Articles by BoingBoing from September 2021

The Jiro Miura Gallery in Tokyo is hosting its fourth ephemeral – Territory of Girls show, with paintings by women artists including our friends Amy Crehore and Audrey Kawasaki. Above: Ye-Ye Gir...

Alana Aamodt was a guest on the Cool Tools podcast a while back, and she told me about a cool Kickstarter project she was rolling out, called Momentix motionKit: The toy for making chain reactions. I...

Old Video Game Advertisements is a website that collects new press releases issued by local solid waste authorities. Just kidding! It actually collects old video game advertisements. [via]It's got qui...

I smoked this pile of pork for tacos al pastor. It was absolutely worth the effort.A few weeks ago I saw a video on making tacos al pastor and immediately knew this would shortly be in my future. I or...

This trailer is the first I have heard of it, but I am now looking forward to Disney's upcoming release of Encanto.Disney:Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Encanto" tells the tale of an extraordinary fa...

Since graduating from my master's program in 2019, I've been feeling a little stale in the brainwave department. Sure, I learn on the job, and I do trainings like they're running out of style, but som...

This is too funny!! Comedian Daniel LaBelle impersonates the walk (or waddle, gallop, scuttle) of many animals a duck, horse, crab, sloth, dog, and others and each one is as hilarious as the next. I...

Nomo Cam is a super fun point and shoot camera app for the iPhone. I've used many vintage camera apps over the years and this is by far my favorite one because of its simplicity. Nomo Cam includes a r...

Thirty-three-year-old neo-Nazi Paul Nicholas Miller, who often posted photos of himself dressed as a militarized Joker while calling for a racial civil war to his thousands of social media followers, ...

When a confused gentleman, repeating propaganda from the likes of Newsmax, says "We have been 'ilfitrated' with Marxist Chinese communist propaganda," Jason Selvig, the "right-wing reporter" he's talk...

In this video, Bobby McFerrin explains the Pentatonic Scale in the coolest way by using audience participation. In McFerrin's demonstration, the crowd becomes his instrument. He assigns various vocal ...

In this video, Bobby McFerrin explains the Pentatonic Scale in the coolest way by using audience participation. In McFerrin's demonstration, the crowd becomes his instrument. He assigns various vocal ...

"The Hasher's Delirium" is an animated cartoon from 1910 by the French animator mile Cohl. Cohl lived from 1857 to 1938, and was a caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, a short-lived and largely fo...

Two hosts of The View, America's most erudite current affairs panel, were yanked off set Monday due to positive Covid tests, barely moments before Vice President Kamala Harris was due to walk on for a...

After David Bowie played the Glastonbury music festival in 2000, he hit the recording studio to reimagine a set of songs that he first recorded in the late 1960s. The album, titled Toy, will finally b...

In this Vintage Halloween Safety Video, we learn about Halloween safety tips, such as making sure not to wear a mask that doesn't have big enough eye holes to see out of properly. After pointing out o...

This one comes from Daniel Graham, author of An Internet in Your Head: A New Paradigm for How the Brain Works and a longtime BoingBoing fan. In Psychology Today, Graham writes about another unique neu...

European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet has captured absolutely stunning images of auroras, the incredible lightshows that occur when charged particles from the sun enter the Earth's atmosphere...

If you want to power the entire planet with photovoltaic power, you'll need twenty-three billion standard solar panels. That, of course, is an answer that it so overly simplistic that it's not even wr...

After a man praises masks at a school board meeting in Eastern Carver County, Minnesota, things get ugly. The only accessories missing in the room are pitchforks.It starts when one of the few masked p...

Stack Overflow, a community help forum for programmers, announced a 3-button copy-paste keyboard as an April Fools' Day prank The joke is that programmers use a lot of existing code in their own progr...

This is not someone parodying Vanilla Ice, although Vanilla Ice may be parodying himself. Either way, word to your mother. From Samsung UK:Reduce Your Ice, Ice Baby! 90s rap superstar Vanilla Ice has ...

It's not likely that the habitus of the top Christian Facebook page of 2019, Be Happy Enjoy Life, would give a hoot that the page was run by an Eastern European troll farm. They'd just be happy that t...

New York City now has several ultratall buildings constructed for ultrawealthy owners. They're a Jungian archetype of howling inequality: many apartments stand empty, since they're either pieds--terre...

The great Dr. Lonnie Smith who has been pushing the edges of jazz organ since the 1960s died yesterday at age 79. Smith recorded groundbreaking sessions for Columbia Records and Blue Note, eventually ...

Aaron Francis wanted a pen-plotter that could write out thousands of pieces of direct mail. He bought the Axidraw from Evil Mad Scientist and liked it a lot — but wanted some way to have one rob...

The Scotsman reports that Scotland will be the first country to teach queer history as part of its standard school curriculum [paywall]. Molly Sprayregan summarizes:While the new curricula were create...

A resident of Virginia Beach, Virginia reportedly plays audio of monkey sounds and recorded racist skits meant to harass a Black family who lives nearby. The Martinez family reported the neighbor to t...

YouTube announced that anti-vaxxers will no longer be welcome on the video-hosting platform, reports The Washington Post. YouTube already had a policy in place to ban videos that make false claims abo...

Japanese artist Masayoshi Matsumoto is a true auteur of the balloon animal genre. Which is not something I ever thought existed, until I saw these: View this post on Instagram ...

The U.S. government has declared 23 domestic species of bird, fish and other wildlife extinct, including the Ivory-billed woodpecker, last observed no less than 15 years ago but with not reliably so s...

CBS News reports that a museum in Denmark gave an artist $84,000 to make copies of earlier works displaying sums of cash, but the artist instead gave them some blank canvases and the suggestion they b...

I'm not a coder. I can help you format an HTML doc in a CMS and tell you what those acronyms mean, even, but that's about it. I'm roughly the equivalent, coding-wise, of a howler monkey with a pipe wr...

The Italian creative studio Invasione Creativa took a bunch of famous paintings and used voxelizing techniques to transform them into chunkily-pixeled relief-maps. The Mona Lisa, in that video above, ...

In this footage, an alligator lurks on the porch of a Florida home. The alligator retreats uneasily from an unusual adversary: a square trashcan turned on its side. The trashcan moves toward it under ...

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...

Today, "harbanger"a septet of turntablistsperformed live online as an event with the Library of Congress. Check out this track from the show, "Where The Movement Is": It's truly mesmerizing to watch t...

I love music, especially live music. I do more drinking than drugs, but I'm generally a firm supporter of recreational chemical alterations. I enjoy people in general. But everything about most music ...

Sorry to all budget-conscious visitors to NYC, but the red Ford Econoline van parked on the street in East Village is no longer available for short-term stays, according to a report from Curbed. Despi...

Have you ever wanted to play chess like a pro or organize that junk drawer (we all have one) in your home? Playing chess can help you do both while improving organization skills and productivity level...

My wife and I really enjoy watching Satoshi and Shinichi of the YouTube channel TabiEats as they test and sample all kinds of foods from Japan. Fancy restaurants, take out food, prepackaged snacks fro...

You can buy nothing out of this wonderful machine for only a quarter. That's a deal if I've ever seen one. These nothing capsules come in three beautiful colors. The pink one is my personal favorite, ...

I stumbled across this series of crazy Japanese commercials for Arinamin (aka "Arnie-Chan") from the early 2000s, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. I love how completely absurd they are. This is some of...

"A Fungi Farmers Perspective on Psilocybin Mushrooms" is a short video from The Denver Post where a psychedelic mushroom grower shares his perspective on this incredible fungus. He talks about how psi...

In comparison to butterflies, moths have been given a bad reputation. This video will likely change your mind: 7 Spectacular Moths in Slow Motion!. When I think of a moth, I think of the colorless lit...

Alexandra Souverneva, who is suspected of starting the highly destructive Fawn Fire in Shasta County last week, was trying to boil bear urine so she could drink it. The 30-year-old Palo Alto resident'...

Here's a simulation that lets you use a genetic algorithm to breed a car that can park itself without smashing into other cars.You may launch the Self-parking Car Evolution Simulatorto see the evoluti...

I'm a fan of Kenji's Cooking Show on YouTube because he shows you how to make delicious food and he explains the science and chemistry of cooking while he does it. In his latest video he shows how to ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Shuba – Singer & Musician (@shubamusic)Lucky that their pies are small and humble So you don't confuse them with Sbarro.And h...

Remember Qnut Marjorie Taylor Greene's yelling spat on the Capitol steps that Jason posted yesterday? Well the woman she was barking at, Rep. Deborah Dingell (DMI), tells her side of the story in this...

Evansville, Indiana police arrested Daniel Schroeder, 61, for calling 911 four times in one evening. He allegedly called to report that he was "tired."This occurred the day after Schroeder pled guilty...

Former White House aide Stephanie Grisham is yet another Trumpworld exile cashing in with a book deal, but she nonetheless offers amusements. Grisham writes that Trump would fly into rages that could ...

Last Friday, a fantastic fireball blazed across the sky above North Carolina. According to NASA, the exceptionally bright meteor "skimmed the coast of North Carolina" around 48 miles above the ocean a...

My daughter, an art student, bought thissmall hard shell pencil case to hold a few pens and an eraser. It's just the right size for a small messenger bag or backpack. I ended up getting one for myself...

Do not underestimate the importance of spatial awareness in your cosplay. That or trust in a much higher power than this guy did. @funnyhub80 How he got stuck #funnyvideos #jesus #funnyhub80 #TakingC...

If you love locking picking videos on YouTube you know Bosnian Bill and his LOCK LAB. Bosnian Bill has made 1000s of fantastic videos on picking locks. Bill has stopped making lock picking videos to ...

The Uncensored Mouse is a 1989 comic book series. The issues were published with a black cover and no mention of Walt Disney or Mickey Mouse. Inside each comic is 40 pages of 1930s Mickey Mouse newspa...

Skullpot is the appropriately-named Swiss manufacturer of toilets in the shape of skulls. They also offer urinals. The models are priced in the $750-$950 range depending on the finish, from white glos...

Tyler Pence from Illinois was the surprise winner of last weekend's Quad Cities Marathon not because he was the first U.S. runner to win the race since 2001, according to AP, but because for the firs...

If any landing you can walk away from is a good landing, this one was pretty fantastic!Shortly after takeoff, the pilot realizes his engine is dead, and calmly brings it down only bruising his passeng...

Video conferencing has become a necessity, as working from home has grown by 173% since 2005. With all of these people working from home, virtual backgrounds during video calls have never been mo...

A pretty on point 1990s prediction about the internet. pic.twitter.com/P4hd8bZpKy— Mike Caulfield (@holden) September 27, 2021I can't find the full article that has researcher Richard Sclove's 1...

There is a rock festival, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and now provides relief to rockers needing to pee. Many of those rockers' urine is drug-laden. Under...

There is a rock festival, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and now provides relief to rockers needing to pee. Many of those rockers' urine is drug-laden. Under...

FedEx driver Vincent Paterno is out of a job after he posted a video of himself boasting that he won't deliver packages to any houses with Biden or BLM flags on display. "What's up, TikTok?," Paterno ...

The great primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall, 87, has just launched a new initiative called Trees for Jane to restore the world's forests and help stop climate change. For years, Jane has...

James Austin Johnson doesn't have to look like Donald Trump to fool you into thinking he's Donald Trump. The comedian channels the ex-president's voice and inflections to a tee, so much so that if you...

The Whitelake River flows through Worthy Farm in Somerset, UK, home to the massive Glastonbury music festival. Turns out that festivalgoers' public urination at the site has caused the river to briefl...

This ginormous accordion is being auctioned off by Hessink's in the Netherlands next month. Here's the description:Italy, ca. 1920 Maker: Scandalli 133 buttons, 199 keys and 916 bass accordi...

I think Jam Hamster might have made the most beautiful game controller/console ever. You can catch the work-in-progress photos on Twitter: practically every part and feature is handmade, including the...

A 9-year-old told his father that a jogger was "touching boys" at a bus stop and making them feel uncomfortable. The father parked his vehicle near the bus stop as kids waited for the school bus and, ...

I have an item I would like to remove an excessively-sticky sticker from. The good news is this video shows how to accomplish this feat. The bad news is that the item is a car....

In this footage, an elderly woman is transported upon a chariot drawn by two large schnauzers, Rachel and Bony, retired from police service: "I feel safe beeing always close to them."...

In an age of mobile orders, it's hard to remember a world when online ordering was novel, but at one time, it was a practice reserved for science fiction. One of the world's first online food delivery...

Draco Malfoy, suffering from a Hermione Granger cast spell at last week's Quidditch World Cup, is on the mend thanks to a healing potion given to him by Professor Snape. Actually, Tom Felton, the acto...

Seoul has sky-high real-estate prices, rising inequity, and incredibly important "goshi" tests that determine admittance to valued jobs in law or civil service.Students want somewhere to retreat for m...

The Genesis creation story describes God using Adam's rib to create Eve (Genesis 2:21-22), but one Biblical scholar doesn't think it was so simple. In a 2015 paper in Biblical Archeology Review, Ziony...

Just because you know how to whip up a mean spaghetti bolognese doesn't mean you have what it takes to open a successful restaurant. The same can be said with business and software development the tw...

Once you figure out what's special about this speed guide to Super Metroid from 2001, you will have deep admiration for the author.Every year or two I remember what's probably the most scarily/stunnin...

My 15-year-old daughter learned about blood types in school and was curious to learn her blood type. I orderedtwo of these kits(each kit has two tests) so our whole family could find our what our bloo...

I love reading newsletters. I also write two newsletters: The Magnet, which is my personal newsletter of things that interest me, and Recomendo, which is a weekly newsletter with over 50,000 subscribe...

Instagram is no longer working on a version of its app designed for kids under 13. The decision comes after a Wall Street Journal report that revealed company documents acknowledging the app's negativ...

Disgraced R&B star R Kelly was today found guilty of sex trafficking and racketeering, convictions the New York Times reports may send him to jail for the rest of his life. In this federal case in...

Wouldn't it be nice to listen to your own music, while also still being aware of your surroundings? In-ear or over-ear headphones and earbuds can completely disconnect you from the outside world, maki...

Exposing secrets is the tabloids' life-blood, and even when there are no secrets to reveal the rags gleefully claim that's what they're doing. Whether it's an alleged "FBI cover-up," a Royal Prince's ...

A woman with a young child in Australia lost control of her white truck, speeding across seven lanes five of busy traffic and two that were thankfully empty. And somehow she made it to the other side...

I gave up Windex (for the overpowering smell) years ago, making my own glass-cleaner from a recipe I found online (see Homemade Glass Cleaner #4. And yes, I prefer the stink of vinegar over stinkier W...

Blake Bargatze (25) from Georgia didn't want to get a vaccine. His mother told WXAI, "He wanted to wait until it was out like 10 years or so, kind of like a lot of the population wants it to be out lo...

Folks are peeved at St. Mary's Church in Stockton-on-Tees, England because their annual beer festival fundraiser spilled into the cemetery on the church grounds. Photos appeared on a local Facebook gr...

This MAGA is walking around asking people where he can find COVID. pic.twitter.com/mXrVf1BnZ3— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) September 27, 2021A very fine stable genius seems to have lost Covid,...

MAGA cartoonist Ben Garrison is also trying horse dewormer and a lot of zinc to beat the disease he declined to get vaccinated against.Gizmodo:Ben Garrison, a right-wing cartoonist known for his oppos...

Kayla Blake (33) was charged with felony terrorizing after she confessed to calling in two bomb threats against her boyfriend's place of work. She told authorities she threatened to place bombs in and...

At France's Medes Institute forSpaceMedicine and Physiology, 20 women are currently tucked into strange bathtub-like waterbeds as part of a study on how spaceflight might specifically impact females. ...

You can always spot a spineless politician when they can't answer a simple question with a "yes" or "no," or even a "maybe." Take Greg Abbott, the so-called governor for "freedoms" in Texas. Fox host ...

Ozy Media is a media startup widely believed to cook its traffic numbers and the New York Times has reported out its shenanigans in amazing fashion. Ben Smith reports that Ozy's co-founder tried to tr...

A home delivery service in Australia had to suspend operations after ravens started attacking it drones. The Google-owned company, called Wing, has been delivering items like coffee and medicine to cu...

San Francisco, we salute you. The city has chosen not to use any of the thousands of time-tested garbage can models available from manufacturers to replace their existing, no-longer-desirable public t...

Fine art photographer Nancy Floyd has been photographing herself almost daily since 1982. From those images, she's curated a selection of 2,500 photos in a collection titled Weathering Time. Now publ...

The Art Assignment takes us on a tour of master paintings left unfinished, for one reason or another. Elizabeth Shoumatoff's watercolor of President Roosevelt is a morbid classic of the genre: he suff...

Q dedicated congressperson Marjorie Taylor Green went on another yelling spat.Marjorie Taylor Greene is officially trying to turn politics into Jerry Springer. pic.twitter.com/CM0YNyJsto— Kate ...

Tiktok's user demographics famously skew young, but that doesn't mean older adults can't make it big on the video-sharing app the AP ran a story this month on "grandfluencers," adults over 70 who buil...

Zola lives in the Dallas Zoo, and apparently enjoys dancing. I first saw a viral video of him a year or so back, but there are more and more…Dallas Zoo:Zola is a 14-year-old male Western lowland...

Chinese clothing company JNBY is in trouble for selling little kids shirts printed with a pattern of grim reaper doodles, the words "Welcome to hell" and "Let me touch you" and other creepy art. Appar...

Woman to sea lion escaping the circling orcas: "You gotta go! Get off the boat!"Sea lion: "As if."...

Behold Daniel Yamnitz's excellent Pole Position run, performed on original hardware and filmed for posterity. His score of 67,260 is the best for which video proof exists and second only to a 1984 run...

According to newly-released projections from the US Bureau of Reclamations, there's a significant chance that both Lake Powell and Lake Mead the largest hydroelectric power sources in the country wi...

The CIA made plans to kidnap and assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, report Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff, while he was holed up at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The "...

If you're like most of the world, you leave cryptocurrency to the cryptocrazies. But you're not, and that's a good thing. Because, while some of us are totally fine with sitting around waiting to make...

The Wall Street Journal reports that lawmakers are giving up on a bipartisan police reform effort. The legislation, sparked by nationwide protests in 2020, would have banned chokeholds and qualified i...

The Netherlands has the world's tallest population, with men averaging 6+ feet and women 5-foot-six. However, in the past few decades, the country has gotten a bit shorter. "In the course of the ...

This awesome work of Dune super fandom comes courtesy of Matt Caron, who I previously wrote about here on BB after he collected and wrote about the complete set of Japanese Dune translations from ...

