Articles by BoingBoing from August 2021

Cad Bane remains my favorite non-Force wielder in Star Wars canon. Trained to be a bounty hunter by none other than Jango Fett, Cad Bane just doesn't give a shit about anything but getting paid and ge...

The modern strawberry has a surprisingly dramatic story, involving a French spy in Chile, a perilous ocean voyage, and the unlikely meeting of two botanical expatriates. In this week's episode of the ...

Whether you have a stellar idea for a new app or are dying to start a new blog, understanding the language of computer programming, otherwise known as code, is essential. And given that it's used in s...

The Wikipedia page for Long-time nuclear waste warning messages describes the messages intended to communicate danger to future humans in the event of nuclear disaster. Since today's written languages...

At a recent Henrico County, Virginia school board meeting, a number of prestigious names signed up for public comment: Phil McCracken, Eileen Dover, Wayne Kuhr, and others. Curiously, these luminaries...

This interview with Mark Hamill about filming his rescue of Grogu is a fun watch. Hamill is always a treat, and the story is darling. The idea, however, that this was a surprise is pretty suspect. Wit...

No one in my family has a CD or DVD drive in their computer. That's a good thing, because we rarely need one. When we do (usually to rip a movie or copy photos or music), I pull out thischeap USB CD/D...

Former FDA head Scott Gottlieb, a member of Pfizer's board of directors, said yesterday he expects the company's COVID-19 vaccine will be available to children aged 5-12 by early winter or even late f...

NASA astronaut Megan McArtrhur snapped these astonishing images on Saturday of Hurricane Ida in the Gulf of Mexico as seen from the International Space Station, approximately 250 miles above Earth. "I...

A vocally anti-vax and pro-Ivermectin police captain in George is now dead from COVID-19 and the same misinformation he was spreading.Yahoo News:A Georgia police officer who frequently posted anti-vax...

I frequently miss messages from folks who try to use Google's tools. Sometimes the messaging feature hidden in the sidebar of some of my Google apps comes to life and I suddenly get last year's desper...

The former beachfront HQ of Snapchat is for sale, along with a lovely themed apartment court turned into commercial space. Immediately following the massive program to house the hundreds of homeless f...

A camera mounted on a dock in Port Fourchon, Louisiana captured the moment that Hurricane Ida made landfall. Watch the eye-opening video below: ...

A camera mounted on a dock in Port Fourchon, Louisiana captured the scene before the moment that Hurricane Ida made landfall, and then the chaos that later ensued. Watch the eye-opening video below: ...

Kid Rock is being forced to cancel shows after Kid Rocking out at Sturgis, a super spreader event.Independent:Kid Rock on Twitter has been forced to cancel two shows in Fort Worth, Texas, because "ove...

Andr Silva, striker for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, could have a second career as a pratfall comedian. His acting in the scene below is fantastic! Fallon d'Floor nominee: Andre Silva from ...

Gavin Grimm, assigned female at birth but identifying as a man, was refused access to the boys' bathroom at his Virginia high school. Grimm sued, and now the Gloucester County School Board must pay $1...

That I'm linking to the subreddit r/CatastrophicFailure isn't necessarily a spoiler. Will the stuck truck, carrying a giant wind turbine blade, make it across the tracks in time? Note that there is lo...

Ivermectin, a medication of little use to you in its readily-available form (unless you weigh 1,400 pounds and suffer from intestinal parasites), is sold out everywhere. You can't even buy the famousl...

Aside from the rain, nothing ruins outdoor summertime hangouts quite like mosquitoes. And the painful, itchy welts they leave behind can leave you scratching for days. Sure, you can douse yourself in ...

When my country band the Delorean Sisters was recording our second album, our phenomenal audio engineer Drew Guido set up a mic stand to record my acoustic guitarand pulled out the weirdest-looking mi...

At a school board meeting in Henrico County, Virginia, a number of people were put on the agenda to be called by board chariman Roscoe D. Cooper III during the public speaking time. Sadly, Phil McCrac...

It's all in a name. Historically, German people have had negative preconceptions about people with certain trendy Anglo-American names like Kevin, Mandy, and Peggyso much that there's a Wikipedia page...

A common mistake I used to make was to take my calf, or sometimes calves, through the drive-through at McDonald's and have them lecture me from the backseat about how hamburgers and McNuggets are evil...

Hurricane Ida lashed the Louisiana coastline and devastated cities miles inland before slowing and heading into Mississippi late Sunday, according to reports. The category 4 storm was among the strong...

A company called HourOne is paying people to "hire out their faces". HourOne will scan you talking and emoting, then use deepfake-style AI to create videos for its corporate customers, making the synt...

Five schools in Cullman, Alabama, are closing their doors for two weeks due to rising Covid cases. According to the Cullman County school district, one-third of the students in the district's 29 campu...

Five schools in Cullman, Alabama, are closing their doors for two weeks due to rising Covid cases. According to the Cullman County school district, one-third of the students in the district's 29 campu...

In December of 2020 Xbox broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest video game projected on the side of a building with Destiny 2: Beyond Light and 19,090 square-feet of video game proje...

Explore "nested shows", the stories-in-the-story created as gags or plotlines in real shows. You canbrowse Nestflixand contributeshows or movies it's missing.The platform for your favorite nested film...

Jake Brown at Glorious Noise took an interesting challenge upon himself: make a playlist that tells the story of rock & roll history, featuring only one song from each year of rock & roll hist...

Back in October 2020, it was reported that the Washington State Department of Agriculture had attempted to glue a tracking device to the head of an Asian giant hornet, colloquially known as the "murde...

Last spring, Guillaume Cabanaca computer scientist at the University of Toulouseand two colleagues noticed a weird trend: A surge of published comp-sci academic papers that were using weird phrases in...

Tossing produce into your cart with reckless abandon as you walk up and down the aisles at your go-to grocery store may feel satisfying, but it's hardly practical. You'll lose track of what you've cov...

Legendary reggae musician, visionary producer, and master of the mixing board Lee Scratch Perry has died at 85 years-old. He was a pioneer of roots reggae and dub whose essential releases with his ban...

The electronic vehicle has evolved from a phase to a full-fledged industry as it seems companies are introducing their take on the future of transportation with each passing day. In a market that was ...

This 2018 commercial shows the perils that one may face if they don't use a Zazoo condom. I found this commercial to be both hilarious and terrifying as it reaffirmed my belief that I could not handle...

We've covered a number of art vending machine projects here on Boing Boing, but most of them have been a single-machine installation. In Portland, OR, Taylor Valds has made a business out of machines ...

To watch this guy prep to play his song gives you time to take in what you're about to see and hear. How is a person so ingenious to design this perfectly functioning self-contained rhythm section and...

Everywhere, every day, babies get owned by this simple trick. I've got your nose is the practice of jokingly stealing children's noses a timeless dad prank. It has its own Wikipedia article which des...

If you live in Morgan Hill, California, and have been having trouble with your signal, your troubles might be over. Police there raided a house to find the source of a disrupting, impeding and interfe...

The county clerk of Mesa in Colorado, Tina Peters, "could be in legal trouble" after allowing an unauthorized person into a secure facility during an "upgrade" of the county's voting machines. Colorad...

The Nazis did some pretty messed up stuff.In addition to their genocidal habits which, understandably, tends to be the focus of their fucked-up-ed-ness the Nazis also got involved with some mad scie...

As you wait for the new season of Frasier, behold more wondrous horror from Major Frasier (previously at Boing Boing), a "shot-for-shot remake of the music video for Earth Wind & Fire's Let's Groo...

Whether you're headed on vacation and you're looking for the perfect camera to catch breathtaking views, or if you're just looking for a good gift for your kids, a drone is a great way to go. We've ro...

Here's a feel-good story for you. Dave Grohl's "arch nemesis," 11-year-old Nandi Bushell, finally got her chance to jam live with the Foo Fighters. Grohl and the musical prodigy have been going back a...

Why are these lady-animals so sensuous? So svelte and seductive? We'd ask Tex and Michael themselves, but we'd need a ouija board. ...

Superintendent of Georgia's Bulloch County School District Charles Wilson has done virtually nothing to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the schools he oversees, but will allow staff to enjoy a 'casual ...

Looking for that perfect addition to your outdoor entertainment? This crazy contraption will be the talk of the town.Kids and adults alike will get a kick out of this Inflatable Giant Hamster Wheel. I...

Whether you've been looking for a way to make your room more comfortable, or if you just love the ambiance of a decorative lamp, these planet-themed lamps are perfect for you. These lamps come in...

Greg Epstein is the New York Times-bestselling author of Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe. Since 2005, he's served as a Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University an insti...

Always a trip back to my youth, I had not seen this video in a while. ...

Peacock decided we need a nerfed version of IRL Frogger. Real-life frogger can be played on the streets of many large cities, like Hong Kong or Los Angeles, but it doesn't involve Daman Wayans Jr.Here...

Whenever I come across this video of a well-dressed outback character gently catching this kangaroo, I have to watch it several times.I wonder what he does with all those kangaroos. ...

Newly unsealed court filings reveal that Elizabeth Holmes's defense in her upcoming federal trial for defrauding investors during her time as CEO of Theranos, a company not actually delivering any of ...

Years ago, folks argued that building the Millenium Tower on soft ground in earthquake country was a bad idea from the get-go. Then a massive transit hub was dug out of the ground next to the giant to...

In 2019, the city of Ottawa opened up the Flora Footbridge, an attractive new structure that spans the city's Rideau Canal. At night when it's lit up, it's quite beautiful, as you can see from this pr...

In 2002, scientists from Johns Hopkins University surveyed the light from over 200,000 galaxies and found that the average color of the universe is hex number #FFF8E7, which they determined by analyzi...

David Bogdanov, 27, killed Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17, when he found out she had a penis. He claimed self-defense but the evidence showed that he flew into a rage, strangled her with a cord, then dumped the...

Life's tough but there are some awesome gizmos and gadgets out there that make things significantly easier to swallow. From work-from-home essentials to must-have landscaping tools, we've found some ...

Ever since being stuck at home forever, it's come to our attention that the amount of content worth binging is not as unlimited as we once thought. Sure, your queue was once so full of promise, now yo...

When someone randomly quotes "Dune" in casual conversation from dune During some commentary in the documentary series Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan, a familiar voice c...

Software engineer Neil Bostian got Doom running on a Polycom VVX600 business telephone set, and explains in exhaustive detail how the feat was accomplished.In late 2017 I was a new hire on a small (ma...

Two deputies in Lawrence County, Tennesee, beat a disabled 62-year-old man to a pulp last October during his arrest, and in the aftermath sent photos of the man to a prosecutor at District Attorney Br...

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service ran the numbers and found that unvaccinated people are 15.4x (or 1,540%) more likely to die from Covid than those who received vaccines, and 4...

Secondary custom keyboards are terrific if you're doing something technical — like editing music or video, or even playing a video game. You can assign a key to run a command or a macro you use ...

For fair and balanced geopolitical analysis at its best, why would you look anywhere else but the supermarket tabloids? It's probably a coincidence that the two top stories this week both attack presi...

Battery-powered toothbrushes, card readers, a clothes iron and a dot-matrix printer are among the gadgets used by Device Orchestra (previously) to perform this satisfyingly crunchy cover of The Euryth...

Olesya Chernyavskaya is an artist who works with AI, and her new project is https://thisolesyadoesnotexist.glitch.me. As she writes …GAN generated photos of Olesya, a project by Olesya. If ...

Whether your posture's suffering from sitting in a chair all day or you want space to work on, say, your puzzles hobby, an adjustable desk is a great way to make a workspace more comfortable, efficien...

Kids these days are exposed to more technology than any other generation, from video games with incredible graphics to gadgets and apps that make their life significantly easier. They may not know it ...

Love your dog more than most people? We feel you. We would do just about anything for our dogs and consider them part of the family. With the DNA My Dog Breed Identification Test + DOGTV: Lifetime Sub...

Cloud storage has been a literal game-changer in the technology space. The ability to expand user storage to a seemingly limitless footprint has given individuals and companies even more options when ...

Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Robert Kennedy in 1968, saving him from a humiliating election defeat by Richard Nixon that would have forever changed American political life. Today Sirhan was granted p...

Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Robert Kennedy in 1968, saving him from a humiliating election defeat by Richard Nixon that would have forever changed American political life. Today Sirhan was granted p...

These commercials from the 1950s and 60s feature two of Jim Henson's earliest Muppets, who would like to inform you that if you don't become a Wilkins Coffee drinker, you will cease to exist. In one o...

How would the game of golf change if you had to play with a bowling ball instead of a golf ball? Could you possibly hit a bowling ball over the net on a tennis court? Throw a bowling ball at a dart bo...

This behemoth is pretty outstanding! A giant among already oversized autos, this may be the highwater mark of the station wagon. This monster could have fit an entire youth soccer team. Before the min...

Ami-chan is a $250 e-grandchild with a 1,600 word vocabulary, and can recognize who it is speaking to. It's manufactured by Takara Tomy and can "sing 40 nursery rhymes and songs, recite 35 tongue twis...

This is just so darn cute I have to go play with my dog....

Although smoking on planes has been banned on all flights for more than 20 years, that didn't stop a woman flying on a Spirit Airlines flight to light up a cigarette. And not covertly in the bathroom,...

Fred and Barney are inexplicably sharing a bunkbed in a house with two kids. They seem to have traveled in time to the 1980s and entered the real world. How did they end up living in this house? Where...

Madeline S. Casey (26) received a 7-day prison sentence for walking on thermal ground at Norris Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park. She was also banned from the park for two years and ordered t...

Hey everyone! I'm working on a build guide for the Simpsons TV. It be coming soon, along with some other big news. Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/wM48BUzkqO— Brandon Withrow (@theWithra) August 26,...

A judge in Kalamazoo, Michigan ordered Beth and Paul Werking to pay $30,000 to their son David, 43, for dumping his "trove of pornography and an array of sex toys" after he moved out of their house. T...

Running out of things to do with your little ones who just want to be close to you at all times? Maybe it's time to bring the fun back into fundamental education (See what we did there?). This DIY Aut...

Why is Waukesha the only school district in Wisconsin school that isn't providing students with free meals this year? According to The Washington Post, school board members are concerned that familie...

Speaking to NBC New York, MyPillow peddler Rudy Giuliani couldn't help but flub when trying to deny he has a drinking problem. After the disgraced former mayor of New York denied that he's "gone off t...

Welcome to the Jungle!Evidently, Leo's bunny friend now has his own Instagram: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bunny AF (@frogleapbunny)I would like to see Leo's bunny ...

https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/M0i8TsKz.mp4The Qanon god-emperor appeared on Sean Hannity's disinfotainment program to praise the Taliban's fighting skills and to announce a new ISIS variant, I...

The Wall Street Journal covers the chaos surrounding Sony's efforts to replace the late Alex Trebeck as host of popular television game show Jeopardy. I suspect vaguely that this is a distraction item...

Not only does the gentleman, apparently named Matt Baker, look the part, his lyrics and delivery are absolutely perfect:"You're about to open a pit of hell!""Do you think the four feet of marble that ...

Ben Jackson, a shepherd in Guyra, New South Wales, Australia lost his aunt to cancer and was unable to attend her funeral in Brisbane due to lockdown. So he created the lovely tribute seen above by en...

DOS Haven is a site dedicated to 21st century DOS games, released long after the operating system's early-1990s heydey. Homebrewers are still making them even now! Quoted is Lt. Commander Geordi La Fo...

This "battle" between a prickly porcupine and a lovable leopard looks like a live action version of an old cartoon. The provenance is unknown but the video description says that their "fight" lasted m...

Framework makes laptops that are designed to be easily disassembled and upgraded but are as thin and light as mainstream models. Prices start at $999 for an off-the-shelf model and $749 for a bag o' p...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended the Biden administration's executive moratorium on evictions during the Covid pandemic, ruling that congress must authorize it if it is to continue. The lifting of the...

