Articles by BoingBoing from March 2022

With Jen Psaki and Karine Jean-Pierre both out with Covid, Pres. Biden's communications director Kate Bedingfield made her debut in the White House press room today. And it might as well have been Psa...

TikToker papimufasaa recorded a plane passenger who apparently didn't have her nose covered and copped an attitude when the flight crew told her to cover her nose. The captain heard about it and order...

I sure fell sorry for this driver. After ending up in a ditch, the driver tries hard to get their car back on the road. But over and over again they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Click to e...

When my ramshackle, made-from-junk arcade joystick had some trouble on my Mac, the OS didn't have much to helpI couldn't even find a relevant System Preferences panel, let alone anything useful for tr...

Malibu's city council voted unanimously to move forwards with plans to establish an 'Alternative Sleeping Location' for up to 30 homeless people, someplace outside of Malibu. Westside Current:"If we ...

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine heads into its second brutal month and millions of refugees flee across Europe, former U.S. President Donald Trump has a sharp message for Russian President Vladimir Pu...

Superheroes have always been political and, consequently, controversial. Revisionist history will lead you to believe that the first issue of Captain America (where Steve Rogers punches Hitler in the ...

From DC Universe:Batman is building a faction to defend Gotham. Collect one of 200,000 unique Bat Cowls and unlock a 2+ year roadmap of features, benefits, and value. The Bat Cowl Collection will be i...

This pup's humans said they tried to teach her how to use the doggy door, but with no success. But when her older canine sister took charge and showed her where the door was, the puppy caught on and h...

Here are three TV commercials from the 1960s for Mattel toy guns. The snub-nose .38 looks like a real pistol. It comes with bullets that you can attach caps to so the gun bangs and smokes when you fir...

Usually, when Russian YouTuber 1420 interviews random, identifiable people on the street with questions like, "Would you nuke the US?" or "What do young Russians think of Putin?" they get a fairly wid...

As a wise man once said, it's funny cause it's true.Hi, my name's Terry and I believe that Matt Damon runs a network of underground tunnels beneath a pizza parlor in Washington DC to secretly vaccinat...

Candidates Traci Park and Greg Good both showed the voters on Los Angeles' westside who they are in very different, but equally awful ways. Traci Park lied about a family emergency to avoid speaking a...

Who does Alex Jones think he is, Prince Andrew? Yesterday, the Infowars host offered to pay $120,000 to each of the families suing him. All the families rejected the settlement.Jones is being sued for...

In 2015, a resident of a houseboat in coastal Mississippi encountered a river troll and managed to snap this photo of the creepy character. From the photographer's account posted on Phantoms and Monst...

Philadelphia's historic and abandoned "Boner Forever" building is on its way to becoming a Marriott Hotel. The 14-story N. Broad Street building is an icon in the city thanks to the work of artists "B...

Who had the above headline on their 2020s bullshit bingo card? Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell report that Facebook hired a bunch of GOP operatives to smear competitor Tik Tok as a malign foreign ...

In this video clip, Trump makes the ludicrous claim that grocery stores are out of bread. I'm sure his cult will believe him even as they go to the supermarket and buy bread from shelves sagging with ...

In Converse, Texas, someone called police to report human skeletal remains they found in a field near the side of a road. Of course, a "thorough investigation" ensued, according to police, and dem bon...

We already knew that Donald Trump was in bed with Vladimir Putin, but last night a host on Russian state TV came right out and said it, stating it's time "to change the regime in the U.S." and to "aga...

The Newton's cradle is a cliche of desktop toys that I absolutely had to have when I first played with one in Spencer Gifts at the mall. I never thought of shooting it with a bullet but the Slow Mo Gu...

2022 office culture is much different than ever before because A) it exists, and B) it works faster than ever. And while old reliable Excel may have worked in the past, it may be time for a shift...

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. "Behold the wondrous, whimsical, wi...

Via Vice:The documents detail conversations an agent had with Soviet scientists and a student about the USSR's interest in developing ESP. Guided by these second hand accounts, it sounds like the Sovi...

I got to the Peaky Blinders party a little late. Steven Knight's compelling crime drama about Birmingham in the early 20th century has garnered rave reviews and a cult following over the las...

From a recently published scientific paper from the journal Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction titled "TickleFoot: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Foot-Tickling Mechanism That Ca...

Some books change your world in deep and lasting ways. For me, one of those was architect, builder, and design theorist, Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language. Published in 1977, A Pattern Langua...

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 commercial, 1992With the impending release of Sonic 2 this weekend, one could argue that Sega's iconic mascot is more popular than ever. If you're even slightly familiar...

I'll never understand why R-rated ads don't exist. Whenever a brand gets skittish about the controversy surrounding a show or performer they sponsor, they usually jump ship and withdraw their patronag...

Andrew Giuliani, son of Trump crony Rudy, waded into the trans rights debate by declaring his 4-month-old daughter a "woman"as proven by his personal inspection of her genitalsand himself the only "bo...

In this experiment, a realistic-looking robotic wolf cub was placed near some real wolf cubs and their mom. The robot pup had a built-in hidden camera. Upon noticing the robot, the real wolf cubs got ...

This mousetrap designed in 1862 blasts mice away when they come near it. It's like a miniature cannon used for pest control. In the video, you'll see someone load the device and then test it out on a ...

This mousetrap designed in 1862 blasts mice away when they come near it. It's like a miniature cannon used for pest control. In the video, you'll see someone load the device and then test it out on a ...

Standin' tall with Obedience is a creepy 1981 children's tape by Janeen Brady that teaches children how to be obedient. The tape indoctrinates children through tracks with titles such as "Land of Obey...

While Jim Carrey was promoting Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on CBS, the topic turned to the Oscars' Will Smith moment, and the comedian did not mince words. "I was sickened. I was sickened by the standing ova...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it's suing TurboTax maker Intuit for "deceiving consumers with bogus advertisements pitching 'free' tax filing that millions of consumers could not us...

You've got to hand it to Trump — all the very stable geniuses in America support him. Take this patriotic MAGA fellow, for instance. With a neato Trump skull cap on his head, he delivers an impo...

Ron Perlman is not only one hell of a great actor, but he's also a fierce defender of the First Amendment, as evidenced by this message he posted to Fred Flintstone lookalike Ron DeSantis, who recentl...

Immediately after Sean Hannity once again accused President Biden of "cognitive decline," saying to Newt Gingrich on his show last night, "I don't think he knows that today is Monday," the befuddled F...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is in hot water after he revealed that colleagues he's "looked up to" imbibe in cocaine and orgies in their spare time. In fact, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy plans to hav...

Recently, the family of Leonard Nimoy donated a pair of the Vulcan's prosthetic ear tips to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Above, watch the unboxing video. (Interestingly, there is ano...

Ron DeSantis stood in the far-flung shadows of The Walt Disney Company and furiously said they "crossed the line." The Florida governor was displeased that the international corporate conglomerate dar...

Apparently there is a very specific way that Michelin star restaurant chefs cut onions. It is unlikely that you cut onions this way at home and you probably shouldn't bother anyway. ...

Ivanka Trump posted an ASMR-style video to let everyone know she is feeding Ukrainians who are starving because of the Russian invasion. She somehow forgot to mention that she actively supported her P...

Digital artist Daniel Martinger invites us into this lovely carpenter's workshop which doesn't actually exist. From the project description:A small cellar in the countryside in Sweden, where an older ...

Residents in a suburb of Pennsylvania called for help when they noticed a skunk "spinning in circles" on their neighbors' front lawn with a jar stuck on its head. What might seem like an intricate ope...

In Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, more than two dozen deer have jumped off a highway overpass to their deaths in the last few months. "They get frightened out onto the bypass," resident Bill Boylan said. ...

LEGO Star Wars is frequently a lot more entertaining than the real thing. Having seen a few side-by-side LEGO/live-action content videos, I am supremely impressed with the level of detail. Bonus:...

Alex Jones, a nostrum peddler and conspiracy fabulist being sued for claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting that left 20 children dead was a hoax, refused to attend his scheduled deposition, citing a...

A sixth (or is it seventh?) Russian general reportedly fell on the field of battle in Ukraine this weekenda startling death toll in such a short campaign. They must be particularly brave and committed...

In the great state of New Jersey, Irvington Township has filed suit against Elouise McDaniel for making 75 public records requests over a period of 2 years. The township is also filing over what they ...

US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is as upset as the rest of the United States should be over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's failure to remotely look impartial, or non-criminal. Clar...

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador feels that the country's $200 million presidential jet was a ridiculous expenditure and an "insult" to the country's people and he's been trying to sell it ...

Loop Hero is an ingenious and well-received title from Four Quarters, an independent Russian game developer that has denounced the invasion of Ukraine. Alas, war sanctions mean that they're not gettin...

Introducing Hometap: no loans, no monthly payments, no kidding.Image via UnsplashDo you own your own home? If so, you could be sitting on a goldmine. With real estate prices continuing their skyw...

A lot has happened in just the past few months. Besides any personal gains, you're probably headed back to the office, which means the lousy chaos in your life is back, and the chaotic good that was w...

A rug is a textile ground covering that really ties the room together without being permanently affixed to the floor or walls. A rug pull is when the minters of cryptocurrencies pump a token then frau...

White House records turned over to the Jan. 6 investigation and obtained by media are missing 7 hours of Trump's phone logs. The missing papers are from Jan. 6, while Congress was being sacked by his ...

Waitrose, a relatively upscale UK supermarket chain, has offered an in-house grocery line titled "Essential Waitrose" since 2009. Asda, a relatively downmarket UK supermarket chain, just renamed its o...

In this footage: Jordan Peterson, looking like he's been chained to a radiator in a Hezbollah safe house for two years, is challenged by right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo to explain why Antifa is bad. P...

In the closing bit on George Carlin's legendary Jammin' in New York special, the sagely comic offered his take on the non-biodegradable nature of plastic. Carlin theorized that if plastic is...

Oliver Dakshire, who runs the Twitter account for the London antiquarian bookseller, Sotheran's, posted this humorous, spot-on solo roleplaying game, Trapped in a Cabin with Lord Byron. This is obviou...

When I was a wee lad, a handful of television shows incentivized you to either go outside or catch some Zs. To this day, the intro for M.A.S.H is the auditory equivalent of Ambien for me. Se...

As a Black man with a "white voice," I'm acutely aware of accents and their ability to foster instantaneous affinity with members of a specific tribe. In certain parts of the Black community, choosing...

During the South Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade, a bunch of Neo-Nazi buffoons from a group called National Socialist Club 131 showed up with a dog-whistle banner that said "Keep Boston Irish." Despit...

Flyin' Shoes (1978) is one of my favorite albums by the highly praised American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt (March 7, 1944 January 1, 1997). If you've never listened to him before, you're miss...

Many of you may be familiar with David Lynch's daily weather reports, where he records himself giving the daily forecast from his office. Today I stumbled upon a video from 2006 of this delightful bei...

Before Elliott Smith recorded his solo albums, he played guitar and sang for the band Heatmiser, which formed in Portland in 1991. They made a lot of fantastic music that explored the juxtaposition be...

A mom in Long Island, New York was thrilled to buy her daughter what she thought was a pair of tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was especially exciting since the world-famous band was play...

Fun On Mars is an early video by Sally Cruikshank, a visionary animator who worked on Sesame Street. Cruikshank made "Fun on Mars" while she was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. I experie...

A prideful gentleman wanted to show his souped-up hot rod by driving fast down a residential street. Unfortunately, a brick wall came out of nowhere and smashed into the car, causing considerable dama...

With so many businesses and organizations being run online today, it's no wonder there's tons of opportunity in cyber security. But not many aspiring professionals can successfully get past a pas...

This is Scot, a 1,600 pound great white shark currently swimming around Florida's Gulf Coast. According to marine research group OCEARCH, Scot is more than 12-feet-long. They first found and tagged Sc...

Without Jen Psaki around to keep her schoolboy reporter Peter Doocy in line, it was President Biden who was stuck with the job of schooling the Fox reporter. (See video below.)"When you said that chem...

Brian Menegus takes us on a history of the "hup!" vocalization that accompanies jumping in video games. It's an interesting entry point to the history of player feedback. Synthetic portamento beeps in...

This video of Pennsylvania's I81 with visibility driven to zero by snow and fog is absolutely crazy. Things just keep getting worse. Certainly, people were injured, however, it looks like the one gent...

Violence is never a good response, blah blah blah… but Slap Chris is a simple new browser game by Tyler Hamilton in which you move an emoji hand to slap Chris Rock. The game helpfully measures y...

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of murdering two people. He recently announced that he plans to sue people like Whoopie Goldberg, LeBron James, and Joe Biden for calling him a murderer, calling his tri...

University of Tokyo engineers have built a machine-learning system that enables a robot to peel a banana without mushing it. Demo video below! The robot learned to do the task on its own after almost ...

A man spent three hours building a playpen meant to contain his puppy. To show its gratitude, the young dog wagged its tail and uttered an excited squeak before running right through the bars of its n...

Caddy's Bradenton Island restaurant in Tampa, Florida has cancelled the "going to prison" party that US Capitol rioter Adam Johnson was planning to host. You'll recall that Johnson was the gentleman f...

Twenty-eight Oscar nominees received "Everybody Wins" gift bags. Recipients include Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, Olivia Colman, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, and Regina Hall. T...

The absurd and slanderous Marjorie Taylor Greene (RGA) made yet another one of her bizarro statements over the weekend, this time insinuating that Pete and Chasten Buttigieg spend time in girls' bathr...

After Will Smith slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars awards show last night, The Academy of Motion Pictures tweeted "The Academy does not condone violence of any form." But by allowing Smith to retur...

Police in Littlemore, England found a mountain of allegedly stolen bicycles in a man's backyard. The pile of two-wheelers was so large it was visible in a Google Earth satellite image. From Oddity Cen...

Roman Abramovichand a team of peace negotiators are suffering from symptoms of poising after attending a meeting in Kyiv in early March. Sources told The Wall Steet Journal that Abramovichand the othe...

Researchers from Mexico's National Institute of Archaeology uncovered an unusual 14th century Aztec altar at the Templo Mayor site in Mexico City. A jaguar skeleton is surrounded by shells and more th...

Fresh from calling Ukraine's President Zelenskyy a CIA puppet and the Jan 6. insurrection a false flag operation, Fox Nation host Lara Logan headed to And We Know to plumb the historical antecedents b...

Republican Madison Cawthorn just couldn't help himself, tattling on Washington colleagues that he's "looked up to" for enjoying themselves with cocaine and a good ol' fashioned orgy now and then. Whe...

Learn how to insert a USB Type A connector with this helpful and instructive animation.This video supercedes the previous go-to-guide for USB Type A insertion. The previous go-to-guide for USB Type A ...

If the sport of golf is anything, it's both the game of champions and what your grandpa falls asleep to on his recliner during his midday nap. Whatever precious spot golf holds in your life, it also p...

If it's the end of the world, why not spend it with BMP Collective's Catastrophe Girl?Singer/songwriter Danny Baker serves up five great new tunes! Gotta love the 60's power pop throwback with a dash ...

Last week, we got news that acclaimed comics artist Ronald Wimberly's webcomic, GratNin, was heading to Kickstarter for a fancy boxed accordion-style print version of the "endless scrolling" comic.Fro...

No engraving tool? Etch it with copper sulfate! A pound of this stuff [Amazon] costs very little and will be enough to etch everything in the house. As the presenter notes, if you're etching a chisel ...

The New York Times reports that a recently study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (part of the National Institutes of Health) has illuminated the dire impact of pandemic lif...

I'd never heard about Crazy Eddie, an electronics chain that was also a straight-up scam. Eddie Antar ran his 43-store, $500m retail empire like it was a Manhattan nightclub: cash stuffed in briefcase...

