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"A conversation with my 12 year old self" (video)
"Hitler's only kidding about the antisemitism" New York Times, 1922
"Where Are Your Keys?" a language fluency game
16-year-old invents prizewinning clean algae-biofuel conversion process
1916 electric utility propaganda
1959 Goggomobil microcar
29-year-old woman born deaf hears herself for the first time
50' chain of beads leaps and cavorts its way out of a jar
A Brief History of the Corporation: understanding what an attention economy is and where it comes from
A flight on a B-17
A is For: All of Us
Acrobatic Robot Backflip
Adam Savage: my Blade Runner gun
Adventure 03: The Power To Create Emotion in Time
Adventure 04: Rhythmic Innovation
Adventure 15: Stormy Weather Finale
Advertisers continue to scramble from Rush Limbaugh Show
Alan Moore on crowdfunding, surveillance, and disconnecting
Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks
Alfred Kahn's brave 1977 bid for clear corporate prose
Amanda Visell's chicken reproductive poster
Amara/Universal Subtitles gets $1MM from Mozilla and the Knight Foundation to internationalize Web video
An introduction to Crossplay (cosplay meets crossdressing)
Andrea Seabrook's DecodeDC
Antibiotics and gut health
Apollo Robbins: profile of a pickpocket
Archer, or how I spent my sick day
Are there more people with autism, or more people diagnosed with autism?
Armed to the Teeth: The Fight Over Rural Dental Care
Article about extreme lifestyle-minimalists
Artist's statement translated
ASCAP raising money to fight Free Culture
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license)
AT&T merger leak: it’s all about raising prices and reducing competition
Australian pop-out camper that is full of well-thought-out features
Awesome Art Cars at Burning Man: Steampunk Octopus, and Playa Dalek
Aziz Ansari and others follow Louis CK's lead with $5, DRM-free comedy concert downloads
Ball-camera that you toss in the air for a 360° panorama
Bankers will take $5 trillion from American economy over the coming decade
Barbie crashes and burns in China
Beastie Boys' star-studded, hilarious trailer: Fight For Your Right-Revisited
Behind the meme: Secrets of octopus intelligence
Behind the scenes with "gypsy-punk" band Gogol Bordello
Ben Gets BoingBoinged
Best Marriage Equality ad ever (video)
Best of Risk! #4 - one of my favorite podcasts
Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate
Bletchley Park kicks so much ass
Blood Cell Bakery: Using cookies to explain science
Bloomberg publishes CEO-to-employee-pay chart
Blowing up Morozov's "To Save Everything, Click Here"
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the pentatonic scale
Bodybuilder can go from ripped to flabby in a few hours
Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding enemy, but convicted on lesser charges
Brazilian telcoms regulator raids, confiscates and fines over open WiFi
Breaking a 18th C cipher reveals hidden history of Freemasonry and freethought
Brian Krebs talks to hacker who may have SWATted him and attacked Wired's Mat Honan
Bristol street art exhibition transforms Ballardian brutalist street
Bruce Sterling on startups' role in helping the global rich get richer
Cancer patient's response to insurer who said, "No biopsy for you, you're going to die anyway"
Cannabinomics--The Marijuana Policy Tipping Point
Car thieves root the BMW, make off like bandits
CES 2011: body-mounted action camera
Chernobyl disaster, 25 year later: commemoration around the world
Chick-Fil-A threatens guy who made "Eat More Kale" shirts; he fights back with a Kickstarter documentary
China's Vice President lived in a cave for 7 years, eating gruel
Chris Carter talks about DIY synthesizers
Christopher Colombus: raping, murdering, enslaving, genocidal pedophile
Christopher Walken reads Where the Wild Things Are
Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus: how the net lets us share and do more than ever
Clever sucker-bets
Clever, 130sqft Paris apartment
CNet's Download.com secretly installs adware with open/free downloads
Cockatoos can pick locks
ColorSuckr sucks out colors from online images
Congrats to Chris Anderson and Jordi Muñoz for winning SparkFun's Autonomous Vehicle Competition
Congressional staffers behind SOPA get shiny new jobs as entertainment industry lobbyists
Counting crows?
