Articles by BoingBoing from April 2022

A Central Florida couple was taking their dachshund on a walk earlier this week when a black bear popped out from behind their next-door neighbor's car and chased them back home. It all happened so fa...

A woman in Alabama was spotted driving a stolen lawnmower that was pulling a stolen trailer that was carrying a bunch of stolen stuff, including a University of Alabama sign. And police in the small t...

Alexander Calder was an American artist known for his kinetic sculptures and mobiles. Works of Calder is a 20-minute short film from 1950 by Herbert Matter. It depicts Calder building his mobiles, mad...

I first reported on my DIY Peloton back in 2018 after using it for a year. 6 years later I thought I might finally have broken the bike, but I was wrong. Aside from replacing my cycling shoes, the bat...

I first reported on my DIY Peloton back in 2018 after using it for a year. 4 years later I thought I might finally have broken the bike, but I was wrong. Aside from replacing my cycling shoes, the bat...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Overnight successes never actually became successful in one ni...

American tourists in Israel found an unexploded shell in the occupied territory of the Golan Heights and decided to keep it as a souvenir. Upon arrival at the airport, they informed security agents ab...

Ubuweb has a fantastic curation of conceptual zines and comics. Today, I looked through Cordel Urban by Lapi AKA Luiz Antnio Pires. This booklet was created in 1974 and contains 56 pages of psychedeli...

Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor-Greene are the Republican Party's far-right rising stars, but the two reportedly came nearly to blows at a recent party conference. Another lawmaker had to "step in ...

Underwater cinematographer and conservationist Nico Zimm was documenting a circle of Tiger Sharks when one of them decided his pocket video camera might be a tasty morsel. Below, see inside at the Sha...

Ken Kocienda is the inventor of the iPhone autocorrect system which, as we all know, can be very ducking annoying. The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern interviewed Kocienda from… a duck farm....

In 1975, the Royal Scottish Museum received this incredible sketch, purportedly drawn in 1936 by someone who spotted Nessie emerging from the water near Drumnadrochiton the west shore of Loch Ness. Ap...

Huey Lewis and the News 1986 album "Fore!" may have given us a boatload of unremarkable Huey Lewis sounding songs, but "Hip to Be Square" has always stuck with me. ...

Champion pole dancer Dimity Politov teaches us how to perform a "foot flag" maneuver. Easy, right!? (via Laughing Squid)...

A gem resurrected by Periscope Films — three songs by The Henry Miles Dixieland Jug Band. The quintet made catchy energetic music with a guitar, mandolin, fiddle, spoons for percussion, and a ju...

Usually the term "porch pirate" conjures up an image of a two-legged crook running off with someone's front-door package. But that's not always accurate when said package happens to be a dog Chewy. In...

Usually the term "porch pirate" conjures up an image of a two-legged crook running off with someone's front-door package. But that's not always accurate when said package happens to be from pet-supply...

Feast your eyes on the wicked clay beings and wild costumes in The Residents – The Talk Of Creatures music video. I love the spirit of the handmade quality that everything in the video has. It c...

TikToker Marvel.Mermaid recently went to Disneyland cosplaying as fictional British MI6 agent Peggy Carter. She met up with the Captain America character there, and as you might imagine, the couple re...

A deluded woman spewed perverted nonsense at a Clark County School Board meeting in Nevada after apparently sipping from a batch of DeSantis-imported Kool-Aid. "Disney is super creepy and weird. Cal...

"This Trojan trickery is an abuse coming from a brand with recognition," says Reddit user u/PoorGeno about some scotch no run gel super glue they purchased. The glue bottle is empty, safe for a small ...

Dorfromantik is a city-building game that's more directed than the freeform Townscaper but with none of the hectic demands of Sim City or Civ. It was officially released this week after some time in o...

The 11' 8" bridge is still teaching people that reading is not optional.Image: Screengrab...

The GOP failed in its attempt to overthrow the government in the 2020 presidential election. This five-minute video from Meidas Touch does a good job of showing the orchestrated attempt to reverse the...

To impress his Q and far-right followers, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has put on quite the show since early March, attacking Disney first for its support of LGBTQ rights, and then for "injecting sex...

The Food and Drug Administration is proposing to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. CNET:The US Food and Drug Administration published proposed rules banning menthol cigarettes and flavored c...

"Toothpick Fantasy" is an awesome miniature carnival built from toothpicks at the Muse Mcanique in San Francisco. The rides all come to life when this diorama is turned on. I love the intricacy of the...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Spending a bunch of time home is no longer the mark of the laz...

Despite video footage of Rachel Lee Scheuerman calling a 17-year-old restaurant worker a "fucking n—–" and slapping him across the face, police in Enid, Oklahoma refused to arrest her, cla...

Regardless of how much diehard Simpsons fans protest, The Simpsons will seemingly never stop running. Due to the sharp decline in quality over the last-checks notes- twenty years, ...

Video and thumbnail image The British Library BoardAnyone who knows me knows that I've been a near-lifelong armchair student of the 18th/19th century artist, poet, printer, engraver, and philosopher,...

The best art has a timeless quality. Aspects of the piece may wither with time, but if the soil from which art blossoms is truthful, great work can last centuries. Take, for example, Giacomo Puccini's...

Burl once made a guitar out of pencils arranged vertically. Now he has accomplished the impossible: making a guitar out of colored pencils arranged horizontally.Video and thumbnail Image: Burl's Art [...

This gorgeous 4-1/2 minute video features some of Dutch kinetic sculptor, Theo Jansen's, most recent creations. He writes in the video's description:Strandbeest Evolution 2021 provides an update on th...

Whenever I find out that Sony has greenlit yet another Spider-Man spin-off in their ill-conceived desire to create a Spider-Man-centric universe adjacent to the MCU, I'm reminded of that "fetch" scene...

Whenever I find out that Sony has greenlit yet another Spider-Man spin-off in their ill-conceived desire to create a Spider-Man-centric universe adjacent to the MCU, I'm reminded of that "fetch" scene...

To quote two of the most revered poets of our modern era, Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J of the Insane Clown Posse, "music is all magic. You can't even hold it. It's just there in the air." To ...

I've known Kevin for over 30 years (ever since he was the editor of The Whole Earth Review) and we've remained friends ever since. (And for the last 10 years, I've been his business partner at Cool To...

When Rob and Grace Jones of Crystal Lake, Illinois removed a small portion of a bathroom wall to replace a built-in toilet paper holder, they were surprised find an old towel wrapped around something....

If you're familiar with the sublime Marx Brothers movies, you will be amazed to see how well Chico can imitate his brother Harpo on this episode of I've Got A Secret from 1954. He even received a cart...

Outraged that Disney isn't going along with his anti-freedoms, anti-LGBTQ agenda, a bellowing Ron DeSantis blasted Disney for "their intention to inject sexuality into the programming for these very y...

A federal wild horse facility about 100 miles south of Denver has gone under quarantine after 67 horses died from an "unknown yet highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease," reports CNN. The horse...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.For the modern cannabis consumer, the quest for the perfect sm...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're looking forward to a season full ofgrillingwith...

All the sea lion below needs now is an overpriced cocktail in a fake coconut with a flower and umbrella. @gailstoneheart Wait for it…@bmorekenzie619 s video #sealion #seal #galapagos #funny #su...

I always cringe and get a whole body awful feeling when I see people riding a motorcycle in shorts, flip flops, tee-shirts, and no gloves. This video shows why. ATGATT, please.I even try to ride with ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene argues with Jim Acosta that her text to them Chief of Staff Meadows suggesting President Trump considers "Marshall" law was somehow innocent. Marge Greene gets hot when confront...

Factual conversation by Jan vankmajer is a 3-minute stop-motion animation in which two clay heads face each other on a table and attempt to communicate through visual gestures. Words are replaced with...

A persistent drought in the American Southwest forced the Anasazi to abandon their towns a thousand years ago. Eventually, the precipitation returned. Hoover Dam in Nevada was built in 1931, "during a...

It's not just dogs that demand their human's attention. Here's an adorable albeit nudge of a cat that won't let his human get any gardening done until he's had his full share of snuggling needs met. ...

Leggo my Baby Yoda!Kellogg's legendary frozen waffle brand Eggo is home to a cross-over waffle from the Star Wars universe: Galactic Homestyle. Perhaps the formulation is different but they look prett...

Giddy that Elon Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist," is about to own Twitter, Marjorie Taylor Greene is busy at work "party" planning a roundtable with "all the most brilliant people who h...

Earth Reviews is a website where you can leave feedback about certain aspects of the human simulation. The site explains, " It turns out Earth is just a simulation. Luckily, the creators are looking f...

Russia and the United States have both long trained marine mammals to do their martial bidding. Two pens of Russian-trained military dolphins have been spotted near a Sevastopol harbor and are likely ...

On Tuesday, Elon Musk tweeted that he wants people to be able to post anything they want on Twitter that "matches the law." "By 'free speech,' I simply mean that which matches the law," he said. "I am...

Los Angeles police don't suspect foul play in the death of a reputed whistleblower who "turned over a trove of secret files about Deutsche Bank" to U.S. authorities, reports NBC News.Valentin Broeksmi...

Parts of Southern California are seeing a record drought, according to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. And in a Water Shortage Emergency declaration released on Tuesday, reside...

Ohio's Jean Schmidt is apparently still out there saying outrageous things. In this speech women, "NO MATTER HOW YOUNG," should embrace the opportunities rape has provided them. OH Rep. Schmidt (R) on...

When McDonald's stopped using beef tallow in its fries, the entire world noticed even Julia Child. I use beef tallow in the kitchen all the time....

The manager identified in a new lawsuit targeting Tesla's Fremont factory appears to be a real loser. I would have thought that referring to the factory as "the slave house," and telling a black emplo...

Ponyhenge aka the Rocking Horse Graveyard is an outdoor rocking horse art installation in New England. Nobody knows where these mysterious rocking horses come from or who places them in this empty fie...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Who doesn't love traveling and seeing all of the beautiful and...

Gang warfare in Lesotho is sharpened by rivalry between accordion stars, turning one of Africa's smallest countries into its murder capital. (To be clear, it is not the accordions with which the terro...

For clarity's sake, let me start by saying that the video embedded above doesn't feature the teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water. The video discusses how Disney revealed the new teaser tr...

After walking out of the theater after 2Fast 2Furious, I vowed that I wouldn't pay money for another film from the franchise. Suddenly, around the fifth installment of the series, something amazi...

Miles Klee reports on the bizarre social media hype around Johnny Depp's lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard. It's a wild brew of hysteria, misinformation and misleadingly-edited clips ("Depp DESTROYS...

Why do we twist Oreos apart and why does the creme always only stick to one of the separated cookie wafers?!A team of mechanical engineering students at MIT decided to get to the bottom of this conun...

#BARBIEJuly 21, 2023Only in theaters pic.twitter.com/mauCGpizD1— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) April 26, 2022Tinseltown forgets that exploitable nostalgia for childhood doesn't end with to...

Tesla stock fell 20% in a week, wiping some $125bn from the company's value as its CEO Elon Musk instead worked on shitposting and his quixotic plan to buy Twitter. As the deal he struck depends on T...

Police in Minneapolis 'engaged in a pattern of racism' for at least a decade, according to a state inquiry conducted by Minnesota's civil rights enforcement agency. It's so out of control that cops th...

Back in November 2021, I wrote about a New Zealand couple who discovered a mindbogglingly ginormous potato in their garden:Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of Wellington, New Zealand may have just broken t...

It's been a rough for theGhostbustersfranchise. First, the 2016Ghostbustersreboot became a political lightning rod, withLeslie Jones becoming the target of racist trolls prior to the film's release an...

Akihiko Kondo tied the knot with a hologram of the popular virtual character Hatsune Miku back in 2018. The ceremony cost  2 million yen, or about $17,300, though none of the 40 invitees actually...

The Flash movie has become the Schrdinger's cat of superhero films. The film exists simultaneously in developmental hell and post-production, depending on the news cycle. Although Warne...

Republican Teddy Daniels, who is running for Pennsylvania's Lt. Governor, is a real prize. For starters, he was evicted from his house this week after his wife obtained an "order granting emergency pr...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Trying to eliminate rodents from your garage, roaches from you...

Roger Stone's new career on Lindell TV isn't going so great. In fact, by the looks of the clip below, it's an utter disaster. To sum it up: A) He's peddling MyPillow doggie beds. That should be enough...

There is so much puppetry at the puppet show that puppets are calling one another out. ...

Disney's Reedy Creek Improvement District has responded to Florida Republicans' attempts to dissolve it by explaining they can not legally do so without paying off around $1B of Disney's debt. Magic K...

The new episode of the excellent Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast is the first in a two-part series on the fascinating history of Microsoft Windows start-up sounds. Over the years, Microsoft has made at ...

A dad was bottle-feeding his baby at a Cincinnati RedsSan Diego Padres game when a foul ball headed right toward him. So he did what any multi-tasking parent would do and effortlessly caught the ball ...

Pioneering German electronic musician Klaus Schulze has died at age 74. Schulze was a member of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Temple and also released an incredible collection of solo albums that influen...

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're writers, so we know how it feels toget a little ...

Florida man Wayne Bowen used his estranged twin brother's ID to collect more than $72,000 in benefits meant for military veterans. The 64-year-old gentleman started the scam in 2014, stealing his brot...

The bomb squad were dispatched to a New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus depot on Monday night after a cleaning person found a strange contraption on a Staten Island bus. According to au...

Leviticus 19:34 says, "The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."...

Ancient ceramic vessels dug up in Jerusalem were likely medieval hand grenades, according to new scientific analysis. Griffith University archaeologist Carney Matheson examined sherds of the vessels t...

If The Batman really did star Adam West, I'd be much more excited about it. Pow! Wham!...

Naman Gupta of Noida, India, started a business making teddy bears stuff with used cigarette butts. He pays ragpickers to collect butts in the street. Then Gupta's employees carefully separate the pap...

Stand-up comedy will always have a special place in my heart. In my mind, it's the only proving ground that matters when it comes to funny. Unlike improv, where the audience is an active participant t...

Consistency and range are two of thr greatest assets an artist can possess. Without the ability to reliably produce quality, an artist will quickly find themselves unemployed. While not as vital to su...

E-sports stars have short careersshorter than sports stars. The general assumption is that the coordination and focus required selects for youth even more than athletic performance does, but medical e...

The Chevy Corvette is getting an update. Having been some of the most beautiful, and many of the ugliest, sports cars ever made, the 'Vette has always fascinated me. GM has announced that both a plug-...

Three years ago the world watched in horror as one of our most recognizable landmarks became a towering inferno. French President Emmanuel Macron wants Notre Dame ready for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Fr...

John Bennett, chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party who is running for Congress, told a crowd that Dr. Anthony Fauci should be executed by a firing squad. And the crowd enthusiastically cheered. "...

