The Latest from Boing Boing

Japanese programmer-philosopher makes digital Mondrians — in 1964 We've already seen, in the pages of Boing Boing, several unions of technology and the aesthetics of Dutch neoplasticist painter Piet Mondrian. Read the rest... Jeb Bush quotes turned into motivational posters The smart one of the family shares his wisdom. Read the rest... Harvey Kurtzman’s Jungle Book — forgotten 50s classic re-issued in the quality format it deserves This new edition of the ill-fated paperback is fitting tribute to a talented, unlucky creative geniusRead the rest... How Tyrion could die We have a whole Wheel of Time pilot mystery to solve and then on top of it George RR Martin says any character in the Game of Thrones series could be killed even if they’re safe in the book. Read the rest... Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution leaders haunted by dirty-trick harassment campaigns From following their grandchildren around at kindergarten to hanging slanderous banners outside their homes to hacking their email to sending funeral wreaths to their doors, the leaders of Hong Kong's anticorruption Occupy Central movement face persistent, ongoing reprisals for their political activity. Read the rest... Telegraph's lead political writer resigns because of censorship of criticism of advertisers, especially HSBC Peter Osborne was the head political writer at the Telegraph, a rock-ribbed conservative paper owned by the shadowy Barclay brothers; he quit after seeing the paper soft-pedal and downplay scandals involving its major advertisers, and broke his silence once he learned that the paper had squashed stories of illegal tax-avoidance schemes run by HSBC. Read the rest... BJ and the Bear Classic Movie Themes claims this show is a cult classic. I just somehow remember it as being really good. Here is the pilot episode. Read the rest... Electric photos of the Neon Museum, Las Vegas Over at GONE, Matt Crump's gorgeous photography of the The Neon Museum of Las Vegas, a retirement home for beautiful casino signage of an earlier era. Read the rest... Brushing out massive amounts of shedding dog hair Winter is drawing to a close in California, and that means shedding time. I use a combination of brushes to keep my home, and my Great Pyrenees, manageable. Read the rest... "Megacities" documentaries explore the inner workings of New York, Hong Kong and London "Cities? Meh. Wherever you go, they're all the same, you know. When you travel, you've got to stay away from them. Read the rest... The "Classic Loveline" podcast brings back the radio show that taught us sex and drugs Everything I needed to know, I learned from Loveline. Throughout the entirety of high school and even some of middle school, I listened on a near-religious nightly basis — Sunday through Thursday-nightly, anyway — to take in Adam Carolla and Dr. Read the rest... Animated interview with Lou Reed "I write a song called 'Heroin', you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something." Audio from a 1987 interview conducted by Joe Smith. (Blank on Blank) Read the rest... On iTunes and in your nightmares There's no gore, no loud, startling soundtrack, and there's no serial killers hiding in the corners of this horror flick. There's just an exhausted single mother living with her difficult son. Read the rest... Because David Duchovny is Too Handsome to Ever Be a REAL Outsider Kumail Nanjiani's podcast, The X-Files Files, is ubiquitously entertaining and awesome, but the episode featuring Darin Morgan is especially so. Read the rest... Music: "Do You Know What I'm Talkin' About," The Downbeats (1965) "I'm not a raisin' my voice..." Read the rest... Alain de Botton breaks down how to build a beautiful city Given my considerable professional interest in cities — I spend a lot of my time writing or talking about them — you'd think I grew up as one of those kinds who rushed straight to SimCity every day after school. Read the rest... Antarctic explorers' huts restored after 100 years of neglect The huts where Antarctic explorers Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, and their crews called home a century ago have been restored to their original, er, coziness. Read the rest... The Americas' Oldest Teenager She's approximately 12,000 years old now, but when she died in the Yucatan Peninsula she was only a teen. Nicknamed Naia--for the Greek mythological water nymphs--this skeleton has proven to be the oldest ever found in the Americas. Read the rest... Cloudrise: a short film about heartbreak on a sinking airship Cloudrise is about the tragic gravity of both love and airships: what goes up must come down. Directed and animated by Denver Jackson, the eight-minute short film tells the story of Miko and Tenku, two lovers fighting to stay together as their burning airship falls out of the sky. Fans ofFinal Fantasy, Legend of Korra and Miyazaki will likely find a lot to love in its gorgeous, painted backgrounds and midair martial arts. Stay till the end; it's worth it. Read the rest... "Starbucks Versus the Traveler": a photo-audio essay on the ubiquity of the green mermaid Whenever I travel to a new city, I immediately get to work on a mental map of its coffee shops. I do this in part because they provide the points of a basic geographical framework, in part because they offer a window onto the life of their neighborhoods, in part because I can get work done in them (in my line, you don't really take vacations; you just set up laptop camp in other cafés), and in part because I wither away if I don't get a cappuccino on the daily. Read the rest... "The Great Race of Mercy" Follow the dramatic story of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which 20 men and 150 dogs struggled through arctic blizzards in a desperate effort to save the town from a lethal illness. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: To Kill a Watchman Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a dark 1980s graphic novel meditation on vigilantism and Cold War anxieties Read the rest... The City in Cinema videos reveal the Los Angeles futures of "Blade Runner," "Strange Days," "Southland Tales," and more Even before I moved to Los Angeles, I set about finding ways to understand it. I knew the city wouldn't make it easy for me, but at least I had plenty of representations of it on film to learn from — the very movies, in fact, which had stoked my interest in Los Angeles in the first place. Read the rest... Better Birding with Dennis Hlynsky Ornithologist, Dennis Hlynsky, has been busy making some mind blowing videos of birds in flight. So whether you're interested in the whole flock, or just one, you can catch a trippy, Muybridge-esque video of flight patterns, or wing beats. Read the rest... Frozen Foster Beach, Chicago: cool photos shared by a Boing Boing reader A fun spot in Chicago to hang and picnic during the summer becomes a surreal ice-scape during wintry weather. Foster Beach, shot in a series of images by Boing Boing reader Bill, and shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Read the rest... Read chapter one of "Funereal", an upcoming novel of suicide, plastic surgery, and extreme therapy in Korea If you have any interest at all in writing produced by the cultural exchange — or culture clash, if you prefer — between the West and Asia, you might consider keeping up with Signal 8 Press. Read the rest... Johnny Mnemonic and the perfect cyberpunk movie it wasn't Before The Matrix, there was this, starring Beat Takeshi and Keanu Reeves. Cyberpunk's truest vision lurks not in gnostic fantasy but in the cheap mediocrity of corporate power. Read the rest... The Wangs of San Francisco NSFW Thanks to writer Ali Wunderman and illustrator Minnie Phan at the Bold Italic, there's now a handy, dandy visual guide to the wangs you'll see around San Francisco. Read the rest... Ghosts and Snow: Longest Night Lost Constellation Want to spend an hour doing something rad? Cool. I have a game for you, called Longest Night Lost Constellation. Read the rest... Caffeine can really mess with your head Panic attacks, psychosis, and violent impulses. Free with your pumpkin spice latte! Read the rest...