Articles by BoingBoing from May 2019

China, Mexico -- He's gonna wreck the economy one way or another.President Trump tweeted today:On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico,...

(PHOTO: Kim Hyok Chol, left, and Kim Yong Chol at Beijing airport on Jan. 17, 2019, KYODO NEWS)Donald Trump appears to believe it is fun to yuk around with North Korea, but North Korea does not yuk ar...

Researchers report that a number of white supremacist/white nationalist/violent racist crackpot groups like the 'Proud Boys' and 'Soldiers of Odin' (gag) are doing just fine and being very active on F...

Deadwood: The Movie airs on HBO in the US on Friday, May 31.Can't wait for Swearingen's swears. Thirteen years after it was abruptly cancelled, David Milchs grimy, glorious western finally gets the en...

Anar writes, "Writer and scholar Rubn Gallo sheds light on a fascinating, obscure bit of history: After the press reported Freuds troubles in Nazi Austria his daughter was briefly detained by the Ges...

There's a wealth of psychological research that correlates wealthy people in the real world with negative traits like rudeness (people driving fancier cars are less considerate of pedestrians and thei...

You know what's better than a smartwatch? Literally everything else. But especially: the centuries' worth of wrist-mounted paint palettes worn by some artists.Some of these are humble affairs (a bit o...

When you talk to Alexa and other voice assistants, you have to phrase your requests by starting with their "wakeword" ("Alexa" "OK Google" "Siri" etc). This means that if you issue an instruction like...

Veteran transportation economics Hubert Horan has consistently published the best-informed, deepest critiques of Uber and Lyft, explaining how the companies can never, ever be profitable, and warning ...

Abby Smith, a graduating senior at West Virginia's Parkersburg High School, claims that her principal, Kenneth DeMoss, plagiarized his commencement speech from Ashton Kutcher's monologue at the 2013 T...

This dual-set (US and metric) set of Bondhus ball-end allen wrenches are on sale for . They have a lifetime warrantee and are highly rated on Amazon. Read the rest ...

The 1990s nanotechnology dream of tiny robots swimming through our blood stream to treat disease is moving (verrrry) slowly but surely toward reality. In a new milestone, researchers used an external ...

From The Pudding: a zoomable people map that shows the name of the person with the most Wikipedia traffic for any given city. I looked at Golden, CO (where I lived as a kid) and learned that actor Gre...

Last night, The Cure celebrated the 30th anniversary of their Disintegration LP by playing the entire album at the Sydney Opera House. They opened with an array of b-sides and demo tracks, moved into ...

Those rascal corpuscles!This empty bag of blood at the hospital looks like a snowy mountain scene Read the rest ...

In 1904 a Manhattan church outing descended into horror when a passenger steamboat caught fire on the East River. More than a thousand people struggled to survive as the captain raced to reach land. I...

Yesterday, a guest on the 28th floor at the Tidewater Resort on Panama City Beach caught this video of a big shark circling a lone woman who had no idea the animal was nearby. Eventually people on the...

This morning, Trump went on a rant about special counsel Bob Mueller, who reiterated yesterday that his investigation did not clear the President. He then tweeted that Russia helped him get electeda f...

Harrison Ford dedicates the Galaxy's Edge Falcon from r/StarWarsShe'll hold together.Reddit Read the rest ...

Eleven people have died so far this year on Mt Everest (aka Sagarmatha and Chomolungma), but that hasn't stopped climbers from attempting to ascend the world's highest mountain. The Instagram video be...

Chills. I get chills and I'm on the edge of tears. Read the rest ...

The "prosperity gospel" (previously) is a religious doctrine that encourages poor people to send specific amounts of cash (usually in the hundreds of dollars) to charismatic preachers, an act the prea...

While famed singer and songwriter Leon Redbone has passed away at the age of 69, the official announcement of his death claims he was 127.Variety:Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old...

Countless times I have frantically rummaged through my camping gear, digging for toilet paper as I madly need to go. My daughter never, ever, EVER returns toilet supplies to the same place. The Booty ...

5MadMovieMakers shows us the perfect way to ruin a xylophone: "A total of 374 black-and-white '65 Ford Mustangs hit some black-and-white xylophone keys to play the world's first die-cast song. ... Yes...

Ahead of this week's EU elections, the popular German Youtuber Rezo published a 55-minute video explaining the missteps of the ruling CDU party and other establishment parties in addressing climate ch...

Hey everyone, let us all take a Victory Poison Pill!ABC News:Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg, who signed the export order and also attended the Clean Energy Ministerial, said he w...

Phenomenal maker Simone Giertz shares some of her battle with her brain tumor and makes a great lamp out of her radiation mask. Read the rest ...

Julian Assange, imprisoned at Belmarsh on a 50-week sentence for jumping bail, was said by his lawyer to be too ill to appear by video link at a court hearing Thursday. The WikiLeaks founder is fighti...

AdAge reports that North Face successfully placed advertising into articles at Wikipedia, without other editors of the publicly-editable encyclopedia noticing. This effectively allowed North Face to c...

AdAge reports that North Face successfully placed advertising into articles at Wikipedia, without other editors of the publicly-editable encyclopedia noticing. This effectively allowed North Face to c...

AdAge reports that North Face successfully placed advertising into articles at Wikipedia, without other editors of the publicly-editable encyclopedia noticing. This effectively allowed North Face to c...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, How to Draw Doug, Walter-Higgins-Man, and much, much (much) MORE!...

Microsoft Excel know-how is a plus in nearly any business. More than just a spreadsheet program, this popular software suite has applications for data analytics, accounting, security and more. It can ...

Data scientist Tim Hopper noticed that Google Maps displayed a humungous word in the outback of Magwi County, South Sudan: "DEMO". https://t.co/TOJvHsxdD9 pic.twitter.com/UtHG6Jpgxz— Tim Hopper ...

The Open Insulin project ("a team of Bay Area biohackers working on newer, simpler, less expensive ways to make insulin") is trying to create an open source hardware system for making insulin in small...

Army National Guard Sergeant Franklin Richardson and his wife, Jessica, took their dog to Oktibbeha County Lake in Mississippi to enjoy a picnic by the water. As soon as they arrived, a woman in a Kam...

[Velma Demerson was jailed in 1939 and by the Ontario government for the "crime" of having a Chinese boyfriend; sixty years later, she began an ultimately successful legal challenge seeking reparation...

Amazon sells pig fetuses now. Twenty bucks and change. How about a sheep's brain? Delicious, I hear.No true connoisseur of the animal kingdom, however, would be caught without a large bucket of animal...

RFK Second Shooter Found! screams the cover of this weeks Globe, revealing the identity of the girl in a polka-dot dress seen leaving Robert F Kenned's assassination scene in 1968....

We've written extensively about the glories of the New York Public Library, from its talented book-sorters to its circulating collection of neckties and briefcases for job-seekers to the subway cars i...

I keep this ball and vase trick around because kids like it.Sure, you are brilliant. We get that know how it works. You can also read this post. While little kids often find card and coins tricks to b...

A year ago, Benjamin "Mako" Hill gave a groundbreaking lecture explaining how Big Tech companies had managed to monopolize all the benefits of free software licenses, using a combination of dirty tric...

For 17 years, I've been writing about the possibilities of "cognitive radio", in which radios sense which spectrum is available from moment to moment and collaborate to frequency-hop (and perform othe...

16GB is not a lot by today's flash storage standards but the price on this Kingston Digital 16GB Data Traveler 3.0 USB Flash Drive is a bargain. The 32GB and 64GB models are cheap, too. Perfect for y...

The Chinese central environment minister has released a report detailing thousands of instances of corruption and coverups from local governments in ten provinces last year: the report details instanc...

In 1851, Michael Faraday secretly measured the muscle movements of Ouija board users who believed that the planchette was under ghostly control. According to Faraday, the users were unconsciously movi...

Caterpillar, Inc., a company that manufactures construction equipment like bulldozers and tractors, sent a cease and desist to the Cat and Cloud coffee shop in Santa Cruz, California because the coffe...

William Happer -- a physicist and former Princeton professor -- already serves on Trump's National Security Council as deputy assistant for emerging technologies; but now he's been promoted to chair o...

How's this for a sales pitch: "The Weinermobile as a daily driver was a novelty and enjoyable for about a week. Now I suffer." It's yours for $7,000.Image: Craigslist Read the rest ...

Besides @jack, I can't think of a worse Twitter account than @twitter to have to manage. Read the rest ...

On June 7, the Prince estate will release Originals, a compilation of familiar songs that the artist put to tape as demos but eventually gave to other musicians to record and release. Included are the...

Kids is a new $3 video game that "allows you to move with and against crowds until everyone is gone."Here's a review on iTunes from KupaMan:This is a weird game. The combination of smooth animation, c...

The British empire was a globe-spanning criminal enterprise that produced vast riches for England (and, to a lesser extent, Scotland and Wales) by stealing the lands of others while slaughtering and e...

Boris Johnson (previously) is the racist, cowardly serial liar whose Old Etonian wealth and privilege warped and corrupted him into the kind of man who smashed up restaurants in acts of wanton, drunke...

"We chose those words carefully and the report speaks for itself."...

"There was a phantom beep going off somewhere in my house, driving me nuts," says Steve Onotera. "So using my audio engineering skills I set about to track it down." Read the rest ...

To boldly go where no pitchman has gone before.(via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest ...

Video artist Benjamin Grosser on his freakish supercut titled "Orders of Magnitude:"As the founder and CEO of the worlds largest social media corporation, what does Mark Zuckerberg think about? While ...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller will speak about the Russia investigation at about 11:00 am ET, according to an announcement released by the Trump administration early Wednesday morning.The press relea...

Fans of The Witcher are up in arms after leaked set photos suggest that ... changes ... have been made to the beloved game series' fantasy milieux. Darren Lim Geers:"The Witcher" Nilfgaardian armor in...

You can't solder a leak! "Take freash bread, take out the core, roll it into a tight ball, stuff it into the pipe, and it'll stop the leak long enough to let you solder the pipe.""I'm going to post th...

Unusually for retro game consoles, Polymega includes an optical drive and they offer five custom controllers to make it more fun to play games from all the old systems.Polymega is a modular multi-syst...

After too many trips to the mechanic, we're conditioned to think anything you add to our car is going to be expensive. In a word: Nope. Turns out there's plenty of tech you can add on to your car for ...

@BUGPOSTING discovered something funny and desperately sad at Target: "womens" laxatives in a special pink box at more than twice the price. The real difference appears to be that they are "Comfort Co...

The Universal Serial Bus first showed up in 1996, replacing SCSI and other interfacesand the haphazard wizardry it took to get anything working with them. That's not to say, however, that it was easyo...

I love it when really smart people, especially those well-versed in science, technology, and DIY, sit down and ramble on about whatever's currently tickling their proverbial fancies. In this video, Ad...

Facebook is about to pay the largest privacy-related fine in US history: $3-5B (the company made $3.3B in Q1/2019).The FTC's fines are a nice start, but fines are just part of the cost of doing busine...

Now *that* takes some real ducking talent.Costume designer and prop maker Melissa Vian [Instagram] shows off a duck-head mask she hand-glued thousands of feathers to herself. Amazing work. View this...

Bush baby go Boing.Boing Boing.[via] Read the rest ...

This is probably my favorite thing Ive ever drawn, writes IMGURian @smallssss. Its on the back of a pizza box but Im pleased with how it turned out.I'll say! Amazing work....And a more detailed view, ...

Facebook and Twitter each said on Tuesday they had disabled a sprawling disinformation campaign that appeared to originate in Iran, including two accounts on Twitter that mimicked Republican congressi...

You're browsing a news app on your phone in bed, alone, late at night. Did you know your physical location and IP address are being shared with the app maker?A new study reveals that many iOS apps, in...

The Navy is reviewing whether service members violated Defense Department regulations by wearing "Make Aircrew Great Again" uniform patches during President Trump's visit to their ship in Japan, repo...

Combining the public humiliation of racists and one of natures most delicious frosty treats is pure poetry in motion, writes Kim Kelly at VICE's Munchies, where we also read a disclaimer we'd like to ...

Ahh, thanks, New Orleans Fire Department.We needed these dumpster fire photos. Got a feeling people are going to be meme-ing these up in their Photoshop-o-matics a lot, and if you do, maybe you could ...

Transdigm is a notorious military supplier/hedge fund that used acquisitions to attain a monopoly over many spare parts so they could charge exorbitant markups -- as high as 4,451%! -- on materials pr...

US booksellers and public libraries are reporting strong growth in demand for print books, but research libraries are increasingly serving as archives, rather than references.Despite this, there is li...

MBA programs are the origin node of a lot of ugly, exploitative business trends over recent decades (see this excellent documentary for more), and their star is in decline, with MBAs commanding a much...

I bought this pistol grip garden hose nozzle in 2014 and it still works perfectly. I can control the flow from a cone of mist to a tight high-pressure beam by squeezing the trigger. For the price, it'...

Toronto's Metro Reference Library is hosting a Retro Futures exhibition until July 28, filled with exhibits from the collection of the Merril Collection (previously), the largest science fiction refer...

MakeCode Arcade is a Scratch-like programming language for writing retro-style games. In this video, John Park shows how to make arpeggio music using MakeCode arcade. In the early days of video games,...

Back in January, an Ontario court ruled that Uber's arbitration clause couldn't keep its drivers from suing it; Uber has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which has taken up the case and will h...

Scotty of Strange Parts went to Akihabara (an area in Tokyo loaded with electronics, game arcades, and maid cafes) and found these cool wireless LEDs that can be illuminated with inductive chargers. H...

I have 4 or 5 beautiful great horned owls in my backyard. I see them every day. This short National Geographic video explains why owls are such great hunters: huge light-sensitive eyes, fringed wings ...

Racism and oligarchy aren't merely Blue/Red phenomena: Connecticut has had a Democratic legislature for 22 years and a Democratic governor for eight years, and it is one of the nation's most racially ...

Fukuoka, Japan is home to the Ichiran ramen museum, where you can see ramen noodles being made. You can also eat at an Ichiran restaurant, where you buy a menu item ticket from a vending machine then ...

Fukuoka, Japan is home to the Ichiran ramen museum, where you can see ramen noodles being made. You can also eat at an Ichiran restaurant, where you buy a menu item ticket from a vending machine then ...

A swimming mouse is in a circular pond. A non-swimming cat on the perimeter of the pond can run four times as fast as the mouse can swim and will always run in the most optimal way around the pond to ...

F-Secure Labs used a bot to harvest and analyze high-ranked disinformation tweets aimed at influencing the EU elections; they found that some of the highest-ranked xenophobic/Islamophobic disinformati...

My brother was having a ton of issues with his home WIFI network. One quick look and his 7 to 10-year-old WIFI router suggested he needed a new one.The number of packets we expected early generations ...

This is thought to be the first photo of an all-albino panda. The beautiful animal was photographed by a trail camera at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, China. From The Guardia...

Douglas McLeod, (R-Lucedale), a Mississippi state representative accused of punching his wife in the face after she failed to quickly undress for sex, has released dual his-n-hers in which he does not...

Salto is a single-legged, hopping robot that its UC Berkeley inventors compare to a "hyper-aggressive pogo-stick." Previously, Salto was constrained to a highly-structured indoor environment with a mo...

