Articles by BoingBoing from January 2018

Glenn Thrush, who apologized for his behavior around women colleagues at The New York Times, is returning to work there after his time off.The woman involved was upset by my actions and for that I am ...

Almost directly behind the legendary Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California is a garage that has been converted into a tiny museum dedicated to fragrance. Its curator, author and perfumer Mandy Aftel, o...

Libyan desert glass is a material of unknown origin scattered across a large swath of the Sahara. Among it, scientists found Hypatia stones, a strange phosphorous-nickel alloy recently determined to...

A group of exiled Turkish human rights lawyers have published an in-depth history of how Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkish government has described Bylock, an encrypted messenging app, whose 1x1 analytic...

Investor Warren Buffet, world's-richest-guy Jeff Bezos and cartoon villain Jamie Dimon have announced that their firms will collaborate to create an unnamed health insurer that is "free from profit-ma...

Investor Warren Buffet, world's-richest-guy Jeff Bezos and cartoon villain Jamie Dimon have announced that their firms will collaborate to create an unnamed health insurer that is "free from profit-ma...

With its pink hairless body and huge incisors hanging out of its mouth, the naked mole rat isn't a particularly handsome creature. A rodent that is neither rat nor mole but the only species currently ...

Use code ODOO3PO6 and get this 14-in-1 stainless steel multi-tool for $7 including shipping on Amazon. I already have a multi-tool (that my late father-in-law gave me 30 years ago) but I bought this o...

Leonardo Chiariglione is founder and chairman of the International Standards Organization's Motion Picture Expert Group (MPEG), whose standards have dominated video playback since the earliest days; M...

I've been cutting my own hair since I was 18, so I learned not to do this a long time ago.Instant regret...

Just because domesticated primates have taken over the planet doesn't mean they can be rude to wild members of their order without suffering consequences, as this aggrieved monkey demonstrates.https:...

When Sean Hannity's Twitter account went offline for a few hours over the weekend (Hannity fans say the deep state did it), a woman named Dell Gilliam set up a parody account called @SeanHannity__ (no...

Rep Dan Lipinski (@RepLipinski) is Congressman for Illinois's 3rd congressional district; he voted against marriage equality and opposes abortion and and the $15 minimum wage. He is up for re-election...

Garbage collectors in Ankara, Turkey, have opened a library with all the books that people throw out."We started to discuss the idea of creating a library from these books. And when everyone supported...

An Italian postman has had a hard time parting with other people's mail. The 56-year-old gentleman, from Vicenza Italy, has been hoarding mail in his garage mail that included letters, bills, stateme...

Cottereau: This video shows the borders and populations of each country in Europe, for every year since 400 BC. Vassal states and colonies are not included in the count of a country's population." W...

What happens when a 32,000-lumen flashlight gets concentrated through a magnifying glass or a fresnel lens? Some cool optics, but not a lot of burning. (more…)...

Apple is way ahead of the pack, but even the losers at Oracle are making $279 a second. The original graphic, by Pablo Gomez, is interactive and a must-see....

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Bill the Engineer Guy made this interesting video about the design of the drinking bird toy. I didn't know Albert Einstein spent 3.5 months studying it.Bill reveals the operation and engineering des...

A passenger train crashed into a FedEx truck, smashing it right in half during a snow storm last Saturday in North Salt Lake, Utah. With such dramatic dashcam footage, it's a wonder nobody was hurt....

Silvio Berlusconi, a misogynist, racist creep-authoritarian who was caught paying a teenager for sex and then lied to cops to get them to stop investigating the case, is banned from holding public off...

The Santa Cruz Shredder actually does leave me with fluffier and more evenly burning weed.Over time the very act of grinding weed wears out my herb grinders. Add to that the fact that I use them in t...

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Berlin is one of many European cities that have faced new housing crises -- or worsening existing ones -- attributed to Airbnb, where homes were converted to unlicensed, super-profitable hotel rooms, ...

Jeremy Corbyn's incredible, odds-defying showing in the 2017 UK general election has been attributed to a "youthquake" of first-time young voters who were drawn to the polls by his progressive policie...

Just over a year ago, the top court in Europe ruled that the Snoopers Charter, a mass surveillance regime created by the ruling Tory party, was unconstitutional. (more…)...

Here's part three of my reading (MP3) (part two, part one) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015's Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited ...

The General Data Protection Regulation will be enforced as of May, and once it does, internet companies will no longer be able to collect or share your data unless they give you a clear, simple explan...

Even by the hilariously sadistic standards of Japanese prank shows, this is outstanding....

Even by the hilariously sadistic standards of Japanese prank shows, this is outstanding....

Izac Moores: "This reference riddled project has been in the works for almost a year. If you can't quite figure out where something is from, a labelled version of the video is available here: https:...

Fun fact: trilobites were able to see thanks to eyes made of calcite instead of soft tissue. YouTuber Thunderf00t shows off a cool fossil and explains the phenomenon. (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt9hMIvukfcIf someone has been trashing your Detroit gas station for an hour, and cops still haven't responded, chances are your business hasn't enrolled in Project Gre...

r/zoomies is my new favorite subreddit, exclusively dedicated to pictures and videos of dogs zooming around. Pictured here is a recent repost of a zooming pup creating a path through morning dew, orig...

In the early fifties, the Airstream company was growing fast and decided to move its factory from Los Angeles to Jackson Center, Ohio. Nearly 66 years later, they're still building their iconic silv...

Flying's a great way to go from A to Z, but it's not exactly good for your ears.Take-off and landing are a plane ride's loudest moments, pushing cabin noise levels up to 105 decibels (dB). At cruising...

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A former Marine, actor Adam Driver has been in a lot of things: Girls, a couple of Star Wars movies, and much more. Now, thanks to artist Brandon Bird (previously), he's the focus of a Valentine's Day...

Lead sponge, like other metal sponges, is a phenomenon where a metal reacts with a solution to create a soft sponge-like material, as YouTuber NileRed found out by accident. (more…)...

Everyone loves sloths, and that has led to a huge black market in their capture for use in "safari selfies," where eco-tourists travel to exotic locales and pose for social media posts with local fa...

YouTuber NightHawkInLight got his hands on some thick copper plates and some neodymium magnets, then showed some of the strange ways the two materials interact. (more…)...

Imagine driving home from work clean and sober, getting stopped by police, then arrested on suspicion of DUI. Several people describe the months of stress and thousands of dollars they spent to clea...

Here's a terrific set of music from Laura Jean Anderson & Friends, which was performed last year at Deep End Ranch in Santa Paula, California. She's got a beautiful voice.Laura Jean Anderson & Frien...

Roxy the dog lives in Riverton, Australia. (more…)...

"There is, and ought to be in this great country, the freedom to say goodbye." (more…)...

David Pescovitz, co-founding editor of this very blog, won the Grammy Award for best boxed or special limited-edition package for his work on The Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Edition, along...

I am a great admirer of Terry Gilliam's cut-out animations in Monty Python's Flying Circus. They were an inspiration when I animated this blockchain explainer video for Institute for the Future:http...

Strava is a GPS-enabled mobile app for runners interested in seeing where and how far they ran. It also has a publically-accessible global map, which accidentally disclosed the whereabouts of secret m...

Discomfort after years of continued complaints, and lawsuits, from native tribes people has driven the Cleveland Indians to retire their "logo."Via Cleveland.com:Chief Wahoo, the longtime logo of th...

The journal Diabetologia published a study that "found that people with high blood sugar had a faster rate of cognitive decline than those with normal blood sugarwhether or not their blood-sugar level...

In what has become an annual tradition, President Donald Trump is once again suing the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser over the valuation of his Trump National Golf Club. Publicly, he boasts of m...

In this fun video by MetaBallStudios, we see a side-by-side comparison of famous movie monsters across the decades. They started with Mike Wazowski of Monsters Inc. (0.7 meters tall and ended with t...

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When I was a mechanical engineer in the late 1980s, I worked at a disk drive company in Longmont, Colorado, owned by Fujitsu. It was my job to design the motor that spun the platter of disks. (more&...

When Unix co-inventor Ken Thompson won the Turing Prize for his work, he dropped a bombshell in his acceptance speech: as an exercise, he had buried a back-door so deeply into the Unix infrastructure ...

Under increasing pressure from President Donald Trump, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is leaving his post effective today, multiple news outlets are reporting this morning. (more…)...

Game over: Todd Rogers, longtime holder of countless videogame speed-run records, is being removed from the record tables after "the body of evidence" weighed strongly against the credibility of his c...

Evidently when we lose our hair we become unloveable....

A leaked White House Powerpoint deck published by Axios reveals that some elements in the Trump administration are trying to sell a plan for the US government to build the nation's "5g" wireless infra...

Getting ready for Valentines day? Just like candy? This five pound bag of Haribo Gummy Bears is pretty darn AWESOME.The pace at which my daughter and I can finish this giant bag of gummies is impressi...

Cornell archaeobotanist Natalie Mueller harvests "weeds" from across North America, seeking the remnants of "lost crops," the plants cultivated by the people who lived here 2,000 years ago. (more&hel...

Strava is a popular fitness route-tracker focused on sharing the maps of your workouts with others; last November, the company released an "anonymized" data-set of over 3 trillion GPS points, and over...

Apple's podcast feature in Itunes is probably the most successful podcatcher extant, and it's long been understood that the app gathers extensive data on listeners' habits: what they listen to, when a...

Rotary car dumpers (aka wagon tipplers) are used for quickly emptying coal and ore from hopper cars. Traditionally, hopper cars emptied from the bottom.Enthusiast Chester Hill praises Pittsburgh-bas...

Alan Gogoll put a camera inside his guitar to record Stringscapes, a lovely set of short songs with a beautiful sunset vista visible outside the sound hole. (more…)...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dasharez0ne/da-share-z0ne-the-devils-level-card-gameTHE DEVIL'S LEVEL is the official card game of Da Share Z0ne, Twitter's most bad-ass meme machine. Contributors...

Metal detectorist "Iron Mike" finds all sorts of interesting things, like this anti-tank mine among a treasure trove from the Eastern Front of World War II. (more…)...

Time crystals, a theoretical phase of matter proposed in 2012, can now be reliably created and measured, thanks to researchers at UC Berkeley. Above: a great primer on time crystals.The discovery bu...

Donning a much-glitzier version of the black western bowtie and white suit that Colonel Harland Sanders is famous for, country music legend Reba McEntire is now playing an androgynous version of KFC...

While wearing eye tracking glasses, seven young people and three professional artists each donned eye tracking glasses and drew the same scene, and some interesting patterns emerged. (more…)...

I've just learned about the Art Rangers program. It's a cool non-profit, founded by Oscar Nilsson and Alex Tatem, that allows artists to donate fine art photo prints inspired by the National Parks. Fo...

More A-grade sneering from Rob Wolchek of Fox 2 News Detroit, called in by professional photographer Kelly, who tracked down the guy flogging her stolen gear on eBay.WOLCHECK: Where'd ya get all the...

Craig Evans, accompanied by his dog Llew and his son Dafydd, mosey around a beach in Pembrokeshire, Wales, picking up everything worth eating and finally enjoying a delicious December meal. calm dry...

Variety is reporting that previously unreleased music by Prince will soon be available:Previously unreleased Prince music is coming soon, estate adviser Troy Carter tells Variety, although he declined...

Not sure what Yankee Stadium food vendors wear now but, apparently, sometime in the late sixties or early seventies they donned this far out, font-heavy number. Baseball photo historian Baseball by Bs...

In an effort to make plastic drinking straws extinct, Chelsea Briganti and Leigh Ann Tucker of Loliware have invented the "worlds first edible, hypercompostable, marinedegradable straw." They hope the...

Your dreams of captaining your own tiny-but-shiny electric boat are about two grand and a fair amount of elbow grease away. Donald Bell (previously) of Maker Project Lab shared Rapid Whale's Mini Boat...

"The Gentle Author" is the maintainer of Spitalfields Life, a blog that has featured a brilliant and moving series of essays about the history of East London; Author is also sharply critical of the pl...

London has fatbergs: glistening, multiton agglomerations of fat, sanitary napkins, "flushable" wipes, human waste, dirty diapers, used condoms, and delicious strawberry jam; New Orleans has 93,000 pou...

Devumi is a sleazy Twitter-bot farm founded by German Calas, a serial liar who buys wholesale Twitter bots from even scummier bottom-feeders than him, and pays a series of low-waged patsies to direct ...

When Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkish government took reprisals against hundreds of thousands of people suspected to have been involved in the failed coup of 2016, one of the criteria they used for who...

After an audit found that the Department of Defense couldn't account for $6.5 trillion in non-black-budget spending, Michigan State University State and Local Government Finance and Policy Chair Mark ...

Whenever we drive on the Ronald Reagan Expressway, my daughter asks me to remind her what Reagan was famous for, and I have to recount as much as I can recall: brought us to the brink of nuclear extin...

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker -- whose reign has been haunted by scandal and propped up by out-of-state dark money -- has announced that he will not call special elections to fill seats in the Wisco...

Writing in the Baptist News, Miguel De La Torre -- a progressive professor at Denver's Iliff School of Theology -- denounces evangelicals who "forgive" Trump for his myriad sins and support child-mol...

No matter where you fall on the Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux debate, one thing remains true: you shouldn't be forced to limit yourself to just one operating system. Of course, there are workarounds, like...

r/forbiddensnacks is my new favorite subreddit. It features consumer products that look just like candy or other delicious treats, but are in fact inedible or outright poisonous items such as pebbles,...

I'm appearing at UCSD on February 9, with a talk called "Scarcity, Abundance and the Finite Planet: Nothing Exceeds Like Excess," in which I'll discuss the potentials for scarcity and abundance -- and...

Kimberley Clark, makers of Kleenex and Huggies, says it will lay off 10-12% of its US workforce and divert the savings to shareholder dividends and capital investment (presumably robots to replace the...

Kimberly Clark, makers of Kleenex and Huggies, says it will lay off 10-12% of its US workforce and divert the savings to shareholder dividends and capital investment (presumably robots to replace the ...

For decades, Democrats in power and in opposition have traded away labor laws and rules that protected unions in order to gain short-term advantages in political horse-trades, and now, with union memb...

A group of activist lawyers/documentarians have made a vocation of fighting copyfraudsters in the courts, first forcing Warner Chapell to relinquish its bogus claim over "Happy Birthday" and then targ...

San Francisco-based fashion brand Betabrand sent me an important email today. The subject line, "Sasquatch Conquers All!," immediately caught my attention. Inside was a promotion for their new, totall...

After suggesting the New York Times cooked up its story about President Trump trying and failing to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Fox News anchor Sean Hannity was forced into a humiliating on-a...

Feeling a certain way, but not quite sure of the best word for it? The wheel of feelings is a literary (or thereapeutic) tool for lending precision to fear, anger, disgust, sadness, happiness and surp...

I grew up in a family where competition and winning meant everything. Throughout my childhood, my sister and I were pitted against each other in games of chance and skill, with prizes of heavily salte...

Beryllium is an element commonly found in stars' cores and, as it turns out, audio equipment as well. We won't bore you too much with the science involved, butberyllium possesses a host of qualities t...

The announcement is more than a year old, but Dan Brown, of The Da Vinci Code fame, is paying €300,000 to have Amsterdam's Ritman Library digitize thousands of books about "alchemy, astrology, ma...

For centuries, scam artists, con artists, and magicians were the world’s leading experts on biases, fallacies, heuristics and all the other quirks of human reasoning and perception.On this episo...

A common misconception is that bitcoin transactions are anonymous. The truth is, unless you are very careful about covering your tracks, your bitcoin transactions can be connected to you. And the tran...

Enjoy these inspiring self-improvement tips -- which feel like they were lifted from a 1964 issue of Reader's Digest -- from the man who lost his job after paying $45 million in sexual harassment sett...

When the news of two showstopping bugs in virtually every computer in use today broke, it was scary stuff -- experts predicted that mitigating these bugs would be difficult and impose severe performan...