You broke it, you fix it. After years of wrangling over the right to repair, Apple today launches its self-repair service, offering various tools, manuals and teeny little parts to the public. The new...

The BBC today reports that household electronics in standby mode"off" but drawing powercost British households 147 a yearabout $200.Vampire devices are electronics that drain a surprising amount of po...

The BBC today reports that household electronics in standby mode"off" but drawing powercost British households 147 a yearabout $200.Vampire devices are electronics that drain a surprising amount of po...

On Monday, April 25, Russian authorities announced that they had stopped an assassination attempt by a group of six Ukrainian Neo-Nazis who had allegedly been planning to kill Vladimir Solovyov, who i...

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a famous example of epistolary novel a fictional story told entirely through letters, newspaper clippings, diaries, and other "first-hand accounts" as conveyed by the people ...

A recent study out of the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College examines the changing prevalence of adolescent handgun use from 2002-2019. During that period, the researche...

From a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine:For more than 60 years, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of injury-related death among young people. Beginning in 2017, however,...

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,...

The collapse of the arcade business murdered a ton of classic video genres. At the turn of the century, the home console market began to heat up as Sony's PlayStation literally brought a new dimension...

While living in New York City, I learned that cultures work best when mixed. Homogeneity is detrimental to cultures. Take K-Pop, for example. K-Pop liberally borrowed most of its style and dance moves...

In the early days of the medium, producing a cartoon for television was all but a technical impossibility. Prior to Hanna-Barbera's groundbreaking planned animation techniquewherein shots were compose...

Thanks to Nerdist, I've learned that a company called "Manly Bands" yes really has teamed up with DC Comics for a special collection of superhero-themed wedding bands. And also one for the Joker (wh...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Foods Bible (@foodsbible)If you're trying to adhere to a diet, it's essential to employ a little versatility in the kitchen. Most people...

Patrick Rose, Sr. retired from the Boston Police Department in 2018 more than 20 years after internal police investigators had determined that he had "more than likely" sexually abused a 12-year-old....

Kane Tanaka was the world's oldest person until her death on April 19 at 119 years old. She was born on January 2, 1903 and most recently resided in a rest home in Fukuoka, Japan where she enjoyed pla...

Amber Heard's attorney Adam Nadelhaft was questioning Johnny Depp's house manager Ben King yesterday when Nadelhaft seemingly didn't like the question he himself was asking… so he objected to it...

A truck driver going 4045 mph on a two-lane road in Ohio lost his brakes as he approached a school bus from behind. The bus stopped, as well as a pick-up truck that was traveling in the opposite direc...

Click to expand The scene: a dog and a human, seated at the table. In front of each is a cardboard box, the kind that fast-food hamburgers are packaged in. The boxes are identical. The human opens t...

Laughter is infectious, even when emanating from just one person. But even catchier is listening to eight people all known for their unusual laughter cracking up together in the same room. The hilar...

You can have Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel artwork in your own home at 1:1 scale. This massive three-volume book from Callaway Arts and Entertainment and Italy's Scripta Maneant reproduces the entire ...

Santa Rosa County, Florida sheriff Bob Johnson held a press conference about an alleged burglar who had been arrested after an unknown homeowner shot at him. Johnson celebrated the shooter and encoura...

This morning, Rep. Madison Cawthorn (RNC) was once again caught trying to bring a loaded handgun onto a plane. Again it was a 9 millimeter handgun, this time discovered by the TSA at Charlotte Douglas...

These aren't samples but rather bits of songs that Michael Jackson interpolatedre-recorded and/or modifiedand used in his own jams. More in @michaelstomford's Twitter thread.Off The Wall – (1979...

This is all the Moonfall you need to see, or perhaps still too much....

In unbelievable video, John Gray, president of an Ohio school board for 17 years, thought he was speaking to the mother of an 11-year-old when he admitted to asking the girl to "hang out" so he could ...

Christopher Alexander Morgan, flying in the first-class section of a Delta flight bound for Phoenix, allegedly became upset after a flight attendant turned down his request for more alcoholic beverage...

It's a fact: if you are looking for a very stable genius to tell your what's really happening in the world, look no further than your nearest Trump rally. Here we have a woman who knows that "Biden" i...

I have always been a fan of air-cooled, rear-engine automobiles and can admit to having wanted a Corvair convertible at one point (I ended up with a Galaxie,) but the Corvair trucks seemed like a craz...

Matt Friend is an incredible impressionist. In this video, he channels the lakes of Howard Stern, Donald Trump, President Obama, Bill Gates, Mitch McConnell, and others reacting to Elon musk's offer t...

Jimmy Kimmel had fun poking "Perjury" Taylor Greene last night, where, among other things, he joked about her early-onset amnesia during last week's ballot-removal hearing. "The Greene Goblin had to t...

After posting a transphobic tweet on Twitter, frozen food heir, and Vladimir Putin fanboi, Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson was briefly banned. When the tweet was removed his account was unlocked, howeve...

Greg Abbott thought he'd make a big show by sending busloads of migrants from the Texas border to Washington D.C. When the migrants arrived in D.C. they were welcomed and offered assistance that Texas...

Mehmet Oz, a peddler of dangerous nostrums, Carla Sands, star of Deathstalker III: the Warriors from Hell (1988), and the other GOP candidates for U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, launched into each ot...

The modern, open-source rotary smartphone I posted in 2020 is now available for pre-order as a $390 kit. It will ship in "November."It's a production-ready ground-up design with all new parts (yes, th...

"This will go to the Georgia Supreme Court, ultimately," said Andrew G. Celli Jr, the attorney who cross-examined MTG at the hearing on her eligibility to run for Congress. CNN discusses her responses...

Police in Berlin recently detained a 36-year-old man for allegedly assaulting a security guard with a kebab. As they wrote on Twitter (translated):Despite the currently increased prices of his throwin...

During the pandemic, like virtually every other human being on the planet, I became a show-binging machine. The extended and government-sponsored free time allowed me to knock off several series that ...

The Daily Show struggles to comprehend the amount of forgetting the GQP has done around their rebellion. ...

As your resident ska guy and your resident Mountain Goats guy, I am genuinely surprised that I have heard (nor, surprisingly, performed!) a ska cover of a Goats tune. But if Twitter is going to aparth...

I find philosophy endlessly entertaining because there's never a concrete answer. Unlike math and science, which adhere to a strict structure, philosophy can never truly be verified. Sure, one philoso...

In this video, illegal Lego is identified and explained. It's not cheap knockoffs at hand, but supposedly inappropriate building methods and techniques. You may not be arrested by the Lego police for ...

From Japanese news site The Mainichi comes the giant squid on Obama's Ugu beach .An about 3-meter-long giant squid was found stranded on a beach here on April 20, in what local authorities said was a ...

The Wachowski sisters are auctioning off a bunch of their movie props, from the Matrix franchise and other films, to raise money for trans youth. The money is being donated to the Protect and Defend T...

Days after after being denied the opportunity to run an After-School Satan Club by a school board in York County, Pa., the Satanic Temple has filed a lawsuit to force them to either let them in or to ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)Is there anything that dogs can't do? For the past decade, I've been assembling a playlist on YouTube of dogs performing...

On Friday, April 22, 2022, the Justice Department announced that the FBI had apprehended Jeremy David Hanson, a 34-year-old resident of Rossmoor, California, who had made numerous threats of violence ...

Since Disney rules media and Hollywood is reliant on remakes and nostalgia, I'm shocked that we haven't seen aGargoyles reboot. Much of the respect that cartoons now garner was built on the back of gr...

While the link is still live, check out the wonderful memorial service for Gilbert Gottfried. Frank Santopadre (co-host on "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast") is particularly touching R...

The story of Trey Parker and Matt Stone is one of my favorite tales of success in entertainment. Too often are aspiring creatives drawn into the Hollywood machine and drained of their verve and enthus...

A conservationist who goes by zimydakid on Instagram was swimming in an ocean near a curious tiger shark when the creature popped his Insta360 camera into its mouth. The shark eventually spit the came...

A few months ago, Elon Musk offered a teenager $5,000 to delete his Twitter bot called "Tracking Elon Musk's Private Jet," which reports on the comings and goings of his private jet. The teen refused....

And yet another dog whistle for violence against democrats by GOP leadership. This time it's father-fearing Don Trump Jr. and alleged wife-and-child-abuser Eric Greitens, the Republican Senate candid...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Feeling a little icky? Dirty? Possibly, even unhygienic? We're...

Nick Duerden is the author of the new book, Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars, in which he interviewed 50 former famous musicians about life after fame. He has an essay in The Guardi...

Elon Musk, self-confessed troll and edgelord, has struck a deal to buy Twitter for about $45bn. To quote the New York Times reporter who earlier broke the news that a deal was close: "this week is gon...

Starting on Thursday, Indonesia will cease to export palm oil outside the country. The president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, has imposed a palm oil export embargo in an attempt to control the rising pr...

"When a guy's banging you, you spin off of him… If you can feel that body… Oh, c'mon!" ...

Orrin Hatch died over the weekend, and The New York Times was in top form in its laudatory obituary for the Utah hatemonger, praising him as a "gentlemanly conservative rock" as he sought to make the ...

For 800 years, St. Botolph's Church in Hadstock, UK had a pelt nailed to its front door that was thought to have once belonged to a Viking who tried to raid the church in the 11th century. The story i...

The so-called "People's Convoy" truckers who are still making people's lives miserable as they "protest" conspiracy theories while disrupting cities across the country just got egged in Oakland, Ca...

Tropicana's logo of an orange with a colorful straw sticking out of it is fun and memorable. It's tough to beat. But back in 2008, Tropicana's brand managers thought they knew better. It's time to mod...

NASA has just released this astonishing new image of Jupiter captured by the Juno space probe during its 40th class orbit around the giant planet. That black spot is a shadow from the Jovian moon Gany...

After mating, the male Philoponella prominens spidera type of orb weaver native to Japan and Koreacatapults itself away from the female at astounding speed. Why? To avoid being eaten by the female onc...

A woman in western Washington fell into a pit toilet after creating a Rube Goldberg-sounding contraption to rescue her phone. The woman then required a rescue.Kitsap Sun:Brinnon Fire Department Chief ...

Good way to kick Monday off....

Last week people questioned whether dictator Vladimir Putin's health was in decline after video showed him gripping onto a table during a meeting with Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (see bott...

Last week, a Florida bride and her caterer were arrested after allegedly spiking the wedding lasagna with marijuana, sending some of the guests to the hospital. Since then, bodycam video taken on the ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Alright, admit it, if you're like75% of Americans, you probabl...

Above, all 50 Republican senators as one monstrosity, courtesy of the FaceApp AI algorithm.And here's the equally-creepy other side of the aisle:(via @_sn_n and @Zekernater, thanks Lux Sparks-Pescovit...

Check out this lovely 1968 duet on the BBC of Leonard Cohen and Julie Felix doing "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye." Written by Cohen, the song was first recorded by Judy Collins on her 1967 album W...

If you've been wondering what was in the math textbooks that were deemed too full of "Critical Race Theory" and otherwise too radical to be included in Florida grade school curriculum, here's the big ...

Before the era of mixed martial arts, traditional disciplines such as kung fu, karate, and bajiquan carried more of an aura of fear. Decades of film and TV action encouraged audiences worldwide to bel...

The Mail on Sunday, a right-wing UK tabloid, published a hit piece on Angela Rayner, the deputy leader of the opposition, insinuating that she uses her legsand by comparison with Basic Instinct her va...

Slimetime by Wizardhead is a fantastically horrible enhancement of one of those old kids' shows where everyone gets slimedand an example of where we're at in using machine learning to enhance the stat...

It is a well-known, often romanticized fact that the Bront sisters (and their brother) all died in their late 20s/early 30s. The recorded cause of death was tuberculosis and the lore is that they died...

We're in a golden age of animation. Even though animation fans would probably like to ascribe that designation to older eras of the medium, modern cartoons' mixture of technology and fluidity is unpar...

Prevailing handily over Marine Le Pen amid the lowest election turnout in decades, France's president Emmanuel Macron won a second term in office Sunday. Winning 58.5% of the vote to Le Pen's 41.5%, M...

A Fairfax, Virginia house sold immediately for $805k in cash despite an unusual sale clause to spice up the deal: the stranger in the basement. The listing generated headlines in noting that buying th...

The recent profusion of cheery, pseudo-American candy stores on London's main shopping street for normal people has been noted. They replace pandemic-wrecked major retailers such as HMV and Boots, eve...

Mike Isaac for the New York Times: "Twitter is in advanced talks to sell itself to Elon Musk, in a fast-moving situation that kicked into high gear over the weekend."The company's 11-member board was ...

A man named Avery Sisk owns a fantastic house in North Carolina covered in 30,000 Coffee mugs. This could be the reason it is known as "the house of mugs." Sisk says it's taken him 17 years to attach ...

MushiP is my favorite Vocaloid producer! I've been listening to his music for about two years and his music never ceases to enthrall me. His work as a Vocaloid producer stands out as having incredible...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Carbonated water has been the water connoisseur's go-to for qu...

We've all heard of starfish, but have you ever seen or heard of a feather star? These beautiful sea creatures live in both shallow and deep ocean water. They have long appendages resembling feathers t...

This Japanese game show from 2021 featured a game of human Tetris, where people have to match their pose to the shape of a hole in a wall that moves towards them. If they can't slide through the hole,...

As a Porsche enthusiast, this video by YouTubers carwow had me giggling several times. It is ridiculous how silly fast these cars are, and as the technology improved you see the modern era cars with L...

Brought to you from Wryngwyrm's (AKA L. Coats)grandmother's attic and made in only 24 hours is Nerve Endings, an experimental album inspired by the tradition of Black metal that runs 24 minutes 24 sec...

The Flush app is a free toilet map that makes it easier to find public restrooms when out and about. I've had many moments of running around with a rapidly expanding bladder searching for a toilet. No...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Just because you can cook doesn't mean you…well…sh...

Mistakes are essential for growth. Not to sound too much like a motivational speaker here, but how can you learn what strategy doesn't work without failure. It's just part of the process. However, som...

In this DungeonCraft episode, Professor Dungeon Master looks at the early West Marches/open world campaigns that Gygax, Arneson, and other early DMs ran. He explains the differences between such open ...

Hong Kong cinema broke me. Since my first exposure to Bruce Lee, I've never been able to look at American action films the same way. Outside of the gun-wielding protagonists that populate Western medi...

A gentleman better known for creating controversy by flying the Confederate battle flag over his home, Joseph Ryan, once again demonstrated who he is by filing suit against the County of Los Angeles i...

A cognitive bias is a "systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make....

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As a society, we will be feeling the ripple effects of the Cov...

This Hollow Mask Illusion shows a mask of a face rotating in circles. Each time the mask turns from the outer face to the inner face, I only get a glimpse of the inside before my eyes trick me and the...

