Articles by BoingBoing from October 2020

From Europe to the islands of the Caribbean, it's gone by many names over the years. Some say when English Crusaders brought it back to their home country from Jerusalem in the 12th century, it was ca...

Play-Doh has a new product line created with adults in mind. In fact it's called Play-Doh for Grown Ups. There are six "adult-themed" scents: Overpriced Latte (coffee); Mom Jeans (clean denim); Grill ...

Finding the perfect balance is essential in practically everything. For beer connoisseurs, that pursuit is no less critical. For true fans, one beer is almost certainly not enough. A full keg is almos...

My guest on the Cool Tools podcast this week isSam Maggs. Sam is a best-selling author of books, including The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope, Conquest, and Tell No Tales, as well as comics, includin...

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

Move over Pharrell Williams, there's a new "Happy" in town and it's creepy AF. That's no surprise given its creator, master of macabre music Danny Elfman. Post-Oingo Boingo Elfman has made a career ou...

I enjoyed this clever ad for Biden, and it appealed to my "don't miss that last little bit" tendency....

A few days ago I posted this video of police officers pulling someone out of a car with a child in the back seat at a protest in Philadelphia. I've done some research about what actually happened. It'...

There are many such stories every year, but today we'll be picking on ABC 7 today, pliantly running the annual fake news, sourced to local cops, warning of drugs and other dangerous items being given ...

As many as 100,000 people a day in the UK are catching the Covid-19 virus, more than four times as many as the government planned forand more than in the U.S., which has a population five times larger...

Shy Trump voters put Trump in office in 2016 and they could do it again in 2020, say pollsters Arie Kapteyn and Robert Cahaly. The both predicted a Trump victory in 2016 when everyone else was sure Cl...

Professor Louw Hoffman of the University of Queenslands wants people to eat more maggots. Specifically, black soldier fly's larvae, which he describes as a high quality protein."Just like meat, it co...

Heritage Auctions is selling a famous collection of Batman comic books, ones that had been stolen and later recovered by the owner.One of the world's most prominent collections of Batman comic books h...

i broke down DK Metcalf running 22 miles per hour pic.twitter.com/bct9srwryB— Mike Camerlengo (@MCamerlengo) October 26, 2020I really don't enjoy watching football but I might if comedian Mike C...

The Labyrinth is a new narrative art book by Simon Stlenhag (previously at BB), the creator of Tales from the Loop. If his earlier work posed technology as an unsettling and alien presence in realisti...

Santa's got a sack full of safety in this 2020 "keepsake" ornament ($10). Because nothing says "Merry Covid-Christmas" during a pandemic than the gifts of hand sanitizer, disinfectant wipes, toilet pa...

One of the most popular questions asked of astronauts is how they use the bathroom in space. That prompted NASA astronaut Chris Cassidywho just retuned to Earth last week after six months as commander...

Watch Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren lip sync Trump's Access Hollywood tape. If I don't laugh, I'll cry. ...

From Amazon:Real Neon Signs It is Real Neon, Not Led Plastic. The neon signs are handmade of glass tubes. The most advanced electrode system, energy efficient, low energy consumption and long life as ...

For my birthday, Kanye got me the most thoughtful gift of a lifetime. A special surprise from heaven. A hologram of my dad. It is so lifelike! We watched it over and over, filled with emotion. pic.tw...

A massive building in Shaghai, China "walked" to its new location using 200 mechanical legs. The timelapse is incredible but in reality it took more than two weeks for the building, an 85-year-old pri...

A 64-page document alleging wide-ranging crimes and conspiracies involving Hunter Biden, widely disseminated among conservative media, is the work of a fake "intelligence firm" headed by a man whose p...

A 64-page document alleging wide-ranging crimes and conspiracies involving Hunter Biden, widely disseminated among conservative media, is the work of a fake "intelligence firm" headed by a man whose p...

Police in Aberdeen, Scotland, scrambled to intercept someone reportedly wielding a machete in the street. Upon approach, however, they found that they were carrying a bag of leeks. Police Scotland sai...

I have fond memories of the first time I read issue #10 of Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. I just gotten off the T at Mass Ave in Boston and hopped on the 1 Bus towards Cambridge, whe...

Understanding Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles: The Impact of Social Media on Diversification and Partisan Shifts in News Consumption is a new peer-reviewed study by Brent Kitchens, Steven L. Johnson,...

From The Wall Street Journal:In 1964, a British diplomat arrived in the capital [of Poland], then vanished, thwarting the minders ordered to shadow his every movement. He was next seen snooping around...

I saw this on Twitter the other day:Today I found out that David Duchovny is permanently banned from a Vancouver strip club for insulting the city's weather while filming The X-Files pic.twitter.com/A...

Hallelujah the Hills are kind of indie rock institution in Boston, always finding new ways to bring experimental artistry to their post-punk sound. Case-in-point: over the course of 4 months in quaran...

https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD5174552137.mp3Dead and Gone is a new podcast about dead Deadheads. Hosted by True Crime troubadours Payne Lindsey of Up and Vanished and Jake Brennan of Disgraceland, i...

I'm voting in Brooklyn and Paul Rudd is handing out cookies pic.twitter.com/XH4ikButCL— Brian Rosenworcel (@Bowl_of_Worcel) October 29, 2020In Brooklyn Thursday, all-around-good-guy Paul Rudd th...

Biblichor (cf. petrichor) is a term referring to the scent of old books. Powell's by Powell's ($25) is a unisex personal fragrance from the eponymous Oregon bookstore, promising to give you its unique...

The New York Times reports:Since [September 2016] at least six more sharks have washed up on Mediterranean coasts, each impaled with the same murder weapon, and almost always in the head. In the lates...

The runaway train that is streaming services, cable TV and the networks offering brand new and diverse content, also known as peak TV, is going to slow down in the coming months. Yes, the industry ha...

You may have heard the old story that kids hate math. You may even assume that that's true. But the reality is, the "hatred" for math and related fields like science or computer science isn't quite wh...

This Japanese Cat and friends are having a fun time with their Halloween pumpkins. [Video source]...

Idaho's Republican Lieutenant Governor drives around with a gun and a Bible protesting coronavirus restrictions in this weird new pandemic truther video.Read more at the Idaho Statesman: Idaho Republi...

Just because Lil Pump and Lil Wayne decide to suck up to Trump, don't mean Lil Jon is an idiot. The rapper let folks know exactly where he stands, in a tweet replying to a suggestion that Lil Jon join...

Twitter labeled a video from the Russian-state controlled broadcaster RT as election misinformation on Thursday.Today for the first time, reports CNN, Twitter took action against the Kremlin-controlle...

In this clip, the president's son Donald Trump Jr. claims coronavirus death numbers in the United States are down to "almost nothing." But 228,636 coronavirus deaths and counting in America isn't "alm...

The title "Low Grade Fraud Shop" drew my eye, and it turned out to be an unusual and joyously cynical art-making game. As a harried art forger's new apprentice, you must make copies of valuable artwor...

If you want to understand the job market, there's no source more reliable than LinkedIn. So when data science and data analysis roles dominate the LinkedIn list of the fastest-growing jobs in the worl...

Failed souffls fill this week's tabloids: unpalatable stories full of hot air that quickly deflate, devoid of nutritious content and depressingly indigestible."Harry & Meghan. What Really Happened...

Michael Goodwin, the author of the excellent comic book guide to economics, called Economix, has a new comic on his website looking at why the stock market is doing well even though the economy is not...

Amazon has a good deal right now on an Echo Dot and a Plum Sengled Bluetooth bulb. I use Echo Dots around the house to play the news, podcasts, audiobooks, and to control various smart systems and dev...

Doctor Popular created a variant of Chess, called 1D Chess. You can download the rules and different board layouts here.1D Chess is a fun, innovative chess variant played on a single row of 16 squares...

Trump has a habit of walking out on interviews when a reporter doesn't suck up to him. In this CNN interview, he accused the reporter of being inaccurate. When the reporter asks him to be specific he ...

Loosely defined, hentai is Japanese cartoon porn, but whatever it is, Australia is having none of it. From Vice:Australian authorities are reportedly cracking down on the importation of hentai from J...

The first ballpoint pen was sold in 1945 and cost $180 in today's dollars. As the price dropped, it quickly replaced the messy, finicky fountain pen. The BBC has a great article about the invention an...

This turkey (video embedded below, via) isn't afraid of anything. The motorcyclist futilely kicks at it, but the bird is determined and tenacious. The turkey wins, triumphantly running the man and bi...

It's hard to beat Tenacious D's cover of Time Warp but just wait till you see Donny, Marie, and Dick Clark belting out the Rocky Horror standard back in 1988....

It's hard to beat Tenacious D's cover of Time Warp but just wait till you see Donny, Marie, and Dick Clark belting out the Rocky Horror standard back in 1998....

From Topic:The W.I.T.C.H. movement was founded on Halloween in 1968. A group of second-wave feministspart of the group New York Radical Womenbroke away to expand the reach of their protest. W.I.T.C.H....

Keyboards and mice are fine for surfing the web. They're fine for working in spreadsheets, assembling a text document or for sorting through emails. But when users need precision control, the old keyb...

FoodDive has a new article tracking the campaign donations made by food and beverage conglomerates to different politicians and PACs. They particularly take a look at the differences between 2016 and ...

In a new Mondo2000.com interview, the great Grant Morrison talks about the Brave New World television series, The Invisibles future on the the small screen, Robert Anton Wilson, and how to get better ...

Blue Boxes were electronic devices that could be used to make long-distance phone calls without paying for them. "If it hadn't been for the Blue Boxes," said Steve Jobs, "there would have been no Appl...

In celebration of Back to the Future's 35th anniversary, Universal Pictures compiled fan-made animations into a cartoon short, Back to the Future: Reimagined. Sure beats DMCA Takedown Notices and nas...

Directed by Julien Temple, Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan is expected to play in select theatres in Ireland and the UK beginning November 20, 2020, and will be available on DVD an...

In Sheep's Clothing is a hi-fi audio bar in Los Angeles that, of course, has been closed due to COVID-19. In the meantime, the heads behind the operation shifted their mad cratedigger and curation ski...

Trick or treating in 2020 Made this #AR Halloween card with #AdobeAero pic.twitter.com/OecXNNiN0o— Kim (@kpimmel) October 28, 2020Trick or treat! This augmented reality Halloween card by Adobe A...

Up until now it's been all willy-nilly when it comes to face masks. Besides the N95 mask, what other face coverings are safe enough to keep COVID-19 at bey?Quartz reports that a safety standard is fin...

In the most recent issue of What's in my bag? Magician Gordon Meyer shares what he carries in his bag while guiding walking tours of haunted Chicago. Gordon Meyer is a writer and magician. He con...

Yo-ho-ho! Disney's Imagineers really outdid themselves on Shanghai Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure (previously at BB). It's not just a remake of the original, it'...

I salute you, sir. Now, to finish my bowl of chocolate granola. ...

A PETA investigation accused Thai growers, who supply the coconuts for coconut milk such as the Chaokoh brand, of forcing monkeys to work as coconut pickers. Costco has stopped selling coconut milk de...

Designer Tessa Forrest recycles inspiring quotes from poets, philosophers and other leaders and turns them into new and fresh graphics using bold and decorative typefaces. Here are my favorites from h...

Citizens For Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports that, according to Donald Trump's 2018 financial disclosures, the President of the United States of America was paid $61,045 by the ...

I'm impressed. I can't even play that fast with accuracy while sitting down!Image: Incase/Wikimedia Commons (CC 2.0)...

Ever wonder how a metal object has a colorful patina that doesn't really look like paint? It's probably been anodized if it's aluminum or titanium. One interesting property of these anodized metals is...

Fresh off the heels of his awesome and high-recommended KnifeTank card game, Doc Pop is back with another fun game offering, One Dimensional Chess.1D Chess is a fun, innovative chess variant played on...

Matt Berninger of The National just released his first proper solo album, Serpentine Prison, and it's a magnificent, moody, and expansive collection of indie ballads. The record is filled with heart a...

A man is recovering after being mauled by a black leopard he paid $150 to have a "full contact experience" with at a Florida "animal sanctuary". WPLG Local 10 reports that Dwight Turner expected to pl...

For decades, the typical American citizen kept their votes to themselves. Don't ask, don't tell. As an elder member of the Howard Stern Show, those bygone days must be the kind Ronnie "the limo drive...

The RIAA, the recording industry's legal arm, has obtained subpoenas targeting 41 websites that make it easy to download videos from YouTube. Among those targeted are Y2Mate.com, which offers a wealth...

In the clip embedded below, US Senate candidate John Ossoff mauls incumbent Georgia Sen. David Perdue in concise and precise fashion: "It's not just that you're a crook, Senator…"Sen. David Perd...

View this post on Instagram To celebrate another supremely illegitimate justice shoved down the throat of our democracy, please enjoy my anthem honoring our soft hero Kavanaugh and ...

Daniel Rosenfeldt specializes in a kind of juggling called orbiting, and his performance piece "Starcatcher" is beautifully executed and shot in Sweden. The juggling set he uses is by Davide Catteneo ...

Fox News reports that there are now 80,000 new cases of Covid a day reported in the US, the highest ever, with daily reported deaths up 10% over last week. When cases rise, mortality rates often do as...

The folks at Laugh Over Life have obviously played a lot of Among Us and watched a lot of reality TV in this pitch-perfect mashup. Following the popularity of the first installment, they have done two...

This New Age Bullshit Generator created by Seb Pearce will put you on the fast track to becoming the next best-selling self-help guru. Just click on the "Reionize electrons" button and generate esoter...

Here's the first IFC Films trailer for Stardust, the David Bowie biopic, directed by Gabriel Range and starring Johnny Flynn (and Marc Maron).I try and not overreact to trailers about films I haven't ...

In this amazing performance for the Letters Live series (posted in 2016), Benedict Cumberbatch dramatically reads artist Sol LeWitt's 1965 letter of encouragement to friend and fellow artist, Eva Hess...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson took a few minutes last night to complain that he'd received some "damning" documents about Hunter Biden, the son of presidential candidate Joe Biden. They'd show you them...

A giraffe at an Indian Forest Service got sick and tired of a baby rhino messing with it. Much like adolescent siblings, when the little one bugs the big one long enough, a violent response may follo...

PinkNews shared a report this week to a since-removed article from the "Spiritual Science Research Foundation," citing a statistic from "spiritual research" (read: their own "about page") claiming tha...

A kalliroscope is a rheoscopic fluid display that uses magnets and mica to create a vortex when spun. There are a few models that are dome shaped, and even some spheres.The Vortex dome is a highly add...

"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 ...

The White House publicly denies it. But Trump's own pandemic advisers now privately admit that he's pursuing a 'herd immunity' strategy which could result in the preventable deaths of many more hundre...

In a video released Wednesday night, "Keeping up with the Kardashians" star Khloe Kardashian confirms she had the Khoronavirus.Khloe Kardashian said in the video her coronavirus symptoms included coug...

On Wednesday night less than one week before the election, as COVID-19 cases spike throughout the United States, the nation's cybersecurity agency says: "there is an imminent and increased cybercrime...

In this video from 1958, we hear 6 speakers of standard English from different areas of the United States: Smithfield, Virginia; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Brooklyn, New York; North Andover, Massachussets;...

President Donald Trump's lesser failson Eric Trump claims his social media likes are being throttled and he thinks that's become the number one issue in politics over the past few weeks.Eric Trump cla...

"The smaller the headphone, the more meticulously built it has to be. The Freedom+ is pure precision." – CES 2020 Innovation AwardsEarbuds come and go. But when your earbuds attract awards from ...

I bought the earlier version of this AC outlet adapter a few years ago for the kitchen so I could plug in my espresso machine, a coffee grinder, the microwave, a USB charging hub, a milk frother, and ...

[Embiggen image]Did you know Sour Patch Kids were first called Mars Men? And that Snickers is called Marathon Bar in Britain to avoid confusion with the slang word knickers?Trick-or-treating might be ...

What a great way to express "Live long and prosper." These warm wool Vulcan salute mittens are the work of Etsy crafter Jennifer Symons and are already sold out (but her handknit Spock cardigan isn't)...

Donald Trump got over Covid. But he'll always be sick. In this montage of Trump's sickest moments on tape, Meidas Touch shows why his creepy fans love him so much. If these are the kinds of things Tru...

WATCH: Police Chief Dominick Rivetti shares a message about Election Week in the City of Beverly Hills. pic.twitter.com/bbr3Q4eX5K— CityofBeverlyHills (@CityofBevHills) October 26, 2020Beverly H...

With every industry looking at how machine learning and artificial intelligence could soon be impacting their business, it's really no surprise to find that the robots have rolled their way on to Wall...

Like many independent movie houses and concert venues, the Regent Theatre in Picton, Ontario is in dire straits after eights months of closure due to COVID-19. The raise money, they've created a raffl...

The house for sale at 8800 Blue Lick Rd in Louisville, Kentucky has become something of a video game. Exploring the 3D tour of the home, packed to the brim with stuff, is a wonderful adventure. Over a...

Ted Cruz is upset with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey because Jack has a better beard. But he didn't want to come out and say it so he complained about Dorsey's decision to lock The New York Post's Twitter a...

Pocket Operators are tiny pushbutton synthesizers from Teenage Engineering (maker of the OP-1 Synthesizer). The company just announced two new Pocket Operators: Street Fighter and Megaman, which inclu...

Oh man Zuckerberg has the Jack beard too?! pic.twitter.com/JwRODuj4ff— Little Mac (@DorseyFilm) October 28, 2020Much merriment was had over Jack Dorsey's beard when he testified before concerned...

By 2022 residents of Singapore won't be required to show a passport when they return home from another country. Instead, a scanner will compare their face and iris pattern to a matching record in a da...

If you have important things to do today, it might be better to bookmark this tangram-like puzzle game and come back to it when you have some free time. ...

Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Willie Nelson released this surprising and strikingly beautiful cover of Queen and David Bowie's classic 1981 song "Under Pressure." The track was produced by TV on ...

In 2006, Kazakshtan banned Sacha Baron Cohen's mockumentary "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." This time, they're using the hype surrounding "Borat ...

This NASA Gemini training console from 1963 is part of a spectacular upcoming "History of Science" auction at Bonhams. The seated instrument panel, including joystick, was used to train the Gemini ast...

Frank Sinatra sang for New York and twice for Chicago, Tony Bennett crooned for San Francisco but it wasn't until 1984 that Detroit had any kind of high-profiler singing an anthem about it. "Hello, De...

A Boing Boing exclusive: Sage Vaughn interviewed Grammy-nominated DJ, music producer, composer and music/film director Sam i (formerly known as Sam Spiegel)'s new self- directed short film "Heaven."A ...

YouTuber Dollightful repurposes old toys into fun new ones. She was planning to turn an old doll into a dragon, but stopped mid-build to redo it as an amazing werewolf. Very detailed documentation of ...

If you happen to be in a Burger King restroom (in Sweden or Denmark) anytime soon, say "cancelled clown" three times to trigger a Halloween stunt. The lights will dim and the ghost of Ronald McDonald ...

CashNet posted a weirdly wonderful map of popular local monsters from all around the globe. I have no idea why this was the sort of content that someone felt the need to make for a website about finan...

For the I am a Voter campaign, 48 artists created new "I Voted" stickers. New York magazine has special print editions with the cover as a sheet of 12 stickers with the images. View this post ...

Colored droplets in corn syrup can be mixed and then unmixed by reversing the mixing motion thanks to a phenomenon called Stokes flow or creeping flow, similar to how lava flows happen. It almost look...

Dallas resident Steven Novak decorated his lawn for Halloween and some of his neighbors think it's a bit much. Jamie Vahala at the Dallas Observer: Novak's decorations have brought the police to his h...

Sony's new game console, the PlayStation 5 [Amazon], is probably the largest game console of all time. Reviewers are noting that it barely fits in their entertainment centers, and that its ostentatiou...