Blockchain transactions are recorded forever and indelibly, and that means that all the Bitcoin transactions on early Tor hidden service marketplaces like Silk Road are on permanent, public display; b...

https://youtu.be/5glDp1A90VgTo remove fur from pets before it ends up on furniture and clothes, you need a Love Glove....

If you hit a dead link on the Financial Times' website, you get a 404 page that offers a series of funny possible explanations for the page's nonexistence, each corresponding to a different economic t...

Trump has said that he is "looking forward" to giving a statement to special investigator "under oath" -- but talking to smart people under oath requires the kind of sustained, detail-oriented focus t...

Lloyd Khan runs Shelter Publications and was the shelter editor for The Whole Earth Catalog. At 82, he is quite active, as a skateboarder, paddler, home remodeler, and hiker. In a recent blog post, he...

It's been nearly a year since Trump killed the Trans Pacific Partnership by pulling the US out of it; last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada and the other TPP countrie...

The appropriately named Jarrett Walker is the author of Human Transit, a seminal text on transportation and cities that draws on his decades of experience in urban planning; he has the distinction of ...

Trump went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and told the audience that the press is "nasty," "vicious," "mean," and "fake." His comment was received with a chorus of boos, which Sar...

In the cosmology of bureacratic evil, United Airlines is the prince of Hell.Minutes before departure, already buckled into her seat, she was ordered to leave the plane. The gate agent told her that he...

Dutch left-leaning daily de Volkskrant has published a remarkable -- but thinly sourced -- report claiming that a Dutch spy agency called the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlan...

In Elders React to VRChat, a group of senior citizens put on their VR headsets and explored the online social space of VRChat for the very first time. There are some amusing moments when other playe...

With the heaviest snowfall in Davos, Switzerland since the year 2000, this Swiss woman decides to have some fun. "Holy shit," someone says as she stands on the ledge of a fourth floor window. "Shit ...

This Ketchup and Mustard Cake by Shared Food seems like a really bad idea unless condiments are your life, like if you're a Wienermobile Hotdogger or something. The recipe is here and, yes, it uses ...

The term "cuck", short for "cuckold", is used largely on America's right to insult men they consider to have been taken advantage of, willingly submissive, or otherwise weak. Among the more curious te...

Straight White Guy Listening is an experimental five-part mini-documentary and podcast series where host Graham High (the straight white guy) interviews folks who are different from himself.These e...

This country is a slaughterhouse and the police are not, contrary to given wisdom, the pigs. [u/udzu via Reddit]...

Enjoy watching this swimming pool oscillate and overflow thanks to the high winds buffeting the high-rise building it is installed in. Good job they put a towel on the floor!...

I'm a big fan of all the wee things that come out of Leafcutter Designs (previously). Now, for Valentine's Day, they've got tiny packages of TCHO chocolate in their shop. If you order 12 or more of th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqpLfVEE_YEd Sienkiewicz is a councilman in Wolverine Lake, Michigan. Ed gets mad at people using the public lake access road by his house. A couple of years back, a l...

My dear friend Jenny Slater was in Nashville Wednesday. She dined with her new work team at SILO, an upscale eatery in the Germantown neighborhood.That's where they spotted an unusual offering on the ...

New York-based artist Shari Austrian of Etsy shop Little Brick Lane has been creating miniature homes since she was six years old. Her first one was constructed out of Play-Doh. Now, she uses LEGO bri...

Revolve has released a promotional video for its prototype collapsible airless tires. Originally designed for bicycles, the same tire can also be used on a wheelchair. (more…)...

Web development is unquestionably one of the most in-demand and lucrative fields in tech at the moment, but for those not currently boasting a computer science degree, the thought of breaking into thi...

Trump ordered that special investigator Robert Mueller be fired, but backed off when the White House's legal counsel threatened to resign.The West Wing confrontation marks the first time Mr. Trump is ...

Donald Trump wrote to the Guggenheim Museum asking if he could borrow a Van Gogh to hang in his living quarters in the White House; curator Nancy Spector wrote back and demurred, offering instead to l...

The President of the United States, whose Bill of Rights bans the government from making a law "respecting...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress...

In 1978, Nick Belluso was running for governor of Georgia and hired a hypnotist for a TV spot. You can see a clip above. From the script:Candidate: This is Nick Belluso. In the next ten seconds you ...

I'm a big fan of Alex Norris's webcomicname, and now you can make your own by randomly mixing up panels.P.S. I recently realized that the dark magic of the Oh No comics is that the final "Oh No" actua...

Here's a good USB battery for traveling, because it also works as a wall adapter plug. It has a 10,000mAH capacity and plugs directly into an AC outlet for recharging. It has two USB outlets, so you c...

Meet Courtland Sykes, Missouri's Republican U.S. Senate candidate. He posted on Facebook that he'd been asked if he supported women's rights. His response: I want to come home to a home cooked dinne...

If you want a good example that shows how Facebook cares more about pleasing its shareholders than the it does about stopping fake news, look how this fake news story, which claims a CDC doctor says t...

Why is this garter snake swimming around wearing a decapitated head of a trout? It certainly doesn't look like fun. A snake expert tells Inverse how the garter might have gotten into its grotesque p...

Days after Montana Democratic Governor Steve Bullock signed an executive order banning ISPs that violate Net Neutrality from supplying state government agencies, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (also a...

Oxfam's released its annual report on inequality, timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum, and unlike previous reports (which focused on attractive but misleading stats about the relative weal...

In the comments people are wondering if this was shot with a drone. One guy says "Probably not a drone. My guess is a second snowboarder with an DJI Osmo on a stick. My stick goes out 4 feet." Howev...

If you're lucky enough to be friends with a cop, they may give you one of their get out of jail cards, which you can flash to other cops along with a request for favorable treatment. (more…)...

I wanted a teal ink. Sailor Jentle Yama-dori is my new teal ink.I had some limited edition Mont Blanc teal ink that I liked, it ran out. I decided to try this Sailor Jentle ink. I like it better! The ...

Physicists at BYU have demonstrated a volumetric projection system that works by using a laser to unevenly heat single cellulose molecules in order to shove them around in 3D space, then painting th...

At the end of S. E. Hinton's classic 1967 novel The Outsiders, both Johnny and Dally die tragically. But what do their deaths mean? Is it a narrative device that pushes on the novel's themes of class ...

Bari S:My arrangement of the Mii Channel Music for a saxophone quartet. Uses one soprano, one alto, one tenor, and one bari. Video was compiled in Premiere Pro and audio was compiled in Audition. If...

Late last year, a redditor called Deepfakes gained notoriety for the extremely convincing face-swap porn videos he was making, in which the faces of mainstream Hollywood actors and rockstars were conv...

In Ankara, Turkey, one person's trash is literally another's treasure. Garbage collectors started saving books once destined for the landfill and opened a public library.CNN reports:For months, the ga...

Chris Notap bought some cheap hole-cutting bits on eBay and tried them out on a pane of glass, a mason jar, a ceramic bathroom tile, a mirror, and a coffee mug. The results are nice....

This is such a creepy video that at first I thought it had to be a parody. But no, the cuts in this strange Jehovah Witness anti-masturbation training video are apparently real, leaked from Watchtow...

Every Tuesday, Indo Java in Queens, New York, turns into the hottest spot in town for traditional Indonesian cuisine. And the best part? Youre always guaranteed the best seat in the house. With only...

Last year, Korean rules regulating abusive practices by online services went into effect, under terms set out in the "Amended Enforcement Decree of the Telecommunications Business Act Now Effective, S...

Bobby Duke carved a pencil into magnificent recursion. He calls it "Pencil Inception."...

Burger King's video on "Whopper Neutrality" (see Carla's earlier post) -- an analogy to explain Net Neutrality that's also obviously a marketing campaign for Burger King -- is a surprisingly great e...

A new report from the New America Foundation uses the current fear that Russian government elements manipulated the 2016 US election to explore the relationship between advertising technology, surveil...

DoodleChaos combines wood blocks, dominoes, marbles made of metal and other materials, and magnets to create a delightful marble run set to Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers. (more…)...

Although Net Neutrality or its repeal if certain somebodies get their way is an issue that affects everyone, not everyone is clued in to what it actually means. Enter Burger King's faux "social ex...

Hours after CTV published the firsthand accounts of two women who say they experienced sexual advances and at least one assault from Ontario Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown, Brown has resigned...

For the 10th anniversary of Breaking Bad (no, that's not a typo), Peruvian YouTuber Esther Bellido created this Super Mario-like animation that encapsulates the entire series in just one minute.(Lik...

Musician Rob Scallon thought it would be cool to one-up the vinyl hipsters and record some metal on century-old Edison wax cylinder recording equipment. And he was right! (more…)...

Thunder Tillman is a Swedish musician whose work lends itself to trippy animation, like this piece for Alignments by Mario Hugo and Johnny Lee. (more…)...

Switzerland, Japan, Germany, Britain and Canada are the best places to live, reports U.S. News and World Report, with the USA lurking back in number 8. This is the second straight year that the U.S. h...

Over at The Official Action Figure Therapy store, they've got all kinds of customized minifigs for sale including this "Calm Bearded Tree Enthusiast Painter Dude." It's like a hilarious exercise in de...

While the typical answer is 33 beats per minute, musician Adam Neely's answer morphs into a great primer on the "perceptual present," a concept widely discussed in both the philosophy of music and o...

I don't know about you guys but I can't wait to catch Backwanzus, Bing the Bung, and Lil Hack this year at Coachella. I hear they're going to play all their early stuff.What...? Botnik Studios (previo...

2018 marked the 75th year for the Golden Globes, and people are still talking about it, mainly due to the rousing speech Oprah gave during her acceptance of theCecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achi...

Mark E. Smith, the inscrutable and inimitable poet frontman of UK post-punk band The Fall has died. He was 60. (more…)...

I was told that chopping vegetables and fruits would be easier with a Santoku knife. For $25 I gave it a shot. (more…)...

A reader sent us a link to an awesome VW microbus poster, so I bought it for my mechanic. In response to this nice gesture all the coolant dumped out of my engine. (more…)...

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Prince Charles fears hes becoming a werewolf, the KGB tried to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, and Meryl Streep is going blind, according to this weeks reality-challenged tabloids.Its the rare week when the T...

Larry Nassar was sentenced today to 175 years imprisonment, Justice Rosemarie Aquilina telling him "I've just signed your death warrant." 163 of his victims—many of them young women athletes all...

The US -- allegedly a bastion of the "free market" -- has one of the world's lowest levels of economic competition, thanks to the triumph of the Chicago School economists, who used shitty math to conv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-H4sEHB54'Todd Rogers is one of the few people genuinely famous for their mastery of video games, holding numerous high-score records and scoring merchandising deals....

Evangelicals love a president who cheats on all of his wives, brags about assaulting women by grabbing their pussies, and pays hush money to a porn star to keep her from talking to the press about h...

The mid-nineties roughly mark the point where Britain's late-20th century TV-entertainment monoculture ran out of steam: its stars too old, its programming too staid, its secrets too widely-known, n...

Municipal networks are cheaper and faster than the ones that cable and telephone duopolists build after being given exclusive franchises to serve cities, which is why the FCC had to issue an order ban...

Ironically, the most honest thing the NSA has done since its founding might just be deleting the word "honesty" from its statement of core values, in January 12th's revisions to the earlier version th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7ppGFXUksBernie Sanders decided that the media would never give a fair shake to his bill proposing universal healthcare in America, so he sidestepped them by livest...

California regulates payday loans (good thing, since Trump's about to kill the federal rules preventing payday loansharking), but not "installment loans" of $2,500 to $5,000 and that means that out-of...

Los Angeles-based artist Veronica Moonhill thought it was crazy that she and her girlfriends were celebrating dicks at her bachelorette party.She writes:There we were, a bunch of fabulous women speaki...

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In January 1888, after a disarming warm spell, a violent storm of blinding snow and bitter cold suddenly struck the American Midwest, trapping farmers in fields, travelers on roads, and hundreds of ch...

Jimmy Kimmel Live went to the Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles to get random children's opinions on how Trump did in his first year in office. Their answers are pretty funny, of course, but no...

Flexispy is a creepy, potentially illegal piece of stalkerware marketed to abusive men who want to spy on their partners; but Jim Born, an ex-DEA cop and retired Florida Department of Law Enforcement ...

In order to ram through its Neutrality-killing bill, the FCC had to break all the rules: ignoring expert testimony, inventing an imaginary alternate internet where Neutrality didn't matter, pretending...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yf_VINmbTE Robin Baumgarten's Line Wobbler is an incredibly clever dungeon crawler game based on a single, one-dimensional line of lights, traditionally implemented ...

The web is a big place, but competition is still fierce when it comes to getting your site to stand out among the clutter. While measures like boosting your SEO have their place, sometimes a simple tw...

I have not found a set of IEMs that can not be improved with Comply Foam tips.While I've been trying a bunch of bluetooth amps out, the biggest single improvement I got with my aged set of Westone 3's...

Not long after Donald Trump fired FBI chief James Comey in May, 2017, he summoned the bureaus acting director Andrew McCabe to the Oval Office for a get-to-know-you meeting. (more…)...

Yeah, 'Monster' sounds about right. Five women are suing beverage maker Monster Energy over a workplace culture where discrimination and sexually abusive behavior by male executives proliferated with ...

Ursula K. Le Guin died today at 88. The author of the Earthsea novels, The Left Hand of Darkness and many others, she was and remains among the brightest stars in the sky of fantasy literature.Ursula ...

Use promo code 84AE5BMG and get this repair toolkit for $7. I bought one in August and it's come in handy many times since then....

Despite claims the Kremlin is driving a campaign to disclose an anti-FBI memo, a source says an early in-house analysis concludes the hashtag has been mostly pushed by Americans, reports Daily Beast.I...

In 1944 George Orwell wrote an essay called Benefit of Clergy, in which he calls Salvador Dali a disgusting human being. Josh Jones of Open Culture explains why:The judgment may seem overly harsh exce...

As the saying goes, "New year, new you." But what's going to bedifferent about the 2018 version of yourself? What if you kick off the new year by adding a new skill or two to your repertoire? From cod...

Enjoy this fantastic, titular, trippy video from one half of HONEYHONEY, Bejamin Jaffe's new solo album Dominator.Baeble blog had this to say:At this point, it's no secret that we are absolutely obs...

Here's a short National Geographic video about a crying therapy service. Women pay a "handsome man" to make them cry, then gently wipe their tears away. The practiced is said to relieve stress.Entre...

In Potentially dangerous consequences for biodiversity of solar geoengineering implementation and termination (published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Sci-Hub mirror), a group of cross-institutiona...

Marilyn Hartman (66) flew from Chicago to London on a British Airways jet last week. She didn't have a ticket or a passport. How did she do it? She simply walked past TSA security officers and airline...

It's a political no-brainer for Trump, who gets to clobber the renewables market, rattle his saber at China, extend the viable economic life of climate-destroying hydrocarbon fuels (like coal) and ril...

Governor Steve Bullock [D-MT] has signed an executive order banning state agencies from procuring internet service from ISPs that violate net neutrality principles like throttling, blocking and paid p...

When the 5m Autosafe Skypark opened in Edinburgh, it was heralded as the UK's most technologically advanced car park, but in 2003, the owners went bankrupt and turned off the computers that controlled...

South Korea has one of the world's highest suicide rates -- it has steadily mounted since 2000, rising to 25.6 per 100,000. (more…)...

The "addictiveness of smartphones" is the latest technology moral panic, sending parents off with furrowed brows over whether theire kids' "brains are being rewired" by their phones. (more…)...

Watch Talking Heads legend and happy mutant superhero David Byrne's delightful new lecture earlier this month in New York City! The subject, "Reasons to be Cheerful," is intertwined with Byrne's fir...

The best way to avoid the many trolls, Russian agents, and nazis that Twitter is eager to host is to stop using Twitter. The next best thing might be to use "soft blocks," as described by Barry Rithol...

LegalFling is a Dutch app that's supposed to protect partners in sexual liaisons from miscommunication by recording both parties' consent to sexual activity in an indelible, public blockchain entry. (...

Ed Neumeier, the writer behind Paul Verhoeven's classic 1987 family comedy Robocop, is working on a direct sequel to it that ignores the poorly-received sequels and the forgettable 2014 reboot.Z: What...

