You've likely seen pet shaming — pictures of dogs with signs round their necks bearing Cultural Revolution-style admissions like "I eat my own poop." But you haven't lived until you've… Read the rest of the article: Poultry shaming: Cultural Revolution confessions for chickens and roosters

This Metafilter post by Madamjujujive has extensive links and background on The American Folk Blues Festival 1962 – 1966, annual festival that brought some of the greatest blues acts of… Read the rest of the article: American Folk Blues Festival 1962 – 1966: British festivals featured some of the greatest American blues artists of all time

An anonymous NSA leaker revealed to the German magazine Bild am Sonntag that the agency has been spying on senior German government figures. The move is apparently a response to… Read the rest of the article: Whistleblower: NSA secretly continues Merkel surveillance by bugging other German officials

Robbo sez, "The first annual Toronto Web Fest is happening this May 9-11th and they are still taking submissions until March 9th – so if anyone has a Web series… Read the rest of the article: Toronto Web Fest call for submissions

As you may have noticed, I think Litographs are really cool: the company turns the text of various books into a piece of appropriately themed text-art and makes lithographs, tees… Read the rest of the article: Text of Little Brother on an art-litho, tee, or tote

In Snowtime, Vyacheslav Ivanov captures the crystallization and growth of a single snowflake in macrofocus, timelapsed to a neat two minutes with musical accompaniment from Aphex Twin. It's wondrous. snowtime… Read the rest of the article: Macrofocus timelapse video of snowflake formation

Sergei sez, "George Takei has written an open letter to Arizona legislators regarding a bill that would allow businesses, based on a 'sincerely held religious belief' to bar LGBT patrons… Read the rest of the article: Takei to Arizona lawmakers: we will boycott Arizona if it passes its anti-gay Jim Crow law

Nerdcore rapper Dan Bull earns a good living from his Youtube videos, but he is constantly being dragged away from the studio to fight fraudulent copyright claims from major labels,… Read the rest of the article: How Youtube's automated copyright system lets big music screw indie creators

Fdecomite has revisited his tessellated Escher cookie-cutters, with a new set of cutters and some new baking that he's posted to the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Yet another set of… Read the rest of the article: More Escher tessellated cookies

The Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus is the only science-fiction themed krewe marching in Mardi Gras, with a 400-person team whose floats and gizmos are paeans to maker culture. It costs… Read the rest of the article: Science fictional, maker Mardi Gras krewe

One year ago today Amp made out of old brass instruments: The Analog Tele-Phonographer is Christopher Locke's fantastic smartphone amplifier made from salvaged, chimeraed brass instruments. Each one is different,… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Brass instrument phone-amps; Equation that crashed the global economy; Mojitos at the Tokyo Trader Vic's

Elysium Woodworks's Etsy store is full of gorgeous, laser-etched, math- and science-themed cutting boards. They're about $35, made from bamboo, and take 5-6 weeks to fabricate. Elysium Woodworks (via Wil… Read the rest of the article: Math and science cutting boards

One day after a video of Pussy Riot being horsewhipped by cossacks in Sochi went viral, the band had released a new music video in which the footage is heavily… Read the rest of the article: Pussy Riot use footage of cossack horsewhipping in new music video

Yanukovych: "I'm won't sign anything with bandits who are terrorising Ukraine". Guess he's been on the phone to Moscow since yesterday — Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) February 22, 2014 Ukrainian opposition… Read the rest of the article: Ukrainian president Yanukovuych flees Kiev as opposition seize the palace

One year ago today World's largest panorama: London: Jeffrey spent the last 4 months stitching 48 THOUSAND images together into a single panorama which lets you see things up to… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: World's largest panorama: London; Gamer's dad asks him to adhere to Geneva Conventions

Members of Pussy Riot, including the recently freed women Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were brutally whipped, sprayed and beaten by cossacks representing Russian authorities at the Sochi Olympic Games.… Read the rest of the article: Cossacks horsewhip Pussy Riot at Sochi

Prior to Whatsapp's $19B acquisition by Facebook, the company sent a large number of spurious takedowns against projects on Github. In a DMCA notice served by Whatsapp's General Counsel to… Read the rest of the article: Whatsapp abused the DMCA to censor related projects from Github

Jonl sez, "Streets near the University of Texas at Austin today are safer, thanks to quick and effective action by the local police, who caught and arrested a jogger, observed… Read the rest of the article: Austin cops violently crack down on scourge of anonymous jaywalking

The ACLU has produced a video based on its Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data slide presentation from 2013. It's a chilling and… Read the rest of the article: Video from a dystopian future: how location data can be abused

Barry Belcher describes a simple way to make a Haunted Mansion Madame Leota-style video crystal ball, using an old flat panel display, a novelty brandy snifter, and a piece of… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make a large animated Haunted Mansion crystal ball