Danaus plexippus is in trouble. David Mizejewski raised one to demonstrate its life cycle, and explains what you can do to help them thrive
In what he calls "an Experiment in Controlled Digression," Mark Dery touches on xenogastronomy, ortolan, Edible Dormouse, Victor Hugo's fondness for rat pâté, rat-baiting as a betting sport in Victorian times, the rat as New York's unofficial mascot, Luis Buñuel's pet rat, scientific research into such pressing questions as whether rats laugh, and whether rats will inherit the Earth as a result of climate change, Dracula's dominion over rats, and of course the (cryptozoological myth? well-documented phenomenon?) of the Rat King.
Everybody is invited to the table in Hannibal’s bloody season-two finale. And Theresa DeLucci does mean everybody. She loves a good surprise--or five.
I never thought I'd say this, but Justified could really use Arlo Givens back. Without his father, Raylan Givens has meandered throughout the season, unmoored from his family connection to Harlan County, and detached from his ex-wife and infant daughter now residing down in Florida. — Read the rest
Some of the most recent selections on our video archive page:
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Songs for Unusual Creatures: Jesus Christ Lizard!
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19th century, 6,000-piece automaton: the Writer
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Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests
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Asphalt Snowboarding
• Taiwanese Animators do crack with Rob Ford
• Michael Stipe sings Lou Reed's Pale Blue Eyes (1983)
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People posing for a photo that's actually a video
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Regex Runner: a game to teach regular expressions to kids
This week, the FBI arrested a 19-year-old computer science student named Jared James Abrahams for tricking young women into installing malicious software on their computers, software that let him covertly operate their webcams and microphones, as well as capturing their keystrokes and plundering their hard-drives. — Read the rest
Enjoy this excerpt from the new novel, Turbulence, by Samit Basu.
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Aman Sen is smart, young, ambitious and going nowhere. He thinks this is because he doesn't have the right connections — but then he gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod.
I wasn’t too chuffed about the weird changes I saw in my favorite start-up guy. Crawferd was a techie I knew from my circuit: GE Industrial Internet, IBM Smart Cities, the Internet-of-Things in Hackney hackathons. The kind of guy I thought I understood.
I relied on Crawferd to deliver an out-there networked-matter pitch to my potential investors. He was great at this, since he was imaginative, inventive, fearless, tireless, and he had no formal education. Crawferd wore unlaced Converse shoes and a lot of Armani. He had all the bumbling sincerity of a Twitter Arab Spring.
In Ancient Egypt, doctors applied electric eels to patients with migraines. In the medieval times dentists burned candles into patients' mouths to kill off those pesky invisible worms gnawing at their teeth. Even in the modern era, one of the world's best-known brain surgeons, Dr. — Read the rest
Welcome to this year's Boing Boing Gift Guide, a piling-high of our most loved stuff from 2012 and beyond. There are books, comics, games, gadgets and much else besides: click the categories at the top to filter what you're most interested in—and add your suggestions and links in the comments.
We're proud to present the short animation, ‘I Have Your Heart’, a collaboration between New York illustrator Molly Crabapple, international rockstar Kim Boekbinder, and Melbourne animator Jim Batt.
Sauna in Queen Charlotte Islands by Colin Doane. Lashed to front rafters are green whale jawbones. (From p. 133 of Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn)
Here's a preview of our friend Lloyd Kahn's beautiful book, Tiny Homes.
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There's a grassroots movement in tiny homes these days.
Released today by Hard Case Crime books: The Comedy is Finished, by the late Donald E. Westlake.
— Read the restBook description: The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s.
It seems appropriate that we all should pause this week to remember Robert Anton Wilson on the 5th anniversary of his death. The world is a little less fun without RAW, and his cosmic humor/insights/insanity.
When I wrote something about his departure from this plane, a remembrance more than an obituary in 2007, I naturally called it "23 Skidoo." — Read the rest
Ossian Brown was a member of the dark, magical electronic music group Coil and is currently in Cyclobe, a duo with his partner Stephen Thrower. Here is his exquisite collection of antique Halloween photos, dating between 1875 and 1955, as collected in Haunted Air, with remarks from David Lynch and Geoff Cox
Forty years in the making, The Someday Funnies is a 12" x 16", 215-page book containing color comic strips about the 1960s. They were created by famous cartoonists in the early 1970s for a Rolling Stone project that never materialized. Finally, these comics are seeing the light of day! — Read the rest
After making their million dollars in the charity-driven Humble Indie Bundle, all four of the indie game developers that promised to release their source code have prepped and released that source.
Bundle organizers Wolfire have the relevant download info for all four of the games, at the following links: their own Lugaru HD, Cryptic Sea's Gish, Frictional's Penumbra and Bit Blot's surprise addition, Aquaria. — Read the rest
There'll be a lot of good, necessary beard-stroking over the next few weeks to figure out exactly what the organizers of the Humble Indie Bundle — a six-game pay-anything collection that's just managed to top a million dollars in sales in a week — did right, because it's something that seems it could and should be repeated. — Read the rest
A gracious ConglomCo of indie developers have just kicked off the Humble Indie Bundle initiative, a pay-what-you-want campaign that gets you five award-winning games in exchange for a donation with proceeds to benefit both the Child's Play charity and the EFF. — Read the rest
Cory mentioned this briefly the other day, but I thought I'd give a longer look (not least with the hi-res concept art James passed on) at Glorkian Warrior, a videogame concept Kochalka — best known for his daily American Elf strips, as well as his Monster Mii and Superf*ckers Review comics for Offworld — has had kicking around for several years now. — Read the rest
