Articles by BoingBoing from April 2021

Disgraced ex-Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, says his parents always told him "it's not nice to gloat." So what does he do when asked about the FBI raid of disgraced ex-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani? He...

Have you revisited a movie theater this year? While movies like Godzilla vs Kong are helping to bring the theater-going experience back, it may be a long time before the cineplex is a bustling center ...

Liberals don't have a sense of humor, according to Brendan Hunt (37) of Queens, NY. In his January 8 video, the Trump-supporting conspiracy fabulist said, "We need to go back to the US Capitol when al...

New Orleans police are seeking the whereabouts of Chewbacca who is suspected of aggravated battery with a knife. According to the NOPD, the incident occurred on Saturday night and Chewbacca hasn't bee...

The Smithsonian Libraries' Trade Literature Collection includes catalogs, sales brochures, and other materials "that were once part of the merchandising of business." What a fascinating source of desi...

Dante is a retired-police-dog-turned-canine-comedian who lives with TikToker Davey Rutherford in Queensland, Australia. And his reactions to drug-related words are hysterical. In this first video, he...

In this Hitchcockian moment, more than 1,500 migrating birds traveling through Torrance, California flew down a chimney and into someone's home. From Inside Edition:"There were birds coming out of eve...

In 1938, unusual atmospheric conditions enabled a few minutes of BBC television to be picked up in the United States. An early cine camera, pointed at a TV set, captured the footage that includes BBC ...

Twitter has rave reviews for Andrew Giuliani's Will Ferrell impersonation....

Dragon-tailed Gecko, spraying sticky liquid from their tails straight at any would-be predators. from nextfuckinglevel Nature remains amazing. — Read the rest ...

This 2.5x LED magnifier can be used as a handheld tool or on the desktop. It also has smaller, more powerful magnifying glass built-in. Perfect for peering at electronic components. I use it to inspec...

In an effort to prove how confused a town can be Placerville has removed the offensive noose from its logo but has decided to maintain the nickname 'Old Hangtown,' as some ridiculous maroons find that...

President Joe Biden touched on a lot of topics in his speech to Congress last night, but there was one word he kept circling back to: "jobs." In fact, he said the word 43 times, according to APNews. A...

Mark your calendars for June 4 to watch the first episode of Sweet Tooth, a new series on Netflix based on the DC comic of the same name and executive produced by Susan Downey and Robert Downey, Jr.Ye...

My daughter's overstuffed bowls of dwarf sunflowers continue to grow like mad. I have to water them every day or they droop because the bowls are just not big enough for that many sunflowers. It is a ...

In Brazil, a bull on a rural road suddenly and unexplainably attacked a parked car, bashing it with his horns. I don't think he was angry. He was either playing with the car or trying to impress his g...

Reddit user big_papa_geek posted a video of their cat, Salem, unscrewing and then snapping the lid of a food container before diving in for a snack. "I am honestly not sure if I am more scared or impr...

After all the horrible reality of the past year, you've got to try to embrace some of the little victories from this less-than-ideal period. For instance, if your kid wasn't tech-savvy before, they're...

Signal, the popular messaging service with end-to-end encryption, stores precious little user data "Unix timestamps for when each account was created and the date that each account last connected to ...

Signal, the popular messaging service with end-to-end encryption, stores precious little user data "Unix timestamps for when each account was created and the date that each account last connected to ...

Looks like Cancn wasn't enough R&R for "lyin' sleepy Ted Cruz," who was caught by CNN snoozing on the job last night. "Ted Cruz isn't only a liar. He's a sleepy liar," says Meidas Touch in their ...

Converse paired with vintage clothing retailer Beyond Retro to bring us Tropical Shirt Chucks. Available as low ($90) and high ($95) tops, each pair of these sneakers are completely one-of-a-kind beca...

EarthCam made a construction time-lapse the Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center expansion project in Orlando,Florida. Construction on the 698,312 square foot, $612 million dollar arts center began in ...

In the 2010s, computer giant Dell did a lot to repair its sinking reputation. Its founder raised $25bn to return it to private ownership, it updated its style and standards, and made waves with its ha...

Large areas of Texas and Oklahoma were hit with freak hail storms Wednesday night, including 2-inch lime-size hail in many areas, 3-inch apple-size hail in Fort Worth and Norman, OK and even 4-inch ha...

Amy Wilhite (39) of Missouri received a 10-year prison sentence for smuggling a .22 caliber revolver in her vagina into jail. The 4.6-ounce gun, loaded with five rounds, was found during an inspection...

Watch this lamb walk on its two front legs without stumbling. It even manages to hop through a gap in a fence. ...

Everybody loves watching puppies experience snow for the first time, or watching a kitten try to drink milk on its own, or even the unlikely friendships formed between a camel and a cow. But what abou...

In this video, the camera configuration of the game Skyrim is modified so that instead of the camera's viewpoint and its pivot point being the same, the camera's viewpoint is moved a few inches forwar...

Wanted to pass on what the San Francisco Neo-Futurists are up to. They've got a new interactive performance called The Program. The shtick? It's a 45-minute audio experience performed exclusively over...

"It's almost worthless as a security device," he says, slicing through it like a cucumber....

A landslide triggered a tsunami in a Greenland fjord on June 18, 2017, scouring the nearby coast on the west of the sparsely-populated island. As the waters rose, a fisherman began filming for posteri...

On the lovely beach of Mar del Plata in Argentina, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, thousands of white translucent orbs started to appear all along the beach this past weekend. These large pearl-esque...

The impacts of the new work-from-home model have thrown some ginormous curve balls at everyone. But if there's one member of your extended work family who probably deserves to be singled out for a lit...

Ted Cruz is in the joint address KNOCKED out pic.twitter.com/eKTOJorcwY— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 29, 2021Ted Cruz has displayed no respect for anything or anyone except Ted Cruz. Goodn...

No pillow can guarantee you a good night's sleep. The average person sleeps with 2.2 pillows, according to the National Sleep Foundation so by that logic, if multiple pillows could somehow do the tri...

Lin Wood claims he knows about Drew McKissick and Lindsey Graham (meaning unclear). Drew McKissick seems to state that Lin Wood supports Chinese pornography. pic.twitter.com/txTpdqj77x— PatriotT...

If powering up devices was as easy as plugging your single device into its accompanying charger and juicing away, everything would be simple. But you and the rest of your household are likely laden do...

By Torfi, A Firm Handshake is a pleasant reminder of what business life was like before the pandemic. Available for Windows, MacOS and Linux, it lets you approach people and shake their hands. They th...

Michael Smurro, a vice principal of a New Jersey middle school, is now apologizing after throwing beer at restaurant diners who were filming (see video below) his near-hysterical transphobic wife. The...

The average American stares at a screen over 17 hours a day. That's almost every waking minute of your life, over 6,200 hours a year. And the even scarier fact is that those are pre-pandemic numbers. ...

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Robinhood is working for the proletariat, while Little John just wants to see Robin piss on a nice car.That car is absolutely not a Ferrari. ...

Mask-holes are awful. Tucker Carlson, a mask-hole, is awful regardless. ...

Apollo 11astronaut Michael Collins died today. He was 90. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the lunar module Eagle for the historic Moon landing on July 20, 1969, Collins piloted in the Apo...

Just like his namesake, Mando HATES droids. from cats I'd love to know what's going through this cat's mind as it bravely lies in wait before attacking an alien invader, aka a ro...

A colony of beavers knocked out Internet service on Saturday for residents of the small Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge, a few hours of northeast of Prince George, British Columbia. The animals had che...

Carla ordered a24-pack of these cheap Bic mechanical pencils. I tried one and Ilike it a lot. The lead diameter is 0.9 mm and it has a number 2 lead inside. It also contains one extra lead in the barr...

In Passau, Germany, a jogger noticed a clear plastic bag containing a hand grenade. Police brought in the bomb squad who determined that the grenade was actually a rubber sex toy. From the BBC News:"A...

Federal investigators seized Rudy Giuliani's electronic devices in a search warrant at his Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan today, reports The New York Times. Sources told the paper that the war...

For all you soap whittlers (or wannabes) out there, watch these hands and their carving tools quickly transform soap into Godzilla and King Kong. This is the first video on YouTube's new The Workbench...

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity spots the Perseverance Rover from the air during its third flight on April 25, 2021.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech pic.twitter.com/aKSk1s8PMG— Wonder of Science (@wonderofsci...

Two days ago, the project management startup Basecamp publicly and ostentatiously declared that it was banning political discussion among its employees at work. This led to a debate over the usual top...

Basecamp publicly and ostentatiously declared that it was banning political discussion among its employees at work. This led to a debate over the usual topics of racism, wokeness and corporate respons...

This Great Dane enjoys looking out windows and doesn't understand why the primates he lives with cover them with pieces of trees. No matter, a few swipes of his gargantuan paws and bites from his sali...

For almost a year, NPR has invited musicians to contribute an original song to their "Morning Edition Song Project." The composition is meant to capture the zeitgeist through the artist's eyes. Today,...

Scan the World has thousands of high-resolution scans of statues, sculptures, and other 3D museum pieces saved in the STL format. You can upload them to 3D modeling apps or print them on a 3D printer....

Scan the World has thousands of high-resolution scans of statues, sculptures, and other 3D museum pieces saved in the STL format. You can upload them to 3D modeling apps or print them on a 3D printer....

Writer Laura Italiano resigned from the NY Post after backlash from her made-up story, "KAM ON IN!" The article claimed that copies of Kamala Harris' book, Superheroes Are Everywhere, were part of "we...

Jump to the 2:52:17 mark in this video of a recent Temecula, California City Council Meeting in which councilwoman Jessica Alexander lavishes praise on herself for being the Rosa Parks of maskholes."I...

The New York Post ran a story claiming that care packages given to migrant children included copies of Superheroes are Everywhere, a book by vice president Kamala Harris. The story was false and its a...

In 2013, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association decided the best way to make Americans forget about the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting would be to show how cool guns we...

Authorities at New York City's JFK Airport nabbed Kevin Andre Mckenzie, 36, for attempting to smuggle nearly three-dozen finches jammed into hair rollers from Guyana to New York City for birdsong comp...

On safari in Botswana eight years ago, NRA chief Wayne LaPierre showed that he is a shockingly inept marksman, unable to cleanly shoot a bus-sized animal, even at point-blank range, even after it is i...

Sam Johnson was fired as CEO of Visuwell after he was videotaped telling a boy in a dress, "You look like an idiot." He also took a swipe at the boy's boyfriend who was recording the video. A woman's ...

There's more to it than just the bars, of course; the video, from creator Kyoko Takenaka, is an exploration of a lot of aspects of Asian-American identity, particularly for women. I just watched the b...

Off-roading explained using Lego vehicle from Damnthatsinteresting Here's a nifty demonstration of how to modify a Lego car to go up a glass incline. It slips at 20 degrees until...

A lawsuit filed against the Loveland, Colo. police department claims that officers broke the arm and dislocated the shoulder of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old dementia patient, while arresting her for wa...

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a major gun-rights claim on Monday. The decision they make could change whether or not the 2nd Amendment gives citizens the right to carry loaded firearms when they le...

It's easy to spend your 20s assuming that some of the finer points of adulting will just work themselves out over the course of time. You're so busy trying to start a career, find a relationship, and ...

Skewers are about as primal an instrument as man has ever devised. In fact, a stick with a fashioned tip for just that type of open-flame cooking was found at a campsite believed to date back over 300...

Even in this new age of home offices and remote employment, we still haven't really advanced the state of desk decor much, have we?The walls around you may have changed and your boss may have to Zoom ...

This U Haul truck gets its comeuppance after it tries to muscle its way past a low-hanging pipe in a parking garage. As it keeps trying and failing to break thought its barrier, it gets dirty, soppi...

This U Haul truck gets its comeuppance after it tries to muscle its way past a low-hanging bar, which later appears to be a sewage pipe, in a parking garage. As it keeps trying and failing to break ...

[UPDATE: A reader who is a licensed union electrician said that the bullied obstacle is not actually a sewage pipe but rather a fire sprinkler system pipe. The dark liquid gunk we see is actually dir...

According to the New Testament, Jesus, born a Jew, was ritually circumcised at eight days old. What happened to his foreskin? That mystery is the subject of University of PhD candidate James White's d...

We live in a house with walls that have chicken wire behind the plaster. They do a great job of blocking Wifi. To get around it, I installed a Frankensteinian hodgepodge of cables, powerline adapters,...

If there's one thing Senator Josh Hawley's followers love more than guns, sedition, and hatred of fair elections, it's a daily serving of hypocrisy. Today's example is brought to you by Mike Masnik, w...

Tucker Carlson has hit a new low, if that's possible, as he relates children wearing masks to child abuse. Hearkening back to the days of McCarthyism, he encourages his audience to call the police and...

Guga just laughs and laughs over how well this brisket works out. His friend does an excellent ScoobyDo when he is told the cooking technique. Inspiring. ...

Sunil Tulsiani is banned from trading securities for life by the Ontario Securities Commission for his part in a $4,475,000 Ponzi scheme. He recently had Edward Snowden on a live "VIP" video event, an...

A gentleman scheduled to fly on a Guangxi Biebu Gulf Airlines flight from Weifang to Haikou, China was detained when staff was alerted that he had tossed coins wrapped in red paper into the plane's en...

"Not panicking, not panicking, not panicking," a Queensland, Australia woman tells herself after she carefully prods this humongous hairy black spider speaking to it like it's a puppy into a plastic...

This man is living in 2030! pic.twitter.com/fgXLCEPldS— Buitengebieden (@BuitengebiedenB) April 24, 2021Last year, Omni Hoverboards released video of their propeller-based hoverboard flying ove...

In 2017 we reported on McBroken, an app designed to help you avoid the nearly 50/50 chance one appears to have of finding that a McDonald's ice cream machine is broken. This guy puts in a lot of effo...

WalMart adopted its current logo in 2008, switching a five-pointed star for a yellow asterisk. It has now filed in opposition to Yeezy's trademark filing of a black dotted sun symbol, claiming it is t...

When my father-in-law first moved to a house in Kentucky near a roundabout, he knew that many people in the United States aren't familiar with roundabouts, the circular intersections most popular in E...

Tyler Winegarner is. reviewing his favorite tools for Cool Tools and in his latest video, he demonstrates why he likes the AeroPress coffee maker so much. "For the past ten years or so, I've pretty mu...

Facebook exists for one reason: to make money selling targeted advertising. That's it. Anything that prevents Facebook from tracking what its users do online the websites they visit, the videos they ...

If the last four years of the Republican party were to be made into a movie, it could easily fall under the sci-fi "Last Human on Earth" subcategory which includes the likes of Invasion of the Body S...

This YouTuber explains how a confluence of cultures and laws has created a super car graveyard....

CNN employee and Christian theocrat Rick Santorum has made a lifelong career out of making white straight conservatives feel good about hating and fearing people who aren't white, straight, or conserv...

Hackers says they have compromised the computer networks of D.C. law enforcement agencies and have threatened to publish the names of police informants if they are not contacted within three days. The...

More than 30 years ago, Mauro Morandi was attempting to sail from Italy to Polynesia when he ended up on Budelli, a small private island off Sardinia. Morandi, now 81, never left and eventually became...

Lawyers for Richard "Bigo" Barnett, the man photographed sitting in Nancy Pelosi's office with his boot on her desk and a stun gun clipped to his waist during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, a...

In Miami Florida, parents are paying nearly $30,000 for a private school that won't hire teachers who have been vaccinated for Covid-19. And if they've already take part in the nefarious activity, the...

In a development with obvious implications for other things robots might soon be tasked with killing, the Carbon Robotics Autonomous Weeder is working twenty times faster than the humans it replaces.W...

The Daily Mail reported yesterday [archive.org] that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, confronted by the economic costs of the Covid pandemic, told those present in a meeting to "let the bodies pile high ...

STEM jobs are expected to increase to more than 9 million next year, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With job markets still recovering from the COVID shutdowns and seismic shifts in ...

Citizen Kane, the Orson Welles classic often hailed as the greatest movie of all time, slipped from 100% to 99% on Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer" sometime between Feb 25 and April 15 this year. The si...

Spanish graphic designer Txaber made these very cool prints of beer can logo redesigns, each one labelled with the respective Pantone color that best represents the color of the beer inside. I'm an av...

Thanks to the fully autonomous vehicleDomino's is using to deliver pizza in Texas, the infamous red-suited, floppy-eared "antihero" that plagued 80's pizza commercials is making a comeback. The roboti...

Thanks to the fully autonomous vehicle Domino's is using to deliver pizza in Texas, the infamous red-suited, floppy-eared "antihero" that plagued 80's pizza commercials is making a comeback. The ...

Somehow The View's Meghan McCain is still offended by the Suess Enterprises decision to stop publishing six books with racist and insensitive material in them. McCain, like many conservatives trying t...

Car trips with the family aren't just journeys from Point A to Point B. And they aren't just some bonding time, gathering everyone together in a single vehicle to talk, laugh, sing and come together a...

Matt Mikka is an engineer who likes to look under the hood, whether it's the inside of a car, phone, or in this case, a dishwasher. He'd tried several times before to video the dirty work of a dishwas...

Never has a White House Press Secretary made their job seem utterly amusing until Jen Psaki came along. But briefing after briefing, Jen Psaki can't contain her smile as she outsmarts every reporter ...

A New York Times reader asks: "Where does a candle go when it burns, anyway? Is it healthy to be breathing in melted candle particles? How concerned should I be?" Randall Munroe of XKCD fame breaks do...

In Evansville, Indiana last week, two individuals entered a Denny's restaurant at 2am, hours after closing. They made some eggs and then left. According to the police report, the suspects returned abo...

If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, unable to get to sleep, it's an incredibly frustrating position. Right now, 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems. That translates ...

I don't know what's funnier, these adorable goats learning to work a seesaw, or a person's laughter in the background. Her laughter is so infectious I found myself unwittingly joining in with gusto. F...

