Articles by BoingBoing from April 2017

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The Book of Miracles (also known as the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs) is a compendium of beautiful 16th-century illustrations of cosmic anxiety and apocalyptic surrealism. The new edition from Ta...

Periodic Stats is a dead-easy web-based Periodic Table to click around, showing all the stats and the history of each element. The only thing missing are illustrations of each one! [via Reddit]...

The Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer is a voice synth with a difference: it soars! It's perfectly uncanny; any better and you'd not even suspect it might be a robot, any worse and it would just s...

I love Alex Schaefer impasto works depicting branches of Chase bank going up in flames in daytime. They were from a series by him called "Disaster Capitalism," and apparently the banks (and cops) woul...

Rancher Adrienne Ivey noticed her 150 heifers were all bunched together, and headed over to find them being herded by a "furry little beaver."It wasnt until we got to the very front of the herd, tha...

I don't play a lot of games, but my friend Craig loaned me his BioShock discs for Mac couple of years ago and I enjoyed it. The super creepy dystopian universe is a critique of Ayn Rand's simplistic p...

A time-lapse radar loop from Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch shows today's storms billowing like a fire dancing over gasoline. The image (and the storms) cover the U.S. from West Texas to ...

I recently re-stumbled across John Hodgman's fantastic review of Jack Kirbys Fourth World Omnibus from 2008, which appeared in the New York Times. Kirby was known as the "King" of comics. He co-create...

The fellow in Australia, who makes tools and shelters from his bare hands and natural materials, is back with a new video. This time, he made water-powered hammer. It's basically a log (hollowed out...

Artist Brooke Barker uses her Instagram to document both sad animal facts and her delightful sense of humor. You can see some of my favorites below and learn more on her Sad Animal Facts website. (mo...

Sony's cameras seem to be in a league of their own. So why do professionals stick with bulkier models from Canon and Nikon? One answer is glass—often just as pricey as pro-grade bodies, and you ...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is inaccessible in Turkey, with officials saying it was blocked as an "administrative measure" thereby explaining why the courts weren't involved. Turkish media says ...

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All you need to make these movable Wolverine claws are 15 popsicle sticks, six rubber bands, a piece of paper, and glue. Heres a second, slightly more terrifying version that uses actual blades:http...

Few things are more annoying for cyclists than changing a flat, especially on a back tire. Non-pneumatic tires that have proven workable for off-roading and other vehicle prototypes are now getting te...

In this new upload, video essayist KaptainKristian explores the history of Wonder Woman as a progressive symbol....

The Los Angeles punk and skate scenes of the mid-1980s produced a brief, shining moment of total badassery in the form of The Hags, a now-legendary all-girl skateboard gang that prowled Hollywood and ...

HirokA1007's youtube channel is a menagerie of enormous insects such as this Hercules beetle pupa. Below, a larva, also the size of his fist. [via JWZ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ1fuq8rKZQPrev...

Whether or not youre a sun sneezer (I am!), this video from Veritasium is a fascinating explanation of the strange quirk that affects roughly 1 in 4 people....

If you're among the one in four people who sneeze when you move from a dark place into the sunlight, this nifty little explainer from a fellow traveler gives a great overview of causation theories o...

For more than a decade, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been suing the NSA over its extraordinarily broad interpretation of its powers under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act -- a law tha...

The latest Wikileaks release of leaked CIA cyberweapons includes "Scribbles" -- referred to by the CIA as the "Snowden Stopper" -- a watermarking tool that embeds web-beacon style tracking beacons int...

The Supreme Court heard arguments in Maslenjak v. United States, a case about whether minor omissions or falsehoods in an immigration application can cost a naturalized American their citizenship, dec...

High-Rise, directed by Ben Wheatley, brings J.G. Ballard's classic novel to the screen after a long wait.It's set almost entirely in a residential tower, a massive brutalist edifice inhabited by thous...

The first 100 days of Trump's presidency were a shambolic festival of incompetence and looming catastrophe. But it's not all about beltway politics, you know! Because the intense (and reasonable) foc...

Megabattie posted a video of a female grey-headed flying fox who is "happy to stuff her face" with grapes.Green grapes, red grapes - any grapes.This bat is not a pet - she's a wild animal who was re...

I had no idea!Evidently HAL 9000 sang Daisy Bell as a tribute, it is the first song ever sung by a computer. In 1961 an IBM 7094 was the first to raise its voice in song.The vocals were programmed b...

(Note to proofreader: I just received this copy and figure it should just go up verbatim. Next time they do something like this remind me to send William Golding instead. — Rob)Later, as he sat ...

Not all careers are created equal. Take journalism, for example. High stress, low growth, very low pay. Why would anyone choose this field? (You're asking the wrong person.) According to CareerCast, w...

I've had this AWS 100g x 0.01g Digital Scale ($10) digital scale for a couple of years, and I used it twice a day when I'm home to weigh supplement powders (and sometimes loose leaf tea and coffee bea...

My new novel Walkaway (US tour/UK tour) is set in a world that is being torn apart by out-of-control wealth inequality, but not everyone thinks that inequality is what destabilizes the world -- there'...

A pair of New York's finest posed with 100 tiny bags of pot, tweeting, "One less marijuana dealer on our streets thanks to Officers Sardone and Winter." The twittersphere was not impressed.The weed is...

At a pottery fair in Pittsburgh, I ran into Kimberlyn Bloise, who makes handsome musical instruments that are also mugs, vases and pendants. They sound and look wonderful, and have the strange quality...

People snore because they've lost throat muscle tone, says Dr. Mike Dilkes, an ear, nose and throat surgeon in London. In an interview with CBC, he offers an exercise to rebuild your throat muscles:MD...

Three million Americans have Type-1 diabetes. If they don't get insulin every day, they will slip into a coma and die. The price of rapid-acting insulin, needed by diabetics who can't take slower-acti...

All airlines have their share of customer service problems, and Southwest is no exception. But they seem to be better than most (two free checked on bags, no charge for changing flights), and they jus...

On the heels of the Daily Grail's new essay anthology Spirits of Place -- featuring Alan Moore, Maria J. Warren Ellis, Gazelle Amber Valentine, and many more writers and thinkers -- the Grail's Greg T...

Lego just announced its new NASA Apollo Saturn V model rocket set. It's based on a Lego Ideas submission by a builder named saabfun, it's a 1:110 scale model of the real thing. Of course the Saturn V...

Yesterday Elon Musk took delivery of his second-hand boring machine for his Boring Company. It's in a parking lot next to the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Musk says he's going to take...

https://youtu.be/mz5kY3RsmKoFyre Festival was advertised as a luxury music festival on a private island in the Bahamas. But promises of a private chartered flight to the island, gourmet meals, private...

Pearl Fryar of Bishopville, South Carolina created this incredible garden mostly from plants he saved from a local nursery's compost dump.Ironically, according to Great Big Story, "When he first mov...

Teller, the silent half of the Penn & Teller magic act, explains seven cognitive biases that magicians exploit in order to "alter the perceptions" of their audiences and achieve impossible-seeming fea...

In a federal complaint against Fox News, former Outnumbered host Andrea Tantaros claims that after she filed a sexual harassment claim against the former CEO Roger Ailes, Fox News contracted with a ps...

Tim Wu, the Colombia University law professor and anti-trust/competition expert who coined the term "Net Neutrality," has published an open letter to Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web and direct...

Chester (or Shasta?), a Red Labrador, has figured out a way to deal with the Roomba that's more efficient than barking at it or biting it: turning it off. [Thanks, Heather!]...

Bamboo has lots of uses beyond just being panda food. Things like bikes, roads, scaffolding, and musical instruments are made from the fast-growing grass. But unless you are participating in a tropica...

Earlier this month, landslides in Manizales, Colombia killed 17 people and devastated the city. As emergency workers and citizens responded to the tragedy, some people reportedly noticed the clouds pa...

Flashlight fish, also called lanterneye fish and scientifically photoblepharon (light-eye), are strange and wondrous creatures best viewed during a night dive in the Pacific. (more…)...

Nuno Dias shot this absolutely insane surfing footage that looks more like a snowboarder out in front of an avalanche than a surfer on a wave. (more…)...

In this video for Mental Floss, linguist Arika Okrent and illustrator Sean ONeill share the keys to understanding commonalities between languages.[via Laughing Squid]...

TED-Ed host Kenny Coogan and animator Anton Bogaty offer a crash course on sloth evolution. Interestingly, it turns out we might not have avocados without them....

Saturn's moon Atlas is said to look like a flying saucer. The Cassini probe took a close look on its way to Titan, whizzing 7,000km from the tiny world. To me it looks like one of those soft, dusty ba...

Data scientist David Robinson tracked the proximity of verbs to gender across 100,000 stories. She screams, cries and rejects. He kidnaps, rescues and beats.I think this paints a somewhat dark picture...

In their quest to celebrate all things junk food, HellthyJunkFood hosts JP Lambiase and Julia Goolia construct a truly supersized Egg McMuffin....

Dmitry Chernysh found a soul mate who likes climbing towers as much as he does, so they upped the ante and took a 360-degree camera along for their latest climb. (more…)...

MinutePhysics explains how to chart the rate of expansion of the universe....

Yesterday I went to FedEx.com to order some printed fliers from my desktop. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. Along with other idiots committed to proprietary Flash UI, FedEx is one of the last holdou...

A copy of Look Magazine from July 4, 1939 will cost you $950, because it has a a six-page photo-illustrated feature by William P. Hitler, called "Why I Hate My Uncle."William Patrick Hitler was born i...

The worlds smartest film about the worlds dullest premise....

Poli'ahu, the Hawaiian snow goddess who lives atop Mauna Kea, is the namesake for this stunning and inspiring footage from Sunchaser Pictures. (more…)...

The Treasures in the Trash Museum in East Harlem is at turns delightful and sad. Curator Nelson Molina is a city sanitation worker with a nice eye and ear for hidden garbage gems. The whole museum dem...

In this fun series, visual artist Andhika Muksin edits animated Disney character heads onto celebrity photos and film stills. It sounds like it would be eerie, but the photos are perfectly edited and ...

It's good to see this week's tabloids getting back to the really important news."Aliens Nuked All Life Off Of Mars!" proclaims the 'National Examiner,' which also brings us the more earth-bound revela...

Apple is in talks to launch its own Venmo, reports Recode, also asking Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? (more…)...

Someone has already bid $80,000 on a near-mint copy of Suspense Comics #3 from 1944, with a cover by Alex Schomburg. This is the type of comic book that led to the moral panic resulting in a senate he...

Making English versions of foreign-language games is a complex process requiring cultural sensitivity and originality. In contrast to literary translation, it involves audio, visual arts, and careful ...

In honor of the great director Jonathan Demme who died yesterday, please enjoy this bloopers reel from his classic film Silence of the Lambs.More horror film blooper reels at TVOvermind....

It starts off innocently. A Wisconsin woman texts her daughter, Jess: "Hunny please grab milk and lunch meet on your way home." But she accidentally sent the text to a 35-year-old man, who was innocen...

It starts off innocently. A Wisconsin woman texts her daughter, Jess: "Hunny please grab milk and lunch meet on your way home." But she accidentally sent the text to a 35-year-old man, who was innocen...

Photographer Harry Israelson has a long-running series of photo essays called For Pleasure. For a recent set, he headed to beautiful Covina, California for a Renaissance Faire. Pictured: Ye Olde ATM. ...

Here's a demonstration of sharpener:https://youtu.be/375D7tPfQvEI also use a sharpening steel to keep the knife edge straight every time I'm about to cut food:https://youtu.be/SBn1i9YqN1k...

Nintendo programmer Masahiro Sakura coded the Game Boy classic Kirby's Dream Land on a cartridge-based Famicom console and Disk System that lacked a hardware keyboard. According to a recent presentati...

The only thing that would make this video of Chinese firefighters jumping rope would be a Yakety Sax soundtrack....

The Trump administration continues to bumble nearly every time they mention Judaism or the Holocaust in public. Orange Julius claims to love Jews, but the anti-Semites in his cabinet are here to stay ...

What you will learn from watching Fox News: The problem with America is that "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics. See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry oth...

Bonobo (aka Simon Green) just released this beautiful new music video for the track "Bambro Koyo Ganda" from his album Migration out now on Ninja Tune. The track features Innov Gnawa, a fantastic Mo...

Cristina and Benno Kaiser were happily divorced after 12 years of marriage. Even though they are together, they are no longer a couple. They are a trio. They both have the same girlfriend, 21-year-o...

Haha! Lucky riders on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland were treated to a live Jack Sparrow animatronics performance yesterday by Johnny Depp. He made a surprise visit to the park as p...

Mike Boyd is started a lecturing job, and he wanted to teach himself how to draw dotted lines on a chalkboard. He learned in just six minutes. The trick is pressing the piece of chalk at an angle so...

Former MIT physics professor Walter Lewin (who the university ultimately fired for sexual harassment) was a master of the chalkboard. Video below. Inspired by Lewin's skills, Mike Boyd explains how ...

https://youtu.be/4MTMfblDYsohttps://youtu.be/7z1XH5L8Jx4There have been times when I've had a strong urge to pee while sitting on a plane that's waiting for takeoff. Fortunately, I wasn't punished for...

When Chandro Tomar was 65, she took her granddaughter, who was interested in learning how to shoot, to a rifle club. Tomar, from a small village in northern India, decided to try it herself, and fir...

Rogue archivist Rick Prelinger writes, "Oakland students planned to paint a mural on a dark freeway underpass in their city. The project is stalled because Caltrans asserts copyright to murals on its ...

You may have seen the Wainwright Training videos on Boing Boing's in-flight entertainment channel on Virgin America.While they probably won't be offering sensitivity training, Mark Fite and Jim Turn...

Seungmo Park used clipped squares of wire mesh to create this portrait. See more examples of his work here.https://youtu.be/u7wxwe4ftAQ?t=2m4s...

One of the consistently underreported elements of Brexit and all that's come after it is that leaving the EU will also let the UK -- the world's most prolific launderer of filthy criminal money -- esc...

Gabriella Corley is a 9 year old with Type I diabetes who's allergic to the insulin covered by her low-income parents' healthcare; to live, she must take Sanofi's proprietary Apidra brand insulin, whi...

Why do people forget what they were going to do when they walk into a room? This video explains the "location updating effect," and how you can work it to your advantage....

I had forgotten how goofy the monster noises were in the epic Kirk vs Gorn battle. With this excellent mask and a few groans you too could rough up Starfleet's more daring Captain. https://youtu.be/4S...

Susan Crawford, one of the most articulate campaigners for Net Neutrality (previously) explains how FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to kill Net Neutrality will leave small-town America behind in the 21st...

Fox News' Jesse Watters thought it was the perfect time at Fox News to make a sexual joke at a woman's expense. And he earned a three-day vacation for his on-air blowjob joke about Ivanka Trump afte...

Here is The Simpsons' take on Trump's 100th day in the White House, which includes Sean Spicer hanging himself with a sign that says, "I Quit!" and a strangling match between Jared Kushner and Steve...

Kevin Kelly argues that the core premises that underlie the belief that artificial intelligence will overtake human intelligence are "more akin to a religious beliefa myth" than a scientific theory. ...

There have been many Slinky theme songs, but when the Slinky theme song gets stuck in my head this is the Slinky theme song I sing.My daughter was given a large plastic rainbow slinky for her birthd...

Activated charcoal makes for some cool-looking chow, like the superblack soft-serve at LA's Little Damage, and you might think that since activated charcoal is given to people with acute poisoning, it...

An EU court ruled against a seller of customized set-top boxes this week, with the judge saying that his preinstallation of certain Kodi Add-Ons makes the boxes illegal to offer.Mr Wullems sells, over...

When long-lived websites close down, they often give little notice, sending archivists scrambling to rescue its work for posterity. About.com, the venerable topic-mining hive abruptly put to death, se...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dANsqfqwRXQChandro Tomar, 84, lives in Uttar Pradesh. After picking up a gun in her sixties, Tomar became of India's best shots, winning many competitions and teaching ...

Freddy deBoer writes that he's been telling the same joke for years about Silicon Valley's only product, which might be universalized as "At last, a way to verb with nouns on the internet!" But the so...

SWISH is a lovely portable stool created by feeding inputs into design software and seeing what the software generated. Carlo Ratti Associati debuted this prototype at Milan Design Week 2017. (more&...

What starts as a live action hand extrapolating a line along a grid gets real trippy real fast, but the fanciful hand-drawn extrapolations follow a discernible mathematical pattern. (more…)...

A Canadian goose declared it open season on cops, as this Clarksville, Tennessee detective found out. This cop-hating honker takes a gander at this cop, then puts him down. Just when the cop's goose...

This remarkably clear VHS footage of Clinton-era yuppies who are now retirement age will either take you back to a more innocent time, or give you a good glimpse of what yuppie scum looked like back...

Probably not much, as Brad Jones learned over Easter when a neighbor allegedly blasted his DJI Phantom. Even if his prime suspect confessed, there's not much precedent for prosecutions. (more…)...

This adorable little Xenomorph will be available in July, but itty bitty Ellen Ripley is available right now....

In this relaxing video, YouTuber Jordan Clark talks through her process for making a keepsake travel diary....

Foodie Dan Pashman of Youre Eat It Wrong shares tips and tricks for mastering the all-you-can-eat buffet....

SciShow host Michael Aranda digs into the question most airplane travelers have probably asked themselves at some point....

If you want to work in tech, but dont have any desire to code web apps to help businesses sell things to other business, you might want to consider a career in cybersecurity. Judging from the apparent...

The President of the United States earlier today said these very words. Peter Serafinowicz just sassified them. (more…)...

Ajit Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission under Donald Trump, today announced his plans to undo government oversight of broadband ISPs, and destroy Net Neutrality...

Vietnam's government today said Facebook has promised to work with the communist nation to prevent the publication and distribution of banned online content. (more…)...

