The Latest from Boing Boing

Dachshund + Pitbull: greatest dog breed ever "Rami is a one-year-old, Pit Bull / Dachshund mix shelter dog who is looking for a home where he can be loved by someone who is really into living, breathing optical illusions running around the house." Read the rest... Watch this hilarious promo for millennial-themed #@THEGYM Videoblogging OG Razmig returns after a 3-year hiatus with #@THEGYM a factual look at what American gyms have looked like all month thanks to resolution-minded millennials. Read the rest... Tucson & Phoenix: Arizona Theater Company presents: "Five Presidents" Were I in Arizona, I'd go see the Arizona Theater Company's production of Five Presidents.Playing in Tucson through January 31st, then Phoenix, February 5th through the 22nd. Read the rest... If you have the right kind of poop, you can sell it for $13,000 a year If your poop contains the kind of microbes that make it suitable for transplants into patients who "need healthy fecal matter in their gut in order to survive," a company called Open Biome wants to buy it from you. Read the rest... Nazis train giant ape to destroy Wonder Woman TV shows were much more realistic in the 1970s [via] Read the rest... Flashing LED-equipped dice that light up on critical hits Thinkgeek's $25 critical hit dice are a set of D10, D12, and D20 that light up when you roll their maximum values (they're all correctly weighted for fair throws). Not only is this gloriously nerdy, it's also great for creaking, old blind people like me who are losing their ability to see low-contrast detail. Read the rest... Chain mail scrubber for cast iron pots and pans I love my cast iron cookware. Cleaning is made so simple with this chain mail scrubber. If I am working at the stove, I am most likely cooking on seasoned cast iron. Read the rest... Sculptures of sea monsters from old maps Toronto artist Bailey Henderson's "Monstrorum Marines" sculpture series is based on the creepy creatures illustrated on Medieval and Renaissance maps ("Here be dragons," etc.). Read the rest... Moomin — eccentric comic masterpiece from a legendary children’s author Tove Jansson (1914 - 2001) was a famous Finnish children’s book author. Her most famous creation was the mythical land of Moominvalley, with its hippo-like creatures called the Moomins. Read the rest... NYC, 1981: short documentary about "a most violent year" NYC, 1981 is Austin Peters' captivating six minute documentary about a particularly dark and intense period in New York City. It's a companion piece for the new crime drama A Most Violent Year currently in theaters. More from that era at the related site 1981.nyc. Read the rest... Tales of cocaine disco excess Over at Cuepoint, the cocaine-fueled history of Casablanca records, the 1970s label that embodied decadence, debauchery, and disco, where Donna Summer, George Clinton, and the Village People reigned supreme. Read the rest... Marijuana vending machine Next month, American Green will debut its ZaZZZ Marijuana Vending Machine at the Seattle Caregivers dispensary. According to the company, the machine features a "temperature controlled environment keeps all products fresh and cool" and "supports alternative purchasing options like bit coin." "Marijuana vending machine to debut in Seattle" (KBOI 2) Read the rest... 2600 won't settle with the distributor that screwed it and all the other indie mags 2600 Magazine's Emmanuel Goldstein writes, "2600 Magazine (The Hacker Quarterly) has found itself embroiled in a bitter dispute over the bankruptcy declaration of one of the largest magazine distributors in the United States." "The shutting down of Source Interlink caused massive financial problems for small publishers throughout the country. Read the rest... Climbers scale frozen Niagara Falls On Tuesday, ice climbers Will Gadd and Sarah Hueniken climbed up a frozen portion of Niagara Falls. According to National Geographic, Gadd said the hardest part of the climb was getting the permit to do it. Read the rest... JOHN WILCOCK: My First Orgy It's the Sixties now! - with John's first oily encounter with group sex. Part 1/3 of a serialized encounter from John Wilcock, New York Years. Read the rest... Disembodied facial-feature candles London-based Uncanny Art Shop makes realistic-looking candles containing disembodied facial features, some contorted in agonized rictii: there's a male mouth, two female mouths and a pair of ears on a featureless head. Read the rest... Snooper's Charter is dead: let's hammer a stake through its heart and fill its mouth with garlic We killed the dreadful Snooper's Charter last week, again, for the third or fourth time, depending on how you count -- now how do we keep it from rising from the grave again and terrorizing Britain with the threat of total, ubiquitous, uncontrolled state spying? Read the rest... Linkdump: Chinese spooks, Aussie sexism, EFF beats feds, revenge porn, Libreoffice, net-freedom nosedive in Turkey & Canada, more more more A roundup of all the stuff that made me stop and think today. Some of it made me angry. ☣ Chinese Newspaper And Citizens Find Spyware Purchase Orders On Dozens Of Police And Local Government Web Sites [Techdirt] ☣ Colleen McCullough: we'll celebrate a woman for anything, as long as it's not her talent[Guardian] Australia's simmering sexism boils over when its national press eulogizes one of the country's all-time bestselling novelists by talking about her utterly unremarkable weight, looks and sex life, not her seismic literary accomplishments ☣ A Note To My Readers Andrew Sullivan stops blogging: "I want to read again, slowly, carefully. Read the rest... Appalling racist abuses and assaults Native American children on award trip to hockey game "Some 57 charges of child abuse and assault reportedly will be filed against the drunken hockey fans" (Fort Mill Times via Daily Kos) Read the rest... Interview with the author of The Mindful Geek I'm excited that our pal, Gareth Branwyn, has a new podcast. It's called Café Gaga. Here's what he says about it: I am thrilled to finally be launching this podcast, which I’ve been wanting to do for a while. Read the rest... Document reveals that U.S. military knows force-feeding Gitmo detainees violates medical ethics The practice is a violation of medical ethics and international law. And the U.S. knows and admits it. Read the rest... Fighter jet that buzzed Berkeley was “personal air show” from one bro to another The jet triggered car alarms, upset dogs, disrupted hot yoga classes, and just generally freaked everyone out. Read the rest... America and scientists: we're proud of them, but we don't believe them The Pew Research Center tells us Americans like science and think our scientists are great, but we disagree with them on things like science. Read the rest... This Bulldog can really sing He may sing better than the humans on each side. Read the rest... Music: "The Magnificent Seven," The Clash (1980) "She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice/ Better work hard - I seen the price" Read the rest... The Remaining: Refugees, DJ Molles excellent zombie adventures DJ Molles zombie stories are some of my favorites. I put off reading his third installment, The Remaining: Refugees, and could wait no longer! Read the rest... Babies going through tunnels in cars reminds us of that scene from “2001” That look of wonder on their pudgy little baby faces. I feel like I've seen it somewhere before. Ah, yes. Read the rest... Security presentations from Shmoocon The amazing, always-sold out security conference Shmooocon has posted the videos from its latest event, held earlier this month. I haven't had a chance to dig into these yet, but my top picks, based on title alone, are: Get Off My Lawn, How Random is Your RNG? and the NSA USB Playset. (via O'Reilly Radar) Read the rest... DJ Esco describes his 56 days in a Dubai jail Future's DJ Esco describes what it was like to get busted with 15 grams of weed at the Dubai airport and get sent to jail. Read the rest... 1871 plans map out the first circuit of the globe by telegraph The Library of Congress site contains gems like this map showing the proposed final link of the original world wide web: the proposed trans-Pacific telegraph line, envisioned with Civil War-era technology. Read the rest...