I'm very excited about Other Machine's desktop CNC milling machines. Unlike 3D printers, which build parts by adding material (almost always plastic, when it comes to low cost machines), the Othermill cuts away at material (plastic, wood, metal glass, printed circuit boards). Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lyvCUfqgCvs/profile-of-other-machine-a-d.html

"Hydrofluoric acid is probably the most feared chemical compound that there is," says Sir Martyn Poliakoff, a chemistry professor at the University if Nottingham. "The reason it's so feared is that it is very corrosive. It will burn through human skin, even quite a small exposure on your skin can cause a heart attack."

Hydrofluoric acid will also burn through glass. Naturally, the first thing you should do once you obtain some is immerse a lit incandescent bulb into a beaker of it.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CpQkEhJ5xsU/what-happens-when-you-dip-a-li.html

"The nigiri and tuna rolls we eat today are a far cry from the pungent, rice-less, barrel-fermented stuff that originated during the 3rd century B.C." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QtPhysHnmws/history-of-sushi-it-didnt-s.html

I found 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (part of the popular series) in an airport bookshop. Thumbing through it, I learned three or four new things about design, presenting design, and how to think about design. That was enough for me. I nabbed a copy.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Gmr2cDOYYrs/a-book-of-smart-ideas-about-de.html

Ed from the Open Rights Group sez, "The Scottish Government has plans to create a national identity database and we have to stop it." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dmxQdw9BjAU/scots-heres-your-chance-to.html

Security researcher Mark Burnett has released 10,000,000 username/password combos he's downloaded from well-publicized hacks, citing the prosecution of Barrett Brown and the looming Obama administration crackdown on security researchers as impetus to do this before it became legally impossible. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/I-jYUTLhvps/researcher-releases-10m-userp.html

http://youtu.be/o-1ehDZv6JQ

Marie Rudisill, Truman Capote's aunt, was in her nineties when she appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EdjfEGfoimU/remember-the-fruitcake-lady.html

Photographer Christophe Courteau was taking images of mountain gorillas in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park forest when the group's alpha male charged him. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pSf4CtZNsak/drunk-mountain-gorilla-punches.html

Street Angel sneaks into a skate park and puts on a show. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hffAdOsMCO0/no-girls-allowed-street-angel.html

The closer a form's digital version gets to perfection, the more we seem to value its analog version's imperfection. We've seen it happen (or rather, heard it happen) with music, where our love of the digital stuff on our computers and phones coexists with our love of the "warmth" of the analog stuff on our vinyl records.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cTIXQEcZ4K8/pendersleigh-sons-cartog.html

I would relish no time-travel opportunity more than a trip back to Japan in the eighties. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/z1wNLGEM3n0/90-minutes-of-japanese-tv-comm.html

An amazing, under-appreciated genius worth discovering. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EmJd9j8rcG0/christopher-rand-is-the-finest.html

Astronaut ice scream sucks. Maybe cosmonaut food, now on sale in vending machines at Moscow's All-Russian Exhibition Center, is better. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ru0qNWx5Yco/food-fit-for-a-cosmonaut.html

My pal Sean Ragan got a Seek thermal imaging camera add-on for his phone. He was excited to try it out, but the micro-USB jack on his phone is "upside-down," which means the camera faces the same way as the phone's screen.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/r0ua-CaowCc/a-hard-fought-lesson-about-usb.html

Barbara Newhall Follett was eight years old when she began writing her novel, The House Without Windows. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jfZUgWQawsE/the-disappearance-of-a-once-fa.html

Thousands of people are competing to be the first humans to travel to Mars and colonize it. The only catch--they can never come back. Ever. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rJvXYhC5hFI/meet-the-people-whove-volunt.html

Who needs life affirming bromides when you can have fatalistic, abyss-plumbing truths straight from the mouth of filmmaker Werner Herzog Stipeti'c? Here's a sampling from the Herzog Inspirationals Tumblr.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QGsy779uS5M/werner-herzogs-brutally-hone.html

The NY Times has posted this compilation of Brian Williams’ television appearances that show "how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yAVHWIWgVl8/watch-how-brian-williams-acc.html

One of Hokusai's lesser known works, but worthy of posting here. [via]

Update: created by photosonny. (Thanks, Local Stain)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oPqSEiDL1Cc/mount-fuji-seen-below-a-cookie.html

The Art of the Disney Golden Books is more than a beautiful book of illustrated artwork. It’s a history lesson for Disney fans and a love letter to the men and women who created some of the studio’s most beloved characters. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gegdYpDUOvU/the-art-of-the-disney-golden-b.html