Cover for new edition of Orwell's 1984 is brilliant
Creativity, math and 12-tone music
Critical history of the war on sympathetic magic
Crónicas de Héroes: positive actions by everyday citizens in México
Crowdfunded project to create "world's smartest robot"
Curious chimps of the Congo
Dan Pink's travel tips
Darth Vader does Tai Chi
David Byrne and St Vincent concert video: Love This Giant
Demonstrating earthquake liquefaction in a wheelbarrow
Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
Did Syria's army use sat-phone surveillance to hunt down and kill journalists?
Dirty Work: extremely clever, well-put together interactive gruesome comedy series
Disabled vet transforms himself though yoga
Disaster book club: What you need to read to understand the crash of Air France 447
Dmitry Sklyarov and co. crack Canon's "image verification" anti-photoshopping tool
DMZ is finished: Brian Wood nailed the ending
Documentary about the craft and philosophy of wooden boat carpentry
Documentary trailer about the 86-year-old man who lives alone on an island
Don't Spy on Me flag
Doogie Horner's chart of talk show hosts: a Boing Boing exclusive
Download the Universe: Reviews of science e-books and apps
Downtown After Sandy: Walking 3 miles in blacked-out NYC, the night after the storm
Dwarf Fortress: "perhaps the most complex video game ever made"
Earliest recorded music
Econopocalypse: the Marxist animated whiteboard explanation
Edith speaks in Ubbi-Dubbi
EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos
Enthralling Books: Blood Music, by Greg Bear
Epic family zombie-slaying portrait shoot
Erykah Badu feat. ?uestlove: "Window Seat"
Essays on the trap of US student debt
Esther Dyson: My iXperiences with Steve Jobs
Exciting boring video
Expereal: iPhone app to rate/analyze your life via data visualization
Facial hair of the Civil War
Fact-checking US patent-boss's defense of his job
Fancy "useless machine"
Filter can separate water from Coke
Firefighters watch as house burns to the ground: owner had not paid annual firefighting fees
Flowchart: what is Weird fiction?
Folkstreams free archive of folk/roots culture documentaries
Fordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford's doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle
Fort Magic - a fun backyard building kit for kids
Fox News whistleblower begins anonymous tell-all series
Francis Ford Coppola -- copyfighter
Frauenfelder Reviews Cheap
Free ebook download: Scott Kirsner's "Fans, Friends & Followers"
Freerunning academy in LA
Friday Freak-Out: Brothers Johnson play "Strawberry Letter #23"
Friday Freak-Out: The 5th Dimension's "Up, Up and Away" (1967)
Fugazi on NYT front page; aging punks everywhere go, "WTF?"
Funny note to Yellow Pages in Canada
Funny smart commentary about burqa bans
FunnyJunk threatens to sue Oatmeal creator (6/2012)
Gay couple learns they're about to become grandpas
Gentleman plays AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" on a flaming bagpipe
German Pirate Party poised to win first federal electoral contest
Gesture control system for drones
Giant cardboard robot arms (for giant cardboard robot hugs)
Gingerbread AT-AT
Gingerbread typewriter is entirely edible
Glitch: free-to-play, whimsical, delightful MMO from Flickr co-founder
Globe and Mail: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's family are, variously, a drug kingpin, a gangster, and affiliated with the KKK
God game: SimCity urban planning taken to terrifying extreme
Good Faith Collaboration: How Wikipedia works
Good news: Whale and dolphins are friends
Google adds a "dead-man's switch" -- use cases from torture-resistance to digital wills
Gorgeous, psychedelic hand-drawn animation made with ink, white-out and coffee
Guatemala—Rios Montt genocide trial, Day 21. Defense attorneys walk out; Preliminary Court Judge annuls trial, AG vows legal battle
Guatemala: "I am innocent," Ríos Montt tells court in genocide trial, breaking silence
Guatemala: Day 5 of Montt genocide trial; "They viewed us as if we were not people."
