I touch down at Narita Airport on schedule and feel lucky to have just missed Typhoon Faxai, a category 3 storm which had passed through the area hours earlier. I'd… Read the rest of the article: No trains or buses from Narita to Tokyo after the category 3 typhoon = chaos for thousands

In this time of national trauma and political chaos where everyone is being a total shit to each other and the only thing all the sides can agree on is… Read the rest of the article: How about we fix America by just turning Oklahoma into a giant lake?

I stared, face lathered up, sweat dripping, hand shaking, into the fogging mirror in my bathroom almost every day for over 2 weeks before I built up the courage to… Read the rest of the article: Switching to a straight razor

The fine folks at COILHOUSE magazine (mentioned many a time here in the past, and who featured Xeni and Boing Boing Video in issue 3 have just put made available… Read the rest of the article: Back issues of COILHOUSE now available digitally

The photo sharing/social network app Color launched last week, and much fuss was made for a variety of reasons: massive media hype, massive funding, and a complete lack of documentation… Read the rest of the article: iPhone app store of "Color" may be best app store review ever

[Video Link] Veena Malik is a Pakistani actress who appeared on the very popular Indian TV show Bigg Boss (the Indian version of Big Brother). In the clip above, a… Read the rest of the article: Pakistani Actress Veena Malik schools a mullah about Islam

[video link] This eyewitness video of the March 11 tsunami striking Japan shows how, in under 10 minutes, a harbor in Oirase Town, Aomori Prefecture goes from business as usual… Read the rest of the article: Tsunami vs Japanese Harbor

[click chart to embiggen] There has been much talk of radiation exposure levels in the news, and here on Boing Boing, this past week. But it can be hard to… Read the rest of the article: XKCD's radiation dose chart

One issue that has emerged during the nuclear crisis in Japan is that there isn't always a reliable source for radiation levels from specific areas. RDTN.org has just launched, an… Read the rest of the article: RDTN.org: crowdsourcing and mapping radiation levels

Click to play [Video Link] – I've just stumbled across the pilot episode of The Silver Lake Badminton And Adventurers Club. I found it very amusing, and not just because… Read the rest of the article: The Silver Lake Badminton And Adventurers Club

The Christchurch cafe is a site where you can buy virtual items you might find in a coffee shop, from a $2 espresso to a $300 espresso machine. This is… Read the rest of the article: Virtual Cafe opens to help New Zealand Earthquake victims

Last week I was excited to announce the birth of Coffee Common, a project of coffee enthusiasts (one of them being me) coming together to improve the experience of coffee… Read the rest of the article: Coffee Common: roasters roast one other at TED

After observing the growing unrest and correspondingly violent crackdown in Libya, a group of hackers conceived and launched Operation Libya White Fax: while the internet and data connections are being… Read the rest of the article: Operation "Libya White Fax"

(photos by Kyle Glanville) I take my coffee pretty seriously. So the idea of some of the most respected names in the coffee business—who, under normal circumstances, consider one another… Read the rest of the article: Coffee Common Launches

I found this video about the Honey Badger to be very educational. (NSFW)

[Video Link] The Los Angeles hackerspace CRASHspace, of which I am a co-founder, took a drive out to California's Mojave desert to visit the Friends of Amateur Rocketry and deliver… Read the rest of the article: Visit to Friends of Amateur Rocketry, in Mojave desert

[Editor's note: Pesco posted about these weaponized writing implements here last year; today, enjoy a hands-on from guestblogger Sean Bonner. —XJ] What the crap is a tactical pen? A pen… Read the rest of the article: The fun, exciting, potentially deadly world of Tactical Pens

This video first hit the internets last year—but it's no less cool now. From the description: Father and Son team launch an iphone into space. The iphone along with a… Read the rest of the article: Father & Son launch iPhone into Space

The citizens of Fort Wayne, Indiana really do love their former Mayor Harry Baals, and they're about to have the most awesomely named public facility in the history of all… Read the rest of the article: The people of Fort Wayne, Indiana love Harry Baals

That's right. Joy Division's "Transmission" as performed by Playmobil toys in stop motion. It's right in all the wrong ways. [Video Link]