Articles by BoingBoing from December 2020

The California mom who captured this hilarious video of her baby explains:"I was shopping for toys for my daughter, Maisie at the store. I was showing her different toys to see which ones she wanted. ...

This Kentucky man is not about shovels. He's cleaning off snow from his driveway with a flamethrower.A man dressed as Cousin Eddie from the holiday classic "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" clea...

A year ago today, this tweet warned of a "SARS/Suspected SARS Pneumonia Outbreak in Wuhan, China." Now, COVID-19 has killed 350,000 in US, and counting.This appears to be the first tweet to have eve...

"The overall picture is pretty grim." Bill Hanage, Harvard epidemiologistNew York Times, December 30, 2020In Colorado and California, there are now two confirmed cases of that new and highly contagiou...

The sad truth about LED lightbulbs is that they burn out a lot faster than promised, at least in my experience. Even the most expensive ones don't seem to last much longer than incandescent bulbs. So ...

Dawn Wells, the actress who most people likely know through her role as Mary Ann in the wack-a-doodle 60s sitcom, Gilligan's Island, has died from COVID-19. She was 82.Read more here.[H/t Don Webb]Ima...

I know some people abuse service animal policies to bring their pets on planes and into hotels and restaurants but some people with anxiety benefit from having a support animal with them. It's too bad...

When you do computer programming, what sort of mental work are you doing?For a long time, folks have speculated on this. Since coding involves pondering hierarchies of symbols, maybe the mental work i...

Starbucks Japans' online store has a bunch of cute new mugs for sale. Here are my favorites: A tiny cup with a coupon for a free drink...

If you purchased a Hampton Bay 54-inch Mara Indoor/Outdoor fan don't turn it on. CBS News reports that "King of Fans, the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based distributor of the product sold exclusively by...

Perplex City was a cool alternate reality game(ARG) launched in 2006. Players received cards in the mail, each of which contained a puzzle. Solving the puzzles yielded clues for finding the ultimate p...

Dr. Adrian Smith of the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences & North Carolina State University shot slow motion take-off and landing vi...

A mint condition first edition hologram Pokmon card could sell for $350,000 or more at Heritage Auctions'Comics & Comic Art AuctionJan. 14-15.From Heritage Auctions:ThePokmon Charizard #4 First Ed...

A few weeks ago, I published the first part of my roundup of favorite tips gathered from my weekly maker shop tips newsletter. Here is part 2.Using Paper Towel and Wood Glue to Seal Up Molds for Casti...

I just learned about the Frederik Accum's 1820 book A Treatise on Adulteration of Food and Culinary Poisons from Public Domain Review:This groundbreaking work written in English by a German scientist...

From George The KA:After putting up the Christmas tree early with the kids, I spent a few hours this Sunday afternoon on another geeky techno-music experiment: building a program converts any MIDI gui...

Aviation is notoriously bad for the environment. According to the nonprofit Environmental and Energy Study Institute, "Aircraft contribute 12 percent of U.S. transportation emissions, and account for ...

I'm really charmed by these wooden puzzle boxes: You can store stuff inside the inner metal tube, but to open the box you need to rotate the wooden outer cylinder to guide an internal peg through its ...

I wear warm socks and put on gloves for a Chicago winter run. I am confident my knit hat is well-charged before pulling it down on my head. Not charged for heat but for sound. I power up my hat and h...

The New York Times has an extraordinary articlebuilding on some earlier research from Yale Environment 360that illustrates with frightening detail how racism, urban planning, and climate change go han...

The Bidens will not be sitting in rocking chairs with Jennifer Lopez on a New Year's program like the headline might indicate. They will be on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2...

Boston Dynamics put out an entertaining video for the holidays featuring some of their robots dancing to The Contours' "Do You Love Me?". Is it a heartwarming nod to the film Dirty Dancing or is this ...

With its DIY-adjacent industrial model — get the customers to build the stuff — Ikea furniture has long invited tinkering and modifying, as with the excellent Ikea Hackers site. Now the de...

If 2020 were a movie, the critics would have a field day with the plausibility factor. Screen Junkies takes movies we've seen and tells us everything that's wrong with them in their Honest Trailer ser...

Who needs mice when you can have adorable, pastel-hued hamsters? These cheapo wireless computer mhamsters [Amazon] are compatible with Windows, MacOS, Linux, "etc", and promise a "comfortable hand fee...

In the 8-bit age, data screeched slowly off tape decks. In the 16-bit era, floppy drives whirred, clinked and chunked according to the peculiarities of the system's disk controller. For the BBC's "Bor...

NASCAR driver Aric Almirola and top bowler Jason Belmonte teamed up for the world's fastest bowling strike. They had to use a special ball, because a regulation ball would have shattered on the track ...

My dad's been pestering me since the summer to watch the Irish police soap opera Red Rock now that it's on AmazonPrime. While I'm always down for a good crime story, I'm not always keen on cop dramas....

The Black Ghost, a 1970 Dodge Challenger 426 Hemi, reached mythical status in Detroit's street racing scene, where it would sporadically appear, blow the doors off the competition, then disappear...

It's time-consuming, it's expensive, and it's ridiculously tedious, but as well-known YouTube maker, Peter Brown, puts it "This should not exist." Peter took broken glass from a large shattered window...

Certain brands of deodorant are sold half-empty, like the ink cartridges that come with a printer, to fool unwary shoppers who don't look at the weight. This video concisely (and swearily) compares a ...

The easiest way to black out thermal paper (for example, to remove addresses or barcodes that would make it risky to re-use a box) is to heat it up: no marker necessary! Why use the Sharpie you alread...

Our friend, Becky Stern, was part of a group of makers doing ByeBye 2020-related projects. For her project, Becky molded a 2020 candle that burns away to reveal a metal 2020 dumpster fire tree ornamen...

YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader! Information here."Behold the wondrous, whimsical, witty world that is T...

Nick Drummond and Patrick Bakker bought an old house in the small town of Ames, New York, and set out to repair and renovate it. The house had once been owned by "Count" Adolf Humpfner, who was rumore...

None of us are getting any younger. And while the ravages of time work differently on everyone, there seems to be one area where everyone from seniors down to the way-too-young start feeling discomfor...

Grappling guns appear in movies and video games all the time, but a real-world arm-worn grappling gun turns out to be quite an interesting engineering challenge for JT at Built IRL. Watch the epic yea...

A team of astronomers from Cornell University have published a new paper titled "New Horizons Observations of the Cosmic Optical Background," which explains that, using new measurements from the New H...

Magoob Toys is selling an Ewok t-shirt in the style of the PornHub logo, because "Ewoks need love too." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Magoob Toys (@magoobtoys)The sh...

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow (R-LA), who won a special election to represent Louisiana's 5th District just three weeks ago, died on Tuesday evening from COVID-19 complications. He was 41-years-old.Le...

The highly infectious variant of COVID-19 first reported in the U.K. has now been reported in Colorado, say U.S. health authorities on Tuesday.From Reuters:"The effort to distribute and administer the...

Very sweet dog. "Blaze, my Siberian Husky, twitches and runs in his sleep quite often, but when his feet are against the radiator he makes a lot of noise! And if I'm asleep downstairs it wakes me up! ...

Labsanit S. of Thailand says, "I came home to a mess and discovered a giant snake had caused all the damage." The incident happened on December 10, 2020....

A striking image in the new Lincoln Project political ad. "330k+ dead and counting. because of the #TrumpVirus. This is #TrumpsWall."Video below.330k+ dead and counting. because of the #TrumpVirus.Thi...

"The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has retained forensic accounting specialists to aid its criminal investigation of President Trump and his business operations, as prosecutors ramp up their sc...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said today the $600 stimulus checks may begin arriving in Americans' bank accounts as soon as tonight..@USTreasury has delivered a payment file to the @FederalRe...

Los Angeles County hospitals have hit their breaking point amid the COVID-19 surge, resulting in ambulances being turned away and gift shops being turned into makeshift treatment rooms. On Sunday, fiv...

There's a fantastic feature in the New York Times about "The Lasting Lessons of John Conway's Game of Life" — well worth reading on its own, since they solicited short reflections from big think...

We live in a part of LA with coyotes, hawks, bobcats, deer, and other wildlife. (Last night I took a video of a coyote in the backyard.) We have some good travel binoculars (I got two when I took Carl...

These aren't the purdy angels with gauzy gowns and silky wings that you grew up with. This is how angels are really described in the bible. Think: H.P. Lovecraft, not Michelangelo. Image: Screengrab...

Stuffed with greenery and title keywords, the Green Vegetable Produce Sprouting Broccoli Skull Statue Long Healthy Eating Salad Themed Skeleton Head Cranium Bizarre Ossuary Macabre Halloween Decorativ...

Oscar Isaac is the handsome bastard of Ex Machina and Star Wars and Dune and so many other fames. But before he was Poe Dameron and Duke Leto, Isaac was also the front name in a ska band called the Bl...

Concord Neighbors: For the health and safety of Concord residents, my Council colleagues and I have adopted an ordinance prohibiting smoking and vaping in and around multiunit and attached housing uni...

The White House released an official proclamation to mark the 850th anniversary of the death of St. Thomas Becket who had a contentious relationship with King Henry II of England, and was ultimately k...

Redditor GreedyPaint hooked up a floppy disk drive to a Raspberry Pi to play a highly compressed version (0.03 percent of its original size on the DVD) on Shrek stored on a floppy disk. I cre...

A portrait of Donald Trump posted by the Arizona GOP poses the President in unnervingly similar garb and pose to the famous portrait of Benedict Arnold, the traitor who was secretly in the employ of t...

San Francisco apartments are, on average, $1,000 a month cheaper this year than they were in January, according to SocketSite.Withthe average asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco h...

We have a lot of Fiestaware plates, bowls, and cups at our place, so it was fun to see how Fiestaware is made and to learn the history of the 80-year-old brand....

A consolation prize for the one-term president: Donald Trump is now more-admired than predecessor Barack Obama, who has held the title in Gallup's annual poll for 12 years. 18 percent named Trump as m...

When asked which man they most admired, 18 percent of Americans picked Donald Trump, a reality television host with a history of failed businesses and 26 sexual misconduct accusations against him. For...

Turning a big dial that says "Paul Verhoeven" on it....

Striped eel catfish school in tight formations for protection. From above, it's clearer that they are using collective mimickry to resemble sea urchins and other creatures:These are very tiny, by the ...

Filmmaker Blo Que created four devices which are able to translate human voice into movement. The resulting film "Dialogo" features things responding to an unintelligible conversation.Check out their ...

What retro-fresh hell is this? Old TV Time is a YouTube channel dedicated to cultural and industrial instruction videos from the 1940s and 50s (and also some from the 60s and 70s). From advice on dati...

Art museums worldwide have been grappling with novel ways to serve their communities in the pandemic, and the Museo Autoservicio exhibit was designed to be enjoyed from the comfort and safety of visit...

The last-minute Brexit deal hammered out between the UK and the EU includes mention of Netscape. Depending on how you look at it, Netscape is a web browser that hasn't been updated since 2008, or a co...

Pyramid schemes endure because victims are often too embarrassed about being scammed to warn others. That's why this animated first-hand report by Domics is so important, especially at a time when man...

Flickseeker lets you search thousands of movies by their mood. For example, here is a list of charming movies that are also funny. A caveat: you can only search by what they consider "compatible"...

After many, many attempts at making a viable prototype, Shane's "unpickable" Stuff lock was able to thwart a professional locksmith picking and using a bump key. It's a really great overview of the me...

Well, isn't this cyberpunk AF?From The New York Times:Mr. Howell, 42, is a lifelong protester and self-taught coder; in graduate school, he started working with neural net technology, an artificial in...

Yesterday, I posted a video on Adafruit of Quanta Magazine's picks for the three greatest breakthroughs in physics this year. In the video below, they look at three of the biggest advances in biology ...

Sony, Variety, MTV, and The New York Times are on board. The Rolling Stones, Snoop Dogg, and Katy Perry too. Mercedes-Benz, Disney, and yes, even Star Wars. They're all instantly recognizable brands t...

The $2.3 trillion includes $1.4 trillion in spending to fund government agencies and $892 billion in COVID-19 relief Coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 330,000 people in the United States"The Dem...

Richard Evans Schultes (1915-2001), the father of ethnobotany, is regarded as one of the most important plant explorers of the 20th century. Schultes made numerous explorations, new species discoverie...

I enjoyed the first episode of Synchronic Cinema, a new podcast by filmmaker Case Esparros. In the premiere episode Case interviews musician and filmmaker Flying Lotus....

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic soundsGreetings, fellow residents of 2020! Welcome back...

Three days ago, a suicide bomber loaded an RV with explosives and parked it in downtown Nashville. After broadcasting an evacuation warning for several minutes, 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner detona...

For those of us who grew up encountering Golden Age comic books comics published between 19381956, that is haphazardly, picking up a tattered issue here or there at flea markets and yard sales, the ...

Martin Lambie-Nairn, who designed the logo idents for BBC2 and Channel 4, is dead at 75. Former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive also paid tribute, saying he was "fortunate" Lambie-Nairn had "defined p...

This educational moral panic slideshow from the 1960s highlights the danger of inhaling plastic model glue. I suspect the anecdotes and statistics are exaggerated but the slide art makes for excellent...

"We decided to hang the Christmas tree from the roof so the cats couldn't destroy it. It didn't work."...

When I was in high school in Boulder, Colorado I got a nights-and-weekend job at Kmart. They put me in the home improvement section, which was a lot bigger than you might think. It was almost like a ...

A couple asked to play with an albino cinnamon ball python while in a Petco in Peabody, Massachusetts last Monday. When the employee said that was against store policy they said they would like to pur...

Tolstoy's War and Peace is over 1,300 pages long. I've not read it. James Wallace Harris recently finished it, and I enjoyed his essay about having read it. Overall, he feels the rewards were worth th...

Who makes WiFi routers, with those swollen-blob, low-polygon, trypophobic plastic cases that look like they came from a parallel universe where German Democratic Republic industrial designers toil ove...

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) sent a probe to the asteroid Ryugu, collected samples, and brought them home. "Artificial material seems to be present in chamber C. The origin is under inves...

Interviewed by Brian Stelter, CNN reporter and host Jake Tapper says that he won't book White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany because she "lies the way that most people breathe."Here's the clip...

Last April, I shared a hilarious cover of the Killers' "Mr. Brightside," performed in the style of the B-52s by a group nicely calling themselves the B-69s. Now, the B-69s are back with another 3 song...

The IMDB entry for Chernobyl: Chronicle of Difficult Weeks describes it as:The first film made following the nuclear meltdown accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR...

In his memoir A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway recalled the time that he and his pal, Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, were talking about their dongs. (Excerpted text from Faded Page)In the ...

Derek Kevra should moonlight on YouTube explaining simple procedures that people are too lazy to complete....

This little mini-doc about the life and music of bassist, Tina Weymouth, was put together by the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. It manages to pack in a lot of info about Tina's growing up, how she ...

To be clear, cigarettes are not illegal. But if you're a smoker in America, it can probably often almost feel that way. Anyone carrying a lighter or the visible bulge of a cigarette pack tucked in a s...

From CBC in 2015:A living musical exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will set 70 zebra finches loose in an aviary, and the only perches are the strings of 14 electric guitars and bass gu...

Twitter user Rik Villanueva of the Jammed Transmissions Star Wars podcast posted this, and it's absolutely blowing my mind.In other words: the Star Wars saga (or at least, the Skywalker saga) is basic...

Twitter user Rik Villanueva of the Jammed Transmissions Star Wars podcast posted this, and it's absolutely blowing my mind.In other words: the Star Wars saga (or at least, the Skywalker saga) is basic...

In 1995, a group of four chess enthusiasts were devastated when their opponents took their queen in a very public New Year's Eve match at Madison Square Garden. Exactly 25 years later, they are stagin...

The heavy metal talk snow, Two Minutes to Late Night, has been doing a series of social isolation covers featuring members of Gwar, Deafheaven, Mastodon, Tool, Primus, Type 0 Negative, The Distillers,...

From Courthouse News:In a federal lawsuit filed in New Jersey on Tuesday, Smith & Wesson claims New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has tried everything in his power to stymie gun ...

Over at The Atlantic, Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance has a fantastical and fantastically harrowing new essay about hypothetical doomsday machines and the not-so-hypothetical horrors of Facebook. S...

The median average salary for an American project manager is currently over $115,000 a year. As you'd expect from an employee earning a paycheck that size, companies don't hand those titles out to jus...

In what feels like an extended "this is fine" meme, the "Good Advice" video by Khai Dreams looks at disasters large and small unfolding.The acoustic version they just released is very nice, too!Image:...

The monolithic silliness continues with this gingerbread monocookie(?) appearing in San Francisco on Christmas morning.Image: Screengrab...

Qi wireless charging has only been around for about a decade. While it only took a few years for Android phone manufacturers like Nokia and LG to jump on the wireless charging bandwagon, it was as rec...

Louder has a piece on Bowie's 4th studio album, Hunky Dory, the record where he arguably began to establish real knowledge and conversation with his artistic muse.Bowie was also discovering interestin...

Check out this gorgeous rendition of Henry Purcell's "Dido's Lament" (1683) performed by Annie Lennox and London City Voices. The piece was recorded in isolation and done as a "lament for a dying plan...

Like many of a certain age, I've always had a gooshy soft spot in my heart for the Vince Guaraldi Trio's A Charlie Brown Christmas. To me, if Christmas had a soundtrack, this would be it for me.This p...

I went to college at the University of Toronto, which saw a ton of growth in the 1950s and 60s, when brutalist architecture was a big deal — so the campus was filled with utterly charmless, bloc...

Mileva Mari Einstein was a brilliant physicist who is barely remembered today, mainly because she was a woman born in 1875. The reason she is known at all is because she was married to Albert Einstein...

Take a journey with Through My Lens from Carson City, Nevada to the Great Basin on US Route 50, dubbed the loneliest road in America:Highway 50, through Northern Nevada, was named the loneliest road i...

When construction workers, landscapers, or warehouse workers complain of aches and pains incurred on the job, we acknowledge the rigors of back-breaking physical labor. But when keyboard warriors who ...

At first, the thought of jumping into the real estate game after the world's year under the COVID-19 bubble could feel like a risky proposition. But, while the depressed economy might trigger fears of...

Research scientist Janelle Shane used GPT-3 to create new Christmas carols. My favorite is "Mild is Rudolph"Now in 2020 we have GPT-3, trained on so much of the internet that my challenge is now to s...

FilmSpektakel (previously) has returned after a 3-year absence with A Taste of Los Angeles, the latest in their hyperlapse series of famous places.They hit a lot of the best-known spots in town, but t...

H/t Jay TownsendImage: Screengrab...

Archeologists have recently uncovered a street food stall in the ancient ruins of Pompeii, destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD.Known as a termopolium, Latin for hot drinks counter, the shop was ...

It's time for Barry Petchesky's annual list of things people had to go to emergency rooms to have removed from various bodily orifices in the preceding year. That includes the ear, nose, throat, penis...

We're all usually overjoyed to add a new piece of technology to our galaxy of devices. But, once you've spent a lot of time with that new addition, it can start to lose some of its luster and your ey...

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Christian Stangl (previously here) turned a common process into a gorgeous abstract short film using macro footage of things as they dry out.Life needs water. But this fluid tends to evaporate over ti...

"Why Is the Star Wars Universe Full of Megafauna?" This is the question that has plagued James Davis Nicoll for years. But it ultimately hit its peak after watching the recent season of The Mandaloria...

