Articles by BoingBoing from October 2019

Richard Braine has only been leader of Britain's far-right UK Independence Party for three months, and he's already calling it quits. Mr Braine's resignation comes a week after he was suspended by UKI...

Stupendous dedication and execution on this cosplay masterpiece.A wonderful Isaac Clarke cosplay build by IMGURian @buu342 for this year's Comic Con in Lisbon, Portugal.The entire build took about thr...

Want an online presence that matters? As the graveyard of fallen start-ups can attest to, having a fancy website and a sleek logo isn't worth much unless people actually start engaging with them.Even ...

This is a simple but wonderful little original video that shows each incarnation of the Nvidia GPU, from 1995 to 2019.The company's GPUs, or graphics processing units, are iconic for gamers because th...

This is such an extraordinarily fun creative project.A working professional artist takes a 5 year old kid's imaginative scribble of a sea monster, and repaints it with an adult's skill, faithful to th...

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The photo is priceless.The video, I can't even.Lunar Module (Charlie) and Astronaut (Ellie) Costume 2019.From their proud parent:With the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, Charlie and I had been r...

William Gibson's 2014 novel, The Peripheral, is on sale today as a Kindle edition for just .Book description:Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless y...

View this post on Instagram "Xenomorph Extraction Video Tutorial" Here's an updated version of this animation because it's always good to remember how to extract a x...

Mark Anderson is the proprietor of Aethervision, which has a simple premise: "Each week, I release a weekly news recap which covers 5 news items using nothing but footage from pre-1924 footage." These...

For years, the Internet Archive has been acquiring books (their goal is every book ever published) and warehousing them and scanning them. Now, these books are being "woven into Wikipedia" with a new ...

Well, whatcha gonna do? According to Classical Gas Emissions, "The band is called Mental Note, and they appeared on a show called "Johnny Sizzle's Entertainment Watch" which aired on the Winnipeg Publ...

Police shut down part of a train station in Westchester County, New York to investigate a suspicious package. Turned out that the suspicious package was a new emergency calling device for passengers t...

Enjoy this cover version of Bob Dylan's 1965 song, "Mr. Tambourine Man," performed by The Starbugs from New Zealand. It's from their 2011 album Kids Sing Bob Dylan.[via Nag on the Lake]Image: YouTube ...

The passage of AB1482, which limits annual California rent-increases to 8%, is an important step to solving California's urgent housing crisis, but thanks to lobbyists for the massive private-equity l...

Lifehacker's "Evil Week" tips aren't necessarily evil, or even unethical. They are all a bit sneaky, though, but could come in handy under the right circumstances. For example, if you have to make a p...

"Vital: The Future of Healthcare" is a crowdfunded anthology of short science fiction stories about the future of health care, with contributions from top writers like James Patrick Kelly, Seanan McGu...

A HISTORYIt began, as all things do, with a geology joke. We ranked candy based on their location in various geological strata, both real and imagined. The strata, not the ranking. In 2006, we compile...

What is all the hubbub, bub? Gen X is doing just fine playing video games while it appears some Millennials are unable to keep up with the kids.Vice:Those who grew up playing games online know just ho...

A few years back, my older brother Rick Pescovitz invented the "Under the Weather Pod," a single-person pop-up shelter to sit inside. It's designed for spectator sports, fishing, and other outdoor eve...

"OK boomer" is an all-purpose rejoinder for millennials and Gen Y/Zers who are accused by their elders of eating too much avocado toast, wanting a participation trophy, or of miscellaneous snowflaking...

This Honest Trailer to Kubrick's The Shining pokes fun at noted weaknesses in an otherwise excellent movie. Before watching the video, I recommend that you read "25 Things You Might Not Know About The...

Half our customers are drunk and vaping like mo-fos, who the fuck is going to notice the quality of our pods? Juul's then-CEO Kevin Burns allegedly said when a senior vice president told him Juul shou...

The NSO Group is one of the world's most notorious cyber-arms dealers, selling hacking tools to some of the world's most oppressive regimes that are used to identify targets for arrest, torture and ev...

"It's really complicated." The action begins 3 minutes in. Read the rest ...

Forgot to take out the trash, the Halloween costume."Too embarrassed" to wear glitzy, showy Halloween costumes, a group of folks in Japan decided to start wearing "mundane" ones starting in 2014. Thes...

In 1978, two luminaries of South Korean cinema were abducted by Kim Jong-Il and forced to make films in North Korea in an outlandish plan to improve his country's fortunes. In this week's episode of t...

Big things are happening in tech with AI and deep learning. That's not exactly a news flash when you look at how often companies use algorithms to manage everything from online advertising to the song...

Henderson, Kentucky is a town of about 30,000 people in the western part of the state. It's not far from Evansville, Indiana, and it's one of the top three corn and soybean producers in the state.It's...

Henderson, Kentucky is a town of about 30,000 people in the western part of the state. It's not far from Evansville, Indiana, and it's one of the top three corn and soybean producers in the state.It's...

Polygon interviewed Watchmen costume designer Meghan Kasperlik, who described the movie magic used to bring Looking Glass to life:We had five different masks, the designer says, explaining that exactl...

Since 2013, Richard Littler has been publishing Scarfolk, a darkly comic series of brilliantly photoshopped artifacts from a dark and brutal English town trapped in a loop between 1969 and 1979; Littl...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH President Trump, for whom all crime is legal, takes his lawless Purge rampage to Chagrin Falls, USA....

Like a lot of people, I belong to a number of neighborhood-centric Facebook groups. While the general Jamaica Plain group is broadly fine, there's also a private, invite-only group for complaining abo...

The Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge was conceived as a way to produce "imagery that better represents the cybersecurity space in an accessible and compelling manner." Something more meaningful than "p...

In the early days of the web, everyone wanted a .com domain for their site. As a results, all the good ones got snapped up. But .com no longer has the cachet it once did. In fact, many new business an...

The world has spiraled out of control. Read the rest ...

Pastor Rick Wiles has a warning for Democrats: if Trump is removed from office, "veterans, cowboys, mountain men, guys that know how to fight" will "hunt down" those responsible. Pastor Wiles chokes u...

Paralympian skier, comedian, and motivational speaker Josh Sundquist and his collaborators create fantastic costumes based around the fact that Sundquist has just one leg. This year, he's Pixar mascot...

Seven Stories press just released this gorgeous boxed set of Octavia E. Butler's Parable novels. It's available today and would make a great gift for any reader.This boxed set pairs the bestselling Ne...

Here is a collection of horrifying games to keep you entertained this Fall.Call of Cthulhu Starter SetChaosium, Inc., $21.40When I got the latest Call of Cthulhu Starter Set from Chaosium, I got all v...

Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox, the music collective known for vintage send-ups of popular songs, has done this wonderful cover of the Pinky and the Brain theme song. It had already won me over be...

I almost always wear Native Jefferson shoes, which don't require socks. On those rare occasions when socks are called for, I wear these no-show socks. They sit well below the top of most shoes, and th...

This fascinating video from the American Chemical Society answers that question but unfortunately provides no answers about why so many clouds look like bunnies. Read the rest ...

If you leave a senior US government position, Elizabeth Warren wants you to wait at least four years before taking a job at a "market dominant" company -- any company with a $150b (or larger) market c...

In this video an angry driver cuts off another car. He gets out of his car with a whip in hand. (Who keeps a whip in their car?) He walks over to the driver side of the other car, which is not in the ...

[Last spring, I ran into Nikola Richter at the Republica Festival in Berlin; she told me about Sina Kamala Kaufmann, a celebrated German climate activist and sf writer whose debut short story collecti...

Already removed from major browsers, Adobe Flash now suffers the second death of being forgotten. Google will soon deindex Flash from its search results.Goodbye, Flash, writes Google engineering manag...

One of the most interesting things about programming is that it forces you to decompose seemingly simple ideas into a set of orderly steps, and when you do that, you often realize that the "simplicity...

Olivia Newton-John is auctioning off hundreds of personal items from her career to benefit the Cancer Wellness & Research Centre she built in Australia. Her iconic "bad Sandy" leather jacket and ...

Ticks that spread encephalitis have been found in Britain, say researchers. Encephalitis can cause confused thinking, seizures, and problems with senses or movement, but is only rarely serious.Public ...

After news broke last week that Google's latest head of national security policy engagement was Miles Taylor, former chief of staff to DHS undersecretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Google tried to calm its out...

A woman was killed at a "gender reveal" party after being struck by shrapnel from an explosive contraption: "a metal stand, gunpowder and colored powder were involved," report police.At about 4:03 p.m...

Yougov conducted a poll with the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and found that 70% of millennials would happily vote for a socialist and that half of millennials and Gen Z have an unfavorabl...

I had no idea that the word "glitch" comes from Yiddish, the language spoken by Ashkenazi Jews that gave us words like "klutz," "nosh," and "shlep." From Air & Space:Glitch is derived from glitsh...

Here is a video of pumpkin thief. Deadspin's Dan McQuade offers critical analysis:It appears they pulled over specifically to steal a pumpkin. One dude gets out, and then hauls ass to the car, screami...

"Davos in the Desert" is Saudi Arabia's charm offensive aimed at global financial elites, but its launch last year was marred by its close proximity to the gruesome murder and dismemberment of Saudi j...

Hellvetica, by Zack Roif and Matthew Woodward, is the classic typeface Helvetica, but with random spacing everwhere. [via Jeff Atwood](If you want random nonsensical changes to the letterforms instead...

A man made a fake child and put it in a Spider-Man costume, then posed as the child's parent as he took the dummy door to door during Halloween. Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Three months ago Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US official in the UK, killed a 19-year old named Harry Dunn when she drove her car head on into his motorbike. She fled back to the United States, and be...

Esteemed Estonian animator Rein Raamat created this groovy short, "Vrvilind," in 1974. The music is by composer Rein Rannap who was also the founder of Estonian prog rock band Ruja. (via ObscureMedia)...

"Most of the foods found in the grocery store at one point were much smaller, bitter, sour or unpalatable," says the host of the Earth Titan YouTube channel. In this video he compares supermarket prod...

As Rob posted earlier, the infamous "can opener" bridge in Durham, NC is undergoing an upgrade to turn it from an 11-foot-8 bridge into a 12-foot-4 bridge. This means it will no longer rip the tops of...

Tiago Teixeira set Massive Attack's "Teardrop" against the award-winning short movie "Happy Valentine's Day", directed by the Neymarc Brothers. It matches so well in mood and tone; the originals follo...

Bow down before the one you serve... breakfast to!There's never been a doubt that the folks at Archie McPhee have a weird sense of humor. In fact, we count on it. Case in point, their latest offering:...

Need some last-minute advice to make a costume so good, no one will recognize you? Check out these 5 tips to remain incognito this #Halloween with the help of our spy dog, Calliope.https://t.co/JZNiqi...

From Ross Wolinsky's "The Millennial Raven" in McSweeney's: Once upon a midnight dreary, Tinder swiping, buzzed and weary/I asked Siri about my sushi ordered one hour before/ While I chewed som...

Google has a series of new "digital wellbeing" experiments designed to help people use their Android phones a little less, or at least a little more thoughtfully. Available experiments include:Paper P...

Finally, someone's asking the important questions.As its Halloween, which baguette is the most scary? Give your reasoning pls pic.twitter.com/vQfuVx3HCW— Dave (@sheepfilms) October 24, 201961 pe...

Wireless charging is increasingly the way to go for busy professionals. It's quick, portable, and won't clutter up your desk or countertop with a maze of cables. Still, there are kinks in the Qi techn...

History has been kind to Fred Rogers' legacy; the beloved children's entertainer does not have the intergenerational staying power of Sesame Street (thanks in large part to Rogers' relentless focus on...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story "Affordances," which was commissioned for Slate/ASU's Future Tense Fiction. it's a tale exploring my theory of "the shitty technology adoption curve,...

The Become a Professional Creative Writer Bundle is an invaluable stack of online courses that will ingrain the rules of writing into your process so you can stop doubting and start writing.Whether yo...

This is a spherical painting of a street intersection somewhere in Japan. I don't know who the artist is, but the effect is amazing.Panoramic painting on a sphere from r/Damnthatsinteresting Read the ...

This jar scraper is molded from one piece of silicone rubber. It has a stainless steel skeleton for rigidity. The overall length is 13.5 inches, which means you can scoop out the last bit of peanut bu...

Exactly the marketing canned Sloppy Joe sauce merits. Read the rest ...

Joshua Browder created Donotpay as a teenager at Stanford: originally it was a chatbot that helped you beat traffic tickets, but it has since expanded (thanks to an infusion of venture capital) into a...

As part of the renaissance in interest in the glorious science fiction novels of afrofuturist pioneer Octavia Butler (previously), Seven Stories press has just released a two-volume, slipcased set of ...

Teen Vogue has emerged as one of the most progressive mass-media forums in an age of Trumpism and its official misogyny and racism -- it's a Conde Naste magazine aimed at teen girls with a labor repor...

The Activist is a new 5-part series from Peter Sunde (previously), AKA brokep, who cofounded The Pirate Bay and also founded Flattr.The series explores different kinds of activists, from The Sea Sheph...

A 13th century painting that had been hanging on a kitchen wall in French woman's home sold for $26.8 in auction this weekend. The painting, titled Christ Mocked, is by Florentine artist Cimabue (Gio...

Matteo writes, "Kai Lan Egg is an anonymous artist from Hong Kong. He started drawing illustrations of the Hong Kong protest primarily using a Japanese anime style to encourage the people around him t...

27 year old Michael Gillespie is a largely self-taught programmer and help-desk technician whose day job is working for Nerds on Call; when one of his customers asked for help in 2015 recovering files...

One Page Dungeon is a website that procedurally generates a new role-playing dungeon every time you press Enter (or refresh the page).[via Clive Thompson] Read the rest ...

Alex DeLarge was a brutal sociopath, but you can't fault the droog leader for his exquisite fashion sensibility. Cricket codpieces, suspenders, and bowler hats never go out of style. But slapping a st...

The NRA used advertising agency Ackerman McQueen to transform itself from a pro-gun group into a right-wing media toilet, then fired the firm when it woke up to the consequences of spokespeople issuin...

A bus in Pittsburgh fell backwards into a sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a street in Pittsburgh on Monday morning. Fortunately the bus was bearing just one passenger at the time and neither the p...

Jim Baker served as the FBI's general counsel from 2014 until 2017, and he presided over the the FBI's attempt to force Apple to undermine its cryptography under the rubric of investigating the San Be...

The queen of polka dots, the a-mazing Yayoi Kusama, is making her mark on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with a three-story-tall balloon float. "Love Flies Up to the Sky" will be included as part ...

The upcoming Dracula miniseries is written by Sherlocks Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat and sounds like it'll have us rooting for the sexy villain:Theyve made him the hero of the show, the protagonist ...

Corridor produced this excellent parody of Boston Dynamics' robots and the style of its promotional videos. It could be the trailer for a new Neill Blomkamp or Paul Verhoeven movie, but where the sati...

Gallery 1988's latest show features multiple artists, including Dano Brown's custom action figures. Even Funko and Super 7 haven't gotten around to movie icons of yesteryear like Nurse Ratched, Billy ...

You've only got one set of teeth, and every hygienist will tell you the same thing: A good, solid toothbrush and a strict cleaning regimen will do a lot more in the long term than any session in the d...

The 11'8" bridge in Durham, N.C., which has brought so much misery to unobservant truck drivers and so much joy to the internet, will be raised to 12'4" this week. Is nothing sacred in the age of Trum...

Stop, collaborate, and listen: Amazon's complicit in ICE's extraditions (plus other abuses of human rights enabled by that agency's authoritarian agenda)That's why hundreds of musiciansnearly 500, at ...

Carrion is a forthcoming "reverse horror" game from Devolver Digital where you get to play an amorphous monster, slopping around a remote facility eating the screaming, terrified scientists and guards...

The first meeting of editors from around the country, merged together as The Underground Press Syndicate and the early gestation for what will become the protests at the Pentagon building. From John ...

Toadette is definitely black bloc Antifa, straight-up. Read the rest ...

The EFF's Panopticlick tool (previously) is now a general purpose testing suite for browser privacy, checking Do Not Track, the effectiveness of ad- and tracker-blocking, and providing details on your...

Rep Rashida Tlaib [D-MI] has joined Reps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar in endorsing Bernie Sanders' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.Three of the four members of "The S...

As long as there are light switches in the house (or voice-activated prompts, or whatever the future brings), people are going to need an electrician. Ask any electrician the next time they come aroun...

Mark Taaffe is a Toronto institution, whose Fort York Auctions were the best junk auctions I've ever seen (they inspired my short story Craphound, which was the first story I ever sold to a profession...

Nancy Mumby-Welke lives in rural Saginaw County, MI; yesterday morning she was about to let her horses out when she discovered the crashed, humming remains of a Samsung satellite on her property.The s...

The gilets jaunes/yellow vests protest movement mobilized in France over a slate of grievances, led by President Macron's plan to meet emissions targets by punishing poor and a rural people, while dea...

When Salem, NJ's Fred C. Arena applied for a job at Philadelphia's Navy Yard, he underwent an FBI background check in which he falsely claimed that he was not a member of the Vanguard America, a white...

Sidewalk Labs (previously) is a "smart city" company that was spun out of Google, though it remains owned by Alphabet, Google's parent company; Sidewalk Labs's first major outing is a planned "experim...

Remedy Entertainment's Control is a masterpiece of weird architecture and bold design, but a tiring shooter....

Every artist, budding or established, has a sketchbook. They're great for practice and portable, so you can follow your muse anywhere. But if you're just starting off, let's face it: Those blank pages...

The world is shrinking, That's just one of the reasons to get on that bit of self-improvement that many people resolve to do but too few actually accomplish: learning a new language.And why aren't mor...

"Affordances" is my new science fiction story for Slate/ASU's Future Tense project; it's a tale exploring my theory of "the shitty technology adoption curve," in which terrible technological ideas are...

Henry Jenkins (previously) is the preeminent scholar of fandom and culture; Colin Maclay is a communications researcher with a background in tech policy; on the latest episode of their "How Do You Lik...

Pants//Off is a mobile escape room based on the concept that you're a secret agent who tried on cutting edge pants only to discover they've been sabotaged and rigged to explode. Can you get them off w...

Halloween, like many modern American holidays, is a kind of mashup of different cultural traditional traditions rooted in the autumnal harvest, and some kind of celebration or connection with the spir...

Elizabeth Warren fumbled at the latest Democratic leadership debate when she was pressed on the question of whether Medicare for All would raise taxes, and she refused to answer, creating a soundbite ...

From 1977 to 1981 we were treated to Sha Na Na.Oh, Bowser!Sha Na Na has an official website. Read the rest ...

Volunteers at Novosibirsk's Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre put trackers on 13 wild eagles to track their migration patterns; the trackers connected to cellular towers and message the researchers wi...

New Hampshire's Digital Fair Repair Act -- based on model Right to Repair legislation circulated by the Repair Coalition -- died this week after the state House of Reps voted it down, with Rep John Po...

Chelsea Miller is a knife maker, and in this video she shows how she makes six kinds of knives, ranging from a simple wood knife that is cut, sanded, and oiled, up to a chef's knife that's made from r...

In Tel Aviv, a man protesting circumcision was threatened by a man with a knife. The protestor sprayed the attacker with pepper spray, and the attacker ran away. It is interesting to see how effective...

The Crap Hound Big Book of Unhappiness is a 544-page compendium of vintage ads and archival ephemera selected and arranged by designer Sean Tejaratchi, publisher of the Crap Hound zine. I've been a hu...

This time-lapse video of a sportsball player getting covered in sweat is a classic in the annals of time-lapse videos of sportsball players getting covered in sweat. Read the rest ...

In the market for a tablet or laptop? Last year's tech is this year's bargain, especially when it comes to Apple technology. Here are 11 refurbished Apple products on deep discount from retail, includ...

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

Earlier this year a tree fell on a power line in our neighborhood and we lost power. Fortunately I had one of these 12V to 110V AC Car Inverters to power our computers and charge our phones. It has tw...

Enjoy these demonstrations of figure skating elements and moves that the International Skating Union ISU) has apparently banned from competition. Examples include a one-foot backflip, spinning your pa...