Taylor Weyeneth is America's number two official in charge of drug policy. He's a 24-year-old former Trump campaign volunteer whose resume is singularly unimpressive: apart from being a frat brother i...

Dumb funny! (via Kottke)...

Dumb funny! (more…)...

In New Braunfels, Texas, State District Judge Jack Robison walked into the jury room, twice, during deliberation in a teen sex trafficking case and told the jurors that the defendant shouldn't be conv...

Artist Yuki Tatsumi created Japanese Tip, an installation of the 8,000 origami "tips" left by customers at restaurants. (more…)...

Benjamin Mako Hill (previously) collaborated with colleagues involved in critical technology studies to write a textbook chapter analyzing the use of computational methods in social science and provid...

When I first watched 9 1/2 Weeks in 1986, I pined for Mickey Rourke's minimalist loft with its Breuer and Meier furniture and, most of all, the magical tape-flipping Nakamichi RX-505 cassette deck p...

Let's hope if Tarantino actually gets a piece of the action, his Star Trek film is this fun. (Nerdist)...

Tanja Brandt shares her videos and photos of Ingo the German shepherd and Poldi the owl. The two have been fast friends since Poldi was a hatchling. (more…)...

Technological limitations in the design of the Bitcoin system means that the network only processes about seven transactions per second, unless you pay someone with a lot of compute-power to log your ...

In Seedship (previously), you play a colony ship's AI, piloting a thousand hibernating colonists through unimaginably vast stretches of space, scanning candidate planets and deciding whether or not to...

NHS Digital has issued guidance to the independent authorities and businesses that make up the UK's National Health Service, setting out the case for storing extremely sensitive patient data on public...

David McCandless meticulously charted dog breeds by six scores: intelligence, costs, longevity, grooming, ailments, and appetite. The big loser: bulldogs. (more…)...

By using this mental trick developed by mathematician John H. Conway, you can figure out the day of the week for any date, past or future, in a few seconds with just one hand. And no, that one hand ...

The Pudding's Music Map shows the number 1 song all around the world. It's like a weird game of Risk, a world of brief new empires rising in the wake of Despacito's worldwide domination. The data come...

Spewing like massive tentacular light sabers, steel mill cobbles are unpredictable workplace mishaps that represent "extreme manufacturing danger."The temperature of molten steel is in excess of 130...

Spend a delightful half hour watching master engraver Shaun Hughes turn an ordinary penny into an extraordinary artwork of skulls and scrolls. (more…)...

Dan Baker:Here's my take on the Buggles' 1979 hit, "Video Killed the Radio Star", using NOTHING but the fantastic on-board sounds of GarageBand for iOS10: so unbelievably powerful... All vocal parts...

Probably the best cyberpunk anime ad for stout ale in the world. [via Tim Soret]...

Remember Spaghetti, the corn snake with that snazzy tube sweater?Well, now you can mimic his look with this cozy "Chunky Mohair Tube Scarf" available at Bulgaria-based online hand-knitting store Dukya...

A Satanic Temple's "Mary Doe" says her religious beliefs were violated by Missouri's informed consent law that required her to wait 72 hours before having an abortion in May 2015. (more…)...

Dastardly cybercriminals. Is there nothing they won't do? (more…)...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today pledged to aggressively scrutinize publicly-traded companies that suddenly change their name or their business model to try to profit from the nutty h...

The U.S. government is close to reopening, after 2 days, 16 hours of shutdown and counting. (more…)...

The Senate voted to reopen the government after 81 senators broke a Democrat-led filibuster that shut it down for 2 days and 17 hours. The fate of the 'Dreamers' is still undetermined. A crucial House...

This wireless scale works with Apple HealthKit and costs $25 when you use the coupon on the Amazon page and apply promo code D7DQA4SJ. It measures body fat, too, but I don't think any scale is very go...

Whoa, Funko has made a Pop! figure of a shirtless, bleeding Jeff Goldblum, as seen in 1993's Jurassic Park.Rowr, is it hot in here or is it a "Wounded Dr. Ian Malcolm" toy?This is an exclusive 25th an...

The Republican party is rapidly becoming the party of white men. Minorities want nothing to do with the GOP and a new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that white women are now ditching the party of...

Unicode Table has something over the other Unicode table sites: predictive search. There's useful tools as well: a HTML endoder/decoder, text-flipper...

Michele MicheleThe Ides of March will soon be upon us. In San Francisco, that means it's once again time to don a a white wedding dress to paint the town white with other "brides."Now in its 20th year...

Here's the set up: two cars are side by side on the road. One car is going 70mph and the other is going 100mph. The drivers of the cars see a fallen tree in the road and start braking at the same ti...

The Royal Ocean Film Society looks at the work of pioneering animator Richard Williams, whose work on Pink Panther and Roger Rabbit bucked animation trends and pushed for a more exaggerated style of...

"Larry, you do now realize that we, this group of women you so heartlessly abused over such a long period of time are now a force, and you are nothing."Watch three-time Olympian gymnast Aly Raisman ...

Little Ripper is a remote controlled multicopter that carries a floatation device. On its first day of service off the coast of Lennox Head in Australia, the drone was used to drop a floatation devi...

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

Every active NYPD cop used to get 30 Patrolmen's Benevolent Association "courtesy cards" from their union per year; now they'll only get 20 (retired cops used to get 20 and now they'll get 10). (more&...

In Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen has held power since 1998, a reign characterized by systematic looting, political patronage and violent suppression of human rights; when opposition parties used Fa...

Hill Billies Ice Hole is a seasonal bar that sits on Minnesotas frozen Lake Lida. It's a favorite among ice fisherfolk, especially because you can fish from inside the bar. The favorite drink is the...

Fix Your Kicks proprietor Joshua Marin, 20, is a third-generation cobbler whose specialty is restoring classic and highly-collectible sneakers. (Great Big Story)...

Purdue University researchers built this bizarre crawling robot baby to study how real infants kick up dirt and bacteria from carpet that they then inhale. Engineer Brandon Boor and his colleagues r...

After uncovering a ferocious horde of hidden spyware in official Android apps the Yale Privacy Lab and Exodus have created an app store that only allows apps that include their source-code and whose l...

Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstdt and Sen Doran amped up the color and contrast of images of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Below, for, um, comparison, Vincent ...

The Planet is a personal pod chair complete with speakers and solar panels. It's a melding of the 1960s Lee West Stereo Alpha Egg Chair concept with a Buckminster Fuller geodesic vibe. The Planet sell...

We're gonna need a bigger oasis.Author Ernest Cline: "I could not have written Ready Player One had I not grown up on a steady diet of Steven Spielberg movies."Director Steven Spielberg:"When I read...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-ELukbhhsSince the earliest days of Facebook, social scientists have sent up warnings saying that the ability to maintain separate "contexts" (where you reveal diff...

In a recent presentation at the Real World Crypto symposium, researchers affiliated with Brown University and a startup called Pixek presented their work developing an app that encrypts photos at the ...

Jon Yablonski has created a site that crisply illustrates the "Laws of UX" -- some well-known precepts of how people interact with on-screen information. One of my favorite laws, which you see in acti...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAMWcjBR-YsSears Canada has been in serious financial trouble since 2013, when workers wrote to the CEO and regulators and senior politicians to ask that their pensio...

A Quinnipiac poll of 1,212 voters taken last week found that Bernie Sanders was far and away the most viable Democratic candidate (76% approval), beating Oprah (69%) and Gillibrand (25%) -- and that m...

Buzzfeed has curated a list of old words that we should revive, because man, they seem to really fit modern life.Like "fudgel" -- "pretending to work while actually doing nothing at all." Or "ultracre...

Millions of new cars sold in the US and Europe are "connected," having some mechanism for exchanging data with their manufacturers after the cars are sold; these cars stream or batch-upload location d...

Osprey Games has found itself a sweet little niche in the current tabletop gaming craze. Games like their extremely popular (and highly-recommend) Frostgrave: Fantasy Wargames in the Frozen City (and ...

A dolphin ate an octopus, but the octopus got its revenge -- it attacked the dolphin's internal organs, killing it in turn.From National Geographic:Stephens says that the 4.6-pound cephalopod appeared...

One Steamelmo of House Imgur posted this exchange, with a twitterer who alleges a brutal womanhandling at this weekend's Women's March.The OP has locked down their twitter account, but the replies rem...

This has the whiff of a pickup-artist seminar about it ("Being able to keep eye contact with a girl is a sign of confidence and the first step to getting her attracted"), but it's also a strange and...

Players in VRChat were surprised to see another gamer experiencing an apparent seizure in-game. The video of the incident, uploaded by YouTuber Rogue Shadow VR, is rather surreal. You see a red robot ...

Previously: Arf.mp4Ergo...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UpeLPBKi1IMoreover, it is postulated that...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVk5m3lospk...

Between 1988 and 1990, Tacoma musician John Purkey says Kurt Cobain gave him demo tapes. Now, he's shared those early Nirvana cassettes on YouTube.Spin reports:One tape includes Bleach demos recorde...

Somehow I missed the successful kickstarter for a tiny bluetooth vinyl needle-in-a-box that powers 'round and 'round in circles along the grooves of a stationary record, obviating the need for an ac...

Blowing out birthday cake candles the traditional way spreads germs, according to the gentleman in this video. He offers a more sanitary way to extinguishing those candles: by waving your hand over ...

Ever thought of whipping out two thick fleshy dildos and banging out a drum cover of Metallica's hit "Enter Sandman"? Well, don't kill the messenger but, YouTuber 66Samus has beat you to it. Watch h...

No one's sure how the windows on commuter buses between San Francisco and Silicon Valley keep getting smashed on a stretch of the 280 -- maybe it's a pellet gun, maybe it's thrown rocks -- but Apple a...

For years, racist authoritarians in New York City defended the stop-and-frisk program in which primarily black and brown people were repeatedly stopped without any particularized suspicion and forced ...

University of Western Australia Law professor Camilla Baasch Andersen has helped businesspeople draft legally binding contracts that take the form of simple comic-strips, arguing that their simplicit...

The proprietors of every Facebook page containing the word "Sarajevo" in its title reportedly received demand letters from the city government of Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia, threatening lega...

Whether you aspire to be a filmmaker, YouTube sensation, or some other media professional, understanding videography inside and out is a must, but it can be challenging for the uninitiated. Thankfully...

After the subprime crisis, vulture funds swept into the hardest-hit areas and bought thousands of foreclosed-upon homes at firesale prices and floated bonds based on the expected returns from the rent...

Just look at it. (more…)...

MG's Mr Self Destruct project takes the USB Killer to new levels, combining a $1.50 system-on-a-chip with a variety of payloads: smoke bombs, "sound grenades," and little explosives, cleverly choreo...

The web may be a big place, but space is certainly limited when it comes to securing a spot on that first page of a Google search. That's why investing in your site's SEO is critical for staying relev...

Putin does the best manly-man propaganda of all global bad guys. It's a long-established internet truth. (more…)...

Facebook today announced major changes to their 'newsfeed' which 2 billion people use monthly. Now, Facebook plans to begin asking each user to rank their trust in various news organizations. (more&h...

Stairs that lead nowhere. Toilets that get in the way of doors. Balconies you can't stand on. Pfusch am bau is a Pinterest page with delightful examples of building boo-boos....

This was her third baby. She was accustomed to the harsh realities of motherhood in a life in poverty. But I wasnt. Im a midwife. I was volunteering at one of the camp clinics when I was called to vis...

Even by the standards of "storm-buffeted planes landing without incident", this is astounding: a small jet all but spinning in circles as it comes in, only to plop perfectly onto its wheels at the las...

Just a few minutes left to get this super lightweight backpack that folds into a small pouch. I just bought one for our upcoming trip to Japan. It's $16 on sale....

Delta passengers who wish to bring emotional-support animals with them on flights now face tighter restrictions. Beginning March 1, passengers must provide a letter signed by a doctor or licensed ment...

Master woodworker Matthias Wandel made this demonstration safe lock. He sells the plans for $7 here....

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, founded by Elizabeth Warren prior to her career as a senator, was once the gem of the US political system, a consistently effective force for punishing financ...

When Rep Tim Murphy resigned in shame after he was outed for pressuring his mistress to get an abortion while serving on the "House Pro-Life Caucus," it triggered a special election in Pennsylvania's ...

This new origami-inspired robot, "milliDelta," created by Harvard researchers, moves so quickly all you can see is a blur. In fact, moving at 70 motions a second, it's the "smallest, fastest, and mo...

Donald Trump, President of the United States, is apparently rewriting the laws of human biology and procreation now. Yep, he really said this. (more…)...

Chris Christie, the much-reviled former New Jersey governor, learned that he will no longer be treated like the important person he pretends to be. Yesterday at Newark Liberty International Airport Ch...

https://youtu.be/SdqKEHqt94gPianist Scott Bradlee gives the old ragtime treatment to Super Mario Bros. It's as if the music was always meant to be played that way.Here's the obligatory death metal ver...

"Steamin -- one of our hundred thousand words for being drunk." Actor Gerard Butler teaches us many colorful examples of Scottish slang....

Cracked Labs' massive report on online surveillance by corporations dissects all the different ways in which our digital lives are tracked, from the ad-beacons that follow us around the web to the app...

David and Louise Turpin, the monsters who starved and tortured their 13 children, had a cheesy renewal wedding in 2015, which featured a bad Elvis imitator as their poor children, all dressed in mat...

https://youtu.be/2bIZ0kWpiD4Participants in a VRChat room watched as the avatar of one of the participants appeared to go into a grand mal seizure, accompanied by distressed sounds audible through t...

Looking for relationship advice? If so, stay away from Siri. A woman who goes by CeciMula on Twitter asked Siri if a guy named Grant would send her a text. Siri, either out of stupidity or pure wicked...

The legendary German rOtring 600 mechanical penicl is now made in Japan. I had to have one.I once spent a day of wandering around London because my girlfriend had forgotten her .3mm architects pencil ...

Do Large (Magnitude 8) Global Earthquakes Occur on Preferred Days of the Calender Year of Lunar Cycle? "No."This wasnt the first time an earthquake-related research question was answered with a single...

https://youtu.be/2jSHKPp-66wNeil Gaiman says Edgar Allan Poe should be read aloud, and he's right: he recorded this video of him reading "The Raven" in 2016 as part of Pat Rothfuss's Worldbuilders c...

Alternative protein advocates in Europe have been stymied by the hodgepodge of national rules regarding insect consumption, but now the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will approve applications...

Astrophysicist Katie Mack (astrokatie.com) created this startling pie-chart to illustrate the ratio of observed matter to dark matter and energy, the invisible bulk of the universe.https://twitter.com...

MP Andrea Leadsom wants the Royal Mail to commemorate Brexit with a postage stamp. Twitter has run with the idea, shooping and tagging with #BrexitStamps, making sure to tag @andrealeadsom. (more&hell...

You may be expecting a typically wild blend of natural wonder and action-cam chaos. But not everyday is Monday. Rider: AlexFilmer: Ryan Edit: Kurtis [Jackson]...

The Pale Blue Dot was made as a tribute to Carl Sagan "as the final project for the Animation 01 course at Ringling College of Art and Design." (more…)...

Lithophanes were originally bas-relief artworks made of translucent porcelain that let varying amounts of light through depending on thickness. Now they same effect can be created using a 3D printer...

Ask any marketing guru, and they'll tell you that social media sites like Facebook and Instagram are an essential part of their everyday toolbox. So, whether you're looking to build your own brand or ...

The City of Los Angeles posted on Facebook -- with this awesome ad -- that they are hiring for a Graphic Designer, sorry, "Graphics Designer." Applicants clearly must know MS Paint inside and out.Than...

Since January 2015, the high-def 360 panoramic webcam on top of the Space Needle has been consistently capturing images every ten minutes of Seattle. Ricardo Martin Brualla took that footage and mad...

YouTuber Dave Lee starts off his video review by saying that he went into Starbucks during the holidays to get a cup of coffee and was soon persuaded by their heavy advertising to buy an $80 Ember m...