The so-called "murder hornet""asian giant hornet" being too prosaicis back in business. Here are workers in Oregon destroying the first nest of 2021, spotted near the town of Blaine along the border w...

T-Mobile's poor security has long been a disaster waiting to happen: if you couldn't remember your password, one user wrote, they'd just send it to you again as plain text. So when millions of its use...

In A new protocetid whale offers clues to biogeography and feeding ecology in early cetacean evolution, we learn of a species of whale that lived near Egypt 43m years ago and why it earned the name Ph...

Explorers is a 15-minute game where you chance upon a chain of desert islands and explore them in search of treasure. There are other explorers too, washing up on their own ramshackle rafts. The game ...

The September 2021 issue of the MIT Technology Review is all about the human mindand that's how I learned about the massive collection of bisected human brains at the University of Texas in Austin: Th...

If you want to see what goes on at an anti-vax rally, look no further than this 49-second recap of New York City's shindig earlier this month. These science deniers teach us that Covid vaccines are re...

At least 60 people were killed and 140 injured today in a suicide bombing outside a gate into Kabul airport, reports Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health. 12 of those killed were U.S. servicemember...

I'm loving everything about the new animated retro action-thriller cartoon series YUKI 7, which brings to mind Jonny Quest, The Powerpuff Girls, and Akira. It's based on a cartoon character created by...

The ghost gun debate has been a boogeyman of firearm reform discussions since at least 2013, when Defense Distributed's now-infamous 3D-printed "Liberator" pistol first burst onto the scene. The brain...

A Tennessee art teacher has a special talent: drawing faces with both hands at the same time, without stopping and without lifting up his markers from the whiteboard until his masterpiece is complete....

Most board games have a winner and a bunch of losers. But there are a number of games where users must work with each other to achieve a goal. One of the best is cooperative games is Forbidden Island....

Michael Hyssong, a car enthusiast who goes by Street Speed 717 on YouTube, was charged with "18 criminal counts, including disturbance of waterways and watersheds, misuse of property and waters and li...

An anti-mask Florida dad was arrested and charged with child abuse yesterday after grabbing a student at Fort Lauderdale High School and pushing her against a gate (two videos below). After days of se...

Someone had the foresight to save this nearly 60-year-old clip of Mickey Rooney shooting a promo for his TV show. Rooney is an old pro, and seems to get along well with the crew. It's simply an intere...

100Bombs Studios surgically edited bits from the 1990s animated Spider-Man series to recreate the new Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer as a cartoon. It's absolutely fantastic and kinda compelling to me...

The reviewers on this test drive of a low-end electric F150 are gleefully giggling away as a demo driver calmly tosses them around a pre-determined by Ford track. The 'Pro' model they are testing is l...

Animal ASMR (yes, it's an actual thing) posted this delightful video of a small turtle eating some yummy fruit and vegetables. And if you're still not hip to the ASMR buzz, here's Wikipedia's explanat...

As the disgraced former president found, words have consequences. Wait, who are we kidding? The Orange Orb of Lies never learned that. And certainly the consequences he faced were far disproportionat...

Teresa and Bill Fuhr of Titusville, Florida found this strange object caught in a tree in their yard last month, seemingly having fallen from the sky. They retrieved the sphere and called police to in...

Here's a fellow who put a locomotive horn in his Mazda Miata and made good use of it when another driver almost cut him off. Click to expand ...

The Slow Mo Guys used a camera that shoots 90,000 frames per second to slow down water as it bursts out of a balloon, pours our of a shower, and splashes in a pool. When 90,000 fps is slowed down to 2...

James Akersappeared before theDripping Springs Independent School District in Texas and took all his clothes off except for his underwear. His point was, if people don't have to wear masks, then why s...

That ultra-luxury skyscraper that is not-so-slowly falling into downtown San Francisco has accelerated its lean. Apparently, the emergency foundation repairs intended to abate its sinking have exacerb...

Bryan Bender is a senior reporter at Politico who covers the Pentagon, NASA, defense, and aerospace. This week, he had an opportunity to speak with Frank Kendall, the new Secretary of the US Air Force...

"I'm gonna climb that mountain."In this fantastic clip below, Muhammad Ali's curiosity is sparked and his wonder is palpable. Support team to carry supplies? Nah, he's "taking astronaut food."...

Macbeth is the most unsettling of Shakespeare's plays, and not just because of the grim subject matter. As Clive Thompson writes, "there's something subconsciously off about the sound of the play, and...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott banned state and local governments from making Covid vaccines mandatory, despite the FDA's approval of Pfizer's shot and the state's wide array of existing mandatory vaccination...

From a joint press release by SSAD, and the Swedish state-owned mining firm LKAB and utility Vattenfall:SSAB has now produced the world's first fossil-free steel and delivered it to a customer. The tr...

Think of all the joy you'll findWhen you leave the world behindAnd bid your cares goodbyeYou can fly! You can fly! You can fly! ...

After a mask mandate was imposed Sunday in Florida's Leon County, a notice appeared on an anti-mask site offering to sell opt-out letters to parents, signed by a doctor. The notice received more wides...

Ron Jeremy, the famed porn actor, was already facing at least 20 charges related to alleged sexual assaults before 30 more were filed yesterday. Deadline reports that the new charges supersede the old...

Nothing can replicate the taste of food cooked on a charcoal grill. The grill marks, hints of caramelization, and undeniable smokiness sets barbecue apart from anything you prepare on a stovetop or an...

This cushion protects my knees anytime I have to work on anything close to the floor or the ground. I've had it since 2011 and am grateful to have it every time I use it. ...

Kimberly Klacik is a failed pro-Trump congressional candidate. Candace Owens is a pro-Trump pundit who accused Klacik of being a strip club "madame" who laundered money and paid for cocaine with campa...

If you've ever screamed, "Who took my charger?!" in your household you're not alone. Technology users everywhere share a common dilemma: there are usually more devices than chargers available. W...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises.Hi, everyone, welcome back to the show. This week the subject is den...

Apparently the pandemic has created a boom in sales for a C02 monitors — because they're a useful way to figure out, how well ventilated is the space you're in? One hot model is the Aranet4, a d...

(If you don't want to see the final seconds of a cheetah's existence, don't watch this video.) Whenever I see a crocodile at a zoo, they appear sleepy and sluggish. "I could outrun it," I think. But a...

In this episode of Vice's Fakes, Frauds & Scammers, they profile a fellow using the name "Casey" who claims to be a former call center scammer in India and now works "undercover" to help warn scam...

The New York Times went to Mountain Home, Arkansas to find out why only 36% of the people living there are vaccinated. Some of the interviews took place in a hospital where only 50% of the staff are v...

Artist and toymaker Mike Strict created a fantastic resin figure collection of The Young Ones! What's not to love about a 12cm tall Vyvyan, Rick, or Neil who, naturally, is carrying a pot of lentils."...

You know your pup is turning into a teenager when they can no longer jump into your lap without a mishap. In this case, caught on security camera, an excited Labrador was doing what it does best retr...

As several obituaries to Charlie Watts have noted, his drumming was key to the sound of the Rolling Stones — he played "with a minimum of motion, often slightly behind the beat," which "gave the...

Cart Mutiny. from WTF An innocent bystander can only cower in terror and film the horrific onslaught of aggressive shopping carts set loose from a local Giant Eagle grocery store...

Margaret Ann Cirko (37) was sentenced to 1-2 years in prison, 8 years probation, and fined $15,000 for deliberately coughing and spitting on groceries at a supermarket.In March 2020, Cirko entered a G...

Igor Vovkovinski who stood 7 feet 8.33 inches tall and was recognized by Guinness World Records as the Tallest Living Man in America, has died. He was 38. Vovkovinskiyborn with the medical condition o...

Whether or not you get an "A1 drink" at Dunkin' Donuts or one that is lackluster depends on a customer's generosity. At least according to TikToker jasonmora2, who as a Dunkin' worker shows us how ...

This Daily Show supercut of Fox "reporters" praising Operation Warp Speed and lambasting the FDA's Pfizer approval is like a nauseating see-saw ride set inside a circus tent. Up: "Operation Warp Speed...

"I asked for a fair decision… You will regret this for the rest of your life," said 74-year-old yakuza boss Satoru Nomura to the judge who sentenced him to death for a number violent attacks sin...

For the past four years, Adie Timmermans has visited Belgium's Antwerp Zoo to spend time with Chita, a 38-year-old chimpanzee. According to reports, the two wave and blow kisses at each other."We're h...

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for aerospace engineers founded 1963. It currently boasts around 30,000 members. Earlier this month, at the orga...

Delta Air Lines employees who choose not to get vaccinated against Covid-19 are about to learn that muhfreedoms aren't free. The cost? Two hundred dollars a month in increased health insurance premiu...

In Kennewick, Washington, the Benton County Jail is offering free packets of ramen to inmates if they agree to get the COVID-19 vaccine. As of Monday, almost 100 inmates have taken advantage of the pr...

There's certainly a Venn diagram overlap between "people love that holistic wellness guru crap that uses big words to promise vague medical things" and "people who won't get the COVID-19 vaccine." So ...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies by pre-ordering (at a lo...

OnlyFans, the social network built largely on the racy work of the sex workers there, last week announced a ban on adult material. Partly a desire to go mainstream, and partly pressure from payment pr...

Alabama police officer Ben Derby, 28, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment after murdering a suicidal man who had called 911 for help.Derby, convicted in May by a jury, never admitted wrongdoing and...

WAKE is derived from full-spectrum hemp extract. This CBD and MCT oil mixture has no harsh, synthetic chemicals, or anything resembling a "high" feeling.Unlike other wellness products you may have use...

The fwip noise made by suppressed firearms in movies is among Hollywood's best lies. In truth, silencers are good to bring the report from about 140db to 110db: still pretty damned loud. In this video...

Already known for their oversized record-setting gourds, the folks at Cache Valley Giant Pumpkins in Benson, Utah are in the spotlight again. Two videos that demonstrate how they mold pumpkins growin...

Samsung South Africa announced recently that the serial numbers of TV sets stolen from a warehouse in Johannesburg had been flagged for shut-down. Any of the sets that come online will be remotely bri...

Spencer Elden, 30, has an unique claim to fame: he was the naked, swimming baby whose photo graces the cover of Nirvana's seminal 1991 album Nevermind. He's made a lot of his youthful fame over the ye...

There's a heartbreaking piece in The Atlantic about parenting through a long-burning COVID-19 pandemic and how parents have reached the end of their rope.It's enough to bring a parent to tears, except...

At Truist Park, the home of the Atlanta Braves, a fan gets selected to run a foot-race versus a very fleet of foot opponent, "The Freeze". In this foul-pole to foul-pole (160 Meters) sprint The Freeze...

Let's get real: your home should be a garden of relaxation, but in reality, work from home has cultivated an aura of stress in your abode. And, while it may be a while before we can scurry back to the...

Jacob Wohl, the conservative activist famous for schemes so hare-brained and blatantly fraudulent that he drew more tears of laughter than rage, finally has a consequence to cry about: the FCC has pro...

The Brooks B17 is a renowned bicycle seat, known above all else for its comfort the saddle also looks great.My bike came with a terrible seat. I knew I wanted to be rid of it on my first ride. —...

Whether you're running out of things to watch on TV or could use a little extra protection while you shop online, there are some great subscription services out there just waiting to make your life ea...

Reporter Brian Entin visited Miami's Tropical Park, not to jog or play ball or paddle a boat, but to check out the long line of sick folks at the park's makeshift Regeneron center. He saw people infec...

A much-anticipated installment in the ongoing Marvel movie universe. Dr. Strange and Peter Parker apparently go on one of those buddy adventures wherein they must rely upon each other in order to make...

For yard work, I get the most visual impact for the least amount of effort and financial investment from my low-end electric leaf blower.I am always shocked at the amount of sand, brake dust, leaves, ...

I took theLogitech Keys-to-Go Ultra Portable Wireless Keyboard to use with my iPhone on a recent overnight trip, leaving my laptop at home. It worked beautifully. I was able to easily write email, Goo...

Check out Jonathan Whitaker's AI-generated paintings of plants, illustrated in the colorful, heightened style of old watercolor notebooks. Plant Collage300 plants from an alternate reality. Created by...

A passenger's cell phone caught fire on an Alaska Airlines flight soon after landing at Seattle's Sea-Tac International Airport. The crew used fire extinguishers and a battery containment bag to put o...

RIP Charlie Watts, drummer with the Rolling Stones. My favorite Watts anecdote, from Victor Bockris's 1992 biography of bandmate Keith Richards:...

Charlie Watts, drummer for the Rolling Stones, died today. He was 80-years-old. "Charlie Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically," wrote Keith Richards in 2010.And here's a wonderful Wat...

Manchester musician Good Future combines Guns and Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" with The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now" and it kinda works, especially when you consider that he's playing all the instrumen...

Flordia Governor Ron DeSantis continues to fight common sense in a state ravaged by COVID-19. Fort Lauderdale's Mayor Dean Trantalis attempts an appeal to reason in asking DeSantis to help advance the...

Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader who openly boasted of burning a BLM banner taken from a black church in D.C., was yesterday sentenced to five months in jail over the incident. It's a sti...

First, you see it, then you don't!Via Reddit...

Last night, Dead & Company performed in Bethel Woods, New York at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. Their performance 52 years ago was infamously plagued by a confluence of p...

On Monday, Dead & Company performed in Bethel Woods, New York at the site of the original 1969 Woodstock music festival. Their performance 52 years ago was infamously plagued by a confluence of pr...

A Carnival cruise ship headed to Belize from Galveston, Texas, has suffered a Covid outbreak. 27 passengers are infected, reports NBC News, and one of them, a 77-year-old woman, is dead.NBC News was w...

This almost makes up for Peter Jackson's glaring omission of the great spirit Tom Bombadil from the Lord of the Rings films.Image via YouTube...

The mayor of Nagoya, Japan is sorry for biting softball pitcher Miu Goto's Olympic gold medal, and will forego $13,000 of his pay as a form of self-punishment.From Insider:According to Kyodo News,Kaw...

Researchers on Frgate Island in the Seychelles noticed a giant tortoise behaving unusually, stalking a tern chick as if it wanted to eat the bird. So one of the scientists turned on the camera, and mi...

Japanese goverment officials have ordered the Do-Dodonpa roller coaster near Mt Fuji in Japan to cease operations after four reports of riders breaking their backs or necks on it.From The Mainichi:Th...

Good film directors are masters of perception, directing our attention and toying with our sensory experiences to elicit emotion and advance the story. This is especially true of the best horror filmm...

Doug Jensen, seen here chasing a police officer at the U.S. CapitolDoug Jensen (41), the infamous QAnon-beshirted man arrested for civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding a law enforceme...

In Kowloon, Hong Kong on Sunday, a thief scurried up the scaffolding outside an apartment building, stopped at a tenth floor window, and then deployed an extra long pole with hook to snatch a purse fr...

The Robeetlea tiny scurrying robot that at 88 gram weighs about the same as three grains of ricehas earned a Guinness Record as the world's smallest crawling robot. Developed by Nstor O. Prez-Arancibi...

In this dashcam footage reportedly filmed in Singapore, a manhole explodes spectacularly in front of the vehicle, apparently triggered by a lightning strike. A question for you, dear reader: what's th...

Actor Michael Rapaport claims a man he recorded shaving at a restaurant table at JFK Airport is none other than the former Mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani. We find this hard to swallow. Could you ima...

The Daily Show sent Jordan Klepper to a protest outside the mayor's home in New York City. People say a lot of nonsensical things. Enjoy the patriot who denies 'We the People' is an important concept...

A federal judge dismissed Rep. Devin Nunes' (R-CA) lawsuit against political strategist Liz Mair for allegedly defaming him, reports the Fresno Bee. Nunes is still suing the anonymous writers behind t...

