Articles by BoingBoing from September 2019

In this week's Cool Tools Podcast episode, Kevin Kelly and I talked to Boing Boing co-founder Carla Sinclair. Carla is an author, freelance writer and editor. She's written 5 books, including Girl Gen...

For years, I've been covering the career of Patrick Costello (previously) a deaf, copyfighting, open access banjo player and teacher who is responsible for a bounty of instructional books, videos, and...

Shorra's 2012 piece Death of a Cyborg remixed William-Adolphe Bouguereau's 1888 painting The First Mourning/Premier Deuil, giving it a 21st century zest that I found so moving that I bought a print im...

Filmmaker Brett Gaylor (previously) writes, "Stealing Ur Feelings is an augmented reality experience that reveals how apps like Snapchat can utilize facial emotion recognition technology to secretly c...

I'm coming to Maine to keynote the Maine Library Association conference in Newry tomorrow (Sept 30); later that day, I'm appearing with James Patrick Kelly at the Portland, Maine Main Library, from 6:...

Science fiction writer, essayist, and Macarthur "genius" Jonathan Lethem (previously) has excellent bona fides to write about Edward Snowden: not only has he helped make a short film about the Snowden...

RELAY is a free browser game by Yahia Zakaria, Sameh Khater, and Yassin Zakaria. You control a robot trapped in a series of two-dimensional levels filled with electronic gates, hatches, moving platfor...

Want to get really hands-on with STEM education? 3D printers may be out of reach for some, but the 3Doodler is a handheld version of the same technology that's tailor-made for curious kids.(Who are we...

Mindy Clegg has posted a wonderful essay covering the "social and political conflicts over fandom", and how even though such discussions are appearing in the modern communities surrounding recent film...

Space Nerds in Space is a free/open source team game where players take on the roles of Navigation, Weapons, Engineering, Communications, Damage Control and work their controls to safely land a spaces...

Ruairi Robinson's short sf/horror film Corporate Monster is a contemporary take on the classic (and still trenchant) 1988 John Carpenter movie "They Live": in Robinson's take, a recently fired corpora...

Void Golf is a free browser game by Cactusmancer. You fire rocks into black holes on a 2D starfield—think Asteroids meets Desert Golf— contending with (and exploiting) the gravitational at...

Bran Castle in Romania (commonly referred to as Dracula's castle) is leaving a lot of money on the table by not making its gift shop available online. Check out this bat-filled snowglobe:Best-ever sno...

Need graphics? Before you resign yourself to a Photoshop subscription, listen up: There are other apps out there. You owe it to yourself to check out Youzign 2.0 - especially with the reviews it's get...

Theremin virtuoso Konstanin Kovalsky (1890-1976) performs with Vyacheslav Mescherin's Orchestra of Electronic Instruments, USSR, 1960. From Discogs:The Ensemble of Electro-Musical Instruments directed...

Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rammed through an illegal Net Neutrality repeal by claiming that the Obama-era Net Neutrality rules slowed down investment in broadband, depriving Americans of fast inter...

Phil Torrone from Adafruit writes, "Why roam around with a boring pumpkin bucket when you collect delicious candy with a robotic Xenomorph head? This robotic candy bucket shoots out a small receptacle...

On Jan 1, 2020, Californians who rent will gain new protections under the law, thanks to AB 1482, which comes on the heels of the defeat of Prop 10, which was shattered by a lavishly funded dirty tric...

Russkie, er... Rudolph Giuliani canceled a paid appearance at a Kremlin-back event scheduled for next week in Armenia, reports the Washington Post:Giuliani said Friday evening that he was no longer pl...

David Schneider built his own radio telescope out of roof flashing, an empty paint thinner can, a free software-defined radio app, USB receiver, and a length of coaxial cable. The whole project cost h...

This squirrel is surprised to encounter a hard, solid, almost completely invisible force field. It looks like he's typing an angry tweet.Via IMGUR. And there's a remix.Curse you invisible force field!...

Snoopy has been a NASA mascot for more than 50 years going back to the Apollo missions. Now, Snoopy is headed to the International Space Station for a new cartoon series, Snoopy In Space, launching No...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been subpoenaed by 3 House committees for Ukraine documents, and information involving the Donald Trump presidential impeachment investigation.Sec. Pompeo is told to...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week released new rules that limit when police can access family tree DNA databases to identify crime suspects. This new genealogy policy is the first ever at...

Someone just sent this to me and asked me to find the leopard. I was convinced it was a joke... until I found the leopard. Can you spot it? pic.twitter.com/hm8ASroFAo— Bella Lack (@BellaLack) S...

You can buy 15 of these itty-bitty keychain flashlights for . I keep one in every one of my family member's suitcases as well as on keychains and in my toolbox. I've had my set for years and they seem...

[Stanford's Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world's leading experts on "intermediary liability" -- that is, when an online service should be held responsible for the actions o...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, currently on board the International Space Station, took this stunning image of her pal Jessica Meir launching into space toward the ISS."What it looks like from @Space_...

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, currently on board the International Space Station, took this stunning image of her pal Jessica Meir launching into space toward the ISS."What it looks like from @Space_...

Robert Garrison, best known for his role in The Karate Kid as Tommy of the Cobra Kai, has died. He was 59. Garrison's sister told TMZ that "his passing wasn't sudden -- he had been in the hospital for...

A giant exoplanet orbits a tiny star, upending scientists' understanding of planetary formation. The newly-discovered world and its pathetic little sun were announced in the latest issue of Science."I...

I sat down for an interview for Reason's short feature, The Decentralized Web Is Coming, which documents the surging Decentralized Web movement, whose goal is to restore the internet's early, decentra...

Officers of Spain's famous Guardia Civil encountered a door that put up a stronger fight than usual. It's interesting to observe the sense of surprise the officers reveal through their behavior when t...

Annalee Newitz (previously) just published her second novel, The Future of Another Timeline, a madcap feminist time-travel novel that pits incel extremists who are trying to snuff out feminism before ...

A new poll shows a marked increase in support of impeaching Donald Trump. A poll conducted between September 24-26 shows that 43% of all voters think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings to r...

Saskia Maarleveld is an audiobook narrator and voiceover actress. If you listen to audiobooks, her voice will sound familiar. Here, she reads the whistleblower complaint released by the House Intellig...

Carla and I watched all 12 episodes of Fleabag in 4 nights. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a British dramedy about a London cafe owner (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) dealing with a tragedy, a neurotic siste...

Fashion Institute of Technology photographer Jessica Wynne's "Don Not Erase" project documents the beautiful chalkboards of mathematicians, which will be collected in a book from Princeton University ...

In 74% of US counties, the average worker can't afford the median home. It's getting worse: Six months ago, it was 71% of counties. The results come from Attom's new survey of house prices.Not owning ...

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

Between its line of Ring-brand surveillance doorbells and its "Rekognition" facial recognition product (both of which are used in law-enforcement and immigration-enforcement contexts), Amazon is at th...

One important detail from this week's admission from Doordash that they'd suffered (and remained silent about) a breach of 4.9 million records: Doordash, by its nature, includes the home addresses of ...

Another report out of the US Senate declares the National Rifle Association acted as a Russian asset in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections.NPR:The National Rifle Association acted as a...

For three years now, cryptographer Matt Blaze (previously) and his colleagues have hosted a Voting Village at Defcon, the annual hacker con in Vegas, in which all comers are welcomed to try to comprom...

Not a good way to steal a magic flute from a lost child, however. Read the rest ...

The last five years have seen a renaissance of merchandise related to Disney's Haunted Mansion, hearkening back to the glory days of amazing fright masks, magic tricks, and novelties from Randotti (my...

At the private school where Karen Pence, wife of the US Vice President, three sixth grade boys reportedly subdued a young black girl and cut her hair.WUSA9:Three sixth-grade boys are accused of pinnin...

Old cars. Old Wiring. This Innova "Battery and Charging System Monitor" saved my butt again.Almost every time I start my 1987 Vanagon I plug in this voltmeter, and watch the voltage drop as I start th...

There will be no charges for Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet, the two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed an unarmed man in his own back yard.The Sacramento Police Department also clear...

This security footage depicts the armed robbery of a bar in St. Louis. One of the patrons, named as Tony Tovar, simply ignores the robber while the others duck and hide, even when prodded with a rifle...

YouTuber John Mollusk took Greta Thunberg's biting address to the U.N. and turned it into Swedish Death Metal. And, of course, it's EPIC! Read the rest ...

The bayonet on the MAS-36 rifle seems a straightforward, no-nonsense design. But there's a problem with it: bored soldiers. Read the rest ...

It was very briefly a feelgood story. Carson King held up a silly sign with his Venmo account asking for beer money, and when money started pouring in, immediately decided to dedicate the funds to the...

A few hours of music, an easy way to take calls over the commute. We don't ask for a lot out of our headphones - but looking at the specs on the Aunu Audio M50 True Wireless Headphones, maybe we shoul...

Gollancz, a venerable British science fiction publisher (now a division of Hachette) has announced its BAME SFF Award, with a top prize of 4,000 for science fiction written by over-18 BAME ("Black, As...

First-grade schoolchildren in Pittsburgh were given a worksheet to fill out that contained an unusual scenario.The worksheet says:Tom will run. He will run from the cop. Tom will run with Rob. They wi...

Sorry, no cosplay...

Man, 2019 is weird.In a feature today, Buzzfeed breaks down how a false Russian conspiracy theory spread from 4chan to President Donald Trump's idiot mouth, specifically during that now-infamous call ...

We already know most Republicans in the Senate are Trump ride-or-die toadies who would eat their own children if it made Orange Hitler smile. Well, today, on the day an anonymous whistleblower's compl...

Another data security disaster for 'food delivery on demand' startup DoorDash, and it's not their first. The company confirms a data breach, and says sensitive information belonging to 4.9 million ind...

An notorious patent troll filed a lawsuit against GNOME over a photo management app it offers with its Linux desktop environment. Florida man Leigh M. Rothschild was only recently awarded a patent rel...

Certain airlines offer very low prices on flights, and then charge for things most airlines include in the ticket price, like carry-on luggage. On Frontier or Spirit, a carry-on bag is $35-$60, each w...

A short, exploitative 1983 news clip about punk squatters in the London Borough of Islington, complete with an uninformed, patronizing narrator: "What they lack in grey matter between the ears, they m...

When a woman on a United Airlines flight was finished using the loo, she realized she was trapped. The door wouldn't open, even with the help of flight crew members. So the plane, flying from Washingt...

Happy Chonker Cat Fall! This is a good one. If you have to fall, have a happy Fall, everyone.UNMUTE THIS ONE!Happy Fall![IMGUR] Read the rest ...

New US Census Bureau data shows that while the median household income for the United States (and 14 states within the USA) increased a bit from 2017 to 2018, "income inequality was significantly high...

This is such a beautiful GIF.Charles L. "Sonny" Liston ( c. 1930 c. December 30, 1970) was an American heavyweight pro boxer who competed from 1953 to 1970.Here's a super interesting archival intervi...

How do you turn a cheap, tough, fibrous, lean piece of beef into a well-marbled, tender Wagyu steak? The short answer is, you don't, but that didn't stop this chef from trying. He started by injecting...

When a corporation is investigated for malfeasance -- cheating or hurting customers or workers, say -- the DoJ sometimes allows it to enter in a deferred prosecution agreement (DPAs) or a non-prosecut...

Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May showed of her wizardly skills by transforming a dangerous paper cup into an environmentally-friendly cup with a metal straw. The photos above provide incontes...

We've posted on Boing Boing about Tim Biskup's pop surrealist artwork for decades and he's still busier than ever. Most recently, he's opened a new gallery and studio space in Los Angeles called Face ...

We've posted on Boing Boing about Tim Biskup's pop surrealist artwork for decades and he's still busier than ever. Most recently, he's opened a new gallery and studio space in Los Angeles called Face ...

Today is the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album and to celebrate, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and their collaborators have released a new video for "Here Comes The Sun." From a statem...

Plain water isn't the most hydrating drink around, according to a new study from health researchers at the UK's Loughborough University. Better are beverages with some fat, protein, or sugar. But not ...

There's a video purporting to be the legendary Donald Trump piss tape going around. It's perfectly executed, starring a great lookalike Trump and filmed in the right $18000-a-night hotel room or a per...

Dog breeder Wally Conron says he regrets his invention of the Labradoodle, which is poodle and Labrador Retriever.From Futurism:Conron told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that creating the ...

"Let's train little kids to thrust scissors towards their nose."<p><em>[<a href="http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/scented_scissors_for_kids#When:11:22:00Z">via Weird ...

In a recent issue of my Recomendo newsletter, I wrote about how I clean the earwax out of my AirPods:It's really hard to clean earwax from the speaker meshes in Apple AirPods and EarPods. I've assembl...

Wework is definitely a piece of work, a money-hemorrhaging bezzle whose recently ousted founder siphoned a reported $700m out of the company while self-dealing and presiding over a series of bizarre m...

What do babies know about grass that we don't?Dunno why Im laughing this the cutest thing Ive seen on the internet. pic.twitter.com/jixWBbEb53— MISTAHMASALATI (@MisterMasalati) September 19, 2...

BMW doesn't make a self-driving car, but that didn't stop it from making a video with people having sex in one. The car manufacturer tweeted about the video, then inexplicably pulled out. The YouTube ...

California Rep. Devin Nunes said a bizarre thing this morning at a questioning of Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire: Of course, Democrats on this very committee negotiated with p...

I wouldn't want to be this close. [NASA]Rhis new visualization of a black hole illustrates how its gravity distorts our view, warping its surroundings as if seen in a carnival mirror. The visualizatio...

The folks at JSTOR Daily have unearthed the proceedings of a 1953 colloquium that pondered a great question: Did early humanity first cultivate grain not for the purpose of making bread -- but brewing...

I'm coming to Maine to keynote the Maine Library Association conference in Newry next Monday; later that day, I'm appearing with James Patrick Kelly at the Portland, Maine Main Library, from 6:30PM-8P...

The Great British Baking Show host Noel Fielding always wears wild shirts, but outdid himself on the "Dairy Week" episode of season 10. At least as transmitted on video, the wavy lines seem to shift l...

The passage of the EU's Copyright Directive last March marked the most controversial rulemaking process in EU history, with lawmakers squeaking a narrow victory that relied on confused MEPs pushing th...

The House Intelligence Committee posted the Ukraine whistleblower's letter [Direct PDF link], detailing a complaint that President Trump was soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election. Foll...

Even if you're insured and even if you assiduously verify that the emergency rooms you visit when undergoing a medical crisis are "in network" for your insurer, you can still end up with thousands of ...

Here's a great mashup of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams are Made of This and The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army, performed by Pamplamoose and Sarah Dugas. Jump 25s in for the actual song. Read the rest ...

This video is a protip for animators, a comedy reel and a horror short. You learn how to make an walking 3D character the easy way, then generate a startlingly realistic crowd scene with a few clicks ...

This week's bizarre speech to the UN by the UK's clownish, authoritarian Prime Minister pro tem Boris Johnson has sparked a lot of talk, especially among science fiction readers who recognise the diff...

Theres a baby boom exploding in Hollywood - but dont expect to see any of the infants, which exist only in tabloid imaginings....

Some "fancy" brands of teabags are made of polyethylene or nylon and they're shedding microplastics into hot drinks. Delicious! No-one knows if it's bad for you.Nathalie Tufenkji, a professor of chemi...

You already take your games and movies on the go. Why not share them? Thanks to the PIQO Powerful 1080p Mini Projector, you can have that communal, drive-in movie experience anywhere on your own massi...

Millions of fraudulent accounts, bogus emails from nonexistent suitors, fake notifications... it's not Ashley Madison, it's Match.com, sued yesterday by the Federal Trade Commission over accusations o...

"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."D...

