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
Drew Hayes' Fred the Vampire accountant series is hilarious! I'd been waiting for his third installment, Bloody Acquisitions. Fred was boring in life, in death he isn't much better. Turned… Read the rest of the article: Fred the Vampire Accountant, Book 3: Bloody Acquisitions
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Smart About Sharks by Owen Davey Flying Eye Books 2016, 40 pages, 9.2 x 11.5 x 0.5 inches $17 Buy a copy… Read the rest of the article: Smart About Sharks – Filled with fascinating bite-sized shark facts
Josh Spencer is the owner of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles. I haven't been there yet, but after seeing this video I plan to visit asap. This video profile… Read the rest of the article: The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles is a cool, huge indy bookstore
Everybody knows that if you want to earn the big bucks these days, you need to learn how to code. Luckily, you don't even need to spend thousands on grad… Read the rest of the article: Kiss your boring job goodbye—you're about to learn how to program