Nebraska has only one swing elector up for grabs, but Trump paid a visit last night to woo the faithfulthen leave them stranded in the icy airfield where his rally was held. A number of freezing suppo...

From a press release that just landed in my inbox:As you may know, NASA has reported that Asteroid 2018VP1 is headed toward Earth's atmosphere on November 2. Although there's virtually no ch...

There's precautions and then there's precautions. If you're really trying to not get COVID-19, working on a makeshift floating office in the middle of New York's East River isn't the worst idea. It's ...

Ars Technica has a fascinating new long-form article about The Adventures of Indiana Jones in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1989, an unauthorized text adventure created and passed between ...

Filip Sterckx of Skullmapping says, "We made one of Rubens angels escape his painting and fly around Brussels airport."Here's another fun one they recently did inspired by the Renaissance:The gallery ...

DisneyResearchHub presents its latest research into realistic, interactive robotic gaze: the tracking and behavior of machine eyes and the creation thereby of the "illusion of life".This video describ...

Musician and Programmer Sam Agnew decided to spend his quarantine time automating new music creation by popular artist, with the help of OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 language mod...

Hoyoon Shin creates art made of razor-thin metal, paper, and plastic. From the side, they look solid, but from the front they reveal their emptiness.In an artist's statement, he explained his philosop...

Two of my friends, Pam Grossman (Waking the Witch) and Peg Aloi (The Media Witch), are practicing modern witches. In this just-in-time for All Hallows' Eve exchange, the two rewatch Robert Egger's 201...

Making a stellar cup of espresso at home doesn't require an expensive machine or hours of your time and effort. It really only requires equipment up to the challenge and a stovetop.Rather than droppin...

Here's something I wrote about in the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet: A few days ago my daughter put a small cup in a large cup and they somehow got locked together. I can't pull them apart...

Texas Supreme Court sides with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on rule to limit mail-in ballot drop box locations to one site per countyThe Texas state Supreme Court has ruled to allow TX Governor Greg Ab...

Model and actor Chrissy Teigen wrote a personal essay about the recent loss of her third child with husband John Legend, published as a Medium post on Tuesday. This is Teigen's first time addressing t...

Election Day is less than one week away now, hard to believe. Said impeached president Donald Trump just now at a campaign rally in Lansing, Michigan: "I'm also getting your husbands — they want...

Is Trump's own staff trolling him, or is he that feeble-minded? Maybe both. President Donald J. Trump, speaking at yet another campaign rally before a maskless crowd today, said something really dumb....

Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn. Here's a wonderful live nature cam from EXPLORE, th...

Who hacked the Trump campaign website? "I mean, it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 po...

From the total weirdos at Temponaut Timelapse, an ice-cold glass of cola with lemon timelapse, from the moment it's poured with a slice of lemon to 105 days later. Yep. Gross....

Less than one week remains before Americans go to the polls on Election Day. With this timing in mind, amid a pandemic, the Republican senators who lead the Senate Commerce Committee have decided to u...

The Skeleton Dance was the first in the Silly Symphony series of animated music shorts. Walt Disney produced and directed the film with animation led by Ubbe Eert "Ub" Iwerks. The version above was re...

PERU: Access to the ancient Incan citadel of Machu Picchu has been all but entirely closed for seven months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Peru's No. 1 tourist draw reopens Sunday, even though coron...

Stress is par for the course these days. If you've found meditation helps to quiet those interior voices of doubt, fear and confusion, then you have every reason to continue that practice. But as soot...

In the biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, author Ashlee Vance reveals a riddle that Musk reportedly poses to job applicants at SpaceX:You're standing on the surf...

The D tears the roof off the joint with a cover of the Rocky Horror classic, "Time Warp." The video is being released as part of an effort to encourage people to vote. Guests on the video include Eliz...

The D tears the roof off the joint with a cover of the Rocky Horror classic, "Time Warp." The video is being released as part of an effort to encourage people to vote. Guests on the video include Eliz...

Keith Reniere, founder of self-help sex cult Nxvim, was sentenced today to 120 years in prison for racketeering, sex trafficking, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation of a child. Fifteen female ...

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,Of a petty neighbor feudAbout a piece of rich folk artAnd a theme song played on loop.Gross was a Wall Street billionaire,Towfiq enriched from tech.Gross blo...

Keith Raniere, founder of NXIVM, is off to jail for 120 years. The sex cult guru sexually abused his followers while posing as a marketing genius and exploiting everyone within reach to the hilt. Pila...

After much isolation, testing, and other kooky precautions, my son Blake was visiting me from California last week. During the visit, he, my partner Angela, and I binge-watched Tiny House Nation (base...

Intrepid vernacular photography collectorRobert E. Jacksonpresents a wonderful collection of crazy costumes from Halloweens of yore. More at Flashbak....

We've posted before about the possible "sonic attacks" on the US embassy in Cuba that left American and Canadian diplomats with neurological problems. Spies have reported similar phenomena in Moscow h...

We've posted before about the possible "sonic attacks" on the US embassy in Cuba that left American and Canadian diplomats with neurological problems. Spies have reported similar phenomena in Moscow h...

My 2009 short story Nomen Ludi was about an obsessive search for a half-remembered computer game, toxic nostalgia, and what is owed us by authors. Luke Hunter James-Erickson did a wonderful reading of...

When the history of Earth is ultimately told by aliens or time travelers or whoever stumbles across what's left of our planet a millennia from now, these beings will need to understand what a hair tie...

Verkada, a surveillance startup in Silicon Valley, uses its security cameras in its building, which the male senior sales accessed to take photos of female employees and make sexual comments about the...

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

UK cellular carriers will be forbidden from celling phones locked to their networks, reports the BBC. The law comes into force in a year's time and results from continued shenanigans by carriers makin...

Yann LeCun, an AI scientist at Facebook and a professor at New York University, wrote a brief essay about the usefulness of GPT-3 beyond entertainment and creativity. "Trying to build intelligent mach...

The first Borat film (2006) was banned in Kazakhstan. Now, they're changing their tune. One of the Borat catchphrases is being embraced by its tourism board following the release of the sequel, Borat ...

Is it firing eagles, or shooting them?...

A new road in Spain has a bizarre, dangerous notch in it, complete with a sharply-angled kerb that guarantees total destruction to any vehicle that strikes it at speed. The assumption seems to be that...

Jason wasn't in love with the original Freewrite for long, and when Astrohaus announced a more portable model, Seamus was skeptical. But the Freewrite Traveler is now available and has a lot going for...

Quin from Coin Quest does relaxing and informative videos where he goes coin roll hunting. In this video he goes through a box of rolled pennies and immediately finds three wheat penny enders, which i...

We've all been there: you roll up to a McDonald's with a craving for one of their deliciously cheap soft serve ice cream offerings, only to find that the machine is reportedly broken. Is it actually b...

Victor Ribeiro made a simple but fun web-based isometric city-making toy. It's not a gameyou just put down whatever you wantbut you can save, load and customize various aspects of the UI, most usefull...

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...

Michael Reynolds, then a NYPD officer, headed to Nashville for a bachelor party in 2018. While there he got drunk, got lost, then broke into a house near his Airbnb and began yelling racist slurs at t...

Fungie the Dolphin has been a bit of a local celebrity in Dingle, Ireland since he was first spotted in the harbor by Paddy Ferriter back in 1983. The famously playful dolphin would dance with humans ...

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. This week...

Vitrography is the formal name for laser engraving a figure below the surface of a piece of glass or plastic. But most people call them bubblegrams. The laser pulses as programmed, kind of like a gamm...

For the fourth straight year Bell's Two Hearted Ale has been voted the best beer in America by Zymurgy, a magazine by the American Homebrewers Association. In such a saturated American craft beer mar...

In this episode of Songs that Changed Music, Warren looks at the first Siouxsie and the Banshees single, "Hong Kong Garden" (1978), and what impact it had on the future of the band, its producer, Stev...

Before he went on a racist conspiracy theory rant on Facebook Live, prompting a "medical leave-of-absence," Health and Human Services assistant secretary Michael Caputo hatched a scheme to save Christ...

Ask most Apple Watch users about their biggest beef with the most popular wearable in tech today and many will likely answer with the same beef had by many users of wirelessly charged devices.It just ...

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate handed impeached and manifestly nuts president Donald Trump a big pre-election political win today. The GOP-led Senate confirmed Trump's third Supreme Court nomin...

A U.S. appeals court today rejected a demand by the Justice Department to allow Trump to immediately prohibit Apple and Google from offering WeChat for download in their respective app stores. The pop...

This week in thinking machines news, a Harvard professor and his students have now raised $14 million to create artificial intelligence so smart that even hackers can't crack it. Meanwhile, reports fr...

The deepfakes of Trump, Julie Andrews, Michael Caine, Jared Kushner, Mark Zuckerberg, and Al Gore in this satire program are really good. (It's probably produced by the South Park guys.)Fred Sassy is ...

We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election. COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order...

2020 Obel Award winner Anna Heringer (previously at BB) put her skills to use designing Anandaloy, which was then built from mud and bamboo by citizens of Rudrapur, Bangladesh.Some beautiful curves in...

Scourge of psychics James Randi was no skeptic; our culture is poorer as a resultSeveral years ago I was preparing a talk on the life of occult journeyer Madame H.P. Blavatsky (18311891) for the Rubin...

I have a glass top desk. It's cold and hard, so I got a big fake leather mouse pad for it. I don't need a gel wrist protector because it has just enough give. It also looks nice on my desk. — Re...

Back when you used to split time between home and the office, it really wasn't usually a big deal. But now that you spend hour after hour tapping away at that one laptop all day and all night long, yo...

Jared Kushner speaks as if Black people are lazy complainers who don't want to be successful. This blatant DISRESPECT shows he has NO understanding of the Black community and its challenges that h...

Brian David Gilbert makes $20k a month at home by being his own boss. Why don't you join him?...

New York isn't the only city experiencing high vacancy rates for office space. This chart from SocketSite shows a similar trend in San Francisco. I wonder what this means for the fate of cities after ...

"As of this week, we've added 460 people to our no-fly list for refusing to comply with our mask requirement," Delta CEO Ed Bastian told employees in a memo yesterday.From CNN:In August, the airline s...

The law does not apply when you are doing God's work. Police arrested James Blight (26) for stealing a bulldozer in a black neighborhood in Haines City, Florida, and driving over Biden/Harris yard sig...

In this footage, a belligerent and unmasked Trump fan tries to start a fight with a 16-year-old in a checkout line in Scottsdale, Arizona. When the cashier threatens to summon security guards, the man...

Welcome to the latest Silicon Valley sexism scandal: Verkada, a face-recognition startup where the men used the company's own cameras to harass women co-workers and received trivial discipline when ca...

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:In the wake of protests following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, a member of the Boogaloo Bois opened fire on the Minneapolis Police Third Precinct with an AK...

"THERE IS ONLY ONE Q"… #VoteHimOut2020 #VoteThemAllOut #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris #vote #VoteJoeBidenToSaveAmerica art by- @AK_Hevonen pic.twitter.com/j9EMpLQNZs— John de Lancie (@johndelanci...

Eyewear company Mykita (not the drills) also makes unusual facial jewelry such as this metal nose band, offered in platinum, silver, graphite and gold for $255 and up.Handcrafted from stainless steel,...

Eyewear company Mykita (not the drills) also makes unusual facial jewelry such as this metal nose band, offered in platinum, silver, graphite and gold for $255 and up.Handcrafted from stainless steel,...

Boing Boing contributor Mark Dery (author of the magnificent and definitive Gorey biography, Born to Be Posthumous) posted this link yesterday on social media. It's a piece on the website CrimeReads ...

North Carolina banjo artisan Marvin Walker shows off the first cigar box banjo he ever made "kind of as an experiment." He then demonstrates it by playing the only song he ever wrote, a serenade to hi...

I've been using Instapaper for a long time. Typically, I read the stories I save to the service it one of my tablets. There's an app for that. There is, however, no dedicated Instapaper application (a...

At first look, this house in Louisville, Kentucky, appears to be a normal if run-down and cluttered dwelling up for sale. The virtual listing, however, soon reveals unexpected charms. Pat Ashe writes ...

When you decide to sign on to learning a new language, you're not doing it so you can learn how to conjugate verbs in Spanish. You're learning it so if you go to Mexico or run into a Spanish speaker, ...

THIS!!! Wait for it pic.twitter.com/RFgzU4wyWm— Jay Arnold (@jadedcreative) October 25, 2020Image: TikTok...

Few logos have pained me as much as the original Gmail logo. It was a Frankensteinian creation by committee with so many things wrong with it that it's hard to pick the worst part. The mixture of font...

Last week, a judge in Florida ruled that McDonald's must turn over surveillance footage of an attack on an elderly woman at a Hialeah restaurant, reports the local ABC News affiliate. But it seems tha...

When visiting the Tower of London a few years ago my young daughter wanted to get a Henry VIII t-shirt. Hmmm. Kitschy. Sure, I get it…wait a minute! No. No way. I told her, do not let the Brit...

From The Boston Globe:A ballot drop box outside the Boston Public Library was set on fire early Sunday morning in an apparently deliberate act, according to state and city officials, who said the "att...

In this NY Times article "Shh. It's Breakfast Time." Hillary Richard demystifies the ancient practice of eating in silence. "The concept for silent breakfast is simple enough: Focus on your food, qu...

If there's one person who knows how to make decorative gourds, it's Ray Villafane. He's known all over the world for his absolutely incredible pumpkin sculptures. In this video tutorial, he shares tip...

I have fond memories of hacking my TI-83+ graphing calculator in high school to play Wolfenstein 3D and other games (because killing Nazis > paying attention in algebra). In the video above, YouTu...

With the CBD market emerging into a health and wellness juggernaut over the past few years, it's easy to think you can just grab a bag of gummies off a store shelf and you're good to go.However, how d...

The Jetsons are right around the corner.  Well, some stuff like flying cars are probably still a little out of our range, but it's pretty amazing how much that cartoon from the 60's got right abo...

Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee has his PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University, where he specialized in eels? Which, as I've now learned from his eel-dedicated Twitter account, were a major cultural...

Pete Souza took some of the most historically significant photos of both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama while both served as president. He talks about what it takes to be a good documenter of a Presid...

Here's a fun mashup: the Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" set to Ray Parker Jr.'s Ghostbusters' theme. We have YouTuber William Maranci to thank for crossing these streams.Previously: The Beachstie Boys,...

At first, they were seen as little more than cute, slimmed-down laptops. But the Chromebook has grown up over the years, stepping up to the point now where a solid Chromebook is often on par with some...

3D gaming seems to grab all the headlines these days, but don't think that 2D games are down for the count. In fact, Unity, the world's most popular game engine, still has a dedicated arena for helpin...

Starting a business is anxiety-inducing enough. But if you really want to get a new entrepreneur hyperventilating, just remind them they aren't only launching a small business. They're creating a bran...

Admit it…there's really nothing too good for your dog, right? You pamper and coddle and let them get away with stuff that no human could ever get away with, including your own kids.Don't worry. ...

Former HOA presidents Marcianne Johnson, Melissa Wilson Scovel and Cheryl McCoy have basically filed suit against their entire neighbourhood for successfully removing them from the association via a r...

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are so angry about billboards mocking them in Times Square that they're threatening to sue the Lincoln Project, which put them there.Nuts! pic.twitter.com/XxxkG43z3WR...

In this BBC Ideas video, philosopher Nigel Warburton imagines a future world where "Good Death" centers exist on the outskirts of all towns, a place where we all get to choose how we die. Of course th...

Horace Zeng creates paintings using fire ants dropped onto ink and the result is quite lovely. Via his site:These paintings are done by letting a "ball" of aggregating fire ant walk along acrylic pain...

This week's offerings certainly make it seem that way. They are losing readers, losing money, and long ago lost whatever slender shred of credibility they may once have had.American Media Inc, owner o...

About one in three people will have a panic attack in their lifetimes, but there are ways to reduce the odds and the severity. They are essentially a feedback loop of fear response that feel like you ...

Every week, great stuff comes flying past your eyeballs courtesy of the Boing Boing Store. And every week, there's just too darn much of it to keep track of before you start missing cool items. Items ...

German bike ballet artist Viola went to a local castle and managed not to break the chandelier while doing some impressive moves.This beautiful castle was made for doing a bike ballet video in there w...

To celebrate five years on YouTube, The Brick Wall created a complex four-station pizza assembly machine made of Lego. The sauce delivery device in particular is quite a contraption, even if keeping i...

Atkinson Hyperlegible was modified from Helvetica style san-serif fonts, but with a few tweaks to make similar letters appear different. For instance, the capital I has serifs to help readers distingu...

Steven Van Soeren worked for Disney Streaming Service, which does grant some paternity leave for employees. After Van Soeren's wife got pregnant, he claims to have noticed a pattern of undercutting co...

Which part of working from home has already been chafing on your very last nerve?Many of us are going through it, so we know there's something. Maybe it's the constant interruption of family or roomma...

NASA's asteroid sampler spacecraft Osiris-Rex managed to stuff itself so full of so much asteroid dust during this week's grab-and-dash maneuver, it's now jammed open, and precious asteroid dust parti...

Joey is an orphaned sea otter pup that was rescued by the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 3, 2020. You can watch his progress in rehabilitation live from his nursery...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Friday that Twitter and Facebook's CEOs will testify before the panel on November 17. The panel is demanding to know why both platforms decided to block storie...

The '80s rock icon Bon Jovi is set to campaign this weekend with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Pennsylvania, reports the Biden campaign late on Friday.Bon Jovi's new album '2020' is out...

With the cost of gas, greenhouse emissions, and all sorts of other concerns, it's one of those transportation issues you seldom consider. But for environmentally friendly commuters and weekend adventu...

As a child in the 1970s, I loved Swanson's TV Dinners although we very rarely had them. Reflecting back, I think I liked the idea more than the taste. I also recall being quite disgusted and upset whe...

Bongo Cat is a simply-drawn yet adorable cat that plays the bongos, the keyboard, a marimba, or various other noisy instruments. Just bash the keys and enjoy!...

Ted Ngoy came to Los Angeles from Cambodia in the 1970s with a dream. He soon created a donut empire that even Dunkin' Donuts found it too difficult to break into the market. At his high point, he was...

Pomodoro fans and people who need encouragement sticking to a task might benefit from this nifty 60-minute timer. Just turn the dial to the desired amount of time, and you get a slowly-shrinking red-c...

Kevin Kelly and I recently interviewed researcher and journalist Ramona Pringle on the Cool Tools podcast. Ramona's work focuses on the interactions between humans, technology and the world around us....

I came to Akira (1988) late in life, and I'm kind of glad I did, because it's nice to discover mind-blowing art throughout one's life. This video takes a technical look at the first three minutes of a...

Anime director Hayao Miyazaki visited the Ghibli Museum in west Tokyo, much to the delight of the staff. He sat in front of the cafe and sketched the sign, adorning it with little characters....

"This is how my Auntie blocks ads from her computer screen…" writes Redditor itswallsss. Popups? "She just closes her eyes until it's over."(r/funny)...

This video explainer from Vox looks into why most Americans have to drive everywhere to get anything done. It's a grim history, but a grimmer future as environmental catastrophe threatens. This seale...

Disney's Halloween Treat was a special 1982 Halloween episode of the Walt Disney television series featuring excerpts or full vintage cartoons with a creepy, supernatural vibe. The segments include th...

From ABC News:The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal that has operated continuously for 5...

A maskless bus passenger expressed her displeasure at another rider by spraying him with her saliva, which prompted the target of her disdain to push her off the bus, causing her to land on the sidewa...

For over 50 years, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, the Peanuts Halloween special, has aired annually on network television. Starting this year, this classic will move to Apple TV+. From Oct. 3...

This guy got access to Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) beta. The display changed to an animation of what the Tesla saw, and the car was able to stay in the right-hand lane of residential streets witho...

Patreon was key to the rise of late-2010s right-wing personalities, facilitating a recurring income for stuff published elsewhere on the 'net. The place where bigots, grifters and harceleurs took mone...

