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• Nutraloaf: Cruel and unusual dinner?
• Why royal families keep it in the family
• Giant jackfruit
• Interesting crazing on panels
• Diaspora, the open source project seeking to challenge Facebook, (finally!) posts an update
• 50 Cent is having a bad day (UPDATE)
• Mark Dery seeks photos for next book
• Changing attitudes about sanitation through toilet malls
• Inside a Nevada family's underwater fort
• Two planets discovered around same star
• Rod Serling action figure
• The apocalypse in film and fiction
• Women: Ask for a raise, you douche!
• NYC cabbie stabbing suspect shot "Funny or Die" parody short about beer
• Owl puke dissection kit
• Can crowdsourcing produce funny humor pieces?
• Crappy animation of buffed-out be-Speedoed Horuses is hypnotic
• Fun fact: Trader Joe's is owned by a German company
• One-eyed cyborg filmmaker seeks woman who desires paintball machine gun prosthetic leg
• Glorious synths of the workers' state
• Snapshot: bike lane indicators get straight to the point
• Bill O'Reilly reviews porno classic "The Devil in Miss Jones," 1974
• Movie about trepanation
• Memory Palace podcast: Lost Lobsters
• Poopin' penguin T-shirts
• Newly-discovered pea-sized froggie lives inside carnivorous pitcher plants
• Follow Boing Boing at the new Digg
• Cat, unaware of video camera, drops middle-aged woman into trash can
• Provocative critique of Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" video
• Gentleman arrested after yelling at his bicycle

Nutraloaf: Cruel and unusual dinner? Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:47 PM PDT Act up in prison and you'll lose precious privileges ... like food you actually want to eat. The authorities at Cook County Jail have a new way to punish unruly inmates: Nutraloaf, a dense block of food-like stuff that meets the requirements of providing prisoners with daily calorie intake and nutrients, but deprives them of enjoyment. Chicago magazine sent food critic Jeff Ruby out to try it. He reports: An employee from Aramark Correctional Services--a branch of the Philadelphia-based company that also provides fare for college dorms and NFL stadiums--presented me a Styrofoam container sagging with a blunt ginger-toned mass roughly the size of a calzone and with the appearance of a neglected fruitcake. It had nothing else in common with either. The mushy, disturbingly uniform innards recalled the thick, pulpy aftermath of something you dissected in biology class: so intrinsically disagreeable that my throat nearly closed up reflexively. But the funny thing about Nutraloaf is the taste. It's not awful, nor is it especially good. I kept trying to detect any individual element--carrot? egg?--and failing. Nutraloaf tastes blank, as though someone physically removed all hints of flavor. Turns out, there's a pretty interesting debate going on right now as to whether Nutraloaf—and similar dishes at other correctional facilities—falls under "cruel and unusual punishment". So far, Ruby writes, all the lawsuits brought against excessively bland food have failed. Slate ran a Nutraloaf story a couple years ago, which gets into more detail about the legal side of the dish. Writer Arin Greenwood also tested out various Nutraloaf recipes—the details differ by state. That's her Illinois-style Nutraloaf pictured above. Chicago magazine: Dining critic tries Nutraloaf, the prison food for misbehaving inmates

Why royal families keep it in the family Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:16 PM PDT King Tut—the offspring of a brother-sister marriage—had a partially cleft palate and a deformed foot. Charles II of Spain—the result of a long history of close cousin marriages—fared even worse: He was developmentally delayed, had trouble chewing and was impotent. So, given the rather obvious downsides, why are royal families so prone to keeping it in the family? David Dobbs tackles that question in a short piece at National Geographic. Essentially, it boils down to risk vs. reward. Sure, somebody might end up with a funky foot, Dobbs writes, but there are also benefits to the practice—and ways to hedge your genetic bets.

Giant jackfruit Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT (click photo to embiggen) Speaking of interesting textures and patterns, these gargantuan jackfruits I saw at 99 Ranch Market in Van Nuys were amazing. I was almost expecting baby monsters to hatch from them. The texture of the skin reminds me a bit of the lychees I bought there and have been gorging on for the past hour. (Jackfruit inspector's face obscured for privacy.) Video: how to eat a jackfruit.

Interesting crazing on panels Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:29 PM PDT Last week I walked by a yoga studio that had set up some panels in front of their windows. The sunlight caused the white coating on the panels to crack. The interesting thing was that each panel had its own style of cracks. They were all beautiful. More photos after the jump.

