A gallery of the child-whipping Alpine demon that haunted our holiday Read the rest

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"Faster Now" is a short story about a near-future world where brain hackers called "now tweakers" (nowts) use their time-management skills to get a leg up on normals. It's by Paul Di Filippo, who wrote many excellent essays and stories for the zine version of Boing Boing. Read the rest

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Anthropologist Krystal D'Costa considers food as a spectator sport in history, aka "food porn." From Scientific American: Read the rest

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Our gathering spots, neither home nor work, were absorbed into another world. But we knew they were dying long before they disappeared... Read the rest

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Researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University got zebra finches drunk to see how the booze affected their singing in an effort to gain insight into human speech. Read the rest

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A presentation by Starbug at the 31st Chaos Communications Congress (previously) demonstrated a technique for deriving fingerprints from a couple of photographs of your hands. Starbug's proof of concept was a copy of the fingerprints of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. Read the rest

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Chara from Athens, Greece operates an amazing Etsy store full of hand-embroidered notebooks featuring anatomical, natural and historical themes: the circulatory system, the heart, a spider, Leonardo da Vinci's Apostle James, blood circulation of the head and many more. (via Geeky Merch) Read the rest

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"Triggered" is Youth Radio's interactive story about 13 objects, from a hair brush to a Wii remote, that police officers mistook for guns, resulting in someone getting shot. Read the rest

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William Root's "Exo-Prosthetic" is a 3D printed artificial leg made from laser-sintered titanium, which uses a 3D scan of the wearer's truncated limb for fit, and a 3D scan of the intact limb for form. Read the rest

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We are going to play songs from this mixtape I gave my brother 30 years ago. Read the rest

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The 31st Chaos Communications Congress is underway in Hamburg, where some of the most important, entertaining, mind-blowing, and earth-shaking information about computer security and politics will be revealed. Here's the livestream. (via Hacker News)

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Yoon Mi Rae is set to sue Sony over the inclusion of her song "Touch Love" in The Interview, which, she says, Sony failed to license for the film. Read the rest

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Gabrielle writes, "Saori weaving is the perfect craft for happy mutants. You can't make a mistake and all variation is considered part of the personal expression." Read the rest

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In the New York Public Library's Instagram account, Information Architect Morgan Holzer is posting images of 3x5 cards pulled from a shoebox collecting 50 years' worth of weird questions that were posed to the system's reference desks, which were strange and notable enough to warrant addition to the collection. Read the rest

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As the end of 2014 draws near, it's time to watch this year's collection of 11foot8 videos, starring the infamous "can-opener" railroad trestle of Durham, NC.

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Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute made a Lego checkerboard and placed white and purple M&Ms on the squares in a way that makes the board appear to bulge.

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Monte Beauchamp’s book, Popular Skullture is a refreshing look back at the early days of mass culture print publishing, when skulls still evoked a sense of the macabre.

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The story of a Velvet Underground CD and the plight of media formats long past. Read the rest

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A lovely cat capture by Maia Weinstock, shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

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Aw, poor Facebook. What a lump of coal in their Christmas stocking. Read the rest

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