Articles by BoingBoing from October 2021

Taking the school board rant to an all-new level this woman raved about cannibalism, clown shows, refuted the effectiveness of masks, and of course, invoked Satan. SATAN!!!!!!!Woman at Traverse City S...

Paul Lynde was foundational to much of the best television of all time. This Halloween special is no exception.The list of guest stars is amazing. KISS and Paul Lynde is very special. ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.You could probably name five different gizmos and gadgets you'...

To celebrate the release of the new 50th-anniversary reissue of the Beatles' Let It Be album, Wilco has released two covers from the album as Amazon Music exclusives: "Dig a Pony" and "Don't Let Me Do...

Freddy Goodall says his family bought a 500-year-old Sussex home 30 years ago, but he didn't know about its secret passageways until recently. He was clearing off bookshelves and noticed that the wall...

From The Conversation:We are scientists with specific expertise in climate modelling, so we simulated the climate of Arrakis to find out. We wanted to know if the physics and environment of such a wor...

Potato Toys is a super charming, illustrated Soviet guide about how to make toys out of potatoes. I love all of the potato-creatures in the guide. Mr. Potato head has nothing on these little guys. The...

In this uncanny video from 2005, a creepy robot (tries) to talk. It is quite the chatterbox, but I have no idea what it's trying to say. I'm not sure if I want to know. I like how this video shows bot...

These Tornado Sirens in Downtown Chicago sound like something out of a horror movie. The sirens scare me just as much as a tornado would. I can't even imagine how eerie it would be to hear this echoin...

I posted about an outstanding collection of Horror/Halloween GIFs the other day, but quickly found that GIFs are still as unweildy to edit as they ever were in standard image editing apps. I soon foun...

Someone found this on a computer in a library in Estonia and uploaded it to YouYube for our viewing pleasure. It's NSFW and NSF squares. The art style reminds me a bit of Henry Darger's legendary art....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When you were a kid, no one ever told you that the majority of...

Doorbell cams capture the darndest things, both staged and unstaged, especially around Halloweentrick or treat!screengrabs via Ring/YouTube...

Throughout the 2010s, The Onion developed the character of "Mr. Autumn man:" a middle-aged New Englander who unabashedly loved flannel, fires, apple-picking, haunted hayrides, gourds, pumpkin-spiced c...

On October 25, 2021, Texas State Rep. Matt Krause (R-Fort Worth) sent a letter to school districts across the state, asking them to review a 16-page list of books that may contain some "objectionable ...

A judge who mouthed the n-word in court and constantly utters racist remarks to or about his own employees "must be removed from office," says Alabama's state judicial ethics court.Judge Randall Jinks...

WSJ got its hands on Cheesecake Factory's 500-page operations manual, which includes approved descriptive words for cheesecake. The article focuses on the company's profits like many restaurants, the ...

In 1981, Lorne Michaels and John Belushi wanted to get some authentic punks to appear on SNL as audience members for the Halloween episode's musical guest, LA punk band Fear. They called Ian MacKaye (...

Thanks to the MIT Technology Review, I've learned that it is technically not impossible for a blood cell to turn into an egg cell, thanks to a process called in vitro gametogenesis:The first step is t...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.Whether it's your sunglasses, your phone, or your keys, it's way to...

Trick-or-treating isn't just for kids at least not at the Oregon zoo. Adorable beavers Filbert and Maple made their way down a path at the zoo, meeting up with Darth Vader and a human squid as they c...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.If you're serious about gaming, then you have to be serious about y...

The US Food and Drug Administration has just issued an emergency use authorization to administer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children five to 11 years-old. From CNN:Pfizer says a clinical trial sho...

A patient at Alabama's Mobile Infirmary Medical Center for some reason left their hospital room, opened a refrigerator in the facility's cryogenic storage area, and removed multiple frozen embryos sto...

My car tire had a dry-wall screw in it. I bought a cheap tire plug repair kit at the local Pep Boys for about $12. It was hard to use because I had to apply a lot of force to the plastic handle and it...

Watching the appalled expressions of Italian translator Elisabetta Savigni Ullmann as she tried to decipher Donald Trump's gibberish back in 2019 were amusing enough on their own (see tweet at bottom ...

NASA scientists are calling for a new framework to report evidence for life beyond Earth. Given that "our generation could realistically be the one to discover evidence of life beyond Earth," NASA chi...

In the internet's latest milkshake duck, a firehouse piglet named "Penny the Fire Pig" has shared propaganda opposing the FDNY vaccine mandate. Penny's political turn comes as a surprise to many of he...

Vice's science-based Motherboard vertical is turning its attention to the DUNE-iverse. Motherboard Does Dune. For the last week, the staff has been hosting a weekly Twitch stream focusing on science t...

The Drug Enforcement Administration, well-known for its internal corruption, corrupting influence on others, racism, and making the world less equitable and more violent, begrudgingly returned $30,000...

The ominous doll that led Squid Game contestants in a deadly game of Red Light Green Light has popped up in Sydney, and at 14 feet 9 inches tall, it's as creepy as any animated Halloween prop I've see...

The very first sentence on Boston Medical Center's website says, We are here for you. But, ironically, that wasn't the case for an emergency patient about to receive ankle surgery in 2016. The surgeon...

Most people have had dreams where they have the magical ability to hover, glide down the sidewalk, and soar into the upper atmosphere. This ad for Burberry does a great job of depicting dream flying. ...

"The dormitory's nine identical residential floors would be organized into eight "houses" with eight "suites" (shown here) with eight bedrooms. | Credit: Courtesy" The IndependentCharles Munger,...

An extra fun Halloween video from Leo Moracchioi!...

Humans love it when dogs cock their head to one side, but no one really knows why, and there have been few studies into the adorable phenomenon. Some have speculated dogs tilt their head to better hea...

Beacon, New York resident Elizabeth Russett filed a $5 million lawsuit against Kellogg's because, she claims, the whole grain frosted strawberry Pop-Tarts she bought didn't contain enough actual straw...

Work has resumed at San Francisco's Millennium Tower. The latest test pile drilling apparently was "successful." The test pile's drilling only increased the building's tilt the maximum amount allowed....

Nearly every nation on the planet has had their share of Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. But Tonga, the island nation in the South Pacific with a population of about 106,000, had managed to s...

Why did the tornado cross the road? To destroy everything in its path, of course. This video was taken Wednesday morning as a tornado crossed I-10 near the Louisiana border. While a storm chaser would...

Testimony by a DeVos family asset manager explains how Holmes and Theranos flattered and lied their way to a $100MM investment. Other billionaires, like the Walton's, invested even more!We know, at th...

No shots were fired, no gun was found, but chaos erupted at Los Angeles International Airport last night. Reports of an active shooter inside Southwest's Terminal 1 erupted into a full evacuation of t...

This time lapse video of a salamander growing from a single cell is pretty awesome. The entire video is nearly seven minutes long, which allows you to closely observe each phase of the salamander's de...

The greatest band of all time with their awesome, awesome drummer....

Exactly what it says on the jar thumbnail graphic, shot with some incredible high-FPS, high-resolution camera work! But along the way, there's a lot of science tooand a large jug of sprinkles for test...

Devil's Circuit (1988) is an artistic short film by Takashi Ito. If flashing lights are harmful to you, then don't watch it. The images of the city have a sublime blue tint to them. This film accompli...

Tusalava is a beautiful, abstract animation by Len Lye (1901-1980). Lye was a New Zealand artist known for his films and kinetic sculptures. Tusalva is all black-and-white, and features moving formati...

Fox News reports that Oklahoma, lifting a moratorium on executions, killed its first inmate in 7 years. And Oklahoma botched it, because of course it did [archive.org]. John Marion Grant, on death row...

The Kiddies' Motor Wheel! features footage of a child riding a motorized contraction, sold for toddlers. The contraption itself is incredibly cool looking, but it would definitely not fly in this day ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.We all know how tedious cleaning our homes can be. Between sweeping...

Enjoy tomorrow's experience of being chained to a radiator in a rich man's basement today with the latest Boston Dynamics video, in which its Francis Bacon nightmare robot dances to Start Me Up in per...

I hope you enjoy feelings such as "vague discomfort" and "mounting alarm" because here they are. Birthday!...

If a mammal can dominate a bird of the year contest, you can do anything.The non-bird taking the contest by storm is the long-tailed bat, or pekapeka-tou-roa, an endangered species. It is the fir...

The Horror GIF Necronomicon may not contain every spooky GIF the 1990s had to offer, but it's certainly got the best of them....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.Whether it's loose papers, electronics, or work-related doo-dads, h...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.If you like the idea of owning houseplants but always struggle to k...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor necessarily reflects their views.From shopping online to starting our cars from our phones, we do lo...

Create a Ultimate Fruit – Labeled Tier List, like these ones that my friends made. The list is easy to make simply drag your fruit into each tier level, in order of your favorite to least favor...

Rivers of Fire and Redemption is a 20 minute video that gives a look into the vision of Isaiah Robertson (1947-2020), a deeply religious man who built an incredible house in Niagara falls. Robertson s...

Have you ever encountered an Army Ant Death Spiral? Aso known as an ant mill, It's a freaky phenomenon where a cluster of army ants become separated from the main foraging party. This can cause them t...

When shiba inu coins considered by many to be a joke cryptocurrency launched in August 2020, an investor bought $8,000 worth. Today, just 14 months later, his purchase is worth $5.7 billion, accordi...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the US theatrical release of The Golem: How He Came Into the World, an exquisite early horror film adaptation of the Jewish supernatural myth of a clay creatur...

Weird Al Yankovic is an upstanding citizen who follows crosswalk safety campaigns as well as the next pedestrian. Maybe even better. Just see for yourself:...

Weird Al Yankovic is an upstanding citizen who follows crosswalk safety campaigns as well as the next pedestrian. Maybe even better. Just see for yourself:...

Teenage Engineering designed the outstanding and expensive OP-1 synthesizer, the inexpensive Pocket Operator, a sleek and economical range of bluetooth speakers and lights at Ikea, and the forthcoming...

Facebook let it be known last week that it was planning to change its name to reflect its interest in the "metaverse" of augmented-realityand, between the lines, to distance the company itself from th...

Senator Kyrsten Sinema (?AZ), the so-called Democrat who has relentlessly gummed up Biden's agenda, including opposing measures to tackle climate change and blocking a tax hike on millionaires, is now...

Poolsuite is one of those websites/apps that manifests as a 1990s operating system from another timeline where the 1980s just kept going, complete with desktop environment, a radio station and folder ...

Saturday, October 30th, WAR will celebrate 50 years of keeping the party going by playing a live concert in Venice Beach. Naturally, there is also a low-rider show.Rhino:In celebration of their 50th A...

The past two years have been rough on everybody. Sitting around the house day after day, week after week, was enough to make almost anyone a little crazy. All that time disconnected from the rest of t...

Bruce Campbell working in a large department store when zombies attack? Even if it has absolutely no connection to the Evil Dead universe, I'll still watch it. And this looks absolutely delightful.On ...

My favorite computer keyboard, Logitech's MX Keys, is now available in tenkeyless form as the MX Keys Mini. Though it's not mechanical, its low-profile keys have a solid tactile feel to them: it's alm...

Biggie Clean has a TikTok channel devote to cleaning extremely filthy and cluttered houses of people with hoarding disorder. He says the work is extremely satisfying, and I believe him. The before and...

I regret ever knowing of the accursed Imp Bottle. A tiny phial, with a weighted spherical base, known to be impossible to lay flat if one is not aware of its hidden ability. It has driven many former ...

Condolences and best wishes to an influencer who lost what sounds like a very, very cool father. However, this bereaved Instagrammer found her account suspended after offering a couple of poses in fro...

The complete plans for making this amazingly fun synthesizer are available on Instructables. The creator, lonesoulsurfer, provides plans for the circuit board, the colorful front panel, and the wood c...

Three elementary schools in New York are the latest to ban Squid Game Halloween costumes after noticing some of their young students imitating the show's violence. "We have observed that some students...

If you're anything like me, the phrase "Muppets' Lord of the Rings" should be an instant dopamine trigger. You don't need to hear anything more; you're sold. And yet, this brilliantly concept has stil...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (mee-HIGH CHEEK-sent-me-HIGH-ee), author of Flow, a book about the psychological benefits of highly engaging activity, died at the age of 87.From his NY Times obit:Flow, he arg...

Cinepunx published their picks of "Four Chilling Documentary and Feature Film Pairings" that are just right for the spooky season. I was delighted that my old friend and Room 237 director Rodney Asche...

In 2018, Danville, Ca., police officer Andrew Hall leaped in front of a car making its way around a police cruiser during an attempted stop. Hall fired 9 times into the car, killing its driver, an una...

In 2018, Danville, Ca., police officer Andrew Hall leaped in front of a car making its way around a police cruiser during an attempted stop. Hall fired 9 times into the car, killing its driver, an una...

Hurray! There's a new Raspberry Pi. It's a tiny Zero 2 ($15) and comes with signification upgrades over the previous Zero. For starters, it's five times faster.If you don't know what you can do with a...

If you are the parent or guardian of a person under the age of 18, you can use this form to remove their images from its search results. You can also use the form to remove other kinds of images, too....

In Tamil Nadu, India, authorities seized 8 kilograms of ambergris (commonly known as sperm whale "feces" or whale "vomit") in a sting operation resulting in two arrests. Ambergris is a waxy substance ...

Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, is on trial charged with fraud related to the company's collapse. But here's something to like about her: she allegedly screwed Trump e...

The National Rifle Association has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, according to hackers claiming to be involved in the heist. The NRA has not confirmed it, reports NBC News, or the authenticity ...

The town of Watford, England installed width restrictor poles to prevent wide trucks from traveling in a particular lane. Unfortunately, the lane is quite narrow and, well, people tend to underestimat...

An American Airlines flight from New York City to Orange County, California was forced to land in Denver when an angry gentleman assaulted a flight attendant. The reason for his behavior? Yes, you gue...

Great white sharks rarely bite people (even though we hear about them when they do), but new research from Macquarie University supports the old theory that attacks are actually the result of mistaken...

In September 2020, The New York Times published an article titled "Guitars are back, baby!" just three years after the six-stringed instruments were declared dead in the pages of The Washington Post....

Apple's own processors are a resounding success for the company, offering strong performance and outstanding battery life, and most software companies moved quickly to release new versions of their ap...

Don't watch this Creepy Ass Doll Commercial if you're about to go to bed, because you might hear Baby Laugh Alot's maniacal laughter echoing throughout your skull all night long. I don't know which pa...

Jabberwocky is a short stop motion film from 1971 by Jan Svankmajer. Svankmajer's next-level stop motion art and attention to detail always humbles me. He is a self-labeled surrealist, known for his o...

What do you think of when you think of the Amazon rainforest? Do you think of the colorful birds and slinky leopards and anacondas? (Like from the 1997 classic, Anaconda, of course.) Do you think abou...

I find such uncomplicated joy in watching incompetent bots try to be like people, so I've been loving the Twitter account @ResNeXtGuesser, created by user @MKRiscy. Though the Twitter account has exis...

Warm up those lightbulbs, that cake's not going to slowly bake itself. November 4 is National Easy Bake Oven Day and, if you're lucky, your cake will be brown by then. It's also the 58th birthday of t...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aubreysitterson/bbbbIn the fall of 2020, comic creators Aubrey Sitterson and Tyrell Cannon launched their "aspirational leftist superhero comic," BEEF BROS, a deli...

I've shared some songs here before by my friends in Model Decoy, a jazzy, R&B-driven rock band that mostly play songs about nerdy shit. "Farewell to Arm," above, is technically from a different, o...

No more stewing in sweatpants for weeks on end, folks. The world is back. While it was tempting to throw personal hygiene cares to the wind when Zoom meetings and conference calls were the full extent...

Dental care is one of the most important parts of our daily routine. If you're looking to take your teeth cleaning regime to the next level, The Shyn Sonic Toothbrush with 8 Whitening Brush Heads will...

Want to have the best-behaved dog on the block? Thinking of starting a new career as a professional dog trainer? With The Essential 2022 Dog Training Bundle, you'll be on your way to better communicat...

As part of the week-long homecoming celebrations at Hazard High School in Kentucky, "staff appear to spank or paddle each other" on Tuesday while students gave lap dances to the school staff includin...

If you want to be a good host during the next get-together at your place, you need enough space to seat all your guests. Sure, a snazzy 10-foot table would do the trick, but that would be downright ex...

In 1938, 20-year-old filmmaker Richard H. Lyford directed and starred in As the Earth Turns, a science-fiction silent movie about a mad scientist who purposely induces climate change as a way to end w...

Media critic Parker Molloy is a friend and former colleague of mine, but I'm also a genuine fan of her newsletter The Present Age. Molloy has a great talent for seeing through the BS of hype and panic...

Via Katie Notopouolos: "This open enrollment video for Facebook employees is as damning than anything in the Haugen leak imo"....

As a Marshmallow Fluff superfan, I am over the moon to see that Merriam-Webster added "Fluffernutter" to their dictionary! That, and 454 other words and phrases which I don't remember because I am too...

Jen Psaki aggressively and with no tolerance for that bullshit shuts down a question about abortion being murder. Psaki strongly reaffirms President Biden's well-known support for a woman's right to c...

Expert in Judaic Space Laser targeting, and a QOP stalwart, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green invested in a shell company intended to take Trump's new social media network public. The value of those shares h...

"Sure the climate is changing, and one of the reasons the climate is changing, is because the climate has always been changing." Senator Marco RubioAs climate change accelerates, causing more frequen...

With Live Photos activated, iPhones record what they see 1.5 seconds before and after you take a picture. It's useful when you're taking photo of something moving or changing quickly and want to selec...

2Bit is an online shrine to 2-bit graphics (i.e. four colors) with the focus on those produced by (or according to the hardware specifications of) the 1989 Nintendo Gameboy.Of course graphics capabili...

From Jimmy Kimmel Live, this funny-sad supercut of "pandummies" spewing dangerous disinformation and utterly wacky wrongness at public hearings and school board meetings.As the saying goes, If I don't...

I shuffled along the foggy streets of Los Angeles, my head hung low and my eyes unfocused. I didn't know where I was going. I had no destination, nor did I have any purpose.My eyes were drawn to a fai...

Typogram's Coding Font has you find your favorite monospace typeface by picking winners, round-by-round, in a tournament-style matchup. As software engineers, we spend a lot of time skimming, reading,...

We already knew pet otter duo Kotaro and Hana were fascinated with cherries and popcorn makers. But they're clever too they aren't letting an old screen door keep them out of the house! ...

This trailer for Lightyear, the forthcoming Disney/Pixar film due out next summer, is apparently not a movie about toys but rather the backstory of the real Buzz Lightyear upon which the imaginary (an...

The Financial Times has a lovely gallery of "brilliant bookshops", each with a short but substantial caption about its history written by a nominated contributor. Founded in 1879, Blackwell's has been...

Carson, California residents have picketed city hall about pervasive noxious odor that's been making people sick for weeks. Yesterday the city council declared a local emergency and the mayor is seeki...

A woman in Bankok was so annoyed when she saw painter support rope hanging outside the window of her condo's 21st floor, she cut it. The 34-year-old Karen was furious that she hadn't been informed pai...

The early 20th century was a hotbed of genetic experimentation. One bizarre line of research explored human-nonhuman hybrids, such as humanzees. At least one such case of a humanzee making it to term ...

Adobe is adding a way for NFT collectors to verify the art they're buying is made by the person selling it, and other ways to prevent theft in this digital space. These "Content Credentials" will be b...

In the fall of 2020, I reviewed the then-brand-new graphic novel adaptation of Dune from Abram ComicArts, which covered roughly the first half of the novel, and featured cover art by the legendary Bil...

For months now, Mark Zuckerberg has told the world that Facebook is becoming "a metaverse company." What is the metaverse? It depends on who you ask. Fortune's definition is particularly expansive: "T...

