Mat Honan, writing for The Awl, scores the first interview with Josh Simpson, author of @BPGlobalPR.

Created by Robinerd using DrPetter's Musagi chip-esque softsynth and sequencer.

Walking today in Upmarket in Brick Lane, London, I was delighted to stop in at Dan Hiller's stall and discover a whole range of new "alterted engravings," including this smashing collage called Forest.

Forest

Devil's Island is the northernmost point in Wisconsin, but it might as well be at the end of the world. The South end looks onto the other Apostle Islands—a conglomerate of 21 heavily wooded islands in Lake Superior. The North end of Devil's Island looks out into infinity. — Read the rest

Tummy growls are really just internal farts, according to Indiana Public Media's "A Moment of Science."

Basically, the involuntary muscle movements that push food through your digestive tract keep working even after most of that food has moved on down the line. — Read the rest

The Ninth Circuit court ruled today that you do not have the right to sell used software if the license agreement forbids it. The case centered on legitimate copies of Autodesk sold second-hand on eBay, but the ruling spells trouble for any business (e.g. — Read the rest

Recent Boing Boing guestblogger Liz Ohanesian has a terrific piece up today at the LA Weekly about The Venture Bros., which begins the second half of its fourth season Sunday night at 11:30 on Adult Swim. As Liz notes, "[This] curious show hasn't won the awards that Robot Chicken and The Boondocks have. — Read the rest

PRESS THIS STAR WARS BUTTON IN DIRE SITUATIONS. (via Andrew Baron)

"I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."—Zynga CEO Mark Pincus, if an anonymous former employee's quote in this SF Weekly feature article is to be believed. — Read the rest

It's time for Sweet Streets 2, an art exhibition at Nucleus Art Gallery in Alhambra. Opening reception is 9/11/2010. Video above is from last year's Sweet Streets.

Gallery Nucleus & Caro are excited to reprise the highly successful SWEET STREETS exhibit sponsored by Hi-Fructose, Tokyofashion.com

Many Boing Boing readers are familiar with the South African rap rave revolution known as Die Antwoord. A series of posts here earlier this year helped catapult them from relative obscurity to center stage, bright blinding lights and all. Xeni blogged about them after her friend, photographer Clayton Cubitt, was hipped to them by a pal of his who assisted on a Capetown video shoot which resulted in this. — Read the rest

Love this series of interview clips on the Big Think, where Wylie Dufresne talks about how science has influenced—and improved—cooking over the past couple decades, and why molecular gastronomy is about more than high-falutin' restaurants where dinner comes in the form of foam. — Read the rest

The amazing Roger Ebert is reviving At the Movies.

"This is the rebirth of a dream," said Ebert, who partnered in recent years with Richard Roeper before cancer robbed him of the ability to speak. He said he will act as co-producer and employ a computer voice to appear on every episode with segments titled Roger's Office devoted to classic, overlooked and new films.

I've come to accept that the closest I will ever get to time travel is matching up modern photos to historic shots of the same place. Usually, that means extensive time travel is restricted to cities, places where lots of people were taking lots of photographs at lots of different points over the years. — Read the rest

Jordan Crane is saying this, so I believe it.

In the new issue of Love and Rockets (New Stories, no.3), Jaime has a story called Browntown. It just might be the best thing he's ever done. In fact, I'd go so far as to say, it just might be the best comic I've ever read.

Blinkybugs are little creatures with blinking LED eyes. The eyes blink when the bug's long wire "antennae" bounce against the LED's leads. They were invented by Ken Murphy.

Earlier this week my 7-year-old daughter and I made a blinkybug from Murphy's new kit, Blinkybugs! — Read the rest

The Lab Rat blog is handing out awards to the hardest-living bacteria on Earth. My favorite winner: Photobacterium profundum, which can live happy and reasonably healthy at a ridiculously wide range of pressures—from 14.5 psi (the standard pressure of our atmosphere), all the way up to 10,152 psi.

Come the robot revolution, we'll all probably be forced to play hide-and-seek a lot. Researchers at Georgia Tech have worked out algorithms that allow robots to learn when a situation might call for some less-than-honest behavior, and help our soon-to-be-overlords figure out how best to deceive us. — Read the rest

Lascaux painting photographer Bernard Sury focuses a camera on prehistoric paintings on the ceiling at Lascaux, 1947. Previously unpublished

Here's a treat from the archives of LIFE magazine — the first photos of the cave paintings in Lascaux, including some unpublished photos. — Read the rest

Kevin says:

"Thought you'd like to see this…  William Shatner's info from Gene Roddenberry's Rolodex (redacted for his privacy, but genuine).  The guy that bought the Rolodex (at the recent Star Trek auction) is a friend of mine here at work.  — Read the rest