Articles by BoingBoing from September 2016

If you thought soccer's world cup being awarded to baking-hot Qatar marked the zenith of sporting corruption, give FIDE a chance: the international chess federation's forthcoming world championship is...

The Atomic Chemistry Set is a "modern chemistry set - 47 chemicals, glassware, lab apparatus, and insane chemical reactions." It looks great!...

70% cotton/30% nylon, sized S-XXL, $40 from Thinkgeek....

They just kept coming, and coming, and coming, across multiple states. Clowns in vans. Clowns in the woods. Clowns lurking in the shadows. Clowns chasing people or doing crimes. (more…)...

Lately my family has been going to the Neon Retro video game arcade in Pasadena, CA. They have a bunch of very nicely restored arcade games. It costs $10 a hour and all the games are set to free play....

Fragments of Horror by Junji ItoViz Media2015, 224 pages, 5.8 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches (hardcover)$12 Buy a copy on AmazonFragments of Horror is a collection of eight wonderfully grotesque and creepy short ...

Here's two hours of Democratic and Republican congresspeople not taking any weaselly bullshit from disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf.In September 2016, Wells Fargo was issued a combined total of...

On August 1st, 1981 the world changed and MTV launched. With a bunch of unprofessional VJs who could sometimes barely cue up tapes MTV went through a lot of growth and changes, from Yo! MTV Raps to Be...

On October 19, students at Sacramento Elementary School in Portland will be able to attend the After School Satan Club, which will focus "on science and rational thinking."From CBS News:In August, [Ch...

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Raise your hand, Christian conservatives, everybody. Raise your hand if you're not a Christian conservative. I want to see this, right. Oh, there's a couple people, that's all right. I think well keep...

From the Commodore USA Facebook page: "This C64C used by a small auto repair shop for balancing driveshafts has been working non-stop for over 25 years! And despite surviving a flood it is still going...

This lever operated cork screw is super simple.I hated ripping corks in half, or finding floating bits of cork detritus in my wine. This Oxo opener pretty much removes me from the equation.Bottles are...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

Marcell Shehwaro's magnificent, sarcastic, angry essay in Global Voices expresses her gratitude for her Syrian passport, because it has allowed her to see how states are willing to punish the already ...

Erich Ashbargar's weird, laser-engraved dice are a tour-de-force: a pair of D6s for figuring out where to go for dinner in NYC; another D6 to figure out which die you should roll; an all-20s critical ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QZ2F-qrGMTech anthropologist Genevieve Bell (previously) delivered one of the keynotes at last week's O'Reilly AI conference in New York City, describing how you co...

Following from Wells Fargo's 2,000,000-account fraud against its own customers -- part of a decade-old pattern -- the state of California has imposed sanctions on the bank, freezing it out of bond iss...

Unable to sit idly by while Trump brags about not paying taxes, Joe Biden gets angry. This nearly brought me to tears. I love this guy....

2600: The Hacker Quarterly -- a venerable and storied source of hacker mischief and wonder -- has publicly offered a bounty of $10,000 (payable in "dollars, bitcoin... or rubles") for the first look a...

In 2009, we covered a "one time only 'Road Warrior Weekend' campout" -- now, seven years later, it's an annual event called Wasteland, and it's better than ever. (more…)...

Correlation is not causation, and the data-set is awfully small (39 incidents), but computational epidemiologist Maimuna Majumder is working with what's available, because the federal government won't...

My favorite Francis Bacon painting, Study after Velzquez's Portrait of Pepe The Frog, has taken on new meaning what with all the memes lately.When asked why he was compelled to revisit the subject so ...

Wang Jianlin made billions speculating on Chinese real-estate; now that he's diversified into buying Hollywood movie studios and chains of movie theaters, the richest man in China is prepared to say ...

By Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous)The tables have turned, now heres your chance to dig in like an Alabama tick when you serve up this Pie-redator apple-strawberry pie at your next movie mar...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn -- re-elected in an unprecedented landslide despite back-stabbing from party grandees and MPs -- inaugurated his new term with a hell of a conference speech. (more…)...

Nerdist found this wonderful fan-edit mashing up scenes from Stranger Things in a style of the opening credits from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (more…)...

The always-engaging George Pendle (Strange Angel, The Remarkable Millard Fillmore) has a fascinating piece on Atlas Obscura on the history of space art and NASA's (and the government's at large) curre...

A paper published this summer looked into over 100 times humpbacks were observed disrupting orcas who are hunting, like these humpbacks trying to save a gray whale and calf. But why do they do it? (...

If you want to let people know you care but don't have time to send thoughts and prayers every time there's a tragedy, the new Thoughts & Prayers app can help! (more…)...

At this week's London Design Festival, design firm Uniform displayed Solo Radio. Stand in front of the device and it scans your face for input into software that assesses your emotions. Then it plays ...

Even if you don't have a VR headset, Chris Milk's Evolution of Verse hints beautifully at the future of immersive entertainment. Go fullscreen, don headphones, and get close! (more…)...

Amos Yee, a 17-year-old blogger in Singapore, is to spend six weeks in jail for "wounding religious feelings." It is his second such jail term: he spent a month in jail last year for criticizing Chris...

Prompted by allegations made against celebrity Bill Cosby, California is ending its 10-year statute of limitations on rape.Current California law requires prosecution for rape to begin within 10 years...

The largest all-sky survey of celestial objects ever made by humans was released this month, using data from The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia satellite. (more…)...

This to That does one thing: it asks you for the two things you need to stick together, then tells you exactly what sort of glue to use. The next time you need to glue styrofoam to glass, you'll have ...

We know that pigeons are capable of becoming crafty drug smugglers or connoisseurs of fine art, but now we know they can kind of tell when we're making up words. (more…)...

People close to Trump are admitting he got thrashed by Hillary Clinton on Monday. But they're doing so on condition of anonymity and pharaoh is displeased.In a conference call with surrogates Wednesda...

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A group of some of the most powerful technology companies on the planet have formed a partnership on artificial intelligence. (more…)...

So, that huge hack of 500 million Yahoo user accounts last week that Yahoo blamed on a "state-sponsored actor"? A private internet security firm is calling bullshit on the "state-sponsored" part. (mor...

Vaping is getting more mainstream by the day, which means there's been an influx of quality yet affordable vaporizers on the market. We're particularly excited about theAPX Wax Vaporizer Kit, which is...

At the first presidential debate this week, GOP nominee Donald Trump fat-shamed a fictional IT character he made up. Speaking about a series of hacks on Democratic National Committee organizations, Tr...

Alfred Okwera Olango, who was black, was fatally shot by police in El Cajon, California on Tuesday. Police in the San Diego suburb city say the 38 year old Ugandan immigrant pointed a vape pen or e-ci...

The world's greatest living tennis player wrote something on Facebook today about police killings of unarmed black Americans. (more…)...

For years, the Douglas County commissioners have reduced the budget of the county's 11 libraries, serving 100,000 residents, and they've vowed to zero out its budget next year, so the library's suppor...

More than 10,000 people have signed onto EFF's open letter to HP CEO Dion Weisler, taking the company to task for its dirty trick of using a security update to revoke its customers' ability to print w...

Seems unarmed, peaceful protestors were tear gassed, threatened at gun point, and arrested today. Here is another video of the same event.I don't know anything about the source of these videos. Perh...

A friend in France sent me an email one day and wrote, "You have to watch this Japanese movie 'Ring.' It's very special." Since he likes horror films as much as I do, his words carried weight. But in ...

This segment from The Last Word explains the most painful things Donald Trump said, and why we can not elect him our President. (more…)...

What do crystal bracelets inspired by Michelle Obama, a John Wayne commemorative beer stein, a viagra substitute, a Life Alert alarm, and mustache hair remover - for women - have in common?Theyre ...

Right now, The Voyager Golden Record, containing a message from Earth for any extraterrestrials that might encounter it, is traveling on two spacecraft through the cosmic ocean at almost 40,000 miles ...

Both of my daughters like to sketch, and so do I. One of our favorite things to do is sit around the dining room table and spend the afternoon drawing. The sketchpad I typically use is the 9 in. x 12 ...

Two students and a teacher were injured in a shooting today at Townville Elementary School in Anderson County, South Carolina. A teenager identified as the shooting suspect is now in police custody. (...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Craft for the Soul: How to Get the Most Out of Your Creative Life by Pip Lincolne (author) Penguin Books Australia2016, 216 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.9 inches (hardcover...

Good stuff from the Gregory Brothers....

I spent the summer and fall of 1984 in London (living in this council flat in Elephant and Castle), and I loved hanging out at a park near the Battersea Power Station. Built in the 1930s, the coal-fir...

In the world of orange cheese there remains an outlier: Stadium Nacho Cheese. A lonely, rarely discussed and often maligned member of the bright and cheery circus colored cheese family! Nacho cheese i...

In this time-lapse video from Harvard Medical School, you can watch bacteria [Escherichia coli] develop resistance to increasingly higher doses of antibiotics in a matter of days.[via]...

A teen boy has been arrested in Saudi Arabia for unethical behaviour, after he did a cute internet video chat with an American YouTube starlet. (more…)...

The latest Tropes vs Women in Video Games (previously) is as on-point, smart, and deep as ever. (more…)...

After a customer in Canada complained about the Tapping Creeper, Home Depot removed the Halloween prop from its shelves.From Fortune:Breanne Hunt-Wells, who is a mother of two, told CBC that she feels...

This dad has mad Dad Skills. (more…)...

From our prolific internet songwriter friend Jonathan "Song a Day Man" Mann, a wonderfully catchy little ditty for this shitshow of an election season. The Hillary Shimmy Song.This dude is coming at...

Earlier this year, Chris Christie appointee David Wildstein pleaded guilty to ordering lane closings on the George Washington bridge in 2003 to punish a New Jersey mayor for not supporting Christie's ...

https://youtu.be/HFZFcyM4QvgLocksmith scammers are in every city. They advertise on Google, promising to unlock your house or car for $29 or so. (more…)...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

Back in 2009, I found a rare, used copy of Shel Silverstein's raunchy, hilarious not-kid's book Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only, after George RR Martin told me it was uproariously fu...

James Bridle (previously) honors the The Cloud Index, "a tool for actionable weather forecasts" at London's Serpentine Gallery, with a lyrical longread about the history of clouds, science, war and co...

After last week's revelation of a record-smashing breach at Yahoo (which the company covered up for years), security researcher Matt Blaze tweeted: "Sorry, but if you have a Yahoo account, you will n...

Vancouver-based engineer-turned-"entrepreneur" Valeriy Shershnyov published thousands of titles in the Kindle store, "books" of typo-riddled nonsense that he upranked with a system of bots that gamed ...

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Over at National Geographic, Nadia Drake's feature on Elon Musk's plan for millions of people to live on Mars is the best explanation (and contextualization) of this far out vision that I've read. F...

In the early 1990s, former professional wrestler and police officer Michael Stivers launched a career as a hypnotist, but with the unusual specialty of "breast enlargement hypnotism."According to his ...

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The question of what to do with Battersea Power Station, a disused yet oddly beautiful pile of bricks in London, long occupied the city's planners. The latest developers have scored a coup that sounds...

This summer, BB pal Adam Savage of MythBusters and Tested modified a pick-up truck into a mobile movie theater! ...

Wells Fargo's Board of Directors have finally exercised their right to claw back part of the hundreds of millions of dollars taken home by two senior executives who were compensated on the basis of th...

Yesterday, Google announced "Youtube Go," an "offline first" version of the popular video service designed for the Indian market where internet coverage is intermittent, provided by monopolistic carri...

We all know that expiration dates on food are as mostly worse than useless. Whether any given stuff is still tasty, though, can be found at the aptly-named stilltasty.com.How long will your favorite f...

Clips of this are going viral as genuine security footage, but it's really a short film by Rasheed Parakkal about how technology helps us find redemption. (more…)...

Once just a "gross but versatile" cartoon frog, Pepe slid the rage-greased chute of chan culture into the toilet of offensive memes and popped up on the other side in the Anti-Defamation League's arch...

Redditor ipee9932cd couldn't find a keyboard to their liking, so they built the casing of their dreams—out of cement. The brutal board weighs in at 12 pounds (yes, heavier than an IBM Model M) a...

If you have ever swallowed 20 golf balls, a pound of orange peels, or a pound and a half of chicken nuggets, then worried your habits might overwhelm your toilet, you might need this workhorse. (mo...

Since hydrofoil surfing was introduced, Kai Lenny has been experimenting with boards and techniques to the point that he can go out in the open ocean and glide across swells for miles without having...

Mike Campau recreated Generation Gap, a CGI series of some of the most iconic items from 1980s childhoods, each one lit with gorgeous multi-hued gradients. (more…)...

Ted Wiggin created stella nova, a beautiful demo of his Rose Engine, a tool for procedural compositing. (more…)...

When youve had a long day and its time to unwind, theres a lot you can do to relax: drink some tea, take a shower or even read a book. But theres one thing that's essential toa comfortable nights rest...

Weve secretly replaced the fine smartphones they usually serve with sticks of butter. Lets see if anyone can tell the difference! (more…)...

You, too, can now have Donald Trump's hair. On a t-shirt. IMGURian Jakob Brask is crowdsourcing these Donald Trump 3D t-shirt with "natural windblown hair" effect. (more…)...

As with each and every episode of his genius 'Sassy Trump' voicedub series, actor-director-comedienne Peter Serafinowicz is using 100% actual Donald Trump's own words here. He's just voicing them di...

One of the great political leaders of Israel, Nobel peace prize laureate Shimon Peres, has died. He was 93 years old. He suffered a stroke two weeks ago. (more…)...

The fellow who posted this video said, "I wanted to get medicated, so I asked the driver if I could smoke. He clearly said 'yes,' so I did. In New Orleans, marijuana has been decriminalized, so I di...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Coloring Book for Goths: The World's Most Depressing Bookby Tom DevonaldAtria Books2016, 96 pages, 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.4 inches (paperback)$9 Buy a copy on Amazon...

Richard Williams, aka Prince Ea, is an amazing spoken word artist who helps make people aware of their lives and surroundings. With his videos, he reminds us that we can make a difference. He has a ...

Bad Little Children's Books by "Arthur C. Gackley" darkly reimagines innocent kids' books from the mid 20th century....

My friend John Edgar Park made this cool MIDI controller in a pizza box with a conductive ink surface....

https://youtu.be/K6KbEnGnymkDan Colman of Open Culture says, "watch Peter Pringle perform on the theremin Over the Rainbow, the song originally written for 1939s The Wizard of Oz. And its not just any...

In 1924 a curious network of catacombs was discovered in Washington D.C. They were traced to Harrison Dyar, a Smithsonian entomologist who had been industriously digging tunnels in the city for almost...

YouTuber kipkay repurposed a vintage 30-year-old Mac mouse in this how-to video. Turns out there are lots of little items inside that can be salvaged for other projects, too. (more…)...

Chemist George Zaidan makes homemade toothpaste using the same ingredients in commercial toothpaste. It includes abrasives, humectants, sweeteners, flavors, foaming agents, thickeners and binders, s...

Clinton "was so prepared my new name for her is Preparation H," said Colbert about last night's debate between Clinton and Trump. "It's a compliment." Trump's strategy, as reported by the Washington...

A very special edition of of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

When four named whistleblowers came forward to reveal that they'd been illegally fired from Wells Fargo for reporting that the company was experiencing widespread fraud, it was deja vu all over again:...

TheAvantree Powerhouse 4 Port Fast USB Charging Stationbrings high quality, high power,and still keeps your work space or home looking neat and organized.The best part about this charger is its capaci...

The Rider Institute has launched an Indiegogo campaign to develop DRACOS, which are broad-spectrum antivirals. If it doesn't work, Dr. Todd Rider (Ph.D. from MIT) could enjoy a great career as a ch...

This video from 2011 inspired a 2015 documentary called Sam Klemke's Time Machine.In 1977, Sam Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film. Beginning decades before the modern obs...

"I glit from one thing to another a lot," said David. "It's like flip, but it's the 70s' version. *sniff*" (Subsequently) (more…)...

What if UNO were rebooted? JelloApocalypse's If UNO Was An Anime gives the mundane classic all the hackneyed tropes and stock characters of card game tie-in toons....

I've been going to O'Reilly conferences since the first P2P conference in 2001; for 15 years, they've been blowing my mind. (more…)...

The legendary cup, designed to punish greedy drinkers, explained masterfully by Salad Fingers' dad Sir Martyn Poliakoff. His YouTube channel is packed with similarly excellent videos wherein lab as...

Thinkgeek's $80 Lawn Jawas are a weird mix of kitsch, bad taste, technology, and fandom. (more…)...

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has released a simulator that challenges you to be the Chair of the Federal Reserve and "achieve full employment and low inflation." (more…)...

I-Dressup is a social media site aimed at teen and tween girls, where users play and interact with fashion. Six days ago, Ars Technica's Dan Goodin contacted I-Dressup to tell them that they were leak...

After a poor performance at his first chatfight with Hillary Clinton, millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump's claiming his mic was too quiet. Just imagine the nightmare of cocaine snuffles...

Super Mario Bros and other classic games can be run through 3DNes, a nifty 3D emulator. (more…)...

After a long hiatus, CineFix revived its "Homemade Shot for Shot" series with this entry for the Suicide Squad trailer. (more…)...

Eugene Pylinsky (aka Pylik) put together this outsized 3D modeling animation to be projected on a pillared facade. The result uses the space in creative and surprising ways. (more…)...

