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Daft Punk: Does good music need to begood?

In the New Yorker, Sasha Frere-Jones on Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories": Daft Punk"s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories, is an attempt to make the kind of disco record that they sampled so heavily for a href="http://www.amazon.

Last chance to enter the Armchair Taxonomistchallenge!

All this month, we've been telling you about a fantastic challenge from the Encyclopedia of Life. Called Armchair Taxonomist, it's an opportunity to research and write about different plants, animals, fungi, and microscopic organisms — and, in the process, help move scientific information from

Mexitech 3D tortilla printer "miMasa3000" availablesoon

The tortilla printer, tentatively named the miMasa3000, is scheduled for a summer launch, with Molinero anticipating big Christmas sales in the fourth quarter.  No price has been set for the product, but analysts think it will be a hit if it comes in under $200.

Haha, Watch a Taser Do Absolutely Nothing to a Candle

I don't know why I enjoy this quick little video so much but I've watched it over and over. It's probably because anything involving a taser is always hilarious unless you're the person the taser wants to involve.

Bee deaths and historicalcontext

We've talked before here at BoingBoing about how "Colony Collapse Disorder" is probably more than one thing, with more than one cause.

Today is the anniversary of LSD inventor/discoverer Albert Hofman's death (*epilepsywarning)

Five years ago today, the man who first synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) died at 102 years old. There's an informative Wikipedia article here, and the Albert Hofman Foundation website is here. The 5-year anniversary is the one where you take 5 tabs.

Massive landslide rocks Utah copper mine

Tim Heffernan at BoingBoing explains how a massive landslide at the world's largest open-pit copper mine in Utah is a reminder that "sometimes it's still the earth itself that shakes the world.

Real Stuff - fantastic 90s comic book, serialized on BoingBoing

One day in 1990 I was scanning the racks of my local comic book store in Boulder Colorado, and I came across the first issue of a comic book called Real Stuff. The cover was drawn by Peter Bagge, who was the creator of a comic book series called Neat Stuff.