In 1938, Italian physicist Ettore Majorana vanished after taking a sudden sea journey. At first it was feared that he'd ended his life, but the perplexing circumstances left the truth uncertain. In to...

The new RPG Coyote & Crow raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter, and it's easy to understand why: the game was created by Native American designers, and depicts a futuristic version of an u...

"This watering hole isn't big enough for the both of us."...

Donald Trumps's former economic adviser and now Fox News host Larry Kudlow warns us that President Biden's environmental plan will lead to us all guzzling, um, plant-based beer:Speaking of stupid. Ame...

I've been painting the interior walls of our house and have learned that it is easy to miss spots unless you have a very bright light. This inexpensive LED work light from Tacklife does the trick. It ...

Posted on his always funny Instagram without any commentary, Jack Black gets what we think is Covid shot, for all of us to witness. And then the hilarious side effect kicks in: blowing up like the Mic...

The producers of this 1967 CBC news program sure knew how to put on a good show. It opens with a Hells Angel riding his loud chopper around a tiny stage, with Hunter S. Thompson and a moderator seated...

You know we're in trouble when the MAGAverse has even turned against Fox News for their facts. In this clip of John Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Into the MAGAverse, John Klepper (of The Daily Show) inte...

Authorities intercepted a trailer at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge carrying fresh cucumber pickles. Apparently their "non-intrusive imaging system" clued them in that the pickle bags containe...

My father was an electrical engineer at IBM in the 1960s and developed tape drive technology there, so when I saw designer Love Hulten's storage cabinet inspired by the IBM 2401tape drive, I felt nost...

At around 4AM last Saturday, around 900 Telus customers in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, lost internet access. According to Telus spokesperson Liz Sauv, in a "very bizarre and uniquely Canadian tur...

Bloomberg reports that staple crops corn, wheat, soybeans, and vegetable oils are "dramatically more expensive, flashing alarm signals for global shopping budgets." This is especially alarming for p...

I recently binge-read Eric Powell's wonderful comic book series, The Goon, and instantly became a fan. So, I was thrilled when his publicist reached out to offer Boing Boing an exclusive peek at Eric ...

It's my friend Kevin Kelly's birthday this week, and as a gift to everyone, he's compiled a list of 99 pieces of useful advice. Here are a few of my favorites:Be governed not by the tyranny of the urg...

Newsmax host: "If we take all the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, what're the trees gonna turn into oxygen?" pic.twitter.com/PzslVApzi7— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) April ...

Last fall, Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold threw a social media fit after being told to wear her mask on an airplane. She called Alaska Airlines staff "mask bulllies" and part of "mask tyranny," and P...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who habitually abandons wives for mistresses, went on Fox News to complain about the Biden administration authorizing U.S. embassies to display the gay pride flag d...

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Burly maker man, Jimmy DiResta, seems to be able to fashion anything from anything. Case in point. In this video, he pulls a log from his stash, rolls it over to his outside workbench, and using littl...

Take a look at that lamp you've got on your bedroom nightstand. Or the one on your office desk. Even the one on the end table in your living room.Odds are, it's…well, a lamp. While there's alway...

Doorbell video captured a police officer in Vacaville, California, angrily pushing a teenager with autism onto the ground, punching him in the face, then yelling "You're gonna get hurt. Don't make me ...

In Infinity Dive, a free web game by keepeetron, you find yourself falling into a void containing a fractal curve. Using the pointer, you veer toward the curve as you fall toward it at ever greater sp...

Google.com.ar was a domain belonging to Google, the 1.5 trillion-dollar tech giant. The domain somehow lapsed. A man bought it, perfectly legally, for $2. Then Google took it back. Here's Nicolas Kuro...

In this footage a woodpecker sings its song for a while, then falls to silence. It looks around a bit, then gives its plastic perch a few blasts of full-automatic pecking. Appleseed Outdoors writes:We...

It's widely understood, in the collective consciousness of the meme-anschauung, that inhaling sulphur hexafluoride is how one briefly attains an extremely deep and manly voice. But there is a gas that...

Caron McBride once lived in Norman, Oklahoma, and in 1999 rented Sabrina The Teenage Witch on VHS. We know this because McBride recently learned she was charged in absentia with felony embezzlement fo...

Bluetooth speakers are everywhere now. Of course, now that those little black rectangles are popping up on every countertop, desktop, tabletop, and mountaintop in the world these days, the divide betw...

A go-bag. A bug-out bag. A survival bag. It used to be that if you had a packed-and-ready bag poised by the door or stashed in your trunk, filled with essentials that you could grab and run with at a ...

Oklahoma State SenatorNathan Dahm, a former bible school dean tweeted that he thinks his blowjob joke about VP Harris is "hilarious" and that "your emotional opinions are irrelevant" when it comes to ...

This is a good example of using the wrong tool for the job. Two guys try to load a giant urn onto a small truck. They use their own body weight to tilt the truck down and slide the urn on, but that do...

Moms have a tough, tough job and if it takes a little jolt of caffeine to keep them on their feet and charging through their day, who the heck are we to judge? So, if she's a coffee lover (or a caffe...

In a unanimous vote on April 21, the Vermont Senate agreed to sign a measure that would stop those accused of murdering and/or assaulting LGBTQ people from using their victim's sexuality or gender as ...

Sina is a talented German drummer with a channel on YouTube. In this video, she talks about Ringo Starr's playing and demonstrates aspects of his unique style. So, what makes Ringo a great drummer? U...

Being a mom carries a lot of stress. A mom with young children. A mom with grown children. A mom with kids she sees every day. A mom with kids who make it for major holidays. It's all the same…b...

If it weren't for JavaScript's central role in the creation of web apps and scripts, there's a strong case to be made that Python is the all-purpose, most popular programming language in the world.
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Art Life Features (@artlifefeatures)Even after its clear what's going on in these optical illusion drawings, I get a sense of delight a...

Stay for the dismount from IdiotsInCars One can hope the driver made it safely to the ground but I suspect he was tramped by a passing paddling of ducks. — Read the rest ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Home of the funky monkeys (@monkey.posting)If you are interested in monkeys, you might like the Monkey Posting Instagram account. Here'...

Tragically enough debris has been recovered from the KRI Nanggala 402 to provide clear proof the ship endured a catastrophe and has sunk. No bodies have been recovered.CBS:The cause of the disapp...

Whoa! Where did all that water go? Into the parking lot below:Cctv footage swimming pool collapse from beneath...

It's like going to your cousin's wedding, without leaving the comfort of your COVID-quarantined home!(Except for "Don't Stop Believin'" because I hate that song with the fire of a million exploding su...

Actor Danny Glover, of Lethal Weapon fame, took a red-eye from San Francisco to speak at a rally in the Chicago Loop early Wednesday morning in support of an ordinance bringing civilian oversight of t...

"World War 3 Is Coming!" screams the cover of this week's 'National Enquirer,' which is a pleasant change from past tabloid stories threatening WWIII which have been relegated to pages deep inside the...

Between marijuana legalization efforts, vaping, and more, the past decade has truly been a golden age in the advancement of smoking technology. In an age where everything has to be portable and o...

William B. Keiffer, a New York State police investigator, was permitted to retire after being accused of stealing women's underwear and moisturizer from a Walmart in Madison County. The accusation cam...

Advertisements for new products can now be digitally inserted into classic films. This means there could suddenly be a Pepsi billboard in the train station in North By Northwest or a pair of Nikes in ...

Last year, Slack introduced an add-on app called Hallway, allowing co-workers in the same Slack channel to join periodic breaks so coworkers can just idly video chat and shoot the breeze about whateve...

For $106, you can climb aboard a Ukrainian International Airlines plane this Sunday for an aerial tour of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the radioactive ghost town of Pripyat. It's a one-day op...

Just in time for Pride Month, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has informed American embassies and diplomatic missions that they may once again fly the Pride flag, along with "other symbols connoting...

A year after Trump praised the idea of injecting disinfectant as a Covid cure, a federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 62-year-old Florida man and his three sons for fraudulently mar...

Aw shucks, accused sex trafficker (of minors) Ghislaine Maxwell, sidekick to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is treated "horribly" in jail, according to her lawyer, David Markus. He is aghast ...

Mother's Day is May 9. Yep, we just got a jolt of stone-cold panic charging up our spines too. We always want to get our moms something special that really encapsulates the love and gratitude we ...

Use code 7Z74KWSZ at checkout to get these Tacklife digital calipers for a rock-bottom price. They switch between digital inches and millimeters and can measure thickness, ID and OC of holes and cylin...

For decades, a Western Massachusetts woman had heard family rumors of a cache of cash hidden by her relatives in a 1950s home previously owned by her aunt and uncle. She's finally selling the house bu...

Takashi Miyagawa, 39, of Kansai, Japan allegedly scammed three dozen women out of cash and birthday gifts by pretending to be in a serious relationship with each one of them. Apparently his racket onl...

Richard Glenn, a teacher at Longridge Towers School in Northumberland, England, has been suspended for three years for his "unacceptable" behavior during a school trip for 16 to 18-year-olds to Costa ...

I'm not sure why Google thought it was a good idea to hire 4chan founder Chris "moot" Poole in the first place, but after five years there, he's out. It's not clear whether he quit or was asked to res...

In 1981, the great Debbie Harry of Blondie joined the great Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show to sing the latter's iconic song "The Rainbow Connection." Below are two other performances from that sam...

Ex-president Donald Trump pulled one of his usual moves when he held a rally in Albuquerque, NM in 2019 he stiffed the city with a whopping bill of $200,000. Staying in a downtown hotel, Trump's high...

YouTuber Tech Forge is making amazing things, and his videos are fantastic.Go check out the vibroknife as well!...

Tennessee sixth-grader Kaeden Griffinis answering the questions the world asks: Does your cat rub its butt all over the house? He used an ingenious method to figure it out.WRAT: He ran his experiment ...

View post on imgur.comVia RedditWhat an amazing ride! ...

Robert Chapman thought his participation in the attack on the US Capitol would help him find love, instead a Bumble match turned him in.Daily Beast:It's one enormous act of stupidity to storm the U.S....

This cat does a good job feigning sleep when her owner tells her she needs to take her pill. But the cat's ruse is revealed when the human says she won't be getting her "wet food" either....

A hacker known as Monsieur Personne has created a method, known as "sleepminting," wherein an NFT can be registered that looks completely authentic, unbeknownst to the actual creator. Artnet.Com:Perso...

Light pollution map is exactly as promised, and works like Google Earth: scroll, zoom and bring up various different datasets and legends to make sense of it all. I'm always stuck by that dead-straigh...

Jonathan VanBoskerck, who resides in North Las Vegas, Nevada is a self-described "Christian and a conservative Republican." He wrote a guest commentary-opinion piece for The Orlando Sentinal to expres...

An entitled, vapid young Karen "saves" a parking spot for her boyfriend at an Austin, TX shopping mall while another driver is trying to pull in. Karen, who is doing a weird flirty dance while acting ...

With the iPad Pro now using the same core M1 hardware as MacBooks and iMacs, the shortcomings of iPadOS are standing out in sharp relief. Monica Chin states it bluntly: Put macOS on the iPad, you cowa...

Watch this relaxing and satisfying restoration of a grime-coated yet superficially mangled model Ferrari, with only a shop full of commercial-grade tools and a 3D printer!...

Tucker Carlson's job at Fox News is more secure than ever, now that his college yearbook caption has gone viral.Published when Carlson was 22, the 1991 yearbook says he was a member of the "Dan White ...

Bumble user Robert Chapman wanted to impress a potential match on the dating app, so he bragged about his latest accomplishment. "I did storm the capitol," the gentleman said one week after the Capito...

An information technology teacher at a fancy private school in Northumbria, England, was fired after getting drunk and taking students to a strip club. The incident, which took place during a school t...

Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones posted an online invitation to friends and family to attend their wedding at a 16,300-square-foot mansion near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Referring to themselves as th...

Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner will officially announce her candidacy for California governor this morning. Axios has the scoop: Jenner, a longtime Republican, is seeking to ...

Pianist Brandon Ethridge, who we've covered before, is known for his "mini-musicals" real, usually political video clips that he comically enhances with a piano accompaniment without altering the ori...

By now, we've all seen the SNL skit. So at this stage, it's safe to admit that in many cases, there's often a multi-layered relationship happening between Mom and her vino. We don't feel qualifie...

The pandemic resulted in many of having to look at our own faces for hours in teleconferencing meetings, and the resulting dissatisfaction is sending us in droves to cosmetic surgeons. Many cosmetic s...

This BBC article about cats successfully holding down jobs, from mousers to mayors, is a couple of years old. But it's titled "Bureacats" and is timeless material.Another wartime hero was Crimean Tom,...

After a rambunctious fan campaign that included an online petition with 250,000 signatures, Reading Rainbow host and Star Trek: TNG actor LeVar Burton has been invited to step behind Trebek's podium f...

Remember Line Rider? Here, someone has taken an unknowable amount of time and effort to synchronize three of these little sledder fellas to Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. ...

Charneisha Corley, a college student in Houston, TX, area, was pulled over for a traffic stop in a Texaco gas station parking lot. Three female deputies from the Harris County Sheriff's Office strippe...

I don't who created this Random Text Generator for Extreme 90s-style Super Hero Names. Perhaps it was the very same disembodied Higher Power that possessed Rob Liefeld all those years ago. Whoever is ...

In Kingston, New Hampshire 80 pounds of Tannerite, a powder used to make exploding targets, set off a blast so strong, nearby neighbors thought there was an earthquake. But it was more like an avalanc...

If you're attacking your job search armed only with your resume and a cover letter, you're leaving a lot of important weapons on the table. Consolidating all your job candidate information to a social...

No one from the Bay has ever entered a Burger King bathroom beyond 1989 without Shock G's distinctive voice ringing through their head: "I'm a freak / I like the girls with the boom / I once got busy ...

Enjoy this gentle mind-bending video from our friends at Feral House, which they produced to promote their recent book, Easy Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride through Sixties Psychedelic Pop. I kn...

An old friend who wished to remain anonymous online (smart guy, eh?) sent me this interesting pair of images. He wrote, "In 1957, two years prior to the debut of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, a lit...

A billboard reading "Mars sucks. Earth" was put up in front of SpaceX headquarters to celebrate Earth Day. The billboard was sponsored by environmental groups including Greenpeace, World Wildlife, Su...

A woman and her 71-year-old mother were driving on Interstate 91 in Daytona Beach, Florida when something flew through the windshield and crashed into the mother's forehead, leaving her with a gash. T...

After a woman's Subaru got stuck in the mud "in the middle of nowhere" in Maine, she decided to walk the eight miles home alone. At midnight. But she wasn't alone for long a friendly deer suddenly ap...

For those who spent years or decades with a billfold or a wallet, understanding how a cryptocurrency hardware wallet works can be a bit of a head-scratcher. That's partly because a crypto wallet doesn...

They don't call 'em mealworms for nothing! <rimshot(via The Kid Should See This) — Read the rest ...

We have tacos about once a week, and every time I pull out these stainless steel taco holders, I'm glad I bought them. They make it easy to load your taco with cheese, tomatoes, avocado, and salsa, an...

Police shout "Stop!" to two Black TikTokers who are filming themselves riding bikes down a sidewalk at night. "What? What happened?" one of men asks the cops. "We ain't doing nothing!" "Get on the gro...

On the auction block, Gary Norman's awesome cover art for Boston's 1978 Don't Look Back album cover. I was showing this to David and he pointed out that the UFO is a guitar. I never realized that! Nor...

The Perseverance rover has successfully converted carbon dioxide from the Red Planet's atmosphere into oxygen. Eventually, the technology inside the toaster-size Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilizati...

An unidentified US Capitol Police officer directed "all outside units" to ignore pro-Trump rioters and instead go after "anti pro-Trump" protestors, according to a newly released Congressional investi...

"In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves." Carl Sagan, fromCOSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey(2014) andPale Blue Dot(1994)Happy E...

Dozens of protestors dumped a massive pile of cow poop at the White House this Earth Day morning, calling "bullshit" to the Biden Administration's climate plan. The pro-climate group, Extinction Rebel...

I've been using Tile tracking devices for a few years and I especially appreciate the slim one I keep in my wallet. But after watching Marques Brownlee review of Apple's new AirTag, I'm going to buy a...

During Indonesian Navy training exercises in the Bali Strat yesterdays, a submarine (seen above) carrying 53 crew members submerged and hasn't resurfaced. Its current location is unknown and authoriti...

Invisible People's YouTube channel interviews homeless people in Los Angeles to learn how they live. In the latest video they interview Mona, a mathematician and engineer who worked from home until he...

In Waynesborow, Virginia, at least seven cats have been mysteriously shaved without their owners' permission. There have been no witnesses nor clues of the rogue groomer's identity. From the News Virg...

Great Wall Motors in China unveiled the Ora Punk Cat, an electric vehicle that bears more than a passing resemblance to the VW Beetle. I doubt it will make it to the U.S. but if it does I will buy one...

"Kevin McCarthy is suddenly worried about extreme rhetoric," this ad starts off, referring to the House minority leader's hypocritical disapproval of House democrats for not condemning Rep. Maxine Wat...

A Texas Monthly article says people are regularly using homemade ladders built from $5 worth of materials to climb Trump's border wall in Texas, which cost $27 million a mile to build:Despite its obvi...

I wonder how many times it went up and down that day. (via DIGG)...

Americans don't reckon with history well, especially when it comes to the indigenous people our forefathers displaced (and worse) in order to live on this land. Growing up in New Haven County, I remem...

The Endless Acid Banger is an algorithmic music generator whose tight focus on acid house, with its minimal bloops and looping progressions, results in an unusually canny experience. It's extremely da...

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said on Wednesday that they've found two instances of fake Covid-19 vaccines being sold under their name. One of them, in Mexico, was sold to around 80 people for $1,000 a ...

