Articles by BoingBoing from September 2020

I bought some of these7W Ultrabright mini LED flashlightsa while back and they are my favorites. They are surprisingly bright (it has a bright/dim/strobe setting) and a zoom feature to focus the beam ...

Marvel screwed up big time in 2014 when it hired 75-year-old Italian cartoonist Mio Manara, known for his erotic comics, to draw a variant cover for Spider-Woman No 1. Now, the original art is on the ...

My daughters and I loved playing Super Mario Galaxy for the Wii in 2007. And we bought two copies of the Switch version when it came out a couple of weeks ago so we can play it again. So, we were exci...

For years, karaoke was relegated to those places with a dedicated system and an archive of tracks for use. Now, Karaoke On Demand essentially gives you frustrated artists the chance to bring your song...

Researchers at Binghamton University developed a utility called FakeCatcher that can spot deepfake videos by detecting the presence of a heartbeat on a person's face. From IEEE Spectrum:In particular,...

On Sunday, 57-year-old Ion Aliman was reelected as mayor of Deveselu, Romania. A member of the Social Democrat Party, he won by an overwhelming landslide. The only glitch is that he had died 10 days b...

Over 65 years ago the Rand Corporation built an "electronic roulette wheel" to generate random numbers. It recorded the binary numbers, converted them to decimal numbers, and published a book, A Milli...

Dana Rubenstein's New York Times piece paints a grim picture of the city's economic outlook:The unemployment rate in New York City is 16 percent,twice as highas the rest of the country. Personal incom...

Ten years ago, Scientific American put together a list of their favorite apocalyptic plots from fiction and film. The grouped them by category, like astronomical catastrophes, biological calamities, w...

Ten years ago, Scientific American put together a list of their favorite apocalyptic plots from fiction and film. The grouped them by category, like astronomical catastrophes, war, geophysical disaste...

Magpies are known to be highly intelligent, but I didn't realize they could also be such bullies. Whether it's for sport or out of revenge, this bird is terrorizing an Australian boy, who is screaming...

Magpies are known to be highly intelligent, but I didn't realize they could also be such bullies. Whether it's for sport or out of revenge, this bird is terrorizing an Australian boy, who is screaming...

The UK's Lincolnshire Wildlife Park, home to the National Parrot Sanctuary where the public can re-home pet parrots, has temporarily removed five newly adopted parrots from view because the birds were...

When killer Gary Gilmore was about to be executed by a firing squad, he was asked if he had any final words. He said, "Let's do it." When Dan Wieden of the ad agency Wieden & Kennedy was trying to...

French Kindergarten teacher Sylvain Helaine, 35, has full body tattoos and recently had the whites of his eyes inked black. He says that last year, the parents of a three-year-old complained that Hela...

The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold [Lenovo.com] is a 13.3" tablet with a folding 1560-line OLED display. There's a keyboard that magnetically clips into place, covering the bottom half of the screen and turn...

US dentists report a big increase in cracked teeth since the pandemic. Stress triggers bruxing (teeth clenching and grinding) which cracks teeth and breaks fillings and crowns. From CNN:For [San Franc...

On Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York's Prospect Park, a fellow was spotted dragging two big trash bags filled with live eels to the lake there and dumping the animals into the water. Dominick Pabon a...

Do shipping containers make good homes? They're hard to cut, hard to insulate, have little structural strength, and generally end up using framing lumber and other traditional materials to make the da...

The BBC posted a fantastic gallery of sapeurs, the snappy Congolese dressers who brighten Brazzaville and Kinshasa. The photos are by Tariq Zaidi (insta), who has a book out in October titled Sapeurs:...

Christopher Cantwell (previously at BB) was first seen ranting about Jews at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally and last seen blubbering in a self-pitying video which earned him the sobriquet...

Robert Chody, the Sheriff in Williamson County, Texas, was arrested and charged Monday with destroying footage of his deputies killing Javier Ambler. Ambler, 40, was a postal worker tased repeatedly ...

With everyone looking for increased portability from all their necessary items, it's a surprise monocular telescopes haven't eclipsed binoculars yet. But it may not be too long before these lightweigh...

HBO has ordered a pirate comedy from the prolific and ubiquitous Taika Waititi. To be called Our Flag Means Death, the show will be written by David Jenkins (People of Earth) and Garrett Basch (The N...

In The Atlantic, McKay Coppins reports on Trump's contempt for Christians and his admiration for those who exploit them.In private, many of Trump's comments about religion are marked by cynicism and c...

Last week, Industrial Light and Magic posted this lovely featurette on the design and making of the Razor Crest spaceship, flown by The Mandalorian in the Star Wars universe.There is some really inter...

Google's Arts & Culture division has a promising new app, called Fabricius, that uses machine learning to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics. The free app allows you to learn more about hieroglyphics, ...

From Hugh D'Andrade, the maker of the "2020 Funpocalypse" bingo card, comes a set of printable 2020 Debate bingo cards (pdf). He writes, "The debates are just a huge source of anxiety for me, but...

There are currently four COVID-19 sniffing dogs at the airport in Helsinki, Finland part of a state-funded project to screen new arrivals who might be carrying the novel coronavirus. As The Guardian ...

A large hospital chain that operates medical facilities around the U.S. was taken offline Monday, and in a statement blamed an unnamed technology "security issue." Security experts say it sounds like...

There was a big outage for users of Microsoft 365, and other related services. Late on Monday Microsoft said a recent change it introduced probably caused the glitch that impacted user access to multi...

Because "Cracking down on rich tax cheats is law enforcement," writes the NYT. Donald Trump's long-concealed, just-reported tax information for the last 20 years is "The Picture of a Broken Tax Syst...

There are few tools in the history of humankind that stretch back as far as the molcajete. Going back thousands of years to the ancient Mayans and beyond, the process of crafting stone mortar and pest...

I bought a couple of these Stanley Multi Tools a few years ago year. They are cheap, but really solid. I gave one to a friend and keep the other in my desk drawer for quick repairs....

Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure? Those two titans are often the center of every question when considering cloud-based web platforms. While Amazon and Microsoft are the absolute 1-2 in that disc...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic soundsHi, everyone – Welcome back to the show. Th...

It's been a while since the infamous truck-eating railroad trestle has scraped off the top of a truck. That's because last year the city of Durham, North Carolina foolishly increased the clearance of ...

The New York Times reports that a team of psychologists has identified the personality types that glom onto conspiracy theories.One is familiar: the injustice collector, impulsive and overconfide...

Facemasks are a proven way to prevent the spread of Covid-19 but some mask-haters are so selfish that they threaten to harm and kill public health officials who want to save lives with masks and stay-...

Zoom meetings started out as replacements for in-person group meetings, but they're now also replacing phone calls. I think that's a mistake, and so does M.G. Siegler, who explains why in his new...

Carla and I have been friends with Denise Kaufman for almost 30 years, but being the humble person she is, she never told us she had been the bass player for an incredible all-woman Haight Asbury rock...

This guy is a little less colorful, and certainly finds the Vincent less abusive than Hunter Thompson did.Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973):But first things first. We were talking ab...

During the 1980s in La Honda, California, a tree-filled community in the Santa Cruz Mountains, kids would frequently report sightings of The Shaved, monkey-like creatures they'd spotted in the hills. ...

In a summer of marches over police misconduct, 104 incidents were recorded in which people drove vehicles into protestors. Of the drivers, 8 were at the wheel of a police car. Prosecutors determined t...

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The policy at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park is that if you find a diamond in the 37-acre eroded volcanic crater, its yours to keep. Since he was in second grade. Kevin Kinard, now 33, has oc...

Behold as an enormous rubber lich heralds the final ruin of the American republicand then check out Home Depot's 12ft Halloween skeleton, a $300 investment where the first nightmare is simply getting ...

Many artists have covered Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." In 1982, enigmatic Japanese post-punk musician Kiyoaki Iwamoto truly made the song his own. From the description of the new re-issu...

Ebisu the Japanese cat has been trained to copy the actions of her trainer, according to a new report in Animal Cognition:This study shows evidence of a domestic cat (Felis catus) being able to succes...

On Saturday, police in Richmond, California just north of Oakland detained around 60 individuals wearing "black uniforms" and gathered on Point Molate, a historic city-owned dock near a Chevron refine...

In the 1980s, Infocom popularized the term "interactive fiction" and turned the text adventure into a profitable medium. Ingenious programming and broad literary horizons brought it (and one or two ri...

Sure, everybody is gaga about Apple's AirPods Pro. They love it all except the $249 list price, of course. Especially if something should happen to those little darlings when you're working out at th...

A U.S. District Judge granted an injunction late Sunday blocking Donald Trump's "ban" on video-sharing app Tik Tok, which would have come into effect at midnight. The Chinese-owned app, a target of Tr...

Naz Riahi shot "Sincerely, Erik" in June, It follows Erik, a New York City bookseller trying to cope with pandemic isolation. Naz says it's "a love letter to New York, books and the lonely hearts." A ...

Brad Parscale, a senior advisor to Donald Trump's reelection campaign and its former manager, was hospitalized Sunday after an incident at his Fort Lauderdale home. The South Florida Sun Sentinel repo...

Tractor tires are inches thick, so it takes a lot to puncture oneand a lot to fix them, too. This video shows a repair job on a tire that's taller than the repairman, and involves the application of v...

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My friends and I were really into the Star Wars Customizable Card Game one summer in the 90s, and I have a vague recollection of us trying to get into the DUNE game around the same time. For whatever ...

Plurality voting has plenty of critics, so Maine is going to try ranked choice voting in the upcoming federal election. Via Reason:In ranked-choice voting, citizens aren't asked to just choose a singl...

Technically, they are "sigh," "face in clouds," and "face with spiral eyes," but it's pretty clear how these will be used out in the wild. Emojipedia has the full list in addition to these renderings ...

If you want to succeed in the modern marketplace, your digital presence has to be on point. And this isn't just about beating out your retail competitor down the street anymore. When you sell online, ...

The New York Times has obtained two decades of tax returns of impeached and manifestly unfit U.S. President Trump. The resulting report shows he is in massive debt, and that Trump paid $750 in taxes t...

We've already had too much taken from us this year to give up outdoor grilling so easily. Let this ungodly year be the moment when you make a stand. Grilling season will end on your own terms, by God....

Drummer Marco Minnemann shows how to add a little showmanship and flair behind the set with these stick tricks. That channel has some wonderful performances of popular songs with the song dialed way d...

We all have visions of cooking cool, elaborate meals. Unfortunately, those visions often die after we absolutely butcher a few.We've all been there. Overcooked steaks. Undercooked poultry. A main cour...

Mixology sounds like a science because it is…sort of. Oh sure, there's a lot of knowledge and skill that goes into conjuring up just the right balance for making a mixed drink really pop. But pa...

Fred Perry's polo shirts are the best polo shirts, a classic English design to be found in countless variations and colors. But the company, founded by a Socialist MP's working-class son and a Jewish ...

A SubGenius documentary? Yes, please, and Praise "Bob"! MovieWeb:What started out as an inside joke amongst two self-proclaimed weirdos in Ft. Worth, Texas became something much more than th...

Start your weekend on a relaxing note with Atlas Obscura's mini-documentary about the CIA rectal tool kit. Found within are files, a knife, a ruler, a drill bit, screwdriver, and similar everyday carr...

John Yoo is the Bush administration lawyer who authored its legal excuses for torturing prisoners. At first, he made a show of disliking President Trump, but like most Republicans he soon came around....

The long-lost manual for the Zuse Z4, the oldest surviving digital computer has been found. The Z4 was the last computer the Nazis invented. Ahead of the Soviet invasion of Berlin, the Wehrmacht evacu...

Mike from Booth Junkie demonstrates a bunch of different pop filters, and what they can and can't do. Even if you're not in the market for one, Mike has such a soothing voice, that it may be worth lis...

If your summer found you sweltering somewhere, from your house to your garage to your RV to a tent in the forest, now's the time to start considering your plan for next year. Baking in some tiny unven...

In response to Rob's touching video post of Bryant Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's trainer, doing pushups as she lies in state, here's a segment from the The Late Show in May of 2018 of Stephen Colbert...

How big is Stephenson 2-18, among the largest stars in the known universe? It would take earth's fastest jet over 500 years to travel around. It would take almost 9 hours at the speed of light. Its ci...

This 2018 Kia van transformation from trashed to pristine is one of the most satisfying of the "disaster detail" videos I've ever seen. The Detail Geek says "This van was the DIRTIEST and NASTIEST veh...

You can never have enough power. While that sounds like a line from Niccolo Machiavelli, it's also the regular refrain from pretty much anyone with a mobile device. It seems like no matter how long yo...

"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door." That century-old quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson (sort of) is just as true today. If you build a better product, offer a better ...

Devon Garnett of Tampa, Florida and his buddies were watching the Stanley Cup final hockey game on Wednesday night when things got exciting. "Shoot! Shoot!" yelled the fans at the players on TV. Momen...

This startling footage was recently captured by a security camera outside a Dallas, Texas home. While some might think that the video simply depicts extraterrestrial visitors or even birds, we all kno...

Musician and civil rights activist Nina Simone's Fodder On My Wings from 1982 was one of her mostly forgotten albums until its reissue this year by Verve Records. In celebration, director Sharon Liu a...

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority suspended three railroad workers for building out a secret "man cave" in an old locksmith storage room under Grand Central Terminal. Their hidden ...

Quantas airline retired its fleet of Boeing 747 airplanes and listed several fully-stocked bar carts for sale to the public. Starting at US$685 (or 169,000 Quantus frequent flier points), the carts so...

Qantas airline retired its fleet of Boeing 747 airplanes and listed several fully-stocked bar carts for sale to the public. Starting at US$685 (or 169,000 Qantas frequent flier points), the carts sold...

Remember back in the way, way, way back 1990s? Remember when you and everyone you knew had a radio alarm clock positioned right on your bedside table? You know, the one with that super irritating squa...

Postmonster General Louis DeJoy says all those mail sorting machines can't be put back now, because they were stripped down for parts. Wow.Trump's Postmaster DeJoy told a federal court that hundreds o...

TikTok's fate in the U.S. Apple and Google app stores will be decided by Sunday, we are told.A U.S. judge is expected to decide by Sunday whether Trump's ban on TikTok will be upheld, after a last-min...

The family of Breonna Taylor on Friday demanded that authorities in Kentucky release all body camera footage, police files, and grand jury transcripts that led to no charges being filed against police...

President Donald Trump's son stars in this new "defend your ballot" ad, and says: "We need every able-bodied man and woman to join Army for Trump's election security operation…we need you to hel...

[UPDATE, 1pm] – Message from Ron Paul: "I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern."Message from Ron Paul: "I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern." pic.twitter.com/aALmLn8xIj̵...

Phil Foglio's Girl Genius, a classic BB comics fave, will soon become a video game should a Kickstarter campaign reach its funding target. Girl Genius: Adventures In Castle Heterodyne will have Agatha...

Inadequate in every way imaginable, the PaCoMobile camper is built on a Volkswagen microbus base. 1600cc of pure unadulterated meh will not 'power' this heavy, unsightly, and probably under-sprung mon...

Uluru, the sandstone rock formation in Australia also known as Ayers Rock, is to be removed from Google Street View this week at the request of the Australian government. The formation, one of the con...

Bryant Johnson, the personal trainer of Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, honored her memory Friday by performing push-ups by her coffin as she lay in state in the U.S. Capitol.Johnson, a cou...

The Atlantic has a long, detailed, and harrowing new piece by Barton Gellman that goes in-depth into election security and the GOP's established history of voter suppression tactics. But Gellman also ...

Oh, cruel and merciless universe, please make this real. Please."Fun Size is a term that is profuse with deceit. This cavalcade of lies will be prominent in the universe's merciless judgement." –...

I have found Enik to be a fantastic character. Stuck in the past with his dimwitted ancestors, stripped from a marvelous future where science and technology could solve all his problems, what worse co...

But can you do this?If not shut your face, guess what you can kiss Enjoy LOLNEIN's song But Can You Do This? and the accompanying video, a paean to all the things old well-designed tools do that new...

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen released her Supreme Court wishlist yesterday. The list has several celebrity picks, such as Judge Andrew Napolitano, a television figure of fun w...

Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal is serious about hot dogs. That's why he once reportedly told the new CEO and president, W. Craig Jelinek, "If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog,...

In the summer of 2016, I began working on a play about an addiction support group for conspiracy theorists called How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart. It had one public staged reading in M...

The guy who made that beer-dispensing Adirondack chair in the shape of Michigan has invented something new and just as novel. Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks has created a zip-line system to deliv...

Jo Nakashima has made a few improvements on his origami dragon design for 2020. It's great because he now shows the illustrated diagram while doing the folding:In this tutorial you'll learn how to mak...

For those who are slow-playing our societal shift toward fully-integrated automated smart homes — don't be scared. Sure, we know there are whole movies about computer-controlled houses turning o...

