The Spark Electron is a small component that enables devices to connect to the Internet where there is no WiFi or Bluetooth. Read the rest

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Headquake claims this a scratch-built RC car. I'm not buying it. He's been breeding giant housecats. (more…)

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Whenever Pesco tells me he is speaking at an event I imagine this is his walk on music.

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Craig Brittain, owner of a revenge porn website who has been banned from posting nude photos of women without their permission, is attempting to get Google to unlink to stories about him. Read the rest

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Dan Gillmor, who was the San Jose Mercury News's leading tech columnist during the dotcom years, and was one of the first reporters to go Mac, has switched over to using all free/open source software: Ubuntu GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad, Cyanogenmod on an Android phone. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WiCQ4JLV9GE/personal-technology-is-politic.html

As marijuana slowly becomes legal across America, a New York cherry magnate has shot himself in the head as law enforcement uncovered a large stash of weed, cars and cash hidden in his plant. Gawker has the story.

"Underground, it was really 'Breaking Bad,'" said the astounded law enforcement source.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wxPtRZDfLKs/maraschino-cherry-plant-used-a.html

Here's yet another list of "DIY hacks." Some are silly, such as the tip to "Use a drink dispenser if you’re tired of looking at that ugly Tide bottle." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qr_cF17QTDQ/41-home-improvement-tips.html

The actor and her husband, Greg Wise, have vowed to withhold their tax until the UK tax authorities begin to imprison the tax-cheats who were revealed to be using HSBC's Swiss money-laundry, even if it means going to jail themselves. Read the rest

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These gentlemen seem to be having a ball practicing the Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu while wielding urumi, whiplike flexible swords.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6NSKogg4VlE/video-of-indian-martial-artist.html

RadioShack, now bankrupt, is selling its name with the opening bid set at $20 million. I bet you could get "The Shack" for less. A lot less. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OoigeIoyHOY/your-chance-to-become-radiosha.html

Rooby on the Isle of Wight turns nerdy fabric prints into garments and accessories: Death Star, Walking Dead BEWARE OF ZOMBIES signs, Incredible Hulk blow-up, Rocky Horror, Heroes of Star Wars, antique book-spines, and the first chapter of Harry Potter (which, sadly, is no longer available as a dress). Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SUDnuCg8ANA/awesome-nerdy-bookish-fanni.html

Calling all writers! Wink needs reviewers! Wink is launching a new site, Wink Fun, which will feature daily reviews of games, toys, puzzles, kits, extreme sports gear, dolls, and anything else that is purely for FUN. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bkYCk2BR7zo/write-for-wink-and-get-paid.html

The Belle Isle Zoo in Detroit closed its doors in 2002, and nature has been reclaiming it since. In August 2014 TheGadgetGuy1 flew his DJI Phantom 2 Quadcopter through the eerie abandoned attraction. (Thanks, Andreas!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1rg5xsJURK0/drones-view-of-detroits-ab.html

Seed pods that look like skulls, chrysanthemum that resemble spiders, and orchids that ape monkey vampires. Nadina Hughes of Flowers Across Melbourne reports on forty freaky flowers. Read the rest

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In 2002, M.T. Anderson wrote the novel Feed, which featured a future in which humans are all hardwired with computer chips (the eponymous Feeds) so they can shop. Constantly. Back then it was a comment on consumerism. Now, 13 years later, I was curious if he was sick of telling us all "I told you so."

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Use a Microplane zester/grater to make ginger root pulp. Read the rest

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Gorgeous video from NASA Goddard's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), which recently marked a 5 year anniversary.

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This video of a camel just chilling with his bros in what is probably a Mideast country is funny but also a little creepy. (more…)

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“Five of my Bassets crawled in,” says doggie momma Gretchen Hoey. (more…)

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Artist Alexis Arnold bends books at their spines, crumples them, and rolls them around in a Borax solution that causes them to be encrusted with tiny crystals. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GI2-xDnbosM/crystallized-books.html