You do know God speaks to "us." Woman at Trump rally explains why she believes Princess Diana and Jackie O are still alive. pic.twitter.com/iYlwlg59vR— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 2...

I stared into the pulsating vortex of this Maggot kaleidoscope with bird song audio, and I am a changed being. As the chirping birds guided me deeper into the dancing agglomeration of larvae, I could ...

The maximum weight of the United States Postal Service's small flat-rate box is 70 pounds. Paul Sherman noticed that given that the box is only 75 cubic inches, "it is physically impossible to exceed ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)By now, you've probably heard the wealth of praise being heaped on Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Altho...

As demonstrated in the Original Water Wiggle Commercial, there is no escaping this maniacal entity once it's turned on. I had one of these as a kid. Water shoots through its plastic hose making it ris...

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 safe to say that we can all enjoy and appreciate efficien...

"As a prospective wroiter, I would urge to not only read good books," says Alan Moore. "Read terrible books as well. "The tip is part of the BBC's Maestro series, which has its own YouTube channel.Ala...

On this day in 1982, Clive Sinclair released the ZX Spectrum (previously), whose sleek design and inexpensive price made it an explosive success the world overonly the Commodore 64 and perhaps the App...

nosleep.page does one weird trick: leave it open and it stops your computer falling asleep. This can be surprisingly annoying to accomplish through the proper channels. In my case I have a Windows la...

Poetry professor Garret Hongo's new book The Perfect Sound [amazon] is aptly named. It's the perfect book for any fan of all things audio. It combines a personal family memoir with midcentury Hawaiian...

For roleplaying gamers there are fewer "holy grail" games than M.A.R. Barker's 1974 now-rare Tkumel: Empire of the Petal Throne. Barker's complex, linguistically-inspired fantasy world was often compa...

In this video, the BBC's YouTube channel explores the Miriwoong language: one of the rarest in all of Australia.Language is one of the most critical bonding agents for a culture. I learned this first ...

As crews at San Francisco's beleaguered Millennium Tower began digging to extend the foundation and connect it to the new piles, the building sank even more. Outside engineers in this NBC Bay Area int...

Inspirace is a magical Czech stop motion film by Karel Zeman from 1948. All of the characters are made of glass, which I have not seen in a stop motion until now. The dainty, luminescent characters gi...

The Puttermans find a simple fix for dealing with their overly chatty relative in this 1994 Duracell Commercial. To get some peace and quiet, they simply put the wrong type of battery inside of the gi...

If a chicken and a snowman had a baby together, it would look like this creature who is dancing to Rockwurst by Siriusmo. Its dance moves are top-tier. Siriusomo (Moritz Friedrich) is a Berlin-based r...

Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an "impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85-year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life in the mountains, away from people and cities." This film wa...

Kenneth Mejia is running for L.A. city controller candidate. According to his tweets, he thinks Joe Biden is a racist and a rapist. The LA Times reports that Mejia was a supporter of Green Party presi...

Andre Mack is a sommelier and winemaker who is both entertaining and informative as he shows us how to pair wine with meals from different fast food chains, including McDonald's, Subway, Taco Bell, Pa...

A father distracts his fussy baby with some silly sound effects coming straight from the baby's mouth. Whenever the baby begins to cry, the dad gently taps on the bellowing mouth, and voila, the cryi...

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 modern person living in the digital age has an easier life...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's early-onset amnesia only worsened at her hearing today, until she was reduced to just a string of "I don't remembers" when asked who she spoke to about the Capitol demonstrati...

If you ask me, Dustin Hoffman should be selling Alfa Romeo spiders, not VWs. But I have to say, this fastback sedan looks pretty snazzy. Imagine an electric version of this beautiful car. Hoffman made...

Marvel to the spectacle of a driverless Tesla as it rolls across an airport runway and hits the back of a jet, causing it to pivot around. So far, there are no details about who owns the self-crashin...

Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed early-onset amnesia today during her hearing to see if she qualifies for the November's ballot after her involvement with the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. When questioned a...

musicIn honor of Earth Day today, here's the great Marvin Gaye reflecting on the environmental destruction he saw unfolding around him in 1971… which tragically continues to this day. "Mercy, M...

Yet another sweet vehicle that was one in the King of Cool's collection. This 1969 Honda CB750 Sandcast has been lovingly restored and included paperwork showing it was delivered new to Mr. McQueen.Br...

YouTuber preposteRUSS says, "Using rarely seen front and back camera angles from the actual N4 highway assault in Pretoria, South Africa that went viral in 2021, I edited together a real-time action s...

Skeletons in Video Games is a Twitter account devoted to dem digital bones. Ah, video games… people are just dying to get in them. Cuphead pic.twitter.com/zWEEr3t8KI— Skeletons in Video Ga...

Rachel Hamm, a Republican candidate for secretary of state in California, said she is counting on her god to do her a favor by sending his angels to monitor the election and burn fraudulent ballots. "...

MAGA folk may tell you the Capitol insurrection was simply a "normal tourist visit" or a "bold-faced lie." But, as we saw six days after the Jan. 6 attack, when party leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevi...

Multimedia artist Kelly Heaton creates analog electronic sculptures "that are reminiscent of birdsong, musical insects, and spiritual apparitions." Below is a "Printed Circuit Bird (Bluejay)" whose so...

This gentleman is on a mission to pick up his wife and children from the zoo. It is a matter of such urgent importance that he is willing to deal with minor impediments, such as police officers standi...

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) scientists have described a new species of Atolla jellyfish that they discovered in the ocean's "midnight zone" 1000 to 4000 meters below the surface. ...

This video takes us through a collection of outstanding underground drawings in the portfolio of underground art. My personal favorite in this collection is the pen and ink drawing by the legendary un...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Microsoft Office pops up all the time for computer users. Whet...

UK doctors treated what they think is the longest Covid infection on record: 505 days. The patient was immunocompromised and eventually died.The patient first caught Covid in early 2020. They had symp...

Cynthia "Plaster Caster" Albritton who made molds of penises belonging to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon, Jello Biafra, Wayne Cramer, and many more big names in entertainmenthas died. She was 74 years-old....

On Twitter, Rob Sheridan posted some pictures of the surreal warnings that used to come on VHS tapes in the hopes of preventing users from copying themfascinating artifacts of a more ignorant age, but...

They don't make 'em like Edgar Wright anymore. With his films Baby Driver and Last Night in Soho, the mega-talented Wright has asserted himself as one of the most interesting auteu...

From The Independent:Jacinda Ardern was welcomed on her first day in Japan on Thursday (21 April) by a pair of dancing kiwi fruit. The New Zealand visited Japan and Singapore ...

I've always assumed that the fonts used in the Star Wars films have like the swipe transitions persisted as unchanging aesthetic choice since 1977. But as the Star Wars Fonts Twitter account demonst...

As Ars Technica puts it, "ISPs can't find any judges who will block California's Net Neutrality law", and it's not like they haven't been shopping hard.FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, who voted fo...

It's a great time to be a fan of tabletop games. That's not to say there was ever a bad time to be a fan of the genre, but with the abundance of resources and communities available on the internet, ta...

I was suprised how much I didn't know about London's midcentury plan to raze vast swathes of the inner city to build raised highwaysthe same kind of urban redevelopment madness that wrecked cities the...

One of the best aspects of superhero comics is watching artists use their unique styles to interpret a character. Every superhero worth their salt has an iconic design and aesthetic that transcends th...

Even though we come for the action, if fight fans are sincere, we love the talk surrounding a contest a smidge more. Muhammad Ali wouldn't have become a legend if he didn't have such a braggadocious a...

Back in my day, if you wanted a Spider-Man Lego figure, you'd have to spend hours custom-painting your own. It wasn't as easy as having Marvel drop an entire set with not only Spider-Man but Doctor St...

Gone are the days when the media only allowed a narrow view of humanity, absent of other cultures, races, creeds, and orientations. But what of left-handed people? I'm being a little facetious, but it...

Jim Bakker claims Christian pastors are being murdered for preaching on controversial social issues: "We're not going to be able to preach much longer because they'll shoot us in the pulpi...

When deciding on a menu for her wedding, a 42-year-old Florida bride made sure to include baked lasagna, with the emphasis on baked. Unbeknownst to her 3040 guests, she and her caterer loaded the entr...

What does danger taste like? Around 500 million years ago in the deep ocean, danger tasted sour. Very sour. Fish evolved the ability to taste acidity in water which can be harmful for the animals. But...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Cybercrime and all the forms it comes in can be scary, and whi...

American Airlines has allegedly stiffed Bacardi out of $65,820 after receiving 420 cases of cognac that "vanished" on a flight between Paris and Los Angeles last September. Bacardi is now suing AA in ...

Damned if I know what Teenage Engineering's TX-6 is, but I want one! It's $1,200.Update: It's an audio thingy.ultra-portable pro-mixerand audio interface TX6 is our ultra-portable, battery-powered mix...

In a brilliant marketing move, Aqua Net hired the Three Stooges to make a commercial about its hair spray. It's a well-known fact that women in the 1960s who used hair spray looked to The Three Stooge...

This morning, a hydraulic ram was supposed to open a large gate on a roll-on/roll-off ship in use by Britain's Ministry of Defense. The ram failed; the gate got stuck; an observer ably summarizeud the...

"What's your favorite cat toy?" Instagram user nala_cat posts. Well, if a paper bag is included in the mix, that's an easy one. The paper bag wins out every time. View this post on Instagram ...

Ever since Paramount dropped that awful trailer for the first Sonic The Hedgehog movie, the character has experienced a career renaissance. After the trailer was panned universally, Paramoun...

With legal debts mounting and a suspended license that prevents him from practicing law, Rudy Giuliani now turns to Ukraine's President Zelensky in hopes of a job."Are you donating your time and energ...

In 2004, anthropologists amazed the world by discovering fossils of tiny humanlike creatures that lived on an island in Indonesia at the same time as modern people, as recently as 50,000 years ago. No...

Florida's Department of Health has issued guidelines removing medically transitioning from the table for anyone under the age of 18. Florida doesn't even want these kids to use pronouns they feel com...

Florida's Department of Health has issued guidelines removing medically transitioning from the table for anyone under the age of 18. Florida doesn't even want these kids to use pronouns they feel com...

A fun cover to watch of Sweet's epic Ballroom Blitz, however, there is always Tea Carrere's version with Wayne and Garth. ...

I want to know how to transliterate the native Brooklyner pronunciation of "Jam" heard when Technotronic sings "Jeeeeam!" That can't be right. ...

Over the weekend, Keal Latrell Brown, 39, was visiting the Hollywood Wax Museum Haunted House in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina when a performer scared hie group so much that one of them reportedly fell...

Welcome to National Tea Day 2022! I highly recommend Barry's Gold Blend....

Brits who thought it was a jolly good idea to secede from the European Union are now in a state of "disbelief and confusion" after Spanish authorities started blocking them from entering the county fr...

In the same way the GOP calls anyone they don't like a pedophile, Putin's government calls anyone it doesn't like a Nazi. Take the case of 21-year-old Zambian student Rebecca Ziba. She posted a video ...

A parent's attempt to start an After School Satan Club at an elementary school in Pennsylvania as an alternative to the Joy El Christian club was shot down by an angry mob who showed up in droves at t...

An Illinois dentist was drilling 60-year-old Tom Kozsi's tooth when the inch-long drill bit apparently fell off in his mouth and he inhaled it into his lung. "I was at the dentist getting a tooth fill...

I have enjoyed all the Ghostbusters movies. Love all the casts and hope the video game is not a letdown.I ain't afraid of no ghost!...

The most common complaint to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau concerns efforts to collect medical bills that are not owed, reports CBS News. The unpaid bills are then reported to credit agenci...

MBC interviews Ron Fein, legal director of Free Speech for People, and the guy who will be questioning MTG at tomorrow's hearing over her eligibility to run for US Congress after her amazingly seditio...

Independent researcher ZachXBT has published a spreadsheet containing the handles, follower counts, and price to have an influencer shill for an obscure cryptocurrency. Vice:On Monday, an independent...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As we are all well aware, the passage of time issuper strange....

Netflix had its first real stinker of a quarter, losing subscribers for the first time ever and forced to warn of a coming bloodbath for password-sharers. The stock is down 35% in a day, wiping $50bn ...

Firefighters were called to Mount Walker in Brinnon, Washington to rescue a woman who fell into a pit toilet attempting to retrieve the cell phone she dropped in it. She reportedly used her dog's leas...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by totally 80's room (@totally80sroom)As I was born in 1988, I didn't experience the rise of the Coreys. It was only through watching t...

The Atlantic has a brilliant piece by Jonathan Haidt on the last decade's dumbing of America (and the wider world). Spoiler alert (and no great surprise): Social media.The former CIA analyst Martin Gu...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)One of my great regrets in life is not learning how to do a backflip. I know I could probably learn it now, but I missed...

Arsenal Media is a right-wing content and advertising firm that promotes conservative fameballs like Dana Loesch and Madison Cawthorn. Co-founded by Benny Johnson (once fired from Buzzfeed for plagiar...

Trevor Jacob filmed himself leaping from a small plane when it appeared to run into engine trouble, selfie-sticking his parachute journey to the ground. The video's title"I Crashed My Plane"should be ...

In a recent study from the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia, a group of scientists examined the impacts of highlighting the racial disparities of COVID-19, and how such knowledge ...

There's a Kool and the Gang party in the sky as we all remove our masks on planes and pretend that COVID is not a threat anymore. Ya-hoo! Image: Screengrab...

Virtually every profession and hobby has its own unique set of colloquialisms and glossary of terms. A surefire way to know you've found your way into the core of a fandom or trade is how liberally yo...

Few cartoons boast the unassailable reputation of Nickelodeon'sAvatar: The Last Airbender.Now more than 20 years old,Avatar remains among the most popular animated shows in the West. You can attribute...

The console wars were serious. Though reaching a peak during the post-Playstation era, battles for console supremacy stretch back to the 80s and 90s.With Sonic the Hedgehogin 1991, Sega began to take ...

Jackassserves a line of demarcation for the generations. Similar to the generational rift associated with the emergence of punk rockwhich spawned several of the core tenets of the skater culture that ...

The Toon Squad appears to be the team to beat at Venice Beach's famed basketball courts....

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, the discussion is on alcoholism....

NASA's Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars captured this astonishing video of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, crossing in front of the Sun on April 2. From NASA:The images are the latest i...

A loose python was found on a shelf at Walmart in Bloomington, Indiana yesterday. Animal care officers retrieved the reptile but nobody has a clue how it ended up in the store. They're hoping someone ...

Surprising zero people, "Falafel Thing" enthusiast Bill O'Reilly blamed his terrible tirade on everyone but sexual harasser Bill O'Reilly. Vanity Fair:On Tuesday, O'Reilly tweeted, "the character assa...

