Articles by BoingBoing from November 2017

Presidio Terrace is a private, gated street in San Francisco that has housed the likes of Nancy Pelosi and the UK Consul General; their neighborhood association failed to notify the city of San Franci...

It has been noted of late that YouTube is full of bizarre, malicious and outright depraved viral chum based on childrens' entertainment. Often difficult to tell at-a-glance from the real thing, they...

"Taking away #NetNeutrality is the Authoritarian dream. Consolidating information into the hands of a few controlled by a few. Dangerous territory". @MarkRuffalo; Ajit Pai: "These comments are absurd....

I can't remember quite how I came to be in possession of a pair of these Prismatic Lazy Glasses (Amazon), but the most shocking thing about them is they actually work. You put them on, lie down comple...

David Dockery perfoms drums in perfect synchrony to the mutterings of Jeff Boomhauer from King of the Hill. Over the course of 66 seconds I went from almost closing the tab to startled fascination t...

Boing Boing editor and founding partner David Pescovitz, along with Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad, was nominated this week to receive a Grammy Award. It's for their work on reissuing the legendary Gol...

From screenprinter Directfraction, Fully Automated Luxury Communism (hipster coffee-shop logo version), and Marx/Misfits. (via Fully Automated Luxury Communism) (more…)...

Comcast fought the last net neutrality regulation in 2015 by making a bunch of promises about how fair it would be, whether or not the FCC regulated its behavior; this week, Comcast has put on charm o...

From the delightful R Stevens of Diesel Sweeties fame, a pair of excellent enamel pins: Computers Professional ($11.33) and I want to believe in RSS ($11.55)....

We just bought a house here in Burbank and I was delighted to learn that my new home office -- part of a business incorporated in the state of California -- would be sitting directly on one of the sco...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3H8D2LrLHc&feature=youtu.beYouTube's advertisers now want to choose what subject matters and personalities to advertise against. So far, so fair. But rather than be st...

Tofugu's Kanae Nakamine and Koichi went to a secret bar in Japan (somewhere) called 84. Koichi told me, "Its main customers are musicians, celebrities, comedians, pro wrestlers, game creators, and Ni...

Dust is a YouTube channel featuring science fiction short films from emerging filmmakers. Its latest film is called "Orbit Ever After."Directed by Jamie Magnus Stone and set in the recesses of space...

Pan Pan is a panda who was rescued from starvation in the wild when he was a cub, in 1986. Since then, he has gone on to father 120 of the 520 pandas alive in captivity. (more…)...

As vulture capitalists and profiteers circle the devastation in America's hurricane-struck island colonies, the Trump administration has nothing for them but more loans to pile onto their existing, cr...

Unless you really love crappy color printouts, get rid of your inkjet printer and buy a cheap wireless laser printer, like this one: the Brother HL-L2340DW Compact Laser Printer. I've had a similar on...

You know things are ugly in the Roy Moore camp when they start shoving journalists from Fox News, of all outlets. The camera crew was trying to get a shot of Moore as he entered through a side entranc...

It was another exciting year for tabletop games and the nerds who love them. This was a year(plus) for re-releases of classic titles (Necromunda, Blood Bowl, Escape from Colditz, Axis & Allies) an...

Someone once described Garrison Keillor's weekly music and variety program Prairie Home Companion as "comedy adjacent," which sums it up for me. (If you don't get the joke, real estate listings in Los...

The first time I interacted with the US medical system was when I was a student at Michigan State University with a comprehensive travel insurance package my bank sold me before I left Canada: the caf...

Chris Vickery from Upguard found an Army Amazon Web Services instance with no password or encryption, containing 100GB of data on a defunct NSA program called Red Disk. (more…)...

What a time to be alive....

It's a joy to watch this bumbling operative from James O'Keefe's sleazy smear organization Project Veritas realize she's been found out. Jamie T. Phillips, who tried to trick the Washington Post into ...

News came out this morning that NBC has fired Matt Lauer over "inappropriate sexual behavior." NBC News chairman Andrew Lack says, "While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twe...

Look closely: the stable has a solar panel.Sweet baby Jeebus, someone has made a Hipster Nativity Set. Take special note of..."Joseph" (who has a man bun we can't see) taking a selfie with newborn "Je...

Embroidery artist Veselka Bulkan creates all sorts of lovely and creative embroidered works that play with the form, like these plant-themed pieces that refuse to stay inside the hoop frame, sometimes...

Sick of being harassed in public? Fill out this Catcalling Citation Card and hand it to that loser who's bugging you.Here's the story behind the cards:As a group of creatives and writers living and wo...

"Light Up Someone's Holiday" is Improv Everywhere's latest mission and it's a heartwarming one. ...We created a custom-built set that allowed random New Yorkers to instantly deliver a card and ligh...

Dissident economic statistician Matt Bruenig (previously) has parsed the latest numbers from the Survey of Consumer Finances, and brings us the news of the increased democratization of student debt: i...

British Prime Minister Theresa May condemned President Trump Wednesday over his sharing of Islamophobic videos posted by a UK fascist group's deputy leader.It is wrong for the president to have done t...

You know, maybe everyone's favorite felonious scam artist evangelist Jim Bakker was right when he said the goberment wants to outlaw Merry Christmas. Just look at the police officers in Sudbury, Massa...

Data wizard Gregor0410 crunched the numbers and figured out what the most common swear words on Reddit are. The top two, running almost neck and neck, are "fuck" and "shit." An order of magnitude behi...

In today's Daily 360 from the New York Times, Ingrid Burrington, author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure points out the stuff in a city intersection...

It's one thing to pull off a successful fraud online, it's another thing to get away with it -- when crooks order merchandise with stolen credit cards or make withdrawals with stolen bank details, t...

Breaking news from Americas Finest News Source: Today, after an exclusive series of interviews with accuser Jaime T. Phillips, The Onion was able to publish just such a story, revealing that Alabama s...

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Kraftwerk's first recorded concert was in 1970, according to this YouTube page. Here they are, decades before their time, awakening an audience whose reaction to the German electronic band runs the ...

During Roy Moore's judicial bouts -- punctuated by frequent removals from the bench for gross misconduct -- he was part of the mass incarceration wave in America, which has resulted in millions of bla...

Morgan Stanley is one of the world's largest banks, so naturally it has racked up a long list of frauds, crimes, and misdemeanors, which it has emerged from largely unscathed, thanks to the unwillingn...

At his war crimes tribunal Wednesday, Bosnian Croat general Slobodan Praljak made a statement disdaining the court, then drank what he said was poison. He was rushed to hospital and died, according to...

If you managed to snag a new MacBook on Black Friday, or just want to teach your aging desktop some new tricks, were offering a set of 10 powerful apps in our Cyber Monday Mac Bundle. This stockpile o...

Donald Trump retweeted anti-muslim videos posted by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of far-right political group Britain First — and a criminal convicted of racially aggravated harassment who i...

Not only is geckopfote's keyboard an amazing work of papercraft, it's one of those bizarre 40%-size ortholinear ones: "Yes, it's a fully functional Planck keyboard, from olkb. And yes, I like the feel...

NBC fired Matt Lauer after learning Monday of The Today Show presenter's "inappropriate sexual behavior".Co-host Savannah Guthrie announced the firing on-air, flanked by Hoda Kotb. A statement, attr...

Facebook is planning to request a "clear photo of your face" on pain of lockout, reports Wired's Nitasha Tiku. It wants you to prove you are a real engagement node, not a bot.In a statement to WIRED, ...

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Dan from the Journal of Ride Theory sez, "This is great. Conducting an interview while this cartoonishly expressive, hyperrealistic Lincoln silently pulls cray-cray Jim Carrey faces is simultaneousl...

In 1995, Penn and Teller released Desert Bus, the worst game ever made, a "VeriSimulator" that challenged you to keep a bus moving between the white lines on an eight-hour Arizona/Nevada drive. If you...

The latest Humble Bundle features the books of the most excellent Tachyon Press, with a who's who of my favorite SF writers and collections, from Ellen Klages and Jeff Vandermeer, to Bruce Sterling an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSVeOQfujOQEpic Games makes the wildly successful multiplayer free-to-play game Fortnite, which is the locus of a pitched battle between players and publisher over ga...

A group of investors led by Softbank have put in a bid to buy $6B worth of Uber stock -- at a valuation of $48B, 30% lower than the company's valuation at its last finance round, which was followed by...

This eBoy-esque procedurally generated city brings to mind short story by J.G. Ballard called "Report on an Unidentified Space Station," which appeared in one of my favorite science fiction anthologie...

One of Florida Gov. Rick Scott's consultants swears this photo is not what it seems. Via The Miami New Times:Joshua Cooper, a Tallahassee political consultant paid more than $500,000 by Florida Gov. R...

Sandcastles is a web-based amusement in which you can quickly build clusters of virtual towers and admire them for a few seconds until ocean waves knock them down. My kids and I loved his other, longe...

Infinitown is a three-dimensional city that lives in your browser, complete with folks going about their business and clouds drifting lazily overhead. It goes on forever, as the name suggests, in endl...

Why Do Cities Matter? Local Growth and Aggregate Growth is a 2015 paper written by University of Chicago and UC Berkeley economists Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti, which purports to show that the ...

This essential purchase is only a dollar, but you have to pay shipping: a 1.25" magnet featuring a suave cartoon whale saying "WHALE HELLO." (Amazon) Best buy a dozen, then, just to be sure. We've bee...

The Mechanics' Institute is one of my favorite places in San Francisco.The full service library is wonderful, as is having a comfortable place downtown to just sit, use the internet, and not be bombar...

https://youtu.be/bZjlz_GqvPQProfessional trencherman Matt Stonie ate 3 pounds of liquid honey in four minutes and lived to tell about it. I got nauseated just watching it....

I share with you my favorite coffee mug.Years ago my mother gave me this lovely, lovely coffee mug depicting several owls.I searched for another but misread the maker's mark as "Muana."My mother has ...

Apparently sexual harassment is a woman's fault when she goes out of her way to make herself attractive, according to actress Angela Lansbury. In an interview with Radio Times, the 92-year-old actress...

CIPPIC is the University of Ottawa's Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, Canada's public interest digital rights advocates. CIPPIC champions the public interest in C...

Wells Fargo didn't limit its fraud to robbing 2,000,000 ordinary depositors, struggling mortgage borrowers, 800,000 car loan borrowers, mom and pop businesses, and home owners -- the bank's top foreig...

https://youtu.be/8pffcngJJq0These thieves look like they know what they are doing. They are dressed head to toe in while coveralls and their faces appear to be obscured as well. They park their car in...

The Casa Jasmina project (previously) is an automated smart house designed to be made of open source hardware, with the needs of the people who live there -- not the corporations who extract rent fr...

James O'Keefe, a right-wing troll with a criminal record, tried to trick the Washington Post by directing a female associate to falsely tell a reporter from the newspaper that Alabama Republican U.S. ...

A baby elephant is trapped in a ditch in Kerala, India until a group of people rescue it with an earth mover. Watch the magical moment when, after the baby elephant makes its way back to its family,...

Marco Arment offers a review of things that make recent MacBook Pros a hard sell: unreliable keyboards, the neglected wasteland of USB-C, and (of course) the TouchBar.Sorry, its a flop. It was a solid...

Instafired White House mistake Anthony Scaramucci took exception to being insulted in an opinion piece in the Tufts student newspaper. So he threatened to sue its author, bringing upon himself instant...

"Parasitic endeavours" is a short NSFW animation by Simon Christoph Krenn, with sound design by Matthias Urban, an entry in the emergent genre of ultra-realistic CGI human bodies behaving like unusu...

Something nice, perhaps even wonderful, is going viral! Are birdcalls "slowed down", or lowered several octaves, examples of what the dinosaurs would have sounded like?https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Remember that guy with the Jerry Orbach tribute car? Well, this is his 2017 holiday card design. For the past few years, artist Brandon Bird has put sets of "T-mas" cards for sale in his online store....

In Sharing Things, Cookie Monster stars as Cookiegorgon, a monster who eats all the treats in town. Lots of inside jokes for those who love the series, including barfing up gummy worms and bad Eleve...

On Monday, redditor smulz shared this video of himself as a child receiving a Nintendo Entertainment System as a gift in May of 1988.He writes, "I present to you my greatest shame. When my parents s...

The Dying Of The Light is a project shot by sfdrones.tv in the nighttime desert, but with a spotlight so bright that it reaches the intensity of daylight. (more…)...

Roman De Giuli created MATEREALITY, his latest in series of abstract films of chemical and physical reactions shot in extreme closeup. (more…)...

In 1999, 60 Minutes "wangled an invitation" to visit Jeff Bezos at his humble Seattle office. Amazon was just five years old at the time but already had a stock market value of $30B. They sent corre...

Expandable NecklaceDirector David Lynch is an avid meditator. His twice daily Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice spans over 40 years. In fact, he's such a fan of TM that he started a foundation i...

Cody from Cody's Lab had 640 pounds of liquid mercury lying around, so he devised an experiment to see if he could stand on it. (more…)...

The best way to learn anything is by imitating the masters, and the same goes for game development. To help you dive into Unity 3D and get your hands dirty right away, were offering the Unity A to Z G...

I was honoured to be invited to address the University of Waterloo on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Cheriton School of Computer Science; my father is a proud Waterloo grad (and I'm a pro...

An article published on Fox News website incorrectly stated former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 93 in a story about George H.W. Bush becoming the longest living president in U.S. history....

Heres a throwback to a small kid in oversized glasses freaking out about receiving an NES for Christmas. Yes! It even comes with a gun. This adorable little wreck cries as he hugs and thanks his fat...

M.A.Di. is a fully functional house that comes as a flat pack. You can unfold and assemble it in six hours about as long as some IKEA furniture takes (at least when I'm building it). You don't need...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17hWSQhyxsBack in July, I blogged the Kickstarter campaign for Technology Will Save Us's Dough Universe kits: kits for 4-7 year olds that use conductive dough to mak...

A United Airlines flight traveling from Munich, Germany to Newark, NJ had to make an emergency landing at London Heathrow Airport after several passengers complained of feeling light-headed and nauseo...

In lieu of the ubiquity of online shopping, Cyber Monday is basically just Black Friday 2. But that means you get a second chance to get some great deals on some of our favorites from the Boing Boing ...

EFF's long, hard-fought campaign at the World Wide Web Consortium over its plan to standardize a universal DRM for the web was always a longshot, but we got farther than anyone dared hope before we lo...

This is the lowest price I've seen for the Amazon Fire 7 Tablet - $30. I've had one for a year or so, and bought a second one for my wife. It has Alexa built-in, and works well as a video streamer an...

https://youtu.be/QJ8ls5oN3psAn exterminator had a helluva job with a massive wasp nest in a Louisiana shed. These videos show an edited version of what what it means to be "mad as a hornet" these c...

https://youtu.be/loh50mM987wWhen a US woman posted about being raped at a Mexican resort, TripAdvisor deleted the post, saying it "wasn't family friendly." Other people say they've posted about rapes ...

According UrbanSitter's 2017 National Childcare Rate Survey, babysitters in the US charge an average of $15.20 an hour for one child. San Francisco's babysitters are the most expensive at $17.34 an ho...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rare gem in the US financial regulatory apparatus, a regulator that actually tackles fraud and criminality by monied, powerful financial institutions, exa...

"Crisis Pregnancy Centers" are fake abortion clinics run by religious fanatics who use online fraud to get them to the top of the search results in order to lure women seeking abortions to visiting a ...

Back in 2014, Comcast was desperately trying to stop the FCC from bringing meaningful Net Neutrality regulation to the web, and they laid out a suite of promises about their future conduct, with or wi...

In discussing allegations on CNN that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore assaulted a minor teenage girl Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak pointed out that Ringo Starr was "thirtysome...

Cheese expert Liz Thorpe was asked to sample pairs of cheese and guess which one was more expensive. Was she right every time? You'll have to watch to find out, but it's worth watching because you'l...

Australia is one of the world leaders in internet adoption and usage, and it's also been one of the worst offenders in bad internet policy, with a track record to rival even America's reckless indiffe...

Remember the story about the two NYPD narcotics detectives -- Eddie Martins and Richard Hall -- who said a teen girl they handcuffed and put into an unmarked van "consented" to have sex with them? H...

Its always a good idea to keep a flashlight in an easy-to-reach place in case your house is rendered powerless, or in the event of an emergency. Stay prepared for emergencies with this 2-pack of Ultra...

