Articles by BoingBoing from February 2018

I've been to Yoyogi Park in Tokyo many times, but I've never seen a homeless encampment there. Reditor biwook took this photo of one of the shelters there. Whoever built it did an excellent job. There...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkachfbskKUSara from MIT Sloan Management Review writes: "Our new (and free)eight-part documentary video series examines a revolutionary newmanufacturing approach th...

Crying in Public is described as an "emotional map of New York City, made out of the important things that happen to us outside." To use it, you drag a one of 15 different emojis (crying, dancing, sex...

Lots of people still think homeopathy works. Scientific studies do not support its purported efficacy. This excellent animated video by Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell does a great job of explaining why h...

Trump is an excellent businessman and the Republicans are really good with money: if you doubt it, just take a gander at the Urban Institute's report on the costs and effects of Trumpcare: the US gove...

Shane Speal made a cool 2-string guitar from a 100-year-old cigar box. It sounds great, and he is selling it on his website....

Tenyo is a Japanese magic trick company that's been around since 1960. They are well known for making clever props. (My friend Richard Kaufman, who often writes for Boing Boing, wrote a 1,400-page t...

Helen Foster was chief administrative officer for the Department of Housing and Urban Development until she was demoted; she says she was punished for refusing to violate rules limiting how much money...

The more you know about a quantum particle's position, the less you know about its momentum, and vice versa. This is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and I thought it applied to quantum particl...

Who wants to see a lot of plastic beverage bottles get filled with pressurized air until they explode with a loud bang? I do, and so did Chris Notap, who decided to see what it would take to make a ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG9pcMy0LDYWhen Disney built Euro Disney (now Disneyland Paris), it was required to partner with a French company that borrowed heavily, couldn't get out from under i...

A woman told police that casino mogul Steve Wynn raped her, and that she became pregnant and had a child from the rape, ' while another has reported she was forced to resign from a Las Vegas job after...

Calling the FCC's decision to kill Net Neutrality the "road to serfdom" Senator Ron Wyden [D-OR] introduced the legislation he'd co-sponsored with Senator Ed Markey [D-MA] to restore Neutrality. (mor...

Amazon will acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, CA-based home video surveillance maker. (more…)...

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner's downgraded security clearance prevents him from viewing many of the sensitive documents to which he had unlimited access. (more…)...

Gretchen Whitmer wants to be the Democratic governor of Michigan, and she has distinguished herself from her opponents Abdul El-Sayed, and Shri Thanedar by opposing single-payer healthcare and endorsi...

Anti-Semitic attacks rose faster in 2017 than any time in the past 40 years, The Anti-Defamation League today said. (more…)...

Irish filmmaker Hazel Hayes sits down with Irish star Saoirse Ronan to chat about Brooklyn, Lady Bird, and what its like to leave the motherland. You can also enjoy Hayes hilarious, booze-infused co...

Back in 2016, LEGO aficionado Hugh Scandrett wasn't able to get his Addams Family mansion replica into review as an official box set because it used 7,000 pieces, which were 4,000 too many according t...

The Slow Mo Guys invited three Shaolin monks on to throw a needle through a piece of glass in super slow mo, and it's quite interesting to watch at that speed. (more…)...

Admiral Mike Rogers, America's Cyber Command chief, told lawmakers today that President Donald Trump and his administration have not granted him the 'authority to disrupt Russian election hacking oper...

Today Trump hired Brad Parscale to be his campaign manager when he runs again in 2020. And today said Parscale liked a Twitter comment that called Trump an idiot. The "idiot" comment was in response t...

On March 22, Institute for the Future, the nonprofit thinktank where I'm a researcher, is hosting an event celebrating the Voyager Golden Record at our Palo Alto, California offices/gallery! Joining m...

A gentleman in Long Beach, CA decided to celebrate his 29th birthday by galloping down a freeway on his white Arabian horse. And this was after he celebrated by getting drunk.According to ABC7News:CHP...

I remember Sneakers as being far, far more exciting than it apparently was.So much for memory....

How did they make macaroni and cheese back in the 18th century before powdered cheese packets became a thing? And, while on the macaroni subject, why were English folk (such as Yankee Doodle) called...

Yesterday we all heard the asinine remark made by Cadet Bone Spurs about the Parkland school shooting: "I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon." The silver lining of Trump's buffoonery is t...

I absolutely love my Roku player. Their simplest player, the Express is now $29.After recently comparing with the Apple, Google and Amazon TV devices I have, again, happily stuck with the Roku! Roku's...

Don't just look at the image here--click through to the interactive feature at National Geographic that details the towers under construction or proposed in Manhattan. The Nordstrom Tower, to be compl...

The United States is a bit more corrupt than tight-arsed northern European and richer Commonwealth nations, but isn't particularly corrupt all considered. Trump's slackin'! Movers and shakers: Britain...

Kris Harbour shows off his delightully cosy off-grid cottage in the woods, powered by hydro and complete with all mod-cons. Door's a bit squeaky, though....

Waters along the Ohio River are at record levels, reports USA Today. Pittsburgh's still above water, mostly, but Cincinnatti is in trouble: the highest floodline in decades....

Jack Douglass is his name, and he has a cough."You found my YouTube channel where I like to make fun of everything because I'm too scared to confront reality. Enjoy your stay!...

Aron DSouza is the man behind Peter Thiel's successful campaign to destroy Gawker through litigation, according to an expos by Buzzfeed News. The whole thing seems to dance pretty close to the line fo...

Join Ruben Bolling at An Unlikely Story, in Plainville, MA on March 9, where he'll be joined by Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), and talk about comics, his hit kid's book series, The EMU Club Adve...

INSIDER takes you inside the doughnut making process at a Krispy Kreme location in Burbank, California. Its enough to make you want to order a whole bouquet of doughnuts....

When I'm not here pointing out dog videos, I spend the rest of my work day as a technology journalist. I decided that I wanted in on this line of work because I love gadgets. There was always somethin...

Fair warning: This might just be the cutest, and simultaneously educational, thing you'll see all week. Using the drawings and story provided by his young son Nathan, Allen Mezquida created a wonder...

https://youtu.be/lwZBlZhks44Sassy Trump, Peter Serafinowicz's alternate voicing of President Donald Trump's absurdly macho theatrics, has returned. (more…)...

Hey all you Ray Bradbury fans, here's HBO's just-released Fahrenheit 451 trailer, based on Bradbury's 1953 dystopian novel about book burning and censorship. Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan stars ...

"It is important that as adults we take the lead and the responsibility in helping our children manage the many issues they are facing today. This means encouraging positive habits with social media a...

Bloomberg:Apple Inc. is preparing to release a trio of new smartphones later this year: the largest iPhone ever, an upgraded handset the same size as the current iPhone X and a less expensive model wi...

The wealthiest 2% of Americans got $1.15 trillion richer in 2017, nearly all of it in stock market gains -- more than enough to pay for state and federal Medicaid, and all mandatory and discretionary...

Bestselling true crime author Rebecca Morris spotted a flag like the one seen above flying outside one of her Seattle neighbor's homes. She tipped off the Seattle Times, stating:Suddenly there is a Co...

Amazon reported to the IRS that Patrick Reames had made $24,000 selling books on its Createspace self-publishing platform, but Patrick Reames never got a dime of that money; it appears that a money-la...

This LEGO Space Shuttle kit is pretty awesome!My daughter really loved the LEGO Women of Nasa set, so this $29 Space Shuttle was a no-brainer.285 pieces and several recommendations for things to build...

Kate Clark combines taxidermy animals with hand-sculpted human faces to create fantastical beasts from unreal lands. From her artist's statement:The fusion of human and animal that I create presents a...

Nick Johnstone's "Programmer's Oath" is billed as "An oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath." Naturally, it's on Github and you can create a pull request if you think that Johnstone...

In 1986, Canadian musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland recorded a stunning cycle of expansive, meditative, and uplifting synthesizer songs called Keyboard Fantasies. Self-released on cassette, that "New ...

A woman who goes by @brenaclifton on Twitter insists she doesn't have a cat, but was greeted by this cute kitty who popped out of the vent on the floor of her house. Just passing through!Two things: 1...

Who believes a word this guy says? All of it was babble, for the most part.Video via NBC News...

The only downside about one of my new favorite podcasts, Good Christian Fun, is that its a little hard to describe exactly what it is. It sounds like the kind of show thats designed to proselytize to ...

Designed by Ed Roberts and released in 1974, the MITS ALTAIR sparked the personal computer revolution and was the basis for Microsoft's first product, the Altair BASIC interpreter. It cost $439. While...

A boy in China thought it was a good idea to hose down the buttons in his elevator by peeing all over them. I have to say, he's got an impressive spray, able to douse the entire panel. But soon afte...

According to time traveler Michael Phillips who will be born in the year 2043, another time traveler named Titor from 2038 prevented a civil war in the US by uniting the country around 9/11. What el...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y8fyIVhqXI&w=560&h=315]Further reading: WFMU's UBUWeb has an excellent survey of all ten issues of ASPEN.From an ongoing biography of John Wilcock, by...

In a new article for GQ, writer Zach Baron profiles the late 1990s/early aughts superstar Brendan Fraser, who all but disappeared from the public eye over the past decade. It turns out a combination o...

The muppet creations of Frank Oz, Jim Henson, and their collaborators are fused into my earliest memories as a kid growing up in the Sesame Street generation. The long-running Muppet Show followed, as...

Johnny Cash was born on February 26, 1932. That's today except, 86 years in the past.When Cash died back in 2003, I was pretty shaken up. I grew up listening to his music. Once I had my own home, h...

Parents who load their tablets and smartphones up with fun educational apps for their kids to play with may actually be doing them more harm than good. According to The Guardian, spending too much tim...

In this sweet HiHo Kids video, a group of young children chat with Alice, a kindly centenarian who once worked as a decoder in WWII. They ask some really direct questions which she answers with grac...

The YouTube channel Half As Interesting digs into the weird jurisdictional exemptions of freeportsspecial economic zones that exist within countries but arent governed by the same laws. And it turns...

Beauty vlogger Sailor J is known for her biting social commentary, according to Allure:In Sailor J's "T & P Makeup Look" video, the 21-year-old uses beauty products by a brand called Thoughts &a...

Many people think animated feature films started Disney's Snow White, but this interesting video essay counts at least seven before the appearance of the seven dwarfs. (more…)...

Ann Reardon of the YouTube channel How To Cook That talks through her recipe for a double rainbow unicorn apple pie. Even if the dessert isnt your jam, Reardons soothing voice is reason enough to wa...

Consider the above Exhibit A. Below, Exhibit B.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAozgz3fLQk&feature=youtu.be&t=10s...

For those who didnt get a chance to watch much of the Olympics this year, NBC Sports helpfully edited together all nine Team USA gold medal wins into one short video. You can also watch a slightly m...

This ain't Mark Roberts' first rodeo. The British nudist who hopped onto an Olympic ice rink at PyeongChang in a pink tutu and a monkey-faced codpiece (strategically covering his junk, of course) has ...

Frank Howarth has "been into spheres lately." I have woodturned an 8 ball from a chunk of walnut that has been kicking around the shop for about a decade. I first turned a sphere from the walnut. I ...

Filmmaker Zhang Yimou directed Weaving Machine, a choreographed piece with an array of 640 kinetic lights, and the results are pretty mind-blowing. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/O4-j4kwtu9Y?t=4m30sJump straight to 4:30 in this otherwise riveting examination of a fixed-displacement oil pump, posted by AvE. My favorite part is when the kid analogizes the pump's...

Adios, Aladdin...My friend Otto von Stroheim (who, with his wife Baby Doe, host Tiki Oasis, the world's largest tiki festival) shared some cool Disneyland news on Sunday:Polynesian Pop is alive and he...

Late last month, a woman in Alabaster, Alabama spotted an unusual bird in her backyard feeder, which was soon revealed to be an extremely rare yellow-pigmented Northern cardinal.AL.com reports: Aubu...

We've certainly heard plenty of reporters and cable news talking heads marble-mouthing their way through "Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School" over the past week. It definitely doesn't want to roll o...

Staying organizedisn't always easy, and sometimes it takes more than a digital calendar to keep track of all the moving parts in a project. For those looking to get a better grip on their big-time to-...

Here's part five of my reading (MP3) (part four, part three, 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 ...

A friend and I were talking last night about ego dissolution (something we've both experienced). I was telling him about this recent Vox article that shares the author's first-hand account of an aya...

In light of the forthcoming Ridley Scott-produced miniseries on the life of U.S. rocketry pioneer, JPL co-founder, and occultist, Jack Parsons, it's wonderful to see this brilliant discussion of Parso...

This point-of-view footage from NBC Sports offers an exhilarating, terrifying glimpse into what its like to be an Olympic downhill skier....

I'm typing these words from Perth airport, after a wonderful time at the Perth Festival; my Australiasian tour for Walkaway has four more stops to go: tomorrow and Wednesday, I'll be in Melbourne; the...

The Security Innovation Center is a lobbying group backed by CompTIA, CTIA, TechNet and the Consumer Technology Association for the express purpose of fighting laws that would legalize repairing your...

Dianne Feinstein has represented California in the US senate for 28 years, garnering the California Democratic Party endorsement every year despite her far-right positions on mass surveillance, milita...

New York Toy Fair is the world's largest toy show and its trends are a preview of the toys that will fill the shelf this Christmas; that means that you need to get ready for an enormous variety of poo...

In a letter to the Koch network -- a group of evil billionaires who chip in to buy politicians -- the Koch brothers crowed about how Donald Trump (whom they considered replacing with Paul Ryan in a ba...

Every American 16-year-old enrolled in high-school has to learn civics, with extensive instruction on the more confusing aspects of the American electoral system, such as the Electoral College; they a...

Surfing on public Wi-Fi is convenient, but it's far from safe. Whether you're at a cafe or hotel, connecting to an unsecured network exposes youand your personal informationto a host of hazards, inclu...

Information security firm Bishop Fox's "Cybersecurity Style Guide" is 92 pages' worth of usage notes from the confusing world of technical jargon, a combination of glossary, pronunciation guide and st...

GOP bigots in South Carolina and Wyoming have decided to try and weasel around the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed "legal" marriage to everyone.I can not begin to understand the religious bab...

While some can only think of the Burning Man as a party in the desert, diehard Burners, its citizens, will tell you that it's much more than it. They'll tell you that it's a year-round community whose...

I give all of these babies a gold medal!...

The world looks a lot cooler if you're a bug, as Craig P. Burrows demonstrates in his striking series of flowers shot in ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence. (more…)...

If you've had the sneaking suspicion over the past year that the world is going to hell, you're not alone. Amnesty International's 2017-2018 State of the World's Human Rights Annual Report says that i...

The web is vast, and while there's room for everyone, competition is stiff when it comes to landing on that first page of a Google search. That's why developers aren't afraid to spend exorbitant amoun...

Editor's note: I've known Shahid Buttar for years, in his capacity as an activist organizer, drawing on his background as a constitutional lawyer and his deep commitment to a just world to help start ...

When you try to buy online ads from Facebook's self-serve ad-auctioning platform, merely being the highest bidder isn't enough to guarantee that your ads will get through: Facebook multiplies your bid...

While a shooter rampaged through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, the school's armed cop (who was a Broward County Sheriff's Deputy) and three of his deputy colleagues were hidin...

Last November, evil Trump-supporting billionaire Joe Ricketts shut down Gothamist (and its sister sites) to punish its staff for forming a union. (more…)...

Paul Manafort, one-time Trump campaign manager, has been indicted for cooking his books in order to qualify for a loan; prosecutors secured the evidence of his fraud by searching his email, which cont...

New Jersey State Senator Jeff Van Drew wants to run for Congress as a Democrat; he visited 17-year-old Emily McGrath's school, Egg Harbor Township High, where McGrath questioned him about whether he'd...

It's CPAC! The annual far-right hootenanny for preppers, false-flaggers, climate deniers, truthers, and the sort of person who closes their eyes and thinks of The Fountainhead, featuring Marion Marcha...

Candles that smell like a bookstore, old books, or a musty old cellar? Pal, you sure like books!My home is filled with books, and pets. Guess which one lends more to the olfactory nature of my domicil...

