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My friend Jim captured this excellent moment in science reporting this morning. Thankfully, as I check Google News now, the headlines are drifting more towards the real story, which is fairly interesting. Turns out, deadly car accidents aren't so much … Continue reading →

The opening in McDonald's in Moscow in 1990 was (at the time, anyway), a symbol of significant reforms to the Soviet system. Though in true Soviet style, a breadline stretching for blocks immediately formed in front of it. Queue to … Continue reading →

Up the Mysterly River was Bill Willingham's first kids' novel, published by a small press in the 1990s, long before his multi-award-winning (and most excellent) Fables graphic novel got underway. After languishing out of print for many years, Tor Books … Continue reading →

A Dutch woman has been charged with stalking after calling a man 65,000 times in one year. She claims she was in a relationship with him (he denies it), and that this required her to call him. A lot. The … Continue reading →

If you want to keep your wire-cutters from being stolen, attaching them to something heavy might work -- but not if you attach them with wire. My boss was tired of our wire cutters getting stolen. I'm not sure this … Continue reading →

For Milan design week, furniture company Poltrona Frau exhibited some of its designs covered in transparent PVC without any fill, so that the structural elements were visible. I like the look of this, though it does remind me of the … Continue reading →

Brian from Greenpeace sez, "Greenpeace is 40 years old today, and one of the ad agencies we've worked with over the years made this for us. The agency asked to remain anonymous, so as not to lose any clients that … Continue reading →

Australians now have a third option for the "gender" field on their passports. Transgendered people and people of ambiguous gender are allowed to enter "X" for gender, rather than "F" or "M". An Australian senator, Louise Pratt - whose partner … Continue reading →

Walt Mossberg reviews Sony's Tablet S, a ~$500 Android touchscreen model that isn't an iPad clone. He is quite impressed by it, in an abstract "Sony deserves credit for this" kind of way. [All Things D]

In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico yesterday, bloggers and Twitter users who share information on crimes of drug cartels and related gangs received a gruesome warning. The tortured bodies of two people in their mid-twenties "hanging like cuts of meat from a … Continue reading →

Spencer Ackerman at Wired.com's Danger Room defense blog has a big story breaking tonight. It's a very upsetting read. If you had any doubt that racism against Muslim-Americans was institutionalized at the highest levels of our government, this should take … Continue reading →

Our friend and MAKE executive editor Paul Spinrad has exciting news: A couple of days ago, Pesco blogged the news that Obama's jobs plan includes the idea of legalizing crowdfunded securities.  I think this is terrific news, and I am proud that … Continue reading →

I enjoyed meeting Bilal Ghalib at the Detroit Maker Faire this year. He told me about his plan to establish hackerspaces in Africa. Now he has a Kickstarter project to kick it off. A great idea. We want to organize a … Continue reading →

Cult of Mac has an item about a six-year-old girl named Lim Xin Mei (above) who is learning computer programming. The article says she was using Applesoft BASIC on an old Apple II GS. Later she started using a Power … Continue reading →

Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at Scotland's Monklands Hospital, 3D printed a model of a bone from a CT scan, as preparation for surgery. Rather than using the local rapid prototyping shop at a university (where such an operation … Continue reading →

(photo: Edith Valle for VICE) Snip from today's radio program summary for The Madeleine Brand Show: Thirty years in prison for tweeting? That's the maximum sentence two people from Veracruz, Mexico are facing after they created hysteria by tweeting rumors … Continue reading →

Love and Rockets' "Dog End Of A Day Gone By," from their absolutely classic 1985 debut Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven. L&R fans may also be interested in Weird Pop, a brand new double vinyl compilation of Tones On Tail … Continue reading →

Fishbowls are cruel (arguably), but if you're looking for an arty fishbowl for your, say, robotic fish, or a place to keep Goldie while his large, stimulating tank is being cleaned, Fishscape is a pretty cool choice. Hand-blown in Turkey, … Continue reading →

Best cat video ever, via BB commenter GRS: Bouygues Telecom présente les Chatons Telecom - YouTube. Update: English language version below.

On the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Half My Dad's Age's beautiful action shot of a guerrilla planter perched atop a bicycle locking-stand on the streets of Toronto. I like the way this beautifies the lock-up without making it less useful … Continue reading →