Wikimedia says a photographer's request to pull a lucrative photo of a monkey from Wikipedia is bananas. The monkey in the photo picked up the photographer's camera and pressed the camera shutter button herself, so the photographer has no claim to the image.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8D3GPdcAlPg/human-photographer-goes-ape-ov.html

The good thing about being a watermelon vendor is that when you get into a fight with a rival watermelon vendor you have plenty of weapons at your disposal. Here's the video. (Via Arbroath)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Dd_PhOKsft0/watermelon-vendor-turf-war-cau.html

"At about seven o’clock this morning, after more than ten years of travel, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe went into orbit around a comet named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is currently about two hundred and fifty million miles from Earth," reports Michael Lemonick in the New Yorker.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6clyRnHusss/european-space-agencys-roset.html

The number of people to have died in the worst Ebola outbreak in history has risen to at least 932, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uZjgh0jrUuI/death-toll-in-ebola-outbreak-h.html

Julian Bleecker and his Near Future Laboratory created the smart and provocative TBD Catalog that is essentially a science fiction SkyMall catalog.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_vNqkjS0uKY/tbd-a-skymall-catalog-of-the.html

A "notorious 62-year-old stowaway" who had already been arrested three separate times trying to sneak onto flights at San Francisco International Airport managed to get on to a plane at San Jose, and fly to Los Angeles without a ticket. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ARu2LV2FvK0/yet-another-stowaway-manages-t.html

Mars Curiosity has been on Mars for 2 years now. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/S5n0m6KiCng/joy-division-vs-mars-curiosit.html

Apple and Samsung today separately issued announcements that each "to drop all patent litigation outside the United States, scaling down a protracted legal battle between the smartphone rivals." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3ttc3U2JEhk/apple-and-samsung-agree-to-cea.html

(Veritasium)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zZy14DyX_cI/video-fun-physics-phenomena.html

The National Museum of Natural History is taking apart an Allosaurus, very very carefully, to prepare for its Dinosaur Hall renovation. (National Geographic)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BwNVmMX85dw/video-dismantling-a-real-dino.html

A great line from David Dennis Jr.'s preemptive smack at Ridley Scott's forthcoming Moses flick, where all the important personages of ancient Egypt appear to be white, and the thieves and servants are black.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8i5ixQdUYjo/did-moses-use-spf-infinity-sun.html

Author Sarah Mirk never tells readers what they should do in bed, writes Glenn Fleishman, only what they might do. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Sy34ig-FIn0/sex.html

Via KENS5 Eyewitness news, "The family says that they were swimming in the water when a four-foot otter attacked their 8-year-old boy. Thankfully the grandmother was right next to him and saved him from potentially severe injuries. Both the grandmother and boy are hospitalized."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Z3k-uAhD_ko/wa-grandmother-fends-off-attac.html

Zachary Rawlins' The Far Shores may be my favorite book so far this year. I almost dropped this series after the first entry The Academy--but with books two and three, I became hopelessly addicted.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BdLdJM6YYd8/the-far-shores-book-3-in-zach-2.html

The Obama administration is said to have deleted a bunch of fake names from "the public version of a long-awaited report" on the CIA’s use of torture on war-on-terror detainees, McClatchy reports.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TOX9VK-qBZ8/pseudonyms-deleted-from-u-s-s.html

A cool milestone for us: as of today, readers like you have shared a total of more than 100,000 photos in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HopmjbVviRs/our-boing-boing-flickr-pool-pa.html

Over at Thought Catalog, BB contributor Mark Dery goes deep into the pathological sublime with Richard Barnett, author of "The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration": Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/v6_qbcaQ4Fc/322449.html

Los Punk Rockers' infamous 1978 Spanish Sex Pistols covers album "Los Exitos De Sex Pistols," consisting of bad playing and mostly nonsensical lyrics, has just been reissued on vinyl. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6DuJi36LDtk/never-mind-the-bollocks-kinda.html

And in other Nichelle Nichols news today, this Tweet from Phil Larson at the White House: Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/lpPYvhfdYS8/uhura-and-obama.html

Scorpion Dagger, aka James Kerr, makes these fantastic GIFs more or less every day. "They're digital collages made mostly from northern and early renaissance paintings," he says.

Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/culiftkz6LA/the-amazing-renaissance-art-gi.html