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New ESPN 

• Walk the plank: Raiders sack Kiffin after 1-3 start
• Rams fire Linehan, name Haslett as interim coach
• Burress back from suspension: 'I was fine with it'
• Eagles' Westbrook suffers broken ribs in return
• Status of Bills' Edwards uncertain after concussion
• Cards' Warner ponders retirement after Boldin hit
• Packers QB Rodgers expected to play vs. Seattle
• Marinelli won't quit, says Lions have to fire him
• Jets S Smith appealing ban, fine for hit on Boldin
• Rams TE McMichael out for season with broken leg
• Vikings place LB Henderson on injured reserve
• Seahawks' Branch out; Hasselbeck should play
• Colts' Dungy not overly concerned about injuries
• Knee surgery will sideline Ravens' Gregg for year
• Despite slow start, Lewis 'committed' to Bengals
• Ex-Broncos RB Henry's trial moved to Montana
• Chiefs' Gonzalez breaks tight end yardage record
• ESPN.com has launched many new football widgets that offer scores, stats, and news

New GapingVoid Cartoons 

New Christian Science Monitor 

Markets foresee global contraction

France, Ireland, and Denmark are in recession. Others teeter on the edge.

New tests: Chinese milk melamine-free

South Korean officials recall M&M's and Snickers, as China's production standards improve.

In Israel, a first attempt at high school integration

Fourteen students in Israel are taking part in an educational experiment that aims to teach Jewish a...

High court case: If harassed workers talk, can they be fired?

A Tennessee woman lost her job after she cooperated in a company investigation.

Supreme Court lets stand death sentence after Bible reading

A death-row inmate claimed the jury foreman violated his fair-trial rights by reading out loud from...

New Buzz Machine 

Snots scream: ’snot fair!

Heh. A bunch of movie critics in the UK are whining that Disney used blurbs from real people in ads...

Splain it to me

Drop everything and go listen to the latest This American Life, a followup to its brilliant Giant Po...

Citizen journalism ruins the world (again)

On Friday, like clockwork, I got calls from three reporters asking me to defend citizen journalism (...

Replacing the article

Matt Thompson creates one part of what I suggested the other day should be the new fundamental unit...

The building block of journalism is no longer the article

The old building block of journalism — the article — is proving to be inadequate in the...

New BoingBoing 

Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets.

Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw a promotional thumbdrive full of beer and a tasty motherboar...

Richard Metzger: Ten years ago

In honor of my dear friend Richard Metzger's stint as a BB guestblogger beginning today, I dug up th...

How to find neighbors who think they are registered but probably aren't

Adam Savage says: "My wife has been working for these folks. I'm passing it on to you in case you're...

Guestblogger: Richard Metzger

(Tara McGinley, Richard Metzger September 2008. Photo: Coop) Meet our next guestblogger, Richard Met...

Photos from the denim distressing factory

Photographer David Friedman visited a Kentucky "distressing" factory where skilled laborers expertly...

Artificial foreskin lets you keep your sensitivity AND the covenant of Abraham!

Circumcised? Need a foreskin? Have no fear, Viafin's synthetic turtleneck's got you covered: Being c...

Wall decals based on Toronto subway stations

Derek sez, "We recently produced a line of vinyl wall decals featuring the vintage 1978 modernist de...

Explorer reports on his first two weeks on Tofua Island

The Private Islands blog has an update on Xavier Rosset's trip to Tofua Island in the Kingdom of Ton...

Abbey Ryan's painting-a-day blog

I'm an admirer of artists who create a painting a day, and then post them to their blog. Abbey Ryan...

Brown Monday: open thread on today's economic panic.

Floyd Norris, liveblogging the panic today at the NYT -- The Great Crash of 2008: 2:45 p.m. ET: If t...

eBoy's Blockbob Eater doll

eBoy, the artist collective that designed Boing Boing's logos, announced the launch of its wooden Bl...

World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler

In the sweet and sad novel, World Made By Hand by James Howard Kunstler, the population of the Unite...

