A photograph by Derek (Kiwi) Clarke, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Caption this, please.

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A grand jury has indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a former presidential candidate, for abusing the powers of his office. Read the rest

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We missed this wonderful illlustration when it hit the internet last month, but how timeless is Gemma Correll's map of an introvert's heart? (more…)

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Shay Aaron is a miniaturist based in Tel Aviv who specializes in teeny-tiny adorable food--collectibles, and wearables. Read the rest

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Longtime Boing Boing pal SFslim, aka Aaron Muszalski, is out in the Black Rock desert of Nevada as he is every year around this time. Read the rest

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“Flower Power is about challenging myself to approach pit bulls with a fresh perspective and an open heart. I invite the viewer to do the same."—Sophie Gamand. Read the rest

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American skateboarder Jay Adams, one of the original members of the Zephyr skateboarding team, has died. Read the rest

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It's 1948. Charlie Parish, a screenwriter and "part-time reprobate," wakes up with a hangover in a bathtub he doesn't recognize. As flashes of the previous night's bacchanalia go through his dulled mind, Parish wanders through the abandoned bungalow, trying to piece together the bits into a coherent timeline.

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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon today reveled the name of the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last weekend, outside an apartment complex in Ferguson: Darren Wilson. Read the rest

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"Skimpy Skirts and Hippie Hair," a 1972 Christian pamphlet spotted by bruce_lee_webb, reminds me of another similar classic in my own library, titled "Communism, Hypnotism And The Beatles."

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I have no idea how the OM/ONE bluetooth speaker sounds, but it kinda doesn't matter because it levitates. Ah, magical magnetism.

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As I require my bacon crispy and perfectly flat, this bacon press is one of the best Hanukkah gifts I ever received!

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I like my new Blackwing Slate journal, which our friends at Pencils.com sent me to review. The paper has the perfect tooth for a Blackwing pencil, and comes lined or unlined. Best of all, it has a holster for the pencil, which solves the vexing problem of where to stash my pencil.

Read more about the Blackwing Slate at Pencils.com

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As we wait patiently for Waxwork Records' promised vinyl soundtrack to The Warriors containing the full and never-released film score, let's enjoy Barry De Vorzon's cinematic komische disco track "Baseball Furies' Chase," below.

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Kosher Nostra, Plug Uglies, Yakey Yakes, and the Potashes are just some of the excellent 19th century street gang names compiled for this Mental Floss post by Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages.

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Four of the plaintiffs are US citizens, the other a permanent resident. They say that their rights have been routinely violated by a secret, unaccountable terrorist watchlist system. Read the rest

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Photos, videos and messages from the St. Louis suburb where police killed unarmed teenager Mike Brown. Read the rest

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Above are before and after images of Chichen Itza's El Castillo step-pyramid in the Yucat'an that the Daily Grail's Greg Taylor shared in a brief post about "How Far Should We Go in 'Restoring' Ancient Monuments?." Below, Stonehenge in the 19th century and now. Read the rest

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Demonstrators in Ferguson, MO held protests today in the St. Louis suburb where a police officer recently shot an unarmed young black man, killing him and sparking outrage in this mostly black community. Read the rest

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Via AV Club, GRRM tells us several fans have figured out the ending of his A Song of Ice and Fire. Additionally, a number of female fans are asking for explicit all male sex scenes, “I don’t pretend to understand this, I just read my email" says Martin.

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