One of the things that make every RFID implanted US Passport 'safe' is each document's unique cryptographic identifier. Customs and Border Patrol can use this key to verify the authenticity of each pa...

One of the things that make every RFID implanted US Passport 'safe' is each document's unique cryptographic identifier. Customs and Border Protection can use this key to verify the authenticity of eac...

Following the unprecedented success of his film Black Panther, director Ryan Coogler shared this sweet thank-you letter via the Marvel Studios Twitter account:https://twitter.com/marvelstudios/status/...

Rightfully disdained for his callous behavior but still adored by millions of fans, YouTuber Logan Paul clearly inspires some very intense emotions in those who watch his channel. In this thoughtful 1...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is a marvel of engineering, and Dr. Patrick McCarthy explains the years-long process to make an optic mirror that costs over $20 million. (more…)...

Male supremacy has gotten a strong foothold online through men's rights activism (MRA), pickup artist movement (PUA), and the "tradwife" movement. Now SPLC has started naming the leaders on their hate...

Cody from Cody's lab had some elemental tin and a new rolling press, so he decided to craft a tin can from actual tin. (more…)...

Most of PES' videos showcase his amazingly stylish stop-motion animation skills. While his most recent upload is a departure from that, it's equally as compelling. In the video, he heads to his loca...

While bopping around Italy's Abruzzo National Park, zoologist Paolo Forconi witnessed a pack of three young wolves assaulting a garden variety house pooch. While it takes a few nips from the wolves,...

Ricardo Palacios, a 74-year old rancher, had gotten used to Customs and Border Protection officials tromping across his south Texas ranch lands without permission over the years. But finding a wireles...

Yep, the Harlem Globetrotters are still doing their thing and as evidenced by their YouTube channel (don't miss their "one take" video from last year), these basketball-spinning darlings are doing i...

Ever had something life changing happen to you in the Big Apple? Here's your chance to mark that emotional occasion on a crowdsourced map of the city.To contribute to Kate Ray's "Crying in Public" map...

Taras Kul tried out a "campfire in a can," essentially an enormous four-pound tea light used in places where firewood is unavailable or prohibited. (more…)...

Many of us enjoy the aesthetic of vintage electronics, but trying to use most hardware from the 1950's isn't necessarily practical. This is especially true where speakers are concerned. While most of ...

The Chinese Minister of Culture has launched a campaign in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces to end the practice of hiring strippers to draw crowds to funerals -- these crowds are seen as a ma...

If you ever meet a winter Olympian, be sure not to open with one of these lines. But do check out how winter athletes train for the Olympics:https://youtu.be/NsIPP5RVm1c...

If you think that Tinkerbell wont die if you believe hard enough in fairies, then youll have no problem believing this weeks tabloid stories, which rely heavily on wishful thinking.Princess-to-be Megh...

Patrick Ryan wants to be the Democratic nominee for New York's 19th district in the Hudson Valley, a Republican seat that Dems hope to flip; he's gone on record stating that he can do the job because ...

On Wednesday, President Trump met with mass-shooting survivors to dismiss their pleas for basic gun safety laws that might negatively impact gun manufacturers' profits by instead proposing stupid shit...

Adam Greenfield (previously) is one of the best thinkers when it comes to the social consequences of ubiquitous computing and smart cities; he's the latest contributor Ian Bogost's special series on "...

Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality-killing order is scheduled to go into effect on April 23, and when that happens, it'll be open season on the free, fair and open internet. (more…)...

Redbox buys DVDs and then rents them through automated kiosks, including DVDs from Disney that come with download codes to watch the videos through a DRM player. (more…)...

The late, lamented Scottish writer Iain Banks (previously) was several kinds of writer, but one of his main claims to fame is his role in developing the idea of fully automated luxury communism, in hi...

Connecting voting machines to the internet is a terrible idea: the machines are already notoriously insecure, and once they're online, anyone, anywhere in the world becomes a potential attacker. (more...

What's it really like to gaze at Earth from space? Does an offworld view of the Pale Blue Dot shift your perspective forever? For the cover story in the new issue of National Geographic, talented scie...

This week I found several stories by Anatoly Dneprov, shared free on the series of tubes we call the internet.Anatoly Dneprov, a science teacher, wrote wonderful, fast-paced, and oh-so very representa...

In the 1980s, Nelson Sullivan was ubiquitous in the downtown NYC art and club scene, documenting his community and culture on his handheld video camera. (more…)...

Ursula K. Le Guin's "Always Coming Home" (1985) is a combination novel and anthropological study of the Kesh, a culture that "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now in Northern Califo...

Although the YouTube channel The Financial Diet usually offers financial advice, in this video host Chelsea Fagan talks through the Sunday routine thats helped her become more productive despite her...

As part of his Amazing Places series, YouTuber Tom Scott explores how the Quadratestadt of Mannheim, Germany confounds modern computer mapping systems because it doesnt name its streets....

LEGO is releasing a number of 60th anniversary sets. The Robot and Spaceman from the Fun Future kit are already making waves.Sets in the multi-piece LEGO style of old, rather than the single purpose b...

Your Woman was a 1997 one-hit wonder from White Town, AKA Jyoti Prakash Mishra, notable for its ultra low-fi stylings, as if right out of the KLF's legendary Manual. A British musician whose second ...

Venezuela is in crisis. The South American country has been a sore festered with political turmoil and socioeconomic woes for years now. Unemployment is a pandemic in the country and, thanks to the de...

When you care enough to send the very best, skip the Hallmark cards and flowers and ship a bouquet of donuts to a loved one. It's a thing. A bunch of donut bouquet shops have popped up around the glob...

DCs Justice League movie was a bit of a mess, so Screen Junkies has plenty to make fun of in this new Honest Trailerespecially Henry Cavills weird CGI lip (thanks for that Paramount).https://twitter...

DCs Justice League movie was a bit of a mess, so Screen Junkies has plenty to make fun of in this new Honest Trailerespecially Henry Cavills weird CGI lip (thanks for that Paramount). (more…)...

Endless Archery is a free browser game similar to Desert Golfing but with archery as the theme and the chunky low-res pixel-precision of Pico-8. I found the basic mechanics more difficult, but once ma...

Python is one of the most popular and versatile programming languages used by developers today, making it an ideal first choice for those looking to kickstart a career in programming. While you could ...

Want to see the making of a badass, one-of-a-kind highchair that's fashioned after an AT-ST Walker from Star Wars? Of course you do. Matt of Never Not Making leads the way.(Geekologie)...

QuillBot rewrites phrases, making it easy to tweak results and understand what it's up to in each variation.Four and seven years ago our fathers gave birth on this continent, a new nation, conceived i...

The music is "Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8...

Using pencil drawings, watercolor, and ink, Serbian artist Endre Penovc creates gorgeous artwork, including an ongoing series featuring household pets. You can find Penovcs work on his Instagram, his ...

One of my favorite things on the internet is Crash Course, a free, high-quality educational YouTube channel that offers crash courses on science, math, history, literature, philosophy, and so much mor...

The Olho D'Agua river in Bonito, Brazil flooded in early February after a heavy rain, submerging the jungle around it. You'll see in this trippy video that the river's waters are so crystal clear th...

At nearly 70 years old, Kathy Bates got up on the Lip Sync Battle stage to perform Bruno Mars' Grammy-winning "Thats What I Like." Donning a leopard-print pajama top and gold medallions, watch the a...

DHL has been shipping and losing packages for close to 50 years. Earlier this week, it became clear that their half century of shipping knowledge doesn't extend to poultry as they'd screwed up Kentuck...

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The only thing worse than driving a car with defective breaks is unknowingly driving a car with defective brakes -- and learning about them the hard way. (more…)...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates admittedly hasn't been in a supermarket in a long time, so when Ellen put him up to estimating the prices of some pretty typical grocery store items, he was hilariously ...

Every three years, the US Copyright Office creates temporary exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's ban on breaking DRM, provided that people can show that they've been prevented from do...

Directed by Howard Smith, "Gizmo" (1977) is a delightful collection of mid-century newsreels celebrating ingenuity, invention, and the eccentric minds who make their wild ideas real....

Click play below and, er, enjoy.This is the most frustrating gif I've ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/eTzcg4LJfq— Casanova (@KRUZAA_) February 18, 2018(via Daily Grail)...

This $10 Nylabone Durachew has survived years of chewing.This is a nylon bone I smear some peanut butter on, and leave with Nemo for ages. Nemo is a 120lb-or-so Great Pyrenees. He can chew through the...

The Palo Alto Weekly in Silicon Valley asked more than 250 residents of that city "How do you define your social class?" From the survey results (PDF):Seventy-five identified themselves as "upper midd...

Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest Universitys Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is developing techniques to 3D print human organs for transplant using an individual's own cells as the "ink." T...

https://youtu.be/xy2bh1L5_pIComedian Jena Friedman killed it in her recent standup set on Conan. I somehow missed this a couple of weeks ago when it came out. Glad it landed in my feed today. If you l...

Parents know, kids can get really obsessed with making slime. She's not that into baking but give my daughter some Borax and glue and she'll spend hours mixing up batches of slime in our kitchen. Sh...

A room full of young children got the opportunity to ask former Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher nearly anything they wanted. They quizzed him with questions like, "What's your favorite Disney movie...

In this powerful new article, BuzzFeed News Remy Smidt reports from inside the grassroots activist group thats been formed by teens who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sc...

A Scottish team of animal biotechnologists announced this week they successfully introduced human stem cells into sheep embryos. Perhaps one day we will all have our very own baaing organ donors. The ...

Using a black plastic comb and a simple wooden toothpick, a girl beckoned some captive dolphins from the other side of their windowed prison. Her dad, Brad Meszaros, writes:My daughter tried several...

I was frightened of the door-opening Francis-Bacon-figures-at-the-base-of-a-crucifixion robot when it was first seen last week, but now Boston Dynamics has started pushing and dragging it around and...

Etienne Bouteille made a twitter bot that "renders hairy balls" every three hours. They're not naughty, unless you benefit from extraordinarily versatile perversions, but they are all very hairy and v...

One benefit of starring in a show about time travel is that you get to try out looks from a whole bunch of different eras. And while decked out in their 1970s best for the recent third season episode ...

YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen sat down with Bill Gates to play How much does the world suck? and discuss some surprisingly optimistic facts about humanity. The video is a tie-in with Bill and Melinda Gates...

Based in Barcelona, DJ and music producer Eclectic Method has pulled in the Star Wars universe once again for his newest remix, "Han Solo Song." He writes:With the Han Solo movie on the horizon and ...

The folks at Priceonomics crunched some data and found that one-star product reviews online are more likely to have incorrect spelling and grammar than five-star ones. As they note:According to our da...

After a stellar first season (and an appearance in the so-so Defenders crossover series), Marvels Netflix series Jessica Jones is set to return for a second season on March 8th. The shows brand new ...

In 1835, settlers in Australia discovered a European man dressed in kangaroo skins -- a convict who had escaped an earlier settlement and spent 32 years living among the natives of southern Victoria. ...

Without changing anything else in their daily routines, three people set out to discover how much they could strengthen their bodies just by doing 100 squats every day for 30 days. For those inspire...

Going back to school isn't necessarily an option for everyone. Between the time commitments and steep tuition rates, there are obstacles aplenty as far as furthering education is concerned. However, t...

Josh Comeau, a software developer at the Khan Academy, has created a superb interactive tutorial showing how sound-waves work. It's really, really good. I've used synthesizers for years, but never ful...

Before he contributed his writing talents to Animal House and Caddyshack, National Lampoon's co-founder Doug Kenney spoke at UCLA in March 1972. He talked, in a sort of stream of consciousness, abou...

Kathryn of Whats Up Moms offers five tips to help you save some money on your next Target run....

On November 24, 1982, Depeche Mode, touring Europe for their second album "A Broken Frame," performed on the Swedish television show Casablanca. (via r/ObscureMedia)...

Inspired by the $6,000 Alexa-controlled toilet at CES, Jonathan Gleich hacked together his own one-tenth the cost. The base of this smart throne is the Brondell Swash 1400 Luxury Bidet Toilet Seat, av...

In Did Congress Really Expect Us to Whittle Our Own Personal Jailbreaking Tools? -- a new post on EFF's Deeplinks blog -- I describe the bizarre, unfair and increasingly salient US Copyright Office DM...

Astronaut Scott D. Tingle tweeted this postcard from the International Space Station a few days ago. Now that's a room with a view. From NASA's Instagram account:He posted the moment to social media w...

These Japanese single color jigsaw puzzles are appropriately named "Pure Hell." They're available with 1,000 or 2,000 tiny pieces, black or white.Pure Hell jigsaw puzzles (Amazon via Laughing Squid)...

In college and grad school, I knew several students who couldn't afford housing and "lived" in the student lounges (showering in the rec center) and one guy who pitched a tent in the hills near campus...

More often than not, you won't see an accident coming, which means it pays to be proactive and ensure you have the right tools on-hand before you need them. Whether you find yourself in the middle of ...

The Internet Archive celebrated its 20th anniversary with a variety of special events and collections, including the cleverly named Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex, an archive of US military bu...

As Italy heads into a national election in which mass inequality and food poverty have disrupted Italy's always-shaky political equilibrium, La Republica publishes its analysis (Google Translate) of t...

From their inception, California's state colleges and universities were free or nearly free for in-state students, but since the 1970s, the state systems have been ratcheting up tuition and originatin...

Truly, the end times are upon us, friends. Soon, the dead shall rise from the earth and believers will be called to their reckoning. I know these things shall come to pass, for I have seen the sign: K...

So, what exactly is going to happen to that Tesla that Elon Musk shot into space? It's going to wander around the solar system, sure. But there are planets and gravity and stuff, so what are the odds ...

After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students at MDI High School in Bar Harbor, Maine were scheduled to have a routine lock-down drill, in which studen...

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but this whimsical artist's home featured on Barcroft TV looks as if it breaks pretty much every building code in the book. (more…)...

The aptly-named "Scarred for Life" Twitter account posted this remarkable ad for British pork, dating to some indefinitely creepy moment in the 1970s or 1980s. There should be a corollary for Poe's la...

Yasukuni Notomi ("a writer who has covered the world of stationery for many years") provides an introduction to the creative explosion in Japanese scissor-design, beginning with the "Pencut," a scisso...

Whenever I have to turn a screw, I turn to this easy-to-find, yellow box of bits.Flat? Phillips? Torx? Square? Any time I run into a standard-style screw head that needs turning I reach for my drill a...

Yusuke Aonuma created these amazing symmetrical sculptures by arranging dandelion achenes, the technical term for individual bits of wispy white dandelion fluff. (more…)...

Until recently, under Canadian law, prison administrators could confine their charges to an indefinite period in solitary confinement. Thanks to a pair of high profile court rulings, this could change...

Labour leader and PM-in-waiting Jeremy Corbyn has promised that when he is Prime Minister, his government will introduce regulations that ban the finance-driven, asset-stripping hostile takeovers of U...

In this new article for SyFy Fangrrls, writer Clare McBride makes a compelling argument that Daisy Ridleys Rey isnt a parallel for Luke in the original Star Wars trilogy, shes a parallel for Anakin in...

In this new article for SyFy Fangrrls, writer Clare McBride makes a compelling argument that Daisy Ridleys Rey isnt a parallel for Luke in the original Star Wars trilogy, shes a parallel for Anakin in...

The epidemic of cryptojacking malware isn't merely an outgrowth of the incentive created by the cryptocurrency bubble -- that's just the motive, and the all-important the means and opportunity were pr...

The Outdoor Element Kodiak Survival Bracelet resembles the basic paracord bracelet, but when unwound, it reveals a strand that contains firelighting tinder (similar to jute) and a fishing line and h...

Genuinely impressive work from Everybody Deserves Music. God Bless America!...

According to The Hong Kong Free Press, Apple is set to hand over the keys to the the accounts of iCloud users in China to a company owned by the surveillance and censorship-happy Chinese government.Gu...

What to do with all that civil asset forfeiture? Why not erect a fake hotel sign outside the county jail and make a fake ad starring you? That's what Sherriff Rick Staly thought would be fun. (more&...

