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Caturday Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shares this photo in our Flickr Pool. "Hannah relaxes with her bear friend." Read the rest... Classic Star Trek socks My feet refuse to wear the red. Read the rest... Turning spam-calls from a hassle into a profit-centre Lee Beaumont of Leeds, England got sick of unsolicited calls to his home number, so he spent £10 registering a "premium rate" number that costs 7p/m to call, and started listing that as his home number in all of his commercial dealings. Read the rest... Amazon patents taking pictures of stuff on a white background The annals of stupid, sloppy patents have a new world-beating entry: Amazon has received a patent on taking pictures of stuff on a white background. Read the rest... A huge slice of the Moon Steve Jurvetson, VC and space/aviation collector, shares this wonderful photo of a new acquisition that now resides at the Draper Fisher Jurvetson offices. Read the rest... Convertible Hudson Spaceship from Tinkerbots Many's the time I've featured the beautiful Tinkerbots of San Diego's Dan Jones. This time, my eye's been caught by his Hudson Skymaster convertible spaceship, which he added to the Boing Boing Flickr pool. Read the rest... OMG Cats in Space GIFs aplenty: omgcatsinspace.com. Read the rest... Drone's near-collision with jet in FL highlights new safety risks "Risk for a small [drone] to be ingested into a passenger airline engine is very real," says FAA. Also: Yosemite bans drones. Read the rest... New US policy bans citation of leaked material that's in the news James Clapper just prohibited all past and present US intelligence officials from publicly acknowledging reality. [HT: Trevor Timm] Read the rest... Web host gives middle finger to FCC "We are rate limiting the FCC to dialup modem speeds until they pay us for bandwidth," says Neocities. [via Ars] Read the rest... Polio's return to Pakistan may be CIA's greatest fail ever The CIA helped polio return to Pakistan, where it had been eradicated. Why has US media forgotten the story? [fair.org] Read the rest... The world's weirdest fruits Some thoughtful internet person dumped a bunch of photos of exotic fruits on imgur. I suppose if you live in a tropical climate where there's a wide variety of such fruits, there's nothing weird about them. Read the rest... Wet Dogs Sophie Gamand's "Wet Dog" is a series of portraits of dogs photographed during their least favorite activity: bath time. (2013) Read the rest... Download 55 free online literature courses: from Kerouac to Tolkien Open Culture's online literature courses look good, especially the ones by "Tolkien Professor" Corey Olsen. Read the rest... When chimps play the game of thrones In the early 1970s, the death of an old, male chimpanzee called Leakey precipitated what researchers describe as the only known chimpanzee war — as Leakey's replacement, and his followers, battled a host of would-be usurpers. Read the rest... Sounds of the Friendstrument [Video Link] Here's the circuit that started out as a lie detector but turned out to be more fun as a way to turn your friend into a music instrument. Read the rest... Japanese man arrested for 3D printing and firing guns Japanese police arrested a 27 year old man called Yoshitomo Imura, alleging that he 3D printed several guns and posted videos to Youtube of himself firing it. Read the rest... The life of an orangutan and the life of zoos Zoo evaluator Kathayoon Khalil writes about the life of an orangutan named Kutai, who was born, lived, and died in zoos and whose life traces the evolution of those institutions for the better. Read the rest... London may host 2016 games Rio isn't ready. It wouldn't be the first time London took over for other cities. Read the rest... What is that thing? Maybe the AMNH can tell you. Tomorrow is Identification Day at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Bring your anthropological relics, botanical specimens, fossils, and bugs and scientists can help you figure out what it is you've had sitting in Grandma's garage all these years. Read the rest... Whiskey production is not keeping up with whiskey demand Whiskey is a "slow food". Whiskey consumption is a fast trend. And, herein, lies a problem. (I will fight all y'all for the last bottle of Buffalo Trace.) Read the rest... Hunt for living dinosaurs Are there living dinosaurs in Cameroon or the Republic of Congo? This group thinks so, and they are headed back later this year to keep looking for the Mokèlé-mbèmbé, the legendary "one who stops the flow of rivers." Watch the video to learn about their quest. Read the rest... NBC has cancelled Community 5 seasons and a movie? Read the rest... The Clown Egg Register Our friends at Futility Closet (hosts of Boing Boing's wonderful Futility Closet podcast) have a short item about The Clown Egg Register. Read the rest... World's tallest teenager gets engaged Eighteen-year-old Brazilian Elisany de Cruz Silva, 6'8", announced her engagement to her boyfriend of three years, Francinaldo da Silva, 5'4". My favorite part of the video is in the grocery store because it has a lot of fruits I've never seen before! Read the rest... Boing Boing zine: the average cover Pat writes, "I took the set of Boing Boing zine cover images on Fraunfelder's Flickr album and did a mean/median blend of all the covers at once in imagemagick. Read the rest... 1970s original space art by Robert McCall on eBay Three beautiful early 1970s oil paintings by legendary NASA artist Robert McCall are up for auction on eBay in the $40-$60,000 range. Read the rest... Lee Marshall, voice of Tony the Tiger, RIP Lee Marshall, who was the voice of Tony the Tiger since 1999, died at 64 of esophageal cancer. He was the second voice of Tony, taking over from the late Thurl Ravenscroft, the cereal's pitchman from 1952 until he was in his 80s. Read the rest... China trains monkey soldiers China's air force has trained macaques to fight off birds nesting at an air base. The risk is that birds could interfere with the planes' engines. Read the rest... Get free trials using fake credit card numbers Notice how most "free trials" require you to provide your credit card number? That's so the company can charge you a monthly fee once the trial is over. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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