The best way hear Michael Hearst's latest musical compositions is blaring from an ice cream truck as it pulls around the corner. His album, Songs For Ice Cream Trucks, is… Read the rest of the article: Songs for Ice Cream Trucks

Scientists now estimate that cats were first domesticated 12,000 years ago in the Near East. According to research published last month in the journal Science, every housecat is a descendant… Read the rest of the article: Housecat history

This hotel in southwestern Bolivia is constructed entirely from blocks of salt. It was built on the salt desert of Salar de Uyuni. Previously, the only folks in the area… Read the rest of the article: Salt hotel

Spiderman fan Andrew Farago was browsing in my favorite bookstore in the world, San Francisco's KAYO Books, when he stumbled upon a Planned Parenthood issue of The Amazing Spider-Man from… Read the rest of the article: Vintage Planned Parenthood issue of Spider-Man comic

Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno made this wonderful animated film titled "Pika Pika 2007" by taking long-exposure photographs of people waving flashlights and stitching the photos together. You may also… Read the rest of the article: Animated flashlight film

New research suggests that when people have God or religion in mind, even subconsciously, they're more generous. According to a University of British Columbia study, participants who were subtly "primed"… Read the rest of the article: Religious "priming" promotes cooperation

No, not software pirates, but real pirates. The new issue of Smithsonian looks at the battle between today's buccaneers and the International Maritime Bureau, operators of "the world's only pirate… Read the rest of the article: Fighting the pirates

For years, my friend Greg Benjamin has used YellowCab666 as his online handle, in honor of an actual taxi in San Francisco. Now, it turns out that the latest cabbie… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco's devil taxi 666

This wooden car, built in Japan, cost roughly $32,500 and can reach 90 km/h. According to a Japan Probe post, it was made by a furniture manufacturer. Link to Japanese… Read the rest of the article: Wooden car

Today's Washington Post profiles Peter Bagge, best known as the creator of HATE!, a genre-defining comic book that perfectly portrayed the 1990s slacker mindset (and helped many of us laugh… Read the rest of the article: Peter Bagge in the Washington Post

Last month, MIT researchers made headlines by demonstrating a system of wireless power. They were able to generate a field of energy in coil that lit a bulb a few… Read the rest of the article: Wireless power explained in Science News

Several years ago, tattoo artist and painter Matthew Amey put together the Skull Reference, a book compiling 151 drawings of a human skull done from every possible angle. Recently Amey… Read the rest of the article: Skull Project book

This triangle is one of three built into the brick wall of a 175-year-old building in New York City's financial district. The meaning of the shapes is a mystery that… Read the rest of the article: Mystery pattern in old building's bricks

Toronto street artist Posterchild has been installing planter boxes of Celosias in various spots around Kensington Market. (image left) Link, Link, and Link His guerilla gardening reminds of my friend… Read the rest of the article: Guerilla gardening

Caddis fly larvae usually form their protective sheaths by spinning silk with sand, minerals, plant particles, and bits of bone they find in their aquatic environments. French artist Hubert Duprat… Read the rest of the article: Fly larvae shelled in bling

The October 7 episode of The Simpsons will feature underground comic icons Art "Maus" Spiegleman, Alan "Watchmen" Moore, and BB fave Dan "Eightball" Clowes. The artists will play themselves! From… Read the rest of the article: Comix icons on Simpsons

I frequently think that some of the surreal, curious, and downright bizarre things I blog on BB would make good comix. Along those lines, Mental Floss posted a fun quiz… Read the rest of the article: Scooby Doo plot or news story?

Click through to this optical illusion and focus on the twirling dancer. Keep watching for a while and eventually she'll appear to change direction from clockwise to counterclockwise. No, it's… Read the rest of the article: Twirling dancer optical illusion

For the latest edition of the Get Illuminated! podcast, Mark and I talked with artist Drew Friedman. Drew's incredibly-detailed caricatures and biting parodies have appeared in publications ranging from Raw… Read the rest of the article: Get Illuminated! podcast #11: Drew Friedman, comic artist

Instructables contributor The Jehosephat posted a neat guide to making shadow sculptures from piles of junk. Link Previously on BB: • History of the shadow in art Link • Shadow… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO make shadow sculptures