Stefanie Millinger has astonishing upper body strength and control. Watch her go from an L-seat straddle press to handstand/schweizer handstand press 342 times without stopping. Her Instagram has many...

YouTuber yoduvh Essentials likes to make homemade versions of expensive items using inexpensive materials, like this $900 coffee table made for 3% of the retail version's cost.Image: YouTube / yoduvh ...

Apparently there was a trend — beginning in the late 18th century, and continuing for a few decades — of lovers exchanging tiny portraits of one of their eyes, and wearing them mounted on ...

From National Geographic:In the summer of 2016, a gold miner in Canada's Yukon Territory found an unexpected treasure. While blasting a wall of permafrost with a water cannon to release whatever riche...

Susanna Clarke's debut novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, took the world by storm when it came out in 2004. The 900-page magical Victorian epic was swiftly followed by a short story collection,...

Behold the "Circle Guitar", an invention of Anthony Dickens, which has a motor-driven disk that spins and strums the strings. You can place pick-pegs in the disk to represent different strumming patte...

As the Trump Administration draws to a close, Trump Bites animates a second series of real audio clips of The Donald. Image: YouTube / Trump Bites...

Gouverneur Morris was given an awesome name at birth, and became a well-respected representative of what would become the state of Pennsylvania. He wrote the Preamble to the Constitution, and spoke up...

Skullcandy has carved out an interesting lane for itself in the ultra-competitive audio earbuds and headphones market. Unlike the big business interests of most of their big-name corporate competitors...

While there are those few weirdos that don't like pizza, the rest of us normal folks can usually find our place on the pizza loving spectrum. If you're a kid, you're likely fine with a frozen piz...

There were recent rumors that the cult-favorite sci-fi western Firefly might be rebooted or retooled for a triumphant return on Disney+.This never sounded reliable to me. But now, BOOM! Studios has an...

A new analysis from Sludge Magazine shows that Washington nepotism is just as unsurprisingly nepotistic and grossly disappointing as ever:18 congressional Republicans and one Libertarian have received...

NBC News reports that the neo-Vlkisc Asatru Folk Assembly has opened a new house of worship in Murdock, Minnesotaa farming town of 280 people. 50,000 people signed a petition opposing the move; but th...

This video — captured by vice.aviator on Instagram — is the chaser for 2020 that I desperately needed.From the post: After leaving the airport this morning after my flight training, I deci...

A random group of internet-connected Phoebe Bridgers fansmyself includeddecided to put together this compilation album of holiday music. It's 19 songs by various indie and folk musicians to celebrate ...

Earlier this month, the Literary Review announced that the 2020 Bad Sex in Fiction Awards would be cancelled, on the grounds that "the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to jus...

Enjoy this animated video/yule log and 90 minutes of White Stripes music.Image: Screengrab...

This official John Lennon video for "Happy Xmas (WAR IS OVER)," the 1971 antiwar anthem from John and Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band (which was flagged last year on YouTube as age-restricted and possib...

Massage guns have become a staple of athletes, trainers, and other workout fans who appreciate the pounding burst of that percussive power after an intense session. Unfortunately, there's a problem wi...

In this video from OnTableTop, resident painter John paints up a wizard in honor of their Frostgrave week. There are so many methods for painting gaming minis these days and so many specialty paint pr...

Burls art created this awesome "guitart": an infinity mirror guitar with an adjustable color LED to fit the mood.I also love his amazing shovel guitar:Image: YouTube / Burls Art...

These Lego-shaped crayons by Goober are totally delightful, though it occurs to me that they're pretty fragile. Using them as crayons — even a little bit — could sufficiently deform the cr...

Researchers closely studied the wings of two moth species from China and Africa, and found that their tiny scales form a "metamaterial" that absorbs bat sonar — thus becoming an acoustic cloakin...

Science says that having an alter ego, a different persona than the one you inhabit every day, can boost confidence and reduce anxiety. I can attest to that, as I used a stage name on radio and anothe...

DJ Earworm put together instrumental snippets of 52 hit songs, one for each year from 1970 to 2020 (there's two for 1985). It's like a timeline of pop music, accurately called Time of Our Lives. The p...

How does a marketing team follow-up on a Lifetime mini-movie starring Mario Lopez (the trailer for which got a million plays overnight, compared to the actual movie, which took over a week to break 10...

Here are the delightfully self-aware (but a little too long for an intro) lyrics:VERSE 1Here's a man in an Beskar suit Who's a walking armory Bounty hunting to just make do In the gig economy His name...

From The Hollywood Reporter:Netflix's high-profile plan to haveGame of Thronescreators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss adapt the bestselling Chinese sci-fi booksThe Three-Body Problemhas been hit by a sc...

The world is chomping at the bit to get back out on the road. So when the day comes that air travel reignites, the car tank refills, and everyone is given the all-clear to get out and explore again, i...

Authorities are investigating a massive explosion in downtown Nashville that occurred at around 6:25AM local time this morning. Reports say a parked RV exploded and caused damage to several buildings....

Going back to the Dick Tracy days of the 1940s, the idea of the ultra-powerful wrist-bound computer has been an ongoing fascination. We've finally crossed over into that world of tomorrow this century...

President Failure golfs on Christmas Eve while COVID ravages America. Rep. Debbie Dingell: "This president doesn't give a damn about people!"Wow pic.twitter.com/uWuzDCCi9S— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) D...

This @RummysCorner chronology of heavyweight boxing in the 1990s is a delight to watch [h/t @arupar]...

United Airlines and Delta Air Lines will require all passengers on flights from the United Kingdom to the United States to present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours of departure.From Reut...

"The suspected Russian hackers behind the worst U.S. cyber attack in years leveraged reseller access to Microsoft Corp services to penetrate targets that had no compromised network software from Solar...

"Hospitals are full, ICU beds are few, people are dying. The simplest thing we can do, but also the most significant, is to stay home. We are the first line of defense against this virus, and we must...

It's not even Christmas yet in the real world (or in Burning Man's' default world) but in the tabloid world, it's already the New Year, with this week's rags all gleefully emblazoned with the date: Ja...

We've all heard about the positive impacts of using a standing desk versus the traditional sitting desk. Exactly how much a user benefits from standing is up for debate, though some argue the upside c...

Meet the oldest gymnast in the world Johanna Quaas. She lives in Germany and turned 95 this year. Age is only a number…pic.twitter.com/wNEVQeFDni— Rex Chapman (@RexChapman) December 22, 2...

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey has taken to posting a Christmas message every year. This time, his message is meant to cheer up despondent people.From Variety:Spacey has been mostly absent on social med...

Is it any surprise that psychopaths love Trump? A new study published inPersonality and Individual Differences find that "people with calloused, deceitful, and manipulative interpersonal styles are mo...

Colorado governor Jared Polis (seen here wearing a Boing Boing T-shirt) granted a pardon to the parents who pleaded guilty for staging the infamous "Balloon Boy" hoax of 2009. From The Guardian:In gra...

If you only think of drones as silly diversions or big kid toys, you're selling the technology and its overall impact short. In Southern California, police drones and the AI running them are changing ...

It's been more than four years since French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu brought us the surreal short Darth by Darthwest, in which Cary Grant was chased down by a TIE fighter in a mashup of North by Nort...

Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son, was rummaging through some stuff and came upon the scarf his father had given him as a child. The scarf was from the set of UK Channel 4's animated adaption of Raymond...

This seven minute video on the Astrum YT channel is a decent introduction to the Gaganyaan mission, the ISRO's (Indian Space Research Organisation) planned crewed mission to space. Two un-crewed fligh...

I doubt there's any serious AI at work here, but there is plenty of acid humor!If you give the app "How Bad Is Your Spotify?" permission to access your Spotify account, it renders an acerbic verdict o...

John C. Worsley has a thing for Star Trek and Christmas. For years, he's been editing Star Trek clips to fashion 23rd-century versions of classic Christmas songs. Now he's taken on the challenge of re...

With colorful translucent wings and traveling with such grace, to be labeled a swimming sea slug, or Gymnosomata, seems wrong. It even has devil horns on its little head but no matter, it gets to be r...

Congrats to William Orrell, whose speed stacking time of 4.472 seconds put him at the top of this year's 200 best in their Cycle event. The world record in a sanctioned World Sport Stacking Associatio...

For most of us, our pets are the center of our universes. They get a Christmas stocking above the fireplace, a birthday celebration most kids would envy, and, of course, we make sure they never miss a...

Enjoy this blooming flower timelapse video from Temponaut Timelapse....

No one is immune from the aches and pains of sore, tight muscles. The good news is that that tightness often means those muscles are actually getting stronger. Of course, that doesn't wipe away the ba...

Part two of Pardonpalooza just hit. Part one was yesterday. On Wednesday, outgoing U.S. president Donald Trump gave out 26 more pardons, including to his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort, to Trum...

Noted felon Paul Manafort received a pardon from Donald Trump just before Christmas, but it's you and me who get the real gift. He's back on Twitter.Mr. President, my family & I humbly thank you f...

I startedThe Magnetnewsletter in August of this year, and I've been amazed by the response. Many of you have subscribed, and it means so much to me that you are willing to pay to support the newslette...

I loved getting the Johnson Smith Catalog in the mail as a kid. I'd pore over every page of fine print and tiny line drawings to find patches, smoking monkeys, magic tricks, practical jokes, puzzles, ...

From Axios' excellent Media Trends newsletter, written by Sara Fischer the best news media corrections of 2020:December 16, The Associated Press: "In a story on December 15, 2020, about the Mexi...

Dominion is running our Election. Rigged! https://t.co/xvwrpLpAZa— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 16, 2020Eric Coomer, the security director for Dominion Voting Systems, which suppl...

An agitated man paced from seat to seat on a Delta Airlines flight before take off and eventually opened an emergency door and slid down the slide to the Laguardia airport tarmac. A woman quickly fol...

"A planet near you" is relative, of course, as 300 million miles is still quite a journey. NASA's Perserverance rover launched in July, and is scheduled to land in the Jezero Crater on Mars on Februar...

Robot Barber 2.0 improves on the previous design by adding a few new bells and whistles, as well as an improved pattern carving setup that basically shaves a pattern in hair like a 3D printer operates...

Mathijs Luijten directed and animated "Nights" by Jesper Ryom, based on gradient and line animation designed by Sofie Lee.Mathijs first came to my attention with the video for Tycho's "Weather" earlie...

David Tharan competes as an all terrain vehicle freestyler. Some of the tricks he can do midair do not seem humanly possible.Here's a still of him showing how far off the ground he is when performing ...

Cody from Cody's Lab bought 10 kilograms of bananas at the store, then proceeded to extract 9 grams of potassium from them. He could have gotten about twice that, but his condensation device had a des...

I really enjoyed this video chat between German maker and YouTuber, Laura Kampf, and Adam and Norm from Tested. The casual, far-ranging conversation touches on shop organization, being a video maker d...

In this over 30 minute installment of Star Wars Explained, host Alex runs through a dizzying array of Easter eggs, fan service, and explanations of how characters and scenes from season 2 of The Manda...

You probably know a few Criterion cultists. They're a curious breed of obsessive collector and media citizen who just can't get enough of these video products, with their extensive special features an...

The designer/artisan Yuko Matsuzawa created a gorgeous insulated tote bag in which to carry around your snowman.Apologies for the undoubtedly-dodgy machine translation here, but this is how Google tra...

The Orville Peck Story is a great introduction to the masked country singer and his work. To get a sense of his style and vibe if you're not familiar, I recommend starting here:"No Glory in the Old We...

Ho Tsz Wing created a lovely animation for "Catgot" that has been making the festival circuit. The artist's site has more details:The idea of the animation is to present a fountain performance in an a...

You may have heard at one time or another that honeybees hibernate in the winter. Insects use many different methods to survive cold weather, but bees do not hibernate. The beekeepers at Bell Farm in ...

In "Goodbye Robin!," as Mika remembers his childhood, he awakens a giant in his head. The giant has a creature trapped in his head as well: Kai, who finds and collects memory bubbles.Image: YouTube / ...

The New Yorker has a wonderful profile of 98-year-old inventor Eddy Goldfarb, creator of some of the world's most iconic toys, including the bubble gun, Kerplunk, and perhaps most notably, chattering ...

"PTS" has a very 2020 vibe, depicting how all of us feel pretty much any time we check our phone to see what fresh hell is going on.Directed by Kinopravda, the clip is a nave utopia offering respite f...

Here's a little light and wonder during this rather anxious and overcast holiday season. It's the Post:ballet dance troupe and members of the Berkeley Ballet Theater performing Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of...

Over at Technode, Shi Jiayi synthesizes recent stories in Chinese media showing how China's ever-surveilled population is getting sick of rampant face-recognition, and is speaking out.Face-recognition...

Nicholas Wolken and Lars Popp hit the slopes of Mount Baker, Crystal Mountain, and Mount Bachelor in this sumptuously shot in all kinds of precipitation:It's also a slight hint to the predominantly mo...

YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader! Information here.Memberships are now open for Tom the Dancing Bug's INN...

Part of the frustration many business owners feel comes from knowing some of the things they need to run their business better should be easy to produce. It shouldn't be hard to build an app where cli...

If you're already considering all the day trips you're going to take in 2021 to make up for basically going nowhere in 2020, you're not alone. Of course, that means not only making sure your car or tr...

You may have heard of the 10,000 Hour Rule, popularized by noted journalist and author Malcolm Gladwell. It supposes that it takes 10,000 hours of active, intense focus on a talent or skill to attain ...

Donald Trump issued 20 pardons and commutations, just before Christmas. They are are not likely to be the last before he is scheduled to leave the White House on January 20.Three former members of Con...

Elon Musk, at it again. The Tesla CEO and social media shitlord tweets he once approached Apple CEO Tim Cook about buying Tesla, but says Cook 'refused to take the meeting.'Musk says he reached out to...

The administration of outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is close to a deal with Pfizer that could provide tens of millions more doses of the coronavirus vaccine to Americans in 2021, the NYT report...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday it has filed an action against Ripple, the blockchain payments company associated with the cryptocurrency XRP, charging it with ...

In Tennessee, this goat got into the Christmas spirit by enjoying some whipped cream in a Starbucks cup, December 4. Surrounded by a Christmas tree and wearing festive apparel, MaDolly the goat can be...

You may be relaxed, but will you ever be as relaxed as this happy kitty who took over a newborn baby's electric rocking cradle gizmo for a cozy little nap?[Video Link]...

Former congresswoman Katie Hill filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that claims ex-husband and the owners of Redstate.com and the Daily Mail distributed sexual images of her that amounted to "n...

We've all had that kitchen moment that feels like a scene straight out of a Three Stooges movie. We go to one of those big cupboards to dig out a cupcake pan or a pasta maker or some other piece of hi...

Russia's Defense Ministry: "the measure was conducted as part of implementing the provisions of the 2020 military cooperation plan and is not aimed against third countries"Russian and Chinese bomber ...

"His failure will land on my doorstep" President-Elect Joe Biden on Donald Trump, and the ongoing hack of U.S. government computer systems, which intelligence experts pin on Russia.Video below.Biden ...

Timing is everything. The New York Times and other news organizations report today that Rosemary Vrablic, the longtime personal banker at Deutsche Bank for client Donald Trump, has resigned. One of he...

"We all have to stay apart just a little longer," cautions President-Elect Biden on cyberattack: "We know this much: This attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security."President-Elect Joe...

This "Electric SnowBike Kit" by the Canadian firm ENVO lets you replace the back wheel of your bike with a powered snowmobile-style tread, and the front with a snowboard.The upshot is just delightfull...

Updated Airline safety videos for these pandemic times....

When I was an editor at Make:, one of the products I was most proud of that we produced was Collin's Lab, with Collin Cunningham. When Collin moved over to Adafruit, he took the Lab with him. Seeing a...

Despite the fact that movie theaters were closed for a big part of the year, and many productions were postponed, 2020 still had movies. And like every year, Sleepy Skunk made an artistic and emotiona...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning on deploying a giant-clawed robot scavenger in Earth's orbit that will grab space junk and toss it into a decaying orbit where it will burn up in the Earth'...

Have you ever seen a cast-iron dog? They were once quite popular, used to prop open doors or to keep doorknobs from damaging the wall behind them. Scott Thompson knows all about doggie doorstops, rabb...

That's the position of a new study published to the arXiv database.The authors looked at a range of factors presumed to influence the development of intelligent life, such as the prevalence of sun-lik...

Here's a weird one: For the the last three years, a phishing scam has been targeting authors of fiction, getting them to cough up copies of their new manuscripts.The scammers have been sending emails ...

Here's a weird one: For the the last three years, a phishing scam has been targeting authors of fiction, getting them to cough up copies of their new manuscripts.The scammers have been sending emails ...

An unnamed man who flies around the Rio Linda, CA area regularly in a motorized parachute aircraft decided to dress up as Santa Claus, fly in and deliver candy to children–a noble effort. This ...

For most of the past century, vacuums were pretty much just vacuums. They suctioned dirt and other debris up off the floor, then passed it through a cloth or paper-based filter that would trap and col...

In 1928, Belgian financier Alfred Loewenstein fell to his death from a private plane over the English Channel. How it happened has never been explained. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet p...

Massive storms in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland have brought massive piles of seafoam to the shoresa churning concoction of seawater, algae, salts, fats, and other pollutants...

I recently discovered this Instagram account for Barbie of All Trades. Yes, THAT Barbie. She's taken up woodworking and has amassed a shopful of gorgeous (1:6 scale) miniature tools. According to her ...

Low-rez, but deeply satisfying to watch.As The Awesomer notes:Making a metal sphere usually involves stamping or spinning sheet metal. But this video shows a process where they sta...

When the Apple App Store got started in 2008, they opened with just 500 apps available. Just a short 12 years later, there are now approaching 2 million apps available for an iPhone user to download. ...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series delivering to you a two side recording of unusual stories paired with vintage modular electronic soundsHello, all – Happy Grievances! Welcome back...

Amazon has a super low price on this 4-pack of 8 oz glass food storage containers. I just bought a set to add to our collection of leftovers storage containers....

Deep-sea fish that have evolved non-reflective ultra-black skin to avoid being eaten by other fish. Nanoscale linked chains. Locust pheromones that encourage flocking behavior. The world's brightest f...

God-Emperor of Nintendo Shigeru Miyamoto gave Nintendo fans a 15-minute tour of the new Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan. The candy-colored pocket universe looks just like Nintendo's fa...

I may have thrown up a little in my mouth typing the headline. According to Delish, McDonald's is releasing a "unique" new burger in China today:Set to roll out at McDonald's China, America's favorite...

This is more of a drivable helicopter than what most people imagine as a "flying car," but it's still pretty neat! Via Seeker:Starting with the undercarriage, which PAL-V credits as their main breakth...

YouTuber NileRed figured out that some vinyl gloves contain phthalate ester, a compound similar to methyl anthranilate, the molecule used in many grape-flavored products. So he set about extracting th...

In the latest "Iconic Corpse" episode of Ask a Mortician, Caitlin Doughty covers the bizarre circumstances of country rocker, Gram Parsons, overdose death and his entourage's drunken theft of his cask...

Smithsonian magazine has a fascinating history of PEZ candy, in which I learned that it was originally created and marketed in Austria in the 1920s as aid to quitting smoking.The creator, Eduard Haas ...

As part of a week-long series on the tabletop fantasy skirmish game, Frostgrave, gamesite OnTableTable kicks things off with an interview with the game's creator, Joseph McCullough. Frostgrave 2nd edi...

Because it has a low boiling point, bismuth can be melted on a stovetop in a pan, then allowed to crystallize like making rock candy with heated syrup. If the crystals don't look the way you want, you...