Germany's Social Democratic Party defeated the Christian Democratic Union in Germany's federal election this Sunday, a win for the country's center-left and SDP leader Olaf Scholz. "I'll be darned," s...

We know your job may be pretty rough and has very little room for any artistic license, and that's something you miss about having free time. College was a great place to get in some creative writing ...

Jigsaw puzzles have been around forever and serve us in a variety of ways. From providing us a unique form of artistic entertainment to helping us keep our minds sharp, they serve as a multi-function ...

My Mother is a breathtaking Butoh style dance by Kazuo Ono from 1998. You can watch the 45-minute performance here on youtube: Kazuo Ohno – My mother. Ono was one of the founders of Butoh, which...

Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer! Is a video that reveals what a tangle of tubifex worms inside a sewer looks like. Tubifex worms are related to the earthworms you can find in your yard. They ...

The turn signals on the Mini are confusing. The left signal blinks an arrow pointing to the right, and the right signal blinks an arrow pointing to the left. Did not a single person at Mini notice thi...

This globe was created by Tyler Morgan-Wall using GeoJSON, an open source format for visualizing geographic features, using data from the Submarine Cable Map.New #dataviz! The Earth's su...

Messes happen and they happen often both in life and in the home. And, while we can't help you with your personal problems, those floors look like they could use some TLC, and we can offer just the th...

From September 29th to October 5th, Katmai National Park in Alaska conducts a competition to determine the fattest bear in the park, relying on voters like you to judge the fattest of the fat. What or...

It's been 10 years since then-SNL castmember Fred Armisen went on Conan O'Brien's show and debuted his impression of a dead fox decomposing in a time-lapse film. So much else has also decomposed since...

Pitchfork recently reported a game-changing accounting revolution in the music industry:Under SoundCloud's "fan-powered" royalty model, unveiled in March, a listener's subscription or advertising...

During the early weeks of quarantine, Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin gripped the nation. Netflix said that it "attracted 64 million households in the first four weeks after its March 2020 premiere,...

Lots of social scientists use Prolific.co to conduct massive surveys, by paying randos — Amazon-Turk-style — to give their responses to prompts. But this summer, they started to notice som...

With all the gizmos and gadgets you have around these days, your home is looking more like a wire jungle than a stylish abode. But if you want to live amongst some of the best technology todays' world...

Computer programming is how the future is being built. With the tech industry advancing at record speeds, there's always someone behind the scenes making it all come together. With a bit of training, ...

If you could make an adult wish-list, you'd probably burn your way through two or three notepads. While everything you need these days may not be within your budget, we have deals on 25 must-have gizm...

There's no more helpless feeling than the moment you realize you've been robbed. The mix of anger, fear, and a sense of violation are enough to turn your stomach. And in addition to stolen items, ther...

Okay, so you're not the best cook, but we all have our flaws. And at least your creations are edible, right? Sure, that recipe for peanut butter and jelly chicken wasn't the best option to feed a dinn...

Super popular with both Gen X and teenage contingents of my family; Stranger Things season 4 is coming next year and they'll just have to wait. Here is the trailer:I keep meaning to watch Stranger Thi...

Who Is Egging Chicago? A Hard-Boiled Detective Story is a recent episode of the podcast ICYMI about the Chicago Egg Hunters, a dedicated online group of over 700 people who formed to do some detective...

We as humans run the gamut in super weird food allergies, from gluten to seafood (and, consequentially, cicadas apparently), but your precious pet may also be allergic to a host of other foods you're ...

At a public meeting on September 21, Klickitat County Commissioner Dan Christopher moved to fire countys health officer, Dr. Amy Person because she called to revive a state mask mandate. No one suppor...

A 6-year-old girl who fell 100 feet to her death from a mineshaft-themed ride at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park in Colorado was not properly secured in the ride, reports invesigators. Investigators f...

When one of your passengers gets kicked off a flight or duct-taped to their chair, perhaps after refusing to wear a mask or punching a flight attendant, do you tell anyone? Delta wants airlines to sha...

Immediately before his tired and emotional performance emceeing a 9/11 dinner (during which he threatened America's top general and rambled on about Prince Andrew's supposed pedophilia) Rudy Giuliani ...

This "James Brown"-styled cover of Radiohead's creep would likely annoy James Brown, Radiohead and The Hollies, but it is, nonetheless, lovely....

Yesterday on The View, co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro were yanked from the set by staff after their regular Covid tests returned positive results. The somewhat embarrassing urgency of their rem...

Omni Calculator is a Polish startup that, well, makes calculators. Not necessarily the pocket kind they offer thousands of highly specific and wildly unique online calculators. They have calculators ...

This looks even better than the Mark Summers Magic Halloween Special!Muppets Haunted Mansion premieres October 8 on Disney+...

A 28-year-old Canadian woman had a stroke in a part of the brain known as the insular cortexand after she recovered, she found she'd lost any sense of hunger. She lost over 10 kilograms because she'd ...

Young students don't remember a world without a search function. Teenagers likely completed high school assignments on cloud storage, not on local files. If they needed to access a report they wrote o...

I hope you're having a happy decorative gourd season! Gourds, the versatile fruits from one of the earliest domesticated plants, have a very long and storied history: they've served as containers, tel...

September 25 has been National Lobster Day since 2014 when senators Angus King and Susan Collins of Maine brought a joint resolution to Congress. For the eighth annual holiday, check out these fun fac...

Perhaps pining for another border mockumentary  la Ted Cruz, who in March braved the wild shores of the US-Mexico border in a canoe (trailer at bottom), Fox's Peter Doocy had his head in the clou...

The 1990s were not great for Bill Geerhart, an unemployed and not-so-aspiring screenwriter in his 30s. As a way to pass the time, he channeled his inner 10-year-old Billy and began writing letters to ...

OpenAi announced that it has trained the GPT-3 AI to summarize books, and it does a remarkable job.Our best model is fine-tuned from GPT-3 and generates sensible summaries of entire books, sometimes e...

BBC Arena: Tenjo Sajiki (1978) is a 20-minute documentary about a surreal Japanese theatre troupe. Tenjo Sajiki was co-founded and led by Shji Terayama, a Japanese avant-garde poet, writer, director, ...

Rocks & Bugs & Things was a line of awesome toys from the '80s. This commercial is my first time seeing this line of toys, and I know my younger self would have been obsessed with them. Even t...

In Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada on Monday, a man walked into a Brunet Pharmacy and allegedly beat up a nurse who he blamed for administering a COVID-19 vaccine to his wife without his permission."Right ...

This wooden rolling pin comes with four pairs of discs that attach to either end, ensuring uniformly thick dough. We've used them for pizza, quiches, pies, and cookies and love the results....

Captain Kirk is finally headed to space for real. According to TMZ, William Shatner plans to be part of the next civilian crew to fly aboard Blue Origin's spacecraft. If it happens, Shatner, 90, will ...

Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's Nevermind. On September 26, 1991, the group performed "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at The Moon, a small club in New Haven, Connecticut. Here we a...

Today in New Delhi, Jitender Gogiallegedly involved in 19 murders and attempted murdersappeared in Rohini Court for a hearing. After the court proceedings began though, two men, thought to be lawyers ...

For as long as humans have existed, the cosmos has fascinated us. The endless sea of stars has birthed countless stories that have inspired and enthralled us for ages. After all, how could something s...

Every year, six "mail jumpers" are hired every summer to repeatedly leap on and off a big moving boat to deliver mail to around 60 homes on Wisconsin's Geneva Lake. Below is a news report on local you...

A Hungarian TV producer caught the VentriloChoir on an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2008 and was so delighted that he arranged for the group to visit Budapest and perform on television ...

CovidbaseAU, a popular covid-tracker in Australia, launched in April 2021. And according to The Guardian, it's one of the "most authoritative Covid-19 tracking sites" in the country. But the brains be...

CovidbaseAU, a popular covid-tracker in Australia, launched in April 2021. And according to The Guardian, it's one of the "most authoritative Covid-19 tracking sites" in the country. But the brains be...

Thrillest bit into 20 varieties of eating apples, ranking them from worst (Red Delicious) to best (Braeburn). My favorite, the Fuji, comes in at a respectable fourth place. Fuji"Really Good With a Dar...

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), was an officer in the German Nazi Party who supervised the Holocaust and killed millions of Jews. After the war, he forged a new identity (Ricardo Klement) and escaped to A...

RedFin lists for sale the house that inspired The Conjuring. At $1.2m, the asking price is almost double that fetched in 2017 by the house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, with a similar story attached...

In this video, Bill Mullaney of the YouTube crafting channel, Bill Making Stuff, offers up some useful tips on what he does when he wants to spark and sustain his creativity. He talks about taking thi...

Anti-maskers are known for their willful ignorance on Covid and science, but watching them talk to the Daily Show's Jordan Klepper at a North Carolina anti-mask rally led by none other than their Qnu...

According to Wikipedia, ruin marble can either be marble or limestone. The pattens in the rock look like gloomy scenes from nature or long-abandoned cities. Check out this cool Pinterest page of ruin ...

David Aguilar saw a problem and he solved it, in the process becoming "Hand Solo." LEGO:David Aguilar from Spain was just 9 years old when he rebuilt a LEGO ship into a little prosthetic for his arm. ...

Radiohead's If You Say The Word has a bleakly amusing video ("bleak by amusingly bleak" if you need an accurate compass direction) in which escaped managers are rounded up and returned to their natura...

When a mechanic's lien isn't good enough, there's always the sledgehammer lien. In this video, an irate contractor smashes his bathroom tile work in front of the befuddled homeowner. The woman pleads ...

A Bosnian Premier League match between Sloboda and Posuje was joined by a dog, which outplayed at least two of the professionals on the field in its efforts to retain possession of the ball....

The last ledge on the way out of the uncanny valley is "actor trying to look like an uncanny CGI face and barely succeeding."Animator Chris Jones' magnum opus, though, is surely The Sqworm....

How do earworms propagate? A study published this week in the Royal Society uses models from epidemiology to track the spread of music. The researchers use "data from MixRadio, comprising song downloa...

For years, the first sentence of the Wikipedia article "Pizza party" was unsurprising: "A pizza party is a social gathering at which pizza is served." But over the past month, editors have been subtly...

A set of fossilized footprints in White Sands National Park, New Mexico have been dated to around 23,000 years ago and offer the oldest firm evidence of humans in the Americas, appearing to show that ...

A gentleman with a "pistol" equipped to look like your entire community is about to get massacred wanted to start some panic and see how the local PD reacted to his second amendment rights.Gentleman g...

For any sales-driven team, turning leads into closed deals is the name of the game. To satisfy your clients and drive more business, you've got to be fast, functional, and always improving your propos...

A sheep in Australia who got its head stuck in a barbed wire fence couldn't have asked for a better human to come along. Watch how this passerby former Australian rugby player Nick Cummins swoops in...

Have you ever felt like your friends were more popular than you? You may have been onto something. In 1991, the sociologist Scott Feld compared two numbers: how many friends a participant had and the ...

The bat rescue volunteer behind YouTube's Batzilla the Bat shows us these cute hungry microbat pups, found in Australia, who are waiting to be fed. They "eat their bodyweight in insects every night," ...

What do hangnails, spoiled milk, and overbearing mother-in-laws all have in common? None of them are half as annoying as a failing Wi-Fi signal that cuts your online streaming session short right in t...

"The Psychedelic Experience" is a beautiful short film created by San Francisco art teacher Jean Mayo and filmmaker Allan Willis in 1965. It includes contributions from Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, a...

Tripping is an hour long documentary from 1999 about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. The Pranksters were a group of hippies led by Ken Kesey who took a psychedelic road trip across the United Stat...

1940s MOVIE THEATRE AIR CONDITIONING is a movie theatre snipe from 1940 which reminded the audience that they were lucky to be able to cool off in the theatre's air conditioning all summer long. The s...

This guy trains his pet mice to collect coins, fetch a tossed bead, play basketball, ride a tiny skateboard, and more. [via Doobybrain]...

Lt Col Doug Hague served in the army for 18 years, receiving multiple vaccines during that time, including eight anthrax shots. Nevertheless, Hague has decided to resign after refusing to take a requi...

According to a case described in the medical journal Sleep Medicine, a 44-year-old sleepwalker logged onto her computer and emailed out party invitations to friends. Fortean Times magazine looks at th...

As president of the Portuguese Federation of Naturism, Filipa Gouveia Esteves, has provided a grape harvest field trip for the naturists (naked people) of her organization to Grandola, Portugal. Why t...

In late 2018, San Francisco launched an initiative to redesign its trash cans. Though previous receptacles were functional, the director of the Department of Public Works wanted more beautiful trash c...

I've owned ten or more portable hand vacs in my life. The batteries in all of them did not stand the test of time. After six months or so, they couldn't hold a charge. But I bought theBlack and Decker...

A first printing of the United States Constitution is headed to auction in November. It's one of just eleven known copies of the 500 printed for the Constitutional Convention and Continental Congress ...

"Be Human" is a Betty Boop cartoon from 1936 by Max Fleischer. It begins with Betty singing a song called "Be Human," which advocates for treating animals kindly. Her neighbor is a mean old animal abu...

Elvis Drugs is a fake commercial from 2007 that begins with a teenage girl in pigtails who says to the audience "Hi! Are your parents forgetting to take their drugs? Mine used to, too." Her parents ar...

CLOSE CALL: A woman narrowly escaped being hit by a train when she ignored the lowered barriers and attempted to cross a level crossing at a station in Ermelo, Netherlands. pic.twitter.com/iACMgpY5wt&...

Dutch railway operator ProRail released the video above with the following warning (translated):Oh not this! People who come dangerously close to the track are called track runners. Their behavior has...

The engines failed on a small plane carrying 17 skydivers. One of the passengers filmed the controlled crash landing in a field. When the plane lands, a staff member ushers the passengers to quickly e...

Similar in size to a grain of sand, this flying microchip could someday monitor air pollution, track the spread of airborne diseases, and, of course, conduct surveillance. While its inventors at North...

"Hi, I'm antifa!" talk show host Chip Franklin declares in this brisk breakdown of what antifa really means. While Republicans have turned "antifa" into a dirty word, with such success that most on th...

"Hi, I'm antifa!" talk show host Chip Franklin declares in this brisk breakdown of what antifa really means. While Republicans have turned "antifa" into a dirty word, with such success that most on th...

The cult of QAnon, also known as the GOP, has gone to considerable trouble concocting fantasies that Biden is a puppet controlled by a mysterious button-pusher in the White House who is tearing their ...

The halting cadence! The pregnant pauses! The swagger! William Shatner seems to lack any and all self-awareness when it comes to reviewing these famous impersonations of him....

The gentleman was shooting at a fire hydrant with armor-piercing rounds when the gun randomly exploded. Said YouTuber is quick to explain the incident was through no fault of his own, completely ignor...

Since a) microchips and sensors are rapidly approaching the dimensions and cheapness of grey goo, and since b) tech firms are eager to collect data on basically anything about us, it probably shouldn'...

Zion Clark set the Guinness World Record for running the 20 meter on his hands. His time was 4.78 seconds. Clark, 19, is also an accomplished wrestler.From Guinness:[Clark] was born with Caudal Regres...

Daylight saving wasn't implemented to trick farmers into getting up early, as popular myth suggests. It was first proposed in 1895 for a much more important reason so entomologist and astronomer Geor...

Such incredibly sad news is the standard these days. Surgical technician Samantha Wendell was wrongly concerned that a COVID-19 vaccine would impact her ability to have a child. She and her finance de...

In this footage, the secret of successfully stealing all the money in an ATM is revealed by thieves near Derry in Northern Ireland. It makes up for its lack of elegance and subtlety by ensuring, witho...

Famously used by David Bowie in his classic hit Space Oddity, the Dbreq Stylophone now bears his name [Amazon]. It's $5 more expensive than a normal stylophone but I'm a complete sucker and I just ord...

Quantifying creativity is difficult, but that hasn't stopped people from trying. In a new paper published in Nature Communications titled "Understanding the onset of hot streaks across artistic, cultu...

Ernie Adams of Maricopa, Arizona has built an incredible collection of shrunken cars. Need more? Ernie sources a lot of his parts from old refrigerators.These reproductions are absolutely beautiful, a...

Native Land is an explorable, interactive map that shows the lands once inhabited by native and indigenous peoples of the Earth, their language groups, and the treaties to which they were parties. You...

These 1980's themed PSAs share a twisted view of Mr. T's encouraging us to drink our milk and treat one another fairly.These kids need to save the youth center.Here's a bonus:...

The European Commission published its proposal to make USB-C chargers mandatory for electronic devices, standardizing the various legacy and proprietary connectors. The biggest impact will be on Apple...

The ride won't end until the fuel's burned up and Florida and Texas are roaring. 2000 Americans are now dying every day from Covid again. Other states with their death rates at (or close to) their hig...

Before we had access to drones, aerial videography and photography were really left to the professionals, or at least those who could afford the right equipment. But with superior tools, like the Phan...

It's the first day of fall! Perhaps you'll celebrate by making squash soup, light a fall candle, or go on a walk to observe changing leaves. If you don't have much time to commemorate a new season, th...

It used to be that if you wanted to create a fake persona online, you swiped a photo from some hapless person's Facebook page. These days, though, fakers can create "synthetic" images — using "g...

A group of scientists did a fascinating experiment: They proved that adding more plants to even tiny, mangy little urban greenspaces can massively boost their biodiversity.In 2016 they honed in on a s...

Sasha Sienna of MacGuffin & Co. made this wonderfully cheeky one-page DUNE role-playing game, which they describe as "The 'extremely official' 'game' for 'people' who have definitely 'read and und...

In a new scientific paper published in Nature titled, "A Tunguska sized airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near the Dead Sea," a group of two dozen scienti...

If you love drawing and creating characters, today's world is your oyster. That's because animation skills are in high demand in a wide range of industries, including game development, web design, edi...

This long list of fictional worms includes worms all the way back from Edgar Allan's Poe's 1845 poem "The Conqueror Worm" to Shelby, the worm who lives in Jake's violin in the cartoon Adventure Time. ...

Whether you're capturing a memorable trip to the beach or content for your business, a good camera can really take content to the next level. And before you complain that a fancy new camera isn't in y...

As Facebook faces relentless PR crises (privacy, misinformation, Russian interference, hate speech, monopolization, etc), it plans to promote positive stories about Facebook in its users' news feeds. ...

Mike Lindell talks and talks and talks. Mostly, he just says things, like the kid who falsely tells you his dad is an astronaut and feels he's already in too deep so he keeps trying to make it believa...

If you want to know what QAnon disinformation does to a society, look no further than this terrifying montage of local school board meetings in the U.S. of A. Posted by @therecount on Twitter, some o...