In this video, filmmaker Thomas Flight does a side-by-side comparison between Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and a number of films he was "heavily influenced" by, mainly Bergman's The Silence...

A police officer in Pineville, Louisiana, who claimed to have been ambushed and shot was himself arrested and jailed this week. John Michael Goulart Jr., 25, was charged with one count of criminal mi...

Children's Fairyland is the circa 1950 storybook theme park in Oakland, California where…Walt Disney took inspiration from to build Disneyland;Frank Oz got his start as a puppeteer;It's also whe...

USA Today reports:An analysis by The 19th of the 2020 median salaries in the Trump White House found a $33,300 chasm between the salary for male staffers ($106,000) and the salary for f...

USA Today reports:An analysis by The 19th of the 2020 median salaries in the Trump White House found a $33,300 chasm between the salary for male staffers ($106,000) and the salary for f...

With so many different video editing software packages available with so many varying price points, it's always difficult to know which one will offer you the best value for your particular editing ne...

This little clip of video has gone viral today, and it really captures quite a moment.Trump at the court as crowd chants "vote him out" it's rare for this President to see his opposition this up-clos...

A man on a hunting expedition in a remote Alaska park was killed by a grizzly bear last weekend. The attack took place in Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The man was identified...

CISA announced Thursday that an unnamed United States government agency was hacked in an unusual method. The attacker used valid credentials for multiple users' Microsoft 365 accounts, and users' doma...

Standardized testing is the worst. The stress during the buildup. The worry about whether you're learning and studying the exact items that will show up on the test. And perhaps the worst part, the kn...

Russian authorities seized Alexei Navalny's Moscow apartment while the opposition leader was still in a coma, said Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh on Thursday, blaming a powerful and wealthy figure...

Ring, the surveillance doorbell company, made a home security drone. Launched today, the new Always Home Cam from Ring is a very small drone that flies around inside your home and captures everything ...

Ring, the surveillance doorbell company, made a home security drone. Launched today, the new Always Home Cam from Ring is a very small drone that flies around inside your home and captures everything ...

I almost like getting a clogged drain now, because I know the Flexisnake will take care of the problem.I keepFlexisnakes in all of our bathrooms, and use them frequently to pull out gross blobs of mat...

A tiny but perfectly playable Rubik's Cube is on offer in Japan at the not-so-tiny price of $1900. Yuri Kageyama writes:The cube measures just 9.9 millimeters, or O.39 inch, by 9.9 millimeters, and we...

Now I understand why people ran of out movies theaters in the old days when they saw a film of an oncoming train. Even after watching this loop a few times, I still blink....

Police in Vietnam broke up a criminal ring that collected used condoms, rinsed them, and resold them, reports Reuters.The owner of the warehouse said they had received a "monthly input of used condoms...

"Cops In The Crosshairs!" screams the 'Enquirer' cover story. "Shooter's ambush of L.A. deputies caught on camera! . . . Gun-toting goons declare war."A tragic shooting of two sheriff's deputies, whic...

When a troll replies to one of my tweets my first inclination is to mute or block them. But Dr. Karin Tamerius, the founder of Smart Politics, blocks trolls as a last resort. In this Medium post, she ...

Mark Pahlow, creator of Archie McPhee, posted this photo of Japanese cigarettes featuring a knockoff Mickey Mouse with a green nose and a green body. I have never been interested in smoking, but if th...

The Bhamla Lab at Georgia Tech announced that it developed a hearing aid costing less than a dollar. The components are enclosed in a 3D printed case that's worn around the neck with a lanyard.Excited...

Johnson & Johnson is testing its single-dose Covid-19 vaccine on 60,000 people on three continents. The Wall Street Journal reports that Johnson & Johnson "could learn pivotal results from the...

I chanced across this 5-line staff liner on Amazona pen with five ballpoint tips in a row, for musicians to quickly write musical notationand impulse bought it. I can't read or write music, but it'll ...

From a statement that Stevie Wonder released yesterday, titled "The Universe Is Watching Us Stevie Wonder In His Feelings":"As time is evolving, it seems so much has changed. So much is moving to a d...

From a statement that Stevie Wonder released yesterday, titled "The Universe Is Watching Us Stevie Wonder In His Feelings":"As time is evolving, it seems so much has changed. So much is moving to a d...

Officials from Thailand's Khao Yai National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, packed up the garbage dumped by some campers and mailed it back to them. They identified the litterbugs via equipment re...

New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority is updating their rules to specifically ban pooping on subways and buses. In fact, doing a number 2 on the number 2 train, or any other train for ...

Welcome to Tinsel Town! La-La Land! The City of Angels! Lotusville! Hollyweird! The video descriptor says "1930s" but as one observant YouTube commenter writes:This ISN'T 30's…this is 1942 at th...

A 54-year-old man in Massachusetts died from eating too much black licorice, reports a cardiologist in the New England Journal of Medicine. Apparently the deceased at a bag and a half every few weeks....

A recent study published in the Lancet and funded by BioMarin Pharmaceutical claims to have found a way to successfully treat but not cure achondroplasia, a common form of dwarfism in humans.As The ...

Swastika, New York, was named for the Sanskrit symbol of good fortune in the 1800s. The hamlet kept the name throughout the Nazi era in Europe, World War II and the Cold War, but the recent surge of w...

Certain forms of the igneous rock syenite are nicknamed emberlite because they contain sodalite, causing them to fluoresce under black light. Glaciers deposited lots of them in the Lake Superior basin...

Salon reports that a payroll company with no employees that Giuliani has owned for 18 years received between $150,000 and $350,000 in emergency loans from the coronavirus relief package. It's the only...

With all the streaming services you're subscribed to now, do you really need cable anymore? Sure, local channels provide content that streamers can't match, but what else are you watching on cable cha...

Lovin' this bardcore cover of AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" (a song I am now familiar with, Miss Cellania!) by YouTuber/musical badass Johan Carlsberg! Previously: Bardcore: Medieval-style cover of Dolly Pa...

A family in the Twin Cities reported yesterday that their garage was vandalized and tagged with the anarchy symbol, BLM (i.e. Black Lives Matter) and the slogan "Biden 2020." A van was also set on fir...

On YouTube, you may now watch the entirety of The Chipmunk Adventure with the chipmunks' voices returned to the actors' normal pitch. "I can't believe I did this," writes editor NerdRush.Granted, a fu...

Photographer Tomas Rak took some really remarkable shots of so-called "aura crystals," popular among new-agey types and collectors of rocks and minerals.What is a titanium aura crystal, you ask? Take ...

A friend shared this Reverb link to a vintage 1984 Casio EG-5 from Japan, an electric guitar with a built-in speaker and built-in cassette player. The tape deck could be used to record loops of your o...

In this Squidmar Miniatures video, Emil runs through five painting techniques he wished had been better emphasized when he was first learning. They are the basics (base coating, layering, dry brushing...

Somebody once told meHarkonnens gonna troll me...

This pitcher has some pretty good sleight of hand before delivering a called strike from what appeared to be his empty hand, but is the pitch legal? Pitchers can't balk, or start a pitch and then not ...

DevOps moves so fast they had to mash two words together into the job title so they could be said faster. It's a process of lightning-fast experimentation and iteration. Try something, see if it works...

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and critic of Vladimir Putin, has been released from the hospital in Berlin where he was treated for poisoning by a Russian military nerve agent Novichok. Nav...

French singer and recording star Juliette Grco, whose career spanned more than six decades, died September 23 at her home in Ramatuelle, France. She was 93. Grco was one of the few remaining living co...

"You can take any box big enough for your cat, cut holes in it, and you're done! – a toy and a house for your cat! ," says Hosico Cat. [video]...

A Massachusetts construction worker who really enjoyed black licorice, and ate a bag and a half every day for a few weeks, ended up dying from eating too much of the candy. Doctors said Wednesday he d...

Mars, the company behind "Uncle Ben's," today revealed a new, slightly less racist brand name for the popular quick-cooking American rice. "Ben's Original." From AP: Mars had announced in the summer t...

"Four former employees of #eBay are scheduled to plead guilty on Oct. 8 at 2pm via zoom in federal court in #Boston," read a tweet on Wednesday from the official account of the U.S. attorney's office ...

Trump refuses to commit to peaceful transfer of power if he loses "There won't be a transfer, frankly, there will be a continuation." Impeached and deranged acting U.S. President Donald Trump threate...

Not one police officer will be charged directly in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor. One police officer faces 3 counts over shooting into neighboring apartments. That's it. "Two white police offic...

In our new reality, you've undoubtedly been looking for fun and inventive new ways to enjoy an evening. So if you're not exactly feeling comfortable spending a night out at your favorite Italian resta...

Simon Stephenson, author of the new novel, Set My Heart To Five, wrote the following exclusive essay for Boing Boing. — MF Welcome To The Misstopia When I moved to Los Angeles in 2013, there wer...

Researchers have long been developing 3D bioprinting technology to print cells in structures that can be implanted in the body. Now, bioengineer Tao Xu and colleagues at Tsinghua University in Beijing...

Kent Barnes let me know about the Food topic he started on the Boing Boing BBS in March 2019. It has 1,738 posts! Lots of recipes and photos. It makes me think it would be fun to compile these and mak...

When I met cartoonist Tom Gauld a few years ago, he gave me the pen he uses to draw his amazing cartoons – the Pilot Precise V5. It's probably my favorite sketching pen, or at least tied with Fl...

This multi-colored, static-cling window film beautifies my home for a minimal investment. Renovating a fairly beat down early 1900s Craftsman shotgun shack left me pretty exhausted. After having dealt...

Born on this day in 1926, the great John Coltrane. Here is Saint John performing his civil rights elegy "Alabama" composed after members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed the 167th Street Baptist Church in B...

A new mini-moon on its way into Earth's orbit, first thought to be a small asteroid, may turn out to just be large hunk of space junk. Scientists first observed the object, dubbed 2020 SO, last month ...

Ginger of Mods made this incredible Wii Boy Color. He trimmed down a Wii motherboard, hacked the Wii's software so it doesn't need a disk drive, designed custom circuit boards, and 3D printed a case. ...

Up, down, all around. Like a roller coaster....

Voynix recently wrote something he calls The Spite License. They say it is, "in essence, a trapdoor it allows potential licensees to use the software under the terms of the secondary license (as show...

At CNN, Boing Boing pal and security researcher Bruce Schneier and Harvard media professor Nick Couldry write about acedia, "a malady that apparently plagued many Medieval monks. It's a sense of no lo...

A burrito's foil and paper wrapper is a joke. It tears easily and the burrito's filling spills out. The Burrito Pop solves this problem. Think of it like a giant Chapstick tube but instead of containi...

Early this month, the US Office of Management and Budget announced a crackdown on diversity trainings and other similar initiatives that acknowledged the existence of racism or privilege. The concept ...

Dave Addey is author of Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies, a book exploring the typography of films like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, WALL-E, and other cla...

Matt Bor's latest comic for The Nib satirizes the nonsensical laws and regulations that dictate the fate of entire populations....

The walls of knobs and dials on a classic synthesizer are forbidding to newcomers. Coming from the all-done-on-computers generation, I've never quite gotten into the old-school because of it. Synth-ma...

Designer Reagan Ray isolated the lettering from various jazz album covers for a bunch of artists and made an online gallery of little cards. I love the variety and colors. But the most influential des...

I am well aware that this is a vast generalization but, in my daily goings on, I encounter four types of democratic leaning voters: Despondent:  Those who feel nothing they do matters. Their voic...

In this game, called Spot the Troll, you are presented with screenshots of 8 different people's tweets or Facebook posts and then you have to guess whether or not the person is a troll. I got a score ...

YouTuber The Crystal Collector shows off his massive geode haul and cracks a few open to show how beautiful they are inside. He found a riverbed that was quite a treasure trove of them in a previous v...

In a landslide referendum two years ago, Florida voters gave rehabilitated felons the right to vote, but Republican legislators "gutted the biggest voting rights victory in recent history" by making t...

This great demonstration of the Boycott effect, where "the rate at which solid particles sediment under the action of gravity can be greatly enhanced if the walls of the settling vessel are inclined r...

I reviewed No Man's Sky three years ago, after the stylish space-exploration game received big patches adding depth, detail and story to the poorly-received original release. But its creators didn't s...

The first time I saw an Out Run cabinet in Worthing, England's New Amusements pier arcade in 1986, I was shocked that it cost 50p a game. 50p! But that's nothing on Aston Martin's latest driving game ...

After writing about the collision between two black holes that weren't "supposed to exist," I received the following email from lvaro Dez, a particle physicist at the University of Warsaw: Being a hug...

Kumi Yamashita tells a cool story about watching a gallery visitor realize her art installations form shadows. The story is in English, though the interview appeared in her native Japan. See more at h...

If you've been hacking away at meat or vegetables with blunted kitchen knives, annoyed that they're so dull that it's starting to feel more like tenderizing than slicing, you should probably stop. Dul...

This footage was shot on film and is presented at 50 (presumably interpolated) frames per second in this compilation of clips. Tokyo in 1973 reminds me of London in 1983....

Don't try this. Dianna from Physics Girl showed how under highly controlled conditions it's possible to dip one's hand into boiling oil without injury. The video is unlisted and age-restricted to keep...

On Thursday, September 17, 2020, the New York Times broke the news that the Center for Disease Control's official coronavirus testing guidance which discouraged people without symptoms from getting t...

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special off...

Over at Wirecutter, my colleague Thorin Klosowski has a clear and comprehensive breakdown of the new privacy controls that were added in Apple's latest iOS update. These features include greater contr...

In this video, South Korean maker Yong-Moo Lee slowly and painstakingly steps through the process of creating a gorgeous, ornate coffee scoop. He does everything from creating the silver ingot to form...

The Troxler effect is a visual example of neural adaptation, where our brains filter out "superfluous" stimuli that does not change. It's the same way you don't notice the sound of rain or your room's...

The new startup Civvl calls itself the "Fastest growing money making gig due to COVID-19." Like Uber interrupted the taxi and transportation industries with contracted gig workers who can make money a...

This cool DIY project created a wooden desktop that conceals all the hardware from a pretty decent PC. Here's part 2, which includes a shelf that conceals a monitor and keyboard: Image: YouTube / DIY ...

After hilariously criticizing the egg fried rice skills of hapless chefs Hersha Patel and Jamie Oliver, Uncle Roger goes after the biggest of them all: Gordon Ramsay's fried rice. But he is impressed!...

If you've never heard of MATLAB or think it sounds vaguely like certain TV shows from the '80s, you'd be forgiven. Because even in a tech sector chock full of intricate, complex programs and systems t...

Every year on September 21, podcaster/comedian/TV writer Demi Adejuyigbe releases a video in tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire's 1978 hit "September." His annual tradition began in 2016 and has grown ...

Every once in a while, you stumble across a new twist on an old idea and ponder, "Why didn't I think of that?" It's often a concept so simple that it feels like it's been staring you in the face your ...

The latest issue of one of my favorite podcasts, Reply All, looks into the origins of QAnon: PJ Vogt looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes ...

Ever since I accidentally bought a huge bag of dried nettle leaves on Amazon, I've been having nettle tea at least once a day for the last year. I have a lot of different tea steepers, but my favorite...

"Today, I'm very excited to announce that Microsoft is teaming up with OpenAI to exclusively license GPT-3," Kevin Scott, Microsoft's Executive Vice President and chief technology officer, wrote on th...

From American Masters: At Home with Jacques Ppin how to fry an egg. It's perfect! The only thing I would change is to cook it until the yolk is as hard as a superball and the whites are as crispy as ...

The guys at DipYourCar did a fun experiment where they put five coats of black-to-clear thermochromic paint on a lime green car, then tossed hot water on the hood. Worked better than they expected, as...

I'm a wargame designer. I co-developed the first reboot of Axis & Allies and its D-Day edition, made a mythological Risk game called Risk Godstorm, and burned down both the Roman Empire in Gloria ...

Chinese accounts posted material supporting U.S. President Donald Trump, and pro-Left material Facebook has removed a number of Chinese accounts on the platform that are oddly active in Philippines a...

Uh, thanks? Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to provide United Nations staff with the Sputnik-V vaccine in a speech Tuesday to this year's General Assembly, which marks the U.N.'s 75th birthda...

Who organized that recent rally in Portland, Oregon that turned deadly? A new Washington Post investigation suggests the demonstration at which a man was shot dead was some sort of Russian influence o...

The latest issue of The Red Tape Chronicles has a great discussion about ransomware gangs. Half of U.S. corporations have reported being attacked by ransomware gangs last year, and while it's technica...

There's a 7-mile (11-kilometer) trail in North Carolina named "Sinkhole Trail" for a large sinkhole situated along a ridge there. A group of mountain bikers on that trail recently noticed a dog trappe...

The Russian bank TCS Group Holding is talks with Russian internet group Yandex about selling the TCS-owned online bank Tinkoff to Yandex for USD $5.48 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Tinkoff i...