This is astounding. Alexey Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who the Kremlin tried to poison, spoofed a call to the agent who attempted to kill him. Posing as an assistant to Russian National Sec...

When you've lost Pat Robertson…Televangelist Pat Robertson declares that Biden will be president and that Trump "lives in an alternate reality," "is very erratic," and should not...

Virginia's 111-year tribute-on-the-national-stage to renowned traitor Robert E. Lee has ended. AP:Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said in a statement that workers removed the statue from the National Stat...

The worst thing about Apple AirPods has nothing to do with their sound. They sound great. And, it has nothing to do with their functionality. They're packed with all the Apple goodies they pack into a...

As we patiently await Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back, here is a sneak preview montage from the film. Damn, this is gonna be great....

The greatest Made-for-TV game of all time, Penny Can, is pretty much all I have going this pandemic holiday season.Penny Can was invented for the tv sitcom Cougar Town, and is perhaps the most (only) ...

This is my December passion project pic.twitter.com/M9nfZi3HPI— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) December 17, 2020"If I see you do it again, you're fucking gone. And if anyone in this crew does it,...

Rogue One had some of the best non-animated character development in the on-screen Star Wars universe. I can not wait for more of Diego Luna's Cassian Andor....

On Friday, December 11, former DHS intelligence chief Brian Murphy testified in a closed-door sessions before Congress, following up on his September whistleblower complaint, when he claimed that he h...

Playwright John J King made this delightful holiday parody, imagining what a 2020-themed Tom Waits Christmas album would be like. Even just hearing these satirical snippets makes me kind of wish that ...

Octopuses punch fishes. YES. OCTOPUSES. PUNCH. FISHES!! Our new paper is out on @ESAEcology, showing that octos express this behavior during collaborative hunting with other fishes. This was probably ...

Wallis Schriver is a 15-year-old from Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania. She, accompanied by her dad, wrote a song, "Lonely Christmas," to try and encapsulate her feelings about 2020, COVID-19, and a socially...

This sweet cow really enjoys trying to catch snowflakes on her tongue.From December 16, on a farm in Wooster, Ohio: "Stella was so excited for the first big snowfall that she got out of her gate and w...

I've never paid attention to those little plastic squares used to keep bread bags closed. Then I came across this site that has a taxonomy for bread bag closures. There are so many different kinds!Als...

A new interactive article from the New York Times examines just how white the publishing industry actually is. And despite the number of high-profile books from non-white authors in recent years, the ...

This driver looks like they're having fun.Video Link: Guy Driving Car Covered in Christmas Lights Drifts Around Inflatable Snowman...

A Russian scientist credited with working on a coronavirus vaccine has been stabbed and somehow fell out of a window of a multi-story St. Petersburg apartment building, and has died, reports Moscow Ti...

As thousands die each day from the pandemic, outgoing President Donald Trump signs an executive order that declares classical architecture is the official style in D.C., and that all new federal const...

In one of the most important developments in the history of film archiving, the Internet Archive will be the new home of the legendary Michelson Cinema Research Library. Via Internet Archive:When...

In one sense, the voc-25 is just a keyboard controller triggering a synthesizer, with some visual yuks thrown in.But when I heard it played, I realized there's a loud clack every time a note is sounde...

Officials in Hawaii have raised Kilauea's alert to "warning" level and the aviation color code to red, as the volcano erupts and lava threatens homes. The U.S. Geological Survey and the Hawaii Volcano...

Timbaland and Swizz Beatz created Verzuz TV to keep us entertained with virtual DJ and MC battles while we're stuck in pandemic purgatory. Since March, they've streamed battles between the likes of Gu...

Funny how times change! The Vatican has declared that it is "morally acceptable" for Roman Catholics to receive coronavirus vaccines developed from research that used fetal tissue from abortions.The C...

Mattel Creations asked the artist Nina Abney to create a new design for UNO, and she knocked it flaming out of the park. I'm ordering a deck now.Apparently she also created a new card — a "hard ...

The Bee Gees' ethereal harmonies have always hit me in a special place and Robin Gibb's voice in particular is one of my all-time favorites. He was like a gangly human muppet with the voice of an ang...

Political appointees in the outgoing administration of Donald Trump repeatedly interfered in more than a dozen government reports detailing scientific findings about the spread of COVID-19, a House in...

Mathematician Kokichi Sugihara of Meiji University has once again won first place in the Best Illusion of the Year contest. His "3D Schrder Staircase" can break your mind until you see how it's done a...

"Guardians". Yes, just like Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy". Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday that the name for members of the newest branch of the armed forces, Space Force, established...

The nonprofit Institute for Justice has just released the 3rd edition of its Policing For Profit report, examining the abuses of civil asset forfeiture by local police across the United States. Accord...

Reuters recently published one of those stories I never knew I needed: a profile of Wang Liutai, a 65-year-old kung fu master with two children who is struggling to continue the dying martial art trad...

More than 30 countries have shut down travel to and from the UK in hopes of preventing the spread of a more contagious strain of coronavirus. The UK has implemented internal movement controls with the...

Twitter now adds a new warning to tweets spreading conspiracy theories about November's election: "Election officials have certified Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. Presidential election." They're...

Octavia Butler's Parable books are having a bit of a renaissance. Originally published in 1993 but set between 2024 and 2027, Parable of the Sower finally made it onto the New York Times Bestseller Li...

The Beat has published their list of the best comic books of 2020. It's a nicely diverse list, from mainstream spandex to obscure indies.Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann (Self-published)During the pand...

For marijuana pioneers of the 60s and 70s, this new America must almost seem like an alien world. There are now twice as many states where cannabis is fully legal as states where it remains illegal. C...

Karen from Karen Puzzles needed 28 hours to complete this enormous puzzle with an interesting distinction: rather than a gradient printed as an overlay and then stamped, each piece of these Clemens Ha...

Earlier this month, I wrote about PornHub's recent policy changes. A quick summary: the New York Times published an expos about victims of child trafficking and revenge porn, whose lives had been wrec...

Anyone who's been paying attention to all of the controversies leading up to the release of the open-world cyberpunk videogame, Cyberpunk 2077 (seven long years in the making) can't help but be gobsma...

Anybody can be on the receiving end of a good idea or a lightning bolt revelation. It might be about a software project. It could be a method for reorganizing your business operations. It could be a n...

For all its basicness, it's surprising how many people have amazingly strong opinions about their ice. And after reading that sentence, you probably had a visceral reaction to the right ways and wrong...

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, but the tabloids are getting thinner and are stuffed full of nutrient-lacking filler."What Shocked & Rocked in 2020" reports the 'National Enquirer,'...

Snowmen! Puppies! Disco Balls! And tunes, lots of tunes. If you only watch one holiday-y thing this year, let it be this.I first heard the voice of Zara Bode when she and her band, The Sweetback Siste...

I live only a few miles from Arlington Memorial Bridge which links Arlington, VA with Washington, DC across the Potomac river. The middle span of the bridge used to be a drawbridge. Living here for 39...

The team at Shut Up & Sit Down have assembled a list of 22 board games, card games, and solo RPGs that they recommend as great games and great holiday gift ideas. It might be getting a little late...

Simple solutions are almost always the best solutions. If you're cold, put on a jacket. If your car engine light clicks on, take it into the shop. And, if your coffee loses its piping hot bite…w...

It happens every year and it still feels like a chilly slap across the face each time. Winter rolls in…and you're uncomfortably reminded that the next few months will feel like something you ju...

Apple is temporarily shutting down all of its California retail stores, as the COVID-19 outbreak becomes dire throughout the state.From Reuters:Apple Inc has temporarily shut all of its 53 stores in C...

So, this two-part Trump tweet today was weird.The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control. Russia, Russia, Ru...

The Trump White House canceled a plan to send face masks to every household in America because of Donald Trump's personal feud with the United States Postal Service, and his personal animus toward Ama...

Lots of people think they can write. But a quick check of social media posts, blogs, and even some astonishingly mainstream media outlets prove that isn't always the case. Writing isn't easy. Writing ...

Pulse oximeters are little devices you clip on your finger, which shoot light into your skin to measure the percentage of oxygen in your blood.They're crucial tools for doctors and patients in many si...

Why is the sky blue? How do birds fly? How were swear words invented if we're not allowed to say them? If you've ever been a parent to or anywhere within a 100 foot radius of an inquisitive kid, ...

Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration "manipulated" recertification tests for the 737 MAX airliner, and this is only "one of many accusations in a damning new Senate report," writes Sean O'Ka...

Officials shut down a "large illegal winery" found in a sewage plant in Rainsville, Alabama.Photos released by investigators show glass containers, buckets, a fermenting rack and other equipment often...

IKEA has now joined the tiny home craze and is selling a 187 sq ft. tiny house for US$50,000. As my friend Jayme, who posted it on Facebook, said, just don't let me shop at IKEA ever again after movi...

To celebrate the troubled release of Cyberpunk 2077, Foone created a Cyberpunk 2077 apology generator that usese the distinctive edgy aesthetic from the developer's real online atonements. Put in your...

While we're by no means finished with the global COVID-19 nightmare, it's reassuring that it seems most of the world has adapted to certain difficult realities of life under the virus one of those be...

Back in the infancy of Amazon, third party sellers were just a tiny facet of the company's growing eCommerce power. In fact, those small retailers affiliated with Amazon only accounted for 3% of their...

In this video, a very cute three year old girl asks Santa, WTF? Which is a reasonable question.December 13, 2020 / London, UK: We went to see Santa at Hamley's, all was going well until Santa gave out...

Absolutely definitely not the creepiest Christmas nightmare I have ever seen and what is with those insane blood red lamps. From FLOTUS Melania Trump, on her official USG Twitter account, Friday Decem...

Commercial satellite imagery shows that a small building surrounded by a high wall has apparently been newly constructed built in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square.Here's something I didn't expec...

BREAKING: U.S. FDA authorizes Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, adding a second vaccine to the country's arsenal to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The outbreak is so dire that the United S...

Just like the Lightning cable that came before it, manufacturers are now chasing Apple's latest step in ever-evolving charging technology, the MagSafe. If you haven't purchased an iPhone 12 yet, then ...

"Will you join the effort to object to the election results January 6?," asks a Fox News reporter."We'll watch and see," says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, sauntering dangerously close to sedi...

These New York State Police photos show a car and its unfortunate driver in Owego, New York. New York State Police sergeant Jason Cawley, is credited with rescuing Kevin Kresen, 58, of Candor, NY, who...

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will be getting their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, From the Associated Press, citing Biden's incoming press secretary, Jen Psaki:Vice ...

Cue the beaver jokes, yeah, yeah. But this is my kind of ASMR. Little beavers chomping on their nom-noms, doing their wild thing in the pond. Hi beaver!Says the human who uploaded it: This summer I f...

A new Bloomberg survey reports that lithium-ion batteries are much cheaper than they were ten years ago. It says "increasing order sizes, growth in BEV [battery electric vehicle] sales and the introdu...

Look, we're gonna level with you…you may have already blown Christmas. The problem is, is you haven't purchased gifts already AND if they aren't already en route, there's a decent chance they wo...

Using the Python library Pysholar and some Javascript, John Kuiphoff wrote code that takes GPS coordinates, finds the amount of sunlight that falls all day long there, and turns it into 24 shapes R...

You're kicker on the football team and you just kicked a 30 yard field goal. Republicans: "Nope. That counted before, but now we need you to kick a 40-yarder. Yeah, we just found a rule about that ...

Earlier this week, the creators of Cyberpunk 2077 offered refunds to buyers after the game's buggy launch. Now the game is being completely unlaunched, at least on PlayStation: Sony is taking it off t...

Toilet to table? Sheriffs in the Alabama city of Rainsville cleared out a bootleg winemaking operation inside a wastewater treatment plant. Interestingly, it was illegal to sell alcohol in Rainsville ...

Want a nice constricting plastic apparatus on your nether regions giving you electric shocks? Well, this male chastity bird cage device might be what you or your loved ones are looking for. Though it'...

Snapdragon is a game from the 18th and 19th centuries that involves sticking your hand in a bowl of flaming brandy to snatch a raisin. While it sounds painful and dangerous, the parlor game was a Chri...

Circus arts enthusiast Paladin Ellsworth demonstrates some impressive multitasking while atop a rather tall unicycle. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Paladin Quaid Ells...

Andrew Lewer, a Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the UK, was today fired from his position in the Home Office after being identified as the source of a leak. To figure out who forwarded inte...

France-based artisan Kevin Hernandez creates these lovely stringed polyhedrons in all sorts of hues, shapes, sizes, and price points. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ke...

France-based artisan Kevin Hernandez creates these lovely stringed polyhedrons in all sorts of hues, shapes, sizes, and price points. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ke...

A Boston resident found a rye whiskey bottle inside an interior wall of their home. The bottle, discovered between near the fireplace flue, had a curious note inside:Tom Ford 6 on Shea[illegible] Sep ...

This RC 1:150 scale silver Toyota Crown was modded by YouTuber diorama111 from a TOMYTECH toy:The car is controlled by a self-made infrared remote control. The remote control format is proprietary. Th...

"If you had one shot… one opportunity… would you read everything in a transatlantic accent?" (Elise Roth)...

In the ten years since it came on the pop culture scene, datamoshing has not considerably changed, though a few practitioners are doing lovely work. Datamoshing takes the data from a media file and ma...

Our friends at surrealist clothier and art collective Imaginary Foundation celebrate "2020's most important global art event" with this limited edition monolith sculpture for your desktop. The handmad...

Garrett Lewis, a character animator for Disney, received a birthday voicemail from his dad. So he animated it. As one does. ...

New Zealand firm Eight360 is one of many working on prototypes for untethered VR. This is their NOVA immersive driving / flying simulator, which can be run as a two-player option.Seated options are pr...

Mike Flynn, the former general fired (and later pardoned) by President Trump for lying about his contacts with Russian officials, says that the military should overturn the results of November's elect...

There are lists of the best Christmas movies here and there, and all are arguable, not only about how "great" they really are, but whether they are Christmas movies at all. Must a Christmas movie be a...

Sea sparkle, or bioluminescent algae, happens in many parts of the world, but rarely is it as intense as in this footage by Raymond K.Here's another vibrant example from the Maldives:Image: YouTube / ...

On Adafruit, Erica St. Blaine shares a cool project for creating a light-up Menorah sweater using the Adafruit Gemma M0 microcontroller and NeoPixel LEDs.Image: Screengrab...

I publish a weekly newsletter called Gareth's Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales. For the last two years, I've done a year-end best-of collection. This year, I had too many great tips and didn't want the iss...

It's been out for more than a year, but just this week @strutting and Robin Sloan introduced me to "Fraidycat" — an intriguing tool for keeping up with people and sites online. It's a type of RS...

Between the 1860s and World War I, railroads were built to tie the various communities of New Zealand together. They were heavily advertised with gorgeous posters under the auspices of Railways Studio...

When you head out into the world, you're making a statement, whether you're conscious of it or not. With your appearance and attitude, you project a version of yourself to anyone and everyone you meet...

My dear friend Ann Druyan, co-creator of Cosmos and creative director of the Voyager Golden Record, and her daughter Sasha Sagan, author of the wonderful For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals for Fi...

Vintage styles weave back in and out of fashion, but there are some looks that no one ever wants to replicate. Like…ever.And while we mean no disrespect to our custodian brothers and sisters out...

"You haven't seen such a dirty carpet, the brown water almost flowed away like mud!" is the literal title of Lubuskie Centrum Czystoci's nearly hourlong epic cleansing of what is, you will certainly a...

In this Twitter thread, author (Proof of Corruption), attorney, and online investigative journalist, Seth Abramson offers a fascinating take on the QAnon cult.QAnon is an ARG (Alternate Reality Game)....

In the last installment of Donald Bell's Maker Update for 2020, he celebrates some of the most creative and clever pandemic and social isolation projects of 2020.There are some really great projects h...

On his popular Marginal Revolution podcast, Tyler Cowen interviewed John O. Brennan, who ran the CIA for four years under the Obama administration. In this excerpt, Cowen asks Brennan to give him the ...

Vice France has a great new article about the ways that 3D printing is disrupting the prosthetic limb industry. While a standard upper-body prosthetic can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $120,000, the e-...

Why am I finding it so weirdly peaceful to watch these Temponaut Time-lapse videos of food rotting? Quarantine brain, I guess. Here is a rotting tomato time-lapse. I can't stop watching these. Tempona...

Cities: Skylines is free of charge on the Epic store for the rest of December. This is an essential pick for fans of city-builder games. I'd especially recommend it if you're still bitter about how ba...

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Thursday that Russia cannot use its national anthem, flag, or even its name, at the next two Olympics, or at any world championships for the next two years. T...

King Gustaf calls virus strategy a failure"We have had a large number of deaths and that is terrible"Swedish health care system overwhelmed"We have failed." Finally, even Sweden's King Gusfaf has los...

About a decade or so ago, realistic molded silicone masks [Amazon] appeared and traveled their uncanny trajectory from convincing to disturbing to halloweeny as our familiarity with them increased. Th...

Allison Parrish is one of my favorite poets; she writes code that transforms language into fascinating and evocative literary forms.Recently she wrote software that generates "compass poems". She'll p...

The recently discovered Gastrodia agnicellus has been named the "ugliest orchid in the world," according to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It's one of more than 150 plants and fungi that RBG Kew rese...

I posted this on Adafruit yesterday, but I just thought it was too righteous not to share here.In this Tested.com Q&A with Adam Savage, he's asked the question "What is a maker?" As you might expe...

The office of Emmanuel Macron says on Thursday the French President has tested positive for coronavirus. A contact tracing effort is now under way across Europe, after a series of recent meetings betw...

Jakub Marian (previously at BB) created another fantastic map: this time, of the characters used in various European languages as quotation marks. As with other things, the English standard is slowly ...

On January 1, Public Domain Day, a fantastic trove of great works from 1921 are entering the US public domain, free for all to use, remix, and reimagine, including: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gat...

Rollerman has added a few more skates to his already speedy outfit, as well as some pretty impressive helmetcam gear. Then he zips down a mountain road amidst the gorgeous fall foliage.Image: YouTube ...

Oh lord, yeah.(Aaron Gage)...

The Swish Machine takes 70 steps and over 3 minutes from start to swish, and "the machine took a month to build and another month to successfully work." The shot was filmed in one take, with no cuts. ...

Two years ago, I posted that my old pal Rodney Ascher, director of fantastically freaky documentaries like Room 237, about weird theories surrounding The Shining, and The Nightmare, a study on sleep p...

On January 29, the former Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City will be imploded and you could be the one to push the button. Mayor Marty Small Sr. kicked off a charity auction for the oppor...

We humans are social animals, so we take our behavioral cues from people around us. A new bit of research suggests we'll take those cues from robots, too.In their new paper entitled "The Robot Made Me...

Five metronomes started at different times eventually synchronize in this nifty video from UCLA. It's been a known phenomenon since the 17th century:In 1665, Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens, i...

Ben Carter made an incredible mod for the Super Nintendo that adds real-time raytracing capabilities to the vintage console. It uses in-cart hardware similar in principle to the official 1993 Super-FX...

UNICEF, the UN agency that provides humanitarian aid to children worldwide, is arranging Christmas breakfasts for kids in Britain for the first time in its 70-year-history. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader...

The New York Times' Rachel Cericola today offers a guide to preventing package thefts. The basic premise is that cameras, while a deterrent, don't stop thefts: all they do is film them.One big deliver...

In 1982, 57% of Americans reported reading at least one work of creative literature in the preceding year. That number fell to 54% in 1992, then down to 47% in 2002. And, according to a Pew Research C...

