Articles by BoingBoing from August 2019

Jazz genius Thelonious Monk was often known for his laconic mumbling and other idiosyncrasies beside his legendary compositions, technique, and contributions to jazz. But in this short clip, Monk is c...

Vantablack -- the darkest, most light-absorbing pigment on the market -- is freaky stuff to behold (previously, previously, previously, previously, and previously). Vantablack reflects vanishingly lit...

Vantablack -- the darkest, most light-absorbing pigment on the market -- is freaky stuff to behold (previously, previously, previously, previously, and previously). Vantablack reflects vanishingly lit...

A pharmaceutical lab in Spain mislabeled minoxidil (a hair-loss drug sold in the U.S. as Rogaine) as omeprazole (an antacid marketed as Prilosec). Excess hair growth resulted after babies were prescri...

The internet-famous Chicago native Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't talks to an injured coyote he encountered and rescued. The little guy just got a flea bath, and he was on his way to a wildlife rehab f...

Today, illegitimate, popular-vote-losing, manifestly unfit U.S. President Donald Trump did something extraordinarily stupid on Twitter, even for him. Looks like the president may have just tweeted an ...

Charmingly simple, and simply charming, Co Hoedeman's stop-motion short, "Matrioska," (1970) gives life and humor to eight wooden nesting dolls. I couldn't help smiling at a few parts of the film.[via...

Glad no one was hurt, but seriously? $250?A white woman in Mississippi who was accused of threatening an African American couple with a handgun while shouting at them to leave a KOA campground has bee...

The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius) secretes a substance called 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). People in a research study at Maastricht University in the Netherlands "found that...

The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius) secretes a substance called 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). People in a research study at Maastricht University in the Netherlands "found that...

The incompetence horrowshow is on Twitter right now! It's lasted a few minutes; to my shame was I there to see it and wonder how long it would last, and it has not ceased yet. UPDATE, 1:02 p.m. Easter...

Oops.Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account got hacked.You can see the name of the group claiming credit. Read the rest ...

Oops.Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account got hacked.You can see the name of the group claiming credit.A Twitter spox confirmed that what we were all seeing was what we presumed. Yes, Jack's ...

Today is National Slinky Day. As Rachael Lallensack writes in Smithsonian, a spring, a spring, this marvelous thing was invented by accident:In 1943, mechanical engineer Richard James was designing a ...

I think this vase was supposed to shatter on the floor, but it bounced and shattered on a fellow's head.Image: YouTube[via Likecool] Read the rest ...

My daughter and I are watching A Game of Thrones on HBO (my second time, her first) and it reminded me that I read the first Martin novel and liked it but never got around to reading the others. I'm g...

Some online retailers (usually clothing companies. like Rihannas Savage X Fenty) sneakily insert monthly memberships into customers' shopping carts, and if the customers don't remove the subscription...

Back in the 80s, the inventor Cy Enfield created this fascinating device -- a six-button "Microwriter" where you'd chord combos of buttons to produce the entire alphabet, letting you jot down notes on...

This man's fear and exhilaration is palpable without understanding what he's saying. The subtitles amplify his terror. Read the rest ...

Fifteen years ago Wendy Auger got a vanity license plate that read, "PB4WEGO" (pee before we go). But the New Hampshire Department of Motor Vehicles suddenly decided the plate was "offensive to good t...

Typically, marine photography is done in rich, saturated color -- the better to show off the riot of life beneath the waves. But the photographer Christian Vizl has done it in high-contrast black and ...

The large primate could not resist touching the little primate. The little primate didn't want to be touched by the large primate, and showed its displeasure by scratching the large primate.Let me jus...

You can explain it to them. They can sense the damage, and they can perceive that they have made a mistake. They can pretend to be contrite, and maybe for a brief moment they can even understand what ...

You can explain it to them. They can sense the damage, and they can perceive that they have made a mistake. They can pretend to be contrite, and maybe for a brief moment they can even understand what ...

ETH Zurich engineers demonstrated a system enabling a robot to control a marionette. Although a robotic puppeteer is pretty damn cool, that's not the point of the research."Our long term goal is to en...

The Jag at 1:29 and Volkswagen Bug at 3:26 are my favorites. Read the rest ...

Eddie Martins and Richard Hall, the two former New York detectives who pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and nine counts of "official misconduct" for having sex with a handcuffed 18-year-old woman in...

These were the same kids that declared break dancing a memory. Read the rest ...

This is The Mall, first opened in Huntsville, Alabama and demolished in 1998. Collected by Highway Explorer in 1994 as this former retail haven was taking its dying breaths, this footage could do quit...

This short set of Amazon reviews had me laughing out loud! Check out Amazon's bulk Cheez Whiz offer.After the top rated review, the remarks purchasers make about their 39 POUNDS of Cheez Whiz are pret...

Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates is a new three-part documentary that premieres on November 20. It's directed by Davis Guggenheim who produced An Inconvenient Truth and directed Waiting for Su...

In April, my wife and I returned from a few months in Mexico, to Texas. We were planning on hanging around until the end of the month before driving back up to Canada. On a particularly hot day, we th...

No animals were harmed in the making of this video."Vink is a 5-month-old kitten who is blind. He was found on the streets of Greece and thanks to 'Athene Stray Kittens, he found his forever home with...

Diamond and Silk are a social media duo famous for supporting Trump and claiming, without evidence, that Facebook "censored" them. Wonkette is a news, politics and culture website. Bianca DeLaRosa wri...

Diamond and Silk are a social media duo famous for supporting Trump and claiming, without evidence, that Facebook "censored" them. Wonkette is a news, politics and culture website. Bianca DeLaRosa wri...

I'm actually a big fan of Bread Pong. Razmig writes: "When it comes to calories, 1 beer = 2 slices of bread...but you never have your friends over for a loaf? Or do you? It's a bread party! " Read th...

In this video, a paramedic with San Bernadino County Fire Department attempts to reach the site of an accident, but finds his way blocked by motorists who would rather drive in the shoulder than wait ...

CBS News reports that Hurricane Dorian has become more alarming overnight and may grow to Category 4, making it "very dangerous" to the Miami-area coastline it's headed toward.There's a good chance Do...

The Brady "kids" have been busy all year helping to renovate the Brady Bunch house (well, the Studio City home that served as its exterior shot). You may remember that HGTV bought the house last year ...

Just in time for your songs of the summer playlist, we've got a roundup of headphones, speakers, and earbuds. The best part? They're all 15% off the already discounted price. Just use the online code ...

I spend a lot of time typing shit and talking smack about Apple's recent hardware shortcomings, greasy dealings with authoritarian governments and questionable labor practices. But you know what? The ...

Who let the dogs out... and into the swimming pool? L.A. County does, as part of their third annual "Pooches in the Pool" event.Come Monday, September 2, 2019, doggos will get the opportunity to swim ...

Hurricane maps, like the ones created by the National Hurricane Center, tend to show a cone that indicates the predicted path of the hurricane.But it turns out those maps do a terrible job of communic...

Adorable and fun!Bring A Trailer:This 1964 Sunbeam Tiger GT reportedly was discovered in a garage in Palo Alto, California in the 1990s by Tiger historian Norman Miller, who verified it as a genuine G...

An organization that monitors sea turtles in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, reports they've found a two-headed Loggerhead turtle hatchling.Sea Turtle Patrol Hilton Head Island reported that they ...

Perhaps you needed to be reminded that sweet and good things exist in this world.My Youngest Son Meeting Mickey Mouse is that video.My Youngest Son Meeting Mickey MouseFrom IMGURian GoodAsDad.[via img...

White nationalist activist Martin Sellner and British YouTuber the Iconoclast are free to rake in those YouTube viewsand the money that goes with it....

In Maryland, a 16-year-old girl texted a video of herself engaging in a consensual sex act to her best friends. The highest court in Maryland has decided the girl is a child pornographer. For the firs...

I am hopeful that time will cure the 17 children mistakenly dosed with hair loss treatment.El Pas:An internal error at the pharmaceutical company Farma-Qumica Sur is the cause of a hypertrichosis outb...

We stopped using disposable plastic bags for packing lunches a couple of years ago, opting instead for these Japanese-style faux bento boxes. They typically come with two stacking containers, and one ...

This Moonman clear demonstrator is my showy fountain pen with a lot of crazy colored ink of choice.A few years back I bought a TWBSI Eco. I enjoyed using it and it became my black/red ink pen of choic...

YouTuber Madilyn Bailey wrote a very nice song using haters' comments. [via Madilyn Bailey ]Image: Madilyn Bailey/YouTube Read the rest ...

Guinness World Record holder Michelle "Cardboard Shell" Lesco broke a new record by eating 86.35 ozof mayonnaise in 3 minutes.Image: Facebook/Guinness World Records Read the rest ...

Camouflage passports let people pretend to be a citizen of a country other than their own. This video explains the weird world of passports for countries that no longer exist, and how they are used.Yo...

The fifth annual World Robot Conference was open to the public in Beijing last Thursday, August 22, and this bionic flying bird based on a herring gull was one of the more spectacular sights. Other ro...

The host of 'Jeopardy,' Alex Trebek, says he has completed chemotherapy treatment for cancer, and is 'on the mend' as he films a new season of the long-running and popular TV game show.Alex Trebek is ...

Infowars' War Room created a brand-new hate channel on YouTube exactly one day after chief executive Susan Wojcicki's letter to content creators about reducing extremist content. YouTube deleted Alex...

A moment of peace.Photographer and night sky enthusiast Eric Brummel captured this incredible sky-stabilized Milky Way timelapse in August 2016 at Font's Point, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, CA.Watc...

Pavel Dobryakov's beautiful fluid simulation requires no plug-ins to play with. Read the rest ...

If you want more than just humming around the skies in luxury, Magnum has you covered.This seems to strike some odd note of familiarity... Read the rest ...

Two Canadians who tried to bring bottles of cannabidiol (CBD) oil into the Washington state have been banned from entering the US again, even though cannabis and CBD are legal in Washington and the US...

Years ago, I saw a show about a woman who made her home a sort of shrine to Precious Moments figurines. She had custom cabinets built for them and everything. I remember being horrified that someone w...

I'm coming late to this one, because it was posted last year -- but hey, better late than never: Behold this fascinating set of Pricenomics graphics about what types of objects Americans pawn.One thin...

I like Suki, Molly of Denali's pet dog.Molly and her dog Suki, an Alaskan Malamute, live in the fictional town of Qyah, Alaska. Molly of Denali is the first US children's show to feature a Native Amer...

Apparently YouTube has been removing videos of battlebots, after their system flagged the videos for containing "animal suffering".Ars Technica has a good story on several removals that took place las...

I am addicted to Shannon Messenger's Keeper of Lost Cities series. Everblaze continues the saga of seriously reluctant hero Sophie Foster.Sophie was abducted from her human family by elves who claim s...

Trabzon is a northeastern province of Turkey. You'll find a lot of light industry there: small farmers, plantations growing tea and craftsman. It also happens to be home to some of the most sought-aft...

Majestic Trinkets created a double-layered D20 that looks like something right out of a dingy pub in Waterdeep. It's $80, but think how quickly you'll win it back! This die is perfect for the most ext...

Good news everybody: Apple's really sorry about recording our conversations with Siri. In a statement issued earlier today, the company's talking heads stated that they realized that the '...havent be...

It is all the fake media, she says."No. I don't believe the President has lied."Trump campaign national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tells @ChrisCuomo President Trump has never lied to...

There's an AI algorithmic technique known as "Progressive Face Super-Resolution", which can take low-rez photos of people's faces and enhance them into higher-rez versions.It's actually a rather unset...

DC makes some fabulous animated movies and their television programming has, even where budget has been a concern, been pretty good (I still cry over Constantine and what could have been, however). I'...

There's a Happy Mutant reality hacker on the loose in Berkeley, California... affixing "mysterious medallions" on the city's sidewalks.Berkeleyside reports:There is a person out there with a sly sense...

In an effort to reduce the amount of false and extremist content pushed to viewers, Google's video platform YouTube will adjust its presentation algorithm for UK users. YouTube tried a similar algorit...

Exhibit A is this tweet, from the President of the United States of America, angered at the presence of criticism on his favorite channel:Exhibit B is this almost-plaintive response from Fox News anch...

Be still my heart. There's a cereal bowl that lets you listen to the snap, crackle, and pop of your Rice Krispies! I'm just hearing about it but apparently the "Snap Crack and Pop Amplifier Cereal Bow...

I am a sucker for a good flowchart; furthermore, a fan of hand-drawn infographics; and also a partisan of overly-systematized grammatical guides.So this chart on how and when to capitalize headlines, ...

The New York Times reports that the DNC has whittled the Dem field down to 10 candidates—enough to fit on a single stage for the next debate—after another round of dismal polling for the t...

Your home is your castle, but that doesn't mean it has to be cold and stony. The summer is almost over, and that means the Labor Day sales are nigh. Here are 10 essential home accessories you never kn...

A man suspected of killing three people in Virginia was spotted at large, naked, attacking people in the street. But when police approached, the man instead began pursuing one of the heavily-armored o...

Matcha (powdered green tea leaves) is usually pretty expensive. When I saw a one-pound container of Organic Matcha Green Tea Powder on Amazon selling for I was suspicious, but I decided to give it a ...

When I see the price that you payI don't wanna grow upI don't ever wanna be that wayI don't wanna grow upSeems like folks turn into thingsThat they'd never wantThe only thing to live for is today...Th...

In this BBC video, a troop of Langur monkeys come across an animatronic spy monkey with a camera in its eye, and assume it's a dead baby. They gather around it and appear to mourn it. Image: YouTube R...

In this video, The Q shows how to cut the heads out of coins. Start by putting the coin in a vise. Drill a small hole through the coin. Run a tiny hacksaw blade through the hole and start sawing away....

Restored by Guy Jones, who said, "Early sound film of the latest flapper fashions from House Doeuillet in Paris, France in the year 1928."I kept hoping for the Marx Brothers to appear. Image: YouTube/...

Jeremy Soule, composer of game soundtracks such as Morrowind and Total Annihilation, was named by developer Natalie Lawhead as having raped her when the two worked together in 2008. Following her post...

Nordstrom just totally loses it and the moon. Themesong rocks, tho. Read the rest ...

JazzFM shares:Legendary US jazz musician Ahmad Jamal has announced a solo album - something hes never done before. The pianist who just turned 89 says this project, titled Ballades is a French-inspire...

Can't believe the BS spewed on @TuckerCarlson show!"Did u know that 40% of people that murder children, are Cannabis users" jfc.... pic.twitter.com/7qkKbPCtkY— Walter Dirion (@Walter...

CORRECTION: The gentleman in the video linked below contacted us and does cite his sources. Twitter thread embedded blow.Can't believe the BS spewed on @TuckerCarlson show!"Did u know that 40%...

When replacing a watchband, or fixing one where the spring bar has gone awry, this super cheap tool and set of springs will come to the rescue.Much like an eyeglasses repair kit, a watch spring bar to...

Oh boy, here we go. Archie McPhee has just announced their 2019 candy cane flavors. The star of this year's line-up are the ham-flavored ones, which are aptly called Hamdy Canes.When the holidays come...

The picture doesn't do it justice but this string art mandala that I recently scored is really gorgeous. Plus, it has some cool history. When I saw it at the thrift store, it was just sitting on the f...

Oh, this is too good. After Bowie died in 2016, YouTuber George Dillon made this video of Laurel and Hardy dancing to "The Jean Genie" to honor the late rockstar. It really works. He also did a simila...

A woman born in 1852. A gentleman birthed in 1841. A lovely couple, very much in love since well before the opening of the 20th century. This short film, captured using a early Movietone camera, was l...

I don't think that I've ever met anyone that actually enjoys using LinkedIn. I mean sure, depending on what you do for a living, it might help you land a new gig. Maybe, it can help you to network wit...

For Popular Science, the photographer and journalist Stan Horaczek took a deep dive into NYC's repair shops -- places that repair cameras, musical gear, lighting fixtures and even jeans.Horaczek does ...

Allergies. A sinus infection. Neglecting to swallow often enough as the plane your riding in depends towards your final destination. A head cold. There's hundreds of reasons why your ears might be too...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Louis of Earth must think fast to keep secret the ways of the Star Wars...

Need to expand your IT know-how? It doesn't happen overnight - but there are courses out there that can get you there quickly. Big businesses need the security, storage, and flexibility that cloud com...

The US is increasingly rejecting entry to people because of content sent to those persons by others, on social media and messaging apps. Customs and Border Patrol searched at least 30,000 tech devices...

ProPublica's Minhee Cho says: "Thought you might be interested in ProPublicas latest report detailing how insurance companies are actually fueling a rise in ransomware attacks by choosing to pay the r...

The administration of Donald Trump is pulling $270 million from the Department of Homeland Security, including $155 million of FEMA disaster relief funding, to pay for all migrant concentration camps,...

Deutsche Bank disclosed in a court filing on Tuesday that financial records requested by congressional Democrats that are related to U.S. President Donald Trump and three of his adult children includ...

Illegitimate, popular-vote-losing president Donald J. Trump, just yesterday:Im an environmentalist. A lot of people dont understand that. I think I know more about the environment than most people.Ill...

Tokyo is a sound-saturated city: bustling traffic, train station announcements, people everywhere, the barrage of loud adverts, drunk salarymen singing in the Ginza streets at night, and even the loud...

Purportedly searching for a missing girl, a cop barged into a house in Carpentersville, Illinois, without a warrant and choked a teenage boy who was home alone. The attack was captured on video and th...