David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name" (1971) is one of my favorite records of all time. I'm excited to watch Cameron Crow's documentary about him, "Remember My Name," especially after seei...

Vorkuta, Russia is the fourth largest city north of the Arctic Circle. This coal-mining town has a population of 70,000 (it's been declining every year since the late 1980s). If you wish to live there...

A promotional company asked people to draw famous logos from memory and arranged the results on a graph, from least accurate to most accurate. I would do terrible at most of these. Some people were ab...

Olmsted County, Minnesota's History Center are sharing portraits of the creepiest dolls in their antiques collection. Folks can vote online for their favorite and the winner will be on display next we...

Frank Wu writes, "Brianna Wu (US Congressional candidate in MA-8 and cybersecurity expert) has a brand new article in The Boston Globe about election security. People think electronic voting machines ...

Snopes looked into this viral video of a very young kid (some people are saying she is 10 months old) drawing excellent cat cartoons. Snopes found several "small oddities" suggesting subterfuge: "For ...

A family visited the Bragg Funeral Home in Paterson, New Jersey for a private viewing of their deceased relative Doris Chapman. When they opened the casket though, it wasn't Champman inside but someon...

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Congress this week, she asked him about his "ongoing dinner parties with far-right figures" -- that is to say, the meals where he ...

In Yelville, Arkansas, a 66-year-old experienced hunter died after he was gored by a buck he shot. From CNN:When his nephew found him, the hunter was alert and talking, and was even able to call his w...

Earlier this week alleged serial rapist Harvey Weinstein attended a event called Actors Hour at Downtime Bar in New York city. Weinstein and his entourage were seated at a prime table, which was alleg...

Earlier this week alleged serial rapist Harvey Weinstein attended a event called Actors Hour at Downtime Bar in New York city. Weinstein and his entourage were seated at a prime table, which was alleg...

I miss living in that world where a giant pitcher of Kool-Aid could have reasonably come busting through a wall at any moment. Things are a lot worse now.OH YEAH!Funko knows. This is the Koolest.Funko...

For those times when you are short a nickle, it's nice to know you have one stashed away.The replies to the tweet are amusing, because more than a few people seem to think this is a joke and not a val...

As Joe Biden cruises towards his latest (and final?) humiliating defeat in a Democratic primary, The Senator from MNBA is talking a big game about how he will reverse his decades-long dependence on ma...

Agents of the U.S. government have issued multiple subpoenas and conducted searches of various properties in the course of investigating Rudy Giuliani's Fraud Guarantee associates, and in one instance...

The bizarre move worries public health experts...

The women who pay as much as $400 to see Hamilton at Philadelphia's Forrest Theatre have only 15 minutes to pee and get back to their seats during intermission, but the upper bathroom only has three s...

Cops in Warrnambool, Australia, broke Chris Karadaglis' neck when they arrested him. But The Age reports this as "man's neck breaks during arrest" because they're afraid of identifying the breakers, e...

The Really Online Lefty League has a wonderful ad running on Facebook. Using archival footage of Republican leaders speaking up for the environment, to prove AOC's point about Facebook being untrustwo...

It is unsurprising that anyone in America would snub Mitch McConnell, however, the look on Chuck Schumer's face is priceless.The look between McConnell and Schumer when the brother doesnt shake Mitchs...

The brilliant optical illusions of stop motion animator Kevin Parry. Read the rest ...

For Inktober, Sabtastic has been drawing birds that have earned notoriety for their criminal behavior.Are you online enough to recognize these crooked birds?Day 14 of #inktober involves pigeon ESPIONA...

From the Kino Library comes this set of film clips shot on the London Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. View at end of tube platform looking up at crowded platform and tube train, Victoria, pulling ...

Disney is making it very tempting to join Disney+, their new entertainment streaming service, by offering a docuseries that puts a spotlight on its Imagineers. Entertainment Weekly:The Imagineering St...

"Heard you say I'm not the saddest clown, you lied"You haven't heard Lizzo's "Juice" until you've heard a sad 6'8"-tall clown sing it. Puddles does this one "Quiet Storm Style."Our friend, Rebekah Del...

Re-edit courtesy of Everything is Terrible, although I also found the original VHS source on Amazon which includes this delightful plot summary:Chadder Chipmunk wants to be the first chipmunk in space...

It can be tough to convey to kids just how big and amazing the world really is, even with the internet. One of the great things about augmented reality is how it can combine education with tactile exp...

Niko Bell took a detailed look at the practice of non-Chinese Canadian politicians choosing Chinese names for campaigning:This election, unlike the provincial election in 2017, showed some clear diffe...

Renowned sci-fi and fantasy publisher Tor just launched a new book imprint called Nightfire, focusing on new horror fiction. And to celebrate, they're giving away 35 free short horror stories as audio...

William Chyrs psychogeographic abyss stares back. It's a good puzzle game, too....

Paying for things is all too easy online these days, and that's why managing your money has gotten so hard. We've all done it: You sign up for a streaming subscription or gym membership, blow past the...

This is an excellent Halloween costume.I was the pink Yip Yip, my husband was the gray Yip Yip. It won us the best couple's at a friend's party last year.That's @DumptruckWithABeard.Yip Yip Yip, uh-hu...

Scary stuff! These 'Haunted House' operations require their patrons to sign a 40-page legal waiver. Before entering the venue, Halloween revelers must also possess insurance.The 'McKamey Manor' haunte...

In episode two of The Life Cycle, John and Eva stare up at the night sky and get deep. Where are all the aliens? Are we alone in the universe? Could it be that were just pets in some zoo run by alien ...

Its not clear why the resident ordered the uranium....

Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom announced on Twitter today they have signed a deal with The Republic of Rwanda to build a center for nuclear science and technology.The Kremlin and the industrie...

This is the former Newark, Ohio headquarters of The Longaberger Company, a basket manufacturer that went under last year. This week, the developers who bought the property announced that it will becom...

It's hardly news that Donald Trump's spokesmonster Kellyanne Conway is an awful person, but rarely do we see evidence of the Third Reich's favorite blonde with a microphone threatening to investigate ...

Case triggered by fatal car crash involving Trump resort customer...

Don't be fooled -- the pandas in a new animal cafe in Chugdu, China are actually Chow Chow dogs with dyed fur. From the BBC News:(The cafe owner) tells Hongxing News that he imports his dye from Japan...

Climate change. Pandemics. Nuclear war. While these are undoubtedly devastating realities or possibilities, could they wipe out humanity entirely? Highly unlikely, writes Seth Shostak, senior astronom...

If you're in China, Iran or some other country whose national firewall blocks BBC News, you can still access it over the Tor network at bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion, which mirrors the main BBC News site as ...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has developed a new form of liquid metal with very strange conductive properties. Usually, when a flexible, conductive material is stressed or stretched, it...

Oleg Dolya (last seen here for his amazing procedural medieval city-map generator) is back with a wonderful procedural one-page dungeon generator that produces detailed, surprisingly coherent quickie ...

Tusalava (1929) is a splended experimental animation by New Zealand avant-garde filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye. The original film featured a piano score by Jack Ellitt that has unfortunately bee...

I bought a USB microscope a few years ago because I wanted to examine kitchen knife edges after I sharpen them using different sharpeners. I'm still having fun with it. The tiny millipede in the video...

SoftBank is paying WeWork founder and former CEO Adam Neummann nearly $1.7 billion to go away.Business Insider:"It's stone-cold crazy," said Eric Schiffer, CEO of the Patriarch Organization, a technol...

Google has blinked in the ongoing attempt to organize Youtube creators in a new organization called Fairtube, under the umbrella of the powerful German trade union IG Metall.After cordially ignoring t...

Kate Klonick (previously) logged into Twitter to find that her trending topics were: "Clarence Thomas," "#MakeADogsDay," "Adam Neumann" and "#Lynching" (if you're reading this in the future, Thomas is...

AOC forces Zuckerberg to stumble all over himself."So, you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? I think that's just a pretty simple yes or no."Complete exchange between @Re...

Next up: Pokemon vs actual pets.(h/t Adam Savage) Read the rest ...

Core77 has photos from the pages of Toshi Omagari's book Arcade Game Typography (only 1000 copies available in hardbound edition, here's the paperback), which reproduces arcade video game pixel typogr...

Where would the tabloids be without the British Royal Family?...

This is such a cool idea for a game. In Hey Robot you are challenged with asking Alexa (or another voice assistant device) a question that will make it say a certain word. From the Kickstarter:At the...

At 19-hours and 16-minutes, the recent Qantas' non-stop flight from New York, 'Murica to Sydney, Australia is the longest haul to be had on a commercial flight. Currently, the this long-ass trek isn't...

Researchers at the University of Richmond in Virginia trained rats to hop into little cars and drive them to collect food. The rats' success suggest their brains have more plasticity than previously a...

Researchers at the University of Richmond in Virginia trained rats to hop into little cars and drive them to collect food. The rats' success suggest their brains have more plasticity than previously a...

In this video, a pair of rams chance across a boxing bag left dangling from a branch in the woods. Battle commences. A day later, they are ultimately victorious.Dodge and Thunder discover the heavy pu...

In this very relaxing video, a man tends with infinite care to the precise ecology of his unfertilized nanotank: a tiny yet thriving 5-gallon world of flora and fauna. The best moment comes when he dr...

From the people who brought you Universal Paperclips and Drop 7, and highly recommended by the designer of QWOP and Getting Over It, is an incredible marketing pitch for a new game.And the game sounds...

39 bodies found in a truck in Essex, England, were identified Thursday as Chinese nationals. Police have not confirmed whether they were victims of a human trafficking or human smuggling operation, bu...

Landon Meir creates convincing "Hyperflesh" masks of celebrities like Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson: View this post on Instagram #sdcc #theoffice #hyperfleshA post shared by Landon Meier (@hyperfl...

Landon Meir creates convincing "Hyperflesh" masks of celebrities like Steve Carell and Rainn Wilson. View this post on Instagram #sdcc #theoffice #hyperfleshA post shared by Landon Meier (@hyperfl...

The "Straight Pride" Parade that was held in Boston in the end of August was just another example of thinly-veiled alt-right trolling. Unfortunately, it also worked. A hateful parade of a hundred-or-s...

Tan Youhui, a businessman in Guanxi, China, paid a hitman $282,000 to take out a competitor. But that hitman hired another hitman, offering $141,000 for the contract. That hitman hired another hitman....

Most of us don't think about our toilet brush any more than we need to, and why would we? It's gross. But frankly, that's why most brushes - and therefore most toilets - are filled with even more bact...

Fallout 76 has been... not so great. Plagued with problems, bugs and angry players, it was a highly anticipated game that shit the bed almost immediately after its release. Instead of changing the she...

Jane Buckingham, a popular parenting advice book writer, was sentenced to just three weeks in prison for paying $50,000 to have someone take a college entrance exam for her son. She is the founder of ...

When he's not playing drums for bands like Motion City Soundtrack and Tiny Stills, Tony Thaxton hosts a number of wacky podcasts including a series of weeklyStar Wars comedy music videos. Over the co...

If you're just jumping into app development for Apple's devices, you've picked a heady time. The new iOS 13 has a ton of new features: A versatile SwiftUI language, a boosted role for Siri and a more ...

Ornithologists have determined that white bellbirds of the northern Amazon have the loudest mating call of any bird. The male white bellbird sounds off to females as close as 13 feet away with a call ...

Workers at Google say the company is developing an internal surveillance system that could be used to monitor the behavior of employees, and thwart dissent and labor organizing.The company says they'r...

The property management company owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law and doer-of-hijinks Jared Kushner is accused by Maryland of unfairly charging thousands of people who live in their properties, and f...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Today Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello and I published an op-ed in Buzzfeed about how grassroots activism combined with backlash from artists and ...

Gaggle is one of a handful of creepy companies that sell surveillance software to school districts, which monitor every keystroke and click on school networks -- they're the latest evolution in spy-on...

Researchers successfully taught rats how to drive small cars in the pursuit of Froot Loops cereal. Video below. Psychologist Kelly Lambert and her colleagues at the University of Richmond conducted th...

This will make you smile. And it's real.This incredible video of a young boy in Brazil skateboarding for the first time is going viral. John has cerebral palsy, and adaptive technology -- not to menti...

Edward Snowden, on virtual tour to promote his book Permanent Record, appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience. Snowden:It's not data that's being exploited; it's people that are being exploited. It's not...

We're building a wall in Colorado. We're building a beautiful wall. Donald Trump...

Apparently this is real. God help us.If this tweet from right-wing disinformation jerk Tomi Lahren is to be believed, White House staff working for so-called President Donald Trump are printing out tw...

In 1996, AOL and Yahoo! were at the top. Things changed. They can change again.(Data Is Beautiful) Read the rest ...

Entomophthora muscae, the "fly destroyer," is a fungus that infects the insect and zombifies. Then, at dusk, "the fly points its wings straight up and dies in a gruesome pose so that a fungus can ooz...

In Artificial Condition, Martha Well's soap opera loving rogue security AI remains cantankerous and awesome.Murderbot is an AI security robot with a busted autonomy regulator. So long as they can keep...

In this recording, embedded below, Trump lawyer William Consovoy tells Judge Denny Chin that if President Donald Trump were to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, he could not be investigated for the murde...

Runa Sandvik (previously) is a legendary security researcher who spent many years as a lead on the Tor Project; in 2016, the New York Times hired her as "senior director of information security" where...

I had thought of repainting my 1987 VW Vanagon like BA's van, but the spoiler... Read the rest ...

Disneyland can be a hotbed of infectious disease. A single infected-with-the-measles fun seeker can launch a multi-county disease watch, endangering folks unable to be vaccinated.CNN:A Los Angeles Co...

This wooden birthday card spells "HAPPY BIRTHDAY." You can remove the letters from the card and make a little robot that holds a tiny wooden greeting card that says "HAPPY BIRTHDAY." It's only , just ...

Song of the South is one of the most obscure and most popular of all the Disney movies: despite the fact that Disney has not made it available for a generation, the movie is the basis for the "Splash ...

Inspired by Marx's aphorism that "Religion is the opium of the people," the USSR commissioned a wealth of anti-religious artwork, much of it very clever and striking. A new book called Godless Utopia:...

For Dragon Con, Laken Cappy cosplayed as the Haunted Mansion's psychic medium Madame Leota: View this post on Instagram Madame Leota is 99% done or dare I say...... %......done. #madameleotacospla...

Is UK Home Secretary Priti Patel laughing in this image? She was not, and both the BBC and interiewer Andrew Marr have apologized for his suggestion that she was. It is her normal facial expression, a...

Japan's Henn na Hotel chain, owned by the HIS Group, uses "bed-facing Tapia robots" in its rooms; these robots turn out to be incredibly insecure: you can update them by pairing with them using a NFC ...

49% of Bernie Sanders supporters are white; compare with Biden (56%) and Warren (71%). Sanders also leads in support from women under 45. Last quarter, Sanders outraised every other candidate, and he ...

The skull of a Medieval Scot was unearthed during the construction of an Aberdeen art gallery in 2015, along with the remains of 60 others. AOC Archaeology Group recreated the face of the man that the...

Hirevue is an "AI" company that companies contract with to screen job applicants: it conducts an hour-long videoconference session with applicants, analyzing their facial expressions, word-choices and...

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Tantacrul explains what corporate music is, exactly—"it is designed not to resonate emotionally"— and how to make it. You don't have to be up on your Adorno and Horkheimer, but it helps! T...

You can still buy an Ames Lettering Guide! They are cheap, too. I used one in college drafting classes and also when I drew comics for bOING bOING. I think I still have it around somewhere. In this vi...

In this video, Internet Shaquille explains why even downmarket restaurant burritos beat your homemade ones. In brief:• Supermarket-brand tortillas are too small and thick.• You fail to war...

Tiffany's little blue box just got bigger as the luxury brand has just introduced a four-foot-tall advent calendar. Town&Country:[It] features a stylish screen-printed rendering of the faade of th...

Kate Storey reports on the rise and fall of Gawker 2.0, this week's essential reading for new-media navelgazers. After the smoking remains of the site were auctioned off, the new owner (Bryan Goldberg...

A woman was practicing her dance moves when an unwelcome visitor entered the room.Wait for itImage: Imgur Read the rest ...

Back in 2011, I signed up for a Zappos account so I could buy pants for a wedding I was in. Then I returned them because they didn't fit. I ended up buying them at the local Macy's instead (although I...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Ukraine gets a visit from THE DON, with an offer it can't refuse....

Most people don't spare a lot of thought on the potting for their plants. Perhaps something with a color that matches the walls, but that's as far as it goes. After all, the plants don't care what the...

Two Proud Boys, members of the violent far-right street gang founded by Gavin McInnes, were jailed for four years Tuesday. Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 32, were convicted of gang assault and ri...

IVF had been available in Poland for years, but, as Anna Louie Sussman explains for The New Yorker,it became a wedge issue:Anti-IVF rhetoric takes a number of forms. Polish politicians and religious l...

Kaleb J. Cole (aka "Khimaere") is the 24-year-old leader of the Washington State cell of the Atomwaffen Division, an international network of violent Neo-Nazis. Aside from generally spewing hateful rh...

Trump said he was being "lynched" today, an appalling but somewhat successful attempt to distract the media from devastating House testimony that he demanded Ukraine's president publicly announce an i...

Recomendo is weekly newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff. I write it with Kevin Kelly and Claudia Dawson (my colleagues at Cool Tools Lab). You can subscribe to it ...

With the gains real estate has made over stocks in the past 25 years, it's easy to see why the rich constantly use it to expand their wealth. What's slightly less obvious is why only the rich seem to ...

Next week, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) will host its inaugural Symposium on Computer Science and Law, whose sponsors include Palantir, Peter Thiel's notorious surveillance-tech compa...

Sean Carroll is a physicist at JPL and the author of many popular, smart books about physics for a lay audience; his weekly Mindscape podcast is a treasure-trove of incredibly smart, fascinating discu...

In 2017, Carroll, Iowa police officer Jacob Smith resigned from the force after a disciplinary investigation regarding sexual encounters between Smith and teenaged girls.The Carroll Times Herald, publ...

The Audubon Society's tribute to John James Audubon's Birds of America (originally published between 1827 and 1838) features all 435 of Audubon's vibrant, beautiful portraits of the birds he studied, ...

Radical librarian (and warrant canary inventor) Jessamyn West (previously gave this year's Alice G Smith lecture at the University of South Florida's School of Information. It's called "Social Justice...

In 1969, Jonny Cash wrote "Wanted Man" for Bob Dylan. That same year, Cash recorded it himself for his live record At San Quentin. Now though, Dylan has released this killer original demo of the tune ...

Phil from Adafruit writes, "For a limited time, whenever you buy a Circuit Playground Express the regular price of $24.95 here, on this page, Adafruit will automatically donate one to Black Girls CODE...

Sayragul Sauytbay is a Chinese Muslim of Kazakh descent who escaped en route to one of the notorious Xinjiang province concentration camps for Muslims in 2018, after she was sentenced to serve as a re...

The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act was introduced by Senator Mark Warner [D-VA] and co-sponsored by Senator Josh Hawley [R-MO] and Senator Richard ...

So THIS is how you do it.I never knew!Step 1: Dont cut off your hand with that ridiculously sharp knife.It's probably also easier without the tree attached.How to effectively slice a pomegranateThis v...

Corgis first pumpkin patch.What an adorable critter I mean a terrifying spider!Photo and video by the dog's human, @whynothmm.Check it out with sound.Corgis first pumpkin patch[IMGUR] Read the rest ...

The Intercept's political editor Ryan Grim chaired a 10-minute, backstage conversation between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders at a rally in Queens last weekend, just before AOC endorsed S...

This is a seriously impressive mechanical restoration project. IMGURian @gerleatherberman did a full restoration of an antique fan they say is a Westinghouse from 1919. Absolutely incredible.Here are...

I have two Echo Dots, and I talk to them many times a day - to play news, podcasts, and audiobooks, get weather reports, control our security system and wifi power switches, set timers and alarms, and...

The problem with tipping is that employers pay employees less than they should. I much prefer the way things work in Japan, where there is no tipping and no uncertainty. That said, until restaurants, ...

I've come across antlion traps in Colorado. It's incredible to see the little legs of an antlion poking out from the bottom of a small pit, flicking dirt at any ants that come near, causing them to tu...