The New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel found himself obsessed with watching videos of COVID-19 vaccines being delivered — big packages being unloaded by forklifts, opened up by medical offi...

The New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel found himself obsessed with watching videos of COVID-19 vaccines being delivered — big packages being unloaded by forklifts, opened up by medical offi...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation just released new whitepaper study titled Unfiltered: How YouTube's Content ID Discourages Fair Use and Dictates What We See Online that examines the oppressive use ...

Labor organizing has been on the rise in media and tech. And just this week, Quartz launched a multi-part series investigating how, "a new generation of employee activists is pushing back against thei...

There are many types of fungus that will invade insects in order to reproduce, but most kill the host and then release spores. Two new species of fungus discovered in Denmark consume their fly hosts f...

The song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" has always lent itself to parody lyrics -surely you remember that one about the sheriff who shot his wife that you learned on the school playground. However, ...

The latest mashup from YouTuber There I Ruined It (previously) features Billy Idol singing a lively Christmas song. The tune of "Jingle Bells" fits the lyrics of "Dancing With Myself," but that doesn'...

They seem innocent enough. But without trumping up local news expos levels of hysteria here…your pillow could actually be hurting you.Sure, they appear like happy, cloud-like wads of fluff, but ...

"This family of geese had about 2 dozen goslings under their care. They chose a place to exit the river that was very challenging for some of the goslings. With no wings yet, and tiny legs, the small ...

If you're in the path of winter weather today, you're not alone. This adorable beagle is still getting used to wearing his new cold weather snow booties. They look really cute and comfy, actually. [V...

There they go, reproducing. Look at 'em go. Sea turtles doin' it in the waters off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia....

Look at that little dude go! He's a mail mauler. He's taking every letter and magazine that comes through this mail slot very personally. [Video Link]...

President-elect Joe Biden would save American taxpayers $2.6 billion if he stops Trump's border wall project on Jan 21 as promised, according to new estimates from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Ho...

A transition official says President-Elect Joe Biden will likely be receiving his coronavirus vaccine as early as next week. From Reuters:Biden has said he would get the injection in a public setting ...

On Wednesday, U.S. congressional negotiators continue to go back and forth over details of a $900 billion COVID-19 emergency aid bill, expected to include $600-$700 stimulus checks and extended unempl...

Enter code 40IS77DW at checkout and get a discount when you order this LED light. Meant for garages and basements, you can adjust the four blade-like panels to direct light where it's most needed. It...

When she's not in her tattoo studio, New Orleans artist Jamie Winn is creating haunting automata pieces that are truly a delight. The painted wood pieces featuring both nature and the supernatural are...

This is an excellent impersonation of Tucker Carlson. Watch it, then watch the real Tucker, below:...

The price of bitcoin has been steadily on the increase as institutional investors are adding it to their portfolios as a hedge against fiat currency devaluation. As of 2:15pm PT the price of a bitcoin...

Without power, all these devices and gadgets we love so much are little more than glorified doorstops. And, some of them are too small to even do that very well.For the person on your holiday list who...

YOU can buy the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader! Information here."God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, and h...

The Mexican government passed a law to curb the DEA's interference in that country. Given the long history of DEA corruption and deadly botched operations in Mexico and elsewhere around the world, thi...

Authors and former io9 majordomos Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders have a fortnightly podcast called Our Opinions Are Correct, which covers all sorts of nerd culture and science-related topics. ...

Blob Opera is a new Google AI experiment that uses machine learning to help you compose what's essentially a Barbershop Quartet of pseudo Minion-like cartoons. You don't need any musical knowledge or ...

Could it be? Maybe. But it sounds like the resulting Disney-fied complete reboot could be a very different animal from the show we Browncoats knew and loved.My source tells me that Disney is in early ...

It's the uplifting "Where are they now?" file we all need to hear right now. Back in 2012, a Japanese macaque monkey named Darwin entered pop culture history, and all of our hearts, when he was photog...

Day 2 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up] pic.twitter.com/BhpVBWjbIK— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) December 2, 2020Twitter user @Pandamoanimum put together an Advent calendar to spread joy and laughter ...

Donald J. Trump considers himself a Christian, though he does not go to church regularly, read the Bible (or read anything, really), follow the teachings of Christ or display any actual Christian valu...

The Washington Post has an excellent new multimedia exploration of the impact of COVID-19 layoffs on longtime employees at Florida's Walt Disney World park. Mixing large-scale headline newsDisney layi...

On January 6, 2021, the U.S. House and Senate will get together to accept the electoral votes. If one House representative and one Senator decide to challenge the results, they are allowed to debate t...

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas released a selection of behind-the-scenes, outtakes, and blooper footage from the filming. Can you ...

Electronicos Fantasticos! is a Japanese band that makes and plays instruments made from "various retired consumer electronics such as Electric Fan Harp, CRT-TV Drums, Air Conditioner Harp, etc."[Thank...

I've never been brought back to Earth so fast. pic.twitter.com/p7g96UzNOL— Mike Scollins (@mikescollins) December 15, 2020Here's a rather odd juxtaposition of a Nightline promo read over the end...

A "ghost ship" with no passengers aboardbut packed with 649 kilos of cocainewashed up on Ailuk Atoll in the Marshall Islands last week. The Marshall Islands lie between Hawaii and the Philippines and ...

Discover Magazine has a bleakly fascinating article about the decline of serial killers in America:After that three-decade surge, a rapid decline followed. Nearly 770 serial killers operated in the U....

Under great pressure to safely shoot "Mission: Impossible 7" during Covid, movie star Tom Cruise went off on the crew. While in England Mr. Top Gun unloaded on members of the set who huddled around a...

Steve Hotze, a wealthy Republican donor, was so desperate to find evidence of voter fraud in Harris County, Texas, that he tasked investigators with looking for it. One of them, an ex-cop, rammed a va...

Santa Claus and one of his elves raided a house in Lima, Peru to bust a suspected drug dealer who allegedly hawked his wares near a school. The cops wore flak jackets under their costumes. According t...

When a mysterious illness blinded him at age 25, British naval officer James Holman took up a new pursuit: travel. For the next 40 years he roamed the world alone, describing his adventures in a serie...

Beedle the Bardcore performs covers of modern day hip-hop songs, in the style of medieval ballads. Just in case Postmodern Jukebox doesn't have enough lutes and bards and pennywhistles to please your ...

David Li created the Blob Opera, a wonderful creative experiment at the intersection of machine learning, music, and digital art. From the project description at Google Arts & Culture, hosts of th...

The publisher of a forthcoming book about cancel culture has cancelled its plans after the author ranted about Islam on Twitter. The author, Julie Burchill, "stepped over the line" in her verbal attac...

Tik Tok banned Perez Hilton, reports Taylor Lorenz, and it plainly did so because the site's younger, more popular influencers demanded it.The ban set off alarm bells because influencer fans had been ...

Whether you're 6 or 60, we all need some fun diversions from time to time. There are always easy time-killers like video games around, but sometimes you want something a little more tactile and engagi...

Facebook will move its U.K. users into user agreements under U.S. law, swapping Europe's strict privacy rules for the lax ones it enjoys in California. This will allow the company more leeway to track...

Leticia Roncero, Community Manager at Flickr, shared the platform's top 25 images of 2020. Since they are all marked "all rights reserved," here's a great puppy photo from Pexels. It has 13.4 million ...

Richard Murphy is an economist who blogs at TaxResearch.org.uk. He's also a visiting professor and consultant on economics and management at several universities; as well as an advisor to the Fai...

Alex Boya (previously) has released a trailer for The Mill, his newest animation about the unintended consequences of relying on biotech to solve the woes of the anthropocene.In the near future, globa...

A pine cone, a lathe, and some resin is all it takes to make some cool and distinctive coffee measuring spoons. The pattern is quite lovely when this relaxing project is completed.Image: YouTube / Mat...

There's a reason why Starbucks and other high-end coffee outlets have lines snaking out the door every morning. Sure, you can make coffee yourself in your own home with any of a thousand different cof...

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. The lead ...

USB hubs are kind of like the NFL linemen of the technology world. They don't get a lot of credit. They seldom get attention. And when they do, it's often because something didn't go right, or it stop...

In this hour-long "Build-a-Long" livestream on Tested yesterday, Jen Schachter demonstrated how you can create simple screenprints by cutting stencils out using adhesive vinyl. No photo emulsion or li...

The following is from my newsletter,The Magnet. There's a free version and a subscriber version. I hope you'll check it out! — MarkThat feeling from being the only one in a building is calledken...

I bought a self-healing cutting mat in 1988 so I could cut paper when laying out issues of Boing Boing. I still have it and use it all the time. There is no better way to slice paper with a craft knif...

Of all the Chuck Wagon dog food commercials, this one from 1976 is my favorite. It starts with a dog peacefully resting on a living room rug. Suddenly a tiny horse-drawn covered wagon charges out of t...

Over a dozen Chicago police officers bashed down the door of the wrong house and found an innocent unclothed black woman standing inside. They immediately handcuffed her but didn't bother to cover her...

Apparently unwilling to accept that Michigan voters chose Biden for president, a group of Republicans unsuccessfully tried to enter the Capitol with a batch of fake electoral votes for Trump. In the v...

Joaquin Baldwin made a time-lapse music video, lip syncing "Better Days" by @Radical Face over a period of 101 days as he let his beard grow.The "making of" video explains how Baldwin did it:...

I really like a number of the YouTube series that Wired produces. One that I just discovered is called "Tech Support." But the support these techs render is not about computers. It's support for subje...

In the 1990s Pepsi ran a promotion in the Philippines that gave people the chance to win cash prizes if the three-digit number printed on the inside of a Pepsi bottle cap matched the number announced ...

There are a lot of reasons why Netflix's The Queen's Gambit won* so many people over this fall. Based on a novel, the series tells the story of a young woman in the 60s and 70s who rises through the r...

Always worth rewatching in the winter months, Slava Ivanov's classic microscopic time-lapse film of a snowflake's formation is a magnificent meditation on the wonder of our natural world. The music is...

Why do self-driving cars tend to look, well, like the Zoox you see in this post? They're optimizing for storage area and simplicity, obviously, but there is also psychology at work. Still, cubes have ...

A lucid dream is one in which you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming and can often control what happens. It's a powerful skill to develop for the sake of fun but also as a way to enhance creati...

There are few more infuriating sights than to be hiking through a gorgeous landscape, or enjoying a day on the shore, only to see empty plastic water bottles strewn everywhere. As if the littering was...

"Facebook just took down two foreign influence ops that it discovered going head to head in the Central African Republic, as well as targeting other countries," says Graphika's Ben Nimmo. "More-troll ...

"The PIC is urging the public to refrain from any travel and participate in the inaugural activities from home"The Presidential Inauguration Committee of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-...

Early in comedian Caitlin Reilly's series of impersonations of annoying archetypal people on social media, she nailed "the girl who's a singer." ...

"So as of this morning, our country has officially a president-elect and a vice president-elect. So today I want to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden." Mitch McConnell, Tuesday December 15, 202...

Hey @jeffjacobson – in the spirit of 2020, I'm gonna need a do-over! Please DM your mother's phone number so we can try this again https://t.co/4E87elQkD8— Smokey Robinson (@smoke...

Nobody.live presents random Twitch streams with nobody watchinguntil you are. Welcome to the chat room. Send a message. (via WAXY)...

Cyberpunkland is a turn-based strategy game by Adi Robertson and William Joel. It's about managing Blade City, a futuristic dystopian environment that's both a theme park and a slum, depending on your...

With laptops ubiquitous and desktop monitors often coming with one built in, the idea of buying a stand-alone webcam became unusual, even rustic. Then the Covid pandemic struck and everyone started wo...

nand2Tetris is a famed online course where you build a computer from the ground up — learning to chain together logic gates like AND and OR and NAND until you've built virtual hardware that can ...

#SATELLITE SPOTLIGHT: Here's a closer look at today's total #SolarEclipse from @NOAA's #GOES16. The moon's shadow tracked over the southern Pacific Ocean, as well as across #Chile and ...

In the realm of physics, a "perfect" fluid is one that flows with the smallest amount viscosity possible under quantum mechanics. It's predicted that you'd find them occurring naturally in the core of...

The Nevada Highway Patrol in the Las Vegas area has a fleet of Police Interceptor Utility vehicles that are hard for drunks and non-drunks alike to identify as law enforcement. These "ghosted out" Fo...

Over the weekend, I had an article printed in the New York Times Real Estate section about that time I nearly burned the house down with a really dumb electrical error:I was down in my unfinished base...

Washington Post reporter Ellen Nakashima writes late Monday night, "The State Department and NIH join list of federal agencies now five hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign. And their num...

December 5, 2020, in Opelousas, Louisiana: "My Roomba kept cutting off and I didn't know why. So I decided to watch it and this is what I discovered!" [Video Link]...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asked a court on Monday to compel Amazon.com to comply with outstanding subpoenas for a state investigation into Amazon's response to the coronavirus pandemi...

Uber was fined $59 million Monday for failing to provide the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) with information on a number of sexual assault and harassment claims. Reuters reports that U...

CNN has published a comprehensive report on Alexey Navalny's own investigation into who tried to kill him. The answer, spoiler, isthe Russian state security services under Vladimir Putin. Don't miss t...

You probably had some grand visions about all the new skills you were going to learn this year with all that extra time on your hands while cooped up in the house. But, if you're like the overwhelming...

Senator Lindsey Graham says the biggest "threats to conservatism" are election officials making it easier for people to vote, and social media companies cracking down on disinformation.Video from Fox ...

Paul Behrends, who lost his job on the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after links to Russia were reported, suffered a head injury close to his home on Friday night....

Digital projectors used to be almost the exclusive domain of business pros. While PowerPoint presentations are still the bread and butter of a business pitch, projectors have now become so powerful an...

Just another example of why I love r/ObscureMedia: this early 1980s commercial for a Japanese bank featuring wildly off-model teenage Pebbles and Bam-Bam....

In 2012, photographer Regina Valkenborgh, then a student at the University of Hertfordshire in England, created a series of makeshift pinhole cameras by lining drink cans with photographic paper. She ...

Two undercover police officers dressed as Santa Claus and a worker elf arrested a carjacker suspect at gunpoint. The cops were at a Target in Riverside, California as part of a shoplifting sting when ...

I have many fond childhood memories of playing Commander Keen on my friends' early computers. We were a strictly Mac household starting in 1991, so I rarely got to indulge in the pleasures of cool vid...

Brian Bilston has been called the "unofficial poet laureate of Twitter" for his clever, digestible, pun-tastic poetry.Fitting with the theme of 2020, Bilston has written a new holiday poem titled "Ten...

Today's the day that the Electoral College reports in, legally confirming Joe Biden's victory and obviating further legal moves from Trump, whose courtroom efforts to overturn the election are at thei...

The BBC reports:Archaeologists have excavated more sections of an extraordinary Aztec tower of human skulls under the centre of Mexico City.Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INA...

The New York Times has a piece on "tone indicators" — a growing trend on the Intertubes to use short-forms that clarify the emotional tone of an utterance.This tweet by @CosmicSky0_o, cited by t...

Push latches are found in things like gasoline valve lids and cabinet doors. Push it once and they lock the door. Push it again and it pops open. This Old Tony wanted to better understand how they wor...

Santa Claus likely delivered the gift of COVID-19 to at least 75 residents and staff of a nursing home in Mol, Belgium. One person who was already receiving palliative care has died while another is s...

In The New Yorker, Alex Ross writes that Hitler's bunker rantas immortalized in film by Bruno Ganz in the 2004 movie The Downfallprobably never happened. The subtitled parodies of the scene offer absu...

In the mid-70s I bought a Sinclair Black Watch kit with my hard-earned lawn-mowing money. It actually worked, at least some of the time. It burned through batteries. The most memorable part about it w...

The name "Indians" for Cleveland's baseball team joins former mascot "Chief Wahoo" in the 'retired' category. ESPN:The Cleveland Indians plan to drop the nickname they have used for more than a centur...

Stephen Miller on Fox & Friends says "an alternative" group of electors is also voting today: "As we speak, an alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and ...

pic.twitter.com/jtF5WKCiro— Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 14, 2020Not only is the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 is riddled with glitches, but the game itself has been roundly panned by ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services found it necessary to issue a tweet reminding the local populace that raw meat is dangerous. Evidently, there is a holiday custom of eating raw meat. For ma...

While fried water isn't likely to make the grade for the ultimate hotbed of fried foodsstate fairsthis looks like a perfect recipe for a school science fair project. (The Action Lab)...

Lego Certified Professional Jumpei Mitsui brought Hokusai's iconic ukiyo-e woodblock print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c. 1829-1833) into the Lego realm. Marvel at this incredible work in Osaka's H...

Jonathan from the Institute for Human Anatomy and a willing cadaver demonstrate the path of a nasopharyngeal swab during COVID-19 testing. Spoiler: Bone protects your brain from the probe but the dist...

The Mother, the Son, and the real Holy Spirit. Can you spot Cookie Monster?(@marksumm, thanks UPSO!)...

German maker Laura Kampf was asked by Lenovo to make something big, dramatic, and fun for their #ForAllofUsFridays online events. She decided to create a huge fire wheel of burning steel wool. Fire! F...

I don't have a VR headset, so can't check out the newfangled VR edition of classic exploration and puzzle game Myst from Cyan Worlds, launched last week to positive reviews. So instead I have to conte...

It can take about four hours to make a batch of phyllo dough by hand before it becomes tasty baklava or spanakopita, and not too many people practice the ancient baking technique these days. 86-year-o...

I had to get an e-ink photo frame for an Xmas gift and, after exhaustively researching the matter for about 8 minutes, have decided that the one from Frame Labs is clearly the least cheesy. Its ArtFra...

With a surprisingly small number of specialized items, it is possible to grow opals in a small home setup. For the process here, the only thing that's a little hard to get ahold of is tetraethyl ortho...

Over the past four years, I've been a devoted viewer of Clickspring, the YouTube channel of an Australian clockmaker named Chris. The main project Chris has been working on over that time is reconstru...

Green Monday isn't just a time for finishing off your holiday purchases. It's a time to cast an eye toward 2021 and pick up a few needed essentials you might have been putting off up until now.And, if...

(UPDATE: Looks like service is in the process of being restored)AFFECTED BY OUTAGE starting around 7am Eastern Time U.S.: Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Maps, Adwords and Adsense, and Goog...

"There are no small parts, only small actors." -Konstantin StanislavskiIn business, there are no small projects. There are only project managers who haven't embraced the full importance of crossing ev...

No sooner are consumers getting used to Cyber Monday than holiday shoppers are now being presented with another retailer-driven hot day: Green Monday. It's actually been around for almost 20 years, bu...

Like Da Vinci before him, Sir Isaac Newton was a polymath with plenty of claims to fame. He explained gravity. He developed calculus. He invented the cat flap. But Newton's not-so-public interests are...

This fall, Massive Science released the "Women of Science Tarot Deck". It includes such notables as Rosalind Franklin (the chemist whose work was key to understanding DNA), experimental physicist Chie...

Winter is always fun from funny Earlier this week, Kiev had an ice storm which left a coating on everything, including roads, sidewalks, and ramps. Security cameras caught people...

Alex French Guy Cooking, our favorite French chef and nerd in the kitchen, has been running a series on his YouTube channel on mother sauces, those sauces which are the basis of French cooking. The wh...

In September, the British Museum launched a show, "Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution." The purpose of the show is to demystify this very misunderstood Eastern philosophy and practice through its art...

Vanilla is the world's second-most costly spice, exceeded only by saffron. While we refer to vanilla seed pods as "beans," the plant is really an orchid, the only food-producing orchid in the world. Y...

