Articles by BoingBoing from December 2021

If a bank is going to give away $175 million (130 million) to its customers by mistake, it might as well be on Christmas. Which is exactly what UK bank Santander did on December 25th, when they accide...

With the barbaric internment and extermination of Muslims and Christians ongoing in China, it's safe to say that the country and religion aren't fond of each other. Since religion can create a potenti...

I'd never associated The Blair Witch Project with Christmas time until I watched these 1999 commercials for the film. The song lyrics in the first commercial are paired with the familiar tune of "Sant...

This vintage commercial for the Creepy Crawlers Thing Maker makes me want to drop everything and cook up some plastic critters. I never had this toy as a kid, but little me would have gone nuts for it...

Eye Liner is a colorful, short animation by Joanna Priestly that made me feel as if I was watching a magical world unfold underneath a microscope. It sent me into a meditation, guided by alien-like fo...

A woman caught on video is both maskless at a grocery store and purposely blocking others from passing her in a shopping aisle for her alleged fear of catching Covid. Referring to a "six foot law," sh...

A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who viewed the source HTML of a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website is now likely to be prosecuted for computer tampering, says Misso...

This year marked the 125th anniversary of the New York Times Book Review. To celebrate, the editors asked readers to nominate "the best book published" in those 125 years. They culled 200,000 ballots ...

Among media entering the public domain on Saturday: the original Winnie the Pooh book, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.When writer Benjamin Hoff published the T...

It's the 25th anniversary of the Tamagotchi, the digital pet that lives (and dies) in an egg-shaped keychain and took the world by storm in the 1990s. While Bandai has reissued the original Tamagotchi...

Consumers in Japan can purchase the new Sicilian Rouge tomato that's been genetically-edited to lower your blood pressure and promote relaxation. Maybe. The company, Sanatech Seed, used CRISPR-Cas9 te...

As Gary Dahl sat at a bar with friends who kept complaining about their pets, he realized that the perfect pet was a rock. He crafted fit-for-pet packaging (complete with straw and breathing holes) an...

An excited boy in the South Lake Tahoe area who is more than five-feet-tall got to do what most kids only dream of doing he jumped into a "pool" of snow that was so deep, he disappeared. Ever imagine...

US Representative from the State of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene steps right up and advocates both an end to The Union, and democracy. All possible in a National Divorce scenario. After Democrat vot...

As successful as manga and anime are in the west, in Japan you'll find stores dedicated to them which dwarf those in America. Even seasoned weebs will discover aisles loaded with merch rarely seen out...

In a ceremony on Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio honored living legend Patti Smith with an oversized golden Key to the City.I wish I could give New York City the key to me, because that's h...

Andrew Angus of Marin County, California is so set on having a New Year's Eve party while making it as safe as possible that he bought the equipment to provide every guest with a PCR test for COVID-19...

Marisa Fotieo, a school teacher from Michigan, was flying to Iceland when she began feeling unwell. She took a rapid test in the bathroom and, yep, she was positive for COVID-19. So Fotieo stayed in t...

A touchy Northern Virginia driver in a black pick-up truck flew into bully mode after a car they were tailgating tapped its brakes. In a moment of road rage, the off-balance driver uses the shoulder l...

These drawings by artist Susan Te Kahurangi King light me up inside. King, born in 1951, is a self-taught artist from New Zealand who speaks through drawings rather than words. She brings her extraord...

As a child of New York City, I've always been an elitist when it comes to pizza. Despite never being a fan of the quality of their cuisine, going to Pizza Hut was an event in my childhood. Similar to ...

This past year, in my weekly maker tips newsletter, Gareth's Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales, I started a semi-regular column of jargon, slang, and technical terms that I thought would be informative and/...

There's often a weird, dreamlike vibe to British childrens' television and none moreso than the works of Andrew Davenport, creator of hypnagogia such as Teletubbies and In The Night Garden. Adults lov...

An angry parade of covidiots stormed into an NHS test-and-trace center near London thinking it was a Covid vaccine clinic. Video below shows the protestors, who were part of a "freedom" rally, stealin...

This assortment of Creepy Vintage Food Ads would likely scare off a lot of customers in today's times. This was back in the day when deranged clowns and evil little children eating beans out of the ca...

Grow Live Monsters is a collection of footage from short films made by the legendary avant garde band Destroy All Monsters between 1971 and 1976. Their music combined punk rock, psychedelic rock, meta...

To celebrate the release of The Book of Boba Fett, journalist Andrew Liptak used his Transfer Orbit newsletter to explore the history of Boba Fett and the Mandalorians both in-universe, and out. Lipt...

Did … Pluto write this?A group of researchers say Pluto was unfairly maligned by a decision to relegate it to "dwarf planet" status and that we should consider our solar system to have more tha...

The New York Times has released its 2022 food forecast and "ingredient of the year" is the mushroom, chosen because of its use as a tasty dish addition, psychedelic drug, and compostable packaging mat...

A friend of mine recently shared an Instagram post about old cars that had a fifth wheel which descended from the trunk to assist with parallel parking. As a Bostonian, I take my parallel parking pret...

Being part of the generation of humans that gets to leisurely hopscotch along the bleeding edge of mind-blowing technology has its perks. Sure, there's a general ennui that sits around the world's col...

The Lunduke Journal of Technology offers The History of the Graphical User Interface. the end of the 1970s. Around this time, Steve Jobs took a tour of Xerox PARC and left with a great many ideas.I'm ...

With all of the political division and chaos happening in America, it's easy to turn a blind eye to similar political strife occurring around the globe. There's too much unrest to consume without losi...

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime partner of and procurer for billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was today found guilty of sex trafficking and four other counts in a New York courtroom.Jurors began ...

The Acid Test Graduation Ceremony contains footage from 1966 of The Merry Pranksters, a traveling commune famous for partaking in group LSD experiments and riding around the United States in a bus pai...

How To Operate Your Brain is a 30-minute guided meditation by the great Timothy Leary, a pioneer of the 1960s psychedelic revolution. He believed in thinking for yourself, questioning authority, and p...

Nothing like driving past an exploding manhole one lane over to get the adrenaline juices flowing. And what causes such eruptions?In the YouTube comments, the person who posted this video said a city ...

Stephanie Denaro, aka Bagel Karen who called a bakery worker the N-word in March after he refused to serve her without her mask (see video at bottom of post) returns to the spotlight. This time she ...

This insanity was recorded in 1978 at San Francisco's Different Fur music studios as part of the dream sequence in Neil Young's film Human Highway (1982). From Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy...

If you robbed a bank, sold illegal drugs, or accepted a bribe in 2021, be sure to report those earnings when you file your taxes with the Internal Revenue Service. Lest we forget, Al Caponewho infamou...

A "bloodthirsty" squirrel reportedly bit 18 people in a Welsh village over the course of a "two-day Christmas rampage" that ended only when the tiny animal was trapped and destroyed. The Evening Stand...

Two gentlemen engaged in violent fisticuffs over masks and an LA attitude while flying Delta Air Lines on Friday. According to TMZ, while on a flight from Los Angeles to Memphis, one brawler only "spo...

Titanic traumatized me. Not the film, mind you, but the perpetually looped theme song that controlled radio play for years. Like the Bodyguard before it, Titanic was framed in...

My daughter and I binged watched all the available episodes of Alaskan Killer Bigfoot last night. Reality TV has mastered the use of cute VHS-style edits and Blair Witch camera placement to make paran...

You've probably seen videos of the Queen's Guard dealing harshly with hecklers who think the guardsmen are theme park characters. In this case the victim is a kid who happened to be in the path of som...

In the police dashcam video above, California Highway Patrol officer Brandon Pratt attempts to wrangle a 2,000 pound cow that wandered onto a rural Susanville, California highway. The cow "took offens...

A pair of cops in Texas demand to see a Black man's identfication and threaten to arrest him for "failure to identify," but the man cites the law that states he doesn't need to provide identification ...

When a couple in Clinton, Washington let their six chickens roam around their snowy yard, four of the birds curiously moved around, while two of their coop-mates froze in place. They "just squatted do...

this hidden corner shelf from Damnthatsinteresting Many years ago, we had new kitchen cabinets installed in our kitchen. The pre-fab cabinet set included a Lazy Susan cabinet in ...

A shareholder has sued Tesla alleging no one is reviewing Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's reckless twittering, as per their 2018 settlement with the SEC over Musk's reckless fiduciary management, as opposed to...

Rickrolling enabled Rick Astley to rise like a Phoenix from the flames of 1980s one hit wonders. But when the prank first began and his friend in California sent him a link to his own video, Astley di...

Cruise ships continue to be an awful place to vacation if you do not want to contract COVID-19. Marketwatch:As of Tuesday, there were 89 cruise ships with COVID-19 cases reported, according to the CDC...

In the 1990s Nick at Nite produced some excellent promo clips for the old TV series it ran. Here's one for I Love Lucy called "The Pants That Ate Fred Mertz," which pokes good-natured fun at the way W...

The Consumer Electronics Show, where some 100,000 industry and media folk mingle as they coo over next year's gadgets, is still scheduled for early January 2022. But many big names have pulled out and...

A new day, a new plan. NBC reports that Rob Hamburger, the chief engineer at San Francisco's ever-more-leaning Millennium Tower now wants to sink far fewer support piles to bedrock.Previously:In a que...

Before the army began accepting female soldiers, wars had a strange impact on women. With employers tasked to fill the vacancies in their workforce, many women found their first taste of gainful emplo...

Unit Price tracks various product categories (pencils, lego, golf balls, etc.) and highlights the best bulk pricing on them. K-cups are so popular they get a site of their own, Okay Cup. Pictured abov...

Tom Goulet's Comic Dings [.otf, Google Drive] is an intentional atrocity of type design: Wingdings, the unweildy dingbat font, redrawn to use the crudely-weighted linework of Comic Sans. Some people j...

Among the most spectacularly unevenly-distributed futures was high-definition television. There were 737-line broadcasts in France more then 70 years ago, for example, and 1125 line tests in Japan in ...

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team and the Portland Press Herald recently teamed up for a two-part in-depth examination of the impacts of climate change on the Maine lobster industry, focusing on the t...

Brace yourself, my friends; we're heading into New Year's resolutions season. For the next- let's give it- three weeks, your most procrastination-prone and overweight friends are going to ensure you t...

Oklahoma lawmakers are apparently taking a similar approach to book banning as the Texas legislature took to abortion. Earlier his month, State Senator Rob Standridge presented Senate Bill 1142 to the...

Piel Island is a 50-acre plot of land about a half mile off the northwest coast of England; you can get there by ferry, or, if the tides are right, by a sandwalk. The small island is home to the Shipp...

When I first saw a headline in the Technology Review about therapists using AI to improve treatment, my initial instinct was to cringe. With the rise of remote therapy apps, I can absolutely envision ...

When people begin to discuss the greatest and best sketch comedy shows of all time, inevitably, Chappelle's Show is guaranteed a spot in the top three. From that point on, the remaining entr...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Order today, RIGHT HERE AND NOW."The fact that Tom the bug can keep ...

The New York Times provides access to its sprawling archive to paying customers, and hooo boy is it easy to get sucked in. In a fit of curiosity, I read some of the biggest stories of December 29, 196...

Harry Reid, a longtime politician in his native Nevada, died Tuesday. He was 82.Reid, in his capacity as chair of the Nevada Gaming Commission, was famously depicted in Martin Scorsese's 1995 movie Ca...

John Madden, presenter of the long-running series of football-themed video games featuring his image and imprimatur, died Tuesday. He was 85.His first title, John Madden Football, was released by Elec...

Potatoes are a wonderful thing (when they're not struck with blight and weaponized by invading forces, anyway). They're chock full of Vitamin D and other nutrients; they're easy to grow and store; and...

Please refer to mydispatch from Mondaybefore reading the following."Are you telling me this is the beard of the man I had lunch with in Pock? What happened to the man?""He lost his beard, and his life...

Please refer to my dispatch from Monday before reading the following."Are you telling me this is the beard of the man I had lunch with in Pock? What happened to the man?""He lost his beard, ...

A cute chubby wombat lets loose after finding the perfect scratching post at ACT Wildlife in Australia. If only we could all find such comfort under a wood bench....

British naturalist and nature documentary pioneer Percy Smith created a series of film featuring mechanical models of animals filmed in stop-motion to shed light on fascinating feats of nature. Smith ...

Perhaps the musician version of rubbing your tummy and patting your head at the same time, here are two members of the David Simpson Trio bassist Cici Bass and guitarist Dave Simpson who simultaneou...

A 32-year-old gentleman with a history of felonies landed himself in the pokey after shooting his own leg. After his mishap, Jonathan Michael McGuire, from Indiana, had his wounded leg treated at a h...

"Some monsters are real. Some are imagined. And some are made… by the US government." Sounds like a movie movie trailer voiceover! But there is a research thread in cryptozoology that explores t...

Crocodiles in rural Iran have turned on the humans, reports the BBC, after habitat disruption caused by water shortages. Alarmed locals are even feeding them directly, lest they come wandering hungry ...

A 10-year-old girl asked Alexa for a "challenge to do." The voice assistant replied: "Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs."The girl's mot...

After months of teasing, Lego finally showed off its Sonic the Hedgehog set featuring the cocky erinaceidid in the Green Hill Zone. The set, which is listed at $70 [lego.com] and goes on sale Jan 1., ...

Relentless vernacular photography collectorRobert E. Jacksoncurated an odd and, ahem, uplifting collection of vintage photos depicting people enjoying their balloons. See them all: "Gonna Party! With ...

Now that HBO Max has a veritable monopoly on the streaming rights for the Godzilla franchise, I've recently decided to go back and watch the film series. I have to say, of all of the goofy s...

Extraodinary Twitter exchange with a deaf customer who booked a flight on Lufthansa and Lufthansa's social media team who told him that flight changes could only be made by phone.Customer: @lufthansa ...

On an episode of the PeacockTV docuseries Unidentified With Demi Lovato, the pop singer teamed up with a crew of paranormal investigators to explore a ghost town in Arizona. Their EMF detect...

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention have dramatically shortened the recommended isolation and quarantine periods for COVID-19. (Here's concerning context for those new recommendations.) T...

People have been getting high for centuries. One of the most startling and naive revelations I ever had when I started smoking weed was how old my "new" ritual was. Instantly, I reframed all of the In...

When an airline overbooks a flight and then decides to bump you, do you stand there and take it? No! If you confront them and know the drill, the airline will owe you up to four times the cost of your...

CNN interviewed political analyst Arieh Kovler, who predicted the January 6 Capitol riot two weeks before it happened. On December 21, Kovler tweeted: "On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be ra...

It's widely reported today that the Centers for Disease Control is shortening the recommended isolation period for asymptotic Covid patients from 10 to 5 days. Given what we currently know about COVID...

Here's Jerry Seinfeld in his mid-20s performing at The Bottom Line comedy club in 1979. Seinfeld's voice sounds like he could have played the long lost Jewish cousin of John Travolta's Vinnie Barbarin...

Real estate agents are supposed to show clients whichever houses the clients want to see or which fit their declared needs. But with the housing market hot as all hell during the Covid pandemic, realt...

Comics have been experiencing a diversity boom for a long time now. While there were always females and creators of color in comics, their names aren't championed as loudly as their white male counter...

One of the common critiques that lapsed rap fans will employ when explaining their current distance from the genre is that rap has lost its edge. With the plethora of suburban-born MCs and rainbow-hai...

I'm just here for a science illustration that looks like a shitpost, but you may be interested in a muscle you never knew you had, sort of."This deep section of the masseter muscle is clearly distingu...

McDonald's installed stationary exercise bicycles in some China locations. Video of this unusual dining experience below. From Taiwan News:McDonald's China said the bike seats can reduce customer guil...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got a one chip challenge (a single Carolina Reaper/Scorpion pepper chip in a coffin-shaped box) in her Christmas stocking. On Christmas Day, she took to Instagram to eat the c...

These cute sea otters at the Oregon Zoo are old hands when it comes to delicious oyster snacks. Pounding the oyster shells on rocks like shucking pros, the hard-working otters then kick back to enjoy ...

Science is such an interesting double-edged sword. On one end, science provides innumerable life-saving innovations and technological conveniences that are integral to our continued survival as a spec...

Please refer to my dispatch from Thursday before reading the following."You are?" I asked, stunned."Yes. I am the man who had Piotr evicted from his apartment after he caused me mental angui...

Located in the ritzy Geist area of northeastern Indianapolis, Indiana, this five-bedroom midwestern conservative homedone up in tasteful shades of wood, brown, beige, and creamis for sale by owner at ...

NASA has been convening two dozen theologians to advise on how the discovery of intelligent extraterrestrials may shake up various religious doctrines and those who believe in them. One of the researc...

Here is downtown Los Angeles in the 1930s. The familiarity of the buildings and overall architecture is striking even as the people and vehicles look like something from a… Hollywood movie set.N...

A persistent Weimaraner named Wally has a very hard time picking up a loose plank of wood he finds on a deck floor. Once he finally secures it in his mouth, he then becomes audibly frustrated as he tr...

This list of most-reviled books is from 2003, but nevertheless entertains.JG Ballard: Author Finnegans Wake by James JoyceJoyce's incomprehensible novel, which has provided a living for...

Stars made of antimatter? Humans arrived in North America during the last ice age? These are just two of the mind-boggling discoveries of 2021 that Science News claims that "if true, could shake up sc...

… Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song About a sad dysfunctional D.C. Oh I get by with little help from my friendsMmm, the Big Lie spread with help from Trump's friendsOh, I'm gonna try de...

They reshot and edited scenes for the U.S. market, and even used CG to make the etched-glass award say "Baking Show" instead of "Bake-off" in those scenes where it appears. Captain Disillusion shows h...

In this footage, a cat makes an error of judgment and acknowledges it....

In other Delta Air Lines news today …On a trip that was partly business, a New Hampshire woman spent 11 days in Italy and a few days in Paris, where she loaded up on $3,000-worth of Christmas gi...

This video shows how a team of movers dealt with the logistical challenges of moving a 50-foot magnet from Long Island in New York to Fermilab outside of Chicago in 2013. According to RealLifeLore, tr...

Here's an amusing news blip from 1985 about snowboarders and the skiers they outraged. A classic of parochial, pearl-clutching officialdom realizing there's nothing they can do to stop people having f...

I quite like watching Jeopardy when I have a free evening, and if I'm not by the TV, I can watch it online using a free service called Puffer that's part of a Stanford research project on streaming. I...

