The Latest from Boing Boing

2600 magazine profiled in the New Yorker It's a long-overdue and much-deserved tribute to the hardest-working chroniclers of hacker culture. Emmanuel Goldstein and co have inspired generations of electronic spelunkers and freedom fighters, and they're still going strong -- and have never been more relevant, thanks to the debate sparked by the Snowden leaks. Read the rest... New Study Shows Marijuana Does Not Lower IQ, But Alcohol Does "A new study revealed this week shows that in spite of past claims, marijuana use does not affect IQ. The research, performed by the University College of London, was presented on Tuesday at the European Conference of Neuropsychopharmacology in Berlin." [via] Read the rest... Worst. Album. Covers. Ever. The fine folks at CoverBrowser have curated 150 specimens of the world's worst album covers of all time, covering every genre. Read the rest... Uncropped photos of famous album covers Communication agency Aptitude created uncropped versions of iconic album covers. Read the rest... The Hemingwrite: retro word processor with cloud backup and google docs integration Laughing Squid: "The Hemingwrite is a writing device styled after 90s word processors that features built-in syncing to contemporary technology, letting writers back up to the cloud and apps like Google Docs and Evernote." Read the rest... Dartmouth college paper issues correction [via] Read the rest... WATCH: World record smallest 7x7x7 Rubik's Cube Puzzle enthusiast Tony Fisher demonstrates a new 3.4 cm-wide cube designed by Matt Bahner. It's half the size of the original 7x7x7 V-Cube. Read the rest... Payday loans for kids Pocket Money Loans is the latest from prankster/artist Darren Cullen (previously), offering 5000% APR loans to children so that they can "get out of debt with a loan" and "spend each day like it's your last." It's a rather pointed satire of the predatory payday loan industry, which is particularly sleazy and terrible in the UK. Cullen has actually opened a physical store that kids (and adults) can go to in order to apply for pocket-money loans. Pocket Money Loans™ - Payday Loans For Kids! (Thanks, Darren!) Read the rest... Adding vertical lines to GIFs create 3D effect More examples here. [via] Read the rest... Halfling Door Locket Necklace from our fine sponsor Shana Logic! Happy mutant fantasy fans will appreciate this lovely Halfling Door Locket Necklace available from our longtime sponsor Shana Logic, sellers of high-quality, handmade, and independently-designed jewelry, artwork, apparel, and other curious creations! Read the rest... NYC art show: Addams, Garcia, McGrath, Peck Four of my favorite artists on the darker side of pop surrealism -- Jessicka Addams, Camille Rose Garcia, Elizabeth McGrath, and Marion Peck -- are in a group show right now at New York City's Sloan Fine Art gallery. Read the rest... WATCH: How to remove a ring stuck on a finger with dental floss Everyone should know how to do this. Read the rest... LAX to London flight delayed due to WIFI network name "A passenger saw the WiFi connection, named "Al-Quida Free Terror Nettwork," and expressed concern to a flight attendant." (via) Read the rest... Music video: John Cale's new song for Lou Reed Avant-garde legend John Cale released this re-recording and video for his 1982 song "If You Were Still Around" as a tribute to his late friend and Velvet Underground bandmate Lou Reed who died one year ago this week and other collaborators from the Factory days -- Andy Warhol, Sterling Morrison, Edie Sedgwick, and Nico. Read the rest... Who is Gamergate? Analysis of 316K tweets Waxy took a deep three-day sample of #Gamergate-tagged tweets and did some great analysis to uncover the composition and patterns of participants on both sides of the debate. Read the rest... Thousands of Americans got sub-broadband ISP service, thanks to telcoms shenanigans Measurement Lab, an open, independent analysis organization devoted to measuring the quality of Internet connections and detecting censorship, technical faults and network neutrality violations, has released a major new report on how ISPs connect to one another, and it's not pretty. Read the rest... Ridley Scott to produce miniseries on rocket scientist, occultist Jack Parsons The colorful life of Jack Parsons as revealed in the biography Strange Angel by George Pendle will appear on AMC in miniseries form, according to a Deadline report. Read the rest... Krs-One was a Teenage Drug Courier A Hip Hop Family Tree strip by Ed Piskor. Read the rest... Circling the globe with the mid-20th century's most brilliant matchbox art Ben Marks of Collectors Weekly says: "We just posted an interview with matchbox-label collector Jane McDevitt, along with more than 30 examples of mid-20th-century matchbox labels from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and Germany. Read the rest... Video: Dock Ellis who pitched a no-hitter while on LSD In honor of the World Series (Go Giants!), a repost of this classic animation of the great Pittsburgh Pirates player Dock Ellis telling how in 1970 he pitched a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. Directed by James Blagden and Chris Isenberg. Read the rest... The story of Venice's "gentleman thief" and an amazing art heist At Epic, a captivating and beautifully-designed longform true story about Venice's "Gentlemen Thief" Vincenzo Pipino: "Magicians, Mafiosos, a Missing Painting, and the Heist of a Lifetime, by Joshua Davis and David Wolman. Read the rest... Putting your foot in your mouth John Purcell, the writer behind the excellent Why Starbucks Spells Your Name Wrong and theNYC Subway Summer 2014 Service Changes videos made a new video about what it's like to "put your foot in your mouth" when asking out a co-worker. Read the rest... Furniture from old Apple G5 towers Klaus Geiger's concept design for minimalist furniture fashioned from the chassis of old Apple PowerMac G5 tower computers . "BENCHMA[®]C" (via Designboom) Read the rest... Why we love man versus nature struggles Have you ever wanted to be alone in the woods, drinking your own urine to survive? Probably not, that'd be weird. But you've wondered if you could do it, right? An exclusive essay by the author of the new science fiction novel, The Martian, out in paperback today Read the rest... The Peripheral: William Gibson vs William Gibson In The Peripheral, William Gibson's first futuristic novel since 1999's All Tomorrow's Parties, we experience the fantastic synthesis of a 20th century writer -- the Gibson of Neuromancer, eyeball-kicks of flash and noir; and the Gibson of Pattern Recognition, arch and sly and dry and keen.Cory Doctorow reviews. Read the rest... Our Magic, a documentary about magic by magicians Our Magic is a feature documentary that pays homage to an ancient and mostly underground performing art, piercing through the thick layer of commonly held stereotypes. By Ferdinando Buscema Read the rest... Oh joy! Oh Joy Sex Toy is a book! Oh Joy Sex Toy - Volume One collects 268 pages' worth of our favorite enthusiastically dirty webcomic, whose frank and raunchy sex-talk is the education that the world desperately needs. Read the rest... Suitsy: The business suit onesie Gentlemen, you are welcome. [video link, via] Read the rest... Simplify That Shit: instant online modern art generator "The output is a geometric composition derived from file data of the original image." Read the rest... Windows 93: weird online sim of an OS that never existed Playfully surreal online sim of a computer operating system that isn't too far from Windows 95, but is a lot more fun. Read the rest...