A woman in Newport Beach was raped by her Uber driver on the way home from a social gathering, according to charges filed by prosecutors in Southern California on Wednesday. (more…)...

I loved helping PaRappa win the heart of Sunny Funny. PaRappa the Rapper remains one of my favorite console games of all time.Ellen Steuer probably remembers all the lyrics!...

The Little Damage ice-cream shop near downtown LA has unveiled a new, superblack soft-serve flavor called "Almond Charcoal" whose coloring comes from activated charcoal. (more…)...

Spring is here, time to toss the ratty old hammock and get a new one! This $15 replacement hammock fits my stand well.Couple years back I reviewed this fantastic hammock stand and hammock. I live in a...

@SssnakeySci would like you to find the venomous snake in this photo, taken by Jerry Davis. I thought I was being pranked, but I finally found it.(Featured image is Brainspore's solution!)...

I feel bad for that vulture. Well, I think it either was a vulture or turkey buzzard....

I bought this $11 remote-control dimmable multicolor LED lightbulb for my daughter in January 2015 and she still loves it. It hangs from a cord over her bed, and she changes the color frequently, usin...

Ann Coulter was supposed to speak at UC Berkeley tomorrow night, but is canceling after the conservative groups who were sponsoring her, Young American's Foundation and the Berkeley College Republican...

Adding to the controversy surrounding hyper-sensitive, Nazi-affiliated medal wearing "deputy assistant" to Orange Julius, Sebastian Gorka is now a credible claim he faked his PhD.Gorka has unsuccessfu...

Philosophy and Predictive Processing is a new online research compendium in which neuroscientists, psychiatrists, philosophers-of-mind, and other big thinkers explore the theory that we're always hall...

Smurfs: The Lost Village is wonderfully animated, the first good transposition of Peyo's 20th-century cartooning to 21st-century moviemaking. Moreover, it directly tackles the worst things about Smurf...

Brainiac was a fantastic experimental indie band that emerged from the 1990s Dayton, Ohio music scene that gave us Guided by Voices, The Breeders, and other great post-punk, no wave, and noise pop g...

This video is an absolute gem! Jane Morris, one of the best improvisational actors alive, explains what makes the art so magical!Jane has improvised, written, performed, and directed shows around th...

After spending five weeks in the hospital and losing 50 pounds, Shane Godfrey is home only to find that he's become unrecognizable to his dog, Willie. The dog barks and barks personally I would hav...

Director Jonathan Demme, best known for his horror-thriller movie Silence of the Lambs, has died in New York at age 73. He had been battling cancer. My first introduction to Demme's work was his quirk...

David Bowie and Trevor Jones's soundtrack to Jim Henson's fantastical film Labyrinth, starring Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, will be reissued on vinyl next month for the first time since its rele...

My UK publisher, Head of Zeus, has published the official tour schedule for the British tour for Walkaway, with stops in Oxford (with Tim Harford), London (with Laurie Penny), Liverpool (with Chris Pa...

Jonathan Demme, the talented director of Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, Something Wild, Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, and numerous other great films, has died at 73. His death was caused by e...

The Echo Look is the next version of the Alexa appliance: it has an always-on camera hooked up to a computer vision system and the first application for it is to watch you as you dress and give you fa...

I'd not heard of Elektor magazine until today, when I came across this photo of the cover from a 1974 edition. I assumed it was fake. Everything about it seemed like it was created this year - the typ...

Boing Boing proudly welcomes our new sponsor Eversign: Legally binding electronic signatures at work, at home or on the go!Taking your company paperless is a wonderful goal, but without a fantastic el...

At the new Magic Touch Bullet Train Sushi restaurant in Cerritos, California, you order off an iPad menu and the rolls arrive via model bullet trains. I can't wait for them to upgrade to maglev trains...

It hasn't been a good month for United Airlines or, rather, its passengers. First Dr. Dao gets beat up by security while sitting in his United seat until he's toothless and unconscious, while on the...

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This week on Maker Update: an autonomous beach-roving art bot, Kickstarter wants your ideas, a project that makes kits for other projects, GUIs for Raspberry Pi, stipple ceramics, and Donald Bell sh...

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 much, MUC...

After my parents got divorced in 1965, I lived in a one-room apartment with my mother at 56-10 94th Street, in Elmhurst Queens. The apartment had a small alcove, and a wall was built to separate it fr...

Senator Ron Wyden [D-Equestria] sent a letter to the chairs of the Senate Committee on Rules & Administration asking why Senate staffers have been issued ID cards whose "security chips" are just photo...

All moms are different. But all moms like getting flowers on Mothers Day, and thats a fact (not, however a fact we can document in any fashion.) Instead of getting chewed out for forgetting to call he...

My publicist just found an extra box of the cool promotional Walkaway multitools, and she's generously offered to give them to the next 100 people to reserve tickets to the May 7th Walkaway event at C...

In this new video, YouTuber and fandom expert Jill Bearup digs into the history of the fanfiction Mary Sue and offers a compelling defense of the much-maligned character archetype. The video is part...

This great World Penguin Day piece comes from London-based artist Ruby Elliot of Rubyetc. You can purchase her work on her Society6 page and follow her on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Instagram. She'...

To demonstrate the Magnus effect, YouTuber PeterSripol grabbed a couple of KFC buckets and tricked out an RC plane. The resulting trial and error is mostly the latter. (more…)...

Boing Boing has previously highlighted Japans Henn Na Hotel or The Weird Hotel, a hotel almost entirely run by robots. But this new video from British expat Chris Broad actually takes viewers inside...

The Sideways YouTube channel digs into the many different ways Disney has used foreign languages in its animated musical movies over the years....

One of the weirdest places in Antarctica is Blood Falls, a five-story cascade of blood-red liquid pouring from Taylor Glacier. Researchers finally traced its source: a saltwater lake millions of years...

In this TED-Ed video, Kate Slabosky breaks down the differences between placental, marsupial, and monotreme mammal births....

Nordstrom's is selling artificially mud-stained jeans that look like they've just gotten in from a few hours' laboring in the yard. The $425 mud isn't mud: it's paint.Details & CareHeavily distressed ...

Researchers at Washington State University have created a fluid "that has the properties of negative mass," reports New Atlas. When you push it, it accelerates towards you.Snip:The team made the Bose-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13T7D8pAzKUCarol from Cheapass Games writes, "In our continuing quest to bring back the very best classic Cheapass Games, we're creating a new boxed set of Button Men...

My dear old friend Mitch O'Connell designed the art for this fabulous They Live tribute billboard, and he's looking for your support to rent billboard space for it.Clear Channel Outdoor tells me renti...

Chicago's Department of Aviation finally replied to the LA Times's Freedom of Information request for the police report on the public beating Chicago airport cops dealt to Dr David Dao when United Air...

My latest novel, Walkaway, was published today, and the Crooked Timber block has honored me with a seminar on the book, where luminaries from Henry Farrell to Julia Powles to John Holbo to Astra Tayl...

Quelli che il Calcio (That which is Football) is one of Italy's top sports broadcasts and it is played in the country's prisons; it has a ticker that you can send SMSes to that then show up on screen....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation surveyed hundreds of American kids, teachers and parents about privacy and the "ed-tech" sector, which is filling America's classrooms with Chromebooks and cloud ser...

AquaGenie is "the world's smartest water bottle," a $70 internet-of-things device that "knows your water goals" and will connect to the Internet to inform you if you have met them.AquaGenie is your da...

With a (symbolic) (but it's a potent symbol) election looming in Iran, the global Persian diaspora is not lacking for news organs that are producing the kind of unfiltered political news that would ge...

If you vomit, do be considerate and try not to let it land on the moon. [via Metafilter]...

How do you explain an abstract concept to children? Kid lit is filled with depictions of good manners, sharing, and other physical acts that lend themselves well to visual representation, but until no...

Starting in 1938, San Francisco's Westin St. Francis Hotel began washing all of the change that flowed through the business. Hotelier Dan London initiated the process to prevent grimy coins from dir...

Humans discard a trillion single-use plastic bags every year. If you were a wax worm, this statistic would make you drool. The caterpillar loves to eat them.From Atlas Obscura:Frederica Bertocchini, a...

I've written about Lindt 90% cocoa chocolate before. I try to take some with me on every trip (along with macadamia nuts and beef jerky). Like I wrote earlier, his dark chocolate is surprisingly smoot...

On Friday, surgeons installed a "click-on robotic arm" on a patient in the Netherlands. The wearer controls the robot arm by thought alone. Myoelectric sensors in a bracelet worn on the upper arm meas...

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, commander of the Expedition 50 expedition to the International Space Station, explains how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in space. He returned from the ISS ea...

In Would You Survive a Movie Gunfight?, Shea Serrano offers a thorough look at the form and function of movie gunfights and what it takes to get through one alive. The Best Times to Movie-Shoot Someon...

Fetal lambs survived for weeks in an experimental artificial womb, and scientists hope that the breakthrough could lead to new treatments for premature babies and perhaps the dreamed-of machine utop...

Pelicans haven't evolved much in 30 million years. That's because they've pretty much nailed how to be a pelican. From KQED:A number of anatomical adaptions enable the bird to take these dives in st...

Our friends at The Webby Awards have announced this year's recipients! The Webby Awards, now in its 21st year, celebrates well-known big sites and also fantastic indie operations I've never heard of b...

https://youtu.be/46h-LfNWPn8This cartoon from Bill Nye Saves the World uses various ice cream flavors as part of a hysterical analogy on the intolerant views of Christians when it comes to sexuality. ...

Mozak is a game where you score points for participating in the mass-scale, crowdsourced mapping of dendrites in scanned brains of humans, rodents, and other organisms. (more…)...

The US Army has released "Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Techniques," a manual for soldiers and commanders who find themselves in the field fighting forces that use modified consumer drones to gathe...

The Mirai Worm is a seemingly unstoppable piece of malware that targets the garbage-security Internet of Things gadgets that have proliferated through the world; these gadgets then used to deliver equ...

The House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R) and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said today that there is no sign that Trump's former national security advisor complied with the law when he fail...

The House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R) and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said today that there is no sign that Trump's former national security advisor complied with the law when he fail...

It's easy to squeeze the juice out of a Juicero juice bag with your bare hands. But for some reason, the $400 Juicero machine was built to squeeze charcoal briquettes into diamonds. Ben Einstein, a pr...

Last December, anyone who searched Google for did the Holocaust happen? would see a white supremacist website at the top of the results. To counteract these kinds of problems, Google updated its Searc...

In 1941, Catalonian chicken farmer Juan Pujol made an unlikely leap into the world of international espionage, becoming a spy first for the Germans, then for the British, and rising to become one of t...

Since the earliest days of ecommerce, analysts have predicted that retailers would use their estimations of their customers' willingness to pay to invisibly, instantaneously reprice their goods, offer...

50 armed men in camou flak jackets driving armored cars cordoned off the roads leading to a transportation company's office in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay (a "smugglers' haven in the border region with ...

Wikitribune (strapline: "Evidence-based journalism") is a newly launched project from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, conceived of as a crowd-edited, crowd-funded tonic against fake news. (more&hell...

UK retailer TopShop is selling clear plastic jeans. They're $100 and come waist sizes from 24 to 34. Think outside the box with these out-of-the-ordinary clear plastic jeans guaranteed to get people...

In the Japanese version, he says "Cheerio then, love."...

YouTube host Tom Scott explores the Mars Yard at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory where NASA simulates what its like on Mars for its rovers....

Hidden inside a bazaar, off the beaten track, in an adventurous land far from civilization, where the paths are thick with dense vegetation and an ancient temple can be seen in the distance, one can m...

In this new Vlogbrothers video, John Green discusses his OCD and the ways in which social media shapes our perception of others and, in turn, our perception of ourselves. To hear Green discuss his m...

Cut enlisted an illustrator to help kids bring their personal images of God to life....

Cat Vs. Boxes is an adorable animated short directed by Simon Tofield, designed by Liza Nechaeva, and animated by Michael Cotton-Russell and Emma Wakely. For more animated cat videos check out the S...

Recreate a childhood treat without all the preservatives....

Yeah, Bluetooth audio is pretty common these days, so why should you care about these earbuds? Look how happy that woman up above looks. She's gotFRESHeBUDSin. Boom. There's your reason. She's also at...

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Nope. This Super Mario children's birthday party cupcake arrangement did not turn out as planned. (more…)...

Micah Lee and The Intercept put together this video with tips on how to prepare your phone before you go to a protest and on how to safely communicate with your friends. (more…)...

As a U.S. nuclear-powered missile submarine docked in South Korea today, North Korea put on a huge live-fire artillery drill to commemorate the foundation of its military--and, presumably, show the wo...

Intelligence officials from the so-called "Five Eyes" network, which includes the United States' FBI, CIA and National Security Agency, are gathering for an annual intelligence-sharing exchange today ...

Authorities in nine Mexico states are ordered on high alert for stolen radioactive material. Mexico's chief of national emergency services announced the missing hot stuff on Monday. (more…)...

The horror of the void became once again its own inverted retort. Gellu Naum(Thanks, Matthew!)...

Bowler Ben Ketola (age 23) just broke the record for the fastest perfect game: 12 strikes in 86.9 seconds.(Thanks, Matthew!)...

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, Im looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling." -- Robert M. PirsigI was saddened to learn that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ...

Despite making a weekly meal plan, we eat at least one dinner a week out of the freezer and often ditch another well-planned meal for something quick and easy. Lauren K. Stines recipes in Fresh Made S...

The final season of Star Wars Rebels looks intense.We knew from the beginning of the series run that some of these characters would have to die before the timeline caught up with A New Hope. Rogue O...

With recreational pot legal in eight states plus Washington, DC, it's a little surprising that no one has opened a weed-friendly campground until now. What used to be Lake Selmac resort in Selma, Oreg...

Something Awful is running a letter of explanation written by the CEO of Lobstero, who is fighting back against unfair criticism of its wi-fi enabled lobster dispensing unit.First, let me be very clea...

From the Statue of Liberty and Chipotle to big boobs, Trump and racism, South Koreans tell us what they think of America and Americans in this episode of "What Asians Think of America" series by A...

Amazon has one-day sale on a bunch of board games, including one of my family's favorites, called Forbidden Island, where you and the other players work together to collect treasure from a rapidly sin...

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If you live near a lake in the US, you'll soon be able to zip across it in this Kitty Hawk Flyer. According to their site, the "ultralight aircraft," which is financially backed by Google co-founder...

Peter Brown made a serviceable mallet from melted down plastic wood jugs.HDPE is the plastic used in many household containers including gallon sized milk jugs. I melt down about 7 milk jugs and 3 p...

Nature documentaries: the sound is fake, the scenes are concocted, some of the animals are computer animations, and the music is emotionally manipulative. But that's the only way we will sit through...

Andy from The Jerx (previously) continues to develop the theory of "audience-centered magic" with an excellent post on the deficiencies of snapping one's fingers to mark the moment at which some magic...

Every time I go to a Muji store I load up on these fat little newsprint notepads: They cost just $1.25. I bought 10 when I was at JFK a couple of weeks ago. I've also bought a bunch of other Muji item...

The Intercept publishes a previously-unseen set of Snowden docs detailing more than $500,000,000 worth of secret payments by the Japanese government to the NSA, in exchange for access to the NSA's spe...

Midge is a semi-disavowed character in the Barbieverse, created in 1963 to counter claims that Barbie was oversexualized; weirdly, in 1982, Mattel made the decision to release a version of the doll, w...

Few are scandalized by the BBC adding sound effects to documentary footage, as it's somewhat obvious and the intent is to bring the viewer to a truth that might otherwise be obscured. A lot of other...

What do "Bic for Her" pens, electric facial rejuvenation mask, and Trump: The Game have in common? They were all bizarre and ridiculous commercial products that tanked in the marketplace. This summer,...

The Simpsons, SpongeBob Squarepants, Minions, Pikachu are yellow. So are many, many other popular cartoon characters. Why? The answer lies at the intersection of psychology, color theory, and, of co...

Attention mechanical keyboard aficionados! If 40% mechanical keyboards are just too bulky for you, try a 30% one such as the Gherkin, which includes the characters of the alphabet and four arrow keys,...

Flexispy (previously) is the creepy, sketchy stalkerware company that makes tools that allow jealous, abusive spouses track their partners, and then hides their profits in offshore money-laundries. (m...

Sean Hannity, a pomaded wig perched atop a melting styrofoam head perched atop a pile of butter-soaked thrift store polo shirts, stands accused of making a "creepy" advance toward a guest on his show....

Lunus Sakesson's 256 byte Commodore 64 demo "A Mind Is Born" took first place at the Oldskool 4K Intro compo at the Revision 2017 digital art festival. From his program notes:The demo is driven by i...

"Worry not." (posted to r/pics by kekembas17)...

When occult historian Mitch Horowitz's excellent 2009 book Occult America was published, he received a phone call from an admiring fan: Stephen K. Bannon. Over at Salon, Mitch writes about the right w...

Brian Wansink is one of the most-cited nutrition researchers in the world; 30,000 US schools use his advice to design their lunch programs, drawing on studies he's done that show that kids eat more ca...

"Gets stuff done," is a good way to be described by anybody. Especially by coworkers or bosses. Because whether you're in finance or a children's librarian, stuff needs toget done.But how do you make ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHi8hTvT3II&feature=player_embeddedA Chinese company developed a human sperm extraction machine for use in hospitals and other settings where human sperm may be require...

https://twitter.com/topherchris/status/854800629885259776Celebrate disgraced entertainer Bill O'Reilly's professional demise with this remix of Smash Mouth's "All Star" made entirely from a single sam...

If you hate videos depicting karmic road revenge where both parties are at fault, you may enjoy watching this one of a tailgater receiving instant justice. A cyclist realizes he's being menaced by a...

