Articles by BoingBoing from November 2021

When I first saw this video of a creepy sculpture of a woman's face in a lake, I didn't realize how giant this stunning piece is. If you skip to 0:35 in the video, you'll see the sculpture's giganticn...

In 1986, this Japanese Kleenex commercial appeared on television screens across the country. The commercial itself is pretty simple. An eerie song, "It's a Fine Day" plays as a woman in a white dress ...

Harold Fox is an outstanding painter who's shown his work at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles five times, which is how I recently found out about him. I wish I would have known about his wor...

If you're planning on visiting the Mic Mac mall this holiday season in Dartmouth, Canada, then wear a sturdy pair of running shoes. You never know when you may need to flee for your safety in the pres...

Is there anything this kitty can't catch? Nope.In the two TikTok videos below, many objects come flying toward this athletic cat basket, wreath, various hats, Christmas stocking, sneaker, pillow, pot...

With the increase in wildfires, hurricanes, and a world-wide pandemic hitting us this past year, it's safe to say that having an accessible and smart survival kit has become necessary. The GetxGo emer...

Russ Meyer's infamous 1970 sex and drugs exploitation movie, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, was recently uploaded in BluRay resolution to the Internet Archive. It's got great music by The Strawberry ...

I am excited for this rendition of Around the World in 80 Days. Tennant seems perfect for the role of Phileas Fogg. Ars Technica:In addition to Tennant, this new adaptation stars Ibrahim Koma as Passe...

South Dakota Snow Queen Kristi Noem, who serves as governor of the state with 860,000 residents, used legal loopholes to block a voter-approved measure to legalize pot for medical and recreational use...

Having suffered threats and had his integrity questioned, unsurprisingly Dr. Fauci simply laughs at what Ted Cruz has to say....

You'd think that getting stranded by a blizzard anywhere for three nights would cause at least some distress and irritability. But not so for the 61 people who were stuck at Tan Hill Inn, the highest ...

Last week, the FBI arrested James Beeks, 49, of Orlando, Florida, for his alleged role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. According to prosecutors, Beeks is affiliated with the Oath Keepers. A...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's nothing more important to your overall well-being than...

Almost forty years since Ozone, Turbo, and Special K first popped and locked on the big screen, the action figure artisans at Super7 have brought us Breakin' toys! The 3-pack of figures even includes ...

A gentleman driver barreled down a residential street in Boston, managing to "heavily damage" at least four parked cars before flipping his own car. He and his passenger then escaped from the scene, a...

Disney, terrified at the prospected of having the spigot of HK$ flowing into its coffers shut off, quietly omitted an episode of The Simpsons that criticized China's official denial of the 1989 Tianan...

We bought my daughter a far-out astronaut animal backpack for traveling with her cat, but it's got nothing on this portable fish tank called a "Katsugyo Bag." In development by Ma Corporation in Japan...

Ex-New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is best known for three things: Closing Island Beach State Park during a government shutdown then taking an expensive taxpayer-funded family holiday there.Hi...

Disney+ is betting big on Boba Fett. I will watch it, because Star Wars, but I'm baffled as to how Boba suddenly became competent. The exciting new thing here is Boba scuba diving with a second-stage...

Viktor Tth made a giant trackball and set his rat on top of it so it could enjoy running through the corridors of Doom.TL;DRI built a VR setup for rodents from scratch and trained three rats in an aut...

In 1966, Jim Henson created this commercial for General Foods' Wheels, Crowns, and Flutes snacks. It never aired but is still notable as it featured the first appearances of several Muppets including ...

The Nordicware Skull Bitelets pan is the perfect accompaniment to its larger sibling the ever-popular Skull Cakelet pan.I will admit that I texted the link to this pan to my daughter before I clicked ...

Because of the new coronavirus variant, Omicron, Israel says it is banning all foreigners from entering the country except, that is, Miss Universe contestants. "This is an event that will be broadcas...

In one of many magical moments in Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back, Paul McCartney writes "Get Back." "We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air… we starte...

Canada is evidently having a maple syrup shortage. Luckily, they planned ahead.CNN:Amid shortages, Canada is tapping into its strategic reserves. This time, for maple syrup.The Quebec Maple Syrup Prod...

Looking for great gifts for tabletop gamers? Here are some of my suggestions, based on games I've enjoyed this year, games friends have suggested, and games I'd love to see in front of my Yule log thi...

The United Kingdom, where more than half of adults drink alcohol at least weekly, is running out of stuff to drink because of driver shortages. The drinks industry associationsaid that it was taking u...

Abbie Richards updated her well-received conspiracy theory chart to account for the latest goings-on. One may certainly quibble with specific placements or emphases but it all looks pretty solid to me...

It's a tough one, especially for people who aren't "into" the whole cult of Rubik's Cube variants and the formulas and tricks we can use to solve them. But this video from J Perm describes a straightf...

Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving....

The comic book industry has always been a ripe place for exploitation, dating at least as far back as the earliest days of the superhero genre in the 60s. Creative workers who were brought on to write...

On November 23, 2021, the US Department of Defense announced the creation of a new taskforce dedicated to tracking and researching unidentified aerial phenomena: the the Office of the USD(I&S) the...

I don't know about you, but I needed this. As Byrne quotes Dadaist Kurt Schwitters in the intro to the song, they are "Using nonsense to make sense of a world that doesn't make sense." He also quotes ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Thought the shopping season was over? Time to think again. Cyb...

This Republican reenforces vaccine hesitance on FOX, yet claims to be a huge proponent of vaccination on CNN.Scum.When you're on Fox vs when you're on CNN pic.twitter.com/miHJTbEMzY— Acyn (@Acyn...

Though you've probably missed your window of opportunity to take advantage of ample at-home time (well, unless these morons have anything to say about it), your home should still be a beacon of peace....

Run out of things to do with the family? Because you all went through your activity book during quarantine, you're probably doing literally anything to kill time these days (especially since COVID res...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Set yourself up for the new year by treating yourself to learn...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.This Black Friday, gamers are likely going for new consoles, p...

When Prince changed his name to a signature glyph in 1993, Warner Brothers issues a 3.5-inch floppy with the symbol as a font so that print publications could use it instead of saying "the artist form...

This weird german cat commercial was a hit with my cat. He was fixated on my computer screen all throughout the video, and even meowed a few times to the song. I can see where he is coming from, thoug...

Ben Marks says: "If you are a fan of Southern California modernist architecture in the first half of the 20th century, you are probably familiar with names like Irving Gill, Frank Lloyd Wright, his so...

Kitty and Mimmy's New Umbrella is an adorable stop-motion animation from 1981. This 24-minute film is great for Hello Kitty fans of all ages. The plot is about Hello Kitty and her twin sister Mimmy, w...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Still holed up in the house while the world around you bu...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving we can be grateful for the tabloids' pursuit of truth, justice and the American way – as long as the American way is dedicated to speculation, supposition, suspicio...

Mashing up emojis probably isn't high humor nor high art, but it might make you chuckle. A site called emojimix allows you to make unlikely combinations like coffee plus octopus, bread plus the devil,...

Whether you're an avid athlete, a weekend warrior, or a casual exerciser, you owe it to yourself to recover properly. The best way to do so these days is with a massage gun. It doesn't get much better...

If you're an at-home cook who is gearing up for all of the holiday cooking this season, you know the work that goes into making the dishes your family and friends love best. You also know there are so...

The holiday season is upon us, which means we'll all be surrounded by friends and family cracking open ice-cold beverages to celebrate. This usually means the glassware will be brought out and washed ...

Knocked into a Sarlacc by a blinded guy, the further adventures of Boba Fett should be awesome. Disney+ will be streaming the retcon'd Boba on December 29th....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Who doesn't love getting an Apple product for the holidays? Th...

A man celebrating his 68th birthday at an amusement park in the Philippines decided to take a selfie with what he thought was plastic crocodile prop. But as he posed with the "statue," it suddenly att...

Commuter is an excellent song by Ceephax Acid Crew, whose music videos never contain a dull moment. The video to "Commuter" is full of trippy surprises, and you should check it out if you're in need o...

BENEATH THE SKIN  (1981) by Cecelia Condit explores the grim side of female subjectivity as it merges a true crime story about an unsolved murder with personal nightmare imagery. The film has a h...

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks to a morning news program about what we do and don't know about the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. While we don't know much, and we need to give doctors and scientists time ...

Lauren Boebert screams "remove me from all my committees" without ever saying "remove me from all my committees." View this post on Instagram A post shared by MeidasTouch (@meidastou...

"The Bats" was drawn and animated by Jim Trainor in 1999. This 8-minute film won at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000, and for good reason. The emotion and beauty of this film lies in its simplicity,...

A napping cat does not take kindly to being shooed out of its chair just so a human could sit and strum his guitar. As you'll see in the following video, if the cat can't enjoy the chair, nobody gets ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The holidays are supposed to be a joyous time, but with the ev...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Every year on Black Friday, we see incredible deals in every i...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Black Friday is here, and it's time to take advantage of the d...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Thinking up great gifts for everyone in your life can be incre...

Polly Verity is an artist from Wales with an incredible talent for making paper art. In this six-and-a-half minute video, we learn about the joy that Verity finds in folding paper to create outstandin...

The Creepiest Mustard Commercial in Recorded Human History will make you want your mommy. I eat French's mustard quite often, and I don't think I'll ever look at it the same after hearing this voiceov...

Pretzel may be snoring away, but her fauxhawk is a-flowin'! Pretzel's hair is growing out from her late-summer cut. The boss gets too warm with a full cut here in SoCal, so she demands a buzz on most ...

A passenger aboard a Delta Air Lines flight was reportedly breastfeeding her cat and refused flight attendants' requests to put the animal back in its carrier. The only evidence of this having actuall...

The International Association of People Who Dine Over the Kitchen Sink was founded in 1991 and has remained active ever since. Norm Hankoff was inspired to found this prestigious organization "as he w...

Every year, more than 35 million pens and markers are cranked out at the Faber-Castell plant in Engelhartszell, Austria. The facility also spews forth 250 tons of ink for other Faber-Castell facilitie...

Customers who ordered and prepaid for Thanksgiving dinner from Boston Market in Rancho Cucamonga, CA were sorely disappointed. When they arrived at the restaurant yesterday to pick up their food, the ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Have you wanted to learn more about internet security, but don...

Professional snooker player Shaun Murphy, who has amassed over $4 million in winnings, was so angry to lose to an amateur player in this year's UK Championship that he told the BBC: "I am going to sou...

"Somedays you can't see your feet, but they're there."Frank Herbert is rolling in his grave… because he's laughing hysterically. ...

Yesterday, Steve Verze received the first 3D-printed prosthetic eye that is far more realistic than traditional hand-painted options. According to Moorfields Eye Hospital in the UK, the 3D printed app...

It's that time of year again: check out the Boing Boing Gift Guide for dozens of great ideas for stocking stuffers, brain-hammers, mind-expanders, and terrific toys. The cheapest items are just a few ...

A North Korean man who brought a copy of the South Korean science fiction series Squid Game will be executed by firing squad, reports Radio Free Asia. Six high school students who bought copies of the...

Prankster Rob Dobi (who is an illustrator IRL) called into conservative talk show "Life with Liz" in Nashua, New Hampshire to "punk" her and her posse. Although they never caught on, Dobi "slammed" th...

Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James paused the action in the middle of a game in Indiana yesterday to ask officials to eject two people jeering him. According to at least one person at the game, th...

I had no idea this was ever a thing, but my slightly younger brother was probably totally into it....

When a bear paid a visit to a woman's house in Highland Lakes, New Jersey this month, she kindly asked it to close her front door and although a little hesitant, that's exactly what her lumbering vis...

You might not recognize the name Sharbat Gula, but odds are that you recognize her face. She gained international attention in 1985 after gracing the cover of National Geographic in 1985, and her port...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.In today's digitally-based world, protecting your sensitive in...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We know the holidays might make your pockets hurt from buying ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.So, you spent a boatload of money on your new Mac and don't kn...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As someone who knows a thing or two about the social food chai...

SNL provides this selection of their finest Thanksgiving work....

In 2020, this cursed image of a dilapidated Chuck E. Cheese animatronic in a landfill appeared online, and will forever haunt my mind. If you are planning on taking a stroll around the landfill, PLEAS...

Wednesday Addams makes a school play tolerable....

Hi Weirdo! is an amazingly fun and life-changing children's book by artist Mitch O'Connell and his 7-year-old son, Aiden. This book will warm the hearts of cool kids, happy mutants, and high weirdos. ...

Happy Thanksgiving, folks!...

This week on Cartoonist Kayfabe, the guys dive into The Fabulous, Furry Freak Brothers – Marijuana Superheroes from Underground Comix by Gilbert Shelton. This legendary comic, first released in ...

From Bloomberg:El Salvador intends to issue the world's first sovereign Bitcoin bonds and build Bitcoin City, which will be free of income, property and capital gains taxes, President Nayib Bukel...

The Friday after Thanksgiving is known for more than unfettered capitalism it's also a day full of plumbing nightmares. The disasters aren't limited to toilet trouble; many problems arise from garbage...

Hamilton Morris inhales xenon gas in this video about the fascinating way that the element xenon affects the human nervous system. Hamilton Morris, (son of Errol Morris) is an American documentarian, ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The weather it's everywhere! Seriously though, with the cool ...

In keeping with tradition, Uncle Bill will now lead us in "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (1986)....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's always more to learn, especially when you have time of...

Frank Brunner is perhaps best known for being the artist on Howard the Duck, but he did a lot of excellent sword and sorcery work for Marvel and independent publishers. His splended cover for Dr. Stra...

Was amused to find a small saxophone hiding in my bottle of kombucha this week. The small pressure of a barely open lid released a torrent of improvisational jazz. If it were a plastic bottle, I'd swe...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's easy to find gifts for the techies or fashionistas in you...

These clips from the 1954 sci-fi movie Creature From the Black Lagoon are a sublime match with the song "Ocean Man" by Ween. "Ocean Man" never fails to get stuck in my head and play on a loop all day ...

I felt like I had taken a drug the first time I watched I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much by the one and only Pipilotti Rist. Rist is an installation and video artist who makes work about the female bo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Need a place to jot down all of your bright ideas? The Mini Wi...

New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow made a video asking 19 questions about the January 6th terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol. I wonder if we'll ever get to the bottom of this? If the GOP...

Mesmerised by this interview. I can't stop watching it. One of the most arresting and brilliant interviews I've ever seen. @BBCSteveR will be live with me on The Media Show on @BBCRadio4 on We...

Prankster product maker MSCHF, who infamously produced the Lil Nas X sneakers with real human blood in them, are now hawking Illegal Chips flavored to taste like "banned" foods: horse meat; Fugu (aka ...

I do not know why adding Smashmouth's All-Star to a dude getting brutally smacked by a cattle gate is so enthralling, but I've watched it over and over and can't stop laughing. @tiktokofficial7773 #v...

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

Shang-Chi was the most fun standalone Marvel movie I can recall. I was surprised and enjoyed it. Marvel character introductions have mostly fallen flat, but this was a good time. Awkwafina is the real...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Life is busy, chaotic, and NOISY. Whether it's your neighbor's...

Thanksgiving is the glutton's holiday. Fortunately (or unfortunately) there is a right way to overeat. "Fasting is typically not a good idea," registered dietician Leslie J. Bonci told Popular Science...

This woman had an awful experience in bed with a reptilian seeking only to ruin her relationship with her lord. End Times preacher Sharon Gilbert says that an alien imitated her husband, and then it t...

