Articles by BoingBoing from January 2017

Do you think the U.S. Attorney General has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that is improper?, asked Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-Alabama).I believe t...

Do you think the U.S. Attorney General has a responsibility to say no to the president if he asks for something that is improper?, asked Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R-Alabama) in 2015.I b...

Authorities say Tulsa maintenance base workers workers for American Airlines found seven bricks of cocaine weighing 31 pounds with a street value of about a half a million dollars hidden in the nose o...

Resistir, '80s Euro-pop by the Spanish band Do Dinmico. As made famous in tame (Tie Me Up Tie Me Down), a film by Pedro Almodvar in which Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, and Loles Len sing the son...

I think Nemo wants to go outside.I knew what he was doing, but I had to wait a few weeks to catch it on video. This is not the least of his antics. No drawer, cabinet or pantry is immune to his rumm...

Behold the 540 million-year-old fossil remains of the earliest-known human ancestor! Saccorhytus was "likely an egg-shaped creature that ate and expelled from the same gaping orifice," just like Senio...

This is from the US Holocaust Museum. Anything on the list feel familiar?[via]...

Gregg Phillips is the "expert" who told Donald Trump that there were 3 million fraudulent votes in the 2016 election; when reached by an AP reporter for comment on the fact that he is registered to vo...

I spent the day in serious fear that Trump was staging a coup, but even in my darkest hour, I had a niggling sense that it was also possible he just didn't have a fucking clue. (more…)...

Last Word is another instantly enslaving browser game from Bennett Foddy (of QWOP and Sportsfriends fame). Use the arrow keys to move a letter around the screen: if you collide with one of the other l...

Tandy was once a major brand in personal computing, with its TRS-80 among the early 8-bit era's most magnificent and successful machines. By the 1990s, though, the salad days were gone and the bizar...

The Associated Press reports that Boy Scouts of America will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in scouting programs.Rebecca Rausch, a spokeswoman for the organization, emailed ...

Jen Wang, the incredible comics creator who adapted my award-winning story Anda's Game for the bestselling graphic novel In Real Life is selling original, 9" x 12" art from the book, and the painting ...

Acting Attorney General Sally Yates has ordered Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments in the court challenges to Trump's ban on Muslims entering the USA. (more…)...

Update: they fired her. No foreign surveillance warrants until further notice.Acting Attorney General Sally Yates has ordered Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments in the court challe...

Having traveled to Europe and Japan many times, I've grown to appreciate bidets. They are fantastic and it's horrible that they aren't commonplace in the US. I have added one more bidet to the US and ...

https://youtu.be/2KyavuKmdNEDan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, set up an experiment to measure dishonesty using a coin and a six-sided die. Conclusion: "i...

This amazingly handy website pretty much holds your digital hand through the process of calling your representatives. Take five minutes, call your reps.5 Calls...

"Yesterday was the trial balloon for a coup dtat against the United States," writes Yonatan Zunger on Medium. The "administration is testing the extent to which the DHS (and other executive agencies) ...

This picture grid brilliantly sums up the attitudes in nearly every IT office I've ever worked in. This is the oldest reference to it I can find. Let me know in the comments if you can find an older s...

savage Granny..The world and everything in it was created for this woman's amusement. Keep a sharp eye out for her. You could be her next victim....

The World Economic Forum asked "leaders from business, government, academia and nongovernmental and international organizations" to take a survey on the potential risks and benefits of different emerg...

At Boing Boing, from time to time, we enjoy stashing folks bonuses in puzzle boxes. This 3D puzzle by UGears is beautiful.Safe by Ugears Is Mechanical 3D Puzzle Wooden via Amazon...

Lessig compares the current constitutional crisis -- a lawless, reckless president; law enforcement officers flouting federal court orders -- with previous crises, such as the impeachment of Nixon, an...

You can thank Japanese game publisher Namco for Pac-Man, Galaga, Pole Position, Splatterhouse, Rolling Thunder, Soul Calibur and Tekken. And you can thank Masaya Nakamura, who died last week, for Namc...

At last night's SAG Awards, Stranger Things star David K. Harbour used his acceptance speech opportunity to deliver a killer rant about fighting for freedom, the meek, disenfranchised, and the marg...

Rockin'1000, who claim to be "the biggest rock band on Earth," performs Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in Cesena, Italy....

World champion balloon artist Mark Verge twisted up this huge Tyrannosaurus rex from 700 balloons. He calls it the "the coolest thing Ive ever made. ...

Daniel Jacob and friends "built a spinning water slide ride for Australia Day down at the river in Canberra." Below, a 1980s TV commercial for the original Slip N Slide. Which one looks more fun?htt...

Masaya Nakamura, the founder of Nakamura Amusement Machine Manufacturing Company (Namco) who unleashed Pac-Man fever on Japan and the United States, has died at age 91. Under his leadership, Namco bui...

I was in Target yesterday and spotted this remarkable work of art disguised as a marketing hoarding (it is in fact a tryptich with Darth Vader off to the left.) I'm hoping someone well-educated might ...

Eliza Gauger spotted this Horse's Head Beach Wood Driftwood Sculpture Hors Nose Eye Taxidermy Decor Art on eBay. The resemblance is uncanny, don't you agree?...

Two suspects are in custody after gunmen opened fire in a Quebec mosque, killing six and injuring eight. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned it as an act of terrorism aimed at the Muslim community...

Emmett Till was a 14-year-old black boy lynched after a Mississippi woman, Carolyn Bryant Donham, claimed he made "advances" on her. His killers were acquitted of kidnapping and murder by an all-white...

BuzzFeed reporter Jesse McLaren took this already insane videoin which Donald Trump obsessively discusses the crowd size at his inauguration during an ABC specialand turned it up to 11:https://twitter...

A Parliamentary petition to rescind the invitation for Donald Trump to make an official state visit has received nearly 1.3 million signatures in a matter of days, making it the fastest-growing such p...

David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz created an interactive chart showing the weight, national origin and position of more than 1,300 active satellites orbiting the planet Earth. The data was sourced from ...

The World Wide Web Consortium's Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) is a DRM system for web video, being pushed by Netflix, movie studios, and a few broadcasters. It's been hugely controversial within th...

The instructors for this summer's Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy writers' workshop are Dan Chaon, Lynda Barry, Nalo Hopkinson, Andrea Hairston, Cory Doctorow, C.C. Finlay and Rae Carson: the work...

Tony Benn was a Minister of Parliament for 47 years and one of the greats of the UK Labour party until his death in 2014. He's a reservoir of excellent quotes, but today his thoughts on refugees seem ...

Tony Benn was a Minister of Parliament for 47 years and one of the greats of the UK Labour party until his death in 2014. He's a reservoir of excellent quotes, but today his thoughts on refugees seem ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking first-hand reports of travellers being asked to divulge their social media habits by US border guards (beyond the optional field on the ESTA form) (email ...

The powerful Twitter account St. Louis Manifest (@Stl_Manifest) spent Holocaust Remembrance Day documenting the names and images of passengers on the German transatlantic liner St. Louis. The ship sai...

The world is a scary place right now, so take a brief respite with this utterly delightful web exclusive from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. With help from Chance The Rapper, Jon Batiste, and C...

My Windows 10 PC seized up coming out of sleep mode this morning, and then the WiFi had to be disabled and reenabled before it could see my network. Patrick Thibodeau, however, found a computer that's...

MIT Professor Emeritus of Robotic Rodney Brooks has published a thought-provoking essay on the most concrete, most likely ethical questions that will be raised by self-driving cars; Brooks is unintere...

The Federal Reserve Board, charged with maximizing employment in America, sets interest rates and takes other measures to achieve this goal; because of public records laws, we get to look in on their ...

AppleMail is a sensible default mail client for anyoneinterested in managing their inbox outside of a browser. But sadly Mail hasnt matured as much as I would have hoped over the past years. Enter Mai...

A classic English chocolate bar. The finest Japanese wine. Together, at last. QUESTION: Is it a kit kat that tastes like sake or sake that tastes like a kit kat?ANSWER: hi,it is not sake but sake flav...

A young couple and two cats found dead in their Berkeley, Calif., apartment may have been overcome by fumes vented from a 3D printer. CBS News reports that 35-year-old Roger Morash and 32-year-old Val...

A young couple and two cats found dead in their Berkeley, Calif., apartment may have been overcome by fumes vented from a 3D printer, reports CBS News. 35-year-old Roger Morash and 32-year-old Valerie...

The BBC's Brian Wheeler reports that Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's classic tale of a fake news editor at a popular British tabloid, has sold out only days into the new administration of Presid...

While the American public's attention was focused on the thousands of families whose lives were disrupted and even put at risk by Trump's ban on Muslims entering the USA, the US Director of National I...

Sprucing up the throne room might not have been the resolution you told everyone about on New Year's Eve, but it's definitely not a bad idea. Take advantage of the new years promise by adding some fla...

Donald J Trump's executive order banning Muslims from entering the US threw the world into chaos yesterday, as US citizens, lawful permanent residents and visa holders found themselves stranded abroad...

Under the 2004 Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement, refugees that are turned away from the US are not allowed to seek entry into Canada. (more…)...

Windows 10 takes one of the most hated aspects of Microsoft operating systems -- forced, sudden software updates and reboots -- and elevates them to a sadistic art, with Win 10 machines suddenly annou...

Shortly after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the Department of Labor's whistleblower site -- for Wells Fargo employees who wanted to report fraud in the ongoing scandal affecting millions of ...

A federal judge for New York's Eastern District issued an emergency stay on Saturday night that temporarily halts President Donald Trumps Friday executive order banning entry to the US from seven most...

About a year ago, I reported my discovery of a mysterious old safe at the back of a closet in the old house I'd just bought. After much fooling around with combinations and pointless gadgets in my s...

Threats from the Trump administration to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities have caused California to start looking for methods to not pay taxes to the Federal government. California's long-...

My friend Michelle Fox spotted this vehicle in New Mexico. The "non-racist" really makes it!...

Google Pixel Phone, Google Home, Virtual Reality Headset...all items on my personal wish list (and probably yours too). Thats why I highly suggest entering the Google Hardware Giveaway and getting the...

More news on the Chinese crackdown on money-laundering and its impact on the global property bubble: the controls the Chinese government has put on "capital outflows" (taking money out of China) are a...

17 minutes of funny and informative notes from the history of DRM from Lazy Game Reviews, starting with Bill Gates's infamous Open Letter to Hobbyists and moving through to the modern era with its a...

Actor John Hurt, famous for his gravelly-yet-vulnerable voice and craggy appearance, is reported dead at 77. Known for his roles in Alien, Elephant Man, Nineteen-Eighty Four, Doctor Who and the Harry ...

Some brilliant entrepreneurs decided to open an Aushcwitz themed escape room. I don't even want to fucking know what happens if you don't get out in time. In America Nazis are as likely to get attacke...

https://youtu.be/gZeCvEa7OqIThe legendary hardware hackers speak for two hours about gender, participation and representation in tech, teaching electronics with papercraft, and the joys of open sour...

I really love the entire album Consolers of the Lonely (2008.)...

I really love the entire album Consolers of the Lonely (2008.)...

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HAPPY MUTANTS DAY OF ICE CREAM-------BY THE PUBLISHER OF BOING BOING, A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGSA PROCLAMATIONA notional pride spins the Happy Mutant soul and congests the Happy Mutant heart. We ...

Alexandra Petri covered Trumps inauguration, "written in compliance with the Trump style guidelines that we should have been obeying all along."Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, and Elton John, and the Rol...

Postmodern Jukebox always creates great covers, but Tove Los Habits (Stay High) proves to be a particularly perfect match for the concept. This vintage 1930s take on the song is incredibly soothing ...

I'm playing Francis Tseng's dystopian startup business simulation called "The Founder." It's a bit like The Sims, but the goal is to run a successful startup. The game is played on your browser, no do...

YouTuber KittyPouncer created this terrific timelapse video of curly icicles extruding from pipes. Here's how it happens: (more…)...

Lucy Bellwood, an adventure cartoonist of the beloved (to me, at least) ligne claire school of illustration, created this webcomic about spending time aboard the R/V Falkor, "a state-of-the-art oceano...

Turns out I am afraid of heights... Miraculously I didn't even have a bruise! I did break a lot of gear including my helmet. Thanks to Matt for helping me dig for nearly 5 hours I found my los...

Hexbugs are cute insect-like toys with a remote control. Brad Knox has created a mod that harnesses smartphone technology to make them autonomous, able to distinguish colors and navigate obstaccles....

The FBI has released a heavily redacted 173-page PDF of GamerGate documents under FOIA. Much of the material has any identifying information stripped out, but it's clear that many of them are explicit...

The FBI has released a heavily redacted 173-page PDF of GamerGate documents under FOIA. Much of the material has any identifying information stripped out, but it's clear that many of them are explicit...

The typography and semiotics of Alien are fascinating, and now you can have them on your keyboard. The G20 Semiotic Keycap Set from Signature Plastics embodies almost all of Rob Cobb's design work for...

Verdant Labs put together an interesting infographic on the political tendencies of various jobs. (more…)...

The petition to "immediately release Donald Trump's full tax returns, with all information needed to verify emoluments clause compliance" has received more signatures (385,845 so far) than any other p...

Californians have long been upset to find fewer tax dollars enter their state than leave. It was once a big part of recalling their Governor and installing a Governator. Funding the great and failing ...

Californians have long been upset to find fewer tax dollars enter their state than leave. It was once a big part of recalling their Governor and installing a Governator. Funding the great and failing ...

I was waiting for him to play the opening to "Smoke on the Water." Was not disappointed....

My favorite part of this video is the hand-cranked machine that strips dried kernels of corn from the cob, then grabs the denuded cob and deposits it out of the hopper (hopefully later to be turned ...

https://vimeo.com/192681460From Nervous System - The Infinity Puzzle.The infinity puzzles are a new type of jigsaw puzzle inspired by topological spaces that continuously tile. Because of that, they h...

Chris Notap is having fun with his $30 DIY vacuum chamber. In this video, he experiments with shaving cream inside a bottle with different kinds of nozzles cut into the screw-on caps....

The British have erected a "wall of genitals" so that you may climb upon it. "Ever fancied pulling yourself up a wall by firmly gripping a purple penis? Course you have. Havent we all?" (more…)...

Yesterday, the Israeli government announced major steps toward legalizing marijuana. Medical cannabis is already a big thing in Israel and permitted by traditional Jewish law. According to Public Secu...

Adam calls it a one-day build but it would take me a week and at least 23 trips to the hardware store. (Tested)...

In November 1964, 17-year-old David Bowie (then Jones) appeared on BBC's "Tonight" to talk about his new Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men, a PR stunt cooked up by his dad. Bo...

Skirt Club, a sex site "for girls who play with girls," required prospective members to upload "full body" photos with their applications; these photos were stored in world-readable folders with easil...

Skirt Club, a sex club "for girls who play with girls," required prospective members to upload "full body" photos with their applications; these photos were stored in world-readable folders with easil...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=hL3gA8IMO-wResearchers from Context Security have identified a vulnerability in Samsung Galaxy phones: by embedding commands in the obsolete, 17-year-...

The New Jersey DA's office just announced that it had arrested New York's Habib Chaudhry in connection with a $200M credit-card fraud; Mr Chaudhry joins 19 others who've pleaded guilty to the frauds. ...

Yesterday, the Oregon Ducks' Dillon Brooks and Utah Utes' Sedrick Barefield slightly bumped one another while Barefield had the ball. Hoping for a call against Barefield, Brooks then launched himsel...

The White House's official schedule for UK PM Theresa May's state visit misspells the PM's name in three places, referring to her as "Teresa May," a soft porn star, model and musician. (Image: Charnwo...

From Scarfolk, the English horror-town stuck in a ten-year loop in the 1970s, comes this Action Man waterboarding playset, marketed after overwhelming popular demand: "A survey conducted in 1978 found...

Less than a week after Trump's inauguration, US immigration officers have begun harassment campaigns against migrants and those who support them: yesterday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ...

Hamildemos is a an eight-track Soundcloud set posted this week by Lin-Manuel Miranda, with the rough tracks for some of the best tunes from Hamilton; as Kottke points out, these are a lot more hip hop...

