In what appears to be an infomercial, an Asian man demonstrates how to play the drums on a Creative Labs keyboard. "This is rock and roll!" He gets super into… Read the rest of the article: Asian man rocks out on Creative Labs keyboard

Someone bought a lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair at an auction in New Zealand for $13,000.

Engadget reported this morning that Apple is hiring iPhone/iPad antenna engineers. Now Gizmodo has posted images from the first class action lawsuit against Apple and AT&T for general negligence and… Read the rest of the article: Apple is hiring iPhone antenna engineers. I wonder why.

In 1936, a Japanese magazine called Shonen Club published a series of illustrations imagining what the future of transportation might look like. Among them, this giant ship that can spit… Read the rest of the article: Future of transportation circa 1936

We've all seen this video of a 7-year old Florida boy named David asking existential questions while drugged out in the backseat of his car after the dentist. Business Insider… Read the rest of the article: David After Dentist family earned more than $150K from video

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A recent study experimenting with the use of trained dogs to detect invasive plants in North America found that canines are indeed better than humans at finding spotted knapweed. However:… Read the rest of the article: Dogs are great at finding bad weeds except when there are squirrels

Mental Floss clues us into an interesting article on MediaCommons about why we play Farmville — basically, because we've been trained to not be able to ignore social obligations. The… Read the rest of the article: Do we play Farmville because we're polite?

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Over 8,000 video entries have been submitted for Oprah's Your OWN Show contest, which aims to find a talk show host for her new TV network starting in 2011. Right… Read the rest of the article: Zach Anner, the comedian with cerebral palsy in Oprah's new contest

At Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas this past weekend, three chest x-rays belonging to Marilyn Monroe sold for $45,000.

A recent CNN investigation found that the same chemicals found in Silly Putty can be found in McNuggets: American McNuggets (190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated… Read the rest of the article: Silly Putty ingredient found in McNuggets

We're having our first ever Boing Boing meet-up in San Francisco this summer! We hope you'll come hang out with us at Golden Gate Park on July 10 from 11am… Read the rest of the article: Boing Boing picnic in San Francisco, July 10th

One of the newer works by artist Brian Jungen is this giant tortoise shell made out of garbage bins. Artist page [via NotCot] Brian Jungen's sculptures from everyday objects Dinosaur… Read the rest of the article: Giant carapace made out of trash cans

Today is the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death, and for this week's episode of PRI's Studio360, I produced a piece on Judith Hill — the half-Japanese, half-black singer… Read the rest of the article: Lisa interviews Jackson backup singer Judith Hill for Studio360

A few years ago, after a web video conference, a bunch of Internet luminaries — Sean Bonner, Micki Kriimmel, Nick Douglas, etc — got together in a living room in… Read the rest of the article: Charlie the Unicorn lip-dubbed by Sean Bonner and friends

My friend Jake is allergic to his iPhone. When he came to visit from Tokyo last week, I wondered why he was wearing biker gloves and why his iPhone and… Read the rest of the article: "I'm allergic to my iPhone"

Khalil Al Jadeily floats quietly in the aquamarine swimming pool in his neoprene wetsuit and a full rack of scuba equipment. His hazel eyes are excited, pumped with adrenaline. For… Read the rest of the article: Scuba brings peace to a boy who has only known war

Joi Ito snapped this photo of a sign at the Narita Airport shopping arcade in Tokyo.

The 48 Hour Film Project took place in San Francisco this past weekend — it's an annual event in 76 cities worldwide whereby people a film crew is given a… Read the rest of the article: 48 Hour Film Project is in San Francisco this week