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Man stabbed with spear while robbing medieval weapons enthusiast Valiant SCA member Jimmy Morgan Jr. fended off burglar Thomas McGowan with the spear he keeps by his bed. (VIA) Read the rest... Accidentally on Purpose – The beauty of jazz-like improvisational quilting There are a handful of other books about African-American quilts, particularly quilts from Gee's Bend; each have beautiful quilts to show, but this obscure exhibition catalogue remains my favorite. Read the rest... Drone flythrough of Toronto's magnificently renovated reference library Ab writes, "Toronto Reference Library (TRL) recently completed a multi-year revitalization project (to spotlight the new changes in the Reference Library, we also flew a mini drone around TRL to get a bird's eye view of what's new): the library is celebrating the completion of this project with an event on Friday, Sept. Read the rest... Amazon pays $4.6m for .buy domain suffix Amazon beat Google to the new .buy top-level domain, and will be able to sell on domains under it (such as, say, boingboing.buy) to others. The .tech suffix, though, went for $6.7m... Read the rest... New UK flag revealed Scotland votes 'No' to independence [BBC] Read the rest... First person to buy iPhone 6 drops it Perth, Australia. The first in-store pickup of the long-awaited new iPhone. The glare of the new day. The crush of the crowd. Read the rest... Discovering Cuban Sci-fi Ilan Stavans did some literary exploring in Cuba, and he's sharing with us the fruits of his (and many others') labors. Read the rest... Down in the dark matter lab Lewis Dartnell descends a kilometer underground to visit a laboratory where scientists have spent twenty years searching for the elusive particles that hold our galaxy together. Read the rest... Freaky baby clothes and accessories by Mitch O'Connell Artist Mitch O'Connell recently had a baby. After making a pipe pacifier for his infant, he started a line of baby clothing featuring sideshow characters! Read the rest... Gloriously weird remixed Victorian woodcuts George K's tumblr, Olex Oleole, is a beautiful running feed of gloriously weird remixes of Victorian woodcuts, in the style of the brilliant Dan Hillier. Read the rest... Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-To History, Part 7 Automobile-Sized Refrigerator: When a cooler just isn't cool enough. By Matt Maranian Read the rest... World's finest soundtrack reissue labels merge (and 2001's lost score!) My two favorite soundtrack reissue labels, Death Waltz Records and Mondo, have united, and the vinyl gods are pleased. Austin's Mondo (also a gallery) released the excellent Drive and Poltergeist soundtracks, among others, and London's Death Waltz Records have been killing it with exquisite vinyl packages of music from Escape From New York, They Live, Halloween III, The Devil's Business, and dozens of other cult classics. Read the rest... Malaysia's tech manufacturing sector based on forced labor "Hardly a major brand name" doing business in Malaysia is untainted by the use of forced labor from trafficked workers, according to a study backed by the US Department of Labor. Read the rest... Rubbery, crawling robot can traverse snow, fire Harvard's Michael Tolley created the 65cm long, soft, pneumatic robot whose operating parameters allow it to run over -9'C terrain or walk through naked flames (for 20 seconds, at least). Read the rest... Absurd and brilliant comics designed to be read right-side-up as well as upside-down From 1903-1905, a Japanese-born, Dutch artist named Gustave Verbeek turned America's Sunday funny papers on their collective head. That's when Verbeek drew 65 episodes of "The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo" for the New York Herald, all of which are reproduced in their full size and original colors in The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek. Read the rest... Men determined to kill Bigfoot Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization looks like your average grumpy white guy paramilitary organization, but they are actually a well-oiled team of devoted Bigfoot hunters on a mission to "protect the public and harvest a specimen to prove it's real." The TV show Killing Bigfoot from Gryphon Productions premieres Friday, October 17th on Destination America. Read the rest... Oracle CEO Larry Ellison stepping down Yacht captain Larry Ellison is quitting his night job as CEO of Oracle, a gig that earned him $78.4 million in 2014. Read the rest... The Blue Shed, by Amy Crehore Artist Amy Crehore's latest painting is called The Blue Shed. Read the rest... Boing Boing at The Village Studios: photos from our September Twilight Session music showcase We had so much fun, and the artists were amazing. Here are photos and a recap--and we're doing another edition in October! Read the rest... Restaurant wants to make Yelp unreliable Botto Bistro in Richmond, California is unconcerned about its Yelp rating. In an effort to undermine the reliability of its Yelp page, Botto Bistro is working to be the worst-rated restaurant in the Bay Area and is encouraging its customers to leave one-star Yelp reviews and offering deals for anyone who writes a bad review: 25% off any pizza and a chance to win a cooking class. Chefs and co-owners Davide Cerretini and Michele Massimo sayt their food is excellent and they run a busy restaurant. According to Cerretini, they're tired of the constant advertising inquiries from Yelp, and their "blackmailing" and review manipulation. Read the rest... Games are serious business at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show Above, a Sony Computer Entertainment staffer test-drives Play Station 4's virtual reality headset Project Morpheus at the Sony booth at Tokyo Game Show 2014. Read the rest... Blogging History: Precedents for "Internet makes us dumb"; 3D movies are dumb gimmicks One year Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash: Salon has a refreshing take on the effect of the net on wider culture, courtesy of Dennis Baron, author of the new book A Better Pencil. Read the rest... Watching words lose their origin I wonder if my 7 year old will think Motley Crue is singing about fundraising. Read the rest... Bizarre panorama photo stitch Coke Zero hired David Cronenberg and Tod Browning to take panorama photos of worshippers at a recent prolate-spheroid chasing ritual. The result was awesome. Read the rest... STUDY: artificial sweeteners can raise blood sugar levels more than sugar Nature published a study about the potential danger of artificial sweeteners. [Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Health in Israel] and his team first tested the effect of three common artificial sweeteners — aspartame, sucralose, saccharin — on rodents. Read the rest... New York Times feature about butts The NY Times, always on the cutting edge, has an article about the popularity of butts. (What, no link to Ms. Selter's Instagram account?) Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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