Tetris-OS is an operating system that has just one job: to run Tetris, Alexei Pajitnov's classic puzzle game, and run it well. The creator, jdh, specifies… Features: It's Tetris. 32-bit (x86) Fu...

The 12-second ads on YouTube are unskippable. We are hard-pressed to ignore those sidebar retargeting ads for that loft bed you looked at once on Amazon. Then there is television (for those of us stil...

David Jones was arrested in October 13 2013 and held in jail for 14 months before the charges against him were dismissed. He was promptly billed $4,000 for his incarceration, and the state of Kentucky...

It's a big and beautiful world. And sometimes, it's easy to feel afraid that all the ill effects we've heaped on our resilient planet have practically consigned us to our doom.But hey…that's qui...

A man working at the hospital in Catanzaro, Italy, skipped work for 15 years, collecting his paycheck all the while. He pocketed the equivalent of $650,000 over the period and is among numerous people...

Republican leaders in Ohio have introduced a bill to rename Mosquito Lake State Park. The new name? According to the bill, introduced by freshman state Representative Mike Loychik, the park will becom...

Pl8ty is a walkman-styled Bluetooth speaker recently crowdfunded on Kickstarter and Indiegogo: you slide your phone inside, as if it were a cassette tape, for a more uncannily pseudoauthentic retro ep...

Earlier this week, songwriter/composer Jim Steinman passed away at age 73. While perhaps best known as the goth-metal classicist behind "Total Eclipse Of The Heart," "It's All Coming Back," and Meat L...

This good boy deserves a medal..He even trying not to hurt his little friend.. pic.twitter.com/QAHYFWY58u— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) April 20, 2021This amazing footage shows one family ...

Grossed out by the amount of miscellaneous crumbs that found their way into the plastic silverware tray, I cleaned it out. That was about 2 weeks ago. Not a thorough scrubbing, by any means, but I too...

May 17th is the 2021 U.S. tax filing deadline and the way the past year has gone for millions of Americans, that extra month-long extension to get their 2020 return finished is a welcome sight. That'...

The ostrich analogy is real. Nobody should be sticking their head in the sand to escape unpleasant truths. And one such unpleasant reality is that for all their functionality, headphones can be incred...

John Hinkle of Peoria, Illinois, grew up bowling with his dad. Hinkle went on to win two NCAA bowling championships in college. But his most recent perfect 300 game was He used a bowling ball that wa...

After several years of the Internet's help, the Library of Congress has narrowed down its collection of 800 photographs of mystery people from the entertainment industry down to less than 30. They've ...

If Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David was a cocky Republican lawmaker from Texas rather than a Hollywood producer, this would be a perfect ending scene. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (RTX) was quite puffed up whe...

The theme of this year's Society of Catholic Scientists is, er, out of this world. Participants will land at a Hilton Hotel in Washington DC in June to ponder "Extraterrestrials, AI, and Minds Beyond ...

As if hoping for a gotcha moment to prove that Georgia's voter suppression bill isn't racist, Senator John Kennedy (RLA) challenges Stacey Abrams by asking her to "just give me a list of the provision...

Students and staff at Stanford University, the University of California, the University of Colorado, and other institutions were warned to be on alert after a widespread security breach compromised pe...

Federal Judge David O. Carter today issued a 110-page order slamming L.A. city officials' inability to reign in the growth of the city's homeless population, noting encampments in nearly every neighbo...

Eels are having a sort-of renaissance right now (not to be confused with the time when eels were used as a currency in England, which was more medieval than renaissance). Now The Counter has a grossly...

A day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder for killing George Floyd, the Department of Justice has announced a probe of the force there. Attorney General Merri...

In the U.S., more than 3m jabs have been given daily for two weeks, on a seven-day rolling average, with 40 percent of adults having gotten one shot and 25% now fully vaccinated. [A] slight dip in the...

Yana Sydnor of Natomas, California was asleep in her bedroom when she heard movement downstairs. She texted her friends who encouraged her to call the police. Syndor hid in the bathroom with her toddl...

This modern take on Edgar Allen Poe's "A Premature Burial" is sure to trigger claustrophobics.Oxygen is a French survival thriller directed by Alexandre Aja. The film tells the story of a young woman,...

Here's a car so clean, you can't even see it until the camera pans away. And bravo to the camera person, who not only had to capture the image at just the right angle to make the illusion work, but at...

A McDonald's franchise in Tampa, Florida will pay you $50 just to show up for a job interview. According to owner Blake Casper, the incentive isn't really helping. Potential applicants just aren't lov...

If you're not actually in Penang, Malaysia to ride the longest water slide in the world through a rainforest at Escape theme park, you can at least enjoy it virtually. Two guys shot their 4-minute exc...

Jason Yu wanted to open a green tea ice cream shop on 20th and Valencia in San Francisco. He spent over $200,000 to realize his project. But his passion and hard work were no match for San Francisco's...

Michele Stilwell (55) was arrested for choking and biting the neck of her Uber driver in an unprovoked attack, according to The Smoking Gun. The police report of the incident says Stilwell was riding ...

Zed Run is what happens when the Kentucky Derby and Barbie Horse Adventures have a strangely successful digital child. Selling roughly 4,450 digital horses in its first year, Australia-based studio Vi...

On the day that Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd in May 2020, the Minneapolis Police Department put out a press release that painted quite a different picture. They claimed Floyd, while in handcuff...

Apple is trying to limit what buyers of its new Tile-like AirTags can engrave on themthere's space for only a few characterswith limited results. As Ian Carlos Campbell found, "your Apple AirTag can't...

If you have a nonstick pan that isn't nonstick any longer, try Sophie Damerum's technique. She washes the pan with dish soap, rinses it, heats it up and pours a generous layer of salt in the pan. Then...

In Corona, California a local man spied a rattlesnake and could not wait for animal control to handle it. In attempting to move the snake with a pair of bbq tongs, he was bitten.WBRZ:The man spotted t...

I've been bitten by ants (not too bad) and horseflies (sharp sting), and stung by hornets (yow!) and honeybees (barely registers). I'm glad to have experienced these bites and stings, but after watchi...

When smoking pot please consider the Twisty Glass Blunt in our store.The Shakespeare bit is fantastic....

In this video, a cat is presented with holes of decreasing diameter and invited to squeeze through them. The action begins with an eight-inch portal and continues for several minutes....

The owner of UK tabloid The Daily Mail is suing Google, claiming that it is penalizing the Mail's search engine placement for using non-Google ad tech.Daily Mail editor emeritus Peter Wright told the ...

The difficulties of pandemic life have brought some unexpected consequences over the past year. With some transportation options closed and everyone mostly stuck in their houses, people got stir crazy...

A 38-minute 16mm film of a 1973 Genesis show was painstakingly edited and transferred to 4K video. The results are amazing. This is the clearest, highest-resolution footage of Peter Gabriel-era Genesi...

In South Korea, haenyeo, or "sea women", spend up to seven hours a day, 90 days a year in the frigid seas off the coast of Geoje Island, harvesting seashells, conches, seaweed, sea cucumbers, and more...

I just saw on the Hollywood Page of Death that Felix Anthony Silla, aka Cousin It on the original The Addams Family died on April 16th. He was 84. The Hollywood Page of Death writes:Silla was a film a...

Back in November, I shared a Kickstarter for Aubrey Sitterson's "Leftist Himbo" comic book Beef Bros (which I just got my copy of!). Now Sitterson is back with a new comic project he describes as "Kun...

MEMBERSHIPS are now open for Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE. Join the team that makes Tom the Dancing Bug possible, and get exclusive access to comics before they are published anywhere, sneak ...

In 1883, Missouri real estate broker James Reavis announced that he held title to a huge tract of land in the Arizona Territory. If certified, the claim would threaten the livelihoods of thousands of ...

These maniacs decided letting a wild black bear sit down with them at their picnic table was a good way to commune with nature in a remote forest of Maryland. Though a case of Miller Lite beer is prom...

The campground we wintered at here on Vancouver Island was flat. You want that, when you're dealing with larger RVs and fifth wheel trailers. What might seem a gentle grade to someone in a car or a 20...

Lidl Ireland, to alleviate period poverty, will provide free boxes of tampons and sanitary pads through their Lidl Plus app. Starting April 19, users can receive a monthly coupon for free sanitary pro...

Here's Tucker shrieking with laughter like The Joker pic.twitter.com/Yca32kwmRx— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) April 21, 2021Bowtied racist Tucker Carlson was enraged by today's murder convicti...

An extra power bank or charging hub that keeps your smartphone or tablet powered up in a pinch is always a great idea. But those batteries will only handle the needs of your small electronics. They ar...

Almost 11 months since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd for trying to pass a counterfeit bill, Chauvin was found guilty on all charges, including second degree murder. He...

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...

After 10 hours of deliberation, jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty of murder on all three counts. Chauvin stood trial on murder charges in Minnesota ...

If you're in the market for a laptop, it's tough out there. Between companies producing incredibly similar models with only slight tweaks and variations and shoppers starved for reliable sources of in...

"Herd immunity" is the magic phrase the finish line we've all been running toward that will get us to the other side of the devastating Covid pandemic. Once we get there, masks will be mostly a thin...

Use code PSHYXFUI at checkout and you'll save a lot of money on this USB chargeable electric arc lighter. I use mine to start the charcoal barbecue and light stove burners because the igniter stopped ...

Apple today announced a redesigned range of inch-thick iMacs based upon its own M1 processors, offered in a range of bright colors (with matching TouchID keyboards, mice and trackpads) and sporting a ...

With a macro lens, photographer Jens makes ordinary water, coffee, milk and oil droplets look majestic. Every frame of this video is worthy of a frame and a spot over the mantlepiece....

Get a load of this guy who thinks he's Vin Diesel walk into a gym and pick a fight with the coach who was still on crutches after hip surgery. A couple of knocks to the tough guy's noggin was all it t...

An advertisement for the 1987 Baltimore City Fair, which ran in The Baltimore Sun, had a cartoon drawing of people having fun at the fair. Aficionados of "Where's Waldo" spotted two people having more...

Named after the Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed water monster of Greek and Roman mythology, the real hydra is a small fresh-water creature with incredible biological superpowers that enable it to regene...

Middle schooler Blaise Balas was playing with her food, as adolescents are wont to do. When she placed her metal knife vertically between the tines of the fork, she noticed something: from a certain a...

Saturday I woke up and went automagic. I made rye bread in my bread machine and corned beef in the Instant Pot.I had a market bought pre-packaged and uncooked corned beef sitting in my fridge since Sa...

New York-based comedian Scott Seiss pokes fun at entitled IKEA shoppers by highlighting their stupid demands, and then responding in a way every store worker has fantasized about. Here are two compila...

Rheas are basically dinosaurs that survived the Chicxulub impactor. This man has two of them in his backyard. They both love hotdogs but only one of them is a vicious biter. After the bird clamped its...

This delightful mashup album comes from French label Guerilla Asso. Via Google Translate:Imagine that in the late 70s, Bob Marley crossed paths with the Ramones at the CBGB counter and they decided to...

I love Guga foods. This guy is happy and enjoys himself and is a pleasure to watch.I will not be microwaving a brisket, but I wonder if he could have gotten it more tender by cooking it another 3-5min...

In some sort of uneducated celebrity-pandering move, Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger nominated a reality TV and talk radio host who recently roiled twitter by declaring COVID a hoax to th...

Opioids helped kill friends of mine. Even more frustrating is that this is not particularly unique or interesting. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services:More than 760,000 people ...

When you are behind the formerly orange John Boehner in fronting a cannabis line you may need some pretty awesome marketing. Enter the Urkle.CNN:White, known for playing Steve Urkel on the 1990s sitco...

Toymaker Mattel is developing the nearly 60-year-old game Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots as a feature film to star Vin Diesel. I think the two youngsters in the original TV commercial above should have came...

The netbook reminiscing of late had me checking out what's offered in the world of small but typeable laptops, and I'm sad to say that there's not a lot to pick from. Most of the easily available opti...

Even if you already know Marco Rubio is a hypocritical Trump-sycophant, it's still a shocking reminder to see just how much the sleazy politician knew about Trump in 2016 and just how much he never re...

In a video captured on a security camera, a child and his reportedly blind mother were recorded as they walked along the platform. The mother veered too close to the edge of the platform and the child...

At Houston's Hobby Airport, Transportation Security Administration agents nabbed an airline passenger attempting to smuggle a bag of methamphetamine inside a breakfast burrito. What a great combinatio...

Liberty University is suing its former president, Jerry Falwell Jr., claiming the popular far-right moralizer did not disclose alleged extortion threats against him that threatened the university's re...

I was really excited to see this announcement from Boing Boing contributor Mark Dery's on his Facebook page:MY CONVERSATION WITH GREIL MARCUS ABOUT "LIPSTICK TRACES" (OVER 30 YEARS ON) will be broadca...

On Thursday, backcountry wildlife guide Charles "Carl" Mock, 40, was fishing by himself near Yellowstone National Park in Montana when a grizzly bear attacked him. Sadly, Mock died on Saturday of his ...

Scientists recently reported a major milestone in the creation of human-animal hybrids. Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and colleagues, seen above, injected human stem cells...

This is just straight up uncomfortable from TikTokCringe Someone in St. James, N.Y., converted their front yard into a sprawling, cursed shrine to Donald Trump: there's a large "...

If you've ever seen a 3D printer in action, you know it's a pretty wondrous process. Even if you're crafting nothing more than a plastic bauble or a geometric shape, just watching that filament settle...

In his Christmas message last year, American singer songwriter Ted Nugent said that Covid was a scam, that there was no real pandemic, and that people who wear masks to prevent its transmission are "s...

$118bn was spent funding police forces in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Security Policy Reform Institute. It collectively makes American police forces the world's third-most expensive military or...

One of my best shapes of one of my favorite songs. I remember being taught the chords and lyrics for it, back in the mid-1990s by songwriter and historian Dave Stone, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Image Vi...

It's still not as cool as the US Consumer Protection and Safety Commission. But I guess it's all right....

As a big Tull (and Black Sabbath) fan, I'm not sure I ever knew this. Between playing in the bands Earth and Black Sabbath, Iommi tried out a stint as Jethro Tull's guitarist. In this Ultimate Classic...

For Colorado District Judge Natalie Chase it was important to make the hard R heard. But now she's taking the big L, resigning after the state supreme court concluded an investigation into her courtro...

A beautiful officially-licensed line of action figures for Patrick McGoohan's ground-breaking 1967 TV show The Prisoner? Here, take my money!Image: Screengrab...

Stuck in traffic around the stadium. Throngs of people pushing their way through narrow concourses. Interminable concession and restroom lines. A stranger's leg pressed against mine while in a compact...

Northern Ireland's Democratic Union Party (DUP) doesn't consider "praying the gay away" to be a form of conversion therapy, and is planning to debate the issue on April 20. Members of the Ulster Union...

Brandon Scott Hole, 19, entered a FedEx depot in Indianapolis at 11 p.m. last Thursday and shot dead 8 people before taking his own life. Forty minutes earlier, he had posted final words: "I hope that...

Game over, man, game over!...

Clubhouse, the fast-growing audio-only social network, has two problems: first, its platform is really just a feature. Second, Facebook is adding the feature.Audio-only networks have become increasing...

High school Spanish class is permanently embroidered into most of our brains. Vocabulary quizzes. Verb conjugation drills. Language lab. It's all tattooed on our souls like it happened yesterday, righ...

Here's a hilarious moment that highlights how Trump "thinkers" don't think. An angry man wearing an "Impeach Biden" t-shirt shouts into a megaphone, "The people do not control anything under socialism...

Startlingly racist and awful language are packed into MTG's proposal to organize her compatriots. ...

MyPillow guy Mike Lindell tried to launch his new-fangled social media platform, Frank, this morning. But in the end, all he got was a Frank, er, prank phone call. "It's going to be the greatest place...

Leadership is a magic quality that few truly possess. Oh sure, many people have to lead as part of their job description, but few actually have the inherent ability to make others better, cultivate tr...

An upstate New York couple, Edward and Cheryl Patton, found used cups in their front yard for three years but couldn't catch the mysterious litterbug, even after installing a camera in their tree. The...

This SanDisk 200GB MicroSD card is just what I needed for a Raspberry Pi project I'm working on. It comes with an adapter and has an advertised transfer speed of 100MB/s read. I was a disk drive engin...

On April 19, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman ingested 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide, a curious compound he had synthesized for possible use as a respiratory and circulatory stimulant...

The LegalEagle YouTube channel takes a 20-minute deep dive into the Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) scandal-within-a-scandal-within-a-scandal. Most of it is about Gaetz's close friendship and activities with former...

Lenovo's Thinkpad X230 came out in 2012, putting it just a few months shy of vintage in the fast-moving world of tech, where any random guy's definition of vintage can prevail for the course of a sing...

Disney Jail isn't really a jail, and it's not officially called Disney Jail. It's a room where rule-breakers are escorted and questioned. This video has interviews with three people who describe the c...

Jumping into a swimming pool is easy for ducks of all ages, but getting out is a different story. Watch the many ways this mama duck along with a human helper tries to get her babies out of a swimmi...

A fairly decent argument is made in this video that Cobra looks more like Amazon, or any tech unicorn seems pretty accurate. Free snacks, entitled employees, and an awesome cafeteria go with Elon and ...

The last few times I visited Japan (pre-pandemic) I observed a lot of people wearing face masks in public. Will this become a global trend as a result of the pandemic? From NY Mag:Lexi McCoy, who work...

Twenty five minutes of history regarding McDonaldland you say? HELL YES. The folks at Yesterworld did a great job.I had no idea about the lawsuits wherein Sid and Marty Krofft sued McDonald's for ripp...

Twenty five minutes of history regarding McDonaldland you say? HELL YES. The folks at Yesterworld did a great job.I had no idea about the lawsuits wherein Sid and Marty Krofft sued McDonald's for ripp...

