Game musician Disasterpeace added a bunch of new features to his beautiful snowflake catching music generator!

Busy people like you and I don't have the time nor the inclination to navigate the sea of earbuds out there, so I turned to Wirecutter to find out what… Read the rest of the article: You have better things to do than buy earbuds

Mrs. McGettrick's Fuggler Emporium on Etsy specializes in adorable teddy bears… with creepy artificial human teeth. Some of them have little plastic weapons, but all of them share a disturbing… Read the rest of the article: Teddy bears with terrifying human teeth

Antique mechanical contraption which realistically mimics bird song

Do the animals understand that it's their birthday? How, precisely, does one celebrate an animal's birthday?

I desperately want to believe that this horse mask Mentos commercial is actually from a 1992 episode of the Swedish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as the description says, if only… Read the rest of the article: Mentos horse mask basketball commercial

Dan Wrexham throws down the gauntlet: "If you've seen a better picture than this picture of a dog dressed as two dogs carrying a present, I don't believe you." I… Read the rest of the article: Dog dressed as two dogs holding a present

how to eat a corn in 10 seconds via reddit's "Learn Useless Talents" section

KaomojiApp adds a menu item to your Mac with a huge collection of Unicode emoticons that you can easily select and insert in any text area. The free version has… Read the rest of the article: KaomojiApp makes crazy text emoticons easy ＼(☆o◎)／

Apple was recently ordered by a UK court to publicly display a notice that Samsung did not copy the iPad with their Galaxy tablet to undo the damage they've done… Read the rest of the article: Slippery web designers at Apple hide court ordered apology perpetually below the fold

I'm not much of one for energy bars, and I don't think I've ever had a Clif Bar before, but I just bought a Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bar on… Read the rest of the article: Cool Mint Chocolate Clif Bars are basically giant crunchy Thin Mints

If you manage your domains through GoDaddy or are hosting a website with them, it's probably down right now and has been for about an hour. Take advantage of this… Read the rest of the article: GoDaddy's DNS servers experiencing extended outage

I spied this cozy crocheted cruiser on Balboa Street just outside Shanghai Dumpling King in San Francisco. Bundle up, winter's coming!

Illustration: 凌[Pixiv] 9/7/2012: Updated with feedback from moot 4chan, the Internet's long-time dumping ground and butt of many a joke, is getting serious about software by making their biggest public-facing code change… Read the rest of the article: 4chan gets real about software

Unfortunately the thread is crashing frequently and is in read-only mode due to heavy traffic, but I'm looking forward to seeing his answers to people's questions. Here's a cached copy… Read the rest of the article: Barack Obama is answering questions on Reddit from 4:30-5PM ET

Unicorn Mountain is a collective of Pittsburgh artists that publishes anthologies of local art, comics, music and literature. Their third anthology, The Black Forest, takes a different tack from their… Read the rest of the article: The Black Forest: the darker side of Pittsburgh's underground art scene

People are posting photos of their debit and credit cards on Twitter. Some of them are lightly blurred– such as the one above which has a fake tilt shift effect… Read the rest of the article: @NeedADebitCard collects tweeted photos of debit cards

Last weekend I sunk into the depths of chiptune music at Blip Festival. I quickly noticed that a lot of the bands had the same visualists managing the projected artwork… Read the rest of the article: Breaking bits in pretty ways: The visualists of Blip Fest

I'm at Blip Festival in New York this weekend checking out all the bleeps and bloops people are making. Blip Festival itself starts tonight, but last night NY Pulsewave had… Read the rest of the article: The modded musical Game Boys of Blip Festival

I'm in New York this week and today I dropped in on Boing Boing pal and co-curator of Boing Boing's Virgin America in-flight channel Joe Sabia. Joe's in the middle… Read the rest of the article: Behind the scenes of making silly musical thank you notes