The Latest from Boing Boing

Kickstarting more episodes of the podcast Aaron Swartz helped start Ben Winkler and Aaron Swartz created "The Good Fight," a podcast about David and Goliath stories; now Winkler is raising money to keep the series going. Read the rest... Google Earth Pro was $399. Now it's free. Google Earth Pro lets you fly around our planet and zoom in really close to areas of interest. I was able to see some junk in my backyard that I'd been meaning to clean up. Read the rest... G+'s Real Names policy has moved to China Google's dropped its dumbass Real Names policy for social media, but don't worry, the adorable little fella found a welcome home in China, where bloggers and other social media users are now prohibited from using aliases or parody names. Read the rest... 3D printing in zero gee mission-patch [Link] Read the rest... How to make a microphone out of a matchbox and a pencil Dave Hax shows you how to make a microphone out of a matchbox and graphite from a pencil.[via] Read the rest... Best children's books of the year Dan Santat's The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend won the 2015 Caldecott Medal for the best American picture book for kids. Read the rest... Cavalier King Charles puppies will not stand still, nope Bouncing balls of kinetic squee. Our very own Jason Weisberger has a Cavalier who's a perma-puppy, and permanently adorable. [The Pet Collective] Read the rest... Saudi Arabia's all-man women’s rights conference The University of Qassim in Saudi Arabia held a women's rights conference last year. No women attended. Themed around the topic of “Women in Society” the conference, held every year at the University, is supposed to set a benchmark for tolerance and progress in the region. Read the rest... Music: "O.P.P.," Naughty by Nature (1991) F to the R to the O to the N to the T Read the rest... Old Jewish Comedians - funny, nostalgic portraits of Borscht Belt superstars in their twilight years Drew Friedman is the great portrait artist of our time. He’s always had an interest in the eccentric and the oddball, focusing on D-list celebrities like Swedish professional wrestler and actor Tor Johnson and late night monster movie hostess Vampira. Read the rest... Handmade Captain Marvel hoodie This $60 handmade Captain Marvel hoodie (which has no hood!) is just one of many great superhero hoodies from Poland's Hoodie Dsz. (via The Mary Sue) Read the rest... Canada's spying bill is PATROIT Act fanfic Madeline Ashby writes, "I wrote this column about Canada's Bill C-51, which would allow Canada's spy agency CSIS to detain people for simply 'promoting' terrorism, promises it can wipe terrorist content from the Internet, expands no-fly lists, and is basically a piece of Patriot Act fanfic. Read the rest... Canada reportedly caves, will extend copyright and yank James Bond out of the public domain Michael Geist sez, "Last month, there were several Canadian media reports on how the work of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, had entered the public domain. Read the rest... 40,000 people have paid thousands for an Elio car - will it ever be built? Automotive designer Raymond Loewy had an acronym to evaluate his designs: “Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable.” The Elio doesn’t come out that great on either side of that “yet.” Read the rest... Video: Heavy metal that is truly one-note "One note is all you need." 00000 by Rob Scallon. Read the rest... “Old/New,” short film narrated by comedian Patton Oswalt The protagonist's “penchant for the new--new devices, new fashion, new friends--is challenged when he discovers the rustic appeal of old-fashioned things.” Read the rest... Favorite Tools of Matt Cutts, Head of Web Spam Team at Google Our guest on the latest episode of the Cool Tools Show is Matt Cutts a well-known blogger and the head of the Web Spam team at Google. Read the rest... PERPETUAL PIZZA [Link/Source] Read the rest... Hilarious condom crowdfunding video makes excellent use of unicorns The unicorn motif is a play on the startup condom brand's name: Einhorn, which translated from German means "one horn," which is also a reference to the male wiener. Read the rest... Shampooed heads as art Hong Kong-based photographer Lo Cheuk Lun captured the otherworldly terrain of human hair lathered up with shampoo. More at Design Boom. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: The Unicorn Whose Tears Were 1976 Ford Fiestas, and more Super-Fun-Pak Comix Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features The Unicorn Whose Tears Were 1976 Ford Fiestas, and much, much, much more Read the rest... BB King, an animated interview Blank on Blank's animation of a 1986 interview with blues master B.B. King about his guitar Lucille, his influence on John Lennon, and the real source of the blues. Read the rest... Rand Paul: solve vaccination issues by making children into property "The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health." Nothing says freedom like "humans are property." Rand Paul: Parents 'own' children, not the state [Elise Viebeck/The Hill] Read the rest... Watch an orange explode in slow motion Boom goes the citrus fruit. Read the rest... Watch this octopus morph itself in a magnificent underwater camouflage display They're such magnificent creatures. Jonathan Gordon spotted this one while snorkeling in the Caribbean. "I dove down to have a look at the shell that you can see just under where the octopus appears and as I approached the octopus came out of hiding," Jonathan says. "I had literally no idea he was there until I was about a meter away." [YouTube via Reddit] Read the rest... Goats enjoy jumping on and off annoyed but patient horse The horse is being a really good sport about it. [YouTube] Read the rest... Sci-Fi alterations of 19th century portraits The Guardian shares a fine sampling of Colin Batty's cabinet cards, 19th and early-20th century portraits modified into science fiction oddities: "The kids who weren’t good at sports would spend a lot of time on their own,” he says. Read the rest... Woman and companion kangaroo booted from McDonald's Diana Moyer of Columbus, Wisconisn was kicked out of a local McDonald's when a customer complained about her support animal, a baby kangaroo named Jimmy. Read the rest... Plane carrying 58 crashes in Taiwan river, injuries and deaths reported, rescue ongoing A TransAsia Airways flight carrying more than 50 people crashed in Taiwan's Keelung River after takeoff from Taipei's Songshan Airport Wednesday morning. Read the rest... Audiophile quality, white, coffee, 26.3' HDMI cable a value at $1651 If you trust the reviews. Read the rest...