Peoria artist Joshua Hawkins was commissioned to paint a mural in Peoria, Illinois. The work had to be completed over Thanksgiving weekend, and he would be well paid. The requested art was of Sesame S...

Amid the news that 78-year-old Harrison Ford has signed up for a fifth Indiana Jones movie, it occurs to us that it's about time for Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. to retire from the fictional Marshall College....

One of the things I've enjoyed about isolation media during COVID has been watching British New Wave pop star, Toyah, and her husband, the King Crimson, Robert Fripp, streaming music, fun, and high we...

In Germany, most stores must close starting Wednesday until at least January 10, as the country tightens restrictions to fight coronavirus spread, said Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday.And sorry, Ge...

Never have I cheered more cheerfully for trucks. CNN aviation and transportation correspondent Pete Muntean tweeted this video of UPS and FedEx trucks carrying the first U.S. shipment of coronavirus v...

Here's a bonkers Sunday Morning political talk show clip for you. Fired Trump 'attorney' Sidney Powell of losing 'Kraken' lawsuit infamy tells Mike Huckabee that voters in the state of Georgia should ...

A Chinese space capsule has begun its three-day return trip home to Earth, carrying with it the first moon rocks to reach our planet in more than four decades. The Chang'e 5 lunar probe has been orbit...

This is what is needed, and it's a good PSA, just out on Sunday from the transition team of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.Wearing a mask isn't about politicsit's science. pic.twitter.com/InZBj4WkKj̵...

In Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari says in a statement that the military has located kidnappers who abducted an hundreds boys from a school in Katsina state. The statement issued Saturday says the...

This is so cool. Track the flight of FedEx Flight FDX884, which is carrying the first COVID-19 vaccines for distribution. Via @ShadyPlanes.FedEx Flight FDX884 carrying first COVID-19 vaccines for dist...

Maybe you're eyeing a return to the office next year. Or, maybe you think this 2020 work-from-home thing might be your work-space for the foreseeable future. Either way, the past nine months might hav...

Cybercrime is not only on the rise, but its global impact has become virtually incalculable. This year, digital thieves will cost the world economy over $1 trillion, according to a report compiled by ...

A Virgin Galactic test flight today had to be ended prematurely when the spacecraft's rocket motor wouldn't ignite. The ship descended safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico.The hour-long f...

CD Projekt Red (CDPR), the Polish software house responsible for the recent release of Cyberpunk 2077, have been facing a backlash from the LGBTQ+ community for their transphobic marketing since at le...

Just a few months ago, Donald Trump told the white supremacist terrorist organization The Proud Boys, "Stand back & stand by, but I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something." The Washingto...

In the dead of winter, camping and the great outdoors are likely among the last things on anybody's mind. But, before you know it, spring and summer will be right back around, so picking up gift items...

Many have tried and all have failed to create a proper holiday pop song for Hanukkah that is both educational and possesses a nasty bass line. Luckily for us, funk wizard Chaki Sklar has stepped in to...

For decades, music lovers have been one of the easiest groups of people to buy for each holiday season. Just find the newest advancement in tech that makes the music sound even better, make your purch...

In response to Pantone's reveal of their "Colors of the Year 2021," Doctor Popular posted this image on Facebook with the remark: "This is all I see when I think of Pantone's colors of the year. Now y...

The Zodiac Killer, who murdered at least five people in 1968 and 1968 and claims to have killed many more, sent taunting letters to California newspapers. One of the message consisted of a series of l...

If you want to know the personal areas where people feel they need help or growth, look no further than the coursework adults take. In a report by respected online education provider Udemy, 2020 has s...

Even in an age of credit cards and cash apps, the wallet is still a stylish calling card. Beyond just holding your money and assorted plastic, it's a personalized distillation of you in a small leathe...

This itty-bitty NES ornament won't let you play games, but you can press a button and turn on the red LED. ...

A person who drove their car into a group of Black Lives Matter protestors is in custody, says the NYPD. No news about the number of people who were hit or the extent of their injuries.From NBC New Yo...

Derek Muller of Veritasium hosts this show on an Australian solar-powered vehicle race, with competitors from around the world braving wind, dust and a surprising number of crashes: "They'll race 2,00...

Theodore Kim is a Yale computer science professor who's worked for years on techniques for rendering computer-generated humans; he used to be a senior research scientist at Pixar. In Scientific Americ...

Maryam Tsegaye, a 17-year-old science adept in Fort McMurray, Alberta, entered a global contest called the "Breakthrough Junior Challenge", in which you create a YouTube video to try to explain a comp...

Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, is also famous for his audacious photography, notably of food. A while ago he got interested in snowflakes, too, and realized that to take high-rez photos of th...

Since its founding in the 1970s, through its emergence in the 1980s, through its dominance in the 1990s, Microsoft has been at the center of the personal computing universe as long as there's been a p...

Brooke on Foot was shooting video with her $1,500 DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone when it crashed on this tiny island. She free climbed the cliff wall to search for it, and was able to recover it....

@michaelaboutrosghali Comment if you'd rather travel with Sky or Alexa. (PS – another pre covid sketch) #foryou #foryoupage #fyp #sky #alexa #travelaway @away #ad original sound – Micha...

Imagine boarding a plane and shortly after takeoff, realizing you'd left a $300,000 painting by Yves Tanguy sitting at the check-in counter. It probably wouldn't be a carefree flight. That's what happ...

Pointer Pointer is a website that loads a photo with someone pointing at where your mouse cursor is in the window. That's all it does, but it gave me a few minutes of amusement. For that, the creator ...

Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin are foregoing their annual Christmas song tradition and instead, Grohl says, "decided to celebrate Hanukkah by recording eight songs by eight famous J...

Will your dog appreciate a bowl that costs $45 more than one that costs a buck or two? The host of You Betcha employs his canine companion, Jack (whom the host assures us is a "man of science"), to fi...

Hotels are suffering greatly as a result of the pandemic, reports MSN. By the end of the year, the hotel industry in the United States will have recorded a billion unsold hotel room nights. Based on a...

We've all spent decades complaining about the ever-skyrocketing cost of the monthly cable bill. The irony is, now that cable is quietly dying at the hands of streaming services, the proliferation of t...

Weinerville was a surreal puppet and live action variety show for kids (although not really) that aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons from 1993 to 1994. (The show was created by puppeteer and actor M...

Weinerville was a surreal puppet and live action variety show for kids (although not really) that aired on Nickelodeon for two seasons from 1993 to 1994. (The show was created by puppeteer and actor M...

I can confidently say the best part is the lyric change in the third verse.Last year, I shared my Spotify playlist of 101 different covers of the best Christmas song with the most unfortunate 3rd-vers...

Men are notoriously bad at maintaining friendships as they get older a problem that likely stems from the toxic masculine behaviors we learn to internalize in our youth. Few of us are immune to it, e...

As you clean the cobwebs from the corners, you can take comfort in the fact that the ISS has spiders, too. Those are experimental spiders, deliberately taken aboard to see how space conditions affect ...

Over at Logically.ai, philosopher Dr Natalie Ashton has a great short piece about the epistemological value of social media. While I've definitely found myself preferring Twitter over Facebook even a...

Because 2020 is full of surprises, the conservative-majority Supreme Court just voted unanimously to protect Muslims from the FBI. From NPR:The case  Tanzin v. Tanvir  involved three Muslim ...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission posted a recall on Adco Trading Inc.'s Peaceful Stream/Moonlit Waves Candle due to fire risk. If you have one, please return it to Dollar Tree for a full refu...

French armed forces received approval from a military ethics committee to officially begin developing "augmented soldiers," according to CNN:The report, released to the public on Tuesday, considers me...

A salvage company has found the wreckage of a 1920s US Navy submarine at the bottom of the ocean off the Maryland coast. US bombers sank the USS R-8 submarine near Ocean City, Maryland in 1936 during ...

COVID-19 kills a lot of people. But one of the scarier things about the disease is how many of the survivors have continued to suffer long-term damages, many months after the actual virus has left the...

The Civil Aviation Administration of China's new official coronavirus guidelines suggest that flight attendants on trips involving high-risk COVID countries should wear "medical masks, double-layer di...

A mummified body buried near the Rio Grande between 1000 and 1400 years ago reveals not only a diagnosis, but his end-of-life care. A microscopic-level study of his digestive tract revealed the cause ...

In China, plainclothes police abducted a Bloomberg News reporter from her home, and authorities are detaining her on suspicion of endangering national security. Haze Fan last contacted her editor on M...

David Enrich, 'Dark Towers' author and New York Times correspondent, reports that the Manhattan District Attorney is intensifying a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's business dealings, and th...

During an appearance on ABC News this morning, Health and Human Services Director Alex Azar said the FDA intends to grant Emergency Use Authorization to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The EUA could be iss...

Whew. Things are weird. Donald Trump, who lost the presidential election and is trying to stage a coup, tweeted the following early on Friday morning: I just want to stop the world from killing itself...

In a brazen attack by desperate New York City rats a Washington Heights Chipotle Mexican restaurant became their best target, eventually forcing this popular food chain to shut down indefinitely. Rec...

Some social media accounts are posting a disinformation meme that says lipid nanoparticles in the COVID-19 vaccines mean the anti-coronavirus vaccinations contain small robots or computers that transm...

This one's a stunner. Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke: 'Her Revolution' / His Rope' out now, XL Recordings....

On Thursday night, the government of the United States carried out the ninth federal execution of 2020, the first during a presidential lame-duck period in 130 years. Federal prisoner Brandon Bernard ...

I've always been a big fan of artist Brian Singer (aka Someguy). He came to my attention in 2000 with his wonderful The 1000 Journals Project. In this 5-minute EMS film, Brian gives us a tour of his s...

Maker Update, Donald Bell's weekly showcase of inspiring projects, maker news, tips and tools remains one of my favorite DIY shows on YouTube.Donald does a great job himself and he's been expanding th...

On Wednesday, a day in which we lost more American lives to COVID than we did on 9/11, MSNBC's Chris Hayes bleeds off some of the pressure from his rage and anguish at what he calls the "depraved indi...

Out today, this little sneak peek of 'Star Wars: The Bad Batch,' an all-new animated original series from Lucasfilm Animation to be released on Disney Plus.A sneak peek at Star Wars: The Bad Batch, an...

Pandemic lockdowns and a steep drop in air travel and driving led to a 7% global reduction in carbon dioxide emissions this year, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures from the Global Carbon ...

"If the patterns we've traced here since spring hold true, the worst is yet to come." COVID Tracking ProjectU.S. COVID update: More than 3,000 new deaths for 2nd day in a row, number in ICU hits 21K....

Uber's CEO sent a letter to all 50 United States governors asking them to prioritize giving coronavirus vaccines to drivers and delivery workers, who are essential workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.Fro...

The next 'Star Wars' movie STAR WARS: ROGUE SQUADRON will be released at Christmas 2023. The film will be directed by 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins. The news hit via Disney's 'Investor's Day' ...

Everyone in my family seems to like working and studying anyplace but their desks. I've gotten sick of working at a desk all day, myself. We've been using the 12-foot Habitat 360 extension cord, which...

When setting up characters in the newly released Cyberpunk 2077, players can choose from a variety of genitalia. Fortunately/unfortunately (take your your pick) some of the outfits allow people to air...

Netflix just posted the 14-minute video about the making of The Queen's Gambit. It includes interviews with lead actor Anya Taylor-Joy and writer-director Scott Frank.Based on the novel by Walter Tevi...

Alabama representative Mo Brooks said he is planning to make use of the Electoral Count Act of 1877 law to force both houses of congress to debate the certified electoral vote. He needs a senator to a...

As we all know, Google is more than just a search engine. Like most of the major players in the digital space over the last 30 years, Google has diversified far beyond the search engine they introduce...

A group of scientists created a computer model of the airflow around someone wearing a face-shield — one of those see-through plastic visors you attach to your head.They discovered that if you'r...

Rain Noe of Core 77 posted a graphic with samples from 50 different written languages. Can you tell which ones are real and which ones were made up for movies or TV? However, of these 50 scripts, five...

I enjoyed reading Reddit users' favorite purchases this year. Some highlights:Chickens. "They eat weeds and table scraps. They give us eggs. They give us good compost. They are funny as all heck. They...

I discovered the work of Richard Corben as a teenager in the 1970s in copies of Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella. His distinctive airbrush style gave a sense of mass and volume to his characters, and I i...

Christmas becomes gloriously weird in the song "Apocalypse Christmas" by the RiffTones. Josh Flowers made a video for the song using clips from various B-movies featured on RiffTrax. From those movies...

Recycling and sustainability are the keywords for this week's eco-friendly tabloids, which rehash old stories as news and return yet again to perennial favorites."Barbra Streisand, 78 Blindsided By D...

Joseph Medicine Crow was raised on a Montana reservation in the warrior tradition of his Crow forefathers. But during World War II he found himself applying those lessons in very different circumstanc...

KP Mackenzie creates charming wooden artwork from some of his favorite films, including some really nice posters and still using different colored wood:This is a brief quick lapse video of the making ...

YouTuber Made By Marv shows how he turns sterling silver wire into gorgeous handmade jewelry, like this Cuban link with an amethyst.Here he makes a Figaro bracelet:Check out his Instagram for the late...

Behold the "Smellicopter": A wee drone that's been outfitted with a live antenna from a moth, which lets it navigate towards smells.It worked — and when they compared its performance to an artif...

What could be more festive than a hot toddy infused with honey, spices, and citrus fruits? That's what boilo is, but unless you're from Pennsylvania, you've probably never heard of it.While boilo's ra...

Ibogaine is a plant-based psychedelic substance used ritually by indigenous peoples in South America and West Africa. In the 1950s, researchers began studying the compound for use to treat drug addict...

In the middle of the night this week, smugglers tossed more than two dozen packages over the fence at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Jackson, Mississippi. The big score was apparent...

If you sold Nintendo products in the early 1990s, you likely were audience to this delightful customer service training video. And yes, that's Dr. Phlox (aka John Billingsley) in the taped eyeglasses....

Comedian Rob Delaney lost his 3-year-old son to a brain tumor in January 2018. 3 years later, he reflects on this, and how it's changed his relationship with death, in a brief segment for BBC Radio 4'...

Over the last few months, Julia Marcus — an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School — has been writing articles for the Atlantic that make a solid point: If you want people to act more sa...

In this Rolling Stone interview, lightly moderated by Andy Greene, Elvis Costello and Iggy Pop reminisce about when they first met, what they discovered in each other's music, the genius of the Bowie/...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the hugely influential Black ABCs project, child models for the educational posters are reminiscing about being part of so many urban classrooms.Via University of ...

This potoo guarding her egg is almost invisible. Keep watching to the end for a happy ending with a beb urutau.Here are some Costa Rican potoos:This common potoo can see through your soul:Image: YouTu...

The fine folks at FliteTest turned $50 of foam into an impressive large-scale model of a smaller flyer shaped like a futuristic space vehicle:We took one of the flyers from the new FT STEM Project EZ ...

A massive 62-inch firework lit up the mountains above Steamboat Springs, Colorado earlier this year. The firework was recognized as a world record by Guinness.The makers show that the shell was big en...

Workers heard distress cries of a baby tamarin and safely got it back to its mother. Here's another little cutie reunited:Tamarins are having a tough time of it in many parts of the world:Image: YouTu...

Pool Live Aid allows anyone to line up a shot on a pool table. In addition to the trade show demonstration above, Luis Carlos also put together this promotional video:Image: YouTube / Lus Carlos...

Google Trends has released the top search terms for 2020, and made this video to illustrate the overarching topics of what people searched for. It's a short but good look at the year, centered around ...

Mathieu Stern (previously) found a 120-year-old keepsake box containing childhood memorabilia, including two glass negatives of beloved pets. So he developed them and colorized them.Image: YouTube / M...

Mathieu Stern (previously) found a 120-year-old keepsake box containing childhood memorabilia, including two glass negatives of beloved pets. So he printed them and colorized them.Image: YouTube / Mat...

Jacob Wake Up! is the bass player in my rock band, the Roland High Life, as well as the guitarist in the Boston-based ska band the New Limits. But since the music world is, well, pretty slow right now...

On Sunday, December 4, 2020, the New York Times published an expose about the dangerous consequences of PornHub's user-generated content:Pornhub is like YouTube in that it allows members of the public...

"Take off your mask so I know how much to tip you" is a new report from One Fair Wage, a national organization that works to improve wages and working conditions for service industry employees. T...

Artist and designer Michael Lexier created this curious object, "Two Puzzles," in which the image of one puzzle's cuts is printed on the other, and vice-versa."They look like two of the exact same puz...

A team of Chinese scientists spent a decade trying to find the answer to the question that has kept so many of us up at night: why do pandas like to roll around in poop?Specifically, they had noticed ...

Jazz Cats is a live kitten cam in which the meows are changed into saxophone sounds. The software behind the sound is Imitone, pitch-to-MIDI software that translates the notes that you (or the cats) s...

Have you seen how bitcoin is doing in 2020? You're forgiven if you've had other things on your mind this year that don't involve digital dollars, but it might be time to give it a little attention.Aft...

We all realize this is going to be a very different Christmas this year. Travel plans are on hold, shopping is all cyber, and even some of the hallmarks of the season are forced to change course to ac...

Now that all 50 states plus DC have certified their election results, given Biden an easy victory, Trump is clinging to a fantastical Texas lawsuit as if it were a reality changing magic spell. From C...

Missed it by that much....

Thomas Wright was a British astronomer who made some sharp predictions — while looking at the Milky Way and other nebulae back in the mid-18th-century, he was the first to surmise they were actu...

There are companies out there trying to make a buck by selling antibacterial and antiviral elevator button or door handle covers. Victory! Germophobes rise up. Unfortunately these will do little to a...

The artist Anthony Howe is famous for making kinetic metal sculptures that move in the wind. Colossal has a nice roundup of several here — they're mesmerizing, a study in opposites: The strength...

I have a Tile Slim tracker in my wallet and the only time I remember it's there is when I can't find it and use the Tile app on my phone to make it chirp. It's the size of a credit card and as thick a...

On Monday Florida's Department of Health conducted an armed raid at Covid data scientist Rebekah Jones' home because she had allegedly sent a message to 1,700 people on a state emergency-responder sys...

The alarm hasn't sounded yet, but admit it…you're starting to realize you're running out of time for holiday shopping. With logistics this year, it already might be too late to get some gif...

Breaking news: The Washington Post reports that the "U.S. government and 48 state attorneys general filed wide-ranging antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging the tech giant relied ...

2/ Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline. Now that enough states certified their Presidential election results, we'll remove any content published today (or anytime after) that alleges widespread fra...

I've long enjoyed Christian Thompson's Python tutorials on YouTube. He's an excellent instructor. Even better are his livestreaming coding sessions, where he programs games in real time. It's useful w...

This year has given wine fans plenty of opportunity to indulge in their hobby. And, while we could make hundreds of jokes about 2020 and drinking, let's focus on their point here: great holiday saving...

Trump probably can't pardon himself, so to protect himself against being prosecuted for a multitude of federal crimes he's going to step down and allow President Mike "Stonks" Pence to pardon him. Tha...

The year 2020 seemed to be off to a good start. Then came wildfires, a brutal crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, a deadly pandemic, the collapse of Venezuela's economy, Trump's impeachment and acqui...

The totality of stuff made by humans and currently in-use, from forks to cars to buildings, is likely to now outweigh all of the plants, animals, bacteria, and other living things on Earth. According ...

Two of Pantone's 2021 colors of the year: "Illuminating," and "Ultimate Grey."More at Pantone's 2021 colors of the year site.. @Pantone has revealed that two colors have made the cut for 2021's "Color...