The Microsoft Graveyard, curated by Fabiano Riccardi, features all of Redmond's big dead ideas, from Bob to Zune. It was inspired by Cody Ogden's similar museum of dead Google things.Killed by Microso...

Pianos.pub is a database of public pianos that you can go right up to and play, currently tallying 8,287 public pianos in 117 countries around the world. The random page generates cool galleries of pe...

If you have been watching Taika Waititi's (What We Do in the Shadows, Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) goofball pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death, you've likely heard that the main character, Stede Bonn...

A few years ago I saw historical horologist Brittany Nicole Cox at one of her fascinating lectures on automaton and mechanical curiosities here in Seattle where she has her workshop. I'm looking forwa...

Chris Rock was making a few jokes before giving the award for best documentary when Will Smith stormed the stage and slugged Rock in the face. Smith then walked back to his seat and shouted "Leave my ...

Chris Rock was making a few jokes before giving the award for best documentary when Will Smith stormed the stage and slapped Rock in the face. Smith then walked back to his seat and shouted "Leave my ...

Every meaningful life or work-related activity requires a password in today's digital world. However, privacy seems like a rarity, especially with how easy it is for hackers (and even h...

Let's face it. The modern sedentary lifestyle isn't doing us any favors. Even the people we consider "active" may not be that active after all. Combine that with long hours working at a stationar...

Tobacco smokers know there's something that's just relaxing and satisfying about pressing a pause and taking a well-earned hit. What isn't so relaxing are some of the steps they need to take to get th...

NASA set the 5000 exoplanets so-far observed to musicmusic defined by the date of each discovery. On March 21, 2022, the number of known exoplanets passed 5,000 according to the NASA Exoplanet Archive...

There are three amazing murals by Diego Rivera in San Francisco. "Allegory of California" is at the The City Club (tours closed for now), "The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City" is at ...

I was absolutely devastated to wake up Saturday morning and learn of the death of musician Taylor Hawkins at the age of 50. The Foo Fighters were a formative band in my youth, and Hawkins' passion, en...

They say there's an app for everything. Indeed, the marketplace is saturated with excellent apps featuring workout programs, calming and meditation techniques, and recommendations for better slee...

NVidia's NeRF is an AI-driven tech that takes standard 2D photos and builds a 3D scene out of them. It's much more comprehensive than prior efforts, with low-fidelity junk and voids in the peripheries...

'National Enquirer'Which famous actor sleeps with blow-up sex dolls?Who's is the macho superstar caught giving oral sex to another man?Which leading TV actress was gay, who are the married actresses w...

I have fond memories of a family tip in 1964 to NYC to see the World's Fair. It was exciting as a kid to see all the big city attractions, but some of the more memorable things were simple. I loved go...

Given the impact of George Clinton's 1982 solo electro-funk hit, "Atomic Dog," it's amazing to hear how it all came together. Having to hold George up to the mike, his nonsensical babblings (which bec...

Drew Friedman drew this terrific portrait of MAD publisher William M. Gaines to honor his 100th birthday earlier this month. The portrait is available as a limited-edition print.Friedman also wrote a ...

Spoken Word with Electronics is an audio series of unusual stories and commentary, paired with modular electronic sounds and noisesWelcome back to the show. This week, our room is a mess. Including a ...

Robert Foster, a former GOP house representative in Mississippi and failed gubernatorial candidate there, has a new message he hopes will win him new supporters: kill trans people and their supporters...

Two kookaburras fight over a morsel of food via a ridiculous round of tug-of-war, in which one bird literally doesn't have a leg to stand on. Of course, in the end, that is the one who loses ground....

This bug with many legs casts an incredible shadow as it takes a stroll in this video. The elongated shadow gives off the illusion that it's hopping up and down as it walks. It also makes the bug's ti...

If you find yourself running after ducks only to come up empty handed, it's because you're doing it all wrong. Are you chasing it from behind? Are you forgetting to tell it your name? Your intentions?...

This electric treecycle is bad ass. If anyone knows more information about the creator of this amazing device, please let me know in the comments. It would make my day to see someone riding this down ...

Beneath every seemingly clean office desk is an unruly mess of cords, cables, connectors, and chargers, just waiting to be disconnected or ripped out of the wall unceremoniously.The 5-in-1 Wireless &#...

You can watch the full 52-minute episode of Mars and Beyond, from the Wonderful World of Disney television show, here. It was directed by Ward Kimbal and narrated by Paul Frees.The episode is centered...

Here's what you'd end up with if a megalomaniac gave a first-year film student $1000, a bootleg copy of Final Cut Pro, and a VHS copy of Top Gun, and told them to make a mini-movie to show the world h...

Police in Aurora, Ohio are searching for a man who allegedly hid nails where cops wait in their patrol cars to bust speeders. Apparently the gentleman hammered nails through boards and then buried the...

Above, Badu sings the blues. That video is a couple years old but as you can see from Badu's Instagram, this cool cat is still making the scene. And I don't want to hear anything about it being a one-...

Madison Cawthorn, a Kremlin propagandist and alleged sex pest, is seen in this video posing with a giant cardboard check to fund infrastructure in the district he was elected to represent. While he wa...

Undead goth pioneers Bauhaus have released their first new song in 14 years! The four original members of the bandPeter Murphy, David J, Daniel Ash, and Kevin Haskinsrecorded the song, titled "Drink t...

Remember when Sarah Palin couldn't handle the pressure of being Governor of Alaska and abruptly quit in 2009? She's ready to run for office again for a repeat performance. The family-values firebrand,...

It almost sounds at first like Fox mouthpiece Jesse Watters is actually, finally, criticizing Donald Trump for the boorish way he failed as president. After describing President Biden as "wandering ar...

On Saturday, a creepy clown used a grinder to cut into a cage at a Queensland, Australia RSPCA campus and steal a cute puppy named Cashew who was recovering from surgery. The crime was caught on secur...

Kid Rock, who affects a working-class mien but grew up in a mansion, told Tucker Carlson that he stopped taking precautions against Covid-19 after he learned it was killing "overweight, unhealthy peop...

Kid Rock, who affects a working-class mien but grew up in a mansion, told Tucker Carlson that he stopped taking precautions against Covid-19 after he learned it was killing "overweight, unhealthy peop...

Earlier this week, a strange vertical red beam of light appeared in the sky above Houston, Texas. After countless reports, KHOU 11 meteorologist Tim Pandajis thinks he has a possible explanation."We d...

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed away earlier this week, and the folks at Gitmo gave her all the standard military respect, along with a side of fries. They say a picture says a ...

I'll be honest, I haven't seen the movie yet, so this scene didn't make much sense to me. But I like whatever Barry Keoghan's doing as the ol' Clown Prince of Crime.Are we headed towards a "Release th...

There are a lot of great storytelling lessons that writers can learn from the work of Brian K Vaughan. But his collaboration with Fiona Staples on Saga, their ongoing YA/NC-17 sci-fi fantasy space fam...

Cops come to the wrong house and tell the occupant that they are responding to a 911 hangup call originating from a landline. The occupant tells them the house doesn't have a landline and asks them to...

Are you a struggling author? Do you fantasize about your book zooming to the top of Amazon's bestseller list? No problem! Just call Cruz Missile PR, "the only PR agency that guarantees it can get Ted ...

These days, you're pretty set in your ways, and you know where you stand on a lot of topics. You're either a cat person or a dog person, and you either drink coffee or tea in the morning. And just lik...

In a live speech broadcast this morning about his invasion of Ukraine, Russian premier Vladimir Putin diverted into another subject dear to his heart: the west's "cancellation" of J.K. Rowling, the bi...

The autosear, or "Glock switch", is a tiny chunk of molded plastic and/or metal which makes handguns (and AR-style rifles) fully automatic. Installed in seconds, they cost about $20. Or you can just m...

Panos Cosmatos directed Beyond the Black Rainbow, a haunted retrowave trip whose weird influence is everywhere now, and then the deranged and brilliant Mandy starring Nic Cage. Now he's working on a t...

The Mediterranean sea was once dry land, flooded when the Atlantic broke through the bridge of land that became the straight of Gibraltar. But that's not to say we lost a green and pleasant world to t...

Pop singer Claire "Grimes" Boucher admitted to hacking, DDOSing and taking down Hipster Runoff, a popular early-2010s site which had posted a photograph of her at a party, and "basically blackmailing"...

In this Bill Making Stuff video, Bill shows how he turned a box of native American warriors into a 10-person warband for the Stargrave sci-fi skirmish game. He chose these figures because they were ne...

1961's "The Connection" is director Shirley Clarke's film of a play about making a cinema verite filmgot that? In a dingy flat, some junkies await their "connection" to score a fix. In the process of ...

Can Marjorie Taylor Greene be barred from running for office again? Yes if it can be proven that she's an insurrectionist. Earlier today, Ron Fein, legal director of the nonprofit Free Speech For Peo...

Henry Eats is an animation by Ben Wheele from 2003. It feels like a fever dream in animated form. Henry looks like a decaying brain with bits and pieces of a face attached to it. He eats little statue...

This 1987 LJN Video Art commercial features a digital drawing system that connectedto your television. You would draw with a controller, and the drawing would appear on the TV screen. The commercial h...

An NBC News reporter today pressed President Biden on attacking Russia directly: was he too early to rule out such an attack, even ifas she outright quotes him sayingit would lead to World War III? AB...

This excited pooch who goes by the befitting name of Ru doesn't go on ordinary walks, but instead chooses to hop. This is just one of many videos showing Ru on a frisky hop check out the rest on h...

Visualize yourself typing a written project for school or work. What software are you using to create your document? Chances are, you imagined yourself working with Microsoft Word. After all, it's par...

Here Be Monsters is a podcast about a wide range of subject matter that relates to "fear, beauty, and the unknown." One of the reasons I love this artistic podcast is that the format of each episode i...

Pavel Fuks, a real estate, banking, and oil tycoon with ties to Russia and Trump is alleged to have paid local thugs to paint swastikas on buildings as part of "a false flag operation to exaggerate Uk...

Lucky buyers of the first release of Adobe Illustrator in 1987 received a VHS cassette with creator John Warnock's demonstration of the exciting new drawing software. I couldn't afford a Mac or Illust...

After watching this video of Julius Kaveckas from Phone Fix Craft deep-cleaning an iPhone, I was inspired to use a toothpick to pull out a massive amount of lint from my iPhone charging port....

Apparently, an Alameda Gentleman named "Kevin" disagrees with Walgreen's policy of letting shoplifters take what they want and go without incident, and so he decided to assault a shoplifter. Police ad...

Laura Ingraham was apparently plumb out of ideas yesterday when she babbled her most ridiculous criticism yet."Rushing to support a Supreme Court nominee of a president with what, an approval rating t...

One of my favorite YouTube cooking channels is Guga Foods. Guga is not afraid to try anything and everything with high, and low-quality ingredients. The results are often spectacular and sometimes spe...

Stephen Wilhite, aged 74, has passed away. Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, better known as GIF, while working as a developer for early online service CompuServe. Wilhite pronounced it...

Hotels in Venice, Italy are now greeting guests with not just keys to their rooms, but with orange water guns as well. And the plastic toys aren't primarily meant for a playful showdown, but for peopl...

NASA's climate spiral visualization shows the changes in global temperatures from 1880 to 2021 compared to their averages. The animation makes it clear that human activities have increased global temp...

The Wuzu Clay YouTuber combines ASMR, smooth jazz, stop-motion, and clay modeling to produce a pleasant video of how to make a Minecraft diorama. The finishing touch — casting the diorama in cle...

I've had one of these Stanley thermoses for at least 10 years. I've used it a lot and it still looks new, thanks to its durable finish. It's heavy, but that's the price to pay for keeping liquids hot ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a very angry letter to a public school demanding they stop hosting Pride Week. The school district's superintendent's simple and direct response was perfect, the...

It's been a while since I've played hooky, but I'm sure that I still know the ropes. Ducking responsibility is riding a bike; it's only really useful during childhood and is only implemented as an abs...

Performance artist Ted Cruz has made quite a spectacle of himself during Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings (see video below). But his exaggerated outrage is not for t...

The U.S. has gone 36 days without a city breaking a daily temperature high, and 256 days for an all-time temperature high. Check out The Pudding's interactive map here.This map depicts temperature rec...

Today's technology lets you pay your bills with the tap of a finger and even drive cars without touching the steering wheel. So it's only fitting that your smoking sessions be more elevated....

One person is dead and four more injured after a seven-vehicle crash near Tacoma. One local described the scene as a "path of destruction" running for a mile down the I-5 highway. The driver of a semi...

The shonen genre is to Japanese manga what superheroes are to American comics. While there are genres catering to every conceivable demographic in Japan, most people think shonen is the lifeblood of t...

Arizona's Republican-majority legislature took one look at the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin and set out to make sure it could never happen there: accordingly, it's approved ...

MidJourney is a new art-making tool in closed beta. Though both mysterious and obviousthe output suggests AI-powered generative networks trained to perform style transferthe resulting art is breathtak...

Idaho's ban on abortion, passed in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade this summer, not only applies to victims of child rape and incest but allows rapists' families to sue ...

The creators of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles developed the title as a gag, and silliness is so interwoven into the concept that there was even a concert tour promoted onOprah. By the late 1990s, h...

Outside of the Japanese, the French have to be my favorite nationality when it comes to animators. I don't think anyone can touch the beauty of fluidity of French animation. The film that acted as my ...

In a moving series of statements, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker shared his pride and excitement over Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, during her confirmation hearings. "No one is g...

Atari's original prototype for the video game system Home Pong sold for $270,910, according to Boston-based RR Auction. It's from the collection of Allan Alcorn, who created Pong, the first video arca...

When Donald Trump was elected president by losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, he appointed Dr. Mehmet Oz to the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition. Today Oz, who supports ...

A video making the rounds shows a man throwing an incendiary device at what appears to be the Kremlin. I agree with the sentiment, but not the risk of loss of life. @den_di123 , . MALINOVAYA LADA &#...

The game and rules of chess have evolved throughout history, so why can't the chessboard itself evolve with it? Introducing the first of its kind, the Square Off Pro rollable e-chessboard is a po...

Two security officers at the Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina have been arrested for allegedly trying to poison their boss. The two gentlemen, Andrew Doty, 47, and Hunter Howar...

This humanoid-quadruped transformer was trained with machine learning to roll on two wheels. It was trained with imitation learning, a type of learning where an agent learns by observing and imitating...

Most Americans don't know of Aleksanr Dugin (often spelled Alexander). I'd never heard of him until I read Gary Lachman's excellent book Dark Star Rising in 2018. Here's what I wrote about Dugin back ...

Most Americans don't know of Aleksanr Dugin (often spelled Alexander). I'd never heard of him until I read Gary Lachman's excellent book Dark Star Rising in 2018. Here's what I wrote about Dugin back ...

Being the adult in the room, a golden retriever tries to act nonchalant while a puppy chews on their toy. But the annoyed dog, with bared teeth and a quivering snout, isn't good at hiding its high lev...

Apple announced that, starting today, Arizona residents can download their driver's license or state ID into their digital Wallet. This means travelers from Arizona the first state with access to thi...

Lauren Pazienza (26), the New York woman accused of shoving an elderly woman into the street and causing her death, surrendered Tuesday to face manslaughter charges and immediately hired a high-power...

Kinetic artist Joseph Herscher built a Rube Goldberg-style machine so that he could eat a five course meal without lifting a hand and the contraption worked splendidly, as planned. The flung napkin l...

The reasoning behind Miami Beach declaring a state of emergency and enforcing a curfew this spring break appears to be racism. Miami Herald:Miami Beach, using the standard of "clear and present danger...

