There are quite a few YouTube videos of women apparently having orgasms caused by the extreme bass vibrations of car stereos.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7rL1W9vZW0U/extreme-bass-in-car-stereos-tr.html

Nick Stockton on how evolution leads to electricity. [Wired]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jWD_WkMEyIE/the-shocking-truth-of-fish-evo.html

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH former Vice President Dick Cheney assumes human form in order to taunt and enrage actual humans. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/S7oMklX0R9g/tom-the-dancing-bug-dare-you.html

Worried about sagging facial skin? The "Facewaver Exercise Mask/Beauty skin sag face stretcher" ($60) is an elasticated pink fright mask/balaclava within whose confines you bind your face and then "stretch and tighten" your phiz, thus "kneading out wrinkles, lines and sag," through repetitive facial movements The manufacturer also claims additional circulation, which is useful if your face doesn't have enough blood it in. (Thanks, Alice!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/a1mrqxSXIuE/facial-exercising-pink-fright.html

UK Secretary of State Theresa May -- part of a regime that presides over a spy service that claims the right to intercept all webmail, search and clicks; that spends hundreds of millions sabotaging Internet security; that dirty-tricks and psy-opses peaceful protest groups; Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hbCAJukpj6A/uk-secretary-of-state-there.html

Punk legend Bob Mould of H"usker D"u and Sugar shares three decades of songs and stories with Boing Boing in an exclusive video interview and performance. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Y-Vwa3k26xI/bob-mould-old-punk-kicks-new.html

Sal writes, "Dougie Wallace's photo-set of stag and hen parties in Blackpool is hideously beautiful. Featuring cross-dressers, men shrink-wrapped to various objects, bare buttocks, flying chunder and the horrible aftermath of a night on the town." There's a lot of the-night-before-the-morning-after stuff here, all right -- Bosch meets Blackpool. (Thanks, Sal!) (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bE_lyvbiHh0/blackpool-meets-bosch-stag-an.html

Etsy seller Nights Requiem makes these $5, 10mm / earrings with antiqued silver bezels (there's also a $5.50 14mm version). (via Geekymerch) (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/L9XLwLio6e8/html-head-tag-earrings.html

Robert E Howard's 1935 letter to HP Lovecraft schools Lovecraft on his unthinking acceptance of authoritarian dogma: "You express amazement at my statement that ‘civilized’ men try to justify their looting, butchering and plundering by claiming that these things are done in the interests of art, progress and culture. That this simple statement of fact should cause surprise, amazes me in return." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UD5gTpdH-wg/robert-howard-explains-the-but.html

Watch as The Mighty Mekanikos tests his strength against the raging Minotaur! This epic battle draws the crowds and their money in every time, but little do spectators know that the act is not what it claims to be. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uuxchisf_3o/mekanikos-vs-the-minotaur-aut.html

Remember the story about the Malibu homeowners who erect fake signs and gates to impede public beach access? The state budget signed by Governor Brown on Friday included a “trailer bill” that gives the California Coastal Commission the power to fine people for violating the public access provisions of the California Coastal Act.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_pmEy1l_lyA/malibu-elitists-who-impede-pub.html

Once the internet was filled with videos that made us go 'Whoo Whoo!' Soon Google will just drive us around going whir whir.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/w-A_d5KeNe8/anyone-else-remember-bubb-rubb.html

For French press coffee geeks who also happen to be klutzes like me, no more broken carafes with this bad boy.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gHSphzg5flo/vacuum-stainless-steel-coffee.html

Listen to Sting's isolated bass track from The Police's "Message In A Bottle." (Big Picture Music Production Blog, via John Curley)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yDkbTSbzjXw/message-in-a-bottle-isolated.html

[Via CNN]"An editorial published in the People's Daily says 'dogs are friends as well as food' and calls for calm and understanding from both dog-eaters and dog-lovers"

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OfbD4XtCNmk/chinese-government-urges-calm.html

Nothing has fed my ridiculous, personal anxieties like moving to a house with a septic tank. Lloyd Kahn's fantastic The Septic System Owner's Manual helped educate me enough that I'm back to worrying about other things.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aoaRJ_FP-PU/the-septic-system-owners-man.html

Sculptor John Lopez creates magnificent animals, buffalo and horse and others, from scrap metal. He was born and raised on a South Dakota ranch. It shows.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-5JgM6z_2A8/the-incredible-scrap-metal-wel.html

I love this series by Laurent Seroussi: an array of beautiful women as bugs. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WUvCOm5W-zw/the-glamorous-insect-ladies-of.html

TV news reporter Jackie Orozco WOFL-TV (Orlando, Florida) posted a smiling selfie to Instagram from the scene of a double homicide.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HQkM3tZ6YH0/local-news-reporter-in-florida.html

This study on salad and visual perception in Flavour Journal is by far one of the most excellent papers to be released in 2014. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jh2rCrKgoWA/people-will-pay-more-for-a-sal.html