The folks at Reality Check Documentaries took the trailer for Netflix's gritty drug-crime docuseries DOPE and made it into a clever parody for the "Tide Pods epidemic." It works a little too well, i...

Via the miracle of society's visual memory on Youtube, you can see the entire cast of Gilligan's Island reunited on a Fox talk show in 1988.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9yJ5zegnDY...

Britain's Intellectual Property Office admits that its cartoon informing children about copyright infringement is "dry and niche," despite exciting scenes such an old man in a suit explaining intellec...

Hospital chain Intermountain Healthcare is leading a industry consortium representing 450 hospitals in total in an initiative to manufacture their own generic drugs, either directly or through subcont...

A few weeks ago we were shocked to learn that Playboy had, without notifying us, sued us over this post (we learned about it when a journalist DM'ed us on Twitter to ask about it). Today, we filed a m...

The U.S. Senate today passed a bill that will renew the National Security Agencys warrantless internet surveillance program for six years with no substantive changes. It's bad news, say privacy and se...

People in 134 countries rated their approval of U.S. leadership at an all-time low under President Donald Trump in a new Gallup poll released one year after he took office. The souring of global opini...

President Donald Trump himself made the decision and gave the executive order to curtail the testimony of former chief White House political strategist Steve Bannon before the House Intelligence Comm...

Get your barf bag handy before you read this post. We're not joking. (more…)...

Sick burn, EWR. The crooked as heck governor of New Jersey has barely been out of office for three whole days, and he gets escorted out by a cop when attempting to waddle his way into Newark Internati...

On September 13, 1997, Prince, who had changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, was the special guest on "Muppets Tonight." I like how he didn't take himself too seriously! But then, how could...

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 ...

Paul Waldman, a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post, says democrats should be thanks that racist criminal nutcase Joe Arpaio is running for the Se...

Silverybield Foss is a simple, very low-fi walking simulator by Twisted Tree (of Proteus fame) that knows where you're going. You'll arrive (using arrow keys) in just a few minutes. The location is lo...

Dylan Farrow was seven years old when she told her mother, Mia Farrow, that her father, Woody Allen had sexually molested her. She described the assault in detail in a 2014 open letter published in ...

I went to turn and I noticed a ball of flame coming at an angle, Danny McEwen Jr. told the Detroit News. "...It just blew up into a bunch of sparks. I didnt even know what to think. It was kind of odd...

In 2011, before she signed her non-disclosure agreement with Trump, porn actress Stormy Daniels gave a detailed account of her 2006 sex affair with Trump to InTouch magazine. During last night's air...

Last week, cowards from both sides of the aisle caved into America's lawless spy agencies, and today bipartisan senators reprised that cowardice to ensure that the Senate would not get a chance to vot...

Yet again an OMOTON iPhone screen saver spared me a trip to the Apple Store.I can credit these screensavers for having taking a hit that'd have cost me $100+ many times over the last year, and again t...

Central Michigan University student Anna G should earn an honorary doctorate in pranksterism. Welcome to, er, Wii U. i carried around a wii remote today when i went to a frat party pic.twitter.com/3ol...

This poor kid. He ordered a part for his video game console, but the mail order company screwed up and sent him a bong by mistake and he had to open the box under the watchful eye of his mother. Kid...

What, um, "perfect" timing.(via Laughing Squid)...

For more than a century, National Geographic has continued to "believe in the power of science, exploration and storytelling to change the world." I still want to believe....

Portland, Oregon's MSHO not only takes baths with his cat "DJ Ravioli" (which seems like a terrible idea, but let's overlook that for now), but raps to him in the process. It's pretty cute if you ar...

Two teenage boys swimming off the shore of New South Wales, Australia found themselves in trouble half a mile out from the beach. Then along came a drone that spotted the boys and dropped a yellow f...

One way to get out of paying airline pet fees is to stuff your beloved pet inside your checked baggage right between the multiple sweatshirts youre never going to wear. The downside is youll have to s...

Flybrix kits allow you to turn a variety of Lego builds into little copter-drones that you can fly with an app or a Bluetooth joystick. (more…)...

Those pesky deer loitering around Japanese railroad tracks are certain to be no match for expected train technology featuring the sound of barking dogs. Tokyo railway researchers say the dog yaps are ...

Google's Cloud Automl Vision system -- a machine-learning-based image classifier -- is now available to the general public; anyone can sign up to the program, upload a set of 20-10,000 images and trai...

Visual artist and photographer Eli Rezkallah has turned the tables on some of the most nauseatingly-sexist (and 100% real) midcentury ads in his latest project, In a parallel universe. He writes:Last ...

Reportedly costing $179K, this elaborate cake wowed guests at a wedding Sunday in Kazakhstan. Styled like a castle, the one-ton cake featured many moving parts including a small horse-drawn carriage...

Motherboard reports that a university professor created an app that detects net neutrality violations -- that is, when service providers block, throttle, prioritize or otherwise interfere with legal i...

Amazon was the last major tech company to issue a "transparency report" detailing what kinds of law-enforcement requests they'd serviced, and where; when they finally did start issuing them, they buri...

Hawai'ians and the rest of the world want to understand why they were warned of their imminent demise -- what kind of bad design choices could allow such a thing to happen? (more…)...

This cute Planet Earth-style video was created by the pro-Norwegian business organization Nringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (NHO) as a way of highlighting the many benefits of working in Norway. It sho...

When you lie in the dark of night, a faint neural echo of human connection urging you to reach for your phone, do you fight it? The Aumum Mini, a compact nightlight that lets you know when someone ret...

Designers Tobias Frere-Jones and Nina Stssinger created Conductor in an homage to "the delicate, blocky numerals from vintage Bulgarian lottery tickets" with "elements of vernacular shopfront letterin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufOnBRXy3PcHere's two minutes of Scottish trials cyclist Danny MacAskill doing astounding bike tricks in Dsseldorf, making his bike leap from one narrow ledge to anot...

The prohibition on psychedelics was memorably described as "the worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Copernicus and Galileo" by former UK Drugs Czar David ...

In the UK, many people who live in multiunit buildings -- the sort of thing that would be a condo or co-op in the US -- live under the leaseholder/freeholder system, a relic of feudalism that has been...

In this video, Frogger, a pet red-shouldered hawk in Carson City, Nevada, tries to attack the images of prey in a small game hunting regulations guide. He packs and scratches at it, not realizing th...

McClatchy DC reports that the FBI is investigating whether a Kremlin-tied Russian banker illegally funded money to the National Rifle Association to help Trump win the presidency.FBI counterintelligen...

EV Nautilus shared a spectacular unplanned find during a recent live filming of a sampling expedition: a pink and purple Halitrephes maasi jelly that looks like a firework. (more…)...

The music of Journey and Beyonc shouldn't work well together but this mashup by oneboredjeu (aka Maddy) proves otherwise. By combining "Any Way You Want It" with "Drunk in Love," she's created a sup...

InsecthausTV is a channel dedicated to all sorts of wonderful insects, and this collection of mantises all frozen in attack mode is no exception. (more…)...

Topi Tjukanov makes remarkable mapped data visualization, like this map of optimal routes by car from the geographic center of the contiguous United States to all counties. (more…)...

Steven Burton embarked on an amazing project -- taking photos of ex-gang members in LA and then meticulously photoshopping away their extensive tattoos. It took about 400 hours of 'shopping.When Burto...

Nowadays, cybercriminals are so advanced that it takes other hackers to bring them down. Known as ethical, or "white hat" hackers, these professionals make a living using their hacking skills to keep ...

David Shtorm (aka Candy King) has a black light cotton candy maker, and he creates edible animal sculptures like this elephant that are a big hit with the kids. (more…)...

On Saturday, Lucy Schultz of Denver, Colorado shared touching, intimate photos of her childbirth. Well, not technically. What she shared was a hilarious album of her pretending to give birth to the ba...

It looks like everyday folks -- recruited on Mechanical Turk, no less -- are better at predicting recidivism than the elite, secretive private-sector algorithms used by courts.The software, COMPAS, ha...

Isaiah Odhner has recreated MS Paint in javascript. JS Paint! You can try it out here -- and the code's on his Github account.This is too much fun. As he writes:Ah yes, good old paint. Not the one wit...

Built in the 1920s as High Point, North Carolina's "Bureau of Information," this 36-foot-tall The Goddard-Townsend style dresser/building represents the area's furniture and hosiery industries (note t...

When an alert went out warning Hawaiians they were about to get nuked, they immediately stopped fapping. Upon realizing it was a false alarm, masturbation recommenced, and then some! And within 45 min...

Nope, definitely not a sign from the angry gods. (more…)...

I first met Aubrey de Grey over ten years ago, when he presented at a conference I attended. And his core message blew my mind. It was -- and remains -- that it should soon lie within technologys rea...

As of Monday, there is a new kind of "DUI" in New Jersey: Droning Under the Influence. On his final day of being New Jersey's (incredibly unpopular) governor, Chris Christie signed a law making it ill...

Three salmon fishers had to leap out of their small craft to avoid being rammed by a speedboat that nearly killed them. The speedboat driver, Marlin Lee Larsen (75), said he couldn't see the little ...

Inspired by this artwork depicting Bruce Lee with lightsaber nunchucks, artist Patrick Nan of San Jose, California decided to add some light-weapons to the karate master's 1972 Fist of Fury. It's a ...

There's a fascinating linguistic fight brewing in Kazakhstan, due to the president's decision to adopt a new alphabet for writing their language, Kazakh.The problem? It's got too many apostrophes!For ...

This cheerful battery powered wall clock is 9.5 inches in diameter. I got one for our kitchen. It's only $8 on Amazon....

Shakespeare wrote that "All the world's a stage." But for Oakland, California-based Ashel Eldridge, he's made his car his stage. Dubbed "The Lyft Rapper," he invites his passengers to choose a topic...

One of the few permitted vices in Nineteen Eighty-Four is Victory Gin, which oils the outer party and offers suggestions of Englishness and party power: it's always served with clove bitters, implying...

Bravo to the skilled rescuer who freed this dog who was stuck in a frozen river. (more…)...

Tristan Harris a former "design ethicist" at Google, says today's candy colored interfaces are addictive. One way to make your phone less appealing, it to make the display grayscale. (more…)...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Kenneth Collins was arrested by the FBI this week for allegedly supplying security for drug dealers.From KTLA 5:Kenneth Collins, a 15-year veteran of the department...

Making you angry, making you afraid, is really good for Facebook's business. It is not good for America. (more…)...

The White House Press Office in Exile, otherwise known as the tabloids, is in full Trump-boosting, Clinton-bashing, Obama-blaming mode this week.The president, who has previously lamented the injustic...

The designers of the Starbucks logo decided that making the siren's face slightly asymmetrical gave her the right mix of mystery and allure.From Co. Design:As a team we were like, Theres something not...

The force prefers nearly trimmed facial hair, according to this Norelco line of Star Wars shavers.Star Wars: The Last Jedi shared my perfect idea of a Jedi: Luke living on a windswept cliff over the ...

Wow, Sen. Jeff Flake had some powerful words to say against Donald Trump and his disregard for the truth today on the Senate floor. Some of the highlights:"An American president who cannot take crit...

A woman in Texas provides exciting color commentary as cars and trucks struggle to make it over the crest of an icy incline in Texas. One semi makes a valiant effort, but it loses traction and slide...

I love gravy on chicken and potatoes, but in my cocktail? Not so sure, but I guess I'd try it. KFC's new marketing ploy is all about the gravy and how it fits in behind the bar, offering us a few g...

Finally a pencil sharpener I want on my desk.I rarely leave home without my Rolleiflex. This TLR shaped pencil sharpener is pretty damn cool.Here is a short tribute to my Rollei.Retro Camera Manual Pe...

A meteor lit up the southeastern Michigan sky at 8:08 pm last night, and here is one of the dashcams that caught it. According to the Washington Post:It was definitely a meteor, Bill Cooke, lead for...

People often stumble while trying to find metaphors that explain what, precisely, writing computer code is like. In "Code Like a Weaver", the software developer Kristina Taylor notes that she got all ...

Political scientist and sf fan Henry Farrell (previously) argues persuasively that the dystopian elements of our everyday life are best viewed through the lens of Philip K Dick (whose books repeatedly...

A new research report from Kaspersky Labs details their analysis of Skygofree, a newly discovered strain of malware that offers some of the most comprehensive and invasive surveillance tools ever seen...

To celebrate what would have been David Bowie's 71st birthday, Chic's Nile Rodgers shared this newly-mixed demo of the 1983 hit single, "Let's Dance."Rolling Stone reports:"I've been blessed with a ...

This calm and relaxing video depicts Li Ziqi making paper by slicing and drying tree bark, soaking it in water, slow-boiling it with ash under burlap, fastidiously cleaning it, crushing it, chopping...

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Last week we witnessed the Star Wars "Cantina Band" theme song being played with a pencil as a math formula. Now, YouTuber TheCubician has made of a video of him playing the song simply by manipulat...

The coder and artist Brannon Dorsey (previously) wondered about the potential of "browser based botnets" -- running Javascript on tons of machines, stitched together into one massively parallel comput...

If you have sensitive information on your computer, you should back it up online. Just about everyone understands this, including malicious cybercriminals. That's why it's important to ensure you choo...

In 1703, London had a strange visitor, a young man who ate raw meat and claimed that he came from an unknown country on the island of Taiwan. Though many doubted him, he was able to answer any questio...

A legal battle against the recent repeal of Net Neutrality regulations by Trump's Federal Communications Commission has begun. (more…)...

President Trump weighs 239 pounds (One pound less than would count him as "obese" under the most popular measure for his height) and is mentally and physically fit to govern. One reporter asked how Tr...

Just days after Hawaii issued a false alarm about an incoming ballistic missile from North Korea, a Japanese broadcaster made a similar mistake today.NHK television, or Japan Broadcasting Corporation,...

The Advocate reports that three suspects are being sought after a robbery in Baton Rouge, one of them dressed in a clown hood: "Ernie Ballard III, a spokesman for the university, said three men robbed...

https://vimeo.com/233573799Joey Eschrich from ASU's Center for Science and Imagination writes, "To celebrate the official 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (previous...

One year of Trump. One year of unprecedented conflicts of interest.In 2017, at least 4 foreign governments, 16 special interest groups and 35 Republican congressional campaign committees all spent mon...

This PowerJive USB Multimeter measures amps, volts and mAh on all my portable devices.I wanted to know if my 3 year old 10,000 mAh USB powerbank was still holding anything close to 10,000 mAh. This US...

Sen. Lindsey Graham had some interesting things to say to reporters outside a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. "How does it end?" he asks, referring to the current immigration fight in Cong...

The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump has just announced that it will seek a direct Supreme Court review of the DACA order. (more…)...

Japan has the reputation of being highly efficient, and here is another example of why. When a supermarket in the city of Gamagori realized on Monday that one out of five sold packages of fugu (or puf...

After Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rammed through an order killing Net Neutrality -- citing easily disproved lies, ignoring millions of public comments -- activists started pinning their hopes on som...

GOP senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue, who were in the room when Trump disparaged African countries, told everyone who would listen that Trump didn't say "shithole." Cotton also made a point to sha...

In October 1973, David Bowie appeared for the last time as Ziggy Stardust at the "1980 Floor Show" (Get it? 19-Eighty-Floor? 1984?), a surreal cabaret he curated at London's famed The Marquee Club. ...

XML pioneer and early blogger Tim Bray went looking through Google for some posts he knew about from 2006 and 2008 and found that Google couldn't retrieve either of them, not even if he searched for l...

On Sunday night, Orange County Fire Authority tweeted images from Santa Ana, California of a car that hit a center divider and flew into the air before embedding itself in the second floor of a buildi...

https://youtu.be/0DK8emqwntUJimmy Kimmel sent a man onto Hollywood Boulevard to ask people about the current Twitter war between Trump and the late MLK. Interviewer: Was it wrong of Martin Luther King...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders showed off her impeccable skills as a logician today when she proved, in one sentence, that Trump couldn't be a racist: Frankly I think if the critics of the president were who ...