Lignum vitae is an extraordinarily dense and hard wood, so kiwami japan wanted to see if a knife made of the wood could maintain a sharp blade. An interesting and relaxing experiment. (more…)...

Visual artist Michelle Rial has spent the past seven years making chart-based art and her latest project incorporates found objects into the mix. Rial began using everyday objectswhich includes everyt...

Although I use Chicago's CTA public transportation system virtually every day, it never occurred to me that my experience is relatively underrepresented in pop culture. We don't often see fictional ch...

One of the unexpected delights of 2018 has been watching Will Smith try to parlay his traditional celebrity into the world of YouTube celebrity. Though he hasnt come close to racking up the millions...

In addition to breaking box office records, Black Panther has quickly established itself as one of the best and most unique films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And the credit for that belongs la...

In this thoughtful 19-minute video essay, cultural critic Lindsay Ellis re-examines the history of hating on the vampire love story Twilight, which reached a fever pitch around 2008/2009. Though the...

Science Channel's popular program How It's Made toured a paintball factory to see how the colorful welt-causing projectiles are manufactured. (more…)...

Variety interviewed Wesley Snipes about the failed 1992 attempt to bring Black Panther to the screen. (more…)...

Depending on your political leanings, the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, available on YouTube for the world to enjoy/loathe, will provide you with some catharsis or fill you with loathing....

Dennis Kucinich was once the youngest mayor of a major city in the US, leading Cleveland through a hard fight with the banks and mobbed-up city contractors to save its municipally owned power plants a...

It's been months since Xi Jinping secured another five years in office and got his second five-year plan through Chinese Communist Party, and he's cleaning house: last week, the Chinese state news age...

It's been 72 hours since Google Images removed the "View Image" and (the even more essential) "Search By Image" buttons from its search-results; now you can just install a browser extension (Firefox, ...

A fight over a flatulent passenger ended in a Dubai-Amsterdam flight making an emergency landing in Vienna, reports Metro, citing this Dutch news story. Several passengers were kicked off, some of the...

When Facebook was desperately trying to game the Indian regulatory process to get approval for its "zero-rating" system (where it would bribe Indian ISPs to give it the power to decide which services ...

VLC 3.0 is out and the world's greatest video-playback app includes many long-awaited features, including stable Chromecast support, native support for browsing LAN drives to find your videos, and ada...

Over at XKCD, Randall Munroe's predicted the Critical Vulnerabilities and Exposures for 2018, with some pretty solid predictions (especially under the tooltip, which finally reveals a secret that many...

A Cat Thing combined feline love for cardboard boxes with an architect's eye for modular prefab housing to create a series of max-and-match cat houses. (more…)...

Parmigiano Reggiano cheese is a highly valued and tightly controlled commodity. This instructional video shows how to use specialized Parmesan cheese knives to cut the cheese by hand. (more…)...

The Cease and Desist enamel pin—a hauntingly familiar soup can mounted on hauntingly familiar robot legs—is $7 on Kickstarter. CEASE and DESIST will be Packaged Action Figure Style. With v...

Ian Schramm from Tempest Rings makes lovely videos of his work handcrafting rings from unusual materials, like this beauty made of walnut burl and inlaid with crushed blue opal. (more…)...

The best part is the staff and security joining in, kicking people on the ground and trying to confiscate bystanders' cameras.A family member identified only as Zac said the drama was sparked by a m...

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It's like something from an expedition to an alien world: "scuba diver attempts to swim in Argentina's Nahuel Huapi Lake, which has been recently covered in ash after the eruption of the Puyehue Vol...

In her delightful blog AI Weirdness, Janelle Shane entered 18,458 unique bills introduced in Massachusetts into a neural network, which then created some rather hilarious bills, including: (more&helli...

In this fascinating new video, Slate breaks down the basic formula for late-night talk show jokes, which writers fall back on when they need to churn out dozens of gags four nights a week.[via The A...

In this footage, a wild horse is apparently unbothered by the presence of several wolves, and perhaps even quite friendly with them. Perhaps it has already sufffered a crippling injury and is going ...

At last night's NBA All-Star basketball game, singer Fergie sang the Star-Spangled banner for thousands at the venue and millions at home. She's been getting interesting reviews and people stayed up...

Last year, I went on a bit of a quest. For years, as a tabletop gamer who played Warhammer 40K almost exclusively, I subscribed to White Dwarf (or "White Dork" as my late wife used to call it). This i...

After a Friday night screening of Black Panther, Marvel's new film that celebrates African culture and pride, a group of South African moviegoers ecstatically danced outside of the theater. That ce...

As part of their ongoing YouTube series Homebuddies, in which they try out different forms of living (and attempt to become better friends in the process), Buzzfeeds Niki Ang and Garrett Werner spen...

On his website Boy Culture, writer Matthew Rettenmund has put together an exhaustive list of LGBTQ characters, people, mentions, and moments on American primetime TV from the 1950s to 2000. Writing fo...

https://youtu.be/Cv8zaUOmLzYElan Lee and Matthew "The Oatmeal" Inman have run some of the world's most successful game Kickstarters, but for their latest, You've Got Crabs, they're just selling it t...

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Here's a guy who's found his niche market. Out of a humble panga, there is a French baker who goes boat to boat selling his fresh-baked wares to those docked (primarily gringos) in Jalisco, Mexico's B...

Trains may not be the most popular means of conveyance nowadays, but chances are you grew up playing with toy trains or building a model set to wrap around the Christmas tree. In either case, it's saf...

https://www.ted.com/talks/amit_kalra_3_creative_ways_to_fix_fashion_s_waste_problemThese stats are just staggering. According to Amit Kalra, the fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the ...

At a followup visit a year after Elizabeth Moreno had a disk removed to successfully treat her crippling pain, her doctor asked her to leave a urine sample; a few months later, Sunset Labs LLC of Hous...

I've never seen anything like this before and neither had Matt Dunbabin, the owner of the Bangor Vineyard Shed in Dunalley, Tasmania, who shot this now-viral video of a Tasmanian tiger snake slitherin...

When it comes to redesigning or renovating a living space, envisioning changes before they occur can be tricky for most. Thankfully, the web is home to tools that can remove some of the guesswork, lik...

YouTube creators Gavin and Dan, aka the Slo Mo Guys, make lots of fun slow-motion videos. In this one, Dan gets in a speedo and belly flops into a pool from a platform 15 feet in the air. To capture...

Atari is launching its own cryptocurrency, because of course it is.The companys Paris-listed stock rose as much as 111% between February 4 and February 15. The company says it is investing in a crypto...

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I mistakenly left my e-reader, a Kindle Voyage behind, in a hotel room last weekend. Faced with with the fear of having lost my most favored device, I pondered its replacement. (more…)...

I mistakenly left my e-reader, a Kindle Voyage behind, in a hotel room last weekend. Faced with with the fear of having lost my most favored device, I pondered its replacement. (more…)...

Ben Goldacre (previously) led a team that created the FDAAA Trials Tracker, "A live informatics tool to monitor compliance with FDA requirements to report clinical trial results." (more…)...

"Idea-instructions" bills itself as "An ongoing series of nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions", with a half-dozen illustrations of popular computer science concepts covered to date; the latest c...

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It's been less than a year since a public-spirited hacker broke into the servers of Florida stalkerware vendor Retina-X, wiping out all the photos and data the company's customers had stolen from othe...

When in trouble,Or in doubt,Run in circles,Scream and shout. (more…)...

Every city where Uber and Lyft have found a foothold has also faced impossible congestion in the city center; Felix Salmon says this is because drivers are incentivized to come to the city-center desp...

According to The Washington Post, a set of identical twins in Peru not only share the same parents and looks, but also, briefly, a prison sentence.In January, 2017, Alexander Jheferson Delgado was in ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EgfkhC1eo&feature=youtu.beIn 1993, AT&T ran a series of ads trumpeting the future of the internet, called "You Will." (more…)...

Apple employees are hurting themselves walking into the glass walls and doors of the new Apple campus, reports Bloomberg. Apple keeps removing the post-it notes they put up so they know where they are...

Uber trumpeted its Q4/2017 financial statements as evidence of the company's progress towards CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's goal of profitability and IPO by 2019; the company argued that despite losing $4.5...

Every time there's a mass murder, Paul Ryan says we should all be more concerned about knees that jerk than bodies that bleed to death....

My guest this week on the Cool Tools Show is Nelson Dellis. Nelson is one of the leading memory experts in the world, traveling around the world as a Memory Consultant and Keynote Speaker. A four-time...

This small magnifying glass on a stand comes in very handy when I need a third one.Can you hold this?Living solo has taught me that delicate tasks on small objects can be a real pain. Having only a te...

As a youngster of 10 or 11 I walked around saying "snausages" over and over, just like the dog in this commercial. This was common practice for every kid in my elementary school.Snausages are eviden...

Katherine Forrest, an Obama-appointed federal judge in New York, has overturned a bedrock principle of internet law, ruling that embedding a copyrighted work can constitute a copyright infringement on...

My friend Mark Krawczuk recently discovered an under-appreciated attraction at San Francisco's Pier 39, Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze.In his latest newsletter (which is a delightful find itself), he ...

Press P to pray, or T to do nothing in secular fashion. See how many thoughts and prayers you can rack up before all the children are slaughtered!...

So, you've learned you've got a high school reunion coming up. Well, if you've decided to go and want to stave off awkward conversations, take some inspiration from my author friend Benjamin Wachs. La...

Mitt Romney, former Republican presidential candidate and Trump "critic", is to run for the Utah senate seat vacated by Orrin Hatch's retirement.Romney's run has already faced some resistance: the hea...

MC Escher's mind-bending works will soon be available as fancy wallpaper, thanks to a collaboration with Escher's estate and Italian design firm Jannelli & Volpi. (more…)...

Asian Star Anchor Chain Co., Ltd. of Jiangsu is a specialized manufacturer with 2000 employees, several regional subsidiaries and some really great chains.Previously: Epic glove ad explains benefits...

For many startups and fledgling businesses, web hosting and the fees associated with it can take a sizeable chunk out of the company budget and limit growth down the road. But, that's not to say the...

I have fond memories of watching ABC's early-1980s comedy The Greatest American Hero and was only mildly surprised to hear they are bringing it back (as a pilot, for now). What was surprising is that ...

Google removed the "view image" button from image search results last night. The change is essentially meant to frustrate users. Google has long been under fire from photographers and publishers who f...

Verso is a lovely documentary about embroidery artist Cayce Zavaglia (previously), who creates beautiful portraits via embroidery. (more…)...

Though hardly rekt compilation material, this footage of a feeder river turning into a roiling mess, due to a tanker going through St Lawrence seaway too fast, was good enough to get a captain in tr...

Arizona-based scuba diver Dallas, the guy behind the YouTube channel Man + River, has a fun hobby. He dives with his buddies at local creeks, rivers, and lakes looking for lost treasures, recording ...

This is the sweet story of married military veterans, John Banvard (100) and Jerry Nadeau (72). John served in World War II and Jerry served in Vietnam. What makes their May-December love story extr...

Shakespeare was a creative-commons powerhouse he borrowed tons of plots for his plays, happily plundering from the writings of Plutarch, contemporary Italian authors, and more.Now there's evidence of...

I love you, America! Between living in your country as a digital nomad for part of the year and attending events as part of my job, I've spent a lot of time in the United States. One of the biggest mi...

I can't believe I have to write this, but maybe jamming other people's shit up your ass isn't a great idea.When done by medical professions, under very specific circumstances, a fecal transplant can m...

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Fedex acquired a company called Bongo International in 2014; Bongo specialized in helping North American companies sell overseas and after the acquisition, Fedex renamed the company FedEx Cross-Border...

Railway station inspectors in Dongguan, China spotted a woman who hopped on the conveyor belt of an X-ray machine. When questioned, she said she didn't want her handbag stolen, so she rode through the...

I had a Fieldmaster Swiss Army Knife ($35) all through my teenage years. I brought it with me on my Boy Scout camping trips. I loved the toothpick, and I used the scissors to trim my nails. I lost it ...

Following the publication of its editorial board's long-list of the best science fiction of 2017, science fiction publishing trade-journal Locus now invites its readers to vote for their favorites in ...

Zayd Manck constructed this incredible model of midtown Manhattan entirely from recycled electronic components. The astounding diorama is 165 x 80cm (5'5" x 32"). (via Neatorama)https://www.youtube.co...

Hungarian illustrator Sndor Vmos is a master of anamorphic illusions, 3D drawings that emerge from the paper. Don't miss his time-lapse videos either.(via Laughing Squid)https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cleo is a donut-shaped drone with a single propellor in the center, which steers by changing the airflow direction, so its blades are entirely contained and can't be easily broken when the drone coll...

Apple's been in the headlines over the past few months, for all of the wrong reasons. According to TechCrunch, their PR losing streak isn't going to stop any time soon.TechCrunch reports that an IOS s...

Good news! This week, folks living in as far north as Michigan may get treated to a stunning light show as Auroras will be shining brighter and further away from the planets axis than usual. What a ra...

Finally! "Karate Kid's Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso arent the same people they were in high school but their rivalry hasnt changed one bit. The Karate Kid saga continues."...

Donald Trump says he never had sex with porn star Stormy Daniels, but for some reason Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted that he paid Daniels $130,000 of his own money to keep quiet. Huh? To cl...

Apple sells you a lie. The bare iPhone looks sleek, but it's as weak and ravenous as a newborn kangaroo joey. In order to survive outside its heavily protected crche at One Infinite Loop an iPhone mus...

Alphabet division Sidewalk Labs (a sister company to Google) is poised to spend $50,000,000 to redevelop a piece of Toronto waterfront called Quayside, filling it with "modular, dynamic" buildings tha...

Wells Fargo has admitted wrongdoing in defrauding 110,000 mortgage borrowers, and to make good on it, they're sending out letters that look like junk-mail, containing a form that customers have to fil...

This animated gif shows how a dog walks, ambles, paces, trots, canters, and gallups. This is how robots will get around, too....

The creation of "public ledgers" -- like blockchain, popularized by Bitcoin -- requires "consensus algorithms" that allow mutually untrusted, uncoordinated parties to agree on a world-readable, distri...

Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's tenure has been marked by a disregard for the rules under which his agency is legally bound to operate: his Net Neutrality killing order was made without satisfying the e...

I gave my daughter a spirograph for Valentine's Day.https://youtu.be/5lwXwPxcLaUI spent hours doodling with a spirograph as a kid. My set came in a tin pretty much just like this one. It is tempting t...

McDonald's is to cut a certain high-calorie item of junk food from the Happy Menu marketed to kids: cheeseburgers. We hope these actions will bring more choices to consumers and uniquely benefit milli...

Like something out of an old Laurel and Hardy film, these two bumblers are more like clowns than burglars. They attempt to break into a building by throwing bricks through the window. But when one o...

"The most feared weapon of any dictatorship is satire," says Howard, the Australian who impersonated Kim Jong-un waving a United Korea flag in front of North Korean cheerleaders at the Olympics yester...

Here's a clever, artistic hack: Taking a dot-matrix printer and using its mechanism to tap a pencil against paper -- slowly drawing out a picture as a series of tiny graphite dots.As Hackaday notes:...

At r/DataIsBeautiful, academiaadvice posted this map of U.S. gun homicides per 100,000 residents between 2007-2016. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd...

You probably missed out when Nike auctioned off 89 modern-day replicas of Marty McFly's self-lacing sneakers, but that shouldn't stop you from having a pair. While they don't tie themselves, these han...

It would be gauche of me to explain this wonderful moment of web video, but I feel obliged to protect you from any potential disappointment with respect to the interactions of rubber chickens and ce...

To make their truly unique Cinematiq collection, Budapest-based eyewear designer Zachary Tipton and his team looked to vintage films for inspiration. Using 16 and 35mm film sourced from "old movie the...

Officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma constructed this incinerator building in 1939 to burn the city's trash. A short year later, according to Tulsa World, an ordinance was passed that prohibited trash from be...

If you're a child of the seventies, you'll probably remember that while the sitcom Happy Days aired from 1974 to 1984, it was set in Milwaukee in the late fifties. Ok, so in 1980, an animated spin-off...

In 1929, from Maine to California, and spots in-between, some spry senior citizens were interviewed for Movietone newsreels. This video is a compilation of those interviews. Keep in mind when watchi...

The Origami Simulator depicts prefolded paper on screen, all ready to go: to fold it into a beautiful bird, crane or geometric monstrosity, all you have to do is manipulate a slider. There are plenty ...

The Environmental Protection Agency's mission is in its name. But it's hard to tell whether or not the EPA is doing its job if the government refuses to release any records of its doing so.In the summ...

You may have noticed of late that things in America are becoming less, well, American.A cruel misogynist with dangerously racist beliefs is running the show. Nazis and bigots of all stripes no long fe...

The European Journal of Internal Medicine published a study that found 93.7% of seniors benefited from cannabis treatment.During the study period, 2736 patients above 65years of age began cannabis tre...

Details have emerged about Karen Smith, the teacher who allegedly assaulted a boy who did not stand for the pledge of allegiance. The BBC reports that she was charged with "child abuse - recklessly an...

When Facebook rolled out "Messenger Kids," an IM product aimed at the 6-and-up set, it trumpeted that during the product's 18-month development cycle, it had been evaluated by child development expert...

A mass shooting has been reported at a high school in Parkland, in Broward County, Florida. https://twitter.com/CoralSpringsPD/status/963859031713550340https://twitter.com/CoralSpringsPD/status/963864...

Another mass shooting took place in America today at a high school in Parkland, Broward County, Florida. Several hours after 911 calls first came in, authorities are now reporting that at least 20 inj...

Trump's election promise to be cruel to brown people manifested most tangibly as a campaign to deport "undocumented criminals" -- but there aren't many of those (migrants are more law-abiding, on aver...

NBC news has compiled a database of 200,000 tweets that Twitter identified as "malicious activity" from Russian trolls in the run up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.These accounts, working in c...

Bloomberg's American Mall [Bloomberg] is a retro browser game that invites you to simulate trying to revitalize a crumbling shopping mall, taking on the persona of one of four foolish investors who th...

The Re:Create coalition has just published Unlocking the Gates: America's New Creative Economy, a quantitative report that uses rigorous statistical methods to derive the total income, by state, earne...

Trump's self-aggrandizing military parade, with flown-in tanks rolling down the streets of Washington, will cost cost $10M-$30M, according to the White House budget director. Trump's self-aggrandizing...

The Sackler family is best known for the buildings adorned with their names thanks to their acts of philanthropy, which is either motivated by a public spirit, or by the desperate need for some reputa...

Amazon is selling this cool-looking speed cube for $5.21. I love the colors. I have been trying to solve Rubik's Cube for decades. I'll get it one day!...

I find food photos on Instagram to be boring, but not Tom Kelley's vintage food shots from the Getty Images archive. These photographs provoke a gut-wrenching emotional response in me. #nofilterneeded...

This cichlid, pulled from Lake Malawi, has lips that resemble those found on some humans.Image: YouTube/RM Videos...

What do Jesus Christ, Herman Munster, TinkerBell and Elvis Presley have in common? Readers of this weeks Globe magazine can choose between life-like statuettes of all four, and I cant help wondering w...

Salon announced this week that visitors who insist on using an ad blocker must either disable it or mine cryptocurrency for the site.For our beta program, well start by applying your processing power ...

Above, Jerusha Willenborg of Wichita, Kansas's Mueller Elementary. Below, Barry White Jr. of Charlotte, NC's Ashley Park Elementary School. It reminds me of my daughter's wonderful second grade teac...

The men and women ofU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) never seem to miss a chance to make themselves look like a shower of bastards. They've gone after a 10-year-old girl as she came out ...

In 1990, once NASA's twin Voyager probes had completed their grand tour of the solar system, it came time to shut off their cameras to preserve power and memory for the other scientific instruments on...

Every week Donald Bell posts a video about interesting maker projects. This week in Maker Update he looks at an animated wooden sign, new mesh boards from Particle, 3D printed QR coasters, 3D printi...

Yorkshire artist James Brunt uses rocks and all sorts of other natural objects like sticks, leaves and nuts to create lovely symmetrical mandalas for strangers to find while out and about. (more&helli...

Here's a story of an Internet-addicted Uber passenger looking for humanity, told with a deck of cards and slight of hand. It's also a clever ad for the kickstarter game Sin Rummy. Although Mark, who...

In an inevitable development, Giphy, which created a very handy platform for creating GIFs from existing content, is now bringing influencers into their studios to deliberately create original GIFs in...

Chatroulette is still alive and, unsurprisingly, full of schlongs.For the uninitiated, Chatroulette was an Internet darling back in 2010. Created by 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy, the site served up t...

Signato is a handsome, readable script typeface based upon the Lithuanian declaration of independence. The whole project took more than 6 months. First of all, a high-resolution scan of the Act of Ind...

You can't game your way out of the ludic loop any more than you can smoke your way out of a crack habit, but Katie Bloom's found some interesting apps that aim to help us take back control.My favorite...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv9OJDUnWM&feature=youtu.beWelker turns up in the credits of seemingly ever cartoon that involves precisely customized animal noises. Seeing him work is a lot of fun, ...

Peter K. Rosenthal faces an existential crisis after watching 'Fifty Shades Freed' and learning the nature of his predicament. For as long as I remember I've been imprisoned here, forced to watch an...

In this security-camera video, an attempted break-in somewhere in China goes very wrong almost from the outset. [via]...

Mii Channel Markov generates melodies similar to, but never likely to be mistaken for, the Mii Channel theme. Made with Band.js and my own markov generator, Markov.js. All transcribing of the original...

Bruce Sterling's scathing editorial in The Atlantic on the future of "Smart Cities" uses London's many smart city initiatives as a kind of measuring stick for the janky and dysfunctional future of civ...

Five years after activists forced Seattle's mayor to return the city's surveillance drones to their manufacturer, the city has announced that it is terminating its warrantless mass-surveillance progra...

It's hard to find decent Mexican food in Canada. We're lousy with Taco Bells and, out west at least, we've got Taco Time. But these are just chains offering a cartoon version of the real deal. The fir...

French food artist/animator Alexandre Dubosc has done it again. He's created another incredibly impressive zoetrope, this time with a cat theme (previously). It's called "Gteau Gato" ("cat cake") an...

During World War II, the U.S. Army experimented with a bizarre plan: using live bats to firebomb Japanese cities. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the crazy history...

When it comes to improving the atmosphere of our living spaces, most of us consider merely buying a few plants or light fixtures to liven things up. TheZenCube, however, literally improves the atmosph...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN US at Tom the Dancing Bug by signing up for the subscription club, INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, extra word...

[embed]https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6en93n[/embed]When Lissa Lucas stood up at a public meeting of the West Virginia legislature and read into the record the gas-industry campaign contribution...

See the tiny dot in the center of the photo above? That's a single strontium atom, visible to the naked eye. University of Oxford quantum physicist David Nadlinger's photo (full image below) won this ...

Michelle McNew: "My crazy kid jumping on his buddys ice covered trampoline"...

On Saturday at London Fashion Week, Burberry will reveal its new collection featuring a rainbow plaid that the company says celebrates LGBTQ communities. They've also announced support for three LGBTQ...

If only it were true. Chicago's ABC affiliate WLS-TV featured the graphic seen above during a story about the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. From the Chicago Tribune:Jayme Nicholas, a spokesperson fo...

If you're at the Winter Olympics in South Korea and want a diversion from winter sports, why not head over to Penis Park, also known as Haesindang Park, which is only a one-hour hop, skip and a hump a...

Are you a left-wing authoritarian, a right-wing authoritarian, a left-wing libertarian, or a right-wing libertarian? I took this 6-page online test and was not surprised to learn that I'm in the left ...

Deepfakes -- videos with incredibly realistic faceswapping, created with machine learning techniques -- are creepy as hell, except when they're not (then they're a form of incredibly expressive creati...

Amazon has a good sale on this digital tire pressure gauge. It has a backlit LED display and the nozzle is lighted, too. It comes with batteries. It's regularly $9.97 but it's on sale today for $6.57....

A pair of researchers from Toronto's storied Citizen Lab (previously) have written an eye-opening editorial and call to action on the ways that repressive states have used the internet to attack dissi...

Here is a prototype of a giant pong-inspired game called GRiD, by multimedia entertainment creators Moment Factory. But rather than facing a screen, you are facing humans, in a physically challengin...

"Let's Ban Porn," writes Ross Douthat in the Op-Ed pages of the NY Times. Good luck with that, writes Peter Suderman of Reason, who says "Douthat's core worry is effectively the same fear that drove s...

It's been less than a week since the death of EFF co-founder, cowboy poet, Grateful Dead lyricist and Mayor of the Internet John Perry Barlow died, and he's already sorely missed. But Barlow was an op...

Radiflow reports that they discovered cryptojacking software -- malware that mines cryptocurrency -- running in the monitoring and control network of an unnamed European water utility, the first such ...

The LA Times recently reported on unpleasant behavior among Disneyland "social clubs," who roam the park in gangs of 20 and "resemble a cross between the Hells Angels motorcycle gang and a grown-up Mi...

All is Art, via Adam Koford:What happens when you start gluing matches together? Because the heads are slightly wider than the wooden bodies, they begin to form a sphere. This was an experiment in h...

Anil Dash's third law holds that "Three things never work: Voice chat, printers and projectors." But Joshua Rothman's long, fascinating, even poetic profile of the Xerox engineers who work on paper-pa...

I like to imagine what My Buddy would be like all grown up."Buddy" is probably doing hard time for hard crime. Where were their parents?...

What started off as an experiment to see how many matches it would take to create a sphere ended up as a gorgeous video of what a 42,000-match sphere looks like when it burns. It took months and mon...

Kevin Nicholson is seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin. Oddly enough, Nicholson's parents donated $2,700 each -- the maximum allowed under the law -- to the incumbent, Democ...

Watch the Nicholas Brothers dance the "Jumpin' Jive" in the 1943 musical, Stormy Weather. Fred Astaire said it was "the greatest dancing he had ever seen on film."From The New York Times:For it wasn...

The Wind Symphony at Liberty University decided to prank their band director by playing the Mii Channel theme song instead of a Bach chorale. Fortunately, the band director has a great sense of humo...

Huffington Post published this list of open neo-Nazi and white supremacists running for office.HuffPo includes a number of assholes who are also white-supremacy-adjacent, as well. Some cowards simply ...

Monday Starts on Saturday is the Strugatsky brothers' uniquely Soviet take on the future of research and the institutions that perform it. This gem from 1964 is not to be missed.Sasha, a young compu...

Did you know you can get worms in your eyes? According to National Geographic, it's a thing.Back in 2016, 26-year-old Abby Beckley ended up with a bunch of the tiny, translucent critters living in and...

I'm not saying that building a flamethrower is a responsible use of your time but I'm not saying that you shouldn't take the time to build one, either.In January, Elon Musk's Boring Company built 2...

IBM Security's 2018 survey of 4,000 adults worldwide found that for the first time in the history of their research, the majority of users say that they'd take extra steps in the name of "security" ev...

For six months, the Intelligence Community Inspector General office investigated the cases of 190 whistleblowers who went through US spy agency channels to report corruption, waste, fraud, abuse and c...

The USA has moved up in the Tax Justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index to number two, behind Switzerland; in reality, though, the UK is the world's worst money-laundry, but because its laundering a...

When she was nearly 30, Jennifer Jones learned that she had been misdiagnosed with allergies and asthma all her life. According to ABC 6 News, Jennifer discovered after the birth of her son, that sh...

Perhaps you've put food in a ziplok baggie. Perhaps you've tried to leave open just enough of a gap to push out almost enough air to consider it truly sealed. Perhaps, like me, you've even sucked ou...

Henrik Trygg: "This is how 45mm new black ice sounds like. Don't forget to put on the sound. Recorded on Lissma Kvarnsj outside Stockholm the 5th of December." (Previously)It's beautiful and a littl...

Sound financial understanding doesn't come to all of us naturally. And, even if you're not interested in pursuing a career as a Wall Street investor, knowing the essentials of accounting, investing, a...

Leave it to Squirrel Monkey (previously) to imagine what Siri might have been like in the eighties. In this spoof called Wonders of the World Wide Web, they give the ancient alter ego of Apple's voi...

There are about 4,200,000 surveillance cameras in United Kingdom. According to a feature in Wired UK, police want to take an even closer look.The West Yorkshire Police Service is currently testing a m...

David Granick's unseen 1960s Photos of Londons East End offer a glorious Kodachrome history, rediscovered and scanned by Chris Dorley. Most are colorful and filled with life, poverty and halting renew...

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Spitalfields Life highlights a selection of the "Villainous Valentines," Victorian-era prints that illustrate the irritations of hiring different kinds of tradesmen, accompanied by appropriate doggere...

Matthew Dessem's I Am the Very Model of a New York Times Contrarian is a zeitgeisty bit of doggerel that neatly sums up many of my frustrations reading the Grey Lady, stretching all the way back to th...

Researchers demonstrated a new process that makes wood stronger than steel. According to the University of Maryland mechanical engineers, their novel process could lead to a greener alternative to met...

Here's part four of my reading (MP3) (part three, 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 Futu...

I know very little about this webcomic, called " " (Google translation: "Blue Teeth Urban Legend"). The beautifully-rendered panels (many of which are animated) look like they were made on a circa-1...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN US at Tom the Dancing Bug by signing up for the subscription club, INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, extra word...

You know that thing where politicians take money from big companies and then try to pass bills that represent the interests of those big companies? Well, some of that shit went down in West Virginia...

Shane Townley says: "Watch as this kid runs and screams throughout the entire flight while the mother does little to nothing to stop him. Three years old on a 8 hour flight from Germany to Newark NJ...

The Associated Press reports that two Baltimore police officers were convicted today of racketeering and robbery. I'm not sure off the top of my head which case it is, because it's Baltimore and the a...

The latest from Boston Dynamics is alarming in a wonderfully uncanny new way. I shan't spoil it for you, but I am looking forward to the latex sheathing options....

A letter was sent to Donald Trump Jr., but his wife Vanessa got to it first. When she opened the envelope, she discovered unidentified white powder. She and two others in the apartment were sent to Ne...

I'm excited to be going on Jonathan Coulton's JoCo Cruise this year. We've been asked to bring some games with us, so I'm bringing the Tenzi dice game plus the variation deck.The basic rules are simpl...

A man has an important message about elephant poaching but this baby elephant won't let him deliver it because it's playtime.Image: Youtube screenshot...

Several years ago, the Bodleian Library mounted an exhibition called Playing with History. It featured one game enthusiast's historical collection of games and pastimes with an eye toward how games ha...

The software developer Simone Seagle has taken the images of several paintings in the Met collection released on open access and transformed them into lovely and moody animated interactives.You can ...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had a message for women who oppose him: Tell the soldiers. Theres a new order coming from the mayor. We wont kill you. We will just shoot your vagina.' If there is...

Pour one out for Thomas the gander. Let us not talk of his death, at 40 years of age. Instead, let us revel in how he lived.Thomas knew early in his life that he was not like other geese. His horizons...

Police officers working in Baltimore have always been able to rely on the financial backing of the city when the courts demanded payouts for wrongful death or police brutality suits, but that could so...

When Harshita Arora, 16, posted about her cryptocurrency price tracking app on Reddit, she was falsely accused of plagiarism and then abused online and even threatened with rape by men who couldn't ac...

All flights today at London City Airport were cancelled after a bomb was found in the River Thames. The bomb is actually a German 500kg fused device that's been sitting in the Thames since the Germans...

This striking insect was discovered in Peru in 2005. It has gold eyes, a black body, and tiny red wings. It also has a gland behind its head that sprays a stinky substance when threatened. They have...

What better way to spend your Saturday than to join in the festivities of crowd surfing down a busy street? These French rugby fans look like they're having a blast as they pass along strangers who di...

It's fun to fantasize about dropping out of the mainstream to live a life of nomadic travels and adventure. I oughtta know, having tried it myself when my family sold everything to move to the island ...

At The New York Times, Sarah Lyall writes about an eternal problem of literature: " A writers tumescent member is a readers risible euphemism"In a climactic sex scene in the novel Golden Hill, set in ...

