"South Park" co-creators Matt Stone (L) and Trey Parker (R) are teaming up with "Avenue Q" co-creator Robert Lopez to develop a Mormon-themed Broadway musical. "The Book of Mormon" will… Read the rest of the article: South Park's Matt & Trey launch Mormon Broadway musical with Avenue Q co-creator

Even if you missed the third edition of Giant Robot's Game Over art show — which opened alongside this year's Game Developers Conference — a good number of the pieces… Read the rest of the article: Paintings, prints available from Giant Robot's Game Over art show

This piece by photographer Alex Brown is the latest offering at the 20×200 art project, a great site that offers prints of original art at affordable prices. Alex Brown says:… Read the rest of the article: Alex Brown: Untitled (Sad Vader)

Fox News is in an uproar over the Nuclear Security Summit logo, depicting a hydrogen electron in its orbital path around its nucleus, because it looks too much like the… Read the rest of the article: Nuclear summit logo designed by Obama to appeal to Muslims, says noted wingnut

Prison escapees Maximiliano Pereyra and Ariel Diaz reportedly evaded police for a week by wearing sheep hides stolen from a local farm. From The Telegraph: They used their disguises to… Read the rest of the article: Escaped inmates dress as sheep

As I've written on BB before, Brion Gysin is one of my favorite artists, and his thinking and interests influenced me in myriad ways. Gysin is perhaps best known as… Read the rest of the article: History of the Dream Machine

Matt from the Library of Congress writes, "Have you ever sent out a 'tweet' on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be… Read the rest of the article: Library of Congress to archive every public tweet ever sent

David Ng, a biologist at the University of British Columbia, has created an launched a free/open card-trading game that uses Pokemon-style mechanics to teach biodiversity. It's a wonderful concept and… Read the rest of the article: Biodiversity open card game, like Pokemon for science

Local favorite illustrator Ghostpatrol (previously featured here) does vague tribute to computer game classic International Karate+, available as a crazy-limited Gocco print direct from the source.

Sadly, neither is "giant" or "mega", but it's still pretty interesting. Previously: Tool-using animals: Now with 100% more invertebrates! Octopus cam: Your key to a happier day Behind the meme:… Read the rest of the article: Octopus vs. Sea Lion

For a photo gallery in Burn Magazine, NY-based Indian photographer Manjari Sharma invited people into come to her apartment, take a shower, and let her photograph them. Link [via @tonymcnicol]

This week, Boing Boing partners Pesco, Cory, Mark, Xeni, and managing editor Rob Beschizza found themselves all in one city at the same time—a most rare occurrence!—and this photo is… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing yearbook photo, 2010

A snip shown above. View the full faux form here at the New York Times. Created by designer Sam Potts. (via thisisisnthappiness thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

Eric Rautio's cat Iggy goes paws-on with the iPad and discovers he loves the Noby Noby Boy app almost as much as we do. Time to add an entire new… Read the rest of the article: Video: Cat Vs. iPad

Gene Luen Yang's comic storybook Prime Baby is a delight: Thaddeus is the older sibling to an adorable toddler, and he hates it. What's more, he's sure something's up with… Read the rest of the article: Prime Baby: kids comic story about kid sister who's more trouble than most

Update again: The search for truth goes on: yesterday morning, I blogged a study from the Cornucopia Institute on the use of the neurotoxin hexane in production of soyburgers, which… Read the rest of the article: Soyburgers laced with neurotoxins — UPDATED AGAIN

John Scalzi is a giant fan of H Beam Piper's classic science fiction novel Little Fuzzy (as am I — it's the first sf novel I bought for myself, from… Read the rest of the article: John Scalzi is a Fuzzy

This week's Search Engine podcast from TVOntario's Jesse Brown features an interview with the head spokesman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, brought on to explain why the publicly funded broadcaster… Read the rest of the article: CBC totally fails to explain why it expects Canadians to get permission to use public media

Thinking about going digging for gold in the dumpsters around your town? Start with the FAQ at Dumpsterworld, the online community for skip-spelunkers: There's many reasons that perfectly good things… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO Dumpster-dive

Jacques Pense designed this award-winning stationery for 13th Street, the German horror network. It has given me a scorching case of stationery envy. If I got a letter on this… Read the rest of the article: Horrifying stationery