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What is this? Who made this? Please help me understand. 世界の名画にうちのニャンコを登場させてみた（画像22枚） : デジログ！. (thanks, Antinous)

Alan Scherstuhl writes the terrific Studies In Crap column for the SF Weekly and other papers, in which he posts about his fabulous finds as a craphound who specializes in the weirdest books relegated to thrift stores, garage sales, and … Continue reading →

Michelle Legro in Lapham's Quarterly on the culinary-themed writings, sketches, and opinions of Leonardo da Vinci, who was known as "fat boy" when he was a pastry-snarfing 17-year-old kitchen apprentice. Five hundred years before Modernist Cuisine’s exhaustive look at molecular … Continue reading →

LazerShirts are a fun idea for a t-shirt that's coated with glow-in-the-dark material. You can draw your own temporary glow design on them with a UV or LED flashlight. The creators launched a Kickstarter project to start production. For a … Continue reading →

Princeton's Andrew Appel writes on Freedom to Tinker about an illegal cover-up of New Jersey e-voting irregularities. The Princeton team have done amazing technical and investigative work on electronic voting machines, and Appel's piece (the first of three) demonstrates exactly … Continue reading →

New research suggests that individuals can be identified with a very high degree of accuracy just by looking at the pressure signature of a person's foot on the ground as they walk. Researchers from Shinshu University, University of Manchester, and … Continue reading →

[Video Link] The great American alt-country-rock-whatever band Wilco, whom I love dearly, invites their fans to shoot video of the cities they're touring in. Some of the resulting videos "may be projected behind the band during the show in your … Continue reading →

Snip from a thought-provoking post by danah boyd: You’re a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you’re a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes “is Mohammad Abdullah a … Continue reading →

My friend Tiffany Shlain's new documentary feature film, Connected, opens in select theaters starting this Friday. The film is a lovely and moving meditation on technologies of connection as told through a transformative year in Tiffany's own life in which … Continue reading →

Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW is, in my experience, one of the best ways in the entire world to discover new music and new artists. They've launched a free iOS app, Music Mine, to guide listeners throughout the world to … Continue reading →

Walk in the footsteps of one of South America's banal monsters with the Pablo Escobar tour of Medellin. The four-hour tour culminates with a handshake and photo-op with Escobar's brother, Roberto, who will answer your questions. You could ask him … Continue reading →

Steve Myers at Poynter has a detailed piece on disclosing potential conflicts of interest, and says the New York Times shouldn’t throw stones at Michael Arrington and TechCrunch. I'd like to take this opportunity to disclose that Boing Boing invests … Continue reading →

MIT News Office posted a survey of the fascinating research at the university, and by alum, on an array of 3D printing technologies and applications. Another variant underway now is a system being developed by Neri Oxman PhD ’10, the … Continue reading →

Nomadic Matt, a self-described "travel hacker," takes readers through a detailed look at how he scores his best deals on airfares. He comparison shops, then tries to beat the best price through the airline's site (include the airline's foreign sites), … Continue reading →

Europeans: this Saturday marks the fifth annual Freedom Not Fear day, when Europeans take to the streets to ask their governments to respond to extremists and terror attacks by affirming the values of a free society, not by taking them … Continue reading →

Cloaklet is a service that provides end-to-end private IM, email and file-transfer. The system uses three physically and logically separate systems, each of which has limited knowledge of what the other is doing, theoretically creating a system where there is … Continue reading →

On Monday, October 17th, I will be 16,000,000 minutes old. Want to know your age in prime birthdays, Venusian years, or fortnights? Check out Matt Parker's collection of links explaining How To Celebrate the Nerdy Passing of Time.

Dimitri Tsykalov makes guns out of meat. Vegetarians, rejoice -- as noted previously, he also makes skulls out of produce. But these meat guns are pretty spesh -- the radish bullets, magnifique!. Meat Guns by Dimitri Tsykalov (via JWZ)

Vladimir Putin's stagey action shots put the Russian leader in more macho costumes than a fleet of GI Joes. This Atlantic Big Feature photo-series catalogs the many moods of the ex-KGB spook. To quote Kottke: Vladimir Putin rides a horse, … Continue reading →