Ravens are incredibly intelligent and are natural scavengers," says National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski. "They’d easily rip off chunks of zombie flesh with their heavy beaks until there was nothing left to the undead but bones."

Animals eating the zombies is contingent upon the continued existence of animals.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zzS6cNjee14/zombie-killing-animal-of-the-w.html

My daughter and I just baked a batch of our favorite, Bavarian-style, soft pretzels. Making them is so quick and easy.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tOXGnjs2-1k/soft-pretzels-are-easy-to-bake.html

Thom sends us an "Indiegogo flexible funding page for BLOOD & SNOW, a horror thriller creature feature film set in Alaska at a lonely ex-military research station, where 5 scientists discover something beneath the ice that is alien in origin." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/SzwbiOTuei8/crowdfunding-blood-and-snow-i.html

Albert Michelson's harmonic analyzer -- a 19th century mechanical calculator that can do Fourier analysis with just gears, springs and levers -- was found at the University of Illinois, and then lovingly restored by a trio of makers who lavishly documented it in a book (free PDF/paperback/hardcover) and a mesmerizing video series.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/wv5hqux-ab8/mesmerizing-rebuild-of-a-mecha-2.html

Claire from the band Yacht sends us their newest project, Where Does This Disco?: "Among other things, it's a clear unplayable CD (without foil) containing our entire musical catalogue. It's also a microsite built to explain what it's like to be a band trying to design and sell physical media in an age where compact discs are both obsolete and still somehow ubiquitous." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2fYKO_-OUmc/band-releases-unplayable-glass.html

Looking for a stylish, science fictional romper-suit/kigurumi to lounge in this winter? Thinkgeek's $40 tenth Doctor lounger is just the thing.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zip16pgOLHA/doctor-who-10th-doctor-kigurum.html

The White Palace in Ankara has 1.6m square feet of floorspace, and features thousands of trees imported from Italy at a cost of up to $10,000 each; the taxpayer-footed electricity bill from the palace will run $313K/month. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2cqfrkOUzAE/1000-room-palace-for-turkey.html

The Central Japan Railway Company has invited members of the public to take test rides on its new magnetically levitated train, which goes over 300 mph. Visit the link to watch a video of happy riders. If Halliburton and Goldman Sachs hadn't taken all our money, we could have neat toys like this, too.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0VIWymY3vhU/japanese-maglev-train-goes-311.html

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/63JSl9NhNrk/series-of-photos-documenting-a.html

“Winston's Raspberry.” Boing Boing reader Andrew Walsh shared this photo in our Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/FUFZKTe4SaY/caturday-31.html

Composer Jim Wilson has recorded the sound of crickets and then slowed down the recording, revealing something so amazing. The crickets sound like they are singing the most angelic chorus in perfect harmony.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PJoMjyyiwFQ/listen-man-records-crickets.html

I went on up to the big ol' sky...

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/AtEeLXYmrW4/music-they-all-askd-for-y.html

Hoping to develop a well balanced child, this weekend I plan to show my daughter The Addams Family.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xKYmoW-IloY/the-addams-family-the-comple.html

From Sassy Skirts for Girls: made to order Haunted Mansion infinity scarves in canonical purple and black and fetching slate blue ($31 each).

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Ppqw0P1pdGg/haunted-mansion-infinity-scarv.html

Thinkgeek's $100 X-Wing Fighter knife-block comes with five kitchen knives of unknown quality (my guess is fair-to-middling, but they sure are shiny) and is a striking (if potenitally dangerous) way to display your kitchenware. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2n1SsIXC5dc/x-wing-fighter-knife-block-2.html

Sets the mouth to watering, it does. An image of the one true sauce, before which all other sauces are mockers, from the Vintage Ads LJ group. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6Pj8HMnIq9s/old-tabasco-ad.html

Rightscorp is a business based on the extortion business-model, founded on the idea that your ISP would lock you out of the Web unless you paid Rightscorp the arbitrary sums they decided you owed to them (but who was too scared to defend their business in court) -- but it looks like sleaze isn't as lucrative as they hoped. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M3q61eWBM0A/rightscorp-is-running-out-of-m.html

Thinkgeek's $20 Zombie Bookends are reminiscent of the Knob Creek Metal Arts line, but are less than one third of the price (though Knob Creek has much better sight-gags).

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4mrXhjqSnKo/zombie-book-ends.html

With the release of the Alan Turing biopic "The Imitation Game," interest in the Enigma cipher used by the Axis powers and broken by Turing and the exiled Polish mathematicians at Bletchley Park has been revived. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/kkqG88XZmic/how-the-enigma-code-machines-w.html

Pedro Farr'e was head of corporate relations for the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, and he falsified €40K worth of receipts for all night binges where he consumed Champagne and sexual services at brothels, claiming the funds were spent entertaining and meeting with senior cops, journalists, and academics. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mLsU6eT08pw/spains-top-piracy-fighter-go.html