Today in Poe's law comes an advertisement for "Arlan Robotics Service Droid 1.0" (NSFW), which is basically a nightmarish silicone parody of a woman's head mounted on a machine that lurches back and f...

In An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers, Jessica Boddy traces the emergence of dog-flavored memetalk on the Internet.Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers, and others may even be ...

Previously: Already regretting assigning the new MacBook Pro review to Borges...

California criminal defense attorney Rick Horowitz had a juvenile client, he was shocked when the prosecutor in the case told him that to see the evidence against his client, he'd have to log in to ev...

The more we learn about Uber and its founder, Travis Kalanick, the less we like them. The NY Times reports on the ride company's sleazy tactics.For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple ...

Early projections in France's presidential elections today show that far-right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron will now face off in a runoff election. Macron came in first, and Le...

The reason it's hard to open jar lids is because the vacuum seal is pulling the lid tightly against the jar. Once in a while, the vacuum seal is so strong that I can't open it. That's when I grab my J...

Even the most expensive pair of hi-fi headphones cant match the feeling of bass rumbling through your body at a live show. That's why music aficionados designedThe Basslet, an accessory that reproduce...

When I wrote about the Haunted Mansion loot crates ("Ghost Post") last March, what I couldn't say was that I was the writer on the project, penning the radio scripts, newspapers, letters, and associat...

John Scalzi's on tour with his new novel, The Collapsing Empire: he's posted a list of ten things every touring author knows, and very few other people ever get to see. (more…)...

Steven Boyett writes, "Humble Bundle has released a unicorn-themed Bundle, with proceeds to benefit the World Wide Fund for Nature and Fauna & Flora International. For as little as $1.00, you can get ...

What her name is, however, he can not tell you....

Incredibly satisfying to watch....

I've always wanted a few tribbles around the house.First introduced in David Gerrold's episode The Trouble with Tribbles, the Tribble a super cuddly invasive species! Spock said they have no purpose b...

I got this set of 7 fountain pens last year for my daughter, who is studying art in college. She's been incorporating them into her work. The pens have a stainless steel nib and come in seven differen...

Britain went a full day without using coal to generate power, reports the BBC. It's the first 24-hour period of inactivity there since 1882, when the world's first public coal-fired power plant was st...

Donald Trump, having failed to accomplish much from the 100-day plan laid out in the "contract with the American voter" still live on his website, now says that he is being held to "ridiculous standar...

In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, some total moron designed, financed and constructed a large coastal wall right where a ferry was headed. Videos and photos of the accident appear...

Robots (or spiders, or crawlers) are little computer programs that search engines use to scan and index websites. Robots.txt is a little file placed on webservers to tell search engines what they shou...

John Deere has turned itself into the poster-child for the DMCA, fighting farmers who say they want to fix their own tractors and access their data by saying that doing so violates the 1998 law's proh...

In this new collaboration with Vanity Fair, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator and star Rachel Bloom delivers an anthem for female powerand female anxiety....

The YouTube channel Today I Found Out takes a look at the life of famed PBS artist Bob Rossa beloved public figure whose biography is surprisingly opaque....

First Albert Gator saves the kid, then the kid saves Albert with CPR....

All over the world, people who believe in science, facts, and reality are marching for action on climate change, against a backdrop of overt (Trump) and insidious (Trudeau) climate-change denial, whic...

They probably just sleep a lot. But still, you can remotely keep an eye on them when you're at work and missing them deeply with this HD monitor from Kodak.If you have a new puppy that destroys everyt...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama have been enjoying an extended post-presidency vacation around the world, but that's about to end. Barack Obama is slated to bre...

Et tu, American Airlines? Just weeks after a shocking video surfaced of a United Airlines passenger being violently dragged off a flight for refusing to give up his seat, a new video shows an intense ...

Former reality television star Donald J. Trump promised late on Friday to reveal plans for a massive tax cut for Americans next week. Tax reform is way too complicated, he added. Seriously. (more&hel...

Gruesome stuff, don't watch if you're under 18....

When United CEO Oscar Munoz lied about Dr David Dao, slandering the passenger that was beaten unconscious as a direct result of his employees enacting the policies he put in place, he was acting in t...

Sean Tejaratchi is the absolute master of photoshopped cultural effluvia, God of an alternative world where the classic trash you remember warps into a mythopoeia of weird, hilarious insanity. And now...

In 1998 actor Rachel Lee Cook starred in the "This is your brain on heroin" PSA, smashing up a kitchen with a frying pan:https://youtu.be/dAHoxaphbEsNearly 20 year later, Cook is back in the kitchen...

In 1998 actor Rachael Lee Cook starred in the "This is your brain on heroin" PSA, smashing up a kitchen with a frying pan: (more…)...

Gordon Sondland owns Provenance Hotels, with four PDX properties -- the Lucia, deLuxe, Sentinel and Westin. After he was outed as being the host for a Trump event last summer, he pulled out, saying th...

A friend sent me this gem, as vengence for some other Wilson Phillips related post....

NYU grad student Dejian Zeng worked undercover at an iPhone factory in Shanghai, China for six weeks, and "grim" is a nice way to describe it. Zeng was in charge of one screw per phone, fastening th...

I guess there is a leadership deficit in Cowtown.(via Unilad)...

Good catch by Gizmodo's Matt Novak. Matt doesn't care for the new uniforms ("mandatory gray-on-gray with a dash of black is pretty much universally recognized as the standard uniform for bleakest of f...

Jason Kottke asked his readers to tell him "what were the best web sites that they knew about that most people have never heard of." I've been going through his curated list of the top 56. My favorite...

These vintage cards and old placards display optical illusions, visual witticisms, hidden images, rebuses, and artistic paradoxes from yesteryear. They were the equivalent of Gifs back then eye candy...

Fox (Broadcasting Company, not Mulder) announced that ten new episodes of the X-Files will air in 2017 and 2018. Last year's excellent six-episode mini-series was a fantastic teaser of what's to come....

Weaning yourself off coffee? You might want to try this! When designer Lucas Zanotto was asked by Finnish coffee company Paulig to create an ad for them, this is what he came up with. To brew the sm...

Luckily, I'm not an insect, because the packaging for this poison free bug trap appeals to me. I've been using this product for years and it works as advertised. From my 2010 review: "Even if we didn'...

That point of light between Saturn's rings is Earth, captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on April 12. More about the image here at NASA JPL. It reminds me of the last photo taken by the Voyager I sp...

Walkaway, my first novel for adults since 2009, drops in four days, and today, my US publisher Tor Boooks unveiled a gorgeous, stylish book-trailer for the novel, created by Jaye Rochon from Circle...

Motherboard's Joseph Cox continues his excellent reporting on Flexispy, a company that make "stalkerware" marketed to jealous spouses through a network of shady affiliates who feature dudes beating up...

Redditor Old_Gumbo_McGee captured a photo of this triumphant ghost escaping its lightbulb prison. And just yesterday, Linklightt posted the shot below of another specter emerging from a hot cup of Joe...

From YouTube description:In honor of the High Holy Day, 4/20, we asked Ella to get high using 100 different pipes, bongs, other instruments, pieces of produce, and edibles. Filmed over eight hours, ...

A recently signed executive order by our glorious Orange Julius has directed the Secretary of the Interior to reconsider rules limiting energy production in our National Parks.Mother Jones:In late Mar...

A 90-year-old woman in Mobile, AL wasn't going to let a poisonous snakebite ruin her day. On her way to her weekly Crafty Critters club at church, Nell Toenes thought she saw a pretty leaf and picked ...

A 90-year-old woman in Mobile, AL wasn't going to let a venomous snakebite ruin her day. On her way to her weekly Crafty Critters club at church, Nell Toenes thought she saw a pretty leaf and picked i...

A 90-year-old woman in Mobile, AL wasn't going to let a venomous snakebite ruin her day. On her way to her weekly Crafty Critters club at church, Nell Toenes thought she saw a pretty leaf and picked i...

An Instagrammer named Motion Magic uses an app called Plotagraph Pro to create this captivating endless GIFs.From Core77:"When creating this effect on still images, I take great care in the small deta...

Where is this place? I want to go there....

I found this on reddit. There's no link to the source. The OP said it was part of a campaign "to promote pet adoption."...

I subscribe to the Humans at Sea YouTube channel because it often has interesting videos like this one about a cargo ship's security team firing on Somali pirates trying to board....

With less than a week to go until the debut of Walkaway, my next novel for adults, Portland's Powell's Bookstore has run a long Q&A with me about the book, my writing habits, my favorite reads, and ma...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8&feature=youtu.beTom Wildenhain developed a Turing-complete punchcard-driven universal machine that is embodied entirely in Powerpoint Animations and can e...

In Canada's hyper-concentrated and vertically integrated telcoms sector, data caps are a normal part of life; and where there are data-caps, there is cable company fuckery in the form of ""zero rating...

"Can I bring my rechargable power bank the shape of the greatest orc warriors Orgrim's Doomhammer on a plane?" asks Itaku on Twitter."We're glad you asked," replies AskTSA, an official account of the ...

Posted in Russian that machine-translates to "My vacuum cleaner is afraid slots," Fluff Zabrat's video is a startling reminder of the terrifying chasms and voids we must all leap on our journey to i...

You've seen 64kb demoscene productions. Hell, even 4kb is enough to generate a stunning seemingly-impossible variety of scenes. But Linus Akesson's entry in the Oldskool 4K Intro competition at Revi...

Grammy-winning R&B singer/songwriter Anthony Hamilton and his background singers The Hamiltones perform the most beautiful billy goat serenade Ive ever heard....

As AI improves, the mystery of consciousness interests more programmers and physicists. (more…)...

Thinking of a business idea is the easy part. Doesn't even have to be a "good" idea,you can still get people to throw money at a non-existent venture, but to do that you need to at least have somethin...

Thinking of a business idea is the easy part. Doesn't even have to be a "good" idea,you can still get people to throw money at a non-existent venture, but to do that you need to at least have somethin...

The deceptively simple Collatz Conjecture is one of mathematics' most difficult puzzles. Alex Bellos shows off a cool rendering by Edmund Harris that looks like a beautiful life form from the sea. (...

As makeup wearers know, achieving a perfect (and even) winged eyeliner is a monumental feat. So beauty guru and YouTuber Safiya Nygaard tests out three products that claim to make the winged eye-lin...

Before the internet, even before desktop publishing, gang members who wanted calling cards headed to a printer with their idea. The results are collected in Brandon Johnson's Thee Almighty & Insan...

Way back in 2011, major American automakers were slow to realize that "companies in Silicon Valley have for some time been looking at cars just like another mobile device or app." When the disruption,...

If youre looking for cool, female-centric art to support, look no further than Dead Girl, a short film about an actress playing dead to keep her career alive. Created by filmmaker Rachel Sweeney, the ...

Its kind of remarkable how much energy our culture spends belittling teenage girls and their tastes. But in a new Rolling Stone profile, One Directions Harry Styles shares a wonderful, impassioned def...

David Lynch's 1982 Dune wasn't well-received at the time, but over the years has become a cult classic—perhaps even a good film. With a few nods to the lavish sets and striking set-pieces, Emi...

"Its so beautiful," U.S. astronaut Jack Fischer described today's trip to the ISS to his wife. The experience, he said, was "a burrito of awesomeness smothered in awesome sauce." (more…)...

There is something irresistibly gross about Lucky Peach food photography. The bizarre lightening and color correction, the styling that fluctuates between offbeat and grotesque. Its so weird, its amaz...

Carla and I took a one-week trip to Tokyo. It was my sixth visit to Japan's capital, and it was my favorite so far. For the next few days, I'll be writing about recommended things to do there. See the...

This is NASA's new "space fabric" in development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The metal textile is 3D printed in one piece yet can be easily folded and flexed. Eventually, the researchers expect ...

Tourists are flocking to Ferryland, Newfoundland, reports Aric Jenkins, and it's all because of a huge chunk of ice.Ferryland, a tiny Newfoundland town of roughly 500 people, got a holiday surprise ov...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8Microsoft PowerPoint is used to make presentations, to connect one to stock image libraries, and stun audience members with animations, writes Tom Wildenhain...

Most of us need a computer interface implanted in our brains like we need a hole in our head. That said, there are benefits to bridging the gap between mind and machine. Joel Murphy is the founder of ...

The Kangaroo Sanctuary in Alice Springs, Australia has fashioned a cloth pouch for their orphan joey named Terri, who is very excited to hop in....

Sumana writes, "The Recompiler is a feminist technology magazine launched in 2015. Their goal is to help people learn about technology in a fun, playful way, and highlight a diverse range of backgroun...

Looking at satellite images of North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear facility, the US monitoring group 38 North thought they might spot signs of a 6th nuclear test. Instead they found volleyball in fact...

Dolly Parton is a fantastic songwriter and singer. I got a kick out of Andy Rehfeldt's death metal version.[via]...

"The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals." -- Ayn Rand...

I like Prince Ea's videos because he talks about important issues in the world: the health of our planet, racism, and being kind to each other. He made a video about a DNA test he took to learn abou...

While US attorney general Jeff "" Sessions is busy spreading phony anecdotes about the deadly effects of marijuana and pining for the days of the Reagan drug war, 61% of Americans think is should be l...

Barry's is Ireland's finest cheap black tea in a bag. Folks seems awful fond of PG Tips and someone brought me a box. (more…)...

The popular and highly-rated Anker SoundCore nano Bluetooth Speaker is on sale today at Amazon for $19, if you use code KINANK66. I used mine over the weekend to listen to an audiobook (The Handmaid's...

When will I learn? After not having the butterfly larvae on hand last time, my daughter thinks I should have pre-ordered the lady bugs. (more…)...

Last week Carla posted Scotty's amazing video about building an iPhone from scratch. Scotty just sent me a couple of photos that show just how difficult it was to build the phone:The attached photos a...

After "hundreds of condoms" were found clogging a sewer pipe in Austin, Texas, police realized that illegal sex may be afoot. A nearby massage parlor was subsequently busted.Austin police then launc...

I haven't enjoyed him like this since, well never.(Thanks, Jane!)...

"Quid pro quo I tell you things, you tell me things."Edited by Jon Tomlinson; Narration: Andy Geller; Executive Producer: Dustin McLean (CineFix)...

According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Chigago, Bose uses software to track the music and other audio listened to on its wireless headphones, violating the privacy of its users and selling the inform...

This week a professional tennis match in Sarasota, Florida was interrupted by some rather loud sex. Announcer Mike Cation first thought the sounds were recordings coming from the stands but the sour...

Vulgar constructs languages for fantasy fiction or whatever other purpose you can imagine, applying consistent rules to the custom phonemes you feed it. [via]Vulgar's output models the regularities, i...

The Twisty Glass Blunt is an intriguing product that claims to abolish the need to ever buy or use rolling papers. And, well, it does if you so choose. You can cut down on the waste this 4/20, and eve...

I know people who live in shipping containers, and a (great) record store in a shipping container, and now I see you can swim in a shipping container. Modpools modify shipping containers into modular ...

To celebrate the abusive lying bastard's sacking by Fox News, let's once again enjoy this classic dance remix of his legendary meltdown from the "brown acrylic wig" era of his career.The original:h...

Kory Stamper, author of the new book Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries describes three criteria Merriam-Webster uses for inclusion of words like truther, binge-watch, photobomb and the 1...

Maro the cosplay cat celebrates Japanese culture by dressing up as chefs and their meals.https://www.instagram.com/p/BTEVSFqA1qb/https://www.instagram.com/p/BSqgkp5AGxm/https://www.instagram.com/p/BSg...

The long-awaited documentary Graphic Means just premiered at the ByDesign film festival, describing a half-century of world-changing analog-to-digital shifts in how graphic designers worked. Here's ...

Just in time for Earth Day....

YouTubers Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, and Mamrie Hart try out some of the strangest Icelandic candies out there....

The artist behind the Tumblr GudGuyMaybe created this whimsical guide to the canine kingdom (and a few other species too):https://gudguymaybe.tumblr.com/post/159613533453/heres-an-easy-guide-to-rememb...

The Museum of Mathematics recently hosted James Grime's talk "Star Trek: The Math of Khan." He debunked a common stereotype about the show's security detail: redshirts are not the most likely crew to ...

The YouTube channel WatchCut Video challenged bartenders to figure out which of these young-looking people are actually under the legal drinking age....

In March, brand-new Twitter account @SciSupport_BN mysteriously answered science questions, many of which had gone unanswered for years. The real fun started when Bill Nye himself filmed the replies...

The partition of India and Pakistan divided the region of Kashmir, cuing up decades of protest, military action, and fighting which has claimed 70,000 lives, including protesters killed by the India...

The partition of India and Pakistan divided the region of Kashmir, cuing up decades of protest, military action, and fighting which has claimed 70,000 lives, including protesters killed by the India...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjLFTlt9Xkc&feature=youtu.bePie-hacking baker Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (AKA @thePieous) writes, "I've been experimenting with pushing the boundaries of pie design fo...

The latest installment in the ever-excellent SF-in-SF series returns to San Francisco's American Bookbinders Museum (366 Clementin) this Saturday, with Pat Murphy, Jewelle Gomez & Madeleine Robins; do...

The wording of the memo, dated 15 Sept 1965, suggests that this wasn't the first time it had happened and not even the first time the CIA had to fire agents for food-fighting. (more…)...

At Keswick, UK's Lake District Wildlife Park, someone caught footage of what happened when a rat snuck into the gibbon enclosure. I bet the rat won't be back anytime soon.(via DIGG)...

The great illustrator Drew Friedman will be exhibiting the portraits he painted for Heroes of the Comics and More Heroes of the Comics at the Museum of Illustration in NYC May 2 to June 3, 2017. (Read...

University of Michigan mechanical engineering students have built "the world's largest hand-solvable, stationary" Rubik's Cube. Fashioned primarily from aluminum, it weighs 1,500 pounds but can be m...

https://youtu.be/lZG6UTnkU4gOur friends at Loog, makers of beautiful 3-string guitars, are Kickstarting two new models: the Loog Pro & Loog Mini. The Pro is electric and the Mini is just $79....