Christopher Brown (previously) is the guest on this week's Agony Column podcast with Rick Kleffel (MP3) (previously), discussing his outstanding legal thriller/sf climate change dystopia Rule of Captu...

I travel a lot and wherever I go, I bring an Aeropress, because life is too short for shitty coffee.As much as I love traveling with an Aeropress, I am the first to admit that it's a bit ungainly in t...

I like to design complex paper sculptures by combining mechanisms, says Paul DeGraaf.They're absolutely amazing! A playable electronic keyboard!Here's a couple of wonderful IMGUR galleries where Paul ...

An ancient gilded coffin once featured in an exhibition at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art is on its way back to Egypt, after having been determined to be a looted antiquity.D.A. Vance: The Gold ...

An ancient gilded coffin once featured in an exhibition at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art is on its way back to Egypt, after having been determined to be a looted antiquity.D.A. Vance: The Gold ...

Because of course he did....

Today, Donald Trump's White House emailed around a bunch of proposed defense talking points for all the toadies who have to play clean-up on aisle Ukraine. Oh, and it seems they also sent it to a bunc...

Gavin and Alice Munro are serious about sustainability. On a two-acre field in England's Midlands, they're growing trees that are trained into forming the shape of furniture, including chairs. A compl...

'I thought it was a joke'...

There's something especially wonderful and cute about a good father-and-son Halloween costume project. This dad and kid have really got their game on.My son and I are IronDad and Spider-Lad, says IMGU...

Wow, takes a moment to realize this video is a real human being, not CGI.Get a load of this insanely great cosplay by professional cosplayer Leon Chiro [Instagram] paying homage to JoJo's Bizarre Adve...

Oh nothing, just the president of the United States announcing that Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House. pic.twitter.com/WnLkdPJ1Wg— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) September 25,...

Underground comics artist Lynda Barry (previously) is one of this year's class of $625,000 Macarthur Foundation "genius grant" recipients, and it's so deserved.Barry is best known for her longrunning ...

This 2.5x LED magnifier can be used as a handheld tool or on the desktop. Perfect for peering at electronic components. It's only on Amazon. Read the rest ...

Tiktok (formerly Musica.ly) is the massively popular, $75b social media sensation primarily used for short lip-sync clips with high-precision choreography and endlessly inventive special effects and v...

When you can't afford to pay the licensing fee, you have to get creative. Stranger Things becomes Unusual Events. Minecraft becomes Minegame. Clueless becomes Notionless. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle b...

An 11-year-old South Carolina boy took his brother's car and drove for three hours and more than 200 miles looking for a man he met on Snapchat. He said he wanted to "live with" the stranger, accord...

iFixit took apart a Nintendo Switch Lite to see what was inside. It looks pretty easy to take apart, but it uses more adhesives than the original switch making it less repairable. iFixit gave the orig...

Christopher Herwig is a photographer who previously did a fantastic series of photos of Soviet-era bus stops. Now he's back with a book of photos of Soviet subway stops -- and they are, if anything, e...

Thomas Cook is one of the oldest travel agencies in the world, operating their own flights, ships, hotels, etc, whose founders effectively invented modern tourism (listen to this excellent Stuff You M...

My daughter showed me this video, which uses a location in Super Mario Galaxy 2 to show how game designers use scrolling layers and textures to create the illusion of flowing water. The video was crea...

"Shipworms" are a menace, devouring the wood in ships and docks. For a while, as the New York Times explains, the pollution in New York harbor actually had some benefit in fighting them:By the 1960s, ...

Are you the driver in the lot who parks in the first spot you see? Or do you circle around and around looking for a spot by the door? Physicists Paul Krapivsky of Boston University and Sidney Redner o...

Mattel, makers of Barbie and many other toys, has launched "Creatable World," a line of $30 customizable dolls with "extensive wardrobe options, accessories and wigs allow kids to style the doll with ...

A Swiss tourist ate acid and disappeared into the vortex that is Disneyland Paris. He was spat out just under a mile away from the park, naked.Washington Post:For hours, worried Disneyland employees c...

This security cam video was taken at night in a street in Argentina. We see a man press a doorbell when two people on a motorcycle arrive. The rider hops off, draws a pistol, and aims it at the man's ...

Them dukes, them dukes.The Root:The citys report reveals that Anderson told investigators that his love of artifacts related to the treacherous Confederacy and one of the nations first terrorist group...

Uhh whats it like? pic.twitter.com/7G2jiwdMvO— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) September 25, 2019 "Shaking the champagne bottle." Read the rest ...

A woman in Austria was expecting a package of dresses she had ordered from a Dutch retailer. Two boxes from the Netherlands showed up at her door and while one of them contained her clothing, the othe...

I guess the late 70s hadn't totally been forgotten by 1981 and someone needed a two-tone 'Vette to go with their shag carpeting.I like it, tho I would not want to own it! I am a bit shocked it hasn't ...

Putting the wood chunks under the charcoal before lighting it works really, really well.Here's the deal. I love slow and low cooking. After spending years on slow cooker and sous vide recipes smoking ...

A gentleman was arrested in Portsmouth, England after punching a police horse during a riot following a soccer game. He apparently was angry that Portsmouth lost to Southampton. It isn't clear why he ...

After promising a transcript of a controversial call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, the White House today released a summary offering details of the conversation but specifi...

In a blog post, Facebook executive Nick Clegg announced that Facebook will exempt politicians from rules that prohibit users from posting hate speech, encouraging criminal activity, inciting violence ...

The U.S. military fears incels will commit acts of violence at screenings of the edgy new Joker movie, and has warned troops to keep an eye out for them at screenings. Gizmodo:In a September 18th emai...

And, they vibrate!Bay Area-based artivist collective Loud and Queer have developed a line of vibrating sex toys that are created to be gender inclusive.TechCrunch:Sex toys are oftentimes geared toward...

Want to build your own website? Even for a modest personal site, it was once assumed you might wait for days or weeks while a web designer hammered through arcane code on your behalf.That all sounds a...

After the roaring success of its butterfly keyboard design, Apple has an idea to make its laptops even thinnner: attach keys directly to a membrane on the printed circuit board. Apple Insider:In Apple...

The good folks at Choir! Choir! Choir! (previously) are still doing their thing, and now they've included both Patti Smith and Stewart Copeland to play along: On April 13, 2019, Patti Smith + Stewart ...

6'9" WNBA star Liz Cambage is featured in ESPN's 2019 body issue. She arrived at the arena for the Las Vegas Aces' playoff game wearing a shirt featuring the issues cover photo..@ecambage rocking the ...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we may wonder whether Li'l Don Trump's series of denials are truthful...

Maybe you've seen the video that's gone viral on Twitter of a helicopter trimming the trees in a forest by dangling a massive chainsaw that's composed of ten spinning blades?If not, maybe take a minut...

Jen Wang (previously) is several kinds of excellent comics person: from her debut graphic novel Koko Be Good (a complex and heartfelt take on "manic pixie dream girls") to her award-winning, bestselli...

That theme song rattles around my head. Read the rest ...

She thought it was an old Greek religious icon. It was a lost masterpiece worth $6 million or more.A painting that has now been attributed to the 13th century Italian master Cimabue was recently disco...

Officers in the Burlington, Massachusetts police department temporarily performed the work of Amazon drivers when a number of undelivered (misdelivered?) packages were found in a local cemetery.A dili...

This is an interesting move.An estimated 80 people who work at Google in Pittsburgh as contracted employees have voted to join the United Steelworkers trade union.To my knowledge, there is not another...

NYT publisher calls Trump's anti-press rhetoric 'global threat'...

When high school administrators asked wealthy California wastewater executive Devin Sloane (53) why his son got accepted to the University of Southern California as a water polo recruit even though he...

You need this.Unmute it and turn up the sound -- then prepare for your dogs to freak out.Has anyone remixed this yet?The kid gets it.Party hard!And here's another sweet Basset Hound who loved to sing....

A U.S. judge today dismissed a lawsuit by an American journalist who sought to challenge his placement on a drone kill list by U.S. authorities in Syria.DC federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a...

Robert Hunter, who penned the lyrics to the majority of the Grateful Dead's songs, died last night at age 78. Hunter first met Jerry Garcia in 1961 and went on to write the words to such classics as R...

Embattled office space startup founder Adam Neumann has been forced out of his position as the chief executive of WeWork (We Co), WSJ reports.The company is about to go public, and a nasty expos in th...

"The President must be held accountable. No one is above the law" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 9-24-2019...

Hasbro's got a new foam dart gun, the $50 Nerf Ultra One blaster, and to make sure that owners of this toy arrange their affairs to the benefit of Hasbro's shareholders, the company has engineered a d...

Cartoonist Scott Adams is famous for "Dilbert", for his right-wing commentary, and most recently a nauseating attempt to promote an app after the Gilroy massacre. On Twitter, journalist John Cook mock...

Comscore is a lynchpin of online "metrics", the practice of measuring web traffic and assigning human interest and engagement to it. The SEC announced today it charged the company and its former CEO w...

I've been accused of being partial to Kewpie Mayonnaise because of its retro packaging, but that's only partially true. This is the best mayo I've ever had. Chalk it up to extra egg yolks and the MSG....

Firefighters wanted to put on a good show for a school in Vic, Hungary. They also wanted to demonstrate how they could put out a staged car fire. But their performance doesn't go as planned when their...

From Futility Closet:In John Cages 1952 composition 433, the performer is instructed not to play his instrument.American music critic Kyle Gann discovered this 1932 cartoon in The Etude, a magazine fo...

A bellicose turkey displayed aggressive behavior towards a man astride a two-wheeled motor vehicle while stopped at an intersection. The man defended himself against the truculent bird's attacks by ki...

Oh shit, Atlas, "one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built" according to DARPA, is now doing a gymnastics routine, and it's really good. Launched in 2013 by BostonDynamics for DARPA, this ro...

J. Michael Mendel, beloved producer of "Rick and Morty" and "The Simpsons," has died just two days before turning 55 years old. The cause of his death has not been made public. He is survived by his w...

People rarely ask me for advice, but when they do I always recommend Mr. T's autobiography as the place for folks to start. Read the rest ...

Artist and animator Stephen Cunnane directed these wonderful videos to help artists animate bugs, birds, and other animals. Read the rest ...

Spot, the robot dog from Boston Dynamics, is now for sale. Sort of. From IEEE Spectrum:But dont pull out your credit card just yet. Spot may cost as much as a luxury car, and it is not really availabl...

In this 1984 TV commercial for Coleco's failed Adam home computer, Lori Laughlin observes a young fellow able to power through his school assignment thanks to the magic of word processing. Laughlin as...

Mental Floss put together a list of useful tips for everyday tasks like threading a needle, opening pistachios, and picking up bits of broken glass. My favorite is the tip for shredding a cooked chick...

Democrats wresting control of the US Senate from the Republicans will be immensely important in the coming election. Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign for President is investing resources to help de...

When a man, Jon Bird, was volunteering for an event in Salt Lake City, he stepped away to have a smoke, and was confronted by an angry restaurant owner armed with a fire extinguisher. They argued abou...

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has earned a reputation for being...colourful.In addition to spending AUD60m promoting the far-right United Australia Party in the last election (a party that faile...

Our friend Jeri Ellsworth announced the Kickstarter campaign for her company's augmented reality system called Tilt Five, which takes tabletop gaming to a new level by giving players a shared 3D anim...

The Action Lab Man conducts a groundbreaking experiment to find out what happens when a large neodymium magnet meets a cube made of 1,000 small neodymium magnets. <em>Image: Action Lab/Yo...

Trying to get my day started with a favorite piece of music. Read the rest ...

In 2008, Cokie Roberts was promoting her book Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, and described her favorite letter discovered during her research:It was the year of the Missouri Compr...

The first story comes from Hong Kong where South China Morning Post reports that, according to sources, "police have used court orders to obtain digital fare payment details and CCTV camera footage of...

Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's top research institutions documenting cyber-attacks against citizen groups, human rights activists, journalists and others; ten years ago, they made thei...

Citizen Lab (previously) is one of the world's top research institutions documenting cyber-attacks against citizen groups, human rights activists, journalists and others; ten years ago, they made thei...

Last week, free software developer Seth Vargo pulled the plug on tools he made to work with software developed by his former employer Chef, in protest of Chef's ongoing contracts with US Immigration a...

A leaked document co-written by 45 googlers and reported on by Motherboard details how each was subjected to illegal workplace retaliation after reporting abuse by co-workers or superiors.Google's in/...

In typical advergame fashion, a clever concept turns out to be a half-baked product tour with no gameplay to speak of that deviates from a too-specific brand narrative. Apparently you don't even get t...

The latest podcast from the Canadaland network (previously) is Dynasties, wherein host Arshy Mann delves into the scandals, backroom deals, and secret string-pulling employed by the "great families" o...

Whatever fond memories you might have of high school, Texas Instruments' TI-84 is an obsolete piece of crap: a 1980s design updated to 1990s technology made with 2000s penny parts and sold for more th...

The Advocate in Baton Rouge reports that a Florida woman crawled into a camel enclosure at a roadsize zoo, the camel sat on her, and that she bit the camel's testicles "to escape".The investigation fo...

Sure, Variety calls The Lighthouse a movie haunted by the "ghost of male loneliness," and the Hollywood Reporter says it's thick with "jolts of ever-intensifying insanity soaked in rum," but the offic...

Holy shit. I don't watch a lot of videos; I prefer transcripts. When I absolutely have to get through a video, I usually put it in a background window and listen. Don't do that with Thunberg's four-mi...

In a unanimous 11-0 decision, the UK's Supreme Court today ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's supension of parliament was unlawful. Parliament is therefore still in session as Brexit looms and ...

You know that late-stage capitalism is upon us when a financial scandal targeting 60 billion in fraud against public treasuries is lost in the noise of other scandals.The scandal is called "cum/ex" ("...

Put poems on pressed pennies? Sure, why not?! Oakland-based artrepreneur Lea Redmond (previously) has a dream to crowdfund a Lucky Penny Press, a hand-cranked machine that will dole out pressed pennie...

It's a long road from a song in your head to a song on the charts - especially if you're just learning to play. The good news is, anyone who's willing to practice can make music. These online classes ...

The British Royal soap opera continues with fantastic and implausible plot twists, if you believe this weeks fact-challenged tabloids....

Today, Wired advises you to "Stop Renting E-Scooters Every Day and Just Buy One Already!", which may or may not be good advice in terms of your own safety and the safety of others, but if you like the...

Over at Hackaday, the user sjm4306 has posted some pretty cool projects in the past, including a Nixie-tube clock and a tiny IV-21 VFD clock.Now he's created something else delightful -- a little cloc...

I will never forget the moment on June 9, 2013, when I watched a video of a skinny, serious, unshaven man named Edward Snowden introduce himself to the world as the source of a series of blockbuster r...

The Gathering of the Juggalos is heaven for a photographer. —Nate Igor Smith on finding freedom among killer clowns....

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "We just launched a new scorecard showing where major music festivals stand when it comes to using invasive and racially biased facial recognition technology on ...

Time stood still when I heard the news that Daniel Johnston left us this month. There are only a few moments in ones lifetime when time stands still. At the time I felt guilty for the sorrow I felt an...

Since 2016, American and Canadian diplomats at an embassy in Havana, Cuba have suffered neurological problems thought to have been caused by mysterious "acoustic attacks" from some sort of sonic weapo...

Seventeen homeless people live on a footbridge in Hong Kong. This video profiles several of them.From South China Morning Post:Nguyen Van Son and Eppie Yip were among the 17 homeless people who lived ...

Fortnite is a highly competitive game. In order to make it more fun for more players Epic Games is introducing skill-based matchmaking.Commence the Streamers complaining.Verge:Epic is making a big cha...

A 21-year-old man flourishing a machete was deprived of his opportunity to steal money from a New Zealand convenience store after the owner activated a fog cannon. From Stuff:Police have since arreste...