Yennihlecm Montevideo plays another Song of Ice and Fire. This one's surpising and jaunty, at least until the end. Then, as with the TV series, we head into darker territory. Read the rest ...

From its archives, RT floats an Irishman with a motorized bar stool. It turns out that "I shall motorize this bar stool" is a frequent independent innovation, as many videos on YouTube attest. I've st...

Christian Cawley listicled 10 old devices upcycled to house a Raspberry Pi (including the Tomy toy dashboard OutRun previously at BB).Embedded above is a Pi, with a wee LCD monitor, embedded in a 1975...

2Doom is a 2D demake of the classic first-person shooter Doom, featuring faithfully-drawn sprites in a side-scrolling arcade adventure. [via Rob Sheridan]Despite its cute pixel art, prepare for an int...

In 1944, an American soldier discovered a Yorkshire terrier in an abandoned foxhole in New Guinea. Adopted by an Army photographer, she embarked on a series of colorful adventures that won the hearts ...

In a world oversaturated and overcomplicated with gadgets, it's good to see a laptop stand that knows how to just be a laptop stand. That knows how to do its job in the best way possible, getting out ...

Lightning hit a Russian Soyuz rocket right after liftoff today. The direct hit resulted in nothing more (and nothing less) than this thrilling video. From Space.com:The lightning strike occurred durin...

The owners of the Williamstown, Kentucky creationist theme park Ark Encounter, home to a 510 foot long model of the biblical Noah's Ark, are suing their insurance carriers for not covering $1 million ...

San Francisco: It's time again for the always-outstanding annual Kronos Festival, several days of fantastic global and experimental music curated by the seminal avant/classical/global Kronos Quartet. ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hiring a new staff copyright/trademark litigator, and "experience with or strong interest in patent, unfair competition, administrative law, privacy and/or First ...

Bloomberg's Ben Steverman offers a long and exciting profile of Gabriel Zucman (previously), a protege of Thomas Piketty (Zucman was one of the researchers on Piketty's blockbuster Capital in the 21st...

Paolo Bacigalupi's (previously) A Full Life is a new short story in MIT Technology Review that traces the hard young life of Rue, whose family has to move and move again as climate disasters destroy t...

Neal Stephenson's next novel is Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, an 880-page Stephsonian brick of a novel that has ample room for two novels, and that's because Stephenson actually stuck a second novel inside...

In 1954 a social psychologist started a war between two teams of fifth graders at an Oklahoma summer camp. He wanted to investigate the sources of human conflict and how people might overcome them. In...

Factor Daily's Gautham Shenoy (who reviewed the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction) reviews Magical Women, a new Indian feminist science fiction anthology edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan.Sh...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a vast storm system visible on the gas giant since at least the 1830s and perhaps the 1660s, is reportedly "unraveling." I havent seen this before in my 17-or-so years of ima...

AT&T has come a long way from the supernormative, feel-good messages of its You Will ads; now CEO Randall Stephenson predicts a future where his company will dynamically alter your TV ads based o...

CNBC profiles a small handful of young Americans who have moved abroad and ceased payments on their student debt, relying on international borders to protect them from their edu-creditors.It's not cle...

You need your gadgets, and your gadgets need a charge. We've rounded up ten pieces of gear that will do the trick, from sleek wireless pads to manual-powered emergency chargers. The best part: They're...

The New York Times reports that in 2014 and 2015, Navy pilots flying off the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt reported frequent encounters with UFOs and captured video of the sightings. I'm not say...

The government of Poland has filed a complaint with the European Court of Justice, arguing that the recently passed Copyright Directive amounts of a form of censorship, "forbidden not only in the Poli...

In January 2018, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd -- already an $93 million investor in Grindr -- bought out the company for a further $152m. Despite assurances to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...

Without generous financial support of six companies (AT&T, Eli Lily, Walmart, Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and Aetna), the politicians who are enacting bans on legal, safe abortion would not have attained ...

Young ones, gather round, and let Ole Grampa Doctorow tell you about the glory days, before the creation and deprecation of the <blink> tag, when tables were still a glimmer in a data-structur...

Just look at it.(Thanks, Mom!) Read the rest ...

Need to upgrade your sound? Bluetooth technology has never been better, but that's not the only reason to look into a new set of speakers or headphones. We found ten pieces of audio gear that are alre...

On May 26th, Europeans will vote for the next EU Parliament, and the region's far-right, "nationalist/anti-establishment" parties (AfD Germany, UKIP/Brexit UK, PiS/Poland, etc) are expected make large...

The recent redefinition of the kilogram based on quantum physics and Plancks constant has had major ramifications in this weeks tabloids, where such weighty issues as celebrity body fat and how many A...

Trying to earn a promotion? Memorial Day weekend might be a good place to start. There are tons of e-learning packages that can help you build professional skills a lot quicker (and cheaper) than any ...

First American Financial Corp is a Fortune 500 company that insures titles on peoples' property; their insecure website exposed 885,000,000 records for property titles, going back 16 years, including ...

Welly, welly, well, to what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this ganjy gadget? Whats it going to be then, eh? There was me, that is Lexa, and my pelendus Pria, Georgina, and Dim, all sat in the So Mi...

Back in April, Andrew Albanese from Publishers Weekly wrote a column deploring the abysmal formatting in the DoJ's release of the Mueller Report, and publicly requesting that the Digital Public Librar...

Making a Turing machine is a kind of nerd rite of passage, like manually editing your X11 settings or building a two-second time-machine. As far back as 2005, we were chronicling the adventures of Leg...

Hashimoto Baku ("a Tokyo based video director/visual artist/developer") digs into fascinating depth on the "slit-scan" technique: "[imagine] a quite thick flipbook that all frames of a video are bound...

*not reallyAnxiety and depression are deeply inter-related and both are among the most terrible things I have ever experienced.This is in no way to say that they are worse than other things. Its not a...

There are so many things to love about Stephen Colbert. For me, his unapologetic nerdiness is high on that list. His obviously large and tender heart is, too. These two impulses come together in this ...

Amazon has a good sale on the 11-3/4" x 8-1/4, twin wire bound, 70 sheets/140 pages Black n' Red notebook. It has a 4.3 star rating with over 523 customer reviews. Read the rest ...

From a Cornell University paper by Egor Zakharov, Aliaksandra Shysheya, Egor Burkov, and Victor Lempitsky titled "Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models"Several recent w...

I bought a bread lame.A friend of mine is doing all sorts of fancy scoring to his bread. Mine just tastes good.I will try to make some fancy cuts in some bread soon, it will probably taste the same. T...

"Its a lie. I made the whole thing up. Now I'm in huge trouble." That's what Shane Morris is now saying about his epic twitter story about buying an old van, finding a brick of heroin taped to the whe...

Germany's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer -- a hardliner who has called for cameras at every "hot spot" in Germany -- has announced that he will seek a ban on working cryptography in Germany; he will...

How do quartz watches keep time? Steve Mould gives a great demonstration explaining how they work. Quartz is piezoelectric, which means when it is deformed it generates an electrical signal. A quartz ...

A group of Quaker investors called Friends Fiduciary have introduced a shareholder motion that was backed by the owners of more than a million Comcast shares, calling on the company to voluntarily dis...

Some people shiver with delight at whispers and certain kinds of soft sounds. A psychologist/neuroscientist at Manchester University named Nick Davis tells Wired about the science behind these "brain ...

Remember when Russia was our friend? Read the rest ...

It is, as they say, a running joke. One meticulously catalogued here by Noah Spongy and Jasbre. Read the rest ...

The bookends ($79) are the clear winner here, but the robot hand tankard ($58) is pretty sweet too; they're made of painted resin (with a stainless steel insert in the tankard), pre-order now for July...

Despite 15 years of legal action, jailed founders, and countless takedown demands, The Pirate Bay still remains live on the 'net.This is the story of a plain-looking website that sprung from the most ...

I spun til I was dizzy as fuck on that exact same Sit and Spin!Rockin' out. Read the rest ...

What is going on.This appears to be a slurred tweet from Rudy Giuliani piling on to an orchestrated political attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But honestly, who knows anymore? Yesterday, Trump an...

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced she would stand down as the leader of the Conservative Party on June 7, triggering a party leadership race. She will remain Prime Minister until a replacem...

Lo, how the mighty have fallen.Theresa May, yes, but also Steve Bannon.Steve Bannon is in Almaty, Kazakhstan, today, just a few of days before the long-planned handover of power from President Nursult...

There's no sound in this video, posted by KARK 4 News, depicting two barges slurped inexorably into a dam on the Arkansas River.According to locals, the unmanned barges were loaded with fertilier and ...

Hackers have breached Perceptics, which sells border security technology and license plate reader systems and the like to governments and other entities. The U.S. government uses their readers, includ...

Abuse happened at Snapchat a "few times," staff tells Motherboard...

Author Naomi Wolf has a new book coming out titled "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love". It's about the emergence of homosexuality as a concept and its criminalization in 19th-c...

An Orlando homeowner owned a second lot next to the house. He added a pool that straddled the property lines. Then, following foreclosure, the two lots were sold to different owners, one of whom erect...

If you're into tools or gadgets, Memorial Day weekend is your Christmas. Take an extra 15% off the final price of these DIY accessories - all of which are already on sale - by entering the promo code ...

[UPDATE 5/23/19. 2:44pm PT: a Google spokesperson contacted me with the following statement: "We have restored access to the Gmail accounts for the Baltimore city officials. Our automated security sys...

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The U.S. Department of Justice today indicted Wikileaks' Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, the first time a publisher has been charged for revealing classified information.Kevin Poulsen and Bets...

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Edgeryders -- "a company living in symbiosis with an online community of thousands of hackers, activists, radical thinkers and doers, and others who want to make a difference" -- is offering up to EUR...

A new study reported in Nature (Sci-Hub mirror) tracks down the origins of the mysterious rise in CFC-11, a banned ozone-depleting greenhouse gas whose rise was first reported a year ago, and blames t...

Mark Zuckerberg offered to let Chinese premier Xi Jinping name his firstborn (seriously), Apple purged the Chinese App Store of privacy tools at the request of the politburo; Google secretly built a c...

Aukey has a good deal on its MFi-certified 6' braided Lightning cable. To get the deal, click the coupon check box on the product page and use Amazon promo code WKX3ZTCR at checkout. Read the rest ...

This is one of Screen Rant's best "Pitch Meeting" episodes ever. Now I don't want to and don't need to see the final season of Game of Thrones. [Contains spoilers.] Read the rest ...

This German police officer doesn't take kindly to drivers who slow down to photograph a fatal crash.Image: YouTube[via Digg] Read the rest ...

The Virginia Pirate Corporation is a startup that brokers sales of used textbooks at colleges; they're suing North Charleston, SC's Trident Technical College over its inclusion of textbook fees in tui...

LuLaRoe, a multi-billion dollar maker of garishly patterned garments, has been hit with multiple lawsuits for being a pyramid scheme. Vice has a 30-minute documentary about the company. Read the rest ...

Mountain View -- home to some of Silicon Valley's most profitable companies, including Google -- is one of the most expensive places in the world to live, thanks to the sky-high wages commanded by tec...

From 6PM-730PM tonight (Thursday, May 23), I'm presenting at the Exposition Park Library (Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, 3900 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90062) on the problems of Big Te...

It took Canadian cartoonist Seth twenty years to complete his graphic novel Clyde Fans, and it was worth the wait. Seth is one of the greatest living cartoonists, and I've been a fan of his work since...

Even with the cool motorcycles, only ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica 1980 were made.Enjoy Episode 1. The reboot needed daggits. Read the rest ...

Playdate is a tiny yellow game console with a hand-crank (!) and a monochrome display. It's being made by Panic and Teenage Engineering, with a launch roster full of game auteurs such as Keita Takahas...

It comes in a squeeze bottle.Calgary Herald:The name seems pretty logicalthough some would argue ketchonnaise would be betterbut in certain Cree dialects it comes off as less than appealing.To some, M...

The Rose Kuli 7" multi-tool looks like an Acme Product of cartoon provenance.It's a hammer! It's got pliers! Is that an ax blade? Small size wrenches?! A nail file? This multi-tool even has a phillips...

They're semi-rebooting The Terminator, marking the first two (three?) movies as canon and relegating all the others to the franchise's timey-wimey parallel universes. Linda Hamilton is back, and so, o...

The incredible human misery on display at the workhouse attached to central London's Middlesex Hospital inspired Charles Dickens to write "Oliver Twist"; now, Camden council has granted a developer pe...

It's not just pitch correction: with modern music-making software, it's as easy to snap analog recordings of instruments to a time signature as it is to program EDM. When everything is quantized, says...

If you can build a cloud infrastructure, you can build a business. Companies are overwhelmingly turning to cloud computing to set up or bolster their network, and it's easy to see why. It allows on-de...

"That's incredible, I mean, I've felt these bricks, these are real bri", says TV host Steve Uyehara as the brick turns to dust at his lightest touch. [via Reddit] "Oh! Whoa! Whaaaaaa! Check it out, ba...

George Best, a soccer legend from Northern Ireland, was immortalized in bronze, but it more closely resembles Pazuzu, the hideous demon infesting the Exorcist series of movies. Sure, it's not as bad a...

Ziya Tong is a veteran science reporter who spent years hosting Discovery's flagship science program, Daily Planet: it's the sort of job that gives you a very broad, interdisciplinary view of the scie...

Every year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presents its Pioneer Awards (previously); now renamed the Barlow Award in honor of EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow, who died last year.Nominations for t...

[Kathe Koja is one of my favorite writers (actually, she's two of my favorite writers!) and her latest project, am immersive, mixed-reality dance club, is so unbelievably cool that I jumped at the cha...

There's a long list of chemicals you can't put in cosmetics in Europe that are found widely on American store shelvesoften from the same companies. Oliver Milman reports on "enfeebled" U.S. regulators...

In a new paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a team from Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business found that people look more favorably on exploiting workers (making do "extra...

The Procedurally-Generated Dog Simulator is a fun illustration of pathfinding and cellular automata. All you do is walk around a cave, being followed by a single-pixel pup who is liable to get distrac...

Polygamy cult known for ritualized child rape believed to have bought property, begun construction of underground compound in Northern Minnesota. Polygamist and convicted felon Seth Jeffs, brother of ...

Tiffany Cabn is a 31 year old, Democratic Socialist, queer, Latinx public defender in New York City, who is running a grassroots campaign for the District Attorney's office in Queens; she's secured ba...

Sofar Sounds is an "uber for live music" startup that just closed a $25m round of investment for its product, which books house-shows -- where musicians show up and play in your living room for you an...

Trump was elected by old white people who are certain they'll be dead before climate change renders the planet uninhabitable, but who are also seriously invested in continuing to receive Social Securi...

A woman allegedly stole a recreational vehicle in Los Angeles County and caused at least six accidents and three hospitalizations while police chased after her.The driver, Julie Ann Rainbird (52) of W...

In a new paper for IEEE Security, a trio of researchers (two from Cambridge, one from private industry) identify a de-anonymizing attack on Iphones that exploits minute differences in sensor calibrati...

Thangrycat is a newly disclosed vulnerability in Cisco routers that allows attackers to subvert the router's trusted computing module, which allows malicious software to run undetectably and makes it ...

Modern metropolises are teeming with police and national guards at the ready. They are well-equipped for dealing with riots, hostage situations, and the like. But they can't do much against people who...