QAnon, also known as "mainstream Republicans," has elevated Kyle Rittenhouse to the level of a Holy Knight for the Cause. So when the chubby-cheeked killer told a television interviewer that he didn't...

When I was in high school I worked at a Kmart and often heard things like "You just lost yourself a customer," "I'm telling all my friends not to shop here," "I know the sale ended last week but can I...

After collectively giving thanks as a nation, the United States citizenry then ritualistically launches into assaulting one another in the aisles of Walmarts for that exciting Cabbage Patch Kid. ...

How are there two people just sitting there at the bar, not paying attention, I don't understand.Also now I feel like a terrible guitar player....

My new favorite bookmark is wikigifs.org, a website that shows you each gif on Wikimedia Commons one at a time. You press the space bar to move to the next random gif, and you can see what Wikipedia p...

BBC reports that a Chinese man claims he was banned from Handadi Seafood BBQ Buffet in Changsha for eating too much. He's a streamer who goes by Mr. Kang, and he's not happy with the restaurant's deci...

It was a scene right out of your imagination: bills were scattered on a freeway and motorists were stopping their cars to collect wads of cash. On videos posted to social media, people are holding mor...

There is a certain breed of human being who gets off on insisting that privatized businesses are always better than public organizations that provide the same services. There is no objective basis for...

Katey O'Connor, a teacher at Muncie Central High School, had her students read V for Vendetta, the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and create some posters reflecting on how the id...

In yet another weirdly fascinating piece from the folks at MEL Magazine, writer Brian VanHooker spoke with several astrophysicists about the question we've all been pondering: can a time traveler go b...

Funerals are expensive. Beyond the obvious emotional costs, the average burial costs more than $7000. Worse, that price has gone up about 6.6% over the last five years, according to the National Funer...

You might think that the story that Sharon Gilbert tells below is a summary of her next end times novel, but no! It's her true tale of how an ET masqueraded as her husband Derek, then claimed to be Xe...

10 minutes to cook a pizza is pretty reasonable in most places. If Little Caesars got the oven up to 650-700 they'd pop that pie out in 5-6 minutes.I have never been that big a fan of Little Caesars.W...

Yesterday, the FBI arrested James Beeks, 49, of Orlando, Florida, for his alleged role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. According to prosecutors, Beeks is affiliated with the Oath Keepers. A...

At a Houston, Texas convenience store, a woman because frustrated with a video gambling machine so she squirted it with lighter fluid and reportedly set it ablaze. This angered a second woman because ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Before the pandemic, seeing the latest films on big screens at...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Designing your own video game is a difficult proposition afte...

I hope Texas has the resources to perform a wellness check this Holiday season.I hope that everyone has a truly wonderful Thanksgiving. pic.twitter.com/9S3Dvt2WEY— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) November 2...

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 can learn to code without investing thousands of dollars i...

There is nothing more terrible than the shrill whine of a fly, especially when it insists on invading the privacy of one's home. More often than not, the fly seems to be out to torment me, buzzing its...

Dark Horse Comics will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and Dave Stewart's (Hellboy, Conan, The Goon) seminal Eisner Award-winning graphic novel The Amazing Screw-On Head ...

Dark Horse Comics will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and Dave Stewart's (Hellboy, Conan, The Goon) seminal Eisner Award-winning graphic novel The Amazing Screw-On Head ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you're looking to broaden your home entertainment this wint...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.People are hard to shop for. Whether you have a fussy aunt, en...

Last spring, a party of four sour sports took umbrage against a restaurant for not allowing them to enter without masks. They then wrote a 1-star review that resulted in devilish good profits for the ...

I really miss seeing my old friend and neighbor Maureen Herman, former bass player of Babes in Toyland and frequent Boing Boing contributor, ever since she moved from LA a couple of years ago. Our fam...

Yesterday we posted about an unlicensed driver in Australia who faces charges for the high crime of driving a motorized cooler down a footpath. In today's unlicensed driver news, a man in Germany face...

Software engineer Greg Cannon built an artificial intelligence that plays NES Tetris. In the video above, the AI, named StackedRabbit, tears through 237 levels, scoring 102 million points and revealin...

Perfect visual inspiration for your next vaporwave music video.From :Digitization of a unique demo reel, containing various (including never aired) screen cards and openings of USSR television, made ...

Days after a group of anti-science doctors, who don't believe in the Covid-19 vaccine, met at a conference in Florida, seven have so far come down with Covid. And one Dr. Bruce Boros, a 71-year-old c...

Luke's hoofty X-34 Landspeeder is now in lovely LEGO. With Threepio, Luke, and a Jawa minifig, this small set is a perfect gift for the young Star Wars fan in your life, or anyone else for that matter...

I love Doug DeMuro's reviews. I love my F150 and I really, really hope the electric one is the replacement we are looking for....

The last time we posted a sketch by comedian Caitlin Reilly, she was pushing a pyramid scheme on her friends. But all pyramid schemes collapse, eventually, and now she plays the GAP employee (every GA...

This weird vandal is upset that one day in the near future, the government will forbid her from defacing private property. I hope she gets the help she needs. Putting up anti-Joe Biden gas pump sticke...

Gritty may not be the hero we expected, but Gritty is the hero we need. Is this confirmation that Gritty has been cast as Ezra in the upcoming Ahsoka series?I AM ONE WITH THE FORCE pic.twitter.com/bDF...

The ConstitutionDAO group did not win its bid to buy a copy of the US Constitution, however, amassing the $40 million USD in Etherium cost them $1 million in transaction fees, and assumedly will cost ...

Save a Fox is a domestic fox rescue. "What does this mean? We rescue foxes from furfarms and take in pet surrenders. All these foxes were born in captivity and could never be released so it is our job...

Please enjoy this Anti-vax gentleman's well-reasoned and perfectly logical non-sense.Jimmy Levy, an antivaxxer artist popular among the MAGAs, says the reason why people accept the vaccine willingly i...

Immediately after Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty for killing two unarmed men with an assault rifle, another battle ensued this time over his $2 million bail money. Rittenhouse (with defense at...

Europe is beginning to accept the stark reality that is our future; COVID is with us for good. Germany's health minister Jens Spahn shared the harsh view that his countrymen will either be vaccinated,...

Dollar Tree should change its name to Dollars Tree. The company announced today that they're permanently raising the prices of most of their items from $1 to $1.25 and offering more $3 and $5 products...

In the 1960s, New York City art dealer Helen Fioratti bought a lovely mosaic in Italy from a noble family. She turned the mosaic into a coffee table and used it for decades. Fifty years later, Fioratt...

People sure loved cocaine in the 1970s. Look at this amazing collection of magazine ads from the era for products to help coke users sniff, store, dry, and stash their precious white happy powder. Her...

In Dunedin, Florida, Chad Rissman and his uncle Darrin Vick spent the day fishing but had no luck. Finally at dusk, a tiny shark took the bait. But just as Vick began to reel in his catch, a beautiful...

Sooyii is a new film that just had its world premiere at the Montana Film Festival. It was shot entirely on the tribal land of the Piegan Blackfoot nation and is the first film made in the native lan...

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Why is this so perfect? It's like Count von Count was made to sing Violent Femmes' "Kiss Off." Nice cameo by Guy Smiley too! Also see: "Start Wearing Purple" as sung by Sesame Street's Countscreengrab...

In the world of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K, the evil demonic hordes of Chaos face off against legions of openly fascist Space Marines who subjugate the galaxy through violent imperialism. There ar...

Thanksgiving might gobble up a few more dollars than it has in previous years. A study from the The Farm Bureau shows that Thanksgiving dinner for 10 people averages out at $53.31, 14% higher than las...

One of the most remarkable pilots of World War II never fired a shot or dropped a bomb. With his pioneering aerial reconnaissance, Sidney Cotton made a vital contribution to Allied planning. In this w...

Balenciaga is offering Crocs with high heels for a mere $625/pair. Because, of course they are! A reminder that this isn't the luxury brand's first plastic shoe atrocity, I mean, "reinterpretation." Y...

I've seen mudflap girl from the car during road trips, but I never thought much about her until Magdalene Taylor dug into her history for Mel Magazine. She is America's big-breasted, disproportio...

Maine fisherman Bill Coppersmith recently made a one-in-one-hundred-million catch: a cotton candy-colored lobster, whom he affectionately named Haddie after his grand daughter. Rather than consuming t...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As we all know, the world is digitalizing by the minute. With ...

Finnish actor and voice artist Rudi Rok, who competed as a ventriloquist on America's Got Talent a few years back, does an amazing job mimicking 40 animal sounds, including a mosquito, gorilla, lion, ...

A 25-year-old man in Australia was pulled over for driving down a footpath without a license. Not in a car, mind you. Nor a motorbike. But for driving a motorized cooler.Apparently, Australia takes a ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's time to stow away that ruler of yours. Yes, that one that...

Early Friday morning, the Moon moved through the Earth's shadow to create the longest lunar eclipse in almost 600 years. During this near-total eclipse, 97% of the Moon went dark. The Griffith Observa...

In his latest video, "Don't Tell Me How to Live," Kid Rock soars through the air hugging the raised middle finger of a giant bird-flipping hand while clutching a pistol. Mr. Rock also boasts of "rippi...

It was a free-for-all Friday morning after money flew out of the open door of an armored truck on its way to San Diego on Interstate 5. The paper cash scattered across a highway and people enthusiasti...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Even if you think you're a dainty sleeper, the numbers don't l...

Kyle Rittenhouse's lead attorney, Mark Richards, isn't a fan of how the GOP has been reacting to his teenage client, calling their actions "disgusting," and calling Donald Trump Jr. an "idiot."Last we...

"Short Subject" (AKA "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam") is a black and white cartoon from 1969 starring Mickey Mouse. Running a little over a minute long the cartoon tells the story of Mickey enlisting to ser...

Terrible acting, off-key singing, casual bullying, puka-shell necklaces — what's not to love about this 1978 basement-budget musical featurette starring Paul Abdul. From Wikipedia:The story begi...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Scrub, mop, polish, repeat. It's a never-ending cycle that's s...

This scratch-built 1:150 scale model of a Toyota Crown is incredible tiny and can be operated by remote control. The creator, who is Japanese said on YouTube:I modified the TOMYTEC "THE Car Collection...

People like Gwyneth Paltrow tout alkaline water as a health tonic. She even squeezes lemon into her alkaline water. I wasn't paying a lot of attention in middle school chemistry, but I do seem to reme...

It's usually the pimple-popping videos that get all the glory. That gross yet strange satisfaction of witnessing an exploding zit even inspired this Pop It Pal toy we posted about a few years back. Bu...

Republican standard-bearer Alex Jones profited handsomely when he claimed the federal government staged the Sandy Hook schoolchildren massacre and the slaughtered children's parents were hired actors....

We've all tried fun forced perspective photographs to give the illusion that we're holding up the St. Louis Gateway Arch or crushing someone's head between our fingers, but Lisbon, Portugal-based phot...

A lucid dream is one in which you're aware of the fact that you're dreaming and can often control what happens. It's a powerful skill to develop with many delightful applications: dream debauchery, am...

I'm a huge fan of this incredible collection of artwork by Barry Paul. Paul makes wonderful, intricate art about aliens, UFO's, and Machines. He has such a brilliant and unique vision which is apparen...

'National Enquirer'"Why Biden's Asleep At The Wheel!" screams this week's cover.Yes, the president appeared to fall asleep at the recent COP26 climate summit, though in all fairness he could have been...

"Loving the new Cowboy Bebop," tweets Smelford who posted this clip. I agree! In fact, I'd be much more excited to see the movie myself if it had that theme music and laugh track. Giddy-up!...

"Please do not eat it!" implores the product description for East Fork's Bread Lamp. "This is a light, not a snack!" [ Audible]– These are actual lights made of actual, real, honest-to-goodness ...

"Please do not eat it!" implores the product description for East Fork's Bread Lamp. "This is a light, not a snack!" [ Audible]– These are actual lights made of actual, real, honest-to-goodness ...

The JPG image format debuted in 1992. What happens if you tasked an everyday computer of that era to show one? To quote Carl Sagan, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first inven...

Peter Gorman's Intersections of Pittsburgh poster gave me a flash of horror, not least because the one at the end of my street is worse than all of them. He's made many just like it for all the tangle...

At some point the Sewing Canada website was sold or updated, removing from service the world's greatest static HTML page of all time. For those unaware, it was a selection of embroidery troubleshootin...

The classic UK political sit-comYes, Prime Minister contains an amazing joke, famously defining the nation by newspapers readerships.HACKER: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the...

Relive the last great system war before Windows left it all in its wake with vAmiga and pce.js-atari, which fire up a Commodore Amiga and an Atari ST respectively right there in your browser window. T...

These words of wisdom are brought to you by Rodney Norman who is self-described as a "Comedian, Actor, Philosopher and all around nice guy."Thanks, Whitney!screengrab via Rodney Norman/YT...

This 6"x10"x14" statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating garden gnomes from SOWSUN is truly the perfect garden decor. Just look at these details!The description is pretty wonderful, too:The garden gnomes ...

Instead of periodically checking to see if your desired item has been restocked, you can employ a bot to snatch it up immediately upon its restock. The shopping bot services have been used by reseller...

In an age of streaming and singles, listeners don't always appreciate the art of the album: the carefully-crafted arc Adele believes that song order can "tell a story." To preserve her musical na...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The Holiday Season is officially among us. While that means we...

To get out of using slow boats, the Beanie Babies manufacturer is booking cargo planes to get the plush toys to the States. As many. as 150 flights have brought Beanie Babies to O'Hare International A...

The Day of Forevermore (Trailer)If you're in LA, be sure to check out artist Marnie Weber's incredible new exhibit at ODD ARKLA. The exhibit will be open until December 4th, and features 250 unique ha...

Like a growing number of high-end home workout devices, the $4,000 NordicTrack X32i treadmill is built to work with subscription workout software for $39/month. Its iFit software integrates directly w...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We all love the way lighting a candle can instantly set a mood...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The worst part of taking care of a beard is the need for so ma...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The holiday season is among us, which means your family is fin...

Filmmaker Maya Deren was truly ahead of her time. Deren was a Ukrainian born American artist, whose contributions to film played an important and early role in the avant garde. Deren believed that the...

"Clay Lacy and the Amazing Human Fly" is a short video about a man who stood on top of a DC-8 plane while it flew in 1976. The stunt man, strapped tightly into a contraption to keep him in place, near...

"Contort Yourself" is one of my favorite songs by James Chance and the Contortions, a legendary band that came out of the New York No Wave scene in the late '70s. This footage is from one of their sho...

Enjoy this mesmerizing fractal of hands that have hands that have hands. Each hand in this fractal grows out of a finger from a larger hand. My favorite phase in this video is when the full hand is pi...

The walls of Mark Mccloud's San Francisco home are covered in LSD blotter art. He calls his collection the "Institute of Illegal images", and you can visit for free. Here is a 2016 interview with Mccl...

This video dives into the work of Ida Applebroog, a multimedia artist who makes sculptures, drawings, and paintings. Her work explores topics such as politics, violence and power, and sexuality. One t...

In this video, we learn about Krt Jurak and Alex Bailey, The Pet Performers Who Get Paid to Act Like Animals. These two performance artists got tired of performing for humans, and decided to direct th...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you want to learn a new language or brush up on your n...

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 think of Christmas, what do you think of? Cookies? Gi...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The holidays are upon us, and while some people are terribly h...

