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Luke Hart created these rubber bookshelves for The Sculpture House. They have the delightful impracticality of all the everyday objects crafted from rubber that appear in old Warner Brothers cartoons, and the bright red coloring is an especially nice touch. (via Bookshelf)

Eh'häusl ("Little Wedding House") is the "world's smallest hotel," located in Amberg, north of Munich. It dates to an 18th century ordinance that required couples to own a house before they got married, so some clever fellow slapped a roof and walls up to enclose a narrow alleyway between two other buildings. It wasn't intended [...]

Police arrested dozens of demonstrators today at the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" protests in New York City.

Early this morning in the northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found the decapitated body of a woman with a message saying she was killed because she posted information about cartel activities on a social networking site. The narco-sign indicates the Zetas cartel was responsible. It was placed next to her decapitated head, [...]

From a recent trip to Vegas, a clandestine photo of a directive to employees at a boutique in Caesar's Palace from a crazy, crazy control freak. As this is Fall...no more flip flops. You cannot wear Sindys, Cintias or Ladys by themselves.This should be a no-brainer. Dark denim jeans. No Exceptions. We work for a [...]

"Plunging over Niagara falls in a burning barrel."—NASA astronaut Ron Garan describes what returning home from the International Space Station feels like. (via @pourmecoffee)

(photo: Demonstrators wearing "Anynomous" masks protest in Madrid. REUTERS.) Joseph Menn has a must-read analysis piece in the Financial Times today, mercifully freed from the paywall, about why the world fears so-called "hacktivists" like Anonymous. Everyone with a computer connected to the internet should read this piece. To admirers, the hacktivism trend reflects the increased [...]

Kevin Owocki's TOSAmend is a provocative browser applet that allows you amend the (up-to-now) non-negotiable terms of service you had to "agree" to in order to access many services online. The applet causes your new terms of service to be submitted along with your "I agree" click, so that the provider can agree, disagree, or [...]

Chris Hayes has a new show on MSNBC, "Up with Chris Hayes," and the first week has been pretty great. In the clip above, he illustrates the bait-and-switch trope being tossed around by conservative pundits of late—this notion that “the top ten percent pay 70 percent of all income taxes.” Chris debunks that by presenting [...]

"Dee rolls a d20, and gets a critical." Photo:, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from darkestpaisleyphotos's photostream (aka Kate Eburg).

Ape Lad reinterprets the unforgettable trio of "beer run guys" mug shots featured in Pesco's post yesterday.

Delfina Delettrez, a designer in Rome, made this beautiful, polished skeletal bracelet (though I couldn't locate it at her site, which autoplays music) (be warned). Delfina Delettrez

[Video Link] I'm a year late in posting this, but I like Ed Emberly's work so much that I don't care. My kids and I use Ed Emberley's instructional drawing books all the time. He's brilliant.

Having moved Boing Boing to WordPress, the old design hung loose on its bones. It's time for an update! The revision is simpler than before, with a smaller bandwidth "footprint", less clutter, and more whitespace. Boing Boing now has a fluid layout that adapts to different browser and device sizes, instead of serving a separate [...]

Blogto's Derek Flack went spelunking in the Toronto Archives for photos of old computers in situ, from the days when installing a monsterscale computing engine was cause for bringing in the photographer for a bit of posterity. I remember my dad taking me to some computer rooms in this era, though his facial hair was [...]

Boing Boing readers following the violent convulsions of the drug war in Mexico, and fans of the AMC narco-drama Breaking Bad, will likely find these photos from a secret Mexican meth lab to be of interest (particularly in light of the TV show's most recent episode, "Salud.") I can't find Jesse, Mike, Gus, or Heisenberg [...]

A forensic worker walks at the city's morgue past the recovered bodies of people that had been dumped around Veracruz September 22, 2011. At least 11 more bodies were dumped around the Mexican city of Veracruz on Thursday, according to local media reports, two days after the discovery of 35 other corpses in the once-quiet [...]

[Click this video link to see John's entire presentation] Here's John Hodgman's excellent presentation at World Maker Faire last weekend: "Are Magic Tricks Really Magic?" It is adapted from his forthcoming book, That Is All.

“I hope that I’ll be able to work for the Department of Defense. From what I hear, they’re pretty good at what I want to do."— Cody Andrew Kretsinger, the LulzSec/Anonymous suspect arrested this week in Arizona.

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