Thanks so much to Bryan Jones for submitting this awesome photo of a sunset you see as our background today to the Boing Boing Flickr pool!

The New York Times photography department is really on a roll with this deliciously absurd photo of a chicken.

Whenever I see that fine mustache, I want to gently tug on it. This GIF is greatly satisfying for me.

Atlas by Battles. From their fantastic first album, Mirrored. They also just released a new album, Gloss Drop, which is more ethereal and wonky and fantastic in a different way.… Read the rest of the article: MATH ROCK IS BEST ROCK

Starting about an hour ago, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is answering pretty much whatever questions people pose him on Reddit. Among the gems: evasilev: What is the top… Read the rest of the article: Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich answering questions on Reddit

My friend Tara Helfer, who you may remember as the illustrator of this lovely drawing I posted a while back, is taking on a pretty ambitious senior project: organize seventy… Read the rest of the article: 72 Demons: crowd sourced alternative illustrations of the Ars Goetia

This week for Caturday, I brought you some photos of my new cat, Nibble. We got her this week, she's nine weeks old, and right now she lives in my… Read the rest of the article: Caturday: my new kitteh

[video link] I am pleased to announce that "PONPONPON", the totally insane and deliciously obnoxious J-pop song Mark posted about last month, is finally available for purchase as an MP3… Read the rest of the article: PONPONPON finally available as MP3 purchase on Amazon

This week, I got some reports from our faithful and dearly-beloved readers that they were unable to reset their passwords or create a new account due to an error in… Read the rest of the article: Trouble resetting your password or making a new account? Try again, please!

Today I got a message from Burton Posey on Google+ about a Kickstarter project he's working on with his wife. They're making an iPad game called "Robots Love Ice Cream".… Read the rest of the article: Not quite Kickstarted: Robots Love Ice Cream iPad game

Yesterday and today on Reddit, the subreddit section explain like I'm five, where users explain current news and tough topics as though they're talking to a five-year-old, saw a huge… Read the rest of the article: Reddit explains the debt ceiling to you like you're five

Photo by Ian Norman My friend John Mills has been integral in running the Duck Pond – one of the larger and more well-organized Burning Man theme camps – since… Read the rest of the article: How to build a Burning Man theme camp

It has a face and a bite taken out of it. It is also apparently crying and wearing rouge. A felt ice cream sandwich with a bite taken out of… Read the rest of the article: This is a seventy-five dollar felt ice cream sandwich

[Video link] Yesterday I posted a demonstration of the raw power of a great sword. Someone in the comments requested that the video be Benny-Hillified, and now, thanks to reader… Read the rest of the article: The Majesty of Benny Hill

[Video link] This robotic pipe bending machine looks like a snake charmer but with raw steel, or maybe a real life version of that old screensaver. It basically just extrudes… Read the rest of the article: Pipe bending robot charms pipes into amazing shapes

[Video link] Thanks Brian!

[Video Link] So here I am, watching a file transfer flick through my terminal window when I think maybe I'll check on the comments from my post on tiny plastic… Read the rest of the article: Konapun: tiny fake food as an exercise in total futility

[Video Link] Seriously, what is the deal with these teeny-tiny miniature food videos, and why can't we stop watching them? Why wash the dishes? The food is plastic! The ladles… Read the rest of the article: What is the deal with all of these YouTube videos of tiny plastic food?

Tuesday's meetup in San Francisco saw more than twenty happy mutants enjoying drinks, pizza and conversation at the gorgeous Orbit Room Cafe. Thanks so much to Amy and Dean, who… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing Meetup Report: San Francisco