"In Dreams"by Samuel Blain is an award-winning short film that combines animation and live action as four people tell the stories of their most vivid, memorable dreams. Each person's head is reimagine...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There are plenty of reasons to have a headache in 2021. We kno...

Have you ever sat and wondered how long it would take a giant pile of maggots to consume a hamburger and other various food items? I've been wondering for quite some time, so I was thrilled to come ac...

Ursonate is an experimental poem by Kurt Schwitters from 1932. Schwitters was a German artist who worked in a variety of areas including surrealism, sound art, poetry, and Dadaism. Ursonate, a "sonata...

This week on Cartoonist Kayfabe, we get to dive into the art of Raymond Pettibon. You can check out the episode here on YouTube: Raymond Pettibon – Black Flag, Drawings, Zines, Punk Fliers, and ...

Unit 3 and Venus were an '80s new wave band consisting of a badass little girl, Venus, along with her mom, dad and uncle. Venus sang, her mom played bass, her dad played keyboard, and her uncle drumme...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Figuring out what to gift everyone in your family can be trick...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you enjoy seeking the next best thing in tech, you're not a...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.They say that food is the way to people's hearts, and while je...

How's about some live McMaggots to go with your Big Mac? Some customers were treated to a maggot infestation at a McDonald's in Beckton, London, where fly larva made their way across a table and the f...

While perplexing and perhaps entertaining, Jen Psaki explains that Kevin McCarthy spent eight and one-half hours saying nothing of worth.Another day. Another #PsakiBomb."Kevin McCarthy said a lot of w...

Tesla Motors is being sued for sexual harassment at its Fremont factory. CEO Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk recently made a boobie joke on Twitter.CNet:The suit says the Fremont workplace "more resembles a crud...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.From the leftover take-out you let sit in the fridge too long ...

Funky fresh, and yes cold on my shelf this LEGO Adidas Superstar is pretty awesome.LEGO:Add a surprising new addition to your sneaker collection with this LEGO adidas Originals Superstar (10282) model...

A verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse has been reached: the 18-year-old Proud Boy sympathizer was found not guilty on all charges. In other words, it is okay in the US (if you are white) to have your mama...

My day begins with a tour of the kitchen in my cinder-block home high atop the peaks of the Hollywood Hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean, checking that all is in order. In my house, each family membe...

Santa Claus at Disneyland and Walt Disney World is now, sometimes, a black person. Guess who is about to find Disney theme parks not magical enough? The same racist and misogynist jerks who scream abo...

Ever wonder what it would be like to be a cartoon? Maybe not as pretty as you think.Comedian LaBelle compares common behaviors, such as hiccuping, opening a door when angry, and slipping off a treadmi...

It looks like the band should work its way off this belt-drive system, but a crowned pulley works opposite of what appears intuitive.Woodgears:To better demonstrate the principle, I built a jig from l...

In this video, Columbia University neuroscientist Daphna Shohamy explains the science of memory to a kid, a teen, a college student, a grad student, and an expert. Along the way, she describes how her...

"Before Yesterday We Could Fly": An Afrofuturist Period Room is an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that, according to the museum, is "powered by Afrofuturisma transdisciplinary creative m...

Jake DeMarco, 38, was watching live surveillance video of his dog Ryder playing in the backyard when he noticed something rather odd: Ryder was seemingly romping around with another dog. According to ...

This driver had some seriously good luck. I have no idea if they managed to complete the escape, but this move is tops. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @collectiveworld7...

Two chill guys were cooking up freshly-caught, mouth-watering lobster, making a meal of lobster rolls, when an elderly Karen ordered them to get off the property a large empty parking lot with guest ...

Geoffrey Huntley made it dead simple to right click on every NFT on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. You just need to have 17 TB of hard drive space or an AWS account to hold them all.OMG WHO RIGH...

Labor boss and mobster Jimmy Hoffa vanished without a trace in 1975, almost certainly murdered by the Mafia. Since then, the search for his body has captured the American imagination. Indeed, some bel...

Y'all really gotta watch this with @AOC & @RepRaskin. pic.twitter.com/KcO8Q8acTU— Nick Knudsen (@NickKnudsenUS) November 19, 2021AOC and Rep. Jamie Raskin made a livestream of their reactio...

DogPhone, who dis? University of Glasgow computer scientist Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, who specializes in animal-computer interaction, her labrador Zack, and colleagues have developed a videophone system...

Covid-19's patient zero was not somebody who contracted the virus from a Wuhan lab, and was not an accountant from another city altogether, as many have theorized, according to a US scientist who has ...

Legendary music photographer Mick Rock, known as "the man who shot the 70s," has died at age 72. Rock captured iconic images of Lou Reed, Queen, Debbie Harry, the Ramones, Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, Joa...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The coldest months are just around the corner if they're not a...

Using the face-editing app FaceApp, social media users are heavily editing iconic photos, turning familiar figures into smooth-skinned, volumtuous haired, glamorous versions of themselves. The whole t...

Everyone's favorite improve-driven cop show mocumentary, Reno 911!, is back. A Reno 911! special, premiering on December 23, 2021 on Paramount+, will star the full main cast, including Thomas Lennon, ...

Effective January 1, 2022, Ann Arbor public restrooms must provide pads and tampons, as well as other hygiene products. It's the first city in the US to make free period products a requirement. The or...

As of Thursday, November 18, the Egg McMuffin has been around for half a century. McDonald's is celebrating the occasion with a steep discount. Via NPR:The deal won't be on the table for long. Th...

Over Halloween weekend, the Vermont jam band Phish played a series of concerts in Las Vegas. Several days later, one attendee posted to Facebook that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and more than...

On November 3, 2021, the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy posted the following update on Facebook:There are some sharks that make our data team stop and take a double-take. One of our data team member...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Thanks to movies, it's easy to assume most break-ins happen in...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're heading to work on your regular morning commute...

Never before have I seen a dog exhibit such a flattened, dead-to-the-world sleeping position as this one does (granted, I've always had cats, not dogs, so maybe this is more normal than I realize?). A...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether it's your dad, brother-in-law, or favorite coworker, f...

Hearkening back to the days of Red Scare McCarthyism, a blustering Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) tried to intimidate Dr. Saule Omarosa, Cornell Professor and Biden's comptroller currency nominee, by insinu...

Congressperson Ilhan Omar maintains dignity in the face of sheer lunacy.Luckily my dad raised me right, otherwise I might have gone to the floor to talk about this insurrectionist who sleeps with a pe...

So much is unknown about this story of food delivery and an apparently urgent need to relieve one's self. In Brentwood, a Los Angeles food delivery person left more than just dinner. They evidently di...

Stretch X-Ray remains the coolest kid in the Stretch family. Critically, Stretch Armstrong needs pants and the monster is less monstrous than X-Ray. X-Ray looks like someone who has survived an awful...

Our home was a junkie's hovel, a mangy morass of scattered papers and shriveled snack wrappers, a fetid swamp of moldy, mildewed artifacts, dullbrown crumbly stuff, open bottles of synthetic Victory G...

These toys were fun. Missles that launched, a catapult Colonial Viper launcher, and really cool Cylons. Battlestar Galactica was best the first time around.The Australian version of this commercial ma...

A man was hiking near a stream in Waipio, Oahu when he came across a "horrific" stench. It smelled like alcohol, but really intense, like "a beer pub that hadn't opened its doors for three or four day...

There's a stream in Waipio, Hawaii on Oahu that reportedly smells so much like beer that a representative from Envirowatch Inc said: "You would think it was a beer pub that hadn't opened its doors for...

Bill Maher appeared on Cuomo's CNN show last night to talk politics and Covid, and how the two are inseparable. At the end of the video, Maher reiterated his warning that Trump has an excellent chance...

Perhaps you've seen the meme going around of a kangaroo cooking pancakes while speaking with a human man. "I"m a communist," the kangaroo says. "What are you?"The man replies, "I'm an anarchist." To w...

iSMASH Syracuse is a "rage room" in New York where patrons pay a fee to smash things like glass bottles, electronics, car windows, and the like. On Sunday, a deer appropriately smashed through the fro...

iSMASH Syracuse is a "rage room" in New York where patrons pay a fee to smash things like glass bottles, electronics, car windows, and the like. On Sunday, a deer appropriately smashed through the fro...

Who is this wonderful teacher who starts the school day with such a joyful ritual? As each student enters her classroom, they point to an icon on a wall chart to let the teacher know how they'd like t...

This dog is not necessarily a good boy, but he is very awesome. @djstarsss #funnydogvideos #hilarious #comedy #blowthisup original sound – Dj starsss — Read the rest ...

Lawful Evil examplar Liz Cheney thinks Chaotic Evil exemplar Donald Trump "broke" Ted Cruz. She told CNN: "I think that Trump broke Ted Cruz. Ted used to say he was a Constitutional conservative. But ...

Queen Elizabeth recently missed the General Synod, the Church of England's national assembly, for the first time in her reign. This is understandable; the 95-year-old has been dealing with some health...

Early this year, electronics company Vizio filed an IPO, and their newly-released third quarter earnings reveal an interesting business success: they made more than twice as much profit from their "Pl...

Paul Gosar, who has repeatedly denied he is suffering from a serious medical condition, returns to his office from the House floor after being censured, and is slurring his words and can't stop twitch...

It's been a while since I ordered two of something just for the hell of it, but I ordered two of these enormous bread plushies from Amazon. Be sure to check the larger 39.3-inch option. You wouldn't w...

A lab worker who was cleaning out a freezer at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania discovered some frozen vials that were unaccounted for. Their labels said "Smallpox." The World Health Organ...

When a 58-year-old disabled man didn't instantly drop to the ground on-demand, Orangeburg cop David Lance Dukes knew what to do: stomp on his head.But his victim, Clarence Gailyard, could not easily l...

Australia's Christmas Island has a bad (or maybe it's good?) case of the crabs. Right now, millions of red crabs are migrating from the forest to the Indian Ocean to breed. The mass movement requires ...

A woman who threw hot soup at an employee in a Temple, Texas restaurant was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault. As is now often the case, the abusive behavior might have gone unpunished were ...

Dozens of cows were trapped in cold rising water following torrential rain and flooding in Abbotsford, British Columbia. So farmers jumped on boats, canoes, and, yes, jet-skis, to rustle and rescue th...

I've written here before the Rod of Iron Ministries Church, an off-shoot of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, which went viral back in 2018 for hosting a group wed...

A group of educators from the Oklahoma City Public Schools Native American Student Services have put together a new free Thanksgiving curriculum guide for students in Pre-K through 4th grade. A Story ...

Florida man Matt Gaetz, known for his fondness for young'uns, has his eyes on Kyle Rittenhouse, the boy on trial for "allegedly" murdering two people and seriously wounding a third."Kyle Rittenhouse w...

In Westbrook, Maine on Saturday, a fellow and his son were unloading their moving van after arrival from Las Vegas when he spotted a roadrunner that had stowed away inside. The Avian Haven animal hosp...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.For some reason, it's easy to get carried away with gift-givin...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Even though the weather is getting mighty chilly (either by ha...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.While the holiday season is filled with family fun, delicious ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.2021 was supposed to be everyone's glow-up year after 2020 ble...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Tired of the predictable? Me too, for sure. It seems like ever...

Two Asian elephants at the Oregon Zoo are best friends, according to the zoo's YouTube page. In fact, Samudra and Samson can't seem to take their trunks off each other as they snuggle, bathe, play, an...

Tim Gosar had some choice words for his brother, Rep Paul Gosar (Q-AZ) today on MSNBC. "I don't try to choose my words loosely," he said. "I believe he's dangerous, unhinged, and is reckless. He needs...

Rep. Paul A. Gosar, the Republican standard-bearer who makes a habit of posting fake images disparaging Democrats on Twitter, is likely to be kicked off committees for tweeting a "violent video depict...

For those of us who've been repairing our devices using iFixIt's excellent guides and parts, Apple's announcement today that it will begin offering self-service repair parts, tools, and manuals comes ...

If you were shown a rustic, rectangular wooden box the length of a pencil with a course screen on one side and a dark cork-like nub stuck into one of its ends, what would you guess this object to be?J...

On Monday, the first morning of Michigan's hunting season, a deer smashed through a church window. But once inside, he didn't seem to find comfort in the holy refuge. Video below shows a panicked buck...

Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam spent decades in prison after being found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. It's expected that tomorrow t...

I'm often asked whether I use clean or unclean rags when I wipe my eyeglasses. The answer is, of course, that it depends on which rag I can lay my hands on at the moment. The dirty one is the softest ...

Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, was sentenced to 41 months in prison (with credit for 10 already served) for his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Judge Royce Lamberth Laid down the sente...

I didn't know it was possible to grow such beautiful crystals from ordinary table salt. Chase, a university student who loves to grow crystals using chemistry while sharing my discoveries along the wa...

A 55-year-old gentleman was arrested in Omaha, Nebraska for stealing catalytic converters the 6th time in just one month for the same crime.The emboldened thief, Brian Sears, drove a bright blue tr...

Have you ever tried to cancel a SiriusFM subscription? You have to call them on the phone and beg a skilled retention specialist. That's if you can even talk to someone on the phone. I once tried for ...

This holiday is yours, but we all celebrate a love of variety broadcast tv and heavy drug use with you.SING IT!...

On April 24, 1976, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels appeared on the show to pitch The Beatles on reuniting on the show: "Now, we've heard and read a lot about personality and legal conflicts...

Fujifilm's Instax cameras picked up where Polaroid left off, and the latest model sends the image file to your smartphone too. Gimme a soft copy right there. The Verge:It has several retro elements in...

Shit got downright biblical in Egypt in recent days. Storms and flooding destroyed homes led to several deaths near Aswan, Egypt. The catastrophic weather was immediately followed by an onslaught of s...

The setup is simple: this guy used a shopping cart, and didn't bring it back. So a bored traffic cop tries to get his attention, and encourage the man to do his basic civil duty at the grocery store.W...

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

Since he turned 13 two years ago, a black schoolboy living in south London has been stopped and searched by cops 30 times. He has never been charged with a crime and his mother is tired of the harassm...

In Nova Granada, Brazil, a cow was set to be slaughtered at a cattle ranch but the animal had other plans. The cow fled the farm and found refuge in the nearby Indaia Club de Campo waterpark where it ...

Christopher Belter, now 20, raped several younger teens and was convicted in 2018. This week Judge Matthew Murphy, sympathising with his plight from the bench, told him he would not be going to jail."...

Christopher Belter, now 20, raped several younger teens and was convicted in 2018. This week Niagara County Judge Matthew Murphy, sympathising with his plight from the bench, told him he would not be ...

The CEO of Activision knew about sexual misconduct allegations as serious as rape and failed to tell the company's board, reports the WSJ. Moreover, Bobby Kotickpaid $154 million last year as one of t...

A recent edition of Max Read's newsletter presented what he called "notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller" an aesthetic discussion of a unique filmic subgenre that, though common, has not been su...

Over at Vice, Tamlin Magee chronicles his strange journey to the center of a Cryptozoological heart of darkness which is to say, he signed up for a sketchy Facebook ad offering an "official" online d...

Just one week after the announcement of the new "free speech" degreeless "college" led by Pano Kanelos, Bari Weiss, and Joe Lonsdale, several of the university's key endorsements have already distance...

In this interview on Port, acclaimed sci-fi author, Jeff VanderMere (Annihilation, Borne, Hummingbird Salamander) talks with legendary "non-musician" Brian Eno about the climate crisis, environmental ...

In this interview on Port, acclaimed sci-fi author, Jeff VanderMeer (Annihilation, Borne, Hummingbird Salamander) talks with legendary "non-musician" Brian Eno about the climate crisis, environmental ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Playing a video game all by yourself can be fun, but you can t...