They all laughed at me at the invention symposium (that I dreamed up in my head) when I showed them that it could be done! I installed a handle to my coffee grinder and emerged vindicated and victori...

So here's the newsworthy Rudy Giuliani Borat clip. You be the judge. pic.twitter.com/exidMLey6p— Tommy X-TrumpIsARacist-opher (@tommyxtopher) October 23, 2020Here's the much-discussed scene ...

Darren Barnwell, 20, was toting a bag containing $47,000 in cocaine from Dublin to Cork, Ireland when he exited a train without his duffel. Security staff refused to allow an unsurprisingly upset Barn...

The theremin is 100 years old, and Moog's celebrating the anniversary with a limited-edition model that looks like a 20th-century conversation piece.Claravox Centennial is the most versatile Moog ther...

At Seattle's Add-a-Ball Amusements arcade bar, an ingenious employee named Sleepy outfitted a pinball machine with pedals for a touchless gaming experience. Now that's thinking on your feet! (rimshot)...

In this experiment, a room is filled with water until the weight of it overwhelms the floor and falls into the room below. The house is all but completely destroyed, seemingly in minutes. Science! ...

Halloween came early for these capybaras in Japan, who got a tasty pumpkin spice treat at Nagasaki Biopark, and guests can walk right up to them as they enjoy their seasonal treat:You can see this eve...

If you suffer from chronic pain, anxiety, sleep disorders or even something as insidious as cancer, you've undoubtedly heard of the effects of CBD. Or maybe you're a regular CBD user already who's oft...

These model kits for tiny treehouses will include LED lights on some models, and include both hanging and freestanding options. You can pre-order your own now!Image: YouTube / Tiny Treehouses...

The secret word of the day is "treat." It's about time. Finally there's a Pee-wee's Playhouse Halloween special. I ain't even mad that it's unofficial, done by a kid and his family. While clearly low-...

Utah's incumbent Lt. Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, and his gubernatorial opponent, Democrat Chris Peterson, just released a new joint campaign ad, where they both commit to civility and a peacef...

This short video by BurtBot puts ordinary human voices on Uruk-hai Orcs and it's making Middle-earth funnier than it should be.screengrab via BurtBot/YouTube(Born in Space)...

Pixel Therapy is a brand new podcast "where emotional intelligence is a critical stat." Every two weeks, hosts Spencer Icasiano and Jamie Siebenaler bring in a new guest to talk about the impact that ...

Arkansas is known for its huge quartz crystals, so it's fitting that the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville held an exhibit on artistic representations of crystals throughout history. Dominik takes...

If you thought the fear and instability that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed on world financial markets would send investors scurrying for the sidelines, think again. In fact, the indiv...

Fix-it projects don't always fit to your schedule. In fact, it often feels like projects or even emergencies that require your attention often come at the worst possible moments. That's why it feels l...

Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off tonight for the final presidential debate. President Trump began his remarks by saying that the coronavirus spikes will soon be gone. "I was in the hospital, I go...

Hosico cat, dressed up as a spider."It's hard to be a spider-cat on Halloween It is very difficult to control eight more paws, it does not work out right away."More: It's hard to be a spider-cat on H...

Russia-sponsored hackers have been trying to break into United States local government computer networks — and two of those Russian hacking attacks on city and state network were successful, sai...

Opera Memphis paid tribute to the Wienermobile when it came through town in the perfect way by singing its the Oscar Mayer jingle opera-style (Be still my heart!). The "Opera Mayer Wiener" is perfor...

How dark and dreadful. I love it.Deadline:In what would mark his first major live-action TV series, Tim Burton is setting his sights on The Addams Family, looking to develop a new ...

Reebok is releasing this fun and cartoony Ghostbusters "Ghost Smashers" sneaker design on Halloween. There's also another style in the collaboration called the "Classic Leather" but it's not nearly as...

What's the only thing tougher than deciding to finally get your financial life and monthly budgeting on track and under control? When there are two of you.Making sure to log all of your transactions a...

On the 100th anniversary of Timothy Leary's birthday, Hilaritas Press announced a new book by Robert Anton Wilson. It's called The Starseed Signals: A RAW Perspective on Timothy Leary.In 1974, Robert ...

Caitlin Reilly pretends to be a privileged white woman using her privilege to get around the rules for voting. ...

Security researcher Victor Gevers says it took him five password guesses to log on to Trump's Twitter account last weekit was "maga2020!"From Ars Technica:Gevers reportedly gained access to Trump's Tw...

I try not to print anything if I can help it. But stuff needs to get printed, so I took advantage of this very low price on a ream of HP paper. I already have some of the same kind, and it's a good we...

Over at Root Simple, Mr Homegrown writes about how he deals with pantry moth infestations. The solution is straightforward, though tedious to implement: seal everything pantry moths like to eat in air...

We spend most of our days staring at screens. Either a laptop, or a phone, or a tablet. But while we spend so much time reading or working or watching all the varied screens in our life, it's strange ...

Trevor Noah reveals just how desperate Lindsey Graham has become (starting :39) as Graham's poll numbers show him trailing behind Democrat Jamie Harrison for South Carolina's US Senate seat. There's ...

The Daily Show's Trevor Noah reveals just how desperate Lindsey Graham has become (starting :33) as Graham's poll numbers show him potentially trailing behind Democrat Jaime Harrison in a new Morning ...

An ongoing rash of brazen shoplifting at San Francisco area Walgreens locations is leading to multiple locations closing their doors permanently. Inside Edition was inside one of the stores to report ...

The Mike Wallace Interview television program is like a 1950s podcast. (In fact, someone should convert them to MP3s and make them a podcast). In this episode, Wallace interviews the great Rod Serling...

Somewhere in my boxed collection of 80s and 90s zines are a bunch of issues of Psychotronic Video (1980-2005). I was pleased to learn via /r/ObscureMedia that scans of 40 issues are available on archi...

A collaborative team of journalists from The Marshall Project,  AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute spent a year exploring a topic that often gets overlooked in discussion...

Banksy's 2005 painting "Show Me the Money" sold at a Sotheby's auction yesterday for more than 7.5 million. Five collectors bidding during the final minutes of the auction drove up the price to make i...

Puzzling is big business right now, as you might expect. Here's a short video about Buffalo Games, whose sales went from 1 million to 2 million puzzles a month. You'll see every aspect of the puzzle p...

"I really just care about building something that my girls are going to grow up and be proud of me for," Mark Zuckerberg told CNN Money. Now the clip is being used in a new ad created by Accountable ...

This fellow admits to having nicked a Banksy public artwork, and is disappointed when Antique Roadshow won't put a price on it....

Ghislaine Maxwell fought long and hard to keep her 2016 deposition sealed, with her lawyers claiming it would violate her right against self-incrimination and make it impossible for her to receive a f...

U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden (37), who has been in exile in Russia since 2013, has been granted permanent residency in Russia. He's now on the path to Russian citizenship if he desires it.From Re...

Palm Harbor, Florida resident Kay Rogers says her cat kindly gifted her with a rare two-headed southern black racer snake. The cat performed a good deed as, according to the Florida Wildlife Center, "...

I actually enjoyed this more than I enjoyed the actual trailer for upcoming Snyder Cut of Justice League (coming to HBO Max in May 2021). Maybe Zack Snyder should just make 16-bit video games from now...

James Randi, the magician and skeptic, is dead at 92. Randi was famous for televised debunkings of people claiming telekinetic and telepathic powers, and became synonymous with a million-dollar offer ...

Happy 100th birthday to bOING bOING patron saint Dr. Timothy Leary! We miss you. Above, "You Can be Anyone This Time Around" from Tim's 1970 album of the same name featuring Jimi Hendrix, Stephen Stil...

One of the biggest concerns for both new and experienced CBD users is determining exactly how much of a cannabis-infused product to take to receive just the right dosage. Unlike those trying to g...

Wesley Morris has a powerful new essay in the New York Times Magazine about his mustache specifically, the shifting meaning of that upper-lip fuzz as it relates to race and masculinity. Morris, a gay...

Designer Matt Stevens likes to render his favorite films as if they were old books: "Not a best of list, just movies I love. These illustrations are available in a self-published book for sale here. I...

NPR published this article on the etymological history of "spooky" in 2017, but I didn't read it myself until last year. I knew that "spook" had its spy-level implications, of course; I just didn't re...

Transmissions from the Eighth CircuitChanneling Timothy Leary on the Centennial of his Birth, Oct, 22, 2020His first posthumous interview since his death 24 years ago, channeled by his Archivist, Mich...

Men "dressed as armed security guards" who lurked outside a polling place in St. Peterburg, Florida, were not hired or directed by the Trump campaign, according to a spokesperson for it.WLFA 8 news re...

When former cast members Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Don Most, Anson Williams and Marion Ross of the 70's sit-com Happy Days announced plans to do an on-line Happy Days reunion fundraiser for Wisconsin...

In the upcoming documentary, "Francesco", Pope Francis breaks from traditional Catholic Church doctrine and speaks about his belief in legal unions between same-sex partners.Washington Post:"What we h...

An unidentified men went on Antiques Roadshow looking to find the value of a piece of art he ripped off a wall in Brighton, England several years ago. The piece, he believes, is an authentic Banksy. H...

Aside from a viable COVID-19 vaccine made free to everyone, this is exactly the news that 2020 needs! Following on from the recent Jurassic Park-themed teaser, Hulu put out a full trailer for the fort...

Alan Tudyk's narrative voiceover here is dripping with the same sardonic energy as his voice work on Doom Patrol and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. And that alone is enough to get me excited.Here's the...

Mid October is too early for us to start in on holiday shopping suggestions. Oh, you'll get 'em all soon enough, trust us…but with more than two months before Santa rolls into town, we're not go...

Plane flying past a storm from ThatsInsane This passenger got a front row seat of exactly what the pilot of their plane wanted to avoid: a cumulonimbus giant storm cloud thrashin...

This web app on Playback.fm will let you upload your black & white photos to colorize and download for free. Any image you upload will be temporarily hosted on their server for 10 minutes. Here ar...

Fidget toys are made for relieving anxiety and stress, but there's a very ephemeral quality to finding fidget toys that actually do the job. Many are just clutter on your desk or can even be just kind...

Living legend Mel Brooks did his first political spot, shot by his wonderful son Max Brooks. Mel Brooks is voting for Joe Biden. Watch the video, below.My father, @MelBrooks, is 94. He has never made...

Impeached and manifestly unfit President Donald Trump claims to not be a politician, in a tweet to fans urging them to click on his fundraising site. "If I do not sound like a typical Washington polit...

With the announcement of the iPhone 12 just a few days ago, everybody is assessing their smartphone needs and making the big decision about upgrading. While the smartphone may be at the heart of these...

The NASA Osiris-Rex spacecraft "crushed rocks and sent rubble flying as it briefly touched an asteroid, a strong indication that samples were collected for return to Earth, officials said Wednesday," ...

Impeached and manifestly crazy U.S. President Donald Trump today called Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) a "watermelon head.""That guy should be locked up," Trump says of Rep. Adam Schiff after referring to hi...

After a long delay, Facebook's dating service has launched in Europe, to rival Tindr and the likeFacebook said Wednesday in a company blog post that it is launching Facebook Dating in 32 European cou...

While kayaking in the waters off Northern Norway, Kari Schibevaag had a close encounter with several humpback whales. Berthold Hinrichs, who captured the footage, told Storyful the "whales were playin...

This 8" x 6" spiral bound notebook costs $3.50. It has light green paper and 30 college-spaced rules per page. I like the smaller-than-usual size because it takes up less room on my desk and in my bac...

After Quibi launched, I described it as "Hollywood's purest vision for how mobile entertainment should be consumed" for the brevity of its content and the total hostility it had toward viewers. It blo...

We spend most of our days staring at screens. Either a laptop, or a phone, or a tablet. But while we spend so much time reading or working or watching all the varied screens in our life, it's strange ...

View this post on Instagram Don talks UNFAIR deal to call show Scooby-Doo when VELMA does much more work solving MYSTERY!! One of the WORST DEALS we've ever had. Scooby nowhere ...

In the latest episode of Slate's podcast, How To!, host Charles Duhigg interviews former U.S. Representative Katie Hill, who was shamed into resigning after her estranged husband sent unauthorized nud...

My friends and I spent a lot of time diving with Truth Aquatics. More often we dove the Vision, but I spent many weeks on the Conception as well. NPR:The National Transportation Safety Board has place...

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...

If you're interested in making pixel art for games, websites, or just for fun, but don't know how to get started, this video has useful tips. The key takeaway: when designing characters use a 16×...

What makes the diabolical ironclad beetle (the insect's actual common name) so indestructible? To find out, researchers at the  University of California, Irvine and their colleagues repeatedly dr...

MeidasTouch put together a video highlighting a few of the dangerously stupid things Trump has said followed by their disastrous repercussions and the libtards-can't-take -a-joke excuses put forth by ...

The geniuses at Squirrel Monkey are back with a new video that imagines what a popular technology of today would be like if it had been created decades ago. This time, they show how an Amazon Alexa of...

Nowness presents an art film starring a professional scorpion handlers and several of her venomous charges. As part of our new series of moving-image premieres, Nowness Experiments, we welcome French ...

With a marketing message that combined sex with sweatshop-free manufacturing, American Apparel seemed like an unstoppable brand. But then a series of bad business decisions followed by multiple sexual...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) played Among Us on Twitch yesterday to encourage people to vote. More than 400,000 people turned up to watch. Tired: Reddit AMA, Wired: Twitch streams?Here's the...

Photoshop's latest update adds "Neural" filters powered by Adobe's cloud AI, allowing the user to change a portrait's facial expressions, lighting conditions, hair thickness, and even the angle of the...

Most police have access to tools that can retrieve cleartext data from about 50% of the phones they confiscate, reports The New York Times.Phone-hacking toolstypically exploit security flawsto remove ...

Archaeologists discovered this darling and massive etching of a cat at the site of the Nazca Lines in Peru, about 250 miles away from the capital city of Lima. The researchers spotted the 120-foot-lon...

The Department of Justice has launched its long–expected antitrust action against Google, centering its attack on the tech giant using its dominance in search and advertising to block competitor...

Spoilers from God via Pat Robertson: Trump will win, two assassination attempts on him, civil strife, war with China, war in the Middle East with God defending Israel, and finally, after about 5 years...

There are many time-lapse security cam clips around of spiders building webs but this one is particularly striking to me because of the angle, lighting, and sound. It feels like an avant-garde art fil...

James Grashow explains his philosophy behind setting his cardboard Bernini out in the elements to be washed away in this clip from a documentary on his work.Grashow ended up spending four years making...

The Star Feminine Band is a whole lot of girl power. The seven member all-female group hails from a remote West African town called Natitingou, a place where "forced marriages and early pregnancies" a...

You will soon be able to buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies on PayPal. Reuters reports that the company is far from alone in offering this service to normies, but its "vast reac...

I'm hoping that the graphic designers at CBS are working quickly to create special titles for "45 Minutes" instead of the usual 60, because that's how long Trump lasted before fleeing interviewer Lesl...

Victoria Rose Richards creates lovely little aerial scenes as embroidered works. You can see more on her Etsy shop or on her Instagram: View this post on Instagram All the colours do...

The 55-minute-long documentary The Man Card isn't a light watch but a worthy one. Its creator, Jackson Katz, is an expert on the issues of gender, race and violence. You may remember him from his vira...

Mid October is too early for us to start in on holiday shopping suggestions. Oh, you'll get 'em all soon enough, trust us…but with more than two months before Santa rolls into town, we're not go...

I've never been a reader of Stephen King's fiction, but many years ago, a friend gave me a copy of his book, On Writing. I loved it. It made a significant impact on the quality of my work and my appro...

As a fella that's been hit in the head, a lot, I tend to forget things, a lot.I've got the same stuff going as a lot of folks do: I frequently walk into a room and forget why in the hell I'm there. &#...

Europe's alpine lakes are often very clear, very cold, and very deep. Many weird and wonderful creatures have evolved to bear the conditions, including very scary eagles, and lots of weird fish and am...

Over at Media Matters, my friend and former colleague Parker Molloy has an excellently succinct piece summing up the meta-story around last week's unverified leak of a bunch of documents by the New Yo...

Variety reports:Apple has launched Apple Music TV, a free 24-hour curated livestream of popular music videos that will also include "exclusive new music videos and premiers, special cur...

James Hancock demonstrates the 12-jet diatonic hydraulophone at Stanford's school of music. Larger models allow for duets, like this rendition of "House of the Rising Sun."Image: YouTube / hydraulist...

In 1967, Jim Thompson left his silk business in Thailand for a Malaysian holiday with three friends. On the last day, he disappeared from the cottage in which they were staying. In this week's episode...

At the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, Miley Cyrus covered a bunch of songs. Her setlist included a version of her godmother Dolly Parton's "Jolene," NIN's "Head Like a Hole," and Metallica's "Nothing Else...

Before taking oath as the President of the United States, Donald Trump insisted that, while he would remain in charge of his companies, they would not be taking any new foreign deals. As recently as 2...

The kalimba is one of the most beautiful-sounding portable instuments, and it's pretty easy to learn thanks to this handy lesson by Sound Adventurer.He recommends a 17-key kalimba like this beauty.Who...

VIDEO from Temponaut Timelapse, a fascinating timelapse of ants eating a raspberry. [website]...

PHOTO [NASA]: The asteroid Bennu as seen from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. After nearly two years circling the asteroid, OSIRIS-REx will try to descend to the boulder-spiked surface to grab up some rubb...

Fidget toys are made for relieving anxiety and stress, but there's a very ephemeral quality to finding fidget toys that actually do the job. Many are just clutter on your desk or can even be just kind...

First honest thing Donald Trump has said at a campaign rally all month: "Nobody wants me."Impeached U.S. President Donald Trump, October 20, 2020: "China doesn't want me. Iran doesn't want me. Nobody ...

This newly released prison mug of Bill Cosby shows the sexual assault convict with a disposable mask hanging off his grinning face.From the Associated Press:The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ...

[VIDEO] Bystanders helped rescue an older couple from their sinking car on Monday, after the vehicle careened into a canal in Long Island, New York. Seven people, including two NY police officers, pul...

Donald Trump's secret China bank account did not show up on public financial disclosures, where the President must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names "Tax records show ...

Donald Trump's secret China bank account did not show up on public financial disclosures, where the President must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names "Tax records show ...

This broadbeam LED headlamp, which uses a strip of 20 LEDs, is on sale for a low price on Amazon right now. It's my first choice for doing any kind of work in dark places. It lights a wide area and is...

With the announcement of the iPhone 12 just a few days ago, everybody is assessing their smartphone needs and making the big decision about upgrading. While the smartphone may be at the heart of these...

As soon as I saw samples of Waneella's animated pixel art depicting Tokyo street scenes, I became aPatreon subscriber.Waneella (aka Valeriya Sanchillo) was born in 1993 and lives in Moscow. On her Pat...

A fully-armed and uniformed Miami police officer made no bones Tuesday about who he wanted voters to cast their ballots for: he wore a TRUMP 2020: NO MORE BULLSHIT mask while prowling the building.The...

Tom Lehrer has released all his works into the public domain. We have til 2024 to download them, however, when it appears his website will go down. DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, and the Tom Lehre...

I wanted to listen to music or the news outside without wiring anything up. The Soundcore Motion+ is perfect for both my yards and camping trips. I have two yards that are mildly cluttered. If things ...

How we do Halloween in #parkslope #candychute pic.twitter.com/rhrIxtf5Gp— Chris Baier will vote (@Baierman) October 31, 2017Core77 presents a photo gallery of social-distancing-friendly candy-d...

Here's your word processor:data:text/html,<html contenteditableCopy and paste it into your URL bar. Use Ctrl+Bfor bold and Ctrl+Ifor italic. Powerpoint and Excel replacements are slightly more com...