Trump's army of worshippers, who have relied on livestock medicine, bleach, and televangelist blessings to survive the hoax plandemic, are now suffering severe psychological distress over the fact tha...

Last week, a Delta Air Lines flight from Seattle to Shanghai turned around halfway through the trip, inexplicably returning passengers to the airport they had just left. Now we know why. Apparently, S...

Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, protected a sex trafficking ring in Northern Virginia while receiving free use of its "services", claims a lawsuit filed by one of its victims. Two now-former offic...

Two men standing on the roof of a building are pulling up an air conditioner attached to tow lengths of rope. When one of the plastic straps around the air conditioner snaps, the men desperately try t...

A NASA website (or should I say Webbsite?) shows how far the historic James Webb Space Telescope is from reaching orbit. On it, you can check out the telescope's distance from Earth, distance until L2...

As much as comics are about fighting, there aren't many comic books about fighting. Comic plots may hinge on a physical confrontation between opposing forces, usually armed with contrasting ...

Here's a fascinating interview with Yale sociologist Nick Christakis on Amanpour & Co. Professor Christakis breaks down the three phases of a plague (we're barely out of phase 1) and looks at the ...

While most everyone agrees that we should free all humans from being used as fleshy batteries held in virtual reality against their wills in order to feed the machine empire known as the Matrix, few p...

Why did the sloth leisurely cross the road?To get to the other side.But this, as it turns out, is not without its complications, as detailed in Bloomberg's CityLab. As human developments and urban spr...

Sorry, folks: it turns out that 23 seasons of Law & Order: SVU were all a lie. According to a recent report from The Appeal, the actual Special Victims Division of the New York Police Department i...

We're adrift in the sea of corporate synergy, and I don't think we'll see the shore ever again. Take being a fan of Marvel, for example. Let's say you want to watch the upcoming Dr. Strange movie. We...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, awarded the Nobel prize in 1984 during the struggle to abolish apartheid, South Africa's system of racial segregation and oppression, is dead at 90.President Cyril Ramaphosa s...

Savior of misbehavior Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs sings a hauntingly beautiful rendition of the 1943 holiday standard "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas." Directed by Phil Harder, the music vi...

Merry Christmas to all who celebae.pic.twitter.com/My0nU73ea5— Callista Gingrich (@CallyGingrich) December 25, 2021...

The Alpinist (2021) on Netflix is the story of Marc-Andr Leclerc, a free-spirited mountaineer who embarks on daring free-solo climbs. Leclerc climbs treacherous snowy mountains all alone, with no rope...

This re-imagining of Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens at Space Burningman, and follows the adventures of some festival unicorns.I far prefer this Kylo Ren and find Rey, Finn, and Poe more believable...

Nowadays, everywhere you look, there's a newer, more evil version of Superman offering some half-hearted commentary on how absolute power corrupts absolutely. Aside from being so anodyne that the enti...

Bingo Gazingo, born Murray Wachs (1924-2010), was an obscure poet and musician from New York City. Bingo was a postal worker for most of his life, and made amazingly strange music on the side. Bingo's...

Throughout the day, we encounter a host of annoying jerks. That's just the reality of navigating life. There are rude people everywhere. However, rarely do we ever question why someone was rude to us....

At one point, it seemed like AMC was becoming the new face of prestige television. With their inaugural entry into the world of television by way of the critically acclaimed Mad Men, AMC became a seri...

It's already been hard to ignore inflation this year without the added stress of the holidays. Watching your money buy less and less each year is one of the disheartening realities of adulthood. Howev...

Donkey Rhubarb fills me to the brim with joy. I like to listen to it at the beginning of the day to raise my serotonin levels, as I drink my quadruple espresso. Aphex Twin never fails to make brillian...

Half of the fun of Christmas lies in the act of anticipating it. As a kid, you would spend months downloading and sifting through tons of toy commercials to procure the perfect gift(s) that aligned wi...

I've really been enjoying watching all of the YouTubers' Secret Santa videos. In this one, a favorite YouTube maker of mine, This Old Tony, creates a gorgeous folding knife for Xlya Foxlin. This is th...

A decade ago, when Spotify was two years old in the UK and had just become available in the US, Chris Johnson started a musical discovery project called TAPEFEAR. He "created a script to find new musi...

The Wookie winter feast of Life Day is a well-known festivus celebration across the galaxy. But it's hardly the only holiday in the Star Wars universe. In a recent post on the official Star Wars websi...

Special Delivery Kluger, narrator of the 1970 Rankin/Bass Christmas animated special Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, has gone hardcore punk in this BASTARDIZED mashup. They have him lip synching Dead K...

The Christmas season always reminds me of Richey Edwards, whose birthday fell on December 22. Edwards, for those unfamiliar, was the lead creative voice for the Manic Street Preachers in the early 90s...

There are few things better than settling into Christmas by ingesting all of the seasonal art that's available. Whether it's blasting different renditions of Christmas songs on loop or overdosing on m...

"I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus… I cried behind the door."(Thanks, Jennifer Dalton!)...

I recently came across photos of some pinball machines that looked like playable pieces of art and I was so impressed by their strangeness and beauty that I contacted the creator, Tanner Petch, to tel...

What if Mick Jagger ran a moving company? This video will show you his moves.[via The Browser]...

On this Christmas eve, here is the late Greg Lake (King Crimson, ELP) and Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) performing Lake's worthy contribution to the holiday canon, "I Believe in Father Christmas," at St....

Hasbro's "Little miss no-name" doll was modeled after the orphan waifs painted by Margaret Keane. She had unkempt hair, rags for clothes, and a permanent tear. "Little miss no-name is sad because she ...

A wizardly Donald Trump is on a tear this week, taking cues from a mysterious new playbook that leaves followers scrambling to catch up. Rather than touting bleach as the miracle Covid fix, he's now, ...

What is a Nepalese "tourist trap" restaurant? YouTuber Karl Rock, who makes travel videos about South Asia, created this guide to help you tell the difference between a good Nepalese restaurant and on...

A video shows a sweet-looking marten looking lost inside a German market, scampering along the top of a wall sign. But then the camera pans down, we see what the weasel-like critter has really been up...

Michael Feeney says: "(mac)OStalgia is exploring my 2021 work-from-home routine from a nostalgic perspective. How would have the same workflow look like with the tools of today and the limitations of ...

From Zillow:A winter lover's paradise nestled on 25 idyllic acres. The property includes Santa's main living quarters, a community of tiny elf homes, a state-of-the-art toy-making facility, garage wit...

'National Enquirer'"Dying Queen's Deathbed Decrees!" screams the cover story. "Charles forced to RETIRE! Frantic final push to save the monarchy!"She's a frail 95-year-old, but the Queen is neither dy...

Ariel Dumas, head writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, lives with a partner who tested positive for Covid. But it took Dumas six (6!!) tests and 11 days before she found out she was also inf...

Rumor has it, the story of the flying reindeers on Santa's sleigh was derived from the way that real-life reindeers would get high off psychedelic mushrooms in the forest and jump around.I think that ...

For the past few years, Stephen Colbert has partnered with Tim Luecke to create an animated short for The Late Show. The two were also responsible for the animated satire series on Showtime, Our Carto...

33-year-old Yiran Sherry of Philadelphia was taking her three-year-old son Rafa to preschool when her water broke. Then, as the Philadelphia Inquirer regales: Lancaster Avenue was choked with rush-hou...

A woebegone group of anti-vaxxers harassed a Trump Grill security officer in New York City yesterday for not allowing them to enter the fine dining establishment. "Trump is a fraud if he enforces this...

Certain actors are synonymous with seasons and holidays. Halloween has Jamie Lee Curtis, Courteney Cox, and a litany of others, but the list of seasonally associated actors becomes unwieldy in its len...

Zach Galifianakis is back with a brand new holiday edition of Between Two Ferns (do note that the ferns are festive). As is his way, he awkwardly 'interviews' his guests and creates cringeworthy momen...

In this video from Media Television, we're reminded of a more lighthearted internet era, where people could hang out in chat rooms such as The Palace. In 1995, this early internet chat room was releas...

It's Secret Santa project time on YouTube. Each year, a dozen or so Tubers draw the names of other video creators and create a cool project for them. This year, Estefannie drew Allen Pan. Allen calls ...

YouTuber There I Ruined It mashed up the original boy band with a nineties boy band and it's so so wrong, esp. Yoko's cameo. Sorry, not sorry.screengrab via There I Ruined It...

They say, "when a child is born, so is a mother." Presumably, that applies to fathers too, but, since the journey for men is significantly less arduous, I'm not too sure. Watching a woman transition f...

Residents of Sienna in Fort Bend County, Texas were shocked to find a pack of feral hogs roaming through their neighborhood earlier this month. One resident, Glen Garner, told the local news affiliate...

Music is one of the unsung heroes in gaming's ability to fully immerse a player into a fictional world. The soundtrack from specific stages in a video game can stick with you forever, and odds are it'...

The New York Times has a, uhh, fascinating new piece on the rising trend of Sexy Grinch Cosplay:On Instagram, anyone can achieve a similar transformation with a "Cute Grinch" filtercreated by Manuel B...

I just came across this sweet, dreamy, and melancholic Sharon Van Etten cover of Nick Lowe's classic, "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?" The video and track, from last year, feat...

We hate to break it to you, but gyms are disgusting. Think about it for a hot minute: everyone's sweating, grunting, and throwing basic hygiene social cues out of the window in the name of some gains....

In terms of germs, the summer gave us a little more leeway than the winter to be relaxed and protected from catching a case of COVID. Now that new strains are upon us, we might have to go back into re...

Please refer to my dispatch from Monday before reading the following.I had a few hours to kill before my flight back to the United States, so I decided to do a little shopping in Warsaw's tony Wilanw ...

Carolina Eyck became interested in the theremin when she was seven years old, and by the time she was 16 she developed a new theremin technique that is now being used around the world, according to he...

Hey, remember when we used to have a blast with other people instead of giving a hoot about germs? Fun times, fun times. Alas, thanks to the bewildering stupidity of half the country and a new strain ...

Kim Potter claimed that she thought she was firing her taser when she shot and killed Daunte White, a 20-year-old black driver pulled over for having an air freshener dangling off his rear view mirror...

Researchers from Tokyo's Meiji University demonstrated a prototype lickable display to display images with flavor. The screen is outfitted with an array of spray cans that squirt flavoring onto a "hyg...

While living with robots may not be what it looks like on TV (anyone else remember Small Wonder?), we use smart devices to help us with everyday tasks, constantly. But with smart lighting systems at h...

Vyvianna M. Quinonez (28) pleaded guilty to a felony charge of interfering with a flight crew member on a Southwest flight from Sacramento to San Diego. On May 23rd, as the plane was making its final...

Marvel Comics recently announced a new Punisher maxiseries by writer Jason Aaron with art by Jess Saiz & Paul Azaceta, in which the Punisher takes over the deadly ninja assassin clan known as the ...

The biggest question for me, regarding this very short report of what sounds like a typical Florida traffic stop, is where did they find the marijuana? A pretty good follow-up would be why only the DU...

ABC News's David Muir asked President Biden if he plans to run for re-election in 2024 and whether he'd be up for a rematch against Trump:"That would increase the prospect of running."...

Cristina Cawthorn is divorcing her husband Madison, a notorious pathological liar, racist insurrectionist, and alleged sex pest after having been married for just 8 months. Cawthorn, who likens women ...

T.J. Smith, the police chief of Oakboro Town in North Carolina, helped his officers procure fake Covid vaccination cards. T.J. Smith is "on leave".The one-page letter — signed by Burgess and rel...

Joan Didion, pioneer of the New Journalism that emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, has died at age 87. Didon's highly influential essay collections "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (1968) an...

A bunch of conspiracy theorists held a convention, featuring speakers who shared their beliefs that COVID-19 is a hoax and vaccines are a plot, and mysteriously many of them have fallen ill! While the...

The Vintage News compiled a collection of the "Oddest Christmas Parlor Games from Victorian Times," some of which have the potential to cap off Christmas with a trip to the emergency room. For example...

A couple of weeks ago, Ernie Smith, author of the excellent Tedium newsletter, received an alarming email from someone in Russia named Maya Mishina. "The email was worded as if a lawsuit was hitting m...

Dogs get all the glory when it comes to cute animal videos showing a case of the "zoomies" a sudden burst of energy that prompts four-legged creatures to tear around the yard. But a very excited baby...

In this episode of Dungeon Craft, Professor DungeonMaster makes the argument that the most valuable book you need to read (or re-read) to be a better DM is Aristotle's Poetics. Through it, he argues, ...

Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter who co-founded Square in 2009, announced on December 1st that the company would change its name to Block. It's the parent company of CashApp and Tidal. The name,...

A team of neuroscientists from Australia, the UK, and Canada release a pre-print paper detailing a technology called "DishBrain." It integrates with brain cells to provide a "stimulated game-world," u...

With an estimated 9 million Americans living abroad, according to the US Department of State, one American TikToker who lives in Germany asked fellow ex-pats why they would never go back to the United...

The impulse to buy a new computer is strong until you start checking out new computer prices, that is. That's especially true if you're looking for a device you'll be transporting around from place t...

Before the global COVID-19 pandemic, cruise ships were a wonderful place to contract norovirus. Now, these boats are even riskier than their onboard casinos. Yesterday we shared that despite increased...

Convicted, yet pardoned by another grifter, Roger Stone is selling an NFT of Donald Trump's signature to help pay for his mountain of legal bills.Politico:"To Roger YOU ARE THE GREATEST!," reads a Tru...

When Big Liar Trump told his first truth on Sunday, admitting to Bill O'Reilly that he got his booster shot, the GQP crowd booed while a rabid Alex Jones shouted, "Now we've got Trump on their team!"I...

At The Atlantic, Amanda Mull looked into the apparent shoplifting crisis, wherein unpunishable thieves run riot thanks to legally-neutered security guards and "defunded" police. Reportage is mostly co...

I have no idea what sort of asshole this horror flick is making fun of, but I haven't got time to figure it out. I have to restarch my Iron Heart x The Flat Head collab 32 oz selvedge overalls, they'v...

After reporting a large amount of movement that the HOA's lead spokes-engineer Ronald Hamburger either failed to notice or did not disclose, NBC Bay Area reports that the Millennium Tower homeowners a...

MSNBC's Dr. Vin Gupta said it out loud. Again.On Wednesday, when asked on "The ReidOut" by exasperated host Joy Reid how hospitals should handle Covid overload now that we are facing "140 million new ...

On Reddit Sergey Kuznetsov shows off a remarkable real-life "visualizer" ferromagnetic liquid appearing to dance and pulse to the beat of music. The resemblance to various Hollywood horrors (recently...

This footage shows cops arresting a bystander after the man filmed a traffic stop in Killeen, Texas. The cop concedes at one point that the man has the right to film, but claims that the man speaking ...

The content aggregator, Pocket, has resurfaced an interesting 2017 LitHub piece about a bizarre letter that William Burroughs wrote to Truman Capote in 1970.In the below letter, Burroughs engages in a...

When Capcom's CP System arcade games began showing up at the turn of the 1990s, they were leaps and bounds ahead of the game. Such huge sprites! So many of them! So many colors! And Street Fighter II ...

It's not the holiday season for me until I've heard The Monkees harmonizing to Ru Chu, a traditional Spanish "villancico" (now considered a Christmas carol). In my opinion, it's the best version ...

In 2020, we learned that negative candle reviews are a (very) informal proxy for Covid cases. The results were surprisingly clear: Before 2020, reviews of the top scented candles hovered between 4 and...

One of my favorite pastimes is watching how movies and television calibrate the inclusion of a marginalized group. The comparison of how Black characters in film came across in the 60s and 70s (often ...

In my darkest hours, I fear that I've lived too long. I've watched the collapse of the VHS empire, ransacked by the rampaging hordes of DVD, only to witness the subsequent reign of DVD turn to dust in...

For the last decade, eager film critics and cinephiles clamoring for the end of superhero films have all developed one seemingly bulletproof comment, preloaded on the tip of their tongue, that both di...

You can't go a December without seeing someone posting (see below) the infamous David Bowie and Bing Crosby duo performance of "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" on Crosby's 1977 holiday special, Mer...

You Tuber Just an Observation shares this wonderful analysis of Alan Rickman's phenomenal portrayal of the ultimate bad guy, an exceptional thief, Hans Gruber....

There's some serious power behind gaming now people are even creating "gamer paradise" AirBnbs. But if you're a purist, you know that the PC is the best way to enjoy your games. Gaming PCs have the p...

In this never-ending cycle of boosters and variants, it can be a little hard to keep up your cheer. What started as a clear path to herd immunity has become fraught with rampant skepticism, misinforma...

There are a host of similarities between being in love and doing drugs. "Yeah," some of you might say, "they both make your friends hate you and leave you broke." While those critiques might be accura...

Comics are a peculiar medium in that they're a combination of two distinct art forms. Modern bias leads most comic fans to value the writing portion of comics more than the art. The industry even furt...

Watching nature documentaries is enough to give you body dysmorphia. It's impossible to ignore how remarkably jacked the average chimp is in comparison to Joe six-packeven if Joe has an actual six-pac...

Catching COVID-19 on a cruise ship sounds like an extra added layer of horror. In the last few days two of Royal Caribbean's 'Of the Seas' fleet have experienced outbreaks. While Royal Caribbean downp...

This copy of the Lord's Prayer, just 5mm by 5mm in size, just sold for $4,000 at auction. Bound in leather, the tiny tome was printed in 1952 by the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany."The copy has be...

Project Farm is one of my favorite YouTube channels to get lost in. The testing is detailed, well explained and fun. The results are almost always something I've wondered about. Here torque wrenches a...

Last month, someone stole a 10-foot-wide, 6-feet tall, 58-foot long bridge disappeared from a park in Akron, Ohio where it was being stored during a wetland restoration project. Investigators have fin...

In St. Clair County, Illinois, assistant fire chief Jerame Simmons was named acting fire chief of the Prairie Du Pont Volunteer Fire Department. This news prompted 10 ten of the department's 13 firefi...

Run DMC's Christmas classic about life in Hollis, a small neighborhood in Queens, NY is my favorite holiday theme....

In this anti-drug PSA reportedly created by Trinidad's national airline in 1987, a poor cocaine user is flogged by a terrifying demon. It would have made for a good Nine Inch Nails video, although thi...

In this anti-drug PSA reportedly created by Trinidad's national airline in 1987, a poor cocaine user is flogged by a terrifying demon. It would have made for a good Nine Inch Nails video, although thi...