A 2009 rule created by Obama in his first days in office says that former executives and lobbyists can't be hired to work for the government in a capacity that gives them oversight over their former e...

Akil Mitchell of the New Zealand Breakers is recovering after another player "accidentally dislodged his eyeball" on the court, reports the BBC."With the palm of my hand I felt my eyeball on the side ...

Butane lighters work greatuntil you get them wet or it gets windy. The SaberLight is a rechargeable plasma beam torch thatblows all my traditional lighters away.I purchased this lighter because TSA ap...

The US is a nation of laws, not men, and that means that unconstituional actions by lawmakers end up being struck down by judges -- so when populist leaders of small towns come to power by promising r...

Based on Andrew Ihla's tweet about the unexpected heroism of The Merriam-Webster Dictionary, The National Park Service, and Teen Vogue, animator Jessica (@my2k) created a trio of modern day heroes.htt...

CNN shared this mesmerizing footage of soap bubbles freezing. Although it looks like time lapse, the bubbles are actually freezing in real time. Photographer Mike Shaw shot the gorgeous footage....

Revolution Messaging's White House Inc is a tool that connects your phone to the main switchboard of a random Trump property somewhere in the world, because "Until Trump steps away from his businesses...

In 2016, French prosecutors have brought more cases for "solidarity crimes" -- offering shelter, food, and assistance to migrants, refugees and Roma people -- than were brought in all the years 2012-2...

Ever since Thomas Schelling -- an advisor on Dr Strangelove! -- published his work on negotiating theory and nuclear deterrence, we've developed a rich vocabulary for describing negotiating tactics a...

Back in 1997, Oprah Winfrey thought she was just airing a salute to her idol Mary Tyler Moore. But it turns out Moore was actually backstage to surprise her. Oprah explains that as a young woman she...

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The song is "Chicken Dance 1" by Siksika Ramblers; the full track is embedded after the jump. The original "dancing dog" footage appears to be of a caged Alsatian or Eurasier trying desperately to e...

When America was truly great we had truly great people on TV. Calvert DeForest was one of the best.Here's another clip:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou0fZOdrqnw...

I cant cook.A few years ago though, I had the semi-crushing revelation that its not that I dont know much about cooking, its that I legitimately cant cook. Im terrible at it. No piece of chicken would...

In an outrageous interview with the New York Times, Steve Bannon declared the press an "opposition party" and suggests it "keep its mouth shut." Talking Points Memo shares the highlights:Steve Bannon,...

40-year-old Andrew Wardle was born without a penis, but after 100 surgeries he now has one. Now, comes a two-week waiting period during which he will have a persistent erection. After that, his doctor...

For the last 10 years, I have purchased eyeglasses online for a fraction of the price I'd have to pay at a brick-and-mortar store. I always get the same Ray-Ban Wayfarer knock-offs (above) at Optical ...

Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, non fiction author, and former federal public defender. Her latest book is called A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and ...

Nebraska is one of five states considering Right to Repair laws that would require companies to provide manuals and parts so that people could fix their own stuff, or get their stuff fixed by independ...

Day six! It's also a pretty shitty password. Let's hope he's got 2-factor auth turned on! Also, Trump's still using his insecure personal Android device. (more…)...

Harvard has the world's largest university endowment, $35.7B, so much money that Thomas Piketty used its public investment records as a proxy for the likely investment returns of the super-rich in his...

Google recently stopped serving ads to 200 fake news sites.From Recode:Publishers were banned in November and December and included sites that impersonate real news organizations through shortened top...

Amnesty International has published a damning report on the organized networks of Mexican Twitter trolls and botmasters for hire who orchestrate massive harassment campaigns against investigative jour...

314 Action is a new group that organizes scientists to run for office; they were founded in opposition to trumpism and the official policy of gagging government scientists and freezing EPA research gr...

Sebastian C. Adams's Synchronological Chart from the late 19th century presents 5,885 years of history (4004 BCE - 1881 AD) on a magnificent 27 inch x 23 foot illustrated and annotated timeline. What ...

Franois Fillon is the French Republican Party's political candidate, the right-wing frontrunner against the neofascist Marine Le Pen. Following an investigation by the Canard Enchain newspaper, French...

Chuck Schumer is meant to be the leader of the Democratic resistance in the Senate, but he's inaugurated that role by meekly accepting Trump's nominees for CIA Director (avowed torturer Mike Pompeo); ...

Who trusts scientists anyways?Via the Washington Post:It's now 2 minutes to midnight, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which warned Thursday that the end of humanity may be near.The gr...

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People who looked at pictures of cute animals "improved performance on tasks that required carefulness." The results of the experiments are in a paper titled The Power of Kawaii, by Hiroshi Nittono , ...

This is Keon the Irish wolfhound from Westerlo, Belgium who broke the Guinness World Record for the longest on a dog. Keon's tail is 76.8 cm (30.2") long, beating the previous record-holder also a w...

Quartz editor Gideon Lichfield has published a science fictional vignette depicting the final backstage moments before the 2025 inauguration of President Mark Zuckerberg's second term. (more…)...

The best part of the video is the increasing happiness and confidence you can see on his face as his body transforms. (Isou Dw) ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Trump administration's gag orders on government employees disclosing taxpayer-funded research results, a series of high-profile "rogue" government agency accounts pop...

As part of Kickstarter's Make/100 initiative, our good friends at BabyTattoo have put together this beautiful card game, OctoMatch. Straight from Baby Tattoo's agent provocateur Bob Self, himself:To k...

My 10-year-old son Lux is a retro videogame historian who collects and studies 1980s consoles and games with the gravitas of a PhD student working on his thesis. Last year he acquired Nintendo's NES...

On Wednesday, all of the senior managers of the US State Department quit en masse. The Washington Post reports that it's "part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who dont wan...

If I don't laugh, I'll cry. (Brandon Smith)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYQnnhVZMvEMistablik is an American high-school student who put his mind to finding alternate uses for the lockers that lined his school's hallways -- lockers that si...

Obama's policy of allowing border agents to demand foreigners' social media accounts at border crossing has been expanded under Trump; now, people are being illegally profiled based on their religious...

Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles performed their first improv scene together on the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? back in 1991. And thus an iconic comedy duo was born....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP62Yk-YJVcOr perhaps he finally got his emacs the way he likes it. [via]...

The Belgian Parliament has voted to continue its decades-long practice of supplying free booze to lawmakers, despite several incidents of unpleasant, drunken behavior, because the alternative is going...

This brief edit of last year's wonderful Gokchin sansei Cute Caique Parrot Bird Silly Walk, embedded below in full, is doing well on Twitter today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYJB0zyjt70...

He's fine. Fine and damnned lucky: "Turns out I am afraid of heights."Skier Devin Stratton managed to ski himself off of an unmarked 150-foot cliff last week in the backcountry of the Wasatch Range ...

By Megan Nicole Dong of the blog Sharky Malarkey....

Writer/performer Laura Hankin sums things up in this darkly funny sketch....

If you're feeling demoralized by the assault on our environment under the current administration, you might find inspiration in the PBS profile of environmentalist Rachel Carson. (more…)...

Last year I blogged about the mysterious death of a man found on a remote English moor. Found with only a pocketful of pills and no identifying documents, "Dovestones" sent investigators hunting world...

If you are tired of blurry handheld photos and shiftygroup shots, youll need a tripod to keep your camera steady and safe from falls. Many tripods rely on device-specific mounts and bulky designs that...

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The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore has lots of cool features, but this whirlpool fountain outisde their shopping area could keep some visitors transfixed all day. (more…)...

A lot of former congressional staffers agree that the best way to make your voice heard is to call your representatives rather than emailing them. And a new website makes that easier than ever. 5 Call...

Back in 1998, future Donald Trump counselor/spin-master Kellyanne Conway participated in a Washington, D.C. charity event that, for some reason, required her to do a stand-up routine. The results ar...

In his first television interview since assuming power last Friday, Donald Trump compares himself to Peyton Manning. Everything else was even weirder. Construction of a wall along the US-Mexico borde...

Boeing revealed its new sleek and chic spacesuit designed for astronauts aboard the Boeing/Bigelow CST-100 Starliner spacecraft. Launched on Atlas V rockets the Starliner capsule will shuttle commerci...

Indian conservation group Wildlife SOS has a team of knitters that could put your grandma's afghan-making skills to shame. They create these colorful knitted sweaters for elephants in their care. (mor...

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Indecline made headlines with a series of naked Trump statues that popped up around the country. Now they are back with Rise Up Thy Young Blood, a project extolling American diversity, created from ...

I stumbled upon this lovely set of stemless wine glasses decorated with night sky star charts. They come in sets of two with one glass depicting the summer sky and the other depicting the winter one. ...

In this animated video, the YouTube channel The School Of Life breaks down the ways in which politeness isnt necessarily the same thing as warmth. It turns out the secret to being a warmly polite pe...

What can the press do in an increasingly hazardous environment of computational propaganda, a multi-trillion dollar criminal economy, deeply divided populations, and rising authoritarian populism arou...

What can the press do in an increasingly hazardous environment of computational propaganda, a multi-trillion dollar criminal economy, deeply divided populations, and rising authoritarian populism arou...

What can the press do in an increasingly hazardous environment of computational propaganda, a multi-trillion dollar criminal economy, deeply divided populations, and rising authoritarian populism arou...

British design company Mainframe created this odd little video called For Approval. It features objects that subvert the laws of physics in weird and unexpected ways.https://www.instagram.com/p/BPm1BH...

Sean Avery carefully constructs flora and fauna from old compact discs and DVDs, the razor-sharp delights are especially beautiful outdoors, where the light glints off each shard. (more…)...

What does it take to be a tabloid reporter?Bare minimum requirements demand a Harvard medical degree, five years of psychic training, and a mandatory year spent working at an "I Guess Your Weight' mid...

In memory of the late Mary Tyler Moore, I present to you Minneapolis punk pioneers Hsker D's killer 1985 cover of "Love Is All Around," Sonny Curtis's theme song to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The Hs...

The Blind Photographer is surprising and fascinating. These photos taken by visually impaired photographers, accompanied by a bit of text explaining the photographers working processes and inspiration...

Atlas Survival Shelters sells huge corrugated pipe shelters outfitted for living with air filtration systems, Co2 scrubbers, and power generators. A 10' x 20' shelter goes for $30-$40,000 and the "Hil...

Atlas Obscura has an article about the original bomb-proof safe that kept the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence safe from attack. I wish as much care would be given...

How will you make it on your own?, the theme song asked a girl, played by Mary Tyler Moore. This world is awfully big. She made it, after all. "Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at ...

America's TV sweetheart, Mary Tyler Moore, has passed away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuuYvQsN-akVia HuffPo:Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of ...

Larry Scheckel was a high school physics and aerospace teacher for almost 40 years, and he wrote a book called Ask a Science Teacher: 250 Answers to Questions Youve Always Had About How Everyday Stuff...

Whirlpool claims that its new Zera Food Recycler can turn a weeks worth of food waste into fertilizer within 24 hours. It costs $1000, but it looks like magic.[via]...

Cows investigate a turtleThis turtle has bovinophobia....

The element Livermorium (element 116, named after Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) was created in 2000. It's in the same column of the periodic table as sulfur and it is speculated that it m...

'Bad Lip Reading: Inauguration Day.' (more…)...

I've not heard of Randy Rainbow until just now, but he is my new YouTube star idol....

San Francisco artist Windy Chien made one new knot every day last year and many of them are exquisite string sculptures. She learned from The Ashley Book of Knots, Clifford W. Ashley's 1944 tome of 4,...

Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University, explains that Trump is ordering his staffers to tell obviously blatant lies to the press and the public - because it's a sure fire w...

https://youtu.be/XVQny1bVxWIA group of protesters followed Pat McCrory (the former Republican governor of North Carolina who signed a transphobic bathroom bill in March) and loudly shamed him as he wa...

https://youtu.be/XVQny1bVxWIA group of protesters followed Pat McCrory (the former Republican governor of North Carolina who signed a transphobic bathroom bill in March) and loudly shamed him as he wa...

Gov. Jerry Brown gave a rousing State of the State speech yesterday. Vowing to fight for immigrants, health care, and the environment, Gov. Brown reiterated the stance that California will not quietly...

There are certain languages that don't differentiate between the present and the future. Estonian is the classic example of a "futureless tongue." According to new research by Efrn O. Prez, co-directo...

Charlie from Open Rights Group writes, "'I have made it clear in my campaign that I would support and endorse the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.' - Donald Trump, 15/2/2016." (more…)...

Yes, I really do "need" a 12V USB charging adaptor with a built-in voltmeter. Driving my VW camper van around, I frequently swap the USB charger with a voltmeter. I'm always curious about how much cur...

A bill that demotes domestic violence to a civic offense has passed Russia's lower parliamentary chamber, the Duma. (more…)...

It's only been a handful of days since Donald Trump took office, but we're already getting strong signals about the sort of administration he intends to run: workers at US government agencies have bee...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Joohoon David Lee led a human trafficking investigation against the owners of a Las Vegas Korean supper club, while dining for free at a rival's club,...

Lead pipes have a lifespan of about 75 years -- and America's lead pipe are about 75 years old. 3,000 American municipalities have 1.2m miles of lead pipe, and it's all overdue for replacement, but th...

"Nearly a dozen" White House staffers have told Washington Post reporters that Trump was "demoralized" by press reports that showed a poor turnout for his inauguration and a much larger turnout for th...

Comedian and former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams took to the stage during the Women's March at Sundance to share a story about her mother and celebrate black womanhood.[via Mic]...

Many Westerners equate ramen noodles with the cheap dried stuff that poor students and young adults eat, but Criterion Collection is doing their part to change that. They put together this wonderful...

Due to infrequent but insistent requests for my unpleasant Photoshops of various politicians, I'm putting as many of them as I can remember here in one place. Sweet dreams! I'd make a calendar but the...

Surreal Youtube star and musician That Poppy has a message for you: "Delete Your Facebook." It's timely advice, and sound. (via JWZ)...

In this new video, Vox digs into Donald Trumps insane number of conflicts of interest. You can read a more in-depth exploration of the same topic over at The New York Times....

Twitter is a great place for bots. Botherders like Shardcore produce amazing, politics, artistic bots that mine Twitter, inject useful information into Twitter, or just frolic on Twitter, making it a ...

YouTuber TAOFLEDERMAUS will try to shoot ammunition made of anything viewers send or suggest. After a glassblower named Sam sent them some handmade glass slugs, they shot them with pretty crazy resu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsNHdW0O364Cool S Font is an entire typeface based around the coolest form of the letter "S", that being an elongated awesome hexagonal loop where the form of the lette...

White hathackers are a critical asset to information security, which is at extremely high risk in this day and age. Remember Target? Remember the DNC email hack? By discovering vulnerabilities in comp...

With racist and discriminatory acts on the rise since Donald Trumps election, Barnard Center For Research On Women and members of Project NIA created a video that offers six simple tips for what to ...

After dismissing civil rights icon John Lewis as "all talk," Donald Trump catapulted Lewis' March trilogy comic on the civil rights movement back to the best-seller charts, where it has stayed all mon...

Who would win in a fight between a turtle-sized turtle and a dozen cow-sized-cows? [via r/funny.]...

This video from Verso Books author LA Kauffman breaks down the basics of direct action....

With a few basic tools and household items, Roman UrsuHack transforms used plastic bottles into all sorts of handy objects. (more…)...

Josh Glenn says: Heres an extremely timely episode of Benjamen Walkers Radiotopian podcast,Theory of Everything. In it, Benjamen and I discuss the obscure spy novel The Twentieth Day of January, about...

Tall glass, cracked ice, 4 dashes Angostura bitters, crushed peel of one lime, fill with Holland gin: "Its strong, its bitterbut so is English ale strong and bitter, in many cases." (more…)...

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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 my, oh, m...

Repeated rainy days and limited opportunities to go outside sometimes put my dogs in a bad spot. When they relieve themselves indoors, Sunny and Honey is the best clean-up solution I've found. The wea...

Over at the Japanese culture website Tofugu (where my wife Carla is on staff), there's a great article by Kanae Nakamine on Japanese bug eating traditions, complete with tasty recipes like bee larva...