One of the movies that got me addicted to science fiction, Roger Corman's Battle Beyond the Stars is available on YouTube.So many wonderful performances! Truly a classic scifi theme as well....

Sup Doc is a great idea for a podcast series - interviews with interesting people about their favorite documentaries. The latest episode is with Wayne Fedeman, who discusses Terry Zwigoffs documentary...

Bose's $350 wireless headphones need an app to "get the most" out of them, and this app monitors everything you listen to -- the names of the podcasts, the music, videos, etc -- and sends them to Bose...

Juicero is a self-parodying high-tech juicing machine that raised millions in venture capital on the promise of delivering a highly calibrated squeeze to a pack of mulch sold in expensive, DRM-locke...

To celebrate Bicycle Day on April 19th, the date of Albert Hofmanns and the worlds first LSD trip in 1943, we are publishing this excerpt from the forthcoming interview with Michael Horowitz the thi...

Reese Witherspoon doesn't like making love on camera, Julia Roberts is dreaming of an affair in Africa, Barbara Bush only has eight toes, and George Clooney is spending $1.3 million for the delivery o...

A Russian thinktank controlled by Vladimir Putin's government crafted a written plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters faith in the American electoral s...

I read pretty much every Disneyland history and fact book I find. Chris Strodder's The Disneyland Encyclopedia: The Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Unprecedented History of Every Land, Attraction, Resta...

Clocking in around 200 pieces bigger than the retired 2008 LEGO Death Star, this 2016 model looks like one heck of a project. (more…)...

There have been dozens and dozens of versions of the spiritual Wade in the Water.This version, recorded in 1965 by the Ramsey Lewis Trio, is my favorite....

Sammy Davis Jr. does a fantastic job impersonating some of his favorite performers, and some of his friends.Always a treat to watch, Sammy is one of the best....

Boom. (more…)...

British sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor drew the ire of some people when he secured the "exclusive rights to use Vantablack (the blackest substance known) for artistic purposes." But instead of getting mad,...

The folks at Sunflower Farm Creamery in Cumberland, ME just posted this super cute pajama party of 10 baby Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Soon they will have 50 kids romping around, so keep your eyes out. No...

A scuba diver managed to record an earthquake on the sea floor. (more…)...

The Godfather is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. Its a Christmas movie right? Well, its my favorite movie, and I watch it every year at Christmas. To me, its as close to a perfect film as I t...

American Metalcraft makes restaurant equipment, but you can buy these all-metal taco holders for home use on Amazon. The have a model that holds 2 tacos, and another that holds 3. We use them at least...

Photographer Ed Gold went deep into the Alaskan wilderness to meet the Atchley family, who have lived there in near-isolation for 18 years. The family of four buys groceries once a year, and live off ...

A Facebook page that supposedly belongs to RadioShack in Reynoldsburg, OH has gone viral for its outrageously entertaining posts.On April 17 they posted, "We closed. Fuck all of you." And then on Apri...

This woman had a clogged toilet, but lacked a plunger. She decided to bust the clog with her hand, but her hand got stuck in the toilet. The fire department was called, and they broke the toilet with ...

This fellow has a magic fix-it stick, but it is cursed. If you see him, run....

The good news is it is funny. The bad news is it is a GoDaddy ad....

Fujifilm's Instax cameras are fun, but the expense of the cartridges is a drag and you're either into the "illusion of truth" of instant photography or you ain't. The Instax Square heads past this by ...

https://youtu.be/A5jnftBQw2U"No Patrick, mayonnaise is not an instrument," said Squidward, when Patrick asked if the condiment was indeed an instrument. But Squidward got it wrong, as this rockin' 9-t...

Bloomberg reports that Juicero, a $400 gadget that "transformed single-serving packets of chopped fruit and vegetables into a refreshing and healthy beverage" displeased investors who feel misled abo...

A business trade group representing small craft breweries wants them to knock off sexist labels, product names and ads. Zach Fowle, reporting for Draft, says that the new guidelines also want them to ...

If you're wondering why Nintendo killed its always-sold-out NES Mini at the height of hype and demand, the answer looks like the obvious one: they're apparently readying a new version based on the mo...

Simultaneously racist and cringe-inducing today is the aging Republiclone lawmaker, Florida State Sen. Frank Artiles, calling a black colleague a "fucking asshole," "bitch," and "girl," and declaring ...

Most people think of millennials as minimalists, of sorts: either the hip sort or the poor sort. The New Yorker imagines: what would a millennial hoarder look like?One quip really hit home for me: "...

A Freedom of Information Act request reveals that the DEA spent $575,000 buying access to weaponized zero-day exploits sold by Hacking Team, the hacked and disgraced Italian cyber-arms dealer who outf...

Chris Johnstone's "Binary Keyboard" is an open source hardware, Arduino-based two-button input device that you can build for yourself, if you have the urge to key data directly to your computer in bin...

https://streamable.com/ydbh1Sometimes I suspect that Capybaras are horses that haven't yet realized they've been transformed into giant gerbils....

Though Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan presides over a nominal democracy, he has surrounded himself with all the trappings of dictatorship: spending more than a billion tax-dollars on a "palace"...

Kate Imbach looked at all of Melania Trump's Twitter photos with her filmmaker's eye, revealing remarkable patterns of Melania's "dark fairytale" life. (more…)...

Bill Nyeeveryones favorite science guyshared the new theme song for his upcoming Netflix show Bill Nye Saves The World. Rapper Tyler The Creator penned the new intro, which calls back to Nyes iconic o...

We understand that even reading a book instead of watching Netflix after work can be difficult, so taking online coding courses is definitely going to be a stretch, but hear us out. Learning to code c...

The vast majority of prisoners like Kenneth Moore held in solitary confinement for extended periods get released with almost no rehabilitation or coping skills. Frontline spent three years inside an...

David Lesperance is a Canadian-born lawyer who specializes in helping the super-rich secretly buy foreign citizenship so they can escape taxation at home. (more…)...

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

They Live, the classic critique of Reagan-era greed, gets updated context in this overview. As John Carpenter says in the video, "Right now, it's even more true than it was back then." (more&hellip...

Wyman Meinzer describes his journey from outdoorsman to renowned photographer in this inspiring profile. Below are a couple of examples of his wonderful photography: (more…)...

BuzzFeeds Louis Peitzman wrote a really great profile of Broadways new production of The Glass Menagerie, which stars newcomer Madison Ferris, an actor with a mobility disability, in the role of Laura...

This is the perfect use for that post-Easter Easter basket....

Before planning a trip to Disneyland or Disney World, be sure to check out the Disney Food Blogs YouTube channel, DFBGuide, for tips and tricks on making the most of your visit food-wise. That inclu...

The Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise worked with Houston's National School of Tropical Medicine to sample "soil and water...blood and faecal samples" from Alabama's Lowndes County, a poor rural are...

Spending too much time at the same place doing the same thing all day is no formula for success, as Charles Darwin and many other great minds of history demonstrate. Nautilus looks at the history of h...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who surprised the world yesterday when she broke her own promise and called snap elections for June 8, has said that she will not debate the other party leaders before e...

It turns out quite a lot. Heres part two of Mr. Hackers series:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXt6xcenHg0...

North Korea put on a musical spectacle to honor the birthday of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, ending with a video in which missiles rain down on the United States and burst into flames. The aud...

God Bless America, God Bless Sassy Trump, and God Bless Peter Serafinowicz. (more…)...

The Chinese tech firm Baidu said Tuesday it will launch a self-driving car technology in July. A first release will involve a restricted environment, but the company plans to gradually introduce fully...

The Rupert Murdoch and News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal reports Fox News is preparing to cut ties with its biggest star, Bill OReilly, and a final decision on his fate could come as early as the ne...

I enjoy her whimsical, upbeat sweetness. I've been listening to this song a lot this week....

Enjoy this video of people who are high on life....

Our guest this week on the Cool Tools Show is Simone Giertz. Simone is a Swedish native who now resides in San Francisco. Millions of people come to watch her build shitty robots on YouTube and she re...

Disney is contemplating opening a luxury Star Wars themed resort next to the Hollywood Studios park at Disney World, which could feature multi-day live-action role-playing games that run overnight, wi...

In an abrupt aboutface the Department of Homeland Security, which is not the Drug Enforcement Agency, has made some interesting statements about the evils of marijuana.Sounds more like a customs and i...

A boy shows us how to unlock his amazing Lego safe. Like a puzzle box, he has to push, pull and slide different pieces, some which give him keys to unlock other parts of the safe, until he finally unl...

Visit the LA Times Festival of Books, this April 22nd and 23rd on the USC campus! (more…)...

Constructed in 1972, the Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England contains five small clockwise roundabouts located around a sixth counterclockwise roundabout. While it's frequently criticized as one of t...

Carla and I took a one-week trip to Tokyo. It was my sixth visit to Japan's capital, and it was my favorite so far. For the next few days, I'll be writing about recommended things to do there. See the...

A break-away bowtie cat collar will add even more saunter to your cat.My daughter decided that our cat Heart needed a bowtie collar. He looks pretty slick.There are an assortment here, via Amazon. Mak...

You1 can now explore the St. Kilda archipelago, a tiny collection of islands 40 miles off the Scottish coast, in Minecraft. This is great because it rains less in Minecraft, and the wind won't shear y...

This is CAM (cybernetic anthropomorphous machine), a "walking truck" designed by Ralph Mosher at General Electric in 1965. It may not be as rough-and-tumble as Boston Dynamics' BigDog but it was cer...

Moscow artist Nikita Golubev, aka ProBoyNick, says he likes to experiment in different medias. Lately he's been using dirty trucks as his canvas, "painting" through the dirt with brushes and his finge...

Brewster Kahle, who invented the first two search engines and went on to found and run the Internet Archive has published an open letter describing the problems that the W3C's move to standardize DRM ...

Warped Perception trained their Phantom Flex 4K Slow Motion Camera on an air balloon popping underwater. The result is wonderfully trippy, especially in high-definition. (via Nerdist)...

Founded in 1970 as Xerox's R&D division, PARC was a dream factory that brought the world laser printing, Ethernet, the graphical user interface that led to Windows and the Macintosh, ubiquitous comput...

When inventor and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Saul Griffith started reading papers about global warning that were written in 1974 (the same year he was born) he discovered that "all the problem...

I've been using Aukey's Flush Fit Dual Port USB adapter since early 2016. Once you push it into the car's "cigarette lighter" hole, it's close to a flush fit. It could be a chore to pull it out, but I...

The Chinese media report on a man called Zhao from Xi'an who took revenge on his noisy upstairs neighbors whose boy wouldn't stop jumping on his ceiling by buying a "building shaker" -- a gadget that ...

Two hackers supplied Motherboard with 130,000 account details hacked from Retina-X and FlexiSpy, who market covert surveillance tools to jealous spouses and nervous parents -- tools that are intended ...

In 1821, Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor undertook one of the most brazen scams in history: He invented a fictional Central American republic and convinced hundreds of his countrymen to invest in...

Jean-Luc Mlenchon was a longshot candidate in the French presidential race: an avowed socialist who split from the mainstream (and dysfunctional, and centrist) Socialist Party to found a new party -- ...

At The Wrap, Oscar-nominated writers share some of the dumbest notes left by studio people on their scripts. They range from merely heavy-handed ("There is no wife. Continue.") to idiotic ("Where are ...

The UK Prime Minister -- riding high on a recent uptick in Brexit popularity and taking advantage of divisions in the Labour Party -- has called snap elections for June 8. (more…)...

Artist Butcher Billy brilliantly reimagined 1970s and 1980s songs about the dark side of love as if they were Stephen King paperback covers from the era. The series is titled Stranger Love Things....

What a haul: 100 handsets in a single backpack, found after festival-goers at Coachella trained the "Find My iPhone" app on their missing gadgets. Reinaldo De Jesus Henao, 36, was busted after several...

CelebrityNetWorth.com was a popular, data-driven website whose 12 staffers led serious efforts to research public figures and give a credible estimate of their fortunes. Google liked the look of thi...

The Rebel is the newest offering from the popular vaporizer brand Hippie, and, contrary to the Attorney General's belief, smoking dry herb with it does not necessarily preclude you from being a good p...

Brian David Gilbert makes funny videos about millennial bathos, with frequent side orders of yearning. "It's the best bread I've ever had."You've perhaps already seen this instant classic:https://ww...

This video goes from a hilarious first attempt at using a rubber dinghy to Bas Keep's palm-sweating BMX stunts in a massive sound mirror. (more…)...

Atlantium boasts just 3,000 citizens, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in friendliness and progressive values. Emperor George II explains. (more…)...

And it took YouTuber Onrrust "only" 20 steps! Here's the before pic: (more…)...

Industrial Light & Magic visual effects artist John Knoll showed off this funny archival footage at Star Wars Celebration....

I was enjoying a dried seaweed snack the other day and wondered how they harvested seaweed. The answer was even cooler than I expected, involving underwater farms and a giant vacuum. (more…)...

As she posted about on Instagram, Angela Dimayugathe executive chef at Mission Chinese Foodwas approached by a writer from Ivanka Trumps website about doing an interview that spotlighted Dimayuga as a...

The Canada Science and Technology Museum had the best worst idea of all time: they stripped the fur off a Tickle Me Elmo to show kids how it works. Bonus video: a classic of the little robot demon a...

Eddy Gun is a tortoise keeper and a few weeks ago he shared this adorable video of his son feeding the familys tortoise collection:https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ9hGinllE2/You can see a few more tortoi...

It turns out ejecting a floppy disk in space is a little more complicated than it is on Earth. Heres another perspective on the same problem:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMNw99Q8Ok0[Source: Gif87a....

On her YouTube channel PetitPlat, mixed media artist Stephanie Kilgast sculpts beautiful miniature replicas from polymer clay. Her videos double as tutorials for other artists and relaxing watches f...

It's not your imagination: Sony's Playstation 4 really is unusually vulnerable to cockroach infestation. The reasons why remind me of airline disasters: a combination of several individually-trivial m...

Some people don't like Barbara Remington's cover illustrations for J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series. I'm not one of those people. Her study is estimated at $20,000 - $30,000 at Heritage's ...

Timothy from Creative Commons writes, "The purpose of copyright is to empower -- not frustrate! -- creativity and knowledge production. Nowhere is a balanced copyright more important than in education...

Etsy seller Tcustom is a carver who casts their small creations to make beautiful, detailed articulated keychains and pendants, the best of which use contrasting materials. Some of my favorites: Anato...

After trying lots of different phone mounts for cars, the type I've settled on attaches to an air vent and has a magnet on it. You have to stick a thin metal plate on the back of your phone, but it's ...

There's only 8 days until the publication of Walkaway (stil time to pre-order signed hardcovers: US, UK), and Tor.com has just published a sneak peek at chapter 3: "Takeoff." (more…)...

Candice Jackson, Betsy DeVos' appointee to help lead the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, opposes affirmative action and claims to herself have been victimized by 'anti-white discrimi...

Adam Pizurny's Tumblr is an endless font of stupendous and surreal GIFs. (more…)...

I like museums. I like having my mind blown. I am clearly part of the target audience for this book. Other things I appreciate about this book: Its a manageable size, slightly larger than a postcard. ...

Maybe not Otis' best rendition of the song, but a very fun performance to watch....

Louis Rossmann is an independent service technician in New York City who has repaired Apple products for years. (more…)...

A sad and infuriating lead sentence from the LA Times: "A 75-year-old woman who tried to sell a paperweight containing a speck of moon rock may try to hold a federal agent liable for detaining her for...

Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the diary of a 10-year-old's investigation into the monster-filled murder of her upstairs neighbor. (more…)...

Stealing phones at Coachella is nothing new. My daughter had hers stolen a few years ago, and when I mentioned it to someone I ran into at the supermarket, she said her son's phone had been stolen tha...

Kelly Jones, ex-wife of Infowars lunatic Alex Jones, is in a custody battle over their three children. She says Alex is "not a stable person.""He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin's neck," says Kell...

Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 has come to a close. For my husband and me, both Celebration virgins, the event did not disappoint. Sure, there were ridiculously early mornings trying to get wristb...

United Airlines employees are no longer allowed to forcibly remove seated passengers to swipe their seat. Instead, they must swipe seats before paying passengers board. "The airline has also raised th...

In Maryland, a rapist has the right to stop his victim from putting her child up for adoption. He can also legally involve himself in the child's (and thus mother's) life until the child turns 18 year...

BBC News has a 15 minute documentary about people who take regular tiny doses of psychedelics drugs to deal with mental health issues, improve productivity, or just better appreciate what life has t...

I have no hair. But if you do, and it's long, consider this MTA Hairclip that doubles as a stainless steel multitool containing a screw driver, wrench, ruler, cutting edge, and trolley coin to unlock ...

The supreme court in India rule that all bars, pubs and liquor shops must be at least 500 meters away from state and national highways. One bar in Kerala which is only 270 meters from a freeway, has b...

Artist Kelly Magleby, went into the backcountry of Southern Utah with a knife and a buckskin for 10 days to try to learn about Anasazi pottery by doing it the way the Anasazi did it. Filmmaker Stev...

The Seventh Sanctum is one of my favorite places on the web to find generators: code that produces everything from the names of wacky gadgets to fascinating writing challenges. My favorite: unusual jo...

Here we go, "into the grayish brownish world of the early 80s..."...

In 1968, Russian computer scientist Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov and his colleagues at Moscow University created this computer animation of a cat using their Big Electronic Counting Machine (BES...

In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, researchers from UC Berkeley reveal that shoelace knots do not gradualy come loose, as was previously supposed -- rather, they fail ca...

Biohacker Josiah Zayner suffered from persistent digestive problems so he decided to undertake an extreme self-experiment: He isolated himself in a hotel room, took massive doses of antibiotics, and t...

