Convicted felon Ted Stevens (R, Alaska) may lose his Senate Seat after all. As vote tallies trickle in, his opponent, Democrat Mark Begich is in the lead. Mark Begich (D) - 132,196 Ted Stevens (R) - 131,382 Markos "Daily Kos"

Over at BB Gadgets, Rob spotted this delightful LED Motherboard Menorah for Hanukkah. It's $25 from Fredlare.com but I'm sure not a difficult DIY project. They should offer a kit version of this too! LED Motherboard Menorah (discussion at BB

Jules was created by David Hanson of Hanson Robotics. Jules: another creepy robot...

Say hello to your new Dennou AR girlfriend. Feministing deems her a "virtual torture victim"; Gizmodo declares the 3D webcam hottie "entrancing, if a little perverted." NSFW?...

For those readers traumatized by the AR girlfriend video, may I suggest "Butterflys" (scroll down and click "See the Film"), a lovingly restored 1907 Italian short dance film, director unknown, with an original 2008 score by Antonio Coppola? Early films

This $1.99 iPhone app lets you download and read Golden Age comics. ComicZeal's built-in downloader lets you browse our great collection of copyright-free Golden Age comics and download them straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch. All the comics are

Today on Boing Boing Gadgets , we inspected the geometric beauty of a Linux boot sequence , prefered to pay $50 than deal with an Apple genius and contemplated the creepy uses of a realistic mask of our own face

A Guantanamo Bay-themed scarf from a fashion collection designed by Hannah Mitchell, a student at Massey University in New Zealand. The scarf is printed with distorted texts and the lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Masters of War." Lyrics sampler: "Let me

Inspired by these old school Kodak infrared flashbulb illuminated snaps of Japanese sexhibitionists and their peeping toms in parks that were shot by Kohei Yoshiyuki in the early '70s, fashion photographer Steven Meisel has created his own version in a

Chicago-based symbolist artist Gail Potocki has a new show of provocative, masterful paintings opening Saturday, November 15, at Billy Shire Fine Arts gallery in Los Angeles. The show, titled "Opened Apples," runs until December 5 and is also viewable online.

The photos are by Marton Schoeller, from his book, Female Bodybuilders. Watch a video here. Female body builders gallery...

A baby monitor iPhone app: Monitor your sleeping baby with this iPhone app. Simply place the iPhone near your sleeping baby, if it detects noise, it places a phone call to the number of your choice, you can then listen

I gyvenimo Drama is a former Soviet bunker near Vilnius, Lithuania that's been converted into an immersive theme park experience. It sounds like Colonial Williamsburg, but harsher. From Environmental Graffiti: I gyvenimo drama opened in early 2008 to some controversy.

We live in a farm house built in 1930. Even though we're in Los Angeles, our neighborhood is zoned for farm animals and agriculture. Whoever lived in the house before us loved fruit trees. We've got grapefruit, oranges, clementines, olives,

When I was a kid and we studied the French Revolution, and, of course, the guillotine, the class buzzed with rumors that the executed could briefly maintain consciousness after decapitation. Damn Interesting just reposted a short piece on that notion

Joshua Glenn says: My friend Geoff Edgers, the Boston Globe's arts reporter, is spending all his free time on a personal mission: to reunite The Kinks. ("I've stood by helplessly as countless crappy rock bands have gotten back together --

My pal Jeff Cross sent me this

Paul J. Zak, a neuroeconomist and director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University, explains the psychology of cons using himself as an example. When he was a teenager, he was taken by the "pigeon drop." Here's

Here is an incredible time-lapse video of Robert Burden painting Voltron. (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)...