The US State Department has issued the first passport with the gender marked as "X.""As the Secretary announced in June, the Department is moving towards adding an X gender marker for non-binary, inte...

Brisbane, Australia sculptor Jason Sank created these astonishing cat people from actual cat hair. Sank sculpted the fur over chicken wire forms he built based on photographs of himself and a friend i...

Hospitals are making extra money these days by marking up bills. The practice is known as "upcoding." One recent egregious example: a pregnant woman was "instructed to go through the emergency room do...

More comedy and less sang-froid than the anime series. It's evidently very much its own thing and I'm looking forward to it.COWBOY BEBOP is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, a...

Leave it to Archie McPhee to bring the world Hot Dog Candy Canes:WIENER WIENER HOT DOG DINNERHot Dog Candy Canes will remind you of school lunches and backyard BBQs. Instead of cookies this year, mayb...

384 is an outstanding French conceptual comic by artist Jrme Puigros-Puigener. Published by Habeas Corpus, 384 was made in 2010 and is only 16 pages long. What makes this comic so unique is its experi...

Last month during SpaceX's first mission carrying only private citizens into orbit, the Crew Dragon capsule's space toilet sprung a leak. "Nobody really wants to get into the gory details," Inspiratio...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out next month: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies by ordering today! RIG...

A few years ago, I shared a podcast about the kind-of data generation loss of Halloween traditions, exported from pre-Christian Oche Shamhna traditions in Ireland and then re-importing back there...

This is a wild story. This week, New York art collective MSCHF sold an original drawing by Andy Warhol, valued at $20,000, for $250. But it also sold 999 forged ones that look just like it, also for $...

Apple's new MacBook Pro loses features users disliked and restores some they lovedthe SD card slot and physical F-keys! and adds the company's powerful and efficient in-house processors. One new featu...

The countries responsible for the greatest amount of greenhouse gas emissions are also falling behind on their global climate change contributions because of defense spending, according to a new repor...

I owe you an update on this whole "punking" of the Burning Man Sotheby's auction. What happened next? Well, for one, the final hammer price went over 1000% above its listed value of $100- $200. But le...

When Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in 1993, the cops left his hippos behind. Escobar had a whole collection of exotic pets, all of whom were shipped off to other zoos. But the...

There's a lot of Facebook news out there right now, but I found this particularly fascinating. As revealed in the recent disclosures made by Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen to the Securities and...

A few guys in Ontario, Canada are hanging out in a shed when they are interrupted by a seemingly friendly moose who steps in to check them out. One of the guys even pets it on the snout (not recommend...

ether it's with your voice or a silent but effective side-eye, humans are master communicators. And just like English, Spanish, or French, American Sign Language is another one of the many ways we can...

This happy, chucking gentleman at Boise State University asked Charlie Kirk when it would be OK to start killing fellow Americans he doesn't like, but even Charlie Kirk think that's too much. I wouldn...

Like a chameleon that can watch and track two completely separate images at the same time, this human shows off his reptilian brain by holding two distinctly different philosophies on the Covid vaccin...

Diving is a sport in and of itself, but what about underwater photography and videography? Aside from taking in the ocean depths and generally just trying to stay alive, you have to maneuver between a...

Here is an alternate version of Squid Game's terrifying "Red Light, Green Light" competition, in which the contestants a troupe of freakish synchronized dancers kill it, in more ways than one. (Made...

Well, if you're baffled by recent Senator Joe Manchin (D?WV) shenanigans, you're not alone. Looks like he's just as confused about who he is in the world of politics.The wishy-washy politician who cla...

University of Maryland scientists have developed a process to harden wood, making it a "renewable alternative to steel and plastic." Wood that's been hardened with the process can be used to make a wo...

As oligopolies, MasterCard and Visa, have tremendous regulatory powers, getting to choose who can use their ubiquitous and essential services. Online casinos and companies that sell porn videos and le...

Reality TV dancer Sean Spicer moans about how unfair it is that Jen Psaki gets respect for doing her job well, while he is simply known for lying a lot....

Normally, when you don't recognize a caller on your cellphone, it's fine to ignore it. If it's not actually a scammer but something important, they will leave a voice mail. But sometimes it's obvious ...

"Dead-internet theory suggests that the internet has been almost entirely taken over by artificial intelligence," says Kaitlyn Tiffany in The Atlantic. "YouTube, for a time, had such high bot traffic ...

Anne Chappelle is a board certified toxicologist with two decades of experience studying the chemicals that can kill people. In this video, Dr. Chappelle explains how eyedrops have been used to kill s...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show became a live stage production called The Rocky Horror Show, which is now being live-broadcast into movie theaters. The circle is complete. The cult classic musical will ...

Mike Graham is hose of The Independent Republic of Mike Grahamon TalkRADIO. I don't know much about him, but judging by this clip alone, doesn't even have two neurons to run together. Watch him argue ...

This handsome machine is the Norsonic Nor277. Its sole purpose is to tap its feet, for "making footfall noise transmission measurements in buildings as set out in International and National Standards....

In September 2020, songwriter Nick Lutsko wrote a catchy little jingle called "Theme for Spirit Halloween," a sort-of love letter to Spirit Halloween stores. Here's how he describes what happened next...

"Mommy Mommy, Where's My Brain?" is a 10-minute short from 1986 directed by Jon Moritsugu. It's part of the "Cinema of Transgression", a term coined by Nick Zedd in 1985 to describe an underground fil...

Last week, Mohammed Zubi, a Mulsim-American senior at New Jersey's Ridgefield Memorial High School, asked the assistant teacher in his class if he could have additional time to complete an in-class as...

After a while, the QOP chants, mantras, and catch-phrases turn into a Charlie Brown's teacher audiotrack, but sometimes someone comes along and uses one just right. Tik Tok user Soogia1 hits a home ru...

Panic's Cabel Sasser revealed an amazing artifact in their possession: a prototype iPod.It has always been my deepest dream to smoothly unzip a backpack on a flight, theatrically pull out this incredi...

Atlas Obscura has a weirdly fun piece about "witch cakes," a popular baked good from the 1600s. As it turns out, the Salem Witch Trials were not, uhhh, taking the piss:The origins of the tragic trials...

Fanatical vernacular photography collectorRobert E. Jacksoncurated a spooky series of "vintage snapshots of the Devil incarnate." "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist," ...

Eric Roth, co-writer of the screenplay for blockbuster hit Dune (and how odd it is to write "blockbuster hit Dune"), works using a 30-year-old screenwriting app that runs under MS-DOS, an operating sy...

In 1997, the Spice Girls were, um, spicing up our lives with Spiceworld, the follow-up to Spice. MTV fueled the spiciness by featuring the band at every possible turn including in this curious segmen...

Tinysheets is a single-serving spreadsheet website, so simple you can get cracking on any device (but with the usual features if you need them). See also Tinymonth, a calendar thing with a similar vib...

The DAVE COOPER Shoot Interview! is a 1 hour, 18 minute interview between Cooper and the Cartoonist Kayfabe dudes, Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg. In the 90s, Cooper bagan making underground comics for Fantag...

Our world is dominated by mobile devices, some of which can even outperform laptops. When it comes to tablets, in particular, no one can seem to get their eyes off Apple's iPad. Whether the Mini or th...

If you're feeling famished for a dose of unsettling content, then check out this animated video titled Decoration, by Ben Wheele. The story is about a young girl whose body is haunted by a vase named ...

To beautifully "hand off" the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games to the 2024 Paris ones, Choreographer Sadeck Waff worked with 128 performers to put this literal show of hands, and arms, together. If you li...

Watch Epic Symphonic Rock perform Deep Purple hits "Smoke on the Water," "Burn," and "Highway Star." Epic indeed!The orchestral version of Deep Purple will give your favorite songs an entirely ne...

People from Chicago rave about their Garrett Mix special popcorn, with a mix of half caramel corn and half cheese flavor. At first that sounded to me like mixing Cracker Jack with Cheetosugh. But when...

From Final Fantasy 7 to Ghost of Tsushima, PlayStation has been pumping out some of the best games for as long as you can remember. Needless to say, you understand the value o...

A very aggressive anti-masker was acting very threatening when a number of restaurant patrons reacted to stop his tirade and bullying.How to properly ask an #antimasker to leave the restaurant pic.twi...

Nowadays, strong, complicated passwords are necessary for everything in life, and there's nothing more frustrating than forgetting it and being locked out of your own accounts. Saving your passwords o...

It appears Pillow Salesman Supreme Mike Lindell has yet another date when he is really sure that the man he worships will be returned to power. Lindell has made other promises, they have all fallen fl...

Once a year or so I replace our dishtowels with a new set.I usually get this 24-pack of 15 x 25 inch cotton towels. They're durable, absorb water well, and stand up to repeated washings. The old ones ...

A gentleman in Texas saw that someone had parked in his driveway, so he grabbed a gun and ran out to confront the trespasser. When the driver of the vehicle rapidly began to depart, said Texan opened ...

In 1856, a mysterious man appeared on the roads of Connecticut and New York, dressed in leather, speaking to no one, and always on the move. He became famous for his circuits through the area, which h...

It's just as gloriously detailed as you might expect....

Sometimes you just need to spend a few minutes watching little pigs eat their way through food. Little stop-motion animated pigs, that is. Little stop-motion animated pigs from Japan. Sure, why not?! ...

Instead of immediately turning to large retailers, conscious consumers are setting up online networks to share their stuff. In certain hyperlocal Facebook groups, neighbors give away their old items e...

People living near (or simply passing over) the Golden Gate bridge have been complaining since 2020 that recent engineering work resulted in unpleasant "singing" noises when it's windy.It was very win...

Electric Mayhem covering Electric Light Orchestra? Yes, please, and thank you. The Muppets perform the 70's classic Mr. Blue Sky. It's all part of the Dear Earth special; an epic global celebration of...

A Wisconsin teacher was sentenced to 12 year in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of attempting to produce child pornography, reports NBC News. David Krutchen, 39, hid cameras in air f...

The Caribbean U.S. territory of Puerto Rico has outpaced wealthy New England states to become the most vaccinated place in America: 73% of its 3.3 million residents are fully protected.The island has ...

The 1960's was a heady time for the music biz and Follow the Music: The Life And High Times Of Elektra Records In The Great Years Of American Pop Culture is a huge 441-page bookand a fantastic history...

The pandemic has forced all of us to live with our decisions, which includes the type of furniture we're trapped indoors with. But if your furniture isn't helping you relax, do you truly own furniture...

Build the Earth is a project with a simple yet rather grandiose aim: to recreate all of planet Earth in Minecraft.Our mission is to fully recreate the entire Earth in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. One blo...

Do you believe in magic? You might start after you see how St. Louis Aquarium is making fish that kids have decorated "swim" in a virtual aquarium. It's really neat! Watch: @aquariumstl Reminder that...

Thanks to the ever-delightful Bizarre Albums podcast, I learned that The Munsters release not one but two different albums in 1964. The first one is just some generically delightful 60s music inspired...

Dragon Magazine #41 was published in April 1981. And it was in the pages of this official Dungeons & Dragons tome that the immortal deity known as Bugs Bunny was finally given its due as a playabl...

Why should people have all the freeze-dried fun? Our two cats go CRAZY for these PureBites cat snacks made of chicken. No, I haven't tried them myself, but they have the same feel and crunchy texture ...

Have you heard that there's a labor shortage? Yeah that's bullshit; there's a shortage in businesses who are willing to offer reasonable pay and protections to their workers. And according to The Bost...

The Holderness Family have crafted a humorous song about what adults who are in their forties (with kids) are actually scared of (i.e. not anything related to Halloween):Being an adult is more terrify...

Spotted this gorgeous 25"-tall print of Dita Von Teese as Sally Slater, Haunted Mansion's tightrope walker, in the Dapper Day e-missive and couldn't help sharing. Franz Szony created this, a "full ph...

Elderly social media stars kvetch about lox prices and the lack of public toilets in New York City. In one video, they chant: "2, 4, 6, 8, we just want to urinate!" Their antics have earned the accoun...

Using spray cans of artificial snow as a tool, Artist Scott Wilcock creates Snow Graffiti. His incredible freehand creations allowed the 34-year-old to quit his job as a mechanic to become a full-time...

No one told this production designer that life on set would be this way (). screengrab via Joel Haver/YT(Reddit)...

Somehow this past year, I fell down the rabbit hole of "tie-dye making videos." There are some really wildly technical ones out there, esp. by this guy, This one is a little different because its make...

You can spend hours and hours creating blogs, promotional content, and fancy landing pages for your business. But if you're not reaching the right clientele, all this hard work can fall on deaf ears, ...

Bicycling through a crowded city and avoiding infuriating traffic is a blessing, that is until you realize just how cumbersome toting around and storing a bike can be. Alternatively, skateboards are a...

Maybe now is finally the time for the Tetris-only operating system. Swedish researchers have evidence to show that Tetris prevents the psychological effects of trauma. In a study, the group that playe...

From the Internet Archive:This 11-minute, color film is designed to acquaint primary through intermediate students with Halloween safety. The film presents a little girl who has an unsafe costume. In ...

This is art.a short thread of Nicolas Cage as various philosophers1. Spinoza pic.twitter.com/jsWv3149ko— Hane and Suffering (@HaneMaung) October 20, 20213. Kierkegaard pic.twitter.com/nEupT7wtQ...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyipolymath, psychologist, academicpassed away at age 87. Internationally acknowledged for his pioneering contributions to the understanding of happiness, creativity, and huma...

The Evil One is the legendary Roky Erickson's solo debut album from 1981. Erickson made the album over a two year period after he left the psychedelic rock band, the Thirteenth Floor Elevators, due to...

L.A.'s Bob Baker Marionette Theater has a new book, Enchanted Strings, and that warms my heart. Hardcover available for pre-order now ($40).You've asked, you've wished, and now we've written "Enc...

I really get a kick out of Satanic Puppeteer Orchestra, a conceptual band out of San Diego with a robot lead singer. So when the band's human, Professor B. Miller, asked me to write the liner notes fo...

The new Dune movie looks pretty cool, but it's hard to beat plain old sand dunes. The ever-changing landform is comprised of tiny particles of all sorts of thingsquartz, gypsum, coral, even war shrapn...

"Heretic Pride" is the third track of the Mountain Goat's 2008 album of the same name both of which allegedly take their name from the lyrics of the song "Black Deluge Night" by Norwegian black metal...

These human-flavored cat treats exist but only for Halloweentime. The premise:This Halloween, the scariest thing just might be your cat! It's been proven that cats share DNA with lions and tigers̷...

Cleaning isn't fun. Sure, some people say it's therapeutic, but in a perfect world where everything is clean all the time, and we're willing to bet no one would lift a finger to make sure things are s...

It's an investment, your honor! The Macon Telegraph:A man in Georgia used more than two-thirds of his COVID-19 relief loan to pay for a Pokemon card, according to federal prosecutors. Vinath Oudomsine...

Before he wrote the best-selling book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, journalist Spencer Ackerman was part of the Pulitzer-winning team at The Guardian who f...

My wife and I both to love to watch artist James Gurney's fantastic plein air demos. (He's the guy who did those great "Dinotopia" books!) We think he's a really talented painter and also a terrific v...

Last fall, I shared a fantastic piece by Haris Durrani, an author and JD/PhD candidate at Columbia Law School and Princeton University, examining the "white savior" complex of the Dune universe, based...

I finally got to see one of those 12-feet-tall skeletons from Home Depot that went viral last year in the wild. It was my teen who first spotted it and then made me walk halfway across the island to s...

Extremely online kitchens might include devices like a smart egg tray, a smart water pitcher, and even a smart fork that vibrates when you're eating too fast. The IoT may offer convenience, but someti...

Christiane F. (1981) is a film directed by Uli Edel about Vera Christiane Felscherinow's struggles with Heroin use as a young teenager. Although this is one of the most grim films I've seen, as it's a...

image source: YouTubeRecord Store Day never fails to unearth rare, sonic treasures and one of this year's offerings is a 1964 recording from a young Jim Messina (later of Buffalo Springfield, Poco, Lo...

I totally dug this wonderful book of the early days of rock and roll [Amazon], featuring the creators of the music and the gear. Even if you already know some of the history of Leo Fender and Les Paul...

Several years ago, Charlotte and Karen Pence worked together on Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President, a picture book of a bunny in the White House. The tale of the presidential rabbi...

Water cooling. LED lights. Overclocked processors and massive curved screens. A lot of the PC gaming battlestations we see are flashy, cool as hell, and unfortunately wildly expensive. If you're itchi...

A decade ago, Bitcoin communities were small crowds of particularly techy, alternative, or keen on privacy the oddball decentralized currency was just a few years old. Now, the masses can get cryptocu...

From enhancing productivity to making working more enjoyable, there are lots of reasons to upgrade your monitor situation. Whether portability is your main concern or you simply need more digital spac...

Yikes! I saw this in my feed and assumed it was new! I was just informed the movie trailer is from 2017! I originally thought it was current and from 2021. I guess I can go find out if Jude Law rides ...

"Growth for the sake of growth still troubles me. It seems unnatural, even perverted," writes Joe Coulombe in Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys. The California...

An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by moving its wings: flapping like a bird's or vibrating like an insect's. They're scientifically plausible and some striking implementations at small scales e...

An ornithopter is an aircraft that flies by moving its wings: flapping like a bird's or vibrating like an insect's. They're scientifically plausible and some striking implementations at small scales e...

Two cats batting each other is voiceover fodder for TikTokker KLR Dubs. "Patty Cakes" has never sounded weirder! @klrdubs This is why i do my own subtitles original sound – KLR Dubs screeng...

I remember a really odd guest on the Merv Griffin Show back when it was broadcast from NYC in the 60's. In the middle of the usual anodyne talk show chit chat came a most highly unusual dark and dour ...

Danny DeVito, as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Frank, wouldn't last long in Squid Game.screengrab via Jonkari P/YouTube(Digg)...

National EnquirerThe rapidly-developing Gabby Petito murder mystery leaves the 'Enquirer' behind as it tries and fails to stay ahead of breaking news with its cover story: "Gabby Murder Horror: What B...

Although largely unknown in the west, Otoko wa Tsurai yo (, "It's tough being a man" but commonly referred to as Tora-san) was a hugely popular series of 48 (!) movies that were made in Japan from 196...

Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) was a French actor and mime. He was known for his stage persona "Bip the Clown". He called miming the "art of silence", and performed all over the world for over 60 years. I...

At 6:02 on 10/23, we pay tribute to the beloved SI unit commonly used in pesky chemistry class conversions. Today is mole day, and I'm not talking about the 12-fingered mammal or the Mexican sauce or ...

Bas jan Ader, born in 1942 and apparently lost at sea in 1975, was an important Dutch video and conceptual artist. In 1975, he attempted to sail across the Atlantic and disappeared in a thirteen-foot ...

The 500-square-foot Salem Witch Board Museum is one of the more recent additions to the spooky tourist strip in Salem, Massachusetts. But at least it has a unique angle: ouija boards, ouija boards, an...

YouTuber Jared Halley killed it with this solo a cappella take on the Bond, James Bond theme song. screengrab via Jared Halley/YT(Nag on the Lake)...

In 1963, three musicians traveled from Minneapolis to Milwaukee for a stripped-down, one-day recording session in a church. What they laid down was a thumpin', jumpin', and jammin' acoustic country bl...

If you love the Muppets and the Haunted Mansion, I really think you're going to dig the details in Disney's Halloween special Muppets Haunted Mansion. Muppets are cleverly incorporated into attraction...

In an excellent Twitter thread, crop scientist Dr. Sarah Taber displays the aesthetic similarities between various types of cows and beans. Though the comparison is quite fun, Taber acknowledges that ...

Randy Bachman lost his most beloved Gretsch in 1976. The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive guitarist had bought the 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins guitar when he was just 18 years old, with money ...