.@brikeilarcnn takes a look at Pres. Trump's long pattern of "I know nothing defenses.""Now we all remember a time when it was good for a President to be informed. Claiming ignorance all the time abou...

A previously unidentified set of salivary glands located in the human head may play a role in swallowing, say researchers who stumbled across them while looking at cranial scans of prostate cancerpati...

The 2020 yearbook for Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana included a photo of a school basketball team with all the students' names in the caption except for one who was listed as "Black Gu...

Neuropsychologists at The Netherlands' Maastricht University and their colleagues report that microdoses of LSD can increase mood and cognition. In their double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 24 p...

This poor guy is really dedicated to his craft. He agreed to be in a commercial that requires riding a rollercoaster, even though he's clearly terrified of them. Here's a video of the ad's first take....

From the wonderful, weird "pond scum" Instagram account of Jam's Germs:Lacrymaria olor is a beautifully named single-celled organism, its name means "tears of a swan". So poetic, and if my fiance agre...

The J Balvin** x McDonald's collaboration leads with a surprising product what are essentially a set of brass knuckles adorned with the golden arches. They call this product the Arches Double Ring (...

Former Genesis frontman Phil Collins met Orianne Cevey in 1994 when he was on tour in Switzerland. She was 21. He was 44. They got engaged in 1997, got married in '99, had 2 kids, then split up in 200...

I love these Ancient Grain Twists. Not just for the spicy chili kick they provide. Not just the attempt to make my snacking seem healthy by adding turmeric. But, the sentimental thing I love is the...

I woke up way too early on Sunday morning to the screaming sounds of a 4-month old, and as soon as I had my first sip of coffee, it was there: the infamously badass theme song from the 90s X-Men carto...

At Thursday night's final presidential debate, the candidate who does not have the floor will be muted while the other candidate delivers his two minute opening answer at the top of each 15-minute seg...

Shadow of the Beast, released in 1989, became a hallmark of outstanding graphics, sound and aesthetic completeness. It wasn't much of a game, but it sold a lot of Commodore Amigas in Europe. So tied w...

My acting teacher told us to perform a dramatic monologue from any movie and I did mine from Austin Powers and no one noticed. pic.twitter.com/1ZZtIsJdvE— Lisa Gilroy (@TheLisaGilroy) October 19...

For me, James Crumley ranks right up there with the likes of Donald Westlake (AKA Richard Stark) and Raymond Chandler. His novel, The Last Good Kiss, is on constant rotation in my home, popping up on ...

"Nuggets are on notice," Dunkin Donuts declares in a press release, while also urging sandwiches and tacos to heed their warning. The Massachusetts-based donut and coffee company is celebrating Hallow...

As part of a campaign to decriminalize drugs and deny criminals the profits of selling them, a UK-based charity produced a mockup of what legal coke might look like. The rendering is by Halo Media.Tra...

Yippee ki yay, Bruce Willis is pushing batteries. DieHard ones, of course.AdAge: Advance Auto Parts has tapped Bruce Willis to recharge DieHard, the 53-year-old car battery brand it acquired from Sear...

The Kuricorder Quartet redid the 1978 Pink Lady hit Southpaw in their own inimitable style, adding a delightfully weird animated dance sequence.If you're not familiar with the original, here you go:If...

Blindsight is a gorgeous animated short by Danil Krivoruchko that teases the possibility of a film adaptation of the 2006 Peter Watts book.Peter himself gives the backstory:Image: YouTube / Danil Kriv...

Michael Steele used to be the chairman of the Republican National Committee. As a black man, his role at the top seemed to herald a new age for the GOP, rising to the challenge of a black president by...

It's no newsflash to say the world is full of entertainment options. Heck, just restricting yourself to the digital universe, there are hundreds, even thousands of ways to learn new skills, improve yo...

The Arkell Museum in upstate New York posted a picture on its Facebook page of its painting "Winter" by American artist Gari Melchers, unaware that the Mosse family of Berlin originally owned it befor...

American Carnage: The Nightmare Scenario outlines what many pundits have been warning could happen in the 2020 US federal elections. Mail-in ballots for many states will skew more Democratic than the ...

This footage shows a woman and her husband arguing with a man over his being in an "empty" house next to their own. The man, according to the video upload, is renting the house through AirBNB. But the...

It's getting colder outside, and if you (like me) live in a milder climate, you may be planning to put your fan or air conditioner into storage soon if you haven't already. But before you do that: cle...

It's one of 10 charming and delightful dog costumes cooked up by Rosanna Pansino. I mean, come on! Worth watching even if you don't have a dog.Image: YouTube / Rosanna Pansino...

These undated photos provided by the Long Beach, California Police Department show unique Australian monitor lizards stolen from a reptile shop in November 2019. Today, LBPD announced two arrests in t...

"I'm here. And now I'm immune. I can jump into this audience and kiss every man and woman. I'm immune." Impeached U.S. President Donald Trump, who is crazier than shit, earlier today.At the Donald Tr...

James Redford, a filmmaker, activist and son of actor Robert Redford, has died of liver cancer. James Redford was 58, and was first diagnosed with liver diseas 30 years ago, reports the Associated Pre...

Actor Jeff Bridges on Monday announced that he has been diagnosed with a form of cancer called lymphoma, and says his prognosis is good.He began his tweet with a nod to "The Big Lebowski" — "As...

If you're anything like millions of Americans, staying at home these past several months has  been followed by a steadily increased diet of cooking shows. It's really not hard to understand why. ...

Jeffrey Toobin, the famous author and journalist currently with The New Yorker, was suspended today after exposing his penis during a Zoom meeting with colleagues. The circumstances are unclear. Toobi...

Training packages are available everywhere. And since everyone wants to know how to code, there are literally hundreds of different courses, lectures, and training sessions that can help teach you the...

Got a virtual Halloween party coming up? Drink your adult beverage of choice out of a foam beer stein cozy (for either a can or a Solo cup). I love a project like this that's pretty easy to do and you...

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

I like colored porcelain, so when I saw these colorful bowls, I couldn't resist. They'll go well with my hard-to-get set crumple espresso cups....

Skeptics will claim that the person who shot this video erased the flying saucer whenever the special piece of UFO-detecting glass was held in front of the camera, but it's probably the same kind of g...

Rudy Giuliani says he offered the New York Post his "Hunter Biden's Laptop" story because he knew it would run it without looking into it. What he didn't say is that he already knew who wouldn't run i...

Our pal Steve Silberman posted this on Facebook. It is apparently a previously unheard Joni Mitchell recording from 1967.Image: YouTube...

As part of the Save Our Stages Fest benefiting independent music venues shuttered during the pandemic, Miley Cyrus took the stage at Hollywood's legendary Whisky a Go Go on Saturday night, tearing thr...

View this post on Instagram "DIDN'T ASK FOR RIGHTS! NOT VERY NICE!" A post shared by James Austin Johnson (@shrimpjaj) on Oct 18, 2020 at 1:13pm PDTThis guy perfectly c...

Adam Savage bought a giant Swiss Army knife replica, the kind that stores put in the window for advertisement purposes. The cool thing about the knife is that it contains an electromechanical mechanis...

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, creators of the Dragonlance fantasy mythos, are suing Wizards of the Coast after the company ditched a licensing deal for the latest books in the long-running series. ...

On October 1, 1936, civil engineer Laurent Pelletier was on a small plane flying from Jask, Iran to France when he spotted the island of Hormuz out of his window. He grabbed his camera to snap a photo...

"Knuckle cracking over the years will cause repetitive trauma to the joints and cartilage," Seattle neurosurgeon Rod Oskouian told The Washington Post. Oskouian and his three colleagues pored over 26 ...

Brendan Sheridan (32) is out on bail after being arrested for plowing a large boat into a dock in Sarasota, Florida. In the video, the gentleman alleged to be Sheridan can be seen at the helm as he bl...

Man. pic.twitter.com/XTzXMda5Wy— Kris Tapley (@kristapley) October 14, 2020All that's missing is the cran-raspberry juice. (Thanks, UPSO!)...

Whoa, check this out. An RV resort near Yosemite (22 miles from its western gate) has Conestoga wagons you can glamp in! Each one offers real beds, air conditioning and heat, plus a refrigerator, micr...

I'm just gonna go ahead and say it: Canadian Geese are assholes. Every single last one of them. They shit and they hiss. They're greasy when cooked and if you turn your back on one, there's a damned g...

Hormel, makers of such fine meat products at Spam and Dinty Moore stew, developed a COVID-19 face mask scented with bacon. The company reports it integrates "the latest bacon-smell technology" for ult...

If you pay for a Disney+ subscription, watch it over at a pal's house, use someone else's log-in credentials or torrent, you're likely already aware: the second season of The Mandalorian will be out t...

By now, you've probably seen the 2009 McSweeney's classic, "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" by Colin Nissan:I don't know about you, but I can't wait to get my hands on some fucking gourds...

Malicious compliance is the art of following the rules knowing that it will have an undesirable or unintended result. In this case, neighbors objected to a new fence that was slightly too high, forcin...

This classic ABC News Australia segment from 1962 is always a kick: "Is there life on other planets?""I hope not. Because they'd be frozen to death."...

TikTok user Mackenzie Thursh, who has a rare form of dwarfism called spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, shared her experience trying to drop off her ballot and vote in New Jersey: @mackenzie.937 #Dwar...

Florida man, George Daniels, president of Daniels Manufacturing Co. (DMC), inserted the following note in the pay stub envelopes of his 170 employees:"If Trump and the Republicans win (the election), ...

You no longer have to rely on piece of recorded music to figure out the name of a song. Now you can hum, whistle, or sing a melody and a new Google feature will name that tune. CNET reports that the t...

Your brain is a wondrous creation. Even when you're destroying it with Cheetos and hour after hour of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, it's still the most powerful computer you will ever own. Acc...

In 2019, Bolivia's president Evo Morales was deposed in a coup after a disputed election. Yesterday, Morales' party returned to power in the first elections since. Morales was banned from running, but...

I love Adam Savage's "Favorite Tools" and "One Day Build" videos. In this video, he shows off some of his antique folding rulers and looks at a modern model just released from Makers Cabinet (creators...

Reuters:A Japanese supercomputer shows how humidity can have a large effect on the dispersion of virus particles, pointing to heightened coronavirus contagion risks in dry, indoor conditions during th...

Danielle Baskin has launched a tasty new project called PartyLine. She's devised a way to put people — outside of their own political and social bubbles — together to… talk.PartyLine...

Artist Margaret Rolicki is the Cynthia Plaster Caster of the prop fabrication world and the spiritual heir to Milicent Patrick's (Creature from the Black Lagoon) legacy. When not making her own art (l...

Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling has a new non-fiction book out called A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears) that tells the story of a small New Hamps...

If you're anything like millions of Americans, staying at home these past several months has  been followed by a steadily increased diet of cooking shows. It's really not hard to understand why. ...

Last week, The New York Post posted a sensational expose of what it claimed were contents of Hunter Biden's laptop, supposedly abandoned at a Delaware repair shop. It "revealed" access-trading to his ...

When you're a pastor from North Carolina taking a late night flight leaving Las Vegas, consider urinating in the airplane bathroom and not on your fellow passenger while she sleeps. Alicia Beverly of...

The Biden/Harris team is going after those Gen Z votes with a visitable campaign headquarters, in the form of an Animal Crossing: New Horizons island (you might remember they also offer in-game digita...

On October 6, 2020, Donald Trump tweeted that he wanted all documents related to the various Russia investigations and everything Hillary Clinton has ever done to be total declassified, "No redactions...

Lucas Pope's The Return of the Obra Dinn is one of the most interesting and unique games of the last few years. The vessel washes up in England in 1807, an abandoned ghost ship, and you're the insuran...

After a lot of trial and error, Bobby Duke figured out how to mold and polish wings that shimmer like crystal. Watch as he adds them to the sculpture he made previously:Image: YouTube / Bobby Duke Art...

I'm not sure if this is a genius plan for keeping the lights on at an otherwise vacant theme park during this time of plague or a fresh low point in the long timeline of work ruining damn near everyth...

IN_BOX is a sweet little story about two coworkers who send AIM style computer messages to each other, but the message itself is a physical form that moves between the two terminals.Image: YouTube / A...

Morgan Freeman narrates "Life Below Water," a PSA about a species that "can travel hundreds of miles and live to be a thousand years old."It's part of the United Nations' Global Goals for Sustainable ...

"Fauci" is rhymed with "grouchy."Singer-songwriter Noah Lindquist is behind this clever parody song. "Wear a Mask" is set to the tune of "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast but its rewritten lyri...

Handedness has long been thought to be polygenetic, and Australian researchers have now identified 41 DNA regions that influence left-handedness, and seven that influence ambidexterity.Via David Evans...

Nature found a way to make those terrified of sharks even more worried about the ocean. A shark with two heads (previously at BB). Two damn heads! Fortunately, the bi-noggined fish was a spadenose s...

Makers Evan and Katelyn have a fun new video where they create a transparent screen from a standard LCD monitor, then have some fun with it.The Supervisor (aka their cat) becomes the first demonstrati...

Jitarth Jadeja is an Australian who spent some time living in the US, and regretfully spent two years of his life down the QAnon wormhole. Once Jadeja found QAnon he was quickly sucked in. He would sp...

Unless you're an essential worker, there's a good chance your work from home, stay at home lifestyle will be continuing, at least through the winter months. That's more than a little depressing, but i...

Ed Benguiat's 600+ typefaces are so ubiquitous that you've probably read text set in them thousands of times. Highlights include Tiffany, Bookman, Panache, Edwardian Script, and of course Benguiat, be...

Shopify got started by a trio of Canadians back in 2004 when they got frustrated trying to sell snowboarding equipment online. More than 15 years later, Shopify is one of the biggest names in e-commer...

Here's that jetpack you were promised. It's inflatable and it will arrive in the near future ($44). 5…4…3…2…(Born in Space)images via Born in Space/Morph-Costumes...

In this latest episode of Black Magic Craft, Jeremy raises an interesting question. With all of the cool book nooks everyone has been making, where are the D&D nooks? As he points out, it's such a...

Despite the retro style, Black Sheep Boy is a pretty deep story about childhood and happiness and loss. Director James Molle summarizes it:A young hatted boy's adventures through a strange world inhab...

Earth Crisis is an experimental short inspired by Brooklyn indie band Dirty Projectors. It's from the fourth of five EPs the band plans to release in 2020. The animation was directed by Isaiah Saxon.E...

I have a lot of questions about the "Monster Mash." Do the monsters call it that, or is that just what the mad scientist narrator calls it? Did the Crypt Kicker 5 ever exist before this, or is this li...

Chaos Ink is a web toy where you swish around your pointer on the surface of a virtual tub of hot liquid metal, watching the slow shiny ripples spread out and back again. Its by creative technologist ...

Having played X-wing and TIE Fighter (a lot) back in the day, my having had a PS4 given to me to use made investing in Star Wars Squadrons a given. I pre-ordered it (a first!) so that it'd be ready to...

Happy Mutant Dave Blair built a device to make gorgeous recursive video patterns. He says:This contraption uses two HD monitors, a Nikon DSLR camera and a sheet of beam splitter glass to produce video...

Back in the early 1800's, Russian physicist Emil Lenz noted an interesting phenomenon. When he dropped a magnet through a pipe, the magnet's magnetic field created counter-rotating currents in the cop...

If there was ever a better endorsement for making sure your resume skills are just as good as you say they are, look no further than Great Britain.Last week, Public Health England used an outdated Mic...

What's going to happen to all those unwanted office buildings, which are likely to remain unused after the pandemic subsides? An LA-based startup called Stay Open plans to transform unused commercial ...

Have you ever considered getting a digital voice recorder? They can actually be a lot more helpful than you might realize. From constructing business letters or memos to medical or legal dictatio...

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, shared the 4-question test she uses to help her figure out whose advice to trust. From Oprah.comDo I trust this person's ...

With every refresh, Monkeon's 90s Festival Generator creates random music festival lineups and posters. Every artist name links to archive footage of a live performance (if they played live in the UK ...

It used to be that go bags were almost exclusively reserved for emergency responders, journalists, and those very select few who might have to drop everything and run somewhere at a moment's notice.Ma...

As a rally yesterday, Trump floated the idea that he'd leave the country if he loses next month's election. It's a joke, of course. But the joke is supposed to be the idea of Trump losing to Biden in ...

@skywingsadventures had to do it, I love this version and it fits so well with the video #fleetwoodmac #fleetwoodmacdreams #fleetwoodmacchallenge original sound – lanie gardner This is wild...

At first, I wondered if Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) was so unfamiliar with anything even slightly out his norm that the name "Kamala" would present a problem to him. Then I remembered two thingshe's bee...

From NASA Goddard: When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu in December 2018, its close-up images confirmed what mission planners had predicted nearly two decades before: Bennu is m...

"Library Takeout" is not only a fun little synthy treat about how to get library materials from Duke University during the pandemic, but the low-tech animation is also a perfect accompaniment. Here's ...

Mashable has a great new piece in video, and in text about the intersections between COVID-19 restrictions and surveillance-style privacy invasions. The reporting by Tulika Bose and Jack Morse is sm...

Don't look now, but that car next to you on the road may not have a driver. Thankfully, with the advent of the self-driving vehicle, that's not the panic-inducing moment it used to be. A self-driving ...

For the past few years, we've seen a stampede of build-your-own handheld gaming devices hit the market. But if you're like us, you see those kits and all their tiny pieces and intricate instructions a...

This morning, Joseph McCullough, creator of one of the most popular and acclaimed fantasy miniature skirmish games (Frostgrave), announced Stargrave on his website.Yes, the rumours are true. I have sp...

Jesse Pinkman was right magnets are awesome. From high-speed trains and rollercoasters to what's on your refrigerator to the planet Earth itself, the power of magnets has been helping and fascinating ...

I always enjoy Rain Noe's posts on the Core77 design blog. Today, Rain took a look at Japanese butter implements. I want them all.Let's talk about two things that used to not go together: Japan and b...

Flower Power batteries by Transogram, 1960s. pic.twitter.com/TbDvLo0yTa— Mark Pahlow (@mcpheeceo) October 16, 2020These are perfect for powering your Toot-a-Loop!...

This tube of 3M small hole repair spackle comes with a built-in putty knife and a sanding pad on the cap, making it much more convenient to fill nail holes and dents in walls. I bought one for my tool...

Airline pilots have reported seeing what they think is someone in a jetpack flying around the skies near Los Angeles International Airport. NBC News spoke with a gentleman who makes jetpacks. Details ...

My dearest Electra would bounce that into bits. Simone Giertz on YouTube...

A pandemic. An election. A Supreme Court. A Mexican pizza. These pressing issues are on the minds of Americans and one is causing over 120,000 of them to mobilize and sign a petition on change.org, ...

In a follow-up on Tor.com to Linda Codega's matching fantasy novels with roleplaying game rules so that you can "game the book" if you desire, she now has a sci-fi pairing. As with the fantasy round-u...

Because we don't have enough pet photos online yet? Next step: Automate it so that the pet can automatically upload the images to Instagram. Hilarity ensues....

Because we don't have enough pet photos online yet? Next step: Automate it so that the pet can automatically upload the images to Instagram. Hilarity ensues....

British pantomime embraces an ancient tradition of audience participation, in which the great unwashed throng cheerfully yell at the actors.The panto's villain will invariably be stalking the hero of ...

This animation shows how the 14th-century Charles Bridge was built in Prague.Here's the video description, machine-translated: The digital model "Charles Bridge – construction of a pillar and va...

What do you get when you combine The Beach Boys with the Beastie Boys? A whole new one-boy band called The Beachstie Boys, of course. In this enjoyable video, YouTuber Kevin Miller "singlevoicedly" co...

What the world needs now is Leo Moracchioli and that bunny suit....

In the wealthy Ohio city of Bay Village just outside Cleveland, the St. Barnabas Episcopal Church installed a statue depicting Jesus wrapped in a blanket asleep on a park bench. According to the churc...

This Sunday Boing Boing favorites Puddles Pity Party and 2 Headed Dog join Field Team 6 and the Iowa House Truman Fund to raise funds to turn Iowa blue. Blue Corn: A joint Iowa House Truman Fund / Fie...

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology held its annual conference online this year and used a platform that came pre-installed with a profanity filter. Unfortunately, "bone" was on the forbidden word...

Oreo Cookies and PFLAG are giving away rainbow Oreos to honor acts of allyship during LBGTQ+ awareness month. Not that you need a cookie, but cookies are nice....

Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 is on Netflix. I'm looking forward to watching it this weekend. The New York Times asked Sorkin to talk about Sacha Baron Cohen's portrayal of Abbie Hoffman i...

When you see skeletal hands reaching up through the earth, is it wise to poke them with your bare fingers to see if anything happens? Is a corpse? from Unexpected Fortunately, it'...

Is it any surprise that a government administration set up for the primary purpose of incarcerating minorities would be racist toward Black people working for it?From AP:At the Drug Enforcement Admini...

In 1995, The Cramps had a cameo on a Halloween episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Lux and Ivy were the party band at Kelly, Dylan, Steve, and the gang's favorite haunt: the Peach Pit After Dark. For, uh...

Meet the leaf-nosed snake, a peculiar Madagascan species with a gift for crypsis. Reading about it I found my way to Envenomation by the Malagasy colubrid snake Langaha madagascariensis, which turns o...

Tab. What a beautiful drink. Tab. For beautiful people.Beautiful people are at a loss for what to drink after learning that Coca-Cola will no longer make their beloved diet soda. The famously awful ta...

This cover comes from Lake Saint Daniel, a solo project spun off from the band who brought you that similarly melancholic "All-Star" cover. I personally find this music video to be absolutely horrifyi...

Kurt Cobain did not lack for catchy riffs. From yourautnstripe:Nirvana is the reason I have decided to pick up guitar back in middle school and since then I absolutely loved playing and singing their ...

I first encountered the work of Rory Hayes (1949-1983) in the pages of R. Crumb's Weirdo magazine (the same place I learned about the Church of the SubGenius and Stanislav Szukalski). Crumb called Hay...

Pete Buttgieg described this awkward moment for Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) as "possibly the most Midwestern moment in the history of televised Senate debates."After the debate, Ernst's opponent, Demo...

Nantes, France's Chteau des ducs de Bretagne museum of history delayed its exhibition about Genghis Khan after the Chinese government insisted that the words "Genghis Khan" not appear anywhere in the ...

Seeing this 1949 Wilton 9400 vise go from trash to treasure is a wonderful thing.Chicago-based Wilton has a cult following among makers, who swear their vises are flawless in form and function. One re...

Yes, John Lithgow has authored and illustrated a book. Actually, Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age ($23) is his second volume of satirical poems aimed at Trump. The first being ...

William Perry Pendley is currently the head of the US Bureau of Land Management. Well, maybe. After being nominated to temporarily serve as BLM director in 2019, President Trump formally placed him in...

With virtually everyone watching their expenses right now, it's no surprise that our car insurance policies and those dreaded monthly rates are facing closer scrutiny than ever. With car insurance cos...

A metal ball, a plate of sand, and a little math is all it takes for a Sisyphus table to create hours of automated patterns.Here's a clip from the manufacturer:Fans post their creations online:Here's ...

Showtime's The Good Lord Bird gives a riotous 7-episode ride through the end of abolitionist John Brown's controversial life, stunningly portrayed by Ethan Hawke. In anticipation of a great televisio...

Donald Trump tweeted this morning that Twitter had "shut down the entire network" to stop the spread of bad news about rival Joe Biden, remarking that "this has never been done in history" and linkin...

Kevin Yagher made the muscle suits and fat suits for Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in the third Bill & Ted movie. Check out the impressive airbrush work he does to make the skin seem very real.Lots...

Githubber rvizz shows off a few nifty examples of some code he wrote to rotate images recursively. As the recursion reaches the one-square pixel point, it then appears to reassemble the image turned 9...

Like the optical shimmer on a DVD, iridescent plants have structures in their leaves that naturally produce an electric blue-green optical effect. Many will grow in a typical garden or as house plants...

If you read through text composed by inferior writers, rife with spelling errors, grammar problems, fractured syntax and haphazard punctuation and you aren't appalled, then you might be the target aud...

{UPDATE 4:30pm PT: Sadly, Twitter is functional again:Twitter has been down for many of you and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone.We had some trouble with our internal systems a...

{UPDATE 4:30pm PT: Sadly, Twitter is functional again:Twitter has been down for many of you and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone.We had some trouble with our internal systems a...

I got a chill when I learned, just this afternoon, that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to stop the census early. The deadline is now today, Thursday, October 15. If you haven't...

In addition to the free weekly Recomendo newsletter (which has almost 50,000 subscribers), the editors of Cool Tools (I'm one) have started making short videos of things we like. Please subscribe to t...

Scientists have found there's a danger just as impactful on your health as killers that everyone talks about like obesity or smoking. This one, though, is a lot more subtle. Researchers say that ...

Trump: We sent in the US Marshals, took 15 minutes and it was over… They knew who he was, they didn't want to arrest him and 15 minutes that ended pic.twitter.com/fJA5BsJVeF— Acyn Torabi (...

Trump: We sent in the US Marshals, took 15 minutes and it was over… They knew who he was, they didn't want to arrest him and 15 minutes that ended pic.twitter.com/fJA5BsJVeF— Acyn Torabi (...

I bought some small succulents a couple of years ago and they have slowly grown since then and I've repotted them. I keep one on my desk (above). They require almost no care and have a great prehistor...

A scary moment after my son's practice tonight at @bgiceplex. Grateful everyone is safe! #rochesterny pic.twitter.com/SihYnTWhFR— Mary Prusak (@maryprusak) October 15, 2020As far as videos of Za...

Three people I like very much — Jesse Thorn, John Hodgman, and Cory Doctorow — joined forces on the latest episode of the Judge John Hodgman Podcast. They discuss splitting the internet bi...

John Park emailed me this photo and said: "Whoever taped this direction sign to a ballot box-shaped trash receptacle didn't think things through. This is at the Buena Vista Library in Burbank [Califor...

A hiker in Utah encountered a cougar on the trail, which started to follow him and make threatening gestures. The hiker recorded the incident. After six minutes of yelling at the relentless wildcat, h...

I can understand people's desire to add a bit of sparkle to life, which can ofttimes feel drab, but it turns out glitter can wreak havoc on life in rivers and lakes. From a study published in the Jour...

In Guadalupe, Mexico, a chalk drawing of the Virgin Mary made in a parking lot in 2007 has, er, miraculously reappeared. The artist, who wants to remain anonymous, reportedly confirmed that the drawin...

Sega is releasing Golden Axed, a 2012 reboot of arcade classic Golden Axe that never made it past the prototype stage. The comical marketing around it has fallen flat for its developer, Tim Dawson, wh...

Kent, in southeast England, voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. Now they get to watch their green and pleasant land replaced by the sprawling border control infrastructure this entails. Pictured here is ...

The great SoCal culture maven Mister Jalopy turned me on to a stunning new Instagram account documenting the history of Channel Island Vans, "a former Golden age 2% SoCal Van club 70's to 80's." And i...

Italian police busted two individuals and seized more than 4,000 bottles of counterfeit wine that would have been worth around $1.7 million if sold to unsuspecting marks. The wine, Bolgheri Sassicaia ...

In the British TV gameshow Taskmaster, comedians are assigned unusual challenges that are captured on video. Then the comedians must explain why their attempt is the best. In this wonderful segment ab...

Last month, pilots reported "a guy in a jetpack" flying beside them above the Los Angeles International Airport. Apparently he returned yesterday. From CNN:"A China Airlines crew reported seeing what ...

Your brain really is every bit the supercomputer that you think it is. Scientists found that over the course of your life, your modest human brain will hold up to 1 quadrillion pieces of information. ...

Evolutionary biologist L. A. Borradaile once defined carcinisation as, "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab."According to a 2017 paper from the Biological Journal of the Linnean Societ...

GANksy is an AI trained on the work of Banksy, the UK-based street artist. The results have the mangled and uncanny quality of similar bots (cf. Hopefully This Is Not A Cat) but also something sublime...

From the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics:Astronomers have captured the last moments of a star just before it was ripped apart by a black hole. The violent occurrencecalled a tidal disr...

Eli Pariser is the author of The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think as well as one of the original founders of Upworthy (and, full disclosure, my for...

If you think you're going to make a fine cup of Turkish coffee (replete with cardamom and a mint leaf floater) in a pot, you are shamefully wrong. I tried it. Hideous.My wife uses a tiny sauce pot (a...

Kyle Burgess was jogging in a Utah canyon when he spotted four adorable cougar cubs. Their mom was not too happy about his photoshoot, leading to a tense six-minute standoff.Via NPR:Amazingly, Burgess...

Back in 2012, musician-couple Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola started a fun side project called Darling Pet Munkee that just wrote garage rock songs about weird novelty advertisements a la Sea ...

Prime Day week is here, but before you start rifling through page after page of Amazon deals, you should know Amazon isn't the only fish in the sea.In fact, many companies are combating Amazon's Prime...

If you're feeling a certain buzz of excited anticipation in the air, it's likely because Amazon Prime Day is almost here. As Americans from coast to coast know, it's the day the nation's largest onlin...

Today, Oct 14th, marks the 43rd birthday of "Heroes," David Bowie's 12th studio album and the 2nd of his seismic-shifting "Berlin trilogy" records (preceded by Low, followed by Lodger). Here is a some...

This Aukey 10,000mAh portable charger has two standard USB and one USB C outputs and comes with a USB-A to C cable. It's on sale for a good price at Amazon right now....

On Monday I wrote about switching from a $3k MacBook Pro to an $800 Gateway PC laptop. Here's someone who switched from a MacBook to Linux on a Thinkpad.On this middle-of-the-road Thinkpad, I have anS...

Hole drummer Patty Schemel joins Zabrecky in an attempt to contact what may have been the second most famous performing feline in Las Vegas. ...

With scores of items on sale this week as part of Amazon Prime Day, it's important not to forget that family member that often gets overlooked when the presents get sorted out.And frankly, your vehicl...

Several months ago, Washington State Department of Agriculture scientists glued a tracking device to a "murder" hornet in hopes of following the insect to its nest. Unfortunately, the tracker fell off...

With a short list of household items like scissors, a sheet of plastic, white paper, nails, a hammer, and a knife, this short video shows you how to make a simple "hologram projector" that looks prett...

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions after giving a speech in Taurangawhen a man with a whiny North American accent demanded that the Prime Minister prove that the C...

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was taking questions after giving a speech in Tauranga when a man with a whiny North American accent demanded that the Deputy Prime Minister pro...

This is how much food you can get in Australia for a packet of cigarettes ($35-$40) from interestingasfuck A pack of 20 cigarettes in the U.S. sells for about $8. In Australia, t...

Amazon's Prime Day deals on all sorts of data storage options for your devices.Just about the only 'gadgets' I am looking for these days are cheap microSD cards. Most of my non-film cameras use them, ...

Wirecutter remains the best place1 for comparison shopping gadgets, tools and appliances. In 2018, it finally rounded up actual wire cutters to determine the best model, settling on the Channelock Dia...

The US Army in collaboration with Command Sight, Inc. are developing augmented reality goggles for dogs. The idea is that the human handlers will be able to guide the dogs through visual indicators ap...

John Blade, mayor of Fairview, Tennessee, was arrested on charges of shoplifting at a Target. He's also the president of FirstBank in Fairview.From The Tennessean:The store loss prevention officer sta...

Would you pay for airplane food if you weren't on a plane? Finnair thinks so! The Finnish airline is betting that people with feet on the ground are actually going to pay for their flight food in supe...

In 1989, Nintendo launched "Tetris" into the public eye. Pre-packaged with nearly every Game Boy, and selling 35 million units, now almost everyone knows the theme song. But did you know the first 25,...

David Lynch made a sculpture from metal, plywood, and a light. He he is showing it on YouTube....

In June, New York Supreme Court Justice Mark Grisanti and his wife got into an argument with neighbors and the cops were called. One cop tried to handcuff the wife. Her husband, shirtless and angry, s...

In June, New York Supreme Court Justice Mark Grisanti and his wife got into an argument with neighbors and the cops were called. One cop tried to handcuff the wife. Her husband, shirtless and angry, s...

Dance Party USA was a 1980s music TV show airing on the USA Network that featured teen pop artists of the time lip-syncing their hits. In 1989, Nine Inch Nails's first album Pretty Hate Machine was ga...

NASA translated digital data collected by space telescopes into lovely soundscapes that spark the imagination. A collaboration between visualization scientist Kimberly Arcand (CXC), astrophysicist Mat...

Venus flytraps have a pretty good short-term memory for a plant. An insect has to tickle its sensory hairs twice within around 30 seconds for the carnivorous plants to close its leaves around the bug....

In case you get lost on your way to Trump's Des Moines rally tonight, there will be a huge billboard pointing you in the right direction:We're doing our part to warn Iowans that @realdonaldtrump is in...

The good news for folks in Birmingham, England, is that the government is handing out coronavirus tests door-to-door. The bad news is the swabs are suspiciously moist.Volunteers and RAF personnel dist...

FBI agents reportedly found eight bags of undelivered mail when they raided a Pittsburgh mail carrier's home. And now it's reported that the man is an "apparent QAnon conspiracy theorist"."Special Age...

Thanks to the pandemic, I know lots of people who've been flirting with the idea of renting or buying camper vans or RVs to travel in rather than flying and staying in motels/hotels. In this charming ...

AP News has a collection of potential Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's more questionable legal decisions. While Barrett's opening statements before the Senate stressed her concern with "the l...

Okay so it's not a elegantly crafted used of Kyber crystals, and more of a hyper-focused propane torch. But still. At least you can customize blade colors with it! As Nerdist points out, it's more aki...

The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (the 31st!) episode lists just a few of the reasons why Donald Trump needs to be voted out of office, via Variety:Made it okay to shoot hibernating bearsPut ch...

The United Kingdom's Information Commissioner Office has completed its investigation into the 700 terabytes of data and 300,000 documents in collected from SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication ...

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...

Happy to report that the legendary Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (AND Queen of Halloween), is just as snarky as ever. Her new song, "Don't Cancel Halloween", expresses what we've all been thinking abou...

A goat in Telwara, Bihar, India was caught on camera walking a full 10 meters on his hind legs. AND SO IT BEGINS!According to the New York Post, who says the 24-second clip came from Triangle News, th...

Back in 2014, I went to see folk-punk troubadour Frank Turner in concert. I've seen him many times before and since then, and he always curates interesting opening acts. But at this particular perform...

Who needs Prime Day? Yeah…we said it.Even as Amazon floods the web with deal after deal as part of their 2-day monster uber-sale, you're probably sitting back, thinking, I bet there are other re...

Your animators were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they shouldThe new Animaniacs series premieres November 20, 2020 on Hulu....

If you ask most cable customers why they haven't cast cable out of their homes in favor of streaming, there's one answer that stands above the others. While there are the tech-phobic and oldsters who ...

A massive explosion occurred today on the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie in Poland where a Tallboy bomb used by Britain's Royal Air Force had been discovered. The bomb detonated while a t...

This is such a great idea. On the Tor books site, Linda Codega gives suggestions for readers who want to "play the plot" of fantasy novels. She pairs five novels with appropriate roleplaying rulesets....

RI senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, used his time today at the confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett to give a damning near-ten-minute presentation on how conservative "dark money" plays a crit...

You can get Kindle editionsThe Fredric Brown Megapack (2 Book Series)for $2, which includes 60 of his stories, many of which have great surprise endings. I bought it and I see many of my favorites her...

My friends Natalie Zee Drieu and Diana Eng just launched a new video series called Stem Chat. "Our first episode of STEM Chat talks about how kids learn through play. We showcase some projects we hav...

View post on imgur.comThere are a lot of YouTube videos that show how to make a monkey's fist, but this GIF is shorter and simpler, plus there's no maudlin soundtrack, which monkey's fist tiers on You...

Amy McGrath calling out Mitch McConnell over the coronavirus and him laughing like Dr. Evil. What a jerk… pic.twitter.com/px5SFQbKmi— Rex Chapman (@RexChapman) October 13, 2020Mitch McConn...

Beinart Gallery is hosting Ronit Baranga's solo exhibition "All Things Sweet and Painful" in Brunswick, Australia. This exhibition will run from Oct 17th – Nov 8th, 2020.All Things Sweet and Pai...

Two Stanford economists won the Nobel Prize for "improving how auctions work," according to Bloomberg on their YouTube site. But only one of them, Robert B. Wilson, heard about it from the Nobel Commi...

I bought this Nordicware 6 Skull cake pan and dessert just got a lot more punk.I grabbed two boxes of Duncan Hines cake mix gave this baby a whirl. It was super simple, just make sure you spray the pa...

10:46am PT: The iPhone 12 Pro. with a 6.1 and 6.7-inch displays. has better materials, comes in four colors, including a metallic "Pacific Blue." Can be submerged in 6 meters of water for 30 minutes. ...

It only takes six seconds for an aggressive bee to sneak up and attack an innocent bumblebee. YouTuber Mazzy had finally gotten a beautiful shot of the bumblebee when it was snatched from behind and c...

If any union needs a tough adjudicator, someone who knows how to power through tumultuous situations, they might start with Brianna Hill, a law student at Loyola University in Chicago who took her bar...

Who needs Prime Day? Yeah…we said it.Even as Amazon floods the web with deal after deal as part of their 2-day monster uber-sale, you're probably sitting back, thinking, I bet there are other re...

I've been skipping breakfast for the last six months or so. I've lost a lot of weight, but I've also been avoiding carbs so I don't really know why I lost weight.I just came across this study publishe...

As Joe Biden's national lead against Trump in national polls grows, even evangelicals are piling on. The non-profit evangelical group Vote Common Goodjust put up this billboard in Michigan cities Holl...

Steve Ditko (1927-2018) is best known for being the co-creator and artist of the Marvel Comics superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. He's less well-known for his Ayn Randian character, Mr. A, who...

These two curious and rare "gun cameras" bring a whole new meaning to the phrase "shoot a photo." Both are exceedingly rare artifacts and will be on the block at the 37th Annual Leitz Photographica Au...

The slow sorting of COVID cases in America as Democrat states take it seriously, and Republicans do not. pic.twitter.com/ztIIrtB1Sz— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) October 13, 2020This animated bar cha...

A loaf that resembles your own face seems like a wonderful idea for Halloween dinner. At MAKE:, Matt Merkel Hess explains how to do a plaster cast of your face and then use it to make a terra cotta ba...

I bumped into this isolated John and Paul vocals for "If I Fell," the gorgeous Lennon ballad from their 1964 record, A Hard Days Night. The beauty of it floored me. The essence of The Beatles lives in...

View this post on InstagramA post shared by Stooping NYC (@stoopingnyc) on Oct 10, 2020 at 3:00pm PDT Stooping NYC is similar to the Free postings on Craigslist but it's more fun because people tak...

In Violet magazine, writer Sasha Sagan, author of the must-read For Small Creatures Such As We, is interviewing a series of inspiring and diverse female scientists. First up is evolutionary biologist ...

In 2003, University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom presented a mathematical argument that we are likely living inside a computer simulation created by some future intelligence. Of course, decades ...

The silver-breasted montle is on the brink of extinction in this pitch-perfect parody of self-important nature shows. Narrated by Sir Adam Sandler.Image: YouTube / Kevin James...

In case you missed it, Jack White filled in on short 2-day notice on Saturday Night Live this weekend after scheduled musical guest, country artist Wallen Morgan, was given the boot for violating the ...

There's some amazing improvizational work here from organist (and sing-er-songwriter) Cory Henry, performing musical support to pastor E. Dewey Smith at the Apostolic Church of God's 2015 Bible Confer...

Google is giving police info that identifies users who have searched for terms the police specify, reports CNet's Alfred Ng. The practice is exposed in the case of an arsonist, collared after police a...

Beryl Markham managed to fit three extraordinary careers into one lifetime: She was a champion racehorse trainer, a pioneering bush pilot, and a best-selling author. In this week's episode of the Futi...

A.Z. Foreman's marvelous journey through thirteen centuries of spoken English is like slowly sobering up in Dorset....

Ever seen a black hole chow down on a star? Well, now you can. OK, it's a kind of crummy animated rendering, but the event is still cool and rare.Scientists have watched a rare blast of light from a s...

If you have to wear a mask (and you do), you might as well get ones that make a statement. Seeing how Halloween is coming up, this Bat Mask ($44) by spooky-stylish brand Mantrap should do the trick. A...

You could spend a grand or more for a 20-year-old widescreen 24" Sony Trinitron, still have to pay for adapters and shipping, and you'd still end up with a giant, heavy, clunky box on your desk. But i...

Wear A Mask: MTM Edition is a loving shot-for-shot remake of the opening credits of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but for the age of COVID-19.Who can turn the world on with her smile? Hard to say when th...

@oneshotquesters REPOST: Sound was taken down and other accounts started posting my video . #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #osq #bard #cthulhu #comedy original sound – One Shot Questers Tik-tok i...

From Business Insider:Investors should sell the dollar, as chances grow for a decisive win by Democrat Joe Biden at next month's election and as progress continues towards an effective ...

If you have ever used Source Filmmaker on Steam, you will appreciate how much time and skill it took CoreyLaddo to recreate "Once in a Lifetime" using the mysterious G-man character from Half-Life. It...

Thought this was interesting: In May, scientists studied the soundscapes and songs of the white-crowned sparrow, comparing it to data from May 2016. They discovered that these songbirds have changed t...

Famed comic writer/chaos magician/curmudgeon swore back in 2014 that he would not be doing any more interviews. But he made an exception in order to hype the release of his new film The Show, which pr...

The Codex Zouche-Nuttall is a 14th-century Mixtec illuminated manuscript created on 47 pieces of animal skin. It's one of the most important artifacts of indigenous Mesoamerican culture before th...

The Grateful Dead Movie is not just a great concert film of the band's 1974 gigs at Winterland in San Francisco. It's also a watershed moment for Deadhead culture, as it documents the burgeoning commu...

On its surface, DevOps seems like a simple idea. It's the place where product development syncs up with operations to hopefully coalesce into a finished piece of software that's been fully tested, vet...

U.S. drug maker Johnson & Johnson on Monday said its advanced clinical trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine has been paused because of an unexplained illness in one of the study volunteers." ...

A gentleman in India who worshipped Donald Trump like a god became so upset by the news that the impeached U.S. president contracted COVID-19, he went on an extended fast to pray for Trump's recovery....

"I went through it now. They say I'm immune. I feel so powerful. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women. I'll just give you a big fat kiss." Donald Trump, October 13, 2020Folks, I regret to inform...

More likely than not, your kids are going to be doing a lot of learning from home this school year. What better time to have your children learn some super simply and effective memory techniques to he...

Not that the world isn't upsetting enough right now, but we've got some more bad news. As we head through October, the sad truth is that in many places around the U.S., Halloween is effectively cancel...

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. This week...

Rose Anvil cut a Carthartt work boot down the middle to see what was inside. Even before cutting the boot open, he saw three red flags pointing to poor materials and construction. The interior reveale...

I used my grease splatter screen to fry meat and veggies. The food sizzles and pops, but the screen keeps my shirt, range, and countertop splatter-free....

In 2005, a Canadian person only identified as Nicole was one of 2.5 million tourists who each year visit the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed in 79 CE by a volcanic eruption. Rath...

Totally Under Control, a documentary about the U.S.'s deadly mishandling of the Trump Virus, opens tomorrow:On January 20th, 2020 the US and South Korea both discovered their first cases of COVID-19. ...

Modern technology should make our lives easier. And in many ways, it actually does. That's why it's all the more baffling these days when we face off against an institution or industry that should mov...

China's Tianwen 1 space probe on its way to Mars ejected a small camera to grab selfies of the spacecraft. See below. The video above, captured by the probe, shows the camera tumbling off into the voi...

This dog can smell a short-con a mile away....

If the "corrupt incompetent who postures as a strongman on Twitter" tries to steal the election, he will fail, writes New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat:He lacks popularity and political sk...

Trump supporter threatens to sue neighbors for having a Biden sign on their yard pic.twitter.com/7XmsxBd8M2— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) October 12, 2020This woman has little toleranc...

David Rush, veteran Guinness record breaker, sliced through 40 thrown apples while juggling, besting the previous record of 36. Rush's neighbor Jonathan "Hollywood" Hannon shares in the record for his...

Josiah Zayner is a scientist, biohacker, and artist, perhaps most well known for trying to gene-edit himself with CRISPR on stage and broadcasting his own live fecal transplant. True to his roots as a...

Gogoshima is a tiny island in southern Japan. Sherry Y went there during the pandemic to visit an abandoned school that's been turned into a cafe....

Zuckerberg, having given up on Trump, no longer needs to keep the far-right dog and pony show going on Facebook. Last week QAnon was banned, and now holocaust denial. Removing content that denies or d...

[This ran on Sunday in my weekly newsletter, The Magnet]I bought my first computer, an Apple ][e, in early 1985. I think the total price (including the monitor and external 5 " floppy disk drive) was ...

Spatial memory is the cognitive process for remembering and recalling the location of objects in relation to yourself and other objects. Turns out, our spatial memory also evolved to more easily remem...

Jack Devaney's fully-functional rabbit toaster [reddit] is from 2018, but is viral today because our taste for horror is now completely insatiable. (Previously.)'There is no worse way to start a day t...

Peter De Yager, a stalwart Republican and businessman in Iowa, wanted to make sure that no-one found out about him nicking someone's Joe Biden yard sign and paying a modest fine. So he embarked upon a...

It's my new favorite jam, Ningen Isu ("The Human Chair"), a Japanese doom/heavy metal band of three lifelong friends from Aomori, Japan. The band's character-costumes are influenced by Kiss (their so...

CBC News in Canada hid GPS trackers in immaculate-condition Amazon returns to see what happened to them. Welcome to the landfill.Many returns took a circuitous route, often covering several hundreds ...

I'd just like to show you the glorious design of the Kunbus Revolution Pi [kunbus.com], which it markets as the "industrial Raspberry Pi" alongside a variety of modular add-ons. It is clearly not inte...

Little Bird was a 2019 comic book miniseries written by filmmaker Darcy van Poelgeest, with stunning and surreal visual art by Ian Bertram. The basic setup of the story is familiar there's a dystopia...

Salehe Bembury, Versace's vice-president of men's footwear, was stopped and searched for "jaywalking" near the Italian fashion brand's branch in Beverly Hills. Footage of the encounter shows a cop che...

Yes, it's quite odd that Americans continue to celebrate Christopher Columbus Day, revering a conquistador who never even set foot on the mainland North American continent as "The man who discovered A...

The end of the year is a true holiday gauntlet for most Americans. We go right from Halloween into Thanksgiving into Christmas and Hanukkah. Now, we're not going to sit back and tee off on this genera...

The SARS-Cov-2 virus that causes Covid can survive up to 28 days on banknotes and other surfaces, reports a team of researchers in Australia. The lengthy stays were under dark lab conditions, and the ...

In this reprinted piece from Popular Mechanics, 2015, the late, great Eddie Van Halen talks about how he modified his early guitars and amps to help create the unique guitar sounds for which he became...

A Trump campaign ad includes a clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci saying "can't imagine that anybody could be doing more", giving the impression the president could not have done a better job. Fauci said this ...

LA artist Neil Mendoza's work is known for exploring both the playful and absurd. His latest, made for The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, is no exception. Truly a wonderful thing.Mechanical Masterpi...

Despite hypocrisy, coronavirus regulations, and the absence of several GOP Senators who have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the US Senate is moving ahead with the process to install Amy Coney Barrett o...

We've talked here on Boing Boing before about how inspirational the various "supermarionation" puppet TV shows of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were to generations of dreamers and future creative types gr...

The aftermath of a scarring incident is no time to realize you need to be taking home security more seriously. While 10.10 Shopping Day is the start of the holiday buying season, it isn't all about vi...

Sure, the 10.10 Shopping Day is intended to get you started buying for all your holiday gift-giving needs, but there's no reason it can't also include some much needed personal protection as well, rig...

These socks of nekkid ladies where the heel is the pregnant belly are so clever and cute! Available in a variety of skin tones and hair colors at Paris kitsch brand Coucou Suzette (15.00/pair).Amy Sed...

Around the big 10.10 Shopping Day festivities, you're going to see offers for all kinds of cool $200, $300, even $500 items that you'd love to own. Of course, you would. They're cool items. But t...

It's been six months since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. And we're just gonna put this out there…it might be time to change up your mask game.Look, we realize most of us aren't focused on ...

If you've never heard of Funko Popswell, you need to get out more. Over the past 10 years, Funko has swept into the world of collectibles and taken over the place, all thanks to their ultra-cute, ultr...

NBC News correspondent Kelly O' Donnell posted the waiver that attendees to Trump's forthcoming events have to agree to. It absolves Trump's campaign of responsibility if you get Covid at them, a like...

The dancing ability of roadside air dancers improves markedly when the footage is reversed. [via] Essential reference material follows....

Officers Addison Cox and Mike Rolerson were fired from the police department in Rockland, Maine, after "beating porcupines to death," reports The Courier Gazette.Another officer told the investigators...

Amazon just released the first trailer for its upcoming animated adaptation of the superhero comic book Invincible:From The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, and based on the Skybound/Image comic o...

About a decade ago, e-commerce giant Alibaba supercharged an entire day on the Chinese calendar. November 11 became known as Singles Day, a celebration of being single, back in the 90s, but when Aliba...

According to police reports described on Nola.com, a random person was walking past the Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River, Louisiana on the evening of September 30 when he not...

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, America's workforce has radically changed and likely, for good. Now, almost 40 percent of Americans, almost 59 million workers, are freelancers. And they ar...

Today is John Lennon's birthday (Oct 9, 1940). To celebrate, Lukas Wilson, his dad Willie, and Lukas' band, Promise of the Real, perform Lennon's 1981 track, "Watching the Wheels," from Double Fantasy...

It's hard not to crack a smile when you see a pillow marketed as an 8-in-1 technological marvel. It's…you know, a pillow.  Does it come with an LED reading light or a corkscrew attachment? ...

When I'm working on a new creative writing project be it a novel, or a play, or an album, or anything else I like to do my first drafts by hand in a notebook. Sure, my handwriting is utter shite, bu...

In 1992 the Rax fast-food franchise launched an advertising campaign featuring a creepy character by the name of Mr. Delicious (aka Mr. D). Imagine a repressed, perverted version of the Jack-in-the-Bo...

MSNBC's Hallie Jackson tried six times to get White House Deputy Press Secretary Brian Morgenstern to tell her when Trump last has a negative Covid-19 test, and every time Morgenstern wriggled out of ...

Blockchains are less buzzworthy than they were a couple of years ago, and for good reason — the price you pay for a blockchain's immutability compared to the price of a database plus human overs...

A Dublin-based biotech company developed a device that reduces the severity of tinnitus by applying an electrical current to the patient's tongue. Neuromod Devices' simulator includes a set of headpho...

A thread of medieval paintings of animals that look nothing like real animals because the artist had never seen them. Starting with – The Oyster pic.twitter.com/gzUIGs96AP— Daniel Holland ...

Old news, nonsensical news, and non-news - this weeks tabloids have it all....

As a 21st-century immigrant to the U.S., I had never heard of Rax, a fast-food chain (with similar offerings to Arbys) that had more than 500 restaurants in the 1980s. It has eight now. Even so, I cou...

Steve Steinberghacker, writer, father, and my dear frienddied yesterday. He was 50 years old. Several weeks ago, Steve had a terrible accident while riding the e-bike that he built himself. He suffere...

Lewis Carroll's famed nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There gets an appropriately bizarre animation courtesy of Sjaad Rood. Narrated by Jack Cutmore-Sc...

You might remember Sen. Kelly Loeffler among those who profited from early, non-public coronavirus briefings by ditching stock in companies likely to be harmed by the pandemic. After this weeks' vee...

Ariana Flute does terrific covers of popular songs, like her energetic version of the theme from The Simpsons. Below, she does the guitar solo from "...

After a lot of trial and error Ian Davis shows off his latest prosthesis. He has been learning a lot throughout the process. For instance, the index and pinkie finger joints fail more quickly because ...

Graphics processing company NVIDIA has announced a new product, Maxine, which is supposed to help with video calls. In addition to some general compression that should reduce bandwidth for everyone, t...

A large-sample poll from respected pollster Pew Research shows Joe Biden trouncing Donald Trump by more than 10 points. But this is a relatively slim lead compared to other recent polls, says the New ...

While the computer and everything it's brought to the world is truly miraculous, there's no getting around the fact that technological advancement has played all kinds of havoc with the human body. Wh...

Posting on Reddit, vinylemulator reports that their 5 year-old son will listen only to Kraftwerk, and that listening to Kraftwerk is now absolutely mandatory at all times."I thought it would be fun on...

Only 41 percent of Americans keep a budget. I guess we can assume that means the remaining 59 percent are just sorta winging it each month when it comes to expenses. While that method undoubtedly work...

Only in California: Pabst Blue Ribbon Original Cannabis-Infused Seltzer. Fortunately, it is free of alcohol, which is reported to have psychoactive effects. From NPR:The new seltzer is non-alcoholic, ...

It was the fly that captured the hearts of a nation. And sent tittering meme engines into overdrive.It only took seconds into a fly landing on the snow white helmet that VP Mike Pence calls his hair f...

I bought this foldable step stool in January and we use it a few times a week to get out of reach stuff in the kitchen. It's 11 inches high, and is only 1.5 inches thick when folded up. It has replace...

REGENERON! pic.twitter.com/x3PZt0onIr— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 8, 2020Saddled with a half-billion dollars in personal debt, hamburger pitchman and pro-wrestling impresario ...

Gamers are always looking for something new. And while everybody gets excited about the massive new triple-A blockbuster releases, new doesn't always have to mean the consensus game of the moment at t...

The hypocrisy knows no bounds, but this is what we expect from Trump.Technology Review:This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as "miracles comin...

A Guy Called Gerald teaches you how to create music using the free web-based 808303studio software synth.808303.studio is a new online music creation platform created by Yuri Suzuki and Roland, which ...

Art-prank collective MSCHF made giant paintings of three individuals' huge medical bills and then sold the paintings to pay those bills. New York City gallery Otis bought the 6' tall artworks and are ...

Cindy J. Aaronson explains what panic attacks are, how they are triggered, and how to treat them....

Julie Nolke says, "What would happen if I tried to explain what's happening now to the June 2020 version of myself?"Part 1 here: Part 2 here: ...

On Sunday in Fargo, North Dakota, Roxane Salonen was playing tennis at a public park with her teenage son when she noticed a group of four figures approaching the court. As they came closer, Salonen r...

Great job on making this biopic look like it was shot in the 1930s.1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldma...

President Oompa Loompa thought he'd shut down Lincoln Project operative Steve Schmidt with one of his trademark insult tweets, but Schmidt's incendiary response obliterated Trump's steroid-enhanced gr...

A new study published in Personality and Individual Differences found that while right-wing authoritarians have a hearty sense of humor for jokes that make fun of low-status and marginalized people, t...

Huntington Beach (aka Surf City) has been a hub of skateboard culture for almost 50 years. In the classic "Downhill Motion" documentary from 1975, watch pioneers like Stacy Peralta and Tony Alva of th...

Since the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine was founded in 1812, it has never endorsed a US presidential candidate. They didn't pick a candidate this election cycle either, but an essay by 3...

Queen's Freddie Mercury the Marionette performs at Plaza Oriental, Madrid. The puppet was created by the talented artisans of Titeresy Marionetas....

If you're sitting in the backyard on a calm evening, a solar-powered light that flickers to life as the sun starts to set is helpful and convenient. But when you're outdoors camping or in the middle o...

If I lived anywhere near Brooklyn, I'd be ordering takeout from Vinnie's Pizzeria all the time. I just want their delivery person to look me right in the eyes and lie to my face for a dollar: "EVERYTH...

Newly minted septuagenarian Bill Murray shares life advice, photos from his socially distanced birthday bash, and a couple of oddball trinkets from his home on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Murray stars in the ...

What does The Verge make of the PocketBook Color, the first readily-available color e-ink reader? It's "the best screen yet," writes Sam Byford, but a bit too small and not so good for black and white...

Following Donald Trump's Covid diagnosis, the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has announced that his second face-off with Joe Biden would be virtual. Trump, however, says that he won't ...

It's funny 'cause it's true. It's also just sad 'cause it's true.A source inside the Trump administration leaked a recording of POTUS meeting with White House officials and GOP members upon his scape ...

Married actors Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin have made the best Get Out the Vote ad of the campaign season, "Doom and Gloom." Watch until the end. It's humorous, honest, and might just inspire you ...

I've been doing research on antique tool and toy restoration videos. In my travels, I ran across a rather strange genre of restoration video: sneakers. On these channels, old beat-up, high-end sneaker...

NBC News reports that the medical professionals to attended to Donald Trump on his mystery 2019 trip to Walter Reed hospital were given nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) before they treated him. Two doc...

The New York Times reports:On Monday night, the state's health department confirmed that "S.N.L." had followed its reopening guidelines by "casting" members of the live audience for its season pr...

EarlyVoting.com is a website with a simple, no-nonsense purpose: it tells you if you can vote early in your state, tells you how to get it done (including links to state voter registration sites), and...

In late September 2020, Premier and Minister of Finance of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Andrew A. Fahie announced plans to establish a "publicly accessible register of beneficial ownership for com...

For $50, you can put a scary clown local, underemployed performer to work by sending a "Screaming Telegram" to the 18+ friend or foe of your choice. The service, provided by San Francisco-based Into t...

From the Los Angeles Times:President Donald Trump's embattled star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been damaged again this time by an angry green Avenger.The sidewalk star was defaced with a pickax...

From CNN:The Smithsonian's National Zoo revealed the cub's gender to zookeepers and fans alike with a color-coordinated painting made by the cub's father, a giant panda named Tian Tian.As if it wasn't...

With temperatures cooling and the winter months not too far off, it's time to think about what's next now that the grill has been stowed away until spring. With all its ooey, gooey, drippy goodne...

Generally calm and conventional, this evening's veep debate was also civil and substantive, as far as the well-rehearsed talking points and the candidates' abbreviated bickering allowed. Plexiglass ba...

Julian Domanski, the creative director of Ryu Tokyo emailed me and said, "After seeing yourrecent articleabout the Scramble Crossing Studio in Ashikaga, I thought your audience might be interesting in...

A few weeks ago, we told you about what is undoubtedly the coolest giveaway in Boing Boing Store history a $40,000 Tesla Model 3. And all you have to do is fill out an entry form.Needless to say a $4...

You've likely heard adults of a certain age nostalgically talking about rushing home every day from school in the 1960s/70s to watch Dark Shadows. I was one of them. If the timing was perfect, I could...

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...

I bought this adjustable thickness rolling pin for my mother a few years ago and she told me it is excellent. I bought one for our home, too. It's a long wooden rolling pin with removable discs of dif...

Star Wars Squadrons, the latest Star Wars space combat flight simulator is here and almost everything I have ever wanted in a video game or a career.Months ago, early in the pandemic, one of my BFFs c...

From Wikipedia: "Umarell… is a folk term inBolognareferring specifically to men of retirement age who pass the time watching construction sites, especially roadworks stereotypically with hands ...

Roadside emergencies aren't just an inconvenience. Many times, they can also be scary or even downright dangerous. And chances are, you are absolutely not ready for one.It turns out that about two-thi...

These political ads from the anti-corruption organization RepresentUs aren't meant to fool anyone into thinking they actually feature Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin, but they look pretty good....

In 1963 Goodyear presented tires made from urethane, the same material used to make skateboard wheels. According to History Garage, the tires were also illuminated with "18 tiny bulbs the driver could...

Always glad when this pops up in my rotation.Wilson Pickett too....

After being diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013, Nashville singer/songwriter Andrew Leahey was prescribed dexamethasone, the steroid that Trump received as part of his treatment for COVID-19. Accordi...

View this post on Instagram This happened on my flight earlier today. Allegiant flight from Mesa-Phoenix to Provo, UT. I will be posting the story and what happened next! A post sha...

Facebook has announced a complete ban on QAnon groups and accounts on its platform, a "significant escalation" after weeks of foot-dragging on the subject.In a statement released on Tuesday, Facebook ...

Grinnell and Annie are peregrine falcons that live atop a 300-foot clock tower on the UC Berkeley campus. "It's serendipity that cities mimic what peregrines need and are looking for in a habitat," sa...

In which Werner Herzog gives the an incredible answer when asked how many languages he speaks pic.twitter.com/BOdUwiImi8— Samas It Ever Was (@shockproofbeats) October 7, 2020Interviewer: "How ma...

By his own admission, Nashville merchandise designer Justin Bryant loves scary movies. So, with this six-poster series, he's imagined innocent kids' board games like Hungry Hippos, Cooties, and Mouse ...

Even if you hate the outcome, you have to appreciate the work that goes into There I Ruined It's mashup videos. Here we have Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" reimagined as a disco tune. It ain't ri...

According to Daily Beast, this ad ran online from Sept. 29 and 30, warning that a Biden presidency might mean that cancel culture will come down on the poor, innocent conspiracy theorists. It's like t...

I have not watched late night talkshow tv since Letterman on NBC, but sometimes we get gems. ...

Karting driver Luca Corberi, 23, crashed his kart at a race in Lonato, Italy, on Sunday. Rather than head back to the stands and put his feet up for the rest of the event, he grabbed his vehicle's det...

A former accounting associate at Austin Public Library allegedly stole $1.3 million in printer toner from work and set up a business selling it from his garage. He also allegedly used a library credit...

Yesterday, Oxford University mathematician Roger Penrose was awarded a Nobel Prize for proving that black holes could exist. In the December 16, 2018 episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, Penrose riffe...

Unfortunately there's no well in the cellar, but this Princess Anne Victorian in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania is an idyllic place for it to rub the lotion on its skin. The house where Jame Gumb, aka Buff...

According to an article on Brittle Paper written by Mkoma wa Ngg and Carole Boyce Davies both professors at Cornell University 75 percent of the the university faculty voted this week in favor of ch...

Oh my god. @joejohnscnn telling a raccoon to get lost is giving me life. pic.twitter.com/Pa8GsUD4sZ— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) October 7, 2020On Twitter, CNN's Donie O'Sullivan posted this...

There's a joke in here somewhere. Stuffing a ballot box? Oh wait, no, never mind. This is a mail-in ballot. I got nothing. Besides, that's just crude. Instead, let this "sexy" costume remind you to vo...

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on CRISPR, a method for editing genes.They discovered one of gene technology's sharpest tools: the CRISPR/...

The New York Times reports:New York City police officials instructed all officers to wear masks in public or risk discipline, as the department faces mounting criticism over officers' failure to compl...

Example #69 of why the Internet of Shit is a bad idea: Penetration testers found that the Cellmate brand chastity cage can be remotely hacked and permanently locked onto the wearer, requiring a potent...

Sometimes a B-side becomes an unexpected hit that surpasses the A-side. Here are some classic examples. B-sides were typically considered throwaways, but the bigger question is: would they have become...

Spin Magazine reports that original This Is Spinal Tap writers and cast members Christopher Guest, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean will reunite for a special online fundraiser for the De...

Exactly as the headline promises: Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King set to a 6/8 beat. Jasperiscool uploaded it to YouTube: "I do compose for orchestra. This is not one of those pieces. ...

Entertainment is getting reassessed in terms of copaganda, or how uncritically shows portray policing, as part of 2020's racial reckoning over police brutality and misconduct. YouTuber Skip Intro has ...

The late guitar god Eddie Van Halen was a man of many talents, most of which involved rock n' roll. In addition to all of his great finger-tapping guitar solos, Eddie also filed a patent in 1985 for a...

The new Supreme Court term the first without Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg began on Monday, October 5. And one of the first things they did was refuse to hear an appeal from the infamously homophobic ...

Donald Trump is tweeting and retweeting dozens of weird tweets tonight, 42 or more by my count in less than two hours, and dozens more throughout the day. Yes, Dexamethasone's Midnight Tweeters are at...

Stephen Miller is among the latest high-profile Republicans and Trump White House staff to test positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. It's hard to keep track of the White House outbreak, ...

If you've ever repainted your door, sanded out gouges in wood, fixed a screen or spent time trying to repair the damage your insistent dog inflicted while trying to get your attention and get back in ...

Singer-songwriter Johnny Nash, best remembered for his 1972 million-selling hit "I Can See Clearly Now," has died, his son says. The actor and producer was 80. Nash died of natural causes at home in h...

I've been using Adobe Illustrator to create art for close to 30 years. (Here are some early examples of my Illustrator work.) Here's an upcoming feature called Recolor Artwork that looks really cool! ...

The great Eddie Van Halen died today at age 65. From the NY Times:Mr. Van Halen's son, Wolfgang, said in a statement that his father had "lost his long and arduous battle with cancer."Mr. Va...

Over the past decade, VPN providers have become one of the primary means of online protection, shrouding a user's IP address and all their information to make them virtually invisible to cybercriminal...

My daughters have been using Sakura pens and I ended up getting a set for myself. I bought the 8-piece set that includes a brush pen (so you can vary the line width) and a graphic pen (for thick lines...

Professional skeptic James Randi demonstrates his new powder (called tal-kom) that demagnetizes a magnetic man....

This malfunctioning dental school robot is quite possibly one of the scariest things I've ever seen. pic.twitter.com/dLh9Wx3yds— Daniel Holland (@DannyDutch) October 6, 2020Nightmare fuel....

Maci Currin, 17, of Cedar Park, Texas, has been certified by Guinness World Records as having the longest legs on a woman and the longest legs on a teenager. One leg measures 135.267 cm (53.255 in) an...

Our favorite rogue archivist Carl Malamud says:I'm writing to you today with good news! We've transformed the Official Code of Georgia Annotated into beautiful HTML and put it on a github repo. Some o...

UK editor Matthew Highton finds stock footage to recreate the openings of TV shows and it's my new favorite thing (it literally made me laugh out loud). Take a moment to watch the Happy Day...

Leo Moracchioli is the hero I need right now....

The Hustle interviewed over 20 vending machine operators to learn about the ins and outs of the business. On average, one vending machine brings in $309. but don't forget the operating costs:General l...

I pay more attention to the movies. ...

An Austin Public Library employee is accused of using a library credit card to fraudulently buy at least 1.5 million dollars worth of printer toner and selling it online, reports KENS 5:The investigat...

Boing Boing welcomes Whois xml api as a sponsor.Are your emails reaching their intended audiences? If not, you may only be wasting money with your email marketing efforts. Tools such as emailverificat...

One of my favorite newsletters is "why is this interesting?" On Mondays, the newsletter interviews an interesting person about the media they consume. This week's guest is Roman Mars, host and produce...

Electra is a very good dog.https://www.instagram.com/p/CGAdCQAHJVX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link...

US shark researchers tagged the largest great white shark they've ever encountered in the northwest Atlantic. The shark, named Nukumi after the Mi'kmaq word for "grandmother," is more than 16 feet lon...

"Psyllids are more than plant-sucking, disease-spreading insects." How's that for a glowing testimonial?In his video by Dr. Adrian Smith of the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab at the ...

A flood barrier system in Venice, Italy has proven successful in keeping high tide water out of the streets. The system has been 17 years in the making at a cost of $7B+. CNN:Saturday was the first ac...

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...

The person who runs the Maker's Muse YouTube channel lives in Australia and he has befriended a wild sulfur-crested cockatoo who comes over for a snack of sunflower seeds. In this video, Maker's Muse ...

As progress continues on the hardware behind bionic prosthetics, the need for robust and safe control systems increases. The challenge is that the researchers working on these systems often are limite...

explain this then pic.twitter.com/sXAUbPX6zf— hypocrite (@outtomykonos) October 6, 2020What a fun way to start the day. Kellyanne's 15-year-old daughter gives us a sneak peek at home life in the...

UK lexicographer and etymologist Susie Dent, known for her regular appearances on the Channel 4 game show Countdown, has a new book just out, titled Word Perfect. Unfortunately, Dent, the Honorary Vic...

The White House Gift Shopwhich is not associated with the actual White House or the US federal governmentis accepting pre-orders for their "Trump Defeats COVID" commemorative coin. This is the same ou...

The financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic hit many industries hard. But after some setbacks over the early summer months, businesses are starting to bounce back and resume hiring for key roles, in...

Jonathan Price (left) tried to separate a fighting couple outside a gas station in Wolfe City, Texas on Saturday. Local cop Sean David Lucas (right) arrived on the scene and executed him on the spot. ...

Footage from a communications tower near Detroit, Oregon, shows the Beachie Creek fire up-close and up-high. It takes two minutes for the fire to close in and about 15 seconds for the camera housing t...

A friend of mine in New Zealand recently posted a photo from his trip to the fine town of Hamilton. In 2006, the Waikato Museum of Art and History unveiled a bronze statue dedicated to Richard O'Brien...

World Science Festival held a 90-minute panel titled Revealing the Mind: The Promise of Psychedelics. It's a great survey of where things stand in research after nearly half a century of prohibition. ...

By 1914 Frank Lloyd Wright had become one of America's most influential architects. But that August a violent tragedy unfolded at his Midwestern residence and studio. In this week's episode of the Fut...

John McAfee, the one-time antivirus mogul now as famous for shenanigans abroad, was arrested and charged with tax evasion [via BBS].Prosecutors say he failed to file tax returns for four years, despit...

Twitter user @rubydrummr decide to undertake a perilous journey this summer, travelling 69 miles a day for 36 days in order to reach PeePee Creek in Washington state from PooPoo Point in Ohio.Mental F...

Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie was to be released this Christmas in theaters, but will now be delayed until October 2021. They spent too much money on it to risk a TV release and the pandemic is likely...

What would Lemmy have done? Wear a mask in a pandemic, we'd hope. Over at the official Motrhead shop, they're selling a three pack of cotton Lemmy-inspired face masks ($20). Get'em while they're hot.C...

Trump returned to the White House late monday after treatment at Water Reed hospital for Covid, but his effort to project strength didn't quite go as planned. After whipping off his facemask on the ba...

"toni_with_an_i" is a lovely little film is about finding community online, even when online haters try to troll and shame.Thirteen-year-old Toni is an oddball having a tough time at her school. In th...

Ray Wells, Jr. seems to defy gravity as he clears five hurdles, the last of which is 155 cm. That is a lot of fast-twitch muscle fiber, and about three times the average vertical leap of someone his a...

With plans to be fully circular by 2030, IKEA has opened its first secondhand store in Sweden. It will sell refurbished furniture and home goods. The Local Sweden: The store will open in the world's f...

@mickfleetwood @420doggface208 had it right. Dreams and Cranberry just hits different. #Dreams #CranberryDreams #FleetwoodMac Dreams (2004 Remaster) – Fleetwood Mac Last week, "st...

When you search for "Palantir" on Google, the search engine prompts with a few people related search options. The Top 2 being: "What does Palantir do?" and "Why is Palantir evil?" And I think that pre...

Via Spartan Records, "The debut album from Reader 'Engrams' comes out everywhere on August 16th. Pre-order the album on the super limited zoetropic picture disc. Only 100 copies are being made and all...

Say what you will about its origins or its content, but there's an inescapable fact about TikTok: it has become a social media success of galactic proportions.In just three short years, it's amassed 8...

An old favorite. The scary bear never gets less scary. ...

A little bit of living history from Ramona Fradon, 94 years old and still killing it. pic.twitter.com/hYeXWjiA0L— Rob Wieland Is Red 5 Standing By (He/Him) (@robowieland) October 4, 2020Silver a...

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet (subscribe here!) I took a closer look at my grandmother's 1960s Soviet tear-off calendars. They are loaded with great line illustrations!...

Maybe it's just me, but I found this 41-minute video (and the two 30-minute videos below) to be absolutely mesmerizing. German model-maker, Jana Hoffmann, builds an old Rt. 66 gas station, post-apocal...

Citing anonymous inside sources, Vanity Fair's Gabriel Shermans says Trump's offspring are upset about his bizarre all-caps tweetstorm from earlier this morning. But they disagree on the wisdom of his...

The AmazonBasics Metal Monitor Stand was just what I needed to give my monitor a 4.25 inch boost. My laptop fits under the monitor, too, freeing up desk space....

Please read Mr. Homegrown's delightful rant in its entirety. Here's an excerpt:Here's the other big secret: since all cars are the same so you might as well own a crappy beater. Allow me to break down...

Whimsical Crank of r/ObscureMedia says: "Allow me to share one of the WORST cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation, by none other than Columbia's Screen Gems: Mass Mouse Meeting (1943)"From YouTu...

The House voted on a bill Friday "Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes." It passed overwhelmingly, 371 to 18. The 18 members voting not to condemn QAnon included the usua...

Gay men have taken over the #proudboys hashtag on Twitter. Pure genius. From CNN:Matt Dechaine, one of the men who pitched in with photos of himself and his husband in efforts to overtake the hashtag,...

In this video, ETA Prime shows you how to set up a Raspberry Pi with the ApplePiOS BigSur Edition....

Nature photographer Peter Maier captured this magnificent time-lapse video of a downburst over LakeMillstatt in Carinthia, Austria. Maier called it a "Tsunami from Heaven."(Posted by Tamsin_Bailey in ...

The long-running police reality TV show COPS was supposedly cancelled in June after the murder of George Floyd and subsequent protests. But production resumed weeks later, reports WGHP TV, and more ep...

This solid-looking, bulky, 2 lb lock looks impressive, "but the truth is a child could probably be taught to open this in just a few minutes," says the LockPickingLawyer....

Seattle's iconic Roq La Rue art gallery is holding a Halloween Online Costume Contest. Get freaky! There are cash prizes and the esteemed panel of judges include artists artistsMark Ryden and Marion P...

Kim Davis, the county clerk who was briefly jailed for contempt of court and ultimately lost her job for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples, will not get her case heard in the lan...

These have probably been deemed too dangerous for kids, but back in the day a sparking wheel was all the entertainment we needed. The sound and the feel were just as delightful as the colorful sparks ...

A sticker on this appliance boasts that it is the "QUIETEST DISHWASHER" in the Frigidaire gallery.Barely a whisper....

Last week, Rafael Prez Evans, an MFA candidate at London's esteemed Goldsmiths University, hired a truck to dump 32 tons of carrots outside the school. Some people thought it was a prank but apparentl...

On Friday, Pesco introduced you to the weird, 300m-deep chasm with a runway at the bottom found in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020, deemed even more disturbing than the creepy mystery skyscraper looming ove...

Batman Forever holds a special place in my heart, both because of and despite its 90s neon camp. The soundtrack introduced me to Sunny Day Real Estate, the Flaming Lips, PJ Harvey, and other great art...

"Missed Connections: 'Was that your limb? – w4m'" is a wonderful animated short by Patrick Dias with narration taken from a purportedly real Craigslist Missed Connections posting but recontextua...

Unlike many shows, the classic sitcom Sanford & Son only had one version of Fred Sanford's vintage 1952 Ford F-1 Pickup. Jordan takes viewers on a detailed tour, including all the places where the...

The UK government reportedly lost some 16,000 covid cases beause the Excel spreadsheet it's been using for track 'n' trace ran out of space. Public Health England said 15,841 cases between 25 Septembe...

Now more than ever…gamers gotta game. If you thought your days dropping quarters into Donkey Kong in an arcade for logging hour after hour of Super Mario 64 on the P2 were the golden ages of vid...

The Wall Street Journal reports (via MentalFloss) that UFO sightings are up 51 percent in 2020, compared to the same time period in 2019. This is particularly disconcerting, because you should all be ...

According to a blogpost from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "Schadenfreude" was the most popular word look-up on October 2, following the news that both President Trump and the First Lady had been di...

I discovered this on Twitter via Soviet Cartoons Out Of Context. I don't actually know what's happening but I assume it's a critique of capitalism?Here's what I learned by running this Hungarian Film ...

Chuck Tingle is a national treasure. In addition to being one of the most unrelentingly wholesome and positive online personalities, Mr. Tingle is also the Hugo Award-nominated author of such fine wor...

The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump flooded the zone Monday morning, posting a stream of ALLCAPS ragetweets for the ages. While they will not endear him to anyone but his own supporters, they do sugg...

A key poll shows Joe Biden sharply increasing his lead after last week's debate with Donald Trump. In the Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, taken after the showdown but before Trump's Covid diagnosis and ...

Security researcher Troy Hunt reports on a security flaw that let attackers change the email address of Grindr accounts. All you had to do was know the account's current email address and trigger a pa...

This fun animated short by Jalil Sadool and Adam Meyer was created as a pitch piece for a series. Follow Kent and C-LA as they search for food flavorings thought lost to time:A century ago, Earth was...

It's easy to feel as if things are hopeless right now, but "Rising" reminds us of the connections we all share, as well as the power of taking difficult but necessary steps to change things. Via the d...

MIchigan-based retoucher Mike Campau has done a third version in his series of dynamic images:I wanted to revisit my original "Motion in Air" series and give it a modern twist with vibrant pastels and...

For athletes, weekend warriors or just those who end up putting a noticeable physical toll on their body each day, heat is a reliable friend. You use ice to help any injuries or sharp pain of course, ...

For plenty of Americans, gardening isn't even really an option. Sure, they might enjoy the thought of growing vegetables or harvesting food from the ground. But…umm…where ya gonna do that?...

For the past few months, Sam of Look Mum No Computer, has been building a "megadrone," a super-synth made up of a thousand simple oscillator circuits. In this video, he tunes the thousand oscillators ...

Pygmalion Karatzas shared his "Unearthed" series of images showing construction of Metro tunnels in Athens and Thessaloniki. Via the photographer:Commissioned by Attiko Metro and the Hellenic Ministry...

Two photos released by the White House were said to show him working at Walter Reed hospital, where he went after being diagnosed with Covid. It was soon noted, however, that a) he was merely writing ...

Dutch photographer Robert Peek has a new series of flower photos where they are are submerged in milky liquids of varying consistency. The result, as shown with the Kniphofia above, is something vague...

While masks are an ever-present feature today, the most-needed masks medical-grade N95 masks remain in shockingly and horrifyingly short supply from Washington D.C. to Chicago to St. Cloud, Minn., si...

For Infrared Valley, Paolo Pettigiani added Kolarivision's infrared Chrome filter to his Mavic with remarkable effect:For this projects I used digital Infrared photography. This technique enables...

If you swirl a narrow-necked container to get the liquid inside moving in a vortex, the liquid will pour out much faster. The vortex allows air to flow in as liquid flows out, avoiding that inefficien...

When you look at which website builder service is powering the most websites around the world, the answer is Wix. And the worldwide web-building leader isn't just the engine running almost 4 million w...

It's almost better without the instruments and background singers.Original:...

We don't work at the office anymore. But someday, we might again. Or maybe we won't. Maybe we'll be working from cafes or buses or literally anywhere and everywhere we might travel. In that case, the ...

I would have gone with quadruped Snoopy myself, but that's just me.From The Snoopy Plate:Snoopy is a proud Californian (from Santa Rosa to be precise) and he embodies the kind of life-long learning th...