In 1985, Rick Doblinwho went on to form the wonderful Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)provided Carol Rosin, a manager at an aerospace contractor, with 1,000 hits of MDMA (a...

Hackers was so terrible, I loved it. The honest trailer points out all the hilarity without having to watch the entire film, but maybe I should…...

Fitness isn't just an activity, it's a lifestyle. Plus, if you want to be your happiest and healthiest self possible, it's easier than ever to start taking care of yourself. That means not having to s...

You walk into the apartment of an 18th-century detective. What do you see? Of course, there's going to be a comfortable chair, where somebody can sit when they're doing their deductions. There's also ...

Watabou's Perilous Shores draws maps of fantastic lands in a handsome hand-made style that understates the growing sophistication of the generator. Each map has a selection of interesting localestowns...

Michael Feeney recreated modern MacOS apps to look like they're running on MacOS 9 at some vague moment in the late 1990s. His work is remarkably fastidious and completist, resulting in the developmen...

Now you can own your favorite local resaurant as an NFT! Nonfungible Olive Gardens is a real bag o' tokens, and a perfectly simple illustration of what you're buyingand what you're not buyingwhen you ...

Driven by refinements in compatibility frameworks and heavy promotion by Steam as a hedge against Microsoft's increasing control of the Windows marketplace, Linux is becoming the OS of choice for more...

What's your jam? Men in daisy dukes with their chickens or men in farm dresses with their chickens? If you answered, 'Yes!" Same, same. But, unless you want two 2022 calendars, you're going to have to...

It's hard to let something you loved go. Watching cherished items wither as a result of time is an unsettling reminder of our impermanence as human beings. Often, these items serve as a portal into th...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Order today, RIGHT HERE AND NOW."Delve into the dementia, the dread,...

There's a new FDOTUS in the White House! The commander in chief welcomed a German Shepherd puppy named Commander on Monday afternoon. Besides Trump, Polk, and Andrew Johnson, all US presidents have be...

In the past year, Stephen Colbert decided he no longer wanted to utter the barbarous name of our former president. After using asterisks like a swear word, he decided to crowdsource euphemisms with th...

The disproportionate relationship between corporate forces and creative forces in the world of showbusiness has always rubbed me the wrong way. The fact that the talent behind the business of show tak...

Things I Have Drawn is the brainchild of a guy named Tom Curtis. Or, well, it's more the result of his kids, Dom and Al. They draw things, with all of the weird perspectives that child art tends to en...

You can be rocking a just-pressed pair of slacks, expensive shoes, and a fresh fade, but without the right luxury accessories, it's easy for your look to fall flat. But with classic pieces, like a sle...

I love this new track and video, "The Magic," from Eels forthcoming album, Extreme Witchcraft. The video was created by Haoyan of America.Image: Screengrab...

The Holiday Season is nearly over, and those of us who haven't rounded out our gift lists might be starting to sweat a little. It's hard enough to find the perfect gift, but what if it doesn't arrive ...

The rabble rousers of the Satanic Temple brought another devilish display to the Illinois state Capitol Rotunda for the holiday season, specifically the Satanic holiday of Sol Invictus. The star of th...

Jeff Green, considered to be the richest individual in Utah, bailed on the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints because the church has "hindered global progress in women's rights, civil rights and rac...

Unless you live among year-round snakes, alligators, and warm weather Karens, chances are you reside somewhere that has harsh winter weather conditions full of snow and sadness (or maybe you just chos...

A 62-year-old man who drove an ice cream truck in London for 40 years unexpectedly died. So his brother, who said his sibling's ice cream truck was "a passion for him" according to Sky News, organized...

Soundbars have become the home audio answer for those who want crisp, clear sound, but don't want to clutter up their room with a flotilla of ginormous speakers. While soundbars do a surprisingly thor...

When Trump admitted to Bill O'Reilly on Sunday that he got a booster shot, the Dallas crowd booed. But it was nothing compared to the growling, stuttering reaction he got from Info Wars host Alex Jone...

Every day, you read the stories. Automaker Volvo announces a cybersecurity breach and theft of company research and development data, a theft that could impact how the company operates. Meanwhile, a b...

Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade acts like a stoned HS kid setting up his church's Christmas manger scene.Kilmeade forces a conversation about a totally tangential spaced-out idea and just babbles ...

The Teletext Archive is building an open repository of Teletext pages, organized by broadcaster and date. Teletext, broadcast as plain text and simple graphic data in the invisible margins of broadcas...

Security cameras in the lobby of an FNB Bank in Mayfield, Kentucky captured footage of a monstrous tornado that completely destroyed its lobby on December 10th. This was part of the deadly group of to...

The Energy Vault seems like a good idea. It's a "gravity battery," a crane that uses excess energy produced by wind turbines to stack large blocks of concrete. During times when the energy produced by...

Two legends of skateboarding sit down and have an amazing chat. Rodney Mullen, the OG street skater, is the guest on a 2 hour Hawk vs Wolf.The Berrics:Rodney Mullen not only laid the groundwork for mo...

In Maharashtra, India, a troop of monkeys have reportedly gone on a murderous revenge rampage against local dogs after canines allegedly killed an infant monkey. Depending on which report you read, lo...

Quidditch is evidently a lot more than people running around with brooms between their legs, chasing someone in a golden suit. Hoping to distance themselves from the transphobic Harry Potter author, U...

Quidditch is evidently a lot more than people running around with brooms between their legs, chasing someone in a golden suit. Hoping to distance themselves from the transphobic Harry Potter author, U...

TikToker Desiree Baker was surprised to discover that her Airbnb had a window looking directly into a restaurant. Fortunately, there's a curtain on her side so diners can't peer in. It also looks like...

South Park reveals the truth about NFTs. And if you are still confused, StyledSnail posted an explanatory video (below) along with this glossary of terms used:HODL – Hold on for Dear Life (don't...

It appears that the griping about Disneyland ticketing and queues has boiled over into a lawsuit. A woman has filed suit for $5M, alleging that Disney has done exactly what the fine print said they wo...

Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show went to anti-vaxxer rallies to learn what self-appointed armchair epidemiologists have to say about Covid vaccines. Here are some highlights:"I haven't seen that it's ...

The case of the 58-foot-long bridge in Akron, Ohio that mysteriously went missing overnight was solved on Friday. A 63-year-old gentleman allegedly hired a crane to pluck the footbridge from an Akron ...

Niche purses are definitely a thing (have you seen this one?) but even I was surprised to learn handbags shaped like face masks exist. A pandemic pursewhat a sign of these crazy times! Of course, it's...

Watch Nirvana grind through a killer noisy set on December 1, 1989 at Fahrenheit, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Note that the drummer was Chad Channing who predated Dave Grohl on the skins. Also, don't...

Watch Nirvana grind through a killer noisy set on December 1, 1989 at Fahrenheit, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. Note that the drummer was Chad Channing who predated Dave Grohl on the skins. Also, don't...

Earlier this month, The Verge reported that a beta tester for Facebook's Metaverse reported that her avatar had been sexually harassed by a stranger. "Sexual harassment is no joke on the regular inter...

The first known death related to omicron in the United States was reported yesterday in Texas. The Houston-area man, who hasn't been identified, was between 5060 years old. He wasn't vaccinated. From ...

Qatari authorities boasted monday that they'd seized a range of rainbow-colored childrens' toys because they displayed "anti-Islamic" values. The Deccan Herald:"The Ministry …carried out inspect...

From NPR: Scientists stubbled upon the fossilized remains of an ancient millipede the length of a small car dating from before the time of the dinosaurs. The animal is believed to have broken the reco...

The best time to do it was when other countries did it. The next best time to do it is right now. CNN:The 500 million new tests will be made available next month and will reach Americans through the m...

An obscure classic computer game, Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror, is once again on offer through Steam, GoG and other online storefronts. Long only playable on modern machines with some geeky tinkering a...

James David Russell, 39, was charged last week with first-degree murder and felony cannibalism after a some of a dead man's remains were found in his microwave, reports Eric Grossarth with East Idaho ...

If you love getting outdoors, you're gonna want to stock up on awesome gear before the weather gets warm again. One of the outright coolest pieces of gear you can get yourself for your next adventure ...

According to the YouTube description, this pumpkin reached a point where it was growing more than a foot and a half and gaining about 37 pounds a day, until it finally reached some 1300 pounds.Is this...

One of my favorite elements of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five was the concept of Tralfamadorians and their temporal vision. Unlike human beings, the Tralfamadorians don't have linear pe...

The connection between music and comedy isn't new. Matt Bellamy of Muse once claimed to have penned several songs from the band's albumSecond Lawwith the intent of making the audience laugh. Nirvana f...

To quote the Hidden Gems Literary Emporium: "Whenever someone is explaining something you don't care about whatsoever, this is the song playing in your mind."...

Even though cinema is as subjective as any other art form, box office data helps us gauge a movie's quality, a metric for how passionately the audience engages with the medium. For example, theFast an...

While some tiny apartments are cute pieces of architecture crafted with the highest efficiency in mind, others are so cramped and depressing it's practically criminal. One of the original influences f...

Japanese culture is a beautiful, bottomless treasure chest. If you're shopping for quality animation, you're seldom going to be disappointed. Fond of pro wrestling? Japanese pro wresters are so intens...

The average salary of IT personnel is over $91,000 a year. And job prospects are expected to rise by 13 percent before 2030. Considering those numbers, anyone who doesn't feel fulfilled or secure in t...

Let's face it, you don't like seeing anyone in the morning before you have your first sip of coffee unless, of course, it's the smiling face of your favorite barista. And while your favorit...

Toxic Lauren Boebert (QCO) seemed more unhinged than usual as she screamed on stage at the Turning Point USA "AmericaFest" over the weekend. Shouting in a breathless, near-frenzied rhythm as if she we...

The repetitive "Twelve Days of Christmas" can get old after a few versus until you hear bass virtuoso Charles Berthoud have some fun with it. In this rendition of the classic Christmas carol, he star...

As you'll recall in my dispatch from Friday, Stanislav and I enjoyed a nice meal with a husband and wife in the city of Pock. Once we had finished our luncheon, it was time to get down to business. My...

QAnoners pride themselves on being independent thinkers who know the real truth. And the latest version of the QTruth is that drinking"industrial disinfectant mixed into a chemical cocktail" is a swel...

Weird Andrew Clyde is the Georgia congressman who thinks the January 6 terrorists who tried to execute Mike Pence are "normal tourists" and refused to shake hands with D.C. police officer Michael Fano...

Several artists have added their distinctive visual and narrative threads to Spider-Man's web of stories over the years. Depending on the era you started reading the webhead, Todd Mcfarlane, Mark Bagl...

It's getting difficult to like anything. Or rather, it's getting difficult to be a vocal fan of anything. In recent years, every aspect of entertainment has become as polarized as our political discou...

It took a minute for my musical tastes to refine enough to enjoy a live performance. Even though I'll always prefer the clarity and polish of a studio track, I've come to find that live renditions off...

Between deadlines at work, the in-laws coming in for the holidays, and a growing to-do list, your stress level has managed to reach new heights lately. But instead of turning to unhealthy habits, perh...

'National Enquirer'Orgies in the Caribbean! The libidinous rich and famous fornicating on the Lolita Express private jet! Sex slaves delivering XXX-rated massages!These are just some of the eye-searin...

Austin police arrested Erik Maund for allegedly hiring a group of hitmen to kill his ex-girlfriend and her former boyfriend. Holly Williams and William Lanway were found dead in Nashville last year an...

Be like President Trump, and get your booster shot. https://t.co/trdRMnEOUG— Ian Sams (@IanSams) December 20, 2021During yesterday's stop in Dallas on the "The History Show" tour with Bill O'Rei...

I once listened to a friend decry the horrors of dimensional lumber. He felt dimensional lumber inhibited creativity and led to a decline in architecture. LEGO, however, is pretty darn creative. You c...

YouTuber Jared Owen offers this amazing 20-minute dive into one of the most storied and interesting devices of all time, the Enigma Machine. For the season:...

Would Kay enjoy a bike trip? Or a weenie roast? Or taffy pull?I just hope Eddie Haskell doesn't show up and try to move in on Kay....

Conservative show host Jesse Kelly was invited on Tucker Carlson to share his opinion on the U.S. military. Kelly is unhappy with the fact that the military has women and gay people in it. He believes...

A teacher at Washington DC's Watkins Elementary School allegedly had third-grade students enact terrifying scenes from the Holocaust, "directing them to dig their classmates' mass graves and simulate ...

Perhaps the simplest, yet no less baffling, of these stunningly stupid statements comes when die-hard Trump supporters tell us they only trust Fox News, and then decry statements made by Fox News as l...

Probably the Pixies signature song, Where Is My Mind, is an anthem of the late 80s. Covered many times, Leo's version is pretty great:Puddles also has great take on this song: ...

As NASA's Juno space probe flew past Jupiter's moon Ganymede this summer, it captured data about the moon's magnetic and electric emissions. Now, researchers shifted the frequency of those radio waves...

Apple AirTags are tiny wireless tracking devices that you can attach to things so you can find them if you lose them. Last Friday, Jeana Jeana, a cosplayer and Dance Dance Revolution competitor tweete...

I'm not sure whether its the silly winter PJs the kayaker is wearing or the see-through kayak itself, but three captivated manatees just can't get enough. The curious spectators check out the odd show...

Halo's music has always been amazingly spot on. This live rendition of the main theme is pretty great. I do want the heavy drums to start up, however.Halo Infinite has thus far been pretty fun! After ...

Washington State Senator Doug Ericksen became sick with Covid-19 last month while on a trip to El Salvador. The 52-year-old Republican who had bashed Washington Governor Jay Inslee for his vaccine ma...

Seinfeld wasn't just a popular show; it was a cultural leviathan. I didn't start watching Seinfeld until my late teens, and I used "yada, yada, yada," well before my 13th year. It was the 90s pop...

Kenyon Wilson is a professor of performing arts at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and this semester, he ran an experiment: hiding a cash prize in a locker and burying the location and lock...

Marjorie Taylor Greene proved the GOP is diverse in her opening speech during a rally at Turning Point USA's "AmericaFest" on Sunday by using a racial slur against Asian Americans. "When I walked in y...

This video about how run down Gary, Indiana is begins with a remarkable image: the main road to it from a neighboring suburb has been bricked up. Welcome to The Most Miserable City in America! Formerl...

Julian Lucas supplies today's illustration of Betteridge's Law of Headlines, on the subject of writing itself: "Can "Distraction-Free" Devices Change the Way We Write?"I tried "distraction-free" writi...

Paleoburrows are the vernacular architecture of extinct megafauna. With enough headroom for the average-height human, the giant sloth tunnels of Brazil speak to the industry of their creators.Once Pro...

Looking at the wave of video game mascots with an attitude created to cash in on Sonic the Hedgehog's early 90s dominance feels like a fever dream. There was an innumerable roster of pretend...

Yours for $500 is this remarkable work of art crafted in the unusual medium of hacked-up game consoles. "Sega Saturn Devouring His Son" is by Josh Oliver and a perfect accompaniment for a story today ...

Nurdles are lentil-sized pellets of plasticspolyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, and so onthat are used to make everything from consumer goods to the containers we ship them in. They're an enviro...

Through his brilliant array of imaginative films, Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, has not only turned a couple of Western generations into anime fans but helped expand the visual language...

Four hours of the recent 2021 Game Awards boiled down to 8 minutes of new game reveals. Time saving!Image: Screengrab...

Four hours of the recent 2021 Game Awards boiled down to 8 minutes of new game reveals. Time saving!Image: Screengrab...

I just published a new guide over at Wirecutter that goes into exquisite detail about the best at-home karaoke machines. This involved a surprising amount of research just to figure out what the hell ...

Growing up Black in the West means that learning a narrow version of world history is inevitable. Even if you took AP classes in high school, the European perspective was always the main course in any...

On Sunday, December 19th, Andrew Marr signed off for the last time. "I had been wondering how to close this final show but I can't do better than quoting my great mentor: you stay classy, San Diego."A...

On this episode of Monstrum, they look at the origins of everybody's favorite Christmas devil, Krampus. Image: Screengrab...

This time last year, I shared a hilarious tribute album by the B-69s, a tribute band that covers other artists' songs in the style of the B-52s. Welp, now they're back with an equally absurd follow-up...

Even though the world is beginning to open up slightly, you'll understand my hesitancy to start booking flights. In lieu of actually traveling, I've been content to compile a list of sights and locati...

It's fascinating how interwoven the worlds of organized crime and entertainment are. From Sinatra to early stand-up comedy and Hollywood, gangsters were among the most important patrons in entertainme...

Since 2002, the Alpha Writers Workshop has hosted a group of a teenagers from 14 to 19 years of age for an 11-day residential writing workshop at the University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus. As f...

"Fall asleep to the sounds of the world around us," promises Real Life Ambience, "1 Hour of fire sounds for the whole family."My own contribution to this satirical genre was 10 HOURS HENRY KISSINGER U...

On Friday, Kellogg's confirmed online rumors that it has removed its name from Pop-Tarts boxes. The move comes amidst a months-long strike involving about 1400 workers across four cereal plants, but K...

Before Mark Proksch's Collin Robinson character started boring people to death as the energy vampire on What We Do in the Shadows, he assumed the role of Kenny "K-Strass" Strasser, an award-winning yo...

As much as comic fans fawn over the Golden Age, it's equally important to look at the preceding era, which set the stage for modern comics. Along with the lengthy roster of pulp heroes likeDoc Savage,...

Hassan Dervish spent 40 years of his life selling ice cream in southeast London. Sadly, his life was taken by cancer at the age of 62. To honor his passing, ten ice cream trucks joined in the funeral ...

Here's how people in Yakutsk, Siberiathe coldest big city on Earthdress to go out in the extreme cold there. Meanwhile, over in Fairbanks:...

My young son has become transfixed by videos of Lego robots moving bread around and preparing meals. Here's one of them, now watched perhaps thirty times.There's something slightly uncanny about watch...

When footage emerged of Kanye West's "publicist" threatening an election worker after Trump's 2020 election defeat, it was a reminder that Kanye himself had launched his own presidential campaign. Why...

An author I follow on Twitter reports spotting this wonderful variation of the Bristol Stool Chart in a UK hospital while having some tests. I've printed out a copy for myself and put it on the kitche...

Christmas is next week, which means our society's obligatory celebration of consumerism, materialism, and family is finally here. In the haze of ads for trendy gadgets and copious Christmas specials, ...