Incredible footage of a monk seal giving birth to her sixth pup on a North Shore beach in Oahu, Hawaii was captured last week by a woman who works at the Department of Land and Natural Resources. It's...

I miss the arcade era of video games. Although several establishments have attempted to revive the experience in modernity with the added bonus of booze, there's nothing like the real thing. I miss sa...

The only things missing from Eaze's 4/20 Day music video are Willie Nelson, and extra lighters. Happy 4/20, y'all!Klypso as Himself Snoop Dogg as Himself Doggface as Himself War as Themselves Cheech a...

The main reason that web3 services like the Metaverse and NFTs make the headlines is because there are just enough already-wealthy grifters who are really, really determined to trick the rest of us in...

When Tucker Carlson isn't promoting his testicle-tanning "bromeotherapy" regimen, he's virtually moonlighting on Russian state TV, siding up with all of the Kremlin's talking points. And to give you a...

No matter how much my fellow nerdy brethren tried to push the Next Generation era of Star Trek on me in high school, I resisted their attempts. I grew up with the 60s version of
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We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.While April 20th doesn't have significance to those who don't ...

Newsmax needed to find black conservatives to pose as noble race "traitors". With the count at three, including one dead man, they made do with Ben Shapiro for their fourth. James Campbell posted the ...

In an interview (video below), candidate for Michigan Governor, Pastor Ralph Rebandt, said "The bible should be the basic textbook and scripture, I mean in schools." Yes, he did. He also said he would...

Today's New York Times article about Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker says, "he has been accused of domestic abuse and hasacknowledged violentthoughts as part of his past struggles with mental...

Watch as a plane passenger casually lights a cigarette, takes a deep drag, closes his eyes, and lays back to savor the soothing nicotine hitting his body. Unfortunately, his buzz is killed when an agh...

James Carville doesn't mince words when he pinpoints exactly what's wrong with the Q-infused GOP. He just cuts to the chase. "The problem is, they are a weird political party," the political commentat...

A Big Lie garbage peddler named Jim Marchant promises to end gasoline taxes to trick Nevada voters into electing him as Nevada Secretary of State."END the Gas Tax and HELP local Nevadans out at the pu...

Reports of low morale and soldiers looking to quit the Russian war effort continue. Apparently expecting to be paid what you were told will get you killed in the Russian armed services.Daily Beast:"Ac...

Above, a compilation of the iconic Vulcan salutation. The spoken line was penned by Theodore Sturgeon for the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time" (1967) while the accompanying hand gest...

There is no question the current GQP obsession with Disney as somehow anti-child is ridiculous and revenge-based. If they keep pushing it, they will screw up Florida worse."Why yes, this legislati...

On Easter morning, Jesus appeared as a wet stain on the entryway floor of St. Peter Armenian Church in Watervliet, New York. From WNYT:"It was an Easter miracle and an apparition of the Lord," [Father...

A gentleman couldn't help but brag to an Uber driver who picked him up from the Capitol on January 6, 2021. When asked if the mob at the Capitol had been violent all day, the passenger, who only went ...

A burger van in England posted an offensive Mother's Day ad exploiting the disappearance of toddler Madeleine McCann, whose parents left her in a vacation rental while they dined at a tapas bar. The a...

Skaters are working with the City of Los Angeles to try and preserve elements of the West Los Angeles Courthouse skate plaza. The courthouse closed in 2013, and with the help of Nike in 2014 became a ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Environmental impact is on almost everyone's minds these days,...

The Daily Show shares the wild result of an underqualified Trump-appointed judge yanking the CDC's mask up for travel mandate. Safety rules changing mid-flight do seem extreme....

"I've been smoking since I was born." Every day is 4/20 for me, but the LA Times shares the story of Marin County's 'Waldos', the inventors of "420" yet still, some of Marin's less well-known stoners....

The Texas Department of Public Safety has ordered more than 200 state troopers to shrink their waists by December or suffer disciplinary actions. Apparently even those required to lose weight but stil...

Julian Assange's handover to the U.S. awaits approval from the U.K.'s interior minister, Priti Patel, after a magistrate authorised his extradition Wednesday. If she signs it, he can appeal her decisi...

A day after Alex Jones's companies filed for bankruptcy protection, a judge in Texas ordered he pay $1m in legal fees to four Sandy Hook parents he libeled. Jones falsely claimed the Sandy Hook massac...

Even though sitcoms might not rule the roost the way they once did in the 80s and 90s, there are still plenty of modern sitcoms that strive for comedic excellence. One of the shows that helped shape c...

You'd be forgiven if you never noticed the similarities between the lumpy chocolate seam that tops off the Snickers candy bar, and the infamously throbbable dorsal vein that adorns the human penis. Th...

72 Londoners, most of them people of color, died when Grenfell Tower burned down in 2017. Paul Bussetti shared a video of a racist effigy of Grenfell Tower and its inhabitants being burned on a bonfir...

After Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow was accused by fellow senator Lana Theis of grooming and sexualizing children because of her support for LQBTQ+ youth (and Theis used the attack to fund r...

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

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Timecapsule (@timecapsule_)As a child of the 90s, I knew Fabio Lanzoni was a celebrity, but I somehow also knew he wasn't supposed to be...

"I don't know how I'm alive," said a woman who fainted and fell in the gap between oncoming commuter train cars at Independence Station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From the NY Post:…She was mira...

Japanese researchers developed a pair of electric chopsticks that increase the salty taste in every bite of food. Meiji University engineer Homei Miyashita collaborated with food and beverage firm Kir...

If you are like many, many people on the internet you have already seen the listing for a house that is over-adorned with cute sayings signs, including one that says "Welcome to Poundtown" over a bed....

Former Fox host Bill O'Reilly, who was ousted from the network after sexual harassment accusations from five women, threatened a JetBlue employee at JFK Airport on Sunday because his flight to Turks &...

Anti-freedoms picketers held signs outside of a Planned Parenthood, hoping to scare off anyone who came near the premises. But it looks like the protestors were the ones who were scared off after Davr...

When this TikToker tries to belt out a song, her cute pup Leo cuts in with a louder, high-pitched tune of his own. And it isn't the first time this excited Cavachon has upstaged her the little guy br...

A man in Long Beach, California, sat in a chair in front of a hair salon during business hours and masturbated as he looked through the window. It took police 40 minutes to arrive, by which time the m...

There are over 5,000 species of cockroaches. They're a very successful and adaptable group of insects. They've been around for millions of years and will likely be around long after humans have vanish...

Living in noisy environments can kill you, according to new research from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School cardiologists and colleagues. The study looked at heart attack rates in New Jer...

Stop gripin' and start typin'! The Manuscript Writing Cafe in Tokyo's Koenji neighborhood is built to help writers make progress on whatever novel, article, report, or manga they may be working on. Cu...

An Austin parent thought it would be fun to stop by her child's elementary school last week dressed up as an Easter bunny to hand out plastic eggs stuffed with goodies. But the goodies inside the eggs...

On Sunday, a camera livestreaming the night sky captured the astonishing video below of a shimmering spiral floating overhead. Turns out the strange object was the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 roc...

In an apparent ploy to end civil litigation filed by family members of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims, Alex Jones' disinformation site Infowars declared bankruptcy, but not before Jones paid h...

When Tucker Carlson isn't cavorting on Russian state TV, he obsesses over his lack of testosterone, seeking "bromeopathic" therapy and testicle tanning. Carlson is so upset about his wilted marbles, h...

An air force reservist who refused the Covid vaccine on religious grounds has lost his case at the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 6-3 not to take up his case. Lt Col Jonathan Dunn accepted the usual ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene failed in her efforts to block a lawsuit that could, if successful, bar her from running for office in November. A Federal judge gave a group of Georgia voters the green light y...

A man messed with Shirlene Hernandez, 72, and did not live to tell the tale: the carjacker left her bruised and sore but then crashed her vehicle, dying at the wheel. "There's a lot of people who woul...

When Edna Morris was CEO of Red Lobster, the restaurant chain had a $14.99 all-you-can-eat buffet. She thought she could lure in more customers by offering an all-you-can-eat buffet for $22.99 that in...

The first computer I had which used 3-inch floppies was the Commodore Amiga, and let me tell you, I did not appreciate the brilliant engineering of the 3-inch floppy disk. VWestlife has fonder memorie...

Georgia's pride US Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (GA-14) once again attacked her colleague, Ilhan Omar. Greene continues to imply Omar is a likely terrorist due to her religious affiliation whi...

Without a doubt, Batman has one of the best rogues galleries in all of fiction. For the life of me, I can't think of a single wack member of Batman's core group of villains. I guess that's why I'm gro...

I have no idea when this egg-shaped egg whisk entered my life. I suspect my parents gifted it to me after one of their Tuesday Morning shopping sprees. Over the years it has become an important part o...

Whenever I grow close to someone, I love finding out what form of comfort media they enjoy. Everyone has a favorite show or movie that doubles as the entertainment equivalent of a warm blanket and a c...

Whenever I grow close to someone, I love finding out what form of comfort media they enjoy. Everyone has a favorite show or movie that doubles as the entertainment equivalent of a warm blanket and a c...

Whenever I grow close to someone, I love finding out what form of comfort media they enjoy. Everyone has a favorite show or movie that doubles as the entertainment equivalent of a warm blanket and a c...

Libs of TikTok is a popular Twitter account that posts clips of liberal, lefty and LGBTQ people saying outrageous things, right-wing memes, and so on. It's got half a million followers, is indifferent...

Games look better than ever; that's a fact. Behind their gilded exterior, though, most releases from major developers are more formulaic and tame than they've ever been. That's why it's been such a jo...

If you spend any time watching MSNBC, or on Twitter for that matter, you're likely familiar with Malcolm Nance. A former US Navy officer specializing in naval cryptography, Nance currently heads Speci...

In this video from 2021, Robby Krieger and Friends perform The Doors' 1967 hit, "Light My Fire." Krieger explains how he came to write the song after they discovered there wasn't enough material for t...

The Clarion Writer's Workshop is a prestigious breeding ground of sorts for science fiction and fantasy writers. Certainly no one has to go to Clarion to succeed in the field, but a lot of brilliant a...

There can be only one. SinceThe Simpsonscreated the modern adult animation boom (we didn't forget about you, Fred Flintstone), there's always been a show that captures its zeitgeist. I'm not talking a...

I don't subscribe to any magazines. The only paper magazine I've purchased in the last few years is an issue of Monocle I bought two months ago and haven't read yet. So I was surprised to receive an o...

Hillbilly Elegy author and Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance referred to Donald Trump as "America's Hitler" in a text that was revealed this morning. The comment was part of an alleged text ...

Welcome to Gilead Airlines.A Christian gentleman preached to a captive audience who were trapped on a plane. What's unsettling about this clip, however, isn't the fact that someone would be so arrogan...

Even Steakhouse owner Kid Rock could not refrain from mocking his hero, the Prince of TV dinners, for his trailer promoting a pet project on manliness. Rock took issue with the apparent testicle tanni...

A former caseworker and campaign aide for Rep. Madison "fun drives" Cawthorn (R-NC), Lisa Wiggins doesn't have anything good to say about her former boss."He's a habitual liar, and he's going to say a...

TED conference executive director went to the Tesla "Gigafactory" in Texas to interview Elon Musk on various subjects, including global warming, brain-machine interfaces, and robots – especially...

Throwing an unwanted office birthday party for an employee in Kentucky caused the celebrated man to have a panic attack and cost the company $450,000 in a lawsuit settlement. The employee, Kevin Berl...

I'm going to say something that's bound to get some hate, but I'm a morning person. Yep, that's right. I'm that chipper guy you see bouncing to the gym at 5 am with a pep in my step and the sunshine i...

YouTube: what was once a website for silly cat videos and poorly coordinated Star Wars fans has become a multimillion-dollar career for eight-year-olds. Although the shift is seismic, the website's ev...

Park authorities in Snowdonia, Wales, are begging hikers to stop shitting in public after noting the "upsetting and alarming" preponderance of the evidence. The Manchester Evening News reported that t...

Ahmet Nejat Ozsu has been living in a 700-square-foot apartment on New York's Upper West Side for 15 years. Last year, a condo developer bought the building and persuaded everyone to move except Ozsu...

As a gentile, I've always been intrigued by what I've understood as the "tell-the-story" aspect of Passover. And this seems like a pretty cool way to expand upon that! An $18 contribution will get a P...

Bombardier Jets bought the more iconic Learjet more than 30 years ago. It's retiring the marque and has delivered the last Learjet to Northern Jet, a lease fleet in Grand Rapids.Northern Jet Manageme...

The final minutes of the 2022 Boston Marathon's Women's race thrilled viewers as Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir and Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh took turns holding the lead. With 300 yards remaining Jepchirc...

While waiting for tomorrow's premiere of Better Call Saul season 6, a past scene of the scam artist we all root for Jimmy McGill-turned-Saul Goodman introducing himself as a respectable lawyer is cl...

Apple Podcasts allows many shows promoting QAnon conspiracy-theory-inspired violence on its platform, going against its own content rules, says media watchdog group MediaMatters.org. Apple Podcast's c...

Patriot Takes says this video was recorded at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend. It begins with Trump telling some offscreen people, "Have a good time tonight." As he's about to take his seat at the table, ...

I have seen almost zero hype or paid promotions for Top Gun: Maverick, but interviews and stuff in print suggest that there may be a new movie for demonstrating the awesomeness of a dude's surround so...

I've always enjoyed Danny Elfman's compositions, but I never knew the 68-year-old musician was so tattoo'd and badass. Over the weekend, he performed at Coachella with an orchestra and live band that ...

Smartphones are my least favorite part of modern society. I hated cellphones the minute they practically became mandatory in the 2000s, and I've only become more disgusted by them every year. There ar...

Since it became a mostly-comedy franchise, Thor is just about the only Marvel movie title that doesn't make fall asleep before the film even starts. Hemsworth's Thor started out wooden AF but is now a...

The already chaotic scene yesterday at Boston Logan International Airport blew up even more after TSA spotted a suspicious electronic item in a piece of checked luggage. The entire terminal was evacua...

A team of scientists including Mengmeng Sun of the Chinesese University of Hong Kong have created a "magnetic slime robot" that can stretch and squeeze "into tight spaces", far beyond what is possible...

On September 6, 1997, a one-minute silence was observed during the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. Conceptual artist Jonty Semper was in Hyde Park recording audio of the moment which he then rele...

Police are seeking Andre Eugene Moore-Gerald who is suspected of tossing pies (well, actually plates of whipped cream) in the faces of random people on the streets of Greenville, South Carolina. How d...

In a fascinating story, Will Hayward explains his years-long effort to figure out what was causing constant skin rashes on his face, from the "false dawn" of rosacea to gruelling allergy strip tests t...

Three years after the horrible fire that burned the 850-year-old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeologists report the discovery of a human-shaped lead sarcophagus and other tombs deep underneath t...