Diaspora, the open source project seeking to challenge Facebook, (finally!) posts an update Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:36 PM PDT The people behind the Diaspora project—remember them? The open-source project that sought to swipe Facebook's crown, when everyone was freaking out over privacy stuff? Anyway, they've posted a project update.

50 Cent is having a bad day (UPDATE) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:25 PM PDT Skimming through rapper 50 Cent's Twitter history, one can instantly determine the point at which handlers ceased managing the account of late, and the hiphop star took things over himself. About 9 days ago. Today, either his account has been hijacked by a prankster, or he's having a particularly rough day. Update: Spoke to someone at Twitter, they've reached out to his management and confirmed that his account is just fine. Not a security breach. I'm a follower for life, man, this is the best ish ever. Move over, @kanyewest. [via Attackerman]

Mark Dery seeks photos for next book Posted: 26 Aug 2010 02:35 PM PDT BB contributor Mark Dery is seeking six photos to illustrate a forthcoming Brazilian anthology of his writing. The title is quintessential Dery: I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire, Digital Culture, Posthuman Porn, and the Sexual Symbolism of Madonna's Big Toe. Deadline for submissions is Monday. This isn't for money, but love and exposure. To inspire you, here is a bit of the back-cover promo copy from the book and the cover photo, by Adam Szrotek: Here are essays on Star Trek fans' pornographic fantasies about the Borg, a fascist hive mind of alien man-machines; Facebook as a Limbo of the Lost for the dead souls from your high-school yearbook; George W. Bush's fear of his Inner Queer; the SUV as a totem of Ugly Americanism; the morality of wearing camo-themed fashion during wartime; why golf is a battlefield in the war between the classes; the homoerotic subtext of the Superbowl; the theme-parking of the Holocaust; the Church of Euthanasia; the hidden agendas of IQ tests; Santa's secret kinship with Satan; the sadism of dentists; why HAL, the computer in the movie 2001, was gay; the severed head as signifier; the literary merits of suicide notes; and, of course, the sexual symbolism of Madonna's big toe. Photos wanted for Mark Dery's next book

Changing attitudes about sanitation through toilet malls Posted: 26 Aug 2010 04:04 PM PDT Video link: not for the queasy of stomach. David Kuria runs EcoTact Limited, an organization with a groundbreaking approach to a difficult issue. In many poor parts of Africa, basic sanitation is nonexistent, and open sewers drain untreated waste directly into the water supply, causing 80% of the disease. Kuria quotes Gandhi: "Sanitation is more important than independence," adding, "We want to do a social transformation, where people don't think this is a toilet, where they think a toilet is a dirty place. So for us to change that community and social mentality of a toilet, then we want to put in more activities in the toilet. Then they start interacting with the facility not as a toilet, but more of a community convenient point." Amenities include a small kiosk with snacks and personal items for sale. Kenyan comedian Makhoha Keya even worked up an act to make learning about basic sanitation entertaining. Ecotact provides safe drinking water at no cost, and the toilet usage fee is about five cents a day, usually recouped through fewer doctor visits and lost days of work. EcoTact Limited website