My pal Steve Silberman tweeted: "LSD was born on this day in 1938 in Albert Hofmann's lab at Sandoz in Basel. It's not for everyone, but Hofmann would later say the psychedelic 'gave me an inner joy, ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you rely on a webpage to conduct your business, Google Anal...

This whole article sounds like a horrible joke, but it is probably not. NY Daily News:The star of the "Twilight" movies is developing a gay ghost-hunting reality television series, a project she descr...

I've written here before about David Bowie's appearance (48 years ago tonight) on The Midnight Special, performing The 1980 Floor Show, recorded over three nights one month earlier at The Marquee Club...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Susanna Hoffs (@susannahoffsofficial)Susanna Hoffs, founding member of The Bangles, has a new album out called Bright Lights and I've li...

A roadrunner migrated from Nevada to Maine, not by running, not by flying, but by traveling as a stowaway in a moving van. Although the bird looked pretty good after its four-day journey stuck inside ...

All a man in California wanted from Amazon was some Northern Quilted toilet paper. But besides the simple paper product, he ended up saddled with an Amazon driver's broken-down Sprinter van and Amazo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.With every new day comes something new to charge:  A smar...

Southern British Columbia was hit with such heavy storms on Sunday and Monday that region-wide power was out, schools closed, and thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. But the flooded h...

A troublemaking anti-vaxxer walked into a CVS pharmacy and began filming the staff as he scolded them for vaccinating people against Covid. He then walked over to a cubicle and started harassing a man...

Liz Cheney is a staunch, lifelong conservative Republican. She strongly opposes a woman's right to choose, is not, in her words, "pro-gay marriage," and is very much like her father Dick Cheney, forme...

Our latest Cool Tools video shows how to make natural dyes based on recipes from the book, A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics & Fibers....

You know how they have those fantasy football camps and rock and roll camps where rank amateurs get to live out the dream of being a pro football player or rock star? I would pay to attend a fantasy r...

Gotta hand it to Laura Ingraham, it is all about her. A guest was attempting to tell her about a show named "You" and she had to make it about herself.HAHAHAHAHAHA Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle had a...

There was a shift away from the comical banter between White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki and Fox "News" reporter Peter Doocy yesterday, after he asked, "Why did President Biden suggest that Kyle R...

Technology virtuoso Fran Blanche restored this 16-minute, 16-mm film about lasers and after watching it, I finally have a basic overview of how lasers work. The video was produced in 1968 by Handel Fi...

Enrique Tarrio is a leader of the Proud Boys and recently received a jail term for shenanigans typical of the violent far-right street gang. Yesterday he begged a judge to reduce that term to 90 days,...

Andrew Bradshaw, the mayor of Cambridge, Maryland, has been arrested for distributing revenge porn.Even if they are going to be giant assholes, you'd think people would learn how TCP-IP works after al...

Practical Engineering is a YouTube channel I frequently get lost in, offering deep and informative content about big things humans have built. In the case of the Millennium Tower, it is more a running...

A water fountain has been arrested and charged with lying in wait and felony assault for attacking a man walking through the park. The cowardly fountain knocked off the man's shoes and soaked him with...

For those of you who are anti-antipersperant of any kind, or advocates of "natural" deodorants sans aluminum, the following information probably isn't worth your time or will just fire you up unnecess...

When corruption taints politics in other countries, British media is happy to call it was it is: corruption. But they have a special word for it when it happens in the U.K."sleaze." With the current g...

Mc "Mack" Allen is a bus driver for San Francisco's Muni public transit system. Watching Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which takes place in San Francisco, Allen was compelled to Tweet his...

In a new scientific study, Aarhus University researchers reported on how diurnal patterns"the rhythms of daily life"impact our musical preferences. Essentially, the time of day is directly linked to o...

Being on hold is the ultimate liminal space.First, the "best". It's Tim Carleton's Opus 1, automatically downgraded into its own Amiga MOD version by the Texas DMV. You've almost certainly heard it be...

On Friday in Brevard County, Florida, visitors noticed this massive metal container that apparently washed up on the beach. It's approximately 20 feet long and 8 feet tall. Canaveral National Seashore...

Heinz is presenting a "Floa-lloonicle" in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a first in its 95-year history. A what? Their "Gravy Pirates" "Floa-lloonicle" is part float, part balloon, and part vehic...

Wherein Kotaro finds itself presented with a birthday feast fit for a four-year-old Otter, but goes for the cat food....

A court in Jiangsu Province, China planned to auction off an apartment that was foreclosed upon but before the bidding was to begin, they ordered a 24 hour livestream of the interior to convince poten...

There were many things that immediately impressed me about Denis Villeneuve's Dune. One of these was the amazing music and sound design. In this 28-minute featurette, Denis and his sound team discuss ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.With the holidays quickly approaching, chances are you're alre...

In 1891, a mysterious figure appeared on the streets of London, dispensing pills to poor young women who then died in agony. Suspicion came to center on a Scottish-Canadian doctor with a dark past in ...

Six years ago, Wanda Dench accidentally sent a text inviting 17-year-old Jamal Hinton to Thanksgiving dinner. In a series of now-iconic texts, Jamal told Wanda that she wasn't actually his grandm...

Ian Charnas has figured out a way to override Nintendo's controller to throw punches in real life and have them work inside the video game, "Punch-Out!" Because, of course he has!My latest project is ...

Shopping for everyone on your list for the holidays can be stressful unless you're shopping for the furry member of your family which is just pure fun. Considering all they do for us, our pets
...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Learning a new language can benefit one in many ways, especial...

I have been using this ABUS Granit Extreme Plus as the lock for my e-bike. It is more convenient than the D-Lock I was using, and maybe more secure. It is much heavier. I know this as I wear it like a...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The importance of having good, educated workers in cybers...

TSA workers at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport encountered a belligerent traveler.CBS Local:Telling agents he "did not have to stop" because "it's a free country," a 44-year-old Minneap...

A woman in New Zealand called the police with an emergency: a possum was holding her "hostage."Every time she stepped outside her house, trying to reach her car, the possum charged after her and ran u...

Every 93 minutes or so the International Space Station passes thru a debris field created by a Russian anti-satellite missile test. Apparently, Roscosmos blew up an older unit that just happens to be ...

Early Sunday morning in Honolulu, a 34-year-old gent was caught on video speeding down a street in a vehicle that spewed fiery orange sparks as it bashed into parked cars. The spectacular joy ride con...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.What would we do without our dogs? They're practically pa...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was today found guilty by default in a defamation lawsuit filed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims. Jones claimed that the massacre did not hap...

I'll tell you a story that has been in the family for generations. It's about granddad's trusty old extension cord, and what happened to it. It was called "the king" because of its superiority among i...

A curious brown bear lumbers into a 7-11 near Lake Tahoe, checking out a freezer and testing the hand sanitizer dispenser. As it stands on two legs for much of the time, an audibly frightened employee...

My friend Mark Dery, one of the finest cultural critics alive, read a copy of the QAnon Shaman's self-published polemical new age fascist screed, One Mind at a Time: A Deep State of Illusion. Mar...

It's a treat to see Bowie videos in 4K. Visit his YouTube channel to see ultra high res versions of "Jump They Say," "Miracle Goodnight," "Black Tie White Noise," "Hallo Spaceboy," and many other 1990...

If you wanted to play a video game but can't because the graphics card for your PC costs almost as much as having a tv star parent buy your way into college, you are not alone! GPU prices continue to ...

Ji-Young is a 7-year-old girl who loves skateboarding and playing the electric guitar. She's also the first Asian American muppet in Sesame Street's 52-year history.From NPR:Ji-Young's existence is th...

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk has been happy to have the government help fund his companies, however, he appears quite disagreeable when expected to pay taxes. Having found a way to have his shareholders foot...

A passenger aboard a Southwest Airlines flight to NYC from Dallas was arrested Saturday after punching a gate agent so hard it sent her to hospital. Neither were named by NBC News, but the passenger w...

It's a common enough Internet refrain at this point: why doesn't the orphaned billionaire Bruce Wayne invest his money in social services and poverty reduction programs, instead of investing in weapon...

In a scene so preposterous one might mistake it as part of the comedy routine, a woman in Jacksonville, Florida hopped up on stage at The Comedy Zone to tell comedian Affion Crockett that his sex joke...

The tagline for the shop Sweet Midnight is "The Dark Side of Cute," so it makes sense that their take on mistletoe is so delightfully creepy. "Hanging MistleTOE" ($19.99) features a grisly grey cast-r...

Steve Bannon, the shambling Breitbart News co-founder, Trump advisor and general-purpose alt-right mung machine today handed himself into the FBI. He was charged Friday with contempt of congress after...

Taxes may be the benchmark of a functional government, but they're no fun. To lessen the pain of handing over hard-earned cash, the Finnish Tax Association is beefing up its PR regarding how taxes are...

Trans-orbital rocket launches can be expensive, and wasteful. That's why a newish company called SpinLaunch has envisioned an alternative: a giant centrifugal slingshot that basically whips the satell...

Apparently Asian honeybees scream by furiously rubbing their wings together. As the inimitable Sabrina Imbler writes for The New York Times:In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Royal Soc...

On Facebook, Steve Silberman shared this amazingly prescient prediction of our future-present by Neil Postman, from Postman's 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death:[H/t Steve Silberman]Image: Inset cov...

During a heavy rainstorm in Aswan, Egypt over the weekend, the city's deadly fat-tailed scorpions scuttled out of their drenched hiding places and found new shelter in people's homes. The venomous gue...

Authorities in Coquelles, France intercepted a shipment of onion rings containing $44 million in cocaine on its way into the UK. They've charged Piotr Perzenowski, 30, of Mazowieckie, Poland, with dru...

Feed one once and it'll put up with anything to get fed again!...

On Friday, President Joe Biden gave a speech in which he talked about the great Black baseball player Satchel Paige. Above, watch Fox News's deceptive edit of that moment.This is what Biden said:"I've...

Wendy Lynn Wein, 52, of Rockwood, Michigan, wanted her ex-husband dead. Given that this is the age of online shopping, she visited RentAHitman.com to hire someone to do the deed. Unfortunately for her...

At a church somewhere in the English-speaking world, this clapping master was seen executing an advanced clapping technique. It's rare that such expertise is captured on filmwhat a treat!...

Rephrasely is a single-serving site that takes text given to it and rephrases it to sound "academic", to fix grammar, etc. A useful tool for students? Tell me if you get an A!...

On July 11, 1969, Ted Conrad left his job as a teller at Cleveland's Society National Bank carrying a paper bag stuffed with $215,000. Then he completely vanished. Apparently, Conrad had been inspired...

The Video Game Soda Machine Project archives examples of vending machines and similar devices found in games. "The Video Game Soda Machine Project is my attempt to catalog screenshots of every soda ve...

The website rroll.to provides an odd but delightful service, and I've been using their links in group chats with friends. While traditional rickrolling tricks every clicker one time, this service add...

Jeremy Lockwood is a retired medical doctor who decided to spend his lockdown getting a PhD. With nothing else to do in a pandemic, he got to sorting through a box of iguanodon parts from the Natural ...

Anyone familiar with the tabletop sci-fi miniatures game, Warhammer 40,000, knows about the Sisters of Battle, sadly the only female army in the game (and frankly, some of the few females in the game,...

The Human Library is an educational nonprofit that organizes temporary "libraries" around the world where you can borrow a person instead of a book. Founded in Copenhagen in 2000 by Ronni Abergel, the...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.A good lamp can make or break the aesthetic of a room, especia...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether it's music, podcasts, or audiobooks, we all have ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Apple is a well-known and popular brand, to say the least...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.These days, drones aren't just some advanced, photo- and video...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Let's face it: At some point, you're always gonna need a phone...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're into technology, or you use it for work, or you...

On Thursday at the Rockville Festival at the Daytona International Speedway, a fan climbed onto the stage during Brass Against's rocking cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Wake Up." After singer Sop...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The holidays are all about having fun with those you...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Do you have an avid gamer in your life and feel stuc...

This week on Cartoonist Kayfabe, Ed and Jim take a look at the brilliant comic "I Hate You Deeply" by Dan Clowes. I Hate You Deeply was originally published in Eightball, which ran from 1989 to 2004. ...

There are some pretty wild commercials in this compilation of 1-900 advertisements. I'm dying of curiosity to see who actually paid to call the 1-900 number "Is Elvis Alive?" I do hope those callers d...

In "Ha Ha Ha" (1934), a classic episode of the Fleischer Brothers' Betty Boop cartoon series, we learn about the joys of laughing gas. When Koko the Clown gets a cavity from eating too many sweets, Be...

Alice a trippy 1971 anti-drugs PSA portrays a fantastical, psychedelic trip through super cool mixed media animation. If I had seen this as a child, I surely would have wanted to go down this rabbit ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Riding around has never been so fun. Today, there is such an i...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're starting a website for your new business or are...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's nothing better than a day on the green. Well, maybe th...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Efficiency. That's what technological advancement is all about...

Twelve days after testing positive for a breakthrough case of Covid-19, Press Secretary Jen Psaki is back, along with a fresh stockpile of TNT.When asked by a reporter about the Build Back Better Act,...

Kamooalewa, "wobbling celestial object" in Hawaiian, is the name of a 165-foot rock that swings around the Earth on the reg, sometimes just 9 million miles from us. It's easy to think of Kamooalewa as...

This old timey-looking electric Surrey bike is available from Alibaba for around $2,000. It holds four adult passengers plus features two child seats in front which seems… problematic. From Elec...

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons is a tangled man when it comes to politics. He has described himself as both "an avowed democratic capitalist" and a "social liberal/equal rights & fiscal/foreign policy...

WhenI reachedtheendof the corridor, I stood before the door.Beyondthedoorwastheroom,thegreat room. I had no power inthatroom. The sun went down, and I found myselflost in the darkness. — Read th...

A man and a baby pug engage in a "dance battle," going back and forth with the same move, one that involves several toddler-tantrum-style hops. It's clear who the winner of this round is. Dance battl...

The producers of BBC TV series The Outlaws managed to get Banksy to paint one of his famous rats on a wall of the show's set in Bristol, the artist's reported home. Then, as part of the last episode's...

You've probably heard of rat kings before (given that we've written about the 53 times on Boing Boing), but this is the first time I've come across a bald eagle king.The entangled birds were spotted o...

Jimmy Kimmel enlisted the help of Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert to troll, well, Lauren Boebert herself. All he had to do was show real video clips of her such as the one in which she brags about givin...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of the metaverse has been leapfrogged by Icelandverse, an open-world reality platform where water feels wet, people look like people, and where everything seems real because i...

Paper Website is a clever OCR app that you use to scan paper notes and convert the handwritten and hand-drawn work into to posts on a no-code, zero-configuration blog. Turn your journal into a micro-b...

Yesterday at New York's Bronx Zoo, a woman climbed a barrier at the lion enclosure carrying flowers and tossing $100 bills at one of the cats. Video below."King, I love you, I came back for you," she ...

According to the person who posted this video, this man has been caring for this cuddly snapping turtle since it was the size of the man's thumb. It's remarkable that the man still has his thumb, give...

When interviewed by ABC's Jonathan Karl, Donald Trump showed his complete lack of concern over Mike Pence's safety when looking back at the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. In fact, he defended the rioter...

Incredible impressionist Mary Elizabeth Kelly channels Drew Barrymore, Tina Fey, Emma Thompson, Jennifer Coolidge, Kristen Wiig, and Owen Wilson as they wake up and greet their bedmates.waking up next...

