Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel collaborated with a French filmmaker to create an erotic short film called Rites d'Amour et de Maths; in it, a doomed mathematician discovers the formula… Read the rest of the article: Mathematician makes Mishima-inspired erotic film

Best known for his "irresponsible" art/game Lose/Lose — which deletes files from your hard drive every time you take aim at its retro-pixel-invaders and was classified as malicious by Symantec… Read the rest of the article: Soundshapes: Amit Pitaru/Zach Gage bring Sonic Wire Sculptor to iPhone

Internal memos recently posted to the BBC Archive reveal that Doctor Who's "regenerations," in which the Time Lord was replaced by a new actor, were meant to convey the experience… Read the rest of the article: Dr. Who's "regeneration" meant to be like bad acid trip

COOP scanned his collection of 1970s vintage Popy toy catalogs from Japan. According to Wikipedia, Popy was founded in 1971 as a subsidiary of Bandai and was "best known for… Read the rest of the article: Japanese robot figure catalogs from the 1970s

The unicorn taxidermy above is up for auction right now at Duke's Auctioneers as part of the "Brading Collection of Taxidermy, Waxworks, Costume and Similar Items." The collection is from… Read the rest of the article: Amazing and weird taxidermy auction

Now available as prints at Zazzle, a series of arcade game propaganda posters for Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Frogger and Joust (above) by illustrator Steve Thomas. [via SuperPunch]

Illustrations like this make the cell look like a reef in some alien tropical ocean. Gorgeous! There's more cool biology images where that came from on the A Journey Round… Read the rest of the article: The illustrated cell

I don't remember when I first experienced the work of Czech artist and animator Jan Švankmajer. Maybe late-night arts programming on cable TV, or an obscure indie film fest. His… Read the rest of the article: Svankmajer, Surrealism, and the Sex Pistols: John Cusack

What happens when rats play The Prisoner's Dilemma. (Via Mark Changizi)

One of the things I love best about this video is how journalist Michael Specter does a great job of articulating a sane relationship with technology and progress. We need… Read the rest of the article: The danger of science denialism

Roughly 8 percent of your DNA isn't really human. (How's that for a morning wake-up call?) Instead, it's the de-activated remnants of ancient retroviruses. All viruses hijack host cell machinery… Read the rest of the article: Resurrecting ancient viruses

Design for the First World: The Rest Saving the West: a design competition that challenges residents of the poor and developing world to produce designs to save the rich first… Read the rest of the article: Design contest for the developing world: save the rich world from itself

Johannes from the Austrian net-kook-art group Monochrom sez, "monochrom is a magazine object appearing in telephone book format, which is published by the art/tech group of the same name. monochrom… Read the rest of the article: Monochrom phatzine: telephone-book-sized cyberculture zine

Michael Geist sez, "Over the weekend, over 100 people gathered in Wellington, New Zealand for the PublicACTA conference. As Boing Boing has noted, the resulting Wellington Declaration is a must-read… Read the rest of the article: The Truth About ACTA: Video

Today marks the 15th anniversary of HarperVoyager, the excellent British science fiction line by whom I'm privileged to be published in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other… Read the rest of the article: Happy 15th anniversary, HarperVoyager

Warlocks v. Nazi X-men!

South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker speak with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin.

Meet the newest recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize citation. Damn right. I love this music. It reminds me of my Great-Granpa Frank and Granma Rosella, who'd be frankly tickled… Read the rest of the article: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Hank Williams

Still life with Yars' Revenge, by Hollis Brown Thornton, available in desktop-wallpaper sizes alongside a healthy selection of similarly rustic game-y art at his flickr, some available in print via… Read the rest of the article: Hollis Brown Thornton, Atari & Flower Wallpaper

Wired.com has a fun gallery of robotic spiders and critters. This one, created by Stanford mechanical engineer Sangbae Kim, was based on a cockroach. It has an aluminum chassis, an… Read the rest of the article: Wired's robotic spider gallery