The video is titled "Veterinary Technician Training: Handling a Fractious Cat." After several viewings, it occurs to me that they mean "cat" as in "hepcat." Read the rest ...

Yahoo has a new logo (above) and Brand Identity Narrative to go with it. Read the rest ...

No non-human animals were harmed in the making of this video. Read the rest ...

I use these little round magnets in my 3D printing and laser cutting projects in lieu of screws. They are strong for their size. A fair number have ended up on the refrigerator as well. They come in a...

Glass arms are so much more magical than glass slippers. A woman whose daughter was born with one arm asked professional costume designer and cosplayer Mandy Pursley for a bit of photographic inspirat...

A police officer in Florida arrested a 6-year-old girl for having a tantrum at school. According to HuffPost, Dennis Turner, a cop with the Orlando Police Department who was charged with aggravated ch...

The 2019 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar is here.Palpatine will rise!LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 75245 Building Kit, New 2019 (280 Pieces) via Amazon Read the rest ...

Hooning around Los Angeles blasting the theme from SWAT is more fun than hooning around on, while playing 'The Streets of San Francisco.'Hawaii is third runner up. Read the rest ...

In May 2019 Dillon Shane Webb bought a sticker that read "I EAT ASS" and affixed it to the back window of his truck. A cop didn't like it, and pulled Webb over. Webb argued with the cop and was arrest...

These days, my 13-year-old son and his friends are all about playing with their Tech Deck fingerboards during lunch at school. This 1999 video "Fingers of Fury!" is from 1999 yet two decades later, ki...

Gilligan's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz named the ill-fated S.S. Minnow after the then-chair of the FCC who Schwartz said "ruined television." From Robert M. Jarvis's 1998 article in the Santa Cla...

On the left is Josan Gonzalez's illustration of Case's headset for the Brazilian edition of Neuromancer, and on the right is a 3D-version created with Blender and Photoshop. Using this Instagram filte...

The grand prize winner at the 2019 D23 Mousequerade, here's Tina Elliott's "Grim Grinning Gown" with moving ghosts and 3D-printed doom buggies:You can see the other prize winners here, including this ...

Amtrack is flat out blaming Millennials for killing the dining car.Evidently my love of the Amtrak shared dining car experience is generational. I also thought Matt Dillon was awesome in Singles.WaPo:...

Raffi Cavoukian (AKA "Raffi") is best known as a beloved children's singer -- I vividly remember attending one of his concerts as a child -- and possibly secondarily as the brother of former Ontario P...

Maybe you've heard the famous story of the Inuit elder who, when his family takes away his tools to keep him from living out on the ice, makes a knife out of his own frozen poop.The story was first po...

Sports and media legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, as usual, makes more sense than anyone else who has spoken on the matter of SNL hiring and firing a comedian who relies on bullshit racism for laughs.Holly...

Bananas that are as ripe as depicted in this banana hammock do not ap-peel to me at all (yuk!), but I can't help but appreciate the effort nonetheless.As Cory would write, just look at it.(Dude I Want...

Get your angry hat on, someone's made a list of the best video games of the 21st Century. What are The Guardian's picks?3. Dark Souls (2011)You are dead, which comes with few advantages, but at least ...

The Isle of Man 50p "Ram" coin features the head of a Manx Loaghtan, a breed of sheep native to the Isle of Man that sometimes sport as many as six horns. The smaller symbol with three armored-legs is...

Recently a team of marine scientists were piloting a submersible when they had a super-rare encounter with a Deepstaria jellyfish. It starts off looking like a ghost and then turns inside out and spre...

Also applies to everyone else, as it happens. [via] Read the rest ...

The "Vader Down" crossover event in Marvel's 2015 Star Wars comics featured an absurdly-overpowered Darth Vader contending with seemingly the entire rebel force, as well as a cyborg rival for Palpatin...

From John Wilcock, New York Years, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall.Greetings, Wilcock readers! The series will complete here on Boing Boing, in weekly installments, through the end of the year.(Se...

After a still-withheld complaint from a whistleblower and mounting pressure from congress to see it, president Donald Trump admitted Sunday that he asked Ukraine's new premier to "look into" Joe Biden...

If you've worked in any high-performing engineering lab, you already know about MATLAB. This computing environment and the language that powers it is perfectly suited to science and math, with an inte...

Daniel Colin James thinks it's time to get rid of the CAPS LOCK key on physical keyboards.Why? Partly because it's a relic of history, created in the 60s by the Bell Labs engineer Doug Kerr, who notic...

Profiled By Maureen Dowd at The New York Times, Disney CEO Bob Iger says that the company almost bought Twitter in 2017, but decided against it because "the nastiness is extraordinary.""I like looking...

The Mighty Carver electric knife ($59.95) might be the most badass way to rip into the holiday bird, besides using an actual chainsaw. Here's how it came to be, as told by its creator, Kimberly Burney...

Eleni Antoniadou's reported accomplishments were so impressive that Mattel designed a Barbie doll based on her as part of its International Womens Day celebration.But those "accomplishments" might all...

Eleni Antoniadou's reported accomplishments were so impressive that Mattel designed a Barbie doll based on her as part of its International Womens Day celebration.But those "accomplishments" might all...

I'm in the midst of couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in Toronto (for Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias and 6 Degrees); Newry, ME (Maine Librar...

Bernie Sanders has pledged to eliminate the $81b in outstanding US medical debt if he is elected president in 2020.Sanders says that this debt forgiveness will benefit 79 million Americans who are cur...

The tech ethics movement has progressed to the point where various practitioners are trying to come up with a kind of oath of service, not unlike the fiduciary principle, or possibly the Hippocratic O...

Since her stories started appearing in 2013, Sarah Pinsker (previously) has been a writer to watch, winning prestigious awards from the Nebula to the Sturgeon; now, in her debut novel, A Song For a Ne...

United States Senator from Massachusets is shown as leading the Democratic primary field in Iowa in the most recent Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa poll.USA Today:Elizabeth Warren has surged in ...

Studies have shown cannabidiol (more popularly known as CBD) to be effective in two main areas: Pain relief and stress relief. Both of those make the non-psychoactive, cannabis-derived compound a natu...

When I was a kid, my whole circle of D&D-playing, science-fiction reading pals was really into Roger Zelazny's ten-volume Chronicles of Amber, but somehow I never read it; for years, I'd intended...

Last week, a drone video showing hundreds of people in China being shackled and blindfolded and made to kneel on a train platform went viral; a piece of amazing digital detective work by Nathan Ruser ...

I'm in the midst of couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in Toronto (for Word on the Street, Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias and 6 Degrees); New...

I have an op-ed in today's Globe and Mail, "Why do people believe the Earth is flat?" wherein I connect the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise in actual conspiracies, in which increasingly co...

In 2017, Banksy painted a giant mural on a wall in Dover, England depicting a worker chiseling a star off the EU flag, by way of a comment on the Brexit vote; now, parties unknown have painted over th...

On the occasion of the publication of Permanent Record, a memoir of Edward Snowden's journey from gung-ho would-be special forces sergeant to CIA and NSA spy to whistleblower -- a memoir that the US g...

The jellyfish shot combines a sickly sweet collection of liqueurs (blue curacao and sambuca) with vodka and a drop of cream to make a cocktail that is gorgeous to admire, even if you couldn't pay me e...

My latest LA Times book review is for Naomi Klein's new essay collection, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal, which traces more than a decade of Klein's outstanding, on-the-ground report...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Bill Gates dismissed the idea of breakups as a remedy for Big Tech's monopolistic market concentration; Gates said that breaking up an abusive company will just produce...

An investigation by Propublica and Bayerischer Rundfunk found 187 servers hosting more than 5,000,000 patients' confidential medical records and scans (including a mix of Social Security numbers, home...

If you're part of the maker community, you know Make:. Though Make: magazine is off the shelves as of this year, the eBooks and resources put out by Maker Media are still a fantastic resource for the ...

Anna Merlan has made a distinguished journalistic career out of covering conspiracy theories, particularly far-right ones, for Gizmodo Media; her book-length account of conspiratorial thinking, Republ...

Unmute this one.From Redditor @carolyn_collier_."Would you like to play a game?" Read the rest ...

Trump says it doesn't matter if he talked of investigating Biden with Ukraine president (it does)...

Updates are expected....

Of course they announced it at the end of the day on Friday, that's what you do with bad news.In a Facebook blog post from Ime Archibong, VP of Product Partnerships, Facebook says it has had suspended...

A driver plowed through the Sears entrance of the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois this afternoon. The driver then continued on through the mall, destroying several kiosks and damaging storefron...

No horror film auteur could envision and produce something as creepy as a bunch of turkeys spontaneously circling and marching around a dead cat in the road.turkeys walking in a circle around a dead c...

This ingenious device is called the "Make Your Co-Workers Hate You Pen." I would not use it publicly but I would use it. I'd definitely use it. From Perpetual Kid: WARNING: You will lose friends! You ...

America's largest retailer will stop selling electronic cigarettes. Walmart announced the news today in response to a growing number of unexplained deaths involving vape devices throughout the US.Juul...

Described as a "posh mash-up of uptown and downtown," this Burberry outerwear offering is just downright weird. It combines a classy women's camel hair coat (the "uptown") with a red/taupe puffer vest...

California and 23 other states are suing to stop the Trump administration's shocking legal reversal of states' authority to set their own rules on climate-warming tailpipe emissions.Proud to be in Cal...

I have not bothered with The Magnificent Seven remake. Should I? Read the rest ...

Not your average bus conversion.You can say that again, liveartbus.Been slowly building my dream for years and its finally getting close to being a reality.This walkthrough video is stupendous. How is...

Seriously impressive game-inspired stitching project right here.Says IMGURian ExaltedFemShep:14" Original Dark Souls Embroidery. Took me approximately 60 hours. Made it for my husband.All I can say is...

Do androids dream of electric sashimi? University of Virginia engineers and Harvard biologists built a robotic fish based on the high-performance swimming of tuna. Above, a visualization of the robot'...

University of Cambridge lecturer Jason Scott-Warren was looking at an original 1623 folio copy of Shakespeare's plays, when thought he recognized the handwriting in the margins: John Milton. Was it po...

Twitter announced on Friday it has suspended still more nation-state controlled accounts for conducting information operations. The latest batch of banned psyops accounts originated in China, UAE, Egy...

A woman in Lincoln, Nebraska was burning love letters from her ex when she fell asleep. She was woken by the smoke alarms with her apartment on fire. Insert joke here about hot love affairs, burning p...

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand. Read the rest ...

Armalite created the AR-15, sold the rights to Colt in the fifties, and the design long ago emerged from patent and became widely-copied. The AR-15 itself will no longer be made for consumers by Colt,...

John Tefteller is a well-known rare blues record collector. In 2013, Tefteller purchased Alcohol and Jake Blues by Tommy Johnson (1930), a very rare blues 78 rpm record, on eBay for $37,100.Tommy John...

John Tefteller is a well-known rare blues record collector. In 2013, Tefteller purchased Alcohol and Jake Blues by Tommy Johnson (1930), a very rare blues 78 rpm record, on eBay for $37,100.Tommy John...

Adrian Lamo is most famous for turning U.S. Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower Chelsea Manning in to the authorities, but was already well-known among hackers and journalists because of his p...

In Untitled Goose Game, you are the goose: an irascible, annoying, hostile bird waddling around the environs of your pond, attacking children and ruining things.It's a lovely morning in the village, a...

Trashwear retailer Yandy has released the perfect costume for Halloween 2019: sexy Mr Rogers. (Previously)Won't you be my neighbor? Entice your friends next door with your playful puppets! Suit up wit...

While Adam was in DC recently for the Apollo 50th Anniversary celebration (and to do the final assembly on the wonderful Project Egress NASA escape hatch project), he visited the Smithsonian's Office ...

Life isn't getting any less hectic, and pressure cookers are a quick, healthy solution for a growing number of kitchens. But if you thought your Instant Pot was versatile, there's a major upgrade on t...

How 'high crimes and misdemeanors' can it get?...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's please don't regulate us too muchcharm offensive stopped off in Washington, DC today, where Zuck met with Donald Trump and various members of Congress.The meeting Zucker...

With skills, patience, and help from his friends, this guy built a yurt (or ger) for himself and his partner about 20 minutes outside of downtown Portland. The finished home looks really cozy and comf...

Number of days since the Trump administration has done something performatively homophobic or transphobic? Zero.Noted idiot and Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson ...

In a rural Nevada desert town, people who get all jazzed up about UFOs on the internet have begun to arrive for a UFO-themed meetup that locals would rather not be hosting.This area of the desert is h...

This post contains information about suicide. If you need help, its OK not to be OK, and to need help. Call 1-800-273-8255.The Menlo Park Police Department said on Thursday it responded to an apparent...

The mortally injured cat was later euthanized....

Geek.com has a nice gallery of Atari 2600 game cartridge boxes and screenshots of what the games actually looked like.Some might say that this practice misleading. While I agree that to a modern eye, ...

In 1969, visionary designers Charles and Ray Eames directed this cinematic ballet of more than 100 spinning tops from around the world. The score is by famed Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein (The Te...

Turtle costumes, all the way down.Finished costume chillin on my sofa, says IMGURian and amazing costume creator tragopandemonium of the image above. This guy took me three weeks to build.And here is ...

The inexpensive Uni Kuru Toga is my favorite mechanical pencil, because it automatically rotates the lead everytime you touch the tip to paper. This keeps the lead nicely rounded. It does this without...

Of all the shitty luck! Burglars stole a working 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in Britain. The golden potty was part of an art installation, police said.Blenheim is the birthplace of Winst...

Of all the shitty luck! Burglars stole a working 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in Britain. The golden potty was part of an art installation, police said.Blenheim is the birthplace of Winst...

The Theremin, an electronic musical instrument that you play by not touching it, celebrates the 100th anniversary of its invention next year. Smithsonian looks at the history of the first successful e...

The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them, says a tribal elder....

Lilys Garden is a variant of Candy Crush, a brainlessly addictive match-three smartphone game. The thing that makes Lily's Garden different, says Brian Feldman of New York's Intelligencer, is its biza...

A young gay Christian man in Oklahoma says his fellow church-goers tackled him, pinned him down, punched him in the face, and tried to pray the gay away, because he and his boyfriend are guilty of hom...

In his Ars Technica review of the Nintendo Switch remake of Zelda: Links Awakening (available September 20), Sam Machkovech says the terrific music and visual upgrades are not enough to justify paying...

Cyril Borovsky purchased a 16-foot wide strip of property in Toronto. Then he built a 3 bedroom, 3 bath, four-story house. Borovsky says his design approach could be used to turn parking spaces into h...

Enjoy this 1983 television commercial advertising Centipede for the Atari 5200. The centipedes are comingGet your fingers moving fastThe spider's out to get youDo you think that you can last? Read the...

Joshua Garnes of Huntington, West Virgina had an ongoing problem with porch pirates swiping boxes outside a house he's renovating. They even stole his "no trespassing" signs. So he rigged up a box wit...

I haven't watched Saturday Night Live in years, but I might start again just because I like Chloe Fineman's impersonation of Elizabeth Holmes so much. View this post on InstagramA post shared by Chl...

A day after a photo emerged of Justin Trudeau in brownface, as an Aladdin-esque genie at a 2001 party, the other shoe dropped: video of him fully blacked-up in a minstrel wig. The video dates from the...

When I got an iPhone 8, I was amazed at how much better the camera was than the one on my iPhone 7. I didn't buy an iPhone XS, but its camera was a lot better than the iPhone 8's. Austin Mann's review...

The world's first vagina museum will open November 16 in London. The Vagina Museum is the worlds first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy. The project...

