I got the Schrade Key Chain Pry Tool as a birthday gift and it’s been on my keychain since. It’s about 3.25 inches long and about an inch at its widest. It has several tools including: pry tool, bottle opener, seat belt cutter, screw-driver, and a wrench driver that accommodates a variety of bolt/nut diameters. Read the rest

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Harry Connolly set out to write an epic fantasy with no dull parts. In The Way into Chaos he over delivers.

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Grace Hopper invented the world's first compiler, and this wonderful video, directed by Community's Gillian Jacobs, is a brilliant introduction to her career and position in the history of computing. My only objection is that it's not a full-length documentary.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xr95xIPLBz8/the-queen-of-code-a-fivethirt.html

Angelenos, rejoice: we live in a much less smoggy, crime-obsessed, and fragmented city than the one in this program. Read the rest

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The once anonymous Pulitzer-winning food critic of Los Angeles is anonymous no more. Read the rest

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I haven't tried this fast eggshell-peeling method yet, but I hope it works as well as it does in the video. (more…)

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This book is as much an adventure as it is a collection of recipes. Read the rest

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A+C Studios (quickly) reproduced the 2015 Super Bowl commercials in LEGO.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/vekI_T3Dx6Q/video-super-bowl-commercials.html

"Yasujiro Ozu, the man whom his kinsmen consider the most Japanese of all film directors, had but one major subject, the Japanese family," writes Donald Richie in his definitive study Ozu: His Life and Films, "and but one major theme, its dissolution." Read the rest

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This performance is fantastic. I am in love.

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The New York State attorney general’s office investigated herbal supplements being sold at GNC, Target, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, and found that many don't contain the ingredients on the label.

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Marcin Wichary, my colleague at Medium, tells tales of typography that amazing, confound, delight, and startle me, and I'm not a designer.

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After a 50 year break, Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, will publish her second book, titled Go Set A Watchman. Read the rest

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If you're a fan of Boing Boing, chances are you dig Douglas Coupland. His literary, visual, and technological interests are highly compatible with the brand of weirdness for which this blog is known. Read the rest

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Relae: A Book of Ideas is marketed as a cookbook, but it’s so much more. Read the rest

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The 60s wasn't just hippies and Woodstock. It was also the Golden Age of children's literature. Read the rest

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Scott McCloud is best known as comics' most accessible, smartest theorist, thanks to his 1994 classic Understanding Comics. But the other McCloud, of superhero comics like ZOT! is equally beloved by the cognoscenti. With The Sculptor, McCloud reminds us that he is one of the field's great storytellers, with a story of love, art, madness and death that wrenches, delights and confounds. Read the rest

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It must be Groundhog Day, because British politicians are making us debate their repeatedly-failed spying legislation -- how is it that some policy initiatives never die, while others can't get any traction at all? Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bQRKCj8dkqM/money-talks-policy-with-a-bus.html

In 1966, Topps issued a series of "Frankenstein Valentine Stickers" that have only improved with age. Read the rest

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In the age of secret government snooping warrants -- which come with gag orders prohibiting their recipients from revealing their existence -- "warrant canaries" have emerged as the best way to keep an eye on out-of-control, unaccountable spying, and now they've gotten better. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rK9Lc-V4j9s/canarywatch-fine-grained-hig.html