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

One year ago, Hugohugo gifted us the fine Immortan Joe/Uncle Sam mashup; this year, it's Rosie the Riveter meets Dr. Jillian Holtzmann (my all-time science hero!), also available as an… Read the rest of the article: Rosie the Riveter, Ghostbusters edition

UC Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, installed an emergency exit door between Chancellor Nicholas Dirks' office and his conference room so he can escape if protestors violently storm… Read the rest of the article: UC Berkeley chancellor installs office "escape door" as security measure against protesters

Farkle is a simple dice rolling strategy game that we sometimes play. If you have Yahtzee or Tenzi at at home, you can use the dice and these rules. If… Read the rest of the article: Farkle is a fun dice game