Your car is basically a smartphone with wheels, and it gathers up to 25gb/hour worth of data on you and your driving habits -- everything from where you're going to how much you weigh. Cars gather you...

Amami shima is a small Japanese island a little north of Okinawa. A plant called cycad grows in abundance there. It's poisonous unless it is properly prepared by drying and fermenting it. This video s...

President Donald Trump uses Twitter to bully, mislead, and incite. Many believe that Twitter is wrong not to ban Trump because Trump constantly violates the site's terms of use.But Ev Williams, who co...

NASA invites you to enter into a drawing to have your name sent to Mars on a chip.NASA:Although it will be years before the first humans set foot on Mars, NASA is giving the public an opportunity to s...

The American Law Institute is a group of 4,000 judges, law profs and lawyers that issues incredibly influential "restatements" of precedents and trends in law, which are then heavily relied upon by ju...

From Mark Harris at the Economist, this news: The Federal Communications Commission has granted PointView Tech, a subsidiary of Facebook, permission to operate its experimental millimeter-wave CubeSat...

This is an excellent animated true story narrated by a woman who talks about the first time she took LSD, which was with strangers in a Cambodian beach town.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

The most beautiful motorcycle of all time. The boxer engine is a marvel. Read the rest ...

My daughter and I recently discovered our copy of Operation under her bed. Some fresh batteries and we were removing his funny bone!Still the exact same game we all remember, unless our copy is really...

Mlem mlem mlem.We should all be so lucky as to find this level of bliss and comfort.Sweet dreams are made of these...[via IMGUR] Read the rest ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH clever Democrats figure out the best way to beat Trump in 2020!...

Use code 5MJTEWZF and get this electric-arc lighter at a healthy discount on Amazon. It's much better than butane firestarters for lighting candles or starting barbecues because it has a built-in USB ...

No Collusion No Obstruction. Got it.Graphic design is their passion. This totally accurate infographic looks so powerful and compelling, it could only have been Photoshopped by a Trump intern in WordP...

What a coincidence....

He calls it YouTube's most unusual bicycle commute. It's a fair claim, too, what with pedaling daily through cavernous limestone mines repurposed as The Springfield Underground, a secure business park...

A Bloomsburg University professor was fired for having sex with two of his female students, but a Pennsylvania court has ordered that it reinstate him. Pennlive:The Commonwealth Court ruling upholds a...

58-year-old Republican lawmaker Douglas McLeod was arrested this week after allegedly punching his wife in the face for not undressing quickly enough when he wanted sex. McLeod, Mississippi state repr...

Boeing's 737 Max won't fly in European skies until the Aviation Safety Agency completes an independent review of its flightworthiness, reports Bloomberg, underscoring a loss of confidence in its U.S. ...

Does your gaming setup need an upgrade? No need to wait for Christmas. We've rounded up the latest tech accessories for your favorite video game platforms. All of them are already sale priced, but you...

No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batm...

The founder of a Silicon Valley bio-testing startup stands accused of misleading investors, cutting scientific corners in the quest for growth, and even romancing a fellow executive. Theranos? Nope. u...

Oculus Quest, the so-called 'iPod of VR', is now shipping....

It's a 2d projection of a rhombic hexecontahedron, first generated by Mathematica's namesake programming language back in the 1980s, when it was as damned close to magic as anything in computer scienc...

Newly obtained documents show that under the administration of Donald Trump, thousands of ICE detainees who are mostly from Central America are sometimes forced into extended periods of solitary confi...

In this footage from 2016, tornado-hunters get rather too close to a big'un near Wray, Colorado: "we're out of gas!" Read the rest ...

A new study on polar ice sheet melt warns that global sea levels could rise by almost six feet by the year 2100, an estimate twice as high as previously predicted.The newly modeled sea level rise woul...

Russian nuclear capable long-range bombers flew within 200 miles of Alaska's coast...

Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist was at Maker Faire Bay Area again this year and this time he and Lenore Edman made large models of integrated circuits to show how they worked. In this video Windel...

Trump Did Not Pick HUD Secretary for Smarts, Nope...

The House Judiciary Committee today asked for testimony from Hope Hicks (at left, in the image shown here) and Annie Donaldson (at right) by next month. The subpoenas are part of an ongoing investiga...

Russian agent's Instagram video from Oklahoma jail asks for funds from internet supporters...

Sourdough baking is only hard if you want it to be. I took my starter on the road and made a lovely loaf of rye bread with my first try.I am heading out on an early summer of adventure with the dogs, ...

An increase in armed muggings have caused a spike in sales of dummy smartphones that on first glance look real. (You can buy one from Amazon for around $20.) Apparently they were first sold as display...

In Social medias enduring effect on adolescent life satisfaction, a pair of Oxford psych researchers and a colleague from Stuttgart's University of Hohenheim review a large, long-running data-set (Und...

The first episode of the 22nd season of the children's animated show Arthur, titled "Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone," premiered last week but Alabama Public Television has refused to air it. Why?...

It was suggest I watch European magnet fishing videos. These Dutch master fisherman hit the jackpot. Read the rest ...

PWC reports that the top reason that CEOs from large companies are fired is no longer related to bad financial performance or board conflict as has been the case for nearly two decades of their CEO Su...

Recent headlines from satirical articles published at Reductress:I Believe God Gave Us All Free Will Except Pregnant WomanSenator Says the Only Acceptable Way to Kill a Fetus Is With a Gun""Life Is S...

Nearly two weeks after the city of Baltimore's internal networks were compromised by the Samsam ransomware worm (previously), the city is still weeks away from recovering services -- that's weeks duri...

I am hoping the LEGO Boost creative toolbox will pair one hobby my kid loves with another she doesn't yet have.My child builds LEGO as if she were Zach the maniac of old. We have a very large collecti...

Cannabidiol (CBD), a cannabis component that doesn't get you high but seems to have countless other benefits, has now been shown to reduce heroin cravings and the anxiety that's triggered when jonesin...

Even if Shane Morris's Elmore Leonard-esque story about accidentally transporting a brick of heroin and then ripping off the dealers who owened it has been embellished, I can almost guarantee Hollywoo...

I somehow doubt this will be the final word.Scientific American:After the show ran ahead of the novels, however, it was taken over by powerful Hollywood showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. Some...

Next year, NASA's Artemis 1 mission will carry a baker's dozen of small cubesats to space, including one that's home to a colony of yeast cells. That cubesat, BioSentinel, will orbit the sun to help s...

Mike Moffitt sums up the empirical work on the impact of rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft for cities: an increase in congestion, especially downtown, especially during "surges" (Uber and Lyft in...

Fortnite Over Forty has become a booming little community of mature video game enthusiasts who are positive, supportive and inclusive. Mostly we play Fortnite.A while back some friends and I were look...

Joe Navarro was a body language expert for the FBI. His job was to catch spies. In this Wired video, he shares some tips. He also busts some myths. For instance, a lot of people think that crossed arm...

More mobile devices are requiring USB-C charging, and this Aukey car charger has one, along with a normal USB port. It barely sticks out of a car's 9-volt charging port, to the point that some people ...

Hans from the Dutch activist group Bits of Freedom writes, "Wednesday May 15, 2019, Facebooks Head of Public Policy for the Netherlands spoke at a round table in the House of Representatives about dat...

Roguelike games (previously) are "a subgenre of role-playing video game characterized by a dungeon crawl through procedurally generated levels, turn-based gameplay, tile-based graphics, and permanent ...

Watching this video is the closest thing to shrooms I've yet experienced online. Not so much in the content, but rather the way hallucinatory changes to reality outpace your conscious awareness of th...

It's not quite natural selectioncreator Johan Eliasson picks which cars get to reproducebut there's something amazing about these virtual cars learning to drive around a track without even knowing the...

Improv doesn't have to be funny, but it is a lot easier to watch when it is. This conversation with Jason Mantzoukas, who portrayed Tik Tok in the John Wick series and Rafi in the phenomenal The Leagu...

Here's an interesting example of how journalists sometimes use a version of the facts to support faleshoods. Check out the following, posted by Daily Mail reporter David Martosko, quoting a teenager o...

Raspberry Pi is one of the world's most versatile open-source computers. Alexa is a home automation hub with limitless potential. Together, they're a dream team for ambitious makers, opening the door ...

Betsy DeVos used personal email accounts for her government work as the Secretary of Education in 'limited' cases, the Inspector General said. The report also found DeVos did not consistently preserve...

PLEASE let us take the gloves off trump! he texted another agent....

Trump directed ex WH lawyer McGahn NOT to testify before House Dems about Mueller report...

Trump directed ex WH lawyer McGahn NOT to testify before House Dems about Mueller report...

The Trump administration is ending funding for a network of research centers focused on environmental threats to kids, imperiling several long-running studies of pollutants' effects on child developme...

Billionaire Goldman Sachs alum Robert F Smith made headlines when he donated enough cash to pay off the student loan debt of the entire Class of 2019 at Morehouse College; but Smith is also an ardent ...

TOSsed Out is a new project from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that catalogs the myriad of ways in which Big Tech platforms' moderation policies backfire spectacularly, like the anti-terrorism po...

U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday...

I always travel with a pack of Sugru, because it is great for repairing things like broken zippers, frayed cables, and cracked plastic parts. It's like silly putty that dries into hard rubber. Amazon ...

Oliver Brotherhood is a British vlogger with over 3 million subscribers who has produced a string of very popular Minecraft-related videos under the name Mumbo Jumbo; yesterday, in the space of two ho...

A warning for the good people of Wyoming! You never know when a trigger-happy Colorado cop might drop by to see the sights.Emily Mieure, from The Jackson Hole News & Guide:Mr. Becerra, a diminuti...

A warning for the good people of Wyoming! You never know when a trigger-happy Colorado cop might drop by to see the sights.Emily Mieure, from The Jackson Hole News & Guide:Mr. Becerra, a diminuti...

Last week, an employee of a Starbucks in Mill Valley, California, just north of San Francisco, found a tiny digital camera hidden in a bathroom air freshener. At the time of the police statement below...

A massive database hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Mumbai-based internet company Chtrbox that contained contact info for millions of Instagram accounts for influencers, celebrities and brands ...

OG Users is a forum for people who steal login credentials for online services, mostly to sell desirable login-names for popular services like Instagram; it attained notoriety when Motherboard's Loren...

When Radio Shack released the Model 100 in 1983, it was a breakthrough for portable computing: an AA-battery-powered laptop that you could fit in a briefcase, with a built-in modem and an instant-on M...

The great Patti Smith collaborated with New York City experimental audio artists Soundwalk Collective on the forthcoming LP "Peyote Dance," a celebration of French avant-garde dramatist and poet Anton...

Writing in Wired, Zeynep Tufekci (previously) echoes something I've been saying for years: that the use of Digital Rights Management technologies, along with other systems of control like Terms of Ser...

"Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions," writes Amy MacKinnon for Foreign Policy. "When communism collapsed...

Huh. Looks like vanilla....

A new definition of kilogram went into effect today. No longer is the kilogram defined by Le Grand K, a 140-year-old weight under glass in a secret location near Paris. Now it's determined by the Plan...

As this camera moves along a Japanese conveyor belt sushi restaurant, it captures diners in the booths. Some people notice and wave, others are engrossed in conversation or studying the menu. The soun...

Guatemalan minor is fourth to have died in custody under Trump campaign...

Google has published the results of a study of the efficacy of standard anti-account-hijacking techniques like two-factor authentication (2FA), secret questions, and passwords: the good news is that w...

I dont think I could concoct a more predatory scheme if I tried. This was modern-day indentured servitude. That's what Roger Bertling, the senior instructor at Harvard Law Schools clinic on predatory ...

Writing in Fortune, Beth Kowitt gives us a look inside the Googler Uprising, wherein Google staff launched a string of internal reform movements, triggered first by the company's secret participation ...

Brian Brushwood of Scam Nation invited Rick Smith Jr. to come on his show and teach people how to toss a coin and control which side it lands on.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

A Vice correspondent went to a New Jersey tanning salon called Sizzle Tans, which "has received a heap of one-star reviews from people claiming to have experienced bad customer service and subpar tan...

I just laugh and laugh. The calm announcer could only be improved with the addition of Yakety Sax. Read the rest ...

In 1986, Chicago's local TV news discovered the city's pioneering house music scene, featuring the likes of Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Steve "Silk" Hurley. From this groove came the groove of all gr...

The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic portable gaming console that is made better with a portable dock.I like to plug an Xbox controller into my Nintendo Switch. There is but a single USB-C port on the d...

From Kevin Parry:Using my stop-motion animation know-how to explore the patterns inside of various fruits and vegetables! This looks super tedious, but I actually had a lot of fun slicing them frame b...

While I have a deep respect for non-newtonian fluid's ability to improve protective gear and wear motorcycle armor made of it, the hydraulic press is a nearly unstoppable force. Read the rest ...

Magnet fishing, or the art of dropping a magnet into deep water with a rope attached to it, is almost as compelling to watch as drain clearing!These intrepid archaeologists seem pretty satisfied they...

I've tried a few times to make useful yet portable things out of wood and never really succeeded. To cut a long story short, what I never realized was that handsaws sold in home improvement stores are...

Thanks to a "the use of new strategies discovered by a brute-forcing bot," this computerized speedrun of Arkanoid (on the NES) comes in at 11 minutes and change. To be absolutely clear: this isn't a c...

Two weeeks ago, it was a coffee cup. For the finale, a final insult: water bottles visible on-stage throughout the last episode's scene. Read the rest ...

Here's the first 14 of 100 proofs that the Earth is a globe, with the rest still to come author David Morgan-Mar. [via]1. The Blue MarbleThe most straightforward way to check the shape of the Earth is...

Last night, Game of Thrones' last episode played out. Without spoiling details, the fan consensus is that while the writing was as bad as the rest of the show's abrupt and stumbling final season, sati...

Heads up: The clock is winding down on a free-entry contest to win not only one of the best smartphones on the market but a handy pair of earbuds. A simple sign-up is all you need to be eligible to wi...

Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn noticed an unusual, mislabeled eBay listing for a rare beauty: an IBM System/360 in Nuremberg for peanuts. So they set out to do what any self-respecting IBM System/36...

No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batm...

From 6PM-730PM this Thursday, May 23, I'm presenting at the Exposition Park Library (Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Library, 3900 S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90062) on the problems of Big Tech an...

The 2019 Nebula Awards were announced and presented last night in Los Angeles: the prize for best novel went to Mary Robinette Kowal (previously for The Calculating Stars.The award-winners from last n...

Bernie Sanders has released A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education, a detailed and bold suite of public education reforms reminiscent of the kinds of policy planks being laid down regularly by ...

US District Judge Robert N Scola recused himself from a class action suit against Unitedhealthcare that alleges that Unitedhealthcare denied them promising proton beam cancer treatments by falsely cla...

Wil Wheaton's 2017 standalone novelette Dead Trees Give No Shelter is a beautiful, spooky horror story in the vein of Stranger Things, following Jay Turner as he returns to the small Ohio town where h...

Kudos to those of us who have chosen a less wasteful third option to "paper or plastic" at the supermarket or club stores. Tote bags are reusable, but they can be a pain to tote around.Here's an upgra...

P.S. Billy Joel is Jobriath for heterosexuals. Read the rest ...

Bad Hombre is an award-winning satirical game created by 16-year-old Jackie George. Two days after it won the Shortly Award and was recognized in her school newsletter, Bad Hombre was removed from bot...