In 1864, two ships' crews were cast away at the same time on the same remote island in the Southern Ocean. But the two groups would undergo strikingly different experiences. In this week's episode of ...

Whether you're trying to get yourself into the vinyl game or have long been spinning 'em, there's always a lot of people with big opinions about your setup, taste in music, and just about everything i...

Last week, Emily Hopkins ruled Youtube for a day after attaching a roaring distortion pedal to her harp and performing enchanting and extremely hardcore melodies thereof. YouTube removed it citing its...

Back in 2014, toy company Super 7 released a series of "ReAction" action figures inspired by everyone's favorite sci-fi western, Firefly. They basically took the aesthetic of 70s Star Wars toys and ap...

You do everything online these days, from banking to chatting with long-distance family members to car shopping. And thanks to the plethora of services and apps we have at our fingertips today, we can...

In this episode of the Jen-and-Peter Show, Jen calls out Peter for being "irresponsible" when he says that Americans are "now stranded" in Afghanistan. ...

Looking for something fun to do as the summer winds down and we wait for however the heck the Delta variant decides to dissipate? While some people have run out of ideas on how to preoccupy themselves...

There's a character in my novel Pints Of 'Gansett Make You Strong (or, the Good People) who works at the South Boston Dollar Tree. The narrator a crotchety anarchist private eye goes to visit her at...

There's a character in my novel Pints Of 'Gansett Make You Strong (or, the Good People) who works at the South Boston Dollar Tree. The narrator a crotchety anarchist private eye goes to visit her at...

In Nordelta, an upscale suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina, capybara's have been finding a new home. Capybara's are giant South American rodent species weighing roughly 120 lbs. and 3 feet in height an...

There have been plenty of stories lately of unruly airline customers people so pent up with their pandemic lives that they become explosive assholes as soon as they're in a setting with other people,...

Who wants to be a millionaire? It's easy! Just get stinking drunk in a bar and brawl with customers in the parking. Daniel Rawls did and he made $5.5 million!From Oddity Central:Daniel Rawls claims th...

Vancouver residents are warned to avoid Stanley Park following three coyote attacks in four days. These attacks follow dozens of other scary encounters with abnormally aggressive coyotes in the park. ...

Here's a fun party trick. Hand your guests six long steel nails. Then show them a wooden dowel, about the same in length and diameter as the nails, which is standing securely on a base. (Obviously you...

CNN's Donnie O'Sullivan spoke to a couple of Trump supporters and found that one of them thinks God will reinstate Trump, while the other thinks guns will. Trumper #1Yeah, I'm Trump supporter. Honey, ...

The psychology research field has long suffered from a "replication crisis." Many peer-reviewed scientific papers report results that others can't replicate, calling into question the validity of the ...

The psychology research field has long suffered from a "replication crisis." Many peer-reviewed scientific papers report results that others can't replicate, calling into question the validity of the ...

On the first day at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish School in Northridge, CA (suburb of Los Angeles) last Wednesday, 8th grade students were greeted by a wild coyote that had made its way into the classroo...

Bicyclists along a canal in Central France's Charlieu village were alarmed to see what looked like a body wrapped in plastic floating in the canal. Police and firefighters raced to the scene and haule...

Last week in the wooded hills of Berkeley, California, Hadley Louden's outdoor cat was reportedly killed by a coyote. So he did what any animal lover wouldhe put a $250 bounty out for "all Dead Coyote...

A man claiming to be from Russia was found wandering the streets of Shibetsu, small town on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. He told the police he swam 20km from Kunashir island and is seeki...

Christopher Keys, an anti-vaxxer from Alabama, stood in front of a Walmart in Missouri and, speaking to his livestream camera, threatened pharmacists who administered the Covid vaccine with execution ...

A young panda can't resist clinging to the leg of a zookeeper. In his attempt to dissuade the panda from clinging to his leg, the zookeeper moves the panda to another spot in the enclosure, but the pa...

Boing Boing loves stories about the human feet that routinely wash up on the shores of the Salish Sea, and this Tik Tok video is no exception.It is not the Mafia. @dr.karanr The feet #UnfoldChallenge...

For decades, approximately half of Americans rejected the theory of evolution. But finally the University of Michigan reports that in the last few years, the tide has (slightly) turned and "the level ...

It's simple, really. God wants Trump to be president, therefore he is. In fact, he's been president all along. Who can argue with that? Here's a transcript of a brief interview with a woman who attend...

Brian Parsley did not panic. When his small plane lost power, this student pilot calmly radioed for help and finds an empty field to land in. Planes that have lost power can glide a fairly long way, s...

Since losing a bid to help NASA with the next mission to the moon, Blue Origin has lost a lot of senior staff and senior engineers.CNBC:At least 17 key leaders and senior engineers have left Blue Orig...

The Food and Drug Administration today approved Pfizer's covid vaccine, paving the way for broader adoption and, experts hope, more acceptance among the vaccine-hesitant. "The public can be very confi...

In November, California voters approved Prop 22, which gave Uber, Lyft and other companies exemptions from labor lawand imposed those exemptions on gig workers. A judge has ruled that these exemption...

Netflix announced the premiere date as Friday, November 19, and released some marketing shots of the cast. The show stars John Cho, Mustafa Shakir and Daniella Pineda....

I don't speak Russian, but I do hear the universal language of expensive, specialized bits. This one, shown off by Mehamzog, drills square holes. This is a floating-head bit, I think? I guess if you a...

Any vinyl fan knows that it can be nearly impossible to pick a great setup among the endless number of them out there. Any person who is thinking about starting a great collection of vinyl is acutely ...

In this video, Seth Robinson casts molten aluminum with Marlin Spike seashells, resulting in a strange and beautiful paperweight: "we're used to seeing the outside of seashells, but never the inside"....

Encouraged by their unions and their governor, Florida's police are refusing to receive vaccines against Covid: one survey tallied only 52% respondents saying they were vaccinated, and some department...

Let's be honest, updating or drafting a new resume from scratch can be as daunting as taking out the trash in the rain. The good news is, there's a new software that will spice up your resume in no ti...

Whether you're in the market for a security camera for pranking purposes, or you just want to protect your home, there are plenty of options that will answer the call. In addition to security gear, we...

From NPR:Scientists in China discovered two new dinosaur species when analyzing fossils from the country's northwest regions. Their findings, published in a study in Scientific Reports, conclude ...

Here's a 2015 video of the late soul singer, Charles Bradley, covering Black Sabbath's "Changes," from their 1972 album, Vol. 4. While it may seem a little unusual for a soul singer to be covering Sab...

The music, the announcer, and the sound of an F1 come pouring out of a soccer shuttle come together to make this an amazing short review of the Renault Espace F1, the Godzilla of minivans.After 10 yea...

In 1966 Marvel Comics published a series of "Mini-Books." They measured " by " (smaller than a standard-sized US postage stamp!) and were sold exclusively in 10-cent capsule toy vending machines acros...

Whether your home office could use an upgrade or you're looking for some new hardware at your place of work, a quality computer can make a world of difference. But before you complain that a new compu...

American politics and British royals dominate this week's tawdry tabloids, with an equal disregard for facts and a loving embrace of sensationalism.'National Enquirer'Ousted New York Governor Andrew C...

If there's anything our old, aching, millennial bones have learned lately, it's that sleep is the cure-all. But everyone knows that getting sleep and being sleepy are two different things, and if you'...

Last year Republicans held up Sweden's state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, as a paragon of common sense. They aren't crowing about Tegnell's approach any longer now that people in his country are dy...

Last year Republicans held up Sweden's state epidemiologist, Anders Tegnell, as a paragon of common sense. They aren't crowing about Tegnell's approach any longer now that people in his country are dy...

Whether you're planning a fun camping excursion or just looking to better equip your home or car in the case of an emergency, you definitely need a good flashlight on hand. Right now, the FLEXiT ...

The last few weeks, I've been entertaining my two granddaughters, a four year old and a nine year old. In trying to think of what I could do with them, I immediately thought of games. But I have very ...

Holy cow! Just the trailer to the 2021 Punky Brewster reboot, starring Soleil Moon Frye, had me in tears. The series, which was apparently well-received, has been canceled after just one season. Proba...

Brand New Cherry Flavor is a new Netflix horror series created by Lenore Zion, Nick Antosca, and stars Rosa Salazar. This mini-series takes place in sunny 1990s Los Angeles and is centered around the ...

Our Man Flint, and its sequel, In Like Flint only get better with time. Centering on former ZOWIE agent Derek Flint, as portrayed by the always amazing James Coburn, these spy movies are pure late-60...

I can't remember how bad I thought this "haunted house" dark ride would be when I clicked play. I guessed that it might be cheesy or bland, certainly. Or, conversely, that the imagery outside, already...

Roblox is just a kind of advanced Minecraft, right? No. It's a $45bn company whose cutesy world has grown into a blatant appstore full of apps and games whose developers get only a minuscule sub-25% c...

Jim Bakker, the 1980s televangelist and convicted fraudster whose flock-fleecing was exposed after he paid hush money to an employee who accused him of sexual misconduct, is back in business thanks to...

Got a great idea but nowhere to jot it down? We know you're still throwing away little shards of paper, and we're here to tell you that you're doing organization wrong. If you're not ready to make a c...

UFO Discovery is a site where you can share your sightings of unidentified flying objectsin the U.S., at leastand browse those of others. It looks like someone's plugged in classics all the way back t...

Sandra Boynton's Snuggle Puppy! and Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Red Pajama are just a couple of the kiddie book titles that rapper-dad Valentin Coronado aka @ayoboymakedthismusic performs. Hope you enj...

Earlier this month, Polygon revealed that Disney had announced plans for a new Buffy-spinoff series of YA novels, with the first one titled In Every Generation coming as soon as January 2022. Writte...

The Trussel Trust is a UK-based non-profit that supports food banks in community building. They, apparently, also hold a Potato Photographer Of The Year contest, and just announced the winners.Spud yo...

As we all get back to working full-time both in and out of the office, chances are the consensus around the water cooler (or the Zoom call) is that workflow and productivity have changed immensely. An...

Looking for something to do while we wait for everyone to get vaccinated? Well, looks like it may be a while, but you can still check out all the world has to offer outside of a crowded airplane full ...

Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer is urging residents to cut way back on water, which is now needed for the stream of Covid patients flooding the city's hospitals. "The demand for liquid oxygen is extremely hi...

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyertold residents to refrain from watering lawns or washing cars for at least a week because hospitals need so much oxygen to treat all the Covid-19 patients who arrived in the la...

In this footage from Allen Pan, we see a fencer in bizarre protective gear adopting a draw stance. It becomes apparent that the gear protects the wearer from electrical currents, as we see an arc leap...

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a young teenager.After trying countless things in the past to treat my ADHD (Adderall, Ritalin, Meditation, Coffee, etc.) I finally found something that makes a no...

The candy-colored close-up bubble shots in this video were created with just a few simple household materials: water, liquid dish soap, and glycerine. And depending on the look you're going for, invol...

If you lived in New York sometime between the 1940s and 60s, you may have walked past the legendary Moondog, also known as "The Viking of 6th Avenue. In this video, you can learn about the life of Moo...

Running for 66 years, from 1948 to 2014, Candid Camera always struck me as terrifying. Every time something started to go so wrong I couldn't believe it was real, I had to wonder if somehow I was bein...

Have you ever seen a Moon Tree? In 1971, 500 lucky seeds were taken aboard the Apollo 14 mission and into orbit around the Moon. The Command Module Pilot of Apollo 14, Stuart Roosa, took the seeds on ...

Dictionary.com's word of the day is "Jeopardy" a "noun meaning 'peril or danger.' Here it is in a sentence: 'My job is in jeopardy because of my past comments.'""Jeopardy" is a noun meaning &#...

As president, George W. Bush was proud of his brave victory in just about banishing the Taliban from Afghanistan. "…Thanks to our military, our allies, and the brave fighters of Afghanistan, the...

Squirrels are parkour masters, running on walls, leaping onto bendy branches, and recovering gracefully from missed landings. UC Berkeley researchers studied squirrels on campus to understand the fant...

Ten members of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team have been rescued and are now in Qatar. Some of the team members remain in Afghanistan and efforts are being made to get them out of the country, which has...

A walrus named Wally has been hanging around the southern and southeastern coast of Ireland lately. Apparently Wally enjoys chilling out in parked boats as seen in the video below. The problem is that...

Nissan recently imagined itself as a fun auto brand, vs the people who gave us the new Nissan Sentra, this Datsun 240Z was the absolute best example they could find to represent fun.Of all the "Z" car...

MIT and University of Twente scientists used a high-speed camera to capture the image above of a water jet barreling through a droplet. Beyond creating an astonishing photograph, the experiment is hel...

MIT and University of Twente scientists used a high-speed camera to capture the image above of a water jet barreling through a droplet. Beyond creating an astonishing photograph, the experiment is hel...

A married couple, their 1-year-old daughter, and their dog died under mysterious circumstances while hiking in Sierra National Forest in northern California. Authorities have ruled out suicide or murd...

Sitting at a table and occasionally moving chess pieces a few inches at a time turns out to be great exercise, at least if you're competing in a tournament. ESPN looked into why so many top-ranked che...

"The Internet Show" was an hourlong PBS Special from 1995 that tried to de-mystify the then-still-fresh Internet for the general public. Amongst its many useful tips is that delightful scene (around 1...

My electric bicycle is a wonderful way to get around town, run errands, and just go out and have some fun. The e-bike is also a new thing to worry over, modify, mess with, and generally obsess over. ...

Mike Richards is the executive producer of Jeopardy, and after longtime host Alex Trebek's death he did a brief stint as its host alongside actual celebrities, appealing to audiences with a creditable...

A Grimsby, England man was so "bitterly disappointed" that his family didn't spot the Loch Ness Monster during a recent trip to the elusive cryptid's beautiful Scottish Highlands home that he posted a...

Looking to create something spectacular in the kitchen? We hear you, and you should have all the best tools to make sure your guests are fed and happy, even if that just means you and the dog (Spot ha...

Chimpanzees and bonobos greet each other and also signal their goodbyes, according to a new scientific study. The animals, the researchers write, "will orient their bodies toward each other, gaze at ...

Mot's 8-Ball Pool is a perfectly minimalist Pico-8 port of early 1990 cuesports games such as 3D pool and Archer MacLean's. I played those games endlessly, so this is like returning home to find the r...

Rockets.andegraf.com is a well-organized collection of rockets and missiles developed in the 20th century, complete with color diagrams showing all the bits. It's always fun to see the UK's one-off: t...

The 1996 presidential campaign of Bob Dole was not one for the ages, but its campaign website remained live in perpetuity afterward, a glistening perfect Web 1.0 memento of a bygone age. It was redisc...

Bijijoo has painted portraits of every U.S. president from Washington to Trump holding a large ham. I immediately suspected that Trump might have actually attempted to sell hams, but all I could find ...

Arcades! Thriving long after their British (500 dedicated venues) and US (2500) counterparts retracted into the corners of retro bars and shabby beach towns, Japanese (4000!) arcades are finally "on ...

Watch as these tourists are enjoying the splendor of the Tahquamenon Falls in Luce County, Michigan. No sooner are they taking in nature's beauty as some adrenalin-junkie deer tears on to the scene be...

Nothing ruins a good workout like that heavy breather running on the treadmill behind you. And the kids watching cartoons in the living room as you're trying to deal with your work-from-home situation...

Apparently, this woman's god forbids people from covering their noses and mouths but allows them to cover their eyes and other body parts. It sounds like an interesting religion! It can't be the Holy ...

OnlyFans is the social network for hot stuff, built on the labors of the sex workers who adopted it. It effectively banned them all today to please investors and payment processors, posting an updated...

Life can be rough, and sometimes a little laugh is what we need to get us through the day. And the creative writers behind Reductress, the world's very first and only satirical women's magazine, know ...

