the article: The cloud vs humanity: Adobe terminates every software license in Venezuela, keeps Venezuelans' money

The Hong Kong Free Press identifies the builders of this brick-throwing manganel fashioned from torn-down bamboo scaffolding as Hong Kong protesters, who deployed their siege engine in Mong Kok, Kowloon,… Read the rest of the article: Hong Kong protesters deploy a brick-throwing bamboo siege engine

The trillions that the global looter class has stashed in offshore financial secrecy jurisdictions are protected by the joint tactics of absurd complexity and stultifying dullness, which have been created… Read the rest of the article: The weak spots that let journalists expose the finances of looters, organized criminals and oligarchs

Self-described "creative coder" Neal Agarwal has come up with a method for hiding images in text that only appear when you highlight the words; I'm guessing he's using some kind… Read the rest of the article: Hiding images in highlighted text

WBAI is a beloved New York City institution, owned by the Pacifica Foundation and run primarily by volunteers who produce longrunning, cultural-defining shows like Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf… Read the rest of the article: New York's WBAI Pacifica Radio affiliate has shut down, orphaning 2600's Off the Hook, the Hour of the Wolf, and many other beloved mainstays

English is a glorious syncretic mess of a language, what you get when you blend together a bunch of mispronounced German, French and Latin words and then salt with the… Read the rest of the article: AP's how-to-use-hyphens-wisely guide causes consternation among pedants

On Oct 1, a coalition of public interest groups and states' attorneys general lost their appeal in a legal bid to block the FCC's dismantling of federal Net Neutrality protections,… Read the rest of the article: Trump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but we're still winning the war

Firstsecond (publishers of In Real Life, the bestselling middle-grades graphic novel Jen Wang and I made) have just revealed the cover for Poesy the Monster Slayer, my first-ever picture book,… Read the rest of the article: Revealing the cover of "Poesy the Monster Slayer," my first-ever picture book!

The parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are taking a calculated risk; they're weighting whatever doubts they have about the efficacy of vacItcines against their doubts about vaccine safety… Read the rest of the article: Visualizing herd immunity

Nathan Davis writes, "When you shuffle a deck, it rearranges the order of the cards and I got wondering what that looked like.

I'm 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of Big Tech, and that is because I'm 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of all our hyper-concentrated, monopolistic industries.

This morning, we were out on our lawn, putting up our Halloween decorations, when this fellow jogged past and said something to me. I had my headphones in and so… Read the rest of the article: How this fine gentleman convinced me to donate $300 to Elizabeth Warren

In 2017, Brazil's "anti-corruption task force" secured a conviction against the incredibly popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had enacted a series of reforms that addressed the… Read the rest of the article: The corrupt Brazilian prosecutors who locked up Lula now want to release him, to make him less sympathetic

Boing Boing reader Pink Frankenstein is behind this stunning, high-resolution recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map, which he's generously licensed CC 0 (there's also a 700 DPI, 3.5GB Photoshop… Read the rest of the article: Hi-rez, open-licensed recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map

Cartoonist Vince "Untold Tales of Bigfoot" Dorse (previously) continues to make astoundingly cool Haunted Mansion fan media: his latest is a "ride through" illustration of the Mansion and its many… Read the rest of the article: Fan-made "rideable" Haunted Mansion poster

Glenlivet capsules are edible, seaweed-derived pods filled with whiskey that you bite into.

Just look at it. (Thanks Robbo!)

Ben Watson is a reporter for Defenseone, a news site that covers "US defense and National Security" who formerly served in the US Army as a public affairs officer; last… Read the rest of the article: CBP officer refuses to allow American journalist into the country until he admits he writes "propaganda"