Behold StoryAI: Type in a few sentences, and the model autocompletes your story, writing a few hundred more words that, by its calculations, could plausibly follow.It was created by the folks at BotSo...

If you have "large" hands, it's your lucky day. Amazon has a box of 100 nitrile gloves on sale for just . I use them for any kind of messy work - gluing PVC pipe, wiping up cat barf, fixing greasy gar...

In the late 1980s, Woolworths made a training video to help its staff catch shoplifters. Video of actual shoplifters are narrated by a former shoplifter, who says things like, "People do not shop look...

Future Punk did an incredible job making these alternate history commercials imaging iPhones from the 1980s and 1990s.Image: Future Punk/YouTube Read the rest ...

I hear endless stories of grief from the friends I have who try to make ends meet working for these services.Jalopnik's Dhruv Mehrotra and Aaron Gordon share the terrible economics:But Dave, who was g...

Pete Davidson seemed to hate the students at University of Central Florida during his stand up performance last night. The Saturday Night Live comedian was triggered by students who were recording him...

Apple wants you to "unwind with the whispered legend of Ghost Forest," with this ASMR video designed to send tingles through your body.In a previous Boing Boing post, Gareth Branwyn explains ASMR in a...

Photographer Claire Droppert experiments with using gravity as a mechanic for art, tossing natural objects in the air and snapshotting how they fly and fall. She's just released a second set of "Sand ...

Leave it to Japan to design a modern television that's styled to look like it's from the fifties. That's just what Japanese electronics brand Doshisha has done with this fun, retro-styled cabinet that...

Hackaday has a great post about a recreation of the GENIAC, an electric toy from 1955 that used simple switches to creative a turn-based interactive game narrative.The GENIAC, short for "GENIus Almost...

Normally at this time, I'd already be in Black Rock City. But I left on such a high note last year that I decided to take a year off. Still, I've been feeling tinges of FOMO and have been looking for ...

This is the hardest man Ive ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/muRQGCDPF9— Kenjac (@JackKennedy) August 25, 2019 No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...a...

Antonio De La Rosa, from Spain, just paddled his way from San Francisco to Honolulu. It took the ultra-endurance athlete 76 days in his stand-up paddle boat, celebrating his 50th birthday by himself a...

When you say you're super into the great outdoors and nature and -- something weird shows up.From Myles and Willows on Instagram. View this post on Instagram Don't you feed that duck my treats!...

It's rough out there for Uber and Lyft contract drivers. And getting rougher.Based on data from some 14,756 fares, Jalopnik reports that in recent years the ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft have sl...

Undisclosed amount of products stolen from the clinic by...

Leon Haughton was arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on December 29 when cops told him that 3 jars of honey in his baggage had tested positive for methamphetamine. He was charged w...

Shipbrook makes 3D models of "props from science fiction movies, TV shows, and computer games that I enjoy" and uploads the models to Thingiverse so other people can print them out on a 3D printer. He...

The Monty Hall Problem is a probability puzzle, but the actual problem with the Monty Hall problem was just Monty Hall. Probability doesn't really matter if the game show host has free will and a will...

Like Funko? Love Marvel? This Funko/Marvel 80th Anniversary advent calendar will fill the advent calendar role in my daughter's holiday ritual.I do not understand much about Christ or how his adherent...

Own your own squadron of F-16s with the all the tactical upgrades one could, or should, ask for.I just want ONE G-21 Super Goose, ffs.The Drive:We reached out to Jet Lease to get all the details on th...

A "time capsule" from 1969, which is to say an old, locked safe, was opened to reveal air inside. A time capsule in Derry that was sealed 50 years ago was recently opened to reveal its contents -- not...

For years, it was just about impossible to see a film that Ed Norton didn't have something to do with. Then, just like Kaiser Soze, poof, he was gone. Except now he's back! Given that Norton will wrot...

In an effort to fight cynicism, David Byrne has started a new online editorial project called Reasons to be Cheerful. It's described as a "self help magazine for people who hate self help magazines."H...

Give Analyze Words a Twitter handle—perhaps your Twitter handle!—and it will perform a personality analysis based on all the words it finds. My report is embedded above; I am a spacy, sens...

PC gamers, choose your weapons. We've sniffed out summer discounts on a truckload of gear from Azio, a company that gets high marks from users for style as well as performance. Here are a few of our f...

[I ran a review of this in June when the UK edition came out -- this review coincides with the US edition's publication] Rob Smith is an eminent computer scientist and machine learning pioneer whose w...

The U.S. government will launch a program about a month from now to help state officials prevent ransomware attacks on voter registration databases and systems, ahead of the 2020 presidential election...

According to data from two large studies spanning thirty years, optimistic people live considerably longer than pessimists. Why? Apparently optimistic people eat better, exercise, manage stress more e...

At yesterday's D23 Expo, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening put an end to speculation that the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is going to disappear. Apu's future has been publicly questioned since c...

You know which part we object to most, dear reader.A Florida man was found by police to be in the possession of ecstasy pills formed in the shape of illegitimate, popular-vote-losing U.S. President Do...

I've been using this Wen rotary tool for a couple of years now and I really like it. It has plenty of power (I've never turned it up to full speed for anything I've used it for), comes with a bunch of...

Case affects privacy rights of law enforcement officers, and freedom of information for those investigating police abuse....

The Barcelona area has beautiful beaches, including some that are nudist-friendly. But skinny dippers beware robbery is common when people leave their stuff on the sand to swim (more than 850 thefts ...

At noon ET, employees at the New York Times received the following email:Dear Colleagues,During an extermination sweep of the newsroom over the weekend, we discovered evidence of bedbugs in a wellness...

Ever since he was a kid, Matt Bilsky has wanted to make a kite-string winder. His first attempt, at age 8, didn't work because the motor was not strong enough and the string kept getting tangled. But ...

The amazing Owl's Nest Sanctuary For Wildlife shared images of this incredibly beautiful blue-eyed baby deer on their Facebook page.Look at them BABY BLUES!!! We are *fawning* over this stunning whit...

It's always fun to discover the photo references that comic book artists and illustrators use. Here's one that Steve posted to Flickr. On the left, Yvonne De Carlo in Hotel Sahara. On the right, Gino ...

In an extremely weird National Park Service notice, tourists are advised that these poop-y looking brown balls of mystery crap that have been observed rolling over trails in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

The Lockpicking Lawyer found a serious vulnerability in the high-tech TurboLock YL-99: phillips head screws in the handle. Image: Lockpicking Lawyer/YouTube Read the rest ...

No clear leader of the pack, yet....

RBG was treated for cancer at Sloan-Kettering. Disease activity found on her pancreas. Further tests showed no evidence of disease elsewhere in her body.The U.S. Supreme Court disclosed on Friday tha...

Security at La Perla, a downtown bar in Los Angeles, aggressively forced out at least two transgender women and "several gay men," according to CBS.Cellphone video of the incident shows Jennifer Bianc...

Federal lawsuit challenges new rule allowing indefinite detention of migrant kids...

My five year old daughter asked for a 'pink forest to camp in' for her bedroom. I think I delivered, on a budget!Don't miss the starry night sky.Photos and some how-to information for other DIY parent...

I remember the urban legend of rats from my youth.Engadget shares this nugget:Plant-based meat substitutes may soon be an option for fast food chicken. CNBC reports that KFC will start testing Beyond ...

Yesterday I posted a video by Jim Browning, who runs the Tech Support Scam website. In that video, Jim shows how he figured out the likely suspect behind a recent spate of telemarketing scam calls in ...

Trump foe may be charged by Trump cronies with lying to federal agents...

This permanent USB port has everything I want: QC 3.0 charging, 2 USB ports, and a voltmeter.My little USB 2 port plug in has kept me going in the Vanagon for years. It does tend to fall out when I go...

Illegitimate US president Donald Trump and French president Emmanuel Macrons respective governments have struck deal to end feud over Frances tax on tech giants.Trump still won't directly answer when ...

The gall. Pardoned by Orange Julius, racist birther asshat Joe Arpaio is running for his old job of Maricopa County Sheriff.The Guardian:Joe Arpaio announced on Sunday the second anniversary of his p...

What the fuck is she talking about? pic.twitter.com/Mchf0L4rDx— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) August 24, 2019 Pockets are not actually in the bill of rights. Read the rest ...

Beep. From Uncommon Ephemera:The second filmstrip in Sunburst Communications' "How You Get VD" series focuses on syphilis. Reusing a few frames from the previous title, but focusing on a hand-drawn st...

Diana Krall's cover of Tom Waits' 'Temptation' is either "Oh, shit! I'm falling in love again." or "Oops. Looks like I fell out of love again."I prefer the former, and studio version, but this live tr...

Storm chaser Ty Schmitt created this astounding 8K time-lapse film, titled "From Darkness to Light," using footage he collected while traveling 30,000 back and forth across the Great Plains last sprin...

"The story of a generation comes to an end." Who wins?: Kylo Ren vs Rey. Read the rest ...

I haven't been watching HBO'S Succession, but I will be now after watching this clip from last night's episode. Assuming the clip is representative, it's a show about a King Lear-esque millionaire (pl...

Behold the President of the United States of America: "Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S." Axios:President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security ...

Austin Kleon with some excellent advice: "Go to Goodwill and buy a gigantic used paper dictionary for $5 and keep it on your desk."When youre looking for a word to replace a word in your writing, John...

Bennett Feely created YouTube Decade, a website that shows the top videos at YouTube from exactly 10 years ago. I was expecting it to be a bunch of happy-go-lucky kitteh videos and blithely optimistic...

The weather is settling right into the pocket for an outdoor movie night, so it's worth spotlighting one of the best - and smallest - projectors around: The Prima 1080p HD Pocket Projector.Even if the...

Around this time last year, I picked up a Surface Go. It's been a great piece of hardware. While it might not be the most powerful Windows PC going, it's got more than enough guts to power me through ...

Even though Im at Burning Man, Ive snuck out an extra scheduled podcast episode (MP3): Barlows Legacy is my contribution to the Duke Law and Tech Reviews special edition, THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE IN...

There's no shortage of stories about the benefits of cannabidiol, that benign (and non-psychoactive) cousin of THC. Some have been using it for years to deal with pain, stress, and sleeplessness. And ...

Jim Browning, who runs the YouTube channel called Tech Support Scams, recorded this call from fraudsters who "are robo-calling thousands of people in the UK with alarming messages apparently from 'VIS...

The black ink in Sakura Pigma markers is very rich. I love drawing with them. This set of six, which sells for just , has nibs ranging from 0.20mm in diameter up to 0.50mm. Read the rest ...

So, there's a new theory about what happened to Amelia Earhart: She crash-landed on a Pacific island, and after death, her body was slowly eaten and pulled apart by coconut crabs.Lemme break this one ...

Can't wait to get a mouthful. Read the rest ...

America. Land of the free, home of the giant asshole. In this case: Marysville, Michigan city council candidate Jean Cramer.USA Today:Keep Marysville a white community as much as possible, said Cramer...

A successful program in Santa Monica, California is simply helping folks who need help.LAist: Read the rest ...

Hey, Lama, hey! How about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?! Read the rest ...

Are we done with capsule coffee makers yet? Sure, they're easy. But they are not so easy on the environment, and it's debatable whether they actually make a better cup. Luckily, there's never been a b...

Before we had several tiny screens to entertain us on road trips, we were confined to but one: the window. Imagine being stuffed into the back seat of your moms gold Plymouth Duster, rolling through e...

Surprisingly, bikinis with a watermelon theme are a thing. I think IsneakSush1ToBed's hand-crocheted melonkini is the best of the crop, though. Finished the melonkini Read the rest ...

This is me when I take any kind of lesson.This is the Twitter content Im here for... pic.twitter.com/h5szw7FK5E— Rex Chapman (@RexChapman) August 21, 2019 Image: Twitter Read the rest ...

You can back up a lot of photos, songs, and documents with this 256GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive from Samsung. According to the manufacturer they are "water proof, shock proof, magnet proof, temperature proo...

Approximately once every ten minutes, the Bitcoin network issues one "miner" with a block reward of freshly minted bitcoins. When bitcoin launched in 2009, the block reward was 50 bitcoins. Every four...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of The Silk Road darknet marketplace, is serving a double life sentence plus forty years with no possibility for parole for "money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy t...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of The Silk Road darknet marketplace, is serving a double life sentence plus forty years with no possibility for parole for "money laundering, computer hacking, conspiracy t...

Nepal is banning disposable plastic soda bottles and other single-use plastic items in Khumbu, the region where Mount Everest is located. In May, volunteers collected more than six thousand pounds of ...

Science journalist Bryan Walsh visited scientists from a variety of disciplines, devoured the scientific literature, and identified the catastrophic events most likely to kill us all. The list is a gr...

"Bang Your Head (It's a Celebration)" by the talented Bill McClintock, featuring Kool & The Gang's "Celebration," Quiet Riot's "Bang Your Head," and a little riffage from Free's "All Right Now."(...

In 1959, Westinghouse imagined the TOTAL ELECTRIC HOME, a life filled with electrical appliances. The company was slowly devoured from the inside out by the media entities it bought, and now the elect...

When two plain-clothes police officers approached a woman smoking a joint at the Gothenburg Cultural Festival in Sweden, they noticed a fellow sitting nearby toss what they say was a bag of weed. As t...

The market-research firm Market Force Information surveyed 7,600 people to find out which burger chains the liked the most and least, ranking them by eight attributes, like "food quality", "speed serv...

Behold the "One HTML Page Challenge" -- to build a one-page site using just the code in a single html file: "Practice your skills with no assistance from libraries, no separation of files, and no assi...

Hey upstate NY state folks: My band The Delorean Sisters is in your neck of the woods, tonight and tomorrow!We're a country-Americana band -- our first album was a fun concept project, where we took 8...

I played this once. I am crying. One of the greatest moments in television. Read the rest ...

The last planned launch of a Delta IV single stick rocket was a success. The single-core Delta rocket will now be retired, as SpaceX is cheaper.The iconic Delta IV Heavy is still in use with its multi...

Remember the guy who rigged up his first-gen Roku to an old black-and-white TV to watch The Twilight Zone? Well, that "guy" is my artist pal Josh Ellingson and he's taking his viral moment to the next...

Ryan Alden, a 39 year-old professional sack of filth/security technician, was charged with 28 felonies after getting caught by the cops doing some incredibly invasive, heinous shit.From Gizmodo:Nichol...

Jesselyn Cook noticed that a site called NewsBuzzr had ripped off one of her stories at Huffington Post. It turned out to be some kind of awful plagiarism bot that uses a thesaurus to avoid detection ...

If there's one thing that stayed consistent through the last decade or so of tech industry turmoil, it's the love affair between techies and Linux. There's just a ton you can do with the OS, and its o...

Children's Fairyland, the mid-century theme park for little kids in Oakland, California, posted this video of their resident donkeys reacting to classical music that is too cute not to share. Fairylan...

Circuitbeard created this adorable and pixel-perfect miniature OutRun cabinet to sit atop their bar, complete with not-a-Ferrari dashboard and original cabinet decal art. Check out Picade for a primer...

Last year, Shanee Stopnitzky dropped her doctoral studies in marine biology for another soggy pursuit: submarines!Picking up a pair of used submarines (apparently they're not just for the Canadian Nav...

My "bee"-obsessed young son will not be delighted to see the addition of bees to Minecraft, as he is still too young to have played Minecraft or, indeed, to have become cognizant of the difference bet...

There's an unlimited wealth of useless USB gadgetry to be acquired, obviously, but something about the USB half-golfball with one USB port [Amazon] posted to Twitter by @foone (whose epic threads abou...

The following email was sent today to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif.To the members of the MIT community,I expect you know that the late Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with an...

David Folkenflik of NPR News has a report today about how Jeffrey Epstein terrorized members of the press who sought to report on his activity, alternating between attempting to intimidate or buy off ...

Starting next year you won't be able to board a plane without REAL ID....

On Sunday, workers at a Safeway supermarket in King County, Washington found 48 pounds of cocaine hidden inside banana boxes stacked in the stockroom."This is an ongoing investigation as detectives tr...

From the far-out folks at Flavor Paper comes Cannabliss, a subtly psychedelic scratch-and-sniff wallpaper that smells like weed. They write:We have nailed a very pleasant yet dank scent that is made f...

No surprises in Jeffrey Epstein's social media accounts.His Spotify playlists included Louis C.K. and songs like 'Before You Accuse Me' and 'Hot for Teacher.'His Pinterest includes Peter Pan and Humpt...

Just another day living under our very normal white supremacist government. Justice Department officials reportedly emailed immigration judges a white nationalist blog post that included various attac...

One of the greatest cartoon series of recent years, Adventure Time ran for ten seasons on Cartoon Network. Created by Pendleton Ward, the original short above was produced for Frederator Studios' Ran...

Mental health problems are a pain in the ass. One of the more obnoxious coping mechanisms I used to use to deal with depression and anxiety was shopping.Having nightmares again? Stressed out? But some...

Joe Strummer was born on August 21, 1952 in Ankara, Turkey. The music he made in his 50 years on this rock changed damned near everything, speaking of rebellion, love and everything in between. He wou...

The Sentinelese are one of the world's last "uncontacted" indigenous peoples, a hunter-gatherer tribe who live on the remote North Sentinel Island in India's Andaman Islands chain. You may recall that...

