I own more books than I can read in a lifetime. I need to try out Erik Knutzen's system for cleaning his bookshelves.

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The American bomber Lady Be Good left North Africa for a bombing run over Italy in 1943. It wasn't seen again until 15 years later, when explorers discovered its broken remains deep in the Libyan desert.

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Arunshory M posted a handy chart from Who is Hosting This describing image file types and the best ways to use each one. Read the rest

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Changing guitar strings has always been a comedy of errors, for me. Not so with this cheap guitar string changer.

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The sound of the late 80s.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2PSUbAyNXSY/music-roll-with-it-steve.html

Being a TSA officer is a dream job for sadistic sociopaths, but for people who are able to sympathize, it's a nightmare. "I hated it from the beginning," writes former TSA officer Jason Edward Harrington, in an essay published in Politico Magazine. He recounts about the daily shame of having to confiscate nail clippers from pilots (to prevent the pilots from using them to "hijack the very planes they were flying"), jars of homemade apple butter ("on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security") and a bottle of champagne from some Marines returning home from Afghanistan who wanted to share it with a young soldier who'd lost his legs to an I.E.D. Read the rest

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At copyright holders' behest, reports TorrentFreak: "strange coming from an organization that was founded to offer more transparency."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1QNJNxnbr5c/takedown-archive-chilling-effe.html

A cleric in Saudi Arabia has forbidden the building of snowmen: "It is imitating the infidels, it promotes lustiness and eroticism."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8t0JxtaSIO4/snowmen-are-anti-islamic-prom.html

A group of men arrested at a bathhouse in Egypt, for the benefit of TV reporters filming the raid, have been acquitted in a sensational trial. Read the rest

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CCTV footage from the United Kingdom captured a man removing his trousers and having a poo in the cool glow of a bus stop: "Some people just don't respect the public transport service."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YzQsBR7roUo/gentleman-has-poo-at-bus-stop.html

Pop-Up Op-Art is more a piece of 3D art than it is a book. With each turn of the thick cardboard pages pops a bold and modern structure created by paper artist Philippe Ug (author of Funny Birds and other high-end pop-up books).

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PACER is America's all-but-inaccessible public database of court records. Carl Malamud explains the problem—and the solution: you. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/F9KBfLqvaKI/yo.html

We went to Oamaru, New Zealand to see the blue penguins (and they were super cute), but it was the town's dedication to Steampunk that really got us fired up. Read the rest

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Some 600,000 volumes were published in English last year. Here's a few of the best. Read the rest

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Evidently assault teaches respect for this purported Pastor's god. Watch as he brags about hitting a kid. (via)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/monv6zvFfW0/pastor-advocates-hitting-child.html

Inspiration for my break dancing seven year old.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OhfcJieFZOk/music-jam-on-it-newcleus.html

My daughter insisted that Nemo, our Great Pyrenees, needed this stuffed Yoda dog toy. My daughter likes it so much she now wants the Jedi master for her own.

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"Miaow," a photo shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by DASc0tt.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/N6FRoDqGWAM/caturday-32.html

The FBI and DoJ want to charge ex-CIA director David Petraeus for leaking classified info to his former biographer/mistress. The most likely law they'd charge Petraeus under? The 1917 Espionage Act. Just like Edward Snowden. Read the rest

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"As politicians drape themselves in the flag of free speech and freedom of the press in response to the tragic murder of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists," writes Freedom of the Press Foundation's Trevor Timm at the Guardian, "they’ve also quickly moved to stifle the same rights they claim to love. Read the rest

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