Neil Gaiman's 2012 commencement speech at the University of the Arts (2012) is a great inspiration for creative people. Gaiman begins his speech by giving the following advice: when you start out as a...

The Zone of Death is a 50 square mile area of Idaho within Yellowstone National Park where any crime, including murder, is theoretically legal. Maybe I shouldn't be spreading the word about this, but ...

"I learned it by watching you!" is the famous line from this 1980s anti-drug PSA produced by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, a consortium of alcohol, cigarette, and pharmaceutical companies w...

Disturbing individual Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delighted her fans by declaring President Biden to be "a piece of shit."It's unclear if she meant it as a compliment or an insult, but it certa...

The film Chappaqua (1966) was written and directed by Conrad Rooks. This cult movie is based on Rooks' personal story of struggling with drug addiction. I was initially intrigued to watch this film wh...

On the excellent series The Toys That Made Us, former Mattel marketing VP Paul Cleveland explains why He-Man rides around on a giant green cat. Here's the story from Wikipedia but watching him tell it...

The Tulsa Fire Department, Police Department, and Oklahoma Emergency Rescue Service all received calls about a "body in the river." And when rescuers from the fire department paddled across the water,...

Australian actor/comedian/dancer Smac McCreanor created this fantastically ridiculous series of interpretive dances inspired by videos from the Hydraulic Press Channel and Crushing ASMR channel. In an...

Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Kevin Smith's ambitious and grown-up sequel to the Filmation's 1980s He Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon, was deemed too woke and girly by its fans desp...

Watch below as a train plows right through a semi truck blocking the tracks in Columbus Grove, Ohio a few days ago. According to HometownStations.com, "Police say initial indications are the truck's ...

In 2019, pre-Covid, National Geographic produced the dramatic Hot Zone television miniseries about a 1989 semi-accurate Ebola scare in the US (based on Richard Preston's 1994 novel of the same name). ...

Sure, it's gossip… but it's Larry David telling off Alan Dershowitz in a Martha's Vineyard grocery store! I only wish it was captured on video so someone could add the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme...

I bought the Kuhn Rikon can opener in 2011 and I still get excited every time I use it. It opens cans without leaving sharp edges. After opening hundreds of cans with it, it still never ceases to amaz...

A UK gentleman who didn't think masks had any purpose learned that they are effective against going to jail. Unfortunately, Benjamin Glynn, a self-described "sovereign, living man" against whom the l...

Hawaiian authorities busted vacationers Enzo and Daniela Dalmazzo of Miamifor attempted use of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards. Upon arrival at the airport, they showed vaccination cards for themselve...

I hope Julie Nolke stops making these videos. Not because I don't like them (I love them) but because when she stops that means the pandemic will finally be over. In this 5th installment, an August 20...

U.S. Capitol Police have issued a media alert: "This is an active bomb threat investigation. The staging area for journalists covering this situation is at Constitution and First Street, NW for your s...

Alabama's state motto is "We Dare Maintain Our Rights," and to Bama born and bred mufreedummies that means they have the God-given right to not wear a mask or get jabbed while also having the right to...

Trump approved it and Biden defended it, but on Wednesday U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason vacated permits for ConocoPhillips to build a planned oil project in Alaska that could have produced ...

"This is the greatest embarrassment in the history of our country," says Trump, introducing and summarizing this montage of humiliations he lavishly presented to the world during his days as president...

In this footage, an oral sex demon is banished by prophet Ed Citronnelli, but promptly repossesses its host's private parts. Thankfully, there is a spray for that. [via r/videos]...

Harpist Emily Hopkins acquired an Electrofoods Nepenthes [electrofoods.space], reportedly the heaviest distortion pedal in the known universe, and put it on her harp. It's not just a joke: "finding a ...

Atlas Obscura shared this family jewel about a "scrotum concealment device, developed to be worn on the human body. It was designed to hide a miniaturized escape radio, with the idea that enemy office...

There are your conclusions about the extent of the threat from foreign governments, but then there's your government's conclusions about the extent of the threat from them, you and the people you asso...

These days, it's easy to assume we know everything there is to know about the world until this terrifying Antarctic scale worm the size of a squirrel was recently brought to our attention. In other w...

AI artist dribnet developed an AI that produces remarkably beautiful (and coherent) pixel art based upon text prompts. He's established an online notebook where you can make your own. The next step, d...

"Fox & Friends" hosts sniping at each other over masks and vaccine mandates in the city of New York has the flavor of a parent using logic and calm when arguing with a cranky toddler. Steve Doocy ...

Benjamin Sack is a creator of worlds: with a simple pen as his magic wand, he creates drawings of exquisite complexity and dizzying intricacy, whose ultimate effect is quite explosive.Starting with a ...

Whether you're trying to get your startup off the ground or are revamping your online store, understanding how consumers view and understand your product is crucial. And one bad design move can cost y...

Check out this video about singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston's drawings on Cartoonist Kayfabe. In this episode, Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg take us through the bookDaniel Johnston, which is full of his vib...

The Hippie Temptation was broadcast in 1967 as part of the short-lived CBS news show Who, What, Where, When, Why. This 50-minute film paints a rather negative picture of hippies as the narrator talks ...

Almost 2 million eCommerce merchants sell on Shopify every day. That accounts for retailers in 175 countries selling more than $120 billion worth of merchandise in 2020 alone, making it one of the lar...

Scuba diver Jules Casey captured footage in July of this frilly decorator crab who, with its frozen, outstretched stance, was telling her to "Back off!" Known for adorning (aka camouflaging) themselve...

My daughter was nauseated during a long car drive, and fortunately my sister had a couple of Bonine motion sickness tablets in her purse. In a matter of minutes, the nausea dissipated, and my daughter...

I'll never pass up an opportunity to take a bullet train in Japan, but this Tokyo-Kyto overnight bus, with its private sleeping pods, looks nice. It's like a capsule hotel on wheels. And, at $63, a ti...

Mr. David Rush has a wonderful talent for scouring the Guinness Book of World Records and finding crazy achievements wherein he may usurp the title. Most recently Rush became the king of balancing rol...

Ohio police chased an "odd-looking" car going up to 135 mph, according to Cleveland.com.On July 15, police observed a black sedan with all of its windows tinted and without make or model info and no l...

Ohio police chased an "odd-looking" car going up to 135 mph, according to Cleveland.com. On July 15, police observed a black sedan with all of its windows tinted and without make or model info an...

In honor of super-spreader Donald Trump and his red-cap rally planned for this Saturday in Cullman, Alabama, The Lincoln Project has kindly aired this Monster Covid Fest ad. According to CNBC, Trump's...

Evidently, the folks at Epic, who famously created a video gaming sensation when they slapped Battle Royale into their Fortnite platform, have decided to try the same thing with the slightly newer but...

At least two U.S. officials stationed in Germany sought medical care for symptoms of Havana Syndrome, which has been attributed to a concentrated electromagnetic wave attack causing nausea, dizziness,...

This interview is fantastic. I loved the A-Team as a kid and it is in constant rotation when insomnia strikes. While I've read and re-read Mr. T's amazing autobiography, I never got much into behind-t...

Pelvic floor therapist Dr. Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, who has a doctorate in physical therapy, says peeing in the shower is a bad idea, even though a recent survey revealed that 76% percent of people like...

A moment of silence for former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, for he has suffered a great loss: part of his vast fortune was left stranded on the airport runway as he deserted his people.As Ghani made...

Commentator Jack Morris was asked by partner Matt Shepard yesterday what the Detroit Tigers' strategy should be against Los Angeles Angels' star Shohei Ohtani, who is Japanese. So Morris did what any ...

You can't even buy an Apple-silicon Macbook with more than 16GB of RAM, but Asus's new Republic of Gamers 5S Proa smartphonehas 18 of them.The phones are very similar and definitely feel like "S" mode...

Heather Cherone writes that Chicago pharmacist Tangtang Zhao is accused by the Department of Justice of selling 125 authentic CDC vaccination cards to 11 different buyers for approximately $10 per car...

NBC News reports that several school districts in Texas, banned by Gov. Greg Abbott from mandating masks to fight the increase in Covid-19 cases, are simply adding masks to their standard dress codes ...

For many of us, our understanding of some basic universal truths can be a bit limited. We're all busy people, so if your foundational knowledge of how a bill becomes a law comes from three minutes of ...

It's been more than a decade since the original 8-Bit Trip, but Rymdreglage hasn't been sleeping.Hello, finally, we are done with this video, we have been working on it for around 9 years (not full ti...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies by pre-ordering (at a lo...

Lauren Weiss, examing the New York Public Library's digital collections, compares drawings from the age before astronomical photography to NASA's finest images of celestial bodies. [via Hacker News]Of...

In what continues to be a familiar story, an individual buys a building and finds a treasure trove of artifacts in an untouched area of the building. Attorney David Whitcomb is just that individual. T...

It's a familiar trope of kid-friendly superhero stories, specifically those designed to sell action figures: a group of people (usually teenagers) are randomly gifted with super-powered uniforms (usua...

We've all seen the Moon in full glow, casting its almost blindly white light across the night sky. We've also seen Earth's most faithful companion when it's lower in the sky, when the harvest Moon see...

Sean Hannity on today's episode of "The Sean Hannity Show":How would you like to be in Kabul today, as an American, and you can't get to the airport? Where are you thinking your life is head...

There are few instances in life more nerve-wracking than those first few months as a new parent. No matter who you are or your previous life experience, the start of a new child's upbringing is bound ...

"Welcome to Nestflix. The platform for your favorite nested films and shows. Fictional movies within movies? Got 'em. Fake shows within shows? You bet. Browse our selection of over 400 stories within ...

I love browsing through The Science Fiction Dictionary on Technovelgy.com. This giant list includes 3,506 inventions from various science fiction stories and books. The inventions date back to novels ...

This video, Meditation without meditating' might be possible. Can it also be made ethical?, poses some big questions about a new technology that could induce a meditative state in the brain and potent...

As the story goes, back in the late 1800s, two brothers inherited a nice piece of Boston land from their father. But one brother took advantage while the other was serving as a soldier in the military...

Last week Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order prohibiting local governments and state agencies from mandating vaccines or masks. Today the governor's office announced that Abbott has Covi...

In 1948, a mischievous fellow named Tony Signorini made a pair of 30-pound, three-toed, lead shoes and stomped up and down a Florida beach, leaving giant bird-shaped footprints in the sand. He would r...

There are some chores that really do fall under the only-if-I-absolutely-have-to category. And for many of us, mopping and polishing hardwood or other hard surface floorings certainly falls under that...

These 3M Cool-Flow respirator masks have an exit valve that doesn't filter exhalations so they don't work as Covid masks, but I use them when I sweep, sand, spray paint, or work in a dusty area like m...

Boston Dynamics' Atlas robots doing parkour reminds me of when my kids were little and ran around the gymnastics play space at the community center, except… these are robots!!! Gasp, cheer, and ...

Dr. Suess came up with the word "nerd" in 1950 in his book If I Ran the Zoo. In this video for Storied, Dr. Erica Brozovsky looks at words created by authors, including "pandemonium" (John Milton), "...

Writer/journalist Andrew Liptak has spent years covering the nerd culture beat, and in a recent edition of his Transfer Orbit nerd culture newsletter, he uncovers a fascinating if frustrating scam roo...

In this video, a gentleman shopping in Liverpool becomes irate: "Times are hard, and friends are few! Ta-ra to fucking you!"Liverpool pro tip: you cannot deduce anything about this person from this fo...

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, natural calls for Heywood Floyd. Fortunately, there are very detailed instructions posted on how to use the Zero Gravity Toilet. (This is Kurbick, after all.) Also fortunatel...

Adults, especially young adults, were never hovering over my every move as a child, regardless of how much their advice would have really made an immense difference. Random members of an elite US anti...

Kermit Warren shined shoes at a hotel and collects scrap metal for a living. Besides serving in the Army Corps of Engineers, he is a deacon at his church and is a proud grandfather. None of that matte...

Star Wars: Visions is Disney's new animated Star Wars series featuring the work of seven different Japanese anime studios. It looks spectacular! Above is the original Japanese trailer; below is the En...

The Taliban are in charge of Kabul (Pop. 6 million) and CNN's Clarissa Ward went to the streets to interview them. At one point she was told to step aside because she's a woman. Shortly after that, Wa...

A child's birthday party at reptile center Scales and Tails in Salt Lake City took a dramatic turn when an alligator attacked a handler. As the children gathered around an enclosure to learn about the...

GOP State Sen. Andre Jacque from De Pere, Wisconsin vehemently opposes mask and vaccine mandates, but he is in favor of getting a precious hospital bed when he comes down with Covid-19.From The M...

There's an exceedingly rare superpower that some human's possess called Hsam (highly superior autobiographical memory). The University of California, Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning a...

Court: the final frontier. These are the Voyages of Blue Origins' New Shepard. A multi-fiscal period investment to take daddy into low earth orbit, speed package delivery to the ISS, and to boldly sue...

Enzo and Daniela Dalmazzowere arrested last week in Honolulu for having fake vaccine cards. That's not too surprising, given the fact that they're from Florida. The odd thing about this story is that ...

With China cryptocurrency crackdown, miners have packed up their computers and moved overseas, including to the United States. Everything is bigger in Texas, including this massive Bitcoin mine operat...

We received a gift for our young son and have elected not to deploy it. But it might be your cup of tea! Behold the Foyee Potty Training Urinal [Amazon], designed to resemble a large frog, its mouth g...

Fox mouthpiece Laura Ingraham is known for her cruelty and racist denial of US systemic racism. Like Trump, who mocked reporter Serge F. Kovaleski for a disability that affects his joints, Ingraham mo...

Even though everything in a dollar store costs a dollar, it doesn't mean you're getting a deal. The Hustle compared the cost of different items (toilet paper, deodorant, Sharpie pens, toothpaste, etc....

Designed by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu, the Singing Ringing Tree is a sound sculpture made of steel pipes that looms over fields near Burnley in England. Its song changes depending on the direction of t...

When was the last time you sharpened your kitchen knives? Did you sharpen them yourself or did you send them to be done by a professional? Odds are likely that if you can't remember the last time you ...

Jump 20 seconds into this video compilation of ambulance dashcams to avoid the obnoxious intro. All told, things shake out as you might expect. French drivers are indifferent and move only when the al...

In 1959, Marine pilot William Rankin parachuted from a malfunctioning jet into a violent thunderstorm. The ordeal that followed is almost unique in human experience. In this week's episode of the Futi...

I just spent 52 minutes of my life watching this video of trash bashing a stunning Howl's Moving Castle and I feel enriched and inspired by the experience. YouTuber Studson uses little more than plast...

SerenityOS (github) is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core", wedding the simplicity and style of Windows 9x with all the features (and security) you'd expect from a mod...

Everybody and their mother are manufacturing indoor home security cameras these days. While you'll find hundreds of brands all around similar price points, the trick is finding a model that packs in t...

These scrapers look like old-fashioned safety razor blades, but they're made of plastic and you can't shave with them. You can't cut paper with them, either. But they excel as scrapers. Put one into t...

Drone cinematographer Ellis van Jason recently returned from Venezuela where captures the breathtaking video below of a flight down the world's tallest waterfall, Angel Falls, in the jungle of Bolivar...

So, just how ergonomic are you? Sure, you probably feel like your home is tricked out for optimal working, sitting, viewing, and more, but is it really? For example, let's take laptop ergonomics....

A grim day in Scotland as parents deal with the possibility of traumatized children who might accidentally catch a drawing of a pig that bears a passing resemblance to the cartoon character Peppa Pig ...

l'Araignlphant / The spiderelephant / Slonoiga is a magical short film for kids and adults, directed by Polish animator Piotr Kamler. An intersection of animation and fine art, this 1968 film features...

An Alabama man was trapped in a lift 25 feet off the ground on Saturday while the base was engulfed in fire. He was hesitant to jump into a makeshift safety net that the fire department had created wi...

