Articles by BoingBoing from September 2017

California's heavy rains led to a bounty for wildlife in the woods where I live. The local rat population has soared, due to a lack of predators, and apparently they have declared my woodshed home. I ...

Contrary to the product description, these Rainbow-Shitting Unicorn Socks [Amazon] are not "womens" socks. They're my socks.20% polyester75% cotton, 20% polyester, 5% spandex.Approximately fits women'...

Maybe some of us are destined to live our lives in a perpetual state of loveless isolation. Laura Mesi, a 41-year-old Italian fitness trainer, took the next logical step and married herself in a full-...

Republican Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico allegedly dashed on her bill at a burger restaurant Wednesday in what her office is calling a super-sized nothing burger. The manager of Five Star Bur...

Erin Haworth of The Smithsonian says:Thought you might be interested in Clive Thompsons latest tech column in the October issue of Smithsonian magazine, which takes a look at virtual reality and how i...

I just came across this amazing company, La-La Land Records, that releases soundtracks of movies and TV shows.But they don't just release ordinary soundtracks, like their score to the new movie Kingsm...

If youve ever looked around and wondered, where are all the aliens, hit Play, below. No, you wont find an alien. But youll hear a luxuriously unhurried interview with British astronomer Stephen Webb. ...

According to the poster Mystic_L, each bottle represents a year in the cask. A good illustration of how fast (slow?) whiskies age, but also where diminishing returns kick in, and the Angel's Share &md...

This tablet stand was just what we needed for our kitchen iPad, which we use for recipes and streaming video. It's easily adjusted to any angle, and feels solid. It also folds to a compact size for tr...

In Geographic and demographic correlates of autism-related anti-vaccine beliefs on Twitter, 2009-15 (Sci-Hub mirror), social scientists from U Alabama, U Colorado and the NIH take a data-driven approa...

These power plant control rooms are so cool looking that they don't even seem real. This site, called Present /&/ Correct, has a nice gallery of them. Above image is from the nuclear ship Savannah....

Harry Shearer says he received $98 in total music royalties and $81 in merchandising income for Spinal Tap from entertainment giant Vivendi, thanks to the company's (extremely) creative accounting. He...

Keiko Otsuhata created a set of three "anatomical fish zip-bags" for Colossal, in kinme, saury, and sea bream. They're $18 each. (more…)...

A baseball fan wearing a glove leaned out and scooped up a ball that was still in play. He was very excited about his trophy, but when it became clear that he'd screwed up in a big way, his mood chang...

Gary Cohn is Trump's chief economic advisor. He's a former Goldman-Sachs banker with a net worth of more than $250,000,000. In his latest appearance, the quarter-billionaire explained to the press tha...

No, I dont like that at all. I dont even know what that meansBo Gardiner:Not sure what [Isaacs] Mizrahi's excuse is, but you gotta love his "let a man set this silly woman straight" tone with his ow...

Bruce Bartlett served in Reagan's White House as domestic policy adviser and was an aide to Rep. Jack Kemp [R-NY], co-sponsor of the Kemp-Roth bill, which turned Reagan's campaign tax promises into la...

The austerity-crazed central government of Spain in Madrid is determined to prevent the citizens of Catalonia from voting on independence on October 1: they sent thousands of militarized national guar...

I hope that this video, demonstrating an archer's unusual talent, was made with special effects. Somebody's gonna get killed.Wait for it....

Casa Jasmina (previously) is a groundbreaking experiment in human-centered, open source home automation, the birthplace of the Internet of Women's Things -- built in Torino, Italy by Boing Boing pals ...

There has never been a moment in which digital rights in the UK were more up for grabs, between Brexit, sweeping new surveillance powers, and the accelerating drumbeat of the digitisation of every asp...

 The Roqos Core Firewall Routercomes with a built-in VPN and a host of other cybersecurity features, giving your home network powerful protection from online threats with minimal setup.Like any r...

In Public opinion in the post-Brexit era, the centre-right thinktank Legatum reveals that 83% of Britons favour re-nationalising water companies; 77% want to re-nationalise electricity, and 7^5 want t...

A cop injured during a protest sued DeRay Mckesson, Black Lives Matter and a hashtag. His suit was tossed by the judge this week.The officer argued Black Lives Matter was a national unincorporated ass...

Update: The news-source has retracted this report after Vinci corrected them: the company is switching to an electronic payment system but affirms that it will continue to comp the fire department. Vi...

Mark Zuckerberg explains, in a defensive Facebook blog post, that he thinks that fake news and state-level election manipulation are "ideas and content" and that Facebook is his vision of a neutral pl...

The code for Sheet fits in one of those newfangled 280-character tweets with room to spare: at 218 bytes, it's the most amazingly compact spreadsheet app committed to screen.A 218b spreadsheet app in ...

There used to be 25 years of Howard Stern interviews with now-president Donald Trump to listen to. But not anymore: the unofficial archive's been taken offline after a DMCA takedown notice came by Fed...

Ifixit's Pro Tech Toolkit comes with 64 specialized screw bits that help my wife and I get into many restricted areas of technology.The carrying case rolls out like a sleeping bag, with the goodies ne...

In 2013, San Francisco artist Jason Mecier (pronounced: "Mess-Ear") was commissioned by Hugh Hefner's third wife Crystal to create this portrait for her hubby's 87th birthday. The mosaic likeness of t...

Spoiler alert: they liked it.Roger Ebert starts the review with, "That showdown interrupts a stickup in a scene from 'Pulp Fiction,' Quentin Tarantino's amazingly entertaining, outrageous, challengi...

Robert Penney created a pixel-perfect animation of Stranger Things as a turn-of-the-1990s adventure game a la Secret of Monkey Island. Turns out that he's got a knack for these displaced artifacts, ea...

I don't know what is funnier - the things Amtrak passengers whine about, or the way the complaints have been redacted as if they were state secrets.In her what? C'mon, why won't Amtrak tell us?I'm tr...

We use our Echo Dot and Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote multiple times a day. The Dot is in our kitchen and we use it to get news updates (NPR), play podcasts and audiobooks, and to get the weat...

It's already known that Trump throws creepy insults at people that include blood (remember his "blood coming out of her wherever" remark about Megyn Kelly, and "bleeding badly from a facelift" comment...

The Experience Tube is my new favorite thing and yes, despite the wacky infomercial spoof promoting it, it's real. What IS the Experience Tube?Well, it's a long, striped fabric tube. One person puts...

A Russian government-affiliated troll farm called Internet Research Agency bought a Black Lives Matter ad on Facebook targeting Ferguson and Baltimore, reports CNN, with "the apparent goal of the Russ...

Watch how this adorable little girl reacts when she finds out that she's going to have a baby brother. Not what she wanted. I've never seen a face go red so fast! Good thing there were sweet treats ...

Racine, Wisconsin's Reefpoint Brew House is dealing with quite a lot of outrage. Co-owner John Valko's moronic statement suggesting NFL players who do not feel the way he does about our national anthe...

While the United States was monkeying about, the Soviet Union was sending dogs into space! Laika, Belka and Strelka were strays that became daring cosmonauts. Soviet Space Dogs shares their stories th...

For people who want to believe the NFL protests are against the National Anthem, this video of Fox Sports 1 and First Things First host Nick Wright's explanation won't mean anything. For everyone else...

 Ethical hackers are a critical part of cybersecurity. By actively probing their own (or clients') systems for exploitable vulnerabilities, they can help minimize the potential attack surface and...

I was going through my copy of Stewart Brand's 1974 book, II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974) when I came across this sketch by computer scientist Alan Kay, who conceived of a tablet computer in 1972 calle...

America's great stagnation includes a hardening of class divisions, with fewer and fewer poor and working class people raising children who rise to the middle class or even the one percent -- a fact t...

Jia Tolentino describes The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, that most cosy and all-conquering example of English bullshit for children.through the dedicated and com...

The European Commission has a well-deserved reputation for bizarre, destructive, ill-informed copyright plans for the internet, and the latest one is no exception: mandatory copyright filters for any ...

Equifax CEO Richard Smith announced his voluntary retirement yesterday, two months after the catastrophic breach that permanently leaked 140,000,000 Americans' most compromising financial data. (more&...

"This rainy season not only play with paper boat but also a paper umbrella. How to fold an origami umbrella."Here's Priti Sharma using scissors, which technically makes it not origami, I believe.htt...

Cape Town's Zeith Museum of Contemporary Art Africa was built from an old grain silo complex. (more…)...

This short documentary about Korean fashion is on its surface about the many looks cultivated by Korean designers, but it's especially interesting as an analysis of what late-stage capitalism looks ...

Researcher Melanie Barboni studies geology for a living, but as a side gig, she is known as The Hummingbird Whisperer (more…)...

The American Geophysical Union reports that a long-term study of major shipping lanes indicates that ship exhaust is dramatically altering lightning patterns. It's not clear what the long-term effects...

Whats the next step in your career? If its landing a better job, you need to start growing your network to make sure that when the ideal position opens up, you're the first name that comes to mind. If...

Last week, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates expressed his regret over Windows' Control-Alt-Delete function, stating, "If I could make one small edit, I'd make that a single key."Since he can't travel b...

Oh sure, you could buy something cute from their regular ol' baby registry but what do most new moms really want? Time. Real quality time with their new baby. Time to recover from pregnancy and childb...

If there's one thing I know about Detroit-born multimedia artist Allee Willis, it's that she's unstoppable. And not knowing how to do something hasn't keep her from pursuing her dreams and becoming ...

A somewhat-recent trend has had each of us questioning whether we are an extrovert or an introvert. If you've figured out you're an extrovert, good news, other people energize you. Functioning in so...

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The British Library has scanned an anthology of herbal remedies published in the 11th century. It was translated to Old English and illustrated throughout from an original Latin document attributed to...

Who among us can say they have the self-control to go an hour without serving their vices? Or that their vice is not holding an ersatz cigarette in the corner of their mouth in the style of Burgess Me...

Sea Monster YouTube is the best YouTube. SPOILER: It's just a jellyfish. But is it gold or blue?...

You've seen Primitive Technology; now see Even Primitiver Technology. A fine spoof of an excellent YouTube series....

In contrast to other speakers, the Unicorn Speaker's key qualities are 'ABS plastic' and 'imported.' It contains a built-in battery and boasts 4 hours of playback on a charge away from the tether. It ...

Hugh Hefner, creator of Playboy and a cultural icon who changed the world thought about sex in the 1960s, is dead at the age of 91.From The Hollywood Reporter:Hefner became the unofficial spokesman fo...

In collaboration with Hans Zimmer, Radiohead reworked their track "Bloom" from The King of Limbs into an epic orchestral number that seems just perfect for its intended use, in the soundtrack for Si...

Doctors discovered a small plastic traffic cone in a 47-year-old British mans chest he had received for his seventh birthday. A recent cough caused the patient to seek medical attention and doctors or...

The Guggenheim Museum in New York City decided to remove three pieces of art from a futureexhibit heavily protested by animal rights groups and people who say the works show graphic and cruel depictio...

After Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against black Americans, between 61 and 72 percent of Americans disapproved, depending on how the question was ...

Mike Greene of Lattimore, North Carolina is a good neighbor. When the 88-year-old man down the street called Mike to help get a snake out of his toilet, he was happy to help. After all, he'd had plen...

Its a throw-back to the good ole days of aliens in the White House, Bat Boy and Sasquatch sightings in this weeks facts-be-damned tabloids.A bloodthirsty devil boy intent on murder has crossed over in...

Burger King Russia has filed a complaint with the country's anti-monopoly agency to have the film It banned because, they say, Pennywise the killer clown is free marketing for McDonald's. From Newswee...

I dropped our little Ikea battery-powered milk frother and it broke. We needed a replacement ASAP, because everyone in the family uses it every day - to froth milk, make cocoa, make matcha, mix butter...

Remember the 1995 TV program Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction that we all wanted to believe was real? Of course, the ET autopsy turned out to be a hoax, or rather, according to producer Ray Santilli, a ...

Siddharth Mandala, 18, of Hyderabad, India, is developing the Electroshoe as a defensive weapon for women. The idea is that a woman could kick an attacker to deliver a jolt of electricity, similar to ...

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The BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay and the video site Showtime were found to be infecting users' computers with cryptocurrency mining code. This is a sneaky way to use people's computers and ...

The BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay and the video site Showtime were found to be infecting users' computers with cryptocurrency mining code. This is a sneaky way to use people's computers and ...

When Trump gripes that there is rampant voter fraud, the proof is in the family pudding. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has been voting as a woman for the last eight years. Why? Who knows! But the gen...

The Essential Phone, a $700 premium Android handset launched to much fanfare, has sold only 5,000 handsets. Essential, the first major startup from Android founder Andy Rubins venture capital firm Pla...

This large yellow stress ball seems to contain an infinite supply of oozing gelatinous beads....

Ben Hatke -- the living superhero who wrote such wonderful illustrated kids' books as Zita the Spacegirl, Little Robot and Mighty Jack is touring his new graphic novel, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King...

A new DHS policy that will go into effect on Oct 18 will force everyone who's ever been naturalized as a US citizen or who is currently residing in the USA on a Green Card (I currently reside in the U...

Jared Kushner's publicly available New York voter registration records show that the president's son-in-law ticked the "female" box when he signed up in 2009. (more…)...

In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, Italy had seen European central bankers effect a regime-change in its national government in order to enforce a brutal austerity in the name of paying bac...

We need to get Donald Trump off Twitter before he gets us all killed.On September 23, 2017 he declared war on North Korea. (more…)...

A couple weeks ago, we learned that pharma giant Allergan had transferred title to its most profitable eye drugs to New York's St Regis Mohawk band in order to invoke the band's "sovereign immunity" i...

Wells Fargo analyst William Warmington Jr has upgraded shares in Equifax to "outperform," predicting that the company will bounce back from the 30% haircut its market cap took when it was revealed tha...

Southwest Airlines had to call police to forcibly deplane a woman who became disruptive after crew members didn't obey her instructions to remove two dogs on her flight. She said she was allergic, but...

Stanford University psychology professor Robert Sutton defines an asshole as "someone who leaves us feeling demeaned, de-energized, disrespected, and/or oppressed." He wrote a new book and how to deal...

 If you want to produce video content but dont have time to get caught in the weeds with feature-heavy pro editors, Filmora gives you everything you need to cut together beautiful videos easily. ...

Puzzle designer Fleb takes a look at the Instant Insanity puzzle, which was patented in 1899. It reminds me of a cross between Rubik's Cube and sudoku.I like Fleb's videos because he teaches you gen...

A man in Wales clings to a rock for dear life in river rapids until another man maneuvers his way over in his own kayak and saves the guy. A third person happened to catch it all on his camera....

"Antiquated technology, safety concerns, crumbling infrastructure, and nonexistence -- its not hard to argue that the US public transportation network is just not good. Vast swaths of the US have no...

The Dragettes were a Kansas City drag racing team that operated out of the legendary Kansas City Timing Association drag strip. They preferred souped-up convertibles over hot rods. LIFE magazine's Fra...

Nelson A Denis is the author of War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony, a highly regarded, bestselling 2016 history of the injustices perpetrated against Puerto Rico ...

Bassel Khartabil was a Syrian free software, free speech and Creative Commons activist who was jailed and tortured by the Assad regime, which eventually secretly sentenced him to death, then executed ...

A gentleman was politely awoken by someone who reported that the house, and therefore the bedroom and the bed he occupied, were not his own. I believe this took place in Canada because there is no y...