I already liked fine banjo playing but now I also have appreciation for wild foxes' musical taste.(Thanks, UPSO!)...

"Watch a film where everyone dresses like a Spice Girl fucked a RadioShack." The folks at Honest Trailers have fun skewering the hilariously dated Hackers (1995), starring Angelina Jolie in one her fi...

Annoyed with all the cheating going on in Counterstrike, ScriptKid made a fake cheating app. It looks like the real thing, but if you download it and run it, it won't help you win. It will punish you ...

Kevin Gough, defense counsel to one of the three men charged in the lynching of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, has had it up to here with the sort of people coming into the courtroom: "We don't want any ...

Bobber WCC created a masterpiece. I'm surprised at how contextually apt each selection is. Would have been easy to just pick anything but they really put some thought into it. In this video is a perfe...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Do you have a curious young one in your life? The encouragemen...

Some people say that Germans have no sense of humor, but this public safety video about the unsafe workplace adventures of Forklift Driver Klaus perfectly illustrates a bone-dry and blood-wet form of ...

I can still vividly remember the first time I ever heard and saw the video for The Smiths' "How Soon is Now?" It was in early Spring of 1984 and I was at a punk/new wave club in Washington, DC. The vi...

After Taylor Swift re-released her album Red at Midnight on November 12, Spotify users took to social media to complain of outages. User outage reports spiked from 5 to 4719 on downdetector.com.The re...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As cooler weather and the holidays approach, wine time with fr...

Never mind the Jester, that's just Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten (aka John Lydon) as the mystery voice on The Masked Singer.Consequence of Sound:…it turns out that the one-time anarchist turned MAG...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Itching to get out and see the world? Of course, you are. Here...

To celebrate Monsters, Inc.'s 20-year anniversary (!), Pixar recreated the charming 2001 film as if it were an animated relic from the silent era. Complete with title cards and old-timey vaudevillian ...

Sir Drone is a 57-minute film created by Raymond Pettibon in 1989. I'm a long-time fan of Pettibon's drawings and only discovered his films recently. Pettibon's films explore similar themes to his dra...

Greener Postures is an outstanding record from 1980 by Snakefinger, who tragically died when he was 38 from a heart attack. Every track on this album causes my brain to produce a huge dose of serotoni...

Songs For Swinging Larvae is a totally coo-coo album by Renaldo and the Loaf. It's part of the Resident's record label, Ralph Records. Gary Panter is the mastermind behind the awesome cover art. If yo...

The World Famous Clown Motel lies in central Nevada. As a lover of clowns, I'm dying to stay here. When you walk into the clown motel, you're greeted with shelf upon shelf of clown dolls and statues. ...

Cut from the same cloth as rabid white MAGA men like Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and the late Rush Limbaugh, Judge Bruce Schroeder of the Rittenhouse trial cannot contain his pent-up rage. In each v...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If dogs are our best friends, no one told the cat otherwise. F...

Hello there!NO BUT A SIZZLE REEL DROPPED??? pic.twitter.com/LXVLHQEg2Q— is the kenobi trailer out? (@kenobitrailer) November 11, 2021...

The New York Times has an unusually cozy relationship with white nationalists. The paper has a long history of normalizing neo-Nazis ("In person, his Midwestern manners would please anyone's mother") ...

This awesome bath brush is stiff yet supple! Finding a bath brush that feels good when scrubbing my back, yet doesn't shed boar bristles like mad to block my drains or just get moldy and yuck in a few...

Lisa Van Kula Donovan, the "wannabe entomologist" from Australia who sometimes allows venomous spiders to crawl across her face, volunteers her finger for a spider's launch pad. Standing on the tip he...

Former New Jersey gym owner Scott Fairlamb (44) was sentenced to 41 months in prison for attacking a police officer during the deadly coup attempt at the US Capitol. Standing outside the courtroom, Fa...

Fearing a winter surge of COVID-19 California health officials have said no provider should turn away any adult away who is seeking a booster.This is more aggressive than the current CDC guidance whic...

Vespa mandarinia, also known as "murder hornets," are a menace to bees. They "can brutally attack and wipe out entire honeybee colonies in hours," reports Smithsonian Magazine. "Once the hornets infil...

While many people use 3D printers to spew out useless tchotchkes, this person demonstrates the actual utility of such advanced technology. I'm surprised these HDMI to garden hose adapters aren't readi...

"The Kyle Rittenhouse trial was a total and complete shit show today," Brett Meiselas of MeidasTouch says (video below), before presenting us with some of the trial's unhinged as well as unjust high...

This woman was asked over and over to leave an Arby's for not wearing a mask, but she insisted on hanging out and teaching the employee all about the rights of a sovereign citizen. My guess is she lon...

A Washington man is going to prison for 20 months for running an illegal logging operation and it was the DNA of a bigleaf maple tree that helped put him there. In the first federal case to use tree ...

A Washington man is going to prison for 20 months for running an illegal logging operation and it was the DNA of a bigleaf maple tree that helped put him there. In the first federal case to use tree ...

Transmedia artist Bruce Nauman created this video piece, titled "Good Boy Bad Boy," in 1985. The video above is meant to be displayed beside another monitor depicting a man speaking the same 100 phras...

At a 2019 funeral a strap snapped, the casket violently fell to the ground, and Andrew Serrano's family got to see him one last time. Evidently, this horrifying experience left the family "distraught ...

From Eight is Enough heartthrob Willie Aames to Laugh-In favorite Jo Anne Worley, this supercut combines the intro headshots of (almost, see below) every guest star that appeared on The Love Boat, whi...

A slang survey by online language tutor platform Preply reports 50% of American use slang words without knowing their meaning, such as ghosted, salty, on point, extra, catfish, and thirst, which were ...

This twitter thread by vaccine scientist Professor Peter Hotez is a must read:Some leading causes of death in the State of Texas5. Homicide: 1,6534. Drug overdose deaths: 2,9893. Firearm deaths: 3,583...

This twitter thread by vaccine scientist Professor Peter Hotez is a must read:Some leading causes of death in the State of Texas5. Homicide: 1,6534. Drug overdose deaths: 2,9893. Firearm deaths: 3,583...

Japanese musician and streetwear legend Hiroshi Fujiwara (Fragment Design) created this crystal Pokmon Pikachu for Baccarat. It's approximately 12" tall, weighs in at 18 pounds, and is a limited editi...

This Sunday evening, November 14th, I'll be joining an audience for the first time in several years! I am really looking forward to seeing the latest edition of Pop-Up Magazine. Pop-Up Magazine is a ...

Back in January, I posted someone's very short clip of SpongeBob rapping a bit of "Frycook's Paradise," thanks to the deep learning magic of the15.aitext-to-speech tool. But that was almost a year ago...

Tech site The Verge has announced a new policy ending its use of unattributed PR ("on background") unless explicitly agreed to in advance. It also complains about the industry's public relations depar...

Skyrim's amazing run in the game charts hits the decade mark. "The popularity just didn't wane," Bethesda's Todd Howard tells Keza MacDonald.Skyrim nevertheless became one of the most widely played ga...

Queen, a four-month-old Akita, was stolen from its human at gunpoint this week on a Brentwood, Maryland street.Police said the suspect pulled up to the woman while she was walking her dog at 4:30 p.m....

In a comically belated bid to raise the tone of its appalling comments sections, YouTube is removing dislike counts.It's the latest move by a tech giant tweaking a feature, developed innocently years ...

Steve Albini recently spoke with MEL Magazine about a Twitter thread in which he talks about his edgelord past and it's a pretty wonderful example of growth and self-reflection.Albini is something of...

My bandmates and I were recently joking that "being in the Foo Fighters" is basically the equivalent of having the best office job. They show up, clock in, maybe pull some office pranks on each other,...

Santa Claus is coming to town quitting. Santa bookers (a real job, supposedly) are struggling to fill Christmas parties with Santas. Today's labor shortage, which greatly affects industries such as se...

Vogue reported on the lavish wedding of Ivy Getty, great-granddaughter of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty. The event, which took place in San Francisco, featured a performance by Earth Wind & Fire, ...

Love this low-cost remake by actors Natalie Morales and David Wain of the music video for Pat Benatar's 1983 hit, "Love is a Battlefield." Is that shiny bit in her Natalie's teeth… tinfoil?? And...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The holiday season is almost officially upon us. That means it...

Richard Kyanka, better-known as Lowtax, died yesterday at 45. Kyanka was the founder and longtime operator of Something Awful, the sprawling web forum from which much web culture emerged. The news was...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether or not you're knowledgeable about the origins of chess...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.No matter what career path you choose to take in life, it's im...

Ted Cruz, the sniveling, sanctimonious gasbag who gets caught on a regular basis telling laughable lies to cover up his unctuous behavior, recently talked about the possibility of Texas seceding from ...

Kid Safety Tips by Andy Livengood is a short analog horror video. At first, this fictional PSA seems pretty typical, giving advice such as "don't talk to strangers." The video takes a turn when it sho...

I'm a big fan of unusual-looking scarecrows. I love seeing all the creative things that people are able to come up with to keep birds away from their plants. This scarecrow is one of the best I've see...

In this video, PSA: Mislabeled Lemons at Omega Mart, we are warned about these mislabeled lemons from Omega Mart. If you accidentally purchased some of these "lemons", it might be because you didn't n...

Little did a man in Pueblo West, Colorado know that a wild critter he spotted in his garage was the "rarest mammal in North America," according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Fortunately, after trapp...

[Warning: site has flashing lights] I stumbled across this amazing website the other day, and was thrilled by all the easter eggs hidden throughout its contents. Click the door in the center of the im...

Here's a fun and exciting new Tarot deck: The UFOlogy Tarot, inspired by the history of UFOs.This artistic project is the brainchild of a group of occultured fine folksgraphic designer Miguel Romero, ...

Kitty is an early computer animation, created by a group of Soviet physicists and mathematicians in 1968. It was made on a BESM-4 computer. The computer used alphabetical characters (similar to ASCII ...

Jeff Carpoff, former owner of a California solar energy company turned Ponzi operation, said goodbye to "150 luxury cars, 32 properties, a subscription to a private jet service, a semipro baseball tea...

Illusionist Jason Maher is fantastic. I ran across his Tik Tok feed and immediately lost an hour of my day. @streetmagiciandude a quick lesson on how to vanish a card!! original sound – Jason ...

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 the latest phone, computer, or tablet comes out, it's eas...

A parole panel is recommending the release of "Manson Girl" Leslie Van Houten (72), who has been behind bars since she was 19 years old for stabbing Leno and Rosemary LaBianca to death in 1969. It's t...

We've all seen videos of cats riding Roombas, but this one stands out. Mammal and machine have conspired in this instance to merge into a single half-living entity, mixing purpose and pleasure. T...

I always love it when a new short by music aficionado Rick Beato is waiting for me in my YouTube subscriber queue. His simple, under-one-minute videos don't come too often (his educational music video...

Cory Doctorow let me in on the secret of turkey spatchcocking (removing the backbone so you can flatten it before cooking) and now it's the only way I'll cook a turkey. I always ask the butcher to spa...

"If mj and phil collins had a secret relationship we didn't know about "That's anonymous artist Sickickmusic's caption for their deeply weird and perfect mashup of Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time...

Next week, HBO releases Jagged, the new documentary about Alanis Morissette. The artist participated in the film and reportedly spoke openly about sexual violence she experienced when she was 15 years...

The war-paint loving QAnon Shaman, who wore a horned headdress and flourished a spear with a sharpened steel tip as he rioted with white supremacist terrorists during the deadly failed coup attempt at...

Surrealist science fiction author Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel Vulcan's Hammer will go Hollywood in a forthcoming film by director Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games and I Am Legend) with New Republic Pict...

If you think lights out at the movies means the coast is clear, think again. At least some movie theaters are on the lookout with cameras and vision night goggles. TikToker @.no1headache, who appears ...

Archaeologists in Israel dug up this ancient ring at the site of a Byzantine wine-making operation's warehouse. The researchers suspect the amethyst and gold ring, dating back to at least the seventh ...

I recently rediscovered the virtues of certain Amiga file formats, but Ernie Smith has me beat when it comes to format archeology: 10 forgotten image formats.Originally developed by AT&T and spun ...

A drug trial with 233 patients in Europe and North America revealed promising results for psilocybin as a treatment for depression. The test was undertaken by Compass Pathways a mental health care com...

Jason Chou is a self-taught 3D artist from Covina, California. And beginning in March 2021, he embarked on an ambitious journey: to photoshop Paddington the Bear into every movie, ever. Or at least un...

Here in the Milky Way galaxy, all of our planets rest on the same flat plane, circling around the equator of the sun; for argument's sake, let's say we're all on about the same horizontal alignment. T...

"I'm never getting vaccinated. I'm never getting any more shots of any kind. Did you know Trump's still president?" That's what Sarah Silikula of Ventura, California says her 8th grade son told her on...

The fly-on-the-wall details of Google allowing Pinterest to build a $75bn business parasitising Google Images is an untold story I'd love to hear. In the meantime, Chris Stokel-Walker's satisfying ret...

From ABC News:Greensburg, 50 miles (80.47 kilometers) southeast of Indianapolis, will offer the free babysitting service for the next six to 12 months as part of the program it's calling "Grandparents...

An employee at London supermarket Asda was up in arms about a woman's outfit: long sweat pants, a crop tee shirt, and a long-sleeve hoodie. So he called his manager while shaming her in the store's ai...

Vice reports that doctors in the Netherlands have recorded the first known case of "scrotal necrosis" after a highly venomous snouted cobra bit a man on the testicles while he was sitting down to use ...

Speaking on a panel about misinformation called Internet Lie Machine at Wired magazine's RE:WIRED conference yesterday, Prince Harry said he tried to warn Twitter's Jack Dorsey of the January 6th Capi...

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan: "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President."President Joe Biden has given the archives permission to comply with the committee's request, effectively ...

Neal Agarwal's neal.fun/rocks is a website where you can stack rocks. It's difficult but relaxing! Neal made several similar things to play around with. [via MetaFilter]...

"This is no amusement park ride…. The aim by removing jockeys is to remove human error from the training of racehorseses."...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.So far, this decade has been unkind to us. With the world melt...

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

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's apparent travel isn't going anywhere, because even during...

An original, working Apple-1 computer, designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, was sold at an auction today in Monrovia, California for $400,000. The same computer, of which only 200 ...

The death-by-COVID gap is widening between Blue and Red America. People who don't get vaccinated are far, far likelier to die of COVID-19 than folks who simply got the shot.The New York Times:In Octob...

This seems like the right call in every situation:Thanks, Reddit!...

Comedian Daniel LaBelle frequently imagines "what if" scenarios not with words, but with highly amusing physical comedy. For instance, we recently posted his hilarious short on "How animals would run ...

Here is the official trailer to an excellent new documentary about The Velvet Underground. The film dives deep into the history of the Velvets and how they forever changed the history of music. The ar...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Have you exhausted your Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Apple TV w...

Nieman Lab the institute for the academic study of journalism based out of Harvard University reports that the Cambridge Chronicle has shuttered after 175 years of business. The Chronicle had been th...

Ant Head (2018) is a video made by David Lynch for his album, Thought Gang, which he collaborated on with composer Angelo Badalamenti. The video features the songs "Frank 2000" and "Woodcutters From F...

A 46-year-old police officer in San Francisco who avoided getting vaccinated for Covid-19 ended up testing positive on Nov. 2. Four days after testing positive he died. Officer Jack Nyce was placed o...