BBtv: Robert Plant and Allison Krauss interview (music)

Hey, speaking of bluegrass... when Led Zeppelin founder Robert Plant teamed up with Nashville mama A...

The problem with the one-eye veil for women, and a solution

Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan has come up with a solution for troublesome women who wear e...

Sharpest photo of Jupiter from Earth

This is the sharpest "whole Jupiter" photo ever taken from Earth. It was snapped with a telescope us...

2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Three scientists split the 2008 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their discovery of HIV and...

Wonderful noodle stretching and folding video

How do you make 4096 noodles in hurry? By stretching and folding the dough 12 times. A clip from Phi...

Who is "essential" during a pandemic?

The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics published new research on who should be considered "...

The Maverick Family in Texas Asks: "Who You Callin' a Maverick?"

NYT writer and Texas son John Schwartz wrote this very funny piece about the family in Texas who bea...

PingMag interviws Lullatone

PingMag, the Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" has an interview with a delightfu...

JFK rug

This JFK rug from the 1960s is up for auction on eBay. It's 52cm x 40cm. Starting bid is $2000. US P...

US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn't Pass

In this YouTube clip, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) says some congresspeople were told in private briefin...

Old timey Halloween photos

Steve Chasman is posting one old timey Halloween photo every day during the month of October. This o...

Paper and pencil better for the brain than software?

Dutch psychologist Christof van Nimwegen posits that paper and pens/pencils boost learning and creat...

Patrick Dougherty's sapling sculptures

Patrick Dougherty is a sculptor who uses tree saplings as his construction material. He began with s...

New Salon 

The low road to the White House

As the gloves come off in the presidential race, John McCain seems ever more willing to dispense wit...

A suicide in the family

Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself.

The GOP goes back to its ugly roots

McCain is resurrecting the GOP's oldest tactic: Smearing Obama as a scary black terrorist sympathize...

Bear facts about John McCain

Despite his lip service to science, the GOP candidate continues to ridicule a major study of America...

I'm 17 and I can't figure things out

I don't know what my friends are talking about, and I don't know what my problem is.

This Modern World

What will those crazy liberals think of next?

NFL assumptions: Wrong again

Unless you saw Atlanta (3-2) over Green Bay (2-3) coming, you didn't see this season shaping up this...

New Wired News 

Video: Neil Gaiman Gives Away 'The Graveyard'

The Sandman author reads from his new book, about a boy who hangs out with dead people, and posts th...

Solar Goes From Gardens to Gigabucks

A California company has a billion dollars worth of orders in hand for a new solar product that coul...

Pimp My Pony: Gear for the Equestrian Commute

Gas gas hovers around $4 a gallon, your Prius-driving neighbors are cruising smugly all the way to W...

Oct. 7, 1959: Luna 3's Images From the Dark Side

1959: The space probe Luna 3 takes the first photographs of the dark side of the moon.

The radio-co...

Gallery: Inside Secretive New Solar-Tech Factory

: Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
FREMONT, California -- Solar photovoltaics make up a tiny percentage o...

Clive Thompson: Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World

Don't trust anyone over 30. That's the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley, a land once again bestro...

Meteoroid Predicted to Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere Tonight

A small meteoroid is predicted to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over Sudan tonight. This is the firs...

Judge's Secret Decision Blocks Sale of DVD-Copying Software

A federal judge seals a decision tentatively blocking RealNetwork's sale of DVD-copying software.

W...

Goliath Beats Davids for Pentagon Power Prize

The Pentagon set up a million-dollar prize to get entrepreneurs and tinkerers to come up with radica...

How to Understand the Financial Crisis

There's a lot of hype surrounding the financial crisis, but what does it really mean? To get acquain...

Is the Cheapest Genome Sequence Ever for Real?

A biotech company is planning to offer complete personal genome sequences for $5,000, but is it too...

Toy Robot Intended to Save Humans From Evil

Zeno, a toy robot that may be available for around $300 in 2010, is designed to fend off future robo...

