Louis XIV Archives - Boing Boing

History The masked prisoner of Louis XIV whose name was never spoken Ellsworth Toohey

photography I tried this AI program to fix a scratched-up, blurry photo of my old-country ancestors Mark Frauenfelder
insects The Pentagon is training an army of bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts. Thom Dunn
History A Tangled Weave: when Louis XIV made owning calico cotton a crime Michael Skeet
futility closet Master forger Denis Vrain-Lucas sold 27,000 fake letters by everyone from Plato to Louis XIV Futility Closet
happy mutants Hate-speech detection algorithms are trivial to fool Cory Doctorow
Business To attract customers, Toronto hotel removes the TRUMP name Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Researchers discover hundreds of thousands of unsuspected, Star Wars-themed twitterbots hiding in plain sight Cory Doctorow
books Book review: Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves" has too little humanity in the characters Jonathan P. Lewis
Boing Boing Gadgets Bad-ass Catholic weapons Cory Doctorow
Entertainment "Zero Dark Thirty" not good enough to justify torture fantasies Xeni Jardin
happy mutants The City Museum: St. Louis' Happy Mutant wonderland Maggie Koerth
Islands of exile David Pescovitz
Fabric made from spider silk David Pescovitz
Art and Design Road Trip Stop 5: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Mark Frauenfelder
Art and Design Whimsical statue too close to police memorial, says Syracuse police dept. Mark Frauenfelder
How (not?) to clean your ear with a bobby pin (Updated) Mark Frauenfelder
Katrina approaches New Orleans, US Gulf Coast Xeni Jardin
Wired illo: The Treasure Hunter Xeni Jardin