I recently got a copy of Someone Is in My House, a book of David Lynch's awe-inspiring multi-media artwork. This 300-page book came out on February 19, 2019, and features Lynch's paintings, drawings, ...

Every fan and foe of White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki knows that her number one adversary in the briefing room is Fox's Peter Doocy. Just about every week brings us popcorn-worthy entertainment a...

Found screaming incoherently in the alley outside his Yakima, Washington home, a frustrated gentleman had apparently thrown his gun into the road after his refrigerator failed to return fire. Tales of...

American Cardinal Raymond Burke used his position as a purported representative of the Christian god to convince people the world over to avoid their social obligation to get vaccinated. Apparently, h...

One trick to calming intense conversation at work, or at home, is to wait 10 seconds before responding to what the other person says. Over at Inc., Jason Aten explains that it works because it instant...

BIG BANG BIG BOOM is an animation by the artist BLU. This video uses a combination of animation and real-life footage in a unique way. A cityscape comes to life as graffiti art moves around and intera...

The Pied Piper is an incredible Czechoslovakian stop-motion film from 1986, directed by Ji Barta. The Czech title of this film is Krysa, which translates to "The Rat Catcher." Although this film is ba...

A Karen walking her dog around her apartment complex in Florida is none too pleased when she notices a Black neighbor, Ty (@_hottymale), is also walking her dog. She wants her gone. Although we miss t...

Dan Gruden's grandchildren were the first to tell him that he resembles the late Stan Lee. Now, he walks the floors of comic book conventions cosplaying as the comic legend. "I want it to be like he's...

People have told me I should shut down apps on my phone to conserve the battery charge and improve performance. But this video says the phone's operating system is designed to manage open apps to opti...

In 1988, Bay Area public radio station KPFA dedicated ten straight hours of programming to the music and career of Brian Eno. You can listen to all of "Brian Eno Day" on the Internet Archive:In a numb...

@nicholas_crown Facts. #newyorker #nyc #rich #fyp #restaurant The Hustle – Van McCoy Tiktoker Nicholas Crown shows how rich people ostentatiously order food compare to how very rich people ...

Simon Gallup, bassist for The Cure for forty years, has quit the band. "With a slightly heavy heart I am no longer a member of the Cure!" he posted to Facebook. "Good luck to them all"After a commente...

In this video, we see people that are so desperate to get out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan they are willing to risk their lives holding onto the outside of a U.S. military jet as it takes off rat...

Remember Timer of It's Time for Timer fame? I was always confused as to why this creepy-looking dude was so excited about personal hygiene and self-care. ...

I was just attacked with others pic.twitter.com/LVrtWFWFng— Lefty-Desiree McLefty Face, Antifa Paparazzi (@TinaDesireeBerg) August 14, 2021Anti-vaxers protesting against "medical tyranny" fought...

Los Angeles Police Department said monday that it suspended an officer, left unnamed, who was filmed lunging at and punching an injured and restrained suspect in the face. Police say the carjacking su...

Josh Neuman embarks on a raw run down a hill road, followed by a camera a la game. The effect is exhilarating, and the rider's skill and sangfroid are amazing, but high-quality Swiss roads and custom...

Josh Neuman embarks on a raw run down a hill road, followed by a camera a la game. The effect is exhilarating, and the rider's skill and sangfroid are amazing, but high-quality Swiss roads and custom...

There are few images more instantly evocative of the warmth and coziness of home than sitting in front of a roaring fireplace. But as with many time-honored tropes of yesteryear, modern practical conc...

Thanks to the horrifying xenomorphic nightmare known as Twitter, I just learned about the Eulagisca Gigantea, an Antarctic scale worm with a retractable mouth tube and a body lined with creepy gold br...

Tapedeck.org is the perfect website. It collects high-resolution images of analog tape cassettes and presents them neatly for your enjoyment. (As blogged here at least once before, there's also Vintag...

The personal data of more than 100 million T-Mobile users is for sale online and the company says it is investigating the claim. Joseph Cox at Vice first reported on the forum post touting the cache, ...

I reel at the knowledge that the Nokia Communicator is 25 years old. The 1996 gadget was the first that combined cellphone, built-in keyboard and a solid set of apps without being bigger than a cellph...

Elizabeth Hargraves' Wingspan [Amazon] is a boardgame where you attract rare birds to your aviary, each of the hundreds of species building out (or contracting) the habitat's appeal to others. It's a ...

Via the always-informative Maker Update comes news of a new 3D printed game controller joystick mechanism from Akaki Kuumeri. Akaki has built such devices in the past, but this one transfers all of th...

We don't have to tell you. This summer has been hot. Outrageously hot. Ridiculously hot. And while this summer may not be historically hot in the wide arching sweep of history, that's small consolatio...

Remember the 80's movie, Electric Dreams? In the film, an architect named Miles buys a personal computer, which proceeds to become sentient, name itself Edgar, fall in love with Miles' neighbor, and d...

On Friday, roleplaying game publishers, Chaosium, posted the sad news that tabletop roleplaying game designer, Steve Perrin, had left this earthly plane. He was 75 years old.Steve was one of the true ...

I was surprised by the intensity of the hallucinations that this video, Acid Trip Without Drugs! induced. To get the most out of the video, stare at the center point on a laptop screen or larger and w...

"Wormwood Star" is a short film by Curtis Harrington about the extraordinary artist and occultist, Marjorie Cameron. You can watch it here. Cameron, born in 1922, led a fascinating life. She practiced...

Im Rauch by Bohren & der Club of Gore is one of my go-to albums when I'm focused on something creative and want to listen to background music. Bohren & der Club of Gore is a German "doom jazz"...

Check out this recent interview with the legendary Lady Pink, and learn about how she played an important role in graffiti history. Lady Pink is known as the "First Lady of Graffiti". In the interview...

Taliban fighters have entered Kabul, the BBC reports, and Afghanistan's president has fled the country. A surrender is reportedly being negotiated to avoid a bloody fight for the capital. Al Arabiya r...

Chicken Nuggets are having a banner year, as I recently wrote on this very site. But with that increased popularity comes increased attention for *checks notes* K-Pop promotional partnerships? Which...

You don't understand a place unless you understand the language. Period. There's really no substitute. Without knowing the way people actually interact in that region, you'll always feel like a touris...

LifePro Fitness was founded when a pair of friends suffered ACL tears a few months apart, then suffered again through the rigors of in-home rehab with inadequate equipment and training that offered mi...

You see 'em at the mall. You see 'em at Brookstone. You always think how amazing it would be to have a really quality massage chair in your home. And we don't mean one of those cheapies with a single-...

Mike Lindell, CEO of a pillow company that seems like each pillow is maniacally stuffed with his mustache hair, promised a big evidence reveal about the 2020 elections at his embarrassing "Cyber Symp...

Two days ago, U.S. intelligence sources let it be known that that Afghanistan's government might fall in as soon as 90 days. Today the Taliban are already reportedly nearing the outskirts of Kabul, ad...

One of my favorite artists, LSD Word Peace, talks about paintings in this scene from the great docu-series, Hamilton's Pharmacopeia. In What It's Like to Make Art on DMT, we meet LSD World Peace (Joe ...

"Tommy Can't Sleep" is a far-out short film from 2019. The imagery in this film makes my thoughts run wild. The story is awesome, too It begins with a little boy named Tommy who is kept awake at nigh...

Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) is today, so don't miss out on Ed Piskor's bonus issue of Red Room. Piskor, the creator of Hip Hop Family Tree, created this special issue of Red Room (published by Fantagra...

Today, I stumbled upon this absurd commercial for "Eagle Snacks" potato chips. Most of the time, potato chip commercials make me hungry but this one had a suppressant effect on my appetite. The commer...

Sam Zeloof explains his homemade silicon chip fab process. The chips he makes are more powerful than Intel models from the 1960s, and he's leaving Moore's Law in the dust....

Mountain Goats' singer/songwriter John Darnielle has long been praised for his lyrical storytelling ability, so it wasn't a huge surprise when he finally started publishing fiction, beginning with 200...

Netflix employs big data to store, manage, and optimize terabytes of viewer data every day. AccuWeather uses it to craft its AI-powered forecasts. And Etsy utilizes big data to help leverage machine l...

I don't know who this woman is but she articulately summed up the mainstream Republican party platform in one minute:I'm from Overland Park and I'm here for the children. There's zero evidence that CO...

This new political ad by the Republican Accountability Project reveals that although Joe McCarthy is long dead, the same cannot be said about McCarthyism this time using Kevin McCarthy as its host. "...

We all know that riding a bike is never totally safe. For all the precautions a rider can take, all it takes is for a motorist to lose focus for an instant to lead to tragedy for a cyclist. And unfort...

A study of Neanderthal and Denisovan blood group sequences suggests that Neanderthals began to show evidence of low reproductive success at the point they began to share specific genetic information w...

Soheil Yasrebi's perfectly simple per.quest reads any web page to you, assuming that you're OK with a rapid robot lady voice and the website is simple enough for it to accurately detect the part that ...

For months, QAnoners and other nutty Trumpers have insisted that their man will be reinstated on August 13. That's today. You can watch the ceremony live from the US Capitol above and National Zero is...

All 21 crew members of the 39,910-ton vessel, the "Crimson Polaris," were rescued as the ship tore in half, buffeted by waves after having run aground and forcibly extracted itself.CNN:The 39,910-ton ...

My daughter buys a couple of these spiral-boundCanson Mix Media drawing pads every month for her sketches. The heavy paper easily handles ink pens, watercolor, and Copic markers, and has a nice textur...

Photographer Eric Rosenwald shot this dramatic time-lapse drone video of a thunderstorm in Tucson, Arizona on August 11th. But the stunning footage looks more like ominous B-roll that we never saw bu...

Andrea Love's one-minute video of a summer backyard barbecue features a grill with glowing coals, corn on the cob, asparagus, hot dogs, and a cooler filled with carbonated drinks, all made from felt. ...

There was news that the museum dedicated to steam-powered rocket enthusiast Evel Knievel, currently located someplace, is going to move to Las Vegas, however someone may have jumped the gun and the ne...

A Buzzfeed investigation concludes that David Mikkelson, co-founder of the fact-checking site Snopes, published plagiarized articles under a pseudonym name there for at least four years. The articles ...

Take five slices of white bread, remove the crusts, roll them flat with a rolling pin. Cut into bacon-sized strips (3 per slice). Make a sauce from a quarter-cup of soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of olive o...

For two decades, Panta Petrovic, 70, has lived in a tiny mountain cave on the Stara Planina mountain in southern Serbia. (Take a video tour of his incredible living situation below.)"I was not free in...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7 was amazing. Maul and Ahsoka's battles during the siege of Mandalore were epic. I can not resist this 147 piece set. I'm getting it just for the Maul and Ahsoka mini...

The Taliban is retaking Afghanistan faster than expected. Yesterday's fall of Kandahar means Kabul, the capital, is the only major city held by the government. The U.S. and Britain are expected to aba...

When the first ribbed condom came off the mold in 1970, the inventor field-tested it. "It really wasn't all that great," he said. In fact, nobody thinks ribbed condoms are better than unribbed ones, b...

In Peshawar, Pakistan, police captured this scary monster who apparently was creeping about scaring people during the country's Independence Day celebration last weekend. Watch the video below. The mo...

Someone paid $2500 this week for a hunk of stale wedding cake left over from the 1981 royal wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Dominic Winter Auctioneers, which sold off the, er, collectibl...

In August 2017 Phoenix police Officer Christopher Turiano shot a smokecanister at anti-Trump protestor JoshCobin, hitting him in the groin. Officers in the department celebrated the shooting by circul...

This video was recorded in-game in realistic survival shooter DayZ, and shows a server admin realizing that a player is cheating and watching him for a while before taking action. I became transfixed ...

In 2010, Wheel of Fortune contestant Nura Founteaneaux seemingly threw a round so her opponent would win. Watch the video below. Quite a classy way to share the wealth. From US Weekly:Not surprisingly...

In celebration of today, please enjoy Harry Manfedini's "Overlay of Evil/Main Title" from the score to Friday The 13th (1980).Ki ki ki, ma, ma, ma? Here's the story behind that, from Wikipedia:Since M...

Four teachers have died of Covid-19 within a 24-hour period in Broward County, Florida a state that bans mask mandates. At least three of the teachers were unvaccinated, according to CNN, and they di...

Marjorie Taylor Greene went on Real America's Voice to tell people that hospitals are overrated. "We can't live forever," she said. So why bother? The media also is also overhyping the number of ...

Who doesn't want to see the likes of Spider-Man and Iron Man rubbing shoulders with Superman and Batman? Of course, corporate interests keep Marvel and DC superheroes in competition with each other, r...

You can barely find time to get yourself to the barber or hairdresser regularly. Yet somehow, you end up feeling like a serious failure as a pet parent when your cat or dog doesn't get groomed properl...

Colin Nissan finally got a book deal for the McSweeney's essay he authored that's been bringing autumn-time laughs since *2009*! Fuck yes, "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" is now a book. ...

"THE DEAD SPEAK!" declared the opening crawl to the final film in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. While it certainly made some dramatic sense to have Emperor Palpatine...

"THE DEAD SPEAK!" declared the opening crawl to the final film in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker. While it certainly made some dramatic sense to have Emperor Palpatine...

The Washington Post reports that a team of scientists from the University of Hull in England got voyeuristic with a buncha horny hermit crabs. In a study of 40 hermit crabs from off the coast of Yorks...

UPDATE: Sadly, the Post added a correction to its story clarifying that the crabs are hungry for plastic waste, not horny for it.The Washington Post reports that a team of scientists from the Universi...

For decades, electronics customers have griped about the high cost of their precious tech marvels. Hey, nobody's willing to do without their iPhone or their trusty tablet, but nobody likes spending hu...

The last time I visited my dentist, her technician measured my blood pressure with a small cuff that fit around my wrist. The results appeared on the LCD screen within a minute. Very convenient. When ...

Without mobile power, your smartphones, tablets, and other critical devices become little more than fancy glass and metal paperweights within a matter of hours. Even though they carry that level of im...

Former Suffolk County District AttorneyTom Spota (79) was sentenced to five years in prison for "covering up the brutal police assault of a handcuffed prisoner who was accused of stealing a bag of sex...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had her hair washed and dried at Erica Kious's San Francisco salon last year. Pelosi used an independent stylist who rents a chair at Kious's salon. There were no other cust...

If anyone asks why Jen Psaki has cultivated a cult following that is unprecedented for a White House press secretary, this video from yesterday's press briefing can serve as a perfect example. The way...

I use a password manager, and that causes some websites to think I'm a bot because of how fast the username and password are entered. When that happens, the website challenges me with a CAPTCHA "Sele...

Fishdraw is a Glitch app by Lingdong Huang (previously at BB) that procedurally generates old-timey drawings of fish, complete with binomial nomenclature....

These stainless dental tools come in handier than I ever thought.If you've ever had to poke around in your kid's mouth to tighten their separator, you too may have wished for a dental mirror. I bough...

Instagram user @veggibeats has an incredible collection of mash-ups that work but really kinda seem like they should not.I particularly enjoy this Cardi B and Fleetwood Mac concoction: View th...

Who knows what was going through a Japanese mayor's head when he decided to snack on a softball player's Olympic gold medal? But that's what he did (video below) after making a crude remark to the at...

Solopist makes wonderfully surreal short TikTok films all about pay telephones. The series reminds me of 2600 magazine's "Payphones of the World" backpage photos, only less real. @solopsist There ar...

If I was as smart as Jim Bakker's audience, I would join them in buying a $1,000 "Miracle Blanket" that magically pays bills.Bakker, the convicted fraudster televangelist who was recently fined for se...

It would appear that dowsing for water is still alive and well in Northern California. Regardless of the damage created by drawing too much water out of the ground, California farmers continue to suck...

