The Latest from Boing Boing

New component adds cellular networking to DIY projects The Spark Electron is a small component that enables devices to connect to the Internet where there is no WiFi or Bluetooth. Read the rest... Giant cat or hyper-detailed model cars? Headquake claims this a scratch-built RC car. I'm not buying it. He's been breeding giant housecats. Seriously, this guy is amazing. Read the rest... Music: "Mr. Groove," One Way (1984) Whenever Pesco tells me he is speaking at an event I imagine this is his walk on music. Read the rest... Revenge porn shitweasel abuses DMCA in vain effort to take down his own photos Craig Brittain, owner of a revenge porn website who has been banned from posting nude photos of women without their permission, is attempting to get Google to unlink to stories about him. Read the rest... Strange reflections on dwarf planet Ceres Conspiracy theorists are claiming that the two shiny spots on Ceres seen in photos taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft are ice or patches of salt. Read the rest... Personal technology is political Dan Gillmor, who was the San Jose Mercury News's leading tech columnist during the dotcom years, and was one of the first reporters to go Mac, has switched over to using all free/open source software: Ubuntu GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad, Cyanogenmod on an Android phone. Read the rest... Own this 16th century castle near Paris This castle, built in 1504 about an hour outside of Paris, could be your new home for around US$5.6 million. You may recognize it from Rhianna's "Te Amo" video. Read the rest... Beautiful minimalist scissors from Japan These Craft Design Technology Scissors, made in Japan, are minimalist shears of beauty. They're $65 and ship free from Okinawa. Read the rest... Maraschino cherry plant used as cover for drug ring As marijuana slowly becomes legal across America, a New York cherry magnate has shot himself in the head as law enforcement uncovered a large stash of weed, cars and cash hidden in his plant. Read the rest... 41 home improvement tips Here's yet another list of "DIY hacks." Some are silly, such as the tip to "Use a drink dispenser if you’re tired of looking at that ugly Tide bottle." I'd rather look at an "ugly Tide bottle" than a clear glass drink dispenser that looks like it belongs in a livestock insemination facility. But I found a couple of them to be worth trying, such as "gluing a magnet to the bottom of your hammer so you don’t have to hold your nails in your mouth." Read the rest... Why your local record store employee became an asshole “Ya’ll got that Michael Jordan - Dangerous, Live in Buddharest?” At Dangerous Minds, record store employee Christopher Bickel shares selections from his notebook of customer comments, documented between 2002 and 2014. Read the rest... Nerdcore Net Neutrality rap Nerdcore rapper Dan Bull recorded this Net Neutrality rap today and crowdsourced an excellent video for it in three hours, with the help of his Twitter friends. Read the rest... Star Wars Millenium Falcon-scene car shade "That's no moon. It's a space station." immediately popped into my head as I drove past a parked car displaying this fantastic Star Wars window shade. I had to circle back around the block! It really looks great and is absolutely hysterical. I eagerly await its arrival. Read the rest... Teen makes Arduino compatible with rechargeable battery Quin Etnyre is one of the coolest kids I know. He saved my butt a few years ago when he was my "assistant" at an Arduino workshop I gave. Read the rest... The secret spotted hyenas of UC Berkeley I found about the colony in a roundabout way. There wasn't a press release announcing its inception, nor were there any articles advertising its whereabouts. Read the rest... 15th-Century supervillain This devil was painted between 1471 and 1475 by Austrian Michael Packer. The 40-by-35-inch altarpiece portrays the legend in which Saint Wolfgang reached out to old scratch for assistance in building a cathedral. Read the rest... Great life advice from neon bassist Sure, the bassist who calls himself MonoNeon does a masterful accompaniment of the Jones Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage ads. Read the rest... Read Facebook on a spaceship in the year 2042 At any given moment, your social media feed is a cultural snapshot: an up-to-the-minute look at how the people around you feel about their lives and the issues that affect them. Read the rest... Kids send Maker projects to space If the whole Potter franchise didn't already seem to give UK kids special powers, now this: primary and secondary schoolers can enter a contest by April 5 to program a Raspberry Pi for the International Space Station. Read the rest... Visual artist creates intricate, 1000-Layer collage of drunken party Visually updating Hieronymus Bosch with delicious recherche cutouts, the Croatian visual artist and illustrator Sanda Anderlon constructed an incredibly detailed 40" image (only a small detail of which is shown here). Read the rest... Learn to cook Depression era meals Clara is here to cast some perspective on that ramen noodle and Mountain Dew diet you "invented" in college, at 2am. Read the rest... World War 3 Illustrated: prescient outrage from the dawn of the Piketty apocalypse The Reagan era kicked off a project to dismantle social mobility and equitable justice began. This trenchant, angry, gorgeous graphic zine launched in response. Read the rest... Laugh at your deepest, darkest fears Artist Fran Krause keeps one of the best Tumblrs ever, with cartoons of his own as well as anonymously submitted deep dark fears. Read the rest... Drink like Cersei Lannister at Blackbird in SF Pregame Season 5 of Game of Thrones, at my new favorite bar in San Francisco, Blackbird. Why? Because Cersei throws down, and you should too. Read the rest... Drone's view of Detroit's abandoned Belle Isle Zoo The Belle Isle Zoo in Detroit closed its doors in 2002, and nature has been reclaiming it since. In August 2014 TheGadgetGuy1 flew his DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter through the eerie abandoned attraction. (Thanks, Andreas!) Read the rest... Marky Ramone sick and tired of people holding up smartphones at concerts Put your phone down—or he'll put it down for you. [CH2] Read the rest... Awesome, nerdy, bookish, fannish skirts, bags, scarves and stuff Rooby on the Isle of Wight turns nerdy fabric prints into garments and accessories: Death Star,Walking Dead BEWARE OF ZOMBIES signs, Incredible Hulk blow-up, Rocky Horror, Heroes of Star Wars, antique book-spines, and the first chapter of Harry Potter (which, sadly, is no longer available as a dress). (via IO9) Read the rest... How I learned to stop worrying and love explosions What is more hypnotic than slow-motion fire? Read the rest... Seminal fluid praised in study A Feb 2105 paper published by North Carolina State and Cornell biologists finds seminal fluid to be way more than just a medium for sperm. Read the rest... Your chance to become RadioShack RadioShack, now bankrupt, is selling its name with the opening bid set at $20 million. I bet you could get "The Shack" for less. Read the rest...