There's a cleaning company here in Dubai that will send a man dressed in a Spiderman outfit to clean your windows. According to AMEinfo.com, this service already exists in France… Read the rest of the article: If you live in Dubai, you can get Spiderman to clean your windows

A neat idea from Ian Collins. Make an iPad stand from its own packaging.

CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART/HEINZ FAMILY FUND Charles 'Teenie' Harris (1908-1998) sitting in chair with his son, Charles Harris Jr., c. 1930-1950. Black and white, Agfa Safety Film. According to those… Read the rest of the article: Community Curation: The Everlasting Archive of Charles "Teenie" Harris

Also at TEDx London, Jeff Skoll — eBay's first president, founder of Participant Media, and the namesake for the conference that had brought us to the UK in the first… Read the rest of the article: Jeff Skoll's poem about the volcano

Here's another example showing that the more important and powerful you are, the less likely you are to use email, text messaging, instant messaging, or other forms of electronic communication… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court justices reveal profound ignorance of ask important questions about text messaging and email

You are about to witness the cutest thing to ever cute. Pretty much. Think of it as a Unicorn Chaser to that Tea Party video. Naturally (because Wednesday is my… Read the rest of the article: Forget swimming with dolphins, the cool kids are cuddling with elephant seals

One of the great things about being in London when the volcano halted our flights home this past weekend was that I was stranded with some of the greatest philanthropists… Read the rest of the article: Video: Larry Brilliant on the volcano and climate change

Ruben Bolling is the author of the weekly comic strip "Tom the Dancing Bug," and we're delighted to have him here with us at Boing Boing. "Tom" won the 2009… Read the rest of the article: Introducing Tom the Dancing Bug @ Boing Boing

Jeff Wise of Fast Company went to Belize to profile 64-year-old John McAfee, the eccentric bad-boy founder of the McAffee antivirus company. With at least five civil lawsuits hounding him,… Read the rest of the article: Lawsuit-plagued McAfee founder hunts for libido-boosting herbs in Belize

Michael Geist sez, As the ACTA negotiating countries promised, a draft consolidated text was released earlier today. Unlike the earlier leaked version which provided specific attribution to country positions, this… Read the rest of the article: ACTA draft text released: nearly identical to leaks

The folks who attended Tax Day Tea Party 2010 put this know-it-all interviewer in his place. Bonus ukulele girl segment: The lovely Victoria Jackson plays a ditty for itty bitty… Read the rest of the article: Words of wisdom from Tax Day Tea Party protestors

Meet Bennett Grassano. His wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl in San Francisco last Thursday, but he hasn't been able to get home to see his daughter because… Read the rest of the article: Bennett needs to get out of volcano land to meet his newborn baby

Progress City, USA has a long and comprehensive look at the planning and early prototypes for EPCOT Center (now Epcot) at Walt Disney World. It's a fascinating, year-by-year look at… Read the rest of the article: EPCOT Center's early history

Ben Cato Clough and Luke Upchurch's "When Copyright Goes Bad" (from Consumers International) is a great, 15-minute mini-documentary on what copyright can do, what it is doing, and what it… Read the rest of the article: When Copyright Goes Bad – documentary

Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord sat down with me for an interview with Xeni after the South African rap-rave band's first-ever US performance at Coachella.

Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy can help you understand this miracle of the cosmos. His post on 10 Things You Didn't Know About Comets does include some things I already… Read the rest of the article: F*#$^@*in' comets, how do they work?

Looking to game Google's copyright enforcement bot? That's the system that was used to hunt down rogue Hitler videos that remixed the bunker scene from Downfall, and it's pretty thick:… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO sneak Hitler onto YouTube

"The 1947 Radarange was a whopping six feet tall, weighed nearly 750 pounds, and required its own 220 volt electrical line and a dedicated water line for the cooling tube.… Read the rest of the article: Microwave ovens: The early years

You know SETI, the nice folks out in California who scan the stars for radio transmissions, hoping to find evidence of E.T. You are probably also aware that this strategy… Read the rest of the article: Space archaeologists!

Samarium is a rare-earth element that can have a half-life of 106 billion years. You'll note that the entire freaking capital-U Universe, itself, is only around 14 billion years old.… Read the rest of the article: The Methuselah of elements