Miles Taylor as chief of staff to DHS undersecretary Kirstjen Nielsen, publicly defending his boss's implementation of the #MuslimBan ethnic cleansing policy and helping to implement the family separa...

Next Saturday, Made In Space's Plastic Recycler will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) to convert certain waste plastic into feedstock for the company's Additive Manufacturing Faci...

America has a food insecurity problem, and poor, hungry kids who can't pay their school cafeteria lunch debt are performatively ridiculed and humiliated by their schools. Despite this shaming, these k...

When Eunice Adekemi Olamijuwon was transfered from her job as nursing leader at Wesley Guild Hospital in Osun, Nigeria, her staff celebrated by hanging a (now-viral) banner calling her a "mischievous ...

At last weekend's International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup, Indonesias Aries Susanti Rahayu, aka "Spiderwoman," broke the women's speed climbing record previously set in April by he...

The Internet Archive's Open Library scans books that they have physical copies of, then lends the resulting ebooks to its patrons, building on the precedent set in 2014's Hathi Trust ruling.The Archiv...

At the height of the #MeToo movement, giant management consulting firm Ersnt and Young (AKA "EY") sent a group of women to Power-Presence-Purpose, a "leadership and empowerment" workshop led by Marsha...

Justin Trudeau is not your woke bae, he's just Joe Biden with abs: there's no policy so progressive that JT won't endorse it, provided that he never has to do anything to make good on that endorsement...

Uzaki-chan wa Asobita! (Uzaki-chan Wants to Play!) is a Japanese manga that features a young woman named Uzaki. Baka-Updates describes the manga this way: "The daily life of a quiet college student wh...

I am a huge fan of using this brush to spread Otter wax all over my favorite raincoats.As temperatures drop its time to get ready for the wet. It has certainly already arrived elsewhere. One of my two...

The "pick-up artist" community, a sexist self-improvement cult centered around manipulating and bothering women into sex, needs no introduction. Like many of its stars, Adnan "Addy A-game" Ahman is li...

Two new notes from the tactical evolution of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, which continues to build on its incredible iconography and its DIY hardware.Protesters in Hong Kong are now boltin...

A developer plans to transform the massive Nazi-era St. Pauli air raid bunker in Hamburg, Germany into a "design and lifestyle hotel," as described by a spokesperson for the Spanish hotel chain NS Hot...

One night in 1631, pirates from the Barbary coast stole ashore at the little Irish village of Baltimore and abducted 107 people to a life of slavery in Algiers -- a rare instance of African raiders se...

Amazon's Ring surveillance doorbells are part of a secretive, nationwide police surveillance network, with cops being offered covert incentives to act as street-teams to buzz market the products, and ...

In 2017, Equifax admitted that it had doxed America by leaking the nonconsensual dossiers it builds on the nation, covering up the info while its key employees sold off their stock, and then repeatedl...

Last year, Adam Serwer published a phenomenal article about Trump and his supporters titled "The Cruelty Is The Point". His no-nonsense tour of Trumpdom outraged conservatives, who were uncomfortable ...

An interview with the best of all Jokers, the inimitable Cesar Romero who camped it up for the Batman TV series (1966-1968) and subsequent theatrical film. Romero famously refused to shave his tradema...

Naomi Wolf's formerly forthcoming book, "Outrages", is about the emergence of homosexuality as a concept and its criminalization in 19th-century England. When review copies went out, though, a serious...

Bruce McCorkindale has been churning out some deliciously demented art for Inktober, recasting arthouse films with Muppets. Who knew the Muppets and David Lynch went together like peanut butter and je...

NordVPN's a popular tool that many people turn to for keeping their shit private while the plumb the depths of the Interwebz. It's available to use with a number of different operating systems. While ...

A notorious "patent troll" — an acquirer of vague or trivial patents whose only real business is to shake down companies that offer implicated products — recently targeted GNOME, developer...

"Look into my pies"Baker Lorraine Elliott has just the thing to bake this Halloween: creepy, vanilla-scented rhubarb "eye pies." A conversation with her friend Nina inspired them:"I'm so hungry I'm go...

If you're a coder, there's a multitude of avenues for you to take your skills. Whether you're just jumping into the world of programming or looking to rise up the ranks as an established professional,...

No Maintenance Intended is a snippet of markup (or markdown) you can add to your site or app to ensure that users understand that they're on their own and can stuff right off if they think any work is...

This is some serious Wile E. Coyote-level gopher management going on here. Read the rest ...

The Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College has a weekly newsletter devoted to drones. Here's a sampling of the military and domestic drone technology spotlighted this week.The BBC looked at...

When Margaret Atwood published "The Handmaid's Tale" back in 1985, it was at the dawn of the Reagan era, when the gains made by feminism and other liberation movements trembled before an all-out assau...

Long have I waited.Us too, Emperor Palpatine. Read the rest ...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story "Materiality," which was commissioned for Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture, a book edited by Edwina Attlee, Phineas Harper and Maria Smit...

One of the most exciting elements of Imagineer Christopher Merritt's astounding, essential Marc Davis in His Own Words -- a two-volume set of one of Disney's most storied Imagineers, whose contributio...

Everybody could use a little improvement, especially those of us on the hunt for new careers. Each job requires a different set of skills, and that list can change from year to year or even month to m...

The reviews are in! Mitch O'Connell's Trump "They Live" billboard, which many Boing Boing readers help to fund, has won wide praise among the intellectual elite who discuss fine art on Facebook. Mitch...

Aestetix writes, "We have good news. There will be a HOPE [ed: Hackers on Planet Earth, a beloved, NYC-based hacker con put on by 2600 Magazine] in 2020. And we expect it to be better than ever. For s...

I'm something of a Bitcoin skeptic; although I embrace the ideals of decentralization and privacy, I am concerned about the environmental, technological and social details of Bitcoin. It was for that ...

In 2018, Katie Porter flipped a Republican safe seat -- it had literally never been held by a Democrat-- in California's 45th District, and since then, she has been a delightful, brilliant terror of a...

I got one of these bands for my Apple Watch a couple of years ago. It replaced the stock rubber band that's like a little belt with holes and a buckle. This one automatically adjusts to any size wrist...

Last week, students at Haveri, India's Bhagat Pre-University College wore boxes on their heads to prevent cheating on exams. Apparently the front of the boxes were cut away so the students could see t...

Dr. Adrian Smith of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences at North Carolina State University has been raising mealworms as ant food for many years. He had little interest in the creatures, but...

Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov claims that he's begun a gene-editing process to eventually enable couples who both carry a specific genetic mutation that causes deafness to birth children who can he...

Available from Banksy's delightful new homewares shop Gross Domestic Product, the "Met ball" "home entertainment lighting system is made from an old Police riot helmet and approximately 650 little mir...

A cool vest, an SLR and a kidnapped lion cub help identify this Barbie as Photojournalist Barbie.I have not seen Barbie in a long time, but I guess the pink convertible doesn't scare off the wildlife....

David Nicholas Dempsey, 32, was arrested in Santa Monica, CA after he was found to be concealing a manbun under his red MAGA cap. He received an additional charge for spraying a crowd of Trump protest...

Researchers at Chicago's Field Museum collaborated with fragrance chemists to recreate what is likely the foul odor of a T. Rex's breath. Now, museum visitors can push a button for an olfactory experi...

Johnson City, Tennessee police arrested Tupac Shakur for assault, resisting arrest, and possession of meth and drug paraphernalia. According to News Channel 9, Shakur is being held on an $18,000 bond...

People [in the Senate] are really friendly, theyre really niceexcept Bernie, Romney said of fellow senator Bernie Sanders in an interview in The Atlantic.Hes a curmudgeon. Its not that hes mean or wha...

Nothing conjures up the eldritch geometries that are the secret fuel of Disney's Haunted Mansion like the hair-pulling geometrical puzzles posed by Ikea assembly instructions: hence, Spke Hus, $20 and...

And you thought Facebook was in the bag for Trump! Mark Zuckerberg and his wife have privately made hiring recommendations for Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign, and the recommendations were hire...

Jon Evans of TechCrunch zeroes in on Facebook's big problem. Mark Zuckerberg wants you to believe that Facebook was designed as a platform where anyone can share their ideas, but as Evans points out, ...

Facebook user Brandon Ftacek shares this fantastic demonstration of just one of the many potential pitfalls you may encounter when using gasoline and rapid combustion to control your local gopher popu...

Two great things that get even better together: Sublime and Hong Kong Phooey.Penrod Pooch studied the 'Hong Kong Book of Kung-Fu' to no great effect, and Sublime was the only reason I'd go to Long Bea...

Either it's windy in the warehouse today, or there's an extremely muscular poltergeist in occupation.Reagan Steiner: "A table that seems to be controlled by a ghost totally attacks this random guy" Re...

The under-construction New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel partially collapsed last week, killing three people and injuring thirty more, and efforts to dislodge cranes attached to the building didn't go entir...

Nest is a home automation company that Google bought in 2014, turned into an independent unit of Alphabet, then re-merged with Google again in 2018 (demonstrating that the "whole independent companies...

The Economist reports that a tech startup sells a surveillance and control badge for the workforce. The device monitors workers' conversations and tracks their movements. You can even use it to make t...

The Star Trek Short Takes episode "The Trouble With Edward" focuses on H. Jon Benjamin as the mad scientist who sets Tribbles on the path to becoming an official enemy of the Klingon EmpireHe talked t...

So, this is fun: starting in December, Chinese citizens who want to snag a new phone number or sign up for internet service will have no choice but to allow their faces to get scanned. This new bag of...

There are many articles about nice monospace typefaces, but Programming Fonts lets you see all the good ones live on-screen—and how your work looks in it. I'm a big fan of APL385, with a truly a...

Akiva Leffert has designed an Ikea-themed tarot deck:Ikea is a place of transition, a journey, a source of light and comfort, but also strife. Ikea contains the universe. Harness that power to underst...

In an important reminder that Republicans are entirely capable of stopping Trump when they actually disagree with him, next year's G7 summit of world leaders will no longer be held at one of his own h...

In recent years, natural language processing technology and language translation technology have advanced greatly. The trouble is, language translation software typically comes in the form of apps. An...

Sunday brought us McKay Coppins' detailed interview with Mitt Romney, the last Republican grandee to hold out against Trump's domination of the party. In it, Romney mentioned in passing that uses a se...

German security researchers from Security Research Lab created a suite of apps for Google and Amazon smart speakers that did trivial things for their users, appeared to finish and go dormant, but whic...

Trimbandit's Scary Animated Zombie Groundbreaker Instructable uses two pneumatics to make a partially buried zombie jerk and pitch and seem to try to claw its way out of your lawn -- it's an incredibl...

Treat yourself, internet: We've rounded up some deals from the past week that were too good not to bring back for an encore. Take your pick from home goods, massagers and other tech, all at serious di...

Researchers at Telecom Paris have developed an artificial skin that responds to stroking, pinching, tapping, and tickling. To demonstrate it, they covered a mobile phone with the skin and showed how i...

Scotland's Shooglenifty was one of the first acts that I had the opportunity to interview for the music magazine I still occasionally write for, over two decades ago. That it was one of my first payin...

In the wake of Berkeley joining the growing list of cities that ban the use of facial recognition by governments, RIT philosophy prof Evan Selinger and Northeastern law/comp sci prof Woodrow Hartzog m...

Since 2010, Nightowl, the "head of the Yahoo Users Crusade," has been leading a preservation effort to scrape and archive the sprawling contents of Yahoo Groups. She writes, "Now we are desperate. We ...

Tsunami Democrtic is a radical, decentralized wing of the resurgent Catalan independence movement, centered around an anonymously authored app designed to coordinate revolutionary uprisings.The Tsunam...

As cool as your smartphone is, it can't do everything. When a job requires a little elbow grease, a multitool is a great thing to have around - and might just save your life in the right situation.Her...

Whether you own or rent your place, insurance on that home is a necessary hassle - but a new tech-driven company called Lemonade is starting to show that while it might indeed be a necessity, it doesn...

Boo! What a work of art. There are scary jack-o-lanterns and there are HORRIFYINGLY AWFULLY TERRIFYING ONES. This is one of those, from PyroDragon.As the title says, this is a continuation from my ori...

Retired professor James Fetzer co-authored the book "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook." He was found guilty in June of defaming Leonard Pozner. Now, a jury says he must pay nearly half a million dollars in d...

Beware the rogue .wav file.Two reports published in the last few months indicate that authors of malware programs are using an interesting technique in their attacks. Researchers report the bad guys a...

The apparent coverup of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the direction of Prince Mohammad Bin Salman ("MBS") and the government of Saudi Arabia continues.Donald Trump, who is ser...

Barry's Gold Blend is my favorite everyday black tea.A few weeks ago I was drinking PG Tips 'Extra Strong' as my beloved Barry's is not available at any local markets. Today I was organizing my VW Van...

On Jan 1, 2020, AB1482 comes into effect, capping rents at their rates as of March 15, 2019 plus an above-inflation; in response, the state's greediest landlords are evicting their tenants, either by ...

The cause of Catalan independence surged in October 2017, when voters defied Madrid and voted in a banned independence referendum despite indiscriminate violence and rubber-bullet fire from police, wh...

Following on Ilhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders earlier this week, Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is expected to make her own endorsement for Sanders's candidacy today.Persistent rumors have Tla...

People tend to keep luggage around for a long time. And why not? New suitcases are pricey, and no matter how banged up or patched up that old bag gets, it still holds your clothes. Right?Maybe not. He...

Do you own a Mac? Unless you're using it for a paperweight, you almost can't afford not to get the Magnificent Mac Bundle. It's a roundup of some truly essential security and file management apps, bun...

Do you own a Mac? Unless you're using it for a paperweight, you almost can't afford not to get the Magnificent Mac Bundle. It's a roundup of some truly essential security and file management apps, bun...

Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles will be showing the work of painter Nicoletta Ceccoli from November 2 to December 7. Here are a few of the paintings in the show: Read the rest ...

Pittsburgh is now a hotbed of robotics and machine intelligence, and very likely the place the AIs will eventually sigh and commence the annihilation of humankind. 40 years ago it was just getting sta...

Digital thermometers are a great tool when slow cooking meat.It is pretty easy to under or overcook meat on the grill. Monitoring the internal temperature of your food, as you cook it, is a really goo...

This rubber bristled brush does a great job of removing our three cats' fur from carpets, bedspreads, and furniture. We had it for years and it has held up well. It's only on Amazon. Read the rest ...

The deepfake technology in this video is far from flawless, but Jim Meskimen's voices and mannerisms more than make up for it. Watch him recite a poem of his own composition as John Malkovich, Colin F...

According to this short documentary, there are hundreds of miles of service, storm, and sewer tunnels beneath the glitz and neon of Las Vegas, and these tunnels are home to many people. The video has ...

Canadian camouflage developer HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp released a series of videos demonstrating their new "patent-pending" "Quantum Stealth Light Bending Material (Invisibility Cloak)." Here i...

A young man was having a fine time making a loud noise with his motorcycle for all the neighbors to enjoy. His fun was cut short when the engine caught on fire. The laugh at the end of the video has p...

MacRumors, which is usually correct, reports on China Economic Daily's news of the imminent launch of Apple AirPods Pro with noise-cancelling functionality and a $260 price. The new AirPods Pro won't ...

Three Muslim families were unlawfully forbidden to board an NYC ferry, according to a complaint filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The women in the families were wearing tradit...

While researchers have demonstrated electronic "tattoos" that can be applied to the skin, Duke University electrical engineers have shown that electronic components can be printed directly onto the bo...

Comedian/actor Ali Wong has a new book out called Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life and it includes her guide for how to tell the difference between goo...

Russian artist Roman Booteen modifies coins with incredible engravings and feats of mechanical engineering. This coin features a beating heart. Other exquisite examples of his work are below. He also ...

Climate change is real. The state of Florida is particularly susceptible to its effects, being a largely coastal landmass. Hurricanes and floods strike with increasing frequency, damaging or outright ...

My nephew will have nothing to do with a cowboy marionette that can not shoot fire out its rear like a Pokemon. Clarabel is literally the stuff nightmares were made of back then!I did not know the fir...

When I was little, my big brother would take me fossil-hunting on a quest for trilobites, marine arthropods that have been extinct for around 250 million years. Occasionally we'd find lone specimens b...

On November 11, the Edgeryders nonprofit assocation is bringing me to Brussels for a day-long event called The Science Fiction Economics Lab, where I'll be jointly keynoting with Edgeryders economist ...

Donotpay started as a project to help people automatically fight parking tickets, before its then-teenaged creator, the UK-born Stanford computer science undergrad Joshua Browder expanded it to help ...

Police in New York City are hunting a pumpkin smasher who seems bent on ruining halloween for locals.Does anyone recognize this tough guy pumpkin smasher. This happened on 81st Street between 3rd and ...

Only two children showed up to the birthday party of Remi, 5, a young girl with autism. So strangers filled the seats to make it a date to remember."It all looked like it was going to go pear-shaped,"...

A spirited conversation between Hunter S. Thompson and John Wilcock. From John Wilcock, New York Years, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall.Look for a holiday follow-up to this story in December, deta...

It was about four years ago that my friend Jessica brought me to an L.A. drugstore for some "square" ice cream. I was charmed by the oddly-shaped scoops (which I realize are not really square but cyli...

Since the whistle was blown on Trump denying aid to Ukraine unless it "investigated" his political opponents in the U.S., his position has been that there was no quid pro quo. Yesterday, his White Hou...

The Doral is a Miami resort one would expect to be sparsely occupied in June, an hour's drive from the beaches in the sticky Florida summer. Moreover, it's failing to meet its financial expectations. ...

The nine-camera security system included with Tesla cars is the gift that keeps on giving, if not for automobile owners and their insurers. Here's another vandal caught on tape keying an electrical ve...

I was scrolling through Jalopnik earlier today when HOLY CRAP THERE'S A COP SAVING A DUDE FROM GETTING HIT BY A TRAIN!From the Utah Department of Public Safety:This morning, Trooper Ruben Correa pulle...

Let me break it to you as gently as possible: If you dot your tapping swiping and scrolling on a Samsung Galaxy S10, your handset's security is currently a joke. According to TechCrunch, an S10 user i...

NASA is streaming the first all-woman spacewalk from 8 a.m. eastern time. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are fixing a failed power controller on the International Space Station. LIVE NOW: ...

As much as vaping has taken over the market during the last decade, there's still a lot of questions about the technology, as well as health concerns that we're just now finding out about. One thing y...

The Vatican launched an official "eRosary": It pairs with an app, and is activated when the user makes the sign of the cross:When activated, the user has the possibility to choose either to pray the s...

Wired has published another long excerpt from Sandworm, reporter Andy Greenberg's (previously) forthcoming book on the advanced Russian hacking team who took the US-Israeli Stuxnet program to the next...

We can't all go through life with just a pair of sneakers and flip-flops. Sometimes, you have to invest in a pair of high-quality dress shoes. However, you've probably discovered that high-end footwea...

Security research Ophir Harpaz was trying to book a flight using Onetravel; as she browsed available itineraries, she couldn't help but notice a prominent warning that "39 people are looking at this f...

A black security guard at Madison West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, asked a student—also black—to stop calling him the n-word. The school fired the security guard, citing its zero-to...

Kewpie Mayonnaise, made in Japan, has extra egg yolk and MSG in it, making it far superior to any other commercially-made mayonnaise. My family loves the Kewpie. To make it easier to squeeze out of th...

The RAW cone loader loads weed into a cone very fast.I had been using the paper shovel that comes inside a 20-pack of RAW '98 Special' sized cones. It works but the amounts of weed that go in and spil...

In 2017, a group of Dutch design students created some fictional anonymity "products" that they displayed under the name "Group Anonymous" at Milan Design Week.One of these design fiction pieces was G...

America has some of the worst, most expensive broadband in the developed world, thanks to massive market concentration, grotesque regulatory capture, and systematic underinvestment in crumbling telcom...

Do Not Track was a standardized way for browsers to tell services that their owners did not consent to having their activities and usage logged; however, it was subverted by Big Tech and big media com...

"Space travel is hard and unforgiving," writes NASA, "but we have never been more ready to meet the unknown."Or as William S. Burroughs said, "This is the space age and we are here to go." Read the re...