We're currently at the forefront of a gaming console revolution. Video games are becoming more advanced, more interactive, more lifelike, and more community-based than ever before. Additionally, the c...

Whether you love to sketch figures now and then or can't do much more than "paint by numbers," there's no denying the therapeutic effect drawing and creating art has on your mind and soul. But if you'...

TikTok user kaanaawildrose stopped some Eugene, Oregon police and county sheriffs (?) from wrongly arresting a man who was actually the victim. Somehow the police got confused and arrested a black man...

I'm not quite sure what's happening here, but this creature seems to have a vestigial twin growing out of their chest. The two faces have a very important message for the world, which they share in th...

Why do some people experience incredible sleep while others suffer? The Allergy Institute has answers, noting that allergies are triggered by nasal congestion. It's harder to breathe when you're conge...

Today Jen Psaki seemed to have extra energy in her near-daily takedown of Doocy and his sad leading questions that she never follows. Doocy wants people to be aware that Joe Biden isn't visiting the U...

Even paint manufacturers are getting hit by the global supply chain chaos. There is now apparently a shortage of blue paint, or rather the chemicals used to make certain shades of the color. From Yaho...

From the most awful thing I've heard today files: In Santa Monica, California, police are looking for a man suspected of setting a homeless person, asleep in a park, on fire. This horrifying act left...

A math teacher at North High School in Riverside, California has been suspended after a student of Native American descent smartly and bravely recorded the videos above and below and shared the clips ...

I discovered Jenny Owen Youngs back in 2004, when we played a few shows together. Even then, she was clearly a much better songwriter than me, and I've been following her fantastic career since then. ...

The GitHub Arctic Code Vault is where the world's largest code repository stashes a copy of itself, deep underground, on hardcopy media set to last 250 yearsand probably far longer. Every repo active ...

When you grind coffee beans, you want to use a burr grinder, not a blade grinder. Burr grinders break the beans into uniformly sized chunks, unlike blade grinders, which slice the beans into pieces of...

Watching He-Man sing and dance to 4 Non Blondes' "Hey What's Up" is what YouTube is all about....

In this recent Extra interview, Jerry Seinfeld reveals one of his favorite moments from the Seinfeld TV series. It's a brilliant moment and not a surprise that it's driven by Michael Richards in prime...

I appreciate the amount of weed smoked in this video.Oh, hey! Happy 50th birthday, Snoop!...

Before BTS, Bieber, the Backstreet Boys, or The Beatles, there was Lisztomania: the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. The phenomenon first occu...

A horse is horse, of course, but what is the source of the horse we endorse? According to a recent scientific study published in Nature which analyzed the genomes of nearly 300 ancient horses over the...

In August, a married couple, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog died under mysterious circumstances while hiking in the Sierra National Forest near Yosemite National Park. After ruling out sui...

In 1982, Garfield came to the small screen for his first TV special, Here Comes Garfield, an Emmy-nominated half-hour cartoon directed by Phil Roman and featuring Lorenzo Music as the beloved feline. ...

The "Nellie Bly" is an automated tugboat from the Boston-based company Sea Machines, and it just finished its first trial run of 1000 miles navigated purely on software. The 16-day nautical journey t...

Joel Hamburger is a music producer who owns Gdelstring Studios in Brooklyn. As far as I'm aware, he's also the only person to ever make an entire Dune-inspired concept album in the style of Kraftwerk....

Zillow just posted a listing for a 2700 square foot Dutch colonial-style house in Los Angeles with 3 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. Despite the address being listed at 1428 North Genesee Avenue, everyone ...

Anything can happen on Halloween!How has this film been forgotten? Someone had a good time with the Video Toaster!...

Pfizer claims its Covid vaccine is 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, the AP reports, citing results of a study that could lead to jabs as soon as november.Full-...

He is accused by his fiance's sister of being a pedophile, under investigation by the Department of Justice, and now delinquent in paying his $265 dues to The Florida Bar association. Rep. Matt Gaetz...

Matt Gaetz, the Florida congressman suspected of statutory rape over his alleged relationship with a 17-year-old girl, now has two more things to worry about: the prosecutors assigned to his case by t...

TIL: You can tell probably glean someone's nationality by the way they count their fingers! Anand Jagatia for BBC Future:"…people around the world have vastly different techniques for keeping tr...

Jetson One is an electrical VTOL flying vehicle you can actually buywell, pre-orderthat shows not only that it can be done but that it can be done with style and flair. The catch is battery lifeabout ...

The tricky yet elegant 7/4 time signature (previously at BB) is here demonstrated by Nate Smith. Just when the audience thinks they've got the hang of it, he hits them with triplet subdivisions. Here'...

The world of electrical engineering and robotics is exciting and full of endless possibilities. In fact, getting kids hooked early will boost their problem-solving skills, stimulate their creativity, ...

It's safe to assume that few Pornhub visitors are looking for hour-long calculus videos (by a fully-clothed instructor), but Taiwanese math teacher Changhsu puts them there anyway. His channel is fill...

Cat Food, shot by artist Joyce Wieland in 1967, has a simple yet wonderful plot: an adorable cat devours a few pieces of large fish. Weiland was ahead of the game, as she made this long before the tre...

The Vikings reached North America long before Columbus' enslavement and brutalization of the Americas' Indigenous population, the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, was discovered ...

The Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine, imagines internet life in 2046 with the "Wayforward Machine."Will we have access to trustworthy information online? Will knowledge be free and open?T...

The caps lock key is a vestige of mechanical typewriters, mimicking the function of the "shift bar," which literally shifts the typewriter in order to type capital letters. Today, the key resides on t...

An accident on the set of the movie "Rust" killed director of photography Halyna Hutchins, 42, and sent director Joel Souza, 48, to hospital, reports the New York Times. A prop gun, fired by actor Ale...

We all live with stress. Of course, parents are not only dealing with their own anxieties and worries, but trying to make sure their kids navigate the world safely as well. With school back in full sw...

What do dribbling coffee on your white shirt, getting caught in rush hour, and stepping in dog poop all have in common? They're some of the most annoying ways to start off your day. But none of these ...

During Spokane CBS affiliate KREM 2's newscast on Sunday, a monitor behind the anchor displayed 13 seconds of a porno movie. (Note the blur in the above screenshot.) The unexpected sight of a woman's ...

Lt. Governor Dan Patrick put up $1,000,000 of his campaign donor's money to catch voter fraud in Texas. It took a while but they finally caught someone, a Republican, of course.Vice:Shortly after the ...

Just like unexpected rain or the sudden realization that you're fresh out of milk after pouring a bowl of cereal, a case of writer's block can really ruin an otherwise perfect day. Whether you're work...

Our galactic cousin, the seventh planet from the sun, is a fascinating ice giant full of wonder. But no one really pays attention to that, because they're too busy debating whether to call it "Urine-u...

These Complyfoam tips made my already excellent AirPods Pro even better.I am a fan of AirPods Pro Bluetooth earbuds. They are comfortable, fit well, and the ambient/conversation/isolation modes are fa...

The Arizona Daily Sun reports that hundreds of tiny three-eyed crustaceans called triops were recently found near the desert in the aftermath of a rare monsoon. After years of drought drained the...

Acclaimed comic creator Kendra Walls just launched a Kickstarter campaign for a new fantasy comic called Real Hero Shit and it looks like an absolute delight. It's a hundred-page adventure featuring ...

In the booming industry of Japanese vending machines (gachapon), you can get just about anything in a tiny, plastic sphereeven items as impractical as a mini water cooler, mini cats with desserts, fig...

Fresh whole onions are causing a Salmonella outbreak in 37 states, the CDC reports, and you should "throw away any unlabeled onions at home." No-one has died, but 129 people were hospitalized and hund...

These Black n' Red Notebooks have durable plastic covers and a sturdy double wire spiral binding. They come in a variety of sizes, too. I've been using them to keep notes for years now....

Dognappers are evil, however, I doubt that this woman was really serving any good purpose by wildly spraying bullets all over what appears to be a residential neighborhood.Two of the three dognappers ...

childreThe original line-up of The Wiggles, the Australian children's musical group that invaded living rooms in the 1990s, are headed out on an arena tour in 2022. No, this isn't a chance for those w...

Another fun reveal from DC's 2021 FanDome event was the first teaser trailer for the upcoming Flash film starring Ezra Miller. Like most early teasers, it's not much but you do get a glimpse of the b...

Rep. Jamie Raskin questioning accused pedophile and Florida congressman Matt Gaetz during the January 6th committee hearings is like watching a heavy-weight boxer beat the crap out of a Mickey Mouse d...

The NYT reports that the Venice Tourist Board has opened an OnlyFans account to share images of some artwork for various local museums that Facebook/Instagram algorithms block as indecent.NYT:OnlyFans...

Was at the USPS online store looking for some stamps today and came across these ridiculously cute Message Monsters ones! I was immediately reminded of Mark's tiny creature drawings (right?): V...

The upcoming documentary Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time looks pretty interesting if you (like me) are a fan of the late author. Filmmaker Robert Weide first approached Vonnegut in 1988 to propose the ...

Yesterday, former president Donald Trump announced the creation of Trump Media & Technology Group and Truth Social, a new social media platform "to create a rival to the liberal media consortium a...

Yesterday, former president Donald Trump announced the creation of Trump Media & Technology Group and Truth Social, a new social media platform "to create a rival to the liberal media consortium a...

They sure know how to have fun in Oregon....

Brian Nelson, 26, of Leesburg, Florida bought a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket and won $1 million. He has big plans for his newfound wealth."I'm just looking forward to upgrading to an electric toothb...

TMZ reports that folks from ABC have informed them US Senator John McCain's daughter was the reason for the toxicity that she has recently complained of in an audiobook that she is selling.TMZ:Our sou...

In this footage, a potato is turned on a lathe. It looks lovely, but not much is left when the work is done, so the operator improvises a technique that allows him to devour the potato in realtime. I ...

Denis Villeneuve's Dune opens today after drawing in about $130m in Europe and at select theaters in the U.S.an impressive haul for movie yet to go into general release in the U.S., Britain and China....

This electric yellow catfish looks like it could have been caught in the old fishin' hole outside the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but professional angler Martin Glatz actually reeled it on a lake...

In this curious clip, the host attempts to tickle your ASMR fancy by "recalibrating your settings" which involves clicking buttons on your face.As one YouTuber commented half-jokingly (?), "She be cod...

Surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a human subject, reports The Economist. The kidney, experimentally attached for three days ito a brain-dead patient, marks substantial ...

There's literally nothing that catches the sun better than a cat butt. Or at least that's what I heard, you know, from my cat. But seriously, every home needs this $25 Cat Butt Sun Catcher/Ornament fr...

Back in the beginning of the September 2021, three zebras escaped from a farm in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. One of them was tragically caught in an illegal snare and died on September 16; the other two...

The underwater volcano Fukutoku-Okanoba, located about 800 miles south of Tokyo, erupted on August 13. Two months later, researchers from the Comprehensive Volcano Research Center of the National Inst...

"Should I get takeout for dinner even if I have leftovers in the fridge?" I asked Delphi, an AI built to answer questions of morals. "It's okay," Delphi responded. You can ask Delphi your own question...

Here's the GG Allin X Star Wars collab no one asked for: a fridge magnet of the notorious punk rocker in carbonite la Han Solo. Why? I'm not 100% sure, to be honest. Hurry though, as of this writing,...

You might not be able to watch The Batman, a gritty reboot of the gritty reboot that was prompted by a gritty reboot of the campy reboot of the Adam West reboot of a 1943 theatrical serial starring Le...

Ice Cream Man is consistently one of my favorite comics on the stands. Created by W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo and published by Image, it's essentially a surrealist horror anthology. Each issu...

This is why Halloween is the best holiday of the year. Because people really let their creativity go wild like the guy behind this light show, Tom BetGeorge. To be fair, this guy has done many of thes...

The way you arrange your home's interior is incredibly important, from using the color blue to encourage a more peaceful state of mind to implementing Feng Shui that brings your life good fortune. But...

From social media posts to YouTube videos, you've got a lot of content to create these days. But sometimes the abundance of editing tools available today can feel a little overwhelming, especially if ...

I have been a contestant in an underwater pumpkin carving contest. Pumpkin are positively bouyant and very hard to wrangle underwater, let alone delicately carve.A woman who repurposed some discarded ...

North Korea's press office is famously bellicose, hurling bizarre insults and denunciations at the hermit kingdom's adversaries. My own parody of it, the North Korea Press Release Generator, had its t...

South African-based artist Strijdom van der Merwe created both a striking sculpture and simple optical illusion with his piece, "Staircase to Heaven." Deceptively named, the staircase actually morphs ...

Former U.S. Torture Program Administrator Condoleezza Rice told the hosts of The View that she cried during the "terrible moment of January 6." and yet "It's time to move on, in a lot of ways" and foc...

After a 27-year-old subway rider in New York City asked unmasked officers to wear their masks, they physically pushed him out the station's emergency exit door. "You're being disruptive," they told hi...

From Tennessee to Michigan, numerous people were treated to a fantastic fireball tearing across the sky. The phenomenon occurred at 12:43 am EDT today, according to the American Meteor Society. Howeve...

Sotheby's just held an extensive auction of Grateful Dead items, from guitars and audio gear to clothing worn by the band and other memorabilia. The 1967 t-shirt aboveone of the first pieces of Dead m...

You can watch every movie streaming on Netflix and even travel the world, but until you see the world from new heights, you don't know how much you're missing. That's just one of the reasons drone pho...

These elephants are just having the most fantastic time!...

Next year the US Army plans to run wargame simulations involving groups of robotic tanks battling one another. According to Gen. Ross Coffman of the Army Futures Command, the experiment is the next st...

Wow. Whoa. Wild. What the hell? Was that supposed to be Budweiser?My name is Michele Fiore. I'm running for Governor of Nevada. We don't need more weak, compromise, blue blazer Republican poli...

The massive r/antiwork subreddit has no shortage of funny/sad/outrageous screenshots taken by workers who are mistreated, underpaid, unappreciated, and ultimately unemployed. Examples below.Indeed, it...

Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Ragheb was livestreaming a report following an earthquake when a gentleman drove by on a motorcycle and snatched Ragheb's phone. More than 20,000 people were tuned into the...

I Feel Fantastic is a youtube video from 12 years ago, featuring an alluring young woman who would like everyone to know that she feels fantastic. I'm not sure who this woman is, but she has the voice...

A group of cyclists three miles into a 26-mile charity ride in New Jersey was interrupted by an impatient deer, who couldn't wait its turn to cross the road. One cyclist crashes down, while the deer c...

Disney theme park fans are one of the roughest and most toxic groups sharing outrage online I've seen. Fed by similarly angry and entitled bloggers and vloggers, a number of Disneyland fan groups I've...

The Ibex is an amazing creature that can climb nearly vertical surfaces. This video, "The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam," shows these wild goats in action, climbing up the wall of an...

Kids Playgrounds From Early 20th Centuryis a slideshow of vintage playground photos. It would be impossible for any of this playground equipment to exist today, with our modern safety requirements. So...

Lionel Rogosin's On The Bowery (1956) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Carla and I walked around the Bowery a couple of months ago and it is unrecognizable from the nei...

Some guys decided the logo-emblazoned doormat from the entryway of the restaurant at the amazing Madonna Inn should be theirs. SF Gate:Most people are drawn to the Madonna for an overnight (its over-t...

A 4-year-old boy in New Zealand made an emergency call to police. When they asked what the emergency was, he said, "I've got some toys for you.""You've got some toys for me?" the dispatcher said."Yep....

This instrument, bestowed unto me by an ancient god long forgotten, was crafted in the distant past by a race of cryptical creatures vanished from the face of the world and cuts off hangnails with eas...

Back in the 1970s, Jerry Falwell and his ilk injected white nationalist thinking into evangelical churches. Through the decades, evangelicals have become angrier, more reactionary, and more frightened...

I have not been excited by this season of Fortnite, and after several years of surviving the island, I have been playing other games.Taking a pickax to the new Paul Atreides might bring me back, but I...

This guy shares all his best secrets for imitating America's favorite dog painter/unindicted war criminal.Here's how you do a George W. Bush impression. First, make a face like you're looking directly...

This video lines up sea monsters from tiny to humongous, starting with the 5cm Sheldon J. Plankton of Sponge Bob fame and ending with… well, I don't want to spoil it for you. This 9-minute long ...

Just when you thought Rudy Giuliani couldn't get any more bizarre, he's reared his cringe-worthy self once again, this time behind an Abraham Lincoln filter that looks more like a cheap Halloween mask...

Facebook's other problems notwithstanding, its "Marketplace" sectionits Craigslist-like classified listingsis now a billion-user benehmoth full of scammers. A Propublica investigation found that fraud...

Jen Psaki did not allow Peter Doocy to spin rich people into unfair victims of tax policy or imply that average folks will have the IRS going through their checking accounts. The tax policy Doocy is o...

This might be a very narrow niche post, but I'm sure many Boing Boing readers have a "grail game" or two (i.e. a rare game that you covet but can no longer find or afford). Like Guy from Midwinter Min...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out next month: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies ordering today! RIGHT ...

Just on the eve of All Hallow's Eve, Chicago-based Ferrara Candy was targeted by mischievous spirits bent on destroying the spirit of Halloween. Ferrara is the factory that produces candy corn for Bra...

The 2016 election campaign for Jeff Fortenberry, a GOP lawmaker, received a questionable donation. An aide apparently warned him: "hey, Jeff, that donation looks questionable". The FBI had, of course,...

The committee investigating the January 6 sacking of Congress by Trump supporters last night voted unanimously to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon, a Trump crony and Breitbart News co...

Just as Lord Vader disarmed Mace Windu at Sidious's behest, you too can stand up to your enemies, whether it be your annoying boss or nosy mother-in-law, lightsaber in hand. Okay, so you're not actual...

Rachel Levine is the first transgender four-star officer in the United States, reports The Advocate. Levine, currently the Biden administration's assistant health secretary, was chosen to lead the 6,0...

Over the weekend, DC Comics held their second annual FanDome event, chock-full of announcements and teaser trailers and all that good hype stuff. During Saturday's event, Chief Creative Officer and Pu...

Maskless @NYPDTransit District 4 NYPD Officers kicked a guy out of the @MTA for pointing out to the officers that they needed to put on their required mask while in the Subway system. In a video recor...

This story started back in October of 2018 when I was driving through an intersection in Larkspur, California and spotted an enormous pumpkin on the flatbed of a '54 Chevy tractor-trailer. I thought i...

Any guessses as to what Facebook's new name will be? The company wants to distance itself from its increasingly reviled social network and will choose a new name highlighting its plans to build a "met...

If you were like everyone at the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, then you probably tried your hand at bread-making. Maybe you were successful, but evidenced by the fact that so many people have left t...

A man and his father driving down a highway notice a semi-truck obliviously pushing a small white car, which is sideways, down a highway. They try to get the truck driver's attention, shouting, waving...

According the National Retail Federation, US shoppers will spend $10 billion on Halloween crap this year. A big chunk of that will go into the coffers of Spirit Halloween, operators of more than 1400 ...

Let's be honest, not all of us need the newest MacBook Pro with all the bells and whistles to complete our personal or professional tasks, nor is paying the highest price a reasonable option. So what ...

Folks, if you're wearing a red cap, take cover! The wars are invading! But the brave correspondents at Fox News are on it, having one helluva time on the battlefield covering at least 46 "wars" as of ...

When British magazine The Oldie wanted to bestow 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II Britain's oldest, "longest-reigning monarch" with the annual title of "Oldie of the Year," she said thanks but nope. ...

The ACLU says police handcuffed, brought to jail, and questioned 10-year-old girl for a sketch she drew at school. Neither the school nor the police informed the girl's mother that she'd been taken fr...

The ACLU says police handcuffed, brought to jail, and questioned 10-year-old girl for a sketch she drew at school. Neither the school nor the police informed the girl's mother that she'd been taken fr...

