BoingBoing
SUBSCRIBE STORE
  • SEARCH
  • STORE
  • Blog : The posts
  • Forums : Read the rules
  • Store : Wonderful Products (Contact Support)
  • Newsletter : Daily wonderful things
  • About Us : Writers and staff
  • Contact Us : Get satisfaction
  • Advertise : Thank you for reading
  • Privacy Policy : The data you generate
  • TOS : What you agree to
  • Thumbnails : Youtube Thumbnail generator
  • the smiths Listen to this ambient jazz cover of "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" Natalie Dressed
  • Trump rallies Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr fumes at Trump using his songs: "Consider this s**t shut down" Carla Sinclair
  • music These Norteño-style versions of "This Charming Man" and "Welcome to the Black Parade" are extraordinary Jennifer Sandlin
  • rick astley Rick Astley and Blossoms cover The Smiths in secret set at Glastonbury Festival Rusty Blazenhoff
  • new wave Johnny Marr performs The Smiths' classic "How Soon is Now?" Gareth Branwyn
  • joy division Please please please let me get what I want from this Smiths-themed Indian restaurant Thom Dunn
  • t-shirts When 8-year-olds redesign famous band tees Thom Dunn
  • music Watch George Michael and Morrissey discuss breakdancing and Joy Division David Pescovitz
  • Maridav/Shutterstock.com
    Science Honey from sealed Egyptian tombs is still edible after 3,000 years Ellsworth Toohey
  • The Free Universal Construction Kit
    gadgets Free Universal Construction Kit: 3D-printable adapters to connect Lego, Duplo, K'Nex, Stickle Bricks and other systems Rob Beschizza
  • Mummy at the Cairo Museum in Cairo, Egypt. RPBaiao: Shutterstock.com
    Science Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy Ruben Bolling
  • Wushan Chenghuang Pavilion Scenic Area (Weiming Xie / Shutterstock.com)
    Technology China's 3,000-foot "Goddess escalator" takes 21 minutes to ride Ellsworth Toohey
  • Two Men Contemplating the Moon. Caspar David Friedrich German ca. 1825–30. Public Domain
    Science The Moon is shrinking and getting wrinkles Ellsworth Toohey
  • Petr Hamerník - Zoo Praha; Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat, Prague Zoo CC BY-SA 4.0
    adorable animals "Babe, wake up, new panda rat just dropped!": Meet the Northern Luzon Cloud Rat Jennifer Sandlin
  • The captain's seat in the Enterprise-D
    star trek Star Trek panoramas from the CD-ROM era Rob Beschizza
  • Sunset from the window of an airplane. (Kajdowy/shutterstock.com)
    art The fall of Icarus: Skydiver photographed against the sun without special effects Popkin
  • Scutiphora pedicellata is a species of insect in the jewel bug family. (j_fredz/shutterstock.com)
    photography Dara Ojo's gorgeous macrophotography of bugs captures their quirky and curious personalities Jennifer Sandlin
  • By Variously attributed to John Maunder (a local photographer from St. John's), Moses Harvey (1820–1901) himself, and Messrs. McKenny and Parsons (also of St. John's) – probably the latter; see Aldrich (1991:457). - Aldrich, F.A. (1991). Some aspects of the systematics and biology of squid of the genus Architeuthis based on a study of specimens from Newfoundland waters. Bulletin of Marine Science 49(1–2): 457–481., Public Domain, Link
    giant squid Behold, the earliest known photograph of a giant squid, taken in 1874 Popkin
  • Morrisey in 2006 (A.PAES / Shutterstock.com)
    Exhausted by "malicious associations," Morrissey sells stake in The Smiths Ellsworth Toohey
  • From West PIiLiy to Lest Swibby
    AI AI, whether you ask for it or not. Just ask Will Smith. Rob Beschizza

Read the rules you agree to by using this website in our Terms of Service.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

Boing Boing uses cookies and analytics trackers, and is supported by advertising, merchandise sales and affiliate links. Read about what we do with the data we gather in our Privacy Policy.

Who will be eaten first? Our forum rules are detailed in the Community Guidelines.

Boing Boing is published under a Creative Commons license except where otherwise noted.

    • Mark Frauenfelder
    • David Pescovitz
    • Rob Beschizza
    • Carla Sinclair
    Editors
    • Jason Weisberger
    Publisher
    • Ken Snider
    Sysadmin
    • About Us
    • Newsletter
    • Contact Us
    • Advertise
    • Forums
    • Shop
    • Shop Support