The latest fuck-you from Oath -- the Verizon division created to manage the zombie assets of AOL and Yahoo, bought at a ridiculous premium and then written down by more than 99% -- is the impending dr...

When police arrested Matthew Bushman, 36, of Mansfield, Illinois on Friday, he reportedly tried to provide a fake name. Thing is, his real name is tattooed right across his neck. Police shouldn't be s...

According to the U.S. Department of Education, The Commission on Presidential Scholars is "a group of eminent private citizens appointed by the President to select and honor the Presidential Scholars....

Cambodia's long-serving dictator Hun Sen nearly lost power in 2013 when an opposition party mobilized over Facebook (Hun Sen recovered by mastering Facebook and using it to crush the opposition, whose...

The Beatles: The Singles Collection is an upcoming box set of 23 vinyl 7-inch discs, including all 22 singles issued in the UK between 1962 and 1970. You can pre-order on Amazon for These singles, plu...

Even the covers to this collection of AI-written science fiction novels were created by AI. The reviews are also written by AI. Titles include Bitches of the Points, Auro-Minds and the Hungers, The Ta...

Berkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government's use of facial recognition technology, after a unanimous city council...

Uno's Greta Grotesk is a free font based on Greta Thunberg's hand-lettered signs. (Image: Anders Hellberg, CC BY-SA)(via Kottke) Read the rest ...

Virtually every rich country on Earth provides pre-completed tax-returns that you can either ignore (and pay an accountant or do your own taxes), or just sign and return: after all, the government alr...

Having to listen to Trump's gibberish is one thing you kind of learn to tune it out. But having to translate his nonsense into another language takes a skillset of great finesse. Take a look at this ...

In 2013, Propublica published an incredible story revealing how pharma giants laundered bribes to doctors in exchange for commitments to prescribe their expensive, proprietary and often dangerous prod...

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, author of Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, explains the concept of a "dimensions" at five different levels of complex...

In 1936, the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was declared to be extinct. Yet in the last three years, there have been eight reported sightings according to Tasmania's Department of Primary I...

Apparently a 6-year-old got ahold of someone's prescription medication and decided to experiment with her friends.Arizona's ABC15 reports:According to Phoenix Fire Department, four elementary school s...

The appendix has evolved in different animal species at least 29 times, according to this SciShow video, which means it probably serves a function. Scientists who studied appendixes in animals have co...

On Oct 7, workers and volunteers at New York City's beloved Pacifica Radio affiliate WBAI received a sudden notice informing they that they were all fired and the station was to be sold off without no...

Caitlin Kirby, a doctoral student at Michigan State University, defended her dissertation while wearing a skirt made of rejection letters she had received during her studies:Successfully defended my P...

A group that calls themselves The Republicans for the Rule of Law has a new TV ad campaign asking "Congress to stand up for the rule of law" and calls Trump's recent actions regarding Ukraine "unAmer...

Ryoichi Toya of Suzu, Japan harvests 3.5 tons of salt per year from the ocean. He starts by pouring buckets of seawater onto a bed of raked sand. After the sand has dried, it's collected in a large wo...

Billionaire Elon Musk told lawyers representing the British cave diver who is suing him for defamation that he's financially illiquid. Musk's personal net worth of $23.6 billion makes him the 38th ric...

A 64-year-old man went to the doctor complaining of pain in his tongue and mouth. Upon examination, doctors found the patient's tongue to be missing taste buds. He was diagnosed with pernicious anemia...

On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon delivered his resignation speech to the American public. Moments before this historical event, he was calmly joking around with the TV crew as if this was ju...

A great American has passed away. US Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, Elijah Eugene Cummings has passed away at age 68.Elijah Cummings has been an inspiration for as long as ...

The Lestina family of Bagley, Iowa were greeted with a wonderful Halloween surprise on the morning of October 3, when they awoke to find 5 inches of animal blood, fat, and bones flooding through the b...

The blob has no mouth, but I must scream.To be fair, it doesn't a stomach, or eyes, or feet, or anything resembling a brain, either (at least as far as modern science would define it). It's not techni...

Camden Paillot is on fire in McSweeney's: "Indeed, one may 'like' Sanders populist, pro-working-class ideology that has enticed let me be clear millions of struggling Americans, but being dragged to...

Guillermo del Toro was recently a guest on Visitations, the podcast hosted by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah. During the two-part interview, del Toro briefly discussed his movies, but mostly focused on h...

Who doesn't love a free meal?From Nautilus Live:During the final dive of this years Nautilus expedition season, our team discovered a whale fall while exploring Davidson Seamount off central Californi...

President Donald Trump thinks this photo, of House Leader Nancy Pelosi berating him over his abandonment of America's Kurdish allies, will make her look bad. The BBC quotes Republican "leaders" as say...

After greenlighting Turkey's invasion of Kurdish-held Syria by evacuating U.S. troops, Trump realized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan was making a fool of him and sent a bizarre letter his way. ...

After days of crunch negotiations with the European Union, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally announced his Brexit deal. It solves the problem of the Irish backstop—the need to avoid a hard...

I downloaded Untitled Goose Game to my Nintendo Switch a few days ago. It's the most self-abusive fun that I've had (with a video game, I mean we're all friends here) since I owned an NES back in the ...

Analogue Pocket is a forthcoming handheld game console that runs old Nintendo carts and offers a built-in synthesizer and sequencer. A multi-video-game-system portable handheld. A digital audio workst...

For a little over $1500, you can own a machine that will cut vinyl records in the comfort of your own home. This machine, the Phonocut Home Vinyl Recorder, is being promoted as a way to make your own ...

We have a theory about those throw blankets that are barely big enough to cover your legs. The only people who seem to make them or use them are grandmothers, and the blankets are only that small beca...

One of the great moments of my adulthood was my discovery -- courtesy of Mark's posts here on Boing Boing -- of the incredible work that Ernie Bushmiller did on Nancy from 1933 until his death in 1982...

Remember when the default state of your online presence was anonymity? That's not so clear-cut anymore, and the worst part is you may not even know who is using your data or what they're using it for....

Isn't 13 one less than 14?People reports:Felicity Huffmans release from prison for her role in the college admissions scandal has already been set.According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate loc...

Amazing parenting and crafting here.I was asked to build this by Fatherly.com after they saw the tree I built in my daughter's bedroom. I used my own garage workshop and had help from a buddy who taug...

They named her SarahDee.Because they found her on a Saturday night.So cute.This is my mom and her squirrel that she found. Aren't they cute. Read the rest ...

The oldest leftovers in world history have been discovered, stashed inside Israel's Qesem Cave You'll never guess what they preserved for posterity.Bone marrow. From deer.Researchers have discovered t...

Folks have been protesting about our species' slow turning of the knife deeper into the belly of Mother Earth for a long time now. However, once it became evident that it was a killing wound we inflic...

This is like the Gold Rush in the 1840s....

Bryony Dalefield pasted up the London Review of Books in the early 1980s. In this video she shows how she did it back in the the good old days of rubber cement and X-Acto knives. I laid out the first ...

One can always use some good life advice, no matter the source!Let's work out a good deal!Don't let the world down.Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!I will call you later.Don't be a fool. Read the...

Donald Trump, nominally the President of the United States of America, recently withdrew U.S. troops from Kurdish-held lands and greenlit a Turkish invasion of same, at Turkish president Recep Tayyip ...

Donald Trump to Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the president of Turkey, on the occasion of his slaughtering of Kurds and Syria power-grab with Russia:Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool.Here's a scan of the W...

Spotted today in my Lyft app: a new set of terms and conditions that require you to "agree" to binding arbitration (an onerous condition heretofore reserved for downtrodden drivers), through which you...

Beginning with the end of things, the premiere episode of The Life Cycle asks: is there going to be a future to speak of at all? Why is it that the apocalypse is no longer just the reserve of religion...

Burning Man announced that its theme for 2020 is The Multiverse, which seems appropriate for this weeks crop of truth-defying tabloids, which in an infinite number of possible universes might actually...

The #RedForEd movement swept America in 2018 and 2019 as teachers in both "red states" and "blue states" staged massive -- sometimes illegal -- strikes, demanding a fair deal for themselves, their stu...

Emily Wilson is the author of a new "lean, fleet-footed translation" of Homer's Odyssey that "recaptures Homer's 'nimble gallop.'"To celebrate the publication, Wilson has converted the Odyssey to an ...

Modern Monetary Theory is an economic paradigm that treats money as a utility that governments issue and tax in order to mobilize resources needed to provide the services that the public wants; it exp...

Companies that make successful Mac apps live in constant fear of being sherlocked -- having Apple release a feature-for-feature clone to compete with your product, bundling it in with Macos.In June 20...

Christopher Robin is a Stockholm designer who makes realistic miniature models of aged Tokyo storefronts. He's got an Instagram account with photos of his work. View this post on Instagram P...

Dynasties is the latest special series from Canadaland Commons, a podcast that deeply investigates the sleazy, dysfunctional wealthy dynasties that dominate Canadian politics, media and business.In th...

Blizzard has suspended Casey Chambers, Corwin Dark, and TJammer -- American University Hearthstone team players -- for six months after the trio displayed a "Free Hong Kong, Boycott Blizz" sign in a s...

In this beginner's guide to whetstone sharpening you'll learn how to give a cheap knife an edge so fine you can split atoms with it (or at least slice paper). The idea is to have different whetstones ...

Blizzard's cowardly decision to appease Chinese authoritarians by ejecting a champion player who expressed support for the pro-democracy struggle in Hong Kong has kicked off a global rebellion by the ...

Asher Burke died in March after a helicopter he'd chartered to visit the Kenyan ranch he'd invested in as an "entrepreneur playground" crashed in high winds; his stateside obits called the 27-year-old...

How much untreated sewage spilled from Tijuana to California as the result of a human body clogging a screen? The International Boundary Water Commission was quite specific: 14,497,873 gallons. The bo...

Visit Merriam-Webster's "Time Traveler" and select a year from the drop-down menu. Instantly you'll see the English words that were first used in print that year! More specifically, "the date is for t...

John Darnielle, the singer/guitarist of the acclaimed indie band the Mountain Goats, has never hidden his nerdy inclinations. Even his 2014 novel debut, Wolf in White Van, was a mesmerizing downward-s...

NASA is "committed" to landing the first woman and the "next man" on the moon by 2024 as part of the Artemis program (next stop Mars!). And as part of that program, unveiled two new spacesuits.The ora...

Hugh Jeffreys bought a wrecked MacBook Pro for $100. The hinge was broken, the case was bent, dented, and scratched, and two of the bottom feet had fallen off which allowed the inside to become filled...

Another one of Trump's close cabinet has been revealed as a lying con artist, surprising absolutely no one.This time, it's Peter Navarro, a Harvard-educated economist and policy advisor who currently ...

In the Netherlands province of Drenth, a family of seven adults were found living inside a hidden room in their farmhouse for nine years "waiting for the end of time." The family included a father, 5...

Don't think his manager won't raise hell over their client working under these unsafe conditions. Read the rest ...

Facebook has announced that it will not remove political advertisements on the grounds that the ads contain false statements:"we do not submit speech by politicians to our independent fact-checkers, a...

Evidently Port Townsend, Washington has a real sense of humor. Read the rest ...

Roko's Basilisk is a notorious thought experiment regarding artificial intelligence and our own perceptions of reality, particularly as it relates to a hypothetically powerful AI. It's kind of like Ne...

For years, Her Majesty's Government has been pursuing a plan to use the Great Firewall of Britain to block all porn sites unless they collect and retain personally identifying information on every por...

Earlier this month, Google announced a new collection of auto-delete settings for your personal information that allows you balance some of the conveniences of data-collection (for example, rememberin...

LEK Custom Toys paints Transformers figures, making them look like they jumped right out of the original cartoon series. Before and after Ironhide: View this post on Instagram Next..A post shared b...

Professional choreographers Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Grant deconstruct the final dance in Dirty Dancing. Original below. Nobody puts Patrick Swayze in the corner. Read the rest ...

Michelle Oakley is a vet in the Alaskan Yukon (There's a National Geographic reality TV show about her). In this video excerpt, Dr. Oakley has been asked to examine the teeth of an elderly bull Moose ...

Do we really hate paper straws so much that drinking through pasta seems reasonable? Apparently so! Because here are Italian-made Stroodles. Their selling points: They're edible, vegan, made for cold ...

Since the 1990s, governments around the world have waged war on working encryption, arguing that "civilians" should be limited to using crypto with known defects that allow it to be broken, so that "g...

Pushing forward on the vision of "programmable matter," MIT researchers demonstrated a new kind of assembly system based on robots that can collaboratively build complicated structures from small iden...

Brazilian skateboarder Felipe Nunes, 20, is on the cover of this month's Thrasher magazine. He just joined Tony Hawk's elite Birdhouse squad. He also has no legs. Nunes lost them in an accident when h...

The New York Times is still great: Photos of Kim Jong-un on a HorseNorth Koreas state news agency said the dictators eyes were full of noble glitters during his Putin-esque photo shoot. Pics from the ...

Kansas is a living laboratory for far-right experimentation with extreme economic cruelty: a state where Medicare expansions were thwarted, where xenophobia has penetrated the state bureaucracy, where...

Bart Baker is a YouTuber who specialized in vulgar videos and pop-star parodies, but his income withered when the site demonetized all the horrible things we didn't realize our kids were watching. So ...

Ferdinand Demara earned his reputation as the Great Impostor: For over 22 years he criss-crossed the country, posing as everything from an auditor to a zoologist and stealing a succession of identitie...

I have a whetstone, faucet and a knife, but never quite get the results I want. So Cook with E's guide to using them ("the only time I've ever seriously hurt myself in the kitchen was using a dull kni...

Five years after giving his supposedly-last interview, the Great Wizard of Northampton Alan Moore has once again deigned to allow someone to record a conversation with him for public consumption. This...

The apogee of Simpsonwave, by KingChritty in 2017: Thoughts,attitude,train,-Simpsons. The track is "trains.", by altitude. Read the rest ...

A fire raged for hours Tuesday at the NuStar storage silo farm by the Phillips 66 refinery between Oakland and Vallejo, Ca. There's an archived live feed from KRCA showing two of the silos burning; th...

We're going back out there, but it's dangerous out there and y'all better know it.Space travel is hard and unforgiving, but we have never been more ready to meet the unknown. Team members from NASAs #...

Extra-horny spiders is yet-another unexpected consequence of climate change. The warmer-than-usual weather has prolonged the male tarantula's annual mass booty crawland, by extension, their lives.The ...

Get ready for the stream of your dreams, binge-watchers. There's a contest afoot, and at stake is a lifetime subscription to Netflix.All you have to do is sign up, and you're entered to win this ultim...

Longtime Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema participated in a live interview at the Washington Post food lab. Within minutes, his fake mustache was falling off.Questions answered included which...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Hollingsworth Hound finally achieves his dream and beats Lucky Ducky: billionaires now pay a lower tax rate than poor people!...

Screensavers VR is out this week and will let you explore classic screensavers. I can't vouch for the "gameplay," but I learned I am powerfully nostalgic for 3D Pipes:Plunge your body into five screen...

There are few things that you can rely upon these days: the love of your friends and family; that our leaders lie to us in the name of profit and, constant like the North Star, that Florida will alway...

Australian Kitch is that rarest of things, a good Twitter account. Here are four gems it found from the newly-launched National Archive of Australia. Read the rest ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said late Tuesday the U.S. House is holding off on a vote to move forward with opening an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.Pelosi said Trump as the House inve...

There's overwhelming support for clean energy, and the planet is giving us more reasons to invest in renewable power sources with every passing year. Even in the most inhospitable areas, wind and sola...

The Pot Brothers at Law are California attorneys who specialize in defending people arrested on cannabis charges. They have a YouTube channel where they offer short video tips, usually a variation of ...

Taco Bell issued a press release announcing that it was recalling 2.3 million pounds of seasoned beef from its restaurants and distribution centers. The recall was prompted when a customer said they f...

[My EFF colleague Katharine is back with a very important message about a singularly stupid and dangerous legislative proposal that is steamrolling through Congress; even by the standards of stupid an...

I bought this wall-mounted magnetic strip in 2015 to have easy access to tools I need for simple household tasks: opening packages, hanging pictures, assembling furniture, tightening loose nuts, insta...

The US government has enlisted the aid of high tech companies to find and hound people it allegedly overpaid decades ago for food stamps and other assistance benefits. The letters inform recipients th...

One of the coolest initiatives of the Electronic Frontier Foundation is the Electronic Frontier Alliance, a network of autonomous community groups that work on local issues with support from each othe...

Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, aka The Office's Pam and Angela, are launching a new podcast together about The Office. Listen to the trailer below. Titled Office Ladies, the podcast will feature the...

Finally, Trump tweeted something this morning that I can agree with: "Impeach the Pres." This came at the end of a longer tweet filled with the usual brags and exaggerated claims. Just out: MEDIAN H...

In 2009, Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara was hanging out with his business manager Tim Blum in the Manhattan bar Niagrara. Nara pulled out a marker and drew some of his fantastic figures on the walls. ...

OpenAI Inc. demonstrated a one-handed robot solving a Rubik's Cube. Apparently the real breakthrough in this milestone was teaching the system to do the task in simulation. While the video makes it ea...

Samuel Delany (previously) is one of science fiction's titans, a pioneer who was the first openly gay writer in the field, as well as one of the first Black science fiction writers to attain prominenc...

My Institute for the Future colleague Jane McGonigal is teaching a series of 5 online courses on Futures Thinking and they're free to audit! Of course nobody can predict the future but imagining the l...

Omozoc created this terrific stop motion animation from 1,667 photographs! Read the rest ...

In Social, demographic, and economic correlates of food and chemical consumption measured by wastewater-based epidemiology, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, a group of ...

Trump Town is a Propublica/Columbia Journalism Investigations interactive database of everyone working in the Trump administration; the latest revision reveals that Trump has hired 281 former lobbyist...

In 2017, California passed a state law mandating disclosure of wholesale drug prices, something the Big Pharma companies fought tooth and nail. Now, the first of those disclosures has taken place, and...

"Right now, most Americans are in a perpetual police lineup because they got a driver's license," says Clare Garvie, a Washington DC privacy expert. In this New York Times video, Garvie says that driv...

"Right now, most Americans are in a perpetual police lineup because they got a driver's license," says Clare Garvie, a Washington DC privacy expert. In this New York Times video, Garvie says that driv...

The city of San Antonio agreed to pay a woman $205,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that a police detective pulled down her shorts in public and conducted a drug search in her vagina in front of other...

After a day of making people look at a black hole, Epic Games has released the next iteration in the amazingly popular battle royale shooter Fortnite.A new map, boats and bandage bazookas are just som...

It's an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword -- "jews," "women," "black people" -- and gets back a bunch of far-right conspiracist/genocidal garbage; Google gets embarrassed, twiddl...

Action Man: Battlefield Casualties is a set of black-comedy parody ads for a more realistic war-themed childrens' toy. It was produced by Veterans for Peace UK, to challenge a British Army ad campaign...

The New York Times reports that John Bolton, Trump's former national security advisor, might turn out to be the loudest whistle of all in the case of Rudy Giuliani's demented efforts to get Ukrainian ...

If you've been enjoying those videos where Bill Hader's face morphs uncannily into whoever he's impersonating, this one from Jim Meskimen is the overwhelming overdose. It's a perfect intentional demon...

Hey, we love Netflix and Hulu, but let's face it: The whole setup doesn't exactly encourage active viewing. For all the binge-watching we've done, it's tough to expand our horizons or learn anything n...

Hey, we love Netflix and Hulu, but let's face it: The whole setup doesn't exactly encourage active viewing. For all the binge-watching we've done, it's tough to expand our horizons or learn anything n...

From 2009 to 2011, Radboud University in the Netherlands featured a "purification grave" as a place of meditation:Good news, the purification grave is once again available, as announced in this cheerf...

Costumes in the early 80's were little more than decorated plastic bags. And before Disney's IP came to dominate Halloween shops, costume makers had to come up with creative ways to let kids embody co...

Reuters reports, without offering any context, the fact that a man dressed as a giant broccoli was arrested yesterday in London. While being detained, he yells "give peas a chance."London police arres...

