Hockey goalies take it on the chin, on the eye socket, and pretty much anywhere else on the face. Before 1966, goalies were not required to wear masks.

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Makielab, the 3D printed toy company my wife Alice founded, has created a line of toys for the Toy Like Me campaign, which urges toy companies to make toys that all children can see themselves in. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QSRtNty9CtM/dolls-with-hearing-aids-port.html

Boots suitable for all your chasing needs are available at Horseking's etsy shop.

Don't need to chase anything? Try some demon boots instead.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oSbR8PUJ-0Q/unicorn-boots.html

Chances are that the one you've been using all along is still the best.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kMZaEfcdhg0/the-best-bittorrent-apps.html

Things often said about olive oil—that most of it is fake, that it's a good source of Omega-3, that 'first cold pressing' means anything— are dirty oily lies. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TFCh45Iwodw/olive-oil-lies.html

Behold! An ASCII horse without end. This is straight-up the best thing put on the internet so far this decade. It's by Colleen Josephson and emerged from The Stupid Hackathon.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UhpJArQGmuE/endless-horse.html

A Harvard study of people anxious about a forthcoming business presentation found that those who tried to convert it into excitement outperformed those who tried to calm down. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/e8YpQjl64D0/excitement-not-calm-may-bett.html

Will Lippincott spent decades trying to overcome depression, and almost gave up. At the end of his rope, he tried a variant form of cognitive behavior therapy developed to provide a "rubric for figuring out what was causing my anxiety, anger or sadness." For him, it is working. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yX8j_J7SAVY/388699.html

Game control for lawnmower men: "The full body Tesla Suit consists of a belt (with a central control unit) together with modular units – haptic feedback gloves, vest and trousers – and will be fully compatible with existing virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus, Google Glass and META Space Glasses, as well as consoles (PSP, Xbox), PC and smartphones."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UwxRpOm2QhM/the-tesla-suit.html

Despite their spending $1m on advertising, Google shut down ads for Simtec's Httpwatch software. When they asked what was up, Google first said it was because the software's EULA wasn't prominently linked from the download page. Read the rest

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Ruining human sleep. Will Herring created this 5-minute browser game in honor of his "garbage cat." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/DRmQxZ8Mn8M/garbage-cat-accurately-simulat.html

There are dildos, and dil-DON'Ts. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8wMuWqEWmko/pink-vibrator-vs-cop.html

The Kingdom of Enclava is a 1000 square feet plot of "terra nullius" (no-man's-land) 30 miles west of Croatia's capital, Zagreb.

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After being kept in an isolated, filthy cage, for more than 13 years—this creature feels the wild earth and grass beneath his feet and reacts in an amazing way. Read the rest

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“I felt like something was sawing on the edge of my feet, it was awful. Blisters all over.” Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UrEYu8ZUfSE/serious-runner-seriously-revie.html

SFGate shares PetBreeds obviously wrong list of unintelligent dog breeds. Great Pyrenees are ridiculously smart. Look for my list of unintelligent websites!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yaCX5gwiML8/they-called-my-dog-stupid.html

"The smartphone with the best bang for your buck right now is Motorola’s Moto G," reports The Verge. Honesty, after a month of a Nokia 10shitty, I might be about to break.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3gfIZOhrXVw/moto-g-the-best-cheap-phone.html

Beyond Brookledge is a three-day entertainment extravaganza of music, magic, and performance. I went last year with my daughter Jane and we both loved it (see photos below).

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At Mother Jones, composer Jeremy Samuel Faust analyzes the theme from Mad Men that was actually snipped from RJD2's "A Beautiful Mine" from his 2006 album Magnificent City Instrumentals. (Apparently, creator Matthew Weiner originally asked Beck to write the theme.) Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TCyFV4F7CCA/analyzing-the-music-from-mad-m.html

There are 17 emoji characters that represent animals threatened with extinction, and the World Wildlife Fund wants you to help save them by making a small donation each time you tweet an Endangered Emoji.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9j-CUjrQDUU/endangered-emoji.html