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(photos: Daisy with fire by Alexia Tsotsis/Andy Wright of SF Weekly. At left, BB banner and Boinged-out Doughboy by bgreensf) We had so much fun at the first-ever Boing Boing… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing Picnic: fire-eaters, dirigibles, magic, and mutants

The ChinaSmack website offers a regularly-updated list of "common Chinese-language internet terms, expressions, acronyms, and slang" so non-Chinese speakers can better understand funny or offensive language used by Chinese speakers… Read the rest of the article: How to talk online smack in Chinese

Just a week after issuing a report titled "iPhone 4's supposed signal woes aren't unique, and may not be serious," Consumer Reports today announces that the iPhone 4 won't go… Read the rest of the article: Consumer Reports "can't recommend iPhone 4" after antenna tests

19-year-old serial criminal Colton Harris-Moore has been caught, in the Carribean. Finally. The 6-foot-five teen was dubbed the "Barefoot Burglar" during his two-year crime spree because of his habit of… Read the rest of the article: Colton Harris-Moore, "Barefoot Bandit," arrested in the Bahamas after 2 years on the lam

An Associated Press investigation shows that there are more than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, and the constellation of aging… Read the rest of the article: More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells waiting to leak in Gulf of Mexico

The government of China this week decided to renew Google's web license. The official Google announcement is here, and background on the story at Wired News, Reuters, and Washington Post.… Read the rest of the article: China renews Google's license, free speech advocates debate principled engagement

A freelance photographer who was taking pictures of a BP refinery in Texas was detained by a BP security official, local police and a man claiming to be with the… Read the rest of the article: Photog detained by cops and BP security guard in Texas

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Click for super grande. The guys at Modern Toss made this as a poster. Sadly, they're all sold out for now. I hope they make more! (via @timoreilly, @gnat and… Read the rest of the article: The Periodic Table of Swearing

Boing Boing folks in Los Angeles, here's one not to miss: On Tuesday July 20, at 11:00pm, at UCB Theater in Hollywood, a "Look Around You DVD Screening & Q… Read the rest of the article: To do in LA: Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz of "Look Around You," live!

The youth photo training group Project Einstein got its start with group of young people living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. One of the participants came up with the… Read the rest of the article: Project Einstein: rural kids in Guatemala photograph their lives

An aquarium director kisses an octopus goodbye before setting it free in the ocean to mate before dying. Larger version of photo here, along with the beautiful story behind it.… Read the rest of the article: Octokiss

Schlock bonanza, you guys! A montage of John Bunnell intros from the long-running COPS "World's Wildest Police Videos": • To protect and serve, it's the sworn duty of every police… Read the rest of the article: Montage of Sheriff John Bunnell "World's Wildest Police Videos" intros

A Los Angeles jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Johannes Mehserle (shown in the photo at left), a white Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer who fatally… Read the rest of the article: Jury reaches verdict in BART police shooting caught on cellphones: involuntary manslaughter

Here in Los Angeles, the big story today is the capture of a suspect in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer case, so named because the killer apparently went dormant for… Read the rest of the article: LA's "Grim Sleeper" serial killer suspect nabbed by DNA and pizza; was he snapped on Google Street View?

This week, NASA announced plans to "land an operational humanoid robot on the moon in 1,000 days." The contractor of choice? Armadillo Aerospace, founded by gaming godfather John D. Carmack… Read the rest of the article: NASA: Robonauts on Moon By 2013

Jim Bohlen, a Greenpeace founder, died this week at age 84. He trained as a US naval radio operator, then obtained an engineering degree and worked for a defense contractor… Read the rest of the article: Greenpeace founder Jim Bohlen has died

The German Data Protection Authority in Hamburg has launched legal action against Facebook, following complaints from people "who had not signed up to Facebook, but whose details had been added… Read the rest of the article: Germany goes after Facebook over claimed privacy violations