Malice In Wonderland is a 4-minute cartoon by Vince Collins from 1982. In this trippy animation "a jet-propelled white rabbit flies through the vulva of a supine woman into a wonderland where people a...

Deee-Lite's music video for Groove Is In The Heart never gets old. I've loved this song since I was a child. I would do anything to be at a dance party with everyone in this video. Their outfits, danc...

Attempting to sway employees away from unionizing, Starbucks Chairman Emeritus Howard Schultz made a comparison between Jewish prisoners sharing blankets on Nazi death trains to Starbucks corporate.Vi...

Norma Tenega's 1966 folk song "You're Dead" (1939-2020) got new life when it was used in the vampire rockumentary series, What We Do in the Shadows. Her biggest hit song was "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog...

According to a recent study published in the scientific journal ACS Synthetic Biology, a group of scientists have found a way to engineer a "genetic circuit" of E. coli that can solve a maze problem t...

The 16-year-old Texan who ran over six cyclists after blowing diesel truck exhaust at them on September 25 was charged with six felonies today. All six cyclists were sent to the hospital after the unn...

A fully-grown Labrador comically insists on squeezing into his smaller friend's tiny bed, looking quite sheepish as he does so. Finally, the little pooch tries to stake a claim to its own bed by lying...

A fully-grown Labrador insists on taking over his smaller friend's tiny bed, looking quite sheepish as he does so. Finally, the little pooch tries to stake a claim to its own bed by lying in it, but i...

My friend Dave Pell is the managing editor of the Internet. No question, he's earned the title. Dave's been an indie publisher and media creator since the Web's weird wild west days of the 1990s and w...

This film starring Neil Patrick Harris and a Nintendo Entertainment System looks like it can not miss.The OG Nintendo console had an 8-bit processor and a whopping 2k of ram, my brother played Legend ...

Evan Neumann of Mill Valley, California, fled the United States after his participation in the failed January 6th Capitol insurrection came to light. Neumann is wanted on six charges including assault...

The Chinese military has reportedly built massive models of a United States Navy aircraft carrier and other warships in the middle of the desert. Why? Possibly for target practice, according to the Un...

I always appreciate the people who leave helpful online reviews, but some go above and beyond. Such is the case with Cory H., an Amazon user whose review for a pair of leggings on Amazon has charmed t...

My friends and colleagues at Cool Tools are developing a new YouTube series called Show or Share. In this episode Kevin, Claudia, and Camille talk about things they are enthusiastic about and want to ...

Inspiring artist Billie Eilish hung out on Sesame Street where she sang a duet with The Count! They performed Eilish's stunning song "Happier than Ever" with reimagined lyrics about "how when they're ...

Kellyanne Conway is still at it with the alternative facts, more than a year after her White House stint as propaganda spinner. With a straight face, she tells Fox, "I worked in that White House for f...

Printers compatible with Apple's AirPrint will print files from macOS and iOS devices without having to install printer-specific drivers. I have an old WiFi printer that doesn't work with AirPrint, wh...

This past Friday, November 5, 2021, the FBI filed a search warrant for a trailer belonging to Jeremy Brown, a member of the Oathkeepers as well as a former Green Beret and one-time Congressional candi...

Practical Engineering takes a detailed look at the conditions surrounding the 2020 collapse of this famed symbol of human curiosity. ...

Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of Wellington, New Zealand may have just broken the Guinness World Record for the largest potato ever measured a 17.4-pound (7.8kg) ugly lump o' starch they've named "Doug...

On November 8, 2021, Bari Weiss's Substack newsletter announced the formation of a new college: the University of Austin. Conveniently not to be confused with UT Austin, an actual university, this as-...

In Syracuse, New York, firefighters rescued a fellow who had become trapped, naked, inside the bathrooms wall at a Landmark movie theater. An employee heard the man yelling and called emergency servic...

Crooks and Liars shared Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian's latest video. There are years of social commentary here, but is it parody when you just say the same things that people in 'man o...

For decades, police have disproportionately pulled over minorities, especially Black men, for minor traffic infractions. Those traffic stops have lead to a disproportionately large number of driver an...

Neal Agarwal created this lovely and addicting rock-stacking simulator. It delivers some of the meditative appeal of creating little stone cairns without the controversy. From National Geographic:It's...

Dean Stockwell, rare among child stars to achieve lifelong success as an actor, died Sunday at 85. Stockwell was on the verge of a career change as he got a real estate license and packed up the famil...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The great outdoors is calling. After what felt like an eternit...

With a top-of-the-line video cards fetching north of $2,000 on eBay and even mid-range models going for half that, they've become a big target for thieves. An entire truckful was heisted in California...

The Saturday Afternoon Ikea Trip Simulator evokes the uniquely dispiriting experience of having to go to Ikea when you hate Ikea. I actually like Ikea but author David Guy really nails all the key Ike...

A postcard collector, with more than 11,000 of them to his name, suddenly noticed something odd about many of the vintage ones. Whether photos of Alberta, California, Juarez or anywhere else, they all...

In a new investigation, ProPublica reporters Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw, Lisa Song, and Maya Miller used EPA data processing software to examine the spread of cancer-causing chemicals and other...

To say that I was not a fan of Ready Player One would be a painful understatement. I understand that some people love the book, and I get the argument that it was tailor-made for people like me but t...

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 deserve a career that doesn't make you question where your...

A recycling trash bin had a case of wanderlust, somehow making its way from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to the coast of Ireland a 3500-mile journey. It must have taken its time, by the looks of all ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.In today's world, there's really nothing we don't access onlin...

Two couples in California unknowingly carried and gave birth to the other's baby, both girls, and then raised them for months before realizing their fertility clinic had majorly goofed. After bonding ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene now fancies herself a Mother Teresa of sorts, as she describes the profound effect she had on the accused insurrectionists she visited at a Washington D.C. jail.Speaking to far-...

The Black Hole is a favorite. I loved the robots and just came across these lovely V.I.N.CENT and B.O.B. action figures. The robots are 3"x3"x4". Perfect for my desk.The Black Hole: V.I.N.C.E.N.T. ...

Aqua metallic blue is my favorite shade of color for the Porsche 997.2, everything else, however, about this 2010 model's makeover baffles me. It would appear some rear-end damage turned into an off-r...

Anti-science pastor and lawmaker Jeff Hoverson (RND) organized an anti-vaccine rally, set for today. The Q-injected gentleman then caught Covid-19 and was forced to miss his own rally.Although yesterd...

If you haven't already figured it out, Congress's answer to climate change is going to be a vastly expensive bailout of coastal real estate and by killing anyone approaching the border with Mexico. Yo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.How you like your coffee is as individual as a fingerprint. Wh...

The eastern span of the Emperor Norton Bridge and the Millennium Tower make this episode of construction mistakes and disasters, however I found the opening video of Liyang Star City being destroyed p...

Violinist Ray Chen was playing a solo during a Tchaikovsky piece when a string snapped. After trying to play with three-strings for a few seconds, he grabbed another player's instrument and finished t...

Sometimes called "the greatest movie that was never made," Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune was the cult director's mid-1970s effort to adapt Frank Herbert's novel for the big screen, starring Salvador Dal...

Who would have thought that conservative parents in the fairly conservative California town of Rocklin would react to a High School multiple-choice question leaving no choice but to say conservatives ...

Mind-mapping is a form of "radial note taking" according to Austin Kleon, bestselling author ofSteal Like An Artistand other books. In his video, he shows how he uses mind maps to cluster together ide...

The surging crowd that killed at least eight people and injured many others at the Travis Scott concert in Houston on Friday was tragic. But it came as no surprise. In the video clip below, from the ...

It's easy enough to snip a cable tie with cutters, but in some cases, you might want to remove It without cutting it. If you need to re-use the cable tie or want to avoid the risk of cutting a cable b...

When asked this week what he thinks about the Texas secessionist / independence movement called "Texit," Ted Cruz says it might be appropriate if certain things happen, and that Joe Rogan should be Pr...

The Maribel family bought a cute new puppy from a shop in Lima, Peru. They named the little guy Run Run. But as Run Run grew, all was not well. Neighbors were incensed that Run Run loved chasing their...

I was pretty surprised when I moved to Northern California and had to get used to losing power for 1-2 weeks a year. I thought a set of kerosene lamps the prior owners had left me a cute gift, not r...

After 50 years of false starts, incremental progress, ethical quandaries, and endless hype cycles, artificial intelligence may finally be ready for prime time. The biggest breakthroughs in recent year...

Companies with 10 or more employees in Portugal now face fines if they call, text, zoom, or email their workers after normal office hours, thanks to a new law enacted there. The law was established to...

When last we left the intrepid YA heroes of Stranger Things, a depowered Eleven was leaving Hawkins with the Byers family, to start anew somewhere else with less upside-down trauma. In the first trail...

If only the cold could bring us all such happiness.The young fox who hangs out in our garden was delighted by encountering its first frost yesterday, and the unexpectedly crunchy grass. @hourlyFox pic...

Sesame Street's Big Bird has long advocated for children's health, including vaccination campaigns going back to the 1970s. But Covid, having claimed 750,000 lives in the U.S. alone, has become a righ...

Lynsey Currie and her boyfriend captured this footage of a strange humanoid airborne above Glasgow, Scotland last week. It was "flying across the sky going from the northwest of Glasgow towards the so...

Elon Musk changed his twitter name to "Lorde Edge" and posted a poll about selling stock in Tesla. A $15bn tax bill looms on his exploding $300bn fortune, CNN reports, and he has to sell stock to pay ...

Far right extremist Arizona congressman Paul Gosar released the clip below that is not just offensive to Attack on Titan fans, but offensive to anyone with any taste at all. From the Jerusalem Post:Th...

Doing the rounds on Twitter is extremely low-fi footage of a glittering rainbow cluster of pixels alleged to be a "hyperspectral" spacecraft. In this video, one Mick West debunks it quickly and thorou...

Deepfaked voices are improving markedly, though it's clear Negan Jeffrey did an extraordinary amount of work molding, tuning and timing his AI's rendition of Tom Kenny's Spongebob voice. I even suspec...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Can you hear the universe as it tries to guide you through lif...

They used a ramp, obviously, but in this video John Heisz demonstrates (with little wooden blocks!) a method of lifting the stones and ramping against an under-construction pyramid that's more efficie...

As dorky as umbrella hats might be, I appreciate the hands-free rain protection they're going for (even if they might leave you with a dry head and wet shoulders). The invention of the umbrella hat pr...

If you needed any more evidence of Brian Jones' impressive mastery of popular music of the 1960s, give a listen to this recited 1965 Melody Maker "Blind Date" piece ("Where top popsters review the top...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Most of us have had a stressful year, and with so many afforda...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Cooking at home is one of life's small, but beautiful gifts. W...

I used to have this Fire breathing nun toy when I was a kid. I was mystified by her ability to shoot real sparks from her mouth as she waddled across the floor. The name of this toy is Nunzilla. Unfor...

Halloween Audience Reaction is a hilarious video that shows how the people in the theatre reacted during a screening of Halloween in 1979. I love how easily thrilled and spooked the crowd is, as they ...

The Panicky Picnic (Une excursion incohrente) is an early French silent film from 1909, directed by Camille de Morlhon with assistance from Segundo de Chomon. The film is about a couple of city folks ...

Anne Van der Linden (1959-present) is a French artist who makes some pretty amazing [NSFW] drawings. Her artwork is influenced by German expressionism, middle-age engravings, and underground cartoonis...

Eight people were killed in a deadly crowd surge during a Travis Scott performance in Houston on Friday. As footage appeared showing slapdash security (and the man himself continuing to sing while a b...

In this rare, first ever McDonald's commercial that featured Ronald Mcdonald, we get to see an early, less polished version of America's favorite clown. I think I prefer this version of Ronald, where ...

It sells for S$2 (about $1.50 USD), you can try a charcoal hot dog from Ikea in Singapore. The aesthetically disturbing snack includes a black bun and an extra-long black hot dog stuffed with gooey bl...

After Big Bird's official Twitter account shared that the Sesame Street character had gotten vaccinated, prominent conservative and anti-vaxxer figures criticized the message. God forbid an anthropomo...

The year before the first US marathon was held in Boston in 1897, a Turkey Trot was held in upstate New York. The Buffalo Turkey Trot is now the oldest continuously-running race in North America and i...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Are you getting enough sleep? According to the CDC, one in th...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Buying a home is one of the biggest financial investments you...

On Friday, 50,000 people attended the Astroworld concert by rapper Travis Scott in Houston. Due to crowd surging, some of them will not come home alive. The Houston Fire Department treated hundred of ...

The University of Florida, a publicly-funded college, ordered three of its professors not to give expert testimony at a hearing that might embarass Florida governor Ron DeSantis. After it was reminded...

The 208-page paperback edition of Boing Boing friend Ed Piskor's Red Room, The Antisocial Network comes out on November 9th. Piskor is the creator of the New York Time's bestsellers Hip Hop Family Tre...

In 1985, Radio Shack had an answering machine that played a series of cheesy songs to the listener about how they were unable to get to the phone. It's been preserved in a cassette and uploaded to you...

Lately, I haven't been able to stop listening to the instrumental version of Peaceful Snow Lounge Corps by Death in June, a neofolk group that has been making great music since 1981. Peaceful Snow Lou...

I shalln't attempt to further explain this sketch, but the advice is solid. Key and Peele:This reminded me of Willem Dafoe in David Lynch's Wild at Heart....

Tammy Bullock, a North Carolina probate judge already under investigation for her role in the looting of a dead man's house and an incident where she allegedly threatened an acquaintance with a gun, w...

Tammy Bullock, a North Carolina probate judge already under investigation for her role in the looting of a dead man's house and an incident where she allegedly threatened an acquaintance with a gun, w...

This video appears to show a man, sued by a home-owners association for moving his shed, being deposed by its lawyer. It's an excellent example of the old internet adage "wait for it."...

Fantasmagorie is an animation by carticturist mile Cohl from 1908. Although the animation itself is pretty simple, depicting cartoon outlines of characters against a dark background, it's remarkable t...

23-year-old Youtuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has built a massive Youtube following (73.6 million subscribers and counting) by performing very, very expensive pranks. He's now the ele...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. With the world finally opening back up, travel is once again ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Back in the "old" days, you know before it was actually legal...

When music maestro Rick Beato asks his young son Dylan Beato, "How many possible variations of a deck of playing cards are there?" His son tells him there are "52 factorial combinations." He then ratt...

Auckland-based Liam Thompson mixes it up on his YouTube channel with videos about his pets, DIY projects, and other random topics. Recently he noticed that his 20-year-old cat, Frodo, was having troub...

Like all great mysteries, the origins of the latest generation of the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K are shrouded in uncertainty. Curiously, the mysterious device has dropped to an absurdly low price, leavin...

Like all great mysteries, the origins of the latest generation of the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K are shrouded in uncertainty. Curiously, the mysterious device has dropped to an absurdly low price, leavin...

I could tell Earth & Moon was going to be a bizarre video based on the thumbnail alone. I couldn't have imagined how freaky it would actually be. I commend the person who created it for pulling so...

If you ever had Mexican jumping beans as a child, you'll remember the excitement of watching your pet beans hop around. They're usually sold in small containers of just a few beans. The beans are able...

Frances Glessner Lee (1878-1962) created an extremely detailed series of miniature true crime scenes which she called the "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death." She created these miniatures in order...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. The Internet is full of hackers and evil-doers looking to sca...

