Joe Massa said he was driving home Sunday morning around 2AM when his Buick was struck by something. And that something, he says, was a freakin' meteorite. Read the rest

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"The U.S. Army is quietly putting the word out to commands that it is replacing its current Universal Camouflage Pattern with a pattern the service has owned for more than a decade," reports military.com.

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More than 1,000 people within a half-mile of an explosive fire at a New Mexico biofuel production facility had to evacuate today, as hazmat teams arrived. The plant converts veggie oils into fuel. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/g0yrSi6QArA/fire-explosion-at-nm-biofuel.html

Mashable has a nice profile of First Look's Micah Lee. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2IFXvYEyzXI/meet-the-guy-hired-to-ensure-s.html

The Veterans Administration worker who leaked damning information about the federal agency has a name: Sam Foote. He is an internist, and for 19 years was a VA outpatient clinic director. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/g9cUneDdAlw/the-va-whistleblower-comes-out.html

As I discussed in our recent podcast, the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 wifi router has completely rejuvenated my home network. Transfers that were below 2 Mbit/s are now at my theoretical 7Mbit/s maximum.

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"Cute Chick Faces," "Tyler Giving the Chicks a Pep Talk," and "Chicks Exploring the Grass," photographs shared by reader Nicholas Longtin of Minneapolis, in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

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The identity of the top CIA officer in Afghanistan was exposed over the weekend by the White House when his name was included by mistake on a list given to news organizations of senior officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with US troops.

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Inspired by a brick cell phone he found at a thrift store, Portland photographer Jim Golden created a wonderful photo series (and several animated GIFS) of "Relics of Technology," from reel-to-reel tape recorders to Betamax tapes to Jaz disks.

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Everybody is invited to the table in Hannibal’s bloody season-two finale. And Theresa DeLucci does mean everybody. She loves a good surprise--or five. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OnXJ59prh7E/hannibals-last-supper-mizu.html

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

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sA_h3Xqn1sk/pandoras-music-genome-proj.html

The top 3 videos from the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest are really good! Read the rest

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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.

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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

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9154oE5t6zA/best-matcha-ocd-luggage-supr.html

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. Moog turns 80 today. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7WnIOomQIjA/synth-history-fifty-years-o.html

"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.

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A Federal District Court judge has lifted an order barring the military from force-feeding a hunger-striking Guant'anamo detainee. Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab, a 42-year-old Syrian citizen, has been held at Guant'anamo for 11 years and nine months.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4gFuTJQI_-o/judge-okays-military-force-fee.html

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." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OGKu4OkcqS8/nyt-jumps-on-our-smelly-old.html

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

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/s-PmrUcbgRM/nasa-to-space-nerds-you-have.html

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.

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