Thanks so much to everyone who submits sites, permalinks, and other online ephemera to us. We really appreciate it! However, we never ever accept submissions (including PR pitches) via email.… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO get something posted to Boing Boing!

An icon of cryptozoology, the coelecanth is a fish that was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years ago until it was found alive in 1938. Now, another… Read the rest of the article: Fossilized coelacanth fin reveals evolutionary secret

And now we pause for a sweet serenade by the Lady In The Radiator. "In Heaven" was written by Peter Ivers for David Lynch's 1977 masterpiece Eraserhead and performed by… Read the rest of the article: Video: "In Heaven" from Eraserhead

Last year, I posted about underground filmmaker Patrick O'Brien who is suffering from a terminal disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, AKA Lou Gehrig's Disease. With just a few years to… Read the rest of the article: Patrick O'Brien's ALS documentary and fundraiser

Artists Xiaoqing Ding and Jason D'Aquino are showing new work at Seattle's Roq La Rue Gallery. The exhibition, titled "A Fine Line," opens tonight and runs through September 1. All… Read the rest of the article: Xiaoqing Ding and Jason D'Aquino at Roq La Rue Gallery

My friend Mason Inman is in Pakistan for a month with his girlfriend Sarah who founded a company called SaafWater to provide affordable clean water for poor people in developing… Read the rest of the article: Homebrew bomb detector in Pakistan

"Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp" is a wonderful interactive trip through the life and work of the artist whose ideas redefined the meaning of art forever. The site, created by… Read the rest of the article: Making Sense of Duchamp

The Droste effect is the modern name of a recursive visual effect most famously used by the artist MC Escher. There are hundreds of fantastic Droste effect photos in the… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make Escher-like Droste photos

When traditional physicians refused to castrate Russell Daniel Angus, a 62-year-old St. Paul, Minnesota man who complained of chronic pain, he apparently hired several unknown "professionals" to conduct the surgery… Read the rest of the article: Police investigate botched castration

Researchers extracted 8-million-year-old bacteria from an Antarctica glacier, resuscitated it, and are now watching it grow in a petri dish. From New Scientist: Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University, who led… Read the rest of the article: Bacteria is eight-million-years-old, and still alive

Doctors in Berlin have removed a pencil that had been lodged in Margaret Wegner's skull for fifty years. As a child, she tripped while holding the pencil and it went… Read the rest of the article: Pencil in woman's head for half a century

This sharp vintage Revell models display sign depicting Ed "Big Daddy" Roth is up for auction on eBay. Roth of course was an underground artist and hot rodder who helped… Read the rest of the article: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth plastic face

Smithsonian interviews Celiné Ellena, a third-generation perfumer at esteemed perfume house Charabot in Grasse, France. From the interview: Did you have formal training? Today, young perfumers must study chemistry. I've… Read the rest of the article: Interview with a perfumer

Cops in Thailand who litter, park illegally, arrive late, or break other rules will be punished with office work and a Hello Kitty pink armband they'll have to wear at… Read the rest of the article: Bad cops to wear Hello Kitty armbands

Today is the birthday of Charles Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932), highly-influential researcher of anomalous phenomena. He nearly lived in libraries studying bizarre news events–from frogs falling… Read the rest of the article: Happy birthday, Charles Fort!

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and their pals animated several audio recordings of Alan Watts, an iconic philosopher and writer who turned scores of people on to… Read the rest of the article: Animated Alan Watts

In April, former Microsoft exec Charles Simonyi took the longest space tourist trip in history. He spent two weeks aboard the International Space Station, having traveled there aboard a Soyuz… Read the rest of the article: Charles Simonyi, astronaut, interviewed today

Bibliomulas are mules toting mini-libraries to remote communities in Venezuela in an effort to encourage reading. Sometimes, the mules also carry projectors and laptop computers. A BBC News reporter recently… Read the rest of the article: Mule library

Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist, designer, and printmaker who lives in the Los Angeles area. Many of his pieces are meant to illustrate books, but they really contain… Read the rest of the article: Vladimir Zimakov's linoleum cut illustrations and printmaking

Police arrested three people after spotting a replica of the Bushnell Turtle, a submarine invented at the end of the 18th century, semi-submerged near the docked Queen Mary II in… Read the rest of the article: Replica antique sub busted near cruise ship