Enjoy this clever welcome message/plea to the new leader of the United States.Picking on Germany may not pay off in the long run, folks....

Three-thousand pounds of marijuana were seized recently at Pharr International Bridge on the Rio Grande. Customs and Border Protection report that the weed, disguised as watermelons, did not fool the ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzQE3VvYPz4Directed by Norwood Cheek with animation by Dilara Mundy. ...

These guy taped a a beautiful avalanche at Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, Chile. It stopped right before it reached them, and just hovered over them....

Tooth Magnified to the atomic levelIt's like Powers of Ten for dentistry....

A weatherman flipped the bird without realizing he was on camera. Six years later, people are still sharing the video.[via]...

Emily Nussbaum at The New Yorker takes a deep dive into comedy's outsize role in Trump's victory. It's one of the best long reads about the pop culture that defined this election. To use Emily's comed...

When a Tumblr user shared this photo of their aunts wizard lizard with the caption You know what to do, artist and fellow Tumblr user Lauren of Iguanamouth immediately got to work:https://iguanamouth....

Whether I'm trying to relieve some stress at work or entertain myself on the metro, Space Putty is there. You can bring this magical goo home and try it for yourself for just $9.99Like Silly Putty of ...

One of Obama's last posts while in office showed him fist-bumping a robotic arm. It's actually a prosthetic robotic arm belonging to Nathan Copeland, who can control it with his mind and sense touch...

The wonderful new movie Hidden Figures (based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly) tells the story of three black women who were crucial to the success of NASAs Apollo missions in the 1960s. And now NAS...

Blooms are sculptures that animate when a camera captures them in motion at a certain frame rate—a common accidental example is the illusion of car hubcaps spinning "backwards" on video. John ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxBl73QX000"Be better and more beautiful than you were before." Adult Swim is with us always, but this time from @Sleevesmith & @JerryPaperREAL....

Trump launched his campaign in front of an "audience" of actors paid $50/each to wear campaign shirts and cheer wildly, and he's brought his paid cheering section with him into the presidency, bringin...

It's a commonplace that in the natural world, males attempt to mate with multiple females, while females attempt to entice males into being monogamous; this is attributed to the high cost of producing...

Caroline Slotte is a sculptor in Finland who layers old, decorated china plates atop one another, then carefully removes material from successive layers with precision masking and sandblasting and car...

YouTuber Kitty Loves Tofu set up this inverted aquarium in an indoor koi pond then put some food inside. After a few early adopters benefited from taking a chance and swimming in, their neighbors de...

In this adorable three-part series, artist Pepegle celebrates the best robot sidekicks in the galaxy. It turns out these are the droids we were looking for.You can see more of Pepegle's art on Tumblr....

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Rolls Royce just arranged for a "deferred prosecution" with UK prosecutors over revelations that it had committed jailable offenses by bribing overseas officials in order to secure their business; und...

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The former UK national phone company BT announced that it's writing down the value of its Italian operation by £530m because it has been committing accounting fraud for years, triggering a mass ...

The criminals of Paris have targeted super-rich visitors in a string of daring robberies -- one gang broke into Kim Kardashian's hotel room, tied her up, and stole millions in jewels; another carjacke...

That just about sums it up. Although, of course, Donald Trump is far from the first U.S. president to be accused of sexual assault, so feel free to apply the message of this sign all the way back to t...

Larry Smith is a mainstay and fixture of America's science fiction conventions (as well as many overseas events); he's someone I've conversed with dozens of times, and, like John Scalzi, I always made...

The press reported cheering at Donald's press conference and at his address at the CIA memorial, and it turned out to be his staffers, an entourage of fawning sycophants paid to clap. It's funny, at f...

Enjoy the intense squeaking joy of an entire clan of guinea pigs feasting on the remains of their defeated enemies....

The libraries of St Louis, MO have been crippled by a ransomware attack that has shut down the public terminals the library provides to the poor and vulnerable of St Louis, as well as the systems used...

Update: The library system has recovered access to its computers.The libraries of St Louis, MO have been crippled by a ransomware attack that has shut down the public terminals the library provides to...

Michael Goodwin and Dan Burr are the author/illustrator team who created Economix, a fantastic comic-book explanation of history of the world economy. (Here's my review of Economix.) Michael and Dan t...

I bought this LED headlamp in 2015, and I use it at least twice a week. You can adjust the brightness, and has an option to turn it off and on by swiping it with your hand. It's great for barbecuing a...

If you were one of the lucky Del Toro fans who got to see the At Home With Monsters show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art this year I hope you found the photo-mural of his house on the way out ...

Amy Walker is well known for her celebrity impersonation and accent demonstration video. Here, she practices impersonating Trump as an exercise to better understand him. This video fascinated me. I ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=140&v=5M1WJ48_wacMore than 8,000,000 people have watched this video of a flashmob choir performing "I Can't Keep Quiet," a song by LA musician MILCK, who ...

1,001,616 paid rides were taken on the DC Metro on the day of the Women's March on Washington. Compare that to 570,557 rides taken on the day Trump was sworn into office, which is even less than the n...

A young Discordian makes her point at the Women's March....

Image: David Weekly/FlickrWestern Union admitted it behaved criminally through its "willful failure to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program and aiding and abetting wire fraud," reports ...

A Russian district doctor must deliver the anti-zombie vaccine to a rural town, or it's inhabitants will suffer. A short ride and simple mission become an existential nightmare as The Blizzard blocks ...

I love this idea - the media should stop interviewing Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway. Almost nothing she says is true or useful. It's entertaining on some level, but it's easier to find better en...

It all started when baker Duff Goldman of Ace Of Cakes fame tweeted out this photo:https://twitter.com/Duff_Goldman/status/822675780341641216As Goldman points out, Donald Trump's inauguration cake loo...

@Halfanonioninabag has one goal in life: to exceed Trump's follower-count, proving that such numbers are a plebiscite on precisely nothing. (more…)...

Even before he took the job of Chief Security Officer of Yahoo, Alex Stamos had a reputation for being a badass: a thoughtful security ethicist who served as an expert witness in defense of Aaron Swar...

A group of computer scientists from Tsinghua University, Tencent and Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology have posted a first-of-its-kind paper to Arxiv, analyzing the p...

You know as well as I that writing complex, long-long form text requires significant organization. You're probably also well aware that Word just isnt up to the task. That's why I'm a huge fan ofScriv...

Flipboard asserts that after studying 30 professions, they've concluded that the occupations that are most resistant to roboticization are those that are "unpredictable" -- CEOs, school psychologists,...

Agent X and Agent Full Stop are a pair of graffiti activists who call themselves Accin Ortogrfica Quito: they sneak around the streets of Quito, Ecuador with cans of red spray-paint, correcting the ...

Section 1201 of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it both a crime and a civil offense to tamper with software locks that control access to copyrighted works -- more commonly known as "Di...

The microgravity of space would really put a damper on your dice games. You roll them and they don't land. The 3D Printing Professor has a fun solution. Space Dice (via Adafruit)...

Mathematician Stephen Wolfram and his company do a lot of consulting for Hollywood. But he doesn't often do it on an urgent basis because a movie is about to shoot and they neglected to "tech the tech...

If you ever doubted the ability of a simple mousetrap to rid your household of pesky hot dogs...(via Cliff Pickover)...

Nashtifan, Iran, is home to some of the oldest windmills in the world. Ali Muhammad Etebari, the last custodian of the mills, laments that he cannot find an apprentice. (more…)...

Opening up Instagram to this photo while arriving at the Womens March on Chicago was easily one of the best parts of my weekend. Melissa Benoist plays Kara Zor-El a.k.a. Supergirl on The CW series, an...

Alarm predators by releasing luminescent phytoplankton from your pores.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvob6L8q3I8&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQX3yK8aw3Y&feature=youtu.be(Vids f...

The Good Junk (@thegoodjunk) is a blog which posts a beautiful gadget a day. Not all of them are 40-year-old Braun or B&O appliances, either! (A lot of them are.) Pictured above is the Casio XW-PD1 p...

Running materials through a modified 3D printer to create sealed compartments can yield forms that change shape when inflated. MIT's Tangible Media Group demonstrates. (more…)...

Before Trump's omnipresent spokescobra Kellyanne Conway distracted everyone with her inauguration get-up, Samantha Bee delivered a withering assessment of Trump's greatest female enabler of all time...

This image by photographer Kevin Mazur is one of the most stunning photos to emerge from the Womens March on Washington. Mark Hamill had this to say about his space sister's image being used at so man...

DeviantArt member Laovaan creates all kinds of beautifully shaded watercolors. In this video he fields viewer questions as he spends five hours creating a watercolor of Link from The Legend of Zelda...

Sarah Vaci creates wonderful portraits with colored wool and felt from her UK studio. Watch her make a dog eye in this 24-minute relaxing tutorial. (more…)...

Photos have already emerged documenting just how many more people attended Barack Obamas 2009 inauguration than Donald Trumps 2017 one, but this gif from CNN proves the Womens March on Washington crow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCM5JftERDg&feature=youtu.beJessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (aka @ThePieous) writes, "It is National Pie Day in America tomorrow (not to be confused with "International Pi ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukFjAsvXC90Judah Adunbi is a 63-year-old black man who lives in Bristol, England, where he volunteered as chairman of the independent advisory group on race relations...

Donald Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer inaugurated his first day on the job by telling easily falsifiable lies about the relative sizes of the Trump inauguration crowds and those of the Obama admi...

A group of Wyoming legislators in the state's House and Senate -- all representing coal country and all avowed climate deniers -- have introduced a bill that would ban Wyoming power companies from usi...

In a new paper in Progress, Oxford economist Vuk Vukovic argues that the key to re-election in local politics is to be just corrupt enough: giving lucrative contracts and other benefits to special int...

Looking to upgrade your weekend?Here are threerandomly awesome products on my mind this week.#3FRESHeBUDS Pro Magnetic Bluetooth EarbudsAs more and more phones and gadgets switch to Bluetooth-only com...

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Dutch filmmaker Ben Winkeler combined his beautiful nature footage with geometric overlays to create Magical Triangle. (more…)...

Brian made these California Resistance mugs, sporting Jerry Brown's promise to "launch our own damned satellite" -- proceeds to Planned Parenthood. (more…)...

Yesterday saw the release of Canadian artist, graphic novelist, and scratch DJ Kid Koala's latest record, his fifth, Music to Draw To: Satellite. An ambient concept record, Music to Draw To: Satelli...

David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets fame and his frequent collaborator/manager Darwin Meiners cover John Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth!"...

Fingers of Steel chronicles the hardcore world of finger skateboarding. Warning: some of the tricks are so gnarly you'll wonder how fingerboarder Chris Heck escapes with fingers intact. (more&hellip...

Traditional folding wallets are designed for paper billsbut these days, carrying cash is rarely a necessity. More often than not, I don't carry cash at all. This Bogui Clik Walletis the best answer I'...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqYspn7PZmQWith Congress set to defund Planned Parenthood and millions of women and allies on the march across America, what better time to reacquaint yourself with t...

In 2013, Lavabit -- famous for being the privacy-oriented email service chosen by Edward Snowden to make contact with journalists while he was contracting for the NSA -- shut down under mysterious, ab...

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Can you "hear" motion or light flashes? If so, according to new research from City University London, you may be experiencing a not-so-rare form of synaesthesia. Synesthesia is the fascinating neurolo...

On the left, Obama. On the right, Trump. I guess no-one could find a dress....

Much has been said of Donald Trump's presidency, which begins today with his sparsely-attended inauguration in Washington, D.C. If there's one thing I found insightful and well-geared to the historica...

Not sure about Neill Blomkamp's reboot of this classic franchise, but the poster's great! (Who made it?)...

Day Dreamers Limited -- the artist collective of Kelly Tunstall, Ferris Plock, and creative studio Form & Fiction -- are making an animated series starring Donald Trump's Hair as the protagonist! Fr...

Just in case you need something to calm you down today.[via Lucy Bellwood]...

For The West Wing Weekly podcast, co-host Hrishikesh Hirway created an extended remix of the podcasts theme song then had West Wing superfan Lin-Manuel Miranda write and record an ode to the Aaron S...

Conservatives often threaten to cut funding for public arts, humanities, and broadcasting, but will Trump actually do it? White House staffers who have seen Trump's proposal say he doesn't like the Na...

Break out the headphones for this tingly and satisfying sound design of macro timelapse thawing of fruits and vegetables. The visuals are quote appetizing and lovely, but the sounds are what really ...

This is a Photoshop edit rather than an actual church sign, but either way, it hits the nail on the head....

Zim & Zou make these delightful hand-cut paper buildings for their Forest Folks display in Dubai. (more…)...

Equal parts defiant and celebratory, activists chose to protest incoming Vice President Mike Pence by throwing a queer dance party outside his rented D.C. house. The protest was organized by Werk For ...

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Starting with an off-the-shelf model of a VW microbus, Hernandez Dreamphography creates Inner Trip, a diorama of a weathered VW on a wintry field. (more…)...

LiveLeaker w4chi posted a video of what it's like to survive an avalanche while wearing a special inflatable backpack. (more…)...

YouTuber and photographer Timmy Joe saw spectacular light pillars on an arctic January night from his northern Ontario home. He thought they were northern lights until he went to investigate. It's a...

Using myiPhone while it's charging is always a hassle. With tucked-away outlets and the meager length of included lightning cables, comfortable scrolling while plugged in is annoying. These 10-Ft MFi-...

China is engaged in a bizarre dystopian experiment to use social network ratings to punish political dissidence, "antisocial behavior" and noncomformity, using data pulled from many sources, including...

Just look at it. (via Gameraboy)...

Christ Brown's debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, will be out in July -- but Brown finished it years ago, long before the darkly comic trumpian political intrigue it envisions became more like factual rep...

Xnet, a wonderful Spanish activist group, has created the Anti-Corruption Complaint Box, a whistleblowing platform for the city of Barcelona that allows people to file anonymous claims in a Globalleak...

Meitu is one of Google Play's "Sand Hill" apps, part of the company's accelerator for apps with "viral potential" -- take a pic of yourself and Meitu will make you over to look like an anime character...

In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg (who insists that privacy is dead) bought 100 acres of land around his vacation home in Hawaii to ensure that no one could get close enough to spy on him. (more…)...

Scientists declared the ruby seadragon a new species in 2015, but that was based on dead specimens in a museum. Now though, Scripps Institution of Oceanography biologist Greg Rouse who led the team ...

The graphene temporary tattoo seen here is the thinnest epidermal electronic device ever and according to the University of Texas at Austin researchers who developed it, the device can take some medic...

The new Gorillaz video, the first track in six years from the animated, virtual band, features real singer and Mercury Prize winner Benjamin Clementine crooning in Trump Tower. The song is called......

BB pal Rob Walker says:My Significant Objects co-conspirator Joshua Glenn and I have started a new adventure: PROJECT:OBJECT will publish four themed volumes of stories-about-objects from an all-star ...

Brian says: "I thought youd dig this Chrome Extension that I made. Basically, it takes instances of President Trump, and changes them to President Trump. Its a subtle reminder to the illegitimacy of h...

Comic Sans MS, perhaps the most polarizing font in history, was designed by Vincent Connare for Microsoft and unleashed upon the world in 1994. "If you didn't notice (a piece of art), I considered t...

I paid $22 for my FryDaddy electric deep fryer, but it's on sale on Amazon for $17 (free Prime shipping) right now. This thing is awesome -- I use it a couple of times a week to fry sweet potato, butt...

The Chinese government "fabricates and posts about 448 million social media comments a year," according to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of California San D...

Jim Lewis made a beautiful marble machine Turing complete computer. He says, "For several years I've been thinking about building a mechanical computer that demonstrates the Rule 110 principle. In t...

Adding a sheen of legitimacy to his Presidency, Trump will soon begin to tweet uncontrollably from the @POTUS account. Recode shares the story:Starting Friday, @POTUS, the official Twitter account cre...

Long of the short of it, Trump knows he's a fraud.Politico interviewed several biographers who have followed Trump for most of his garish, boorish life.DAntonio: Those early influences are essential, ...