Canada's health regulator has approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, after completing a full independent review of the data on safety and effectiveness. Canadians will begin receiving ...

The Russian military conducted large-scale drills of its strategic nuclear forces on Wednesday, featuring multiple missile launch tests.Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement the maneuvers incl...

It's Hosico Cat on the treadmill! In this video, you can see my first introduction to the treadmill. My first steps are still timid and not everything works out right away, but I will continue trainin...

A women's soccer game between China's Fuzhou University and Jimei University was cancelled on Saturday because players on both times apparently had dyed hair, verboten according to game regulations. F...

Google will lift a temporary ban on election-related advertisements on December 10, the Alphabet-owned company said on Wednesday."We will still rigorously enforce our ads policies, which strictly proh...

All the mutants are dead, or so the world thinks. So ol' Logan goes into the Barber Shop for a shave. But the wannabe-Sweeney Todd recognizes him, leading to a barbershop quartet's worth of violence.I...

Last year, my friend Parker Molloy published a pretty comprehensive look at the manufacturing of the fake "War on Christmas" that has driven so much conservative discourse this century. It's at once f...

Announcing the new GIFT BOOK PACKAGE: Send the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, to a liked/loved one this holiday season...

The International Olympic Committee announced on Monday that breakdancing will be an official event at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. From The Guardian: It made its Olympic debut at the 2018 Summer ...

A segment from the BBC's "Inside the Bat Cave" documentary that uses night-vision, ultrasonic detectors, and X-ray imagery to reveal the secret lives of bats and their flight dynamics. Forward to 1:52...

The above leaked photo reportedly came from a 2018 document prepared by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the US defense department's group that investigates UFOs. From The Debrief...

Everybody needs some little stocking stuffers ready to go at a moment's notice. Whether they're genuinely filling out that stocking hung by the fireplace or you just need a fun White Elephant gift for...

More and more states are building wildlife overpasses so animals can cross highways more safely. This is good for animals, especially endangered ones, and it's good for motorists because it reduces co...

Cooper Ray is a New York City bike courier who zips around with little regard for safety. While the narrator presents this "riding the wave" style as wonderful, the commenters on the video would beg t...

The helmetcam on this intense course shows that not only is the course hard, but the other bikers are obstacles as well!The Red Bull Romaniacs Extreme Enduro Rally was created in 2004 by founder Marti...

Hikaru Nakamura decided to take on his own artificial intelligence Hikaru-bot, and he hilariously gets annoyed when it plays his own openings against him.And if that's impressive, watch him play blitz...

Outdoorsy stuff is taking advantage of interesting fabrics, like this one-way see-through hunting blind. They even work in the rain if you tap them.Seems way better than the tents with metal poles we ...

The Tentsile is a tent that uses straps and tensile strength to support its occupants. It's kind of like a covered tri-point hammock. This reviewer includes some pretty dramatic images.If you've ever ...

Tying a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue is an old bar trick that has sexual connotations going way back. When you're drinking, it doesn't take much to make you think about sex, and the idea of ...

I love painting game minis. It's one of my favorite things to do to relax, to escape, and to express my creativity. Sadly, I rarely get a chance to do it. Too many things to do, not enough hours in th...

This is easily THE most bizarre advertisement I have seen in quite some time :) I made a mental list of products/services that it could be advertising, but it beat every single expectation or idea int...

Gamers and cryptocurrency miners are avid consumers of the latest hotrodded "graphics processing units," computer cards designed specifically to crunch massive amounts of math at screaming speeds. The...

In the age of COVID, Zoom meetings, and digital commerce, it's never been more crucial for a business or brand to have a strong, impactful web presence. Knowing how to build one is not simple, which i...

Just a cute little puppy dog going out for a ride on his rooster friend. [Video Link]...

President-elect Joe Biden may offer a high-profile ambassadorship to former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana may become the new U.S...

In Idaho, public health officials were forced to halt a meeting already in progress on Tuesday, after Boise's mayor and chief of police said intense protests outside the health department building, an...

This is a pretty genius workout setup here. [Video Link]...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam held a press conference Tuesday morning to prepare drivers in the state for a new law set to go into effect in the new year.Virginia's General Assembly passed a ban on the ...

Outgoing, bonkers, and impeached U.S. President Donald Trump says it's "terrific" that so many Americans have gotten the coronavirus.In this clip, Trump says of the percentage of Americans who had con...

Harold Budd, minimalist and avant-garde musician who helped pioneer the genre of ambient music, has died. He was 87. Budd's solo compositions and collaborations with Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and the ...

Prominent U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye disclosed on its corporate blog Tuesday it was hacked, possibly by a foreign nation, and the breach included the theft of internal hacking tools the firm norm...

There's never a bad time to be a gamer. But in the season when two next-level gaming systems both drop…well, it's a time for gamers to revel in their obsession. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series...

Wow, what a story from the New York Times' Jack Nicas [@jacknicas]. "Remember when Trump fell for a fake account posing as his sister? (If not: He did.) Well, I figured out who was behind it: a 21-yea...

Elon Musk confirms he has moved to Texas where SpaceX's new Starship spacecraft and Tesla's new Gigafactory are locatedElon Musk said Tuesday he has relocated from California to Texas, where he inten...

John Oliver took a break from his holiday to post an update video on YouTube. Earlier in the year, he posed the question on Last Week Tonight: What does the rest of the Pringles guy look like? As you ...

Therapists in Canada will be allowed to possess and consume psychedelic mushrooms, said Canada's Minister of Health Patty Hajdu. Earlier this year Canada approved the use of psilocybin mushrooms for s...

Back in the 1950s boxes of Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat had deeds to 1 square inch of Yukon territory. From Amusing Planet:The deeds excluded mineral rights. It was also stipulated that owners had to ...

Bill Gates has been sharing his favorite books with a summer list and a winter list for the last eight years. This year's winter reads are five "good" books inspiring, uplifting, happy endings "for ...

President Donald J. Trump hosted Olympic gold medal winner and legendary wrestling coach Dan Gable and his family at the White House to award Gable the highest honor a civilian can receive: The Presid...

Behold "Summon The JSON", a fantasy card-game where the creatures are based on parts of Javascript.Given that Javascript is regarded by many coders as a particularly monstrous language to begin with, ...

Just in time for Christmas a celestial spectacle will take place in the night sky on the winter solstice, December 21, but it won't be an actual star.via NBC 5 ChicagoIt's called the "Great Conjunctio...

Tattooing is illegal in South Korea, but that doesn't stop Zihwa from practicing the craft in the country. Zihwa is a female tattoo artist in South Korea specializing in floral designs. In South Korea...

My resignation letter to Governor Desantis. pic.twitter.com/Wc78tgr6Ef— Ron F. (@RonGOPVet4Biden) December 8, 2020The day after Florida's Department of Health ordered gun-pointing police to raid...

New York Magazine devoted its annual "Reasons to Love New York" issue as a tribute to 500 of the iconic, singular, "essential," and decidedly NYC businesses that have shuttered as a result of the pand...

He is. Are you? https://t.co/OY8qxNMPxm— Arizona Republican Party (@AZGOP) December 8, 2020The Arizona GOP is asking people to martyr themselves in its fight to overturn the election for Trump. ...

New Age music curator and record label Sounds of the Dawn preserved this 1990 VHS tape for all to enjoy in eternity. "The Petrified Forest: A Picture Poem," featuring music by Deuter and photography b...

The Literary Review has cancelled its Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 2020 because "the public had been subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well," according to...

After nearly twenty years as executive director of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Paige Kimble, has resigned from her role. No reason has been announced. Sadly, there was no Bee during Kimble's fi...

Let's be honest: the first half of the original Dune is weird. Not because of the Bene Gesserit, or the vaguely-alluded-to Butlerian Jihad, or how Baron Harkonnen evilness is uncomfortably correlated ...

According to the Jerusalem Post, 87-year-old retired general Haim Eshed, a former space security chief for the Israeli military, says that the country had been in contact with the "Galactic Federation...

One of the best people I met during the time I lived in Ithaca, New York was John Lennon, an author, musician, and all around great dude whose books are published under the name J. Robert Lennon for w...

I'm not normally one to share acapella covers, but this COVID-19 tribute to Dexy's Midnight Runners by the Boston-based common sound is delightfully silly enough that I am happy to give it a pass....

Is this what Voltaire meant went he spoke of the best of all possible worlds? When I saw the Lifetime movie poster online featuring Saved By the Bell actor Mario Lopez as a studly Colonel Sanders, I t...

So, you're in the market for an original Apple I, signed by Woz on the back of the box in black felt marker?RR Auction has you covered — they've got one in their next auction. Bids open on Dec. ...

A rash of mysterious monoliths have recently begun to surface all around the world, in what's either an actual alien invasion straight out of a comic book, or an ultimately disappointing viral marketi...

Airavatesvara Temple in Tamil Nadu has a small sculpture with a cool optical illusion where two animals appear to share a head. Do you see the elephant or the bull first?In Chennai, they made a larger...

Crystmas time is here, when families gather to grow crystal holiday trees at home with a little salt and food coloring. KiwiCo shows how.If you decide on deciduous, that's cool too!Image: YouTube / Ki...

Experts estimate you have about half a dozen unrelated "twins" roaming the earth. Origin profiled a few who met each other.Ever wondered if there's someone out there who looks exactly like you? Well, ...

This marvelous image of a sunspot was captured by the world's largest solar observatory, the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on the island of Maui, Hawai'i. From the Nat...

A 15-kilometer "Sistine Chapel" of Ice Age rock art has been found along the Colombian Amazon. It includes depictions of now-extinct animals like mastodons, giant sloths, and paleollamas. Via LiveScie...

From Debugger:Nothing says "Happy Holidays" like an A.I.-generated, deepfake Santa Claus delivering a personalized greeting to your loved ones. At least that's what Synthesia  a synthetic me...

From CNN:The man, a migrant worker from the Philippines, was quarantining in a hotel in Kaohsiung City when he briefly stepped out of his room into the hallway, the city's Department of Health to...

You know that saying, "The customer is always right?" Which is literally just a nicer way of saying, "We live in capitalism and therefore money talks so sometimes it's best to just appease the person ...

Every time a kid opens a present, you can watch them visually deflate the instant they realize the gift is something that's…sigh…good for them. In fact, you may very well hear an audible "...

Sound barrier busting test pilot Chuck Yeager died today at the age of 97. From The Washington Post:For his prowess in flight, Gen. Yeager became one of the great American folk heroes of the 1940s and...

If you had an oracle available to you, I mean a real oraclea person or an "entity" able to actually peek into your future, and thus provide advice and directionwhat question would you ask?Does divinat...

Florida police have raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former health department employee who said she was fired for refusing to manipulate coronavirus case data. Jones documented the raid in a seri...

"This little crab made light work of constructing a new home on the beach."November 30, 2020, Vung Tau, Vietnam. Video Link....

He's back! Heavy Metal Kenneth Copeland. Video: Kenneth Copeland Returns! [Wind of God] [Heavy Metal Remix]Previously on Boing Boing:Heavy Metal Kenneth Copeland COVID-19 rant, by Andre Antunes (MUSIC...

The administration of outgoing president Donald Trump on Monday proposed allowing oil and gas companies who are exploring for resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to disrupt polar bears li...

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...

The administration of outgoing president Donald J. Trump passed when Pfizer approached the government in late summer and offered to sell more coronavirus vaccine doses to the United States, reports th...

There are mythical rockstar coders, and then there are …. rock stars who actually write code.I call your attention to Techcrunch, which has a piece interviewing Rivers Cuomo of Weezer about his ...

There are mythical rockstar coders, and then there are …. rock stars who actually write code.I call your attention to Techcrunch, which has a piece interviewing Rivers Cuomo of Weezer about his ...

We all know a coffee obsessive. But despite the overwhelming urge to roll your eyes at the mania coming from those who live for just the right cup, don't judge them too harshly. In fact, why not just ...

Here's a fascinating story about a convenience-store owner in Michigan, Jerry Selbee, who cracked a Michigan state lottery — and then a similar one in Massachusetts. He didn't do anything illega...

In this video my friend Donald Bell gets wise to one of my favorite ways to make coffee: the Moka Pot.What I want to do is make the case for you having one and learning how to use it. Because after I ...

Over 140 people have been attacked by bears in Japan during the last six months, with two attacks resulting in deaths, reports France 24. Why? An acorn shortage, for one thing. But there are bigger fa...

Over the weekend, more than 300 people in Eluru, India went to the hospital after coming down with an unknown illness that caused headaches, nausea, vomiting, and seizures. Some lost consciousness. No...

The majority of Americans who voted for Biden have more work ahead of them than just making sure Biden gets sworn in on January 20th, says Zeynep Tufekci of The Atlantic. They also have to be ready to...

Fox's Newt Gingrich: "The objective fact is I believe Trump probably did actually carry Georgia. … Republicans simply have to turn out more votes than Stacey Abrams can steal." pic.t...

Here is Kelly Loeffler's debate performance, cut down to 85 seconds by @AlexMohajer. Somebody call this robot's programmer. It clearly needs maintenance.How could you possibly vote for this? #gapol #D...

VfB Stuttgart player Silas Wamangituka pissed off his Werder Bremen competitors by pausing before tapping the ball into the open goal. Stuttgard won 2-1 and Wamangituka was handed a penalty for bad sp...

Food startup Eat Just is cranking out their lab-grown chicken nuggets for an as-yet unnamed Singapore restaurant. This news follows the Sinapore Food Agency's approval of "cultured chicken" to be sold...

Claudia Dawson, Mark Frauenfelder, and I have gathered 1,000 of our best recommendations featured from our free newsletter,Recomendoand arranged them into a 217-page book. Each recomendo is a brief ra...

The Anonymizer is an AI that generates photos for the purpose of protecting your identity. All of the faces pictured above do not exist and were generated after I uploaded this photo: I can ...

Actors Deborah Ann Woll (Daredevil, True Blood) and Joe Manganiello (True Blood, Justice League, Magic Mike) have talked about the value of actors playing D&D. Turns out, some of the cast of Disc...

YouTuber pwnisher staged a contest for digital animators, in which they each took a simple prompt and created unique environments around it. The winners are named at the YouTube page. Here are the ent...

With Hanukkah right around the corner, Daveed Diggs and Disney have dropped a catchy new holiday song. "Puppy for Hanukkah" imagines a young Diggs rapping about what he really wants for one of his eig...

China's space program took significant leaps for mankind Thursday as it's lunar lander, a component of the space vehicle the Chang'e 5, gathered rocks and left the moon to return to Earth. Before the...

Jim Behymer knows sandwiches. He runs a site called Sandwich Tribunal and he makes his own bologna. Behymer saw a meme referencing pumpkin spice bologna, which does does exist -or it didn't until he m...

Cornishware is a traditional ceramic style that was repatriated to the UK after outsourcing production led to the firm's closure. New owner Karina Rickards shares cool videos of how it gets its distin...

Lan Guangping is a street performer from China. He has figured out how to jump almost a meter off the ground onto raw eggs without breaking them.Here's a little background on how that's possible:Image...

YouTuber Magnet Tricks made a Levitron from scratch a few years ago. The he figured out how to make it levitate inside a smoke-filled bubble. Here's how to 3D print your own Levitron:Image: YouTube / ...

Since 2016, American and Canadian diplomats at an embassy in Havana, Cuba and US consulates and elsewhere have suffered neurological problems thought to have been caused by a mysterious directed energ...

The great Bob Dylan never sold out but he has finally cashed in. He just sold the copyrights to his entire catalog of more than 600 songs to Universal Music for what the New York Times estimates was a...

Keep fuckingthat chicken, everyone....

After the year we've all suffered, it's tempting to think of the holidays as a time to stop, unwind, and focus on ourselves and our nearest and dearest. Yet, that's not really in the spirit of the sea...

As a business owner, you've got a whole lot on your plate. But, with everything you're struggling to get done to satisfy your daily to-do list, you're probably frustrated by some of those big-picture ...

An archival video from 2019, but a beautiful thing to watch. While driving in rural Curraweela, New South Wales, on August 10 2019, Stephen Grenfell captured this video of a large group of kangaroos ...

Oh man, he's so cute. Is he related to the baked beans kid?...

The Arizona Legislature will close for a week "out of an abundance of caution" after Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal attorney, possibly exposed several Republican lawmakers to COVID-19.More at ...

Senate Republicans invited an anti-vaxxer to speak as the lead witness before a Homeland Security committee hearing on Tuesday, as the nation readies its largest-ever vaccination campaign to fight COV...

Plot twist. According to the New York Times, sources close to Attorney General Bill Barr say he is exploring how to resign from the flaming dumpster fire that is the decomposing Trump administration, ...

Back in 2013, market research firm Global Web Index found 56 percent of internet users were worried that the web was an enemy of their own personal privacy. By last year, that number had climbed to 61...

As long as there have been books, there have been bookmarks. Researchers can even back up that assertion, finding evidence of bookmarks dating all the way back to the 1st century AD.Over the centuries...

Outgoing president Donald Trump Sr. today announced that Rudy Giuliani tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani, 76perpetually traveling, rarely wearing a mask, and limited in his ability to social d...

Outgoing president Donald Trump Sr. today announced that Rudy Giuliani tested positive for coronavirus. Giuliani, 76perpetually traveling, rarely wearing a mask, and limited in his ability to social d...

Math. A tiny little word that unlocks a flood of anxiety. And if you thought it was just you…well, it's not. In fact, if you're a typical American, then there's probably good reason for you to b...

A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that even a tiny amount of moderate exercise, as short as 11 minutes, can help to offset the negative health impacts of sitting al...

"I make no secret: I don't know what I'm doing."Santa Claus is an elderly, traditional man. However, he loves his job, and if the pandemic means he cannot see good little boys and girls in person, the...

Sure you could do things like a normal person, but why? Putting padding and trampolines throughout your apartment and doing flips enjoying the parkour life is way better. Please do not attempt. Spina...

Whether you're a skilled chef or can barely find your way around a kitchen, there are a few culinary instruments that are absolute must-haves and a quality blade is right at the top of that list.In f...

Even during the best of times, investing in the stock market can be a stomach-churning ride. And especially with today's volatility, that's not a rollercoaster many are looking to board right now....

The term 'Internet of Things' still mystifies many, but the foundational idea is fairly simple. IoT basically covers all the objects in the world that are connected to the web. Using embedded sensors,...

David Lander, the actor who played Squiggy on the long-running TV sitcom 'Laverne & Shirley,' has died. He was 73.From CNN:Lander died on Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after fighting multi...

Acyn Torabi, who captured this clip from Jeanine Pirro's show on Fox News tonight, is probably right when he says Trump may end up retweeting Jeanine's monologue attacking AG Bill Barr. Lara Trump on ...

"We're all victims. Everybody here. All these thousands of people here tonight. They're all victims. Every one of you." "If I lost — I'd be a very gracious loser." "We will not back down. We w...

This is a fantastic piece by Peter Baker at the New York Times, comparing mad king Trump's delusional fury to that of a Shakespearean figure, in the increasingly grim last acts of a long drama. Spoile...

"Hypersonic missiles we have hypersonic and hydrosonic. You know what hydrosonic is? Water!" Donald J. Trump, December 5, 2020At a rally in Georgia tonight, Donald J. Trump boasted of America's milit...

Malware is everywhere. 350,000 new pieces of malware are discovered every day, which breaks down to more than four new threats every single second. Right now, nearly 1 billion malware programs are out...

Considering the makeshift way most of our work-from-home environments came together, it wouldn't be unusual if there weren't still a few kinks to be worked out. That's especially true when it comes to...