Inside a Nevada family's underwater fort Posted: 26 Aug 2010 03:13 PM PDT It's amazing what you can accomplish when your dad's garage is full of useful parts and pieces, and your whole family is certified as scuba divers. BB reader SaltySamaritan, aka Jordan Needham, dropped us a line via Submitterator to show off the dome-shaped, oxygen-filled underwater fort—nicknamed The Bubble Room—that he and his family built at the bottom of a Nevada mountain lake. Made from an air-filled vinyl bladder, held in place by an intricate system of cabling connected to an octagonal frame of metal pipe, this amazing hideaway had me at, "Blurple burblup." I had to know more. Luckily, Jordan was kind enough to answer a few questions about how his family built The Bubble Room, the rules they follow to keep it safe and their plans for selling a commercial version. Maggie: Where did this idea come from? Jordan: I was in the shower, one day about four years ago, and I was just thinking about how cool it would be to have an underwater "fort" I wasn't sure how to make it happen at the time, but that's when the brainstorming started. So I called my brother Logan and we started talking about ways to do it. Our original version was just a net stretched tight and secured to four rocks—one at each corner—and then a piece of plastic pulled under the net and an air bubble released into it from a scuba tank. Because the air is displacing water, the upward force of the bubble is equivalent to the downward force of the same volume of water on shore. So a bubble 10 cubic feet in volume would be basically 74.8 "gallons" of air at 8.35 lbs per gallon, which means a 10 cu. ft. bubble has 624.58 pounds of upward force! Pretty substantial. Needless to say, by the time the bubble under the net was about the size of an average ice chest it had stretched almost 20 feet up to the surface then the net broke. Maggie: How did you make the working version? Jordan: So, I started thinking about how to spread the load out around the perimeter of the net, and a better way to anchor it. That's where the idea for the "ring" came from. We no way to bend the super heavy pipe we had so I cut it and welded it back together into an octagon. The ring is attached at three spots with stainless steel cable to three giant rocks, and we wrapped the cable around the bottom of the rocks and secured it back to itself with cable clamps. The ring is galvanized steel with 1/4 inch wall thickness. I also coated it inside and out with "sand" colored Rustoleum. The ring, itself, is now a semi permanent fixture of the lake and has been down there for about three years now. To make the rest, we draped a piece of netting over a small dome tent and threaded a piece of climbing webbing through the bottom of it. We then attached loops of parachute cord to the webbing that were long enough to wrap around the ring and hook to a little nub welded every six inches along the top of the ring. The dome is vinyl from the local fabric store. We switched from plastic because the plastic was kind of "cloudy" and the vinyl is optically clear. When The Bubble Room is not in use we take the net and vinyl with us and it is just a metal ring sitting on the lake bed. It takes one person about 15 minutes to attach the net and vinyl and fill it with air. All the materials except for the vinyl where free! Maggie: Where is this thing set up? Jordan:Well, I live in Reno NV, and let's just say it's in a local alpine lake. Even though it isn't hurting the lake at all and there are entire trains in the same lake, there are some pretty fanatical people "keeping the lake blue" and they probably would have a problem with my little addition. When we set it up, it is usually an all-day event. We have had the bladder and net attached and it full of air for eight hour stretches before. But, like I said, when we leave we take the net and bladder with us and it's just a ring sitting on the sand. It would only be noticeable if you happened to snorkel right over the top of it. Maggie: Do local conditions make a difference on its stability? Jordan: When it's super windy you can feel the surge of the water, even 20 feet down. With every wave that goes over the top, a little temporary cloud forms in the bubble, which is pretty cool. You get the same effect when you squeeze a two liter soda bottle that has a couple inches of water in it. Maggie: How do you make this work as a fort? You have to refill the air occasionally, correct? Jordan: Ya, we use a standard scuba tank to fill it, and replenish the air once it gets thin. A standard 68 cu. in. scuba tank will fill it almost twice. There are obvious safety concern with being in a bubble 20 feet down and all the oxygen being used up, so we try and play it safe—buddy system at all times, and when the air starts to get even a little thin we empty most of it and fill 'er back up with fresh air. [You can watch a video of "used" air being forced out of the bubble and up to the surface. --M] Also, the air in the bubble is 1.5 times more dense than the air on the surface, because of the additional pressure, so it is a must to exhale on the way out of the bubble to the surface. The one lung full of air you breathe in down there would expand to 1.5 lung fulls on the way up, and ruptured lungs would ruin anybody's day. Jordan: One last thing, I hold a provisional patent on the idea and have adapted a version to be installed in a private pool, with a fresh air pump constantly feeding it with more air than the occupants could use. Some day I would like to try and make a little business out of it, and go around installing them in people's pools. You can't tell me Snoop Dog or a mob boss wouldn't want to have a little Bubble Room of their own! Many thanks to Jordan and his family! Great work, guys. I am jealous of both your fort and your crystal-clear waters.

Two planets discovered around same star Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT NASA's Kepler space observatory has found two planets orbiting the same star. It is the first planetary system found that has more than one planet crossing directly in front of the same star, called Kepler-9. That's a drawing above. Kepler scientists have also found what may be a third planet, about 1.5 times the size of the Earth, orbiting Kepler-9. It appears to orbit the sun in just 1.6 days, meaning it's very close and very very hot. "NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star" (NASA)

Rod Serling action figure Posted: 26 Aug 2010 01:13 PM PDT Yes, that is a Rod Serling action figure. Toy collector Michael Crawford, aka Captain Toy, bought an ultra-limited Serling head and commissioned an artist to hand-paint it. The body, clothing, and telltale cigarette once belonged to an infamous X-Files character. You can read the whole story of the Serling figure... in the Twilight Zone. Er, I mean at Crawford's site. Review: Twilight Zone custom sixth scale Rod Serling Twilight Zone radio plays Planet of the Apes as a Twilight Zone episode

