A poisonous spider bit artist Matthew Woodson, and the medical treatment is expensive. He's accepting commissions to offset the costs of the treatment, which is expected to last eight months.… Read the rest of the article: Artist taking commissions to pay for spider bite treatment

Bauhaus artist Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack designed these Optischer Farbmischer (optical color mixer) tops in the early 1920s. Reproductions by Naef are available from Fawn & Forest for $49. From the product… Read the rest of the article: Bauhaus tops

Wildlife photographer Hal Brindley captured amazing photos of a leopard attacking a crocodile in Kruger National Park, South Africa. You can see all of the photos and also a video… Read the rest of the article: Leopard attacks crocodile

Del-Byzanteens was a No Wave band in the early 1980s whose line-up included film director/keyboardist Jim Jarmusch on keyboards. Actor/musician John Lurie sometimes played with them too and writer Luc… Read the rest of the article: Del-Byzanteens, featuring Jim Jarmusch and John Lurie

Frank Calloway draws pen, marker, and crayon murals on butcher block paper, some more than 30 feet long. Calloway is 112 years old and has lived in mental hospitals since… Read the rest of the article: Frank Calloway, 112, visionary artist

These fantastic photos are from a Flickr pool devoted to Ballardian imagery. According to the Collins English Dictionary, "Ballardian" is an adjective "resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in… Read the rest of the article: Ballardian pool on Flickr

Amy sez, "Factory waste was collected in Denmark and then turned into a furniture collection. This was my graduate project at Denmark's School of Design. The pieces are made entirely… Read the rest of the article: Furniture from factory waste

Stewart and Mueller's paper, "Assessing the risks, costs and benefits of United States aviation security measures," (published by the University of Newcastle, Australia) does an amazing job of unpicking which… Read the rest of the article: Using cost-benefit to evaluate aviation security

The good people at the Mr and Mrs Smith travel books have started up a blog. Mr and Mrs Smith guides review romantic boutique hotels around the world — great… Read the rest of the article: Mr and Mrs Smith blog — carnal pleasures taken seriously

Yesterday, I got one of the best and most memorable birthday presents of my life — a trip to the legendary Bletchley Park, site of the British WWII codebreaking effort,… Read the rest of the article: Bletchley Park kicks so much ass

I've always loved amateur radio enthusiasts, and many's the time I wished I had a Ham license and a set of my own. But as cool as Ham is as… Read the rest of the article: Hams of Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park, the "home of the codebreakers" — where Alan Turing and co cracked the Nazi Enigma machine — sells "Pocket Enigma Machines" made from a clever cardboard disc inserted… Read the rest of the article: Pocket Enigma Machine in a CD jewel case

Boing Boing tv's UK-based music correspondent Russell Porter of "Porter Report" fame interviews the legendary Hot 8 Brass Band, from New Orleans. Band leader Bennie "Big Peter" Pete explains the… Read the rest of the article: BBtv – Russell Porter: Hot 8 Brass Band of New Orleans (music)

Hurrah! Tor, my US novel publisher, has launched Tor.com, its major, fantastically awesome website, which is part sf zine, part group-blog, part social network. They're publishing great original fiction —… Read the rest of the article: Tor.com: a blog, a social network, a zine — totally clueful big publishing website

My latest Guardian column, "Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam," looks at the fallout from the failed tactics of the spamwar and asks how the entertainment… Read the rest of the article: Spamwar's worst mistakes being recapitulated by the copyright wars

Every time I try to explain David Carr to a friend, I say something like "That dude is the real deal." Carr is a media/culture columnist for The New York… Read the rest of the article: Night of the Gun, a new book by David Carr.

A top aide to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was seduced by a hot woman he met in a Shanghai disco, who came back to his hotel room. In the… Read the rest of the article: Shanghainese disco bunny steals UK govt official's heart, nicks his Blackberry

Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: Star Wars meets fine art. There are so many fantastic entries here — I was very hard pressed to pick a favorite (pet, shown… Read the rest of the article: Star Wars photoshopping contest

Robin Carpenter's (concept?) design for a laptop chair really strikes a chord with me. My house and office always seem to be a minefield of laptops balanced on chair-arms or… Read the rest of the article: Laptop lounge chair

Eddie Codel reminds us that tonight today (Sunday, July 20) is the big benefit for SRL member Todd Blair, in San Francisco Alameda. You don't have to be there in… Read the rest of the article: Survival Research Labs benefit for Todd Blair today