[Video Link] Cindy Jacobs, a "respected prophet," says birds and fish may be dying off en masse because of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In other words: buttsecks… Read the rest of the article: What's causing the mysterious mass animal die-offs? Buttsecks.

[Video Link] "At Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and aboard the International Space Station, flight controllers and the Expedition 26 crew paused to observe a National… Read the rest of the article: NASA: ISS Crew in space observe national moment of silence

The 10th Annual No Pants Subway Ride took place on Sunday, January 9, 2011, with 3,500 participants in New York City and thousands more in 50 cities across the world.… Read the rest of the article: Improv Everywhere No Pants Subway Ride 2011: Big Photo Gallery (dubiously SFW)

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A surprisingly strong editorial from the Los Angeles Times on the conditions under which alleged Wikileaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held: "Regardless of one's view of his alleged… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks: LA Times editorial on "inhumane imprisonment" of Bradley Manning

A photograph contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Laser Bread, aka Brock Davis, who lives in Minneapolis, MN.

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Update: This guy was just the cabbie. Image, from a grocery store surveillance camera: "A Caucasian male, approximately 40-50 years old, dark hair, last seen wearing blue jeans and a… Read the rest of the article: Second person of interest sought in Arizona shooting

The day after 9/11 here on Boing Boing, Cory pointed to this essay: "Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics: a bang-on mock-editorial about the forthcoming tide… Read the rest of the article: Why the [shootings] Mean That We Must Support My Politics

James Fallows in The Atlantic: "Shootings of political figures are by definition 'political.' That's how the target came to public notice; it is why we say 'assassination' rather than plain… Read the rest of the article: Fallows: "The Cloudy Logic of 'Political' Shootings"

"The massacre in Tucson is, in a sense, irrelevant to the important point. Whatever drove Jared Lee Loughner, America's political frequencies are full of violent static."— George Packer, in the… Read the rest of the article: George Packer: "It doesn't matter why he did it."

[Video Link] Today, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others were shot in Tucson, Arizona. Six of the shooting victims were killed. Police say Giffords was the target of the… Read the rest of the article: The YouTube videos of Arizona shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner, with full text transcripts

UPDATE, 11:59AM PT: Tucson, AZ University Medical Center on CNN: Gifford is alive, and in surgery. "I can confirm that she was shot in the head," said a hospital spokesperson.… Read the rest of the article: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords shot in Arizona, was on Palin's infamous "target" map (Updated)

Won't someone plz think of teh kitteh? A photograph contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by Boing Boing reader Latente, of Milan, Italy.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has secured the services of a public relations firm "after a series of damaging blows to his image," reports the Sydney Morning Herald. "He's appointed London… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks and Julian Assange hire a PR firm

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered Twitter to hand over data associated with multiple user accounts, in preparation for legal action related to Wikileaks. "There are many WikiLeaks supporters listed… Read the rest of the article: US orders Twitter to hand over account data on Wikileaks and multiple Wikileaks supporters

Can you identify them all? Here is the earlier post, and here is a related must-read story by my pal John Schwartz at the New York Times: "In Defense of… Read the rest of the article: Ultimate Cavalcade of Sad Guys

If the hunch at Boy Genius Report is to be believed, we'll have iPhones on Verizon as early as February 3. Please FSM please.

A photograph of a work by Tara Donovan in the MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) exhibit "Viva la Revolucion," contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by Boing Boing… Read the rest of the article: Viva la Revolución: Tara Donovan (BB Flickr Pool)

Editor's note: Boing Boing's Radical Natural Living series continues. We brought you a year of bathing without soap, 18 months without shampoo, and the joy of alarm-clock-less living. Now, cooking… Read the rest of the article: Burning With Pride: How I Gave Up Spatulas and Learned to Embrace Pain