Enter Boing Boing's giveaway to own a copy of the Starz Original mini-series, The White Queen, the riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English… Read the rest of the article: White Queen series giveaway

Strange Attractors includes the work of 70 artists, writers and filmmakers who have created remarkable explorations of possible extraterrestrial life forms and their multifarious sexual desires.

Aimée and Rose de Larabeitti remember the stories their father, Michael, told them—stories he would go on to publish as the anarchic, anti-authoritarian, and completely wonderful Borrible Trilogy of young adult books.

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The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett – Book TrailerWatch this video on YouTube Deep among the Carpet fronds, where the wild snargs prowl, the Munrung tribe has known peace for… Read the rest of the article: A conversation with Terry Pratchett, author of The Carpet People

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Tyler Capps is a chef from the Internet. His 2AM Chili recipe blew up on Reddit back in 2011. Then his comical recipe comic for The Bananarama did too. So… Read the rest of the article: Tyler Capps: Boing Boing Wake Up Cake recipe!

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We were blown away by the hackers' imaginative uses of OpenXC in their 8-hour projects. We saw a watercolor robot, a music composition system, an animated back window display, a cost-of-driving meter, and other projects that responded to OpenXC's car data.

PBS News Hour's Hari Sreenivasan talked to Pesco about his favorite Ford Open-XC hacks from the Boing Boing Ingenuity: Data Driven hackatahon the prior day and the mind-bending magic of Ferdinando Buscema.

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At the Boing Boing: Ingenuity hack day, several dozen of our favorite hackers, designers, and developers will have the opportunity to work with Open XC, Ford's open-source platform that connects smart phones and tablets to real-time vehicle data.