Don't worry defense contractors are faring well during the coronavirus. The Washington Post reports the Pentagon diverted $1 billion in taxpayer funds intended for pandemic-related medical equipped t...

Shondaland looks at the life of Jackie Orms, a recent inductee into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame. When the 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist respo...

Shondaland looks at the life of Jackie Ormes, a recent inductee into the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame. When the 14-year-old African American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist resp...

Elliot made this nifty hardware button to mute and unmute yourself during Zoom calls. He has full instructions for making on on Instructables: Press the button to toggle your mute, or hold the button ...

The idiom "like watching grass grow" means that something is very boring. But this video, created from 1980 single images, reveals that watching grass grow can be fascinating! (At least when it's a ti...

Glasses can be difficult at any time, but with a mask on, it seems like you can't go more than a few seconds without an errant exhale blowing up into your face, fogging your glasses entirely. The only...

On my vet's recommendation, I give my dogs these Zesty Paws multivitamins. Much like engine oil threads, the internet is full of discussions about what to and not to feed your pets. I have adopted the...

On my vet's recommendation, I give my dogs these Zesty Paws multivitamins. Much like engine oil threads, the internet is full of discussions about what to and not to feed your pets. I have adopted the...

Living in Venice Beach, California has gifted me a deep respect for folks brandishing sharpened weapons. Stay safe....

The 59 foot-tall Gundam robot under construction at Gundam Factory Yokohama just took a few steps and kneeled, all with grace and power. Yes, the video is reportedly sped 2 to 4x. And it's a very cont...

Remember Generra Hypercolor tshirts that would change color in response to heat? Tufts University engineers have created a similar fabric integrated with a variety of chemical sensors. For example, yo...

Robert Wardhaugh is perhaps the most dedicated Dungeon Master in the world. He started a campaign in 1982 and never stopped. Around 60 people are currently playing The Game. "The only thing that's goi...

Every morning around 7am, residents of the Welsh village of Aberhosan in the UK noticed that their broadband would fail. The problem went on for 18 months and even a program to replace the broadband c...

Porktector is a "Pork-infused Pepper Spray" sold on Amazon. Why pork? I'm glad you asked. Here's the official product description, as published at the product page at Amazon. Completely unique to Pork...

A British man accused of copying patient records and threatening to sell them was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a U.S. court, reports the BBC. Nathan Wyatt, 39, operated under the aegis of h...

In this Joe Sweeney Guardian piece on the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's second album, Paranoid (released on September 18, 1970), he pays touching personal tribute to the record and how it got hi...

Reporting from Lima, Reuters reports that Peruvian shamans are divided on who will win the U.S. presidential race in November. The two video embeds above show the same practitioners, as reported by tw...

Over the weekend in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, white collars were discovered on several statues, a tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), who died on Friday. A white collar...

In this animated sci-fi-short, the world was a different place before the arrival of 0000E8, a pointy shaped entity that slowly begins to reshape the entire world in its likeness. Director Yana Pan di...

In this animated sci-fi-short, the world was a different place before the arrival of 0000E8, a pointy shaped entity that slowly begins to reshape the entire world in its likeness. Director Yana Pan di...

Soil Cross Section is a new YouTube channel specializing in time-lapse videos of interesting things going in soil. There are two videos posted so far, and both are equally happening. Above, grass grow...

The Rise of Molds shows the growth of molds that create many delicious foods, including molds behind sweet rice wine, fermented bean curd, sake, vinegar, soy sauce, tempeh, and cheese. Another wonderf...

Roli's Lumi keyboard is a single-octave, semi-weighted bluetooth keyboard where each key lights up as it is played. A simple idea, perfectly executed, useful for learning, demonstrating and showing of...

It took puzzle fan Kenneth almost four hours to solve this tavern puzzle. If you have ever seen one of these at a bar or restaurant, this one has pretty much all of the twists and turns from different...

Guitarist Luca Stricagnoli commissioned an extra neck that attaches to his guitar, allowing him to play intricate duets by himself. Here he performs George Harrison's classic While My Guitar Gently We...

Gennaro Notomista, a PhD student in the Robotics and InTelligent Systems Laboratory at Georgia Tech, has created a unique alternative to drone monitoring, now commonly used in land management. Drones ...

Every year on September 21, podcaster/comedian/TV writer Demi Adejuyigbe releases a video in tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire's 1978 hit "September." His annual tradition began in 2016 and has grown ...

In 1911 an exhausted man emerged from the wilderness north of Oroville, California. He was discovered to be the last of the Yahi, a people who had once flourished in the area but had been decimated by...

The nostalgia is strong in Battle Patrol 2084, Mark Butchko's animated short that looks like a "futuristic" video game from 1984. Watch as the player's DeLorean transforms into a space shuttle to batt...

Beginning at 8AM on September 22, you'll be able to pre-order Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S online at the retailers listed here. Check here for participating retailers and specific times in each cou...

The New York City district attorney said Monday he believes he may have grounds to investigate impeached President Donald Trump and his businesses for tax fraud. D.A. Cyrus Vance is trying to convince...

New York police officer was an illegal agent of China tasked with spying on Tibetan nationals, U.S. charges A police officer in New York City who was also a U.S. Army reservist has been charged with a...

In Kentucky, a decision is imminent in the case of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police. Attorney General Daniel Cameron's announcement in the Breonna Taylor case is expected soon. Interim Chief o...

Trump said something incomprehensibly false about the coronavirus, which has now killed 200,000 Americans and counting. "It affects virtually nobody," Trump lied. If these aren't the words of a derang...

Selection announcement expected by weekend Impeached and manifestly unfit U.S. President Donald Trump met with Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the White House on Monday. The right-wing jurist is Trump's pr...

In our constantly evolving "new normal," there's often no need to wait for Black Friday to find some fantastic retail deals. Lots of companies need your cash now, so they're dropping some big discount...

Our friends at IFixIt bought an Apple Watch 6 the second it became available and took it apart to see what makes it tick, or not tick, I guess. Outward comparison of the Series 6 (right) with its one-...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Greetings, everyone. Welcome back to the show. T...

One fun part of being knee-deep in the giant Boing Boing Store Three-Day VIP Annual Sale is that it's a perfect opportunity for a few old favorites to make a triumphant return. And the fact that each ...

The greatest magazine cover ever. Cover model, Marie Prevost was an It Girl in the 1920s, but she had a difficult life and died of acute alcoholism at the age of 40 in January 1937....

Thisscrewdriver setcomes in handy when you need to tighten or loosen a screw and a regular long handle screwdriver won't fit. The ratchet mechanism means you can quickly attach or remove a screw witho...

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, I write about "The Jet-Propelled Couch," a true story of a psychiatric patient who believed he could teleport to a faraway planet. His reveries were s...

Costco has charged the same price for a hot dog and a cup of soda for the last 36 years. A dollar fifty buys you a quarter-pound beef hot dog and a 20 oz cup of soda. How can it charge the same price ...

My palms got sweaty watching climber Tim Howell walk along the Matterhorn's razor-thin ridge to reach its peak. This awesome 360 degree camera footage shows the moment a thrillseeking climber reached ...

As an occasional spoon whittler, I enjoyed watching Anne of All Trades carve a spatula from a piece of walnut firewood. She used an ax, a saw, and a knife.Read More...

Whenever we go to Japan, we stock up on Kit Kat bars with unusual flavors. It turns out there are over 400 different varieties. From Great Big Story: Kit Kat is big in Japan. From cheesecake to wasabi...

What is the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything? 42, of course. But why? In Scientific American, Jean-Paul Delahaye, computer science professor emeritus at France's University of Lil...

Do you remember the 21st night of September? From Wikipedia: Using a chord progression written by Earth, Wind & Fire guitarist Al McKay, vocalist Maurice White and songwriter Allee Willis wrote th...

While the maestro John Cale is best known as a founder of the Velvet Underground, his association with the group followed Cale's deep involvement with the avant-garde classical music scene. During the...

This is Stan, one of the most complete T. rex fossils ever excavated. And now, it can be yours! This 67-million-year-old beast, measuring 37' x 13' x 6', will be on the auction block at Christie's on ...

Enter the coordinates for Area 51 into Google Earth and the satellite image reveals either a shadow or, more likely, a massive robot under construction. Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily writes: ...

In this footage, officers from the Prescott Valley Police Department in Arizona play "Simon Says" with a compliant arrestee on his knees. He follows all their pointless orders to the letter, but they ...

NPR's Planet Money has a harrowing new story about the plastic recycling industry specifically, that the entire thing is built on a lie that the oil industry perpetuated for decades, despite knowing ...

Microsoft is reportedly buying game publisher Zenimax/Bethesda, custodians of a huge stable of popular games and studios, for a whopping $7.5bn. Bloomberg News' Dina Bass and Jason Schreier describes ...

With all this sticking close to home the past six months, let's face it your vehicle is probably feeling…well, a little neglected. Hey, with all that time sitting around in the garage, yearning...

Bioluminescent jellyfish are just the start of what can be displayed with a hologram fan. YouTuber KLGadget shows how they work. I saw a GIWOX hologram fan like the one above at a trade show last year...

"This is the most useless thing I have ever made", writes Teenenggr, the creator of this Arduino-powered typewriter carriage for computer keyboards. The carriage uses solenoids to create the physical ...

The North American Association of Hunter Safety Coordinators created Shoot/Don't Shoot, a series of vignettes that pause and ask viewers if it's safe to shoot a hunting rifle in that situation. This w...

This General Electric motor slowly spinning up is a treat for the ears, and TigerTek has a channel full of that sort of thing. This type of engine, surely familiar to train commuters in more muffled f...

Marvel's WandaVision is expected to be the first original Marvel series to air directly on Disney+. Here's the synopsis for this superhero horror-sitcom: The series is a blend of classic television an...

Sadly, there were no cameras running on the Detroit drawbridge which an allegedly whippit-huffing driver flew over Saturday as it rose. The operator hit the emergency stop on the bridge as it was risi...

Active Child (previously) took his harp to a hillside copse and performed a live set that might remind you that there are still beautiful things in the world. In addition to "In Another Life," he's al...

Slit animation, also called moire animation or scanimation, tricks our brains into perceiving motion because of gestalt laws of perceptual organization. Here is an example of falling petals and a scen...

The fine folks at The Durbin Compound wanted to see which of three common construction adhesives were the best bang for the buck. While it's not lab conditions, it's an interesting real-world demo of ...

With more and more of our everyday carry items needing a steady supply of power, it's worth considering some easy daily solutions for keeping all of those devices charged up at a moment's notice. If y...

Pocket-sized projectors have really grown up in the last few years. Previously under-powered and under-resourced, manufacturers have upped the game on these handheld projectors, with many now offering...

In the short animated sci-fi comedy "Floaters," a bickering couple has painted a fake identification number on the side of their spaceship, then run into the real vessel with that number, whose captai...

What the world really needs right now is a calendar of Sexy Firefighters debunking conspiracy theories. Anyway, you can follow this fireman, Michael Clark, on Instagram. Image: U.S. Army National Guar...

David C. Roy (previously) creates mesmerizing wooden kinetic sculptures. Behold his 2020 creation "Synchronicity." He was featured earlier this year for a nice profile by Wired. Some real beauties on ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been fighting tradition from London to the US, where he's been charged under the Espionage Act for publishing classified information. According to NBC News, Assang...

A Belarusian fire show club called Maori lit up the night with an amazing synchronized pyrotechnic display for their finale at the annual Fire Life Fest in Uzhgorod, Ukraine. If you're wondering about...

We know you've had plenty on your mind the last few months, but…have you thought about your holiday shopping yet? Yeah, probably not. With everything going on, it's probably easy to forget that ...

Learning never stops. Not if you're doing it right, anyway. Whether you're trying to add to your professional resume or just pick up a new skill or two to tinker with on the side, there's undoubtedly ...

Last year, Full House actress Lori Loughlin got caught (along with several others) trying to scam her kids' way into college. In August, she was sentenced to two months in prison, two years of supervi...

There are three stages of disbelief in reading a tabloid story.Read More...

With everything going on in the world right now, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of it all. With some many forces threatening to cast a shadow over you, your family and your day-to...

It is possible, thanks to the magic of modding, to play Minecraft as any of the creatures in its world. Can you beat the game while playing as a fish? You can beat Minecraft as a fish. I'm gonna chang...

A bodyguard protecting Dominic Raab, Britain's foreign secretary, left his gun on a plane after landing at Heathrow airport this week, reports The Sun. It's the second such event of late, after the bo...

This footage (relaxing, but unnecessarily sped up) shows Takumi drawing what the title describes as the "hardest" kanjiJapanese logographic characterin the world. I don't know what it means (and there...

It's a toss-up over which harmful airborne pathogen is most disruptive for every American living on the west coast these days.  As horrible as coronavirus has been, experts would probably say the...

The website Autowise recently asked fans on Twitter to name their top American dream car. And as it turns out, the U.S. has more ecologically minded car owners than you might think. In fact, drivers i...

With most of the world more conscious than ever about their carbon footprint and the sustainability of the actions they take, it begs an important question can air travel ever be green? Unfortunately...

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead at 87, reports the court. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court's...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of "complications of metastatic pancreas cancer," the Supreme Court announced Friday. She was 87. Ginsberg's dying message: "My most fervent wish is that I will no...

Inspired by that shitshow that is 2020, Oakland-based singer/songwriter Rachel Lark (whose bio reads "confrontational comedy punk for weird people and weird times") has just dropped an existential cri...

Polish author Stanislaw Lem's 1964 sci-fi thriller, The Invincible, is being made into a videogame by Polish game company, Starward Industries. Sayeth PC Gamer: The Invincible is a 1964 hard sci-fi no...

Another great backyard "Live at Home" moment from BBC Radio 2. It's disco funk-rockers Chic, joined by UK singer-songwriter, Rebecca Ferguson, doing Chic's iconic 1979 disco hit, "Good Times." Kind of...

"Pron" was always a lie. The common misspelling of the term at hand is "porm," says PornHub, a site that would know. The infographic is a couple of years old, but I doubt literacy has improved in the ...

College engineering student Sam Zeloof, known for converting his parents' garage into a semiconductor fab while in high school, transformed a vintage Polaroid camera into a digital camera with a therm...

NASA released this astonishingly beautiful image of Jupiter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on August 25. From NASA: Hubble's near-infrared imaging, combined with ultraviolet views, provides a ...

If you're catching the feeling of good cheer and holiday merriment in the air, that's probably because we're smack in the middle of The Boing Boing Store's Three-Day VIP Annual Sale. One of the bigges...

The town of Asbestos in Quebec, Canada has long been dreaming of a new identity. Its current name was appropriate as the town was home to what was once the world's largest asbestos mine. But ever sinc...

Musician Alexey Rom arranged this wonderful version of ABBA's classic "Dancing Queen" for a 1914 mechanical fairground organ built by Belgian makers Hooghuys. You may recall Rom as the arranger behind...

Paleontologists found this bundle of "giant sperm" in the reproductive tract of an ostracod that's been preserved for 100 million years in amber from Myanmar. From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mn...

The itty-bitty Dodocool Bluetooth speaker is surprisingly loud and distortion-free. I pair it to my phone and use it to listen to music and podcasts when I'm outside or working on projects. It's cheap...

The Canadian government granted Uline billionaire COVID-critic Liz Uihlein an exemption to its mandatory 14-day quarantine for people entering the country. She and two companions flew into Canada on a...

Emma Pope nails it.Read More...

Max Ravitz (aka Patricia) uses a Moog Subharmonicon, a Mother-32, and a DFAM to make beautiful music in his garden. From Moog: In this new semi-modular exploration, Asheville-based electronic music pr...

Trump's "herd mentality" (sic) plan is to "infect 7 out of 10 Americans with Covid. The Trump plan will kill at least 3 million people/"Read More...

"What should be a cosy, pleasant corner of the internet has become a monster," writes Sarah Manavis in New Statesmen. "Goodreadssucks, and is just shy of unbearable." Goodreads today looks and works m...

Coffee YouTuber James Hoffman takes a look at five espresso machines costing under 500 (US$650). His top overall choice is the most expensive one, the Rancilio Silvia. I've had one for about 15 years ...

Diogenes is the pithos-inhabiting star of Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy, the most sadistic game to never spill a pixel of blood. He (Diogenes, not Bennett) is hereby immortalized as a $25 plushie...

The science-fiction dream of videoconferencing is finally grim, merciless reality, but tech companies have wanted to foist it on us for decades and this business-to-business marketing video for AT&...

This is sadly and absolutely as true today as it was when they wrote it.Read More...

When we pick up our phones to shoot a video, most of us aren't looking to craft "The Godfather." We just want something that looks reasonably decent that won't be an embarrassment when it gets posted ...

Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler reprise their 50 First Dates roles in this comedic short that imagines what life would be like now for the 2004 film's characters, Lucy and Henry. Lucy (Drew Barrymore)...

For the last few months, I've been making ice cream every weekend. Here's my recipe for low sugar vanilla chocolate chip ice cream. TheZeroll Ice Cream Scoophas come in handy. The scoop is designed to...

