"The Irwindale City Council voted Wednesday night to drop its declaration that the hot sauce plant was a public nuisance." More at the LA Times on the great Sriracha battle of 2014.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/G4f-u1uSZ2I/irwindale-backs-off-the-hot-sa.html

Fantastic UFO cult the Unarius Brotherhood will take over Los Angeles's Cinefamily this weekend for screenings of their 1970s-1980s psychotronic documentaries, costume exhibit, pop-up reading room, workshops, and other far out fun co-presented by BB pal Jodi Wille!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zo3DZ7cbp6o/unarius-ufo-cult-film-screenin.html

If you want to make your dad a seriously cool Father's day gift this guide to making Toht's Coathanger can help.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/mSDSTPcI-b4/diy-tohts-coathanger-from-ra.html

Students from Utah's Wasatch County are pissed that some of their yearbook photos were digitally edited to reveal less skin while other photos of students wearing similar clothes went untouched.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/NbKP8GZ3bTQ/yearbook-photos-selectively-al.html

A deer that seemingly fell from the sky smashed a woman's minivan as she drove along a Chicago highway; turns out, it actually leapt from an overpass, according to the Associated Press.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gwnn1xlNt3I/deer-fell-from-sky-onto-car.html

Gotta love a one-man band, especially when he plays a rollicking version of the Star Wars Theme while marching around. (via Devour)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/pGnjCb7x3eg/one-man-band-plays-star-wars-t.html

Yes, the cancer in a 49-year-old woman's body seems to have been successfully destroyed with the help of an experimental treatment involving the measles virus.

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Maryn McKenna writes about the impact of war on culinary traditions and location-centric foods.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uQprH7nuuKg/the-syrian-civil-war-and-the-a.html

Not a Scandinavian Thunderdome. Instead, it's a geologic formation in Canada, made from gneiss — sedimentary rock shaped by intense heat and pressure. (Thanks, Alex Witze!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/RfCFkzeocz8/the-thor-odin-dome.html

(Via Clifford Pickover)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/1ORQKTdk6Nc/divorce-complaint-of-richard-f.html

Since this season’s “Breaker of Chains” episode, Game of Thrones’ handling of women and sex has been under intense scrutiny, and with a break in the show over Memorial Day, we dedicate an entire episode to bringing on two of our favorite guests and comedians to discuss exactly these topics. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/liAk0D1kzNQ/women-in-game-of-thrones-boar.html

“First of all, the whole thing is almost all dialogue.”

Further to our old friends at You Can’t Please Everyone, a Tumblr devoted to “reviews of classic books, culled from the internet’s think tank”: One-Star Book Reviews.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LC5WbNrOvIk/critical-cruelty-at-one-star-b.html

Here's a false-color image from the Landsat 8 satellite of the not-at-all funny Funny River Fire in Alaska, captured on May 20, 2014--just one day after it began. And below, an un-enhanced natural color image. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PxPlw8ykdlY/heres-what-that-huge-fire-in.html

Special thanks to our longtime sponsor American Apparel, creators of a fantastic array of fashions, all made in the USA and sweatshop-free! Need some summer essentials? Buy now during the AMERICAN APPAREL 20% OFF FLASH SALE, starting at noon PDT today (Tuesday)! The sale runs until 11:59pm PDT tomorrow (Wednesday). Click here and use the discount code: SUMMERBASICS Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/rNuRe_cZIYA/sponsor-shout-out-american-ap-2.html

Kevin Kelly and I launched a new podcast at Cool Tools. In our inaugural episode, we pick the brain of guest David Pogue, founder of Yahoo Tech, for some lesser-known tips, tools, and life hacks. We move from discussing productivity apps, to office products, to kitchen appliances.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JoXapfdFP4c/david-pogue-guest-on-new-co.html

Jamie from Vodo writes, "We've launched the Really Creepy Bundle, a brand new collection of terrifying, chilling and downright disturbing indie creativity that includes four highly-rated games (Oknytt, Finding Teddy, The Path and Sang Froid), award winning fiction (Nebula nominee Stranger In Olondria, and a month subscription to Nightmare magazine), four spooky short films, an 8 track compilation from LA's Not Not Fun Records, laden with doom plus the definitely disturbing and massively entertaining graphic novel (The Furry Trap) -- which Boing Boing rated one of the best damn comics of the year in 2013.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/G-hjlYgDek4/really-creepy-bundle-name-you.html

Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the United States Customs and Border Protection agency for his own travel records, including the notoriously comprehensive "Passenger Name Record" -- what he got was '72 pages of shit,' a redacted jumble of arbitrarily collected and retained nonsense. He didn't get his PNR. If you want to give it a try, he's signposted the procedure. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/nPCOXmAIAiM/how-to-request-your-us-border.html

At Design Observer, a fascinating piece on how photographer Richard Drew's iconic, disturbing image of a man falling to his death from the World Trade Center on 911 has been erased from public view. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sqU306TEQ-8/why-did-the-911-falling-man.html

Tim Delger not only reveals the secrets of hipster logo design, he'll also sell you the necessary fonts

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/S8LFn35XyfA/6-step-guide-to-designing-your.html

The popular messaging WeChat, whose Chinese name translates to "micromessage", is on the Chinese government's ban-list. State media reported today that the government is initiating a month-long crackdown on the service, which is used in China to share news that the country's heavily censored internet would otherwise not permit.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/eCQppIu12aI/china-cracks-down-on-popular-n.html