notepad.cc is one of those ideas that's so supremely simple it actually suffers in the description. So just go here now (I'll wait): http://notepad.cc/helloboingboing There are other services that do… Read the rest of the article: A piece of paper in the cloud

Pernice: We selling any tickets to these shows? Me: Don't know, haven't seen counts in a few days. Pernice: Nice answer, Westmoreland. The relationship between the great singer and songwriter… Read the rest of the article: Pernice To Her

David Yoon is a "writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek" whose blog "Narrow Streets: Los Angeles" plays with an intriguing idea: What if Los Angeles' wide streets could… Read the rest of the article: Narrow Streets: Los Angeles

A friend of mine is about to go on a 10-day car trip through the Mountain States, and yesterday, at the end of a phone conversation, I asked him to… Read the rest of the article: The horrible, beautiful world of Bad Postcards

The biggest airlines are imposing "peak travel surcharges" this summer. In other words, they're going to raise fees without admitting they're raising fees: Hey, it's not a $30 price hike.… Read the rest of the article: Travel, before it was awful

I'm not sure I agree with Fast Company's theory that the best Olympics have the worst mascots, mostly because I can't remember which Olympics were which. I mean, every Olympics… Read the rest of the article: Your Olympic nightmares, the 2012 edition

Rhino Records was one of the glories of the Los Angeles music scene, the record store that spawned the label that did more than any other to preserve and protect… Read the rest of the article: Rhino rising (temporarily)

I guess the Studies in Crap blog did a valuable service in unearthing "Your Career in Journalism," a paperback from the days when you could use the words "career" and… Read the rest of the article: Be a journalist! Work for at least several more years!

Matthew Baldwin of Defective Yeti and The Morning News is an embarrassingly prolific guy. I mean by this that his output of work is embarrassing to me, personally, because I'm… Read the rest of the article: Vending Spree

What is it about the Sci-fi/Fantasy genre that seems to make perfectly sensible publishers lose their minds and stamp "APPROVED" on cover proofs that would give a sane person nightmares?… Read the rest of the article: Good Show Sir: "only the worst Sci-Fi/Fantasy book covers"

Coney Island is one of those places that has an outsized profile in the American imagination, but it's seemed to exist since the 1970s in twilight, halfway between a glorious… Read the rest of the article: This spring at Coney Island

I've been doing a daily photoblog project and have become a fan of Photojojo, a site with an infectiously enthusiastic attitude toward the act of shooting. Like Salt & Fat,… Read the rest of the article: Have photo fun the corrosive chemical way!

Salt & Fat is a lovely food blog maintained by two guys, Neven Mrgan and Jim Ray, who spend their days developing software and web products and every other moment,… Read the rest of the article: Cooking with Salt & Fat

As Cory Doctorow has pointed out here on Boing Boing, Brett and Kate McKay's The Art of Manliness is an essential resource for all things manly. Cory blogged the site's… Read the rest of the article: Talk like Sinatra

The name may not come tripping off the tongue, but the Southern Foodways Alliance's Oral History Interactive Map is a great tool for planning your spring road trip, especially if… Read the rest of the article: Your road trip just got a whole lot more delicious

If you're ever suspected that there must be a theoretical sweet spot where the fantasies of design nerds and transit nerds converge, this is it: Transit Authority Figures, a side… Read the rest of the article: Subways to, or at least near, the seas

Noel Kerns is a Dallas photographer who risks life and limb finding derelict structures, crawling inside, illuminating them with small gelled lights and photographing them. The images that result have… Read the rest of the article: Noel Kerns, light painter

They say advertising's an ephemeral medium, but I'm not so sure. I collect old library-bound volumes of Life magazine, and given proper care (and kept away from the razor-clutching hands… Read the rest of the article: Snow ads

The great animator Chuck Jones once said that the difference between getting a laugh and not getting a laugh in a cartoon could be one frame out the 24 that… Read the rest of the article: The other side of Chuck Jones

A year ago, when Joel Johnson blogged about The Impossible Project at Boing Boing Gadgets, it seemed, yes, an impossibility, or maybe one of those conceptual art projects that never… Read the rest of the article: Update: The Impossible Project