Sociopathic diesel truck drivers are fond of removing exhaust emissions equipment from their trucks to produce thick black smoke on demand, a practice known as "rolling coal."Coal rollers delight in d...

The Big Squeeze tube squeezer is a shining silver anachronism hanging from my garage wall by a simple nail pounded into a stud. This heavy-duty, all-metal industrial device can extract every last usab...

Donald Trump put out a statement attacking former general and Secretary of State Colin Powell. It's a perfect and concise summation of everything people love and hate about Trump: falsely ingratiating...

Over the last eight months, NASA's Perseverance rover has used two onboard microphones to record more than five hours of sounds on the Red Planet, from wind gusts to the roll of the rover's wheels and...

Hank's Pumpkintown in Water Mill, NY has a 7-acre corn maze, where people can play interactive games while trying to find their way out of the looming stalks. Although we all know what these fun, some...

I can't believe how many movies and TV series Nicole Kidman has been in lately! I'm looking forward to her role as Lucille Ball in Aaron Sorkin's biopic, Being the Ricardos, which premieres on Prime V...

While "The Lost Session" is labelled as an "Official Teaser" for the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop remake, the two-and-a-half-minute video is really more of a standalone short film that introduces...

Once again Jordan Klepper shows he has an amazing ability to let conservatives embarrass themselves....

Of all the places to get your car-hauling truck stuck, a railway track is one of the worst. Watch the cars go flying....

Naturally, LEGO would also partner with Disney for a LEGO The Avengers advent calendar.These LEGO advent calendar sets are all pretty wonderful, and I have no idea what the whole advent thing is reall...

As a former member of the British Parliament and Brexit Party Leader whose political career largely existed in relation to the Northern Irish border, you'd think Nigel Farage would have at least the s...

Someone once told me that anger is a combination of sadness and fear, and this seems to be the case with these unfortunate saps who are defying over a century of immunology and epidemiology because th...

The Brnnlisau shooting range in Simmental, Switzerland is a popular spot for rifle enthusiasts taking aim at targets 300m away, across a busy road. "We been shooting here now for 20 years and we never...

Remember when Matt Gaetz was trolled by a couple of adoring "fans" for being a troll? Or when posters of Trump Junior went up at a Brooklyn armed forces recruitment center that said, "I'm not enlistin...

French pop music legend Serge Gainsbourg was just as famous for his ever-present Gitanes and otherwise perfectly French apparence. On a TV appearance toward the end of his life, he was suprised by a c...

Shlomi Katzin, diving off the coast of Israel, spotted a yard-long embarnacled lump and hauled it to the surface. The item is believed to be a 900-year-old sword that belonged to a crusader; Katzin ha...

A bunch of river otters has recently been attacking people in Anchorage, Alaska. There were three attacks in September alone, on a child, a woman, and several dogs. Apparently these attacks have been ...

It's one small step for technology and one giant leap backwards for the imagination…. Fisher-Price has just introduced a new version of its iconic Chatter Telephone that actually makes real tele...

In 1616, British officer Nathaniel Courthope was sent to a tiny island in the East Indies to contest a Dutch monopoly on nutmeg. He and his men would spend four years battling sickness, starvation, an...

A scared drum was stolen from the Smipeople during the Vard witch trials in the seventeenth century, one of the first major witch trials in the Scandinavian region. Now, the indigenous people of the a...

In yesterday's episode, Peter Doocy asks Jen Psaki about executive privilege, inviting Jen to give him a brief history lesson about January 6. From the transcript:Q  So then what's changed since ...

San Jose Sharks forward Evander Kane is out for 21 games after turning in a fake Covid vaccination card to his team and the National Hockey League. Officials were not fooled; Kane is apologetic."I wou...

Koalasa lot of koalas get chlamydia. And while humans can typically pop a few pills and get back to business in a few weeks, koalas don't respond well to chlamydia antibiotics. Current treatments disr...

From The Guardian:Its outlines are faint, only discernible at an angle, but the world's oldest drawing of a ghost has been discovered in the darkened vaults of the British Museum.A lonely bearded...

Rock promoter Bill Graham's East Village venue, Fillmore East, was only open from March 1968 to June 1971. But in that short time, many performers played at what was nicknamed "The Church of Rock and ...

It seems like everyone and their brother is a photographer or videographer these days. After all, our smartphones have high-quality cameras that allow us to snap publish-worthy shots and videos in a m...

I would not recommend for this for the uninitiated. It might be overwhelming and off-putting, if you're not already at least somewhat familiar with the Dune universe. It's a lot. But this is a good su...

A guy bought a new plane but, as yet, had zero hours of flying experience. For some reason he was allowed to taxi his plane from one part of the airport to the other — and while doing so, he acc...

"Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to yet another round of 'no bones,' the game where we find out if my 13-year-old pug woke up with bones, and we also kind of find out how our day is going to ...

A man in Japan was charged with copyright infringement and electronic transmission of obscene materials after using AI software to de-censor porn on-demand though his website. In Japan, genitalia must...

The work from home revolution has rapidly become the work from anywhere revolution. But not everything has caught up to this new style of work, including the technology that powers digital nomads. Reb...

A man built a sturdy tall fence in his yard to keep his dog Lexi from escaping. But Lexi uses it as perch instead, often stepping right on top of it (as her less nimble buddy keeps all fours on the gr...

A Georgia hospital dumped a seriously ill Black man, with tubes and a catheter still attached to him, on a sidewalk after his Medicare ran out. The 68-year-old patient, who had "a fever, signs of seps...

An Illinois-based mom celebrates her "baby's" 6th birthday with this spectacular, high-speed dance she and her partner performed at his party. And it's not just a one-off check out her TikTok (@marya...

This All-Clad stainless steel spatula is perfect for use with my favorite cast iron pan. I would be lost without them.The thickness of the spatula, and its hardness, are just wonderful. This tool easi...

India Walton, a black woman who identifies as a democratic socialist, defeated the incumbent party insider in this summer's Democratic primary election for the Buffalo mayoral race. Rather than accept...

We all know someone who is a terrible snorer or, maybe, that person is us! Either way, everyone hates snoring. The bad news is, it can be tough to stop because we aren't aware of what may be causing t...

For your next movie night, let Masaaki Yuasa take you through a psychedelic night in Kyoto with his 2018 anime, The Night is Short, Walk on Girl. At its core, the film is a romantic comedy, following ...

The Centner Academy, a Florida school who claims "we are not anti-vaxxers," is banning students who dare to get vaxxed from showing up at school for 30 days after each shot. This is the same misinform...

Red Delicious is perhaps the biggest misnomers in the entire realm of fruits and vegetables. They're mealy, mild, and wholly unexciting compared to such greats as the Gala, Fuji, and Granny Smith. So ...

From the Beatles 1966 album Revolver, "Eleanor Rigby" embodied a shift for the band from pop rock and rollers to a more mature group eager to experiment and harness the power of studio production and ...

I wish someone would find a use for crypto other than scams already.9to5 Mac:The YouTube stream has somehow drawn up to 30,000 concurrent viewers. It helps that the YouTube search algorithm is heavily...

Steve Schklair of Altadena, California received a "one-time courtesy" letter from Spectrum threatening to ruin his credit record unless he resubscribed to the cable service. "A well-established credit...

In a fit of raving about testosterone, Congressperson Cawthorn pleads with conservative mothers to encourage their sons to be awful, reprehensible human beings.Complaining that "our culture today ...

Over the weekend, both Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson (AR) and Republican Senator Bill Cassidy (LA) insinuated that supporting Trump was a losing strategy. First, there's Cassidy, who told "Axios on H...

Featuring a Center for Truth in the Public Sphere amongst many others, UCLA's Chancellor is really grateful for Barbara Streisand's new donation. The press release is an odd choice when they could jus...

Featuring a Center for Truth in the Public Sphere amongst many others, UCLA's Chancellor is really grateful for Barbra Streisand's new donation. The press release is an odd choice when they could just...

At yesterday's Climate Live concert in Stockholm, Greta Thunberg took the stage to massive applause before stating: "We're no strangers to love." And with that, the rickroll began."At the end of the d...

I haven't been tested for ADHD but I fidget a lot. I wish I had a chair that worked with the elastic bands, because they look like a lot of fun to stretch and bounce my legs off. From Core 77:Those ar...

In this footage, a dead whale explodes. Unlike more famous footage of a dead whale exploding, it wasn't the result of hare-brained humans and TNT, but of internal gases. Recorded by baffled and alarme...

The Republicans who voted to impeach or convict Donald Trump for his actions leading up to and during the January 6th Moron's Rebellion are out raising the candidates the Orange Menace has backed agai...

Ten years ago the Japanese government started cracking down on the yakuza, a once-powerful crime syndicate. Japan's National Center for Removal of Criminal Organizations says there were 70,300 yakuza ...

Even when the flight crew warned a woman that they would handcuff her, she continued to parade up and down a plane aisle with a mic and amplifier to share her thoughts on the origins of the pandemic a...

In this footage, a contestant on Wheel of Fortune makes a brilliant guess to take the round at its outset. Presenter Pat Sajak has just one thing to say....

Check out this weird testcard from a 1993 satellite feed. There is something very sinister about the smiley face. I think it's the way its moving its eyes back and forth like a kit-kat klock. It looks...

A sign near the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii warns visitors of "invisible" cows dark-colored cows who are hard to spot in foggy or dark conditions. It's become an iconic landmark, and a Mauna Kea gift ...

The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming is a new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts that aims to re-examine and re-contextualize the whole idea of "witches". From the websit...

Back in August, Bandcamp's editorial section put together a great round-up of metal bands whose songs have taken inspiration from the epic, sandy, and war-torn fields of Arrakis. There's the Scottish ...

David Knight received an automated traffic violation in the mail for driving in a bus lane in Bath, UK. However, the CCTV photo evidence of the alleged incident didn't depict his car but rather a woma...

Three men were "lured out of anonymity" to collect a $1m prize won by the latest ultraviolent thriller by "Carmen Mola", thereby revealing her as the writing team's pseudonym.Their lead character in t...

General Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state, has died due to COVID-19 complications. He was 84. Powell rose to fame as the architect of the 1989 invasion of Panama and the Persian Gulf...

The Cube Two X is a 377-square foot pre-fabricated tiny smart home from Singaporean company Nestron. And it absolutely looks like something out of a 70s sci-fi movie. Available in one- or two-bedroom ...

The Library of Congress recently scanned and posted 30,000 maps drafted and published in the 19th century by The Sanborn Map Company. That being rather a lot of get though, Ben Welsh made a Twitter bo...

Connor Gottfried made a 3-foot wide playable replica of Nintendo's classic Game and Watch version of Legend of Zeldacomplete with a normal-size controller to play it with. 18 inches tall and 5 inches ...

If you've been recently injured, have chronic issues from arthritis, or are like so many of us dealing with poor posture due to working an office job, neck and shoulder pain can be relentless. While t...

The Proud Boys, what with all the sexism and far-right ideology, seem to be having trouble finding romance. Ron Filipkowski notes that at the gang's 'Fall Love Fest' rally this weekend, a speaker made...

Morrowind is the most interesting place in the fantasy world of The Elder Scrolls, with its weird ecology and insular culture, and the game by that name will be 20 years old next year. Despite its age...

In 1909, Scott Perky of Niagara Falls patented a font where each letter and symbol has a vertical line of symmetry. This allows you to write a word either forwards or backwards without needing to chan...

If you had $100 billion that you had to spend, how would you even do it? A simulation by Neal Agarwal lets you squander the wealth of Bill Gates on things like movies, monster trucks, and the Mon...

While you're busy using your annual haul of Girl Guide cookies to raise your blood sugar, the Girl Guides use the coin you tossed their way to ensure that kids, who might not have the opportunity to d...

For $80, you can buy an annual pass to the world's first Peppa Pig theme park, which is set to open in February 2022. The British animated children's series has exploded in the US, even giving kids Br...

tweet2Doom is a bot, created by Georgi Gerganov, that lets you play DOOM by @replying commands to the account. You can chain together a bunch of commands, and the bot will execute them and reply with ...

The Man Who Would Be King. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. The Muppets Christmas Carol. Zulu, Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy and The Cider House Rules. Not one of these films would be what they were with...

Whatever age we may be, we can always stand to learn something new, even if we're years removed from school. If you're looking to pick up some new skills, consider these 21 courses, which range from c...

Every modern-day gamer knows that the only way to properly get the most out of their console is to have access to its premium online subscription service. With these services, you can reap the benefit...

On May 30, 202, just days after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a Black US Army veteran named Jaleel Stallings was also brutally beaten by Chauvin's colleagues....

I saw these tweets:some of the blockchain applications that the poor bunny serfs come up with: pic.twitter.com/cG1sSvazQK— yan (@bcrypt) October 13, 2021and was sadly unsurprised to learn that T...

A Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson duet is reimagined by Leo....

Jay of JBV Creative is an engineer and artist who specializes in 3D printing to make gorgeous automata — you can see some of his models, like a handcranked marble coaster or flapping crane, at h...

The interview with Minneapolis PBS station KTCA followed on the heels of the bands' touring behind Rocket to Russia, their third album and last one to include all 4 original members of the band. Ironi...

From tasks as simple as checking the weather to scrolling through Facebook with your morning coffee, iPads have become an integral part of our day-to-day. While you can do a lot of your phones these d...

The Boston Globe has a fun retrospective on a 1911 Boston expedition by the famed escape artist Harry Houdini:On Sept. 25, 1911, The Boston Daily Globe mentioned Houdini's upcoming challenge in a...

Whether you're looking to start a new career or build a new skill for your personal use, you should always be pushing your mind to learn something new. Luckily, the internet can be your best friend wh...

The Rock will be playing bad Shazam, coming to theaters and your streaming devices, next year. I believe this is the 'first look trailer.'I am pretty excited about this, and I pretty much find all DC ...

Drones are some of the coolest toys out there today. They let you capture breathtaking photos and videos while being useful for activities like making deliveries (though watch out for ornery locals!)....

"Spot It" is an incredibly fun card game where you try to match objects printed on round cards — and the twist is that there's aways one, but only one, matching object on each card. (Previously....

Forget the ersatz typefaces (though they be awesome) and learn how to letter in the distinctive and uniquely legible style of an architect: "Everything had to be clear because a misinterpreted note on...

The scammy business model around inkjet printers is well-known: sell the hardware cheap to snare customers into paying again and again for ink cartridges that cost more by volume than champagne. But t...

The word "orange" described a fruit before it described a color. The English word "orange" was first used to describe citrus in the 1300s, and wasn't used for the color for another 200 years. Mental F...

This video of the creepiest vintage costumes reveals how Halloween costumes have become much less scary over time. The photographs of the costumes in this video range from the 1800s to the 1950s, and ...

"This is how Friday's at the Concord mall used to look back in 2009. Say hello to all of my friends. We have no lives"The Concord Mall Rats 2009 V is a fantastic YouTube video that serves as a time ca...

In 2019 the rotating Happy Foot / Sad Foot sign of Sunset Blvd. was taken down. The sign was there to advertise a foot clinic, but was removed when the clinic left the location. I'm glad that there is...

I played Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 over and over. Back 4 Blood is everything I'd wanted from their long-awaited sequel. Gameplay and mechanics are what players of the earlier games expect. The gra...

The ongoing drought in the west sees California's Lake Tahoe approaching its 'low' mark, water service to 1000s may be impacted, and the shores of the lake stink.SF Gate:Trash that had sunk in Tahoe's...

The ongoing drought in the west sees Lake Tahoe approaching its 'low' mark, water service to 1000s may be impacted, and the shores of the lake stink.SF Gate:Trash that had sunk in Tahoe's waters is no...

I don't know where this is from and what it means but damn if it's not a gripping journey.Someone's pulled the plug pic.twitter.com/34xB2zQGNS— CCTV_IDIOTS (@cctv_idiots) October 11, 2021...

Tammy Bullock, now a probate judge in South Carolina, was among a group of people filmed entering the house of a man who had died hours earlier and leaving with his stuff. Cash, guns and other propert...

The Grand Wizard of Northampton, Alan Moore, sat with RT's Sophie Shevardnadze for a half-hour interview about art, magic, heroism, and his 2016 novel Jerusalem. Moore recently released a fantasy noir...

We're currently living in a culture where the masses think new is always better, but keeping up with the latest gadgets quickly gets pricey, and the performance boost might not even be worth it. Refur...

I stumbled upon the potentially dangerous food category on Wikipedia and I have learned a lot. Most of the list entries made sense: raw meat, money brains, a fungus that resembles a brain, and other c...

The last couple of years have been hard on Canadian Snowbirds. Many of us, myself included, are used to heading south in the fall, to escape the icy bullshit of a Canadian winter. Unfortunately, thank...

Thanks to a new feature on iOS 15 released on September 20th, students can use iPhone cameras to copy and paste the notes of students in front of them. Gone are the days of cramped hands and unofficia...

I got an email a while back from a fellow by the name of David Lester, who asked if I wanted to read his graphic novel biography of "an 18th-century dwarf and hunchback who fought a lonely, heroic fig...

Look, you've sipped on many a glass of wine over the years. You may not be a sommelier, but you definitely are the master of your own palette. Whether you're into big, fruity reds or would kill for a ...

On Wednesday, Trump made the idiotic threat that Republicans will not vote in '22 or '24 if "we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020." Of course, giddy Democrats welcomed this threat wi...

After white students at Coosa High School in Georgia waved a confederate flag and made racist remarks, Black students planned a protest in response. But for some reason (aka racism), the school suspen...

This golden retriever looks pretty confident in his obviously tried-and-true-routine of pawing at and sliding a covered bowl of food off the counter and into his mouth. But before he can make a quick ...

Industrial designer Rebecca Weiss has won Germany's James Dyson Award which "celebrates, encourages and inspires the designers of new problem-solving ideas." The problem she is trying to solve is the ...

Residents of Holmfield, Halifax, England are complaining of a low-frequency humming noise they say has "tortured" them for a year. More than 400 citizens signed a petition urging the government to con...

Anyone who travels knows that multipurpose products are the way to go when you're trying to pack light. Who has room for tech, storage containers, and all their little knickknacks in one overnight bag...

Alison Fensterstock writes about a romance novel genre featuring bitcoin billionaires: The plot of the series revolves around a secret cabal of investors who bought bitcoin when the price was in the s...

UK lawmaker David Amess was stabbed to death earlier today during a gathering with local voters. Amess, 69, served his suburban Essex constituency since 1983; a 25-year-old man was arrested at the sce...

The hulking weeds loomed over me, casting their dark shadows across the serene ground. Their twisted vines had wormed their way into the earth, seeping into the soil like a cancer, staking an illegiti...

This is some absolutely wonderful urban art, of course, the city of Portland enjoys crushing the joy out of things and so it is gone.Oregon Live:Many Portlanders just thought it was neat, but city off...

Writer Clive Thompson (a frequent contributor to Boing Boing) has an excellent regular column at Medium. One of his recent pieces is about how he switches to a different word processor when he is revi...

I just sent my daughter the 2021 LEGO Star Wars advent calendar. Now into her teens, she still expects this annually.Every year this is a wonderful assemblage of tiny Star Wars LEGO and minifigs. This...

Two of Trump's very fine supporters, Robert Bauer and Edward Hemenway, were sent to prison for 45 days for participating in the Capitol riot. What makes it interesting is the prosecutors asked for jus...

'National Enquirer'"Why COVID shots don't work!" screams the scare-mongering cover story. "2,675 fully vaccinated Americans have died!"The 'Enquirer' fails to mention that most of those deaths were pe...

Ah, Dubai, the sparkling desert miracle of splendiferous opulence! Where else can you get tortured and imprisoned for 25 years for having a bottle of non-psychoactive CBD oil? That's what happened to ...

For Halloween, Heinz has given their ketchup a temporary, and rather amusing, makeover. For a limited time, they're offering "Tomato Blood" ketchup. Same product, new label. You can get a bottle (or t...