You probably think you're pretty clever. You've been rocking the same Gmail account login since your freshman year of college and it's still just as safe as the day you created the password.Hey, if "...

Gift cards have become the tired cliche of gift-giving. They're what you get someone for their birthday or the holidays when you can't think of anything else. Your recipient smiles and is genuinely pl...

One of the most powerful (read: possibly the only worthwhile) moments in the first Presidential Debate was Joe Biden's response to Donald Trump's efforts to smear his son, Hunter. After a few flailing...

The Brick Experiment Channel put a couple of LEGO motors through their paces to create various sized vortices in a clear bucket. When he supplements the contraption with a DC power supply, things get ...

Oh my goodness, baby hummingbirds are so incredibly small and darling. I had no idea. EverythingBirds.com:How small is a baby hummingbird?…Their eggs are only about the size of a coffee bean, wh...

When your dad used to grumble about how often the heater was running every winter, he'd probably say something about how he felt like he was paying to heat the whole neighborhood. He wasn't. But with ...

Donald Trump, a day after announcing his Covid-19 diagnosis, is being taken to Walter Reed hospital suffering from symptoms of the disease. He was flown there on Marine One, generating spectacular liv...

Donald Trump, a day after announcing his Covid-19 diagnosis, is being taken to Walter Reed hospital suffering from symptoms of the disease. Marine One is on the lawn, generating spectacular live foota...

Back in my day, if the bait shop wasn't an option, you could always get some fishing worms by going grunting with a notched stick. The pros take it to the next level:The Cadillac of prefab worm grunti...

The next time you order up your vanilla latte at your favorite coffee house, consider this the world manufactures half a trillion disposable cups every year. That's over 70 disposable cups for every ...

Caitlin Doughty is a mortician and the author of the New York Times bestseller Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death. And it's from that very book that The Atlantic...

Grand jury testimony in the Breonna Taylor case was released today, following an extraordinary request from a juror who said the prosecutor misled the public about why none of the officers who killed ...

It was 37 years ago on August 25, 2020 when an underage teenager named Kyle Rittenhouse showed up at a protest with a rifle and killed some people. His legal case is still ongoing; and certainly, ther...

My friends in the music industry have produced another fantastic compilation of previously unreleased recordings by the likes of Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sturgill Simpson, Ar...

On April 11, 1969, the BBC aired "The Violent Universe," a science documentary starring the great Carl Sagan, then 34 years old. This was three months before the first moon landing and 11 years before...

I like these stainless steel tongs because you can lock them closed by pulling on a small metal tab. That makes them easy to store and put in a dishwasher....

The White House is claiming that Trump's Covid-19 symptoms are "mild," and that could be true, but then it's curious that Vice President Pence has already stepped in to take over Trump's one scheduled...

How would a Joe Biden win impact climate change, space exploration, COVID-19, scientific research priorities, and international research collaborations? For the prestigious journal Nature's news site,...

From Futility Closet:In January 1943, a brick "hive" was built around Michelangelo'sDavidto protect it from incendiary bombs.Two and a half years later, preservationist Deane Keller wrote to his wife,...

Legendary mashup pioneers The Hood Internet delivers the 1980s (actually 1979-1989). From their Soundcloud:We took fifty songs from each calendar year and distilled them into something new, then alter...

This Mercedes 6×6 truck was customized by a company in Brazil and renamed mamute (mammoth in Portuguese).From Core77:Spotted over atThe Drive: This Mercedes-Benz LG-1519 six-wheeler, modified by ...

This arborist goes for quite a ride after trimming the top of a palm tree reportedly in San Bernardino, California. (via Yahoo! News)As you can see in the older video below, palm tree trimmers are app...

I have a Capresso burr coffee grinder. It's still going strong after about 15 years. It costs just shy of $100 and it's infinitely better than a blade "grinder" (Which slices coffee beans, rather than...

In August, Microsoft released its new Flight Simulator 2020 that uses satellite and fly-by imager to amp up the hyperreality of the experience. Now, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 players are reporti...

Housecats are able to observe human behavior and mimic it, according to researchers at Etvs Lornd University's Department of Ethology in Budapest. Previously, only orcas, apes, elephants, dolphins, an...

I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that the karts in Mario Kart Live are so big, as revealed in this unboxing video.The Kart is equipped with a video camera for augmented reality play on...

My friend and former colleague James Gaines is an absolutely brilliant science writer.He also once tried to explain the science behind chili peppers while eating a chili pepper, which was maybe not so...

YouTubers Julie Nolke** and Ryan George collaborated on two videos (one on her channel, one on his) to point out the absurdities of getting hitched, and, subsequently, unhitched.**You'll remember her ...

Wade Rogers shares footage of a controlled avalanche event taken from a helicopter. It's amazing to see how an avalanche flows like liquid water. Via Wade:After a heavy snowfall in Juneau, Alaska, the...

View post on imgur.comRedditor insanezane777 complained that someone decided to set fire to the toilet paper at the grocery store. "Honestly, with all that's going on in the world, it was genuinely o...

Earlier today, we learned that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have coronavirus. Now: The chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, has also tested positive for t...

One of the true allures of camping is sleeping outside under a star-filled sky and letting the inky blackness of the infinite void lull you to slumber in all its dreamy infiniteness.That's a much toug...

It is perhaps unfair to conservatives to describe Jacob Wohl as a conservative operative, but certainly unfair to operatives. The comically bungling pro-Trump ratfucker has already gotten into some tr...

Which is the best 18v impact driver? I already bought the Milwaukee one [Amazon, tool-only] because I have Milwaukee batteries and am shackled to the vendor, but Todd from Project Farm (previously at ...

Ben, of the YouTube channel Questing Beast, is a very talented fantasy mapmaker and dungeon designer. In this video, he runs through nine principles he applies to dungeon design. These principles incl...

After a late night tweet teased it, the news is now widely confirmed. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus. Vice President Mike Pence tested negati...

Very nice, Sacha Baron Cohen is back with a second Borat film. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, not surprisingly, looks like a doozy!To be more specific, this is the Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of...

Engineering at Home was created by Sara Hendren and Caitrin Lynch at Olin College of Engineering, and features tons of DIY accessibility projects that offer engineering soluti...

At least three different clips exist of Big Bird pulling side wheelies in a tiny electric vehicle, each ganked by numerous YouTubers. I don't know what's up, but I do know that it's friday....

A Utah couple orders so much pizza that they request delivery from Derlin Newey by name. After posting clips of the friendly 89-year-old on TikTok, their followers raised a $12,000 tip for the affable...

William Osman put real bones in a hand moulded from ballistic gel, then demonstrated what happens when said hand goes into a garbage disposal. Spoiler alert: nothing good.The banana demonstration up f...

Veritasium takes a deep dive into Kepler and Penrose to examine the infinite pattern that never repeats. The overlay at about 9 minutes in is especially cool.His videos are always good, but this is on...

President Donald Trump and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. From CNN:"Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately...

Shortly before 1am EDT, President Donald Trump tweeted that he and Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. "Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19," Trump tweeted. "We will begin...

Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Bruce LeeLearning definitely has its own rewards, but using that learning to better one's self takes education to a whole new p...

Earlier this week, we reported that a "Suspected ransomware attack" took down the Universal Health Services hospital network, and that doctors and nurses were using paper records because the entire co...

Hope Hicks, a counselor and senior adviser to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for COVID-19.A news scoop by Bloomberg News' Jennifer Jacobs: "No indication Trump has contracted coronvirus,...

House Democrats passed a revised $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief package late on Thursday. The vote was 214-207.All Republicans voted NO. At least 17 Democrats defected and also voted no.The $2.2 tr...

The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday authorized subpoenas for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Twitter's Jack Dorsey.Sen. Roger Wicker [R-MS], who heads the committee, t...

Early this morning, a majestic meteor flashed brightly across the Pennsylvania and Ohio sky with over 700 sightings reported from 15 states. From KDKA-TV:[Cleveland State University astronomer Jay] Re...

Amazon revealed Thursday that almost 20,000 of its workers in the U.S. have tested positive or are presumed to have the coronavirus that causes COVID-19."We hope other large companies will also releas...

Please enjoy "Bambi Meets Godzilla" (1969) by American-Canadian filmmaker Marv Newland. The film is included in The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals, a 1994 book edit...

You probably think you're pretty clever. You've been rocking the same Gmail account login since your freshman year of college and it's still just as safe as the day you created the password.Hey, if "...

Glenn Fleishman is a freelance journalist (and BB irregular) with much experience working remotely, under unusual constraints, and from home: an expert in all the things the rest of us were pitched in...

Ruben Lopez rode 2,500 miles from Poo Poo Point in Issaquah, Washington to Pee Pee Creek in Pike County, Ohio. He embarked on the adventure to raise money for humanitarian aid in Yemen. He plans to co...

Stuttgart, Germany-based stunt cyclist Viola Brand performs a lovely bicycle ballet "To be honest I was afraid of breaking the chandelier while doing the pirouettes," she writes....

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, I wrote about some of my favorite old kids' science books:A long time ago I read a good piece of advice in The Whole Earth Review: read a childre...

We've featured comedian Julie Nolke a few times before on Boing Boing. In this video, she teams up with Ryan George to imagine they were the first two people ever to get married. They also have a skit...

Dieter Bohn of The Verge says the Apple Watch Series 6 is good, but if you already have a Series 5, there's "no reason to upgrade." Even if you have an older model, you probably don't need the 6. Plus...

I enjoyed this short video interview with Cory about how he writes.The last trip I took before the plague locked down the world involved a wonderful day at Tor Books to plan the release of Attack Surf...

Drunk driving charges were dropped against InfoWars founder Alex Jones, who had been arrested on March 10 after Texas police pulled him over for going five miles over the speed limit. Police say Jones...

You know things have gotten bad when the famously apolitical Weird Al has to get in on the political satire game.From The New York Times:The first presidential debate of 2020, was, in the words of Jak...

New York is seeing a bump in Covid-19 cases. In response, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will start fining people up to $1,000 for refusing to wear a face mask. If a person is caught without a mas...

YouTuber bycloud takes viewers through Microsoft's new AI for repairing old photos, which he says "is probably the best physical damage restoration for images I've ever seen." The supporting academic ...

I just learned about the Bouguer gravity anomaly, which the US Geological Survey defines as: Measurements of the gravitational field vary slightly from place to place due to the composition and struct...

Though Trump's Electoral College advantage is real and the fundamental accuracy of polls always in question, Biden's wide national lead is increasingly reflected in "swing state" surveys and the presi...

This week's tabloids prove Shakespeare wrong."Nothing will come of nothing," wrote the Bard in 'King Lear,' but the tabloids demonstrate that they're perfectly capable of spinning elaborate tales from...

The North Andover Eagle-Tribune reports that an emu escaped the yard of a temporary carer in Haverhill, Ma., this week. Kermit, the large bird in question, was seen roaming the streets around Walnut S...

After Tuesday's exhausting, deflating debate, let Weird Al Yankovich be your salve with his latest hysterical parody, We're All Doomed....

At one point during Tuesday's debate debacle, Trump told Biden, "Don't ever use the word 'smart' with me. Don't ever use that word." And this video by The Lincoln Project shows us just why that word s...

The bread that Subway uses for sandwiches contains so much sugar that they may not be described as bread in Ireland. The country's supreme court ruled that a franchise there selling the suspiciously s...

Who the hell are these people? The US Library of Congress's Moving Image, Broadcast and Recorded Sound Division shared several dozen photos of mystery people in its collection and is seeking the world...

Donald Trump pays little personal income tax, forking out $750 in two years since becoming president and paying nothing at all in some years before that. If you dodged taxes as he did, what could you ...

It might look like bread, and even taste like bread, but Subway's sandwiches aren't actually made with bread. Not, at least, according to the Irish Supreme Court. In fact, the Court takes it one step ...

Maker John Malecki built a two-legged chair sturdy enough to hold his nearly 300-pound full weight.He was inspired by the blue chair at this end of this optical illusion furniture clip, although that ...

Behold the Cluvens Scorpion Computer Cockpit, an articulated $3300 monstrosity with a monitor for a stinger and 8 vicious-looking clawed legs.The tail of the Scorpion extends to become the overhang s...

There are currently about a dozen outdoor patio heaters setup around my very small patio at home. This includes several propane models that would easily constitute a fire hazard if they were all to be...

Consider this are you someone who would want a full-sized pinball machine in your home?If you were a kid who spent more than 10 minutes in an arcade, a bowling alley, a family fun center, or a simila...

As boaters zipped across this body of water, they were surprised to be overtaken by a moose scampering across the surface as it overtook them.What can we deduce as it chose to vamoose? A supernatural ...

Over 50 Disney animated movies were used in this reimagined music video for "WAP." Watch it while you can.(Reddit)screengrab via Streamable...

Most videos of Kelly Slater's amazing Surf Ranch just show the fun part, but Casey Neistat gives a detailed account of what it's like to get an appointment and surf in your designated heat. Everyone i...

A few years, the Irish Times' Women's Podcast looked into the historical relationships between the Catholic Church and abortion, based on extant old religious texts (mostly from Ireland). There's lots...

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, arrested and hospitalized earlier this week after reportedly threatening to harm himself, is being "purged" by the campaign, reports the Daily Beast. He's ...

Greg from Greg and Pens demonstrates a great entry-level glass dip pen. They are easier to use than quills and fountain pens, but they have that cool scratch feel as they're drawn across the paper. Th...

This is either really cool; or a terrible omen that 2020's about to get even worse; or both.From Smithsonian Magazine:On Saturday, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the d...

Google Maps' reviewing system has provided a platform for Nazi sympathizers and antisemitic harassment for years. It's a quiet example of the trillion-dollar tech giant's disinterest in moderationand ...

If you include video in social media posts for your business, you'll see a 66 percent boost in serious engagement. Your brand awareness will be up over 50 percent. And an overwhelming 93 percent of ma...

Studying for vocabulary tests in grade school was always the worst. Just you, a list of words, a sheet of paper and a pencil…and endless, endless, endless repetition. It was always the equivalen...

The White Winter Ceramic Mug [Amazon, set of four] is designed to resemble a nice cosy knitted sweater. Just imagine it filled with a hot steaming cup of tea or chocolate, surrounded by fancy European...

Beats-swapped YouTube is full of annoying remixes, but this one of Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice is exemplary, including Christopher Walken's moves....

I've been monitoring this for some time and can happily report that Tardigrades (previously at Boing Boing) have finally matched and surpassed the high water mark of popularity that they enjoyed in th...

I use this cheap illuminated magnifying glass to identify loose components: capacitors, integrated circuits, diodes, resistors. The markings on some of the components (like the tiny capacitors) are so...

Adam Savage built a cool bench/storage box that looks like a shipping container. He used vinyl wrap stickers with photos of shipping container sides to the wooden panels of the bench for an ultra-rea...

The Action Lab Man ran an important experiment to determine if a Venus Flytrap will eat and digest a jelly bean. Interestingly, the Flytrap did eat it, and once started to digest the jelly bean, it sl...

In a Harvard University test, type-2 diabetics' blood sugar levels were found to be more strongly affected by perceived sugar levels of a sweet drink than its actual sugar levels.From Real Clear Scien...

In case you've been under a rock the past few years, CBD is one of the fastest-growing businesses in America. In fact, one in seven American adults use cannabis-derived products. With only three ...

My friend Douglas Rushkoff opened his bag for the What's in my bag? newsletter.Douglas Rushkoffis the author ofTeam Human,Present Shock,Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, and a bunch of other books on ...

Myka Meier, 38, is an etiquette instructor and kickboxer. On Monday while on a walk with her young daughter in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, Meier tangled with a ninja who tried to steal her purse...

Bruce Sterling found this video of Anne Lilly's wonderful kinetic sculptures on an equally wonderful Tumblr called softrobotcritics.[via BruceS]...

People in Japan who watched it on NHK (our public broadcaster) had to watch three men shout over each other while three interpreters interpreted over each other simultaneously soooo yes but not really...

The great Mark Lanegandeep-throated vocalist for Screaming Trees and The Gutter Twins (with Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli)is releasing a Christmas album. Titled "Dark Mark Does Christmas," the LP includes ...

That debate was the worst thing I've ever seen & I was in The Star Wars Holiday Special.— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) September 30, 2020May the Farce be with you....

In July 2017, sports writer Jon Bois used his platform on SB Nation to serialize a 25-part speculative fiction story about a far future America where football games last for thousands of years and spa...

Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin is perhaps best known for the Remembrance of the Earth's Past trilogy, which is sometimes referred to by the name of the first book, The Three Body Problem, wh...

Kurzgesagt's latest "In a Nutshell" animation asks "Is it too late to stop climate change?" From the video:We have known for decades that rapid Climate Change is being caused by the release of Greenho...

Helen Reddy, the Australian-American singer and activist who famously co-wrote and sang the 1971 feminist anthem "I Am Woman," has died at age 78. The song was informed by Reddy's experiences in the ...

In an effort to get more Black men in the south to vote in November, a group of Atlanta strippers have created a risqu PSA that's sure to get their attention. It's called "Get Your Booty to the Poll" ...

Frances Choy was convicted of killing her parents in a 2003 house fire, but her conviction was voided earlier this year after racist emails sent by prosecutors came to light. On Tuesday, Plymouth Cou...

As a way to end the stigma of menstruation, Pantone has added a new red to its color matching system. The new shade is described as "an active and adventurous red hue," created to "embolden people who...

Shaun LeBron set out to generate legit Pac Man mazes, but it turns out their simplicity and elegance concealed unexpectedly hard work: "Generating random Pac-Man mazes is a deceptively difficult probl...

From the listing on Realtor.com:Budweiser's biggest fan meticulously adorned the walls and ceilings with Budweiser beer cans to display and showcase their intense love for one of America's favorite do...

Social Media Researcher Erin Gallagher put this short video together, showing when Google Trends have spiked for "white nationalists" and "white supremacists," and comparing that to national interest ...

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 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck founded an association to answer Santa's mail. For 15 years its volunteers fulfilled children's Christmas wishes, until Gluck's motivation began to shift. ...

OutSports reports:Major League Baseball ended its regular season on Sunday after a COVID-shortened 60 games and for the first time since the 2016 season, there were no players involved in any recorded...

Many of us were disappointed though sadly not surprised when the Grand Jury for the Breonna Taylor case declined to indict the officers who killed her. The fact that one officer would be charged for...

TRUMP INCITES SUPPORTERS TO INTIMIDATE VOTERS AT POLLS ON ELECTION DAY"Will you pledge tonight that you will not declare victory until the election is certified," asked moderator Chris Wallace during ...

If you're going on a trip, it isn't enough to bring your smartphone and your tablet and your laptop. You also have to bring all the charging cables for your phone. And the one for your tablet. And the...

In the first presidential debate, Trump refused to condemn white supremacists and racism. He said instead to these groups, and he shouted out the Proud Boys in particular, "Stand back and Stand by." I...

"You're the worst president America has ever had," Biden said to Trump tonight."In 47 months, I've done more than you've done in 47 years, Joe," Trump replies.They'll both be lines remembered."You...

During the presidential debate tonight, Trump was pressed on the New York Times reporting that showed he paid no taxes for much of the past 20 years, and $750 for two years. Trump got flustered.Show u...

Joe Biden to Donald Trump during tonight's debate, truly speaking for us all at this point: "Would you shut up, man?"… "would you shut up, man?"pic.twitter.com/qjDkN6RtkY— fake nic...

The first presidential debate kicked off tonight at 9PM Eastern.Donald Trump's pupils sure are… huge tonight.Joe Biden's first words to Trump: "How you doin', man?"12 minutes in, Trump calls Bid...

We all know the stories of profound deathbed dying words by famous folks. Beethoven's "Friends applaud. The comedy is over." Emily Dickinson's "I must go in, for the fog is rising." Bogart's "I never ...

"It's the most wonderful time of the year…" It's closing in on October and you know what that means. Everything in the known universe getting pumpkin spiced? Well, yes that, too. But, I'm talkin...