From the Vienna Bienalle: 1. Intelligent robots must serve the common good of humanity and help us humans to lead an ecologically, socially, culturally and economically sustainable life. (more…...

Roy Moore's judicial career died not on a hill but a tacky Christian cut of the 10 commandments inside the courthouse and hatin' on the gays. But he's back in style, thrashing incumbent Alabama Republ...

Cards Against Humanity put $1M into a permanent trust that pays for an annual full-ride scholarship for women in science, technology, engineering, or math who are high-school seniors or current underg...

r/TFABAARBI, as in That's Fucking Awesome But Also A Really Bad Idea, is my new favorite subreddit, featuring all sorts of cool things that are, nonetheless, serious mistakes. I have selected a few he...

Undercover is a World War II training film from the OSS, precursor to the CIA, would be enough to dissuade most people from a career in espionage. They enact numerous examples of tiny slip-ups that ...

Push your monitor, processing speed, and internet connection to the limit all at once with this remarkable 8K timelapse of Iceland. (more…)...

In the 1860s, San Francisco's most popular tourist attraction was not a place but a person: Joshua Norton, an eccentric resident who had declared himself emperor of the United States. Rather than shun...

Catacomb Culture's Human Skull Bowl is great as Halloween decor, but it's perfect for eating cereal like a savage cannibal all year-round. Each bowl is $100 and made to order by artist Jeremy Cilibert...

Artists are creating experiences in virtual reality, and it's especially exciting to hear that multimedia pioneer Laurie Anderson has entered this space. With Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-Chien H...

This is a photo of the voice actors behind some of the animated characters in the Peanuts gang. Notice that all the kid roles are actually voiced by children. Kristy Sproul of Voice Chasers, a voice-a...

Someone in marketing got a hold of this box of el wire and gave it the alternate badass name of "electric spaghetti." This is the DIY Neon Light Kit by UK brand Fowndry and you can get it in either p...

Emily Seilhamer upcycled old Starburst wrappers into a woven dress, as well as purse and shoes. (more…)...

Mick Kalber of Paradise Helicopters takes tourists and photographers up over Pu'u 'O'o's lava lake and other remarkable lava flows each week. For those of us who can go up each week with him, he sha...

Poopy is a national treasure of Madagascar. Here she belts out Tahak'izay, which reached number two on the local pop charts. (more…)...

Electronics manufacturer Xiaomi commissioned designer Rik Oostenbroek to create these cool abstract wallpapers. (more…)...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcz3oyxnzFw...and the LA Times thinks it's swell, singing the praises of semiconductor baron Henry Samueli, a true believer in homeopathy and "integrative medicine," ...

Artist David Jablow has created another series of great illustrations using a "doodle pad" printed with a partially completed drawing of a naked woman.I've posted about David's work in 2013, 2014, and...

Judith Duportail got privacy activist Paul-Olivier Dehaye and human rights lawyer Ravi Naik to help her force Tinder to turn over 800 pages of records the company had saved during the four years she'd...

The board of directors thanked Richard Smith "for his 12 years of leadership" as Smith showed himself the door while he reminded the 140,000,000 Americans whose lives he'd destroyed through insanely l...

Recomendo is a weekly newsletter with 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff, written by Kevin Kelly, Claudia Dawson, and myself. Get the Recomendo weekly newslettera week early by email.Text-...

I've been using this Wen rotary tool for a few months and I'm really happy with it. It accepts Dremel bits, which I already have in abundance. If you don't have any Dremel bits, no problem -- it comes...

Kasper Kubica wants to know what the hell these companies do.For example, a company with the catchy name 84.51 describes itself thusly:We make peoples lives easier. Simple idea, right? Not exactly. We...

I'm pretty sure no game in our home has its original dice. I replace what the dice fairy doth steal, I bought this useful pound bag of dice.I do not know where the dice go. The only thing I'm sure of ...

US officials say intelligence efforts found no evidence of an Iranian ballistic missile launch after President Donald Trump tweeted about a launch reported from an Iranian-run news broadcast, accordin...

https://youtu.be/TZ0qN-_b8e4This movie got made....

Rainier Schoeman apparently didn't receive the letter that Winston Churchill School in Woking, UK had sent to parents asking them not to drop off their children on school grounds. So it's understand...

Jared "Go Daddy" Kushner is in the news for using his private server to conduct White House business. It's only a crime if you are a Democrat, so he has nothing to worry about, but that didn't stop pr...

An Instagram video purportedly shows a man clinging to the side of a New York subway cab, while a fellow train-goer praises him for the efforts.The inside passenger designates the surfer as a gangst...

The Ataribox looks great but $300?????Looks like this proposed box that could have been a complete Atari 2600 library with paddles and blocky joysticks is instead an Atari inspired set-top streaming b...

 Even though a vast majority of internet users have made it clear that they dont want their personal information to be used for targeted advertising and online surveillance, powerful lobbyists in...

Pawe Zadroniak, aka Silent, created The Floppotron, the greatest new musical instrument in recent memory. Here is it playing Through the Fire and Flames from Dragonforce. (more…)...

John Kobuki demonstrates the remarkable patience, dexterity, and craftsmanship required to spend 40 minutes shaping a clear glass sphere with a flower inside. (more…)...

Searching for my next ride, I chanced across this ad on craigslist for a 1965 Chevy Van. It wasn't too hot, but then I saw the interior, which appears to be the skinned hide of a luckdragon.Very solid...

The Idaho Statesman has some great updates on the local push to get a large swath of central Idaho designated as America's first dark sky reserve. (more…)...

Alba is the only known albino orangutan. She was rescued by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation after being held in captivity, where she suffered from dehydration and parasites. Now BOSF plans ...

Garrett Clark & Micah Morris post a lot of cool trick shots, but the between-the-legs ricochet shot below is a testament to their friendship. (more…)...

Earlier this year, Tate Modern's Switch House extension included a wonderful installation of fog art by Fujiko Nakaya. (more…)...

Ott's Skylon ranks among the century's great psychedelic chillout albums, and now it's set to come out as a double vinyl. Get in on the Kickstarter for box sets and more. (more…)...

Within a Millennial's lifetime, depictions of dinosaurs have gone from leathery lizards to feathered floofbeasts as our understanding of ancient biology grew. But it's still speculation, reports Atlas...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.THIS WEEK ONLY: Donate to help Hurricane Maria relief efforts in Puerto Rico, and you could win an original Tom the Dancing Bug illustration of yo...

Mahshid Mazooji missed her connecting flight and was stuck at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport overnight. Instead of being angry about it, she made of a fun, impromptu video of herself da...

German police, spotting a car that appeared to have been in a horrifying collision, pulled over the driver for a chat. But the enormous blood-spatter was just a realistic decal, and they sent the man ...

Agonizingly, the Stranger Things gamea point-and-click adventure in the style of Lucasarts' late-eighties classic such as Zak McKraken and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusadeis just a spoof. It's so ...

Propagation is the latest from Com Truise (previously), with an excellent video to go with it by Will Joines & Karrie Crouse, shot by Zo White and starring Trieste Kelly Dunn and Stephen O'Reilly. I...

The Velcro company has some news for us: they don't want us to call velcro, well, velcro anymore. It's important enough to them that their "legal team" made an amusing music video about it to tell u...

Try and try as she may, this little girl just can't figure out how to play her dad's Game Boy Color. She really can't be blamed though, as she was born into a world where touch screens are the norm....

Judge Rodney Gilstrap serves the Eastern District of Texas court, the venue from which patent trolls have extorted billions in useless menaces money from US industry; Gilstrap hears 25% of the patent ...

Jon Adler is Trump's nominee for the Department of Justice's director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the former criminal investigator is also president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers As...

One person gets arrested for marijuana possession every 71 seconds in the United States, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations annual Crime In the United States (CIUS) report. This is grea...

Tear-by-hand packing tape looks like ordinary clear packing tape. I costs a bit more, but it is so worth it. You don't need to put in in a dispenser. Just peel off what you need and tear it off. I've ...

The field of epigenetics continues to make interesting discoveries about environmental effects on genetic material. A team led by Thomas McDade found that children's experiences affected their DNA, wh...

A ceiling, no doubt in league with the Devil, tried to steal a cross being borne by a fellow dressed as Jesus as he ascended an escalator. Spoiler alert - goodness prevailed....

Colin Spacetwinks' mammoth 70,000-word essay Comics and Cowardice is mostly a deep dive into widely-derided Captain America series of late, but takes general aim at two things in comics and other medi...

American businessman Martin Shkreli is locked up with the general population at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City. It will be his home for the next four months, until he's sentenced f...

Four chaps needed to be rescued from the highest mountain in England over the weekend because they couldn't walk. No, they hadn't injured themselves in any way. They just got too stoned to hike back d...

Making of 'The Dock' looks at the logistical challenges of constructing and towing a floating dock out into the Bali surf, as well and the challenges of surfing from it. (more…)...

The State of California fined Gatorade for making a video game for kids that says, "keep your performance level high and avoid water." In the game, called Bolt!, players give Gatorade to Olympic runne...

If you're in Mexico, just say no to 7UP. In Mexicali, Meth has been found in some bottles of 7UP, which, among other symptoms, can cause vomiting, burning to the abdomen and esophagus, and can make it...

 With the wide array of drag-and-drop website builders available, its never been easier for non-coders to put together a stunning backdrop for their brand or product. But these tools often make i...

Short Trip is a scenic tram simulator made by Alexander Perrin. Every detail is hand-drawn, it takes only a few minutes to enjoy the ride (controls: right arrow), and it's the most perfect thing on th...

Octopodes were long considered solitary creatures, but the discovery of a second seafloor dwelling with over a dozen inhabitants has scientists rethinking the social behavior of these little sea-gen...

On Twitter, game developer Charles Randall (Ubisoft, Capy, etc) posted the biting truth about why game developers do not talk about their work.https://twitter.com/charlesrandall/status/911987526541430...

What might humans alive today be reasonably expected to witness in their lifetimes? RealLifeLore has compiled a list of near-future predictions ranging from the sublime to the terrifying. (more&hell...

As a personal project, designer Carmelo Barber animated type with a pink and blue theme. The results of the experiment are pretty nice! (more…)...

Big Four accounting firm Deloitte, with $37B in annual revenues, found out that it had been hacked in March, and the hackers appear to have been inside its systems (supplied by Microsoft through its A...

Thng Si has released Vietnam From Above II. Unlike many similar drone films, this work mixes the mundane and urban with the country's more picturesque vistas. (more…)...

A new species of hermit crab with feathery antennae has been discovered off the coast of Japan. What's especially cool is that they use living corals as shells. (more…)...

Check out this sweet mid-century Aloha shirt. It's got tikis wearing red Shriner fezzes. I bet it would have some stories to tell, if it could.If you look closely at the fabric, you'll see the acronym...

Pablo Defendini writes, "Fireside Fiction Company has set up the Hurricane Relief Bookstore as a mechanism for all of us to funnel money over to people who need it. 100% of the profits from sales of e...

Zaria Forman was inspired to create large-scale pastel drawings of icebergs and glaciers after going on a scientific expedition. She created this one earlier this year while she was artist in reside...

Ian Davenport developed a cool technique of pouring paint down surfaces, allowing paint in works like Giardini Colourfall to pool at the bottom. Here's a nice behind-the scenes in English:https://ww...

Some YouTube rabbit holes are worth the trip, like a foray into the genre of tunnel-cleaning trucks. It's next-level powerwashing porn. (more…)...

Lax anti-trust enforcement is destroying American democracy, growth and equality; it laid waste to minority-owned small businesses and "fleeced" the middle class, creating its own parallel "justice"...

Kit Reed, a giant of science fiction, died yesterday of a brain tumor at the age of 85. (more…)...

Garnet Hertz is the designer/scholar/provocateur behind the amazing Disobedient Electronics project ("Building electronic objects can be an effective form of social argument or political protest"); ...

BBC Two has a new series called "Tribes, Predators and Me." It's described as follows:Gordon Buchanan travels to three remote tribes to learn the wildlife secrets of people who live alongside the ic...

London's Nova Victoria development includes two office buildings that just won the non-coveted Carbuncle Cup for the UK's ugliest building. Via BD magazine: (more…)...

It happens all the time in movies, and it often looks easy. Modern homesteader Wranglerstar decided to try to cut a chain with an axe for himself. (more…)...

The story goes that David Bowie wrote "Heroes," with Brian Eno, after spotting a couple kissing at the Berlin Wall. The couple was Bowie's producer and engineer Tony Visconti and his girlfriend Anto...

Alexa Sirbu and Lukas Vojir created flow/er, a lovely animation programmed to mimic growth patterns of flowers. (more…)...

Paul McNeil just published his comprehensive typographical overview, The Visual History of Type. To celebrate, he also published a list of his six favorite faces for It's Nice That, starting with the ...

That revamped IT film is bringing clowns, downright terrifying ones, right back into the pop culture spotlight. One donut shop in Texas is leveraging the trend by offering a scary clown delivery servi...

In an attempt to help Florida victims of Hurricane Irma fix damaged roofs, FEMA tweeted a sex hotline number that was only a couple of digits off from the roofing programs actual phone number. The con...

This is an absolutely touching song. Randy Newman continues to wow....

As a kid, I never understood Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor.This is what I remember:Not long after Moby Dick ate Ahab and smashed the Pequod, he learned to relax. Like majorly chill out! In this c...

 The force might be an intangible spiritual power, but it is definitely strong with these Star Wars 3D Illusion Lamps. Theyre available in the Boing Boing Store right now.These lamps are made fro...

26-year-old Saudi artist Abdullah "Shaweesh" al-Sheri created a series of images depicting Star Wars characters worked into momentous Saudi historical photos, including one of Yoda sitting with King F...

Fritz Moser, director of the documentary A Good American, about NSA whistleblower Bill Binney who blames the 9/11 attacks on the NSA's capture by corporate contractors who sold it an expensive, usel...

Enrich served as the WSJ's European Banking Editor during the runup to the financial crisis of 2008 and in its aftermath, as bankers who'd brought the world's economy to its knees took home huge bonus...

Trump supporters are flocking to the official video for Elton John's "Rocket Man" song, to applaud Trump's use of the nickname for Kim Jong-un in tweets and on the floor of the United Nations Genera...

Leland Melvin is the astronaut in that fabulous NASA photo with his two dogs. He is an engineer and former NASA education leader, and the author of 'Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace,...

Farah Mendlesohn is one of science fiction's best-respected editors and critics, author of the indispensable Intergalactic Playground. (more…)...

UK public broadcaster Channel 4 sparked a presswide panic with a story: "Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are frequently bought together on Amazon." (more…)...

He makes the scene when things look mean....

The Department of Homeland Security today revealed which states were targeted by Russian hackers trying to break into voting systems during the 2016 election cycle. DHS said "most" states were unsucce...

Who's paying for the attorneys representing President Donald Trump in the federal probe of Russian election interference? His legal defense is in part funded through a Republican Party account with a ...

Don't you feel sorry for these ill-tempered, thin-skinned, diva-esque, impatient, abusive, screaming, swearing, blame-casting, highly-paid professional newsreaders?...

Cleanup crews are removing what police and Detroit Metro Airport officials are describing as an "unusual substance" discovered in the soap dispensers in the bathrooms. They aren't saying exactly what ...

Yes, human, I knocked over your cup. What are you gonna do about it? Nothing." (more…)...

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Just a video of a dad and his son having a conversation. Why did dad record and share it? To help people understand the day-to-day experience of communicating with people who have autism.There are t...

