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The 3D printing wars are hotting up, as Thingiverse users upload a design for an AR-15 magazine (holds five rounds, easy to expand to as many rounds as the material will hold without snapping) and an AR-15 lower receiver, a … Continue reading →

On How to Be a Retronaut, a gallery of Irving Penn's "Corner Portraits" -- black and white photos of celebrities shot wedged into narrow corners in his studio. The effect is striking, making models like Marlene Dietrich (thumbnail shown here) … Continue reading →

Writing in the New Scientist, Prof. Stephen Reicher, a specialist in crowd psychology at the University of St Andrews, takes aim at the posturing and macho rhetoric after the UK riots that dismissed anyone who sought a sociological expanation for … Continue reading →

Scott Westerfeld's Goliath ships today, concluding his fabulous steampunk YA trilogy that began with Leviathan and continued in Behemoth. This alternate history of WWI is set in a world divided into two technological camps. On the Darwinist side, scientists manipulate … Continue reading →

Rufus Roo jackets are designed to help you beat airline luggage limits (given that they seem to be British, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this was inspired by the awful RyanAir, which treats travelling … Continue reading →

From Ukrainian steampunk/fetish mask maker Bob Baset, the Hugger Head mask, "Slightly reinterpreted Giger monster. It now manages the object. Or maybe it’s a happy symbiosis?" Hugger head Leather Mask

I recently noticed that Jarritos [Twitter] became a sponsor on Boing Boing (you may well be seeing their ads here as you read this post). This is awesome! And tonight, I spotted this New York Times feature about how the … Continue reading →

Just look at it. Banana Fan

Madeline Ashby sez, "The Border Town design studio has been invited to the Detroit Design Festival to exhibit costumes, board games, 3D-printed snowglobes, mixtapes, and other kipple of an awesome nature about cities divided by international borders. I wrote a … Continue reading →

Shain Erin is an artist who makes adorable dolls that any child would love to snuggle with. You can buy them in Shain's etsy store.

I enjoyed my friend Bill Gurstelle's TEDx talk about "The Art of Living Dangerously," an idea he explores in his recent book, Absinthe and Flamethrowers. An individual's risk taking propensity and skills has profound influence on an individual's happiness. William … Continue reading →

Tim O'Reilly has a lengthy Google+ post with photos of his visit to the Occupy Wall Street rally.

Jonathan sez, "I've been writing a song and posting it on YouTube every day since January 1, 2009. On September 28, 2011, I will be commemorating my 1000th song by releasing an album. The first single and video from the … Continue reading →

On September 20, 2011, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" will officially become past tense. More: Washington Post. Here's the document (PDF) memorializing the transition. (thanks, Gautam Ramdurai)

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Over the weekend and after an ill-received price hike, beleaguered Netflix CEO Reed Hastings pulled a dramatic mea culpa. In a post on the official Netflix blog, he announced that the company will split streaming and DVD services, and launch … Continue reading →

Today, September 19, is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. But "avast ye hearties" and "arrrrr" aren't representative of the language you'd most likely hear if your boat were overtaken by actual, modern-day working pirates now. At Wired.com, the Danger … Continue reading →

Tonight in NYC: The Upper North Side Author Series presents Michael Crummey -- a Canadian writer who's just had his novel Galore published in the USA.

[Video Link] I saw this video on TV about 10 years ago. A doctor demonstrates his ability to deliver shocks like an electric eel and ignite a newspaper with his bare hand. What's the trick?

Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps and other neat stuff. This week I interviewed David Hahn, creator of of the comic book, All Nighter, published by Image … Continue reading →