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Happy 206th birthday, Edgar Allan Poe! This is how I'll be celebrating. Read the rest... Honest posters for 2015 Oscar nominees The good folks over at The Shiznit "decided to make new posters for the nominees that tell you what you can really expect." Above: Grand Budapest Hotel. Read the rest... LISTEN: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1964 conversation with Robert Penn Warren Martin Luther King, Jr.'s soaring oration has come to define how many think of him, so it's interesting to hear Dr. Read the rest... Here are Gizmodo and Engadget founder Peter Rojas' favorite tools Peter Rojas is the founder Engadget, gdgt and Gizmodo. He currently co-hosts MVP, a podcast about new tech products, alongside Ryan Block (previously interviewed on the Cool Tools Show). Read the rest... Hand-made, hand-painted ukulele "Twitch" is the third ukulele in the Tickler series made by Amy Crehore (instrument designer, painter, illustrator) and Lou Reimuller (luthier, sculptor, musician, and creator of the Teenar). Read the rest... BOOK: 100 Years of Magic Posters (The Poster Art Library) Years ago, a friend gifted me this wonderful collection of magic posters! I'm always getting reminded to not take photos at the Magic Castle, however I am never photographing the acts. Read the rest... GOP accuses Obama of being President Andy Borowitz at the New Yorker nails it: "If you continue to fulfill the duties of President of the United States that are expressly permitted in the Constitution, you are playing with fire." Calling him the “Law Professor-in-Chief,” Rep. Read the rest... LISTEN: The Balmis Expedition: Using Orphans to Combat Smallpox In this episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell how Spanish authorities found an ingenious way to use orphans to bring the smallpox vaccine to the American colonies in 1803. Read the rest... The invasion boards that set out to ruin lives Internet harassment doesn’t just stay on the internet any more. Banned from 4chan, the 'net's worst trolls are making life hell for "social justice warriors"—and anyone else that takes their fancy. Read the rest... WATCH: HOWTO create this mind-bending worldscape Lightfarm Studios documented the making of "The Verge," this stunning worldscape based on work by Raqsonu Duhu. Lightfarm Brasil has the scoop:Inspired by the book “Rendezvous with Rama” of Arthur C. Read the rest... To the Village Square – a photojournalist’s collection of anti-nuke images that span the last 40 years Although the No Nukes slogan hearkens back to a louder, more passionate era of demonstrators of the 1970s, To the Village Square is a stark reminder that nuclear disasters are still happening, and that it still takes a village of voices – and images – to raise awareness. Read the rest... Head shots of hand models (with banana for scale) Ad executive Alex Holder teamed with photographer Oli Kellett to show the faces behind prominent hand models. Federico Hewson (above) said: I had always been told I had nice hands. Read the rest... “Stealie,” a beautiful print by Android Jones You can buy prints for $95. Read the rest... Weird Paul explains 1970s-80s print catalogs to the post-internet generation Weird Paul was vlogging before there was an internet. Read the rest... How Stevie Wonder helped create Martin Luther King Day Did you know Stevie Wonder was instrumental in the creation of Martin Luther King Day? I didn't.Cuepoint has the inspiring story. Read the rest... Toddler is adorably blown away by her dad's clever trick We should all aspire to live life with this level of amazement. [Video] Read the rest... Lioness tries to claw baby to death from behind glass, or maybe play with him The baby seems obliviously happy. The lioness seems determined and hungry. Shot at a zoo in Texas. [Link] Read the rest... Electroswing Ella Fitzgerald's "Air Mail Special" The Club Des Belugas Remix of Ella Fitzgerald's classic Air Mail Special turns one of the greatest scat tunes of all time into an amazing electro-swing song, with an unexpectedly fitting rhumba beat. Video link (via Metafilter) Read the rest... Deep House track with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech (1989) Fingers Inc.: "Can You Feel It (Spoken Word: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)" Read the rest... Paperholm: a growing, tiny, adorable paper model city by Charles Young Artist Charles Young creates a new, tiny, glorious little model for his Paperholm tiny city project each day. Read the rest... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Dr. Martin Luther King press conference, March 26, 1964.” A photograph from the Library of Congress, by Marion S. Trikosko, via Flickr Commons. Read the rest... Eibsee A photo of a lake in the Bavarian Alps, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr pool by Boing Boing reader P.S. Zoeller. Read the rest... Tally-Ho playing cards are great for magic tricks As a practicing magician, playing cards are just one of the many tools in our “magical toolbox.” For the causal card player any pack of cards will most likely do. Read the rest...