The New York Times reports Orange Julius now denies the Access Hollywood tapes are legit. The gaslighting of America continues...Via NYT:But something deeper has been consuming Mr. Trump. He sees the ...

Shane Speal, the king of cigar box guitars, has a great tutorial on how to play Muddy Waters' music on a three-string guitar tuned to open-G.Here's part 2:https://youtu.be/u7wPcmDWEpM...

After seeing people make musical tones by rubbing their wet fingers around the rim of a wine glass, Benjamin Franklin invented the glass armonica in 1761. Today, there are very few glass armonica pl...

Donald Trump claims he turned down this year's "Person of the Year" award. Time denied it. Trump famously had a fake Time magazine cover featuring him on his wall, and is just as famously obsessed wit...

Ikea is a Swedish furniture retailer famous for its vast and disorienting store layouts. SCP is fictional universe depicted exclusively as reports filed with a secret government agency whose job is ...

Glenda Adams created this pixel-perfect cross-stitch depicting a scene from 1981's Ultima, one of Richard Garriot's first adventures in the fantasy world of Brittania. https://twitter.com/glenda_atom/...

In hopes of inducing Amazon to build its proposed second headquarters in Chicago, the city has offered to pay it the taxes paid by Amazon's own employees. In effect, Amazon's workers would be paying t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQrrEpky2aQIf the last you saw of fighting wheeled robots was Robot Wars, well, things have moved on in the last few years! Check out these single-minded sumobots, as f...

Over on Hackernoon, data scientist and "language nerd," Jeff Kao, has posted the results of a data analysis he did on Net Neutrality comments submitted to the FCC between April-October 2017. Using nat...

Known for his soothing voice, fantastic 'fro and mad painting skills, you may not remember that the late great Bob Ross was an animal lover, as evidenced by these videos.https://youtu.be/puGk2iFvvp0...

OK Go is known for their complicated, flashy music videos, so when the quirky four-man band launched "Obsession" Thursday, the internet took notice. With over a million views already, the video is a...

This. All day. Except when barking at particularly heavy moments of rain.Nemo is a Great Pyrenees. He'd rather be laying outside in the rain, but I would rather he not....

When Context Labs teamed up with UK consumer group Which? to produce an outstanding report on the surveillance, privacy and security risks of kids' "connected toys," it undertook the reverse-engineeri...

Rightscorp (previously) is the extortion outfit that terrifies people into paying it money for unproven accusations of copyright violations, enlisting ISPs to cut off subscribers who won't cough up. (...

If Trump FCC chairman Ajit Pai had confined his attack on Net Neutrality to merely rolling back the 2015 Title II rules, he might have gotten away with it; but like the Republican plan to kill Obamaca...

Untouched sharable bikes on China's sidewalks are now being gathered in a massively grim pile of failed business endeavors.Thousands of the bikes were dumped in the Chinese city of Xiamen after the co...

In 1973, the US government helped the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet overthrow Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected socialist president, and then leading libertarians like Milton Friedma...

An investigation by the (generally terrible) Daily Mail claims that the Russell Group, which includes top UK universities like Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, the LSE, and 20 other universities, hired "wealt...

Evolution missed its chance Saturday at ridding the round planet of a self-taught rocket scientist bent on proving the earth is flat by launching off in his homemade rocket. Mad Mike Hughes claims the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=O8I39Yb2a_IAfter losing their 19-year court battle with the US Department of Justice, tobacco giants Altria, R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard and Philip Morri...

Since Black Friday is just the start of the shopping season, the holiday overlords added Cyber Monday to give us a second chance to save on our seasonal purchases. Here are some items from the Boing B...

McDonald's accidentally tweeted this late Thursday night:While the internet was having a field day deciding if the tweet was intentional or not, McDonald's copped up to the boo-boo with this tweet nin...

Franco Muoz presents a Despacito cover by "Mr. Chicken." You will get exactly what you have been promised. (Thanks, Heather!)...

With the doomsday clock ticking forward, you might as well keep your family extra safe on the next vacation by staying in an underground missile silo. A Kansas couple is offering the former Atlas E mi...

The Indiana Jones Melting Toht Candle is $33.39 from Firebox, and while the listing doesn't give dimensions, it certainly gets good reviews! (via Bonnie Burton) (more…)...

Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus Privacy's devastating report on the dozens of invasive, dangerous "trackers" hidden in common Android apps was generated by writing code that spied on their target devices'...

Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus Privacy's devastating report on the dozens of invasive, dangerous "trackers" hidden in common Android apps was generated by writing code that spied on their target devices'...

If your food coma caused you to miss out on all of the Black Friday deals, weve got your back you can still get all of the following items from the Boing Boing store at their lowest-ever prices.Unive...

GIFT GUIDE 2017Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: dozens of great ideas for stocking stuffers, brain-hammers, mind-expanders, terrible toys, badass books and more. Where av...

"Still Not Dotcom" is Brian McMullen's annual catalog of unregistered .com domains -- as found poetry goes, you'd be hard pressed to find anything funnier. You can also listen to it as a free, unabrid...

The kind folks at Dark Delicacies, my local specialist horror bookstore here in beautiful Burbank, California have volunteered to fill orders for my novels; since they're walking distance from my fron...

The US Department of Education's Free Application for Federal Student Aid program requires any student applying for federal aid for college or university to turn over an enormous amount of compromisin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4ngPRSuyO0&feature=youtu.beFederico Ciccarese's €1800, 3D-printed Doublehand from Youbionic is a "wearable robotic device" that lets you control two hands using...

In the early 2000s, a mix of legislative action, vigorous prosecution and advanced countermeasures looked set to kill spam: the terrible economics of mass-scale marketing could easily be disrupted by ...

With just paper, a pencil, a saucer, some ribbon and glue, it looks like even the least crafty of us could make this pretty gift box....

An NBER paper from 2015 tracks the decline in corporate spending on basic science in R&D, which has become a practical, application-focused line-item in corporate budgets, creating a safe, predictable...

The term "values voter" is taken to mean someone who votes for politicians on the basis of their personal integrity and values; in reality, polls and studies show that evangelicals who identify as "va...

I remember the day I realised that my daughter's London school had no library, the shock I felt, the sense that the cuts had gone beyond the bone, and that kids were being deprived of something critic...

The Church of Sweden is changing its language so that God will no longer take on the human characteristic of "he." And while they're at it, "Lord" will be dropped as well. After an eight-day discussio...

Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has been the source of many shocks since he took office last year: he admitted to murdering people as a teen gangbanger and then later as a public offici...

https://youtu.be/FVpE3LfpV_Y?t=2m43sA frequent criticism of Jeremy Corbyn and the revitalised, principled, post-Blair Labour Party is their lack of clarity on Brexit -- some speculated that Corbyn f...

To make the day after Thanksgiving a stress-free shopping experience, weve selected some of the best items from our online shop to be marked down for Black Friday. Check out our complete collection of...

Instagram user Lonseometown9 documents their ongoing series of street art that transforms dumped sofas, chairs, and televisions into sad clowns. (more…)...

A newly-published overview of self-reported ayahuasca experiences indicates that the hallucinogen can help alleviate eating disorders and reduce alcohol consumption. Now, more scientists are pushing t...

Tibor Helnyi created a lot of great posters for films screened in the Hungarian People's Republic during its communist era, like these posters for the original Star Wars trilogy. (more…)...

No time to waste opening an entire six-pack one bottle at a time? Now there's finally a solution: Sixoverone, the hexa-opener you never knew you needed.Here's another demo:https://vimeo.com/24306991...

Nahre Sol's Practice Notes channel is a whirlwind tour of music history, with variations of well-known melodies in the styles of different composers, mashups of genres, and other delights. (more&hel...

With so many men in power getting caught with their pants down recently, lame "apologies" and excuses for their unacceptable behavior have become the norm. Enter the "Celebrity Perv Apology Generator....

Instead of waiting for January 1st to commit to your New Years resolutions, you can start teaching yourself programming and app development with this Learn to Code 2018 Bundle. The complete course mat...

Musterbrand's Star Wars line sports some amazing garments, like the Rebel and Vader capes, the Skywalker shoes, the Rey Sweater, the Sith coat, and the Skywalker jacket. (more…)...

Luminaire's Piano Coat Rack hangs up to 48 garment from pegs that swing in and out of the piece, made from beech, oak, or walnut; it's a clever, space-saving, beautiful design, but at $1800-$4100, it...

To the best of my recollection, this was Thanksgiving 1993.I was 21 and living in Chicago. I'd moved there a few months earlier, under the promise of a job at the Second City, a famed comedy club, tha...

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As Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai tries to kill Net Neutrality under cover of Thanksgiving, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has tweeted that he is looking into ways that he can legally take up Josh Constan...

11 years ago, Trump made a big deal out of the Trump Soho, a 46-story luxury hotel/condo that paid Trump for the use of his name and the dubious management services of the Trump Organization; now, aft...

The Republican Party has always struggled to attract woman voters, but the triumph of admitted rapist Donald Trump and the party's backing of child-molester Roy Moore, the Dominionist misogyny of Mike...

A year ago today, Scots blogger Kevin Gray posted the final daily item at Nothing To Do With Arbroath, a "daily mish-mash" and perhaps the best blog ever to grace the web.He posted again a few times t...

Uncle Bill, in keeping with tradition, please lead us in A Thanksgiving Prayer....

America is in the midst of a "retail apocalypse": 6,800 chain stores are closing this year. It's true that online retailers and winner-take-alls like Walmart have delivered the coup de grace that fini...

Welcome to the holidays!After many a slumber party, my kid told me the air mattress had developed an annoying slow leak. I used this patch kit.The guy in the video found his leak a lot faster than I...

Pop culture historian Charles Phoenix, the culinary kitsch king behind the Cherpumple, accidentally created this Astro-Weenie Roast Tom Turkey Dog in his test kitchen a few years back.His space-agey ...

On Monday, the Weather Channel was live-streaming the planned implosion of the Georgia Dome for a full 40 minutes before a bus pulled up in front of their camera, completely blocking their shot at t...

What do people most want to know about Stranger Things? Google's search engine's autocomplete will tell us. Here's Stranger Things stars Joe Keery and Gaten Matarazzo to answer those most-commonly a...

Yesterday I mentioned how I was enjoying the Penguin Classics translation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristopo. I paid $10.87 for it, which was a good deal for 1200 pages of an epic story. ...

What is the world coming to when the most implausible tabloid stories are actually almost true? An Arizona ranch for sale with alien visitors included, an angry parrot whose cries for help brought pol...

John H, a prop sculptor, sells handmade, $83 Alice in Wonderland doorknobs, which can either replace your existing knobs or fit around them. Available with painted details or brass finish. (via Geeks ...

When Trump's Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price lost his job for chartering private jets to fly him all around America, it left a vacancy in Trump's cabinet of billionaire gators that he's ...

Anonymity and privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis realized that a connected sex toy's "email a blowjob" feature had significant security vulnerabilities and has produced an entertaining and delightfu...

Susan Crawford, one of America's leading scholars of monopolism, competition and the tech industry, has an outstanding article in Wired laying out the principled case for killing the AT&T/Time-Warner ...

This holiday season I've noticed quite a few hipsters sporting an amazing retro-looking hat!Everything old is new again.Deluxe Pilgrim Hat via Amazon...

One of my touchstones is the idea that "every pirate wants to be an admiral": that is, everyone is all in favor of disruption, rule-breaking and tearing down the old order when they're a scrappy insur...

US Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) told CNN that White House's chief economic adviser Gary Cohn wanted to get off the phone with a long-winded Trump, so Cohn pretended to have a bad connection.The white l...

UCSF researchers have published an important paper in PLOS Biology that draws on internal documents from the US sugar industry lobby that shows that the industry deliberately suppressed research on th...

Sarah Sims of Norfolk, West Virginia said school officials did nothing to stop her 9-year-old daughter from being bullied at school. So she put a digital audio recorder in her daughter's backpack to c...

Leo Lech is suing the police in Greenwood, Colorado for storming his house with a 50-person SWAT team because they mistakenly believed that a man who ran into his house (whom Lech didn't know) had sho...

Is there a difference in how you feel after drinking red wine versus hard liquor? I've always thought so (sleepy with wine, invigorated with dirty martinis and tequila shots), and now a study publishe...

Gary Cohn is one of the gators Trump brought in to fill the swamp, a delusional, big-mouthed, ex-Goldman Sachs banker who gets to regulate Goldman Sachs. (more…)...

The Philips Norelco OneBlade hybrid electric trimmer and shaver is regularly $35. Amazon is selling it for $17.47, which is lower than it's ever been. I've heard good things about it, so at this price...

This short interview with Homer Venters from Physicians for Human Rights, recorded in May at the the Right to Protest conference in Buenas Aires, is a succinct and important summary of the lie of "l...

https://youtu.be/8BfuwLl5HcAIllustrator Mark Crilley (who has an excellent YouTube drawing tutorial channel) shows you three different ways to shade an egg. It's the most exciting 18-minute video you'...

https://youtu.be/eujd_POookcJimmy DiResta, who makes everything from knives to furniture to musical instruments, recently made this nfty spoon with two business ends. I've whittled quite a few spoons ...

https://youtu.be/yvDNt9UQb9oChris Funk of The Decemberists met with Jerron Blind Boy Paxton, a blind musician from South Central Los Angeles. He is in his 20s and specializes in music of the 1920s and...

Massive income inequality, combined with Republican attacks on the taxation of the wealthiest, has produced a situation in which the state increasingly depends on extracting fines, interest and debt s...

Scotty of Strange Parts went to the colorful bustling Chor Bazaar in Mumbai, India. It's chaotic and crammed and exciting. Scotty has videos of other markets he's been visiting lately and they are a...

Nuclear energy produces less carbon dioxide than any other any source (including solar, wind, and geothermal). But nuclear waste is extremely poisonous, and leaks are inevitable. Wendover production...

The project of making planes secure from terrorist attacks is an inescapable nonsense: nonsense because there's no way to screen millions of people to prevent a few dedicated ones from bringing down a...

Continuing my lead up to Thanksgiving with yet another post displaying the highest in class and culture, today I am pleased to share with you one of the most disgusting things Ive seen in kitchenware....

You've seen it done before. Some soprano sings a high note and it shatters a wine glass. What I didn't know is that most anyone can learn to do it. It seems you need a thin glass next to your face a...

You have many choices when it comes to purchasing a calendar for the new year. Now there's another contender: the 2018 New York City Taxi Drivers Calendar.Described as a "comedic take on the tradition...

Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the holy trinity of design tools, and you can get an in-depth introduction to all three with a lifetime subscription to Graphic Design Certification School. It...

The Airmega 400 (Amazon) is a luxury air filter, a sci-fi lounge monolith with touch-sensitive controls and a ring of colored light that turns with the air quality. High-end in fit, finish and capacit...

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

David Cassidy, star of The Partridge Family and a successful singer, died today aged 67.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r9UtIhOI8MHis publicist JoAnn Geffen confirmed his death, with a statement from...

Uber's Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan and his top aide have both been forced out of the company in an act of penance for the revelation that the company suffered a breach in October 2016 in which...

ProPublica revealed earlier this year that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to target ads at white people and provided other racist segmentation options. Facebook promised to build a system that w...

The DC-based transparency group Property of the People successfully sued the White House to force it to disclose its visitor logs; now, in collaboration with Propublica, those logs are online as a fre...

Within science fiction, Jo Walton (previously) is legendary for hosting small, intimate gatherings of outstanding conversation and comradeship. (more…)...

Mike of the YouTube channel Useless Duck Company was fed up with birthday cakes for two reasons: 1) Blowing out candles splatters germs all over the cake, which is gross and unsanitary; 2) If it's y...

I do most of my reading on a Kindle Paperwhite. I'm currently reading the Penguin Classics translation of The Count of Monte Cristo (much better than the Project Gutenberg version I read years ago) an...

Starchitect-designed Tianjin Binhai Library is a viral sensation; the Dutch firm MVRDV incorporated a soaring, six-storey spherical atrium with undulating floor-to-ceiling shelves served by striking, ...

The assignment: draw seven perpendiculars red lines, some with with green ink and transparent link. A classic comedy sketch of a typical corporate design meeting....

Fox News host Neil Cavuto had a strong message for Trump last night, ending with the line, "Last time I checked, you are the president of the United States. Why dont you act like it?Cavuto was fed u...

Reddit has resurfaced this 2012 paper from the New England Journal of Medicine titled "Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates," by Franz H. Messerli, M.D.From the abstract:Choc...