PDXL makes these handsome and fascinating Topo Bowls, each modeled on a real-life natural hole.Lake topography is technically called bathymetry. We took some iconic lakes, laser cut layers, and made t...

Yesterday, Jen Psaki was forced to explain that President Trump and his followers' January 6th assault on our democracy was unprecedented, and the Biden Administration has no fear that turning over wh...

British visual artist Peter Saville was granted the title of Commander of the British Empire in 2019 for his contributions to the field of graphic design. But he's probably best known for his 1979 wor...

Pepper's Ghost is a pretty simple, well-known illusion, made very popular by Disney's Haunted Mansion. This fantastic video steps you through very easily making your own versions of the illusion, and ...

World's greatest author Chuck Tingle had a great response to the predictable right-wing backlash against the coming out of Jonathan Kent, son of Superman and Lois: he wrote a book about it.Here's the ...

Doom may be played in the web browser, of course, but now it may also be rendered in the web browser as a vast collection of checkboxes.You can play now (desktop Chrome/Edge only), view the source cod...

Designer/developer duo Amanda and Hunter Loftis created a free deck of question cards to ask friends or significant others. The questions spark conversation (What did you want to be when you grew up? ...

Hugging Face, a company that makes AI language-and-image-processing tools, just released this little web toy "Draw To Search". You draw something and it attempts to recognize what you've drawn and mat...

From the CBC:Ruth Hamilton had been asleep for hours in her Golden, B.C., home when she awoke to the sound of her dog barking, giving her a moment's notice before a rock from outer spac...

A now-former chief technical pilot for Boeing was indicted on fraud charges over his involvement in the 737 MAX scandal, which claimed the lives of hundreds of passengers when two of the defective jet...

There's nothing quite like the feeling of lighting your favorite candle and having the scent instantly uplift your mood. However, a broken lighter can be the ultimate mood killer. Instead of replacing...

Between my work/writing schedule and my partner's returning to school, cooking dinner is no longer a daily occurrence. We're all about pan meals, roasts, Instant Pot oatmeal and sandwiches. As we have...

A school administrator at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, "advised" teachers there that books about the Holocaust they have in their classroom should be balanced by books ...

Real estate heir Robert Durst, famous for inadvertantly confessing to murder while being interviewed for a documentary, was sentenced to life in prison. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark Wi...

This week saw the release of the trailer for Scream 2022, the fifth film in the Scream movie franchise after a decade away (although there was also a TV series that was only slightly connected). Accor...

Nature surveyed 300 scientists who've done media interviews about COVID. The results had some surprisingly positive notes — 85% said "their experiences of engaging with the media were always or ...

A customer at the Leeds-based bakery Get Baked recently reported the business to the West Yorkshire Trading Standards regulatory body for violating sprinkle laws with their best-selling Birthday Bruce...

I was once told by an English teacher that long books are strong books. It kind of smacked of bullshit, It tastes like a mouthful of it now.Don't get me wrong: there's nothing wrong with a good, long ...

Boing Boing's own Ruben Bolling has two new Tom the Dancing Bug books coming out next month.Clover Press's Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program continues with Volume 6: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens, wh...

Most of my intellectual heroes are now ghosts; one way to keep them alive is to remember their birthdays. Today marks the natal day of Italian literary treasure Italo Calvino, widely admired writer an...

For any online business, blogger, or website owner who wants a smoother, more established connection to the world wide web, a cloud-based web host is the way to go. You won't get far connecting to you...

Get ready for a blast from the past. The last announcement on brendanfraser.com is from 2005, and most of its updates happened around 2001. The flash website contains the actor's writing and photos in...

#LaurenBoebertIsSoDumb, she decided she's not "going to bother entertaining the haters who put this out" by entertaining the hashtag with this entertaining video (I prefer it via @RonFilipkowski's tw...

Daisy Chainsaw were a short-lived English rock band who made awesome music from 1989 to 1994. Their lead vocalist was KatieJane Garside, who has always been mesmerizing to me in the manic way she sing...

"Crazy Clown Time" (Official Video) is a song and music video by artist and director David Lynch. Lynch is celebrated for his films and visual art, but his lesser-known musical work is pretty awesome,...

Today, I stumbled across this obscure video of unique wind-up toysand have been in a better mood ever since. You can watch it here: Classic Antique Tin Wind Up Toys Get Together in Fairfield. The vide...

Texas continues to spin towards fascism. NBC News:SOUTHLAKE, Texas A top administrator with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake advised teachers last week that if they have a book ab...

Web development is the never-ending quest to create better, sleeker, and more useful websites to populate the ever-growing internet. We've come a long way from spinning low-resolution images and 8-bit...

It's comforting to know that Professor Eric Laithwaite (1921-1997) former Professor of Heavy Electrical Engineering at Imperial College London and inventor of the maglev trains felt the same way as In...

"You shouldn't have a favorite murder," writes Emma Berquist.In an essay for the new Gawker, Berquist discusses her own violent attack and criticizes our obsession with true crime. Chirpy crime podcas...

After the St. Louis State Dispatch wrote that a government website was leaking the social security numbers of workers, Missouri Governor Mike Parson demanded that the journalists who reported the secu...

I've never heard of Panic In Year Zero! (a.k.a.End of the World), a 1962 science fiction movie starring Ray Milland about a family that survives a nuclear explosion in Los Angeles. It was just upload...

Denis Villeneuve's Dune opens in a couple of weeks in wide release, but the reviews are already up and it's 90% fresh on the tomatometer: looks like he nailed it. People who have read the novel will s...

Rob Tannenbaum has a thoroughly good time writing about the history of the Starland Vocal Band's 1976 soft rock ballad "Afternoon Delight" in his GQ essay, "Skyrockets In Flight: The Strange Story of ...

I am afraid this beloved children's tale should have waited for a few more generations of CGI before getting made.Smaller Clifford appears to look perhaps more real, or the detail when he is large is ...

This massive package of desiccated, possibly sentient leaves from beyond the gulfs of space itself was harvested by priest-kings waiting for the day when the powers that covered their planet in the no...

This week William Shatner (90) was invited by an arrogant billionaire industrialist to ride in his rocket.Over sixty years later, life imitates art, with a twist. Night of the Auk was a televised play...

Frankie Carino is a photographer and sculptor who lately has been focusing on ice castles — i.e. human-created buildings made of ice.He's taken some gorgeous and eerie photos of them; in his len...

KSWO 7 reports that 20-year-old Brittney Poolaw was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter after miscarrying at 17 weeks.An autopsy report showed that the fetus tested positive for methamphetamine,...

For their fellow Republicans who missed the memo, Republicans for Voting Rights sent them a clear message yesterday: TRUMP LOST. As part of their nationwide quarter-million dollar billboard campaign, ...

In Glasgow, Scotland, John Devlin, 64, noticed that a man needed assistance with his bicycle so he stopped to help. While Devlin was fixing the cyclist's handlebars, he realized that it was actually h...

In 2016 a YouTuber found that when he opened his car's glove compartment, it made a squeak that sounded like a light jazz saxophone riff.Last month, a musician named The Kiffness sampled the sound and...

Catholic Rev. Edward Beck went on CNN to explain that fetal tissue is not used in the vaccines, and please listen to your Pope and get vaccinated.Crooks and Liars:"The archbishop is correct that in Ca...

I grew up in Michigan calling these little creatures "rolly pollies" and I also knew "pill bug." I recently realized that the tiny animals have many, many more names than the two I knew some as odd as...

A team at MIT has developed a technique for getting plants to behave like glow-in-the-dark toysthey can absorb light, store it, and then radiate it back out.This team has been working on glowing plant...

Here in Los Angeles I frequently get postcards in the mail offering free weed delivery to my house. Across the Pacific Ocean, in Singapore, a 41-year-old Omar Yacob Bamadhaj will be executed by hangin...

Born at their training facility for Clydesdales, who may participate in an essential part of their beechwood aging process, Budweiser welcomes baby "Eminem."However, Bud did not lose themselves in the...

A Texas couple on their way to Las Vegas was told at the airport that one of their bags was six pounds too heavy. When they opened it up, out popped their pet chihuahua, who had snuggled into a cowboy...

Britain has become the world's capital of bank fraudand criminals' test-bed for new scams. It's enabled partially by Britain's instant electronic transfers (in the U.S. and elsewhere such transfers fl...

Gov. Jared Polis is pretty proud of his state, and the quality of their weed is evident.Colorado is tied for state with the least shark attacks! pic.twitter.com/mMI8HAZGra— Jared Polis (@jaredp...

A Cincinnati police officer "shelved" rape kits for years, reports Fox 19 News, likely leading to identifiable rapists remaining at large and denying defendants access to potentially exonerating evide...

Don't blink as you walk by or you'll miss it. The house at 75 1/2 Bedford Street is just nine and a half feet wide. Packed inside are three bedrooms, two full baths, and four wood-burning fireplaces. ...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof has resigned from the New York Times after 37 years. Kristof, 62, is considering running for governor of Oregon. Yesterday, he fi...

Temperatures in sunny Los Angeles have begun to drop at night, and it was cold enough in my drafty old house that I wanted to use my house heater.Naturally, an earthquake had triggered my seismic shut...

For $725,000, you could own the entire town of Water Valley, Tennessee. Located in Maury County in the middle of the state, the town contains four "general stores," a barn, and a creekside home built ...

Enjoy this light-entertainment nightmare creature that I only dimly remembered until it went viral this week. Mr Zed was and remains a standup act endlessly refining a robot mimethink an analog Max He...

The Bedfordshire Police are hard at work protecting the mean English streets from 19th-century time travelers, apparently.We have taken a gun off the streets of Bedfordshire after officers found the f...

A woman in Sonoma County, California was concerned that there may be snakes living under her home, so she called the Sonoma County Reptile Rescue and sanctuary. Turns out that that her home was also a...

In this footage, a highland steer named Hamish is lovingly combed by its human, who explains that it is not a yak, that everyone calls them all cows even though they ain't, and how to pick a good pet ...

I just learned about the "Center of the Universe" a strange acoustic phenomenon in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Stand at the right spot, and your voice will echo wildly around the architecture, no matter how sof...

Apparently, between my day job and writing a novel, I have managed to live in a cave, far from the realm of fandom and the geeky stuff that I love. Netflix is set to drop the second season of The Witc...

Squirrels eating you out of house and home? Make them out house and gnome! Just another big head squirrel feeder from the wonderful weirdos at Archie McPhee ($18.95). THAT GNOME SURE GOES THROUGH A LO...

They called it "The Big Rick." At 11 am on April 30th, 2021, each networked display screen in a large Illinois school district played "Never Gonna Give You Up." Three hours later, the automated bell s...

Nothing says Netflix and chill like the bright lights of your living room, said no one, ever. No matter what you're doing around the house, whether it's reading a book in bed or entertaining a group o...

The Roaring 20s [Twitter, also Substack] summarizes 1920s financial news from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times day by day. It's a fascinating insight into the ups and downs of another e...

Not long ago I posted a screenshot of a Teletext-style theme for Boing Boing. Though that was just a HTML mockup, Rhys Jones went right ahead and implemented it on Teefax, the online Teletext emulator...

Between laptops, smartphones, smartwatches, and tablets, you may be walking around with $2,000 worth of technology at any given time. And because you're human, you're likely to smash, submerge, or sim...

There are lots of things to miss about childhood, whether it's fruit roll-ups, playing Super Mario Bros. 3 for hours on end, or discovering the tiny toys in your fast-food happy meal. But when it come...

"If we don't solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Republicans will not be voting in '22 or '24. It is the single most important thing f...

The opening bid on the mind-bendingly gorgeous Star Trek phaser rifle at Heritage Auctions is $250,000. I think it will go for much more.Description:The phaser rifle from the second pilot ofStar Trek'...

Angel Bomb, which published the incredible "experiential book" The Miskatonic Papers in 2019, has a new project on Kickstarter. This one is a deluxe letterpress edition of the 1938 John W. Campbell st...

On the Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube channel, you can watch Ed and Jim flip through the pages of Black Hole as they discuss the story and art: Black Hole by Charles Burns! 'nuff said!. Black Hole is a 12...

Rabbit's Moon is a 26-minute film about a clown's longing for the moon and the rabbit that lives inside of it. The film was created in 1950 by the great American filmmaker, Kenneth Anger. The film too...

The magnificent Triadisches Ballet originally premiered in 1922 at the Stuttgart landestheater in Germany. This Avant-Garde ballet was developed by Oskar Schlemmer, a praised Bauhaus faculty member. H...

I've been listening to Swedish rapper Yung Lean's music for almost a decade now. Yung Lean became popular in 2013 when his song "Ginseng Strip 2002" went viral on YouTube. I love all the music he's re...

A man in Texas, prepping for an annual Halloween contest for best spooky cabin (which he usually wins), created this simple yet striking vomiting skeleton to add to his decoration collection. Alex Cro...

There are very few things that make me miss owning a Volkswagen bus. This 21 window looks like so much fun, I briefly forget how dangerous these are on the roads today. I would still love it.Bring A T...

These gentlemen were very lucky that no one we know of was hurt slamming on their brakes for an unexpected speed bump that wasn't there. I find it to be a miracle that there are not more accidents and...

I don't like The Carpenters very much, but I just heard Karen Carpenter's 1967 demo version of "California Dreamin'," which she sang when she was only 17 and I love it. Features brother Richard's cool...

Over Columbus Day weekend, I was reminded of that moron's historical horniness for manatees. According to his journals, he noticed three manatees near the Dominican Republic on January 9, 1493, and mi...

The Birdsey Cape Cod Wildlife Center is the proud caregiver of a young diamondback terrapin turtle born with two heads and six legs. The turtle/turtles were born with a "rare anomaly" caused either by...

This fire-damaged wristwatch looks like a lump of charcoal. And yet, the person in this video was able to restore it and make it look brand new.If you like watching videos of watches being restored, y...

Sheriffs in Ohio asked US Senate candidate, Josh Mandel, to leave a school board meeting on Monday after he took the mic to bash transgender students. He dug in his heels, arguing that he had every ri...

On Friday the 13th in February 1987, a full-moon night, Vincent Price was the guest on the Late Show starring Joan Rivers. This was the only time Price performed his iconic rap from Michael Jackson's ...

Disturbing bodycam video shows an Indianapolis police sergeant stamping on a handcuffed suspect's face during his arrest. Sgt. Eric Huxley was suspended without pay and charged with battery and with m...

I'm so excited to subscribe to Disney+ for a month so I can watch The Beatles Get Back, which premieres November 25 and features parts of 57 hours of never-before-seen high-quality footage of the four...

Can not help but love it when they offer Jen Psaki a softball, she reflexively hits it out of the park. Jen Psaki: "World renowned business, travel & health expert Ted Cruz…"All of us: Slow ...

Mexico City recently removed a statue of Christopher Columbus, a European explorer whose treatment of natives and other colonists was so brutal it resulted in condemnation and disgrace in his own life...

Douglas Wolk is the host of the Voice of Latveria podcast. He's also read every single comic book that Marvel has ever published. At first, he was just tracking his journey through the largest single ...

James Lipnickas, a phenomenal graphite artist, has lately been creating these haunting drawings of high-rise towerspopulated with cryptic humans who appear to periodically wrestle with aliens.Some of ...

Ian Brackenbury Channell has served as the official Wizard of Christchurch, New Zealand since 1998, earning an average salary of about $11,000 USD paid for by the city council in exchange for his serv...

Walgreens says it is closing five more of its stores in San Francisco because shoplifters are making them unprofitable. The chain has closed at least 10 stores since 2019 because of "organized retail ...

Flash is dead, finally taken out back by Adobe after many years of increasingly insecure and obsolete service. As disliked as Flash was as a technology and advertising medium, though, it was loved as ...

For two years, this handsome bull elk, a resident of Pine Colorado, lived with a tire stuck around its neck. Human residents had reported the bull's unfortunate situation to Colorado Parks and Wildlif...

From electric toothbrushes to blow dryers that brush your hair for you while you style, life is full of everyday gizmos and gadgets that just make things way easier. But if you're still using flimsy, ...

A rise in food prices, fuel costs, and shelter costs in the Unites States led to a 5.4% inflation rate in September. Prices for food and shelter accounted for half of the overall increase. In the past...

On Sunday morning, residents of New Hampshire and parts of Massachusetts were rocked by a massive boom that shook homes in the region and understandably freaked people the hell out. Early theories tha...

I've been using a reMarkable Tablet, for years now. It's great for taking notes at my day job. I waste no paper when I jot down meeting minutes, annotate stories and starting off new pieces of writing...

Paddy Maloney, who over a span of decades has entertained hundreds of thousands with his wit, warmth and talent, has passed away at 83 years of age. One of the founding members of The Chieftains, Padd...

The New York Times reports that an Australian man has gotten himself into a potential legal fire because of grammatically sloppy Facebook rant:In the post last year, Anthony Zadravic, the agent, appea...

Amazon is often accused of copying and selling own-brand versions of successful products, using its control of the marketplace and its unique insight into sales there to give itself an overwhelming co...

The federal judge overseeing capitol rioter Brandon Fellows bond hearing told him it was a "bad idea" for him to represent himself, but Fellows, who has been charged with obstruction of an official pr...

The hypothesis behind The Walk of Life project is that "Walk of Life" by Dire Straits is the perfect song to end any movie. Above and below are several examples supporting this hypothesis.(via Kottke)...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out next month: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies ordering today! RIGHT ...

Captain Kirk is headed to space this morning. William Shatner, 90, is awaiting liftoff aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket along with crewmates Dr. ChrisBoshuizen, Glen de Vries, and Audrey Powers...

Captain Kirk took a brief trip to space this morning. William Shatner, 90, lifted off aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket along with crewmates Dr. ChrisBoshuizen, Glen de Vries, and Audrey Powers....

People mock this guy like they never had a 2-stroke vacuum cleaner....

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have a new record that's on the cusp of being released. I'm excited! But in the meantime, Plant's back catalog has more than enough meat to keep me satisfied. Yonder cor...

Dallas Buyers Club [Amazon] was an excellent Oscar-winning movie about Ron Woodroof, a Texas cowboy type who contracted HIV and was abandoned by his friends and family, but found new meaning helping o...

This video is cool on its own, but I thought I should include something else about blanket octopuses to make this post more interesting. So I did some googling, and discovered a claim that blanket oct...

Rarely are we ever offline these days. The digital age we live in keeps us glued to the Internet, and leaving your cyberspace connection insecure leaves you exposed to threats. Pirates and hackers are...

Squid Game is the blood-splattered South Korean drama series that has held the number one spot on Netflix in 90 countries since its September 17th release.Its "play to survive" theme is nothing new to...

You Walk Alone is one of my favorite albums by Jandek. For a long time, nobody knew who was behind the mysterious music project called "Jandek," which began in 1978. It's now known that Jandek is the ...

An Andalusian Dog is a 16-minute black and white film by Luis Buel and surrealist Salvador Dali. This Avant-Garde film was made in 1929. The film stood out when it was made because it doesn't have a c...

This five minute side show, Rare Photos Of The Circus From The Past, is a shocking look back into the days when people performed in freak shows. Many of these people had to be a part of the circus in ...

Michigan GOP lawmaker Daire Rendon revealed herself to be a member of QAnon, anti-Semitic pro-Nazi cult, notorious for a long list of failed predictions and which appeals to sociopathic sore losers wi...

Need to go live? Long gone are the days of in-person meetings that could've been an email and here to stay are live streams and watching stream recordings for both work and play. However, if you're us...

Hard-rocking not-a-virologist Ozzy Osbourne has shows us that the crazy train travels in a full loop.Daily News:"My wife had the virus; my daughter had the virus and I never got it," he told Metal Ham...

