Dock Ellis was a player for the Pittsburgh Pirates who in 1970 pitched a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. A Kickstartered film about his life opens this week. Read the rest

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"At only 8mm thin, and weighing in at less than 400g, the 2015 IKEA Catalogue comes pre-installed with thousands of home furnishing ideas."

A very clever ad campaign.

[Video Link, thanks Ken Snider!]

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/GSQ8K-zzd90/clever-ikea-ad-treats-print-as.html

We're very excited to offer 5 pairs of VIP, all-access passes for the September 16 installment of the Twilight Series, a music event held at the historic Village Studios in West Los Angeles, co-hosted by Boing Boing. Read the rest

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I’ll admit that I’m a sucker for a good kitchen novelty, and it was certainly that affliction that initially drew me to the Boska Holland Toastabags, but it turns out they’re both practical and really useful too. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ET-WvmMf1cE/toastabags-make-a-near-perfec.html

There's a honey found in Turkey's Black Sea region, called Deli bal, that contains a natural neurotoxin from rhododendron nectar that can trigger hallucinations and, in higher doses, nausea, seizure, and even death. Over at Modern Farmer, Emma Bryce looks at the "The Strange History of 'Mad Honey':" Read the rest

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(Wired)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Zy_Icty7EuU/video-how-crayola-crayons-are.html

Tarzan and the Comics of Idaho comic book was produced to benefit the Friends of the Boise Public Library. It features a Tarzan story written by Dennis Eichhorn, author of the Real Stuff comic book from the 1990s that we've been serializing on Boing Boing.

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Pornographic video company Woodrocket announced a comedy web series called Sexy! Fun! Yes!. (more…)

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Dyson announced its first robotic vacuum, the Dyson 360 Eye. Forget about suction, I want to see the inevitable cockfights between the Eye and the Roomba! Read the rest

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"Dreadnaughtus Schrani was astoundingly huge," said paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara. This may become my second favorite dinosaur after Ankylosaurus, which is the very best dinosaur.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/REdw3-841xU/new-dinosaur.html

If you’ve ever watched this video, you might wonder whether an astronaut’s suit is too ungainly to be graceful, or alternatively, if astronauts might just lack coordination. Read the rest

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Meet Chica the misunderstood dog spider.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/5PQreH6lvvU/mutant-giant-spider-dog.html

It took 40 years for us to get back to the surface of the Moon. The adventures of China's late Jade Rabbit rover ended an absence that would have been unthinkable to families clustered around their TV sets in the 1960s, watching the incredible achievements of the Apollo Program. Where did we get off track? Jekan Thanga from ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration, explains the science and politics behind Cory Doctorow's new novella, "The Man Who Sold the Moon." Read the rest

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Perhaps you will follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.

And you might want to join the INNER HIVE, the Tom the Dancing Bug subscription / membership group. Thank you. (more…)

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Dan Lewis on a gambling institution as elusive as it is downmarket. It's all to do with licensing, naturally. Read the rest

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The video has a cavalcade of guest-stars, including Al Roker and Nick Offerman -- all trying to understand the mystery of the missing letter "C" and to understand why Oliver's tie is not an adequate cookie substitute: 5/5, would watch again!

(via Neatorama!)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ePtkCLDmkt8/john-oliver-and-cookie-monster.html

This Neil Cicierega design-fiction from 2013 proposes a brilliant idea for a Google autocomplete easter-egg, where typing "Google autocomplete is not working correctly" would autocomplete to a long, wonderful list of Borges-ian non-sequiturs, each more wondrous than the last. (via JWZ) Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/uA-sLjtXOLQ/what-google-should-do.html

The first-rate crate-diggers at Soul Jazz are reissuing a series of scarce New Orleans funk/soul 7-inches in sweet packaging including this early 1970s smoking groover by Inell Young, "What Do You See In Her." Listen below! (more…)

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In a ploy to remove criticism of its hard-sell tactics, cruise-vacation firm Sundance Vacations sent a fake court order to Metafilter to remove this discussion of its practices. Whatever else it is, it's a first-degree felony Streisanding.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-TKQlyZCN0g/sundance-vacations.html

The real-life Batman of Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, “Chibatman,” has suddenly come to the West's attention. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/v82ft-Zz6E0/meet-chibatman-japanese-b.html