The Colombus Dispatch reports that the evangelical Christians loudly opposing COVID-19 vaccination on religious grounds are full of it. Apparently, only two sects of Christianity have an actual doctri...

While being interviewed on Matt Lewis' podcast, Atlantic's David Frum has some advice for Trump voters, who he says are aging, obese, unhealthy, unhappy, and worshipful of Trump's questionable physica...

Jonathan Lewis recently moved into a new home in Liverpool, England and became curious about a wire emerging from a boarded-up section of wall. He cut a hole in the wall and discovered a ragdoll holdi...

The Cumbre Vieja volcano volcano erupted on the island of La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday. The resulting massive wave of lava is creeping across the island, engulfing everything in its pa...

Hank Hill introduces the TV executives to the ensemble cast of King of the Hill. "I'd say y'all got the makings of a damn good cartoon here," Hank says.From Wikipedia:In early 1995, after the successf...

The Little Car Company is making only 125 No Time to Die Editions of its Aston Martin DB5 Junior. It's two-thirds the size of the original car and runs on batteries. Because it's smaller than the orig...

I find it unfair that humans don't have tails but monkeys do. More than 60 million years ago, the earliest primates did have tails that helped them not fall out of trees. Most primates still have tail...

Last week, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the state's plan to "sue to block the implementation of Biden's vaccine mandates," according to the Alabama Political Reporter. Meanwhile, ...

MIT researchers created light-emitting plants that can glow for about an hour and recharged in just ten seconds using an LED. To make the glowing plants, they embedded the plants with specially-engine...

People have sent all kinds of living things into space in order to observe how the vacuum might affect them. But it's taken some seven decades for someone to think of bringing hops, the vine-grown flo...

As this man in a raccoon cap sits on his back porch handing out frankfurters to dozens of feral and very rotund raccoons crowded around him and even perched on his shoulders, he marvels, "Idon'tknowwh...

Record collector (and author) Haruki Murakami also has a penchant for t-shirts. Writing in the New Yorker, he comments on how he "amassed more t-shirts than I can store" and reveals one of his favorit...

Sometimes things just work out perfectly! This 'Fat Thor' was costumed up at Disneyland and some lightning hit at just the time right! View this post on Instagram A post shared by d...

Reminiscent of a vaudeville comedy act, BBC's weather reporter Carol Kirkwood appeared on live TV with Flash, a frisky guide dog, saying, "She's very well-behaved, I must say." For nearly a minute she...

Bill Gates appeared wary and nervous in an NPR interview yesterday, which included questions from Judy Woodruff that he was clearly not well-prepared to answer. Judy Woodruff: Do you draw any lessons ...

Bill Gates maintained, if not a friendship, a social relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. He was asked about this on PB...

Nearly 300,000 Redditors are in the r/HermanCainAward subreddit, and it's still growing rapidly. In it, Redditors posts story after story of Covid deaths, and the subreddit serves as a grim reminder o...

Learning how to DIY is the perfect way to keep busy when we eventually have to go back to living in social isolation again, but some people just aren't quite sure where to learn how to create. Before ...

The Committee of 100 has just released a comprehensive new study on racial disparities in US prosecutions under the Espionage Act, based on data from court filings featuring 276 individual defendants ...

Rot8000 is the unicode equivalent of Rot13, a formal version of the classic Ceasar Cipher in which messages are encrypted by cycling the characters half-way through the given alphabet. By cycling them...

Reuters reports that the Lithuania's state-run cybersecurity department is warning people who have Xiaomi phones to get rid of them because they have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such...

Perhaps cartoons will convince people, as science seems to have failed....

As a kid, Chris Barnes gave us the legendary Bad News Bear Tanner Boyle, now he is singing the blues.American Blues Scene:Chris "BadNews" Barnes, a formerSeinfeld,Curb Your Enthusiasm,30 Rock&Caro...

This week saw the Moon Festival celebrated in Henan, China, but the moon escaped. Here's video of the giant inflatable satellite rolling away from its pursuers like a healthily-growing katamari.Meanwh...

There are so, so many odd "sexy" Halloween costumes for sale on the internet sexy American flag, booty short Bob Ross, tater tot minidress, sexy Russian vodka, and even sexy fake news. It may come as ...

Spirit Halloween, Halloween Express and Fun World are really rolling the bones with this one. Maybe Skeleboner, the skeleton one-sie with a "boner", will be a big hit, or maybe it will blow up in thei...

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...

Katie Lane feels Tucker Carlson's misinformation led to her father's reluctance to get the COVID-19 vaccine. That vaccine would very likely have kept Ms. Lane's father alive. Daily Beast:Referencing r...

The Open Book Project is a set of instructions to make an open-source e-book reader, complete with code and manifesto. It's not a hack or alternative software for an existing commercial device, but a...

Do you remember from tippytaps It's been a long week, and it's only Tuesday. However, it is also the 21st of September, so here's a sweet little bird singing along to Earth, Wind...

Satoshi Nakamoto is known as the man behind Bitcoin. Or at least, that's the name on the original white paper credited with devising the cryptocurrency. The name itself is believed to be a pseudonym, ...

Casio's F-91W is surely the most popular wristwatch of all time, so reliable and ubiquitous that it has never been out of production. At the height of the so-called war on terror, its use in IEDs led ...

In this footage, things start to go sideways in the breakfast TV studio of Australia's ABC News.Anearthquakeof magnitude 5.8 struck near Melbourne in Australia. ABC journalists Michael Rowland and Ton...

Physicists with the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms have just announced new success with a particular style of quantum computera "programmable quantum simulator". In this architecture, they tak...

Two New Zealand men violated Aukland's strict coronavirus lockdown by driving 75 miles outside the city, where rules are looser, to buy a large amount of KFC. Police on patrol passed the vehicle and n...

Sleep is one of the most important things we can do for our bodies. Whether we're taking a midday nap or tucking in for the night, it's quite literally how we recharge and "clean" our minds from the s...

Even though the MyPillow Guy, aka Mike Lindell, is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems for $1.3 billion for pushing Big Lie voter fraud conspiracies and blaming the fraud on voting machines, he's at...

This woman lives every day like it's 1958 is a video from 2019 about a woman named Laci Fay, who has constructed a lifestyle of which every aspect is vintage. Laci's car, kitchen appliances, home deco...

I often get stuck coming up with names for characters whether it be for a comic, short story, or a doll I'm making. This monster name generator spits out 10 random names for monsters or creepy charact...

If you're in need of a chuckle, watch this creepy and hilarious slowed-down video of the Olson twins singing as children: Mary Kate and Ashley Olson – Gimme Pizza Song (Slowed Down). The video f...

Liquid Television was an animation showcase program that aired on MTV from 1991 to 1995. It was the origin of a couple of notorious cartoons such as Beavis and Butt-Head and on Flux. One of the shows ...

Antoni Sendra directed and animated this gorgeous video for Dean Martin's "Everybody Loves Somebody." Martin recorded the song in 1964 and it shot to the top of the billboard chart, replacing the The ...

There are lots of gizmos and gadgets for your computer out there these days, from ergonomic standing desks to fantastic apps that make daily tasks way easier. But when it comes to products that ensure...

You could get into all sorts of mischief with this stack of a hundred phony $100 bills. The bills look so real that Adobe Photoshop wouldn't let me resize this photo. You can buy them on Amazon for ch...

In true Fox fashion, Peter Doocy "quoted" Joe Biden when asking about booster shots, omitting half of what the president had said to make him look irresponsible. "Why did the president say in August, ...

Newly uploaded to The Internet Archive: So Long at the Fair (1950).From Wikipedia:The 1889 Paris Exposition serves as the backdrop for this eerie mystery, in which English tourist Vicky (Jean Simmons)...

"I was overweight and looked terrible but Ayds helped me lose 46 pounds," says Gloria Toth of Bridgeport, Connecticut.Grab a Corona and enjoy these commercials for the defunct appetite suppressant can...

The Speech Academy Asia, a public speaking program in Singapore, came up with the brilliant idea of sending clowns to hang around outside elementary schools and promote their offerings. Apparently the...

A report on Insider shares that over 710 indigenous women have gone missing in the same area as Gabbie Petito over the last 10 years. There is apparently a disparity in the effort, the resources, and ...

Two men in Mississippi found a parked car with a "free car" sign on it. The key was in the car. They hopped in and drove the car about 30 miles to a relative's house. When they opened the trunk, they ...

Anti-vaxxers are both suspicious of Covid vaccine ingredients and unanimous in their stance against having to show proof of vaccination in order to gain entrance into public spaces (like restaurants o...

On Twitter, Jason Kint shares that a massive and damning lawsuit was filed in Deleware last month against Facebook, and many of its executives, and board members relating to what they knew, hid, and l...

Groundbreaking electronic musician Richard H Kirk, co-founder of Cabaret Voltaire, has died at age 65. From his earliest work in the early 1970s to the present, Kirk was a massive influence on countle...

Robert Durst, the obscenely wealth real estate scion and subject of the 2015 HBO documentary miniseries The Jinx, was convicted of murder earlier this month.The verdict, which came after about seven a...

THE DEAD SPEAK!The world has heard a mysterious broadcast, a threat of revenge in the sinister voice of the late BARONESS MARGARET THATCHER. Faced with the return of one of humanity's greate...

Max Chafkin has a new book coming about Silicon Valley billionare Peter Thiel and his business generation (including others in the "PayPal Mafia" who cashed out big when eBay bought them out). An exce...

Climate change and urban development are turning Phoenix, Arizona into a blast furnace. Last year, Phoenix suffered through 144 days of temperatures reaching 100 degrees or higher. Low-income areas of...

I haven't played any of Fortnite's current Chapter 2 Season 8, as I haven't really gotten around to it. Fortnightmares are back in the game, or so the trailer suggests, as it is Halloween time and I f...

A few months back I tried making beef jerky at home, and it was pretty good. Rather than set up my smoker, I simply set my home oven to around 175F and let the beef go. The beef I used was some pre-ma...

Two men in Byram, Mississippi spotted a vehicle on the side of the road with a "FREE CAR" sign on it and the key inside. They couldn't believe their luck and drove the car about 30 miles to a relative...

The city of Mesa Arizona is using $3.3 million in federal Covid funds to pay for CCTV cameras and "wall-to-wall" monitors to surveil people in public. Some of the funds will also go towards buying ful...

On Sunday, police arrested two men attempting to drive into Auckland, New Zealand which is on extreme lockdown due to COVID-19everything is closed and people must stay home except for essential moveme...

Some kind soul needed a side-view mirror for a 2012 Ford F150. I also needed that mirror, however, this was apparently not the other party's concern. Those side view mirrors are pretty easy to remove,...

In a 2010 episode of Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, the magicians and science educators show why vaccinations are safe (and debunk the utter nonsense that vaccinations are linked to autism.) That was el...

This chopper footage shows the end of a police chase on a Texas highway and a brief but startling shootout between a pursuing officer and the suspect. The officer was shot in the arm, leading to some ...

A Citi bike in New York City was abandoned on train tracks at Steinway Street subway station last night, appearing to explode when a train arrived at the platform and struck it. There's some debate ov...

George Holliday, who filmed the savage beating of black motorist Rodney King by a gang of angry white cops from Los Angeles Police Department, is dead at 61.On March 3, 1991, Holliday stood on the bal...

If you're a fan of Kharkovchanka, the giant snow cruisers made by the Soviet Union, then you'll enjoy this mini-documentary about an American counterpart, the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. It was seventeen ...

Staying hydrated is no joke in fact, up to 75% of people are chronically dehydrated, according to this Good Morning America report. And while there seems to be bottled water available just about anyw...

Schools across the nation struggle with a bus driver shortage, and Massachusetts has been hit especially hard. This month, the state called in the National Guard to transport kids to school. One Bosto...

How am I just finding out that it was *The Pointer Sisters* that sang the vocals for the pinball counting song on Sesame Street?! I'm shook! [Someone please revoke my Gen-X card, thank you.] I also ju...

WTF: Never in a million years would I have guessed that the message on some buttons I picked up at a flea market in 1997 would still have legs over 24 years later. In 2017 I told you about EAT FUCK KI...

British artist Stuart Semple has set "Tiffany Blue" free. You may remember he's the guy behind the blackest-black ink, the blackest-known substance, the pinkest pink, and the related battle with colo...

Every coffee lover knows that nothing beats a freshly brewed pot of joe. It's the drink millions of Americans have settled on as their pick-me-up of choice for their morning, mid-day, and even at nigh...

Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem (1921 2006) known for his sophisticated, philosophical stories and novels like Solaris wrote the 9,500-word "The Truth" in 1964. For the first time, it's...

I love watching horror shows and movies to celebrate the time leading up to Halloween. This year, my friend introduced me to a show called Masters of Horror and I can't get enough of it. Mick Garris c...

I am very happy with this combination tripod and selfie stick.Insta360 makes some cool 360 cameras, but their selfie stick with a grip that converts into a tripod is invaluable. It serves as a monopod...

Circus Day In Our Town (1949) is an old black-and-white 15-minute film presenting footage from a 1949 circus. The film shows clowns putting on their makeup, folks walking around the fairgrounds, many ...

Circus Day In Our Town (1949) is an old black-and-white 15-minute film presenting footage from a 1949 circus.  The film shows clowns putting on their makeup, folks walking around the fairgrounds,...

"Never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."Do you remember? It's been a few years since I've shared the story behind the lyrics of Earth, Wind & Fire's big hit "September." But, it's a goo...

As the summer fades, it's become painfully clear that we spent less time doing the things we love and more time burning the candle at both ends at the office, having severe anxiety over all things COV...

A beautiful wooden violin couldn't blend in with the gondolas in Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday, even if it tried. As it floated down a canal, its passengers a live string quartet played music by ...

Many of us are still growing out our DIY quarantine-haircuts, and are getting impatient. The Living, Growing Plant Wig by "SusanLand" may be exactly what you need to cover up the awkward phase of your...

Governor Greg Abbott is setting a fine example of how to plummet in popularity. The far-right Republican politician, who in Texas has made it harder to vote, prohibited vaccine and mask mandates in lo...

Governor Greg Abbott is setting a fine example of how to plummet in popularity. The far-right Republican politician who in Texas has made it harder to vote, prohibited vaccine and mask mandates in lo...

Music Has the Right to Children by the Scottish electronic band Boards of Canada is one of the albums in my music library that I've listened to the most. This is the band's debut studio album from 199...

Music Has the Right to Children by the Scottish electronic band Boards of Canada is one of the albums in my music library that I've listened to the most. This is the band's debut studio album from 199...

Along with being one of the greatest card magicians in history, Ricky Jay was an esteemed collector of books and ephemera documenting the history of magic, hokum, and strange exhibitions. If you enjoy...

Redditor ForeverMozart posted a wonderful collection of 1980s computer book covers. I hope they inspire a slew of Vaporwave cassette J-cards....

Methane produced from cows (cow farts and burps) contribute greatly to the harmful emissions on our planet and are a contributor to global warming. As a way to counteract the methane output from beef ...

I've heard bits and pieces about Cicada 3301, which is rumored to be an elaborate alternate realty game, an anonymous pro-privacy collective's search for new members, or an unknown intelligence agency...

Liberal Party Prime Minister Justin Trudeau surely regrets calling an early general election in Canada: his party slipped in the polls soon afterward and the expected easy ride got hairy fast. At one ...

Housing is incredibly expensive in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's a teacher who decided to set up a two-story yurt+dome (yome) in her parent's backyard to avoid the crazy rents. She bought it used...

Before Eminem's anthemic "Lose Yourself" was featured in the 2002 film 8 Mile, there was an earlier demo version of the song with very different lyrics. No mom's spaghetti!In the interview below from ...

Last week, Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro declared he would not get vaccinated before attending this week's UN General Assembly in New York. "Why would I get vaccinated?" the confuse...

Tom Hanks stars opposite a dog and a TI99/4A with a speech emulation pack in the new dystopian future "Fitch."I think society is in such a screwed-up place it is time for a Tom Hanks film jam-packed w...

At Saturday's right wing J6 rally on Saturday, CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz asked a participant, who clearly takes his fashion cues from the QAnon Shaman, about the January 6 assaults on Capitol poli...

A family with an immunocompromised four-year-old son was ejected from Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, Texas for wearing masks. According to Natalie Wester, she and her husband were approac...

"I'm still big. It's bootlegs that got small." ...

The Sjmrke [Ikea] wireless charger turns your desk or shelf into a Qi wireless charging spot, so long as it's less than 22mm thick.Do a magic trick and charge your phone directly on the tabletop or sh...

A limited-run beer from Samuel Adams is too strong for some U.S. states: its 28% ABV is illegal in 15 of them.The brewer releases a new version of its Utopias brand every two years, and the twelfth ed...

The United Russia party won a large parliamentary majorityin the election this weekend, and opponents are crying foul. They have many videos showing people stuffing ballot boxes at polling centers. Cr...

Subversive Cross Stitch has been around for many years but I never knew its origin story until this week. Its founder, Julie Jackson, recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to expand her business a...

Tesla's autopilot feature has been in the news latelypropelled by stories about it causing crashes, sometimes fatal, when drivers rely on it too heavily.Now comes a tale of police using autopilot to p...

Behold the 3D pipes of dim and flickering memory, now reborn in your browser with all the features and powers you ever dreamed off, including free flight and unlimited resolution.Includes both Utah Te...

A famous scene from the movie The Martian is when the astronaut stranded on Mars is forced to use his own poop as fertilizer to grow potatoes.Now a research group at the University of Manchester has p...

"I graduated college with a degree in design and I redesigned some popular logos I think we can all agree are ugly," says Emily Zugay on her TikTok account. She proceeds to redesign iconic logos into ...

Almost one hundred years ago, in 1925, Sears moved beyond its catalog business and opened its first department store in Chicago. Now, the chain's last Illinois department store is shutting its doors. ...

Kristen Naylor-Legg was paid $50 to bring a 17-year-old relative to Larry Allen Clay Jr, then the police chief of Gauley Bridge, so that he could rape her, say prosecutors in West Virginia. She pleade...

Kristen Naylor-Legg was paid $50 to bring a 17-year-old relative to Larry Allen Clay Jr, then the police chief of Gauley Bridge, so that he could rape her, say prosecutors in West Virginia. She pleade...

Got a stroke of genius and nowhere to make your mark? Sounds like you could use some help in the art department. You could go back to art school and get in-person lessons, but people are full of germs...

Dr. Alan Braid said this weekend that he had performed an abortion for a woman in Texas, defying the state's new ban on them after about 6 weeks of pregnancy: "I fully understood that there could be l...

Dr. Alan Braid said this weekend that he had performed an abortion for a woman in Texas, defying the state's new ban on them after about 6 weeks of pregnancy: "I fully understood that there could be l...