Travel writer Ben Schlappig uses something called "mileage running" to accumulate lots of travel miles. Mileage running works by collecting miles on cheap flights and spending them on expensive ones...

The artisan behind this Pokmon "Pok Ball" (aka Monster Ball) masterpiece is Jasper Hams. (more…)...

Jim Jones writes, "I have been playing The Warren, Marshall Miller's role playing game about being rabbits, with my three kids for a little over a month. We play in an area based on our suburban neigh...

I bought this illuminated handheld magnifier on Amazon for $3 (free shipping) last year and I use it a lot. It's a great splinter and lice checker. I've gotten my $3 of value from it just looking at t...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World by Glenn AdamsonThe MIT Press2003, 300 pages, 9.5 x 11 x 0.8 inches From $10 Buy a copy on Ama...

Dutch manufacturer Vanmoof started printing a photo of a TV set on the boxes it uses to ship bikes. Now the bikes arrive at their destination in perfect condition.From Cycling Weekly:No matter who was...

Astronomers working with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope have captured images of what might be water vapor plumes erupting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble...

Shu Lam, a 25-year-old PhD student at the University of Melbourne's School of Engineering, has developed a polymer that rips apart the cell walls of superbug strain bacteria.From Science Alert:The pol...

With this comprehensive course in App & Game Development for iOS and Android, youll be able to take full advantage of this careeropportunitywithout committing to going back to school full time. Yo...

I've got a busy couple of weeks coming up! I'm speaking tomorrow at Powell's in Portland, OR for Banned Books Week; on Wednesday, I'm at UC Riverside speaking to a Philosophy and Science Fiction class...

Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey was exposed last week backing a pro-Trump "meme factory" that churns out Nazi-themed images and anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda—then spotted at a Trump rally wear...

A Reddit user took this photo of his girlfriend getting her watch stolen by some kids in Thailand. They didn't know what had happened to the missing watch until they saw this photo. I obscured the kid...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

I've written an open letter to HP CEO Dion Weisler on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, asking him to make amends for his company's bizarre decision to hide a self-destruct sequence in a p...

I did an interview with the Changelog podcast (MP3) about my upcoming talk at the O'Reilly Open Source conference in London, explaining how it is that the free and open web became so closed and unfree...

I've been writing "design fiction" for years (see, for example, Knights of the Rainbow Table), and when people ask me to explain it, I say something like, "An engineer might make a prototype to give y...

Sweden's ruling coalition of Social Democrat and Green parties has a tax plan that will make it cheaper to fix broken things and more expensive to buy things that can't be fixed after they break.From ...

In "A Letter to My Allies on the Left," Rebecca Solnit -- one of my literary and political heroes -- asks the left to give up the practice of reflexively dismissing the good that politicians do, becau...

Sailorhg's Glitchy website is a drag-and-drop way to glitchify photos....

Tools like Etherpad and Google Docs are transformative ways to collaborate on text (including code); I've used them in contexts as varied as making unofficial transcripts of statements at UN agencies ...

In Neural Photo Editing With Introspective Adversarial Networks, a group of University of Edinburgh engineers and a private research colleague describe a method for using "introspective adversarial ...

The October issue of Make is focused on making props and costume armor (natch!) and on the website, master propmaker Shawn Thorsson shares an elaborate and fearsome set of instructions for making your...

Weird twitterbot herder Shardcore writes, "@everytrumpette draws from the large corpus of photographs of the attendees of Trump rallies. A face detection algorithm identifies a member of the crowd, an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWuJbycGpTEWe went to our neighborhood Halloween store yesterday to find cool stuff with which to celebrate the best holiday of the year, and came home with one of th...

A man attempting to take a selfie with a python was bitten by the python, reports the Reuters news agency. "It attacked me," said the victim, one of a group of people manhandling the massive snake in ...

The Australian state of Victoria, scandalized by the sight of bare buttocks, has banned the practice of displaying them. No buts! (more…)...

As seen in this photo, taken by Pest Professionals of Northampton, England, there was a wasp nest in the attic of house in Pipewell.Pest controller Gary Wilkinson, of Northamptonshire pest controllers...

In Sweden a legislative proposal will let repair shops will charge lower sales-tax, and allow people who repair their appliances and bicycles be to write off their expenditures. (more…)...

Researchers from the Norwegian Veterinary Institute developed and tested a system for horses and people to communicate using a symbolic language. From the Daily Grail:...Twenty three horses learned to...

A trio of scholars who study the psychology and philosophy of science have written a fantastic paper for Springer's Sythese looking at the way that climate change conspiracy theorists construct their ...

CloudPress is a responsive WordPress theme builderthat allows you tocreate a whole site in less than 30 minutes. CloudPress comes with tools like pre-built headers, content blocks, and footersall you ...

Thank you to the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, for recognizing the greatness of French food and imported macaroni and cheese where it has (d)evolved into its own food group...

A 1989 documentary covering the birth of Batman through to the best on-screen Batman ever, Mr. Adam West....

wxs.ca/iso/ presents a simple "isometric" field of cubes, Q*Bert-style. Click and drag across it and the cubes will rise and fall in series of waves. They also start to flash wild colors... or do they...

There are a handful of states that keep records of police force, but they are incomplete records, and they're maintained on paper; contrast that with URSUS, California's new tool that collects every s...

Donald Trump said Lester Holt, tonight's debate moderator, was a Democrat. Holt is in fact a Republican. Leaving aside why Trump assumed he was a Democrat, when called on this mistake, Trump campaign ...

Pumpkin is too watery and stringy to can, and the USDA has an exceptionally loosey-goosey definition of "pumpkin," which allows manufacturers to can various winter squash varieties (including one that...

Joey Alexander picked up jazz at six, dedicated his childhood to jazz at 8, and won a major international competition at 9. Here he is playing City Lights from his latest album. (more…)...

Now that fall is here, wouldn't it be nice to keep your legs warm while pretending you are a siren of the sea? The good folks at YARNutopia share how to make your own mermaid tail blanket, including...

Shigeki Matsuyama created Narcissism: Dazzle room, a trippy and disorienting painted pattern based on camouflage patterns used in World War I. (more…)...

For nearly an hour, this steam train from Brienz to Rothorn ascends a steep mountain and navigates narrow tunnels amid spectacular Swiss scenery. In addition to driver POV, YouTuber Timsvideochannel...

Want to get Cool Tools' Recomendo a week early in your inbox? Sign up for the Sunday newsletter here.Game:Google Feud is a game that challenges you to guess the top ten Google autocompletes for a part...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8os-nKuoM3o&feature=youtu.beRobbo sez, "Jonathan Pie, preeminent UK political satirist, takes on British media and their role in declaring newly re-elected Labour Par...

When Wells Fargo fired 5,300 employees for opening 2,000,000 accounts in its customers name (stealing their cash and trashing their credit scores in the process), it wanted us all to know that it had ...

On the eve of the Stuxnet attacks, half a decade ago, I found myself discussing what it all meant with William Gibson (I'd just interviewed him on stage in London), and I said, "I think the most signi...

On the eve of the Stuxnet attacks, half a decade ago, I found myself discussing what it all meant with William Gibson (I'd just interviewed him on stage in London), and I said, "I think the most signi...

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council convened a symposium at NYU's Information Law Institute in July, and they've released their report: 25 crisp ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI0V3MNAXQUThe cast of Hamilton joined with the New York Deaf theater in a video that is pure amazeballs. (more…)...

I have just replaced my first set of Envelop AA batteries, ten years after I bought them. Around 10-12 years ago I was I doing a lot of underwater photography. High capacity, low-static-discharge AA b...

If you own a dog, you've most likely heard ofBarkBox -the monthly subscription box for dogs. What started as a simple idea to try out the subscription model on pet owners has since developed a cult fo...

D10D3 built this "cyberdeck" on a C64c (a modern recreation of the Commmodore 64) with a Raspberry Pi CPU, VGA port, and all the I/O you could ask for (USB/Bluetooth/wifi/Ethernet). (more…)...

Beth Jacobson was a Wells Fargo loan officer who blew the whistle on the bank's predatory, racist loan-fraud in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis, which tanked the world's economy and nearly wipe...

Eli Livingston's $23 viynl Big Chap bank is a beaut (I bought one last week when I saw it in person in a store): the whole sculpt is awesome, but the tinted/clear-plastic brain-casing is just the best...

Writer/artist Ingrid Burrington has published a book called Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure, which sketches the physical extrusions of the internet in...

Pteryxx writes, "Writer who has spent 30+ years in solitary has his own published writing censored from reaching him - and his unpublished manuscript was destroyed in moving him to a different facilit...

It's been just over a year since Jeremy Corbyn won the UK Labour Party leadership race with the biggest margin in history -- an avowed socialist who would reverse the party's years of special gifts to...

Everyone thought it was some kind of mass kid-hysteria inspired by marketing for the new version of Stephen King's IT, but guess what! There was an evil clown after all! Kentucky police have arrested...

Salesforce.com and Google are two of the technology giants who have expressed interest in a possible buyout of the struggling social media firm Twitter, according to various reports.Reuters describes ...

This wonderful little video by Randy Olson lays out one argument for why as a public political speaker, Donald Trump is perceived to be such a crowd-pleaser, and Hillary Clinton gets weaker scores. ...

A team working with our video director genius friend Joe Sabia created this video for Glamour, that calculates the difference in total time that men and women spend, on average, on a variety of ever...

Just look at it. (Thanks, Sandro)...

A FEW WEEKS AGO:"Im going to do something I havent done the entire campaign. Im going to tell you what I really think of Donald Trump. This man is a pathological liar. He doesn't know the difference b...

Glenn Reynolds, blogger, USA Today contributor and law professor, had an answer for drivers who found themselves surrounded during protests in Charlotte over the police killing of a black person: "Run...

The new issue of American Bystander Comedy Quarterly is on Kickstarter. It features talent from SNL, Letterman, The Simpsons, The Onion & National Lampoon. Issue 3 has a cover by the great Drew Frie...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvbJb8Oi_igHoly federalism, I love every single thing about this. And Peggy! (via Kottke)...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

$3.98 gets you this flexible, grippy camera tripod plus bluetooth remote, GoPro adapter, and smartphone holder. Use code ADJ758YT on Amazon. I just ordered one and Amazon says it'll arrive on Septembe...

Trump either committed perjury or conned his fans by lying in their faces. there is no third option.That's a bombshell, and not the first that Kurt Eichenwald has unloaded during this insane 2016 pres...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.The Pet Dragon by Christopher NiemannGreenwillow Books2008, 40 pages, 9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inches (hardcover)$16 Buy a copy on AmazonChinese characters are wonderfull...

My friend, Mrs. Homegrown of Root Simple, looks at sleep mattresses filled with sand.Recently a friend and frequent Root Simple commenter who goes by the handle P here, sent us an intriguing note. Lik...

https://player.vimeo.com/video/183848557Timeshares are so awful that there are companies that you get you can hire to help you get out of the timeshare you were intimidated into buying. This video is...

Rakeyia Scott, the wife of recent police shooting victim Keith L. Scott, recorded a video on her cell phone just before and after the fatal shooting of her husband by police in Charlotte, N.C. The New...

Rarely do I hear "Oh, awesome!" when I hand my daughter a book. David Scarfe's Geeky LEGO Crafts also elected squeals of delight. Packed with projects like building your own Space Invaders, and a cass...

Google is downranking websites that use pejorative, racist terms like n*gger, so the awful people of 4chan and /pol/ are replacing that word with "google." (more…)...

Three gentleman were allowed to resign from their jobs after they were accused of forcing a 19-year-old man to eat marijuana. The gentlemen's names are Richard G. Pina, Jason E. McFadden, and Michael ...

A 12-year-old Australian boy accused of twice raping a six-year-old girl in a school restroom has had his bail conditions amended so he can take a vacation with his family.Via The Independent:The boy ...

The reverse Oreo doesn't belong here.For your sworn enemies...

Princeton University psych prof Susan Fiske published an open letter denouncing the practice of using social media to call out statistical errors in psychology research, describing the people who do t...

Star Citizen is an epic game development project, crowdfunded to the tune of $124m (million!) and directed by industry legend Chris Roberts. But whether it'll end up an epic game remains unclear, as e...

Robert Croucher owns Hatton & Berkeley, a firm that sent "speculative invoices" to people it accused of illegally downloading the Robert Redford movie "The Company You Keep" -- letters so egregious th...

Yesterday's disciplinary board hearing for imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning ended with Manning being sentenced to 14 days' worth of solitary confinement, with 7 of the days "suspended" unless ...

One interesting annoyance of my gender transition was the surprise that many jackets and pants for women do not have functional pockets. Chelsea Summers delves into the politicized history of this phe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAFvGrOwVugThe Guardian's released the first of "The Vagina Dispatches," four short documentaries about women's genitals. This episode is about vulvas, labiaplasty, a...

Normally, companies that give "performance pay" to their execs can only write off the first $1M: but when Wells Fargo gave $125M to Carrie Tolstedt (shown above receiving American Banker's 2010 award ...

With the iPhone headphone jack having gone by the wayside, we're excited about the addition of theFRANKLIN Bluetooth Headphonesin our store. Theseheadphones are foldable so they're easy to carry aroun...

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson makes his case for why he should be included in the forthcoming debates with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican millionaire Donald Trum...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZZQ28YZXSEHigh-end printers began decorating the edges of books as the craft developed, including dyeing and gilding the edges, but in the 17th century, artisans began...

Frontline's forthcoming documentary about millionaire Donald Trump's bid for the presidency airs next week; the trailer's embedded above. Here's a completely normal, not at all crazy line from Trump...

The skydiving video genre is rife with energy drink ad clichs, so "Strings Attached" by Johannes Bergfors feels very calming. The divers do some innovative formations as well, and Bergfors' camera w...

YouTuber Die Struktur created the first rotating cat automaton that paints to musical accompaniment. Now, instead of "my kid could paint that," idiots can say "my maneki-neko on a turntable could pa...

This powerful statement from the New York Times editorial board captures the cries of many people on the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina tonight. (more…)...

Palmer Luckey is the founder of virtual reality tech firm Oculus, which was bought by Facebook for $2 billion. With a portion of his huge pile of Oculus cash, Luckey is funding a pro-Donald Trump shit...

No one saw this coming, except everyone who works in online video. The Wall Street Journal reports that social media giant Facebook over-reported video ad view time on its platform for two whole years...

This is very sad and infuriating. A 15-year-old girl from Hagerstown, Maryland was riding her bike and collided with a car. When police arrived they told her an ambulance was going to take her to th...

Reddit user 0039 tricked a Nigerian scammer into donating $20 to a Los Angeles food bank....

Everything went according to planSometimes the crime is the punishment....

The World Wide Web Consortium has embarked upon an ill-advised project to standardize Digital Rights Management (DRM) for video at the behest of companies like Netflix; in so doing, they are, for the ...

An image identified as a scanned copy of U.S. first lady Michelle Obamas passport was published online today by "DC Leaks," along with personal emails associated with a man identified as a low-level W...

I have some solar-powered copper string lights on our front gate. It's a great way for friends and drivers to find us on our unlighted street in the Hollywood Hills. I just bought this AC-powered, rem...

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Calyx is a famous, heroic, radical ISP that has been involved in groundbreaking litigation -- they were the first company to ever get a secret Patriot Act warrant unsealed, fighting for 11 years to ov...

Yahoo today confirmed that it suffered a massive data breach that exposed information for at least 500 million user accounts in 2014. If you have a Yahoo account, the company says you should review al...

Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony MillionaireFantagraphics2016, 128 pages, 10.8 x 8.8 x 0.7 inches (hardcover)$19 Buy a copy on AmazonCaptain Maak (captain of the ship), Uncle Gabby (the Irish monkey),...

Im going to kill this motherfucker. That's what St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was recorded saying to his partner Brian Bianchi while they were chasing drug suspect Anthony Lamar Smith in his...

In GQ, writer Drew Magary espouses unkind thoughts about Trump and his supporters.Trump is human waste. He is the worst of America stuffed into a nacho cheese casing, and he is emblematic of the kind ...

Best bit:Galifianakis: Do you wonder what your opponent might be wearing (at the presidential debate)Clinton: I assume that he'll wear that red power tie.Galifianakis: Or maybe like a white power ti...

Evan Kimbrell, founder of the digital agency Sprintkick, recently released a series of online courses that feature some of the best advice we've come across. These courses are well worth your time, an...

In this clip from Good Morning Britain, His Holiness the Dalai Lama pulls off what may be the greatest Donald Trump impression ever by a Tibetan monk.https://youtu.be/y3QlQ-sT1bA?t=4m30sThe interview ...

The sign in front of Treats Family Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor in Lonsdale, Minnesota advertises its tasty food and also says "Muslims get out." Owner Dan Ruedinger says he means Muslims "extremists...

This truck is loading some large pipes onto a barge. The barge slowly slides away, and the truck and its load slowly sink into the water, as a man on shore slowly captures the accident on his phone....

I was looking at photos of the Phobos monolith and I came across this 3D anaglyph of Phobos taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express space probe. If you have a pair of red-blue 3D glasses, ta...

On Reddit, folks are wondering why these photos of piles of blue powder look like they are 3D. Some don't see the effect, but I do....

For just $44.95, you too could have worn the beautiful brown tattooed skin of a Polynesian demigod. Too late! Disney's snapped out of it, nudged by a complaint or two.Disney said it regretted any offe...