Anti-mask duo, Ricki Collin, 34, and Amy Hall, 45,walked into a Eugene, Oregon bakery with the sole purpose of picking a fight over masks. They aggressively argue with the shop owner, who insists they...

Anti-mask duo, Ricki Collin, 34, and Amy Hall, 45, walked into a Eugene, Oregon bakery with the sole purpose of picking a fight over masks. They aggressively argue with the shop owner, who insist...

Shots in the Dark with David Godlis is an animated short about the photographer David Godlis who photographed punk-rock culture at the Bower's legendary CBGB. Goldis has a unique style of night-time p...

The Vittles Vault is a perfect container for my dog's food. Large bags of dog food have come with 'resealable' zip-lock style closures for a while, but I find they wear out unreasonably quickly. I don...

A Russian "diplomat" flew to his death from a high window, but German authorities sat on it for a month before telling anyone. He had apparently fallen from an upper floor, but it was unclear how, it ...

This stunning close-up, time-lapse video, set to "Emotional Piano" music by Mokka, tells the tragic story of a snail and a couple of insects who dare to frolic in the playground of a Venus flytrap, on...

When visiting Las Vegas in my 20s my friends and I were amazed at the half-built, totally cheesy, Bob Stupak's Vegas World. Clearly, Bob was a dreamer, but it seemed his dreams and reality were not to...

A man returned to England from a business trip in Wales to find his house key didn't work. Things got weirder when a stranger opened the door. And weirder yet when another stranger the father of the ...

This is an amazing 5 minute performance of punk/alt strumming styles, from the Velvet Underground to the Ramones to British punk to post punk to Sonic Youth to ska to grunge to melodical/happy. The on...

The bunny is almost always a sure sign I'll enjoy a Leo Moracchioli cover, but this Holding Out For A Hero was just ripe for the metal treatment....

The joy and enthusiasm with which Adam Savage approaches these two incredible spacesuits makes for an incredible video! On a quick break between filming other things, Savage took a few minutes to shar...

Jason and I are huge fans of Emily St. John Mandel's novel, Station Eleven. Jason called it a "haunting tale of the apocalypse," I compared it to Earth Abides because it "does a great job of envisioni...

Maybe Theranos found Elizabeth Holmes isn't as awful as we thought. At her trial for multiple accounts of fraud, prosecutors revealed that members of the oligarchy were suckered into investing hundred...

Hackertyper is a website that resembles a green-on-black terminal of yore. Each key you press generates a small chunk of code: typing gives the impression of a hyperactive cyber-expert blasting out th...

Earlier this month,Mary MacCarthyand her daughter took a Southwest Airlines flight to be with her family following the death of her brother.MacCarthy is white and her 10-year-old daughter biracial.A S...

Yesterday the White House Principal Deputy Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre answered the question as to how race played a role in the Virginia election. Her answer is stellar."Republicans are lyingThey'r...

Already at #1 on iTunes in every country it does business is Voyage, Abba's first album in 40 years. It sounds like it was recorded in 1982 and that's exactly the way everyone likes it. Writes Pitchfo...

Richard Desmond, a British billionaire who was formerly the propreitor of adult television channels and wank mags, does not wish to be known as a pornographer. In fact, he apparently feels it is illeg...

Greg and Travis McMichael got on their truck, chased down an unarmed black man and killed him in the street with a shotgun, a public lynching caught on camera by their co-defendant, William "Roddie" B...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Do you even need us to be the ones to tell you it's time to l...

I can find no evidence of this being blogged here when it was first published in 2006 (less than a year into YouTube's existence), but it's still a blast of fresh air in 2021. Here's a (recent, 4K!) t...

Right before Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was released, Hawk got a call from Activision offering a "buyout" of his royalty deal and he almost took the money. "At that time in my life, someone saying half a ...

The Covid era has supercharged MLMs. As people find themselves with more free time, a need for income, and a desperate desire for belonging, multi-level marketing companies have provided the guise of ...

The Beatles' "Why My Guitar Gently Weeps" was a milestone song for many reasons. One of the band's most beloved recordings, it is arguably the first song where George Harrison proved himself to be a s...

It's a big day for the magical fruit. The Unicode Consortium has released the bean emoji, which Emojipedia expects to come to major platforms in late 2021 and throughout 2022 (last year's emojis hit A...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Whether you're looking to make a proactive move in the e...

A customer eating at a BBQ restaurant in Lexington, NC noticed a truck was on fire in the parking lot, so they turned on their video camera. Moments later, the truck exploded, and it's quite a sight t...

Openly disregarding his lawyer's advice, a rich guy accused of raping multiple women made a video sharing his opinion that at least one accuser enjoyed sex with him and that he is a victim of cancel c...

In Winnipeg, Canada, police responded to a report of a break-in at a vacant home. When they arrived, they found a man and woman passed out in the home. Apparently they had attempted to steal the home'...

Finally, a Trumper who speaks the truth. In a clip (video below) from The Supporters docu-comedy movie, The Good Liars duo Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler approach a woman waving a "Make America Grea...

Boing Boing contributor and esteemed author Clive Thompson created a delightful Web app for doodling. The design of the "Right-Angle Doodling Machine" was inspired by a curious set of rules that Clive...

Donna Marino, 63, of West Haven, Connecticut allegedly stole $600,000 over 20 years from her husband. How? She convinced him that he had Alzheimer's. After getting caught by her husband's adult daught...

"Why did the Kenosha police shoot Jacob Blake seven times? Because they ran out of bullets."On the third day of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the judge dismissed a juror who joked with a courtroom deput...

In Fort Meyers, Florida a man who reportedly stole a van from his aunt last week and was being pursued by police lost control of the vehicle and crashed into the barrier on a bridge crossing the Caloo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. Launching a lucrative coding career requires deep k...

"Weird Al" Yankovic posted a new video but it's not for a parody song. With Edgar Wright's debut documentary, The Sparks Brothers, showing on Netflix, he's dropped a cover of the Sparks' "This Town Ai...

"Weird Al" Yankovic posted a new video but it's not for a parody song. With Edgar Wright's debut documentary, The Sparks Brothers, showing on Netflix, he's dropped a cover of the Sparks' "This Town Ai...

President Biden appears to have little tolerance for Peter Doocy. Usually, the taking out of this garbage is handled by Jen Psaki....

A middle school teacher in Ventura, California is spreading her Q-nut delusions in class and getting away with it. Recorded by an uncomfortable 8th grader, the so-called history teacher, whose name h...

This week in Panama City Beach, Florida, a mysterious man was caught on surveillance video slicing satellite cables at the WJHG TV network headquarters, knocking eight stations off the air, including ...

Gargoyles are grotesque carved statues of Gothic architecture, often used to spit water off roofs or away from the side of a building. Gargoyles have carved openings in their mouths to allow the water...

To mark the release of the new Criterion Collection edition of the existentialist sci-fi classic The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), producer Susan Arosteguy shared ten interesting things she learned...

The Lihit Lab Double Zipper Pen Case was plundered from beyond the darkest stars. It holds a lot of pens and pencils. At night it writhes in the corner of my vision, its edges bleeding with spidery,&#...

Inspired by LEGO founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen's personal typewriter, this LEGO Ideas Typewriter is a masterpiece. While it doesn't actually work, the typewriter looks like it works — and that's ...

All other interesting parts of this Vice article aside, who really thought that r/AmItheAsshole was a great dataset for teaching WOPR when to start the thermonuclear fucking war?Vice:Ask Delphi, a pie...

Having been sentenced to 60 days in jail, Capitol rioter Jenna Ryan is no longer so certain that her good job, white skin, and blonde hair will keep her out of prison.The Daily Beast:A Texas real esta...

In 1966, Allan Kaprow released his lecture on How to Make a Happening as a vinyl LP. Kazprow was a pioneer of performance art, and in the late 1950's and 1960's he helped introduce the concept of a "H...

Interested in that house on 742 Evergreen Terrace? Garretts Real Estate appraised The Simpson's beloved home and put a price tag of $449,000 on it.The company told Newsweek: "Determining the exact cos...

The YouTube title ruins the joke, of course, but its a good one. ...

A man in Sierra Madre, California came home to find his front door wide open. He was then greeted by three little bears one in his front yard and two in the house. He turned on his camera when he spo...

The answer is straightforward enough: a dead nail is one whose point is bent over on the other side and hammered flat, making it all but impossible to remove from the frontand unrecoverable for future...

Four years ago Australian farmers were betting big on avocados. People were eating more and more of the fruit, thanks to the rising popularity of smashed avocado toast. So famers started planting more...

The Incal is a legendary series of graphic novels by Alejandro Jodorowsky and artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud, an epic space opera of "intergalactic voyages, science, technology, political intrigues, con...

Le Balayeur (The Street Sweeper) is a French animated short from 1990 by Serge Elissalde. It appeared on MTV's Liquid Television. The style is sketchy and raw. It tells the story of a grumpy street sw...

If you want to operate a taxi in New York, you need a "medallion" — a tin plate issued by the city. In 1937, the first year taxi medallions were issued, they cost $10 (about $160 in today's doll...

Initiative.sh is a storytelling tool for game masters who live at the command line. You define and describe the world to it, and it then responds to your queries, keeping track of location, context an...

I marvel at people who can do one handspringflipping yourself backwards and then springing from your hands back up to your feet. But this young girl taps into her superhuman powers as she pulls off 75...

Jennifer Wood offers a convincing set of picks for the most underrated movies of the last 20 years. I'm surprised how many things here passed over, even though I remember being fascinated by their tra...

In 1933, the inventive puppet animator Ladislaw Starewicz created the stop motion animation Devils Ball, also known as "The Mascot." The 10-minute film is completely surreal from beginning to end. Thi...

Billionaire Charles Munger is giving $200 million to the University of California on the condition that it's used to build a huge student dormitory to his personal specifications. It's been likened to...

In 1985, Bryan Ady and the 88s released the song "Toaster Head" which tells the story of a man who builds a nuclear toaster. He is faced with quite the dilemma when his head becomes fuaws with the lit...

I'm a huge fan of Mary Soon Lee's Elemental haiku on the website of Science Magazine. When you mouse over an element, you see a haiku that give you three lines' worth of information on that element's ...

NPR and Radio Diaries recently reported on the life of Martha Lillard, who was diagnosed with polio at age 5 in 1953, and still sleeps every night in an iron lung one of the last people in America wh...

Artist Felipe Flores often fills his Instagram account with vintage-y golden age redesigns of classic comic book characters. Inspired by the recent Dune movie, however, he took another approach: what ...

My colleague Brent Butterworth has a fantastic new piece on Wirecutter about the recent revival of music on tape cassettes and why it's so hard to make them sound good, on a very technical level.CDs ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. As computers play an ever more important role in our lives, s...

'National Enquirer'"Baldwin Gun Horror: Was It Murder?" screams the cover headline. Probably not, but the 'Enquirer' loves the fact that it's a possibility, no matter how slim. "How real bullets ended...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. If the last year-plus has changed anything about our daily li...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. The most amazing thing about modern technology is that it is ...

The Advance Shock Machine Penny Arcade Shocker Antique uses real electricity to shock the person using it. Shock machines were common at penny arcades during the first half of the 20th century. To use...

This video about Postmortem Photography of the Victorian Era shows a slideshow of photographs of dead people. The video explains the history of post mortem photography, or "memento mori" photography. ...

The very stable geniuses in the QAnon Flavor-Aid Cult have uncovered another shocking truth, one that our reptilian uberlords have been hiding from us: Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and form...

A Chipotle in Louisville, Kentucky was forced to temporarily shut down after half of its employees on Monday, including its manager, walked out. They left a "CLOSED" sign on the window, with a note t...

As we all know, Cancun Cruz takes flight when things get tough in Texas. But that didn't stop the thespian Senator, who escapes commercially, from admonishing Senator John Kerry for flying to the clim...

Plympmania is a delightful, hand-drawn animation by artist Bill Plympton. Plympton is an American animator best Bill Plympton's hand-drawn animation in Plympmania is delightful. American animator Plym...

TV's TV was a Japanese late night television show that featured video games, art, CGI, and more. Here's an awesome 2-minute clip from the program: TV'S TV 089. I love the 80s cyberpunk fee. My favorit...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We love Pongo. He is one of the most important members of our ...

Two years ago, I reviewed the cooperative board game Horrified: Universal Studios Monsters here on Boing Boing. I loved it. Still do. So, I was excited when Ravensburger contacted me about their follo...

A friend of mine showed me this moving sculpture created by contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson a few years ago called "MANIC/LOVE." It has stuck with me ever since. This large sculpture is of a red-ha...

This cute little fellow likes a tidy tabletop. When it sees a cigarette butt or bottle cap, it dutifully tosses it in a tiny trash can. When it sees a coin, it drops it in a piggy bank. When its work ...

A plump prairie dog takes a shine to a kid's pant leg and clamps on, without any intention of letting go. The girl shakes, lifts, and drags her foot, but nothing is separating this wild creature from ...

The CrowPi2 looks like an ordinary laptop with an 11.6-inch screen with 1080p resolution, but it's also a nifty Raspberry Pi experimentation and learning platform. You can remove the wireless keyboard...

A 41-year-old gentleman sued his parents because they stopped giving him an allowance. And he lost. Faiz Siddiqui, an unemployed lawyer who graduated from Oxford University, was used to a lavish lifes...

On Sunday night in Queens, New York, James Reyes, 32, reported to police that he was the victim of a carjacking and a 7-year-old boy with special needs was in the vehicle at the time. Turns out only t...

In an infinitesimal flicker of time between two eternal abysses my pale soul clings to the dust of the stars. Before my essence obliterates into nothingness I intend to grab as much matter as I can. T...

Clearly, Xyla Foxlin's followers were going to demand she take her kevlar ballgown to the range. As can be expected of her wonderful videos, Foxlin does an amazing job making a beautiful gown while ex...

As someone who finds magic and inspiration at every turn in Tokyo, I yearn for the golden years of Akihabara, aka "Electric Town," the city's electronics district where there were countless shops pack...

When a man agreed to donate his body after death to medical research, it's unlikely he imagined that "research" to include a dissection in front of a paying audience at a traveling "Oddities and Curio...

Rootin' tootin' Rep. Lauren Boebert (G-CO) claims she gave birth to one of her four little rascals in the front seat of her super boss pickup truck. And ergo ipso summa pluribus facto, Transport Secre...

Why is it that for forty years, a large apartment located in New York City's pricey Soho neighborhood has been filled with 140 tons of dirt? The answer is… art. Located at 141 Wooster Street, th...

Congratulations to Akilan Sankaran (14) of Albuquerque, New Mexico for winning the Samueli Foundation Prize in Broadcom's Masters competition for middle school students. Sankaran won the $25,000 prize...

I have had it with these each-other-fucking snakes in my motherfucking air conditioner!From 9 News Australia:Snakecatchers had to make a return trip to a Queensland family's home on Sunday after a mas...

Ronnie Wilson, co-founder of legendary R&B-funk group The Gap Band, died yesterday at age 73. A fantastically talented artist, Wilson wrote music, sang, played flugelhorn and trumpet, and keyboard...

Inflation and market growth hide from us the true prices of old things, and software is no exception. Rob Griffiths charts the high cost of software in the 1980s.Want to play Ultima, an open-world fan...

A fellow was fishing with two friends in Brasilandia de Minas, Brazil when a swarm of bees arrived. They jumped into the lake to escape but the first man never made it to shore. Yep, piranhas. From 7N...

Tabletopy is a beautiful soundboard website with all the hits and ambiences you might need for a fantasy campaign: bustling towns and taverns, scary monsters and dungeons, era-appropriate weapons and ...