Just in time for Halloween, the second edition of the zine Monsterama ($20) is out and it's a real looker. UK-based tattooist Allan Graves put together "old horror graphics, like those beloved dr...

Noah Veltman took textual descriptions of several famous movies, then fed them to an AI — to have it generate a graphical version of what the text describes.The result: AI movie posters.That one...

Project Veritas, the conservative media group known for staging "sting operations" with hidden cameras where they trick people into saying things out of context that "confirm" right-wing conspiracy th...

A reverse mortgage is when you sell your house to the bank but they let you occupy it until you die. That's the pitch, anyway: the reality is that it's a complex and obfuscated form of loan hawked thr...

Between the pictures from your vacation you need to send to your mother-in-law to the files you need to upload for the meeting tomorrow, your digital tasks are on overload, to say the very least. And ...

Oakland-based Tight Pajamas have released a new ditty called Boomer's Lament. Susie Davis of the band wrote me:Sept 16th is the 65th anniversary of the release of Play-Doh, and the perfect day to...

#VanLife couple Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito left in July for what was supposed to be a four-month trip. However, Brian Laundrie came home to Florida early, on September 1st, without Gabby Petito. ...

We probably all have a dozen apps right now that share and save pictures and videos. Between Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and a handful of others, there's just so much visual data floating a...

Project Farm performed an unusually rigorous set of tests on different brands of spray paint, then left out the painted panels in the elements for a year. He even sprayed the hood of his truck to see ...

The National Toy Hall of Fame has named twelve finalists, and one is the prehistoric substance sand, which the National Toy Hall of Fame says "may be the most universal and oldest toy in the world."Th...

Futurism has the most reliable reporting on the strange case of Valeria Udalova, co-founder and CEO of KrioRus, a Russian cryogenics company that specializes in freezing the cadavers and brains of the...

Whether you want to capture a bird's eye view of the coast on your seaside vacation or love to see what's going on at the neighbor's barbeque next door, a quality drone can really come in handy. But n...

Attention tacoholics! Capitalism's invisible hand has provided yet another subscription service, but this time it's… for tacos. Whether anyone ever asked for this is unclear. Taco Bell is testin...

In Japan, Google is promoting the Pixel 6 with potato chips. Bags come in five color palates to match the phones, but each shares a "Googley Salty Flavor" which I'm dying to2ws taste. Unfortunately, a...

I don't know which cluster of words sounds more awesomely on its own "sonic tractor beam" or "acoustic levitation." Either way, as you can see in the video above, engineers have made some pretty impr...

For what it's worth, the past year and a half have given you a lot of opportunities to buy some really cool stuff for your desk setup. Maybe it came up in your targeted ads while you spent hours of th...

If it isn't obvious, there are grave dangers lying in wait if you use your work-assigned laptop for personal use. The Verge's Monica Chin explains.The most important thing to remember is that if you'r...

Owning a dog can be one of the most rewarding experiences. However, if you're someone who has owned one, you've undoubtedly figured out just how challenging taking care of your four-legged friend can ...

My friends at Feral House books just published my friend Martin Olson's new book, The Conquest of Heaven: Encyclopaedia of Hell ll, which was designed by my friend Sean Tejaratchi. What a stellar line...

Simon says keep your hands where I can see them. "License and registration,please." It's what we expect to hear when law enforcement stops us for a moving violation. But today, many motorists ask them...

Angry conservatives are expected to gather to D.C. today for the first right-wing rally there since the Jan. 6 riot, during which the U.S. Capitol was sacked by a mob of Trump supporters trying to sto...

Angry conservatives are expected to gather to D.C. today for the first right-wing rally there since the Jan. 6 riot, during which the U.S. Capitol was sacked by a mob of Trump supporters trying to sto...

Aaron Caleb Swenson, 38, was found guilty Thursday of attempting to murder a cop and violating Texas's Hate Crime statute. He was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for attempted murder, 20 years for ...

Gabrielle Petito and her fiance Brian Laudrie went on an oft-Instagrammed #vanlife trip, but only Laundrie returned. His indifferent and unhelpful behavior since has made him a "person of interest" in...

Before COVID, we used minimal social media to post about cats and our kids. Now, social is a hotspot for viral dances, serious political discussions, and goofy Karen videos the world licks their chops...

101-year-old Virginia Oliver has faithfully trapped lobsters since the Great Depression. She still maintains her traps off the coast of Maine on a boat called the "Virginia", now working with her 78-y...

Rioters at the January 6 insurrection committed over 1,000 assaults on police officers. As many members of the deadly mob now face justice, Trump says they are being "persecuted so unfairly."A "Justic...

A Virginia mother of three named Lori Ann Talens worked from a desktop computer in her Virginia home, attracting little attention. Few people knew that she was running one of the largest fraudulent co...

Two people left on a trip but only one came home. Over the past few days, I've been absolutely captivated by this #VanLife-gone-wrong saga. Pleasant photos of hikes, scenery, and a small white van fil...

The day after I turned 30, my job put me on a plane to France to report on the historic 2015 Paris Climate Accords as part of a partnership with the United Nations. It was a momentous occasion, that f...

The world's been in pretty rough shape these days, and if you're under the constant stress of day-to-day living in 2021, your sleep is most certainly taking a hit. Even if you're a sound sleeper, the ...

Footage from a door-mounted camera in Jackson, Missouri, shows three U.S. Marshals and a detainee in handcuffs. One of the three officers looks around, evidently fails to see the camera, then clubs th...

RSPCA Shoot a Dog is a 1987 video from the UK's largest animal welfare charity, the RSPCA. In this short video, an adorable dog sits there while an eerie version of "How Much Is That Doggy in the Wind...

It's getting darker earlier. There's Christmas stuff out at Costco. You know what that means? The flat, tired, disinterested feeling you may be starting to feel is seasonal depression which all human...

Whether we want to admit it or not, 2021 has presented truly fruitful for viruses, both of the biological and technological variety. Sure, most of the time hacks and breaches are usually on a larger s...

Southwest Airlines is clamping down on anti-vax shenanigans, offering an enticing perk to employees who are either fully vaccinated or will be by November 15th: they will receive 16 hours of extra pay...

This littlestainless steel jiggerfrom OXO is angled and has markings that make it easy to pour a precise amount of liquor or other liquid. The markings go from a quarter ounce up to two ounces....

From shelves that can't manage to stay level to weeds that grow faster than your beard, there are lots of things to tend to around the house these days. And if your tool arsenal is looking a little sp...

It would appear that an impressive number of Los Angeles Police Department employees are seeking religious exemptions from vaccination for COVID-19. While the City of Los Angeles has mandated vaccines...

The Peanut Vendor is a charming and unintentionally terrifying animation from 1933. This black and white, two-minute short, features a creepy monkey puppet who sings a song about the "peanut vendor." ...

This adorable 1950s commercial for Sugar Crisp Cereal surpasses the cuteness levels of any commercial on television today. It features three adorable bears who sing about the joys of sugar crisp cerea...

This video for Japanese curry udon noodles calls for onions, garlic, spinach, spices, lotus roots, different kinds of mushrooms. The cook even makes the noodles by hand. It reminds me of a dish Link w...

This video is incredible not only for the skill and patience it took to successfully set up 6,391 cereal-boxes, domino-style, at Long Beach Middle School in New York, but also for the sheer size and l...

After five years at the Carencro, Louisianna Walmart, Beth McGrath got fed up with the working conditions at the store and aired her grievances over the PA system for all to hear.Her full rant:Attenti...

When an all-white Pennsylvania school board was asked why every book it unanimously banned was written by a non-white author, they said is was just a coincidence. The Central York School District baor...

In Niigata, Japan, artists create astounding creatures from rice straw, a byproduct of rice production. Called Wara Art, the sculptures are created in a collaboration between Niigata City residents an...

Mary Elizabeth Kelly is is great at mimicking the voices and mannerisms of actors like Jennifer Coolidge, Winona Ryder, Drew Barrymore, and Sydney Sweeney. She is also able to shape shift so she looks...

"Anyone out there has an illegal dirt bike, don't even think about it because the NYPD will find it and will crush it," said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday.Then he had two bulldozers do ...

MeinPillow tycoon Mike Lindell teamed up with sleazy serial felony fraudster Jim Bakker and a gaggle of head-bobbing, cooing sycophants to sell "Children's Bible Pillows" to support their efforts to "...

Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, a mini-series based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name, is about a woman chess player, Beth Harmon, who becomes world champion in 1968. Although it's fictional...

Encouraged by their unions to resist vaccination requirements, more cops are being killed by Covid than by any other cause, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page. Another organization tallied 13...

There are plenty of RVs parked in cities where absurd housing prices and skyrocketing rents make it impossible for residents to live in traditional homes. But this RV in Seattle's hipster Ballard neig...

An elementary schoolteacher in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, was reprimanded after cutting a 7-year-old's hair to "even it out" after a classmate hacked some off; the mixed-race girl's parents are also su...

This video from the San Diego Zoo of flamingos dipping their heads into water as they eat looks like a scene from a Pixar movie. As described by the zoo, "these pretty in pink birds feed by sucking in...

Guillermo del Toro is making a film noir movie, Nightmare Alley, with no monsters, although the trailer mentions monsters a lot and it is set at a carnival.With beautiful sets, costumes, makeup, and a...

Watch horror artist Jordan Persegati reveal the demons lurking inside this $2 Disney "Frozen" coloring book. His wonderful line work brings out Olaf's true evil. Do you want to be a snowmonster?...

Microsoft users might be able to throw away the sticky note taped to their laptop: the company introduced a new option to delete password authentication. Microsoft uses its authenticator app, fingerpr...

Studies show that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of many who might not have had such problems before, and it's hardly surprising given the plight New York City experienced throug...

I understand this is a few weeks old (an eternity in Covid death cult moon phases), but I cannot find it in our archives and it's important these things are saved for posterity. ...

Black Me Out is a new Audible original from the company's "Words + Music" series, written and narrated by Laura Jane Grace, the singer of Against Me! and the author of the provocative music memoir Tra...

Epik, an internet services company that's provided hosting and domain name services to right-wing sites such as Parler, Gab and the recently-infamous Texas abortion snitch site, was hacked this week a...

This 11-minute video looks at the history of the horse dewormer Ivermectin and how an unpublished, fraudulent paper (which was later retracted) became the basis of the current Covidiot cure. Trigger w...

The folks at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence just released an intriguing tool — "Paper to HTML", which lets you upload a scientific paper and it turns it into an HTML web page.Th...

Over at Lifehacker, Claire Lower makes a surprisingly compelling case for pairing champagne with fast food:I've talked about Champagne's ability to make fatty food sing before, with a focus on Th...

There's a reason why the movie Sideways was such a hit with audiences. Sure, it had a great cast and a fun script, but part of its success was baked into its premise. It was a comedy about people who ...

Nothing is worse than having your devices die when you're out and about. Sure, standard portable power banks will do the trick, but most are too bulky to carry around in your pockets. Plus, then you h...

The last will and testament of Queen Elizabeth's consort, Philip, will be kept secret for 90 years to protect her "dignity and standing". Whatever indignities and unstandings therein lie were permanen...

No matter how good your vision may be, the naked eye sure misses a lot. Like if you ever look up close at a Van Gogh painting all those brush strokes and swirls are the magic behind any of the artist...

Not cut out for real news, Newsmax host Grant Stinchfield blew a gasket when his guest, Iraq War veteran Joe Saboe, dared to slightly criticize Trump. On the subject of Afghanistan Wednesday night, Sa...

"Dirty Girls" is an outstanding short documentary made by a teenager 1996 about a group of teenage riot grrrls at a Los Angeles high school. These girls were named the "dirty girls" by their peers due...

This vintage video of a hippie woman talking about LSD is enchanting to watch and listen to. She's so articulate and insightful about what the psychedelic experience has taught her. She talks about th...

Staff at True's Yard Fisherfolk Museum in King's Lynn, England freaked out on Sunday upon finding an odd wooden box containing electronic components. The box was inside one of the museum's restored fi...

I've tried many different phone mounts, and this cheap magnetic one is the best. It's a rubberized magnet that attaches to a car vent. It comes with a metallic sticker to attach to the back of your ph...

Geese gather around man playing the harmonica at the Daan Forest Park in Taipei.The geese are named Qiqi and Fanfan in case you were wondering.(:Luby Liao) pic.twitter.com/4rgoNjCV2z— GoodNewsCo...

The Colorado Department of Law concluded a 14-month investigation into the Aurora Police Department, finding that the department "uses excessive force and racially biased police practices and violates...

On Monday as Hurricane Nicholas was approaching Texas, police were called to a Galveston beach where a gentleman was creeping around dressed as Halloween's Michael Myers, complete with mask and bloody...

Clive Sinclair, the British entrepreneur whose tiny and inexpensive gadgets pioneered a computing revolution in the UK and beyond, is dead at 81. [The Guardian. Joel Johnson]His daughter, Belinda, sa...

For anyone looking to establish an online brand, finding and reaching out to your target audience directly can be a daunting task. After all, how do you know which keywords or topics will reach direct...

Rolling Stone magazine just released its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time," as selected by artists, writers, and music industry folks. Here are the top 10:1 Aretha Franklin "Respect" 19672 ...

MAD Architects, the Chinese firm that designed the ultra-groovy Lucas Museum currently under construction in Los Angeles's Exposition Park, has another far-out building design that developers are hopi...

So much for basic instincts. You'd think that when a mouse entered a house in Punta Arenas, Chile, family member Simon, a black cat, would have done what all other cats do and catch the little creatur...

A paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research reports that Americans die earlier than Europeans in every age group.From The Atlantic:Average life expectancysurged above 80 years oldin just abo...

Comedian Julie Nolke's "Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self" was hands down her best sketch until today's brilliant performance in "My Call with Jeff Bezos." Nolke plays two wicked villains a Rus...

Located in Warren County, Missouri, the "Picture Cave" is a natural chamber with walls covered in hundreds of paintings created 1,000 years ago by indigenous people in the region. On Tuesday, the cave...

I have enjoyed every incarnation of Charlie Addams' The Addams Family. The first animated film gave me the opportunity to introduce my daughter to television shows, movies, and Cousin It.While I enjoy...

Republicans are upset by MSNBC hostJoy Reid's description of them as a "creepy little COVID-loving death cult." She also told them, "You want it pumping through your veins with an ivermectin chaser."R...

In 1999, Jim Carrey was filming Man on the Moon, about eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman. He invited his pal Norm Macdonald (RIP) for lunch on the Universal Studios backlot where the iconic Psycho house...

Tossing back a few with friends is tough enough as you get older. But if you're trying to lead a health-conscious lifestyle while still enjoying an alcoholic beverage or two…well, that can be a ...

Thanks to a recent installation of The Atlantic's ongoing series about conspiracy thinking in America, I just learned that the Internet is dead. And that everyone on the Internet including, presumabl...

Virginia Guiffre, a survivor of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew and has sued him for damages. Prince Andrew has avoided being ser...

Virginia Guiffre, a survivor of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring, says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew and has sued him for damages. Prince Andrew has avoided being ser...

Quite a few songs apparently do not trust the listener to dance of their own volition.My favorite is probably the Time Warp.For folks who want something with a little less flair, there is Kylie's Loco...

Russian premier Vladimir Putin said that "dozens" of his own staff have tested positive for Covid and that he himself is in isolation due to contact with them. He has not himself received a positive t...

Roger Stone, the political consultant and convicted felon pardoned by Donald Trump before serving a day of his 40-month jail term, has more legal trouble to deal with. He was served a civil lawsuit, r...

Across the United States, hospitals are overflowing with COVID-19 patients. Many, if not most to nearly all, of these folks refused a vaccine that would almost certainly have kept them home to recove...

Police wishing not to be filmed in public occasionally play popular music in the belief that the copyrighted material will prevent the footage from being uploaded or shared. Too clever by far, the tec...

Good boy, Theo....

Bizarre teen social media challenges are nothing new (recall the cinnamon challenge, Beezin', the Kylie Jenner lip challenge, the condom challenge, Tide Pod challenge, and more). A new one, "beaning,"...

In one of 2021's many odd plot twists, container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March, creating a traffic jam of hundreds of vessels and a major disruption in global trade...

The makers of Hulu's Fyre documentary expose a new scammy subject: multi-level marketing. LuLaRoe sells stretchy patterned clothing, but their main business is selling a dream of financial freedom to ...

Matt Amodio is a Yale Computer Science PhD student and when he's not working, he gets lost in Wikipedia. Amodio's episodes are airing now, and he's currently ranked third for most consecutive episodes...

Airlines. Cable companies. Pharmaceutical firms. Banks. Those industries show up every year on lists of America's most hated companies. It's seldom for the products they actually produce. It's usually...

A lot has changed since you started your career behind the keyboard, and if you can't keep up with the times, the generation in front of you will swoop in and eat you alive. Sure, you could retire ear...

There's some buzz on the internet about the Qux ("Cucks", see), a mysterious gadget being marketed at the MAGA crowd. Its Indiegogo campaign went into orbit, with more than a thousand people apparentl...

Two Thousand Maniacs is a thrilling 1964 horror movie, and you can watch it for free here. Herschel Gordon Lewis, a pioneer of gore films, directed this classic which stars 1963 Playboy Playmate Conni...

Are You at Risk? Is a Blockbuster training video from 1990 that instructs employees on how to handle injuries in the store as well as how to help people who have come in contact with hazardous materia...

Every time you turn around, another Psaki bomb.'I don't think the president is looking for the guidance of members of Congress who stood by while the leader of their party fomented an insurrection' J...

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation was made by three creative Mississippi teens Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos, and Jayson Lamb over a seven-year period. The boys began making their own adaptation o...

A chatty cat is stuck with the most crotchety parrot companion imaginable. The meowing kitty can't get a word in edgewise without the crude African grey, named Cairo, telling it to "Be quiet," "Shut u...

Whether you're planning for a visit with the in-laws or trying to meet important deadlines at work, there's a lot of reasons to pull your hair out these days. And until you can drop everything you're ...

Gotta catch 'em all! On September 10th, a group of thieves crashed a white van into a Dutch toy store and made off with an unknown quantity of goods. Pokmon and Lego, which have cult followings among ...

An irate unvaccinated gentleman caused a scene at Juliana's Pizza in Brooklyn, screaming at the restaurant for not letting his family sit inside the establishment. New York City requires proof of Covi...

Ever since I started using these nylon mesh zipper bags, my travel experience has improved. I have one bag for paper stuff and pens, one for medicine and first aid, one for tools and gear, one for cor...