These organic gummy cherries may look gross, but I heard they are very teste.[via]...

In the latest episode of Scam School, Brian Brushwood shows you how to always beat a sucker in a card order guessing game....

Israeli author Shahak Shapira found a use for foolish and disrespectful selfies taken at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.A newly unveiled online project called Yolocaust delivers a stinging message f...

With countless applications for modern life, artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most in-demand fields of study in tech. Beyond modelling human decision making processes and learning abilities,...

366 Weird Movies is a selection of the best (for various definitions of "best"), each reviewed with a clear eye on its weirdness. The descriptions are complete with bullet-point lists of oddities an...

ASMRion generates relaxing "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response" soundscapes for you. There are ten sigils with sliders underneath them, each representing a particular sonic ingredient—"leaves ...

City-compare does exactly as its name suggests: select two U.S. cities and it will display various charts and statistics by way of comparison, all cleanly laid out and easy to absorb. For example, you...

An apartment-dweller in Tver, Russia installed a video camera on his or her front door, looking out into the stairwell, then uploaded a compendium of amusing and/or interesting moments to YouTube. T...

This entry in Reza Farazmands ongoing Trash Bird series explains the secret to happiness. You can read more Trash Bird comics on Webtoon....

When the Scottish writer William Sharp died in 1905, his wife revealed a surprising secret: For 10 years he had kept up a second career as a reclusive novelist named Fiona Macleod, carrying on corresp...

In this video for Mic, former Congressman Steve Israel explains the best way to get your representatives attention. Calling is good, but talking to them in person is better....

Boing Boing previously posted about YouTube user William Forsche, who had the forethought to bring a tape recorder to the movie theater back when he was a kid in order to capture the audiences react...

The gif was created from a 2012 project called Asobi by Japanese art student Yasutoki Kariya of Musashino Art University.[via Laughing Squid]...

I believe this may be photoshopped, or perhaps clipped from a forthcoming blockbuster reboot of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. [via]...

In this new Vlogbrothers video, John Green tries to put human history into perspective....

The Harvard Institute for Quantitative Science team that published 2016's analysis of the Chinese government's '50c Party', who flood social media with government-approved comments has published a new...

When the Youtube description is "I am sold dance, happy pupper dance," you know nothing can go wrong....

Mozilla announced its new today. There it is above. Reception has not been kind. But is it ever? Its nerdliness (:// indeed!) is being held responsible for the inelegance of the logotype, but it's t...

This looks like it will be a great show for people with a strong enough stomach to listen to criminal monster Bernie Madoff explain how he pulled off a $65 Ponzi fraud. 'Ponzi Supernova,' is a six-p...

What do Charles Manson and O.J. Simpson have in common? Both plan to come back from the dead, according to this week's fact-challenged tabloids.Mass killer Manson is "using voodoo to live again and ge...

Global News reports that an arena roof caved in during a game. Here's a scary video. No one was hurt.It is not clear why the roof suddenly collapsed, arena designer Tomas Fris told reporters, adding...

From Rare Historical Photos, this 1934 snapshot of the Italian Fascist Party Federation in Rome. The building in the picture is Palazzo Braschi in Rome, the headquarters of the Fascist Party Federatio...

Maurice Collins has written a terrific new book about his collection of bizarre and outlandish gadgets and doohickeys called wait for it Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys. Its a wonderful co...

For the past couple of years, I've been making the case, at HILOBROW and in the UNBORED books I've co-authored, that the Sixties (19641973, according to my non-calendrical schema) were a golden age f...

Scientific American summarized five of Donald Trump's "major moves many see as hostile toward science." They are:Trumps pick for head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actively battled i...

The Nerdwriter presents a fascinating analysis of why Louis CK's jokes are funny....

As the United States continues to head down a dark, dark road more bomb threats have been phoned in against Jewish community centers across America.Via NBC:Jewish community centers around the country ...

John Park made a couple of videos with instructions on how to make two very cool mystery boxes. One is a wood box that opens only when you place a special item on the lid. The other is a deck of car...

Sick of people whitewashing Martin Luther King Jr.s legacy, artist Daniel Rarela created this series featuring quotes from King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail. The accompanying images are both histor...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the US Navy researched whether they could use synthesized whale sounds for submarines to have encoded conversations across long distances underwater. Called Project COMBO, it w...

Computer hacking isnt just something happening to the DNC. Major software companies need white-hat hackers to ensure the security of their products and users, and I came across aComputer Hacker Profes...

I have a giant dog. Nemo is a Great Pyrenees. Finding toys that'll entertain him, without becoming shredded or hazardous, is challenging. This rainy season we've been trapped inside quite a bit. Nemo ...

https://youtu.be/cBQ2e7KR9B0High school teacher Joe Howard (the guy who made the "How loud would it be if all of the cats in the world meowed at the same time?" video I posted a couple of weeks ago, i...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27nCc2eiERMWilliam Onyeabor, the Nigerian musician who pioneered African electro-funk in the 1970s, has died. He was 70-years-old. Onyeabor's music experienced a resurg...

Palestinian-American Muslim activist Linda Sarsour is one of the co-chairs of the massive Womens March On Washington D.C. on January 21. And Vox shared this profile of one of her biggest achievement...

From Geopolitical Futures via Joshua Landis. Seems rough on details. If Islamic State gets wee satellites down in Yemen, you'd think the Sinai Insurgents would at least get some diagonal shading! (mor...

On his Instagram, photographer Jorge Saenz spices up his travel photos with the help of some dinosaur friends. You can see all the images on the #dinodinaseries hashtag.https://www.instagram.com/p/BNJ...

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Beautifully edited by David Garuchava of The Garo Studios, this video celebrates the bravery and selflessness of Doctor Whos Doctor. [via The Laughing Squid]...

If you're a California state employee -- including an employee in the UC system -- no longer use California state funds travel to Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina or Tennessee, or any state "that h...

Five years ago, we won an unprecedented victory: spurred on by blackouts of more than 50,000 sites, more than 8 million Americans called Congress to object to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a brut...

Demand Protest, a service that bills itself as providing "deliver[ing the appearance of rage] at scale while keeping your reputation intact" purportedly pays protesters $2500/month plus $50/hour for l...

Opponents of Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa -- himself a prolific and shrewd social media campaigner -- have had their social media accounts hacked and used to dump embarrassing transcripts purport...

The next installment in the extraordinary lecture/reading series features Hugo-winning environmentalist author Kim Stanley Robinson and prolific historical novelist Cecelia Holland: $10 donation at th...

Sean Bonner's posted his share of viral images over the years, but the most recent time was a little different: he tweeted a picture of an anti-Trump political sticker he spotted in Tokyo, created by ...

Convicted election fraudster and public education opponent Betsy Devos made her billions through hard work -- really, you can't overstate the effort required to emerge from the loins of someone who ma...

Japan's leading bidet toilet manufacturers (including Toto, Panasonic, and Toshiba) have come together through their industry association, the Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, to agree u...

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My friend Clayton Cubitt has taken a phenomenal series of portraits for the Women's March on Washington. (more…)...

Rough metal dice, fresh off the forge! Dice so heavy and clunky and sharp you can ruin tables and kill cheats without brandishing a dagger. But is this ren-faire fun fair play? I decided to put them t...

You can be as happy as the people in this photo if you buy the Woodstock 40th Anniversary Limited Edition 3-disc Blu-ray. It's on sale for $5 on Amazon. It has 11 never-before-seen songs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McOGxK5JcEUIn ye olden days, a telephone user had to ask the operator to call the desired party and make the connection. Then the dial telephone empowered us all to, er...

President Obama commuted whistleblower Chelsea Manning's remaining prison sentence. She will go free on May 17 of this year as opposed to 2045, the duration of her full sentence. From the New York Tim...

In 1971 Neil Young went to a record store and discovered they were selling bootleg LPs of his music. Young asked the clerk why the record store was carrying the bootlegs. The clerk played dumb ("I d...

About 2 months ago I wrote about trying a tempered glass screen protector. I'm going to say they work great. I'm a fan of the Omoton brand ones, they make them for almost every glass fronted device. A...

The LA Times has featured our good friends at The Village Studios. Housed in a former Masonic temple, and once the west coast capital of transcendentalism, The Village Studios is a creative community ...

Only men are allowed to show their nipples on Instagram. Poor Instagram, now they will have to use human or software-based nipple inspectors to determine the gender of the bodies attached to the nippl...

"If water rates continue rising at projected amounts, the number of US households unable to afford water could triple in five years, to nearly 36 percent." That's the conclusion from a study by Elizab...

A building council in Vancouver, BC commercial building are reportedly refusing to allow one of the building owners to lease to Moby Dick's Restaurant, a fish-and-chips franchise, in part because of i...

We knew President-elect Donald Trump was having trouble finding acts willing to perform at his inauguration, but now we know he's worried about public turnout too. How? Because he's running Facebook a...

Astronaut.io randomly plays new YouTube video that have close to 0 views. It plays a few seconds of each video before moving on to another random video. If a certain video catches your attention, clic...

When most people commission a bespoke suit, they pay attention to the stitching and drape of the fabric. For MythBuster Adam Savage's latest custom tailoring job, he had some more esoteric details i...

It's always interesting to hear what Robert Crumb has to say about notable people, alive and dead. In the latest installment of "Crumb on Others," Alexander Wood asks Crumb about Castro, Lenin, and Tr...

This is the first of three You Are Not So Smart episodes about the "backfire effect." In it, I interview a team of neuroscientists who put people in a brain scanner and then challenged their beliefs, ...

Shepard Fairey's updated his iconic Obama HOPE poster with a set of inaugural posters featuring women of color and slogans of solidarity. (more…)...

Charles Martinet has been the voice of Nintendo's Mario, Wario, and Luigi for 26 years. (Great Big Story)...

Andrea Aidekman writes, "I'm a cartoonist and graphic designer from New York. I was asked by a few friends to make some posters for the women's marches on Saturday. I made this little vagina/eye logo...

I learned that Boing Boing seems never to have linked to one of my favorite things on the internet: Zogg, the Cuddly Menace. Jason Yungbluth's brilliant remix of My Little Golden Book About God is a...

Millionaire president-elect Donald Trump tweeted at @Ivanka, but that ain't his daughter. Even better, Ivanka Majic smacked him down for good measure.A woman from Brighton who was mistaken for Ivanka ...

During the course of 2016, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton visited all 59 National Parks in America, and he filmed himself singing America The Beautiful in every one of them. You can...

Malaysia Airlines flight #MH370 pitched somewhere in the vast oceans west of Australia three years ago, the only evidence washing ashore thousands of miles away. The search for its remains, and those ...

Weve all been there, Mo.[via The Laughing Squid]...

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

In this sneak peek from an upcoming episode of Mark Hamills Pop Culture Quest series, Hamill gets the chance to reunite with his old lightsaber thanks to prop collector Brandon Alinger....

This is the latest in a series of instructional videos from New Zealand dad Jordan Watson. Heres another:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MWDIYxweMwAnd one more:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kHB...

Every year, Oxfam publishes a headline number about global wealth inequality that takes this form: "The richest X people own more than the poorest Y billion people on Earth" (some examples: 2014, 2016...

Most YouTube videos have at least a few views: the uploader making sure it works and applying basic edits. But zero views? That's a special class of film: automated, forgotten, mistaken, baffling, bea...

This new campaign from the National Womens Law Center centers on the fact that black girls are suspended 5x more than white girls, despite not committing more serious offenses. The #LetHerLearn camp...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC2aOG1xDg4&feature=youtu.beSeth Godin sends us this trailer for Coded, a new documentary series on hackers: "Theres an invisible war being waged. And were all part o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZPv-wro-O8Of 1700+ known acts of global power-grid sabotages, affecting some 5,000,000 people, 879 were caused by squirrels; between 0 and 1 were caused by Russia, a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQUlJLjGl9UVince Weaver is reimplementing Portal -- "the cake acquisition simulator released in 2007" -- to the Apple II series of computers, bit by bit -- inspired b...

Last week a software platform used by 1,000 cannabis businesses crashed. The CEO of MJ Freeway says the outage was caused by an "unprecedented, malicious attack."From Fortune:An MJ Freeway spokesper...

In Dalton, GA, a bunch of people driving in a convoy showed their feelings about MLK day by flying Confederate flags from their trucks. About two-thirds of the way into the video, one truck plows in...

In Dalton, GA, a bunch of people driving in a convoy showed their feelings about MLK day by flying Confederate flags from their trucks. About two-thirds of the way into the video, one truck plows in...

"We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind." These were the last words Eugene Cernan said upon leaving the surface of our moon, at the end of Apollo 1...

I think someone on the BBS mentioned that Manifold was a fun origami puzzle challenge (thank you, whoever you are!). I ordered it on Amazon for $8. It's a pad of 100 square sheets of paper, printed wi...

Amazon getting in on the all-meat pet food craze. They've got packages of two 10-pound pieces of Waygu Kobe beef, frozen and vacuum sealed. This last you a week or longer if have a couple of large dog...

Atmosphere just about drips off these pages. Theres a haunted quality to the images in The Return of the Honey Buzzard: lots of shadows, uncluttered panels, remote locations, and big eyes.This mood is...

The office I work in is full of things old people buy to make themselves feel young again. I can honestly say that our awesome new toy, The Swagtron T3 Hoverboard, makes me feel very, very old. Ill ex...

As HBO's Westworld nears its conclusion, Boars, Gore, and Swords is there to keep up with all the twists and turns. For this week's "The Well-Tempered Clavier," Ivan and Red discuss Arnold's true iden...

The format for Scot Nerys weekly BoobieTrap show is the wackiest Ive ever seen. Its vaudeville on steroids with Nery as the amped up and kooky ringmaster. The performers range from jugglers to conto...

I came across this fascinating discussion on Tumblr, comparing the oft-irreverent blogging platform to the avant-garde Dada art movement of the post-WWI era:https://mustangsally78.tumblr.com/post/1488...

Watch Canadian artist Annette Labedzki turn her paint flower back into paint. Shes got plently more oddly satisfying paint videos on her Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/p/BPTq_4hhs2N/https://www...

On the Instagram run from her perspective, Princess Pickles The Frenchie shared this adorable video of her first encounter with sand: https://www.instagram.com/p/BNEUKHnh80R/Pickles' Instagram is full...

Set off in Zurrieq, Malta late last year, this impressive chain-reaction firework is believed to be the biggest single firework ever, although its rivaled by a display in Kounosu, Japan from 2014. T...

In honor of MLK Day, the Chicago branch of the Black Lives Matter organization wrote this new piece for The Root. The article compares BLM's contemporary fight for racial justice with the work of Mart...

Joe Reddington makes his personal to-do list public, and he says "its the most useful thing Ive done in years." Because he is writing his list for an audience, he has to describe the task clearly. The...

Saw this at a car show today. The guy drove it there...This concept inspired the economist Gordon Tullock to come up with the idea that instead of mandating safety belts, it would save far more lives ...

This looks like more fun than giving an elephant a shave with a blowtorch.[via]...

This is pretty much what happened when my two-year-old wanted to paint our chicken coop....

These angel wing earrings will set you free. Between the wings is a 1 spring steel handcuff shim....

Hopefully the person who made this mouse electrocution device did it as a joke and doesn't intend to use it.[via]...

In 1969 The Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels to help out at a free concert at the Altamont Speedway near Oakland, California. The Stones paid the Angels by giving the $500 worth of beer. One of...

Xeni's posted many times about her cancer, what it took to treat it, what helped, and the financial issues at stake. For CNN, she writes that Obamacare saved her life. With Republicans rushing to dism...

Adam Savage visited Weta Workshop in New Zealand last year and has posted videos of him touring various studios within the well-known movie effects and prop studio. In this video, he sits down (on t...

North Dakota Republican lawmakers introduced HB1203, a bill that would pave the way for drivers to negligently run over people blocking their way.Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a driver o...

The eight richest people in the world (all men) have as much money as the poorest half of the world. They are Bill Gates, Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg,...

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Super Retro-Boy is a compact, minimal reimplementation of Nintendo's classic Game Boy with the look as well as the tech. It plays real cartidges, including those from the full-color Game Boy Advance&m...