Pangea was founded by Al Goldstein, a Deutsche Bank investment banker who quit to found a massive, intercontinental payday lending outfit; he tapped the investors that he enriched with his payday lend...

In 2014, Quentin Tarantino sued Gawker for publishing a link to a leaked pre-release screener of his movie "The Hateful Eight." The ensuing court-case revealed that the screeners Tarantino's company h...

Gilead makes a drug called Truvada -- AKA Prep -- that was developed at US taxpayer expense, whose patents are held by the US government; Truvada is on track to eliminating the spread of HIV forever (...

Looking for a career in IT, gaming or software development? In the ever-changing world of the internet, versatility is your biggest asset. In other words, mastering Java might not cut it in an intervi...

After a blizzard of state-level Republican attacks on the right of women to choose whether to carry a fetus to term, Elizabeth Warren has added another plank to her campaign platform: Congressional Ac...

For years it was one of the most lighty-amusing running jokes in memedom: The Onion's ongoing series of stories about then-VP Joe Biden, portraying him as Diamond Joe, everyone's favorite lewd but obv...

Margrethe Vestager (previously) is the EU Commissioner responsible for handing out billions in fines to Big Tech to punish them for monopolistic practices.Vestager and I both appeared on the bill at R...

In 2017, an engineer and entrepreneur sued Techdirt for criticising his claim to have invented email. Though a district court soon dismissed the lawsuit on First Amendment grounds, appeals and wrangli...

Nit pickers rejoice: Revisit the infamous coffee cup from this season, rubber swords, and other goofs and gaffs in Westeros. Read the rest ...

Economist international editor Edward Lucas devotes 4,000+ words in the new issue of Foreign Policy to the changing landscape of state espionage in the 21st century; it's not particularly well-organiz...

Reddit user BeardoGREG shared this unusual selfie of his family. I was mightily confused until one commenter explained it: "You were shot out of a cannon. The cannon is behind you and you are flying s...

In the 1970s, the great R&B singer and actor Lou Rawls urged everyone to take their high blood pressure medication. With soul. "Do it for them." A public service announcement from the Ad Council....

Ross Anderson (previously) is one of the world's top cryptographers; the British academic and practitioner was honored by having his classic, Security Engineering, inducted into The Cybersecurity Cano...

Researchers from the University of Zurich's Robotics and Perception Group designed an event camera system for drones. In the video above, the fun starts at 1:25. As explained by IEEE Spectrum, "These ...

For just $15, you can have your own GP-5 Original Soviet Civilian Protective Gas Mask. The seller reassures us that the standard issue asbestos filter has been replaced by activated charcoal. Shipping...

I rarely look forward to movies that do not have Star Wars in the title. John Wick, however, is the story of a man's love for his puppy, and a classic American muscle car. I am totally on board. Read ...

Two years ago, a Taiwan court ruled that its laws forbidding same-sex marriage were unconstitutional. Now legislators there voted to make it the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage. Th...

A Charleston man was charged with fraud this week [justice.gov] after investigators unraveled an elaborate scheme to take control of IP addresses. More than 750,000 were snagged, reports the BBC, then...

The Lake Dunlap spillway suffered a catastrophic failure earlier this week, and it was all caught on camera: an old dam gate keeling over and allowing water to surge into the waterway beyond. But it's...

After suffering hydraulic problems, an F-16 fighter jet crashed into a California warehouse Thursday. The pilot ejected safely and no-one on the ground was seriously harmed; a nearby driver captured t...

Getting a set of cookware that will outlast you is one of those signs you've truly grown up. It used to be easy to find durable materials that also cook well, but these days it can be hard to tell wha...

Tardar Sauce, a cat known to many as Grumpy Cat due to her distinctive facial expression and 2012 viral video success, died Tuesday due to complications of an infection. The BBC:Her image quickly spre...

How messed up is America? This messed up. Schoolteachers are being encouraged to use an app to alert police and school employees about an active shooting incident in real time, as the mass shooting ha...

Donald Trump reportedly wants his 'Border Wall' painted black and with spiky spikes.Before Donald Trump became president, he is reported to have spent much of his time reviewing color swatches for hot...

A Washington, D.C. judge today ordered the U.S. Justice Department to post public transcripts of a Michael Flynn voicemail that reportedly captures Trump/Congress efforts "that could have affected bot...

When Carlos Castaneda spoke of a separate reality, he could easily have been thinking of this weeks through-the-looking-glass tabloids.How else to explain the Globe cover story: Malia Obama Caught Up ...

Competition scholar Tim Wu (previously) is one of the most cogent, accessible voices in the antitrust debate; his recent book on the subject is a must-read; this week, he debated George Mason Universi...

Competition scholar Tim Wu (previously) is one of the most cogent, accessible voices in the antitrust debate; his recent book on the subject is a must-read; this week, he debated George Mason Universi...

This week's Christchurch Call event in Paris brought together politicians, tech execs and civil society to discuss means of "countering violent extremism" online; it was convened by New Zealand Prime ...

I love Hugo and Nebula-Award winner Jo Walton's science fiction and fantasy novels (previously) and that's why it was such a treat to inaugurate my new gig as an LA Times book reviewer with a review o...

Last month, Israeli non-profit SpaceIL's Beresheet probe made it to the lunar surface but sadly it wasn't a soft landing. Beresheet was the first private attempt at a lunar landing and they got pretty...

Trump's initial appointee to run the EPA was Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace in 2018 amid a massive corruption scandal in which he was found to have spent lavishly and assigned improper persona...

Officials have gathered up more than 4,000 residents over the past two years for deradicalization and textile-making courses. An important and difficult read in the Wall Street Journal today about the...

Hangnails bother me so much that when I get one, I can't think of anything else until I get rid of it. I will even bite it off if I am without clippers (this doesn't work well and usually results in b...

Serving in the US military has long been a path to citizenship for immigrants to the USA, but after a suite of reforms instituted by the Trump regime, immigrants who serve in the US military are less ...

Dog Break.Got some sweet wholesome loving dog content for your internet experience. Momma golden retriever.Poppa golden retriever.Big floofy pile of adorable beribboned baby golden retriever pups.Oh y...

Those googly eye glasses sure do the trick.Can hardly tell he's still a Great Dane.Dogs really are the best people.Dogs are the best people.[via IMGURian @JimmyTheHand03] Read the rest ...

California bans eating roadkill in part because it's viewed as a temptation for poachers to disguise their kills as road accidents; but that means a lot of game goes to waste (at least 20,000 deer alo...

Pussy Galore: My name is Pussy Galore.Bond: I must be dreaming. Read the rest ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says that after the Mueller Report was published, the FBI came to him to explain its conclusion that at least two Florida county's voting machines were hacked by Russians...

#Batwoman is coming Sundays this Fall to The CW....

You've heard of those dog-walking apps like Wag, where you can summon someone to go walk your dog? Now there's a thing like that but for humans in Los Angeles, California.Meet Chuck McCarthy, the Peop...

Ransomware has been around since the late 1980s, but it got a massive shot in the arm when leaked NSA cyberweapons were merged with existing strains of ransomware, with new payment mechanisms that use...

Just after teenage Edward Furlong blew up in Terminator 2, he released an album, titled "Hold On Tight," in Japan. It also enjoyed a CD and vinyl release in South Korea and sweet sweet cassette in Ind...

Guccis new $800 Indy Full Turban was not a good idea.As a Sikh, I see this as a huge sign of disrespect and disregard toward Sikhism, an observer tweeted about images of a thin white guy model strutti...

If you watched the Fyre Festival documentary that came out earlier this year, you might remember Maryann Rolle, who provided catering services for the catastrophic Fyre Festival and lost $50,000. Afte...

Facebook announced today that is has banned an Israeli firm that ran a foreign psyops campaign to disrupt election results in various countries. Facebook claims to have canceled dozens of accounts eng...

UPi is a full-size rack mount for the Raspberry Pi. Though it can apparently accomodate three Pis, it is clearly best if you just put one in, just as depicted in the product photograph. Then, I furthe...

A dozen mating manatees stopped traffic on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa, Florida. Apparently some drivers reported a whale in distress but it turned out to be the manatees in a "mating ball...

CBD is definitely screaming up toward the peak of inflated expectations, but it's not pure grift: the actual molecule and the way it interacts with our bodies is pretty amazing. Writing in the New Yor...

We previously posted about a robot that solved a Rubik's Cube in .637 seconds. Somehow I missed this astounding clip of an MIT robot killing that previous world record by spinning a solution in .38 se...

Rebecca Tickle is a PhD student in the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham, explains what big data is. She uses a handy "Five Vees of Big Data Mnemonic" -- volume, velocity, variety, va...

No acchiappaclick here: you're getting exactly what the headline promises. Weasels are a symbol of sexuality in portraiture and there are so very many to choose from. Dr Chelsea Nichols:Weasels someti...

Bitfont Maker 2 is a free online app that lets you design and save pixelated low-fi fonts. You can import TTFs too, if you just want to edit an existing one. Be sure to check out the gallery. Read the...

Behold "Karen of the Boreal Valley," whose adventures are made perfect by epic music played so loud it clips like a VHS sword-and-sandals movie at maximum volume on the cheapest television set of 1982...

UPDATE: I missed that this video is 7 years old! On the internet, everything new is old again. Julian Bakery low-carb "bread" should not be judged on the basis of this clip.A company called Julian Bak...

The giant talking pitcher of Kool Aid was always absurd to me. Glad to see he is still out there "Oh YEAH!!!"ing. I never understood why it was acceptable to make fun of group suicide by using "drinki...

Just seeing this FunkoPop of Jim Henson made me want to cry.Funko POP! Icons: Henson - Jim Henson with Kermit via Amazon Read the rest ...

Fortnite is constantly 'changing the meta' by altering weapon characteristics, adding or simply dropping weapons from the available arsenal. The new Tactical Assault Rifle takes the game a step furthe...

Season two of Future Man continues the hilarity while focusing more on your favorite characters.The first season of Future Man was a ridiculous comedy designed to feed lovers of science fiction nostal...

Conrad Black is a former publishing mogul and convicted felon who recently penned an adoring biography of Donald Trump [Amazon], described therein as a personal friend. Trump pardoned him today, withi...

Whether you're writing company memos or meticulously crafting a novel, everybody needs an editor - and we're not just talking about a spell checker. Writing software has gotten pretty intuitive, to th...

Back in 2015, the incomparable Ian McDonald (previously) published Luna: New Moon, a kind of cross between Dallas and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, with warring clans scheme and fighting on a libertop...

Here's how to help women who need and/or want an abortion in Alabama....

'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump.'...

On May 9, the whistleblower Chelsea Manning was released from jail after serving 62 days for refusing to testify before a Grand Jury about Wikileaks; she was released because the jury was dissolved.No...

In her latest detailed policy proposal, would-be 202 Democratic presidential nominee Elizabeth Warren sets out a Green New Deal for the US military, whose own policy analysts have identified climate c...

Alex Stamos (previously) is the former Chief Security Officer of Yahoo and Facebook. I've jokingly called him a "human warrant canary" because it seems that whenever he leaves a job, we later learn th...

'Mythbusters' TV star Adam Savage's first book is out. 'Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It' is a wonderful read, in which Adam shares his own personal guidelines for creativity, from insp...

Naked Captalism is one of my favorite sites, both for its radical political commentary and the vigorous discussions that follow from it; now, John Siman has posted a review of my latest book, Radicali...

Pappy van Poodle, a character in Nintendo's Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, was so obscure no-one ever uttered its name on the Internet record despite his having an extensive in-game backstory and hand-pa...

African-American women suffer a much higher level of maternal mortality than the national average, and Elizabeth Warren has proposed a bold -- but high-risk -- plan to incentivize hospitals to root ou...

I have self-healing cutting mats in a few different sizes. One of them is over 30 years old. I used it to help make the zine version of Boing Boing in the late 1980s. I still use it today. If you have...

The creators, producers, writers, and showrunner of The Office talk about how they came up with the stories for one of the greatest comedy series in TV history. It was especially interesting to hear a...

Axon -- formerly Taser International -- makes police bodycams that they sell to towns on the cheap, betting that they'll make it up by gouging the towns for cloud-based storage for footage from the ca...

Axon -- formerly Taser International -- makes police bodycams that they sell to towns on the cheap, betting that they'll make it up by gouging the towns for cloud-based storage for footage from the ca...

Mexico City has declared a smog emergency, warning residents to avoid spending time outdoors. From Mexico News Daily:At least 23 fires were reported in Mexico City yesterday, affecting nearly all of t...

The US embassy in Austria has made a deal with the 194 McDonald's restaurants in Austria to help US citizens in distress by putting them in touch with embassy staff who can help with lost passports an...

Last year, Google was rocked by a succession of mass uprisings by its staff, who erupted in fury after discovering that the company was secretly pursuing a censored Chinese search tool and an AI proje...

This week, we learned that the notorious Israeli cyber-arms-dealer NSO Group had figured out how hijack your Iphone or Android phone by placing a simple Whatsapp call, an attack that would work even i...

So soft. So relaxing.So sweet.So relaxing[via] Read the rest ...

Strawberry Short-fluff! Oreo likes to talk with his mouth full, says IMGURian OreoCat.Unmute it and turn up the volume.Strawberry shortfluff[via] Read the rest ...

Netflix released the trailer for the season 5 of the dystopic science fiction series Black Mirror. It launches June 5. Only 3 episodes!Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Marginalized Native American communities throughout the United States could have better access to high-speed internet if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decides to allow tribes to use the ...

Embassies are basically "mini countries abroad," according to this explainer video from Wendover Productions. I learned that diplomats in embassies are:exempt from taxes in their host countryallowed f...

The Verge's Josh Dzieza continues his outstanding coverage of Foxconn's shell-game in Wisconsin, where the company -- promised billions in subsidies and tax-breaks by former governor Scott Walker, a K...

U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed a new rule to allow carriers to block robocalls. The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls, he said.He's right. And no, it...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we learn of all the opportunities Georgia's lovely ladies will be granted by its new abortion law...

Why would he?...

Police in London conducted a public street trial with facial recognition cameras. A man who covered his face as he walked by the cameras was stopped by officers, forced to submit to being photographed...

Classic video-clip humor site YTMND ("You're the man now dog!") is gone. Hailing from an era before web video was commonplace, its distinctive juxtapositions of images, superimposed text and looping a...

A man in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, was confused when the Tire Discounters next to Taco Bell refused to honor a quote, then bemused to learn that the place he'd called was actually Discount Tireson the ...

Tesla cars have a "sentry mode" feature that amounts to dashcams pointed hither and yon: useful for video-recording accidents, road ragers, and vandals.Entire right side of car keyed and dented. Meric...

[Austria's Epicentre Works is an incredibly effective European digital rights group, most famous for getting the EU's Data Retention Directive struck down; now, they're raising the alarm about a move ...

When you're half-asleep, nighttime bathroom breaks can get messy or even painful without a light. But let's face it: Nobody wants to think about their bathroom any more than they have to. That's why t...

Alabama is one signature away from enacting a near-total ban on abortions....

The guy sure has a knack for compounding the maximum number of lies into one line.President Donald Trump today, while speaking to Sempra Energy employees in Louisiana, referenced the Green New Deal ad...