Beijing's subway system now includes some experimental cars decorated to look like fanciful, book-lined rooms; scan the QR codes and you get free audiobook downloads for popular Chinese novels. (more&...

Synology's DS718+ NAS DiskStation (Amazon) is $400 data storage box. For me, it replaces very two annoying things: a monthly subscription to Dropbox, and a drawerful of USB drives used to back up a ho...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai (previously) is planning to make good on his promise to kill net neutrality this weekend, under cover of the holidays, ushering in an era in which the largest telcoms corporation...

Friction took a holiday in Vladivostok on Friday as cars slid and collided on the ice-covered streets. Vl.ru news has a collection of 19 videos highlighting the hazardous conditions....

Oumuamua is the first observed interstellar asteroid. It was discovered on October 19 and is about 800 meters long. Oumuamua is simply paying our solar system a visit as it continues its journey acr...

Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls on TV's Little House on the Prairie, tells Andy Cohen about the time she auditioned for the part of Pamela Courson for Oliver Stone's The Doors movie and l...

This excellent video (from the early 50s or late 40s, I'm going to guess) shows how a mechanical watch keeps time. It reminds me of the video that shows how a car's differential gear works.Here's a ...

Paul Ryan says his tax plan will be great for the poorest and most vulnerable people in America, and he tweeted a hypothetical to help you understand how that works: "Meet Cindy: a single mom, making ...

I am serious about sleepwear, and will not pass on a chance to change into jammies (I travel with them, wear them on long-haul flights, etc), and there's a universe of difference between slopping arou...

I'm certain the flames are CG, because I've seen a few tire fires in my time, but somewhere out there is a more uncannily scary video of the 60 MPH death wheel. Find it for a special no-reward!https...

If your fingers arent dextrous enough for flimsy rolling papers, or youre just fed up with the gross, laborious process of cleaning your pipe, check out the Twisty Glass Mini, available in the Boing B...

Here are six new lateral thinking puzzles to test your wits and stump your friends -- play along with us as we try to untangle some perplexing situations using yes-or-no questions.Show notesPlease sup...

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! Ive watched a lot of British TV in my day, but never have I seen anything like Mrs. Browns Boys. Ive about pissed me self laughin! This award-winning situation comedy is about...

Your kids thought that Elf on the Shelf was a dirty snitch, but just wait until they get a load of this Santa Cam. For just $19.99 you can further perpetuate one of the world's biggest lie to childre...

This portable cat prison (Amazon) fully incarcerates your feline friend and you can throw it on just like any other backpack.From the product description:Take your pet out to the ballgame, on a plane,...

Im taking a week off from producing a full podcast, and am instead presenting what I hope will be a fun Thanksgiving road-trip accompaniment. Its an audibobook excerpt. But since its the very start of...

Every fall, New York City's Society of Illustrators puts on this hidden-in-plain-sight gem of an exhibit. The Original Art Exhibit displays original illustrations from a selection of the best pictur...

If an entire 3x3 Rubik's Cube is too much, but a 2x2 one too plainly insulting, try this 2x3 one that you can get for about a fiver at Amazon. That's four ninths of a real Rubik's Cube for nine tenths...

The Medieval city generator does just that, with the right balance of abstraction and detail to give your imagination space to put it to good use. (previously)This application generates a random medie...

Scientific American consulted biomechencial engineers on how to win the wishbone wish fair and square and also by cheating. ...

In 1987, Jim Henson produced and directed this pitch reel for Inner Tube (aka IN-TV), a cyberpunk, culture-jamming series that just wasn't meant to be but did inform The Jim Henson Hour's MuppeTelev...

Illustrator Albert Kallis, co-founder of International House of Pancakes, painted the movie poster art of Invasion of the Saucer Men in 1957. It sold for over $100,000 over the weekend at a Heritage A...

Timm Woods, 30, is one of New York City's most popular Dungeons & Dragons dungeon masters-for-hire. He's also working on his PhD dissertation, titled "Anything Can Be Attempted: Table-Top Role Playing...

At $20, the Eufy Genie Smart Speaker With Amazon Alexa is the least expensive hands-free Alexa speaker I know of. I got my first Alexa device last year (a Dot) and my family uses it many times a day t...

One approach to fight mosquito-borne diseases is to introduce huge numbers of sterilized male mosquitos to beat out the wild males in competition for female mosquitos. The challenge is that it's expen...

I don't doubt this guy knows what he's doing. But every once in awhile, non-living things like to show living things who is really in charge....

A majority of the UK's members of parliament somehow know that non-human animals are incapable feeling pain or experiencing emotions. I guess that means when you see an animal suffering, it's just fak...

Mark writes, "Nothing marks the holidays like the predictability of a formulaic chestnut featuring '90s stars, magical religious holidays, SFW romance, good hair, and reliable stable camera work. For...

BBC News attended this month's Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. I especially appreciate the fine craftsmanship of Chris Pontius, the "professional 'Flat Earth' model a...

The yoga pants are $42, and the swim shorts are $45; either one will turn you into a Renaissance hunk. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) (more…)...

Well before Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul (and even Mr. Show), Bob Odenkirk showed his comedic chops by playing Charles Manson on the short-lived 1990s TV sketch series The Ben Stiller Show.In ...

The crackdown on "influencers" engaging in undisclosed paid endorsement roiled Instagram last year, but now the crackdown on sexual misconduct on influencers is affecting readership at Mic, Upworthy, ...

Retired Mythbuster and maker extraordinaire Adam Savage (previously) gave up on finding a bag to carry everything he needed and designed his own, a white, Gladstone-style toolbag that costs $225 and s...

There has never been a more urgent moment to merge ethics and technology: this shared spreadsheet of 57 (and counting) university courses on ethics and tech includes links to syllabi, moderated by Col...

By day, "Olivia Doll" sits on the boards of seven academic journals; by night, she's a Staffordshire terrier named Ollie, owned by Mike Daube, a public health expert in Perth, Australia. (more…...

Disaster capitalism depends on the idea that "There is No Alternative" and that the populace can only sit by passively while their infrastructure, government, homes and schools are hijacked and sold o...

To hear America's fearmongering private health-care shills describe it, socialized medicine is a kind of Soviet death march, where rationed care and long waits are imposed on all and sundry; but if th...

Charles Manson, despite (or rather because of) his infamy as a charismatic cult leader and vicarious spree-killer, is often posed as a serious and influential musician. His fleeting connections to l...

"Clouds?" Now I'll be spending all day seeing what other divine nightmares await in the kingdom of KoTH YouTube poop....

Thinkgeek's $120 Darth Vader Blazer has lovely touches like satin lapels and shoulder-stripes, vaderish control panel lights embroidered over the breast, and Death Star themed buttons and lining. (mor...

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Macs are pretty usable out of the box without any extra software. But the bundled stock apps dont cover every use case, and dont always provide the most configurable experience. To give your desktop s...

It works surprisingly well, giving every scene so enhanced the superficial intensity of a church-mandated declaration of love....

In these spin-filled times, the documentary PsyWar feels as relevant as when it was released. Metanoia Films has made it available for free to all, so check it out.Via a review on PR Watch:The new d...

My mother used to make an incredible grilled cheese sandwich. It was neither greasy nor too buttery, but simultaneously buttery and toasty. The bread was pan fried golden brown with a nice crunch on t...

Nothing like going to a tropical dive spot known to be "untouched" by humans, only to find a giant plastic garbage patch stretching as far as the eye can see. The Doobie Brothers music adds a nice t...

Numberpile looks at an interesting phenomenon using a common Japanese toy: a small paper balloon that can be crushed and re-inflated. What's the science behind it? (more…)...

In some parts of America's hinterlands, older folks call green peppers "mangoes." Turns out it goes back to a recipe substitution from the 1700s. (more…)...

Charles Manson, the infamous cult leader whose followers killed 9 people in 1969, died today at age 83. ...

Threatening to sue journalists who paint you in an unflattering light has been a pretty effective tactic for the Trump crowd -- hell, Trump's special advisor Peter Thiel managed to destroy an entire m...

Oklahoma Republican state Sen. Ralph Shortey has resigned after pleading guilty to trafficking a teenaged boy for sex; when Shortey was serving as Trump's Oklahoma campaign manager, he introduced an a...

Jeweler Camille "Tin Man" Walton features this gorgeous "ghost ring" on her Tumblr; no sign of it in her store, but fwoar. (via Super Punch)...

Today a high-tech shirt came into my life. The shirt is made by Ably, and you can supposedly wear it for months on end and it will stay clean. Ablys garments are made with something called Filium, a n...

8bitdo's Zero is a wee, well-made and thoroughly wonderful bluetooth game controller. I bought it by accident, thinking I'd found a surprisingly cheap wireless pad, only to learn (to my shrieking amus...

8bitdo's Zero is a wee, well-made and thoroughly wonderful bluetooth game controller. I bought it by accident, thinking I'd found a surprisingly cheap wireless pad, only to learn (to my shrieking amus...

Bob Marshall, the anti-trans bigot who just lost his delegate seat to transgender delegate-elect Danica Roem, wrote an angry letter to the Washington Post, misgendering his successor. WaPo corrected h...

Spoiler: it's Flesh Jenga. Wes Goodman, a Republican representative in the Ohio state house who championed anti-gay causes, quit Friday after being caught having sex with another man in his office. Mo...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (previously) is practically the only US regulator we can be proud of -- founded by Elizabeth Warren before she ran for the Senate, the CFRB is a consumer pr...

Thalia Holmes summarizes the "Exposing Human Trafficking and Forced Labor" panel at the 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Johannesburg, where veteran reporters who've broken major mod...

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes suggested that a fair economic system would lead to "the euthanasia of the rentier, and, consequently, the euthanasia of the cumulative oppressive power of the capitalist ...

Peter Thiel was always a controversial figure in tech, known as an acerbic doctrinaire libertarian who'd publicly declared that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible," a situa...

Overtaking the sunset, I glide into the mesosphere hours ahead of darkness. Scattered islands beckon under shifting banks of white stratus. I veer toward one but lose sight of it in the clouds, emergi...

The Ultimate DevOps and Cloud Computing Bundle will familiarize you with Amazon Web Services infrastructure management, as well as continuous integration and delivery practices. Its being offered in t...

https://youtu.be/LI87E9m4YoQWhen I was a teen, I traded the first nickle ($5) bag of weed I'd ever acquired for a friend's copy of the 1971 Whole Earth Catalog. I traded intoxication for knowledge, fo...

With Christmas quickly approaching, the imaginary war on everyones favorite imaginary holiday always helps me get in the spirit. The latest Christmas offense is from Starbucks recent marketing campa...

Cigar box guitar maker and player Shane Speal made a 2-string cigar box guitar and took it for a spin. Sounds great! He says: "27.5" baritone scale. Strung with E and A strings. Not sure what it's ...

Emily James (previously) writes, "The air in Delhi is so polluted the governments instruments can't measure it but they are still going to run a half marathon on Sunday!" (more…)...

A spokesman from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Ault Field, WA, said of the unnamed crew behind the giant sky-dong, "we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holdin...

Check out these wonderful commercials for Chambong, the beverage bong.Drinking things, quickly or slowly, requires that you exercise caution and judgment. Rapidly ingesting alcohol can have some unp...

The Upguard Cyber Risk Team has found three Department of Defense mass-storage "buckets" on Amazon that are world-viewable, containing 1.8 billion of social media posts that the DoD scraped from socia...

An 81-year-old gentleman from Tennessee was showing off his gun in a Tennessee church during a "gun-violence at houses of worship" chat, when he accidentally shot himself and his wife. A woman in the ...

Cleveland games developer Max Sledroom went on a Twitter tear about the amazing, surreal, awful design experience that is The Cheesecake Factory, a place whose calorie bombs rank among America's deadl...

Kate Beaton (previously) is the creator of the astoundingly great Hark! A Vagrant webcomic) and is a bona fide Canadian culture hero; she is also in the midst of a terrible family crisis and wants our...

EFF has just launched its new Announcing the Security Education Companion, a beautifully organized, clearly written set of materials to help "people who would like to help their communities learn abou...

https://youtu.be/ar2UyGn27RUCool 3D World's "Earth and Moon" is just over 2 minutes' worth of goopy, poopy, sexy, planetary, grotesque and wonderful experimental 3D animation; it's like a hand-turne...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawqlKebBOsSparrows Lockpicks (previously) has just released an extremely clever practice lock called "The Revolver" that makes four locks out of a single core: "Pinn...

On Strange Horizons, Rachel Cordasco reviews the latest Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, the third such volume, and makes a compelling case for exploring the amazing world of Tamil pulp, expertl...

40% of Detroiters have no internet access. The Detroit Community Technology Project and similar projects across the city are skipping over the telcos altogether and wiring up their own mesh broadband ...

Trump's FCC is gutting the Lifeline service, which gives poor families a $9.25/month subsidy for fixed or mobile broadband; under the new rules, poor people will have to buy their connections from maj...

Criminal televangelist cum soup bucket peddler Jim Bakker told his infomercial fans that the government had banned the phrase "Merry Christmas," but it's OK to say it again because Christian fought ...

Trace Lysette plays Shea on Amazon Studios' Transparent, one of my favorite shows. Lysette says the star of the show, Jeffrey Tambor, sexually harassed and assaulted her during the second season.From ...

Electricity here in Los Angeles is 17.8 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). Not far away, Mexicans get solar electric for one-tenth the price. And by 2019, the price could drop to 1/kWh. From Electrek:Soon...

A police officer tries to get a group of boys to stop hanging out in an alley. The boys argue and argue, until one says, "Fuck you," while flipping him the bird. What the cop does next is surprising...

An NBC News and Reuters joint investigation found deep ties between investors of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City and the Russian mafia, organized crime, and drug traf...

Watching Natas Kaupas, inventor of the "wollie" and Santa Monica Airlines great, skate the streets is sheer poetry....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Vb8SB2HJ0I have no idea what the fellow is saying about this tribe of capybaras invading a warehouse in Brazil, I'm just glad that they did so and that he was there t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2hUkDVnXmE&feature=youtu.beOut with the old, in with the old....

Asimo was always a toy, but Atlas consigns it to the clearance bin. (previously)...

The Republican tax plan will exempt the 0.2% of Americans who pass on estates of $5.49 million (each) to their heirs, a tiny elite that includes most of the Trump cabinet of one-percenter plutocrats; ...

The Trump administration will reverse the Obama-era prohibition on importing taxidermied elephant heads and tusks from endangered wild African elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia. (more…)...

The FRESHeBUDS Pro wireless headphones make a perfect workout companion, and you can get them in the Boing Boing Store today for a special $23.95 price (normal: 29.95 / MSRP: $199.95) as part of doorb...

I was kerplotzing around the internet today and upon seeing this video had the craziest thought: Ive been in this place. Now since it involves free diving in the worlds deepest pool, in Italy, theres ...

Oh, just a baby riding around on a robotic vacuum. Usually it's a cat, but today it's someone's sprog.(Digg)...

Brazilian artist Butcher Billy describes himself as a "pop culture butcher obsessively looking for the perfect cut." I think he's found just that with his latest artworks.The nine-piece series imagine...

Press this plush Christmas elf's foot and its tongue starts vibrating, quite suggestively. The Sun reports:The 10 toy has been flying off the shelves at Asda stores across the country with sales rea...

The hairy-faced gents of the Newfoundland and Labrador Beard and Moustache Club are raising money for a mental health charity by posing as mermen for this 2018 MerBys calendar.CBC reports:Calendar pro...

Over the years, we've seen many advent calendars geared for grown-ups. They're filled with things adults appreciate: booze, beer, and of course, Star Wars LEGO bricks.Now it's weed's turn. To fill tha...

Using common objects like socks, tennis balls, wooden spoons, and even potatoes, Jim Henson and his assistant Don Sahlin show children how to make basic puppets and bring them to "life" in the 1969 ...

By laminating hundreds of the paper pages of vintage books together and then finishing them with a high gloss coating, artist Jeremy May is able to create these marvelous pieces of literary jewelry.Th...

Today a Twitter user who goes by @ProudResister tweeted:The solution is simple Roy Moore: Step down from the race. Al Franken: Resign from congress. Donald Trump: Resign from the presidency. GOP: Stop...

Al Franken, Democratic senator from Minnesota and a former comedian, admitted groping radio host Leeann Tweeden who wrote of her experience at his hands for 790 KABC. He apologized to Tweeden and invi...

Watch this little boy ask aid workers to give his littler friend a meal after Sunday's 7.3 earthquake in Iran that killed over 530 people. As he walks her over he gently pats her on the back. He the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClR9tcpKZec&t=In 1942, Hitler paid a secret visit to Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland and Commander-in-Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces in ho...