Spread over an area of 40 football fields, New Delhi's garbage mountain towers over nearby buildings. Ghazipur landfill in New Delhi is India's highest rubbish mountain, spreading over an area larger ...

A man already awaiting trial on charges of auto theft was arrested again, this week. The new charge? Auto theft. The Gallup Independent, via the AP:Justin Villa was arrested Sunday after a witness rep...

The Palace is displeased. In an interview, former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron says that he asked the Queen to "raise an eyebrow" in the run-up to the Scottish Independence vote when it looked li...

Sandy Hook Promise, an organization dedicated to protecting children from gun violence released a truly chilling Back to School PSA earlier today. Titled "Back to School Essentials," it's a graphic lo...

The lost seal pup in this photo, taken by tourist boat operator William McPhee is fine. It was floating unconscious in the water after being parted from its mother, writes the BBC, and was lucky someo...

When it comes to data analytics or deep learning, there's one language behind the apps and algorithms that power the biggest companies of today: Python. The best part about this tool is that as versat...

Wouldn't it be great if Trump were busy keeping his promises to America instead of making secret ones to foreign leaders?The Washington Post reports tonight the whistleblower complaint that triggered ...

He was performing 'Day-O,' the Afro-Jamaican chant made famous by Black civil rights activist Harry Belafonte....

Now folks who fly fish have the opportunity to pay it forward, thanks to the Flybrary Project. Much like the little book lending libraries, at "flybraries" people can leave a fly to share, or take one...

Now, here's some wallpaper that is meant to get your attention. Tom Maryniak's "Farting Victorians" depicts flatulating turn-of-the-20th-century men, women, and critters, a digitization of a linoleum ...

Lex is a "wearable" chair, an apparatus that attaches to your thighs and waist. The legs are shaped to conform to your legs when you're walking around, but become stable struts when you sit back. The...

Not only is the purported "healing" power of crystals total bullshit, but most of these "magical" talismans come from mines rife with exploitation, danger, environmental ruin, and shady business pract...

I don't have this particular make of stovetop espresso maker, but they all work the same way. It quickly makes several cups of strong coffee. I wouldn't call it espresso - just strong coffee. No filte...

These AI agents played millions of games of hide-and-seek to learn the best strategies for using different tools (ramps and barricades).From OpenAI:Weve observed agents discovering progressively more ...

The first part of this video is hard to watch, but it has a happy ending. via Gfycat Read the rest ...

The WarnerMedia streaming platform HBO Max has ordered two "reimagined" seasons of the cult favorite 'The Boondocks,' so we're getting 24 episodes of a new Boondocks show. This is real. Aaron McGrude...

The plaintiff's attorneys have informed Spacey that the massage therapist accusing him of sexual assault has passed away. It is unclear if the case will proceed.Hollywood Reporter:An anonymous massage...

If you take him at his word, Trump just said he wants to nuke Iran. The man is nuts, the man is also President. Are we going to start another war? No one knows. Speaking to reporters in Los Angeles to...

What Shane Gillis and his supporters seem to not understand is that free speech means others can respond to what you say in ways that might not make you happy. From comic Maeve Higgins essay in The Ne...

The Wall Street Journal today published an exhaustive (exhausting, even!) profile of Adam Neumann, the wacky bro CEO who founded office-rental giant WeWork, which filed its S-1 as We Co. This account ...

Dave Brubeck was experimenting with meter signatures and 'Unsquare dance' is in 7/4 time. Read the rest ...

They unbent the staple.As one YouTuber put it, "Geez you would think a cure to all cancer was just unveiled."Stick around for the executive's statement that reveals the deep meaning behind this earth-...

Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye repeat their performance of 'The Saints Go Marching In' from the Five Pennies. Read the rest ...

The largest universal quantum computer available for external use will delivered in October 2019, IBM announced today. Its latest 53-qubit quantum computer will be available to clients of its IBM Q Ne...

Donald explains to his son-in-law how to make money the Trump way and stay out of prison.This makes it clear that if a "pee tape" ever does surface, it will be dismissed as a deepfake.Image: YouTube R...

Donald explains to his son-in-law how to make money the Trump way and stay out of prison.This makes it clear that if a "pee tape" ever does surface, it will be dismissed as a deepfake.Image: YouTube R...

First it was vinyl, then it was cassette tapes -- now the latest old media that's being praised for offering warmer, richer, higher-quality experiences? Cathode-ray-tube displays, for video games.To b...

Documents on an unprotected, network-connected drive owned by an employee of Nokia shed light on the inner workings of Russia's networked surveillance system known as SORM (Russian: COPM). SORM (COPM)...

Rep. Jaime Andrade (D-Chicago) was giving a TV interview about the pigeon poop problem at a train station when a pigeon promptly illustrate the lawmaker's point. "I'll just have to go clean up," Andra...

From Toby's "Tibees" YouTube channel:"A math lesson about logarithms inspired by the legendary painter Bob Ross." Read the rest ...

Back in 1970, Max Peintner drew a picture -- "The Unending Attraction of Nature" -- showing a stadium full of people all watching a forest of trees down on the field. This year the Swiss curator Klaus...

The Tony Martini Variety Hour returns to The Three Clubs this Saturday night! I'm going!Mark Fite, Renee Albert, Jim Turner and a cast of vaudevillians, burlesque dancers and god knows what are gettin...

At 1AM last Sunday two men were enjoying a ride in their Amish buggy with a banging stereo and enjoying a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra when the cops showed up! Rather than discuss their apparently aberra...

For this funny advertisement, CleanMyMac dressed up a fellow as a public pile of trash and when people dropped their litter on his back, he sprung up to surprise them. Read the rest ...

The FBI are seeking help in their search for the "Mummy Marauder" who robbed First Convenience Bank in Harris County, Texas on Friday the 13th. From CNN:The suspect wrapped white gauze around his face...

Move over, Popeyes and Chick-fil-A! Fast-food giant KFC is trialing a new menu item in Pittsburgh and Richmond. The Chicken Donut is a slab of deep-fried chicken sandwiched between two glazed donuts. ...

The life of reviled Hollywood sex pest and alleged rapist Harvey Weinstein is "ruined".An attorney for Harvey Weinstein lamented that his whole life has been ruined and defended the accused serial sex...

Our friend Ariel Waldman (who has written for Boing Boing quite a bit) recently led an expedition to Antarctica to look for extremophiles. She made a great YouTube series chronicling her work there an...

The Bridge Inn in Middleton-in-Teesdale, England, has not only been closed since 2011, it's been demolished and replaced by housing. So who was giving it bad reviews on TripAdvisor? "We were looking f...

Your smartphone's GPS is a modern necessity for some trips, but how do you use it safely? It's been a problem ever since phones went mobile. A certain phone mount even shelled out the money for a comm...

After researching dozens of Nicolas Cage-themed pillows, we found that the DoubleUSA Nicolas Cage Rainbow pillow [Amazon] is the best option for most users. Featuring two-sided high-definition printin...

In the 19th century, an enormous hedge ran for more than a thousand miles across India, installed by the British to enforce a tax on salt. Though it took a Herculean effort to build, today it's been a...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we run a fun an experiment to find out if environmental catastrophe is inevitable...

I've been using these steel taco holders for a few years now and they are a big hit with the family. They hold tacos upright, making it easy to add fillings. And when you serve them, the fillings don'...

There's a rule of thumb that says if a cat can get its head through a hole, its body will also squeeze through it. To test the rule, Maru and Hana's owners built a doorway barrier with a series of inc...

It costs $13 million per year to house each of the 40 prisoners at Guantnamo Bay detention camp, according to The New York Times. The US military stations 45 troops per prisoner there.The estimated an...

How much money does a YouTuber make from 1,000,000 views? Anywhere between $500 - $10,000, but the average is $2,000. This is according Shelby Church, who has 1.3M subscribers. This particular video h...

Absolutely do not scroll down if you are afraid of heights, falling, or the idea of zooming off a cliff into the water freaks you out. Don't go any further.Okay.Have you seen this video? It's astonish...

Scroll down, now you have!This is amazing.Ever seen a cicada hatch, I'm 37 yrs old 1st time for me.All photos and video by IMGURian D28martin. Read the rest ...

These four notes from a 13th-century funeral song can be heard during emotional scenes in countless movies.From Vox:Think back to some of the most dramatic scenes in film history from The Lion King, ...

The world can be a loud, scary, chaotic place. You may need this.Haburu and their owner are delightful. This video, Meowsage, was first published on Apr 27, 2019. It's making the viral rounds again th...

Here's a pretty incredible vintage computer restoration project from IMGURian and classic computing aficionado Skottyboy. The finished product is amazing, so's the crusty old before snapshot!You could...

Indianans are allowed to smoke rope, despite a state ban against smokable hemp products (which contains only a trace of THC), ruled a federal judge.Via Hemp Industry Daily:Smokable hemp flower is one ...

My dad built a bee vacuum!We've featured The Bush Bee Man, an awesome wild beekeeper from Australia, before.This clip is from a web series this beekeeping dad and his son make about the dad's journey ...

Gears of War 5 is absolutely the 5th game in the Gears of War series.I loved the first Gears of War game. The story was interesting and the commercial for it remains my favorite video game commercial ...

Days since last Facebook scandal: Zero....

Well, pretty much everyone saw this lawsuit coming.The United States government is suing Edward Snowden, whose new book Permanent Record was released today, September 17, 2019. The Justice Department ...

It's Donald's first time visiting Silicon Valley since 2016. Who's going?...

In Neverseen Shannon Messenger continues to torture young Sophie Foster like I've never seen.Sophie Foster is a very confused teen and some sort of Elven genetic experiment to create a Messiah gone-ma...

There's been an explosion and fire at the Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology (Vector), a facility near Novosibirsk in Siberia that happens to hold live samples of smallpox...

Enjoy this beautiful song "Everyone Hides" from Wilco's forthcoming 11th album, Ode To Joy, out on October 4.The album is also available in a limited-edition vinyl box set designed by my Grammy-winnin...

Earlier this summer I stopped by the office of Joel Spolsky, CEO of Stack Overflow, the mammoth forum for software developers, to talk about my new book Coders, which is all about the subculture of pr...

In 2012, James Cameron went in a submarine down to the floor of the Mariana Trench, one of the deepest parts of the world's oceans. He says he dove down 10,908 meters. Last May, Victor Vescovo went do...

On average, you consume between 74,000 and 121,000 microscopic pieces of plastic every year. Probably much more. Where does it come from? According to new research from Penn State Behrend chemist Sher...

I was perfectly satisfied with the OG Battlestar series. The 1st remake's pilot and first season or two were great!Verge:NBCUniversals streaming service, Peacock, will launch next April with a substan...

In 1987, Arleen Sorkin played a bizarre dream jester on the classic soap opera Days of our Lives. Watch above. Several years later, that curious character became the inspiration for Harley Quinn on Ba...

St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota found bedbugs infesting iPads issued to students. As of now, only a few of iPads were found to be buggy. From WCCO:...The district encouraged students to take thei...

TIL: In general, props are the items actors touch/handle, everything else is part of the set decoration and not the responsibility of the property master. Vulture has a fun piece that talks with veter...

TIL: In general, props are the items actors touch/handle, everything else is part of the set decoration and not the responsibility of the property master. Vulture has a fun piece that talks with veter...

Click to embiggen imageDesigner Jose Garcia at Zoca Studio Inc. used a familiar Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) map to showcase the Fillmore's 50 upcoming fall concerts. Ironically, you can't take BART ...

Richard Stallman resigned Monday from his positions at MIT and the Free Software Foundation, following controvery over his remarks suggeting victims of Jeffrey Epstein were willing participants.Last w...

Macabre artist and crafter, Christine McConnell, has a new YouTube series, From The Mind Of Christine McConnell. I felt robbed when her Netflix series, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, wa...

British cops have an (unearned?) reputation for restraint. So it's always wild to see them do things that even the rootin'-tootin' murderers of America's thin blue line would balk at. Here's one simpl...

There's reading for pleasure, and then there's reading for fuel; absorbing the great ideas in nonfiction books so you can apply them in your own life. In today's hectic pace, it can be difficult to fi...

Esme Pearl has a shitty life: she's seventeen, has only one real friend in the world, lives in a small Kansas town (and hates it), goes to high school, and is being raised by her traumatized father wh...

Crocfest posted this video of baby crocodiles in a tub. Incredible video of complex social behavior from yearling Cuban crocodiles upon seeing their caretaker, Brad Valle, at Dragonwood Conservancy in...

"I'm a comedian who pushes boundaries," tweeted Shane Gillis after Saturday Night Live announced he'd been fired just a few days after he landed a prestigious writing job for the 45-year-old show. Gil...

At just The Fire 7 is a nice little tablet. I've had one for couple of years and it's great for watching Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Hulu, etc. It's a bit heavier than a Kindle, but I find it to be a...

Alex Gendler of TED-Ed challenges you to figure out where the recipe for a top-secret sauce recipe is located. Below: All the information in one screenshot. Read the rest ...

Ben Shapiro, the conservative "cool kids' philosopher" of The New York Times' reckoning, wants to know what Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh's penis looks like. Kavanaugh's been accused of sexual...

This Emergency Meal Transport Box marked "HUMAN ORGAN FOR TRANSPLANT" is surely just convincing enough to scandalize boomers. Even better, though, is pulling a wet slimy liver from a plastic box with ...

This is the machine ballet of Lego minifigures being molded and assembled at a factory in Kladno, Czech Republic. Below, the molds behind a minifig.(New Elementary) Read the rest ...

Texanne McBride-Teahan of the St. Louis suburb Creve Coeur, is fighting in court to keep her emotional support animals: a black-capped capuchin monkey named Paula, a patas monkey named Zoey, and a bon...

Recently-deceased Joseph A. Heller, Jr., an 82-year-old dad from Connecticut, was known for being a prankster. So it makes sense that his family would take the opportunity to send him off with an obit...

It is perhaps the spirit of our anxious, rickety age that antique tool, machinery, and toy restoration videos are becoming increasingly popular. There is something oddly comforting and therapeutic abo...

Provocateur Milo Yiannopolous was once the new darling of right-wing media. But after his equivocal opinions on pedophilia were publicized--and then the extent of his interactions with white supremaci...

Mindbending work by Portugal-based graffiti artist Rodrigo Miguel Seplveda Nunes, aka Vile. See more at his Instagram feed, vile_graffiti.(via Kottke) View this post on Instagram A ...

Times were simpler: a commercial about how much fun it is to deliver water. Read the rest ...

Tetronimo Slide is an unusually annoying variant of Tetris which adds a sliding mechanism similar to the game Threes. You no longer have to think and thumb quickly in the face of falling blocks, but h...

The Beverly Hills 90210 reboot is everything a fan could hope for.I avoided watching BH90210 for about as long as I could. I have been disappointed too many times by things like Gremlins 2, Ghostbuste...

Listen to the wonderful outsider musician Daniel Johnston, who died last week, cover The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows." The cover was included on the 2006 compilation "Do It Again: A Tribute to Pet Sou...

Jenna Evans had a dream that she and her fianc were on a train when bad guys appeared. To protect her new 2.4 carat engagement ring, she swallowed it. In the dream. And in reality."I popped that sucke...

Simon Niklaus et al devised a method to convincingly add a 3D Ken Burns zoom effect to 2D photographs. Their code works as well as a decent graphic designer, at least in the sample videos. Better than...

TIL that the physical rigors of competitive chess are so hard that grandmasters have begun to train like soccer players.The exertions of chess are intense. The mental effort burns ferocious amounts of...

James Stangroom has set out on a quest to find the Stormtrooper who banged his head inside Death Star 1.You can tell this trailer is a parody as it doesn't give away the whole thing. Read the rest ...

Billy Mitchell long held the high-score record for the arcade classic Donkey Kong, but his reputation suffered after his best times were shown to have been made using emulators rather than arcade hard...

