The Latest from Boing Boing

Jacky Tsais' Chinese/Pop skull paintings Artist Jacky Tsai, famed for the floral skull at the center of Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2008 collection, has actually created a stunning array of curious craniums that meld Chinese painting traditions with pop art. Read the rest... Marx – A graphic bio of the father of communism Corrine Maier and Anne Simon, the duo who brought us the historical graphic novel Freud, are at it again with Marx, a graphic bio of the father of communism, Karl Marx. Read the rest... Bill Cosby's 1969 joke about seeking a date rape drug Was it funny in 1969 when Bill Cosby joked about his quest to procure some Spanish Fly to drug women for sex? Read the rest... New Agatha H novel out today, capturing the action from Girl Genius webcomic Carol writes, "The next installment in the Girl Genius prose novel series is out! Agatha H. and Voice of the Castle brings Agatha to her family's ancestral home, a sentient castle whose intelligence has become fragmented." "For folks who've been reading the webcomic or graphic novels, this book covers the storyline from Volume 7 up through part of Volume 10." I love these novels -- here's my review of the first one. Read the rest... Motorcyclist gets well-deserved scolding from mounted police "You can tell your friends about the big telling off you got from a policeman on a horse." [via] Read the rest... Man calmly sips drink as brawl erupts around him A man in Russia watches unfazed as a bunch of troublemakers stream into the cafe and reduce it to chaos, sending other customers fleeing. Read the rest... Air freshener thief sought Police in New Orleans are hunting for a man who stole 30 (thirty) air fresheners from Family Dollar. The air fresheners have a street value of more than $200. Read the rest... The Distillery No. 209 story is one of handcrafted gin The message brought to you by our sponsor Distillery No. 209, purveyors of handcrafted gin. The No. 209 story begins in New York in 1870, when William Scheffler purchased the patent for California rights to a new design of a pot still. Read the rest... Surprise Nokia Android tablet The non-Microsoft remains of Nokia is releasing an Android tablet in 2015. The $250 N1 has a 7.9" display, an Intel Atom processor, and look just like an iPad. Read the rest... Darkroom that looks like a spaceship (1979) As a teenager in the mid-1970s, Jack Turkel combined his passions for photography and space exploration by building this incredible spaceship-themed darkroom in his parents' basement. Read the rest... Slick Rick Trading Card Hip Hop Family Tree trading card #23 by Ed Piskor Read the rest... 'Misty: The Proud Cloud' by Hugh Howey Hugh Howey has written a charming and sweet children's book, Misty: The Proud Cloud. This tale about the value of being ones self is beautifully illustrated by Nidhi Chanani. Read the rest... Are you sure you're not dead? Cotard's delusion is a rare mental disorder in which the sufferer is convinced that he or she is dead. From Mind Hacks: It’s worth noting that although Cotard’s delusion has come to represent ‘the delusion that you’re dead’, Jules Cotard’s original description (from 1880) was not actually that – it was a delusion of negation where the patient believed, as noted by Berrios and Luque, that she had “no brain, nerves, chest, or entrails, and was just skin and bone”, that “neither God or the devil existed”, and that she did not need food for “she was eternal and would live forever”."An earlier illusory death" Read the rest... Aaron Swartz was no criminal Dan Purcell, one of Swartz' lawyers, writes about the spiteful and unreasonable charges that led to his suicide—and MIT's gutless support of his prosecutors. Read the rest... Everything you need to know about marijuana edibles Xeni Jardin interviews cannabis expert Lisa Marks, a pseudonym that will be lifted when prohibition is lifted. The worst-case scenario is you have to watch a Pixar movie and take a nap.Read the rest... Bumfights creator accused of stealing remains of dead children from Thai hospital museum Johann writes, "One of the creators of notorious millennial website Bumfights has is accused of stealing preserved child body parts and flayed tattoos from the notorious Bangkok Black museum at the medical faculty of Siriraj Hospital. Read the rest... Vinyl hoarders in words and pictures Over at Cuepoint, interviews with vinyl hoarders, from Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (above) to legendary rare groove DJ Keb Darge. The images of these cratediggers with their enviable collections come from Eilon Paz's excellent Dust & Grooves photography and interview project that I've posted about previously. Read the rest... Stanford study shows guns promote more crime, not less "'The totality of the evidence based on educated judgments about the best statistical models suggests that right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates' of aggravated assault, robbery, rape and murder..."(via) Read the rest... Radio Wire: webcomic about a disintegrating relationship Ethan Persoff just released the second installment of Radio Wire, a bleak and fascinating webcomic about a disintegrating relationship. Read the rest... New sf story: "Huxleyed into the Full Orwell" ​Huxleyed Into the Full Orwell is a new short story I wrote for Vice Magazine's just-launched science fiction section Terraform, which also has new stories up by Claire Evans, Bruce Sterling, and Adam Rothstein. Read the rest... Uber exec boasts of plans to attack critical journalist Uber executive Emil Michael boasted privately about plans to harass reporters critical of the company, reports Buzzfeed, revealing a specific intent to attack journalist Sarah Lacy and expose private information about her. Read the rest... Phish's concept concert based on Disney's "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House" For Halloween, rock group Phish traditionally creates a 'musical costume' by covering a classic album from music history. This year, the band created a new set of music based around the 1964 Disneyland album Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House. Interesting set of music with a cool stage design, the band uses the original narration and inspiration for the songs." It makes for quite a concept album, to rival Kilroy Was Here and 2112. Read the rest... Arthur Rankin Jr., 1924–2014 The co-director of legendary stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer andFrosty the Snowman—and later of cel-animated hits The Hobbit and Thundercats--died at his Bermuda home in January. Read the rest... Superheroes and sf characters in Dutch Renaissance style Sacha Goldberger's "Super Flemish" series is a spectacular set of images of superheroes, sf movie characters and other futuristic figures (including some of his notorious aged superheroes) in the garb and affect of Dutch Renaissance portraits. (via Neatorama) Read the rest... Meltdown Comics and Boing Boing present: Hip Hop Family Tree signing and Q&A with cartoonist Ed Piskor 11/18, 3pm Tuesday in LA, the place to be is at Meltdown Comics. Pittsburgh-based cartoonist Ed Piskor has pop and locked, Heavy D Shaked and prepped his way over to come out and give you one hell of a party along with the crew at Meltdown. Read the rest... “Golden,” a beautiful GIF series by Gaks New works by “vector ninja” Gerrel Saunders, also known as Gaks: “Golden.” Gaks is from Trinidad and Tobago. Dig his Tumblr. Read the rest... The animations, art, and short films of Nicholas Fong Flash-based animations and gorgeous, weird little GIF dreams. Read the rest... This browser-based fluid dynamics simulator is blowing our minds Fire up the fanciest monitor you have, then test-drive this gorgeous fluid simulator by George Corney. Read the rest... LISTEN: Spring-Heeled Jack -- A Victorian Supervillain Between 1837 and 1904, rumors spread of a strange bounding devil who haunted southern England, breathing blue flames and menacing his victims with steel talons. Read the rest... Driving a legobot with a simulated worm nervous-system More news from the Openworm project, whose Kickstarter I posted in April: they've sequenced the connectome of all 302 neurons in a C. Read the rest...