Rejoice all ye bakers and lovers of kinder, gentler competition reality shows. The Great British Bake-Off, known to Netflix audiences as The Great British Baking Show, is back for its eighth season. I...

This covidiotic gentleman tells police in South Dakota that he will have to be dragged out of a school board meeting before he puts on a mask, and the police officers politely comply. Full video here:...

The Pretenders recorded this Live at Home rendition of "Back on the Chain Gang" for BBC Radio 2. Chrissie Hynde's voice is apparently immortal....

Be honest. How many plastic lids are stashed away in your kitchen? No, seriously…how many? Go ahead and check that black hole of a cupboard down there and find out. We'll wait Was the number up ...

In this video [via Storyful], an armed Federal security guard raises a gun in a firing position toward a group of protesters on September 16, in the lobby of a federal building in lower Manhattan. An ...

Former FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 30, which is just about one month before the presidential election. The GOP keeps trying to g...

IMAGE: This photo published by Alexei Navalny on his Instagram shows Alex and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. He posted this on Insta...

The Justice Department announced charges against three Iranian nationals over the hacking of aerospace and satellite tech firms. Here's the news release from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's ...

Twitter added a warning label to a tweet by impeached and unfit U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday. The label says Trump's post includes misleading information about the voting process. "Because ...

"He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off," Amy Dorris told The Guardian of her alleged sexual assault by Trump in 1997. "And then that's when his grip became tighter and his...

Every time a White House official speaks about the pandemic we need a graphic just like this. Raw Story:...

"I was flying my drone in my backyard, when I noticed a large bird in a nearby tree watching intently," says the drone pilot who posted this video. "I flew over to find the bird with the drone to get ...

The pandemic has convinced many U.S. workers, especially young tech workers, that going into an office isn't really necessary. If you can Zoom in from anywhere why pay inflated NYC or San Francisco re...

Heavily armed men in camouflage have set up at least two roadblocks in Oregon's wildfire-raged Multnomah county, reports The Guardian. Drivers who were stopped said the vigilantes asked them for ident...

I'm fond of 40% keyboardsthe Vortex 40 is a great place to start if you're curious (and also you can buy it right now, rather than waiting three years for a group buy to drop). But what if you hate mi...

I got my first PC in 1996, and the games to get were Civilization 2 and Quake. Quake had the better soundtrack. NINE INCH NAILS' SOUNDTRACK TO THE LEGENDARY FIRST PERSON SHOOTER FROM ID SOFTWARE. AVAI...

It's a few years old and I no longer have a computer with a CD tray, but I enjoyed this guide to removing ham from optical drives all the same. I might have to head up to the attic to find my old mach...

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of The Telegraph writes that BP's move to green energy marks the end of Big Oil: With a single stroke of the pen, BP has written the obituary of the global petroleum industry. ...

Taco Bell in Canada has announced that it will now be offering a special Taco Bell-brand house wine at some locations, with the wonderfully puntastic name of Jalapeo Noir. The grapes comes from "a vin...

Remember the Anchorage, Alaska dentist who was busted for pulling a patient's tooth while balancing on a hoverboard? A judge just sentenced Seth Lookhart, DDS, to a dozen years in prison for charges i...

The New York Subway isn't like this anymore, but the sheer decrepitude and negligence of it in the 80s is always amazing to behold. This video shows a ride to Coney Island in 1987. Londoners like me w...

The latest bizarre invention from Simone Giertz, the woman once known as "The Queen of Shitty Robots," involves a basic MIDI keyboard and a bunch of those creepy plastic wind-up teeth. The goal was to...

DaveRuinsArt of Canton, Ohio is not the first artist to buy and augment thrift store paintings, but The Force is strong with his Star Wars pieces. "I started making these designs because I owned a vin...

A striking review of Fury Road (2015) by comedian and author George Carlin (d. 2008). It's 2 minutes and 41 seconds long, a breath short of the ideal pop song. Definitely one for the guys who think th...

My friend James Sligh is a brilliant sommelier (and writer) with an uncanny ability to talk about wine and figure out exactly what you want to drink. I don't even care for wine (I like malted barley m...

In Phoenix on Sunday, the National Weather Service's radar captured what first appears to be rain clouds blooming over the Valley of the Sun. Turns out, it was likely a large colony of Mexican free-ta...

After nearly a century in business, Cleveland's beloved Old Fashion Hot Dogs, closed since March, will not reopen. The owner of a nearby business says that the "family was ready to retire" but someone...

CEC Entertainment, owners of Chuck E. Cheese, who filed for bankruptcy in June have 7 billion paper prize tickets they need to destroy, according to a bankruptcy filing in a Texas court this week. Tha...

Aria DeMezzo joined the Cheshire County, New Hampshire Republican Party two days before the candidate deadline, after learning that their previous nominee, Earl Nelson, was no longer going to run. DeM...

Driven by a policy among U.K. police and prosecutors to not pursue rape cases, convictions slumped to their lowest level on record last year despite more reports from victims. The 59% decline since 20...

"Don't startup with yourwhite zone shit again." San Francisco International Airport has enacted a new "quiet airport" plan to reduce unnecessary noise, including limiting the number of announcements b...

Do yourself a favor and watch My Octopus Teacher, a recent addition to Netflix. It's one of the most incredible and touching documentaries I've ever seen. Truly an exquisite work of art. As I watched ...

Pretty much anyone 16 and older can hunt big game alone in the United States, but many states allow pre-teens to hunt big game alone, not just rabbits and squirrels and the like. As list maintainer Ou...

This illusion done 18 times in under one minute is pretty impressive, especially the last one. If you want to see how it's done, there are videos online, but that kind of ruins the fun. Image: YouTube...

Joseph Plateau invented the phenakistoscope in 1832 and revolutionized visual media by paving the way to modern animation. This lovely tribute repurposes some of his most famous works. Here's how to m...

Music is hugely liberating. And whether you love rock, classical, country, rap or any other genre, there's a real sense of accomplishment when you can sit down in front of a keyboard and hammer out a ...

TIL: Glass Gem is a beautiful and rare variety of heirloom corn (aka calico, flint, or "Indian" corn) that looks like candy, or maybe beads (previously). It was developed by Oklahoma farmer and breede...

Surveillance cameras aren't just a luxury anymore. They're practically a necessity. Whether you want to keep an eye on your home or children, secure your business or just make sure your actions are do...

Sometimes, you and all your friends just need to crawl up into your little basket-bowls with a blankie, and take a nap. More fun images at kagonekoshiro.com....

Illegitimate U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr told federal prosecutors on a call last week they should consider sedition charges against those suspected of violent crimes at recent racial justice prote...

Remember that Trump photo op in front of St. John's Church in Lafayette Square in DC, on June 1st, where American citizens were tear-gassed? Military police were also considering using what is describ...

Users who sued claim Trump's ban on WeChat prohibits "millions of WeChat users in the United States … from using the most popular social media space for Chinese speakers in the world." The Just...

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

Trump's latest attempt to downplay his murderous response to the Covid pandemic is to ignore deaths in "blue states." It's not only a stupid thing to say, it's not even true:...

A Missouri court sentenced two men to write a letter of apology to their Amish community after pleading guilty to sexually abusing their sister when she was 12 and 13 years old. Webster County Prosecu...

Mountain Dew and Red Lobster have jointly crafted the Dew Garita. The first official Mountain Dew cocktail will soon be available at Red Lobster. The "Dew Garita" will be rolling out to select restaur...

Do we all have Zoom fatigue yet? So many annoying aspects to living our work and social lives over video conferencing. One of these is the need for everyone having to mute when listening and unmuting ...

When you were a kid, your mom and dad probably told you to grow up and become a doctor or a lawyer. Practical people that they were, your parents probably assumed that if you were able to scale the ed...

Almost two-thirds of Americans 18-39 didn't know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a survey. From The Guardian: According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults age...

Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune recently got its first trailer, with a surprising soundtrack: a cover of the outtro to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. A tribute to Alejandro Jodorowsky's legen...

Given Chilean-French filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky's storied history with adaptation attempts of Frank Herbert's Dune, it's natural to want to know what he thinks of the trailer to Denis V...

Stanislaw Mayakovsky  a fictional character from the 1992 comic book series Aliens: Hive  was a Russian sociobiologist and artificial life expert from the 22nd century who made a tiny a...

Jimmy Senda was strolling along a beach in Racine, Wisconsin when he found a package wrapped in aluminum foil with a pink rubber band around it. "Curiosity got to me, so I popped it open and it looked...

This astonishing video of a magical castle appearing in the clouds reportedly above Jinan, eastern China, has apparently gone viral on Chinese social media. Skeptics insist it's a Fata Morgana, but we...

My first exposure to Dune was the David Lynch movie, and then I read the first 4 books in middle school. Being the precocious kid I was, I definitely understood all of the nuances that were going on t...

While "Stayin' Alive" (1978) and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was the pinnacle of the Bee Gees' mainstream success, real heads know that before they became disco icons, the brothers Gibb were a...

While "Stayin' Alive" (1978) and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was the pinnacle of the Bee Gees' mainstream success, real heads know that before they became disco icons, the brothers Gibb were a...

Zackrydz Rodzi, a student in Batu Pahat, Malaysia, woke up on Saturday to find his mobile phone missing. He finally located it the following day after hearing it ring in a jungle area behind his home....

One Million Moms is an anti-LGBTQ organization listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. As we've pointed out before, "the group's true size obviously falls far short of its ambi...

After watching this 1960s-vintage British Path reel showing how electrical trasmission towers used to be built, I no longer wonder why infrastructure used to be cheap. Hampshire. An item showing the d...

Yesterday, as this gentleman was being booted from Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios theme park yesterday for refusing to wear a mask, he attempted to rouse support from onlookers by loudly misquo...

In this footage, an army of ducks (previously) helps a farmer in Thailand clean out the paddies. After the rice crop was harvested on a farm in Nakhon Pathom province in Thailand, a flock of around 10...

Tiger King's Carole Baskin debuted on Dancing With the Stars on Monday. The family of her missing ex-husband Don Lewis aired a plea for information regarding his disappearance during a commercial brea...

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special off...

A decent starter electric guitar will often run you about $500 nowadays. If you'd rather learn to play before you dump hundreds into a cool instrument, the Jamstik Guitar Trainer is a brilliant way of...

WonderGround Gallery, the best place to shop in Anaheim's Downtown Disney (imo), has just closed its doors in favor of a Galaxy Edge's pop-up. Trader Josh and Trader Dave of @EnchantedTikiBar write th...

On September 10, 2020, the fact-checking site Logically.ai posted a lengthy and fascinating article into how they tracked down the identity of the man behind the so-called "QMap": In the world of QAno...

Barbados, a former British colony, has announced its plans to remove Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic. Independent since 1966, the tiny island nation hopes to have its first ...

The The Boston Globe reports that a woman showed up for the state primary election wearing a "McCain Hero, Trump Zero" t-shirt. Poll workers informed her that this attire was not allowed inside the po...

Kris Genijn and Pieter Vanluffelen describe their award-winning film as "a poetic creational epic about perseverance and passion, crafted with the same traits." They also spoke with Belgium's Cinevox ...

Fifty-one-year-old, I mean 26-year-old, actor Paul Rudd collaborated with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on this humorous "wear a mask" PSA. It's directed at young people, because, as Rudd quips in th...

Credulous Redditors have been busy spreading the claim that bubbles can bounce off lasers, so Seb Lee-Delisle emulated the fakery with his pal Steve Mould. Here's the guy who allegedly started the hoa...

The Alfonso Cuarn movie Children of Men depicts a world ravaged by economic decline and mass sterility, the first scene showing glum-faced Londoners learning that the last child on Earth was murdered ...

Few programming languages and web frameworks are also intuitive and user-friendly for beginners as Ruby on Rails. Even 15 years after its rollout, a virtual lifetime (or two) in tech terms, Ruby and i...

This nighttime demonstration with tracer bullets in an AR-15 shows why it's a bad idea to shoot a gun at water. This is why it's one of the first things they tell students not to do in middle school h...

Biometric technology is doing more than opening your iPhone. In fact, the process of digitally identifying individuals from physical characteristics like fingerprints is opening up whole new areas of ...

For years, whenever I'd see a seriously creepy and cool old house, I'd post it to Facebook and say something like: "Gothic retirement home and artist colony! Who's with me?" The idea of living in a ha...

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

A few days ago, this video of Hendrix performing "Voodoo Child" on Maui in 1970 was loaded to YouTube. This is part of an upcoming November release of the legendary Maui concert that Hendrix did as pa...

You can laugh all you want at someone wearing a headlamp when they're out hiking or camping or spelunking. Of course, the only thing sillier than wearing a headlamp is being stuck somewhere in the dar...

JK Rowling continues to beat her awful transphobic drum. Vanity Fair: According to an early review in The Telegraph, Troubled Bloodthe fifth installment in Rowling's Cormoran Strike series written und...

[UPDATE: Read Lizard of Oz's comment about Colin Turnbull's disputed book, The Mountain People] Doug Belshaw recently read the book The Collapse of Complex Societiesby Joseph A. Tainter, and shared an...

I can not wait the October 2nd release of Star Wars Squadrons. Since X-Wing Vs TIE Fighter I have been waiting for this game....

A man cut down a tree. It fell onto the house. He said some bad words....

You've probably seen some of the clips in this montage of Trump talking about his sexual interest in girls (speculating on the breast size of his infant daughter, bragging about barging into the dress...

One of the best times I have had hooning around was in a red 1971 Corvette Convertible. It liked to spin out in Topanga Canyon. There is something awesome about huge amounts of power and a really crap...

It starts with a child parroting false comparisons to the flu. And then it keeps getting worse. This meme doesn't even really sum it up: A Significant Portion Of The American Public Has Gone Absolutel...

Wealthy democracies have a lower-than-ever opinion of the United States, according to a 13-nation survey by the Pew Research Center. The country's handling of the pandemic is partly responsible for th...

For a president who has told over 20,000 "false or misleading claims" while in office, as The Washington Post reported in July, finding a Trump truth is like finding a needle in an ocean made of hay. ...

"There's an old saying about arguments: when you resort to ad hominem attacks, you've already lost." That's what Matt Tillotson wrote in his essay analyzing entrepreneur/gadfly James Altucher's blog p...

Honoring the longstanding Boing Boing tradition of enjoying vehicles not quite making it under a bridge: we present to you this train....

Because Trump is an enemy of science. "Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year historyuntil now," tweeted the publication today. "The 2020 election is literally...

The Trump Make America Great Again Committee released this "Support our Troops" ad last week. Thing is, those jets dramatically flying over the troops are Russian MiG fighter jets. And the "soldiers" ...

"It's me, Navalny." Russian opposition leader and investigative journalist Alexei Navalny posted these words with this photo from his hospital bed on Instagram, with his wife and two children. Navalny...

NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), aboard the Aqua satellite, captured carbon monoxide plumes coming from California wildfires last week. The observations from Earth orbit show high-altitud...

For the first time in nearly four decades, vinyl records have outsold CDs. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), there were $232.1 million in vinyl music sales and $129.9 ...

People who are "sarcastic, cynical, resentful, impatient, or irritable" are more likely to die of a heart attack, says the European Society of Cardiology. The study was published in theEuropean Journa...

Luke Tully writes that Apple wanted to charge him $2051, in Canadian dollars, to repair a "minimally damaged" laptop screen. This is more than the replacement cost of the entire machine. This was the ...

The arranged deal in which Donald Trump's political ally and campaign donor Larry Ellison and his company Oracle become the sole U.S. technology provider to Tiktok, from China's ByteDance, is reported...

Master balloon artist Dave Brenn can help you and your family have a fantastic night of fun. It takes about two weeks for the supplies to arrive at your home, and then schedule your video lesson ̵...

Canadian police are searching for a truck diver who pulled up to an Alberta meat-packing plant, packed his semi with more than $230,000 worth of meat, and drove off. Now it's come out that a few days ...

Move over, Charmin, time for Ptalo. The extended duration toilet paper panic buying spree inspired by the coronavirus pandemic has been so intense, "in order to keep their shelves stocked, retailers a...

I can not wait and am hopeful Obi-Wan is even better....

Martin de Thurah blended sculpture, animation, and live action to amp up the dread in the video for Active Child's "Color Me." On the project's site, de Thurrah says, "I wanted to make something frigh...

Despite USDA warnings, hundreds, maybe even thousands, of Americans planted those mystery "innocuous" Chinese seeds sent to addresses in all 50 states, according to Motherboard's Jason Koebler. Some e...

Are you an espresso person? A cold brew fan? Or are pour overs your thing? Or are you looking for some new avenues of Java exploration? With your favorite barista now sequestered behind a mask and tri...

Domo is a pink cat who has a lot of misadventures, each in a different animation style, like this 3D adventure where Domo sings. The series is part of Adult Swim smalls, which showcases short-form exp...