In recent months, Japan has come under fire for racially profiling people who visit the country. As a result, the US embassy has even issued a warning for Americans who decide to visit Japan. But is J...

Paul Thomas Anderson's new film Licorice Pizza is currently in the middle of its theatrical release and enjoying strong approval from critics and audiences. Anderson has been batting close t...

Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel's first cinematic foray into the multiverse concept, is currently dominating the box office and critical approval. In addition to that, DC's Flashpoint movie-...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Once upon a time, realism in video games improved from generat...

Earlier this week, I wrote about my trouble with an airline that shall remain nameless, regarding my overweight baggage. My experience with the crew during my flight to Warsaw was equally traumat...

In a recent interview with The Witcher's Henry Cavill on The Graham Norton Show, Norton asked the actor about his love for Warhammer 40,000 and playfully teased him for painting little toy soldiers an...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Few things scream peak Friday night than unwinding with a glas...

United Nations diplomats are legally allowed to ignore parking tickets. Some diplomats pay the fines, others don't. In his article "What parking tickets teach us about corruption," Tim Harford cites a...

On last night's The Late Show, Stephen Colbert celebrated the upcoming (Dec 19) 20th anniversary of the release of Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring with a Lonely Island-like rap video profes...

In a zoo-like enclosure, a good-natured water buffalo rescues its tortoise friend, who is in a bit of trouble. Flipped on its back, the tortoise is stuck, until the buffalo takes a downward-dog pose w...

Robert F. Kennedy, son of former US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is a radical anti-vaxxer who speaks to far-right crowds, spreading Q-based falsehoods like, "It is criminal medical malpractice to give a...

"Death makes angels of us all" is a maxim that holds less water with every passing decade. Where death once provided a respite for celebrated monsters, it's now the catalyst that prompts society to pu...

"This is not what punk rock's about, it's all in your mind." Razor"The lifestyle is sex, drugs, rock & roll, and fuck parental authority." Some Old Fart Named Greg Bauthamer There's a lot of co...

The original Home Alone movie is incredibly violent and it didn't slow down in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. The wet/sticky bandits Harv and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) wouldn't stand a chance...

An inmate at Butler County Jail crafted a Christmas village scene from everyday items in his cell and stuff purchased from the commissary, from soap to Skittles candy and paper bags. While the Sheriff...

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've all been there. You're finally in the cleaning mood, and...

The Dutch authority for nuclear safety and radiation protection (ANVS) reports that jewelry touted as having protective powers against 5G is often made from material that emits ionizing radiation. The...

Passengers on a Ryanair flight were about to take off from London, headed for Dublin, when a crazed Qnut suddenly took center stage. It started when a flight attendant asked him to put on a mask, acco...

Ever since engineers installed slats under the handrails on San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge, the bridge has emitted a curious and surprisingly loud droning hum when it's windy. It can be hea...

The moderator of Wednesday night's debate between the five GOP candidates for Governor of Minnesota asked a clear and straightforward question: "In your opinion, did President Biden win a constitution...

As a deadly fire engulfed an apartment building in New York City's East Village Thursday morning, two teenagers managed to escape by climbing out of their 4th floor window, bravely reaching to grab on...

Public webcams are fascinating windows into parts of the world you may not know much about. I often look at the Shibuya Crossing webcam, which is pointed at the world's busiest pedestrian crossing, in...

Brian Moore's Busy Simulator enables you to play the notification sounds of Slack, iMessage, Outlook, Discord, and other apps so that you sound busy, to your co-workers or perhaps just to yourself. Tu...

Vice World News reporter Hanako Montgomery went to Okinawa to find out how the pandemic has affected the island, which heavily relies on tourism. Okinawa is the poorest prefecture in all of Japan, wit...

An on-air Laura Ingraham looks none too pleased when she finds out, on the spot, that Fox colleague Sean Hannity is suddenly skipping out of town, Ted-Cancun-Cruz style, not to return until 2022. As i...

I'm not sure what Tucker Swanson Carlson, the idiocracy's favorite schoolmarm, is pretending to be upset about here. I think he is scolding people who want to discuss an infectious disease pandemic th...

The word "millipede" means "thousand feet" but nobody has ever identified a millipede, or any other kind of animal on Earth, with more than 1,000 legs. Now though, researchers have discovered E. perse...

The revolution is upon us [ ficuswhisperer] pic.twitter.com/F58ui6uAty— (@cocohasi) December 13, 2021...

In Charleston, West Virginia, a gentleman was taken to the hospital after his oxygen tank exploded outside his home. Prior to the explosion, the man was reportedly banging on it with a hammer. From WS...

Back in 1994, the Ninja Turtles were already on the way down their early 90s height of popularity. So naturally, the best way to save the franchise was, uhh, to create a terrible made-for-VHS Christma...

Still looking for gifts for art book-loving friends or family? Just in time for holiday gift giving (or wish-listing) here a few reviews the best art books I discovered this year.From the Land of the ...

English performer and actor David Bowie released Hunky Dory, his fourth album, in 1971 when he was 24. Rolling Stone calls it the 88th greatest album of all time, and it was his first album to go plat...

It's already too late to sign up for Brian Eno's colorful, glowing turntable: the limited edition sold out almost as soon as it became available. No price was made public, but Eno prints offered by th...

Pop quiz: what's the compound that makes you trip when you're munching on psychedelic mushrooms? If you said psilocybin, you're wrong. I was shocked too. Mainly because I'm one of those annoying frien...

Pop quiz: what's the compound that makes you trip when you're munching on psychedelic mushrooms? If you said psilocybin, you're wrong. I was shocked too. Mainly because I'm one of those annoying frien...

The cornerstone of the cultural appropriation argument centers on the amount of respect, or lack thereof, shown to the borrowed culture in question. Generally speaking, while not entirely comfortable ...

Cards on the table: the video linked above is a long one. It's a labyrinthian journey into the rotten core of the internet, and one of the most fascinating and hilarious things I've watched this week....

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 cozy, brick fireplace illuminating your dark living room 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.Have you always dreamed of creating your own video game, but i...

Adam runs through his favorite YouTube channels, movies, podcasts, books, and TV shows for 2021. I was surprised at the number of maker YouTube channels I wasn't following, namely machinist Joe Pieczy...

Reuters reports that a federal judge ruled that the opioid kingpin Sackler family can't shield itself from future lawsuits by people whose lives were destroyed by their predatory drug dealing practice...

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 a lot to worry about in 2021, but your electricity sho...

Although many people still resist positive representation on the screen, Hollywood's gotten better at showcasing marginalized groups and cultures. As a Black cinephile, watching the scores of quality ...

Hear ye! Hear ye!The War on Christmas is officially over. (Hear that, Fox?)King Trump, in a crowning moment, brought "Merry Christmas" back from the dead. And America has been saved from the "crazy pe...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Listen, not everything in life is a total garbage situation. W...

Reptilian by nature, MAGA folk don't usually veer from the thoughts and talking points they have been fed. Guns = Good. Pro-choice = Bad. Bro culture = Good. Etc. So when pranskter Jason Selvig talks...

Nothing by nothing is nothing.Melania Trump has announced the future minting of her first NFT. An NFT is a non-fungible token, or simply a digital receipt. Melania Trump once wore a controversial jack...

This dog helps its human friend to carry four tires. When I watched it arranging the tires so it could carry all four at once, I realized it was smarter than me. In fact, I reached out to the canine t...

When I was younger, I often tried to pair my playlist with my current mood as opposed to my desired one. If I were wallowing in sorrow because of my inability to approach my crush, I'd find some sappy...

Stefanie and Dan Graham of St. Petersburg, Florida had started a renovation in their bathroom when they suspected that a hive of bees had taken residence behind their shower wall. They weren't entirel...

A French bulldog named Francis doesn't seem to notice that he's buried in snow. He plows through, with only his head showing at times, as he keeps his eye on the prize a bright red ball that, sitting...

Max Headroom is certainly one of the strangest things to come out of the eighties. Take his 1986 song "Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You're A Lovely Guy)," for instance.It starts:There's an old man on ...

Nature geek and documentarian Brady Brandwood was curious what would happen if he bought a living lobster at the grocery store and kept it as a pet. Seems fascinating to learn about lobster behavior (...

Nature geek and documentarian Brady Brandwood was curious what would happen if he bought a living lobster at the grocery store and kept it as a pet. Seems fascinating to learn about lobster behavior (...

The delightful 11foot8+8 bridge recently claimed another trophy. This time it was a semi truck's faring and stacks. "When the driver then reflexively decided to just put it in reverse and back out, he...

The shameless balking heads at Fox always root for exposure of "private" texts unless, of course, the texts are sent by their own criminal tribe. Then, suddenly, using texts as evidence is an outrage...

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 no secret the world of electronic programming or hardware...

Beloved pastor, Kenneth Copeland (85) who owns a Gulfstream V jet because he refuses to fly in "a long tube with demons," manages to avoid paying property tax on his $7 million home thanks to a Texas ...

All your favorite patriots are speaking at Turning Point USA's America Fest. As an added treat, conservative hero Kyle Rittenhouse was added to the roster. I can't wait for Mr. Rittenhouse to tell the...

Did Ted Cruz just hack Charles Schwab's Twitter account?...

Kyra Rini is the only person living on the Greek islet of Kinaros. And although the 75-year-old woman only runs into another human every other week or so, when mail and supplies are delivered, she sti...

As Giulio Divirgilio, a superintendent with the NYC MTA Buses department, was parking his car at his office in Brooklyn, a New York Post reporter confronted him and asked why he had a blow-up doll in ...

Adam Jenne of Cape Coral, Florida is angry because he was pulled of a United Airlines flight for wearing women's underwear on his face instead of a mask as the airline requires. Apparently other passe...

For years, scientists have studied the how the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus self-organizes into swarms through a fascinating kind of "social cooperation." Now, researchers from Rice University and the ...

San Francisco-based designer Nick Acosta spent his Friday night upconverting the trailer for the Star Wars Holiday Special into 4K Ultra-HD at 60 frames per second. The result is somehow bother crispe...

Despite laying the groundwork for the Marvel universe, the Fantastic Four were lost in the shuffle at the house of ideas. Taking a back seat to the X-Men was the standard operating procedure for FF fa...

Bruce Springsteen has sold his song catalog to Sony, including master recordings, for $500m. CNN:The deal would be the largest ever transaction for a single artist's catalog, according to the Times, a...

Located on a hillside overlooking Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands, the beautiful Fern View House is for sale. It's the perfect location to scan the Loch for signs of Nessie. Asking price is 900,00...

Reddit, the last social media site that isn't entirely given over to an algorithmic hell of engagement metrics (so long as you stay away from whatever it feeds logged-out visitors), is to go public wi...

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 plugging in and turning on a TV was enough....

I'm not sure why, but plays and musicals have struck a sour note with my sensibilities. Chalk it up to the limitations of what's possible on a stage or the fact that movies exist, but getting lost in ...

Red Maniac devised and made an autonomous sonar dronea boat!that tools around lakes looking for signs of sunken treasure under the waves. The parts list is specialized, to say the least. An afternoon ...

Tokyo Lens explores a Tokyo building with incredibly tiny and odd studio apartmentsthink toilets beside bedsbut a degree of clever optimization you don't get with, say, New York City's hacked up and i...

I was wondering why it was clever that a drone video was shot in a single take. Then I watched it!One of our most spectacular films with extremely precise planning and zero tolerance for any mistakes....

I recently worked on a project (more info TBA once it's public!) that involved some digging into music scene around Muscle Shoals, Alabama. In the course of that research, I learned not only that Wils...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gabe Loves 90s Comics (@gabelove90scomics)I'll always be fascinated by Mike Tyson. His strange mannerisms and hobbies offer the perfect ...

Ok, let me see if I can explain this one. For the 50th anniversary of George Harrison's solo album, All Things Must Pass, a bunch of famous folks, including Mark Hamill, Fred Armisen, "Weird A" Yankov...

I got into Prince too late in life, both mine and his own. By the time I discovered exactly how awesome Prince was, I was in my mid-twenties and would only have less than five years left with the Arti...

Back in April 2021, the FDA temporarily-but-indefinitely eased restrictions on the distribution of mifepristone, also known as RU-486, part of the two-drug regimen that is mostly commonly and effectiv...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Aside from your wallet, phone, and keys, your Nintendo Switch ...

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 night's sleep is essential for a healthy and happy life...

Aervana Travel is a portable wine aerator perfect for anyone who is fond of wine and travel, especially at the same time. This versatile little gadget not only looks gorgeous and is easy to carry, but...

Happy holidays to you from us at Spoken Word with Electronics. Primary music in track two is goth santas Alien Sex Fiend, whose Stuff the Turkey should be sung around every chimney. We also review an ...

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 looking for a great gift to put under the tree this year...

Seen above is a tiny portion of an image captured in 2006 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It depicts "the bottom of Candor Chasma, a large canyon in the Valles Marineris system" of the Red Planet,...

Reddit user u/htGosSEVe studied train routes and charted what they call "the new longest possible train journey in the world." It starts in the southern part of Portugal and ends up in Singapore.From ...

A questionable future and hiring freeze didn't stop Peleton's CEO from holding an instructors and other special guests-only holiday party, after banning celebrations for general employees.NY Post:John...

bell hooksthe pioneering feminist poet, critic, activist, and educatorhas died at age 69. hooks wrote several dozen impactful books, from her first poetry collection And There We Wept in 1978 to the h...

I do a weekly tips newsletter for DIYers of all kinds. For the third year on Boing Boing, here is my year-end round up of my favorite newsletter entries. If you want to see more of this sort of conten...

Crossovers are all the rage these days. Growing up as a fan of comic books, the idea of a crossover isn't that uncommon to me, but seeing the mainstream get behind the concept has been bizarre. From t...

If being a wife is a rough gig, more like a punishment than a cutesy title, imaging adding the world of crime into the mix.The Yakuza are enigmatic and legendary around the globe, but there isn't an a...

Humans emit a compound called hexadecanal (HEX for short) from their skin, saliva, and feces. Newborns release copious amounts of the compound from their heads. Even though HEX has no discernible scen...

Keeping your important stuff safe is critical. ID cards, memory sticks with sensitive information, jewelry, etc are all something that you want to keep secure. Unfortunately, most of us can't exactly ...

Human beings are such devious little creatures. Nothing is safe from our violence and savagery. We've improved since the dark ages, but that darkness never left our hearts. Even with the illuminating ...

Mark and I have started watching and throughly enjoying Peter Jackson's documentary The Beatles: Get Back. But we haven't yet gotten to this cute scene (also in 1970's Let It Be), in which a very si...

Not to be outdone by Texas, which allows anyone to sue anyone "who performs, aids or intends to aid in an abortion," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is fighting critical race theory with a Big Brother snitc...

Hollywood is defined by its eras. We're knee-deep in the Franchise Era, spearheaded by the superhero genre. Inasmuch as the 70s are remembered for the Auteur Era, studios battling for lucrative intell...

Via Nag on the Lake, this colorized version of LeCochon Danseur (1907).In the original black and white silent film,produced by Path Frres, a grotesque pig in gentleman's clothing interrupts a young wo...

A major fire broke out in Hong Kong's 38-story World Trade Center on Wednesday, trapping more than 300 people on the roof for three hours. The blaze started at lunchtime, around 12:30 pm, lasting for ...

Natalie Naudus is a professional audiobook narrator whose work has ranged from soothing texts like Sofia Axelrod's How Babies Sleep to science fiction epics such as Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun an...

The "Am I the Asshole?" Subreddit is a wonderful place where anxious individuals can ask the broader public for a second opinion about whether or not they are actually the asshole in this particular s...

Want to wrap up a Zoom meeting? Use Busy Simulator to randomly play fake notification pings from apps like Slack, Discord, Google Chat, etc....

I posted this how-to on making a Haunted Mansion-eqsue ghost reflecting mirror a few weeks back, and realized I had everything I needed to make one sitting around, except the 1-way mirror film.Amazon ...

Sometimes it's hard to disassociate rap music with the masculine bravado and gang culture that's defined it for decades, but the genre is clawing itself from the mire of toxic masculinity to become mo...

Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who choked George Floyd to death and was convicted of his murder in April, pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating George Floyd's civil rights. Convi...

Locking up your junk seems to be a new Bangkok thing. The Thaiger:Unlike the last report of a man inexplicably locking his penis in a padlock back in July, few details were released about this inciden...

BusKill is a magsafe-style USB dongle that turns off the laptop whenever it's disconnectedlike a Kensington lock but much more versatile. It can even, as the name promises, kill the laptop entirely if...

An entire bridge was recently stolen in Akron, Ohio, and nobody knows whodunnit. The 10-foot-wide, 6-feet tall, 58-foot long bridge, which was originally set in a park, was moved in the 2000s to a nea...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is currently serving multiple life terms in a high security federal penitentiary. He was captured in 2013 by law enforcement while using his laptop in a public library....

With one woman claiming to fear even speaking with Tesla's HR and another pointing out that the abuse worsened with CEO Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's misogynist tweets, the sexual harassment lawsuits are uns...

A Louisiana judge claims sedatives, not racism, are at fault for her screaming racist epithets. Daily Beast:Lafayette City Court Judge Michelle Odinet has asked for "forgiveness and understanding" aft...

A man in China visited his sick ex-girlfriend, made her food, and then stole $24,000 by lifting her eyelids while she was sleeping to get into her digital wallet. His is now in prison with a sentence ...

Mark Aguirre, formerly a Houston police captain, was paid by wealthy Republican donor and deranged quack Steve Hotze to "investigate" voter fraud. Aguirre rammed a van he "thought" was loaded with "il...

The popular Japanese experimental noise rock band Boris (also called or Borisu) just released a new Christmas EP that includes a cover of "Last Christmas" by WHAM. And wow, it is something."This...

One of shonen manga's biggest strengths is the bountiful assortment of genres readers have to choose from. Unlike American comic books, which were forced to rely on superheroes to survive the oppressi...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Order today, RIGHT HERE AND NOW."Each week Ruben Bolling takes an un...

No matter how natural the process of dying is, the prospect of death will always be unsettling. Grappling with the existential questions surrounding death's reality can either ruin or enlighten any ac...

If you're on the go and want to freshen up for a post-work date or while traveling, your options are usually limited, and taking a quick trip to the barbershop isn't always in the cards. After all, ma...

Previously:The Future of Cereal Box Art...

The vulgar declaration of "Nice caulk!" lands a solid blow, but this is in so many ways a stroke of subtle genius from @kommanderkarl.Hey y'all! I compiled my best and favorite reloads! No robot voice...