Hey @opensea why does it appear @natechastain has a few secret wallets that appears to buy your front page drops before they are listed, then sells them shortly after the front-page-hype spike for pro...

Fire fighting wildland fires in the western US has become an around-the-clock and around-the calendar problem. I rarely think about the equipment these guys use, as 100% of my idea of what a wildland ...

An election worker wearing a pro-Trump hat and mask, and a "Where's Hunter?" T-shirt was removed from a vote center in West Hollywood, California yesterday durning the governor recall election. The Lo...

Fifty years after the release of Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' film adaptation of the Jerome Robbins' stage musical, West Side Story, Steven Spielberg is giving it a go. The new version will featur...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noises and, in this episode, rare archives of underground counterculture n...

Denise Lyonnais (68) of Florida, died from COVID last week. She was well known in her retirement community for performing as Truffles the Clown and for posting spiteful anti-vaxxer propaganda on her F...

Unicode, the international standard for computer text, added 37 new emoji characters to its existing dictionary of 3,633 emoji. The new ones include, among others, a biting lip, a melting face, a trol...

Yes, Texas governor Greg Abbott's recent, highly restrictive abortion ban is despicable. It reveals his disregard for women in general, as well as his disregard for a woman's right to make decisions o...

A drone delivery of contraband likely meant for a Virginia prison was accidentally dropped at a K-12 college prep school nearby. The package contained weed, tobacco, mobile phones, and a USB-to-lightn...

The town of Ramsbottom in Manchester has hosted the World Championships for Black Pudding Throwing since 1984 but the tradition itself supposedly dates back to the War of the Roses. As the Lancashire...

In Richmond, Kentucky, police were called to a hotel after reports of gunfire. They arrested Samuel Riddell, 55, who had apparently been firing his gun out the window. Riddell apparently told police t...

A YouTuber asked themself "If every copy of Star Wars was destroyed, could we recreate A New Hope from non-Lucasfilm projects?"The answer is clearly yes....

Squad based multiplayer arena battles in the Star Wars universe? Here comes Star Wars: Hunters.Set after the fall of the Galactic Empire, Star Wars: Hunters will bring players together in thrilling, t...

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM)a fine example of a religion pretending to be a joke (or a joke pretending to be a religionis wary of religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccines. Howeve...

Norm Macdonald (RIP) from his 2011 Comedy Central special Me Doing Standup, a decade before dying of cancer:In the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now, they have to 'wage a battle'…...

@philberge #Duo avec @kewpietattoo tattooed the legend I like hot moms – Thatmulletdude Montreal tattoo artist Phil Berge tattooed dozens of people with slightly different artwork to create...

When my wife and I were on our honeymoon in St. Lucia, I was surprised to learn that the country prohibited the privatization of beaches. Caribbean resort hotels were of course free to control the all...

From The Guardian:The RuPaul fly is part of a new Australian genus named Opaluma (from the Latin words for opal and thorn), because they look like "little gems buzzing around the forest floo...

Nicki Minaj came to Twitter to share a questionable story about "her cousin's friend" who became impotent after receiving the Covid vaccine. Some of her 22 million followers, including experts, immedi...

The Washington Post reports that Michael Langeman, an FBI agent who failed to investigate U.S.A Gymnastics child abuser Larry Nassar, has finally been fired. The news comes barely hours before a heari...

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...

Superheroes and supervillains have securely entered the zeitgeist as solid staples of modern pop culture and, perhaps, no group of comic book icons is bigger than those in the Marvel universe. Marvel ...

Remember Rickia Young, the black nursing aide trying to drive home around protests last summer only to have her car windows smashed by cops? They dragged her from the vehicle and beat her in front of ...

CNN's Madeline Holcombe reports on a grim total: 1 in 500 U.S. residents have died of Covid since the outbreak began. As of Tuesday night, 663,913 people in the US have died of Covid-19, according to ...

This float at the 40th annual Popcorn Festival in Valparaiso, Indiana, will never be forgotten. The New York Post affects outrage at the "grotesque display" but writes that it is being "torched" by on...

Called by networks about an hour after polls closed in California, the recall election there failed to dethrone Governor Gavin Newsom. He holds about a 30-point lead the morning after, and while the t...

With all the concerns about sending students back to school this fall while the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to rage, it seems that Massachusetts lawmakers overlooked one particular important b...

A British company called This makes plant-based meat alternatives. They also vandalize Wikipedia to promote their products. On August 26th, a now-blocked Wikipedia user called "This Isn't Bacon" remov...

If you throw a rock in the United States you might well hit the casket of a conservative radio talk show host who denounced the Covid-19 vaccine, and urged his followers to do the same, and then died ...

After the attacks of 9/11, comedy paused and The Onion questioned the place of comedy in such a somber moment. After much discussion, the editors put together an issue focused on the attacks which tap...

It's "Punk Week" over at Consequence of Sound, so writer Paolo Ragusa composed a wonderful sociological look at the history of mosh pits, tracing the slam dance's evolution from simple "pogoing" into ...

Norm MacDonald's recent Norm MacDonald Has a Show was brilliant and so very drowsy, yet maniacally and cuttingly Norm. He had been living with cancer for the past nine years, and at age 61 has died. H...

How many times have you played a game and wondered what on earth its creators were thinking? We're looking at you, Warcraft III: Reforged. Whether it's inefficient updates or disappointing graphics, t...

A frisky 1-year-old border collie, Nova, is excited to play frisbee with Abe Lincoln, who is sitting on bench in a suburb of Dallas. But no matter how many times she tries to hand him her toy, the fud...

Les Religions Sauvages [NSFW] is a two-hour film featuring a series of animations which depict a trip to hell. This film, directed by Pakito Bolino in 2004, includes work from 30 artists, from 11 diff...

In the late 70s, two 8-millimeter horror films titled The Maniac and Return of the Maniac were made by kids in Galion, Ohio. I stumbled across these vintage films on YouYube, and I can't get enough. I...

In the summer of 1966, Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd went on his first psychedelic trip and his life was forever changed. Nigel Gordon directed this 8mm film which includes a segment of the day when Barre...

Out of The Inkwell was a classic silent era cartoon produced by Fleischer Studios from 1918 to 1929. The series was born out of Max Fleischer's invention of the rotoscope, a device made out of an ease...

Everyone likes to feel secure. Whether it's walking down the street, doing mundane tasks, or discussing your online presence, security and the promise of protection is key for all of your precious bel...

I have a monthly subscription for this 240 g box of Maldon Sea Salt Flakes. The flakes are soft, light, and crunchy and it has made me not want to use regular salt any more. I took this photo of the f...

Jean Lavin and her daughter, Carla Krzywicki (19) were arrested today on suspicion of participating in the deadly January 6 Capitol riot. According to WFSB the duo were charged with "entering or remai...

If you've been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, how safe is it for you to eat outdoors at a restaurant? Indoors? What about going to a grocery store, or flying on a plane? And what are the risks of ...

Republicans have been spreading a rumor that President Biden ability to speak is controlled by someone with a wireless push button. Today, Senator James Risch (R-Idaho) asked Secretary of State Antony...

Evidently an iPad loaded with the software Disney VIP tour guides use to skip lines found its way into the hands of an unauthorized user.WDWNT:A Disney fraud investigator was on alert that someone out...

Twitter user@marumi_1985recently completed his collection of all1,244 games published for the Nintendo Game Boy.Here's a Google translation of his announcement tweet:Completed all 1244 titles of Game ...

Protein from human blood mixed with urine and a heaping pile of space dust are key ingredients in AstroCrete, a new kind of concrete that University of Manchester researchers believe could be a valuab...

Apple is expected to introduce the iPhone 13 and Apple Watch Series 7 during its special event this morning. Third-generation AirPods are a possibility. You can watch the live stream here....

A gentleman in Steamboat Springs, Colorado has been attracting one or several bears to his deck every night. While the family is in no hurry to get rid of the couch or the bears, Colorado Parks and Wi...

Naval officers spotted this freaky pig-faced shark floating dead off the coast of Elba, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. It's an angular roughshark (Oxynotus centrina) that's nicknamed "pig...

I know none of the overseas sportsball words for what is happening here, during the Women's All-Ireland T20 Cup cricket semi-final, but I know a very good doggy when I see one!...

Ivermectin is tired. The new hotness among some anti-vaxxers is to gargle with the antiseptic Betadine, the iodine-based solution commonly used by physicians to disinfect the skin before surgery. From...

Sara Gamache says she was removed from an Alaska Airlines plane for wearing pro-Trump mask. She took a video and posted her argument with the flight crew to TikTok. Gamache also launched a website enc...

Steven Colbern has been a victim of 100s of abductions and even has a nanochip implanted in his arm. This gentleman claims to have been abducted by 'typical greys' 'many times,' and blames those alien...

If you swallow chewing gum, does it really stay in your body for seven years? In this video from the Institute of Human Anatomy, "lead dissector" Jonathan Bennion reveals the truth and how much it's s...

When well-known anti-vaxxer Veronica Wolski was sent to Chicago's Resurrection Medical Center with Covid-19 complications, hundreds of fellow Qnuts called the hospital and demanded they treat her with...

A very early sign that computing was changing the world we lived in, the Video Toaster was a $2500 card and software package for the Amiga 2000 that totally revolutionized TV. These were bragging righ...

Climate change stressing you out? Government inaction about it triggering your anxiety? According to a new global study, more than 60 percent of young people aged 16 to 25 are "very worried" or "extre...

The Guardian has a wonderful chronicle of the rise and fall of an experimental libertarian society built on a cruise ship armed with little more than crypto-mining rigs. Yes really. Did I mention one ...

Over at MEL Magazine, writer Brian VanHooker was brave to tackle one of mankind's most pressing questions: how many s'mores could you make out of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man if you roasted him alive...

In 1917, a New Jersey company began hiring young women to paint luminous marks on the faces of watches and clocks. As time went on, they began to exhibit alarming symptoms, and a struggle ensued to es...

The world of independent food blogs frequently asks us to wade through thousand-word preambles. When scanning for recipes that work with our preferences and food sensitivities, we don't need to know a...

Each Friday, I get an email of the most edited Wikipedia pages and most active discussions. It's an interesting way to reflect on the news ("Oh right, that happened this week") and keep up with Wikipe...

From half-empty glasses of water to old Post-Its with doodles you don't even remember drawing, your desk has seen better days. But hey, you don't have time to deal with clutter management when you hav...

Whether you're looking to learn some of today's AI systems to beef up your resume or are hoping to head on a new career path because you're so bored of your current desk job you could cry, mastering t...

A lot of money for an email list company. the largest-ever acquisition of a privately-held bootstrapped company, as Mailchimp didn't take any outside funding since its 2001 founding. It's also a huge ...

This afternoon, Apple issued an emergency software update to prevent a spyware program from infecting any user's iPhone, Apple Watch or Mac computer"without so much as a click," as reported by The New...

The students at Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver made this astonishingly excellent video that reenacts La La Land's "Another Day of Sun." It was a major undertaking and the end result is...

In addition to being a drummer and singer of the band Lightning Bolt, Brian Chippendale is also a spectacular visual artist. He makes comics, drawings, sculptures, paintings, prints, and collages. Dur...

Cybergoth Dance Party is one of those classic YouTube videos that entertains me every time I see it. What I like about this video is how all of the action occurs under a bridge during broad daylight. ...

A group of scientists and entrepreneurs have formed a company named Colossal which aims to bring mammoths back to Siberia. The animals have been extinct for thousands of years, but fragments of D...

Journalist Josiah Hesse wrote "Runner's High: How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports." In the book, he argues that cannabis is changing the sport of distance runn...

The first comics I laid eyes on were Jim Woodring comics, because I could enjoy them at an age before I knew how to read. Many of Woodring's comics lack text, and it's up to the reader to interpret Wo...

There's a lot to be said about learning a new language as an adult. Among other reasons why having an extensive vocabulary in any language is important, learning a new tongue is a perfect way to score...

Edie Sedgwick- on going crazy, drugs and the afterlife features audio of the actress, model, fashion icon, and one of Warhol's superstars, Edie Sedgwick. The audio in this 4-minute video begins with E...

Thin-skinned megachurch pastor Greg Locke, of the Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee, hollered at church members during his Sunday sermon because some disagreed with his political rants. He calle...

U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen felt sorry for Dusty Leo (30), who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of committing a hate crime after he sneaked up behind a Black man at ...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and former Apple engineer Alex Fielding launching a new private space company. Privateer Space posted this teaser to YouTube but not other details are available. The com...

US Capitol Police arrested Donald Craighead, 44, of Oceanside, California, outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters this morning in a Dodge Dakota pickup truck emblazoned with white supr...

Singapore is testing autonomous ground robots that can move through crowds and detect undesirable social behaviors such as smoking in prohibited areas, illegal hawking, improper bicycle parking, and g...

Last Wednesday, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Acapulco and surrounding areas as far as Mexico City around 200 miles away. As people poured out of buildings, they were shocked to see blue flashes ac...

Rewarded with treats, cows can learn to be potty-trained, according to a new study published in Current Biology. Scientists hope that "MooLoo" training having cows relieve themselves in one specific ...

Carla and I just got back from a wonderful week in New York, which I wrote about in my newsletter, The Magnet. While we were there, we visited Little Island and I took a video of this spinning disc op...

How a kitty ended up dangling from a high deck at Hard Rock Stadium during a University of Miami football game is unclear, but video shows the cat clinging for dear life with both paws. Fortunately, w...

Major League Baseball has been developing an Automated Ball-Strike System that trains computers to determine whether or not a pitch arrives over home plate within the designated ideal strike zone. The...

I recently discovered this Tumblr account that matches pictures of David Bowie with near-identical Nudibranchia, those adorable soft-bodied mollusks sometimes known as sea slugs. Truly a perfect pairi...

If you've dropped your ring at the beach or lost your watch on a hike, your best bet might be to call in the experts. The Ring Finders is a network of metal detecting enthusiasts around the world who,...

Zuckerberg makes a big deal about Facebook's democratizing power, which puts all its users on equal footing and lets the truth speak to power. But given that Zuckerberg often states the opposite of wh...

An internal investigation found that six Capitol police officers broke rules during the sacking of the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6 by a mob of Trump supporters. The officers did not break the law, investiga...

Two passengers were kicked off a Jet Blue flight after yelling at a flight attendant and refusing to wear Covid masks, reports News 7 out of San Diego. "I'm a vaccinated person," he said in the video....

In St. Petersburg, Russia, Boris Vishnevsky was set to run in this month's election to maintain his seat inn the Legislative Assembly. Unfortunately, two "spoiler" candidates have joined the runningbo...

For those out of the loop, there is a uniquely California event taking place tomorrow, September 14. It comes in the form of the fourth-ever gubernatorial recall election in our country's history. Thi...

This ad for a 2010 Volkswagen Golf is in Dutch but speaks the universal language of little old ladies from Pasadena. Correction: Dutch, not German....

Hawkeye, Marvel's least notable on-screen hero, has a starring vehicle of his own!It would appear Hawkeye, who seems as reluctant to be in this movie, gets a plucky sidekick. The as-yet-unnamed but li...

According to the Mississippi Free Press, the state's rate of fetal death also called stillbirths has doubled in the last year among pregnant people who have been infected by COVID-19 and are still u...

This weekend I caught the 1971 outlaw biker flick The Pink Angels. It's interesting not because it's a good movie (it's bad, and so badly edited it laspes into incoherence) but because it's about gay ...

A fun (read: terrible) thing about the fossil fuel industry is that it's so wrapped up in the financial structure of the world that most of our money is, by default, stained by blood-oil. That "black ...

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, long-groomed for the role by conservative groups, picked by Donald Trump, then rammed into the chair by the GOP House Leader within weeks during the final days...

The weather (among other things) has been absolutely atrocious this past year, and no one knows heartbreak more than someone who was five minutes away from finishing a major project when the power dec...

It seems like smartphones are advancing by the day at this point. New tech is being developed faster than we can keep up, and some manufacturers like to gouge their customers by charging them hundreds...

We know your wallet may be a little emptier these days, but that doesn't mean you should put the kibosh on knowledge. There are a lot of things out there you could spend your hard-earned money on, but...

NASA's Voyager probes, launched in 1977 and now far beyond our planetary neighborhood, have been surfing sidereal breaks for 44 years. But they still check in now and again to see how we are doing ba...

Ksenia Coffman noticed all the weirdly exonerative and glorifying turns of phrase in Wikipedia articles about garden-variety Nazis. But when she set about challenging that language, the articles' esta...

"For Elizabeth" is a two-and-a-half minute video, shot in black and white, of Jim Carroll (one of my all time heroes) reading some of his poetry.This video was directed by Jesse Dylan and shown at Lol...

The Tube Bar prank call tapes are a series of prank phone calls that two mean-spirited fellows made to Louis "Red" Deutsch, owner of a Jersey City bar in the mid 70s. The pranksters, Jim Davidson and ...

When I'm working on a complicated drawing, I get easily distracted by household noises. To solve this issue, I began using noise-canceling headphones so that I could listen to ambient music and block ...

Crispin Glover's "Clownly Clown Clown" is a far out song and music video from 1988. Glover is an actor, artist, filmmaker, author, and collector/archivist of esoterica. This video features a sexy danc...

Youtuber Shutian Cheng tackles monster piano pieces with ease in his "8 Levels of" series. With brief explanations of music theory and astonishing technique, Cheng plays sections of increasing difficu...

The seven-day week originated in Mesopotamia among the Babylonians, and it has stuck around for millennia. However, it's not inherently special. Egyptians once used a ten-day week, and Romans used an ...

This footage shows a fellow using gasoline to destroy an "anthill". Ignition takes a few tries but is ultimately more successful than he presumably expected. I've put "anthill" in quotes because I sus...

In 2016, a salesman for UK-based glaziers Zenith conviced an 81-year-old woman with dementia to pay him 5,700 ($7,800) for new doorsafter his company cold-called her and she told them she needed a doo...

At Brian Braun's Checkboxland, everything is made of HTML checkbox elements. You can make your own images and animations out of checkboxes! There's even an API.Checkboxland is a JavaScript library for...

The Swiss company Climeworks activated its first major carbon capture facility in southwest Iceland in early September 2021. The facility, known as "Orca", runs entirely on geothermal energy, and esse...

Sculptor Linda Christensen, 79, has spent half a century carving faces into large lumps of butter. The sculptures, which are created in front of an audience of fairgoers, are modeled after winners of ...

Ohio State University drum major Austin Bowman was probably filled with adrenalin as he bolted through the tunnel on his way to the football field and his marching band. In only the second game of the...

We here at Boing Boing have long been fans of the Codex Seraphinianus, a mysterious surrealist cypher manuscript that first appeared in print in the early 1980s. We first covered it in The Happy Mutan...