TobyKeith, seen above, was born on January 9, 2001. At 21 years, 66 days old, the darling Chihuahua was verified as the world's oldest living dog. He lives in Greenacres, Florida with two other dogs a...

Chicken was once a delicacy in its own right, but now functions as a kind of meat sponge that exists not to delight the tastebud but to absorb and carry other flavors. On Twitter, Mr. Sollozzo (who ev...

This video describes and pitches "overengineered" mechanical pencils from Japan, a perfect monday start for anyone who appreciates consumer engineering. Note that it's an ad from a shop selling the pe...

Alex Jones made tens of millions of dollars claiming that the Sandy Hook shootings were a hoax, among his myriad of other conspiracy theories, grifts and cons. His attacks on the childrens' parents ul...

On The Mehdi Hasan Show, Medhi shows a disturbing side-by-side comparison between a scene from the apocalyptic black comedy, Don't Look Up, and a recent appearance of climate activist Miranda Whelehan...

Living through the sitcom saturated 90s was a trip. There wasn't a major American city, vocation, or stand-up comic that didn't have a sitcom premise to their name back in those days. People like to t...

Everyone has that one artist or an author who produces such impressive work that they'd walk across flaming legos to procure their next piece. For me, one of those authors is Grant Morrison. Morrison ...

Everyone has that one artist or an author who produces such impressive work that they'd walk across flaming legos to procure their next piece. For me, one of those authors is Grant Morrison. Morrison ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Wine lovers are a passionate sort, always on the hunt for a qu...

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This creepy Smokey Bear PSA from the '70s features a seemingly normal lady who suddenly rips off her face, which is actually just a mask. She reveals that she is Smokey Bear in disguise. If you pause ...

Regardless that Passover is not Hannukah, and the whole not-eating-of-leavened-bread thing is sort of core to the holiday's traditions, Republicans want you to have a happy whatever it is Jewish peopl...

Florida's Department of Education has rejected 54 Mathematics textbooks for containing materials inappropriate for Florida students to be exposed to. You can be sure it isn't New Math they are mad abo...

This here is some amazing LEGO engineering. As manuals disappear, the YouTubers at Brick Technology made their own:...

A filing on behalf of Tesla shareholders involved in a class-action suit against the company, claiming Tesla's Chief Pedo Guy manipulated the company's stock price with his tweets, appears to have lea...

Just because you can do a thing does not make it safe or wise.Definition of "too much car." pic.twitter.com/KjFFfiiVJa— Daddy Warpig (@DaddyWarpig) April 16, 2022...

On Barney Bashing Day in 1993, a group of teens got together in a gymnasium to express their hatred for Barney the Dinosaur. One girl says that Barney is the "bane of her existence" and holds up a col...

Television spin-off shows are a mixed bag. For every The Jeffersons, you get a Joey. For every Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, you get an After MASH. It's hard to figure out which one'...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Life is short, and you don't have time for "boring." Whether i...

'National Enquirer'Attacking the threat of liberal woke culture is evidently front page news for the 'Enquirer,' whose cover story declares: "Disney's Dirty Secrets Exposed!"Apparently the Disney corp...

Everyone has a version of the Doctor that pops into their head first when it comes to Doctor Who. Tom Baker's turn as the fourth Doctor earns that distinction for a ton of people. And for everyon...

Connor Goldsmith's CEREBRO podcast "where a homo and his friends dive deep into the history of Homo Superior," also known as the X-Men has been one of my favorite podcasts over the last two years. A...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Ever notice how everything is hard when you're exhausted? Whet...

Archie comics is having a moment right now. The perpetually overlooked comic publisher- at least compared to Marvel and DC- has been around for decades, and has remained surprisingly influential. With...

This disposable Bic razor from 1978 may only have one flimsy blade, but it doesn't disappoint on the musical front. As seen in this commercial, Bic razors have a hollow handle so that you can whistle ...

I recently upgraded my TV and surround system. I noticed an awful delay between speech and people's lips as they moved. The timing was way off and I needed to change the digital audio delay. This YouT...

If you happen to find yourself walking around the forest in Northern Italy, you may stumble into this amazing handmade amusement park called Ai Pioppi. Everything in this DIY park was completely handm...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We love the warmer temperatures that spring brings. That is un...

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone say, "I love every genre of music except country," I'd make a Saudi prince blush. Whenever I hear this trite phrase, I pose a follow-up question. "O...

The artists that excite me the most in comics are the ones that can play with the medium's form. Anyone can draw pictures inside the little boxes on a page, but only true visionaries can turn the pane...

With Marvel movies merrily marching through society as the pinnacle of tent pole and superhero blockbuster filmmaking, DC Comics is starting to look jealous. It's not surprising that Marvel's number o...

This video is titled "Cow in love with accordion" but upon viewing I think that "love" might be pushing it a bit. The cow is certainly interested in the accordion. For all we know, the cow may even be...

Elisabeth Nelson has a most excellent piece in The Ringer about the NY proto-punk debut of Television and their iconic 1977 album, Marque Moon. Critically-acclaimed, hugely-influential, much copied, T...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Amaury Guichon (@amauryguichon)There are usually three camps when it comes to food. On the one hand, you have people that view food as f...

On Thursday, April 14, 2022, the Moskva, the flagship vessel of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, reportedly sunk to the bottom of the ocean. As AP reported:The flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet, a guided-...

A Louisville, Kentucky jailer, who is up for reelection in a few months, repeatedly used the Nword and other demeaning language in a secretly recorded 64-minute phone conversation. He was speaking to ...

A family in Virginia just learned that their pet Juggernaut loves playing kickball. One of the boys hits the ball over with a stick, and Juggernaut returns it with an enthusiastic kick. And no, Jugger...

Killer and Republican fundraising tool Kyle Rittenhouse is front and center in a dog-and-pony show for Trump NFTs. Kyle Rittenhouse is now promoting Trump NFTs. pic.twitter.com/FoMZoUjFRv— Patri...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Your floors have seen a lot within their lifetime, from nasty ...

A man was stuck behind the wheel of a speeding Tesla as the car's computer froze while driving at 85 mph. The man says all of the controls stopped working including the turn signal, hazard lights, ac...

I don't know if this is a turtle, terrapin, or tortoise. It might even be something else. Odds are, no matter what I call it, a self-style zoologist will bug me about it in the comments. I could hedge...

This 1960s Spirograph Commercial made me nostalgic for the days of playing with this awesome toy. I found it way more fun than other drawing toys like coloring books or paint-by-number sets. I just fo...

Shawn Rizwan says, "I go around interviewing people in NYC and try to guess how much people make in a year working in New York City! I ask questions like, 'what's the most expensive thing you own' and...

When Dante Barnes unpacks his tongue from his mouth, it can expand in girth to the size of a ping pong ball as in 1.65" in height and 1.57" in width. It's pretty amazing to see it in action (video be...

In celebration of Passover which starts tonight, I suggest watching The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical Exodus story. (The full movie also inclu...

The simple answer to why roasted vegetables from a restaurant taste so good: lots of fat and salt and high heat. Refer to the list below and watch Ethan Chlebowski's useful instructional video for the...

Here is a 1920 rogue's gallery of mugshots taken in Calgary, Canada of gentlemen wearing dapper hats. From Vintage Everyday:After the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871, the Prefecture of Police of P...

Along with blatant racism, "Don't Say Gay" rhetoric, and rampant book banning, another of the GOP's latest obsessions is Hungary "an authoritarian, ethno-nationalist blueprint" for the United States...

You were lucky if you had the chance to see Stanley Hammell's Forest of Glass Insulators while it was still a public attraction. Stanley Hammell, who passed away in 2012, mounted his enormous collecti...

Nostrum peddler and GOP political candidate Mehmet Oz shared his bizarre thinking about human beings, God, and fracking on Ted Nugent's internet video show, The Nightly Nuge.Here's why I think they do...

Today is Good Friday so please enjoy "39 Lashes" from Andrew Lloyd Weber's Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). That groove whips me into a frenzy. (See what I did there?) On Halloween 1992, I saw...

The story sounds like an urban legend but police are apparently taking it quite seriously: In Newscastle, England, a clown driving a white van has reportedly been stopping students in the area and off...

Amy Wax is a neurologist and a lawyer. She's the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  She also has a penchant for racist remark...

Storm chaser More Pi was in his car watching a tornado near Gilmore City, Iowa when, he says, "I felt a slight shock and my ears were left ringing!" Watch the bolt above as caught on video by fellow s...

I was aware that when you rode alone in the 1940s, you rode with Hitler, but I didn't realize that the delinquents who vandalized movie theaters were also on his payroll. (r/ObscureMedia)...

In this video, a group of deer gathers around a cat lying in the grass and each one takes turns licking it. The guy filming the video is the owner of the cat, and he is blown away to see this happenin...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When you were a kiddo, who did you thinkcooked all of those ch...

Abandoned Rails maps thousands of miles of abandoned routes, complete with photos and articles about the history of America's railroads. For example, check out the West End Branch, abandoned only a fe...

Razer, famed for sleek and expensive laptops made to play games on, heads in a new direction with its $3500 Tensorbookit comes with Linux, not Windows, and is designed for demanding machine-learning t...

Karl Bode set out to buy a "dumb" TV set: one that didn't constantly try to go online, surveill him and shovel advertisements, offers and other useless crap in his face while he tried to watch some sh...

This 2-hour 3D animation fastidiously shows the sinking of the Titanic in realtime, with explanatory text and statistics. The only thing missing from it is the people and the sounds they would be maki...

The Late Show clearly feels that Pedo Guy is doing the world a lot of good....

As part of the Bowie 75 celebration, the YT channel for DavidBowie.com is posting short videos of musicians, artists, comedians, and others talking about how important the late artist was in their liv...

There's a famously comprehensive video story in my hometown called Best Video. Growing up, it was a great place to just go and talk to the staff and find weird shit. Which is exactly how I discovered ...

In an era of rampant inflation and price gouging, one constant has remained unmoving for 30 years: the 99-cent tallboy can of Arizona Iced Tea. But how has this incredible soft drink managed to resist...

On April 4th, Elon Musk reported a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company's largest shareholder. But his top-o'-the-leaderboard glory was short-lived. Four days later he was knocked down a peg...

Whether it's steam-cleaning a carpet, excavating globs of wax from unkempt ear canals, or scraping and peeling rough dirty bark off a cinnamon log (as shown in video below), there's something soothing...

Sometimes, surprises can be a terrible, no good, awful thing. And it seems like, no matter how much you say you hate surprises, they still come your way either during birthdays, holidays, or...

A federal judge today ruled that Devin Nunes, the former California congressman now running Donald Trump's Truth Social app, cannot revive his failed libel lawsuit against CNN. The channel reported t...

Zoomquilt #2 is a hypnotic journey through an endlessly zooming artwork that includes imagery from many different artists. It makes me feel like I'm flying through a dream world. This 10-hour version ...

In this five-minute video, voice actor and impressionist James Arnold Taylor perfectly mimics the voice of dozens of people and cartoon characters, from Al Pacino to SpongeBob Squarepants.This is the ...

Frank S. Niceley, a State Senator from Tennessee, says homeless people should not give up hope. Instead, they should model themselves after genocidal Adolf Hitler, who "decided to live on the streets ...

Back in February, The Nib founder Matt Bors announced his first comic book miniseries alongside collaborator Ben Clarkson. As io9 described it at the time:Inspired by Clarkson's own animated work...

Superhero movies are an institution at this point. It's almost hard to remember the period of time when the general consensus was that superhero movies were invariably fated to suck forever. Back in t...

Modern Simpsons can be a tad depressing if you remember the glory days of Simpson mania. The series has no idea what it's supposed to be anymore, and the characters are flatter tha...

In this 1969 episode of Midnight Special, Cass Elliot talked to John Denver about her work getting college students to register to vote. "This is very important," Elliot said. "I've been traveling aro...

Kurt Cobain's 1969 Fender Mustang guitarthe one seen in the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music videois estimated to sell at auction next month for $600,000-$800,000. I predict it will go for more. Much m...

A large part of manga and anime's success in recent years boils down to the simplicity of their approach. Whereas American comics use superheroeswhich are essentially power fantasies in primary colors...

It's amazing people still choose to drink and drive, but here is yet another example of why driving while intoxicated is a bad idea.A box truck was traveling on a Minnesota highway Monday afternoon wh...

More cat and mouse. pic.twitter.com/dagrsnQlLo— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 14, 2022Last night in Washington DC, a group of prankster activists illuminated the Russian Embassy with b...

The Nicest Place on the Internet is a website where strangers virtually hug you. You might feel a little less stressed today as you sit back and watch the strangers hug you through the screen. You can...

"They say it causes cancer," Trump said about wind turbines back in 2019. "They say the noise causes cancer." Trump also dislikes the fact that turbines are made in "Jina." Even worse, "If it doesn't ...

The great David Cronenberg (Crash, Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Ringers) is one of my favorite film directors and I'm thrilled that his first movie in eight years will mark a return to the body horror g...

During the Flipper Dolphin Show at the Miami Seaquarium on Saturday, one of the trainers apparently scratched a dolphin accidentally and the dolphin, named Sundance, responded by knocking into the hum...

In March 2021, Malaysia-based crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet for $2.9 million, likening his proud purchase to "the Mona Lisa painting." Dorsey's tweet...

Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster, who loves wearing cowboy costumes on the campaign trail almost as much as he loves authoritarian ex-presidents, has been accused of groping a GOP sta...

This cute commercial features a ghastly Muppet named 'the Nightmare; and an early version of Guy Smiley.Henson produced commercial for the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) from the 1960's.Featurin...

Nightwave Plaza is a 24/7 online vaporwave, future funk, and experimental genre radio station. You can listen for free on your phone or computer. Sometimes I get distracted over choosing songs to list...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.For decades, we've used pocket knives to cut tape, open boxes,...

As reported this morning, barbarian at the gate Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion. It's "not a threat," Musk said along with the SEC filing. "It's simply not a good investment without t...

What if Star Trek: The Next Generation was animated in the 70s instead of produced as live-action a decade later? After all, Star Trek: The Animated Series was an Emmy-award winner that proved the fan...

Two days ago, MAGA rappers (yes, that's right, it's a thing) released a cringe-worthy song praising Republican Matt Gaetz, the Florida congressman under investigation for sex trafficking and having se...

This video is titled "The Paint Rant", and amounts to an extremely convincing argument for the eggshell-textured paint that Linus Sebastian had repeatedly and quite forcefully insisted his house paint...

SungWon Cho offers four increasingly funny and clever dramatic interpretations of the classic 1990s Sears ad for air conditioning. The original is embedded below. I'm thinking of doing "Merchant-Ivory...

My friend Tulika Bose recently joined the team at Scientific American as their new multimedia editor. In a recent video piece, she spoke with historian Jules Gill-Peterson about how old junk science h...