In 1962, a 19-year old Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., in an effort to get to know more about the minorities who occupied the mean streets of Wilmington, Delaware took a job as a lifeguard at a local publ...

Aren't we all, really, involved in a search party that's desperately hunting to locate ourselves?I've seen this one making the rounds on Twitter, but The Poke transcribed the news story, in case it's ...

Faber-Castell's been making pencils since 1761 and wants to show-not-tell you about them. Wordless cinematography and a epic soundtrack right out of Hollywood. Producing 2.3 billion pencils a year and...

The Mr. Creosote sketch from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life went viral this weekend after director Quentin Tarantino was alleged to have said it's the only scene in film he was ever disturbed by. ...

BMC Toys, a Scranton firm that makes a line of traditional dark-green plastic army men, has decided to make a line of plastic army women.As the owner Jeff Imel writes on the company blog, he decided t...

Breaking into the big leagues as a project manager isn't done overnight, but there are principles that anyone can learn, and they're applicable to nearly any business. No matter what your field, if th...

PixelDanc3r (also on Instagram) made this adorable and intricate map of the USA in a pixel-art style similar to the overworld maps from 16-bit era games.USA PIXELART MAP!!Thank you very much to @neoma...

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins is a Lord of the Rings Hobbit, one of the few, rare female characters in that series, and she's a nasty piece of work: a bitter enemy of Frodo and Bilbo, she is mostly depict...

Thomas Piketty, the French economist behind 2014's game-changing Capital in the 21st Century, has a new book, Capital and Ideology (out in France now, coming in English in 2020), which uses the same l...

On the one hand, nostalgia is "a corruption of the historical impulse," according to William Gibson. On the other hand, "Super Mario Bros." will never not be cool. Luckily, there's a way to satisfy th...

The New York Times has a story out today about Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh's old schoolmates tattling on sexual misbehavior, and the FBI's refusal to talk to any of them in its abbreviated a...

If you've been thinking about getting a Fire TV Stick streaming media player, this is a good opportunity. It's normally but if you use code 4KFIRETV at checkout you can get it for half the price. Rea...

University of Melbourne lecturer and researcher Kylie Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in an Iran prison for undisclosed reasons. Dr. Moore-Gilbert specializes in Middle East politics and yout...

A town in Iceland has installed some innovative speed bumps -- a set of painted bars on the road that create the illusion of floating in the air. As Bored Panda writes:Not only does the innovative des...

There are actors and then there are people who really get into a role and make it theirs! This Evil Queen at Disneyland is definitely in the latter category. Watch her play around as her big, bad, nar...

Two years ago, I informed you of the fully-functional golden toilet created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, then available for use at the Guggenheim. The installation, currently on tour, was stol...

A year ago, the city of Dunkirk in France made its bus system entirely free -- causing a boom in ridership, as well as a drop in car usage.In the year since, as France 24 notes, an academic study of t...

The shadow of the Jovian moon Io was captured by NASA's Juno probe. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill) Read the rest ...

On Saturday, September 14th, the grand and ultimately fatally flawed experiment known as MoviePass will finally come to an end. And this time, it looks permanent.MoviePass notified subscribers that it...

The Sackler family got richer than the Rockefellers through their role in creating and sustaining the opioid crisis, which took more American lives than the Vietnam war.The family is secretive and lit...

The real estate bubble is in trouble: London's luxury housing market has been in freefall for years, and New York's retail vacancy has been soaring, even as global super-luxe housing is also tanking.N...

LA's next source of energy: a massive solar panel and lithium battery array in the Mojave, operated by 8minute Solar Energy, and capable of supplying 6-7% of the city's energy budget, with four hours ...

A Hill-HarrisX survey found that 58% of Americans "support government-funded public college tuition and the cancellation of student debt for the more than 44 million Americans who currently hold it."7...

Maria Farrell admits that comparing smartphones to abusive men (they try to keep you from friends and family, they make it hard to study or go to work, they constantly follow you and check up on you) ...

The field of data analytics can get intimidating, even for business professionals who constantly rely on it. But at its heart, its purpose is to simplify. To take mounds of information and distill the...

If you live in Los Angeles, I highly recommend paying a visit to Japan House in Hollywood. It's an event and cultural center created by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and features art exhibi...

I touch down at Narita Airport on schedule and feel lucky to have just missed Typhoon Faxai, a category 3 storm which had passed through the area hours earlier. Id received a note from the airline tha...

In the 1950s and 1960s, chemist Sidney Gottlieb headed the CIA's efforts to find a mind control drug. They thought LSD held the most promise and ran numerous horrible experiments on unwitting civilian...

Not only is this the calmest hummingbird I've ever seen, but the bravest as well. For some reason it really takes a shine to the woman who shot this video. Via her YouTube page:I watched this little g...

In 1997, William Moldt, then 40, called his girlfriend from a Palm Beach County, Florida bar to tell her he was on his way home. He didn't show up and was never heard from again. Recently though, a fo...

Iowa state court officials contracted with Coalfire to conduct "penetration tests" on its security; as part of those tests, two Coalfire employees broke-and-entered the Adel, Iowa courthouse, and were...

This summer, Curtis Whitson, his girlfriend, and 13-year-old son were hiking in Central California when they became stranded in a canyon near a waterfall with no way out. They had planned to float dow...

My life is missing a quasi-sarcastic robot to follow me around and point out the shit I've carelessly missed. Read the rest ...

"Pantomime at church, in school, or on TV is another form of dramatic expression for anyone who wants to give deeper meaning to words and to thoughts."This is "The Art of Pantomime in Church" (Meriwet...

Rest in peace, Mr. Money.People:Eighties hitmaker Eddie Money died on Friday following complications from stage 4 esophageal cancer. He was 70 years old.The Money family regrets to announce that Eddie...

I'm in the midst of couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in Toronto (for Word on the Street, Seeding Utopias and Resisting Dystopias and 6 Degrees); New...

For more than three decades, New York Sanitation worker Nelson Molina has picked personal treasures from the garbage he collects in East Harlem. Now totaling more than 45,000 cataloged items, Molina h...

A superearth 111 light years away shows evidence of water vapor in its stratosphere, reports National Geographic. Water on another world.The discovery, announced this week in two independent studies, ...

Trump wants to roll back regulations that promote low-power light bulbs, even though at this point the industry has moved on and isn't likely to do much in the way of modernizing incandescents. His in...

Enjoy this video collection of hot rivets being put in. I must say, from beginning to end, I was ... engrossed. Hot riveting is an efficient joining method in which two materials are permanently joine...

Two corgis do battle in this epic video confrontation posted on YouTube by Defacto Sound, which I suspect is exploiting the Corg Wars to show off its audio design talents. Read the rest ...

If you're in the market for a stable, durable camera fully suited for first-person video, there's a good chance that you're the adventurous type. So why settle on a familiar name like GoPro? The DJI O...

In 1868, Scottish sailor Jack Renton found himself the captive of a native people in the Solomon Islands, but through luck and skill he rose to become a respected warrior among them. In this week's ep...

If you like sushi boat restaurants, you're probably going to love this new conveyor belt eating establishment completely devoted to British cheese that has opened in London's Seven Dials Market. Pic...

My colleague at Institute for the Future, Nick Monaco, wrote a piece about Twitter's announcement that the Peoples Republic of China was caught using Twitter to spread disinformation about the Hong Ko...

Octavia Butler (previously), the brilliant Afrofuturist, McArthur Genius Grant-winning science fiction writer, died far, far too soon, leaving behind a corpus of incredible, voraciously readable novel...

The man President Donald Trump once used as a 'my African American' stage prop now says the GOP is pursuing a "pro-white" agenda, uses black people as "political pawns." Gregory Cheadle does not have ...

FBI and other federal agencies probe venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel...

Google will not be required to admit it did anything wrong in a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) settlement over complaints the tech giant restricted employees' speech - but Google does have to i...

Birds Aren't Real is an amusing parody of conspiracy grift merch, which is to say it is a site where you can buy t-shirts and other things emblazoned with a bespoke conspiracy theory that Birds Aren't...

And we love them for it.My cat is a dingus, says IMGURian BasicPumpkinSpice.Trying to lick and scratch at the same time.His name is Rocky. He is 14.Aww! Rocky is amazing. What a cool old cat.My cat is...

laptop.css provides "laptop CSS for the modern world," which is to say, GIFs playing inside of monospace-typed drawings of laptops. There are three sizes: sm, classic, and lg.Use laptop.css to automat...

Johnny Cash died September 12, 2003, age 71....

Meet Eris The Borzoi. Eris is totally, utterly, addogable.So long they had to do the fence higher. View this post on Instagram If you listen carefully you can hear Miss Mary saying hello to our nos...

Mindblowing footage from Liana Blackburn's BODY LANGUAGE dance class, 2017.Watch it from start to finish, and unmute for the love of QUEEN.Choreographed & Danced by: Liana BlackburnFilmed by: Rya...

I like the charcoal flavor of barbecued steak and chicken, but it's hard to cook vegetables on my Weber grill, because the vegetables tend to fall between the wires. Grilling mats prevent that from ha...

At the EFF's Deeplinks blog, the foundation posts a copyright takedown demand sent to it regarding an illustration used on an earlier posting. Given that the EFF is paramount among organizations fight...

Neiman Marcus sells a hot dog couch for $7100 plus shipping.SelettiSofa "Hot Dog"$7,100.00Shipping: $295.00That is all.[via @TimAeppel, photos: Neiman Marcus] Read the rest ...

Neiman Marcus sells a hot dog couch for $7,100 plus shipping.SelettiSofa "Hot Dog"$7,100.00Shipping: $295.00That is all.[via @TimAeppel, photos: Neiman Marcus] Read the rest ...

A pizzeria that specializes in square pies shared a photo of a 9/11 tribute pie on 9/11. People lost their damn minds.Poor Ledo's Pizza.I bet this is a day they'll #NeverForget.Here was the ill-fated ...

'To Be Taught, If Fortunate' Becky Chambers latest, set in the same universe as her Wayfarer series, revolves around one of my favorite 'time-travel' tropes, long space flights at near the speed of li...

If this holds out (we have not seen the actual indictment, just a reporter's tweet), The U.S. Department of Justice just took a sharp turn down a dark, winding road that leads the country right off a ...

Google's news results are about to change. Today, Google VP of News Richard Gingras published a post titled Elevating original reporting in Search. You're going to want to read the whole thing.One of...

When I saw this photo, I thought "so?" It took about 30 seconds to figure it out.My professor's doorImage: Imgur Read the rest ...

EFF has just posted a job listing for a development director, seeking someone to "take charge of EFF's eleven-person Development Team in their efforts to raise over $13 million each year," starting la...

Tim Gonzales has loving edited together a trailer for an Ahsoka Tano feature film. Using footage from Clone Wars and Rebels, the story is focused on Ahsoka, one of the few worthwhile Jedi as she proct...

When social media was young, it was obvious that it had some pathologies -- perverse incentives that drove people toward antisocial behaviour. Back in those days, a company named Flickr did some radic...

The Action Lab Man compared the heat transfer speed of a heat pipe with a similar looking copper rod. The heat pipe transfered heat two orders of magnitude faster than the pure copper. What's inside t...

The Verge reports that top YouTuber Felix PewDiePie Kjellberg is rescinding a $50,000 pledge to the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that opposes antisemitism and supports Israel. The donation, ...

AB5 is about to pass the California legislature: it forces companies like Lyft and Uber to comply with the longstanding Dynamex decision and treat their employees as employees.Uber and Lyft hate this....

Pussy Riot uploaded its latest video to YouTube, called "1937." The description included the lyrics: Comrade Major, your torture is skillful I continue to insult your feelings with a shocker in the te...

Our friend Maureen Herman, former bassist for Babes in Toyland, and a frequent contributor to Boing Boing, is the guest on the latest episode of the Hey Human podcast.From the episode's description:Ma...

French economist Thomas Piketty changed the world in 2014 with his magisterial Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a book that reported out an incredibly ambitious project to map out three centuries'...

In 1964, a German experiment asked people to randomly tap their fingers -- whenever they wanted -- while having their brain's electrical activity monitored. The scientists discovered something nifty: ...

Buzzfeed's Vanessa Wong declares that Tim Cook Will Have To Pry My iPhone SE From My Cold, Tiny Hands.I admit it makes no sense. My behavior is so incomprehensible that I worry Ill be boiled down to a...

I'm in the midst of couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in many places: San Francisco (for EFF's Pioneer Awards); Toronto (for Word on the Street, Seed...

Apparently mountain chickadees have crazily awesome memories: Despite weighing less than half an ounce, mountain chickadees are able to survive harsh winters complete with subzero temperatures, howlin...

In Slate, David Polansky argues that the quality of audio in hearing aids is plummeting for the same reason the quality of recorded music plummeted in the age of the MP3: It went digital.Up until the ...

Some of the biggest names in business, including the CEOs of Twitter, Uber, Reddit, Conde Nast, Bad Robot and a host of others sent a letter to Congress this morning urging immediate action on gun vio...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Ohio State University's trademark filing on the word "The." The AP reports:OSU submitted the trademark application last month.The patent office cited the tr...

Daniel Beckwitt, a channer with a trust fund, began digging a bunker under his house after his mother died. Driven by survivalist paranoia and reinforced in adjacent ideologies by like-minded internet...

You go away to Burning Ban for a couple of weeks of desert heat, wind, dust and EDM-fueled contemplation, and return to find the tabloids in dire need of a personal transformative experience of their ...

The market for web developers is wide open these days. If only we could say the same about the pathway to that career.If you're not already an experienced coder, it can be difficult to get things roll...

Amazon offers this selection of delightful penis-shaped gummies, but critics claim that the tasty treats in fact resemble lighthouses, a perverse symbol of the shipping industry, long-associated with ...

This Sunday, the outstanding SF in SF reading series hosts two outstanding authors: Hannu Rajaniemi (Summerland) and Christopher Brown (Rule of Capture). American Bookbinders Museum, 366 Clementina Al...

Cant I stay with you?No?An incredible moment captured by the good people behind New Zealand's Kaikoura Wildlife Rescue. View this post on Instagram Here we repost one of our videos that has been sh...

The Cheney School in Oxford, England, apologized this week after asking students to write suicide notes as part of their English homework. The assignment generated complaints.GCSE English students at ...

The Silent Hall of Fame uploaded a very nice print of Charlie Chaplin's "A Days Pleasure" (1919) to Archive.org. Compare it to the version on YouTube.Here's the YouTube upload:And Archive.org's copy i...

Here, you need some sweetness.Look at these amazing affectionate birds.Enjoy.Affectionate Blue ParrotsDon't know the source, unfortunately!Affectionate Blue Parrots Read the rest ...

I stepped outside to take this photo of the catnip plants I'm growing. We have three cats and I enjoy giving them a few fresh leaves and watching their stoned antics.A couple of weeks ago I was at the...

Most airports have filtered water dispensers past the security checkpoint. I take advantage of the free water by traveling with this Vapur Element BPA Free Durable Foldable Flexible Water Bottle. It f...

I mean he did win a MAJOR AWARD. Read the rest ...

After Portland's NBC reporter Maggie Vespa wore high-waisted pants last week, a viewer didn't approve of her wardrobe, saying via Facebook that she looked ridiculous in pants.According to USA Today:Sh...

A gentleman in Ontario stepped into the street, causing a driver to stop short. The jaywalker was so intent on giving the driver the stink eye that he did not notice a pole that had the temerity to be...

Judge Aaron Persky, who sentenced Stanford rapist Brock Turner to a mere six months in jail (for which he served only three), is now coaching a girls tennis team at Lynbrook High School in San Jose, C...

It has been 0 days since Facebook's last privacy scandal. The majority of period tracking apps transmit sensitive data to Facebook the minute you open them, before you interact with them at all, thank...