The Busy Simulator, by Brian Moore, will start dinging at irregular but frequent intervals with whichever common notification noises you tell it to: Google, Microsoft, Slack, Apple Mail, and so on. Yo...

Wikimedia's Chris Koerner interviews Annie Rauwerda, whose encyclopedic knowledge of the encyclopedia means she finds (and shares) the most wild, offbeat and fascinating articles. (See also her work h...

As Showtime's Dexter returns to television to atone for its past sins, it's important to remember why the show was a hit in the first place. With his latest entry in the fantastic series "the day (ins...

With winter weather knocking on our doorstep, now's the right time to think of ways to keep your dog entertained because even when it's bitterly cold and snowy, they still need to exercise. Canine enr...

As a cat owner, you want to make sure your cat is always happy and can have the best possible playtime experience. While it's great to be able to enjoy playtime together, sometimes as an owner, your b...

Love your iPhone 13, but hate how quickly the battery drains? Maybe you just don't want to bother with the charging cable or you're just sick of having to buy something at the caf so you can use their...

When traveling and working remotely, you'll quickly become conscious of how much your laptop weighs. Even downsizing from a 15" to a 12.5" can be a total gamechanger, and your shoulders will thank you...

Who doesn't love a little public guerilla art? In Dallas, a statue of a woman with a cephalopod head showed up bolted in place in Pioneer Park.It's the second of these bizarre statues to pop up in the...

If the past year has changed anything about our lives, it's how conscious we are of harmful particles in the air. Whether it's airborne viruses like COVID-19 or pollutants from wildfires thousands of ...

A white truck in Connecticut tried to make a getaway without its driver, speeding down a hill, flying over a fence, and jumping a curb before it finally crashed to a stop. It then turned on its windsh...

The Miller High Life team nailed it. Their Gingerbread Dive Beer Kit is brilliant. Earlier this month they offered it for sale and, of course, it's already sold out. When I first came across an image ...

The business of selling books extends far beyond the text compressed between the covers. Consumers are drawn to authors with backstories as compelling as the yarns they weave with language. Hafsah Fai...

Yesterday, Mark posted video of Liz Cheney reading text messages sent by Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr., who were all panicking on Jan 6 not for the Capitol, the p...

Whether you're looking to pursue a career in computer engineering or would love to bring an idea you have for an app to life, understanding coding and programming basics is a must. And while there are...

Some years ago, I chanced upon an item that affords a reliable manner in which to weigh luggage at home before reaching the airport. This inexpensive handheld scale is a godsend as I cannot bear ...

While speaking to the Jan 6 House Committee today, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once blamed wildfires on space lasers, became confused again. Instead of commenting on matters regarding the Capitol...

One evening in 2019 over a dozen Chicago police officers bashed down the door of the wrong house and found an innocent unclothed black woman standing inside. They immediately handcuffed her but didn't...

The Chinese government is paying the consulting firm Vippi Media $300,000 to oversee a social media campaign to compensate prominent TikTokers, Twitch Streamers, and Instagram influencers for saying n...

Environmental activist Alekz Londos captured drone footage Monday of a homeless encampment near Santa Cruz, California hit by heavy rains. Londos had distributed "trash bag rain jackets" before the st...

Custom toy creator Hoodwinked Toys decided to celebrate the holidays by transporting the Grinch to a galaxy far, far away: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hoodwinked Toy...

Jason Chia Junjie, 40, was banned from driving after causing two separate traffic fatalities in Geylang, Singapore. Even so, Juniie continued to drive and was eventually pulled over by police for a ra...

Ted Leo is one of my all-time favorite songwriters a highly literate punk rocker with folksy roots who's unafraid to grapple with political nuance in personal and poetic ways. So naturally, when I'd ...

I walked into my pro wrestling fandom without any illusions of legitimacy about the "sport." I didn't become a wrestling fan until I reached the world-weary age of 13. So much of wrestling's cartoony ...

Getting into the comics businesswhile still incredibly difficultbecame more accessible with the advent of the internet. In the last few years, Black Sands Entertainment has made significant headway in...

An IHop in Wasilla, Arkansas can't attract enough workers, forcing it to reduce its hours of operation. So an employee put a sign up in the window, explaining the situation by incorrectly placing the ...

Someone stole a package from my porch 4 years ago and police wouldn't do anything about it. So I made it my life's work to engineer some relatively harness karmic justice. Here's is this year's submis...

I finally understand what the deal is with Andrew Clyde, the weird GOP Congressman from Georgia. As you might recall, Clyde compared the January 6 Capitol riot to "a normal tourist visit" and refused ...

This footage of a magnificent barreleye (aka "spook fish") was captured by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute underwater robot off the coast of California. The barreleye (Macropinna microsto...

A man wearing a clown mask plowed a limousine through fences and gates at Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport last week with the goal of stealing a jet to fly into Area 51 so he could see the e...

After completing an intelligence test devised by Imperial College London and the BBC, 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons did not distinguish themselves from results previously gathered from ...

I wonder what will become of Zim and Zou's wonderful window display for Hermes once the store in Shinjuku, Tokyo is done with it. [This is Colossal via Luxury Launches]This renewal comes with a specia...

Above is a 1980 performance of soul legend Teddy Pendergrass singing "Love TKO." So smooth. But mute the sound and it looks like he's doing stand-up comedy. (via @bighealthyfr)...

Roblox's success goes mostly unnoticed. Minecraft was sold to Microsoft for about $2bn and is estimated to generate about $500m a year in revenue. Roblox's market cap, however, is $65bn. Why? Because ...

Eight people died in the Mayfield Consumer Products candle factory, struck by one of the tornados that killed at least 74 people over the weekend. Some were not there willingly, reports NBC News, told...

What else is left to say or write about The Beatles? Peter Jackson's newly released and highly praised documentary The Beatles: Get Back shows that, half a century after their break up, the Fab Four s...

For all of America's faults- of which there are several- at least the government isn't (allegedly) causing famous billionaires and celebrities to disappear. The recent media coverage of missing Chines...

All you need to make this essential yet charming tool is some old plywood, sandpaper, spray paint, 18 inches of old railway, and an industrial-grade workshop with a full-size floor drill press and a s...

In this Dave Picciuto video, he runs through ten simple woodworking projects that you can make in a day or two so you still have time to give them as gifts this holiday season. The gifts include penci...

The Sarco assisted euthanasia pod first started making waves around 2017. Created by Dutch doctor Philip Nitschke of Exit International, it's a coffin-like pod that's meant to help deliver people...

There's an old spiritual phrase, "what you resist persists." A succinct maxim that speaks to how avoiding something only intensifies its presence in one's life. Trying not to think about that debt you...

There's an old spiritual phrase, "what you resist persists." A succinct maxim that speaks to how avoiding something only intensifies its presence in one's life. Trying not to think about that debt you...

Was 2021 the kookiest year ever in space? With leaky toilets, ships exploding on the pad, rockets falling from the sky, and Captain Kirk taking a ride up the gravity well, Gizmodo says yes.With space ...

At today's January 6 Committee Meeting Rep. Liz Cheney read texts from Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. they sent to Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, begg...

TikToker @dumpsterdivingfreegan posts regular "dumpster diving hauls" to expose extreme waste, and a recent video of a particularly fruitful trip to a Whole Foods dumpster has gotten traction online. ...

In early 2021 31-year-old Huge Ma started a side project on top of his job as a software engineer at Airbnb. Frustrated by clunky government vaccine portals, he spent two weeks creating TurboVax, a fr...

Wow, Jen Psaki let loose today, with a sway and an after-hours laugh that we haven't heard before. The White House press secretary was discussing climate change, when music interrupted her. She was in...

Blower is an iOS app that simulates a fan but can actually blow out a real candle. How is that possible? The Action Lab explains in the video above....

Atmosfear (also called Nightmare) was my favorite game as a little kid. It came in a coffin-shaped box, and let you play as characters like a werewolf, or zombie, or a vampire, as you faced your darke...

Disney sent out the tweeter'd video below to the many folks who have made reservations for their uber-expensive Star Wars-themed two-day "experience." I say themed because every video they share makes...

To recap: Komodo dragons are a special animal that lives in Panega, which is a universe that's right next to ours. They're very nice. But also eat a people sometimes, which is also kind of cool though...

A loud gentleman at a Sam's Club gas station blew a gasket when he thought a woman cut the queue. Mind you, he'd already filled his tank, according to Daily Dot, but that didn't keep him from sticking...

A gentleman, brimming with confidence, drove his expensive car into a swollen river with the goal of reaching the other side. Unfortunately for him, he didn't make it across. Unfortunately for everyon...

Kudos to this person for warning cheapskates to back off. 3 Bar stools – $3003 white and brushed silver adjustable height bar stools. Like new. $300 for all three.IMPORTANT. Please read:I'd rath...

Ten South Dakota teachers were led to the middle of an ice-covered hockey rink and challenged with scooping up $5,000 in dollar bills dumped on a rug to pay for their students' school supplies as a cr...

As early as next week, NASA will launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space observatory in history and the world's biggest science project. A collaboration between NASA, ESA (Europ...

There's an app called Blower that, when turned on, displays a fan on the screen that spins and whirs as it blows on things. It's even strong enough to put out some candles. But, of course, it's not re...

Eric Trump told a fawning crowd of devoted cultists at a ReAwaken America event that his dad won the 2020 presidential election, and that "we're gonna win again in 2024." The reality is Trump very nea...

Craig Duke, pastor at Newburgh United Methodist Church in Indiana, resigned after congregants were displeased by his appearance in drag on the HBO show We're Here, lipsynching Kesha's We Are Who We Ar...

Snoop Dog is truly a masterpiece. It is always a treat when plans meet....

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss released Raising Sand 14 years ago to wide praise. They joined up again for a three-song set as part of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series.From NPR:They kick it off with the...

UK-based department store chain John Lewis & Partners has stopped selling a child's party dress style called "Lollita" and made a brief public apology. Manufactured by Chi Chi London, the "Lollita...

Jesus pays a visit to a couple in their Christmas-adorned living room and points to their fireplace. "What's with the animal socks?" he asks.When the couple explains that they are "stockings for Santa...

Jesus pays a visit to a couple in their Christmas-adorned living room and points to their fireplace. "What's with the animal socks?" he asks.When the couple explains that they are "stockings for Santa...

Watch this darling bear cub stop to catch snowflakes on its tongue before running off to catch up with its momma bear. Related:...

What better way to kick off the QAnon conference of 'patriots' in Dallas this weekend than messing up the words to the Star Bangled Banner? This line is supposed to be:'Gave proof through the night,th...

A man in New Zealand allegedly received up to 10 Covid vaccinations in one day, according to The Guardian, not because he thought he'd be extra protected, but as a way to make some extra cash. Althoug...

DC's been struggling to make a Superman movie work for a little over 30 years. Man of Steel was a modest hit, but it fell short both critically and commercially compared with Wonder Woman and Aquaman....

Rap is changing. The immutable rules of the genre and the conduct of its participants loosened considerably in the last decade. Sitting in the crux of this generational gap is Lil Nas X. Prior to comi...

Here's what happens when a child's drawing of a cool futuristic truck encounters reality.The truck lacked the wiper in earlier presentations, and this is the best they could do on the journey to being...

With franchises breaking the box office like so many henchmens' faces, it'd be almost silly to believe the golden era of action movies is behind us. The quality of special effects alone could place se...

In this video, a ciliate dies to our edification. This is hardly a snuff film, however, as a ciliate is a microscopic protozoa about 150 micrometers long. And yet the departure of this loxodes magnus...

Here's a fascinating fact I found out from this interview with Michael Dorn, the actor and director who plays Lt. Cmdr. Worf in Star Trek: he's the franchise's most prolific performer, appearing in 27...

One of the most beautiful and liberating aspects of social media is the freedom it affords artists. With each platform offering a different route for expression, enterprising artists are learning the ...

Before moving to the city, I dreamed about living in New York. I envisioned all five of the city's boroughs as an oasis of artistic and cultured minds that would intersperse literary references with t...

Most genres of music wear their influences on their sleeve. Electronic music goes a step further and repurposes the wardrobe of its influences into a three-piece suit with a matching top hat. Although...

In this footage, recorded by someone at the Atlantic City Harrah's hotel, a real estate convention hosted there descended into an orgy of largely-ineffective violence. Local media, quoting social medi...

Everybody knows that NFTs are a bubble. The real question is, "what kind of bubble?" Is there value in the technology offered by NFTs that will be explored in more detail once the bubble pops? Or are ...

Social media created opportunities for virtually anyone to earn money. The option to monetize anything is more accessible than it's ever been. Who'd have ever thought that curating a seemingly perfect...

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 porch pirates to people cutting you off on the freeway, y...

Fade Into You by Mazzy Star came out in 1993, and is one of the most bittersweet, dreamy songs that I know of. It always takes me back to such sweet memories, like drawing with my friend on her bedroo...

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've all been there spending time hunched over your computer...

In the '60s, you could scrub the grime off your skin with Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap by Aerosol Corp. This soap was a jack of all trades. It came in a variety of super cute animals, grew fur when exposed 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.At some point in your life you may have contemplated going on ...

Dumbland is an 8-episode cartoon series of shorts drawn and produced by David Lynch. The series was originally released on his website in 2002, and came out on DVD in 2006. Altogether, the series is 3...

In comparison to controversial filmmakers, comic creators are fairly tame. There are a few controversial creators in the medium, but generally speaking, the writers and artists who earn fans' ire aren...

Author Anne Rice, best known for her 1976 novel Interview with a Vampire, died Saturday at age 80. Rice wrote more than 30 Gothic novels, including the Vampire Chronicles series."Earlier tonight, my m...

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 not much to say about a dead phone literally, your ph...

In this short film by Zach Woods (Jared on Silicon Valley), Will Ferrell stars as a therapist who's having a session with a severely depressed, suicidal patient (William Jackson Harper, Chidi on The G...

Like the great Fox Mulder, we all want to believe. Deep down, we're miffed that the powers and creatures that populate movies and television are fictional. While most of us just shrug and move on with...

In his heyday, Jerry Lewis was the king of funny. Not just the king of comedy, the king of funny. It may seem like a frivolous distinction to make from a modern perspective, but the business of comedy...

I live a double life. Among friends, I wax intellectual about the unsung heroes of 20th century American blues in my Captain Beefheart shirt and NOFX baseball cap. You'll catch me ...

This is the fourth and final post excerpting The Adventurer's Glossary, a word-nerd exploration of the theory and practice of all sorts of adventure by my old friend and frequent Boing Boing contribut...

I'm not the biggest fan of sports, but I am a sucker for a good sports story, esepcially learning what athletes go through to engage with their chosen game. Their livelihood and dream depend on their ...

Art is supposed to be a unique expression of an idea or an emotion. Barring the puzzling trends in NFTs, stick-figure sketches generally don't fetch exorbitant sums of money because of how little skil...

Rabbits is a series of eight horror shorts from 2002 by David Lynch. I first saw the series when I was in high school after finding it online. I immediately loved these films because of their eerie 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.Any person who loves podcasts or grooving to their favorite pl...

Alexander Calder shows us what all the amazing wire models that make up his miniature circus can do in this film by Jean Painleve from 1955. Calder is famous for his colorful mobiles, but Cirque Calde...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Moving can be stressful and expensive, but it doesn't have to ...

This laugh from Keanu tells you all you need to know about what the superstar and awfully nice guy thinks of NFTs.Keanu's laugh in response to NFTs in this @verge interview is everything I wanted ...

A popular format for AI-generated photos is "This X Does Not Exist", with single-serving sites galore such as This Person Does Not Exist, This Politician Does Not Exist and This Cat Does Not Exist. Ka...

If "derivative works based in the pop culture cornucopia of Saturday Morning Cartoons" is your cup of tea, and it is surely mine, Teens On Acid is an essential $25 purchase.It's a book of Josh Thornse...

(Woman who stole fingers) by Saori Shiroki is a gloomy 4-minute animation about a boy whose fingers and toes become larvae and separate from his hand. The young boy's strained relationship with his m...

I've never heard anything quite like the album Bish Bosch by Scott Walker. Scott Walker (January 9, 1943 March 22, 2019) was a composer, singer-songwriter- and record producer who went from a 19...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Not so long ago, I welcomed a healthy baby girl into the world...

Cooking with Brontez is a reimagining of the classic public media cooking show genre. Filmed entirely on iPhone, Cooking with Brontez brings viewers out of the studio and into home kitchens as we trul...

A Texas homeowner unlucky enough to be adjacent to the SpaceX launch facility felt bullied and refused to sell her home. It seems uncharacteristic for Texas, a state all about property rights and refu...

For the longest time, commercials were something that you had to accept. They still are in some ways, but modern viewing practices provide several evasive options for dealing with ads. Whether you spe...

Behold the Easilok deadbolt [Amazon], which the Lockpicking Lawyer describes as "by far the best-made low-security lock I've ever encountered."He still picks it in seconds, but hey....

WLKY reports that up to a hundred people lost their lives in last night's storm in Kentucky. Gov. Andy Beshear said it was likely the most severe tornado outbreak in the state's history. Dozens are fe...

Always a classic, enjoy the Muppets performing the "Ringing of the Bells."...

One of the YouTube maker channels that I religiously follow throughout the year is Todd Osgood's Project Farm. On it, he does very well thought out performance and stress test reviews and comparisons ...

One of the unforeseen consequences of streaming was the death of Saturday morning cartoons. To kids born after 2012, the idea of waiting until Saturday to overdose on cereal and cartoons is as foreign...

While grups may already be familiar with "Fish Heads" by Barnes and Barnes, I recently discovered it and filled my heart with ecstasy. It was made for their debut album, Voohaba. Voohaba means "greeti...

For millions of people, having a successful career in the arts is a dreamand that goes double for comic creators. The prospect of being able to exist within the same land of imagination of your youth ...

Now that I'm on the outside, I try not to think about my time in school too often. Sometimes I can't shake it. Whether it's sneaking a couple of candy cigarettes behind an authority figure's back or f...

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 are right in the thick of the Holiday Season and it's time ...

The Panic Fables are visionary comics made by renowned filmmaker and artist Alejandro Jodorowsky. Jodorowsky made them early in his career before he worked on Dune and The Incal. The Panic Fables were...

This is the third of four posts excerpting The Adventurer's Glossary, a word-nerd exploration of the theory and practice of all sorts of adventure by my old friend and frequent Boing Boing contributor...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Now more than ever, most of our days are consumed with constan...