Lauren Windsor, undercover reporter and self-described "progressive pugilist swamp-slayer," posed as a right-wing anti-sex fanatic last night, coaxing a frightening response out of Texas Governor Greg...

Patrick (H) Williams spends 20 minutes analyzing a 10-second shot from Brian DePalma's "infamous 1990 bomb," Bonfire of the Vanities that involved no special effects and cost $80,000. He calls it "on...

At The Intercept, Sam Biddle reveals Facebook's whispered-of secret blacklist: the people and organizations verboten on the site. The list "disproportionately punishes certain communities" and includ...

Peter Doocy yet again tries to blame people getting sick on the effort to vaccinate them against the sickness, and once again Jen Psaki points out that he only looks where he wants.Doocy: Do you know ...

Media Matters has found that Tik Tok's algorithm has identified that interest in transphobic videos is a signal that showing right-wing GQP style videos will generate even more views, incidentally, th...

Nearly 4000 people are in the r/Chris subreddit, an internet community devoted to all things Chris/Christopher. The group regularly comes together to hate Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer wh...

In the 1960s, NASA funded a study called "Mind of the Dolphin," with the goal of understanding how dolphins think and communicate. The neuroscientist in charge of the project, John Lilly, decided to s...

"get the f*kn jab" is s 30-second PSA starring a pair of Covid-19 vaccine researchers taking street drugs, smoking, and sharing their wisdom on why they would never introduce a deadly poison into thei...

Just in time for Halloween, the official SCREAM 2022 trailer was just released. (Unfortunately, the actual movie doesn't premiere until January.)Set in the same town of Woodsboro, again with character...

I do not know what to make of this odd tweet from one of my favorite congresspeople, Los Angeles' Maxine Waters:I have been hacked and my Twitter account has been erased. I know who has done this. I w...

Reminiscent of Richard M. Powers' incredible paperback science fiction book covers of the 1960s, "The Mine" by HeavensLastAngel was created using 400 AI-generated images. Watch how anthropomorphic fig...

I keep forgetting that The Animaniacs are back. This clip previewing season 2 looks like they are just as much fun as ever. I will have to binge-watch the first season soon....

I went down on a bit of a Haunted Mansion YouTube spree this morning and came across these gems....

This charming air passenger on a United Airlines flight to Los Angeles starts by boasting about his online sleuthing skills: "I will find your name, date of birth, and address. I'll know your social s...

Toxic Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA), far-right "patriot" known for spreading conspiracy theories and inciting violence, is at it again. This time she seems to be hinting at Civil War, sowing the ...

Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned Monday after a tranche of his emails and other communications were made public. While offering a comprehensive range of sexist, racist and homophobic invective, Grude...

Dunning-Kruger exemplar Charlie Kirk showcased his intelligence by declaring with absolute confidence that a photo of a dolphin fetus was a photo of a human fetus. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme s...

Apparently "The Big Sip" was a regional booze tasting 'festival' held at the site of the former Woodstock. Things went epically for their headline act, Smashmouth.Compare the program description of th...

Ryanair, the low-end airline, is reportedly demanding that customers return money refunded to them during the pandemic for booked flights they could not take due to lockdowns and other covid restrict...

300 voter registrator applications were shredded in Fulton County, Georgiacovering more than 1m Atlanta residentsand two election workers were fired after being accused of destorying the paperwork. It...

With the invention of things like Airdrop, cloud sharing, and Bluetooth, whipping out photos from your wallet and sharing them with the world has become a thing of the past. Sure, technology has done&...

Behold one of the many delights of Ant Lab: "Sometimes, the most useful thing I can do as a scientist is to point the fancy science cameras at some moths flapping their wings in front of a purple back...

John Dee was a 16th-century astrologer and science advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, but as he got older he became increasingly obsessed with magic. He frequently claimed to contact otherwordly spirits us...

Over at Medium, Coders author Clive Thompson shared a new web app he created that renders beautiful visual images out of any inputted text using only the punctuation. The project was inspired by a 20...

"The AstraZeneca just seems a little risky." ...

Anna Sacks, known as @thetrashwalker, has gained a following by rifling through the trash. She documents her "garbage walks" on Instagram and Tiktok, showing the perfectly good products that NYC retai...

On National Coming Out Day, DC Comics announced that Superman will soon begin a relationship with a male named Jay Nakamura. The development will occur in the book "Superman: Son of Kal-El," which wil...

On Oct. 11, record-breaking Jeopardy contestant Matt Amodio lost after a 38-game victory spree. He lost to Jonathan Fisher, an actor from Coral Gables, Florida. The Yale computer science Ph.D. student...

That's a video of the Rockats, a rockabilly-revival act that blew up in the late 70s and 80s. The bass player is Smutty Smiff, beloved amongst fans for his athletic tossing-around of his bass while he...

Dunning-Kruger exemplar Charlie Kirk showcased his intelligence by declaring with absolute confidence that a photo of a dolphin fetus was a photo of a human fetus. Cue the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme s...

Not super familiar with Linux? That's because, only until recent years, Linux was considered a secondary operating system behind Windows and macOS. But these days, this platform proves to be an incred...

I'm signing out of today's blogging duties with a bit of essential viewing for all cat companions. Many truths are revealed here.[thanks, Patrick!]...

Trump essentially thanks his rebels for trying by phoning in a thank you to the woman shot dead storming the US Capitol. Washington Post:"On that horrible day of January 6, Ashli arrived at the United...

The prongs on electrical plugs in the United States have holes in them, while most other countries don't. What gives? The beloved Technology Connections show has a fascinating (really!) 20-minutes (wo...

Antonin Artaud (September 4th 1896 March 4th 1948) was a French artist, poet, writer, theatre actor, and director. I have this book of drawings and portraits, which I look through constantly. Many of...

Anyone watching Netflix's Squid Game series will recognize this innocent-looking honeycomb toffee, or Dalgona, which made for one of the show's gripping, and of course deadly, childhood games. In real...

Austin Osman Spare: A collection of 77 works is an 8-minute slideshow featuring the artist's esoteric paintings and drawings. Austin Osman Spare (30 December 1886 15 May 1956) was an English artist a...

Mole Show (1984) is a multimedia video by the Residents featuring a live performance of their music, trippy graphics, and weird art. Seeing the live performance in this video would have been such a tr...

In Ramses II – The Mummy Who Had To Get A Passport, we learn about how the mummified Ramses II had to get an Egyptian passport in 1976 while being transported from Egypt to France. The deceased ...

You may not be talking to your houseplants as much these days (thanks, lockdown of 2020), but there are lots of reasons why tending to your plants and gardens can be beneficial. Not only can it potent...

Tinyprinter.club is a how-to guide and online community for people who upgrade tiny thermal printers (such as the Paperang [Amazon]) to become Little Printers, an internet-connected model that is no l...

At the very best, House minority leader and Donald Trump fanboi Kevin McCarthy would like you to clear your search history. McCarthy could easily have explained how Google's tech permits dramatic over...

A grocery store clerk in Washington accepted a fake $100 bill with the words "MOTION PICTURE COPY MONEY" printed on it. The clerk told police the man used the fake bill to buy $32.03 of gas, cigarette...

Last August, I shared the IndieGoGo campaign for The Information War, a satirical web series created by my friend Chris D'Amato, who appears in the role of Alex Jones. He and his creative/producing pa...

Evidently, several species of squid grow larger than human beings, and while the OceanX crew isn't sure which they ran into, they sure ran into a squid… or maybe it ran into them.After seeing a ...

In 1904, adventure novelist H. Rider Haggard awoke from a dream with the conviction that his daughter's dog was dying. He dismissed the impression as a nightmare, but the events that followed seemed t...

When Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples launched their epic fantasy space opera comic Saga in 2012, it was an immediate hit critically acclaimed, as well as one of the best-selling independent comics ...

Don't count Trump out, says Bill Maher. "Here's the easiest three predictions predictions in the word. Trump will run in 2024. He will get the Republican nomination. And whatever happens on election n...

I will be playing Choo Choo Charles.I have always been certain that Sir Topham Hatt is up to some serious no good. This video appears a nightmare had by a kid who grew up playing Thomas the Tank engin...

The impressive Alton Brown dislikes what he calls "unitaskers" kitchen tools designed for a single task that could easily be accomplished with a general-purpose tool, like a knife.Brown's got a point...

Flat maps distort spherical Earth. By how much, exactly? This 1947 film draws a world map on a grapefruit and unpeels it in various ways to show how the land masses's sizes and shapes change when they...

Flat maps distort the spherical Earth. By how much, exactly? This 1947 film draws a world map on a grapefruit and unpeels it in various ways to show how the land masses' sizes and shapes change when t...

Usually when a building rotates, it takes a good 30 minutes to 24 hours to complete a full circle (see this fun Gizmodo article about rotating houses). But a 72-year-old man in Bosnia remodeled his ho...

I always loved Inspector Gadget. The gadgets, Brain, and Penny were the best....

Nestl just announced a new plant-based shrimp alternative, which they are calling Garden Gourmet Vrimp:It is vegan and made from a combination of seaweed, peas and konjac root. It is a source of fiber...

OANN (One America News Network, aka OAN), self-described as the "greatest supporters" of Trump, is so right of the right they laughably call Fox "anti-Trump" and accuse the radically conservative News...

OANN (One America News Network, aka OAN), self-described as the "greatest supporters" of Trump, is so right of the right they laughably call Fox "anti-Trump" and accuse the radically conservative News...

Come to oldmouse.com, the museum of old computer mice, for a good time. In the belief that every mouse has a tale, oldmouse.com intends to track the evolution of the computer mouse and its kin along i...

The original Varityper was an elaborate and portable-ish typewriter that allowed printed documents to be carefully typeset without enormous linotype machines, the horrors of molten lead, and so forth....

The New York Times pored over the Pandora Papers and found the the UK's financial center, The City of London, "is hiding the world's stolen money." For shady businesspeople and long-serving polit...

Billie Ruben wrote up a guide on how to 3D-print sex toys the right way. Just rolling one off the printer and into a human body being absolutely out of the question due to the materials and the layer ...

I've watched 3Blue1Brown's excellent explainer video about neural networks a couple of times, but my understanding of what they are and how they work was greatly improved by Allison George's Neural Ne...

Happy pre-Halloween, mutants! This is a time lapse of a 1223 pound giant pumpkin from seed to scale. It was grown from a seed out of the 2009 pound world record pumpkin grown by Ron Wallace in Rhode I...

The FBI says it collared an engineer and his wife after they attempted to sell design data about nuclear-powered warships to a foreign power. Their contact, unfortunately, for them, was an FBI agent.O...

If you've learned anything over the past almost two years, it's that video games are much easier to beat than they once were. (Or you just had way too much time on your hands to learn the skills to fi...

There were 183 different #1 hits in May 2021, depending on location. To see how your city compares to others, check out this data journalism project by The Pudding that uses Youtube's API. This 2021 e...

Rasmus Lerdorf's work created the web as we know it, but he doesn't care for coding. "I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code," he said in 20...

In July 2020, Louis Barclay published "Unfollow Everything," a clever Chrome extension that let you unfollow all your friends on Facebook.Its function? To let you use Facebook without having to look a...

Ever since Darwin first wrote on carnivorous plants, in his still-fun-to-read 1875 book Insectivorous Plants, there have only been 11 independent origins for plants that eat animals.Now scientists hav...

If you're new to the painting game, sitting in the middle of a crowded (and likely expensive) art class, only to feel judged by your fellow art peers, sounds like pure nightmare material. In order to ...

If you're new to the painting game, sitting in the middle of a crowded (and likely expensive) art class, only to feel judged by your fellow art peers, sounds like pure nightmare material. In order to ...

The air is getting chiller. The leaves are turning are changing from vibrant green to rusty orange. And pumpkin spice lattes are making your local Starbucks line twice as long as usual. That can ...

The OG 'Lost in Space' remains a favorite television show, the Netflix 'Lost in Space' has been troubled, but I am looking forward to seeing the conclusion.Season one of this re-imagined 'Lost in Spac...

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk, once sued over his name-calling of a helpful person, suggests he was so enraged by a California Assemblyperson's mean tweet that he is moving his headquarters.Daily Beast:Tesla f...

Canadian musician and bad behavior specialist Justin Bieber has joined up with a marijuana company to sell pre-rolls.The Hill:Gen Z and Millennials Beiber's target audience make up almost 40 percent...

I spent far too long thinking moths were just agricultural pests, lamp fanatics, and the homely cousins of butterflies. And a bizarre 2018 meme, and a storytelling podcast. I was so wrong to ever writ...

On Friday, after a week of unprecedented Facebook outages, users reported yet another glitch. This one was innocuous maybe even charming: kissing notifications.For some Facebook users, including me, t...

The Pandora Papers leak is absolutely massive. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC obtained almost 12 million documents more than the Panama Pap...

Bespoke items are all the rage these days. That means consumers are leaning towards purchasing pieces that are made just for them rather than buying cookie-cutter, mass-produced products that have lit...

Jonathan Lewis recently bought a new house in Liverpool. And in a tiny hole in the wall near the stairs is where he discovered EMILY, a creepy-ass doll, with a note that read:My name is Emily. My ori...

We all know the drill: Buy new tech and it goes obsolete after a few months. A new product is released, we buy into it, and the cycle continues on and on. After all, we live in a culture where the mas...

In this modern era, Sean Tejaratchi's 2022 Social Justice Kittens Calendar is the perfect reminder to constantly walk on eggshells and check your privilege, just like the dogs in this calendar must do...

Whether you're a professional chef or an at-home cook, you deserve to have the best tools at your disposal, especially when it comes to your kitchen knives. After all, a dull blade is a dangerous one,...

A group of outraged parents versus a bunch of students who actually like their principal. Both are circulating petitions around her Iron Maiden fandom.One side is on about how harmful it is for an edu...

I am enjoying the sideshow dramatics in San Francisco's not-so-slow-moving trainwreck. It would appear an independent geo-tech had some fun comments for SF Gate, basically blasting Ron Hamburger for i...

Interestingly this song works just fine in oompah....

What a time to be alive. Two hundred years ago, you could cut bread with a bread knife and put it in an oven, but that just wouldn't be the same as popping a pre-sliced square in the toaster a tiny co...

On Tiktok, a minor traffic accident has captivated the attention of millions, and viewers are picking sides in a complicated incident of road rage. The story starts five days ago when Tiktok user Matt...

Tiktok user @bennymofodavis wants you to know that recipe blog preambles are "ubiquitous, purposeful, and deliberate" and that your complaints about them are not funny and certainly not unique. In a d...

Got an itch to get outdoors and camp (or glamp, for those of us who are super creative)? We get that, and with the weather turning blistering cold before we know it, this is the sweet spot to get the ...

"I don't need petrol, 'cause 'ee runs on carrots!"This also reminds me of the Rubberbandits hit "Horse Outside," which I covered on my recent Irish folk album....

If you had it your way, you'd spend all day, every day cuddling on the couch, giving your favorite little kitty pets and treats forever. Unfortunately, life isn't that simple, and date nights, long da...

WKOW 27's Capitol bureau chief A.J. Bayatpour asked Rebecca Kleefisch, a "Wisconsin-proud conservative mom" running for governor, if she'd sign a bill to "reject or overturn the popular vote results i...

I wish I were in Tracy, California right now! That's where Tom BetGeorge, professional light show artist, is showing his amazing haunted light show in real life, using his house as the backdrop. This ...

My daughter told me about an iOS app called Visited States Map which lets you keep track of the states you've visited in the United States. You can color-code the the states if you want to show states...

My daughter told me about an iOS app called Visited States Map which lets you keep track of the states you've visited in the United States. You can color-code the the states if you want to show states...

Following more than a full year of stay-at-home lifestyles for millions, many Americans have been presented opportunities to pursue postponed travel plans and discuss new trips. Although int...

Facebook's been having a rough few weeks. WSJ reported that it knew about the app's harmful effect on teen girls, which led to a Senate trial as well as media appearances from whistleblower Frances Ha...

Australia and the U.S. state of California have both explicitly banned non-consensual condom removal during sex, an act often named stealthing. California's law is reportedly the first in the U.S.[Gov...

Why warped videotapes are awesome is a distorted video cassette that someone was kind enough to upload to youtube for our enjoyment. If you know what the original VCR is, let me know in the comments. ...

McDonald's – Ronald's Cups is a Japanese commercial from 1975 advertising Ronald McDonald themed cups. As depicted in the commercial, the best thing about these cups is that they have the specia...

In a video titled What is this bug, an unknown creature writhes around on someone's wall. It's too adorable for words. I hope they sell these things at Petco, because this is just the type of companio...

Robert Reeder, who pleaded guilty to unlawfully parading, demonstrating and picketing the Capitol on January 6, had tears in his eye when he told the court how hard life has been after he was arrested...

Anti-science climate change deniers who depend on Google or YouTube ad revenue to spew their misinformation are outta luck. Google announced yesterday that it "will prohibit ads for, and monetization ...

We are in a British pub. You can smell smoke and warm beer. A man is hunched over the pinball machine like a gargoyle, playing with quick, jerky movements. He fails to achieve a winning score, gr...

The pale, cold light of a distant moon cast its shadows over the dark kitchen. I espied the flimsy, floppy pan turner before me. It mocked me with cursed memories of my pathetic attempts at flipping f...

This Twitter bot will colorize your black and whitephotos https://t.co/3c1IuCqbPb— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) October 8, 2021"I'm a bot that transforms black and white photos into color using art...

A Florida trooper in West Palm Beach stops to help an unidentified driver who is stalled on what looks like a highway median, when a screeching, out-of-control pick-up truck barrels onto the scene. Th...

Fox News is a notorious safe harbor for sex pests and misogynists, so The Daily Show had its work cut out for them when they made a three-and-a-half minute video showcasing the network's most pathetic...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he will refuse County orders to compel department employees to get vaccinated against Covid.Villanueva told viewers on a live Facebook press conference ...

Samantha Dehring (25) is spending four days in jail for not moving away when a mother grizzly bear and her three cubs walked through a meadow at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.Dehring pleaded gu...

YouTuber RichRebuilds is dropping a V8 into one of Elon Musk's electric cars. Hot Cars:Rich of Rich Rebuilds on Youtube would probably be just another face in the crowd had he not caughtTeslaon film u...

Mousey! I will never forget when a V alien first eats a mouse live, and 11-year-old me knew Earth was in some serious trouble!1983's OG miniseries V will always hold a special place in my heart, howev...

LEGO is set to release a new 9,090 piece, 53" long, 1:200 scale model of the Titanic.The set will be available for pre-order on November 1st and will cost $630....

With a hunched stance and a weird backwards-walk, Chicago comedian Kim Quindlen plays the character of an awkward campus tour guide. Commenters call her a female version of Dwight Schrute. One comment...

Exciting vaccine news that's not about Covid: there's now a WHO-approved vaccine for malaria, a disease caused by a single-celled microorganism of the Plasmodium group not a bacteria or virus. Ac...

From ABC News:The machine Ted Bowman helped design can make water out of the air, and in parched California, some homeowners are already buying the pricey devices.The air-to-water systems work like ai...

Ever bought an item of nice clothing or a fancy notebook and found it lying pristine and unused forever? The item has become (or always was) "special" and its specialness reinforces itself every time ...

'National Enquirer'Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's sex scandal continues to dominate, claiming four pages inside the 'Enquirer; and the cover story: "Epstein Cover-Up! Prince Andrew Russian Bl...

Whether it's promotional videos for your business or memorable trips to far-off lands, shots taken from a birds-eye view can really ramp up your photography and video game. And thanks to the wide rang...

A federal judge ruled Thursday that hosting and security provider Cloudflare is not liable for copyright infringement by websites that use its services. Jon Brodkin:Cloudflare was sued in November 201...

A gynecologist in Murcia, Spain entered "Homosexuality" under "Current Illness" on a 19-year-old woman's diagnostic report. From the coverage it's not clear why he did so, but given the history of pat...

Serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, murdered at least three women before being caught, luring them to their deaths on "dating apps". At his sentencing on Wednesday, it emerged that friends of one...

If a proposal passes, Spanish Millenials may finally get the opportunity to move out of their childhood bedrooms. A housing bill announced on Tuesday includes a program to pay young people aged 18-35 ...

Just because you're not a graphic designer in the traditional sense doesn't mean you can't benefit from the many creative programs Adobe has to offer. Easily some of the most popular digital creative ...

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

Turns out, great minds think alike. In my last post, I told you about some fun I had with my own lot in the Sotheby's Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man online auction. Well, I'm just l...

Anti-vaxxers bullied families walking to school in Beverly Hills Wednesday, which happened to be National Walk to School Day. One woman in particular, Shiva Bagheri, is seen on camera (below) telling ...

Visitors to Hope Ranch Beach in Santa Barbara called emergency services to report a woman hanging by her fingertips on a cliff, seemingly unable to move. She was 30 feet down the rock wall and not wea...

The FBI today poured cold water on the latest purported identification of the Zodiac killer: "The case remains open." A team of retired detectives claims it is a man named Gary Poste who died in 2018,...

The modern world moves fast and it feels like if you aren't paying attention to news coverage for 24 hours, you're likely to miss a major development. We no longer live in an age when people spend the...

Before coulrophobia became cool, Bozo the Clown ruled the airwaves. Created by Alan W. Livingston, Bozo first made the scene on a children's record and book series from Capitol Records. In 1954, enter...

State Rep. Ken Weyler (QNH), who spread some of the most outlandish Covid misinformation, resigned from his Chairman position of the State House Budget Committee today. This was after the fully grown ...

Mauro Retrepo is suing "Psychic Love Specialist" Sophia Adams of Palos Verdes Estates, California, for failing to help his marriage by removing a curse placed on him by a witch hired by his ex-girlfri...

Charles Manning, 78, allegedly dumped a cup of bedbugs at the Augusta, Georgia city hall, in 2017. He was charged with assault and obstructing governmental administration. The state reportedly offered...

Charles Manning, 78, allegedly dumped a cup of bedbugs at the Augusta, Maine city hall, in 2017. He was charged with assault and obstructing governmental administration. The state reportedly offered M...

A person is refueling their car at a gas pump when a white van drives up and three people get out. It is obvious they have bad intentions. The would-be victim pulls the nozzle from the tank valve and ...

I celebrate the YouTuber who digitized and uploaded this warped and unlabeled Betamax tape, certainly a historic media artifact that was almost lost to the ages. I can imagine it being sold as a limit...

Let Alan Mandell show you how to do a couple of weird tricks to drain clogged sinuses. My left nostril was plugged. I tried his technique and am breathing out of both nostrils. I can't believe I was a...

Carla and I finished watching Squid Game last night. We loved it. Was it better than Alice in Borderland? We want to see the second season of each before making that determination. Meanwhile, we enjoy...

In acknowledging that its platform is being used to sell counterfeit drugs laced with the powerful synthetic opioid fentatnyl, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat said it's intensifying measures to d...

We have pantry moths infesting our kitchen cupboards, and they have no qualms about gorging on the food I paid for with my earnings as a professional blogger. I wish I could co-exist in harmony with t...

After a tropical storm and monsoon rains hit a riverside cafe near Bangkok, its outdoor seating area was flooded. And it remained so due to the river's higher water levels. But rather than shut down, ...

With Owen and Luke Wilson playing Jeff Bezos and his brother, SNL shares with us the billionaire version of Star Trek.Additionally:...

A Guide To Armageddon was a 30-minute documentary broadcast by the BBC in 1982 to inform viewers of the forthcoming horror of nuclear annihilation. It gets into the cold, deep details, such as how qui...

One America News (OAN) is a television news channel that embraces the QAnon cult, spread's Mike Lindell's discredited conspiracy theories, and believes Trump won the 2020 election. In court filings, O...

This new video shares information I had not previously heard about San Francisco's Millennium Tower. Evidently, engineer Ronald Hamburger has reported the maximum lean of the building before it become...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck)Facebook made about $60 billion worldwide last year in the United States and Europe. A rough back of the napkin c...

The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom with a mission to understand and expose powerful entities are using technology in ways that hurt society. It recently investigated the $12 billion market for phone l...

Here are a few collections of great, old Halloween songs I enjoy during the season:Of Course:...

During these times of reduced travel my wife and I have really enjoyed the fun and free online tours from professional guide Francisco Gloria Baines. He lives in Pamplona, Spain where he shares his kn...

The Steam Deck is a handheld PC good enough for gaming dutynot the first, by any means, but clearly in a league of its own when it comes to power and price. Valve posted a video showing a teardown of ...

The Muppets may be what it takes to get us a fun Haunted Mansion movie. The 2003 entry was disturbing....

I know nothing about cigars, and somehow doubt that dipping a cigar in booze is particularly unique but former Governor Schwarzenegger really enjoys telling this story, and that makes it pretty specia...

In this footage posted by Cody's Lab, there's a nice little breeze: perfect weather to float an anvil in liquid mercury. (Quicksilver is relatively safe to handle; it's mercury salts and compounds tha...

A District Court judge in Texas yesterday issued an injunction barring enforcement of Texas's abortion ban, describing it as plainly unconstitutional and designed to avoid judicial scrutiny."In a 113-...

The rise and fall of Assistant Coach Nathan has been one of the most stressful parts of watching Ted Lasso. So London-based video editor Francis Siberini took that to its logical conclusion, and cut a...

The Associated Press reports that a 2700-year-old toilet was recently unearthed in Jerusalem an incredibly rare find!Israeli archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back m...

Camping has come a long way since just a generation ago, and "roughing it" doesn't need to be so rough these days. It also doesn't need to be as complicated, as big bulky bags and over-the-car cases a...

A recent Slate magazine article posed interesting questions about where stories come from, and to whom or what fiction writers owe inspiration. Slate's Alexis Nowicki spent years obsessing over the po...

If you say "DC Comics" you're really saying Detective Comics Comics. The same thing happens with "MLB baseball," "EDM music," and "HTTP" protocol. "PSA announcement." "LCD display." "POTS syndrome." ...

Underhand free throws aren't stupid they just look stupid. According to Curtis Rist in Discover Magazine, more players should try throwing "granny style" like 1950s basketball star Rick Barry.One bene...

While it's true that the small biz coffee shop by your office makes a decent cup of mud, it most certainly cannot be considered the "world's best" as the neon sign outside of it implies. To add, you'r...

They sold pretentiousness in the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous 1980's and we bought it and bought into it. They showed us chauffeured rich dudes in Rolls-Royces, one borrowing Grey Poupon dijon mu...

Every one of us who has taken to the internet to find a job has felt the same dread and uncertainty. While the information super-highway connects us with more opportunities than job seekers of past ge...

Like a parent who sports a sparkly tiara while sipping tea at a cramped, child-size table, this patient golden retriever goes above and beyond. While sitting stone-still in a tiny makeshift bathtub fo...

When I posted about a wooden keyboard, reader Glaurung rightly complained that "If I am going to pay over $150 for a keyboard, I see absolutely no sane reason why it should use crappy laptop switches ...

My friend John Edgar Park alerted me to these wireless LEDs "that are powered via induction, just like a toothbrush or iPhone charger." He has published a tutorial on how to add them to a model car.[i...

From ABC News' YouTube channelAs a delivery drone in Australia is en route to its next customer, carrying a large order of coffee, a raven swoops in to give it the what for. The bird seems to attack t...

Musician Michael Hearst composed a lovely short song using a bunch of instruments I've never heard of:Space Crickets (made by Dan Steinberg)Aquaphone (made by Dan Steinberg)Peavy Patriot electric bass...

Seth, the cartoonist best known for Palookaville, has, once again. beautifully illustrated three Christmas Ghost Stories, published by Biblioasis. Take a look at the covers of previous years' editions...

Remember when Andrew Lloyd Weber's groundbreaking musical Cats (1981) was brought to the big screen in 2019? Like most of the world, Cats' creator Andrew Lloyd Webber would like to forget. In a Varie...

Bill McClintock brings together Hall & Oates's new wave R&B classic "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" from 1981 with the Nine Inch Nails industrial-funk hit "Closer" (1994) into an oddly kille...

In April 2021 Christopher Charles Perez (40) of San Antonio, Texas posted the following warning to Facebook:"PSA!! Yo rt GROCERY STOREMERCADO!! My homeboys cousin has covid19 and has licked every thin...

Zodiac, the late-'60s serial killer whose undistinguished death toll was made legendary by his keen fashion sense and talent for writing challenging puzzles, was a man named Gary Posteat least accordi...

About ten years ago, Cory Doctorow was staying at our place for a couple of weeks. He had ordered some shoes online, but he discovered they were the wrong size when they arrived. He asked me if I want...

This chainsawed stump stove is awesome.The cut of meat looks like top sirloin cap (picanha) to me? I would skip the potatoes. Probably sautee mushrooms or spinach.via Reddit...

With print journalism dying a slow and painful death, adjacent businesses are also becoming obsolete. In San Francisco, newspaper kiosks were an early casualty, so the city's Arts Commission teamed up...

A white dude accused of murdering a black man for jogging does not want the court to admit his Confederate 'themed' license plates as evidence of his racism. The Root:Travis McMichael, a craka accused...

Cheating at baseball is as American as, er, baseball. From corked bats to sign stealing and steroids, coming up with ways to cheator at least bend the rules almost to the breaking pointis something of...

From Film The Police LA:Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?HOMELESS PERSON (wa...

Sen. Josh Hawley (RMO), the same senator who gave a fist pump to the insurrectionists on January 6, is now aghast that the Justice Department wants to monitor parents who, in his view, are simply voic...

Former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has a new tell-all book, which supposedly is full of details that reveal Trump to be even more disgusting than we already knew him to be. Colbert s...

Researchers at University of Central Floridafound that people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) will fidget more when given cognitively demanding tasks. They came to this conclusion...

Do not streams.Adam Savage's One Day Builds are always a ton of fun to watch. To celebrate the next Ghostbusters movie, he has built the iconic proton pack!...

The federal government spent $6.6 trillion in 2020, according to theCongressional Budget Office. But it only brought in $3.3 trillion. It had to borrow the other $3.3 trillion. In November 2020, the g...

Nicholas Bauer says he "Used the Johns Hopkins University data for individual counties since the beginning of the pandemic to visualize the spread of the virus. Brighter color indicates closer to the ...

A Hollywood homeless person could not leave the "…you dumb f*ck" out of their response to this anti-vaxxer.Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeles...

This supercut of Michael Jackson's grunts and yells is oddly reminiscent of an old arcade game's sound test routine. It's also profoundly unpleasant!...

Boing Boing welcomes Rad Revenue as a sponsor!Due to delta-8 THC's unique properties, products made with this rare cannabinoid currently occupy a large market space. Delta-8 carts have become the #1 f...

WARLORD: Conan, what is best in life?CONAN: To spend thousands of dollars turning the rear bedside panel of my truck into a secret tool compartment, filling it with old paintbrushesWARLORD: Conan.CONA...

Enjoy this tour of 176 W. Houston in New York City's South Village. There's a half-size bathtub in the entryway and a toilet in a closet, which apparently means that it's got a full bathroom. Accordin...

I absolutely adored Lincoln Michel's new novel The Body Scout, which feels like a classic cyberpunk noir with a twist of freshly modern relevance. Here's the official blurb:In the future you can have ...

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang's outsider primary run and signature support for a universal basic income made him a star for some Democratic voters, but his prospects in the party have dimmed in the year s...

Is driving an overrated and oversaturated way to travel? In terms of highway congestion, price of maintenance, and the havoc cars do on the planet, absolutely. And, to top it all off, highway traffic ...

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...

According to an Insider report, youth ministry giant YoungLife has repeatedly mishandled sexual assault allegations brought forth against their volunteers. The massive nonprofit tasks young, unpaid vo...

The American Prospect reports the US Postal Service has finally! begun piloting several postal banking programs.In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 ...

Victor Miller wrote the original screenplay for the first Friday the 13th movie. But he hasn't seen a penny from any of the twelve spin-off movies or other media franchising that the film has spawned ...

For the last 20 years or so, my pal Mikael Jorgensen has been tickling the ivories (and twiddling the synthesizer knobs) for the mighty Wilco. But before saddling up with Jeff Tweedy and the gang, Mik...

Would you rather scroll endlessly for hours on social media and strain your eyes or unplug from the internet and relax your mind? For those of you who picked social media, you're in for a surprise. UA...

Last month, UCLA's Dr. Christopher Lake, an unvaccinated anesthesiologist, spoke at an anti-vax rally, telling the Kool-Aid-drunk crowd, "They want to force a vaccination or medication or treatment in...

The answer is: Humans! These "long eggs" are produced in a German factory "by extruding cooked egg yolks into a long tube, then covering it with egg whites. [Video below!] One of the first of such mac...

In San Mateo, California, the Peninsula Humane Society dispatched an animal control officer in response to reports of a large pet tarantula stranded on a residential rooftop. The dogged officer climbe...

The sky's the limit with these 15 drones, now all 15% off during this VIP Sale. Capture high-definition 1080p and 4K images and video for both amateur and professional endeavors when you find the righ...

TikToker @tgnunz8 says he's had enough with people traipsing across his lawn. He's set up a motion-detecting sprinkler to spray trespassers. As an added deterrent, he installed a shrill alarm that do...

If I didn't know this was real, I'd think it was a Blender animation. Come to think of it, I don't know if it's real. Click to expand [image: Reddit]...

Wendy's and Kellogg are teaming up to make a "limited edition" Wendy's Frosty Chocolatey Cereal. I wonder if it'll taste good to dip your breakfast hash browns in it. From CNN:The cereal contains choc...

An out-of-commission Air India plane in Delhi was trucking down a highway on a flat bed when it tried to squeeze under a highway overpass. But no such luck. You can see sliced chunks of the plane flyi...

Sotheby's Boundless Space: The Possibilities of Burning Man auction is underway and I've wasted no time having a little fun with it from 3,000 miles awaywith the help of some friends. As you might rem...

Five years ago I bought this inexpensive 8-inch Winco chef's knife. I'm still using it today, and it's my favorite kitchen knife. I like the heaviness of it, and it sharpens quickly and holds an edge ...

https://content.jwplatform.com/videos/Ej2w84TF.mp4Remember when terrorists attempting to overthrow the government on January 6 swept through the U.S. Capitol chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and erecting ga...

Lord of the Rings start Elijah Wood says that the face of one of the nasty orcs seen in the film was based on the equally grotesque Harvey Weinstein. Apparently during the period that Lord of the Ring...

Northwell Health of New York fired 1,400 employees (about two percent of its staff) this week for refusing to get vaccinated for Covid-19. The State of New York says all 650,000 heath care workers mus...

I discovered this cool optical illusion through one of the Technology Review newsletters. Stare at the green dot in the image below that part is meant to blink in and out of sight and you'll notice ...

British graphic designer Gary Cordery has a passion for both cardio and art. Thanks to fitness trackers and the internet, he's combined his interests and created "the nichest collection of art in the ...

Mad Scientist BBQ points out that using competition brisket techniques on a giant chunk of meat intended for you and your friends to gobble will likely result in a bad meal. Competition brisket is int...

"Who is Glenn Youngkin?" a new Lincoln Project ad asks. "Depends on where he is that day."Although he's running for governor as a moderate Republican in the northern part of Virginia, who "won't tell ...

If you're an Apple junkie, chances are you've got all the latest merch (with good reason, they are the best at keeping your data intact.) And, while Gen Z is truly making fun of us for still using old...

When kids bring guns to school the natural first response should be to ban those awful backpacks.KSL.com:"Elementary schools will still be able to have backpacks," Pauley said. "We are doing this as a...

Instagram has acknowledged to CNN that it promoted accounts glorifying extreme dieting and eating disorders, the channel reports, and admitted that it should not have done so.The extreme dieting accou...

McGill University researchers say they've developed an "unbreakable" glass inspired by the inner layer of mollusk shells. As resilent as plastic yet as hard as nacre, it could "improve cell phone scr...

My friend Janet Towle has just started a new subscription service called The Manzanita Papers, where a different writer or editor selects a different under-appreciated book to send out each month. "We...

KHOU 11 reports that an army of capybaras has overrun Tigre, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and begun breeding there.COUNTLESS CAPYBARAS: People living in this community in Argentina have a lot of furry, f...

Fire & Blood, G.R.R. Martin's prequel novel about the dragon-riding Targaryens, was described by The Times as "interminable, self-indulgent crap" the perfect lore-bound expository raw material fo...

If you've run out of bat detectors but the bat detector store has already closed for the day, fret not! Here is kryptonaut's report about constructing a bat detector with a Raspberry Pi and other inex...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to David Julius at UCSF and molecular neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research. Julius used capsaicin the spicy compound in ...

A Youtube video titled "THE MOST BORING VIDEO EVER MADE (Microsoft Word tutorial, 1989) has accrued over 1.5 million views despite its self-proclaimed boringness. The video, an hour and forty-seven-mi...

Steve Gadlin designed his new guitar pedal, The Fart Pedal, to recreate the sounds of farts. Like, actual farts. Plug your guitar (or other audio source!) in, dial in the balance between wet (heh) and...

Defector.com launched just over a year ago, formed by Deadspin employees tired of the necrophilic private equity firm extracting value from the former Gawker site at any cost. The new media venture to...

You teach your kids not to take candy from strangers, yet you click all kinds of things online, potentially exposing personal information, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data to hackers. Whe...

The FryDaddy electric deep fryer is awesome — I use it a couple of times a week to fry sweet potato, butternut squash, and Brussels sprouts chips. (Here's the coconut oil I use with it.)Lately, ...

Loud anti-vaccine protestors booed, displeased with a mobile Covid-19 testing site that had set themselves up on a sidewalk in New York City. The crazed mob chanted "Shame on you!" and later "No vacci...

Sure, traveling was put on hold for a while (and still has some restrictions), but we're starting to rev our engines up again and get back on the road. If you're as eager as we are to get going on vac...

In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in New Guinea, leaving three survivors marooned in the island's mountainous interior. Injured, starving, and exhausted, the group seemed beyond the hope of...

Apparently, God needs to do his own research about the dangers of the Covid vaccine. Karen Roses (64), was fired as a patient care technician at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, New York for r...

When the rubber hits the road… A woman identified in Kansas court records only as M.O. demanded that Geico pay her $1 million for a claim she filed against a driver who allegedly infected her wi...

A long story of injustice in California is seeing a new chapter. The State of California is returning the oceanfront land where a once-thriving black beach resort, and now a city park resides, to the ...

The world is temporarily a better place with Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR, and Instagram being inaccessible right now. Twitter, unfortunately, is still operating, but at least people are p...

A drunken Florida Proud Boy who's already facing up to five years of prison for allegedly breaking into the Capitol during the January 6th riots was arrested again this time for crashing his speedboa...

Sometimes people are looking deeply into the tea leaves to see nothing, this is especially frequent when it relates to things like a simple re-tweet on Twitter. Frequently people re-tweet something be...

This short trailer of the upcoming Marvel film Eternals implies a lot of punching, shooting, and slashing at CGI monster things. I think the amount of backstory they try to pack into these movies make...

It's surprising that King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein bought only $106 million worth of luxury homes around the world using his 36 shell companies. After all, his country received billions in aid from ...

Weekend Update hosts Colin Jost and Micheal Che praised Norm Macdonald during the end of their "fake news" news cast on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Norm Macdonald passed away from cancer last Se...

The leaders of the paradisical utopia known as Dubai have wisely chosen to hide the penis on a 17-foot-tall, 3D-printed replica of Michelangelo's David statue from 1504, saving thousands innocent view...

As a child, Dave Grohl developed the habit of drumming by clicking his teeth together. He demonstrates in the video below. Also during this BBC News interview, he also confesses to being a "UFO nerd" ...