The unique 1-bit look of early Mac software—especially its games!—are now more easily revisited thanks to the Internet Archive's Macintosh Software Library. Check out Dark Castle, Lode Run...

Graphical demos created with severe code-length limitations sometimes betray the techniques used to fit a world into a few kilobytes: tessellating textures, featureless fractals, repetitive sequence...

It takes more than eight wooden planks to build a real-life Minecraft chest; it also takes longer than a click. But the results seem worth it, so I know what I'll be doing next weekend! [via r/DIY]Red...

For decades, Wells Fargo pressured its employees to commit millions of acts of fraud against its customers, using threats and blackballing to terrorize low-level employees. (more…)...

By all accounts, German soundtrack composer Hans Zimmer's performance at Coachella last night was magnificent. Here he leads his talented orchestra in a rousing, tension-inducing Inception medley....

BlueBiscuits Studios posted a video tutorial illustrating how to make an incredibly realistic wolf animation in Blender. Even as a 2D "stills" artist, I think that guides like this are very useful: ...

Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on immigration in America and has attempted to turn immigration cops into a kind of Praetorian Guard with flattery and promises of hiring bonanzas (the agencies ha...

John Fassold critiques the popular duo's songs about "how hard it is to be white and in love" the best way: by making more of them.And here's the classic "Four Chords" song, illustrating how formula...

If four years of life with your circumcision simulator has taken some of the bloom off the rose, you can refresh your collection of odd simulators with Inert's line of training gadgets for people comb...

Have you ever looked up at a small window in your Craftsman home and thought to yourself, "well, that's nice, but it'd be better if it had the golden arches of the McDonald's Restaurant logo on it?" W...

Kicked off by a post from The Watcher, the RPG.Net forums made The Only Sci Fi Star Chart You'll Ever Need—a cartographic compendium of common space opera tropes.I'll start the ball rolling by l...

You don't have to be an evil mastermind, but with theMaglev Globesitting on your desk, it may look to your coworkers like you're overseeing some kind of global corporation with nebulous intentions in ...

Artist Lucy Gafford has discovered inexpensive art supplies. Rather than letting shed hairs go down the shower drain, she creates Shower Hair Masterpieces, like this fancy azalea blossom. (more&hell...

A simple but elegant dessert inspired by the new Beauty and the Beast movie....

In this new video, Vox examines the physics behind the peregrine falcons dive, which can reach speeds of over 200 miles an hour....

Landon Meier of Hyperflesh unveiled some crazy new masks at Monsterpalooza 2017: Trump, Putin, and Kim Jong-un masks that are so lifelike people do a double-take. (more…)...

It's fascinating to watch the trial and error as artisans led by Anna Miasowsky try to blow enormous cocoon-shaped sculptures large enough to fit a person inside. (more…)...

I stumbled across this great Hello Giggles post highlighting a trend in which body-positive Instagrammers reveal just how different their bodies look in posed vs. relaxed photos taken moments apart. T...

The smell of old books is instantly recognizable but hard to describe. Thanks to mass spectrometry and good old fashioned smell tests, University College London researchers have created a Historic Boo...

YouTuber Louise Pentland of SprinkleOfGlitter shares the books she reads to her six-year-old daughter that dont drive her crazy....

Home security is important, but installing a full-scale security system can be some expensive overkill. For apartment dwellers, especially, that's a complete non-starter. However, if you're looking fo...

Walls look so sad when they're bare, so we've put together a few prints in the Boing Boing Store that can help out a bedroom or dorm room so guests don't think you're a crazy person when they come ove...

Tim from Wind Fired Designs writes, "We got excited about making our own stroller after getting sick of trying to choose between really giant expensive and clunky strollers, or putting up with cheap...

Tim from Windfire Designs writes, "We got excited about making our own stroller after getting sick of trying to choose between really giant expensive and clunky strollers, or putting up with cheap, ...

Ad-blockers begat ad-blocker-blockers, which begat ad-blocker-blocker-blockers, with no end in sight. (more…)...

After Colin Dickey wrote about United CEO Oscar Munoz's nonpology for the savage beating of Dr David Dao, he was taken to task for accusing the CEO of writing in the "passive voice."The closer Dickey ...

The mysterious tragicomic hacking group The Shadow Brokers continues to dump incredibly compromising cyberweapons and internal information looted from the NSA, accompanied by Borat-compliant gibberish...

The last time we wrote about the Casio F-91W digital watch, it was to note the odd connection between the timepiece and suicide bombing, but that's not the only extraordinary activity pursued by afi...

Joi Ito, the MIT Media Lab director, has an interesting proposal for managing his "partial attention problem during meetings." Joi spends between 2-3 hours on email in the morning, and another 2-3 hou...

Oklahoma GOP congressperson Markwayne Mullin demonstrated that he has absolutely no clue how our government works. In belligerent statements, where he swore at his constituents, Mullin claims that h...

I just had my morning cup of this flavorful, aromatic organic darjeeling black tea. Vahdam says to use 2 grams for an 8-ounce cup, but I use 5.5 grams in 10-ounces if water. Amazon has a lightning sal...

You'll laugh so hard, your sides will ache...Your heart will go pitter-pat!Watching Felix!The wonderful cat!It is fun just to type that out....

I thought maybe the trailer hitch was going to break off, but the tree had a sneakier form of payback in mind....

Unfortunately for horseshoe crabs, their blue blood is so good at detecting harmful bacteria that the hapless critters are being scooped up by the hundreds to be attached to industrial horseshoe crab ...

Whenever I leave town I put the can on my kitchen counter.Loftus Three Snakes in a Can - King Deluxe Mixed Nuts Prank via Amazon...

If Huntsville, Texas sounds like the kind of place you'd like to kick your boots off and sit a spell, you might rent this beaut of a boot, featuring two bedrooms, a bath, and an open-air deck on the t...

On its opening day, the annual Star Wars convention in Orlando, Florida shared this lovely tribute to the late, great Carrie Fisher....

In the music video for her first EP Intertwined, British YouTuber and musician Dodie Clark pairs her melodic song with some darkly surreal Barbie-centric imagery. (more…)...

Prominent lawyer Thomas Demetrio lambastes United Airlines as well as all airlines and big corporations in general for their bully culture in this outstanding speech at a press conference. About a...

In 1937, Polish bricklayer Jan Gwid made a matchstick violin that traveled Europe as a curiosity. When Jan's grandson Hubert Gwid took possession of it, he decided to get it rated for concert performa...

Constructive Interference is a laser-cut sculpture that demonstrates the "double slit" phenomenon that causes periodic wave patterns. I've posted about the math involved previously. (more…)...

Japan-based food vloggers Simon and Martina try the only Frappuccino drink that comes with its own pie crust lid....

Melissa Ng wanted to make some cool armor, so she ignored all the guys who told her what women's armor is supposed to look like and spent 518 hours researching, designing and creating this masterpie...

Welcome to Sesame Street, Julia!In March, Sesame Street announced plans to bring Juliaa muppet character with autism whos appeared in books, apps, and other supplemental materialonto its flagship sh...

Who needs anesthesia when you have a sharp rock and some naturally-occurring asphalt to fill a cavity? Archaeologists found evidence of Paleolithic dentistry. (more…)...

How can watching dominoes fall be more delightful? How about if it's filmed in 360 degrees? This ingenious circular tower by FlippyCat makes great use of the fancy camera. (more…)...

Wikipedia on composer Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room (1969):I am sitting in a room (1969) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known sound art works.The piece features Lucier recording himsel...

NASA's JPL is counting down the days to the scheduled end of Cassini's mission in September. Erik Wernquist created this awe-inspiring overview of Cassini's final months of existence. (more…)...

The meow you know!...

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences reports that flying is going to get more and more turbulent, even at cruising altitudes, because of climate change: (more…)...

Enjoy one of the most beautiful Star Wars films to datethat feels like the worlds biggest budget fan film....

In this video for Mic, comedian and actor Mamoudou NDiaye auditions for the 11 roles black men are so often asked to play in Hollywood....

United CEO Oscar Munoz said that passenger David Dao was "disruptive and belligerent" when he was told that he was going to be kicked off the plane after he bought a ticket and too his seat. But this ...

Franchesca Ramsey of MTVs Decoded breaks down Americas incredibly complex immigration process....

Portland activist Carlos Enrique demonstrated how Pepsis tone-deaf protest ad would actually play out in real life by handing Mayor Ted Wheeler a can of Pepsi during a City Council meeting. (more&hell...

Banks have to report deposits of $10,000 or more to the IRS, so some fraudsters "structure" their transactions as a string of sub-$10K payments that escape the regulatory requirement. Structuring is a...

Researchers from MIT, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology published a paper in Science describing a solar-powered device that uses a new type of metal or...

When the touch-sensors on phones capture your fingerprint, they're really only taking a low-resolution, partial snapshot and loosely matching it to a stored image -- which is how a research team from ...

Dr David Dao's lawyers have revealed the extent of his injuries as part of his pending lawsuit: "a broken nose and concussion and lost two front teeth." (more…)...

Touchscreen games are perfectly fine when you're on the toilet, but if you want to really unlock the gaming capabilities of your iPhone, you need a little something extra. (more…)...

I've been a huge fan of Steve Onotera, a Canadian Youtube vlogger and musician, since David posted his earlier video last year.I decided to support him on Patreon, and as one of the perks of my supp...

Anyone who remembers Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan cant help but be at least a little choked up recalling the scene in which Spock sacrifices himself for his crew members. He regards Kirk with compa...

Yandy introduced a new line of Disney princess-inspired lingerie sets. The company doesn't name the sets after the princesses, but it's pretty obvious who's who. Will Disney let this stand?Redbook ask...

Star Wars has teamed up with Omaze to raise money for Starlight Childrens Foundation and UNICEF. (more…)...

In Spending Blind:The Failure of Policy Planning in California Charter School Funding, Gordon Lafer -- a University of Oregon prof who also works for Oakland's The Public Interest -- finds "hundreds o...

Andrew Freeman from Immortal Masks (who make some beautiful masks indeed) and then wisely gave them to Adam Savage to play with on his Tested Youtube channel. Hubba hubba!(via Neatorama)...

It's no secret for anyone who knows me that I happen to be a long-time MMORPG player, but no game has grabbed my attention as completely as Guild Wars 2 has, due in no small part to the beautiful vi...

Without any forethought or preparation, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods in 1986 and lived there in complete solitude for the next 27 years, subsisting on what he was able to steal from ...

This video gets more and more fun as it goes on. Passengers on the Bakerloo line on a London tube train were privy to a pop-up rave Monday night. At first, drum'n'bass MC Harry Shotta acts like an u...

Your brain does something weird when you imagine yourself in the future. FMRI scans reveal that your brain "stops acting as if youre thinking about yourself," writes Jane McGonigal in Slate. "Instead,...

If you're about to order a fine meal at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's fancy club-turned-winter-White-House, make sure to steer clear of the fish. And the meat. And you might want to offer the server some hand s...

After the 2014 measles resurgence California passed some laws requiring students to be vaccinated. It worked!Via the L.A. Times:New data released Wednesday showed that the percentage of Californias ki...

When the sun is directly overhead in Hawaii, it looks like a bad video game renderThe sun is exactly overhead twice a year in Lahaina, Hawaii, once in May and once in July. Poles don't cast shadows, g...

In a new paper in International Studies Quarterly, John Quiggin and Henry Farrell argue that politicians get in trouble when they buck a consensus among economists, but when economists are divided, th...

To quote noted asshat Samuel Johnson, "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."...

Watch it - if you're not beat up in a United Airlines seat, you might get stung. At least that's what happened to Richard Bell, a passenger flying from Houston to Calgary on Sunday, when a scorpion dr...

Aga is an iconic European over-maker famous for a longstanding, ostentatious design that required the owner to burn fuel around the clock to maintain temperature across the cooker's titanic thermal ma...

These margarines are for people who really, really want to eat butter, but not enough to eat it:I refuse to believe that that is mainly emulsified vegetable oil and water.Move over butter! Make way fo...

CNN is reporting that President Trump is now implementing the bomb the shit out of them portion of his campaign promises. (more…)...

I bought this string of 100 LEDs with a solar charger a couple of years ago to put on our front gate. I set it to blink and it was a nice way for people to find our house at night. But a couple of mon...

When a new Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell explainer video comes out, I stop what I'm doing and watch it. The latest one, about the European Union, asks, "Should we double down or give up and go our separ...

An 8-year-old boy in Ohio had a craving for a Big Mac. Only problem was that it was 8pm and his parents were already asleep. So the resourceful lad went onto YouTube, spent five minutes learning how t...

Before being put in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency, climate-denier Scott Pruitt sued the agency more than a dozen times. This has made him rather unpopular. (more…)...

The New Zealand Fire Service put together a terrifying interactive website showing how quickly a house fire spreads. They hung some clothes too close to a heater, and within a minute, the entire roo...

In a world where the airlines record-smashing profits comes from a small number of increasingly luxurious first-class seats, the entire focus of the industry is on figuring out how to convince just a ...

On inauguration day, 214 protesters were arrested in DC on felony riot charges, and now they face up to $25,000 in fines and up to 10 years in prison, though no one -- not the cops, not the prosecutor...

One of the most exciting things Marvel Studios has ever done is hire Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows, Hunt For The Wilderpeople) to direct Thor: Ragnarok. (more…)...

At a Houston apartment complex called Market Square Tower, residents can walk on air (in water) via a glass-bottomed pool suspended 500 feet in the air. (more…)...

Nobody messes with your family network. Nobody. AndGlassWire Prois a powerful ally in the fight to protect everyone on your network from snoops and hackers.Most antivirus products scan your files for ...

Students at Missouri's Truman State University got a cool lesson in in a class about Leonardo da Vinci: a chance to turn his sketch for a self-supporting bridge into a working version. (more…...

Simone Giertz is widely known online as the queen of shitty robots. As Boing Boing has previously noted, she's a contemporary Rube Goldberg who makes all sorts of weird and wacky inventions on her You...

Humans aren't the only animals affected by trippy optical illusions, as Ryan Kotzin (aka TheRealSquirrelWhisperer) demonstrates. It's interested to see his cat's eyes move around the page as the eff...

Bill Kirby shares interesting stories about Augusta, Georgia history. Here, he discusses Lulu Hurst, a local teen girl who wowed audiences by overpowering any man who dared to accept her strength ch...

Funny Or Die is ten years old this week. The comedy site's launch a decade ago almost didn't happen. Wired has compiled a definitive oral history of the site, right up through its most recent reset as...

Dan Bell proves he's the Ken Burns of suburban decay with his beautifully shot and narrated Dead Mall Series. (more…)...

This video from W Magazine shows off how much individual fashion sense can shape a look....

Gordon Ramsays 'ultimate vegetarian lunch' how-to video is perfect for those looking to switch up their go-to lunch choices. (more…)...

WTF Just Happened Today? is a seven-day a week newsletter that summarizes the most important political stories of the day. And it's now available on Amazon Echo! Get the skill here....

I was listening to the latest Judge John Hodgman podcast today (as I do every week!) which was performed live in Washington DC; as with every live show, there was a musical guest, and this guest was...

If the supermarket tabloids truly have an inside track to Donald Trump's thoughts, should we be petrified by this week's tabloid promise that President Trump is poised to launch World War III?"Trump D...

Here's a fascinating video made by a programmer from the US who decided to make an iPhone 6S practically from scratch. After thinking about this project for 9 months, he "dove in with both feet." He...

In this article for Aeon, author Sandra Newman makes a strong argument for the need to treat rape the way we treat other crimes. But first she digs into the history of the many other ways in which rap...

The New York City Ballet charts ballets evolution from Paris 1661 to this months Here/Now Festival....

When Cosmo was auditioning models for this PSA on sexual harassment, 90% of the women who auditioned said they'd had a similar sexually inappropriate experience. It's one of six in the series. (more...

At the last minute, Kubrick removed a scene from The Shining that showed Wendy and Danny were OK.From YouTube description:Screenplay for the deleted original ending of The Shining. When the film was ...

Spoiler: a squid did it....

Supermute looks like an effective way to avoid avoid spoilers. I'm going to use it to mute anyone who uses the words "cuck," "woo," "dank," "kek," or "lit." Supermute is a blunt tool. You can define a...

If you think flying United will leave you battered and bruised, just try booking a flight on United's mobile app. Useronboard presents the horrorshow in 149 slides. This is the best takedown of corpor...

The owners of a massage parlor in an Austin, TX strip mall have been busted for offering more than just massages. The married couple, Juan Wang and her husband Joseph Emery, were arrested for "organiz...

United Airlines is already dealing with intense public backlash after a doctor was beaten, knocked out, and dragged off one of its plane for refusing to give up a seat he'd paid paid for because Unite...

Autodraw is a web app that looks at what you are drawing and offers up clip-art style images that resemble your sketch....

My friend Donald Bell produces and hosts a weekly video show called Maker Update.Each week in Maker Update, Donald will take a closer look at one of the tools the Cool Tools archive. This week, Dona...

Why do shoelaces suddenly become untied? Mechanical engineer Oliver O'Reilly and his UC Berkeley colleagues have just published a scientific paper exploring this mystery of the ages. According to O'Re...

Perhaps it's a rather dangerous idea but it is still creative and entertaining.(Gianco Whatever via Digg)...

The MVP of last night's Miami Marlins-Atlanta Braves game was the cat who ran around the outfield before climbing a wall and watching the game from an animatronic home run sculpture. "He stayed up t...

For years we've had silverfish darting around our guest bathroom. I bought some silverfish traps (little cardboard boxes with sticky goo to ensnare them) and they helped, but didn't stop them. A few w...

Tested visits sculptor Andrew Freeman who made these wonderfully creepy and hyperreal Ren and Stimpy masks! ...

After 70,000 people marched in Budapest against a new Hungarian law that targeted the liberal Central European University, the Hungarian government has dangled a possible escape rope: Education Secret...