"God gave us natural immunities."At a Mike "MyPillow" Lindell event in South Dakota, an anti-vaxxer tells CNN's Donie O'Sullivan why he won't get the COVID-19 vaccine. More troublesome is the gentlema...

My old friend David Hyman is the founder of Unagi, a high-end electric scooter company that's all about the intersection of fine design and urban mobility. David is also a deep music head with a crazy...

Arnold Schwarzenegger let maskless folks know just how he felt on Tuesday when he spoke to former National Security Council staffer Alexander Vindman and CNN's Bianna Golodyraga: "Screw your free...

Legendary guitarist, astrophysicist, and photography collector Brian May has found the earliest known family photo taken at Stonehenge, from the 1860s. The image was in his own world-class collection ...

Federal investigators say a California surf instructor killed his two children on a trip to Mexico because he believed his wife possessed serpent DNA, which meant his children would grow into monsters...

"Nestflix is a wiki dressed up as a streaming platform that catalogs fictional films and tv shows inside real movies and tv shows."I only wish it were real.(via Waxy)...

This mechanical keyboard is perfect: it has less punctuation than an angry text from Cormac McCarthy and the keyswitches sound like a popcorn cooker in a tiled bathroom.flurples:specs: – switche...

Broadly speaking, glass does not do too well at resisting the charms of molten metal: "Most interesting types of glass are getting crushed here!" Car glass fails suddenly; fireproof glass fails in sty...

Broadly speaking, glass does not do too well at resisting the charms of molten metal: "Most interesting types of glass are getting crushed here!" Car glass fails suddenly; fireproof glass fails in sty...

Republican Senator Rand Paul, a prominent critic of anti-Covid measures such as masks and vaccines, admitted yesterday that his wife bought stock in a drugmaker selling a key Covid medication and that...

At this point, you probably feel like you know your dog pretty well. You've been together for a few years now, you've bonded, and you've puzzled out a few things about their undeniable personality. Do...

At the Stack Overflow blog, Ryan Donovan muses on domain names bought and paid for, perhaps with a funny project or joke in mind, but either put to not good use or left altogether fallow. For the reco...

Wonder Twins powers activate! Form of a spine-tingling collaboration! Danny Elfman's new double album Big Mess was released in June but we're just now getting this reimagined version of "True," one of...

Amos and Lionel's unique friendship at Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary in Florida from Animal_Sanctuary At the Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary, Amos the pig and Lionel the cow have dev...

"Long Covid," as many folks are calling it, is one of parts of this pandemic that I find most terrifying. Sure, some people who get COVID-19 just have to deal with a "bad cold." But others find themse...

Face masks with bendable "Baby Yoda" ears, big ears, "Scooby Doo" ears, and elf ears (and more!) are available from Kikimora Studio, a "High Fashion Circus" entertainment company in Miami, Florida. If...

Mr. Elba has, for a while now, been lusted after, fawned over, and otherwise admired. Now, it's time for him to make us feel sexually confused about a bright red echidna. This movie is really about to...

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 last...

Freelance writers are like guns for hire. If they're good, they can bag themselves a healthy, maybe even a six-figure total on their way to booking high-value gigs left and right. if they're not so gr...

Rochelle Kelley (33) is a New Hampshire school board member who opposes the requirement that students wear masks in classrooms. She thinks Covid deaths are being exaggerated and that cops who arrest h...

The nice thing about these facemasks is the cup shape that keeps the fabric from pressing against my mouth. Everyone in my family has been using these, and now that delta is rampant, we're wearing the...

If you're out braving the wilderness in the dark, whether it's hiking, spelunking, or some other rigorous activity, you really should be wearing a helmet. We don't want to sound like your mom, but whi...

Windsor.io is an AI-powered app that lets you record a single video and generate many variationsspecifically, the computer deepfakes you saying every nameand thereby pretend to give personalized servi...

Sports associations across Europe have urged the presidents of the European and International handball federations to quit, alleging they practice "blatant sexism" by insisting women athletes wear bik...

In today's web environment, it's easy to be cynical. Amid fear of breaches, hacks, and other blatant instances of outright theft on the regular, it's almost easier to assume that you will or already h...

Type The Alphabet is a simple typing game that times how fast you can… type the alphabet. To make things harder, close your eyes.The Guinness World Record for typing the alphabet is 3.37 seconds...

When live-streaming, it's probably a good idea to first know how it all works in case you run into any snags, such as wanting to turn the live recording off. But a Florida woman on American Beach just...

In Weert, The Netherlands, during the recent Torenfestival (Tower Festival), carillon musician Frank Steijns had the opportunity to play the carillon bells of Sint Martinuskerk, the gothic church buil...

Mayor Jose Manuel Rios Morales of Armenia, Colombia, posted the video message below that includes surveillance footage of an invisible force attacking one of his security guards in the Mayor's office ...

Did George Washington order troops to be vaccinated? No. Vaccination didn't exist yet, he had them inoculated — which was more dangerous, but still effective and better than dying of smallpox. L...

This new MeidasTouch video, "Biden Delivers," trolls do-nothing Donald Trump for his inability to pass an infrastructure bill, even though for four years he and his administration promised over and ov...

Matt Masters recorded anti-maskers threatening medical professionals who spoke at a school board meeting in Tennessee about the importance of wearing masks at school. The board voted in favor of makin...

OJ Simpsonthe disgraced football hero and convicted felon who was infamously acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend but later found liable for both deaths in a civil trialexplained in a re...

Senator Josh Hawley, who incited the rioters and Republican terrorists who attacked, gassed, and beat cops defending the Capitol on January 6, hoped he could make people forget his contempt for law en...

In Berlin, a Red Cross nurse is suspected of injecting saline solution instead of the COVID-19 vaccine into as many as 8,600 people in the rural district of Friesland, Germany. From Yahoo! News:While ...

Texas senator Ted Cruz energetically opposes vaccine and Covid mandates. He even introduced legislation to ban mandates. On Monday Cruz told Foix News, "That means no mask mandates regardless of your ...

In a world where we now have proprietary charcoal it is a relief to see someone is still as creative as this gentleman. ...

It looks like fallen man Rudy Giuliani's exploits in MyPillow product-pushing didn't pan out too well, as he's now peddling himself on Cameo. The website where celebrities and has-beens can make pers...

Madison "Fun Rides" Cawthorn (R-NC) wants everyone to know that "1984 is a great fiction novel to read but it seems like it is becoming the reality we are currently living under more and more each day...

GrayKey is an iPhone cracking toolkit sold to law enforcement by Grayshift, a company specializing in forensic extraction. Through public record requests, Vice obtained examples of the legal agreement...

Every headline writer has their own pun for Tomohito Okazaki's astounding short film Matches, featuring stop-motion animation executed with outstanding detail and fluidity. [via Metafilter]...

Robin, the boy wonder, is bi in a new Batman series. Though just one of many Robins, technically speaking, Tim Drake is in the latest run from DC Comics and his beau is one Bernard Dowd. The story goe...

This works better than it should. Megan Thee Stallion's "Body" as performed by a Big Mouth Billy Bass. If you enjoyed that video, its creator, Kevin Heckart, has plenty more over on TikTok. @kevinhe...

Republican Senator Rand Paul's YouTube account flatlined last night, and this morning it emerged he'd been handed a weeklong ban after posting Covid misinformation there: a claim that cloth masks are ...

According to internet lore (and various news stories) they quickly notified listeners as pumping dance anthems rolled, turning the solemn accouncement into a banging drop. @morgibabey british Radio ...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! You can reserve your copies by pre-ordering ...

In early June 2021, Business Insider reported that Substack had recruited comic scribe Nick Spencer (known for Morning Glories, the most recent volume of Amazing Spider-Man, and turning Captain Americ...

Via NASA:A dramatic triplet of galaxies takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which captures a three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies. Thi...

Tech is always growing, changing, and expanding. That's never changed. But it isn't every day a coding language comes along, grabs a hold of so many transformational disciplines, and slowly becomes on...

I borrowed a friend's gasoline-powered pressure washer to clean the mossy-covered bricks in my back yard. The machine was noisy and smelly and I had to keep refilling the tank, but I loved the results...

Next year, residents of Singapore won't need a passport to return to their home country. When they get home, all travelers will have to do is submit to a quick facial, retinal, or fingerprint scan and...

On December 16th of 1997, 685 children across Japan were rushed to the hospital due to "Pokmon Shock." The 38th episode of the Pokmon anime contained flashing visuals that caused many kids to suffer p...

A goldendoodle named Sparky Peanutbutter caught the zoomies during a backyard party in New Jersey, leading to quite a performance. He sped around from one end of the yard to the other, springing off f...

In 1971, "DB Cooper" hijacked a plane from Portland, Oregon and eventually parachuted into the Pacific Northwest wilderness with $200,000 strapped to his body. He was never seen again. The DB Cooper t...

It looks like this cobra was planning to crawl into a box when it was surprised to see a cat in it. The cat defended its turf admirably, batting the cobra with lightning-fast paw swipes. After a few s...

In this fascinating video below, learn about the biology of beach bees! Bumble bee mimicking Digger Bees (Anthophora bomboides stanfordiana) are beach bums, hanging out on the sands of Northern Califo...

Please excuse me for liking 1960s bubblegum pop, but I'd like to share this 1968 Osmonds song with other people who share my questionable musical taste. It's called "Groove With What You Got" and appe...

Andrew Cuomo, accused of sexual misconduct in a blistering report published by his own Attorney General, today resigned as governor of New York. In a speech broadcast at midday, Cuomo said he was ofte...

A 51-year-old gentleman crashed his Chevy Silverado through a Michigan Farmers Insurance agency yesterday, causing extensive damage not only to Farmers, but to the Chinese restaurant next door. Fortun...

"Earth is under attack.And the threat is very blurry."Steven Jass and Peter Henningsen reprogrammed Space Invaders so your goal is to defend Earth against the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena seen in the...

The West Chester trademark horcrux has been sufficiently reassembled (or avoided1) to permit the A500 Mini, which joins the ranks of 8- and 16-bit era systems to get the classic console treatment. It'...

COVID, unlike this gentleman, is no joke. COVID-denier in Georgia has a public meltdown pic.twitter.com/JbKxiL3IfX— Marjorie Gaylor Queen (@Tim_Tweeted) August 9, 2021Demanding people remove the...

Someone mailed a letter to Utah Governor Spencer Cox demanding that he change his "foul, dirty, and obscene" surname. Us decent people here in Utah will not stand for it. The honorable Republican part...

A bear entered Ralph's supermarket in the Los Angeles suburb of Porter Ranch, and was allegedly recorded by actress Tisha Campbell who claims to have been shopping there at the time. View this...

This looked like an absolutely beautiful car.The discussions in the Reddit comments on what 'went wrong' are great in the schools of mechanical analysis, physics, and metacognition. ...

[The following is from my newsletter, The Magnet. You can subscribe here.]Last year I started using a Windows PC after being a long-time Mac user. Originally, I planned to stop using my Mac, but a fon...

"Who are these people?" asks the narrator. "Where are they from?" Meet "The Hillbillies of Beverly Hills" in this unaired pilot for the classic sitcom that aired from 1962 to 1971! From A Room In The ...

Let's hope pathological liar, insurrectionist, and alleged sex pest Madison "Fun Rides" Cawthorn (R-NC) isn't so stupid that he thinks private citizen Barack Obama having a party with vaccinated frien...

Jeffrey Elliot and Robby Cook's The Complete Guide to Sushi and Sashimi is a fantastic, step-by-step guide to making, you guessed it, sushi and sashimi.After amassing so many books it should have been...

In this video, recorded outside a grocery store in Oregon, a man is filmed yelling at another shopper, apparently because of an "Abolish ICE" sticker on her car that displeased him. As the frightened ...

On May 12, 1983, an epic battle was waged between the casts of Gilligan's Island and Batman.They faced off on the Family Feud.Lee Merriweather, Yvonne Craig, and Vincent Price joined Adam West and Bu...

A TikToker pranks her two German shepherds by using pup-friendly words while on a fake phone call last week's TikTok trend and their synchronized head tilts are both hilarious and show just how smar...

Smirking conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was given a weeklong suspension this morning by Twitter after posting another round of Covid misinformation and anti-vaxx conspiracy theorie...

This year's Siggraph conference exhibition is virtual, running August 10-13, with many wonders to look forward to. Above, an official conference overview. See also Theodore Kim's presentation on antir...

Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, is suing Britain's Prince Andrew over his alleged role in her abuse. She was made to perform sex acts for Andrew at ...

Digital art can lead to some amazing creations. And with the powers of the computer, you don't even really have to be an artist to create some pretty fantastic pieces. Of course, if you do have some a...

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

There are some eternal questions that have kept mankind engaged in philosophical rumination for millennia. Questions like, why are we here? What is consciousness? Is there free will or are all of our ...

If you're going to trust a program to serve as your critical antivirus shield against all the evils out there on the web (and you definitely need to trust somebody), it never hurts to bet on experienc...

An emotional mob of anti-vaxxers in London tries to storm the BBC to protest Covid vaccine passports but are at the wrong location. The BBC hasn't been in the building since 2013. The confused bunch ...

TheBissell Zing Canister(model 2156A) was inexpensive and it exceeded my expectations. It is bagless, quieter than any other vacuum cleaner I've owned, and has powerful suction. It's great for hardwoo...

Unwanted on-field intruders never seem to remember that in just about every instance the rogue runner gets destroyed before their dash is over. Maybe that's exactly what defines them as thick-headed. ...

Markie Post was in everything in the 1980's, from Hart to Hart to the Incredible Hulk to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Eventually she became known for being a regular fixture on The Fall Guy for th...

Exposing young folks to COVID could really end up screwing them long-term. Aside from, what we hope to be, shorter-term symptoms of brain fog or other cognitive deficiencies lost confidence, and fall...

Nathan Martin caught this freaky fish with human teeth off Jeanette's Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina. According to the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, Sheepshead fish like this one "ha...

A light rail train hit and killed Pablo Tiquiram Us, 29, and Jose Chilambalam Tiquiram Us, 20, in Charlotte, North Carolina last week. The two men were walking along the tracks while conducting a memo...

Watchfinder & Co. got its hands on a fake Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 and compared it with a genuine one costing 100 times as much. It's difficult to tell the difference! As the narrator points o...

Roberta Kaplan is the chairperson of Time's Up, the Me Too-era charity that raises money to support victims of sexual harassment. But Roberta Kaplan is also closely tied to New York Governer Andrew Cu...

Years ago, on a special edition DVD, I first saw this awesome alternate opening to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. This 'documentary' released by the Banzai Institute helpe...

Beyond all the diehard UFO believers, conspiracy kooks, and capital "S" skeptics, there is an invisible college of scientists who do see the value in looking at the UFO phenomenon through a scientific...

Van Halen goes country! Found on Laughing Squid, this seamless hybrid of Van Halen's "Jump" with Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin' Heart" is absolutely perfect. In fact, it becomes a song of its very own,...

Sounds like the cops have quite a nice organized crime operation going in Philadephia. They are towing cars from legally parked spots and placing them in spots where it's not legal to park them. Then ...

When some bottlenose dolphins are hunting their dinner, they use their tails to stir up the mud on the seafloor to construct a circular jail to trap their prey. See them do it in the video below. Scie...

If you think Trump is losing steam, well, he's not if you believe the RNC's Ronna McDaniel. Even though Donald Trump was only a one-term president, losing to Biden by 7 million nationwide votes and 74...

Night Flight was a multi-hour block of television programming on USA Network that ran on weekends into the early hours of the morning. I was in college when it was in its heyday, and my friends and I ...

When National Lampoon's Animal House was released in 1978, my big brother convinced our parents to take us to to see it. My brotherknowing what to expectinsisted that we sit across the theater from o...

Are you a researcher working in Counterfeit Consciousness? It's the hottest area in computer science! Perhaps Manufactured Acumen, as they call it. Or Synthetic Perspicacity? Whatever it is, don't cal...