The apocalypse in film and fiction Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:48 PM PDT Scientific American put together a list of their favorite apocalyptic plots from fiction and film. The grouped them by category, like astronomical catastrophes, biological calamities, war, geophysical disasters, and machine-driven takeovers. Of course, this is far from a comprehensive list of the greatest tales of the end times. Check out their selections and then add your favorites in the comments below! From SciAm: Biological Calamities Earth Abides (novel 1949) After humanity is wiped out by a deadly airborne illness, a small band of survivors set about rebuilding civilization. A Sound of Thunder (short story 1952, film 2005) A time-traveling hunter inadvertently crushes a butterfly during an excursion to the Jurassic period. It causes a succession of "time waves" to batter present-day Earth—and its embattled human occupants—and wrenches reality onto a different evolutionary path. Think baboon-dinosaurs besieging your local gas-mart. I Am Legend (novel 1954, films 1964 (The Last Man on Earth), 1971 (Omega Man), 2007 (I Am Legend)) One lone man is immune to a pandemic virus that ravages humanity. He struggles to develop a treatment to save the infected. The Andromeda Strain (novel 1969, film 1971, TV miniseries 2008) A satellite returns to Earth with a deadly microbe that wipes out an entire town except for a baby and an old man. "Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature" The article quoted above is part of the new special print issue of SciAm about "The End." It also references two new nonfiction books about the end of time that sound terrific: How It Ends: From You to the Universe and Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction. Once again, nihilism is the new black! Yay!

Women: Ask for a raise, you douche! Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:40 PM PDT Summer's Eve and Women's Day Magazine have advice for American women who may not be earning as much as their male colleagues, and need a bit of confidence-boosting before asking for a raise. Tip number one? Wash out your ladyparts. Then, go eat something. No, this isn't a parody. [Daily Kos]

NYC cabbie stabbing suspect shot "Funny or Die" parody short about beer Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT Among the web videos credited to the "Muslim cab driver stabbing" suspect Michael Enright: this Funny Or Die short, a parody of a Sam Adams beer commercial. HuffPo has gathered more. Background in this previous BB post.

Owl puke dissection kit Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:49 PM PDT For $7.30, you can buy a hunk of owl poop puke. Why? Dissection, of course! From Copernicus Toys: "Dissect this sanitary owl pellet which contains the skeletal remains of an owl meal. Learn about the owl's habitat, place in the food chain, and predatory skills. Use some archaeological skills to piece together the skeletons using the bone chart." Compact Curiosities: Owl Pellet Dissection Kit (Amazon)

Can crowdsourcing produce funny humor pieces? Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:41 AM PDT "Reviews on historic books by people who haven't actually read the book." "Likely names of organisms had Linnaeus been a science fiction fanboy." Although I still have difficulty considering myself a writer type, what little experience I do have in this world is mostly limited to publishing humour pieces. I guess my niche is to do this and still stick to science and technology subjects. So far, I've been lucky enough to have gotten quite a few pieces published in various places (you can see a partial clip list here), although often I think my geneticist title was key in throwing editors off. In fact, one of the reasons the Science Creative Quarterly (which I edit) exists is that I thought it would be cool to have a portal for "literary science humour." Anyway, when I write a humour piece, I usually start with a quirky title (the two of mine above being prime examples), and then kind of let the ideas flow from there. As well, if you just peruse the SCQ's humour archive, you can readily feel the potential of each humour piece just from the title. Consequently, I've always wondered if crowd sourcing the comments on a blog post might be a good way to produce a decent humour piece. This might fail epically, but I always thought it would be worth a try - especially if I ever had a chance to give it a go on a website with clever commentary and excellent traffic. So, just for fun, let's see if we can first start with an interesting title. I've got a few that have been sitting in my head for a while as backups (at the top of this post), but hopefully, we can come up with better ones in comments below. In other words, here is the first task: Can you come up with a humour piece title that lends itself to potentially funny answers? (PS: We'll also stick to things that are science- or technology-related, since those I have a bit of experience in as an editor.)