Inmates in Ohio's Marion Correctional Institution smuggled computer parts out of an ewaste recycling workshop and built two working computers out of them, hiding them in the ceiling of a training room...

Charlie Miller made headlines in 2015 as part of the team that showed it was possible to remote-drive a Jeep Cherokee over the internet, triggering a 1.4 million vehicle recall; now, he's just quit a ...

The Just Net Coalition -- whose membership roll includes leading human rights organisations from across the global south -- have written urgently to the World Wide Web Coalition and its founder, Tim B...

Wordfence, a security research company, discovered that the reason Algeria is the country most often seen in attacks on Wordpress blogs is that the country's largest ISP distributes home routers that ...

Bruce Schneier takes to the pages of Technology Review to remind us all that while botnets have been around for a long time, the Internet of Things is supercharging them, thanks to insecurity by desig...

Normal presidents hold Easter Egg Rolls on the White House lawn -- have done for 140 years! -- where 35,000 people come to watch headline entertainers and 4,000 local schoolchildren. This is not norma...

As the scandal over a United passenger who was beaten unconscious and dragged off a plane when he refused to give up his seat for a deadheading crewmember unspools, there's a predictable torrent of bu...

It's been a decade since Yahoo got raked over the coals by Congress for helping the Chinese government spy on journalists and dissidents, some of whom were then arrested and tortured. (more…)...

You have almost definitely at least heard of Java considering it's one of the most commonly used programming languages on the web, responsible for the backbone of most (if not all) of your favorite si...

General the Great Pyreness decided he didn't want to stay in the Aquia-Garrisonville Animal Hospital, so he left. Opening serveral doors, all caught on security camera, on his way out. His family has ...

Erika Larsen curates the best live shows I have ever seen. Bob Self puts on the most amazing events. Once a year the two of them throw Beyond Brookledge, an amazing private weekend of magic and mayhem...

Education secretary (and Ponzi-scheme billionaire heiress, anti-public-education crusader, and sister of notorious war criminal Eric Prince) Betsy DeVos just killed the recent Department of Education/...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations asked for and received a secret court order last summer to eavesdrop on communications between Carter Page, then a campaign adviser to candidate Donald Trump, as p...

Carla and I took a one-week trip to Tokyo. It was my sixth visit to Japan's capital, and it was my favorite so far. For the next few days, I'll be writing about recommended things to do there. See the...

Dialect coach Sammi Grant gives a crash course in a dozen different accents including my favorite, the Transatlantic accent. (Think Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. More on that here.)"Im legally blin...

In her latest video, Luna Lee, master of the gayageum, plays a stunning version of the David Bowie classic....

German Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda (previously) has published an open-letter signed by UK MEP Lucy Anderson, raising alarm at the fact that the W3C is on the brink of finalising a DRM...

In a new meta-analysis published in PLOS One, researchers from Purdue, Stanford and the Canadian Council on Animal Care look at the different techniques used to induce laughter in rats in order to imp...

Victor Pelevin's Omon Ra is an absurdist adventure in the Soviet space program. (more…)...

Say youve ditched your frozen dinners, gotten swept up in foodie culture, and, with new found enthusiasm, eat out and order seafood. You wax poetic about the merits of sustainable fish farming, but yo...

The Kentucky Coal Museum in Benham, KY, spends $2,100 a month on electricity; to save money, they're putting in 80 solar panels, which will save them $8,000/year. (more…)...

I bought the Dover edition The Moscow Puzzles in 2014, and it's still one of my all-time favorite puzzle books. Here are a few samples:Book description:This is, quite simply, the best and most popular...

Here's a good puzzle that Clifford Pickover found at CTK Insights:Is it possible to wrap the cube with a 33 piece of paper below it? Handling of the paper is subject to two conditions:1. The paper may...

An all-star cast, brave writers, and a catchy theme made St. Eleswhere a phenomenal medical drama. In the final moments of the series finale, however, a twist was introduced wherein a minor characte...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is now the most unpopular governor in America, according to a new poll by Morning Consult. Since September, when he was still Donald Trump's toady, Christie has pick...

Marine Le Pen says that she is not like her father, the notorious fascist political leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front party (she excommunicated him from the party, but ...

https://youtu.be/_QndP_PCRSwThe dumb robots fall into the holes, while the smarter ones survive and breed.From the YouTube description:Chinese delivery firm is moving to embrace automation.Orange robo...

I love these videos of color-blind people who become overwhelmed to see new colors when they put on EnChroma glasses.Previously:Man with colorblindness becomes overwhelmed when he tries on special g...

Bioluminescence is a very cool natural phenomenon, but you're probably not going to fill a fish tank with those creepy, giant-toothed monsters with the headlamps and then just live in complete darknes...

Bioluminescence is a very cool natural phenomenon, but you're probably not going to fill a fish tank with those creepy, giant-toothed monsters with the headlamps and then just live in complete darknes...

This biker starts off at the end of the line, until he puts himself into an acrobatic pose. He then zips ahead without even pedaling, and as he passes his fellow bikers you can see one guy's jaws dr...

The UN's International Organization for Migration says that human traffickers paid to smuggle migrants out of sub-Saharan Africa are selling their "clients" to slavers in Libya, who ransom them to the...

Companies in the EU and China have been caught offering to commit fraud to launder sales of mass surveillance weapons to Al Jazeera reporters posing as representatives of autocratic regimes under sa...

With two days to go until the close of the World Wide Web Consortium members' poll on finalising DRM and publishing it as an official web standard, the UK Open Rights Group is asking Britons to write ...

Sculptor/machinist Chris Bathgate (previously) has just come off a year of making small, clever pieces, and as a palette cleanser, he's produced the most ambitious piece to ever emerge from his worksh...

A pair of social scientists from UCSD and Yale conducted an NIH study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology on the link between Facebook use and mental health, drawing on data from the Gal...

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 much more...

I recently completed an time-consuming project that was close to my heart, before which other endeavors took a back seat. Once done, though, I returned to my labyrinth of text files, PSDs and design d...

I recently completed a time-consuming project that was close to my heart, before which other endeavors took a back seat. Once done, though, I returned to my labyrinth of text files, PSDs and design do...

https://youtu.be/KPOkL2AH3IAJeremy Messersmith writes, "I have a new record coming out on Friday and I've released it early as a songbook over at my website (free with an email). It's called '11 Obs...

I used my grease splatter screen last night while frying tomatoes and garlic in oil. The food was sizzling and popping, but the screen kept my shirt, range, and countertop splatter-free. This screen a...

Quick recovery on the part of this woman, who was studying a gadget of some kind when she was supposed to be reporting the news....

Between the officers in face masks and the sheriff's message to heroin dealers that "we're coming for you," there's something really creepy about this PSA, put out by the Lake County Sheriff's Offic...

Walmart is recalling a product described as "Organic Marketside Spring Mix salad" after decomposing vegetable matter was found around a dead bat it sold to a Florida customer.The company said it worke...

Joe writes, "Hungarians rose up in one of the largest protests against the seven-year rule of right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday, protesting against new legislation that could force out ...

Two adults are confirmed dead, after a shooting took place in a classroom at North Park elementary school in San Bernardino today, around 10:25am local time. The shooter entered a teacher's classroom,...

A shooting took place in a classroom at North Park elementary school in San Bernardino today, around 10:30am local time. The shooter has been 'taken down,' local TV news is reporting in Southern Calif...

A passenger at the Foire du Trone, an annual fair in Paris, somehow falls out of the bungee jump swing, but remains attached by her feet. As she rapidly swings back and forth, her head comes just in...

Former CEO John Stumpf (a major villain in the subprime scandal) previously lost $41m out of the $200m he made overseeing a multi-year fraud that stole from 2,000,000 of the bank's customers -- now h...

With companies like Uber betting billions on self-driving cars, amid competition from Apple, Google, Tesla and the major automakers, the shortage of qualified engineers is sparking vicious legal battl...

As Brexit shambles on, UK Tory Parliamentarians and Theresa May are spoiling for a re-run of the Falklands Island debacle, this time over Gibraltar, a British outpost at the tip of Spain. (more&hellip...

[NSFW: violence] This man's suffering is not a joke. United customer service is a joke. Background....

John Deere says that farmers don't really own their tractors -- even the ones they buy used! -- because the copyrighted software necessary to run those tractors is licensed, not sold. (more…)...

Every dollar that the Trump administration takes away from Planned Parenthood in Maryland will be replaced by state funds (about $2.7M), which will save about $6 for every dollar it puts in, because w...

United Airlines had a passenger knocked unconscious and dragged violently from a full plane for refusing to yield his ticketed seat to an employee who wanted it. This is CEO Oscar Munoz's public apolo...

On FT's Alphaville, Izabella Kaminska takes note of the excellent, deep series on Uber's Ponzi-economics that Hubert Horan published last year on Naked Capitalism and calls out some juicy highlights. ...

What happens when you offer Reddit users a large digital canvas and allow each participant to place one pixel, every few minutes, on it? You'd think it would be a mess. But somehow, in 72 hours, the c...

If there's one thing humans are good at, it's gaming systems. John Oliver goes after the dirty political practice of gerrymandering.In Pennsylvania, forty-four percent of the voters chose Democratic...

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Move over, Florida! Oregon may supplant you as America's best source of mesmerizingly bizarre violent confrontations, if voters there overturn a constitutional ban on duels.Should ongoing discussions ...

The amazing advocacy of the DRM-PT movement has resulted in the country's Parliament passing a bill that legalizes breaking DRM to accomplish lawful ends, such as exercising the private copying right,...

Spotted doing the viral rounds and unattributed (though watermarked with a URL that redirects to Elbe Spurling's website) this wall of Dr. Pepper knockoffs is a magnificent lesson in branding magic an...

United Airlines offered passengers $800 to skip an overbooked flight: there were enough seats for the paying ticketholders, but not for several United employees who wanted to travel with the plane. Wi...

In this video from The Package Boy, he explains (and demonstrates) how avoiding using filler words and umming noises will make you appear smarter to others. Counterpoint: talking to someone slowly, ...

If you've ever witnessed an emergency siren test, you know how terrifying these things are: engineered to be bowel-looseningly urgent, to pierce through any sense that it's probably just a misfire, to...

In this new video, Seriously.TVs Dylan Marron speaks with four multiracial people about stereotypes, microaggressions, and life as someone who doesn't fit into an easy-to-define racial group....

It's not there anymore, obviously, but here's an archived copy of Ben McCurry's review of Pac-Man 256, into which is cunningly interpolated a review of Brash Games, the non-paying website it is posted...

In 1990, probably around the time that the last film with the cast of the original Star Trek TV show had just finished wrapping up the principle shooting of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (w...

Right after the 2016 presidential election, I wrote about my friend Tyler Feders #DrawMeTyler project, in which she drew free portraits of marginalized people as a form of activism. Shes now collected...

Daniel de Bruin built a homemade thrill ride that looks a bit like if The Zipper merged with a camera jib on steroids. The video says the machine reacts to the rider's biometrics, but it doesn't rea...

Though, of course, an international conflict is too complex to fully explain in just a seven-minute video, this one from Vox at least serves as a starting point to learn more about the war in Syria....

Since adults arent allowed to wear costumes in Disney World, adult Disney fans have created something called Disney bounding. Its where you dress up in clothes that invoke a certain Disney character...

capsmic zooms in on the found at of spray paint caps used to paint a mural of the Star Child from 2001: A Space Odyssey.Used and naturally clogged in the most random ways possible, these spray paint...

I could watch these Sneaky Zebra cosplay music videos all day, and the latest one from WonderCon doesnt disappoint....

After being swaddled while he sleeps, five-month-old Kaden Patrick loves to throw his arms up while being unwrapped from his swaddling blanket. So his dad decided to improve Kadens morning ritual wi...

Rose-Colored gaming's producing a limited run of transparent Super Nintendo consoles, refurbished from cosmetically-damaged originals. The guts are painted and polished to be pretty behind the new acr...

When I first picked up this issue of Worlds Of IF, I have to admit that I didn't have high hopes. This hodge-podge collage of a cover simply didn't instill confidence that what I would find inside wou...

The Crash Course YouTube channel is one of my favorite things on the internet. The channels various series offer a crash course on, well, just about everything. Ive previously highlighted one of their...

Chasing the Wind is a beautifully-shot profile of windsurfer Jesper Vesterstrom discussing the death of his father. Perhaps it will inspire you to make the most of today! (more…)...

Hexels is a charming and powerful art-making app built around grids: perfect for making isometric worlds, geometric illustrations or traditional pixel art.Hexels is an exciting grid-based painting too...

The Colorado Family Planning Initiative spent comparatively small sums making IUDs and other long-term birth control methods (such as implants and injections) available to women, through a "no wrong d...

If you often find yourself Googling fruitlessly for interesting photographic textures and graphics for design projects, a subscription to Stock-Graphicsmay just be worth checking out.Unlike most stock...

Mitch Wagner writes, "LiveJournal is a venerable online community that predates Facebook and even blogging. It got acquired by a Russian company a few years ago, but some of its American and British u...

For $500, you can become the proud owner of a computer in a Harley Davidson Sportster gas tank. You have never seen a computer like this before.This custom Harley Davidson themed computer was built fo...

The cool kids are texting their textdoor neighbors—people whose phone number is a digit higher or lower than their own—and sharing their adventures at r/textdoor. About half the respondent...

Anuja Ravindra Dhir, the first non-white circuit judge at the Old Bailey, says "she was often mistaken for a witness or defendant when she started working as a lawyer" in the 1980s.The 49-year-old sai...

It's been more than a year since RSA's Rotem Kerner published his research on the insecurities in a PVR that was "white labeled" by TVT, a Chinese company and sold under over 70 brand-names around the...

Kaspersky Labs reports that an unnamed large Brazilian financial institution with $27B in assets was compromised by hackers who took over its DNS -- by hijacking its NIC.br account -- and for 5 hours ...

A new paper from a trio of Boston College researchers shows that the states with the highest degree of income inequality are also the worst offenders for carbon emissions; as the share of wealth and i...

Blue Apron delivers perfectly portioned ingredients so you can cook beautiful homemade meals easily, with subscription plans that match size of your household . Or appetite.If you want to wrangle in y...

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Veteran American journalist Dan Rather says he is concerned by how many in the U.S. press are praising Donald Trump's whimsical missile assault last night on Syria as presidential. Dan Rather is not t...

The President is a moron, says former SNL cast member Taran Killam. That may be true. But can he read? (more…)...

A woman shares this video of her rainbow lorikeet hissing with me in perfect synchrony.[video link]...

Twitter today dropped a lawsuit it filed on Thursday against the U.S. Homeland Security Department, after saying the DHS withdrew its summons for records about who is operating a Twitter account criti...

Holmes from Fight for the Future writes, "Fight for the Future, notable for helping beat SOPA & PIPA and win net neutrality rules in the US, is now offering seed funding for new creative, online/offli...

"Hi Drew, I'd really like to talk to you, but there are many far more important people here for me to talk to right now." -- Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York ObserverIn 1987, Arthur Carter beg...

Doesn't everybody need a jumbo sized deck of cards?These are great for the jumbo sized magic tricks I'm playing withGameland Super Jumbo Playing Cards (Humongous 8-1/4" x 11-3/4" Cards) via Amazon...

First there was Wolfman Jack.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbo4mNS8fDgThen came this very special Tanner.After that? Bless the rest for helping make bar and bat mitzvahs very special....

The guys at RapidNadion must be proud of this bonkers expression of hobby craft awesomeness!Marvel as they land a model T-28 trainer and model F-22s on their model of the USS Kitty Hawk....

Neural nets are starting to wake up. These pickup lines, generated by a neural net maintained by research scientist Janelle Shane are much more interesting than standard pickup lines.Are you a 4loce? ...

Jerry Kimball of Sioux Falls, South Dakota received a $190 ticket because he failed to put a leash on his pet boa constrictor, Lucy, when he took her to a park. He was literally asking me to put a rop...

Under The Weather is a single-person pop-up shelter to sit inside that my big brother Rick came up with a while back. (He was sick of getting soaked at his kids' soccer games and was inspired by a por...

It may only be April but if you want to look super cool at the office holiday party this December it is time to get to work! (more…)...

As this guy demonstrates, pushing the lid in the direction of the arrow results in a mishap....

Legendary comedian Phyllis Diller used a "gag file" to organize her jokes. The steel cabinet held more than 50,000 index cards, each with one joke on it. She filed them by subject, in alphabetical ord...

Puddles Pity Party is a pinball wizard. (via Marginal Revolution)...

For robots to make our lives easier, they'll need to work together. But how do we teach them teamwork? University of Southern California engineer Nora Ayanian studies how groups of robots, including f...

London's Evening Standard writes that since Britain's vote to leave the European Union, reports of crimes involving racial hatred on the London Underground have risen 57%.A total of 468 racially and r...

A couple days ago, a woman and her son on a walk near their home in Tonopah, Arizona found a very strange and deep concrete-lined hole. A representative from the American Pump and Well Service Repair ...

Anthony Vincent brings his "20 Different Styles" genius to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Give It Away," as if it was performed by the Beastie Boys, Guns N' Roses, David Bowie, Naughty By Nature, Frank...

The Welcome Your Neighbors sign is being manufactured by printers across America, as the idea, started by Immanuel Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, VA, spreads across the country. (more…)...

Is becoming a successful manga artist an achievable dream or just one big gamble? The back cover of every Bakuman. poses this question, the central question to a series about the highs and lows of pro...

Why have 3.5 inches of delicate magnetic medium and clattery mechanisms, when you can have a beautiful 3.5 feet replica? The first can coast one drink; the latter a great many. Floppytable is made of...

DC Dave's "Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression" are a good analytical tool for understanding what's happening when governments are embarrassed by revelations of corruption and criminality and g...