Guy Fawkes masks for people of many nations, genders and backgrounds
Hamster-powered strandbeest walker
Happy New Year Luie!
Harry Potter and the Ten Years Later shows the grown-up wizard longing for his magical wizarding days of youth
Hexaflexagons! The miracle of the inside-out hexagon with many, many sides
Hexayurt
Highlights from TED 2010, Wednesday: "We can eat to starve cancer"
Hipster ipsum: filler text for your next design project
History of cars in cartoons
History of the Animaniacs
Hitler is Angry About the iPhone 4S
Home value chart updated 1890-2011
Housewife's LSD trip, 1956: Harvard Psychedelic Club
How "jaywalking" was invented
How Bugs Bunny saved Mel Blanc's life
How chicken wire is made
How Mark Boyle Lives on $0 a Year
How stupid is Charles Carreon's lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the American Cancer Society and the National Wildlife Federation? Really, really stupid
How the Daily Mail invented Britain's bungling-est spy-agency
How the effects of climate change can create more climate change
How the entire world's media got a Nature cover story totally, utterly wrong
How the first image of the whole Earth was taken
How the Victorians wiped their bums
How to build a Burning Man theme camp
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial
How to follow the Petraeus CyberClusterFuck: a flowchart
HOW TO Make time lapse
How to say "I love you" in 100 languages
How To: Make cornstarch fun and educational
HOWTO "safely" cover your body with squirming, gorging raccoons
HOWTO defeat the Klan with humor and bravery
HOWTO get stuff made in China
HOWTO knit smittens -- mittens you can hold hands in
HOWTO make health-care cheaper by spending more on patients who need it
HOWTO: Ultra-cheap Sous-vide
Humans and Neanderthals: An introduction
Hurricane Irene, as seen from space (video, and snapshot by astronaut)
I haven't used soap or shampoo in a year, and it's awesome: personal experiment update
iamamiwhoami
If a corporations are people, do they qualify as carpool-lane passengers?
IFTF's public FutureCast phone call with guest hardware hacker Phil Torrone Boing Boing
Imaginary Foundation’s “Make A Difference” flyer
Impotent futurism: the design of Allende's cyber-utopian boondoggle
Incredible video of Aurora Borealis
Indie author gets sticker shock from Amazon "delivery fees"
Inexpensive gene copier for DIY molecular biology
Influencing Machine: Brook Gladstone's comic about media theory is serious but never dull
Infographic of Mars missions
Infographic: Facebook's "anti-privacy monopoly"
Infographic: How SOPA will change the net
Innovative Dystopias
Inside a mile-deep open-pit copper mine after a catastrophic landslide
Inside Alvin: Scientists as Makers
Inside Fukushima: 8 months after disaster, foreign journalists get first look at crippled nuclear plant
Interactive chart: understanding the chokepoints for censorship
Interesting interview about the downsides of local food
Internal anatomy of the clitoris
Interview with author of "The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast" (plus excerpt)
Interview with Ernest Cline, author of Ready Player One
Investor Jeremy Grantham: "We're Headed For A Disaster Of Biblical Proportions"
Irish president lambastes right wing US radio DJ over the politics of fear
Is the web really dead?
Jane Austen + Fight Club = Regency excitement!
Japan nuclear crisis: "Should I take potassium iodide pills to protect against radiation exposure?"