John Hodgman's last book, Vacationland, was a kind of absurdist memoir of a weird kid who'd grown up to the kind of self-aware grownup who really wanted to dig into how he got to where he was, with bo...

I currently live three hours away from a movie theater. A six-hour toot in our jeep just to watch Joker? Not going to happen. Happily, David Harbour and the cast of Saturday Night Live goofing on Joaq...

Santa Paws is coming to town.Trader Joe's is making the countdown to Christmas more fun this year by offering an advent calendar for fur babies. An episode of the Inside Trader Joe's podcast made the ...

This man murdered someone, the victim's brother, Adarius Carr, said at a news conference. He should be arrested.Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth Texas police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jeffer...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Green European Journal short story about the terrible European Copyright Directive which passed last March, False Flag. Published in December 2018, the story high...

Still using elbow grease to clean the sinks, tubs and other grimy surfaces around your house? Save your elbows, and some time. If you've got a power drill, the RevoClean 4-in-1 Drill Brush Cleaning Ki...

Trump lawyers bank records examined Witnesses questioned on work for Ukraine mayor Feds probing efforts to oust U.S. ambassadorDonald Trump's longtime personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is the subject o...

The Donald Trump impeachment inquiry is picking up speed.A senior adviser to Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who just resigned will be questioned under oath on Wednesday on Capitol Hill in the ac...

Get those sea creatures!Odin the German Shepherd is an adorable plush coat puppy. In this video from 2017, his human says Odin had zero interest in bath time. View this post on Instagram Get those ...

Aww, look at him having the best time!My old chunky pupper enjoying the snow, shares IMGURian @quoththeravennever.Roland is 12 years old and usually quite the couch potato, but he loves the snow! Also...

All hail the queen of Halloween. You gotta watch the video, the chainsaw arm makes a scary sound and everything. Seriously impressive Ash Williams and 'The Evil Dead' cosplay going on here. Made mysel...

I bought this USB rechargeable lighter in May and will never go back to using matches or a butane lighter. I've used it to light many charcoal barbecues, candles, and stove burners and have not had to...

Josh O'Neill writes, "We're doing a box set edition of Dracula in which we reconstitute the novel into the primary source documents from which it's drawn: Mina's diary, Lucy's letters, Dailygraph news...

The legendary Mavis Staples. Read the rest ...

Descript's Lyrebird is a premium service that "allows you to replace recorded words and phrases with synthesized speech that's tonally blended with the surrounding audio." The interactive samples on t...

Earlier this month, we learned that one of the most enduring frustrations of Trump's presidency is that no one will take his suggestion of building a moat filled with man-eating alligators and poisono...

On November 12, Disney Studios is opening its treasure trove of films and videos as a streaming service for $7 a month. But its marketing team made a crucial mistake by not including The Million Dolla...

German law allows convicted criminals to deliver a "final word" ("Schlusswort") in court after their sentencing; this right is typically waived or used to deliver a few words of apology and remorse, b...

Elizabeth Warren overtook Joe Biden in one nationwide poll and the billionaires are already taking his pulse. Michael Bloomberg (~$50bn net worth) today makes clear his intentions if Biden slips away ...

Honest Guide is a YouTube channel for people interested in visiting Prague. It's got tips and cautions that are great to know about in advance of going there. I wish there were similar YouTube channel...

In early 2018, Apple SVP of internet software and services Eddy Cue and SVP of internet software and services Morgan Wandell instructed TV creators it had commissioned to produce content for Apple TV ...

For decades, it was a commonplace in western business that no one could afford to ignore China: whatever problems a CEO might have with China's human rights record could never outweigh the profits to ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted "secretive talks" and off-the-record dinners with conservative figures in recent months, report's Politico's Daniel Lippman. Among the delights were discussions of ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted "secretive talks" and off-the-record dinners with conservative figures in recent months, reports Politico's Daniel Lippman. Among the delights were discussions of "...

If you don't live in England, it might be hard to tell the difference between a northern and southern English accent. If you don't live in the United States you might not know how to distinguish betwe...

Viktor Orban and his far-right, xenophobic, conspiratorial Fidesz party have led Hungary through a string of catastrophes, from its handling of Middle Eastern migrants to its ouster of the internation...

Shay Bradley from Ireland died October 8, but at his funeral he came back to life. "Hello? Hello?" he said as his coffin was being lowered. "Let me out, it's fucking dark in here!" He goes on, knockin...

MSCHF told CBS that it customized a pair of Nike Air Max 97 sneakers by attaching a crucifix as a shoelace charm, and adding to the soles "holy water from the River Jordan, which was blessed by a prie...

The Internet is always finding arbitrary new ways to compile ranked lists of musicians and their songs. Sure, the content mill demands it, as seen on Pitchfork, AV Club, Ranker, and so many other site...

Arcade Game Typography [Amazon] is a forthcoming book by Toshi Omagari that "definitively surveys" the pixelated fonts of arcade games from the 1970s to the 1990s. It's full of gorgeous-looking full-c...

Not long ago, United demanded a black passenger remove his official Marvel "Black Panther" hat because it made someone uncomfortable. This weekend, United refused to even challenge a white passenger ...

Not long ago, United demanded a black passenger remove her official Marvel "Black Panther" hat because it made someone uncomfortable. This weekend, United refused to even challenge a white passenger ...

A little over a year ago, Bloomberg stunned the world with a report that claimed that Chinese intelligence services had figured out how to put undetectable, rice-grain-sized hardware implants into ser...

A black woman was shot dead by a white police officer early Saturday in her own home. The officer, responding to a call from a neighbor concerned about an open door, opened fire only four seconds afte...

Rock Paper Shotgun lists the fifty best role-playing games you can play on PC right now. I recommend approaching it with an attitude of "curious about fun-packed easily-missed classics", lest you end ...

Need data storage? Join the club. It may still seem like the wild west out there, and for many companies, it's a tough choice between security and accessibility. Luckily, there's a platform that gives...

A huge trove of ancient MS-DOS games are now available at the Internet Archive, with in-browser DOSbox emulation and metadata. Jason Scott: "this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny rece...

Adobe Flash, the clunky and unsearchable interactive plugin tech, was always bad. Its presence on a website guaranteed a user interface disaster, an unblockable ad, or general bloated shonkiness. But ...

The New York Times reported today that a video mashup depicting Trump slaughtering a church packed with his "fake news" enemies, from Barack Obama to the BBC, was shown last week to supporters at one ...

If the Webbys have any legitimacy, than a content of the year award should go to Willie McNabb for his famous tweet. It generated endless brilliant mockery online. But Reply All interviewed Willie and...

There are a lot of different language apps out there because nobody learns anything the same exact way - especially not something as complex as a new language. For some people, the best way is to dive...

In California, we're looking at power outages in the North and South as the only way to avoid massive wildfires. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, there's a new power plant"embodying the notion of hedonistic ...

Latina author Jennine Cap Crucet recently spoke to students at Georgia Southern University about her novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, about an Hispanic girl who feels out of place at a predominan...

Bullshit.js is a javascript bookmarklet that replaces all the managerial and marketing jargon and other buzzwords on the page with the word "bullshit." For example, if I were to write that it was a "k...

Naama Issachar is a dual citizen of the United States and Israel. She was taking a connecting flight in Moscow when a drug-sniffing dog discovered she was carrying less than one-third of an ounce of p...

AT&T business customers, including those who've been promised a locked-in rate inclusive of all taxes and fees, are finding "property tax" surcharges on their bills of up to 7%. These charges rep...

Esme Kramer is student in network and systems engineering. Check out this amazing raptor costume. I hope she skins it!Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Google and the other big tech companies are some of the most lavish funders of climate denial "think tanks" and lobbying groups, something they've been at continuously for more than six years, without...

Kevin Kelly and I were the hosts and the guests on the latest episode of the Cool Tools podcast. We shared some of the tools we've been using and liking lately.Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTun...

The White House Counsel's "crazy, ranty" legal nastygram to House Leader Nancy Pelosi over impeachment was, Noah Shachtman writes, crafted by Trump himself.Asawin Suebsaeng and Sam Stein, at the Daily...

Jorge Luis Escandn Hernndez was elected mayor of Las Margaritas, Chiapas after he promised to repair city's rural roads, in a chaotic campaign that included accusations of a "brawl" with his opponent'...

You can stop adding famous people's laughter to Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, 'cause we've got a winner: Pee-wee Herman. Sound up.That new #Joker movie sounds really funny! pic.twitter.com/5lMldCxw6J—...

The House Judiciary Committee actually held a hearing about gun violence in late September. But you probably didn't hear about iteither because the rest of US politics are so overwhelmingly terrible r...

In a brilliant move, the Washington Post convinced several Washington Capital players to draw self portraits, most-used emoji,favorite memory, first thing bought after signing their rookie contract,An...

Molly Osberg and Dhruv Mehrotra at Splinter have done some great work tracing at least 150 Wikipedia edits back to IP addresses at the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia. Like the @CongressEdits Tw...

There's movie merch and then there are artifacts - one-of-a-kind items for the true fans only. These 11 items definitely fall into the latter category. We've unearthed movie art, props and other fan t...

Monstrous Incantation makes dice containing items ranging from ghoulish, to beautiful, to adorable: You can peruse the shop or order a commission here. Read the rest ...

This morning I posted that Facebook and Twitter have taken the position that they will accept political ads that contain lies because they don't feel it's in their best interest to fact check claims m...

How can a single, ill-conceived law wreak havoc in so many ways? It prevents you from making remix videos. It blocks computer security research. It keeps those with print disabilities from r...

Canada's Conservative Party is terrible, and it has terrible policies, and it will be terrible for Canada if they are elected. I already voted against them with my mail-in ballot. That said, the CBC i...

Senator Warren gave this very clear answer at CNN's LBGTQ town hall.She does not miss a beat #EqualityTownHall pic.twitter.com/7iYeMGlSuM— Leila Mohaideen (@leiitontheline) October 11, 2019...

Pompeo refuses to say if he met with Giuliani on February Warsaw trip...

This wonderful crafty person made their very own Game of Thrones 'Risk' game board out of a used wooden table they picked up for twenty bucks.IMGURian apachethehelicopter is an incredibly talented DIY...

Spice-seller was second only to Trump in spending on impeachment ads...

...but Giuliani says he is....

Top Fox News anchor quits after Trump AG Barr dines with Murdoch. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not....

Gum Soft-Picks do a better job than toothpicks or floss for cleaning food and plaque from between my teeth. The rubbery green brush pushes out all the gunk without hurting. A pack of 100 will set you ...

After 23 years at Fox News, its chief news anchor Shep Smith is off to pastures new. "Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and begin a new chapter," Smith said. "After requesting...

A beloved dog that was lost in 2007 has been found -- over one thousand miles away from home, in Pittsburgh, PA.After being lost for 12 years, Dutchess finally met her owner again, and Humane Animal R...

Trump has been buying ads with false content that run on Facebook and Twitter, and the two social media platforms both say they will continue to accept paid ads that contain lies.From Technology Revie...

Vox made a clear and succinct video about the damning phone call Trump had with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy in July. Vox also made a video that describes the impeachment process: Read the rest ...

A white Arizona sheriff's deputy is under investigation and has been placed on administrative leave for pulling over a black driver because he had an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror. Th...

The origin story of the most evil villain in my early media experience.I loved watching Felix, but I was certain Master Cylinder was going to get me.I also tried to jump into a filing cabinet, ala Hon...

Tewksbury, Massachusetts is about 15 miles south of Salem, New Hampshire and 25 miles west of Salem, Massachusetts. It's also 25 miles north of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Eliza Dushku was born an...

Tewksbury, Massachusetts is about 15 miles south of Salem, New Hampshire and 25 miles west of Salem, Massachusetts. It's also 25 miles north of Watertown, Massachusetts, where Eliza Dushku was born an...

Twitter has a setting that (nominally) allows you to turn off its default of showing you "top" tweets (as selected by its engagement-maximizing, conflict-seeking algorithm), but periodically, Twitter ...

I'm old enough to have watched Schoolhouse Rock educational cartoons when they premiered on television. This new video, with a song by Jonathan Coulton is a guide to the impeachment process. It's a lo...

And you can bid on the invention's intellectual property rights next week.Inventor/Artist (Inventist?) Ian Charnas has devised a way for windshield wipers to be in sync with the beat of the music you'...

At The Washington Post, Antonia Noori Farzan reports on an alleged zoophile who demanded farmers let him at the horses while conducting a terrifying stalking campaign against those who refused. For we...

Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg is the world's most popular streamer, a goofy gamer whose reactionary tendencies were relentlessly encouraged by YouTube and its engagement machinery. Now he faces the cons...

Lucy Sparrow is a felt artist, or as she likes to call herself, a "Feltist." You might remember that in 2017, she packed a NYC bodega full of her faux products in felt and that last year in Los Angele...

Greg from the Free Software Foundation writes, "Celebrate Saturday's International Day Against DRM with this shareable "dead tree" book dust jacket!"Available in English, German and Spanish.We have de...

Macarthur "Genius" Kelly Link and her husband Gavin Grant are the forces-of-nature behind the amazing Small Beer Press ( Read the rest ...

Last week, the Escape Pod podcast published part one of a reading of my YA novella "Martian Chronicles," which I wrote for Jonathan Strahan's Life on Mars anthology: it's a story about libertarian spa...

13 years ago, World of Warcraft was embroiled in a scandal when company management backed up a moderator who punished a player for advertising an LGBTQ-friendly guild, who argued that advertising the ...

Shown at top of fold: Cover to OTHER SCENES, Volume 1, Number 6, September 1968 Additional items on the history of OTHER SCENES will be included in the comments section over the week.From John Wilcoc...

Greta Thunberg's Joan of Arc-grade tongue-lashing to the world's leaders at the UN makes for some incredible mashup possibilities: it's not merely that her excellent delivery lent itself to death meta...

Splinter was the news site at G/O Media (the successor to Gawker Media), housing left-leaning current affairs commentary and anchoring the groups' more advertiser-friendly tech, game and sports "verti...

No matter what kind of office you work at, there's probably an Excel expert in it. And no wonder: Businesses are still discovering uses for one of Microsoft's flagship software suites beyond just bare...

Corinthian Colleges, Inc. was yet another for-profit university that screwed over hundreds of thousands of people with pyramid schemes that promised a higher education at the end of some labyrinthine ...

In an effort to get more people reading, the New York Public Library set out to take advantage of Instagram's huge user base. Mother New York designed "Insta Novels" as a way to read entire novels in ...

Folio Society has produced a special illustrated edition of Philip K. Dick's novel Ubik, featuring several illustrations and a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson: This video describes the creation of t...

The Deep Dark is a recurring art installation by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett:To develop the installation, the artists conducted interviews, asking: why do we fear the dark? Is darkness a presence...

Donald Trump's former Russia adviser Fiona Hill is reported to have agreed to testify before three House committees on Monday, October 14, in the Democratic impeachment inquiry. Bloomberg was among th...

Four or more top U.S. national security officials were so upset by Donald Trumps attempts to pressure Ukraine for Joe Biden dirt that they spoke to a White House lawyer with their concerns both before...

Authorities say haul worth $600,000 or more...

The owners of the copyright for the theme song to the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special are suing Dolly Parton's 'Dollywood' in federal court for copyright infringement.The complaint is reported to c...

In New Mexico, a football coach was fired and now faces criminal charges after authorities say a student captured the coach on cellphone video taking money from a student players wallet.Miyamura High ...

Could an arrest be imminent? Was he planning to fly to Vienna, too? So many questions....

Giuliani dealings with associates scrutinized in ongoing investigation...

Democratic House committee leaders have issued a subpoena to Donald Trump's Energy Secretary Perry for "key documents" as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.Three House chairm...

A judge today approved a $1 million bond in property and business for two associates of President Trumps personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, along with mandatory home confi...

Apple can't seem to figure out how to kowtow to China without losing face in the US. Apple has banned the controversial Hong Kong protest app HKmaplive yet again, as our Cory Doctorow and Rob Beschizz...

Law school grads routinely go to work for crusading nonprofits and even those in private practice do pro bono work, thanks to a widespread understanding that lawyers have a professional duty to work f...

Early versions of the free/open Unix variant BSD came with password files that included hashed passwords for such Unix luminaries as Dennis Ritchie, Stephen R. Bourne, Eric Schmidt, Brian W. Kernighan...

Attending todays Trump Minneapolis rally sounds like a really scary time.City Pages:So Republicans will be escorted to and from their cars. That duty will fall to Oath Keepers, a patriot group whose m...

Cartoonist Phil Foglio (previously) writes, "I designed a cool t-shirt!" They're $22 from Offworld Designs. Read the rest ...

Pence is trying as hard as he can not to go down with the ship. pic.twitter.com/jrA8aoQSfb— Matt Rogers (@Politidope) October 10, 2019 NBC's Vaughn Hillyard refuses to let Mike Pence offer non-...

Our friends at Futility Closet wrote this post about the Speech-to-Song Illusion:In 1995 UCSD psychologist Diana Deutsch was fine-tuning the spoken commentary on a CD when she noticed something odd. W...

When Apple caved to pressure from the Chinese government and yanked an Ios app that let users avoid being attacked by the city-state's murderous, rampaging police forces, it was merely continuing a lo...

Chanel Miller wrote a book called Know My Name, about her life before and after being sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, the sex criminal who was portrayed by the trial judge as a victim. She was int...

We'll find a cloud to hide usWe'll keep the moon beside us Read the rest ...

Last month a Japanese entertainer named Ena Matsuoka was attacked in front of her home in Tokyo. Her alleged attacker, an obsessed fan, was able to figure out where she lived by zooming in on a high r...

Unicode includes six "zero-width characters" that are not visibly rendered in browsers (U+FEFF, U+200C, U+200D, U+200E, U+2060, U+180E) -- they're used for some specialized cases in rendering non-Roma...

Sesame Street continues its run of excellent, empathetic new muppets to help kids deal with a changing world: after introducing muppets experiencing homelessness, living with autism, and explaining ma...

Institutions like the IMF like to encourage poor countries to set up "free trade zones" (AKA "freeports," "special economic zones," etc): effectively unregulated import/export zones where environmenta...

For years a friend has been telling my diet was hurting my general demeanor. Last year I stopped ignoring her and switched to a diet more like what is described in this study.I will never be Mr. Cheer...

I can not put down Shannon Messenger's Keeper of Lost Cities series. Lodestar continues Sophie Foster's waking nightmare.Sophie Foster thought she was human pre-teen. Sophie loved her family and her ...

Mapquest was once the leading map site in the world; they were bought by Yahoo as part of Yahoo's decades' long spree of buying successful companies and running them into the ground -- finally, they w...

Mapquest was once the leading map site in the world; they were bought by AOL as part of AOL's decades' long spree of buying successful companies and running them into the ground -- finally, they were ...

Evolutionary psychologist Katja Liebal literally wrote the book on Primate Communication. A professor of developmental psychology at the Freie Universitt Berlin, Liebal's research focuses "on the cogn...

A favorite kitchen chemistry (and physics) experiment of kids (and adults), Ooblek is the weird result of mixing cornstarch with water. Now, MIT engineers have developed a mathematical model that can ...

Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea and invented some of the modern tax-evasion playbook, while amassing billions; despite this, he is lionized both in Sweden and abroad for his quirky frugality and the ubiqu...

On Saturday, Danny McDaniel was kayaking near Santa Catalina island off the southern California coast when he felt something big strike the side of his boat. It was a great white shark that Ben Frable...

Open Concept is a new bar in St. Louis, Missouri where patrons make an appointment to visit and then pay by the hour to drink as much (or as little) as you'd like. The per-hour price is $10 but if you...

Mike Winkelmann (homepage, behance) animated a few illustrative seconds of the immediate future: "ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA"ZUCKERBORG'S NIPPLE FREE TECHNO-UTOPIA #everydays pic.twitt...

Designer/activist Mike Monteiro added a pointed pro-Union message to the cover of his new, print-on-demand book that Amazon workers would perhaps see when they print copies to ship to customers. The A...

What's more fun than playing The Legend of Zelda? Not making Perler bead art of the characters and icons in the game, that's for sure. But Perler beading is enjoyable, in a non-creative way (unless yo...

