Photographer Dave Mead traveled to Anchorage, Alaska last year to shoot portraits of contestants in the 2009 World Beard and Mustache Championship. The Austin, TX-based photographer's work is available for… Read the rest of the article: World Beard and Mustache Champions (photo gallery)

I love this shot of Survival Research Laboratories founder Mark Pauline operating the "Big Arm," which is about to pick up the "Running Machine" in its mecha-maw, then slam it… Read the rest of the article: SRL show photos: man and machine

David H. Brooks, Chairman and CEO of a body-armor firm made rich through fat military contracts, was obsessed with the idea of creating a "memory-erasing pill," and badgered a veterinarian… Read the rest of the article: "There is no memory-erasing pill"

Earlier today, I spoke with Jacob Appelbaum, a volunteer with the WikiLeaks project whose work in other projects related to tech and human rights have been blogged here on Boing… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks: Q&A with Jacob Appelbaum on "The Afghan War Diaries"

An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the… Read the rest of the article: Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history"

Click here to tune into the USTREAM webcast for the SRL show now under way in Petaluma, CA (4-6pm Pacific, Saturday July 24, 2010). Punk roboticists Survival Research Laboratories (SRL)… Read the rest of the article: SRL show live-stream now under way…

And this, friends, is why we do not leave sandwiches in our cars. 17-year-old Ben Story of Larkspur, Colorado, left a peanut butter and jelly in his Toyota one night,… Read the rest of the article: Bearjacking! Sandwich-seeking Ursus americanus invades car, drives it, honks horn, poops, flips out

These photographs of Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Capt. Brian Bews escaping from his CF-18 fighter jet an instant before it crashes into the ground are really quite something. Mr.… Read the rest of the article: Jet pilot ejects from crashing plane at near-zero altitude (photos)

Australia-based Boing Boing reader Alexander Ringis shares this full-on, all-the-way musical tribute to rainbows in video games by Rockethands with singer Brad Power. The remix includes an original music composition,… Read the rest of the article: Double Rainbow tribute video: montage of notable rainbows in video games

Nomskulls! I am not a five year old boy, but I am still dancing a little WANTWANTWANT dance right now. It's a silicone mold you fill with batter, then bake,… Read the rest of the article: Gross-a-licious cupcake molds: open skull with bare brain

A reminder, in case you missed the post earlier this week: Survival Research Laboratories (SRL), the grandfathers of robot performance art, or whatever the hell you call their brand of… Read the rest of the article: Reminder: Free SRL show in Bay Area, Saturday July 24 (pyro/robot/punk/mecha-doom)

Researcher Thomas Ryan wanted to demonstrate the vulnerability of social networks, so he created a fictional analyst alter-ego named "Robin Sage." She was a hot 25-year-old with an MIT degree,… Read the rest of the article: Faux femme fatale finds flaws in social networking security

Designers at the NYC-based consultancy The Way We See The World created these fun drinking glasses from agar agar (a vegan gelatin alternative made from algae) and cast them in… Read the rest of the article: Jelloware: edible, biodegradable, compostable drinking cup concept

An exceedingly unlucky thief named Horatio Toure grabbed an iPhone out of a woman's hands on Monday afternoon in the SoMa area of San Francisco. What she knew, but he… Read the rest of the article: Crimefail (or PR stunt?): thief who grabbed iPhone used in GPS tracking demo promptly caught by cops

Adele Enersen in Helsinki says, "This is my maternity leave hobby. While my baby is taking her nap, I try to imagine her dream and capture it." Mila's Daydreams (via… Read the rest of the article: Mila's Daydreams: mom photographs what her baby might be dreaming

A helpful infographic plotting the evolution of juggalos throughout time. (thanks, Chris)

Above, two works by artist Colin Christian. Matthew Bone has a neat post up about this guy at Nerdist. A hopeful idealist, the women of Colin's armada are the amalgams… Read the rest of the article: Colin Christian's "silicone lady art"

"To betray a source would be to betray myself, my career and my life. I cannot do it."—Journalist and commentator Daniel Schorr, who worked with Edward R. Murrow and had… Read the rest of the article: Daniel Schorr, journalist and commentator, RIP

Enjoy the totally non-NSFW video titled "Dildo Knight Destroys Opponent." (thanks, Antinous!)

Cory Bernat has curated an extensive online image gallery of war-era government posters related to food, food production, farming, backyard gardening, and rationing. The images come from the US National… Read the rest of the article: Beans are bullets: War-era food posters