This Claude Monet landscape painting just broke a record by selling for $110.7 million dollars at auction.Above, the painting in question, Monets Les Meules, image courtesy Sothebys. From Bloomberg's ...

No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli continue to unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batm...

This Saturday, May 18, I'll be appearing at the Nebula Awards Conference, at the Marriott Warner Center in Woodland Hills: I'll be participating in the 1:30PM mass signing in the Grand Ballroom and th...

Spectre and Meltdown are a pair of chip-level security bugs that exploit something called "speculative execution," through which chips boost performance by making shrewd guesses about which computer o...

Back in 2018, evil got a shot in the arm when Nazi collaborators Bayer were allowed to buy Big Ag monopolists Monsanto, celebrating the marriage by getting rid of the Monsanto name (on the grounds tha...

In 2017, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson campaigned for Trump's massive tax-cuts by promising that they would create 7,000 jobs with the $3,000,000,000 they stood to gain, as well as investing in new...

The DOJ has indicted three former Verizon and AT&T employees for alleged membership in a crime-ring known as the "The Community"; the indictment says the telco employees helped their confederates...

Warren Buffet is famous for identifying the need for businesses to have "moats" and "walls" around their profit-centers to keep competitors out, and data-centric companies often cite their massive col...

From Practical Engineering:Traffic management in dense urban areas is an extremely complex problem with a host of conflicting goals and challenges. One of the most fundamental of those challenges happ...

These vividly colored pens have a brush on one end and a fine firm tip on the other. I've been using them to take notes and doodle on important phone calls. This 18-pack is cheap, so if you routinely ...

Three years ago, Hong Kong erupted as a youth-led anti-corruption movement called the Umbrella Revolution took to the streets; now, a chapter of the Extinction Rebellion movement has launched in HK.Ex...

Senator Elizabeth Warren didn't accept an invitation to a Fox News town hall because she says the company is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists.From The Washi...

NSO Group is a notorious Israeli cyber-arms dealer whose long trail of sleaze has been thoroughly documented by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab (which may or may not be related to an attempt t...

Guy who won the election says nothing wrong with it....

The best thing about being sick as a kid was staying home from school and watching Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting. I'm as impressed by Ross's skill and as entranced by his rap today as I was when I wa...

Mega-retailer Walmart on Tuesday announced next-day delivery on more than 200,000 items for orders over $35. The program kicks off first in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California, then expands to...

MIT researchers who developed light-emitting plants are now exploring how the glowing greenery could be integrated into future building designs. In their proof-of-concept demonstration, the scientist ...

May 10, 2019: a case of severe road rage was captured on video on Interstate 635 in Dallas, Texas. Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

'Hold on. Gotta warm up first.'Gotta warm up that pup engine. This dog has to get his little running start just right before jumping up on the couch.[via] Read the rest ...

For years, we've covered the efforts of rogue archivist Carl Malamud (previously) to make the law free for all to read, from liberating paywalled court records from PACER to risking fines and even pri...

Actor Keanu Reeves answers one of life's greatest questions in the way only Keanu Reeves can. He was on Stephen Colbert's show, and summed it up in a single line, thoughtfully and with great depth.Ste...

Hester Burkhalter (69) of North Carolina was arrested at Disney World in Orlando for having a small bottle of CBD oil in her purse. CBD is a non-psychoactive cannabis extract and Burkhalter said her d...

Other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates took the bait....

On November 16, 2017, the crew of a Navy EA-18G Growler jet delighted sixth graders, launched a meme, and pissed off prudes everywhere by drawing a penis in the sky with their engine exhaust over the ...

Online travel and restaurant booking site TripAdvisor will introduce new safety filters after people who used the site raised concerns over sexual assaults. TripAdvisor says it found 1,100 reviews tha...

I have heard that unscrupulous people will pack banana peels and sawdust into worn out car gearboxes to stop them from whining long enough to trick a buyer into thinking the car doesn't need serious r...

"The Training Commission" is Ingrid Burrington and Brendan C Byrne's serialized science fiction tale, taking the form of an email newsletter that lets you eavesdrop on the correspondence between the s...

During the deepest human sea dive ever, 35,853 feet/10,928 meters down to the bottom of the western Pacific's Mariana Trench in a one-person submarine, underwater adventurer Victor Vescovo found what ...

Shanghai-based cafe chain Mellower Coffee offers a unique drink called Sweet Little Rain in which cotton candy positioned over an Americano is melted by the steam and drips sugar into the cup. Read t...

Tired of bulging pockets? It seems crazy that we're carrying around tiny AI computers in one pocket, while the other one is overstuffed with cash, cards and old receipts held together by a flimsy piec...

Microsoft celebrates 10 years of Minecraft by making one of the earliest functional versions available to play online in the form of classic.minecraft.net.Ten years of creating, exploring and survivin...

Probably not a great material for anything that gets much use, but it's the prettiest knife handle I ever saw. angqvist: "Here I show how I made a colored pencil knife handle. The knife blade is the H...

I'd call it a spoiler, but you already know what's coming: "As Seen On TV" garden gadgets are not much good, however ingenious they seem to be. Household Hacker picked up a few items and subjected the...

Vat19 took video of "weird stress balls" being destroyed, which is more satisfying than using them. You can skip all the bits with talking. Read the rest ...

Use code 3SULMIMO to get this universal travel adapter at a good discount. I just ordered one because I do quite a bit of international traveling and this adapter works almost everywhere, and in addit...

From u/OrwellianOverseer via r/interestingasfuck -- the underside of great white sharks look demonic.<blockquote class="reddit-card" data-card-created="1557775666"><a href="https://www.red...

The British Columbia government commissioned independent investigator Peter German to produce a report on the role of laundered criminal money in the province's white-hot real-estate bubble, centred o...

Superheroically named Infinite Tucker of Texas A&M University won the 400-meter hurdles at the 2019 SEC Track & Field Championships. He clearly wanted the win. Badly."...I saw my ma at the f...

The Supreme Court has ruled on a key question in Apple Inc v Pepper, a class action suit arguing that the App Store violated antitrust law by driving up prices through the monopolistic tactic of prohi...

"I Am Easy to Find" is a short film by esteemed experimental (and Hollywood) director Mike Mills in collaboration with The National. A two-way street, Mills took inspiration from The National's new al...

In 2017, law student Lina Khan shifted the debate on Amazon and antitrust with a seminal paper called Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, which used Amazon's abusive market dominance to criticize the Reagan-e...

Zachary Crockett wrote an article for The Hustle titled "The professor who beat roulette." It's the story of Dr. Richard Jarecki, a medical professor who spent time in casinos in the 1950s and 1960s s...

The City of Victoria, British Columbia rolls out public "peeosks," essentially urinal-shaped garbage cans, on weekend nights near downtown bars. From CHEK:The six peeosk urinals are part of the City o...

My friend taught himself to beatbox and play the flute. You might want to unmute this one. from r/toptalentHenceforth, this genre shall be known as hip-prog.(r/toptalent) Read the rest ...

Susie Lu is a senior data visualization engineer at Netflix. She wanted to make a better grocery store receipt so she bought a thermal printer and went to work designing an infographic style receipt t...

Becky Stern takes you through the steps of using the simple web-based CAD app Tinkercad to design a 5-chamber geometric planter. Read the rest ...

In many cities it's become a tourist tradition for lovers to buy cheap padlocks, scratch their initials in them, and then attach them to bridges. But a lot of old bridges weren't built to withstand th...

William Shakespeare authorship conspiracies are ten a penny, but this one's worth the price of entry: Was Shakespeare a Woman?Who was this woman writing immortal work in the same year that Shakespeare...

The Doris Day Foundation reports her death at 97.Doris Day passed away early this morning at her Carmel Valley home, having celebrated her 97th birthday on April 3 of this year. Nearly 300 fans gather...

Esteemed collector of vernacular photography Robert E. Jackson curated this delightful collection of snapshots depicting the history of our robotic future. See more: "15 Fabulous Vintage Snapshots Of ...

China is blocking Wikipedia in every language, reports the Tor Project, expanding its censorship to cover editions other than Chinese.measurements show that many of these Wikipedia domains were previo...

Michael Friesen generated these abominable pokemon sprites. Be sure to see a similar set hand-drawn by iguanamouth. [via Janelle Shane]Here's a human illustrating some neural net-generated pokemo...

Julian Assange originally fled to Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden and may be headed there after all. Eva-Marie Persson, the director of public prosecutions in Stockholm, has re...

"Best season ever!"I understand that the "looking up and to the right" marker for deception is a myth, but I also suspect that Peter Dinklage knows this.Previously: Stuff Happens In Game Of Thrones Re...

Ask any webmaster, photographer or graphic designer: Adobe Photoshop is about so much more than touching up pictures. If you want to learn a wide array of marketable skills in this essential software,...

No deep dive of this legendary comic exists online from a cartoonist's perspective, let alone 3 cartoonists! The boys, Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli unpack the Frank Miller 1986 Batman classic o...

Donald Trump, a garbage person, promised the credulous dunces in his "base" that he would build a wall along the US southern border at a cost of $12b (the DHS said it would cost $21.6b) and then faile...

Plastic straws are on their way out. Big cities and entire states have realized this, and more are sure to join Seattle, California and a growing number of others in curbing the use of single-serve st...

Quantum Physics for Babies and Rocket Science for Babies are the kind of board books youd find on a toddlers shelf. They have stiff, tear-proof cardboard pages, simple illustrations, and minimal text....

In 2017, climate activists Roger Hallam and David Durant painted the words "divest from oil and gas" on a wall at Kings College London in chalk paint; they were facing £7,000 in fines and up to 1...

Back in 1995, Newt Gingrich defunded the Office of Technology Assessment, a low-cost, high-yield body that provided neutral, evidence-based assessments of technology to lawmakers so they could avoid m...

The New Yorker's Mia Mercado asks: What Is Writing and Does This Count as It? Writing is when you sitfingertips hovering over your keyboard, cursor blinking on a fresh blank documentand open Twitter f...

Mark reported earlier this week that a Florida man was charged with a crime over the "I EAT ASS" window sticker on his truck, and with resisting arrest for refusing to remove it; here's the dashcam vi...

Jeff Berman's got a new job! The former Obama/Clinton staffer is now Beto O'Rourke's senior advisor, having moved laterally from his post-Obama-campaign career working for the DC lobbyists Bryan Cave,...

From the Palm Beach Post: "an unusual bolt of lightning up to 10 times stronger than a typical flash that was caught on video by Boynton Beach resident Erica Hite on Sunday. The so-called continuous c...

Facebook isn't very good at selling you things on behalf of its advertisers, so the company has to gather as much data as possible on you and use it keep you clicking as much as possible in the hopes ...

To improve the quality of the water, 96 million balls now float upon the Los Angeles reservoir. Here they are going in, like a deranged live-action performance of one of those cheapo cgi educational v...

For those who use a virtual private network, it's typically a trade-off: Security and anonymity at the price of connection speed. Luckily, there are a few sturdy VPNs that are starting to crack that p...

Burbank librarian Sarah McKinley Oakes (proprietor of the excellent Remains of LA blog, which reviews all of LA's surviving grand old restaurants and dives) uses her excellent librarian skills to take...

Transcript:Good evening.Two months ago, the federal government summoned me before a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.As a general principle, I object to grand juries.Prosecutors run gran...

Oakland, California is home to a real gem of a storybook theme park. Located next to Lake Merritt, Children's Fairyland has been delighting families of young children since 1950. As the story goes, Wa...

Lets give praise where its due: the Globe has one of the great Royal exclusives of all time with its cover story about Prince Harry and Duchess Meghans newborn son Archie: Harrys NOT The Daddy! Babys ...

Uber's future prospects depend on doubling fares and halving drivers' pay, or replacing them all with self-driving cars that won't exist for years. What could go wrong?Experts are hitting the brakes o...

The Lockpicking Lawyer saw a report about an illegal car-booting outfit in Chicago (embedded below), and decided to see how hard it is to remove the Amazon-bought car boots that scammers use. It is ea...

I gave my mother an Aura digital photo frame for Mother's Day (hopefully she's not reading this post). Before I shipped it to her, I set it up so it would be preloaded with family photos. It's a 9.7-i...

Here's a good riddle from Brian Brushwood of Scam Nation. He found it in Book of Riddles by Fabrice Mazza and Sylvain LhullierImagine that you're making a magic potion. You're a wizard with a long bea...

Perfect for those who dread coiling their patch cables. (r/interestingasfuck) Read the rest ...

Thomas Romer of the excellent Chop Shop Studio in collaboration with the nonprofit Planetary Society designed these delightful solar system toy blocks to teach kids (and adults) about the wonders of o...

Find the bright spots, not just the problems, if you want to make change. Thats an idea expressed in the book Switch: How to Make Change When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath. The authors point ou...

Party City, the brick-and-mortar retailer that's a one-stop-shop for single-use, brightly-colored plastic crap and other festive decorations, is closing 45 of its 900 stores across the country. Store ...

Big Think asked Shane Parrish of Farnam Street to offer advice for getting the most out of a book. From the video (slightly edited for clarity):Before you read a book, take a blank sheet of paper and ...

Conservative thinkeur Ben Shapiro was interviewed by BBC host and UK conservative luminary Andrew Neil. It didn't go well for Ben at all. Facing straightforward questions about his beliefs, he had a t...

In 1986 David Lee Roth quit Van Halen and Sammy Hagar took his place as lead singer. This 1986 MTV rockumentary covers the transition. In the Radiolab newsletter, producer Matthew Kielty says the rock...

Toni and Peter Thompson were building a new house in Sonoma, California. They removed three trees, including a 180-year-old oak, from a nearby piece of property they owned with plans to relocate them ...

Several years ago Twitter funnyman Alex Kaseberg accused Conan O'Brien of stealing several jokes from him and filed a lawsuit. The case was about to go to trial, but O'Brien decided to settle instead....

Aviation is one of America's most concentrated industries, and workers have steadily lost ground to shareholders and execs, who have enriched themselves with tactics like flying planes to South Americ...

Ever is an app that promises that you can "capture your memories" with unlimited photo storage, with sample albums featuring sentimental photos of grandparents and their grandkids; but Ever's parent c...

Update: I've been emailed twice by Ever PR person Doug Aley, who incorrectly claimed that Ever's signup notice informed users that their data was going to be used to train an AI that would be marketed...

This FunkoPop figure of Ghost, Jon Snow's albino dire wolf, comes without Jon Snow, which is how Ghost spent most of his time on the show.The only characters I've cared about on Game of Throne's are T...

Thanks to the college admissions scandal the issue of inequality and access to postsecondary education is now in our national conversation, but despite the glitz of the bribery scandal, the real issue...

Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jointly introduced The Loan Shark Prevention Act, which will cap credit card interest rates at 15% (and closes the loopholes that let...

The chumbox the weird clickbaity news "recommendations" hanging under blog posts and news stories across the web so often cites a mysterious "gut doctor" that Vox's Kaitlyn Tiffany tracked him down....

Frontier Communications is a telcoms company so naturally they're a terrible company (a telcoms company is just a collection of regulatory subsidies wrapped up in a layer of greed and malpractice); th...

I want to thank @mikejonesfl for bringing BIGTIME TOMMIE into my life. He's right, this is the best Instagram.Let's take a look at BIGTIME TOMMIE's Instagram bio.REALITY TV STAR CARFELLAS,INTERNATIONA...