The latest edition of NPR's Tiny Desk Home Concerts features singer/songwriter/National Treasure Phoebe Bridgers, who found a pretty incredible way to elevate the artform first with the delightfully ...

The enveloping close harmonies of Jacob Collier's "He Won't Hold You" meld perfectly with animator Daniel Bruson's depictions of loss, moments both small and large. Jacob's band did a super-chill Tiny...

With dozens and dozens of services offering virtual private network (VPN) protection for PC and mobile users, an overwhelming majority of those providers are working under the same model. Their approa...

Malinda Herman posts wonderful performances of popular songs with her trusty companion Jewjam by her side. Here's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da." Sometime Jewjam perches a foot or two on the neck of the guitar,...

Public speaking is a fate worse than death. Literally. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety around speaking to a crowd, otherwise known as glossophobia, impacts nearly three o...

Artists at Visual Suspect draw on the groundbreaking aesthetic of Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi and Philip Glass's soundtrack for same in Circulatroy Systems, described as "the major highways, the ar...

Mark Yohalem has worked both on his own projects and as an offsite senior or lead writer for BioWare, inXile Entertainment, TimeGate Studios, S2 Games, Nikitova Games, and Affinix Software. As co-foun...

So what's your biggest overall concern about that wad of credit cards and cash you've got stuffed into your pocket?  Are you worried that crooks will use radio-frequency identification (RFID) to ...

A teacher at Grand Mountain School in Colorado Springs called the police on a 12-year-old Black student after noticingover a video callthat he was "waving" a toy gunspecifically, a Zombie Hunter Airso...

In his "autohagiography" The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, the occultist provocateur Aleister Crowley made passing reference to his own "glacial curry" The weather made it impossible to do any ser...

Back in March and April, we were all hopeful. But now, as we segue past Memorial Day into the onset of fall and with the winter season fast approaching, the reality is setting in. Masks are a part of ...

I knew an idiot in junior high school who so wanted to impress some girls that he removed his own braces with a pair of pliers. What a waste of his parent's money. A few years later, in 1985, another ...

The Australian insurance company Budget Direct created this nifty graphic of every Motor Trend "Car of the Year" winner in the United States. After the Plymouth Volare (1976), my eyes glazed and inter...

Archie McPhee, sellers of curios, realized that any PayPal transaction containing the word "tardigrade" that being the name of the adorable tiny space-surviving creatures they sell ornaments of woul...

The US Customs and Border Patrol in Cincinnati, Ohio announced that they've intercepted more than 2,000 fake driver's licenses and 1,600 "ID-making materials" coming through a single express courier h...

Don't look now…but the PS5 and Xbox Series X are literally just weeks away. For gamers, the years-long wait for the premium next-generation gaming systems from the Big Two is going to make the 2...

Researchers have transformed ordinary red bricks into batteries by injecting gases that enable the material to store electricity . Developed by chemists at Washington University, each brick costs only...

Beijing is strongly against a Trump-forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by Chinese owner ByteDance, and the government of China would rather that TikTok shut down all operations in United States, ...

Enjoying sex and food is not a sin and church leaders who tell you that are "overzealous," says Pope Francis. From the New York Post: "Pleasure arrives directly from God. It is neither Catholic nor Ch...

Officials have signed an agreement to buy 50 million doses, plan to distribute in November...

When you grind coffee beans, you want to use a burr grinder, not a blade grinder. Burr grinders break the beans into uniformly sized chunks, unlike blade grinders, which flay the beans into pieces of ...

Donald Trump, who is definitely not a drug user at all and has never been reported as a habitual user of stimulants to this very day, casually accuses Joe Biden of using performance enhancing drugs in...

"Put your damn mask on!" from r/funny This swan doesn't like it when people don't wear face masks....

Kurdish journalist Oktay Candemir was arrested on Monday for making fun of an upcoming Turkish TV series about a 13th-century Ottoman sultan. From .coda: Authorities didn't find it funny and Candemir ...

It is wonderful to have room temperature butter around to put on the baked goods. This butter bell is the crock that makes it happen safely. Simply fill the bell with warm butter and put about 1 cm o...

The French political cartoon website Charlie Hebdo says Al Qaeda has issued death threats to the staff, after republication of the infamous Mohammed cartooons. SITE Intel Group and AFP have also repor...

Wow. As Natasha Bertrand said on Friday, someone should maybe follow up on the last part of this paragraph from Charlotte Alter's piece for Time, "How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election...

To be fair, it does appear to have a ticket....

Punk-rock magic absurdist Zabrecky is at it again, and this time he's got Puddles Pity Party joining him! Saturday the 12th of September will see two shows of this new 'Magic Extravaganza.'...

This 1902(!) video footage of the Flying Train in Wuppertal, Germany is of such high quality it seems hard to believe. But there it is. MoMA explains the stunning quality in the video's description: T...

One More Try is a free web-based service that records something on your computers webcam then plays it back after a specified amount of time. The creator made it to review a skateboard trick he was tr...

"Adults with positive SARS-CoV-2 test results were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant than were those with negative SARS-CoV-2 test results," according to the Center...

From Punk News: The Dead Milkmen are releasing a role-playing game module called Lost Tomb of the Bitchin' Chimera. It's a 5e game meaning that it is comparable with Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition...

Neuroscientists at Georgetown University tested volunteers on their ability to predict patterns of dots appearing sequentially on a computer screen. The volunteers who were able to subconsciously anti...

Is this episode of Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?," he breaks down The Cure's "Just Like Heaven." What appears to be a peppy pop confection on the surface has a lot going on when you isolat...

Truly*Adventurous has a wonderful new long-form investigation into the Capital Area Paranormal Society, an after-school high school club in Springfield, Illinois where students can explore haunted loc...

Is it getting hot in here or is it Pride Week in Helsinki? Ads of the World: Burger King Finland's campaign "Love conquers all" is a celebration of love and all the forms it takes. "Burger King has al...

Goodreads is a vile website, both shopworn and sharp-edged. There, the machinery of social media and engagement-generation was applied so ruthlessly to books that Amazon itself was outgunned and ended...

In this 2004 segment of The Day Today, the legendary parody news show from the UK, a reporter assigned to cover a meeting at the World Trade Center finds that he is a) going to get fired for faking hi...

No, your phone does not qualify as emergency tech. While it's obviously a huge help when you find yourself in a jam, your phone's main utility in the event you're stranded with a dead vehicle or stuck...

As posted by Terry Tsai: "SF drone footage during the #BayAreaFires on 9/9/20, set to Blade Runner 2049 music." Horrifying footage (originally posted by DrSbaitso) made beatifulat least until the vide...

Microsoft's Surface Duo is a clamshell device about the size of a pocket notebook. Open it up and there are two facing touchscreens. Is it any good? The Verge's Dieter Bohn says the hardware design is...

As we were driving past McDonald's the other day, my 15-year-old daughter told me, "A pretty famous rapper has a meal named after him now." I said, "Oh? Who?" "I don't remember." So, I looked when we ...

You know their work**, now there's a book. Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly drops October 6, 2020. The Guerrilla Girls is a collective of women artists who protest the underrepresentation of...

A CNN investigation into the AmazonBasics lineup of inexpensive yet seemingly good-enough electronics gear found dozens of products that melted, exploded or started fires: "Dozens of AmazonBasics prod...

Here's a glimpse of Covid-Christmas, a glittery ornament of Santa Claus in a face mask ($21.99). It's made by Old World Christmas, a company that specializes in higher-end handblown glass ornaments. O...

More of this, please. A Danish collective of jazz musicians have perfected their far-right counter-protest strategy. "Free Jazz Against Paludan" follows the far-right politician Rasmus Paludan ar...

TL;DR: The Complete Google Cloud eBook and Video Course Bundle will get you up to speed on using one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms anywhere. While a lion's share of the talk in the cloud serv...

For power and strength training, coaches and trainers are increasingly recommending kettlebell work. These portable weights combine strength training, cardiovascular fitness, and improving your flexib...

A Princess of Mars (1970) is one of Frank Frazetta's most famous works. He painted it for the 1970 hardcover edition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' first John Carter of Mars novel. Interestingly, Frazetta f...

I never lived until I ate off a Zoo Pals plate....

Two things I've tried to learn more than once and have failed at: unicycling and juggling. I hope pro juggler Jack Kalvan can help with the juggling part, then I'll be halfway toward my goal of being ...

Azerbaijan textile artist Faig Ahmed employs ancient craft to create mind-bending textile sculptures. His work is featured in an online exhibition at the Sapar Contemporary gallery, titled "Textile Tr...

The best paper I have found for writing with a fountain pen in a notebook is Maruman Menemosyne. I am lost without these notebooks. While I have a bunch of Moleskine books around, I think the paper is...

The Cape sundew is an alien-looking plant studded with hundreds of red tentacles. At the tip of each tentacle is a droplet of glistening dew, beckoning hapless insects to enjoy a free sugary meal. But...

Last night I tore thru Diego Piraro's Peyote Cowboy. A fantastic story about a cowboy who mistakenly eats some peyote while trying to save his son from starving, the art will blow your mind....

Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, now himself a convicted criminal, is among America's most plainspoken racists and bigots. So it was a surprise when he issued a warm personal welcome to visitors ho...

People under the influence of acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol, Panadol) engage in more risky behavior, according to a study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. From The O...

Aviation historians and museum curators like those at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum go gaga over any photos, correspondence, or curiosities related to Amelia Earhart. And of course her...

Researchers at the University of Exeter went to a beach and approached herring gulls. In half the trials they walked toward the gulls while looking at the ground, and in the other half, they stared di...

In the new issue of The Magnet, I wish the late illustrator Roy Doty a happy birthday. Roy was best known for his "Worldless Workshop" comic, which ran for 62 years in Popular Science and The Family H...

Ronald "Khalis" Bell, co-founder of legendary funk-soul band Kool & The Gang and co-writer of classic jams "Ladies' Night," "Jungle Boogie" and "Celebration," has died. He was 68. From Rolling Sto...

The US Navy has banned sailors and Marines from using shampoo, lotions, and other body care products that contain hemp or cannabidiol. According to the official statement, their rationale is that the ...

English actress Diana Rigg, famed for roles from The Avengers to Game of Thrones, is dead at 82. The BBC reports that she died in her sleep. Her daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, said: "My Beloved M...

Italian police fined a French tourist 1,000 ($1,200)for attempting to smuggle four pounds of Sardinia's beloved white sand out of the country. Authorities at Cagliari Elmas Airport discovered the sand...

So far, the origin of the tiger is unclear...

TikTok admitted today that it has banned certain phrases from being used by users in regions that include Russia, Bosnia and Jordan, with "gay", "I am gay" and "transgender" named as examples by the B...

At The Catapult, writer/artist Shing Yin Khor has an incredibly beautiful illustrated essay about her relationship with peaches and depression connecting both things back to their own Chinese heritag...

Donald Trump is having a Very Normal Morning, isn't he. It's just past 9AM in the nation's capital, and the President of the United States has tweeted more than thirty times in almost as many minutes....

Impeached President Donald Trump is on an early morning Twitter rampage. Between retweeting fat jokes about himself and copy-paste Russian disinformation about voter fraud, he said this. "Kim Jong Un ...

This fun and clever short film about plastic waste in our oceans ends with some sobering statistics about this pollution entering every part of the food chain, including the poor whale killed by inges...

We all know it's a rough world out there. And while we'd like to believe that everyone is honorable at heart, trustworthy, and makes thoughtful compassionate choices, we all know that isn't always the...

Paris-based Mathematic Studio produced a lovely animation for Bob Marley's timeless "Redemption Song." Directed by Octave Marsal and Tho de Gueltzl, the work draws heavily on imagery and iconography s...

The Chinese government has ordered major media outlets in China to not cover the release of Walt Disney's "Mulan." Authorities ordered the ban as controversy broke out over the film's links with China...

Are you facing a difficult decision? A binary one? The Decision Maker is for you. A pendulum forced by the power of magnetism to oscillate between signs marked "YES" and "NO" until coming to settle on...

2007: the year of the iPhone. Do you ever miss those days, when you had to store your songs as digital files onto a small hard drive with a clickwheel? Fear not: the Magic iPod is here, offering you t...

After watching this 10-minute training video, you will be an expert carver ready to serve diners at America's premier buffet restaurant. "This is me in a Old Country Buffet Training Video," writes The...

Microsoft says attack on Democratic campaign was thwarted...

YouTuber ReThinkingTourism follows up the honest pre-flight safety demonstration video with the brutally honest airport security announcement. Really more painfully obvious than brutally honest. Sadly...

The 2018 Gubernatorial election in Georgia was a mess, in which then-Secretary of State Brian Kemp allegedly used his position to aggressively purge voter rolls in order make sure he "defeated" Democr...

If 2020 has you pinching pennies, this site listing foods by calories per dollar may be helpful. Engineer Michael Kirk says he was inspired to create the list after calculating cost per calorie of fas...

At The Catapult, writer/artist Shing Yin Khor has an incredibly beautiful illustrated essay about her relationship with peaches and depression connecting both things back to their own Chinese heritag...

Crowdsource the Truth thought it would be fun to market their Crony Awards with a version of an Emmy statuette holding a coronavirus. When the Television Academies tried to stop the organization from ...

We all understand the healing powers of music. Putting on your favorite songs, zoning out, and letting the immersive sensation wash over you and carry you away is part of music's universal appeal. And...

When I'm not writing things here on BoingBoing and elsewhere, I also sing and play guitar for an indie rock called the Roland High Life. And today, we have a new album out called "Songs About Comic Bo...

The great thing about online education is that no matter where you feel you need to shore up your skill sets, there's a package of coursework that can help get you there. You just have to know where t...

PMS 130, taken on 9/9/20 by Adam Dexter Woke up this morning here in Alameda (San Francisco Bay Area) and it was still dark, with a strong orange coming through the blinds. I can best describe it as a...

I've had a cheap Brother wireless laser printer for 10 years. It's so much faster and cheaper than an inkjet printer, and doesn't cause problems like an inkjet printer. It also prints on both sides of...

From breaching humpback whales to European tulip fields to frozen lakes in Antarctica, enjoy a drone's eye view of the world in this relaxing montage of scenic drone footage. [Video link, source: Stor...

A former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security has filed a whistleblower complaint, in which he claims he was told to stop providing intelligence analysis reports about ongoing Russia...

Walmart said Wednesday it will soon start a pilot project for drone delivery of grocery and household products. The retailer is partnering for the test launch with end-to-end delivery firm Flytrex. Wa...

What's on the nightstand by your bed? Probably a lamp, maybe a clock, your phone, a tablet, a pair of glasses, some books you haven't read yet, some tissues, a remote control, and likely at least a fe...

Visual Capitalist's graph of the world's 25 richest families includes only those that inherited their wealth (not "self-made" centi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, or Bill Gates). I was ...

In 2001 Portugal decriminalized the consumption of all drugs. Meanwhile, the Philippines deals with drug users by shooting them in the street or throwing them in prison. Neither approach eliminates th...

Microsoft says the Xbox Series X will cost $500, a stripped-down $300 Series S will also be available, and both will launch on November 10, as the holiday shopping season kicks off. AP: There haven't ...

Shocking new excerpt from Bob Woodward's book 'Rage' show Trump downplayed COVID-19 threat but knew how deadly and contagious it is Trump: "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it d...

The United States and Mexico are each others greatest trading partners and share a 3,000 kilometer border. The number of U.S. residents with Mexican ancestry is about 37 million. And yet, the border i...

Stevie gives an amazing performance here. Where can I get his pants suit?...

Looking forward to this one. You surely know what Dune is all about, but if not, well, few are the fools who would attempt to explain it in a paragraph. The only way to catch up is to buy the entire s...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released guidelines forbidding door-to-door trick-or-treating. "Door-to-door trick-or-treating is not allowed because it can be very difficult to mai...

De Niro and Bob James's "Angela"what's not to love?<P>(kingkida)...

Despite reports of their death in the Washington Post back in 2017, it appears that guitars are, in fact, still alive and indeed, might even be cool once more. As The New York Times reports, in the a...

As part of the new transmedia Doctor Who series, Time Lord Victorious, the BBC has announced that the Daleks are getting their own animated CGI miniseries. Yes, that's right: everyone's favorite genoc...

Senryu are sort of a sister poem to the Haiku. While traditional Haiku are about nature, Senryu follow the same 5-7-5 syllable format to address elements of human nature. Latitude and longitude are av...

When you walk around carrying a heavy backpack, the movement of the pack against your body increases the amount of energy you need to take each step. Now, Huazhong University of Science and Technology...

When you walk around carrying a heavy backpack, the movement of the pack against your body increases the amount of energy you need to take each step. Now, Huazhong University of Science and Technology...

Denim is a popular clothing fabric. Half the world is wearing blue jeans or denim right now (well, at least they were before the pandemic). A new study published in Environmental Science & Technol...

