This is going around the 'net like lightning. It's wonderful, but is it real? How likely is it that Lego would have used a proportional Times-esque typeface--with such sloppy layout--in the early 1970s? Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qNiOAzLnZwI/legos-egalitarian-instructio.html

Cabbagetroll's masterful summary of the Bible (both testaments) on Reddi's /r/Christianity really captures the books' spirit. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nLEZjKR3SR4/bible-tldr-edition.html

After a redditor claimed to have gotten a computer virus from factory-installed malware on an e-cig charger, the Guardian reported out the story and concluded that it's possible. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/C8lZBr5NTWA/e-cigs-and-malware-real-threa.html

A judge failed to throw to book at a driver who killed a child, so the child's father threw a chair at her.

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab just published two interesting new videos about the search for life beyond Earth. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xQO7OXGB3B4/europa-extreme-shrimp-and-th.html

If you are a super-fan of samurai movies or the Tarantino flicks they inspired, hold on to your wallet. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CxspKlqxPRE/rare-samurai-swords-and-arms-u.html

Effective January 17, all research funded in whole or in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation must be published in journals that are immediately free-to-access, under a Creative Commons Attribution-only license. Read the rest

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"NO plans, no tutorials, but maybe for SALE soon!" (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ANkYqkxI3KY/jame-bond-inspired-laser-wrist.html

He is a person, not a bat. Darren Cullen has improved the legendary logo; pray that he does not improve it further.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ll3BoKJMVkQ/more-accurate-batman-logo.html

NASA has issued a new image of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/h9sVPdQf_pE/jupiters-moon-europa-as-you.html

A rare Hitler is up for auction and is expected to fetch at least $60,000 when the hammer falls at Nuremberg’s Weidler auction house. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/YzRgJywunDg/hitler-painting-could-be-yours.html

Araki by Araki is a massively thick book that bares the soul of an artist who has no agenda other than to share his eclectic obsessions. As he states in the interview that runs in the book, “I don’t have anything to say. There is no special message in my photos.” Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9BiO1nNCTN0/flowers-fetishism-felines-a.html

Western New York is buried in much of the snows. Here are photos. At least 8 people have died due to the intense wintry blasts burying Buffalo and neighboring areas in layers of cold.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/77SswKRu1WA/snowpocalypse-2014-in-photos.html

What can we do when politicians, advertisers and journalists make misleading claims which fly in the face of evidence? Last year here at Sense About Science we launched a campaign (as featured on BoingBoing) to get more people asking for evidence – for the claims make by politicians, companies, NGOs or anyone else.

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Flirtmoji. I don't understand what some of these are.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/F0lyknKwGHo/emoji-for-sexting.html

Strumpshaw, Tincleton & Giggleswick sell this map, in traditional and wordcloud form, for lb22. If you ever visit, take the time to visit beautiful Shitterton, Lickham Bottom, and Marston Bigot.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/AuXW_7-Z5_c/map-of-bizarre-british-place-n.html

Bandits in Guinea robbed a taxi and ran off with blood samples believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/G66yP-qecvE/blood-thieving-bandits-mistake.html

Gizmodo's Kate Knibbs reports on people who do the hard work of recovering and restoring forgotten games, so that they may be remembered—and, Heaven forbid, played again.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EviJw53ee2c/abandonware-heroes.html

Video game graphics, explained in gruff Estuary English. Part 2 below! (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/egwCYBqTpDM/history-of-video-game-graphics.html