These young folks have a lot of fun throwing a big hunk of sodium into a pond. If you're impatient, forward to the boom at :53.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xuzaip-5HRc/explosive-reaction-of-sodium-i.html

is a new game where "you get to do all of the things that a mountain does, which I’m sure appeals to all of your darkest and most disgusting fantasies." Previously: Goat Simulator.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MMZdEbeLEvU/mountain-simulator.html

Apple has announced that it will spoof the MAC addresses emitted by its wireless devices as an anti-tracking measure, a change that, while welcome, is "an umbrella in a hurricane" according to a good technical explainer by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Jeremy Gillula and Seth Schoen. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/c8TzEQe-U9M/apple-adds-privacy-protecting.html

In January of 1942, as the U.S was entering World War II, a Pennsylvania dentist (and friend of Eleanor Roosevelt) named Lytle Adams submitted the design of a new weapon to the White House, suggesting that it could be effective against the Japanese.

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The City of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $215,000 to settle a free-speech lawsuit brought by a Venice boardwalk vendor who was booted from of a public meeting because he wore a Ku Klux Klan hood, and a t-shirt that displayed the n-word. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vbxMpE9U7dY/la-to-pay-215k-to-man-who-wor.html

Marcel Lazar Lehel, a former Romanian taxi driver, has been indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges that he is responsible for the crimes of the hacker "Guccifer." Read the rest

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"Although fasting diets have been criticised by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kick-starts stem cells into producing new white blood cells, which fight off infection."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TYV4CBo02xM/fasting-for-three-days-can-reg.html

(via Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sZ9Hz2nhhzo/the-total-area-of-solar-panels.html

The images were created for an ad campaign promoting Sony's new 4K televisions. Read the rest

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Tic Tac Tome is a book that’s smart enough to play tic-tac-toe with you – no batteries required. You start on the first page by deciding which of the 9 spots to place your X.

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Joris writes, "I did an interview with Scott Summit who designs beautiful 3D printed fairings and back braces. 3D printing lets the customer customize them and makes the orthopedic implant become much more a part of themselves and their lives." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nXKV8Wh-PQY/inside-the-design-of-3d-printe.html

John Edgar Park, director of digital production & technology at DisneyToon Studios, photographed the contents of his travel bag for Cool Tools. It's filled with great and useful items: a sleep mask, a solid pen that takes Fisher Space Pen refills, a refillable insulated water bottle, and, most importantly, a micro grappling hook. What’s in My Bag? John Edgar Park

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/VcNxWl0iYA4/why-carry-a-grappling-hook-in.html

Spanish artist Nuria Riaza creates magical ballpoint portraits. (via Hi-Fructose)

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Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics for Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." (via Dangerous Minds)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xBzuX-YCeEE/handwritten-lyrics-for-love.html

Trailer for "Better Out Than In."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sAdfpeEroVM/banksys-new-film.html

Tumblr's Zombie Disney Princess tag is a rich seam of transgressive, gruesome, wonderful (and thoroughly unauthorized) creativity (above: Leimanaang). The stylistic variation is what (metaphorically) kills me here -- who'd have thought that there were so many different ways to zombify the Disney princess pantheon, each one so clearly perfect and yet so different from all the others?

Zombie Disney Princess (via Sean Bonner) Read the rest

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While on assignment in the Philippines, reporter Miles O’Brien had an accident and lost his left arm. In the weeks that followed, he learned that every movement, no matter how small, requires rethinking. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Of7ztuu26bE/lifeafter.html

Lund University engineering student Fredrik Leifland is testing a prototype biometric payment system based on vein matching, scanning and analyzing the blood vessels in the surface of the hand. (Lund University)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SAG05RPfXkU/vein-scanning-payment-system.html

Is that a goat or is it the Ayahuasca? John Wilcock reports from Mexico. A comic by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FvAI12Y0crM/tips-on-smuggling-pot-into-the.html

Intimate scenes of daily life observed via a high angle shot. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_jr4AI8_Z10/instant-life-a-photograph.html