The Best of Boing Boing
10+ most popular Boing Boing articles, as voted by our community.
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Boing Boing on Cambridge Analytica
Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name
Shared by 93, including Dominik Grolimund, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, DHH
Boing Boing on Copyright
Not just Europe: EU Copyright Directive will censor the world's internet
Shared by 18, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Henning von Vogelsang
Boing Boing on Cyberpunk
Gorgeous scrap-electronics wearable cyberpunk assemblages from Hiroto Ikeuchi
Shared by 21, including Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Boing Boing on France
The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France
Shared by 81, including andrew chen, Esther Schindler, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
Boing Boing on Humor
HOW TO: XKCD's Randall Munroe finds the humor in taking silly questions very, very seriously
One of my favorite genres of book is the popular engineering book, a rare breed that combines physics and engineering to establish the full range of ways to address a problem (for example, if you w…
Boing Boing on Media
New journalism startup loses Climate editor over Chevron sponsorship
Semafor is a recently-launched news website from Ben Smith, former editor-in-chief at Buzzfeed News and a New York Times media columnist, and Justin B. Smith, former Bloomberg LP CEO. With such hig…
Boing Boing on Mind Maps
Austin Kleon shows how he makes mind-maps
Mind-mapping is a form of “radial note taking” according to Austin Kleon, bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist and other books. In his video, he shows how he uses mind maps to clu…
Boing Boing on Poetry
Woman discovers 'secret' coded message in John Milton poem 'Paradise Lost'
A young Massachusetts woman who recently graduated from Tufts University is convinced that she has found a ‘secret’ encoded message in “Paradise Lost,” the poem by John Milton.
Boing Boing on Propaganda
Three kinds of propaganda, and what to do about them
Shared by 27, including Luca Hammer, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Katja Evertz, Liv 😷
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I had a friend who wanted to get better at painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right. She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent l…
Turn an old Android phone into a web server
Using a clunky old desktop as a dev box? Wasting money every month on the cloud? Trash it all and use an old phone instead—so long as you’re OK with its very specific environment and limitati…
Astounding digital image allows you to pinch-to-zoom deeper and deeper into a wonderful world
French designer/illustrator Vaskange created this fantastic digital painting below in which you pinch-to-zoom deeper into a wonderful world. The artwork feels like a digital cousin of Charles and R…
I tried this AI program to fix a scratched-up, blurry photo of my old-country ancestors
Here’s a video describing an AI program that restores blurry and damaged old portraits. The technique is presented in a paper titled “Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Gene…
EXCLUSIVE: Photo gallery of Ferguson demonstrators in NYC
Photographer Daniel Schaefer captures the grief, anger, and resolve of demonstrators who took to the streets of Manhattan after the announcement that the police officer who killed unarmed black tee…
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