YouTubers There I Ruined It have lived up to their name but making Survivor's Rocky III hit "Eye of the Tiger" a doo-wop song (cringe). Here's the original to listen to as a palate cleanser: (Born in ...

A recent study has shown that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was a Bad Idea. The Hill: Based on the increase in case count, the researchers group, estimated that cases connected to the gathering resulte...

An outbreak of wildfires has spread across Oregon. As Oregon Public Broadcasting explains: Thousands of Oregonians were evacuated from their homes Tuesday, as conditions led to a spate of surging wild...

"Using 19 years of data on 1,172 public firms, we show that firms' distinctive strategies are systematically linked to their CEOs' uncommon names," write the authors of a new study published in Strate...

Fossils found within other fossils happen when an animal dies with its undigested prey inside. Cases generally involve prehistoric fish and reptiles, as they tend to swallow prey whole. Scientists wor...

Yarh-io is a handheld Linux-based computer with keyboard, trackpad and 800×480-pixel display made with a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a custom 3D-printed case and many hours of love. [via Liliputing] YARH.I...

Kurt is a baby horse born last month. But Kurt is a very special horse because he's one of approximately 2,000 endangered Przewalski's horses alive on the planet, and he was cloned from genetic materi...

I don't know about you, but in this pandemic, I feel as though the weeks are flying by. In this interview conducted by Darryn King, neuroscientist David Eagleman talks about the many ways the world wr...

I wonder if this was just a friendly greeting or a congratulatory gesture, and, if it's the latter, what exactly was being praised....

Adrian Smith is a bug nerd. The head of the Evolutionary Biology &Behavior Lab atthe North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, he studies insects and also creates digital media to share the wonde...

This fascinating mini-documentary describes the downfall of Irish politician Pdraig Flynn, who gave a bizarre interview to broadcaster Gay Byrne in 1999 that drew all the threads of his career and his...

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special off...

In this footage a dog is asked not to woof. Instead of complying with the request, however, the dog says "woof". And by "says", I mean the dog says it....

We covered Jason Shron's basement recreation of a VIA traincar almost 10 years ago, but his effortstaggeringly completist thought it isis now just one among many examples of "secret fantasy worlds" bu...

Matt Farrell delves into what carbon capture utilization storage (CCUS) can and can't do for reducing greenhouse gases. There are several big issues. First, doing CCUS at a scale that would make a dif...

Another event is going virtual. The quirky What the Fluff? festival can't happen as planned at their in-person location of Union Square in Somerville, Massachusetts, so they are taking it online this ...

Solutions and Other Problems [Amazon] is the forthcoming follow-up to BB fave Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh's amusing and insightful collection of autobiographical sketches. Her new work, out Sept...

Mere humans can never harness the sea, but the Hacksmith had fun making Aquaman's trident with a few tweaks. While his generates impressive 800 psi water pressure, its capacity is limited, and the gol...

Here's Louis Vuitton's take on fashion facemasks, reportedly part of its 2021 Cruise Collection. Ian Servantes points out that there's no price or product page, but adds what many are likely thinking:...

Kayaker Jimmy MacDonald lost his paddle and tipped over in the choppy waters of New York's Lake George when the miraculous appearance of priests touring the lake on a floating tiki bar appeared and sa...

Stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves joined co-creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon to discuss the arduous journey to screen for the beloved franchise. Fun fact: the writers were fired by their agent ...

Watch all the stealing and robbing they do. This is important. Trump...

"In a court filing Tuesday, the Justice Department said Trump was acting 'within the scope' of his job as president when he said Carroll lied about the incident" The U.S. Justice Department, controlle...

In case you haven't tried an electric board before, know this — it's not a toy. With 2800 watts of power, the beefy 36V, 4.4 Ah battery propels the Flowdeck X at a respectably speedy 20 mph with...

A tiny baby gorilla has been born at the zoo in New Orleans, the Audubon Zoo said Tuesday. The critically endangered western lowland gorilla was born Friday to 13-year-old Tumani and father Okpara, an...

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In Britain, the government says that beginning Monday, gatherings of more than six people in England are banned. Officials are working to thwart a spike in new coronavirus infections. The recent jump ...

I have a few different mechanical pencils. The ones I commonly use have lead thicknesses of 0.7mm and 0.5mm, both of which are fine for everyday notetaking. But when my daughter and I fire up the DOSB...

Impeached president Donald Trump held a small campaign rally without social distancing and not many masks, at North Carolina's Smith Reynolds Airport. "It's very simple to remember: If Biden wins, Chi...

Cory just kicked off his first Kickstart and I just kicked in! It's for the audiobook edition of Cory's third "Little Brother" novel, Attack Surface. You can read the details on the Kickstarter page a...

The drug spice has been chemically altered to circumvent the UK's laws against it, and the new version is causing havoc in the streets. It's also being blamed for a threefold increase in unnatural dea...

In the U.S., 32 states currently have either restrictions or an outright ban on driving with a smartphone in your hand. Whether you're talking, texting or looking up directions, using your phone while...

Sometimes, in my dreams, I am the lead in Kool Moe Dee's I Go To Work....

From the makers of  General Jeff's "Old Rebel" Session Papers, comes this six pack of Smoke-A-Dope pre-rolled cones ($5). Introducing Smoke-A-Dope, the new Trolling Papers that let you ...

Over at Wirecutter, my friend and colleague James Austin has a wonderful new guide that covers everything you need to run a remote/online Dungeons and Dragons campaign with your friends while still ke...

A gentleman aggressively borrowing THE plot device from a beloved children's novel is surprised people want to win a candy factory. Fast Company: David Klein, who sold his stake in Jelly Belly in 1980...

Since he was a kid, Destin Sandlin from Smarter Every Day has wondered what would happen when a baseball went supersonic. So he build a supersonic baseball cannon. You may recall he built a similar gu...

When you're the king, someone is always coming for your crown. Nowhere is that more true than in the tech sector, where a perennial favorite like Adobe and their insanely popular Creative Cloud app su...

Last week when Trump arrived in Wilmington, North Carolina for an appearance, The Animals classic 1964 hit "House of the Rising Sun" blared from the loudspeakers. The Animals' Eric Burdon heard about ...

On August 21 at the US Smithsonian's National Zoo, Mei Xiang gave birth to a beautiful panda cub. You can check out the Zoo's Giant Panda Cams but for an immediate dose of panda joy, Zoo curators Mich...

This is from the 7 Sep 2020 issue of my new newsletter, The Magnet. Sign up for it here! (Before reading further, please draw a simple bicycle without looking at a reference image.) Ten years ago,Andr...

This essay from Moneyness by JP Koning is from 2019, but I just came across it. It's about Starbucks stored value accounts, which come in the form of physical cards but also as smartphone and smartwat...

Police in Millersburg, Kentucky, pulled over a driver last week after noticing that their license plate looked a bit "off model," as cartoonists say. The individual was also lacking auto insurance and...

In 1984 The New Yorker published a story written by Janet Malcolm. The story, says Malcolm in the 24 Sep 2020 issue of The New York Review of Books, was "about a disturbance in an obscure corner of th...

In artists Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen's installation "Pareidolia," a computer vision system uses facial recognition software to find faces in grains of sand. Of course, "pareidolia" is a tri...

Many children who get Covid-19 are unlikely to show symptoms and very few will die from the disease. But the authors of a new paper in EClinicalMedicine (a journal of The Lancet) say even asymptomatic...

Many children who get Covid-19 are unlikely to show symptoms and very few will die from the disease. But the authors of a new paper in EClinicalMedicine (a journal of The Lancet) say even asymptomatic...

Using Europe's largest solar telescope, GREGOR, researchers captured these incredible images of details on the surface of the sun. Above is a sunspot while the image below "reveals intricate structure...

Today I learned about the Houston Vampire Court and the Vampire Court of Dallas/Fort Worth, both member-driven organizations for "Sanguinarians" humans who sustain themselves through blood (animal, o...

The "magnificent" home in Berkeley, California, formerly lived in by author Ursula K. Le Guin is on the market for $4.1m. Pictured above, the writing room, though the press releasy stories about it ar...

I recently re-watched the Spielberg-Tom Cruise big screen adaptation of Minority Report. It still holds up as a great sci-fi film about the dangers of the surveillance state, but it also loses somethi...

In 1912, 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing during a family fishing trip in Louisiana. Eight months later, a boy matching his description appeared in Mississippi. But was it Bobby Dunbar? In this we...

This short film was an ad for Ghostbusters, filmed by Bill Murray and John Ackroyd (in character as Drs. Venkman and Stantz) to convince independent theater operators to run the forthcoming movie itse...

The Broomway is a path over tidal flats near Southend-on-Sea in England, linking the mainland with Foulness Island for at least 600 years. Often shrouded in mist, surrounded by whirpools and quicksand...

Everyday carry items have to clear new hurdles these days. Because while the number of items we might like to have with us at all times keeps growing, we still only have two hands. And bags start gett...

This is me, every morning, turning on the internet to see what new delights await....

Theodor Kittelsen was a neo-Romantic and fantasy artist famous in Norway but relatively unknown beyond it. Here's a brief documentary featuring and explaining some of his most distinctive work....

Today I learned: Flamingos feed with their heads upside down and that their beaks are adapted for this purpose.  This essay on flamingo feeding from Stanford explains: In most birds a smaller low...

What's brown and white and tastes nothing like Christmas? Archie McPhee's Shiitake Mushroom Candy Canes, of course. Not sure what to do for the holidays this year? Give a shiitake! Shiitake Mushroom C...

Finally, all this new technology put to useful purpose: film stars manipulated by an evil AI into singing "All Star". The software that does the magic is Wav2Lip [github]. Highlights Lip-sync videos t...

Being a mortician means getting asked a lot of interesting questions, especially ones on keeping a skull or other memento mori after a loved one shuffles off this mortal coil. The answer is interestin...

Impeached U.S. President Donald Trump was accused by his Democratic rival Joe Biden of causing mass deaths with incompetent handling of the coronavirus crisis. So, on Monday, Trump did what he does be...

"The wildfire that has burned more than 7,000 acres in Yucaipa and surrounding areas was caused by an explosive used during a gender reveal party, according to the California Department of Forestry an...

While Labor Day is a moment to solemnly consider the role that work serves in all of our lives, there are certain workers among us who will not benefit from a day of celebration and reflection. Robot ...

Whenever you happen to need a charging cable or a power batteryhey, wait a minute, where did that go? Between the house, your vehicle and all those evildoers that blatantly steal your stuff (otherwise...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Greetings, all. Welcome back to the show. This w...

YouTuber Ann Reardon of How to Cook That looks closely at viral content channels to learn how they get millions, even billions, of views with some sneaky tricks. Humorously, she's titled her own video...

David Byrne's Broadway hit American Utopia (previously) has released a trailer in advance of its October 7 debut on HBO. The filmed version is directed by Spike Lee. Despite all that's happened, and d...

Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader poisoned with a novichok nerve agent and airlifted for treatment to Germany, has emerged from his coma. The doctors treating him, however, warn that he h...

The Cheapskate's Guide is Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website. It's a paean to the personal website presented in the form of a David Attenborough-style nature documentary about an endangered...

Foone recently examined the guts of a digital pregnancy test to find that it was a fully-functional system on a chip that simply looks at the lines on a standard test strip and reports what it sees. T...

Classic first-person shooter Doom is 27 years old, but still receiving official updates. A few months ago, it received 60fps support. Now it's going widescreen. [via The Verge] For the first time in a...

Asked today by the presiding judge whether he consents to be extradicted to the U.S. on espionage charges, Julian Assange said "No." The district judge Vanessa Baraitser commented: "That was the respo...

After a truck was spotted driving around Lincoln, Nebraska, with the words "Fuck the N—–s" painted on it, the owner was soon identified and fired from his job. Cordis told the Omaha World-...

It's already one of the most iconic items in film history. Unless you've been off-world for the past few years, you already know all about the all-powerful Infinity Gauntlet. It's the weapon wielded b...

Boy, they sure love to say the quiet part out loud, huh? A two-page document released late Friday by Office of Management and Budget Director Russel Vought effectively bans all federal agencies from u...

Don't worry, it's sped up! The little critters fan out into the sand over the course of a day or so, welcoming us to Ant Farm Time Lapse YouTube. (Previously in Ants)...

Earlier this week, an international team of scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration published two reports one in the Physical Review Letters, and the other ...

From The Guardian, where the Snowden revelations were originally published in 2013: Seven years after the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveil...

The new National Geographic special "Bin Laden's Hard Drive" analyzes the porn collection found in the Abottabad compound of slain terrorist Osama Bin Laden. BIN LADEN'S HARD DRIVE premieres on Nation...

Learning to code is a skill many people realize they should take the time to understand, yet instinctively cringe at the actual prospect of doing. It isn't hard to see why. For its integral place in t...

Whenever Donald Trump's wife pops up in the news, it's good to remember she was and remains a racist birther. Back in 2011, Melania repeated the racist conspiracy theory pushed by her husband, and cal...

China did not release images of the reusable spacecraft it says completed a two day space flight. China's government announced Sunday that its first reusable spacecraft landed after two days in orbit...

Having a webcam isn't enough these days. We've assembled over 20 gimbals, lights, tripods, full kits, and more to elevate your video game, whether you're making elaborate YouTube videos or just trying...

Part puzzle, part science, part creativity and all fun, the Geeek Club launched a Kickstarter campaign to help make high-tech more accessible by creating fun robot kits that blur the line between play...

Back in the 60s, surfers weren't just dreaming up what would ultimately be recognized as the birth of the modern surf culture. They were practically making up their own language as they did it. Along ...

Peter Strzok's new book, COMPROMISED, is published next week. In an interview with Politico, the former FBI agent says it's unlikely the FBI was able to do a thorough and complete counterintelligence ...

At least 4 boats sank, no injuries reported as of late Saturday...

It's more about the survivors of gender violence. That's really what it's about. Anita Hill...

Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Harvey Briggs, 52, went face-to-face with a man filming an arrest, handled his firearm while threatening him, then ripped the man's facemask off. It was all caught on ...

Hear us out on this…but there's a case to be made that the telescoping ladder may be one of mankind's most ingenious inventions. For all of recorded history, man has used some form of ladders an...

At The Washington Post, Daniel Drezner notes that a lot of gas was wasted last week on the idea that Biden was suddenly losing ground to Trump. This speculation was dashed on the rocks of the latest p...

And it's disturbing as hell. screengrab via SiriusXM...

Yikes....

To be able to perform the feat of "floating into the sky with a cluster of balloons," David Blaine had to first gather a team of experts, jump out of a plane 500 times (to get a pro skydiver rating), ...

American Cyanamid was a leading fertilizer company whose success broadened its horizons to a vast range of industrial and chemical products. It fell to pieces in the 1990s under the weight of patent l...

On Thurday, a rally for Donald Trump was held in Fred Roger's hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His 92-year-old widow Joanne made it clear in an interview with The Daily Beast that she's not a fan. "...

To say your home is your castle is particularly noteworthy right now. Since most of us barely seem to leave the house anymore, its battlements, towers and overall security have never been more importa...

On September 5, the Burning Man Project is hosting Burn Night: Live From Home, "a worldwide, around-the-clock Burn Night extravaganza." Pre-recorded and live burns will be live-streamed for a ful...

I have not heard this in years. Packed with the best....

When you're the king, someone is always coming for your crown. Nowhere is that more true than in the tech sector, where a perennial favorite like Adobe and their insanely popular Creative Cloud app su...

Liberty University hires forensic accountants to investigate "all facets" of Falwell's tenure, including school's financial and real estate operations When you're in a whole lot of trouble, a dumb th...

The president has called fallen U.S. service members losers."...

Shouldn't surprise anyone at this point that Trump is just straight up repeating Vladimir Putin's talking points, and placing the interests of Russia before America. Impeached and manifestly unfit Pre...

Bishakh Som'sartwork has been featured in solo shows atArtLexisGallery and at the Jaya Yoga Center, and in group shows at TheSociety of Illustrators in New York, the Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island ...

I have a few different LED headlamps, butthis one is by far my favorite. It features a band of LEDs that throw light in a wide area in front of you. It lights up the entire area around you, as opposed...

Earbuds can be supremely frustrating. The appearance of a $30 pair doesn't often differ noticeably from a $150 pair. And alarmingly enough, you can't always detect much audio difference between the tw...

National newspapers in Britain traditionally call August 'The Silly Season,' the month when news is so slow that even the most ludicrous of stories will sometimes be used to fill a hole on a page. It'...

Despite never having been invited to screen one of his films at the New York Film Festival, John Waters was happy to design the poster for this year's event. From Film at Lincoln Center: Of the design...

Computer generated unicorns on demand, from @balpha. URL format: https://unicornify.pictures/avatar/$HASH?s=$SIZE $HASH is any hexadecimal number, up to 64 digits.$SIZE is the requested image size in ...

It took the LockPickingLawyer a fraction of a second to remove the anti-theft lock on a bottle of Grey Goose vodka....