Lions near South Africa's Kruger National Park ate a suspected poacher over the weekend."It seems the victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions," Limpopo police spo...

There should be a rule with amazing trick shot videos like these that the number of takes for each shot be placed in the annotations. (more…)...

Nissan, to show off its autonomous parking tech, outfitted an inn in Hakone, Japan with "self-parking slippers," autonomous floor cushions that tidy themselves, and a TV remote control that straight...

Boing Boing pal Eric Paulos, an engineering professor and artist at UC Berkeley, has a history of high-tech provocations, from his early work with machine performance group Survival Research Laborat...

Three things leap to mind watching this experimental film: first, it's interesting how some shots are so iconic that they're recognizable even when shown for a fraction of a second. Second, how long...

Years ago, I used to party with some folks from Centerville, Virgina's Cox Farms, a well-known and well-loved family farm, produce market, and host of an amazing annual Fall Festival. I found them a b...

Created as a stop-gap to save undocumented migrants from getting killed by cars on Interstate 5 near the San Diego area border with Mexico, the signs soon took on a symbolic use beyond the original in...

Gregory Kaczor had a lifelong dream to skate across Lake Baikul, and he made this lovely documentary of his travels. It's cool how he uses chunks of ice to secure the tent, and the clarity of the ic...

Alexey Rom sequenced (arranged?) the disco classic Rasputin for an 81-key Marenghi Organ that was in existence at the same time as Russia's greatest love machine. Now there was a cat that really was...

https://youtu.be/_k02Waw4WXkJudy Blume is Amanda Palmer's ballad in honor of the author's 80th birthday, celebrating her decades of service in helping young women to navigate a world that labels the...

From the galleries, the music grows louder and more complex as the slaves, surgically operated upon to sing but one perfect note each, are stimulated to more passionate efforts. Even the you...

Looking remarkably like the Mogwai creatures from the 1984 film Gremlins, Furbies first hit the market in November 1998, becoming an instant success. In just the first three years of production, ove...

Tom Blachford chronicled Palm Springs at midnight (previously). Now he's back with Nihon Noir, a Blade Runner inspired look at Tokyo at night, like this imposing shot of the Edo-Tokyo Museum. (more&he...

Never let your pristine kicks touch the filthy ground with these thick-soled shoe-sandals. They strap onto another pair of shoes, in this case a pair of military-style, high-top sneakers.Both pairs ar...

If you have something to sell, and a buyer asks to pay using Venmo, you could lose both your money and your item. Jennifer Khordi is one of many who got scammed and wants to help others avoid her fate...

I'm about to embark on a tour of Australia and New Zealand to support my novel Walkaway, with stops in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Wellington! I really hope you'll come out and say hello! ...

Security researcher Scott Helme has spotted a third-party exploit that injects a script that mines cryptocurrency on over 4,200 sites, from the UK NHS to the US Courts' official site to the sites of o...

Cambodian dictator Hun Sen has ruled since 1998, and when an opposition leader used Facebook to challenge his election in 2013, Hun Sen teamed up with a fake news outlet called Fresh News to deploy a ...

I'm about to embark on a tour of Australia and New Zealand to support my novel Walkaway, with stops in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Wellington! I really hope you'll come out and say hello! ...

If you're discussing turn-based strategy games,Sid Meier's Civilization series will inevitably enter the conversation. This powerhouse of a gaming franchise first hit the scene in 1991 and has sold mo...

Security researcher Scott Helme has spotted a third-party exploit that injects a script that mines cryptocurrency on over 4,200 sites, from the UK NHS to the US Courts' official site to the sites of o...

Cambodian dictator Hun Sen has ruled since 1998, and when an opposition leader used Facebook to challenge his election in 2013, Hun Sen teamed up with a fake news outlet called Fresh News to deploy a ...

If you're discussing turn-based strategy games,Sid Meier's Civilization series will inevitably enter the conversation. This powerhouse of a gaming franchise first hit the scene in 1991 and has sold mo...

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, has flourished into a hot topic amongst marketers and web developers aiming to promote theirbrands on the web. And, as more companies take their content online, com...

This is Felix, a super-weird cat lamp by Belgian design house Studio Job that switches on by pressing its tiny gold testicles. When you do, its eyes will glow. O...kay...Australian blog So Bad So Good...

The seventies called and Bill Murray answered. When he's not busy being a Hollywood actor, comedian, and writer, he can found crashing parties, opening a restaurant with his brothers, or introducing h...

Denim Szram created Gedankenpendel, a speaker-ball that plays a continuous spoken thought, but when it's touched or moved, other thoughts begin to play simultaneously. The effect is quite disconcert...

From the ingenious to the bizarre, there's no shortage of gadgets, machines, and homemade gew-gaws created to make cutting and splitting wood easier. (more…)...

In an alliterative homage to Breaking Bad, Binging with Babish shows viewers how to make the dipping sticks that Walter never got, as well as some dangerously delicious candy meth. (more…)...

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, has flourished into a hot topic amongst marketers and web developers aiming to promote theirbrands on the web. And, as more companies take their content online, com...

This is Felix, a super-weird cat lamp by Belgian design house Studio Job that switches on by pressing its tiny gold testicles. When you do, its eyes will glow. O...kay...Australian blog So Bad So Good...

The seventies called and Bill Murray answered. When he's not busy being a Hollywood actor, comedian, and writer, he can found crashing parties, opening a restaurant with his brothers, or introducing h...

Denim Szram created Gedankenpendel, a speaker-ball that plays a continuous spoken thought, but when it's touched or moved, other thoughts begin to play simultaneously. The effect is quite disconcert...

From the ingenious to the bizarre, there's no shortage of gadgets, machines, and homemade gew-gaws created to make cutting and splitting wood easier. (more…)...

In an alliterative homage to Breaking Bad, Binging with Babish shows viewers how to make the dipping sticks that Walter never got, as well as some dangerously delicious candy meth. (more…)...

Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand,When we with daisies lie,That commerce will continue,And trades as briskly fly....

News of Trump White House speech writer David Sorensen's resignation hit late Friday as the WaPo prepared a story on his ex-wife's allegations of violent domestic abuse. The White House said they lear...

Being able to chase down your passions and getting paid for it is the dream, right? In this video, archivist Dr. Christopher de Hamel looksto be doing exactly that.With more letters after his name t...

The memo wars continue. This Friday night news dump brought to you by President Trump. (more…)...

Canadian troubadours, The Dead South has been around since 2012, working both sides of the border with their brand of award-winning bluegrass-flavored music. The whistling and banjo line of In Hell ...

Some 30 to 40 White House officials and Trump administration political appointees are operating more than a year into the Trump regime without full security clearances. One of them is Jared Kushner. U...

A leaked set of disclosures made by Equifax to the US Senate have revealed that the breach of 145.5 million Americans' sensitive financial data was even worse than suspected to date: in addition to da...

Good news! At least one law enforcement agency is working with members of the community they're sworn to protect. Just one problem. The local folks these police worked with were Nazis. (more…)...

ParadiseOS depicts an alternative computing world from the turn of the millenium: a desktop obscenely slathered in compulsory and broken services, ads and applications, an experience designed by dotco...

This 1971 cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #100 includes portraits of over 25 of Spidey's greatest friends and foes. It was created by John Romita Sr. and Frank Giacoia and is on the auction block. Her...

My more serious maker pals use soldering stations that cost about $500. I get along with cheapies like this $14 kit>...

Reptiles have unusual reproductive equipment. For example, female snakes and lizards have two clitorises. Meanwhile, the male tuatara has no penis. "The male simply mounts the female and places the op...

[Update 2/9/2018 2:03pm PT: A Fox News spokesperson who requested anonymity contacted Boing Boing to provide an "on the record statement" that the views and values of the Executive Vice President/Exec...

I'd say things peaked in 1968 with 2001: A Space Odyssey....

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Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand,When we with daisies lie,That commerce will continue,And trades as briskly fly....

In 1969, Irv Teibel(1938-2010) released a record that would have a profound impact on ambient and New Age music that's continues to this day. "Environments 1: Psychologically Ultimate Seashore" was th...

My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Kevin Rose. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur and product builder, having founded the social news site Digg in 2004. Later Kevin pursued a career in ventur...

News of Trump White House speech writer David Sorensen's resignation hit late Friday as the WaPo prepared a story on his ex-wife's allegations of violent domestic abuse. The White House said they lear...

Being able to chase down your passions and getting paid for it is the dream, right? In this video, archivist Dr. Christopher de Hamel looksto be doing exactly that.With more letters after his name t...

The memo wars continue. This Friday night news dump brought to you by President Trump. (more…)...

Canadian troubadours, The Dead South has been around since 2012, working both sides of the border with their brand of award-winning bluegrass-flavored music. The whistling and banjo line of In Hell ...

This modern cobbler shows us how to make a smart pair of sneakers using a Prusa i3 MK2 3D printer, some fabric, and a few other household tools and materials. Definitely worth a try!...

JUMPSUIT is a "counter-fashion" created by "Marxist fashion designers" who solicited Ivanka Trump clothing to be shredded and rewoven into black and white fabric that is custom-made into one of 248-si...

I got a new Passport and Passport card, time for new RFID sleeves.The new REAL ID stuff in the US is a pain. My California drivers license still doesn't emit any RF I know of, but my US Passport, Pass...

Some 30 to 40 White House officials and Trump administration political appointees are operating more than a year into the Trump regime without full security clearances. One of them is Jared Kushner. U...

Some 30 to 40 White House officials and Trump administration political appointees are operating more than a year into the Trump regime without full security clearances. One of them is Jared Kushner. U...

A leaked set of disclosures made by Equifax to the US Senate have revealed that the breach of 145.5 million Americans' sensitive financial data was even worse than suspected to date: in addition to da...

Good news! At least one law enforcement agency is working with members of the community they're sworn to protect. Just one problem. The local folks these police worked with were Nazis. (more…)...

ParadiseOS depicts an alternative computing world from the turn of the millenium: a desktop obscenely slathered in compulsory and broken services, ads and applications, an experience designed by dotco...

This 1971 cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #100 includes portraits of over 25 of Spidey's greatest friends and foes. It was created by John Romita Sr. and Frank Giacoia and is on the auction block. Her...

My more serious maker pals use soldering stations that cost about $500. I get along with cheapies like this $14 kit>...

My more serious maker pals use soldering stations that cost about $500. I get along with cheapies like this $14 kit>...

Reptiles have unusual reproductive equipment. For example, female snakes and lizards have two clitorises. Meanwhile, the male tuatara has no penis. "The male simply mounts the female and places the op...

John Moody, Fox News' executive vice president, has a problem with the fact that Team USA has introduced a bit of diversity to its roster. The Washington Post reported that the 243 member team of Oly...

I'd say things peaked in 1968 with 2001: A Space Odyssey....

Ashley Arnold is pursuing an online sociology degree at Southern New Hampshire University. For one of her classes (which cost $1000) she was assigned to write a paper comparing a social norm in the US...

In 1969, Irv Teibel(1938-2010) released a record that would have a profound impact on ambient and New Age music that's continues to this day. "Environments 1: Psychologically Ultimate Seashore" was th...

My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week is Kevin Rose. Kevin is a serial entrepreneur and product builder, having founded the social news site Digg in 2004. Later Kevin pursued a career in ventur...

This modern cobbler shows us how to make a smart pair of sneakers using a Prusa i3 MK2 3D printer, some fabric, and a few other household tools and materials. Definitely worth a try!...

JUMPSUIT is a "counter-fashion" created by "Marxist fashion designers" who solicited Ivanka Trump clothing to be shredded and rewoven into black and white fabric that is custom-made into one of 248-si...

I got a new Passport and Passport card, time for new RFID sleeves.The new REAL ID stuff in the US is a pain. My California drivers license still doesn't emit any RF I know of, but my US Passport, Pass...

Following reports this week that Mick Mulvaney, Trump's new chief of the Consumer Finance Protection Board had stopped all activity related to probing the Equifax breach in which the sensitive financi...

Flexispy is the creepy stalkerware advertised to abusive spouses and exes that Motherboard's Joseph Cox has been relentlessly tracking; when he acquired a leaked trove of the company's files, he start...

Flexispy is the creepy stalkerware advertised to abusive spouses and exes that Motherboard's Joseph Cox has been relentlessly tracking; when he acquired a leaked trove of the company's files, he start...

Linda at Eponases creates all kinds of cool cross-stich projects, but this massive piece of Pokemon characters is out of this world. (more…)...

Logan Paul made a video posing near of a suicide victim in Japan's Aokigahara forest. He was widely condemned, seemed chastened, made a soft-focus video about his learning experience, then went back i...

Right now, if prisoners use up their 12 allotted pads for the month, they have to work 27 hours to afford a $4 box of tampons. (more…)...

Here's one side-effect of the Internet I hadn't expected: It may be reducing our carbon footprint -- by getting us to stay home more.A group of academics studied data from the American Time Use Survey...

Christopher Ferguson, an off-duty cop in Algood, Tenn., going 20 miles over the speed limit, will not be inconvenienced after ramming into James and Rena Cryer's SUV with such force James was thrown i...

"Humans Not Invited", a project by the artist damjanski, shows you a CAPTCHA that can be solved by robots using AI vision -- but not by humans, with our useless watery meatsack eyes.As Motherboard rep...

Let's face it: Writing is a skill that doesn't come to everyone naturally, but that's still not an excuse to send out emails riddled with typos and vague prose. Grammarly gives you the means of produc...

If squeezing pimples until they pop and ooze pus sounds appealing to you, then you'll want to check out the Pop It Pal. It's a fleshy, blemish-blowing novelty toy that lets you obsessively squeeze o...

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Born in 1919, this gentleman thinks he's only 79 years old. Watch as he learns he's going to turn 99 this summer. He asks, "How did I get old so fast?" I hear ya, buddy, I hear ya.(reddit)...

Writer Kenny Keil and award-winning artist John Martz have an all-new satirical comic timeline in the upcoming issue of MAD #550, titled "The Future of Job Automation." It takes a jab at robots' succe...

For better or worse, Motorcity ain't what it used to be. But, having survived bankruptcy, corruption and bad luck that nearly broke its back, Detroit is making a slow comeback. While most of the city'...

When Patti Smith, the queen of cool, tells you to "just be cool," you'd better stop and check yourself. Watch her do just that in this Live at Rockpalast German TV footage from 1979. At around the 3...

It's good to be number one.According to a report from Reuters journalists John Shiffman and Reade Levinson, The United States could well be the biggest exporter ofsevered heads, arms, legs, and torsos...

Facebook and Google's parent company Alphabet are among the tech giants pushing a congressional bid to reverse the Trump administration's plan to repeal Obama-era Net Neutrality rules that protect the...

Between this and Starman's Tesla in space, it's a weird week. (more…)...

Why is this bad, even if you don't care about violence against women? Because blackmail risk. (more…)...

If you've never seen an octopus hatch, now is your chance. These cute baby Caribbean reef octopuses, the size of a pinky nail, were hatched at the Virginia Aquarium. The way they immediately darken ...

Every three years, the US Copyright Office asks for proposals for exemptions to Section 1201 of the DMCA, which bans breaking DRM; in 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a broad "jailbreaking...

The anchor on CBS Philly only has to eat one chip to complete the One Chip Challenge, and yet Paqui's Carolina Reaper Chip is too much for the poor fellow. He tears up, he trots around in pain, and ...

Science fiction author Hugh Spencer (previously) has published an essay on how Rod Serling's activist views on human rights were embodied in The Twilight Zone, drawing on the practice of using fantast...

Stefan Lawrence is a much-loved designer whose work graces such Maximum Fun podcasts as Judge John Hodgman and Bullseye, noticed that the "fast-fashion" brand Topman (a division of the notorious slave...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDPOvFdUcEIsaac Protiva wanted to know who was behind the "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign that was pouring a fortune into scuttling the plan to build a fast, ef...

Chinese transit cops are wearing glasses with heads-up displays and cameras tied into the country's facial recognition to spot criminals, people smugglers, and riders who are using high-speed trains i...

Robyn Dial is suing White County, Tennessee Sheriff Oddie Shoupe for excessive force in the killing of her husband Michael Dial, who was shot in the head after he drove away at low speed from a traff...