Speaking at a town hall in Georgia yesterday, Russian asset Marjorie Taylor Greene once again spoke her anti-democratic truth when answering a question from the audience.Referring to Madison Cawthorne...

If you're a Windows user who's on their computer all day, why not improve your user experience with a handful of helpful apps? Now on sale for just $49.99, you can get four highly-rated Ashampoo progr...

A book claimed to identify Anne Frank's betrayer as a local Jewish "leader" who might have given her family up to save his own. But publication was put on hold after questions about the quality of its...

You know what they say: there can be only one Tinky-Winky....

When you stop and marvel at the staggering number of achievements we've made as a species, it's enough to bring a tear to your eye. In only a few short millennia, we've mastered the art of teaching be...

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."This fine collection of work by Mr....

Gallup reports that Ketanji Brown Jackson is tied as the most popular Supreme Court nominee it's ever polled. 58% of Americans want the U.S. Senate to confirm her, far more than recent picks like Neil...

Early maps of Russia's attack of Ukraine were simple and somewhat deceiving: by shading large areas of the country and using large arrows, they suggested a blitzkrieg invasion and and occupying force ...

The Uncanny Robot Podcast is a new podcast by Thersa Matsuura (previously at Boing Boing) and Rich Pav, where absurd AI-generated stories are read by humans and illustrated with GAN art and fantastic ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nature Is Metal (@natureismetal)When we were born as humans, we definitely got the short end of the stick. Having opposable thumbs and u...

Comedian Daniel LaBelle, better known for his purely physical comedy videos (e.g., "How Animals Would Run If They Were People" and "Spiderman When He's at Home"), veers from the norm in his latest, "W...

With the dismantling of Roe vs. Wade now well underway across much of the United States, Loving vs. Virginia may be next. When asked if he'd be okay with leaving interracial marriage up to the states,...

Meet this distinguished gentleman, who understands that it is his civic duty to be informed about issues before making a judgment. Republicans hate Critical Race Theory, but do they know what it is? ...

Rather than covering up a bird cage for the evening, a man lines up his six pet birds on a human bed, tucks them in, and kisses each one good night as he calls out their names. Yeah, it's probably jus...

Traitorous seditionist Josh Hawley chomps a wad of gum to hide his embarrassment at once again being exposed as a fraud. This time, he was caught lying about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing r...

Twenty years ago, when the battery ran out on your watch, you'd have to find the time elsewhere. It was an inconvenience, sure, but not a big deal. However, the times and technology have changed since...

In this legal document that is actually fun to read the SEC stomps Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's complaint regarding the settlement he made to have lawyers internal to Tesla review his tweets for appropriate...

As Eric Trump tries to belittle a fit Joe Biden for riding his bike, "my father" aka retiree Donald Trump leers at a woman putting on the golf course. "This would increase the LPGA ratings, even thoug...

If you want to get a Republican's goat, just ride a bicycle. They were outraged when President Obama rode a bike while wearing a helmet (gasp!), to boot. And now Eric Trump is furious because Preside...

Jimmy Kimmel showed a bizarre clip of Rudy Giuliani on a Newsmax show called the Wise Guys. In the clip, Giuliani shares a story about a conversation between Trump and Putin."So he has a meeting with ...

As the comic convention scene hopefully returns to some semblance of normality this year, I'm excited to engage in my favorite convention activity: hanging around artist alley. Watching skilled artist...

Disney charges $5,000 for a couple of nights at its Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Two nights at a Galaxy Pod in Singapore will cost you under $100 and probably feels a lot more like you're in outer spac...

As a kid, I heard Lorne Greene sing the theme to Bonanza, but every time thereafter I saw the show the theme was merely instrumental. Today I woke up to "With a gun and a rope and a hat full of hope, ...

In one of several tornadoes in Texas yesterday, a storm chaser caught video of a red pickup truck being flipped on its side and spun like a toy top. The storm then rights the truck, and off it goes on...

I have loved Buddy Hackett since I first saw The Love Bug. Here the jokes just build and his finale is wonderful....

This gives new meaning to the term "slinging dope."https://www.redditmedia.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/tk047v/afghans_shooting_drugs_over_to_iran_using_this/?ref_source=embed&ref=share&embed=...

Certainly less famous than the "Rick Roll" and creepier rather than just frustrating, watch as Nicolas Cage learns about "Caging." I have always found Cage to be hilarious, like a young Shatner but ev...

Techdirt is running a March Madness-style bracket tournament to pick the ultimate misunderstood legal concept. Contenders range from the 1st Amendment (restrains governments, not companies) to incitem...

Bob Proehl, DJ extraordinaire and author of the literary super hero novels The Nobody People and The Somebody People, decided it was time for a March Madness bracket that actually spoke to his interes...

The era of staying home is finally coming to a gradual end, and before you know it, it'll be the season of graduations, weddings, family get-togethers, and more. But with all this excitement means peo...

Antarctica had a record-breaking weekend, with temperatures reaching up near a whopping 10 degrees Fahrenheit on parts of the continent. That might not sound like a tropical vacation indeed, it doesn...

The Oscars look like a pretty tight race this year. Usually, I'm able to pick the most likely choices for best picture while wearing a blindfold, but this spate of nominees makes it a little tricky. I...

There are two options for storing plastic shopping bags. You can do it like me and just shove them into the drawer or compartment where a compressed mass of low density polyethylene slowly forms. Or y...

Enjoy this unexpectedly illuminating video about how aluminum cans are formed by the billion in factories the world over. Alluminating! Creator Bill Hammack is a professor of chemical engineering at t...

Viral footage of a bro wrecking a rented Tesla for the likes has yet to lead to arrests. But here's the owner of one of the vehicles parked nearby, which was so badly damaged by the "douche jump" that...

The international hacker group Anonymous continues its war on Putin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The group has hacked into printers all over Russia and is commandeering them to print out the t...

In fair New Milford, Connecticut we lay our scene: two pleasantly plump pot belly pigs named Mary and Hammy minding their own business, when a big ol' black bear leaps into their pen and decides to st...

It's hard to believe now, but Marvel lagged DC in the adaptation game until the 21st century. Yes, the classicSpider-Man,Fantastic Four, andIron Manseries were massive hits in the 60s, but DC dominat...

From Phys.org:A team of scientists working in UNLV's Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab pioneered a new method for measuring the properties of water under high pressure. The water sample was...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gavin Blake #GB23 (@gavinblake23)Batman's obsession with justice has been the butt of many a joke throughout the character's prolific hi...

As much as I love the Marvel films, they've screwed up how cinema works. Hollywood can't neglect a lucrative formula, and since the Marvel cinematic universe is the most profitable franchise in the hi...

A Miata driver uses his train horn to encourage an SUV driver to stay in their lane. It worked. Click to expand ...

When given a choice between steak or broccoli, any dog with taste buds will choose steak. But as part of a "taste tournament," this golden retriever had to first taste each food before she was allowed...

A driver in Los Angeles rented a Tesla and performed an incredible but "dangerous jump stunt," according to the LAPD, causing the car to fly down the street for a long stretch before touching ground (...

Spring of 2020 was a turning point (for obvious reasons). Suddenly, people realized all kinds of things: how germ-ridden most surfaces are, how far apart six feet actually is, and most strikingly for ...

Lindsey Graham says calling Republicans racist "is not going to fly with us" because they're used to it pic.twitter.com/TwLKODUIVM— Acyn (@Acyn) March 21, 2022On the first day of hearings for Su...

Ted Cruz, father of two young daughters, seems to think holding a girl down, covering her mouth, and trying to rip off her clothes while a friend watches is a "teenage dating habit." In a comment he m...

In the unfortunate event of a nuclear strike against the United States, the Emergency Alert System will tell people what they can do to minimize their chances of being vaporized. Image: Half as Intere...

At-home Covid-19 test kits come with swabs, a test module, and a small vial of test solution, which is meant to be used after you swab your nostrils. But according to the FDA, some people have dipped ...

A DoorDash delivery driver, Delane Gordon, was stopped by a cop in Tennessee for allegedly speeding. When Gordon, who is Black, calmly said he didn't want to get out of the car because he felt uncomfo...

Before we begin, let me clarify the title. No, rock music isn't dead in that it no longer exists. There are still tons of rock bands that make bountiful stacks of cash every year. Rock is 100% alive- ...

In a closely-reported expos sourced to numerous current and former employees, three stars of the indie game development sceneKen Wong, Steve Gaynor and Robin Hunickeare accused of harassing, humiliati...

Jergens Ultra Healing Moisturizer is being recalled due to possible bacterial contamination. Their 3-ounce and 10-ounce bottles may be tainted with pluralibacter gergoviae, a bacterium that, although ...

This video is two years old, and even then Russians were sick of the dictator. YouTube description: "A Russian prankster glued a massive portrait of President Vladimir Putin to the inside of a residen...

After the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first, "Do you have a light?" is a close second. And while relying on others for a flame can get awkward, rummaging through your bag f...

Apple's Studio Display is a handsome metal monitor with better speakers and microphones than competing models and a hefty $1600 tag. Though that's not an outrageous price for a 5K display (the 5K LG U...

Superficially, Tolkien and Orwell pose in opposition: Tolkien the devout Catholic buried in English origins, Orwell the committed Socialist unraveling English outcomes. But much was shared, writes Da...

Netflix is making a big-budget adaptation of a beloved Japanese pop culture classic! The good news is that Tekken: Bloodlines isn't going to be live-action, so we won't have to deal with Damien Lewis ...

I often draw hefty conclusions about a person's behavior from their board game of choice. Whenever I encounter someone with no qualms about planting themselves around a Monopoly board for hours, I kno...

In this ad from Japanese mobile operator DoCoMo, 400 feature phones perform a tune to celebrate their "graduation"which is to say the forthcoming discontinuation of their tower network and their own s...

Enjoy robatsea2009's mashed-up imagining of a Dr. Strange TV show from the year of my birth, clearly set in an American NTSC Scarfolk....

The Israeli occupation of Palestine was big news in 2021. From a series of viral videos, public demonstrations, and an unprecedented amount of support from celebrities, the plight of th...

In this fascinating Ask a Mortician episode, Caitlin looks at how the post-Civil War spiritualism of the late 80s produced the popular trend of (bogus) spirit photography. As part of the video, she si...

In this fascinating Ask a Mortician episode, Caitlin looks at how the post-Civil War spiritualism of the late 80s produced the popular trend of (bogus) spirit photography. As part of the video, she si...

Nothing makes my heart swell with pride like watching comics take off their shackles and fly as freely as any other storytelling medium. Although European comics aren't as restricted to action-oriente...

Fighting games are notorious for having awful stories. I'm pretty sure that's one of Newton's less publicized laws. And I say this as someone that adores the genre. However, my love for all things nar...

It's fair to say that most millennials would happily time travel back to their childhood for even just a day if given a chance. Nostalgia is one of the great joys of life, and sometimes all it takes i...

The Republican Accountability project has a new website featuring quotes from the "MAGA wing of the GOP" who are rootin' for Putin by pushing lies that Ukraine is a fake country run by Nazis....

Those truckers are not having a lot of luck making whatever their point is supposed to be.JUST IN: A bicyclist is brilliantly trolling the trucker convoy in downtown DC right now, per @shutdown_dc. pi...

The surviving members of The Clash have given permission to the Ukrainian punk band Beton to raise support funds with a new version of the 1979 ballad "London Calling." Beton's version has new lyrics ...

Just like you go to the gym, take vitamins, and buy healthful food at the grocery store (well, try to anyway), your mental health is also of great importance daily. But not all of us have the tools or...

Technically, the Elizabeth Line is but the first part of Crossrail, an expansion of the city's rail system so sprawling and expensive that it is most certainly it's own thing, not part of the London U...

The O'Keefe Music Foundation sure does nurture some amazing young musical talent. Case in point is this group of O'Keefe students, led by 8 year singer, Zo Franziska, doing a killer cover of Korn's "F...

As a boy, I consciously sought wisdom from various father figures. That's not because my dad wasn't around or anything; I just wanted to make sure I always got a second opinion. Whenever my dad would ...

Rob Wolchek (previously at Boing Boing) irritates a shady used car saleman in this entertaining clip from the television. There's a moment when Rob says weeks were spent driving up and down streets to...

I once asked a comedian how he got the courage to do stand up. He'd just finished a gut-busting set that endowed every audience member with six-pack abs. The response he gave will probably stick with ...

Wednesday, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the Swedish theatrical metal band, Ghost, performed "Call Me Little Sunshine" from their new album, Impera. True to character, they performed the song at the historic...

One thing I appreciate about Alan Moore is that he always finds new ways to surprise. He certainly never struck me as the kind of guy who'd team up with the BBC to teach a writing course, for example ...

Ok, here's the scene: It's the early 90s, and you walk into an arcade with girthy pockets crammed full of quarters. You feel like Smaug reclining on his mounds of gold as the coins chime with your eve...

Like a human who flinches during a horror movie scene with a jump scare, this cute kitty is so engaged with the growling lions on a TV screen that he actually steps back and falls off his perch when a...

They say that you don't know what you don't know, but a review of the lists of the courses that comprise these two phenomenal learning platforms may just send your head into a tailspin. Natu...

An NFT collector says he lost his net worth "in a single click" by accidentally selling an NFT for a fraction of a cent, reports Coin Market Cap.DinoDealer meant to list his EtherRock NFT on OpenSea f...

This video shows a curious bear hopping over a pigpen fence seeking treats.In an instant, a large white hog attacks the bear. Startled and stunned, the bear backs into a corner but has no time to rega...

Halston Thayer thought he'd made a wise investment when he paid over a half-million dollars for an absolutely magnificent illustration of a nude Pepe the Frog bathing in a pond. After all, a one-of-a-...

'National Enquirer'The world's long dark midnight of the soul has ended, as the conflict that had us all mesmerised – no, not Russia's attack on Ukraine – has finally come to a close."Harr...

I hope the folks at Disney+ paid careful attention to this Auralnauts Obi-Ani adventure, it should set the stage for the entire miniseries. Reasonably free access to pharmaceutical-grade psychedelics ...

This Long Beach California cop sure picked the wrong kid to harass. The video begins with Officer Unfriendly barking at a couple of biker riders to "Park your bike!" He then proceeds to lecture them a...

After Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green attended a White Nationalist event where the crowd erupted in "Putin! Putin!" chants, and frequently speaks out against helping Ukraine (see bottom video for ...

Maker B shows how to make a tiny but functional gasoline-powered engine. You'll need about $1,000 worth of precision shop equipment, 1,000 hours to burn, and 1,000 milliliters of gasoline. One of thes...

In this footage, conflict brews between a skunk and a possum, late at night, somewhere in America. When the tangle comes, it's over in a flash. The skunk is quickly on its feet again, but knows it has...

When it comes to crafting merchandise, corporations tend to act like Mufasa explaining his kingdom's perimeters to Simba. "Everything the light touches," they tell their merchandising department, "is ...

Related: I recently listened to the new Graphic Policy podcast about Peacemaker with Spencer Ackerman, Jamelle Bouie, and Cayden Mak, and listening to a bunch of intelligent people break the show apar...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorne, Fox "News," and the rest of right-wing propaganda machine no longer have to pay writers for coverage of the Ukraine-Russia war. They simply take used scripts...

Ford is building a manufacturing plant for its new electric cars just outside Mason, Tennessee, and with it comes good news for the 1300+ local property owners, nearly 60% of whom are black. A few yea...

The editorial board of The New York Times today went all-in on "cancel culture" anxiety [archive], declaring that free speech is more than a right to say what you will: it's the right to say what you ...