If Facebook is broken for you in some way large or small, you can't call them to complain -- the company doesn't have a customer service number, it has a "support portal" for people suffering with the...

This pencil pouch has over 35 times the legal limit of lead, 29 times the legal limit of cadmium....

We must return to the Moonthis time to stay....

Tenants in New York City have reached a settlement with their landlord requiring the landlord to install actual locks with actual keys on demand, rather than insisting that all tenants use locks from ...

Freddie Starr, a stalwart of British light entertainment most famous for a fabricated news story alleging he ate a hamster and lately implicated in historical sexual abuse scandals, was reportedly fou...

The administration of Donald Trump is sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, on May 12-14, says the U.S. State Department.What could the...

No surprises here. Facebook does not support the co-founder Chris Hughes' proposal to split the worlds largest social media company into three parts. Here's how Facebook responded to the social networ...

There's a number of benefits to bamboo fiber in general, and Bamboo Comfort sheets in particular. To start with, it actually repels moisture, which reduces the number of allergens in your bed. These s...

Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook with Mark Zukerberg, and describes Zuckerberg in warm terms as a friend, but in a long op-ed for the New York Times, Hughes calls for the breakup of Facebook and ident...

Chelsea Manning was released from jail today after 62 days' refusing to testify to a grand jury in the Wikileaks case. Manning did not wish to provide secret testimony; the grand jury ultimately disba...

I'm headed to Maker Faire in San Mateo, California (Friday, May 17 Sunday, May 19) again this year, and one of the things I'm excited to check out is Matt Sengbusch's tiny arcade games that use the o...

Ian Curtis experiences the, er, known pleasures of a thrill ride with much more restraint than Billy Corgan. Read the rest ...

In response to Georgia's new law that says women who get illegal abortions are murderers and therefore subject to life imprisonment or execution, Sex Object author Jessica Valenti tweeted, "It's fasci...

Flatland is a novel by Edwin Abbott Abbott, published in 1884. It's written as a biography by "A. Square," a two-dimensional creature who is literally a living square, thinner than a sheet of paper. H...

The CIA and security services of one or more foreign governments have recently warned at least three friends and colleagues of the murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi that their pro-democracy work has...

Sucks to be Paul Manafort....

Anyone else getting Iraq dj vu?...

After police have proven unable to dissuade drug dealers from congregating in Berlin's Grlitzer Park, the manager of the park spray painted pink lines around designated areas for them to hang out and ...

Firearm manufacturing equipment was also found...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has denied an application by the Chinese telecommunications provider China Mobile to provide services in the U.S. over concerns about national security and ...

The folks at Grind Hard Plumbing Co took their souped-up Barbie Jeep to a mudding event in Canada and had a great deal of fun.[via DIGG] Read the rest ...

From u/dozzinale, "The Downfall of Game of Thrones Ratings." I stopped watching after Season 6 because by the time Season 7 started, I couldn't remember much of what happened. I guess our family will ...

I've never been to Burning Man but this 700 Club report from 1996 really sells that year's festival theme of "The Inferno!" From the blog of Oliver Bonin, director of the Burning Man documentary Dust ...

Published in 1986, the Watchmen comic book series by Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons is rightly regarded as a masterpiece. (It was the first DC comic book series I read after Jack Kirby's Kamandi f...

Hurrah for Norwich, New York schoolbus driver Samantha Call and her astonishing reflexes! From Norwich City School District/Facebook:This is exactly why you should NEVER pass a school bus when the sto...

Adam King, a machine learning/AI engineer, built a web-based demonstration of a neural network that autocompletes a text prompt. I tried it with "Throw out this vegetable now." Here's the result.Throw...

Spoiler: Guess who's back! Twenty-seven years after the events of the summer of 1989, It (Bill Skarsgrd) returns. The Losers' Club fulfill their promises and return to Derry to put an end to the evil ...

AdaFruit recently announced the PyBadge and the PyBadge LC (Low Cost), a single board computer with a 1.8" 160x128 color display, buzzer-speaker, and 8 silicone-top buttons arrange for handheld gaming...

Apparently, the volcano on Fortnite's Murder Island has gone off! A new season of Fortnite has begun!Perhaps bigger than any map change, and there are many, is Epic's announcement the pump shotgun has...

Chris Hughes co-founded Facebook with Mark Zukerberg, and describes Zuckerberg in warm terms as a friend, but in a long op-ed for the New York Times, Hughes calls for the breakup of Facebook and ident...

This cheap adaptor allows you to use most popular USB windows and console controllers with the Nintendo Switch.Straight out of the box this COOV N-100 adaptor allowed my Xbox One controller to be inst...

"Might delete later," adds The Fakening, creator of the abomination.Previously: Elon Musk but with Elizabeth Holmes' eyes. Read the rest ...

I grew up in the UK and moved to the United States after college. Two decades on, it's disarming to be reminded of UK celebrities who were wildly successful there but never made it in America. Sometim...

I grew up in the UK and moved to the United States after college. Two decades on, it's disarming to be reminded of UK celebrities who were wildly successful there but never made it in America. Sometim...

Consider the place of knowledge and ideology in politics, how the open discussion of facts and ideas might throw light on complicated and difficult matters of policy and principle. How we might find p...

There's a certain satisfaction to lightly-clattering flip-disc signs, once found on destination boards and stock exchanges the world over, and now you can experience it again with Tetris. Sinowin on Y...

David Klavens was told that pianos are made one way, all over the world, and that's that. But he wanted to make an enormously tall piano, "emanating the sound" to the audience instead of the ceiling, ...

Bluetooth headphones have long been a compromise, delivering a lot of convenience at the cost of a noticeable loss in sound quality. It's a bandwidth issue that's tough to hack, even with the relative...

I'm one of the guests of honor at this weekend's Comicpalooza festival in Houston, Texas: in addition to my keynote and signing, you can catch me at panels on copyright, robots and AI, cyberpunk, copy...

The price-gouger-driven skyrocketing prices for insulin have endangered the lives of Americans with diabetes, who are rationing their supplies and trying not to die.All of this is part of the story of...

The price-gouger-driven skyrocketing prices for insulin have endangered the lives of Americans with diabetes, who are rationing their supplies and trying not to die.All of this is part of the story of...

An adversarial preturbation is a small, human-imperceptible change to a piece of data that flummoxes an otherwise well-behaved machine learning classifier: for example, there's a really accurate ML mo...

War crimes are among the most grisly and difficult-to-prosecute crimes; and yet, ironically, the criminals have made it easier for prosecutors, by uploading videos celebrating their atrocities to Big ...

The Inverter is a kickstarted, sub-$500, 34mm automatic mechanical watch built around Citizen's Miyota Calibre 9000 movement, augmented with a custom module that makes the watch run backwards, so that...

Uber is a wildly unprofitable company with no conceivable path to profitability in any universe, under any circumstances, but the company's founders and early investors (having already taken massive w...

Juice Media's Honest Government Adverts are some of the best, most biting political satire being produced today -- they're so good at afflicting the comfortable that Australia basically banned their s...

Functional yet curiously suspect...

This morning's news reported that Denver's ballot measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms had failed, but now that all the ballots have been fully counted we've learned that the Sunnies outvote...

The end of my yard is anually infiltrated by Japanese knotweed, encroaching from the overrun lot behind it, and anually beaten back with machete and glyphosphate (dutifully applied into the root). I k...

A famous chef tried to haul a duffel bag full of 40 vacuum-sealed, frozen piranhas into Los Angeles for a cooking competition. Agents there were not amused. Do not ever try this.Customs officers do no...

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

Vote now goes before full House....

Members of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FCC) on Wednesday asked Congress to create a national privacy law that would regulate how technology giants like Facebook and Google gather, stor...

It finally happened. Junior got his very first congressional subpoena.The Republican-led Senate Intel Committee (SSCI) today subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., the son of President Donald Trump, over matter...

Instagram still has a serious anti-vax problem....

Last night in downtown San Diego, a gentleman was waving and pointing what appeared to be an assault rifle out of a window at the Palms Hotel. Witnesses called the police who, naturally, stopped all v...

My DIY project book, Maker Dad is very cheap as a Kindle right now.As the editor in chief of MAKE magazine, Mark Frauenfelder has spent years combing through DIY books, but hes never been able to find...

In 1983, Brian Eno with collaborators Roger Eno and Daniel Lanois released "Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks," a stunning ambient score for Al Reinert's glorious space documentary "For All Manki...

Earlier this year, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) gave an award to a sex toy for women called the Os. Then, in a spectacular PR blunder, it rescinded the award, pointing to a section in the...

Over at Root Simple, Mr. Homegrown takes a look at a technology that never took off: punch cards for phone numbers.What caught my eye with this oddball piece of transitional phone technology is the pu...

You know when your phone rings once, then stops? Don't call back, unless you are willing to risk a very costly international call to Mauritania, even though the called ID shows it as a local call.From...

Elbieta Podlesna could spend up to two years in prison for "offending religious feelings" after putting up posters in Poland showing the Mary and Jesus with LGBT rainbow halos.From CNNPolice claim tha...

This is a fun video! A guy restores an old, broken Super Soaker and makes a time-lapse video of the process so it looks like the Super Soaker is restoring itself.He wrote:This video took me around 50 ...

This is a fun video! A guy restores an old, broken Super Soaker and makes a stop motion video of the process so it looks like the Super Soaker is restoring itself.He wrote:This video took me around 50...

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book was a key onboard reference for the heroic astronauts who made the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. Fifty years later, it'll go up for auction at Christies...

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Boing Boing is proud to welcome EST Gear as a sponsor!Finding great tools is difficult, but this awesome shovel from EST Gear is said to be the worlds most capable camping and adventure tool and we ca...

Florence Fang recently bought and renovated a unique concrete-dome house in California so it resembled the Flintstones' residence even more than it already did, adding giant dinosaurs in the yard and ...

In this video from Brazil, a man orders an ice cream and quietly enjoys it as a brawl breaks out in the street behind him.BONUS CONTENT: Street brawl unfolds as ice cream truck music plays. Read the r...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH The Avengers devise a plan to defeat Thanos by impeaching him (Avengers 4 Spoiler-Free!)...

In the midst of social media encouraging us to increasingly overshare our lives, a curious thing has happened: Journaling is back. And while the practice of jotting down your thoughts and plans in a p...

The first woman to circumnavigate the world did so dressed as a man. In 1766, 26-year-old Jeanne Baret joined a French expedition hoping to conceal her identity for three years. In this week's episode...

Evolutionary psychology is the idea that we can explain peoples' behaviors by making reference to the imagined lives of early hominids and also by finding animals whose behavior explains why it's not ...

For decades, programmers have talked about the tendency of software to become less reliable over time as "rot," but Konrad Hinsen makes a compelling case that the right metaphor is "collapse," because...

When Jerel Heywood opened the screendoor at his friend Rodney Copeland's house in Lawton, Oklahoma, a snake darted down from its roost on the porch light and bit Heywood's head! A neighbor then rushed...

I'm coming to Berlin's Otherland books tonight at 8PM for a talk about my latest, Radicalized and the German edition of the first novella from it, Wie man einen Toaster berlistet ("How to Outsmart a T...

China's Xinjiang province is home to the country's Uyghur ethnic minority and other people of Turkic Muslim descent; it has become a living laboratory for next-generation, electronically mediated tota...

Google has augmented its preferences for personal data retention; in addition to choosing to have all your data stored until you delete it, or having no data stored (thus depriving you of the benefits...

Locus Magazine has published its annual Locus Award finalists, a shortlist of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past calendar year. I rely on this list to find the books I've overlooked (so....

Charter isn't America's most hated company, but that's only because Comcast is so next-level terrible that they distort the leaderboard; nevertheless, Charter tries hard! Whether it's slashing billion...

Dennis in Hawaii by Alan Wiseman and Fred TooleOne of the most popular comics in American history gets the Kayfabe book club treatment with Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, and Tom Scioli.In 1958, Pines and Hank ...

DOJ to House Judiciary: Cancel contempt vote, or AG Barr tells Trump to assert executive privilege over Mueller report....

What a dog, living a good life.We should all be so lucky.Wheeeeeee! View this post on Instagram Se joga na vida igual o Galeto se joga na gua . Marque nos comentrios os amigos e pginas de repost d...

"Year after year, Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer" NYT...

CSS-only-chat uses no javascript and doesn't reload the page. It's amazingand terrible. How is it done? Background-images loaded via pseudoselectors + a forever-loading index pageIn laypersons' terms:...

Adobe's trailing price hikes for its now subscription-only Creative Suite applications. Comic artist Michael Sexton (Patreon) made this handy at-a-glance chart so you know what pay-once apps can repla...

(NSFW)Enjoy the c.1985 promotional video below for the Cypress Cove Nudist Resort in Kissimmee, Florida! It looks like everything you could want from a resort but with, y'know, less clothing. Based on...

I loved Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines trilogy. I'm about 200 pages into his later novel, Dark Matter, and I'm liking it just as much. It reminds me a bit of Wayward Pines in that the main character get...

Dillon Shane Webb (23) of Florida was driving his truck on Sunday when a deputy pulled him over. The deputy informed Webb that the sticker in his rear window, which read, "I Eat Ass," was obscene and ...

Facebook shares are down 2.75% percent from yesterday, which means you should probably adjust Zuckerberg's smile from 0.4 to 0.3. Read the rest ...

In December last year, Jean-Jacques Savin, 71, floated away from the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa in an orange capsule he'd built. Last week, he landed at the Dutch Caribbean island of St. E...

Datagrid says, "We have succeeded in generating high-resolution (10241024) images of whole-body who don't exist using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). We use these images as virtual models for ...

The Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska is only about 50 miles. It would be very expensive to build a bridge across the Bering Strait, even thought there are a couple of islands in the middle (the...

Why do many birds fly in a V formation? The wonderful video curators at The Kid Should See This came across this excellent 2014 clip above from the science journal Nature explaining research into the ...

Rudy Rucker's 23rd novel is out today! It's called Million Mile Road Trip. Rudy is one of my all-time favorite authors and he has kindly given me permission to run an excerpt here.StratocastAn Excerpt...

Classic three-act narrative structure pic.twitter.com/AP4WgdxlN8— Jack Seale (@jackseale) May 1, 2019Ah, resolution.(via Daily Grail) Read the rest ...

A 13-year-old boy is wrongly accused of sexual harassment, then railroaded by zealous school administrators. Abused by the system and shunned by real-life friends, he finds new oneson Reddit and 4chan...

There was some ridiculous gameplay during last weekend's Fortnite World Cup qualifiers. The best players in every region are vying for slots in an upcoming tournament in NYC.Epic Games is offering $1,...

The Anker 26800 Powercore+ PD is the USB battery I have chosen for a summer of heavy travel in a camper van. It is one heck of a USB battery pack.I wanted to be sure I could spend 4-5 days without nee...

At the Madeira Municipal Building in Ohio, a high school student's artwork depicting a pig in a police uniform was taken down by the organizers of an annual student art show. In the artwork, the pig i...

Included free of charge with Windows since 1990, Microsoft Solitaire has finally achieved immortality in the World Video Game Hall of Fame. Microsoft Solitaire meets all the criteria for the World Vi...

Back in 2017, I started writing about the "epistemological crisis" ("we're not living through a crisis about what is true, we're living through a crisis about how we know whether something is true. We...