If you're reading this, you're likely more tech-savvy than most. And if you're also looking to make a career move, your natural interest in tech may help move you closer to that goal in a field like I...

Two years before he first basked in the art world's limelight with his set and puppet design on Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Art Direction on Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" video, artist Wayne White was just a...

Looking for gifts for tabletop gamers? Here are some of my suggestions, based on games I've enjoyed this year and games I would love to see under my Alcoa aluminum tree this year.What were some of you...

Think of Cap'n Crunch, and you most likely think of scratching the inside of your mouth when eating the cereal. However, the mascot himself has a fascinating story. He's even older than the cereal he ...

The City of Aurora, Colorado is attempting to get a court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Elijah McClain, who died in August 2019.In case you missed this story, El...

The crack squad of medically-trained psychics at the tabloids have been working overtime this week.Prince William has cancer, Ghislaine Maxwell is trapped by coronavirus, Gwen Stefani is pregnant, and...

I just published a longform piece in the New Republic on the private-sector boom in outer space — and what its implications are for society.One big issue that many people told me about: The prob...

Oz Ramos is the creator of Handsfree.js, a software library that you can use to add face-, hand- and pose-tracking to any app built in Javascript. It looks incredibly fun and I'm gonna tinker with it ...

I first met my friend John T. Unger back in the early 2000s when I stumbled upon his amazing sculptural firebowls — crafted from the round ends of recycled propane tanks.I adored the meta nature...

WOMP, and truly I cannot emphasize this enough, WOMP.The campaign of outgoing President Donald J. Trump just lost a slew of election-related lawsuits, and all of the losses were announced within the s...

A federal judge on Friday ordered the administration of outgoing president Donald Trump to fully restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which offers undocumented immigran...

The outgoing administration of Donald Trump is refusing to permit members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team to meet with officials at Pentagon-controlled U.S. intelligence agencies. The ...

Sure, there used to just be Cyber Monday — full stop. But that day of digital-only holiday shopping deals has bloated into an honest-to-goodness Cyber Week. And considering that's all good news ...

It's official: The SF Bay Area locks down on Sunday, December 6 Health officers in most of the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday issued new stay-at-home order as hospitals and ICU beds reach capacity ...

Outgoing and impeached U.S. President Trump on Friday ordered the Pentagon to pull nearly all U.S. troops out of Somalia, the East African nation where for the last 13 years they have been fighting a ...

A guy who works as a logger in Alberta, Canada captured this amazing wildlife encounter earlier this year. He says: I was stopped on the road with my skidder and looked back and to my great surprise, ...

Our family has two of these Contigo water bottles. We like them because they are made of stainless steel, keep cold water cold, and can be opened with one hand. They are on sale for a great price on A...

IMAGE: A computer graphic simulation provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Hayabusa2 spacecraft above the asteroid Ryugu. Japan's space agency said Friday they are ready...

Donald Trump and his administration have effectively enacted a purge in the Defense Department, in the last 45 days of his term. On Friday, the Pentagon announced that two of Trump's longtime loyalist...

Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign has so far paid an estimated $9 million in its failing bid to overthrow election results which declared Trump the loser and Joe Biden the winner, a repo...

On Thursday, we reported that President-elect Joe Biden said he asked infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci to stay on in the new administration, and lead the government's fight against COVID-19...

They're so beautiful, and wow that ice looks like slippery stuff. [ViralHog]...

Rep. Matt Gaetz: "The federal government has lied to the people of this country about marijuana for a generation." pic.twitter.com/kguvepc3HL— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) December 4, 2020Eve...

[The following is from my newsletter, The Magnet]When I was in high school, I worked on a carnival that traveled around rural Colorado and Wyoming. I manned a basketball game, which was called "Mini-H...

Congratulations to 15-year-old inventor Gitanjali Rao, who was selected at Time magazine's first-ever Kid of the Year!"Observe, brainstorm, research, build and communicate." That is what the brilliant...

"It used to be that UFOs and Roswell was the biggest conspiracy," President Obama told Stephen Colbert. "And now that seems so tame, the idea that the government might have an alien spaceship." ...

Rick Santelli is good at the supercilious nod/shut eyes/fold arms move, but how does he compare to the master of the move, Benito Mussolini? Judge for yourself!Things escalated quickly on CNBC this mo...

Earlier this week, Trump uploaded a long-winded, 45-minute rant against election fraud on Facebook. In the usual Trump fashion, it was loaded with lies and misinformation. So loaded, in fact, that aft...

Over at Journalist's Resource, comic artist Josh Neufeld has a great piece of visual journalism called A tale of two pandemics: A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparities. It's avai...

Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and fifteen other realms, is down to her last corgi following the death of Vulcan, a corgi mix in her companionship since 2007. Now only Candy remains by her ...

In Ohio, high school wrestling season began with some new rules set by the Ohio High School Athletic Association. Notably, reports WLWT5, "Student-athletes are permitted to wrestle, but must refrain f...

In a statement that hearkens back to the age old case of my dad v. your dad the U.K.'s Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, bragged that the British medical regulators are "much better"...

Mellissa Carone, the former Dominion contractor who told Michigan's state assembly that she witnessed instances of voter fraud at her job, is a convicted computer criminal, reports The Daily Mail:The ...

"I sold my wife's clothes," write Richard Kelly Kemick, "to build a Christmas village in my parents' basement."Gaze on the world I've created. Just past my restaurant is my butcher. Next is my fire ha...

The NBA has officially suspended random marijuana testing for the 2020-21 season, reports the New York Times' Marc Stein.Said NBA spokesman Mike Bass: "Due to the unusual circumstances in conjunction ...

Microsoft has released a line of ugly Christmas sweaters with retro Windows themes. Along with Windows 95 graphics, there are also Windows XP and MS Paint designs. Microsoft says that for every sweate...

Cannabis history was made today in the USA. The House voted on the most significant federal legislative development on marijuana policy in 50 years. The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the ...

Jacob's Ladders are the classic arc generators seen in mad scientists' labs. As a kid, we'd make them using high voltage transformers scavenged from neon signs. (Not safe, don't do it, etc.). Over at...

The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, makes beautiful yet unsettling music in the wind.This is why the #VerrazanoBridge was closed yesterday during the high winds. pic...

President-Elect Joe Biden, in a statement on the November jobs report released Friday, says he is "encouraged by the bipartisan efforts in the Senate around a $900 billion relief package."He adds: "Co...

Miley Cyrus continues her stream of killer covers with Hole's "Doll Parts" on the Howard Stern Show. "There's nothing like covering Hole at 6 am in a Plasmatics sleepy tee cause I got to the fucking s...

Faraday cages for Wi-Fi routers are the latest 5G conspiracy grift, writes Matthew Gault at Vice. The metal cages "block up to 95% EMF RF waves", the 'blue smog' feared by claimed radio-sensitives. Bu...

Last year, I wrote about BeenVerified's analysis of scam phone calls. Using data from more than 200,000 reports across the US, they determined that Social Security scams were 23 times more common than...

Timnit Gebru, an AI ethics researcher at Google, was fired this week after sending an internal email complaining that marginalized voices at the company were being silenced. Google, for its part, clai...

A new Fiona Apple album is always a treat, and 2020's Fetch The Boltcutters did not disappoint. The title track may have even incidentally felt more resonant, thanks to the *gestures at everything kee...

I discovered Athens-based cartoonist Patrick Dean through Devlin Thompson, owner of the celebrated mainstay comics shop and weirdo refuge Bizarro Wuxtry. I became an instant fan of Patrick's loose and...

Imagine you are in your car, trying to get somewhere in an area you've never been. You pull up a map, spot a shortcut, and decide to take it, since it appears that you'll save a lot of time. Then even...

Dinosaurs were reptiles, and so we often think of them as big lizards, soaking up the sun in tropical or at least temperate regions. But scientists are always learning more about dinosaurs, and find t...

On the first Friday of every month, the music distribution site Bandcamp waives its personal cut of music purchases, so 100% of the profits (minus credit card processing fees) go to the artist. That's...

A board game where you compete to read someone's lips is an intriguing idea. But the real fun of Mega Mouth is that you hold a magnifying sheet over your mouth when you mouth the words! While your big...

Now we know who was behind those redactions, and a lot of newly minted apostrophe experts on Twitter might want to delete their tweets. NYT: 'A billionaire San Francisco real estate developer, Sanfo...

President-elect Joseph R. Biden told CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday that he spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci today and asked him to stay on and also be his "chief medical adviser."No word at this time of F...

Says the parent of this cute chonker cat, "Riggs is 5 1/2 years old he's a domestic cat that we rescued when he was a baby. He's a very happy loving cat loves playing with his other cat friend and our...

This is America.In a Huffington Post "Day in the Life"profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert says Federal agents "drive me to work, they stay here, they make sure that nobody trie...

Regional stay-at-home orders go into effect when a region's ICU capacity falls below 15% Bars and personal care services must close for 3 weeks Schools, reduced capacity retail and restaurant take-ou...

Wisconsin's Supreme Court, which has conservatives in the majority, today declined to hear Trump's challenge to the election results. The defeat on a 4-3 ruling was the latest in a string of losses fo...

These inexpensive Lightning cables are advertised as being MFi-certified. I just bought a pack after my newish Lighting cable made by Apple suddenly stopped working. Why won't Apple make phones with a...

While the chaos that is the monolith mysteries in Utah, California and Romania rages on, a giant dick enigma presents itself in Germany. Atop the Gruenten mountain in southern Germany appeared a 7-fo...

Until I watched this video, I knew nothing about the foundation of Liberia or how it became a place that US companies could base their virtual headquarters to avoid taxes and regulations. The money Li...

The National Science Foundationreleased a video that shows the 60-year-old Arecibo Radio Observatory's collapse. From Ars Technica:As you can see from the video, the drone was examining the area where...

Trump legal team's STAR witness pic.twitter.com/ZKWiwUmdk4— Ben Yahr (@benyahr) December 3, 2020Between the USPS driver who says a shadow man is haunting his house and this character, it's clea...

On Monday night, December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will look closer together than they've appeared since March 4, 1226, almost 800 years ago. This event, taking place on the December solstice, is known ...

Unless you're in favor of strangers sitting next to you on a plane yammering into their cell phones, you'll cheer the FCC's decision to terminate "a proceeding to consider a proposal that would permit...

Unless you're in favor of strangers sitting next to you on a plane yammering into their cell phones, you'll cheer the FCC's decision to terminate "a proceeding to consider a proposal that would permit...

This week, Seattle grunge mainstays Alice in Chains were honored with the Museum of Pop Culture's Founders Award. In celebration, Metallica covered STP's classic jam "Would?"The video above starts at ...

This week, Seattle grunge mainstays Alice in Chains were honored with the Museum of Pop Culture's Founders Award. In celebration, Metallica covered Alice in Chains' classic jam "Would?"The video above...

Bruce Sterling posted a gallery of images depicting the famous "woman yelling at cat" meme rendered in different period styles....

Over the weekend, graffiti artists bombed at least two dozen New York City train cars resulting in a traveling gallery of magnificent pieces reminiscent of subway art's 1970s heyday. From The City:The...

Before we can prevent asteroid impacts on earth, we need to get a lot better at predicting them. We are frequently surprised by impacts that cause significant damage.We all know the little fast-moving...

Cybathlon 2020 was a recent cyborg Olympics in which people with physical disabilities compete while using exoskeletons, bionic limbs, and other technology. For example, in one race, competitors with ...

More impressive than the answer here is the safety precaution NileRed took to avoid dying while seeing what cyanide really smells like.Spoiler: bitter almonds, which contain high levels of cyanide, ar...

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to ban the smoking of tobacco in apartments. Weed is still OK because, well, there aren't many other places where it's legal to smoke it. Enforcement in...

John Collins (previously at Boing Boing) made and threw a paper airplane that sailed without wind assistance a whopping 69 meters, or almost 227 feet. Now he shows how you can make one, too.He actuall...

There's someone for everyone, and Satan finds his true love in this ad for Match.com. Not only is it grimly hilarious, it's full of easter eggs. Her profile pic is a murder hornet. The actress appears...

This beautiful etude gets a modern update as glass harp masters Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec are joined by thereminist Grgoire Blanc.Szymanowski is one of our favorite Polish composers. Even though h...

Materials scientists engaging in biomimicry of plant surfaces classify three levels of wettability of plants. It turns out that the least wettable leaves, or superhydrophobic leaves, often use both ep...

N95 is a US standard for particulate filtering; a material has to be able to block at least 95% of airborne particles. That material is comparatively expensive, but Mahesh Bandi — a physicist at...

Wired has the wild story about a hiker known only as Mostly Harmless, who was found dead in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve in the summer of 2018. Mostly Harmless had allegedly left his tech j...

For Christmas 2020, mashup artist extraordinaire Bill McClintock combined Slayer's "South of Heaven" with Wham!'s "Last Christmas" into a song he calls "South of Christmas" by Slam! There's also a cam...

Lauren Gurley at Vice's Motherboard has broken the story about the obsessive monitoring of labor and environmental activists at Amazon facilities in Europe by Pinkerton merceneries. From the source:A ...

Boing Boing readers are likely familiar with the art of Steven Rhodes (even if you don't know his name). He's the guy who sells TV shirts with images reminiscent of innocent 50s and 60s Dick and Jane ...

At least 2,885 people died of Covid in America on Wednesday, the worst yet in the ongoing pandemic. The previously worst day's toll was April 15, with 2,752 deaths. The disease has now killed nearly 2...

The quinine in tonic water, like the vitamin B in energy drinks, makes these common beverages fluorescent. Oils with chlorophyl and some phenolic compounds also glow under UV light.And while you might...

That tweet above doesn't look very remarkable, but what it's doing is super weird and fun — it is retweeting a link to itself. How was this possible? Through a bunch of very clever detective wor...

The Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer Nalo Hopkinson is the author of such award-winning books as Brown Girl In The Ring and Midnight Robber; her most recent work includes the short st...

Michael Bach a scientist of visual function, and he made a clever site that shows off 141 optical illusions — using interactive doodads that let you tweak different parts of the illusion, to fig...

This fun little physics demonstration has now been made as a 3D printing project.The impossible Domino physics toy was invented by ViralVideoLab November 21th 2020 and consists of two 3d printed parts...

A champagne chair is a dollhouse-sized chair made from the cap, cage, and/or cork from a champagne bottle. We can imagine it originated from partygoers who needed something to do with their hands whil...

A viewer sent Steve Mould a clip of PVC cement he accidentally spilled in water. The droplets would spin very quickly, but why? It turns out the same phenomenon can happen with dry ice as it sublimate...

Here's Dutch comedian, Youp van 't Hek, doing the song in Dutch.H/t Tim TateImage: Screengrab...

A recent hearing in the case of award-winning American journalist Bilal Abdul Kareem versus the US government took a very dark turn towards the unlimited privilege of extralegal killings of US citizen...

Chicago city officials broke up a party of 300 ne'er-do-wells at a Wicker Park establishment this past weekend, where there was no social distancing and scarce mask-wearing. The same personal conduct...

It's that time of year again: check out the Boing Boing Gift Guide for a hundred (ish) great ideas for stocking stuffers, brain-hammers, mind-expanders, and terrific toys. The cheapest items are a few...

Back in the days before schools, airlines, and law enforcement considered them weapons, most people used to carry around a Swiss Army knife, or another such multi-tool, for handling all those daily pr...

Seemingly inebriated woman is Team Trump star witness in MichiganRudy Giuliani and other Trump 'voter fraud' truthers are on the trail with weird 'whistleblowers' who are said to have witnessed votin...

He's nuts.Outgoing United States President Donald J. Trump ranted for 46 minutes about voter fraud in a pre-recorded speech his team posted on Facebook on Wednesday. In the speech, Trump lies about th...

From artists to serious design pros, color isn't just about fun. It's a livelihood. And, there's a lot more to it than being able to point out the differences between a royal blue and a sky blue. Can ...

When alt-right Twitter alternative Parler launched in 2020, its CEO told a reporter, "We're a community town square, an open town square, with no censorship… If you can say it on the street of N...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield on Wednesday said he expects that another 150,000 to 200,000 people will die of COVID-19 in the U.S. by February. This would bring t...

A Federal Reserve survey of business conditions around the United States reports that economic activity in several regions slowed in November, as coronavirus cases surged. Public health experts predic...

Sidney Powell: "I would encourage all Georgians to make it known that you will not vote at all unless your vote is secure." Lin Wood: "Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election?" From ...

It's depressing to imagine that there are people who are so greedy that they would form complex organizations for the purpose of manufacturing and selling phony COVID-19 vaccines. But Interpol just is...

Testing the boundaries of constitutional power to nullify criminal liability, explainedCharlie Savage at the New York Times today has a legal explainer on the pardons Trump has discussed possibly gra...

WOW. Where there's a will for tacos, there's a way.Says the guy who made this video and these pandemic tacos, "I'm a chef in isolation in a hotel room. I use different hotel room appliances such as th...

A perfect Heavy Metal interpretation of TV preacher Kenneth Copeland's demonic utterances, by Andre Antunes.It's really just perfect. Here's Andre Antunes' YouTube channel, subscribe.VIDEO: Judgement...

The UK government is looking for a location to build its "Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production" (STEP). The hope is to start constructing the prototype fusion reactor by 2032 and have it generating...

When something exciting happens to a person (like winning money) their pupils dilate. Researchers found that acutely depressed people's pupils dilate less than non-depressed people's pupils.From Bioni...

Hugh Keays-Byrne, the intimidating British and Australian actor most famous for portraying Mad Max villains The Toecutter and Immortan Joe, is dead at 73. The news was reported by his friend and oneti...

Ontario, Canada police pulled over a vehicle after noticing that the driver appeared to be sitting in a lawn chair behind the wheel. According to a tweet by the Halton Regional Police Service Burlingt...

Vanity Fair reports that Barack and Michelle Obama are producing a comedy series for Netflix based on Michael Lewis's book The Fifth Risk that documented "the historic chaos and mismanagement tha...

The Sigil Engine translates your intentions into sigils, graphical symbols used in magick and other occult practices to help achieve a desired outcome. Artists Darragh Mason and David Tidman created t...

pic.twitter.com/uTnijyWER7— FROG (@wakatchairukedo) December 1, 2020Roughly translated, the caption reads: "I feel like I don't need friends anymore." (Thanks, Lux!)...

The great Pope of trash, John Waters, revealed his top 10 favorite films of 2020 for Artforum. Here are his top 3:1BUTT BOY(Tyler Cornack)A jaw-dropping, deadpan, bowel-bonkers thriller about a hetero...

Leon Keer created "Fake News," an art installation at Mural Festival Montreal. Here's a great making-of video of another work:Leon posted this clip of another attendee cavorting on his work: V...

Announcing the new GIFT BOOK PACKAGE: Send the two new Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, to a liked/loved one this holiday season...

Pop star Kesha has a new podcast called "Kesha and the Creepies" which is all about the occult and other weird shit. Here's the official description:Kesha and the Creepies explores supernatural subjec...

This performer, Gunhild Carling, is also known for playing 3 trumpets at the same time. But I personally think the jazzy bagpipes are way cooler....

Following up on the existential linguistic crisis of 2019, Dictionary.com has awarded their "Word of the Year" distinction to "pandemic." The website tends to favor a descriptivist, rather than prescr...

Metheun, Massachusetts is a town of about 50,000 people that sits on the border of New Hampshire. It's perhaps best known as the birthplace of Robert Frost. About 90 percent of the people there are wh...

From Newsweek:Over 2,000 people have signed up for an "egg-throwing contest" at the unveiling ceremony of a statue of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher which will cost a local council 10...

