Dean and I found this slug and snail poison at Costco today while shopping for the Boing Boing picnic tomorrow.

Photographer Jane Fulton Alt's latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site: Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous… Read the rest of the article: Photographer portrays swimmers in the oil spill region

A 72-year old Romanian woman kept her husband's death a secret for two weeks because she wanted to make sure he was really dead, and not just pretending to be… Read the rest of the article: Elderly Romanian wife suspects husband is faking death, keeps it secret

Check out this lovely rendition of the National Anthem by Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Vince Welnick before a 1993 San Francisco Giants game at Candlestick Park. via Erik Malinowski's… Read the rest of the article: The Grateful Dead sing the National Anthem at a '93 Giants game

The Boing Boing Picnic is in two days, and we could really use some extra arms and legs and tentacles to help us make sure the event runs smoothly. If… Read the rest of the article: Volunteer at the Boing Boing Picnic!

An art gallery in Brooklyn is dedicating exhibition space to Chatroulette that includes canvas prints like the one above and a video grid with 108 rotating faces. I love how… Read the rest of the article: Art exhibit dedicated to Chatroulette

Forever21, the bible-bagging fab-finds-on-a-budget women's clothing store, now has a maternity line. I don't know, it just seems to send the wrong message somehow. Love21 Maternity

One of my favorite young female Japanese artists is a photographer from Kobe named Tomoko Sawada. She is best known for photographs of herself dressed in different stereotypically Japanese female… Read the rest of the article: Tomoko Sawada's cosplay self-portraits

Check out this super cute pinhole camera made out of an iPhone box on Etsy. I love the simple slightly retro design: This one of a kind handmade pinhole camera… Read the rest of the article: Pinhole camera made from an iPhone box

World's greatest homeless sign ever (Thanks, Joe Sabia!)

Researchers at the CASA Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL have created maps of London, Paris, New York, and Munich based on the density of Tweets within each city.… Read the rest of the article: Maps showing density of Tweets in four cities

The COO of the company distributing this new fragrance — which goes on sale today — says: "I personally feel that the new Bruce Willis fragrance is the manliest scent… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Willis: the "manliest scent in the world"

We're having our first ever Boing Boing picnic this Saturday in San Francisco. Xeni, David, Dean, and I will be there — come say hi! It's BYOB, but we'll have… Read the rest of the article: Don't forget: Boing Boing picnic is this Saturday!

In a new directive geared towards fighting obesity, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is banning the sale of Coke, Pepsi, and Fanta Orange in vending machines on city property. From… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco bans coke from city vending machines

Out of stock design [via MocoLoco]

Apple PR has issued a letter responding to the slew of complaints regarding the faulty antenna and signal strength display on the new iPhone4. As Brian of Gizmodo points out,… Read the rest of the article: Apple's letter about the iPhone4 antenna issue

Just a quick update on a story we followed here on Boing Boing last fall — Jaycee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped at age 11, held captive by a… Read the rest of the article: Jaycee Dugard gets $20 million settlement

A hospital in Austria amputated the wrong leg of a 90-year old woman who suffered from vascular disease. After doctors realized they had taken her healthy leg, they amputated the… Read the rest of the article: 90-yo woman gets wrong leg amputated at hospital

Last week, my cousin and I went to a lovely dinner party hosted by forageSF, a wild foods community in San Francisco. One of the eight courses was a green… Read the rest of the article: Taste Test: Sea beans

And here you thought men would never know what it would feel like to get their periods. A new gadget featured at the Royal College of Art's summer grad show… Read the rest of the article: Machine teaches men what it feels like to menstruate