My daughter and I have a nice little home makerspace going, but we have been storing all of our components (resistors, capacitors, solder, arduinos, raspberry pis, etc) in plastic boxes stacked into a...

My dog Zuul's hair is an impossible mess. Isle of Dogs spray on, leave in conditioner helps some.I've been trying all sorts of things to help keep my darling baby Zuul mat and tangle free. Her hair gr...

How did an Orange County preacher's warning that the world is ending tomorrow appear as an emergency broadcast alert on cable TV this week? The short answer is "Orange County." This chain-store ridd...

Housing costs Americans more than at any time in history, and it's only getting worse as foreclosures open the door to market-cornering by inconceivably vast hedge funds who buy all those "distressed ...

This cat has trained its human to repeatedly push it across the floor.HMC, while you curl me again. from holdmycatnip...

Nuclear War Survival Skills is a guide to getting through the inevitable forthcoming nuclear devastation of America and the radioactive immolation of the last and greatest of human dreams. Written in ...

Lorraine Boissoneault (citing Anne Goldgar) writes that Tulip mania — the wild trade in Dutch tulips that ended with tulips worth more than mansions and a market meltdown illustrative of capital...

The most perfect lie in publishing, "This Page Intentionally Left Blank", is commonly to be found in books, manuals and tests. But also journals, curiously enough, a fact that is the subject of a pape...

Citing its failure to disclose serious crimes and the use of "Grayball" software to evade regulatory oversight, London banned Uber today. https://twitter.com/TfL/status/911168235189489669The company h...

Estimating displacement ratesof copyrighted content in the EU is a 360,000 study commissioned by the European Commission from the Dutch consulting firm Ecorys, whose mandate was to "research the effec...

This is cool. "Boil the Frog" is a 2012 web app by Paul Lamere that creates a "seamless playlist between any two artists."Boil the Frog lets you create a playlist of songs that gradually takes you fro...

I don't go gaga over Star Wars merch like some folks do, but I can't help but appreciate this Chewbacca beanbag from PBTeen. It's pretty great, though for $279 it should probably include some eyes and...

Sit down, get comfortable -- yes, right there -- and enjoy "My Girl's Pussy." Hey now, get your mind out of the gutter. "My Girl's Pussy" is a song recorded in 1931 by bandleader Harry Roy and his ...

In 2002, early bloggers started hunting for googlewhacks: "a pair of common words, like 'schadenfreude carburetor' that appear together on only one page in Google's index." (more…)...

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"I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire," said glorious North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in response to US mentally deranged dotard Donald Trump's recent threats...

Oklahoma City police shot dead a deaf man who refused to obey shouted orders to put down a "metal pipe". The tuesday night killing of Magdiel Sanchez, NPR reports, happened despite the officers being ...

Earlier this month on Jimmy Kimmel Live, random people on the street were asked to share their main internet password. Amazingly, some did... on camera, no less.(Viral Viral Videos)...

On the Cool Tools Show podcast, Kevin Kelly and I interviewed my sister, Wendy, about some of her favorite tools.Our guest this week is Wendy Frauenfelder. Wendy likes to cook, fix things, pretend to ...

Colin Furzes debut book, This Book Isn't Safe features ten inventions kids can make at home with step by step instructions. Inventions include "Concrete-Crusher Boots," the "Fab Frisbee Flinger," and ...

That science-fiction extravaganza Dune allegorizes contemporary themes of imperialism, economic addiction to oil, and religious war is obvious. But it turns out that Frank Herbert's masterpiece owes m...

When I was a kid growing up back East, my parents would bring me to a place called Edaville Railroad. It's a theme park now but, back then, the main attraction was a train that went through a track ...

Australian-born artist Flynn Talbot is currently exhibiting Reflection Room, a large installation with cool and warm lights meant to evoke the sun setting on the ocean in his hometown of Perth. (mor...

To hear a wide-ranging interview about the real-world risks we humans could face from a rogue superintelligence, hit play, below. My guest is author and documentary filmmaker James Barrat. Barrats 201...

Starring Bryan Cranston, Isle of Dogs is a new stop-motion animated movie from Wes Anderson, director of Fantastic Mr. Fox and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Looks very Wes Andersony! And check out this ...

Amazon is running a good deal on theseAC wall outlets with dual USB charging ports. It has 4.8-amp charging across the USB ports, which is plenty to charge most device. The regular price is $23, but y...

Low-budget as well as adventurous travelers just got to spend a few sandy nights at the worlds first sand hostel on Australias Gold Coast. The three-day event featured a hostel designed by Mad Max: Fu...

Lego's new Star Wars Millennium Falcon set is the largest model kit the company has ever sold. It contains 7,500 pieces and retails from Lego.com for $800. It's sold out for now though, but you can ...

Even North Korea has trouble with parking in New York City. Diplomatic representatives of the DPRK have accumulated around 1,300 unpaid city parking tickets since the 1990s, according to a WNBC invest...

On Monday, the World Wide Web Consortium published EME, a standard for locking up video on the web with DRM, allowing large corporate members to proceed without taking any steps to protect accessibili...

This morning, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker and Random Penguin announced that he's editing a series of anthologies of Black Mirror novellas; I'm writing one of the three stories for the first v...

South Dakota Rep. Lynne DiSanto, the GOP's majority whip in the state house, is baffled as to why anyone would think her Facebook post of a meme showing a car running over protesters with the banner "...

Pro skateboarders Amelia Brodka and Alec Beck first met at the Vans Combi Bowl skatepark in Orange, California. Beck's recent marriage proposal to Brodka at that same skatepark is absolutely wonderf...

Say you're worried that Equifax has just destroyed your life with its callous disregard for the dossier it compiled on you and your finance; maybe you'll contact an Equifax competitor like Experian an...

A Morning Consult poll found that 47% of Republicans support making public four-year colleges and universities tuition free, a proposal made by Bernie Sanders during his 2016 campaign for the Democrat...

In 1978, Random House recalled the Woman's Day Crockery Cuisine cookbook because one of the recipes could apparently "cause a serious explosion." According to a statement from Random House, "If the re...

The King of Calypso and civil rights champion Harry Belafonte sings "Hine Ma Tov."Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-6kOxHklk&feature=youtu.bePie-hacking baker Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (AKA @thePieous) (previously), author of Pies Are Awesome Vol 1 "Pie-Modding": How to Epic-Up ...

A judge really threw the book at Los Angeles County probation officer Oscar Calderon Jr. He has to go to jail for a year for sexually assaulting girls in Camp Scudder in Santa Clarita on a regular bas...

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Three former employees of advertising giant, and free maps, enterprise Google have filed suit against the giant for gender inequality and discrimination.Via itpro.co.uk:Former employees at Google rece...

When Trump spoke to African leaders at a UN lunch on Wednesday, he referred to the African country of Nambia twice. It was a head-scratcher. Did he mean Zambia? Gambia? Namibia? Narnia? Oh wait...It...

The ZapCane comes complete with a flashlight and a 1MM volt stun gun. It also supports you as you walk.I was looking at canes, like you do when you have a bad back, and thinking "Maybe it is finally...

Safari has blocked third-party cookies (used to track your behavior across multiple websites) since 2010, but the ad-tech industry has fired back with a bunch of covert tracking tools that watch you e...

Writer Matthew Treadwell recounts the time he and his wife were in rural Japan and missed the last bus to Haneda Airport. They were in danger of missing their plane. They flagged down a taxi but the...

Even after a 25-year animation career, I can still remember the exact moment that I decided to become a professional animator: It was at an all-night movie marathon of Ralph Bakshi films. While watchi...

 If your photographic aesthetic lends itself more towards intimate detail over sweeping, dramatic landscapes, a Blips Smartphone Lens Kit gives your device a semi-permanent macro camera attachmen...

"Is it possible that we are not real and don't even know it?" That's the question explored in the latest animated explainer video from Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell. It present five untestable assumptio...

President Donald Trump says the United States will apply new, additional sanctions on North Korea. (more…)...

Rumored for some time, Google's purchase of a significant chunk of handset-maker HTC was announced today. The WSJ:Google said an HTC team that helped develop Googles flagship Pixel smartphone will joi...

Sean Spicer, newly ennobled by Hollywood as a well-meaning funnyman briefly forced to play the buffoonish Goebbels to President Trump, is already having trouble staying in character.About an hour afte...

The head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said this week that hackers accessed the SEC's corporate disclosure database and likely profited by trading on that stolen insider information. ...

The 2015 Catalan elections were widely viewed as a proxy referendum on independence from Spain and the brutal austerity imposed by Madrid, whose courts declared independence referendums to be illegal,...

Domain privacy is an annoying and complicated thing. U.S. registrar-based whois anonymity crumbles with a court order or even just a legal nastygram. Obfuscating your whois is usually against the term...

Austin shoesmith Kayla Stojek (AKA "Zombie Peepshow") mods wedges, Vans, heels and other shoes (and boots) with huge, deadly spikes, cute dioramas, horror pumpkins, whimsical scares, and such, all ma...

CinemaScore is basically an influential exit poll at movie theatres. Despite over 30 years of scores, only 19 films currently hold the dubious distinction of getting an F. Vulture's Kevin Lincoln foun...

"Do you remember... the 21st night of September?"This September 21st, and every September 21st, will never be forgotten by my dear friend-in-kitsch, Allee Willis. If you aren't aware, Allee co-wrot...

Model and former basketball player Ekaterina Lisina of Russia boasts the Guinness World Record for World's Longest Legs (female). The 29-year-old stands a total of 6'8.77" and her legs each measure ...

The five traditional senses are tied to visible sense organs, but depending on the definition, humans possess dozens of senses, including thermoception (temperature), proprioception (bodily spatial ...

With scissors and a little glue, Elmer Padilla turns flip-flops into cool action figures on the streets of Manila. Adrian Soriano Bernabe snapped these lovely photos of Elmer at work. (more…)...

If you're looking for an over-the-top '80s "party dance band" with all the bells and whistles (and little red track short-shorts), FlashPants is the one for you. I just learned of them from their ex...

During his tenure as Donald Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort offered private briefings on the status of the US Presidential election to Kremlin-connected Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, th...

A couple of days ago I mentioned the the MoYu YJ Lingpo 2 x 2 x 2 Speed Cube. I still haven't solved it, but I wanted to make a quick video to show how smooth it is. The little cubes rotate around a...

Nostradamus predicted hurricanes and North Korea missile crisis, claims this weeks Globe magazine, which promises to reveal the 16th-century French seers predictions for whats next!Its about as plausi...

A gentleman in Ottawa, Canada -- eager to get sent to jail in order to sell weed he had packed inside of eight Kinder Surprise plastic egg "yolks" and stored in his rectum -- threw a rock at a police ...

Youtuber Rich Colburn made this wonderful animation showing of Evel Knievel's legendary steam-powered SkyCycle-X2!Last summer my daughter and I stopped to look at the ramp alongside Idaho's Snake Ri...

Of course the answer is very, very well. But there's more to it than that. (Polyphonic)...

Josh from Fight for the Future writes, "The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is threatening to rollback its net neutrality protections, which help make the Internet a place of equal opportun...

For the last 18 years, French chef Sbastien Bras' restaurant, Le Suquet, has received 3 Michelin stars. Now the chef wants to part ways with Michelin. He's tired of the pressure that the rating puts o...

It's not just Warren Buffett and his Republican lieutenant Charlie Munger who favor single payer and view the US health insurance industry as a drag on national competitiveness and a needless expense ...

Obama's cabinet secretaries flew commercial or took the train, with a few, rare exceptions that were approved at the highest level, but Trump's aptly named Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Pric...

Tamilok is a kind of worm that eats dead mangrove tree wood. It is considered a delicacy that tastes like slightly sweet oysters....

Sammy Davis Jr. brings an instant smile to my face and brightens any day. Enjoy this clip of he and James Brown playing around!...

A dungeon master scrapped the pen and paper and created a touchscreen tabletop version of Dungeons and Dragons. Tumblr user Caethial recently posted photos of the full build that he and two other pla...

A recent study published in the scientific journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances claims a competitive social environment may cause certain species of ducks to grow even bigger penises. Researchers ...

Featuring the artwork of Juan Ortiz, these TOS coffee mugs are just wonderful.I'm pretty sure I'll have them all shortly.Star Trek The Ultimate Computer (Juan Ortiz Art) Sci-Fi TV Television Show Porc...

A Singapore baggage handler somehow managed to make airports even worse after switching baggage tags during multiple flights to send them to different locations. The handler is being charged with 286...

This NASA photo taken from the International Space Station shows crop circles in southwest Egypt's Sahara Desert. The crops thrive in the middle of the desert thanks to either secret alien technology ...

This week on Maker Update, a giant AT-AT made from foam board, the Goliath CNC robot, embossing your notebook, affordable addressable LED strip, a software update for your knitting machine, and Worl...

I'm honored to be included on a free panel discussion next Thursday, 9/28, at Caltech about the cultural influence of the Voyager Golden Record, the enchanting phonograph record launched into space on...

This ad from Taiwan is just fantastic....

At a Buckeye, Arizona park, police officer David Grossman observed 14-year-old Connor Leibel moving his hands rigidly in front of his face, sniffing a piece of yarn, and making other unfamiliar move...

 You can pick up a wide variety of software development skills with this Learn to Code 2017 Bundle. Its available now in the Boing Boing Store for a pay-what-you-want arrangement just beat the av...

How healthy are kids' meals from the big fast-food chains? If you're not sure, just ask Panera's founder and CEO Ron Shaich. (more…)...

Theodore Kaczynski killed 3 and injured 23 more in a bombing campaign inspired by the erosion of human freedom and dignity under modern technology. The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman writes that the ...

"Who is Responsible for the Crime Wave? Reporters Cover Up Evidence of Immigration Crime Wave One New Immigrant for Every Two U.S. Births One Foreigner Enters by Stealth for Every One Who Is Legally A...

Manchester boasts England's second-largest police-force (after London) and some of the nation's shittiest IT. (more…)...

https://twitter.com/jetscott/status/910187172648677381Scott Stein is beta testing a new mobile app from Ikea called Ikea Place. It lets you augment the real world with Ikea furniture, for your own amu...

Sculptor Marc Fornes sets algorithmic parameters, then generates large self-supported sculptures based on the results. The work has an oltherworldly quality. (more…)...

Japan's many summer fireworks festivals have inspired enthusiasts who specialize in photographing hanabi (literally "flower-fires"), and Keisuke is emerging as an Instagram favorite thanks to works li...

Oh gosh, parenthood is so hard sometimes. I'm a mom to a nearly-teen daughter and I teach her that she should do the right thing as much as humanly possible. This often mean explaining why I can do ...

I'm convinced that there is nothing more heartwarming on the internet right now than this video of a blind cat hugging a phone. In the video, an orange tabby named Namik is shown pulling a phone close...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, extra words and such. People lo...

Kristjan Gottfried and Michelle Hurtig were first the waiting list for Vancouver's Marina Housing Co-operative, a nonprofit when the volunteer co-chair of the admissions board told them that their ne...

In 1770, Hungarian engineer Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled a miracle: a mechanical man who could play chess against human challengers. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll meet ...

When watching assembly line robots of today, it's easy to forget that gruelling repetitive work used to be done manually. This beautiful footage from 1936 shows the precision needed, and it's beauti...

Walt Disney shows off a ride in production, "Pirates of the Caribbean" to Miss Disneyland-Tencennial.It is amazing to see my favorite ride at Disneyland at this point in its life. During my first vi...