I was pet sitting this weekend and looking for something to do. There has been so much hype around The Suicide Squad that I figured it was a good way to burn a couple of hours. Everything you want to ...

It's certainly sad that artist Yayoi Kusama's "Yellow Pumpkin" sculpture was washed to sea during a typhoon on Naoshima island in Japan yesterday. But the Instagram video showing the pumping rolling i...

I find watching the Lockpicking Lawyer pretty soothing and fun. You know what is going to happen, you are probably going to hear about a tool he made with Bosnian Bill, and then the lock comes open.Th...

I do not know how many years it has been since I've heard The Call.I remembered every beat of this song, however....

Officers John Haubert and Francine Martinez of Aurora, Colo., were charged respectively with felony assault and misdemeanors related to her alleged complicity after their bodycams filmed Haubert beati...

The importance of proper italicized word placement. pic.twitter.com/fQT5AuYn5W— C.S. Ratliff (@cs_ratliff) August 5, 2021Author C.S. Ratliff shows how the sentence "I never said we should kill h...

A judge ruled that Florida can't ban the 'vaccine passport' program set up by a cruise line to keep the infected off its ships. Reuters reports that U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that th...

With all the devices we're carting around these days, a reliable, durable, fast power bank is practically essential to keep them running. Considering their place as one of the premier names in smartph...

Jolyon Ralph created a guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft: "Have you ever wondered how similar the Minecraft resources are to rocks and minerals in the real world? Let's find out!" "Wait," I...

A United Nations climate report warns that the heatwaves, droughts and flooding seen worldwide will only become more extreme and that action is required immediately to prevent climate catastrophy. It ...

Over the weekend, one of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's alleged victims spoke to CBS News, describing an escalating pattern of manhandling, forced kisses and ultimately sexual assault. Cuomo's top a...

No Many's Sky was an eagerly-awaited, initially-disappointing and ultimately astounding space exploration game. Norman's Sky was an ultra low-res pastiche released by nothke before its original launch...

Three people were injured at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee last Monday after a chunk of an iceberg replica fall on them. The 15-by-28-foot ice wall consisted of real ice, grown and reg...

"Never stop learning because life never stops teaching." We can throw quotes at you until we're all blue in the face, but we only do it because they're true. Henry Ford said learning keeps you young, ...

I love when Spacedock poses questions about science fiction universes that most of us have never bothered to ask (like Why does every ship in sci-fi have its guns on backwards?). In this video, they a...

If you never hear word of Bitcoin ever again, it'll be too soon. But here's the thing. While the merits of cryptocurrency, as well as its long-term prognosis, may vary, you won't find many tech expert...

Check out this experimental video that Kurt Cobain and his friends made when they were teenagers. The video is 7 minutes and 28 seconds long. The college of footage combines music by (the) Melvins, ho...

I'm totally blown away by the talent in The First Time Amateur Clog Dancing Film – 1965. These performers had me fully captivated throughout the entire film – I'd do anything to go back in...

Among my earliest memories of using a computer are when I played with "Kid Pix" (a digital art program for kids) in my elementary school library. Craig Hickman created Kid Pix for Macs in 1989. This c...

Spiritual teacher and pacifist Peace Pilgrim was born with the name Mildred Lisette Norman in 1908. She dedicated her life to spreading a simple message: peace on Earth.She became the first woman to w...

In the 1970s, the United Kingdom was going through a period of political and social turmoil. This period of unrest gave birth to the agitprop art of the punk-anarchist collective Crass.The Art Of Punk...

For every Terminator movie documenting every step in how technology is destroying our world and the human race, there's a real-life piece of tech making someone's life better in a little, yet demonstr...

Move over, Dogecoin there's a new pop culture gimmick crypto in town: the Middle Earth-inspired JRR Token. Why a Tolkien cryptocurrency? How much is it worth? "Saruman was trying to unify Middle Eart...

Whether you want to sit back and immerse yourself in music or lean in and fully engage with a video game world, one place you don't want to cut corners is with your headphones. Even in a realm where c...

Right now, there are an estimated 1.4 million computer-related job openings in the U.S, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. But even if the nation filled those positions with all the holders of...

Trump's Save America PAC this week sent out emails to the boobs who still follow him, asking them to pick their favorite between these four awful membership card designs. The top right one misspells "...

The Guardian reports that Yakei, a female macaque who lives on the nature reserve on the island of Kyushu, kicked a bunch of ass and established herself as the new official "alpha" of her troop.Yakei'...

To see the Presidential portraits of Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama I thought I would have to go to Washington D.C. Not that I had contemplated traveling there just to see these historic p...

If you're interested in hearing compelling, first-hand experiences about drugs, check out the podcast Psychotropic: Where Life and Drugs Intersect. On each episode of Psychotropic, someone is intervie...

Black Mountain College: A Thumbnail Sketch is a 13-minute documentary about a legendary, experimental college founded by John Andrew Rice along with a few others in 1933. The college was located in th...

Crafting your own music used to mean picking up an instrument, learning some chords, and noodling away until you stumbled across some element of your playing that you liked. Soon, you might have an el...

I love that during this free concert for the patients at the Napa State Psychiatric Hospital, people were having a great time jumping up on stage to sing and dance with The Cramps. Early in the perfor...

Andr Guignard's Dpraz mouse was Logitech's breakthrough hit, a three-buttoned hemispherical ergonomic pain dome. But the forty-year-old clicker has its aficionados, and John Floren has published detai...

Presumably sparked by the person welding the vehicle's undercarriage, the roaring blaze inside it is spotted only when an eighth worker enters the garage. But it's not because of any failure on their ...

To the tradition of "would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?" add "would you rather fly a plane with one horse-sized engine or 50 duckling-sized engines?"...

While it's hard to ever say a global pandemic has a silver lining, the upside of 2020 for millions of trapped-at-home employees was discovering the real benefits of working remotely.According to resea...

A look at your credit card and bank statements each month is enough to induce a headache every time. We all know we pay through the nose every 30 days for all sorts of recurring services, but when the...

I can't get enough of these clever covers by Max Frost. Last round, he imagined "Pink Floyd" covering a Billie Eilish hit. Now he's got the Gorillaz covering Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" in the st...

Back in 1986, video game developer Kazuhisa Hashimoto knew how frustrated players were playing his difficult new game Gradius. Hoping players could just enjoy the game and stop worrying so much about ...

The dismal Westboro Baptist Church folk in Bonner Springs, Kansas protested the Foo Fighters yesterday, who were set to play later that night. But as the church-goers staggered around a field holding ...

You probably didn't think about it as a kid, but once you become an adult, it eventually becomes a question that keeps you up at night. "How do I make sure everything I've worked for stays mine?"Many ...

If you've never seen an ADABOX from our friends at Adafruit Industries, they are beautifully-curated, themed electronics project kits (centered around a microcontroller or other piece of Adafruit hard...

In the spring of 1973, I was 15 years old. Musically, I was starting to venture beyond mainstream rock, pop, and soul. But not much beyond middle of the road music made its way to the sleepy tobacco t...

CNN fired three employees who disregarded the company's Covid vaccine honor system and entered the office building unvaccinated. (Clearly, relying on the honor system in an era of confused science-den...

From CNet:Researchers led by Guilherme Gainett from the University of Wisconsin-Madison first sequenced the genome of Phalangium opilio (technically not a spider but a close relative), thoug...

As police investigated a rash of package thefts and stolen cars in Boulder County, Colorado, they found clues in the form of unicorn figurines, books, and drawings left at crime scenes. According to p...

Maxwell Berry, the Frontier Airlines passenger who allegedly groped and punched members of a flight crew, resulting in him being duct-taped to his seat to prevent him from attacking again, changed his...

This cave lion cub died 28,000 years ago. Nicknamed Sparta, the animal was preserved in permafrost and, according to scientists, "is probably the best preserved Ice Age animal ever found, and is more ...

As I watched this video of Frontier Airlines flight attendant Alfredo Rivera animatedly describe how he tied up belligerent passenger Maxwell Berry with duct tape, I kept thinking to myself "please le...

One big question for Olympic divers is not how they manage such incredible feats of airborne acrobatics but rather how they make such minimal splashes when they hit the water. In the video below, Team...

Set in 2032, Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an anime TV series premiering this fall (November?) on Adult Swim (English) and Crunchroll (Japanese). But today they are teasing us with the show's opening s...

Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow and a conspiracy fabulist, claims that China hacked voting machines in every state to make it seem as though Donald Trump lost the election.CNN consulted with a d...

It's been a minute, but Stranger Things will return in 2022 with its fourth season. Below is the new teaser trailer. Here's what David Harbour (Chief Jim Hopper) said about the Stranger Things 4 last ...

From the Ant Lab, absolutely breathtaking video below of seven moths collected in Cornish, New Hampshire. No moths were injured in the recording of these clips, captured at 6,000 frames per second. In...

A cheering Alabama audience witnessed Qanon rep Marjorie Taylor Greene's growing disconnect from reality in a speech that claimed Anthony Fauci hired China to build Covid-19. Let me tell you something...

United today joined Google, Disney, Facebook and Walmart among those companies requiring employees to receive Covid vaccination. It's the first airline to do so, reports CNN, and the mandate applies t...

Shoppers who don't go through milk quickly know to grab a bottle from the back of the fridge at the store. In a bodega or corner shop it might be a week fresher. Vacuum-sealed cigars, though? I assume...

Congratulation to Elizabeth Holmes! The founder of Theranos, the scandal-plagued blood-testing start-up that had briefly made her a billionaire before the company spectacularly crashed and burned, had...

Instagram will ban accounts on demand, reports Vice, so long as you are willing to lie. Scammers charge $60 for the "censorship" service, which depends on the company's hair-trigger reaction to claims...

As the Delta variant of Covid surges in Colorado, the city of Denver instituted mandatory vaccinations for city workers to prevent the spread of the disease. Denver's police union says that police wil...

When I started learning the Irish language, I was quickly blown away by how simple and logical it was. Which sounds weird, because you frequently encounter words like "chomharthaochta" and "admhlacha...

MTV turns 40 this week! Remember back when it was cool? Well, here's the first two hours of broadcast (minus a couple of copyright takedowns) to jog your memory. It begins with, of course, "Video Kill...

Charging your devices should be simple. You plug your device in, it drinks up enough power to replenish its battery, then you move on. Unfortunately, there are occasionally some hiccups in the process...

We already know that most business data is now kept in the cloud, as much as 85 percent by some current estimates.But while the advantages of a cloud-based business are obvious, many home users are al...

Apple will scan iPhones for known sexually explicit images of children and for messages to children that contain sexually explicit language. The move pleases child protection groups, but the privacy r...

How do you reach dozens, hundreds, or even thousands without leaving your home or office? Well, there are always avenues like advertising. Of course, 30 seconds of television time isn't cheap, let alo...

Giraffes have been misunderstood, reports Katie Hunt, and have social lives as deep as elephants. Far from the aloof and preening creatures of past understanding, they have cooperative social systems,...

Scientists in Japan developed a method to freeze dry mouse sperm on sheets of specially-prepared paper. The sheets are stored in a "sperm book" and the samples could then be removed and attached to a ...

Taking a trip to the weird and wonderful restaurant Casa Bonita is one of my favorite things to do in Colorado. The restaurant has an interesting mix of attractions inside such as cave divers that jum...

Good news for MAGA folk! The ex-president will be back before 2021! At least that's what one fellow Trump fan insists. The news bulletin (video below) was announced when prankster Jason Selvig (of the...

I have always wondered why the fine vendors selling balloons of nitrous outside of a Dead Show or other 'festival' never seem to have problems with the man. This scantily clad gent shows us how to fla...

If you've been wanting to upgrade your kitchen with new gadgets, storage solutions, and cooking utensils, now's the time. That's because all of these items are marked down for a limited time for ...

A meta-analysis conducted by researchers at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain estimates the "prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population at 4.5%." The rate is higher in mal...

With slogans like 'Don't Fauci my Florida' powering Ron DeSantis re-election campaign, Floridians are being hospitalized by the delta variant in record numbers. Some local governments and school distr...

In the video below, watch Billie Eilish and Finneas's stunningly beautiful performance of the 1935 pop standard "I'm in the Mood for Love" for BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge. The song has been recorded by ...

Little is known about the recently discovered Covid-19 Delta Plus variant, but the mutation "could make [Delta Plus] even more infectious than Deltaand Delta is alreadyhighly adept at infecting people...

This beautiful puppy is learning to chill at a very early age....

A playful mama bobcat romps around with her cub on the roof of a Phoenix, Arizona couple's home as they record her. But once she notices she's being watched, she turns the tables and, walking towards ...

Yoda's speech pattern has been much analyzed, but YouTube channel Chewie's Meme Town offers the Grandmaster's speech in a more normal form. It kinda freaks me out.The Atlantic did a deep dive on Yoda'...

SpaceX is seeking a "spaceport mixologist" to tend bar at its Brownsville, Texas launch site. From the job description:We are looking for a passionate, experienced bartender looking to join our culina...

Staff at Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve posted this remarkable video of a UFO, disguised as an island, hovering over the water. Of course, they'd have us believe that this is an aston...

Donald Trump emailed his supporters yesterday asking them to give what little money they still have to buy plastic cards with his name on them."The card you select will be carried by Patriots all arou...

It looks like Halloween in front of one house in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Looming over the sidewalk on the front lawn stands a gigantic skeleton with a sign around its neck that reads, "Not v...

In 1983, Rod Temperton wrote the song "Starlight" for Michael Jackson forthcoming album. Producer Quincy Jones determined that the song would be a great title track but "Starlight" didn't cut it as an...

While Mike Pompeo was serving as Secretary of State, the government of Japan presented him with a bottle of expensive whiskey.The State Department is investigating what happened to it. Pompeo's lawyer...

A Youtuber compares a very, very expensive Dyson fan against a very cheap one. If you want to move air, and not spend money, the cheap fan is a winner.I have a house full of Vornado fans, I prefer the...

New Zealand granted entry to billionaire co-founder of Google Larry Page, despite the border being closed, and New Zealand's opposition ACT Party is seeing it as an opportunity to criticize the prime ...

The Ever Given has finally arrived at Felixstowe, England, ending a much-extended journey that involved a week wedged in the Suez Canal, causing billions of dollars of pain to international shipping, ...

The Associated Press reports that a federal magistrate has ordered lawyers who posed "baseless conspiracy theories" about the 2020 election to pay their targets' legal fees."The lawsuit put into or re...

CVS upping its base pay to $15 an hour is a milestone because it employs 300,000 people and puts pressure on other small-store retailers (such as Walgreens-Boots) to follow suit. A scan of the top 10 ...

Nathan Nash, 38, was fired from his job as a police officer in Spokane, Washington, after being charged with sexual assault in 2019. He was arrested Wednesday in connection with another alleged rape.B...

A wireless charger can make just about anyone's life so much easier. Whether you're looking for a wireless charger for your watch or a dock that can tackle a few of your gadgets at once, there ar...

Sequoioideae, giant redwoods, are native to the western U.S. But many have been planted in the U.K. over the years, and some are thriving! Redwood World maintains a database of the few but increasingl...

"We Live In a Golden Age of Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets" touts a recent headline in the Wall Street Journal. The article cites new research from NielsenIQ that shows frozen chicken nugget sales up nearly...

Many of the horses in the equestrian jumping course at the Olympics in Tokyo make a sharp turn going into the 10th obstacle and stop short of jumping. The popular theory is that the horses get scared ...

You can buy gifts for your bae. You can buy gifts for your mom and dad. You can even buy gifts for your kids. But there's something different you feel when you buy something fun and new for your pet.&...

If you're a gamer, there's little that gets you more excited than new gear. Stepping up to a new controller or a new headset can literally change the entire experience of playing every game on your sh...