Japanese punk rock fishing lures
Jimi Hendrix on a gayageum
John Cale on "I've Got A Secret" (1963)
Jonathan Lethem discusses his tribute to Talking Heads' Fear of Music
Jonny Quest opening title sequence redone as stop motion
Joss Whedon on his success
Judge exercises extreme sarcasm on US Bank
Kevin Kelly's 1 second/day video of Asia
KFC's Double Down: bacon and cheese sandwiched between two pieces of fried chicken
Kinetic toothpick sculpture of San Francisco
Knolling: a verb for those who like things nice and kentucky
Kony 2012 screening in Uganda results in anger, rocks thrown at screen
League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis documentary online
Leaked: ITU's secret Internet surveillance standard discussion draft
Lego's new line of toys for girls
Leonard Cohen ex-manager/thief/lover/stalker sentenced; Cohen dry and warm throughout
Leonard Cohen's new Old Ideas: pure distilled Cohen, the apotheosis of gravelly poetry
Liberating America's secret, for-pay laws
Librarian tattoos
Lionsgate commits copyfraud, has classic "Buffy vs Edward" video censored
Literature's business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet
Loaded terms: How a Pittsburgh artist beat the most bogus trademark in drinking game history
lookatthat
Lost trove of D&D co-creator unearthed, up for auction
Louis CK direct-sells tickets to his next concert tour
Louis CK's DRM-free direct-sales video experiment pays off
Lovely video of gliding paper airplanes
Macro photos of eyes
Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success
Make's roundup of DIY radiation detectors
Makedo: connectors for cardboard construction fun
MakerBot opens a NYC store with a 3D photo booth
Malamud's "By the People:" stirring history of the Government Printing Office
Man faces jail for videotaping gun-waving cop
Man skydives 3,400 feet sans parachute and lands safely
Man with the world's lowest singing voice
Mark Pescovitz (1955-2010)
Mars Curiosity rover's landing: A video by one of her 3,000+ creators at NASA JPL
Me Write Book: It Bigfoot Memoir, new from Graham Roumieu
Medieval Europeans knew more about the body than we think
Medieval underwear
Meet Zack Kopplin, the 19-year-old who started winning battles against teaching creationism in Louisiana public schools when he was 14
Meta-analysis of studies on file-sharing
MetaMaus: the secret history of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning Maus
Methuselah trusts and the magic of compound interest
Mexico: Huichol Indian bead-dazzled Volkswagen Beetle (Vochol)
Micronations around the world
Mid-70s Giorgio Moroder synth video
Mind Blowing Movies: El Topo (1970)
Mindfulness meditation and the brain
Miniature bee-drones made from pop-up-book-style fabrication
Misogyny is alive and well in technology circles
Molly Crabapple’s Occupy Wall Street “Vampire Squid” poster, for your printing/stenciling pleasure
Montage of awesome cephalopod camouflage clips
More than you maybe needed to know about the echidna
Municipal codes of DC, free for all -- liberated without permission
Must-listen radio: "Nuclear Power After Fukushima," documentary from BURN: An Energy Journal
My Great Ghost, "Glass Machine"—remixing Philip Glass, with an app
Nazi rules for jazz performers
Neal Stephenson's Some Remarks, a remarkable essay collection
Neil Gaiman: giving away ebooks sold my print books
Nerdy, sexy, dirty, funny lovesong on a uke
Neuroscience explanations are more believable than mere psychological ones
New Yorkers freestyle rap in Union Square
NPR on the future of the Internet (1993)
NSA homage in Pixar-style animation: video, and GIF
Obama's regressive record makes Nixon look like Che
Observation tube under the Antarctic sea ice
Occupy 1-2-3, a DIY mini-kids-book about Occupy
Occupy San Francisco: eyewitness account
Occupy Wall Street hand signals, an illustrated guide by Ape Lad
Occupy Wall Street protesters taking over Times Square (10/15/2011)
Occupy Wall Street Sign of the Day (shit is fucked up and bullshit)
Octopus cam
Octopus table
Octopus walks on land
Old Spice Guy has competition
One to watch: new details on Superbrothers' iPhone adventure Sword & Sworcery EP
Open letter from an Army vet to military servicepeople: what will you do when they send you to fight Occupy?