Having bought 9.2% of the company and passing on (or being somehow denied) a board seat there, Elon Musk today offered to buy most of the rest for $41.39bn. The offer represents a 39% premium over the...

Food is the great unifier of nations: nothing welcomes a foreigner to a new culture like its culinary delights. In the video linked above, people from an African tribe try pizza for the first time. Un...

In March, in honor of International Women's Month, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Ferguson took the extraordinary step of formally, posthumously apologizing "to all those accused, vilified, or execu...

After a week of refusing to do so, Grand Rapids police today released footage of one of its officers kneeling on the back of 26-year-old Patrick Lyoya, who is resisting arrest after a traffic stop, th...

"Something something, Boris Johnson should apologize, something something." It really doesn't matter what you say about Boris Johnson when you look like a Covent Garden street performer impersonating ...

A TikToker at a beach in Juneau, Alaska was taking video of herself on Sunday next to a part of a highway that had endured a rockslide four days earlier, when a second rockslide began. As she's runnin...

Grooming: the crime of preparing a child for illegal activity, especially sexual activity… Macmillan DictionaryFrom the banning of a children's book for its unicorns and rainbows to Florida's "...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Many of us want to understand software, how it functions, how ...

Fans of Chris Ware's comics ("Jimmy Corrigan," New Yorker covers, etc.)  will really enjoy this GIANT retrospective book of his work. I'm taken by the scope and variety of things presented. Sure,...

Well, to answer the question in the title, it's because Marvel Studios was only tangentially involved. However, the issue plaguing Morbius are multitudinous. For starters, did anyone really ...

2022 has already claimed two of the most beloved stand-up comics, Bob Saget and Gilbert Gottfried. As with Saget, most Millennial kids weren't aware of the raunchy nature of Gottfried's comedy due to ...

Last night, Washington Nationals pitcher Dee Strange-Gordon accidentally beaned the Atlanta Braves' Travis d'Arnaud who responded to the 52.1 mph ball with a perfect pratfall. d'Arnaud's smile as he g...

A seemingly lovely and useful two-way bicycle lane planned for Middlesbrough, England's shopping district has business owners concerned about the loss of some parking spaces and, er, the possibility t...

A frisky pair of matching Bassett Hounds are eager to make friends with their feline housemate, but it's soon clear they're dealing with one tough customer. It seems that no amount of tail-wagging, cu...

Look at this adorable chubby slug make its way through a ballpoint pen tube. I wonder how it was enticed to go through the tube, rather than go around it?...

This whimsical 1911 version of Pinnochio was the first movie based on the 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. This film came out three decades before Disney's version of Pinnochio...

A lot of Veterans, lawmakers, and Veterans who are lawmakers are up in arms over Empty G's latest foot in the mouth moment. We are well beyond being surprised that she says things that should limit an...

Police sometimes play popular music in the belief that this will prevent footage of them from being posted onlinethe belief is that copyright algorithms will block its publication. It never seems to w...

Police say one of Trump's very fine stable geniuses was arrested for attempting to steal a car from an Audi dealership in Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to KTUL, Randy Cantwell went into the dealership an...

Comedian and Hollywood Squares regular Gilbert Gottfried, whose death at age 67 was announced yesterday, was known for his iconic voice. In fact, the sound of his actual voice was a mystery even to mo...

One of Trump's very fine stable geniuses disclosed some hot insider information to The Good Liars: Anthony Fauci is being held in Gitmo."I can't even believe he made it this far," she said, clutching ...

I bought this low price first aid kit a couple of years ago when it was on sale, and it's on sale again. It's got bandages, alcohol wipes, aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, hydrocortisone, neomycin, ...

University of Derby molecular ecologist Michael Sweet floated a theory that the Loch Ness Monster might actually be a whale's penis. See examples below in Sweet's tweet. (Of course, the famed "Surgeon...

Florida men Charles Barnes (64, left) and Jay Ketcik (63, right) confessed to committing voter fraud by casting multiple ballots for Trump in the 2020 election. It's a felony offense that carries a ma...

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed a bill on Tuesday that allows anyone to carry a loaded, concealed handgun in public. No background check needed. No license needed. Other states that have loosened ...

This stop motion animation is full of creepy eye candy. It features someone wearing a demonic-looking Mr. Noseybonk mask and some uncanny dolls creeping around a hallway together. There is no dialogue...

Jewish folks who observe what and what isn't Kosher rules will find this Whole Foods ad entertaining.Hi Whole Foods!I love that you're putting your own spin on Passover, but offering ham as part o...

From Vice:For the first time, Colombia's biggest cocaine clan gave a film crew full access to their international trafficking operation. Here's what happens when they move 40 kilos....

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 safe to say that most people have the itch to use their v...

Animal rights activist Alicia Santurio. attempted to glue herself to the floor during yesterday's Los Angeles Clippers vs. Minnesota Timberwolves basketball game. Turns out, the glue either was too sl...

I've yet to tackle Elden Ring, the grimdark swords-n-sorcery epic by FromSoftware and George R. R. Martin, but I adore how it looks when tilt-shifted and rendered like a charmingly herky-jerky cartoon...

The Richmond Times-Dispatch posted an archive of ads that ran in the paper in the 1980sa treasure trove of bad fashion and good computers! [via Metafilter] ...

In a recent issue of the British sci-fi magazine Vector, writer Marie Vibbert author of the recent Galactic Hellcats, as well as my Clarion classmate under one Cory Doctorow took a look at the repre...

Every now and then I read something that reminds me that con artistry is truly an art in its own way. Such as the case with this recent MEL Magazine article about John R. Brinkley, an early 20th centu...

, "RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW", is a Unicode character of uncertain origin. It may be summoned as the HTML entity ⍼. Jonathan Chan set out to uncover its mysterious purpose, a...

Arteater does a fantastic simple trick. Print out one of the various animation templates on offer, draw your frames in it, and then take a photo and upload it. Then it will generate an animated GIF fo...

Tom the Dancing Bug – Super-Fun-Pak ComixTWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books! Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! Order today, RIGHT HE...

The internet destroyed or irreparably damaged many industries and ideologies, and the Western world has become increasingly secular with its growth. But cults weathered the storm and prospered. With m...

Eastern scriptures left an indelible mark on my psyche and perspective. The concepts expressed in theTao te Chingallowed me to approach life with pliancy, to bend with situational adversity as opposed...

Eastern scriptures left an indelible mark on my psyche and perspective. The concepts expressed in the Tao te Ching allowed me to approach life with pliancy, to bend with situational adversit...

On the latest Project Farm video, Todd tests out battery-powered circular saws. The brands tested were FLEX, Milwaukee, Bosch, Makita, DeWalt, Kobalt, WORX, Ryobi One+ HP, Craftsman, and Ridgid. The s...

Gilbert Gottfried, whose amazingly grating voice so perfectly illustrated his abrasive brand of comedy, is dead at 67. "In addition to being the most iconic voice in comedy, Gilbert was a wonderful hu...

An Ohio school district just banned the children's book It's Okay to Be a Unicorn after deciding that, well, unicorns and rainbows are just not age-appropriate for children. And neither is the theme o...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you've been smoking for a while now, it might've been a lon...

ShotSpotter is a service that installs microphones around town and "spots" gunshots, but is frequently criticized for its reliability and price. One study found it offers "no reductions in serious vio...

While a human munches on popcorn, their wise-cracking cat pretends to eat popcorn with the goofiest of faces. That's one heck of a way to troll your human. View this post on Instagram ...

Etsy sellers are going on strike to protest a 30% fee increase, algorithmic moderation and the growing presence of resellers pitching manufacturered and sweatshop-sourced junk (the platform was origin...

Scream is a 1989 PSA by the Samaritans that warns about the tragic horror of having your voice box replaced with a musical instrument. The woman in the video has found herself in this unfortunate circ...

A group of four men in England left the British Motor Museum in style, riding in a black convertible with the two backseat passengers eschewing seatbelts to sit on top of the car. But as the vehicle a...

Tiny Santa Cruz del Islote, 2 hours off the coast of Colombia, is four times as dense as Manhattan. "Despite the circumstances, the community makes the most of their limited surface area, packing in a...

Temuera Morrison, the Star Wars mainstay who plays several characters named Fett and many clones, is well trained in martial arts. Thusly, Morrison has a ton of fun when presented with a Gaffi stick b...

Remember Miya Ponsetto who in 2020 at a New York hotel attacked a young Black teenager she wrongly accused of stealing her phone? As a reminder, watch Ponsetto's idiotic interview below with CBS News ...

Fox's father-son duo Steve and Peter Doocy have something in common. They both ask ignorant questions that backfire in their face. While Jen Psaki is always quick-witted with the emphasis on wit when...

Mainstays of 90s rock radio, Papa Roach commemorated the release of their new album, Ego Trip, by kicking the jams out at a Shakey's Pizzaria. Mojo potatoes.I remember Papa Roach for their song about ...

Mainstays of 90s rock radio, Papa Roach commemorated the release of their new album, Ego Trip, by kicking the jams out at a Shakey's Pizza. Mojo potatoes.I remember Papa Roach for their song about sui...

I use nitrile gloves for any kind of messy work – gluing PVC pipe, wiping up cat barf, fixing greasy garage door mechanisms. Lately, I've been doodling with a Sharpie on things, like the vase ab...

Detroit native and baseball fan Jack White slid into home with a killer slide guitar performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the Detroit Tigers' opening day game on Friday. The Tigers won and we al...

NSFW if you're concerned about, uhh, the JFK assassination, or Jesus, or Bowling Pins having sex, but wow. This is surprisingly not far off from the kind of thing you actually see in a bowling alley....

Gary Arlington opened The San Francisco Comic Book Co. in 1968. It was only 200 square feet but was packed with comics. The San Francisco Chronicle recently discovered Clem Alber's photos of the stor...

Fish stick scion Tucker Swanson Carlson, who once publicly stated, "Ilie if I'm really cornered or something," told an Awaken church crowd in San Marcos, CA that he hasn't received the Covid-19 vaccin...

In East Hamilton, Ontario, a pizza delivery guy was caught on video dropping off a pizza and then seemingly departing with the customer's cat. Apparently Rebecca and Carlo Belforte took delivery of th...

Archaeologists in Lambayeque, Peru discovered the 1,000-year-old tomb of a surgeon who was buried with his scalpels, needles, and other implements. According to the director of the Sicn National Museu...

A Canadian family was distraught to discover that their 12-year-old cat, Dwight, had disappeared from their home. They watched their driveway security camera recording from the previous day and saw th...

It's not a surprise that musicians Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed had an adorable dog named Lolabelle Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed owned an adorable dog named Lolabelle who was a talented pianist. Lolab...

A couple driving on a highway in Australia came upon an unwanted stowaway in their car when a 3.5-foot red-bellied black snake slithered across their feet. The venomous snakes, common in Australia, ar...

Have you ever experienced heightened anger and frustration from the inability to open certain packaging? You are not alone. The common name for this condition is wrap rage, which can occur from over-p...

The Brick Experiment Channel posts videos about doing interesting things with Lego bricks. Last year they made a gear train with 186 Lego gears. The motor spun at 375 RPM. Each gear reduced the RPM. 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.If you're looking for something to stimulate your mind, body, ...

This is oddly pleasant.Creator Billy Cobb is a YouTuber who also made a great pair of Weezer knockoff albums called Zerwee, and even did a full-length cover album of Weezer's aborted sci-fi rock opera...

As the veneer of show business continues to erode thanks to a seemingly endless procession of convictions and accusations levied at celebrities young and old, one must wonder if there are any heroes l...

Severance was the best TV show I've seen so far this year, and there's been a surprising amount of quality competition. Here's an amusing mashup of it and the theme from the U.S. version of The Office...

Yuta Ikeya designed and 3D-printed his own 35mm movie camera. The motor is Arduino-powered and it uses spliced photographic film for economy's sake.In an interview with Super8.tv, Ikeya said that the ...

Boris Johnson and his finance minister, Rishi Sunak, are among dozens of UK officials and apparatchiks issued fines by police for attending Covid lockdown parties at 10 Downing Street. While the rest ...

Thomas Robertson, then a police officer in Virginia, was among the mob of Trump supporters who sacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 last year. Yesterday he was found guilty on six counts related to the r...

Enjoy this incredible (and NSFW) pixel-art animation by Uno Moralez (previously at Boing Boing) every frame hand-drawn in the 1-bit monochrome style distinctive of the original Macintosh. Six minutes ...

Watching shows like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, one of the things I watch for is the concept art shown during the credits. For Boba Fett, I liked it more than the show itself!Concept an...

In March 2022, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that it would now offering execution by firing squad, for those incarcerated people who are eligible to be legally slaughtered at ...

I've heard it said that those who lay the path aren't the ones that get to walk it. When I look at the success of superhero films and television properties today, I can't help but think about the gagg...

The much-loved Pebble e-ink smartwatch was a favorite of BB readers, executing on a $10m Kickstarter and becoming a flagship for crowdfunded personal tech. Alas, the company didn't make it, and ended ...

After more sanctions were placed on Russia last week by the United States for the invasion of Ukraine, Russia state TV says Vladimir Putin plans to retaliate against the U.S. by meddling in the next p...

A husky fell from the second floor of his apartment building while a crowd of onlookers dramatically screamed (video below). Once he landed on all fours he took a few steps and was nearly hit by a ca...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.While it feels like it was Christmas just yesterday, we're ent...

I can't vouch for the veracity of this video. The person who posted it wrote, "People screaming out of their windows after a week of total lockdown, no leaving your apartment for any reason." Very cre...

Above, all of the non-lyrical vocal sounds in Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal."Bonus joke:Q: If Michael Jackson were alive today, what would be his preferred pronouns?A: Hee hee.(Thanks, Harlow!)...

Rep. Ron Hanks (RCO), a Trump-fearing Republican who stood with the insurrectionists on January 6, later calling the rioters "outstanding people," beat out five other Republicans to win a spot on the ...

With the closure of the Kmart in Avenel, New Jersey, only three stores remain. Once a giant among retailers with 2,440 big-box stores spread across the U.S., the chain is now almost dead. WNDU's repo...

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

From our friends at Futility Closet, this story of an incredible coincidence:Jami Johnson lost her wallet on December 11, 2007, when she left it on the counter at the Zip Trip convenience store in Cla...

Western financial institutions finally have something to be angry about when it comes to Russia: it can't pay its debts. Credit ratings agency S&P today said the country attempted to pay for dolla...

This flexi disc was bundled into the October 1967 issue of Practical Electronics magazine. Each electronic sound effect — such as a pulse wave, unfiltered white noise, and ring modulation of two...

MTG had an opposition researcher kicked out of what was billed as a "free & open to the public" rally. Marjorie Taylor Greene & Matt Gaetz have a tracker removed from a public event for Gaetz ...