My friend Maureen Herman (former bassist for Babes in Toyland) is writing a book called "It's a Memoir, Motherfucker." Here's an excerpt in which she gives her account of living life with an invisible...

Heres the trailer to The Life Cycle, a new podcast starting next week. Featuring renowned thinkers like Bryan Johnson of Kernel, Neural Signals Dr. Philip Kennedy, and many more, its an offbeat series...

I woke up this morning to two exciting announcements about crowdfunders for kid-oriented RPGs, which is outstanding news indeed: the first is a set of adventures for Martin Lloyd's superb Amazing Tale...

Behold the master in enunciation outclass the mediocrities that surround him.Previously in Diabeetus: Cat resembling Wilford Brimley skilled in art of playing "death by diabeetus" Read the rest ...

An app used by Hong Kong protestors to track security forces there disappeared Wednesday from Apple's app store. Apple says it's being used by criminals to attack police, but given that it very public...

Netflix's big movie release this past week was In the Tall Grass, based on a short story by Stephen King and Joe Hill, and directed by Vincenzo Natali. To say much about the plot would spoil the fun o...

After the rollout of its own game store, Epic (of Unreal and Fortnite fame) published a string of exclusives, most recently the all-conquering Untitled Goose Game. Today it launched Unreal Indies, an ...

Whoever said you'd never need math to succeed in life clearly never sat down at a high-stakes poker table. When it comes right down to it, poker is a winnable game no matter where you play it - as lon...

A series of identical monuments depicting a tourist being mauled by a pack of wolves have surreptitiously been installed in different New York City parks with plaques that read:Dedicated to the many t...

A series of identical monuments depicting a tourist being mauled by a pack of wolves have surreptitiously been installed in different New York City parks with plaques that read:Dedicated to the many t...

Raytracing is a method for drawing scenes by modeling beams of light, illuminating and richocheting off objects. It's realistic but very slow, and only the newest and most expensive video cards [Amazo...

Scientists in Queensland, Australia have pieced together the most complete pterosaur fossil collection yeta big-headed reptile with a 12-foot wingspan they've named Ferrodraco lentoni, or "Butch's Iro...

I don't know who thought that "beating a black balloon with a bat" was the best way to decide and announce a baby's gender for them. But the balloon baby clearly looked at the available options and ch...

[Before he was a crime writer, Alex Segura was busily overseeing the edgy, amazing reboot of Archie Comics. Now, he's murging his murder-mystery career with his comics life, in The Black Ghost, a new ...

Terumasa Ikeda uses lacquer and bits of mother of pearl to create surreal sculptures. He demonstrates the painstaking process in this video:The results look like code given solid form:(H/T @MasakiSe.)...

NPR reports a real life X-File: someone (or something!) drained the blood from cattle at Silvies Valley Ranch in eastern Oregon:The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. It smells. Weirdly, the...

Ellen DeGeneres's friendship with ex-President George W. Bush became controversial this week, in light of the progressive values she claims and the 600,000 corpses left by his occupation of Iraq. She ...

Oregon Zoo posted a collection of X-ray images of animals taken at its Veterinary Medical Center, reavealing "the inner gothy beauty of animals." [h/t Steven Glista]See if you can guess the beasties; ...

Australian politics are a revolting mess of unstable governments dominated by xenophobic, climate-denying far-right oligarchs, and the only check on their power is the fact that Australian governments...

SQL Murder Mystery is a free/open game from Northwestern University's Knight Lab that teaches the player SQL database query structures and related concepts while they solve imaginary crimes.It was ins...

Modern Monetary Theory (previously) is an economic philosophy based on the idea that all state spending is "deficit" spending, since money comes into existence when the government spends it, and when ...

Assuming facts not in evidence is a time-honored courtroom objection, and one which could be stamped on almost every page of this weeks tawdry tabloids....

This summer on remote U.S. Forest Service land in eastern Oregon, cowboys discovered five, young purebred bulls dead, drained of blood, and their tongues and genitals removed with almost surgical prec...

Hunter Biden was getting $50,000/month to sit on the board of Burisma, an oligarch-controlled Ukrainian energy company, a job for which he had no qualifications, apart from his surname, which was part...

In the early 1980s, Susan Kare joined Apple Computer to design fonts and user interface graphics. A legend of pixel art, Kare created the look of the original Macintosh, from the Chicago typeface to t...

Efteling is an amazing Dutch theme park about an hour outside of Amsterdam; while it deploys many of the same technologies as Disney-style parks, it has a completely different affect, centered around ...

The green cardigan that Kurt Cobain wore during Nirvana's classic MTV Unplugged performance in 1993 (see above) will be on the auction block at the end of the month. The sweater last changed hands fol...

AirCSI is a prototype drone system that scans crime scenes from above, identify possible pieces of evidence, and then collect more detailed images and data of such items of interest. Leading the devel...

Most U.S. adults answer fewer than half questions correctly on digital know-how quiz, and many struggle with cybersecurity and privacy...

Follow your muse where it takes you, even if it leads to a day's worth of articles trashing Cap'n Crunch in outlandish and disturbing ways. (H/T Ben Collins.) Read the rest ...

From left: Akira Yoshino, Dr. M. Stanley Whittingham and Dr. John Goodenough (Charles Dharapak / Yoshiaki Sakamoto / Kyodo News / Binghamton University)The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been award...

Many people around the world use bidets so they can clean themselves properly after using the toilet. I discovered them in the 1980s in Japan and I installed them in the toilets in my house. (I have t...

In celebration of this year's 50th anniversary of the first humans on the moon, the Ohio State Marching Band staged this wonderful performance on Saturday. Read the rest ...

These heavy duty nitrile gloves keep my hands clean when an automotive emergency pops up.Frequently my 43-year-old motorcycle and 32-year-old VW bus hiccup. Usually, they do it when I am wearing somet...

Zebras may have evolved their distinctive stripes as a way to interfere with flies' vision. Flies have difficulty landing on black-and-white surfaces because the light polarization screws up their abi...

Elly Blue has kickstarted a series of successful feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies; her latest is Dragon Bike: Fantastical feminist bicycle stories, for which she is seeking $6,000 ($10 get...

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "More than 30 civil rights organizations, including Fight for the Future, Color of Change, National Immigration Law Center, and CAIR, have signed an open letter ...

While young and pregnant Elizabeth Warren lost her job as a school teacher. Right-wing critics are using this true story to create doubt and distrust about everything she says.Salon:Warren confirmed t...

Trump gave Erdogan green light, Putin nods in approval from Moscow.Turkey has launched an attack against US-allied Kurds in Northern Syria, after Donald Trump expressed his support for the military as...

The House Financial Services Committee has asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify on Facebook's planned Libra cryptocurrency, and he will do so on October 23.Mark looks forward to testifying be...

Vegetation is overtaking the Fukushima exclusion zone, eight years after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. In the eerily isolated area, buildings are leaning, windows are broken, shr...

Apparent a coping method for these troubled times is unprotected sex.UPI:A new government report finds that combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia reached an all-time high in 2018. Nearly...

Alabama 3 has long been a favorite and is never long out of rotation. Read the rest ...

Oh, the joys of #vanlife!I was checking up on my Vanagon yesterday and noticed the coolant was low. Missing coolant is very bad in a Vanagon for many, many reasons.I looked for a leak.I could not find...

Ronan Farrow reports, in his forthcoming book Catch and Kill [Amazon], that TV host Matt Lauer is accused of raping a colleague at NBC News. Lauer was fired in 2017 from his Today Show perch after rep...

Ronan Farrow reports in his forthcoming book Catch and Kill [Amazon] that TV host Matt Lauer is accused of raping a colleague at NBC News. Lauer was fired in 2017 from his Today Show perch after repor...

Foolish mortals, Disney's latest Haunted Mansion merchandise is to die for. In 1969, the Haunted Mansion opened at Disneyland and now, fifty years later, they've pulled out all the stops to make us pu...

Natalie Martinez offers some good advice, which will not be taken, to Fox News: "Maybe read the screen name aloud before you broadcast it to the world."i'd like to thank the Miami-Dade Public Scho...

One of you out there needs your vehicle ("car, truck, van, boat, RV, motorcycle, ATV, golf cart or any 12 volt supplied power source") to roar like Godzilla, I just know it. So, you're welcome. The Go...

Jaywick started life as a holiday camp for East London's working class families. It became permanently occupied after World War II and is now a cluster of rotting shotgun shacks behind a forlorn Essex...

Clearly there's a booming market for CBD out there, as more people discover the relief from pain and stress that it can bring. But not everyone uses it the same way, and that's why cannabidiol product...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald Trump gets a hot tip on corruption, tracks it down every path, no matter the consequences!...

A Punk Rock Future is a brand new fiction anthology featuring 25 speculative sci-fi and fantasy writers smashing the State in whatever fantastical futuristic form that it might take. Editor Steve Ziss...

Nike, which already has two lawsuits pending against Skechers, filed a third complaint for patent infringement last month. This time, the complaint targets the Skechers version of the VaporMax and Air...

Being a global multinational sure is hard! Yesterday, World of Warcraft maker Blizzard faced global criticism after it disqualified a high-stakes tournament winner over his statement of solidarity wit...

Raph Koster (previously) is a games design legend, the designer behind such classics as Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, a consistently thoughtful and smart theorist of games, and the author of A...

Back in 2015, the Marvin Gaye estate secured a bizarre copyright judgment against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke over their hit song "Blurred Lines," in which the Gaye estate argued (successfully)...

Todd Alcott -- purveyor of "Cultural Mashups" and "Ephemera Set to Music" -- created this incredible set of six posters that mash up vintage ads, pulp covers, and posters with Talking Heads songs, whi...

My favorite pre-roll cone for home filling of joints is the RAW '98 Special.'I've tried the 1 , King Size and 98 Special sizes of cones. The 98 Special splits the difference between the very large joi...

Yesterday I wrote about how having a Tile Bluetooth tracker helped me find my wallet when I lost it at the theater last week. I just found out that Tile has refreshed its product lineup and one of the...

Twitter reports that email address and phone numbers added for security reasons such as two-factor authorization "may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes."When an advertiser uploaded...

A reptile breeder in the SF Bay Area says he'd just finished giving a talk and was packing up in the parking lot when thieves stole one of his duffel bags containing four live snakes.The man says the ...

Pennsylvania resident Chris Persic says his wife called to let him know their SUV smelled like it was burning. When she opened the hood, a surprise was waiting: walnuts and grass piled all over the Ki...

The getaway goat's name is 'Big Boy.' Hes never done anything like that before, his owner said when finally reunited with the goat. I think he was drinking too much that night. Im really sorry it hap...

A spokesperson for the Facebook-owned WhatsApp says the company has fixed a security vulnerability that let hackers take control of the messaging app by way of a malicious GIF."We have no reason to be...

Not ashamed to admit I'm obsessed with this crime story.For those following along, rapper and former gang member turned informant Tekashi69 will be sentenced on December 18.[via @PPVSRB, PHOTOS: shutt...

In the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, a bipartisan panel of lawmakers presented evidence that Russia conducted information warfare against the U.S. in 2016 and demanded urgent action from Congress, the trump...

I'm glad they didn't wreck but the driver's facial expressions in this clip are really something. He's be a great character actor. The whole clip is like a scene from a Jim Jarmusch film. Read the res...

The reborn VCS looked like a thoroughbred among a field of retro nags, wedding Atari's classic pedigree to powerful modern hardware. But its designer has quit the project, according to The Register, c...

The job listing for a vacancy in Burning Man's HR department is pretty anodyne, until you get to this: "Some of the work will be in outside weather conditions and will be exposed to fumes or airborne ...

For many years, we've brought you the delightful arts and crafts of Anthony "Tonky" Clune: beautiful felt housewares, giant wall-stickers, a short film about thrifting, cool reflective cycling safety ...

Sara from MIT Sloan Management Review writes, "The entire site is free today through Thursday. To help you make progress on the problems youre facing right now, theyve unlocked their site for 72 hours...

Last year, I posted about the spooky painted lightbulb Halloween ornaments of David "gnarledbranch" Irvine; since then, Irvine has created a new, more ambitious batch. He writes: "Some bulbs I salvage...

Police arrested Joshua Allen Renfroe, 29, for shoplifting hundreds of dollars of merchandise from a Walmart in Lufkin, Texas. From KTRE:After Renfroe was arrested, he kept telling LPD officers that th...

In 2018, for the first time in recorded US history, the 400 richest American households paid a lower rate of tax than any other group of American taxpayers: 23%, down from 70% in 1950 and 47% in 1980....

Gil Gerard, star of the fantastic 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' has joined '2491' as an actor and producer. '2491' was inspired by the fantastic Buck Rogers series.Hollywood Reporter:Former Buck R...

Amazon and its contractors are notorious for their wage-theft from warehouse workers, who are required to endure lengthy, unpaid delays while they wait to have their bags and bodies searched for stole...

On Reddit, u/xplodingboy07 said he got a nasty knee infection and had to spend a month in the hospital. He posted a photo of the bill, which was for $618,967.78.That's $20,000 a day. And here I was th...

Humans contract the Guinea worm parasite by ingesting water containing fleas infected with guinea worm larvae. The devastating and nightmarish symptoms don't show up until around a year later:a string...

Bernie Sanders remains one of the leading contenders for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential elections, but you'd hardly know it from the media narrative, which consistently downplays,...

A determined driver in France fit their car in a spot with just a few inches of clearance. This is one of 10 videos about heroic parkers featured in Car and Driver. Read the rest ...

Last month, a developer called Axi0mx released an Iphone crack called Checkm8, which attacks a defect in the Ios bootrom, a low-level piece of code that has not been successfully attacked since 2010. ...

Blizzard Entertainment, best known for publishing World of Warcraft, suspended a pro Hearthstone player and pulled his prize money because he said, Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our age! during a ...

Yesterday, volunteers and staff at New York's beloved Pacifica Radio affiliate, WBAI, got an abrupt notice informing them that Pacifica had shut down the station, in order to prevent its "financial lo...

Through a collaboration with NASA and the SETI Institute, Girl Scouts can now earn badges in space science, from astronomy to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Part of science literacy is ...

Propublica's latest longread is ostensibly a profile of two kids who attended Orange County's Sage Hill School, where tuition runs $40,000/year and where an estimated 25% of students get into elite co...

This job candidate has watched too many (or perhaps too few) English-dubbed martial arts films from the 1970s."You need to be more formal and at least practice before you take the interview." Read the...

In 2003, Philosophical Quarterly published a paper by philosopher Nick Bostrom titled "Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?" In the introduction, Bostrom argues that one (or more) of the following...

Today, Lego announced Replay, an initiative to collect, clean, and redistribute old bricks through organizations like Teach For America and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. Basically, you toss your ...

Film editor Andrew Saladino of the Royal Ocean Film Society analyzes the exquisitely engineered airships in the films of Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's father owned an airplane factory during World War II...

The Trump administration continues to act like a kid caught with its head in the cookie jar.CBS News:Sondland's lawyer, Robert Luskin said in the statement that Sondland "is profoundly disappointed th...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Graves and Frank Ashmore.You might remember Mr. Ashmore from V. Read the rest ...

PlayStation 5 is coming for winterval 2020, and will have ... drum roll ... USB-C. Also some other features.ray-tracing acceleration in the GPU hardware ... solid-state drive ... 4K Bluray ... an unla...

Last night I made honey whole wheat sourdough pizza crust. It was quite good.As a kid, there was a pizza place in my hometown that made a deep-dish pizza with a whole wheat crust. It was great, I trie...

I love a good flea market. Even though I don't really collect anymore (I make exceptions for extraordinary items), I love seeing what weird, old stuff is out there. Here where I live in Alameda, Calif...

As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, "Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc The online public square? Theyre ad companies. It is like calling a billboard ad a ver...

As former MEP Marietje Schaake (previously) writes, "Can we please stop calling Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, etc The online public square? Theyre ad companies. It is like calling a billboard ad a ver...

Did you get dinged in a parking lot? Or did you back into a phone-poll? A little bondo, a little black pinstriping, and voila, you've turned your car's unsightly, damaged door panel into a map of fant...

There have been some tweets going around about a "wearable face projector" being employed at the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.Wearable face projector#AntiMaskLaw #EmergencyLaw pic.twitter.com/Px3ATu6...

Motherfoclir is a delightful podcast about language and linguistics as they relate to Ireland ("foclir" being the Irish word for "dictionary," and thus completely unrelated to that homophonic English-...

I can't speak to the scientific value of the paper--actual quote:We focus on a more exciting possibility: if the OGLE events are due to a population of PBHs then it is possible that the orbital anomal...

Bloomberg News reports on the porcine powerhouses bred in the People's Republic. The 500 kilogram, or 1,102 pound, animal is part of a herd thats being bred to become giant swine. At slaughter, some o...

In 1929, detective novelist Arthur Upfield wanted to devise the perfect murder, so he started a discussion among his friends in Western Australia. He was pleased with their solution -- until local wor...

Let there be light! Known for its dark atmosphere, Disneyland's Blue Bayou restaurant (the one you see from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride) has finally added tiny lights to their menus. So, next ti...

Good designers know that a picture can be worth more than 1,000 words. It can also be worth a fair paycheck if you find the right image. That's why you might want to take advantage of these premium st...

Saturn "has overtaken" Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites, at least in our own system: 82 to the larger world's 79. A team "discovered a haul of 20 new moons" around the ringed gas giant, ...

Hunter Scott decided to design a bot to enter Twitter giveaways that asked for follow/like/retweets. He wrote a Python script that searched for and retweeted giveaways, and manually followed accounts ...

Nick "Ulillillia" Smith is a game developer, writer and YouTuber who achieved recognition in the early 2010s due to his eccentricity, the shameless intensity of his outsider-art creations, and his adh...

Serhii Londar (Patreon) maintains a list of open-source applications available for MacOS. Unlike some similar guides, it's exhaustive rather than curated, and easy to reference in a single, well-organ...

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail column, Why do people believe the Earth is flat?, which connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise in actual conspiracies, in which i...

If you live in Venezuela and rely on Adobe products to do your job -- whether that's publishing a newspaper, running an NGO, or doing design work, Adobe has a very special message for you: GO FUCK YOU...

Nature's li'l hackers break into security contractor's van...

A woman in Florida is in Big Trouble after cops say she climbed up into the ceiling of a Big Lots store to avoid a shoplifting arrest last Friday.The Sheriffs Office in Charlotte County, FL says 37-ye...

Oh, deer.In Long Island, New York, a deer crashed through the window of a hair salon and shocked the humans inside.ABC7NY reports it all went down at 'Be.you.tiful Hair Salon' at 344 Portion Road in L...

Enjoy this performance by violinist Gaelynn Lea. Her body is different than yours. So is her talent.Gaelynn Lea, "Amazing Grace," @ Eddie Owen Presents. Recorded live at the Red Clay Music Foundry, 2/...

This adorable 12-week-old kitten needed a snooze during their little 'coffee break.' View this post on Instagram Monday mornings be like... #ugh #mondays # #yodaA post shared by taro + zippo (@tar...

Police in Germany say driving licenses have been suspended for hundreds of people who used electric scooters while drunk at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich.Some 414 people were arrested for dr...

About three years ago I was at Maker Faire with my family. We stopped at a booth run by Tile, a company that makes small Bluetooth trackers to attach to things you don't want to lose. The person in th...

Trump signs US trade deal with Japan...

Flag for Taiwan emoji is missing...

The Hong Kong Free Press identifies the builders of this brick-throwing manganel fashioned from torn-down bamboo scaffolding as Hong Kong protesters, who deployed their siege engine in Mong Kok, Kowlo...

French company Le Creuset has announced a line of its signature enameled cast-iron cookwear themed after the Star Wars franchise; it's expensive even by Le Creuset standards, and a few of the pieces a...

The trillions that the global looter class has stashed in offshore financial secrecy jurisdictions are protected by the joint tactics of absurd complexity and stultifying dullness, which have been cre...

Self-described "creative coder" Neal Agarwal has come up with a method for hiding images in text that only appear when you highlight the words; I'm guessing he's using some kind of character-by-charac...

WBAI is a beloved New York City institution, owned by the Pacifica Foundation and run primarily by volunteers who produce longrunning, cultural-defining shows like Jim Freund's Hour of the Wolf (scien...