Who Should Win the Nobel for Physics?

Nobel Prize week kicked off this morning with awards in Medicine given to discoverers of the viruses...

Wall Street Tumbles Amid Global Sell-off

Wall Street tumble, joining a sell-off around the world, as fears grow that the financial crisis wil...

EBay To Drop 1,000 Employees, Picks Up Two New Businesses

As rumored, EBay is cutting 1,000 employees -- 10% of its workforce. The company also announced the...

New Digg: Frontpage News 

Clinton goes to bat for Obama and party

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has raised more than $8 million for former rival Barack Obama's pres...

Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever

Today Google released some information about what kinds of things viewers were searching for as that...

Individuals with social phobia see themselves differently

Magnetic resonance brain imaging reveals that patients with generalized social phobia respond differ...

McCain's Desperate Claim: Obama is Dangerous.Vote for Me!

The McCain campaign is all set to roll out its message for the last 30 days of the campaign: "We may...

Defense?

The world's most endangered species 2008

14 photos of current endangered species. One in four mammals is at risk of disappearing forever, acc...

The 14 Most Futuristic Dashboards at 2008 Paris Auto Show

While exterior styling grabs all the new and concept car headlines, it's the interiors that have t...

Nintendo's 5 Biggest Surprises Throughout History

Nintendo has always been one to surprise us. They've made good moves and bad, interesting decisions...

Ford feature will let parents limit speed of teen drivers

Programmed into the ignition key, it will also make sure seat belts are fastened and the music isn't...

What the fuck!?!

I don't even want to know what strange fetish this involves...

Turtle Gets Wheels After Dog Bites Leg Off (PICS)

They think she had a run-in with a dog. Now she has a new set of wheels. Meet "Tonka."

U.S. Space Program to Hitch Rides with Russians for 5 Years

From 2010 to 2015, the U.S. will have no human space flight capacity of its own, and will rely on Ru...

Oh Yeah!

Koolaid man strikes again...

Scientists Reach Hydrogen Storage Milestone

Hydrogen cars may be feasible sooner than previously thought thanks to the efforts of a research tea...

Bill Maher Votes For BBQ

Bill Maher tells us what he's voting for...

Scientists can genetically boost the smell of flowers

A team of researchers claim to have discovered how to not only boost the natural smell of flowers by...

FBI file details Evel Knievel's dark side

Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in th...

US Military threatens to kill pet of deployed US Soldier

A US Solder, held in Iraq over 15 months longer than her original commitment to the Army, saved a pu...

The Best of Amy Poehler

From Upright Citizens Brigade to Amber The One-Legged Hypoglycemic, here are some hilarious Amy Poeh...

Another Doping Scandal Rocks Cycling

Stefan Schumacher, winner of 2 stages in '08 Tour, has returned a positive test for CERA, a form of...

New Scientific American 

Specialized Brain Hemispheres Provide More Efficiency

If you are trying to predict a magpie's next move, just look into its eyes. A June 15 study in...

Using Math to Explain How Life on Earth Began

Back in March the press went crazy for Martin A. Nowak's study on the value of punishment. A H...

Rising Acidity in the Ocean: The Other CO2 Problem

Climate change caused by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is now widely recognized....

Ranking Candidates Is More Accurate than Voting

Editor's note: This story was originally posted in the March 2004 issue, and has been reposted to hi...

George Yancopoulos: Doing Well by Trying to Do Good

His finalist year: 1976 [More]

Of Survival and Science

Editor's note: This story was originally posted in the August 1999 issue, and has been reposted to h...

The Physical Science behind Climate Change

Editor's note: This story was originally posted in the July 2007 issue, and has been reposted to hig...

New PoliticsCentral.com News 

The Glenn and Helen Show: Adam Shepard on Making it from Scratch

Can you still make it from scratch in America? That's the question that Adam Shepard asked himself i...