The legendary hydraulic press is now heated to a thousand degrees to provide additional crushing pleasure. Here, in an unusually pointed metaphor, a Nokia candybar phone bursts into flame as it is c...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1FvsMOX8iANothing seems real to me now until it's been youtubed on a cellphone camera; that special mix of artifacty shadows, blown highlights and uncanny detail every...

Watching Laura Kampf build a poplar projector box is an education in 1) excellent craftsmanship and 2) tools I must now get. The way dovetail jointing is illustrated is particularly fascinating: in ...

Comic artist R. Sikoryak, known for his Masterpiece Comics and his graphic novel version of the iTunes user agreement, is now creating faux comic book covers using tweets and speech excerpts from our ...

This is not even remotely new, but with so many folks eagerly waiting for Ridley Scotts film Alien: Convenant, which opens in May, its time to revisit this so you can laugh now and get freaked out lat...

Why does The Caterpillar Lab only have 44 subscribers? Caterpillars set to smooth jazz, like these gorgeous stinging rose caterpillars checking each other out, make this New Hampshire nonprofit a hi...

Remember the Lily Drone that automatically follows you while filming? After generating almost $50 million in funding and pre-sales, Lily is shutting down in wake of litigation that concluded their too...

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything is a book by Bernie Sanders advisor Becky Bond and netroots pioneer Zack Exley. (more…)...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Chelsea Manning saw injustice and stood up for what's right. Now, she's serving a 35 year sentence in an all-male military prison, and has faced systematic abus...

Adam MacLeod is an associate law prof at Faulkner Christian University in Montgomery, Alabama: when he received a speeding ticket generated by a traffic camera for a time when he knew he hadn't been d...

In November, Bruce Sterling published "Pirate Utopia," a dieselpunk novella set in the real, historical, bizarre moment in which the city of Fiume became an autonomous region run by artists and revolu...

In July 2012, professional poker-player Phil Ivey won $4.8M from the baccarat tables at Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in 17 hours; on other occasions, he took a total of $9M out of the Bo...

Randal Munroe nails it again in an XKCD installment that expresses the likelihood that your houseguests will be able to connect to your wifi (I confess to having been the "firmware" guide -- but also,...

Reed writes, "Carmen Ortiz, the US Federal Attorney for the state of Massachusetts who was responsible for the death of EFF member Aaron Swartz, recently announced her retirement. For those who don't ...

One of the best ways to progress a career in project management is through earning recognized certifications. These certifications carry significant clout and dont require expensive tuition or student...

Mysterious things that unfold with multiple mailings are all the rage, but some are infinitely better than others. Personally, I find those that include a murder with a nice spatter of blood to be amo...

Now Ive really seen it all....

Theres nothing quite like the rush of playing against a real human opponent. But from a developer standpoint, creating fun multiplayer experiences is incredibly complex. Fortunately, the Unity3D game ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WDWLeRKc2YJames O'Keefe is the Breitbart-affiliated fraudster and fake news pioneer who staged the hoax videos about Acorn and Planned Parenthood that disrupted the ...

The five Volkswagen executives who were criminally charged in the USA for their role in the Dieselgate scandal have been advised not to travel to the USA because they are liable to arrest there: they'...

EFF Legislative Counsel Ernesto Falcon has posted an excellent, practical guide to talking to your member of Congress -- how to do it, how to maximize your efficiency, and why you should. (more&hellip...

Facebook spokespeople and cryptographers say that Facebook's decision to implement Open Whisper Systems' end-to-end cryptographic messaging protocol in such a way as to allow Facebook to decrypt them ...

Our dungeon master is back from his honeymoon so we are starting up out game again. Feeling generous, I bought this 35-pack of d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20 dice to make things easier. It's $13. For $...

When I was 15 years old, I decided that I wanted to try marijuana. It took me a while, but I eventually scored some from a high schooler and went to a friends house to smoke it. His brother was away a...

If you walk past this bus shelter ad in Stockholm while smoking, the model on the screen starts to cough. Next, the display shows smoking cessation products sold by pharmacy chain Apotek Hjartat, th...

Cable network Sky will not air the episode of the comedy series Urban Myths featuring Joseph Fiennes, who is white, portraying Michael Jackson. The decision came in response to intense criticism fro...

In Eastern Europe, organized crime and the government are the same thing, so the US is having a tough time stopping the ransomware attacks emanating from those countries. The LA Times has a story abou...

A perfect teaser for Better Call Saul season 3. The show returns this spring with 10 new episodes, and it looks like Gus Fring, the wonderfully evil meth kingpin in Breaking Bad, will play a role....

Erik of Root Simple is a self-identified member of the untidy tribe. As such, he is trying different ways to leave the club. He has been trying an iPhone app called Tody (a mash up of today, tidy, and...

Nine News Australia's anchor Amber Sherlock flipped out just before going on air that her colleague Julie Snook was wearing white, just like her, even though she advised her against it. Sure, they w...

A teacher at Pennridge High School in Pennsylvania gave students an assignment that included biographical snippets from the life of poet Maya Angelou. Some people are upset.From Detroit News:The assig...

A new phishing attack hops from one Gmail account to the next by searching through compromised users' previous emails for messages with attachments, then replies them from the compromised account, rep...

When Facebook implemented Open Whisper Systems' end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol for Whatsapp, they introduced a critical flaw that exposes more than a billion users to stealthy decryption of t...

Update: Be sure to read the followup discussion, which explains Facebook's point of view, that this is a deliberate compromise, and not a defect, that makes the app more usable for a wide variety of u...

https://youtu.be/ukug2h1kS4QElectric eels are incredible animals. Besides being able to shock animals, it uses radar to locate prey. This 1950s film features a happy scientist and his beloved pet eel,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnpNJZVUE0Rainey from EFF writes, "EFF just launched a new video about its efforts to encrypt the web. It features bestselling author Baratunde Thurston explaining w...

Zine publisher Jonno Revanche says he likes zines because they are not connected to a network infected with crap: clickbait, tracking, trolls, etc.From his piece in The Guardian:Theres a liberty to cr...

When you open the box for a Storm Trooper snuggie blanket, you'll discover a card telling you that by buying the blanket, you've waived your right to sue the manufacturer and will subject yourself to ...

In the village of Antia on Greece's Evia island, shepherds use whistling to communicate over long distances. This isn't a code but rather a real language."Whistles let shepherds communicate between ...

Writer and director William Peter Blatty, creator of The Exorcist, has died at age 88. Batty is best known for writing the story of poor, possessed Regan and her demonic resident Captain Howdy. He won...

I had an unsettling realization and it checked out. Is it just that we needed their warm, comforting companionship instead of the cooly cerebral presence of felines? Or are they in on it?...

A T-Mobile customer in Florida drove her SUV into the store, smashing through the front window and coming to a stop deep in the showroom. Then she emerged from her disabled vehicle, hefted a broken ...

007craft lived a lavish life of luxury—in a U-Haul storage unit. The key, he says, is being a ghost: do nothing that could get you noticed. I had just came back from hiking the Pacific Crest T...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WOOt5RMeocWhen the shepherd begins to rise to their feet, the ram, spooked by an approaching car, turns and puts them down again. [via]...

A 12-year-old boy demanded a Chicken McNugget from a girl who had just bought some, then held a gun to her head and asked again. She pushed the gun away and boarded the train, and he was later taken ...

Cartoonist Clay Bennett of the Chattanooga Times Free Press looks ahead to the inauguration in a piece called The Transfer. You can follow Bennett on Twitter and see more of his work right here.[via @...

In a new video for Vox, writer and religious scholar Reza Aslan discusses the importance of representation and why we need a show like Modern Family centered on Muslim characters.[via Mic]...

Illustrator Kim Jung Youn shared this incredible video on Instagram. It starts out as sketch and turns into something much more. You can find more drawings and videos on Kim Jung Youns Instagram @va...

NBC Nightly News shared this absolutely adorable footage of animals at the Oregon Zoo frolicking in the snow. The storm was big enough to cause the zoo to shut down to the public for the day, but th...

The 2016 World Series game 7 will undoubtedly go down in history as one of the greatest baseball games of all time. With endless suspense, a nefariously-timed rain delay, and extra innings, it reminde...

Shane from Crimethinc writes, "As 2017 opens, we face new challenges in an increasingly volatile world. Since last summer, weve been hard at work expanding our networks and updating our infrastructure...

It's not just regulatory compliance exec Oliver Schmidt -- arrested last week -- who faces personal criminal repercussions for his role in the Dieselgate scandal: five more VW execs have been indicted...

The EPA and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) say that since 2014, Chrysler shipped 104,000 trucks with "defeat devices" designed to cheat emissions tests -- like VW's cheating, this software ...

Alexey Kovalev is a critical Russian journalist who's lived through Putin's gutting of the Russia's press freedoms, producing a tame, whipped domestic press who act as stenographers for Putin's annual...

The new data-sharing rules enacted by the Obama administration will allow the NSA to lawfully share the unredacted, full take of its surveillance databases with sixteen other US government agencies --...

In a 24-hour period, America experienced: its next president giving a press-conference in which paid shills applauded or booed as suited his needs; its next president wielding a binder of blank pages ...

Artist and photographer Adam Makarenko creates miniature exoplanets and then photographs them, with gorgeous results that go beyond CGI. (more…)...

The price of Epipens -- purchased annually by people with severe allergies and stocked in the first-aid cabinets of schools, businesses, and ambulances -- more than quintupled in a decade, thanks to t...

For 8 years, Tea Party activists captured Congress, electing members sympathetic to their cause and terrifying fence-sitters into backing their plays; now, in Indivisible, progressives are offered the...

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The track Batman is really the only thing worth listening to on the incredibly odd tribute album, Jan and Dean meet Batman.Shortly after the release of Batman as a single, William Jan Berry was inju...

The Everything Report may be ahead of its time, but not by much....

Researchers in a southern Brazil grassland spotted a tarantula munching on a foot-long snake. It's the first time a tarantula having this particularly hearty meal has been documented in the wild. The ...

This short documentary by Enric Ribes and Oriol Martnez is titled Xiong Di, which translates in English to "brother" or, according to the directors, "fellas.""I repeat the same things every day, say...

From the Kubo and the Two Strings soundtrack, this hauntingly gorgeous cover of The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by Regina Spektor who kindly said the following in an interview a few year...

Anker generally makes high quality electronic gear, and judging by the reviews on Amazon, the tiny SoundCore Nano Bluetooth speaker is no exception. It's got a battery life of 4 hours, and can be rech...

NASA claims this image taken by the Cassini probe depicts Saturn's moon Mimas with the distinctive Herschel Crater, but we know better. From NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute:Named after the ic...

This stand for the Apple Watch mimics the classic design of the original Apple Macintosh. It's made from "scratch-free silicone" and supports the Apple Watch's Nightstand Mode. elago W3 Stand [White] ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NBcP0YUQI"I think that it was in my generation that people who made video games really became designers rather than technologists," Shigero Miyamoto says....

https://youtu.be/hTWIokjzeH0Fleb is a puzzle designer and puzzle collector. In this video, he shows how to fit a wooden square into a bag that looks too small. "Square in the Bag" was the 2012 Puzzle ...

https://youtu.be/pGwOZSrFayIThis happened in 2010, but it is worth watching. A reporter who has questions about how public money is being spent meets a passive-aggressive communication director who ca...

Here are 10 amusing sucker bets from Richard Wiseman's book, 101 Bets You Will Always Win....

In this new video, Great Big Story profiles a Yorkshire Terrier named Smoky, the tiniest war hero of all time. Adopted by Corporal Bill Wynne during World War II, Smoky went on to follow her owner o...

Is this bit from The Late Late Show With James Corden, Tony-winner Neil Patrick Harris faces off with Tony-winner James Corden in a Broadway death match.[via Entertainment Weekly]...

My new Locus column is "Its Time to Short Surveillance and Go Long on Freedom," which starts by observing that Barack Obama's legacy includes a beautifully operationalized, professional and terrifying...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NCEeZtRCRI&feature=youtu.beAmber Sherlock, a television personality in Australia, was angry that a colleague, Julie Snook, wore clothes almost the same color as her ow...

The hit musical Hamilton performed a concert version of the show at the White House in March. While the first few numbers were live streamed, the rest of the performance was limited just to those in...

University of Washington profs Carl T. Bergstrom (Biology) and Jevin West (Information School) have proposed a course called "Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data" that characterizes "the majority...

Michael Marczewski's adorably trapped machines go about their mechanically-defined routines. When things speed up, things go wrong. The perfect music is by Marcus Olsson....

Isao Echizen, a researcher at Japan's National Institute of Informatics, told a reporter from the Sankei Shimbun that he had successfully captured fingerprints from photos taken at 3m distance at suff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMlxicb72bUAfter 2016's bungled coup and as part of his subsequent crackdown on political enemies and the media, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants new powers...

The illustration comes from Owl Turd Comix....

Ilya Katsman shot this photo of clouds forming parralel lines over Australia. (more…)...

Just days before the end of Barack Obamas presidency, YouTuber Nathan Zed edited this lovely tribute to our 44th president....

In case you were wondering why Bitcoin experienced a crazy spike recently: China's economy is a hyperinflated bubble, poised to burst and the Chinese central bank is depreciating the Renminbi -- so Ch...

In 1919 a bizarre catastrophe struck Boston's North End: A giant storage tank failed, releasing 2 million gallons of molasses into a crowded business district at the height of a January workday. In th...

If you need your daily dose of cute, look no further than the Instagram account Baronthegerman, which documents the adorable friendship of Baron the German Shepherd and his best friend Alvin the cat.h...

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YouTuber Autistic Tic has a great series of videos on inexpensive toys for fidgeting and stimulation. Great for pets, kids, and fidgety adults! (more…)...

Samuli Cantell had the interesting idea of importing her ultrasound data into a 3D modeling program to create a VR experience: (more…)...

In this fantastic article for The Mary Sue, Caroline Chao explores the weird lack of importance of mothers in the Star Wars franchise. She writes:Even before the universe of Star Wars was welcomed int...

CloudApp is a versatile screen capture tool designed to streamline the sharing of in-process work.Trusted by companies like The New York Times and Facebook, CloudApp stood out to me amongst the many o...

In a great example of crowdsourced criticism, Rishi Kaneria gathered up the most compelling fan theories he could find and synthesized them into Radiohead: The Secrets Of Daydreaming. (more…)...

You pays your money and you takes your choice with this week's tabloids."Crooked Hillary Will Die in Jail!" screams the 'Globe' cover, with a two-page exclusive inside predicting "Hillary's Prison Dea...

https://youtu.be/hLXoGIcn2PcThe Kalvan family brings juggling, acrobatics, science, and engineering together in an astonishing variety show.Jack, Jeri, Max and Oz are all talented faces you've likely ...

I've read a few of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and they are a lot of fun. James Bond is much more flawed and weird in the books than he is in the movies. Right now Amazon is selling the Bond serie...

Hidden Figureswhich tells the previously untold story of three black women who were influential in NASAs Apollo programis one of my favorite films Ive seen in a long time. And in this wonderful vide...

YouTuber Mamrie Hart celebrates Meryl Streeps Golden Globes win (and Streep's kickass speech) with a unique cocktail, some jabs at Donald Trump, and a whole bunch of puns....

Last year Polish graphic designer Micha Kulesza completed not one, but two daily Lego projects. For the first half of the project, he spend 135 days photographing everyday objects transformed into Leg...

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 very much...

I have a Fuji Instax instant camera and it's a lot of fun to be able to spit out and share prints in the age of Instagram. But it's also an ugly soulless blob of a gadget that seems optimized to be th...

In this 360 degree video, the YouTube channel Skunk Bear explores how long it would take to walk to the Moon. And it does so while paying homage to David Bowies long career....

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Whoah. This is huge news. NBC is reporting that Chelsea Manning is on President Obama's "shor'-list' for commutation. It even appears that the DOJ has recommend...

Brutal London: Construct Your Own Concrete Capital tells the stories of nine of London's greatest brutalist structures (with an intro by Norman Foster!), including the Barbican Estate, Robin Hood Gard...

Thomas "Capital in the 21st Century" Piketty endorses the World Wealth and Income Database, where you will find "open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical e...