I Am A Chain Reaction is a super rad video that combines contemporary dance, drawing, and music. The song in the video is "Modifying The Knife" by Roger Tellier-Crai.Two people dressed in black dance ...

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 much ado about nothing when the weather gets warm and ...

The Dimensions of Dialogue by Jan Svankmajer is a stop-motion animation where daily household items such as silverware, pots and pans, and food come to life. The objects re-arrange themselves into var...

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 here, and we are right in the thick of i...

I awoke to find my head slumped on the shoulder of a shaggy bearded man wearing green shorts and a badly stained leather vest. He handed me a beer in a dented can. "You had better wet your beak before...

Welp, President Joe Biden really did it this time. In what can only be considered an act of sacrilege (almost as blasphemous as when Biden neglected to mention Dr. Seuss in a Read Across America Day s...

For two years, Laura Oglesby, 48, of Missouri, posed as her estranged 22-year-old daughter, took almost $20,000 in federal student loans and grants, attended Southwest Baptist University under her dau...

This mind-warping time-lapse film has a trippy effect. Watch it full screen and marvel at the erupting cactus blossoms. The bio of the videographer, who goes by the handle EchinopsisFreak, states:I'm ...

This shitty toilet paper dispenser in some Chinese restrooms won't let you have any paper until you watch a 30-second commercial. Then, you get only three squares. This thing is begging for a devious ...

It evidently took a couple of weeks for unimportant garbage like a tweet from Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk to reach US Senator Bernie Sanders. Once it did, Senator Sanders responded with what may go down as o...

A British man was taking a morning walk in Singapore when a gang of about 20 otters attacked him. "I thought I was going to die," he later said.Graham George Spencer, who lives in Singapore, said the ...

A publicist for billionaire Trump supporter and musician Kanye West went to the home of a Georgia election worker after the 2020 election and demanded she confess to bogus claims of fraud. Reuters rep...

Set in the High Republic, a time of young Yoda and threats the Jedi order, perhaps not as bumbling yet, can presumably handle because we know what comes next!This is just a fantastic 3 minutes of amaz...

MSNBC's Brian Williams didn't just say goodbye in his final episode of "The 11th Hour With Brian Williams" Thursday night he also delivered an ominous warning about the state of the nation.The 62-ye...

Sad news: Michael Nesmith of The Monkees, who went on to have a successful career in music and film died today at 78 of natural causes.From Rolling Stone:His life changed forever in 1980 when his moth...

A British court today permitted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the U.S. on "espionage" charges, reversing an earlier ruling that cited Assange's mental health and the brutal conditi...

A British court today permitted Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the U.S. on "espionage" charges, reversing an earlier ruling that cited Assange's mental health and the brutal conditi...

In referencing her "position on Jews" while declaring a "Jewish-Palestinian problem," Justice Barrett said the quiet part out loud. Anti-semitism is ugly and has no place in the Supreme Court of the U...

In 2013 James Howells of Newport, Wales mistakenly tossed his hard drive into the trash, and the next day his wife took it to the local landfill. Sometime later, he realized what happened and has been...

Birds and airplanes collide more than 10,000 times each year, according to reports to the Federal Aviation Administration. In fact, it was a flock of geese that caused the emergency forced water landi...

Actor Jussie Smollett was today found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct. Smollett paid two associates to publicly assault him in a bizarre ploy for attention, but the scheme went awry after ...

In 1959 researchers at Australia's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital injected a volunteer with curare, the same stuff that indigenous peoples in Central and South America put on blowgun darts to paralyze p...

British artist Chris Achilleos died this week at 74, reports Doctor Who News. Achilleos's glamourous fantasy artwork graced everything from album covers to fantasy novels and movie posters. The signa...

Andre Abrams, 57, of Gainesville, Florida is in big trouble after spraying his flamethrower toward a car filled with teenagers inside. Abrams said that there's been an ongoing dispute over parking wit...

Arslan Ash just won CEO 2021. For those of you who aren't crazy, let me explain what that means. The popularity of Esports is undeniable. Even ESPN now airs competitions, much to the chagrin of its co...

At Allen Dale Elementary, in Grant's Pass, Oregon a friendly crow with a foul mouth mysteriously appeared. The crow helped itself to snacks, poked people in the head, and generally seemed charming. Or...

Cobra Kai, the continuation of the Karate Kid storyline, has been one of my favorite shows in recent years. The cast, crew, and writers have done a fantastic job of making every episode just as much f...

Yet another passenger became unruly in the friendly skies, this time on Delta flight 324 from Washington DC to Los Angeles. He assaulted a flight attendant, according to CNN. Then, when an air marshal...

Masayuki Uemura, Nintendo's lead architect for the Famicom (aka Nintendo Entertainment System) and the Super Famicom (SNES), died this week at age 78. From Kotaku:Originally,Uemura worked at Sharp, se...

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 in the warm weather is exponentially more enticing tha...

On Wednesday, a small, crashed plane was found in a field near Oklahoma's Tahlequah Municipal Airport. Weirdly, authorities haven't located a pilot or any passengers and nobody has reached out to airp...

Matt Gaetz in on a roll this week. After his Tuesday threat to "take power" after the 2022 election, he flexed his anti-democratic bravado again yesterday, on Steve Bannon's War Room, encouraging the ...

For a lot of tabletop miniature gamers of a certain age, their gateway into the hobby was Milton-Bradley/Games Workshops' 1989 adventure board game, HeroQuest. The game was pretty much designed to lur...

Transcripts from the iPhone of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes are now public documents, thanks to the ongoing trials over the company's blood-pricking fraud. So musician Patrick Swanson took those ...

There's a sacred list of animes that Gen X and Millennial geeks revere above all others as flawless markers of quality in the genre. Howl's Moving Castle, Akira, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and others al...

In October, McGill-Queen's University Press released The Adventurer's Glossary, a word-nerd exploration of the theory and practice of all sorts of adventure by my old friend and frequent Boing Boing c...

When he wasn't busy recording the Greatest Jazz Concert Ever, famed jazz pianist Charles Mingus apparently dabbled in feline toilet training, going so far as to produce a "CAT-alog for Toilet Training...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Look, 2021 has proved to be frustrating enough without the pre...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Modern day visual media has turned videography into a primary ...

I was sent an Elecjet charging power bank to try out. It's a 10,000mAh Graphene battery with a digital meter that indicates the remaining charge as a percentage. When I plugged it in for the first tim...

Illustration: SethIn October, McGill-Queen's University Press released The Adventurer's Glossary, a word-nerd exploration of the theory and practice of all sorts of adventure by my old friend and freq...

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 it comes to keeping things green, you've been doing your ...

Anyone who is 14 or younger today will never be able to purchase cigarettes legally in in New Zealand, according to new legislation expected to pass. The aim is to annually increase the legal smoking ...

After a decades-long marriage, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Purdue Pharma's Sackler family are parting ways: the disgraced Sacklers, who have been pushing their highly addictive Oxycontin since ...

About 2/3rds of the way through this routine the entertainer offers a rocking list of preventatives and cures for COVID that are not well steeped in science. I am sure, however, that liberty is glad t...

What do you get when you combine guest stars of The Love Boat with the contestants of Match Game? Why, an atrocious one-hour special called Beatles Forever: A Musical Tribute (1977)!Cinema Crazed desc...

Hillary Clinton never expected to lose to Trump. Most of us didn't either. In fact, she didn't even have a concession speech prepared. In the above clip, Clinton reads the victory speech she would (sh...

A few days ago Fox News' Christmas tree in New York was set on fire. In this supercut, it becomes clear Fox News thinks this act of arson (in which no humans were killed or injured) is far more grievo...

Reality TV star Josh Duggar (33) won the hearts of the religious right when he came out against gay marriage as a spokesman for the Christian nationalist hate group Family Research Council. The father...

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 a terrible sleeper, it could be for a myriad of reas...

If this cat were a potty-trained dog, she would bark to be let outside. She's a potty-trained cat, however, and meows for her humans to let her in the bathroom, where the toilet is, of course. Now if ...

The street in front of the Saudi Arabia embassy in Washington DC was renamed "Jamal Khashoggi Way." The DC government unanimously approved changing the name to honor the Washington Post journalist who...

Tucker Carlson thinks catching Covid will "feminize" you. And if you're wondering what being "feminized" means, look no further than the Alpha Trumpanzee to explain (video below)."Covid takes away the...

San Francisco's cable cars have been an iconic sight in the city since they began operations in the late 19th century. in this lovely video above, you can take a ride on one into the past. This 1960s...

The giant confusing book of maps that every GenX Angeleo remembers is back. When things got bad enough, as a teen, to take the Thomas Guide out we were already fucked and the night was probably shot.L...

The giant confusing book of maps that every GenX Angeleno remembers is back. When things got bad enough, as a teen, to take the Thomas Guide out we were already fucked and the night was probably shot....

Researchers have built tiny "liquid robots" that can operate continuously without needing any electricity. Instead, they get their power from chemical processes fueled by "food" they collect from the ...

The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper usually reveals America's anti-vax idiocracy at Trump rallies, in red states, or by befriending red-capped folks in the street. But the conspiracy-infused lunacy comes ...

Who down with OPP? The holy Roman see is down with OPP!The Independent:Pope Francis,leaderof theCatholic Church, has saidsexoutside ofmarriageis not the "most serious" sin.During a question and answer...

Vernacular photography collectorRobert E. Jackson turned his magic eye on Christmas past to curate a weird and wonderful selection of vintage snapshots from around the tree. See them all:"Mid-Century ...

Going off to a cabin to write, charming as it may be, always struck me as dreaming, not doing (See also: fancy journals, focus-writing apps and my own dumb ide fixe, specialized word processors). The...

A motorist who filmed a Massachusetts State Trooper asleep in his cruiser says he was pulled over minutes later and given a written warning for using an "electronic device"and later called from a poli...

The glass armonica, invented by none other than Benjamin Franklin (working with glassblower Charles James), produces ethereal sounds from friction on a series of extremely delicate nested glass bowls,...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Got game? No no, not in your dating life (though we'd steer cl...

The Boston Globe reports that the unsolved 2001 murder of a disabled woman in New Bedford, Massachusetts is being re-examined, thanks to newly-found DNA evidence from a conch shell. The woman, Rose Ma...

The @Ukraine Twitter account has posted a meme joking that living next to Russia is a real headache. The move comes amid rising tensions between the two nations.U.S. intelligence officials have a...

Blaxploitation doesn't get enough love. Before Black Americans could regularly expect incisive and thought-provoking films like Moonlight or The Last Black Man in San Francisco, blaxploitation was the...

There are tons of whoppers to choose from when looking at the greatest lies of the 20th century. "I am not a crook," and "all you need is love" are top contenders, but my personal favorite lie is, "we...

A cover song that plays it safe is worthless, in my book. The fun stems from taking a creative risk and deviating from the original playbook. When a musician exhumes a track from a peer or predecessor...

Recently, comics legend George Perez announced that he's battling a terminal case of pancreatic cancer and subsequently announced his retirement. For those on the periphery of comic and superhero cult...

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 or your pet love playing in the water outside, what 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.They may have floppy ears, a wet nose, and sneak garbage out o...

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 something incredibly appealing about walking into your...

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 winter is upon us, but it with its chilly charm comes an a...

Yesterday, at an event hosted by the Texas Liberty Alliance PAC in Houston, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (RTX) had some choice words for members of the "Freedom Caucus" including Greene, Gosar, and Jordan cal...

Geraldine DeRuiter describes her horrendously memorable meal at Bros, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lecce, Italy ("Cost: a rather mortifying 130-200 Euros per person"). She said it was "one of the ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an impassioned demand at a press conference today for Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (RCO) to face a consequence being stripped from her committees after gun-totin' Boebe...

Disney evidently acquired the rights to Firefly and plans to make a Disney+ streaming version intended to be more family-friendly. In keeping with Disney's family-friendly ideals, Joss Whedon will not...

My wife and I had our first kid last June, three months into this pandemic life. By September, she had received a jury summons from the state. Needless to say, as a new mother in a vaccine-less pandem...

To be a master, one needs a craft, and to have a craft, one has to have a process. Comedy might be the most peculiar art form of them all. Every medium of art is open to subjectivity, but few mediums ...

Modern for Wikipedia is a browser extension that makes Wikipedia look nicer and gives it a more user-friendly interface. The basic typography and layout is subtly fancied-up a bit, but now there are v...

The ShuBee Ugly Gloves [Amazon] are for use in projects requiring extreme frictive or abrasive force, such as clearing blocked sewers, grasping rope, and resisting our natural drive toward personal co...

The QAnon snake is eating its own tail. Alpha Trumpanzees are at each other's throats, with attorney Lin Wood recently denouncing far-right loons such as Michael Flynn, Tucker Carlson, and Empty Gee a...

"When they say you have too many strings …" as bassist Charles Berthoud quips in the title of this YouTube video, then "it's time for a one-string bass solo!" And with lightning-speed fingers ra...

Just look at how evil the banana industryis. Just look at it. If you need me, I'll be in the produce section of Trader Joe's recording video of people buying bloodnanas so I can shame them on TikTok.W...

So, Disney has again shown us the exact same stuff about their retcon'd hero Boba Fett. It seems the series will be one third Godfather movie, one-third western and one-third recut scenery and desert ...

The CEO of a company named "Better," Vishal Garg, has apologized to the wrong people for the wrong thing, but he is trying.This is from his posted apology:I want to apologize for the way I handled the...

What is "Blockchain Certified" spaghetti? Andy Baio wondered that when he found a box of pasta that said:Blockchain CertifiedThis product has been certified with the ITEM Blockchain Tool.Scan the QR-c...

Many restaurants in San Francisco are doing their best to survive the pandemic by building "parklets," which are sidewalk structures with tables and chairs. Parklets help stop the spread of Covid beca...

Watching Tony Hawk hit a varial 540 one last time is awesome, but watching Tony Hawk do the work to land it is even better. Coming next week on @Autograph: I've retired five signature tricks, offe...

In the 1969 clip above, New York Times war reporter Gloria Emerson interviews John Lennon and Yoko Ono about their anti-war efforts. During the conversation, Emerson suggests that the couple's efforts...

A hijab and an electric guitar: the massive strides in representation notwithstanding, Islamic art is still criminally underrepresented in our media-saturated society. Dave Chappelle and a handful of ...

The rapidly leaning to one side San Francisco skyscraper moved an additional " over a four day period last week. Regardless of what other experts have to say, the tower's chief spokes-engineer Ron Ha...

In this time-lapse footage, an Apple left in water for 200 days slowly decays. At first, it seems like things will be more elegant and picturesque than usual. But life always finds a way to make the m...

I was on my couch imagining the death of my younger self when I suddenly realized that I had done nothing to prepare for my passing. I did not have a will and had not provided for my family in the eve...

George Orwell's estate has approved esteemed author Sandra Newman's feminist retelling of 1984 from the perspective of Julia, the lover of the original novel's primary protagonist Winston Smith. Newma...

"God," mutters the off-screen cameraman, Miles. "That is nasty."Footage of the rug in question begins about 2:30in, after a basic Ikea rug is cleaned to show what color the cleaning run-off usually is...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (RFL) has big plans. He and his corrupt cronies, including sidekick Marjorie Taylor Greene, are "going to take power after this next election.""We are going to take power after this ne...

The strawberry Apple iMac that Jimmy Wales used to create Wikipedia (and its predecessor Nupedia) is up for auction. The provenance is listed as the "family of Jimmy Wales." With a week left in the au...

Back in 2017, the Estonian government approved a law that would allow delivery robots to use pedestrian walkways. On a typical, unencumbered day, they zip around the sidewalks at about 3.7 miles per h...

Even though it's the omnipresent face of America's youth in both slang and fashion, rap is old. Whether you consider the birth of rap in the late 70s or early 80s, the genre as a whole is about to tra...

In 1981, the great singer, songwriter, and poet Tom Waits pitched for Purina dog food. Why? "I was down on my luck," Waits was quoted as saying in Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. "And I...

A Cleveland Detective was given the day offyes, a single day's suspensionafter he was filmed rubbing an arrest warrant in a suspect's face when he asked to see it. Detective Donald Kopchak was serving...

On Friday, three San Francisco police officers in uniform attempted to eat at at Hilda and Jesse, a new brunch spot in the city's North Beach neighborhood. According the restaurant, employees felt "un...

Via Abakcus:When working on this project, Tobias Gremmler was deeply inspired by the dynamics of motion and philosophy of Kung Fu. Masters: Lee Shek Lin, Wong Yiu Kau. Visualizing the invisible i...

Amongst other issues on the docket for the upcoming Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, the United Nations wants to address the elephant in the, err, uhh, deve...

Dubstep was heralded as the next big music genre. It blanketed every commercial and every trailer aimed at a youthful demographic. And almost as suddenly as it arrived, the genre disappeared.Although ...

Late last night, reports emerged that the Fox News Christmas tree in New York City was on fire. A suspectsaid to be a homeless man with a lighterwas arrested and faces an arson charge.#BREAKING: The F...

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still claiming that there was no Christmas party at Downing Street last year, despite video emerging of his staff workshopping how to spin it if anyone found out abo...

The Fox "News" Christmas tree on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan went up in flames this morning after a 49-year-old man set it on fire, apparently with a lighter. The fire then spread to nearby smaller deco...

Bloomberg has a new piece all about the metaverse market place for proprietary digital art avatars. Because it's not enough that we live in a world where people are investing actual, legitimate money ...

In this piece on the TheAaronChannel, Frank Zappa tells the story about how Sting came to one of his shows and agreed to perform a number with the band.Image: Screengrab...

Few shows can tout that they're even more relevant a quarter of a century into their existence, and even fewer shows can make that claim while boasting an anthropomorphic turd and towel as characters....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Collectively, we spend 6 billion hours per month watching Netf...

The Great Dickens Christmas Fair really isn't so great after all. The annual event at the Cow Palace in in Daly City, California was COVID-cancelled last year but reopened this past weekend as a drive...

Wednesday is National Brownie Day, and what better way to celebrate than with an 850-pound pot brownie? Baked by MariMed, a "seed-to-consumer" cannabis company based in Massachusetts, the brownie cont...

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 people feeling stranded inside their own homes during muc...

More ignominy! HarperCollins announced today it was canceling a planned book written by Chris Cuomo, who recently left his high profile posts at CNN and Sirius XM over sexual harassment accusations an...

California Assembly Bill No. 468, effective January 1, 2022, will make it more difficult for healthcare providers to issue "emotional support dog" certifications and also makes it clear that emotional...

I absolutely love gardening....

