The Latest from Boing Boing

The Vintage Tea Party Book: complete guide to hosting your perfect party This whimsical, girly, and very informative book covers two of my favorite topics – vintage style and traditional English tea. Author Angel Adoree (yep that’s her name) owns and operates Vintage Patisserie in London where she hosts adult tea parties with a retro spin. Read the rest... Skateboarding Cat Ladies and gentlemen, this is a skateboarding cat. (via) Read the rest... Tow strap kid learns expensive physics lesson "Well, that's what you do with these straps -- you just go," says the young man who didn't pay attention to the Wooden Block Between Two Strings experiment in physics class. Read the rest... Thousands of fish rescued from Bangkok's rotting, derelict mega-mall Thousands of carp, iridescent sharks, catfish and tilapia have been netted from the flooded remains of the New World Mall in Bangkok, which has been collapsing in legal limbo since 1997, when judges ordered it demolished after finding that the 11-storey mall had been built on the basis of planning permission that only allowed for four storeys. Read the rest... Meet Eufrat Mai, the woman who was the vagina model for the FleshLight The FleshLight is a masturbation device for men. In this video, we visit the FleshLight factory in Spain to meet Eufrat Mai, the woman whose vagina was molded to make the device. Read the rest... WATCH: baby in speeding stroller saved from falling over edge of steep slope A fisherman's lightning-quick reflexes saved the life of two-year-old Ali Ceyhan, whose stroller was speeding down a hill in the southwestern Turkish city of Bodrum and was just seconds from plunging over the side of a steep slope. Read the rest... Company will mail glitter to "people you hate" Ship Your Enemies Glitter is a service that will mail an envelope of glitter to anyone in the US for $10. Read the rest... Traveling exhibition of original Star Wars costumes Later this month, the Smithsonian Institution's new exhibition “Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume" will open at Seattle’s EMP Museum. Read the rest... Big Trouble In Little China men's tank top Now you can dress like Jack Burton. When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail." Read the rest... Meet an icicle farmer Cory Livingood of Stratton, Vermont, is an icicle farmer. He and his team grow and harvest massive numbers of icicles to build magnificent ice constructions at ski resorts. Read the rest... Self-Dissection: a conversation with satirical English author Will Self Will Self suffers from “everythingitis.” Why aren’t we surprised? Read the rest... Very big thinkers ponder: "What do you think about machines that think?" Over at BB pal John Brockman's Edge.org, nearly 200 very smart people, like Daniel C. Dennett, Brian Eno, Alison Gopnik, Nina Jablonski, Peter Norvig, and Rodney Brooks, ponder the EDGE Annual Question of 2015: What do you think about machines that think? Read the rest... Alien overlord: stop blaming me for your city's housing bubble! Zathbog of Planet Cibwarv wants us to stop blaming him for buying up all the property in your favorite big city, ensuring that even families with solid double incomes can barely afford to rent, and will never own a home of their own; after all, you should see the hardships he endured while building up his immense off-planet fortunes in the the interstellar mining industry. Read the rest... Video: "How Electric Light Changed The Night" KQED's Deep Look on "How Electric Light Changed The Night" (for better and perhaps worse). Read the rest... Moog brings back its famed 1973 modular synthesizers Moog Music has reproduced a limited edition of its three iconic 1973 synthesizers including the System 55 (seen above with optional keyboard) that can be yours for just $35,000. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: The God-Man Fan Club vs. … Clod-Man! Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the God-Man Fan Club must avenge the grave insult of… "Clod-Man!" Read the rest... Lime caviar, oh là là! A few years back, Mark introduced me to The Fruit Hunters, a book about "exotic fruits and the obsessives that hunt them." I read the book, and as if infected with some Lovecraftian curse, I am now a Fruit Hunter, too. Read the rest... President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Here's a good rule of thumb: Any time a president says new tech laws are to protect "our kids," you know something bad is on the way. Read the rest... I'm having fun with my $10 digital scale that has 0.01g readability The AWS 100g x 0.01g Digital Scale ($10) is about the size of an iPhone. I needed a scale to weigh the powdered supplements I take (powders are cheaper than capsules). Read the rest... License Expired: an unauthorized James Bond anthology Now that the James Bond novels and character have entered the public domain in most of the world (but not the USA), David Nickle and Madeline Ashby teamed up to edit "License Expired," an anthology of unauthorized 007 stories for the Canadian press Chizine. Read the rest... Bifocal safety glasses I happened upon these Bifocal safety glasses ($11) while on vacation in a hardware store (yes, I go to hardware stores while on vacation). Read the rest... G+ Kremlinology: estimating the desolation of Google's social media ghost-town Google's spent four years frog-marching its users into G+, its faltering social network, even tying company-wide bonuses to G+ performance, thus ensuring that all of Google's offerings did everything they could to cram us into G+ -- but it hasn't worked. Read the rest... Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, learns about drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. Read the rest... Extremely nerdy motherboard manicure you can do yourself Full of nail art win. Read the rest... Muslim-American uses Tinder to talk about Islam, facts end up being effective pickup lines Just proves you never know what's gonna work in online dating. Read the rest... Black teen asks Santa for “safety,” will now be guest at the State of the Union Read his letter here. Obviously this whole thing proves the President is Santa Claus. Read the rest... Bearded shirtless dude dancing his crazy ass off to bluegrass is happiest guy in the world Guaranteed to pluck your happy-strings. Read the rest... Videoshopping still photos of Putin creates an uncanny valley effect Bennie Melwin shares this clip of how they videoshopped photos of Vladimir Putin for the making of a hilarious commentary on Putin's anti-gay policies. Read the rest... 15 impossible videos of babies and toddlers escaping from cribs I can't stop watching them because I wish I were this limber. Read the rest... We have exactly one thing to say about Paris suing Fox News Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris, told CNN today she plans to sue Fox News after the network's coverage of purported "no-go zones" for non-Muslims. Read the rest...