In the latest issue of the What's in my bag? newsletter (published by Cool Tools, which I edit), my friend AJ Jacobs talks about four things he keeps i his bag:A.J. Jacobs is a writer, lecturer and hu...

Rabbits love getting stroked on their nose pic.twitter.com/aYOZGAY6kP— Dan Quintana (@dsquintana) August 18, 2019 His name is Mischief. (CNN) Read the rest ...

He's gainin' on you so you better look alive.He's busy revvin' up the powerful Mach 5. And when the odds are against himAnd there's dangerous work to doYou bet your life Speed RacerWill see it through...

My friend gave me a bass guitar she didn't want any more because she was moving. It's a great bass but I don't have a way to store it. I just saw this great deal for a wall-mount guitar holder for jus...

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new report titled "Microplastics in drinking-water" (124-page PDF) Based on the limited information we have, microplastics in drinking water dont appear to...

With all pretense having long been abandoned disinformation professional Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who shamelessly lied on behalf of the Trump Administration, will be joining the Fox News payroll.Wonder...

This guy collected a gallon of seawater, some sand, and seaweed, poured it in a jar, and sealed the lid. He inadvertently collected a lot of tiny animals, too, and a year later the jar is a vibrant cl...

This clear sticker is made from a material that instantly sheds water. Why don't car manufacturers pre-treat the side view mirrors, and all the glass on cars for that matter, with this stuff? I suspec...

In the absence of any regulation or meaningful action by the federal government to tackle the persistent and annoying scourge of robocalls, twelve of America's largest phone companies on Thursday agre...

The Justice Department today announced indictments for 80 individuals on charges they ran a massive business email and money laundering scam that operated in part out of Southern California.DoJ's 145-...

Tom Hegen (previously) is a photographer who specializes in aerial photography of landscapes, often with a focus on mass industrial activity that reshapes the natural world. His latest work is a serie...

Thermochromic materials change color as they heat or cool. You know the mood ring? Like that!Now comes a much weirder and more delightful use of this technology: A seven-segment thermochromic display....

Dress codes have long been used as a bullshit method of applying racism. A Portland man is suing a restaurant for just that.Oregon Live:An African American man has filed a $500,000 lawsuit against one...

I have offered plenty of advice on caring for your cast iron cookware. Stop seasoning it in the house, use your BBQ.Seasoning this stuff in the oven (my favorite old way,) or on the stove smokes your ...

Accidents happen. And when they do, you're going to want a dash cam for a second pair of eyes. At the minimum, a decent dash cam can save you vast sums of time and money in case of an accident. But a ...

Peregrine falcons are the dive bombers of the natural world, flying at speeds over 200 mph to snag their prey. From KQED Deep Look:While known for being the worlds fastest birdperegrines have been clo...

US interior secretary David Bernhardt is pushing a fossil fuel project that the lobbying firm he used to work for is getting paid from, these e-mails in a Guardian report today suggest.Bernhardt worke...

Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman has been placed on leave from the applied artificial intelligence lab he ran. No reason was given.Suleyman led a much-criticized unit that focused on applie...

In an apparent attempt to soften criticism of its business practices under President Donald Trump, Amazon is offering lawmakers private tours of its giant warehouses.The Washington Post reports today ...

Google and Mozilla are making changes to their respective web browsers to try and thwart the notoriously corrupt government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own c...

Contractors working for Microsoft say they listened to audio captured by Xbox consoles...

Look at this cute kitty getting a little taste of ice cream on a spoon from her human. Not an every day thing, but it's okay as a fancy once-in-a-while.This is Hallie, says IMGURian DOWNVOTEALLEMOJIS,...

The sound this tiny little 4-week-old pound puppy makes when he's smacking his toof-less gums around that soaked kibble? It gives me all the squees in the world. Look at that little dude just go.That ...

I've owned quite a few vegetable peelers, and the Kuhn Rikon model (3 for on Amazon) is my favorite. The blade is very sharp and it easily skins sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and even jicama. The...

In Derry, New Hampshire, a time capsule from 1969 was finally opened on its 50th anniversary yet it was completely empty. The time capsule was inside a small safe with the combination on the back. It ...

What just happened? asks the Los Angeles Times, concerning the sale of "the Mountain", a large undeveloped plot of land overlooking Los Angeles that was listed for $1bn but nabbed at auction for only ...

Finally working again at 70 years, happily playing Casablanca. Wow. Seriously impressed by @hrf3420's 1949 Zenith 28T962R restoration project shared on IMGUR.Look at the beast in its original form! O...

Apparently, July 20, 2019 was that fellow's lucky day. Read the rest ...

Sam Trail says he and his wife boarded a United Airlines plane only to discover that their seats had been vomited on by a previous passenger. They say that when they alerted a crew member, they were g...

On the Under the Knife show, Dr Lindsey Fitzharris elucidates the weird history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy," the weird practice of binding books in human skin, including the doctor who bound case h...

Mexico City judge Vctor Octavio Luna Escobedo gave two people permission to use 500 milligrams of cocaine per day, saying the drug conveys benefits such as "tension relief, the intensification of perc...

Amsterdam's Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (AKA "The Ritman Library) houses more ths 25,000 occult texts, covering "Hermetics, Rosicrucians, Theosophy, alchemy, mysticism, Gnosis and Western Esote...

A couple was flying a small plane at 6pm last night when they lost power and crashed near Northern California's Half Moon Bay. They skidded across water and amazingly escaped without injuries. They ev...

A month after DoorDash promised to give workers the tips that customers leave for them, the company is still withholding them, reports Vox.At the time, CEO Tony Xu announced in a series of tweets that...

Last week, Jimmy Kimmel joked about running for mayor of Dildo, a tiny unincorporated town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and even built a Hollywood-style sign on a nearby hill. Then, sex toy c...

Last week, the Modern Monetary Theory Podcast ran part 1 of my interview with co-host Christian Reilly; they've just published the second and final half of our chat (MP3), where we talk about the link...

Ted Suhl was serving his third year of a seven-year sentence for bribery and Medicaid fraud when Trump commuted his sentence and sprung him, at the request of Mike Huckabee; the White House released a...

Benjamin Bennett has a YouTube channel of 300 videos where he silently sits in a corner for four hours and smiles into the camera without taking a break. Yesterday he made an 8-hour video of sitting a...

Air Canada flight 759's captain and co-pilot had been awake all day and were coming into San Francisco in the early hours of the morning, at the lowest point of their circadian cycle. A runway was clo...

The queue area at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland features a row of changing portraits wherein paintings everyday scenes are revealed as sinister and haunted (originally the effect was done with cro...

The Obamas released their first film with Netflix, which started streaming today a documentary called American Factory.From Fast Company:Called American Factory, the documentary follows the events of...

From Etudes.ru (Google translation):More than 40 years ago in 1968 ... A team led by Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov creates a mathematical model of the motion of the animal (cat). The BESM-4 machine...

Shipping on my favorite notebooks went from 30 days to overnight.Last time I ordered a Maruman notebook it took a month for it to arrive. I love the Mnemosyne paper for writing upon with fountain pens...

Ramsey Lewis, Red Holt and Eldee Young recorded such amazing music. Read the rest ...

Sean Spicer, a former dishonest mouthpiece of the Trump Administration, will be joining the cast of a game show where he'll be paid to dance instead of lie in front millions.Politico:Former White Hous...

somebody needsto throw a god damn bootat Mr. Mistoffeleesillusionsscrew this jellical distractionthis is not quiet, smallnor should one anthropomorphizea pissant catprancing about a stage you don't kn...

This is my last day at my desk until Labor Day: tomorrow, we're driving to Burning Man to get our annual dirtrave fix! If you're heading to the playa, here's three places and times you can find me:1. ...

As long ago as 1966, Batman knew how to correctly dispose of a explosive device without endangering the public or property. To think that all the shenanigans of the last two decades or so were complet...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH it's a race against the clock, as Terrorism Detective must find the puzzling factor inspiring recent terrorism violence!...

When someone punches you so hard your brain flies out the orifices of your face, how exactly does that sound? Foley artists know how that sounds, and they use a variety of clever techniqes to generate...

Skeleton Lake is so named for the hundreds of skeletons found there, a spooky tableux high in a Himalayan pass. It was believed that the 500 or so dead were killed by a freak hailstorm, but a new stud...

Everyone these days seems to have one of those fancy programmable pressure cookers known as the Instant Pot (IP). Now I've learned that people are decorating their IP's stainless steel exterior with d...

Swoon...!Look what SHAG whipped up (that's a reference to the Dole Whip, btw) for Disneyland: Enchanted Tiki Room mouse ears. Since early July, Disney has been releasing a series of Mickey Mouse ear h...

The field of data analytics is growing as fast as the internet itself. Self-driving cars, airline pricing, and huge marketing campaigns are all driven by the insights that data scientists can distill ...

I'm a fan of Todd Thyberg's design work and when he told me he had a kickstarter for a project with a H.P. Lovecraft theme, I asked him to describe the project for Boing Boing. Here's what he wrote:A...

This is the least expensive Arduino-clone starter kit I've seen. It's just on Amazon, and comes with an Arduino Uno clone, a solderless breadboard, resistors, LEDs, jumper wires, pushbuttons, and a l...

The cameras are already transforming modern day policing in Uganda, with facial recognition and artificial intelligence as part of policing and security. Ugandan Police....

Spotify may not be literally damaging our brains, but he's not entirely wrong, either....

These air mattresses were set up in a grassy Denver area for a four-night "Bed Cinema" event last weekend, but began to charge across the park with the help of a wind gust. Some of them even hopped a ...

Manhattan in the early nineties, captured on what must have at the time been an unusually high-def camera.The uploader of this incredible archival B-roll footage said to be of New York in 1993 says th...

This cosplay project of V, from 'Cyberpunk 2077' is absolutely incredible, and was shared in two parts online by its creator, @aelirenn. The work in progress is here, and the finished result is here.C...

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music traces the history of electronic music from the early 1900s to the present through a timeline/map that has links to playlists to different subgenres. Read the rest ...

It sucks to be in a motorcycle accident, as Instagram influencer tifforelie was. She documented the accident by posting a series of professionally-shot photos of her lying in the road, one of which pr...

Yes, we're back to the 'disloyal Jews' thing. Because he's a Nazi....

My friend and former Make magazine colleague Sean Michael Ragan is making videos for my Cool Tools YouTube channel. (Subscribe to the channel here!) In his latest video, Sean reviews something called ...

Furry fans sometimes use cooling vests to make hot fursuits comfortable to wear. Soldiers also have need for such garments. And now a Dutch fursuit maker has improved the state of the art. Tired of ov...

Heirs' property is a relic of post-Reconstruction law, which allows white developers to exploit the diffuse ownership of Black family homes to steal them and kick out the people who live there.Followi...

One of the major contributors to greenhouse gases is the methane that cows belch up as they break down cellulose, but five years ago, research from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial R...

Tim Qian, a "full stack developer and open source activist," has published chart.xkcd, a free/open tool that lets you create interactive, "hand-drawn" charts in the style of XKCD comics. It's pretty f...

OpenAI has released a more extensive version of its generative language model.Were releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in February ... 2....

On Slate Star Codex (previously), Scott Alexander breaks down Invisible Designers: Brain Evolution Through the Lens of Parasite Manipulation, Marco Del Giudice's Quarterly Review of Biology paper that...

The cat-loving Guinness world record holder and internet personality CatManToo shared this video a couple years ago, but since it's making the viral rounds uncredited, I wanted to share the original. ...

After the EU Copyright Directive passed with a slim majority that only carried because some MEPs got confused and pressed the wrong button, the government of Poland filed a legal challenge with the E...

In Hackettstown, New Jersey, a McDonald's drive-through customer reportedly paid with a "smoldering" dollar bill that burned the employee's hand. From NJ.com:After taking the money, the employee reali...

As tech began to concentrate, two dominant strategies emerged: Google's (instrument the whole internet for surveillance, which means that you don't have to lock people in in order to spy on them) and ...

And that is why we love him so....

Founded in 1623 in Turkey and now based in Norwell, Massachusetts, Zildjian has manufactured cymbals continuously for almost 400 years. This is how they do it now. Read the rest ...

In 1994, Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong fired up the San Francisco FogCam. For 25 years, it kept a constant vigil on the San Francisco State University campus, making the FogCam the longest operating webc...

After Deadspin's Laura Wagner published an incredible, brave, detailed look at how her new private equity masters -- Jim Spanfeller/Great Hill Partners -- were running Gawker now that they'd acquired ...

A little over a year ago I reviewed Obenauf's. I just ordered another jar.Baking in leather as the sun pounds down on you is kinda the motorcyclist thing. My jacket is a treasured article of clothing ...

"The sponsors said it was going to be three days of peace and music. It was that alright, and much more." Read the rest ...

NASA announced today that the agency is moving ahead with a planned mission to Jupiter's moon Europa. In this next phase, engineers will complete the final design, construction, and testing of the Eur...

The term "meritocracy" was coined in Michael Young's satirical 1958 novel, "The Rise of Meritocracy," where it described a kind of self-delusion in which rich people convinced themselves that their we...

Here's a little loving kindness to soften up your internet timeline. You probably need it right now.Such tiny adorableness. Such hammie tenderness.Shared by IMGURian @JuanmaGallego, whose hamster this...

Last weekend, Jeanette Ng won the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2019 Hugo Awards at the Dublin Worldcon; Ng's acceptance speech calls Campbell, one of the field's most influential e...

Serious squee....

I ate so much acid watching this movie over and over.Mila!Dinklage is the only hero in this movie. Read the rest ...

Some Californians are looking to limit when law enforcement can employ 'deadly force.' Others ensured their taking of lives stays a semantic game.NPR:The legislation emerged from a push for new rules ...

There are few things finer in life than plopping down on a hot summer day in your backyard, wobbly pop in hand, with a few friends and loved ones. Roasting in the heat as a soft breeze licks the sweat...

I've been putting up with a heart murmur for a few decades now. It's never been a big deal. During my last physical, however, my doctor took a renewed interest in what's going on in my chest. I'll be ...

An alligator scaled a fence "effortlessly" at Air Station Jacksonville in Florida, and it was all caught on video.Christina Stewart stopped to film the gator claw its way up a fence before belly-flopp...

Ellie Pell is the first woman to win the 50k Ultra outright, blasting past runner-up Richard Ellsworth in the four-hour endurance race. Pell took home both the 1st place trophy and the "fastest lady" ...

Cats don't care if you want to share their adorable face on Instagram. They look this way and that way, but never directly at your phone.Enter the Cat Selfie, an attachment for the top of your phone m...

Iskhur's guide to electronic music is a true classic of the web, now freshly updated for a new generation of fabulously obscure and ephemeral subgenres. [via Metafilter] See also Every Noise at Once. ...

In May 1840 London was scandalized by the murder of Lord William Russell, who'd been found in his bed with his throat cut. The evidence seemed to point to an intruder, but suspicion soon fell on Russe...

The BBC reports that Canada's election watchdog claims that advertisements saying climate change is real may break the law, because it is a political opinion and "issue" advertising is partisan politi...

If you're marketing on the web, your Google-fu needs to be strong - and up to date. Without a firm grasp on what drives traffic, you'll never be able to take the wheel. That's why even if you know whe...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition", published today on EFF's Deeplinks; it's the latest in my ...

The DIY, duct-taped motorcycle was described as the "most unusual vehicle" Sgt. Stephen Andrews had ever seen in 26 tears of pulling over motorists. But he found that it was roadworthy, had passed its...

New Hampshire's Supreme Court has ruled that calling someone a "patent troll" is not defamatory because "patent troll" is a statement of opinion and can neither be factually proved nor disproved.The c...

Samuel R "Chip" Delany is a science fiction pioneer: a brilliant literary stylist with dazzling ideas who was one of the field's first openly queer writers, and one of the first Black writers accepted...

The American ransomware epidemic shows no signs of slowing, as the confluence of underinvestment in IT and information security and the NSA's reckless stockpiling of computer vulnerabilities means tha...

The Daily Beast reports that a water polo team from a California high school sang Nazi songs during an awards ceremony.The video was uploaded to Instagram by one of the athletes, who also posted lyric...

Like many large US cities, Phoenix has a housing shortage and like many US cities, that crisis is worsened by the conversion of much of its housing stock into unlicensed hotel rooms through companies ...

It's easy to think of climate denial as a right-wing phenomenon, but a growing and ultra-violent strain of white-nationalism also embraces climate science, in the worst way possible.Several of the rec...

The LEGO Tantive IV is a must have for my family LEGO display.Even far, far than the Escape pod.This set comes with a 1769 piece Tantive IV and 5 minifigs including Bail Organa.LEGO Star Wars: A New H...

President Barack Obama opened his summer reading list post with encouragement to read or re-read Toni Morrison and then suggested ten other titles including the following: Sometimes difficult to swall...

Daniel Pantaleo used fatal chokehold during the 2014 arrest of Eric Garner...

Agent King is an adult animated series about Elvis Presley as a government spy. Priscilla Presley and rock singer John Eddie created the show for Sony and Netflix with Archer's Mike Arnold as writer a...

The Pentagon today announced it tested a conventional ground-based cruise missile that went more than 500 kilometers, which would have been banned under the now-defunct INF treaty. Between this and t...

In Ohio, a racist 20-year-old man was arrested over the weekend for threatening to attack a Jewish community center, in a post on Instagram.The image in this blog post is a screengrab of that Instagra...