English is a glorious syncretic mass of a language, what you get when you blend together a bunch of mispronounced German, French and Latin words and then salt with the vernacular of a hundred other la...

I'm attracted to the idea of tiny houses, but after reading Adele Peters' essay about how much she hates living in one, my enthusiasm is diminished. She lives in a 240-square foot house (which is larg...

Mattel has brought inclusivity to one of its most popular card games, UNO. The UNO Braille Edition (available at Target for $9.99) was developed in partnership with the National Federation of the Blin...

On Oct 1, a coalition of public interest groups and states' attorneys general lost their appeal in a legal bid to block the FCC's dismantling of federal Net Neutrality protections, accomplished throug...

During the 1950s, surrealist and ethologist Desmond Morris mentored Congo, a chimpanzee, in the great ape's artistic pursuits. Congo painted more than 400 works that were purchased by the likes of Joa...

Two studies point to diminished brain plasticity the ability to adapt thinking and memory to new information as the cause behind dyslexia. People with dyslexia appear to have less brain plasticity t...

Firstsecond (publishers of In Real Life, the bestselling middle-grades graphic novel Jen Wang and I made) have just revealed the cover for Poesy the Monster Slayer, my first-ever picture book, illustr...

The parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are taking a calculated risk; they're weighting whatever doubts they have about the efficacy of vacItcines against their doubts about vaccine safety ...

Deepfake videos and audios are being used to make porn and humorous videos, but they can also be used to fabricate evidence and create propaganda. In this Wired video, researcher Sam Gregory at the hu...

As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy ...

On a solo New York Comic Con panel this past Friday, Paul Reubens shared wonderful stories from his prolific career, prompted by questions from fans in the audience. One fan asked if Paul had any favo...

In Hong Kong, a boycott has begun of skateboard lifestyle brand Vans after the company pulled the above design from their annual Vans Custom Culture competition. In the contest, the public is invited ...

In Hong Kong, a boycott has begun of skateboard lifestyle brand Vans after the company pulled the above design from their annual Vans Custom Culture competition. In the contest, the public is invited ...

Iranian cosmetic surgery enthusiast Sahar Tabar, 22, has reportedly been arrested for blasphemy. Tabar is known for her creepy selfies in which she augments her surgically-edited face with makeup and ...

After killing a man in a road accident, Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat, was interviewed by police and promised not to leave the country while the incident was investigated. She quickl...

In a shocking slight to Eric and Don Jr, the Orange Menace has handed the reigns of his impeachment defense to Jared Kushner.Why not give Barron a chance?NY Daily News:Jared Kushner is taking the rein...

This soft, inchworm robot changes shape in response to tiny electrical or temperature changes. The power-efficient robot is made from a specialized "programmable" polymer technology that, according to...

Positive stories about Latin American immigrants and the United States are difficult to come by right now. But at least Pedro X. Molina and his family have found a happy ending.Molina is an award-winn...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen analyzed 3.5 million English language books published between 1900 to 2008 to identify the adjectives most frequently applied to men and women. Unsurprising...

Nevada's chief game warden, Tyler Turnipseed knows they will lose the battle against 'zombie deer.' Deer infected with chronic wasting disease are infecting the Western United States.NY Post:Tyler Tur...

Nathan Davis writes, "When you shuffle a deck, it rearranges the order of the cards and I got wondering what that looked like. I took a deck of physical cards, wrote 1 through 52 on each one, shuffle...

Immediately after a Federal judge dismissed President Trump's attempt to block a Grand Jury from reviewing his taxes, his lawyers appealed.CNN:A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Donald Trum...

The ultimate holiday decoration: the inflatable Fortnite Battle Bus!Turn any party into a solo, duos or squads lobby. Lucky Landing and Happy Hamlet are my favorite drops. This 17.5' tall and 18' long...

Seems a pro-poker player, Mike Postle, has achieved impossible-seeming results. Other players have put hours upon hours upon hours into analyzing his baffling play. It is like watching someone play wi...

All Medina Hall wanted was to be told if the brownie had nuts in it. But staff at a Burger King in Folkestone, England, refused to read the ingredients list to her off the menu — she is blind &...

As The Hood Internet, Chicago producers Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV) have been cranking out compelling mash-ups since 2007. The clip above cuts up and recombines 50 songs from 1979. T...

I'm 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of Big Tech, and that is because I'm 100% in favor of pro-competitive regulation of all our hyper-concentrated, monopolistic industries.I say this even ...

In this video, bodycam footage shows a young man in jeans and a vaguely authoritarian shirt leaning into a driver's window. The bodycam wearer quietly approaches on foot, as if acting as backup on a s...

Meet Maria Elena Gimeno, facing felony charges after vandalizing a parked Tesla. Teslas have cameras on the wing mirrors (two of nine!) and Gimeno was filmed by them. She turned herself in after the f...

Trumpetcake spotted a remarkable item on Amazon being sold as "The Goonies Sloth Mask", perfect for Halloween. The sole customer review awards it 5 stars, but people on Twitter seem unimpressed with i...

Need earbuds that can last and don't sound like they're underwater? These Bluetooth earpieces can compete with the sound of AirPods and Beats Pro for a fraction of the price. From sleek ergonomic tech...

In a late-night press release, the White House announced that Turkey "will soon be moving forward" with an invasion of northern Syria—areas currently occupied by Kurds.Mr. Trumps decision goes a...

At a zoo in Paris, ecologist Meredith Root-Bernstein noticed a Visayan warty pig pick up a piece of bark in its mouth and then use it to move soil. Over the following years, she and colleagues observe...

A lot of companies struggle with bias in the workplace, but for many big tech companies, the problem is a bit more extreme. Why, because it's not just the human beings that are racist, a lot of their ...

This morning, we were out on our lawn, putting up our Halloween decorations, when this fellow jogged past and said something to me. I had my headphones in and so I just waved and smiled, but then he d...

This set of useful silicone kitchen tools includes my new favorite for mixing, spreading and stirring.I needed something that could stir sourdough starter inside a milk bottle. I wanted to be able to ...

Imagine sitting on the couch sippin ur drink and... pic.twitter.com/ipAYrWiNOx— Dj Candlestck (@candlestickem) October 6, 2019 Holy cow! Thank goodness no one was hurt!(h/t @NekoCase) Read the r...

He calls his cat Number One.I also dig Riker's 'Stringfellow Hawk' dock on the lake. Read the rest ...

It appears the rumored second whistleblower in President Trump's Ukrainian scandal has come forward.ABC:Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on President Donald...

It gets harder and harder to tell parody from real life. Read the rest ...

Mini Cocottes ofBB-8, C-3PO, and R2-D2 ($30 each)Just when you thought they had made all the Star Wars items we'd ever need in a lifetime, comes the Star WarsxLe CreusetCollection. Yep, the high-end c...

In 2017, Brazil's "anti-corruption task force" secured a conviction against the incredibly popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who had enacted a series of reforms that addressed the co...

Disneyland rules typically forbid costumes and masks worn by guests 14 years of age or older. But the rules clearly do NOT prevent adults from dressing in stylish trash can cosplay:Why yes we are Disn...

There are three baseline requirements for any graphic designer: Imagination, fluency with the Adobe Creative Cloud, and the ability to draw a straight line. As a matter of fact, the programs in Adobe ...

Boing Boing reader Pink Frankenstein is behind this stunning, high-resolution recreation of the 1968 Disneyland souvenir map, which he's generously licensed CC 0 (there's also a 700 DPI, 3.5GB Photosh...

Shocking charge blows lid off 22-year cover-up screams the cover of this weeks National Enquirer. Dianas Killer Found!...

My guest this week on the Cool Tools show is David Moldawer. David is a Brooklyn-based writer and book collaborator who spent more than a decade as an acquiring editor in New York City publishing. He ...

The great Drew Friedman took time to draw a portrait of every U.S. President. His work always blows me away (as you might guess, given the number of times I've posted about him). Below, a few samples ...

Steve McQueen, the King of Cool, famously wore a Tag Heuer Monaco in his epic 1971 racing film Le Mans.There are lots of debates about McQueen fashion items. The King of Cool is also frequently pictur...

"Hear that Elizabeth? I'm coming to join you, honey!"Truly one of the most entertaining shows ever on television, Sanford and Son sports the TV theme song that taught me to appreciate theme songs!The ...

Cartoonist Vince "Untold Tales of Bigfoot" Dorse (previously) continues to make astoundingly cool Haunted Mansion fan media: his latest is a "ride through" illustration of the Mansion and its many set...

Sahel Sounds is a record label, a recording project and artist collective focused on the culture in the West African Sahel. While based in Portland, Oregon, founder Christopher Kirkley frequently trav...

Glenlivet capsules are edible, seaweed-derived pods filled with whiskey that you bite into. It's pretty stupid.First of all, you can't add a drop of water to bring the volatiles to the surface of the ...

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

Ben Watson is a reporter for Defenseone, a news site that covers "US defense and National Security" who formerly served in the US Army as a public affairs officer; last week, Watson returned to the US...

The Sackler family (previously) made more money than the Rockefellers when their family business, Purdue Pharma, misled the public about the addictiveness of its flagship opioid, Oxycontin, and induce...

Troll Factory is an entertaining online edugame that shows you how disinformation merchants infiltrate social media and spread their corrosive anti-democracy propaganda.Yle's Troll Factory game asks y...

Mitch "the World's Best Artist" McConnell (Not "Moscow" Mitch O'Connell, the sell-out senator) got enough money in his crowdfunding campaign to erect this terrific They Live homage featuring reality T...

Hong Kong joins the ranks of other autocratic nations that have banned face coverings in the name of national security: Sri Lanka, France, the Netherlands, Canada, etc (such bans have also been propos...

Your choices:* This is Just to Fucking Say* I have eaten // the fucking plums* that were in // the fucking icebox* you were probably// fucking saving* for fucking breakfast* they were fucking deliciou...

Hey hey, I'm fresh back from a short two-day excursion to Disneyland. I have a bunch of stuff to share with you but I'm going to start with my visit to Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar, that little coc...

Even an hour a day is a good chunk of time to spend in your car. Why not make it feel a little bit more like home? Luckily, we've got a roundup of gadgets that can do just that and more - everything f...

John Brownlee traces the rise and fall of steampunk, a genre and aesthetic I know is close to many hearts 'round these parts. (Some of my own thoughts on the matter are quoted.) The arrival of smartph...

Play YMCA (or some other song) with your friends, turn around, and see which face the camera focuses on. There are plenty of compilation videos featuring people playing for minor rewards like loser bu...

So, a gaggle of doctors discovered that I had an 80% blockage in one of my arteries: the result of bad genetics and my former attempts to kill myself with food and booze. There's a stent in me now and...

Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been discharged from the hospital.Brief statement from Bernies treating physicians Arturo E. Marchand Jr., MD and Arjun Gururaj...

A bit of good news for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, and the app developers trying to help them not get injured or killed by police. Apple has reportedly reversed its decision to ban the app ...

Lawmakers in Congress want Spotify to detail its allegations of abuses by digital rival Apple as part of a federal antitrust probe, reports Reuters late on Friday citing two anonymous sources.The inve...

In Ecuador.That's a double scoop of nope here, thank you.Guinea pigs have long been a traditional food in various indigenous cultures of Latin America -- most notably in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia. In...

'Dank' is definitely not dank....

Deandre Somerville, 21, of West Palm Beach, overslept and missed jury duty. Florida judge John S. Kastrenekes threw him in jail for 10 days."Now I have a record," he told local media. "I almost feel l...

Weeks before the Trump Ukraine whistleblower's complaint was made public, a top CIA lawyer made what she said was a criminal referral to the Justice Department on the whistleblower's claim Trump abuse...

Continuing to gain in the polls, Senator Elizabeth Warren raised $24.6 for Q3 fundraising, coming in slightly behind Senator Sanders and cruising past former Vice-President Biden in their campaigns fo...

Over the years, there have been numerous proposals by the likes of MTV and HBO to bring Peter Bagge's seminal comic Hate to the screen. Here is a 1996 pilot short, directed by Steve Loter. While the a...

In 2016, a Facebook user called the Austrian Green Party politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek "a corrupt oaf," a "traitor" and a member of a "fascist party." Glawischnig-Piesczek secured an Austrian co...

This L-type magsafe charger for pre-2013 MacBooks is already cheap at but if you use promo code NX72DAJR, you can get it for half that price. Read the rest ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is Robert Cialdini's absolute classic book outlining six principles that you can use to convince people to do things and/or defend yourself against coercion. I ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion is Robert Cialdini's absolute classic book outlining six principles that you can use to convince people to do things and/or defend yourself against coercion. I ...

Don't oversleep when you have jury duty. Deandre Somerville (21) received a 10-day jail sentence and a criminal record for oversleeping and blowing off his service. He was also put on probation for a ...

Back in 2011, I wrote a young adult novella called "Martian Chronicles," which I podcasted as it was in progress; it's a story about the second wave of wealthy colonists lifting off from climate-wrack...

From Catlech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology, LEONARDO (LEg ON Aerial Robotic DrOne) is a bipedal robot that's uses dronelike propellers to balance and walk around. Eventually, the prop...

Stephen Colbert explains why Trump keeps talking about his impeachable offenses in public:Trump knows if somethings bad, you dont admit it in public, he said. So, if he admits it in public it must not...

My cat came inside soaking wet, so I did some investigating and found this. pic.twitter.com/s1ygmFQArp— Laura Lee (@Laura88Lee) October 3, 2019 You have been warned. Cats do take revenge. We did...

Your cable company advertises one price, but charges another, much higher one: on average, your real bill will be 24% higher than the price you were promised.They get away with it by adding a series o...

Some people sober up and realize they've made a giant mistake.Smithsonian:Outside the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts towers a totem pole by Charles Joseph, a Canadian artist from the Kwakiutl First Nati...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kylie Shea (@kyliesheaxo) on Oct 3, 2019 at 9:12am PDT Professional dancer and actress Kylie Shea performed in front of a thermographic...

The Goop purveyor was familiar with the line of vibrators but had apparently not seen 'The Tennis Coach' up close. As the interview continues it seems she may not be very familiar with these products....

https://img.youtube.com/vi/MaAVrj6MO5U/maxresdefault.jpgLate Night with Seth Meyers created this fake commercial that explains how the impeachment process works.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer was wonderful. Far and away my favorite episode, however, was Hush.Overnight, skeletal ghouls with metal grins and MIB style steal the voices of Sunnydale's townspeople. How t...

The geniuses at Squirrel Monkey designed Dropbox for the 1980s. It's a perfect solution for the MS-DOS, floppy disk, and modem era.Image: YouTube Read the rest ...

When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for Chinas investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it...

Cleveland's Stephanie "Crochetverse" Pokorny created a freehand, crocheted Alien Xenomorph costume for her (incredibly lucky!) son, Jake, adding glow-in-the-dark fabric paint accents to make it lumine...

Coraline Ada Ehmke's Hippocratic License is a software license that permits the broad swathe of activities enabled by traditional free/open licenses, with one exception it bars use by: "individuals, c...

Elizabeth Holmes continues to struggle.ABC7:According to our media partner, the Mercury News, Holmes' lawyers have asked a judge to let them quit the case. They're claiming Holmes is not paying them. ...

Puddles' voice is that of an angel. An angel in clown make up, but sure.I love this guy. Read the rest ...

Relive the glorious moment when the First Order almost ended the Resistance! This lovely model of the rinky-dink Crait Ski Speeder will take you there.The kit comes with a Poe Dameron minfig as well a...

Relive the glorious moment when the First Order almost ended the Resistance! This lovely model of the rinky-dink Crait Ski Speeder will take you there.The kit comes with a Poe Dameron minfig as well a...

As AOL's anime-haired "Digital Prophet", David Shing was often portrayed as a blatant poser, a voltron of web 2.0 buzzwords with a tellingly quiet social media following. But he was also a marketing d...

A Redditor created stats for the Goose from Untitled Goose Game. Naturally, its actions include an enraging honk:The creator got some pushback for giving the Goose a chaotic neutral designation. His a...

Vaping giants like Juul attracted billions in investment from tobacco companies by reversing decades of progress in weaning children off of nicotine, thanks to deliberately targeting children with adv...

Google has long allowed you to delete all the data it's stored on you, or to turn off collection, but turning off collection altogether made its services a lot less useful (for example, it made the au...

Kaja Robinson is 53 and has a daughter about to go off to college, but she is still embroiled in bizarre, kafkaesque disputes over the $17,000 student loan she took out in the 1980s: for decades, she ...

El Pais reports that a mother and her daughter were arrested after hiring a man to kill a swindler, then complaining to police when he failed to do the job.To be able to start working on the operation...

The creators of the Exploding Kittens game wanted to make an event to "fix the things that were wrong with traditional conventions," that was "actually fun," and had a "giant cat that explodes." Enter...

"Evil Midweek Cutie" costume available at Walmart.(Via Kiersten Essenpreis.) Read the rest ...

It's Inkotober, when "artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month." In a fun experiment, Janelle Shane trained a neural net with p...

There's hardly a business out there that doesn't use cloud storage, and a growing number of private individuals are taking advantage of it as well. Suffice to say that word gets out pretty quickly abo...

After seeing so much skin with all those "sexy" Halloween costumes, it's nice to see someone has made a costume that covers you up. Like, really covers you up. This $100 "Cousin It" Halloween costume ...

Tightrope Girl took 18 hours and the widow Constance Hatchaway took 13 hoursIf you've ever tried to draw anything on an ordinary Etch A Sketch toy, you know it takes some mad skills to be able to do w...

Luke Perry's 22-year old son Jack wrestles as "Jungle Boy" for TNT's WWE competitor, All Elite Wrestling:#12Days till #AEWDynamite!#JungleBoy (@boy_myth_legend) is ready! Are you? Wednesday, Oct 2nd, ...

Some people hate on-demand electric scooters -- and some people really hate them.This guy in Florida falls into some third group positioned even further along that axis of disgruntlement. From the Sou...

Paper Girls is Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's outstanding, Stranger Things-esque all-girl time-travel adventure comic, and after four years, the pair have completed the story, tying up the increas...

You may have already heard about Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island, Little St. James, and its mysterious temple. Now, the Miami Herald has a report on the apparently nefarious means Epstein used to b...

UNC's Paul Jones writes, "Ohio and North Carolina have for years been fighting about which state own the right to say they were the Home of Aviation or the First in Flight. But now NC has something no...

Banksy's massive "Devolved Parliament," a 2009 painting of chimpanzees in Britains House of Commons, just sold for $12.1 million at a Sotheby's auction. It was put on the block by a private, unnamed s...

Consent Academy's Sar Surmick writes: "We need to hack culture and improve how people behave around sex and consent. Media today gives us terrible depictions of consent: Men who keep pushing, women wh...

Our friends at Feral House have a new book out called Compliments of Chicagohoodz: Chicago Street Gang Art and Culture, "which collects over five decades of visual art and design from Chicago's street...

A coroner's report seems to suggest that two English rugby players who died of a heroin overdose were seeking brown sugar in the wee hours of the morning in Sri Lanka, but accidentally purchased a kin...

If you do soldering work, I recommend getting a pair of these micro cutters. They'll cut copper wires flush with the blob of solder, making your work look tidy. And they cost just on Amazon Read the ...

40 years of Reaganomic sociopathy has managed to convince hundreds of millions of otherwise sensible people that big, social problems are caused by their personal choices, and not (say) by rapacious c...

Resource Generation is an organization of young people who inherited enough to be in the top decile of America's wealth distribution, who are determined to give away those inheritances in ways that re...

Mike Lake's mashup of Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" with "Scales and Arpeggios" from Disney's 1970 animated feature "The Aristocats" is plain fabulous. Lizzo plays the scene far better than Eva Gabor ever did...

The CN Tower is a giant radio antenna and tourist attraction on Toronto's lakeshore; it's an iconic part of the city's skyline, and has been since it was built at taxpayer expense; today, it's owned b...

In 2008, Congress authorized a $700b bailout of the finance sector, with almost no strings attached (notably, the bailout did not require banks that were receiving public subsidies to abstain from for...

Today's Bernie Sanders health update is good. He's recovering well after heart surgery, and his campaign says he plans to participate in the next Democratic presidential debate.Statement from Jane San...