In 1989, to promote their fifth studio album, Cosmic Thing, the B-52s took MTV viewers on a tour of the city where they formed: Athens, Georgia ((sadly, without guitarist Ricky Wilson who died of AI...

Barlow (that's what most of his friends called him) flaunted his complexity. He advertised himself as a Republican Deadhead, as a cowboy hacker, a spiritual rationalist, a womanizing feminist, a techn...

The New York Academy of Medicine has organized #ColorOurCollections, in which various member libraries take images from their holdings and put 'em online as high-end coloring-book material. The image ...

Anna Rosling Rnnlund, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, asked Swedish students where they thought they fell on the global income spectrum. They guessed somewhere in the middle; they were wrong...

In what can only be described as some serious next level patriarchal bullshit, an Indian woman recently discovered that one of her kidneys had gone missing. The most likely culprit? Her husband.The BB...

I'm a huge fan of the Earthbox. My best crops of tomatoes, strawberries, peppers, and corn have all been from these wonderful self-watering containers.I really like gardening in self-watering containe...

Consumer Reports dragged a bunch of its top-rated smart TVs back into its labs to re-evaluate them, this time checking them for hard-to-evaluate information security risks and defects, which are not n...

Apple's been having a rough go of it this year. As if the uproar surrounding their throttling of iPhones in the name of power efficiency and damning reviews of their HomePod smart speaker weren't enou...

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Jokgu is a Brahma Bantam chicken who can peck her way through an operatic aria on a piano keyboard. Yes, she follows the red light on the keyboard to do so but, hush now, it's still impressive. More...

David Daley's hugely important 2016 book Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy uses original documents to trace the Republican master gerrymandering plan -- whi...

Everyone is raving about Nintendo Labo, simple contraptions made with cardboard and circuits that turn a Switch into a whole new experience. (more…)...

Blipblox is a deceptively simple-looking toy that lets young kids experiment with sound design and music.Presales start this spring, according to the description:The Blipblox is a fully functional s...

Looking for a really unique vehicle that will garner a lot of attention? One that will have your neighbors asking, "What's in that Bozo's driveway?"Well, quit (start?) clowning around and check out th...

Justin Lincoln creates lots of interesting little tidbits of visual ideas, like this particle capture experiment that is kind of unsettling. (more…)...

As far as Valentine's Day is concerned, there are a couple of things we can say with confidence. One, it's nearly impossible to make a dinner reservation the day of, and, two, flower prices are inflat...

With Vaunt, Intel is taking steps toward solving the Glasshole paradox: how to get consumers to wear wearables that don't make wearers seem like bad clichs of wearable users. (more…)...

I traveled to Japan to buy a notebook.As a tech journalist and hardware reviewer, my primary function is to tell you whether or not the products you may be thinking of buying are, in a word, shit. Its...

Using electronic key cards, homeless men and women in New York City will soon be able to get three free items a day from one of these orange vending machines. Basic but necessary items like socks, tam...

With art fashioned after kids pussycat Valentines of yore, Casey Weldon's new 5-card vintage-inspired set is definitely geared to grownups. The Seattle-based artist's messages will put some much-neede...

Techpowerup has published a redacted presentation from an unnamed AI company to an unnamed big-budget multiplayer video-game publisher, setting out a suite of surveillance capitalism tools combined wi...

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He loves you, he loves me. He'll teach you tantric for a fee.If you survived the 1990s, you either loved or loathed Barney and Friends: the kid's television show that taught children how to share, be ...

https://youtu.be/Lxd43iH-CX0Artist, inventor, and bio-hacker Julian Melchiorri created "Exhale, the Bionic Chandelier," a hanging electric light that "purifies the air indoors through photosynthesis p...

Back in 2015, U2, Sinead O'Conner and Hozier were all up for Choice Music Prize for Best Irish Album of the Year. Big names, but none of them walked away with the award. Instead, the accolades went ...

Over the weekend, flat-Earther and DIY rocketeer Mike Hughes tried again to launch himself into space. Unfortunately, he failed. As a result, his belief that the Earth isn't round stands. The Washingt...

Tabloid stories usually have some vague, distant relationship with the smallest sliver of a fact, but some are such ludicrous fantasies that they deserve special attention.Inside Versace Killers Bag o...

I was honored that old-school Boing Boing pal Douglas Rushkoff, author of numerous essential books for happy mutants, invited me onto his Team Human podcast to talk about the Voyager Golden Record, th...

Photographer Benny Lam spent several years documenting grim living conditions in Hong Kong where people live inside tiny "coffin cubicles" within illegally divided apartments. The images are grim glim...

On March 23, the United States Postal Service will issue a Mister Rogers stamp celebrating the host of the iconic children's TV show. The dedication will take place in the Fred Rogers Studio at Pittsb...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH5Vl99k2JQThe wonderful Copy Me project (previously) has revealed the first installment in its new three-part series on The Creativity Delusion, which takes aim at t...

I had no idea Bufferin was still for sale. I will try this instead of marijuana for the chronic pain my deteriorating lumbar discs deliver.Thanks, Jeff!Bufferin Regular Strength Buffered Aspirin Table...

The authors of the entertaining 388-page Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies make short work of debunking a bunch of popular tinfoil hat bugaboos, like Roswell, Area 51, underground g...

Reddit has shut down /r/deepfakes, the subreddit where people collaborate to produce incredibly disturbing faceswapped pornography that uses machine-learning to put the faces of famous people who aren...

The University of Texas's Ransom Center (previously) has posted a gorgeous selection of digitized movie posters from its Movie Poster Collection, from the 1920s to the 1970s. (more…)...

https://youtu.be/ekD9-GMz5EYWhen we debate copyright policy on the internet, the story is pitched as "creators vs technology," but that leaves out the millions of people who create, but who are not ...

Detectives Marcus Taylor and Daniel Hersl of Baltimore's elite, seven-member Gun Trace Task Force are on trial for years of robbery, home invasions, drug dealing, gun dealing, and worse -- their defe...

Speaking to the Heritage Foundation last night in honor of Ronald Reagan's birthday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reckoned himself to be an expert on drug addiction and had some sage advice for opio...

The producers of last year's disastrous Fyre Fest should consider hiring Atlanta entrepreneur Tiffany Brown, whose company, Tribute Contracting LLC, was awarded a $156 million contract from the Federa...

If Trump gets his way, your elderly relatives will be evicted from nursing homes after their Alzheimer's care eats up their lifetime Medicaid benefits; as Yves Smith writes, "are family members suppos...

Botin Restaurant in Madrid has been in operation for 293 years, a world record. The owners claim the oven hasn't once gone out. The house specialty is roast suckling pig, which is 25 euros.Ever sinc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h07iXD-aSCAComputers that are isolated from the internet and local networks are said to be "airgapped," and it's considered a best practice for securing extremely sen...

Oneita Jackson is a national treasure. You should read Nappy-Headed Negro Syndrome, her amazing collection of short stories!A few years ago I took a trip to Michigan, selling ads for Boing Boing. Whil...

Last year Scotty of Strange Parts made an iPhone from spare parts he picked up at the mind-boggling electronics markets in Shenzhen, China. He recently returned to buy parts to make a one-of-a-kind ...

In 1992, Oklahoma passed a ballot initiative saying that the state could only raise taxes with a three quarters majority in the state assembly, creating a one-way ratchet where every tax cut becomes e...

The marbled crayfish (Procambarus virginalis) is a mutant slough crayfish (Procambarus fallax) an American species; the mutation that allowed slough crayfish to reproduce asexually by cloning itself o...

Scott Wiener is California State Senator for San Francisco, whose SB827, co-sponsored by State Senator Nancy Skinner, will move some zoning responsibility from cities to the state, forcing cities to a...

Meet Cheddar Man. He's from Glastonbury, circa 8,000 B.C.Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the project, said: It really shows up that these imaginary racial categ...

Oxford's Computational Propaganda Project surveyed 13,500 "politically active" US Twitter users and 48,000 publicly visible Facebook pages, coding them for political affiliation, then measuring how mu...

Tavis McGinn came to a job interview at Facebook to do the kind of work he'd done at Google, using analytics to help advertisers refine their campaigns; instead he was offered a job as Zuck's personal...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=vHwOMWGAg_oCORDELL! CORDELL! WHERE'S MY RUBBER CEMENT?https://twitter.com/_iPed/status/961194053240020992...

"Who are these people?"I suspect the "Big Baller Channel" is not the original poster of this wonderful video of kindergarteners singing "Happy Birthday" to a hatching chicken. Where did it come from...

A Logitech keyboard is sacrificed to Saturn in this remarkable video posted by Amazing Timelapse. Plunged into acetone, the device melts slowly until only a cloudy congealment of undissolved plastic...

Not all of us have the writing chops of Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but that's still no excuse to send off emails plagued with typos and confusing prose. Whether you're communicating with a friend or a p...

Kelsey Hightower's Nocode [github] fixes all the problems associated with modern web app development: "Write nothing; deploy nowhere."Now that you have not done anything it's time to build your applic...

Bootie Mashup's Adrian Roberts is traveling in Hong Kong right now and came across these amusing knockoff LEGO products at the Temple Street Night Market. Click on the images below to look at them clo...

Saudi Arabia is known for its oil and sun-soaked deserts. In a move to secure the kingdoms financial future, its name could soon become synonymous with renewable energy.According to the New York Times...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's Secret Society, the INNER HIVE. You'll be helping the comic strip and getting exclusive early access to comics, extra ...

Just days before the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, 41 security guards who were assigned to protect an Olympic venue in Pyeongchang have fallen ill, due to a norovirus outbreak. I...

Trump has ordered a grand military parade later this year in Washington. No one in the military is sure how to pay for it. GoFundMe? (more…)...

We were promised flying cars, and we finally pretty much got 'em. Elon Musk, Tesla, and SpaceX's 'Live Views of Starman' is the first car commercial broadcast in real time from space. (more…)...

Usagi Yojimbo, my favorite ronin rabbit, is to star in his own TV series.Sakais Usagi Yojimbo takes place amidst a rich fantasy setting in 17th century Japan and features a diverse world of anthropomo...

The #MeToo movement has had an impact on many in Hollywood, but maybe not so much in other arenas. Take Trump's arena, for example. Rachel Crooks, one of many who has accused Trump of sexual misconduc...

What does this DeWalt knife, posted to the "midly interesting" subreddit by turltlecam_son, look like?a) a chickenb) a unicornc) a fishd) a knife...

Warning, this post contains upsetting content about the sexual exploitation of children. (more…)...

I've used this 12-outlet power strip (under my desk and against the wall) for years and it has never given me any problems. The outlets are spaced far apart so I never have to worry about adapters cov...

Senator for Illinois Tammy Duckworth didn't take kindly to Trump's claim that anyone who doesn't clap for him like a trained chimp is guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death. She tweeted, "We d...

Senator for Illinois Tammy Duckworth didn't take kindly to Trump's claim that anyone who doesn't clap for him like a trained chimp is guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death. She tweeted, "We d...

Police in London surrounded the embassy of Ecuador, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange resides in exile, to reportedly address a 'suspected suspicious package.' More details as the story develops....

Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, which owns Doritos, was interviewed on the Freakonomics podcast recently. She said her company is making a less crunchy version of Doritos because "woman dont lick the...

Elon Musk's SpaceX is all set to test their Falcon Heavy rocket today for the first time.Musk says he gives the launch at best a 50-50 chance of working today, and that's if they can even get the go...

UPDATE: THEY DID IT. It couldn't have gone more perfectly. (more…)...

Jupiter's moon Europa has a complex highway system as can be seen in this flyover video edited by NASA engineer Kevin Gill.Processed using low resolution color images (IR, Green, Violet) from March ...

In what looks like an impulsive move, actress Jennifer Lawrence thought it was okay on Sunday while on a Delta flight from New Orleans to Los Angeles to take charge of the plane's loudspeaker and ch...

Without a doubt one of the coolest looking insects around, the Hercules beetle is now a threatened species as a result of deforestation. Great Big Story's 80-second video has beautiful footage of this...

Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi kindly answered questions about Nintendo's famous characters of the Mushroom Kingdom, such as "Why does Mario have nipples but not a belly button?" and ...

Charlie Stross explains that he's more-or-less stopped reading science fiction, no longer capable of stomaching the paper-thin worldbuilding that refuses to contemplate the profound ways in which tech...

The unnamed host of this video takes a 32,000 lumen flashlight and points it at glow-in-the-dark Culture Hustle paint, which is supposedly the brightest paint in the world. I thought it would be bri...

The unnamed host of this video takes a 32,000 lumen flashlight and points it at glow-in-the-dark Culture Hustle paint, which is supposedly the brightest paint in the world. I thought it would be bri...

Unpaywall is a service that indexes open access repositories, university, government and scholarly society archives, and other sources that make articles available with authorization from the rightsho...

This purple and black deck of cards is absolutely lovely.I like to tell myself that decks with lovely and unexpected art work distract people from mistakes as I'm performing sleight of hand. Mostly, I...

In third grade I stole a book from the school library: The Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend.I could barely read it, but the images on its cover and what little i...

In South Korea, there is a popular TV (and completely wacky) variety show called Infinite Challenge. From what I've been able to gather, contestants go through a series of challenges with celebrity ...

Cloudflare has terminated service to Sci-Hub, the site that provides paywall-free access to virtually all scholarly work, citing Aaron Swartz as inspiration -- Cloudflare previously serviced the sci-...

Most of us want rid of heavy old TV sets: they're piled high in warehouses, a dangerous waste mountain resulting from a huge recycling scam. But some of us are desperate to keep their old CRTs going. ...

Rep Steve King (R-IA, @SteveKingIA, 202.225.4426) is a notorious Islamaphobe, surveillance advocate, conspiracy theorist, xenophobe, and all-round asshole; he's held his seat since 2003 but now he is ...

Nintendo's last game console, the Wii U, didn't do so well. The Switch, though, is doing very well indeed. One key reason: lots of games. Gizmodo:By day 279, the Switch had 191 games available, a numb...

Lauri Love is a British man on the autism spectrum who also has depression and severe eczema, who was facing extradition to America on charges of hacking US military and private agencies. (more&hellip...

Using the "world's smallest HD drone," Robert McIntosh filmed Muscle-Up, a short that flies (seemingly) effortlessly over and around Southern California's famous Muscle Beach first thing in the morn...

First it was Montana, then New York, then California -- and now New Jersey has become the latest state to enact state-level Net Neutrality rules in defiance of Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who not onl...

It's freezing cold in Minneapolis but that didn't stop digital ad agency space150 from making a snowball vending machine. Yup, you can buy real balls of hard-packed Minnesota snow from a vending machi...

If you're interested in pursuing graduate school, you'll likely need to submit a GMAT or GRE test score along with your application. And, if taking the SAT back in high school wasn't a miserable enoug...

Since 2006, Matt "Molotov" Bouvier and his wife Miss Dixie DeLish have been traveling coast to coast playing fairs, festivals, carnivals, and Wild West shows with their "Americana Mayhem Roadshow." Sw...

Nuzo Eziechi said, "I am incredibly excited to be honored as Nigeria's Integrity Idol." The show featured government workers competing to be crowned most ethical. (more…)...

Chris Fay captured this cool shot of a helicopter ascent where the rotors are in perfect synch with his camera shutter, creating a delightful and unintentional effect. (more…)...

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 18, was the first black musician to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award. A rising star in classical music, Kanneh-Mason is a member of the UK's exceptional Chineke! Orch...

By the end of the Bosnian War in 1995, an estimated 100,000 people had died in the former Yugoslavia as a result of intense combat and horrific ethnic cleansing. More than two decades on, much of the ...

Huffington Post and YouGov did a survey around the so-called 'Nunes memo' political stunt from last week, and found some that some 75% of Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 U.S. presiden...

Look at this coyote. Food is right in front of him. It follows him around, like a sack lunch on legs. "Oh, they're great friends," you say as you watch the video, smiling. A click and the link has b...

White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah referred to President Donald Trump as a deplorable and described the release of the Access Hollywood tape as some justice, NY Mag reports, based o...