Wow. One of Alabama's Senate candidates, Roy Moore, refers to Native Americans as "reds" and Asians as "yellows." He is competing with and leading Sen. Luther Strange in the GOP Senate runoff next...

I just bought this 150-pack of 10-inch cable zip-ties for $6.36 on Amazon. The deal lasts a few more hours....

A dead body sat in a pickup truck for eight months in a parking lot at the Kansas City International Airport before someone discovered it. 53-year-old Randy Potter disappeared January 17, and had park...

The International Olympic Committee took the unprecedented step of announcing the 2024 and 2028 Olympic host cities (Paris and LA), because both cities were bidding unopposed, and LA had to be bribed ...

A fifth-grade South Carolina teacher is on administrative leave after asking students to visualize themselves as KKK members and then ponder the justifications of their treatment toward African Americ...

Before Equifax changed its name in 1976 -- in the midst of a Congressional investigation and a national scandal -- it was the Retail Credit Company, founded in Atlanta in 1899. (more…)...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, founded by Elizabeth Warren prior to her career as a senator, has entered into an unprecedented settlement with National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts, the l...

"It's okay to feel good about things here but there's no sense running down the street telling people about it at the top of your voice Minnesotans prefer to express their positive feelings through ...

Amazon's Fire tablets have replaced Apple iPads around our house. This new 10" tablet will be mine.My daughter has broken many very expensive Apple tablets. I switched her over to an Amazon Fire that ...

A Twitter user named @bigotbasher posted a photo of a man wearing a Nazi armband on a Seattle bus, who was reportedly "harassing a black man" and "screaming in peoples' faces." This set into motion a ...

Researchers at the Computer Vision Laboratory, The University of Nottingham have posted an online demo of their 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image paper....

 Surprisingly, not all headphones were designed with workouts in mind. Delicate electronics can be vulnerable to rain and sweat, and tiny wireless earbuds will go flying with the slightest moveme...

An eagle-eyed mom spotted a cave-drawing penis in a Netflix childrens show and posted her outrage on Facebook. The phallic depiction is located inside of a log during season one, episode 35 of Maya th...

A Colorado Springs running enthusiast, known locally as "The Mad Pooper," has been leaving gifts on a private lawn in a most public fashion.Via Competitor.com:A mystery woman in Colorado Springs, Co...

Try as it might, this magnificent, noble creature can't break the crust of a bedsheet. Why isn't the snow breaking? from funny...

This looks brutal! During halftime at a Eagles-Chiefs game in Kansas City on Sunday, a camera operator is running across the field and runs right over a cheerleader during a dance routine. She didn'...

This gentleman took umbrage at a car and decided to teach it a lesson by hitting it as it barreled down the freeway. It didn't go as planned.Idiot Fights Car from IdiotsFightingThings[via]...

FAIR surveyed the discussion of Nazi protesters in the month since the Charlottesville demonstration in America's six top broadsheet newspapers ("Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, LA Tim...

Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine black worshipers at a church in Charleston, made a show of defiance at his trial and waltzed into the hoped-for martyrdom of a death sentence. But hi...

Behold the Small Buildings of Tokyo, as found by John Einarsen. Kyoto Journal's Instagram page is a wonder; I want to live in all of these places simultaneously. There's a book, but you'll have to ord...

A sex doll rental service in China has shut its doors, at least for the time being, after the novel offering proved controversial. People who want to have sex with a lifeless rubbery replica of a scho...

Google images could not uncover the origin off this fluffy yet menacing elder one. If this is your adorable abysm of immemorial lunacy, drop us a note. [via]...

Freedom of information requests for public records are getting harder to complete, especially now that some governments are suing requesters. (more…)...

Fresh off a decisive victory against a man who used Pepe the Frog in an Islamophobic children's book (previously), artist Matt Furie is fighting alt-right stars for unauthorized use of his Pepe the fr...

The fine folks at Super Deluxe mounted a camera on a train traveling through the desert, and it's as relaxing and scenic as it sounds. (more…)...

Mogol Art Animals are Japanese pipe cleaner kits that transform into charming kawaii animals. Watch this bear unboxing through completion. (more…)...

Someone on the D&D 5th Edition Facebook group posted a link to these really lovely and very playable-looking 5e character sheets. The designer of the sheets, William Lu, posted them on ArtStation ...

This is the Dadbag. It's a fanny pack that looks like a guy's belly.* On Bored Panda, its designer, Albert Pukies of London, shares:I made the dadbag because Im desperate to have dad bod but Im also v...

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If you were wondering what the budget for the new Tomb Raider movie is, the answer is "No."...

California Gov. Jerry Brown compared Trump supporters to cave dwellers at an event in New York. He also said that everything Trump does, including the way he handles climate change and North Korea, ar...

Watch this persistent gentleman try three times to get knocked over by a kid on a scooter. He finally makes it happen but he didn't know he was being recorded on a security camera, so his attempt to...

Georgia Tech student Scout Shultz refused to put down a closed multitool and walked toward cops, daring them to shoot. So they did.Preliminary information indicates that GTPD received a 911 call of a ...

Salto is a jumping robot from UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab. It has aerodynamic thrusters to ensure it lands on its foot.[via Bruce Sterling]...

Nigel Stanford enlisted the talents of a number of Kuka industrial robots to perform "Automatica."Here's a video of the robot testing:https://youtu.be/yFUPeXTAY_E...

With just his violin and his hands, Sebastiaan Kulwanowski creates an amazing Super Mario Bros. soundtrack. He says on his YouTube page that he created this out of boredom proof that boredom can be...

If Michael Ramirez can win two Pulitzers for labeling alarming things with the word "DEBT", I think Alan McAtee should win one for this photograph of vomit on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards.Previou...

In July, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium overruled dozens of members' objections to publishing a DRM standard without a compromise to protect accessibility, security research, archiving,...

Not cool dude. The young son of WBO middleweight champ Billy Joe Saunders might have thought he was being funny when he punched opponent Willie Monroe in the groin and then kicked him during the Lon...

For $5 the Crazy Cube is a great trick and small enough to carry in your pocket. The spectator puts a die into a small plastic canister, remembering the side that is facing up. The smaller canister ...

Florida Power and Light's grid did not fare well under Hurricane Irma, despite the company's assurances that it had spent billions hardening its systems after 90% of its customers lost power to 2005's...

California AB 375 was a bill to restore the online privacy rights that the Republican Congress stripped away in March when they passed a bill that allowed your ISP to spy on you and sell data about yo...

Perfect execution by the folks at Wear Dinner: CureExorcist t-shirt...

The island of Barbuda has lost its civilization not one human is left on the island after Hurricane Irma devastated it. With 95% of the islands structures completely destroyed, all 1,800 residents ha...

Is President Trump feeding stories to the National Enquirer?The magazine boasts an exclusive story this week claiming that the Pentagon has developed a space laser that could zap North Korea off the ...

Remember the "Truman Show Delusion" in which someone is convinced they are starring in their own reality TV show? In a similar delusional vein is the "Matrix Defense" used in the last few years in cou...

Surgeons close internal incisions with stitches and staples but they, and their patients, would benefit from a glue that stays stuck even to wet tissue and organs. Researchers from McGill University i...

A gentleman in Arizona was throwing a birthday party for his kid when he spotted a rattlesnake in his yard. Rather than staying clear of the venomous snake, 48-year-old Victor Pratt thought it would b...

The Morale Raiser, invented in 1950, would be the perfect gift for those people in your life who require a steady stream of attaboys.Devised by a retired army colonel in the UK, the Morale Raiser ma...

"A Filipino man makes and sells these action figures made out of worn out flip flops," according to Goal1's post on /r/pics....

In Impact of excess NOx emissions from diesel cars on air quality, public health and eutrophication in Europe, published today in Environmental Research Letters, researchers from Norway, Austria, Swed...

"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaXd7dz404...

California's Inland Empire was hit hard by the 2008 crisis, with disproportionate foreclosures on poor and working-class families, leaving neighborhoods blighted by empty, vandalized homes. (more&hell...

Three high-ranking Equifax executives are being investigated for selling shares of Equifax shortly after the company was hacked, but long before Equifax admitted it had been hacked. They are Equifax C...

Ten years ago, Warren Buffett bet celebrated hedge fund manager Ted Seides of Protg Partners that an investment in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund would outperform an investment in Seides's "fund-of-fun...

 When you stumble upon a mysterious water leak or a strange rattle coming from inside an appliance, getting a better view of the problem usually requires some laborious disassembly, or a desperat...

Pennsylvania State Rep. Aaron Bernstine, a Republican, wrote on Twitter that he would drive through protestors who got in his way. Linking to an article about protests in St. Louis, where a white poli...

43% of Canadians believe "science is a matter of opinion," 47% think the science of global warming is "unclear"; 24% of Canadian millennials are anti-vaxxers, all according to a Leger survey of 1,514 ...

Downtown LA's vacancy rate is 12%, which is the highest it's been since 2000 and triple the overall rate for LA -- and downtown LA is also the site of LA's skid row, whose population surged by 20% las...

Sean Spicer, the former Trump press secretary who said Hitler didn't use chemical weapons, was a surprise guest at last night's Emmy Awards. Welcomed by Stephen Colbert, he was even given a kiss by a ...

Evolution is one of 170 topics that have been purged from the high-school curriculum by the Erdogan regime as part of its efforts to cozy up to the reactionary religious right that has backed its extr...

Lovely new video from Iceland.For the first release from her forthcoming new album, co-produced by Arca, Bjrk has teamed up with a super-troupe of contributors to create a hallucinogenic new video. ...

CCleaner is a clean-your-computer app beloved of people who own inexplicably slow PCs. If you installed recent editions of it, you were installing malware. But the company behind it hasn't gone rogue,...

The Mag Hand Workstation[Amazon link] by Hobby Creek is a4.5 Lb steel platform with flexible, magnetic arms that hold delicate objects in place while I paint, solder and study them. Since my side proj...

A Republican Pennsylvania state representative suggested hell run over anyone blocking highways in a tweet that also links to an article about protestors shutting down streets in St. Louis. If anyone ...

Conversations with Siri are about to become a whole lot deeper and likely much more unsettling as users begin seeking personal guidance from the voice assistant. Apple is preparing Siri to become iPho...

 The sky is always much clearer outside of urban spaces. Next time you find yourself in the wilderness, you should come prepared with this Outdoor Monocular Telescope. It provides a crystal-clear...

This is one of those things I wish I had thought up: an incense burner that looks like the RV meth lab from Breaking Bad.More like Breaking rad, amirite?It's called the "Krystal Ship" and it's availab...

The Sound Traveler is an alternate channel by the creator of Smarter Every Day. It focuses on memorable auditory experiences, like sliding down snowy Mount Adams, a large stratovolcano due east of M...

The 8bitdo SN30 is a replica SNES controller that's both wireless and compatible with Windows, MacOS, Nintendo Switch and Android, all via USB-C or Bluetooth. In addition to the classic digital contro...

 If youve been meaning to upgrade your 30-year-old cassette collection to something more modern, or make permanent backups of old mix tapes, take a look at this 2 in 1 Audio Cassette to MP3 Music...

Legalist is a Peter Thiel-funded startup whose business-model is to buy legal grievances in exchange for a license to sue on behalf of its users, a practice called champerty that was most notoriously ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f09rTfV2U2wRicky from Inside the Magic writes, "For this year's Halloween event, Hong Kong Disneyland is featuring the Maze of Nightmares, which features scary versio...

One week after announcing the worst breach in American history, and days after it was revealed that the breach had been caused by simple negligence, Equifax has announced the "retirement" of its Chie...

The juggalos are marching on DC this weekend, to protest the FBI's classification of the music fandom/subculture as a dangerous gang, placing it on a watchlist alongside the Aryan Nation. (more&helli...

Harry Dean Stanton, who starred in Repo Man, Twin Peaks, Alien and many other movies and TV shows, is dead at 91.Stanton also led his own band, first known as Harry Dean Stanton and the Repo Men and l...

While attending a Cal Berkeley football game, Martin Flores witnessed a cop shutting down an unlicensed street vendor, taking cash from his wallet and citing him. (more…)...

Looks like some Trump supporters are not happy that he met with Democrats on Wednesday to talk about a possible deal to protect DREAMers. And to protest his wrong-doing, they are burning the one thing...

I've never solved Rubik's Cube, but I've never seriously tried. One reason is that most of the cubes I've used are poorly made. They lock up when I try rotating a section, which is frustrating. I did ...

It sucks when you load a webpage and it starts playing a video with sound. It's startling and bothers people around you. (When it happens I right-click on the tab and select "mute tab" from the menu -...

The sound reminds me of a David Cronenberg film. And here's how to make your own gold slime:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xau5CQdRckY...

Shortly after Friday morning's terror attack with a crude bomb in a London Underground train in which 23 people were injured, Trump did the usual tweet-before-you-know-anything jig. "Another attack in...

Don't you hate it when you buy a rock and learn that it's not one of a kind? No, because all rocks are one of a kind. But that doesn't stop French luxury brand Herms from boasting that each rock it se...

Along with directing such classic films as Escape from New York, Halloween, The Fog, and The Thing, John Carpenter also composed the soundtracks. For those who want a survey of Carpenter's synth sty...

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is blaming a Democratic supporter for convincing Civil War reenactors to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue leading to the violence in Charlottesville, Vir...

The winers of the 2017 Ig Nobel awards, "for achievements that first make people laugh then make them think," were announced at Harvard last night. From Phys.org:Scientists who discovered that old men...

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli has performed with some of musics greatest artists, but his latest collaboration requires a little more coding. YuMi, a dual-armed robot, led Bocelli and the Lucca Philhar...

Gainesville, Florida Police Officer Michael Hamill loved it when his handsome face went viral. That's why it's so baffling that he closed his Facebook account just as his popularity was peaking. Oh, w...

Almost 20 years after Cassini launched, the spacecraft vaporized in Saturn's atmosphere early this morning. Cassini's intentional destruction was to prevent it from possibly crashing into Saturn's moo...

In 1961 artist Piero Manzoni preserved his excrement in 90 signed cans, each containing 30 grams of his solid waste. The Merda dArtista are becoming more valuable over time.Via Oddity Central: In 2007...

This one-year-old baby is serious about doing laundry, even picking up items of clothing that have fallen to the ground and putting them in the dryer. See a longer video here. I remember when Amira...

 If you yearn for the sophisticated cleanliness of a European bathroom, the BioBidet A3 adds a bidet to your conventional toilet with minimal effort. And yes, it is available in the Boing Boing S...

Facing a crisis mixed with food shortages and an authoritarian power grab, Venezuela's government is urging its citizens to breed and feast on bunnies. President Nicolas Maduros government is launchin...

The convenience stores (konbini) in Japan are much better than the ones in the US. They are cleaner, they have tasty prepared food, and a nice seating area, sometimes on a second floor. The main chai...

Polaroid (formerly the Impossible Project, whose key backer bought the original brand outright earlier this year) is releasing a sequel to the classic One Step camera. The new One Step 2 uses i-Type f...

A comically sycophantic outcome at Harvard.Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell earlier Thursday announced his resignation as a senior fellow at Harvard over its decision to invite Manning. Mike ...

Michael Hamill is a 28-year-old Gainesville police officer whose mug went viral just days ago during Hurricane Irma. Sadly, his Facebook is full of comments like "who knew that reading jewish jokes be...

Miguel Marquez Outside chronicles Australian artist Michael Pederson's clever and cute installations of small artworks. (more…)...

A few years ago, I was invited for a bartending demo at 1901 Lounge, California's Adventure Club 33 counterpart. It was cool but I still dream of knocking Club 33 off my bucket list. Well, acccording ...