The City of Santa Monica is looking to displace a year old homeless feeding program because it is too successful.ABC7:Steve Petramale has been feeding at least 100 homeless people every week at Reed P...

"I saw light, said Horry County, South Carolina resident Romulus McNeill said a few days ago after a lightning bolt just missed him. I tried to get up out of there like the Roadrunner."(WSOC-TV) Read ...

Illegitimate, popular-vote-losing, manifestly unfit United States President Donald Trump tweeted some more crazy shit on Twitter today.Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 m...

Illegitimate, popular vote losing, and manifestly unfit United States President Donald Trump said on Monday that at a recent dinner with Tim Cook -- what, you didn't think they hung out and shared mea...

The Mooch is gonna organize a team of disgruntled former cabinet officials to take down our unhinged and unqualified President. That'd be Donald Trump.The Hill:Former White House communications direct...

Kan was clear: snatch the pebble and GTFO. Read the rest ...

Science babies, science.MedScape:Adding nuts to a regular diet significantly improves orgasmic function and sexual desire in healthy young men, according to the FERTINUTS study.The randomized controll...

UK media moderated its coverage of the country's post-Savile sex abuse scandal, perhaps to maintain cosy establishment relationships and certainly due to Britain's menacing libel laws. American media ...

As long we've had electronic mass media, audiences and creators have benefited from periods of technological upheaval that force old gatekeepers to compete with brash newcomers with new ideas about wh...

Mister Rogers sings "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" on the February 19, 1968 debut of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and then on the final episode August 31, 2001. Read the rest ...

A judge says that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo should be fired for his reckless use of a banned chokehold—and for lying about it after his victim Eric Garner, an unarmed black man selling cigare...

It's the case of the vomiting vultures: a vacation home returned to only to find it occupied by vultures, and all the things that come out of vultures.Siobhan Casimano described the smell as like a th...

In 1983, a crew of young, DIY documentarians visited Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall to study mall culture. This is Mall City. (via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest ...

Whether you're running low on ammo defending Wyoming from antifa or tearing toward the Canadian border while your passenger plinks out the orange lightbars of the pursuing Trumpstapo, baby's butt will...

Usually I like to find something to start Monday that reflects our growing sense of anxiety and unease at the accelerating failure of the American Republic, but his week I've got a nice relaxing video...

Last Mother's Day, grandmother Rhonda Mengert was subjected to a pat-down search at Tulsa airport, wherein a TSA agent felt a panty-liner in her underwear; she was then forced to strip down and show h...

I think it's fair to say at this point that the earth is rising up in self defense and will soon devour every last one of us. If a longer than usual storm season, unprecedented global temperatures and...

Joey Santore's YouTube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't has meat-and-potatoes approach to the wonders of the natural world: it's direct, informative and often funny as hell. Recently, while out i...

Want to keep the dentist away? A little tooth care at morning and night isn't bad, but it won't keep the stains from smoking or fried foods at bay for long. If you enjoy your food and want to avoid th...

The 2019 World Science Fiction Convention is being held in Dublin, and tonight, the con presented the annual Hugo Awards, voted on by the attendees and supporters of this year's con.The winners includ...

The Koch brothers are quite an enigma: on the one hand, they owe their vast fortune to extremely long-range planning: Charles Koch is famously contemptuous of entrepreneurs who take their companies pu...

I particularly like the Flaco Jimnez tee.This song has been in my rotation since MP3s made it easy for there to be such a thing. Read the rest ...

Virtual Vultan, Prince of the Hawkmen is less popular but no less awesome than the Jack Burton-bot. Read the rest ...

Phil Torrone from Adafruit told us about Consumers Should Immediately...: "This uses a live data feed from The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (USCPSC) to randomly display thousands o...

If your office works at all, it uses Microsoft Office. Those icons for Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook are as familiar around some workplaces as the coffee machine. So familiar, in fact, that they get t...

Yes, really.Although we're deep in the heat of summer, Hormel Foods is busy promoting their new fall pork product: Pumpkin Spice Spam. That's (sp)iced h(am) spiced with cinnamon, clove, allspice, and ...

Porthcawl in Wales will install public toilets with systems to prevent people from having sex inside including an alarm, doors that spring open, and a water sprayer. It seems the possibility of false ...

It's a great time to be a maker. 3D printers are on store shelves for anyone to buy, and coder kits like Arduino and Raspberry Pi are letting kids as young as 9 or 10 dive into the Internet of Things....

Dan Gillmor and the ASU News Co/Lab: "An honest admission of an error is transparency. Its not just the right thing to do. It can enhance trust when done right. It can lead to more engagement by whic...

McMansion Hell (previously) continues to tear through America's most affluent ZIP codes with trenchant commentary on realtors' listings for terrible monster homes; in the current edition, critic Kate ...

Sumana Harihareswara (previously) writes, "The Abstractions tech conference (Aug 21-23, in Pittsburgh) doesn't tell attendees this before they buy a ticket, but attendance requires you wear their wris...

Update: Justin Reese from Abstractions writes, "policy changes were implemented last night and additional changes were made this morning." He adds, "The article was also inaccurate from the start by c...

Writing on Crooked Timber, John Quiggin (previously) responds to the epidemic of elderly reactionaries piling vitriol and violent rhetoric on the child activist Greta Thunberg and asks, why not let ki...

Leaked emails reveal that Washington state rep Matt Shea has "close ties" with Team Rugged, a white nationalist/Christian fundamentalist terror organization that trains children, teens and young men t...

Crystal Liu is the actor who plays Mulan in Disney's live-action reboot; on Weibo, she has been publishing messages in support of the Hong Kong police, who have been brutally attacking pro-Democracy p...

Truck Torrence is an indie artist, creator of the kawaii Dumpster Fire, a classic internet meme image offered as limited-edition pins and toys. Daily Wire is a website founded by right-wing provocate...

Over at OK Whatever, Jessie Schiewe tells of people who have looked up family addresses on Google Street View and found ghostly images of their dead loved ones in the midst of their everyday lives -- ...

The Critics Company is a collective of Nigerian teen afrofuturist filmmakers who make incredible looking, smart science fiction movies with camerawork courtesy of old, busted mobile phones and VFX gen...

Even by Elizabeth Warren's high standards, her plan for "honoring and empowering tribal nations and indigenous peoples is detailed, ambitious, and important.Warren's plan is a top-to-bottom reimaginin...

Well before the collapse of Bernie Madoff's ponzi scheme -- the largest in world history! -- accounting investigator Harry Markopolos had publicly accused Madoff of running a scam; now he says that Ge...

Tumblr is being sold to WordPress parent company Automattic for a reported price of "less than $3m," a substantial decline from the $1.1B Yahoo paid for the company in 2013 (Yahoo subsequently sold Tu...

One of the smartest, most interesting people I ever knew once told me about a time when he got really interested in the problem of calculating the orbits of the planets based on the idea tha the Earth...

Last week at Defcon, a security researcher named Smea presented their findings on vulnerabilities in the Lovesense Hush, an internet-of-things buttplug that has already been shown to have critical pri...

Pretomanid, developed by the non-profit TB Alliance, offers a new, safer and more effective treatment for tuberculosis. The non-profit is organized to improve access and affordability of life-saving t...

Few states have voting machines that are simultaneously more obviously defective and more ardently defended by the state government than Georgia, where 16-year-old touchscreen systems are prone to rep...

Moon stuff notwithstanding, this particular bike is just beautiful at nearly a quarter-million miles. This bike is clearly well-loved, and her owner seems chill, like an Airhead should be.Mine has 50,...

The Folio Society has announced a series of volumes paying tribute to the history of Marvel Comics, the inaugural volume was originally scheduled to feature an introduction from Art Spiegelman, the cr...

Jonathan Mann (previously) writes, "Like many people, I've been disturbed by the borg-like tweets coming out of the Amazon Ambassador program. I took a few of the bleakest ones and set them to music. ...

The term exoskeleton usually brings to mind the hulking Power Loader worn by Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. But Harvard University researchers have developed a much lighter, more minimal exoskeleton that...

The Wall Street Journal investigates major corporations' ad buyers' practice of blacklisting of ads on news stories that deal with the world's most urgent issues, including any news story that contain...

Next month, Impulse! Records will release Blue World, previously unheard recordings that legendary jazz pioneer John Coltrane recorded with his quartet in 1964. Most of the tunes are different version...

In 1978, anti-taxation extremists managed to get a California ballot measure, Proposition 13, passed, and with it, they managed to effectively end the ability of cities to provide services to their re...

In the 1980s, Stuart Swezey was at the epicenter of Southern California's underground culture. The co-founder of Amok Books, Swezey was also known for organizing extreme industrial and avant-garde out...

Yesterday, a church group of little kids were playing at a creek in Preble County, Ohio when an adult spotted a big shadowy shape moving under the water. It turned out to be a seven-foot saltwater cro...

Jan Hakon Erichsen is a Norwegian artist whose Destruction Diaries series chronicles his creation of a series of bizarre, whimsical and delightful machines for popping balloons and undertaking other a...

"If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... Well, that's where you're right." Read the rest ...

I was gifted a box of Barry's Irish Breakfast. It is a lot like Barry's Gold Blend, only less so.A properly steeped pot of Barry's appears to be a bottomless black pit of despair. I have adored it for...

Ant Lab's Adrian Smith (previously) writes, "No one had ever filmed how ants inject venom when they sting something. I study ants and I make videos, so I went to work on getting that footage. It invol...

Trump wants to buy Greenland, because of course he does. Reading the coverage, it struck me that media generally prefer to use the Mercator projection when showing the island. This is because we think...

Behold Doom: Annihilation, or "Annthilation" as it appears in the glowy font on the poster. Read the rest ...

It is "illegal" to broadcast the presidential alert tone on network television, and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live will pay $350k for doing so in a comedy skit, reports the BBC. By simulating the alert tone,...

Want to make a hit? The right software is out there for anyone, but any music producer will tell you that finding the right sound can still take time and talent.Still, the right tools are a great shor...

So that shindig that was being planned to capitalize upon the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival? Not happening. I think that's fine: some moments deserve to be looked back upon, relishe...

The sheriff in Volusia County, Fla., reports that "a gentlemen was apprehended today while committing a burglary of a vending machine at Pine Ridge High School" in Deltona.Adds the AP:...spokesman And...

As long as he's only up against one candidate and they don't do anything stupid, Trump would lose to a sausage in 2020. Fox News has him deep underwater against every likely Dem candidate.A Fox News p...

You're not a successful nation state until you've got a flag airline, baby! Air Canada! British Airways! Hell yeah!That said, it appears that it is possible be a dramatically less-than-successful nati...

CutiePi is a tablet based on the Raspberry Pi: compact enough, but more open, versatile and hacker-friendly than mainstream models from Apple, Microsoft or the Google coprosperity sphere. CutiePi is a...

And check out the book she was reading....

The solution to gun violence is putting mentally ill people in those detention camps, too. Right out of the Nazi playbook, illegitimate U.S. president Donald Trump today said it's time to put the Lebe...

44-year-old actress Emmy Tayler lives in Oxford, UK...

Trump said to have floated idea of buying ice-covered autonomous Danish territory between North Atlantic and Arctic oceans...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the winners of this year's Pioneer Award (rechristened the "Barlow" in honor of EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow: sf writer William Gibson, anthropolog...

Tabloid reporters must live in a constant state of paranoia if this weeks offerings are any indication....

Wefail offers this charming collection of four banknotes, each featuring one of the four "horsemen of the apocalypse", at least when it comes to the demise and presumed annihilation of Britain's polit...

There are many reasons one may not have the ability to open a jar. This Robo Twist has lowered my usefulness around my mother's kitchen.It is loud, but the jars get opened. Can't have it all.Robo Twis...

I made this chart after reading about Opaque Couche. Read the rest ...

Several injured when black pickup truck drove into protesters at Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility on Wednesday night....

A Florida woman who "pulled a small alligator from her yoga pants" was sentenced to probation after admitting four charges related to illegally possessing wild animals.Florida prosecutors say a Charlo...

A Federal appeals court today upheld an order that requires Trump immigration authorities with the US Customs and Border Patrol to provide detained migrant kids with the humane basics: food, water, be...

Trump Administration wants Congress to bring N.S.A.s deactivated Call Records program back to life....

Wow, this is really something, even for a company as awful as Facebook.Facebook users who opted into voice-to-text in Messenger had NO warning about human transcribers.Earlier this week, Facebook conf...

"Where can we get hold of a Vincent Black Shadow?" "What's that?""A fantastic bike," I said. "The new model is something like two thousand cubic inches, developing two hundred brake-horsepower at fou...

Wedged Wonders is a gallery-tribute to futuristic Italian concept cars from '68-'79. From the legendary Lancia Stratos Zero (1970) to the lesser-known Jaguar Ascot (1977), Wedged Wonders documents man...

In 1978, researchers were conducting early experiments in group teleconferencing using packet switching over the ARPANET, which became the basis of the Internet. These "packet speech systems" evolved ...

Ending a multi-generational argument that was supposedly started-up again over my Grandmother Edna's death bed, I will no longer eat Nathan's Famous Hotdogs.BET shares a list of folks to boycott:The 2...

Terrence Malick's makes haunting, sad, beautiful films. Also, they are weird. I swear, I've seen The Thin Red Line 50 times and I'm still not entirely sure what the hell it's all about. Given the subj...

Israel barred Democractic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country today, an hour after Trump tweeted that the country would show "great weakness" if it allows them to visi...

Israel barred Democractic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country today, an hour after Trump tweeted that the country would show "great weakness" if it allows them to visi...

Kool Moe Dee just rules. I've been enjoying his work in my music rotation lately.The Wild Wild West remains my favorite television show of all time.This song taught me to follow a beat. Read the rest ...

Nelsie writes, "Twitter user tweeting about inhuman conditions at Amazon warehouses gets brigaded by tag-team of warehouse workers who are paid to tweet about working at Amazon warehouses two days of ...

Financial disclosures from Wework in support of its IPO reveal that the company loses almost $5,200/customer, and that it hemorrhaged $1.3B in the first half of 2019.The company plans to lost $2.7b in...

Despite the departure of its most prominent leaders amid claims of harassment and retaliation, the Googler Uprising lives on, with Google employees circulating an internal petition demanding that the ...

Apple's Faceid -- a facial recognition tool that unlocks mobile devices -- has a countermeasure that is designed to prevent attackers from scanning an sleeping/unconscious (or dead) person's face to u...

I am addicted to Thinkpads in large part because of the trackpoint (AKA "The Nipple") -- the little wiggly joystickbetween the G, H and B keys that allows me to control fine mouse-movements without be...

The conservative internet loves Zach Vorhies, a lovely activist that exposes leftist mischief at Google! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the Zach is a racist.Right-wing provocateur James OKe...

When tiny wigs land in your life, what else can you do but open not one, but two pop-up wig shops? One for cats, and one for jars of Fluff. No joke.This one is called the "Cousin Oliver":Hey, since ...

When tiny wigs land in your life, what else can you do but open not one, but two pop-up wig shops? One for cats, and one for jars of Fluff. No joke.This one is called the "Cousin Oliver":Hey, since ...

All-black but for the hashtag #knifefree, the official chicken boxes of Her Majesty's Government are presented as a warning about the dangers of knifecrime. The Home Office has suborned some takeout c...

I don't want to freak anyone out, but I heard some legitimately great news the other day: Ebola is now a treatable disease.It seems that two of four experimental drugs designed to tackle the disease h...

Greta Thunberg is a young environmental campaigner setting off on a carbon-neutral boat trip around the world. Aaron Banks is a businessman, Brexit campaigner and money man behind the far-right UK Ind...

Let's face it: People at the gym aren't bragging about their headphones. If they were that great, they'd be listening to them instead of talking about them. So while we're sure those new PowerBeats Pr...

Just for your information, there are some very teeny and some quite enormous trees.keshitsubograss, wheatsunflower, Apple treeRocky Mountain Juniper, Socotra Dragon treeolive, Salix BabylonicaCommon H...

I've been using these heavy duty shop towels for years. Apart from being blue, they look like standard kitchen paper towels, but are much stronger. They're great for wiping off grease, and are the fam...

I got a sneak peek at the first episode of a new Great Big Story series called "Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301." It doesn't answer the question of who is behind the puzzle world of Cicada 3301 or wh...

Malibu Media (previously) is the nom-de-lawsuit for Colette Pelissier and Brigham Feld, notorious copyright troll pornographers who send "speculative invoices" to people whom they accuse of downloadin...

I was scrolling through old videos of my pup Copper, who is no longer in my possession, says the human who captured this adorable video footage of a cute Husky pup demonstrating their hunting prowess....

That right there's an #irishsetter #babysitter.Irish Sitter[via] Read the rest ...

The Folio Society's limited, slipcased editions (previously) are some of the most beautiful books being produced today; the company's $225 Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949 ships in late September, and...

In October 2018, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes was invited to speak at the Manhattan Republican club, drawing neo-Nazi supporters and antifa protesters; Proud Boy thugs waded into the protest and b...

The original Smashing Pumpkins (sans D'arcy Wretzky), on the road again for another US tour, are covering James Taylor's classic "Fire and Rain" from his 1970 masterpiece Sweet Baby James. It's a love...

More bad news for Google's beleaguered spinoff Jigsaw, whose flagship project is "Perspective," a machine-learning system designed to catch and interdict harassment, hate-speech and other undesirable ...

In this excellent Mashable article about Yahoo's disastrous $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr and its subsequent mishandling is this bit: Top Yahoo executives clashed with Tumblr, or just flat out confu...

