It's been a year since we featured the amazing, Satan-and-sasquatch themed Christmas sweaters at Middle of Beyond, and they've brought out their new line, which includes a 2D tiger-skin rug, Shining runners, a D20 rug, D20 sweaters, Satanic cardigans, zombie Santa sweaters and so much more. I know what everyone's getting for Krampusmas this year! Read the rest

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Animalympics was a loony kids' TV movie from 1980 that parodied Olympic broadcasting clich'es. Read the rest

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76% of Americans believe police should have to get a warrant before spying on you with a UAV. If you agree, and you're a US citizen, this ACLU update is for you. Read the rest

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Vanity Fair reports that designer Marc Newson is joining Apple, and specifically design SVP Jonathan Ive's team. "I'm full of admiration and respect for the extraordinary design work that has been produced by Jony and the team at Apple," Newson said. "My close friendship with Jony has not only given me a unique insight into that process, but the opportunity to work together with him and the people that have been responsible. I am enormously proud to join them."

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At the Monterey Bay Aquarium. You can watch them, live and in the nude, below.

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You're welcome.

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Real or fake, it's criminally strange.

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A long-awaited new release from electronic music master Aphex Twin is trickling out, with today's release of a first track. Read the rest

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Lou Scheimer, 1928-2014. Heroes are real, as is irony.

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Kat Su, founder of the Crappy Taxidermy blog, and taxidermist Daisy Tainton "spent an afternoon filled with stuffed mice, glue-on eyes, and uncanny creatures -- equal parts how-to, DIY runway show, and cabinet of curiosities."

Su has a new book out called Crap Taxidermy.

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We're gonna need a bigger bottle of cocktail sauce: A fisher caught this massive, 18" crustacean off a pier in Fort Pierce, Florida. (more…)

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Filmmaker Eileen Yaghoobian, who made an excellent documentary about the underground poster culture in North America called Died Young, Stayed Pretty, has been working a project for the last several months called "Send Me Your Sexts." Read the rest

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A lawsuit was filed in federal court Thursday over the Bing Image Widget, which lets you embed image search results--thumbnails!--in your own website. (more…)

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Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Mark interviews Michael Harris, author of The End of Absence. Read the rest

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Horrorst"or is a classic old-fashioned haunted house story — set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Appropriately, the book itself is designed like an IKEA catalog. Read the rest

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One year 1.2kg Mega Pizza Burger hits Kyoto: A 400g patty, onion, pickles, and meat sauce, etc. are sandwiched between two 27cm diameter cheesy pizza crusts as buns.

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Scientists there say the lava is moving about 820 feet a day, and is less than a mile from homes. Read the rest

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The US government needs to stimulate more competition in broadband connectivity, said America's top communications regulator today, in comments related to Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. "Meaningful competition for high-speed wired broadband is lacking," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a speech in Washington. "Americans need more competitive choices." [Los Angeles Times]

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Boing Boing reader Mike Beresford shares this photo, "Milky Way Over Vogelsang," in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

"The Milky Way as seen from the backpacker camp near Vogelsang High Sierra Camp," he explains. "Vogelsang peak is actually slightly to the right of the trees."

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Teddy from Namecheap domain registrar sez, "Net Neutrality is a super complex issue and we wanted to create a video that makes it a bit more accessible. Don't Flush Our Rights Away is a stop-motion music video with a pretty chill catchy beat. We hope that we can get people to take action and tell their friends how important it is to have a free and open Internet." Read the rest

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