Since 1991, the number of full-time librarians working in Philadelphia's cash-strapped, budget-slashed public schools has declined by 94% -- only eight remain, while the state continues to trail the n...

The most remarkable criminal justice story of 2017 is that the FBI has arrested a real corporate criminal, a VW executive who tried to engineer a coverup of the Dieselgate scandal, and that he might g...

Following last night's unverified spy-sourced report concerning Donald Trump's links to Russia and its security services' alleged surveillance of him paying to watch hookers piss on his bed, president...

Brian from the Recommend if You Like podcast sez, "For episode 200 (MP3), we sat down for a 90 minute interview with Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee, who, at the age of 95 holds the title of 'the longest wor...

Recent surveillance laws in Germany, France and the UK require online service providers to store (undoubtedly leaky and infinitely toxic) databases of everything you do online, and allow government ag...

Author, futurist, and agnostic mystic Robert Anton Wilson died 10 years ago today. Carla and I interviewed him for the first issue of bOING bOING in 1987. In fact, one of the main reasons we started B...

LED hula hoop choreography set to a Massive Attack "Teardrop" remix? Yes, please! (more…)...

Gilles Retsin has been experimenting with 3D-printed design concepts, but he's also been working with computational mereology to engage in large-scale discrete fabrication. Think of it like Tetris or ...

Somehow, this bike got caught on an electric fence, and these three guys are having a hell of a time getting it unstuck. I've never seen people so downright joyful about getting jolted with 10,000 v...

From the amazing Sean Tejatchi, "Twilight Zone introductions, 1959-1961."...

Alvarortega has a YouTube channel of animated videos of Beatles (and solo) music. Really fun stuff!...

WeRateDogs compiled a nice montage of some of the best dog clips of 2016. Even if you're an aficionado of the genre, there may be a few surprises for you. It's also oddly moving. (more…)...

Kodak's Ektachrome film, developed in the 1940s, was a favorite of National Geographic photographers. But digital cameras flatlined the sales and it was discontinued in 2012. A revived interest in fil...

Train Global says: "I made a song using a weird phone call my friend sent me from his pest control job." He reports in the comments, "Apparently she only had a few ants in her house."...

https://youtu.be/JSfDQyf-sw8It looks like a big piece of ice started spinning in a river current. As it rotated, irregular chunks broke off until it formed a circle....

In 1972 billy barr (he spells it lowercase) was a Rutgers University environmental science student and did some research in Gothic, Colorado, a ghost town built around a silver mine. The native New ...

How did such tiny creatures build such a magnificent forest village? It cant have happened by chance. Pay tribute to the forest moons furry engineers with this perfect100% cotton t-shirt.From flying s...

Fort Bourtange is a 16th-century star fort that is now a museum. This drone footage captures the scope of the spectacular engineering feat. (more…)...

To celebrate 2017, Matthew Roberts flew a drone over the Apple Campus 2 site under construction. Interesting to compare to when Pesco posted this back in 2015. (more…)...

An unverified dossier, reportedly sourced to a former British Intelligence agent working with Russian operatives, claims that Trump paid to watch hookers urinate on a Moscow hotel bed. Shady and shape...

According to an anonymously-sourced dossier, Donald Trump paid to watch hookers piss on a Russian hotel bed where he knew President Obama and his wife had once slept.The report (read it!) was supposed...

Our friend and frequent Boing Boing contributor Clive Thompson has a piece in the January/February issue of Smithsonian magazine entitled "Rage Against the Machines." He explores the 19th century Ludd...

A book of John Wilcock comics is now availableImportant news: John Wilcock will soon celebrate his 90th birthday.Regrettably, John suffered a stroke in 2014, which has dissolved nearly all of his life...

Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who shot dead nine black Americans in the Charleston Church Massacre, was sentenced to death today. Jurors deliberated less than three hours before deciding he had t...

Big DT writes: "Whilst pedalling today my mate Paul went to put his bike over a fence. Half way though he realised that it was electric! So he dropped it on the fence. This is a video of him and my ...

This commercial for New York City's Man's Country bathhouse aired in the late 1970s on Channel J, Manhattan's influential public access television channel....

Liberty UK and The Civil Liberties Trust are raising funds online to fund high-stakes litigation against the UK government over the Snoopers Charter, a mass-surveillance law that requires tech compani...

Felicia Herman writes:The Anti-Defamation League and The Natan Fund are pleased to announce Innovate Against Hate, an innovation prize intended to catalyze the creation of grassroots approaches to cou...

A 1958 episode of the television western Trackdown features a con artist named Trump who wants to build a wall to protect a town from destruction. From the Classic TV Archive:Walter Trump, a confide...

Of all of the accolades that Bowie received after his death last January 10th, there was precious little said about his pioneering work on the Internet and the burgeoning World Wide Web. In 1998, he l...

By Grim Aesthetics (via Wil Wheaton)...

A paper from a group of Kings College London researchers documents an unexpected and welcome side effect from an experimental anti-Alzheimer's drug called Tideglusib: test subjects experienced a regen...

On The Nib, Andy Warner posts a quick primer on the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened in a 2013 Supreme Court case that struck down the requirement for districts with a history of racist voter sup...

Firefighters were able to douse the flames within minutes, but not before smoke filled the Princeton, Texas Walmart and forced shoppers to evacuate. Four were treated for minor injuries and a suspect,...

Lorraine Andrusiak couldn't get a new Ikea Moppe dresser in Canada, but she found this one in a thrift store, marred by a thick, ugly coat of paint; so she stripped the paint, transferred vintage sea-...

Lorraine Andrusiak couldn't get a new Ikea Moppe dresser in Canada, but she found this one in a thrift store, marred by a thick, ugly coat of paint; so she stripped the paint, transferred vintage sea-...

Fry's Turkish Delight was full of Eastern Promise in the fabulous yet problematic 1980s UK advertisement embedded here. The amazing thing about it is how it made me, a child, think that eating this ...

Last October, an Apple Store in Brisbane, Australia terminated some of its employees after they were accused of searching customers' devices for sexually explicit selfies and sharing them with colleag...

Procedure at New York's Rikers Island prison is for visitors to be subjected to a pat-down search, but women who visit their loved ones are suing the New York Department of Corrections because guards ...

Last year, a few days after David Bowie died, I posted the following reminiscence/remembrance to my Facebook page. On the anniversary of his death, I thought I might share it here.It was Friday, Novem...

The man who will decide how law is enforced in America for the next four years was deemed too racist to be a judge, voted to allow American soldiers to torture people, and is a general hot mess on cry...

I dont know how he does it, but this golf groundskeeper clearly has a sixth sense when it comes to moles....

Tumblr user Svzannebrown shared this utterly delightful video, noting that its all that anyone needs to know about her time in Japan....

Americans have corn mazes, and in Japan, the town of Inakadate has rice paddy art. By planting several strains of rice in the same field, they create these colorful images, like this Star Wars scene...

Commodore's C64 and Sinclair's ZX Spectrum were the most successful 8-bit computers in Europe, but Amstrad's CPC ran a close third. Ellie Gibson writes on how it—especially the magazine Amstrad ...

The Twitter account @silentmoviegifs shared these simple images that explain how special effects were completed during the silent film era. You can find the whole collection on Imgur.https://twitter.c...

Artist Libby VanderPloeg demonstrates just how many layers it takes to get polar vortex-ready....

YouTuber Proto G shot these cool experiments with plasma vortex force fields. Scientists are looking into large-scale practical applications of the force field generated in this manner: (more&hellip...

Photographer Chris White takes readers behind the scenes of making his surf photography book Dark Light. (more…)...

These three different egg-breaking and separating machines have slightly different tasks, but they are all equally hypnotic. (more…)...

When building software applications, testing functionality is critical for assuring quality and managing complexity. So critical, that software testers are some of the most in-demand tech positions av...

Cuttlefish have an intuitive understanding of quantity are able to discern between close numbers like four and five. Here's how scientists made the finding: (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcI9iU98olk&feature=youtu.beJessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, storied nerd piemaker, created this fluorescing Tron pie, doped with tonic water for extra UV-reacting goodness...

Marissa Meyer is to leave Yahoo, which is to change its name to "Altaba"...

As BuzzFeed transitions from internet strip mine to legit news and information, they now to put out occasional gems like Auri Jackson's project "I tried to make zero trash for 30 days." (more&hellip...

Slovenia's Maheno corporation manufactured a series of Barbie-branded and white label typewriters for kids, with a hidden feature that allowed their owners to use them to produce messages encrypted wi...

Annika Victoria presents a simple method for adding pockets to skirts and dresses -- providing the original garment has a sideseam, the new pocket will not show (unless, that is, you fill it with bu...

Deep down beneath the couch cushions, past the crumbs and pocket lint, lying in wait for loose change, lurks...Margarash! Mark Riddles titular character is a boogieman turned buddy in this sweet, sill...

https://youtu.be/apzXGEbZht0According to Harvard University's director of the Child Development Unit, babies get upset when their mothers have a "still face." It's probably the same with dads, sibling...

Jenny Mustard has a wonderful channel on minimalism. To help her viewers make the leap themselves, she created a a video on how to get there in 30 days. (more…)...

Snopes says the idea of asking for an "angel shot" to get out of a potentially dangerous situation is a mixture of truth and falsehood:CLAIM: Women in a dangerous situation at a bar can order an angel...

The November 2016 issue of Vonk (Netherlands) has a photo of Trump that looks a lot like a boxing glove....

A hidden drawer in a drawerNifty concealment furniture.[via]...

https://youtu.be/ElVzs0lEULsI've written about this 1960s commercial for Sixfinger before, but it's been at least a few years since I last watched it, and it still never fails to amuse me, especially ...

In addition to a wonderful and timely message, this PSA for Greenpeace is beautifully illustrated and animated by Elliot Lim. (more…)...

A spool of cable fell off a truck on Route 40 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, turning the highway into a hyperrealistic video game. ...

I enjoy Lithuanian travel vlogger Jacob Laukaitis' YouTube videos. He travels around the world and makes videos like this one about the ruins of Hampi, India, which was once the second most populou...

Built in 1982, this 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home based on Snow White's cottage is for sale in Olalla, Washington. It's 2,800 square-feet on 7.52 acres and listed at $925,000. From Realtor.com:There's not ...

Losing important documents can be a nightmare. The typical wisdom calls for regular backups, but in an emergency, no one has time for a full system restore. Disk Drill PROhad finally given me peace of...

For kicks, Berlin-based designer Tony Futura cranks out simple iconic visual puns and comments on pop culture. Some are a little easy, but many are quite clever. (more…)...

Seeing more kickass women in films is a good thing, but Dominick Nero at Fandor noticed that their fighting style differs from men in one interesting way: their tendency to pinch their opponents in ...

https://vimeo.com/198483146The band Shytegeist has released its first video, It's called "I am Waiting." Words are by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and is read by Matt Aston. There's a lot of hard-hitting ce...

My kids haven't played with Legos in years but somehow the tiny bricks manage to crawl out of the woodwork, waiting for me like caltrops on a dark road. The pain such a tiny colorful piece of plasti...

Have you vomited uncontrollably and at such length as to leave you shaking and in tears lately? Try it! Amazon can help by shipping you vintage milk, "Used & New" from $45. (more…)...

Facebook page Modelismo BCN posted this remarkable example of a French diorama that is so lifelike it even has raindrops suspended midair. See the close-up below: (more…)...

Li Zan Wen's Heng Balance Lamp uses powerful tethered magnets as an on/off switch: bring them together to turn the lamp on and break them apart to turn it off. (more…)...

From the Computer History Museum:Years ahead of its time, the 1972 Xerox Alto featured Ethernet networking, a full page display, a mouse, laser printing, e-mail, and a windows-based user interface. ...

Women Who Draw is a directory of illustrators interested in accepting work. You can filter by location and minority status. It's well-designed, too, displaying a straightforward example of each artist...

Television anchors on San Diego's CW6 were discussing how a young girl "accidentally" ordered a dollhouse and four pounds of cookies by talking to Amazon's Alexa when one of the anchors said "I love t...

Taking pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs like Truvada before having unprotected sex with HIV+ people can significantly reduce the risk of infection (the drugs can also be taken after potential exposure);...

Marek Jacisin creates ceramic wall tiles that are painstakingly hand-cut. The cool patterns he ends up with make the effort worthwhile. (more…)...

Oliver Schmidt led Volkswagen regulatory compliance office from 2014 to Mar 2015, and it was he who issued statements dismissing the initial West Virginia University reports of cheating in the emissio...

Artist Najda Buttendorf cast a replica of her own ring finger, then produced Finger-rings in a series of skintones (she also does extra ears you can wear as earrings and many other whimsical/creepy pi...

I don't know if they're all baked or just too cool, but the audience for The Rezillos' kickass 1978 performance of "Flying Saucer Attack" could not be more apathetic. It makes for a hilarious juxtap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHCxvZJW1S8The Commodore Amiga, ahead of its time and murdered by corporate mismanagement, etc., remains in fairly common use thanks to an enthusiast community and shee...

Looks comfy....

Customers and employees at Deep Comics & Games in Huntsville, Alabama got quite a surprise when an out-of-control SUV smashed through their store. Luckily, no one was injured, and the driver was...

This is already a thing—the mechanical keyboards subreddit is my God now—but it should be more of a thing.A collection of spacebars [imgur]...

This short from sketch comedy group Couch Friends almost defies description. Once the holidays are over, Brendan O'Hare and Cory Snearowski get down to the business of getting rid of their Christmas...

Redditor enzyme69 used Blender to generate a picture of Mario "drawn" in crayon; this should be a thing. [via r/GenerativeArt]...

LJ Frezza takes a loving look back at how Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers are wry commentaries on mass media's normalizing effect on sexism, militarism, climate change, corporatism, and...

A few months ago I was introduced to a magical, magnetic toy called the Feel Flux and the folks who invented it just sent their newest invention the Feel Flux Skill Set.Its the same toy as before exc...

All year round Trevor Pottelberg heads out to a Lake Erie lighthouse near his home in Brownsville, Ontario. His photos capture the changing elements around the unchanging lighthouse. (more…)...

With Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea Clinton in the audience, The Color Purple played its final show on Broadway this Sunday. And the musicals Facebook page live streamed Tony-winning star Cynthia Erivos...

In the Ways of Seeing post, commenter Frederick_Hagemeiste suggested the 1980 series Shock of the New. The first episode makes a compelling case that engineering had a vast influence on 20th century...

Along with activists and everyday citizens, celebrities like Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jerry Seinfeld, John Legend, Shonda Rhimes, Tom Hanks, Chance The Rapper, and Ellen DeGeneres share ...

While it's symbolic that Washington Post Express put the Women's March on Washington on their cover, the cover itself was symbolic for all the wrong reasons. Ouch. (more…)...

Aside from Star Wars, Mark Hamills second most iconic role is as the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. So after Matt Oswalt noted that Donald Trumps New Years tweet sounded like somet...

Lauren Duca, a writer for Teen Vogue, recently penned a popular opinion piece about president-elect Donald Trump's constant lying. Martin Shkreli is a disgraced pharmaceutical executive who famously h...

Lauren Duca, a writer for Teen Vogue, recently penned a popular opinion piece about president-elect Donald Trump's constant lying. Martin Shkreli is a disgraced pharmaceutical executive who famously h...

Scott Nelles is a Wisconsin sculptor who works in cast brass and aluminum, making beautiful, whimsical pieces with a strong science fictional flare tinged with strealined dieselpunk. (more…)...

As the Trump administration continues its twin trademarks of "not having press conferences" and "being at the center of gnarly scandals involving spycraft and hacking," much of the reporting on what's...

Canadiana Village is an hour north of Montreal and sports 45 buildings that are intended to recreate rural Quebec life in the 19th century (though only one is habitable); and once served as a destinat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdOr5FpLKR8Jake Yapp is a British comedian who specialises in doing high-speed summaries of pop culture phenomena, like this Radio Four in 4 Minutes sketch, which is ...

An analysis of passwords found in the 2009 breach of Rockyou -- 32 million accounts -- finds a large number of Biblical references ("jesus"," "heaven", "faith", etc), including a number of Bible verse...