Nothing quite says good morning like a piping hot cup of delicious coffee. But if your Starbucks blends have you feeling underwhelmed, these 16 incredibly mouth-watering blends, all aged in rum, whisk...

Your pup knows a lot about you, from the tunes you belt out in the shower to the embarrassing shows you binge-watch into the wee hours of the morning. And while a dog can easily feel like another memb...

The era of portable speakers is here to stay, and bringing one to any function is an instant party starter. However, with so many options to choose from, not just any speaker will check all the necess...

Metallica released their fifth studio album in 1991. Though technically self-titled, the album is affectionately known as The Black Album, and is arguably the second-most memorable thing that Metallic...

In 1907, Charles Bennett began selling the Junior typewriter, which he renamed the Bennett for a second, improved model in 1910 that included a ribbon and a paper table. From the Virtual Typewriter Mu...

Man, is it me, or is it getting hot in here? There's a Wikipedia page about "sexy primes," a particularly silly topic within recreational number theory. Sexy primes are are pairs of prime numbers that...

When it's a quiet news week, the tabloids love to fall back on their tried and tested favorite: dying stars on their last legs. If only the celebrities wouldn't keep hanging on for so many years after...

Since October is right around the corner, I thought I'd share one of my favorite spooky vintage cartoons. Mickey Mouse – The Haunted House is a 7-minute cartoon from 1929. In this classic, a ver...

I'm a big fan of live wind maps of the world (previously, previously) and here's the latest: Windy.com. It's like the others but made with the latest browser tech and integrated newsfeeds of gusty goi...

Salesforce, the cloud software company based in California, has offered to pay its workers in Texas to leave the state following its 6-week abortion ban."These are incredibly personal issues that dire...

Silk Interactive Generative Art is a great website to play around on if you need to zone out for a bit and do something meditative. There's also a Silk app that you can download for your ipad or ipho...

"Tomorrow:", the Associated Press posted yesterday on its @AP_Planner account, "20th anniversary of Nickelback releasing album 'Silver Side Up' (11 Sep)"The tweet was soon deleted and apologized for:...

Listed as Coney Island Freakshow and Circus, this old film advertises the theme park attractions and side shows at Coney Island. Footage is shown of a man in a cage with tigers, people having fun on r...

Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, painted between 1657 and 1659, has been restored to remove centuries of dirt, varnish and artistic alterations. Most prominently, a painting...

Rodents of Unusual Size is a 2017 documentary  by Quinn Costello, Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer. This film investigates the massive, 20 pound swamp rats known as "nutria" that have infested L...

The New York Subways Advertising Company ran a beauty contest between 1941 and 1976 for transit-inclined young women. To qualify, a woman had to be a New York City resident and herself use the subway....

My heart be still. Here's YouTuber Dustin Ballard's latest mashup: Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" featuring Pee-wee Herman. Dustin's channel is called "There I Ruined It" but literally nothing i...

In Australia, people who are exposed to COVID-19 can be quarantined in large apartment towers away from the general population, under the control and supervision of government health authorities. Frie...

Do you love books but don't always have the time to sit down and read? Audiobooks can sometimes do the trick, but they can still take hours to listen to and can be hard to digest. It can feel like the...

Math always seems to be one of those subjects that people either love or hate. However, the fact of the matter is, it may just be the most important tool we have in understanding how our world works. ...

Do you love your Apple Watch, but sometimes forget to charge it, leaving you out of luck when you're out and about? Well, now you can charge it on the go with the OMNIA A1 Apple Watch Magnetic Wireles...

How long does it take to get from antioxidants to glycogenolysis during rush hour? This Wiki-linked diagram of a metabolic network resembles a subway map, and it displays the striking complexity of hu...

This episode of Colbert is pretty perfect, from start to finish. Sharing his joy over the Biden Administration stepping up to try and head off a 'monster variant' of COVID-19, and just try to get us t...

I've been using these steel taco holders for a few years now and they are a big hit with the family. They hold tacos upright, making it easy to add fillings. And when you serve them, the fillings don'...

YouTuber BitHead1000 also made a spinning 3D "N64" logo for his "heavy metal" console mod but let's be honest, we're all just here to see the flames....

Wrap seasoned salmon in aluminum foil, place it in your dishwasher, and voila! Dinner is served. The heat from a dishwasher can cook salmon, and the unconventional cooking method may prevent fishy sme...

The legendary DC nightclub, the 9:30 Club, was originally located at 930 F Street NW. It opened in 1980 and quickly became the epicenter of DC's punk and new wave scenes. It was a beloved hell hole, c...

I was trying to remember which music video of my youth was "worst." These came to mind:The 80s fad of people doing "exercises" as entertainment or as somehow sexually enticing was wrong.This song has ...

If we've become accustomed to anything in the past 19 months, it's sitting in the house like hermits waiting for whatever it is that dumb people are keeping around finds the exit (looking at you, Delt...

For 31 years, the Annals of Improbable Research have awarded the delightful Ig Nobel Prizes honoring scientific "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." Of this year's te...

Minnesota hemp farmer Ted Galaty created a two-acre maze of cannabis plants to educate the public about industrial uses of the plant which lacks psychoactive properties but has myriad commercial uses ...

Joe Navarrois a former FBI agent who specializes in nonverbal communication, body language, and other fascinating aspects of human behavior. He's written numerous books on these subjects, includingThe...

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg collaborated with biotechnologists and a scent researcher to harness the tools of synthetic biology to reproduce approximations of extinct flowers' smells. They extracted DNA ...

The victim chose not to file a complaint, meaning the belligerent woman smirking and coughing at her (previously at BB) in a Nebraska grocery store hasn't gotten in any legal trouble. But video virali...

Like so many people, I spent September 11, 2001 glued to CNN. The raw video above and below show what was happening behind-the-scenes at CNN Center Atlanta.Over at r/ObscureMedia, JohnConquest writes:...

Airplane anti-maskers account for 75% of unruly passenger complaints and are becoming more emboldened and belligerent. The TSA is increasing its fines for people who refuse to wear them on flights. Wi...

John M. Wallis, a teacher at Neosho Junior High School in Missouri, resigned last week after administrators told him he had to remove a Pride flag in his schoolroom because a parent had complained he ...

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer says that the court's dead-of-night decision to allow Texas's abortion ban to come into law was "very, very, very wrong"."I'll add one more 'very,' " the liberal J...

It's widely remarked that webcams are incredibly low-quality, even the Logitech models that win recommendations [Amazon], despite a market blasted into orbit by the Covid pandemic. People who dont wan...

On Uncle Jam's YouTube channel, it is noted that clamhunters in Korea resemble a swarm of warboys fanning out into the desert to pursue the War Rig. . ("The rushing procession of clam digging cul...

Auctioneers in Australia have some of the vehicles seen Mad Max: Fury Road on the block, including Imperator Furiosa's Tatra T815 War Rig and the Doof Wagon.Available for expressions of Madness is a M...

I never quite got used to my Planck keyboard, and I'd never get used to this, either. But isn't the OLKB ortholinear keyboard for the modular MNT Reform laptop just uncannily perfect? The absurd simp...

In "Five Years," the final song on the seminal sci-fi rock opera The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, David Bowie sings of the coming destruction that will ravage the Earth i...

"Roger Payne sparked the anti-whaling movement. He's not done yet."Stuart Firestein for NautilusJust over fifty years ago, scientist Roger Payne released the album Songs of the Humpback Whale to the g...

"Free Blockbuster" is like a chain of "little free libraries", except it circulates that noble medium of the home-video era: The VHS tape. You can drop one off or take one. The movement was started in...

Printer ink and toner cartridges are one of those inescapable necessities if you need to do physical printing. You not only can't come up with an alternative to ink and ink cartridges for printing phy...

Apparently Roomba owners who also own dogs have long encountered a problem: If the dog poops on the floor, their helpful robot vacuum rides right over it and smears it across the living room. So iRobo...

About 2 dozen students pushed into their school in Manchester, Michigan egged on by their anti-masking parents, past Manchester Superintendent Brad Bezeau Tuesday in defiance of the county's mask man...

Sound quality and functionality are everything when it comes to the speaker you use to play music. What's the point of listening to your favorite artists and songs on anything that makes them sound le...

The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against the state of Texas over its 6-week abortion ban, saying that it is clearly unconstitutional and was crafted to avoid legal scrutiny."The United ...

Actress Olivia Munn has been in recent headlines following the announcement of her pregnancy with comedian John Mulaney. She's also gained attention for excerpts of her 2010 book that critics call fat...

On Monday, Marina Verbitsky and her husband and son arrived too late to board their JetBlue flight at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Apparently the boarding doors had closed and ...

Just like you'd do your research before making an investment, searching for a career path that promises long-term growth is of utmost importance. And given that jobs in cybersecurity are predicted to ...

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki commented on Texas Governor Greg Abbott's misinformed and stupid attempt to defend his state's absurd, horrendous, and dangerous ban on abortions after six weeks ...

That's it. The headline is worth the post. But just in case you require more context, Stephen Cooper, 46, was arrested for swiping a package of Viagra from a pharmacy in Leek, England. Apparently he h...

I like the charcoal flavor of barbecued steak and chicken, but it's hard to cook vegetables on my Weber grill, because the vegetables tend to fall between the wires. Grilling mats prevent that from ha...

On August 21, a strange UFO was spotted (and caught on video) floating above Mississauga, Ontario. On YouTube, one commenter raised the possibility that it was another sighting of "Jet Pack Man." Anot...

The weekend after Donal Trump won the US presidential election in 2016, Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live. In this video, he reflects on the scene that week. "A good joke in a hard situation i...

The State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh is for sale! Opened in 1882 and finally closed just four years ago, the 20.2-acre facility is located in the Marshall-Shadeland neighborhood and includes ...

Jen Psaki shared that mandates, for masks and vaccines, are gaining wider acceptance as vaccinated folks are tired of waiting on those who are not.Masks and vaccination are the quickest paths back to ...

Lao Gan Ma chili oil has been known in my family as 'Liquid Evil' for as long as I can remember. There are many varieties, however, and they have different uses. This fantastic video by Chinese Cooki...

Surprise! When a controversial Republican candidate to replace California's governor Newsom decided to tour some of Venice Beach, California's most entrenched homeless encampments someone threw an egg...

A 2011 study into Ivermectin's affects on the sperm counts of men suffering from river blindness [PDF] found that 85% of them experienced sperm dysfunction of some kind. But as fact-checkers point out...

This set of Haunted Mansion car seat covers would transform my truck.My two dogs make seat covers on cloth car seats a must. The amount of wear and tear from their paws, plus the tons of dog hair that...

Today would have been the legendary Otis Redding's 81st birthday. ...

Neo's back in the Matrix and not-so-blissfully unaware of what has (or will?) transpire, but evidently soon makes connections. Most of the old cast is back, with Neil Patrick Harris a prominent newcom...

Just yesterday I was talking to a friend who is working on this film. Having seen the third installment, I remarked that The Matrix seemed pretty over and was told "this is a love story." ...

An enchanting new Twitter account shows TV shrink Frasier Crane looking out of his penthouse balcony only to find that Seattle has been replaced by the environments of various popular games. Pictured ...

A police officer who dragged a schoolboy with autism down a hallway and aimed a kick at him was convicted of assault at a magistrate's court and and found guilty of gross misconduct by a board of his ...

A police officer who dragged a schoolboy with autism down a hallway and aimed a kick at him was convicted of assault at a magistrate's court and and found guilty of gross misconduct by a board of his ...

Sure, school may be out of session for you, but you're really never truly done learning. There's still so much out there to explore in the big bad world, and all of that culture isn't just going to sh...

The Slow Mo Guys filmed an old cathode ray tube TV (playing Super Mario Bros.) with an ultra high-speed camera. It struck me that I've always known how CRTs workthe RGB electron beams trained across t...

Sports now.Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly made a strange joke during the postgame interview when talking about his team's ability to execute during the game against Florida State....

"Non-line-of-sight imaging" is the technique of shining light in a direction and measuring all the ways it bounces off objects to determine their rough shape — including ones the person holding ...

The "milk crate challenge" erupted a few weeks ago on Tik Tok; it consists of people attempting to ascend and descend a pyramidal staircase made of milk crates. Behold …As with various former lo...

"- You stupid.– No, I'm not.– What's nine plus ten?– Twenty one.– You stupid."In 2013, defunct video-sharing app Vine catapulted this odd exchange to virality (archived, of cou...

Acclaimed electric guitarist Sarah Lipstate (who records under the name Noveller) just released this hauntingly gorgeous rendition of the Twin Peaks theme song, performed on a perfect recreation of th...

Sci-Hub provides free access to millions of papers and books. Its disregard for copyright makes it the target of legal threats, but its mission of providing open access to publicly-funded studies has ...

Writer Brian VanHooker embarked on a quest to eat 40 pizzas in a month. Thanks to a liberal definition of "pizza" (Boboli, eggs, and cheese as breakfast pizza?), he emerged victorious after 30 days, h...

Feeling lackluster in your day-to-day these days while trying to make literally anything more interesting? We totally get that, and while your white paper may be just that, completely white, we've got...

Conan O'Brien recently interviewed Daniel "Harry Potter" Radcliffe, who has turned out OK despite being the ultimate mass-culture child star. The "secret" is, frankly, that he never actually went to H...

My mother cracked the glass screen protector on her iPhone. She knew that she has the same model I do, and called to see if I had a spare screensaver I could rush over. Then she expected me to put it ...

Who's going to be the next generation of web developers? It could be you! Of course, you're wondering, how are you going to learn web development? Where do you even begin? These can be daunting questi...

The majestic Great Blue Heron, with a 6-foot wing span, surveys the Central Park wetland in Manhattan. It stabs a rat, drowns it and swallows it whole, slippery naked tail and all. Gross! But that's o...

This is honestly pretty impressive. from TikTokCringe We all know the original Yakko's World song, but have you heard it sung by the leaders of the countries Yakko lists? Now you...

This waterproof, clear toiletry zipper bag is TSA approved, and more durable than a ziploc bag. The squared-off shape and thicker plastic makes it easier to fill with liquid containers....

Spain's youngest Catholic bishop, Xavier Novell, resigned last month after confessing that he fell in love with the author of Satanic-themed erotic fiction. Novell was a high-profile bishop in Solsona...

Regulators in North Carolina found artwork by famed artist Ralph Steadman, on Flying Dog's Freezin' Season beer, somehow objectionable. Naturally, Flying Dog, who has a history of winning these argume...

COVID -19 continues to worsen in the southern United States. Tennessee now has more people infected than at any other time in the pandemic.WBIR 10:New data from the state health department showed near...

Zach Lapidus Music posts this with apologies to… everyone.And if you're not hip to the magic of the original Seinfeld theme, you should know that the theme song was slightly different in every e...

Volusia County Councilperson Fred Lowry has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Lowry was aggressively spreading disinformation about the virus before his hospitalization. Lowry is suffering double pneum...

As the congressional panel investigating the January 6th morons' rebellion serves data requests to social media and other online entities, it is finding that encryption will stand in its way.Politico:...

Inside Slab City, The Lawless City in the Desert offers a glimpse into the daily lives of people who live in Slab City, an off-the-grid community located in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Deser...

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/ starts as a simple Google search. Then things go south, and you realize you're in an awfully familiar nightmare. Congrats, you're the millionth user and you get...

I love cooking on cast iron. While Cowboy Kent Rollins isn't sharing rocket science here, his lesson on simply cleaning up and re-seasoning your pans is easy to follow. The trick of warming the pan to...

I have been fascinated by TikTok user Eighteenwheelin's collection of videos wherein cars are being smashed and torn apart at what appears to be a salvage yard. @eighteenwheelin original sound R...

In this series of 1989 interviews with the Goths, Cureheads, and Pyschobillies of Grafton street, Dublin, many boldly dressed kids are stopped and asked about their fashion sense and taste in music. S...

Irne du Pont (1876-1963) was the former president of the DuPont company, head of the family trust, and reported racist, anti-Semite, and extreme right winger. According to Gerard Colyb's book Du Pont ...

Irne du Pont (1876-1963) was the former president of the DuPont company, head of the family trust, and reported racist, anti-Semite, and extreme right winger. According to Gerard Colyb's book Du Pont ...

Irne du Pont (1876-1963) was the former president of the DuPont company, head of the family trust, and reported racist, anti-Semite, and extreme right winger. According to Gerard Colyb's book Du Pont ...

In honor of Radiohead's 20th and 21st anniversaries of Kid A and Amnesiac, the band is releasing a triple-LP deluxe versionKid A Mnesiacombining the two albums along with a third record titled Kid Amn...

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...

Lip-smacking, chomping, loud eaters and noisy mouth breathers tend to gross us out. But for people with misophoniaa disorder in which tolerance of such sounds is dramatically decreasedhearing those no...

Today the statue of slaver general Robert Lee comes down in Richmond, Virginia. Here's some footage! The crowd sings "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye!"...

Craftsman Love Hultn (previously, previously) created the EC1, probably the most handsome custom synth I've seen so far this decadeA hand crafted lunch box system built around a Roland JU-06A, a ...

"Jazzkeys" was created by Plan8, a design firm that does music/sound for brands, film and interactive what-have-yous.It's a word processor that plays music as you type — each keypress is transla...

For decades now, card games have been bringing family and friends together for competitive, good-natured fun. There are the giants we all know like Cards Against Humanity, Poker, and Uno. However, a n...

My in-laws have a place in Vermont, with a neat little treehouse in the back. It had fallen into rot and disuse over the years, but now that I have a kid, my father-in-law and brother-in-law decided t...

"Founded in 1996, Seattle's Mars Hill Church was poised to be an influential, undeniable force in evangelicalismthat is until its spiraling collapse in 2014. The church and its charismatic founder, Ma...

A new scientific paper finds that warm-blooded animals are evolving larger beaks, legs, ears and tails, as they try to adapt to a warmer planet."Appendages have an important, but often undervalued, ro...

Michael Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, is most famous for demoting Pluto from planet to planetoida sad but necessary consequence of his discovery that there are numerous planetoid...

Kobowriter [github] is software by olup that turns a Kobo [Amazon] into a nice simple e-ink typewriter. Just bring your own battery-powered keyboard and Bob's your uncle.For years I thought that e-ink...

In 1981, Performance artist, inventor, and founder of Survival Research LaboratoriesMark Pauline went live on the television show SFO to blow stuff up. An intrigued yet nervous crowd gathered around a...

In 1981, Performance artist, inventor, and founder of Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Pauline, went live on the television show SFO to blow stuff up. An intrigued-yet-nervous crowd gathered aroun...

Try it for yourself, or make it into a game with a friend: both of you can choose the starting page that the other person will use. Whoever gets to Philosophy the most quickly wins. I played this with...

