British science writer Ed Yong's new book I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life is a history of gut flora and bacteria, which first… Read the rest of the article: Your microbial nation: how bacteria went from menace to superfood
Lenny Grekko says: "Last night we were camping in the Adirondacks and a bear opened the door of my neighbors car looking for food. He got in and destroyed it… Read the rest of the article: Bear tears automobile to shreds
Isn't this the way everyone who rides Ryanair boards their plane?
In 2007, Trump was suing a reporter who exposed unflattering facts about his true level of wealth. The Washington Post reports on a 2007 deposition, related to Donald Trump's failed… Read the rest of the article: In private dealings, Trump lies constantly and without apparent purpose
Lewis from Birmingham, UK is a young man who makes videos about tech support scammers. In this video, he interviews a scammer from Delhi, India who tells Lewis that he… Read the rest of the article: A tech support scammer explains his trade
Ah da dah dahr rah, escrong, ryahh, hrheh, sigit, i-wahn i-dinninumm. If Kanye is smart, he'll package these up a la George Clinton's three volume Sample Some of Disc, Sample… Read the rest of the article: Supercut: Kanye's favorite noises
The LA Times investigates the many, fragmentary, much-revised storyline of the Haunted Mansion, the greatest ride that Disney ever built (though Walt himself had to die before the constraints he… Read the rest of the article: The story of the story of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion
Public transit upholstery is a marvel of stain-resistance, long-wearing durability and bizarre abstract patterns meant to deny the shifting conventions of fashion: all these make it (semi-)perfect for "Bustour," German… Read the rest of the article: Designer makes clothes out of German transit upholstery fabric, rides trains
As the highly controversial deaths of black people at the hands of American law enforcement officers has crept into our public discourse this decade, so too has the revelation that… Read the rest of the article: America will finally gather statistics on which and how many people are killed by law enforcement
I've traveled to Japan many times over the decades and seen some really strange shit.
I was born in 1958, a tail-end Baby Boomer, and as a young boy—evidently like a lot of others—I faithfully read Famous Monsters of Filmland every month and spent an… Read the rest of the article: Returning to the Return of Dracula
Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH all "Illegals" are directed to report to their local Deportation Center, for their necessary and just expulsion from the USA.
In the 15 years between 1997 and 2012: 72,000 small US manufacturers shut down; as did 108,000 local retailers and 13,000 community banks (fully half of America's complement of small… Read the rest of the article: Monopoly power and the decline of small business: big business vs democracy, growth & equality
Swingify attempts to turn any song into a swing version of itself. Upload an audio file, select the hardness of swing you prefer, and listen.
Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "I just got back from the big debate on is free law like free beer that has been brewing for months at the American Bar… Read the rest of the article: American Bar Association votes to DRM the law, put it behind a EULA
Castles is a fascinating web toy by Nico Disseldorp. Left-click to add a castle to the outside of your castle—and watch as every part of the castle, including the added… Read the rest of the article: Create a fractal castle made of miniature copies of itself
Buried nearly 2,000 years ago in Serbia, rolls of gold and silver etched with "magic spells" are baffling archaologists. Reuters reports on a "Middle Eastern mystery" unearthed at the site… Read the rest of the article: Mystery magic spells, etched on gold, unearthed in Serbia
Monday: Titties ✔ Tuesday: Assassinations ✔ Wednesday: Global Thermonuclear War Thursday: Strategic Interplanetary Atmospheric Annihilation Friday: Universal Quantum Timescale Collapse
From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool: SuppaDuppa 666's You can't imagine how fun is summer for a Wookie.