From age 73 to age 76 Mr. Larry Pope clandestinely tossed coffee cups in the yard of a woman he held a grudge against. AP:Edward and Cheryl PattontoldThe Buffalo News they tried mounting a camera in a...

**Warning — if you start watching the first 2 hour broadcast of MTV below, you may end up unable to stop. It is excellent!Oh, MTV! Tiffani Thiessen yelling "Welcome to Deliciousness!" leaves me ...

The host of Honest Guide investigated a TV call-in show that airs puzzles and charges people to call in and guess the answers. Correct answers win a cash prize. The host found out that when you call i...

Last night on The Simpsons, Lisa made an imaginary friend named Quilloughby, "a depressed British singer from the 1980s" who wrote songs like "How Late is Then" and "What Difference Do I Make?" for hi...

Otters at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta had signs of a cold sneezing, coughing, runny noses and it turns out it was Covid-19. Apparently the Asian small-clawed otters caught the coronavirus from an...

Gary Machens of Alton Illinois was doing some excavation just outside his home to repair a sloping sidewalk when he uncovered a huge mysterious brick tunnel underneath his property. Historians suggest...

It's nice to see Sony still making weirdly specific high-end gadgets such as the TX800 [Sony.com; Amazon has it in white], even if $240 is a lot of sticker shock for a voice recorder. It's tiny, about...

Above, from 1965, Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones's screen tests for The Monkees. From Wikipedia:In September 1964 Davy Jones was signed to a long-term contract to appear in TV ...

Cristina Ryanof Palm Coast, Florida says her home security cameras captured what appears to be a juvenile dinosaur running across her backyard. "Any animal we can come up with that would be walking at...

Caolan Robertson knew he was gay from a young age, growing up in Ireland and northern England. However, it was when he moved to London that he began to experience another level of homophobia, accordin...

Cremation Solutions offers 3D-printed busts of the deceased's head to hold their ashes. The prices range from $600 to $2,600 depending on the size. Think of it as having your ashes scattered in the Un...

Ingenuitythe small helicopter delivered to Mars by the Perseverance roverhas successfully taken its first flight on the Red Planet! he distance between Earth and Mars means that lagtime precludes real...

Via US Geological Survey:This video clip shows HVO geologist Tim Orr sampling lava from an active phoehoe breakout on the episode 61g lava flow. The chemistry of these lava samples prov...

Matt Sephton (twitter) describes how he created a portable classic Mac using an iPad Pro, the open-source Basilisk emulator, and careful configuration of macros. It's not a toy or a gimmick: the weddi...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kevin Cassidy (@kevin_cassidy)Imagine how much better the Star Wars sequel trilogy would have been the JarJar fan theories came true, a...

Pete and Bas are septuagenarian rappers from Britain working in the drill genre. [via Indy] The duo celebrated on the UK grime scene for top hits including Dents in a Peugeot and Old Estate (which ha...

For any companies or individuals who fear being hacked by malevolent cybercriminals, there's some good news… and some bad news. According to an annual M-Trends report on cyber attacks, comp...

In the summer of 2018, I got to go to DC go work on a theatre festival for solo performances (I was playing bass in a mostly-one-person show called Brahman/i about an intersex Indian-American stand-up...

In The Nothings Suite, Pippin Barr exports the simplest possible game from 14 game development apps and libraries. In many cases it results in nothing beyond simply running and showing the title "Noth...

After building a web, spiders sit patiently, waiting for the movements of their prey to vibrate the silk strands beneath them like guitar strings. Seizing upon this analogy, researchers from MIT have ...

Ed Caesar charts the rise of North Korea's hacking army, amassing billions of dollars for the regime through various plainly unprosecutable criminal enterprises.Around 8 a.m., having completed a total...

If you're looking for a demarcation point between people who have a kitchen and people who actually use their kitchen, a quality blender might be a solid way of telling the difference between the two....

We're all looking for home furnishings that come with extra gear. Of course, we want basic functionality or a certain decorative flair for that coffee table or piece of wall art or those window coveri...

While the last year has been preoccupied with COVID, let's not forget there were plenty of good reasons to be concerned about the air you were breathing before 2020. With springtime rolling back on th...

I've worked from where ever I've called home, for the past eleven years. In my old career, I worked in close contact with the public during Ontario's SARS outbreak in the early 2000s. Later that same ...

As my southern mama used to say: "Try to put a new wrinkle on your brain every day." Today's wrinkle is my newfound knowledge of "imping," the implanting of donor feathers from a deceased bird onto th...

Oh the suffering. How are we meant to endure such catastrophic toil? Peeling eggs is hard (no it isn't), and when the shell takes some solidified egg white with it, the anguish is palpable (no). Sure,...

Now that everyone is starting to emerge back out into the world again, this might be the first time you're really checking out the current state of your home gardening and landscaping in a while. ...

Back in 1992, Luminox was a fledgling sports watch manufacturer when it began working with the U.S. Navy to create a new watch for use by elite Navy SEALs. After that popular Navy SEAL watch was born,...

The humidifier has been around for almost 100 years, going through all kinds of design variations and advancements along the way. Considering all that potential research and development time, it begs ...

I just want someone to look upon me as adoringly as that woman falling for the bread slices.Anyways, this bread tray is not the one that woman is gooey for, but it suits my needs better. Things I like...

With the spring in full force, we have a question. Why is spring the only season that results in cleaning? Sure, we all batten down for winter, so we likely are a bit laxer about straightening up...

Recently Placerville, CA's city council voted to remove the hangman's noose from their town logo. Several dozen residents are protesting and demand the city honor this treasured bit of heritage.KCRA3:...

A miracle of modern technology. ...

Two women in Tennessee were reported to police after one offered a fake $1 million bill to pay for items at the Dollar General in Maryville, Tenn. [she told] the cop that she received the $1 million b...

Nilay Patel remembers the netbook, the small (9-11") power-sipping (Intel Atom) and cheap (sub-$500) devices that suddenly exploded in the late 2000s, only to vanish into the fog of tablets, ultrabook...

We love caffeineWe love sugarBig Wheeling with Mom and Dad involved whiskey and tattoosFuck you The Cola Wars were so awful, and we lost so many friends, marketing will never speak to Gen X.Then, they...

An international research team from ETH Zurich has found a glimmer of hope in the treatment of dementia. While no other drug routes have made a dent in altering the course of a dementia diagnosis, an ...

In a series of proposals known as the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan, New Zealand is striving to eliminate tobacco sales for the entire country. Eventually, the country plans to prohibit the sale...

If it hasn't reached you yet, then keep an ear out for your doorbell… because outdoor lounging season is coming for a visit any day now. Of course, the brilliant weather for stretching out,...

You often hear of long-married, inseparable couples dying on the same day or at least a few days apart. But a retired Ohio sheriff passed away not on the same day as his human partner, but as his loy...

Caught on a the Nest camera of a man sitting on his porch, a courageous kid on a bike rides up to said man and says, "Can I ask you a question?" He then points to the man's flag an American flag that...

Photoshop has been the king of photo retouching and manipulation for decades, so it's no surprise that Adobe's most famous app is the yardstick by which all other contenders are judged. But when discu...

Having achieved pretty good control of my kamado-style cooker, I set some alarms on this thermometer and went to sleep.Nothing went wrong. I am finally getting this down. I seasoned the 6lb bone-in sh...

Scientists in Switzerland are sending thousands of pairs of white underwear to volunteers, who will bury them in their backyards. Researchers will later dig up and examine the soiled undies to determi...

One fun element of pop culture is that you never know exactly when some film, TV show, or song is going to spark an out-of-left-field craze or exactly how deep the obsession will run. While the pande...

Rosemary Woodruff Leary (19352002) was one of the great female psychedelic pioneers of the 1960s. She met Timothy Leary in 1964, becoming his psychonaut partner at the Millbrook estate and later his w...

I read this about a mailing list started by someone from Gen Y who thinks they are offering Gen X something awesome but comes across more like a Hitchhiker's Guide to Gen X culture."There's still upwa...

I wonder if the deer did that just to freak out the motorcyclists making all that racket in their forest.Also, question, what do you call a deer that's blind in one eye? No idear!...

Next month sees the release of a deluxe edition of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's iconic album Dj vu that includes outtakes and early demos of these seminal songs. To tease us, the group have rele...

This photo of Albert Einstein's desk depicts his office exactly as he left it before his death in 1955. Is there a link between being messy and creative, clutter and intelligence? Causation or correla...

Ultra-white is the new Vantablack. Purdue University researchers developed the whitest white paint ever. It reflects 98.1% of sunlight. (The blackest black paint, Vantablack, absorbs 99.9% of visible ...

To say we're creeping up on umbrella weather season is an understatement. And no, we don't mean "rain and wind protection against the fierce elements-type" of umbrella season. We're talking about lazi...

On yesterday's 20th anniversary of Joey Ramone's death comes word that Saturday Night Live's Pete Davidson will play Joey in a new biopic"I Slept With Joey Ramonecoming to Netflix. The film, authorize...

When a Florida girl got caught in a riptide in the Panama City Beach ocean on Wednesday, a woman went out to save her. The girl made it back to safety, but not the woman, according to weather.com, who...

2007 Los Angeles never looked so good!This movie tangentially had something to do with the very fun Double Dragon button smashing video game....

If you're a picky eater like me, you probably prefer lettuce without glyphosate or Escherichia coli. But after you rinse, you are faced with the problem of wet lettuce. How do remove the water from th...

"You are not what you own."That's the refrain to the song "Merchandise" by the acclaimed and famously independent post-hardcore band Fugazi a band which, among other stubbornly principled moves, refu...

With their plummeting circulation and shrinking budgets, the tabloids increasingly feel as if they're written by a skeleton crew patching together old news tidbits with speculation, and hoping that no...

Here's George Michael at the height of his career showing how he wrote and recorded "Waiting for That Day" in 1990. According to the Wikipedia:"Waiting for That Day" peaked at number 23 in the UK in ...

A pretty nice take on the old standard, I am concerned that things that bill themselves as 'metal' are now my 'easy listening.'...

When I was little my parents woke me up late at night because they couldn't believe the wonderfully weird guest on Laugh-In and they wanted me to see him for myself. I stumbled sleepy-eyed into the fa...

Another video from German-in-Venice updating folks on the Venice Beach Boardwalk homeless encampment. The encampment stretches over a mile, occupying the entire commercial length of Los Angeles' beac...

Nothing says "we care about children" more than forcing them to undergo inspections of their genitals. Bill HB 1475 passed the Florida House Wednesday by a vote of 77 to 40, with unanimous Republican...

The security footage video starts with a scene from a feel-good movie. As a man sets some takeaway food on the hood of his SUV parked in his driveway he cheerfully bids a "good morning!" to his neigh...

Dr. Fauci and company, take note: here's a template for a vaccine ad made just for conservatives. "You storm the Capitol, let MyVaccine storm your capillaries!" Mike Lindell's doppelganger says as he ...

Conservatives who were excited to be among the first to participate on Mike "MyPillow" Lindell's social media platform, Frank, expressed their disappointment when it failed to go live on the appointed...

Bobcat attacks women and the Husband yeets it 15 feet then pulls out the heat from PublicFreakout Unfortunately, or fortunately, the bobcat in the video was later put down and te...

Stephen Hackett collects and presents the Chimes of Death, the intriguing melodies that used to herald the doom of a Mac. My favorite is the Macintosh LC's unsettling chiptune dance over the sharps. B...

Who would have thought it? Wolves are good at hunting, but not so great at trimming their beards....

UnAlice is a set of DSA, dye-sublimated keycaps inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The spindly Victorian type is complemented nicely by illustrated function and meta keys featuring the White Rabbit, the...

The movie theatre industry distinct from the movie making industry was in trouble even before COVID-19 turned Passively Sitting In The Dark Near Other People For Two Hours While Staring At A Screen ...

James O'Keefe, conservative specialist in deceptively-edited gotcha videos that used to cause political earthquakes but are now virtually ignored, was yesterday banned from Twitter. Twitter says he wa...

According to BBC News [via BBS], a continental or Flemish giant rabbit measuring 4 feet and 2 inches went missing from his name in Worcestershire last weekend. The rabbit, known as Darius, was named "...

Finish him, please....

Attendants at Phil McLean's funeral were shocked, but delighted, by their dearly departed's coffin, which was shaped like a giant cream donut. Phil's own cousin, Ross Hall, created the coffin at his b...

H/t Jay Townsend...

I really have no clue what I have just seen or what CORE is. I think Bill and Ted's Aggro Experience or some sort of 'Sliders but you engage in war with every culture you meet' — however, what I...

Ah, the all-too-common mishap of online meetings! Canadian Parliament member William Amos, who had just come back from jogging, somehow appeared at a virtual meeting stark naked. He later apologized.F...

This '67 Valiant is cool enough for Henchman #1 or #2 but certainly not the big boss.Bring A Trailer:This 1967 Plymouth Valiant is a two-door sedan that is powered by a 392ci Hemi V8 paired with a fou...

The garden is enjoying the high 60s to mid-70s we're experiencing in Southern California, and my tomatoes have taken off. My dog Pretzel knows she'll soon be unable to see over the growing vines, and ...

Now that toxic Anon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spilled the secret that Jewish Space Lasers started the wildfires, the Secret Jewish Space Laser Corps has come out in the open and is selling shirts, b...

Posted in the two tweets below, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) acts like a maniacal asshole or someone in the middle of a hate-fueled panic attack as he blasts Dr. Fauci with accusatory questions about exac...

The employees of The Philadelphia Inquirers Schuylkill Printing Plant are interviewed on the final day of operation. It was once the largest press in North America. Many of the employess worked at the...

This 16 foot-long smalltooth sawfish washed up in the Florida Keys. This specimen is the largest of its kind ever measured by scientists. It's not known how the animal died. From LiveScience:Sawfish h...

In 2014, Fox 5 New York TV news reporter Anna Gilligan reported from the re-opening of the infamous Action Park. She wore a bathing suit to ride a zipline into the pool. Back in the studio, Greg Kelly...

Investopedia defines family offices as "private wealth management advisory firms that serve ultra-high-net-worth investors."Yamauchi Family Office No. 10 was established in 2020 by Nintendo's founding...

In a world of apps, digital gaming, and virtual reality, there's something oddly comforting about sitting down behind an actual, physical chess board, lining up your soldiers, then charging into battl...

With 4/20 right around the corner, here's a surreal video that could come in handy. Against a dream-like backdrop, mom-next-door Alice Bradley, former editor in chief of Lifehacker, talks us down fro...

Designer Reagan Ray recently developed an interest in comic books via his son. Naturally, Reagan was drawn to the hand-drawn superhero logos of vintage comics. "Like most lettering, right around the l...

Sausalito, California has several lovely houseboat communities. Some houseboats have won long and hard fought battles to stay where they are, but the anchor-out community is under assault. Anchor-out...

Karen: "Just because I'm 54 doesn't mean I can't be a kid" from PublicFreakout A poor sport Karen who can't "concentrate" on her tennis game storms over to nearby kids and yells...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ivanka Trump (@ivankatrump)What was Ivanka thinking when she posted a photo of herself wearing a mask and getting a Covid shot to Insta...

Jonathan Pentland, an active-duty soldier in Columbia, South Carolina was caught on video harassing and shoving a Black man. Pentland was later arrested and charged with third-degree assault and batte...

In October, thieves in Everett, Washington smashed the window of a comic book store and swiped a 4.5 foot Funko Pop! statue of Batman. Since then, Everett Police detective Adam Gage has relentlessly i...

House and Senate lawmakers in Arizona have recently passed legislation that bans teachers from discussing or teaching anything regarding "sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression" wit...

The State of Colorado is auctioning off personalized license plates with cannabis references. If you live in Colorado and love weed so much you want to announce it to the world, the plates "BONG," "GA...

San Francisco is always losing its culture and smells like pee. This very strange article pitches neighboring Marin county as an affordable suburban retreat to new parents in their early 30s.I have li...

A UK man who owns Siberian huskies noticed his doggos were always peeking under their solid gate to see what was happening on the other side. He worried about them getting cricks in their necks, so he...

The Dukes of Hazzard would be proud. This Florida driver harnessed Bo and Luke Duke's penchant for lawlessness and decided to plow through the drawbridge gate and jump over the rising bridge rather th...

via r/tooktoomuchSomeone's mother mistook marijuana bread for gluten-free bread. She also made the wise decision to record her trip. "How embarrassing am I… to… EAT banana- pot- banana nut...

President Biden announced that the military will end its remaining presence in Afghanistan. The Forever War is coming to a close.The war in the hearts and minds of those touched by it over the past tw...

From Phys.org (emphasis added):In his new paper, Andrew Bell, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of earth and environment argues that policies that directly provide...

On Monday, the Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously to change the name of a local high school currently bearing the name of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Forrest. The school, previ...

On Monday, the Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously to change the name of a local high school currently bearing the name of Confederate general and KKK leader Nathan Forrest. The school, previ...

This stunning footage was captured by Colin Hogg, a Geophysics Fieldwork Technician at the Geophysics Section of Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, over Lough Ennell in Co. Westmeath in the Republ...

Kim Potter, the former Brooklyn Center Police Officer who shot and killed black motorist Daunte Wright, was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter. Potter faces up to 10 years imprisonment ...

Geophysicist Jeffrey Sabol was charged by the feds on eight counts over his role in the Jan. 6 riot on Capitol hill. His charges are more serious that mosthe's accused of turning up equipped for a fig...

What's cozier than a tiny breakfast made out of wool? Artist-filmmaker Andrea Love brings her needle-felted creations to life in short animated videos featuring crafty kitchen fantasies and scenes fro...

There's still a little bit of time to support the Seed&Spark campaign for This Belongs To Us, a new documentary film that aims to decolonize the beer industry. From the campaign page:If one were t...

