The white fog-basking beetle dwells in the Namib desert. It climbs “to the top of a dune during the early-morning fog, orienting its body with the tip of the abdomen pointed upward and the head angled downward. Water vapor from the fog condenses on the abdomen and runs down the body and into the mouth.” Read the rest

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Yellowstone National Park's Morning Glory thermal spring used to be deep blue but its current yellow and green hues were caused in part by tourists throwing coins, rocks, and assorted crap into the pool. Read the rest

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My new Guardian column, Go digital by all means, but don't bring the venture capitalists in to do it, is an open letter to the poor bastards who run public institutions, asking them to hold firm on delivering public value and not falling into the trap of running public services "like a business." Read the rest

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Sulka writes, "Over the last two years, several people with type 1 diabetes have decided they're not satisfied with the speed of development to technical solutions for managing diabetes. This has spawned several projects such as Nightscout, enabling cloud sharing of blood glucose data (especially crucial for parents with small children), and TidePool, which is working to better manage diabetes data in the cloud." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_FsMBKkcBzI/hacking-diabetes-the-open-art.html

The Troy, MO family of a six-year-old boy staged a kidnapping in which they terrorized him and made him believe that he would be sold into sex slavery, because they wanted to convince him not to be so "nice" to strangers. Read the rest

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California's insane publicity rights regime mean that the general -- who's been dead for 69 years -- can't be a video-game character because people might mistakenly think he endorses the game. Read the rest

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This 200-year-old "mummified" monk found in Mongolia last week is not dead but rather deeply meditating, say some believers. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CayVAkZpxBo/mummified-monk-not-dead-just.html

In Alex Solis's "Inkteraction" series, he battles his own illustrations. Read the rest

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We may now be in the golden age of Japanese beer, but we've missed the golden age of Japanese beer advertising. Read the rest

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The influential French filmmaker died in 2012. Play him off, keyboard cat. Read the rest

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Baseball fan Jacob Glick shot this footage of a Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field in 1938. Read the rest

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Here's video of Olivier C's amazing Millennium Falcon custom drone in action.

His next project: a Tie Fighter drone. Below, a preview of his design. (more…)

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A ProPublica story getting a lot of attention today around the 'net, and for good reason. Read the rest

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Varick Media Management correlated people visiting pet-related websites to wealth by zip code. These are the 10 wealthiest, pet loving zip codes in the US.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/veK7U7d9Y2k/americas-wealthiest-pet-owne.html

Titanium alloys are lightweight, strong, crack-resistant, and fatigue-resistant. This makes them useful in aerospace applications. Unfortunately Titanium is also expensive - around $3 a pound. Read the rest

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My friend Allen (co-founder of the delicious cashew cheese company Nary Dairy) got this Verus leather case ($22) for his iPhone 6 Plus, and I liked it so much I bought one for my 6 Plus. Read the rest

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I've been a regular Fitbit user for years. The new Charge HR is the best and most complete tracker I've tried.

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If you are having a friendly argument over a policy issue, ask the person you disagree with to explain how their preferred policy would work, describing "step by step, from start to finish, the causal path from the policy to the effects it was supposed to have." Read the rest

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Last year, redditor Crispy-Snax sounded the warning of the invasion of the parking meter snatchers, but people are still in denial. Get on your radios and sound an all points alarm. Block all highways, stop all traffic, and call every law enforcement agency in the state. Operator, get me the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yes, it's an emergency! [via]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/D81P8iKdEu0/nature-creates-replica-of-park.html

Henry Damon (left), a 37-year-old resident of Caracas, Venezuela, had the tip of his nose surgically removed to look like Red Skull (right), the WWII Nazi comic book villain. Damon also got face implants and tattoos to perfect the look.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rz-pjsZCErE/gent-removes-his-nose-to-look.html