Do you remember the first time you used a remote control on your television set or favorite toy? It was incredible right? I can honestly say that making my sister believe I had telekinetic powers was ...

That Gamer created this lovely 8-bit rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," along with many of Queen's other greatest hits. (more…)...

Joseph Talbot, a bank executive, was arrested by New York State Police on Dec 29 for DUI, and, as its custom, the Times of Wayne County published his name and mugshot -- something it's done for every ...

Many people are surprised to learn that George Miller directed both Mad Max and the animated penguin film Happy Feet. Maybe that's why they work so well combined in this trailer mashup by Nico Bella...

Fivethirtyeight's analysis of a Surveymonkey data-set shows that Hillary Clinton would have won the 2016 election if registered Democrats had turned out and voted in larger numbers -- in other words, ...

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Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, the annual festival of stuff not made by Apple. This year's big themes include drones and home automation, but there's ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYtg_C3ZxrAA followup from last month's warning that San Francisco's beloved DNA Lounge -- a legendary space for dance, conversation, pizza, counterculture, tech, and...

danah boyd writes, "Yesterday, a group of us at Data & Society put out six essays on 'media, technology, politics.' Takentogether, these pieces address different facets of the current publicconversat...

Now thats how you build a wall....

Instagram user Sarah shared this delightful video of her dad, adding: This is what happens when you give your dad something he's wanted for about 8 years, but he always thought they made them just for...

J.Nathan Matias takes a clear-eyed look at The Real Name Fallacy, the belief that forcing users to communicate using real names will improve online conduct. In my experience, the biggest problems come...

The Guggenheim has Sun Yuan & Peng Yus installation "Cant Help Myself" on display through March. The robot arm monitors and attempts to contain a viscous blood-red liquid as it spreads out from ...

I bought this adjustable thickness rolling pin for my mother last year and she told me it is excellent. I just bought one for our home, too. It's a long wooden rolling pin with removable discs of diff...

Attention, fellow mad scientists and monster creators! Its time to put down our scalpels and electrodes and move into the twenty-first century. We need to upgrade our bio laboratories, transforming th...

From Flashbak:Raunari was a computer magazine of the former Yugoslavia which lasted from 1984 until the late 1990s surviving the economic turbulence and wars of the 1980s-90s, and even outlasting the...

Here are two bots, Estragon and Vladimr, having a conversation. Currently, 19,691 people are listening in....

This little kid loves Spider-Man and refuses to beat him with a stick.[via]...

Pornhub issued its annual data analytics report on how many videos were viewed, the most popular types of video broken down by gender and country, the most and least popular hours of the day for video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2brguSHR9jcIn this video, a hand-cranked shredder is used to slowly mangle aluminum cans, thereby producing a tingle-inducing crinkling noise that allegedly counts as A...

I don't know what this young fellow is saying in in this shooter game, but one presumes that the war isn't going well for him. (Previously.)...

Reporting from the bustling Chicago Board of Trade, Scott Cohn relays news about the strengh of Japanese Yen futures. Then a wild dick appears. [via]...

The $38 Millennium Falcon wall clock is handmade to order from plywood, birch and MDF by Hamstercheeks in Nottingham, UK, who uses a laser-cutter to turn orders around in 2-5 business days (the clock ...

Kamala Harris was just sworn in as a senator from California, but her last gig was as California's Attorney General, and in that role, she decided not to prosecute Trump Treasury Secretary pick Steve ...

A few years ago Boing Boing shared this documentary about Canadian street artist Peter Gibson a.k.a. Roadsworth, and his Instagram account offers a treasure trove of more his work. Many of Gibsons des...

Cynics will argue that Trump's followers don't care if he's lying, but they assuredly care if he's lying about the stuff they're hoping he'll do (otherwise there'd be no trumpgrets); what's more, ther...

Of all the nice tributes since art critics John Berger's death on January 2, this Dazed piece is a short and sweet summation of how far ahead of his time he was. The second episode of Ways of Seeing...

Inspired by this year's Edge question ("What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?"), Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith enumerates five economic concepts that we would be well-served ...

The Facebook page Disney Power shared this utterly delightful reenactment of Disneys 1998 movie Mulan as performed by a group of talented young Chinese kids. The video seems to have come from a Chin...

Qongqothwane is a cover of a famous Xhosa click song performed at weddings. In it, you can hear click consonants found in two language groups in southern Africa. Here's a nice overview. (more&hellip...

Rogue One fills in the gaps between the end of Star Wars: Episode III- Revenge Of The Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope, and while for the most part that allows for some fun fan service (so t...

With awards season upon us, lots of films "based on a true story" are in contention. It gives films a little emotional boost to say it really happened, but how much of the film is true? David McCandle...

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Although Hillary Clinton was the first female presidential nominee of a major party in the entirety of U.S. history, I keep seeing the suggestion that gender wound up playing no role in the 2016 elect...

CineFix makes their arbitrary choice of the best movie end credits in five different styles. Along the way, it's a pretty good survey of the history and styles of end credits. Lots of honorable ment...

Flow state, the harmony of action and awareness (i.e. focusing),can seem impossible to achieve these days. From textsto social media, staying on-task can be difficult. Fortunately, the founders ofBrai...

Whenever a new presidential administration takes office, theres a surge of gossip in the space exploration community about what the new presidents ambitions will mean for NASA. More funding to study c...

From KQEDs Film School Shorts, "a forlorn/funny Frankenstein style tale called Timmy II, directed/written/starring a Pakistani-American filmmaker named Imran J. Khan."Timmy II is a comedy about a ro...

There are many options for touring Alta Guajira, the northernmost part of Colombia (and of South America), but overlanding in your own vehicle is definitely choice. The only rub is that many of the ro...

I bought a Kindle Fire tablet ($49) and (per Jasons instructions) installed Google Play on it. Its not a speedy tablet, but its great for watching Amazon Video and Netflix, as well as web browsing, mo...

Intel Director of Incident Response Jackie Stokes has captured the entirety of 2017 in a single image: a watercooler that won't dispense water until it has installed a Windows upgrade (caption: "I jus...

Sarah Jeong continues her brilliant, obsessive tear through the Star Wars canon (here's yesterday's post on the difficulties of the Warsverse's storage media and IT systems), this time looking at the ...

A crisp-voiced narrator gets deep into proper British tea making....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRPfudNNd8YInhabitat's video explaining the "burrito" method for getting a duvet into its cover is both excruciatingly slow in places, and also fantastically baffling...

Ada Palmer -- novelist, singer, historian -- just dropped a 10,000 word essay on the nature of progress and historical change that has provided some of the most significant perspective on our own stra...

https://youtu.be/LGPrDMkzioII Killed Einstein, Gentlemen is a 1969 Czechoslovak science fiction comedy film directed by Oldich Lipsk. Wikipedia says "it became known for the scene showing the first se...

China has adopted stringent new anti-money-laundering rules that will make it nearly impossible for small investors -- for example, middle-class families who pool their savings -- to get their money o...

Jaireme Barrow was tired of thieves stealing his packages, so he made a decoy boom box to scare them away. He writes, "I rigged a box with a 12 Gauge shotgun "blank" to go off when someone attempts ...

Ten years later, BBC News presents one of its funniest mistakes.It's 10 years since Guy Goma became a celebrity after he was mistaken for an internet expert and interviewed on BBC News TV.The unempl...

Last August, ZTE used Kickstarter to poll internet users for their wish-lists for an Android handset, and now they're taking pre-orders for Hawkeye, a $200 phone whose interface is controlled by gaze-...

The Russian Bank Deposit Insurance Agency has demanded that French National Front leader Marine Le Pen -- daughter of open neo-Nazi and party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen -- borrowed from the First Czech...

Draw a line between the two boxes labeled 1. Draw another line between the boxes labeled 2. Draw a third line between the boxes labeled 3. The lines can't intersect. The lines can't go through, along,...

It is perhaps very telling that all of the review blurbs on the back cover of Andy Partridge and Todd Bernhardt's Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC are written by fellow musicians and songwrit...

Remember when Donald Trump tweeted that there would be no cuts to "Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid?" So does Bernie Sanders, and he wants us all to bear this in mind as the Republic Congress prep...

There's really nothing not to love about vertical farms -- multi-story hydroponic operations, usually sited in dense urban areas -- they borrow their best tech from the space program, they're water-co...

Bernie Sanders presented a large printout of a Trump tweet in the U.S. Senate, to remind that body that Trump is a dangerous moron. Remixes flooded the net, but what if you can't shoop? Bernie.gomix.m...

On January 2, YouTuber Chas Pope captured a noxious cloud of Beijing smog rolling toward his building.I made this earlier today - a bank of AQI400+ smog arriving in Beijing within the space of 20 mi...

The Twitter account @gloed_up shared this historical meme:https://twitter.com/gloed_up/status/816713109029191684...

Dan Nainan is a 35-year old who often speaks for the Millenials: he crops up in piece after piece as a secondary source, reinforcing whatever angle the story takes on this most endlessly fascinating o...

Dan Nainan is a 35-year old who often speaks for the Millennials: he crops up in piece after piece as a secondary source, reinforcing whatever angle the story takes on this most endlessly fascinating ...

Here's a fascinating story about advances in forensic anthropology based around a creepy case of an archaeologist who had several open coffins full of human remains in his home. He said they were all ...

In The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment inComparative Perspective, published in the British Journal of Political Science, two scholars from the University of Minnesota Department of Political Science...

A thread on 4chan's trollish /pol/ board has organized trumpist white-supremacist/alt-right types to find unlicensed venues and spaces and narc them out to city authorities in a bid to shut them down,...

Nerdcore Medical and Tabletop Whale created this handy and informative graphic of all the important concepts in immunology. It's part of a series of one-pagers on topics of interest to medical student...

The housing recovery has been famously uneven, in every way: for one thing, it's allowed hedge-fund and publicly listed landlords to acquire a greater proportion of America's housing stock than ever, ...

This week's Judge John Hodgman podcast is a live show recorded in Brooklyn, with guest music from the Pitch Blak Brass Band, whose music was so fantastically good that I immediately purchased their ...

The start of a new year is a great time for reorganizing, and in this new video Elle Walker of Whats Up Moms offers five helpful tips for getting rid of counter clutter. As someone who just spent th...

As Cassian Andor in Rogue One, Mexican actor Diego Luna decided to use his natural accent rather than adopt an American or British one. And that fact was particularly meaningful for one fan and her Me...

YouTuber 8booth runs a stunt channel where he's known for barely making jumps off cliffs and balconies into water. He almost killed himself over the summer with a cliff jump into Morro Bay. His luck r...

Walead Beshty created laminated glass boxes the fit exactly inside standard FedEx boxes, then shipped them to varying destinations. The resulting damage and the original box are then paired and displa...

Designing for the web requires a mix of high-level planning, detailed mockups, and coding skills. Since such a variety of tools and skills are needed, knowing where to start can be overwhelming. This ...

Four parts hemp hurd, one part lime binder, and one part water is all you need to make hempcrete, a durable building material similar to pressboard or adobe. Just fill up the form with hempcrete, ta...

YouTube user Margara Francis uploaded this delightful video of a bird enjoying the hell out of a moving sidewalk at the airport. In fact, the bird likes the trip so much, he flies back to take it al...

Great article by Nick Bilton in Vanity Fair about the future of Twitter.Vanity Fair special correspondent Nick Bilton reports on the state of Twitter, writing that the rise of its most famous userDona...

My friend Kevin Mack (who did the Special Effects for Fight Club and many other movies) created a VR art experience called Blortasia for the HTC Vive. Here's a preview.Fly freely through a surreal ...

I posted this on Make: yesterday, but thought it was too good not to share here. A gamer named David Henning is in a gaming group and they exchanged gifts this past Christmas. Dave wanted to do someth...

I didnt appreciate Japans ubiquitous vending machines until I was on a hike through the countryside outside of Tsumago on a sweltering July afternoon. The bamboo forests and rolling verdant hills were...

m0nster0 posted this 3mm-thick slice of a Seymchan pallasite meteorite to Reddit. He says its "one of my favorite bits of space rock." I can't argue with that! He bought it on eBay from this guy, who ...

What is a SaNDWiCH SLiCe? It's not cheese. Nor is it mere cheese food. It's not pasteurized process cheese food, either. Don't be misled into believing those who would tell you that it is imitation pa...

Patents Expiring Today is a website that lists patents expiring today. Now you can make and sell this method of upcycling a plastic soda bottle into a chic purse....

Toms Hijo makes linoleum block prints in a medieval style that is well-suited to Tolkein, Lovecraft and other fantasy writers' works. Check out his Nictonomicon bestiary project Kickstarter for more...

In this video a former sex worker describes what happened when an undercover officer had sex with her in an attempt to arrest her for prostitution. Shockingly, it's "not uncommon for police to have ...

Dan Howland writes, "Screengrabs that made me laugh from Google (Happiest Place on) Earth. It does pretty well with conventional architecture, but it freaked out on the Haunted Mansion's cupola and c...

A newly discovered strain of the Koolova ransomware encrypts all your files and deletes the keys -- unless you read two articles about avoiding ransomware: Jigsaw Ransomware Decrypted: Will delete you...

Writer Lindy West is done with Twitter. From her essay in The Guardian:Twitter, for the past five years, has been a machine where I put in unpaid work and tension headaches come out. I write jokes the...

Jon Mooallem's beautiful profile of BJ Miller tells the tale of how Miller lost three of his limbs in a stupid accident and became a pioneer of palliative medicine: but for me, it's also a story of th...

Late last year, Shaun Leonardo reprised his art project called "I Can't Breathe." Audience members are paired up and taken through a series of self-defense instructions. It culminates with audience ...

The great recession and austerity have been very good to the chief executives of Britain's biggest companies: according to the High Pay Center, the average compensation for FTSE 100 CEOs rose 10% in 2...

https://youtu.be/NZ4BF0WdY1sHotbox yoga magnate Bikram Choudhury made himself -- and a lot of his assets -- scarce after a Los Angeles court awarded almost everything he owns to the woman who won a se...

Historical novelist Debra Daley posts a master guide to the intoxicants of 18th century England, which ranged from modern favorites (laughing gas, cannabis) to historic classics (laudanum) to ratafia,...

As part of her I Didnt Write This series, filmmaker Yulin Kuang brings E. E. Cummings poem maggie and milly and molly and may to life. You can watch all of Kuang's "I Didn't Right This" literary ada...

Paul Schlemmer recently dug up some popular diagrams he made a while back to show how he lit some nice photos. He shares lots of tips and tricks, like how to use your phone's flashlight to give textur...

Steve Mnuchin, Trump's pick for Secretary of Treasury, has a checkered past (he once foreclosed on a 90 year old customer who was $0.27 short on her mortgage payment) but a leaked memo from the Califo...

When the fog rolls into Dubai, photographer Daniel Cheong races to the nearest skyscraper to capture some remarkable photos. Day or night, the effect is otherworldly. (more…)...

Sarah Jeong's long, terrifyingly thorough analysis of the data-formats in the Star Wars universe is both hilarious and insightful, and illustrates the difference between the burgeoning technological r...

How is fake news constructed? This week's National Enquirer gives us a shining example of how its done.Filling its cover is a somber photo of the late George Michael in repose, eyes closed, finally at...

2016's lawsuit between Paramount and the Trekkers who crowdfunded Axanar, a big-budged fan film set in the Trekverse, continues its slog through the courts, and continues to be enlivened by the interv...

Dylan performing his song on the assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers at the same rally, 1963, where Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have A Dream" speech....

It's January, which means that Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky have returned to the WELL for their annual State of the World wrangle, in which, as Sterling puts it, we see who's "gonna collapse first...

It's January, which means that Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky have returned to the WELL for their annual State of the World wrangle, in which, as Sterling puts it, we see who's "gonna collapse first...

We already knew the second half of Season 3 was going bring us Saw Gerrera. The most recent trailer's final moment is a glimpse of Obi-Wan adopting his classic Form III opening stance and preparing ...

Charlie Stross has concluded his three-part, wrist-slittingly hilarious projection of the likely (?) outcomes of 2017, which starts with the death of Queen Elizabeth and a massive economic collapse in...