For a very long time, Disneyland's former Main Street camera shop was really just a place to go review Photo Pass photos and look at some cute Disney-themed frames or books. I can not recall the last ...

Starting with "the BAE Systems Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles" as a platform to build on, this ADRENALIN Industries camper conversion is one for the books. Bring A Trailer:The XD 4400 is based on ...

In case you're thinking of barreling past road work signs warning you not to drive over freshly laid cement, think again. The driver of this car, who was rushing to get to the bank, according to Daily...

@mattfromhornblasters.com Got rear ended. #lamborghini #aventador #crash #exoticcar #italian #sportscar #fyp #foryou #hornblasters #accident #damage #ouch #viral original sound – Matthew Hell...

The rickety 1907 bridge that became famous from AA Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories is going up for auction. Originally known as Posingford Bridge and later renamed Poohsticks Bridge, it was replaced i...

A Tik-Toker known as "The Professor" Nick Harrison had the brilliant idea to take the riff from Britney Spears' "Toxic" and combine it with the vocals from both the B-52s "Love Shack" and Rob Zombie's...

Proud mama Maryann Mooney-Rondon (55) and her rascal of a boy Rafael Rondon (23) were arrested on a bushel basket of federal charges, includingtheft of government property (a pair of escape hoods and ...

USB Type C fixed the hole but, sadly, not the cables, which all look much the same but might be useless for any given purpose, or indeed the features offered by the holes. Does this USB C hole have Di...

A gentleman in Stone County, Missouri posted a fine-looking catalytic converter for sale, new in box, on Facebook, Marketplace last week. Not included in the listed price was the huge bag of methamphe...

For several years now, bookstores are overflowing with blobs of amorphous shape and warm colors. In Print magazine, RE Hawley explores the book jacket trend of the decade. From Print:This design trend...

An investigation into the finances of current and former world leaders and their associates reveals the unsurprising yet shocking scale of wealth they hoard. Though many of the records detail shell co...

Matt Warshauer is a political historian and professor at Central Connecticut State University. Over the last two decades his West Hartford, CT home has become somewhat infamous for its politicized Hal...

The customer is rarely right, and the work of a night-shift fast food server surely brings one into contact with the wrongest customers of them all. That said, pulling a gun is a bit much, and likely ...

Frances Haugen, a former manager at Facebook, appeared on 60 Minutes to blow the whistle on the extent and intentionality of the company's malign and amoral practices: "Facebook, over and over again, ...

Something grown from the ground made to taste like a nearly synthetic kind of carnival treat seems like it must involve Igor and Dr. Victor Frankenstein's meddling with nature in a most unnatural way,...

Don't you wish your iPhone came with better and more convenient charging accessories? Whether you need to upgrade your current accessories or get ones you've never had (or knew about before), you've c...

Mud, cold water, a modicum of risk, and hours of pure fun: "In an ordinary playground, they wouldn't have the opportunity to develop those skills". See also Britain's intentionally risky playgrounds....

Ozy Media, exposed years ago for faking its traffic and exposed last week for trying to rope Goldman Sachs into a $40m investment by posing its own co-founder as a YouTube executive on a conference ca...

I had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything I ever wanted. I visited Eminem's new restaurant Mom's Spaghetti. The restaurant, which opened up this week, comes after several years of a pop-up ...

Siamese cats are walking heatmaps. Their characteristic coloration results from a delightful mutation (maybe I should call it a mew-tation) in tyrosinase, an enzyme that makes melanin. A deleted cytos...

I shared an article here back in April about the trials and tribulations of Steven Donziger, a lawyer who tried to help a group of Indigenous people and rural farmers in Ecuador get some climate justi...

Giving money to strangers on the internet certainly has its risks. A Washington Post investigation into a viral fundraiser from Instagram user @quentin.quarantino has raised red flags. In August, 25-y...

If you're someone who always likes to be prepared or organized in life, you're going to want something to help organize it all.To help everyone be a little bit more organized and prepared, we've put t...

With a hot job market putting power in workers' hands to advocate for pay increases, now's the time to beef up your certifications and skills with one of these course bundles. Offer a more competitive...

Motodrom | A Short Film by Jrg Wagner is a 9-minute film about people racing motorcycles and cars around the walls of a circular tower. Shot in black and white and lacking dialog, this film depic...

I love this NSFW video that Margaret Chardiet made with collaborators Jacqueline Castel and Caroline Schub for her track Devour, from her 2019 album Devour. Check out how the grain and static works to...

With all the devices you use in a day, whether that's a phone, laptop, or tablet, you undoubtedly have a lot of little cords, chargers, and adapters to keep track of. Whether you're replacing a USB co...

Anyone who has taken on any home projects knows that a good craftsperson or gardener is only as good as the tools at their disposal. Whether you're a craftsman or a home gardener, we have 15 deals on ...

You've taken an interest in cryptocurrency lately and have been investing a lot of your time into it. Learn how to further enhance your knowledge and let us to teach you a few more pointers about cryp...

Drug companies Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics report that their antivral pill molnupravir may be a tremendous help protecting patients infected with COVID-19. According to clinical trial data fro...

In eastern Yemen there is a hole in the ground known as the Well of Barhout, aka the "Well of Hell." Located in the Hadhramaut region, the hole is 30 meters wide and 112 meters deep. According to loca...

In this video, an anti-mask personality records himself wandering around ranting at people wearing covid masks, yelling insults at them and also at nothing in particular. He is fastidiously ignored by...

The bizarre and belligerent behavior of a Philadelphia police officer is raising eyebrows after he was filmed harassing a local man, then shouting "Allstar!" and arresting him.The rough arrest takes p...

The bizarre and belligerent behavior of a Philadelphia police officer is raising eyebrows after he was filmed harassing a local man, then shouting "Worldstar!" and violently arresting him.The takedown...

Cobra Kai is an amazing re-start of the sappy Karate Kid series. The actors, writers, and crew of this show appear to be able to do no wrong. This season looks even better than the last.Terry Silver, ...

Lin Wood told attendees at a rally in Georgia on Friday that neither the Twin Towers nor the Pentagon were hit by planes on September 11, 2001. Here's an excerpt from his speech:Nine eleven. You want ...

Dozens of people taking an exam to be teachers in India were caught using flip-flops with wireless communication devices hidden inside. The cheaters wore small Bluetooth earpieces deep in their ear to...

The Oath Keepers is a gang of armed anti-government extremists who participated in the violent Presidential coup attempt on January 6, 2021. A recent hack of The Oath Keepers website has revealed the ...

My condolences to everyone whose family has lost a loved one to COVID-19. Please get vaccinated if you are not already.NPR:The United States reached its latest heartbreaking pandemic milestone Friday,...

So many cases of bestiality were being reported in Arizona that the Phoenix New Times compiled a top list of them in living memory: behold The 10 Grosses Bestiality Cases in Arizona, a return to the h...

DMT is a naturally occurring substance in many plants, animals, and even our own brain. When this chemical is properly prepared and smoked, it will induce a short but intense psychedelic trip. There a...

Mathew Silver is a street performer, philosopher, and has also been called the "sacred clown." My day is always made better by watching his videos and hearing his wisdom.Words of Wisdom from an Unexpe...

Scariest Things Seen Under a Microscope is a 10-minute video where you can learn about some of the tiny creatures that look the most terrifying when viewed up close. It's amazing to think that these c...

Teletext wasis a searchable text- and graphics-based information service cunningly broadcast over the television airwaves and accessible by televisions with appropriate decoders. Largely blown away by...

An essential guide to this week's inessential news'National Enquirer'"What's Wrong With Biden?" screams the 'Enquirer' cover story. "Constant cough! Shuffling gait! Bizarre behavior! Wasting away!"It ...

Misgendering a turtle, making TikTok videos in public, and simping for Mother Nature are just a few of the ways Comedian Trey Kennedy points out the ways Gen-Z is different from older generations.scre...

Journalist Chloe Angyal wrote a piece in Feministing ten years ago titled "Marry me, Zach Wahls." She reported on a 19-year-old's passionate defense of his same-sex marriage household to the Iowa Hous...

Humans have been dehusking, steaming, and flatting oats to make oatmeal for millennia. Here are some facts I learned about my favorite breakfast!In Quaker Instant Oatmeal, the "strawberries" and "peac...

Big news for digital diagnosis: a company called Paige.AI offers software that scans biopsied prostate tissue for cancerous cells. Launched in 2018, the company has previously worked with Memorial Slo...

It's no secret that Apple AirPods are the most sought-after earbuds on the market However, you may need a few accessories to really outfit them in the way that works best for you. These selections wil...

An Apple AirTag prevents you from losing your valuables, so why not protect it from everyday wear, accidents, and weather, while adding a new favorite fashion accessory to your lineup? Gone are the da...

For years now, Adobe has been the gold standard for image editing software. The company dominates the worldwide graphics market with its Creative Cloud Suite, which includes programs like Photoshop, L...

Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that California will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students in grades K-12 to attend school. As a parent of two children in California public schools, I a...

Click to expand A mouser of the highest pedigree is intrigued by this magnificent circular rug, with its mesmerizing black-and-white pattern that seems to swallow her into the floor. It reminds the ...

Don't be fooled by her floral dresses and sweet smile. Kayla Kent plays a mean heavy guitar, covering Pantera songs with incredible talent. What makes her all the more fascinating is how effortless sh...

Irmgard Furchner, 96, a former SS secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp, was set to go to trial in Itzehoe, Germany as an accessory to more than 11,000 murders during the Nazi regime 75 years a...

Today Jen Psaki was served up an easy slam dunk:Psaki: because we're in the middle of a pandemic which by the way, we would've made progress on had the former President addressed the pandemic and not ...

Apple's new iOS 15 now makes it easy to FaceTime via the Web with people who use Android or Windows devices. The Apple person can just create and share a Web link with the Android user. From Apple:Cre...

I have one of David Roy's pieces in my living room. I've had it for 15 or 20 years and it remains a treasured, and favorite, piece of art in my home. I love winding it up before guests come over. R...

Spin magazine asked Rage Against the Machine punk activist Tom Morello to list five albums he "can't live without." His list includes Ozzy Osbourne's Blizzard of Ozz, Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shoc...

Apparent military report on ninja attack (Image via Reddit)A redacted social media report and the USAS themselves confirm that a sword-wielding person dressed in the 'garb' of a ninja attacked some US...

These Frixion erasable highlighter pens really work as advertised, at least on non-glossy books and paper. The marks they make look exactly like a regular non-erasable highlighter. The eraser is smoot...

"The Thing on the Fourble Board" [remastered] is a 24-minute horror broadcast from the critically acclaimed Mutual Network series Quiet Please. The episode is about something dreadful that lies within...

In this three-minute video from 2016, the fantastic painter Lisa Yuskavage talks about her work. The paintings she speaks about in this video are some of my favorites of hers that I've seen. Yuskavage...

A woman from California visited Arkansas' Diamond State Park, and easily found a yellow 4.3-carat diamond in less than an hour. Noreen Wredberg had visited the park the world's only diamond mine "whe...

Have you ever wondered about your family history and ancestry? Living in such a globalized world where people are constantly moving to new countries and cultures are mixing and evolving, it can be tou...

The Drug Enforcement Administration's war on certain people who use certain drugs is America's longest, running for over 50 years. It's a war that's been lost for decades, resulting in much harm and f...

For years Alex Jones claimed the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax and railed against the families of those killed in the 2012 massacre. Sued for defamation in Texas, Jones "routinely" ...

Polish indie game developer studio Bit Golem has just released a new immersive video game based on "Dagon," one of the more popular Lovecraft stories, that lets you explore the incomprehensible cosmic...

An experimental oral medication reduced the risk of hospitalization and death from covid by 50% in an interim clinical trial. The drug, named molnupiravir, was developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biother...

What does Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (AZD) the cactus thorn in Biden's agenda want? Until we know, nothing moves forward for the Democrats. Stephen Colbert's The Daily Show mocks the senator's hold-up with...

Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh (R-Trump) has tested positive for Covid. He says he has no symptoms and is vaccinated, as is everyone in his wife and children. The court's new term begins on Mon...

Due to supply chain bottlenecks and higher costs, Dollar Tree is officially done limiting itself to $1 prices. Founded in 1986 in Virginia, it had been true to its name for thirty-five years. It was a...

Do you ever wish you could live in a Slasher Film? Do you really think you'd be the one to make better decisions, like not splitting up, and not going down to the basement, and not sneaking off to for...

Exactly what it says in the headline: thirty years of animated motorcycle slides imitating, copying, flattering and paying homage to an electrifying moment from the 1988 animated feature film Akir...

I love trivia! I also love trivia about trivia! Like sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, and roads, the word "trivia" is a gift from the Roman Empire. Romans would pos...

What an incredible project! I came across this giant violin-boat while scrolling through TikTok and had to know more. This is what I learned, via Reuters:Music lovers in Venice were treated to a strin...

Just another day surfing the series of tubes. At the Senate hearing titled "Protecting Kids Online," Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) displayed fundamental misunderstandings of Facebook's services. In an exc...

Whether you're an aspiring comic book artist or a budding graphic designer, there is lots of opportunity in the art world. But with traditional art courses costing a pretty penny, you'll become a "sta...

It appears that the exaggerated lean of San Francisco's ill-fated Millennium Tower is causing the plumbing and sewage systems undue stress.Is there betting in Vegas yet on when the building has to be ...

Wow. This one was expensive.My condolences. @failarmy Who saw this and thought of their hopes and dreams. FailArmy. .#crashandburn #planecrash #planefail #fails #planes original sound – Fa...

Let's talk about wine. Wine's symphonic way of blending aromas and flavors are why the great Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, "Wine is bottled poetry." When enjoyed responsibly, its numerous health ...

In Bursa, Turkey, Beyhan Mutlu, 50, was drinking with his buddies when he walked off into a forest. He didn't come back so his wife called authorities who quickly organized a search party to look for ...

As we know most bike locks are merely there for show, or to make it more difficult to get yours than the bike next to you. Gear Junkie tested the new Hiplok D1000, designed to withstand angle grinders...

Do you need to refrigerate butter? How about eggs? How long can an open bottle of red wine sit on your counterbefore turning nasty? Bon Apptit invited professional chefs to discuss these urgent questi...

Atoun is a Panasonic-owned company that makes "powered wear," robotic exoskeletons that augment human physical strengthfor example a vest that supports the wearer in lifting heavy objects. They've rec...

Click to expand A lone traveler in a peculiarly small motorized carriage trudged across a railway crossing, his leashed canine companion loyally following behind. With millennia of his ancestors whi...

I bought thissmall rodent trapa couple of years ago and have caught several mice and rats with it. It doesn't kill the animal, it just traps them in the cage when they touch the lever with the bait. (...

A truculent squirrel launched itself at an unsuspecting victim in a garage. Being a most physical creature, the squirrel latched on to the man's neck with its sharp incisors. The man shrieked as the r...

The shiny little border fence Trump boasted about ad nauseam turned out to be quite a handsome set of climbing poles, fit for any indoor or outdoor playground. The speed in which these climbers scale ...

Watermusic II by William Basinki is the perfect album for when you need to unwind or listen to something calming while you work. Basinki is an American avant garde composer, musician, sound artist, an...

After the Apollo moon landings, the White House gifted tiny samples of moon rocks to the 50 states and many countries. They were encased in acrylic and mounted on a wooden plaque. Weirdly, some of the...

Nasenbluten were an Australian electronic group from 1992-2001. They were a part of Bloody Fist Records, an awesome Australian underground record label which operated from 1994-2004. Nasenbluten are c...

"Beyond Expert" – The Trail Sign Says It All is a video that shows a rider's POV while braving one very wild bike trail. The "beyond expert Trail" includes an extremely narrow wooden pathway whi...

As if folks in California haven't already seen a dramatic, terrifying, and overly long fire season, SoCal braces for the Santa Ana winds!Hot and dry winds blow in from the northeast, where deserts and...

Everything from the cars to Fred the basset hound made Smokey and the Bandit great. The performances by so many fantastic and favorite actors, the music, and the flagrant disregard and disrespect of t...

More trouble at media company Ozy is reported today by CNN Business, which moves past its comical pratfalls (such as an executive impersonating YouTube brass in a conference call) and gets to the unpl...

This week saw the release of I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico. It's the final project from the legendary producer Hal Willner who died last year of COVID-19. Willner...

Sarah Daniels worked at Disneyland as Tinkerbell and other Disney princesses and she's been talking talking on TikTok about creepy dads who hit on her while she was in character. "If dudes are going t...

Don't cry during a stressful or painful medical procedure, unless you're willing to pay extra. One woman learned this the hard way when she went to her doctor to get a mole removed. She cried at one p...

Wayne Couzens, a police officer in London, was nicknamed The Rapist by his colleagues on the Metropolitan force. Couzens, 48, was today sentenced to spend his whole life in jail for the kidnapping, ra...

Wayne Couzens, a police officer in London, was nicknamed The Rapist by his colleagues on the Metropolitan force. Couzens, 48, was today sentenced to spend his whole life in jail for the kidnapping, ra...

Here's a new twist on the weirdness we've come to expect in airplane passenger news. Right after an American Airlines flight from Columbia landed at Miami International Airport last night, a man opene...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) recently spoke at the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light Conference" where he said historical inaccurate things about Christianity to an ador...

In the olden days, Schoolhouse Rock!'s "I'm Just a Bill" taught kids all they needed to know about the steps a young bill must take on Capitol Hill take to become a full-fledged law. But that was then...

Proof that John Oliver can make anything funny, I was trying to skip this one based on its subject matter but nope, anatomically correct ducks are nothing but fun.What an unfair disqualification! My v...

Here's an Atari ST that's been in daily use since 1985 as a general-purpose business machine at a campground, complete with software written by its single careful owner, Frans Bos. Victor Bart intervi...

As COVID-19 re-openings have staggered across Europe, the clowning industry has suffered. The BBC spoke with David Duffy, co-owner of Duffy's Circus, and the sixth generation of Duffys to run the Iris...

From RR Auction:A 1965 Mosrite Ventures II electric guitar personally-owned and -used by Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) for nearly two decades as the guitarist for punk rock legends the Ramones, with t...

In this footage, pyrotechnics are inappropriately set off indoors, igniting flammable decorations above a wedding party. The blaze goes from barely-visible to a horrifying conflagration in just a few ...

This past Monday evening, I went to my first full concert since March 2020 to see Phoebe Bridgers perform. The whole show was wonderful, but she closed out the evening with a somber rendition of Bo Bu...

Whether it's a website, promotional content, or your personal social media account, photos and videos just aren't what they used to be and if you've ever employed a handy "pretty" filter on a selfie,...

This orrery, made by marian from Lego, models the movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon with accurate rotational and orbital periods, axial tilts and lunar precession (the inclination of the moon's orb...

My favorite is the squirrel, obviously....

Imagine covering one of Dolly Parton's biggest hits and then getting a shoutout from the icon herself on social media. That's exactly what happened with Lil Nas X. Recently for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge...

Seeing faces in inanimate objects isn't anything new, and the word pareidolia has been in use since the 1860s. An Instagram account called @things.faces documents some of the best. Our brains are high...

Image: YouTubeYasuzo Masumura's "Giants and Toys" (1958, color) is a funny and satirical look at go-go, post WWII Japan. This unblinking look at corporate values and pop culture is colorful, kooky, an...

Jamie Spears, the father of pop star Britney Spears, was today removed from her conservatorship in what CNN describes as a legal victory in her "fight to regain control of her life." Control of Britne...

It's no newsflash that the planet is burning. Sure, we may just have unlocked anxiety you've forgotten about thanks to the delta variant, but it's the harsh and dystopian reality. You may not be start...

Gritty, who single-handedly breathed life back into the world of sportsball team mascots, is now three. The Philidelphia Flyers could not be more proud!Evidently, three is the legal age to conduct a m...