Honolulu Civil Beat tweeted this image of the menu page where an Emergency Management Agency employee accidentally clicked the wrong item and triggered a public emergency missile alert. According to H...

On February 14, 1995, The Cranberries performed this searing rendition of "Zombie" on MTV Unplugged. Dolores ORiordan, RIP....

Here's part two of my reading (part one here) of The Man Who Sold the Moon, my award-winning novella first published in 2015's Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future, edited by Ed Finn an...

You've heard "I have a dream," but how about "Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all Gods children?" (more&he...

Romy McCloskey of Faden Design Studios (Instagram, website) makes stunningly gorgeous costumes for movies, television, and private commissions. She also is interested in butterflies, and so she put he...

In 1974, Upper Arlington, Ohio public library launched a program to link their card catalog and shelved books by odor. The project was called: "Stick Your Nose in the Card Catalog." From Weird Univers...

In /r/changemyview/, thousands of redditors gather to carry on an explicitly, rigorously civil discourse about the subjects that matter most to them: a submitter puts forward views on subjects ranging...

There are cameras everywhere, kids.This was recorded on the afternoon of Dec. 28, 2017. On the way to the front door these Mormon missionaries made eye contact with an attractive woman inside the ho...

Spend an hour relaxing as Peter Deligdisch aka Peter Draws experiments with cool glass inkwell pens and glowing ink. (more…)...

In these troubled times, Alex Wellerstein's interactive Nukemap allows users to survey the damage of various kinds of nuclear bombs aimed at major cities worldwide. In this example, a typical Chinese ...

Bail is intended to compel defendants show up for court, but for poor citizens who can't make bail, it can lead to pre-trial jail terms that can ruin their lives. The Bail Project profiles Ramel, wh...

Blue as a pigment in nature is incredibly rare. Most animals with blue coloration achieve it through microscopic structures in their skin, fur, or feathers. This helpful explainer delves into the de...

Film critic Allison de Fren examines some of the complex issues raised in the 2015 Ex Machina. Her voiceover alone makes it worth it, but the insights about how women are depicted helped me get over...

Film critic Allison de Fren examines some of the complex issues raised in the 2015 Ex Machina. Her voiceover alone makes it worth it, but the insights about how women are depicted helped me get over...

Yuzu is an experimental emulator for Nintendo's Switch console. No, it does not run commercial games.It is written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows, Linux a...

The true-story radio program, This American Life, began in 1995. (My friend and Cool Tools partner, Kevin Kelly, was the subject of the very first episode!) For over 20 years, the show has used the sa...

Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders on 10 years of io9. Annalee: We wanted to have a vision of the future for our readers that wasnt completely silly but that wasnt hopeless and dystopian. And agai...

Greg is a Canadian living in Tokyo. He has a YouTube channel called Life Where I'm From, which explores what it's like to be a Westerner in Japan. For the last year or so he has been working on a se...

My daughter loves building LEGO Star Wars anything, so Yoda's Starfighter is just fine by her. At 262 pieces, this is a perfect short afternoon project for a 10 year-old.I wanted the Yoda minifig.LEGO...

Sad news from London, where Cranberries' lead singer Dolores O'Riordan died suddently today. The band's official page announced her death at about 1 p.m. EST, with no further details and a statement...

Incredible skill mixed with this paratha makers nonchalant demeanor of tossing dough disks across a room full of people may put him in the running for the worlds most efficient worker. At what point...

From 1989, Fingers Inc.'s beautiful mix of "Can You Feel It" with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech....

I initially felt bad for Tony Giles when I watched his story on the BBC Travel Show. I caught the episode part way through and saw him walk right into a turnstile while crossing a security checkpoin...

Marriott has fired one of its social media managers because the employee "wrongfully liked" a tweet from Friends of Tibet, a group that supports Tibetan independence from China. (more…)...

Crying wont be needed to fill that bowl of French onion soup as grocery stores begin carrying a cross-bred, non-tear-provoking version of the traditional onion. The sunion has been propagated for the ...

A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers have demonstrated a successful acoustic attack against mechanical hard-drives where low-frequency noise keyed to the resonant frequency of the drive compone...

Triad's Omoshiro Block ("fun block") are blocks of notecards from architectural model company Triad that have been pre-scored by a laser-cutter so that the pages separate to leave behind -- and gradua...

In 2016, Taylor Weyeneth took a break from his studies as an undergrad law student at St John's University and used the skills he'd acquired organizing a single golf tournament and working in his fath...

An unnamed, paralyzed prisoner in one of Corizon Correctional Healthcare's for-profit prisons in Arizona chewed part of his left hand off because Corizon refused to give him the correct medication for...

In this clip, magician Paul Vu spends a few minutes blowing Ellen's mind with his Rubik's Cube tricks. Though, I kind of got the feeling that she didn't like being duped by Vu, even in fun. Did you ...

If you enjoyed British supermarkets' bleach-dipped rotten turkeys, perhaps you like to try their antibiotic-resistant superbug-infested chickens.The FSA has also noted that the proportion of campyloba...

Using a Google Maps overlay, Solar System Maps shows how large the solar system would be if Earth or other celestial bodies were much smaller than the are. Here's "Earth the size of a basketball," cen...

The New York Times published a carefully compiled and sourced list of Donald Trump's racist utterances and acts, going back to his refusal to rent homes to black people in the 1970s and ending, for no...

Over fifty years ago, an all-female rock band based out of San Francisco played to "Summer of Love" crowds. The popularity of Ace of Cups grew quickly and, thanks to a good manager, they were soon o...

In the video above, The National Geographic explains chromatophors, the pigment-changing cells in certain species of octopus.The blue-ringed octopus is venomous and entirely willing to let you know ...

LED bulbs provide incredibly low-power light, and can last way longer than incandescent bulbs (though the lighting industry is trying to make LEDs artificially die more quickly, too). They also face a...

The Yakima Herald posted this video, shot by Steven Mack, of a growing fissue on Rattlesnake Ridge near Yakima, Wa. I-82, seen in the footage, is only threatened in "less likely scenarios." The county...

Remember the botched retouching on those family portraits I recently shared? (Who could forget?!)Well folks, there's already a tutorial on how to retouch images like the photographer Lesa Hall did. ...

The Financial Times does a long, deep dive into the exploding world of Americans who crowdfund their health-care costs.It's a sad -- if gripping -- document of the wildly inefficient, friction-hot mes...

While plenty of people have evinced a belief that delivering a single speech qualifies Oprah to be president (presumably with Dr Oz as Surgeon General and history's smoothest selljob for invading othe...

When Congress voted last week to renew the NSA's controversial Section 702 powers, which gives the spy agency the power to conduct mass, secret, warrantless surveillance on Americans, they also voted ...

Whistleblower and torture survivor Chelsea Manning has filed papers to challenge Senator Benjamin L Cardin for his seat in the 2018 midterm elections. (more…)...

Libertarian wisdom holds that "the answer to bad speech is more speech," but if you're a Peter Thiel libertarian (that is, the kind of "freedom lover" who doesn't think women should vote, wants to spy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAfjVtq_WIFrom 2009's Boston Bootie 21, DJ Faroff's astounding samba remix of the Darth Vader March: put your hands up in the air!...

Large German companies are required to give board-seats to representatives from their workers' unions, which makes the companies both more profitable and more equitable, so it's unusual for German wor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMsZ9YtE1j0Glue the spines from an old encyclopedia set to slats of wood, back with a piece of fabric (a "tambour") and top with woodscrews as makeshift rollers that ...

Secret Headquarters, Los Angeles's best comics shop (previously, has published "Monster Manual," a limited-run, 64-page zine collecting the art from their show of the same name, in which artists were ...

The new year is nearly upon us, but before we say goodbye to 2017, we're giving you the opportunity to close it out on a positive note by scoring some of the year's best deals at even lower prices.1. ...

My cat absolutely loves these cardboard cat scratchers. They go straight into the recycling bin, so why spend a penny more than necessary?I tried one of the $25 lounger-style cardboard cat scratchers ...

WTF! My friend Jon Letman in Hawaii tells us about the terrifying false alarm he and his wife and son just received that their island, Kauai, was being bombed. (more…)...

In 2010, The Royal Society featured the "Desiderata" (previously) of Robert "Boyle's Law" Boyle, a list of dozens of scientific discoverie and breakthroughs that Boyle hoped would be discovered by sci...

Back in 2016, we published a good technological explainer about Intel's Management Engine, an evolution of the decade-plus old idea of "Trusted Computing," in which a separate, isolated system-on-a-ch...

Wired has done a fun job of documenting the history of badday.mpg" -- which became a passaround hit in 1997, making it probably the first viral video of the Internet.Mind you, as the author Joe Veix n...

Here's a paper outlining a way to make logic gates out of nothing but links and rotary joints.It's quite ingenious -- binary states are indicated by the lean of the mechanisms, so you do calculations ...

When the Zaring family had their family portraits done, they had no idea they'd end up looking like cartoon characters in the photographer's final edits. They write: Ok. This is NOT a joke. We paid a ...

Telcos despise community-owned broadband, and fight like mad whenever a city announces it's going to build its own network. Why?Because when communities provide their own broadband, it costs users way...

Knowing how to write isn't just handy for keeping embarrassing typos out of your emails. The truth is that companies are in dire need of talented copywriters who can tell the story of their brands, an...

Claude Mellan's copper engraving "Face of Christ" (1649) consists of a single line starting at the tip of the nose and spiraling out with varying thickness to create the image. The copper plate is app...

I was once invited to attend an event in Dubai, but after I read stories of people going to prison there for stupid reasons (like a man from Britain who received a four year prison sentence when custo...

An inebriated gentleman in Russia thought it was a good idea to steal an armored vehicle from a paramilitary driving school. While taking it for a spin crushing a parked car along the way the chap f...

The Rusty Spotted Cat of Sri Lanka weighs two pounds when it is an adult. It's also incredibly cute and has a high pitched meow. Paris Hilton has probably already paid a poacher to get her one....

Donald Trump, who once said, "I think I'm much more humble than you would understand," was careful not to be too boastful in this Wall Street Journal interview about his successes:Just and so so I w...

Luxturna is a gene therapy drug to treat a hereditary blindness. The FDA approved it last month, and the one-dose treatment costs $850,000.From Oddity Central:Spark Therapeutics, the company releasing...

Talking to the dead has never been easier or more closely tied to a hit TV show than with this Stranger Things Ouija board. Its letters match the makeshift wall alphabet-lights that Joyce made to comm...

This board game was found in Poprad, Slovakia inside a German prince's tomb that dates to 375 C.E. Now, researchers at Switzerland's Museum of Games are trying to figure out how to play it. From Smith...

danah boyd (previously) writes enthusiastically about Virginia Eubanks's forthcoming book, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, which she calls "the best et...

Sandra Louise Garner, 55, of Maypearl, Texas, was arrested this week for allegedly murdering her husband, Jon Garner. On January 2, she had called 911 to report that a masked intruder in her home had ...

Sandra Louise Garner, 55, of Maypearl, Texas, was arrested this week for allegedly murdering her husband, Jon Garner. (more…)...

Every Friday on SundayMagazine.org, Jesse Rifkin posts fascinating articles from the New York Times Sunday Magazine from that weekend 100 years ago. Two recent examples are below. (Click to see a PDF....

Ben Lorica, O'Reilly's chief data scientist, has posted slides and notes from his talk at last December's Strata Data Conference in Singapore, "We need to build machine learning tools to augment machi...

Thank you, DJ Cummerbund. Thank you for perfectly combining Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" and Kenny Loggins' Footloose theme (and a little of Tina Turner's "Proud Mary" too) into "Jereloose." That was thorou...

Vestaboard is a clever app-controlled version of the old split-flap display that you'd see in train stations of yore. It's the same electromechanical analog display technology used in old flip alarm c...

Working cryptography's pretty amazing: because of its fundamental theoretical soundness, we can trust it to secure the firmware updates to our pacemakers; the conversations we have with our loved ones...

Wall Street consultants Quinlan & Associates have published "Fool's Gold: Unearthing The World of Cryptocurrency," a $5000, 156-page report that predicts that Bitcoin will drop to $1800 by next Decemb...

The New York Times has assembled a suite of charts that help visualize the data from pollsters Morning Consult, who've been tracking Trump's approval rating every day since he took office as the least...

Who can forget where their jaw was in mid-December when celebrity chef Mario Batali ended his sexual misconduct apology letter with a recipe for his "fan-favorite" Pizza Dough Cinnamon Rolls? Breezily...

Tide's laundry detergent pods look good enough to eat. In fact, since the brightly-colored product's introduction (a bestseller for its creator, Proctor & Gamble) six years ago, children have freq...

When Donald Trump calls Haiti a "shithole country," he's dismissing one of the hardest-done-by countries in the history of the world -- and moreover, a land whose sacrifices made the US itself possibl...

If faced with a dangerous traffic situation, this is the driver you want behind the wheel. When the car switches into the same lane that another car has just entered, watch how it seamlessly spins a...

Among the millions of disgusted reactions from around the world to yesterday's dumbshit "shithole countries" remark by trump, The Daily Show's Noah Trevor had this to say last night: "As someone fro...

Among the millions of disgusted reactions from around the world to yesterday's dumbshit "shithole countries" remark by trump, The Daily Show's Trevor Noah had this to say last night: "As someone fro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4LhTdnHk0The latest launch from Japanese entertainment corporation Cinderella Academy is Kasotsuka Shojo "Virtual Currency Girls," who are billed as the first crypt...

Fashioned after real full-sized galvanized steel dumpsters, these miniature desktop Dumpsty's stand in at just 10 inches tall and 11 inches wide (which is big enough to hold magazines). The blank mode...

Digging through vinyl is for the patient. It can take years, if ever, for a record collector to come across a "Holy Grail" album in his/her travels.In this TEDx Montreal talk from November 2016, Que...

My pal photographer John Curley is visiting the beautiful seaside village of Sayulita, Mexico right now. Today, on Facebook, he shared this photo he took of a display of hand-woven anti-Trump bracelet...

How are the feathers of Papua New Guinea's "birds of paradise" so freakishly black?Because, man, they really are. Crows and blackbirds look, y'know, black-like ... but birds of paradise look like a ho...

1816 is famous for being the year that Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein. But it's also infamous for being "The Year Without A Summer". One of the hugest volcanic eruptions in recorded history ...

Well, this is damn impressive. Outdoorsman Shawn James built a log cabin in the Canadian woods all by himself -- without power tools --and created this timelapse video to prove it. He writes:At the ...

YouTuber Dani Ochoa says she's a "girl with too much time on her hands," but I disagree. I think figuring out the math formula to play the Star Wars "Cantina Band" song with just a paper and pencil ...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadoran embassy to the United Kingdom in London for more than 5 years, believing that if he were taken into custody by the UK police, he would...

Scottish Limited Partnerships (previously) are notorious corporate entities whose true owners are easily disguised, making them perfect vehicles for money laundry. (more…)...

HMRC, the British tax authority, is 'struggling to deal with fallout of Paradise Papers leak,' according to Parliament's public accounts committee, whose new report describes an already understaffed a...

Barry Ritholz maintains two stock indices: the Oligarch Index contains "companies that Trump liked" in his public communications; the Drain the Swamp index has "companies that Trump trashed." (more&h...

 The web is vast, but it's not exactly private. In fact, if you find yourself surfing on an unsecured network, there's a strong chance that someone could be peeking in on your browsing movements,...

Facebook is about to undergo a dramatic overhaul, company-wide, to prioritize "meaningful interactions between friends and family, starting with the news feed. The change also implies they'll be killi...

On January 11, the House passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act bill which renews a controversial NSA surveillance program that allows the spy agency to intercept the communications of Ameri...

Donald Trump today boasted of the United States' sale of 'F52' aircraft to Norway. They don't exist, other than elements in the popular video game 'Call of Duty.' (more…)...

This is not a joke. This is a real thing that the President of the United States did today.President Trump on Wednesday blurted out something shocking about the pending immigration deal which protects...

This is not a joke. This is a real thing that the President of the United States did today.President Trump on Wednesday blurted out something shocking about the pending immigration deal which protects...