I have an old, adorably tiny late-2006 17" iMac of the polycarbonate type (like this one, but Intel) that needs a keyboard. Mark alerted me to the LargePrint Black on Yellow Mac ALBA Keyboard, an eyec...

From the official blurb:While Ralph is animated, the miseries he endures in the short film are far from made up. As Spencer Susser, the director of Save Ralph, says, "It's so important that Ralph feel...

My hands-down, favorite drink of all time is a zombie. Unfortunately, precious few bars that I've run across in my travels stock all of the hooch required to make one. Fewer still are the bartenders w...

A strange animal seen lurking in a tree led locals in Krakow, Poland, to close their windows and summon the authorities. Animal welfare officers responded ready to contain the mystery beast. They foun...

Meep meep.Image: Frank Phillips / Flickr (CC-BY-SA 2.0)...

If you are into candles and Sacred Geometry, you will love these candle holders. The candle flame will create stereographic projections onto the surface they sit upon, in the patterns of Flower of Lif...

via r/videosEveryone loves a good chestburster. Enjoy watching the miracle of life thanks to Bag ingi on YouTube. ...

I consider myself a beer person. My go-to order at the bar is a Miller High Life or Stella Artois. I know the difference between an ale and a lager, and I frequent the local microbrewery. It's not tha...

There are a few things you learn to avoid as a pansexual person on the internet:Fruitless arguments with bigoted FaceBook acquaintancesMost Reddit comment sectionsM-Spec Exclusionists "What's an ...

Did you know that 2020 was a surprisingly good year for tablet sales? After several years of stagnant growth and losing business to the creep of incrementally bigger smartphones, the tablet market saw...

Long proud of it's 'Hangtown' heritage, Placerville, California's city council unanimously voted to remove the hangman's noose from the city logo. KTVU:Some argued that it is part of the history of th...

As we continue in our technological march toward Rosie the Robot, we quietly reached a major milestone in that revolution in just the last few years. We've been manufacturing robots to handle all kind...

One of the best from Schoolhouse Rock! RocksI have heard the song many times, but not seen it set to the OG cartoon. Wonderful....

In my late teens, I went deep down the rabbit hole of "Canterbury bands" (and Canterbury-adjacent). Bands like Soft Machine, Wilde Flowers, Caravan, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Matching M...

We've talked about the work of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and their supermarionation shows here on Boing Boing over the years, and we've discussed UFO, their first live action series, on the BBS, but i...

Everybody's looking for that utterly unique piece of home decor. It's the item that every visitor you invite into your house will likely remember long after they leave. If your guests stare and start ...

"Dr. Vivek, something keeps popping up on your screen," CBS host Gayle King said to the US Surgeon General this morning, in a concerned tone that is used often before something really creepy happens i...

Q: "Why are corporations like MLB and Coke and Delta taking the Democrat's side?" A: "They aren't." When sleazy politicians blame corporations on taking sides like Marco Rubio, who now accuses compa...

I've owned this Capresso Infinity Conical Burr Grinder for 10 years or more, and it still runs like a champ. If you're at all serious about grinding coffee at home, a burr grinder is the way to go, es...

Teenage Engineering's wildly powerful yet tiny (yet beautiful (yet weird)) synthesizer, the OP-1, is ten years old.it all started with two prototypes.a clock radio and a synth. well, we decided to go ...

They came for the cocaine and stayed for the cash payments from Joel Greenberg? Two women have anonymously opened up about parties in Florida with Matt Gaetz and other Republican officials.Daily Beast...

The color palette of Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11/70 16-bit minicomputers surely brought joy to every refrigerated raised-floor room it was housed in.If you can't live without one, you can b...

On April 13, Arkansas approved of three bills (Senate Bill 486, Senate Bill 487, and House Bill 1715) which, much like Georgia's own recent legislation, would ban people from providing food and water ...

One of the greatest to come out of Dogtown, Natas Kaupas is my favorite street skater. Watching this I am also amazed at how far skating has come. ...

An Australian couple bought a bag of lettuce and discovered it came with a free live snake. The 7-1/2-inch-long creature greeted them by flicking out its tongue as it slithered around in the bag. They...

Just a few days before John Lennon and Yoko Ono's historic Bed-In-for Peace in Montreal on May 31, 1969, the couple were chilling out in the Bahamas where this rehearsal was recorded. It's never been ...

I do not think the Safety Beep was one of Billy Mays best offers. Billy Mays was amazing.There is so much to love about the commercial, however....

The nutcase who placed two pipe bombs near the Capitol in Washington, DC, is still on the loose. The FBI asks if you might recognize the way the person walks in the above video. From NPR:The FBI is al...

Big Lie spreader Mike "MyPillow" Lindell is launching Frank, his new "free speech" social network, on April 19. In his video message at frankspeech.com, Lindell hilariously reveals that speech on Fran...

As Andrew Justin of Oklahoma was driving through a hail storm, the hail grew to the size of baseballs. First his windshield cracks, and then his back window busts open. Although repairing his car won'...

I've been to Singapore three times and Malaysia once, and the first thing I want to do when I get there is to eat at a hawker center. They are usually open-air food courts with a dozen or more small r...

Son, you'll find out soon enough, Life is just an amusement park — The Partridge FamilyI always enjoy a good created for TV band....

When CEO of Gravity Payments Dan Price announced in 2015 that everyone in his company would get a pay raise to at least $70,000 a year, and that he himself would slash his annual salary from $1 millio...

Much scarier than in Merrie Melodies!Harpist Lisa Warren was recording a performance of Amazing Grace when the bottom C gave out: "It scared the daylights out of me. Thought I would post to share just...

John Sheahan, 48, of County Cork, Ireland evicted tenants from a home he owns after they set up a shipping container in the back yard as an unlicensed cannabis grow house. He reportedly torched the 33...

Bernie Madoff, the financial manager serving 150 years in prison after the collapse of his $65bn pyramid scheme, is dead at 82. The former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, Madoff ope...

Mike Lindell has had a colorful life. He got his start gambling and selling cocaine and getting hooked on his own product, then found Jesus and started a pillow company. He then became the number one ...

A Singaporean married couple's dance practice was repeatedly interrupted by a golden retriever who insisted on being the focus of the man's attention. "Our 12-year-old golden retriever is actually my ...

Thickey Forrest makes wonderful, blown-out artwork using his desktop scanner, physical objects, and lightbulbs. His creations remind of late nights at Kinko's in the 1980s when the employees (aka our ...

After nearly two decades of fruitless occupation, the last western forcesa few thousand mostly-American troopsare to leave Afghanistan. President Joe Biden called for the withdrawal to be complete bef...

Last chance to bid on the first Tom the Dancing Bug NFT: background here, and information here.MEMBERSHIPS are now open for Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE. Join the team that makes Tom the Dancing B...

New Jersey State Park Police were alerted to a UFO detector installed in the woods and dispatched a detective unit and bomb-sniffing dog to the area. According to a police posting on Facebook, "The de...

NBC News reports that a 16-year-old was shot dead by a Maryland State Police trooper in Leonardtown after "displaying" a knife and a pellet gun. A witness reported seeing the subject in a shooting sta...

In some areas of Mexico, drug violence is so intense and so frequent that small communities are forced to arm themselves lest they get caught up in a cartel's crossfire or directly targeted for gettin...

From Vice:Now, anyone can expedite their own extra-sensory education and test their abilities with an app called Remote Viewing Tournament, which pits contestants against each other in a psychic battl...

I'm a neurodivergent person, which is to say, my cognitive functions don't exactly fit into the expected box of what's deemed as "normal." I'm also a full-time writer. There are many ways in which my ...

In the summer of 1983, Clash frontman Joe Strummer decided to make a movie. The band had recently parted ways with drummer Topper Headon, and tensions were boiling between the remaining members of the...

Images and videos of a UFO "buzzing" Navy warships off the coast of California were gathered by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force and leaked to Jeremy Corbell. One of the videos, reco...

Given an otter a snack. It's just the right thing to do....

If you've been watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert over the last few months you may have noticed that the late night host has refrained from saying the name "Trump" in any way. He has gone out...

Bruce's Beach was a black-owned resort in Southern California's Manhattan Beach in the 1920s. While most public beaches were segregated and only accessible to white visitors, Bruce's was a lone haven,...

Young man discovers fuck coin pic.twitter.com/oLhpNjmUWh— Conner O'Malley (@conner_omalley) February 16, 2021I mean, wow. Truly inspiring. Sadly, you won't FuckCoin on Coinbase, even after i...

Nick Cave (of The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Grinderman, The Dirty Three, and more) communes with his fans via The Red Hand Files. They ask him how he's doing, what he's writing, his favorite book...

The Patriot mask is 100% made in the USA — and right now, it's up to 60% off.The world has changed. And while the ravages of a global pandemic may be slowly subsiding, some of the aftereffects p...

Maybe you're just like Meghan Trainor. Maybe you're really just all about that bass. If you can't imagine listening to your favorite music without some low-end register all but guaranteed to ratt...

On this day, 48 years ago, April 13, 1973, David Bowie released Aladdin Sane, the follow-up to his breakthrough album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.Image: Screengrab...

Wow, what a difference a presidency makes. Watch how these Republican hypocrites comically spin to a different beat on the topic of border conditions now that President Biden is at the helm. For examp...

I have a few dozen of these nylon mesh zipper bags and use them to organize small things: charging cables, USB flash drives, pens and pencils, travel gear, small tools, etc. They're see-through so you...

3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14… What comes next? Or how about 5, 8, 12, 18, 24…? These two number sequences are real stumpers to figure out (at least for me), but are extremely simple once you know ho...

Along with innumerable other businesses, big and small, both the ArcLight (previously at Boing Boing) and Pacific theaters will remain closed after the extreme financial toll brought on by the pandemi...

Sarah Manavis wrote about Tattle Life, a surprisingly nasty forum where people gather to insult and tear down UK internet celebrities, influencers, bloggers and other easy targets. It sounds like a sm...

If you're temporarily tried of making meals in your multicooker, you can use it to create a self-contained greenhouse-like environment to germinate seeds for your garden. Along with the Instant Pot an...

In India, a massive surge of COVID-19 cases has led to a 21-day lockdown to control the spread of the virus, but in Rishikesh at least ten tourists from outside the country were punished for not abidi...

It's exasperating enough to witness a Karen explosion at the usual public places parks, donut shops, bakeries, parking lots, fast-food restaurants but how about when they come storming into a reside...

A venomous snake at the San Diego Zoo bit a wildlife care specialist yesterday, sending him to the hospital. The worker was handling the African bush viper out of public view and the snake was "contai...

Aman Tuleyev, governor of Siberia's Kemerovo Oblast region from 1997 to 2018, admitted to hoaxing Yeti sightings to boost tourism. Along with enlisting a staff-member to wear a fur coat and pretend to...

It was late in the evening and Penn Powell was crossing a bridge on his way home from Fort St. John to Hudson's Hope, British Columbia when he spotted a beaver in front of his car. He slammed on the b...

This topological magic trick was so controversial that the YouTube comments were turned off. As you can see in the short video, a figure-8 shaped object made from clay has a stick going through one of...

Adidas is releasing a new sneaker design with a 3D-printed sole and fabric upper that's woven by a robot from as many as 10 different yarns. The first commercial versions, called Futurecraft.Strung, w...

This bulky Soviet cassette player is the Trabant of consumer electronics....

I had a wonderful time binge-watching Mythic Quest a few months back. I guess I have enough distance from technology startups. I could not watch Silicon Valley. ...

Michel Langevin, aka "Away," drummer, artist, and spiritual heart of Canada's prog metal icons, Voidvod, talks to Louder about the albums that helped shape him as a musician.As drummer with Canadian v...

Michel Langevin, aka "Away," drummer, artist, and spiritual heart of Canada's prog metal icons, Voivod, talks to Louder about the albums that helped shape him as a musician.As drummer with Canadian vi...

This video from Vox is pretty helpful when talking to friends or family potentially confused by the incredible variety in vaccines that appear to be available, but really aren't.When and where the stu...

via r/videosKnown as Neutral on YouTube, u/BillClinton1993 colorized footage from Aarhus, Denmark, smoothed the frame rate, and enhanced the picture quality. ...

The marketing research company Global Web Index reports that the number of "gamers" over 55 years of age has grown 32% in the last three years. The Covid pandemic accelerated but did not create the gr...

Fortnite, a game where you have 99 problems and most of them are related to not being able to find a pump shotgun, has added off-road tires. I'll admit that off-road tire performance was pretty bad, b...

A 54-year-old woman simply went on a stroll with a dog to look for sea glass on the beach. But as Camille Coelho walked along the wet sand at Boston's Constitution Beach she began to sink, until sudde...

NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang recently tweeted his inclination to crack down on unlicensed street vendors. "You know what I hear over and over again – that NYC is not enforcing rules agains...

Don't go to Dubai with a bread roll poppy seed on your sweater. Don't go to Dubai with a microscopic speck of pot on your shoe. And don't be like Peter Clark, an American who smoked pot in Las Vegas a...

Steak-umm, a company that makes thinly sliced frozen steaks, has been fond of hectoring Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter since 2018, when it first dragged the problematic astrophysicist by tweeting "who...

Portland-based artist Matt Bors is one of the essential cartoonists of the 21st century, penning 1600 cartoons over 18 years. But he's ending his weekly strip and will focus on journalism, fiction, an...

Here's Cory Doctorow on the legally-backed technical interoperability barriers that social networks use to maintain and enforce their walled gardens: "we focus too much on network effects, and not eno...

You know how US states have "official birds" and "official trees" and other arbitrary "official [insert thing]" accolades, which are mostly just meaningless marketing tactics? As the podcast 99% Invis...

There are area rugs that tie together a space. There are area rugs that offer a unique aesthetic to give a room a different look or feel. Then there are area rugs that do both of those things while al...

The Centers for Disease Control today proposed a pause in the use of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, following six reports of blood clots. One person died, reports the New York T...

In October 2019, acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy publisher Tor released an audio anthology of 35 short stories to celebrate the launch of its new horror imprint, Nightfire.And now, they've done again though...

I first heard the story of Steven Donziger on the fifth season Amy Westervelt's brilliant true crime climate change podcast Drilled! But Esquire also recently published an excellent story about him as...

Today in "not a wonderful thing, but certainly a thing of wonder" we have this bodysuit noted to be available from Ali Express. I can't find it, myself, and suspect that if I do find it, it will be fo...

During the pandemic I needed to fill my life with something productive and, hopefully, enriching. I chose plants. Succulents, mostly. Crassulas, echeverias, gasterias, haworthias, strings of pearls an...

Rory McIlroy hit the thing he aimed for: his dad. Gerry, the elder McIlroy, was positioned near the 7th green at The Masters in Augusta, GA when the younger's golf ball struck him in the leg. Without ...

There's a silent killer that might be even more insidious than diseases, viruses, and other health conditions. It contributes to all of those more headline-grabbing ravagers, not to mention hundreds m...

It's among the most popular digital file formats in the world. In fact, its creator Adobe figures there are now over 2.5 trillion PDF documents floating around out there. And at times, it's probably f...

Maybe you're moving into a new place and you're ready to start making more than microwave burritos and frozen pizzas for dinner. Or perhaps you know someone striking out on their own and starting up t...

I just bought another 100 of these black disposable face shields. My family has decided black is the most stylish color, and I agree. At about 13-cents each, we can replace them frequently, too....

This animated video shows the relative sizes of different asteroids and comets, including a couple of fictional ones just for fun. ...

For 43 years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has played every Saturday night at Portland's Clinton Street Theater. The pandemic forced the theater to shut the doors, but the movie still played, for 54 ...

Enjoy Markus Stark's zoomy video of the moon, shot with a Leica 400mm F2.8 lens (about $10k, used) attached to a Panasonic GH4 with 1.4x, 2x, and 2x Leica APO focus module extenders. [via Leica Rumors...

US Senator and Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee Rick Scott presented former President Donald J. Trump an award for being who he is. The award for failing to win re-election is ...

The artists behind some prehistoric cave paintings have been hallucinating due to a shortage of oxygen, according to a new archaeological study. Tel Aviv University archaeologists Yafit Kedar, Gil Ked...

The creative geniuses at Squirrel Monkey are back with another "What if?" video. This time, they present a 1990s version of Instacart, called Insta-Cart. It's exactly what a 1993 online grocery delive...

The Salton Sea, California's largest 'oops, we didn't want a lake there' lake continues to dry up. Over its thousands of year history, the Salton Sea has been the Salton Sink or the Salton Sea. An ear...

Watch Steven Wright's fantastic first performance on Carson; a performance so great it got him the legendary wave over from Carson. Then enjoy Wright with 10 years experience and familiarity....

Video from 2007 rededication ceremony, where the Bruce Family was acknowledgedOne of the many tales of awful redlining and racial discrimination in Los Angeles is turning a new page. Los Angeles Count...

Vice apologized for profiling artist Matt Loughrey and his work "restoring" photos of Australian women's prison inmates and victims of theKhmer Rougegenocide by adding smiles to their faces. In the ar...

In March 2021, the New York Times posted an in-depth look at the life of Ron DeLord, a former Texas police officer who became a labor organizer and helped to spearhead the growth and influence of poli...

A police officer in Windsor, Va., has lost his job after footage of him pepper-spraying a uniformed U.S. Army lieutenant went viral. Caron Nazario, who is black, was pulled over in December 2020 by of...

Mechanical engineer Yuto Kuroki of Meiji University and colleagues hacked a 3D printer head system to be a 3-axis robotic manipulator. They've demonstrated its use assembling various items like the to...

A slow-moving, rotund bear visited a home in the hills of Pasadena, California. Caught on security cameras, it took a sip from the backyard fountain before it wandered into the kitchen and casually i...

Tesla owners have determined that saying "Open butthole" to their Teslas opens the charge port at the rear of the vehicle. Demonstration below. Apparently, "open bunghole" and "close bunghole" also wo...