In this unsourced video that hit Reddit's front page this morning, a man who appears to be Chinese funnels a handful of wrigglers (minnows? eels? loaches?) into a bottle of beer, tops it with a flamin...

We have a large tree in our front yard. For the holidays I usually wrap a couple of strands of colored LED bulbs around its trunk. I can't put lights into the branches because my ladder isn't long eno...

Cyclists in the Dutch city of Nijmegen had a traffic challenge in a popular part of town every day during rush hour. A small road for bikes at the busy Keizer Karelplein intersection was in constant...

These are the best replacement TENS pads I've found to shock myself with. (more…)...

The "replay sessions" captured by surveillance-oriented "analytics" companies like Fullstory allow their customers -- "Walgreens, Zocdoc, Shopify, CareerBuilder, SeatGeek, Wix.com, Digital Ocean, Dono...

Gary Cohn is Donald Trump's top economic advisor; while on stage this week at the Wall Street Journal's CEO Council meeting, he called for a show of hands from CEOs who were planning to invest more if...

My grandmother's longtime partner Rusty was a former weightlifter with the sunniest, most reslient disposition of anyone I've known, and the only time I ever saw him reduced to tears was from the pain...

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, London Business School organizational behavior scholars Niro Sivanathan and Hemant Kakkar used empirical methods to find th...

A survey of 1,500 Zurich canton doctors reported in the Swiss Medical Weekly found that out of the respondents, 23% had prescribed homeopathic "remedies" but only 42% actually believe in homeopathy (a...

Crain's New York Business has moved Donald Trump's family business from spot number 3 to spot number 40 on it ranking of largest privately held companies in New York.From the UK's Independent:While th...

I love bagels. I wanted to learn to make delicious ones at home. I was surprised at how simple it really is. (more…)...

Security researchers from Rhino Security Labs have shown that it is trivial to disable the Amazon Cloud Cam that is a crucial component of the Amazon Key product -- a connected home door-lock that ...

In Deloitte's new 2017 Global Mobile Consumer Survey, the company notes that "connected home systemsa category that includes home security, thermostats, and lightingcontinue to lag behind other connec...

Singer Sherine Abdel-Wahab was on stage when a fan asked her to sing one of her hit songs, Have You Ever Drunk from the Nile? She instead of singing it, she told the audience that drinking from the Ni...

One thing you can always rely on in Japan is punctuality, so much so that a train line sent out an official apology this week for leaving a station 20 seconds early. No, not minutes, but seconds. The ...

Renowned for her sparkling wit and deep insight, commentator Tomi Lahren is considered to be the William F. Buckley Jr. of the millennial generation. She also has the ability to laugh at herself, so I...

Troy E. Nehls is the sheriff in Fort Bend County, Texas. Troy here thinks that it's illegal to have a "Fuck Trump" sticker on your truck, and called on the public to track down the owner so they could...

Troy E. Nehls is the sheriff in Fort Bend County, Texas. Troy here thinks that it's illegal to have a "Fuck Trump" sticker on your truck, and called on the public to track down the owner so they could...

In a pair of open letters to Letter to The Honorable Elaine C. Duke, Acting Secretary of Homeland, a coalition of more than 100 tech liberties groups and leading technology experts urged the DHS to ab...

Dr Ben Maruthappu, a senior public health researcher from University College London is the lead author on a forthcoming peer-reviewed paper in the BMJ Open which attempts to quantify additional deaths...

NASA published an animation depicting this years' rough hurricane season in two smooth minutes. It's beautifully wispy and liquid, a fascinating contrast to the radar machine-vision we usually get o...

This made me laugh. It's a quirky video by YouTuber Kevin Parry where his fingers and hands play "miniature action sports," like skateboarding and surfing.Here's his behind-the-scenes video:https://...

Washington-based remix master John D. Boswell, aka melodysheep, describes his latest tribute song and video as a "magical musical adventure through the land of Oz." It's called "Oh my!" and it uses ...

Many a travel bar has passed through my hands over the years, but none as badass as this one. Tom of Well Done Tips has taken a new 20-liter jerry gas can and turned it into an enviable mini bar tha...

Everyone got the memo. This is the year when big food behemoths like Taco Bell and Hidden Valley came out with their own gimmicky line of personally-branded clothing (and gifts). Well, now there's a n...

David Lynch's Dune, though unsuccessful in theaters, has gained a more positive reputation over the years for its spectacular visuals and memorable one-liners. But Denis Villeneuve, directing a new mo...

Charles Manson, the mass murderer and musician, is reportedly close to death at a California hospital. USA Today:The 83-year-old inmate, serving multiple life sentences at a prison in Corcoran, Calif...

This 1106 piece LEGO BB-8 will be my daughter and her cousins' Thanksgiving Day project.I am clearly thrilled with my daughter's LEGO addiction and her dedication to Star Wars. Her slightly younger co...

Tina Johnson was 28 when she says Roy Moore assaulted her in his legal office in 1991.Excerpt from the full story at AL.com:According to Johnson, he asked questions about her young daughters, includin...

This week on Maker Update: A Pi-powered Airplay boombox, the Hackaday Grand Prize winner, pinball with car parts, drying filament, and exploded diagrams. The Cool Tool is a LewanSoul Servo Tester....

Disneyland was definitely the Happiest Place on Earth for Star Wars fans this week when Luke Skywalker, er, Mark Hamill boarded the Star Tours: The Adventure Continues ride. Their happy reactions ar...

The stars are "just like us," were told every week by the delusionists at Us magazine. But this week the National Examiner goes a step further: Queen Elizabeth: Shes Just Like Us!QEII is reportedly ad...

Yesterday the US faced yet another mass shooting when a man with a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns killed four people in various locations and injured more at an elementary school in Rancho Teha...

What does it mean to be a Republican "values voter?" Well, for sure, it means hating abortion and coming up with grotesque, rapey, lethal, cruel, absurd, unconstitutional (very, very unconstitutional)...

San Diego Etsy seller Cutting Boredom makes retrogame-inspired cutting boards shaped like old NES cartridges ("the grooves are able to serve as functional juice grooves"); they're made to order and ca...

At my house, we've started storing leftovers in mason jars, glasses, and bowls. It's more convenient than buying separate food storage containers. To cover them, we use these silicone stretch lids. Th...

The Motherboard Guide To Not Getting Hacked is an excellent adjunct to existing guides (I like EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense and The Cryptoparty Handbook) to defending yourself against criminals, st...

This is called "Gettin' Wet on Wet with Deadpool 2" and it's the slick new, and wonderfully bizarro, teaser trailer for Deadpool 2. It shows Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds (we assume) dressed in the s...

I remember the first time a blind friend let me listen in on her screen-reader's text-to-speech narration, a high-speed chipmunk squeal that she had trained herself to decode; I was hugely impressed. ...

A London Times investigation revealed that Russia employed a large army of Twitter accounts to "sow discord" before the Brexit vote. And it appears to have been quite successful, as newspapers like Th...

Noting that "the web was built specifically to share research papers amongst scientists," Josh Nicholson and Alberto Pepe report on the dismal state of the web for accessing the most-cited scientific ...

Back in July, Senator Mark Warner [D-VA, @MarkWarner, 202-224-2023] introduced S.1642 - The Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017, which bans states from capping the interest rates charge...

Trump supporters are more confused than ever. As you can see from these Jimmy Kimmel interviews, they think Hillary Clinton is the president of the United States. When you think of all that's been a...

Actor and former pro football player Terry Crews went on Good Morning America to share the story of how he was assaulted at a party by Adam Venit, head of the Motion Picture Department at William Morr...

Mich from ha.cking bought a $25 "S8 data line locator" device -- a cellular spying tool, disguised as a USB cable and marketed to the general public -- and did a teardown of the gadget, offering a gli...

Sharp eyed Massachusetts police officers spotted a man driving a car with a strange-looking license plate. After pulling him over for a closer look, they discovered the license plate was made from a c...

This golden retriever tried not to appear upset while its human companion stroked a plush toy dog, but it eventually snapped, seizing the toy by the neck and slamming it repeatedly on the floor."...

Arcade Club, near Manchester in England, is Europe's biggest collection of classic games. Retromash went for a visit.Lets cut to the chase. This place has over 250 arcade machines. Just take that in f...

Pro-Mounts, a photography accessories company in Europe, makes a device called the Pro-lapse.It's a little €35 mount that slowly rotates, allowing the shooter to capture professional-quality time...

Renee DiResta is part of an interdisciplinary group that has tracked disinformation campaigns online for years, advising the Obama White House on the use of social media to spread conspiracy theories;...

Two leading European consumer groups -- the UK's Which? and Germany's Stiftung Warentest -- have published an advisory with the results of their lab tests on the security of kids' connected toys, war...

The only way to survive on the battlefield of the web is to know your enemy as well as yourself, which is why ethical hackers play such a critical role in information security. To teach you how to thi...

Luke O'Brien writes about The Making of an American Nazi, Andrew Anglin. Founder of The Daily Stormer, Anglin is a white supremacist whose trolling morphed into abuse, threats and harassment as Trump'...

Mother should I run for president? Mother should I trust the government? (more…)...

Lars Leber shot this timelapse of "low clouds over Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs. Cheyenne Mountain is visible in the background." (more…)...

Indianas Yellowwood State Forest is a scenic forest that Indiana's Department of Natural Resources put up for sale. But after conservationists gathered $150,000 to preserve the forest for another 10...

Walks in Rome is an interactive map project that updates and modernizies a famous 1870 guidebook of Rome by August Hare. (more…)...

Crown Candy is Kamau Bilal's short and loving look at a candy store that plans to stay put in its changing North St. Louis neighborhood. (more…)...

Looking like an iPhone rollout or creepy TED Talk, this sci-fi PSA from the group Stop Autonomous Weapons looks at a possible near future of autonomous drones trained to kill a specific human target...

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

Some new vending machines in Japan are now dispensing "Cute Cute Cat Christmas-chan headgear," a set of holiday bonnets for cats, in plastic toy capsules, according to SoraNews24:As with all capsule t...

This charming line of sneaker-shaped candles and soap by Russian company What the Shape was surely created for "the sneakerhead who has everything." Each one measures a little over 5 inches long and c...

The year 2016, and a public vote, brought us Boaty McBoatface, followed by Horsey McHorseface. Then, earlier this year, Trainy McTrainface pulled into the station. Now, there's a Ferry McFerryface. Au...

British pastry chain Greggs, whose sausage rolls I can verify are a religious experience, has apologized after replacing the Lord our Christ with an enormous sausage roll in a Christmas ad campaign im...

British pastry chain Greggs, whose sausage rolls I can verify are a religious experience, has apologized after replacing the Lord our Christ with an enormous sausage roll in a Christmas ad campaign im...

Australian voters overwhelmingly approved the introduction of same-sex marriage Tuesday, with 62% in agreement and 31% saying no. Nearly 79% of eligible voters mailed in a ballot. The outcome is a win...

New York's Citicorp Tower was an architectural sensation when it opened in 1977. But then engineer William LeMessurier realized that its unique design left it dangerously vulnerable to high winds. In ...

Dan of the Slow Mo Guys had never used a katana sword before, but he did a great job using it to slice 10 plastic bottles of water in half. He said it felt like he was slicing butter. (more…)...

A new pill that tells your doctor whether you're swallowing it or not has just been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The pill a new version of Abilify by Otsuka Pharmaceutical will have...

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

Computational neuroscientist Anders Sanberg is a senior research fellow at Oxfords Future of Humanity Institute where he explores the ethics of future human enhancement through AI, genetic engineering...

Over at The Last Word on Nothing, esteemed science writer Rebecca Boyle wrote a lovely appreciation of trees. "Apart from humans, maybe, trees are the best form of life on this planet," she writes. Fr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMvzK2OQTwEvery Cards Against Humanity Christmas surprise box has been amazing, and this year, the company promises to do something that will save America and hints ...

The Secret Shoe is a bespoke shoe with a hidden compartment in the sole to hold the likes of "the worlds smallest phone, a tiny video camera, a mini Swiss army knife, a tracking device, a choice of cu...

Helix is a home DNA testing service. From its website: "Explore products powered by your DNA. With Helix, one saliva sample unlocks a lifetime of insights."Author/Cardiologist Eric Topol begs to dif...

Helix is a home DNA testing service. From its website: "Explore products powered by your DNA. With Helix, one saliva sample unlocks a lifetime of insights." (more…)...

Can you really escape a stuck elevator by climbing out the top? Can the doors decapitate you? CineFix asked John Holzer, elevator technician about scenes from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Di...

Ambakisye Osayaba is known to his students as TC ("Teaches Chess"), He can be found sitting at his folding table in New York's Union Square every day, even in bad weather. He charges $3 a game. If yo...

Earnest investigated the cost of renting in the United States. It's no surprise that California is the most expensive state for renters (median rent: $1,901) or that West Virginia is the least expensi...

Barbie is going to sport a new fashion accessory in 2018 the hijab. As part of Mattel's "Shero" line, which includes Barbies inspired by role models such as Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas and director...

Already facing severe medical and food shortages, Venezuela is out of money and out of credit. The country issued a statement that it was defaulting on its debt, having missed its 30-day grace period ...

Multi-instrumentalist Trench worked up this lovely cover of the Stranger Things theme for harp and cello... while his dog naps....

If you're still using Facebook (I don't), your data is being used to profile you in seriously creepy ways; the best thing you can do is delete your Facebook account, but second-best is locking down yo...

In 2012, Courtney Allen was having a difficult time in her marriage and she struck up an online affair with a gamer in her alliance named Todd Zonis; when her husband Steven found out about it and she...

Believe it or not, the holiday season is just about here, and to help ease your gifting anxiety, weve selected some of our favorite tech products from the Boing Boing Store. And to sweeten the deal, y...

Compuserve's sprawling, paleolithic forums were acquired along with Compuserve itself by AOL in 1998, and their fossil remains were augmented, year after year, decade after decade, by die-hard users w...

The Republican Party has done the impossible: they've produced an unpopular suite of tax cuts, by designing a system that lards more than a trillion dollars onto America's debt while raising taxes on ...

Yesterday, The New Yorker reported that conservative Republican Roy Moore was once banned from the mall in his hometown of Gadsden, Alabama, such was his predilection for badgering teens there. But it...

A group of NYU and University of Illinois at Chicago computer scientists have presented a paper at the 2017 ACM Internet Measurement Conference in London presenting their findings in a large-scale stu...

New Maine News [via Cat Valente] is that rare thing online: a local Onion-style satirical news site that is good. It's great! I feel almost like I live there. From the front page alone: • Over 80...

Upload the text of a nondisclosure agreement to NDA Lynn, and it will warn you if it spots common traps used to harm signatories.How can a robot review an NDA?As it turns out, NDAs are in essence very...

Drawn from U.S. census data, this chart [via] organizes the 50 most commonly-held jobs by gender. Auto mechanics, electricians and carpenters are mostly men, whereas secretaries, childcare and nursing...

This elegant pup from Boston Dynamics triggered in me, for just a moment, the uncanny recognition of computer graphics. But it isn't rendered: it's a real machine, meeting a new threshold of fluid m...

The EarthWindMap not only animates our homeworld's air currents, but you can drag, zoom and warp the view to create unique projections of its surface. ...

Starting on January 18, Disneyland will be offering a series of after-hours events called Disneyland After Dark.The first one is called "Throwback Nite" and it taps into early Disney nostalgia:Step ba...

Jumping out of a plane from 12,500 feet is exhilarating fun, until that parachute of yours decides to jam. Don't panic, this instructional video will help you get to that book deal. You'll be shakin...

After swapping online dating disasters with friends for hours, writer and poet Erin Bealmear decided she didn't want to be the kind of woman who spends all her time "talking about boys." She joked wit...

Chinese pop artist Jacky Tsai presents his new show The Lost Angels at the Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles. Tsai is best known for his unique processes and crossovers between Eastern and Western ...

Russian scientists revealed a 20,000 to 50,000-year-old cave lion cub Thursday capable of being cloned and brought back from the depths of extinction. The cave cub was found on the bank of the Tirekht...

Roy Moore, still the Republicans' Senate candidate in December's special election despite allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl, was reportedly banned from the Gadsden, Ala., mall for his unwelcome i...

The Atlantic has released a bombshell story. Leaked files show Donald Trump Jr., the bumbling son of the United States questionably elected President, apparently cooperating with Wikileaks, an organiz...