Punk rock never dies. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/Jcghl0lbDSkDani Ochoa, a self-described " girl with too much time on her hands," writes, "I spent way too much time figuring this out."...

The short, weird political career of Eric Greitens -- a former Navy Seal and onetime Democrat turned secrecy-cloaked Republican and the youngest Governor ever elected in Missouri -- may not at its end...

The short, weird political career of Eric Greitens -- a former Navy Seal and onetime Democrat turned secrecy-cloaked Republican and the youngest Governor ever elected in Missouri -- may be at its end....

It's been seven years since I started following Ken "Popehat" White's relentless pursuit of a con artist who sent his company a fake invoice. (more…)...

It's $18 from Gamiss, perfect for your next BBQ. (via Crazy Abalone)...

In 2015, a black software developer named Jacky Alcin revealed that the image classifier used by Google Photos was labeling black people as "gorillas." (more…)...

In 2015, a black software developer named Jacky Alcin revealed that the image classifier used by Google Photos was labeling black people as "gorillas." (more…)...

A Ninth Circuit Appellate Court has rejected Oracle's attempt to treat violating its website terms of service as a felony under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, (more…)...

Apple was the last major holdout on proprietary video codecs, the only major industry player that hadn't signed onto the Alliance for Open Media, home of the AV1 video format, a successor to On2's gro...

Adversarial examples have torn into the robustness of machine-vision systems: it turns out that changing even a single well-placed pixel can confound otherwise reliable classifiers, and with the right...

Stunning script by Santa Rosa Tattoo. See more on their Instagram: @santarosatattoo. (via r/PenmanshipPorn)...

A year ago I decided to piece together my own Peloton-compatible stationary spinning cycle, I still love it. I never have to go to a gym full of PEOPLE. (more…)...

Sacha Lauri makes clothing and jewelry out of kombucha, more specifically the SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) floating on the surface of the fermented tea. Her company is called Kombuc...

An indictment in the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio's Eastern Division alleges that Phillip R Durachinsky created a strain of MacOS "creepware" called Fruitfly, which was able to ...

'Fast' Eddie Clarke, guitarist for Motrhead during their best years, has died at 67 while in the hospital with pneumonia. With his death preceded in 2015 by Phil Philthy Animal Taylor and Lemmy Kilmis...

If you only watch one childbirth video in your life, consider this popular one. Its completely safe for work (and for the faint of heart), featuring ping pong balls and a balloon. Ive already given ...

Be the dangerous bad boy with a deck of Skull cards!My second favorite deck of cards is this Skull deck by the US Playing Card Company.I flip back and forth between carrying a deck of Arch Angels, and...

Photographer and 21-year playa veteran Phillippe Glade saved me about a grand for a ticket (plus expenses and brain damage) with this beautiful, cloth-covered photo book surveying the domestic and com...

Shoaib Ahmed is a Bangladeshi asylum seeker whom ICE has imprisoned in the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, a private prison run by CoreCivic (formerly the notorious Corrections Corporati...

Runaway Match, aka Marriage by Motor, a 1903 silent film directed by Alfred Collins, features the first car chase in a movie. For a directory of movie car chases, zoom on over to VARACES: the Car Ch...

Vermont is the ninth state to legalize marijuana, and the first state to do so through a legislative act rather than a ballot initiative. Vermont's Republican governor Phil Scott said he'll sign the...

Last month, Renee Thole, a white middle school teacher in Mason, Ohio, told 13-year-old black student Nathan Agee-Bell, in front of the entire class, that if he didn't pay more attention to his work, ...

North Carolina is one of several Republican-held states whose legislatures have created bizarre, misshapen and fundamentally, provably unfair electoral maps that ensure that the votes of Democrats in ...

Theres a scene in the movie Samsara (2001): a young monk is struggling to focus on his meditation, and an older monk shows him some erotic scrolls. When he holds the images up to the firelight, an und...

Wednesdbury Oak Academy in the West Midlands is an "academy school," similar to a US charter school -- a publicly funded, privately operated school, which, theory goes, is able to "experiment" with ne...

That rock you see above? It's 620 tons, over 2.5 times the weight of the Statue of Liberty. Yet some powerful wave in the North Atlantic was mighty enough to lift it out of the sea and plop it onto la...

This man forgot to put on his skates when he stepped onto his driveway, which was covered in black ice. Poor fellow did a pretty great job keeping his balance as he slipped and slid down towards the...

Are you pregnant and in need of a $995 crib? Not sure? Grab the latest Ikea catalog, pee on it, and if you're expecting, a new price of $495 will appear right before your very eyes (in lieu of the p...

In northern Russia, a man who really wanted some booze drove an armored personnel carrier through a shop window, crashing into the store, then exited his vehicle and climbed through the wreckage to st...

 Project management is one of the fastest-growing fields in business today as companies look for more ways to cut costs and boost efficiency. But demand alone won't get you position as a highly-p...

More than a week after Logan Paul made an obnoxious, racist video in Tokyo and another video showing the body of a man who commited suicide in a forest in Japan, YouTube has kicked the 22-year-old mil...

Not sure what inspired Mav Vasquez to craft this miniature fireworks stand but I'm glad he did. He not only took the time to make each tiny papercraft firework look realistic, he also made them full...

After completing a ship in a bottle kit, screenprinter Jake Sadovich of Garden City, Idaho decided to make a LEGO one. Soon after, he submitted his model to LEGO Ideas where it quickly gained the comm...

Silicon Valley fans, it's here! No, sorry, not season 5 that doesn't start streaming until March 25. I mean the trailer, which was just released today, and what a tease it is....

Oprah has already said she won't run for president but clothing brand HLZBLZ wants everyone to know they support the idea of a future President Winfrey with their new "Oprah 2020" long-sleeve tee ($48...

In the department of "You can't make this stuff up," the president's second son, Eric, blew out the candles of his 34th birthday cake -- a Carvel "Fudgie the Whale" ice cream cake, no less -- on Satur...

It's said that dogs look like their human companions (or vice versa) but how easy is it for a stranger to make that match cold? The Cut's latest Lineup video takes a stab at answering that question....

Harvey Weinstein was at a restaurant in Arizona with his sober coach when a customer from another table walked up to him and quickly slapped him twice with the back of his hand. He then proceeded to...

ONaturel is a nudist restaurant in Paris. The New Yorker's Henry Alford had a bite and an eyeful:The visitor now faced two challenges. First: Could he pick up his napkin from the floor without alarmin...

The US defense contractor AECOM is known to operate a mysterious, classified airline called Janet that mostly flies between a terminal at Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport and the Nevada Nati...

University of Oxfords Malaria Atlas Project just published new research showing that 80.7 percent of the world's population live an hour or less from a city. (In the visualization above, "d" stands fo...

Walt Disney World is apparently planning to allow guests who stay at their most expensive resorts with "club level" service to buy cut-the-line ride Fastpasses for $50/day, according to WFTV's Chip Sk...

My daughter is a California baby and has never known the anticipation and excitement of waiting for the "no school" announcement on a snowy day. But I do. I grew up in Massachusetts and can vividly ...

I love this concept of a "measuring cube" for cooking -- where each side is indented with different measurements. It's downloadable for 3D printing from Thingiverse, and posted by the designer iomaa....

In the 1920s, young Americans kindled a new craze: Stowing away on ships bound for overseas adventures. The goal? To get famous and, in predigital media, go viral.My friend Laurie Gwen Shapiro has jus...

Let's harken back to a time when golf pants fit uncomfortably snug and white guys peer pressured each other to keep up appearances by driving the "right car," which in this sales training video is s...

Jeroen Boeye is a data scientist who was parsing the power output of his panels, and noticed that they were influenced -- as you'd expect -- by the trees near his house, which got in the way of direct...

A recent contestant on Jeopardy! got dinged for pronouncing "gangsta" incorrectly, which prompted this bit on Jimmy Kimmel Live. It imagines Coolio hosting a Golf Channel TV show called Pronunciatio...

Reminiscent of last year's viral video of a BBC interview with a professor whose toddler crashed the scene, here's another child happy to get on camera with Daddy. This time it's Al Jazeera doing a ...

Martin from Antique Typewriters writes, "The Alexis typewriter is the result of a small town inventor with the desire to design and manufacture his own typewriter. James A. Wallace (1845 - 1906) was b...

The #MeToo movement seems to have made some actors a bit jumpy. At least in the case of Michael Douglas, who is defending himself against sexual misconduct accusations that haven't yet been publicly m...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cDzzoXmTCMAndy Savage is one of the powerful, wealthy evangelical clerics implicated in the #churchtoo movement, in which congregants are disclosing the sexual assau...

Robohub is creating a series of "robotics and AI ethics" posts, starting with a roundup of all the rules for AIs and robots of note, starting with Asimov's Three Laws and moving through rules publishe...

You can now watch all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan's mind-expanding, life-changing 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage for free on Twitch! Written by Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter, Cos...

I have often thought that you can divide up the risks of the big internet platforms by plotting a 2X2 grid; on one axis is "wants to spy on everything you do" and on the other is "wants to control eve...

I'm fresh back from Florida where my daughter and I stopped in Orlando to for a side trip to Walt Disney World and the Disney Springs shopping complex. At the latter, I spotted these monorail socks. N...

On January 1, artist Nina Paley wrote on her blog, "Here are 24 individual goddess gifs to use for whatever. Free Culture. No permission needed. Go crazy. I love you."On January 5, artist Emily Hesse ...

This $7 paring knife feels good in my hand, and unlike my other paring knives it is not lost.In my home, paring knives disappear almost as frequently as socks and Apple Lightning cables. I was buying ...

In the 1970s, the CIA created a dragonfly-shaped drone that carried a microphone, with the goal of using it to snoop on remote targets. It was a pretty ingenious piece of engineering: propelled by a l...

Ken Shirriff decided to mine bitcoins by hand, to illustrate what cryptocurrency math looks like in practice. As he notes, the calculations aren't terribly complicated -- but going by hand, it's pre...

The year is early but here's the best news I've seen so far in 2018. Meow Wolf is opening an enormous new "world."The Santa Fe-based arts collective has been searching for a new city for their second ...

It turns out that 18th-century pirates liked to curl up a with a good book.In 1718, Queen Anne's Revenge -- the flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard -- went aground offshore of North Carolina. T...

Harry Connolly's Twenty Palaces series is one of my favorite new storylines in science fiction. After a several year hiatus Harry has brought back Ray Lilly, and all the magic in The Twisted Path.The ...

Taco Bell's new Illuminati-themed ad campaign spurred a warning from southern rocker Charlie Daniels: "Hey Taco Bell The Illuminati is not a frivolous subject," Daniels tweeted last night.My favorite...

The Trump Administration just published a small notice in the Federal Register announcing that it would waive the outstanding criminal sanctions against some of the world's largest banks, Citigroup, ...

The Trump administration won't be able to order the cancellation the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program until the outstanding lawsuits about the legality of such an order have been resolve...

For more than a month, Iran has been rocked by mass demonstrations in its major and outlying cities, but the origin of these protests has been obscure. (more…)...

Hampshire's Ipley Cross is a notorious crossroads where cyclists keep getting hit and even killed by motorists, despite the mostly level terrain around the place where two roads cross each other at a ...

You could write books about the evils of "broken windows" policing and its handmaiden, stop-and-frisk searches (this is a rather good one, in fact), and few places have been more prolific in the racis...

 Are you prepared for the new year? While others fret over sticking to their resolutions of losing weight or learning a new language, how about you just focus on ringing in 2018 with a wholesome ...

Stephen K. Bannon is departing his post as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the company is said to be announcing on Tuesday. (more…)...

In my latest Locus column, "Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention," I suggest that we might be too worried about the seemingly unstoppable power of opinion-manipulators and thei...

Just watching this video makes me seasick. A Norwegian Cruise Line ship, the Breakaway, heading from the Bahamas to New York, sailed right through the "bomb cyclone" last week, with 4,000 passengers...

Since the 1970s, spy agencies have been feeding police forces tips about who to arrest and where to look for evidence, despite the illegality of their practicing surveillance within the USA. (more&hel...

Trump seemed to think it would be a good idea to send the publisher of Michael Wolff's book, Fire and Fury, a letter demanding it to cease publication and "issue a full and complete retraction and apo...

Donald Trump's legal threats against Fire and Fury publishers Macmillan, USA are merely the latest in the series of absurd, unwinnable, doomed legal threats to emanate from Donald Trump, who is an idi...

Henry Holt is a division of Macmillan (owners of Tor Books, who publish my novels); they're the folks who published Michael Wolff's bestselling Fire and Fury, which has so thoroughly embarrassed Donal...

From a 1906 issue of Punch magazine, as described by The Globe and Mail:Under the headline, "Forecasts for 1907," a black and white cartoon showed a well-dressed Edwardian couple sitting in a London p...

After Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality -- a deed so indefensible he literally won't defend it -- activists announced their intention to pressure 30 Senators into calling for a vote to...

https://youtu.be/o1qien21GLEDeyshia Hargrave is an English teacher at Rene Rost Middle Schools in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana; on Monday night, she attended a special meeting of the local school boa...

When it collapsed some 30 years ago, the GDR (East Germany) was the most invasive surveillance state ever attempted, employing one out of every 60 people in the country to snitch on the rest, running ...

It's typical for astronauts in space to grow in height up to two inches. But 3-1/2 inches? Not so common, according to NASA.However, Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, who is currently at the Interna...

A year after Hunter S. Thompson published his pioneering gonzo journalism book "Hell's Angels," he appeared on the wonderful TV game show "To Tell The Truth." Bud Collyer hosted with a panel of acto...

Back in 2016, the EU passed the General Data Protection Regulation, a far-reaching set of rules to protect the personal information and privacy of Europeans that takes effect this coming May. (more&he...

Over the years, I've peeked into airport chapels and never seen a single person inside. Yet 16 of the country's 20 biggest airports have them. Above is the first example of such a space in the US, Our...

A small cohort of 31 healthy young men who took 600mg of ibuprofen twice a day for six weeks developed "compensated hypogonadism" (little balls), because the ibuprofen interfered with their testostero...

In 2017, the big mainstream stories of "near-hits" (aka "near-misses") in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence included episodic dimming of a star caused by possible "alien megastructures," a ...

Katy Tur interviewed Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff yesterday, with Tur mostly grilling Wolff on inaccuracies in his book. But what stuck out most was towards the end of the interview, when she ...

Until 2017, the biggest bill Americans ever paid for a year's worth of "natural disasters" was $214.8B, back in 2005: in 2017, it was at least $300B, not counting much of the damage to Puerto Rico fro...

Donald Hanson's "Permanent Redirect" is a very clever piece of Web art that moves location every time it's seen, making it increasingly harder to find. "Most people will probably not see the art," Han...

It took three weeks for Cincinnati Premier Youth Basketball League to kick out a Kings Mills area team due to their disgustingly racist jerseys with phrases like "Coon" and "Knee Grow" emblazoned on t...

Mexico's corrupt, failing government that covers up official mass murders by attacking journalists and dissidents with cyberweapons is locked in a stalemate with the country's horrific, mass-murdering...

Nudging -- the idea that a well-designed "choice architecture" can help people make free choices that are better than the ones they would make without the nudge -- has a few well-publicized success st...

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, exclusive extra comics, and...

 2018 is nearly upon us, and if you're like most, you've spent some time considering how you're going to ring the new year in strong. Of course, there are the tried and true resolutions, like sha...

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A secret American spy satellite code-named Zuma didn't reach orbit in Sunday's failed SpaceX rocket launch. The cost of the missing U.S. government asset, which officially doesn't exist and officially...

Oprah Winfrey's speech at the Golden Globe awards last night has a lot of people wondering if she's considering a run for President of the United States. WATCH: Oprah Winfreys speech at the Golden Glo...

Kansas State Rep. Steve Alford (R) is apparently a real human being living in the year 2018. Listen to him tell an all-white group of people at a "Legislative Coffee" why he thinks marijuana should ...

Vtech is the Taiwanese kids' crapgadget vendor that breached sensitive data on 6.3 million children and their families, lied about it and covered it up, then added a dirty EULA to its products that ma...

