Articles by BoingBoing from November 2016

Maureen Herman & Katie Schwartz wrote a piece about Narcissist Personality Disorder and how to defend yourself against a world leader who might have it.We want to urge the press and public to understa...

Earlier this month, Henrik Moltke helped report the extent to which the massive, windowless, bombproof AT&T tower at 33 Thomas Street was implicated in illegal NSA surveillance of US and internatio...

A couple of weeks ago I reviewed New Matter's MOD-t 3D printer. It was $400 at the time, but the price has temporarily dropped to $340. This is a great deal for an excellent 3D printer. I've been usin...

I had no idea I was supposed to be treating my horn rimmed glasses with special care. Over time, my favorite pair developed a lovely patina, and moulded to fit me. Little did I know, I was letting the...

These work. I like center-pinch lens caps as they try to hold themselves on. I don't bother with the leashes, they get in my way. I just buy more caps when I lose them. I lose a lot of them. Sometimes...

I loved Weebles. As a little kid I tried and tried to balance them upside down. As a young boy scout I learned they make dangerous ammunition for homemade calcium carbide cannons. They fit an availa...

Happy 117th birthday to Emma Morano of Verbenia, Italy! Morano is the oldest person on Earth and the last living individual born in the 19th century. From the BBC:Ms Morano's longevity, she admits, is...

Utopias are never perfect, are they? Symmetry offers some good heady sci-fi in the vein of 1984, Ender's Game, Equilibrium, or Fahrenheit 451. Imagine a world where humans are coddled and raised by ma...

Alexander Unger is an animator and sculptor who makes excellent stop motion instructional videos (like this one on how to bounce things and this one on how to make things fly). Here's a recent claym...

The Internet Archive is augmenting its existing mirrors -- one in San Francisco, one in Amsterdam, one at the Library of Alexandria (that is: San Andreas fault, below sea level, military dictatorship)...

YO is an FDA-cleared sperm quality analyzer for your smartphone. It consists of a detachable mini microscope and light that clips to your mobile phone. You "acquire" a sperm sample, drop it into the Y...

Wikus Ceronie, a welding inspector, describes his encounter with a truculent hippo:This is my first time ever working in Mozambique and I was on a jolly journey back home to South Africa. I was cros...

From CBC:Lawrence worked at the mint from July 2008 until March 2015. His job included purifying gold jewelry, coins and bars purchased by the mint by melting it, injecting it with chlorine gas an...

Ive heard from people who felt tension and being infuriated about the scenes, but that wasnt the purpose, designer/filmmaker Florent Porta told Wired. It makes me laugh. Im not sadistic!...

The Bank of England confirmed that its new 5 notes contain animal fat. There is a trace of tallow in the polymer pellets used in the base substrate of the polymer 5 notes, it tweeted yesterday. Ther...

Venezuela's currency is on track to inflate by 720 percent this year. Why? The drop in the price of oil hurt Venezuela's economy, and President Nicols Maduro thought he could solve the problem by pr...

Charles from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund writes, "CBLDF is raising money to prepare for a busy 2017 this #GivingTuesday by offering exclusive Comics Are For Everybody merchandise created by Jord...

Network Time Protocol is how the computers you depend on know what time it is (this is critical to network operations, cryptography, and many other critical functions); NTP software was, until recen...

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From TED-Ed:You work at the college library. Youre in the middle of a quiet afternoon when suddenly, a shipment of 1,280 books arrives. The books are in a straight line, but they're all out of order...

From TED-Ed:You work at the college library. Youre in the middle of a quiet afternoon when suddenly, a shipment of 1,280 books arrives. The books are in a straight line, but they're all out of order...

Vegan shoe company Keep's $97 Ramos midtop sneaker was designed by Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, and will ship in February, with all proceeds going to Planned Parenthood, a vital woman's health organizatio...

Five Star Christmas Tree Cois providingthe easiest way yet to decorate for the holidays. This company will actually deliver aChristmas tree or wreath straight to your front door for a reasonable price...

Jack Dalrymple, the Republican governor of North Dakota, has ordered an "emergency evacuation" on the unceded treaty lands owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, where protesters have endured potenti...

Juno is a "driver-friendly" rideshare service that competes with Uber by paying its drivers more and giving drivers the ability to pick up a fare, get them to install the Juno app, and give them a dis...

Last weekend, the New York Times published an outstanding, meticulously reported investigative story about Trump's financial conflicts of interest -- the sorts of things that could lead to forced dive...

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Florent Porta created Preposterous, an animated CGI confection of brightly-colored objects behaving impossibly, set to Vic Mizzy's upbeat music. (more…)...

Vinyl Divas is a comprehensive collection of vintage classical music divas, and it ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous to the sublimely ridiculous. Includes lists by artist name, collection base...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5bB7HogWIMichael Samuels of Sonic Geometry is Kickstarting a set of polyhedral sound controllers that let users shape sound and light into a multimedia performance. O...

Instagrammer Edamame114 is proud biographer of Japan's derpiest superstar chihuahua Nana. Follow Nana's adventures wearing hats, going to local landmarks, and eating treats. Warning: you may make audi...

NASA issued a public $30,000 bounty "for fecal, urine, and menstrual management systems to be used in the crews launch and entry suits over a continuous duration of up to 144 hours." From the competit...

Wonderful work from two local businesses in Nixa, Missouri. (via /r/funny)And while we're at it, here's a fine selection of other creative billboards....

Tsujigiri is the Japanese word for lopping off an innocent person's head with a sword. My wife, Carla Sinclair, wrote about the origins of this grisly practice in her article for Tofugu.The reasons fo...

It is obviously unfair to dismiss the entire contents of a book for a single tin-eared statement, but the clunker that comes near the end of The Earth and I by Gaia-theory originator James Lovelock is...

https://youtu.be/nQZRA7wft1IThe lawyers of Hutson and Harris wrote and performed a song that explains how eating or throwing away your pot in front of a cop turns a misdemeanor possession charge into ...

Xeni and Mark got me addicted to fermenting vegetables. These fermentation locks make fermenting a variety of things at once simple.Using home-brew style fermentation locks with my wide mouth Bell jar...

I just bought another Amazon Dash Button for my growing collection of wireless one-push product ordering buttons. (This time, I got the button for Amazon Basic Batteries.) Dash Buttons are usually $5,...

Mark Wilson of Fast Company cooked a piece of salmon in a $1,500 toaster over called June, which has a built-in camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and artificial intelligence. He says the the oven isn'...

If you search for Microsoft Excel in Apple's App Store, the top result is a $30 Office Bundle," advertised as a way to "create Word, Excel and PowerPoint Documents." In reality, it's just a bunch of t...

This video could be titled "Road Warrior Lite."...

Here's a fellow whose been plagued with redback spider infestations in his backyard garden. In this video he shows his arsenal of weapons (such as deodorant can flamethrowers) and how he uses them t...

Crowdsupply (previously) is an extremely effective platform for funding open source hardware development, boasting twice the success-rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo; it is also the birthplace of the...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Ding dong! The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. Most news articles say the cause of death was simple: the election of Donald Trump. But they've only got...

Since 1993, the Literary Review has presented the Bad Sex in Fiction Award to "an author who has produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel." The winner will ...

Taofledermaus writes:Neodynmium magnets and a high speed camera? It turns out it is, as the kids say, oddly satisfying. I was practicing with some macro shots with the Chronos high speed camera, usi...

Co-starring the digital resurrection of Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin? ...

The OECD's 2011-2015, 33 country, 215,942-person study of computer skills paints a deceptively grim picture of the average level of computer proficiency around the world -- deceptive because it exclud...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YmROBn7xiYElly from Microcosm publishing writes: "Our next book has been in the works for years, but as we launch our Kickstarter we find it's become terrifyingly cu...

The Trump election gave real legitimacy to Europe's fascist parties, including France's Marine Le Pen of the National Front; and in the absence of real, left-win alternatives for populist discontent, ...

In order to get permission to add an extra 20 floors to Trump Tower's plan, Donald Trump had to promise to build public amenities, "including access to restrooms, an atrium, and two upper-level garden...

Ryan Shapiro, the punk Freedom of Information Access ninja, is crowdfunding a warchest to fund his inevitable lawsuits against the Trump government when he subjects it to the same relentless bombardme...

With the passage of the Snoopers Charter earlier this month, the UK has become the most-surveilled "democratic" state in the world, where service providers are required to retain at least a year's wor...

The Mirai worm -- first seen attacking security journalist Brian Krebs with 620gbps floods, then taking down Level 3, Dyn and other hardened, well-provisioned internet giants, then spreading to every ...

Draw a maze at PathFinding.js, pick a an algorithm, and watch it explore and find its way to the target square....

Fastbees.net posted video of a large fishing spider hunting bees. As long as it doesn't move too quickly, it can grab the relatively small insects and sneak off with them. But when it gets skittish:...

If you've always considered trying out an online course, take advantage of this extra 25% off discountonly on Cyber Monday. Just enter code CYBER25 at checkout to save! Check out some amazing options ...

The recently-launched Waterjet Channel has been cutting all kinds of stuff with their high-power device, like these giant jawbreakers. Other good ones include an SLR camera:https://www.youtube.com/...

There's something very pleasing about watching the process of thermoforming, where a plastic sheet is heated atop a mould. Here's a cool example of even more complex manufacturing, using 3d modeling...

The trippy and magical world of chemistry is beautifully brought to life in Chemical Poetry, a macrophotographic contemplation of chemistry in extreme closeup. (more…)...

Adam Geitgey offers an alternative take on Apple's new MacBook Pros, which were poorly-received when announced two weeks ago. Geitgey argues that, thanks to the finally-maturing USB-C ecosystem (and t...

Lip-reading algorithms have all sorts of real-world applications, and LipNet shows great promise in machine-learning lipreading of constructed sentences from the GRID sentence corpus. (more…)...

Cold is easier to deal with than the raging heat of Venus. The Moon and Mars are bathed in dangerous radiation. This means Titan is humanity's best existential insurance policy. Charles Wohlforth and ...

When we got to rounding up our favorite books for our annual Gift Guide, we found that there were simply too many this time to throw in the Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukah/Yule/Solstice/Nonspecific Winter C...

When we got to rounding up our favorite books for our annual Gift Guide, we found that there were simply too many this time to throw in the Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukah/Yule/Solstice/Nonspecific Winter C...

When we got to rounding up our favorite books for our annual Gift Guide, we found that there were simply too many this time to throw in the Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hanukah/Yule/Solstice/Nonspecific Winter C...

A ransomware criminal's self-reproducing malicious software spread through a critical network used by the San Francisco light rail system, AKA the Muni, and shut it down; the anonymous criminal -- cry...

As George W Bush taught us: "fool me twice, we don't get fooled again." (more…)...

In my head the lyrics are as sung by Bill Murray....

Unicorn Riot is a media collective that formed in response to the lack of media coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tar Sands Blockade; their news comes direct from the front lines o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXuL3io7pQwJoe Corre -- founder of the Agent Provocateur lingerie stores; son of Sex Pistols impressario Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood-- torc...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmyuweolqYThe Auralnauts' wildly successful Star Wars remixes have gone from strength to strength, combining bad lip reading, South Park-ish raunchy humor, and massi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30EYoda's never been so funky as he is in this amazing 4-minute music video for "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)," a masterpiece from the Bad Lip Reading project, who...

Trump International Golf Links was built on the site of a protected 4,000-year-old sand dune; he bullied anyone who wouldn't sell their homes to him to build it and then sent the holdouts a bill for t...

Floyd Brown invented the Reagan-era Willie Horton lie, helped create the Citizens United group, and now owns Liftable Media, including sites like Conservative Tribune (50th most-trafficked site in the...

You must face the fact that its time to start your holiday shopping. Some folks dawdle, then run out on Christmas Eve to buy buy buy.But if you wish to remain firmly seated on your derriere and shop f...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRB1mpEFeCQ&feature=youtu.be(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)...

Pauline Oliveros, the avant-garde composer and accordionist who developed the influential experimental musical theories of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness," has died. She was 84 years old. Olive...

Then put the cap back on and give it a shake. Voila! Chances are there are enough creamdregs in the carton to properly dairify your coffee; you'll learn to calibrate the penultimate coffee to leave th...

Apparently, Black Friday isn't just a one day affair anymore. Huge discounts are popping up all weekend long, and these 8 are some of the coolest deals we've found.If you don't find anything you like,...

Reason Editor-in-Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward received a commemorative Johnson-Weld 2016 Libertarian Party Presidential Campaign plate in the mail.https://twitter.com/kmanguward/status/80115310939328512...

Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba and leader of the Caribbean nation's Communist revolution, has died, state TV announced tonight. He was 90. His brother Ral Castro, who is the current Presid...

When the film The Babadook came out in 2014 I watched it, lights out, dark room, and felt the lick of terror roll up the back of my neck. Its a remarkable accomplishment for both the director, Jennife...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7Wn5UemHUYoure sitting in a movie theater in the 1920s. Some nutsy cartoon is playing before the main feature and the characters are chasing one another around whats...

When you reach a certain age, the memory of The Munsters is actually better than the TV show was (as opposed to The Addams Family, which is better than you remember).Regardless, the iconic imagery ass...

Prepare a turkey as usual, but add a prosciutto-wrapped pork loin with spaghetti teeth into the just-split chest cavity of the bird, garnished with dye-enhanced gravy and cranberry sauce -- YUM! (more...

Fox News reports that Donald Trump's still thinking of offering Mitt Romney the job of Secretary of State. The catch: Trump wants a public apology.A transition official told Foxs Ed Henry that some in...

Landscape photographer Melvin Nicholson captured this stunning shot of a ghost rainbow, aka white rainbow or fog bow, in Rannoch Moor north of Glasgow, Scotland. Like rainbows, fogbows are caused by s...

That Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet is probably not as close as it appears, but still too close for comfort....

Gilad Lotan -- our favorite fake-news sleuthing data-scientist -- writes about the problem of not-quite-fake news, which is much more pernicious than mere lies: it's news that uses attention-shaping, ...

"'Disobedient Electronics' is a zine-oriented publishing project that seeks submissions from industrial designers, electronic artists, hackers and makers that disobey conventions, especially work that...

Even though disgraced Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf has left the building, his most outrageous legal theories live on: on Wednesday, the company filed a motion in a federal court in Utah seeking dismiss...

Before the deregulation bonanza of the 1980s, corporations were expected to use debt and the public markets as the capital of last resort: they would pay "normal" dividends, then use the left over mon...

Even though the majority of American workers would like to join a union, America's anemic labor laws scare them away from it -- after all, if you're fired for attempting to unionize, all your boss owe...

Last June, a group of business-friendly right-wing politicians staged a legal coup and had president Dilma Rousseff removed, putting convicted fraudster Michel Temer in her office, which he used as an...

Tennie White is a lab owner who became a relentless crusader for environmental justice for black towns and neighborhoods where giant corporations dumped toxic chemicals and walked away scot free; her ...

"Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for the inauguration," said Anthony Scaramucci, a member of president-elect Donald Trump's transition team."There is no truth in this at all," ...

Strictly Paper blogs the work of Eric Standley, who uses lasers on hundreds of sheets of paper to create incredibly-detailed works of art. [via] These laser-cut masterpieces, reminiscent of stained gl...

Encyclopaedia Brittanica explains: "As a community moves toward despotism, respect is restricted to fewer people. A community is low on a respect scale if common courtesy is withheld from people on ...

Actress Florence Henderson, most famous as "iconic matriarch" Carol Brady and recent turns on Dancing with the Stars, is dead at 82."We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear mother Flo...

If you've never gone down a rabbit hole of watching tractor videos, that may change after watching tractors topping tulips or planting potatoes on Tractorspotter: (more…)...

Mathematician Gordon Hamilton presents a curious puzzle inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian: within a square canvas filled with rectangles that all have different dimensions, what's the lowest poss...

The Design Museum in London just unveiled Mimus, Madeline Gannon's newest exploration of robot-human interdependence. From its enclosure, Mimus senses visitors and interacts with them. (more…...

Fusion looks at the tensions between a pacifist religious sect and local North Dakota officials over an abandoned Cold War anti-missile complex that looks like something out of Illuminati conspiraci...

"Nature is transgression's church," says Vitaliy Volt" Agapeyev, who combines geometric forms with intricate patterns found in nature. (more…)...

The biggest shopping day of the year is here, and the best part is that you no longer need to wait in line to take part. We've compiled 10 ridiculously good deals that will be gone tomorrow, so whethe...

In 2006, president-elect Donald Trump remarked that if Ivanka Trump wasn't his daughter, "perhaps I'd be dating her." In response, she said "If he wasn't my father, I would spray him with Mace."http...

UPDATE: The quote attributed to Ivanka Trump by The Chicago Tribune did not originate with her, reports Snopes' Dan Evon.Kendizor evidently found Ivanka's alleged "mace" quote in the "Quotables" sec...

The original is a screengrab of a fairly low-quality video feed; I opened it in a proprietary "Blow Up" app, added some grain to conceal compression artifacts, and interpolated it to 2048 pixels wide ...

Sandra Jansen was elected to the Alberta Legislative Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, but now she sits with the left-leaning New Democratic Party, who took the provincial go...

As it's been 30 years since William Burroughs' legendary Thanksgiving Prayer was recorded, I thought a contemporary tribute was in order. (more…)...

Last June, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered by a neo-Nazi who was outraged by her anti-Brexit stance; that man is now on trial. (more…)...

Cult Nation gathered up a fascinating collection of vintage photos from Lowrider Magazine and personal collections that show how influential Latina gangsters were on style and culture in Southern Cali...

Here's Trey Parker's technique for getting a good performance while recording the voice of toddler Ike Broflovski for South Park. In this case, Canadian adoptee Ike is voiced by none other than Trey...

If you like The Slow Mo Guys and The Hydraulic Press Channel, you might enjoy this mashup of a deck of cards getting smooshed at 28,500 fps and 90,000 pounds of force. (more…)...

A virtual reality version of Google Earth is now available on Steam for the HTC Vive. Viewers can walk around, or fly, or browse any number of recorded locations. (more…)...

Some of the greatest 25 minutes in television history....

Starlings in flight are always beautiful, but what's most remarkable about The Art of Flying, a film by Jan van IJken about a massive flock of starlings, is the sound. (more…)...

A few things have changed since the 1960s....

These days, webenefit from havinga plethora of TV streaming options, but SelectTVhad never been on my radar. SelectTV may be a less known option, but it actually offers significantly more content than...

The MT Washi Masking Tapes come in 20 colors for $16.35, 10 meters of each color, with hundreds of positive reviews from crafters and customizers (caveat: this is "decorating" tape, and has limited us...

Atheist Shoes (previously), the stylish German shoes whose souls soles bear atheist messages ("Ich Bin Atheist") are getting ready to relaunch with a tweaked new design called DAS SNEAKER, which sport...

On wednesday, president-elect Donald Trump unveiled a $150 Christmas tree ornament: a miniature Make America Great Again hat. Finished in brass and 14-karat gold, it has already been subject to many r...

On wednesday, president-elect Donald Trump unveiled a $150 Christmas tree ornament: a miniature Make America Great Again hat. Finished in brass and 14-karat gold, it has already been subject to many r...

HX-01 is an animated full-length film on the verge of hitting it's modest $6k crowdfunding goal. Its landscape of psychedelic geometric video graphics are just my cup of acid; check out the trailer ...

The Denver Guardian looked enough like a real news site to convince legions of Facebookers that its fake news about Hillary Clinton was worth sharing. The anonymous creator reused an old handle in an ...

Thirty years after William S. Burroughs wrote his "Thanksgiving Prayer" and sadly it's never been more relevant....

Who needs fake news when we have this weeks tabloids to tell us what they think is happening in the private lives of celebrities, based on appearances alone?TV news doyen Barbara Walters has three mon...

Richard Ankrom's "Figurines" series mix "found ceramic objects, synthetic rubber, zipper (studs, buckles, etc.)" (via JWZ) (more…)...

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is very sorry that his office cited the 1857 Dred Scott case, which established that the descendants of enslaved black people were not US citizens, in response to...

From Glock, makers of fine handguns and honest tweets about America's Thanksgiving roots in pie and lethal force. (more…)...

We offer an oasis of serenity for you. Feel free to bookmark this page whenever anxiety surges, or the human race makes you despair. (more…)...

Alex Halderman has clarified his earlier remarks about the integrity of the Wisconsin election: in a nutshell: voting machine security sucks, hackers played an unprecedented role in this election; the...

"If you don't have a palm tree nearby, try using long strips of paper instead," writes Grant Thompson, aka The King of Random....

Andy Warhol eats a Whopper, from Jrgen Leth's 1982 documentary/art film "66 Scenes from America," a collection of moving "postcards" from the United States. According to YouTube user Hidden Below, w...

Lethebo Rabalago, pastor of the Mount Zion General Assembly (MZGA), in Limpopo, South Africa, sprays his congregants with Doom Super Multi Insect Killer to heal them of various ailments. From CNN:A po...

Fail Army put together a video of people (and at least one cat) destroying valuable cars, camera equipment, computers, TVs, boats, houses, and other things....

Stone Story is an RPG coming soon to Steam. From the developer:Stone Story is an RPG set in a dark and vile world. The game's fluid ASCII art is painstakingly animated in plain text by a single insane...

Melbourne's Deakin University commissioned me to write a science fiction story about the design and regulation of self-driving cars, inspired by my essay about the misapplication of the "Trolley Probl...

Fast-talking national-treasure math vlogger Vi Hart (previously) takes a statistical look at the polling data from the 2016 presidential election and concludes that the most significant divide in th...

Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues his massive, authoritarian purge of his country's public institutions, news media and civil society groups with a fresh wave of public-sector firings, b...

An official German government committee of inquiry investigating the illegal surveillance that Edward Snowden revealed has asked Snowden to testify before it, the German Federal Court of Justice has o...

The Snoopers Charter, an extreme surveillance bill that passed last week, and it's the most extensive domestic spying regime that any "democratic" country has passed, and is a potential blueprint for ...

University of Michigan prof J Alex Halderman (previously) is one of America's top experts on voting machine security (see this, for example), and he's issued a joint statement with voting-rights atto...

The Twisty Glass Bluntis an intriguing product that claims to abolish the need to ever buy or use rolling papers. How does it work? I had to see for myself.Built with a German-engineered glass tube an...

Mosh offers 21 different glitching tools to apply to uploaded images, from polar pixelation to Bad Television and barrel blur. Best of all, the results are animated! You can also just click the Mosh B...

Do not drive anywhere in Los Angeles between the hours of 4 and 7 p.m and within 10 days either side of Thanksgiving. [via B911Weather]https://twitter.com/B911Weather/status/801271372601143296...

The New York Times reports that Facebook is completing work on censorship software to accommodate demands made by the Chinese government.The social network has quietly developed software to suppress p...

Illustrator Yukai Du created this lovely animation of Richard Karban's TED talk on plant communication. (more…)...

These kinds of visualizations are always interesting, and this one by Jack Hagley is a nice layout. It would be better if it had a link with sourced citations for the values in the graphic. At least t...

This drone-catching drone video from Airspace Systems suggests that drones and counter-drones will soon be filling the skies. Drone deliveries will be skyjacked by robber drones, then cops and priva...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIqVTIfDu0QThis vintage footage of Shirley Muldowney kicking ass in drag racing is made that much better because it's set to the song "Shirley" by L7 from their album H...

YouTuber GoToe has created an impressive IRL lipdub of the iconic He-Man mashup of the 4 Non Blondes anthem "What's Up." We appear to be approaching a meta-mashup singularity. (more…)...

NOW MORE THAN EVER: Support Tom the Dancing Bug by joining its subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, and get exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, more. More Tom the Dancing...

My wife Carla is executive editor of Tofugu, a very cool website about Japan. She just wrote an article about how USans and Canadians living in Japan celebrate Thanksgiving. She interviewed five peopl...

https://youtu.be/dc9d8LXlFRoQuinn Norton's lecture A Network of Sorrows: Small Adversaries and Small Allies at Hack.lu (helpfully transcribed by the Open Transcripts folks!) is a great call-to-arms ...

"It's a rose flavor; it's an orange flavor; it's lemony," said President-elect Trump about one of his signature fragrances. And he had several, dating back to a 2004 partnership with Este Lauder on Do...

More fun than the Lego Batman Movie?...

Bloomberg News hired a lab to analyze samples of store brand aloe gel purchased at Wal-Mart, Target, and CVS. As the first or second ingredient (after water), all the products listed aloe barbadensis ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxLTaY-r3xo&feature=youtu.beGary writes, "This mashup of Rush's 'YYZ' and Kelis's 'Milkshake' is an absolute masterpiece." Also: Randy "Macho Man" Savage and Thong So...

Amazon has a good deal on the iClever BoostStrip Surge Protector With 4 USB Ports. It's $12 with code SURGEPOW. I just bought one for the kitchen, which is where family and visitors seem to want to ch...

American Indian artist Peggy Fontenot is in the Patawomeck tribe, which is recognized by the state of Virginia, but not by the federal government. As a result, an Oklahoma state law forbids her from t...

Hugh sends us this "nice anti-Nazi poster from designer Arin Fishkin building on an illustration by Paul Sizer."...

California's perma-drought has led to the death of more that 102 million trees in the last six years.From SF Gate:Scientists blame five-plus years of drought on the increasing tree deaths tree fatali...

Encyclopedia Britannica made this 10 minute video about how a country slides into despotism....

Encyclopedia Britannica made this 10 minute video about how a country slides into despotism....

In the 1970s I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club. Whoever the art director was at the time, they were producing some excellent covers. I still have the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom novels ...

Evan from Fight For the Future sez, "This is one of those bad ideas we just have to stop before it has time to spread. A GOP State Senator in Washington has proposed a law that would allow authorities...

Any fan of Love and Rockets creator Gilbert Hernandez and of Batman, Catwoman, and New Frontier writer and artist Darwyn Cooke will be excited to read The Twilight Children, a four-issue series by Ver...

One of the most fun and lucrative careers out there isgame creation, but it's constantly evolving. This 2017 Master Game Development Bundlewas created to teachall of the most relevantskills. Its purpo...

https://youtu.be/FawCUKvTQdAThe Perpetual Puzzle is Tenyo's version of the "infinite chocolate bar trick." Five pieces form a rectangle that barely fits into a frame. Buy you can add two more pieces t...

The street finds its own uses, etc. This one's the work of Adam Bell.https://twitter.com/b3ll/status/800472338496036864...

https://youtu.be/H0x9Xj4kjCEThese hobo knives have always bugged me, because how are you supposed to cut a hobo steak with one when the knife and fork are attached? Well, the W.R. Case & Sons Amber Bo...

Not sure I'd trust this in the Himalayas, or even the Pennines... but it's absolutely adorable!The completed bag weighs 17oz. Far lighter than my expectations.I made sure to include a sleeve that I co...

In 1954, a London taxi driver named George King received an extraterrestrial mental telegram informing him that he's been deemed the voice of the Interplanetary Parliament. Motivated by his new cosmic...

A commercial airline is no Tardis ("bigger on the inside") but designers and engineers do use several techniques to reduce your claustrophobia in the sky....

Annoyed by reviews of keyboards that describe mechanical switches the way men in bow ties describe wine, HaaTa spent fabulous amounts of money constructing a custom gauge that generates meticulously a...

Andrew Hussie's Homestuck was a vast, sprawling, impenetrable, hostile webcomic, and it only become harder to define as its popularity grew and its volume stretched toward a million words...If you ask...

Trump campaigned on "draining the swamp" of the industry insiders who enjoy a revolving door relationship with the regulatory branch, moving from industry to government and back again. But his actions...

Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz's must-read new book The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (read an excerpt) is not for sale in the Apple ebook store, and won't be until t...

On Naked Capitalism, Gaius Publius parses through Donald Trump's "100-day action plan" (just the public parts, not the parts leaked by the bumbler Trump wants to put in charge of the DHS), and calls o...

Since last spring, the "Professor Watchlist" has allowed right-wing students at American universities to anonymously blacklist the professors "who discriminate against conservative students, promote a...

Realtek's audio chips -- found in Macs and many PCs -- can repurpose your laptop's headphone jack to serve as a mic jack, and capture audio through your headphones. (more…)...

A fraudster's term of art, "whaling" refers to phishing attempts targeted at "C-level corporate executives, politicians and celebrities" -- it's a play on "phishing" (attacks that trick users into dow...

YouTuber Murmiland, aka Ortwin Grttner, created this one-of-a-kind rafting-themed marble run that takes nearly 3 minutes from start to finish. Follow one yellow marble in a sea of green glass marble...

In under an hour, glass artist James Mongrain transforms blobs of molten glass into a stunning green dragon. The choreographed teamwork, the variety of tools, and the interesting narration make this...

For reasons unknown, up to half of of people who freeze to death are found partially or completely naked. DNews looks into the phenomenon of paradoxical undressing. (more…)...

This remarkable demonstration of a pigeon, a falcon, and an owl flying past six extremely sensitive high-end microphones shows just how quiet owls are when they fly. (more…)...

Maybe next presidential election, it would behoove pollsters to check in with flagmakers of Yiwu, China's main manufacturing center for flags exported to America. One manufacturer told a Chinese video...

How fast things move! Here's us, suggesting that media people stop using the cutesy term "alt right" to describe Sieg Heiling white supremacists. But they're already moving onto panel discussions on w...

Kansas Secretary of State and noted xenophobe Kris Kobach, who is in line to run Trump's DHS, was photographed by the AP yesterday at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse holding the secr...

We got the Ohuhu 48-color colored pencil set ($15 on Amazon) so we could review the coloring books Carla gets for Wink. They are a lot better than I expected, especially for the price. The pigments ar...

With 100 frames of incongruously playful observation connected only by authorship, wit, and uncanny brilliance, The Portable February is a Cliffs Notes thesis on existence, told in line drawings and o...

Metafilter's Cortex wrote and recorded "Everything Is Fucked (Keep On Going)" (MP3) as "a little pep talk, for myself and for anyone else who needs one, as we wade through the fuckedness of all this. ...

I may not be able to fix a broken watch, but I do not blame this set of tools.I have a dead self-winding Bulova I wanted to see if I could puzzle out, and fix on my own. That did not work out, but the...

Gayageum virtuoso Luna Lee's intense cover of "Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)."...

Laurin Dpfner sanded a walnut, layer by layer, and combined the photos into an animated video. Here's his set-up....

https://vimeo.com/191998961Buck, the director of this animated video, says, "David Blaine approached us to make an animated intro for his latest magic special, a palette cleanser to get people excited...

British regulators determined that a joke about Queen Elizabeth II having sex "breached" broadcasting rules.The edition of the show, which aired in April this year, featured a panel of comedians who a...

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Foxxfur, proprietress of the outstanding Passport to Dreams Old and New Disney themepark design critique blog (previously) has opened a t-shirt store featuring designs celebrating the lost, lamented d...

If the rush of masculine energy conferred by wearing 3D eagle underwear has faded, you can renew it with the full-print wolf bodysuit that accentuates and subtly emphasizes the snoutal region. (via Cr...

"Hopefully plugging something into a GFCI outlet will save me if something goes wrong."...

Victims of the Trump University con were roped in by an initial free class endorsed by "the most celebrated entrepreneur on earth" that would, in Trump's words, "turn anyone into a successful real est...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=THOIp4yXZkcSculptor-machinist Chris Bathgate has improved on his Slider "worry-stone" gadget for occupying your nervous hands, using techniques he lea...

In 1912, bookseller Wilfrid Voynich discovered an illustrated manuscript that was written in a mysterious alphabet that had never been seen before. The text bears the hallmarks of natural language, bu...

Gary Gulman does a meandering six-minute set on how the post office came up with the two-letter abbreviations for each state. The trivia and asides get increasingly absurd as the bit continues. (mor...

Jimmy DiResta kept passing by a 1911 Chandler & Price letterpress sitting out in the rain. After buying it from the neglectful owner, he spent several years lovingly restoring it, eventually lea...

Redditor ibru stabilized this adorable clip of a cow rolling a hay bale down a hill: "I know it wasn't really needing to be stabilized a lot but I thought it'd make a good pano-ground gif." (more&hell...

Drivers in London have to pay a daily "congestion charge" intended to encourage the use of public transit and bicycles, but low-emission vehicles are exempt, and so for years, drivers of VW diesels go...

Propaganda, psychological warfare, and real-time surveillance were all on the agenda at the Sixth Annual Conference on Social Media Within the Defence and Military Sector. (more…)...

Ever wonder what an embryonic bat's skeleton would look like if the cartilage were dyed with alcian blue stain? Wonder no more. (more…)...

If youre looking for the perfect Christmas stocking stuffer, look no further than Scientific Magnetic Space Putty. I have to admit I've always loved silly putty, and this version just took an old favo...

Remember the GW Bush years, when Americans abroad sported this tee: ""I'm sorry my president is an idiot. I didn't vote for him" (with the message in five languages)? (more…)...

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Looking into my options for a compact, inexpensive home server, I chanced across PC Magazine's May 2016 review of the Dell Optiplex 3040. In the middle of it, reviewer and PC Magazine Lead Analyst J...

Yesterday, Donald Trump's news cycle was dominated by two stories: first, that the president-elect of the United States of America had a well-developed sense of the sanctity of the theatre, such that ...

Most holiday gift guides show you the same old boring products. Here are 3 gift ideas that are totally unique and even useful. Plus, they all feature one-day price drops today only.#1 Blue Apron: 3 De...

Kakistocracy n. (kakistocracy / kkstksi) Government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power. (more…)...

Laghcat's $24 knitted mermaid tail blankets come in kids' (56"x28") and adults' (71"x35.5") sizes and 40 color schemes/styles; the thousands of positive reviews praise the construction as being robust...

Vice President-elect Mike Pence went to see Hamilton last night; he was booed on the way to his seat, but afterward, the cast acknowledged him with a brief set of remarks written by the show's creator...

Britain's love-affair with mass surveillance began under the Labour government, but it was two successive Conservative governments (one in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, who are nominally pro-c...

I've definitely needed a new setof sheets for a while, and this deal seemed like the perfect excuse to do it. These brushedsheets are made with a combination of bamboo yarns and strong microfiber, and...

NYU PhD candidate Kevin Munger made a set of four male-seeming twitterbots that attempted to "socially sanction" white Twitter users who habitually used racial epithets (he reasons that these two char...

Michael Barbaro proposes that you sit down over a meal with a loved one who voted in a way you find incomprehensible and indefensible and have each of you discuss 19 questions, while not letting "impe...

The incredibly well loved, respected and admired Adam Yauch was a buddhist.Cops are here and investigating. Park will be closed until it is removed, I'm told. Peace to #Shadrach #Meshach #Abedne...

Our pals at Two-Bit circus have designed this paper craft robotic owl, to give kids a "taste of basic mechanical principles, electronics and programming." It looks really cool.Build the mechanics, el...

What are we coming to when the National Enquirer accurately reports Donald Trumps speech promising reforms in his first 100 days in office? They even add, in giant print on the front page, "in his own...

I added a line of dialog to Star Trek: First Contact.PREVIOUSLY: Yeah, Obi-Wan Remembers the Truth Alright...

Michael from Sparrows Lockpicks (previously) writes, "I am releasing the Gridlock today, a automotive lock teaching tool." (more…)...

ChefSteps Joule sous vide eliminates all the niggling inconveniences of other models and turns sous vide into a really useful, everyday technique. I've been cooking with it for months now, and I'm in ...

Dawoochen makes a line of flatware, called Head Up, for people who don't want the business end of their forks, knives, and spoons from touching the microbes teeming on the dinner table.The Dawoochen H...

Peterborough, England photographer Chris Porsz's Reunions photo series and book presents his remarkable street snapshots of myriad characters taken in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s juxtapozed with those...

Enjoy the delightful music video for the Was (Not Was) song "Hello Dad, I'm in Jail" (1987), directed by Christoph Simon. This clip was a favorite of many viewers of Liquid Television, MTV's fantast...

When the next president takes office, he brings with him an anti-encryption, anti-free-press, Islamophobic, racist, anti-transparency agenda that will depend on the tech sector's massive databases of ...

One of the things Ive always enjoyed about Charles Platts Make: Electronics series (which I instigated as an editor at Make: Books) is his Learning by Discovery approach. You learn about electronics b...

If you're heading into the Council of Elrond disguised as an elf, but you're reliant on a kind of Elvish Cyrano to whisper advice in your (lily-white) ear so you don't blow your cover, look no further...

Carryl Baldwin, a professor of cognition and applied auditory research, designs and tests sounds for "use as alarms in household, aviation, medical, and automotive settings." Atlas Obscura explores th...

Thinkgeek's new Her Universe Star Trek collection includes a couple of standout pieces: first, the Wesley Crusher bomber with embroidered "Crusher" over the breast and the three-stripe sleeve piping; ...

Paul Myers of Opulence Mechanics designed and 3D printed this door lock. You can open the door only if you have a marble. I guess a gumball would would, too....

Trump is a climate denier and he's packing his administration with climate deniers; as Peter Watts pointed out, Trump "seems to think that the laws of politics and of physics somehow carry equal weigh...

It's polar night in the Arctic, and temperatures ought to be plunging. But the opposite is happening. Meanwhile, sea ice in the Arctic is at a record low.From Washington Post:Despite onset of #PolarNi...

Paul Horner says he made more than $10,000 month writing fake news on Facebook that was widely shared by Trump supporters and picked up by the real press -- for example, hoax stories about protesters ...

https://youtu.be/4RWcWSN4HhIBack when people had jobs, they did things like make globes of the world....

Surviga seems to like the world inside a HTC's Vive virtual reality headset....

A puzzled thief had trouble understanding why he couldn't pull a cash drawer through a hole that was too small....

The NDjili district of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo is home to an enormous market of scrap auto-parts, carefully salvaged from Japan's waste-stream and meticulously arrayed on blankets by me...

The JetJat Ultra Nano Droneclaims to be unlike theaverage nano drone, and I thought it was worth trying out. These days, many nano drones tend to be too beginner friendlyand offer little opportunity t...

Tim Maughan writes, "Thanks to all the Boing Boing crew that checked out the trailer for our Detroit LIDAR film, it'll be out soon - in the meantime our film IN THE ROBOT SKIES is now up to stream. ...

Obamacare has some significant structural problems, all stemming from the way it gives the whip-hand to insurance companies, who get to demand ever-larger sums from both the government and Obamacare u...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbT0RCuto8Trossen Robotics challenged the roboticists whom it serves to make junkbots out of grab-bags of surplus parts they had lying around. The three winners are ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euQvtep54E8&feature=youtu.beBeck Stern writes, "In 2008 I knitted a woolen cozy for my computer, and now it belongs to the internet. This new video is its story." Bec...

https://youtu.be/N6x_AdyFeqk?t=20m40sThis week on the Tax Justice Network's podcast (previously), they profile (at 20:40) the OECD's Tax Inspectors Without Borders, through which poor countries loan...

Clickclickclick.click has one trick, and it's great: it just sits there narrating what you're doing on the page, from hovering over clickable areas to moving the pointer the way a machine would. It ca...

https://vimeo.com/189887394North Koreans have a fondness for lenticular postcards and stereoscopic keepsakes, and they granted Slovenian photographer Matja Tani rare access to create a series of 3D ph...

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few are dirt." John Muir's words and wisdom permeate Studiocanoe's lovely footage of the Scottish Highlands. (more…)...

Donald Trump has appointed Gen. Michael "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL" Flynn as his National Security Advisor and Jeff "be careful what you say to white folks" Sessions as his Attorney General. Along w...

When Adrien Mauduit moved to Denmark, locals said it was rare to see the Northern Lights. This gorgeous 4K timelapse proves them wrong in spectacular fashion. (more…)...

The uploader of this video doesn't know much about it — "probably it's Tokyu Ikegami Line" — but they know it's the world's shortest train. In honor of the widespread "reporting" of pres...

Joseph Kimble noticed this peculiarly-worded sign. I'm not sure of the jurisdiction but, to he honest, I would move elsewhere if I ran into a sign like this.https://twitter.com/ProfJoeKimble/status/79...

The company that invented the Swagway hover-board came out with an electric scooter called The Swagger and I love it. This zippy, carbon fiber toy weighs only 15 lbs, is easily carried and has a small...

FamilyBreakFinder created this map, featuring the slogans of every country's official tourism board. The key division, I think, is between ones that could apply to any country and ones that identify s...

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The United States of America interned citizens of Japanese descent during World War II. The 1988 Civil Liberties Act signed by President Ronald Reagan issued a formal apology and $20,000 to each survi...

In this episode of the YANSS Podcast, we sit down with legendary science historian James Burke, who returns to the show to explain his newest project, a Connections app that will allow anyone to searc...

Iowa state Rep Bobby Kaufmann [R-73] introduced "Suck it up, Buttercup" legislation to make it easier for the police to arrest anti-Trump protesters and for the courts to give them long prison sentenc...

Slow coffee service at a Miami Starbucks launched this gentleman into a racially based tirade. Apparently this is now America's answer to everything.Via @jbdclWe already understand you prefer horizo...

https://youtu.be/NvDvESEXcgEErik Singer, a dialect coach, was shown clips from 32 famous actors playing roles that required them to adopt an accent. He critiqued each one. As you might expect, Meryl S...

Google's neural net is amazingly good at figuring out what you draw. In this game, it correctly guessed five out of six doodles I drew: cookie, saw, scissors, beach, grass. It missed watermelon....

Kitchen appliances wear out. When they do, it usually means it's time to toss it and buy a new one. But in recent years, it's become easier to buy replacement parts, thanks to eBay and Amazon. This tr...

My friend Scott Albrecht, a Brooklyn-based artist and designer who creates fantastic typographical illustrations and hand-crafted, puzzle-like wood sculptures, has a show of remarkable new works openi...

In 1977 Richard Posner (then a prof at the University of Chicago's notorious ultra-libertarian school; now a federal judge) teamed up with an economist and law student to form Lexecon, which has since...

White supremacist media baron Steve Bannon ran Donald Trump's campaign; now he is Trump's presidential Chief Strategist. Last year, he did an interview in which he declared his belief that people from...

Research suggests that people who do nice things for others, often at a cost for themselves, are more sexually attractive. From an evolutionary perspective, this might be because altruism indicates th...

Apple has acknowledged that its Icloud service is a weak link in its security model, because by design Apple can gain access to encrypted data stored in its customers' accounts, which means that the c...

Seattle's KIRO TV made undercover visits to Office Depot stores in Washington state and Oregon and asked the technicians working in the store's "PC Health Check" to evaluate a working, uninfected PC; ...

After Automattic (makers of Wordpress) announced its control of the .blog top-level domain, Chris Chidle paid more than $200 to pre-register chris.blog. He did so under the expectation that, as Automa...

Now that Boars, Gore, and Swords has switched to full coverage of HBO's Westworld, they've returned to their schedule of posting episodes following that night's airing. For this week's "Contrapasso," ...

This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network:Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography -- vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in...

Via a Freedom of Information Act request, Yellowstone National Park recently reported the tragic details of an accident last summer, where a 23 year old man dissolved after an illegal attempt to bathe...

Via a Freedom of Information Act request, Yellowstone National Park recently reported the tragic details of an accident last summer, where a 23 year old man dissolved after an illegal attempt to bathe...

James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has tendered his resignation. He says he will serve through the handover to the new administration, whereupon Donald Trump will inherit an arse...

Samuraiguitarist Steve Onotera created this fantastic cover of the Super Mario World music including sound effects made on his guitar. (via Laughing Squid)...

Boing Boing pal Adam Savage (MythBusters, Tested) tours the incredible prop collection of Peter Jackson, producer of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, District 9, and the forthcoming The Adventures...

On The Tonight Show last night, Metallica, promoting their new album "Hardwired...to Self-Destruct," played their old ditty "Enter Sandman" in an entirely new way. We're off to never never land.Jam...

Were excited to announce our newest giveaway for the highly-anticipatedGoogle Pixel XL phone!This is Googles first foray into the smartphone game, and as expected, this device is packed with cool feat...

As U.S. headlines bombard us with proof of how low humanity can go, here's a look at a happy, peaceful, and prosperous country -- The Netherlands -- to remind us that it is actuallypossible for the hu...

Disney just announced that Doc McStuffins, an animated show starring an African-American girl who fixes broken toys and wants to be a doctor, is renewed for its fifth season. Described as Cheers for p...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC0C7vxxIxw&feature=youtu.beWe interrupt your growing anxiety at America's emergent cyberpunk dystopia for a tense missive from this guy's house. In this video, a pigeo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CNWbqmhDw&feature=youtu.beWe interrupt your growing anxiety at America's emergent cyberpunk dystopia for a tense missive from the Syrian War. In this video, an explos...

In a Subway eatery, a displeased customer. (more…)...

By the end, a nightmare of growls and weird echoing sound effects. (more…)...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Digital Security Tips for Protesters builds on its indispensable Surveillance Self Defense guide for protesters with legal and technical suggestions to protect you...

Chris Meadows writes, "Barnes & Noble is coming out with a $50 Nook Android tablet, with hardware specs similar to Amazon's $50 Fire. The kicker is, this new Nook tablet will run plain-vanilla Android...

In Carrie Fisher's new memoir The Princess Diarist, she writes that she had an affair with Harrison Ford while they were filming Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977). From CNN:"It was so intense,"...

"Donald in Mathmagic Land" was released in 1959. As Walt Disney said, "The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest." ...

About 5 years ago, I bought a simple 3D printer*. It cost only $400, but it was fussy and the software was hard to use. The printer bed needed frequent adjusting, and the printed parts would get stuck...

https://youtu.be/ELjEM4C2QSQIn 1959 Disney released a 30-minute educational featurette called "Donald in Mathmagic Land." Everything about it is superb - the design, the animation, the music, the narr...

The windowless, 550'-tall AT&T tower at 33 Thomas Street in lower Manhattan is the building referred to as TITANPOINTE in the NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, and was likely the staging point f...

The artist Sangoma writes, "Anamorphic drawing- for anyone curious about the style. This piece is a combination of graphite, pan pastel, charcoal, and exacto knife (to trim the top of the page)."...

Days after Mark Zuckerberg called the idea that Facebook -- and specifically, the fake news circulated on Facebook -- had influenced the US election as "a pretty crazy idea," a group of "renegade" Fac...

A wonderful collection of images that prove cats are magic, found on IMGUR. (more…)...

Prolific and dramatic security researcher Samy Kamkar (previously) has unveiled a terrifying device that reveals the devastating vulnerabilities of computers, even when in sleep mode. (more…)...

For the last six weeks, residents of El Segundo, California have been startled from sleep in the early hours of the morning by the ear-splitting blast of an air horn. On Sunday morning at 4 am, police...

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New Yorkers renting in the Trump Place buildings on the upper west side have forced the building's owner to take Trump's name off their homes. (more…)...

It took just days for a construction crew to repair a road that collapsed into a sinkhole in the business district of Fukuoka, Japan.From CNN:After the sinkhole appeared on November 8, subcontractor...

Catalyst, a new Star Wars novel by James Luceno, is a must read before you see Rogue One.Catalyst is the story of how the Death Star gets built, and feeds directly into the movie. You'll meet the two ...

Synesthesia is the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway. A synesthete might taste sounds or hear colors. Now, leading syn...

https://youtu.be/9oZ-zmPGTGETwo birds in flight? Windows Movie Maker skills? Balloons? Satellite? Black Knight companion? Here's what people on Reddit think....

Also in the running was "coulrophobia," the fear of clowns, and "hygge," a Danish concept meaning "a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-be...

Dr. Randy Olson is a senior data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. He used 68 of Waldos coordinates from all seven Wheres Waldo? books to developed an optimal search path.Of course, we shou...

I know what my kids will be doing after school today. (Handimania)...

Even the extreme legal theories of the George W Bush administration were mild compared to some of the "compromise" positions Obama's DoJ argued for, and now Donald J Trump gets to use those positions ...

As an iPhone owner, I'm pretty much always in need of a Lightning cable. This3-Pack of 6.5 ft Apple MFi-Certified Lightning Cablesis the best deal I've foundfor stocking up.These cables are MFi-certif...

Drew Friedman is one of the best illustrators alive today. His work has appeared on the cover of MAD, Spy, and The New Yorker and his recent books about comic book heroes and Jewish comedians will go...

Artist extraordinaire Mitch O'Connell has a new book out, called Tattoos Volume Two: 251 Designs, Bigger and Better! Mitch and I've known each other since we were both 16 years old at Boulder High Sch...

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FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.AND NOW, MORE THAN EVER, join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, ex...

https://youtu.be/MccLsc5YzrIThe title track from the Grateful Dead's November 15, 1978 release Shakedown Street is one my favorites....

Sarah Gailey's demon-dog duo from "Bargain" in Mothership Zeta's first issue return for another adventure in Mothership Zeta 5 (October 2016). Malachai, Devourer of Miscreants and Usurper of Souls, ha...

In 2014, lawyer and eminent Sherlockian Les Klinger comprehensively won the legal battle to establish that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain and available for anyone to use, abuse, alter, celebr...

In 2014, lawyer and eminent Sherlockian Les Klinger comprehensively won the legal battle to establish that Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain and available for anyone to use, abuse, alter, celebr...

Every now and then I meet people who seem to possess superhuman powers. Elliott Terral is one of those individuals and his official title isDirector of Magic at a company called Art of Magic.How cool ...

Remember David Hahn, the "radioactive boy scout" who, as a teen in 1994, tried to build a nuclear reactor in his garden shed? Sadly, he died this fall. So far, the cause of death is unknown.From Ars T...

No matter what apologists who would normalize the threat a Trump Administration represents may tell you, no one incidentally voted for the KKK's Presidential candidate because of his attractive econom...

I thought it was crazy that Dell dethroned Apple as the maker of America's most spectacular laptops, but look at this from HP, putting the Mac Mini on notice: the HP Z2 Mini Workstation.HP's little de...

Tomorrow, you can bid to own the earliest known stone tablet carved with the Ten Commandments. The two-foot-square, 115 pound marble stone was discovered in 1913 near Yavneh, Israel. The inscription i...

Charlie from Improv Everywhere writes, "What happens when you leave a megaphone on the street with the simple instructions: 'Declare Your Love?' 2016 has been a rough year. It felt like time to dust...

Workit is an Android app from OUR Walmart, a pro-labor/pro-union organization: it allows Walmart workers to ask questions about Walmart policy and employee rights, which are answered by a database com...

From a 1984 episode of the fantastic USA Network series Night Flight, an interview with pioneering digital video artists John Sanborn and Dean Winkler about their latest pieces, "Act III," with musi...

Boing Boing deals week part two: the FRESHeBUDs Pro Magnetic Bluetooth Earbuds. With the iPhone 7's huge splash this year, Bluetooth headphones are definitely going to be an important gift this holida...

I dont feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I have something to say," --Leonard Cohen, December 1974(Blank on Blank)...

David Manucso, the pioneering New York City DJ who launched the underground dance music scene with his in 1970 club The Loft, has died. He was 72. Mancuso's exquisite taste in music and his mission to...

Bruce Pascal's Hot Wheels collection is worth an estimated $1 million. Fifteen percent of the value though is in one car: a pink VW Beach Bomb Rear-Loader. (Barcroft TV)...

Check out this incredible spacecraft made by IMGURian revmuun for their beautiful one-year-old baby boy. What a fantastic wondrous thing to build for your kiddo!About the image below, revmuun says, Yo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDmxocrjuOoDonald Trump on Charlie Rose in 1992 talks about how much he loves getting even with people. Given the opportunity, I will get even with people who are dislo...

Included for free with some Android phones: a backdoor that sends all your text messages to China every 72 hours. (more…)...

The US-based trade group The Internet Association has released a policy roadmap for Trump's incoming administration and the GOP-led Congress with proposals to enable continued growth and success in th...

In the wake of the Trump election -- a triumph of fake news -- both Google and Facebook have announced that they will take countermeasures to exclude "fake news" from their services, downranking them ...

German sculptor Daniel Khn created the "Light & Cigarette Machine," which plays Candide while lighting and extending a cigarette; it was later owned by Leonard Bernstein, and was auctioned off to a ...

Brazilian Army Captain Willian Pina Botelho posed as Baltazar "Balta" Nunes in a fake Tinder profile and set out to seduce members of left wing anti-government protest movements in order to infiltrate...

Andre was so impressed with the existential crisis of a butter-passing robot as depicted in the cartoon Rick and Morty that he created his own, and shows you how to make one for yourself. (more&hell...

If you run the Shazam song identification app an Mac, the mic will never switch off, even when the program reports that it has. (more…)...

My friend Gilbert was the first Prius owner I knew; a hacker, Gilbert was accustomed to eating at a drive-through at 3AM, but the first time he took his silent car through the lane, the order-taker cu...

The New York Times opposes president-Elect's Trump's appointment of Breitbart executive Steve Bannon to a top White House role. In an editorial titled "Turn on the Hate," they quote him at his own wor...

A racist facebook post describing First Lady Michelle Obama as "a Ape in heels" was so satisfying to read it made Clay, W. Va,. mayor Beverly Whaling's day.Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-p...

A small houseboat, believed to be that of Canadian eco-adventurer Rick Small, has washed ashore in Ireland after apparently drifting across the Atlantic ocean. It was last spotted in September in Newf...

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Reading recent coverage of Donald Trump's friends on the far right, it struck me that even when people pander to the idea Western culture's wellbeing is inseparable from European ethnicity, they someh...

James Plakovic composes lots of scores that take the form of a composer, an object, or in this case, a map of the world. Set in 2/4 time signature with 32 bars, the piece does a pretty accurate job of...

It's easy to see why someone would want to emulate Instagram power couple Jack Morris' and Lauren Bullen's globetrotting adventures. One follower got a little carried away, though, matching locations ...

Volume warning! YouTuber Latheman666 demonstrates how an air compressor with the right nozzle can make all sorts of things float. Looking forward to a "Will It Float?" channel! (more…)...

Looking for a nerdy and obscure gag gift for a science-minded friend? How about a plushie of the toughest organism on earth? There's a motherlode of tardigrade plushies on this Japanese site. (more&h...

Elan Lee writes, "Bears vs Babies is a monster-building card game from the creators of Exploding Kittens, Elan Lee and Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal). Described as a game of 'strategic benevolent betray...

We have a new leader in America. Known for his distinct regional accent and often seen wearing a baseball cap at rallies, he starred in a show on NBC, and holds strong opinions about guns and the NRA....

Fosta writes, "Rather than just get angry and do nothing, we made RageDonate.com. We just launched this morning. The site shows statements from Donald Trump and offers a counter action via a donation ...

Kaijumax is a fun comic that will make you get all the feels for giant city-destroying monsters. Its like Oz or Orange Is the New Black, only the prisoners in this case are monsters straight from your...

The FBI today reported that hate attacks on Muslims in America are surging, as a wave of racially charged assaults, graffiti attacks and other episodes sweeps the country in the days since Donald Trum...

Aides to President-elect Donald Trump are focusing on former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. ambassador to U.N. John Bolton for the role of Secretary of State under our new fascist w...

The first Marvel-themed ride to open at any Disney park in the world will launch in January 2017 at Hong Kong Disneyland. There are expected to be soft openings for hotel guests in December.Created sp...

Below, a young grizzly bear plays with two GoPro cameras mounted on a pontoon floating in the clear water of the Knight Inlet on the British Columbia Coast. "The idea was to film bears diving for fish...

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Math problems are more interesting when they are posed as horror stories.The Josephus Problem gets its name from Titus Flavius Josephus, a first-century Jewish scholar.The story goes that he was wit...

Zoologist and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919) had some odd ideas about the origins and evolution of life forms. Thats understandable, because at the time, scientists were just beginning to accept D...

MAD "Fold-In" artist Al Jaffee has been a professional cartoonist for 73 years. Guinness World Records has certified him as the oldest working cartoonist. Sam Thielman of The Guardian recently intervi...

Donald Trump promised to shut down the free press if elected (the fact that the laws he wants to "open up" don't exist makes him an ignoramus, but not a harmless one) and his first official post-elect...

Anthropologist Emma Tarlo just published a new book, Hair: A Human History, investigating the weird culture and business surrounding hair, from Jewish wig parlors to its use in Hindu temples to hair l...

John Oliver talked HBO into letting him release his whole 29-minute, must-watch show on resisting the normalization of Trumpism, with its endorsement of rape; torture; mass-deportations; elimination...

Tom Adams, a lawyer and 20-year veteran of the securitization business, compares a map of America's largest foreclosure inventories with a map of key battleground states. (more…)...

Beware the Slenderman is a forthcoming HBO documentary about the latest incarnation of the bogeyman, including the 2014 story of the two 12-year-old girls who attempted to stab their friend to death...

Anish Kapoor -- last seen in these parts when he apparently insisted that it was illegal for people in Chicago to take pictures in their public park if they captured a sculpture that had been donated ...

Magician David Blaine does a number of fantastic card tricks for Jimmy Fallon and the Roots. He's doing an incredible amount of sneaky stuff right before everyone's eyes and doing it so well that no...

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Michle B. Nuijten and co's statcheck program re-examines the datasets in peer-reviewed science and flags anomalies that are associated with fakery, from duplication of data to internal inconsistencies...

Michle B. Nuijten and co's statcheck program re-examines the datasets in peer-reviewed science and flags anomalies that are associated with fakery, from duplication of data to internal inconsistencies...

This week is deals week in the Boing Boing store, and first up is the G-TUBE Adventure Ready Bluetooth Speaker. Itmay be super compact, but you wouldn't know it from the powerful sound it projects. It...

If the Democrats continue to front establishment candidates while the establishment's cherished beliefs continue to crumble, they will continue to lose. (more…)...

Steven "Hackers" Levy has a long view of Trump: as radical as he is, he's only a drop in the bucket compared to the political and social changes wrought by technology: "Who was king during the industr...

Paternoster elevators don't have doors or buttons. The run continuously in a loop, like a ferris wheel. When you reach your desired floor, you get off quickly. 99 Percent Invisible has an article ab...

Bruce Sterling's characteristically acerbic remarks on the US election gets to a really important point: internet-based movements have been amazing at tearing down corrupt establishment system, but ha...

The massive talent shortage in tech has all kinds of weird effects: the inability to outbid tech giants means that badly secured hospitals get devoured by ransomware; it means that companies that valu...

The UK Conservative government is pressing on with their insane plan to block all adult sites (including ones that are legal for adults to access) for all UK internet users. (more…)...

I have a feeling that Hedgehog art Though the Ages might not be entirely legitimate from a classical historiological standpoint; I suspect photoshop may even have been involved. But this is, it seems,...

Disney, through the Jim Henson Company, is the owner of the domain name muppetfucker.net. There is nothing at the address, but... why? io9's Beth Elderkin investigates and finds the answer to be the o...

The scientists commenting on the E/V Nautilus live stream just cant contain themselves when it comes to this adorable Flapjack Octopus.[via The Dodo]...

Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki "fails at retirement again," writes Amid Amidi. He's taking the helm again at Studio Ghibli to direct a new full-length feature film, Boro the Caterpillar.The news of...

The American Museum of Natural History's hockey stick graph of explosive human population growth in the last 200 years is projected to increase in the short term, tapering off around 11 billion, giv...

Three cows were spotted huddled on a column of earth this weekend after a 7.5-magnitude quake struck New Zealand. Two people and many animals were killed in the disaster and its aftershocks....

The Daily Beast vice president of audience development Alex Leo captured this sign at one of the anti-Trump protests in New York City.https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/797518351874584576...

My friend Tyler Feder (whose Hamilton tribute I recently celebrated), decided to turn her post-election sadness into something productive. So she posted this simple message on Instagram on Wednesday: ...

Researchers at UT Austin have analyzed a deep depression on Mars that differs from a typical crater. The Hellas depression may in fact be an ancient ice cauldron, where a glacier forms over an active ...

Dan Cretu created this pretty fancy Homer Simpson fried egg portrait. The broken-yolk-as-smile is a nice touch. (more…)...

Carolina Eyck performs a lovely series of Theremin Sessions, including this cover of Norwegian Wood. And she takes viewer requests:To take part in this video project, comment or send me your suggest...

Writer and editor Emily Ellsworth has been earning a lot of attention for her incredibly helpful Twitter thread on how best to contact your Congressional representatives. A registered Republican who c...

"Keming" is a nickname for bad kerning, and the fine folks at F**kYeahKeming have gathered some of the world's finest examples. Lots of "flick" and "click" kerning disasters, but some novel ones, too...

Doubling as a tribute to both Leonard Cohen and Hillary Clinton, Kate McKinnons somber Saturday Night Live cold open perfectly encapsulates what so many have been feeling this week....

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Laurie Penny says we've done enough listening to "real people" -- that the working-class whites who deplore racism and were not duped by Trump are done no favors by lumping them in with their neighbor...

Ontario Judge Bernd Zabel displayed contempt for his position and its political impartiality by showing up for work the day after the US election in a Donald Trump "Make America Great Again" hat, whic...

Adultfriendfinder, "the world's largest sex & swinger community," has suffered a major breach, leaking 300,000,000 accounts' worth of personal information, namely email addresses, passwords, usernames...

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee and the face of the party's insider establishment, is Donald Trump's pick as chief of staff.Live footage from the White House:https:/...

AdultFriendFinder was hacked (again) in October 2016. According to LeakedSource, which acquired a copy of the dataset, this amounts to more than 400m accounts, many with plaintext passwords, from Adul...

Chili's advertised free Veterans Day meals for service members. But not for black U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker, who shot video of a confrontation with a manager who refused to honor the deal. The...

Chili's advertised free Veterans Day meals for service members. But not for black U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker, who shot video of a confrontation with a manager who refused to honor the deal. The...

Never let it be said that the crapgadget factories of the Pearl River Delta know how to recycle surplus/rejected material. (more…)...

The Obama administration asserted the power to raid the massive databases of peoples' private, sensitive information that ad-based tech companies have assembled; the Trump administration has promised ...

Leave it to the Boing Boing Store to always keep usguessing. This week's roundup ranges from a beer mitt toa travel organizer.#1 Rolo Travel BagThe Rolo Travel Bag is by far the best way I've found to...

A unicorn chaser for an American week of purgatory (don't think about The Postman, don't think about The Postman, don't think about The Postman). (more…)...

Masha Gessen, who grew up in Putin's Russia, has six rules for us: 1. Believe the autocrat; 2. Do not be taken in by small signs of normality; 3. Institutions will not save you; 4. Be outraged; 5. Don...

During Canada's nightmarish Stephen Harper years -- when an Arctic country with two oceanic coastlines and major freshwater reserves was ruled by a ruthless climate-denier -- science librarian John Du...

Calvin Seibert makes modernist sandscastles on Coney Island. At Little Atoms, Caroline Christie interviewed him about his remarkable creations.I like making things and tend to work with whatever is at...

ButcherBoxis a unique subscriptionservice that is offeringan alternative to buying meat at the market.There's no shortage of subscription boxes out there, but ButcherBox is the first I've found that s...

I was looking forward to grabbing the NES Classic Edition console today, but it was not to be: the box, a miniaturized version of the classic 1980s machine replete with dozens of classic games, sold o...

Today, classic puzzles. Tomorrow, deep-dreamed enemies of freedom!...

Our guest on the Cool Tools Podcast this week is our own David Pescovitz, co-editor and managing partner of Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future. (Image: Ransom and Mitchell...

I drew this bOING bOING T-shirt design in 1991, when I was living in Boulder, Colorado. I gave one of the shirts to Evan Ravitz, a wonderfully talented tightrope walker, juggler, activist, and founder...

This new Fab Four themed Moleskine is really gear. Each one is individually numbered (I have 8379 out of 9999 made). It's part of a series of Moleskine Beatles' themed notebooks....

If you wait another six weeks until Jack Skellington gets kicked out of The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland youll be able to see the original Mansion in all its lunatic glory. To tantalize you until t...

If there's anyone qualified to recognize a genocidal strongman when they see one, it's the far-right Serbian and Macedonian ultra-nationalists who celebrate the Milosevic legacy of rape-camps, genocid...

Machinist/sculptor Chris Bathgate (previously) teamed up with Richard Stadler, who machines beautiful spinning tops, to create "sculpture TP53335144462," a gorgeous piece of work. (more…)...

I first heard it in Pump Up the Volume, a severely underrated movie about kids and rebellion that was always in my mind while I wrote Little Brother. (more…)...

"Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to c...

I love Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell explainer videos. They are beautiful and well-produced. In this episode, they explain the future of fusion energy....

Here's another great bar trick from Brian Brushwood of Scam School. Here's the setup - balance a nickel on its edge. Then, put section of a wooden matchstick on the nickel. Cover the nickel and matc...

Donald Trump's inaugural presidential tweet moaned that "Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!" was posted even as he was deleting his 2012 post-Obama electio...

After a campaign characterized by vagueness and tiny hand-waving, Donald Trump finally released a semi-detailed plan for his first 100 days in office yesterday, including "a requirement that for every...

The contestants in the latest season of Big Brother don't receive news from the outside world. Last night, the producers made an exception to the rule, and told them that the winner of the election ...

John Scott Tynes writes, "My daughter Alice Baggett is a third-grade technology teacher at Seattle Country Day School. She wrote this awesome guide for teachers of kindergarten through third grade to ...

This guy stopped his car on a snowy road to take a quick bio-break, when he noticed his car was rolling away from him. He tried his best to catch up with it as it went backwards down a hill. The who...

In 2002, a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology claimed that men named "Dennis" were more likely to become dentists; people named "George" or "Georgina" were apt t...

Anil Dash says that once we finish grieving, we need to organize. Start by figuring out who's already fighting for racial justice, against climate change, and for civil rights (including LBGTQ rights ...

KGW Portland surveyed 86 Oregon inmates serving time for burglary to see what they looked for when casing a house that is safe to break into and likely to contain valuables. One important lesson: "NRA...

For the last four years, the Rocketry Organization of California (ROC), a club for hardcore model rocket geeks, has hosted the Tripoli Rocketry Association's LDRS (Large, Dangerous Rocket Ships) launc...

Cambridge DIYer Brian Kane has a novel use for that old singing fish gag gift languishing in storage: hack it to mouth Amazon AI Alexa's utterances. (more…)...

Daniel Crooks' latest experimental work, The Subtle Knife, continues his exploration of urban spaces overlaid with windows of other spaces. The result is a slow, smooth, hypnotic meditation on time an...

The Democratic Party establishment's insistence on fronting a more-of-the-same establishment candidate cost them the election and cost America its sanity: now it's time to start planning for the 2018 ...

A GoPro Karma drops from the sky and lands at a surprised and confused bystander's feet. As this was not an isolated incident, GoPro recalled the Karma....

The Mac/Win/Lin versions of Spotify wrote hundreds of gigabytes of bad data per day to their 40,000,000 users, thrashing their drives. (more…)...

Following Brexit and the subsequent wave of racist abuses, Britons began to wear safety pins in public as an anti-racist statement. "This is meant to be more than just a symbolic gesture or a way for ...

Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has published a heartfelt and defiant statement about the EFF's plans for the coming four years under a president who has demanded...

If you're a Hamilton fan, you know that the Burr-Jefferson race of 1800 was such a shitshow that it ended up with the Vice President-elect murdering his most vocal critic after assuming office. (more&...

The stars of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends Of Tomorrow celebrated their upcoming multi-episode crossover with an Entertainment Weekly spread. And this behind-the-scenes video shows off th...

Nadia Eghbal's Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure is a long, detailed report on the structural impediments to maintaining key pieces of free/open software that under...

Jordan Bolton makes cool posters comprised of objects seen in famous movies, like this one for Amelie. (more…)...

At the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, weve been holding heads of state accountable for human rights violations for a quarter century. And now we're prepared to do the same in the United States.Our...

Istanbul-based Ouchhh created AVA, a geodesic surface installation that serves as a convex screen for physics-inspired moving images. The stark black-and-white pulsing forms look especially impressi...

Artist Maeril made this illustrated guide a few months ago, but its now more relevant than ever. You can find more of Maerils work on her Tumblr and Twitter....

The latest film from the director of Lucy and The Fifth Element promises to be every bit as trippy and perhaps even more visually stunning....

Heres the monologue from Full Frontals post-election special. As Samantha Bee puts it:I guess ruining Brooklyn was just a dry run. Caucasian nation showed up in droves to vote for Trump. So I don't ...

UK-based artist Billy Bogiatzoglou creates intricate images of engraved insects and skulls. The Engraved Entomology series has especially detailed beetles, dragonflies, and arachnids. (more…)...

SOFTlab creates handmade mesh sculptures that appear to melt and flow from ceilings, down stairwells, and from vaulted lobbies. Their most recent, Ventricle, evokes the human heart. (more…)...

Known for his uplifting, energetic personality, former tennis pro Matsuoka Shuzo stars in a video reminding you to never to give up. Sounds like something we could all use right about now....

Jeff Bezos, founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon and the proprietor of the Washington Post, is on president-elect Donald Trump's political hitlist.https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/...

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The earlyBlack Friday Mac Bundle 2.0 was just released, and this year, it comes with 9 impressive apps. At first glance, I noticed that all but one of the apps is worth more than the cost of the entir...

YouTuber Dom P posted a lovely short video of Chicago Printmakers Collaborative's steamroller printing project over the summer. For year, printers have been experimenting with renting steamrollers f...

New York Mag's Max Read wrote that Facebook, stuffed with hoaxes and largely-right wing fake news, has to face up to its role in promoting political disinformation that helped Donald Trump win the ele...

Today he was shown around the White House by outgoing president Barack Obama. This evening he's back on Twitter, angry at the media. President-elect Donald Trump has found his phone.https://twitter.co...

The great songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen has died. He was 82. "I never had the sense that there was an end," he said in 1992. "That there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot."(Rolling St...

In both English and Spanish, California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Len (D-Los Angeles) and California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) released the following open letter:###Tod...

Seems there are an awful lot of people making unsavory jokes these days. VIA KRCR News 7: A Shasta High School student handed out 'deportation' letters to students of different ethnicities, according...

The North Carolina Ku Klux Klan offers you "racial greetings" and invites you to celebrate the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States with a good old fashioned parade, dressed in s...

San Francisco students take to the streets to protest against Trump.pic.twitter.com/Re5YNf3GsW— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 10, 2016Go, kids, go!...

Hi Kid, On Election Night, you went to bed crying, and this time, I couldn't fix it. Like half the country, you thought you would be going to bed with a Democrat and a woman as your president-elect. I...

I bought this illuminated multi-power LED head magnifier for $10 in 2013, and I have used it at least a 100 times. That's 10 cents per use. To use it, you put the band around your head and tighten it ...

I've been swimming, surfing, boogie boarding and scuba diving with these HydroActive waterproof headphones by Underwater Audio. Everything about them is an upgrade on earlier models.I love having some...

I cant get enough of Mignolas occult investigators. The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense first appeared in the Hellboy series, however the comics have spiraled off to rightfully stand on the...

In 2014 Saara sang in 14 different genres. This month, she spoke in 14 different accents....

On Monday November 14, we'll have the opportunity to see the full moon closer to Earth than its been since 1948, and won't be again until 2034. It will be a spectacular sight. From NASA:The moons orbi...

This is one of the louder Polish carbide cannons I've heard....

In Brian Brushwood's Scam School, Gus Davis shows you how to greatly increase your rubber band shooting skills by employing a technique that causes the rubber band to spin. Houseflies, you're going ...

Keith Haring's New Year's Eve party in downtown Manhattan, 1984, as documented by video artist Nelson Sullivan. Those were the daze. (r/ObscureMedia, thanks UPSO!)...

Now that all that election nonsense is behind us, lets get back to what really matters in the world: Prince Charles has seized the British throne in a palace coup, Michael Jackson is having his first ...

The $10 "Compact Bags" offered by U-Shark come in dark blue, green, white, black, and rainbow. The rainbow one has an usual shape; can't quite figure out the utility of it, but I think it might be so ...

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a neuroprosthetic interface that creates a wireless link between the brain and the spine. In a recent experiment, ...

From BBC's Planet Earth II, intense footage (with an intense soundtrack) from the Galapagos Islands of a newly-hatched iguana chased by racer snakes....

This is perfect....

Famed photographer Joseph Byron holds the camera for a few group selfies in 1920. No selfie stick. No duck face.More info on these shots here and here. (via r/OldSchoolCool)...

The Cannabist has a map showing the legal status of marijuana in the United States. In Tuesday's election, voters in California, Nevada, and Massachusetts made recreational pot legal, joining Alaska, ...

With the increase in malicious hackers around the world, there's also an increase in the need for theethical hackers who stop them. Becoming one of these in-demand professionals is simplewith the Pay ...

Donald Trump, who once claimed that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese has indicated that his EPA transition team will be led by Myron Ebell, who claims that accession to the Paris C...

The Birdie is a case for GoPro cameras that resembles a badminton shuttlecock and enables you to toss your camera into the air for aerial photography. (I presume you could drop it as well, but I'd ima...

Tor Books associate publisher Patrick Nielsen Hayden found himself presiding over a "long-planned major meeting" the morning after the election of Donald Trump, and used the chance to explain why, on ...

Tom Ewing rails against the Clinton campaign's reliance on "micro-modelling preference at an individual voter level to tell [volunteers] who to turn out where with what message and where to allocate r...

I feel like I've lost a year of my life expectancy just watching this. (more…)...

Train the Deep Learning Ahem Detector with two sets of audio files, "a negative sample with clean voice/sound" (minimum 3 minutes) and "a positive one with 'ahem' sounds concatenated" (minimum 10s) an...

Glenn Greenwald frames what I've been trying to articulate: as neoliberalism and its handmaiden, corruption, have swept the globe, making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and everyone in the middle m...

If your "best-hope" scenario is that Trump just said random trash to get elected and now has no idea what to do and will just let the GOP run the country while he pipes up occasionally with more rando...

Mink-holding should be a professional sport, as it seems harder to hold a mink for 8 seconds than to ride a bull. Coyote Peterson tries to hold an Alaskan mink, which promptly shows why members of t...

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Aarian Marshall reports that poor towns are ripping up pothole-ridden roads rather than pay to maintain them.Repaving roads is expensive, so Montpelier instead used its diminishing public works budget...

New that Trump's elected, those to whom debts are owed can start fucking with him. Took it all of a day for one to get started!Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trumps team dur...

The Gilmore Girls Netflix revival is huge news for fans of the mother/daughter dramedy. But for those who need a refresher before the new episodes drop on November 25, Netflix also has you covered w...

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The Australian man who sent a drone to pick up a hot dog, then return it to him in his backyard hot tub, is in trouble with the law.The BBC reports that the aerial meat journey breached local drone fl...

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Heres something you didnt know you needed: Former Doctor Who star David Tennant reciting relaxing passages to soothe stressed out house pets. The British insurance company More Than created the two ...

Courtesy of Ricky Tan on Twitter....

I attended Chicagos massive Trump protest yesterday, in which thousands of Chicagoans shutdown the heart of the city. Heres my live tweet and some photos of the event.https://twitter.com/CarolineSiede...

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My daughter and I have been having fun with the latest Kano computer and coding kit, which comes with a screen. It's powered by a Raspberry Pi, a small Linux computer, and was created to allow kids to...

For only love can conquer hateYou know we've got to find a wayTo bring some lovin' here today...

Former dentist Kuang-Yi Ku created a prototype orthodontic retainer designed to improve the fellatio experience for the wearer's partner. After practicing dentistry for six years, Ku is now a student ...

A co-branded product from watchmaker Jacob & Co and luxury design retailer Colette, the SF24 features a tiny flip clock like the electromechanical split flap displays popular in the late 1960s and ear...

This excerpt from Harvey Milk's famous "Hope" speech, given at the start of the last anti-LGBT backlash, is brimming with timeless wisdom and inspiration. Another excerpt from the full speech: (more...

Lyon, France-based tattoo artist JC Sheitan Tenet has no right arm. In place of his right hand, he wears custom tattoo machine prostheses he developed with biomechanical sculptor Jean-Louis Gonzal. ...

Illustrator Lorenzo Etherington created a bunch of wigglegram 3D posters based on a mythological movie called Stranski. They are really cool and remind me of some of Will Eisner Spirit splash pages.He...

The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is one of the most intricate and impressive graphic novels Ive ever read. Its a biography of the great Singaporean comic artist Charlie Chan Hock Chye, and traces the...

Breed and Publicize Your Own Congenitally Deformed Celebrity Cat by Frank Tuplin and Dorris LaForge. Buy your copy here....

Doshishas new Vintage Taste 20-inch LCD Television has HDMI, AV, USB, LAN inputs, and digital audio outputs, coated in a plastic craptastic retro veneer. It's main selling point is a clickable knob to...

Here's Steve Lawrence singing "Bewitched" in 1964, the same year the popular TV series starring Elizabeth Montgomery launched. I didn't know the theme song had lyrics, just as I didn't know the Dick...

Line and Colors decided today would be a good day to feature "Hell," the right panel from the tryptich, The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymus Bosch. It was painted between 1480 and 1505."Paint...

Primitive Technology is a YouTube video channel produced by an Australian guy who goes into the jungle with nothing but the clothes on his back, and makes things like shelters, tools, and weapons. T...

If youre looking to learn a new trade skill like sales, master a language for a job, or take a professional development class, you normally would pay in the thousands for classes at a local institutio...

At the 2016 Hugos, a Chinese book in translation made history by winning for Best Novel: Cixin Liu's "Three Body Problem". (more…)...

Researchers from Dalhousie University (Canada) and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) have published a working paper detailing a proof-of-concept attack on smart lightbulbs that allows them ...

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...

A report in BILD am Sonntag claims that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has uncovered the secret test that Audis were programmed to perform to determine whether to pollute like crazy or to p...

One after another, ex-Wells Fargo employees have come forward to reveal that when they blew the whistle of millions of frauds committed against the bank's customers, the bank's management fired them a...

Welcome to Kitten Academy, hosts of a livestream featuring "kittens learning to cat". "If there is nothing going on, you can rewind the stream up to 4 hours to see action," the description promises. B...

According to the video description:Buddy ran into this glass door once, and he wouldn't come through without me closing the door and opening it in front of him for a good week. This is one of the ti...

This gadget does exactly as promised: it looks like a thumbdrive (sort of) and fries the circuitry of any computer it's plugged into. It's made from camera flash parts, is charged with a standard AA...

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The BBC reports that Canada's immigration info website has been intermittently unavailable through the night and early morning. Experts are trying to discern what on Earth might have caused a great ma...

Subscribe to the IFTF podcast on iTunes | RSS | Soundcloud | Download MP3In his 1854 book, Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote, Men have become the tools of their tools. Thoreaus assertion is as valid t...

Joe Arpaio, the infamously nasty sheriff of Maricopa County in Arizona, is losing his badge. After seven terms in office, he was finally ditched by voters in favor of a challenger, Paul Penzone. NPR r...

Irishman Colin Davidson painted the new official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II."With anybody I paint, it's a human being in their own right, but with this particular painting I was aware of the gravi...

BuzzFeed asked four women to spend a week without makeup and then interviewed them about their experiences....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85OysZ_4lp0&feature=youtu.beSafety standards matter. The cheapest Nissan sold in Mexico, the Tsuru, and the cheapest Nissan sold in the USA, the Versa, were driven into...

Im sorry, but I dont want to be an emperor. Thats not my business. I dont want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want...

Im sorry, but I dont want to be an emperor. Thats not my business. I dont want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want...

Tumblr user Monstika has turned pun-making into an artform. Literally.You can find even more puns on Monstika's Tumblr....

Theranos, led by charismatic founder Elizabeth Holmes, became a billion-dollar startup on the promise of a pinprick blood test that doesn't work. Walgreens, a retailer suckered into partnering the sca...

In this great essay, lawyer and writer Mirah Curzer examines the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Remember Me from a feminist lens. The episode centers on Dr. Beverly Crusher, who begins to noti...

These amazing paper dolls were created for Vivid Seats by my friend Tyler Feder. You can find more of Feders work on her website and Etsy shop. ...

The polls were wrong. That voice, angry and silent and white, it still rules after all.None of the networks have called it yet, because they're all shell-shocked cowards. John Podesta, Hillary Clinton...

Roger Stone is a longtime Donald Trump ally/friend/advisor, and has played an interesting low-key role in Trump's current political campaign. On Twitter tonight, Stone tweeted a racist meme. It's elec...

Someone brought a giant cake shaped like Donald Trump's head to the GOP presidential candidate's Election night headquarters in Manhattan. The cake has its own Twitter account, hashtag (#TrumpCake), a...

One person has been shot dead and at least three others are reported wounded today, Election Day in the United States, at an active shooting near a polling place in Azusa, CA.Azusa police are telling ...

Trump's fans are having a tough time so far today. First, the realization struck many that one must be registered before election day to vote in all but 14 states. Second, the Trumpernet seems to be c...

Scott C. Waring, an expert "alien hunter," located the fossilized remains of a curly-haired grizzly bear in a recently released batch of NASA photos of Mars. The discovery is both "unusual and interes...

I have a Kindle Paperwhite and use it almost every day. About a year ago I was on a plane and when I took my seat belt off the buckle hit the screen damaged it. It still works but it has a distracting...

My wife, Carla, is the executive editor of Tofugu, a Japanese language and culture blog. Today she ran her review of the third and final installment of Lars Martinson's Tonoharu trilogy.The entire tri...

The Washington Examiner reports that Conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh said "I'm told that George W. Bush and Laura Bush voted for Hillary Clinton today." Believable! (more…)...

The Washington Examiner reports that Conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh said "I'm told that George W. Bush and Laura Bush voted for Hillary Clinton today." Believable! (more…)...

Video from Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)...

If yourelike me, you're always trying and failing to organize your tasks and computer files.Pagico 8is a well-reviewed organization app that looked well worth a try, and I was very impressed. Pagico i...

Heritage Auction is selling collector Eric Sack's massive collection of underground comic book art. The auction is called "Never Trust The Man: Largest Collection of Original Underground Comix Art."...

Are you looking to build out your library of Ero Guro Nansensu, Aspergers Realism, Bigfoot Erotica, and Flarf? It could get easier, thanks to a neural network developed by researchers at Kyushu Univer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjnXWe-cDFoJohn Frost writes, "I know Boing Boing has covered Disney's patent to use flying drones in the parks. Here's the latest update, the FAA recently approved t...

Glenn Beck has made a big deal of his new resolution to "try out decency" -- that is, to stop saying things like Obama is literally the antichrist who will open FEMA concentration camps due to his "de...

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation publishes several excellent podcasts, notably the As It Happens feed; like every podcast in the world, these podcasts are available via any podcast app in the sam...

Just the thing to pair with a Cthulhu ski-mask and a studded skull/eyeball bowtie for a bit of trypophic dress-up fun! It's $28 from Etsy seller Talulahblueburlesque of Leicester, England. (Thanks, ...

A DDoS attack that incidentally affected the internet connections for at least two housing blocks in Lappeenranta, Finland caused their heating systems to shut down, leaving their residents without he...

The Onion is apparently struggling to satirize an election that is so absurd it can only be called "self-satirizing," but they scored a hit with their op-ed by Donald J Trump: "No Matter What Happens ...

Suffragist and one-dollar-coin model Susan B Anthony put her life and freedom on the line to win the vote for women in America, but she never got to cast a ballot herself. (more…)...

As the FBI announced that it had reviewed the emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop and determined that there was no incriminating material about Hillary Clinton on them, the Trump campaign roared with in...

I recently became an American citizen. I just voted for the first time in my life. Ballot selfies are legal in PA, but it's all on computer and all you get printed for you is this wee receipt! I'm a s...

The confused math lady meme has gotten a heavy workout during this election season. It turns out it comes from a Brazilian telenovela called Senhora do Destino. The meme features star Renata Sorrah an...

Theyre almost crazy enough to distract from the election. Almost....

Johns Hopkins is among several institutions challenging a key tenet of outlawing psychedelics: that they have "no medicinal use." Baltimore Magazine examines the progress made by key researchers Rolan...

Libby VanderPloegs delightful gif is titled Lift Each Other Up. You can find more of VanderPloegs work on her website....

NASAs Tumblr breaks down the process:For astronauts, the voting process starts a year before launch, when astronauts are able to select which elections (local/state/federal) that they want to particip...

Mats Valk used a custom Rubik's Cube tricked out with neodymium magnets to set a new world record for speed cubing: 4.74 seconds. (more…)...

Brian Pollet (aka PsyBry) created this fantastic series of 20 images each themed on a specific drug. Several have accompanying making-of videos that are as hypnotizing as the final stills. (more&hel...

At least when they are looking for some sweet, slow lovin'. BBC Earth served up this charming video of a sloth swimming in a shallow waterway in search of a ladyfriend. Turns out sloths get a little...

The Hugh Mungus saga continues (previously). Hugh Mungus nemesis Zarna Joshi posted a series of videos outlining her views and asking viewers to support her financially via funding platform YouCaring....

...courtesy of the legendary Jenifer Lewis....

Oh, just the 7th largest gathering of humans in history happened last week.Five million of the most patient humans in the world -- Cubs fans -- descended on Chicago's lakefront last week to celebrate ...

Because Donald Trump, that's why. (more…)...

(found this hanging from my front door-knob)...

Watch Vic Berger's horrifying remix of racist, sexist, homophobic, and generally awful person Ted Nugent grabbing his penis at a rally for GOP presidential nominee and noted crotch-grabber Donald Tr...

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House Speaker Paul Ryan admits that a Clinton victory in tomorrow's general election dooms efforts to overturn Obamacare. The battle moves on to preventing evolution toward a single-payer system; Repu...

The Grappler is a device that unfurls from a police car's front bumper during a car chase to snag the perp's tires and lock up their wheels. Of course, the fleeing suspect's car may be outfitted wit...

In an upcoming episode of the Cool Tools Show podcast, I tell the story of how I wrecked my iMac by trying to replace the hard drive. Instead of buying a new iMac, I bought an Acer G257HU 25-inch (256...

Can not wait....

In 2009, illustrator Florent Chavouet decided to shrug off city life and get lost somewhere off the beaten path. Way off the beaten path. Stating, The country [Japan] claims more than four thousand is...

Bill Maher went to the White House to interview President Obama for a special episode of Real Time. Here's the full 37-minute interview. It's worth watching because Maher brings up topics that most ...

Meet Lucky, a two-faced calf who lives in Campbellsville, Kentucky. Lucky is just over a month old but may be the oldest animal of its kind to survive with the genetic abnormality, called diprosopus. ...

The Millennium Falcon is pretty well shaped to fly as an RC quadcopter!I'm a huge fan of Air Hogs RC toys, and have been destroying their boats in salt water for years and years. I was thrilled to s...

The teenager who allegedly received texts from Anthony Weiner wrote an open letter to FBI director James Comey to let him know that his sloppy, sleazy actions violated her privacy. "I now add you to t...

On Friday, the Ohio State Marching Band performed this fantastic halftime show right at the intersection of two powerful geek subcultures: comic fans and band geeks....

Even though he was suffering from a head cold, Jonathan Mann powered through it to compose and perform his song, "Fuck You, James Comey." The song expresses his feelings for the director of an organ...

Glenn Beck, well-known right wing conspiracy monger, seems to have changed his tune. President Obama made me a better man, he says. He said Michelle Obamas recent speech was the most effective politi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBH5ChbMpWEDaveed Diggs is the fastest rapper on Broadway thanks to his stunning performances in the roles of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette in Hamilto...

From Japan -- When you pull on a tab, this Coke bottle label becomes a bow....

When you logged into AOL in the 1990s, you were greeted with the voice of Elwood Edwards. Last night, Brandee Barker was headed to one of Hillary Clinton's Ohio campaign headquarters for canvassing wh...

"Tonight we are carrying out punishments using a high beam," said Shenzhen Traffic Police on their Weibo account. The photos posted by the police show people seated in folding chairs facing a police c...

The 44mm Klok watch started life as a crowdfunding campaign and has now graduated to full-fledged article of commerce, priced between €400-430. (more…)...

Bellerby & Co is one of the last companies that handmakes globes. It's a team of 15 people including woodworkers, painters, and a digital cartographer. (Great Big Story)...

Drunken Bear took a recording of 14 crying babies and slowed it down, turning it into a soundtrack for a horror movie.Image: Brandon Baunach...

The artist whose iconic Obama/HOPE posters were the subject of a bitter legal dispute while simultaneously defining the 2008 campaign has produced a poster for Trump, entitled "Demagogue." (more&hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8GDbEvonKIElected representatives of Hong Kong's Youngspiration party deliberately mangled their oaths of office, refusing to swear loyalty to China (instead swearin...

Interspecies friends.[via]...

When the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, it meant that the 2016 presidential race would be the first one in 50 years without the fundamental protections the act promised, as a check agains...

Oliver's 30+ minute investigative piece on Mary Kay, Amway, Herbalife, Avon, Rodan and Fields and the rest of the MLM basket of deplorables shows how the Facebook era has supercharged these semi-cri...

Trump's press team no longer lets him control his own Twitter account, according to campaign insiders who spoke to the New York Times; now he must dictate proposed tweets to grownups who decide whethe...

81-year-old Peg Holcomb of Amherst, Mass wasn't home when a low-flying Massachusetts National Guard helicopter and seven ground-based law-enforcement vehicles raided her home, and demanded that her s...

With more than a hundred positive reviews, Amurleopard's $4.23 Cthulhu ski mask seems to represent a kind of triumph in a narrow but important niche. Order now and get it in time to wear to the post-e...

While noise-canceling over-ear headphones usually cost in the $200-300 range, A-Audio's well-reviewed releaseis now available on sale for just $79.99. But are they legit?In terms of sound, these headp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtT3UyhibQKulning, or herding calls, is a form of singing traditionally used to summon livestock. Depicted here by Jonna Jinton, it has peculiar acoustic properties de...

This exploitable clip of El Risitas telling a story is the new "Hitler Reacts," and the clear winner to date is Jason Skidmore's "Apple Engineer Talks About New 2016 Macbook Pro." Warning: you may p...

The FBI has cleared Hillary Clinton over the "new" emails found on disgraced Democratic politician Anthony Weiner's seized computer. The emails, which the FBI thought may be relevant to an earlier inv...

The final major ad buy of millionaire Donald Trump's presidential campaign? A sinister affair featuring financial elites, piles of money, (((global special interests))), international entities, oh a...

Slack key legend Ledward Kaapana not only nails the Dick Dale surfing standard, but he even breaks into "Ghost Riders in the Sky" for good measure. (more…)...

The asteroid belt holds untold wealth for the prospectors who can reach and mine them. Wired UK just published an interesting chart of select asteroids valued between 1 and 27 quintillion dollars each...

Crazy Ex-Girlfriends Rachel Bloom leads a chorus of celebrities in the most foul-mouthed voter PSA of the year....

The 12-year-old Brit stars in the video for Find Me (ft. Birdy), the latest single from Sigma....

You can make a plan for voting in tomorrows election right here....

Consumer site Extreamist confirms what many suspected: Netflix has sharply reduced its streaming library titles by over 50% from an estimated 11,000 in 2012 to about 5,300 today. (more…)...

The new Netflix series The Crown dropped this weekend and while its great (Im reviewing it for The A.V. Club), there's one notable weak spot: Of the four directors who helmed the show's 10-episode fir...

Crank it to 4K and go full-screen to feel as if you're floating through the International Space Station. It's cool to think about how quaint this technology will look someday, like a wooden sailing ...

If its filled with puppies that is.[via Tastefully Offensive and atree496 on Reddit]...

The only way to stop the Donald from making a few hundred last minute, rage filled tweets was to take away his account. Presumably, after the election he'll be in charge again-- one way or another.Via...

Need I say more? (via Punk Fashion)...

Enjoyment:Second to the traditional Rider-Waite deck, my new favorite set of tarot cards is the Tao Oracle. It is the I-Ching, without the coin throwing, in beautifully-illustrated oversized cards. Th...

While I wouldn't normally find a USB hub very interesting, this 28-port hub caught my eye. TheMondoHub Master USB Hubis seriously the biggest USB hub I've seen, period.Plug it into your PC or Mac to g...

https://vimeo.com/126708041Filmmaker Brian Gersten writes, "'The Hollerin' Contest at Spivey's Corner' is a documentary short about the history, characters, and sounds of the National Hollerin' Cont...

Speaking at the Stand Up For Heroes event, Jon Stewart tells the story of how Donald Trump went on an anti-Semitic tear, repeating over and over that Stewart's birth surname was Leibowitz, implying ...

A reader writes, "According to last week's Shadow Brokers leak, the NSA compromised a DNS server of the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in September 2000, two years af...

French electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey died Friday at 87. He quit medical school after encountering synthesizers to spend his life making beautiful sounds with them. Frequent collaborator...

The Gulf of Ob is a remote Siberian reach of the Russian empire, and its beaches are covered in gigantic snowballs up to a meter across. The BBC reports that they're the result of a "rare environmenta...

There has been much anguish over Apple's new MacBook Pros. In lieu of specifications more impressive than a 2 year-old HP Elite, Apple offered up the Touchbar, a touchscreen mini LED display where the...

A St. Louis-area police officer was photographed posing with a murder victim's corpse, and a police lawyer threatened the newsroom to whom the image was leaked. KMOV, far from being impressed by the a...

Len Testa writes, "Back in the early 1960's, Walt was interested in buying and developing the Mineral King ski area in California, which was being put up for sale by the U.S. government. Another poten...

Mattthew Luckhurst, a 5-year veteran of San Antionio Police Department, was fired after feeding shit to a homeless person. Josh Baugh reports that he "placed fecal matter between two pieces of bread" ...

Copyright trolls like LA-based CEG TEK are exploiting Canada's "notice-and-notice" copyright system to force ISPs to pass on extortion letters to their customers, threatening them with dire consequenc...

This one from the A side with Michael Bloomfield on guitar....

I have spent a lot of time running a bar of wax over my Belstaff jacket. No longer, now I use spray on Nikwax. Every now and then my waxed cotton jacket needs a touch up. Nikwax is about 1000x easie...

Ships in the Arctic Ocean report that an odd pinging sound emanating from the bottom of the sea can be heard through their hulls. The Canadian military, fortified with Scooby snacks, is on the case.Fr...

There are a lot of solar chargers out there, but theWater-Resistant Dual-USB Solar Charger is one of the best deals I've seen. It's much more compact than your typicalsolar chargers, which tend to be ...

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An imminently forthcoming version of Google's Chrome browser will flip the way that browsers convey information about privacy and security to users: instead of discreetly informing users that the HTTP...

(more…)...

Rebecca Solnit (previously), one of my favorite writers, has published an open letter to Donald Trump, "New York City Is a Book Conservatives Should Read," which celebrates the city's teeming, messy, ...

Throughout the election cycle, The GOP Arcade has been releasing satirical 8-bit games about the GOP and right-wing politics in America; the New York Times commissioned a special one, based on the cla...

Daniel Dale is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Toronto Star; for the duration of the campaign, he's been compiling daily lists of Trump's lies: now, with the election days away, the Star has put t...

From the Wall Street Journal tonight, just a few days from the presidential election on Tuesday, a sleaze expos involving the GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump. (more…)...

Caught on dashcam: a gentleman driving in the parking lane was annoyed with the parked cars blocking his right-of-way and honked his horn before swerving left and cutting off another driver (with a ...

While at Make: for many years, I had the pleasure of working with and getting to know Shawn Thorsson, author of Make: Props and Costume Armor. Shawn was one of the first serious amateur prop builders ...

I have the earlier model of the Kmashi 20,000mAh portable USB charger. It's the one I take with me on trips lasting more than a couple of days. It can keep my iPhone fully charged for days without hav...

I had a chance to play with a Cubetto recently. It's a little, wooden, happy face robot on two wheels. You can control which way it goes by inserting colorful plastic chips on programming board (whi...

Yep, all in one place: a list of every movie coming out this holiday season. (more…)...

Former Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden, now a private security consultant and George Mason University professor, writes in the Washington Post that a Trum...

My hypertalented friend Lawrence Azerrad, who is designing the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition and has created packaging for Wilco, Esperanza Spalding, Silversun Pickups, and many othe...

John Podesta practices Aleister Crowley-inspired blood sex semen magic, reports Drudge Report, citing Infowars, which cites Wikileaks. They just went Full Drudge. You never go full Drudge. (more&helli...

Prosecutors in Germany have launched a formal investigation of Mark Zuckerberg and other executives at Facebook, the Munich prosecutor's office said Friday, over a complaint that Facebook broke German...

Welp, God apparently didn't get the memo about keeping the 2016 U.S. presidential election results under embargo for a few more days. (more…)...

As the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 exploding phone fiasco continues, Samsung Electronics announced yet another product recall on Friday. The South Korean technology firm will recall roughly 2.8 million top-...

Love at first sight, shared on IMGUR by hellssatans....

Sunday night the fantastic comedians of 2 Headed Dog present what may be their magnum opus: CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITS!I wish I was in LA, I hate to miss this show!This Sunday, join Big Bugs (the Happies...

On November 11, Sotheby's will auction off David Bowie's beautiful collection of Italian designer furniture and other objects, including his incredible 1966 "Radio-Phonograph, Model No. RR126" by Achi...

As soon as Pesco posted this, I knew I had to have the minifigs, especially the Blue Meanie. The LEGO Yellow submarine is now shipping!LEGO Ideas Yellow Submarine 21306 Building Kit via Amazon...

Yakutsk (pop. 269,601), the capital city of the Sakha Republic in Russia, is the coldest city on earth, where temperatures can drop to -50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit). Lonely Planet has a...

Samsung has recalled 2.8 million washing machines after users reported "impact injuries" including a broken jaw. (more…)...

Want to label things like Mom and Dad did?I needed a label gun, but I hate the printer-in-your-hands models. What I needed was an old-style click-wheel embossing label maker!KA-Click! KA-Click!I remem...

Premiering January 13, 2017, Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" stars Neil Patrick Harris as the creepy Count Olaf....

Michael Rectenwald, a 57-year-old untenured NYU professor, was placed on paid leave. He, and various conservative websites, claim that he was forced out for mocking political correctness. Was he? Appa...

Grant Thompson took a moment from his trip to Hawaii to show how to bust open a coconut without expending more energy than the coconut will provide. There are two parts: getting through the outer hu...

...and it drops on Dec 2, with a $14.49 pre-order option: featuring tracks that didn't make the stage play, as well as Busta Rhymes' remix of "My Shot" and other guest appearances from Queen Latifah, ...

The star of the upcoming Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them breaks down the intricacies of Potter lore....

The popular and long-running British antiques-peeping program is broadening its horizons for a new generation of viewers. "These are quite collectible, you know."...

E/V Nautilus explores the ocean, sharing highlights of their video captures, like this adorable googly-eyed stubby squid seen off the coast of California. (more…)...

The legendary underground lair of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was so secretive that few photos have been published. Russ Kick at Memory Hole was good enough to locate one of 27 li...

Water protector Floris Whitebull tells the story of her brutal arrest in this footage filmed by Josh Fox and released by Now This News....

Be sure to watch with the sound on. ...

Bey and the ladies of the Dixie Chicks brought down the house with a performance of Beyonc's song Daddy Lessons. And they were joined onstage by a delightfully sassy saxophone player too. Natalie Ma...

With Putin and Russia in the news more and more thanks to Trump and Steven Seagal, maybe it's high time to learn how to pronounce Russian text. Thanks to the instructor's lovely accent in this ten-m...

Why do people cheat? Why are our online worlds often so toxic? What motivates us to “catch ’em all” in Pokemon, grinding away for hours to hatch eggs?In this episode, psychologist Ja...

Courtesy of Nathan W. Pyle, who also created NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette. You can find more of Pyle's relaxing images on his Instagram....

Hiromi Tango creates sculptures of colorful textiles, neon, and mirrors, then interacts with the pieces as performance art, like this exploration of the amygdala, part of her Dynamic Emotions series. ...

Accoording to Hutson & Harris, Attorneys in Texas, if you make 1.5 pounds of brownies with a bit of pot in them, the law considers it to be as much of a crime as having 1.5 pounds of heroin. You cou...

Tony Ortega at The Underground Bunker posted a fascinating overview of Gold Base, aka Int Base, the Scientology compound near Hemet, California. It includes beautifully piloted and filmed drone foot...

Artificial intelligence isn't just a movie, it's an extremely in-demand career path that is fueling the future of technology. The newDeep Learning & Artificial Intelligence Introductory Bundlewas ...

Lars Martinson, creator of Tonoharu, an excellent graphic novel trilogy about an American teaching English in a rural Japanese village, made this video about the lessons he learned after spending a ...

The various Mirai botnets, which use "clumsy, amateurish code to take over even more clumsy and amateurish CCTVs, routers, PVRs and other Internet of Things devices, have been responsible for some eye...

It's been one year since the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership was finally released after years of extreme, tragicomic secrecy. (more…)...

The Chelsea Manning Support Network writes, "Tonight from 7-9 pm is the opening reception for the New York City premiere of Heather Dewey Hagborg's DNA Phenotyping 3-D portraits of Chelsea Manning, at...

From YouTube description:Sue's pet emu, Emee, was a lone hatch and has a purpose built pen at the end of the room for when her owner isn't home. The rest of the time though, she is treated as one of...

In the 18th century, William Blackstone wrote the seminal "Commentaries on the Laws of England," which contained one of the foundational definitions of property: "that sole and despotic dominion which...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3QFRhidSgLast week, Patrick Lagac -- a columnist for the Quebec paper La Presse -- revealed that the Montreal police had gotten a secret warrant to spy on his phon...

Devo founder (and vintner) Gerald Casale sent us a photo of this counterfeit "Dump on Trump" quarter passed off to his wife at a Los Angeles grocery store yesterday:Yesterday my wife paid cash for som...

https://youtu.be/V8PFyZM2II4Donald Bell, Make:'s former Projects Editor and now a freelance writer for Autodesk, has recently launched a weekly YouTube show, called Maker Update. Every Wednesday mor...

As Country Joe and the Fish once sang: There aint no time to wonder why, whoopee, were all going to die.Thats the cheering message at the heart of yet another week of dispassionate, balanced and fair ...

The Bodum coffee maker I posted about a couple of weeks ago is on sale at Amazon for $17."With the Chemex, even a moron can make good coffee. Those were the memorable words of inventor and bon vivant ...

Albertus Seba was a Dutch pharmacist working in the early 1700s who collected exotic plants and animals samples that may or may not have medicinal purposes. He crammed his Amsterdam shop with 700 jars...

I was so happy to learn of Mary and Vincent Price's Come into the Kitchen: A Collector's treasury of America's great recipes that I pulled over to the side of the road to order a copy. One of my favor...

My friend Dave Rosser, the NOLA-based guitarist for the Afghan Whigs (and the Gutter Twins, and Mark Lanegan, etc.), was just diagnosed with inoperable colon cancer. Dave is a brilliant musician, a tr...

If you dig Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein's fantastic synthy soundtrack to Stranger Things, you need to dive into the 1980s electronic soundtracks of John Carpenter. Yes, Carpenter directed classics l...

NASA released a color image of the Schiaparelli Mars landing site that illustrates the descent speed issue quite nicely."Composite of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module elements seen by NASAs Mars Reconn...

Drone filmmaking pioneer (and Boing Boing Video contributor!) Eddie Codel shares word on his Flying Robot International Film Festival and a fun day of workshops and demos on aerial imagery!Event #1The...

Remember the scene in Back to the Future Part II where Marty visits the Biff Tannen Museum and watches Biff on the screen? Here are the parts that were left on the cutting room floor. Does Biff re...

This tempered glass screen protector went on easy and I hardly notice it is there.The last year has been a hard one for my phones, and I'm tired of driving to the repair place and laying out another $...

In September 2015, President Obama raised the ceiling of refugees, many of them Syrian, who would be welcomed to the United States in the coming year from 70,000 to 85,000. While a wonderful humanitar...

To celebrate a Shanghai tenant's first anniversary of their lease, the building's owners decorated the edifice like a yummy strawberry cake. Two days later, city workers had torn the decorations off a...

In October, a civil court jury ruled that Chicago police officer Scott Korhonen sexually assaulted a 20-year-old black man with a screwdriver. The taxpayers will pay $4 million to the victim. They wil...

This year has seen some interesting movement in the world of hoverbikes, hovering platforms that can support a standing human, and drone prototypes large enough to carry people. EUKA has an overview...

Lingerie company Naja released this amazing nude for all campaign back in May, but its still worth celebrating now too. Elle has all the details on the collection, which features bras and panties in s...

"This was not easy money, it was the most soul-crushing task ever," says Rohan Danish, who spent a summer writing 3,000 fake reviews and 1,000 shill comments for an online lingerie company.From Images...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWWAWg_jGk"Doggo does a react to borks," is the full and complete description of what occurs here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwGnXKNGjT0...

Is there anything more fun that watching gloating showboaters get their comeuppance just a few seconds after they erroneously celebrate a victory?...

Unsatisfying, by Parallel Studio, is about "unsatisfying situations: the frustrating, annoying, disappointing little things of everyday life, that are so painful to live or even to watch." [hats tip...

Russian premier Vladimir Putin welcomes a new Russian to the motherland: Steven Seagal, the martial artist, ponytail aficionado, and star of countless popular action movies. "He has made requests abou...

https://youtu.be/XarhD9TBDJAAccording to this bird's human companion, Monty has not played with this complicated puzzle in over a year. He seems to know what he's doing. I'm impressed at how well he r...

Peruvian archaeologists and activists have joined with the indigenous Harakmbut people to find legendary Incan lost cities. If they find them soon enough, traditional Harakmbut lands leased to an Amer...

From the ladies over at Whats Up Moms....

Lucinda Hawksley has printed 275 color facsimiles of Victorian wallpapers in Bitten by Witch Fever. Beyond their lovely design, the vibrant wallpapers shared a common trait: they were pigmented with l...

That kitchen drawer full of plastic takeout utensils is about to get some new company thanks to The Chork, a chopstick-fork combo making a major fast-food rollout on November 10. (more…)...

The pitch-perfect sketch comes from Joss Whedons Save The Day voting campaign....

If you like this one, punpun has many other short and delightful odd videos....

In the great Baldwin brother divide of 2016, Billy's with Alec, not Stephen:https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/793308697757749248Also there's this:https://twitter.com/BillyBaldwin/status/78565133...

Sigalit Landau submerges everyday objects in the Dead Sea for months and even years until salt deposits transform them into otherworldly sculptures. (more…)...

The grand prize winner of Japan's 2016 Good Design Award went to a world map, designed by Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa.From Spoon & Tamago:Narukawa developed a map projection metho...

People involved in the £4B UK curry industry overwhelmingly backed Brexit on the promise of future easing off of visa requirements for curry chefs from south Asia, hoping to reverse the current ...

In 1993, Donald Trump won a lawsuit brought by his investors that alleged he had defrauded them by lying in a prospectus; his defense was that his "perfect prospectus" contained lies, but it also cont...

British YouTuber Charlie McDonnell breaks down the elusive scientific concepts in terms even kids can understand....

Memory foam pillows can supposedly transformthe way you sleep, but they often cost over $100 a piece. With such a high price tag, I never thought to risk trying it out. But at just $49.99 for a set of...

