Phil writes, "Runa Sandvik of Freedom of the Press Foundation is systematically documenting the arrests of journalists in Ferguson, Missouri made during protests of the August 9 officer-committed shooting death of Michael Brown." Read the rest

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"High Camp on the Moon," a photograph shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by Ben Leshchinsky.

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"Who's covered in maple syrup, happy as can be and loves his coffee black? This guy!" Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/cpHpNI298vg/mr-good-morning-waffle.html

"In absolute terms, states with a medical marijuana law had about 1,700 fewer opioid painkiller overdose deaths in 2010 than would be expected based on trends before the laws were passed," says the study's lead author, Dr. Marcus Bachhuber, of the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Pennsylvania."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BTQJ94KlLhw/states-with-medical-marijuana.html

Tim Powers' novella, Salvage and Demolition, is a film noir love story showing time travel may not be neat and orderly.

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Experimental & Clinical Cardiology published for 17 years out of Oshawa, ON, but is now owned by shadowy figures in Switzerland, whose payments are processed through Turks and Caicos, and they'll publish anything under the journal's banner, provided it's accompanied by a payment of $1200. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/8CVOWnt3f9s/respected-medical-journal-chan.html

A 13-year-old girl who ran away from home and resisted arrest was not only led in chains into court, but refused permission to remove them so she could wipe her tears.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Dp1dyy4_QQo/american-courts-routinely-shac.html

Google's Image Search has apparently been hacked. All queries return a line or two of normal images, followed by thousands of differently-sized versions of the image above, depicting a grisly car-crash ganked from a Ukrainian news site's coverage of the wreck. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fPy435OXrrI/google-images-hacked.html

Exterminator John Birkett found the bed in a house in Winchester, England, in a spare room that had not been entered for several months. The crocheted blanket was saved.

5,000 wasps found in St Cross bedroom [Andrew Napier/Hampshire Chronicle]

(Thanks, PD Smith!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/r6vmj4x7afA/unused-bed-colonized-by-giant.html

Thinkgeek's Wampa Rug has a pillow head and soft synthetic fur, and is 62" long and 30" wide.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9B5e4us6akg/wampa-rug-for-your-star-wars-t.html

From the Center for Applied Rationality, a "Checklist of Rationality Habits" intended to help you spot when you're tricking yourself. One of my favorites is the next-to-last: "I try not to treat myself as if I have magic free will; I try to set up influences (habits, situations, etc.) on the way I behave, not just rely on my will to make it so." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QuiAn1mcs8E/habits-for-living-a-more-ratio.html

"I was just a doggone fool, trying to be so doggone cool. Aint nobody's fault but mine."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/J7FgqE5Z-nQ/nobodys-fault-but-mine-otis.html

Spotted yesterday on a menu at my grandparents' retirement home in Toronto: "Kosher-style porkchops." I guess if you circumcise the pig and ensure that it has a suitable Bar Mitzvah...?

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PdepotzYebA/kosher-pig.html

The Port Authority in the Welsh town of Milford has installed a "Mosquito" -- a sonic weapon that produces tones that are mostly perceptible to children and teenagers -- at the library, where it has been used during opening hours. Read the rest

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Mammal penises, including those of cetaceans, are pretty easy to find, while vaginas are more difficult to examine; historically, accounts of animal reproduction have emphasized the features of penises and theories of sperm competition, but a burgeoning scientific emphasis on whale vaginas is revealing structures and strategies that are amazing and wonderful. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CA2GuHaSMns/whale-vaginas-are-amazing.html

Just in time for the new Doctor, Thinkgeek's K9 slippers, $30. (via Cnet)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4K6Ga1D076Q/k-9-slippers.html

Zimbabwe's dictator Robert Mugabe unleashed a storm of brutal, genocidal violence after losing the 2008 elections -- and now we know that it was funded by western hedge-funds and banks, led by Och-Ziff Capital Management, the largest publicly traded fund, with assistance from Blackrock, GLG Partners, and Credit Suisse, who raised $100M for Mugabe's weapons and torture-chambers in exchange for a sweetheart deal on the country's platinum mines. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M7hoCfpPL2U/hedge-funds-gave-mugabe-100m.html

The Horse Collar is a $20 monster kielbasa sold at the Green Bay Packers' Lambeau Field, intended for consumption by two persons ("If you can tackle this one alone, you're a champ" -Lambeau Field executive chef Heath Barbato). Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jwtUlOHc89c/sportsfans-offered-toilet-seat.html

Bellingcat kickstarted £51K to do data-driven/crowdsourced citizen journalism earlier this month, and a week later, pinpointed the exact location of an ISIS training camp near Mosul by matching the jihadis' social media posts to online maps and geo-location services. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PrK8zGcz_4k/crowdfunded-news-site-uncovers.html

Boing Boing reader Simon Turkas shares this photograph in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4izNvLlwMA4/waiting-for-dinner-a-photo-fr.html