HQ is a live online trivia game for iPhone only. It takes place at noon and 6pm PT. My family plays every night, along with hundreds of thousands of other people. In each game, 12 questions are asked....

Missouri, an overwhelmingly poor, GOP-dominated state, where a new "right-to-work" bill will face a referendum on the 2018 ballot, is at the heart of the battle over the nation's surging trade union m...

I bought four of these LED recessed lighting fixtures a couple of years ago when they were $20 each. They are easy to install and work well. I just found out that Amazon is selling them for $5 each, i...

When a German neo-Nazi politician tweeted that German police were trying to "to appease the barbaric, Muslim, rapist hordes of men," her account was briefly suspended -- but when the satirical magazin...

https://youtu.be/VcQZAzDVTlAThis 10-hour-long video of nothing but white noise was created by Australian musician Sebastian Tomczak and uploaded to YouTube in 2015. He says five different parties are ...

A Florida gentleman who had been drinking, taking meth, and who hadn't slept in several days did the responsible thing when he called the police to report a drunk driver - namely himself.Im too drunk....

Good news everyone: Scott DesJarlais, a strident anti-choice congressman and beloved Tea Party hero from Tennessee, says God has forgiven for having sex with his patients when he was a doctor and th...

In celebration of what would have been David Bowie's 71st birthday today, Nile Rodgers released this stunning demo recording of "Let's Dance" that he co-produced in 1982.https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Salvia divinorum is a plant that is legal in most of the USA and the world, a uniquely powerful psychedelic whose effects are as short-lived (5-10 minutes from first onset to the end of the experience...

It's a shame Logan Paul wasn't jailed for the many stupid petty crimes he committed while he was in Japan. He makes millions of dollars a year behaving this way in videos for 9-year-olds to watch. I...

Don Komarechka captures astonishing photographs of snowflakes. His book Sky Crystals is a survey of snowflake science, a monograph of his macrophotography masterpieces, and a tutorial on the technique...

In 1998, Disney led an entertainment industry lobbying effort that resulted in the term of copyright being extended by 20 years, even for works that had already been created -- a law with an incoheren...

Stephen Miller, dark lord of the Uncanny Valley, experienced a major system failure on Jake Tapper's CNN show on Sunday. After refusing to answer Tapper's questions about Trump's latest twittertantr...

https://youtu.be/j_pM3nAxgi8These videos show rare views of the ocean over the weekend from Old Silver Beach in Cape Cod. Rare because, well, the ocean is frozen enough for people to walk on, and th...

Is there anybody out there? If we don't listen for the answer, we certainly won't hear it. Over at the Planetary Society, Jason Davis posted an excellent survey of the past, present, and future of the...

Remember Tiffany's runup to Xmas with the $1000 tin can and the $9000 ball of yarn? It was a pretty shrewd bit of marketing. (more…)...

Over 100,000 lonely men who thought they were communicating with women on dating apps were actually chatting with bots. According to the police report, the men paid hefty subscription fees to interact...

Sleep Good turns Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into a fine pop punk tune titled "Teen Sprite." ...

The Bombay Frankie Company makes Indian "burritos" in a gas station in Los Angeles. People are going out of their way to get them.The best things come from the most unexpected places. At least, that...

The last 40 years has seen a steady rise of deficit-hawking, in which the world's postwar social safety nets are shredded because the state "can't afford" them -- think of all the times you've heard o...

https://youtu.be/AsJ43cYGGEI?t=50sAs part of an annual celebration of life in the Portuguese village of Vale de Salgueiro, parents encourage children as young as 5-years-old to smoke cigarettes. But i...

At the MTV Movie Awards in 1995, The Ramones played a medley of the five nominees for "Best Song from a Movie.""Big Empty" by Stone Temple Pilots The Crow"Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" by Elton J...

I am a near daily user of my Kmashi 10,000mah USB battery pack since 2015 and its larger sibling, a Kmashi 15,000mah, has been my travel buddy since 2016.This is the errand runner. The 10,000mah fits ...

https://youtu.be/t5k0UyZ939IUC Berkeley economist J Bradford DeLong's wide-ranging Reinvent interview covers a lot of ground, but is especially fascinating on the long-term trajectory of small busin...

Photographer Daniel Biber caught some spectacular sunset images showing murmurations of starlings. In the most remarkable of these, the murmuration itself looked like a starling. (more…)...

Machine learning systems trained for object recognition deploy a bunch of evolved shortcuts to choose which parts of an image are important to their classifiers and which ones can be safely ignored. ...

Oprah gave an incredible acceptance speech, speaking truth to power about speaking truth to power, upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her outstanding contributions to the world of enterta...

Political art collective INDECLINE (previously) create provocative works. Their latest repurposes a gold ore processing facility on the Mojave National Preserve that was closed in 1994 and declared ...

Last winter, Dante de Kort -- an eight-year-old boy who lives in central Arizona -- found a dead collared peccary, a wild pig-like animal, near his house. He set up a motion-controlled camera nearby...

In 1952, the U.S. military packed a sleeping bag in a tin that looks like a giant can of SPAM. Fast forward 65 years to when Taras Kul decided to open it, and he does not disappoint. (more…)...

Whether conventional keyboards dont really work for you, or spelling is the bane of your workday, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 13 gives your computer powerful voice dictation abilities. We've got the basi...

 Accidents are going to happen, and while we lack the clairvoyance to see them coming, we still have to power to outfit ourselves with the appropriate gear to get through them. Case in point, the...

During the holidays, cases of cheap American lager were available to Canadians which isn't exactly news but these weren't ordinary cases. These limited-edition mega-packs were full of 99 "canettes" of...

David Chapman writes about how he's spent the last year "navigating the medical maze on behalf of my mother, who has dementia." His key observation? The American health-care system isn't a system at a...

I have never once asked myself what would happen to my vehicle if I poured liters of Coca-Cola into its tank. But YouTuber TechRax did. Watch as he fills his 2003 BMW 325i wagon with Coke and then d...

Maryam Omidi crowdfunded a photographic tour of Sobiet-era sanatoriums, and the resulting book, Holidays in Soviet Sanatoriums is like a weird 1970s sci-fi catalog. (more…)...

Playground compiles 2,000 Google Earth images of American football fields, then plays them alphabetically at a speed where they become hypnotic. (more…)...

 Let's face it: Not all of us were born with the literary acumen of T.S Eliot, but that's no excuse to send off typo-laden emails and unclear messages. With Grammarly, you can step up your writin...

He saved every one us. Stood for every one of us.Every man, every woman, every child.Flash Gordon was so awesome he wore his own logo tee-shirt.One of the best space operas ever filmed, Dino De Lauren...

My friend Elizabeth Bingham has created the most wonderful collection of 3D printed Mouse Ears. She and her fiance Randy visit the park every weekend, and wanted to make their visits a little more spe...

Posted without comment, except for my photoshop of him infested with mind-controlling Leucochloridium paradoxum gastropod eyestalk parasites:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/9496184758777651...

Anders Kvernberg, aka PisseGuri82, created this lovely map of ten of the world's shortest borders. Here's the full-size version. (more…)...

Standards Manual is one of the greatest recent projects in archival graphic design. Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth painstakingly recreate notable graphics standards manuals from NASA, the EPA, the Americ...

Get ready to go down a rabbit hole of musique concrte documentaries, of which this one from 1979 was by far the most informative, with this clip especially interesting.. (more…)...

Filipino student Hillary Diane Andales won a $250,000 scholarship from the Breakthrough Junior Challenge for this entertaining and easy-to-understand explainer on relativity and the equivalence of r...

Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexually assualting her in 1991, when she was 28, making her a rare adult to be preyed upon by the delusional pedophile mall-crawler. (more…)...

Goop is Gwyneth Paltrow's life-threatening, wallet-flensing empire of woo, home to smoothie dust, vulva steaming, rocks you keep in your vagina, and a raft of rebadged products that are literally ide...

Josh Jones mapped out every leap from every episode of the classic sci-fi show Quantum Leap. Jump with Dr. Sam Beckett and his hologram pal Al all over the world again as he tries to find his way back...

Damascus steel is renowned for its use in ancient edge weapons and for its unusual mottle pattern. Blacksmith Dmitriy Shevchenko demonstrates his blade-making technique, since the manufacturing tech...

Kate Kato repurposed the popular Observer's Book series to include lovely paper sculptures of each book's subject. Above is The Observer's Book of Fungi. (more…)...

goodbye.domains is an obituary column for the domain names that you, after years of squatting, now accept will never be put to use and which are, furthermore, worthless.I just let neverie.com lapse. "...

The Hang and Level is a pretty great tool for hanging pictures, mirrors and the like.Every piece of art I hung in my near-an-active-fault-line home would go crooked in days, or hours. I got a Hang a...

On Reddit I stumbled across this old screen test of Deborah Harry auditioning for the crime mystery movie Union City, which was released in 1980 to lukewarm reviews. She got the part as the leading ...

2018 seems no easier for United Airlines.Via the WaPo:United Airlines passengers found themselves in a fetid situation when their Chicago-to-Hong Kong flight made an unscheduled landing in Alaska afte...

This cute little Raspberry Pi case was "inspired by the Nintendo Entertainment System." It's $11 on Amazon....

A class action suit by some of the 3,500,000+ Wells Fargo customers defrauded in the company's fake account scam was foundering in Utah, thanks to the company's insistence that its binding arbitration...

The rumors were true: Hulu has just ordered two seasons of new Animaniacs cartoons (previously), reviving one of the greatest animated series of all time. (more…)...

After an outbreak of measles at Disneyland, California lawmakers had enough and passed SB277, banning kids from attending the state's schools unless they were fully vaccinated, and eliminating the wai...

Cats like to sit in taped circles and hexagons on the floor. It's been recently discovered that they can be trapped in squares, too.https://youtu.be/Zhlvm0w_Dr8[via Neatorama]...

From an article titled Preventing nuclear war in the March 1981 issue of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:An early arms control proposal dealt with the problem of distancing that the President would ...

A company called Rose Colored Gaming upcycles damaged Nintendo SNES consoles by putting them into clear acrylic cases.These SNES consoles* have been treated to a 100% brand new, hand-built exterior, a...

Last September, I wrote about Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Jessica Bruder's important, fascinating book-length investigation into the Americans who live on the road out ...

Thomas Homan is the acting director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency; in an interview on (where else) Fox News, he said that local officials in "sanctuary cities" (cities where law en...

A man in Chicago who invites homeless people to spend the night at his house during brutally cold weather must stop his generous charity immediately or face consequences. City officials threatened to ...

Trump is freaking out over Michael Wolff's new behind the scenes book about the Trumpian White House, Fire and Fury:I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for au...

In his new book Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff says that one-time White House chief strategist Steve Bannon accused the Trump campaign of "treason", a revelation that sparked a hilarious denunciation by...

Roy Moore, who still thinks God wants him to be a senator despite the fact that his opponent Doug Jones was sworn in yesterday, has a new problem to deal with: the woman who says Moore molested her ...

Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, Russian exile Masha Gessen's essay Autocracy: Rules for Survival swept the internet, offering both hope and caution for the years to come. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/jppxo4mwLtAWith the rise of white nationalist groups whose allies in government extend all the way to the President of the United States, tech companies are finding themselves in th...

Jun from Jun's Kitchen has very well-behaved cats, even the new one they rescued. Here, he takes a break from cooking to show how they got so well-trained. (more…)...

Lily Cole is a famous actress, model, and recipient of a double-first class degree in Art History from Cambridge University. How dare they appoint her a partner of the Bront Society, formed to honor t...

John Worboys is a cab driver thought to have sexually assaulted at least 100 victims and convicted on 19 counts in 2009. But he's getting out of jail after only 8 years, having nailed it as his first ...

For his "Existence of" project, photographer Eiji Ohashi captured lonely-looking vending machines out in the weather around Japan. (more…)...

Nebraska State Senator Paul Schumacher [R-22] [(402) 471-2715] has proposed an amendment to the state constitution that would create 36-square-mile regions in the state where corporations would enjoy ...

My middle-school used to take us on field trips to the Spaced Out Library, the Toronto Public Library's science fiction reference collection founded by legendary author, critic, editor and activist Ju...

Back in the 1800s, a curious retailing trend began where strangely costumed women would pose for cabinet cards advertising various businesses, like Heinz pickles or J. M. Dolph & Co. Furniture &am...

If you thought you might live out your days without seeing an industrial hedge clipper form shrubs into perfect spheres while accompanied by Wagner, everything changes today. (more…)...

Bed Hog Shop, an Etsy seller from Bethlehem, PA, sells these custom made, $138 Sarlacc Pit baby loungers: " (would also likely be suitable for small pets): "Own your Star Wars fandom and allow the you...

Two days ago, an industry/academic team released a terrifying alert about a pair of CPU bugs called Spectre and Meltdown that allowed one program to steal data from another, even with the best memory-...

This delightfully impractical gadget looks complicated, but can a price be put on the value of serving eggs with star-shaped yolks? (more…)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcQZAzDVTlASebastian Tomczak, who blogs his fascination with sound and technology at little-scale.blogspot.com, reports that "My ten hour white noise video now has five...

The Beryozka dance is a dance developed in the Soviet Union in the 20th century. It's now reached the status of beloved tradition because of the way the women's costumes and small dance steps make t...

 From bookkeeping to data entry, many of today's businesses rely on Microsoft Excel to maintain a firm grip on their mounds of information. As a such, employers are generally willing to give more...

Following the move by Cindy Sherman (previously), iconic photographer Nan Goldin now has an Instagram account for her studio. (more…)...

Grab some superglue, some lab supplies, and you're good to go:Set microscope slides, coverslips, and superglue outside when it's 20F or colder to chill them. Catch flakes on the slides or pick them up...

Every Hevesh5 creation is a delight, but this compilation of some of the best recent moments from the domino toppling channel is concentrated delight of the highest order. (more…)...

Michael Wolff's book about Trump, featuring treason accusations from former ally Steve Bannon and reports of the president's dementia, is being released early. Fire And Fury: Inside The Trump White Ho...

Five months after learning of the devastating Spectre and Meltdown bugs, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off more than $39,000,000 worth of his Intel stock, all he was permitted to liquidate. (more&hell...

Over the past couple of weeks, I ran two unusual episodes of the After On Podcast, both of them connected to After On!The novel, that is. The podcast began as a DVD-extras-like supplement to it --eig...

This 101-year-old knows how to have fun. She also throws a lot better than I do.This man caught his 101-year-old mother playing in the snow and making a snowball on camera and it is the sweetest rem...

I've yet to find a hinged garlic press that I love. The ones I've tried are inefficient, fragile (especially the hinge, which inevitably fails), and not that easy to clean. I end up having to peel the...

Alan McSmith has been a safari guide for 30 years. In that time, he's learned a thing or two about elephants, including how not to get killed by one. Here we see him calmly encourage an elephant to ...

In a Washington Examiner op-ed published this morning, two conservative lawmakers thought it best that Jeff Sessions resign, saying, "It's time for Jeff Sessions to go." This comes on the same day tha...

Jennifer Boylan reflects on the death and life of companions in Inside of a DogThis summer, I took Indigo for one last walk. She was slow and unsteady on her paws. She looked up at me mournfully. You ...

Actor Paul Sorvino says Harvey Weinstein should hope he goes to jail. If not, "I will kill the motherfucker," Sorvino told TMZ in this video. Sorvino is rightfully angry with Weinstein for sexually ha...

Wired published an article about txt.fyi, the minimalist publishing "platform" I made: "Write something, hit Publish, and voil: your deathless prose, online. "But heres the thing: txt.fyi has no socia...

This interactive graph of personal debt in the United States reveals the geography of poverty. The average household income in California is $91,757, while the median medical debt in collections is $7...

Orange Julius is insisting a book that is not favorable towards him fail to be published. Trump's legal team has sent an 11-page letter to the publisher, demanding the book not be printed.Via the NYT:...