Open Tech Forever: open source hardware co-op
Opus: a new, free, open audio codec that outperforms everything else
Orson Scott Card’s long history of homophobia
Othermill: kickstarting a desktop 3D computer-controlled mill for circuit-boards, jewelry and more
Paper anatomical model
Parallel parking
Patient-abusing doctor reacts to growing awareness of own career's imminent end
Patry's How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law
Pattern for crocheted Panzer tank slippers
Patti Smith: Just Kids, Horses, and Hey Joe
PeePoo bags render sacks of shit safe for shantytowns
Percussive high-speed garlic-peeling made simple
Periodic table as 3D paper sculpture
Periodic Table sweater
Pervious concrete is awesome, kind of zen
Petition: force Congress to display logos of their corporate backers on their clothes
PGP founder creates secure voice mobile app, bets people will pay for privacy
Photos of people living off-the-grid in the United States
Plot holes in Prometheus, delivered in a monotone
Pogo insanity in New York City
Pointy pencil sculptures of Jennifer Maestre
Pop-up bike trailer
Portlandia just keeps getting better.
Portraits of apes
Poverty in Mississippi Delta worsened by poor broadband
Preppers: suburban survivalists
Professor William J. Mitchell, pioneer of urban computing, RIP
Project: Make a simple motor
Pronunciation Guide: extremely funny videos on how to pronounce things
Punk math philosophy and podcast
Put This On: “Personal Style”
Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required
Racing. Not posing.
Raising money for "American Commune," a documentary about The Farm
Rare photo of honeybee leaving its stinger behind
Real-life Portal adventure
Realistic dinosaur puppet scares and delights schoolchildren
Rebecca MacKinnon talks about her book "Consent of the Networked"
Reciting Pi while balancing books and spinning a Rubik's Cube
Reddit's TestPAC is campaigning to defeat Lamar Smith, SOPA's daddy
Remembering Steve Jobs: how those who covered his life observed his death.
Remix of scenes in Mad Men of people smoking cigarettes
Report of working 3D printed gun
Reportero: documentary on journalist's life in one of the world's deadliest places for news
RePress: a WordPress plugin for proxying around national firewalls
Resin octopus
Reverse engineering the perfect (or worst) TED talk
Review: The Hunger Games
Richard Branson launches Virgin Oceanic: deep-sea exploring submarines
RIP Aaron Swartz
Robot bird takes flight
Robots are taking your job and mine: deal with it
Robots inspired by nature: the "DelFly" bionic robot (photo)
Rock family trees
Rothko Toast
Russell Brand testifies to Parliament about drug policy, channels Groucho Marx
Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube
Safecast draws on power of the crowd to map Japan's radiation
Scale model of a war-torn WWII town built and photographed by brain-damaged beating victim
Schneier: when the NSA comes to your company's door, fight!
Scotland Yard arrest EDL members over alleged plot to attack Occupy London
Secret history of the SOPA/PIPA fight
Seen Not Heard: How Obscure Security Makes School Suck
Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you're standing in
Some snapshots from the mass Brazilian protests (and an explanation)
Son House, "Death Letter" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day)
Sophie Madeleine plays "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm" on ukuele
Spanish activists raise money to sue bank boss at center of financial crisis
SPOILER ALERT: New Portlandia preview clip is called "Spoiler Alert"
Stephan Guyenet’s critical examination of Gary Taubes’ anti-carb book, Good Calories, Bad Calories
Steve Silberman reports on synaesthesia
Stickonspy: sticker-reminder that the NSA likes to fool around with your webcam
Stop motion music video uses hundreds of strangers holding up a tablet on the streets of Sydney
STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET
Story of Bottled Water (from "Story of Stuff" folks)
StressEraser - pocket biofeedback system
Stross's Neptune's Brood: science fictional companion to Graeber's Debt
Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe
Survival Research Laboratories: banned in San Francisco
Survival Research Laboratories: SFMOMA Groundbreaking, 1992
Survivalist Singles and climate change erotica
Teaser video for Jake Shimabukuro's new ukulele album
TED2013: Amanda Palmer on "The art of asking"
Teller explains the psychology of illusions
Terrific no-mess milk frother
Testing out a Star Wars-style hover bike in the Mojave desert
The case of the poison potato
The classroom blog: This is how you do it, science style!