The decentralized hacktivist group Anonymous does not take kindly to Marjorie Taylor Greene's stupidity. When they call her "one of the dumbest politicians ever," they are most likely referring to eve...

Perhaps it will go down as one of life's unsolved mysteries, not unlike the case of the single missing sock. It seems that no matter how carefully you arrange the cords to your headphone when put...

Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhnyi shared this video on the social medias, saying the attack describes "…a highway to hell for the command post and support point ...

Typatone assigns musical tones to letters. Start typing (or paste in any text) to hear original music. You can change the tone library by clicking the button with the musical note.I tried it with my T...

Hip-hop is a dirty business. Beyond the lurid depictions of cut-throat capitalism that exist within the stanzas of the genre's most prominent poets, the most visceral examples of underhanded business ...

According to a piece on Vice, a store in Chicago is selling custom-made LEGO President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Molotov cocktails and donating the money to help Ukrainian refugees as they flee from Vla...

Crime dramas and television are the entertainment equivalents of butter and popcorn. Whether they're from the criminal or cop perspective, crime shows usually receive tons of ratings and rave reviews....

We've seen angry Karens, bored Karens, racist Karens, bully Karens, QAnon Karens, and even bagel Karens, but never have we come across a David Lynch Karen until now, that is. In very strange footage,...

Whether you're looking for a new career path or simply want to sharpen your engineering skills, learning the languages today's biggest developers use to build some of the world's most exciti...

In Fort Yukon, Alaska, Vincent Ledvina spent eight nights capturing more than 8,000 photos of the Aurora Borealis. This magnificent short film is a compilation of his timelapse videos made from those ...

For at least four years, Wisconsin dentist Scott Charmoli broke patient's teeth so he could charge to repair them. He was convicted on Friday of five counts of healthcare fraud and two counts of makin...

On Sunday afternoon, this one-year-old cute corgi named Jessica was on her owner Jon Atwood's parent's 65-foot-yacht on Florida's Indian River when she apparently fell or jumped off. As soon as Atwood...

The New York Police Department is offerning a $3,500 reward for help identifying a woman suspected of pushing an 87-year-old woman in the street, leading to her death. Chris Stein of Blondie tweeted t...

Chapman University business professor David Berkovitz claims that he found test questions from his exams on the Course Hero website that he thinks were posted by students seeking to cheat. So he's sui...

Nothing attaches itself to a memory like a song. A great track can adhere to your gray matter like a stubborn grain of sand inside your left sneaker. That's one of the reasons I'm so obsessed with mov...

In Estero, Florida, Jermaine Wofford, 47, arrived at breeder The Turtle Source to repair a refrigerator. When he departed though, he allegedly absconded with 18 rare turtles worth an estimated $30,000...

This clip of pathological liar, racist insurrectionist, and alleged sex pest Madison Cawthorn calling Zelensky a "thug" is playing repeatedly on Russian state TV. It makes you wonder where Cawthorn's ...

When a dog and its feline neighbors want to hang out, there's no need to go knocking on any doors. Not when there are balconies to lean over. View this post on Instagram A post shar...

Here's how we cook tofu at my house: Freeze a block of firm or extra firm tofu until it's rock hard. Let it defrost for a few days in the refrigerator. Gently squeeze the water out of the block of tof...

Red caps are the mark of a genius. Listen to this wise gentleman share his airtight theory as to why JFK Jr faked his death by pretending to die in a plane crash in 1999. Asked this guy what it would ...

After both houses of the US Congress seemed to overwhelmingly support Ukraine's right to independence and increased material support for their struggle, Georgia's burning trash fire Marjorie Taylor Gr...

Cody Dylon Setzer (29) admitted to taking a pair of month-old bear cubs from their den in Northern California. He tried to raise the cubs on his own, but called authorities when he realized the cubs w...

This video came to mind, on this fantastic St. Patrick's Day. ...

One of Russia's wealthiest oligarchs, Mikhail Fridman, is distraught over European Union sanctions imposed against Russia for invading Ukraine. Since the war began his net worth has plummeted from $14...

My Pillow Guy, aka Mike Lindell, freaked out his show host on "Lindell TV" when he accused Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold of murder. "She will go to prison, prison, and more prison," the ...

Slab City is an off-the-grid community of folks living in an abandoned artillery range, near a rapidly evaporating lake full of former farm irrigation run-off and chemicals that creates a dusty and to...

Ronny Chieng tackles the stupidity that is current likely invented enthusiasm for doing things in VR. Years ago the TV show Community explained the issues with VR perfectly. They still remain the same...

First, I will simply quote great American poet LL Cool J when I say "Don't call it comeback" as this video is certainly "putting suckers in fear", and second I'll just add "keep on living your best li...

Going to the gas pump these days feels like highway robbery. Even though bravely bearing the strain of keeping Russia accountable for its horrific actions in Ukraine can endow one with feelings of alt...

Like pretty much everything else he's done, I didn't expect it to be quite this good. I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share. pic.twitter.com/6gyVR...

A man who had spent a long day traveling arrived at what he thought was his Miami Airbnb at 2am. He looked at the host's comments and everything seemed to be in order: the gate was unlocked, the dog w...

There's a lot to look forward to this spring, from fun dinner parties with friends to graduation and wedding celebrations. And while nothing goes hand-in-hand with these fun occasions like a great-tas...

In Marge's world of Jewish space lasers and gazpacho police, there are two U.S. leaders one's a commander and the other's a chief, as she told the Bulwark's Bill Kristol, who's an editor and large. A...

Apple's newest model of Mac (and its matching display) roll in tomorrow, but the first reviews are out today. The consensus: Mac Studio is an excellent and unexpectedly powerful machine in a compact c...

Even though I cover tabletop gaming professionally and spend a lot of time consuming gaming media, I am often embarrassingly late to the party on the hip, killer game du jour. Case in point: Mrk Borg....

A couple of weeks ago, Capcom released the trailer for Street Fighter 6. Before the trailer for the sixth iteration of their flagship franchise, Capcom posted a graphic to celebrate 35 years of&#...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tyson 2.0 (@itstyson20)My parents were wrong: there is a future in marijuana. As the puritanical laws surrounding weed loosen around the...

Today on "Unhelpful Comparative Metrics":One might even say that it was slightly larger than a tapir! pic.twitter.com/3fFrJYSvru— Forfocsic Vol 2: Whiskey & Work out now! (@thomdunn) March ...

Dna Grnna: Nasty Words for People is a new book from Irish language writer and performance artist Manchn Magan that delivers, well, precisely what the title promises. Like his earlier work in 32 Word...

"Exonerative tense" is a term for the evasive, passive style of writing used by news media when police kill peoplea world of "officer-involved" shootings in which guns "discharge" but are never fired....

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

This Creepy Kinder Egg commercial reveals a character that resembles an uncanny version of Humpty Dumpty. He is egg-shaped but has a flesh body instead of an eggshell. He also speaks gibberish and see...

Today, I've learned that human slinkys are a thing. These human slinky kid performers know how to put on a show, and so does this guy! The way they're able to stretch and contract their rainbow slinky...

A mother of six who helped herself to a century-old unopened bottle of Rmy Martin Louis XIII cognac from a restaurant bar in San Jose, California won't be charged with a crime because the owner decide...

During Volodymyr Zelensky's virtual address to congress this morning, Sen. Joe Manchin (D/R-WV) could care less about what the Ukrainian president had to say. Instead, the turncoat could be seen excit...

Image via UnsplashYou go to the dispensary to purchase a cannabis product that's best for you. But how do you know? The budtender might be able to give you some guidance, but no two people are the sam...

When a boy started his zip-line ride on Sunday in La Fortuna, Costa Rica, the tour guide reminded him not to break. But the boy wisely ignored that tip when he suddenly saw a sloth hanging from the ca...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this magnificent image during a recent evaluation of the instrument's mirror alignment. According to the researchers, "every optical parameter that has been ...

After hearing word of a stray exotic parrot in the woods of Princeton, New Jersey, police sought the help of Animal Control to capture the misplaced bird and find its owner. Animal Control officer Jim...

Lindsey Graham just tripled down on his initial March 3rd "Brutus in Russia" comments to Fox News in which he suggested that Putin had to go, and that someone in Russia should "step up to the plate" a...

Thirty-five years ago today, the enchanting Siouxsie and the Banshees released their mighty cover of Iggy Pop's 1977 classic tune "The Passenger." To celebrate, the band has "upgraded" the quality of ...

This guy bought the cheapest private room available on the Sunrise Express train from Tokyo Station to Izumoshi Station, a distance of about 500 miles. The ticket cost about $220. He caught the train ...

Apparently, ants don't like sticky surfaces, as you can see in this time-lapse video. When they're placed next to a piece of double-sided tape and a small pile of crushed glass, they go to work, cover...

A powerful 7.3 earthquake struck Namie, Japan off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture Wednesday morning, leaving 2 million homes in nine prefectures, including Tokyo, without power. A 1-meter high t...

Fuck Your Eames Louge in style with this handsome three-headed sheepskin chair, which we are assured is "not satanic" by its seller. The original appears to be this Facebook Marketplace listing, but t...

KTVB News' Brian Holmes interviewed Idaho Lieutenant Governor of Janice McGeachin to find out why she spoke at white nationalist Nick Fuentes' Unite the Right rally (along with Bobo and Marge Greene)....

Truckers of the so-called "People's Convoy" caused severe backups on the interstate leading into downtown Washington DC last week. One driver boasted, "We're right in the swamp now and creating a horr...

The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv tweeted this morning, "Today, Russian forces shot and killed 10 people standing in line for bread in Chernihiv. Such horrific attacks must stop. We are considering all availab...

Who doesn't love going to a fancy coffee shop and enjoying the delicious foamed milk mixed into a cappuccino? It's one of the great joys of life. The frustration sets in when we realize that we can't ...

To an artist, there's nothing more imprisoning than success. Well, I guess actual prison counts too. And, you know what, poverty that renders you incapable of pursuing your art in a meaningful way can...

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books!Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; andTom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Order today,RIGHT HERE AND NOW."God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, and h...

A "Texas-style" bill proceeding in Tennessee would not only prohibit abortion but allow anyone to sue anyone who helps someone seek an abortion. Challenged on whether this would include the friends of...

Exhibit A: Classical guitarist Jonas Lefvert tackles Brad Fuller and Hal Canon's theme from Gauntlet II.Exhibit B: MC Chris's Life's a Bitch and I'm Her Pimp...

Here's a gallery of 20 Vintage Photographs of People With Their Commodore 64s. The machine celebrates its 40th birthday this year, and goes from strength to strength in its technical dotage. The compa...

I've been looking forward to Boys From County Hell for a few years now. For one thing, I'll watch any horror movie named after a Pogues song. In this case, the film also pulled from the same obscure I...

You've got to love artistic license. Watching an artist interpret a character through their unique lens is one of the best aspects of being a fan of their work . When a character has enough personalit...

One of my prized game possessions is a long out-of-print Trivial Pursuit-style card game called Beatle Significa. When in the company of fellow Beatles maniacs, it's always fun to pull out the game an...

Wading into the fad for vintage desktop aesthetics (Windows, MacOS Classic) comes Hot Dog Linux. It stands for "Horrible Obsolete Typeface and Dreadful Onscreen Graphics" and isn't taking prisoners. C...

Miami police sergeant and union president Tommy Reyes hooked up with a guy on Grindr and it didn't go well: the man stole his wallet, reports the Miami New Times, and tried to blackmail him. When they...

The New York Times bought Wordle from its creator, so it has the legal right to stop others from offering archives of Wordle. The newspaper-cum-gaming-company did just that this week when it contacted...

After a bit of a dry spell, Randy Rainbow is back with one of his most satisfying parodies yet, in which he heckles both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in one catty fell swoop. He begins wi...

After a bit of a dry spell, Randy Rainbow is back with one of his most satisfying parodies yet, in which he heckles both Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in one catty fell swoop. He begins wi...

A MAGA woman sporting a Q pin at the Trucker Convoy clearly explains what is stuck in her craw when it comes to Covid-19. And it starts with the word "corona.""When it came out, it was 'Corona,' right...

With minimal to no online privacy and fraudsters like cybercrime call centers existing, it seems like it's impossible for any information we share to be truly private. Now there's a way...

The US Senate just passed a bill that would end the two annual time changes forever, starting in 2023. From Reuters:The Senate approved the measure, called the Sunshine Protection Act, unanimously by ...

The US Senate just passed a bill that would make Daylight Savings Time permanent, starting in 2023. From Reuters:The Senate approved the measure, called the Sunshine Protection Act, unanimously by vo...

STYLOPHONIKA by Kingston University Stylophone OrchestraThe Stylophone is the tiny synthesizer most famously used by David Bowie on "Space Oddity." First invented in 1967, its played by touching a bui...

All this puppy wants to do is hop from the couch to the table, but a small gap is getting in the way. After a few false starts, the brave pup gives it a go but misses it completely. Maybe with a litt...

From 1966 to 1981, Peter Marshall hosted the iconic TV game show Hollywood Squares that featured celebrities like Paul Lynde, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Raymond Burr, Barbara Eden, Vincent Price, and coun...

In 1994, the surviving BeatlesPaul, George, and Ringogathered at George's home to work on The Beatles Anthology and performed a few numbers for the documentary. Above, their very sweet rendition of th...

Hoping to be saved, a Daddy-fearing Eric Trump repeatedly bowed to his Lord Monday night as if his life depended on it, saying "my father" 12 times in five minutes when speaking to Sean Hannity. To sp...

The CIA illegally kept a man as a torture training prop at one of its secret prisons in Afghanistan in 2003. Trainee torturers "lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leav...

The CIA illegally kept a man as a torture training prop at one of its secret prisons in Afghanistan in 2003. Trainee torturers "lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leav...

Households making less than $25,000 a year are audited by the IRS at a rate of 13 per 1,000 returns. Households making more are audited at a rate of 2.6 per 1,000 returns. These figures come from rese...

An editor working at Russia state TV's Channel One walked behind an anchor of a live broadcast on Monday holding a sign that read "NO WAR. Stop the war. Do not believe propaganda they tell you lies he...

I really enjoyed Chapter 1 of The Book of Ice Cream. Auralnauts take on Boba Fett covers all the bases, both Disney's and their own. There is a fresh dance scene and everything is wizard as Boba embra...

Ireland-based design/build firm Aeropod recycles old commercial airplane fuselages into home offices, glamping cabins, or extra bedrooms in the backyard. The cost is approximately 20,000 to 37,000 dep...

Republican member of Florida's House of Representatives, and sponsor of the despicable 'Don't Say Gay' bill, Joe Harding found his home damaged by a tornado.Florida Politics:Harding said a possible to...

In Spring Hill, Florida, Thomas Eugene Colucci, 41,called 911 to test the meth he had recently purchased because he "knew what it should feel like" and this stash wasn't doing it for him. Apparently h...

Fascinating Horror, one of the greatest channels on YouTube, covers an event I vividly remember watching live while sitting in Junior High School history. We were to watch the first teacher go to spac...

Who amongst us hasn't once spotted someone strumming a guitar and dreamed of trying it? Maybe it was someone DJing a masterful party set or a person rocking out on the drums but regardless, at some p...

I think I remember hearing stories about drone swarms creating fantastic art in the skies over Hong Kong. Austin, Texas got an introduction to the technology via an ad for the new Halo TV series. Not ...

While we fans wait for the upcoming documentary "Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters," we can enjoy these sketches Mignola made for a cancelled Thor animated series back in the '90s. The docu will feature ...

Doctor Popular says, "I recently learned that Alvin and The Chipmunks albums sound great when played at 16 2/3 RPM. Basically, this is half speed, so the actors' voices sound like normal people, but t...