Get down to the quark level in this amazing CGI animation by Pedro Machado. Read the rest ...

ReVae Arnaud-Jensen is deaf. She went to the drive through at a California Jack in the Box to order food, but when she got to the window to order (she reads lips), the employee screamed at her and moc...

Here's a good tip for threading a needle, especially if you're traveling and need to reattach a button and the hotel sewing kit doesn't come with a threader: use a toothbrush as shown in this video. R...

Margrethe Vestager (previously) is the EU competition commissioner who handed out a bouquet of multibillion-dollar fines to US-based Big Tech companies; she had resigned herself to being ousted after ...

Volkswagen upgraded its logo, which previously looked like a shiny button made of chromed plastic coated with a thin layer of diesel exhaust. The new logo sports a stripped-down simplicity that resemb...

The Black Blorchestra performs a gorgeous and stirring rendition of "Glory to Hong Kong" for an audience of protesters in HK, all dressed in the uprising's defacto uniform of masks and helmets. (Thank...

Natalie Beach recounts her time as the friend, then gofer, then ghostwriter for Caroline Calloway, an Instagram influencer who (for reasons that eventually become clear) is famous only in retrospect. ...

The MIT Media Lab lied about how much money it took from child-abusing billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Its director resigned in disgrace after an article at The New Yorker exposed the extent of those tie...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH we wonder whether this whole Alabama hurricane thing is blown out of proportion...

Announced yesterday, the new iPhones' most interesting feature is its triple-lensed imaging system, making the tiny gadget comparable to much more expensive cameras. But the holes are making people sh...

A random dude did about $15,000 worth of damage to the famous bronze "Charging Bull" sculpture, by attacking it with a banjo. He managed to cut a deep gash in the thick bronze.As Artnet reports:Onlook...

I'm looking forward to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's memoirs, Permanent Record, (previously) and just pre-ordered a copy on Amazon. Given the title, I thought it might be interesting to share wha...

I love semicolons. I probably use too many of them, because of how incredibly flexible they are; how they loosely tie together loosely related ideas; how you can use them for lists. I often use them t...

Pop culture humorist Charles Phoenix (previously) has been busy this year. He's written a book:Holiday Jubilee is loaded with original eye-popping test kitchen recipes and over 500 vintage images, ser...

Scientists drilled into the Chixclub crater in the Gulf of Mexico to learn more about the end of the mesozoic era. They learned more than they expected, reports Katherine Kornei in The New York Times....

Microsoft Excel has long been taken for granted in the modern office, but that's quickly changing as the field of data analytics becomes more vital. If you haven't moved beyond spreadsheets yet, it mi...

Tarek Loubani is a Palestinian-Canadian doctor who works with the Glia Project, a group that creates open-source designs for 3D-printable medical hardware. Their goal is to let local populations manuf...

State attorneys general investigating Google are ordering it to turn over a wide range of information about its advertising business, according to an investigative demand that takes direct aim at the ...

You're going to want to unmute your sound for this one.A beautiful rendition of the Legend of Zelda theme song, played on the marimba by Mart0zz.NEVER forget the Legend!This happy blast from the inter...

You definitely need some of this cuteness right now.My cat Tofu REALLY likes her cheeks rubbed, says IMGURian kokorifado.What a well-loved kitty cat.My cat Tofu REALLY likes her cheeks rubbed. Read th...

One America News Network (OAN), a conservative news network for people who think Fox News is too liberal, has filed a $10 million dollar defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and its parent ...

Juul is the cash-flush e-cigarette company whose billions (invested by Marlboro's parent company) have allowed it to create a massive market of addicted children, wiping out decades of progress in wea...

For two decades, the Phoenix police union has had a secret deal with the police department that required that the disciplinary records of cops would be "purged," so that no one, not even their supervi...

Eleanor Saitta's (previously) 2016 essay "Coercion-Resistant Design" (which is new to me) is an excellent introduction to the technical countermeasures that systems designers can employ to defeat non-...

George Stephanopoulos asked Stephen King to describe his new (and 61st!) book, The Institute. His answer, "Tom Brown's Schooldays go to Hell." Sounds like my kind of book, considering Tom Brown's scho...

The NCAA is notionally an "amateur" league, but the only thing amateur about it is that the athletes (who risk their health and even their lives) are unpaid, while the universities effectively own and...

The attorneys general from 48 states, DC, and Puerto Rico are collaborating on a joint antitrust investigation of Google's dominance in the ad- and search-markets, but two AGs are sitting this one out...

Amazon has a good sale on these four packs of Hanes black T-shirts with pockets. I usually get Gildan Ts, but these are even cheaper right now. Read the rest ...

A well-funded startup called Hims, which sells subscriptions to generic viagra and cialis, launched a digital doctor's visit service so people can get a prescription without having to visit a doctor. ...

For years, researchers have tracked the discrepancy in average life-expectancy predicted by income equality, and, as with the wealth gap itself, this life-expectancy gap just keeps getting wider.A new...

I would say 94,504 bitcoins is real folding money, buy you can't fold bitcoins. In any case, someone moved $1,018,147,900 worth of bitcoin between wallets and no one knows for sure who it was. The Tok...

This is a maneuver that would be hard to replicate. A Penske truck is headed down a highway in Ontario, Canada when it hits a ditch, crashes into a utility pole, and then somehow leaps up to the roof ...

Seriously impressive re-creation of a Nintendo Home Arcade classic video arcade unit by an inspired retrogaming enthusiast.It runs on Windows 7 and uses HyperSpin as a frontend for loading games from ...

Boing Boing is proudly sponsored by Privacy Safe!PrivacySafe is building the anti-cloud. For the first time, you can order a portable, private, and secure IoT storage appliance built on a fully-open s...

Apple will announce the iPhone 11 at 10am PT today. Here's the live stream. Read the rest ...

President Trump this morning fired John Bolton, his national security mustache. Trump cited various disagreements with him over policy. I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longe...

President Trump this morning fired John Bolton, his national security mustache. Trump cited various disagreements with him over policy. I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longe...

I gave my mother my treasured 5-quart Lodge deep skillet and lid when I found a lovely antique to restore. I've been using it while visiting with them.It was no easy thing when I gave my Mom my Lodge ...

If you're interested in learning about fruit you probably have never heard of, I recommend a book called The Fruit Hunters by Adam Leith Gollner. I read it over 10 years ago and often think about the ...

Enjoy this hypnotic video of a honey harvest in the desert. IMGURian JohnDeCaux shares some wonderful DIY beekeeping footage documenting his dad's honey harvesting process.To harvest honey, the wax ca...

Maxwell and Finnegan are besties, so when they spot each other on the street, it's sheer exuberance. They've only known each other for a year, but in toddler years that's half a lifetime. Pure joy. C...

my dad sent me this vid of the dog picking and eating a tomato from the garden pic.twitter.com/L6q69fXdcm— jenny (@fvrmvn) September 8, 2019 So much better than supermarket tomatoes. Read the re...

This chair pic.twitter.com/iXoRpVUS99— Steampunk Tendencies (@Steampunk_T) September 5, 2019 Very cool! Read the rest ...

YoYo Factory's Loop 2020 is their top of the line competiton looping yoyo.YoYoFactory already made a really fantastic looping yoyo, the Loop 1080, before they partnered with the world champion, Shu Ta...

Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi royal family at the country's embassy in Turkey. This video reconstruction by ...

Tish! Would you like to see me blow up three trains?! Read the rest ...

Geoffrey Boycott was once a famous sportsman, but is now a domestic abuser convicted of beating up his girlfriend in a restaurant and leaving her to pay the bill. He's being knighted.Boycott was fined...

For decades, people (including me) have predicted that cyberinsurers might be a way to get companies to take security seriously. After all, insurers have to live in the real world (which is why terror...

Early this month, Google's Project Zero revealed a breathtaking attack on multiple OSes, including Apple's Ios, in which a website that served Uyghur people was found to be hosting at least five diffe...

Here someone states the obvious, because it must sometimes be asserted in the face of caviling over the ethics of stating the obvious: the president is not well. Accepting the reality about the presid...

I've been a Charles de Lint fan since I was a kid (see photographic evidence, above, of a 13-year-old me attending one of Charles's signings at Bakka Books in 1984!), and so I was absolutely delighted...

Previously featured at Boing Boing as the titular "revenge porn shitweasel" in Mark Frauenfelder's classic post Revenge porn shitweasel abuses DMCA in vain effort to take down his own photos, revenge ...

Atari's Lynx was a full-color portable 16-bit game console released in 1989. It was doomed in the face of Nintendo's all-conquering GameBoy, Atari's poor support, and its own overpowered hardware--giv...

For the first time ever, a collection of original paintings by the late TV painter Bob Ross will be exhibited on the east coast. "Happy Accidents" opens September 10 and runs through Oct. 15 at the Fr...

augmented-ui is a stylesheet (a javascript library is in beta testing) that lets you apply cyberpunk styles to your web designs. Just include it in your HTML and tweak your CSS classes and ids, and yo...

It's time to unplug. Wireless charging capability has truly arrived, and if you're looking to de-clutter your countertop or desk, we can't think of a better way to start. Here are 10 wireless chargers...

A company scraped information from public profiles on LinkedIn and LinkedIn sued it under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. LinkedIn lost, and now it loses again. Moreover, the court's opinion takes a...

Wow, my pal Shalaco (previously) really hit it out of the park with this ultra-high-definition video tour of (some of) Burning Man 2019's art. I didn't go this year, but this made me feel like I was t...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my new Locus column, DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we'...

The Canadian activist group Open Privacy Research Society has discovered that Vancouver, BC hospitals routinely wirelessly broadcast patient telemetry and admissions data, without encryption to doctor...

The attorneys general of 48 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have opened a joint antitrust investigation into Google, stepping in where the defanged, irrelevant DoJ (gripped by a Reaga...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (a 1986 anti-hacking law passed after a moral panic over the movie Wargames) does not ban accessing public informa...

If you're of a certain age, the nostalgia will be thick for this Woolworth/Woolco television ad from 1977 for "your Halloween needs." Complete costumes from $1.83 to $3.99? "Six Million Dollar Man, Bi...

It looks like a keyboard. It's warm. It's the perfect way to keep your cat from sitting on your real keyboard. Meet the"Laptop or keyboard simulating pet bed." Patent 10398125, issued September 3, 201...

Jerry Falwell, Sr founded the Moral Majority, brought evangelicals into the voting booth, elected Ronald Reagan, and changed the face of American politics forever; his son, Jerry Jr now commands the F...

An elementary school student showed up to school wearing an orange T-shirt with a hand-drawn logo representing the University of Tennessee Volunteers and was bullied by the other students for it. When...

Many westerners are familiar with Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent, but I'd never heard of Pinduoduo before today: it's gamified, group-purchasing bargain-hunting site founded by an ex-Goo...

Andy Greenberg (previously) is Wired's senior security reporter; he did amazing work covering Russian cyberwarfare in Ukraine, which he has expanded into a forthcoming book: Sandworm: A New Era of Cyb...

This is the lowest price I've seen for a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ single board computer. It has a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet. These Pis are great for playing retro video...

Someone in another car spotted this couple sleeping in a self-driving Tesla that was zipping along the Massachusetts Turnpike, according to NBC on YouTube. The person honked, trying to wake the driver...

Having managed to be so vile as to be kicked off Twitter, a darling of the white supremacy market complains about how hard it is to be him.Vice:The provocateur made no mention of the harassment that l...

You really need this cuteness.Follow @ddalgi_o on Instagram for more adorables. View this post on Instagram # #A post shared by (@ddalgi_o) on Aug 5, 2019 at 8:20pm PDT Read the re...

This pair of Indian ring-neck parakeets have a lot to say to each other.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Felix the dog got some yogurt today and he's very excited about licking the extra smooshes off his nose.This dog has a missing/deformed eye, and is obviously well loved and living life excellently.Scr...

More than 900 Amazon employees have pledged to walk off the job at 11:30PST on Sept 20 to protest the company's inaction on climate change as part of Greta Thunberg's Global Climate Strike: they are d...

Robert and Tiffany Williams of Pennsylvania were surprised to find $120,000 in their bank account. They didn't put it there. Who gave them the mysterious gift? Perhaps thinking it wise not to ask the ...

Purism (previously) is a company that crowdfunds free/open laptops and phones whose design goal is to have no proprietary software, even at the lowest levels. The company is best known for its Purism ...

I have to have this LEGO Snowspeeder kit from Empire Strikes Back. The snowspeeder is cool but oh, the minifigs!Lando Calrissian, Star Wars very own Fernando Lamas, is proudly offered with a Star Wars...

A former Miramax employee, Rowena Chiu, accused Harvey Weinstein on The Today Show this morning of trying to rape her in 1998. She had waited until now because of an NDA, which she says she was finall...

Luna Lee does't just play the gayageum well, she's spectacular. This cover of Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child is absolute perfection.For more, watch her play David Bowie's Man Who Sold the World (from our...

In the wake of the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, a new debate opened up, about the mundane, everyday ways that wealthy people buy their way into elite institutions: from hiring, poorer, sm...

Purdue Pharma (and its richer-than-the-Rockefellers owners, the Sackler family are increasingly being dragged into state courts to account for their role in the opioid epidemic, which has claimed more...

Purdue Pharma (and its richer-than-the-Rockefellers owners, the Sackler family are increasingly being dragged into state courts to account for their role in the opioid epidemic, which has claimed more...

The University of Tennessee has lovingly adopted an elementary student's design as their own, after hearing that some girls at the next lunch table gave him grief over it.CNN reports:A Florida student...

Asian Boss went to the streets of Tokyo to interview people from Nepal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, who moved to Japan to become convenience store staffers, fast food employees, farm worker...

The Senate filibuster is an "overused tool of obstruction," says John Oliver on Last Week Tonight, and it shouldn't exist. I agree, it should be abolished, along with electoral voting and lifetime Sup...

I've been repairing my phones and computers for yearsI don't like being at the mercy of hardware vendors, especially when there's a sea of original and gray market replacement parts out there to be ha...

New York continues to innovate in rat termination technology. Buckets of rats, indeed!Chicagoans just name the things and ride them to work.CNN:A new rat-dunking gadget will be rolled out in Brooklyn'...

Breaking Away teaches us many things. One is that we can experience a good ol' existential crisis and not go all goth. Read the rest ...

Turns out fast food hits crows the same way as it does humans: In the cholesterol levels.Scientists measured the cholesterol levels of crows in different parts of the country -- and found that the mor...

This is pretty brilliant: A rap battle between Alexander Hamilton and Satoshi Nakamoto over the merits of centralized, government-fiat currency, versus decentralized cryptocurrencies.It's a note-perfe...

On the iconic PlayStation game controller, a design refined but fundamentally unchanged since 1994, the main buttons are an , , and . The last of these is called an "X", right? Pronounced "ecks" or ...

In the early days of busing kids to school, buses were painted all sorts of colors, and built to different specs. But in the late 1930s, education expert Frank Cyr started agitating for a national sta...

Writer Andy Weir's popular short story from 2009 (it's been translated to 30 different languages) about reincarnation, The Egg, has been beautifully animated by German studio Kurzgesagt. It was more t...

Andy Riley compiled and tabulated a full breakdown of jobs & occupations by the frequency of their mentions in the lyrics of David Bowie, of which the top 5 are excluded in this screenshot of his...

david.li/paint is a spectacularly gloopy painting app online. You can set paint fluidity, bristle count and brush size, and of course pick any color you like. What I like about it (as opposed to pro ...

Sid Meier's Civilization, significantly refined in sequels by Brian Reynolds and others, is a true classic of computer gaming. And now you can play the elaborate historical strategy game as an Excel s...

Goatse straddles the internet like a colossus, a majesty of horrors half-forgotten amid the shifting sands of the web. Yet it retains its capacity to amuse and surprise. Good work, Swarovski, good wor...