The Glenn and Helen Show: T. Boone Pickens on Wind Energy

T. Boone Pickens is an oilman, a takeover expert, and a longtime observer of the American scene. He'...

The Glenn and Helen Show: Carla Howell on Ending the Income Tax in Massachusetts

Like many states, Massachusetts has an income tax. But in Massachusetts, people are trying to do som...

The Glenn and Helen Show: Kathleen Parker on Why Men Matter

They used to say that it was a man's world, but you don't hear that much any more. Women outnumber m...

The Glenn and Helen Show: Doug Feith on War and Decision

Douglas J. Feith served as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 through 2005. His new book...

The Glenn & Helen Show: Robert Kagan on the Return of History

In the 1990s, people talked about the "end of history," when international power politics wouldn't r...

The Glenn and Helen Show: Fred Thompson on John McCain and Judges

With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama still slugging it out in the Democratic primaries, John McCain...

New Gapingvoid 

debora smail

[Applying the pencil to DesertManhattan. Photos courtesy of Debora Smail, who was in town last week....

desertmanhattan update

[A rough idea of how I'm hoping "Desertmanhattan" will turn out, cannibalized from "Fred 44". 4x8 fe...

studio update: desertmanhattan

[Click on image to enlarge etc.] For the last couple of months, I've been talking about a return to...

the complexity war a.ka. "success is more complex than failure"

Rudyard Kipling once described Triumph and Disaster as "Imposters, both". The longer I stay in the w...

book edit almost done

1. Since I got back from the road trip I've basically been locked up in my office, putting the finis...

New Doc Searls 

Coming, coming, gone.

An asteroid is about to burn up over Africa.

Roast maverick

If just some of this is true, it's bad news for McCain.

Smartest possible Palin move

Guest-hosting Saturday Night Live.
Might make up for her running mate's chickening out on David Lett...

Dancing on fire

It's hard to feel shitty when the Steve Miller Band is playing Jet Airliner in the middle of your he...

Theirs is biggest

Is there anything more phallic than a skyskraper? Other than, like, the Real Thing?
Anyway, Sky News...

Talking to lenses

It's been suggested that Sarah Palin hasn't had much media training. On the contrary, she had plenty...

Speaking of blogging and, um, stuff

Here's a Web Pro News interview of yours truly by Abby Johnson at Blogworld in Las Vegas a couple we...

Starring Southern Utah

In September I took two flights across the country that featured lots of clear views of the sights b...

Peggy on Palin

Peggy Noonan in the WSJ:

 
She killed. She had him at "Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you J...

McCain's lost moment

So we just passed a bail-out package that's marginally better than the one voted down on Monday. But...

New Cool Tools 

Yankz Sure Lace System

One day while being frustrated trying to install Speed Laces on a pair of sneakers with tiny fabric...

Ryobi Cordless Saws

Cordless power tools are obviously the way to go. I have a drill but what I really wanted was a port...

Electric Sheep

This computer screen saver is incredibly beautiful, dynamic, amazingly hypnotic, free (!), and liter...

Yama Vac Pot

This glass siphon brews a smooth, strong cup of coffee with little to no bitterness. I started using...

Sulcabrush

I have a bit of a crowded mouth -- small mouth relative to jaw size -- so it's very difficult for me...

New The MAKE Blog 

How knives are made

Joel Bukiewicz crafts amazing knives in his little Brooklyn studio. Cool Hunting has a video going i...

Ocarina from soda can

Ranjit made a one-minute tutorial on turning a diet coke can into an ocarina - the "Diet Cocarina."...

Get MAKE updates via Twitter - and MAKE Magazine print/digital/web support via Twitter! (and a special offer)....

Twitter is a neat service that a lot of folks use to get updates from their friends and to just stay...

Steam Powered - California Steampunk Convention

On Friday Oct 31 - Sunday Nov 2, 2008, Steam Powered - the California Steampunk Convention, will tak...

Homebrew Multi-touch display

IDEO has a new lab blog that catalogs some of their projects and experiments, here's a multi-touch d...