From GoFundMe:That's why every dollar donated to Fund the Bat is going to the Motion Picture Television Fund's Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund.Please give generously to support the thousands of out of ...

Every holiday season is marked by a few "it" toys. While you can always count on a hot new next-gen gaming console to spark a frenzy, it's not often that those hot toy items are almost as coveted by a...

For Black Friday, Patagonia ran an ad in the print issue of the New York Times that had a clever palindromic form — you read the lines from top to bottom, then again from bottom to top. It's a g...

Much like a person getting a physical, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa gets a regular inspection each year. The 517 year-old is taken out of her temperature-regulated casing for experts to give a once-...

In this footage, hens advance upon an Amazon driver, who makes a fast exit. The hens pursue him to the driveway, then stand guard lest he return....

My friend and former colleague (and Media Matters Editor-At-Large) Parker Molloy made this mashup of Daft Punk and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and I hate it but I can't look away.I created a mas...

Saturn's moon Titan is bigger than Mercury, and so far as we know, it's the only body in the solar system besides Earth that has surface liquid. Near Titan's north pole, there's an entire system of la...

Jim Meskimen's Christmas message is a year old, but like everything about the holiday is amenable to endless reuse. The deepfake work was executed by Sham00K.Thanks to Showcase productions for sound, ...

Santa Claus feels like society has progressed to the point where he's a has-been. No one wants to sit in his lap, people no longer welcome late night home intruders, and they like to track their packa...

George Parker Bidder was born with a surprising gift: He could do complex arithmetic in his head. His feats of calculation would earn for him a university education, a distinguished career in engineer...

Rolling Stone asked Weird Al Yankovic a series of questions about how his year went. The answers are pure Al. The album I listened to the most in 2020 was:A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip by Sparks. I've alw...

This news comes from a peer-reviewed paper in the academic journal Science of the Total Environment, based on a study that was, allegedly, supported through funding provided by the US National Institu...

This wind-up mechanism has a tiny bellows and several gears that produce a remarkably lifelike bird call.Szymon Pawelec, the collector and demonstrator who consulted on the Scorsese film Hugo, says:A ...

Brian Heater of TechCrunch has a fascinating post on his SubStack about "music on ribs" when people in Soviet Russia would rip audio onto discarded X-Ray printouts in order to share them with friends...

The need for a virtual private network (VPN) is all but universal these days, but choosing the right VPN provider can often be a shot in the dark. Some VPN shoppers are focused on security, while othe...

Jesse Morgana truck driver (subcontractor) with USPS in PENNSYLVANIA…pic.twitter.com/EFxXZnQCUS— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 1, 2020Trump is excited about USPS contract tru...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to shorten its guidance for quarantining after COVID-19 exposure to 10 days, or seven with a negative virus test, a senior administration offi...

In the clip below, an outraged Georgia election official condemns threatening, violent rhetoric against election staff by Trump and GOP senators: "Mr. President senators, you have not condemned this l...

Breaking news from CNN late on Tuesday: "The Justice Department is investigating a potential crime related to funneling money to the White House in exchange for a presidential pardon, according to a c...

NEWS: The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has voted to give the first Covid-19 vaccine to health care personnel and residents of long-term health care facilities once a vaccine is aut...

Oops."We were loading the luggage leaving the Lenox Hotel in Boston, and had our daughter London sit in the car so she wouldn't run into the street as we loaded with the valet. The valet accidentally ...

In Hungary, a conservative politician known for his anti-LGBTQ and anti-marriage-equality positions was nabbed by authorities while departing an all-male orgy in the heart of the city's gay-bar distri...

With 2020 coming to a merciful close, could there be a better symbol for freshly launching into the new year than actually clearing the air? While that works metaphorically, the sad state of our world...

This Arduino clone kit has a lot of components for the price, including two types of displays, a stepper motor (and driver for the motor), a servo, heat and distance sensors.If you are new to Arduino ...

Eric Power writes:I am pleased to present, Video Games, the latest collaboration between myself and jeremy messersmith for his Mixtape for the Milky Way project. Working on this video was a true joy. ...

pic.twitter.com/lUPySup2du— (@jagarikin) November 25, 2020The circles are rotating, to be sure, but are they moving in the direction of the arrows?(Via Core 77)...

@souptimmy 2 Shapes into one @geobender #geobender #cuber #fidget #fidgettoy Balenciaga – Filmcharacter -https://www.tiktok.com/@souptimmy/video/6893598954504719622TikToker souptimmy shows...

NEW: Rudy Giuliani has responded to AG Barr saying there's no evidence of widespread fraud that could have changed election outcome. In a letter released late Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani and co-Trump-defen...

Who says toddlers lack empathy?...

"To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election," Barr told the AP.Attorney General Bill Barr on Tuesday said the Justice Department has no evi...

Yesterday we posted about a mysterious monolith that had popped up on a hillside in Romania, which had followed the discovery and disappearance of a similar monolith in Utah. But since our post, the R...

A former Leigh University chemistry student pled guilty to charges that he poisoned his roommate with thallium that he purchased online. Yukai Yang is expected to serve 612 years in prison. From C&...

Arcade Dreams is a forthcoming documentary series about the 100-year history of arcades and arcade games, stretching back long before the age of Pong and covering everything great in detail. The proje...

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." Rosa ParksVideo above written by Rich D. Richardson with animation...

Trump filed lawsuits in six states to contest the election results and was laughed out of every court. He never expected to win. It's all a charade to bilk his foolish followers into maxing out their ...

Maker Teresa Noel shows off these wonderful dinosaur hand puppets. In addition the one shown, they have a triceratops and others:This red one has a nice mix of scary and awesome:Image: YouTube / Teres...

A teenager in Germany — who was only a toddler when MySpace originally launched — has launched spacehey, a social network that reboots MySpace's aesthetic and design flow. You fill out you...

We've all seen fake snow that can be sprayed on windows, trees, etc., but did you know there's also fake ice crystals? MTFX demonstrates above. I learned about it on a shoot about 15 years ago. It wor...

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 ...

From The Guardian:A group of incoming Republican congresspeople intends to counter the "radical agenda" of the Democratic party, with the self-professed goal of becoming the Republican party's alterna...

Dustin Skye's mesmerizing bubble creations combine dexterity, patience, and precision. Here are step-by-step instructions of you want to make your own:Image: YouTube / Dustin Skye...

In the late 1860s, artist, "amateur" zoologist, and maker Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez built a personal submersible so he could draw the otherworldly scenes he observed under the sea. (Did he actually s...

This is it. The console wars are back and this year might be the most blistering, savagely-fought engagement ever between bitter rivals, Sony and Microsoft. Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox ...

Sheryl Crow and "friends" perform a lovely cover of Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How It Feels." Petty's original version appears on Wildflowers, his 1994 album that was just celebrated with a lavish 7 ...

SindrElf (previously) celebrates the fiftieth birthday of Jonathan Coulton (previously) by creating a 30-minute biographical documentary about his work and career. An enjoyable tour of the classics!I'...

Super Nintendo World is slated to open at Universal Studios Japan on February 4, 2021. The centerpiece of the $578 million endeavor is an augmented reality Mario Kart ride inside of Bowser's Castle. W...

Every once in a while, you hear that a ridiculous percentage of internet users are merely algorithms. We design tests to exclude bots from making new accounts, leaving comments, or even consuming cont...

High-end video cards are hard to find right now, underproduced and overpriced as the pandemic grinds on. Though NVidia's GeForce RTX 3060 Ti lacks the power of the higher-numbered models, it's about a...

Last month, around 250 people checked in at a New Orleans hotel for the Naughty in N'awlins swingers festival. At least 41 of those attendees (participants?) have now tested positive for COVID-19. "If...

Instagram account @myfriendsylvia was a computer-generated mortal who lived five decades of life in just 21 weeks. She died on November 20, according to a family member who made a final post on her ac...

The Manual Red Eye is the student newspaper for DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky. And lately, they've been doing some fantastic work reporting on the white supremacist infiltration of...

Science fiction author, Blue Oyster Cult lyricist, and "cyberpunk patient zero," John Shirley, has also been creating music while doing all of those other things. His latest project is with guitarist ...

Marcos Lopez (artstation) was struck by the "very simple question" of "What if NBC Hannibal did the Sonic Adventure pose?" Here is the outcome:Yesterday, I posed myself a question. A very simple quest...

Alexander Korzer-Robinson modeled this charming acrobat after a Victorian children's toy. It is powered by sand and is reset by gently rotating the toy.Here's an antique one that is still operational:...

Kenneth Copeland is one of the more notorious fire-and-brimstone MegaChurch millionaire con-artists of today. So guitarist Andre Antunes just did the logical thing: took one of the man's hellfire...

Our pals over on the Mondo 2000 website have an interview with Brian Taylor who's attempting to bring Shay and Wilson's labyrinthine novel, Illuminatus!, to the small screen. In December 2019, Deadlin...

Flies have a number of tools in their arsenal that have given them a perpetual edge in the battle against human-engineered fly swatter technology. The most fascinating is a set of little barbells unde...

Far Out Magazine has a great new write-up about this legendary 1988 performance at the Town & Country Club in London:The Town & Country club in London, which is now known as Kentish Town Forum...

Amigos es con profundo pesar comunicarles que acaba de colapsar la plataforma del Observatorio de Arecibo. pic.twitter.com/stJScy2Old— Deborah Martorell (@DeborahTiempo) December 1, 2020The susp...

Amigos es con profundo pesar comunicarles que acaba de colapsar la plataforma del Observatorio de Arecibo. pic.twitter.com/stJScy2Old— Deborah Martorell (@DeborahTiempo) December 1, 2020The susp...

This web site does only one thing, but does it incredibly well: It offers a nuanced, track-by-track analysis of the Doctor Who theme music originally composed in 1963.The writers here — Danny St...

I was honored to illustrate a brand-new expanded color edition of The Cruising Diaries, Whiting Award-winning author Brontez Purnell's hilariously unhinged and decidedly unsexy erotic memoir. If there...

The good folks over at Sad and Useless have compiled this gallery of some of the most ambitious homemade cardboard cat forts I've ever seen. Some have elaborate turrets, others have gun towers or tiny...

Jake Haendel came close to dying in 2017. He was diagnosed with toxic progressive leukoencephalopathy, caused by the use of adulterated heroin. Haendel did not die, but spent a year unable to move or ...

We'd all love to make the trip home this year for the holidays, but the reality is, that's probably not in the cards for millions right now. But with encouraging signs that a COVID-19 vaccine in early...

Scott Atlas has resigned from his position in the White House as Donald Trump's special adviser on COVID-19, multiple news agencies report Mister 'Herd Immunity' has resigned, reports CNN:Dr. Scott A...

HE'LL GET BACK TO YOU Reporter Brahm Resnik of Phoenix, AZ NBC 12 News/KPNX TV tweeted this incredible video of Arizona's Republican governor Greg Ducey seeming to blow off an incoming call from the T...

Ross Bernards wrote on his Instagram page that he witnessed the Utah monolith being removed by a group of men he surmised were locals. The 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque monolith, discovered in the deser...

This year, the pledge to focus on your health and take better care of yourself in 2021 needs to be more than just words. As we've all seen the past several months, your health is your most precio...

I bought this Black+Decker Dustbuster cordless vacuum in 2015, and it's the best I've owned. All the other cordless vacs I've owned had batteries that conked out after a year or less, but the battery ...

"They say that Russia is a technically backward country, there are no roads, robotics do not develop, rockets do not fly, and mail goes too long. It's a bullshit."Video. (Written and directed by: Serg...

This cat seriously enjoys getting dried off after a nice luxurious bath.November 30, 2020, Taoyuan City, Taiwan: "The first time I took my brother's cat to the bath, never expected him to enjoy it."...

The dog is fine! "This brave furbaby was hanging for almost 20 minutes. He kept holding on to the wall so he didn't get strangled. He had been alone in the apartment. Maybe he was afraid and missed hi...

Last week, a shiny 12-foot monolith was discovered in Utah. Then, over the weekend, it mysteriously vanished. Now a similar monolith has appeared on a hillside in Romania, standing where an ancient Da...

What coronavirus? About 1.2 million people passed through U.S. airports on the Sunday following Thanksgiving, the greatest single-day air travel numbers since the pandemic hit America in March. And th...

The price of a bitcoin reached $19,850 today, beating the 2017 record of $19,783. It's since dropped to $19,268. The 2017 price surge has been attributed to an influx of Asian speculators, followed by...

The United States Internal Revenue Service now acknowledges that its own mistakes caused some foreign citizens to receive $1,200 coronavirus relief payments they weren't entitled to (the aid was for U...

Adam Klasfeld of Law and Crime News reports that a federal judge on Monday partially advanced a lawsuit accusing Felix Sater of laundering millions stolen from Kazakhstan's BTA Bank through Trump Orga...

The state of Arizona today certified results of the 2020 presidential election, affirming Joe Biden's victory and granting him the state's 11 electoral votes.This also clears the way for Senator-elect...

Ajit Pai announced he'll be stepping down as FCC chairman, rather than waiting around to be fired by Biden on January 20. Best known as a monopoly-loving foe of Net Neutrality, Pai also let stand the ...

The State of Arizona certified President-elect Biden's win, but Trump's crack team of results deniers isn't giving up on trying to reverse the decision.From The Washington Post:The action came as Bide...

I've always thought I was good at recognizing people's faces. But I took this test and my results said I'm in the bottom 50%. The test was hard for me. I was just blindly guessing most of the time. Gi...

Merriam-Webster published its list of the top eleven words looked up the most in 2020. It's a fascinating (albeit unsurprising) reflection of the zeitgeist:CoronavirusDefundMambaKrakenQuarantineAntebe...

Project Runway's Season 17 had a contestant who made a "Head to Toe" look which included a matching mask. The hosts praised it as "sick." And, of course, his name was Kovid Kapoor. 2019 Project Runwa...

"Around 1979, I had an optometrist in Palo Alto custom make 30 pairs of these glasses with lenses in the shape and rainbow colors of the original Apple logo," says Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. "It ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded 15,000 Egyptian fruit bat screeches into a machine learning algorithm that matched the bats' activities with the sounds they made. They learned that bats a...

Wasps are threatening airplane safety at Australia's Brisbane Airport. The keyhole wasps have identified an airplane's "pitot tube," an externally-mounted sensor that measures airspeed, as an ideal lo...

There are angry ladies all over Yankee Candle's site reporting that none of the candles they just got had any smell at all. I wonder if they're feeling a little hot and nothing has much taste for the...

In December, Inglewood Drive in Toronto becomes "Kringlewood" because almost everyone puts up a giant inflatable Santa Claus. That started in 2013, as the neighborhood embraced the absurdity of giant ...

Madeline Robertson recently patented a pillow with a built-in hand to hold. Apparently, the hand could also be attached to a shirt. From the USPTO filing:The tactile object may be formed of a second m...

If you're a former model/amateur rocket enthusiast, a born-again rocketeer, or current practitioner of amateur space, you must subscribe to BPS.space. It is the channel of Joe Bernard, a young amateu...

Deepspot is a new swimming facility in Poland boating the world's deepest human-made pool with a depth of 148 foot. The pool is designed for SCUBA and freediving and features underwater caves, "Mayan"...

A friend just posted this on Facebook. It's apparently one of the demo versions of "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" featuring the George Harrison sitar part much more prominently in the mix. Of ...

Did you learn how to crochet during shelter in place? Bake bread? That's nice. Meanwhile, the LaRochelle family in Napa, CA were busy building a large-scale replica of Disneyland's Matterhorn ride in ...

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Chuck Tingle, the surprisingly wholesome author of such acclaimed literary masterpieces as Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Upset Tromp Supporter Pounded In The Butt B...

I have an older cousin who I used to think was the coolest dude ever. He always had hot girlfriends, he was always hammered, and he had an in-ground pool and a half-pipe in his backyard. What else do ...

In 1976, Bjrk, then 11-years-old and studying classical piano and flute, sang Tina Charles's "I Love to Love" for a school recital. According to Wikipedia, "her teachers sent a recording of her singin...

The new They Might Be Giants single, "Who Are The Electors?", is a pop-rock civics lesson that belongs up there with "I'm Just A Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock. As the band explained in their newsletter:...

As I get older Fred the Dog becomes the best part of Smokey and the Bandit....

Yes, that's right: for just $20, you, too, can have a Richard Simmons Chia Pet growing your own home. Simmons is apparently offering lockdown workout videos as well. He also offered this helpful advic...

A new article from the US Naval Institute which is not necessarily representative of the US Navy claims to have spotted evidence of dolphin holding pens along the Taedong River in North Korea. Howev...

In an astonishing display of control and focus, Andrey Matveenko calmly dives about 390 feet straight down into the ocean depths.There are several kinds of freediving, including with or without fins o...

As noted by Tom McKay, the sons of outgoing president Trump enjoyed the nicknames "stank" and "choad" as high-schoolers. Don Jr is Stank, Eric is Choad. These revelations come courtesy of their yearbo...

Scotty H created this spectrographic animation of a classic dial-up modem's startup noise. Here's a breakdown, by Oona Risnen, of what each section concerns:Dial-up modem operaWhy the modems screamed...

Aleia Murawski and Samuel Copeland create delightful dioramas featuring live snails. View this post on Instagram A post shared by aleia (@aleia)They did a fun video for the Bully so...

Trump's current behavior, refusing to accept defeat and insisting that the election was fraudulent, was inevitable: he's made the same claim about every poll that ever failed to go his way. But it cer...

Tom Scott looks at how the web devolved from a universal linked information system into a bit of a mess.There are two reasons, he says: advertisers and people. The web was originally stateless. Then c...

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's chief nuclear scientist, was shot with a remote-controlled machine gun, reports Iranian news agency Fars.The Fars News report said Fakhrizadeh was traveling with his wife in...

Aron Fromm worked with the late Stan Lee as a sound editor for more than a decade. He recently dug up some old archival recordings of the excelsior man including one in which the ever-jovial Stan Lee...

If the Beijing Olympics ceremonies were more concerning to you than inspiring, the North Korean Mass Games may remind you of how tight choreography and totalitarianism often go hand in hand. Presented...

Mattes Kuche shared this demonstration of how flexible cold glass can be by wobbling this wine glass with an extremely thin stem. View this post on Instagram A post shared by #kuche...

From Vice:The set will feature two Ross landscapes representing each of Magic's five different land  typesplains, swamps, forests, islands, and mountains. "I thought swamp was going to be the har...

In this video, a man gently grooms Hamish, a colossal Highland cow. It ends with a harmless but telling example of how much trouble you can get into around those horns, even with such a docile breed....

The Mysterians is a must-see Japanese sci-fi flick from 1957, and over at ourculture, they give it a thorough and thoughtful analysis.In the film, a series of earthquakes and forest fires precedes the...

It's become a tradition in the Boing Boing Store. Just like winter and Santa, every year's end isn't complete without the most tricked-out set of killer Mac apps included in the annual Cyber Monday Ma...

Baltimore's public schools are closed this week after a ransomware attack brought down its network. Administrators hope to bring students back in on Wednesday, but "it could take weeks" to bring up th...

Like Uncle Roger, I liberally apply MSG to savory dishes, but this steak dry-aged in pure MSG is next level:MSG is something used quite often in many restaurants. Today I Dry Aged Steaks with it and t...

An auction house called up Music Is Win with an amazing chance to play Eric Clapton's "Slowhand" 1954 Fender Stratocaster. From the auction house:It appears that Clapton first used it on stage circa 1...

While Cyber Monday is ostensibly about helping you save money on holiday gift ideas, the true sneaky joy of it all is scoring deals on stuff for you.Friends and relatives are great…but let's not...