Nicholas Thompson in The New Yorker: "The climax of the movie Argo takes place at the airport in Tehran. Six Americans, having hidden in Iran for three months, are taking… Read the rest of the article: How a Wired magazine story became Ben Affleck's "Argo"

New Haven Independent: "In the basement of a New Haven housing co-op, tied to a chair at gunpoint, in a vain effort to save his life, Alex Rackley started giving… Read the rest of the article: Black Panther torture "trial" audio recording surfaces

Mat Honan in Wired News: "Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week.… Read the rest of the article: Zendesk: "We've been hacked." Some Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest users affected.

The NYTimes reports that Google "is negotiating with Warby Parker, an e-commerce start-up company that sells trendy eyeglasses, to help it design more fashionable frames."

A must-read by Steven Brill in Time on the brutality of medical bills in America, for cancer patients and others in need of medical care.

A three-year-old girl woth spina bifida "was reduced to tears by TSA screeners on her way to a family vacation in Florida earlier this month." Video at Gothamist.

Matt Alt in Japan says, "You just can't make this kind of thing up. Snapshot from the NHK health/medical show "Tameshite Gatten" last night. I think this answers the question… Read the rest of the article: Japan: "The Shocking True Form of Endometriosis!"

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BB reader Readblood shares this photo in the Boing Boing Flickr pool and explains, Bitblox are wooden alphabet blocks inspired by our pixelated nostalgia. While pixels continue shrinking out of… Read the rest of the article: Bitblox: wooden alphabet blocks inspired by our pixelated nostalgia

In the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, BB reader Dan Bennett shares photos of Yogi and Bambi, two adorable Dachsund puppies who are growing up adorably.

Wired News has a feature on butane hash oil, a highly combustible form of marijuana that is increasingly produced inside the US. Just last week, FEMA posted an odd alert… Read the rest of the article: The golden, explodey menace of hash oil

Playstation 4, from Kotaku's liveblog 'Tis the season for big news in console gaming: both Microsoft and Sony have been expected to announce new hardware. Sony is first with a… Read the rest of the article: Sony unveils "reinvented" Playstation 4

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New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan on the controversy over John M. Broder's NYT review of the Tesla S, which upset Elon Musk and many fans of his electric… Read the rest of the article: NYT public editor weighs in on Tesla/Musk drama, throws Broder under electric car

Federal data to be released this week through the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th year in a row. Most were… Read the rest of the article: Drug OD fatalities up for 11th consecutive year; not one was due to marijuana

From the Boing Boing Flickr pool, a lovely photo of one of my favorite places in greater Los Angeles by Shabdro Photo, a Boing Boing reader and photographer.

'Shoop: XJ. "An alleged illegal marijuana grower reportedly showered his South of Market neighbors with coffee shop gift cards in an apparent attempt at keeping them quiet," reports the San… Read the rest of the article: With Starbucks gift cards, marijuana grow house bribed neighbors not to snitch

In Washington state, where medical pot has been voted legal, the House held a public hearing this week on a bill that would tax medical pot dispensaries 25% on weed… Read the rest of the article: Washington state House panel hears bill to tax medical cannabis sales

"The earliest sawfishes likely arose in the shallow Tethys Sea, that ocean surrounded by the ancient continents of Godwanda and Laurasia, during the Cretaceous period at least 60 million years… Read the rest of the article: An appreciation of the Sawfish, one of Earth's most threatened fish