A bone of contention for many rock music fans has always been the very wide net that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame casts in nominating artists. Of all the good things you can say about Dolly Parton...

Comedian Sen Burke pretends to be Professor Brian Cox, host of a basement-budget BBC show about the Universe. "Join me as we test the limits of BBC's travel budget and explain this universe of ours wh...

Whether you're just starting out as a developer or are desperately trying to keep up with today's digital trends, having a clear understanding of the metaverse is essential. This is especially tr...

In the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver explains why concert tickets are so expensive, why the artists aren't getting their fair share, and why Ticketmaster is one of the "most-hated c...

Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub and ProPublica have identified a new Russian misinformation channel: fake fact-checking already purportedly fake videos. Russians essentially parody fact-check...

Kathy Steven, 65, is nicknamed the "Hugging Bandit" because, according to Clearwater, Florida police, "she would approach older men outside stores and pretend she knew them as she went to hug them. Wh...

And just when you thought you couldn't like Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy any more, you discover a video of him, shirtless, in heels and tight vinyl pants, dancing to Beyonce's "All the Sing...

What a cock-up! The Australia Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is under fire for the above new logo fo the Women's Network which "champions equal opportunity on behalf of its members and i...

Yikes. While I agree with the activists' sentiment in this Daily Beast story on random folks seizing property from Russia's super-rich, I lack their bravery. This feels like a fantastic way to acciden...

"When I took out the rubbish this morning, I opened one of the bins and jumped back and saw a body wrapped up in black garbage bags with masking tape around it, just laying at the bottom of the bin wi...

I have just finished my first watch-through of Numerical Joker's 4.5-hour Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith supercut in 4k/5.1 dolby. I am sure I'll go through it one or two more times before Obi-Wan Ken...

On a rainy afternoon in Dingle in 2016, my wife and I ended up giving a ride to a few hitchhikers who invented us back to a pub to watch the Ireland vs France EuroCup final. It was a delightful day, a...

In addition to everything else that Putins's invasion of Ukraine has wrought, rock and roll guitarists may loose their tone. The owner of Electro-Harmonix, Mike Matthews, announced Russian-made audio ...

When DC Comics announced that Jim Lee would pencil the Batman: Hush arc, I remember taking bets with my friends for how long into the run Lee would get before he quit. At the time, like most...

About a month before this whole pandemic thing hit, I finally decided to downgrade my guitar rig. I had my eyes set on a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, and I was hoping to trade in Marshall TRS 60-Watt with 2...

A US Senator from Texas, widely known for abandoning his constituents to vacation in Mexico during a state-wise emergency, has exposed a giant flaw in arguments against racist Voter ID programs while ...

The Tony Martini Variety Hour is usually packed with terrible jokes, cute musical acts, burlesque dancers, contortionists, and a puppet show. This allows me to check off almost all the 'entertainment'...

Here are four times Putin extended his bloodstained hand to another person, only to be rebuffed. I don't blame them. Putin might be holding a fake hand, coated with polonium....

This is Locklan Samples, sixteen months old, who has one of around 100 known cases of Uncomable Hair Syndrome. Yes, that's a real thing. From Fox5Atlanta:After studying Lock's hair under a special mic...

Chris Tullbane's series Murder of Crows is a fun, moderately-paced series that builds an incredible world and some interesting characters. See These Bones is the first in the series.Damian Banach is a...

I can hear Tucker Carlson complaining about this protestor on his TV show for frightened old people: "By holding up a blank sign, this rioter insinuated a direct threat to Putin's life. Say what you w...

One of my favorite binge watches during the shutdowns was Amazon's 'The Boys.' This June the series returns with more crazy, more blood, and more compound V. ...

Apparently beating Ye to space, celebrity dating expert and SNL personality Pete Davidson has made arrangements to ride Jeff Bezos' very masculine rocket. CNN:Davidson will be joined on his flight by ...

The State of Wyoming has created an app that enables citizens to lay claim to roadkill that they'd like to cook as a meal. Built into the latest Wyoming 511 app, the new feature was timed with a new l...

Oh, what a difference a month can make. When you first received your pristine AirPods, the comfort and audio experience may have blown you away without a care in the world. Fast forward to that f...

George Dunnett bought a charming but run-down stone house in his Welsh village and made it into a beautiful, cosy tiny house.In 2020, I bought my first home… an abandoned building in my village ...

I'm not used to this new trend of "good" video game movies, but this one seems to have everyone excited. Still not sure Idris Elba is quite aware of what he's gotten into....

Here's an interesting analysis of the fairly-recent "Navy UFO" video, which shows correspondences between its movementsor at least those of what you see on the videoand those of the observing fighter...

Standing at opposing corners of pop culture, two titans consumed the collective consciousness of entertainment in the early 00s. Let's review the tale of the tape, shall we? In the red corner, traditi...

I just put together a raised bed garden planter for our new house. I don't have woodworking tools (or much skill in that domain), so I bought an inexpensive flat-packed raised planter on Amazon. It en...

Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo has been digging even deeper into his nerd-rock reputation over the last few years, spending much of his non-songwriting time* taking Harvard coding classes online. And fo...

If you want to appeal to the youth, you have to speak their language. Trying to gain the favor of the under 30 set by affecting their slang and hobbies is a delicate act. Insert the "how do you do, fe...

Blue light lurks everywhere, making it harder than ever to achieve consistent deep and restful sleep. As entertaining as a good Netflix binge or evening podcast are, our circadian rhythms are constant...

I Need a New Butt is a 2012 children's book by Dawn McMillan, drawn by Ross Kinnaird, in which a child believes his butt is broken, and goes about trying to find a new butt without a crack.A young boy...

How can you hate dogs, man? I mean, we essentially steered the evolution of every dog to be as adorable as possible. Not that they needed much help in that venture. Even though they would rip out your...

While you're waiting for the final season of "Better Call Saul," check out the trailer."Whatever happens next, it's not gonna go down the way you think it is." I hope we find out whatever happens with...

On last night's Late Show, Stephen Colbert had a little fun explaining (or not) what NFT art is and premiering a faux trailer for an NFT art heist film.Image: Screengrab...

Sometimes bigger isn't always better when it comes to smoking, and having too much of a good thing can be overpowering. If you're a social smoker or just want to take the edge off but don't ...

This Tom and Jerry clip, over 50 years old, makes for a great, unintentional metaphor for the international response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Thanks GPSNomad!...

Russian State TV has found a chump in Tucker Carlson, using him as a co-host without paying him a dime (as far as we know). In fact, Carlson's Putin-praising propaganda is all they need to fill a news...

From The Guardian:Garda have launched an investigation after two men carried a dead body into an Irish post office in an apparent attempt to claim his pension.The deceased pensioner was described in r...

Hyperallergic has a piece about Volo Benza, a Ukrainian artist whose Kyiv show opening was put on hold due to murderous foreign invaders intent on destroying his entire country. So, Volo decided, in h...

The Fantastic Foursucks. That's a common opinion regarding Marvel's first family. The catalyst for Marvel's initial success in the 60s,The Fantastic Fouris one of the most influential comics ever crea...

It's hard to describe Toni Erdmann, a 2016 German movie from director Maren Ade. Imagine an aging father hoping to re-connect with his very busy adult daughter. Add in a set of comic false teeth, a w...

Feeling organized is right up on the list next to cleanliness and godliness, and in this day and age of technology overload allegedly designed to "aid us", sometimes we need a little help an...

The Letrashop has one thing for sale: vintage Letraset sheets for all of your high-quality transfer type needs. Yes, they have Shatter! But I'll be ordering Countdown. A broad overview of the genre is...

Seagate's selling solid state drives modeled on the ingots of Beskar steel from Star Wars' Mandalorian spinoffs. They won't resist blaster bolts and you can't melt them down to make armor, but it will...

The Apple App Store has just released designer Stan Resnicoff's latest game: TACTX. I was a beta tester on this clever twist on Go, Pente, and other place-a-stone games. This one is played on grids wi...

Far Out Magazine has a great list of ten Clash/Joe Strummer cover tracks. I don't like to engage in horse racing art so I wouldn't call this "The Ten Best Covers," and this wouldn't be my personal ran...

It's great to see Amoeba Records' YouTube show, What's in my Bag? back in the store itself (after the at-home pandemic version). In this installment, Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, from the band Eels sho...

These days, you may find a plethora of sleek, powerful game consoles on store shelves that let you play titles with graphics and animations that are almost indistinguishable from real life. That is...

In this episode of Dungeon Craft, Professor Dungeon/Master answers a viewer's questions: "How did mapping dungeons become such a staple in D&D? Isn't it disruptive to roleplaying? And how do you h...

Watch: Artist Transforms Your Favorite Cartoons Into Disturbing Humans. Miguel Vasquez is a talented 3D artist who makes hyper-realistic versions of our favorite childhood cartoon characters. The leve...

Peek behind the scenes of artist Patricia Piccinini's Melbourne studio. Piccini works in a variety of mediums including sculpture, photography, video, and drawing. Her work explores the relationship b...

KTLA news reporter Gene Kang was doing a live report from the "most dangerous street in Los Angeles" when a hit-and-run happened just behind him. Here's the clip:...

Empty G learned a bit about repercussions when her baseless lawsuit was tossed and now she is required to pay her fines, $2500 per incident wherein she refused to comply with mask rules on the floor o...

"At the edge of the universe, 400 men and women are probing the immeasurable blackness of space," the announcer says with great drama. "Their leaders are an earthman with no fear and a stranger with n...

A stray rooster showed up a Popeyes chicken restaurant in Slidell, Louisiana so the employees adopted the bird and named him Rocco. They built him a coop beside the drive-through. I wonder if Rocco's ...

Ed Piskor's Red Room: Trigger Warnings #1 is now available for purchase. The Red Room series features horror stories about murder for profit on the dark web. You can see Ed talk about it and show us t...

Intrepid anomaly hunter Scott Waringknown for spotting Jesus and extraterrestrial robots in Antarctica along with a multitude of strange Martian artifactswas analyzing this incredible new gigapan imag...

Enjoy this POV run through a fantastically complex DIY aquapark race track for Hot Wheels. "We built this track using a variety of materials including 12 sump-pumps, hundreds of gallons of water, wood...

I realize I am perhaps talking out of my ass, but I think the book the Assistant Principal Toby Price chose to read to a 2nd-grade class was perfectly fine. I Need a New Butt! seems pretty much in lin...

You may know Jim Carroll from his 1978 autobiography, The Basketball Diaries which was later turned into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, or for his songs from The Jim Carroll Band, such as People W...

It appears to me that the car's trunk went off? Nice assortment of smoke and incendiaries! ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Digital copy, whether it's in the form of Twitter posts or blo...

Isn't it rough being aStar Warsfan? After subsisting on the auxiliary tales that emanated from the comics and novels afterReturn of the Jedi, Star Warsfans were finally subjected to the prequel trilog...

Alexander Malofeev, a young Russian piano prodigy, denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Orchestras in the U.S. and Canada have nonetheless canceled his performancesat the futher expense of San Fran...

Alas, the title from Fox 11 in Los Angeles spoils the endingthe boat is crashed into other boatsbut it's a delightful video all the same.The stolen yacht, which likely cost millions of dollars, looked...

More than any piece of dialogue from his film catalog, Bruce Lee's most timeless quote is, "Be water, my friend." As well as becoming the cornerstone of his posthumous brand identity, Bruce Lee's phil...

This video may be a little confusing to those unfamiliar with call center scams, but here's what's going on: Scambaiter surveils scam calls live1 and attempts to warn the victims while they are being ...

As the world's attention turns to Ukraine, it's important to remember the staggering list of other tragedies occurring worldwide. That isn't to say that we should weigh which crisis is more important ...

Chile's same-sex marriage law went into effect this week and Santiago saw its first gay wedding Thursday.Silva and Nazar have been together for seven years and have two young children. They have had a...

A missing person's case was solved quickly Tuesday when police entered the man's house in upscale Hawaii Loa Ridge and found a bathtub filled with concrete and topped with coffee grounds. The 73-year-...

Actor Jussie Smollett, found guilty of disorderly conduct after paying two associates to beat him up in a rash self-promotional stunt, was sentenced to five months in jail Thursday.Smollett faced up t...

To answer the question posed in the title, it's because One Piece is unfathomably good. With a staggering 490 million copies sold, One Piece recently usurped Batman as th...

Fender and Mattel are teaming up on a line of custom, one-of-a-kind guitars themed around the Mattel Hot Wheels brand. Not for kids as these guitars are priced at over $10,000 eachbut, hey, you get a ...

Nick Offerman and Seth Rogen are obviously known as movie and TV actors, but both of them are also makers. Nick is a talented woodworker and Seth is a potter. So, Wired asked them to review "crafting ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Think that password you've been using since college will keep ...

When this determined cat dives into the fishbowl with only its head and front paws, squeezing in the rest of its body looks utterly impossible. But when it comes cats, don't be fooled no tight space ...

Marlo Spaeth, who has Down syndrome, gave 16 years of her working life to Walmart. But America's largest private employer was not so loyal in return, firing her to avoid accommodating her disability. ...

The Ukrainian post office, Ukrposhta, asked people to submit stamp designs that show Ukraine post office asked for stamp designs that show "Ukrainians' determination to defend their land." Many of the...

In the Strange Case of Dr. Cruz and Mr. Ted, the Texas Senator started off as a calm epidemiologist speaking to a crowd this morning. "The virus the evidence is overwhelming I think escaped from a C...

The 1420 Russian YouTuber interviewed young people in the streets of Moscow and asked them "Is Putin a great?" Most people gave mixed answers and many seemed to hedge. They were probably all thinking ...

I just came across this footage of Sir Ernest Shackleton's stranded Endurance that was shot in 1915, before it sunk, showing the ship's crew as they tried to free it from sea-ice with pickaxes, and th...

If you stop a car suddenly, your body keeps moving until the seat belt stops it. Your internal organs, body fluids, and soft tissue slosh forward until they impact the inner shell of your body (or wha...

Alleged sex offender and a huge fan of Donald J. Trump, US Representative from North Carolina Madison Cawthorn was busy last weekend telling folks about the corrupt government of Ukraine, and how thei...

Nobel laureate Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, will publish a new essay collection titled The Philosophy of Modern Song. In the collection, which he's been working on for more than a decade, Dylan re...

Construction workers at Oakland's Kaiser Convention Center discovered a "mummified" mystery body inside a wall that police say has likely been there for "many years." The 1915 Beaux-Arts-style buildin...

'National Enquirer'"Nuclear Apocalypse Over Ukraine!" Screams the cover story. "World War III just weeks away! Why crazed Putin can't back down!"The 'Enquirer' claims to have its hands on a "hush-hush...

Paramount+ released this trailer on the same day Disney+ dropped the long-awaited Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer, and I am not sure anyone noticed STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS.STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS ...

I almost didn't notice, but Monica Chin did immediately: the new Mac Studio has two old-school USB Type A ports. That beloved hole was abandoned by Apple on most recent models cheaper than a $6,000 Ma...

The recent election of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has some South Koreans eyeing Canada as a part of their escape plan. The Korea Herald says the far-right Yoon has "made remarks that would b...

Russian espionage agent Maria Butina, almost as responsible for the downfall of the NRA as the NRA itself, is now a Russian Member of Parliament. On this BBC broadcast, Butina supports the Putin thesi...

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Russia is attacking Ukraine with bombs and tanks. Texas is criminalizing trans children and their parents. Among the many small ways to help out is to donate money to those resisting these efforts, 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.Great laptops are hard to come by, especially if you're trying...

One of the oil cans used to revive the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939) is hitting the auction block tomorrow. Currently on loan to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, this is one of several dupl...