Take Rupert Degas's good impression of David Attenborough and add the dumpster-diving ibises of Australia, and you have Matt Eastwood and David Johns's magnificent Planet Earth: Bin Chicken: "it re...

Sammi Grant, professional dialect coach, runs through 12 different accents, from Londoner to Transatlantic....

Sammi Grant, professional dialect coach, runs through 12 different accents, from Londoner to Transatlantic....

https://youtu.be/xP1gtXNM844The best thing about Jurassic Park was the walking cane with the mosquito-in-amber knob. It turns out a lot of people have made replicas of the prop. Here's a very nice one...

I ride trains whenever I can, even though they can be expensive. The San Francisco Bay Area BART, for instance, charges over $20 for a round trip between Oakland and San Francisco. That's a lot of m...

In 1980, Lal Bihari, a man from the poor Indian state of Uttar Pradesh whose cousins had bribed a local official to have him declared dead in order to steal the one-fifth acre of land he owned, found...

https://youtu.be/ZKh6z0X6KRw"Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, youre just closing up the lab when a su...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May says that post-Brexit Britain won't rely on the EU, but will become a "Global Britain," turning to the rest of the world to bring the the billions the UK will lose when i...

Mountaineering disasters are fascinating, especially in how they illustrate extremes of human behavior and endurance—the way people get lost barely feet from safely. Written reports rarely make ...

For four years, N313P, a modified Boeing 737 bizjet, flew people who'd been kidnapped by the CIA to secret torture-camps; it's only got 5,942 hours on it, and sports a customized seven-tank fuel rese...

In the War Room, the U.S President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) is making a phone call to the President of the U.S.S.R. From Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1964). (more…)...

In the War Room, the U.S President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) is making a phone call to the President of the U.S.S.R. From Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick (1964). (more…)...

Deliveroo is a "gig economy" company that hires people to cycle around big cities, delivering meals, while pretending that all their riders are actually "independent contractors" running their own bus...

Soundtrack turns your FedEx tracking number into music and an animated depiction of the package's journey. If you don't have one, you can generate one; it's like a synthy toy where the controls are we...

Dominic Tarr is a developer who lives on a self-steering sailboat in New Zealand; he created Scuttlebutt, a secure messaging system that can run without servers, even without ISPs. (more…)...

How, you say, could Pepsi have been stupid enough to run a TV ad that trivialized the popular uprising against the official murder of black people by American law enforcement? The answer is obvious:...

In her debut music video Hijabi, independent artist and Syrian-American Mona Haydar makes a powerful pro-women, anti-Islamophobia statement. You can read more about Haydar and her music video (which...

One of the most striking sights in some Australian cities is the white ibis, an exotic-looking large bird that has adapted to city life as a scavenger. Here's a hilarious spoof of nature documentari...

With HBOs Girls coming to an end, Jimmy Kimmel Live! imagines a second act for its cast: As The Golden Girls....

Theres a difference between the human who thinks and the human who does not. This human is not thinking, even though he may feel affection toward the turtle the snapping turtle. Amusing and pitiful p...

Pepsi found itself in a lot of hot water this week for launching an advertising campaign that featured Kardashian-adjacent Kendall Jenner using the aesthetics of social activism as a way to hawk soda ...

The folks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have been streaming this live jellyfish tank footage since March. And its soothing music and peaceful underwater seascape make it the perfect relaxing backgrou...

Roman Robroek takes beautiful photos at abandoned sites all over Europe, including the thousands of abandoned churches across the continent as much of Europe becomes more secular. (more…)...

Cows love to rub stuff with their faces and bodies, so lots of farms like the Hof Butenland Foundation install these rotating cow brushes. Rescue cow Paul is no exception. (more…)...

Just ask this guy! The G-BOOM Wireless Bluetooth Boomboxdelivers 10W of balanced sound in a package that was built to live on your shoulder. It's like the loudest, most in-tune mechanical parrot you'v...

In this delightful new video, Going In Style stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin offer up some detailsand some banterabout their lives....

Get a rabbit's-eye view of bun-bun num-nums as these impossibly cute baby rabbits go to town on apples and other treats. Scroll around to feel surrounded by bunnies, or petter yet, but on your compa...

This nifty little device is used in a lot of larger greenhouses. Transplanting delicate seedlings used to be done by hand on long conveyor belts. One facility said it took 35 workers to do as much a...

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You knew it was coming. Trump's first war. It ended up being Syria. (more…)...

You knew it was coming. Trump's first war. It ended up being Syria. (more…)...

The Inuit carve portable, waterproof, floating maps out of driftwood for use in navigating the littoral.These three wooden maps show the journey from Sermiligaaq to Kangertittivatsiaq, on Greenlands E...

Just when you thought it was safe to deep dream, along comes Bob Ross and his happy little glitchoggoths.artBoffin:This artwork represents what it would be like for an AI to watch Bob Ross on LSD (o...

At 7pm ET (4pm PT) tonight, I'm giving an Institute for the Future presentation at Cornell University's ILR (Institute for Workplace Studies) School titled, "The Maker Movement: Finding Meaning in Wor...

Paavo Toivanen wrote code that generates uncannily human, but utterly meaningless and illegible writing. Toivanen's thoughts on generative art are worth reading.Generative art should ideally retain tw...

Roof skating has been around for a while, but this worthy entry from Colin Read has it all: near misses, night skating, and a couple of moments that will make you flinch. (more…)...

In this new article for New York magazine, activist and writer Brittany Packnett challenges white women to bring more nuance to the fight for equal pay. After all, although the most commonly cited sta...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x-DQBuervcIf you're old enough, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the greatest records ever released. There are enough of us who can recite the lyrics to...

Evidence of cannibalism among past human species goes back almost one million years. But what made our ancestors eat each other? Probably not so much our nutritional value as it's sorely lacking, says...

https://youtu.be/K-KeTNU-odsLegendary insult comic Don Rickles died today at the age of 90.From the LA Times obit:Well into his 80s, Rickles continued to headline in top showrooms and concert halls ar...

58% of 28,113 people surveyed eat ears first: "33% indicated that they had no starting point preference, and 4% indicated that they started with the tail or feet." (via Marginal Revolution) (Image: Ca...

Federico Musto is the new CEO of Arduino; he was one of the original five founders, and created a scandal when it was revealed that he'd secretly secured an Italian trademark on the name "Arduino," be...

Organize your pens and pencils rather than poke holes in your pockets! (more…)...

Humble Bundle has a good sale on Python books right now. For $1 or more, you get three No Starch Python ebooks. There are more books offered at the $8 and $15 level....

Colbert is in top form here. First he interviews a regional director of H&R block ("Tell me about the lifestyle"), then puts on a disguise and becomes an insane hoverboard-riding tax professional, O...

I remember Hee Haw as being unwatchable. I didn't remember it as a Soviet caricature of the worst in American culture....

Intrigued by Mastodon, a new open-source alternative to Twitter that has fine-grained privacy controls. Sean Bonner took a closer look at Mastodon's currents pros and cons. This is the best article I'...

The most reliably impressive technology I've played with this decade is projection-mapping: using powerful LCD projectors to paint 3D surfaces with images tailored to map exactly over those surfaces, ...

Florida. Dude decided to dance around naked in his driveway with a bottle of wine. Failed to stand his ground when cops arrived. Florida.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfCWokpI0BEVia the Orlando Sent...

Florida. Dude decided to dance around naked in his driveway with a bottle of wine. Failed to stand his ground when cops arrived. Florida.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfCWokpI0BEVia the Orlando Sent...

75% surveyed by Ipsos/Reuters said, "they would not let investigators tap into their Internet activity to help the U.S. combat domestic terrorism"(up from 67% in 2013). (more…)...

The Knack was a terrific power pop band. The Chipmunks' cover of "Good Girls Don't" is interesting only as a curiosity.Here's a video I took of The Knack in 2008, two years before frontman Doug Fieg...

I got the Fagor Stainless-Steel 3-in-1 6-Quart Multi-Cooker ($95 on Amazon) in 2013 and I use it 3-4 times a week. It's a combo pressure cooker/rice cooker/slow cooker. I don't use the slow cooker oft...

It started with companies sneaking their own certificates into the devices you used so they could spy on you private communications, even those with HTTPS-based encryption. (more…)...

Jalopnik posted spy photos of a Tesla Model 3 that that is likely "damn near production-spec." It makes me miss my 1986 Honda Accord hatchback.(photos: Brian Williams/Spiedbilde/Jalopnik)...

I like modern Mini Coopers, but whenever I see a one of the originals (like the one I saw in Japan a few weeks ago, below) I wish they would have made the new ones look exactly like the old ones. I su...

Bad Lip Reading, Mark Hamill, and Jessica DiCicco -- what's not to love. May the Farce be with you....

According to astronomer Seth Shostak, the alien intelligences we'll likely encounter someday won't be "little grey guys with big eyeballs but machines." As senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, Set...

A team of six quietly surround their victim, who is walking down the sidewalk with his phone held up to his ear. He is oblivious. One team member deftly reaches out and snatches the phone from behin...

Superman always left me cold. Virtually omnipotent, unerringly virtuous, and slightly boring, Superman is capable of rescuing kittens from trees, leaping over buildings with a single bound, and routin...

Yup. Dad jokes....

The Q's latest contraption reminds me of that classic A-Team episode when they hacked a wood chipper into a cabbage bazooka! You need - 4 coca cola cans - 8 syringes- 8 lighters- 16 small nails- rub...

Universal Basic Income isn't just one proposal: it's a whole spectrum of ideas, with different glosses and nuances coming from the right and the left, from libertarians and those of a more paternalist...

The City of Seattle voted to allow Uber drivers to form a union, and Uber says that if its court challenge to the rule is unsuccessful, it might leave Seattle. (more…)...

Is there a visual equivalent to the audio tingles people report in ASMR? Because I get a special kinda o' feeling deep down inside whenever I watch videos like woodworker Paul Seller's gorgeous Fibo...

Last year, Jeep2003 decided to frankenstein a new lawnmower using parts from an old snowblower, a smoker grille, and retro motorcycle-style fenders, detailing the build process on the Old Mini Bikes f...

The President likes long ties, so long he has to scotch-tape 'em to keep them from flying apart; the @trumpsties account reveals the ties Trump would wear, if he could get away with it. (Thanks, Fipi ...

The Republican Congressjerks who passed legislation allowing your ISP to spy on your online activity and sell the data from it without your permission will be firmly reminded of their calumny in the 2...

Vulnerabilities in the Broadcom system-on-a-chip that provides wifi for many Android devices mean that simply lighting up a malicious wifi access point can allow an attacker to compromise every vulner...

Perhaps your pockets might be the easiest place to store cash and other loose objects. But unless you're a big fan of cargo pants, keeping your personal items, especially little ones,organized without...

Upholding a 120 fine levied against a parent who took their child on vacation mid-semester, England's Supreme Court—backed by the Prime Minister—ruled that parents should not be allowed ...

A coloring book featuring Hitler among landscapes and other historical personages was removed this week from sale in the Netherlands. The book "was produced in India and it is remains unclear why Hitl...

I stumbled upon this strange but delightful YouTube channel that uses two Lin-Manuel Miranda face cutouts to reimagine the Hamilton cast recording in a whole new light. Though at first it seems like...

In this fascinating new video, BuzzFeed offers a guide to the seven living generations of Americans, starting with The Greatest Generation (born 1901-1927). The video then compares and contrasts for...

If you are of a certain age, you may remember the thrill of those fleeting moments of crystal clear video broadcast in a scrambled cable signal. If you're not of a certain age, now you can get a sen...

This Tasty video turns the art of making grilled cheese into, well, art....

Seth Meyers has quietly become one of the stronger political voices on late night TV. In this Closer Look segment from his Monday show, Meyers digs into short-lived national security advisor Michael...

From Sunriver Nature Centre. (more…)...

Ben the dog, looking adorable. (more…)...

'Alto and Apache vs Gravity,' from Alto's YouTube channel. (more…)...

Nailed it. (more…)...

This image of Russian leader and purported Donald Trump kingmaker Vladimir Putin as a gay clown is now illegal in Russia. Whatever you do, do not share this far and wide so that everyone sees it. (mor...

GMUNK has done a lot of cool video work, but he says his trip to Alaska to shoot infrared stills was one of his most inspiring projects of all. Below are a couple of examples. (more…)...

A poster talk at last year's European Conference on Computer Vision introduced "Deep Warp," a machine-learning based technique for "photorealistic image resynthesis for gaze manipulation" -- that is, ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5223&v=IQSvbrmMkd0When the old Register of Copyright Maria Pallante stepped down from the Library of Congress, it was an open secret that she'd been force...

When the old Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante stepped down from the Library of Congress, it was an open secret that she'd been forced out and there was a lot of Big Content conspiracy theories ...

The Onion poses a mystifying question of evolutionary biology: wouldn't it be better if animals had more eyes?https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/849670240082419712I rather think more mouths would be ...

Given how much I loved Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage (and tolerated Iron Fist), Im super pumped for the shows' respective heroes to team-up in The Defenders. You can check out the first qu...

UFO sightings are on the rise, and America has 300 times the number of E.T. reports than the global median, claims the National Examiner, which has done the math so that you dont have to.That may expl...

In the 50 years between 1955 and 2005, 47.5% of artists who had a song make the sales charts never made it again. HighSnobiety looks at the reasons why. (more…)...

With Easter just a few weeks away, its the perfect time to revisit this adorable video from 2013. This baby really wasnt expecting her sisters toy Easter hen to have an extra surprise in store for h...

I decided I needed to start exercising again, and spinning--cycling on a stationary bike--is the best choice for me. Peloton looked awesome, but too expensive. I figured out a way to enjoy the feature...

Insurance agent William Herbert Wallace had a terrible night in January 1931 -- summoned to a nonexistent address in Liverpool, he returned home to find that his wife had been murdered in his absence....

Box with a Secret ( ) is a Yellow Submarine-inspired children's fairy tale about a child who discovers how to fix a magical box that stopped working. You don't have to know Russian to enjoy its Com...

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, secrets, code...

Over April Fool's weekend, Reddit introduced r/place, a blank canvas where users could add pixels of any color. It quickly emerged into an astonishing piece of collaborative digital art with several...

Vimeo recently highlighted this stunning minute-long art collaboration called INORI (prayer). It comes from creative and technical director Nobumichi Asai and stars Japanese performance duo AyaBambi...

According to the guy who shot this with a Brazilian potato-cam, the boa constrictor attacked a porcupine, which managed to escape after leaving a few hundred spines in its attacker. (more…)...

Adam Hillman is a 22-year-old artist and object arranger from New Jersey. He uses his Instagram to showcase everyday objects in satisfying patterns.https://www.instagram.com/p/BSBZ60Ehq8z/https://www....

Sarah Jeong of Motherboard says Mastodon is a "kinder, nicer, decentralized open source version of Twitter." I hope she's right! (I'm frauenfelder at Mastodon.cloud.)Snip:Privacy settings are more fle...

HBOs Big Little Lies is one of the best new TV shows Ive seen in a long time. Though it seems to start out as a slightly soapy murder mystery about a ritzy California community, it grows into somethin...

Chris Notap likes to make humane mousetraps. He's a recreational trapper, I guess. This is the fifth one in his series of homemade traps.Another of my best and easiest homemade humane mouse traps! T...

My friend Donald Bell produces and hosts a weekly video show called The Maker Update. Each week in Maker Update, Donald will take a closer look at one of the tools from the archive of Cool Tools (a ...

Amazon will soon fork out up to $70 million to parents whose kids bought in-app purchases without their consent. Although the apps themselves might be free, young players can then easily buy tokens, u...

In 2012, Vi Hart made this video giving "9.999... reasons that .999... = 1" She also made a video of bad proofs why .999... does not equal 1.https://youtu.be/wsOXvQn3JuEThere's some interesting disc...

A person in a dinosaur suit does a good job of pretending to be clumsy while chasing people around....

Research scientist Janelle Shane writes: "Ive been training a neural network (based on this open-source neural network framework from Andrej Karpathy) on datasets from recipes, to lists of Pokemon, t...

My friend Kent Barnes recommended this simple, fast-moving dice game called Tenzi. I bought it and my wife, 11-year-old daughter, and I had fun playing it. The rules are simple - everyone starts out w...

No, she's not dead. But over at Neatorama, actor Eddie Deezen wrote a delightful tribute to Dawn Wells who from 1964 to 1967 famously played Mary Ann, one of seven stranded castaways there on Gilligan...

Is the world funny? Let Groucho and Buckley settle the matter once and for all on Firing Line (1967). From the same year: Timothy Leary and William F. Buckley, Jr. in conversation:https://youtu.be/B...

In her spare time, University of California, San Diego engineer Janelle Shane trained a neural network to generate recipes for new dishes. Informed by its reading of existing recipes, the neural netwo...

Shia LaBeouf's new movie Man Down grossed just $26 during its UK run which, in fairness, was only playing at one theater once each day. But still. From the Hollywood Reporter:"I think we've sold three...

I have been enjoying this bendable iPhone lightning cable. It is great for keeping the phone where I can see it. Using it with a 20000mAh USB battery as a base works well too.Not rigid enough to work ...

Last year, according to a recent study by Oxfam International, just eight people owned as much wealth as half of the worlds population. That's bad. Many people suggest Universal Basic Income as a way ...

The Hans Christian Andersen classic, The Snow Queen, is a quick and enjoyable read, made all the more so with printmaker Sanna Annukkas gorgeous illustrations. Youll likely recognize the textile desig...

Brandeis physicist Daniel Perlman modded a wine bottle so wine wouldn't dribble when it was poured. Why didn't the wineries figure this out a couple of hundred years ago?Perlman studied slow-motion ...

This never gets old....

A good puzzle from our friends at Futility Closet:Three logicians walk into a bar. Each is wearing a hat thats either red or blue. Each logician knows that the hats were drawn from a set of three red ...

