Joseph "Rawr" Thai's Mario-themed doorbell makes a coin-chime every time its pressed, and increments an LCD counter showing how many coins have been racked up by visitors to the house.… Read the rest of the article: A truly super Mario doorbell

In the process of writing his just-released book Young Money, an investigative look at the bankers who've joined Wall Street since the crash of 2008, author Kevin Roose snuck into… Read the rest of the article: Report from a meeting of Wall Street's secret, tasteless plutocrats' club

Hugh sez, "What's wrong with Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center? This new comic by Susie Cagle lays out the issues." The Testing Ground for the New Surveillance (Thanks, Hugh!)

One year ago today Aaron Swartz's FBI File: Overall the files tell you more about the FBI than they do Swartz. They collected information from Linked In, followed his blog… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Aaronsw's FBI file; Ireland gives Poland a speeding ticket; Send flowers to a random couple at SF City Hall

Protesters in Kiev's #Euromaidan camp report that yesterday's horrific violence — which saw at least 25 protesters killed by police — has continued to escalate. The #IT_Namet tent — a… Read the rest of the article: Ukraine security forces torch #euromaidan's IT tent, kill journalist, beat tech protester to near-death

The latest installment in Randall Munroe's XKCD "What If?" series is called Paint the Earth and it is amazing. One of Munroe's readers wanted to know "Has humanity produced enough… Read the rest of the article: XKCD's brilliant explanation of Fermi Estimation

Top Shelf Comix, an extraordinary and daring independent press, has announced a DRM-free comics store, including the classic Moore/Campbell collaboration "From Hell" and the bestselling Nate Powell comics "The March"… Read the rest of the article: Top Shelf Comix launches DRM free store

Canonical, the company that publishers Ubuntu (a free/open operating system based on GNU/Linux) has announced that it will ship two Ubuntu OS phones this year, in partnership with two manufacturers,… Read the rest of the article: Two Ubuntu phones with top apps in 2014

[Trigger warning] A letter from the Department of Justice to the Missoula County Attorney's Office in Montana concludes that the state's police and prosecutors ignore and downplay rape complaints, intimidate… Read the rest of the article: DoJ report on Montana justice: Don't get raped in Missoula, even if you're only five years old

Mother Jones has published a heartbreaking story about the survivors of the Florida School for Boys; children who were, basically, kidnapped by southern cops and sent to a hellhole where… Read the rest of the article: Survivors of the Florida School for Boys return to the site of legal kidnapping, torture and murder of children

Since 2010, the lucky people of West Virginia have gotten their local phone/Internet service from Frontier Communications, who bought the business from noted shit-shovelers Verizon. In a mere four years,… Read the rest of the article: Frontier takes over Verizon's network, complaints fall by 68%

Sherwin from Public Knowledge writes, "The Copyright Office and the Library of Congress think that copyright law and the DMCA make it illegal to unlock your phone and take it… Read the rest of the article: Tell Congress to legalize unlocking your phone

New Hampshire state representative J.R. Hoell has introduced state legislation that will require police departments to get approval from citizens at a town hall meeting before they buy military-style gear.… Read the rest of the article: NH legislator introduces bill to stop small-town cops from buying tanks

The UK National Health Service has initiated a plan to take the nation's private health records and sell them off to private companies in a process overseen by notorious multinational… Read the rest of the article: Fax Your GP: quick opt-out from insane NHS plan to sell your medical records

In Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Web Filtering in Syria [PDF], researchers from INRIA, NICTA and University College London parse through 600GB worth of leaked logfiles from seven Blue Coat… Read the rest of the article: Detailed analysis of Syria's network censorship with logs from Blue Coat's surveillance boxes

One year ago today My Little Pony Applejack automata: The figures, stand, tree and bushel are carved out of Philippine mahogany while the gears and apples are made out of… Read the rest of the article: This Day in Blogging History: Applejack automata; HK forlorn shipping containers await economic recovery; Turn yourself into a UPC

Joshua sez, "I've been nagging my wife (a jeweler; you posted her sci-fi wedding rings a few years ago) to make a squid ring for years. She finally did it.… Read the rest of the article: Squid ring

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool the fractal-obsessed Fdecomite posts the latest iteration in a series of experiments with tessellated, Escher cookie-cutters. Bake-time expansion creates irregularities that lead to a… Read the rest of the article: Tessellated Escher cookies

Peter writes, "My niece has been an unflagging volunteer for as long as I can remember. Recently she's come to realize that maybe everything she might want to do isn't… Read the rest of the article: American overseas volunteerism: what really works

8-Bitty does some extremely great pixel-art tees inspired by classic video-games. I like the two-sided, full-shirt screens the best, like the mummy wrappings and the skeleton (this one reminds me… Read the rest of the article: Great 8-bit gamer tees