Trying to do the right thing, a 17-year-old boy in Indiana tried to rescue a cat that was stuck high up in a tree. But soon enough, the boy, clinging on to a 35-foot-high tree branch for dear life, ha...

The biggest loser of the last general election for President of the United States feels that what comes next in Ukraine is, I guess, not windmills because they kill birds and are expensive.OMG I'm dyi...

I went to college with Camille Harris, and she's always had an incredible knack for silly songwriting full of clever wordplay. Her new Tiny Desk performance above does not disappoint!...

Justin Willman of Magic for Humans fame dazzles nudists with his wizardry. Gives new meaning to "nothing up my sleeve."...

OMG I'm dying!!! On a UFC podcast today, Trump is asked how he sees the war in Ukraine playing out and he launches into a riff about windmills! pic.twitter.com/S2nV6hLIbP— Ron Filipkowski (@RonF...

Did punk start in England, or in the United States? Why do British singers sing with American accents? These are timeless questions that will continue to plague music fans even after rock and roll has...

For a billionaire, Donald Trump sure is cheap. First, he got a donor to loan him a private plane on Saturday to fly him from New Orleans to Mar-a-Lago in Florida. And when the plane lost an engine mid...

Police officers in Hemet, California, are facing a federal civil rights lawsuit after arresting three members of a family, including a grandmother, who filmed them in public. Video shows cops yelling ...

I've been craving a movie likeThe Batmanfor as long as I could form complete sentences. Batman's film catalog is an embarrassment of riches compared to most comic characters. It's pretty hard, at leas...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)Mattel designed Barbie to physically represent the masculine ideal of feminine beauty to young girlsa physical fra...

Mr. Marshmallow is a cute pet hamster who, according to his human, is trying a plate of spaghetti for the first time. And by the fast clip in which he snarfs down his noodle strands each one in just ...

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, exercising isn't everyone's strong suit, and thinking ...

Accused sex offender, US Congressperson from North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn apparently felt privileged enough to continue driving after a court revoked his license. The maximum penalty for his crim...

Marjorie Taylor Greene is furious because the House reached a bipartisan $1.5 trillion deal in the wee hours of Wednesday, which left her feeling "disgusted and appalled." The bill, considered urgent,...

Wayne Kramer and his proto-punk band the MC5 have returned in a new form to kick out more jams, motherfucker. The group will release their first new music in 50 years and kick off a US tour in May. A ...

Finally. Please, Star Wars, don't ruin Obi-Wan....

Ghost Towns of America is a map of abandoned towns across the United States. Just click on each state to learn about how many ghost towns it has and where they're located. You can also view their list...

This slideshow of black-and-white snowmen photographs were taken by David Lynch in the early '90s, in the suburbs of his hometown of Boise, Idaho. In 2007, a book of his snowman photos was released to...

Here's a list of organisms named after famous people born 1950-present. In biological nomenclature, species are often given scientific names to honor a certain person. In honor of Brad Pitt, there is ...

Mount Bonnell is a popular tourist spot in Austin, Texas due to its sweeping views. Naturally, it's also a hotspot for car burglaries. Last year, Austin Parks and Recreation installed cameras to deter...

In an attempt to one-up Texas' tyrannical new law declaring gender-affirming care child abuse, Idaho's House of Representatives has passed a law making gender-affirming care a felony and criminalizes ...

Finally, a DC property I may find interesting! This trailer features Keanu Reeves as The Batman and Kevin Hart as Ace, The Bat Hound. ...

The population of non-native Joro spiders has exploded in Georgia and entomologists expect huge numbers of the strikingly-colorful arachnids, each approximately the size of your palm, to parachute acr...

The latest episode of Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great?" YouTube show examines the subtle complexity of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." I just learned that Tears for Fear...

In 2016, during the run-up to a Texas ban on transgender folks using bathrooms, Amber Briggle attempted to help Texas AG Ken Paxton understand that trans people are people. Several years later she and...

If you've already done Wordle for the day and need another challenge, how about this? Try drawing the figure below in a continuous line without retracing any part of your line or lifting up your pen. ...

After an incident of suspected market manipulation, CEO Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk agreed to let Tesla's lawyers vet some of his Tweets before sharing those pearls of wisdom with the masses. Even as he cont...

I love Drew Friedman's latest print, which riffs on The Beatles' Rubber Soul album cover to highlight four great TV shows that debuted in 1966 (the same year Rubber Soul came out, give or take a year)...

Even more iconic than Dr. Leonard McCoy's "I'm a doctor, not a…" catchphrase on Star Trek: The Original Series is Bones's classic line "He's dead, Jim." According to Memory Alpha, "DeForest Kell...

Hey, Prince John from Prince John, would you please stop taxing Bobo into poverty? How do you expect her to make a profit selling tainted pork sliders that give people bloody diarrhea? "I don't know ...

In her new book about crypto people, author Laura Shin shares research that contradicts Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson's claims about his education. Apparently, Hoskinson claims to have been seekin...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Understanding how to program is the way of the futur...

A 30-year-old gentleman had more than just his pockets full when he tried to enter California from Mexico. In fact, the US citizen was caught trying to smuggle 52 live reptiles hidden in his pants poc...

With lots of pointing and table-pounding, a strident Ted Cruz boasted to a group of bored old geezers sitting around a table that flight crew members love to hug him when he gets on a plane. Every wee...

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."God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funn...

Television is a collaborative medium; that's not news. Hundreds of creative minds are required to sherpa a show from the wilds of imagination into reality. As with any job, some positions are more gla...

From Variety:Just one day after thieves stole more than $200,000 worth of props from "The Crown" set on Feb. 24, Netflix became victim to a second heist during the French shoot for "Lup...

107 years after it was cracked open by sea ice and abandoned by explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew, the Endurance has been found under 3km of Antarctic water. To the delight of historians and arc...

These urban explorers visited the crumbling interior of an unidentified and abandoned public aquarium in Spain where they found an old preserved shark and the rotting remains of an octopus and squid. ...

Yesterday, Apple announced its first new computer in years: the Mac Studio. About the size of three stacked Mac Minis, it echoes the handsome but underpowered Mac Cube of yore, but with all the benefi...

After being crushed by sea-ice and sinking 107 years ago, the Endurance Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship was found over the weekend. Scientists on the discovery expedition, organ...

Half-Life, online, in the browser! Made possible due to Xash3D, a compatible 3D engine that's been ported to WebAssembly. Firefox apparently works best, but I kept running into "gaming in the browser"...

As the legendary Hayao Miyazaki gears up to direct his final film, fans are taking a little more time to appreciate the acclaimed works of Studio Ghibli. The impressive Ghibli collection on HBO Max is...

This image of the President of Russia is actually a bunch of dicks.Don't Zoom in on this pic.twitter.com/iicbDCdFm5— @KarenRenne (@KarenIreneRenne) February 25, 2022...

In this video, well-known maker Becky Stern adds a little magic to her bathroom with a smart mirror (previously) that can display things like weather data, traffic, pollen count, daily calendar, and m...

Talk about lives that were changed by cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on-set shooting death. Alec Baldwin has already said a lot about his involvement, and his lack of liability, in the death of Halyn...

Succumbing to public pressure to cripple Russia with international sanctions and bans, two giant global consumer food brands, McDonald's and Coca-Cola have announced they will suspend business inside ...

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 Sun is setting gently behind the clouds, your new running ...

To paraphrase Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction, Japan has the same stuff we have over here, but it's the little differences that make the nation seem exotic. In the Western world, voice actors are ...

Robert RJ Regan, the Michigan GOP Candidate for the House of Representatives, said on a Facebook Live broadcast, "Having three daughters, I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should ...

In Polk County, Florida, Bartow Middle School teacher Rhonda Rice stands accused of biting two students over a jar of pickles. Apparently, Rice allegedly attempted to grab a jar of pickles from the sc...

A friend gave me these Koh-I-Noor woodless colored pencils as a birthday gift, and I'll never go back to the wooden ones. They're great for both precise work and shading large areas. Shading is much f...

Art of Darkness is a documentary about an artist named Bryan Lewis Saunders who has been drawing a self portrait everyday since 1995. The documentary was released on March 30, 2015, marking Saunders' ...

On Dreampire, you can browse through a ton of short videos where people describe their dreams. You can also upload your own dream video. Each video is tagged with different descriptors, making it easy...

"Please keep the light on" is what's written underneath this digital Lamp. If you're a rule breaker, all you need to do is click to turn it off and on. You can also see how many other people are curre...

In 1982, New Wave Theater was a local Los Angeles TV program that emerging new wave, post-punk, and punk bands like Bad Religion, Fear, Dead Kennedys, and the Circle Jerks. David Jove produced the sho...

While TikTok user Casey Cooper Mannes was on a tour of Tanzania's Serengeti, a cheetah spotted his safari truck and climbed aboard (video below). It then lounged on its newfound sundeck for a good 20 ...

The Atheist Street Pirates are a group of people who go around Los Angeles removing religious posters and placards illegally placed on utility poles and fences. They have a website where people can ta...

This "small, harmless long-term prank" is rather brilliant! YouTuber Logan Ivey bought a 100-piece thrift store puzzle of a duck and solved it. He then "customized" it, put it back in its box and retu...

On Saturday, a father and daughter touring Yellowstone National Park spotted an exceedingly rare wolverine walking across the highway. It was trying to get to the other side, of course. Apparently th...

The Hot Wheels PC was good for 1990s edutainment titles and came with a matching steering-wheel controller, but the 300Mhz Celeron in it barely met Windows XP's requirements, let alone anything more r...

Several weeks ago I was disturbed by someone ringing my doorbell late at night and looking for the rental property they had arranged before traveling to Venice Beach, California. Living in Venice cert...

When I first watched this video of orphaned black bear cubs munching on a truckload of donated apples atKilham Bear Centerin New Hampshire, I thought sound effects were added to make it seem like a ho...

I can't vouch for the authenticity of this clip purported to be a Ukrainian military band performing "Don't Worry Be Happy" as they await a Russian attack on Odessa. But damn, it's deeply moving.(via ...

Andrew Martin Sinclair, who goes by the name Busta Sinclair, peddles 16-ounce plastic bottles of herbal tea advertised as having an "instant" positive effect on the immune system and "works within min...

The Atheist Street Pirates are a crew of non-believers who tirelessly tear down illegally-placed religious signs and banners on the streets of Los Angeles. From Religion News:The idea for the street p...

Artikal Sound System is suing Dua Lipa, claiming her song Levitating infringes the copyright of their song Live Your Life, which they claim was released three years earlier.At first blush, it's an ope...

With her own car, Florida trooper Toni Schuck blocked a driver speeding toward a crowd on Tampa Bay's Skyway bridge, closed for a 10k run. Schuck, who is recovering from her injuries at home, may have...

The gifted Brandon Ethridge is back with a mini-musical rendition of the infuriating recent Wheel of Fortune episode. They should hire him to do this live for every episode!...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Besides manic weather, unsettling new stories, and the co...

The Sessho-seki or "Killing Stone" is a landmark volcanic rock found in the mountains of Japan near Nasu. According to the local mythology, the stone itself is actually the transformed corpse of Tamam...

In this 2014 video, Fox News hosts express shock, concern, humiliation, and disgust over a photo of Obama wearing a helmet while riding a bike, especially compared to a photo of a manly Putin shirtles...

Desmond Wisley of County Leitrim attempted to smash a truck full of ecclesiastical supplies into the Russian Embassy in Dublin on Monday. Though he only managed to get through the gate, he still seeme...

A Brooklyn man ventured out of the safe confines of New York to hike a mountain trail in Arizona where he thereupon called 911 twice in two days to be rescued. His bad luck in the great outdoors star...

"How do you have time to protest!?" says an exasperated Sean Hannity as video of the anti-vax trucker convoy rolling down a highway plays (see below). "I would never!""My God," a disgusted Laura Ingra...

Sony's MiniDisc was an excellent format"successor to cassettes, smaller, more robust, more flexible, and it sounded better"hampered by expensive hardware, hostility from the music industry, and intens...

A widely spread photo of Queen Elizabeth with her head in an abnormally low position is fake. You can see Steve Parsons' actual photo of the Queen shaking hands with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Tru...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Munya Chawawa (@munyachawawa)Feelings of intense duality have come to define Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It's impossible to watch Russi...

When I went to see The Batman last Thursday, there was one element from Christoper Nolan's take on the caped crusader that was strangely excised from Matt Reeves' rendition: this film had ze...

The Kuril islands runs from Japan to Russia, separating the Okhotsk sea from the Pacific ocean. Annexed by Russia after World War II and administered by it since, the southernmost islands in the chain...

Doocy struggles to make the case that gas prices are somehow set by the Biden administration as Jen Psaki uses facts to answer his apparently unresearched assumptions about the US energy economy....

A Ukrainian member of parliament didn't mince words on Newsmax when asked what he thought about Vladimir Putin's claim that he would stop the Ukrainian invasion "in a moment" if Ukraine agreed to a se...

Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson wrote the charity song "We Are the World" to relieve African famine 37 years ago. It premiered on MTV on March 7, 1985, and is the eighth best-selling single of all 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.April is primarily known for two wildly depressing occurrences...

This joyful rescue fox rivals any hyena in the cute laughter department. Finnegan gets more and more excited as his handler plays with him, until he breaks into a giggling fit that is highly contagiou...

Here's one of Trump's very stable geniuses telling the Good Liars why she's fighting the good fight from the driver seat of her big rig. She says "they" (Gates? Soros? Joebiden?) are "trying to make u...

A new episode of David Firth's now-classic series Salad Fingers just landed. Its title is "Post Man" and reflects Mr Fingers' new line of work, marked as it is by psychotic delusion, his dreamily clic...

The Russian Embassy in Washington DC now has an unofficial new street name: President Zelensky Way. The sign, which is attached to a pole and cement base, was rolled over on a dolly at 2:30 pm yesterd...

Dylan Mills, AKA Dizzee Rascal, was today convicted of assaulting his former partner, the mother of his children. If the cause of his malfunction is obscure, a clue might be found in what he did after...

A man in Texas, who received between 1024 spam robocalls and texts per day, tried to stop the madness by listing his number on the National Do Not Call Registry. When that didn't work, the man financ...

MicropolisJS (itself based on the C# Micropolis) is a free, browser-based clone of the original 2D, top-down city planning propaganda game Sim City. I immediately got sucked in; my screenshot represen...

For years bad bandwidth has been my excuse for keeping my computer's video camera turned off. I don't want people staring at me while we discuss whatever it is I have to discuss with them.Looking at m...

Philip K. Dick is the unbeatable master of modern "paranoid science fiction," stories that screw with subjective reality through themes like psychological manipulation, madness, and power dynamics. Af...

Police in Texas arrested Airbnb host A Jay Allee (54) for allegedly videotaping guests naked and having sex in his cabin near San Antonio.According to the police affidavit, Allee told one of the guest...

It is unclear what the Russian space corporation would like the world to make of this video, but prior insinuations by agency head Dmitry Rogozin have been sure to remind the West to play nice or else...

An exclusive, "secretive," conservative think tank of GOP leaders and the GOP's biggest donors is gathering this week in Sea Island, Georgia but former one-term twice-impeached president Donald Trump...

President Zelensky shares his frustration and anger in response to Russia's apparent total disregard for civilian life during their invasion of Ukraine. This is one pissed-off leader. ...

In Michigan, a dog named Maehem was staying with her owner's father when she escaped from his home on February 26 and took off running. After a week of extensive searching, someone reported seeing Mae...

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 that the cyber world can be a scary place fille...

Hurry and watch this video of a little girl in a Ukrainian shelter singing "Let It Go" before Disney issues a takedown notice for copyright infringement.Little girl singing "Let it go" in a sh...