I enjoyed reading David Joiner's retrospective about game development in the early days of the Commodore Amiga: like many creators of the era, he not only had to cultivate his artwork, but also needed...

In 1986, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat, lost its shit. Flaws in the reactor's design caused a steam explosion, resulting in a fir...

President Donald Trump's lawyers want him to refuse to be interviewed by Robert Mueller in the ongoing investigation involving Russia and other possible areas of criminal activity. He may refuse, but ...

'President' Donald Trump used the word 'treason' when commenting today on the behavior of Democratic lawmakers people at his shitty State of the Union address last week. They failed to clap, smile, or...

On January 17, 2014, Girl 4 Trump USA joined Twitter. She was silent for a week, but on January 24, she suddenly got busy, posting an average of 1,289 tweets a day, many of which were in support of U....

When I'm storing weed, either in small or large (for me) amounts, I use Boveda 62% humidity control packs. (more…)...

Mick Mulvaney, the former loan-shark lobbyist who killed plans to regulate payday lenders after being appointed chief of the Consumer Finance Protection Board, has effective abandoned the agency's eff...

Charles Platt's growing series of electronics books are the best I've come across. He explains concepts very clearly, and his illustrations are excellent. His latest book in the series is called Easy ...

Using a cell phone won't harm you, according to a draft report issued on Friday by the US Department of Health and Human Services' National Toxicology Program.From the LA Times:"The reports don't go m...

James Conley III (29) went shopping at an Old Navy in West Des Moines, Iowa. When he went to the checkout counter to pay for some items, the clerk asked him if he also wanted to buy the jacket he wa...

Demand is high for IT professionals, but, as any expert will tell you, certifying your skills is almost mandatory for climbing the career ladder. While a host of certification options exist, they're n...

https://youtu.be/9VJZlVfOzVIWatch as this unsuspecting tourist crossing a glass bridge freaks out when the glass begins to crack. Special effects that make the glass walkway look and sound like it's s...

There's the shot; here's the chaser:https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/960565890336149504We're a ways short of the term 'racism' being proudly reclaimed, but there's not much ground left between...

https://youtu.be/pnSw8g3DPHwWatch the video to make sure my summary here is right: You are in a dark room with a pile of coins. The coins have a silver side and a gold side. You know two things about ...

Kaplamino's "The Blue Marble" is made from ordinary items like rubber bands, magnets, blocks of wood, pencils, bottle caps, and plastic forks, but he turns it into an almost magical chain reaction m...

Peter Lik is one of the world's most successful photographers. He reportedly works in-camera and without significant compositional retouching. But he appears to have been caught with his shoop down. T...

Rep. Devin Nunes, author of Friday's declassified dud memo, told a big fat lie on Fox and Friends this morning. "As far as we can tell, Papadopoulos never even knew who Trump was never even met with ...

Jack Parsons (1914-1952) was a pioneering rocket scientist and part of the team that founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He was also a deep devotee of Aleister Crowley and worked some heavy d...

Ayn Rand fanboy (except for the atheist and abortion stuff) Paul Ryan was busting with pride to announce on Twitter that the GOP's tax bill resulted in a whopping $1.50 a week pay increase for a high ...

In 1910, the National Pharmaceutical Society gave a thumbs up to the Osculatory Screen, a piece of silk in an elegant handle meant to prevent the spread of germs. The device was described as a "disinf...

After comparing the sizes of movie monsters, MetaBall Studios is now measuring up movie robots. They start at the spindly spider robot from Minority Report at .18 meters and go up to the towering 16...

I have a good feeling about this....

https://vimeo.com/253738508Josh Begley of The Intercept put together a video that shows all 280 reported concussions of the 2017 NFL season in one clip, with the goal of "defamiliarizing the familiar....

Installation artist Jihan Zencirli, also known artistically as Geronimo, created an ambitious massive balloon installation at Lincoln Center for the New York City Ballet. (more…)...

Learning how to crawl is a lot more complicated that most of us realize. But this baby walks, er, crawls you through it step by step. Kinesiology at its cutest....

The Las Vegas boneyard of discarded neon signs got a brilliant makeover this month thanks to projection-mapped images that made the still-broken signs look like they were working again. The project ...

If you were a voting member of the World Science Fiction Convention in 2017, or are registered as a voting member for the upcoming conventions in 2018 or 2019, you are eligible to nominate for the Hug...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s32C3KAi0NcArthur Jones is standing uncontested to be the GOP's candidate in Illinois's 3rd Congressional District, representing suburban Chicago; he has run for offi...

Guldies (previously) posted this weirdly satisfing stop-motion animation of life in the woods. The visuals are amazing -- 2500 still pictures taken with a Canon DSLR and sequenced at 18 frames per s...

Deepfakes is the person credited with inventing faceswapped videos, the deeply NSFW subreddit mostly filled with faceswapped pornography starring famous non-porn performers, or generically, faceswappe...

Most latte art is a monochromatic palette of rich browns and creams. Korean art professor Kangbin Lee has taken his Creamart works into the rest of the spectrum. (more…)...

LinesLab is "an experimental design studio established by Sergej Stoppel that explores algorithmic art and robotics." Among his cool works are these single-line portraits. (more…)...

Simple Print is a website that converts web articles into nice, easily-printed PDF files. It was remarkably effective on the URLs I fed it. It uses Full-Text RSS and PDF Newspaper to extract the artic...

Bryce Elder's epic Twitter thread finally reveals the one true tale of Bitcoin's genesis ("invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, a developer at Nintendo who mysteriously disappeared in the 1990s"); the enviro...

A tricked out Japanese wooden keyboard goes for $1400. Cheap ones are just $40. Linus tests if it's worth the additional money.Spoilers: it's not worth it. He says, "I can't be-leaf how much I paid ...

Our Cartoon President takes jabs at Trump and his rag-tag band of misfits. Showtime released the premiere episode for free:State of the Union. The President tries to revive his low approval ratings ...

Ram used a clip from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon in an ad for a truck, played over a montage of stereotypically patriotic imagery. Here—reportedly another quote taken from the same recordi...

Self-driving cars have a hard time predicting bicycle movement, and workarounds that require cyclists to buy transmitters are running into resistance from some. (more…)...

In Freedom House's 2018 world freedom map, 71 countries registerd declines while only 35 saw gains: "emboldened autocrats, beleaguered democracies, and the United States withdrawal from its leadership...

In December 2005, NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite. After trying to reconnect for two years, the agency gave up. Over a decade later, hobbyist Scott Tilley was able to confirm that IMAGE i...

They're not called "Italian nachos" on the menu, but make no mistake, Olive Garden's "Loaded Pasta Chips" are nachos. This new $8.49 dish has a base of lightly-fried "homemade pasta chips" (which a wr...

This is really fun. With Japanese artist Rintaro Hara's latest piece, visitors can make giant bubbles simply by pulling on a rope. By doing so, her Projection Wall raises a grid of ropes that have b...

Illustris TNG is a theoretical astrophysics project that created the most detailed simulation of the universe to date, and it turns out that black holes influence the distribution of dark matter. (m...

This week, AV-TEST's census of samples of circulating malware that attempt to exploit the Meltdown and Spectre bugs hit 139, up from 77 on January 17. (more…)...

This owl was a gift from an absolutely lovely woman. I declare it Superb Owl 2018....

I woke up this morning thinking the world needed a Price Vultan tweet-bot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW8kDtzirpAYou know he'll say it sooner or later...Jack Burton is still talking to whomever is...

The Federal Reserve has concluded its investigation into Wells Fargo's decades' long practice of pressuring employees to open fraudulent accounts in the names of its customers to inflate its quarterly...

When a serial bomb-report hoaxer reported a fake hostage-taking on behalf of a gamer upset at a $1.50 wager, he set in motion a string of events that ended with a Wichita police officer murdering an i...

Companies have always prioritized cutting costs and boosting efficiency, but it wasn't until the past few years that Project Managers grew into big demand. PMs use industry-approved methodologies to r...

Europe's General Data Protection Regulation kicks in this May, and it enforces a user-first, privacy-centric set of rules for the internet that is totally incompatible with the adtech industry and the...

Saddam Hussein met the end of his days at the end of a rope in 2006,sentenced to death for crimes against humanity. It's a fate many argued was justly deserved. In 2003, the New York Times estimated t...

The web offers each of us a tremendous opportunity to get our names and brands out to audiences around the world, but this creates aproblem: With anyone free to build their own site, the web is satura...

It sounds like a joke but this is not a joke. For a limited time, east coast ice cream brand Friendly's is offering a "Nor'easter Pothole" flavor in the frozen food aisle, a regional nod to the destru...

The New York Times' Joanna Klein reports that plants express qualities of consciousness. May as well enjoy those dolphinburgers after all!Plants are not just robotic, stimulus-response devices, said F...

In temperate and tropical locales, storm drains are a vital bit of urban infrastructure.As a channel for rain water to drain from city streets, they play an important role in keeping the places most o...

In temperate and tropical locales, storm drains are a vital bit of urban infrastructure.As a channel for rain water to drain from city streets, they play an important role in keeping the places most o...

More and more people watch movies and TV shows at home, exclusively through the use of streaming services like Hulu or Netflix, but I'm not one of them. I'm not against streaming: the problem is that ...

Because it seemed like a fun thing to do, I started a Boing Boing Discord channel. If you'd like to join the happy mutant merriment, here's an invite link, which expires in 24 hours. That doesn't mean...

My guest this week on the Cool Tools podcast is Dean Putney. Dean is the founding software engineer at laser cutter startup Glowforge in Seattle. Previously he wrote software for organizations like Re...

Now this is beautiful. (more…)...

Because of course they do. The Republican National Committee supports Donald Trump's yet-unexecuted order to ban transgender people from military service, because the RNC says being transgender is a d...

Stock indexes plunged on Friday, with the Dow Jones industrial average falling by more than 600 points mid-day. (more…)...

On November 29, 1981, Natalie Wood drowned off Catalina Island near Los Angeles. She had been partying hard on a yacht with her husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. The only other person on t...

My teenage daughter and I have been playing a computer game from 1981 called Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. I'll have more to say about it later, but it is even more fun playing it thi...

Filmmaker Oliver KMIA was traveling in Rome where he noticed the throngs of tourists surrounding the Trevi Fountain all trying to get the same photo of themselves with the monument. "I couldn't secu...

Miami photographer Oliver KMIA edited together Instatravel, a "Photogenic Mass Tourism Experience" that rapid fires other people's Instagram travel images. By doing so, he shows their undeniable sim...

A recent patent awarded to pudding home delivery juggernaut Amazon, reveals that the company is investigating the possibility of equipping their warehouse staff with hardware capable of tracking their...

Scientists have been working on a way to turn poop into an edible which, even if it winds up tasting like French fries, will never let you entirely forget about the fact that you're eating poop.Accord...

According to a recent survey, 20 percent of shoppers who use self-checkout stations admit to stealing items. The actual percentage is probably higher than that. The Atlantic reports on the ways these ...

Last July, the daily live trivia show, HQ, launched as an app. Players have a chance of winning anywhere from $1,500-$15,000 or more, depending on the game's generosity of the day (although winners sp...

If you have lots of money, you can buy a citizenship in many different countries. The cheapest passport will run you $45,000, from the African island nation of Comoros. In this interesting short vid...

This millimeter-scale robot designed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems could enable "applications in microfactories such as the construction of tissue scaffolds by r...

John William Waterhouse's painting, Hylas and the Nymphs (1869), was removed from display at the Manchester Art Gallery in northern England. The museum said it banished the painting to challenge a Vic...

In Seattle, a man attempted to break into the car of a KIRO Radio employee by banging on it with a mop handle. Then he climbed on the building's roof and fell off. Seventeen minutes later, he got up a...

I made my own cat scratching post out of sisal cord and a poster tube. It cost more than just buying one.50' of 3/8" sisal rope ($0.25/foot) winds almost perfectly around a 30" by 2" diameter poster t...

Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism, inaugurates his new column at Open Democracy with a history of the collapse of neoliberal capitalism and a path for a Labour victory in the next General Election,...

https://youtu.be/BDHcQ0PUyMoSteve Mould used a vibration generator to find the resonant frequency of air-filled balloons. The result is trippy....

The eldest son of Fidel Castro, 68-year-old Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide after a months-long treatment depression. Living in Cuba, Diaz-Balart, also knows as "Fidelito," was hospi...

Progressive candidates, backed by the likes of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, Moveon, Our Revolution and Justice Democrats, are outraising Republicans (including Ted...

The Beautiful Shitholes is David Byrne's Spotify playlist of music from the countries Donald Trump infamously condemned as "shitholes." (more…)...

Pancakes are delicious, and they can also look a lot like moons, as proven in Alternative Moons by Nadine Schlieper and Robert Pufleb. I tried my hand at making a few lunar flapjacks and gathering up ...

The rush to put networked sensors and controllers into sex toys is grounded in foolish, convenient untruths, like the idea that the incredibly sensitive data generated by these systems can be anonymiz...

Here is a full text copy of the much-disputed memo from GOP and Devin Nunes memo on Russia, which President Donald Trump approved in defiance of FBI and Justice officials. (more…)...

Here is a full text copy of the much-disputed memo from GOP lickspittle Devin Nunes on Russia, which President Donald Trump approved in defiance of FBI and Justice officials. Short version: Much ado o...

I wrote an article for California Sunday Magazine about BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen's new cryptocurrency, called chia. It's uses the Bitcoin codebase, but Bram is replacing the energy intensive proo...

Donald Savastano was a self-employed carpenter eking out a marginal living without retirement savings or health insurance; when he won the $1 million jackpot in New York's "Merry Millionaire" lotto, h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXI3H6Kd3K4An act of heroic trolling from Net Neutrality advocate Rob Bliss, who "throttled" access to DC's 12th Street by traffic-coning all but one lane, then cycle...

Local 4 Detroit reports that Randall Margraves, the father of three of Larry Nassar's victims, charged at the prolific child abuser in court today, shouting "let me at that son of a bitch" as bailif...

https://youtu.be/uj09MXM0WSI?t=3m18sPunxsutawney Phil has had his say before the thousands gathered at Gobblers Knob: "Hear ye, hear ye... six more weeks of winter to go."...

In 1921, Edith Swan -- a 30-year-old laundress in the UK -- began sending abusive, curse-studded letters to several of her neighbors. She got away with it for a while by framing another of her neighbo...

It's Girl Scout cookie season again which made me think of this box I've been hanging onto since the year 2000 or so. Just an innocent box of Tagalongs, right? Well, not so fast. Look a little closer ...

Khoi Vinh noticed that tech marketing adheres a very specific, somewhat infantilized illustration style. I call it safety minimalism—Vinh sees in it the rise of a monoculture. In my experience, ...

The web can be a dangerous place, so much so that cybercrimedamage costs are projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. From ransomware to viruses and a host of other digital maladies, browsing ...

Brian Ashcraft on what happens to returned and defective comic books in Japan.https://twitter.com/rereibara/status/959074722641162242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finse...

That's Boris Karloff riding off on a mechanical horse.This footage was shown at the end of Mario Bava's 1963 film Black Sabbath, but only in the Italian version. In the English version, they cut the...

It's a Southern Thing created this funny video about a version of Alexa that not only understands Southern accents, but how Southern folk talk: " The future is here, y'all. And it's available in bur...

This cat appears to be chattering adorably with invisible fairies, but I'm sure that some terrible illness or infirmity has in fact befallen it and all I achieved by posting this is to serve the soc...

Earworm alert: Remix maestro melodysheep (previously) just released "Phone Home," a "happy little E.T. song to brighten your day." It did....

Like the headline says, just Spiderman dancing to a-ha's "Take on Me." According to the Daily Mail, it's a 16-year-old guy with the moniker "ghetto.spider."Want more? He's got a whole Instagram full...

The Bronx Zoo unveiled a controversial exhibit in 1906 -- a Congolese man in a cage in the primate house. The display attracted jeering crowds to the park, but for the man himself it was only the late...

Artist Kate MccGwire creates remarkable sculptures from carefully-curated feathers sent to her from around the globe. This short documentary examines her philosophy and aesthetic. (more…)...

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A billboard mysteriously appears in St. Paul, Minn. in which God offers a special message to noted crazy ex-congresscritter Michele Bachmann. Hope she obeys The Lord. (more…)...