On Jimmy Kimmel Live, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer talked about his work with the Trump administration. In this 20-minute long interview, Kimmel gets Spicer to talk about how he go...

In early June, conservation rangers with the Hirola Conservation Program in Kenya first spotted a white female and baby giraffe. In early August, they were able to capture this footage of the elusiv...

This video by YouTuber Alex Berman lays out how retailers like Walmart profit even when they are pricing goods, like milk and eggs, well below cost. It comes down to volume and convenience. If they ...

In March 2016, HP sent millions of Inkjet and Inkject Pro owners a fake "security update" that was really a timebomb: six months later, in September 2016 (one year ago!), the "security update" code st...

Facebook released a statement regarding ProPublica's expose of the company offering antisemitic ad targeting options (previously). On the record statement by Rob Leathern, product management director ...

Ami Baio's debut card game is "You Think You Know Me," a "game to deepen the relationships around us." (more…)...

Noted white supremacist and current President of the United States Donald Trump said something colossally and freshly stupid today. In other news, it's a day ending in 'Y', and yes, wouldn't we all li...

Hit play, below, to hear an unhurried interview with author, podcaster and neuroscientist Sam Harris. Few have denounced President Trump at greater length, or on more certain terms than Sam. He is equ...

Facebook removed several antisemitic ad categories after ProPublica asked about them and "promised to improve monitoring."Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Fa...

Yours for $695, though sold out at the moment, are the Natasha Zinko High Waist Double Jeans.Layered waistbands give these wide-leg Natasha Zinko jeans a modern high-low profile. Contrast side stripes...

President Flip Flops are cheap footwear emblazoned with Trump tweets, one foot contradicting the other. There are several "editions", each as revolting and transfixing as the other....

Every three years, the US Copyright Office has to ask America about all the ways in which Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which bans bypassing DRM, even for legitimate reasons) i...

Four fans were kicked out of Boston's Fenway Park during a baseball game yesterday after unfurling a banner reading: "Racism Is As American As Baseball."Here's what one of the planners of the stunt ha...

Preeti Desai of the National Audubon Society came across a dead creature on the beach in Texas City, Texas. She took photos and tweeted: "Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beac...

DIYer Chris Notap filtered a pack's worth of cigarette smoke through a bag of cotton balls. They turned brown. He's upset by how much his tools and components stink now....

There are more than 500,000 pieces of dangerous space junk orbiting the Earth, not including paint flecks and other tiny bits flying around at 17,500 miles per hour that put spacecraft at risk. The Br...

EVE Online ("spreadsheets in space") is an empire-building game that allows players to move real cash in and out of the game, a wrinkle that's spawned massive Ponzi schemes, a profitable espionage ind...

John Brownlee lost his father to a heart attack. But it was Bruce Brownlee's depression that slowly killed him: My Father The Werewolf."I think about my fathers generosity a lot. My father was generou...

Halfway into his term, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shows every sign of breaking his much-vaunted promises to repair relations between the Canadian governments and the indigenous peoples of ...

Chelsea Manning spent seven years in federal prison for blowing the whistle on illegal actions by the US in Iraq and around the world; while imprisoned, she transitioned her gender and changed her nam...

In 2009, Arby's commissioned Phil Hansen to paint the Mona Lisa using grease from its fast food competitors. The piece is called "Mona Greasa."(via Weird Universe)...

Multimedia artist Andy Thomas translated the soundscapes of the Amazon rainforest into a mesmerizing 3D animation titled the Visual Sounds of the Amazon. He and Reynier Omena Junior made their field...

Point created an obviously fake company with tons of alarm-raising inconsistencies, allocated it $25, and then used their budget to target Facebook users based on race and sexual orientation, a move...

The US Office of Government Ethics has silently reversed its longstanding policy banning anonymous "gifts" to White House employees who have started legal defense funds after being accused of malfeasa...

Artist Makoto Azuma thought to himself, if flowers symbolize Earthly beauty, how can I push natures boundaries? How can I transport beauty to where it doesnt currently exist? Answer: By tying them t...

Paul Brown writes, "The FSFE's 'Public Money? Public Code!' campaign wants to convincelawmakers that software created with public funds should be madeavailable to the public under Free Software lice...

Mariano Gmez is a 23 year old Tseltal from Abasolo, Chiapas, and a member of the Ikta Kop Collective; he is being given an award by the prestigious Internet Society for his work creating "a wireless I...

There are some great music parodies coming from Parody Project, which look at today's politics in all of its strangeness. "Confounds the Science" is about Trump's tweets and stupidity. Here are the ...

This week on Maker Update: a Pi-powered Rubiks cube-solving robot, hacking your own tabletop pinball machine, a look at Fiber Fix tape, and a new issue of Make magazine. This weeks Cool Tool is Fibe...

In a paper in the World Review of Political Economy, economists from Sichuan University propose a model for an efficient planned economy that uses a hybrid of managed, two-sided "platform" markets (mo...

Over the weekend, Jim Carrey gave a deeply weird interview while at New York Fashion Week. Watch it above. There is no me, he said. There are just things happening and there are clusters of tetrahed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfmL6l128JUThere's not much nostalgia for Magnavox's Odyssey, the game console that launched the industry. But Al Williams writes that it lost out thanks to a sales str...

 The Ultimate Careers in Computer Science Bundle is currently being offered in the Boing Boing Store, and features eight introductory courses from a variety of tech fields.Aside from offering gen...

Grant Hart, the drummer and co-songwiter/vocalist for pioneering psychedelic punk band Hsker D, has died from cancer at age 56. Our thoughts go out to Hart's family and former bandmates. Hsker D was t...

The "Camperforce" is a 2000+ strong army of retirees in RVs, a choice most were forced into when the value of their homes and pensions was wiped out in the 2008 crisis -- as many of them neared litera...

Aynor mayor John Gardner, driving a lawnmower with a beer at his side, was pulled over by cops on the highway. But they let him go, because he is an important fellow and can do as he pleases.Police ...

Aynor mayor John Gardner, driving a lawnmower with a beer at his side, was pulled over by cops. But they let him go without so much as a warning. I wonder if it's because he's an important fellow an...

These bags of Tetris-branded magnetic tetrominoes don't look much good (it's obviously just a rubbery sheet with the shapes stamped out) but they are dirt cheap (49 for $9) and the street (you) will f...

This is one smart squirrel! Someone taped down five slinky toys and filled them with peanut butter for the backyard squirrels to eat. While a squirrel is gorging itself, along comes a chipmunk, tryi...

MIT and Amherst material science researchers have published a paper in ACS Applied Material & Interfaces that describes an untouched-by-human-hands method for making self-folding circuits with a 3D pr...

In 2016, Motherboard used public records requests to receive 3,000 pages of documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police detailing the federal police agency's longstanding secret use of IMSI Catch...

From JeffHK, 80,000 photos over 30 days:Route was from Red Sea -- Gulf of Aden -- Indian Ocean -- Colombo -- Malacca Strait -- Singapore -- South East China Sea -- Hong Kong...

Equifax's world-beating breach of 143 million Americans' sensitive personal and financial information was the result of the company's failure to patch a two-month-old bug in Apache Struts, despite mul...

Star Trek episode top lists generally center on highlights from the original series (The City on the Edge of Forever) and Next Generation (The Inner Light). But it is episodes of Star Trek: Voyager t...

Three CBP officers are facing criminal charges stemming from 2016 and 2017 incidents in which two newly hired CBP employees were locked in a small room, thrown on a table referred to as a "rape table"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcNGa63WdCU&feature=shareA lovely song from Hot Dad; but I Really, Really, Really Like This Image is even better. Welcome to the new world order, !...

Julie Jackson of Subversive Cross Stitch is creating cross-stitch magic again. This time she's put together a special 3D cross-stitch kit that reads "Don't Freak Out." She writes, "It's SO much better...

The title of Fast Company's story is "Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete" and that's exactly what Paul McDonald and Ashwath Rajan intend to do. "Bodega"—...

Swedish street artist Huge creates a lot of cool stuff, but he's best know for his balloon art that looks like those novelty letter-shaped mylar balloons in various levels of inflation. (more…)...

It's never too early to get your little ones started on the road to success. Luckily for us, New Jersey-based Becky Rodriguez of Etsy store dirtsa studio has created some badass baby bibs which are pe...

Tom Fletcher (of McFly music fame) shared this video of his then infant son, Buzz Fletcher, seeing dandelions flowers for the first time in his new little life. (more…)...

Impressive. (more…)...

Who's a good girl? This dog. (more…)...

Grand Guignol was a French theater from the late 19th century that specialized in hosting graphic horror performances. A typical show would involve insane or hysterical characters, gory special effect...

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, requested a $25,000-an-hour Air Force jet to take them on their honeymoon in Scotland, France and Italy earlier this summer. The coupl...

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, Louise Linton, requested a $25,000-an-hour Air Force jet to take them on their honeymoon in Scotland, France and Italy earlier this summer. (more&he...

Martin "Pharmadouche" Shkreli has been ordered to go to jail while awaiting sentencing for securities fraud, because he offered a $5,000 bounty for a single strand of Hillary Clintons hair.Via Reuters...

No single GIF better represents my days than Mr. Roger's throwing the double bird with a giant smile on his face. I never once bothered to doubt its legitimacy, but a friend asked me if it was real. O...

No single GIF better represents my days than Mr. Roger's throwing the double bird with a giant smile on his face. I never once bothered to doubt its legitimacy, but a friend asked me if it was real. O...

A baby step toward federal decriminalization, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced a bill to conduct medical marijuana research. The text of his announcement is posted below. I have highlighted ...

Blink and you'll miss itThis is a great mod to a motorcycle topbox....

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties just filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeladn Security on behalf of 11 travellers whose devices were searched at the US border...

Boxers are one of the derpy-est dog breeds. And that's why we love them so. (more…)...

Zerodium is a cyber-arms dealer that produces hacking tools for governments by buying up newly discovered defects in widely used systems, weaponizing them and then selling them to be used against crim...

Allergan has disclosed that it transferred title to six of its contested eye drug patents to the St Regis Mohawk band in upstate New York, in a bid to use the band's sovereign immunity to prevent gene...

Civil asset forfeiture allows police departments to confiscate and keep property they claim results from criminal activity, without having to prove that any criminal activity took place -- this turned...

The Cassini spacecraft is on final approach to Saturn, following confirmation by mission navigators that it is on course to dive into the planets atmosphere on Friday, Sept. 15. (more…)...

Cloudflare's joint research with "a large e-commerce site" and Mozilla found that between 4-10% of secure, encrypted web connections are "intercepted," largely by corporate antivirus software that ins...

Our friends at Dangerous Minds write about on Steven Rhodes, a graphic designer from Brisbane, Australia. He is the excellent individual responsible for the hysterical retro-style t-shirts in this pos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUx95m9Ahn0The Philippines is ruled by an admitted murderer, President Rodrigo Duterte (previously), whose death squads have operated with impunity since he took offi...

It's "single payer" and not "universal health care" and there some potential structural pitfalls in this incarnation, but Sanders, Warren and the two dozen progressive and health activist groups who'v...

 If you're looking to make digital backups of your DVD collection that will play anywhere, this software combo from MacX makes it easy. Here's what it includes:MacX DVD Ripper ProSince not all DV...

For me, it's often the little things at Burning Man that touch me the most. It's the understated art quietly sitting all alone on the playa that can really wow me. Like this piece I stumbled upon on o...

Mumsnet bills itself as "the UK's most popular parenting website," and it makes substantial revenues from the ads that run alongside the sprawling, vigorous discussions among the eponymous mums (and t...

The $45.28 Learning Resources Anatomy Models Bundle Set is a well-reviewed set of anatomical models: a 5" heart, a 3.75" brain, a 4.5" body and a 9.2" skeleton, all of which disassemble into anatomica...

From the Skyglow Project:Located in the High Plains of Alliance, Nebraska, this monument to Englands Stonehenge was conceived and created by Jim Reinders in 1987, as a memorial to his father. Carhen...

Now that eclipse mania has settled down a bit, were seeing a round of work by editors and artists who needed a little time to shape their images and video into something even more transcendent. Eric...

In 1953, the National Cathedral in Washington DC installed two stained glass windows depicting Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. A task force recommended removal, which started this month. (more&...

Poe's law in action! What could be more white than posting a selection of unopened and unused supermarket condiments as sardonic proof that white people do in fact season food?Mind you, Bertolli extra...

Handicorn is an $8 unicorn puppet with a difference: you mount the unicorn's dismembered head and legs onto individual fingers, then clop around to your heart's content unfettered by the swaddling con...

Parker Paul posted this video, in which the term "quadcopter" refers both to the drone (piloted by Alban Roinard) and the simple but effective mirror symmetry applied to the footage. The music is Zo...

Sprayfoam (expanding packing foam) from oddlysatisfyingI saw that expandable foam packaging had made it to the top of Reddit's Oddly Interesting forum, so bought another 180 bags of it at Amazon. Now ...

Oh, Denny's. How many meetings did you have before you decided on using an anthropomorphic poop-like sausage for one of your Grand Slam breakfast mascots?https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/90656461...

Oh, Denny's. How many meetings did you have before you decided on using an anthropomorphic poop-like sausage for one of your Grand Slam breakfast mascots?https://twitter.com/ArmyStrang/status/90656461...

Ships need a reliable way to know their exact location at sea -- and for centuries, the lack of a dependable method caused shipwrecks and economic havoc for every seafaring nation. In this week's epis...

When you look at your phone it'll shoot thousands of lasers straight into your pores, then it sucks your soul like Dementor. Thank you for your life juice. (more…)...

And that is what we call a GOOD DOG. So super excited, this lil guy is. (more…)...

Yes. (more…)...

Amazon sells this arcade button switch plate cover and a rocker switch for $13....

Boing Boing got an email from a guy who created a smartphone app called the Bad Driver Database. The idea is to enter car license plate numbers of drivers that are doing something wrong. This is probl...

The Borough Council of Chesterfield, a charming town in Derbyshire, England, commemorated the the 20th anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales, with this splendid display outside Market Hall....

"Jeff is a renaissance man, drilling down to the core issues and pushing the envelope." That's just one of the funny real-life examples of cliched and otherwise awful writing that cognitive scientis...

In California, recreational marijuana is now legal, but a new law just made it illegal to deliver it, unless there is a human involved. In other words, weed cannot be transported with "unmanned vehicl...

In this video, Robert Reich gives a clear explanation of what Putin has gained from putting Trump in the White House as his puppet president.Trump has already delivered on or is in the process of de...

Cause people are talking about bionics, and I think the young kids don't understand....

The latest fatberg (a hardened mass of condoms, nappies, wet wipes, fat, and other things that people insist on flushing down their toilets) (previously) to clog London's sewers is the Whitechapel wha...

The $35 Bleeding Hand Candle from Etsy seller Creepy Candles is a life-sized candle whose fingers blaze, melt red wax blood, and leave behind a full-sized metal skeleton hand when they've burned up. (...

A recurring outrage theme on the internet is hard-working restaurant servers whose "tips" turn out to be fake US currency printed with Bible verses, bearing the reassurance that these are "more valuab...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTTuggZ2APkFilmmaker/writer/games developer Jim "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" Munroe (previously) has just launched his first VR venture. Manimal Sanctuary is a "lurking si...

https://youtu.be/aj3Hyxxo_LkJoshua Browder (...