The exmormon subreddit is hoppin' today: an anonymous poster, mormondocuments, is burying it in a huge dump of files they claim are church documents. But it looks like a lot of sauce and only a little...

Reuters reports that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes listing the rusty patched bumble bee among America's endangered species.Though just one of many species of bumble bee, Bombus affinis's...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network has just emailed us this latest update:Chelsea's board started at 9:30 am CST today. It is expected to take upmost of the day. (The board will give its decision at ...

Graphic novelist and sometime Boing Boing contributor Gene Luen Yang has joined the ranks of the small number of brilliant comic books artists and writers (Alison Bechdel, Ben Katchor, Junot Diaz, and...

Sumana writes, "'Toward a !!Con Aesthetic describes !!Con, a NYC programming conference focusing on 'joyous, exciting, and surprising moments,' as a counterpublic in software culture. A longtime atten...

Blue writes, "Peter Watts has be stricken with debilitating pain, loss of range of motion and motor control. Watts' doctors remain baffled despite a battery of tests, and Watts has reached out to his ...

China has a massive "tourism deficit" -- the difference between the money that tourists spend in China and the money that Chinese people spend abroad: $206B from June 2015-June 2016, up from $77B in 2...

"Run them down" seems to be the tweet that got another prominent right-wing personality turfed out of Twitter. Motoring Tip: it's the police that get to kill without consequence, not you. Even if it m...

CNN Money has found multiple whistleblowers from Wells Fargo who were willing to go on the record and report that they were fired in retaliation for coming forward to report the massive fraud in which...

Trump's outreach efforts to the black community are dissolving almost as soon as they began, melted under his loud insistence that black people should be stopped and frisked more often by police.As Mr...

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In the ten years since Idiocracy came out, the film has become more and more of a documentary, so to mark the anniversary, it's coming back to theaters before the presidential election.Here's Presiden...

Prepare to go down a rabbit hole of modern life in this incredible video for "Bike Engine" by Stylo G x Jacob Plant. (more…)...

Tane Sinclair-Taylor's image of a clownfish and a bleached anemone is one of the many remarkable biological photographs chosen as finalists and winners in Royal Society Publishing's 2016 contest. (mor...

Reddit and social media have proven that some people will do anything for points, likes, follows and so on, including work for free, so YouTube announced Heroes, a new platform for people who will m...

Baron the German Shepherd is a working dog, but if your idea of work is washing the car with Baron around? Forget it. (more…)...

Wait 'til the anti-GMO activists hear about this genetic monstrosity. The horror. (more…)...

Edward Snowden's take on Allo is Nope. Google's decision to back off a previously promised privacy feature for Allo earned it a thumbs-down from the NSA whistleblower, who received asylum from Russia ...

The governor of North Carolina has declared a State of Emergency after violence erupted on the second night of protests in Charlotte, over the police killing of a black man. The governor called for su...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Daytripper by Gabriel B and Fbio Moon Vertigo2011, 256 pages, 6.7 x 10.2 x 0.5 inches (softcover)$12 Buy a copy on AmazonI dont think it would be too hyperbolic...

https://youtu.be/LyRBtbC69V0After this, Satan won't be attacking Donald Trump anytime soon. Phew![via]...

Superman Fights Robot."Note: For all flesh tones, use orange color no. 5 very lightly."[via]...

Here's a new "Sassy Trump" from Peter Serafinowicz, who uses all Trump's own words but provides a new voice. (more…)...

Airplane crashes into another airplane on runway. from WTFIf the plane wing had been an inch lower, or if the pilot would have been an inch taller, this could have been ugly....

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint stands accused of smuggling $180,000-worth of gold out of the institution in his rectum, reports Kelley Egan of the Ottawa Citizen, "evading multiple levels of d...

Now there are three: Neil Gaiman's best-loved novels are being re-released with gorgeous pulp covers; back in August, it was American Gods, in a month you'll be able to marry it up with the stupendous...

Part of an ongoing series by weird chart-maker Scott Bateman; link to today's edition....

Netsweeper is a litigious cyberarms dealer that threatened to sue the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab when its researchers outed the company for its work in helping Yemen's despotic regime censor ...

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This week,Boars, Gore, and Swordstakes a break from the ASOIAF book club to watch the first two episodes of series seven of international baking sensationThe Great British Bake Off. IvanandReddiscuss ...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network has just emailed us this latest update:1. Fight for the Future will be releasing the Formal Charge Sheet andaccompanying documents from Chelsea's Disciplinary Heari...

Handy is the most convenient solution we've found for booking a house cleaning at the last minute, and they do a really great job.It's as easy asheading to the site,selectinga date and time that works...

After failing to install Linux on a recent Lenovo laptop, a Reddit user claims to have received a short reply from Lenovo's support team: "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home instal...

After failing to install Linux on a recent Lenovo laptop, a Reddit user claims to have received a short reply from Lenovo's support team: "This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home instal...

Scott Edelman writes, "An ad in the December 1916 issue of The Scoop, a magazine 'written by newspaper men for newspaper men,' decries the fact Congress appropriated funds for continued mail delivery ...

Today, Ive launched a very special Kickstarter with two friends, Timothy Daly and Lawrence Azerrad. A year in the making (and many more years on our minds), the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversa...

The new conveyor system will open the week of October 3, ferrying books from the vast, subterranean archives beneath Bryant Park to researchers working in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth A...

Lee Parker and Ivan White found and reported a bomb allegedly planted by Ahmad Khan Rahami in Elizabeth, New Jersey. You can thank them by supporting the local homeless program. (more…)...

Denver-based street magician Edward Hammond is the subject of this charming short by John Allen that explores magic without focusing on the tricks themselves. (more…)...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so mu...

Australian libraries and games guy Matt Finch (previously) writes, "This year the Queensland State Library has designed and built a drag and drop comic maker for Fun Palaces and released the code on G...

Who is the top residential water hog of Los Angeles? The Center for Investigative Reporting has narrowed it down to 7 Bel-Air mansions, with billionaire Jerry Perenchio's estate the prime suspect for ...

Ubi ausum, ibi concordia. You may remember director Keith Schofield from the internet classic "porn movies made SFW":https://vimeo.com/66889482If I were writing for a magazine, I'd fall into the tra...

https://vimeo.com/182262169This great 11-minute 1972 film by Charles and Ray Eames highlights Polaroid's SX-70 model. They went on to create three more commissioned works for Polaroid. (more…)...

The cost of Aloquin -- an acne cream based on iodoquinol and aloe, whose component ingredients cost virtually nothing -- was raised by 128% this week by manufacturer Novum Pharma, who now charge $9,56...

Sociologist Brooke Harrington got her Trust and Estate Planning certification in order to study the super-secretive world of the wealth managers who are in charge of hiding the $21 trillion controlled...

Part of the economic argument for free trade deals is that they benefit workers by producing cheaper goods -- even if you lose your manufacturing job, you can buy stuff a lot cheaper with the next job...

Chuck Wendig (previously) celebrates the release of his latest novel Invasive with 25 extremely good pieces of advice for people trying to finish a novel. (more…)...

If one of the 2,000,000 fraudulent accounts Wells Fargo opened was in your name, the US government has some advice for you. (more…)...

Yesterday, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf addressed the Senate Banking Committee about his bank's years of fraud, driven by threats of firing for low-level employees if they didn't meet unrealistic sa...

According to RCMP investigators, Leston Lawrence would make 210g "pucks" of gold using the mint's "dipping spoon," hide them up his butt, then pawn them for about $6,800, at the Ottawa Gold Buyers in ...

The WaPo's David Fahrenthold exposed incredible self-dealing by millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump, who settled lawsuits to the tune of $258,000 using his own charity's money. More amusin...

The WaPo's David Fahrenthold exposed incredible self-dealing by millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump, who settled lawsuits to the tune of $258,000 using his own charity's money. More amusin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjMwGWdqHVQJohn Cleese is played by the Intex Talker, Michael Palin is played by the Dectalk Express ("Perfect Paul modified to sound more like Stephen Hawking"), and...

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Share this inspiring video with every kid or teen you know who dreams of space. John Streeter of NASA Television has sent us some wonderful NASA TV videos over the years. I love this new one with Ve...

The painter Vincent Van Gogh continues to fascinate, his popularity seeming to grow every year. His creativity came at the price of much misery and madness, and led to his eventual suicide at age 37 i...

Earlier this year paper engineer David Pelham and illustrator Christopher Wormell collaborated on a masterful pop-up book rendition of Edgar Allen Poes poem The Raven.Its an unusually accomplished wor...

During World War II a Polish transport company picked up an unusual mascot: a Syrian brown bear that grew to 500 pounds and traveled with his human friends through the Middle East and Europe. In this ...

HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network,is on a brief hiatus, andreturns for its fourth season in October. If you haven't heard the show yet, this might be a good time to ...

Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast's ASOIAF book club - FeastDance #7: "The Fault of Our Complexion" The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club reading of the Boiled Leather chapter order combining George R.R...

In 2013, Mike Zuckerman, a self-described culture hacker, attended the White Houses National Day of Civic Hacking. Inspired by what hed learned there, Mike returned to San Francisco and founded [frees...

We were stuck inside, on a rainy day, and decided to sculpt some robots! Clay Bots has everything you need, and some great design suggestions! Use the included brightly colored air-dying clay to build...

The paradox of Iota ($8 on Amazon) is that the cards are small, but you need a decent amount of table space to play the game. You play by adding cards to a grid. There are certain rules for playing ca...

Zombies, Run! co-creator Adrian Hon writes, "That's right, we turned our running app and audio adventure into a board game! It's a frantic, fun, real-time audio-driven sprint across a zombie-infested ...

Over at Democracy Journal, my Institute for the Future colleagues Marina Gorbis and Devin Fidler explore the "digital coordination economy" (aka the on-demand economy) and how "it may take deliberate ...

Thinkgeek's $59 JavaScript Code Fit & Flare Dress comes in sizes 6-14; no word on what the code does (I hope it's malware that poisons OCR systems!) (via Crazy Abalone)...

The amazing internal anatomy of the clitoris is a mystery that has surfaced and vanished in history, coming into focus in 2005 (!), when Royal Melbourne Hospital urologist Helen O'Connell published h...

Journalist Thomas Fuller returned to the United States after 27 years abroad, mainly in Asia. He moved to San Francisco and wrote about the reverse culture shock he experienced. The thing that struck ...

When Benjamin Franklin wanted someone to like him, he'd ask that person to do him a favor, because he noticed that people who'd done him a nice turn would rationalize this by assuming that they'd done...

Sitelock is a major player in online security; a rival, White Fir, thinks its products are subpar, and has published extensive articles explaining why White Fir's products are superior -- articles tha...

The Intercept's Naomi LaChange presents the curious origins of Donald Trump Jr.'s tweet comparing Syrian refugees to poison Skittles. "The concept dates back at least to 1938 and a childrens book call...

Netzpolitik is an amazing German activist/journalist organization; in 2015, they braved a treason investigation by publishing Snowden docs that showed that the German intelligence services were conduc...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a corporation that manages one of the critical, centralized pieces of the internet's underlying infrastructure, the domain name system's root...

After Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf recited a drawn-out No True Scottsman Fallacy disguised as a hollow apology at the Senate Banking Committee's Wells Fargo hearing, senator Elizabeth Warren tore int...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Mooncop by Tom GauldDrawn and Quarterly2016, 96 pages, 6.6 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches (hardcover)$20 Buy a copy on AmazonThe great Moon colonization project was a failu...

ACLU is suing Connecticut state police for making false charges against a man who was protesting a DUI checkpoint. On September 11, 2015, Connecticut resident Michael Picard was filming a protest ne...

With all the new amazing games and consoles out there, we still can't help but have a soft spot for old school staples.From Super Mario to Mortal Kombat, classic games just never get old. Which is why...

Raejali Buntut, 32, overslept and missed his August 21 flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, so he did what anyone in the same situation would do: make fake boarding passes and live in the airports e...

The Chelsea bomber (Ahmad Khan Rahami is accused of being this person) set more bombs around New York and New Jersey, but two of them were discovered and defused before they could go off because they ...

https://youtu.be/LSHZ_b05W7oEnjoy this song by the Pre-Fab Four!Scientists at SONY CSL Research Laboratory have created the first-ever entire songs composed by Artificial Intelligence: "Daddy's Car" a...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network has just emailed us this latest update:1. Chelsea has written an op-ed for the Guardian explaining the painful experience of spending this whole last weekpreparing ...

The EU has ruled that Apple has to pay taxes on the billions it laundered through Ireland by pretending that an empty room with no employees was the company's "head office," a move that has enraged th...

Washington Post reporter David A. Fahrenthold has been digging into purported billionaire Donald Trump's purported charity and unearths a heck of a story: Trump used $258,000 from his 'charitable' n...

Kyler Davies is in the seventh grade in the Coldwater Community Schools district in Coldwater, MI; his mom buys her kids (whom she fosters) some of their school supplies used at Goodwill, including Ky...

The lovely brown hues in Eugene Delacroix's 1830 painting above, titled "Liberty Leading the People," were actually pigments made from ground-up mummies from Egypt. From National Geographic:The use of...

Mylan, the company with a monopoly on FDA-improved epinephrine auto-injectors ("epipens") has quintupled the price of their life-saving technology since 2004, to $600/unit (and they have the be thro...

When I first came to the U.S. from England—to New Mexico—this was my greeting. They got the music right and everything!BONUS: Here's a video featuring a lady who fears tumbleweeds.https:...

@whostheidiotnow maintains a carefully curated selection of tweets: ones where the author types the exact phrase "your an idiot." One man's automated blocklist is another's breakfast entertainment! [v...

The first terabyte SD card will soon be sold by Sandisk. They were apparently first to 512GB too (don't, PNY's is cheaper), but no-one cared because that's not as arbitrarily interesting a number. No ...

Jeremy Leaird-Koch lovingly recreated the opening title sequence to the Netflix series Narcos, but with dogs. The result: Barkos. (more…)...

Politico reports that Kathleen Hartington Kennedy overheard George H.W. Bush saying he's voting for Hillary Clinton instead of party candidate Donald Trump.On Monday, Townsend posted a picture on her ...

Japan's Sky Brown is an up-and-coming pro at age 8. She hat a rough heat at Vans this summer, but she's not giving up any time soon.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZuJ1cMUNMHer 5-year-old brother ...

Review Meta has published an in-depth analysis of 7 million Amazon reviews and found that "incentivized reviews," those with a disclaimer that the reviewer got the product free or discounted, skew s...

Here's a 10-minute video on how to impress your stoner friends next time you're smoking that pot and bad-mouthing America. Six easy tricks: (more…)...

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I just saw Oliver Stone's Snowden. It's an excellent film, no doubt, and also an important rebuttal to ongoing efforts by propagandists to limit America's conversation to who Edward Snowden is, rather...

Ebony and Ivory. A new edition of Peter Serafinowicz's Sassy Trump, in which Macca makes a guest appearance....

Twitter has been struggling to attract new users and retain existing ones. In a long-awaited update for the social network, Twitter announced today that video, still images, animated GIFs, polls, and ...

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WARNING: The video in this post is graphic and documents a violent death.In Tulsa, Oklahoma, police have released video that shows a white police officer shooting and killing an unarmed black man. In ...

https://youtu.be/ZH1ObUcBuV4It would be a shame if anything happened to her. (more…)...

Federal auto safety regulators today said that self-driving cars will save time, money and lives, but also sent a clear signal that they want the power to inspect and approve technology before it hits...

I spent a few days in beautiful Victoria, Canada last week. What a fantastic city! One of the highlights of my trip was spending some time with Andrew and Christina, two of the principles at Robazzo, ...

One of the wackiest, most fun movie predictions of the future came from Robert Zemeckis' Back to the Future Part II. The film took 80s trends and cast them forward perfectly! I've often felt ripped of...

September 20th, at 2amPST, Bungie's year three update for Destiny, their massively multiplayer FPS, Rise of Iron goes live!Sporting some of the best FPS game play ever, and a huge online following, ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe by Tim LeongChronicle Books2013, 196 pages, 7.4 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches (softcover)$20 Buy a copy on AmazonH...

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I'm much more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop, but I enjoyed this short video about Photoshop users talking about the powerful image editing application.For over two decades, Photo...

Reality shatter. The two objects are traveling in exactly the same manner. Watch when it turns gray. pic.twitter.com/HpZsudeXSG— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) June 18, 2016Clifford Pickover says, "...

JAKE TAPPER: Well, just as a point of fact, again, Donald Trump did not accept when Barack Obama released his birth certificate in 2011. He kept up this whole birther thing until Friday. Thats five ye...

Johannes Grenzfurthner writes, "My cinematic tour de farce through nerd culture comes to the West Coast. Upcoming Bay Area and L.A. premieres!" (more…)...

Much of this wonderful video could have been shot at Cincinnati's Metro/Clubhaus where I spent the late 1980s, but it's actually from Stratus in San Diego, California. This is the first in a series ...

Kyle from Bumperactive writes, "The Texas Democratic Party has released an amazing new t-shirt celebrating four of the strong women at the forefront of the national party: Elizabeth & Hillary & Ruth &...

DJ Jesse Jarnow polled a bunch of "hardcore music nerds" to get their feature wish-list for a music-centric phone for Wired; here's what I suggested: (more…)...

The UK's Brexit Minister, Boris Johnson, has proposed a new immigration regime for a post-EU UK, in which the "white Commonwealth" countries (Canada, Australia and New Zealand) will have a relatively ...

Over at Medium, BB pal Mitch Horowitz, author of the excellent Occult America and One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life, writes about how "if America loses its smiley-faced coffe...

For nearly a decade, the CIA kidnapped people from over 20 countries, held them without trial or counsel, and viciously tortured them, sometimes to death -- but the only person to serve jail time for ...

The Washington Post was one of the newspapers that participated in the initial Snowden disclosures; Barton Gellman won a well-deserved Pulitzer for his work on them -- but now the paper's editorial bo...

Technologists have a dismal pattern: when it comes to engineering challenges ("build a global-scale comms platform") they rub their hands together with excitement; when it comes to the social challeng...

Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Tim O'Reilly on the Cool Tools podcast.Our guest this week is Tim O'Reilly. He's the founder of O'Reilly Media, a company the spreads the knowledge of innovators through ...

I use TripIt for travel planning, but I'm going to give the new Google Trips a try. It stores your travel plans offline, so you don't need to have a Wi-Fi or cellular connection to find directions o...

On September 13, owners of HP OfficeJet, OfficeJet Pro and OfficeJet Pro X began contacting third-party ink vendors by the thousand, reporting that their HP printers no longer accepted third-party ink...

Karl Jenkins' "Adiemus" is apparently the most-performed piece of music in the world. A sweeping classical epic with vocals written in a mysterious imaginary language, it was composed for Delta Airl...

New Jersey governor Chris Christie has vehemently denied knowing anything about his staff's scheme to punish a local mayor by ordering lane closures on the George Washington Bridge in 2013. But today,...

While looking into the Kano snap-together learning computer kit (Kickstarted in 2013, reviewed here last January) I got to thinking about Radio Shack's classic, much-loved 150-in-One Electronics Kit, ...

The Nuggy Smoker's Multi-Toolis aten-in-one tool that takes all the mess out of the smoking process - from packing to scraping it clean. The tools included are:KnifeScissorsClipTamperMini-spoonBowl sc...

Lemmings is one of the best video games of all time, and seemed in the 90s to be on the verge of becoming an explosive media phenomenon. Its tiny animated characters are fab: adorable yet down-to-eart...

Jess Morrissette writes, "I'm a professor of Political Science at Marshall University, and I recently launched a project aimed at cataloging screenshots of every soda machine to have ever appeared in ...

Wired's Emma Grey Ellis runs the numbers on HB2, the anti-transgender North Carolina law that requires bearded blokes to use the womens' bathroom because they have an F on their birth certificate. "It...

After 1954's landmark Brown v Board of Ed ruling, America's (largely racially segregated) cities began racially integrating their schools by busing black kids to white neighborhoods, a project that hi...

Hey, you know Ahmad Khan Rahami, right? Yeah mate, google that mug. He's our man, tell us if you spot him.The real text message, sent to New Yorkers using an emergency response system, was a little le...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network has just emailed us this latest update:1. Chelsea has written an Op-Ed for the Guardian that will be publishedtomorrow at 7am EST.2. Recap: New Administrative board...

Few things match the delight of my dogs and myself at the sight of Floor Food. When it happens we're like "Ooo! Floor Food!" and compete to dive on it and eat it first. Sadly, The New York Times repor...

During the siege of Leningrad in World War II, a heroic group of Russian botanists fought cold, hunger, and German attacks to keep alive a storehouse of crops that held the future of Soviet agricultur...

Written by and starring Dan Carlyon, the web series The Adventures of Jacketman gives a voice to all the nerdy would-be superheroes out there. You can find all six episodes of the show's first seaso...

Kristie Wolfe loved The Hobbit ever since seeing the cartoon as a child, so she decided to build a hobbit house in Washington State. This fun video shows the whole process, and it's even listed on A...

One year ago, grandmother Shirley Curry started posting impossibly charming Let's Play videos while playing Skyrim to connect with her grandkids. They are delightful to watch and listen to. (more&he...

Mother Jones profiles Lynda and Stewart Resnick, central California megafarmers who grow water-intensive tree nuts, mostly almonds and pistachios. During a 1980s drought, they bought distressed groves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcXsH88XlKMAfter Every Frame a Painting analyzed The Marvel Symphonic Universe (see last week's post), Dan Golding expanded on that great video arguing that film music,...

You'll never miss Cool Tools Lab's Recomendo newsletter if you sign up for the newsletter here.Readables:Books related to my new book The Inevitable that I have found useful:Magic and Loss by Virginia...

Whether this is your first language or another notch on your coding resume, this Complete C Family Programming Bundleis a great way to become an intelligent coder.Packed with 43 hours of content, this...

"Canadians have until October 7, 2016 to provide their feedback to the Parliamentary Special Committee on Electoral Reform, which is studying the possibility of national online voting, along with havi...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network contacted us by email to inform us that:1) The date of Chelsea's disciplinary board hearing has been changed to Thursday, September 22 at 9:30 am CST. (more…...

CEOs whose businesses are complicit in human rights atrocities -- like the mass murder of people who object to land-grabs by mineral extraction companies -- can now be tried in the International Crimi...

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Jasmina Tesanovic (previously) and Bruce Sterling did a residency at The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UCSD, working with the students on design fiction and futurism. (more&helli...

The Vicod 5G Vaporizer is advertised as easy-to-use, and it's a really solid vaporizer for beginners. One thing thatimmediately impressed me was itssolid construction. Unlike other vapes, Vicod feels ...

Dan Gillmor writes: "Time for journalists to declare a boycott on bullshit. Start with muting the sound when Trump lies during the debate." (more…)...

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On Saturday, the city of Oakland, California will launch a website where authorities can collect reports of people who patronize sex workers. The reportjohn.org snitch site created by city officials i...

Today a court in London okayed the extradition of a British hacker with autism to the United States, where he will face trial for breaking into high-security U.S. government computers. (more…)...

There was no one like Artie Simek (1916-1975), who lettered most of Marvel's Silver Age titles. This terrific short documentary about comic book lettering makes me want to pull out my Ames Lettering...

Noah writes, "This weekend a group of roguelike enthusiasts and developers are getting together for the first ever Roguelike Celebration. It'll feature talks from developers of the game that spawned t...

Rachel Warwick suffers from aquagenic urticaria, an immune reaction to contact with water. According to the BBC, it "is like being stung by a bush of particularly pernicious nettles, combined with the...

Just look at this weeks National Enquirer cover, breathlessly billed as The story that will doom Hillary.Under the heading World Exclusive, the headline screams: Bill Groped Me On Campaign Jet - and...

On Sunday, pioneering underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and occultist/artist/musician Brian Butler are staging their performance piece Technicolor Skull at The Regent in Los Angeles. From the even...

When Amazon released the Echo Dot, the mini-me version of the Echo, the only way you could by it was through an Amazon Echo. It was $90 and almost always on backorder. But Amazon just announced the 2n...

80's great Corey Feldman is helping the angels that have helped him. I can only describe this as a visual masterpiece and a lyrical adventure. I bet Chunk loves it....

New York City councilmember Ritchie Torres wants to know how much cash NYPD seizes every from citizens every year using using civil asset forfeiture, so he introduced legislation requiring annual repo...

Cat Rackham by Steve WolfhardKoyama Press2016, 124 pages, 7.3 x 10.1 x 0.6 inches (hardcover)$20 Buy a copy on AmazonCat Rackham is an anxious, scruffy, navel-gazing kitty who sometimes likes adventur...

Muckrock today announced a $1,000 grant for projects to increase public understanding of noted Donald Trump supporter and anti-Gawker-lawsuit-funder Peter Thiel. Motherboard matched the Muckrock repor...

VICE Media, USA Today owner Gannett, and the Associated Press today announced a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the FBI. The news organizations want to how much and who the governmen...

The case against grammar snobbery laid out by British data journalist Mona Chalabi. (more…)...

Gabriella Coleman, the anthropologist whose first book, Coding Freedom, explained hacking culture better than any book before or since; and whose second book, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, told ...

The storied Walt Disney Family Museum hosts Imagineer Kim Irvine, former Disney lead Twitter writer Ed Squair, and Winchester Mystery House manager Walter Magnuson in a panel on Oct 15, discussing the...

The Svenpad is a hugely successful magic prop: it's a "Svengali pad," that, like a Svengali deck of cards, selectively shaves down alternating leaves so that a performer can seemingly riffle all the ...

Wikileaks has tweeted an offer for founder Julian Assange to leave the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been a political asylum seeker since 2012, and turn himself in for a US jail sentence, if Preside...

Wikileaks has tweeted an offer for founder Julian Assange to leave the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been a political asylum seeker since 2012, and turn himself in for a US jail sentence, if Preside...

The largely tax-free religion industry is one of the biggest in America, worth $1.2 trillion/year, a number that includes religious "healthcare facilities, schools, daycare and charities; media; busin...

Many people claim that they don't need much sleep, insisting that even five hours a night is enough shuteye for them to feel rested. According to new scientific research, "habitual short sleepers" may...

The Transport for London tube map, building on Harry Beck's pioneering work in 1931, is rightly hailed as a masterpiece of simplification and clarity in data visualisation. (more…)...

Once I got my green card this year, I was allowed to make the same campaign contributions as any US citizen: $2700 per candidate. But thanks to the three Republican members of the Federal Election Com...

Radiohead debuted their latest music video, for the track "Present Tense" from Moon Shaped Pool. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, Radiohead's "Daydreaming") directed the cli...

Rmi Gaillard is a former shoe store salesman who has become the "seventeenth most subscribed comedian on YouTube," according to Wikipedia....

Thijs Broenink audited the AnalyticsCore.apk app that ships pre-installed on all Xiaomi phones (Xiaomi has their own Android fork with a different set of preinstalled apps) and discovered that the app...

Kratom is a mildly psychoactive plant that has been used in Asia for centuries to treat pain, fatigue, depression,and anxiety. In the US it has shown promise as a way to help people who are addicted t...

Lou Cabron writes, "Tommy Chong has a funny monologue about his 2003 arrest. When federal agents bang on his door and ask if he has any drugs, he says 'Of course I do! I'm Tommy Chong!' But that's j...

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Fifteen years ago Graham Smith of Liverpool had a bowel operation. The internal nylon stitches in his abdomen caused him pain. "For 15 years I have been hunched over and leaning to the left," he told ...

The fun-lovin' hackers at Adafruit banged together this teensy weensy MAME cabinet over a weekend; it's more of a kludge than a project, and they didn't document the build in its entirety, meaning t...

Millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump was a vocal birther—someone who insinuates Barack Obama was not born in the United States—until at least 2014. Today, he's supposedly going ...

Welove the Twisty Glass Blunt, and apparently so do our readers. When youre ready to kick back and light one up, the last thing you want to do is fuss with rolling papers. And thats why we are bringin...

As many as 20,000 US prisoners are going into their second week on strike against forced labor and inhumane prison conditions, though the US prison system has locked down the centers of the strike, de...

Dr Rodrigo Nieto-Gomez is a research professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, studying "criminal entrepreneurship" in drug cartels, who beat Amazon to using drones for delivery by years, use modifi...

Bret Victor complained on Twitter that technologists were wasting their imaginations, energy and talent on things that wouldn't matter after climate change reduced the world to a drowned cinder; his f...

https://twitter.com/SoundsLikeTemp/status/775399453226184705Films (especially Marvel superhero ones) have unremarkable musical scores for many reasons, but the most remarkable is because scenes tend t...

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Just in case you needed one. Hosted by Dr. Shini Somara, this video is part of Hank and John Greens Crash Course series. The channel covers not only physics, but also philosophy, literature, economi...

Intergalactic blowhard Zapp Brannigan reading Trump quotations sounds slightly less ridiculous that Trump saying them. Billy West has a hilarious series of videos where he reads actual Trump stateme...

Tiny Dungeon Player hosted by Andrew Faraday (aka @MarmiteJunction) lets you explore emoji-filled dungeons. Eat pizza for health, pick up money, and find the keys while avoiding devils, gators, ants, ...

"Ideas are like fish. You don't make the fish, you catch the fish." A lovely animated version of David Lynch's musings on where to find great ideas. (more…)...

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Depending on whom you ask, a crazy lady got bent out of shape over a dad joke, or a pro-cop token sexually harassed a peaceful protester. Below are both versions of this modern-day Rashomon. Like Hara...

My friend Brendan Scannell wrote and stars in this funny, sad, thoughtful short film about love and robots called Telton 7. (more…)...

A giant model moon, part of the Mid-Autumn Festival decorations in Fuzhou, China was blown from its display by Super Typhoon Meranti winds and rolled through traffic today. (Shanghaiist)...

This cartoony character is considered the most accurate model of a real dinosaur ever created. Paleoartist Bob Nicholls based his reconstruction of Psittacosaurus on an incredibly well-preserved fossi...

By pairing classic pictures of George Washington with contemporary captions, the Tumblr LadyHistory turns one of our greatest Founding Fathers into an utterly relatable dude. Only Hamilton has done mo...

An all-new episode of the spectacular SASSY TRUMP voicedub series, from British male actor and comedienne Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)...

Cocolab created this cool music-synched array of spotlights that visitors can walk through, sit in, and lose themselves in. It is part of this summer's TagCDMX event in Mexico, the theme of which was ...

This chain reaction kit is on sale at Amazon for just $10 right now. It has parts and instructions to build a bunch of different Rube Goldbergian machines.Design and build 10 amazing moving machines -...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Nimona by Noelle StevensonHarperTeen2015, 272 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches (softcover)From $8 Buy a copy on AmazonA few years ago, I had the good fortune of disco...

From clay to handI don't know anything about the sculptor, but it is fascinating to watch them make a block of clay look like a human hand....

It is fun to watch a bullet shot from a 44 go through a block of ballistic gel."Sonoluminescence is a a phenomenon that occurs when gas bubbles are suspended and driven in a liquid at ultrasonic fre...

What i think of when someone says starcraft balanceThe name given to that one dramatic moment ...when everything can change all at once is the tipping point. -- The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell...

Donald Trump Jr. says his father can't release his tax returns "because he's got a 12,000-page tax return that would create ... financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions t...

Robert Morin worked for 50 years as a cataloger at the University of New Hampshire library (he was also a UNH alum); he was thrifty, ate microwave dinners and drove a 1992 Plymouth, and saved $4M, wh...

In 2014, an Indian company called Aglaya brought a 20-page brochure to ISS World (AKA the Wiretappers' Ball -- the annual trade fair where governments shop for surveillance technology): the brochure l...

Bernard Barbier presided over DGSE, France's answer to NSA, during the agency's period of fast growth, spending 500M and adding 800 new staffers; in a recent speech to a French engineering college,...

My friend, the brilliant Pam Grossman (What is a Witch, Phantasmaphile), posted the following discovery on her Facebook page.You are undoubtedly already familiar with the fact that the armrests on pla...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hbuhFwFsDUFor €49.95, you can own a "USB Killer" that "instantly and permanently disables unprotected hardware" with a 200V DC shock. The €13.95 USB KILLER...

Obama's inaugural White House staff was drawn from his campaign staff, who were mostly dudes, and the women among the newcomers felt that they were getting ignored or talked over in meetings. (more&h...

Are we alone in the universe? Is time travel possible? If you have sex with a robot, does it count as cheating?...

From Exploding Kittensto the Coolest Cooler, Kickstarter has changed my lifewith some ridiculously cool products in the past. They just did it againwiththeBASICS Wallet. (more…)...

When FBI Director James Comey released detailed notes on the Bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server, they broke with precedent, specifically, their refusal to release documents exp...

In my late teens and early 20s the Penguin was an amazing spot to hang out. The restaurant was an absolute time machine, right down to their 'eat this giant hamburger and win a t-shirt' challenge. Aft...

BB pal Ariel "Spacehack" Waldman has curated a stellar program for the big DENT: SPACE conference next week (9/21-9/22) in San Francisco! I'm honored to be on the schedule with such amazing people as ...

The predatory payday lending industry -- "'legalized loan sharks collect 75 percent of their fees from people stuck in more than 10 loans a year by charging 300 percent APR" -- is lobbying hard to k...

The European Commission's "copyright modernisation" plan is an unmitigated disaster, but there's one particularly insane section of it that I want to call your attention to: the "link tax," which en...

Tim O'Reilly writes about the reality that more and more of our lives -- including whether you end up seeing this very sentence! -- is in the hands of "black boxes": algorithmic decision-makers whose ...

In a great piece for Fusion from last month, Lux Alptraum explores the ways in which the distinctions between rape and consensual sex arent always so clear cut in practice. (more…)...

Hayley Ashburn narrates this short but intense film on fear, overlaid on heart-stopping footage of her highlining on a line 2800 meters up, between Italy's snow-dusted Torri del Vajolet in winter, t...

My mom said to me, You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man. And I said, Mom, I am a rich man. (more…)...

This delightful tour of how the United Record Pressing plant in Nashville makes clear vinyl albums is narrated by Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes. (more…)...

Whether you realize it or not, youve spent your entire life being trained to empathize with white men. From Odysseus to Walter White, Hamlet to Bruce Wayne, James Bond to the vast majority of biopic p...

Whether you realize it or not, youve spent your entire life being trained to empathize with white men. From Odysseus to Walter White, Hamlet to Bruce Wayne, James Bond to the vast majority of biopic p...

Some people experience virtual reality sickness while wearing headsets, and it's similar to motion sickness. Mayo Clinic researchers have developed Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation (GVS) to help with...

Billionaire trumpkin Peter Thiel's got a law degree and pays lawyers a lot of money to destroy his enemies, so who better to occupy the vacant spot on the Supreme Court of the United States?Donald Tru...

Strong typhoon winds in Fuzhou, China caused a giant inflatable moon balloon to be blown from its home outside a shopping mall. It was originally part of a Mid-Autumn Moon Festival installation. (more...

The Vicod 5G Vaporizer is advertised as easy-to-use, and it's a really solid vaporizer for beginners. One thing thatimmediately impressed me was itssolid construction. Unlike other vapes, Vicod feels ...

Essex, England police ticketed Nigel Mills, 55, for speeding in his DeLorean. He was apparently going 88mph (although his top speed was 89mph). Mills insists that he "wasn't trying to time travel.""Me...

Joshua Browder, the teenaged botmaster whose Do Not Pay bot is helping drivers save millions by challenging NYC and London parking tickets and assisting UK homeless people who are applying for benefit...

A joint UT Austin/Cornell team has taught a machine learning system based on the free/open Torch library to correctly guess the content of pixellated or blurred redactions with high accuracy: for mask...

There something about convicted child molester Kraigen Grooms, 19, that fits the pattern of judicial restraint, even sympathy, shown to young offenders such as Brock Turner and Austin James Wilkerson....

Now you too can spend a penny in a priceless pissoir: New York's Guggenheim Museum is inviting visitors to take a slash in a gold toilet created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. (more…)...

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Today was health record day in the 2016 US presidential campaign news cycle. After an embarrassing round of press involving Hillary Clinton's pneumonia diagnosis, the Democratic nominee's team release...

After having promised to reveal a medical status report, then reportedly deciding not to, millionaire presidential candidate Donald Trump finally offered a handful of details via TV host Dr. Mehmet Oz...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8xHq6dfAoMargot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures recovers the lost history of the young African American women who did the heavy computational work of the Apollo miss...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.My Dad Used to Be So Cool by Keith NegleyFlying Eye Books2016, 48 pages, 9.1 x 10.7 x 0.4 inches $11 Buy a copy on AmazonTo believe that your own parents are b...

Upcycler extraordinaire Rodney Allen Trice turned salvage toilet bowls into designer lighting! From Refitting the Planet:To contribute my ideas and vision and energies in the arena of creative repurpo...

Nick Nerbonne captured A rare and very unique 'roll cloud' along the Lake Michigan shoreline at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. (more…)...

The forthcoming big screen epic King Arthur: Legend of the Sword has nothing on the Pythons. (Cinefix)...

Its true that summer is almost overbut that doesnt mean that youre all out of chances to take the vacation of your dreams. And because we think that everyonedeserves to kick back and relax as much as ...

Nicole from EFF writes, "The Electronic Frontier Foundation is excited to host the 2016 Pioneer Awards in San Francisco next Wednesday, September 21 at Delancey Streets Town Hall Room." (more…)...

Lucy Walinchus's How to Raise a Smartass is a great, funny, irreverent memoir/guidebook about Walinchus's own experiences, proudly raising a passel of smartass kids. Speaking as the father of a self-d...

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, exiled in Moscow, has asked the outgoing US president Barack Obama to give him an official pardon before leaving office. (more…)...

In a 1958 interview, author, philosopher, and futurist Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, The Doors of Perception) shares his grim predictions that are unfortunately quite relevant today. From Blank on...

Responding to the bombshell Kurt Eichenwald cover story in Newsweek on Donald Trump's tangled web of foreign business matters and the national security risks they'd pose if Trump were elected, Democra...

2002's feel good Lilo & Stitch, a movie about humans getting along with aliens was originally intended to end with a madcap 747 hijacking and chase scene through a hi-rise filled city. This video sh...

From Tesla's release notes for its upgraded Autopilot technology based on radar as its primary control sensor:The net effect of this, combined with the fact that radar sees through most visual obscu...

The Grey Fox is a beautiful animal. Foxes also shit all over everything. They dared to touch my cars. What was I to do? A friend recommended coyote pee.First time I saw the foxes, I was sitting on a b...

Manning's hunger strike began on September 10, as Manning faced potential years in solitary following her suicide attempt, which an expert psychologist with years of treating gender dysphoria attribut...

Even though both parties' presidential candidates say they oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership -- the secretly negotiated "trade" deal that lets corporations sue governments to repeal their environme...

An anonymous woman has filed a class action suit against Standard Innovation, a company that makes We-Vibe "smart" sex toys that record exactly how their owners masturbate and transmit detailed dossi...

In this video essay by Kristian Williams, the story of the biomechanical beasts from the mad mind of H.R. Giger, surrealist painter and designer best known for his work on the special effects team b...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CdfIpTiE3gThe European Commission's "Copyright Modernisation" effort has wrapped up, and it's terrible. (more…)...

Samantha Bee has grown tired of the current trend wherein interviewers just smile and nod as Trump and his surrogates create fantastic lies. Bee reminds them, and us, that Calling a liar a liar isnt...

Stephen Mader, a former police officer in Weirton, W.Va, was fired without severance because he decided not to shoot Ronald D. "R.J." Williams Jr, who had threatened to kill himself and was holding a...

Again and again, Wisconsin government Scott Walker flouted election laws to raise millions from some of the richest executives and biggest corporations in America, illegally laundering the money throu...

Starting a siphon sometimes meant a mouthful of some liquid I'd prefer not to sample. This siphon has a hand pump to get things started! Huzzah!I'd try as hard as I could to start a siphon up without ...

Rick Prelinger writes, "Today I've released my 2013 feature film NO MORE ROAD TRIPS? to the world for viewing, public screening and remixing." (more…)...

Its true that summer is almost overbut that doesnt mean that youre all out of chances to take the vacation of your dreams. And because we think that everyonedeserves to kick back and relax as much as ...

There is literally nothing in the world that isn't made cooler by being displayed in a bell-jar, and the addition of a diffused white LED base to the traditional jar in the Suck UK jar is a genius mov...

Someone -- possibly the government of China -- has launched a series of probing attacks on the internet's most critical infrastructure, using carefully titrated doses of denial-of-service to precisely...

Adblock Plus, an adblocking plugin recently unveiled as a trojan horse for a new ad network, claimed Google and AppNexus were among its partners. This is not so, according to Google and AppNexus. (mo...

The upcoming Rule 41 modifications to US Criminal Justice procedure underway at the Department of Justice will let the FBI hack computers in secret, with impunity, using dangerous tools that are off-l...

If you're a longtime reader, you'll know that I love me some impractical timepieces; the LED Word Clock qualifies, with a set of stencil-text cutouts of words that are selectively lit by LEDs to tell ...

In 2008, the Swiss/Danish design team Yarisal & Kublitz created their "Anger Release Machine," a vending machine stocked with "crystal glasses, plates, porcelain, various items" (the catalog helpfully...

A creepy series of shoops by IMGURian Kiyoi. (more…)...

Kritian Williams: "He wasn't bound by the common design tropes of the '70s. He was able to create something genuinely Alien, a distorted biomechanical reflection of man. Everything we feared about o...

This illustrated flowchart makes it easy to pick an evening out with the Bard....

A 69-year-old woman was cold-cocked outside a Trump event by one of the Republican millionaire's supporters, reports ABC News—an attack so deplorable that cops plan to charge one of his violent ...

This is the best "Pixar-Off" Ive ever seen....

What happens when a socially anxious Edgar Allan Poe and his sarcastic ghost companion Lenore invite their favorite authors over for a murder mystery dinner party? Real murder, of course! At least t...

The White House released a video of Barack Obama making history as the first U.S. president to visit Laos. Reflecting on his visit, Obama explains: (more…)...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and oh, so m...

The ladies of WhatsUpMoms always have the best suggestions for parents. And in this new video, Elle Walker talks through the process of creating a family calendar that makes scheduling easyeven for ...

Wallpaper took on the daunting task of narrowing down 20 years of design innovations to just over 100 eclectic choices, including the Tesla Roadster, the 9/11 memorial, Instagram, the bushy brow, and ...

Marvel soundtracks don't stand out with memorable risk-taking music for several reasons, but Every Frame A Painting names the key culprit: temp music, also called scratch tracks or needle drop. (mor...

Secret Wood Rings are pretty cool-looking, so Peter Brown decided to experiment with making his own using some resin and hand-splintered wood. Not bad for the first try! (more…)...

When asked to draw pictures of firefighters, surgeons, and fighter pilots, a group of British grade school children produced 61 pictures of men and only five pictures of women. But a visit from thre...

Any true NASA nerd knows that Michael Collins was the third astronaut who joined Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. But even for those who are already familiar with...

Published on Medium, Jennifer Coates I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out. is a thoughtful, empathetic, challenging personal essay about identity. (more…)...

Barnaby Roper filmed this otherworldly video of Gwendoline Christie (Brienne from Game of Thrones, Captain Phasma from Star Wars: The Force Awakens). Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen supplied th...

In this poignant video, Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Peter Capaldi, Stanley Tucci, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kit Harington, Douglas Booth, Jesse Eisenberg, and Neil Gaiman lend their v...

The Scottish sketch comedy series Limmys Show! explores that classic riddle in the best way possible. As someone wrote on Tumblr, This is me during every moment of math class....

In this three-minute video, MTV News senior national correspondent Jamil Smith explores the ways toxic masculinity perpetuates rape culture. (more…)...

https://vimeo.com/163042303Peter Clark collaborated on this cool cymatics video for Thump, but the even cooler stuff is the camera test and the behind the scenes footage: (more…)...

Not all people of color deal with the same issues around discrimination and prejudice. This BuzzFeed video explores experiences that people of color with darker skin tones have, and how colorism has...

A group of Russian scientists have been trapped for two weeks by polar bears at an Arctic island weather station. The scientists face a month-long wait for a rescue. (more…)...

I can't get enough of this gorgeous macro video of various blobs of glorious color. It's like a neverending lava lamp. (more…)...

If he wins, his many overseas deals would create a national security nightmare. That's the tease on the cover of this week's edition of Newsweek, which contains a bombshell Kurt Eichenwald report deta...

A NASA airborne mission designed to transform our understanding of Earth's valuable and ecologically sensitive coral reefs has set up shop in Australia for a two-month investigation of the Great Barri...

Shila the Pomeranian dog plays Piano. This is actually what I look like when I play the piano, too: i have no idea what I am doing. (more…)...

This inexpensive remote control electrical outlet switch was just the thing we needed to completely turn off our electric garage door (we have reasons). It's pretty bulky, and gets in the way of the s...

Instead of kegging, I wanted to set up a batch of beer that I could more easily share with friends. I decided to bottle a barleywine with these O2 absorbing bottlecaps.The idea is these caps will draw...

Austin band Survive's masterful synth soundtrack to Stranger Things is available now digitally and at your local independent music shop on vinyl! Meanwhile, the surviving members of Tangerine Dream, a...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie PosavecPrinceton Architectural Press2016, 288 pages, 8.4 x 11.2 x 1 inches (softcover)$32 Buy a copy on AmazonI have alwa...

In a 1968 episode of Get Smart, Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are ordered to stop a cartoonish beatnik hippy guru with a plot to brainwash the youth of America and command them to "attack all the squar...

Orange cheeses have been on my mind. I absolutely love aged gouda!Three plus year aged gouda completely loses the rubbery, bland, 'this is congealed milk' texture and taste of young goudas. It is crum...

When Edward Snowden came in from the cold, it catapulted his employer, Booz Allen Hamilton -- a giant military/intelligence contractor -- into the public eye, but Booz is small potatoes, one of the Bi...

Steven Levy, author of Hackers and one of the best tech writers in the field (previously), has profiled Carl Malamud (previously), the prolific, tireless freedom fighter who has risked everything to p...

Tony Verity, a broadcaster at Radio Jamaica in the 1960s, introduces the music and dance moves of Ska in this star-packed show. The Maytals are my favorite of the line-up:Byron Lee & The Dragonaires...

Oxfam has released the latest version of its ongoing series of analyses of the relative net worth of the very richest when compared to the very poorest: in this case, they found that the top 1% of Bri...

Waffle, a baby Shai-Hulud (terrestrial name: Kenyan sand boa), enjoys his new sandbox. His human companion, Jenny Gaines, says:He's one of my "Reptile Ambassadors" in my educational reptile show bus...

Charlie Todd from Improv Everywhere (previously) writes, "We set up a fake press conference set on the steps of the New York Public Library. When random tourists approached it to pose for photos, a...

A new study shows that our planet has 10% less wilderness than in the 1990s. Via the CS Monitor:Ten percent of Earth's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s, according to a new study published in...

In Wired, our pal Adam Savage geeks out with Tom Sachs, a sculptor who makes incredibly intricate space-themed installations:(Sachs had) mounted two Space Program exhibitionsthe moon (at Gagosian Gall...

Lotus Dimension is a tabletop, D&D-style role-playing game in which characters advance through nonviolent means -- a game that incorporates "amazing sci-fi and fantasy storytelling while also incorp...

Harnaam Kaur, 24, hails from Slough, England. She has a full beard and has been recognized as the youngest woman to have one by Guinness World Records. Ms. Kaur has a hormonal condition known as pol...

A woman has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of a sex toy that sends data back to the company.From Vocativ:In the suit, N.P. says she bought a We-Vibe in May and used it several times until sh...

Movie trailer for The Cat from Outer Space (1978), directed by Norman Tokar and starring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, and Roddy McDowall. I predict a remake in 3... 2... 1....If you're, er, ...

Scientists at Ukraine's Karadag Nature Reserve have determined that dolphin speak to one another in sentences up to 5 words long! The researchers have no clue what the dolphins are saying, but I gathe...

Tweeted last night by Rosanne Cash, daughter of country legend Johnny Cash:"Miss my dad, gone 13 yrs today. Here he is after I told him I got a ticket for driving 102 mph in his car."(via @rosannecash...

In celebration of the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth this month, the Oxford English Dictionary has added words and updated entries related to Dahl's iconic children's books like Charlie and the Choco...

This wide-eyed kitty is enthralled by Hitchcock's Psycho.Here's what the kitty's watching (spoiler!):https://youtu.be/xWHYmNrAFlIProbably staged, but still....

Carrie Tolstedt is the Wells Fargo executive who presided over a titanic, multi-year fraud through which at least 5,300 of the employees who reported to her opened up fake accounts in Wells' customer...

Star Wars Rebels season 3 is set to launch on DisneyXD come September 24th!The trailers just keep getting better and better. I'm very much enjoying the fan theory that Rebel's Ezra Bridger will beco...

Adblock is to begin reselling the ads it blocks, replacing websites' original ads with ones under its control—and which it takes a fat cut of the revenue from.The program is meant to be friendly...

Adblock Plus is to begin reselling the ads it blocks, replacing websites' original ads with ones under its control—and which it takes a fat cut of the revenue from.The program is meant to be fri...

The nonprofit Urban Institute's new study, Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America used paired, single-gender focus groups in 10 urban communities to learn about the hunger and food s...

If youre an active person, then you need headphones that can keep up with youand these waterproof FRESHeBUDS can definitely hang.Packing an enhanced battery life and a sound quality thats unrivaled fo...

Graham Dickinson jumped off a mountain in a wingsuit, but the footage of such things is usually chaotic, off-kilter, somehow subtly unlike reality. The joy reported is hard to appreciate: even if we...

Kratom is a herb that has been in widespread use in Southeast Asia for centuries; it is chewed for to increase stamina, induce gentle euphoria and relaxation, and it has also been used with unheard-of...

"The auctioneer is typically speaking logical sentences quickly," says Barry Baker of Ohio Real Estate Auctions, "with filler words mixed in." (more…)...

I discovered Villains and Vigilantes in 1982, with the publication of the game's second edition, and 11-year-old me played it like a fiend; I still remember long hours of designing costumes on the sup...

Current condition (via Mefi) is a website lurking in the airwaves and wires somewhere between teletext, those high-number cable channels that just play music and weather, and where the planes were in ...

This is what happens who you trust tabloids and rich politicians who say you can have your cake and eat it. What they mean is they can have their cake, and you eat it. Today's shit sandwich is for Bri...

They put out a compilation of scenes from Mad Max: Fury Road as they were shot, with no CGI or no artsy color grading. It makes me love the film even more: I want a minimalist cut of the whole thing...

Steve Harvey finally seems to be having an inevitable existential crisis. Katie and Brigette seem to push him over the precipice after years of soul-crushing torture. (more…)...

If you like puns youll love Keren Rosens work, which turns idioms into adorable chariactures. You can find Rosen's art on her Facebook page or as prints on her Etsy shop, Dings & Doodles. (more&h...

Star Trek celebrated its 50th anniversary last week and one of the sci-fi series' biggest legacies is shaping our modern concept of fandom." The original 1960s series inspired everything from conventi...

Animal-rights group SHARK thought they'd launch their drone on public property in July to get some footage of Harris Feeding Company, a massive and apparently pungent cattle feedlot near Coalinga, C...

"The cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. economy amounts to more than $3 trillion in lost economic output, or about 17% of GDP," write Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini in Harvard Business Review. Thei...

There are two things that have gotten lost in the controversy over Hillary Clintons basket of deplorables speech: a.) It was mostly focused on reaffirming the importance of LGBT rights to her campai...

Jeff Rowan loves Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise. When he decided to look into the young woman who inspired the trilogy of films, he discovered a remarkably moving story that's worth the 20 minut...

Getting college advice from Seth Meyers is nice, but getting college advice from First Lady Michelle Obama is priceless (even if she does pressure you to eat your vegetables)....

If this retro, psychedelic D&D/Masters of the Universe animation meets a crank-boosted acid trip doesn't blow your neck bolts, I don't know what will. This animated short film/music video for Oa...

B O I N G   B O I N GThe most important thing we build is trustDo not disclose to the public or media. Specifications subject to change without disclosure or mercy. Feature descriptions may be in...

Earlier this year, I wrote about a wonderful library project that Tibetan friends in India are putting together for a Tibetan exile community there, with the support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He...

I must go, my people need me. (more…)...

These commercials were insane. Shadoe Stevens was inspirational....

The discussion of last weeks post about American Cheese led me to this article on NPR. Cheese was once colored bright orange to falsely imply it had lots of yellow/orange pigmented cream in it, a sign...

The Pilot Precise V5 Stick ($9 for a dozen on Amazon) has replaced my old favorite, the Uni-Ball Vision Elite. The line is finer and darker, is ideally paired with my favorite notebook, the Rhodia Ora...

In May 2014, Carla Denise Garrison's 8-year-old daughter picked up a hypodermic needle in the parking lot of a Target in Anderson, South Carolina. When Garrison swatted the needle away from her daught...

Digital Painting Techniques: Masters Collection Vol. 1 by 3dtotalFocal Press2016, 288 pages, 8.8 x 11.2 x 1 inches (softcover)$30 Buy a copy on AmazonAt first glance, Digital Painting Techniques appea...

Wait for the amazing happiness at the end. (more…)...

Now that so many wonderful strains and variants of marijuana are available legally, it is a crying shame to smoke dope out of a dirty pipe. Formula 420 really works and it smells great. (more…...

She's a rescue kitty, and her human just showed her a red dot on the wall for the very first time. (more…)...

The Intercept has got hold of a set of Harris's super-secretive manuals for their even-more-secret Stingray devices: fake cellular towers used to spy indiscriminately on whole populations by hacking...

Writing on Medium, AI researcher Kate Crawford (previously) and Simply Secure (previously) co-founder Meredith Whittaker make the case for a new scholarly discipline that "measures and assesses the so...

Randall Munroe once again shows that he's one of the web's most talented storytellers, inventing ways of conveying information that use the web's affordances to novel and sharp effect (there's a reaso...

It's no secret that tiny drones are super fun to fly because of their nimblemovements, high speeds, and easy maneuverability. The downside is missing out on the cameras offered bylarger drones on the ...

John Frost writes, "With the return of this year's Haunted Mansion Holiday, Disneyland has also returned recreations of the original tombstones the rides original Imagineers left as tributes to themse...

They're on sale at Trader Sam's at the Disneyland Hotel for $30, limit 2 per customer. (Excited about this, but Trader Sam's needed another reason for crazy, badly managed queues like it needed a hole...

In 1991, MTV, back when it was edgy and relevant, commissioned Rev. Ivan Stang of The Church of the SubGenius -- the religion, disguised as a joke (or is it a joke disguised as a religion?) -- to ma...

Dave Maass from Electronic Frontier Foundation writes, "A coalition of social justice and digital rights groups are tweeting at Gov. Jerry Brown today to demand he sign A.B. 2298, a bill that would br...

Donald Trump did not slam the International Paralympic Committee's decision to bar Russian athletes from the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, and the BBC never quoted him as saying, "The decision t...

In the New Yorker, Ariel Levy explores the buzz around Ayahuasca, the ultimate artisanal psychedelic drug. I came home reeking of vomit and sage and looking like Id come from hell, Vaughn Bergen, a tw...

The fast paced action and twisted humor continue in Benjamin Wallace's Pursuit of the Apocalypse!With his girlfriend captured by bounty hunters Jerry the Librarian, and his amazing mastiff Chewey, are...

Beginning in 1951, the United States exploded atomic bombs at the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Seen here are snapshots of the tests that, in many cases, illuminated the Los Angel...

Someone sent a wind-up robot tottering into a nest of Australian bull ants, a species "characterised by their extreme aggressiveness, ferocity, and painful stings." It's a delight to watch these for...

Sean Sullivan was fired from his police job in Oregon in 2004 for sexual contact with a 10 year old girl; in 2005, Cedar Vale, KS hired him to be their police chief, where he was accused of having sex...

Emma Goldman was dubbed "one of the most dangerous women in America" by J. Edgar Hoover. But that's just the beginning of a legendary life of keen insight, uncompromising anarchism, and burned bridg...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcje0uhewfg&feature=youtu.beYou can get close with modern clones of the TB-303 bassline synthesizer and the TR-909 drum machine, but Roland made the originals, and it's...

Filmmaker Michel Gondry shot a video for an old White Stripes' track "City Lights," without telling Jack White or Third Man Records, and surprised them with it last week. The just-finished track is ...

The Donald J Trump Foundation raised a lot of other peoples' money and spent it on things that benefited Trump, while allowing the Republican presidential candidate to falsely claim to have made enorm...

Reddit user rykahn confirms that there is no lock on the door of the Existential Toilet they chanced across this weekend, where one is always alone yet fully empowered by the cold vastness of the uni...

In Digital discrimination: Political bias in Internet service provision across ethnic groups (Sci-hub mirror), a new paper in Science, political scientists from the Universityof Konstanz and elsewher...

47 grackles fell from the heavens on the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston this weekend, with at least 32 dead. Two cats who ate the remains also ran out of lives.City officials have sent the dead gra...

The Internet of Things business model dictates that devices be designed with the minimum viable security to keep the products from blowing up before the company is bought or runs out of money, so we'r...

Phil from Adafruit sez, "Adafruit released and shipped one of the only maker/hacker subscription boxes." (more…)...

The Quest for Enlightenment is a rudimentary but addictive exploration game in the style of Pirates! Sail a randomly-generated Caribbean drinking rum, unearthing dubloons and seeking spiritual enlight...

Professional domino artist Hevesh5 does a lot of great domino builds, but this colorful triple spiral is both beautiful and relaxing to watch. (more…)...

Gene Wilder's death reminded me of the lovely 2008 interview Wilder did for the Legends series about Marty Feldman. Most Americans associate Feldman with his film roles, but he had a long career in ...

You'll either love or hate this cut of 2001: A Space Odyssey set to Tame Impala's song "Eventually." No middle ground. (more…)...

The U.K. organization Clinic Compare has created a set of GIFs that replicate the experience of being colorblind. Far from just seeing the world in black and white, it turns out there are a whole bunc...

There are plenty of web series about twentysomethings trying to make it in L.A. But few of them center on witches. Thats the twist of Bwitches, a new web series created by and starring Johanna Middl...

None of these sandwiches are actually that unfamiliar, but watching kids try new foods for the first time is awfully adorable....

This image depicts the most commonly-found stylesheet colors on the web's top sites—Paul Hebert did an amazing amount of analysis and this is just one of the intriguing visualizations he came up...

PDFs can be extremely frustrating when you need to sign a document or make a small edit. That'swhy weswear byPDF Expert 2.0 for Macthe app that lets you finally edit PDFs directly.With this convenient...

On Friday, Facebook started deleting posts containing "The Terror of War," Nick Ut's photo depicting a young Vietnamese girl fleeing a napalm attack on her village; Facebook approach this photo with a...

Dmitry Zakharchenko, the deputy head of the Energy Industry Department of the General Administration of Economic Security and Combating the Corruption, also had €2m in cash. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmWKteYc-qs&feature=youtu.beMagicpeacelove writes, "Magician Ben Seidman wields his cards with elan to nail down the facts about why Trump would be such a great leade...

A day after describing half of Donald Trump's supporters as "deplorables," Hillary Clinton is apologizing, reports the BBC. US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has apologised for calling half o...

A day after describing half of Donald Trump's supporters as "deplorables," Hillary Clinton is apologizing, reports the BBC. US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has apologised for calling half o...

Raspberry Pi is the microcomputer revolutionizing computer science and programming across the globe. Apart from being super fun to build projects like robots and RC carswith, Raspberry Pi is also an i...

Socialist minister Francis J. Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1890s in an effort to paper over the post-Civil War divisions; to accompany it, he devised the "Bellamy Salute": "raise your...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has changed its rebate program that subsidized homeowners who ripped up their wasteful turf lawns and put in plastic grass or gravel. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76iuiMppYjMCanadian indie rockers Ol' Time Moonshine's just released a single, "Raven vs. Hawk," from their first full-length album, "The Apocalypse Trilogies: Spacew...

Today, days before she is to face an administrative board who will punish her for her recent suicide attempt, whistleblower Chelsea Manning has announced that she will go on hunger strike until she re...

Playa Elvis sings Bridge Over Troubled Waters, at Burning Man 2016. It's a magnificent thing. (more…)...

Playa Elvis sings Bridge Over Troubled Water, at Burning Man 2016. It's a magnificent thing. (more…)...

Here's a fun fact about Cincy Comicon. It's not in Cincinnati. It's not even in Ohio! It's in Covington, KY. But Cincinnati is close. In fact, I walked from my hotel over the John A. Roebling Suspensi...

This actually happened, says Peter Serafinowicz. I dubbed his voice, but it's all Trump's words. (more…)...

We had an unusually fog-filled August here in the San Francisco area, says California-based landscape and nature photographer ElmoFoto on IMGUR. (more…)...

Reports NASA today, The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the 'Murray Buttes' regio...

The United States government today ordered a temporary halt to construction of a stretch of North Dakota oil pipeline that has been the focus of a sustained and growing occupation protest by Native A...

Stephen Colbert looks into Florida attorney general Pam Bondi's decision not to join other states in prosecuting Trump University. Could it be that the two large donations Trump gave Bondi influence...

How many burritos does it take to forge a giant steel dice of doom? Watch Gil Ramirez (aka Vlogsmith) excellent process video and find out![via]...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Coloring DC: Batman: Mad Love Featuring Harley Quinn by Paul Dini (author) and Bruce Timm (illustrator)DC Comics2016, 7.5 x 11.5 x 0.4 inches (softcover)$10 Buy...

Sofie Dossi, a finalist in this season of America's Got Talent, "is a self-taught contortionist and hand balancer. She became captivated at age 12 after watching an online video. Having been a compe...

In 2014, the Philae space probe left the Rosetta spacecraft and descended to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Unfortunately, Philae missed its landing due to an anchor mishap, bounced a...

When it comes to creating great designs, its going to take a lot of time, and in many cases, its going to take a lot of money. And of course, both of those things are usually in pretty short supply.Wh...

Cyan, the company behind the legendary Myst adventure game, is back with an unexpectedly well-received sequel, Obduction. Though the original and Riven were huge hits, further sequels suffered from ch...

New research from University College London suggests that the universe is indeed "isotropic," the same in all directions. Cosmologists Daniela Saadeh and Andrew Pontzen analyzed cosmic microwave backg...

Butt-lifting jeans are a success in Colombia, reports the BBC, and the innovation is heading north: "The decorated butt-lifter has become the archetypical Colombian jean, a product that has reached ma...

Typewriter sculptor Jeremy Meyer sez, "I just got back from Telluride where the feature-length documentary by Doug Nichol called 'California Typewriter' premiered." (more…)...

Within days of our move to Los Angeles last summer, John Edgar Park and family came over with a bottle of his homemade bitters. It's been a year of astounding cocktails, thanks to him. (more…)...

Facebook has banned one of the most famous images of the Vietnam war—then 9-year-old Kim Phuc running naked from a napalm attack on her village—for contravening the site's prohibition on "...

The Mysterious Package Companys (previously) audience is bifurcated into two groups which seem to overlap only slightly. The first group buys one or more of the six (soon to be seven) experiences and ...

The Circumstellar Habitable Zone Simulator provides detailed views of six star systems known to have exoplanets. You can change the stars' mass and the planetary distances and fool around with Goldilo...

Tumblr artist Kayla of fleamontpotter always knows how to inject humor into the world of Harry Potter. And this Half-Blood Prince-inspired post is particularly great: (more…)...

As I pointed out earlier this week, The Get Down is one of the most enjoyable and original Netflix series out there. And it turns out its star Justice Smith is pretty damn cool himself. The 21-year-ol...

Freddie Mercury's childhood home in London will now have a blue plaque, the UK's acknowledgement of a significant historical person or place. This endearing film chronicles how it was made. (more&he...

Luke Towan makes a lot of gorgeous model railroad items, but his tutorial on making tiny trees using wire, latex, glue, and paint is especially cool to watch from start to finish. (more…)...

Heads up West Wing fans: The West Wing Weekly podcast is your must-listen companion piece. Hosted by West Wing aficionado Hrishikesh Hirway and former West Wing star Joshua Malina, the podcast takes a...

On her 1976 variety show, Dolly Parton sang "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind," then performed it again as if it went from a 45 rpm record to a 78. (more…)...

As far as I know, Bruce Lee and Freddie Mercury never actually met in real life. But thanks to this toy and game-themed Japanese Twitter account, their action figures are now best friends. Admittedly,...

Barnacules Nerdgasm used 3D printing medium with 80% bronze to make some physical bitcoins. The result was cool, but it got even cooler when he threw them in a rock tumbler. (more…)...

When Edward Snowden flew to Hong Kong with thumb-drives full of damning US government documents, he assumed his freedom was forfeit: he didn't even make an escape plan. (more…)...

Cobham PLC is a surveillance vendor who sells to some of the world's most egregious human rights abusing governments; in 2014, they provided a catalog of cyberweapons and spy tools to Florida Departme...

5,300 Wells Fargo employees created 2 million phony bank accounts and racked up huge fees, raking in commissions from their employer for being such great salespeople for the bank's services; meanwhile...

The EU Court of Justice's ruling in GS Media BV v. Sanoma held that any commercial site that linked to a document that infringed copyright is presumed to be a party to the infringement, meaning that i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gyvipBs6VsGhettofunk13 demonstrates the old vinyl-lover's trick of deep-cleaning your wax pancakes by spreading the grooves with Titebond II wood glue, waiting for i...

If the man-made seismic event reported along the North Korea/China border tonight by the USGS is confirmed to be a new nuclear test, America's next Commander-in-Chief will have complex new Pyongyang p...

NASA reports that its first ever asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize ...

John Williams' original score for the first Star Wars movie has been reissued as two picture-discs: the Death Star, Vader, Tie Fighters and Chewie and Han; it's $35 to pre-order for shipping on Sept 3...

So I've been drawing sidewalk signs for my friend's bar for almost a year, says IMGURian Ollie Wolff Pruitt aka littlewolff4h. (more…)...

A Walmart in Panama City, Florida removed this display after the photo circulated on Twitter, infuriating a lot of people. The World Trade Center was made from stacked cartons of Coke Zero. The Americ...

I loved trying to connect by voice. Never worked tho....

Public Knowledge's new report, Captured: Systemic Bias at the US Copyright Office makes a beautifully argued, perfectly enraging case that the US Copyright Office does not serve the public interest, b...

You may not love the Gipper, and you probably have good reason. His recipe for Macaroni and Cheese, from the White House Family Cookbook, by Henry Haller, however is amazing! Really, I mean AMAZING! T...

Michael Weinberg (who has written seminal stories on 3D printing and copyright) writes, "We are seeing widespread adoption of copyright-based open licenses in 3D printing and open source hardware. Th...

America imprisons more people than any other country in history, in both absolute and relative terms. American prisoners -- disproportionately racialized and poor people -- are held in inhumane condit...

I'm not as fond of processed cheese food as this reviewer, but it is always in my fridge.Via Extra Crispy:Perhaps you think you are better than American cheese. But you are wrong. American cheese is p...

If you were a head in 1974 who happened to enjoy the smell and taste of smoking marijuana but didn't want to get high or busted by the fuzz, or you simply wanted to prank the police, you could light u...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 1 by John Carpenter (author), Eric Powell (author) and Brian Churilla (illustrator)BOOM! Studios2015, 128 pages, 8.6 x 10.2 x 0...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 1 by John Carpenter (author), Eric Powell (author) and Brian Churilla (illustrator)BOOM! Studios2015, 128 pages, 8.6 x 10.2 x 0...

Below is a background video about the "Safe-T Rider Program" that is the source of this strangeness, and the original video before it was dubbed by an actor with what sounds like a South Asian accen...

If you missed the iPhone 7 event, this five minute recap will fill you in....

SPOILERS BELOW: YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. (previously) (more…)...

Mental Floss presents a brief history of magic tricks with 26 facts....

Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary today and one series that deserves to be a big part of that celebration is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The third Star Trek series ran from 1993-1999 and while...

Blending cool jazz and hot glass earned filmmaker Bert Haanstra the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary in 1959. It set the bar for short documentaries that work internationally. (more…)...

Todd Hobin demonstrates the technique every roadie, gaffer, and electrician will teach you the first day of the job: how to wrap cables. If you deal with long cords, ropes, or cables, this will chan...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtmVnD8_XMComplete with the sort of music that accompanies peaceful villages in Japanese adventure games, newStory's 360° footage of four adorable kittens is here ...

I'm a huge fan of Amazon's cheap tablet computers. Amazon's Android-based tablet OS is breeze to set up for my 9 year-old, but their proprietary paywalls blocked me from getting everything I wanted in...

It would not be cool. At all. (AsapSCIENCE)...

At the 40 second mark, you can see a diver remove her mask. Fortunately, her dive buddies escort her to the surface and she survives. I hope no one got the bends.[via]...

Hawaiian-based artist Jane Mount makes it possible to wear your favorite pieces of literature on your sleeveor anywhere elsewith these delightful book pins. Mount sells the pins on her Etsy shop. She ...

A 295 feet spire was added to the Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles over the weekend, making it the tallest building in the city (1,100 feet). I don't know who the men in the photo are, but it doesn't loo...

You may remember Gaten Matarazzo from his scene-stealing turn as Dustin on Stranger Things. But it turns out Matarazzo also has an impressive Broadway pedigree and a gorgeous voice to match. The 13-ye...

There's something hauntingly beautiful in the deceptively simple Please Come To Me, composed in Super Mario Paint. (more…)...

Last month, I filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission on behalf of Electronic Frontier Foundation, 22 of EFF's supporters, and a diverse coalition of rightsholders, public interest groups, an...

We've found that, more often than not, earbuds offer eitherhigh sound quality or comfort and fit.The 100% Copper Audio Blast Earbudsbuck that trend by delivering the complete package.These earbuds are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swTWozTxQ-EAfter the astounding success of Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest directed a string of brilliant mockumentaries in the same style, like "Best in Show" and "Wai...

Tens of millions of unionized public sector workers walked off the job last Friday in a one-day strike against PM Modi's plan to privatise public industries and increase foreign investment. It was o...

Ka-Bar's Tactical Spork is ideal for the most extreme KFC eaters.The Tactical Spork, which is made from food and water approved Grilamid, is equipped with a fork/spoon combo and has a serrated knife h...

The LA Times' Q&A column tapped a lawyer to answer a reader's question about their crazy-ass homeowners' association, which denied an application to plant a front lawn of drought-tolerant cactii and s...

Belarusian crafter Orange Cat created the Octopus George felted backpack for "crazy octopus lovers" and "sailor man who loves the sea and marine creatures." (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=50&v=3HFPUIYUMvoSomeone captured and leaked a live presentation by an RCS sales tech, demonstrating his company's cyber-weapon for spying on dissidents, c...

Ursula Vernon's amazing, wry poem, "This Vote Is Legally Binding," is a double-barreled, remorselessly funny blast at the mansplainers, man-babies, and political correctness whiners of the world, writ...

These full-sublimation Star Trek redshirts allow you to LARP an expendable security team-member who's met a horrible end, or a character in an existential John Scalzi comedy: they're $33.88 at Stylin ...

The Guardian's published a long excerpt from Cathy O'Neil's essential new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, in which O'Neil describes the way that shoddy machine-learning companies have come to domin...

Scott London, a longtime burner and photographer (see his 2014 photo book, Burning Man: Art on Fire), produced an amazing set of portraits of art cars -- "mutant vehicles" -- from this year's event, i...

Frank Wu writes, "The long-awaited Special Edition of our videogame 'Revolution 60' has just been released for iOS and PC!" (more…)...

Enjoy the cheapest and best Ian Curtis joke the internet will ever supply....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFcwSWOZfwOne must be of a minimum age (or at least obsessed with vinyl) to have experienced the normality-shattering revelation of playing a record at the wrong speed...

This ad for UK chocolate brand Maltesers—like Whoppers, but edible—is airing during the paralympic games. When there is so much about British media to appreciate never having to see agai...

In "shut up and take my money, maybe" news, Lenovo's new Yoga Book makes Microsoft's Surface look like ENIAC. It's a cheap, unbelievably slim tablet computer, yet promises the genuine utility of a lap...

Matt Mihaly shares the beautiful David Bowie tribute video compiled from footage Mihaly shot at Burning Man 2016. (more…)...

Astronomers at Caltech have created the most detailed computer simulation yet of how our Milky Way galaxy was formed, from inception billions of years ago as a loose collection of matter to its modern...

I'm going to Cincy Comicon (September 9-11) at the invitation of Walking Dead artist and co-creator Tony Moore. I'll be at Table W-19 if you want to come by and say hello. The guest line-up looks terr...

Its hard to be disturbed by this weeks tabloid revelations that Hillary Clinton is dying, Robert Wagner has been arrested for murdering Natalie Wood, and Tom Hanks marriage is imploding in a $355 mill...

LoveProps has indeed crafted a Perfect Daft Punk Helmet, and I dare say it's better than the original worn by the band. The designing, building and programming of the GM01 unit took more than one ye...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSrNQ9VS2oKickstarter veterans Matthew and Mark McLachlan have raised nearly $1M for Fidget Cube: gadgets that you can switch, twist, click, glide, and roll when you...

LED bulbs are finally getting cheaper than incandescent bulbs. Use coupon code BF3EHAOD at Amazon to get six 9W, soft white, LED bulbs for $10....

Archive.org posted the first issue of Mondo 2000, from 1989. (It says #7 on the cover because the first couple of issues were called High Frontiers, then Reality Hackers.) I loved Mondo 2000, which wa...

Frigid alien landscapes are coming to light in new radar images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, captured from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. (more…)...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Papertoy Monsters: 50 Cool Papertoys You Can Make Yourself! by Brian Castleforte (author) and Robert James (illustrator)Workman Publishing Company2010, 124 page...

A photo by Dallas Morning News' Jae Lee removes all doubt that spirits walk among us, and that they like to play football....

I'm still recovering from this year's Burn, where I saw more amazing art, experienced incredible highs and some fantastic lows. Mark Day's 3:19 timelapse of this year's event captures the lion's sha...

Car racing billionaire Bernie Ecclestone, 83, was accused of paying a $44 million bribe to a German bank. But a German court agreed to end his trial when Ecclestone offered to pay the court $100 milli...

My divorce was rough, but come on.Via the Everett Herald:According to court documents, Ripple handed a teller a note that read, I have a gun, give me money.The teller complied.But instead of fleeing, ...

Woolly mammoths became extinct (from hunting and/or habitat shrinkage) 4,000 years ago. But you can buy remains for a reasonable price. This hair sample, for instance, is $15 on Amazon. You can also p...

British artist Rebecca Moss went aboard the Hanjin Geneva container ship for a "23 Days at Sea Residency." But the company that owns the ship went bankrupt on August 31, and ports all over the world h...

Perfect for the kid of someone you don't like very much is a Rock Tumbler.Most kids who receive a rock tumbler want to turn that sucker right on and polish up some precious stones. The tumbler makes a...

Over the weekend, the mother of Lupita Gonzalez heard from a family member in Shafter, California who was concerned that Lupita had died. Apparently, the person had spotted a donation jar emblazoned w...

Today Apple is holding its annual media event in San Francisco, and to celebrate we are giving you the chance towin a brand new iPhone 7: the phone that is sure to reinvent the smartphone game yet aga...

Are your notes to pals and co-workers lacking gravitas? Sir Sean Connery, star of such films as Zardoz and The Rock, has just the e-card generator for you.The link is tucked away at the bottom of Sir ...

This would have been better. (stryderHD)...

A "bad trip" on psychedelic mushrooms may lead to "enduring increases in well-being," according to a new study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Neuroscientist Roland Griffiths and col...

The rise and fall of Theranos is gripping stuff. The $700m startup touted a revolutionary one-prick suite of blood tests that never worked well. But it managed to keep its failures hidden, writes Vani...

In the words of Neo, Whoa.[via The Daily Dot]...

With the Icelandic Pirates crushing it in the polls and set to form the next government of a sovereign, carbon-neutral, strategically located nation, it's worth asking how a party whose two issues -- ...

According to Stanford University researchers, a primary circuit in the brain's reward involving the chemical "feel-good" chemical dopamine, is also essential for controlling our sleep-wake cycles. Ins...

New research suggests that humans have a sixth basic taste in addition to sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. According to Oregon State University food scientist Juyun Lim, "we can ...

None of which explains why Bryce Dallas Howard wore them while running away from a T-Rex in Jurassic World....

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Team Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, and so much more. PURCHASE Rub...

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake, has completed her first graphic novel, Angel Catbird, with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain, about a superheroic anthropomorphi...

If you're looking for a little creative inspiration, this clip from George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy has some great lines about how Carlin approached his craft. It also feels like a living link in ...

The dryly-named C64 Charset Logo Generator lets you do something old-school that the new school forgot years ago: type using colorful bitmap fonts, as found in old video games of the Commodore era. As...

For Film Riots Monday Challenge, filmmaker Ben Hess enlisted Joseph Baena (a.k.a Arnold Schwarzeneggers son) to remake one of his fathers most famous Terminator 2 scenes. It's pretty spot on. Here's...

California pools must post a dizzying array of warnings, the best of which is "Persons having currently active diarrhea or who have had active diarrhea within the previous 14 days shall not be allowed...

Insane Cherry was good enough to create what is undoubtedly the most metal cover of "Bodies" ever recorded. Birds, goats, camels, seals, cats, and dogs all come together for this historic collaborat...

If you've been wondering what Sir Sean Connery has been up to since 2003, you won't find much at his official website, because it hasn't been updated in 13 years. (more…)...

Feminism may have only become a mainstream talking point in Hollywood in the past few years, but watching Helen Mirren handle this shockingly sexist interview from 1975 reveals she's been leading th...

Some folks receive an odd letter in the mail from a law firm in Canada telling them that items are shortly to be bequeathed to them from a long-lost relative. Included is an old newspaper clipping whe...

Netflix's new original series The Get Down has been flying a bit under the radar since its debut, but it deserves far more buzz. (more…)...

RetroConnector (aka Charles Mangin) makes tiny Raspberry Pi cases in the form of mininature reproductions of Apple IIs, Lisas and Atari XLs—and more besides. The pitch is simple: "Connect your o...

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I find to my amazement that we haven't posted the legendary Ballet Zoom Cats, spotted doing the viral rounds again lately. Consider the omission rectified! This is, for the record, the second-best c...

Over at Make, Gareth Branwyn wrote about how to check the balance of your d20 dice:Gamer Daniel Fisher used an old golf ball balancing trick to test the integrity of his D20 gaming dice. To set up t...

From r/Reminds me of my dog. [Reddit/IMGUR]...

A feral kitten with its head stuck in a jar is rescued by a jolly hammer-wielding Azerbaijanian. It takes a few whacks to free the poor little critter....

The Mophie Sync/Charge Lightning/USB cable ($10 on Amazon) is the perfect short cable for charging an iPhone from a portable charging battery. It twists and bends and holds its shape. It's now part of...

ARQ is a Netflix original movie about a guy who invents a free energy device, gets killed by intruders, then wakes up unhurt. The next day, the same thing happens again (and again), but he can remem...

The Bad Advisor (previously), who has delighted us for years with amazing, frank, scathing alternative answers to real advice-column questions, has a new home on The Establishment, where bad advice is...

Take one trip to the grocers, add a couple passes through Google's psychedelic Deep Dreaming AI-based apophenia algorithm, and voila! You've materialized the extraordinary latent in the mundane. (vi...

19 of the 35 seats up for grabs in Hong Kong's legislative election went to pro-democracy candidates who have vowed to continue the fight for autonomy from Beijing and its program of censorship, surve...

800,000 usernames and passwords from Brazzers, a giant porn site; 98 million passwords from Rambler.ru ("Russia's Yahoo") and, coming soon, the entire user database for VKontakte/VK.com, Russia's answ...

Princeton computer science researchers Steven Englehardt and Arvind Narayanan (previously) have just published a new paper, Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, which documents ...

If you've read Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction (you should, right NOW), then you know that machine learning can be a way to apply a deadly, nearly irrefutable veneer of objectivity to our w...

Now You See It looks into the use of jump scares in movies, and why they generally suck.[via]...

Psychobook: Games, Tests, Questionnaires, Histories by Julian Rothenstein (editor)Princeton Architectural Press2016, 192 pages, 8.9 x 12.1 x 0.9 inches (hardcover)$40 Buy a copy on AmazonI am not afra...

In 1879, a ghastly crime gripped England: A London maid had dismembered her employer and then assumed her identity for two weeks, wearing her clothes and jewelry and selling her belongings. In this we...

It turns out that asking a piece of software to decide which websites should be censored and which ones are legitimate has some problems, which I think comes as a surprise to all of us. (more…)...

Trans actress and activist Jen Richardswhose show Her Story was recently nominated for an Emmyhas been engaging in some important dialogue about representation recently. Specifically shes focused on H...

This weekend was the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, so The Tate Modern erected a fire garden with performers and fire-spewing sculptures. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CD_anJ2QIIf you like videos of jugglers who take requests from the web, "Will It Juggle?" is for you. Watch Olga Kay oblige a request to juggle three cacti. (more&hel...

Today we do something weird, in honor of the end of the second season of Flash Forward! Instead of coming up with a future and then finding experts to talk about it, I asked an AI to write a future fo...

When best friends Corinne and Erica are killed in a car accident, their ghostly lives turn out to be just as mundane as their old ones. But at least they can fly now! (more…)...

As part of her MTV YouTube series Decoded, host Franchesca Ramsey digs into the complicated intersection of race, ethnicity, and heritage. (more…)...

If you liked the videos for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" and Sia's "Chandelier," you might like this choreographed ad starring Margaret Qualley, set to Sam Spiegel & Ape Drums' "Mutant Brain...

Evidently someone at Syfy is just as fond as I am of googling images [WARNING: POSSIBLY GROSS] for hyperdontia, in which subjects grow lots of supernumerary teeth; "The Tooth Child is Hungry" is an ...

My wife and I held a pizza pie cook-off last weekend where we supplied the flour, dough and basic toppings. We asked our guests to bring exotic items to personalized their creations and there was even...

These may look like simple pieces of plastic but I've found them to be the most interesting tools in my box. They're made from melt-able, bio-plastic that you can use to create new tools or patch up ...

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has stripped two Kansas Highway Patrol officers of immunity for their detention of a man with Colorado plates whom they believed to be suspicious because Colorado ha...

The Cuddle Mattress us made from slices of memory foam, so you can cuddle with your partner without having your limbs fall asleep.[via]...

Look at this cute little T-shirt printing machine that artist Devin Smith made.[via]...

Five years ago Christopher Robinson's $1.6 million house in New Zealand burned down. He was 400km away when it happened. The house was insured by IAG, which has not paid Mr. Robinson because it says h...

In my latest Locus column, The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot Worse, I describe the history of the privacy wars to date, and the way that the fiction of "notice and consent" has provided co...

Qrcode is a github-hosted, Chinese Python project for GNU/Linux and Windows that takes sentences and URLs and creates "artistic" colored and animated QR codes that actually scan. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ugC4NG1ZocEvan from Fight for the Future writes, "What do comedian Hari Kondabolu, Lost star Evangeline Lilly, a Navajo punk band, and one of the dudes from Chumbawa...

This entry into a Thai town's annual fireworks competition puts all the pyro I've seen in person to shame -- the fact that it was a homemade, amateur entry is even more impressive. If only this was ...

Continuing to demonstrate the benefits of privilege, convicted sexual offender Brock Turner has been released a mere 3 months into his prison term, for good behavior. The already short sentence was me...

Pointing a hose at a 40 year old motorcycle is not the smartest thing you can do, unless its on fire. This Meguiar's Ultimate Wash and Wax Anywhere spray does an amazing job of cleaning up my bikes, a...

Things are about to get a lot worse for Ezra and the gang in Star Wars Rebels season three. Long awaited, Grand Admiral Thrawn is making his leap from Timothy Zahn's novels to the screen....

It's no secret that there's no better way to digitally learn a language than with Rosetta Stone. The only issue? It can be a bit pricey. That's why we're so excited about thisRosetta Stone Language Bo...

After the U.S. Department of Education stopped all financial aide to ITT Technical Institute students, and barred the executives from giving themselves raises, the infomercial driven school is closi...

Travel site Momondo interviewed 67 people about their feelings about nationality and patriotism. They then conducted a DNA test to show them just how global the world truly is.[via The Daily Kos]...

Well done, Zach Haumesser. "Thats all, folks!" (more…)...

Brace yourself for a level of cuteness that could have lasting effects. Zoo Portraits by Barcelona-based Yago Partal include interesting information about each species. That cute otter could grow to 9...

The Cape Kiwanda sandstone pedestal, a feature of the Oregon coastline known to locals as the duckbill, was "toppled intentionally" by tourists. Video captured at a distance by visitor David Kalas o...

A fellow in Adelaide, Australia was arrested for several traffic offenses including using a modified (and magic-markered) frying pan as a steering wheel. From the South Australia Police:Further checks...

At Vice, Leigh Alexander (recently at Boing Boing) writes about the superstitious rituals we all practice when it comes to technology. We do it whether we are conscious of the ritual or not, and we ...

Yesterday, Paul Krugman wrote that he expects Hillary Clinton will get "Gored" by press innuendo over the next few weeks. Today, The Washington Post's Paul Weldman wonders why ...

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Martin Critchley shot this lovely ice cave footage, which proved so popular he released an extended cut. (more…)...

Rene Elise Goldsberry just wrapped up her final performance as Angelica Schuyler in the Tony-winning musical Hamilton. But before she left, she serenaded the final #Ham4Ham audience with a song that...

The adorable child cast of the Netflix series Stranger Things visited The Tonight Show recently. And Jimmy Fallon made time for the most pressing issue on everyones mind: Justice For Barb!...

ev Kaestner shows how to turn an old tin can into a lovely and functional candle holder. The secret is a pencil-thin torch for fine work. (more…)...

Paul Borrud not only made one of my favorite surfing videos of all time, but he also has an annual water slide on Australia Day. This year's event looked like tons of fun, but they should look into ...

I'm a huge fan of the Commodore Amiga (the world's first psychedelic computer), but what sucked me in as a youngster were games for it made by the Liverpool game developer Psygnosis. In the late 1980s...

Chris Hemsworths Thor was notably absent from this summers Captain America: Civil War. Why? It turns out he was in Australia hanging out with his new roommate Darryl. At least thats the case in this h...

Provided they don't dry out, you can buy a lifetime supply of Elmer's Disappearing Purple School Glue Sticks for just $14 on Amazon. I use this glue to make special magic cards....

Former mail carrier Robert J. Taitano of Tacoma, Washington went to prison in July 2015 for assault with sexual motivation and criminal trespass. But if the United States Postal Service had its drut...

Dharma Delight: A Visionary Post Pop Guide to Buddhism and Zen by Rodney Alan Greenblat Tuttle Publishing2016, 128 pages, 7.5 x 10 x 0.5 inches (softcover)$11 Buy a copy on AmazonPeace of mind can be ...

A Hello Kitty dictionary aimed at kids defines a necklace as A piece of jewelry which a woman wears around her neck, going on to add, In South Africa, a name for a tyre filled with petrol which is pla...

Kara Witham uses a scroll saw to expertly cut-out books so they can secretly hold a flask. From her website:The first chapter of Secret Safe Books was written in 2009. Kara was working a day job as a ...

Who will be the first to say, "I saw the changes right away. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be able to."...

Weve all tried to use our phones to play our favorite albumor listen to a podcast while were in the showerand we all know it just doesnt work.While a Bluetooth speaker willwork okay from afar, the mor...

As part of their post-Olympics publicity tours, U.S. Womens Gymnastics team members Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian were invited to throw out first pitches at two respective baseball games. (mor...

This insane presidential election season hasnt been easy on anyone, but comedians W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu are here to help you through it. (more…)...

If the power goes out, Willow Haven Outdoor reminds us you might have some household items that would make a good candle. (more…)...

Even if you don't ride horses or skimboard, this gorgeous location makes this amazing feat worth watching. (more…)...

The National Wildlife Federation recently redesigned Ranger Rick, its mascot. This is a good example of the trend to ditch computer-rendered mascot redesigns from the last 10 years or so, which have...

Thanks the the contracts police unions get from local governments, it's not only hard to get rid of violent, corrupt cops, but investigating them in the first place is made nigh-impossible. They beat,...

"Heres the thing," writes Owen Williams on Apple's apparent plans to remove the headphone jack from the new iPhones. "Bluetooth is shit."...

The HacBook Elite is a "fully-functional Mac running OS X for 1/3 the price," which is to say a refurbished HP EliteBook with OS X hacked to run on it. It only has an i5 CPU, 8GB RAM and a 1600x900 14...

Once in a while, we stumble uponareally amazing product thatis available at an almost mind-blowingdiscount.The A-Audio Legacy Over-Ear Headphones (now $79) are a super high-endpair of headphones. Even...

The above image is the Trump campaign's latest outreach effort, this time toward young people! It has a certain vibe to it, clean but sinister, yet comically unconvincing. As summed up by author Salad...

Super Bad Mariois a YouTube series of internet fail videos edited and compiled with the titular character from the Super Mario Bros. game, being his mischievous little self. (more…)...

An intoxicated and shirtless man in Westerly, RI opened fire on his neighbor's home using corncobs he shot with his homemade PVC potato gun. Drunk Rhode Island Man, while we do not condone your actio...

Yoga Joes are a clever series of little green plastic army men in rather impressive yoga poses. Namaste, sergeant. Advanced Yoga Joes are available for pre-order in the following poses: Firefly Advanc...

I've been using my FryDaddy electric deep fryer ($22 on Amazon) like crazy after buying it earlier this year. I fill it with coconut oil and fry Brussels sprout leaves, sweet potato slices, and butter...

Encyclopedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It by Martin Olson (author), Tony Millionaire (illustrator) and Mahendra Singh (illustr...

Weve all been there: youre working on a big project, you think you know when everything needs to be done, and then you realizeyou completely dropped the ball on a major deadline.Aeon Timeline 2 is a n...

Steve Hoefer broke his 50-year-old electric hair trimmer, so he bought the latest model. He opened it to get a peek inside, and wrote about the similarities and differences.The screws holding the face...

Here's a good paradox from our friends at Futility Closet:A driver is sitting in a pub planning his trip home. In order to get there he must take the highway and get off at the second exit. Unfortunat...

Powerline ethernet adaptors offer far better throughput, in my wacky home, than wifi range extenders.Powerline ethernet is a standard for running data over your in-wall electrical wiring. Earlier vers...

In an effort to give their students the best education possible, the McKinney (Texas) School District is building a $70 million football stadium. Some people in the community have complained that th...

O'Donnell reminds us that the United States of America has awfully mistreated the folks who lived on this continent before us, and helps folks understand the protests at Standing Rock....

So tragic yet I... can't... look... away....

TheBoars, Gore, and Swordsbook club continues with theBoiled Leather chapter ordercombining George R.R. Martin'sA Feast for CrowsandA Dance with Dragons. On this week's"30 Stone All Day,"IvanandRedcov...

Brenham, Texas-based BlueBell Creameries has launched a new "Camo 'n Cream" camouflage ice cream. It's a combo, containing pistachio almond, milk chocolate and cream cheese flavors. The packaging feat...

If you were the government and wanted to maintain a state of perpetual war, how would you go about it? (more…)...

I wish this video didn't end so abruptly. It looked like the bull was just about to tear off a big chunk of the car....

"You know what I see in Tyler? He was told to snip the staple, and he was so concerned on getting the snip just right he didn't even notice it was a joke. He's not slow, he's just super obedient and...

Maribel Martinez says she was waiting at John F. Kennedy airport for her five-year-old son Andy to return from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic. He was flying as an unaccompanied minor, and...

Lycopodium powder, made from dry spores of clubmoss plants, is used by magicians and special effects artists as flash powder (aka "dragon's breath"), as a lubricant on latex gloves and condoms, and ...

Decades before the banality of Comic Sans, there was the fantastic hand-lettering of Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, and a handful of other artists with beautiful penmanship....

We've posted about this in the past, but it was brought to my attention that the legendary exploding whale news report was rebroadcast not long ago, meaning that the best quality possible (given the...

The New York Times' Daniel Victor posted this to the site yesterday, an item soon jokingly hailed as being among the newspaper of record's greatest hits. A clever blog post given the swanky headline f...

Trump supporter Marco Gutierrez warns Americans that if Donald Trump loses the forthcoming presidential election, there will be a "Taco truck on every corner." (more…)...

Ranker made a supercut of Tim Curry laughing in movies. it goes exactly as you expect.Tim Curry movies are always a treat, because it's a guarantee you'll be seeing some top-notch acting, which nota...

Vugar Efendi takes viewers through a delightful survey of stop-motion animation from 1900 to today. How many of the 39 films featured can you name? (more…)...

Extreme Drone Circuit built a night course this year that had a dizzying array of LED-lit obstacles. Watch a drone's eye view of zipping arround the challenging course. (more…)...

About 170 years ago, during Japan's Edo period, a 34-foot scroll called Fart Battle (He-gassen) was created by unknown artisan(s). The work lives on in glorious hi-res digitized collection at Waseda U...

"What would a secret and remarkably pristine slot canyon hidden in the wilderness of the Oregon Cascades have to say to those who first step foot into its halls?" This serene video imagines those wo...

Hurricane Hermine is making landfall at the time of this blog post, in the early hours of Friday morning in Florida. Millions of people are in its path, and there are related tornado watches througho...

Hurricane Hermine is making landfall at the time of this blog post, in the early hours of Friday morning in Florida. Millions of people are in its path, and there are related tornado watches througho...

Welp, at least someone's happy about summer ending and the school year starting. (more…)...

[caption id="attachment_480166" align="alignnone" width="895"] nhc.noaa.gov[/caption]Tropical Storm Hermine officially reached hurricane status on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, reported NASA and NOAA's Nat...

In a Maryland Circuit Court today, Melania Trump filed a complaint against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over the August 19 article "Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas th...

Penn State is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hiring Joe Paterno, the coach who helped his school rack up countless victories and his assistant cover up countless rapes.The plans for exactly what...

The Boars, Gore, and Swords book club reading of the Boiled Leather chapter order combining George R.R. Martin's A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons continues with this week's "Cersei Responds ...

This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.:What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home means to her? And to you? This week it's th...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Twisted History: 32 True Stories of Torture, Traitors, Sadists and Psychos...Plus the Most Celebrated Saints in History by Howard WatsonFirefly Books2015, 176 p...

The beverage industry has been pushing the idea that you need to be drinking water and sugar water all day long, but according to Oakland University exercise physiologust Tamara Hew-Butler DPM, PhD,...

Bernie Taupin (lyricist, in 2013): The original song was a very dark song about how club life in L.A. was being killed off and live acts had no place to go. A producer named Peter Wolfnot the J. Gei...

GQ interviewed everyone directly and tangentially responsible for (Jefferson) Starship's 1985 miasmic megahit, "We Built This City.Bernie Taupin (lyricist, in 2013): The original song was a very dark ...

Please offer your theories in the comments. The only idea you for forbidden from mentioning is the one suggesting it's for hanging a gate.This fence is so thin.[via]...

Two year old Nicholas solves the trolley problem by treating everyone equally.His dad, E.J. Masicampo, says:I'm teaching a moral psychology class this semester, and we spent part of the first day di...

These kids look like they are having fun.Here's what happened when safety was taken into consideration - jail-like equipment disguised as a robot:[via]...

This bento-style R2-D2 lunch box is pretty cool. I hope my daughter likes it as much as I do. Star Wars R2-D2 Bento Box via Amazon...

Sarah Palin slipped and banged her head on a rock. Stephen Colber offers, something I think is, a get well message....

Were excited to announce our biggest Android giveaway yet: for a limited time, you can enter to win a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge: the phone TechRadar Calls "The Best Smartphone in the World Right Now. Tha...

In this episode we interview Dean Burnett, author of Idiot Brain: What Your Brain is Really Up To. Burnett’s book is a guide to the neuroscience behind the things that our amazing brains do poor...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and its payload—a communications satellite backed by Facebook—were destroyed this morning during launch tests at Cape Canaveral, Fla. No-one was hurt in the explos...

This curious glitch in the eco-matrix comes via Crappy Design—presumably the higher number is correct, but each country has different regulatory requirements for describing paper as recycled, so...

Yesterday, Donald Trump met Mexican president Enrique Pea Nieto in a bid to look presidential, a credible negotiator. He said later they didn't discuss his plans to "build a wall" between the two coun...

Vice, the media powerhouse said to be worth upwards of $5bn and "sloshing with cash" thanks to annual revenues in the $900m range, treats its freelancers badly, according to Columbia Journalism Review...

An internal memo from a key Democratic Party electioneering group tells candidates to listen but dont offer support for the concrete policy positions of Black Lives Matter protesters—and offers ...

My home was built in 1927, and its Spanish plaster walls have deflected every attempt Ive made at setting up a dead-zone free Wi-Fi network. Ive tried range extenders, moving large items around and Iv...

In 1978 a team of geologists discovered a family of five living deep in the Siberian forest, 150 miles from the nearest village. Fearing persecution, they had lived entirely on their own since 1936, p...

The hermit crab housing shortage of empty shells is forcing some crabs to use marine waste, as documented by Okinawa-based photographer Shawn M. Miller. (more…)...

Scott Portingale created the sumptuously animated and sound-designed film Infinitude, which starts with abstract mathematical shapes, then evolves into the creation of the universe. (more…)...

Who? Weekly spoofs Us Weekly and other outlets so in need of "celebrity" content that they resort to covering people of questionable renown. (more…)...

In what feels as tense as Wages of Fear in places, teams of drivers transport wind turbine blades up a steep switchback mountain road. According to Wind Power Monthly:The route to the government-spo...

A delightful series of tiny worlds in glass. (more…)...

Devin Ryan created a computer program that is valid, and produces identical output, in two completely different languages, PHP and Java. (more…)...

After a very weird day in Mexico with President Enrique Pea Nieto, then a Twitter shitstorm in which Trump was accused of lying about the content of that meeting, the Republican Presidential candidate...

Cameras on the International Space Station captured this footage of three major hurricanes on Earth on August 30. Two of these storms are in the Pacific Ocean, and one is in the Atlantic Ocean. (more...

Donald Trump flew to Mexico just before a highly anticipated immigration speech in Arizona tonight, and met with Mexican President Enrique Pea Nieto. After the meeting, Trump says the two men discusse...

This is a good idea: colored ball-end hex wrenches so you can easily tell them apart. Comes in US and metric sets. Go nuts and buy both sets in one package....

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a quick trip to Mexico today to meet with President Enrique Pea Nieto, against the objections of many citizens of Mexico, who have been insulted by Tr...

Youtube description:A bagpipe playing student drowned out a homophobic bigot who compared being gay to bestiality in megaphone rant.Brave Brice Ehmig confronted the preacher who was wearing a Jesus ...

Japanese artist Makoto Azuma launched a beautiful bouquet and a 50-year-old bonsai tree on a high-altitude balloon 30,000 meters into the atmosphere (about 1/3 of the way to space) to capture a beauti...

Mosaic portrait artist Jason Mecier shares his recent Gene Wilder tribute portrait as Willy Wonka. (more…)...

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some of the clearest, and most spot on, observations about race in America. His words on the current 'controversy' around our national obsession with respecting an outdated ...

See sample pages from this book at Wink.Tiki Styleby Sven KirstenTaschen2015, 192 pages, 4.9 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches (softcover)$10 Buy a copy on AmazonThis little pocket book packs a big punch full of tik...

I like the way every time the mother moose turns around, the bear pretends to be paying attention to something else....

A pickup truck tailgating a car was unprepared for what happened. Ad soon as the driver got his truck fixed, I'm sure he was back at it again.Dang Dog Ditch...

https://youtu.be/C_rttgtyigcI should have tried this when I was in Malm![via]...

A cup of Asskicker coffee supposedly has 5 grams of caffeine, or 80 times the amount in a regular cup of coffee. Can that be right? According to Wikipedia, the median lethal does of caffeine "is estim...

Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt has written a book called The Sting of the Wild, about his mission to "compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the gauge." Here's how ...

If youre like us,packing and unpackingare twoof your least favorite aspects of traveling. Specifically with multi-destination trips, our suitcases usually end in wrinkled clothing, toothpaste stains, ...

Robert Bevan's silly satire of RPG gamers continues in Probing the Annis. Bevan must really hate the folks he games with.Don't expect a lot of intellectual discourse in any of Bevan's short but funny ...

On September 26, 1991, Nirvana performed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at The Moon, a small club in New Haven, Connecticut. This was two days after the release of Nevermind and moments before punk broke...

On September 26, 1991, Nirvana performed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at The Moon, a small club in New Haven, Connecticut. This was two days after the release of Nevermind and moments before punk broke...

Kratom is an herbal supplement that's become popular in recent years in the United States. Kratom users say taking capsules of the powdered herb helps with social anxiety, chronic pain, and post-traum...

A 17-year-old boy in Mexico City has died after reportedly receiving a hickey from his 24-year-old girlfriend. According to physicians, the hickey suction likely caused a blood clot that traveled to h...

The SF Chronicle has found San Francisco remains almost exactly as unpleasant as normal during the non-event formerly known as the Black Rock Exodus. Via SF Chron:While some startups do shut down the ...

San Francisco remains almost exactly as unpleasant as normal during the non-event formerly known as the Black Rock Exodus. (more…)...

A pile of cocaine worth US$55 million was found at a Coca-Cola plant in Signes, France."The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved," said regional Coca-Co...

Deep Sadness is an interactive art thingy online. Click the shape to generate a new shape and a sad noise. The vibe is vaguely hauntological, like something you saw once on BB2 at 3 a.m. in 19A0 or so...

For a year, six people lived inside a small dome on the desolate side of a volcano on Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The aim of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) was to approximate life...

Kim Jong-Un had a Vice premier for education Kim Yong-Jin executed for "disrespect" after he fell asleep in a meeting, reports the AFP, citing South Korean sources. (more…)...

Lost in Light is Sriram Murali's simple yet beautifully-crafted demonstration of levels of light pollution from worst to best, and how much gets lost in the night sky. (more…)...

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more. And/or buy Ruben Bollings new book series for k...

An enraging gallery features more than 50 screenshots and messages showing people asking artists to do free work and sometimes getting angry and nasty when denied. It's good for your portfolio! You're...

The fountain of eternal meth has been located in Baltimore, where a study found the drug in local waterways. Plants and animals are even getting addicted, reports Jen Christensen.It appears aquatic li...

Sarah A. Topol profiles Mary Wareham and several other experts concerned about the near future of autonomous weapons. (more…)...

Lipstick Lex (aka Toronto artist Alexis Fraser) puts on lipstick and kisses her canvasses to create cool portraits. Once they're close, she'll refine things a bit by drawing with the lipstick. (more&...

MahaNakhon debuted as Thailand's tallest building this week with an unforgettable light show. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPX76USpHRcMacro Room grabbed a bunch of frozen treats and filmed extreme closeups as they melted. The melting patterns create beautiful and sometimes surprising deligh...