This Red Hot Copper Ingot Dropped into Ice (listen to sound) from oddlysatisfying Watch in satisfaction and confusion as a red-hot hunk of metal gurgles and hisses its way throug...

This video of a Nebraska woman intentionally coughing on fellow grocery store shoppers is circulating on various social media sites. "A shopper and her daughter say were accosted by another shopper Fr...

Last Friday, US District Judge Max Cogburn ruled that Lonnie Billard, a gay substitute drama and English teacher in North Carolina, was wrongfully fired in 2014. Cogburn ruled that the Charlotte ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder who dressed up as Steve Jobs and wowed west-coast VCs and east-coast magazines with imaginary blood testing machines, is embarking on her long trial on fraud cha...

Sponsored by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Writer Beware is one of the longest-running and most oddly satisfying literary blogs on the 'net, tracking the weird and wild world of ...

If you're just getting started in your career, trying to figure it, or thinking about changing your path to a different one, you'll need a good solid career plan to set you up for success. While ...

Freshen up your house the simple way with the Sirena Vacuum Cleaner, which comes complete with accessories and a fragrance pack. Alright clean freaks and clutter busters, here's what you get with the ...

Thanks to MEL Magazine, I've just learned about r/Aeromorph, the subreddit where people share their favorite images of sexy, big-titted airplanes. The autocorrect on my computer tried to change that t...

Star of Marvel's latest smash hit Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings once took stock photo modeling gigs to pay his bills. This stock photos of Simu Liu are so funny help #$&@* pic.twitter....

Mean life hack from TikTokCringe This TikTok from user @mattydovids gives simple, concise instructions on how to fold that pesky fitted sheet that you usually just ball up and pl...

In another case of "conservatives: stupid or evil?" Rep. Jim Jordan leaves me pondering: Is he ignorant of the facts of American history, which makes him carelessly tweet this stupid statement, OR doe...

Everybody wants the freedom to work on an Excel spreadsheet on one screen and watch classic cat mischief videos on YouTube on another. However, having two laptops, or traditional dual monitors, can be...

Burning Man 1997: An ABC Nightline Investigation gives an inside look at what the annual Burning Man festival was like in '97, when it was just a little over a decade old. One dude in the video says t...

Something says 'fun' and not really 'terrifying' about these LEGO Star Wars tales, but you can be sure I'll watch!Palpatine is mostly just comical anyways, live-action or LEGO....

In Chicago, three men were separately charged this week for illegally carrying guns. Curiously, all three were out on bond with pending felony gun violations, ranging from "unlawful use of a weapon" t...

Simone Biles has long been one of my daughter's heroes, and thus mine. This Instagram post is one of the best I have seen on the platform: View this post on Instagram A post shared ...

I stay in hotels quite a bit, and these silicone putty earplugs are the best ones I've found for muffling noise. My ear canals don't work well with those cylindrical foam plugs. They leave an air gap....

New COVID-19 data from Utah, Virginia, and King County where Seattle is located suggests that the real chance of a vaccinated person getting a breakthrough infection is around one in 5,000. According ...

A doctor on the frontlines, battling Texas' massive summer pediatric COVID-19 surge, blames the Republican governor and state legislature for inadequately responding to the pandemic. Houston Public Me...

Tennessee law enforcement has apprehended a 'man from Michigan' carrying his 'Baby Yoda' doll stuffed with fentanyl.WKRN.com:Rutherford County Sheriff's Captain Britt Reed said the Fentanyl found insi...

After 12 hours in surgery, twin girls who had spent their first year of life conjoined at the backs of their heads saw each other for the first time. The operation at Israel's Soroka Medical Centre ha...

It looks like a duck and talks like a duck talking like a human. A duck named Ripper who lives in Australia's Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve learned to say "You bloody fool," providing further evidence to...

ProtonMail provided the IP address of a user to Swiss authorities, investigating a climate change activist known to use an email address at the privacy-promising service. ProtonMail has said in the pa...

I'm not big on classic films that have been colorized, but the process applied to this 1933 footage of the last surviving Tasmanian tiger in captivity is wondrous. The National Film and Sound Archive ...

There's nothing quite like watching a seahorse give birth to 2,000 tiny babies. National Geographic published this video showing one shoot offpsring out of its stomach, bursts of tiny yellow specks ex...

Widely available on eBay, Amazon and the other usual places under a dizzying variety of generative brand names, this 21V mini chainsaw is a ticket to the emergency room for America's hapless gardeners...

Robert Lee commanded Confederate armies during the U.S. Civil War, but by the end of it he wouldn't have any slaves. By Wednesday evening, he won't have a giant statue in Richmond, either.A towering s...

Welcome to Telosa, a $400bn utopian city that might be built in Arizona, or Colorado, or maybe somewhere in the Appalachian mountains. Who cares, so long as someone's paying? [ Papasan]Telosa's public...

After the Supreme Court allowed Texas's abortion ban to come into effect, providing bounties to private "abortion hunters" who sue women and anyone who helps them get an abortion, uncertainty reigns. ...

In 1990, the USA's Paul Lim dazzled the audience at the Darts World Championship with a spectacular burst of accuracy that resulted in the championship's first ever nine-dart finish, or perfect game....

"Guy" wasn't a word until the early 1600s when Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the English Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The name became an insult, and addressing a group as "you guys" would have ...

Frequencies supposedly involved are between 5 and 9 Hz, below the lower frequency limit of human hearing. The Brown Note's effects on the bowels are controversial, though, and many studies report that...

Can't agree with your partner on a road trip playlist? Let Spotify curate your music based on both of your listening habits. "Spotify is globally rolling out Blend, which invites two users (with ...

The revered Barefoot Contessa has many talents. Most people know her for her approachable guides to cooking and hosting: over the years, her career has included best-selling cookbooks, magazine column...

Iowa senator Chuck Grassley seems to have control of his own Twitter account, and over the past decade, he has frequently posted about doing "u kno what" at Dairy Queen. Sorry, Chuck, but we don't kno...

When I was in San Diego for the Clarion Writer's Workshop in 2013, I remember seeing a man catch an enormous lobster with a fishing pole and then promptly throw it back into the ocean. Having spent m...

The Pantera PicoPC is a tiny PC (2.5" square and 1.7" tall) that runs fast enough to pass muster as a practical daily driver. Though a little larger than some rival models, that fact brings us to its ...

We all want to make the most out of our moola, but if your cash is fleeting, it may be time for a job that pays a little better. Getting into IT is a great way to, not just to make a lucrative living ...

With iPhones constantly changing, getting better and better with each new release, it's hard to keep up with all the accompanying gadgets, especially when it comes to car chargers. But if you're looki...

While we all settle in nicely back at the office, or if you've been forced back to the work-from-home grind thanks to people making poor choices, chances are desks your desk has become a catch-all for...

The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is remembered for its destructive intensity and terrible death toll. But the scale of the disaster can mask some remarkable personal stories. In this week's episod...

Watch this video to learn about the Creepy Doll Adoption Agency. You can make a difference today and give a haunted or unsettling doll a brand new home. Many people out there find themselves unable to...

Toothbrushes might seem like a good idea for scrubbing small areas, but they are not angled properly for the job and they wear out fast. The OXO good grips deep clean brush set has two brushes an...

Larry Elder is the most likely of the GOP candidates to replace California governor Gavin Newsom should voters recall Newsom in this month's recall election. Elder, a conservative black man, is a trea...

Kurt Roberts spent a few hours on Stack Rock Fort, an abandoned installation in a Welsh estuary build upon a rocky outcropping barely visible around it. It looks like a perfect place to estape to for ...

Picture this: a stranger has cool shoes and you want the same ones. You ask where they're from, and he says he doesn't know because they were a gift. Enter Scan feature, a new Snapchat tool that ...

A Tiktok from @theneedletok walks through Ivanka Trump's public Spotify. Most of her playlists are a few years old, and they have straightforward names like "Walk to work," and 2015 banger, "Holiday P...

Hey, hot stuff! Flamin' Hot Cheetos ice cream, a spicy version of Goldfish crackers, and Flamin' Hot… Mountain Dew? More brands are releasing spicy versions of foods, even absurd contenders...

When I walk out the door, I can't help but run through my "phone, wallet, keys" checklist. Perhaps that list may shorten as digital ID options gain popularity. "Residents of Arizona and Georgia will s...

This weekend, Barren Magazine's Danielle Rose wrote on the mirage of poetry. "I wish poets understood that the general population has no interest in what we do, so when we speak we are speaking only t...

It was today brought to my attention that we have never posted Radiactive Tubular Girls, LeeDM101's perfect mashup of Mike Oldfield, Kraftwerk, Duran Duran and (courtesy of Instamatic's video) midcent...

Police pulled over a 33-year-old fugitive wanted for assaulting a traffic guard. But they let him go after he refused to co-operate with the arresting officers, who excused themselves by saying the ma...

Imagine an older lady in Naples, Italy, playing a "scratch and win" card and believing she had won. She goes to the shop with elated expectation where she purchased it to present it to the kindly toba...

Harpers Bazaar reports on the similarities between in-group catchphrases of "wellness mommy bloggers" and the language used by cults. These so-called "momfluencers," who tend to be white and financial...

I enjoy the occasional missives from the Pulp Librarian on Twitter, which is how I discovered the work of prolific crab sci-wi writer Guy N. Smith:In the follow-up Killer Crabs (1976) the massive man-...

Running out of things to do while we wait out whatever it is this pandemic will bring next? We've got some ideas on how to keep yourself sane, as well as some apps that can improve your quality of lif...

These days, it's almost impossible to keep your head on straight and not go insane, let alone keep all of your ducks in a row, files organized. Heck, you don't even know the names of all of your kids,...

Whether for work, play, sleep, or jogging around your neighborhood, you're going to need a good pair of headphones. Before you go too crazy trying to find the perfect pair, stop by and try these Sleep...

I compulsively buy precision screwdriver sets and sit there for hours arranging them neatly. I don't even have a self-built PC or barely-accessible Mac anymore. No need for a T8, nor a 2.3. I just lik...

Since the early 17th century, the small town of Muff in County Cavan, Ireland has celebrated summer with a Muff Festival. See the town's name actually comes from a bad Anglicization of Magh, which mea...

This slide show of the legendary Hanatarash bulldozer gig shows incredible photos of the Japanese noise band's 1985 performance where they drove a bulldozer through the back wall of a venue and onto t...

The Vinland map is a purportedly 15th-century document depicting the coastline of North America decades before it was charted by John Cabot. A new scan shows conclusively that it is a hoax: the ink us...

Need a new hobby? There's never been a better time to sit on your tush and learn a new skill than right now, especially now that we're going back into hibernation mode thanks to people making wrong ch...

Student Tino Cardasis took advantage of an online lecture recording of a University of Michigan economics lecture, editing out almost everything except the word "beef." Professor Adam Stevenson seemed...

Sometimes, the rejected New Yorker cartoon submissions have their own draw (previously). Willy Staley and Matt Jordan understand that wholeheartedly, and they are done trying to win. For about a decad...

The site is called Cheap Bots Done Quick, but it's free to use. It's also astonishingly easy and requires little technical knowledge. Bots on Twitter may not be the height of humor nor the pinnacle of...

Drowning in literature? Scientists often must manage research, teaching, and acquiring funding, and more. It can be hard to find time to read new papers in the field. It can also help non-specialists ...

When you were a kid back in the day, sitting bored in class, time seemed like it stood still. But these days, with meetings at work, doctor appointments, and get-togethers with friends jam-packed in y...

Everyday carry (EDC) has exploded in popularity over the past decade, and it isn't too difficult to find enthusiasts who ogle over multifunctional wallets, pocket knives, and even flashlights. Now may...

AI Neural Networks typically aim to replicate the functions of the human brain. But with some 86 billion neurons in our brains, well, that makes for a pretty complicated machine. Lots of potential, su...

This was the top of my feed when I looked at Google News this morning. ...

It is unsurprising that a movie where all the good guys are named after popular brands did not hold up very well, however, the bit where Big John Studd's Jack Daniels powerslides his motorcycle while ...

The resident in this footage is reportedly safe and well, reports Eyewitness News 2, but the terrifying video shows why Hurricane Ida's overwhelming rainfall caused so many deaths in east-coast baseme...

Here's KLF's The Manual for the YouTube age, by Paul E.T. (Previously: How Filmmakers Make Cameras Disappear) The basics: don't waste money on a fancy camera or lenses, save the budget for the audio g...

A physician says people are taking so much ivermectin they'd have been better off with COVID-19.The Hill:Physician Jason McElyea told KFOR patients who took doses of ivermectin meant for a horse are f...

International politics once again dominates the tabloids this week – and they wonder why circulations are falling. With coronavirus still raging it seems that Hollywood celebrities aren't gettin...

Flying Saucers Are Real! by Jack Womack (not the one by Donald Keyhoe!) features an extensive catalogue of UFO content from his personal library. I received this book recently for my birthday and was ...

The New York Times, among others, wants us to beleive that America's cops are quitting their cushy, safe, six-figure jobs because morale is low. But labor data shows otherwise, with only 1% leaving th...

Labor Day signals the start of the school year, but it also makes way for something even more excitingsummer sales. If you feel like treating yourself to some retail therapy this coming long weekend, ...

Amazing Fantasy No. 15 by Steve Ditko received a high bid for $2.82 million a week before Heritage Auctions' September Comics and Comic Art event. Spider Man's very first appearance takes place in thi...

Minus was created by Ben Grosser, and each user can only make 100 posts. Once you've made your 100 posts, there is no going backthat's it. On Minus, there are no likes, follows, or noisy notifications...

In this 30-minute video, Bill of the Bill Making Stuff YouTube channel, shows many of the tricks of the trade for scratch-building/trash bashing models, for tabletop gaming, or just for fun. Bill is t...

There's a lot going on in the world, but tension between a rapper and a piglet is making headlines. Though Kanye West is no stranger to online beef, this is the first time he's been dragged by a Briti...

Twitter has launched "Super Follows" on iOS. The feature lets users charge for subscriber-only content, and mimics the subscriber model used by Patreon, Substack, and other platforms. The feature is c...

Whether it's catching something memorable on vacation or performing the latest viral TikTok dance, you depend on your smartphone to film some of life's most unforgettable moments. But just like anythi...

Please enjoy this short excerpt from the new McSweeney's piece entitled OH MY FUCKING GOD, GET THE FUCKING VACCINE ALREADY, YOU FUCKING FUCKS:Hi, if you are reading this essay then congratulations, yo...

From your iPhone to your iPad to your wireless buds, you can't ever have enough outlets at home, especially if they're already packed with other gadgets and appliances. And while you could opt for a p...

I recently came across this 2002 Playbill interview with songwriter Jim Steinman, who passed away earlier this year. The conversation was mostly about his then-upcoming Broadway flop, Dance of the Vam...

While the video credits Beavis and Butthead, the story they tell is really one of MTV falling in and out of love with hair rock. The Seventeen video playing on MTV made the band Winger seem like an ov...

Vyvianna Quinonez, filmed punching a flight attendant who asked her to stow her tray table, now faces federal assault charges of assault and interfering with a flight. Both are felonies.The altercatio...

We've become accustomed to wireless chargers that harness a phenomenon called electromagnetic induction to power up nearby mobile devices. The range is very low though, usually requiring the device to...

A screw with a stripped head can be difficult to remove.There are a number of ways to remove screws with stripped heads. Lifehacker has a nice article on this subject.My favorite method of removing a ...

In this Amoeba "What's in my Bag" episode, the great Bob Mould (Hsker D, Sugar) talks about some of the records that influenced and inspired him, from The Buzzcocks to Garbage to Dua Lipa.Image: Scree...

I am awake now.Let us not forget there is always that time Bananarama covered the Sex Pistols, as well....

One of the first fantasy series I remember reading, Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time is coming to Amazon video.Also:...

A banner plane message caused quite a stir when spotted in the skies above Pembroke Pines, Florida last weekend. Amid a rise in anti-semitic crimes and hate speech, it's easy to understand why a messa...

Apparently, some folks assume that McDonald's is somehow acting nefariously, rather than telling the truth when they claim their ice cream machines are overly complicated and prone to failure. The Wal...

John's Old Time Radio Show is an incredible music podcast by John Heneghan. Every episode, he plays and talks about 78 rpm records from his collection. When I can't decide whether to listen to music o...

Though not pleased by the scenes of chaos at Kabul airport, Americans overwhelmingly approve of U.S. forces leaving Afghanistan. The 8/10 approval rating (a truly exceptional unanimity in an exception...

Remember back in 2018 when Banksy's painting "Love is in the Bin" (aka "The Girl and Balloon") shredded itself at a Sotheby's live auction right after it sold to an unidentified bidder for more than 1...

Tucker Carlson on Fox News last night: "There [Biden] is lecturing us about Roe v. Wade, the sacred 5-4 ruling that invented the right to abortion out of nothing." Thing is, Roe V. Wade was actua...

The Stratus was a dance club in Spring Valley, California where New Wavers and alternative kids got their eyeliner, hairspray, and boogie on. This fantastic footage is circa 1986-1987 when (ahem) ever...

Apple announced that it planned to scan images on iPhones to see if they matched the signatures of known child abuse images. Though iCloud mail (and many cloud storage services) are already subject to...

A new article from New Scientist reveals a fun twist to an earlier study of octopus behaviors:In 2015, Peter Godfrey-Smith at the University of Sydney and his colleagues filmed several commo...

Students at Mesquite Elementary School in Vail, Arizona, a suburb of Tucson, were in close contact with an individual who tested positive for Covid. After the students were told to isolate, as per sta...

8bitdash turns Mike Ferrari's legendary color-cycling landscape animations (and many other exacmples of fantastic animated GIF art) into the backdrops for a desktop dashboard you can stare at all day ...

Jacob Chansley, among the mob of Trump supporters who sacked the U.S. Capitol in January, has two things to say. First, he would like to no longer be referred to as the Qanon Shaman, a sobriquet earne...

As an immigrant from Britain, I can confirm that the tornado situation there is terrible and it's definitely got something to do with the roundabouts, or "rotary intersections" as I have seen them lab...

Benjamin Dagley was filmed live-on air ranting at then lunging into MSNBC reporter Shaquille Brewster. Quickly identified due to certain prior infamies, Dagley reportedly went on the run. He's been fo...

Following Texas's ban on abortions as early as six weeks, TikTok activists have made efforts to sabotage the enforcement of the restrictions. An activist has made a script to flood a Texas website use...

Nurse with Wound's 1988 album Soliloquy for Lilith puts me in the perfect headspace when I'm drawing or writing about creepy subject matter. If you're a fan of dark ambient music, you might dig this a...