The psyops will continue until polling results improve.'Election Interference,' tweeted the manifestly unfit, popular-vote-losing, about-to-be-impeached, Putin-backed, Ukraine-meddling, illegitimate U...

Aestetix writes, "On Tuesday, October 8th, for the very first time ever, the new issue of 2600 will be released digitally in non-DRM PDF format. We know there are many of you who have been unable to s...

Tiktok bills itself as apolitical, despite the fact that is both a de facto arm of Chinese political propaganda (and, weirdly, for Uyghur human rights activists).Tiktok's internal moderation policies ...

"We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety."...

Kiyo Yamauchi retweeted a tweet written in Japanese, which has a photo of an acorn. He said, "The tweeter found an acorn at a shopping mall and he brought it to the lost and found just in case a child...

Elena Botella worked at Capital One -- one of the US's leading issuers of subprime credit-cards -- for three years; in a fascinating first-person account, she describes how Capital One's youthful, sma...

Political ads to be banned on short-form video app...

In 1968 78% of 26-year-olds in the U.S. lived with a spouse, and 12% lived with their parents. By 2018 30% lived with parents and only 24% lived with a spouse.From Apartment List:Starting with 2007 t...

A Snapchat knockoff for 'close friends' that shares your location data with Mark Zuckerberg? Sign me up!Facebook-owned Instagram today launched a messaging app that automatically shares your status wi...

I love it when the name of a musical genre gives you an instantaneous understanding of what it is. (See "Mallwave.") Until today, I hadn't heard of the Dungeon Synth microgenre but instantly had a vis...

Perhaps Cleveland preacher Perry Stone is expecting an urgent text from the holy spirit. Read the rest ...

Because washing your hands after you scarf a bag of Cheetos is such a hassle:"For Chips, Popcorn, Pizza, Party food, Finger food, Appetizers and anything else that makes your fingers Cheesy, Greasy or...

"See you in space," indeed. Far fucking out!Long-since closed, the Buffalo, New York building that held Starseed Enterprises was recently home to a musical instrument store but is apparently now a chu...

The Cyber Independent Testing Lab is a security measurement company founded by Mudge Zadko (previously), late of the Cult of the Dead Cow and l0pht Heavy Industries and the NSA's Tailored Access Opera...

Todd Starnes is no longer a host on Fox News radio after stating Democrats do not worship the Christian God, but may worship Moloch, depicted in the bible as a Canaanite god whose followers practiced ...

The F4U is a thing of beauty.In WWII the Japanese called the Chance Vought F4U 'whistling death.' At around 1:24 you can hear why! Read the rest ...

Pippi Longstocking, the young lady who taught me to responsibly live alone, will be featured in a new film.Hollywood Reporter:StudioCanal and David Heyman's Heyday Films, which together produced the h...

A new study shows the garbage patches floating in our oceans are mostly trash dumped off ships.AFP:The island is located roughly midway between Argentina and South Africa in the South Atlantic gyre, a...

Sadly, it appears that the decomposed latex Leonardo suit from 1993's TMNT III failed to sell at its auction earlier this week, despite the low low estimate of 10,000-15,000.Leonardo's (Mark Caso) cos...

At last month's Defcon, the United States Air Force invited pre-selected hackers to attempt to sabotage an F-15 fighter-jet data system:And after two long days, the seven hackers found a mother lode o...

"And there we go, we've created Minecraft." Read the rest ...

There's a great deal of opportunity out there in the tech world and an increasing amount of competition. So you know your way around Python? Great. So do a lot of other coders, and they've probably go...

My mom always sewed my Halloween costumes when I was a kid, so I never got to wear one of the many licensed ones featured in the recently released documentary, "Halloween in a Box." I'm not really com...

[Worried about automation and high-tech unemployment, or gig economy labor apocalypses? Techdirt's Mike Masnick and the Copia Institute have pulled together an outstanding anthology of speculative fic...

Issey Miyake's presentation at Paris Fashion Week featured dancers, skateboarders, and models wearing skin tone undergarments. Once the models walked into position, they were dressed by a mechanism de...

With a little bit of TV trickery, Billie Eilish was able to perform her hit "bad guy" upside down on Saturday Night Live.This behind-the-scenes video shows how it was done: View this post on Instagr...

This one's good not only because it's simple yet interactive, but because it shows the receipts and the spending. There are various others on the site for different tendrils of the British state; hope...

There's a detailed guide to building the LED Matrix Sand Toy at Adafruit:These LEDs interact with motion and looks like theyre affect by gravity. An Adafruit LED matrix displays the LEDs as little gra...

A relieving of tensions between John and the East Village Other leads to the development of the UPS.From John Wilcock, New York Years, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall.(See all Boing Boing installm...

Interoperability is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into ...

On Wednesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court declaring opposition to efforts by Donald Trumps administration to end the federal 'Dreamer' program which protects from depo...

Aww, kitty likes to stretch out in front of that heater.What a gorgeous heat-seeking Siamese chonker.Look at you, you chunk.Turned the heater on for the first time this year.[via] Read the rest ...

Firefox encounters issue with Windows.Good thing it wasn't a crash.A baby fox showed up to say hi at my grandmother's house, says Redditor @Vechrotex.Blep. Read the rest ...

Abby is a one-handed guitar slayer and drummer, and she can really sing.I was born without my right hand and use duct tape to play guitar, says @Abshow.Abby is on YouTube and IMGUR and Instagram.Song:...

Nine years ago, Republican lawmakers gutted the IRS's budget, but didn't relax its requirement to conduct random audits: in response, the IRS has shifted its focus from auditing rich people (who can a...

Steve Hines designed this 5-oz. shirt-pocket sound movie camera for Kodak Research Laboratories in 1976. His website has photos and information about the device, which was far ahead of its time.Image:...

Elizabeth Warren has already proposed strict limits on lobbyists' activities, but in her latest policy proposal, she offers a way of hitting the most aggressive lobbyists in their pocketbooks, and usi...

Machine learning systems are pretty good at finding hidden correlations in data and using them to infer potentially compromising information about the people who generate that data: for example, resea...

DMZ, an outstanding post-apocalyptic comic written by Brian Wood which came to its satsifying conclusion in 2012, and has been subsequently collected in beautiful deluxe editions (which also reprint m...

New, high-res 3D images of human embryos show a variety of muscles that were "present in our ancestors but normally absent from the adult human." For example, there are hand muscles that temporarily a...

I've been using a 25-inch Acer monitor for years and have been very happy with it. If you need an external monitor for your notebook computer or Raspberry Pi and don't want to spend a lot of money, Ac...

Hkmap Live is a crowdsourced app that uses reports from a Telegram group to track the locations of protesters, police, and traffic, as well as the use of antipersonnel weapons like tear gas, mass arre...

The NASA Insight lander on the Martian surface is equipped with an ultrasensitive seismometer to detect and record vibrations, from marsquakes to soft breezes to other unidentified vibrations. Listen ...

The NASA Insight lander on the Martian surface is equipped with an ultrasensitive seismometer to detect and record vibrations, from marsquakes to soft breezes to other unidentified vibrations. Listen ...

Kompromat is a hell of a drug, as evidenced by Lindsey Graham's tragic deterioration in a few short years. Read the rest ...

On NPR's always-excellent Rough Translation podcast comes an incredibly complex and nuanced story (MP3, transcript) about marginalized, racialized people in public housing in Marseille who found an ac...

The tldr; of Thomas B. Edsall's alarming New York Times opinion piece: Senate Republicans, Fox News, and loyalists in the military will see to it that Trump spends out his life in office.Steven Levits...

The Skydio 2 autonomous drone with six 4K cameras and uses AI to "smoothly fly around obstacles while capturing amazing videos and photos." You just attach a small beacon to a person or moving thing a...

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is leading the Congressional impeachment inquiry, told Pompeo to get out of the way.Reuters:We are deeply concerned about Secretary Pompeos ...

The Action Lab Man shows off some cool 3D printed parts that look like arrows that point in the same direction even if you turn them 180 degrees.Image: The Action Lab/YouTube Read the rest ...

Senator Bernie Sanders is off the campaign trail "until further notice" after physicians discovered a blockage in one of his arteries and inserted two stents. He had experienced "chest discomfort" las...

This clip is from 2007. I have yet to prepare Christopher Walken's upright chicken with pears but I have enjoyed this video several times.(via r/ObscureMedia) Read the rest ...

A: This clip is an example of a certain genre of Internet video.Q: What is a supercut?Bonus video below, the time Boing Boing was part of a clue on Jeopardy! Read the rest ...

A forthcoming book by two New York Times journalists reveals that Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs, to slow them down. The remark was uttered in a White House meeting, and was only...

Peter Sissons, who died today at 77, is well known to British news junkies for his decades anchoring daily bulletins on ITV and the BBC. Though not well-known abroad, he just happens to be the man res...

Parliament repetedly shot down former Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan, fatally compromised by its complicated arrangements for keeping Ireland free of border controls. Parliament also has pas...

[Michael Skeet my longtime friend and sometime collaborator -- has just finished his latest novel, A Tangled Weave, which revolves around the weird historical moment when possession of cotton was a s...

Rural Britons of the beekeeping set traditionally keep the bees up to date on family births, deaths, marriages and important world events. Perhaps we should all adopt this charming custom instead of b...

YouTube denies that it punishes users simply for being queer or using queer terms. But users of the platform are putting it to the test and finding many such phrases that will lead to automatic demone...

Cue the "Psycho" violins. If you're a true Halloween completist who's wondering how to deck out your bathroom for the holiday, we have your accessory: The Bloody Bath Mat.When it's dormant, this devio...

Per these reports, the mayor of Jindo County in South Korea had a problem. 600 volunteers were expected to participate in International Coastal Cleanup Day, but there was no garbage for the volunteers...

Over the weekend a woman climbed the short exterior fence around the lion exhibit at the Bronx Zoo, and waved and chattered at the closest lion as bystanders watched: View this post on Instagram #l...

Last year in the USA, a corporate coalition led by Apple killed 20 state Right to Repair bills (Massachusetts subsequently passed a ballot initiative that accomplished the same rules without having to...

I've been cutting my own hair for decades. I've used everything from blunt preschooler's scissors on up, but the best clipper I've used is the one I have now. It has a ceramic blade that stays sharp, ...

'80s and '90s rap and hardcore fans, this one's for you.BOOKS: TOGETHER FOREVERRizzoli, October 1, 2019Longtime punk and hiphop photographer Glen E. Friedman has been capturing mosh pits, skate ramps,...

Today Pretzel had her feathers removed, so her coat does not absorb every leaf this Fall brings. The frizzy soft hair she has left leaves her legs looking mighty tiny here.Here is what the de-featheri...

Trump White House changed security on the National Security Council's top-secret codeword system in early 2018, two former administration officials tell Politico, in an apparent effort to increase sec...

I keep a pack of Crayola colored pencils in my bag.This is a good deal the 36 pack for about the price of the 10. I keep a pack in my travel carry-on, incase I am overcome by the urge to sketch someth...

Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe opened today in West Hollywood, California, and it's the first restaurant in the US that serves weed. Rather than sommeliers, the cafe has "flower hosts" that deliver wee...

We're big fans of useless machines around here: those boxes with one or more switches, that, when toggled, trigger some kind of arm that pops out and puts the switch back in the off position, before r...

Pres. Trump's "Twitter account should be suspended," says Kamala Harris."There's plenty ofevidence to suggest that he is irresponsible with his words in a way that could result in ...

A truck was traveling across the Nanfangao Bridge in Taiwan this morning when the bridge collapsed. According to Mashable:A truck can be seen passing over the span as it falls, almost making it to the...

Amber Guyger, the Dallas police officer who shot her neighbor to death after entering his apartment thinking it was his own, has been found guilty of murder.From Washington Post:The prosecution cast G...

In July, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg held two hour-long internal employee meetings to discuss the business's future; The Verge obtained the recordings of those meetings, which reveal, among other...

I love you Monchichi. Read the rest ...

An off-duty Dallas cop who killed a man in his own home was convicted today of murder. Amber Guyger, armed with a gun, claimed she thought she was in her own apartment—a floor down—when sh...

Being a Tor author is pretty swell. (Thanks, Patrick!) Read the rest ...

I think the dog prefers to have the gate there.This gate is not getting in the way of playing fetch. from r/awwImage: r/aww/ Read the rest ...

Sean K Reynolds' and Shaunna Germain's free, short ebook Consent in Gaming (from Monte Cook Games) is a beautifully thought-through exploration of how game-masters and players can negotiate their own ...

A gentleman apparently wandered off the DESIGNATED PATH and was burnt pretty bad, fucking about near Old Faithful.The water is hot, bro.CNN:Siemers was able to walk back to the Old Faithful Inn, where...

Grand Hardin's 1968 Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" is one of the most widely assigned readings in the past ten years' worth of university syllabi; notionally, it describes how property tha...

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders topped the charts, receiving more than $25 million dollars in Q3 fundraising. Sanders is also dropping in the polls.Politico:Bernie Sanders raised more than $25 million ...

Here's the state of U.S. politics, starring the runaway airport cart as the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/tFv0nY3RNk— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) October 1, 2019Image: Twitter Read the rest ...

Project Farm is one of my favorite YouTube channels. They thoroughly test different products and methods for solving common problems that farmers, and just about everyone else, have. In this video, Pr...

A beauty from last February: Kyle McDonald tweeted redacted social media screenshots from a surveillance camera owner that emitted a steady stream of alerts because it saw a face in the garden -- a fa...

As of Jan 1, a new International Maritime Organisation standard will seriously restrict the kind of air pollution that shipping vessels can emit; in response, the industry has invested more than $12b ...

For years, the Harvard Business School fellow William Lazonick has been writing about the rise of the "shareholder value" doctrine in capital markets, and how that has driven financial engineering tac...

We are to understand that "both the body and head of the costume show substantial breakdown to the foam latex elements."Leonardo's (Mark Caso) costume from Stuart Gilard's family adventure sequel Teen...

Lospec offers various tools and tutorials for creating "digitally restrictive art", typically pixel art that restricts the pallette and resolution in honor (or explicit imitation) of retro computer ha...

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH spunky little Donald is harassed by the most unfair witch hunt in history just because he got caught being doing crime...

Everybody's an expert when it comes to packing before a vacation. It's great that you squeezed all that stuff into a carry-on. Now, what happens when you find that must-have pair of shoes or holiday g...

I can't rightly say I know what's going on in Mushroom Dlicieux!, a demented glitchy Pico-8 game by Rmy Devaux. But I had plenty of fun racing around the woods chomping shrooms, avoiding crawlies and ...

Bandai Namco owns the trademark and copyright in classic arcade game Ms. Pac Man, but a retro hardware company named AtGames has acquired rights to collect royalty payments on it. These rights were se...

These cute little pottery vessels -- fashioned in the shape of animals -- are about 3,000 years old, and were found near children's graves. A group of scientists hypothesized that they might actually ...

If you're looking to refresh your social media avatars for Halloween, use this generator by Olivia Haines to create ghosts, vampires, witches and more. I went with bloody mummy:(Via Kalonica.) Read th...

In a bit of an understatement, the American Kennel Club observes, "Pugs sometimes experience breathing problems." Here's pug Gyoza's snorts and snores being recorded for use in the upcoming game Halo ...

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

In this amusing and rather frightening footage, a runaway utility cart turns in circles on the asphalt at Chicago's O'Hare airport, slowly making its way toward a plane at the gate. Workers hover near...

The Gate is a short creature feature with some sharp creepy moments, the docu-footage look, and a self-subverting lesson about drugs and faith in government. It slips perfectly into a certain British ...

Mathematician Clifford Pickover's brilliant caption for this clip: "Philosopher-cat explores the nature of reality, identity, mind, and its place in the vast space-time cosmos that we call home." Read...

US imposes sanctions on 3 companies Yevgeniy Prigozhin uses to manage 3 planes and 1 yacht....

No new bill on online privacy expected expected to show up in Congress before the end of the year, Reuters reports, citing three unnamed sources on Capitol Hill.A U.S. online privacy bill is not likel...

The verification requirements on the neighborhood app Nextdoor effectively make the app an unwelcome place for homeless people. If you do not have a fixed address, you cannot complete the verification...

[[You may know Richard Littler from the astounding dystopian alternate fiction/bleak humour series Scarfolk (previously). He's been working on an on-again/off-again animated series that is, at long la...

Walgreens and CVS have pulled the very popular heartburn medicine Zantac, along with their generic versions, from store shelves after the FDA warned they had found a cancer-causing drug among its ingr...

BMW Motorrad, the fun BMW that makes the motorcycles, may release some 'M' class bikes. 'M' in the world of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the boring fuckers who make the cars and SUVs means 'this one i...

Tea time, happy mutants! PG Tips 'Extra Strong' is not as pitifully weak as PG Tips 'Gold' offering. Belly up to the bar and get your tea on!Over the course of the last year, I've mostly leaned into c...

Well known for its inhospitality to folks without a home, San Franciscans will help you out if you've lost your dog.Dogs bring out the best in humanity, usually.KRON4:I was closer with Yip than I have...

On Saturday night in Auburn Hills, Michigan, someone hacked an electronic billboard on the I-75 highway to play a porn video. It ran for at least 30 minutes before police were able to get the billboar...

Last Thursday, a young black bear broke into Fretz Middle School in Bradford, Pennsylvania. As it was evening, the only humans inside were the custodians. The bear eventually left of its own accord. I...

My 13-year-old son showed me this and we couldn't stop laughing. How dare Mario be so rude to his brother!The 1989 TV series "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" starred wrestler Lou Albano as Mario, D...

For twenty years, novelist Cormac McCarthy (The Road, No Country for Old Men) has been an unofficial "editor-at-large" for the Sante Fe Institute, where he is a trustee. McCarthy has helped numerous s...

Whenever I'm in Japan I marvel at the efficient, clean, quiet, and comfortable trains. The passengers are polite, and the train employees bow when moving from one car to another. Right now there is so...

TED-Ed just released the first episode of a 10-part series called "Think Like a Coder." It's an animated adventure starring a teenager named Ethic who wakes up with amnesia in a prison cell and befrie...

In case you missed it, some frustrated residents in the Clinton Park neighborhood of San Francisco chipped in a few hundred bucks each to purchase giant boulders to keep homeless people off their stre...

Melvil Dewey created the Dewey Decimal system, established the first school for instruction of librarians, and was one of the founders of the American Library Association. But in June, the ALA voted t...

I stared at this a while in Target and a staff member eventually asked if I needed help and I slowly turned to them and whispered "kratom ranch."Kranch Saucy Sauce [Amazon] Read the rest ...

Castle-generator is, as you can probably already guess, a generator of castles—gorgeous, two-dimensional pixel art fortresses to die for over and over and over again. It's by _unsettled_; all so...

Here's a video of an octopus changing color while it's asleep. Are the patterns in response to a dream? Possibly, suspects the Alaska Pacific University professor David Scheel. That video is from an u...

Who can forget the moment our president, the man in charge of a nuclear arsenal, coined the word "covfefe"? Sadly, it's easy to forget given the frequency and amount of head-slapping sayings he's give...

A new analysis of whales suggests that each one is worth about $2 million in carbon sequestration -- and the global population is thus worth about $1 trillion.How do whales sequester carbon? By eating...

Silver maples are evil, obviously, but I was enchanted by one root's complete embrace of a brick in my back yard. Liberating the brick meant liberating the root first, and I feel such a mildly interes...

Described by their finder as "Yoopalite" rocks, a cache of fluorescent sodalite-laced stones was found on a Michigan beach. The apparently bland, well-weathered pebbles light up under 365nm; agate-hun...

Nothing worth saying about this man can safely be said—at least on Twitter. Read the rest ...

Good news everyone! All of those products made using microplastics that you invested in will hang around even after you get rid of them: that's good value. Currently, they can be found fouling up the ...

Cats are possessed so it makes sense that Target has made a scratcher that looks like a haunted house! You can get this two-story cardboard Haunted Mansion from Target's Halloween Hyde & EEK! Bout...

Children of the 80's will remember the disturbing puppets from satirical puppet show Spitting Image and the video for Genesis' Land of Confusion. Co-creator Roger Law has confirmed that a pilot has be...