This silicone skull is great for eggs or pancakes. Kids love breakfast at my house.

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"Take your hand to your palm and slap your thigh, and watch the fun materialize!"

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According to a recently-released Government Accountability Office report, the "TSA did not identify 73 individuals with terrorism-related category codes because TSA is not authorized to receive all terrorism-related information under current interagency watchlisting policy." The federal government doesn't place enough trust in its own anti-terrorism administration to give it a list of people with terrorism-related category codes employed by airlines and airport vendors.

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See video here.

There's some kind of geopolitical lesson to be learned here.

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Uwe Boll, a low-budget filmmaker who adapts videogames into movies, has a potty-mouthed message for everyone who didn't give him money on Kickstarter: "Fuck yourself... I have enough money to play golf until I'm dead."

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This fellow made a 40W laser shotgun that is quite powerful and, yes, ridiculously dangerous. (more…)

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Electrical engineer David L. Jones explains why claims made on behalf of The Batteriser--a gadget promised to get up to 8x life out of alkaline batteries--are nonsense.

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Here's the trailer for The Martian, based on the excellent novel by Andy Weir about an astronaut stranded on Mars.

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In an odd move, Eastern Michigan University, proudly claiming to be among the first universities to retire an offensive racist caricature, brought the same red faced mascot back as a "historic tribute." Read the rest

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It's not a fair trade, and everyone knows it. Read the rest

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David Hunter (creator of the zombie currciulum units) has a new idea: teaching English, science, history and math through curriculum units that ask kids to pretend to be time-travellers. Read the rest

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Boing Boing's publisher has a set of vanity plates that provoke interesting responses from adults and kids alike. Read the rest

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A Texas cop, filmed pulling a gun on children outside a pool party, has been named as Patrol Supervisor Cpl. Eric Casebolt.

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Watching this makes me feel very uncomfortable, because it is the culture of most of the presidential candidates most likely to win in the next U.S. presidential election.

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The Rhode Island School of design is the alma mater of Talking Heads, the school that gave William Gibson his honorary PhD -- and now it's the school where culture hero John Waters delivered his magnificent, world-beating rant on what design is for. Read the rest

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Like the $30 Fujian/Fotasy 35mm, the Helios 44-2 58mm f2 is a lens famed for soft, flat, dreamlike results, appealing to modern video shooters searching for that vaunted "filmed on 16mm in 1974 by druids" look.

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During renovations, a high school discovered a series of old chalkboards whose writing had remained untouched since 1917. Read the rest

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I'm sick. One of the things that makes me feel better is to watch Bullitt, a movie starring a 1968 Ford Mustang GT, and Steve McQueen.

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The tourists' naked selfies angered the ancestral spirits of Borneo, said the official, and we are inclined to agree. Read the rest

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At a pool party in Texas, an officer was filmed pointing his gun at youngsters, grabbing a bikini-clad girl by the neck, and screaming obscenities.

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