The Latest from Boing Boing

Extrapolating the backgrounds of famous art with machine learning Yarin Gal's "Extrapolated Art" project uses Photomatch to expand the scenes in classic paintings beyond the boundaries of the canvas -- although it's a spookily convincing effect, it doesn't add much to the art (in most cases, anyway). (via Kottke) Read the rest... Defeat Keurig's K-Cup DRM with a single piece of tape Keurig's dumbass coffee-pod DRM tries to prevent your machine from brewing pods that don't come from Keurig, but you can defeat it in seconds with a single piece of tape. Read the rest... World War 3 – It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I don’t feel fine Since 1979, World War 3 Illustrated has been a forum for those who chafed at the treacly bromides of Ronald Reagan, who heaved on the endless hypocrisy of religion, who were seriously cheesed at the presumption of male politicians to deny woman their reproductive rights, and who had nothing but contempt for the fearmongering that followed the tragedy of 9/11. Read the rest... Calling out the doctors who abetted CIA torture Dr Atul Gawande (whose Reith lecture on systems thinking I featured last week) took to Twitter to express his shock and disgust at the medical professionals who participated in the crimes documented in the CIA torture report. Read the rest... An "anti-drop" device for Phablets As an iPhone 6 Plus owner, I'm interested in the Bunker Ring, a $16 device that attaches to the back of a phone or tablet, basically turning your phone into a giant finger ring. Read the rest... Emergency service broadcast to my iPhone A strange, loud tone and suddenly this message was on my iPhone. I had no idea the phone did this but certainly appreciate it! Read the rest... Dave Navarro's guitar strap/BDSM restraint Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and fetish/bondage outfitter The Stockroom developed a new guitar strap that converts into a BDSM restraint. Read the rest... The Dark Lord's Handbook: Conquest It is not easy being a Dark Lord rising. Luckily Morden still has the handbook in this sequel, The Dark Lord's Handbook: Conquest. Read the rest... U.S. Patent and Trademark Office doesn't like comfy balls The US Patent and Trademark Office denied a Norwegian underwear manufacturer's application to register the brand name Comfyballs, explaining that it was too "vulgar" to trademark. Please post alternate names in the BBS. [via] Read the rest... Reissue of stunning soundtrack to 1973 science fiction film La Planète Sauvage (1973) I'm thrilled that the good people at Superior Viaduct records are reissuing Alain Goraguer's beautiful and strange score to the beautiful and strange French science fiction animated film, La Planète Sauvage (1973). Read the rest... 1000-piece CMYK color gamut jigsaw puzzle Jeremy writes, "Clemens Habicht's 1000 COLOURS is a CMYK colour gamut jigsaw puzzle of 1000 pieces. Each tile is an individual colour and the task is to place each colour exactly in relation to every other colour." It's AUD40.00. Read the rest... Fan-created LEGO model bird set available soon Gardener and birder Thomas Poulsom's beautiful set of LEGO model birds will go on sale January 1. The set includes a Blue Jay, Hummingbird, and a Robin. Read the rest... How America's global system of torture dungeons came to be Originally, the sites where war-on-terror detainees would be held and interrogated were to be modeled on American prisons. Read the rest... The real CIA scandal isn't (just) the torture, it's the lying to America. “Inhumane physical or psychological techniques are counterproductive because they do not produce intelligence and will probably result in false answers.” Know who wrote that? Read the rest... GIF: Cat crashes dog pizza party Wait for it. Read the rest... Beard baubles: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In your beard. Oh yes, they're real alright. Read the rest... Mashup artist challenges Sony to stop gaming Youtube's censorship system Hugh Atkin (of Romney Raps Eminem fame) writes, "This is a new video I've made in response to repeated, identical claims of copyright infringement by Sony Music Entertainment in respect of my 2008 video 'Barackroll.' Every time I've challenged a complaint, they've let it lapse and then subsequently filed identical complaints." Read the rest... Video: Snowflake melting in reverse "The Birth of a Snowflake" by Armand9x. (via ScienceAlert) Read the rest... Lawquake! Judge rules that explaining jailbreaking isn't illegal A federal judge in New York has ruled that telling people where to get DRM-removal software isn't against the law -- it's a huge shift in the case-law around DRM, and it's an important step in the right direction. Read the rest... Mad Max: Fury Road trailer Mad Max: Beyond Mel Gibson, out next summer. Read the rest... Power up! Donate to EFF now and double your donation! EFF has secured a fund of matching grants -- all the donations that are made during the Power Up period are matched, dollar-for-dollar, doubling your donations! Read the rest... Here is Richard McGuire's epic of time In Richard McGuire's time-bending graphic novel Here, the past, present and a vividly imagined future are all set in the same specific location. By Patrick Lohier. Read the rest... UN wants to give broadcasters rights over public-domain and CC-licensed shows Under the revived WIPO Broadcast Treaty, broadcasters would have the right to stop you from using public domain and CC-licensed video footage as you choose, effectively giving them a new copyright over material simply by sending it out over the air. Read the rest... We know you love privacy, Judge Posner. We just wish you'd share. As I wrote yesterday, 7th circuit judge Richard Posner's views on privacy (basically: "nothing to fear, nothing to hide" and "it should be illegal to made a phone the government can't search") are dismal and unsophisticated -- but they're also deeply hypocritical. Read the rest... Furry convention evacuated after chlorine-gas attack The 15th Midwest Furfest was evacuated last week after 19 attendees were hospitalized by chlorine gas at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel; hazmat technicians cleared out an "intentional gas attack" apparatus in the 9th floor stairwell. Read the rest... New PES stop-motion film: Submarine Sandwich Hurray! A new short film by stop-motion artist PES. In this one, a butcher makes a tasty sub sandwich out of baseball mitts, and other non-edible stuff. Read the rest... Blackphone announces privacy-oriented app store Blackphone, the Swiss-based, secure hardware/OS mobile phone from PGP inventor Phil Zimmerman has announced that it will provide a store with privacy-oriented apps that are sandboxed to minimize data-misuse. Read the rest... The Most Hated Phrases in SciFi: Sword & Laser Podcast This week we're busy. We congratulate the winners of several year-end awards. We kick off our December book pick, The Night Circus, a beautiful novel by Erin Morgenstern. Read the rest... Elderly man nailed for clever identity theft scheme: prosecutors say he changed victim's name to his own An elderly Mexican man who lived illegally in the United States for decades has been arrested in an ID theft scheme that prosecutors say was so clever, “a court unwittingly changed the name of the U.S. Read the rest... Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden: I am not a crook The man who led the CIA during George W. Bush's second term said today, "I didn't lie and I didn't mislead Congress" about torturing war-on-terror detainees. Read the rest...