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation
The courtship dance of the peacock spider
The diagnosis
The Dictator's Practical Guide to Internet Power Retention, Global Edition
The history of margarine
The history of timelines
The Icarus Deception, an inspiring book about making meaningful work, by Seth Godin
The Investigative Dashboard: Hacking Crime and Corruption
The machines that made the Jet Age
The magnitude of the disastrous Bush presidency told in 24 charts
The new trailer for Movie 43 is very, very funny and not-at-all SFW
The Periodic Table Table: all the elements, in carved wooden glory
The social science of IUDs
The takeover of the US by the security-corporate complex
Things Don’t Seem Wonderful If You’ve Seen Them All Your Life (1912)
Thursday: White House/Tom Kalil Google Hangout about the maker movement
Tim Minchin explains evolution and genomics in an animated video
Time lapse of stop-motion puppeteer at work
Time-lapse video of an ant colony eating a scanner, captured with the scanner in question
Timelapse of a year's worth of dance-training
Timothy Ferriss: Cheat Sheets for Everything
Tiny nuclear battery
Tippi Hedren on the abuse she took from Alfred Hitchock: "Today, I'd be a very rich woman"
Tool-using animals: Now with 100% more invertebrates!
Top UK entertainer sexually abused hundreds, mostly children
Trailer for Backyard Blockbusters: doc about fan-films
Trailer for Ethos: the truth about the U.S. Government and its corrupt system
Trailer for Iron Sky, a crowd-sourced sci-fi epic
Truck driver builds the "most detailed replica of an A-bomb ever made"
Two minutes of runway models falling down
Understanding Makers, a conversation with Anil Dash & Dale Dougherty
Unpacking the invisible knapsack
Unsealed court-settlement documents reveal banks stole $trillions' worth of houses
Van Halen's "Eruption" guitar solo shredded by 14yo girl
Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense: chart of woo
Video of a collapsing tin mine next to the ocean in Malaysia (1993)
Video of trippy sea creature, siphonophorae
Video review of a strong cannabis derivative
Video: from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens in 5 minutes
Violence in Milan
VLC Hits 2.0
War on Terror: The Board Game in the Boing Boing Bazaar
Watch an adorable 3 year-old kid sing the periodic table
Watch the motorcycle marriage proposal that shut down a Los Angeles freeway
Water droplets + aerogel powder = superhydrophobic fun
What Disneyland's "awkward transitions" teach us about signaling changes with physical cues
What does a live human stomach stuffed with 72 cocaine capsules look like?
What happens when you let smart teenagers play with their passions
What is a capacitor? [video]
What is the social media style of protest?
What science says about gun control and violent crime
What the LibreOffice fork means for Oracle's shabby treatment of Sun's free software projects
When Donald Duck met Glenn Beck
Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest?
Who’s afraid of the amygdala? Research blows away "fear center" myth
Why communities build their own WiFi: a short video explainer and a long white-paper
Why did OMG TSA WTF suddenly go viral?
Why is it so hard to make a phone call in emergency situations?
Why we need to keep an eye on the ice sheets
Why you should keep a tampon or two in your survival kit
Widespread support for toilets that separate crap from urine
Willard M. Romney fibs about first name
WinCo: worker-owned grocery chain that pays benefits, pensions, living wages -- and has lower prices than WalMart
Women’s sex-strike ends civil war (sex vs violence)
Wondrous, detailed map of the history of science fiction
Workshop: teaching kids to steal cars
World's smallest V-12 engine
Worlds tallest building will be built in China, over 90 days
XKCD on the password paradox: human factors versus computers’ brute force
You cannot poison an opossum
You don't have a moral obligation to cook
Young fellow makes, tests and celebrates outstanding Rube Goldberg machine
Your Cisco phone is listening to you: 29C3 talk on breaking Cisco phones
Your new cyberpunk goggles
YouTube introduces Creative Commons option for uploaders, remixers
Ze Frank's demos his new special effects software
Zigzag bookcase shows Ikea a thing or two about not shipping air

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