A resourceful Pennsylvania man had a lot of snow to shovel, so he made his own snowplow with a lawnmower and a 50-inch HDTV box. Works like a charm!Via CNN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AJYc3mPvRgJason Allemann of JK Brickworks (previously documents his latest creation: a poltter that squeezes precise patters of icing onto cookies, built out of Lego...

When you lose a phone you have limited options, like disabline it or taking remote photos. Cartoonist XKCD created a lost phone security system that I would love to have....

Princeton's Ed Felten (previously) is one of America's preeminent computer scientists, having done turns as CTO of the FTC and deputy CTO of the White House. (more…)...

 Creative writing can be a sensitive process, which is why it pays to ensure you have every edge available when it comes to churning out that screenplay or novel. Storyist for Macgives you comple...

You could load an image up in Photoshop, reduce the color depth and fiddle with the pixel diffusion slider a bit. Or you could get Pixatool, a brilliant app completely dedicated to tuning pixelated im...

Watch Portland, Oregon area KATU's Mike Warner attempt to climb stairs in 90mph winds. WINDY!! wind gusts at Vista House in the Columbia River Gorge were over 90 MPH at times this morning! Really ha...

It is common in industrial and post-industrial societies to suppose a rigid, almost antagonistic division between work and play. We work in order to earn enough money to afford us time for something c...

I am pretty sure I'll be wearing this Mexican Funeral tee-shirt whenever I am supposed to, but not 100%.I love the BBC series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The holistic assassin is so, so...

No Film school curated a best-of list showcasing some of the most striking and innovative cinematography from 2017. (more…)...

Businesses in Detroit that wish to stay open after 10pm will have to join the city's high definition crime surveillance program. Shop keepers who participate in the program benefit by receiving priori...

What better way for a ceramic tile company to advertise their wares than in their own hallway? Casa Ceramica released a cool video showing how they created their trippy hallway in their Manchester o...

Steam 250 lists the best-rated games ever on Steam, but its hidden gems page lists uses an absolute weighting that exposes little-played titles with few negative votes. First impression: bullet hell s...

In ADGN: An Algorithm for Record Linkage Using Address, Date of Birth, Gender, and Name, newly published in Statistics and Public Policy, a pair of researchers from Harvard and Tufts build a statistic...

The introductory sequence of Bright is enchanting: signs and street art in Los Angeles that describe a world where the races of historical high fantasy stuck around into the present day to become the ...

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...

The fine folks at Waterjet Channel found an enhydro agate, a type of metamorphic rock that formed with a pocket of liquid water inside. Naturally, they broke it open to get to the water and drank it...

There are tons of houses worldwide in coastal areas, and as climate change proceeds, they'll see more and more flooding. Those owners can't all afford to move. So the Buoyant Foundation Project is d...

Ciara Burkett is making wonderful voxel computers and such; bookmark their Ello page for more. [via Jay Allen]Above, an Apple . Here's a Compaq portable:...

This interesting morph is a whirlwind tour through the careers of each member of The Beatles, while together as a group and beyond. (more…)...

Jared Dines demonstrates several weird drum setups that not only sound good, but look pretty cool, too. (more…)...

Last year this new train station, "Cambridge North", opened in Cambridge, UK -- with its walls cut into this mesmerizing pattern. A bunch of mathematically-minded folks started sending snapshots of it...

CTA Chairman Gary Shapiro: "We look forward to our next opportunity to host a technology policy discussion with him before a public audience."...

Today, three groups of security researchers from the Technical University of Graz, Cerberus Security, and Google Project Zero revealed a pair of defects in modern computers that allow adversaries to...

State Representatives Bill Chumley and Mike Burns, both white Republicans, have introduced a bill honoring the no black soldiers who served their state in the Civil War. South Carolina refused service...

I have the LEGO Taj Mahal sitting here, waiting to be built.Mine is the old 5922 piece version, a gift from a former BB contributor who fried out on building big LEGOs and sent it to my daughter and...

Every year, Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky take to The Well and conduct a weeks-long, wide-ranging "state of the world" discussion, trying to dig through to the zeitgeist's bedrock, taking questions...

On May 22, 1984, the Army asked Joseph McMoneagle -- a "psychic spy" -- to astrally project himself to the planet Mars ... 1 billion years in the past.The full transcript is online at the CIA's digita...

It's common for high-priced paintings and jewelry to be insured and stored with some sort of theft-proof security in place. But the bar owner of Cafe 33 in Copenhagen, Denmark didn't think to protect ...

In 1924 two British mountaineers set out to be the first to conquer Mount Everest. But they never returned to camp, and to this day no one knows whether they reached the top. In this week's episode of...

Onlookers were not expecting a massive gas fire to explode, sending a huge metal tank hurtling toward them. One person filming got bits and pieces of the near miss, which prompted talented video stabi...

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Steve Bannon, his former campaign manager and White House strategist, following Bannon's suggestion that a Trump Tower meeting with Russians was "treasonous" a...

Alt-right impresario Steve Bannon called the meeting between Jared Kushner, Trump Jr, and a Russian lawyer at the Trump Tower in 2016 treasonous and unpatriotic in a forthcoming book by Michael Wolff ...

The Washington Post reports that the NSA "is losing its top talent at a worrisome rate as highly skilled personnel" because of a mix of low-pay, uninspiring leaders, and a bureaucratic re-org that eve...

Its a new year, but its sex, fat-shaming and politics as usual in this weeks tabloids.Meghan Markle is a shameless sexpot, rages the National Enquirer, positively shocked shocked, I tell you that Pr...

The Secure Elections Act is a bipartisan Senate bill with six co-sponsors that reads like a security researcher's wish-list for voting machine reforms. Specifically, it reads like Matt Blaze's wishlis...

We have a lot of guitars, ukuleles, and cigar box guitars leaning against walls, stacked in closets, and hiding under beds. I just bought this four-pack of guitar hanger hooks for $8. They're highly r...

Montreal-based clothing designer and artist Raku Inoue has been populating his Instagram with plants and flowers crafted into colorful insects. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/-3fU69y8K0ULupiga is a longrunning, much-loved independent news source in Croatia that is virtually single-handedly doing battle with the country's surging fascist movement; they're...

Of course a Hasselblad is going to outperform a smartphone camera. But unless you zoom way in, the Pixel does a great job....

Why the driver of this car thinks it's a good idea to cruise through Ireland's Storm Eleanor, which caused widespread flooding and winds of up to 100mph, is anyone's guess. Needless to say, don't tr...

What's more revolting than buying color-matched books by the yard to class up your room like you were some kind of Trumpish dumbass who wants people to think you read but never actually read anything?...

Gareth Branwyn of Make has assembled a collection of the best of his Maker Tips column from 2017. There are some gems in here, like John Park's method for twisting a pair of wires (above) and Becky ...

Gareth Branwyn of Make: has assembled a collection of the best of his Tips of the Week column from 2017. There are some gems in here, like John Park's method for twisting a pair of wires (above) and...

Lucian Constantin's Motherboard guide to protecting your home router is full of excellent, nearly impossible-to-follow advice that you should follow, but probably won't. (more…)...

A man who had been on a long, delayed Ryanair flight from London to Malaga, Spain couldn't take the wait for another minute. Rather than stand in a slow line to get off the plane, he opened the emer...

Stylist Khaled A. Shabani, 46, was arrested after allegedly cutting a customer's ear with barber shears to punish the customer for fidgeting too much. He also cut the 22 year old customer's hair in th...

People have a tendency towards "illusory superiority," that is, they imagine themselves to be better than others. Interestingly, the more incompetent you are, the more superior you feel. It comes do...

Mathematician Hannah Fry explains the "Ham Sandwich Theorem," a mathematical concept that says that even the most poorly constructed sandwich can be cut exactly in half with only one straight cut of...

If you open up ketchup packets with your teeth, you might want to change your ways. A 41-year-old woman thought she had Crohn's disease inflammatory bowel disease for six years, until she underwent ...

For months, Japan's much-vaunted manufacturing sector has been wracked by scandal after scandal, as the country's biggest corporations admit to decades of systematic fraud that started in the boardroo...

UK-based artisan Omid Asadi traded in his boxing gloves and engineering career to focus on his craft since leaving his native Iran: turning large leaves into beautiful carved sculptures. (more…...

If drawing stairsteps on an Etch A Sketch seems like the pinnacle of achievement, these masterworks by Kyle Fleming may inspire you to new heights. They may also inspire you to shake yours clean and p...

University of Washington data scientist Jake Vanderplas found himself trapped in an interminable series of Snakes and Ladders (AKA Chutes and Ladders) with his four-year-old and found himself thinking...

William Forsythe created this choreographed installation titled Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, No. 2. (more…)...

What is Life? collects some of the more interesting takes on whether we may be living in a computer simulation. (more…)...

Portuguese artist Vanessa Barrago has invoked the otherworldly beauty of the sea for a new series of tapestries and rugs, like the Coral Reef Weaving series above. Below is a larger piece called Earth...

In the film The Mess, Ellice Stevens presents a compelling look at what it's like to live with a bipolar diagnosis: the dizzying highs and the staggering lows. (more…)...

In a new book, former Trump campaign manager and presidential strategist Steve Bannon is quoted as saying contacts the campaign had with Russian agents before his involvement were treasonous and unpa...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN the Tom the Dancing Bug team, the INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics before publication, extra comics, and much more. GET Ruben...

After a two year hiatus, I've restarted my podcast! It's my New Year's resolution. (more…)...

The iMac Pro starts at $5k, but only it comes in Space Gray, Apple's closest offering to black. The same's true of its peripherals, which are not sold separately. If you like, you can buy a Space Gray...

This auto-ranging multimeter has good reviews on Amazon. It has an LCD backlight, a non-contact voltage detector, a diode check, 15 minute auto shut-down, and the probes have built-in clips. It's regu...

When a gentleman in an orange hat thinks it's okay to grab a topless woman's breast and then run off at a music festival, the woman and her friend take matters into their own hands. They immediately...

The parent company of Hooters restaurants announced it was going to manage its customer loyalty program on a blockchain and issue a cryptocurrency called Mobivity Merit. As a result, its share price j...

Is your New Years' resolution to start writing quantum-computing algorithms as a side hustle? Hey, me too!So I'm going to spend this weekend playing around with Microsoft's newly-released "Quantum Dev...

It is time to introduce my daughter to the wonders of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.As you likely know, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplantedthe great Encyclopedia Galactica as the sta...

There are many mysteries to hagfish goo.Hagfish are "widely regarded as the most disgusting creature on earth", in part because of how they defend themselves: They excrete a ton of viscous, revolting ...

Here's an infographic with 40 scams you should be aware of when you travel. Grifting creeps have tried pulling scams like this on me on various trips but luckily they weren't good enough at their trad...

An Indian man was charged for making a bomb threat over the phone at the Mumbai airport on Sunday, but he says he was misunderstood: he was simply asking about the Bom-Del status, referring to his fli...

MIT Tech Review's Antonio Regalado rounds up the year's stupidest, worst moments in tech, from the guy who created his own CRISPR-based gene therapy to beef up his muscles and injected it to Donald Tr...

Talking Heads frontman and all-round hammy mutant hero David Byrne's "Reasons to be Cheerful" project seeks out "encouraging things that are happening anywhere, and if they have been tested, if they h...

Core 77's year-end roundup of "Best How-To's, Fabrication Techniques and Tool Hacks" is a fantastic grab-bag of fascinating, esoteric and useful hacks, tricks and techniques for making things better, ...

Youtube star Logan Paul, who has over 15 million subscribers, decided to entertain his viewers by going to Japan's Aokigahara Forest, a place where over 500 people have committed suicide, and find a...

Maybe 2018 will be the year of social media burnout. A lot of people I know are quitting Twitter and Facebook because the're sick of the trolls and Nazis that neither social network seems to care abou...

Have you read "Grand Design", Ed Piskor's remix of the X-Men's epic history? You must, even if you're not into Marvel's legendarium, because it's amazing work. Not just a more enganging distillation o...

Alabama newspaper publisher H. Brandt Ayers has apologized for spanking female employees while he was publisher of The Anniston Star newspaper in the 1970s. Ayers, who is currently the chairman of the...

Math student Carl Strmer acquired a hidden camera in 1890, and put it to use on the streets of Oslo. The results are close to 500 secret images that show a wide range of people in a casual, relaxed st...

In 1968, the Foreign Policy Association gathered experts together to predict what life would be like in the year 2018 -- and issued their forecast in the book Toward the Year 2018. The book jacket pro...

Scotty of Strange Parts gives a tour of the fantastic makerspace, Noisebridge. I love this place because it's filled with interesting people working on all kinds of wild projects....

In the early days of TV, it was routine to tape over the recording medium after the initial air-date, which means that no video record exists of many of the pioneering moments in television. (more&hel...

The Juicero was a $400 "juicer" that squeezed packets of DRM-locked fruit pulp, an idea so perverse that it got honorable mention in DRM's worst moments of 2017, and inspired sighs of relief when the ...

Bobby Duke makes all kinds of cool woodworking projects in his inimitable video style. This floating cup pencil carving is especially impressive. (more…)...

Looking for a monumental tree for a photo or just to enjoy in person? Check out Monumental Trees, a compendium of over 31,000 impressive trees, like this live oak in Virginia. (more…)...

David Honnorat created The Great Map of Movieland, a delightful atlas showing 1,800 movies organized into regions by genres. (more…)...

Filmmaker Adrien Mauduit collected his favorite timelapse shots of 2017 into a contemplative piece that is a lovely way to look back at 2017 and ahead to 2018. (more…)...

In 1996, a powerful storm tore through a Canadian drive-in theatre, destroying a screen. Some witnesses recall it was during a screening of 'Twister,' which includes a scene where a drive-in is dest...

Ma Ydoum Hal may sound relaxed, but the lyrics about a friend in crisis get real deep real fast. Created by TREE9 (a way), it has a strong philosophical message about the impermanence of our lives. ...

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The artist and William Forsythe has mounted a mesmerizing installation in Paris called "Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time No. 2" -- in which he fills a huge room with swinging pendulums, and v...

"Cryptojacking" is the latest trend in malware; by some estimates, there are at least 2,500 sites that illicitly run Javascript in your browser to secretly mine cryptocurrency. So the browser pushback...

Rain Nos roundup of the Core 77's Favorite Objects from 2017 has some real beauts that are of note to aficionados of physical culture and made objects. (more…)...

Dutch sociologist and Holocaust survivor Frederik Lodewijk Polak's massive future studies text The Image of the Future makes a bold statement about optimism and pessimism, creating four categories of ...

Last October, the Supreme Court heard argument in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin gerrymandering case that has far-reaching implications for the November midterms in 2018; the court is expected to rule ...

Paralys reenacts the moment a young woman falls asleep while watching a game show, only to experience sleep paralysis. (more…)...

Heart-pounding snowboard footage set to the original version of "Major Tom"? Yes please! (more…)...

Inspired by Kubrick and Nolan, designer Thomas Vanz set out to create cool effects depicting massive phenomena from our universe: (more…)...

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Roulette.pizza allows you to order a random pizza, "because maybe you were unfair to pineapple."Tell us how many pizzas you want and where to send them. After that, your pizza fate is in our hands. Al...

https://youtu.be/Ht0_Kkx5-YUCaltech posted video of a stable plasma torus, created by engineers using water and a dielectric plate: "lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle." In addition, engine...

When the USA decided to retroactively extend the term of copyright, it deprived itself of free, open access to important cultural treasures that new creators could build upon as creators have done sin...

r/doglifting, a forum to post pictures of you lifting up your dog, is my new favorite subreddit.https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/947260181913751557...

The 15 Second Horror Film Challenge is an annual competition run by a nonprofit (you have until Oct 2018 to get your entries in for next year). This year's top twenty has some entries that literally...

When Washington State legalized recreational marijuana three years ago, it created a licensing regime that was supposed to protect and encourage small growers, but the data shows that marijuana growin...

More than a dozen major US airports are now covered in facial-recognition cameras, installed by the DHS to scan people departing on international flights without the legally mandated federal review pr...

Britain is one of the most unequal countries in the world, thanks to the Tory-in-sheep's-clothing policies of Tony Blair, and the naked banker-coddling and brutal austerity of the real Tories who foll...