I just watched a fascinating and deeply disturbing documentary on CNN that explained how the infamous DC snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, turned a 1990 Chevrolet Caprice (which, ironically, was a used police car) into a hacked killing machine. Here's an excerpt from the transcript of... More.
Boing Boing guestblogger Connie Choe is a health and culture writer by day and a professional kimchimonger by night. Whenever I'm hanging out on a chairlift I like to shout that I'm going to go die a cold, snowy death. Mostly so that if I were to actually perish on the ride down I could say, "I... More.
New Jersey model train maker David Smith built this 1-35,200 scale train set. It's 1/8" x 1/4". It's part of a bigger delightfully recursive creation. From The Telegraph: "I am creating a fictitious village called James River Branch and this model train is going to be placed inside the model sho... More.
An IBM sings Daily Bell in 1961. Fails to descend into madness. More! [YouTube]... More.
Chris sez, "I made a thing! This thing did not exist before I decided to make it. John Young called out to me from his universe, 'Make me a Ban Hammer!' So after a little 3D modeling and research, I conjured into existence the worlds only real Ban Hammer. If you are so able and inclined, you can p... More.
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Wait, so DC Comics Golden Age Sandman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman_(Wesley_Dodds)) is based on a 'real' event? Holy crap!
I thought the golden-age Sandman was a super-cool super hero.
On a related tech question: The Memory Palace has an RSS feed, but for some reason I'm not given the option to subscribe with Google Reader.
I remember hearing about this from my grandfather. I guess the wicked exploits of the Mad Gasser of Matton were only matched in his day by the Feared Farter of Fayatteville.