With 180,00 YouTube subscribers and counting, Cooper and Luca Coyle came out to their mother in viral video back in 2018. Since then, they've made a name for themselves as Sugar and Spice – thei...

pic.twitter.com/TNtc2POBOf— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 12, 2021People who don't want to wear masks are invited to dine at the Freedom Cafe, a mythical eatery where chicken is served r...

In this 1977 episode of the BBC2 current affairs program Brass Tacks, we meet the punks of Manchester. This is the scene from which Joy Division, The Smiths, The Fall, Simply Red would emerge. During ...

Growing up in the 90s, I remember the phrase "differently-abled" being upheld as a synecdoche for the absurdity of "PC language." And as a kid, I almost certainly fell in line with accepting that it w...

In May of 2019, the small community of Krasnik, Poland was one of the first in the country to  sign a declaration against LGBTQ rights. At the time, Mayor Wojciech Wilk saw the declaration a...

The New York Times' Ben Smith wrote a great article about Substack and Ghost, the newsletter platforms that have attracted many old-time bloggers who found themselves adrift after founding startups, t...

For many, playing video games for hours on end is among the most exhilarating ways to spend an evening. Or a day. Or a weekend. But while hour after hour of roaming the Old West, engaging in space dog...

In Grant Morrison's 2003 X-Men storyline Riot at Xavier's, an angry adolescent mutant named Quentin Quire rallies a few other outcasts and foments a student-led revolution at the Xavier School for Gif...

Sometimes pretty, sometimes a thing that escaped one of your nightmares, but always striking is the art of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Her extravagant works have invaded New York Botanical Garden in...

Luke Metoki virtualized MacOS and Windows simultaneously on an 2000s-era PC, with Arch Linux as the host organism. The mad science worked, but Windows was "very sluggish" if not given the lion's share...

You're ready to take over the world with your new project Killer Computers. No, your computers don't actually kill anyone. It's just the name of your new online retail computer brand. Of course, ...

Manisha, a trans woman in Pakhanjur, Chhattisgarh, India, has adopted eight children – seven girls, one boy. Despite struggling to make ends meet, Manisha is determined to provide them with the ...

I have to admit, I thought I was up on my dead media, but I didn't really know much about the medieval history of the tally stick, a record-keeping technology that stretches all the way back to the Up...

In the world of VPN services, there are dozens of little fish providers swimming in every direction with names and features changing almost daily. Then…there are the VPN whales. With over 30 mil...

Did ya see Godzilla vs. Kong last week? With April upon us, the start of the traditional summer movie blockbuster season is here, but this is going to be unlike any movie season we've ever seen before...

To celebrate the 55th anniversary of the recording of The Beatles' "Rain" (and its A-side, "Paperback Writer") on April 14 and 16, 1966, the YT channel, You Can't Unhear This, takes a look at the radi...

On this episode of Songs That Changed Music, Warren looks back at Ian Dury and the Blockheads' massive and unlikely 1979 UK hit, "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick." Ian Dury and the Blockheads were alway...

Considering the explosion of robotic vacuum cleaners in recent years, is it really much of a surprise that now your front yard is getting into the act as well? If you can set a robo vac on standb...

Worrying about data breaches isn't just for the Amazons and Facebooks of the world. Oh sure, you should be concerned if you're one of the 533 million who had info exposed in the latest Facebook breach...

There are plenty of top-notch quality knives and knife sets crafted all over the world, from Germany, France, and the heart of Europe, to plenty of premium craftsmen in the U.S. But there's definitely...

Royal consort Prince Philip died last week, and UK media immediately dropped normal programming in favour of wall-to-wall Philip content. But the famously irascible 99-year-old is failing to generate ...

Australian comedian Lewis Spears was on-stage mocking Prince Philip only to have an unusual audience response: "he just died!" Talk about perfect comic timing....

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Aussie Wildlife with Helenj (@wombats_and_wildlife_heljan09)A pair of wiggly wombats named Elsie and Barney wrestle like a pair of over...

On Wednesday's A Late Show, Stephen Colbert did a funny Space News segment on the news of an upcoming reality show, Space Hero, where contestants will live as if they were on a space station and compe...

If you're itching for a computer upgrade, Hewlett Packard is one of the half-dozen brands you can buy sight unseen and know you're getting a quality rig. Of course, where's the fun in buying a compute...

Shortly after midnight on April 1, 2001, Gert Kasteel and Dolf Pasker were among the first legally-recognized same-sex couple to wed in the Netherlands. Along with 2 other male couples and one female ...

As a summer of outdoor activities gets closer, all those "go big" plans for 2021 the year the world reopened are going to have to get real. But it's not just about where you're going. It's also abou...

Yesterday, Zeus unleashed his wrath on a poor pine tree outside Wautoma High School in Wautoma, Wisconsin. (US National Weather Service Green Bay Wisconsin, thanks Bob Pescovitz!)...

Cats…they're a challenge, aren't they? As a cat parent, simple, easy answers for keeping your feline active, engaged, and energized aren't usually very simple. And if they are, they probably are...

Lisa Van Kula Donovan, from Australia, treats spiders the way some people might treat a pet bird or hamster, allowing them to crawl all over her. This isn't the first video of Donovan with a Huntsman ...

Early models of the Z were a lot of fun. Light, quick and well designed, their owners loved them. Bring a Trailer:This 1971 Datsun 240Z was purchased by the seller in 2019 and subsequently refurbished...

For decades, Dell has been one of the go-to brands for that trusty, reliable desktop computer tower, particularly its heritage Optiplex series. While many may blow past the old desktop in favor of new...

If you've ever found yourself at a party and suddenly realized you're hanging out with a bunch of weirdos not the crew you thought would show up you'll love Ben Meiselas's hilarious analogy between ...

Ken Goldberg is my latest guest on the Cool Tool Podcast. Ken's an artist, inventor, and roboticist and we've been friends for many years. Ken is an artist, inventor, and roboticist. He is Willia...

This is Martin Culpepper, better known as Ztorm, star of Pokmon VHS and DVD guides like The Advanced Pokemon Master's Guide and Becoming a Master: The Ultimate Pokmon Experience. Ztorm died in 2017 ...

Mark just grew lion's mane mushrooms (which were delicious!) from a Michigan Mushroom Company kit he ordered online, and it was astonishing to see how they morphed every day like fast-growing bulbous ...

The ominous sounding International Dark Sky Week is anything but. There will be no four horsemen galloping down to lay waste upon civilization, at least I hope not, plus, that's already happening with...

Engineers and product designers refer to "feature creep," the ongoing addition of new features or options to "improve" something when it would often be better to be subtractive with any changes. Accor...

Someone get this pupper a treat!When you see Darth Vader for the first time pic.twitter.com/6qXrnfZJmc— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) April 8, 2021...

Alt-Right sweetheart Joe Rogan took the money when Spotify wanted to pick up the show but declined to take some of the more toxic episodes.HuffPo:Episodes that have been removed include interviews wit...

Matt Gaetz, currently under federal investigation for committing a number of crimes including sex trafficking of minors and supplying people with money and illegal drugs in exchange for sex, is sharin...

After a gentleman in China allegedly sexually assaulted a university student on a bus, he tried to escape. But the passengers and bus driver ganged up against him. "Why should we let you go?" one as...

Rebecca Roberts, 39, of Wiltshire, England, was already pregnant when a sonogram revealed that she had become pregnant again, three weeks after the first conception. The phenomenon, called superfetati...

Researchers at the University of Arizona plan to save humanity with a lunar ark that can withstand moon lava. Think of it as Noah's Ark. In space. With lava. Which is also the plot of a sci-fi movie I...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed on April 7 that transgender people are "a challenge to the perpetuation of the species" when a guest claimed there was a staggering "20,000 percent increase" in th...

On Sunday, Ingenuitythe small helicopter delivered to the surface of Mars by the Perseverance roverwill, hopefully, take its first flight. The distance between Earth and Mars means that lagtime preclu...

Four days ago congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said he was "absolutely not resigning" amid allegations of sex trafficking and having sex with a teenager. But now even his own party is asking him to quit ...

Anne Thriault reports on the virality and success of coronavirus-themed toys and wonders at the never-too-soon appeal of cutesified horrors. Especially these squishie mini plague doctors [Amazon].Some...

@ghettogaragebuilds #GetCrocd #GodzillaVsKongRoar #GoForTheHandful #RayBanElevatorDance #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #fyppppppppppppppppppppppp original sound – Ghetto Garage This Stafford Coun...

Debra Hunter of Florida was ordered to pay $5,000 and serve 30 days in jail for intentionally coughing on a person who has a brain tumor at a Pier 1 Imports store. "I think I'll get real close to you ...

@evergreenandmrsn She stormed inside without a mask and demanded the worker tell me to move #karen original sound – EvergreenAndMRSN Here we have a TikToker in her car, parked in front of ...

West Virginia's Republican-led senate approved House Bill 3293 on Thursday afternoon with vote a of 18-15. Much like legislation passed in South Dakota, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee, this bill...

This webcam, housed in an animatronic sculpture of a grossly disembodied human eye, was created by Marc Teyssier, Marion Koelle, Paul Strohmeier, Bruno Fruchard and Jrgen Steimle. [Human Computer Inte...

The Boston Globe reports that a Boston-based company called Alchemista found an unexpected influx of business this past year, when real estate management companies decided to install their "smart food...

If you set ball bearings at the top of each of these two inclined planes, one linear and the other curved, which ball reaches the bottom faster? Are they Galileo's balls, arriving simultaneously becau...

This video shows a monkey playing Pong using Neuralink, the Elon Musk-backed brain interface tech. Neuralink touts a new breakthrough technology, but a little skepticism is warranted, because we've be...

I'm a big Mountain Goats fan, and I've always rejected comparisons between them and the work of Bob Dylan. Sure, they're both literary lyric-driven, largely-acoustic artists (except when not) with dis...

I am a printer. It is the only thing I have any formal education in. I haven't operated a press in 40 years, but I still strongly identity with that noble trade. When I co-ran an offset printing shop ...

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, died today at 99 years old. The royal consort's death was announced by Buckingham Palace."It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced...

It's hard to imagine different types of hats than the ones worn by Alex and the other droogs in the 1971 dystopian classic, A Clockwork Orange. You'll be thankful for the choices made once you see som...

This nearly 30-minute video takes a deep dive into Hammer Film Productions' 1968 satanic horror film, The Devil Rides Out. As they point out, this film, which was something of a flop at the box office...

Kristal Larson declared victory in her race for Avon Township clerk. She will be the first transgender person elected to a nonjudicial office, as well as the second openly transgender person elec...

Last month, German lawmakers voted to ban unnecessary surgeries on babies born with intersex characteristics. The legislation was officially adopted on March 25. While it makes Germany only the third ...

I missed this video, last year, but wow did I enjoy watching it tonight!Tony Hawk, pro-skater, is the definition of cool. His innate nice-ness, and how stoked he always is at people making an effort, ...

Technology lines always blur over time. And no area is this more evident in recent years than in the morph between e-readers and tablets. E-readers used to just be used for curling up with an e-book a...

Fox's new late night talk show Gutfeld! just premiered three days ago, and they've already run out of material. Watch the same exact joke they tell three nights in a row about a CNN guest being called...

Open Game Art is a fantastic resource for finding pixel art. Eivind Magnus Hvidevold extended it with a killer feature: reverse image search. Whither thou went, sprite?I wanted to build a reverse imag...

With more than 456,000 memebers, r/menwritingwomen contains some of the most hilarious, rage-inducing, stomach-churning descriptions of women's bodies ever put to paper. From Joss Whedon's rejected Wo...

One of David Letterman's greatest guests, Jack Hanna, has to retire, according to his family. The animal expert has been stricken with dementia.via CNN:"Doctors have diagnosed our dad, Jack Hanna, wit...

Somehow North Carolina republican congressperson, and Nazi-enthusiast, Madison Cawthorn has magical knowledge of the Boulder shooter's motivations.The Hill, however is very clear the Colorado authorit...

It doesn't take much to keep this family of young otters happy. Watch how frisky they get when they discover a bamboo branch that keepers at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney gave them for "enrichment." Accor...

President Joe Biden's rescue German Shepherd has been a bit bite-y since taking office. Many folks who co-habitate with a dog know the horrible feeling when a dog you otherwise trust and love does s...

In Cincinnati, Ohio, police, animal control officers, and volunteers are chasing down a barrel of monkeys that reportedly escaped from "a private collection." Latest update is that the five monkeys ar...

OpenAI Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, took the 1993 song "Barbie Girl" and made it much better.Orginal lyrics:I'm a barbie girl in the Barbie worldLife in plastic, it's fantasticYou can ...

Written and directed by Stacy Peralta, enjoy this awesome documentary on the Bones Brigade, a team of legendary pioneers who rode under the Powell-Peralta banner and helped define skating. ...

Carpenter Chi-Chun Yin took six months to make this incredibly detailed wooden submarine with more than a dozen adorable animals that get busy when you turn a crank. From Taiwan, the self-described au...

Carpenter Chi-Chun Yin took six months to make this incredibly detailed wooden submarine with more than a dozen adorable animals that get busy when you turn a crank. From Taiwan, the self-described au...

Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old woman from Georgia who died while participating in the domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol on January 6, was not trampled to death by fellow MAGAs as previously ...

Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old woman from Georgia who died while participating in the domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol on January 6, was not trampled to death by fellow MAGAs as previously ...

For $140,000, you could move right into the former Gilchrist County Jail in Trenton, Florida. Eight bedrooms, eight baths! The disclosures sell it! Built in 1928, it was a working jail until 1968 and,...

Ryan Samsel of Bristol, Pennsylvania, currently in detention pending trial for knocking over a police officer, causing her to lose consciousness and suffer a concussion during the January 6 domestic t...

NPR surveyed its readers as to which Muppets they love best. Sadly, NPR's listeners are wrong. Look at how low the guys at #24 and #25 are? Top Ten Muppets for sure.NPR:25. Count von CountThe ultimate...

Luke Armstrong, cyclist Lance Armstrong's son, was accused of sexual assault with a 16-year-old girl at a party in Austin, Texas. Armstrong, who is now 21 years old, a student at Rice University, and ...

If you tire of flying around inside the magnificence of Microsoft Flight Simulator, explore some of the other fascinating and unintentional (?) experiences hidden at the glitchy ground level inside th...

Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman, sold for 10 cents back in 1938. It sold for $3.25 million yesterday. According to CNN, the unnamed buyer is "relatively new to comic investing." The...

Far-right television personality Eric Bolling walked out on a live BBC interview today. He started the segment complaining about how "liberals" like to use boycotts as a "gun, so to speak, pointing it...

In 1965, Brian Robson of Cardiff, Wales was stuck in Melbourne, Australia, working at a job he hated, terribly homesick, and lacking the cash to get a ticket home. So with the assistance of two friend...

Not that we need blatant boneheaded statements to know the nefarious thoughts that dwell within the GOP, but this kind of reminder is still nice. Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson gives th...

Last April, comedian Julie Nolke popped into the past and hinted about the pandemic to her January self, who was totally confused. At the time, it was hilarious to see how things had changed in just a...

I almost feel sorry for pyramid schemers, because the success of their scheme depends on roping in people as stupid as they are. Here's a recent exchange between a schemer and a person smart enough to...

Her Majesty The Queen is a combination of Indiana Jones, the Crusaders (the Medieval Christian army, not the jazz fusion band) and the DaVinci Code's Robert Langdon, if this week's tabloids are to be ...

Republican leaders in North Carolina have introduced Senate Bill 514. If passed, this Bill would ban people under the age of 21 from receiving medical care vital to their transition. While this is sho...

Trevor Noah has fun comparing Mitch McConnell to a bank robber after the senator's shut-up-and-pay-me stance toward corporations. "McConnell is telling corporations to just stay out of politics comple...

Twenty Thousand Hertz is a great podcast that explores sound, in all the ways it manifests. Case in point: "The Deterrent Tone," a recent episode that focuses on Long Range Acoustical Devices, the sou...

The Punkt MP02 (previously) is one of two or three premium-yet-minimalist phone handsets that actually work on post-2G cellular networks. And now it has Signal built-in, providing end-to-end voice enc...

Evan Greer is trans-femme indie punk songwriter as well as an activist and the Deputy Director for the digital rights group Fight For The Future. Also, her new album out this Friday 4/9, and delightf...

A Detroit-area home inspector was charged with aggravated indecent exposure and property damage after being caught on camera "pleasuring" himself with an Elmo doll. Kevin Wayne VanLuven, 59, was hired...

CNN reports that one of the defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has flipped on their Proud Boy friends and decided to help prosecutors take on the violent street gang's leadership.Yet the ca...

Virginia has become the first southern state (and the first state in 2021) to ban the gay and trans panic defense in cases involving the assault and/or murder of LGBTQ+ people. In the past, this defen...

A survey conducted by Just Like Us, a UK-based LGBTQ youth charity, found that most young people would support their close friends if they came out as transgender. The survey included children aged 11...

Qualified immunity is the legal principle that allows police officers to do things that would be illegal when done by others, such as beating people to death in the streets. New Mexico has passed a la...

I never got around to watching the latest iteration of MST3K on Netflix, but I have fond memories of the original, insanely low-budget series and subsequent film. In 2019, Netflix, as Netflix does to ...

This is the trailer for an upcoming horror movie called The Djinn.Watching it reminded me of a story.Just before COVID-19 really came into its own in the winter of 2020, I spent a month on a working v...

Masks and gloves are saving us all from the scourge of the pandemic. They're also helping poison the Earth's oceans, thanks to the negligence of oafs. How a conscientious mask-wearer can also be a lit...

I only recently heard the harrowing story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi on an NPR segment with Jodie Foster about her new film The Mauritanian, based on Slahi's memoir. Here's the blurb for that memoir:Sinc...