Nurse with Wound's 1988 album Soliloquy for Lilith puts me in the perfect headspace when I'm drawing or writing about creepy subject matter. If you're a fan of dark ambient music, you might dig this a...

Writer Miles Klee wrote about how he stopped taking his phone into the bathroom and it made him "a new man." "Jokes about being addicted to the internet are one thing. This behavior, though normalized...

There's no shortage of presidential food gaffs. Vice President Quayle famously misspelled "potato" in front of sixth graders in 1992, and Mayor Pete pigged out at the 2019 Iowa State Fair. Hillary Cli...

An anti-proverb [wikipedia] is the transformation of a standard proverb for humorous effect. Here are a few to get you started:The early worm gets picked first.All's well that endsIt take a viking to ...

I recently watched Jasper Mall,  a 2020 documentary film (directed by Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcombabout) about a dying mall in Jasper, Alabama. Jasper Mall originally opened in 1981,...

If you're like me and can't stand the wet, cavernous mouth-sounds of mainstream ASMR videos, give this one a try: a teeny-tiny little baby kitty chilling in the grass, getting the pets it deserves, an...

When the US firm Astra tried to launch its latest rocket up to low-earth orbit, one of the engines failed on the launch pad — so instead of going up, the rocket remained upright but shuffled off...

We may be on the last leg of summer, but that doesn't mean we're going to be stuck inside anytime soon. From having fun at tailgates before the big game to spending late nights with the family around ...

The band is back together! Swedish pop sensations ABBA have announced their first studio album since the early 1980s and a concert series. But this isn't just any concert, Anni-Frid, Agnetha, Benny an...

Texas Instruments' obsolete and overpriced TI-84 (previously) is the beneficiary of an intensely-lobbied academic monopoly, but sales have dropped in recent years. Last month, Texas Instruments releas...

Torrentfreak reports that British internet service provider Sky also a TV company that holds the lucrative license to broadcast Premiere League matches is "monitoring the IP addresses of servers sus...

These days, it never feels like time is on your side. Between the tight deadlines at work, social gatherings, and shopping trips you have to complete, your to-do list feels like it's growing by the mi...

Auctioneers at Binoche et Giquello hope that it's a good year for vintage furnishingsand that someone out there has at least $1.2m Euros and a lot of space to stash a full-size Triceratops skeleton. T...

Fox News host Pete Hamsandwich, or who-cares-what-his-name-is, praises Angie Ugarte, a Florida restaurant owner who posted a sign refusing to serve anyone who supports President Biden. Ugarte specific...

COVID-19 was the leading cause of death among active duty police in 2020, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. 264 federal, state, military, tribal, and local law enforcem...

Jen Psaki swiftly and deftly shut down a male reporter, reputedly from EWTN, "the global catholic network" questioning how President Biden could trust women to make their own decisions. Psaki tells a ...

I'm tired of Europeans going on about their fancy high-speed rain networks. You'd think the damn things walked on water....

In this footage, some people in the Florida Evergladesto be clear, they are gibbering moronsbother an alligator with their drone. The alligator devours the drone."Oh god he's eating it." "That's proba...

This 1995 Moringa "Super Ottotto" snack commercial is absurdly wonderful. I had to watch it five times and couldn't stop laughing. This might be the silliest snack commercial I've ever seen. My questi...

For decades two of the most iconic names in motorcycling have largely stayed out of each other's way. Now, Harley has introduced an adventure bike, and BMW has released a cruiser of all things.Harley'...

Osaka University scientists isolated stem cells from Wagyu cows and used them to 3D print a hunk of steak with the correct arrangement of muscle, fat, and blood vessels that makes Wagyu beef so specia...

Jea Jensen is a 27-year-old creator behind Petfinder Names, which introduces you to weird and wild pet names, like a pigeon named Mr. World Wide and a dog named Thicken Nugget. Other viral posts...

Tune into Five Minutes of Pink Oyster Mushroom Playing Modular Synthesizer to hear a mushroom sing some groovy tunes. In MycoLyco's video, a flush of pink oyster mushrooms are hooked up to a eurorack ...

This fantastic video by Jill Bearup is a wonderful resource that everyone involved in designing armor for female characters would likely benefit from....

Retrieved from the vaults for a 50th anniversary box set of The Doors' L.A. Woman is this grittier original demo of "Riders on the Storm" recorded at Sunset Sound Studios. From Rolling Stone:The origi...

Seems actor John Schneider, best know for his time on The Dukes of Hazzard, had a copy of the odious 'General Lee' smashed, and another was tossed into a tree when Hurrican Ida came through. Hollywood...

Seems actor John Schneider, best know for his time on The Dukes of Hazzard, had a copy of the odious 'General Lee' smashed, and another was tossed into a tree when Hurricane Ida came through. Hollywoo...

Jonathan George, 31, first told local law enforcement that he had trained his dog to fetch him his firearm and that the boxer had set the gun off in its mouth. As the clown was very drunk, the police ...

Hundreds of people are lining up at Twin Palms Chiropractic in Venice, Florida where chiropractor Dan Busch is signing forms to medically exempt kids from wearing masks in the Sarasota County School D...

I don't know who Grandpa Witmer is, but around our compound, he's a SubGenius ShorDurPerSav and a Discordian Saint. We use Saint Witmer's Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Mixer to mix peanut butter qu...

The above image is not a color photo of those people. The colors you see are an optical illusion."It's a black & white photo, but overlaid with a thin grid of coloured lines," tweeted digital arti...

Pictured here are the first two panels of Matthew Ingman's latest three-panel comic at The Oatmeal. You'll have to click through for the rest. It's very eye-catching. [ Bruce Heerssen]...

In July, 58 pregnant cows that had been grazing in North Dakota's Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge were found dead. Another 15, also pregnant, lost their fetuses but survived. How or why this happen...

The O. MG USB cable comes with USB-C or Lightning tips and costs $120. If that seems extraordinarily expensive for a USB cable, it's because this one was made by security researcher MG and has WiFi, r...

I feel sorry for any child that was forced to listen to this eerie audiobook about what happens when people die. I also wonder if the narrator was high on drugs. As gospel music plays in the backgroun...

Growing up in the 70s and early 80s, I was morbidly fascinated by Grimace, the McDonaldland character. I'm old enough to remember when Grimace was a) an evil character who stole milkshakes, and b) pos...

The subreddit r/beararms contains photos and videos of waving bears. ...

Whether you're out camping with the fam or tailgating before a game with the crew, solar cookers sure come in clutch. But on those days when you can barely see the Sun behind the clouds, whipping up y...

Abortion is now effectively banned in Texas, and the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to block the 6-week "heartbeat" law in a 5-4 decision. Roe v. Wade is not formally overturned, but it is as good as ...

Pong was created by Al Alcorn for Atari in 1972. Pong was made of circuits. Pong has now been implemented in Paul Falstad's Circuit Simulator, as ported to Javascript by Iain Sharp. So now you may wa...

Iron Circus Comics is a great independent press that's been kicking around since 2007. Founded by artist/writer C. Spike Trotman creator of comics like Templar, Arizona and Smut Peddler the company ...

Believe it or not, Dandelion is way more than just a weed growing in your yard. Dandelion grows all over the place in North America, and there's a good chance you have some in your neighborhood. Up un...

Many authors will go to great lengths to minimize their negative reviews, and a slew of one-star careers can be a major detriment to a writer's career. Because of the influence of the book review site...

GTP-3, the deep-learning language model created by OpenAI that's eerily good at writing human-sounding text, was trained on data that ended in October 2019. That means it hasn't been trained on any te...

Playing massive jump rope from oddlysatisfying It's hard to count how many students are participating in this giant, intimidating, potentially dangerous game of jumprope, but it'...

Kailey Schmitt wanted to make herself a dress and didn't want to buy a bunch of fabric to do it. She already had a ton of plastic bags, so Voil! Plastic bag dress made exclusively from Target shopping...

Sharing is caring, or, at least that's what we were taught as children. In many cases this is true.However, this most definitely shouldn't be the rule when it comes to sharing our own sensitive person...

If your day-to-day work or your insatiable Instagram addiction are keeping you on your phone all day, chances are you're having trouble keeping it charged. And chances are, your friends and loved ones...

Once again the Lockpicking Lawyer is more clever than a viewer who sends him a locking USB stick from 'Rick Astley.'...

The US Marines have discharged a service member for failing to adhere to COVID-19 vaccination and mask-wearing policies. Marine Cpl. Whitney McHaffie had previously accepted the other mandatory vaccin...

Websites From Hells links to sites with charmingly terrible designdesign so bad it's sometimes dubbed "HTML abuse." These websites feel like a time portal to when UX didn't exist and nothing hurt. ANG...

Watching this guy make a Disco Cube with Magnets from oddlysatisfying Originally posted by MagneticGames on Youtube, this snippy, snappy construction process is a pleasure for th...

Alex Fermin was in New York City's 46th St. station when he spotted some cops who weren't wearing covid masks, as they are currently required to around other people. He asked them to mask up, and one ...

If you have wondered how Netflix manages to crank out its endless river of documentaries on pretty much everything mundane, Youtuber Paul E.T. has cracked the code.Here he shares their formula in a st...

In an attempt to find more people willing to deliver their packages Amazon has instructed its 'delivery partners' to stop screen for marijuana. Doing so is anticipated to help ease the workforce short...

The Velvet Underground is my favorite band of all time. I've worn out the first four albums, hunted down the bootlegs, read the books, watched the films, and smiled nervously at Lou Reed across the ro...

These folks are screaming and punching mad over protecting children while actually exposing them to a deadly pandemic.Take This: Tempers flare and fists fly over a school mask mandate in Florida's Lee...

Last year I heard a lot of stories from folks who just had to go with a small group of friends and 'be' on 'the playa.' I guess the need to be together on the playa continues to outweigh good sense. &...

After trying out a lot of different scrub brushes, I think the OXO Good Grips scrub brush is the best. I prefer this palm-style brush to brushes with a handle because I can really bear down on the pot...

Tardigrades, aka "water bears," are .02-inch-long animals that live throughout Earth's biospheres, from below solid Antarctic ice to deep ocean trenches and rainforests. Most animals of that size are ...

At the end of an LA Times report on the San Francisco skyscraper that continues to more drastically lean, I learned that Millennium Partners, the folks responsible for building said leaning tower, hav...

Chloe Mrozak, 24, was arrested for allegedly using a fake COVID-19 vaccine card to visit Oahu. One big flag was that the card specified that she had received two doses of the "Maderna" vaccine in Dela...

David Lynch directed this 1991 commercial for Barilla Pasta. The commercial begins with a little girl falling off her bike outside a restaurant. A man sitting at a table runs over to see if she's ok, ...

Sasson was sponsoring Elton John's 1984 tour, so he re-recorded a few seconds of audio from 'Sad Songs' and repurposed the MTv video to keep them happy.Classic Rock History:In 1984, an apparel company...

Following the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Ida, Amanda Huling returned to her drenched Slidell, Louisiana neighborhood to assess the damage. To her surprise, she spotted a dolphin swimmin...

Java has grown with the internet for as long as many of its users have been alive. Originally made for simple online applications in the 90s, Java is still one of the most widely used programming lang...

A recent delivery of supplies to the International Space Station included a pizza kit for the astronauts. Last night was pizza night! ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet posted the below video to his Instagr...

Rachel Berger, a design professor at California College of the Arts, cast an XBox controller in lead and copper to protest the U.S. military's use of XBox controllers as battle equipment. The United S...

Whenever I need some drawing inspiration, I love to look through Gary Panter's work. Panter is one of the artists whom I look up to the most. His unique, playful vision fills me with excitement and ha...

Illinois woman Chloe Mrozak, 24, went to Hawaii and presented a Covid vaccination card to avoid quarantine upon arrival. The card, unfortunately for Mrozak's travel plans, said she received the "Mader...

Reporting from Gulfport, Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurrican Ida, MSNBC's Shaquille Brewster had to cut a segment short when a man heckled and assaulted him on-camera. The footage shows the man, ...

Former Kmart employee Mark Davis, who once worked at a store in Naperville, Illinois uploaded a trove of Kmart playlists (complete with announcements!) to the Internet Archive. Find the collection her...

Mount Taranaki is an unusually symmetrical volcano in New Zealand whose conical prominence is heightened by the circular national park that it is centered in, where forest ends and farmland begins. To...

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...

The condition, called the Fregoli delusion, is named after the Italian actorLeopoldo Fregoli who was renowned for his ability to make quick changes of appearance during his stage act. It may result fr...

From 2003-2006, the restaurant Hooters briefly had an airline called Hooters Air. The carrier was marketed towards golfers in an effort to bring casual and tournament players to Myrtle Beach golf cour...

In Kern County, CA, researchers are celebrating after spotting a single grey wolf on a wildlife camera. The California Department of Fish & Wildlife says it's the first verified wolf to return to ...

From the public petition committee of Senedd Cymru, the Welsh parliament: Within symbology, an erect penis depicts fertility and strength, when applied to a royal insignia, it's even more important be...

Curb Dance is my favorite Harmony Korine short film, featuring Korine himself in a pink dress, tap dancing on curbs and holding a doll as he narrates a two-minute story. There is something indescribab...

Space. The final frontier. There's a reason that Star Trek tagline has endured for almost 60 years. It's because there is no human pursuit that feeds our desire to know the unknown and expand our idea...

More and more people every day are taking the leap and working for themselves or turning their side hustles into a cash crop. Skills such as productivity, social media management, and how to create in...

You have a lot on your to-do list, from remembering to log on to that Zoom meeting after lunch to stopping by the grocery store before you completely run out of milk. And in between all of these seemi...

Osman Ahmed writes in with Straw.Page, a cool website creation platform he's made that makes it easy to get your thing online without the headaches of self-hosting or the engagement incentives of soci...

Myst, the adventure game that first linked us to the age of CD-ROM, was re-released this week as a modern first-person game for XBox, PC and Mac, complete with contemporary system requirements and the...

Every now and then it serves to remind one's self that Gary Dahl's Pet Rock is actually still for sale because people still buy them.I prefer my puppy but love is love.I am not sure how this commercia...

Mike Richards will no longer be executive producer of the game show Jeopardy, reports the Washington Post. Sony fired him, reports Variety. A virtual nobody, appointed the show's host after a star-stu...

School has just resumed in China and with it comes new bans on videogame play by young people. According to new rules from the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), people under 18 are...

When spring comes to Philadelphia's Delaware Bay, the shore becomes covered with tens of millions of horseshoe crabs. It's spawning season. Learn more about this oceanic orgy in the Deep Look video ab...

Located 20 miles north of Joshua Tree National Park in Landers, California, is a unique dome-shaped building called The Integratron, where you can experience the intersection of art, science, and magi...

I almost always wear Native Jefferson shoes, which don't require socks. On those rare occasions when socks are called for, I wear these no-show socks. They sit well below the top of most shoes, and th...

Starting this winter, students at universities in Berlin will be enjoying a larger array of meat-free food options at on-campus canteens. The 34 canteens across 4 campuses that cater to Berlin's stude...

Give rave.dj two songs and it'll try and mash the two together. The results are good, if often absurd and uncanny in the artificially-intelligent way we'll perhaps never quite get used to. Its meldin...

Somehow ESPN aired a football game between a real and very good football team and a faked up team from a fake high school. There are allegations of child endangerment, fraud, and all sort of awfulness...

San Francisco's homicide rate has risen, from 14 in 2019 to 21 so far this year. According to a government report, the majority of people involved in gun violence (as shooters or victims) are directly...

I am Rich was a 2008 app that cost $999.99 and had just one function: displaying the mantra: "I am rich. I deserv it. I am good, healthy & successful." Yes, deserve was spelled wrong. Before Appl...

A fellow was hospitalized in Xinghua, China after attempting to relieve his constipation by, er, encouraging a 20 centimeter long eel to wiggle into his rectum. Unsurprisingly, it didn't go well. The ...

Red delicious apples, notorious for their grainy texture and bland flavor, were the country's best-selling apple until 2018. After Iowa farmer Jesse Hiatt discovered the variety in his orchard in the ...

Sorry Antivaxxer is a list of stories that never needed to be written. Obituaries, tales of death, and near death, caused by COVID-19 upon those who adamantly refused vaccination. It is heartbreaking ...

Practicing mindfulness can benefit your mental state in numerous ways, from increasing creativity to alleviating stress and helping lift depression. But sometimes, a moment of mindlessness is what you...

Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert failed to disclose her husband's lucrative financial interests, but she also failed to disclose something else about Jayson Stephen Boebert: his jail time for whippi...

Is there anything better than getting started on a brand new computer? It's like having a digital fresh start, with updated apps and programs, a crisp, clean keyboard, and a shiny new screen. But all ...

In Port Alberni, British Columbia, a man angry at being asked to wear a mask while ordering food whipped out his penis and urinated on the counter as Dairy Queen team members screamed in horror. Graha...

Algeria, the last country on earth where you could still fill up your car with leaded gasoline, finally banned its sale last month. Lead additives improve the performance of gasoline and lubricate it ...

Because captive pandas tend to show little interest in mating, scientists who are concerned about their waning populations have resorted to unusual measures like pornography and Viagra. In 2006, 31cub...

School boards meetings are being turned into chaotic shouting matches dominated by angry, threatening right-wing mobs. So the members are quitting, reports the AP.In Vail, Arizona, speakers at a rece...

If you find yourself in Pittsburgh, PA, be sure to take a trip to a magical place called Randyland. Randyland is an incredible DIY art museum that a man named Randy Gilson constructed in his own yard....

If you find yourself in Pittsburgh, PA, be sure to take a trip to a magical place called Randyland. Randyland is an incredible DIY art museum that a man named Randy Gilson constructed in his own yard....

Today in the humble history of the internet: the very first webcam was invented in 1991 because computer science researchers at the University of Cambridge just wanted to see if there was coffee in th...

Ed Asner took a shot at me and my shoes in a very Don Rickles type of move, that I absolutely loved but more about that later, as the celebrated actor has passed away at the age 91.Ed Asner's career s...

"Floracil50 contains the only living bacteria that can solve the problem of small balls."That's what it says on the manufacturer's website, anyway. A one-month supply of this probiotic dietary supplem...

It seems that all the time we've spent staring at ourselves in Zoom during the pandemic is affecting our perception of ourselves. When plastic surgeons began reopening for business in 2021, they found...

Before you drag in the fall decor from the closet, it's always nice to give your home a good thorough cleaning after summer. But when it comes to a deep clean that gets the most stubborn dust hiding i...

In an attempt to get her daughter, who was kicked off a school sports team for broadcasting an underage drinking binge on Snapchat, put back on the school sports team, a mother sued that the school wa...