Real Italian Coffee generates convincing names for posh gourmet coffee the old-fashioned way, with mad-libs rather than neural networks. Yes, I'd like a Effusione Vallaggio, Torite Lungo and a 32 oz P...

I just finished reading Several People Are Typing, the debut novel by Calvin Kasulke, and it is an absolute joy an ensemble-driven existential horror slash comedy consisting entirely of Slack transcr...

John Tye is a former State Department employee who blew the whistle on some NSA spying programs in 2014; three years later, he founded a Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit that provides legal consultation...

Jameson Lopp is maintaining a list of real-world bitcoin-related attacks, thefts and robberies. Most seem to be people robbing the cash that bitcoin's good for getting, but there are many alarming and...

A new report from the Center For Countering Digital Hate analyzed nearly 7,000 top-performing climate denial Facebook posts from the last year, and found that 69% of them came from the same 10 pages: ...

After shooting, beating, choking and kicking their way to 1,021 kills last year and 2019's near-miss count of 999, U.S. police officers are racing to bring 2021's death toll over the the line: Statist...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Looking for a new ride? The latest transportation trend isn't ...

An AI trained by Nasir Khalid on countless pictures of shoes generates more. Whenever there's a new one of these, I become obsessed with the "tells"the little things that the AI consistently gets wron...

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

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.In case you've forgotten, people are downright gross. Even if ...

Toxic Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (QGA) has racked up $48,000 in fines since May 18th for not wearing a mask at the Capitol. All in the name of protecting her freedoms to spread deadly germs ...

Texas radio host William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, who prided himself on being a Christian, was given three life sentences plus another 30 years for duping his older listeners out of millions of dollars. ...

Look at it.Just look at this adorable little Banana Kid Amigurumi (pattern) by Allison Hoffman of craftyiscool.com.Just look at it.Just look at this banana piata, a "baata," if you will, by Piata Arti...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's true gamers can feel true pain, especially when they're ...

It would appear that one of the several jetpack sightings near Los Angeles International Airport was merely a very large Jack Skellington balloon. ...

Social Distancing in my DIY Lava Lamp Halloween costumeTragopandemonium made this absolutely magnificent lava lamp costume for Halloween. They posted a gallery of the creation process at Imgur:I thoug...

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

Even though it wasn't Taco Tuesday, last Friday the astronauts orbiting Earth in the International Space Station made tacos spiced up with green chiles grown in space. From NPR:Astronaut Megan McArthu...

A Popeyes in Washington DC shut down after food deliverer and Tiktoker blaqazzrick01 filmed a rat party taking place in the kitchen of the restaurant's 409 8th Street location (video below). "Y'all wa...

The 11-foot-8+8 bridge found a gullible truck this week and gingerly removed its top, a la Hannibal Lecter skinning a skull on his banquet table. It was a fine truck, but the bridge has no regrets abo...

The Ultimate Scratching Post is not for amateurs. It is a serious piece of furniture. It is designed to be the central axis of your home, around which all things revolve. To be used by cats of high in...

Charles Munger, a "97-year-old billionaire-investor turned amateur-architect" gave $200 million to the University of California Santa Barbara on one condition: that no one could change his blueprin...

Known for seamlessly mix-matching music genres (like that of country's Hank Williams and rock's Van Halen, or "Vank Walen"), Bill McClintock is at it again. This time, with "Leotallica," his masterful...

Artist Michael Whelan has painted a fantastic set of 20 Lovecraftian holiday cards! Available for sending your twisted greeetings to your friends, or if you wish there are 90 signed items for collecto...

In July, researchers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) captured incredible images of multiple 19th century shipwrecks they discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior off the coa...

Amazon is offering the current Apple Air Pods Pro at nearly $60 off list price.I was shocked at how good and useful these are and now use them on all my dog walks and surprisingly, for most of my phon...

It was a long time coming, but former FIFA president Sepp Blatter (I always imagine Daffy Duck saying his name) has been indicted for fraud, stemming from a $2 million payment from 20 years ago. Also ...

A 71-year-old man was out on a hike in Cumbria, England with his two dogs when he had a seizure and collapsed. And his dogs a black Labrador and a golden retriever somehow managed to team up and coo...

GOP senator Josh Hawley, who has led a pampered existence as an Ivy League-educated son of a wealthy banking family, complained that their aren't enough manly men out their to suit him. He wants to be...

Enjoying his new headquarters in the fascist fantasyland of Texas, Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk tweeted out one of his philosophical musings:Am thinking of starting new university:Texas Institute of Technolog...

History has shown that when a cult leader's prophesy fails to materialize, the members become even more devoted. So when JFK Jr. doesn't show up today as promised by Q, the Trump-worshipping members o...

The Google Earth image depicts Vostok Island, a tiny coral island in the central Pacific Ocean. But why does it appear to be censored? What's going on there that They don't want us to see? The image h...

Henry Winkler who famously played Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on Happy Days is auctioning off one of his iconic leather jackets as worn on the show. Part of a lot including two white t-shirts, denim je...

More than 5 million people have died worldwide of Covid-19, overtaking the 2nd-century Antonine Plague to become the sixth-worst pandemic in human history.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monda...

Two Lancaster, Pennsylvania, police officers were fired this week after submitting fake Covid vaccine cards. There wasn't even a vaccine mandate!Officers Heather Schaeffer and Benjamin Lapp violated t...

Two Lancaster, Pennsylvania, police officers were fired this week after allegedly submitting fake Covid vaccine cards. There wasn't even a vaccine mandate!Officers Heather Schaeffer and Benjamin Lapp ...

A 35-year-old Texas woman was arrested Halloween evening and charged with assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly pulling a gun on a 7-year-old child trick-or-treating. Parents and grandparents i...

Of the many attempts to do this joke, this one by Bup is the "best". (There are as of yet no good "Karen uses The Voice to ask to speak to the manager" jokes, but they're out there)On this discordant,...

McDonald's is "celebrating" the 40th anniversary of the beloved but elusive McRib Sandwich with an NFT:McRib season is almost here, and no one is more excited than the McRib superfans that eagerl...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.For the pipe-smoking enthusiast, it's not always easy to light...

Futurism has the awful/impressive story about how SEO link scammers the ones that litter the comments on every article with spammy links for penis enlargement or whatever managed to get a hold of of...

My first exposure to the Mountain Goats was actually through a cover song; I had worked on a cabaret production for the infamous drag duo Kiki & Herb, and this particularly show included their ren...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It used to be that kids said the darnedest things. Now kids ar...

The very top issue for this Virginia voter is Critical Race Theory, which he openly knows nothing about, but it sounds bad and is against it.This guy says Critical Race Theory is the most important is...

A curious parrot in Brazil livened up some otherwise drab traffic footage captured on CCTV video. This is unintentional photobombing at its finest....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The definition of fun has, uh, taken flight since we were kidd...

Snowflake Josh Hawley, the Missouri Senator who fist-pumped the insurrectionists on January 6th (and then defended it), cries the blues, saying men watch porn and play video games because feminism and...

Brian Hsu (20) of Irvine, California was formally charged with criminal interference with a flight crew and assault for allegedly breaking the face bones of an American Airlines flight attendant. Hsu,...

A Massachusetts school board meeting went the ugly way they typically seem to these days. A courageous young woman was explaining that while CIS white students may not experience discrimination, gay s...

A man reported dressed as blackpill hero "The Joker" hurt 17 people on a Tokyo subway train on Sunday, reports the BBC. Some were stabbed, according to eyewitnesses, and others hurt when he threw acid...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If we can be candid for a quick minute, there's nothing worse ...

Everybody's doing it. Picking their nose and chewing it. Some people think it's funny but it's snot. In this video from the Institute of Human Anatomy, "lead dissector" Jonathan Bennion explains why p...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (QCO) is so busy babbling about ghosts, making cringe-worthy rap videos, and trying to defend herself against the #LaurenBoebertIsSoDumb hashtag, she and her team plum forgot what ...

Refurb.me tracks and predicts the availability of refurbished Apple gadgets. Based on its past data for laptops (including M1 MacBooks), the new MacBook Pro is likely to turn up in the refurb aisle a ...

A 26-year-old man went to the emergency room complaining of nausea and insomnia. He had consumed the liquid inside six glowsticks. He said he did so in order to spite the label that warned users not t...

As Mark Twain once said, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." Except in this case, it's a kitty who doesn't back down from a bobcat twice its size who co...

Woman beach handball players will no longer be required to wear bikini bottoms during matches, according to the International Handball Federation (IHF). The new rule replaces the rule requiring bikini...

Not only did Steve Buscemi dress like his 30 Rock "How do you do, fellow kids" character for Halloween but, last night in Brooklyn, he was handing out candy to kids in it. Epic! For everyone here chir...

The Four Seasons Total Landscaping folks decorated their famous garage door for Halloween, writing in a tweet, "This year our costume was an obvious one." Kudos! This year our costume was an obvious o...

"Well isn't that wonderful," said St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, unflinching as gunshots rang out nearby during her press conference on Friday about how gun violence is prevalent in her city. Watch a...

What a crazy-cool Halloween lineup! For this weekend's Nightmare Before Christmas live-to-concert show at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, Paul Reubens, Weird Al Yankovic, and Danny Elfman t...

When Shanghai Disneyland had promised in a video teaser to bring "wicked Halloween surprises," they weren't kidding around. On Sunday, Disney employees and government officials "quietly sealed off the...

It apparently costs $100 an hour to enjoy the lavish furnishings and ambience of Emory Decatur Hospital's emergency room. A woman with a head injury found out the hard way when she checked in and wait...

Sadeck Waff choreographed this magnificent and mesmerizing "hand ballet" for the closing ceremony at the closing of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games symbolizing the transfer of the event to Paris for 2...

The ultra-rich folk attending COP26 in Glasgow can't be expected to mingle with vermin-infested commoners who fly commercial. They're taking private jets to the UN Climate Change Conference of the Par...

In 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey brought the world a sublime story of artificial intelligence, human space travel, extraterrestrial intelligence, and high weirdness. The mini-documentary above,...

New claims have emerged that a simple $4MM fix should have averted the entire not-so-slow-moving crisis that is San Francisco's Millennium Tower. Folks claim the developer, Millennium Partners, electe...

Yesterday, Melania and Donald attended the World Series Game 4 on Saturday. Cameras captured the couple smiling at the crowd until the moment when Melania, um, wasn't. Here's the clip:Did Melania give...

I prefer the un-retconned Boba. He was kind of a bumbling fool and jerk in The Clone Wars, but this new Boba is causing a lot of excitement.Also, this is a tv show and not a book....

Netflix's The Queen's Gambit: The Boardgame is a board game inspired by the television show. If you're thinking there's already a relevant board game in this situation, you shut your damned mouth.Can ...

The data are imprecise, but October likely saw the death toll from Covid-19 surpass that of HIV/AIDS in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, 746,000 people in America have died in...

The University of Florida is prohibiting three professors from providing expert testimony in a lawsuit, reports the Associated Press, which challenges new voting restrictions in the state. The Univers...

"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"That's one of those classically memorable lines from the original Star Wars film, A New Hope. Leia lounges in her extrajudicial torture cell, expecting s...

A man was arrested Saturday after an in-flight brawl on a Delta Airlines jet headed into Los Angeles. Curtis Maurice Clayton, 30, was charged with batteryand with damaging the police car in which he w...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.One of the biggest issues facing the modern workforce, in my o...

ThreePulleys made this effective, if somewhat alarming exercycle cross-cut saw.It would certianly cut faster if I sharpened the blade properly, at the moment it is no faster than a hand-saw but much l...

An outstanding work of computer graphics and editing from OwlKitty. Check out the YouTube channel for making-of vids for this and other parodies, such as American Psycho (with kittens):...

Angelina Lee is an expert in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React AI, and Mia Khalifa. When she worked at Instagram, she was the "team coffee maker" and mined Etherium on company servers. Before gra...

WCAI Massachusetts has an inspiring story about a Mashpee-Wampanoag woman who was given a rare opportunity to grow a traditional corn strain on its native land again, after Puritan colonists had tried...

Ada Merlano Rebolledo became a Colombian senator in 2019, but she landed in prison several months later for voter fraud and corruption. Her sentence was for 15 years, but she only stayed in the slamme...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's nothing like having great audio to take your gaming ma...

In isolation at home, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has tested positive for COVID-19. After learning that several members of her family had contracted COVID, Psaki began isolating at home Wedn...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.From your busy work week to that vacation you've got creeping ...

'National Enquirer'"Bill Gates' Showdown With Ex-Wife!" screams the cover. "Disaster At Daughter's $2M Wedding!" Well, not quite.The story purports to tell of a horrific clash between Bill Gates and e...

Some years ago, Slow Motion Radio time-stretched Bauhaus's 1979 vampire anthem "Bela Lugosi's Dead" into nine hours. Listening to it in its entirety is a piece of goth durational performance art. Oh B...

Ossian Brown was a member of the dark, magical electronic music group Coil and Cyclobe, a duo with his partner Stephen Thrower. Here are selections from his remarkable collection of antique Halloween ...

In 2004, artist Howard Hallis celebrated the devilishly wonderful crossover of Disney and Goth culture with the now-classic "Haunted Bela," a mash-up of Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" with the spooky ...

From the days when Al Jourgensen cultivated an English accent and I wore too much eyeliner, Ministry's "(Everyday Is) Halloween." (1984) Above, a fan video cut up from horror films....

In 2017, singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs set a goal to write a song about every single episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her then-wife, Kristin Russo, had never watched the show, so the two of ...

Can't have Halloween without David S. Pumpkins!...

Starting in summer 2022, you'll be able to go on a Disney Dinner Cruise accompanied by videos of Paul Rudd's Ant-Man, Brie Larson's Captain Marvel, Evangeline Lily's Wasp, and Anthony Mackie's Falcon....

When Aime L's postgraduate housing closed for renovations, she knew she was in trouble. As a PhD student studying English at Royal Holloway, University of London, she brought in 12,000 per year which ...

The Irish newspaper The Independent recently spoke with two separate ghost hunting groups Irish Paranormal Investigations and the similarly-named-but-apparently-different-because-they're-from-Galway...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're hoping to enhance your home office setup or wis...

Oft-Giffed but rarely seen in all its glory, the KXVO pumpkin dance was taped in haste by that Omaha news channel in response to an immediate need for Halloween filler content on the evening of Octobe...

A recent article in Canada's Cambridge Today talked about the efforts by some Canadian school boards to "identify and remove any texts deemed harmful to staff and students." While the brief reported p...

A recent article in Canada's Cambridge Today talked about the efforts by some Canadian school boards to "identify and remove any texts deemed harmful to staff and students." While the brief reported p...

Simone Giertz, the Internet's beloved comedic maker, didn't like the lamp in her living room ("It's not bright enough to justify turning it on very often […] like my ex."). She also had an enthu...

At an October 2 NASCAR race, Brandon Brown won an Xfinity Series. NBC Sports covered the event, and as a crowd chanted "f— Joe Biden," a reporter suggested that they may have been saying "let's ...

This week, a lawsuit against Kellogg's had to do with its "strawberry" Pop-Tartswhich contained little strawberry made headlines. Class action lawsuits of the sort have become more common since 2008, ...

"MetaVerse Noir" is almost certainly the first and only sci-fi short story designed as a choose-your-own-adventure, using a series of interconnected tweets to tell a story. It was created by Kathryn Y...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's nothing quite as useful as being able to read sheet mu...