A man in Connecticut was flying a single-engine Cessna 172 to get breakfast when he crashed into a tree, his plane then cartwheeling before landing on the ground of a parking lot. The 80-year-old pi...

Attendees at a silent candlelight vigil in honor of Prabagaran Srivijayan -- a Mayasian migrant worker who was executed for drug trafficking on July 14 -- have been notified that they are the subjects...

"Lift" is one of the three previously unreleased tracks from Radiohead's 20th anniversary reissue of OK Computer, titled OK Computer OKNOTOK 1997-2017. Video directed by Oscar Hudson....

China's "economic miracle" has been accompanied by mass-scale looting, creating a class of super-rich, corrupt millionaires and billionaires to rival the US or Russia; these 1%ers know that their weal...

The Force is apparently strong with JJ Abrams. Less than a week after Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow, um, parted ways, Abrams is returning to the Star Wars universe to finish the trilogy he started. He...

If the novelty of holding an elaborate bearing (possibly connected to some motion-sensitive LEDs) is wearing thin, have no fear: with a 3D printer and a little ingenuity, you can make your own double-...

When it comes to the responsibility of making mediocre pizza, risking ones life is the only suitable option. That could have very well been the thinking of a Florida Pizza Hut manager who threatened t...

A monkey in Indonesia will now be enjoying 25% of future profits from a selfie he took with a photographer's camera, following a settlement announced Monday. Photographer David Slater agreed to donat...

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may be having too much fun with himself on Twitter after he liked a two-minute porn clip early Tuesday morning. Cruz, or whoever could have possibly been in charge of his official ...

Francis Xavier "X" Atencio was a key Imagineer on such Disney parks classics as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, serving as an illustrator, sculptor, scriptwriter, and lyricist (he's ...

Ants are cultural signifiers of busy industriousness, but a new paper in Plos One reveals that, across species, about 40% of "worker" ants spend most of their days doing nothing. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Az-l90RCns8Security research firm Armis has disclosed eight new Bluetooth vulnerabilities it collectively calls "Blueborne" that take less than 10 sec...

Miami-Dade's hurricane shelters experienced "chaos" during Irma, and the Miami-Dade schools chief Alberto Carvalho says that's because the Red Cross was missing in action. (more…)...

Makeup artist Dain Yoon likes to push the envelope with her work, and her new nail portraits complete with real hair are definitely doing that. (more…)...

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London's Victoria and Albert Museum recently posted a 7-minute assembly of footage from plywood manufacturing "then and now." The result, aided by some nice sleazy electronica, is a mesmerizing adve...

Photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer found idyllic promotional photos of now-abandoned resorts in the Poconos, painstakingly found the exact spot where the shot was taken, and matched them flawlessly a ...

For a hobbyist, photographer Tzvika Stein captures some remarkable images around the world. It's hard to top his cool drone photos of the Dead Sea, which look like another planet. (more…)...

Just as I was getting back from Burning Man, a super-funny video of an Irish family dealing with a bat flying around their kitchen, was going viral. Tadhg Fleming, the family's son, captured the cha...

Canine-loving fans of the 1998 stoner cult flim The Big Lebowski can rejoice.Pendleton, the creator of the original Westerley cardigan worn by the Dude, has created dog-sized versions of the movie's i...

Today, Apple is expected to reveal a third iteration of the Apple Watch, as well as an all-new iPhone 8 at their Fall Keynote. The new device is reported to have a totally redesigned edge-to-edge disp...

In an emergency situation, it's important to get life-saving information out to the people. Deaf residents of Manatee County, Florida may not have received this message clearly, as a man with limite...

I am mighty pleased with Gasolina's beautifully made leather motorcycle boots. I've had mine for 3 years.A lot of beautiful leatherwork comes from Leon, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. I was looki...

I've known since I was fourteen that one day I'd write a novel entitled Madness Treads Lightly. What it would be about, I had no idea. It was a one-of-a-kind event: a title popping up all by itself, b...

This owl shaped Echo Dot holder lives in my bathroom.I'm addicted to Echo Dot. I keep one in my office, one in the kitchen, and now one in my bathroom. I treat the Dots like radios and listen to the n...

In case you're the type who doesn't notice your own bad foot odor, help has come in the form of a cute robot dog named Hana-chan (Hana means "nose" in English). Hana, who has a sensor in its nose, i...

On the newly relaunched Mondo 2000 website, R.U. Sirius interviewed Wired founder Louis Rossetto about the origins of Wired and about his new novel, Change is Good. I was an editor at Wired from 1993-...

Two influential members of the U.S. Senate today demanded answers from Equifax on the recent massive data breach that affected 143 million Americans. (more…)...

The nicest thing John Oliver could find to say about racist criminal Joe Arpaio was that he's "a man who answers the question, 'What if a decaying rotted potato somehow hated Mexicans?'" The nicest ...

These NASA images of Hurricane Irma churning across the Atlantic Ocean show widespread browning of the landscape,as winds devastated several Caribbean islands before moving on to the Florida Keys and ...

Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov said that the US intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States" last night on the Russian television show, Sunday Even...

Russian politician Vyacheslav Nikonov says U.S. intelligence missed it when Russian intelligence stole the president of the United States. (more…)...

On September 11, 2001, this was astronaut Frank Culbertson's view of New York City from the International Space Station."The world changed today," Station Commander Culbertson wrote the next day. "Wha...

A great white shark washed up today on a popular Sydney, Australia beach. Manly Sea Life Sanctuary transferred the juvenile shark to a nearby swimming pool to recover before they release it into the o...

As a friend of (the now-late) "King of the Kustomizers' George Barris, automobile aficionado Ken Roberts of Arizona knew he wanted a "movie car" for himself. So, in 2013, he started building a repli...

Billionaire Richard Branson has posted images on Twitter that show post-Irma damage to his island, Necker, as well as other surrounding islands. He's working on getting aid to the British Virgin Isl...

Officials from Japan's Miyazaki Prefectural Government brought a live tick for a photo opp at a press conference about the dangers of thrombocytopenia syndrome, a tick-born disease that's recently inf...

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was part of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, a period of intense exploration during the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. He died in 1921 while on ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLQ4h4yKSk&feature=youtu.beEverything is a Remix (previously) is an important, entertaining series of short videos that trace the ways the creation is built on earli...

In Montreal, Quebec, Grald Collard and the Atelier Neon Family create intricate works of neon. Here's how they make that magical glow. (via Uncrate)...

A 17-year-old Australian fashion designer is sending corpses into the afterlife with an environmentally-conscience wardrobe designed just for the dead. Pia Interlandi works with clients who are close ...

African wild dogs seem to be exercising more political freedom than most of the continents countries all with the democratic power of a sneeze. A study published Wednesday in The Royal Society Publ...

Last week's solution to the ages-old mystery of the Voynich Manuscript was offered in the Times Literary Supplement by TV history researcher Nicholas Gibbs, who claimed that his unique background in s...

Last night during the Miss America pageant, Miss Texas' Margana Wood was asked whether she agreed with Trump that there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to last month's demonstration o...

Sarinee Achavanuntakul's Home of the Underdogs was the best abandonware site on the early web, introducing a new generation to countless brilliant games and helping spark the retrogaming boom of the a...

When the 9/11 commission reported back on the intelligence failures that led to the attacks 16 years ago, they identified a key problem: America's spy agencies had collected so much useless, indiscrim...

Comcast enjoys an effective monopoly over internet service in Vermont and it's about to get an 11-year extension to its permit to use billions of dollars' worth of public rights of way in the state, a...

Conservative christian TV star Josh Duggar (previously) was ditched by television after he admitted sexually abusing kids as an adolescent. Now he's being sued by a guy whose photo he allegedly stole...

JeffHK mounted a camera on a cargo ship, and 80,000 photos later he had a fascinating timelapse of what it's like to be at sea for 30 days. (more…)...

Maker Barry Abrams has been oxidizing steel discs to make them look like Mars. It's a multistep undertaking that incldes a black screen printing process and yields a cool result. (more…)...

YouTuber TheStradman wanted to unload his 2006 orange Lamborghini Gallardo, so for kicks he took it to CarMax, thinking they probably would not do a free appraisal. They took a surprising amount of ...

"Oooooo, well done! Well done. What happened there?"...

POLYBIUS: The Video Game That Doesn't Exist is an hourlong exploration of the ultimate arcade urban legend: play it, and it'll drive you insane. The documentary was made by Stuart "Ahoy" Brown, who...

The Alphasmart ($15, Amazon) is a low-end gadget much-loved by writers for its simplicity and enforced focus on the task at hand: writing. But among the many limitations is its cheap rubber-dome keybo...

A/NES is a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator for the classic Commodore Amiga. You'll need an enhanced chipset (too bad, A500 owners!) and you'll want a good joypad to enjoy those old console game...

The ocean has been featured prominently in a lot of bad news lately. Here's Morgan Maassen's reminder of how lovely it can be, featuring surfer Stephanie Gilmore. (more…)...

A new study in the International Journal of Astrobiology posits that beached whales may sometimes be influenced by solar storms. (more…)...

This wonderful sendup of one of the most iconic clips in the history of nature documentaries is the stunning footage of a superb bird of paradise dancing for a prospective mate. (more…)...

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox nails this faux US presidential campaign ad doing what he does best poking fun at Trump. And this one is packed with lots of laugh-out-loud fun....

 The School of Game Design offers a deep introduction to Unity 3D and other essential game design elements and it is now available in the Boing Boing Store.Throughout 120 hours of video content, ...

During the five weeks after hackers stole 143 million Americans' data from Equifax, and while its execs were selling off their stock by the millions, the company sprang into action, producing an insec...

Tesla sells both 60kWh and 75kWh versions of its Model S and Model X cars; but these cars have identical batteries -- the 60kWh version runs software that simply misreports the capacity of the battery...

The textures in this series of letterpress mockups by Hydro74 (aka Joshua Smith) are almost tangible. (more…)...

In a time when many popular films are not very imaginative in choice of shots, this look at staging and blocking in 12 Angry Men is a wonderful reminder of the possibilities for more. (more…)...

After more than 40 years on the job, 10th generation lobsterman Alex Todd of Chebeague Island, Maine recently pulled in a crustacean even he had never seen: a translucent lobster.He's quoted in the ...

St. Martin was one of the islands hardest hit by Hurricane Irma, and days later 6,000 Americans are still stranded on the French-Dutch island, with no phones, no Internet, or any kind of infrastruct...

[UPDATE: 9/9/2017 12:00pm PT Just received a dire message from our friend, Mitch, who has been stranded on St. Martin with his wife and daughter: "Just connected school management with my [redacted]...

[UPDATE: 9/9/2017 2:25pm PT US evacuates 500 Americans trapped on St. Maarten by Hurricane Irma][UPDATE: 9/9/2017 12:00pm PT Just received a dire message from our friend, Mitch, who has been strande...

The skeleton of a Viking originally believed to be a man is now being classified as high-ranking female warrior after examining DNA samples taken from her arm and teeth. Researchers believed the skel...

Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh seems to be turning against his own advice when it comes to heeding the warnings of Hurricane Irma after saying the hyped coverage is only to push the climate ch...

A classic Christmas tale about family, love, and hunting down machine gun-wielding terrorists one by one, while shoeless, is finally being turned into a childrens book. Written by comedian Doogie Horn...

Developer Operations engineers are absolutely essential for continuously deploying large web services. Beyond working closely with developers to push new code into service, theyre responsible for main...

Nicholas Gibbs, a history researcher, says that he has decoded the Voynich Manuscript, a legendarily mysterious 15th century text whose curious illustrations and script have baffled cryptographers, hi...

If you buy a house in Australia -- where housing prices are out of control, even by global standards -- you can wait a couple months for the house's book value to go up, and then borrow against that "...

Before Equifax doxed 143 million Americans (but after it had suffered repeated smaller breaches that should have alerted the company to deficiencies in its security), it directed its lobbying body, th...

Equifax dumped dox on 143 million Americans (as well as lucky Britons and Canadians!), sat on the news for five weeks, let its execs sell millions in stock, and then unveiled an unpatched, insecure Wo...

Deadcoins (by matixmatix) is a list of, well, dead coins: the Bitcoin-esque cryptocurrencies that failed to take off, which were scams or experiments, or which otherwise are now deceased. Or, perhaps ...

If Dracula needed a place to keep 60 twelve-oz.cans cool, this is probably what he'd use: an inflatable coffin float by holiday brand Beistle. Unfortunately it's not for using as a pool floatie. It's ...

Woodworker Matt Thompson has been making Adirondack chairs in the shape of Michigan, the lower peninsula at least, for a few years. Recently, he added the state's upper peninsula to the chair's over...

In space hacker Ariel Waldman's latest video, she introduces "The 5 Farthest Space Probes in 5 Minutes!" Of course my favorite space probe is the farthest from Earth, Voyager 1, that launched this w...

Heather Dockray and a band of amateur queer ghost hunters rented Trump's childhood home on Airbnb and found some creepy stuff, which of course begs the question: were they non-professionals seeking qu...

I needed to replace my bbq's thermometer and the manufacturer wanted an insane amount of money. This stylish replacement is a mere $7.Like many specialty parts industries, grilling supply shops are pr...

Greg Escalante, a pioneer in the lowbrow and pop surrealist art scene, respected gallerist, and co-founder of Juxtapoz magazine, has died. He was 62. From the OC Weekly:A native of Los Alamitos and bo...

Harlem Rapper A$AP Ferg has collaborated with Adidas to design the Adidas Skateboarding x Trap Lord Collection, which was released on September 1st. At the release party for the new collection, skater...

Peter Serafinowicz brings us the latest installment of Sassy Trump and his wise insight on Hurricane Irma, headed toward Florida. In Sassy's own words, "There seems to be a new record-breaking hurri...

What does it look like when over 500,000 people are ordered to evacuate South Florida in anticipation of Hurricane Irma? Not good. Even those trying to beat traffic by leaving at 1:30 AM this mornin...

Bungie's second installment in their Destiny series is a fun, vastly improved, next chapter in a video game we're well familiar with. (more…)...

Earlier this year Techdirt was sued for $15M by Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email in 1978, eight years after Ray Tomlinson sent an email over ARPANET. Ayyadurai was represented by Cha...

Tenants in Colony Park in West Palm Beach, Florida have been warned by their property management company Services Taylor Made ((407) 732-6850) that they are prohibited from putting shutters on their w...

It's been a year since the Ugandan government placed an order with a South Korean company for a "censor gadget or machine" that would "detect homos and porn actors, especially those misusing applicati...

Before 28-year-old Trump supporter Rupert Tarsey was the freshly minted chairman of the Broward County GOP, he was Rupert Ditsworth, a student at the exclusive, high-priced LA Harvard-Westlake School,...

Before 28-year-old Trump supporter Rupert Tarsey was the freshly minted secretary of the Broward County GOP, he was Rupert Ditsworth, a student at the exclusive, high-priced LA Harvard-Westlake School...

UT Austin sociologist Sarah Brayne spent 2.5 years conducting field research with the LAPD as they rolled out Palantir's Predpol, a software tool that is supposed to direct police to places where cri...

Lagrangeville, New York police found seven live sharks and three dead ones in a basement pool inside a home. The sandbar, leopard, and hammerhead sharks were between two and four feet long. According ...

Redditor Pirate_Redbeard posted this video of an ice-cream robot vending machine in Japan: an anthropomorphic robot that plucks a cone, holds it under a soft-serve machine, pulls a perfect poop-emoji ...

In July 2016, Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden presented their research on journalist-friendly mobile surveillance resistance at the first MIT Media Lab Forbidden Research conference; a little...

