If a necktie that makes women do your bidding isn't your cup of tea, then how about this little number, "made from heavy awning cloth"?

THE DRIBBLE BIB (Nov, 1951)

My favorite n=1 experimenter, Seth Roberts, wrote about how someone managed to greatly reduce her migraines by avoiding certain household chemicals.

Sarah MacDonald (pseudonym) started getting migraine headaches the summer before she started college. During her first year of college, she was in a car accident and hit her head.

Neat post about an experimental plastic substitute made from fish scales over at Brian Lam's ocean-themed blog Scuttlefish. So far art student Erik de Laurens "has made not only goggles, but eye-glass frames, drinking cups, and a wooden table with a fish scale inlay" from fish scales.

"Damian and Wayne 2: Point Morris Bronx," Photo contributed to the BB flickr pool by Chris Arnade.

Christopher Maag wrote a fascinating piece for Credit.com about the little-known legal claim called "adverse possession" that allows people to take possession of abandoned property.

Here's the basic version of how it works:

1) Someone owns a property, whether it's a house, a condo or just a strip of ground.

Here's a video by @morganflame of thousands of people raising flowers in the air, as a gesture to honor the victims of the recent bombing and shooting in Oslo.

"In 1902, a 25-year-old engineer from New York named Willis Carrier invented the first modern air-conditioning system. The mechanical unit, which sent air through water-cooled coils, was not aimed at human comfort, however; it was designed to control humidity in the printing plant where he worked. — Read the rest

John Gruber speculates on who might succeed Steve Jobs at Apple, assuming it looks outside the company. He's right in that all of them look like bad ideas, but what's really interesting is who isn't on the list: no-one from a dedicated consumer electronics company. — Read the rest

If you're using Google+, you can find a number of Boing Boing contributors there. Maggie Koerth-Baker, Rob Beschizza, Dean Putney, Mark Frauenfelder, and Xeni Jardin, for starters. When Google+ rolls out support for businesses and organizations, you'll be able to find Boing Boing there, too.

Canada's 2D Photography created this amazing Rube Goldberg device out of photography stuff of all descriptions, and made the whole thing so witty and fun that I watched it twice in a row.

Rube Goldberg

(via Make)

[Video Link] I went to see the documentary Project Nim last night at the advice of a friend, and would like to recommend it to all who read Boing Boing. James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. Be prepared to cry or require hugs afterwards. — Read the rest

This may be advertorial (and not for Boing Boing, we're not involved)—but it's really good stuff. GE produced a satellite, birds-eye view of the 6,000 most popular airports around the world. Filter by busiest, most scenic, interesting geometry and check out photos tagged to location. — Read the rest

[Video Link] Augustus Gladstone, the gentleman who lives in an abandoned hotel, has a new video in which he shows his large library of files and drawings from a lifetime of collecting.

The video above documents what I am told is a meeting between Fukushima residents and government officials from Tokyo, said to have taken place on 19 July 2011. The citizens are demanding their government evacuate people from a broader area around the Fukushima nuclear plant, because of ever-increasing fears about the still-spreading radiation. — Read the rest

(photo by Joe McCary, DC Soapbox Derby)

In 1933, Myron Scott, a photographer for the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, came across three boys racing hand-made, motorless cars down a local hill.

Thumbtack Press, which sells framed and unframed art prints (including some of my art), has relaunched with lots of great new art. They also have a "virtual room" feature that gives you an idea of what a print will look like on a wall. — Read the rest

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A pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville Tennessee, on July 23, 2011.

"We want to thank you, Lord, for these mighty machines…. Lord I want to thank you for my smokin' hot wife…. — Read the rest

[Video Link]. How does this work? The YouTube comments point to the basic idea being that the sodium in the soy sauce causes the legs to move, even though the squid is dead, by some definition of death, anyway… From the YouTube description:

There's still some question as to whether or not it's officially "dead" at the time of serving.

Set to music by Justice, this time lapse video of the New York Times' homepage covers stories, pics and otherstuff from September 2010 to July 2011.

The friendly folks at Chow came to my house to learn how I make sauerkraut, and what I like to do with it after I make it. They shot a video, which you can see at Chow.com.

When Mark Frauenfelder, editor in chief of MAKE Magazine and cofounder of Boing Boing, isn't busy making organic-peanut-butter-mixing machines, he is mixing up family-friendly projects like this, his version of sauerkraut.