A fascinating interview/profile in The Guardian of a husband and wife who ran a two-person art forgery business. Wolfgang and Helene Beltracchi made and sold forged paintings of Max Ernst, Fernand Lge...

Three manholes exploded with loud blasts in New York's Times Square last night, causing panicked crowds to run for their lives (see videos below). A cable fire caused at least one of the explosions, a...

Ever since Disney's official trailer for Obi-Wan dropped I knew Auralnauts could not resist telling the tale of Obi-Wan Steven Ben Larry Kenobi. This is the trailer for that story. I hope we get 6 hou...

Consequence of Sound reports that John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has booked his first-ever public concert appearance, scheduled for July 8, 2022 ...

"They don't make 'em like they used to" is a phrase I relate to entirely too much these days, and there are few places where the maxim is more applicable than the cinema. Look at the movie trailer guy...

Classic 'so bad it's good' movie Red Dawn seems to have some fans in Ukraine. This BMP-2 got some fantastic graffiti. What do you know, I drove past it, too. pic.twitter.com/E8SfRdL5zz— Oleg Tol...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Some people have a green thumb. They basically touch some soil...

In this scene from the 1967 anti-scare film, Narcotics, Pit of Despair, a callow college student enters a dope den filled with spaced-out hippies who cajole, harangue, guilt-trip, and bug him until he...

Why do felt Stetsons cost $250 and up? Why do the fancy models cost thousands? Manufacture is "complicated and costly" and they're hand-made from the raw fur up in Texas. The inexpensive clones involv...

Hollywood actor Ashley Peldon is usually not seen but heard. A "scream actor," her shriek is heard in the new Scream, Free Guy, Paranormal Activity, Jurassic World, and other films. From The Guardian...

For your viewing pleasure, Turist mer Uzay Yolunda("mer the Tourist in Star Trek"), a 1973 Star Trek-sploitation film from Turkey. Part of a series of mer the Tourist comedy films, mer the Tourist in ...

A cop pulled a car over in San Francisco, but the fun was spoiled when he walked up to the car window and saw that nobody was inside. He even tried opening the locked door, but still, no driver appear...

Spanish police are investigating the owner of a massive private taxidermy collection containing more than 1,000 animals in two huge warehouses just north of Valencia, Spain. Nearly half of the specime...

On Friday, Julian Lennon publicly performed his dad John Lennon's "Imagine" for the first time ever, as a call for donations to support the people of Ukraine. Julian Lennon wrote:As a human, and as an...

After careful consideration of Samara Ginsberg's wonderful cello renditions of classic TV themes, I've decided to go with Airwolf. After all, it's what classical cellist Stringfellow Hawke would have ...

Cops love kicking doors down, but the FBI decided not to execute a front-door entry to a house in D.C.'s swanky Kalorama Heights, as that would compromise the upscale neighborhood's "aesthetics."Jacob...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by RockHiStation (@rockhistation)Some people like to do fantasy movie castings. And, yeah, I enjoy that too, but I also dig conjuring ficti...

In this North of the Border video, Adam sculpts a Knuckles and Sonic diorama. It's amazing, when you watch one of these sculpting videos, how easy it can look. It isn't. But there is a lot of great in...

After buying 9.2% of the company and accepting a seat on its board, Elon Musk declined it at the last moment. CEO Parag Agrawal:Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the compa...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Have you ever tried to access your favorite Netflix show while...

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 stress levels are affecting your sleep, you're not alo...

Alex Segura has his roots deep in comics. He's worked at Wizard and DC, even served as the Co-President of Archie Comics before his current role as a Senior VP at Oni Press. And all the while, he's be...

Fugging, formally named Fucking, is an Austrian village with a population of 106 in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It's believed that the...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's nothing quite as frustrating as spending hours typing ...

Worm charming, also known as worm fiddling, is a method of extracting earthworms from the soil that involves vibrating the soul to lure the worms up to the surface. Worm charming competitions consist ...

In today's turbulent world, one of the many dangers lurking around the corner is the possibility that someone may confuse a glass of paint thinner with a straw in it for a glass of juice or lemonade. ...

A farmer in Fijnaart in the Netherlands found that 60 cheese wheels worth $22,000 were missing from the shed, reports Jelisa Castrodale for Food and Wine. As a result, the farm now has "a significantl...

Your Ears Are Not Invincible is a dutch PSA that starts with a video of a speaker blasting some loud dance music. Next, we dive deep into the inner ear canal of someone who has apparently been irrever...

Creakiness And Other Misdemeanours is a haunting album for all the mutants out there by the experimental noise band Nurse With Wound. The album contains five rare tracks from 1991-2005. Upon listening...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.These days, it can be challenging to get by without a laptop. ...

It should suffice to say that if you would like your own KBD67lite mkii with 60g POM-stem Krytox-lubed KTT Kang Whites, replica Cherry profile doubleshot ABD Botanicals, screwshank holee-modded stabs ...

Steve Wallas had been thinking about doing it for a while but couldn't find the perfect roundabout. Here's a fabulous meeting of YouTube hijinks and Ballardian reflection on the function of modern spa...

Despite how much I love the 3d animated offerings from Pixar, Dreamworks, and Warner Brothers Animation, I'll never be able to drop the torch I carry for traditional 2d animation. It's a shame that mo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Sure, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but that doesn't ...

CNN just revealed that Donald Trump Jr. sent a text to his daddy's Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows on November 5th, 2020 saying, "We have operational control." This was two days after the presidential ele...

Thieves allegedly stole more than $22,000 worth of cheese from a dairy farm in Fijnaart, the Netherlands. The cheese was in the form of sixty huge wheels each weighing 22 pounds. I wonder if the crimi...

On the Isle of Wight, some pranksters hacked public electric vehicle charging stations to display porn on the screens as people charged their cars. Apparently the displays had originally been programm...

With just a dropper full under your tongue before bed, the gentle calming properties quickly come forward, helping to relax both mind and body....

The pilot of N78Z handled this engine failure with nerves of steel. When his engine dies and pumps smoke into the cabin, this pilot remained calm and in control. It is almost routine....

When a cat who suffers from FOMO sees her canine buddy prepping for a walk, she puts aside her inherent hatred of cat-walking and begs to be put on a leash. After a few meows, her human obliges, and t...

In this anti-drug PSA, a nightmarishly overwhelming version of Pacman is used as a metaphor for what happens when one takes drugs. Basically, every time Pacman eats more of the little pills, more ghos...

Back of Your Hand is a fun browser game that tests how well you know the streets of a particular city or area. Apparently for me, the answer is not very well. I blame it on Google Maps and Waze....

Republicans are more likely to buy fake news than Democrats, says a new Rand study, as reported by Fast Company. It's not that "magical thinkers" and those who lack strong critical-thinking skills don...

Andy Torres, 36, was recording himself playing drums on Saturday at 7am at Todd Longshore Park in Santa Clarita, California when a man with an ax aggressively expressed his dissatisfaction. Perhaps th...

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

The Screaming Telephone was a 1992 Samaritans cinema public information film that featured a terrifying screaming telephone. The PIF starts with a series of abstract animations and audio of a telephon...

It's hard to believe these kinds of "attractions" are legal. We see two girls strapped into an amusement park "slingshot" ride in this video. After they shoot into the air with terrifying speed, the v...

In this scary-as-hell scene captured by a Ring doorbell camera, we see a woman walk out of her front door with two young girls. As she gets close to the sidewalk, she spots something off-camera that m...

The International Banana Museum is a must-see roadside attraction if you're driving through Mecca, California. It's noted in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest collection devote...

Yesterday, we heard about the discovery in North Dakota of an astonishingly well-preserved leg of a dinosaur likely killed by the impact of the 12 kilometer-wide Chicxulub asteroid that crashed into t...

Jimmy Kimmel was on a roll last night. After trolling tattle teller Marjorie "snowciopath" Greene in his monologue last night, he later revealed that Sean Hannity is actually no fan of Donald Trump's,...

This cute little kitty jumped into a refrigerator shelf when the door was opened, and when her human friends tried to remove her, she threw a fit and tried to hide behind some yogurt containers. It to...

'National Enquirer'There's conflict in Ukraine and civil war in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Syria and Yemen, and this week's 'National Enquirer' devotes its front page to "TV Anchors At War!"But bno, it's ...

Driving can be intimidating once you know just how dangerous it can be. And while the act of driving itself could be hazardous, you may still be in danger even if you pull off to the si...

"Snowciopath" Marjorie Taylor Greene has no qualms about posting photos of herself holding a sniper rifle pointed at three Democratic House members. But make a joke about her, and off she marches to t...

The Clash released their first album on April 8, 1977 in the UK on CBS records. The recording budget was 4,000. The album didn't come out in the United States until 1979, after the release of Give 'E...

The Del Monte Note is highly prized among currency collectors. It's a US$20 bill with a Del Monte sticker affixed to the paper before the bill was printed. The seal and serial number are printed over ...

To mark the momentous 25th anniversary of Aqua's once-inescapable pop earworm "Barbie Girl," Rolling Stone spoke with the remaining members of Danish pop group about their unexpected one hit wonderdom...

In this footage, the footage goes for a walktaken on its way by a sticky-fingered raccoon.BONUS: Raccoon steals phone:...

One of the best aspects of the internet is finding a dedicated community built around one of your passions. Before the web, you'd struggle to find other people into that weird niche thing you love so ...

Nils Frahm shoes off his palm mute pedal, a piano hack invented by Otto Sammy which allows the performer to half-mute the strings to create a truly odd and striking tone. Jump to 1:25 to hear the magi...

Volunteer Video is a group of Ukrainian animators. They are responsible for this animated short, called Souls. It shows ghostly white images of everyday citizens riding bikes, driving the highway, cra...

Thousands of people were gathered in and around a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine when it was attacked with a rocket Friday. At least 39 are dead, report local officials, with at least 80 injured...

The New York Times' story about the latest Cybertruck revealit's coming in 2023 for real, Tesla promisesis as much about the earlier "inauspicious" promises as it is about the vehicle itself."We can't...

Real Fake Licenced Games is my new favorite Twitter account. Welcome to the mundane grind of media licensing, a catalogue of tie-in video game concepts so blandly unpleasant that it seems like a glitc...

Aran is a game in development in Brazil featuring an indigenous hero, who sets out to save the Sun Tribe from a mysterious threatand a sign of the country's growing indigenous gaming and game developm...

Hollywood has too many sins to listnot least how swiftly it discards women the minute they sprout a single grey hair. That's why I'm so intrigued by A24's multi-dimensional epicEverything Everywhere A...

For whatever reason, feuding celebrities act as a perpetual energy source for the Hollywood ecosystem. They may want us to believe that Hollywood is all about artistry, but people only crave the feuds...

There was once a time when the Shoe Tree of Shaniko, Oregon stood tall and carried hundreds of shoes on its branches. Shaniko is one of Oregons' ghost towns, and the tree was located 4-3 miles north o...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.New parents lose about 109 minutes of sleep each and every nig...

When Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, Ted Cruz was outraged, calling it "offensive" and an "insult" to anyone who wasn't Black. When Cruz ran against Beto O'Rourke for the...

From hackers to competitors, there are many reasons why protecting a business in cyberspace is incredibly important. That's why the demand for online security experts is so high, as most companies sto...

Most 5-year-old kids are just starting to write the letters of the alphabet. But a boy named Sebastian, who has autism and hyperlexia, shows us in the @litttle.einstein TikTok video below how he's not...

Ketanji Brown Jackson today becomes the first black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court after a 53-46 vote by the U.S. Senate to confirm her nomination. All the Democrats voted for her, joined by Republic...

To Marjorie Taylor Greene, a woman is "Adam's rib." To Madison Cawthorn, a woman is an "earthen vessel" lacking a "tallywhacker." Yesterday Sen. Josh Hawley joined his fellow fascist symps by offering...

After three long years, Netflix's Russian Doll season 2 has arrived, and it looks like a wild ride. This time around, protagonist Nadia (played by Natasha Lyonne, who also worked as the series' showru...

Stephen Colbert took questions from the live audience before his show last night, and someone asked him what he would ask Trump if he was a guest on his show. Colbert paused and looked at the ground, ...

The UFO-Memorial ngelholm is a statue constructed in honor of a supposed UFO landing in the Kronoskogen forest, an area of ngelholm, Sweden. The memorial is a model UFO constructed out of concrete. Th...

A gentleman in Scotland became irate when a man on a bike warned him not to talk on his phone while driving. So, thinking he'd teach the cyclist a lesson, he stepped out of his car to give the moving ...

On April 14, 1967, Iowa's Channel 2 TV station switched from black and white to color broadcasting. This was 13 years after the first national color broadcastthe Tournament of Roses Parade. Fortunatel...

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

In 2018, a 31-year-old woman from Meaux, France, identified as Sonia, decided to go into business as a general physician. Thing is, her college degree was in real estate management. Regardless, Sonia ...

As US airlines push to have in-flight mask mandates lifted on the federal level, mask-optional European airlines are seeing hundreds of flight cancelations due to (yep, you guessed it) out-of-commissi...

This incredible dinosaur leg fossil was found at North Dakota's Tanis site. The creatureand others at the sitewere likely killed by the impact of the 12 kilometer-wide Chicxulub asteroid that crashed ...

This morning, Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes went on Fox Business to brag about how well his boss's Twitter killer, Truth Social, is doing. When the Fox Business host asked him "What is your reaction to ...

The above object turned up on a conveyor belt at the Mr Chips potato chip factory in Auckland, New Zealand. It looks like a raw whole potato but in fact it's an old grenade. Fortunately, it was a trai...

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is hiring at its Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island for jobs that involve managing the gift shop, dealing with snail mail, and monitoring penguins. From UPI:The base,...

On this website, you can experience the feeling of flipping through the channels on a TV of a different era. There are televisions from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and 2000s. Each television must be op...

Once a week, I send out a newsletter that gives you 6 brief personal recommendations of cool stuff. It's called Recomendo, and it has 53.7K subscribers. I write it with my friends Claudia Dawson and K...

Got meat? Yeah, we've all been ready for the moment we can throw that rack of ribs on the BBQ and head to the backyard to take a dip. And since this winter has felt frustratingly long, virtually ...

Yep, they're making a game where you walk around Myst island playing mini golf. It's an expansion pack for Walkabout Mini Golf, made by its creators under license from Cyan Worlds. A look at it reveal...

It's always a lark to traipse through the ruins of an ancient civilization. Gazing at the moss-covered structures that used to be integral in the lives of previous people instantly provides one with a...

I've spent the last six months or so working on a 7,000-word opus on heat pumps for Wirecutter shadowing installers, interviewing architects and climate policy consultants, and digging through tomes ...

Whenever I watch old filmswhich is quite oftenI become nostalgic for an era I never lived through. As much as I enjoy modern tech, the idea of buying an entire spinner rack of comics for $5 is almost ...

