This is the Boing Boing post that introduces you to the phrase vibrator bomb: "A Minnesota man is facing felony charges after police discovered that he had retrofitted a vibrator,… Read the rest of the article: Gentleman arrested for building and attempting to deliver "vibrator bomb" to ex-girlfriend

Over at Good.is: "Early Tuesday evening, approximately 250,000 gallons of beef fat spilled out of a shore-based storage tank owned by Jacob Stern & Sons, an agri-products company specializing in… Read the rest of the article: Deep Lard Horizon: 250,000 gallons of beef fat spill in Houston Ship Channel

[Video Link]. Not sure who produced this, but it's super cute and it's making the rounds. [via Flavorwire, also seen on MeFi, Le Monde, Cyberpresse] (thanks, Russ Marshalek)

UPDATE, 01-07-2011: From Jeff Jardine, the Modesto Bee writer behind this story: "Mr. Vogelzang called this morning to say they're all gone." 87-year-old Pete Vogelzang had reproductions made of a… Read the rest of the article: Elderly gentleman wants to give away reproductions of 1839 atlas (UPDATED)

Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer, has been charged with leaking information to New York Times reporter James Risen. While the Justice Department document doesn't state the nature of the… Read the rest of the article: Former CIA officer charged with leaking info to NYT's Risen

Salon reports that truckloads of the caffeinated alchoholic beverage Four Loko are being converted into ethanol fuel after the FDA's warning the beverage is dangerous and causes users to become… Read the rest of the article: From drink to drive: Four Loko recycled as ethanol

UPDATE: By popular demand, Sad James Van Der Beek, shocked cat and Sad Keanu are now in attendance (you're welcome, @brianstovall, @andrea_ball, and all else who chimed in). Additional sad… Read the rest of the article: Sad John Boehner and Sad Don Draper (Update: by popular demand, now with Sad Glenn Beck, Tiny Sad Keanu, Sad James Van Der Beek)

A Hindu ascetic woman adjusts her hair after taking a dip in the Ganges river in Kolkata January 4, 2011. Hindu ascetics and pilgrims are making the annual trip to… Read the rest of the article: India: Holy Hobos (photo gallery)

Link. (Via Submitterator, thanks Lobster)

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) reports that workers at the international emergency medical aid organization treated victims of mass rape on New Year's Day in the Democratic… Read the rest of the article: In Congo, mass rape on New Year's Day

VF's feature on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now available online. Snip: The partnership between The Guardian and WikiLeaks brought together two desperately ambitious organizations that happen to be diametric… Read the rest of the article: Vanity Fair profiles Julian Assange: Wikileaks threatened to sue Guardian over leaked cables

The December issue of French Vogue, edited by Tom Ford, features an extensive spread of child models presented more or less like whores. The girl above is 6. Lemme spell… Read the rest of the article: Pedocouture: In Vogue magazine, 6-year-olds are sex vixens

Steven Aftergood at FAS: "The Obama Administration is moving to increase the security of classified information in response to the massive leaks of classified documents to Wikileaks in recent months.… Read the rest of the article: US tightening security and secrecy, post-Wikileaks

"They should be indicted under the Espionage Act. … The New York Times is just basically being a mouthpiece for political correctness." Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the new US Homeland… Read the rest of the article: Incoming US Homeland Security Chairman: NYT should be indicted for espionage

The government of Romania has updated labor laws to officially recognize witchcraft as a profession, part of a "drive to crack down on widespread tax evasion in a country that… Read the rest of the article: Romania declares witchcraft a legally-recognized (and taxable) profession, pisses off witches

The New York Times reports that in a region of Brazil where people savor ants as a tasty treat, there are fears the culinary tradition may soon die out: pesticides… Read the rest of the article: Brazilians who dine on ants perturbed by pesticides on plants

(photos: REUTERS/Nir Elias) A veterinarian places Tzvika, an injured female turtle, on a carpet at the Wildlife Hospital in the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv January 5, 2011. Now… Read the rest of the article: Cute little injured turtle now has wheels: "They see me rollin, they hatin"

(UPDATE: fixed, at right, by Andrea James) Bieber won the cover. But *inside* the February issue of Vanity Fair, a feature on Wikileaks teased as WIKIGATE: The Twisted Inside Story… Read the rest of the article: Bieber vs. Assange for Vanity Fair cover boy

The strange saga of a 32-year-old barefoot and bedreadlocked gentleman named James D'Zilva appears to be at an end. Wanted in the stabbing of a policeman, he has evaded police… Read the rest of the article: Real-life "Encino Man" caught in Australia

Via the Boing Boing Submitterator, reader Matt Hawkins shares this Papercraft Andy Warhol, which you can download and build yourself with this PDF.