Behold the Drain Addict clear blocked stormwater drain #165. Of all the drains thusly unclogged, though, it is #73 that earned the greatest audience:How does the device he uses work, exactly? It eats ...

Medieval wood riving is a slow, methodical business. But it's amazing what you can get done with axes and hammers.The movie describes an attempt to split a thirteen meter long log of pine tree. The ri...

Jim Browning got a look into a Kolkata call center via one of the scammers' insecure machines: "You're looking at the webcam of a scammer named Deva . He's currently uploading the phone numbers of peo...

Even the most easily organized among us have trouble keeping things tidy on vacation. It's enough of a hassle just trying to cram everything in your luggage, much less worry about what goes where. The...

In 2017, cartoonist Brian Fies lost his northern California home in the Calistoga wildfires; in the days after, working with the cheap art supplies he was able to get from a surviving big box store, h...

My latest Locus column is "Steering with the Windshield Wipers," and it ties together the growth of Big Tech with the dismantling of antitrust law (which came about thanks to Robert Bork's bizarre alt...

Software developer Chris Harris is experimenting with machine learning to remove cars from video footage; while the software isn't quite seamless, the results are pure, glorious glitch aesthetic.Firs...

Facebook gave "as many as" 260 contractors at Wipro, Ltd in Hyderabad, India access to users' private messages and private Instagram posts so that the contractors could label them prior to their inclu...

Since 2014, open source hackers have been perfecting the OpenAPS, an "open artificial pancreas" made by modifying the firmware of discontinued Medtronic insulin pumps, which were discontinued due to t...

Since 2014, open source hackers have been perfecting the OpenAPS, an "open artificial pancreas" made by modifying the firmware of discontinued Medtronic insulin pumps, which were discontinued due to t...

I appeared on this week's Canadaland podcast (MP3) with Jesse Brown to talk about the promise of the internet 20 years ago, when it seemed that we were headed for an open, diverse internet with decent...

According to NZ opposition party leader Simon Bridges, the loud mooing noise he made during Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's turn at the mic during Question Time on May 7 was not a "barnyard noise," co...

Apple bought between 20 and 25 companies in the past six months, according to CEO Tim Cook, who also said that this was business as usual for the company.Growing by acquiring nascent competitors was t...

Reporters imprisoned by Myanmar since 2017 for exposing Rohingya Muslim crackdown...

'League of Legends' developers and others at Riot Games walked out of work en masse on Monday, protesting the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.Kotaku was among ...

Chinese spies got a hold of NSA hacking tools, and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, reports the NYT. How'd they get those cyberweapons? Syman...

Chinese spies got a hold of NSA hacking tools, and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, reports the NYT. How'd they get those cyberweapons? Syman...

Why are we just apprehending them () not lining them up and shooting them? We have to go back to Hitler days and put them all in a gas chamber. Remember that US-Mexico border white supremacist terror...

A new version of Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 elections has just been made public in response to a BuzzFeed News lawsuit.PDF Links, 5/6/2019 edition:VOLUME 1 | VOLU...

Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday gave a speech in which he praised the Arctic region's rapidly shrinking sea ice for all the economic opportunities the melting waterways present to shi...

'Drain the swamp,' said the man whose resort swimming pools are so filthy, Florida state health inspectors had to close 'em ten times in one year, reports QZ.Swimming pools at President Donald Trump's...

If you saw the critically-acclaimed 2004 documentary Dig! about the frenemy neo-psych bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, you'll remember that the real star wasn't either of the ...

Actor Luke Perry, who died last month following a massive stroke, was buried in a mushroom suit. According to his daughter, Perry had requested that upon his death he wear Coeio's "Infinity Burial Sui...

In a Bolivian rock shelter likely used 1,000 years ago for religious rituals, archaeologists found a collection of drug paraphernalia that still contains traces of psychoactive plants. A pouch made fr...

This gravity defying water trick, watch til the end. from r/blackmagicfuckeryA science teacher uses a classic but eternally astonishing demonstration in a lesson on atmospheric pressure and surface te...

Ever since I started using these nylon mesh zipper bags, my travel experience has improved. I have one bag for paper stuff and pens, one for medicine and first aid, one for tools and gear, one for cor...

While shooting a scene in "Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back," the late Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) talks to Harrison Ford (Han Solo) in his own Cockney English so Ford can respond more natur...

Democratic hopeful Joe Biden is not burying his face in women's hair anymore, as was his wont, reports Politico:But after nearly a week on the campaign trail, including nearly a half-dozen events in P...

Its hard to say much about My Lovely Wife, by Samantha Downing, without spoiling the twists. The story is told by the husband (we never learn his name). He and his wife (Millicent) do bad things to sp...

Michael Cohen is reporting to prison today to serve a three-year sentence for lying to Congress and assorted crimes involving money. He's staying at a camp for nonviolent offenders atOtisville Federal...

French singer Cecil L. Recchia's 2018 album The Gumbo is a tribute to New Orleans jazz; I found it while searching for an online stream of Tootie Ma is a Big Fine Thing, the track that Tom Waits and t...

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei announced that he has changed his mind about executing people for having gay sex."I am aware that there are many questions and misperceptions with regard to the imple...

The UK's governing Conservative Party lost 1330 council seats in local elections, but the opposition Labour party failed to make the expected gains, losing 84 of its own. The big winners were the Libe...

Watch this 1-minute video to understand why train wheels are conical instead of cylindrical and why they have rigid axels. Read the rest ...

From last night's episode of Game of Thrones, as posted to Twitter."He was no dragon. Coffee cannot stimulate a dragon." Read the rest ...

An Aeroflot jet crash-landed while returning in flames to Moscow's Sheremtyevo airport Sunday, and only 37 of the 73 passengers and crew escaped with their lives. One took this video from inside the c...

CodeParade shows how he made a bot that can post YouTube comments that are often more comprehensible than human-written comments. It's called YouTubeCommenter and the source code is here if you want t...

The 11-foot-8 bridge in Durham, North Carolina, went relatively easy on the driver of this truck, taking just a small nibble from the top.From the YouTube description:A boxtruck hit the crash beam at ...

In this interesting post from 2015getting a viral second windAlex Danco offers a model to understand how the "middle ground" of interest in things is fading. That's the normal distribution, the tradit...

The cults we hear about are the ones that explode or implode, not the ones chugging along quietly long after their Rolling Stone cover story moment. Guinevere Turner has fond memories of the Lyman Fam...

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...

What better way to celebrate 2019, the year before the Neo-Tokyo Summer Olympics, than to revisit Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga in a book club format with the Cartoonist Kayfabe crew, Ed Piskor, Jim...

Bernie Sanders' latest campaign plank is a suite of agricultural reforms similar to the ones proposed by Elizabeth Warren in March, including a national right-to-repair law for agricultural equipment,...

Evil Clippy comes from Dutch security researchers Outflank: "a tool which assists red teamers and security testers in creating malicious MS Office documents. Amongst others, Evil Clippy can hide VBA m...

On Tuesday, May 7th I'll be keynoting Berlin's Re:publica festival, as well as doing a signing for the German edition of my novella Unauthorized Bread, and an AMA about the EU Copyright Directive. On ...

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7th I'll be keynoting Berlin's Re:publica festival, as well as doing a signing for the German edition of my novella Unauthorized Bread, and an AMA about the EU Copyright Directi...

If you've taken a busted car to a new mechanic, you know the drill. They take a while to find what's wrong, then find four other issues that need attention. You take their word for it, and an arm and ...

In February, Liberal Party opposition MPP Michael Coteau introduced Right to Repair legislation after he was charged $400 to fix the cracked screen on his daughter's Samsung phone; that bill is now de...

With 2,700 replies and counting, All On Medicare's tweet asking When did you become radicalized by the U.S. health care non-system? is now one of the most thorough (and thoroughly depressing) collecti...

Ring is a "smart" doorbell that Amazon bought for $1B in 2018, and proceeded to turn into an insecure, networked surveillance device, (possibly wired into Amazon's facial recognition system) and conne...

Next weekend, PEN America is throwing its World Voices Festival, including a McSweeney's-sponsored panel on algorithmic bias called The Bigot in the Machine, featuring poet/media activist Malkia Cyril...

I am totally, utterly reliant on Creative Commons images for Boing Boing, and mostly I use Google Image's mediocre search tool for this purpose, but no more! Creative Commons's new search engine is ou...

Want to focus more at work? Some of us put on a little music, whether it's to tune out the chatter at the office or get us comfortable in front of the computer at home. And that's great - we all have ...

'Come on, angry claw puppy! Play with me!'So cute.Clover the Aussie Pup has an Instagram worth following. View this post on Instagram Catto, please be my friend #chesterragdoll @chesterandollieragd...

Just wait.Wait.Wait for it.Jesus Christ, that's art.Wait for it.[via] Read the rest ...

The lithe, 42-year-old tech founder has become a one-man Goop.Oh yeah. It's that real.In the New York Times, a profile of Twitter and Square (yes both companies) CEO Jack Dorsey presents the man as a ...

Hagoromo Fulltouch Chalk is highly coveted around the world by mathematicians, who say it's superior to other kinds of chalk because it has an almost buttery texture and erases easily. When Hagoromo a...

After talking to people who have home urinals, Brian VanHooker of Mel Magazine says he is "now convinced that a urinal is the greatest possible fixture you could ever add to your home."I found Curt Sl...

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he had a cable access show called Bernie Speaks. In this 1988 episode, Sanders spoke to a couple of affable goth kids about capitalism, fashion, p...

When Bernie Sanders was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, he had a cable access show called Bernie Speaks. In this 1988 episode, Sanders spoke to a couple of affable goth kids about capitalism, fashion, p...

Damon Beres notes that the situation with folding displays is quickly going to hell. Enter Samsungs Galaxy Fold, a kind of metal and glass taco that could define a new category of personal deviceprovi...

Q: Which website did Chewbacca get arrested for creating?A: Wookieleaks###And a few more funnies to support your Star Wars Day celebration tomorrow:###Q: Why does Princess Leia keep her hair tied up i...

I've owned quite a few vegetable peelers, and the Kuhn Rikon model is my favorite. The blade is very sharp and it easily skins sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and even jicama. They are really cheap,...

Australian Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife service rangers found this 40cm snake with three functional eyes near the small town of, um, Humpty Doo which is about 40 km from, um, Darwin. The Nort...

My daughter just returned from a 4th grade field trip to the Sierra Nevadas to learn about the California Gold Rush. The program included a chance to pan for gold and before she left, I jokingly said ...

Josh Foer is the author of Moonwalking With Einstein, a book that recounts how he practiced different memory techniques to win the United States Memory Championship. In this video, Josh shows how he l...

Beginning May 5, Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles is displaying 40 famous science fiction movie cars in an exhibit titled Hollywood Dream Machines. Images: Petersen Automotive Museum Read the rest ...

My dear pal Barbara Rushkoff embroiders fantastic minimal portraits of musicians and other artists, writers, and thinkers whose work has inspired her over the years. I love the seeming simplicity of h...

In the 1600s the Dutch East India company offered people the chance to share in the profits of international trade by funding ship voyages. By accident, it created the first stock market. In four-and-...

The Austin Public Health Department and the CDC studied the safety of e-scooters and came to the conclusion that if you ride them you should wear a helmet. One in 5,000 e-scooter rides results in an i...

For more than 50 years, Roger Steffens has traveled the electric arteries of the counterculture embracing mind-expanding experiences, deep social connection, and unadulterated fun at every turn. And h...

Launch control on the BMW S 1000 RR is the motorcycle equivalent of BASE jumping. Read the rest ...

Starting with a 1984 version of snooker (kind of like pool with more balls and smaller pockets) for the Commodore 64, Nostalgia Nerd shows how videogame versions of the game have evolved over the year...

Slack is a chat platform that promotes passive-aggressive behavior and misunderstanding at the office! I have found that logging off of Slack never to return solved 80% of my problems with this workpl...

To say that this video depicts "video game physics IRL," as I have in this headline, is quite stupid. At least in the sense that the world should not be taken to resemble its simulation, even in jest,...

Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Big Tech, a thoroughly excellent idea with many devils in the details: AOC backs her play: "Facebook as a basic communications platform while also selling ads and al...

Tomorrow night at 7:30PM, I'm giving a presentation about my new book, Radicalized, as part of the Ottawa Writers Festival, at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St.) -- I haven't spoken in Ottawa fo...

From the fevered imaginations of Wil Wheaton and R. ("Diesel Sweeties" Stevens: The Trek Side of the Moon tee: $28. Read the rest ...

ICD-10 is a standard that defines 70,000+ codes for standardizing the reporting of injuries and diseases, and it is terrifyingly comprehensive: if V95.4 ("Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occu...

"Collateralized Debt Obligations" (CDOs) are a financial derivative that is a kind of bond that pays out based on revenue generated by a pool of assets: for example, a giant hedge fund might buy thous...

Attorney General Bill Barr, plainly described as a liar by the House Majority leader, is only the latest "respectable" Republican to disgrace themselves by association with Trump and Trump's political...

At the height of her fame in 1943, movie star Gene Tierney contracted German measles during pregnancy and bore a daughter with severe birth defects. The strain ended her marriage to Oleg Cassini and s...

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem (R) is governor non grata at Pine Ridge after her support of new "riot boosting" laws that target indigenous people opposed to oil infrastructure on their land.From T...

Journalists end up amplifying falsehoods....

Reacting to a storm of derision on the internet following the release of Sonic the Hedgehog's first trailer, the filmmakers have promised to redesign the CGI title character before it hits theaters. A...

China is undergoing the largest real-estate bubble in history, and things keep getting weirder and weirder, with the specter of a burst bubble looming overall.The Rural Development Institute of the Ch...

Five senior execs at Insys Therapeutics (manufacturer of Subsys, a type of fentanyl), have been convicted of criminal racketeering and fraud charges stemming from the company's practice of bribing doc...

We shouldn't be surprised that sponges - the very things you use to clean dishes - are breeding grounds for odor and germs. It's a sponge, after all. It absorbs things, including all that muck from yo...

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, died on April 30. He was 74 years old. Several years ago, my son, then 10, and I had the good fortune to meet and briefly chat with...

Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg discuss a few comics from one of the best cartoonists of their generation!Eleanor Davis' books: You & A Bike & A Road Libby's Dad BDSM (Frontier 11) How to Be Happy Why ...

Rubik's cube for two as a race. That's Rubik's Race.I've never seen anyone play as fast as these two players.It's hard to believe the human mind can work that fast at puzzle solving.Unmute for delicio...

I have not watched an episode this season. I will likely listen to the Boars, Gore and Swords podcast during a brief road trip this weekend and see if I need to watch. Read the rest ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Canada and returned home with an attractive beaver-shaped door knocker. In this short video you can see him installing it on his front door, followed by a cl...

Facebook says the ban rollout took longer than planned....

Yahoo bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1.1bn, then Verizon acquired Yahoo. Now Verizon, after purging Tumblr of adult material and watching its traffic plunge as a result, is trying to sell whatever's left....

Amazon has a good deal on the classic Duncan Imperial Yo Yo. I splurged and bought one for everyone in the family! Comes in assorted colors but it looks like they get to pick which color you get. Read...

Verizon wants to divest itself of Tumblr, having squandered much of the goodwill that made the platform so beloved by creating literally the stupidest censorship regime in the history of the internet;...

