Microsoft has recreated its first home page, from 1994. From Microsoft's The Fire Hose blog:

In 1994, among the reasons Microsoft started a website was to put its growing Knowledge Base online.

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Boing Boing reader Simon Turkas captured this "Beach Cat." Read the rest

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"My Life After Manson": Patricia Krenwinkel talks from prison about her experience in the Manson Family on the 45th anniversary of the Tate-Labianca Murders.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eAUcInBIbpI/murderer-patricia-krenwinkel.html

This episode is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio. For a free trial and 10% off, go to squarespace.com and use offer code SWORD. Read the rest

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In the journal Science, IBM researchers report on a new computer chip that mimics the way the human brain recognizes patterns by leveraging an architecture they describe as "1 million programmable spiking neurons and 256 million configurable synapses." Read the rest

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"Hen Thrives in Bottle."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RUG4N6pwcYs/bonsai-chickens.html

The folks at r/CommercialCuts are masters at improving TV commercials. Digg has a nice selection.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6FEcCeOU8wY/editing-tv-commercials-for-fun.html

MIT and Harvard researchers developed a laser-cut robot that when powered up folds itself into a 3D shape and walks away. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CmckEiSmqMA/self-folding-origami-robot-cra.html

(via Clifford Pickover)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Lgq2thshAD4/shortest-known-abstract-for-a.html

Redditor stou says: "These two guys were flying to Singapore from Sydney and their carryon was over the 'free' weight limit so the airline, Scoot, wanted to charge them $130. Apparently when they started putting on the clothes the airline agent told them something along the lines of 'I am going to come to the gate and make sure you are still wearing everything.'"

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/A0GTfgP1dSE/how-to-beat-airlines-excess.html

D'ej`a vu, guys: "American warplanes struck Sunni militant positions in northern Iraq on Friday, the Pentagon and Kurdish officials said, confirming the first significant American military operation in the country since United States forces withdrew in 2011." Read the rest

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Photographer and time-lapse video genius Gavin Heffernan has done it again with this amazing video of the night sky over Sequoia and King's Canyon national parks in California, near the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

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An Oklahoma high school teacher "confessed to drinking vodka in her car before work," which probably explains why she showed up for her first day of teaching drunk and wandering the halls with no pants. Read the rest

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San Francisco-based runner Claire Wyckoff says, "I run dicks with Nike+."

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"I don't watch the news," he admits. Is he adorable? Apparently so. (more…)

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A second American with Ebola has arrived at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital from West Africa. Read the rest

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Twitch.tv, a service where gamers can broadcast and share live video of their adventures online, will detect and mute streams containing copyrighted audio--which is, of course, many games.

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USIS, a major federal contractor that conducts background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, disclosed today that it was the victim of a hack which likely involved the theft of federal employees' personal data. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7Km4u8g5nrU/major-homeland-security-contra.html

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it.

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I've not heard the original audio for this Smart Mop commercial, but I already know Jaboody Dubs' version is more compelling. [NSFW]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WSzdNK3j0Jo/smart-mop-commercial-overdub.html