Designer and artist Jed Berk created Its-A-Bob, a fun balloon toy with a retractable leash. He's very close to funding his Kickstarter.

I use the ad-supported version of the Spotify digital music service on my desktop computer. The mobile app cost $10 a month, which isn't bad, but between Pandora and WFMU's… Read the rest of the article: Spotify's free mobile service

I'm a huge fan of the Uncle Mark Gift Guide and Almanac, published yearly by Mark Hurst, the founder of Creative Good. Every year (since 2003) Mark has assembled his… Read the rest of the article: 2014 Uncle Mark Gift Guide and Almanac

My guests are author Peter Bebergal and cartoonist Jim Woodring. We talked about the eccentric genius Polish artist Stanislav Szukalski, Jim's oeuvre of incredible wordless graphic novels about "The Unifactor"… Read the rest of the article: Gweek podcast 124: visionary artist Jim Woodring

Joel Murphy (co-creator of the nifty PulseSensor, an Arduino sensor that detects pulse) teamed up with Conor Russomanno to create the OpenBCI, a Bluetooth-enabled, Arduino-compatible, 8-channel EEG platform that gives… Read the rest of the article: Open source brain-computer interface for makers

SPONSORED: This post is presented by the Toyota RAV4 EV. Because innovation can be measured in miles, kilowatts and cubic feet. Learn more at toyota.com/rav4ev Alexander Calder's (1898-1976) father was… Read the rest of the article: Alexander Calder, the artist who redefined sculpture

They waste no time! (Via Dooby Brain)

Our friends at Neatoshop (who make and sell our Boing Boing merchandise) are now selling a Cool Tools T-shirt, too! (Cool Tools is the review website I run with Kevin… Read the rest of the article: Cool Tools T-Shirt

Magic Transistor is an excellent online radio station with a cool photo Tumblr, which is where I saw this picture of The Joker posing with a custom surfboard. Why isn't… Read the rest of the article: The Joker goes surfing

Subscribe to Happy Mutants RSS Subscribe in iTunes | Download this episode Happy Mutants is an occasional podcast of interviews with creative people. In this episode, I interviewed Mark Williams… Read the rest of the article: Happy Mutants podcast 001: creators of the Firefly vaporizer

This ancient Peruvian telephone was unearthed in the 1930s by Baron Walram V. Von Schoeler, "a shadowy Indiana Jones-type adventurer." The gourd-and-twine device, created 1,200 to 1,400 years ago, remains… Read the rest of the article: 1,200 year old telephone

The Daily Show presents President Obama's barefaced lies about NSA surveillance. The lesson: if the President says the NSA is not doing it, then the NSA is doing it.

After working as a volunteer usher, Matthew Lew reimagined Ticketmaster's hard-to-read tickets. His ticket stripped out the redundant info, made the seating information clear, added an anti-counterfeiting strip, and is… Read the rest of the article: Proposed redesign of Ticketmaster's ugly and confusing tickets

The Drawings of Laurie Lipton, published by Last Gasp, is a comprehensive survey of Lipton’s fantastical, meticulously detailed, hand-drawn images. Gallery below is NSFW

David McRaney, host of Boing Boing's most popular podcast, You Are Not So Smart, just posted this fun video about "The Post Hoc Fallacy" ("just because B follows A doesn't… Read the rest of the article: New York City's placebo buttons and "The Post Hoc Fallacy"

When I was a kid, I devoured Frank Edwards' 1959 book of weird "true" stories, Stranger Than Science, and C.B. Colby's book of "hair raisers and incredible happenings," called Strangely… Read the rest of the article: Now I Know: The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

Welcome to the first episode in an on-going series about Augustus Gladstone, created from footage not used in the motion picture The Immortal Augustus Gladstone, Boing Boing's first movie, written… Read the rest of the article: Augustus Gladstone Speaks – a teaser for Boing Boing's first movie

Hilowbrow publisher Joshua Glenn released a new book in his Radium Age Science Fiction Library series, a gorgeous paperback edition of Muriel Jaeger’s long-unobtainable thriller The Man with Six Senses.… Read the rest of the article: The Man with Six Senses – a Radium Age science fiction thriller

Bathtime Santa looks up to no good, what with the mischievous wink and thumbtacks. (Via Mostly Forbidden Zone)

Subscribe to Apps for Kids Subscribe in iTunes | Download this episode | Stitcher Apps for Kids is sponsored by Little Blueprint: Personalized and ready-made children's books based on brain… Read the rest of the article: Apps for Kids 053: Plants vs. Zombies graphic novel