The cruelty is the point....

Chris Advansun is sleep writer. He writes bedtime stories for grownups. The secret to writing a good sleep story, he says, is to gently hook the reader without including anything jarring or surprising...

I use a password manager to create and manage all my passwords. In this video, Dr. Mike Pound explains how password managers work and why it's a good idea to use one. Read the rest ...

Jobs done, quickly and messily...

Scarlett Johansson was only 17 years old when she co-starred with Bill Murray in Lost in Translation (2003). In this video, Howard Stern interviews her about what it was like. Watching this reminds me...

'Healthy Holly' author in a heap of trouble...

CBD-infused snacks could soon join the product line that includes Chips Ahoy cookies, Cadbury chocolate, and Nutter Butter cookies.Mondelez, the company that makes Oreo cookies, is reportedly consider...

I'm one of the guest instructors on this year's Writing Excuses Cruise, a nine-day intensive writing program on land and at sea, departing from Galveston and putting into port at Cozumel, Georgetown, ...

Shawn Woods was testing out a no-spray skunk trap, but things didn't go as planned, and he got squirted with eau de moufette. Read the rest ...

Genius musician Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and Uncle Tupelo fame has been cast in the forthcoming season of Larry David's comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm!" This will be the show's 10th season. No word on whethe...

U.S. attorneys office to seek 11-year prison sentence for Jones, 26, on Friday May 3....

Facebook just announced it has permanently banned a number of dangerous" alt-right and anti-Semitic trolls, including Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Laura Loom...

Gosh, it only took 'em 4 whole years...

Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube, told a U.S. House panel that it spends hundreds of millions of dollars on reviewing content each year, and claims to have identified at least one millio...

Nine people have been injured using Starbucks/Bodum French Presses after the plunger handle snapped off, causing the stem to stab or cut them. As a result, Starbucks is recalling 236,000 of the presse...

Kelsey Ables explains how social media killed art communities. It's not just a statement of fact, but a history of the parts of the web that mainstream users might have only seen in the periphery as i...

During a test ride of the GaleForce rollercoaster at Playlands Castaway Cove in Ocean City, New Jersey, two dummies flew out of their seats and crash-landed on the roof of a nearby hotel. The theme pa...

This is more impressive to me than being able to solve it in 1.2552 nanoseconds or whatever the current record is.(GlobalMagicians) Read the rest ...

A few days ago, two little robots arrived at the International Space Station to help astronauts with simple tasks. Called Astrobees, the cube bots are 12" x 12" x 12" and propelled around the microgra...

This is pioneering computer scientist and US Navy read admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) explaining the concept of a nanosecond. From the Computer History Museum:(Hopper) held a B.S. in mathematics and...

The Build Cave is a California-based prop-maker whose Etsy store is focused on decor for haunters with an emphasis on haunted, vintage elevators (!!), and which includes these delightful resin skull f...

Puerto Rico has endured decades of looting and austerity from the finance sector who then used the pretense of Hurricane Maria to impose radical financial policies on the island, dismantling the stati...

[Harry Tynan posts on our forums as Moose Malloy. Earlier this week, he messaged me about his fun, self-published kid's book, written as a series of bedtime stories for his kid (a tradition I'm very f...

With the news that scandal-plagued American Media Inc. plans to sell its tabloid empire including the National Enquirer and Globe, the rags hacks seem to have given up all pretense of trying to inject...

1mb.site is a simplified hosting service for personal websites with all the bells and whistles: custom domains, SSL, databases and an online code/content editor. It's free of charge so long as you don...

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley -- who served as Trump's Ambassador to the UN, where she resigned on America's behalf from the Human Rights Council before resigning her post -- has got a ne...

Wireless headphones aren't a mind-bending thing anymore now that Apple made them the standard thing-to-be-outraged-over-in-the-new-iPhone fare, thereby killing the cool factor. But let's be reasonable...

Ed PiskorandJim Ruggcontinue to dissect the turbulent comic book speculator boom on the 1990s while looking through antique copies of Wizard Magazine.What to expect in this issue:* Malibu's Ultraverse...

[Matt Polotsky's new book, The National Security Sublime, is a tour through the look-and-feel of mass surveillance, as practiced by the most unlikely of aesthetes: big data authoritarian snoops and th...

Just look at it. (Thanks, Matthew!) Read the rest ...

Senior Google employees Meredith Whittaker and Claire Stapleton were key organizers of last year's string of googler protests, including the 20,000-employee walkout over the company tolerance and rewa...

Our Boing Boing pal Joe Sabia made a video for Vanity Fair in which he gave screenwriter Emily Carmichael seven minutes to write a scene from a sci-fi thriller from scratch. It's interesting to hear h...

Over the weekend, someone set fire to two dozen bee colonies in Alvin, Texas belonging to the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association. The perpetrator also dumped some of the bee boxes into a nearby po...

Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono burned Bill Barr to a crisp at today's bizarre Capitol Hill hearing.You lied to Congress, Senator Hirono [D-HI] said to Trump's handpicked Attorney General and coverup guy....

Russia claims did not tell Venezuela's Maduro to flee, disputes Pompeo and Bolton...

My old 100-foot extension cord seemed to have wriggled out of my sight like a shy snake. I bought a replacement, from the AmazonBasics line. It coils nicely and is fairly lightweight, which doesn't bo...

If you went to a showing of 'Avengers:Endgame' last Thursday/Friday in Southern California, read on, there's a list of showings that authorities say *may have been* exposure sites for measles.The LA T...

The Atari 800 was released in 1979. I wish I'd bought one at the time because apparently it will never become obsolete.(via Weird Universe) Read the rest ...

On April 7th, 2017, a group of Trump advisors and co-conspirators converged on Mar-a-Lago (one of Trump's properties) for a night of drinking and dining, while Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping w...

Christ, what an asshole.Wow, this sure was a moment for the ages in today's Capitol Hill grilling of Trump's coverup man, aka our Attorney General, Bill Barr. What a massive disgrace this guy is, and ...

Christ, what an asshole.Wow, this sure was a moment for the ages in today's Capitol Hill grilling of Trump's coverup man, aka our Attorney General, Bill Barr. What a massive disgrace this guy is, and ...

My late brother Mark was a transplant surgeon. He told me how sometimes he'd be woken up in the middle of the night to fly to a nearby city to retrieve, say, a kidney, from someone who had just died (...

People who run their own mail servers are increasingly finding that the mail they send to Gmail users is being rejected, because the company's anti-spam algorithm treats small, independently managed m...

In 2011, activists began an occupation of Zucotti Park near Wall Street, starting a movement that spread around the world and changed the discourse around wealth, inequality, corruption and justice.At...

Razzle Dazzle is a carnival game in which you roll marbles into a tray with numbered holes. Once you get to 100 points, you can win fabulous prizes. It looks like a can't lose game, but in this video ...

Volker Rieck transformed vintage old chess boards into fantastically nerdy coat racks to sell on his Etsy shop CreativeHolz. Chess club bonus points for the intentional arrangement of chess pieces int...

Disney CEO Bob Iger made $65.6M last year, 1,424 times that of the median Disney employee (a situation that Walt Disney's grand niece called "insane") -- and last weekend, Disney's movie Avengers: End...

The US has a patchwork of systems for checking outstanding warrants -- it's worst in the south, where paper records and a system that is "labyrinthine and informal" exacerbates the problem -- which me...

Donald J. Sobol (1924 2012) created the Encyclopedia Brown series of mystery books in 1963, which have sold over 50 million copies. I loved these as a kid. Each one had ten stories starring the boy d...

As part of the 40 year anniversary of Alien, 20th Century Fox commissioned illustrator Serene Teh to create Alien flipbook art for the above animation. Videography and post-editing by Noel Lee. Read t...

If you enter into a plea deal in California today, your prosecutor will likely make you promise not to use any future legal reforms to get out of jail earlier than is stipulated in your plea -- that w...

Stephen Moore, the gold bug economics writer nominated by Trump for the board of the Federal Reserve, has a history of making racist and misogynist statements. For example, in 2000 he told C-Span:Its ...

The 8bit Deck is a standard 52-card deck with pixelated artwork using the Pico-8 pallette.A few months ago, I began designing a few face cards for what, at the time, might have been an 8-Bit solitaire...

With Nintendo and now Sega offering popular retro consoles and Atari soon to join them, here comes the Intellivision Amico.All of its games are downloadable and will run between $3 - $8 US, with no hi...

Employers in British Columbia will no longer be able to skim worker's tips, according to a story in the Read the rest ...

Close-up photography in this BBC video shows how a Venus flytrap works. We see a fly, tempted by the Venus flytrap's nectar, alight on a trap. As the fly sucks up the tasty bait, it brushes against on...

I'm on this week's Techdirt podcast (MP3) talking about my latest book Radicalized -- this being Techdirt, the talk quickly moved to DRM, and then to tech policy, monopolism, breaking up the Big Tech ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald Trump rates various Fine People throughout history....

There's a proposal in the works to replace Notre Dame's dome -- which was a relatively modern addition -- with a new, starchitect-designed "statement" dome, which will be copyrightable under the same ...

There's a proposal in the works to replace Notre Dame's spire -- which was a relatively modern addition -- with a new, starchitect-designed "statement" spire, which will be copyrightable under the sam...

Privacy International's blockbuster Digital Stop and Search report details how British police forces have quietly procured phone-searching tools (including mobile "kiosks" that let them probe devices ...

The only noises to be heard are footsteps and video editing suites firing up. The nice ceremonies come later. Read the rest ...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for skipping bail. Assange took refuge in London's Ecuadorean embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over two alleg...

You take your gadgets everywhere. You should able to power them up everywhere and do it easily. It doesn't seem like a lot to ask, but here you are with multiple cords littering the bottom of your com...

I missed this NPR video when it first came out, but I came across it today on the delightful Doobybrain website. It's about the evolution of the supermarket apple from the "mealy and tough-skinned" Re...

Gildan crew T-shirts are very inexpensive and comfortable. Today's price is the lowest I can recall. If I didn't already have a shirt drawer bursting with Gildan tees, I'd buy another six pack. Read t...

Mar is a vlogger who likes to visit LA's worst restaurants, nail and hair salons, massage parlors, and the like. Above, she visits the worst Yelp-rated buffet in her city. Read the rest ...

This will probably cheer you up....

It's so fluffy![faints of cute] Mirror, Mirror on the wall - Who has the fluffiest tail of all?[via] Read the rest ...

It's Gonna Be May. Read the rest ...

There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assur...

Nickolas Peter Chelyapov, founder of Curious Sound Object, has launched a kickstarter for fun electronic musical instrument called the Bitty. You can get one for $78. Below, some music made with a Bit...

Two people were killed and four others were injured at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the Mecklenburg Emergency Medical Services Agency confirmed in a post on Twitter on Tuesday evenin...

Project Farm is an excellent YouTube channel about machinery. In this episode, they run a test to see if water is better than penetrating oils and diesel fuel for getting rusted nuts and bolts loose.I...

Charlie ("Charles N") Brown was the force behind Locus Magazine (previously) until his death in 2009; he hired me to be a columnist for the magazine in 2006 and I've been writing for them ever since.C...

This Saturday, May 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be presenting at the Ottawa Writers Festival, talking about my novel Radicalized and how it ties into surveillance, monopoly, refugees, climate change, racism and...

Quite a tribute to a faded star. Read the rest ...

Last October, a startup called Helm announced a $500, plug-and-play home email server that was designed to be a secure, decentralized, privacy-oriented alternative to using one of Big Tech's email sys...

Not the best quality recording of two longtime favorites, but satisfying nonetheless. Read the rest ...

Dozens of Right to Repair bills were introduced across the USA last year, only to be defeated by hardcore lobbying led by Apple and backed by a rogue's gallery of giant manufacturers of every descript...

From the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress: "In 2018, fifty-three percent of eighth-grade students reported that they believed they could perform a variety of technology- and engineerin...

Concentration in the tech sector has left us with just a few gigantic online platforms, and they have turned into playgrounds for some of the worst people on earth: Nazis, misogynists, grifters, ultra...

A Virginia state judge ruled earlier this month that automated license plate data collection by police qualified as protected personal information," and was illegal, because it included the following ...

Vodaphone discovered that the home routers that Huawei provided for its Italian residential broadband business had a "backdoor" -- an open telnet interface that could allow attackers to take over the ...

Vodafone discovered that the home routers that Huawei provided for its Italian residential broadband business had a "backdoor" -- an open telnet interface that could allow attackers to take over the r...

The classic approach to the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is to scan the skies for radio transmissions from intelligent civilizations. While we definitely won't hear anyth...

Military coup supported by Trump admin appears under way in Venezuela....

The Indian Army tweeted photos of Yeti footprints spotted by its team of mountaineers near Makalu Base Camp between Nepal and Tibet. Based on the image, this particular Yeti has only one foot. No word...

The LA Public Library's Daryl M interviewed me about my new book, Radicalized, specifically, about how my Trump anxiety (created, in part, by the platforms' relentless use of "engagement" tools to non...

David Marby & Nijiko Yonskai's Lorem Picsum is an online service that generates placeholder images. All you have to do is write image URLs like so https://picsum.photos/400/300 with the folder ...

Last July, a nine year old child named Oakley Yoder got bitten on the toe by a venomous snake while at summer camp in Jackson Falls, Illinois: the initial bill for her treatment came out to $142,938.A...

I love when he kills the royal ugly dudes. Read the rest ...

NDAs were once used exclusively to protect bona fide trade secrets, but today's Big Tech companies force new hires to sign far-ranging NDAs that exceed the law in many ways (for example, by banning em...

They've obviously refined the design since the suprisingly bad model sheet leaked. Now it is perfectly bad, launched on an orbital trajectory from the uncanny valley's curve. But perhaps that's the ty...

Every Monday, some poor "brand ambassador" at Chase has to post a "Monday motivation" tweet aimed at convincing people that one of America's largest, most rapacious banks is actually a cuddly, respons...

Opened in Vernon, New Jersey's in 1978, Action Park's biggest claim to fame was the number of injuries experienced by visitors to the amusement and water park. Apparently during Action Park's heyday, ...

Mark Lisseman asks: "Is that diagram accurate??"I looked into it and it turns out that the book is called The Story of Life and is by chris (simpsons artist). I've just ordered a copy.Clear intent is ...

Having won the Fortnite nationals, co-champion Jack Stuttard is asked what's next: another season? More tournaments? The online circuit?Honestly, we don't like the game that much any more. Not gonna l...

To an outsider, the world of computer programming can seem like it's rotating around the Tower of Babel at times. There are so many different languages, each one tailored to a different set of functio...

New drone designs enable small UAVs to conserve battery life by taking breaks in unusual locations as opposed to landing back on the ground. For example, engineers from Yale University and their colle...

More than 200 Italian barbers and hair stylists visited the Vatican yesterday where they received a a solemn word of warning from Pope Francis:"Avoid falling into the temptation of gossip that is easi...

Wise little capybara.Not entirely sure what's going on in this video as I do not speak Japanese, but the title is:Capybara @ Izu Shaboten Animal Park [open-air bath of ancestral capybara] to put manda...

Want to boop that beef snoot so bad.Adorable grass puppy. 12/10.Cows are just like dogs with bigger snoots[via] Read the rest ...

Looks like they're gonna need a stronger download connection for this cat.[via] Read the rest ...