In this unaired pilot for a 1966 game show called The Big Money, Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal fame invites contestants to use their talents to win cash prizes. The prize amounts are impressive: $50...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Anybody who's owned a phone charger, or any other charger with...

A woman can't find her phone, so she accuses a nearby couple of stealing it. (Yes, this is a common theme in the Karen genre.) The accuser and accused are in a Spencer's, where an employee is trying t...

First, CNN suspended Chris Cuomo after evidence surfaced that he'd violated journalism ethics by advising his older brother, ex-New York Governor Mario Cuomo, on how to respond to sexual harassment al...

A frisky 8-year-old Labrador named Nixon is all too excited when a FedEx driver tosses a package onto the pup's porch. More than happy to play a game of fetch, Nixon enthusiastically retrieves said pa...

A Reddit user posts: "We can bring one A4-size note for finals so I copied the whole semester of class material into it."Of course, reviewing and copying down key points is a good way to… learn ...

To help you grapple with the terrifying fact that Instagram has become the equivalent of Kylie Jenner obsessed newspaper, let's have a look at their Sunday funnies.Couple comics are a unique subcultur...

You know those little notes on shopping sites saying things like "14 people are looking at this product"? We all understand that it's a cheesy way to get us to buy, but we may assume it's basically ac...

It would appear that Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk doesn't think much of level playing fields. His recent attack on the Biden Administration's infrastructure plan seems centered on the fact that his company go...

Santa Anita racetrack sounds like the very last place I would want to visit were I a horse.CBS:The Kentucky Derby winner is the 20th horse to die at Santa Anita just this year, according to CBS Los An...

Human civilization is being threatened by a global decline in population, according to Elon Musk. "I cannot emphasize this enough, there are not enough people," he said Monday at the Wall Street Journ...

Not only does Meta ne Facebook act as a tool for tools here in the United States, but it was apparently used to awful effect in Burma. Rohingya fleeing the oppressive regime have filed suits in Califo...

Volume up for this video Make it to the 5 second mark to hear INCREDIBLE sounds of the ice at Steamboat Lake state park (sounds like Star Wars tbh). pic.twitter.com/yEyY3uhs5Z— Colorado Parks ...

Actor Jussie Smollett, accused of orchestrating his own "beating" to cast himself as a sympathetic victim of racism and homophobia, is on trial in Chicago. In court he made a remarkable claim, the ult...

Felix Klieser, 30, was born without arms. He's a classically trained musician who plays french horn with his toes. An award-winning musician, Klieser studied at the prestigious Hochschule fr Music und...

LinaBell, Disney's pink plush fox from their Duffy and Friends toy line, is all the rage in China. Cute, smart, and (usually) sweet with a fluffy tail that resembles cotton candy, fans will queue up f...

In 1977, Barbara Walters asked Dolly Parton about being a hillbilly, whether her body developed early, if her breasts are real, whether she knows that people think of her as a "joke," and other subtly...

I watched My Beautiful Broken Brain on Netflix the other day, and haven't stopped thinking about this incredible film since. This 2014 documentary revolves around the life of Lotje Sodderland, an inte...

This morning I've been enjoying watching compilations of elaborate domino setups that fail, wasting countless hours of work. Some of them are outright tragedies.The collection below sweetens the pie, ...

If you, as I do, frequently expound on your love for Chinese food- I'm a hit at parties, let me tell ya- around either an elitist or cosmopolitan crowd, you're bound to hear someone say, "Yeah, but th...

Thanks to Fingers, a delightful business-of-alcohol newsletter, I've learned that Kelsey Grammer apparently owns a Jesus-themed brewery in the Catskills. From the Faith American Brewery website:Faith ...

I enjoyed touring the world in the aptly named "The Earth-Nose-Direction game" created on observablehq.com, a collaborative data science workspace. You turn on your camera, allow the site to locate yo...

Terry, the company behind the infamously delicious Chocolate Orange, has teamed up with Heinz for a, erm, unique Christmas special: Chocolate Orange Mayonnaise, the "festive mash-up that you didn'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 the calendar inches into December, a good portion of the co...

Manga sales are trouncing American comics in every conceivable metric, and it's safe to say that the industry needs some profound reinvention. For decades, fans have noticed a steady decline in sales ...

According to a press release, the Jim Henson Company is launching its first foray into non-fungible tokens with some new Labyrinth 3D artwork, in partnership with the digital collectibles platform VeV...

That ten-year-old's got some serious acting chops. You can even hear Spielberg at the end saying, "Okay, kid, you got the job."...

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...

It's been awesome to watch the nation's stance on drugs change. Most of America is taking a collective cannabis-scented exhale as the formerly suffocating and draconian perspectives on drugs start to ...

Despite his rocky track record with social media, which includes a fictional cow for making fun of him on Twitter, Devin Nunes will be the CEO of Trump Media & Technology starting next month. The ...

The city of San Francisco has put forth efforts to remove the 1-5% tax on cannabis that was approved in 2018. The ordinance addresses the idea that black market dealers are offering unbeatable prices ...

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 countless generations, the stars have captured our imagina...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Anybody with a feline friend cares a whole lot about their cat...

Belgian-born mathematician Jaques Tits passed away on Sunday, December 5th, leaving behind a legacy of research in group theory and geometry. His tendency to name his contributions after himself sugge...

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 someone told you a couple of years ago that you'd be attend...

This monster head from an imaginary cigarette warning video would make an awesome mask. It has some pretty hardcore warts, but its grotesque mouth is my favorite part. This disheveled creature kind of...

A small dog named Dash is fascinated with a mountain lion who comes right up to a glass door. Dash even manages a few tail wags, although with hesitance. Meanwhile, Dash's human is audibly nervous, br...

A white supremacist group stomped through Washington DC on Saturday to show their "unified capability to organize, to show our strength." And then the "organized" bigots found themselves stranded for ...

Whether you're a professional builder or a well-equipped dad, nothing beats good old measuring tape. But as we're about to enter 2022, perhaps there's a more efficient tool to carry around, negating t...

In a post-apocalyptic future, should civilization as we know it collapse from environmental catastrophe, a new crop of "intelligent" beings might not have to search for clues a recording of our demis...

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky) posted this dumb holiday photo to Twitter just a few days after the school shooting in Michigan in which a teenager killed four students using a gun purchased for him by his ...

According to Utravillage ("A guide to underground ambient, minimal, progressive electronic, and new age releases from approximately 1975 to 1995, covering primarily vinyl and cassette releases from th...

1964 was a good year for British music, as seen in the 1964 New Musical Express Poll Winners Show. It opens with The Hollies (before they became great), followed by Rolling Stones (Brian Jones kills i...

The El Paso county sheriff's office in Colorado thought it would be cute to tweet a photo of Santa applying for a concealed handgun permit and they posted it just three days after the deadly Michigan...

This TV spot for Pole Position, a racing car game for the Atari 2600, is pure genius. It starts with a disembodied voice-of-god screaming "HEY!!!" at a mild-mannered family in a car driving down a sub...

Kevin MacLeod is an astonishingly productive composer whose music turns up in everything from drag-and-drop collections of free music to every other Minecraft video on YouTube to commercial video game...

Nearly 4 minutes of people talking about how humanity would suffer without the magic of Hammer; James Brown throwing fireballs, crowd panics, and fancy dancing pants!8 minutes before the music starts ...

If only the USA had this compilation during Operation Nifty Package. Wikipedia:Operation Nifty Packagewas aUnited StatesDeltaandNavy SEAL-operated plan conducted in 1989 designed to capture Panamanian...

The post is a couple of years old, but I can't stop looking at Ritchie Roesch's hand-distressed but otherwise brand-new Fujifilm camera. Other photographers he talked to think he's bonkers, but Roesch...

Food scientist Ann Reardon debunks viral food videos, including content farm click-bait food videos that have misleading thumbnail images, impossible-to-recreate recipes, and narration about murder an...

When Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes took the stand last week (on trial "for 11 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud"), she submitted four hand-written pages of notes that includ...

It's been a while since I visited Exit Mundi, Maarten Keulemans' collection of darkly amusing apocalypses that might befall humankind, from nuclear war to meteorite impacts. The site is turning 20 yea...

Over the last two decades, the city of Los Angeles has averaged about 300 homicides per year, out of population that currently sits just under 4 million. But according to a new study from UCLA, more t...

Here is your chance to watch the trailer for Disney's 'Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser' that looks so bad, and got so much fan grief, that the Mouse tried to disappear it. Galactic Starcruiser is a mas...

"If you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off," said Better.com CEO Vishal Garg to 900 employees over a Zoom call on Friday. "Your employment here is terminated, effective...

Laying people off is a horrible experience, that said I am pretty sure being laid off is far worse. Letting people go over the holidays is a dick move. Better.com CEO Vishal Garg evidently took the lo...

A bomb squad was dispatched to the UK's Gloucestershire Royal Hospital last week after a patient reported a World War II mortar stuck in his rectum. (Rectum? Nearly killed him! And lots of other peopl...

A bomb squad was dispatched to the UK's Gloucestershire Royal Hospital last week after a patient reported a World War II mortar shell stuck in his rectum. (Rectum? Nearly killed him! And lots of other...

In the 1950s, the original BeatsWilliam Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsbergmade their way to Morocco. Writer Paul Bowles was already there, and never really left. Read his Sheltering Sky to se...

I own some cryptocurrencya decision which began mostly out of necessity, until I saw how much it ballooned, and then I decided that I'll keep this around and see what happens. But as cool as it's been...

COVID-19 is truly our Christmas present. Now stop turning away refugees and forcing them to give birth to babies in stables. And get vaccinated while you're at it so I never have to see a mask like th...

For two years, China's Yutu-2 rover has been rolling around the dark side of the Moon, collecting images and data that it's been sending home to Earth. Now, the rover will investigate a strange-l...

NYC mayor Bill De Blasio announced that everyone who works in the city must be vaccinated against COVID-19. The new mandate kicks in on December 27. Public sector employees were already required to be...

Want some more words from the other English language? Ryo Ota's Fakelish has them all. Unlike Thomas Dimson's English word generator, it doesn't use AI, preferring more mundrial generative techniques....

Over the course of nearly two decades, Facebook has mostly flushed our society down a toilet full of shit. As such, it stands to reason that the platform's upcoming "Metaverse" Second-Life-knock-off A...

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, already suspended after it emerged he used his position at the network to research women who accused his brother and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment,...

On Friday, the National Weather Service issued a blizzard for the Big Island Summits, which include Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. The latter reaches 4,207.3 m above sea level, maki...

My friend and former colleague Parker Molloy has a wonderful newsletter (you should subscribe) where she does some of my favorite media criticism. Though undeniably progressive, Parker values nuance 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. Have you ever been interested in learning more about a career...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Having a clean, uncluttered desk can do wonders for your peace...

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Angel has come down to earth to tell us that we shouldn't be afraid. She has some other things to say too, but I'm not quite sure what those things are. Angel also knows how to do a charming little da...

Angel has come down to earth to tell us that we shouldn't be afraid. She has some other things to say too, but I'm not quite sure what those things are. Angel also knows how to do a charming little da...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.LED lighting has changed the way we light the world around us....

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 shopping for your brother who has everything or...

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're certain you've mastered your way around the kitchen rece...

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, following through on things may not be your str...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Look we're going to cut to the chase: we're not going back to ...

This video report on TFL Truck of a couple who Instagrammed their 2700 mile trip towing their Mustang with a Rivian was of supreme interest to me. I am very interested in replacing my V8 truck with an...

Child molester Josh Duggar is back in the news this week as he goes on trial for the possession of child pornography (some of the "top five worst of the worst" that federal agent Gerald Faulkner has h...

BOBBY YEAH is an amazing 23-minute animation written and directed by Robert Morgan. If you're into horror, then this eerie short is a must-see. The art and character design in this film is exquisite. ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Chances are, you're in the throes of holiday shopping right no...

There's a treasure trove of awesome pixel art to be found on unomoralez :: supernature!. Uno Maralez makes pixel art reminiscent of vintage Mac Paint art, as well as moving image loops that are a blas...

You can watch this full documentary about artist Robert Williams, Mr. Bitchin, on YouTube for free. This 2013 film takes a deep look into the story of painter and cartoonist Robert Williams. Williams ...

"Requiem, Apparitions & San Francisco Polyphony" is an eerie, beautiful album used in the soundtrack for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tracks on this album utilize micropolyphony, "a type of 20th-cen...

The Los Angeles Times shares a report of lawyers baffled by Alec Baldwin's decision to hold an interview over the death of Halyna Hutchins.LA Times:But the decision to speak on national television dur...

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 answering emails all day for work or playing your...

Oy vey. Some folks in Los Angeles decided to spice their social media feed up with a little traffic stop, and maybe some reckless endangerment.Bonus video: What a nutter from WinStupidPr...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Earning a dog's affection is the easy part. All it takes for o...

According to the Today Show, the ongoing supply chain crisis has brought a new level of untold suffering into American lives: a nationwide chicken tender shortage.Chicken tenders are the latest item a...

Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is a pretty unconventional text, but it's widely celebrated because of how much its 15-years-after-the-apocalypse captures the human condition. Unfortunately, th...

I can't stop thinking about this bizarre, rousing interview in which Mark Johnson-Williams, the toymaker behind Tickle Me Elmo, recounts his years as a suspect in the FBI's investigation of the Unabom...

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 a day and age where we always have hand sanitizer on standb...

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 getting through the slew of work emails you've been putti...

A house in Poolesville, Maryland was infested with snakes. But rather than leave it to the professionals, a Maryland homeowner decided to smoke out the critters using coals. And as the smoke was suppo...

Cough drops and tea. Question: Given the fact that he has a cold right now, are there any things that are being done differently.Psaki: He's taking some over the counter cold medicine and probably som...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Listen, long gone are the days of being able to fix everything...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Spending habits getting out of hand? Sure, you absolutely need...

From 1978, Lazaro Salazar's Star Warsploitation single "Artuditu." And no, that robot on the album cover is absolutely not the droid you were looking for. The song appeared on an LP with the same name...

In a news conference today, prosecutor Karen McDonald announced that the parents of Ethan Crumbley the teen accused of killing four people at a Michigan high school have each been charged with four...

More than 200 dead starlings dropped from the sky in Ferrol, Spain and nobody knows why. The strange event occurred on November 26 near the Juan Cardona Hospital. From Coast to Coast:A mystified witne...

As a result of the prohibition of alcohol in the United States, the supply of beer and wine decreased while that of hard liquor increased. Bootleggers realized they could make more money and be less l...

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban just purchased the town of Mustang, Texas. Insert Schitt's Creek joke here. The 77-acre property about an hour south of Dallas has a population of 21 and boasts a tra...

After Italy announced it would ban unvaccinated folks from engaging in most public activities, an Italian gentleman showed up for his Covid shot sporting a fake arm. He thought he could fool the healt...

Warning: flashing lights. Artist Myron Ort makes some pretty interesting psychedelic videos. Psychedelic series 1968-1972: "OM II" utilizes experimental film techniques such as multiple exposure and o...

In 2014, robbers apparently stole more than $600,000 from a safe at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Who would have the gall to do such a thing? Well, last month, a plumber was doing work on the meg...

In November, an underwater robot operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute captured this footage of a glorious Giant Phantom Jellyfish off the coast of California, more than 3,200 feet ...

Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood — who seems to have moved so far to the right that he now considers Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz to be enemies –has added Tucker Carlson to his list of p...

In the aftermath of the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, fans of the young gun-toter have reportedly been celebrating his freedom with shots of Rittenhouse Rye one of my personal go-to whiskeys! This practi...

Artist Paul McCarthy made "Painter" in 1995. This was the first video I ever saw of his performance work. McCarthy works in many other mediums including drawing, painting, and sculpture, which are all...

From  1912 to 1916, Harry Houdini's signature outdoor escape act was the overboard box escape. In this vintage footage, you can see Houdini manacled and nailed into a small wooden box. The box is...

What better time to grab a camera and head for the outdoors than in the dead of winter? Even the simplest "props," like bubbles and spiderwebs, are transformed into spectacular photo subjects with jus...

The Deep Dreams podcast uses the GPT-3 language transformer to generate semi-sensical spoken word stories to lull you to sleep. There are five episodes so far. The latest one uses an improved synthesi...

Some would argue that the whole point of Lego is that the pieces are re-usable. Others might not care as long as the pieces can be used to make a cool-looking model. In any case, Lego's new 75313...

In this PSA, Pee Wee Herman Talks About Crack Cocaine. He may be holding a little glass container of it, but he is not a fan of this substance. "Every time you use it, you risk dying", he informs us. ...

Symptoms from omicron, Covid's new variant, seem to be mild so far, according to scientists studying the outbreak in South Africa. But this might not be the case for young children, who are being hosp...

Remember Avengers: Infinity War? I know you saw it. And how Thanos put on the Infinity Gauntlet and then snapped his fingers and then wiped out half of all life in the universe?Yeah, well get this: th...

What is the ideal monitor rotation for programmers? xssfox investigates!One neat thing about 45 is that it gives us pretty close to the diagonal. But not on my ultra wide. Due to maths, the amount we'...

The latest viral video of an air traveler losing their temper10m views and countingdoesn't show any acts of overt violence or criminality beyond disrupting a flight and disobeying the flight crew. But...

Behold the quintessential Star Trek christmas joke song, arranged by James Covenant:Bonus: "All I Want For Christmas is Q", by John C. Worsley:...

Occupation of a parking spot at a Corpus Christi grocery store being in dispute, local lady Rossie Dennis, 60, set out to solve it the Texas way: with her gun. This is as alleged by prosecutors; Corpu...

Oskar Stlberg's Townscaper is one of the most relaxing and well-polished city-building toys of all time. And now you can play it in the browser, free of charge.Oh. What's this?A free Townscaper we...

Mountain Dew grilled cheese from TikTokCringe For those of you following at home, here's the ingredient list, directly from Mountain Dew: 8 slices white bread  2 cups shredd...

ContentID, YouTube's internal copyright enforcement program, was originally built to appease the entertainment industry and is notoriously easy to manipulate. Copyfraud (falsely claiming to own the wo...

Six years ago, Wanda Dench accidentally sent a Thanksgiving invite to seventeen-year-old Jamal Hinton, thinking it was her grandchild. Jamal pointed out the mistake but asked to join anyway, and Wanda...

Christmas is ruined! Just kidding, YouTuber There I Ruined It never seems to actually ruin anything with their musical mashups. Case in point, here's a mlange of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take...