Crappy animation of buffed-out be-Speedoed Horuses is hypnotic Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT You can't stop watching, try as you may. The fact that it's from Japan is beside the point. Dancing Gay CGI Horus-men, in Speedos!

Fun fact: Trader Joe's is owned by a German company Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:40 AM PDT More like Trader Johann's! "Few customers realize the [Trader Joe's] chain is owned by Germany's ultra-private Albrecht family, the people behind the Aldi Nord supermarket empire." (via Kourosh)

One-eyed cyborg filmmaker seeks woman who desires paintball machine gun prosthetic leg Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:17 AM PDT Via the BB Submitterator, Boing Boing reader davidjoho says, One-eyed film maker Rob Spence's EyeBorg project involves putting a wireless video camera into his eye socket. He's now advertising for a one-legged woman who wants a machine-gun prosthetic, a la Grindhouse's Cherry Darling. Although Time named his vid-eye as one of the best inventions of 2009, the odds are longer for the new prosthetic making the list, especially since it only shoots paint pellets. Also, no Quake-style rocket jumps.

Glorious synths of the workers' state Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:08 AM PDT Okay, so maybe I just have the USSR on my mind right now: I'm racing through Matthew Brzezinski's "Red Moon Rising," a compulsively readable account of the geopolitical intrigues that spawned the Space Race. And nobody ever accused our Soviet friends of having much of an eye for design. But -- is it me? -- these Soviet-era synthesizers are sort of beautiful in a stodgy analog way, aren't they? Of course, there's an online "museum" devoted to them. I'm particularly partial to the warm, woody Retakord and the trippy green Unost' 70. Yes, it's endless choruses of "Take On Me"... for victory! (Via Retro Thing.)

Snapshot: bike lane indicators get straight to the point Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:49 AM PDT Via Sean Bonner's tumblr, no idea where it's from. Update: This photograph was taken by Carlton Reid, and the stencil street art it documents is the work of Peter Drew of Adelaide, Australia.

Bill O'Reilly reviews porno classic "The Devil in Miss Jones," 1974 Posted: 26 Aug 2010 12:05 PM PDT The Boston Phoenix has unearthed quite a rarity from its archives: Bill O'Reilly interviewing Gerard Damiano, the filmmaker behind '70s adult film classics including Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones, back in 1974. Yes, that Bill O'Reilly: Mr. frothymouthed hatebaiter, he of l'affaire falafel. The novelty value of Bill O'Reilly having written it is interesting, and more so the fact that it was O'Reilly's first piece for the paper—ever the provocateur, old Bill. But more interesting still: some of the buried contents of the piece, which paint Damiano as a sort of of DIY, stick-it-to-the-man indie sex auteur who hates Jack Valenti and the MPAA, and loves both broads and sandwiches. Just like us, you guys! Damiano paused to take a bite out of his sandwich and then related that The Devil In Miss Jones, his most successful picture, was conceived and made a few months after the release of Deep Throat. This time it took him a month to write the screenplay and he is proud that the film received some minor critical acclaim. He also enjoys achieving recognition from show business people: "I heard through the grapevine that many personalities are personal fans of mine and have all my films. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Hugh Hefner, these people have all my films! "I was in a restaurant in California recently and a waiter came over and said that if I didn't mind Mr. Cassavettes, John Cassavettes, would love to meet me. And here's a man who I have, throughout the years, admired for his talent; and here he was wanting to meet me. "The only source that has expressed displeasure with my work has been Jack Valenti of the MPAA. But you have to understand people's motivations. Valenti is completely motivated by his pocket. He cannot condone independent films because he belongs to the system. I laugh at him, I defy him. Hollywood makes a film called Man Of La Mancha for 10 million dollars; it grosses twenty five thousand. I put out Deep Throat for $25,000; it grosses 10 million. I destroy his whole system. I destroy everything he stands for." But I suppose O'Reilly's prurient fascination with Damiano and sex shouldn't come as a surprise: the guy's something of an erotic auteur, himself. Off with those pants! The Devil Behind ''The Devil in Miss Jones'' (The Boston Phoenix, originally published on April 30, 1974) Audioclips of Bill O'Reilly reading his bad porno novel Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin email hack Billy O'Reilly meltdown dance mix video Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly: the unedited interview Bill O'Reilly discovers Super Mario -- Offworld Fox News producer sues Bill "Shut Up" O'Reilly for sex harassment ... Bill O'Reilly's alleged falafel fetish now has a name

