Filmmaker Joe Sabia has produced a cinematic study on the social phenomenon that is "Man Smacks." The application of "Man Smacks", in simple English, allows two men to hug each… Read the rest of the article: Man Smacks: Cinematic study on Totally Hetero And Absolutely Not Gay Dude-Huggage

Street Artist and SF Mission District resident Victor Reyes, whose work incorporates a passion for typography that font-o-philes will love, has a show opening at with Robert Berman/E6 Gallery in… Read the rest of the article: To do in SF: Mission muralist Victor Reyes' art opening at E6 Gallery

Random Tangent "fixed" that poster I blogged about having spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport. Terror-veillance posters at LA airport use CNN's "iReport" neologism Moment of TSA surrealist zen… Read the rest of the article: Unattended Bag Scareorrism poster – Fixed!

Update, 10pm PT, July 1: It's back! The YouTube game's creators tell us: "Maker Studios got in touch with the digital department at Summit, got everything cleared up, and the… Read the rest of the article: Awesome Twilight homage YouTube game shut down over copyright infringement claim (UPDATED)

Reports are circulating that director David Fincher imagines Die Antwoord's Yo-Landi Vi$$er in the role of fem-hacker/ass-buster/avenging angel Lisbeth Salander for his upcoming remake of "The Girl With the Dragon… Read the rest of the article: David Fincher's "Girl With Dragon Tattoo" remake starring… Die Antwoord's Yo-Landi?

(Update: Fixed it for ya!) I noticed these new iWatchLA LAPD posters around the parking garage at Los Angeles International Airport this week. I thought it was funny that they're… Read the rest of the article: Terror-veillance posters at LA airport use CNN's "iReport" neologism

Here's an 8-bit, Nintendo-esque homage to the Twilight Saga movie, Eclipse, which opened today to relatively lousy reviews. I think this interactive YouTube game might be more entertaining than the… Read the rest of the article: Twilight Eclipse as 8-bit interactive YouTube video game

This olde-tyme silent movie steampunk homage to Ghostbusters is spectacular. It's a commercial of sorts for a Victorian-themed ghost removal service known as League of STEAM (Supernatural and Troublesome Ectoplasmic… Read the rest of the article: Steampunk Ghostbusters tribute: "Whom Shall You Telegram?"

Boing Boing reader Andy Meehan sent us this amazing photograph of hail that fell in Bozeman, MT today. Yuks aside, that's an amazing hail storm. Andy says there was a… Read the rest of the article: Oh my God look at these giant balls! Of hail, which fell in Bozeman, MT, today.

Ryan Singel at Wired News has been covering the story of reported breaches of privacy for Foursquare users, and the company's horrible (and horribly slow) response to the matter. It… Read the rest of the article: Foursquare cared a lot more about $20M than your privacy

"I know I say this every time I find a picture of an adorable kitten, but please set aside 20 minutes to carefully read this entire email." The news is… Read the rest of the article: Woot CEO's note on Amazon acquisition may be best "We Got Bought!" email ever

Rebecca MacKinnon writes, In his latest blog post, Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond reports that Chinese authorities aren't happy with the automatic redirection of Google.cn to Hong Kong. They… Read the rest of the article: Google and China, continued: Congress examines U.S. investment in Chinese censorship

Micki "Mickipedia" Krimmel's LA-based startup NeighborGoods.net launches nationwide throughout the USA today (before, the service was only available in Southern California). The big idea: borrow and lend stuff with your… Read the rest of the article: Neighborgoods: borrowing, lending, or renting from your neighbors instead of buying new

This week, make-up artists gathered at the Pasadena Convention Center for the International Make-Up Artist Trade Show (IMATS). The event featured Emmy-winning make-up artists, YouTube sensations and students competing with… Read the rest of the article: Zombie pirate will eat your brains: International Make-Up Artist Trade Show

Freelance journalist, photographer, and former Boing Boing guestblogger Susannah Breslin has launched a major new endeavor: The War Project. I've seen it develop over many months, and I'm so excited… Read the rest of the article: The War Project: Susannah Breslin launches Iraq/Afghan war vet interview series

Our Dean Putney took some wonderful photos up at Foo Camp this weekend. I'm bummed I missed it! Top: Heather Knight with Nao the dancing robot, and Eric Wilhelm's baby.… Read the rest of the article: Foo Camp 2010: snapshots by Dean Putney

A gallery of images from the Sinchon-Ri Museum in North Korea, depicting scenes from the Korean war from a North Korean point of view. (thanks, Sean Bonner, via Eric Haller)

Over the weekend, I did something really stupid during a data migration and believed I'd effectively lost/destroyed an important and irreplaceable chunk of my mail archives. I sweated, I cried,… Read the rest of the article: L.A. folks: if your computers stuffs breaks, Computech is a great support shop

Robert Popper finds the weirdest things.

Riot police charge and strike at peaceful protesters at the G20 Summit in Toronto, Canada. The Guardian and other news outlets report that Canada spent a billion dollars on security… Read the rest of the article: Just a mellow afternoon at the G20