A teenage girl lost her phone privileges so she used her 3DS to go online. Her mother found out and confiscated it. The girl resumed tweeting on her Wii U. After her mother took that away, the girl st...

Above is a three-millimeter long maggot launching itself into the air for a distance of up to 36 times its body length. Researchers from Duke University and their colleagues studied how these larvae o...

A 12-year-old boy found this woolly mammoth molar outside his family's inn near Ohio's Honey Run Creek. From a post on the Inn at Honey Run's site:Jackson writes in an account of the discovery, I foun...

She's called Cardi B because her family nickname, Bacardi, couldn't get past the trademark defensebots on Instagram!Sanders and Cardi B talk minimum wage, unionization, jobs, and economics, drawing on...

The forthcoming album "Songs from the Bardo" is an exploration of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by beloved composer Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer/climate ...

California security researcher Droogie came up with what seemed like a good way to avoid having to pay any parking tickets issued to his vehicle: He ordered a vanity license plate emblazoned with "NUL...

Americans mostly used to say "daa-ta", as Brent Spiner relates in an appearance at Big Apple Comic Con earlier this year. Now they mostly say "day-ta". It's all because Patrick Stewart won an argument...

I've been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I'm largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government deficit spendin...

"The Ohio State University" is apparently the full name of Ohio State, and to remind everyone of it, they're selling a line of clothing emblazoned with the stark word "THE," and so they've asked the U...

I've been playing a game called "Chess" lately. I'm not much good, but have found that a good way to get people mad is to use only the "Pawn" characters. Oftentimes players will end up snarled up on t...

Here's the first full trailer for the forthcoming Netflix The Dark Crystal series, which features oldschool puppetry and an amazing cast: Taron Egerton, Lena Headey, Mark Hamill, Sigourney Weaver, Sim...

Omni Calculator asks a few questions about your internet usage and tells you what else you might consider doing instead. And yet, for some reason, I find myself wary of completing an online questionna...

Bloomberg reports that Facebook retains recordings of users' voice chats and paid contractors to transcribe them. Now that this has been exposed, the social media giant says it has "paused" the work.F...

In 1934, two Englishwomen set out to do what no one had ever done before: travel the length of Africa on a motorcycle. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll follow Theresa Wallac...

Big companies take on big projects. When they do that, they need a project manager to lay out a roadmap for the entire team - and they're typically willing to pay a big paycheck to the person who can ...

George Sink Sr. is well-known to South Carolina couch potatoes thanks to the endless rotation of ads pitching his personal injury firm. George Sink Jr. is his son, also a lawyer, and now forbidden fro...

It lived some 60m years ago, but the giant penguins are still with us. Standing about 5ft 3in and weighing up to 176 pounds, the monster penguin roamed New Zealand's balmy waters and ruled the beaches...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Trump Organization posts its Help Wanted advertisement, directed at citizens of Latino nations...

Rule #1: Give the people what they want.Thank you to Jack Black, and Tenacious D's Kyle Gass, for joining forces with Jack White to bring the world the rock collab we've been wanting: Jack Gray. Vultu...

On Sunday morning in Henrico County, Virginia, dozens of residents woke to find old TV sets dumped on their lawns. One person reviewed their home security footage and reported the following:"It was a ...

Dorothy is an (alleged) 15-year-old who has attained Twitter fame by hopping from device to device as her mother finds and confiscates her tools: first her phone, then her Nintendo, then her Wii U, an...

Meet Mia and Emilka.National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale captured this heartwarming video of a cat and rhino who are unlikely friends. View this post on Instagram Video by @amivitale. Back b...

* FAA says some MacBook Pros are unsafe on airplanes Apple recently recalled certain laptops over battery fire riskThe Federal Aviation Administration today banned people from bringing recalled MacBoo...

We've posted several times about blind people who have learned how to "see" and navigate the world using echolocation like bats, shrews, and whales. In the video above, YouTuber Molly Burke and echolo...

Amazon is a major federal contractor. AWS powers ICE raids and detention camps....

Dylan Sheridan circuit-bent some smoke alarms and posted the results of his sonorous experiments to Bandcamp. [via Metafilter]Circuit Bent Smoke Alarms - Ringtone Collection by Dylan SheridanUnprocess...

I wrote a while back about why typing on old keyboards feels better: it's because they were simple, low-latency devices interacting with your computer's bare metal. Nowadays, many device instructions ...

This 15-minute explainer video might be the only video you'll need to learn as much about switches as you'll ever care to find out.Image: YouTube/Technology Connections[via Dooby Brain] Read the rest ...

Computational biologist Mike Inouye posted this video to Twitter, saying, "This zombie snail. A parasitic worm Leucochloridium has taken over its motor functions and eye stalks, making them into cater...

We wish it were true but, alas, there is no chemical that turns pool water blue if someone pees in it. At Mel Magazine, Mike Rampton investigates:Most pools are 20,000 gallons (91,000 liters) or more,...

Model train hobbyist James Risner creates mesmerizing spirals from HO Scale model trains. His creations remind me of kinetic art sculptures. All aboard!https://youtu.be/qUZVv0nr2rc(via The Kid Should ...

Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, and just how (shamefully) normal it is for prisoners to die in custody due to ind...

This Wera slotted 0.5 mm x 3.0 mm x 80 mm screwdriver is on sale for just including shipping. Read the rest ...

In May 2018, Google faced a series of public resignations and scandals over a secret internal project to supply AI tools to the Pentagon's drone warfare project; then, in August 2018, scandal hit agai...

You can buy microcontrollers for as little as 3 cents, if you order a lot of them, a staggeringly cheap number even if you're so young you don't know a Zilog Z80 was $10 in 1978 money. But are these c...

The Duke Law and Technology Review has released a special edition dedicated to examining the legal and philosophical legacy of John Perry Barlow: co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; juni...

I never understood how they got away with this. Read the rest ...

Ken Landauer is an artist and woodworker who designs nice-slooking piece of furniture with two constraints. First, a piece or set can only use one standard 4 x 8 foot sheet of plywood, and second, it ...

This seems bad. Buzzfeed:Almost 40 minutes before ABC News first reported Epsteins death on Twitter, someone posted still-unverified details on 4chan, the anonymous message board popular with far-righ...

David Howard, McSweeney's: "Let me tell you, its hard out here for an orc. We experience tremendous insecurity, not knowing whether well have a job, or be able to raid peaceful villages, or if our fri...

Luke Curtis, the IT manager for Quartz, recently bought an iTunes gift card from a "popular discount website" and loaded into into his iTunes account. A few days later he received a message from Apple...

Choices. https://t.co/o3bJPCDApG pic.twitter.com/uYrI6mype5— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) August 10, 2019 I can only hope that there was a second chance.(via Daily Grail) Read the rest ...

Julia Burnham tweeted, "I woke up in a cold sweat last night to create this content. I present: the Email Sign-off Alignment." It's excellent!I woke up in a cold sweat last night to create this conten...

Economists are famously fragile about their field; after all, this is the field that created a fake Nobel prize to give its practitioners the veneer of credibility and empiricism that actual sciences ...

All the Democratic frontrunners outpoll Trump, but Bernie beats him 50-42 in a new Surveyusa poll; Biden has the same margin, while Warren and Harris have leads that are smaller than the margin of err...

Sometimes, it's hard to prove that your shitty boss violated federal labor law by threatening to fire you for talking to a union organizer. Sometimes, it's not. See you in court, Dave Portnoy. (via /r...

Wild About Houdini shares the details of Houdini's suspended straight jacket escape in Los Angeles.For years I've been trying to uncover details of Houdini's first suspended straitjacket escape in Los...

From an unbylined, slapdash item at CBS News:CBS News has learned that the morning of Jeffrey Epstein's death there was shouting and shrieking from his jail cell. Guards attempted to revive him while ...

Sometimes, I play video games to get out of my head for an hour or two. A bit of gaming allows me to numb myself after a stressful day at work or to relax through a bout of insomnia once I become too ...

Uber -- a bezzle -- projected $8b in losses this year; but it lost more than $5b in a single quarter, and despite an initial stock price rise (dead cat bounce?) the company's shares have tumbled by mo...

I'm pretty sure that we can all agree that shit has been well out-of-hand in the United States of America for some time now. Children are being taken from their parents and held in deplorable conditio...

Fredo Corleone is the childish, easily-led brother from The Godfather whose weakness and insecurity lead him to betray his family. Chris Cuomo is the childish, easily-led CNN anchor whose weakness and...

Last summer, we published a comprehensive look at the ways that Facebook could and should open up its data so that users could control their experience on the service, and to make it easier for compet...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle, published today on EFF's Deeplinks; it's another in the series of "adversarial interoperability" explain...

Your phone doesn't have to be the only smart piece of tech in your pocket. We regularly take pens, lighters, and wallets for granted, but here are 10 portable items that improve on those everyday bits...

Jacob the parrot enjoys dancing to the theme music for the video game Super Mario Bros. Hope you enjoy the video as much as he clearly enjoys performing for it.Jacob the blue and gold macaw dancing, h...

Cronch cronch cronch.No sound, unfortunately. Would have made for some very comforting ASMR.I Luv Ice Wow Read the rest ...

A delightful midsummer moment of floral kitty zen.Enjoy this new video from kagonekoshiro, the long-running basket cat channel from Japan. Read the rest ...

The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, August 12! The meteors are particles left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle. The bright moon will wash out much of the show but you could still spot ten to 15 a...

The Perseid meteor shower peaked last night (8/13) but you'll still be able to spot them streaking across the sky through August 24. The meteors are particles left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle. Fr...

Automattic (beloved parent company of WordPress) is buying Tumblr from Verizon (loathesome parent company of Oath, a division named because its users are generally angry enough to swear at it), at a p...

I've written about Tom Gauld's wry and wistful books and comics a lot on Boing Boing over the years. One of his latest books is this cleverly bound collection of heavy stock postcards called The Snoot...

Sarah Krouse reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is buying Tumblr from Verizon. WordPress is the software reportedly powering a third of the world's websites, and was itself origina...

Sarah Krouse reports that Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is buying Tumblr from Verizon. WordPress is the software reportedly powering a third of the world's websites, and was itself origina...

Michael Gardi posted instructions for making a replica of the GENIAC ("GENIus Almost-automatic Computer") that was sold in kit form in the 1950s and 1960s for $20.GENIAC consisted of a Masonite back p...

In 2015 my friend, the fabulous artist Mitch O'Connell, created this excellent illustration of Donald Trump as one of the evil aliens from John Carpenter's 1988 science fiction film, They Live. Once T...

"Oh, shit. What the hell does that rat-soup-eatin' motherfucker want with me?" Read the rest ...

"Oh, shit. What the hell does that rat-soup-eatin' motherfucker want with me?" Read the rest ...

Insider attacks, cell-site simulators, SIM-swap attacks, thriving markets in super-cheap, fine-grained location data, robocalls, fictitious coverage maps, and more: does the fact that all this terribl...

In 2008, Berlin's historic Tempelhof airport was converted into a public park. Now, Stephan von Dassel, mayor of the city's central Mitte district, is proposing the installation of drive-in sex booths...

Victoria Hogan writes, "My fiancee and I made a short film about creativity, yearning, and the scary forces of technology that might interact with those desires. More than a few people have called thi...

Watch the world champion of gymnastics Simone Biles stick the landing on a triple-double at yesterday's U.S. Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City. Incredible slow motion of that below. Biles won he...

Super Mario Maker 2 is designed to let you create your own Mario platformer levels, but the tools are flexible enough that a sufficiently ingenious creator can make all kinds of amazing things with th...

We at Boing Boing hope to acquire the former CONTROL headquarters as our own. Read the rest ...

Robert Ballard is the oceanic detective who turned up the Titanic in 1985, the lost Nazi ship Bismarck, and many other shipwrecks. Now he's off to to find Amelia Earhart's plane that hasn't been seen ...

lacroix.glitch.me is a Glitch app that generates delicious new flavors of calorie-free sparkling water—or perhaps just honest names for the ones there already are. Read the rest ...

There's a viral review of a southern plantation tour making the rounds in which a white person complains that the tour was "extremely disappointing" because of the "lecture on how the white people tre...

The 1977 BMW R100RS was produced 1 year after the BMW R90S. The fairings were designed by the same guy, the legendary Hans Muth.I think the S fairing is the greatest thing ever. I hate the RS fairing,...

After NYC raised its minimum wage from $7.25/h to $15/h this year -- the largest pay hike for low-waged workers in half a century -- the city's restaurants boomed, posting the highest growth levels in...

I have been making some amazing meals on a compact bullet smoker.After my first try with the super cheap bullet smoker, I decided to go for a Santa Maria tri-tip. It worked out beautifully.I loaded up...

In Saint Louis, thieves broke into Martin Casas's storage locker and snatched his comic book collection. Then they took the comics to a local comic shop to sell them. Thing is, Casas owns the shop. Fr...

Amazon is under fire over revelations that it did secret deals with local police departments to buzz-market its Internet of Things "Ring" brand surveillance doorbells, but Ring's shady history predate...

This USB chargeable electric lighter is excellent. I use it to start barbecues and light the burners on our ancient gas range. I've used it multiple times a day since getting it in May and have not ha...

Salmon cannons are used to quickly move salmon from one place to another. I don't know if they salmon enjoy it, but it looks like something a lot of people would like to try.Fixed the audio for you. p...

Atomik Grain Spirit is a (largely) (radiation-free) moonshine vodka distilled from grains grown in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as part of an experiment to determine the transfer of radiation from soi...

One night in September 2018 the food delivery service Deliveroo went haywire. It sent some customers the same food order several times, and other customers got nothing. In this video, Tom Scott explai...

Joe Navarro is a body language expert and a former FBI agent. In this Wired video, he explains the body language and facial expressions of mobsters like Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and John Dillinger....

New biohacking from the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective (previously): the Pegleg, a stripped-down Piratebox (previously) based on a Raspberry Pi 0 with needless components removed and an extra wifi ca...

Stephen Wolfram's podcast features a 90-minute lecture that he delivered at the 2019 Wolfram Summer School (MP3), recapitulating the history of mathematics from prehistory to the present day.This is a...

Behold the AmazonBasics Alexa-Equipped Microwave, a $40 item whose low price is belied by the fact everything you say to it is held in contingent perpetuity in an Amazon datacenter. [via]AmazonBasics ...

Some folks can sleep anywhere. Others, while traveling, need the comfort of a pillow brought with them from home in order get a bit of shut eye. For the privileged handful that have journeyed into spa...

"Killing in the Name" has never been played quite like this! Thanks to Rockin'1000, a thousand musicians from around the globe gathered at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, Germany to play Rage Agai...

The 1980s were a pretty sweet time to be a lower-middle class kid in Ontario. Marineland (which I now know was a terrible place for the whales, dolphin and deer they held captive there) and African Li...

I wrote earlier this year about Lorem Picsum, a site that provides random placeholder images for use in design projects in the spirit of Lorem Ipsum, the classic jumbled-up latin passage used likewise...

Prompted by a Stranger Things reference, YouTube guitarist 331Erock created this instrumental metal version of The Neverending Story theme song. One astute commenter calls it "The Evershredding Story....

Flights in and out of Hong Kong's airport have halted as protesters filled the airport; many of the protesters at the airport are new to the protests, who have stepped off the sidelines after being ex...

I typed up the following partial transcription of the subtitles:SEAL: geaaaaghSEAL: ggegSEAL: gigphphSEAL: d'egffSEAL: mibphSEAL: guhSEAL: miuhffSEAL: murph!SEAL: d'eggSEAL: egg!SEAL: egg!SEAL: mmnghp...

Even by the indifferent standards of licensed video games, the athletes' voice acting in NBA 2K15—unaccustomed as they are to public speaking—was something else. The train will be humming ...

Even by the indifferent standards of licensed video games, the athletes' voice acting in NBA 2K15—unaccustomed as they are to public speaking—was something else. The train will be humming ...

Damn near every region in the world has a well of traditional music that they're able to draw cultural water from. Some musical traditions are better known than others. Most folks have likely heard Tu...

The secret's out. Increasingly, people are relying on hemp-derived cannabidiol, or CBD, as a way to not just deal with pain but everyday stress.Admittedly, it can be hard to find a reliable source of ...

In 2017, science fiction author Christopher Brown burst on the scene with Tropic of Kansas, an apocalyptic pageturner about martial law in climate-wracked America; now, with his second novel, Rule of ...

Security research Matt Wixey from PWC UK tried putting different kinds of consumer speakers -- noise canceling headphones, smart speakers, parametric speakers -- in an anechoic chamber after infecting...

Imagineering In a Box is a free lecture series on Khan Academy that covers a broad swathe of elements involved in storytelling in built environments, from theming a land to landscaping, architecture, ...

After a massive trove of leaks revealed deep corruption in the Brazilian "anti-corruption" heroes who put the popular left-wing presidential candidate Lula in jail and paved the way for the election o...

Bernie Sanders has raised more money than anyone else standing for the Democratic nomination; more importantly, he's raised that money from more people than anyone else in the race, and even more impo...

Between 2010 and 2016, the FDA approved 210 new medicines and every single one was produced at public expense, part of a $1T US government investment project in medical research. Despite this massive ...

Good news, everyone!If you live in New York City and your personal information wasn't already compromised by the recent, massive hack of Capital One's customer database, there's still an excellent cha...

Everybody wants to rule the world, but only one video game lets you do it in style - and even peacefully if you're savvy enough with your cultural dominance. Sid Meier's Civilization is on its fifth s...