It's a bat, man. In Austin, Texas on Friday, a prankster released a live bat during a showing of The Batman. Management paused the film and called local animal control officers but apparently they wer...

Health care in the United States costs much more per capita than in other countries, but life expectancy is considerably lower. This chart shows that Japan and Switzerland spend thousands less per yea...

In San Francisco, brazen shoplifters continue to stroll into Walgreens stores and other shops, calmly fill giant bags with product, and walk out. Above is the latest incident in which another shopper ...

Graphic designer Todd Alcott has done a ton of fantastic work making faux-retro book and movie covers inspired by rock songs, and I think he really knocked it out of the park with this new Phoebe Brid...

Call Peptoc at 707-998-8410 and a kindergartner will give you a free pep talk. If you're feeling mad, frustrated or nervous, press 1. If you need words of encouragement and life advice, press 2. If yo...

Japanese studios began scrambling to produce tokusatsu films and television that featured giant kaiju in the wake of the Godzilla boom. As we know from history, the tokusatsu flourished throughout the...

Pretty modest about the giant hit that was Steal My Sunshine, Mark Costanzo and the rest of Len should also be proud of the amazing time capsule they created. Welcome to spring break Daytona Beach, 19...

This ~15 minute video was created by Renegade Cut, and examines the way that late-stage capitalism commodifies literally everything until we feel so powerless to escape its grasp that we "digest" "con...

With all of the talk about war lately, watching a video on the cyber component of conflict might be a little stressful. Hell, even the mention of warfare might even stir up a few feelings of angst and...

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul serving a 23-year rape sentence, was caught with contraband Milk Duds, reports ABC News. Weinstein was reprimanded after guards found him in posession o...

You know the Trolley Problem drill: philosophical thought exercise with a train is running off the tracks, about to do something terrible, so you flip the switch and prevent it, but it might cause som...

A box of human heads being "transported for medical research purposes" was stolen, reports the local Fox affilate in Denver, Colorado. KDVR's Carly Moore:Sources told KDVR/KWGN it was a blue and white...

It's been two years since we've seen anything from the talented and mysterious primitive technology maker who people named Prim (in lieu of knowing his real name). On his book, released in 2019, he we...

In a 20-minute segment, Wendover Productions examines the failed logistics of Russia's war on Ukraine. The Russian army is the junkyard that we've seen portrayed in media, but it's large and powerful ...

Even though I'm a massive fan of rap music, rock will always have my heart. There isn't a feeling that's comparable to banging your head in unison with the mighty howl of an electric guitar. Momentari...

If you need a mechanical clock repaired in Britain, time is running out: the country is running out of horologists, with few entering the highly-skilled trade and those remaining in it not getting you...

In January 2022, the Associated Press launched an NFT marketplace where people could buy the exclusive digital rights to AP's newsworthy photographs. As explained in a press release at the time:The in...

In January 2022, the Associated Press launched an NFT marketplace where people could buy the exclusive digital rights to AP's newsworthy photographs. As explained in a press release at the time:The in...

In this chilling segment on The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell explains why, as gut-wrenching as such a decision may be, NATO/USA believes it is too dangerous to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Imag...

Few entities on this planet can awaken my inner child like the Muppets. When Disney + first materialized into being, I intended to avoid the streaming service entirely. That was until the first commer...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Looking at art daily can evoke powerful emotion, relieve stres...

Fox News's deep support for Russia's president doesn't take a lot to turn clownish. SNL does amp it up and gives Tucker his bowtie back, but actual Fox News is just pretty gross. This is yet again ano...

In this unscientific survey, one hundred Russians were asked if they would nuke the US, and here are all of their answers in three minutes.Via Digg...

In an Instagram post, Sting releases a new video (see below) in which he beautifully sings "Russians," a song he wrote in 1985 for his solo album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. With Russia's atrocious...

Disney's super-expensive immersive Star Wars experience has debuted at its Florida theme park. If you are a person who looks at this one afternoon/night and one full day and a night experience and fee...

The German mission to South Africa just displayed the social media chops of true experts. In response to Russian claims to be receiving praise from many South Africans for fighting Nazis in Ukraine, j...

A fantastic 'tale of Walt' that is often told about Disneyland is that the off number sockets for the alternating red and white bulbs in one or two of the displays on Main Street USA had Walt Disney d...

However amazing videos by Project Farm are, they skipped my favorite pocket knife of all time the Opinel No. 8.I think I've been fascinated with pocket knives since I was a kid, however, I long ago 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.If we look far enough back into history, we'll see that, while...

It's hard to decide if we're in the golden age of memes or if we've already left it behind. Modern memes, by their nature, have the potential to be as fleeting as they are hilarious, but the memes bel...

Hey, look, I'm not going to pull any punches here. This video is a long one. It's a little under an hour. If the run time throws you off, let me tell you a little about the star of this here yarn. ...

From The Washington Post:The International Cat Federation says it has banned Russian cats from its international competitions in the latest rebuke to Russia since it invaded Ukraine last wee...

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, as this video can potently attest. In support of their 2022 tour, New Kids on the Block (Renew Kids on the Block?), have released a new music video featuring appearances...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Who said learning multiple new languages from the comfort of y...

Truth Social launched a few weeks back, but it's not going anywhere and Trump is reportedly upset about it. In an appearance at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando last week...

Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Steve Daines today posted screenshots during a zoom meeting with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelinskyy, despite being asked not to do so as it could reveal his loca...

Even though it's a brutal and bloody history, the remnants of colonization are endlessly intriguing. On the one hand, the way that European nations carved up the planet is disgusting and has created e...

BBC News has the story of a Russian woman named Oleksandra who lives in the city of Kharkiv. She and her four rescue dogs have been huddling in terror in the bathroom of her flat since the constant sh...

Is this hell?A decade ago, I sang this song on Broadway. Today I sing this song, surrounded by new friends, as a rallying cry for the women of web3. Together, we can accomplish anything. And have fun ...

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 surprising how much paperwork we accumulate in the digita...

Check out this video compilation of Russian "influencers" all reciting the same statement extempo for their viewers. [via r/PublicFreakout]Influencers, influenced: Russian-language tik tokers reciting...

Glenn Fleishman has some advice that may seem counterintuitive: never change your password. If your password is long and random enough to avoid brute force or dictionary attacks, unique to the service...

As detailed in an article on Hyperallergic, researchers at the University of Vienna have now traced the stone used to create the famous Venus of Willendorf statue to Northern Italy. Although unearthed...

I posted recently about a fascinating online lecture from the Museum of Anthropology at he University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Now the companion book is out: "Where the Power Is: Indigenous P...

The Economist's visual data journalist Matthew McLean has updated his comparative height and weight chart for cinematic Batman performers to include Robert Pattinson.My personal favorite takeaways her...

If you've ever happened across a comic cover from the 1940s, you've undoubtedly seen (insert any superhero here) engaging in some fisticuffs with Nazis and racist caricatures of Japanese people. Even ...

When I first heard about ASMR, I couldn't believe it was as popular as people claimed. Then I took a look at the various subgenres, channels, and subscribers that float around the ASMR community, and ...

Let's all remember Ed Roth, the creator of Ratfink, monster Tshirts, and endless custom cars on his birthday. Born Beverly Hills, March 4, 1932.When I was a little fink in the early 60's I drew a coup...

Since I couldn't do any St. Patrick's Day shows last year thanks to that ongoing pandemic thing, so I spent my winter recording an album of Irish folk songs at home. It was a fun experiment, and peopl...

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, we don't really have a lot of time on this Earth,...

According to the Tate Britain, the term "Outsider Art" describes art "that has a nave quality, often produced by people who have not trained as artists or worked within the conventional structures of ...

Ian Charnas was challenged to come up with a contraption that would enable "superhuman jumping." He succeeded, kinda. From MAKE:Ilooked at using springs, stunt industry equipment, and even chemical pr...

Butt Hole Road was the name of a 380 foot long residential street in Conisbrough, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. There isn't any record of where Butt Hole Road got its name, but people believe i...

A two-foot long snake with green fur covering its body was found in Sakhon Nakhon, Thailand. Video evidence below. According to Newsflare, "Some locals said the furry reptile could be a puff-faced wat...

A two-foot long snake with green fur covering its body was found in Sakhon Nakhon, Thailand. Video evidence below. According to Newsflare, "Some locals said the furry reptile could be a puff-faced wat...

USB has been with us for 26 years. At the time, the technology's co-developer Ajay Bhatt thought it would just be a "[one-off] $40 million opportunity" for Intel. And without his persistence, it would...

In Germany and the Netherlands, a dozen people have apparently gotten illwith one dyingafter drinking from Mot and Chandon Ice Imprial bottles that were apparently contaminated with MDMA. The Netherla...

"I'm Here Find Me" begins with the stuff you'd expect an anti-pot PSA to contain: two little kids talking about why pot is bad for you. The video then takes a turn and becomes one very strange trip. I...

Webcanvas is a giant online canvas that anyone can add to. You can add on to someone else's drawing or contribute your own idea. The canvas is chaotic looking, but that's part of the fun. You can zoom...

T. Kingfisher's A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking was a fantastically fun read. I was thrilled with the easy worldbuilding, wonderful characters, and hero, the 14-year-old Mona, the Wizard of the B...

Seems South Dakota democrat Ryan Ryder dropped out of his race for congress about 24 hours after announcing his candidacy. A very quick perusal of Ryder's Twitter feed turned up a number of bafflingly...

This gentleman appears to be practicing for his own Snake River Jump but only manages to splatter himself. Bonus:...

These videos show that Superheroes don't always make the cut....

This 1999 infomercial demonstrated how to use the Rejuvenique Electric Facial Mask, with actress Linda Evans pretending to interview the creator. This mask supposedly improved skin health by targeting...

This is a wonderful quick video that'll give you all the FOX you can handle without giving you the FOX....

Image via UnsplashWe thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Since the start of the pandemic, marijuana d...

Enjoy this splendid parody of all those generative AIs cranking out infinite portraits, kittens and whatnot....

As @skbozphd tweeted along with video below, this has has got to be the craziest two minutes of an interview in the history of TV news segments. Like a three-ring circus, there are several uproarious ...

I can't post every tool roundup posted by Project Farm, but I want to. The latest, though, is too dear to my heart to skip: portable angle grinders. We find that a $50 knockoff Makita is fineand bette...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for the assassination of Russian premier Vladimir Putin in an interview last night, repeating the request on Twitter after the show. Is there a Brutus in Ru...

Remember when TV-show protagonists were likable do-gooders? It makes you wonder why television executives took so long to understand that people enjoy watching characters wear a grey hat. We've had mo...

After a public display of embarrassment last fall, Smash Mouth lead singer Steve Harwell departed the All-Star band due to "health issues."Now, the band has announced that they've hired a replacement ...

'National Enquirer'Occam's razor posits that the simplest explanation is often the best, but the way the tabloid editors employ this blade they should all have bushy beards of Biblical proportions."Wh...

On March 1st, the UGF (Ukrainian Ground Forces) shared a song on social media. The song is an ode to the Bayraktar TB2, the Turkish-made medium-altitude drone that the Ukrainians have been using to fe...

Earlier this year, a US F-35C stealth fighter jet made a crash landing into the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier during a military exercise in the South China Sea. The pilot safely ejected but seven p...

Recently, the Cartoonist Kayfabe YouTube channel talked about Daniel Clowes' best-selling comic Ghost World. Both the Ghost World comic and movie adaptation (written by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff) are n...

Claiming to be fighting a spiritual battle, former familiar face on Saturday Night Live Victoria Jackson testified in favor of banning books in Tennesee's libraries. ...

It's pretty amazing how careful this excited border collie is while romping around with these two babies. The dog looks like it's itching to play a bit harder, even chase the babies if only they woul...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We all love a good membership club, especially for the discoun...

Today US Press Secretary Jen Psaki was set up what seems to be an easy shot at big oil's notorious greed, and she found a way to leave it unsaid.Asked if steps were being considered to boost US oil pr...

Sadie (and Nate, and MagicWolfDog, etc.) noticed an interesting painting at their local police station. The painting is titled "And some call him pig!" and features an officer of the West Virginia Sta...

Police arrested Arizona State University college student Logan Baker Reynolds, 19, for allegedly building explosive devices in his dorm room. According to police, Reynolds told them that he had "no il...

Whoopie Goldberg wasn't the only one to speak her mind after the State of the Union address when she asked Bobo the heckler: "Who the hell do you think you are, little girl?" Speaker of the House Nanc...

Students at the University of North Texas loudly expressed their displeasure with Texas House District 63 candidate Jeff Younger's support of Texas' new pogrom against gender-conforming treatments and...

During a debate on abortion rights, Kentucky Representative Danny Bently offered up what amounted to Holocaust fanfiction and a tirade about women's access to health care based on what appears to be l...

Mainstream news reporters are showing their true colors when talking about Ukrainian refugees, differentiating them as European refugees. They want to make sure their audience realizes these people mi...

Amazon is to close all its "physical" bookstores among dozens of others, reports Publishers Weekly, ending a six-year experiment even as other brick-and-mortar efforts thrive.Many industry observers b...

In a CBS interview, Melinda French Gates said one of the main reasons she divorced Bill Gates, in addition to his affair, was his ongoing friendship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.From the interview:F...

Mauricio Damian Guerrero allegedly drove from Pennsylvania to New Hampshire to meet an OnlyFans creator, broke into her home, copied her key, stole her underwear, planned to attach a tracking device 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.Between your new rigorous workout schedule and crazy hours atw...

On Monday, Harry Hayes was jogging in Sydney, Australia after a rainstorm when he spotted this bizarre creature on the sidewalk. He posted video of the oddity on his Instagram which expectedly led to ...

The answer to the question posed by the headline is about 68,000 Newtons per hurl, assuming 110 pounds of vomit projected from a 45ft height onto packed sand below. That would be more than enough to k...

The answer to the question posed by the headline is about 68,000 Newtons per hurl, assuming 110 pounds of vomit projected from a 45ft height onto packed sand below. That would be more than enough to k...

The U.S. Congress is packed with many kooks, but Andrew Clyde of Georgia is my top pick for the weirdest goofball of the bunch. You might remember Clyde calling the white nationalist rioters who attac...

We've posted many times about the Futuro House, the iconic UFO home created in the 1960s by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen. Fewer than 100 of these prefab tiny homes (50 square meters) were construc...

In this clip, a man from Korea tries to explain bidets to an American woman who is clearly completely unfamiliar with the idea of cleaning an ass with water instead of smearing excrement around it wit...

Republican congressman Van Taylor will be stepping down this year after admitting to an affair. If this seems an overreaction for such a light offense, it turns out that he paid Tania Georgelas thousa...

Apple Music's guide to acceptable cover art is doing the rounds, mostly due to anxiety at how giant, prudish, polo-shirted tech companies have become the music industry's gatekeepers. While the ban on...

I find myself reminiscing about the pre-internet era. I don't mean before the internet was invented, but rather the period of time before the internet became the nucleus of everything. I miss the conc...

Welcome cities to the the illustrious tradition of things that do not exist alongside deepdreamed mugshots, cats, politicians, etc.The first city it gave me (above) immediately struck me as a grim, gr...

Over the years, I've certainly heard of the 2nd century work, A True History, by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. But I've never heard a Cliff Notes-like summation of what this novella, considered by...

i have never wanted to scream this loudly in my life pic.twitter.com/XNqe3R1UAj— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 2, 2022This is so stressful....

Harrowing images of Ukrainian civilians fighting for their soil are ubiquitous, but the bravery on display doesn't dull the barbarity exhibited by Putin and his footsoldiers.In response to the invasio...

