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Domo Arigato Restaurant Roboto! Chris Arkenberg visits an establishment where pop culture and history merge into a light show of singular magnificence. Read the rest... Pandora's "Music Genome Project" explores the cold hard facts of how we interact with music Twenty-five music analysts "grade" 10,000 songs a month. It's a mountainous job, writes Rob Pegoraro, but the results will be serious business. Read the rest... Best illusions of the year (video) The top 3 videos from the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest are really good! 3rd Prize: A Turn in the Road, by Kimberley D. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: The Man Who Laughs graphic novel; Rucker's gnarly videos; Nude coaster record One year ago today The Man Who Laughs: grotesque Victor Hugo potboiler was the basis for The Joker: The Man Who Laughs is a graphic novel adaptation of a 1869 Victor Hugo novel that is chiefly remembered for inspiring a 1928 film whose poster-art, in turn, inspired the character of the Joker. Read the rest... Wink's remarkable book picks of the week Wink is a website that reviews one remarkable paper book every weekday. My wife, Carla Sinclair, is the editor. We take lots of photos of the covers and the interior pages of the books to show you why we love them. Read the rest... Scratch-built Mold-a-Rama machine James Durand scratch-built his own Mold-A-Rama after we featured them here on Boing Boing. Here he is showing off the machine for the Hackaday folks at Maker Faire. Read the rest... Best matcha, OCD luggage, supreme WiFi router, wireless AC outlet (Gadgets 003) Gadgets is Boing Boing's newest podcast! In each episode the editors and friends of Boing Boing recommend technology they love and use. This time, Xeni, Jason, and Mark talk about Ippodo Matcha (both high grade and super duper high grade ), eBags rolling mini suitcase and packing cubes, the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 Dual Band WiFi Gigabit Router, the Light and Motion Sola 2000 SF Dive Photo Light, the Wi-Fi Smart Plug and a SIM card cutter + adapters. Read the rest... Baby monkey hug "Two macaque monkeys hug their baby at the Monkey Forest in Trentham, Staffordshire." They're captive, at a preserve where they're allowed to roam around in relative freedom. Read the rest... Judge okays military force-feeding of Syrian Guantánamo detainee A Federal District Court judge has lifted an order barring the military from force-feeding a hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee. Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab, a 42-year-old Syrian citizen, has been held at Guantánamo for 11 years and nine months. Read the rest... Star Wars with Chinese characteristics Jeff writes, "Chinese historian Maggie Greene has recently written about one of the strangest treasures in her collection: a Chinese comic book version of Star Wars from 1980, which she aptly describes (with scans to prove it!) as 'a fascinating document' that includes images she thinks may reveal 'a fanciful imagining' of life in a then dimly understood America or generalized West. Read the rest... NYT jumps on our smelly old 'I don't use soap' bandwagon Sean Bonner writing for Boing Boing, 2011: "I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome: a personal experiment." NYT, 2014: "My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment." Okay, okay, to be fair, the New York Times article is about AOBiome, a biotech startup run by MIT-ers out of Cambridge, Massachussetts. Read the rest... Synth history: 'Fifty Years Of The Moog' There's a wonderful feature by Robert Barry over at the Quietus on the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesizer. Read the rest... NASA to space nerds: you may now drive this space probe NASA is giving a group of citizen scientists permission to take over ISEE-3, a 36-year-old decommissioned robotic space probe that will fly by the Earth in August. Read the rest... Tonight: meteor shower could become meteor storm Starting late tonight and continuing on into the morning, the Camelopardalids meteor shower sounds like one to watch. "Over the past 15 or 20 years, astronomers have done a very good job at figuring out, 'OK, here's where the debris streams will lie.' I'm thinking the odds are pretty good we'll get something nice May 24." Read the rest... New NYT editor spiked NSA spying story Mostly lost in the past week's media gossip around NYT executive editor Jill Abramson's ouster, and Dean Baquet's promotion to her role: Baquet is the former LA Times editor who killed the biggest NSA leak pre-Edward Snowden. Read the rest... HBO shows now available through Amazon This week, as previously promised, a slew of HBO shows became available through Amazon Prime Instant Video. Every episode ever of classics like The Wire, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Flight of the Conchords... Read the rest... The new Doctor lands Video Link Read the rest... North Korean science fiction and the Maoist road to Mars Jeff sez, "The Journal of Asian Studies has two science fiction-related essays: a full-length study that focuses on North Korean sci-fi stories of the 1950s and 1960s, which were intended for children and influenced by Soviet works of the time; it's paired with a shorter comment that explores parallels between texts Zur analyzes and SF produced in Mao era China." Things were getting busy on the major flight corridors between the Earth and Mars, or so the casual observer of socialist bloc science fiction from the 1950s might come to believe. Read the rest... What's in My Bag? Christopher Michel Over at Cool Tools, photographer Christopher Michel opened his travel case and described the contents -- noise canceling headphones, sleep mask, emergency meds, charging device, etc. Read the rest... Buff Headware, multi-purpose head sock Initially designed for off-road motorcyclists, Buff's headwear makes my life better. Helmets are easier to put on, the back of my neck not exposed to the sun! Read the rest... 3D printed model of Coney Island's Luna Park Sideshow veteran/artist The Great Fredini 3D printed a sprawling 1:13 scale model of Coney Island's early 20th century Luna Park, and my friend Ronni Thomas made a short documentary about the project! Read the rest... This Ohio cricket farm is first in US to raise 'chirps' for human consumption What has six legs and is a totally delicious superfood? Crickets, if you can stomach the latest nerd cuisine trend. Read the rest... Creep: servers should 'show some skin.' Restaurant replies brilliantly. Some gross dude writing an online review of a West Virginia restaurant said its female servers need to "show some skin." The restaurant's very cool owner replied to the creep critique by adding potato skin items to the menu. Read the rest... Woman attacked by car-smashing, LSD-loving 'High Elf' speaks out KATU TV has a video interview with the driver of the BMW attacked by Portland's "high elf." As we blogged previously, a man high on LSD who donned chain-mail, helmet, shield, sword, and staff, ran into traffic and started attacking her BMW a few weeks ago. Read the rest... Polished chunks of car paint look like beautiful stones Here's a photo gallery of "Fordite" -- fragments of old multi-layered car paint collected at auto factories, then polished and used like a decorative gem. Read the rest... Professor trapped In Himalayan crevasse records video diary of his escape Bryan M of Digg writes: "John All fell 70 feet down a crevasse, which left him seriously injured and unable to use his right arm." He recorded four videos about his ordeal as it was happening! Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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