These aren't the chalky little marshmallows you'll find in Lucky Charms cereal. Thanks to a collab with Jet-Puffed, large, soft versions of the cereal's hearts, moons, stars, and clovers will be avail...

These aren't the chalky little marshmallows you'll find in Lucky Charms cereal. Thanks to a collab with Jet-Puffed, large, soft versions of the cereal's hearts, moons, stars, and clovers will be avail...

Adversarial Fashions have a line of clothes (jackets, tees, hoodies, dresses, skirts, etc) designed to confound automated license-plate readers; one line is tiled with fake license plates that spell o...

The Washington Post's Drew Harwell takes a deep look at the the use of facial recognition products like Bunk1 at summer camps, in a deliciously terrible piece that alternates between Bunk1's president...

Congratulations, Dick Braine.The BBC:In a ballot of members, Mr Braine received 53% of the vote - more than double that of his closest rival. Mr Braine was the favoured candidate of his predecessor, G...

Torture apologist/homophobe/racist Jair Bolsonaro -- whose successful election to the Brazilian presidency was the result of a conspiracy among the wealthy and senior prosecutors and judges, who subve...

In late July, FBI director Christopher Wray testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that his bureau had made 100 domestic terror arrests; later, an FBI spokesperson reduced that claim to 90 arrest...

Jeffrey Epstein is dead. The convicted sexual predator committed suicide overnight at MCC Manhattan, the federal lockup where he had been held pending trial on federal sex trafficking charges, law enf...

When it comes to travel, Genius is one company that sweats the details. If you've never owned one of their suitcases or carry-on bags, they feature dedicated compartments for everything you could imag...

"Insurance doesn't usually cover this," said Snowmass, CO police....

Gentle cromch.From IMGURian @Lanabear110, who asks, Anyone else have a dog obsessed with carrots?Oh yeah. Our goldens love 'em, and they're fantastic treats for dogs.Those little bags of raw carrots a...

Hosico Cat lives in Russia with a woman and man who care for him very much. Im Hosico! Fluffy cheeks! Golden boy, Scottish straight. I like boxes, a bit shy. Subscribe to their YouTube, or enjoy their...

Oh, that face, as the pupper looks up at his poppa. The eyes.Daddy's Boy[IMGUR, from @WXYZwxyz/@gffkennel] Read the rest ...

Banning Nazis from Twitter should be against the law: Trump, basically....

All the participants at the 3-day Volusia, Florida orgy were naked and used aliases, and for obvious reasons, DNA-based identification "is not going to be an option, which means we'll probably never f...

Gideon Irving's fantastic video, "Woke Up Looking" was made without computer graphics in just one take. The video below shows how he did it.Here's another wonderful one-take video of Gideon's. It only...

Election Systems & Software (ES&S) is America's leading voting machine vendor; they tell election officials (who are county-level officials who often have zero cybersecurity advice or expert...

As protests in Hong Kong enter their seventh week, protest organizers are worried that the police might be infiltrating Telegram groups; instead, they've taken to organizing protests by sending messag...

The groundbreaking Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle is celebrating its 21st anniversary by having a show with a bunch of artists who've shown their work there over the years. The show is called "Ace of S...

King of King Court is "a memoir that is both devastating and restrained in detailing Travis Dandro's childhood growing up in Western Massachusetts with an addicted and unstable father and a mother inc...

Here's what artist Ryan Heshka says about his show that opens tomorrow (August 10, 2019) at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles:"The overall theme that weaves all the work together is the celebration...

Court documents unsealed in New York on Friday provide the first detailed look at how Jeffrey Epstein operated what appears to be a vast global sex trafficking racket with the help of alleged madam G...

Court documents unsealed in New York on Friday provide the first detailed look at how Jeffrey Epstein operated what appears to be a vast global sex trafficking racket with the help of alleged madam G...

Amazon has the 24-pack of Sylvania LED light bulbs on sale again for . That's cheaper than an incandescent bulb, which you don't need unless you're A) a climate science denier who wants to trigger th...

Fifty years ago today, the Manson Family carried out the grisly Tate-Labianca murders that essentially crushed the hippie dream with a tragic nightmare starring failed songwriter and psychopath Charle...

In the 1930s photographer Dorothea Lange was hired by the U.S. governments Farm Security Administration (FSA) to take photos of farm workers affected by the Great Depression. She took this photo of Fl...

Nick Shirrell of Film Grain and Octane makes automotive videos using a 1968 Canon 1218 Super8 movie camera. His latest film documents this summer's 2019 IndyCar Grand Prix at Road America in Elkhart ...

A million years ago, I bought a Crystal and the Wolves CD on impulse from a rack on the counter at Amoeba Records; I ripped it and tossed it into my shuffle. Now, about once a month, I am treated to "...

Amateur astrophotographer Ethan Chappel was using his telescope to look for Perseid meteors on Wednesday night when he happened to capture an image of something very large slamming into Jupiter. It wa...

Actor-cum-philosopher/historian Jon Voight believes the "black community" and the "angered left" needn't worry about "words of racism," because this "has been solved long ago by our forefathers, for p...

One of the wonderful and terrible things about the internet is how it allows people seeking others with hard-to-find traits to find them: advertisers can find people thinking about buying a refrigerat...

My friend, That Farmer Guy, send me the following news about soy sauce:Based on nothing but my empirical observation, the garden variety Kikkoman seems to dominate the international soya sauce market,...

Working with The Hamilton Project, the BBC has drawn six charts that serve as both a snapshot of the state of US immigration and provide historical context for migration today versus US immigration in...

Singapore would also be a fine call, buddy. Read the rest ...

The NRA's internal finances have come under close scrutiny this past year, after Oliver North launched a failed coup intended to unseat longtime CEO/cult leader Wayne LaPierre, triggering so much inte...

Mom put this lid over a glass bowl and nuked the shit out of that rice for 20 minutes. I'm pretty sure there was water in there.It was effortless and perfect.These are easy to clean, amazingly reusabl...

If a hacker targeting connected cars in Manhattan could randomly stall 20% of them during rush hour, total gridlock would ensue. This isn't just bad traffic where you are an hour late. It becomes impo...

This video perfectly encapsulates everything I remember when first meeting Zeke the Sheik so many, many years ago. Tim Dundon, Altadena's composting vigilante, has passed away at age 77.Decades ago I ...

@jonty_pressinger was unhappy that the live action/CGI remake of The Lion King was set in the Uncanny Valley so he "attempted to fix (it) by doing an AI style-transfer using @ellejart amazing fan art....

You also really wanted to double-clutch my 1955 Speedster. Read the rest ...

Uber says it can be profitable someday: all it needs to do is corner the "total addressable market" for all transportation and food delivery, which will give it $12t in annual revenue, which is 15% of...

James Daunt gave up a brief career in banking and opened a small, family-owned chain of London bookstores bearing the family name (the original store, in Marylebone High Street, is literally the most ...

25 years after its founding, eight years after its last print edition, and two years after a near-death experience that was averted at the last minute by a bailout from the VPN company Private Interne...

Shadow-banning is a process that dates back to at least the 1980s, with Citadel BBS's "twit bit," which would allow users to post replies to forums that they could see, but no one else could see.That ...

During a recent stopover in Portland, Oregon, it was delightful to once again hang out with the "Duchess of Felt," artist LeBrie Rich. Not only do I adore her, but I adore her work. The needle-felted ...

I like to take my Nintendo Switch with me when I travel for workbeing able to game in my hotel room is lovely. You know what would be even better? Being able to play some Mario Kart or This is The Pol...

The tabloids are routinely filled with news you cant use, but its intriguing to find that their pages are also filled with ads for products nobody needs....

Company executives typically know two things about the cloud: They need to be on it, and they need it to work smoothly. Which means that if you know your way around Google Cloud, you're going to have ...

A man was arrested at a Missouri WalMart wearing body armor and carrying "tactical weapons" -- legal carry in the state. They're holding him while they figure out what to charge him with.Officers resp...

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In 1920, Czech writer Karel apek penned a play titled R.U.R., a cautionary tale about technology's potential to dehumanize. R.U.R. stands for "Rossums Universal Robots" and it was this play that intro...

10-year mortgage interest rates in Denmark have hit -0.5% -- that is, the bank will pay to you borrow money. 20 year loans? Zero interest. 30 year loans now at 0.5% are headed negative. Translation: s...

Reddit user penguinska9 posted that their library "keeps track of how much you save by not buying books and borrowing instead" and shows the dollar amount on the receipt when you check out a book. Gen...

Earlier this year in Painesville, Ohio, police arrested a gentleman after he took out his pet iguana, named Copper, swung her around by her tail, and hurled her at the manager of a Perkins restaurant....

"A Busy Day in the Yard," superimposed security footage showing an entire day in two minutes.(via Geekologie) Read the rest ...

A woman from Washington State who was participating in a salmon fishing derby spotted a small octopus and decided to stick it on her face and have her photo taken. Unfortunately, the octopus wouldn't ...

NASA has just released this incredible image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on June 27, 2019. From NASA:This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals...

I just ordered one of these 10-inch Mercer Chef's Knives because it has great reviews on Amazon, and it's only . I don't know how long it will be offered at a sale price. Read the rest ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook will offer corporate news outlets millions of dollars for the rights to put their content in a news section that the company hopes to launch later this ye...

Wayne LaPierre, the embattled leader of the National Russian Asso whups, typo there, the National Rifle Association, is opposed to new so-called 'red flag' gun restrictions being proposed by lawmakers...

Facebook has lost a procedural appeal related to a 2015 Illinois class-action lawsuit over the company's use of facial recognition data, and now it could be on the hook for billions in damages.Under t...

Bernie Sanders' appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast was a gamble; the show has dabbled with some pretty reactionary politics in the past, but it has a vast audience (the Sanders episode has had nearly 5...

This week at B-Sides LV, security researcher Pavel Tsakalidis presented his work on security defects in the Electron framework, a cross-platform development framework that combines Javascript with Nod...

One of the enduring mysteries of the super-wealthy pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is where, exactly, he got his money: a former math teacher, he styled himself a personal financial manager catering exclusi...

For this, the internet was created.m1oberon you are legend.Unmute this masterpiece.Chicken Fur Elise w/soundNot enough upvotes in the world.SONG Beethoven: Bagatelle in A Minor -"Fr Elise." Read the ...

This amazing aquatic Godzilla cosplay with lights and flotation is the creation of Labinnak & Mangoloo Cosplays in Virginia. Wowza! At IMGUR and Reddit, where I spotted this, Mangoloo shares:The ...

Here's Free Game Planet on PacMan, an interesting variation on the classic created (or perhaps unearthed) by Berick Cook: "The PacMan ROM is said to have been taken from a damaged game board, found lo...

In New Zealand, a dog walking with its human along the beach peed on $3 million worth of cocaine which washed up on the Auckland shores on Wednesday.Around 4:30 p.m. local time, an unidentified woman ...

Once again, Apple has demonstrated its disdain for people who want to do simple repairs on their equipment. This time, Apple has changed the iPhone's firmware so people who replace an old battery with...

Researchers at Keio University built an "an artificial biomimicry-inspired anthropomorphic tail" with haptic feedback to help people walk, bend over, and do other things as they go about their busines...

Seamus Blackley, "father of the Xbox," worked with Egyptologist Serena Love and microbiologist Richard Bowman to extract yeast from 4,500-year-old Egyptian bread-making and beer-making potter held in...

You will find cleaning a motorcycle's carbs a lot easier if you have brushes and wires that'll fit through the jets. This set works for me!My motorcycle famously has a finicky pair of Dell'orto pumper...

Monsanto ran a "fusion center" (a term borrowed from law-enforcement counter-terrorism operations) that spied on activists and journalists who were investigating the safety of its products, notably th...

ICE agents raided food processing plants in Mississippi this week, arresting 680 employees suspected of not having proper documentation to work in the US. According to WJTV many of the arrested people...

In 2017, Trump and then-Wisconsin Governor (and Koch darling) Scott Walker announced that they would give Chinese manufacturing giant $3B in taxpayer subsidies to open the only flat panel display fact...

Anthony Clune writes, "I fixed Equinoxs Commit To Something advertising campaign after Stephen Ross, chairman of parent company The Related Cos. announced hes hosting a Trump fundraiser. Feel free to ...

In 2015, a deep investigative report from Inside Climate News revealed that as early as 1977, Exxonmobil knew that it was destroying the planet with CO2 emissions, and its response to that fact was to...

Both Hong Kong protesters and cops have taken up laser pointers in support of their goals; protesters have used them to blind CCTVs and pinpoint vigilante thugs who assaulted them; cops use them to id...

The Royal Mint made no new 1p and 2p coins last year, saying there are enough in circulation. The nearly worthless denominations aren't being phased out, though.Cash use has fallen across the UK, and ...

My In-Laws Are Careless About My Deadly Food Allergy is a letter sent in to The Cut's Ask Polly column. It's the second-most amazing agony aunt letter I've ever read.I have a very severe allergy to mu...

I enjoyed this video showing "modern Samurai" Isao Machii observing two mechanical pitches before bisecting the third in a single neat cut. The radar clocks the ball at 161 kph (100 mph). I intend to ...

Hanoi has a train track running down a thin alleyway, immediately adjacent to homes, pubs, cafes and, well, all the tourists there to see if Train Street is for real. Alexatron: "Whilst most people wo...

Used car for sale! Only 10,000 careful owners: "You need to call yourself an exterminator, dude." Read the rest ...

The white power hour on Fox will be in other hands for a short while: host Tucker Carlson is headed off on an improptu "vacation" the day after claiming America didn't have a white supremacy problem a...

When Christian Bale was cast as Patrick Bateman, the obsessive yet vacuous investment banker and serial killer prowling 1980s Manhattan, he searched for inspiration. He found a Tom Cruise interview, a...

And by "dirty," I mean "NSFW."There's a marketing mastermind at Granny's Attic thrift store on Vashon Island in Washington state. Instead of tossing out** all the risqu donations the store receives, t...

Look, this is getting old. Just assume that everyone one is listening to you fart, copulate and sing in the shower, all the damn time. My former co-worker and professional tall person, David Murphy, t...

Or live on, depending on who you talk to. Ponyhenge started when a toy rocking horse was discarded in a field. It had been part of a headless horseman decoration from a nearby, shuttered haunted house...

In the market for a workhorse laptop for the upcoming school year? Refurbished gear is the way to go. Here are some of our favorite deals on like-new laptop rigs and PCs.Lenovo N22 11.6" Chromebook 16...

IBM's ridiculously named X-Force Red have documented a new attack vector they've dubbed "Warshipping": they mailed a sub-$100 custom, wifi-enabled low-power PC with a cellular radio to their target's ...

This waterproof, clear toiletry zipper bag is TSA approved, and more durable than a ziploc bag. The squared-off shape and thicker plastic makes it easier to fill with liquid containers. Amazon sells t...

Ben is host of the BTC Sessions YouTube channel. He appears to be knowledgeable about Bitcoin, so he was the wrong guy to try to cheat, as this scammer learned. The scammer, going by the name of Susan...

Stephen M. Ross scheduled to host fundraiser for President Trump in his Hamptons home...

The largest single-state worksite immigration raid in American history took place today. Under orders from openly racist U.S. president Donald Trump, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents arres...

Are all the cool kids going to leave AOL now that its official "digital prophet," Shingy, won't be around to tell the company what to do? According to Gizmodo, Mr. Shingy wrote a good-bye letter on Li...

A gentleman (dressed in a half-hearted attempt at old-timey choo choo train engineer cosplay) attacked a cement truck with a hammer, knocking out indicator lights and such. He then traipsed through fr...

Atul Gawande (previously) made an enormous shift in the practice of medicine with his research on checklists, summarized in his book The Checklist Manifesto; Gawande identified a core paradox with che...

Ill be more careful from now on when I open my door. Ill open my door with my Taser because I have one....

Researchers at the University of Exeter say pesky seagulls at holiday vacation spots tend to be deterred somewhat from stealing your food when you just stare at them. Yep, maintaining hostile eye cont...

Christopher Brown is a lawyer and science fiction writer; his debut, 2017's Tropic of Kansas, was an outstanding novel of authoritarianism and resistance, and his next book, Rule of Capture (out on Mo...

President Donald Trump earlier this week issued a phony and cringe-y call for unity after the two mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas. Today on noted hate platform Twitter, the Presiden...

In Whisky tasting using a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue (Nanoscale/Royal Society of Chemistry), a team from U Glasgow's School of Engineering describe their work on an "artificial tongue" lined with...

John Lambert is a 23-year-old from Tennessee who has done a lot in his short years on this earth: in addition to co-founding "Students for Trump," he also co-founded a fake law firm called Pope &...

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hatewatch makes a compelling case linking US Bureau of Energy Resources foreign affairs officer Matthew Q. Gebert with a series of violent white nationalist identitie...

People fleeing and hiding from #timessquare after suspected live shooter #NewYork we caught this from our hotel bar 10th floor #police confirmed this was not a live shooter #timessquare #NYC pic.twitt...

In Exile (Keeper of Lost Cities,) Sophie Foster is back and still being put through the most horrible adventures Shannon Messenger can imagine for a young teen!I am in love with the Keeper of Lost Cit...

At this year's Defcon Lock Picking Village, Ioactive's Mike Davis will present a method for cracking high-security locks made by Dormakaba Holding, a Swiss company. The locks are used in very high-sta...

US Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders went on some podcast to say that if, once he becomes President of these United States, he learns about aliens his wife will force him to tell us all he knows.Vic...

Here are some highlights from recent World Chase Tag competitions.With World Chase Tag as a sport it really puts you in the moment and it almost makes you feel like a rabbit trapped in the head lights...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earned the moniker "Moscow Mitch" for refusing to protect elections from Russian interference. You can't blame him - Russians want to help the GOP take over the ...

MxPx plays Aha's classicThe Downbeat 5 singing 'Dum Dum Ditty' is one of my favorites.Me First and the Gimmie Gimmie's cover 'Wild World'Riverboat Gamblers play 'Let's Go Crazy'The Laundrettes sing 'N...

Dominic of The Viral Video Lab demonstrates a paper airplane that will circle "endlessly" when caught in the airstream of seven personal fans. Of course, proper positioning of the plane is key. "It to...

Snoopy has been a NASA mascot for more than 50 years going back to the Apollo missions. Now, Timex has released a wonderful "Snoopy In Space" collection of wristwatches. The watches in the line start ...

The Tony Martini Variety Hour is running this Saturday, August 8th at the Three Clubs.A desperate variety show clinging to the art, music, and style that worked so well in the late 50s and early 60s t...

Context is everything, especially when it's missing.(via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest ...

The Lock Picking Lawyer is one of my favorite YouTubers, and he's spreading his wings beyond the usual fare of dreadful padlocks and crap safes. Here he shows how to use a $2 generic remote control to...

As the Hong Kong uprising hits its sixth week, the island is running out of protective gear to guard the surging protesters against police violence; in response, Hong Kongers in Taiwan and Taiwanese s...

It's been a year since Chinese social media giant Bytedance relaunched its super-popular app Musica.ly as Tiktok; the company is now valued at $75b, and in the USA it has become a serious challenge to...

This footage of a garage on a busy road reminded me that a) life is fleeting and b) it's high time to get those dashcams installed.young kid in a truck hauling a trailer got distracted and went off th...

Shannon Byers was an investigator with the Gwinnett County (Georgia) Medical Examiner's office, until this week, when she resigned after news got out that a body whose death she had declared to be of ...

As hilarious as it is to see Nick Offerman deepfaked into every part in Full House, it's ctrl shift face's videos of Bill Hader subtly taking on the appearance of those he impersonates which really ge...

Pippin Barr (previously) writes, "I have a history of making variations on existing games (see also: PONGS, BREAKSOUT, SNAKISMS), and Chesses (source, CC BY-NC) is a continuation of that. I find chess...

Entrepreneur and Product Designer Matt Benedetto is an inventing machine. Under the umbrella of "Unnecessary Inventions," he's brought the world a-mazing, and absolutely absurd, creations. His latest ...

In the past, bowtied racist Tucker Carlson defended statutory rape, said women were "primitive" and "need to be quiet," and claimed that white people weren't "designed to digest" life alongside immigr...

DrFakenstein: "Full House needed more Mustaches" Read the rest ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the Russians invade, and it's up to a small resistance cell of teenagers to fight back, under the bold leadership of RED DON!...

Reason #256 for why I never leave the house without my Garmin InReach Mini: things always go wrong at the most inconvenient times. You know, like when you're mid-air in a small aircraft that decides i...

In an October 7, 2018 blog post, Tesla claimed that the Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested by NHTSA. Alas, no.NHTSA Chief Counsel Jonathan Morrison sent Tesla...

Theron of IDIDTHAT.com isn't letting old rotary phones go to waste. This Bay Area artist is repurposing them into cool lamps ($167+) whose headset is hovering in mid-air as its light source. The cord ...

The Pogues gave rise to an entirely new genre of music: Paddy Punk. For better or worse (during an interview with Spider Stacey, I was told it was the latter), thousands of bands have attempted, with ...

Cloud storage isn't just for big businesses. If you've got more pictures, videos or work files than your device can handle (and who doesn't?), then the cloud is where it needs to be.Luckily, there are...

Traffic disappears into a higher dimension, on this bridge. Witchcraft. https://t.co/9jXxSFjXv6 pic.twitter.com/yO9MaGokHy— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) August 5, 2019 Where they're going, they do...

Winston the French bulldog fell from a six-story building in Manhattan's Lower East Side on Friday night. Fortunately, he only sustained minimal injuries and will be just fine. Emma Heinrich was walki...

A Brazilian prison inmate whose attempt to escape jail dressed as his own teen daughter went internet-viral has been found dead in his cell of an apparent hanging.Rio de Janeiro state authorities repo...

Talk about a shitstorm. In Florida, a Port Charlotte woman said that lightning destroyed her septic tank, and made the toilet in her house explode.Marylou Ward, one of the property's co-owners, told l...

AT&T employees took bribes to unlock millions of smartphones....

From one of the longest-running homegrown cute animal videobloggers, kagonekoshiro -- the video you didn't know you needed right now, until you see it. Beautiful hydrangea flowers worn on the head of ...

You're gonna want to unmute for the happycrys.This video is pretty amazing. Daughter was with grandma for a month and we got the kitten a week ago I told her we have a gift for her and wanted to make ...

Over at Medium's Forge, Nicole Dieker writes about her experiment testing the $200 Pavlok 2 electronic shock bracelet as a way to help herself cut down on checking social media. From Forge:Giving myse...

An electric-eel-powered Tesla? Jason Torchinsky does the math at Jalopnik.We can get a jolt of 600 watts from an eel, but only for one hundredth of a second, and we can get up to 50 of these pulses pe...

Zupagrafika's new book Eastern Blocks (subtitle: "Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc") collects more than 100 beautiful photos of the brutalist towers of ex-Soviet nations, "Sleeping distr...

Officially, Americas total 2017 corporate lobbying group spending was $535m, but as much as $675m more was funneled from industry groups to politicians as part of influence campaigns.Maplight found th...

Ishu Patel's 1977 animated film, "The Bead Game," uses thousands of colored beads as pixels to show animals eating each other, giving birth, fighting, and evolving.From The National Film Board of Cana...

A man in Almeria, Spain, disposed of an old fridge by throwing it down a steep incline. Thinking it amusing, he had video recorded of the act and posted to social media. It went viral, the authorities...

In a new column in the LA Times, business columnist Michael Hiltzik makes the argument that the only thing health insurers have done with any effectiveness is scare us into thinking that the socialize...

Brian Kozlowski poisoned his wife repeatedly by pouring massive amounts of diphenhydramine into her coffee when he she wasn't looking. But the woman installed a hidden camera in the kitchen and record...

I bought How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema when it came out in 1978, and I think it might still be the best how-to-draw book I've used. It covers a lot of territory in 160...

The photo shows two white police officers, on horseback, leading a roped black detainee through the streets. Galveston police chief Vernon Hale apologized, after it went viral, but said there was "no ...

Alicia Rodis is HBO's "lead intimacy coordinator." This means that she choreographs and coaches actors in sex scenes. In The Atlantic, Kate Julian profiles Rodis and shares the, er, intimate details o...

I keep extra tools in this small tool roll that conveniently fits under my motorcycle's seat.My BMW famously came with an under-seat toolkit that can mostly fix any problems from minor to pretty large...

The captain of this ship seems like the kind of guy who would enjoy driving his car through rain puddles to soak people. He is being investigated for piloting his ship alongside a beach in the Netherl...

The second-bloodiest riot in the history of New York was touched off by a dispute between two Shakespearean actors. Their supporters started a brawl that killed as many as 30 people and changed the in...

A Connecticut woman called 911 and told the operator she was locked in the luggage compartment of a moving bus. Police tracked the bus down, pulled it over, and found the woman inside. The woman said ...

The nice woodchipper in West Pittston, Pa., was replaced in the night with a less nice model. Police say they don't know who stole the nice one, but if you do, they'd like to hear from you.If anyone c...

Kathryn Kidd's neighbors in LA think her bright pink and yellow emoji-daubed house is an eyesore. Kidd disagrees.Neighbors say its retribution in a property dispute that has turned into a battle with ...

A French neonatal specialist named Dr Arnaud Gagneur has created a "vaccine counselling" program within Quebec's health-care system that uses a non-judgmental technique called "motivational interviewi...

In 2010, Jerry Alex neglected to renew jerryalex.com, and woke up one day to find his website had turned into a squatter's template, with a $1500 ransom. So he waited 9 years before pouncing on the dr...

On Saturday at the X Games Minneapolis, Mitchie Brusco landed the first 1260 in the history of professional skateboarding. And yep, he acts like it was nothing.This was exactly twenty years since Tony...

Anish Athalye and friends added a touchscreen to a MacBook with only a $1 camera part. How'd they do it? Magic? No. Software. And ingenuity.The basic principle behind Sistine is simple. Surfaces viewe...

When Congress legalized phone unlocking in 2014, they added a bunch of carve-outs that let phone companies veto your attempt to unlock your phone, with the big one being that you couldn't unlock your ...

Every time I write about the unfolding scandal of Amazon's secret partnerships with hundreds of US police departments who get free merch and access to Ring surveillance doorbell footage in exchange fo...

Granted, the ancient box hosting rhyal.com has had a few upgradesThis site is being hosted and served by a Macintosh SE/30 running MacOS 7.5.5. This SE/30 is a 16MHz computer built in 1989. Mine shipp...

The ADL surveyed 1,045 US adult gamers (oversampling Jewish, Muslim, African American and Hispanic/Latinx individuals) and asked them about their experiences in multiplayer games: on the one hand, the...

Having a snooze on the grass in bear country is never a great idea, especially when the pair of assholes watching you get checked out by a bear prefer to film shit going down instead of yelling a warn...

An explosion at a military base in Siberia rocked residents of remote Kamensk Sunday, according to reports, and 11,000 were evacuated. The blast was caused by wildfires reaching ammunition stores. The...

Heartwarming, but also quite tailwarming. Read the rest ...

Thoughts and prayers. Video games are fucking folks up. He's white so let's call it mental illness. Apologists for the far right talking shit. It's always the same song and dance anytime some asshole ...

You're fretting about hackers, political shenigans and data breaches. Then your creepy uncle shares photos of your newborn baby, complete with its location, to his thousands of fake facebook "friends"...

Via Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post, here's the official White House transcript of President Trump's remarks on the terrorist mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio. It includes his mistaken statement...

Your binge-watching options just got a lot more interesting. Get ready to be the first choice venue for movie night, because there's a giveaway right now on a Samsung 65" QLED 4K Smart TV.Size isn't q...

Here's a sweet little sanity break for your achy-breaky brain. This video shared by IMGURian @Toast2 during IMGUR's #PetShow2019 is a great example of how to use a GoPro camera to great effect with do...

Looks like he is howling but he was almost completely silent while he was doing this, says Max's temporary human.Our foster dog was a silly boy!, says IMGURian Kika1112GOOD NEWS, he was just recently ...

Aww. Poor little sweet thing.An archival image of awkward, tender, funny cuteness, photographer uncredited, viral from years ago. Looks a lot like this poor pet getting an uncomfortable groom, which i...

That Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining features a wealth of subtle references is not in doubt, not least the inconsistent geography of the Overlook Hotel, which seems unremarkable at first viewing bu...

Unmute the video below. You need this, in all its glory.Brian Kidd, aka the Unipiper, has been featured before here on Boing Boing. He's internet-famous and locally renowned in Portland for for playin...

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Wait for it. TFW you encounter something you seriously did not anticipate.BOX: [exists]CAT: [figures shit out]Kitty gets a little surprise. Read the rest ...

Laura Dale is a trans woman who got a "new vagina" through "bottom surgery"; afterwards, as she cast about for ways to strengthen her pelvic floor muscles, she discovered Perifit, a Bluetooth kegel-ba...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization, published today on EFF's Deeplinks; it's another installment in my seri...

Under Covers is a delightful NSFW animation by Mighty Oak.On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty n...

If you are annoyed by YouTube clickbaity thumbnails this Chrome extension, called Clickbait Remover for YouTube, is for you.This extension replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video, effectively ...

Lekholm's DM48 is a full-featured MIDI harmonica, with twelve pressure-sensors, one-button presets, and "adjustable breathing resistance." (Thanks, Gnat) Read the rest ...

An Ashland, Oregon man dropped an old shoebox into his recycling bin, somehow forgetting that he had stashed $23,000 in the box. He contacted the Recology recycling center in California where the haul...

Nancy Segula (79) of Garfield Heights, Ohio, doesn't like the idea of allowing stray cats to starve, so she feeds them when they come around, which is a crime. She's been sentenced to 10 days in jail ...

Approximately 14 percent of the world's population suffer from dry eye disease (DED) but treatments are limited because it's difficult to model the complex human eye for drug development. Now though, ...

The war-dialing safe-opener takes a maximum of 8 hours to open a safe. It looks like something that could be pretty easily built with an Arduino and a stepper motor, but how does it know when is has ...

An Lord Ashcroft Poll for Holyrood found that the largest group of Scots with a preference favour independence from the UK: 46% leave vs 43% remain; after removing undecided voters, the figures are 52...

Here's your daily dose of deepfaking and Keanu. Read the rest ...

I think Shrek and the innate sweetness of the song have given us unlimited covers of this OG Neil Diamond masterpiece. I am always a fan of this on a Hammond, but away we go...Vanilla FudgeYoutuber on...

These highly rated noise cancelling bluetooth headphones are normally but if you use code MPOW284A1 at checkout on Amazon, you can get them at a much lower price. They are USB chargeable and have a w...

Good morning Jakarta. Macam mana lah diorang terfikir nak develop taman perumahan atas bangunan? pic.twitter.com/TNQrnEQ8eA— shahrirbahar (@shahrirbahar1) June 24, 2019 Jakarta's Comsmo Park is ...

A tree discovered a way to thrive in an urban environment by squeezing through a multi-story drainpipe. via GfycatImage: gfycat Read the rest ...

Shout Hallelujah, come on get happy Read the rest ...

The Art of Warez by Oliver Payne, celebrates the rise and fall of ANSI art in the 1980s and early 90s. ANSI graphics were made from small rectangles. There were 256 rectangles to choose from - 4 densi...

Brazilian drug lord Clauvino da Silva attempted to escape a Rio de Janeiro prison on Saturday by impersonating his teenage daughter. From The Guardian:hen Silva AKA Baixinho (Shorty) requested the r...

"Coca-Cola: Blade Roller," directed by David Fincher in 1993. (via ObscureMedia) Read the rest ...

Last month Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe announced that shipments of high tech equipment and material to South Korea will undergo additional screening to make sure the imported materials are not b...

Today, Hong Kongers are staging a general strike, the latest peak in a series of escalating protests over democratic reforms in the face of increased pressure from Beijing and its autocrat-for-life, X...

It's as if the Dog of Wisdom and Hi Stranger had a puppy together. I'd like to credit the genius who created this, but can't find the source.Previously: Do not watch Hi Stranger while high. Read the r...

I've been back in Canada since May and I am certain I am losing my mind. It's a certainty that takes hold of me, every year.We come home because we have to. As Canadians, we can only stay in the Untie...

Sony's FE 135mm f/1.8 GM (Amazon) is a serious lens for its full-frame cameras, costing about $2000 and winning over critics. PetaPixel compares it to $12k glass after finding it much sharper than sim...

Things are getting weird in the world of ice cream. First, French's created mustard-flavored ice cream for National Mustard Day. Then, in response to that, Oscar Mayer created the "Ice Dog Sandwich".F...

Adversarial interoperability is what happens when someone makes a new product or service that works with a dominant product or service, against the wishes of the dominant business.Though there are exa...

Franky Zapata is the first person to cross the English Channel on a flyboard. The Frenchman, who invented the hovering device, made the 22-mile trip in 22 minutes, wearing a backpack full of kerosene ...

It is, evidently, not a nice job. But you do get to be alone, if that's your thing, with The Inventory, boxing things all day. This eBay seller gets into the nitty gritty of how he sources and sells i...

The summer of movies that Samus willing to pay to see in an actual pay-forty-bucks-for-a-small-popcorn movie theater continues!Bettina Perut and Ivn Osnovikoff spent two years hanging out at the oldes...

If there's one piece of gear that's essential for both outdoor trailblazers and urban homeowners, it's a good flashlight. And since it doesn't take much more dough to go the extra mile, you might as w...

When Hawai'i-born Kamaka Dias joined the Peace Corps, he completely shaved his head and facial hair off. Then, during his two years serving in Madagascar, he just let it all grow out. No trims, no sha...

Edelman is one of the world's leading PR firms, and despite the fact that they're the go-to if you want to launder the reputations of the House of Saud or the Transcanada pipeline by running massive f...

Some medieval mystics did not bathe as part of a self-scourging ritual, and some medieval sources warned against "excessive" bathing (by which they meant, "patronizing co-ed bathhouses where orgies to...

At least 10 people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a Dayton nightclub early Sunday, targeting revelers in the Ohio city's Oregon Historic District. 26 more victims were reportedly injured. T...

Everybody thinks they know their dog and it's true that you probably share a unique bond with your pet if they've been a part of the family for any length of time. But even though the way you nurture ...

At least 19 people were killed after a gunman opened fire in an El Paso Walmart on Saturday, targeting back-to-school shoppers. Forty more victims were reportedly injured. The shooter was taken into ...

I do most of my reading on a Kindle, but I also read a lot of print books, and I need a way to read them without disturbing Carla when I routinely wake up in the middle of the night. I use a small cli...