Ask any camper from the greenest Boy Scout to Bear Grylls: If there's one thing you need on any survival kit, it's a trusty knife. Here are six of our current favorites, all of them sale-priced, durab...

Wow, here's a situation that would be nearly impossible to replicate. Professional Fistballer Samuel Kempf was riding the Shambhala roller coaster at PortAventura Park in Spain and managed to catch a ...

Jeffsum generates placeholder text in the distinctive idiom of famed actor Jeff Goldblum. [via @littlenono]God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates...

Sure, tooling around in classic car is cool, but have you ever tried tooling around in a classic car with an engine thats way less ecologically unsound than the one it originally rolled off the assemb...

Which face is real? is one of those sites where it makes you choose between real and fake things to test your powers of acuity and perception. Though the face-generating AI offers occasional duds (suc...

I'm about to leave for a couple of weeks' worth of lectures, public events and teaching, and you can catch me in many places: Santa Cruz (in conversation with XKCD's Randall Munroe); San Francisco (fo...

I know nothing about the quality of Allegheny Shredders' machines (though I do take some interest in field), but I'm certain that they have the greatest slogan in shredding company history: "The Futur...

Dj BC (previously) writes, "I'm the producer behind Ghost Cave. You might know me from the mashup albums The Beastles, Ziggy Stardust Remixed, Wu Orleans, the Santastic Christmas Collections, and othe...

Steve Boyett writes, "HeadKnowles Hurricane Relief Foundation gofundme is raising funds to go to 'grassroots first responders, 1000's of volunteers providing meals, shelter and equipment to displaced ...

Driving near Pittsburgh, PA, my wife Heather noticed this excellent billboard featuring a woman saying "Scared of the dentist? No, I called and got SEDATED!". Read the rest ...

Essay-writing services have been around for a long time, but the maturation of the interwebs has allowed for increasingly customized operations. Schools and teachers are now well-equipped with plagiar...

After Suzanne Forbes graduated from art school, she worked as a penciller for DC and a courtroom artist for CBS and CNN; today, she lives in Berlin, where she is a prolific "documentary artist," rende...

Got a favorite podcast? You're not alone. In fact, you're in the majority: According to a 2019 CBS poll, most Americans have listened to one, and nearly a quarter of them tune in on a regular basis.Th...

[[Imagineer Chris Merritt (previously) was the protege of the Disney legend Marc Davis, the character designer whose work defined the look of such classic attractions as Pirates of the Caribbean and t...

This is pretty incredible video. Make sure to unmute, and have your speakers or headphones on.These whale watchers definitely got their trip's worth.Near miss for whale watchers [Sound on][via IMGUR] ...

The Arizona Republican Party's chairman said in a fundraising email today the GOP will stop astronaut and Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly dead in his tracks.Among the many things that are wrong...

This big cat enjoys a belly rub, but gives the camera a big eyeball.Aww, that little heart-nose!Don't touch the belly... It's too weird[via IMGUR] Read the rest ...

Apple and Google have been ordered by the U.S. government to hand over names, phone numbers and other identifying data of at least 10,000 users of a single gun scope app, Forbes reports Friday in an i...

Google announced Friday it will no longer accept ads for unproven or experimental medical techniques, including most stem cell therapy, cellular therapy and gene therapy....

They've ruined democracy, now they're ready to ruin your love life....

A domestic rooster killed a 76-year-old woman on her rural property in Australia. The rooster pecked the woman, twice puncturing her skin, and she died. Unfortunately, she had preexisting conditions t...

I'm thrilled to report the release of The Family Acid: California, the book I published with Timothy Daly, my Ozma Records partner and co-producer of the Voyager Golden Record: 40th Anniversary Editio...

A Glendora, California woman is about to blow a gasket because she spots a man in the Walmart parking lot who "looks illegal." That's the reason she tells police that they have to come and arrest him....

An Oregon grand jury declined to indict Adebisi Okuneye (23) and Leopold Hauser (22), who were accused of assaulting a gentleman named Luke Lenzner (34) for wearing a Make America Great Again hat at a...

Mitch Wagner writes, "Alice Sheldon, who wrote brilliant science fiction under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., killed her husband and herself in 1987. The volunteers who administer the Tiptree Award ...

I have always liked Marina Abramovic, from her earliest works to the latest ones. Many who knew her in the legendary early years of bitter struggle now resent her grand fame and success. They consi...

Steel-jaw leghold traps are extraordinarily cruel animal control devices. This guy risked grevious bodily injury rescuing a terrified wolf that was trapped in one.[via r/bemazed]Image: Reddit Read the...

If you happen to be going to Tokyo Game Show next week, check out the playable demo of Ion Land's forthcoming game, Cloudpunk. I love the Bladerunner-meets-eBoy design aesthetic.From Steam:In the spra...

When Jeanette Ng used her Campbell Awards speech at this year's Worldcon Hugo Awards ceremony to denounce the hugely influential science fiction editor John W Campbell for being a fascist, it kicked o...

Amazon has a good price on this ratcheting driver set: . It comes with 18 color-coded bits (slotted, phillips, and hex) and can be used in spots where there's only 1.4-inches of headroom.   ...

Since 1954, scientists have been using computers to search for three numbers that could be cubed and summed to equal 42. Every other possible number below 100 already had a known solution, but the sol...

Attorneys General from Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia, led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, have initiated an antitrust inv...

For decades, Happy Mutants met one another and got seriously warped by the astounding books and other media of RE/Search Press (previously), now, after a long drought, RE/Search is publishing a new bo...

An American Airlines mechanic who wanted overtime was arrested yesterday for deliberately damaging a plane ready to take 150 people from Miami to the Bahamas. According to CNN:Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahme...

The latest turn in the Gamergate sage: Zoe Quinn (previously) outed their former partner, game dev Alec Holowka as a sexual and emotional abuser, which prompted others to come forward with their own s...

The esteemed research institute and medical school Johns Hopkins Medicine is starting the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research thanks to $17 million in private donations. The generous fun...

If you know the name Robert Bork, it's probably in the context of his failure to secure Senate confirmation when Ronald Regan put him up for the Supreme Court (his sins from his days in the Nixon admi...

This Nelson-Rigg backpack crushes into a tiny stuff sack.Nelson-Rigg makes covers for bikes that last a long time. I thought I'd take a shot on their super-light backpack, designed to be stuck in tiny...

Yoga and videogames to see who can be the most serene. Read the rest ...

If Vladimir Putin didn't convince you that good pecs and hair do not qualify you to govern, I give you Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime ministerial princeling whose years in office have proven that ther...

Check out this lovely interactive version of an Enigma machine coded up by Tom MacWright!You can type in your plaintext message and then watch an animation simulate how the signal would travel through...

Robin Houston reports that 42 is the sum of three cubes. It's special in this regard not because it is alone, but because it was for an obvious reason the last remaining number under 100 where the sum...

I remain convinced that Dr. Julius Strangepork was up to no good. It is entirely possible he is in league with Sir Topham Hatt.I am also rather certain that was a chicken lovin' Sith Lord. Read the re...

From "The One With the Theme That's Depressing As Hell."(Chase Holfelder) Read the rest ...

A Brooklyn company is supposedly offering at-home "metoo"-branded rape kits, complete with official-looking "EVIDENCE" tape. Such kits would be legally useless, according to experts.The kits are not y...

Howard Shultz is ending his bid to become President of the United States of America—or at least blackmail Dems into supporting a billionaire-friendly centrist over more popular left-leaning cand...

Sorry, I mean the "Inflatable Outdoor Color Dot Game." This Twister-like game by Hammacher Schlemmer can hold up to 1,500 pounds meaning you and your posse can all play together. Want it? Prepare to ...

The entries at the dumb-password-rules hall of shame are truly dreadful, especially the banks. My favorite ones are sites whose security measures run in the user's browser, which means it can be over...

LEGO announced the latest addition to its Ultimate Collectors Series today - a massive replica of the Imperial Star Destroyer from Star Wars: A New Hope. Coming in at almost 5000 pieces, the Destroyer...

If you don't have a pressure cooker, prepare for some tough love - because there is absolutely no reason not to own one. They can cook almost anything with little to no effort, they save space and the...

Yarn does one thing very well: return a brief video clip of a movie based on the dialog you type in.I especially like that if you paste in a URL, you get an automatic subtitled GIF that links to the...

On Tuesday of Burn week, a ragtag group of musically-minded Burners played a (truly) moving rendition of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," positioned in front of the massive art installation called "The Fo...

Dan Bell's YouTube channel features explorations of moribund shopping malls, all set to vaporwave aesthetic moments and clips from 1980s and early-1990s television culture. #DillardsLife Read the rest...

The enormity of their flat brain; the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming. You have to do yourself a favor, when youre out in the country: try to look a chicken in they eye, with great in...

The Frying Pan Tower is an old oil rig 34 miles off the Carolina coastline, now an adventurous and rather expensive bed and breakfast. I don't think anyone's staying at the moment, though, because it'...

Like the Amazon seller says: "This Fashion bikini suits is both high quality and low price,make you charming and lively,cone and buy it quickly." Best of all, it's only Read the rest ...

No, we still don't know if 'Nessie' is real.But a New Zealand scientist who gathered and analyzed DNA from the fabled Loch Ness in Scotland says there's a possibility the so-called 'Loch Ness Monster'...

One imagines the late Queen frontman might have enjoyed this very much.I crocheted Freddie Mercury!, says the very eager and talented crafter birdsaremybuddies on IMGUR.I usually crochet animals. Fred...

You need this.A rare and beautiful full spectrum rainbow documented at Yosemite Falls. This gorgeous location is situated 2,400 feet (730 meters) above sea level at Yosemite National Park in Californi...

Bite my shiny metal deathstar....

Now I have a great excuse to rewatch Midsommar, Ari Aster's disturbing and beautifully executed horror movie about a group of American grad students who visit a creepy Swedish nature cult. After I saw...

This is a really incredible game-inspired DIY art project.IMGURian M3l4rl03 shares the creation of their playable Super Mario Bros 1st level 19-foot mural.The sprites are attached with Velcro so they ...

And this dude finally got his moment. Your caption in the BBS thread.Dorian in Charleston[via IMGUR] Read the rest ...

"Differential privacy" (previously) is a promising, complicated statistical method for analyzing data while preventing reidentification attacks that de-anonymize people in aggregated data-sets.If diff...

Amazon's got a tried-and-true way to deal with the negative consequences of high-speed ecommerce logistics: use subcontractors who can absorb the blame for the human toll wrought by the machine-like p...

State and federal labs reported that an oil called vitamin E acetate was discovered in samples of cannabis products that have made people sick around the United States, reports the Washington Post.Fro...

As if zipping along a track at speeds up to 83 mph is no big deal, a man riding PortAventura Park's Shambhala rollercoaster in Spain also had enough wits about him to grab a stranger's phone that was ...

Who Said That? is a chunky 340-page book that tests your trivia knowledge on the origin of famous quotes. The quotes are arranged by topic (Love and Marriage, Work and Money, Politics and War, Aging, ...

Kick-ass political posters were a big deal generations before the moral panic over whether the #resistance was too concerned with instagrammable anti-trump signs; democratized access to layout, design...

In 1988, I worked in a toy store and quickly became annoyed by all the requests for the Snuggle bear. But this I can tolerate. For a moment anyway. Read the rest ...

Up for auction is one of Darth Vader's helmets worn by actor Dave Prowse in Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back. It's estimated to sell for nearly half a million dollars. That's a lot of gal...

Following Walmart yesterday, retailer Walgreens is prohibiting customers from openly carrying guns in its stores. It posted a succinct press release, quoted here in full:We are joining other retailers...

Tom Deininger, previously seen on Boing Boing, is a Boston-based assemblage artist who creates incredible sculptures and 3D "paintings" from plastic garbage. Deininger created the self-portrait below ...

With Hurricane Dorian threatening a Florida man's property in Jacksonville, he didn't want to take any chances with his Smart car. Although he had a garage with space for one car, his wife, Jessica El...

The Really Rude Map is a Glitch app that renders customizable maps of the world featuring only the rudest place names. Zoom in to reveal more geographical grotesquery! Read the rest ...

Shardcore (previously), "I made a video for Saddy Waddy by The Private Sector using a new deepfake lipsync method to get Boris Johnson to sing the words." [Ed: Warning, strobe effects] Read the rest ...

Open Culture and Class Central compiled a list of thousands of enticing free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and lectures from top-shelf educators at great universities like MIT, Stanford, and Har...

I'm on record as being a big supporter of learning regular expressions (AKA "regexp") -- handy ways to search through text with very complex criteria. It's notoriously opaque to beginners, but it's su...

Joey Hess designed the first Fridge0 a year ago: it uses a standard chest freezer with added thermal mass, a simple controller, and a photovoltaic panel that effectively stores sunshine as coldness, o...

Australia has a pending, comprehensive "data sharing" law that regulates the dispersal of data collected by the Australian state; in a new government white-paper, the Australian state has proposed tha...

James Wallace Harris is a retired programmer who maintains an interesting blog called Auxiliary Memory. In his latest post, he wrote about how his spelling and grammar accuracy has declined over the p...

I once found myself staying in a small hotel with a "State Department" family whose members clearly all worked for some kind of three letter agency (the family patriarch had been with USAID with the t...

Bookstores don't have it on sale yet, but Amazon is already shipping out Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. The impromptu exclusive—apparently Amaz...

Weed is so cheap in CA, I'm going to fill my own pre-rolls. Watching me roll a joint is like watching the Benny Hill show, but not any fun. A friend suggested this kit. I am going to try it out.The pr...

Ashley Feinberg's "brief history of overreaction" hilariously chronicles the New York Times' current roster of columnists and their haters. Many readers of the New York Times were astonished by Bret S...

Famous Fortnite streamer Turner Tfue Tenney violated Twitch's rules against using racial slurs last night when he could be heard saying, "You guys fucking killed all the villagers, man. Yall motherfuc...

A ridiculous show of LEGO mastery.However... Read the rest ...

Usually cops use ladders to save stranded kitties from trees (at least that's the myth), but last week they used one in Lake Tahoe, California, to save a baby bear. After one cub stands on its mother'...

One can't help but think of Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias" while watching this animation of various web browsers as they rise to dominance and then collapse to obscurity.Image: r/dataisbeautiful Read th...

This study recently published by the Journal of the American Medical Association says no to drinking soft drinks. I am sure many folks will read this as "do not drink soft drinks in those 10 European ...

After two solid days of failure and crisis, including three lost votes and a disastrous performance at Prime Minister's Question Time, the government of Boris Johnson is already floundering badly. Now...

Animator Jared Owen made an excellent animated video that clearly shows how a combination lock works. Read the rest ...

El helicptero de #LaVuelta19 descubre una plantacin de marihuana en una azotea. pic.twitter.com/Zhry3x1rng— AUGC Guardia Civil (@AUGC_Comunica) September 3, 2019 Evidently the excitement in th...

The Mysterious Dance Company showed us how it could be done! Read the rest ...

Diplo? More like Dipsh*t.DJ Diplo, a.k.a. Thomas Wesley, was en route to Burning Man when this photo of him shilling fast-food fried chicken was shot: View this post on Instagram Popeyes heard I wa...

EDM whiz Tycho has once again gifted his Burning Man sunrise DJ set by posting it for us to listen to on SoundCloud. Happy to present this year's sunrise set, live from the Dusty Rhino in Black Rock C...

Or not.New rule: You haven't jumped the shark until your likeness is made into a "sexy" Halloween costume. Don't get me wrong, I love Bob Ross but I gotta think he's rolling in his grave with the exis...

Birdspotting looks like the ne plus ultra of walkabout games, putting the player in a remote yet pleasant section of country and handing them a pair of binoculars. It's by Joram van Loenen and Khalil ...