I met Jackie Fox of the Runaways in 2015 after I wrote an article on Boing Boing in response to her rape disclosure and the treatment it was getting in the press. Jackie was drugged and raped in fro...

About 5 to 10 percent of newborns need phototherapy to treat jaundice. Rather than put them in bassinets under special lights while wearing eye protection, a new garment woven with optically-conductiv...

On October 18, 1963, a lovely feline named Flicette became the first cat in space in a trip lasting just 15 minutes and including several minutes of weightlessness. Her craft Three months later, sci...

The Botometer is a simple single-serving website that reports whether any given Twitter account talks like a bot. It seems quite accurate, tracking not just the content but "sentiment" and its network...

Selectrics get all the hype, but I love the typefaces available on Smith-Corona typewriters from the 1960s. From the samples posted by munk, I think my favorites are the futuristic but legible "Classi...

Speeding in wet weather is never a good idea, and the maniac driver in this video proves the point....

Time for some paid administrative leave and a stern talking to for these LA cops who didn't realize their bodycams were recording them as they appeared to plant cocaine in a suspect's wallet.From CBS2...

Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates was speaking at a public event recently and was asked by a student if it is OK for white hip-hop fans to rap along to songs with the n-word in them. His answer i...

Even if you don't use Photoshop, this video is interesting to watch. It shows you how to add text to anything using Photoshop so it looks like the text was actually printed on the item. The trick is...

I have an Amazon subscribe and save subscription to Mrs. Meyer's dish soap. I like the smell of it and a little goes a long way. Right now Amazon has a very good deal on a 3-pack of 16 oz. bottle for ...

This smart monkey knows exactly where to spend its money at a vending machine to buy a bottle of juice. After excitedly banging on the machine's buttons a million times before it releases a juice b...

It seems Sean Hannity fans are using Keurig's withdrawl of advertising from the mouth-piece of the Trump Administration's television show to upgrade their home coffee experience....

This is wonderful to hear people saying on network TV.Frank Schaeffer, interviewed by Joy Reid on AM Joy, absolutely lets loose on the incredible cognitive dissonance the party of Family Values must...

This maker has a lot of model building experience, but this is his first electric homemade plane that he can actually fly, and it's pretty spectacular. Peter Sripol, from Dayton OH, made his plane w...

GOP leader Mitch McConnell believes Roy Moore's victims and says the former judge should step down as his party's candidate in this month's Alabama senate race. The AP reports that McConnell "believes...

Generative music is music that isn't traditionally composed. It's created by establishing patterns, randomness, and instructions to produce interesting sounds. Tero Parviainen's website, "How Generati...

Once the science-fiction future of entrancing Usborne books, latterly the mad fantasy of rich people who dislike taxes and laws, floating cities are taking shape.Seasteading is more than a fanciful ho...

Monday is hard to Monday.I've only had 2 cats I've ever liked. Both of them were Maine Coons.Dillinger and I were brought together when I saw a beautiful litter of cats for sale at a pet shop mere s...

Over 400 American millionaires including Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, billionaire George Soros, Steven Rockefeller, and fashion designer Eileen Fisher have signed a letter that tell...

A truck driver in Vietnam parked his vehicle too close to the train tracks. The person who shot the video made this remark on YouTube: "When walking my dog on the street, I saw a train coming up to ...

Bluehands's Coin Box is a super-cute, spring loaded cardboard coin-box: put a coin in it and it bursts apart, flinging away your money to remind you that, thanks to the imminent collapse of capitali...

For $9 LEGO Santa Claus is hard to pass up. My daughter celebrates both Christmas and Chanukkah, so I'm looking for a LEGO Hebrew Hammer as well.LEGO Holiday Santa 40206 Building Kit (155 Piece) via...

A man named Ron Mello has set up a GoFundMe account to help support Juli Briskman after she was fired for showing Trump her middle finger. As of 13 November at 8:20am PT, $57,860 has been pledged.As y...

Privacytools.io showcases web platforms, utilities and services that center on maintaining online user privacy. Anonymous browsing, decentralized social media, note-taking applications, even router fi...

As Last Week Tonight's John Oliver says, Trump has had so many terrible moments it's easy to forget many of them. Maybe one reason they are easy to forget is because much of what Trump says makes ev...

The Roddenberry Shop sells the Galaxy Class keyset, designed to look just like the user interfaces from Star Trek: The Next Generation and its spinoffs. If anything, it's a radical improvement on the ...

https://youtu.be/1ZAPwfrtAFYJohn Oliver is on fire (naturally) in his season finale segment on the first year of Trumpism, a year so busy and scandal-plagued that it really needs to this kind of rev...

https://youtu.be/i4YQRLQVixMThe Vietnamese security company Bkav says that a prototype mask costing $150 can reliably defeat Apple's Face ID authentication system. However, the company (which has a ...

The Sackler Family are best known for philanthropy, but their real legacy is the opiod epidemic, which they engineered through their family firm, Purdue Pharmaceutical, which used a variety of front o...

Bernie Sanders writes in Politico in advance of the publication of the report of the Democratic Party's Unity Reform Commission -- set up jointly by Sanders and Clinton -- and sets out a trio of modes...

The Agent Gallery of Chicago has bought a large lot of vintage dental training manikins and other gorgeous, nightmarish gadgets from the Hellraiserverse. (via JWZ) (more…)...

There are 50 hospitals on 5 continents that use Watson for Oncology, an IBM product that charges doctors to ingest their cancer patients' records and then make treatment recommendations and suggest jo...

Diana Tourje spent election day with Danica Roem, the first-time politician who unseated one of the most notoriously transphobic politicians in Virginia. Watch her uplifting report. (more…)...

Saturday's front page headline of the Alabama's Times Daily story about alleged sex offender Roy Moore -- the state's Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat -- reported an amusing error.It proclaim...

"My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler. It was just so sketchy that I had to make a review," writes Redditor kibitzor on his office's ION Bottleless Water Cooler.The ...

A pair of economists analyzed data aggregated from smartphone tracking apps to see how long Americans spent at Thanksgiving dinner and how far they traveled to get there, and compared it to precinct-l...

The Daily Show's Chrome plugin Make Trump Tweets Eight Again uses subtle orthography to remind us about the emotional, intellectual and attentional character of the 45th President of the United States...

Denying the Earth is flat is still socially acceptable and is even capable of rounding up large groups of mentally defective humans to share their unnerving beliefs. I know many of you are thinking I ...

A condo association in Florida doesn't find the connection between Ryan Boylan and his support squirrel Brutis to be an adorable companionship fit for a Pixar film, but rather a concern that goes agai...

When Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore was accused of sexually molesting children as young as 14, his fellow hardcore evangelicals shrugged at the scandal -- it was "common knowledge" that Moore ha...

The "good ol' days" are right now for Ben Sansum, a dapper British man in his late thirties who lives life like it's 1946.The BBC wrote in the description of this 2014 video, "His clothes, his house...

You can definitely increase the breadth of your vocabulary over time by reading constantly, and youll probably even get a bit faster if you do it long enough. But theres a more streamlined way to beco...

That's according to this month's shareholder filings; the company estimates the total bill at $166 million more, plus class action damages....

A former colleague of Roy Moore, the Alabama Senatorial candidate accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with teens, claims this behavior was "common knowledge."Via CBS:"It was common knowledge that...

Disneyland has shutdown two airconditioning cooling towers due to infecting a number of guests with Legionnaires' disease.Via the LA Times:Disneyland has shut down two bacteria-contaminated cooling to...

Sammy Davis Jr. sings another classic tv theme: Ja'net Dubois' "Movin' On Up."...

This reuseable silicone bricktape makes sure my kids LEGOs stay on the shelf. Our cat is now frustratedMy kid is building an entire fleet of Star Wars spacecraft and starfighters. I love every piece a...

Needed some cute this AM....

This is the Dog Parker. It's an on-demand, self-contained, climate-controlled, auto-sanitized urban dog house. Going into the store and they have one of these sitting outside on the sidewalk? Pull out...

Shirley Temple, the sweeter-than-sweet curly-locked child performer of yore, is back with this death metal version of her signature 1934 song, "On the Good Ship Lollipop." Ok, ok, it's not really he...

Lurking just beneath Microsoft Excels instantly understandable spreadsheet surface is a world of robust automation tools. Visual Basic for Applications allows you to perform complex data processing, a...

Equifax's nation-destroying data-breach was subsequently revealed to be just the latest in a series of unbelievably careless IT blunders, and it eventually cost the company CEO his job; now his replac...

The Paradise Papers continue to expose the economically useless activity that late-stage capitalism rewards with titanic sums of money: today, it's the story of Julien Lavalle, a botmaster ticket-scal...

The New York Times has collaborated with Berkeley economics prof Gabriel Zucman to produce an interactive explainer that walks through the baroque tax-evasion strategies deployed by multinationals lik...

A sleeping baby in a blue sweatsuit sculpted by Duane Hanson is concerning New Yorkers while its being displayed in an auction houses storefront window. Passersby believe the work Baby in a Carriage...

Heres a way to avoid a police investigation: fart till the officer becomes so disgusted with you that he or she has to walk away from the interrogation. It worked temporarily for a 24-year-old Kansas ...

We are all familiar with the marquee protests in American history: the 1963 March on Washington, the 1969 anti-Vietnam War protest, and the 2017 post-inaugural Women's March. This weekend in Los Angel...

They appear to be having more fun than most of us. See the rest at the 2017 finalists in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. (via NextDraft) There's a new book too: Wild and Crazy: Photos from the...

Australian acrobat Aiden Malacaria set a Guinness World Record yesterday for the most fire-breathing full twist backflips in one minute. He had to hit eight of them but made it to ten. From Guinness...

Bonhams is auctioning off a 1966 Mini Cooper 'S' once owned by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. It's expected to fetch US$120,000 - 160,000. From Bonhams:The Mini was the standout motoring icon of the 196...

Lovesense -- the company that made the Bluetooth-enabled vibrating buttplugs that could be detected and hacked remotely and settled a class-lawsuit over collecting vibrator users' personal information...

SpeechBoard is a new "coming soon" Web tool to edit your podcast audio by cutting up the text transcripts. Craig Cannon and Ramon Recuero posted a demo and briefly explain the project in this Medium p...

I've had an Aeropress coffee and espresso maker for many years, and it works as well now as the day I bought it. It makes delicious coffee and it's a lot of fun to use. Right now Amazon is selling it ...

Comedian Louis C.K. admitted today that he masturbated in front of women. His statement:I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is looking into allegations that former White House National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and his #pizzagate-promulgating son Michael...

Boing Boing pal Howard Rheingold is an Internet culture visionary. In fact, he was probably the first Internet culture visionary. Since 1984, he's written about the intersection of technology, conscio...

Stephen Colbert brilliantly highlights the obvious.Is it too much to hope that Alabamians, 90 percent of who say religion is "very important" or "somewhat important" (more than any other state), are...

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is one of the few Republican politicians besides Senator John McCain who is publicly speaking out against Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore. Moore has bee...

U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions keeps hinting that he's going to wage war against marijuana in states that have legalized it, and he probably would have started it by now if he wasn't so busy trying to we...

Transparency International found 766 dodgy companies registered to just 6 UK addresses, formed by Trust and Companies Service Providers (colloquially called "company factories") that took advantage of...

The Joyfay Giant Teddy ($109, Amazon) is described as "6½feet" and appears in pictures as an adorably chubby furry friend for young and old alike: "offers more huggability than your average bear!...

Edmund Burke wrote that "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," but these are not good men. They're silent because they're too close to the catch....

You dont necessarily need advanced graphics programming skills to create immersive VR just an AppGameKit license. To get you started with this beginner-friendly game development environment, we are o...

A 2015 study set out to understand the nuts and bolts of sexist hostility using a timely method: how people behaved in online rounds of Halo 3. They found that incompetent men are triggered by compete...

Switzerland and Singapore are among the most expensive places in the world to grab a mug of coffee—overpriced as it already is in the United States. But there's more to the matter than mere inco...

If you're a fan of emus, or a fan of swearing in a northern English accent, this is the video for you....

All the feels on this one. There's not much info on this video but it seems this dog was separated from its human companion for three long years. Once they were brought together, you'll see that the d...

Buffalo?Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. Buffalo!Thanks, Tyler!...

I have long wondered about the secret meaning behind the numbers and lines on barcodes. Now there's this video by YouTuber Half as Interesting that spells it all out, including how barcodes can be r...

Stranger Things is a huge pop culture phenomenon, no matter how you look at it. Case in point, Newsweek is reporting that thousands of the show's fans crashed the Science Museum of Minnesota's website...

Ray Moore is the ultra-conservative, racist, corrupt, homophobic, theocratic evangelical Christian Alabama Republican Senate nominee who was outed for repeatedly sexually assaulting girls as young as ...

Five years ago, Benjamin Delpy was working for an unspecified French government agency and teaching himself to program in C, and had discovered a vital flaw in the way that Windows protected its users...

Propublica's Julia Angwin (previoulsy) is one of the most fearless, effective investigative journalists reporting on technology; last August, she was subjected to brutal, crude, devastating cyberattac...

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has made a name for himself as a crypto warrior who promotes a murky idea called "responsible encryption," through which software would somehow be designed so th...

In March, Wikileaks published the Vault 7 leaks, a cache of CIA cyberweapons created under the doctrine of "NOBUS" ("No One But Us"), in which security agencies suppress the publication of bugs in wid...

Muhammad Sameer Khan is truly a marvel, mostly due to the fact that he can adjust his head to look behind his back no exorcism needed. The 14-year-old from Karachi, Pakistan ditched his textbooks t...

Sure children are terrible restaurant patrons, but do they really deserve to be charged extra on their dining tabs?The Wayne Hills Diner and Restaurant in New Jersey seems to think so, and its done gi...

The Corey Helford Gallery is currently showing an exhibit of fantastic new works by U.K. multimedia artist Ian Francis. Artificial Winter is Francis first solo exhibition in 10 years and will be on di...

Sometimes the world just needs puppies....

He proceeded to take all of his clothes off, and get completely naked, and started masturbating, says one victim. Five women who spoke to the New York Times say comedian and filmmaker Louis CK's behav...

In case you missed it last night, or simply can't stay up late enough to watch the Late Late Show, four of the kids from Stranger Things actors Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb Maclaughlin and...

From NASA: "On November 9, 1969, the uncrewed Apollo 4 test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and of the high speed entry required of a crewed flight returnin...

Freesole urethane shoe glue saved another pair of shoes.A well-loved pair of Keens that needed the toe caps re-glued. They were coming off and needed to be re-sealed with something that would also be ...

Ultra right-wing Christian GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore is accused of having sexually abused four underage girls, the youngest of whom was 14 at the time.. (more…)...

The folks who make every visit to the airport intolerable are doing it without providing any results. ABC once again finds that the TSA nearly unable to stop folks from illegally carrying a handgun on...

The 'I Love You, Daddy' screening was abruptly canceled just hours before it was scheduled to start. (more…)...

Jacques Nasser, a director of 21st Century Fox, testified in a proceeding that Bill O'Reilly's contract had a provision stipulating that could not be dismissed on the basis of an allegation unless tha...

The manufacturer of Nutella is in damage-control mode after the Hamburg Consumer Protection Center revealed the recipe had been changed. The new Nutella has more skimmed milk powder, more sugar, less ...

Las Vegas unleashed its first driverless shuttle packed with passengers yesterday, and within two hours it was hit by a delivery truck with a human driver. Apparently, the shuttle's sensors recognized...

I've been using a Brother wireless laser printer for years. I paid close to $200 for it. Now you can get one for $60. I hate using an inkjet because they are slow and the always seem to have streaking...

French-language broadcasters in Canada have been given the all-clear signal to freely use the word fuck on radio and television. The Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council (CBSC), which decides which...

A fidget spinner still available on the Target website contains 300 times the allowable level of lead for children's toys. That's OK, says Target, because fidget spinners aren't toys and therefore are...

Al Franken's speech on big tech and its surveillance, influence, opacity and high-handedness sometimes lacked coherence (you can't call for "Net Neutrality principles" for Amazon, Google, and Facebook...

A DreamScreen HDTV Backlighting and Total Surround Kit makes your TV glow with the action, and is now available in the Boing Boing Store starting at $124.99.This backlight setup tracks the colors of y...

r/Incels was ostensibly a support group for the "involuntary celibate"—men who can't get laid—wrapped up in an internal mythology and glossary so bizarre that it seemed like an elaborate j...