Christie's is holding an auction of meteorites, and they're strikingly gorgeous. Prices? Anywhere from $1,000 to $250,000.The essays attached to each meteorite are unusually fun to read. Auction-house...

https://youtu.be/F8JCh0owT4wMotherboard's short documentary, "Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly" is an excellent look at the absurd situation created by John Deere's p...

We can't have nice, ancient things.Peru's Nazca Lines have so much historical and cultural significance that the United Nations declared the Peruvian coastal plains where they're located to be a World...

Tim Hortons might have over 500 locations in the United States, but I tells ya, it's a Canadian thing. (more…)...

For a couple years now, I've been collaborating with EFF to produce a Catalog of Missing Devices: products that do something legal and useful and desirable, but don't exist because to make them, you'd...

I grew up playing a number of instruments associated with Irish and Scots traditional music. I speak enough Gaelic to be dangerous and sang my way through university in a Celtic-tinged bar band and ...

Japan is home to the only museum in the world that is dedicated to rocks that look like they have faces. The owner started the museum because her father was an avid collector of rocks with faces, an...

Survey says... This is weird! (Thanks, UPSO!)...

From Nintendo president Tatumi Kimishima's corporate management policy briefing today (PDF):We have starteddevelopment of an animated movie featuring SuperMario with Illumination, the movie studio tha...

Rick Saccone (@Saccone4PA18) is the Republican challenger for the seat vacated by Tim Murphy, the Pennsylvania anti-abortion Congressman who resigned after being outed for pressuring his pregnant mist...

Emma Byrne, a science writer and artificial intelligence researcher, has just published a new book called Swearing is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language and it sounds fucking great. "If...

https://youtu.be/UjtOGPJ0URMWhy would the discovery of extraterrestrial life be horrible for life on earth? The latest Kurzgesagt In a Nutshell video says there are 10 billion earth-like planets in t...

I used my LED headlamps a couple of nights ago to grill chicken in my backyard. I also use them for evening strolls (no streetlights in my neighborhood). Right now they are on sale on Amazon for $6.35...

Researchers at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile trained an orca named Wikie to mimic words like "hello," "bye-bye," and other human speech sounds. John Lilly, I wish you were around to be...

For the first time ever Facebook usership declined in the US and Canada, from 185 million in Q3 of 2017 to Q4 of 2018.Could it be that people are wising up to the fact that Facebook is a depressing, ...

Every year, Locus Magazine's panel of editors reviews the entire field of science fiction and fantasy and produces its Recommended Reading List; the 2017 list is now out, and I'm proud to say that it ...

The Act of ReadingIt's been 10 years since the writing of The Atlantic's now classic essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in which Nicholas Carr addressed how our reading habits (and our cognition in gen...

LA's homeless population is up 75% over the past six years; remove LA from the national statistics and the rate of American homelessness is actually in decline. (more…)...

"Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle dont hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; thats the way a woman most always does...

Colistin is known as the "antibiotic of last resort," and is given to humans who are extremely ill. India has been using hundreds of tons of colistin to make healthy meat animals like chickens grow mo...

Dern tootin', Reese! (Vanity Fair)...

Jamie Zawinski (previously), who owns San Francisco's amazing DNA Lounge venue, does a postmortem on the announcements from Slim's and the Great American Music Hall that they have "partnered" with Gol...

It takes a lot of barking, jumping, and prodding to awaken this sleeping hog, and when the dog finally succeeds, it seems to wonder if it was a good idea.!function(){function t(){for(h=[],n=document...

Calculating inflation, earning power, social progress, equality and inequality -- they all depend on being able to compare what used to be happening in our economy to what's happening now, and the way...

Bauer Media's Teen Boss is a new quarterly magazine, launched last summer for "Gen-Z entrepreneurs" aged 8-15 who want to pursue careers as "influencers." (more…)...

Toto's got a new greatest hits album and is going on tour which is probably why they are popping up in my feed so much lately. On Wednesday, I posted the story behind their hit song "Africa" as told...

I tested the capacity of two USB battery packs using two different USB multi-meters. The results did not surprise me.I recently acquired two $10-each USB multi-meters, the Powerjive and a DROK . The P...

Edtech Strategies, "a boutique consultancy focused on providing strategic research and counsel on issues at the intersection of education, public policy, technology, and innovation" has published a re...

The amazing and frightening thing about the Mirai botnet's reign of terror wasn't that it was a super-sophisticated cyberweapon: rather, it was a clumsy, amateurish fuggly hack that turned out to have...

How many plumbers does it take to unclog a Norwegian Air toilet? Apparently, way more than 80.A Norwegian Air flight was shuttling over 80 plumbers from Oslo to Munich for a trade event, but less than...

Behold, the glory of the compound noun: Fernweh ("the feeling of wanting to be elsewhere, anywhere but where you are at this moment"); Weltschmerz ("the state of weariness one feels at the state of t...

In a textbook example of the use of big data to create a digital poorhouse, as described in Virginia Eubanks's excellent new book Automating Inequality, the Australian government created an algorithmi...

Daniel Contreras, the owner of El Guero Canelo restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, recently learned that his $3.50 Sonoran hot dog took one of the James Beard Foundation's five 2018 Americas Classics award...

Even the most stringent privacy rules have massive loopholes: they all allow for free distribution of "de-identified" or "anonymized" data that is deemed to be harmless because it has been subjected t...

Inspired by the Purple One himself, this cookbook is the work of Cat Food, a "super small, super busy, super tiny bakery" in South East London. Inside its pages you'll find Prince-ly recipes for Purpl...

Looking incredibly hip and youthful in a bright blue hoodie, comedian Jim Gaffigan had way too much fun swiping right and trolling potential suitors through someone else's Tinder account. Watch in t...

My pal Moe went to go see W. Kamau Bell at the Punch Line comedy club in San Francisco on Tuesday night and noticed something unusual on the drink menu: a cocktail made with cannabis-infused vodka. I ...

Andrei Kashcha has created a lovely fractal generator, using WebGPL. Click "Randomize" to have it generate a new fractal. If you want, tinker with some of the parameters by changing values in the func...

YouTuber Logan Paul filmed himself in a fluffy barnstormer hat looking for suicide victims in a Japanese forest and finding one to show to his 16 million viewers. He also pranced around the country ma...

My Esel is an interesting design concept: It's a bike where the frame is made out of wood, with each cut bespoke to the dimensions that best fit the rider's body.As this piece in Bikerumor describes i...

On Twitter this fine February morning, the President of the United States claimed that his State of the Union speech, watched by 46 million people, was seen by "the highest number in history." https:/...

Nicky James Burch demonstrates her technique for making vibrant psychedelic liquid art with basic acrylic paint. Looks like a fun kids' project! (more…)...

Fejetlenfej posted a set of maps of european forest cover to imgur, with posters available on Etsy. Though cover is distressingly spase in places such as Denmark and England, check out the places that...

Local58 is a YouTube channel for a news affiliate that does not, thankfully, exist. Written and edited by Kris Straub, each video depicts increasingly alarming emergency broadcast interruptions and ...

Artist Anne Eichhorn shows how she uses watercolors, pen, and typewriters to create charming little pieces of art and jewelry from used teabags. (more…)...

Valentine's Day is around the corner, which means significant others everywhere are bracing for the financial wallop that comes with paying for a nice date and, of course, flowers. But, thereare ways ...

Ebay, which separated from PayPal in 2015, plans to ditch it entirely. By 2020, Ebay says, most of its transactions will be handled by Adyen, a Netherlands-based payment processor. PayPal will remain ...

Artist Dimitris Ladopoulos ran a favorite Rembrandt painting through an algorithm he's used for abstract work and generated a cool RGB-value dimensional output that resembles a blocky paint by numbers...

What follows is the most mind-altering first chapter I've read in a long time, frombiomechanist Katy Bowmans latest book Movement Matters: Essays on movement science, movement ecology, and the nature ...

Here's an amazing set of photos of the female librarians of the 1930s, who traveled by horse to remote mountain areas in Kentucky, delivering books to catalyze literacy.It's the sort of brilliant, pub...

Nancy Holten moved to Switzerland 34 years ago as a child, but she's just been denied a Swiss passport because her campaign to end the tradition of Swiss cowbells is "too annoying." (more…)...

Ever wonder what the inside of a giant firework looks like as it explodes? This super-slo mo footage shows what happens when a shell that's been cut in half gets lit. (more…)...

Static shelves with bins holding small parts take up a lot of space. It's interesting to see this case study of how a traditional warehouse was able to use wasted air space to reduce storage area by...

Static shelves with bins holding small parts take up a lot of space. It's interesting to see this case study of how a traditional warehouse was able to use wasted air space to reduce storage area by...

Going viral this evening is a marvelous comic strip by the legendary W.K. Haselden, as published in the Daily Mirror on March 5, 1919.Without formal training his drawings first appeared in a couple of...

From afar, and even from its own dark and derelict lower floors, this abandoned paper mill in Sweden is much like any other disused factory. But found upstairs, on the second level up, is an amazing "...

It's just like using a camera! But instead of your finger turning the shot into a dark blot, your shot turns your finger into a dark blot. [via]...

San Francisco plans to retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to thousands of pre-existing pot related convictions, the SF district attorney's office announced Wednesday. Tho...

Alex Balk: The Awl, 2009-2018.The surprise shouldnt be that The Awl didnt last, it should be that it lasted as long as it did. And now its dead. The archives will remain up, but I hope they degrade in...

Im a Reality TV producer. I make the stuff. Oh, go ahead, scripted television snob, snark away, Ive heard it all before. If it makes you feel any better, Ill confess: we have created a Monster. But wh...

Nazy Cardiel Camargo from Amity Bloom crafts lovely journals festooned with textiles, found art, and other ephemera, and the results are quite beautiful. (more…)...

Baffling. Boggling. Florida.This story has everything from a hitman named 'the Rabbi' to a child pornographer asking his mom to arrange a murder.Via People:A Florida man who had pleaded guilty to chil...

Kevin J Davis is the leader of the Council for the London Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames; his son Cameron Davis's Linkedin profile shows that he is now a Trainee Development Manager at CNM Estates, a...

This exhaustive database of Garbage Pail Kids is structured to make it almost easy to find one with the same name as yourself. Meet the uncannily apt Rodent Rob....

Simon Rogers, a data journalist and data editor at Google, created a series of maps showing the regional popularity of certain kinds of restaurant. ...

Pixel Chart splits images into their constituent pixels, then organizes them in various interesting ways that you can define. [via]...

It's El Sol in Harrisonburg, Va., according to Bombaskos on Reddit. [via]...

"A recent study conducted by Hasbro revealed that nearly half of game players attempt to cheat during Monopoly games, so in 2018, we decided it was time to give fans what they've been craving all alon...

A decade ago, J.K. Rowling famously told the world that Dumbledore was gay. Just don't expect it to be shown any time soon.Not explicitly, Yates replied when asked if the film makes it clear that Dumb...

Plenty of folks have bemoaned the disappearance of the audio jack from phones. Among other problems, it'll create "DRM for audio", since any sound that reaches your need-to-charge-them-all-the-time ea...

Whats old is new again in this weeks tabloids, which plunder the past for todays headlines.Child pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996, but the National Enquirer claims that its "investig...

Microfluidic systems that move and mix tiny amounts of liquids are used in laboratories for biotechnology, chemistry, and even the development of inkjet technology. Frequently, microfluidic devices ...

A mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in one location, but Seattle ad agency Cole & Weber believes that mass shootings happen every single day in America, just not all in one place. T...

United Airlines barred Dexter, an emotional support peacock, from boarding a flight at Newark International Airport on Saturday. From the Washington Post:United Airlines confirmed that the exotic anim...

An Amtrak train carrying GOP lawmakers and their staff to a retreat has collided with a garbage truck, killing at least one person, and injuring others. This is a developing story. (more…)...

So, geophysicists have been studying the earth's magnetic field, and they think it's getting ready to "flip" -- with the north and south poles changing places. (more…)...

Earlier this month, a game called HAPPY WORLD by Jimi Masuraki was released on itch.io. When I first downloaded it, I honestly thought I might play it for 15 minutes during my free-block at school, at...

Oil of wintergreen makes for lovely glowsticks, but the secret ingredient is the solvent used to create chemiluminescence. (more…)...

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.IF you like Tom the Dancing Bug, be part of the team that makes it happen: INNER HIVE! Join for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, c...

Some of these near-misses would probably have been catastrophic and unavoidable without predictive autopilot. (more…)...

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fancied herself an expert on etiquette this morning during an interview on CNN. While discussing Trump's State of the Union Speech, CNN's Chris Cuo...

Brenda Fitzgerald was Donald Trump's Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with reducing smoking among Americans and doing work that directly affected the financial fortu...

Surprise! Making perfect blackened salmon is easy. (more…)...

Artist Jenny Odell created the Bureau of Suspended Objects to photographically archive and researched the manufacturing origins of 200 objects found at a San Francisco city dump; last August, she prep...

Nerf has unveiled six new blasters that will ship in fall of 2018, with some pretty amazing features, as detailed in Josie Colt's Wired roundup: the N-Strike Elite Infinius has a funnel you pour ammo ...

The FCC's order killing Net Neutrality in December 2016 also includes a prohibition on states making their own telcoms rules that restore it (this is a mixed bag -- if states' rights don't permit them...

Comics writer G. Willow Wilson, who previously lived in Egypt and wrote for the opposition weekly Cairo Magazine, writes movingly and hauntingly on Twitter about the experience of a living in a state ...

Make No Law is a just-launched podcast hosted by Ken "Popehat" White (previously), a former Federal prosecutor who writes some of the best, most incisive legal commentary on the web; the first episode...

Before being hired to serve as CEO of Wag, a dogwalking startup that just received a $300,000,000 investment from Softbank, Hilary Schneider presided over Lifelock, a company whose fraudulent anti-fra...

Australian science fiction author Sean Williams (previously) is an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellow, who got to live in the Antarctic while researching an alternate War of the Worlds retellin...

Australian national broadcaster ABC has gotten hold of a massive trove of state secrets that were inadvertently sold off in a pair of cheap, locked filing cabinets purchased from a Canberra junk-shop ...

France is in turmoil. Heavy discounts of Nutella have resulted in "scenes of violence" at supermarkets as shoppers vie to obtain as much of the chocolate and hazelnut spread as possible. "They are lik...

Love it or hate it, Toto's 1982 soft rock mega-hit "Africa" is here to stay. But how did a band from Los Angeles get famous for a song about Africa?Dave Simpson of The Guardian recently interviewed ...

This might very well be my new favorite thing. While the "Super Big Wrapped in Warmth Happy Furry Jeans Sleeping Bag" looks like an oversized pair of dungarees, it's really just a giant novelty sleepi...

It's hard to imagine that contemporary discussions in the White House are even dumber than those between Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman.Nixon: The point that I make is that goddam...

Amy Shira Teitel of Vintage Space shares lots of cool facts about the golden age of space exploration. Here, she enumerates the engines (and motors) it took Apollo to get to the moon. (more…)...

At the Under the Radar Festival in New York City earlier this month, a crowd of soon-to-be singers rehearsed "back ups" for David Bowie's "Heroes." After an hour, they were performing the song with ...

There's SO much Star Wars merch out there and few galactic items catch my eye anymore. Well, that is until I came across this robotic vacuum POWERbot duo by Samsung. One looks like the head of a storm...

Glenn Payette is a TV news reporter for CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador. Over the years, his pronunciation of the name of the province's capital has undergone an amazing transformation. Previously:...

Multiplying large numbers before calculators led to a number of ingenious inventions to make things easier, like these Genaille-Lucas rulers demonstrated by the fine folks at DONG.Via manufacturer C...

Whether you aim to work in marketing, fashion, or even game design, one of the tools you'll need to get comfortable with is Adobe Photoshop. This image editing tool has become a staple for producing g...

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Vinyl jukeboxes are making a comeback, and Sound Leisure built this incredible Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band vinyl jukebox to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary. (more…)...

Except for some interior stairs and some retrofitted safety and stabilizing additions, the inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is smooth marble. This lovely tour goes all the way up to the bells at ...