"Star Wars Kid" was a video from 2002, in which Canadian high schooler Ghyslain Raza filmed himself earnestly swinging a golf ball receiver as if it were Darth Maul's lightsaber. It was never meant fo...

Someone has created an automated Twitter account that takes random Heathcliff cartoons and combines them with comments on Pornhub videos. Hourly. And yes, these are some of the tamer ones. NSFW.pic.tw...

Over-the-counter and prescription sleeping pills can be hard on your body and simply delay an existing problem with your sleep or overall health. The short-term boost is just not worth it. Altern...

This very fine stable genius has an important message to share with a room full of job applicants who are doing their best to ignore him. When it dawns on him that people are not paying attention to h...

A cute little girl born during the pandemic plays make-believe by walking around trying to squirt hand sanitizer from every square-shaped object in reach. A true sign of the times. Click to expand ...

A charming parrot jams with his guitar-strumming human, belting out a blues tune with perfect pitch. This is just one of many videos showing off the bird's entertaining musical and ad lib skills on hi...

A Metairie, Louisiana man was frustrated with thieves breaking into his truck so he booby-trapped the vehicle with a flash-bang grenade. While the fellow still had to contend with a broken window (at ...

Students at a school board meeting said De Morrow-Perry, the principal of Huntington East Middle School in West Virginia, held an assembly for the girls and told them the school would "do nothing" if ...

Impressionist Mary Elizabeth Kelly doesn't even need to spit out a full sentence anymore to perfectly mimic a celebrity all she does is utter their name, like an incantation, and simultaneously she ...

The Books are an American-Dutch duo who make experimental music like an audio collage. I've always loved how they incorporate many obscure samples of sounds and speech into their songs. You may have h...

Here's a too-short teaser trailer for Pistol, Danny Boyle's upcoming miniseries about The Sex Pistols. It'll start streaming on Hulu on May 31.Johnny Rotten doesn't have high hopes for the series. In ...

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken to accusing anyone who doesn't agree with her as a pedophile or a pedophile supporter. "Yes, Murkowski, Collins and Mitt Romney are pro-pedophile," Geor...

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken to accusing anyone who doesn't agree with her as a pedophile or a pedophile supporter. "Yes, Murkowski, Collins and Mitt Romney are pro-pedophile," Geor...

There's been much discussion about the possibility that Theranos founder/fraudster Elizabeth Holmes intentionally spoke with a "deep voice" in order to sound more authoritative. Below, Amanda Seyfried...

The Daily Show's Ronny Chieng did an amazing job trying to get to the bottom of what a cryptocurrency is. Clearly, crypto is the most perfectly designed, incredibly transparent, and efficient platform...

The Good Liars interviewed a man in woman, resplendent in Trump attire, about their thoughts on the January 6 riots. The man says "a lot of that was antifa." "Why would antifa interrupt the certificat...

You can frequently find my dogs and me watching the roller skaters, and skateboarders, in the Venice Skate park. German in Venice does a great job of catching the action!Bonus:...

This awesome Ghost Parking Lot in Hamden, CT has been demolished since 2003, and I regret not having seen it in person. In 1978 the Hamden Plaza shopping center had its parking lot and 20 parked junke...

Leanette Lopez, a Christian recording artist and minister running as a Republicanfor the Kentucky House of Representatives, was arrested this weekend for suspicion of drunken driving and biting a depu...

Linda Ronstadt had Rupert Murdoch's number as far back as 1983, three years before he launched Fox News. Appearing on Australia's Don Lane Show, she said, "Australia gave us Rupert Murdoch. Thanks a l...

Several hundred plushies disrupted traffic on Interstate 5 in Portland, Oregon last week. According to Oregon Department of Transportation spokesperson Don Hamilton, most of the stuffed animals were r...

The unauthorized documentary about seminal musicians/pranksters/culture jammers The KLF is now streaming and you can watch the trailer above. According to the filmmakers, the movie, titled Who Killed ...

Wherever you go, it's always important to feel safe and protect yourself and your loved ones during emergencies. With the Firebiner + Wombat Whistle by Outdoor Element, you'll be more than p...

When food isn't readily available, honeypot ants drop nectar into larger ants in the colony who will serve as living storage tanks of nourishment for the whole colony. From Deep Look:The species of ho...

This innocent-looking doll could burn down your house with its hazardous, flaming toots. I was just as surprised as Big Clive was after he followed the instructions to activate a "Fanny Flambeaux doll...

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

It might be a stretch to call games like The Secret of Monkey Island and Lemmings "modern", but compared to the Apple II they're decades in the future. And yet they and other newer titles are being "d...

1992's Dune II defined the emerging realtime strategy genre, serving as a technical warmup for developer Westwood's major classics Command & Conquer and Red Alert. It's been painstaking converted ...

Officially, Barack Obama was visiting the White House to celebrate President Joe Biden signing an order fortifying the Affordable Care Act. When making a speech, however, he thanked "Vice President Jo...

Blue OS Museum claims this complete tape of the Windows 95 launch event is the first time it's been put online. It's fully of remarkable moments, some I'm sure I've never seen. A classic hit, the Wind...

Chokri, a grime artist who claimed that the "Oh I" hook in Ed Sheeran's hit Shape of You infringed an "Oh why" refrain in one of his own tracks, lost his copyright case today after a gruelling two-wee...

On April 1, at MGM Grand's Marquee Ballroom in Las Vegas, Joni Mitchell was honored as the Recording Academy MusiCares Person of the Year. The evening was artistically directed by Brandi Carlile and J...

Every nation has a sport that baffles outsiders even as it drives locals into a fervor. In America, our version of"football" usurped baseballas the national pastime, but to the world at large, it's a ...

My favorite expression: "life is just one damn thing after another." The last two years stand as evidence of that. We've just been living through one major historical event after another. Some might a...

This guy shouldn't have been recording a tornado approaching his house (or maybe a golf clubhouse), but we wouldn't be watching this incredible video of a twister tearing the structure to shreds if he...

GOP Senate candidate Josh Mandel is "fighting to protect the Judeo-Christian bedrock of America" one pixel at a time. In his campaign ad, the critical race theory foe wants to show you how much he lik...

Shanghai is seeing a new Covid surge, reaching 9,000 cases on Sunday a city record with 268 daily cases that are symptomatic, according to Reuters. In a city of 26 million, that seems like a relativ...

Pillow peddler Mike Lindell, dopey as usual, unwittingly accepted papers from a process server during his "Election Truth Rally" on Colorado's Capitol steps today. But it wasn't until many moments la...

Russia's censorship authority, Roskomnadzor, has warned Wikipedia it intends to fine it 4 million rubles ($50,000) if it doesn't stop "misinforming Russian users" about the horrific war crimes and hum...

Like an audition for a live-action version of Rugrats, as one commenter put it, a set of clever triplets contained in a large playpen outsmart their guardians. The cooped-up toddlers want out, so they...

After having spent more time at home than you ever did in your life over the last couple of years, you might've learned to perfect a fancy drink or two. But now that you can invite all your buddies ov...

When Representative Bobo isn't serving tainted pork sliders to her patrons, she's pretending to be a member of Congress who understands what she's talking about. Yesterday, she tweeted:"Next year, th...

Today, two things happened!1: It turns out that Elon Musk's purchase of $3bn worth of Twitter stock earned him a seat on the company's board and influence over its direction, product and policy develo...

Why did Tyrannosaurus rex, the most fearsome and ferocious dinosaur, have such ridiculously tiny arms? Depending on which paleontologist you ask, the answers could range from holding on to a mate to s...

A demented "Christian" TikToker posted a video (below), titled "Snipe, Hunting, Doing the Lord's Work," that showed him trying to round up "all the non-binaries" to throw into the back of his truck a...

Everyone understandsat least academicallythe value of hard work. Even at our most slothful, human beings intrinsically know that they should at least betryingto better themselves. Whether they choose ...

Tennessee Republicans have introduced a bill that would eliminate the age requirement for marriage in the state. The current minimum age to get married is 17. Democrats opposed the bill, saying it wil...

In Marjorie Taylor Greene's world, there's no need for budgets, savings accounts, piggy banks, or even, clearly, an education. Planning for the future, according to Georgia's top conspiracy theorist, ...

Ishpeming, Michigan is home to Big Gus: World's Largest Chainsaw, an attraction at a place called Da Yoopers Tourist Trap. Big Gus has a working blade that makes a nerve-wracking whirring sound when a...

Some people in Vietnam are reportedly paying to have their ears plumped up with chemical fillers to achieve "lucky" Buddha ears. Cosmetic surgeons and dermatologists in the US and elsewhere have been ...

For anyone that isn't intimately acquainted with silent film, there's only a handful of stars from the era that carry any name recognition. Charlie Chaplin will invariably be the first name that comes...

Someone returned two of Charles Darwin's original notebooks to the Cambridge University library twenty years after they went missing. They were left in the library inside a pink gift bag with a note s...

International hacker group Anonymous continues to continue their war against Putin, this time involving Russian soldiers. The group said on Twitter they have leaked personal data of 120,000 Russian so...

Esteemed vernacular photography collectorRobert E. Jacksoncurated a delightful collection of silly people sticking out their tongues for the camera. See them all: "Stick Out Your Tongue! 23 Vintage S...

On Saturday, lightning struck the launch pad where NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket was undergoing testing. There wasn't just one lightning strike, mind you. Or even two. But FOUR! See one of them above. ...

In this adorable video, a cow falls in love with this man's accordion playing. She hears him playing from across the meadow and wanders over. Still curious, she stretches her neck out and begins touch...

A few weeks ago, Elon Musk tweeted a picture of Hitler with the caption "Don't compare me to Justin Trudeau. I had a budget." Today, Elon Musk joins the board of Twitter, after buying 9.2% of the comp...

Despite the chasm of decades that separates my childhood and the present, I still feel oddly attached to my youth. I was already desperately yearning for my pre-pubescent years when I was 15, and the ...

It's impossible to utter the words pro-wrestling without prompting a smirk from whoever is in earshot. Stripped of context, this doesn't make any sense. Wrestling is one of the most grueling sports in...

Once again proving he's a true buckaroo, self-proclaimed world's greatest author Chuck Tingle has just announced the release of a new "Tingler," a 4,000-word short story that puts a dino-erotic twist ...

Do you ever log onto your computer at the beginning of your workday and realize you have no idea where to start? There are just so many tasks to keep track of each and every day! And it's not just tha...

This ambient new age cassette from the 80s takes the listener on a guided trip where they will supposedly encounter dolphins in their mind. I listened to the first 20 minutes and haven't seen any dolp...

First there were the Wild Atlantic Fishermen who stood up to the Russian Navy. Then there was the guy who crashed a truck of a communion wafers into the gates of the Russian Embassy in Dublin, after R...

In this exciting footage, a concrete repair company deals with a typically failing $40-a-can "paint 'n flakes" garage floor treatment. No half-measures here: they strip it down to the plain cement wit...

Enjoy this video of Neil Young shopping for records fifty years ago and finding a bootleg of his own work. He gets mad about it, too! Classic Neil. There's a record shop in Pittsburgh that still looks...

SkyNews reports that Gene Appleton Gallagher, son of Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, and Sonny Starkey, grandson of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, got into fisticuffs at a Tesco in Hampstead.Staff had trie...

I'll admit, this is longer than I thought it was going to be but that's mostly because of the opening title sequence....

Picking a favorite genre of literature is virtually impossible for me. I look at stories like a trip to a buffet. If I can't get a little bit of everything, I don't want to go. That's part of the reas...

Rep. Madison "fun drive" Cawthorn (RNC) is on a roll this month. After ratting out the GOP for their coke-fueled orgy habits, the conservative Christian and alleged sex creep is now talking about peni...

Jordan, the British punk model, manager and all-around legend who helped create punk's distinctive fashion and became a veterinary nurse, is dead at 66. NME:In a statement, her family revealed that Ro...

We've come a long way with technology in the past forty years alone. You would think that in our digital age when all of our lives are seemingly tied to computers, iPhones, and the cloud w...

Fox News's Jesse Waters interviewed homophobic anti-semite Mel Gibson, who apparently has a new movie out, one that made Waters cry because he found it so moving. The only interesting part of the inte...

Several weeks ago, Markelle Morrow (aka rapper Goonew), age 24, was shot dead in Washington DC, the victim of an armed robbery according to his family. Last night, Goonew's funeral, called The Final S...

In 1894, French scientist and cinema pioneer tienne-Jules Mare created the movie below, thought to be the first ever film of a cat. Mare was obsessed with chronophotography, a Victorian photographic t...

YouTuber Alex Melton specializes in covering popular songs in the style of Blink 182. Here he is giving Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" the treatment....

When a human discovers pillow stuffing all over the carpet floor and asks the two doggos standing near the scene of the crime, "Who did this?" it doesn't take long to identify the culprit. One of the ...

[Louis C.K. won a Grammy for best comedy album last night, so we thought it would be a good time to share Maureen Hermans's 2018 essay about how Louis C.K.'s multiple sexual assaults led at least one ...

Shanghai has a population of 26 million people yet this drone footage depicts empty streets and no traffic. China's most populated city is under COVID-19 lockdown once again. From The Guardian:Those w...

A 60-year-old gentleman in Germany who has received around 90 Covid shots is now under investigation. The man had set up shop, selling forged vaccination cards to unvaxxed customers, but needed authen...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars is the first probe to be outfitted with dedicated microphones. Now, a global science team has completed the first analysis of recordings captured by Perseverance's tw...

A resident of Bakersfield, California noticed this startling video of a descending UFO captured on his doorbell camera. According to 23ABC, "the Bakersfield Police Department and the UFO Research Cent...

Trump cultist Lisa McClain (G-MI) seems to think her beloved god-emperor overcame his debilitating bone spurs to lead the raid that captured and killed Osama bin Laden in 2011. At a Trump rally in Mic...

More than 3,400 years ago near Luxor, two Egyptians were entombed, surrounded by incredible artifacts including sealed and open jars of containing food to sustain the deceased's souls in the afterlife...

In reaction to Ron DeSantis' "Don't Say Gay" anti-freedoms law, Randy Rainbow says to the Florida governor, "How would you feel if we signed a bill prohibiting everyone from talking about slimy self-i...

When I was 13 years old, my parents bought me a Playstation 2 and two games: WWF Smackdown! Just Bring It and Grand Theft Auto 3. Grand Theft Auto was an innocuous title before the...

A programmer, who goes by the name Ansari on Medium, decided to see how long it would take to hack his neighbor's wifi, for educational purposes only. Ansari used publically available software and a w...

If you happen to find yourself near the Kunsthistorisches Museum Collection in Vienna, be sure to pay this tiny devil inside a glass prism a visit. Apparently, it's been trapped inside the glass ever ...

The House passed a bill on Thursday to cap the price of insulin to $35 a month, which even had the support of 12 House Republicans. But Rep. Matt Gaetz (RFL) wasn't among them. