London's Studio Swine has created a beautiful and provocative collection of art-pieces made from human hair in resin. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wCWrwBEUduk/hair-highway-sculptures-made.html

Argue with me until you’re hopping mad. You won’t change my mind that Robert Crumb is the greatest living American artist.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-J9QxtiHx3A/all-of-robert-crumbs-work.html

America's police forces have demonstrated a bottomless appetite for army-style crowd control and CIA-style surveillance, and the private sector has stepped up to the plate in a big way. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nPipftwXas8/airborne-police-surveillance-i.html

A US Selective Service database merge used two-digit years, and didn't sanity-check its threatening notices to 19th century men who'd apparently failed to sign up for the draft by their 18th birthday. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2G1OBjvQksc/draft-notices-sent-to-men-born.html

Scientists say this was the largest aggregation of anchovies they'd seen in 30 years. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IcC56NBhU3s/heres-what-a-giant-school-of.html

Singapore's National Library Board will pulp three LGBT-friendly children's picture books that it earlier removed from its collections. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/i86lMNfo2bQ/singapore-library-will-destroy.html

How the cover for Business Week's Dov Charney story was made. (And here's the story behind Esquire's 1969 cover.)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6oi4fIEpOMg/business-weeks-dov-charney-c.html

A child, treated for HIV infection at birth and reported as possibly being cured of the virus, is showing signs of infection at age 4.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/U8VEVGY5Bbg/the-mississippi-baby-wasn.html

When you use the Freedom of Information Act to prise loose a document from the FBI, they are prone to liberal redactions; the results are surprisingly artistic, especially when it comes to photos and other graphics. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wkvq0glYfLs/fbi-photo-redaction-is-surpris.html

In my latest Guardian column, What Canada's national public broadcaster could learn from the BBC, I look at the punishing cuts to the CBC, and how a shelved (but visionary) BBC plan to field a "creative archive" of shareable and remixable content could help the network lead the country into a networked, participatory future. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ex6WdX6tgCo/how-to-save-the-cbc-making-it.html

A former Tribal Historical Preservation Officer's complaint has sparked calls for an investigation into claims that federal officials ignored a law that says human remains and relics must be documented, preserved and ultimately returned to Native American tribes. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yRlFjVXlHxc/federal-agency-erased-data-to.html

Later this month, scientists will set explosive charges on Mount St Helens as part of an effort to study the seismic geology of the Pacific Northwest.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pIEMVGaFUR0/explosions-at-mount-st-helens.html

Superman artist Joe Shuster would have turned 100 today. Artist Drew Friedman celebrates the occasion by unveiling a new portrait of Siegel and his partner Jerry Shuster.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/MrgL3fJN_OU/happy-100th-birthday-to-superm.html

Over the past few months, West Africa has been experiencing the biggest and most deadly Ebola outbreak on record and deforestation is a key part of why.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4VjUMZPSxZA/deforestation-leads-to-ebola.html

Performed by Matt Bittner (web, Twitter).

(Also, Nick Pitera sings both parts of "A Whole New World" from Disney's Aladdin)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/i2q9DKPte8A/grown-man-does-a-perfect-girl.html

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A Ugandan police officer enjoying a cup of tea at home shot and killed a tortoise because it "became very aggressive" and "violent," according to the BBC News.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ro6ij4udbAk/cop-shoots-aggressive-tortoise.html

On lifestyle media goddess Martha Stewart's personal blog, some lovely aerial shots of her farm taken with a popular model of UAV quadcopter. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HDVLkag3dzA/martha-stewart-digs-drones.html

Brian Knappenberger, who made the Internet's Own Boy Aaron Swartz documentary, has made an excellent, vital short film about network neutrality (or cable company fuckery). Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_XyViZ0Xpgg/short-documentary-explains-net.html

North Korea has filed a formal complaint to the United Nations over an upcoming American film about an attempted assassination of its leader. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BLUIWfgdd5g/north-korea-files-un-complaint.html