The Boston Globe reports that Reginald Dwayne Betts, a MacArthur Award-winning poet who himself spent eight years in prison, plans to convert a prison cell at MCI-Norfolk into a new "Freedom Library,"...

As I reported here back in August 2021, someone had tried to create a Lord Of The Rings-inspired cryptocurrency. The JRR Token, as it was so cleverly called, aspired to be the "The One Token That Rule...

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 hard to remember a time before apps and no, not the kind...

I was walking around singing songs about my dogs and wondering what tune I was singing along to — it was the Heat Miser song.I do not really remember watching this documentary as a child, but cl...

In an apparent attempt to end the year on the bitterest note possible, the GQP is really trying to one-up one another with disgustingness.I think MTG is running to beat McCarthy out as minority leader...

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 connected as we are to our cell phones dedicating at least...

This wonderful performance is a joy to re-watch so many years later.Madonna was fun too....

A 69-year-old man sat on top of his capsized boat, clinging to its propeller, drifting for 22 hours before Japan's coast guard spotted him. The rescuers, who had received a call from the man's colleag...

It's weird enough to see a car pinned under a semi-truck being dragged sideways down a highway. Even weirder still is that as the person shooting the video drives by, a passenger in the trapped car st...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Today's world is all about smart systems, from refrigerators a...

I can not imagine what brings people at Walt Disney World to start throwing punches, even if the dude on the ground wouldn't stop singing "Let It Go."...

The second person in the United States to test positive for the omicron variant had recently returned from an anime convention in New York with 53,000 other attendees. He has not recently been out of ...

In horrifying video caught on a home surveillance camera, an Indiana police officer walks up to a porch, where a dog is barking, and proceeds to viciously kick the dog at least five times. You can hea...

I have found the Uni Kuru Toga to be a mechanical pencil of uncanny perfection. Its shell, carved from the tooth of a displacer beast&#...

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 an athlete, casual gym-goer, or just someone wh...

Apparently, Gov. Newsom of California feels other states need better testing regimens. In this Instagram post, the Governor points out that California knows about its case of Omicron due to totally r...

Brian Hsu (20) of Irvine, California was banned from American Airlines for allegedy assaulting a crew member, giving her a concussion and broken facial bones. Hsu, who was flying first class at the ti...

Telescopic tracking/imaging outfit MARS Scientific, created this stunning video of the October launch of SpaceX's Inspiration 4, the "first all-civilian mission to orbit."The videobest enjoyed as the ...

Oops! A surgeon in Austria accidentally amputated the wrong leg of her octogenarian patient and now she's out $3,000. She blames the botched operation on "human error."From The Guardian:The surgeon ha...

Child actor Jonshel Alexander, best known for her supporting role as Joy Strong in Beasts of the Southern Wild, has died at age 22. Alexander was shot in New Orleans while sitting in a car with a man,...

If you're behind on your bills, beware of any stranger attempting to "friend" you. It could be a debt collector taking advantage of new federal rules approved by the Consumer Financial Protection Bure...

Every year, I look forward to the series of videos that the Tested team does on their favorite tools of the year. In this video, Jen Schachter looks at some of her favorite tools for 2021 including on...

Last night, more than 30 people had an unplanned slumber party at an IKEA in Aalborg Denmark after a massive snowstorm stranded them on the property."We slept in the furniture exhibitions and our show...

A chef was in a rush when he made a shepherd's pie that killed one person and sickened 31 others. Now he is going to jail, a steep punishment for a tragic accident.John Croucher, the head chef for The...

"You start to 'expect the unexpected' when exploring the deep sea, but I'm still stunned that we came upon the ancient tusk of a mammoth," says Steven Haddock, senior scientist at the Monterey Bay Aqu...

For the third night of The Hanukkah Sessions 2021, Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin performed "Copacabana" by the great Barry Pincus, aka Barry Manilow!Grohl's humor, joy, and talent ...

Mask mandates saved lives, according to a study conducted by Missouri's health department. This was not the outcome that governor Mike Parson wanted, so the study was buried. The Missouri Independent ...

After watching "Get Back," the fantastic film documenting The Beatles at work under incredible pressure in 1970, organizational consultant Tom Whitwell took note of "10 lessons in productivity and bra...

Many products promise to completely isolate phones from the rest of the electromagnetic worldFaraday cages for your gadgets. As Matt Blaze points out, modern cellphones rarely stop talking completely,...

The only plot summary that IMDB provides for Omicron is:An alien takes over the body of an Earthman in order to learn about the planet so his race can take it over.Unfortunately, I don't have any Ital...

Look, we all know that my band already wrote the best song about Hawkeye ever. But this new diegetic Broadway musical about Captain America from the new Hawkeye TV show is well, "perfectly awful," mi...

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 their unbridled enthusiasm and fresh look at the world, c...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Any modern-day gamer knows that the only way to properly get 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.Have you always wished you could be more productive? It's hard...

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 December rears its head, your time to find the perfect gift...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, the holiday season ha...

This beautifully shot video shows female red crabs on Christmas Island raising their claws and shaking their bodies, releasing a dark stream which happens to be their eggs into the ocean. The night...

Citing concerns over the new coronavirus variant, the government of Japan has instructed airlines to stop taking new reservations for international flights. So far the island nation has two confirmed ...

[UPDATE: Decision reversed]Citing concerns over the new coronavirus variant, the government of Japan has instructed airlines to stop taking new reservations for international flights. So far the islan...

Recently turned 50, Snoop Dogg has gone animated.You will be unsurprised that an animated Snoog smokes almost as much dope as the real thing. ...

Trump doesn't believe in anything but enriching himself, so it's no surprise he will say anything if he thinks it will lead to more money or power. Here he is in a 1999 news interview saying that as p...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Holiday gift shopping is never easy. Whether you're looking to...

"The trigger wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger."That's what Alec Baldwin said in the above clip from an ABC News interview by George Stephanopoulos that will air on Thursday night."I would neve...

In my headcanon this is now the secret origin of the Battletoads universe."Your phone is one of us now" pic.twitter.com/EbOZwoeY3r— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) November 29, 2021Image: Char...

Today Doocy thought it wise to compare President Biden to the failed Orange super-spreader that was the last guy. On a day filled with news about Trump intentionally misleading people around his COVID...

What should a pup do when its feline housemate takes over its bed? Some dogs might fight for their rightful property, while others might sulk and walk away. But this Great Pyrenees named Dill has the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsay the omicron variantof the coronavirus in the U.S. has been found in a person in California. From NBC News:The CDC issued a statement that the Californ...

"He knows when you are sleeping, he's knows when you're awake" takes on a whole new meaning when an omniscient Zuck on a Truck replaces the old do-nothing Elf on the Shelf. This too-close-for-comfort ...

If I didn't hate talking to people on the phone I would certainly buy this Fisher Price Chatter Bluetooth Telephone for my desk. It's $60 and seemingly sold out.Introducing the special edition Fisher-...

The fantastic band Wet Leg, hailing from Isle of Wight, appeared on NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert today. Watch them perform "Chaise Longue," "Too Late Now," "Oh No," and "Wet Dream"...

Hanan Tababi, 40, was shopping at Ikea in Ballymun, Dublin when a flat-packed chest of drawers reportedly tipped over and hit her in the head. After the accident, she attempted to exit the store but g...

After Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's "gross and false" story last week suggesting "jihad squad" Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is a terrorist (see video below), The Denver Post could no longer sit on the side...

I remember the wild excitement that came over me the first time I saw Eraserhead, and got to the scene where "the lady in the radiator" performs the song In Heaven. I immediately fell in love with eve...

80snewsscreens is a fantastic Instagram feed featuring screengrabs from 1980s TV news segments, promos, and on-the-street interviews with excellent "lower thirds," the text or graphics added to the bo...

Once again we return to the Halo universe, hoping beyond all hope that Halo can find some glimmer of its Bungie era greatness. Having embittered and pissed off Cortana, we apparently get a new cheerfu...

Voices is an animation from 1985 by Joanna Priestly, a contemporary film director, producer, animator, and teacher. In "Voices," Priestly animates a 4-minute caricature of herself. She explores her p...

A Tucson, AZ police officer fatally shot a man in a motorized wheelchair nine times in the back and side. Richard Lee Richards, the 61-year-old man who was entering a Lowes store when shot, immediatel...

I like the advertisements for the new Matrix movie because they aren't really giving much away. It is entirely likely there isn't much to give away, and the Matrix reboot involves someone simply reboo...

A fine example of the "now you have two problems" joke is "I know, let's add bluetooth!" Fisher Price added bluetooth to the Chatter Telephone.Its intuitive bulky face design comes with a 'super-advan...

Life in Transition (2005) is a beautiful, strange, and absolutely unique animation by John R. Dilworth, the mastermind behind the beloved Cartoon Network show, Courage the Cowardly Dog. The amount of ...

In this short series of interviews from 1972, people on the street in Ireland are stopped and asked, "What Is Pornography?" My favorite part in the video is when a young man gets flustered by the ques...

Marcus Lamb, a conservative TV preacher whose network offered a constant stream of Covid misinformation to its viewers, died earlier this week of Covid.Jonathan Lamb described his father's Covid infec...

On Sunday, a loud explosion was heard all around the uninhabited Fox Island off the south shore of Long Island, new York. The boom resonated as far as sixteen miles away. The mysterious blast left a b...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this month:Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; andTom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Reserve your copies by ordering today!RIGHT HERE AND NOW."&...

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo often used his cable TV perch to help his brother, then the governor of New York, look good during the Covid pandemic. But he was also using the cable network's resources to res...

Five years ago, Vanity Fair interviewed musician Billie Eilish who was then 15 years old. The following year, they asked Eilish the same questions. And they've done so annually ever since. Above is th...

As MEL Magazine reports, a popular Twitch streamer named Ludwig Ahgren won an Among Us tournament with the prize of a free custom controller, courtesy of a 19-year-old hobbyist designer named Michael....

Videoconferencing service Zoom is faced with an $85 million lawsuit over privacy and security issues like third-party data sharing and Zoombombing. Zoom denies wrongdoing but agreed to pay the hefty s...

This video shows a baggage claim at Singapore Changi Airport. I appreciate the this polite system wherein each piece waits its turn to avoid gridlock and pile-ups on the conveyor belt. ...

Kate Klonick posted about a nightmarish Thanksgiving experience with Hertz, the car rental outfit. Though she is a "Gold" member, the company refused to honor her $415 booking over the holiday, pushin...

New York City's mayor Bill de Blasio has announced two safe injection sites located in Washington Heights and East Harlem. They won't be staffed by the city, but instead by a non-profit organization c...

SomeRandomerGuy on Reddit would like to read more comic books about a group of superheroes who protect a world that hates and fears them because of the way they were born, but he doesn't want to read ...

The Journal of Universal Rejection is the most exclusive periodical of them all: it accepts nothing. Founder Caleb Emmons elaborates:The founding principle of the Journal of Universal Rejection (JofUR...

As a Bostonian and a Dune fan, I had no choice but to change my Twitter handle to "Dunkin Idahonuts" to celebrate the release of the new Villeneuve adaptation, and my regular source of slightly-overbu...

Oroville, California has been around since the gold rush (hence the name) and today, it is home to about 20,000 people. This month, a declaration passed by the City Council stated that the commun...

Hey, why not pause to think about the possibilities of extraterrestrial life? Galactic colonization? The Drake equation? The intelligent beings that might be listening to the Golden Record at this ver...

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 upon us, which means it's that time of 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.Back in school, mastering subjects like calculus and French wa...

While we are still waiting for more definitive proof, it would appear that Omicron is not so mutated that it escapes vaccine efficacy. If you are able to be vaccinated and haven't, or are eligible for...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.By now, we all know how useful iPads and digital tablets are. ...

This impressive "Treetop Express" is a Hot Wheels scenic track through a backyard that includes jumps, loop-de-loops, tunnels, gliding between tree branches, zipping over water, and even taking a pull...

Cops love using civil asset forfeiture laws to steal money from innocent people. They get to keep the money to buy fancy militarized armored vehicles and muscle cars with the money and they don't need...

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 you've probably realized by now, what you learned back in s...

The GOP's congressional leadership, naturally, has nothing to say about this....

This tiny camera is about the size of grain of salt yet captures full-color images at the quality of a conventional lens 500,000 times larger. Developed by researchers at Princeton University and the ...

Not to be outshined by Rep. Lauren Boebert (QCO), who recently suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (DMN) is a terrorist, Marjorie Taylor Greene (QGA) spewed some choice words of her own today to describe h...

In 2020, a Texas gentleman received more than $1 million after duping the government into giving him Covid relief funds for his "employees." But since Lee Price III, age 30, didn't actually have any e...

Police arrested a woman who ran out an exit door at Los Angeles Airport's Terminal 1 and tried to wave down a Southwest Flight. She was taken to a hospital for minor injuries and will be given a menta...

Police arrested a woman who ran out an exit door at Los Angeles Airport's Terminal 1 and tried to wave down a Southwest Flight. She was taken to a hospital for minor injuries and will be given a menta...

In Lippstadt, Germany, burglars broke through a toy store wall over the weekend. The robbers' target? Lego. Lots of Lego.According to police, they nabbed around 100 Lego sets but, curiously, left behi...

George Costanza is my favorite character on Seinfeld, so it was interesting to listen to his story about how Jason Alexander landed the role. He says he was so sure that he wasn't going to get the par...

A man put a comically large cardboard cutout of himself in a convenience store, documented the experience for TikTok, and wound up with a full-blown partnership with the Kum & Go chain. The projec...

In Germany, euthanasia is legal. However, the Verein Sterbehilfe (Euthanasia Association) won't help you die unless you're vaccinated against COVID-19. Sounds weird but makes sense. From a translation...

Via Cointelegraph:A relatively obscure cryptocurrency called Omicron (OMIC) has surged to an all-time high as of Monday as a new fast-spreading COVID-19 variant got christened with the same name.The b...

Several years ago I bought this Redragon K552 Mechanical keyboard, hundreds of hours of gaming, spills, and other 'incidents' later it is still clicking away. I am the OKAYEST gamer around. I certainl...

No more monkey business, at least not for CVS. In response to PeTA's lobbying efforts, 10,000 CVS drug stores have banned greeting cards "featuring great apes wearing costumes, displayed in studios, o...

Boise State University sure knows how to pick 'em. One of their political-science professors, Scott Yenor, just told an audience at the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando that women should st...

It appears MTG, Nancy Mace, and Lauren Boebert are all mixed up in a shouty tweet thing about who is the most awful. Raw Story:It started when Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) launcheda bigoted attackon Rep...

Colorado Congressperson Lauren Boebert has been in the news for her racist attacks on fellow Congressperson Ilhan Omar, and apparently offered her whatever Boebert considers "an apology." Sadly, the c...

When a McKinney, Texas SWAT team caused $50,000 of damage to Vicki Baker's home, making it unlivable, the owner sued the city after it refused to compensate her for the repair costs. The city tried to...

These ducks know where they want to be, they just can't keep track of her! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wholesome Memes (@hurtingsouls)...

In 1977, someone claiming to be an alien took over this live UK broadcast on ITV's Southern Television franchise. The strange voice which came out of nowhere announced an important message to all Eart...

This incredible 1977 Dodge Tradesman B200 custom shaggin' wagon just sold for $40,000. From Bring A Trailer:The interior features swiveling captain's chairs upholstered in beige vinyl with brown quilt...

At least one disillusioned QAnon follower is speaking out, "tired of" the cult's shifty dates and broken promises of fantastical events that never materialize. In an open letter to Donald Trump, Mic...

Nehemias Chipada, 68, reportedly climbed into a pool at a Philippines amusement park to snap photos with a 12-foot plastic crocodile. Unfortunately, the reptile wasn't plastic. Chipada was lucky in th...

In this unbelievably surreal McDonald's training video from the 70s, you'll start to wonder if there was some kind of trippy sauce on everyone's burger. The training video stars American comedian and ...

Welcome to Elfland, the hottest new neighbor in Somerville, Massachusetts. You can even find it on Google Maps! Luckily, it's so far safe from the real estate inflation affecting the rest of the area,...

For this final episode of the Futility Closet podcast we have eight new lateral thinking puzzles play along with us as we try to untangle some perplexing situations using yes-or-no questions.Show not...

I feel like it should be mandatory for public-venue carpets to get cleaned regularly, but that would deprive the world of videos like this one, featuring Miles and Ethan from Advanced Cleaning Systems...

Via Lego Movie and Spiderverse filmmaker Chris Lord Miller:I particularly like how all the actors sound like 60s sci-fi movie actors (although perhaps it'd be better if it were starring Charlton Hesto...

This might be the most perfectly English horror movie setup imaginable. On Friday, November 26, 60-or-so people went to the Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire the pub with the highest elevation in Great Brita...

Keymacs makes these Symbolics-style mechanical keyboards to order for people who like their Emacs set up just soone will set you back 1,148, with some assembly required. The less dedicated among us ca...

Mattias Krantz tuned every key on his piano to E, then cut a board so he could play them all simultaneously. The result is an epic "chord" to rival the THX sound....

Andre Weissflog's Tiny Emus makes it easier than ever to jump into an old game or application. Just click on the thumbnail for the system (or system+queued title or demo) that you want and it pops up,...

Design Toscano makes resin statues of several species of dino in what it describes as "Jurassic-size"such as this parasaurolophus, about 8ft tall, enough to loom over humans but only a third or so as ...

We lost a true genius of musical theater with the passing of Stephen Sondheim last week. This video is a lovely little masterclass in musical coaching and a great way to remember the talent and the sw...

From Vice:After graduating in Rome, Nicolas Gentile realised that big city life was not for him. He came back to his hometown on the hills of Abruzzo and decided to build his shire to live like a real...

PETA's not new to outlandish and sometimes-offensive publicity stunts (remember when they claimed milk caused autism?). The group's latest is a satirical online store selling goods made of "human" lea...

Hackers and Internet thieves are everywhere these days, and the threat of your systems and devices being breached means that keeping your PC safe these days isn't really an option. Going offline is al...

A few messes here and there is no big deal, but too much clutter at home or in your workspace can make you anxious, adding unnecessary stress to your already-buzzing mind. But with all the gadgets you...

Martin Martinez, a Black parking permit inspector, recorded a man and his mother interrogating him about what he was doing in an apartment parking lot. Martinez started recording the woman and son, an...

When the Delta variant of Covid-19 was first discovered, it was named B.1.617.2 a scientific name that's part of the Pango nomenclature. But in May, the WHO decided to also assign Greek letters (like...