Sean Parker, famously portrayed as the Machiavellian mastermind behind Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, says that he's now appalled by the company's exploitative abuse of human psychology: "God only ...

Oregon-based cannabis delivery company Briteside has just created a dope ad for its new weed subscription box service. The one-and-a-half minute long video takes a well-deserved shot at Big Pharma b...

This is like an episode of Black Mirror waiting to happen. You want your lonely child to, say, have a "father." Or maybe you just want to go out on some dates with someone nice, someone safe.In short,...

Oh, William Shatner, you have brought us much joy over the years with all your awkward spoken-word interpretations of popular songs. Now, you're covering The Cramps' "Garbageman" and, well, we're st...

Your sick and twisted dreams of hosting a ranch dressing holiday kegger are about to be realized. Now you can buy five-liter mini-kegs of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing for 50 bucks each online. They sa...

My first real job was at a movie theater. On a good day I sold tickets, on other days I worked the concession stand with pals selling candy, drinks, and of course, popcorn. (Incidentally, we called th...

From a nature show on BBC 2, here's the story of a Honey Badger who cannot be confined! Hes smarter than Houdini....

The telcoms industry has aggressively lobbied state legislatures to pass laws banning cities from setting up their own internet infrastructure, even in places where there is no broadband, exacerbating...

Kelli Sullivan called the Evangeline Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Department for help with a difficult neighbor who'd harassed her family; when the Sheriff's Deputy arrived, he shot their rat terrier...

Muji -- the Japanese minimalist design house that's something of a local equivalent to Ikea, but with clothes, stationery, toiletries and groceries -- has finally shipped its long-awaited Mujirushi mi...

Last week, Senator Rand Paul was severely injured after an alleged assault by his neighbor, anesthesiologist/inventor Rene Boucher, who worked with Paul at a local hospital. (more…)...

This week's release of 243 pages' worth of Trump advisor Carter Page's testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence may tempt you to devote a couple of hours to reading his lurid,...

Shaun Bridges is the disgraced ex-Secret Service Agent who pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin from online drug dealers while he was investigating the Silk Road; he's serving a 71-month sentence and ha...

So-called fans of Van Gogh must not have been too observant of his work, since no one ever seemed to notice that he left a dead grasshopper caked in paint in Olive Trees. Pieces of the small insect, i...

The viral success of Max Lanmans commercial to sell his fiances 1996 Honda Accord forced eBay to shut down bidding for the car after offers reached $150,000.It was quite a surprise for the writer/di...

This wallet doesn't last forever. It eventually got a small tear on the side that holds credit cards. I fixed it with a small piece of duct tape and it's been good for months. Everything else about it...

This weeks tabloids feel like a fact-free zone more than ever.Val Kilmer will be dead before Christmas! reveals the National Enquirer, whose team of psychic actuaries are never wrong. Lets just try to...

Comedian Michael Klimkowski looks a lot like shady Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen (you know, the one who shut down his church when Hurricane Harvey survivors needed him most), so Klimkowski's sketch ...

Journalist Gary Younge gives us a wonderful view of human garbage bag Richard Spencer, the Nazi-enthusiast and white supremacist. Spencer's statements are the stupidest things you'll ever hear. Youn...

The Democrats took the governership of Virginia and wiped out Republican control of its House of Delegates tuesday. Among the winning candidates are Danica Roem, Virginia's first trans person to be el...

It's not often you see a child with this much talent and stage presence Toby, age 12, is the real deal. It's no wonder Lee was asked to play with Chicago blues guitarist Ronnie Baker Brooks in this...

Master of the absurd, Russian literary great Mikhail Bulgakov's dystopian fiction is steeped in the real thing. The Fatal Eggs is a cautionary tale of science and government gone wrong. (more…)...

The National Enquirer, quoting actor Dominick Brascia and other sources, claims Charlie Sheen is the rapist that Corey Haim spoke of but never publicly named. Sheen was 19 at the time, Haim 13.Haim to...

On this anniversary of 2016 US presidential election, Russian punk activists Pussy Riot have released their rather provocative new video for the track "Police State." Directed by Matt Creed, the cli...

The fellow is just doing his job, which for some reason entails cutting open a cylinder filled with flammable gas. The gas ignites, and things go south from there.Kicking a gas cylinder...

When a woman looked at her husband's phone while he was napping during a flight from Doha, Qatar to Bali, she discovered he was having an affair. After that all hell broke loose, and the fighting coup...

Avoid everyday appliances (speakers, cameras, fridges, juicers, remotes, pets) built around internet-connected computers and designed to fail when the company goes bust— or just wants to brick i...

On Saturday, space photographer John Kraus, age 17, captured this magnificent image of the International Space Station transiting the full moon. He took the photo using a Nikon D500 and Nikkor 200-500...

I killed them on the Apple ][. I stopped them in 3D. Now we have Nazis in America, both in real life and the latest installment of Wolfenstein. BJ Blazkowicz makes it clear, Nazis gonna die. (more&h...

I love this. When you get a scam email, forward it to [email protected] and a bot will keep the scammer busy emailing back and forth with it, giving the scammer less time to rob gullible humans.Introduc...

A woman enjoying a live spectator sport was smoking a cigarette, when a peace officer walked over and told her to extinguish it. Instead of obeying his order, she held the cigarette towards him, for r...

"D You Remember?" is a new five-part podcast telling the story of Hsker D, the Minneapolis punk band that paved the way for Nirvana, The Pixies, Foo Fighters, and really the entire realm of alternativ...

Politico sent Michael Kruse to a run-down pit town in Pennsylvania to see if Trump voters there are happy with his presidency so far. They're still with him, they don't care about his promises, and do...

Mean Jean Okerlund interviewed the inimitable Andy Warhol backstage at the 1985 World Wrestling Federation event "The War to Settle the Score." Bonus glimpse of Mr. T and also Cyndi Lauper who was a...

Documentarian Ronni Thomas of the always-excellent Midnight Archive video series tours Calvin von Crush's creepy, interesting, and real collection of weird things. Welcome to the wunderkammer!...

A newfound enthusiasm for aerial photography doesnt have to mean dropping hundreds on a high-end quadcopter. The SKEYE Nano 2 FPV Drone streams gorgeous HD footage to your phone in real time, and is b...

Gary Chynne's left shoulder is bigger than his right: "Medieval archers were sometimes said to look like hunchbacks, their back muscles were so big." [via]...

For the price of a few trays of Taco Bell, these Taco Bell Forever 21 clothes can make you look like a character from Idiocracy: (more…)...

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

In 1914, Canadian Army veterinarian Harry Colebourn was traveling to the Western Front when he met an orphaned bear cub in an Ontario railway station. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet pod...

Cousin Larry and Balki are back thanks to Jimmy Kimmel Live. This comedic mashup imagines what it would like if Balki from Perfect Strangers brought home the Demogorgon from Stranger Things. The new...

Move over, ugly Christmas sweaters, because now there's ugly Christmas rompers. The three-pieced collection is the latest offerings from online all-over-pattern clothing retailer Getonfleek. Should yo...

Gizmodo's Kashmir Hill continues her excellent investigative work on Facebook's mysterious "People You May Know" system, which has caused consternation among users by making seemingly impossible (and ...

The logic of Republican "trickle down" economics is that giving "job creators" more money per hour worked incentivizes them to keep working, and thus creating more jobs. (more…)...

Disney has ended its blacklisting of the LA Times' movie critics from advance screenings -- a move it took in retaliation for a pair of in-depth, investigative articles that cataloged the one-sided de...

You've never seen insects look so magnificent before. Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects is a large coffee table book of mind-boggling photos of insects by Levon Biss, and published by Abrams....

Sean Tejaratchi is one of my favorite book designers, and his Liartown website, filled with parody book and magazine covers, is as great and funny as National Lampoon was in the 1970s. This Sunday, Wa...

The crushing realization of finding out a McDonalds ice cream machine is out of service is an actual thing, and the recent addition of Ice Check on the Apple App Store hopes to save countless sociopat...

The United States is en route to be the only country in the world to ignore the benefits of the Paris Climate accord, should the Trump administration's plan to withdraw from the the deal go into effec...

A nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, a top Pentagon job, is risking the job he doesn't quite yet have. Dr. Dean Winslow said in his confirmation hearing that it's "insane" ...

A nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, a top Pentagon job, is risking the job he doesn't quite yet have. Dr. Dean Winslow said in his confirmation hearing that it's "insane" ...

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About $300 million worth of Ether the unit of cryptocurrency used on the Ethereum platform from dozens of digital wallets was permanently locked up today because of one person's mistake.The Ether ha...

During an advanced screening of Thor: Ragnarok at a Los Angeles movieplex, talk show host James Corden interrupted the film to present a special "4D version" of it. The audience appeared annoyed by ...

From Tiffany & Co., a "Tin Can" for $1,000.The Everyday Objects collection transforms utilitarian items into handcrafted works of art. A classic tin can is upgraded in sterling silver and shining verm...

Manitoba YouTuber samuraiguitarist, aka Steve-san Onotera, brings us this unusual cover of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." Keep it in your back pocket for when you need to rickroll someone ...

The Wara straw art festival in Japan uses rice straw to create these enormous animal sculptures. (more…)...

Sculptor inaeent (aka It's Not Anything Exactly Enterprises, aka Laura C. Hewitt) presses old 1s and 0s from typewriters into her ceramics to create a cool line of binary mugs, bowls, and plates. (...

Textile artist Victoria Villasana breathes new life into black and white photos by sewing vividly-colored yarns and threads onto them. Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, and legal tender all get the treatmen...

Ever since I got this Philips Norelco battery-powered shaver ($15 on Amazon), it's pretty much the only way I shave. I bought it for travel (it's small and uses 2 AA batteries) but it does such a good...

I love The Office, and having seen most episodes at least twice, I enjoyed this behind-the-scenes reel of the characters cracking each other up.[via Dooby Brain]...

These healthy chews are made of salmon, and come in sizes and consistencies that both my dogs can enjoy! (more…)...

If you thought Harvey Weinstein couldn't possibly be any more hideously sickening than you already knew, Ronan Farrow's new piece in the New Yorker reveals he's even worse than you could imagine. Wein...

My latest Locus column is "How to Do Everything (Lifehacking Considered Harmful)," the story of how I was present at the birth of "lifehacking" and how, by diligently applying the precept that I shoul...

The advent of consumer cloud storage has definitely made digital life better for everyone. No longer do you have to abuse email attachments to store and send things to other people. Going all-in on re...

Teacher Bruce Yeany built a number of physics demonstration props that use balls, tracks, and gravity, and it's a delight to see them in action. He also has videos to show you how to make your own. ...

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist created this cheat sheet for figuring out how to use the iPhone Xs interface. That's what happens when you get rid of the home button....

While I suspect most celebrities would immediately call their attorneys if a paparazzo sneakily shot a nude photo of them and then tried to sell it online, singer Sia took a different approach. The cr...

From YouTube description: "This video shows ongoing research towards using the feet of a legged robot for simple manipulation tasks. In this example, ANYmal makes use of its large range of motion to...

Paul Manafort, a lobbyist for some of the most brutal and corrupt dictators in modern history, was indicted last week on money laundering charges. As a holder of three different US passports, he is co...

Facebook tried to fix its fake news problem by putting comments that included the word "fake" at the top. Software-engineering genius! Sadly it didn't work out, reports the BBC. The trial, which Faceb...

In Britain, a mirror-world scandal of harassment and abuse is unfolding. Like its American counterpart, it reaches into high levels of entertainment and government. But unlike America, the "jocular co...

NASA's Sean Doran posted a new set of Jupiter shots imaged by the Juno probe, and they're stunning: "What a blimmin' gorgeous/diabolical planet. Smrgsbord"...

https://twitter.com/philipmould/status/927542755500359680Art dealer and BBC presenter Philip Mould posted this video showing restoration work on a centuries-old painting. It's more vigorous than you m...

One time, just after I moved to California in the mid-nineties, a cool older mom friend of mine insisted that I join her to see a show at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco. She claimed it would change m...

After Papa Johns made a big show of denouncing black football players who kneel to protest police violence, the Nazis made a big show of declaring Papa Johns the official pizza of the white nationalis...

The 12th-century Aberdeen Bestiary has just been digitally scanned and made available online. One of the most famous extant bestiaries, the new version includes newly-discovered details on the book's ...

Whatever you do, don't buy the MantisTek GK2 ($30), because it has a keylogger built in that sends data to a server in "the cloud," i.e. a computer you neither own nor control. It's hosted by retailer...

true/false is an array of fluorescent tubes covered with movable metal cylinders. The segments are programmed to move in algorithmic patterns, creating a hypnotic effect. (more…)...

Ari Weinkle created this cool animation he calls Moodles, where human forms made of noodles reconfiguring as they come in contact with a solid plane. (more…)...

Here's a kit to Grow Your Own Marijuana, except that it isnt really marijuana, its a Cleome. Apparently these flowering plants are near-dopplegangers to Cannabis in both sight and smell. Who knew?Not ...

More Than Just Parks is a wonderful channel that showcases the incredible natural beauty of America's national parks. Their latest video celebrates Rocky Mountain National Park. (more…)...

To help raise funds to repair the Kristie's Flyer steam car, Al Ridenour's Krampus Los Angeles Troupe and Drakenstein Art are hosting a raffle of art and prizes, which includes a pair of tickets to th...

"Something like ten percent of the web flows through Cloudflare's network," states Nick Sullivan, Head of Cryptography for internet "gatekeeping" service Cloudflare. So, in order to keep their cli...

The folks at V&R Recycling put their skills to the test by picking up glass beer bottles with an industrial Sennebogen 830 excavator scrap handler, the kind used to pick up scrap vehicles. (mor...

Chef Anthony Bourdain hosts this interesting documentary on the massive amount of wasted food in our current supply chain, and how it could be diverted from landfills to feed humans, animals, and pl...

In their new video, the band Spoon pays homage to the designers who slave away on Photoshop all day manipulating images. (more…)...

TIL: Los Angeles pizzeria chain Big Mama's and Papa's sells a pizza that feeds 50 to 70 people. Their creation is called the "Giant Sicilian" and it boasts the title of world's "largest pizza commer...

Mona Lisa Selfie compiles just a fraction of the images taken by the six million annual visitors to the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. (more…)...

Golemecha is a seven-foot tall lighted sculpture made from "plastic, welded metal rods, wire mesh, plaster wrap, 3D printed parts, glue, spray paint, borax, branches, roots, tree kits, LED kits, prese...

My inventor friend Les Cookson, from Ancient Magic Art Tools, just reached out and shared his new project with me. As usual, Les has created something that well want to play with—and as with all...

Christopher Berry won the Overall prize at the 2017 Middle Tennessee Bladesports Competition with this impressive sequence of knife slices. (more…)...

What's the difference between a tulip auction, an English auction, a sealed bid auction, and a Vickrey second-bid auction? Preston McAfee, Chief Economist at Microsoft explains auction types.Bonus v...

https://youtu.be/uXjJdv5fj5kJames Bridle takes a deep dive into the weird world of Youtube Kids videos, whose popular (think: millions and millions of views) genres and channels include endless seri...

Wealthy people whose homes were threatened by last month's Napa wildfires got better fire-suppression services than their poorer neighbors, thanks to private firefighters paid for through their insura...

After a man called Connor Zion experienced several seizures, he became disoriented and attacked some of his family members, who called the police. Orange County, California Deputy Juan Lopez arrived, ...

After a man called Connor Zion experienced several seizures, he became disoriented and attacked some of his family members, who called the police. Orange County, California Deputy Michael Higgins arri...

Indistinguishable from dog food that's been given a run through the dishwasher, this $1,000 tin can from Tiffany & Co. is a quiet invitation, to Americans, to do things that even a year or two ago th...

You decided to read this article on a whim, and I'm glad you did. Not all decisions require a decision matrix. I'm an author, so I use decision matrices to methodically decide what's going to happen i...

As I say at the start of our interview, Ev has founded an almost unreasonably long list of companies - and the three listed above each had huge impacts on the Internet, and on digital culture.A remark...

Televangelist, fraudster, and ex-prisoner Jim Bakker is in a tizzy as he threatens, er, warns his audience that Americans will riot in the streets if Trump is impeached.Via Right Wing Watch:Trump is...

800 years ago today, on Nov 6, 1217, the Charter of the Forest was sealed by King Henry III, making it "the first environmental charter forced on any government" in which were asserted "the rights of ...