The lawsuit to force the UK government to call a Parliamentary vote before triggering Article 50 (the first and irrevocable step to pulling the UK out of the EU) has prevailed at the High Court. (more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxeoQlaQWBMMr Volt created this "artifact from somewhere else," machining the housing (with wood veneer!) and programming an Arduino controller to allow him to make r...

Last week, artist Michelle Pred celebrated the anniversary of the Patriot Act by dressing up as an old-timey Pan Am flight attendant (she wore her mother's old Pan Am hat!) and handing out "Official A...

Benjamin Hart journeys to the forgotten post-industrial town of Bleaksville, Kentucky and digs deep to find the answer to the question no other journalist (apart from the roughly 7,200 who wrote artic...

Julian Oliver is a playful and media-savvy security researcher; previously, he documented hidden cell-phone towers in bad disguises and produced a hand-grenade shaped "transparency device" that spied ...

3 NHS hospitals under the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust have been infected by "a virus" that administrators detected on Sunday; the hospitals are on limited operations and turni...

This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network:Some stories don't end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you a...

Lifehacker shows you how to "avoid soft, chewy bacon that pulls out of the sandwich on the first bite." It involves baking the bacon slices between two baking sheets....

Attorneys representing a woman who sued Donald Trump, charging him with child rape, said earlier today the woman planned to speak publicly about the ongoing case Wednesday afternoon. At the time of th...

On Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover zapped a globular, golf-ball-size object with a laser, and the signal it got back confirmed it was an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky. (more&hell...

NSFW. He said what to Kevin?! (more…)...

Sassy Trump Disappointed With Alec Baldwin, by Peter Serafinowicz. His voice, but they're All Trumps Words." More Sassy Trump. [caption id="attachment_475758" align="alignnone" width="1008"] Illo: R...

President Obama made his first public comment on the recent FBI/Clinton email hijinks, just days before the election. (more…)...

https://vimeo.com/188626212Tim Maughan (previously) writes, "Here's the teaser for our short film WHERE THE CITY CAN'T SEE - the first narrative film shot with laser scanners." (more…)...

It took most of a week to sign all 2,800 "tip-in" sheets that are being bound into a special, limited-edition version of Walkaway, my first novel for adults since 2009, but it was worth it! You can pr...

"Oh, no! Oh crap! They shot big boy in the ass!"As seen on r/ObscureMedia: "Raw footage of Jonathan Winters improvising during down time on a Big Boy commercial. Winters riffs on superstars, his ear...

This starts out awful and goes exactly where you think it will. I believe you can see some of the passengers of the 'ferry' abandon 'ship' around the :55 second mark. The pickup truck floats pretty ...

Possibly the greatest thing we've seen on the internet.This splendid little video was captured at a Halloween rodeo in Laramie, Wyoming on on October 28, 2016. (more…)...

Possibly the greatest thing we've seen on the internet.This splendid little video was captured at a Halloween rodeo in Laramie, Wyoming on on October 28, 2016. (more…)...

In Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks onState-of-the-Art Face Recognition, researchers from Carnegie-Mellon and UNC showed how they could fool industrial-strength facial recognition sys...

Jonah White made a fortune selling misshapen novelty teeth. He tells his story of how he did it in Mel Magazine:The guy with the Billy Bob Teeth, Rich Bailey, was in dentistry school at Southern Illin...

My favorite set top box company continues to evolve with the Roku Premier. I've written about the Roku a number of times. Every teevee in my house has one, I no longer pay for satellite and take all m...

We've already got a wall, and fences, and drones. What we don't have, don't need and can't build is the make-believe wall Trump promises.[via]...

The deal is done. Gawker Media today settled its case with former wrestling star Hulk Hogan, which brought Nick Denton's blogging empire to bankruptcy, ending the company's long reign as an independen...

Aztec was pretty impressive in 1982. I played the hell out of this. It was one of the few games my Atari 400/800 using friends were jealous of. The video above shows the game in agonizing load-from...

U2 singer Bono is named among Glamour magazine's women of the year in recognition of his campaigning for womens' rights. The general reception runs the gamut from appalled dismay to despairing laughte...

Keyakizaka4, a Japanese pop duo, posed in Nazi-styled outfits at a 22 October concert. Sony, their label, has apologized; the youngsters themselves likely had no idea of the SS uniforms' deeper signif...

https://youtu.be/ZGlj9X7hXj0This guy has a Youtube channel called One Million Times. Each one is a video that has some event that lasts for a few seconds. Then the event is displayed multiple times in...

Apple's iOS 10.2 update contains two emoji inspired by David Bowie's Aladdin Sane character. The two emoji are named "Male singer" and "Female singer." See the new slew of emojis at Emojipedia....

When my kiddo really likes a book, shell ask to read it again and again and again, and shell only tire of it if something new comes along to replace it. The fact that my daughter has asked to read thi...

3D Wolf Crotch Underwear makes your man "sexy and wild," but does it honor the founding principles and ideals of the Union? No, it does not. Fortunately, there is also 3D Eagle Crotch Underwear, allow...

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Brain.fmis an innovative new product that claims to help you focus, relax, and even sleep better withmusic. My first question was, obviously, does it actually work?It turns out Brain.fm is the result ...

Tumblr user Earthsong9405 posted this gorgeous storyboard with the following message:For my Screen Design class, we had to take a fairytale and retell it in however we wanted in storyboard form. I cho...

Ballistic fartThis Imgur video shows a bullet of unknown caliber passing through a block of ballistic gelatin, "a testing medium scientifically correlated to swine muscle tissue") followed by a myster...

Nebraska's hereditary billionaire GOP governor Pete Ricketts is furious that the state legislature keeps overriding his vetos -- that is, the elected lawmakers pass laws, he tries to block them, and t...

Donald Trump has a long history of promulgating anti-vaccine conspiracy theories (contrary to received wisdom, the anti-vaxx movement draws most of its support from the political right, not hippie lib...

Linux/IRCTelnet is a new strain of Internet of Things malware that borrows its password-guessing routines from Mirai, the malware that helped take down Paypal, Netflix and Twitter, and adds them to th...

A new "Sassy Trump" from Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/1IK3tRsJVUQTogether, we can shape a future that is more sustainable and equitable for everyone! If you are interested in joining together with creative technologists, social inventors...

Everything Is Teeth is an unsettling, autobiographical peek at a childhood obsession: author Evie Wylds fixation with sharks, and with a particular shark survivor named Rodney Fox. This is a small gir...

Zork is just as magical today....

I love this rosewood case for my iPhone 7 plus. I went with the compass design.I hate thick cases and kind of love the simplicity of the iPhone's design. My daughter gives me grief for the number of s...

The Learn to Code 2016 Bundleis an extremely cost-efficient way to learn to code online. This is how it works: you can pay anything you want to get two courses that introduce you to Git and AWS. If yo...

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The Fast Charging Samsung Wireless Stand is a high-tech gadget that charges by just resting a phone on its base. Its design is super sleek and simple, and at 58% off, its just $28.99 in the Boing Boin...

We live in an older house, and the plumbing gets clogged a lot. Whenever a sink, shower, or toilet backs up, I try to to unclog it myself before calling a plumber. Sometimes it's as easy as using a Dr...

Archival footage of Brenda Wood on 5 WIYZ reporting on the disappearance of Barbara Holland and a young girl stealing Eggos in Hawkins, Indiana....

Clint Heidorn, a musician I've previously posted about, creates haunting, beautiful guitar sounds that are the basis of exquisite, tangible artifacts he makes and sells himself. A few years ago, Clint...

You may think you're awake but there's a good chance that part of your brain is asleep. And that can cause real problems, especially since you may not even be aware of it. In fact, indivisual neurons ...

[Graphic content warning] This video that shows an SUV crushing a baby girl while her mom checks her smartphone has sparked mourning and outrage on Chinese social media, as people shame the mom for ...

Some 470 economists have written a blistering, evidence-based criticism of Trump that scorches the GOP nominee for his role in promoting magical thinking and conspiracy theories, and generally ruining...

Some 370 economists have written a blistering, evidence-based criticism of Trump that scorches the GOP nominee for his role in promoting magical thinking and conspiracy theories, and generally ruining...

None of the ongoing federal investigations into Russian cyber-hijinks this election season have found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government, the New York Times rep...

Here's Germia's video demonstrating the features of her amazing costume of Pharah from Overwatch....

Bill Dance works hard for his money....

Christine McMillan, 86, received an email from her Internet service provider to let her know that because she had illegally downloaded a copy of Metro 2033 she was now subject to a $5,000 fine. The em...

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TheFast ChargingSamsung WirelessStandis ahigh-tech gadgetthat chargesby just resting your phone on its circular design.At just $28.99, it's well worth the purchase if for no other reason than it looks...

Michael Mann's Collateral has one of the simplest and most startling shootouts in movie history. Even though it's short and unvarnished—every bullet fired in a single stationary camera shot in...

Celebrate not having to think about Halloween for another eight months or so with J.T. Sexkik's recital of the various mispellings of "ouija" found in Yahoo Answers questions. (Previously.)...

Anyone who has ever bought one little thing at a drug store only to walk out with a 12ft "receipt," will dig this one....

Halloween didnt exactly go your way? Friends of the Bog is here to help! My friends in the Chicago-based folk band just released a new music video for their song Capricorn. Directed by Ned Baker, th...

This video from 2011 is the perfect thing to cure that post-Halloween hangover....

You may have seen Katie Dippold's iconic Babadook-themed Halloween TBT floating around Twitter over the past few months:https://twitter.com/katiedippold/status/748582543583121408?lang=enWell two days ...

Skunk Bear breaks down the ins and outs of the Amorphophallus titanum, a.k.a. the worlds stinkiest flower....

Artist and film student Roosa a.k.a. The Nameless Doll offers up a gruesome reimagining of the heroines from Tangled, Frozen, and Brave. The video was made in collaboration with 3D animator V. King ...

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After the DNC hack, security experts began playing close attention to the security of servers associated with the Trump campaign, on the assumption that if the Democrats had been targeted, the Republi...

Average US inflation since 1995 has been 2.2%; in the same time, cable TV prices have increased by 5.8% per year on average. (more…)...

Kidlington is a village of 13,723 people in Oxfordshire where nothing much happens. (more…)...

I bought this amazing clear pink substance called Sortkwik so I could have more control of playing cards for magic tricks, as I have naturally dry hands. It has a bit more viscosity than Chapstick. It...

One of my most unforgettable travel experiences was visiting the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutn Hora, near Prague. This small 19-century monastery chapel would be unremarkable, except that it is decorated wit...

Behold! There is an entire range of Wolf Head Crotch Underwear for gentlemen. They "make man looks sexy and wild" and can be yours for as little as five American dollars. 3D wolf pattern print underwe...

Uganda and Kenya both claim Minigo Island (Area:0.0008 sq mi) in Lake Victoria belongs to them. One hundred thirty one people live on the island, because they like the valuable fish, as well as the ...

For several decades, the company behind the Skinless brand of hot dogs tried very hard to make "Weeny Witch" parties a thing. Unfortunately it didn't catch on, but perhaps the time is finally right. M...

The Atlantic's Andrew McGill set up a virtual server on Amazon's cloud that presented to the internet as a crappy, insecure Internet of Things toaster; 41 minutes later, a hacked IoT device connected ...

Katrina Bookman was excited when her slot machine hit the jackpot: $42,949,672.76. Resorts World Casino in New York was happy to take her money while she was putting it into the machine, but weren't...

In August, anonymous hacker(s) dumped a cache of cyberweapons that appeared to originate with The Equation Group, an elite, NSA-affiliated hacking squad. (more…)...

YouTuber Mattizzle008 decided to mod a hallowed-out (get it?) pumpkin to measure its acoustics in a car subwoofer rig. He even took it to Xclusive Autosound to get it metered for science. Turns out ...

Earlier this month, Planet Money aired an interview with a Wells Fargo whistleblower who was fired for trying to alert the bank to the millions of criminal frauds being committed against its customers...

After a rash of UFO sightings across France in 1954, Lucien Jeune, mayor of the small southeastern village of Chteauneuf-du-Pape, issued the following law:Article 1. The overflight, the landing and t...

If you've got a Spotify account, you can tune into the classic Caedmon Poe recordings (also available on 5 CD), featuring classic tales like The Masque of the Read Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The...

A patient at Tokyo Medical University Hospital was undergoing laser surgery on her uterus when she farted, apparently starting a fire that badly burnt her."When the patient's intestinal gas leaked int...

Pee-wee's sage trick-or-treating advice: "Don't eat any apples you can shave with."(/r/obscuremedia, thanks UPSO!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dHJrEig5k...

Al Jourgensen may prefer to forget that he once cultivated an English accent and created this underground club hit, but on this day, we happily remember Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween" from 198...

Peter Thiel's livestreaming a press event: the PayPal billionaire is explaining why he's supporting Trump, how he's going to speak truth to power, why his comments about women aren't "big" issues, ...

This month's Mother Jones examines a shocking statistic: "According to the Albert Shanker Institute, which is funded in part by the American Federation of Teachers, the number of black educators has d...

Sofie Louise Dam and Andy Warner drew up this charming overview of some of the more notable micronations in world history. (more…)...

#1. 10-Ft MFi-Certified Lightning Cable: 3-PackWith this deal, for the price of one Apple Lightning Cable, you get three ($21.99): now you can keep a cable at work, one in the car, and one at home, to...

Folded Transformations just opened at The Huntington. The exhibit features 25 beautiful works by origami master Robert J. Lang. (more…)...

Click to view the below full-size; or download as a a high-quality digital poster (4MB) for detailed scrutiny; or proceed for the plain text, abstract and analysis...The Candy Hierarchy (2016)TOP LAYE...

Allison Meier at Hyperallergenic has a fascinating look at The American Folk Art Museums exhibit of classic secret society folk art. (more…)...

Stanford historian Robert Proctor amassed a remarkable collection of candy cigarette packaging in Golden Holocaust, like this candy cig marketed as "Just Like Daddy!" Yes, they were evil, but sometime...

Last week, FBI director James Comey released a vague letter saying the FBI was investigating more emails that had something to do with Hillary Clinton's personal server. The media largely ran with the...

In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita created 176 digital icons that fit in a 12x12 pixel grid. Pagers, then cell phones, then smartphones ran with the emoji concept. Now MoMA is acquiring the original set, and M...

After a recent update on the surviving members of the Heaven's Gate cult and their ongoing maintenance of its now-fashionably anachronistic website, (previously) I checked again and found that the Hea...

I've been into old-fashioned mechanical keyboards lately; Sonder's e-ink model promises to bring the fetish into the 21st century. Each key is both mechanical and a tiny e-Ink display that can change ...

US Senate candidate Jason Kander was consistently trailing incumbent Roy Blunt in the Missouri race until this month. Many attribute the shift to a simple and memorable ad in response to criticism o...

San Francisco-based artist Chris Bjerre created these gorgeous black-and-white forms that pulse between elemental shapes. (more…)...

National Geographic released Before the Flood over the weekend, and it is a calm but clear-eyed overview of the scope of the environmental crisis facing our planet. It also looks at pragmatic steps ...

Cast iron skillets should be a part of everyone's kitchen, but some people feel intimidated by with the preparation, use and maintenance. This nicely-produced video by Tasty shows how even an old ha...

Pornhub reports that creepy clown surges spark creepy clown urges. As the creepy clown fad has spiked, so has interest in clown-related erotica. And it's popular with the ladies: "women are 33% more l...

Apple's just-announced 2016 MacBook Pro hasn't gone down well, particularly among developers. Maciej Ceglowski's review of the previous model, from the perspective of a man traveling backwards through...