Donald Trump's wall is even flimsier than previously realized, with smuggling gangs sawing through it 3,272 times in just three years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's unpublished rec...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We all need to get out of the house. For those of us who've be...

There were a lot of differing opinions about "The Book of Boba Fett" but I think we can just stick with this one:Pardon me as I go rob a bank to pay for a stay at the Galactic Starcruiser....

The US Fish and Wildlife Service is hiring for a Grizzly Bear Conflict Manager. That is the official job title. The pay is $79,000-$103,000. Unlike many jobs today, this is not a remote work opportuni...

Colorado's Lauren Boebert did get a resounding boo at last night's State of the Union after heckling President Joe Biden while he talked about his veteran son who died of cancer. But it was Whoopi Gol...

Russian oligarchs and their families are facing severe repercussions from economic sanctions imposed on Russia. They are also calling for world peace and the safety of their Ukrainian brothers and sis...

AsThe Hood Internet, Chicago producers Aaron Brink (ABX) and Steve Reidell (STV SLV) have been cranking out compelling mash-ups since 2007. Their latest release is an incredible half-hour megamix of 6...

Fortnight publisher Epic Games has acquired Bandcamp, the online platform that transformed the independent music business in wonderful ways. "The products and services you depend on aren't going anywh...

The goal of Almost Pong is to control the elevation of the ball by tapping the space bar (or screen) so you hit the paddles. Thomas Palef, the creator, made some other whimsical games worth playing, t...

Dogecoin is now worth more than rubles, according to Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who announced today that Ukraine is accepting donations of the memecoin to help fight against Russi...

"I'm a doctor, not an.." escalator, bricklayer, mechanic, coal miner, etc. "I'm a doctor, not a" was Dr. Leonard McCoy's catchphrase on Star Trek: The Original Series and was later used in tribute by ...

Cat Power's latest album, Covers, is her 11th album and third collection of cover songs since The Covers Record (2000) and Jukebox (2008). The album was released on January 14, 2022 and I haven't stop...

The Slow Mo Guys are a British duo consisting of Daniel Gruchy and Gavin Free. They are known for their slow-motion videos filmed using high-speed cameras. Small capacitors make a sharp popping sound ...

You would almost think Trump was beholden to Putin by the way he treated Ukraine while he was President. Why else would he do everything in his power to weaken Ukraine and undercut Zelensky at every o...

Danny Freeman is a pasta enthusiast whose @dannylovespasta TikTok videos show the many creative ways he prepares the food (e.g., candy-shaped pasta, snowmen ravioli, and special noodles made just for ...

The Artifact Artist, aka Scott Jordan, spends his time digging up New York City's old garbage (some is 300 years old) to create contemporary art. Jordan has been digging under the big apple for old ar...

This time on Lockpicking Lawyer, the lawyer picks a lock several times, and we can see what is happening inside the lock!This might be my favorite episode yet. ...

Lenstore shares this wonderfully weird double optical illusion:Follow the light grey spot around the circle for 30 seconds to 1 minute, and you will notice the other spot will eventually turn green.If...

Tea Eggs are delicious. Hard-boiled eggs marinated in tea and delicious spices are popular in China and very, very easy to make.These are a favorite "I'm in keto!" snack.This is an excellent use for y...

Colorado's Lauren Boebert tried to interject as President Joe Biden gravely discusses US veterans' medical issues, framed around the one that claimed the life of his son, to receive a solid round of b...

A Roman mosaic dating to the late 2nd-3rd century is the largest to be uncovered in London for 50 years, reports The Guardian. Discovered "about a month ago" at a construction site near the London Sha...

In honor of Women's History Month the floral display that greets attendees as they enter Disneyland has been changed to depict Minnie Mouse. This marks the first time the hillside flowers below the Ma...

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Choosing my favorite kung fu era is like performing an impromptu remake of Sophie's Choice. I love all kung fu films. There was a time, however, when I was more fastidious with my tastes. When I ...

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,...

Very few rappers can boast Jay-Z's longevity. Hip hop, as the first word in its name would indicate, revolves around the concept of new and innovative. Like in the world of pop music, it's impressive ...

Musician Chris Farren has released 9 full-length albums with a variety of bands, including Fake Problems and Antarctigo Vespucci, as well as under his name as a solo artist, along with plenty of singl...

Hip hop's dismissal of women MCs, often relegated to novelty acts, was always curious. DJ Kool Herccommonly regarded as the genre's fatheronly started rapping at the behest of his younger sister. Blon...

"I have never wanted to scream this loudly in my life," says Philip Lewis after watching this clip from a recent episode of Wheel of Fortune. It's a sentiment I suspect you'll share when you watch the...

For all you conservatives out there who now regret ever praising Putin, Tyranol is the drug for you! Tyranol is a miracle pill that will "make you forget you applauded a tyrant who is now slaughtering...

A man with PTSD who uses a service dog was forbidden entry to the Crazy Girl Saloon in Humble, near Houston, and was told it was because of the animala refusal of service that's illegal under both sta...

After President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, an exuberant Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (DNY) gushed as she told Biden, "I was screeching 'Go Joe' the whole time! I was like inappropriate in ever...

Young punk rockers The Linda Lindas have taken "cat eyes" to the next level with the help of makeup artist Valerie Vonprisk. A tutorial for the "kitty liner" eyeliner design they rocked in their "Grow...

Is this what it's like to watch the show with French dubbing, too?Image: Public Domain via PixaBay...

Remember when Mortal Kombat was considered the most violent game in existence? Those were such quaint times. Nowadays, video games are more graphic than ever, with enough gore to make Dahmer blush. Al...

As Russian tanks roll menacingly (albeit very slowly) toward Kyiv, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed his country's application to join the European Union yesterday. In his former pre-invasi...

"I built mind-controlled ears as a way to learn how to build my own arduino-based designs," writes Jazz DiMauro. "Challenges included cable management and designing custom servo hardware to attach to ...

A month or so ago, in my online travels, I ran across an offer to get a "free, full-color" Estes rocketry catalog. I was shocked and delighted to learn that a proper paper catalog still existed.I had ...

Aren't European comics just the best? Aside from the plethora of genres accessible to European comics, its craftsmanship consistently rests at the apex of the medium. The book that served as my gatewa...

There are all sorts of ways you could fill a fool's spring Saturday afternoon (yard work! a good book! the new Batman movie!) but if something possesses you to re-take the SATs, you're in luck. At noo...

By the looks of all the sparring videos of Vladimir Putin on YouTube, the fascist dictator took pride in his Taekwondo black belt. He's been showing off his moves with judo teams and Olympic athletes...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Renting a home is a common way to save money to build towards ...

In response to Gov. Greg Abbott's orders to hunt down teens undergoing gender-confirming treatments, their families, and their doctors it appears investigations already have begun, and lawsuits have a...

A kitten's gotta do what a kitten's gotta do to cross a clean, slick kitchen floor in this case, swimming across dry land. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Happy Cats (...

According to official New York City records obtained by Patch, there were nearly 300 calls made to the city's 311 hotline in the last twelve months by residents complaining about their neighbors' nois...

It's not all Russians on the ground attacking Ukraine. Among the Russian military is one confused gentleman from Texas who is now a foot soldier for Putin, proudly standing with the "denazifiers and l...

Esteemed TV sound designer Robert Mott (1924-2016) created sound effects for 1950s and 1960s TV shows like Days of Our Lives, The Jackie Gleason Show, Perry Mason, and many other classics. In this cli...

We have a lot of hysterical news right now. It might help simmer the nerves to leap back to 1951. It might also simmer the nerves to take a little opium But don't! Welcome back to Spoken Word with El...

The Russian Oligarch Jets Twitter account lets you see the comings and goings of jets and helicopters owned by the likes of Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Potanin, Oleg Deripaska, and Alexander Abramov as...

No wonder Senator Joe Manchin is such a sourpuss. His uncle didn't let him have Garbage Pail Kids. In 1986 James Manchin, who was the West Virginia State Treasurer from 1985-89, went on a local news s...

Enjoy this compilation of Wacky Packages from volume 1. of the iconic trading cards that parodied various consumer products. What gives these cards their greatness is that they were made by master car...

Taylor Lorenz reports on the various ultra-sleazy, misinfo-filled Ukraine news pages popping up on Instagram. Their operators pivot from rationalization ("no one even knows what's going on") to gloat...

In this Iron safety PSA, "The Iron Toddler," a mother is de-wrinkling her clothing while her kid plays on the floor. The mother leaves the room for a second to answer the phone when the kid gets a hol...

One of my favorite smells is old comic books. I worked at a comic book store in Boulder, Colorado between the ages of 12 and 17 and today, whenever I get a whiff of a box of Silver Age Marvels and DCs...

Thinking about maxing out your credit card and spending years to pay off a two-night stay at Disney World's new Galactic Starcruiser hotel? Then you should read the reviews before you make a reservati...

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 your life dream is to be a teacher, you can expect to spend...

Here comes another one! Pokitto is a pocket game console with an ARM processor, 2.0 220×176 display and a MicroSD card slot. It's open-source, coming as a kit you can assemble, hook up to generic...

A truck carrying US mail in Massachusetts 15 miles west of Boston skidded off an icy bridge and nosedived into the Charles River. The trailer tractor then cartwheeled across the water and slammed onto...

Speaking through a pound-and-a-half of pancake makeup, televangelist and noted very stable genius Pat Robertson came out of retirement to explain what's really going on with Putin and Ukraine. Roberts...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tweeted that he has refused the White House's request for National Guard support to protect the Capitol and the President during the State Union Address. "There will be n...

Here's Jake Kring-Schreifels on the vibe of Gotham City and its strange status as a place designed over and over again: "Batman and his city are inextricably linked, and … filmmakers from Tim Bu...

In response to the question "will the U.S. be installing up a no-fly zone over Ukraine?", Pentagon press secretary John Kirby has a simple, short answer: "No."The U.S. is not setting up a no-fly zone ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (DCA) told CNN that Tucker Carlson (along with Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo) is "rooting for Russians." Swalwell said this after the many recent pro-Putin remarks spewed by Carlson,...

The bicycle-mounted projector that paints a personal bike lane made a clever point. But this one projects live GPS directions on the road, making it both fascinating and useful.It's made using a Laser...

It took almost a century, but comic books and the art contained within are finally acknowledged as fine arts. While comic art is slowly gaining its due respect, we're still decades away from original ...

Via ArtNews:The Andy Warhol Diaries is the latest grand survey for the artist, who was the subject of a nearly-1,000-page biography by Blake Gopnik in 2020 and a 350-work Whitney Museum...

In this Rick Beato video, he asks a fascinating question: If Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" was released today (and no one knew who LZ was), would the song still be a hit? As a test, he asked his...

Emily, a wild curlew bird, does not take kindly to friendship. Although Robert Irwin (the late Steve Irwin's son) has patiently tried to befriend her, she's having none of it, attacking the 18-year-ol...

Leaning on the likes of caffeine is an antiquated way to get through the day. We all know that downing coffee can give us a concentrated caffeine boost to help power through the day. And most people k...

Boing Boing pal, inspiring inventor, and creative technologist extraordinaire Mitch Altman shares wonderful news that the legendary hacker gathering Hackers on Planet Earth will convene again on July ...

In an embarrassing flub, a Russian state-owned news outlet accidentally ran a pre-prepared article saying Russia defeated Ukraine. "Ukraine has returned to Russia," the article, published by news agen...

Fluoriquinoloner says: "One of my favorite things about pediatrics is looking at imaging. Like have you ever seen a baby's hand x ray? That shit is adorable."One of my favorite things about pediatrics...

In Riverside County, just outside Los Angeles, a pallet yard caught fire last night, spreading with such intensity due to wind that it looked like the gates of help opened. Video below.Fire officials...

In Riverside County, just outside Los Angeles, a pallet yard caught fire last night, spreading with such intensity due to wind that it looked like the gates of help opened. Video below.Fire officials...

With a superhuman set of lungs (or great skill in circular breathing), here's a talented horn blower who keeps going, and going, and going, and going much to the humorous alarm of their musical partn...

The acoustic beginning of Heart's "Crazy on You" is one of the most classic and wonderful openings in rock history. It's also one of the most complicated. In the video above, the great Nancy Wilson sa...

The defenders of Snake Island, who famously told a Russian warship to go f*ck itself are not dead as initially reported. After repelling 2 attacks and running out of ammunition they were apparently ta...

Diego J. Rivas is a dental student and langauge enthusiast in Houston, Texas. In this video, he demonstrates what different languages sound like to foreigners. When he spoke "English" (in American and...

Forgotten Weapons reviews the ArcFlash Labs' GR-1 Anvil Portable Gauss Rifle. Rather than using a controlled explosion to force a projectile out of the barrel, this uses a series of magnetic coils to ...

Bryan Lunduke: "the same wonderful person who brought us that Windows 95 Linux theme did the same for MacOS 9! He calls it "Platinum9" (Platinum was the name of the default appearance style of MacOS 8...

What's with Vladimir Putin's weirdly long meeting tables? Here he is today with some advisors, in a Kremlin handout photo. Covid paranoia is the all-too-obvious answer.New Putin table from IKEA, prese...

Yes Milk is a totally weird commercial where a teacher turns into a giant stick of chalk in front of all her students. She then launches herself at a boy in the class, who catches her chalk-body momen...

This IG video blows my mind. I spend a little time watching folks at the Venice Beach Skatepark nearly every day, and I rarely see anything this bonkers amazing. View this post on Instagram ...

Early reports from unpaid attendees suggest Disney is just absolutely awful at marketing the super expensive Galactic Starcruiser, but the 'adventure' is a lot of fun. Perhaps Disney marketing needs t...

The below video purported to depict the "Ghost of Kyiv" ace fighter pilot shooting down a Russian jet is actually footage from a 2013 videogame called Digital Combat Simulator: World. If only all this...

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It's no drill bit, but this tiny flower was photographed by NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars. Of course, They would have us believe that the shape was "formed by mineral precipitating fro...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a comedian and actor before he became Ukraine's wartime president. I thought it would be nice to dig out the most incongruous and amusing footage to compare with his current ro...

Andy Yi says: "Watching that video of Japanese people discussing what English sounds like to them made me chuckle and then think about this Asian Boss video from 2018 where random people on the street...

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps the inexpensive, all-purpose soap that Mark and I swore by in our backpacking 20s is cool not only for its magical ability to clean everything from hair to body to teeth to...

Tucker Carlson is the ultimate Putin fanboy. Now that Putin is slaughtering Ukranians, he has started to prentend otherwise. In this video, the white nationalist hatemonger's true self is revealed.Fix...

Sid Meier, creator of Civilization and Pirates!two of the most habitforming titles in historyis critical of the trend toward monetizing games to the hilt. "The real challenge and the real opportunity ...

A veteran interpreter for Ukraine President Zelensky choked up and then broke into tears while translating his speech for German media company WELT on Sunday.In the clip below, she says (according to ...

The ruble is crashing, interest rates have spiked to 20%, and the Moscow stock market remains closed as Russia reels from a number of bans and sanctions imposed on it by the rest of the world. Russian...

In this footage, a woman offers food to an antelope, but the antelope doesn't want food....

Starship Chewbacca is a Bay Gelding horse born in 2017, the offspring of US Ranger and Visual Treat as well as the paternal grandson of Danzig and the maternal great-grandson of Skywalker a detail wh...

This is so good it could finally unite Boston and New Jersey together in peace....

You've probably been hearing a lot about NLAWs, Javelins, Stingers, TB2 drones, and even Molotov cocktails in the coverage of the war in Ukraine. Here are some videos to give you a bit of background o...

Mutants of a certain age still remember the power of the protest song and counter-cultural anthem, "Ohio," by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (written by Neil Young). Last night, the band Jason Isbe...