I've owned the earlier model of Panasonic's nose hair and ear hair trimmer for over ten years, and it still works perfectly. I've never had the sharpen the blades. (Can they even be sharpened?) It's ...

Hundreds if not thousands of Astro fans were watching a parade on Friday, celebrating their world-series victory, in a multi-level parking garage when a woman from many levels up dropped her hat. So...

If you live in LA, I hope to see you at Skylight Books in Silver Lake, where I'll be talking with British cartoonist Tom Gauld about his work, including his latest book, Baking With Kafka. I'm a huge ...

Jack Burton is tweeting again! (more…)...

Due to apparent proximity to Jesus, Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt feels church is the best place to be shot. No wonder I never go there.Via RawStory:Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt asserted on Monda...

The BBC's pidgin service is aimed at West African audiences; it is a pure delight. (more…)...

Last month, Juli Briskman, 50, flipped off the presidential motorcade passing her as she bicycled in Northern Virginia. A photo of Briskman's gesture went viral and last week she was fired from her jo...

You probably know the you cut, I choose method to split a cake between two people who want as much for themselves as possible: one person cuts the cake into two pieces and the other person gets to cho...

Materials scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a way to etch nano-sized patterns into glass so that glare is nearly eliminated.Via c&en:To reduce the annoying glare from the sur...

A fantastic behind-the-scenes clip from Blue Planet II:The Blue Planet II team dive to over 700 meters to see what happens to a whale carcass on the seabed. Whilst filming sharks as they feast, the ...

Parking officials in Culver City, CA take a uniquely perverse pleasure in making impossibly confusing parking signs. This fellow turned their cruelty into our amusement by making a Star Wars opening...

Dutch filmmaker and artist Frans Hofmeester "has been filming and photographing his children Lotte and Vince since birth. Every week the images are shot in the same style. With this footage he creat...

Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman and lobbyist for horrible dictators, was indicted last week for laundering money he made lobbying for foreign powers. The court considers Manafort a fligh...

Samsung's latest ad, "Growing Up," is the latest in the Samsung vs Apple phone war, and it's fun to watch. Samsung's boldness in trying to lure Apple users reminds me of the olden days when Apple la...

This man stuck his neck out to show how this car's sliding door wouldn't hurt him. Oops....

The LEGO Star Wars advent calendar is literally the only thing even tangentially related to Jesus I will buy this year.This set has a cute BB-8 in a Santa hat, the Millenium Falcon, a Y-wing, some tro...

The NRA would have you believe gun control is an us-vs-them situation. It's closer to being an us-and-them-vs-NRA-and-the-politicians-they-own situation. From a PEW research poll via CNN:It's no secre...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urm16MTDi6AMore guns is clearly the answer! Texas attorney general Ken Paxton appeared on FoxNews to urge folks to carry guns in church. Regardless how odd or uncomfort...

The original, iconic and much replicated Robby the Robot suit is up for auction.Via Bonhams:In 1970, Robby and his Jeep were purchased privately from M-G-M by Jim Brucker and both were displayed throu...

City of Miami firefighters William Bryson, Kevin Meizoso, David Rivera, Justin Rumbaugh, Harold Santana, and Alejandro Sese (pictured above) were fired over an incident in which a black lieutenants fa...

Lance Braithwaite, 81, is a gadget writer par excellence, with a keen mind for technology and a deep faith in the utility and virtue of manuals. He is now seldom-published; he roamed the magazines in ...

Boing Boing is proud to welcome Wellbots as a sponsor!DJI Spark is the best and most affordable drone on the market. It has a sophisticated design, latest technology and can serve all of your amateu...

Single image super-resolution (SISR) is an emerging technology that uses automated texture synthesis to enhance dithered and blurry photos to nearly pristine resolution. This example from EnhanceNet-P...

iFixit Video always does informative overviews of new gadgets, like this nifty look at how Face ID works. (more…)...

Jay Carlson, an electrical engineer, takes a deep dive into the world of cheap hardware: The Amazing $1 Microcontroller. If you want to scroll down and find out who the winner is, dont bother theres ...

I can't believe we've not posted this before! I searched high and low, but the closest thing I could find was this post from Mark featuring a camel biting a reporter's hair.Dance like it's still 201...

An orblike auditorium nicknamed The Eye sits at the center of the new Tianjin Binhai Library that can hold up to 1.2 million books. (more…)...

Here's a fun little project with wooden matchsticks: weave them into bracelets using no glue. (more…)...

Just one of those odd internetal coincidences: the meeting of The Godfather of Soul, Cup Noodles, and a big-bucks doodad for wealthy folks in Japan.Lets start with the show, with Mr. James Brown shill...

Silicon Valley has reinvented the pay toilet. But this time, you have to use an app to get in, yielding metadata (foeterdata?) to the powers that be. Yield the who, what, when and where of your bowel ...

Spike, founder of Chicago's Iron Circus Comics, found these adorable monsters from an age when money, traditional technique and unusual subject matter first met.https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/9...

Spike, founder of Chicago's Iron Circus Comics, found these adorable monsters from an age when money, traditional technique and unusual subject matter first met.https://twitter.com/Iron_Spike/status/9...

Chameleons are a non-native species in Florida. They've gotten a foothold through illegal "chameleon ranching" by breeders. Enter reptile enthusiasts who call themselves herpers and who go out at ni...

Ken Hermann went to the flower market in Kolkata, where he snapped these cool portraits of flower sellers with their wares. (more…)...

Acorn woodpeckers create acorn granaries that hold tens of thousands of acorns. Scientists are especially interested in their living arrangements, once described by Cold War ornithologists as commun...

Musical theatre student Evan W. Gadda has heard stories about Burning Man but hasn't made the journey himself. He is asthmatic. and because of cerebral palsy, paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair,...

I haven't read a novel in ages and the internet, in its succession of increasingly short content forms, reduced my attention span to the first sentence of a tweet. But what more do I need to read in o...

It's not just the underlying silver: per the sales copy, this $1000 "everyday object" is worth so much because "the signature Tiffany Blue hue of this designs enamel accent has been as iconic as the b...

After running Daniel Miller's long, excellent features about the many ways in which Disney has manipulated the local politics of Anaheim (home of Disneyland) to extract huge subsidies from the cash-st...

Senator Rand Paul, architect of some of the most extreme policies of the Republican Party, had five of his ribs fractured (three were "displacement fractures") and suffered lung bruising after being b...

The semi-independent Oregon Tourism Commission has created a playable version of the classic Apple ][-era adventure game Oregon Trail to promote Oregon tourism. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/MkVV2hvuQdM1.4TB/13.4 million documents have leaked from Appleby, the offshore law-firm that is part of the "magic circle" of firms employed by the super-rich to manipulate their fi...

Turkish purchasers of clothing from fast fashion brand Zara have discovered notes slipped into pockets of their clothes by workers begging for support in their struggle to get long-overdue wages. (mor...

Breaking news from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP): "A trove of 13.4 million records exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trumps billionaire commerce secr...

Getting a good view inside tight spaces usually involves some significant discomfort, or unqualified appliance disassembly. If you want to see whats living in your crawlspace, or making noises in your...

Teun van der Zalm developed an algorithm for creating nebulae in games, VR, and film. This showcase of the results, set to a lovely free track by Lee Rosevere, hints at the beauty that emerges from ...

Someone should get a large tattoo that says "Don't get tattoos of living celebrities unless you have the money for a cover-up." Behold, a gallery of suddenly recontextualized ink: (more…)...

Pilot Amol Yadav upped and said, one day, that he would construct an airplane on the roof of his apartment building in Mumbai. But how will you get it down, friends asked..."I really don't know," he t...

In Thursday's Paris Masters match against Rafael Nadal, Argentine-born Uruguayan tennis pro Pablo Cuevas impressed the crowds by volleying a between-the-legs shot, aka a "tweener." Wow, jaw official...

That's really earie.(posted by BanksyBhoy to r/pics)...

Our friend John Park, maker of delightful electronic curiosities, has just posted a new tutorial. This time, he shows you how make a beverage cooler using using a thermoelectric cooling assembly.Mak...

That's the question you'll answer with the Adobe CC Lifetime Mastery Bundle.Adobes Creative Cloud is a quintessential part of any designers toolbox, and this bundle will teach you how to use it for ev...

Today is the Fifth Annual Aaron Swartz Day and International Hackathon Weekend, and for the first time, the speakers will be webcast, starting at 1PM Pacific: (more…)...

Austinites! You have two more nights to catch Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays, "an artistic and cultural dialogue around our divergent understandings of privacy." (more…)...

Hurry! There are only five balls of sterling silver yarn available from Tiffany's ($9,000 each). It's part of their "Everyday Objects" line which also includes a $10,000 silver bird's nest with (Tiffa...

Star Trek has many spinoffs, but they all happen within a fairly shallow focal plane: consider how controversial it was to set DS9 on a space station instead of a starship, or how radical it seemed fo...

You can throw this silicone dishwand in the dishwasher. (more…)...

Centuries of stodgy, numbing translations of The Odyssey have left it a bad classroom memory for generations, a classic enjoyed mostly through modernized retellings of one kind or another. But Emily W...

Centuries of stodgy, numbing translations of The Odyssey have left it a bad classroom memory for generations, a classic enjoyed mostly through modernized retellings of one kind or another. But Emily W...

Shipping containers have been used to make interesting homes for some time, but this spiky white cluster of containers jutting out of the California desert will be quite a sight to behold upon complet...

Flautist Youkie Ota thought she was going to nail Pierre Sancan's minimalist arrangement for flute and piano at the Carl Nielsen International competition in Odense, but hadn't planned on a butterfl...

For connoisseurs of rare film, few experiences could top Oddball Films' meticulously curated one-time-only screenings from their extensive rare film collection. This short documentary looks at found...

Stormchaser Mike Olbinski chased massive storms across the American southwest to create the latest installment of his Monsoon series. (more…)...

Illustrator Jacopo Rosati of Venice, Italy has designed tarot cards based on internet culture instead of the occult. His Social Network Tarots' "major arcana" includes The Russian Hacker, Dick Pics, a...

Creator of the Cherpumple (and other retro-fabulous foods) Charles Phoenix has a new book that celebrates "classic & kitschy American life & style." It's titled Addicted to Americana and it lo...

Sculptor Jud Turner (previously) shows off three of his newest sculptures: the latest in my Oblivion Factory series, "Solitarium", a full sized California Condor (8+ foot wingspan) fabricated in welde...

Trump is probably tempted to pardon everyone that Mueller indicts. But Mueller has set things up so that it won't help if he does. It also won't help if he fires Mueller. Why not? Because the State of...

Salem Chapel BME in St Catharines, Ontario, built by slaves who settled in the area after escaping the United States of America, is in desperate shape.A GoFundMe has been created to help preserve this...

Shoppers drawing their firearms to help stop a more aggressive 2nd amendment rights enthusiast did not. Shoppers report panic, while the local police suggest the investigation was slowed up to 5hrs.If...

The Washington D.C. restaurant The Bird is serving a $5 Moscow Mueller every time a Trump associate is indicted during Special Counsel Bob Muellers investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 ...

Praying is boring and Pope Francis is sparing us some of the Catholic guilt for dozing off while prostrating ourselves before God. The Pope admitted to occasionally sleeping on the job while he prays....

After being cheated for many years at Marvel (where he created and/or wrote and drew Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, The Fantastic Four, The Silver Surfer, the Black Panther, Dr....

Want to join the revolution, but find the idea of customizing used or surplus clothing beneath your social station? Barneys of New York has just the jacket for you: a classic M65 with anarchist symbol...

High school math teacher Joe Howard wrote to me about his latest video. He said:A recent video has been circulating of a 4th grade teacher showing a method of multiplication and let me tell you--the...

After a nine-week battle (previously), London's sewer heroes have vanquished a 130-tonne (143 ton) fatberg lurking beneath the city. The congealed mass of fat, trash, wet wipes, diapers, condoms, excr...

I'm constantly being surprised by what people are making with Scratch, a kid's programming language that lets you make games, cartoons, and other programs by connecting different color-coded blocks to...

A 53-year-old Florida woman was arrested and charged with a DUI, though she wasn't really driving, but rather drunk riding a horse down a road.Breath samples showed that her blood alcohol level was th...

My home is lightly blanketed with Amazon Echo Dot listening stations. I tried to use Alexa, the digital assistant to re-order my favorite black tea. Now I am ready for the zombie apocalypse. (more&hel...

Before Cathy Lee Crosby (1974), Lynda Carter (1975), and Gal Gadot (2017), Ellie Wood Walker was Wonder Woman! In 1967, Batman producer William Dozier created this short film as a pitch to Warner Br...

Martha ODonovan, a 25-year-old woman from New Jersey who now lives in Zimbabwe, was arrested today for tweeting insults about President Robert Mugabe. She now faces up to 20 years in prison. O'Donovan...

Ethan Persoff will be speaking about the John Wilcock comic at The New School's Parsons School of Design, on Tuesday November 7, 7pm.Visit Scott Marshall's website at https://scottmarshall.org....

In a small-scale study, researchers have shown that algorithms can analyze brain scans to determine whether an individual has suicidal thoughts. During the study, the University of Pittsburgh and Carn...

On Wednesday, the CIA released nearly 500,000 files recovered from the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan hideout. According to the CIA's web page, the files are "temporar...

A huge wooden penis has been, er, erected atop Mount Oetscher, 6,211 feet in the Austrian Alps. From Metro:The Oetscher ski lift operators were equally puzzled by the penis, but seemingly embraced the...

Hamish & Andy put three people in separate isolated storage units and asked them to hit a button when they felt like one hour had passed. I would do poorly. Even if I started counting, I'd become to...

Alt-right blogger Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) enjoyed a large following in Twitter, and her tweets were cited by Buzzfeed, the NY Times, and other news agencies. It turned out "she" was another creati...

Alt-right blogger Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) enjoyed a large following in Twitter, and her tweets were cited by Buzzfeed, the NY Times, and other news agencies. It turned out "she" was another creati...

The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop is the oldest workshop in the field, run by a nonprofit (I volunteer on its board), and much-loved by its many grads; the Clarion Class of 2012...

My friend JoAnne Yada shared this quirky collection of Muppets shoes the other night on Facebook and I nearly jumped out of my seat. They're so wild and creative, just like a brand for (a certain type...

Scotty of Strange Parts (who has made a couple of great videos about the electronics markets in China) takes us on a tour of the world's largest gold market, in Dubai, which houses 10 tons of gold....

Who said LEGO had to be ground bound? With The Force Flyers DIY Building Block Fly 'n Drive Drone, you can turn LEGO and other building-block creations into fully-functional flying machines. It's avai...

Most Michelin-starred restaurants are on the pricey side, although you do hear of the occasional food truck that earns a star. But this food cart in Singapore, Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice, run...

Apparently enough people weren't smart enough to appreciate a $1000 wireless teapot that only accept proprietary tea bags. After blowing through $12 million (in a Series A round led by Translink Capit...

This red-and-white designer casket spotted by several people in New York City is real, but is it authentic? There is a Louis Vuitton X Supreme line after all. https://twitter.com/donetodeath/status/...

Tragically, cartoonist Brian Fies and his wife Karen lost their home in the recent Calistoga Fire. Brian shares their heartbreaking tale in his webcomic A Fire Story.He writes:My house burned down. I ...

On The Dr. Oz Show Thursday Nov. 2, former child actor Corey Feldman publicly outed Jon Grissom as molesting him in the 1980s. During the show, he called LAPD to turn in his abusers. In the interview,...

Who is Tom, and why has he been decreed the chooser of onions?Tom knows bestTop image: Obed Hernndez...

The Degenderettes, who describe themselves as a "friendly international feminist & genderqueer agitprop club," have created a badass line of patches and merit badges that leave the guesswork out o...

Newer browsers notify users when a login form will be sent over an insecure connection. But some websites are replacing password boxes with plain text inputs to avoid triggering the warning – an...

On their last day at Twitter, an outgoing employee shut down Donald Trump's account. It was dead for a few minutes, the internet exploding in shock and vain hope. Then someone restored it.https://twit...

Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile has published an excerpt from her forthcoming book, confessing that the scandal-haunted, disgraced former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman ...

An excellent post to the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC2 WG2 mailing list sums up critical feedback over recently approved emojis, including a fierce denunciation of the (IMHO) excellent "frowning pile of poo" emo...

In a wide-ranging interview with CCCB Lab, Kim Stanley Robinson (previously) discusses the origin of his climate-inspired, critical science fiction, which envisions futures in which the climate catast...