In Disappearing Routine Jobs: Who, How, and Why? economists from USC, UBC and Manchester University document how the automation of "routine" jobs (welders, bank tellers, etc) that pay middle class wag...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqSomhNuBAIAdam Harvey, creator of 2012's CV Dazzle project to systematically confound facial recognition software with makeup and hairstyles, presented his latest da...

R U A Dick is a single-serving website that performs sentiment analysis on your (or anyone's) Reddit account history. I was deemed "slightly positive." Here is my most positive sentence on Reddit. And...

Adapters for everything! Previously: Already regretting assigning the new MacBook Pro review to Borges...

On her YouTube channel, Riley J. Dennis breaks down the case against the frequently used argument there are more important issues to talk about....

Among the most-read articles of 2016 on McSweeney's Internet Tendency is this list by Susan Harlan, which includes many entries that will be more relevant than ever after January 20th. Thanks For Beha...

The Archemedian Turd is a "Decorational Defecation" offered either in gold plate or as matte or glazed poopy porcelain. The gold one is $350, the others an easily-passed $20....

Joel Johnson reviews the MacOS vs Windows situation as it stands after Apple's disappointing new MacBook Pro. Like a lot of people needing capable laptops, he's switched back to Windows, and finds him...

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...

In Refinery29s new video, drag performers Dorian Electra, Imp Queen, The Vixen, Lucy Stoole, London Jade, and Eva Young come together to celebrate the surprisingly long history of drag culture....

In one simple comic, artist Gavin Aung Than celebrates the power of seeing yourself represented in art:[via Zen Pencils]...

Is 2017 the year you're going to get organiz-ized? The first step is acknowledging the scope of the issue. A bunch of organizations (!) have helpful scales to determine how pronounced you or someone y...

Break out your headphones for this one. Maxime Causeret has created a beautiful animation for Max Cooper's instrumental track "Order from Chaos." Seemingly random elements slowly coalesce into lifel...

AirMapp is a great channel of rescued and refurbished VW vans. They found a 1955 panel van abandoned for decades in the mountains. At first they planned to tow it to a shop, but then they decided to...

Artist Lilly Higgs created this lovely GIF celebrating both Leia Organa and Carrie Fisher. She writes: I ran home and drew this on my lunchbreak because I felt like my world would explode if I didnt. ...

On-demand fresh coffee often requires an expensive trip to the cafe or staying tethered to a bulky drip machine. The GoJoe Self-Brewing Coffee Mug is a welcome alternative, and unlike an coffee mug I'...

A couple of weeks ago I alerted you to the fact that the complete collection of Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard was available as a free Kindle edition. You have probably read all 853-pages by ...

Tofugu (where my wife Carla is exec editor) has a great article about the 20 best anime movies not made by Studio Ghibli (Totoro, Spirited Away).https://youtu.be/xGOneMdjpw419. REDLINEOften times, "an...

Banned in several Southern states after its release in 1964, Nina Simone's Mississippi Goddam remains relevant in today's United States....

Still File: "a series of 4 photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes. The photos' artifacts, surroundings, camera settings and lighting has been shaped intending to resemble 3d gra...

The Belkin Road Rockstar ($27 on Amazon) is a useful gadget for long road trips. It has four USB charging ports. Two ports are on the 12-volt adapter for front seat device charging, and two are in a u...

From Wikipedia: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is an animated short directed and animated by Jim Reardon, who would later become director and storyboard consultant for The Simpsons. The cartoon ...

A day after using an unannounced, after-hours, closed-door session to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, the House GOP has abandoned its plans, partly because President-Elect Trump to...

The beautiful Hot Topic dictation. Since the original tweet was deleted. pic.twitter.com/X2AoffeWdu— Ax Squared (@Axikor2) January 3, 2017"What do you know of the old ways?" It's a natural quest...

A magnetic shark-repelling armband has failed to repel a shark. Zack Davis started surfing when he was a kid, and never had problems with sharks in that time. But hes now recovering from a shark bite,...

[NSFW audio] Amazon Alexa gets saucy, much to the consternation of a toddler's parents....

GitHub is service that helps groups of software developers make changes to code without screwing everything up. This is a good video that explains what GitHub is and how it works....

Before you fully settle into 2017, take a moment (or four) to look back on the action-packed, drama-filled summer blockbusters of 2016. Film critic and video editor Amon Warmann put together this sl...

In just three panels, Eisner Award winning illustrator and writer Faith Erin Hicks captures the special relationship between Rogue Ones Director Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) and his beloved Death Star:Hac...

I am selling you an empty bag. Marijuana placed In that empty sandwich bag is simply a legal gift, says a Massachusetts guy on Craigslist. Pot is now legal to possess in Massachusetts. It is not legal...

Dave Allen was an Irish comedian popular in the UK from the 1960s until his death in 2005. His reputation is as a cantankerous irreligious fellow, but this family-friendly moment is widely held to b...

This cat loves her blanket almost as much as I love this cat.[via We Have Cats]...

Brock and Bowdy were doing what toddlers do: being stupid. In the process of trying to climb their dresser via the drawers, they tipped it over, pinning Brock. Luckily Bowdy was able to free his twi...

I'm still not sure about this whole whispery Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response thing, but it's nice to see Robert Blake still getting work....

Every year Chief White House photographer Pete Souza rounds up his best photos, and this years collection is especially poignant as its the last one of the Obama administration. Souza was looking for ...

ben.akrin.com/mandala is a simple online drawing board with a single purpose: mandalas. Set the axis count, the color and thickness of your pen, and the type of reflection. Then get mandala-making! Bu...

While the "Mannequin Challenge" is a little played out at this point, Ill make an exception for this awesome version filmed onboard the International Space Station. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet p...

Politiwatch created a single-serving website that tells you all your government officials: who are my representatives? All you have to do is enter a partial address....

Illustrator Hal Hefner created this great double homage to Charles Schulz and Stephen King. It does seem as if he missed an opportunity to put Marci in a denim jumper and holding a sledgehammer, thoug...

It's not done with you yet: Stereogum's Scott Lapatine assembled "The Worst Playlist of 2016," with all the year's most terrible tracks. Highlights include Eminem's "Campaign Speech," Corey Feldman'...

Bloomberg Asia journalist David Ramli tweeted this photo of a bicep-mounted anti-pollution filter for joggers, displayed on the wall of a Beijing subway station, the day after Beijing posted record po...

This year-old photo of a woman seated at a wall of Iphones went viral on Chinese social media, where it was identified as a clickfarmer whose job is to repeatedly install apps on multiple phones in or...

The independent Office of Congressional Ethics -- created in 2008 after three Congressmen were jailed for corruption -- has been stripped of its powers by the House GOP, who held an after-hours vote, ...

Update: They've backed down because Trump warned them it would be a distraction from taking away healthcare and giving tax cuts to rich people.The independent Office of Congressional Ethics -- created...

SOG make excellent knives: I know because I had many of them confiscated by the nascent TSA in the early days of the Global War on Terror, that liminal moment when I was still kidding myself that I wo...

Ever since I found the Unfuck Your Habitat Tumblr, I've been addicted to its brand of frank, compassionate, sweary advice for people who want to be organized but don't know where to start. Now, unfuck...

If theres one thing missing from a headphone listening experience its satisfying bass. The Skullcandy Crusher headphonesare one of the only pairs I've seen that offer durable retro design, rich audio ...

We've got to admit it, Boing Boing is great name. Boing Boing Inflatables isn't the first group of like-minded, but completely and wholly unaffiliated souls who just wanna have some fun, but they may ...

James Brown, his bad self, performs one of the best-known songs of the civil rights movement. Brown delivered his message in clear, bold words and beats. While the Godfather of Soul passed away a li...

James Brown, his bad self, performs one of the best-known songs of the civil rights movement. Brown delivered his message in clear, bold words and beats. While the Godfather of Soul passed away a li...

Over at Cool Tools, we interviewed Danny Haeg, director of Creative Collisions at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. He moved here from Minnesota to jump into the simmering maker-melting-pot tha...

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I placed this 33-foot string of LED lights along the brick path leading to our front door. The light from the LEDs is pleasantly warm and does a good job of illuminating the path without hurting your ...

Adam "Ape Lad" Koford writes, "Last Wednesday night as I was falling asleep, an idea came to me. The next morning I drew it and posted it online, not thinking much else of it. Then it started to go vi...

The DIY Feminist Guide to Cybersecurity, available in Spanish and English, is designed to be a quickstart for "gendered, racialized, queerphobic, transphobic, ableist, and classist" threats to digital...

Like Sushi? Like hyper violent yakuza movies? Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi is a comic that could only have come from the sick, twisted, and food-obsessed mind of Anthony Bourdain. And Im pretty sure hed ...

An unexplained odor of rotten eggs is causing distress to residents of the San Francisco Bay Area. From Science Alert:"PG&E received 45 calls about a gas-like odour in several different neighborhoods,...

Aw shucks - this enamel pin paying homage to a late '80s era Photoshop toolbar is currently sold out, but you can sign up to be notified by email when it's back in stock....

As someone who's struggled with his weight all his life (and who comes from a family with similar problems), I've long been fascinated with the science of weight and obesity; many years ago I listened...

In Japan, people eat more than one hundred thousand tons of eel per year. In the last 30 years, overfishing has caused the wild eel population to decline by 90 percent.From The New Yorker:At Tsukiji, ...

As has been the case for many consecutive years, the movie industry beat all box-office records in 2016, earning $11.4B at the US box office (while simultaneously insisting that piracy was destroying ...

Last weekend, your social media feed might have featured this photo of beggars sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai, in front of a Trump Tower billboard emblazoned "There is only one way to live. The Trum...

There are twelve black dots in this image. Why can't you see all twelve at the same time?I replaced the black dots with red dots, and it is easier to see them all at once....

In 1818, Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy published his Dictionnaire Infernal, but it wasn't until Henry Plon's sixth printing in 1863 that the book got its now-infamous illustrations, which ar...

On this weekend's Meet the Press, WSJ editor in chief Gerard Baker said that even when he was clear that Trump had uttered a falsehood, his paper would not call that falsehood a lie, because to do so ...

A newly discovered collection of notes written by Nixon aide HR Haldeman reveals that during Nixon's 68 presidential campaign, he illegally conspired to convince the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen...

Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley -- entering fake driver's license and address details into the library system -- and then used the account...

Fresh MIT grads were asked to power a light bulb with a wire and a battery. The ones shown in the video failed. It also looks like the grads were given a 1.5 v battery and a 120 v bulb. Even if it h...

I only bother with a pocket square on really special occasions. New Year's Eve always seems to require I try something new. This year it was the Rose. The fabric on your square needs to be pretty th...

Checkmate, atheists! The king of the Internet has found religion.Zuckerberg, whose Facebook profile once identified him as an atheist, revealed his change of heart on his social media network after he...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/comments/5ll87c/cutting_a_watermelon_with_a_sword_wcgw/?st=ixgcfoxu&sh=c5ce2d64The right tools for the right job![via]...

Peter Wohlleben is a German forrester who has revolutionized his field by developing community forest management that does not require pesticides or heavy machinery, and recruits local communities as ...

Nature takes a look at what's likely in store for 2017 in various fields of scientific inquiry. Short answer: some is dependent on Trump regime drama, like climate research, space research, stem cell ...

Kali Akuno, an organizer with Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement talks to Alternet about the first stirrings of the mass-scale civil disobedience we must practice to resist trum...

This is apparently a Chinese pirated edition of Star Wars: Episode III, but dubbed using the English subtitles offered on that disc. It's amazing, not least because the voice actors are so good I th...

After N2SUB posted a thoughtful, negative review of Ham Radio Deluxe, the company responded to his open trouble ticket with instructions that tricked him into bricking his software, in the guise of fi...

After N2SUB posted a thoughtful, negative review of Ham Radio Deluxe, the company responded to his open trouble ticket with instructions that tricked him into bricking his software, caused his softwar...

Though he's lived there since 1994, German-born photographer Michael Wolf has only been documenting Hong Kong since 2003. This interview looks at two of his more notable projects: his shots of massi...

Jim Toole, the proprietor of Capitol Hill books in D.C., appears as a curmudgeon in Caroline Cunningham's wonderful profile of him and his overflowing store.You also have a list of words that no one i...

Apothecarry is just one example of the commercialization of recreational marijuana. Now that it's legal in California (Hollyweed!), the green rush is on in the high-end/connoisseur market. In time, ...

It was supposed to be a 60th birthday present to herself, but Rhonda King's dream of sharing her life with a family of chirping birds ended when USPS delivered a boxful of crushed canaries her hair sa...

Ever wonder how they tie up enormous trees for transport? One option is this three-armed model, though you might be distracted by the guy not wearing a hardhat as a giant metal arm spins near his he...

Japanese manga artist Junko Mizuno is known for her dizzying mix of everything from Japanese cute culture to erotic and pin-up art to religious and fairy tale imagery. In TRIAD, an absolutely stunning...

I love the idea of TED talks (Mark, Cory) but most of them are insufferable. What are your favorites? And which ones would you like to see? I'd like to see Lord Humongous explain climate change.https:...

Having watched the 1973 Westworld film last week, Boars, Gore, and Swords moves on to the Crichton-less sequel Futureworld. Ivan and Red discuss how much more it influenced the HBO series, Yul Brynner...

Inertia friction welding joins two metal objects by spinning one at high rates of speed, then pressing it against the stationary piece. The friction heats both pieces and makes a weld sturdy enough ...

Paper marbling is alive and well at Oberlin College's Letterpress Studio. Alex Fox filmed his friend Jones Pitsker demonstrating a couple of techniques. (more…)...

Pangolin scales, like rhinoceros horns, are just made of keratin, but that doesn't stop traditional medicine practitioners from claiming they cure cancer and what-not. It's why pangolins are the most ...

One of the most compelling data visualization projects from this year was Wall Street Journal's Blue Feed, Red Feed, which lets readers see exactly how divergent social media feeds have become, depend...

If you happen to have a Pacific parrotlet who happens to be patient, and you happen to have a couple of spare feathers lying around, you might try this trick to turn it into a rabbit. (more…)...

Last night, a prankster used strategically-placed tarps to improve the iconic Hollywood sign to read Hollyweed! Well done! (L.A. Times)This was a reprise of a 1976 alteration celebrating California's ...

Candylabs is a Montreal shop that makes amazing handmade candies. They share their secrets to making adorable cylindrical cherry candies with a pig design. The process might keep you guessing until ...

Nagurski writes, "Tyrus Wong was a brilliant Chinese-American artist who designed the look of the landmark 'Bambi' cartoon for Disney. Due to racial attitudes and at the time, he received limited rec...

Jennifer Jenkins writes, "What could have been entering the public domain in the US on January 1, 2017? Under the law that existed until 1978 -- Works from 1960. The books 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and...

Prior to the election of the business-worshipping, union-busting, climate denying Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, the state's Department of Natural Resources website was a rich trove of information a...

Directed by Allen Cordell: "The Aristocrats!"...

Literally one of the most exciting moments I had in 2016 was the realization, well into the year, that Charlie Brooker -- creator of Black Mirror, Nathan Barley and TV Go Home -- was going to have t...

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Mike Boyd decided to make a show called "Learn Quick," where he tries to learn a skill from scratch as quickly as possible. As a roundup for 2016, he did them all in one single impressive long take....

The Koldunov Brothers put together this simple demonstration of how using a standard white party balloon can give your flash photography a nice diffused look. (more…)...

Adult tube site xHamster released its first comprehensive survey of porn viewership in 2016. According to them the most visited category moved from MILFs to Matures (women in their 40s and 50s). They ...

Despite what you might have read in this alarming story in the Washington Post, Russia did not hack Vermont's power authority. (more…)...

In The Competition Initiative and Hidden Fees, the White House's National Economic Council documents the widespread use of deceptive "service charges" that businesses levy, allowing them to advertise ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRB781duYTEIn On Smart Cities, Smart Energy, And Dumb Security -- Netanel Rubin's talk at this year's Chaos Communications Congress -- Rubin presents his findings on ...

The Boing Boing Store had plenty of great items over the past year, but these 8 deals top each catagory. From course bundles in an array of professional programming and IT subjects to futuristic vapor...