A court in Saudi Arabia will uphold a ruling to behead and publicly crucify a 22-year-old man who raped five children and left one of them to die in the desert.... More.
Yeah, I'm just going to put this whole NSFW thing behind the jump. Read on for an in-depth look at bat blow-jobs, and insights into the evolution of such work, in general.... More.
Evelyn Border (above) and Tina Griekspoor of Bedford County, PA got some old-timey style public shaming for stealing gift cards that a child misplaced in a store. "I'm just standing out here being humiliated in front of people," Griekspoor said. "I admit we did make a mistake," said her mother, a... More.
Police in Venezuela are rounding up gay/lesbian/bi/trans folk into vans and hauling them to jail by the dozens, according to reports. "Our IDs and mobile phones were taken away, we were beaten, [and] our sexual orientation was insulted." (Thanks, Antinous)... More.
John Young says: Randy Schmidt and I just released our sixth Nerd Merit Badge: FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPER. This is the merit badge for folks that can turn a pile of loose electrons into a fully operating, styled website. Just like that mythical date in the eighteenth century when there was too mu... More.
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The depressing part is that I would totally go to some of those talks. Yes, I have no life, I admit it freely.
'Curating the modular imaginary' sounds like a dirty euphemism. *chuckles to himself*
Oh, what a handy little BLDGBLOG archive browser. :)
Hey David, why link to ow.ly and not directly to http://activesocialplastic.com/urbancomputing/index.html like "BB pal Molly" does at the page you link to for her?
I'm guessing you got the link through twitter/identica/whatever but am interested to know if there's a purpose for using the extra indirection on boingboing.