In Monrovia, California, Margaret Holzmann was recently suffering from a fever, headache, and fatigue, so she smartly got a COVID-19 test. The test was negative but she was still feeling ill weeks lat...

Your home Wi-Fi router is your conduit to the outside world. It's your portal to the internet, your connection to streaming content, and more and more often lately, your best means of seeing faraway f...

In 1913, Albert Marr found an orphaned baboon on his family form near Pretoria, South Africa. Marr named his new friend "Jackie" and the two became inseparable. When Marr joined the 3rd South African ...

In 1979 this young woman was interviewed at work about her thoughts on an office robot named Egor that delivered mail around the building throughout the day. When the woman was asked "How do you feel ...

This fellow intentionally spilled water on a restaurant floor as part of a clever plan to con a restaurant into giving him a slip and fall settlement. But his scam was caught on camera, and instead of...

Kerith is the golden retriever therapy dog seen in the video below comforting an exhausted firefighter on break from battling Northern California's Dixie fire the largest in the state. The fire has s...

In 2017 Joshua Spriestersbach fell asleep on a sidewalk while waiting for a meal outside a Honolulu homeless shelter. A cop found him and thought he was Thomas Castleberry, wanted on a 2006 drug. Spri...

Press Secretary Jen Psaki managed to both laugh at Fox "News" reporter Peter Doocy and crush Donald Trump and his unethical pressuring of the Justice Department with just one line and a straight face....

After 20 years of use, the Russian space station docking module Pirs fell to Earth on July 26 in a fantastic fiery show captured on video by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet who had a terrific view fr...

In Weber County, Utah, sheriffs are warning people to stop climbing high-voltage power towers and chilling out in hammocks hung from the structure. The view may be shockingly good but it's apparently ...

Jakob Emerson, a TV reporter for Springfield, Illinois' WICS ABC 20, was doing a live standup at a Lake Springfield dock but didn't immediately realize that a pick-up truck was sinking just behind him...

Oregon's reputedly once-favorite beer will be discontinued. Oregon Live:Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve, once the pride of Northwest beer drinkers and hailed by many as Oregon's first craft beer, is ...

Five freedom-loving gentlemen from New Jersey were ordered off Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale to their beloved Garden State because they didn't want to wear masks. Two of the group member...

Sculptor Leonardo Ugolini made this incredible timelapse video of his carving a Millenium Falcon out of sand. @sandsculptor Millennium Falcon STAR WARS #starwars#millenniumfalcon#ifcreativeagency#le...

I was alive for 8 months before the M*A*S*H TV show first aired, I probably I spent them watching Felix the Cat.While most often filled with sarcasm and humor, the drama and touching moments of M*A*S*...

The Vagina Museum was founded in the UK in 2017 as the "world's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy" (the project was largely inspired as a reaction to th...

In a state that is seeing "alarming outbreaks" of Covid-19 and that recorded 2,343 new cases just yesterday, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson now says he "regrets" his decision to ban statewide school mas...

Wonder where we got the sexagesimal system? 60 seconds seems awful unwieldy in our world of base 10. It's the Sumerians. Someone on Reddit's ELI5 forum asked:"Why do we hit a limit of 60 for seconds a...

Awwwwww.View post on imgur.comTh hiso head reminds me a bit of Red Skull, his tuxedo is awesome....

I've been experimenting lately with setting up a keyboard-only computer (a Pi Zero at the terminal and running i3-gaps, specifically) with a mind to making a more productive writering machine. Felipe ...

Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is famously thin-skinned: to insult him in even the most light-hearted way is to risk being sued by him. But there is a purpose to his constant stream of legal actio...

At Slate, Dan Kois offers a brief history of Segway, the ingenious but too-hyped and too-dorky electric ride that became a joke upon its release. Twenty years on the current owner of the brand is a Ch...

After her death, Ursula K. Le Guin's blog eventually went offline. But it's now back and now stands as a remarkable memoir, embarked upon by the the illustrious author at 81 years old. [ursulakleguin....

This dashcam footage shows no accident or crash, but it does offer a reason why such incidents are more likely in Australia. ...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! You can reserve your copies by pre-ordering ...

In Cut Piece (1964), one of Yoko Ono's early performances, she sits alone on a stage with a stoic expression on her face. There is a pair of scissors lying in front of her. The audience was informed t...

This is the look of someone having a wonderful time. Rosario Dawson put on a Togrutan head-tail cap and had a blast, taking a break from filming some other project about Manhattan as a DMZ but without...

My daughter and I have been watching Disney+ fantastic histories of Disney's most famous rides and features. The show is wonderful.Episodes on the Jungle Cruise, Haunted Mansion, Star Tours, Space Mou...

In an Axios/Ipsos poll regarding who is responsible for this new Covid wave, the expected sides laid the perfunctory blame at the feet of others. Vaccinated people mostly blame the unvaccinated as wel...

In this homespun Covid-vaccine PSA, political commentator Leigh McGowan, aka Politics Girl, holds back her usual disdain of Qnut ignorance by appealing to the idea of working together to beat this "de...

Several visitors to the Titanic museum attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee were injured when a model iceberg collapsed yesterday. From the New York Post:"Our iceberg wall collapsed and injured 3 gue...

Mushroom expert Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, is part of a new NASA-funded study on "astromycology," how fungi could be used in space as building mat...

Thispotholderfrom OXO is a padded fabric envelope with a knobby silicone sheet on one side, Nothing can slip from its grip. I even use it to open stubborn jar lids....

Twenty-five years ago today, the Bayside Boys remix of Los Ro's "Macarena" (1993), with English lyrics added, hit number one on the Billboard music charts. Wedding DJs never recovered. From Wikipedia:...

A new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet found that "People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting symptoms, exhibited significant cognitive deficits...

This 5-minute video explains the meaning of credit card numbers. They aren't just random, and the final digit is a check digit that makes it possible to determine if a credit card number is invalid wi...

Samantha Ramsdell, 31, has one of the largest mouths in the world. With a height when open of 6.52 centimeters, she landed a Guinness Record for the "largest mouth gape (female)." Measured across, her...

A report by New York's Attorney General concludes that Governor Andrew Cuomo is a serial sex harasser who violated state and federal law and retaliated against at least one woman who complained about ...

Last week, the Cleveland Indians baseball team finally changed their name. Problem is, that name has been used for almost a decade by a roller derby team and they even own the domain clevelandguardian...

With five minutes left in the Olympic women's hockey match between Argentina and Spain, Agrentine TV network TyC cut to a perplexing shot of a different sort of actiona cockroach wandering around the ...

A free climber who spent 12 weeks in prison for scaling London's Shard building (the tallest in the UK) last year was at it again Tuesday morning. Protesting climate change, 21-year-old George King-Th...

A new Axios-Ipsospoll reveals that people who aren't vaccinated say the rise in Covid cases is the fault of "Foreigners traveling to the U.S." (37%), "Mainstream media" (27%), "Americans traveling int...

A range of indoor activities in New York City will require proof of vaccination. It's part of the city's effort to encourage vaccinations and reduce COVID-19 delta, the predominant strain in the city ...

If you have a Facebook account and someone hacks it and locks you out, you need to upload a driver's license or another official form of ID for Facebook to review. But people who have used Facebook's ...

A belligerent gentleman caused such a scene on a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Miami, flight attendants were forced to duct tape him to his seat.The Ohio passenger, 22-year-old Maxwell...

A belligerent gentleman caused such a scene on a Frontier Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Miami, flight attendants were forced to duct tape him to his seat (video below).The Ohio passenger, 22-ye...

Peter Feaman is a top Republican official in Florida and has a blog where he describes vaccination as "the mark of the beast" and compares the effort to vaccinate people against Covid to Nazi brownshi...

South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted yesterday that he has Covid and credited the mildness of his symptoms to having gotten vaccinated. The origin of the infection is likely to be a party...

Peppa's Adventures: The Album is not the four-eyed piglet's first outing, but it is the first to be reviewed by Pitchfork.On My First Album, Peppa made a careful study of Brian Wilson's sunny melodies...

All customers and staff must be masked in its restaurants, McDonalds confirmed Tuesday, making it one of the largest employers to restore mask mandates after an explosion in Covid cases caused by the ...

From a recent story in the MIT Technology Review, focusing on carbon emissions in the West Coast of the United States: Together, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington saw fossil-fuel emissions dec...

Five years ago, there was a massive uptick in clown-related crime alerts. Was it just people generally being scared of clowns? Or had the Joker finally succeeded in his 80-year-long schemes? The answe...

In a new pre-publication scientific paper posted on July 28, 2021, researchers at Google say they have used quantum computing to demonstrate the "novel dynamical phases" of what's known as a discrete ...

According to travel news website Live and Let's Fly, Spirit Airlines canceled at least 277 flights today, representing 36% of its schedule according toFlightAware data. 159 flights have been delayed, ...

Staying home for birthdays, date nights, or just a regular Thursday used to be boring, but by tweaking your surroundings, just a little bit, you'd be surprised at how different your space can feel, ev...

A visitor at a zoo in Indonesia accidentally dropped her sunglasses inside the orangutan enclosure, but they didn't go to waste. Remarkably, a curious orangutan picked them up and slipped them right o...

This five-minute video of Cheese Rolling Day May 31, 1982 features footage of people haphazardly rolling and leaping down a steep hill, in hopes to catch a wheel of Double Gloucester, which is tumblin...

This five-minute video of Cheese Rolling Day May 31, 1982 features footage of people haphazardly rolling and leaping down a steep hill, in hopes to catch a wheel of Double Gloucester, which is tumblin...

According to u/moskayjoh this gentleman wanted to teach this supermarket a lesson for denying to serve his maskless wife. So he chopped up the checkout area with a hatchet. That'll learn 'em!I wonder ...

Whether you work from home, are a gamer, or simply own a smart gadget or two, finding enough outlets to plug everything into feels a lot like hunting for the world's hottest toy at Christmas time. In ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a kick-ass government agency. Supplying us with critical weather information, and occasionally humorous tweets. The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer ca...

Plunging a clogged toilet is hard work, but it's a lot easier when you have a horizontal grip. The Liquid-Plumr plunger has a grip that allows you to push down with a lot more force than a simple pole...

The driver of this truck was either desperate or foolhardy when he drove his truck across a flooded road. At the end, it looks like the truck simply gave up and flopped over for a little nap. Click t...

Samulin Matkassa reports that these brown bears got to fighting Kuhmo, Finland.The rules seem simple, if bears want to play, you let them play!...

Apparently, the circus that is Los Angeles' homeless outreach and service programs aligned well enough to cooperate, and maintained their resolve long enough to find housing for most of the folks who ...

Simone Biles is an American gymnast. She has won 31 Olympic and World Championship medals, making her the most decorated American gymnast of all time.Charlie Kirk is a conservative talk radio host. Th...

A father records his young boy setting his captured butterfly free. It takes a few moments as the kid figures out how to encourage the white butterfly to leave the large plastic jug, but finally it fl...

A building contractor in Germany who claimed he hadn't been paid for an apartment building he constructed rented an excavator and tore away at the facade of the building, causing $500,000 in damage. H...

Reddit user u/Dinaeh has been posting updates of their project to recreate the world from Zelda Breath of the Wild in Minecraft. They are almost finished and the plan is to add all the shrines and oth...

Of all the toy surprises offered in cereal boxes, the best was the Quisp meteorite ring from the 1960s. One sold at auction in 2014 for over $800. The Alpha-Bits terrariums, which were introduced in t...

iPhones, AirPods, Apple Watches, oh my! Okay, that may not be what Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, but if she lived in today's world, she very well may. While all these Apple gadgets have become a p...

I forgot about Matt Berry's Television Themes album and am here to report, three years late, that you may now get it (along with the others he has since released). The selection is a 1970s dinner part...

Vaughn Bod was one of the coolest underground artists of the 1960s and 1970s, painting a joyous mix of sexuality, psychedelia and appropriated cartoon tropes. It would have been his 80th birthday this...

Blink claims to be the world's blackest ink and comes from the same creator as Black 2.0, the ultra-black paint designed to be an alternative to Vantablack after that paint's creator gave it exclusive...

You've heard for years that you need to be using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to protect all of your activities online. But while it's become a vital layer of web protection, that doesn't mean it n...

It's a sure bet that whenever Apple unveils a new…well, anything, it's going to capture media and audience attention. Hey, it's Apple. It's what they do. That always in the spotlight approach al...

Watch this guy cut and flip dough balls into the bubbling oil like a boss. Lokma, a Turkish or Greek deep fried pastry then gets coated in honey or syrup and this gentleman prepares them for cooking i...

The towers Carmichael were demolished this weekend on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. The east (1966) and west (1970) towers were the tallest buildings at the university at 14 fl...

The Only Taste Is Salt by computer artist and animator Steve Speer is an animated short from the mid 1990s that will melt your brain. Before you click "play," prepare to step into a vortex to another ...

This video from 1960 of TV station employees joking around behind the scenes is pretty awesome. These three fellows are having a ball, pretending to do surgery on their friend, and using office suppli...

This obscure 2part video from the 1970s gives detailed advice about how to buy and prepare meat. The woman in the video, who appears to have consumed a couple of pre-dinner martinis, teaches viewers a...

Apple's QuickTime Version 1.0 CD-ROM (1990) came with this peculiar video called "Spoon Man." The 37-second long clip features actor Mark Petrakis as "Spoon Man." He is dressed in a cloak with many ce...

When you think Apple, it isn't unusual to instinctively think of those high-grade Apple devices like the iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook, and more. But there's a whole range of those lower-tier Apple pr...

In the past few years, the drone market has swelled with many competitors vying for top positions, but if you do the proper legwork, you can find some killer deals out there. Perfect finds can br...

The trick to shopping for web bargains is always knowing the best time to strike. Case in point: this collection of training bundles. They contain everything needed to be a premier IT guru, and they'v...

I love looking at photos and videos of old-fashioned carnivals. The whimsical imagery from this 1966 8mm home video (titled "A day at the Alaska Circus" on YouYube) fills me with joy. The video featur...

Wooden People is a 27-minute documentary that tells the story of Mikalaj, the only person living in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, a small village in Europe's largest forest. Belovezhskaya Pushcha was once cr...

Pranks TV! (1988) is a video directed by Leslie Asako Gladsj. The video features 6 interviews which also appear transcribed in the book Pranks! by RE/search publications. The book, which I highly reco...

Crossing a forest road in Panama City, Panama. Unknown bug, scampering like a little puppy and wagging its tail. About 2 inches long. No body or antennae visible anywhere. from awwnvert...

Come for the noisy, doomed 3D-printed engine fan. Stay for the freezer duct-taped shut that one notices in the aftermath. (Fan fans can follow the creator's progress on the SkyersJet YouTube channel. ...

From 2008 until 2014 Disneyworld ran Snig and Oopla's Hyperspace Hoopla, a staged dance-off between a number of Star Wars characters as the finale of their Star Wars Weekend. Chewbacca would bust move...

DIY. It's a magical word. Or, more specifically, three words. Do it yourself means something in the tech arena, so this collection of cool projects to assemble from component pieces not only leaves yo...

Artist Mitch Gerads is perhaps best known for his award-winning collaborations with writer Tom King which deconstructed the mental health struggles of less popular DC superheroes such as Adam Strange ...

CNN Business reports on the growing number of dogs that have gone missing or died while in the care of sitters provided by Rover, an Uber-like pet-sitting service. They report on six, but suspects the...

Back in the winter of 2018, a sort-of meme went around pointing out that the cadence of the HP Lovecraft poem "Nemesis" fit perfectly with the melody of Billy Joel's "Piano Man."Thro' the ghoul-guarde...

Cats…well, they just don't care what you think. Sure, they love you in their own way. But they've got their own agenda. And what you want … is usually pretty far down their priority list, ...

While an Illinois reporter for WICS Channel 20 stood in front of Lake Springfield, talking about drought conditions, a white pickup truck was rolling toward the water. The driver had apparently steppe...