Joe Ricketts, Trumpist founder of TD Ameritrade and owner of DNAinfo (which acquired Gothamist and the other -ist) sites, has shut down all Gothamist and related properties following a unionization vo...

Longtime Boing Boing friend Adam Savage is best known as the guy behind tested.com and the co-star of TV's beloved 'Mythbusters.' He's also a Boing Boing TV guest and fellow nerd traveler we've admire...

Eight current or former "House of Cards" employees claim they were sexually harassed and/or physically sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey. (more…)...

What a huge bummer. David Corn is the guy who broke the 'Steele Dossier' story, and did a great job of it. (more…)...

A gentleman from Hawaii sent his ex-girlfriend 144 nasty texts and phone messages within 1 1/2 hours, violating a court order from last February that blocked him from having contact with her. As part ...

After hunting for two years, collector Austin McConnell found a 1940s Monopoly set that gives us a hint of what wartime was really like. Manufacturing Monopoly during WWII wasn't easy, as materials ...

The release of 2,800 previously classified documents on the killing of president John F. Kennedy has prompted this weeks tabloids to fresh heights of fantasy. JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald worked for...

Registered child sex offenders in the US are about to have their passports revoked. Their new passports will require a unique identifier" printed on the inside of the back cover that reads, The bearer...

After a 21-year-old Pakistani woman was forced by her family to marry a relative, she and her boyfriend plotted to poison her new husband with a tainted glass of milk. But the plan backfired, and she ...

Brian Upton is an old hand in the game biz, from design to dealmaking, and presented "30 things I hate about your pitch" at the Game Developers' Conference. Though it concerns the specific interests...

A new scanning technique has revealed what scientists believe is an empty space within the Great Pyramid at Gizeh. While it might be an architectural feature intended to limit the load upon the hallwa...

New to the Boing Boing Store, the Reactive JavaScript Course & eBook Bundle will teach you how to build web apps using one of the most important programming languages on Earth.This collection of v...

Turn up your speakers! The music really makes it. [via]...

Machine-learning-based image classifiers are vulnerable to "adversarial preturbations" where small, seemingly innocuous modifications to images (including very trivial ones) can totally confound them....

The DHS's old "IDENT" database is full, with 240,000,000 records in a system designed to hold 200,000,000; so they're paying arms-dealers and erstwhile comic-book superheroes Northrop Grumman $93,000,...

As Volkswagen's murderous Dieselgate scandal has unfolded, the company has steadfastly maintained that even if it did kill thousands of people with its toxic cars, at least it pays its taxes. (more&he...

West coast ice creamery Salt & Straw isn't encouraging anyone to give up their Thanksgiving day meal, but they are making a version that is cold and creamy to ingest. For the month of November, yo...

Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox band teamed up with Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway?) to bring us this 1930s jazz style cover of Michael Jackson's 1983 hit "Thriller," complete with zombie t...

A Dutch filmmaker made a touching time-lapse video that journeys through his daughter Lotte's entire childhood, from birth to age 18. Frans Hofmeester shared his "Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 18 years" ...

This stunning line of geologically-inspired jigsaw puzzles, named Geode, is the creation of Massachusetts-based generative design studio and retailer Nervous System. As described in their blog:Geode i...

Pawel Zadroniak's Floppotron is back. This time his "computer hardware orchestra" is tackling the Ghostbusters' theme song. I think even Ray Parker Jr. would approve.(Sploid)Previously: The Floppotr...

The programs Obama established to retrain coal miners are going begging in Pennsylvania, undersubscribed because the out-of-work miners they were established to help are convinced that Donald Trump wa...

It was a treat to have my friend and regular Boing Boing contributor Andrea James on the Cool Tools Show podcast. Andrea is a writer, director, producer, and activist. Her last film, Alec Mapa: Baby D...

House Democrats just released a trove of data, metadata, Facebook ads, and Twitter accounts run out of the Kremlins troll farm. A team of reporters at Daily Beast reports on how ads were created by pe...

CNN reports that then-Candidate Donald Trump 'did not dismiss the idea of arranging a meeting with Russia's president when it was suggested in a meeting with his campaign foreign policy advisers last ...

In 1987, a company called Forethought, founded by two ex-Apple marketing managers, rolled out PowerPoint and business meetings have never been the same since. Over at IEEE Spectrum, David C. Brock tel...

This little Anker USB hub is great for travel. It turns one USB port into four, so you can connect phones, memory sticks, microphones, and USB headsets into it. (It's not externally powered, so you ca...

CNN and various UK media are reporting that a black taxi cab mounted the pavement in London, injuring multiple people. Police are on site, and roads are blocked to traffic and pedestrians. (more&helli...

The good-natured prankster group Improv Everywhere had some fun a few Sundays ago when they converted Manhattan's 6-train glass elevator at 23rd street into a fake Apple store. They told people it w...

In the vacuum of space, there's no way for sound to travel. But that doesn't mean space is silent. Spacecraft capture radio emissions that can be converted into sound we can hear. Indeed, NASA recentl...

New research, published in the wonderfully-named journal "Gut," is enough to give you heartburn. Time to switch to Zantac.A link between PPIs and a higher stomach cancer risk has previously been ident...

New research, published in the wonderfully-named journal "Gut," is enough to give you heartburn. Time to switch to Zantac.A link between PPIs and a higher stomach cancer risk has previously been ident...

Keith Wilder, singer for 70s funk powerhouse Heatwave, died on Sunday at age 65. "From Heatwave is your heart," Wilder once said. "If your music is where your heart is, and you put your whole heart ...

As part of Daren Young's sentencing for violating his ex-girlfriend's protection order, Wailuku, Hawaii, judge Rhonda Loo ordered the man to to write down 144 "nice things" about her to match the 144 ...

Huckabee-Sanders smirks and walks off after being repeatedly asked if "this administration thinks slavery is wrong?" by journalist April Ryan.In support of White House Chief of Staff Kelly's repetit...

A year ago, the AI Now Institute released its inaugural report on the near-future social and economic consequences of AI, drawing on input from a diverse expert panel representing a spectrum of discip...

Bonhams is auctioning off one of the lightsaber props used in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). This is one of three lightsabers used in my favorite scene from the film, when R2D2 lau...

At attorney general appointee Jeff Sessions January confirmation hearing, Senator Al Franken asked him, If there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Ru...

Get insured, folks: just because the Trump administration is doing everything it can to take away healthcare from millions of Americans (including refusing to tell anyone that enrollment is open!), do...

London galleries -- and some US dealers -- have been hit by a rash of electronic thefts by crooks who take over the gallery's email accounts and interrupt the transmission of invoices at the close of ...

It's been 15 years since Sony used the DMCA to shut down the community that had sprung up to extend the functionality of its Aibo robot dogs, threatening people with lawsuits and jailtime for modifyin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upsq8rmM5ZkJust look at it.(Thanks, Mom!)...

Nippybus bills itself as "one of Somersets leading independent bus companies" and operates a schoolbus contract for a local council in Somerset, England, where it struggles to recruit drivers thanks t...

In 1998 Sony introduced the Aibo robotic puppy. It cost over $1,500 and was marketed as an "entertainment robot." In the early 2000s I received a loaner and my kids loved it for 3 days, sort of like...

I'm remembering the truckloads of shaving cream that'd be employed in Halloween revelry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-lgUGavkRkThese are some of the commercials we remember, that influenced our ...

I just ordered this fantastic LEGO Ideas set for my daughter.This LEGO set features four NASA pioneers, Nancy Grace Roman, Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison, who've helped define the Unite...

Two brothers want to settle a disagreement by hitting one another, but their peace-loving dog spoils it.Dog tries to stop two brothers from fighting...

https://youtu.be/zQfUUTyyTdgSalvinia is a hard-to-get-rid weed from Brazil that's been called a "lake killer" in Texas, where it was introduced in 1998. It literally chokes lakes by covering their sur...

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you. Did you say, 'I'm watching you'?"This short may make you want to unplug your Echo at night...Director @julianmoviesProducer @alexvisualStarring @michellekhareShot by...

Another day, another Hollywood "missing stair" exposed: this time Brett Ratner, in the LA Times.Olivia Munn said that while visiting the set of the 2004 Ratner-directed After the Sunset when she was s...

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I just came across the Mnkstein collection of modern-day beer mugs and steins. I was particularly taken by their Lucha Libre stein. Why? Because its art pops when you view it with ordinary red-and-cya...

Here's a meta moment for you: Jeff Goldblum critiquing other people's Jeff Goldblum tattoos in the way only Jeff Goldblum could. "Ten Goldblums out of a possible 10 Goldblums."Previously: Just a dra...

In 1835, a Native American woman was somehow left behind when her dwindling island tribe was transferred to the California mainland. She would spend the next 18 years living alone in a world of 22 squ...

Remember when MTV was quirky and cool?Well, it was. In fact, in 1984, MTV asked Elvira, the legendary Mistress of the Dark, to host a six-hour special on Halloween night.** That special was titled, ...

The driver of a Home Depot truck who plowed into people in a Lower Manhattan bike lane today is said to have shouted 'Allahu Akbar' while he killed them. At the time of this post, news reports say at ...

https://youtu.be/8HUVuycpaiYReuleaux Triangle Intermittent Pins Mechanismhttps://youtu.be/Le-PVXUCl0MGeneva Mechanismhttps://youtu.be/QxmV71ykN6EReuleaux triangle intermittent mechanismhttps://youtu...

The worst part of my whole encounter with Oreskes [was] the fact that he utterly destroyed my ambition, says one victim. Michael Oreskes is now NPRs Senior Vice President of news. He is accused by two...

Austrian photography Stefan Draschan sits patiently in museums around Europe until he notices that someone viewing an artwork appears to match the art in some way. The delightful series of photos is t...

"The Best Gravediggers in the World" is a short documentary about competitive gravedigging:In the industrial town of Trenn, Slovakia, a small family-run funeral home has taken their gravedigging con...

The Wine Of Sacred Purity Unicorn Wine Holder ($19.95, Amazon) holds only one bottle of wine, but it holds it very well."Add some falir [sic] to your kitchen by displaying your wine bottles in this ho...

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

Directed by Noah Harris and animated by Nicos Livesey from character designes by McKay Felt and Rufus Dayglo, this meta-bit pixel masterpiece accompanies the latest single from Gorillaz....

What do computer programmers not want to code in? Perl, the Old Spice of programming languages, is the most disliked by a significant margin, reports Stack Overflow. Delphi, used by children to write...

Wim Kruiswijk of the Netherlands has been finding messages in bottles that have washed ashore at the Zandvoort coast since 1983. He now has 1200 of them in his collection, which is roughly 35 bottle...

A family in Gulfport, MS was pulled over by a swarm of police cars, handcuffed, held at gunpoint without explanation, and told to "Shut the fuck up." Turns out the cops thought the family had robbed t...

Her name was Lilias Adie, and she died in prison while waiting to be burned at the stake as a witch. Forensic artist Dr Christopher Rynn used the latest reconstructive methods to show us her face.Lili...

I've been waiting for the price to drop on this adjustable folding utility table. It's usually $40, but right now on Amazon it's S26 so I just bought it. The price is bound to go up soon. It has three...

Trees Sucking on Things is my new favorite subreddit. It's dedicated to trees that have grown around unusual objects, thereby giving the impression of "sucking" on them. Pictured here is an example fr...

A generative adversarial network (GAN) combines two neural networks engaged in a zero-sum competition. The result is a form of unsupervised machine learning that can produce imaginary celebrities li...

91% of the prisoners in Ohio are in Republican districts: they aren't allowed to vote, but they are counted in the census, creating winnable districts with tiny voting populations that would otherwise...

Honda has been manufacturing the Super Cub 50 and 110 since since 1958. Over 100 million have been produced. On November 10, they'll release a "classic" model that hearkens back to its original design...

George Papadopoulos is a fairly common Greek name in these United States. Seems the outraged folks on twitter riled a Michagonian George Papadopoulos.Via NPR:"For the nth time, I am NOT Trump's fore...

Redditor Endeavy created these Halloween-themed skull hotpockets, augmented by dribbles of red, oozing sauce; they used these cake pans to mold the crusts....

Jonathan Simmonds, an MD in Boston, MA, created these Map Anatomy illustrations that represent a detailed, functional diagram of the human head's anatomy in the style of a London tubemap; you can buy ...

Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte are 20 year old UC Berkeley students who turned a machine learning class assignment into a browser plugin that tries to guess whether a given Twitter profile is associated wi...

A company in Japan is rewarding non-smokers with an extra week of paid vacation, or six days to be exact. Piala Inc, a marketing firm based in Tokyo, has implemented this new policy not for health rea...

Joi Ito's Resisting Reduction manifesto rejects the idea of reducing the world to a series of computable relationships that will eventually be overtaken by our ability to manipulate them with computer...

The Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program identifies possible duplicate voters by looking at registrations by people with the same name and birthdate; a joint study by researchers at Harvar...

Earlier this month Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos threw a twittertantrum over accusations that Facebook's algorithms promoted fake news in its users' feeds: "I am seeing a ton of coverage...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDdim63M310For the past year, sculptor machinist Chris Bathgate has been designing a series of handheld, kinetic fidget toys, starting with a "slider" and then a top,...

Things got pretty spooky over at the United Kingdoms Met Office yesterday during weather reporter Alex Deakin's forecast. He lost his head, but fortunately managed to hold on to it, at least to the en...

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, recently indicted on federal criminal charges, allegedly laundered $18 million in money he earned illegally lobbying for Ukraine. CNN has a breakdown on h...

Firebox's $36.69 Eleven candle-holder: insert one red candle, light, and wait for the blood to start dribbling from her nostril. Caution: telekinesis. (via Bonnie Burton) (more…)...

The Haunted Mansion, no matter what Disney park its in (California, Orlando, Paris, or Tokyo), has been a fan favorite since it opened at Disneyland in 1969. For years even The Walt Disney Company wou...

With so many communication channels available on the web, knowing how to leverage each platforms strengths is key to developing businesses online. To help you hone your digital marketing skills, were ...

Toy artist Jesse Wroblewski of Chainsaw Estates challenged himself to sculpt a horror movie-themed PEZ candy dispenser for each day in October.Here's a look at some of his horribly-creative sculptures...

A drone, spotted over Gatwick Airport, led to an abundance of caution among air traffic controllers. The result: a growing armada of inbound flights redirected into increasingly-chaotic epicycles ov...

It's hard to describe this video, posted by Dan Cole, but I'll try. 1. A man objects to having a camera put in his face by a videographer who is talking vicariously through a glove puppet.2. The man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSUa6yWVCxYMari writes, "My daughter loves everything spooky--especially Disney's Haunted Mansion! She loves it so much she's memorized the song and likes to dress up...

Three researchers from Kyushu University have published a paper describing a means of reliably fooling AI-based image classifiers with a single well-placed pixel. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQE8Cj_495gYou've likely seen the stabilized, enhanced panoramic edit of the famous Zapruder film of JFK's assassination. Here's another angle—the less well-known...

YouTuber Brainiac75 got a lot of questions about the possible dangers of a supermagnet affecting the iron in his blood, so he did an experiment with real blood. (more…)...

Shadow of the Colossus, one of the most beautifully gloomy games of all time, is being remastered in 4K. Here's the trailer.Unlike the hideous new edition of Secret of Mana, they didn't fool with th...

Shadow of the Colossus, one of the most beautifully gloomy games of all time, is being remade in 4K. Here's the trailer.Unlike the hideous new edition of Secret of Mana, they didn't fool with the ar...

Dan and Cathy Balsam of Alameda, California are putting the "trick" back in trick-or-treating by handing out fake Trump University diplomas this Halloween. You may remember this same couple is behind ...

Obvious Plant wins the droplifting game this year with these fake costumes he left on a Halloween store's shelf somewhere....

Students from Pratt High School in Kansas didn't get their "first hand job experience" as reported, but they -- and a headline writer at The Pratt Tribune --did get a lesson in grammar. On Saturday, t...

Digital Vegetables is an installation by PARTY that was part of the 2017 Tokyo Midtown Design Touch event. (more…)...

Talk about a tight maneuver. This trucker has to make a sharp right turn onto a single-lane bridge with an enormous load of logs. (more…)...

This neat short film explains the specialized split-beam camera Martin Dorhn developed to film bioluminescent animals without disturbing them. As the information comes through the lens, it's split s...

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Filco's Minila Air ($130, Amazon) should be my perfect keyboard: mechanical, high-end, sturdily made, with reliable Bluetooth and a cunning compact layout. It's even smaller than tenkeyless, but still...