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Now that the global pandemic is subsiding and the world is slowly reopening, it's probably about time to talk about that subject you've been avoiding until nowIt's time to talk about the Quarantine 15...

The National Republican Congressional Committee must figure it can't receive enough genuine donations, resorting to scare tactics to keep their coffers full. The group, which is committed to getting R...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (QCO) seemed to have lost her last marble last night, babbling to TV-pastor Gene Bailey on the religious show Flashpoint about "the unseen" and how the real work in the United Stat...

Heat shrinking tubing is used in electronics projects to keep wires nice and tidy. It's fun to use, too! You can either rub a soldering iron tip over it or use a heat gun and the material shrinks tigh...

Humans really aren't all that different from the other creatures that inhabit this planet. We laugh when cats ignore expensive cat toys while crawling bags or hopping into boxes. But honestly, are we ...

Political commentator Leigh McGowan, aka PoliticsGirl, hits a home run when she compares bipartisanship to sports. She starts her spot-on rant by giving a few examples of bad sportsmanship that would ...

Our friends at Futility Closet posted this fascinating excerpt from Stefania de Vito, Roberto Cubelli, and Sergio Della Sala's paper,"Collective Representations Elicit Widespread Individual False Memo...

"A Page of Madness" is an experimental Japanese horror film from 1926. It was directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Here's a good review on Letterboxed:Set in a remote mental hospital, the film focuses most...

Boing Boing pal Jim Leftwich turned us on to this ten-minute collection of Newport, Kent, and York TV ads from the 1960s. Jim writes:Woah, no wonder everyone smoked. They sold the lifestyle hard. And ...

MED3000 is a gel that's rubbed on the head of the penis to improve erections. When it was recently approved for use in the EU, the manufacturer, Futura Medical, saw a stiff rise in its share price. In...

MED3000 is a gel that's rubbed on the head of the penis to improve erections. When it was recently approved for use in the EU, the manufacturer, Futura Medical, saw a stiff rise in its share price. In...

Ich wenn im Supermarkt einer ohne Maske auftaucht pic.twitter.com/cVY2RioqXe— Torben Kassler (@torben_kassler) April 7, 2021Okay, it's my second reptile post of the day, but this video is too as...

Seven smartly attired climate change activists were arrested in London earlier today after they calmly and methodically broke the windows of Barclays London headquarters. The stylish septet, who are m...

I live very close to where much of this video is filmed. German in Venice consistently puts out realistic content sharing the sad situation of Los Angeles' unhoused. The Invisible People Project is al...

According to the National Cancer Institute, trichloroethylene (TCE) is found in "cleaning wipes, aerosol cleaning products, tool cleaners, paint removers, spray adhesives, and carpet cleaners and spot...

This gigantic 10-foot-2-inch alligator was spotted hiding under a car at an apartment building in Tampa, Florida, before Florida Fish and Wildlife came to rescue it. It might have come from a nearby p...

Reversing a lower-court decision, the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a lesbian couple can adopt a 3-year-old child who has lived with them since birth.From NBC:In July 2020, Dixon County Judge ...

The Arkansas House and Senate overrode Governor Asa Hutchinson's veto of House Bill 1570 on Tuesday. The bill, one of 192 anti-LGBTQ bills under consideration in the US, is the first of its kind to be...

Zachary Horwitz, 34, stage name Zach Avery, stars in low-budget genre thrillers. He is also, say prosecutors, the operator of a massive ponzi scheme that cheated 200 investors out of $227 million. The...

From The New York Times:The moon, lacking an atmosphere to shield it, is constantly under attack. When meteorites bombard its volcanic surface, sodium atoms fly high into orbit. The sun's photons coll...

Cars have been a symbol of freedom for a century. Once you earn a license as a teenager, you've got the means to get out of the house on your own. Later, the freedom of the open road is intoxicating, ...

Embedded below are parts 1 and 2 of a recently-found TV production of The Lord of the Rings that's doing the rounds. The special attraction: it was made in Russia near the end of the Soviet era and is...

Amazon is buying up empty shopping malls and transforming them into fulfilmnet centers, reports ABC News.In March, Amazon won approval to turn a mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, into a 3.4 million-squa...

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Terrific Productions, LLC announced themselves with great fanfare at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019:Terrific Production is new publisher Fall 2019. We are staffed by former senior comic book profess...

Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin has shared a new "roadmap to immortality," which proposes several different plans (with backup plans!) for extending human life through technology. Here's the gist...

In protest of the new voting bill signed into law last week by Georgia Governor and sucker for Trump's big election lie, Brian Kemp, Major League Baseball has pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta. Th...

MEMBERSHIPS are now open for Tom the Dancing Bug's INNER HIVE. Join the team that makes Tom the Dancing Bug possible, and get exclusive access to comics before they are published anywhere, sneak ...

For decades, they've been mortal enemies. Oil and water. Fire and ice. Hatfields and McCoys. Windows and Mac. Never the twain shall meet.Nowhere is the dichotomous relationship between the two program...

If you're running a website, you want people to visit that website. Presumably. Wild guess. If you're going through the work and cost of operating a website just to dump your thoughts on the web, that...

How do you protect yourself from everybody online trying to get all up in your business? And we aren't just talking about cybercriminals and other malevolent black hats rummaging around the internet e...

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...

JonOne, a graffiti artist from New York, had an untitled piece on display in a gallery at a mall in South Korea. It was worth $500,000, but now? Maybe not so much after a couple visiting the gallery b...

The FBI demanded that Ahmad Chebli, a U.S. citizen, become an informant on the Lebanese community. The agents threatened to punish him and his family with specious investigations, false arrest and per...

Once I got a wireless charging pad, I stopped using lightning cables to charge my phone. I have one on my bedside table and another on my desk. The ones made by Tozo are super-thin. I like being able ...

According to Reuters, there's a "clear link" between the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine and blood clots in the brain. The vaccine, developed byOxford UniversityandAstraZeneca, which is 79% effective...

Whenever we go to Japan, we like going to Akihabara and visiting the capsule toy (gashapon or gachapon) stores there. The little toys are much cooler than the ones that you'll find in U.S. vending mac...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bjorn Steinbekk (@bsteinbekk)Bjorn Steinbekk uses drones to capture spectacular footage of Iceland's recent volcano near Reykjavik. Wit...

Everybody strives for truly unique home decor. That would seem to make a lot of sense, because who wants the same stuff that everybody else has? Of course, unique often translates to handmade, so unle...

I think the Tauntaun is gonna win every fight in this LEGO microfighters Hoth playset. If we ignore the whole 'Luke's Tauntaun was dead before an AT-AT was on Hoth' thing, and then the entire concept ...

Have you spent a worrisome amount of time reading r/PublicFreakout, r/IdiotsInCars or other archives of public misfortune? Perhaps you need a break from schadenfreude. Perhaps you should visit r/Gatek...

Have you spent a worrisome amount of time reading r/PublicFreakout, r/IdiotsInCars or other archives of public misfortune? Perhaps you need a break from schadenfreude. Perhaps you should visit r/Gatek...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki is a master at deflecting attack questions from dense journalists who still don't realize what they're up against. Her strategy is threefold: 1) answer with smart...

Having seen these a many times on the road, I assumed it had to do with refrigeration. Jalopnik has a quick explainer as to why it is not that. They do tell us that the diamond doors are popular with...

In 1980 I was attending Colorado State University as a mechanical engineering student. I was taking a thermodynamics class and we wrote Fortran programs on punch cards to do finite-element analyses of...

The new Star Trek: Picard trailer declares the return of "Q." This Q is batshit crazy but a lot of fun, as opposed to the current-era fictional character guiding Capitol insurrectionists and loonie Ka...

The crew of the Eemslift Hendrika had to get out of there, as the listing ship became too dangerous to attempt to save. Shifting cargo in rough seas started the problems, as the situation worsened the...

One minute and 33 seconds is just not enough, especially if the cinematographer decides to focus on Paul's shoes for an inordinately long amount of time. However, the shoes were an important part of t...

Takishima Mika (aka Takimika) was born on January 15, 1931. She started training when she was 65 and became a trainer herself at 87. She hopes to continue working until she's 100. In the video below, ...

Marvel's beloved supervillain, Red Skull, is posed as a comically reactionary lifestyle guru in his latest comic-book incarnation, authored by Te Nahesi Coates. Jordan Petersen, the comically reaction...

On February 12, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte lifted the state's mask mandate, even though there were public health officials who said "the state's vaccination rate is still too low to lift the mask...

It is the first International Asexuality Day, part of a campaign to promote awareness of the various identities and terms related to asexuality. The slogan is ACES, standing for Advocacy, Celebration,...

Oracle and Google's fight over the latter's reimplementation of an API was a long haul, and things often looked hairy due to the complexities involved and the difficulty of defining the differences be...

This video shows a kabura-ya (), a turnip-headed whistling arrow, fired by a master kyudo archer at the Albert Park Sports Stadium in Melbourne on 13 February, 2010. Contrary to my jokey headline, the...

The YouTube channel, Trash Theory, reminds us of the brilliance and lasting influence of X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene.When you think of the first London wave of punk, most minds go to The Damned, The Sex...

It's the end of the information superhighway for Yahoo Answers, the Q&A site that was once amazingly popular and reliably packed with hilarious nonsense. It rotted under years of indifference and ...

Promises of "permanent" and "full-time" work-from-home were panic hype and tech workers who thought it was for real are finding themselves getting hauled back in to the office, reports the BBC. I hope...

According to digital artist Jam2go, all the U.S. state birds are garbage except the ones that represent Louisiana, New Mexico, and California. In order, that's the brown pelican, greater roadrunner, a...

According to India Today, cyber security researcher Dave Walker managed to sort out that Mark Zuckerberg uses Signalthe encrypted messaging service you should likely be using, tooto yap online with wh...

Why are there so many different pasta shapes? It's still the same damn dough in the end, so why should you care if it's angel hair, or fettuccini, or spaghetti, or tagliatelle, or vermicelli, or bucat...

If you've ever wanted to live and work in the scenic Scenic Rim region of Queensland, Australia, this could be your chance! According to the official Scenic Rim Jobs website:Science Rim Jobs is an ini...

One dark night in 1804, a London excise officer mistook a bricklayer for a ghost and shot him. This raised a difficult question: Was he guilty of murder? In this week's episode of the Futility Closet ...

If you listen closely, you can hear the whine of a misogynist complaining about the imaginary incompetence of credibly competent women. It takes a spectacular stool sample of a chauvinist, however, to...

If you listen closely, you can hear the whine of a misogynist complaining about the imaginary incompetence of credibly competent women. It takes a spectacular stool sample of a chauvinist, however, to...

There are apparently a bunch of different, totally unconnected people who have made their own Lovecraftian versions of "Jolene." Like the one above:And in your eyes deep pools of viceNo spilt blood wi...

Turns out, you can — if you can get the slapping machine to stay alive long enough for the 135,000 slaps required to get it to a minimum safe temperature to eat. Science!Image: Screengrab...

If you aren't horrified by the state of America's food supply chain, then it's because you haven't been paying attention. Prices on food items keep rising, yet the farmers who make that food are takin...

These vaccine passports segregate people and strip them of their freedom to travel internationally. Vaccinations are important, and I encourage everyone to get the Covid vaccine, but how would you fee...

Lucky commuters on a partially filled moving train in New York City were treated to this spectacular performance by W.A.F.F.L.E Crew a group from the Bronx known for their amazing subway dance routin...

For zombie fans, gamers, or preferably both, April is shaping up to be a pretty big month. Last week, PlayStation Plus unveiled their slate of free games for their customers for the month of April, a ...

It didn't take me long to get the hang of the Stem Gem Strawberry Huller, and once I did, I was able remove the stem and core of strawberries much faster than I could with a knife.To use it, you push ...

The website for the 1996 animated film Space Jam became legendary after Warner Brothers left it online in its original form forever. The low-tech, obsolete design became at first a joke, but eventuall...

In 2004, the small town of Knutby in Sweden was under the international spotlight after a bizarre, complex murder took place. It involved the town's Pentecostal pastor, his murdered wife, his 26-year-...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kyle MacLachlan (@kyle_maclachlan)In November of 2020, it was announced that David Lynch is writing and directing a new series for Netf...

Professor Michio Kaku, author of the new book, The God Equation, was interviewed by The Guardian on his thoughts about stringtheory ("The universe in some sense is like a chess game and for 2,000 year...

Akil Baddoo was surprised to even be invited to spring training by the Detroit Tigers, but to make the regular season team? A pipe dream. But after having a scorching hot spring training with the Tige...

I stopped up the lane on the way home today and caught the most magical moment with hares boxing right in front of the car!#hares #thebrecks pic.twitter.com/cZbrzow0Ve— Paula Cooper (@iceniphoto...

The Subject is Jazz was a one-season, 13-episode NBC television series that aired in 1958. YouTube has six episodes. The episode here focuses on the "The Future of Jazz. It includes performances and i...

An unarmed bystander confronted a group of Boogaloo Bois with assault rifles in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Easter and told them to "get your fucking guns out of here, man!" According to HuffPost, "the arm...

I'm always happy to see a new song from The Low Darts show up on my YouTube subscription page. These teenagers pick classic songs from the 60s and 70s and make beautiful covers.The Low Darts' studio c...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (Q-FL) is being investigated by the FBI for the potential sex trafficking of minors. John Oliver played a clip of Gaetz's disastrous appearance on Tucker Carlson's show, remarking, "Wo...

Previously on Boing Boing: Gentleman sells his house but won't move out, while new owners have been paying mortgage for 14 monthsTracie and Myles Albert finally have the opportunity to move into ...

Suddenly Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham are aghast at the border conditions that were already a crisis four years ago when Trump was in the White House. And the fabulous Randy Rainbow has some fun with t...

Suddenly Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham are aghast at the border conditions that were already a crisis four years ago when Trump was in the White House. And the fabulous Randy Rainbow has some fun with t...

happy birthday Mister Rogers. here's every color of cardigan he wore on the show presented in chronological order#rstats pic.twitter.com/DJBNcxZRTv— Owen Llewellyn Henry Jean Phillips (@owen...

An American Airlines staff member told Roslyn Singleton she had to cover her sweatshirt so others couldn't see the "fuck cancer" message on it. When Singleton asked for clarification on the airline's ...

LG is shutting down its mobile division, meaning no more LG phones. Since it's out of the game and has no plans to sell it off, Daniel Mazurkiewicz created a petition asking LG to open source the desi...

At Slate, Daniel Politi reports that Amazon has admitted its drivers have to pee in bottles and issued an apology to the U.S. representative it mocked on Twitter for making the claim.Amazon rowed back...

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Amazon illegally retaliated against two internal critics when it fired them, reports Karen Weise for the New York Times.The employees, Emily Cunningha...

Action Retro's 68k News shows what's on Google News, but as simple no-nonsense HTML, including the text of stories via Andres Rey's PHP port of Mozilla's Readability code.Basic HTML Google News for vi...

Overall cigarette use has dropped by a hefty 26 percent over the past decade according to the American Lung Association. And you can bet that of those who consumed that remaining 74 percent, almost ev...

Last year, a man spat in railway ticket officer Billy Mujinga's face in London's Victoria train station. She developed Covid and died of the disease two weeks later. British Transport Police declined ...

I spent years toiling in the wordmines for a wide variety of tech publications before one decided that it would be a good idea to give me a salary and benefits. During my time as an independent contra...

Security expert Alon Gal reports that the personal data of 533m Facebook users was dropped on the Internet. Some will loathe the fact that the phone numbers associated with their accounts were release...

From the publication Forward comes this revelation: Marshmallow Peeps are Jewish!Just as ironic as the fact that "White Christmas" was written by a Jewish composer named Irving Berlin, Peeps, those fa...

During the March 2021 Oates Song Fest to raise awareness and funds for Feeding America, Dave Grohl did an acoustic performance of the best song he's ever written, which is objectively and universally ...

Most guys will tell you that looking good is hard work. And it's not always successful work either. While women are often brought up with a sharp eye on grooming and looking their best, most guys did ...

Watching a runner or jogger motor by while wearing a leg compression sleeve, it may be simple to shrug it off as just another trendy athletic accessory like a headband or spandex. But the truth i...

If you're never seen Big Clive's YouTube channel, you're welcome. Clive is like the Bob Ross of (usually) electronics teardown videos. With his gentle, chill demeanor and pleasant Scottish accent, Cli...

Women's History Month is supposed to be about lauding accomplishments of women in hopes that the victories of the past might open the door wider for the future. That doesn't seem to be happening. The ...

Alright, so…first things first. Let's get right to the elephant in the room. Yes, this product is called the Butt Buddy. And yes, while your eyebrows undoubtedly went up and you immediately ente...

Alright, so…first things first. Let's get right to the elephant in the room. Yes, this product is called the Butt Buddy. And yes, while your eyebrows undoubtedly went up and you immediately ente...

Young parents are always looking for that life hack that shakes up how they raise their growing children. And once that kid starts to get their legs under them and moving around under their own power,...

A theory sprouted up on Tik Tok about the the Disney movie The Lion King. It posits that after the evil Scar orchestrated his brother Mufasa's untimely death, he devoured the corpse–which is chi...

I frequently cook on a Kamado style grill and love it. While this DIY cooker is far too small for me, I sized up would probably work just as well as my many hundreds of dollar investment. ...

Learn something, have fun, and stay safe. That probably sounds like something your mother used to say as you headed out the door for school, but it's hard to argue with any of that. In case you'd like...

I just ran across the 4 minute video set to George Harrison's Dream Away, the theme to Time Bandits....

I have trouble believing this commercial sold very many toys. Clad in those early 90's era-dayglo colors, these Ninja Turtles are probably some holy grail collectible, but sewer spitting? Give me some...

Gargoyles was one of those 90s kids cartoons that was so much better than it had any right to be, with wildly detailed word building and complex storylines of corporate sabotage and Shakespearean gran...