Movie about trepanation Posted: 26 Aug 2010 10:27 AM PDT Back in the early daze of bOING bOING's Web life, I wrote an article about folks who have holes drilled in their skulls as a path to enlightenment, or at least achieve a perpetual buzz. It was called "Head Like A Hole," and you can still read it on BB here. Several years ago, an indie documentary was released exploring the practice, called trepanation, and profiling its modern day evangelists. Over at h+, RU Sirius reviews the movie, titled A Hole In The Head. From h+: ...A couple of minutes into A Hole in the Head, we are confronted with a clip from a 1970 film — Heartbeat in the Brain — that was made showing Amanda Fielding's self-trepanation.  Fielding — the attractive English doyenne of contemporary trepanning and a leading figure in British '70s psychedelia — freshly trepanned, stares into a mirror, her face patched and speckled with blood, looking as happy and satisfied as Sooky Stackhouse after a long night with Bill Compton and Eric Northman. As she wipes blood from her teeth, there's the faint hint of a smile.  Fans of grisly medical shows will definitely find satisfaction in this film.  The most disturbing scene, which is also toward the beginning of the film and runs for several minutes, shows an African woman's fully exposed brain matter being drilled by a witch doctor. But shock is not the point here — or at least it's not the entire point.   "Fixing A Hole in the Head" (h+) A Hole In The Head movie site History of trepanation Accidental Trepanation Trepanation for dementia Country doctor uses household drill on patient's skull Trephanation kit on eBay

Memory Palace podcast: Lost Lobsters Posted: 26 Aug 2010 10:05 AM PDT In the new episode of Nate DiMeo's terrific Memory Palace podcast, we hear "The story of the lobster from sea pest to delicacy to sad, stunted little creatures who are never allowed to live up to their true potential: Gigantic Monsters of the Deep!!!" Memory Palace: Episode 33, Lost Lobsters Memory Palace: Halley's Comet Memory Palace podcast about serial imposter Stanley Clifford ... Podcast about the Mad Gasser and mass hysteria Great Moon Hoax of 1835

Poopin' penguin T-shirts Posted: 26 Aug 2010 09:58 AM PDT 'monster on Submitterator was kind enough to point out that, before I posted about them yesterday, the pooping habits of Adelie penguins were already the subject of a T-shirt. This fine product features a design taken directly from Figure 1 of the 2003 Polar Biology paper that established a methodology for estimating the pressures at which Adelie penguins do their business. The Web site says the shirts are mostly sold out, but the Cafe Press page seems to indicate otherwise. There, you can also order another T-shirt ripped from the pages of scientific journals—this one featuring a rat wearing underpants.

Newly-discovered pea-sized froggie lives inside carnivorous pitcher plants Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:42 AM PDT Researchers have found and identified a new species of frog, the size of a pea: Microhyla nepenthicola. For the past century, this critter was previously thought to be the infant form of another frog species. It resides inside carnivorous pitcher plants in Borneo. And, occasionally, on the tips of the endangered Blackwing Pencil. Here is the National Geographic News story, and photo gallery. [Submitterated by chriscombs]

Follow Boing Boing at the new Digg Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:46 AM PDT Freshly relaunched and redesigned, Digg v4 is out of Beta. Users of the site should check out Boing Boing's page.

Cat, unaware of video camera, drops middle-aged woman into trash can Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:55 AM PDT Revenge of the Furries. Video Link. [Submitterated by Chocolatey Shatner.] Cat-trashing lady outed by internet in less than 24 hours - Boing ... Woman suspected of dumping cat in trash can under police ... Middle-aged woman, unaware of video camera, drops cat into trash ...

Provocative critique of Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" video Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:51 AM PDT "Not wearing a shirt only makes you look like a better fighter, but you'll still need to sneak up on your target and hit them in the face with a bottle. This next sentence is 100% accurate: I could take out Dominic Monaghan, Megan Fox, and Eminem, all together, even if they were all armed with toasters and I was asleep in a bathtub."—The Last Psychiatrist critiques a new Eminem video over which many pundits are wringing hands, due to its theme of domestic violence. [via danah]

Gentleman arrested after yelling at his bicycle Posted: 26 Aug 2010 08:35 AM PDT A 68-year-old man in Florida was arrested after yelling at his bicycle in a gas station parking lot. The police affadavit reports that customers were upset by an "obscene argument the defendant was having with his bicycle." (via Bikehugger)

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