A windy day gives this trampoline the opportunity to escape from the mean primates who regularly stamp on it. My trampoline people need me!...

https://youtu.be/ajFmgmUSYAc"This Sunday, Bannons making his first post-White House TV appearance right here on CBS," says Stephen Colbert, "Surprisingly, it is not as a corpse on NCIS. How long was t...

While digging into Kurt Vonnegut's archives at Indiana University, Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz found five short stories that had never been published before. The Atlantic has posted one of the...

Michael Goodwin, author of an excellent cartoon history of economics has a new comic about the Republican health care plan, and why its not about helping sick people get affordable medical care but ab...

Forty years ago, serial killer David Berkowitz, aka the "Son of Sam," was thought to be targeting women in New York City who had long, dark hair. (In reality, Berkowitz thought he was following orde...

 It can be extremely difficult to extract data from your computer after its suffered a fatal crash, especially when you dont have an up-to-date backup. Instead of sacrificing your files, photos, ...

Denver Health Medical Center suspended five nurses who apparently opened a body bag to admire a dead man's genitals. "Multiple staff members viewed the victim while he was incapacitated, including aft...

"Whoa my nipples!" (Jake Alewel)...

Take one nickel ball, a half liter of liquid nitrogen, and a bowl of mercury, and watch what happens when the supercooled nickel sits in the bowl of mercury for a while. (more…)...

Armando Iannucci's new movie, "The Death of Stalin", presents the Soviet leader's demise and its chaotic aftermath in a darkly-comic mockumentary style. Iannucci's use of that format to illustrate the...

The FDA's Sept 6 warning letter to Epipen manufacturer Meridian (a division of Pfizer) condemns the company for knowingly shipping out defective products that led to the death of the customers who pai...

From mid-May to July 2017, Equifax exposed the financial and personal identifying information of 143 million Americans -- 44% of the country -- to hackers, who made off with credit-card details, Socia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PgTjhx1VLw&feature=youtu.beBut wait, there's more!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoyIiLtGYM&feature=youtu.beLet's trawl the old inspirations, the long-ago internet m...

Much of the UK's system of laws and "unwritten constitution" derives from EU law, so with Brexit inexorably advancing, the UK has to pass a whole raft of parallel legislation that will replace the EU ...

South Park's an easy target for anyone smarter than a cartoon frog, but sometimes not giving a shit is a good policy. The usual suspects are upset about this development and talking of boycotting the ...

On their website, Los Angeles-based Koi Division proclaims they are the "only Fish Goth Joy Division parody cover band that matters." I'm no expert, but I'm inclined to believe them. Each band member ...

These fish flip flops (sandals? slippers? shoes?) are equally as quirky as that Big Mouth Billy Bass toy from years ago, but much quieter and for your feet. I approve (though feel a bit gill-ty for lo...

After an exhaustive and uninterrupted search extending over many years, I have finally determined the worst K-Cup coffee. Target's Market Pantry Premium Roast ($15.98 for 48 pods) is about as cheap as...

The Juno probe is recording incredible image data of Jupiter. Not least are the new aurora studies that are shaking up what we know of the planet's extreme weather systems. But it's the sheer painterl...

I tried to count exactly how many spins this dancer, found on Reddit, completes but couldn't keep track at one point she picks up so much speed she's just a blur. But I definitely counted over 100. T...

Ta-Nehisi Coates (previously) is in characteristically amazing form with his new essay in the Atlantic, "The First White President," in which he posits that Donald Trump is "the first president whose ...

Houdini would be jealous of Toscha Sponsler. The Texas woman was sought by police for allegedly shoplifting. They cuffed her and put her in the back of a police car, but Ms. Sponsler was not ready t...

Emily Mueller and her husband have a business relocating bees from areas where they might be exterminated. So when she hired Kendrah Damis to snap some photos of her third trimester, Emily wanted to i...

Nature Photographers Ltd and the British Trust for Ornithology have announced the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year Award winners. Above: Great Snipe silhouette by Torsten Green-Petersen, Honourable ...

Calling cards were popular among a number of 1970s subcultures, including street gangs (previously) and CB radio enthusiasts. When two operators met off the airwaves and in real life, they called it "...

Collin Lynch at Essarai Ceramics creates these delightfully pointy coffee mugs, teacups, and other tableware in his Albuquerque studio. (more…)...

A petition to change Hurricane Irma's name to Hurricane Ivanka has gathered nearly 8,000 signatures so far. It is hoping to collect at least 10,000 signatures. Posted online yesterday on the petition ...

This week on Maker Update, an enchanted talking tiki totem pole, Donald Bell's trip to OSH Park and Metrix Makerspace, a retro lightbox, and why you need flush cutters. This weeks Cool Tool is the $...

Haha! Here's a feisty girl who tells an InfoWars reporter that he's "a fucking idiot" after he approaches her and asks, "How are you young man." He then gets all prim on us. "Wow, who taught you that ...

A disk failed on my Drobo 5N2. Happens. (more…)...

This bird wants to leave the store, so it hovers in front of the motion detector until the door opens. Smart little bird understands how motion sensors work from gifs[via]...

Wow! I want to see how this Halo Top ice cream story began and how it ends more please! Here's a commercial that feels more like you're in the middle of a Terry Gilliam (Brazil Part 2) movie than a...

US infrastructure spending as a proportion of GDP is at a low not seen since WWII, and that's why America's bridges, dams, roads, power plants and other key infrastructure are such easy fodder for Hur...

In 2013, DOJ lawyers showed JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon a draft of a 92-page complaint against his bank. Dimon coughed up $13B to settle the case, and the complaint was sealed, leaving us all to w...

He attended the bull run for thrills, and got his money's worth.So why are you buying the lottery today?...

 Having plenty of water is essential for any outdoor adventure, but carrying multiple liters of fluids gets old after a few miles. This water bottle comes with a built-in filter, so you can safel...

A Peruvian fisherman is severely swollen following a seafloor dive that left him with decompression sickness. Alejandro Ramos Martinez gained almost 70 more pounds of weight from the sickness, also k...

Dennis Rodman, two-time NBA All Star and possibly the last man who can stop the North Korean nuclear threat, is offering President Donald Trump his diplomatic services to ease tensions. During a Wed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkMQyAEpyuk Sneakerheads can rock a pair of fresh adidas even while covered in vomit and regret during Oktoberfest thanks to the companys new adidas Mnchen Oktoberfest....

The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Lenovo over the 2015 revelation that the company pre-installed malware called "Superfish" on its low-end models, which allowed the company ...

Grady Judd (@PolkCoSheriff, 1-800-226-0344) is the Sheriff of Polk County, FL, in the path of Hurricane Irma; his emergency communications have included repeated warnings to Floridians with outstandin...

Logan Rimel is parish administrator at University Lutheran Chapel of Berkeley, and identifies as a pacifist; when Rimel traveled to Charlottesville to protest the gathering of white supremacists there...

Mat Ricardo (previously) writes, "After 30 years of being the undisputed go-to guy for performing feats of dexterity live on stage, I've got a problem - I think I've done all the tricks I can think ...

In DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands, researchers from Zhejiang University demonstrate an attack on popular voice assistants in laptops and mobile devices from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft...

The North Carolina Republican Party has rebuked one of its mayoral candidates, Kimberley Paige Barnette, after she wrote VOTE FOR ME! REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL. on her Facebook page. Barn...

The driver, Richard Poirier, is fine. But he was charged with careless driving after his erratic driving in Carleton Place, Ontario, ended in what I timed as 1.67 seconds of excellent air....

Scotty from Strange Parts famously built a fully-functioning iPhone from replacement parts sourced in Chinese electronic wholesale markets. Now he's gone a step further, and upgraded one to have a h...

"A guy pulling a car with no-one in it. No-one's in the car. Now they lost their tailgate. Ha." I tried this once with an office chair that wouldn't fit in the car. It went well....

In March 1913, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson threw the most beautiful typeface in the world off of London's Hammersmith Bridge to keep it out of the hands of his estranged printing partner. In this we...

Has Angelina Jolies face collapsed or is it preternaturally super-smooth? Have Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell split or are they living together? Does Hillary Clinton tell all in her new memoir, or revea...

$10 for this Wicked Audio bundle: a bluetooth speaker, closed headphones, and ear buds is pretty unbeatable.You will not mind listening to or losing these headphones! Moderately bass-y and certainly g...

Humble Bundle has a great pay-what-you want deal on MAKE electronics and programming instructional books. Even $1 gets you a nice collection. $15 gets you Charles Platt's essential electronics books a...

Hit Play, below, to hear a wide-ranging interview with venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, whose shrewd bets include backing Elon Musk in ventures like Tesla and SpaceX. Steve and I talk a bit about E...

The Washington Posts Carol Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Rosalind Helderman have a story about Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election:Representatives of Facebook told congressional investi...

In Song of the Sausage Creature Hunter Thompson captured everything that is wonderful about cafe racers.This review of Ducati's legendary 900 Supersport is perfect:...When Cycle World called me to ask...

Loch Ness Monster researcher Mikko Takala presents Nessie on the Net livestreams from cameras on Scotland's famed loch. Did I just see a tree branch or was it a plesiosaur?Remember, what you're seek...

With Donald Trump reversing Obama's ban on the use of private prisons for federal prisoners and vowing to deport 11 million people; and Attorney General Jeff Sessions instructing prosecutors to seek l...

Hugo Cornellier took a selfie every day from the age of 12 until his recent wedding day. Why stop now though?...

In the crystal blue waters of the Greek island of Zakynthos hundreds of loggerhead turtles use isolated rocks to scrape barnacles off their shells and generally spruce up. Biologists collected video...

This week, microblogging platform Gab became the latest canary in a coal mine over the limits of free speech on the internet, acquiescing to their registrar's demand regarding a post deemed obscene. (...

Leah Rothman was a segment director on the Dr Phil show for 12 years, until (she says) she and her co-workers were locked in a room by Dr Phil and screamed at and threatened by the show's host, who wa...

Liam Smith, 24, of Bristol, England, was on a dinner date with a woman he met on Tinder when they returned to his flat. She took a poop in his bathroom but it wouldn't flush, so she decided to toss th...

Hacker takeovers of power infrastructure have been seen in Ukraine (where they are reliably attributed to Russian state actors), but now the US power-grid has been compromised by hackers of unknown or...

"In celebration of Voyagers' Interstellar voyage, we've added these Posters and Infographics for you to download, print, and share." (more…)...

In 1979, Hsker D played their first show, paving the way for Nirvana, The Pixies, Foo Fighters, and really the entire realm of alternative rock. I have a special love for the band as they were my fi...

Nukazooka's latest video brings Grand Theft Auto's disconcerting brand of vehicular violence into the Lego realm. ...

Police from Beaverton, Oregon are striking down what they say are bogus claims on social media about a missing baby giraffe, according to their twitter account. Concerns grew after a Craigslist post e...

 Droplr is a streamlined tool for sending files and sharing screenshots with teammates. It makes collaboration between teams and organizations seamlessly easy.Instead of keeping track of email at...

The Fire TV Stick is the only streaming media player we use. We should recycle our TiVo and Apple TV. The best thing about Fire TV Stick is the voice control. I press a button on the remote and tell i...

Facebook has taken a step closer to the border between between human and AI interactions. According to New Scientist, the social networks AI lab directed a bot to watch hundreds of Skype conversations...

This truck supports pieces of a tunnel arch as they are lowered from a crane. The body of the truck is covered with rollers so it can drive out of the tunnel and let the pieces fall into place.Zipper ...

https://youtu.be/0cLxCjjJbnYJustin Roiland of Adult Swims Rick and Morty, and voice behind the hit cartoons leading characters, calls up Joel Osteens megachurch prayer line as Rick Sanchez during a hu...

A gentleman cut in line at an ATM, which turned out to be a mistake. Whether or not this is real, it's high comedy on the level of The Three Stooges.Cutting in line from funny...

Deer, elk, antelope, and moose shed their antlers once a year. Jim Phillips of Montana has been collecting them for 59 years, amassing 16,000 antlers so far. His arrangements are spellbinding, almos...

A handy glossary for parents....

Skycool Systems is a Stanford spin-out that uses panels composed of "layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide on top of a thin layer of silver" to convert the waste-heat from air-conditioners' heat...

Washington and Lee law professor Joshua Fairfield is the author of a recent book called Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom, which takes up the argument that DRM and license agreemen...

Pedra Que Engole means "swallowing rock," an accurate name for a small Brazilian cave accessible only via waterfall. (more…)...

YOU CAN follow @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.AND INDEED if you do not join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to co...

I just read Krystal D'Costa's article about Why Don't People Return Their Shopping Carts and was astounded to learn that no-one had created a shopping cart alignment chart. I have rectified this failu...

15-year-old Patrick Ponce just set a staggering new world record for solving a Rubik's cube. (more…)...

For the past two years, Adrian Crook's four eldest kids (aged 7-11) have ridden Vancouver's public transit to school together, traveling as a group from the bus stop in front of his condo to the bus s...

The soothing crunch, the rhythmic chewing... is there anything better than the tingly sound of panda mastication? Watch this cutie make quick work of a large bamboo shoot.Here's another one, but not...

People are tying red balloons to sewer grates and it's getting on the cops' nerves because no-one wants to untie them and they end up having to do it.Police are asking the local prankster not to conti...

The TS100 was already an incredible gadget, a miniature precision soldering iron, a cult product whose magical powers I toyed with upon discovering the wonderful world of assembly-required mechanica...

The PainStation is a cocktail-style Pong game that provides "sensory feedback" to players. Which is to say: pain. Physical pain.During the game, the players place their left hands on the PEU (Pain E...

Colin Trevorrow will no longer be the director of Star Wars: Episode IX. From the Hollywood Reporter:"Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow have mutually chosen to part ways on Star Wars: Episode IX. Colin ha...

It seems like yesterday, but Trololo — the internet-fueled renaissance of a perfectly demented Soviet echo of midcentury western light-entertainment bullshit — is almost a decade old. A...

In the Internet of Shit, Grosseries Department, a colleague and friend of this reporter who requested anonymity for themselves and their client relayed a story of a Samsung fridge that had a distinct ...

People who suffer from chronic itching say it's more unbearable than pain. I'll never forget a 2008 story called The Itch in The New Yorker. It's about a woman whose scalped itched so much that "She h...

People who suffer from chronic itching say it's more unbearable than pain. I'll never forget a 2008 story called The Itch in The New Yorker. It's about a woman whose scalped itched so much that "She h...

Movie composer Mark Korven (The Cube and The Witch) wanted a musical instrument that made terrifying sounds so he asked his luthier friend, Tony Duggan-Smith, to make something that fit the bill. Be...

This has got to be the funniest get-the-wild-animal-out-of-the-house videos ever. You couldn't write fiction better than this. Even the panicked man who I supposed is the dad thinks it's funny. The ...

In my latest Locus column, "Demon-Haunted World," I propose that the Internet of Cheating Things -- gadgets that try to trick us into arranging our affairs to the benefit of corporate shareholders, to...

Micki Myers paints very realistic vegetables and fruit. Just one item in each case, floating in a pure existential realm of nutritious plant life. Pictured above is an apple. Here's a pickle:Also, an ...

Yesterday, I left the Black Rock Desert after Burning Man and my phone came to life and informed me that my novel Walkaway had been awarded DragonCon's Dragon Award for Best Apocalyptic Novel! (more&h...

In June, China started vigorously enforcing its ban on VPNs, ordering mobile app stores to end access to VPN services that hadn't left a set of man-in-the-middle keys with the Chinese police. (more&he...