St. Elmo's Fire is a striking natural phenomenon, a form of corona discharge. It looks like lightning but isn't, and may in fact protect airplanes from strikes. Here it is filmed from inside the cockp...

In one of those triumphant stories that reaffirms every junk hound's eternal quest for treasures, antiques dealer Robert Swope and his partner Michel Hurst stumbled across a collection of photos at a ...

If you've been fortunate to somehow never see one of the commercials for those "NOW That's What I Call Music!" compilations, all you need to know is that they are generic mixes of popular songs all lu...

I've been following the visual artist Lordess Foudre on Instagram for a few years now. Her retro futuristic work takes a kind of vaporwave-cyberpunk approach to examining and deconstructing social med...

It's tough to know how much power you're going to need and when. Now that we all carry enough devices to feel like we're stocking Batman's utility belt, any of those gadgets could start getting a litt...

It's no Muppets' Hamilton, but it's up there. You can support the creator, Guitar_Knight1, on Patreon if you want to see more....

At the start of COVID life in March 2020, my friends John J. King and Ramona Rose King decided to create a weekly web series riffing on The Office except this time, it would be Home Office, sinc...

The standing desk is becoming an increasingly prominent piece of office life, whether you live that life in an actual office or at home. Studies have shown that for every hour a worker is stationed at...

To demonstrate the desperate state of American culture in the 1980s I merely remind that 'Simon and Simon,' a show about disagreeable brothers with a struggling private investigation practice in San D...

I kinda feel like this is updated for the pandemic....

Silver Apples, the New York electronic duo from the 1960s, never gets enough credit. A collaboration between Simeon (Simeon Oliver Coxe) and Danny Taylor, the band was mainly active between 1967-1970,...

What did we all do before backup cameras were a thing? Well, for starters, we got into a lot more accidents backing out of parking spaces and driveways as well as squeezing into that ultimate driving ...

Lady bugs eat aphids. My precious blood orange tree was infested.Over the course of the last few weeks, I was watching as aphids slowly grew out of control. I wondered why some leaves on my blood oran...

Crafts are often about absolute precision. Whether it's getting a line stroke just right, positioning a scrap of paper or bauble of metal just so, or allowing several pieces to fit together perfectly,...

Perhaps someday we will once again achieve Roman levels of concrete artistry.Graphene Exponent:In July 2020, Thomas Swan, a global chemical manufacturing company signed an agreement with Concrene for ...

Purportedly from the recording of Boehner's new book, this audio shares the former Speaker and now pot and tobacco lobbyist sending a quick message to Cruz.When @SpeakerBoehner was recording his audio...

Former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer never sounded as good as he did last night during a Newsmax interview. His mouth moved, and even seemed to laugh, and yet it was all done in blissful silence. ...

A special reissue of John Lennon and Yoko Ono'sJohn Lennon/Plastic Ono Band The Ultimate Collection is coming out on April 23. Here's a new video from the John Lennon YouTube channel for the song "Lo...

Microsoft Coffee remembers that time in 1996 when Redmond staffers printed up a load of "Microsoft Coffee" boxes, snuck them into Seattle-area retailers, and caused a Voltswagen-esque PR disaster on A...

The compound in weed that gets you high is delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol. A lot of U.S. states have legalized it for medicinal and recreational use. But it's still a schedule 1 drug according to federa...

With a beak, a pouch, and a four-headed penis, the toothless, egg-laying spiky anteater, or echidna, is one of the strangest mammals alongside the duckbill platypus on the planet. And also one of th...

As The Hood Internet, Chicago producers Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV) have been cranking out compelling mash-ups since 2007. Above is their latest release, 60 songs from 1999 mixe...

Sauteur d'Alfort, a breed of domesticated rabbits, do "handstands" and walk on their front paws instead of hopping. New research suggest the strange behavior is likely caused by a mutation in a gene l...

A baby in Iraq was born with three penises, says International Journal of Surgery Case Reports. It's the first ever recorded instance. According to the report, the extra penises were removed and the b...

I saw this video floating around the internets yesterday, but thought it was an April Fools prank, as I couldn't find any news about it (and I thought it was a kangaroo, so Googling it didn't turn out...

Uber drivers systematically and illegally discriminated against Lisa Irving due to her disability, an arbitrator ruled today. One even falsely claimed to have arrived at her destination to get her (an...

One of the reasons Jenga is hard to win is that when you slowly remove a block, friction will cause it to draw out adjacent blocks. But if you make a gadget like this one, you can shoot the blocks out...

Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-QAnon) has made a name for herself as a far-right conspiracy theorist, ranging from classic antisemitic nonsense to the latest innovations in internet-mediated crankery. The ...

This week in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a fellow returned to his car after grocery shopping to find that a swarm of approximately 15,000 bees had taken over his vehicle. He had started to drive off befor...

The odds seem astronomically high in this Rube Goldberg-style "trick-shot" stunt. Cree, whose YouTube page is all about Rube Goldberg machines and/or trick shots of all sorts, has set up a maze for si...

Foley artist Richard Hinton is a master at making the goopy, slurpy, shimmery, grumbly, and slithery sounds you hear in nature documentaries. His work can be heard in series like "Planet Earth II," "O...

John Wilcock (1927 – 2018) was an underground publishing legend who co-founded The Village Voice in 1955 and was at the center of the counterculture movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the ye...

On Tuesday, someone set fire to three Masonic lodges in Vancouver, Canada. Shortly after the fires began, a flat-Earther named Ben Kohlman, 42, posted the following to social media: "I just cleaned 3s...

Greg Raiz crafted an e-ink newspaper, though it might be more appropriate to describe it as an e-ink display cunningly disguised as a page of a newspaper framed and hung on a wall. Brilliant work!I to...

42: the wildly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams is a forthcoming book, approved by Douglas Adams's estate and family, that will explore the late author's "unseen archives". A crowdfunding campaign is...

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) stars in a new Fox ad that makes the case that he was the "architect" of the January 6th Capitol insurrection. "There is no one member of Congress more responsible for the attac...

Matt Gaetz, the lopfaced Florida Republican under DOJ investigation over underage sex allegations, showed nude photos of women to other lawmakersa claim CNN attributes to anonymous sources.Gaetz alleg...

From the College of Rock and Roll Knowledge page on Facebook:The Jimi Hendrix Experience played at the London Astoria on March 31, 1967. Also on the bill were Cat Stevens, The Walker Brothers and Engl...

NBC news anchor, Lester Holt, dropping a truth bomb:Thank you to Lester Holt for this truth bomb. Media outlets needs to stop covering lies and giving them equal weight with truth. This this this.pic....

Just a month removed from one of the most devastating winter storms in U.S. history, this is an almost crazy notion, but we'll ask the question anyway:Are you ready for summer?Yeah, we know. But serio...

With about 16% of the US population fully vaccinated and cases of Covid around five times less than it was at its peak in January, things are looking up when it comes to beating the pandemic. Right? W...

After buying a dip pen on Ed Piskor's recommendation, I also bought this jar of Deleter Manga Ink 4. When it arrived I was surprised by how small the jar is. This stuff is pricey! But it's worth it. &...

The adoption of vaping and vape pens has been nothing short of phenomenal. Over the past decade, the number of global vapers has risen from less than 10 million up to 55 million this year. But wh...

"Pinoy Trucker," a truck driver in Canada (according to YouTube), says "being a truck driver isn't easy" on his bio page. And that was before he caught this footage while driving on a white snowy day ...

On Saturday, a man and his child visited the Yuanjiashan Zoo in Xichang, Sichuan, China where they were surprised that a cage advertising an African Lion actually contained a Golden Retriever. Amazing...

Nissin sells packets of powder that turn ramen and cup noodle broth into an inedible solid. It looks like the same water-absorbing powder in disposable diapers. Huh?According to SoraNews24 you aren't ...

The bones of prehistoric fish "acted as skeletal batteries" that supplied minerals to power the animals as they swam long distances, according to new research described in National Geographic. Berlin ...

Watching this man crush 20 cans with a cinderblock is even more satisfying than popping plastic bubble wrap. Why? Who knows, it just is....

Like many of you, I was enthralled by #TheStory. Unfolding over the course of 148 tweets, this was a batshit crazy first-person account of an epic saga between a black woman dancer named "Zola" (our f...

I've really been enjoying the Monstrum series on YouTube, produced by PBS. They recently announced a spin-off show (of sorts), called Otherwords, exploring weird word etymologies. For the first episod...

Daydreaming is an art that we all must master. I often feel guilty for letting so much time lapse in fake scenarios and alternate lives, but according to a study done at the University of Florida, day...

Enoch Ku is a Sacramento-based photographer that is perfectly capturing the liminal space found all over the city in his series called "Ordinary Sacramento".  Sacramento is the sixth largest city...

Scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire have submitted a new scientific paper to the peer-reviewed journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, with a proposed plan for a functioning physical war...

Via WBUR:A high school student from Nova Scotia, Canada, [16-year-old Emma] Stevens had the help of Katani Julian, who works in language revitalization. It's part of a combined effort to spread awaren...

With crisscrossing escalators and the acoustics of a racquetball court this high school combines the pleasant environment of a department store with teenage academia. During renovations to Downtown Bu...

In Simone's latest video, she makes a seat/bed for her dog, Scraps, that she can also sit on as she works. Scraps only has three legs, so Simone had to create something that Scraps felt secure in gett...

Dan Kois at Slate couldn't resist interviewing Matt Godbey, the agent selling a goth'd out single family home in Baltimore. Slate:Slate: When you have a house with decor as unusual as this, do you try...

Oakland, California's Mills College, a small liberal arts women's college with an all-gender grad program, announced that it will close its doors in the next few years due to financial challenges. Thi...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lance Karlson Author (@lancekarlson)Geologist Lance Karlson stepped into the wrong neighborhood in Australia's Geographe Bay when he ...

Your new cyberdeck has arrived, madam. The Pro X is a handsome smartphone that runs a variety of free operating systems and has a slide-out keyboard, perfect for SSHing in, NMAPping corpo headquarters...

In 1966, Japanese film studio Toei Animation produced The King Kong Show, the first anime series made in Japan specifically for an American production company, Videocraft Internationa (aka Rankin/Bass...

Of all the silly ways to mine bitcoin, this is my favorite. [stacksmashing] used an old Game Boy connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero. In the video, he gives a good high-level overview of how bitcoin mini...

YouTuber Amerikano likes to list things in sets of 15, like these boat mishaps. Most are related to launching boats and the massive wakes they throw off, some are just bad luck or bad ideas.There is s...

Alabama State Rep. Jeremy Gray introduced a bill that would allow yoga to be practiced voluntarily at public schools. But the state legislature upheld the ban against yoga, which has been strictly pro...

With 15k miles on the odometer, it would appear someone had a hard time finding a reason to drive this Vette. The only exciting things about her are the awful yellow paint job and the pop-up headlight...

On Friday, police in Clame Lake Township, Michigan noticed a man duck down in the passenger seat of a vehicle when they approached. They asked for the fellow's name and the alias he gave them turned o...

Conservative AM radio host Ben Shapiro says Georgia's new voter suppression law is nothing like Jim Crow laws, and to say so is "an outright lie." He can't understand why limiting ballot drop boxes is...

At least 138 police officers were injured during the January 6 domestic terrorist attack at the U.S. Capitol. Two of those officers are now suing Trump for inciting his supporters to "fight like hell"...

Control was one of the top games of 2019, a moody shooter set in an unsettling supernatural skyscraper. It demands a high-end modern game-ready computer to fully enjoy, but for April Fools creators Re...

If you dream of becoming a polyglot, or if you simply want to learn a new language, then you're in for a rare surprise. Babbel Language Learning, the world's no. 1 language-learning resource, is on sa...

Late Wednesday, The Pentagon announced that it is reversing the previous administration's ban on trans people serving in the U.S. armed forces. The announcement was made on the International Transgend...

You've likely heard about the DOJ investigation into congressman Matt Gaetz and an alleged relationship with a minor.On last night's Rachel Maddow, she runs down the very bizarre story of how Gaetz's ...

Facts? Who needs them when they get in the way of a good story?That's the lesson from this week's tawdry tabloids, which use a smattering of facts like seasoning in a recipe: employed sparingly they a...

You may have heard of Git or GitHub, but had no idea what it is or what it does. Unless you're a coder, there's probably no reason you'd ever cross paths with this resourceful programming tool. For th...

As a web developer, you never know what tool you'll need to do the job. Some coders have full workshops full of crafty little baubles ready for tackling any build problem. Others are bringing a hammer...

As any true gamer will tell you, not all joysticks are created equal. While standard-issue joysticks and console controllers are often fine for most gaming experiences, some of today's most intricate ...

Springtails are hexapods (not insects) that are approximately 2 to 12mm in length. They're incredible gymnasts thanks to their furcula, a forked appendage on the abdomen that springs out to launch the...

The Good Liars were at it again when they trolled Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) earlier this month, before an investigation into his possible underage relationship with a 17-year-old girl and sex trafficki...

Jacob Sweet charts The Revolution in Classic Tetris, covering more than a decade of puzzling history. First, an old guard of now middle-aged nostalgiacs rediscover the NES version of Alexei Pajitnov's...

Pfizer/BioNTech's announced that their COVID-19 vaccine is 100% effective and well-tolerated in kids aged 12 to 15. Last week, they also "dosed the first healthy children" in a global study of the vac...

There's the old saying that worry and stress makes you feel like "pulling your hair out." (Of course, there's also the OCD-spectrum hair-pulling disorder called Trichotillomania, often triggered by st...

This toy rocked so hard. Naturally, the modern version is not cool. ...

A mama bear patiently tries to get all four of her cubs across the street, but it's not easy when they act just like human toddlers do which is running off in any ol' direction without a care in the ...

It turns out people really did want Volkswagen to change its name to Volkswagen, as it announced in a fake press release to get a jump on April Fool's day. The joke backfired, though, and the share pr...

Here are a few funny promo spots Japan for Cartoon Network, created by a Japanese studio in the 1990s. In one of them, Droopy Dog is trying to cross a busy street but is frustrated by a broken walk si...

While debating the idea of "vaccine passports" (or Biden's Mark of the Beast according to toxic quack Marjorie Taylor Greene) on Fox "News" yesterday, explosive tempers were had by the guests. Democra...

"My mind works in unusual ways," says soon-to-be YouTube sensation Allan Herrod. "When I hear a song, I frequently think of new lyrics that match my current situation. Once that happens, the song stic...

What is the point of this aluminum coin purse called The Dango Coin Capsule? Rain Noe of Core77 is as perplexed as I am. The advertising copy attempts to answer the question this way: "Designed to be ...

Gabriella Paiella ran the numbers and found that Frasier Crane would likely have had the savings, from his psychiatry career, to put 20% down on his fancy Seattle apartment. But his new job as a radio...

High school students in Burlington, Vermont are now going to class in a deserted former Macy's department store. The school's prior campus was closed after the discovery of cancer-causing PCBs in the ...

When you get a Covid vaccination, the person who administered it will give you a card that has information about the manufacturer and date, as well as their signature. It's important not to lose or da...

Essential (and bleak) reporting by David Gilbert on how the QAnon conspiracy framework is tearing American families apart: "there is no such thing as a typical Q follower."Christian evangelicalism app...

Many of the suspected terrorists who broke into the Capitol seem to have lost the gleeful enthusiasm they had on January 6 when they were attacking police with weapons and tear gas and hunting for the...

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, because you're a indescribable non-Euclidean entity who defies all physical comprehension anyway, so prepositions are essentially meaningless.Oh no. ...

Not Your Nanas Yarn on Etsy sells a squeaky penis dog toy and it can be yours for just $22!My dog absolutely loves squeaking the balls and chasing her penis around for hours. It is like a stick, but m...

If you love math puzzles, you'll love this sequence, discovered by mathematician Lionel Levine in 1997. Neil Sloane, founder of the OEIS (On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences), explains the Levin...

In 2017 Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) bragged on Facebook that he was "the only 'no' vote in the entire Congress against legislation that had 'Human Trafficking' in the title." He also tweeted, "I want Gaetz...

Enjoy Mike Diva's ads for Omega Mart, a real-life place you can go in Vegas made by Santa Fe art collective Meow Wolf. These segments are perhaps the most perfect examples of that darkly humorous, hau...

Matt Gaetz, a loyal pro-Trump Republican representing Florida's 1st congressional district since 2017, is under investigation by the Department of Justice over his relationship with a 17 year old girl...

The notoriously sticky concrete or tile theater floors experienced a makeover in the '90s. Teal, purple, and yellow confetti star and squiggle carpets became ubiquitous in multiplex theaters around th...

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."Delve into the dementia, the dread, and the delightfu...

Big Brother is licking you. Sweat monitors (aka scram cams) are ankle bands that monitor the wearer's sweat for alcohol, to enforce court-ordered abstinence. They're rolling them out nationwide in the...

I would totally listen to to this band....

A few weeks back, a restaurant receipt went weirdly viral on Twitter, because it was, well, wow.I'd be sick if the waiter handed me this check pic.twitter.com/xrhtFF9Xou— PERC ANGLE (@PrinceMarc...

San Francisco's PBS affiliate KQED launched the Homemade Film Festival last year as a means to stay connected and creative during shelter-in-place. The festival received such a positive response that ...

G. Gordon Liddy, the retired FBI agent best known for his 1986 turn as Berkeley Case in "Day of Jeopardy", the fifteenth episide of the third season of TV classic Airwolf, is dead at 90.He died March ...

As it turns out, those who claimed they were going to spend their quarantine time catching up on books they'd been meaning to read have been doing just that. According to research from Global English ...

If a crab can cuddle, this is what it looks like as it stares at the underwater camera, chases it a bit, and then gives it a long snuggly embrace. Or, more realistically perhaps, the crab just wants ...