This amazing Gibson is for sale, a mere $11,999USD. Beautiful, but my guitar addiction syndrome has been cured. Via Reverb:Freakishly clean 1908 Style U harp guitar in near mint all original condition...

These excellent minimalistic remakes of famous movies were created by Russian animation studio 420.https://youtu.be/PZp2-5fGtmchttps://youtu.be/K03TTJB38Pkhttps://youtu.be/2bMDC7P_y5ohttps://youtu.b...

The Trump Administration claims Bannon was placed on the council to oversee fired National Security Director and Russian pattycake player Michael Flynn. Today the famous white supremacist was removed ...

Jannis Hermanns built a lovely little Macintosh Classic from Lego and brilliantly integrated a 2.7" e-ink display controlled by a Raspberry Pi Zero. He kindly posted his build plans right here....

Simply willing your projects to completion might be enough for those of you well-steeped in the mind-hacks of Rhonda Byrnes The Secret. For the rest of us chronic pessimists, doing the actual work in ...

I've got an editorial in this month's Wired magazine about the relationship between the science fiction stories we read and our real-world responses to disasters: Disasters Dont Have to End in Dystop...

A presentation by Igor Soumenkov at Kaspersky's Security Analyst Summit reveals that the method behind a rash of mysterious ATM heists that left behind no evidence of hacking -- only a single small ho...

R Martin bought a Garadget -- a device that lets you verify whether your garage door is closed using a mobile app -- and couldn't get it to work and left an intemperate 1-star Amazon review for the pr...

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Tizen is Samsung's long-touted OS to replace Android and Israeli security researcher Amihai Neiderman just delivered a talk on it at Kapersky Lab's Security Analyst Summit where he revealed 40 new 0-d...

The latest crayon-scrawled, unconstitutional, sure-to-be-challenged plan from the Trump White House for America's borders would require visitors to the US to reveal their social media passwords so CBP...

Twitter's indecisive approach to dealing with trolls, harassment and general abuse—suspected by the paranoid as a symptom of being obsessed with growth and reach and other metrics it can sell ad...

Amy Robertson was set to be the $93,000-a-year principal of Pittsburg High School in Kansas. But she quit before her first day after the student newspaper found that her Masters' degree and Ph. D. wer...

Louis CK regrets comparing Donald Trump to Hitler. But on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight, he says he won't take it back, and has some ripe new words for President Trump. (more…)...

Kim Dotcom says he's launching a Bitcoin payments system for users to sell content uploads, or charge for streaming live video. (more…)...

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast today, just before the Trump administration's summit with Chinese leaders. Pyongyang's arms program is one of the topics Trum...

Well played, IMGURian Scrump Diddley. (more…)...

Abuses in my youth have left me in a lot of pain. Robin McKenzie's Treat Your Own Back helped me more than any doctor. I was desperately searching for an option other than letting doctors I do not tru...

My friend and Burning Man campmate Bruce Tomb built the greatest art car I've ever seen: Maria Del Camino, made from the body of a '59 El Camino perforated by thousands of hand-drilled holes, which fo...

How does the President of the United States respond to news that the Syrian government of Bashar-el-Assad has just gassed its own people, leaving untold scores of innocent people dead? That's right. D...

Amazon has a Gold Box sale right now for these battery powered LED light bulbs. You get two for $8. They take 3 AA batteries and have two brightness settings....

Under the Protecting Data at the Border Act, devices "belonging to or in the possession of a United States person" (a citizen or Green Card holder) could no longer be searched at the border without a ...

As mobile tech has shrank considerably in recent years, its also become much harder to repair. Moreover, computer equipment manufacturers are constantly pushing against legislation that gives consumer...

The School of Life advises on "how the act of complaining can go better or worse, depending on our our approach." Guess what: Live fury doesn't tend to work. Neither does cold fury. Mature complaint...

This episode of "Lessons from the Screenplay" analyzes how the Breaking Bad pilot set up the show to be so, er, addictive. ...

Computers in your fingernails. Temporary tattoos laden with sensors. These are some of the new wearable technologies that UC Berkeley engineer and artist Eric Paulos is developing with his colleagues ...

This is like watching a cheap 1980s horror stalker movie, where the villain is an old guy with a magically teleporting pickup truck who is hell-bent on entrapping a couple of dirt bikers in his tran...

Montage of pure unexpectedness...I wish this was longer. Anyone have the source video?[via]...

The beauty of pills and capsules releasing their payload....

Our friend Ariel Waldman is a space enthusiast extraordinaire. She made a video about "the five weirdest, oddball, mysterious moons in our solar system.Check out Ariel's wonderful book, What's It Li...

In protest of the current political climate, where alternative facts are the norm and the media is the enemy of the people, nearly 200 theaters across the country are screening the dystopian movie 1...

Congratulations to Tim Berners-Lee for winning the Turing Award this week. It's well deserved. Curiously, Berners-Lee doesn't think you should use a VPN even though the current administration just rep...

Zo Quinn, creator of punk games, knows more than most about the sharp end of online harassment. But she also knows what it takes to fight back, an important skill now that the same playbook used again...

Zo Quinn, creator of punk games, knows more than most about the sharp end of online harassment. But she also knows what it takes to fight back, an important skill now that the same playbook used again...

https://youtu.be/l7xRXIWexHY?t=8sThe convenience stores in Japan are wonderful. They are clean, have seating, the prepared food is very tasty, and they are everywhere you look. The 7-Elevens are one o...

Whenever Im drinking rum, which is fairly often, I imagine myself living in a Shag painting. Josh Agle, better known as Shag is a pop art master. His paintings are highly sought after, and for good re...

Not long after Bob Marley's death, Dan Rather heads to Jamaica, bringing with him the misinformed view of Rastafari that was common in the United States then (and, well, now)....

Not long after Bob Marley's death, Dan Rather heads to Jamaica, bringing with him the misinformed view of Rastafari that was common in the United States then (and, well, now)....

Magician and magic instructor Evan Era of EvanEraTV demonstrates 10 easy toothpick tricks to impress your kids, your friends, or just yourself....

In this new video from The British Museums Curators Corner series, curator Tom Hockenhull digs into the history of the British suffragette movement and the tactic of defacing coins in protest. He ev...

In this new Vox video, Carlos Maza examines the ways in which comedians are better at covering Donald Trump than major news networks. As Maza puts it, Political satire has something that TV news lac...

To celebrate Cherry Blossom season in Washington DC, Southern Efficiency created a Japanese-themed pop-up bar. Cute video is starting to emerge of people who braved the long lines. (more…)...

In a recent Vlogbrothers video, author and YouTuber John Green offers an easy-to-follow overview of the U.S. health care system and why its so difficult to reform it....

Rentberry -- run by a Travis Kalanick-style markets-fix-everything doctrinaire named Alex Lubinksy -- collects renters' personal information and their bids on apartments, then presents them to landlor...

Dope. The labyrinth aquarium will set you back $6,500, from this vendor. (more…)...

Peter Serafinowicz brings us Three new 'Sassy Trump' episodes. (more…)...

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The uniquely horribly named Svakom Siime Eye is an Internet of Things sex-toy with a wireless camera that allows you to stream video of the insides of your orifices as they are penetrated by it; res...

In the Olympics, there should be a medal for how impressive a synchronized swimming routine looks upside down and underwater.(via @ziyatong, thanks UPSO!)...

Recomendo is my weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff. It has almost 10,000 subscribers. You can subscribe here.p>Ten dollar watch:I wear a watch, not as expe...

Is anyone surprised that Eric Prince, CEO of Blackwater, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and familiar face around the NYC Trump transition office, held a clandestine meeting in the Seychel...

Submarine emergency ascents are really cool. The soundtrack kind of sucks. I turned it off after a few iterations....

This Friday through Sunday in San Francisco, my extreme maker pals Kal Spelletich (Survival Research Labs, Seemen) and Mitch Altman (Noisebridge, TV-B-Gone) invite you to what's sure to be a mind-bend...

Unesco's Frank La Rue has published a letter to Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, warning him of the grave free-speech consequences of making DRM for the web without ensuring...

Carla and I took a one-week trip to Tokyo. It was my sixth visit to Japan's capital, and it was my favorite so far. For the next few days, I'll be writing about recommended things to do there. See the...

One thousands teenagers were asked to rank brands by coolness [PDF]. YouTube and Netflix are the coolest. The Wall Street Journal and Vice are the least cool. Many are surprised by the latter, but it ...

A leaked report from the Inspector General reveals that the US Copyright Office blew $11.6m trying to buy a computer system that should have cost $1.1m (they ended up canceling the project after spend...

Lawfare's Charlie Winter got ahold of a copy of Media Operative, ISIS's long-rumored, three-party guide to media strategy for jihadis; his fascinating account of the organization's media strategy is i...

Fantastic version by the always amazing Ella Fitzgerald.Of course, there is that time Hugh Laurie sang it......

Hainan Island will be designated a special economic zone for "medical tourism," where foreigners will be able to fly to get cheap health care (similar to how offshore entities can go to Guandong Provi...

Older women are racking up impressive numbers in the fight against Trumpims: 86% of the people using Daily Action to call Congress are women, the majority of whom are over 45. (more…)...

Today on the Tor-Forge blog, I write about the nearly inescapable temptation of trying to solve our problems with other peoples' actions by redesigning the technology they use to boss them around, rat...

Mark Frauenfelder and I are researchers at the non-profit Institute for the Future. During the course of our work, we frequently meet fascinating scientists, engineers, and big thinkers who are shapin...

I've been happily trying out TigerVPN, offered in our Boing Boing Store. (more…)...

A woman delivered an obscenity-laden rant when she spied a couple kissing each other at a fast food restaurant. One of her mildest statements was, "Excuse me! This is a place where you eat, not wher...

I like these stainless steel tongs because you can lock them closed by pulling on a small metal tab. That makes them easy to store and put in a dishwasher. I bought the set of two (9-inches and 12-inc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ancMN5HDboIn 1999, the Beastie Boys privately recorded a gag country and western album called "Country Mike's Greatest Hits": as C&W albums go, it's pretty good!Coun...

Information security is a race between peak indifference to surveillance and the point of no return for data-collection and retention. (more…)...

I think it's amazing. It's more Scientology than Scientology. She looks like she's about to drop the first forty minutes of Mallwave, a genre of electronic music made of irony that's been aged in acry...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZFgZ0FkuAYoutube has democratized the practice of using expensive industrial and scientific apparatus to torment inanimate objects, giving us all a peek into the wo...

There's 22 days until the publication of Walkaway, my first novel for adults since 2009's Makers (there's still time to pre-order signed copies: USA, UK); to whet appetites, my US publisher Tor Books ...

Comply foam tips really improve my IEMs!I've been traveling a lot, again. The B&O H5's I've been enjoying came with some Comply foam tips to try, and I'm hooked. These memory foam tips really make a d...

Southern three-banded armadilloFound in South America, the southern three-banded armadillo "are the only species of armadillos capable of rolling into a complete ball to defend themselves."From Wikipe...

As the air leaves the chamber, the marshmallow gummy bear bloats. Its candy skin forms fissures. After it reaches its maximum size, the operator opens a valve. The bear implodes under atmospheric pr...

https://youtu.be/-2jjgHsxEu4If you have two cubes of equal size, it's possible to cut a hole in one cube that's large enough for the other cube to pass through it.From Wikipedia:In geometry, Prince Ru...

Noodle Muffin's anthem for President W was also a lot of fun.(h/t David Wolfberg)...

The New Scientist has published a good piece on Encrypted Media Extensions (previously), the World Wide Web Consortium's proposed standard for adding DRM to video streams; they're creating their first...

Brie-onc is a tribute to Queen Bey that's sculpted from 45 pounds of cheese. Despite the sculpture's catchy title, it's actually made of cheddar. (more…)...

In this new video, the YouTube channel Minute Physics offers a scientific examination of whether its better to run or walk when you want to get out of the cold without making yourself even colder in...

According to this infographic citing Axalta Coating Systems, Asians like white cars at about twice the numbers of North Americans and Europeans. North Americans are more fond of red cars than the rest...

American Ninja Warrior vet and Supergirl stuntwoman Jessie Graff is basically a real-life Wonder Woman. And if you need more proof, just watch her casually hold a little girl on her lap while she do...

Etsy shop owner Sergey Alexson sells these incredibly helpful reminder magnets that make communicating with family, friends, roommates, coworkers, or even yourself that much easier. The reversible Rem...

Heavy rains on the west coast have caused rockslides like this behemoth blocking an Oregon highway south of Eugene. Oregon DOT set up a camera as they blasted it into manageable chunks.Spoiler: it w...

Professional pianist and Steinway Artist Daniel Beliavsky and his student Charlotte Bennett agreed to perform while hooked up to an eye-tracking device that superimposes the wearer's eye movements. ...

Princess BB is a Japanese white-eye and theres nothing she loves more than getting massaged by Q-tips. So much so, in fact, that sometimes she forgets to focus on anything else.https://www.instagram.c...

Being a DJ is easy. You just play other peoples songs at parties and thensome Las Vegas promoter finds your Soundcloud and gives you a residency at Caesars Palace. After that, you just hang out in Ibi...

by Rob BeschizzaIn her final hours, mum's death sleep grew louder. Morphine lost control of her body. Murmurs rose into a harrowing whine, swelling with each unconscious breath.The nurse said she wasn...

Brother Groove's wonderful cover of Herbie Hancock's classic Cantaloupe Island. The original has forever been rendered too-slow-for-me by US3's version....

Did Donald Trump incite violence when he barked "get them out of here" at protesters who were then roughed up? A judge decided Friday that it's plausible, allowing a lawsuit filed against the presiden...

Working in an office with a straight-khaki dress code doesnt mean that you have to eschew all forms of aesthetic expression. Even if the bossman wont let you mock the liminal formality of work wear wi...

Precipitation3 is the latest in the wonderfully shot and edited series by Beauty of Science, "an educational brand that produces inspiring content for K-12 STEM education and science outreach." (mor...

Anyone who prefers the superior sound quality of over-ear headphones is all too familiar with the hassle of keeping your gear accessible but still out of the way when you arent using it. Instead of ru...

Not the greatest audio but a lot of fun to watch!...

Socialist Worker has a profile of Anthony Papa of the Drug Policy Alliance. He has a book out about his experiences after being released from prison, where he served a sentence for a drug crime that h...

https://youtu.be/deITLnM73uoApple computers was founded on April 1, 1976. In this commercial for the Japanese human resources brand PERSOL, Steve Wozniak talks about how he "stumbled into a journal ab...

Meg Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Her debut novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award. Its companion, The Book of Etta, is now availabl...

My friend Robyn Miller (co-creator of the Myst series of computer games) is an accomplished musician. His soundtrack for the award winning short documentary film "Little Potato," is available on iTune...

I have a paid of +2.50 reading glasses, but they are not good for computer work. I needed some +1.00 glasses. I fund this 5-pack of 80s Reading Glasses for $6.70 on Amazon. One pair has shading. I got...

Last week, I posted about The Sounds of the Office, a 1964 vinyl record released by Folkways Records of field recordings by Michael Siegel. This week, it's The Sounds of the Junk Yard, another 1964 Fo...

A gang of masked thieves attempted a late-night heist at a bank (or some other building) in Pernes-les-Fontaines (southeastern France). They succeeded in partially ramming through the wall with a la...

In 1966, Burt "Robin" Ward recorded with the Mothers of Invention under the direction of Frank Zappa. The result is really something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjoLQbJCPTIFrom Burt Ward's autobi...

The Q made this nifty coin sorting machine from cardboard....

This guy tried to kick a dog on the beach and failed. It gets even better from there.[via]...

William Powell, author of the iconic counterculture how-to guide The Anarchist Cookbook, died last year of a heart attack. His death was just made public. As a teen, I learned many important things fr...

The thinking behind Twitter's replacement for the troll-favorite egg profile photo is a vaguely human placeholder that is unpleasant enough to encourage people to replace it with a custom icon.We noti...

I hope this is effective. Full photo by flopiyt here....

Alex Yeatts, a student at the Culinary Institute of America, worked for six months to cook up amazing chocolate geode cakes. Crack one open to reveal the dazzling sugar crystals. Stunning work. A p...

Which of the paintings above is by a respected abstract painter who is human and which was painted by a non-human ape in the Congo?The answer is in the comments.Take the full quiz here: "An artist or ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWWLbg8tuEA seat on the Mexico City subway has a protruding molded torso and cock. Part art project and part PSA, it's supposedly there to highlight the sexual harassm...

Len Keifer created a series of visualizations that depict the relentless growth and westward expansion of the U.S. Census Bureau....

With the death of author William Peter Blatty on January 13 at 88, I could not help but be reminded that, exactly 43 years ago on that date, at age 15 I first saw The Exorcist, for which he had writte...

Biomimicry continues to make amazing strides. Festo just released footage of their OctopusGripper being put through the paces. (more…)...

Tim O'Bryant, aka Cotontop3, is a logger in Mississippi who vlogs daily. In this episode, he uses the pincers on his log loader to toss leftovers from log bucking, which takes a surprising amount of...

Chinese bookstore Yangzhou Zhongshuge has arguably the most breathtaking bookstore entrance in the world. (more…)...

This video for "Explosions in the Sky" by the Ecstatics perfectly captures the trippy electronica vibe by using thousands of papercraft sculptures in stop motion. (more…)...

When you hear laptop bag, you probably think of a worn-out black padded pleather abomination carried by the worlds grumpiest IT guy. Since we all know that stereotypes are hurtful, lets put the myth o...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vgNh3fLxJcLast spring, Samm Sheperd created this amazing overclocked, water-cooled LED flashlight that pumps out 72,000 lumens, using about $700 worth of parts. (mor...

Gizmodo's Ashley Feinberg (almost certainly) figured out that James Comey's secret Twitter handle was @projectexile7, because America's top G-man failed at some of the most basic elements of operation...