Here's a weatherman who has no problem letting the wind fly on live TV. Watch how he takes a preparatory step back, bends forward for maximum muzzle velocity, and then shoots the cannon. Or breaks w...

Here's a great collection of 1950s and 1960s Eastern European matchbook covers, many with a space exploration theme....

According to the product description at Amazon, these fluorescent unicorn stickers will apply to any flat surface, can be removed and replaced, and "need to absorb light in daytime" if they are to glo...

Club Jger was a popular Minneapolis night spot until Citypages revealed that its owner, Julius Jaeger De Roma, donated $500 to the senatorial campaign of David Duke, a former KKK Grand Wizard and ard...

Enjoy this local Chicago TV profile of toy inventor Marvin Glass--if you can. His toy development company created many famous toys and games (Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Operation, etc.) which brough...

I hope he is doing this to entertain himself and not to, y'know, get rid of the puddle....

Pablo writes, "In Houston, half-a-million undocumented immigrants, many of them victims of Hurricane Harvey, fear seeking help from state and federal relief efforts." (more…)...

I used to pretend to cry, whenever I was down, just so my dog Lucy would run up and comfort me. This worked well for a little over 16 years.I have lived my entire life with dogs. I have been lucky eno...

Pissed off and misguided people have been burning books for thousands of years. At Smithsonian, Lorraine Boissoneault provides "A Brief History of Book Burning from the earliest examples on record thr...

Everything attributed to Millennials was attributed to Gen X and Boomers and, well, everyone, pretty much (every time someone tells you that Millennials aren't interested in working and have no ambiti...

Even if people are content with their own lives, their "a collectively shared sense of doom and gloom about society" is a major influence on their "decisions about divisive societal issues, such as vo...

There are two kinds of magic tricks. One kind makes the spectator think: "That magician must have a lot of skill to pull off such a difficult trick." The other kind makes the spectator think: "That ...

One of the reasons that online review sites still have some utility is that "crowdturfing" attacks (in which reviewers are paid to write convincing fake reviews to artificially raise or lower a busine...

William Friedkin, director of the classic 1973 film The Exorcist, just screened his new documentary about a "real" exorcism conducted by Father Gabriele Amorth on behest of the Vaticans Rome Diocese. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuQZq6DQQDY The venerable Infocom text-adventure game Zork spawned the Infocom Z-Machine V3, a virtual machine that could run "programs" (games) from the commercial t...

The UK's Royal Mail is issuing a new series of Star Wars postage stamps to celebrate the December release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. "Beautifully illustrated by UK digital artist, Malcolm Tween, som...

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized Linux computer that costs about $30 (some versions are only $10). Because they are cheap, tiny, and versatile, they are an excellent basis for lots of different...

A Sheriff's deputy who shot an Ohio photojournalist says he mistook his camera and tripod for a gun. Jake Shaw fired without warning, reports the New Carlisle News, seriously injuring Andy Grimm, who ...

I've long wanted some new pots, and this $80 14 pc ceramic cookset was too good a deal to pass up!Well made and easy to cook on, these turquoise pots and pans match the odd-but-pleasing tiles in my 19...

A Reddit user posted the above photo, saying, "After 5 years, I finally completed a full playing card deck from randomly found cards on streets around the world." It didn't take long for other Reddit ...

Pedra Que Engole (Swallow Rock") is an underground cave in Trindade, Brazil. People jump into it, travel through the water-filled cave for a little over 30 seconds, and are ejected into a nearby poo...

 iOS is one of the most popular platforms in the world, and you can learn how to create apps for it in the Complete iOS 11 Developer Bundle. Even if youve never written a line of code, this colle...

Editor's note: Forty years ago today, NASA launched Voyager 1, the second of two spacecraft on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each spacecr...

People Crime reports that Matthew Phelps, a 28-year-old North Carolina trainee pastor, can't remember stabbing his wife. He woke up and there she was, dead, and there he was, covered in her blood.Ph...

I suspect Master Thalpians' dog had technological assistance after the first couple of bars, but it nailed that first note....

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The facts don’t speak for themselves. Someone always speaks for them.From the opioid crisis to vaccines, vitamin and health supplements to climate change — even the widespread use of lobot...

Boing Boing editor and partner David Pescovitz has an op-ed up at CNN about the Voyager probe's golden record. Even in the cold and distant darkness of space, this exemplar of human culture plays on. ...

Elon Musk started off his Labor Day in dark mood. In the wee hours of the morning he tweeted a link to an article by The Verge, "Putin Says the Nation That Leads in AI 'Will Be the Ruler of the World....

I started a Cool Tools video channel on YouTube a couple of months ago. Each video is usually less than two minutes long and has a hands-on review of a tool, such as a USB powered soldering iron, clip...

Last week I posted a video on homelessness in Japan. Part two just came out. In this video, Professor Tom Gill, a social anthropology professor at Meiji Gakuin University, who has lived in Japan for...

Exhibit A: Opera singers dubbed with dial up modems could be the next big thing – Olaf Falafel.https://twitter.com/OFalafel/status/904483788301926405Exhibit B: The Modem Choirhttps://youtu.be/Yn...

Described as "perfect for those spooky and intellectual alike," this cardboard skull is laser-cut and flat-packed, and "can be decorated with paint, glitter, wrapping paper or other craft materials." ...

Hanover Police are warning residents of the Chicago-area suburb that the mangy dogs they've been seeing roaming around are in fact "infected coyotes." Also, be sure to avoid the infected coyotes.Ther...

Shopping tip of the day!1 If you need to end an argument over who gets to buy the last item on the shelf, try whipping out your concealed-carry firearm and threatening other shoppers with it. Accord...

Your entry point to It's a Small World's YouTube channel of curiously haunting covers of pop songs performed on bleepty calculators. That model of musical calculator (are there others?) doesn't seem...

Singer Sierra Hull performs mandolin, backed by her washing machine: "how to practice your bluegrass chops while doing the laundry."...

Artist Roberto Benavidez specializes in whimsical piatas, but his Hieronymus Bosch piatas are a Garden of Earthly Delights. (more…)...

For the Gomtries Amoureuses exhibit, sculptor Jean-Michel Othoniel created this enormous wave from green-hued glass bricks. (more…)...

 Because evil never sleeps, you should light up the night with a glowing likeness of your favorite superhuman protagonist. To pay tribute with some eye-catching lighting, these Superhero 3D Illus...

 Before you pile on more student loans for grad school, consider getting certified from one of the many Information Technology industry associations. Even if your future ultimately lies in academ...

Parker Wiseman ran for student office in high school with photocopied flyers. He debated the public school system in social studies class. In college he took the courses and shook the hands that would...

Juz Alvarado captured this footage of a street artist painting a "Zen" keychain using paint-filled syringes. (more…)...

In 1997, ecologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs convinced a Costa Rican orange juice maker to to dump their waste peels in a clear-cut abandoned pasture that was in a national park. Twenty year...

FRB 121102, a fast radio burst signal first picked up in 2012, was just observed emitting many new bursts of energy. Scientists from SETI and Breakthrough Listen were both very excited by the new find...

Mike Shaughnessy, professor of German at Washington & Jefferson College, translated a letter written one Ernst from Cologne, to his cousin in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Sent in 1936—after Hitler's rise ...

https://youtu.be/mb_PcsivvYQBruce Sterling posted this astonishing video of the flood in Simonton, Texas. It was shot by drone and posted to YouTube by the Fort Bend County Office of Emergency Managem...

These guys got a bottle of Coke from 1956, and drank it. There wasn't a lot of carbonation remaining, but they said it didn't taste too bad. The finish was a bit musty, though: "Have you ever licked...

Big VC firms like Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins invested $118 million to fund a company that made a $400 machine that squeezed juice out of proprietary juice packets. Now they have nothing to sh...

Dmitriy Morozov, from Moscow, makes machines that make music, kind of. Above, the Ball-O-Bol.In Russian language, balabol is someone who talks a lot without much sense, one who lies, a big mouth.Thi...

Australian personal care company Aesop recently released a toothpaste infused with sea buckthorn, cardamom, and wasabi. At $17 a tube (60ml) and no promise of dramatically whiter teeth or immunity fro...

Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies is the latest project from artist Andrew DeGraff and is available for pre-order now. DeGraff has illustrated for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Slate, an...

If you want to escape the real world for a bit, escape into the vivid, satirical artwork of illustrator/cartoonist Alex Gamsu Jenkins. Jenkins is from the suburbs of London and graduated from Camberwe...

Eric Judkins, 42, failed to return to his halfway house Monday night, but was soon found and arrested. No word on how they were able to spot him so quickly....

The next afternoon the phone rang.Hello? came the unmistakable voice. This is Jerry Lewis and I would be honored to write a foreword for your book.Only hours before; with zero expectations, we had dro...

The Elegoo UNO R3 Board is on sale on Amazon today for $9.34. I've used this board in a couple of projects, like my peanut butter mixer, and it has worked flawlessly. And if you need a kit of parts to...

Behold the most amazing arcade hack in existence: Matt Brailsford, AKA Circuitbeard, crammed Sega's OutRun into a Tomy Turnin' Turbo dashboard. [via]Some key features are an integrated 3.5 TFT scree...

A man in Russia is hitchhiking from Vladimir (near Moscow) to the Kursk region to attend his mother's funeral when he is overcome with grief. He decides to jump off an overpass on the Minsk highway,...

Watching Riusuke Fukahori paint this beautiful resin painting called Goldfish Salvation may be the most relaxing thing you do today. (more…)...

gnes Herczeg developed her artistic style through the practice of traditional lacemaking. The results combine found items like coconut shells and wood with delicate lace forms. (more…)...

Poor William C. Bradford. The Trump-appointed head of the DOE's Office of Indian Energy said he was the victim of a bad person who used his social media accounts "over the past several years" to say c...

On Tuesday, Quebec's Minister of International Relations, Christine St. Pierre, offered to donate blankets, pillows, beds, hygienic products and manpower to the survivors of Hurricane Harvey. She spok...

Salt Lake City police detective Jeff Payne didn't have a warrant to draw blood from an injured patient at the University of Utah Hospitals burn unit. He also didn't have the patient's consent to dra...

Google's influence at a supposedly independent think tank it funds was exposed this week when staffers critical of the company were fired. But Kashmir Hill reports that there's nothing new about Googl...

Kelly Richman-Abdou reports on the fabulous animal puppets made by Haruki Nakamura. Beautifully-animated cartoon surprises—but made of paper!Crafted from paper and cleverly constructed, each whi...

 Its easy to get used to the old sheets on your bed, since most of your time in them is spent completely unconscious. But giving your linens a refresh can feel like putting a new pair of underwea...

Chris Ramsay does a lot of fun street magic, and this clever trick that employs a deck of cards and a phone is an update of a classic. (more…)...

Sure, we've all worn a bee beard for a minute or two, but Canada's own Juan Carlos Noguez Ortiz just broke the Guinness World Record by sitting for more than an hour with a facehive going. Impressiv...

Jake Rossen takes a deep dive into the iconic American novelty toy company Wham-O and its storied history. (more…)...

El Bolillo's late shift bakers found Houston's streets impassable during the hurricane, but since the power was still on, they got to work turning two tons of flour into pan dulce for the two days the...

Fear of Palindromes stuffed an entire computer inside a standard power supply box, complete with gaming-class GTX 1060 video card and a (smaller!) internal power supply. While lesser ATX units can't d...

I've had my eye on the nesting-doll fad, but none of the merch-tastic options caught my attention. I impulse-bought these as soon as I saw them, though, in hopes the print quality lives up to the prom...

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark, facing multiple federal lawsuits over deaths in his prisons, has unexpectedly resigned. He hasn't said what he's doing next, says the Washington Post, but has lon...

I just bought this 45-piece toolkit for $7 on Amazon. It comes with tweezers, an extension bar, a handle, and 42 bits, including metric sockets, Torx bits, and a few exotic bits....

If a young girl wanted to participate in a pirate event at Disneyland, it's unimaginable that she would be turned away because she's a girl. But Noah, a 3-year-old boy, who was "buzzing with excitemen...

One of the hallmarks of a great con artist is that his victims will return again and again to be fleeced. A few months ago I interviewed psychologist Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game: Wh...

If you were on the Moon during last week's solar eclipse, you would have seen the Moon's shadow moving across Earth. This image was taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) satellite. From Ariz...

Airplane travel is not much fun these days (unless you are very rich). It's made worse by drunken passengers, sociopathic flight attendants, and mechanical issues. Flights From Hell: Caught On Camer...

Yesterday morning, Trump tweeted, "After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, my heart goes out even more so to the great people of Texas!"It's a nice sentiment, ...

Researchers demonstrated single-molecule nanomachines that can target diseased cells and then kill them by drilling through the cell membrane. Developed by a team at Rice University, Durham Universi...

Corey Payne and his fiance Kayla Harris bought a three-pack of eclipse glasses on Amazon. Now they say they are suffering from impaired vision and they filed a lawsuit in federal court in South Caroli...

Coming soon for the SNES Classic Edition?...

Diphylleia grayi, the "skeleton flower" is normally opaque white but when it rains, the petals become transparent until the flower dries. Nanotechnologists are developing new materials inspired by t...

A measure to legalize magic mushrooms was filed with the California state Attorney General's office last week. Now it's up to schroom advocates to collect 365,880 voter signatures to bring the measure...

A motorcycle driver stopped at a red light last week in Washington state when suddenly a man lurches towards him. "How ya doing?!" he asks, the gun pointing right at him, reminding me of a killer cl...

My friend Koichi, founder of the Japanese culture website Tofugu, went to Tokyo to "rent" Kotani Makoto for 50 (45 cents). Kotani became homeless in 2013, and is now famous in Japan. Read Koichi's art...

 Writing tools definitely arent the most important part of the job, but using the wrong ones can have drastic effects on your process. While using Google Docs to write your book is possible, you ...

The Micro Drone 3.0 streams live 3D footage to VR headsets, and is available in our Boing Boing store for $145.Drones are the perfect way to cheaply shoot aerial video, but it can be difficult to accu...

Cobb County Lt. Greg Abbot pulled over a car in July 2016, on suspicion of DUI. The white driver tells him she's afraid of being shot. He tells her:But youre not black, he interrupted. Remember, we ...

A fresh hell for the flooded plains of Texas: Yes, That's a Huge Floating Mass of Live Fire Ants in Texas. (Photo: Brant Kelly / CC BY 2.0) Sarah Zhang:Holy crap. I have never, in my entire career as ...

Skyline Chess is taking pre-orders for a set based on New York's most iconic buildings. The concept was first conceived when we shared a flat together and would play chess in the evenings. The idea gr...

Nick Douglas locked the Amazon-bestselling MistAire humidifier and Pro Breeze dehumidifier in a sealed booth together, then forced them to fight like dogs and cockerels.What would actually happen if...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kniVVLZ-eIk&feature=youtu.beHand made at 1/3 its designed size, this 125cc V10 engine has a miniature yet throaty roar. Creator Keith5700 explains:...my references for ...

Kalli (@aurelianrabbit on Twitter) understands well the truest and most important quest of humankind: the proper storage of bread. [via laughing squid]PREVIOUSLY: Sandwich alignment chart...

When he's not winning speedcarving contests with his chainsaw, Estonian sculptor Igor Loskutow crafts wood into outsize sculptures and furniture, like these remarkable dragon benches. (more…)...

The number of hummingbirds sharing this pool is astonishing, given how aggressive they usually are toward each other. (more…)...