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.
Team dolphin all the way, you guys. A woman at SeaWorld Orlando was trying to take a photograph of the marine mammal show with her iPad, when a dolphin popped… Read the rest of the article: Video Shows Dolphin Stealing iPad from Woman at Orlando SeaWorld
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump hit a new low today by suggesting at a campaign rally that "The Second Amendment" could prevent Hillary Clinton from choosing Supreme Court Justices as… Read the rest of the article: At Campaign Rally, Donald Trump Suggests Hillary Clinton Be Shot To Death
Last night in Charles City, Iowa, a freight train car separated from the track as it was changing connections and tipped right into the back of a bar. The name… Read the rest of the article: Freight train goes off tracks and hits perfectly-named bar
My wife Kelly Sparks is design director at Epic Sky, a new fashion brand that's all about empowering young teen and tween girls. Rather than just trying to guess what… Read the rest of the article: New brand empowers teen fashion designers through creativity and business
The Airlander 10 hybrid airplane-airship, the world's longest aircraft at 302 feet long, has emerged from its hangar at Cardington Airfield, Bedfordshire, England.
We've heard countless stories about people brewing up meth in Walmart bathrooms, but now police have found a meth lab underneath a Walmart in Amherst, New York! They discovered the… Read the rest of the article: Meth lab found underneath a Walmart parking lot
