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Some disgruntled Wisconsonites have produced this handy visual guide to understanding the imperious approach of Tea Party governor Scott Walker, who handed $137M in tax breaks to the wealthy, declared an emergency budget shortfall of $140M, and decided to cover it by gutting the state's unions...

This ant anatomy video joins in the proud comedic/mnemonic tradition of imparting knowledge by setting it to the tune of Jarabe Tapatío, AKA The Mexican Hat Dance -- elevating YouTuber AntsCanada and his "Crazy Ant Song/External Ant Anatomy" to the exalted heights attained by Yakko Warner's All ...

Here's a nostalgic look at what a pain in the ass it was to produce a book in the era before digital typesetting, lo those many years ago.

Reminder: polls close tomorrow in the Bloggie awards, in which Boing Boing is nominated in the Science category--thanks in large part to the excellent work of our new Science Editor, Maggie Koerth-Baker...

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DomainWire asks what will happen to the popular bit.ly URL shortener if Libya shuts down its Internet service (.ly is the country code for Libya)...

Now that Watson has predictably used his inhuman buzzer skills to romp on non-inhumankind, what does the big lug do for a follow-up?Stephen Baker, who has written a whole book and this blog about Watson, explains:Consider Watson as a research assistant on a medical diagnostic team...

Jason Freeny created this marvellous Rubik's Brain by sculpting a cuboid brain around a Rubik's Cube, working in individual chunks that left the puzzle functional...

Fred Tomaselli creates stunningly hyperdelic collages on wood panels consisting of medicinal plants, hallucinogenic drugs, prescription pills, scientific images, birds, flowers, trees, and people. He then paints on top of the collages and coats the whole thing in thick and glossy resin...

The Volokh Conspiracy's David Post shreds the Authors Guild editorial in this week's NYT. In it, Scott Turow and James Shapiro argue that America should introduce COICA, an official censorship law that blocks websites that large companies from the entertainment industry don't like...

This fantastic c.1965 handbill advertising Merry Prankster Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, and signed by Kesey himself, is up for bid right now in "The HeART of Rock and Roll Poster Auction." It's already up to $6,300...

Martin Waltz's funny -- and slightly tasteless -- ad for Minecraft certainly seems to capture the obsessive fearlessness the game inspires in its adherents...

Above, a 2004 catalog from an apple tree company called Urban Homestead. Will they have to cede to the demands of the Dervaes Family to stop using the term "urban homestead?" The Dervaes Family, who run a great urban farm in Pasadena, CA, is catching a lot of heat from urban homesteaders...