The Latest from Boing Boing

Great Battles covers 30 important battles of the western world Great Battles is a selection of 30 of the most important battles of the western world, from the ancient Greeks to more contemporary conflicts, organized chronologically into three sections (Age of Sword, Age of Gunpowder and Age of the Rifle). Read the rest... Antigravity Batteries XP1 Micro-start jumpstart battery I finally had a chance to try this tiny lithium-ion jumpstart battery. I think my neighbor felt there was something odd about the crazy smile I cracked when he asked if I could jumpstart his truck. Read the rest... Serial: The Prosecutor's Interview, part two Required reading for followers of the true-crime drama. Read the rest... Going Supersonic with a 3D-Printed Rocket "That's a mighty big plume for an 18-inch tall rocket!" Read the rest... Vox received no threats for supporting Hedbo, many threats for covering Islamophobia A recent email hoped that Muslims will 'behead you one day' so that 'we will never have to read your trash again.' Read the rest... Charges dismissed against Lakota tribe member arrested for singing A Federal judge has tossed out the charges against Greg Grey Cloud, arrested for singing a song, in the US Capitol building, honoring the Senators who voted against Keystone XL. Read the rest... Escape from New York, again "Snake Plissken is back! Fox has emerged from competitive bidding and closed a deal to remake the 1981 John Carpenter-directed cult classic Escape From New York." It might be fun if they set it in 1997 again. Read the rest... Music: "Sunshine," Jonathan Edwards (1971) The latest song I'm working on learning for guitar. Read the rest... Visitors: extraterrestrial psych-prog-jazz from 1974 Freak out with this prog/psych/jazz dark weirdness from French composer Jean-Pierre Massiera's band Visitors whose 1974 self-titled LP, Visitors, has just been reissued on vinyl for the first time. Read the rest... Rug "typo" at Sheriff's Office: "In Dog We Trust" A new $500 emblem rug sat in the entrance of the Pinellas County, Florida Sheriff's Office for two months before a deputy finally noticed that it said "In Dog We Trust." They ordered a new rug. Read the rest... Roswell, New Mexico missile silo for sale Please note that pending board approval, Boing Boing's new secret headquarters shall be this "decommisioned" underground missile silo pending sale for $300k in Roswell, New Mexico where our space brothers have already established a thriving happy mutant community. Read the rest... The acrobatic Japanese maid/pancake surreal domino-run cookware ad you've been searching for Never have empty carbs been more elegant -- and that's a catchy jingle! (via JWZ) Read the rest... Nintendo Power Glove as animator's tool Animator Dillon Markey (Robot Chicken and PES) hacked a Nintendo Power Glove (c.1989) to control his stop-motion animation system. (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!) Read the rest... In an effort to suck up to local governments, Uber plans to share your ride data Uber does a better job at gathering this sort of social intelligence than any government entity, but city governments would love to have access. And soon, they will. Read the rest... Audio edition of Pacific Edge, the most uplifting novel in my library I've written many times about Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990 novel Pacific Edge, a utopian story about a world where corporate growth has been checked and people have found a way to live together wihtout the need for extreme haves and have-nots, and without the imperative to destroy the world to enrich the few. Now it's available as a DRM-free audiobook (download, MP3 CD). Read the rest... The curious case of the sweaty nipples Duncan is unkempt, his hair greasy. His voice is monotone, with minimal facial expression, also called a flat affect. On top of our scratch paper, I write: "depressed?" But that's not why his parents brought him in. Read the rest... Are you smarter than a rat? Meet the scientist who runs rats and people through mazes to find out how intelligent they are.Read the rest... 3D printed blooming Fibonacci zoetropes Stanford design prof John Edmark, as part of his artistic residency at Autodesk, created these 3D printed "blooming" Fibonacci-sequence zoetropes, which seem to grow, writhe, and pulse as they're spun before a camera shooting every 1/4000 of a second. Read the rest... WATCH: Choreographed LED hula hooping Viennese artists Annika Hakala and Lisa Looping of HoopioSis perform mesmerizingchoreography using LED hula hoops. Be sure to watch in HD. Read the rest... WATCH: Snowing in Sligo Guy is the new Double Rainbow Guy "Oh my God! There's snow everywhere! Snow! Look! Have you seen that, man? Whooooa! More snow outside, yeah! The little Buddha in the garden, he's got f*cking snow on his little hands!" His housemate is not quite as impressed. Photo: Flickr user Elif Ayse (CC BY 2.0) Read the rest... Watch Tycho's live super-chill instrumental track "A Walk" Seattle station KEXP had Tycho in studio, where they performed this lovely live version of "A Walk." The song is from their album Dive. Read the rest... No Action Figures Please This is a dramatic reading of "a memo sent from Scott Dadich to all WIRED employees in San Francisco, obtained by The Awl. Read the rest... 5 top Secret Service officials are on their way out in big shakeup After a string of scandals and security lapses, at least five senior officials in the US Secret Service are headed out the door. Read the rest... Digital rights advocates, brace yourselves: Obama administration pushing for new cyber-laws The government has a way of harming digital civil liberties in purported efforts to protect against cybermonsters. Read the rest... Harrowing account of how Chinese authorities 'disappeared' one reporter's assistant A Chinese woman working as an assistant to a German news organization has been detained for more than 12 weeks. Read the rest... Greenwald: Since glorious “free speech” march, France has opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism.” "Since that glorious 'free speech' march, France has reportedly opened 54 criminal cases for “condoning terrorism,” writes Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept. Read the rest... WATCH: Seagull wishes monkey would share stolen sandwich Criminal simian oblivious to the hungry seagull standing next to him. [via] Read the rest... Goats can't decide whether to stand on pile of rocks or other goats' backs I have a hard time with this decision sometimes, too. Shot by Boing Boing pal Mike Outmesguinenear El Capital Canyon resort, which is one of the most beautiful and serene places in the world, and you should definitely book a vacation there. Read the rest... The version of Shaq's Gold Bond Powder commercial where his face takes a psychedelic trip is the best version Read the rest... 12 weird videos of cats who love women's boobs What needs to be said? Not much. I'm a little weirded out by how many of these exist on YouTube. They're sweet videos, but knowing that they're all being fapped to by untold numbers of men on the internet is creepy. Read the rest...