From a long thread documenting which workers are prepared to walk out on Monday for the general strike in support of the pro-independence movement: the news that Hong Kong Disneyland workers organized...

Yesterday, I wrote about science publishing profiteer Elsevier's legal threats against Citationsy, in which the company claimed that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub (an illegal open-access portal) ...

Anton Hecht writes, "Slime Tango is a new game, the cello is optional. It is an inversion of tug of war, as here the players work together, while going apart. So is also an inversion of dance where pe...

On September 26, 1983, the USSR's missile early warning defense system mistook the sun's reflection off a cloud bank for five inbound US Minuteman ICBMs and began to flash the LAUNCH warning at the So...

7 years ago, I posted Cookiewaits's video mashup of Cookie Monster performing Tom Waits's "God's Away on Business," but I somehow missed that Cookiewaits followed it up the next year with this brillia...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not the first state to sue Purdue Pharma, members of the Sackler family (who own the company), and other board members for their role in deliberately seeking to ad...

When big companies need to manage their data, they turn to Microsoft platforms. Want to walk confidently among those server stacks? These training bundles are a great way to learn those platforms quic...

See below. Yes, the U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual refers to residents of Hawaii as "Hawaii residents." This change occurred last year thanks to Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) who pushed ...

A surefire way to tell if someone is a liar and/or ignorant about science is if they say a scientific theory is "only a theory," like it's a guess or a hypothesis and not a factual framework. That's e...

You have the right to remain silent. Weve heard the Miranda warning countless times on TV, but what good is the right to remain silent if our own cellphones testify against us? Imagine every incrimin...

Police unions have systematized and perfected the process of ensuring impunity for crooked cops, ensuring that even the most violent, lying, thieving, racist, authoritarian cops can stay on the force;...

James Nolan Gandy is a maker/artist who has created beautiful drawing machines that create incredible, multi-spirographic abstract images. Though the machines automate much of the process, Gandy decid...

Sci-Hub (previously) is a scrappy, nonprofit site founded in memory of Aaron Swartz, dedicated to providing global access to the world's scholarship -- journal articles that generally report on public...

A new report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) estimates the cost of subsidizing a full transition to clean energy, and comes out with a figure that is only 10-30% of...

Remember Perceptics, the Border Patrol contractor whose facial recognition database was hacked, along with hundreds of gigs' worth of internal files? In that trove of files were emails that reveal tha...

Back in the early 2000s, cheap plug & play videogame consoles became ubiquitous. I remember spotting them for sale everywhere from toy stores to Walgreens. Self-contained systems, they integrated...

Adventurer! Will you attack with easy nobleness, taking reputation points from you everytime you hit back, ten times? Or will you tell the priest to finish what's been going on with your family, thric...

When airline seatback entertainment systems started to come bundled with little webcams, airlines were quick to disavow their usage, promising that the cameras were only installed for potential future...

I stay in hotels quite a bit, and these silicone putty earplugs are the best ones I've found for muffling noise. My ear canals don't work well with those cylindrical foam plugs. They leave an air gap....

Reviewing the CraftSynth 2.0 for Engadget, Terrence O'Brien calls the small synthesizer "fun and a little bit flimsy."It's strange to hold Modal Electronics' CraftSynth 2.0 in your hands knowing what'...

After Therese Kozlowsk of Macomb County, Michigan filed for divorce from Brian Kozlowski, he secretly put sleeping pills in her coffee on a regular basis. When Therese felt suspiciously sick, she put ...

100,000 stars has apparently been around for years, but I loved how much fun it makes zooming in and out of the Milky Way and checking out nearby stars. I could name a half-dozen recent video games th...

The Decoy Effect is a simple but powerful trick that marketers use to influence you to buy something that is bigger or more expensive than you need or want. I fall for this every time I go to the movi...

Shuetso Sato (65) has no formal training as a graphic designer, but his handmade transit signs, made from pieces of colored duct tape, are considered works of art. From Chris Gaul's Medium article:Sat...

Mining the results of public records requests relating to Amazon's secret deals with local law enforcement to promote its Ring surveillance doorbells (more than 200 agencies!) continue to bear fruit.Y...

This outstanding 1982 TV commercial makes me want to play my son's collection of vintage Atari 2600 games. Except, of course, for Pac-Man. Read the rest ...

Everything in this restored film about Tokyo is interesting -- the street celebrations, the sporting events, the children's swordplay drill -- but the standout is listening to Japanese ambassador Hiro...

This tiny "soft" robot, just 3cm long, zips along at 20 of its body lengths per second. It can also carry heavy things, like peanuts in the shell, but that slows it down a bit. And amazingly, you can ...

Making a solar hot-dog oven is a science fair standby, but JohnW539's CNC-milled Sundogger Instructable really digs into the classroom portion, drawing on the creator's experience as a physics/astrono...

In the late 19th century, the Austro-Hungarian empire built a network of carrier-pigeon post-offices throughout its territory: today, Bosnia has but a single (nonfunctional) pigeon post office remaini...

Writing in Wired, political scientist Henry Farrell points out what should be obvious: we're going to pay for climate change (that is, either we're going to rebuild the cities smashed by weather and t...

Jurors found that Katy Perry's Dark Horse "improperly copied" an earlier song titled Joyful Noise by Flame, a Christian rap artist.The case focused on the notes and beats of the song, not its lyrics o...

Bellowphone made a unique organ and now demonstrates it in action: "the sound of my most recent skweeze-ball instrument, with a song from Mozart's Magic Flute." Read the rest ...

Ooh, this is awesome. Activists have made a free font called Gerry that is made from the shapes of gerrymandered congressional districts. They encourage you to use it to write your representative.It&#...

So, for National Mustard Day (August 3), French's thought to make mustard-flavored ice cream. They're selling their horrible concoction for a limited time on both coasts:To celebrate National Mustard ...

King of the Hill is "The greatest anime of the late 90s," writes Gamblor on YouTube. QED. Read the rest ...

Attention humans: The robots are taking over. The good news is, they're taking over the household chores. Robot vacuums have come a long way in terms of technology in the last decade or two. Not only ...

This video of a dog groomer deftly nurturing a bond of trust with a dog who's feeling very hostile, very defensive, and very much like biting and barking -- wow, it's something to behold. She's so tal...

It's hot everywhere, even in Burtrsk, Sweden, where this very strange human-dog-mutant enjoys cooling down with a slice of watermelon. Piece by piece, the Labrador Retriever appears to lift the juicy ...

Here's a fun card trick video that shows you How To Flick a Card Boomerang.Prepare to be Whelmed,says Max Maher.Here's the complete video:How To Flick a Card Boomerang. Prepare to be WhelmedAnd here's...

It's a real life Corgi hamster wheel!This behavior may be what the AKC calls Frapping, corgi code for frantic random acts of play, which usually conclude with dramatic slides or fanciful choreography...

Nary a curse word in the neighborhood. Read the rest ...

Those with coulrophobia are advised to avoid Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas during their upcoming "clown-only" screenings of IT: Chapter Two. Back in 2017, they had clown-only screenings of IT at two theate...

In Chennai, India, a 7-year-old boy went to the hospital with a swollen jaw and mouth pain. Turned out he had more than 500 extra teeth. According to Prathiba Ramani, the head of Oral and Maxillofacia...

Penn State engineers have devised a circuit inspired by the way barn owls can so precisely determine where a sound is coming from and track their prey in the dark. Eventually, this fine example of bio...

Many non-human animals, from apes to rats to crows, appear to be able to keep track of the order of items in a list. The question was whether they succeeded because they associated the correct order w...

MIT Technology Review reports that scientists in China are making human-monkey embryos. [T]he Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpisa Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California...

Which ad copy for a banking service is more effective?A) Access cash from the equity in your home.orB) Its trueYou can unlock cash from the equity in your home.If you answered B, you are correct. It d...

Ugly Gerry is a typeface where each glyph is a conspicuously gerrymandered congressional district. The district boundaries are manipulated thus by incumbent politicians to arrange voters to their own ...

When Jim Stauffer's mother Doris Stauffer died at the age of 73, he sought out a way for her body to be used to further scientific study: she had Alzheimer's but did not carry the genes commonly assoc...

The smelly compounds that skunks squirt when threatened are called thiols and are notorious hard to eliminate from humans and dogs who get spray with them. Tomato juice merely temporarily overpowers t...

I was incredibly gratified and excited to read Paul Di Filippo's Locus review of my latest book, Radicalized; Di Filippo is a superb writer, one of the original, Mirrorshades cyberpunks, and he is a s...

The whistleblower Edward Snowden announced today that he has written a memoir, Permanent Record, which will go on sale worldwide in more than 20 languages on September 17.John Sergeant, CEO of Macmill...

A group of MIT Media Lab researchers have published Radiotalk, a massive corpus of talk radio audio with machine-generated transcriptions, with a total of 240,000 hours' worth of speech, marked up wit...

Amazon has a good sale going for this 20-pack of small succulent plants: . That's currently cheaper than the 15-pack. Read the rest ...

Laura Poitras (previously) is the Academy Award-winning director of Citizenfour; she teamed up with the activist group Forensic Archicture (previously), whose incredible combination of data-visualizat...

You can almost hear the narrator drooling as he gleefully describes how Fisher Industries proposes to build a wall between Mexico and the United States, one mile a day, in ten years. By the way, illeg...

This January, we celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, as the onerous terms of the hateful Sonny Bono Copyright Act finally developed a leak, putting all works produced in 1923 into th...

Los Angeles Boing Boing readers are invited to the premiere of the film King Baby (2019) the first feature film from filmmaker and artist Case Esparros. King Baby is a second coming of Christ story se...

One of the reasons most law enforcement organizations favor drug prohibition is that it gives them a reason to arrest (or in some cases, shake down) people who pose no danger to society. Busting someo...

Last week, Motherboard broke a story revealing that Amazon had entered into secret agreements with local law enforcement agencies that had the cops pushing Ring surveillance doorbells to the people th...

The Action Lab Man is a guy who makes good videos of science demonstrations and experiments. In this video he tries to make something called an "Egely Wheel" to spin just by putting his hand near it. ...

Private equity firms like Blackstone and KKR have acquired massive health companies like Teamhealth and Emcare, which bill out doctors to the hospitals they work for, taking those doctors out of the h...

In 2008, a security researcher named James Glenn warned Cisco that its video surveillance software had a defect that made it vulnerable to a trivial-to-exploit attack; for four years afterward, the co...

Article 31 of the Russian constitution guarantees the right to peaceful political assembly, which is why Russian opposition protesters like to wave copies of the constitution around as Putin's goon-sq...

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi (previously) is one of my favorite political writers, with the style chops of Hunter S Thompson, but without Thompson's often juvenile politics (Taibbi having outgrown that...

World War III is coming - hold the eighth page!...

When it comes to language lessons, there's no shortage of virtual teachers out there. But even with all that interactive technology out there, it's tough to make the process of learning a new tongue s...

Love this wonderful rendition of the Beatles 'Yellow Submarine' album cover, in string art, which was of course so very much of the era of this record's release.From R/crafts, and by @meltsir -- who m...

I made a wooden flag out of 2x4s for my oldest friend from high school who works as a peace officer. I grinded and sanded it to look like it it blowing in the wind and used a torch to burn in the dark...

Get a load of this delicious video of a beekeeper slicing that honeycomb down, from which to extract this year's honey harvest. It's so sweet and sticky and amazing I literally can't handle it!Is this...

Mama bear and her cubs make off with some dog food on Elizabeth Loflin's North Carolina porch.Video below.The four little bears[IMGUR/MSN/Storyful] Read the rest ...

ALMERIA, SPAIN: These idiots dumped a used refrigerator out in nature, and the cops made them go out and get it and dispose of it properly.Morons dump fridge in nature. police orders them to retrieve ...

When you're at the dispensary trying to choose a strain.Not sure what John Delaney was on at the Democratic Debate tonight, but I am certain I do not want to be on it.MRW my wife is going through the ...

The sound of his tiny squeaking mews!From the Kitten Lady's IG feed. View this post on Instagram The hummingbirds are 3 weeks old and learning how to walk...and it is SO FLIPPIN CUTE! If youre subs...

Someone dropped donated a live mortar shell to Goodwill in Placerville, Califonia. While the shell, thought to be leftover from World War II, would likely have fetched more than the usual bric--brac o...

Insert phallic joke here. Read the rest ...

Earlier this month, I was in Washington DC during the Smithsonian's festivities around the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first human moon landing. As you likely saw, UK-based creative studio 5...

Have a nice weekend, y'all.Previously: How long will it take my baby son to defeat the Strong Suction Silicone Plate? Read the rest ...

In Longjing, China, more than 40 people were reportedly injured at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Amusement Park when an electronics failure at their "tsunami pool" generated unexpectedly massive waves. Fro...

In Longjing, China, more than 40 people were reportedly injured at the Yulong Shuiyun Water Amusement Park when an electronics failure at their "tsunami pool" generated unexpectedly massive waves. Fro...

It's so close to perfect, especially given the rich, detailed, warts-and-all photography. But the funny thing about the so-called Uncanny Valley is the deeper you get, the more's left to climb. Read ...

Kid Icarus isn't especially rare, but one in its original case is. And it's expected to fetch ten grand at auction, reports the Reno Gazette Journal.Scott Amos found the game in the attic of his child...

Use code CT4HKL7Z to get this 4-pack of MFi certified lightning cables for a fraction of the usual price. The set includes one 3ft cord, two 6ft cords, and one 10ft cord. Read the rest ...

An Oklahoma cop handed a driver an $80 ticket for having defective equipment on her truck. She said she wouldn't sign it, "because I don't wanna pay $80." The cop told her to get out of her truck. "Yo...

Poolside FM feels like a collection of records curated by an 80s Floridian porn star. -- Unknown. Read the rest ...

Up until a couple of days ago "Your Highness Qiao Biluo" was a popular blogger in China, with 100,000 followers on the live streaming site Douyu. She appeared as a stylish young woman. But a technical...

My former MAKE magazine colleague Becky Stern put together this pleasing video of close-up circuit solderings. Image: YouTube/Becky Stern Read the rest ...

Probably better than their entire new movie. Read the rest ...

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by Sugar and Kush!Click to Jump to a Section:Unhealthy CBD productsUnregulated CBD IndustryPure Unflavored CBD OilBest Carrier Oils for BioavailabilityLaura Brenner &#...

"It's hard to sum up what happened tonight. But most of it was a bunch of guys with no chance to win the Democratic nomination yelling Republican talking points at the people who can. It was like watc...

Freelance journalist Alessandra Bocchi posted this video of protesters in Hong Kong using some kind of laser to target security forces' cameras: it's part of the #612strike movement's stunning reperto...

David Hayward's proposal to "solve no-deal Brexit" is pretty delicious: Her Majesty's Government need only insure all UK businesses and individuals against No Deal Brexit losses, and pay for it by iss...

This darling denizen of the deep is a Helicocranchia, aka a piglet squid. Scientists on the Ocean Exploration Trust's E/V Nautilus caught footage of the rarely seen creature at a depth of 4,544 feet n...

There are, in Esquire's counting, 104 Bond villains as of July 31, 2019. It categorized and ranked them, creating the perfect tour of the franchise's best bits.59. NicknackThe Film: The Man With the G...

Nintendo's smaller, cuter, more portable new console is coming September 20th, and now you can pre-order one. It comes in yellow, teal, gray orwhite with scribbles and it costs $200. Those are Amazon ...

Earlier this week, I bought tickets to see a concert in September (Gogol Bordello!) and wanted to see the view from our seats. I discovered that the venue, San Francisco's legendary Warfield, has a te...

Ten Second Songs is one of those amazing YouTube channels that doom you to a morning lost in someone's incredible and decidedly unique talent. In this case, performing songs in the style of other musi...

Ten Second Songs is one of those amazing YouTube channels that doom you to a morning lost in someone's incredible and decidedly unique talent. In this case, performing songs in the style of other musi...

Hank Green and I are doing a double act tonight, July 31, as part of the tour for the paperback of his debut novel, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. It's a ticketed event (admission includes a copy of ...

I'd kill to see Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, or any of the Borderlands games come to the Nintendo Switch. They're some of my favorite titles to turn to at the end of a long, stupid day when my brain...

My name is Herobine. I am twenty-six years old. I live in a data entity resembling an ultramodernist residence at x: 68;y: 73; z: 636 in the seed -98734659879863346. I believe in taking care of myself...

I loved Robert Eggers' The Witch. It was a moody, masterfully shot masterpiece of slow-simmering tension, mistrust and the gentle hand that moves desperate people to make terrible decisions. I bought ...

This elephant residing in Kruger National Park in South Africa is evidently tired of tourists rumbling around, bothering it. "Jeezis Chroyst" Read the rest ...

You know who WASN'T an optics disaster?...

Looking for a career in design? Then you're going to need InDesign, not to mention Photoshop, Illustrator and the other versatile pieces of software in Adobe's Creative Cloud. These training bundles a...

In 1955, Disneyland opened. In early 1956, Sherman W. Carter, Jr. took his family to the park and shot this home movie. The video was just uploaded to YouTube on July 1 by a family friend. Disney Park...

End.Game is a dark, dreamy synthpop album, all swooping pads, punchy beats and mysterious retro auras. It's the work of Luscious-235, a joint-venture between Sid Luscious (of 80s fame fronting The Pan...

The Atlantic unearthed an old tape of Ronald Reagan yukking it up with Richard Nixon about African "monkeys" at the United Nations.The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the Peoples Repub...