I love the mindlessness of a good quest-for-loot dungeon crawler. After a long stressful day, playing one for an hour or two gets me right out of my head. They're good games! But, for me, they'll neve...

In 1968, Richard Proenneke left his career as a heavy equipment operator and took up an entirely new existence. He flew to a remote Alaskan lake, built a log cabin by hand, and began a life of quiet s...

This video shows two fellows building a small cabin out of pallet wood, hand tools and cinematic depth-of-field, but no dialog whatsoever. We build a cheap off grid cabin using free pallet wood. We sa...

The so-called Islamic State no longer has the resources to go toe-to-toe with a well trained and equipped army, but its capacity for insurgency and guerrilla warfare is still on point. From The Nation...

"Alice Campion" is the pseudonym used by a group of Australian writers -- who, back in 2013, published their first collectively-written book, The Painted Sky. Five of them wrote the first book, and fo...

Whether it's chronic muscle stiffness or the soreness that comes from an epic workout, there are some pains that can't be soothed by those automatic massage chairs. If you haven't tried a handheld mas...

The Most Dangerous Writing App is a simple, attractive text editor on the web. But there's a twist to Manuel Ebert's design: if you stop typing before 5 minutes is up, your work starts to fade, and if...

It's not clear to me why the driver of this car didn't just drive through the plastic barriers and avoid having her car destroyed by a train engine. Maybe her car stalled at the worst possible place? ...

This 64GB flash drive is going for the bargain price of on Amazon. You can use SanDisk's encryption software for Windows and Mac to keep a password-protected secure folder on the flash drive. Read th...

When Google puts 4 paid ads ahead of the first organic result for your own brand name, youre forced to pay up if you want to be found, tweeted Basecamp CEO and co-founder Jason Fried, yesterday, along...

Jacob Wohl is among the more baffling right-wing grifters to grace social media. So inept and comical are his antics (framing politians for impossible crimes, false claims of location belied by the se...

Jacob Wohl is among the more baffling right-wing grifters to grace social media. So inept and comical are his antics (framing politians for impossible crimes, false claims of location belied by the se...

Today was a bad day in court for Alex Jones and Infowars, who lost an appeal in the defamation case brought against them by parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook mass shooting. Jones had accuse...

Get over it! Despite the mockers and complainers, and even attempts to make it illegal to perambulate while looking at your own damned phone, science concludes that the risks of it are negligible. As...

The wife of a West Virginia pastor apparently wanted to shoot another woman, but the Pastor realized her intent as she stormed out of the Church to fetch her pistol. Her husband followed her to her ca...

Meet Chanel Miller, the woman who was Emily Doe in the trial of rapist Brock Turner, a man treated with absurd leniency by the courts.The New York Times:For four years, the woman whose Stanford Univer...

The final year of the 348, the most Ferrari of Ferraris until the Ferrari 458 out Ferrari'd it.You may keep the CD changer, I will not be needing it.Bring a Trailer:This 1995 Ferrari 348 Spider was de...

Kaiser Kuo (previously) is one of the best-informed, most incisive commentators on China -- he's a Chinese-American (literal) rock star, entrepreneur and writer whose presentations on China I've been ...

The wonderful folks at Paleotronic (previously) have rounded up scans of articles from 1980s-era computer magazines that advised new computer users on navigating the burgeoning world of dial-up BBSes....

Now THIS is podracing. Read the rest ...

Sidewalk Labs is Google's sister company that sells "smart city" technology; its showcase partner is Toronto, my hometown, where it has made a creepy shitshow out of its freshman outing, from the mass...

Kim Kelly is Teen Vogue's labor columnist and has written a series of excellent pieces on labor politics for the #resistance glossy.Kelly has had a distinguished career as a journalist and a labor org...

I've always been fascinated with dumpster diving: my first feature sale to Wired (21 years ago!) told the tale of Darren Atkinson, the most successful high-tech diver I know.In Germany (where 18 mill...

"Emily Doe" no more, Chanel Miller, the woman who survived Brock Turner's attacks will be appearing on 60 Minutes. Turner was convicted of three felony sexual assault charges and his mere 6-month pris...

I like to write letters. Theselokta notecards are my favorite.I usually keep a few styles of lokta paper notecards around. The butterflies are particularly lovely and encourage me to find green ink.Us...

My wife recently expressed an interest in learning how to use Final Cut Pro to do a bit of video editing to record her dives and time on trail when shes out in the wilderness doing her thing. We alrea...

Only the very first version of Tetris, by Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov, doled out bricks at random. The result is a pure puzzle, but one with a high likelihood of frustrating (and even theoreti...

Kristen Stewart, in a wide-ranging interview with Harper's Bazaar, says she was told to hide her sexuality if she wanted to get a Marvel movie role. Stewart identifies as bisexual and has publicly dat...

With Labor Day in our rear view for another year, it's time to get back to work after a much-deserved long weekend. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is out there alread...

China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office hosted a press conference on the ongoing Hong Kong pro-democracy uprising, with spokesman Yang Guang directing every branch and agency of Hong Kong's governm...

I'm a pencil fanatic, who sits around reading pencil blogs and meditating on my favorite pencil sharpeners. (Mark once filmed me gushing about the Kum long-point pencil sharpener packaged by the folks...

I was familiar with the little, silver "you are beautiful" stickers (and have gifted many of them) but this swell yard sign was new to me. You Are Beautiful started as a passion project in 2002 with 1...

The bad news: Summer - and the beach excuses that come with it - are coming to an end. The good news: Labor Day sales are here to soften the blow. Take advantage of the right deals, and you could be s...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Gibbon the Ocelot, Guy Walks into a Bar, and MUCH MORE!!...

Every year at the Hugo Awards, a lucky writer is given the Campbell Award for Best New Writer, named for the noted sf editor and fascist John W Campbell, whose editorials in the pages of Astounding Sc...

My latest Locus Magazine column is DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we'd all save big by onl...

Hong Kong's democratic uprising has been a long masterclass in high-tech protest tactics (and the hits keep coming).But Beijing and the HK police force aren't sitting idly by: they've started bombing ...

You know what's great about putting wifi-enabled, Turing-complete computers into things like lightbulbs? Not. A. Single. Fucking. Thing.In the latest installment in the Internet of Shit edition of the...

For decades, architectural critic and photographer John Margolies obsessively documented roadside attractions: vernacular architecture, weird sculpture, odd businesses and amusements. By his death in ...

California's Assembly Bill 5 isn't radical: it merely affirms the obvious fact that Uber and Lyft drivers (and other "gig economy" workers) are employees, something that the California Supreme Court a...

One of the most obvious facts I've learned in covering the unfolding scandal of the secret deals between Amazon's Ring surveillance doorbell group and hundreds of US police departments is that Amazon ...

Your hands are your ID. New payment system for Whole Foods being tested by Amazon now....

Apple was at the vanguard of the massive corporate spending that killed Right to Repair bills in 20 state legislatures last year, and while the company claims that it wants to protect its users from e...

Illegitimate, popular vote losing President Donald Trump's spokeslackey and vice president Mike Pence visited Ireland on official United States business this week, and did so in a way that will perso...

Pentagon moving $3.6B in military construction projects to pay for section of Trump's stupid wall...

Supermajority's Gender Equality, the Status of Women and the 2020 Elections surveys likely 2020 voters (N=1912), finds a strong correlation between opposition and broad misogynistic beliefs, such as o...

Boris Johnson defied on Brexit by Parliament, UK PM loses key no-deal vote...

In my latest Recomendo newsletter (subscribe here!) I wrote about my travel packing list. Its a PDF that can be edited in Adobe Illustrator (because I dont expect anyone to pack the same things I do)....

The United States military first started using code talkers during The First World War. They were aboriginal soldiers fluent in the languages of the Cherokee and Choctaw peoples who were tasked with s...

The protestors in Hong Kong, leery of state eavesdropping on digital communications, have been adept at using communications tools not normally associated with activism, like Tinder, Twitch, and Apple...

After two shootings in their El Paso, Texas and Southaven, Mississippi stores, the CEO of Walmart has announced major changes to the chain's gun sale policies, including no longer selling ammunition f...

Harun Mehmedinovic of the SKYGLOW project shares with Boing Boing this latest video from their project celebrating the beauty and importance of keeping the night skies dark.SKYGLOW's Harun tells Boing...

This Candy Chemistry set is a great way to learn about candy with your kid, in the kitchen. Do not, however, leave your kid alone with this Candy Chemistry set.Learn all about candy, and temperature c...

Here's a beautiful NASA music video and photo montage with awe-inspiring shots from ISS Expedition 56. This gorgeous Earth-view eye candy music video features images captured by astronaut Ricky Arnol...

I don't know how long this deal will last, but I just bought a set of GHS Thin Core Boomers for . The strings on my Telecaster are at least 10 years old, so I think it's time. Read the rest ...

Via Youtube and The Ontario Provincial Police:A public safety film narrated by Peter Fonda with special guest Evel Knievel who provide safety tips and guidance for motorcycle riders. Features perform...

Persia Beheshti made this short film about a community of mermaids in Virginia. It's narrated by one of the mermaids, Mermaid Undine.Image: Vimeo/Persia Beheshti[via Nag on the Lake] Read the rest ...

Any list of great video game soundtrack list that does not include THPS is bunk. Tony Hawk is measurably one of the coolest people to ever walk the Earth and this soundtrack wins.Halo and the Gregoria...

Tyler Cowen of Reason used the occasion of the release of Neal Stephenson's new novel, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell to interview him about what he thinks on a wide variety of topics, including surveillance...

Brian Feldman of The Intelligencer interviewed New York Times reporter Mike Isaac about his new book, Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.I havent read too many start-up histories but Super Pumped is th...

Hassan Akhtar attempted to send a shipment from the UK to Pakistan of 5,000 tablets of MDMA hidden inside, ahem, Celebrations tubs of assorted chocolate. Now that's a party! From BBC News:Police said ...

Here's a perfect frame from the UK parliament's video feed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom and Home Secretary Sajid Javid are realizing one of their MPs is crossing th...

I am heartbroken. Every story I read about the loss of Truth Aquatic's Conception leaves me crying.I've been diving with Truth Aquatics since I was certified in the late 90s. When I was young they wer...

Dark patterns are sneaky tricks websites use to fool users into doing things they don't want to do. This video and glossary describes a number of the manipulative ruses and gives some examples.Confirm...

Satellite monitoring company ICEYE composed this image, based upon satellite shots of the storm-drenched Bahamas, which shows how much of Grand Bahama went underwater as Hurricane Dorian arrived. The ...

Satellite monitoring company ICEYE composed this image, based upon satellite shots of the storm-drenched Bahamas, which shows how much of Grand Bahama went underwater as Hurricane Dorian arrived. The ...

This weekend, police were called to an Ikea store in Glasgow, Scotland when employees learned that thousands of people had signed up on Facebook to play an unauthorized game of hide-and-seek in the ma...

From the headline, you're probably expecting some AI-powered, creepily realistic image of a person who either doesn't exist or isn't really in the photo. #Faces, though, is all about old-timey hand-dr...

Journalism is a tough job, especially when they won't pick up the phone! Read the rest ...

Anyone whos visited France or who keeps track of the nation's doings through the news, knows that its a nation thatll put up with a lot of bullshit -- being overrun by tourists, loud talkers, or smili...

Confined in a Soviet prison camp in 1941, Polish painter Jzef Czapski chose a unique way to cope: He lectured to the other prisoners on Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time. In this week's epi...

PETA installed an old-fashioned protest billboard adjacent to the Ohio Renaissance Festival that opened this weekend in Waynesville. The animal rights activists consider the classic Renaissance faire ...

Last week Trump infamously suggested nuking hurricanes. Loopy, of course -- but it also put me in mind of a similarly bananas idea from 1965: Using nukes to dig ditches and excavate earth.As Matt Nova...

Need to expand your horizons and your paycheck? There's career training right at your fingertips with these professional online training bundles, covering everything from data science to photography t...

One of my favorite genres of book is the popular engineering book, a rare breed that combines physics and engineering to establish the full range of ways to address a problem (for example, if you want...

This is a lot of fun. Katrin and Janine, a couple of Swiss gals, recreated the sequences where Homer Simpson eats his way through New Orleans. It even impressed the animators of The Simpsons.Eric Koen...

When the Hendrickson brothers started selling bibles out of their parents' home in Massachusetts almost 40 years ago, they likely had no idea their business would go on to become the world's largest r...

This totally excellent computer animated television commercial for Hawaiian Punch was created in 1987 by Omnibus/Abel, the ill-fated company born from the merger of Omnibus Computer Graphics with comp...

The potholes are the size of craters on the roads of the Indian city of Bengaluru. So, artist Baadal Nanjundaswamy put actor Poornachandra Mysore into a spacesuit to "moonwalk" on them. Bengaluru, we ...

The Singapore Police Force arrested a man at Changi airport for buying a plane ticket just to walk his wife to the gate and say goodbye. He apparently had no intention of flying anywhere. It does soun...

I got told by a friend as I described what I was having for lunch "enjoy your sandwich". With the way that my brain works, I instantly heard, insdie of my skull Bruce Springsteen singing Warren Zevon'...

Last month was a rough one. I began August grieving the death of a friend, Paul Krassner, which Mark remembered here on Boing Boing, following Paul's death on July 21. I also wrote a piece on PK, whic...

Director Errol Morris made a bunch of darkly funny 30-second spots about climate change starring Bob Odenkirk. From his director's statement:I have never had any trouble believing in climate change, g...

I don't have a single piece of hardware that'll be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 when it's released. This fact didn't do a single damn thing to stop me from watching this 14-minute preview video, howeve...

To break a world record, Rob Scallon linked together 319 pedals and played his guitar through them. What does it sound like? A wall of whooshing, muttering, occasionally howling noise!In the video, it...

The journalists at The Next Web scripted a bot -- Satoshi Nakaboto -- that crawls around the aether looking for Bitcoin news and tweets, then assembles into a daily news story. There's no cutting-edge...

PayPal suspended an account used to raise funds for the Ku Klux Klan Monday. PayPal was criticised for allowing the white supremacist group to accept donations through its service, despite earlier com...

The 'deepfake-style face swap app' ZAO has climbed to the top of Android and iPhone download charts in recent weeks. As its popularity grew, so have privacy concerns on Chinese social media, and now, ...

A number of malicious websites that were recently reported to have been secretly hacking into iPhones over a two-year period were in fact targeting Uyghur Muslims, Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch reports...

May your monday be as charming and as thoroughly moistening as this crew of puppies. Read the rest ...

Leon Sans is a generative typeface for the web, meaning that its weight and other characteristics can be animated, colorized, fine-tuned or otherwise messed with on-the-fly using javascript. Check out...

There's nothing I hate in my bag so much as my laptop charger, a heavy Lenovo-grade brick of black plastic with two thick cables sticking out of each end, invariably forming a coiled knot of nonsense ...

The Lima National Security Center was home to a bevy of nuclear weapon tests during the Cold War. Today, its still being used to fart around with radiation, but in a way thats actually beneficial to f...

@BTPSussex huge drugs bust at Gatwick airport. In collaboration with @ukhomeoffice powders tested and discovered to be vegan cake ingredients. Please label your foods and bring samples of cakes next t...

This book features 550 recommendations grouped by subject. These best of recommendations have been selected from the accumulated pool of 6 brief suggestions Kevin Kelly, Claudia Dawson, and I have sen...

Pedro Bell, the visionary painter whose astonishing psychedelic art (and liner notes) appeared on numerous Funkadelic albums and helped inspire the band's visual aesthetic, died on Tuesday at 69. Free...

One of the world's great single-panel cartoonists, Gahan Wilson, is ailing and needs support for his care. His wife Nancy passed away in March, and his son-in-law has set up a GoFundMe, to which I con...