Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and CICLOPS director, writes: One of the most gorgeous sights we have been privileged to see at Saturn, as the arrival of spring to… Read the rest of the article: The Red Rose of Saturn
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Xeni Jardin "After considerable speculation since Record Store Day, we can reveal that the new album by Boards of Canada Tomorrow's Harvest will be released on Tuesday June 11th in North America on Warp Records."
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Xeni Jardin Rob gave our Boing Boing video post archives a sweet makeover this weekend, check it out! Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video page: •… Read the rest of the article: Check out our all-new Boing Boing video archives, now with 500% more fanciness
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Xeni Jardin Today here in Guatemala, the genocide trial of former US-backed military dictator Rios Montt and his head of military intelligence Rodriguez Sanchez remains on hold after a series of legal… Read the rest of the article: In case you missed: Xeni's updates from Guatemala on genocide trial
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Xeni Jardin DJ Wicho Lopez is the best-known local ambassador of one of the more interesting musical genres to take root here in Guatemala of late: moombahton, a mix of house and reggaeton and whatever else the DJ feels like throwing in.
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Xeni Jardin Robert Popper (electrocuted) and Peter Serafinowicz (electrocuted) are back with a new "instructional film made by The Visitors for Human Collaborators on Edité-Frignim (Earth)." Markets of Britain, a short… Read the rest of the article: Building a Human: new retrofuturist short by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz
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Xeni Jardin PHOTO: James Rodríguez/mimundo.org. "Protest demanding continuation of Genocide trial aganst Rios Montt." A brief Saturday update from Guatemala, where the genocide trial of former US-backed military dictator Rios Montt and… Read the rest of the article: Guatemala: Genocide trial may soon restart; Obama to meet with Central American leaders
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Xeni Jardin "We were there like that. We do this day in, day out. This is what we do. We went over and when I put that [infrared camera] on the boat,… Read the rest of the article: Boston troopers recount aerial spotting of bombing suspect in boat
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Xeni Jardin Here's a nifty Wikipedia entry: List of British words not widely used in the United States. One must be very careful not to confuse one's "bell-ends" with one's "fag ends."… Read the rest of the article: List of British words not widely used in the United States
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Xeni Jardin "A team of computer engineers from Vanderbilt University's Institute of Software Integrated Systems has made such a scenario possible by developing an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can… Read the rest of the article: An app with which to track gunfire from your smartphone
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Xeni Jardin The body of 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi was "pulled from the water off India Point Park in Rhode Island," reports USA Today. Sunil was the student mistakenly linked to the Boston… Read the rest of the article: Student wrongly linked to Boston bombings (by Reddit users) found dead
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Xeni Jardin Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku blogs about a neat idea for a hair style from a stylist in Japan. It's called "Ripe Tomato" ("kanjuku tomato" or 完熟トマト), and was created by… Read the rest of the article: In Japan, a new hairdo idea: "Ripe Tomato"
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Xeni Jardin "Law enforcement agencies regularly turn to sites like Websleuths.com to help crack cold cases. Maybe there's hope for Reddit," writes Tim Murphy in a piece at Mother Jones. Redditors have,… Read the rest of the article: In defense of Reddit (with regard to the Boston bombing, and crowdsourced sleuthing)
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Xeni Jardin Once again, America's government screws over cancer patients: "Most of Medicare was shielded from the sequester, but because chemotherapy is funded by part of the program that was not, clinics… Read the rest of the article: US budget sequester means thousands of chemotherapy patients on Medicare turned away
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Xeni Jardin In Iceland, Wikileaks has won a victory against a financial blockade on donations. "The court upheld a district court's ruling that MasterCard's local partner, Valitor, illegally ended its contract with… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks wins in Iceland's Supreme Court court over credit card payment blockade
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Xeni Jardin In Guatemala City today, a demonstration to honor Monsignor Juan José Gerardi Conedera, and to call for the genocide trial of Rios Montt to continue. Image: NISGUA. Today here in… Read the rest of the article: Guatemala: March for assassinated priest, and justice, as genocide trial remains in limbo
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Xeni Jardin This video "captures that extraordinary moment when Judge Barrios ruled to continue the trial."
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Xeni Jardin An important lesson about unique occupational hazards
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Xeni Jardin HuffPo profiles Cheryl Fiandaca, the bureau chief of public information for the Boston police department, a former attorney and television journalist. The @Boston_Police's "CAPTURED!" tweet was retweeted about 143,000 times.
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Xeni Jardin We've gathered fresh video for you to surf and enjoy on the Boing Boing video page. The latest finds for your viewing pleasure include: • Sweet, nostalgic film about a… Read the rest of the article: Watch the latest video posts in our Boing Boing video archives