A limo driver who worked under contract for Uber has been accused of raping a 20-year-old customer. [Washington Post]

Join Boing Boing and high-end headphone maker Audeze at the South by Southwest music fest for a night of dope-ass beats.

Space history buffs are racing against time to preserve historic lunar mission data stored on dusty old analog tapes. And they need your help.

Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich are planning a special series of live DJ sets for the Atoms for Peace album launch.

In a closed door meeting, Democrats demanded that President Obama be more transparent about drones, secret legal memos, and "kill lists." He declined. In response to a critique by one… Read the rest of the article: Dems to Obama: Be more transparent about drones, kill lists. Obama: Nope.

Matthew Keys, 26, a social media editor for Reuters, has been indicted on charges that he helped members of Anonymous hack the Tribune Co. network in order to deface the… Read the rest of the article: Reuters employee charged with aiding Anonymous in website defacement

A mathematically bountiful Pi Day to you. Miles OBrien forwards this snapshot, taken just now in the PBS NewsHour kitchen by Colleen Shalby. Rebecca Jacobson baked them. I'm sure they're… Read the rest of the article: Happy Pi Day. Who wants some Pi?

Bryan Jones shot this lovely portrait of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. This companion site to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum opened in 2003,… Read the rest of the article: Shuttle Discovery, just chillaxin' at Udvar-Hazy (photo)

The WSJ reports that a 23-year-old man sought by police on charges he raped his 19-year-old girlfriend and subdued her with a powerful stun gun "made his way through a… Read the rest of the article: Rape suspect carries stun-gun past TSA checkpoint at JFK airport

There are a bunch of these. By Sean Tejaratchi.

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi "faced the wrath of hundreds of villagers on Thursday" in Myanmar, reports Reuters. They are angry over her defense of "an independent report that… Read the rest of the article: Myanmar: Villagers angry with Aung Suu Kyi over her support of copper mine

Cory and I have each blogged about Arijit "Poop Strong" Guha, a 31 year-old sustainability PhD student in Arizona living with metastatic colon cancer. Arijit was an interesting guy before… Read the rest of the article: A health update from Arijit "Poop Strong," cancer blogger and awesome guy

"If successful, the prosecution will establish a chilling precedent: national security leaks may subject the leakers to a capital prosecution or at least life imprisonment. Anyone who holds freedom of… Read the rest of the article: Impact of Manning case on media: "Death to Whistleblowers?"

"C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS and new moon," a photo by Rob Pfile shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. "Stack of 14 images, 1/10s @ ISO1600 and f/4. canon 200 f/2.8L… Read the rest of the article: New moon

The Freedom of the Press Foundation (of which I'm a board member) this week released surreptitiously recorded audio leaked from the Bradley Manning military pre-court martial hearing at Fort Meade.… Read the rest of the article: In case you missed: Bradley Manning has a voice

"Arming Sisters" is described as a "crowdfunded project on a mission to bring compact self-defense courses" to indigenous women, "arming them to fight back."

Jason Leopold at Truthout: "A memo sent to more than a dozen government agencies by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says a question added to lie detector tests will… Read the rest of the article: Obama intel chief's memo outlines new steps to deter leaks, including beefing up lie detector questionnaires

"I was reading this CNN article, and thought it needed some context." [IMGUR via @rob_sheridan]

Mexican scientists involved in bio- and nanotechnology have become death threat targets over the past two years. It's not the narcos who want them dead, but "a group of bomb-building… Read the rest of the article: Mexican eco-terrorists declare war on nanotechnology, threaten scientists

Hiroko Tabuchi at the Times reports that Japan has successfully extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, also referred to as "flammable ice." The breakthrough is hailed as a… Read the rest of the article: Japan extracts gas from methane hydrate, 'Flammable Ice'