Before internet treasure Tim from Grand Illusions started socially distancing, he had a great example of how fiberoptic cables work. Think of them as an extremely thin, extremely long camera lens or m...

3Blue1Brown has a good two-part introduction to error correction codes, which are what make it possible to check the integrity of data and in some cases fix it....

The privately built border wall built by Fisher Sand and Gravel is in danger of failing during a flood, according to an engineering report. From The Texas Tribune: Company president Tommy Fisher, a fr...

Coby from 545 Lawn Care has a 1985 GMC Van modded to be driveable upside down while seated in the cargo area looking out the rear window. Worth watching just to hear an amazing American upper Midwest ...

Actor John Boyega he played Finn in the most recent Star Wars trilogy is the feature of this month's GQ cover story. There are lots of great insights and anecdotes throughout the lengthy interview, ...

The New York City rats are hungry. That's not a good sign. From the New York Post: "I saw the little pigeon that was hurt and it was kind staggering and injured and out of nowhere, the rat came and ju...

Octavia Butler was the first science fiction writer to win a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship a particularly impressive feat, considering the hurdles that have traditional stood in the way for both wome...

After reports of a casket floating in the South River near Annapolis, Maryland, police responded only to find that it was a dock. [103 WRNR via AP] Photos of the slab were posted to the Facebook page ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated just 73 seconds after liftoff. The seven person crew included high school teacher Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian to fly into spac...

Imagine that your jacket changes shape depending on the temperature or your socks can provide additional support with the push of a button. Harvard engineers created a new material using keratin from ...

Discovered by journalists with Vesti Yamal TV in Russia, a 164-ft crater in Siberia joins the other mysterious holes (previously, previously) thought to be the result of methane explosions. Record tem...

Pretzel discovered bowl hockey as a puppy and has never looked back. Affectionately known as Zuul the destroyer, Pretzel will bat that that bowl until I put food into it or take it away. She is the mo...

If you must have sex with someone outside of your household or social bubble, dispense with the kissing and consider wearing a mask, says Dr. Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. While ...

Michael Forest Reinoehl, the man suspected of shooting and killing Aaron "Jay" Danielson during a night of rowdy protests in Portland, Oregon, was himself shot dead last night by police moving to arre...

David Graeber hated being called "The Anarchist Anthropologist." But he was both those things an anarchist activist, a figurehead of the Occupy movement, and a professor of anthropology at the London...

Perhaps in preparation for the Mid-Autumn Festival on October 1, this superhero harnesses all her superpowers to make some quite magical Mooncakes. (via Kottke)...

You can't just wander out into the wilderness. Camping requires preparation. Whether you're only taking a sleeping bag and the clothes on your back or you're setting up a true home away from home, the...

The only way to navigate parts of Chile's Rio Claro is by kayak, which Dane Jackson and fellow adventurers hike in and tackle some of the narrowest and steepest sections of river in the world. And che...

even gator love laser pointer pic.twitter.com/QmgtBl5LAM — Gators Daily (@GatorsDaily) September 3, 2020 Check out this swampy trouble kitten trying to chomp down on a laser pointer aimed at t...

MEL Chemistry shared a nice overview of some fun tricks kids can do with supercooled water, like dipping a frozen grape and watching the crystals form before their eyes. If you really want to up the e...

A video of Dingo (instagram) in hot pursuit of his quarry....

Two great tastes that taste great together! Sylvan Esso's latest music video is set on what appears to be singer Amelia Meath's Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. I love everything about it and am ...

YouTuber BestAqua added two gorgeous white sand waterfalls to his tank. Turn on closed captioning for more details. Here's another setup by The Love Aquarium that is quite nice and just footage of the...

One of the more difficult parts of trying to convince people about the seriousness of climate change is explaining how so many disparate elements and factors can collude and compound* and make everyth...

A portrait of VP nominee Kamala Harris has "cropped up" in a Kansas field. It's the work of artist Stan Herd whose bio reads, "The earth, my canvas." He writes: Began an earthwork of Democratic nomine...

Photographer Jason Page takes viewers through the basics of creating interesting portraits with light painting. The long-exposure shots require a few extra steps, but the results can be worth the effo...

Christmas has come early for Burners. Shalaco has released this 40-minute-long video of an on-playa Burn barrel doing its thing. screengrab via Shalaco/YouTube...

Behold as James Jean curves two arrows at once, striking two balloons hidden behind two barrels. Curving or turning an arrow takes a lot of practice, but it has been known since at least medieval time...

Chicago-based artist Elliot O'Neal has been experimenting with infinity tables and cabinetry, and it is just remarkable. This Instagram post includes a video of what this one looks like in person: Thi...

Sure, we call it a portable blender, but for all intents and purposes, these handheld choppers are effective smoothie makers. They have plenty of added utility and are capable of aiding an array of fu...

Hurricane Laura carved a swath through Gulf Coast, felling trees and destroying buildings. According to the Houston Chronicle there are 230,000 people in Louisiana and another 90,000 in East Texas who...

With many companies still mostly working from home these days, teamwork and collaboration haven't always been easy to come by. Well, maybe not the old-fashioned way, at least. While you can't sit arou...

We've been trained to think of multitools as nifty little gadgets that slip into your pocket and give you the option of choosing between attachments like a corkscrew or a nail file or a tiny pair of p...

Because Trump's followers are members of a cult, they will either deny Trump described American war dead as "losers" and "suckers" or they will wait for Tucker Carlson to explain why it's a good thing...

I hope your toenails aren't 15 millimeters thick, but if they are, these clippers will accommodate them. They have tons of leverage and reviewers on Amazon love them. The price is good, too....

First impressions matter. While ladies often catch that hint as early as the crib, it seems guys regularly take a very blaise approach to their appearance and the message that sends to the world. If y...

Simon Berger just needs a hammer and a sheet of safety glass to make a fascinating shattered glass portrait. Here's a cool timelapse of how he does it, though it's interesting that in the other video ...

The command of the United States Army that defends against internet-based threats celebrated its move into a new $366 million headquarters in Georgia on Thursday. "Created a decade ago, the Army Cyber...

Adam Neely's remarkable analysis of one of the world's most-recognizable and most-recorded songs of all time outlines the confluence of events that led to its creation. He also explains why its strang...

A judge in Richmond, Virginia has ordered that Kanye West be removed from the state's ballot as a candidate for the 2020 presidential election. The judge ordered the Virginia State Board of Elections ...

Jeep plans to offer gas-electric hybrid vehicles, and eventually full electric powertrains. The company unveiled the first of their battery-powered vehicles for the U.S. on Thursday, a plug-in recharg...

With Python programming taking an increasingly large role in all forms of web development, including computer science, machine learning and artificial intelligence, it seems likely that Python's most ...

HofmanDujardin makes Bloomframe windows that work like a Murphy bed, opening up into a balcony. The only disconcerting part might be the pane of glass that doubles as a floor. That might trigger guest...

Residents of Redding, California are reporting mysterious letters and numbers drawn in the dust on their automobiles. Some people are suggesting that the codes could be the work of sex traffickers. Fo...

Laser cleaning clips are almost as satisfying as powerwashing clips, but how to they work, especially on uneven surfaces? Via Tech Insider: P-laser develops and produces industrial laser cleaning equi...

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden issued a statement on the poisoning of Aleksei Navalny: "As president, I will do what Donald Trump refuses to do: work with our allies and partners to hold ...

The Guide Gear Hide-A-Gun Concealment Air Vent [Amazon] boasts that it will "Keep your gun hidden in plain sight!" of people whose eye level is lower than 36 inches from the floor. Guaranteed! To you,...

We've all been cooped up for the past six months and whether you want to admit it or not, our heightened state of existence has probably got your competitive juices flowing at least a little. No matt...

The Department of Homeland Security issued an intelligence bulletin on Wednesday warning that Russia is now focusing disinformation attacks on the subject of mail-in voting, as our election process in...

Impeached and increasingly erratic U.S. President Donald Trump urged residents in the politically hot state of North Carolina to attempt to vote twice in the November 3 election, once by mail and then...

Xyla Foxlin and her uncle take just 30 days to create a cedar strip canoe reminiscent of summers with her aunt and uncle. The next 30 days were spend adding the varnish. She says: I've been paddling t...

This paper sign at our local sandwich shop from r/pics I applaud this restaurant's efforts to teach rat-lickers that businesses have a right to refuse them service, but I suspect most no-makers are ei...

Professional juggler Zak McAllister choreographed his winning act to a song from Steven Universe. The grace and smoothness of some of these moves is just remarkable. Truly impressive execution. He als...

I had certainly never heard of HALYX, the Star Wars-inspired rock band created by Walt Disney Records in the early 80s. And that's a shame, because this is absolutely my jam. Luckily, there's a new fu...

Eric Godal's anti-fascist cartoons from the 1930s and 40s have been reimagined by Chris Piascik as anti-Trump cartoons. Piascik has left the captions mostly intact because history is repeating itself....

As a fan of David Lynch's painting, movies, television shows, daily weather reports, and Today's Number videos, I enjoyed this YouTube video titled "David Lynch being a Madman for a Relentless 8 minut...

In early August, the New York Post reported that business was way up for psychic and astrologies, due in large part to the fact that fucking everyone is on edge right now for any number of frightening...

PSA Press is making these clever pinbacks benefiting Black Girls Code and Movement For Black Lives. "Throughout history, athletes and activism have been linked," states PSA Press. "There is a long, de...

In 1981, eight years before Game Boy, Nintendo released the first Game & Watch. The handheld console had one game, Ball, and a clock (that's why it was called a Game & Watch). Nintendo just an...

A campaign on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has raised $380,779 from 8987 people as of 9am EST on Thursday, in order to support the legal defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the Antioch, Illinoi...

Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics is known for enormous shimmering sculptures that float above public spaces. His next project is called Change in the Air, and will include messages you submit in resp...

India is experiencing a shortage of coconut harvesters. It's dangerous work, as harvesters must climb trees that are sometimes 50 ft tall. Once they reach the top of the tree they have to hack away at...

My friends in the music industry have produced a fantastic compilation of previously unreleased recordings by the likes of REM, Matt Berninger, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Phoebe Bridgers, Death Cab for C...

Sometimes I just sit and ponder how great chocolate and peanut butter might taste with a modern graphics card! Also I think the new Peanut Butter cups come with HOTAS and VR support....

Endless cards and cubes are a fun papercraft project to do at home, and Elde Art shows how using some fabulous Dragon Ball Z illustrations in the sample. If you've never made an endless card, I'd star...

A masterpiece by West Chester, Pennsylvania artist Cassius King....

Did you leave your vials of hamster DNA on a train in Heidelberg, Germany? Last Friday, a bomb squad was called aboard a public train to investigate an abandoned styrofoam box containing three vials o...

These No-Hide chews have been popular with my most aggressive chewers and spare me some worry. There are good and bad things about rawhide, and I have had two very aggressive chewers in my life. My do...

Players in Animal Crossing: New Horizons now have the opportunity to place official Joe Biden campaign signs on their lawn, thanks to the Biden-Harris team. The Verge broke the news Tuesday: Since the...

Only a single survivor was pulled from the water after a ship loaded with thousands of cattle capsized off the coast of Japan on wednesday. The Guardian reports that Sareno Edvarodo, 45, was spotted w...

Successful people typically attribute their success to skill and hard work, but as Veritasium points out, luck is a factor, too. For instance, in many years, 40% of hockey players selected into top-ti...

My new favorite website is Asbestorama, dedicated to the wonderful world of fibrillous silicate minerals. My favorite entries are asbestos nnow, a fluffy mix that you can use to decorate christmas tre...

In recent years, the state of the art in highspeed reveals has gone high tech. So-called sniffer effects where a curtain quickly disappears used to be done with ropes, pulleys, and sandbags. Now it's ...

Fans of Pee-wee's Big Adventure are going to have a field day looking for all the details in the art for this just-announced deck of cards. I spy Francis as the Joker. I spy a broken bike chain link. ...

Troubled chipmaker Intel has unveiled a new logo. To quote Raymond Wong, it "now looks like the store brand of Windex"....

You've visited Windows 95's Hall of Tortured Souls, but here's a far more charming easter egg revealed by one of the people who worked on Microsoft's all-conquering operating system nearly thirty year...

On November 13, just days after the presidential election, Negativland is releasing their new album, The World Will Decide. The music video for the first single, "Don't Don't Get Freaked Out" is avail...

A few years ago, writer David F. Walker and illustrator Sanford Greene worked on a run of Power Fist and Iron Man for Marvel Comics that was utterly delightful. I loved Greene's gritty cartooning, and...

This is my kind of ASMR. From the vaults, Barack Obama speaking at the Cambridge Public Library in Massachussetts, recorded on September 20, 1995. This segment originally aired on the local Channel 37...

If you have a medium-sized metal can, flour, corn starch, powdered sugar, baking soda, and maybe some borax, you can make a small forge that will work with a standard soft flame torch found at any har...

Donald Trump today ordered AG Bill Barr to designate various U.S. cities led by Democratic mayors as "anarchist juristictions," and to defund those "lawless" cities. Seattle, Portland, New York and Wa...

At least 260 coronavirus cases are traced to Sturgis motorcycle rally last month, where many didn't wear masks A Minnesota man who went to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota in August has d...

The administration of impeached President Donald Trump has told U.S. states to prepare to distribute a coronavirus vaccine that will be made ready by November 1, coincidentally just two days before El...

Florian Kohler from Venom Trickshots and Valerie Bedard demonstrate proper technique for jumping a ball. Valerie uses a jump cue, but it is not a requirement. After attempting to jump a ball, this DIY...

YouTuber Randomonium decided to build his own invisibility shield after seeing some examples online. Based on his field testing, he was able to make a few improvements. FYI this was the video from Qua...

Doctors in Germany treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he was poisoned with a novichok-class nerve agent. The conclusion sharpens suspicion of the Russian government, which developed...

When Tod Kurt of ThingM recommended these reversible Micro USB cables, I bought a 3-pack. They work! Both the USB A plug and the micro plug can be inserted without regard to the orientation, like a US...

I carved and gifted the "Terminator pipe" to Arnold birthday and he sent me a photo. from r/nextfuckinglevel Master carver u/RadonLab made a cool Terminator pipe for Arnold Schwarzenegger, who thanked...

Step right up to see Chico, the singing parrot that lives at the Lincolnshire Wildlife Park in Lincolnshire, England. The 9-year-old, Yellow-crowned Amazon made headlines singing Beyonce's "If I Were ...

Sandie Crisp (AKA The Goddess Bunny) is a Los Angeles drag queen, actress, and model. Transgender and born with polio, she labels herself as the last glamor star of Hollywood and has been an inspirati...

German artist Katharina Grosse has a current exhibition called "It Wasn't Us" that turned the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fr Gegenwart in Berlin into a giant colorful form that spills o...

Art Insider profiled Adam Fu, aka Adam Fukujita, a spray paint muralist who has really figured out the trick to spray paint that looks like neon. Check out his Instagram for more recent projects. Imag...

What a shot! A Ranger used a shotgun slug to break two horn-locked bucks free....

Adding a few autonomous vehicles into traffic can reduce traffic jams and create safer, greener driving conditions, according to a study conducted Dr. Amir Goldental and Prof. Ido Kanter, from the Dep...

People with normal blood pressure, even people with no history of heart disease, can decrease their likelihood of having a stroke or heart disease if they reduce their blood pressure below normal leve...

This robot, named Model-T, is now stocking shelves at a FamilyMart convenience store in Japan. For this trial use, the alien-looking robot is controlled by an operator in a remote location. According ...

Sheets of paper and cardboard boxes can become electronic user interfaces thanks to the work of researchers at Purdue University. "This is the first time a self-powered paper-based electronic device i...

Mosquitoes spread Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya, Dengue, and Malaria, resulting in 700 million illnesses a year and a million deaths. Even if you don't get sick from a mosquito bite, the blood thinner ...

In every high school there's always one or two guys who look like they're full-grown adults. Maybe they are! Police in Baldwin County, Georgia arrested Abay Holmes, 21, who had pretended to be a homel...

Yesterday I drove a new-to-me white 2012 Ford F150 V8 work truck from LA to San Francisco to see my daughter and deliver her bicycle plus other summer beach stuffs that were abandoned in the dead Vana...

Insect photographer Andreas Kay shot this remarkable golden tortoise beetle. They are not only beautiful, but they also have a number of impressive evolutionary traits. Their feet are really good at g...

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and s...

98 Kshien is a high school baseball videogame released only in Japan for the PlayStation in 1998. One of the features is the ability to customize the pitchers' windups. This resulted in delightful bal...

"Boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders… which are already boneless," explained Lincoln, Nebraska citizen Andrew Christensen at Monday's Lincoln City Council meeting. Here is the entire...

These two guys have a tight routine manipulating black light Slinkies in unison. Hit the CC button for English subtitles. Of course, the undisputed master remains this guy: Image: YouTube / X SBS ...

Barely a year-on from the award-winning "de-aged" Robert DeNiro of The Irishman, it seems clear that deepfaking it creates a superior resultone so good it not only shows how the original effort fell s...

You can't make this stuff up. These are real promotions from Target. Go ahead, complete your virtual statement look: Thanks, Phil! screengrab via Target...

Mario Lopez appeared on Golden Magic to demonstrate some nice sleight of hand work with a cigarette and other props. Whoever in the control booth decided to cut away to the inattentive and generally u...

14 years after unleashing the internet classic Shoes (described in Vice as the "First Great Viral Music Video"), LiamKyleSullivan yesterday posted a sequel called Masks. Footwear-obsessive Kelly has m...

This video is a funny and quite disturbing masterpiece of applied fakery (but not deepfakery), showing how adeptly computers can not only animate faces from a single photographic source but fall into ...

Hypotheses: 1. The seal is lazily circling a large acrylic water donut clearly made for that purpose. 2. The donut is filled with air, not water; the seal levitates....

YouTuber Brainiac75 tackles a question that lights up certain corners of the internet: are bananas and macadamia nuts radioactive? Under certain conditions (like burning them), you can up the radioact...

Icons are almost like road signs around the internet. In one tiny illustration, your eye is immediately attracted to a focal point, informed what to do next, and led to navigate in your favored direct...

Nick Brett somehow managed to thread the needle in this brilliant shot from the last indoor Bowls championship in Paris. The red team had effectively blocked him from a shot that would hit the yellow ...

Steve Molans of Skeptik Innovations and Infinity Illuminations tricked out his 1991 Nissan Skyline GTS-4 with two cool features: infinity mirror tail lights and a remote starter made of a repurposed N...

Installation artist Gabriel Dawe is known for vibrant works that create rainbows using thread. He sat down with the Smithsonian to discuss his work. Below are some examples of his Plexus series from h...

Ed Markey prevailed today over Joseph Kennedy III in the Democratic Party primary in Massachussets, all but securing another term in the U.S. Senate and putting the Kennedy dynasty's political cachet ...

The government of Pakistan, an Islamic nation in which extramarital affairs and gay sex are illegal, has blocked five popular apps in its quest to purify the internet of the second largest Muslim-majo...

Court OKs Trump request to delay Manhattan's district attorney from obtaining tax records for criminal probe of business practices. A federal appeals court decision on Tuesday means that tax records ...

This is no time to just assume that everything will be fine. This is a time for plans…and backup plans. We all want to think that our employers are looking out for us and our interests. And mayb...

CNET's Jesse Orrall decided to see if he could get away with "attending" Zoom meetings using only prerecorded clips. The first meeting was easy, with dozens of attendees and no expectation that he wou...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic sounds Welcome back to the show. This is episode 21 of ...

Alvin Zhou make three chocolate cakes. The first one called for 20 ingredients. The second one had 10 ingredients, and the third one was make only from chocolate, eggs, (and a bit of water). Which one...

Almost 30,000 people from around the world answered the following question on Reddit: "Non-Americans of Reddit, what is your genuine reaction to what's going on in America right now?" They mostly feel...

Lycopodium spores repel water so strongly that you can dip your spore-covered hand into water and it will stay completely dry. The hydrophobic spores are highly flammable, too, so they are often used ...

And now for some good news: Facebook says it is going to make less money when Apple releases iOS 14. I have no idea what "Audience Network publisher revenue" is but can only hope it represents a major...

Bloomberg reports that Amazon delivery drivers are placing smartphones in trees near Amazon delivery stations to trick Amazon's dispatch Network into thinking the drivers are close to the stations, wh...

In times of crisis, governments usually keep the economy afloat by offering financial relief to the people, including wage assistance and debt forgiveness. Not so in the United States, which focuses o...

From tiny ultra-portable models to hulking beasts with loads of extra features to units that light up like a disco ball, Bluetooth speakers have diversified over the years. Now, users can always find ...

Australian comedian Greg Larsen posted a challenge on Twitter: give him the name of someone who is universally agreed upon to be evil, and he'll figure out how Fox News or Ben Shapiro or any other Rig...

It was reported last year that Trump made an unscheduled trip to a hospital, with no credible information to be found beyond the White House's questionable claim it was for routine tests. Today, howev...

YouTuber CGMatter loves this origami illusion of a T Rex that can be printed and folded, but he wanted a digital version. That turned out to be a significant challenge in blender, but he prevails in t...

The Action Lab looks deeper into why strange-shaped objects like this octohedron can roll. A lot of it is about friction, or lack of slipping. Part of the issue is probably materials as well, as an ob...

Most people will recognize actor/musician/writer Daveed Diggs from his fast-rapping turns as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton. But Diggs' resume doesn't stop there. Among other th...

Chrome paint takes a little bit of skill to do well. Australian YouTuber custompaintmods tries applying it with paintbrush, airbrush, and with various primers and topcoats, and the end results compare...

Turkeys were a key herd animal of many indigenous peoples in the western hemisphere, and one of the main products was the soft feathers that could be woven into blankets. Archaeologist Mary Weahkee sh...

"Guerrilla theatre is a form of intervention where acts of spontaneous, surprise performance in unlikely public spaces rupture the boring-as-shit, day-to-day reality for an unsuspecting audience," wri...

Teslas have UV coating on the roof, and when condensation or other moisture builds up, it turns an iridescent orange tint. Here's a closeup of how pretty it is: Image: YouTube / Dave M....

From KALB in Louisiana: Louisville lawyer Sam Aguiar, one of the attorneys representing Breonna Taylor's family, said local law enforcement had tried to offer Taylor's ex-boyfriend a plea deal in exch...

Illustrator/Cartoonist Ronald Wimberly shared on his Patreon: The comic was scheduled as the lasts to run in The Diary Project Series on the back page of the Arts page of this Sunday's NY times. The e...

A Taiwanese Medtech company called Brain Navi has a new plan to speed up COVID-19 tests around the world: automated sinus swabs, adapted from a robot originally designed to prep patients for brain sur...

The Natural History Museum, London, has released a selection of gorgeous "Highly Commended" images from their Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Seen here are some of my favorites. The ove...

RADVAC, the Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative, is a group of scientists who first got together in early March to experiment with potential coronavirus solutions on their own bodies. From their w...

Visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe have a request: Please send hand-decorated postcards STAT. Their mail-art challenge, Postcards for Democracy, is described as "a demonstration to support...

Oecophylla weaver ants create nests from up to 300 leaves, then expand their colony with far-reaching outposts on the borders. To hold their homes together, they affix the leaves with the sticky silk ...

Jez Burrows edited this "supercut of video game characters taking a break from solving crime or shooting people to enjoy a meditative minute of miserable weather." "It's Rain in Games, Part I" (via Wa...

On Sunday, an American Airlines pilot reported "a guy in a jetpack" flying beside them above LAX. The sighting was confirmed by another commercial pilot. From the air traffic control discussion you ca...

A man returned to his home in Brisbane to find two carpet pythons, measuring 9.5 feet and 8.2 feet, falling through the kitchen ceiling. CNN reports that snake catcher Steven Brown, of Brisbane North ...

In this video, Mike Augustine demonstrates a fun effect: get a pair of refractive glasses and look at fireworks. His had a heart shape in the refraction, which caused an amazing burst of hearts with e...

Eddy Grant filed a lawsuit against the Trump campaign for using his song "Electric Avenue" (1983) in a "bizarre animated ad posted on Twitter by Trump's campaign on Aug. 12 which depicts a cartoon ver...

By way of our friend Rachel Barry (Science Communication Strategist at ISS Research) comes this announcement: In celebration of 20 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Sta...

Dichroic and trichroic prisms have interesting qualities that make them useful in certain kinds of image capture systems. They are also cool to play around with in the dark. Here's another nice demo: ...

Reuben Wu of English band Ladytron is also a photographer, and his Aeroglyphs blew me away: "an ongoing series of large temporary geometries traced by light carrying drones in space. " Prints are avai...

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Nathan Freihofer is a Tik Tok star with 3 million followers. After the 23-year-old field artillery officer delivered a humorless "joke" about the holocaust in his annoying narcissist...

While many birds have iridescence that is visible to humans, many also have colorful markings visible under ultraviolet light. Via Atlas Obscura: Studies have shown that seeing in UV helps birds ...

Everybody knows Adobe Premiere is such a powerful editing tool that it's one of the go-to platforms professional editors use to cut many of the world's biggest films and TV shows. However, a resource ...

8bitdo makes the only game controllers I like, and they just announced a proper six-button Arcade Stick [Amazon] for October release. It works on Nintendo Switch and Windows, connects via Bluetooth or...

Sometimes in our research we come across stories that are regarded as true but that we can't fully verify. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll share two such stories from the 1...

Leaked Dune trailer pic.twitter.com/92lOheE2py — Hunter | (@HunterIsDune) August 31, 2020 A trailer for Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming Dune played at the premiere of Tenet last night. Eve...

James Cook is reviving the arcane art of creating images with an analog typewriter, aka the original ASCII art: This is vol. 2 of the production of my typewriter art from various scenes around the Ess...

During quarantine, amateur Belgian luthier tchicks' local lumber store was closed, so as a challenge, he made his third guitar from a shelf: This is my third guitar build, handcrafted in Brussels, Bel...

It was the best of vans, It was the worst of vans. From Vancouver to Los Cabos, I explored the west coast of North America in that van. My daughter's childhood memories will be filled with camping tri...

The charcoal-drawing artist Nokis Art [Facebook, YouTube] did this beautiful tribute to the late actor Chadwick Boseman of 'Black Panther' fame. Chadwick Boseman died of cancer at age 43, an announcem...

If you're a fan of edibles, then you already know this, but for everybody else, a look at the price of some standard edibles might shock you. Depending on the dosage, an edible baked good is often abo...

Oh they REALLY want you to start flying again. We may be witnessing the end of the $200 ticket-change fees that U.S. airline travelers have hated for at least a decade. Delta Air Lines and American Ai...

The government of Donald Trump says it has recovered about 70% of those $1200 federal pandemic relief checks that were mistakenly sent to dead people. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said M...

U.S. regulatory approval for UAV delivery tests brings Amazon Prime Air closer to goal of delivery times under 30 minutes Amazon.com said Monday its drone-based delivery service has received approval ...

It's just been revealed in a (must-read) Los Angeles Times article that Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh spent his summer battling COVID-19. He was not only isolated from his family for three months b...

It's just been revealed in a (must-read) Los Angeles Times article that Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh spent his summer battling COVID-19. He was not only isolated from his family for three months b...

Porn actor Ron Jeremy was charged with rape and sexual assault earlier this year. Today he was charged with 17 more counts along similar lines, including one alleged victim who was only 15 years old. ...

You may not be a fan of paper straws. And honestly, we don't blame you. They're almost universally ill-equipped to handle their one job. But as sub-par as most paper straws are, most of us would agree...

Police come out, hand woman an inflatable sausage, then arrest her. pic.twitter.com/zTa8ht8rED — Soundtrack to the End (@_WhatRiot) August 31, 2020 In this footage, police approach a protestor i...

I really like my Wera slotted screwdriver. I get plenty of torque with the grippy, well-shaped handle, and the hard tip shows no signs of wear. The little one I bought is very cheap, too!...

Monopoly is just such a beautifully designed game. The orange and yellow cards with the iconic temporarily embarrassed millionaire. The cast metal player tokens, the green houses and red hotels. The a...

If you use Blender, "give your textures and models a knitted yarn look" with the new "Wooly" shader that makes anything fluffy. A shader changes the surface appearance of an object or scene; procedura...

I watch a lot of explaining videos, and Technology Connections makes some of the best. The host is knowledgeable, explains things clearly, and is funny, to boot. And this episode he talks about retror...

Paramecia are tiny near-animals that feed on algae, yeast, and bacteria. Journey to the Microcosmos put its new microscope to good use making a short film about one of paramecia's foes, a bacteria cal...

After Trump's final speech at the Republican National Convention, Leonard Cohen's classic song "Hallelujah" was heard twice, albeit a cover recording by Tori Keller and live opera performance by Chris...

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, (subscribe here), I wrote about a book I bought in 1984 — Forrest Mims' Getting Started in Electronics, which he hand-lettered. It remains one o...

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, (subscribe here), I wrote about a book I bought in 1984 — Forrest Mims' Getting Started in Electronics, which he hand-lettered. It remains one o...

Earth has changed quite a bit in the past 750 million years or so. Due to plate tectonicsthe shifting of the Earth's surfacethe location of your city is likely far from where it is today. Computer sci...

I wasn't sure I'd enjoy an animated short featuring Bearded Sky Man controlling a flat Earth inhabited simultaneously by humans and dinosaurs. But Tales From The Multiverse was funnier than I expected...

From grocery stores populated by anthropomorphic insects to an extraterrestrial encounter, each of lito_leafart's gorgeous paper cut style leaves invites us into a standalone narrative. The artist's b...

Countdown is a long-running UK gameshow featuring various alpha-numerical challenges. One round gives constestants 30 seconds to figure out the longest word from a series of random letters distributed...

Japanese firm SkyDrive released a video demonstration of their prototype flying car. It's an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that operates similarly to an oversized quadcopter dr...

At a kite festival in Taiwan yesterday, a 3-year-old girl was accidentally swooped high into the air caught in a huge kite's tail. She was flying for around 30 seconds before she fortunately was broug...

The acoustics at Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England's magical megalithic structure, were phenomenal, according to new archaeological research. According to research from the University of Salford's Acoust...

The New York Times's Kevin Roose says that Facebook has become "a completely parallel universe, in which Trump's response to Covid-19 has been fast and effective; in which these riots in Portland and ...

2020 still has a few months, so the mashup of Karens and an impending zombie apocalypse does not feel out of the question. The metal music is a ::chef's kiss:: touch, too. The Karen mask is shaping up...

The Auckland Zoo posted adorable footage of Jamila and Zambezi's first calf having fun doing laps around her mum. The baby rhino was just born a few weeks ago and clearly has a lot of pent up energy. ...

We decided to check out Reese's Bats [Amazon], which present the company's classic chocolate-coated peanut butter snack in a Halloween-themed form. This is what bats are now....

The Pyongyang Broadcast Network channel on YouTube looks like it might be an official organ of the DPRK, with its stern propaganda videos and comically oldfangled portraits of the Kim family. And now ...

"With a population of 328million in the United States, it may require 2.13million deaths to reach a 65percent threshold of herd immunity, assuming the virus has a 1percent fatality rate, according to ...

That's an interesting take from a dead guy. A now-deleted tweet from Herman Cain's Twitter account says COVID-19 isn't as deadly as everyone thought it was. Herman Cain died of COVID-19. That's it. Th...

The Los Angeles Zoo's 19-year-old lion Frasier had a busy 1972. Over an 18 month period, he sired 35 cubs, baffling zookeepers and earning him the sobriquets "The Sensuous Lion" and "The Lovable Lion....

Moscow police said on Monday they have begun a criminal investigation into the beating of opposition activist and political blogger Yegor Zhukov, longtime foe of the Kremlin. An image of Zhukov bloodi...

Elon Musk confirmed last week that a Tesla employee reported a credible ransomware plot. The employee had been offered $1 million dollars to install the ransomware at their Giga Nevada facility, accor...

Blending all the colors of a seaside vista, Jukebox Print shared this lovely footage of their letterpress being inked. This overprint instructable with neon Pantone shades is really cool, too! Image: ...

A drone floating serenely off the Florida coast, checking out the beaches and towers, almost gets sliced and diced by a chopper racing by. "The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investig...

In 2019, climate scientists deliberately locked The Polarstern into an Arctic ice floe about 500 km from the North Pole, taking detailed and novel measurements. Scientist Gunnar Spreen of MOSAiC, aka ...

Boyce Langston from Living Big in a Tiny House visits Keith and Jen, who created a yellow submarine in their backyard. It started with a small grain silo that Keith bought for next to nothing, then th...

Kraig Adams makes beautiful and soothing documentaries about his hiking alone on scenic trails, like this 70-mile hike on the Sawtooth Loop Trail in Idaho. With just a touch of quiet music underneath ...

Ohio-based Michael Dutko must be nuts about squirrels, or maybe he's just a little nuts. Either way, he's crafted an amazing "Nutty Bar" that offers seven kinds of nuts on tap for his backyard bushy-t...

Staring at the blank page is often the most intimidating moment of any writing project. Deciding exactly what to say and how to say it can be nerve-racking. If you're writing fiction, you've also got ...

Police broke up an illegal all-night rave on Sunday in Thetford Forest in eastern England. The rave raid came days after the British government launched a crackdown on "serious breaches" of COVID-19 r...

United Airlines on Sunday released a video saying they've listened to customer complaints and will end their standard $200 fee for changing a ticket for travel within the United States. "When we hear ...

Utah's KSL-TV reports a 55-year-old man from Syracuse, Utah, is dead after likely being gored by a bison. Utah State Parks issued this statement about the suspected bison attack: A 55-year-old man was...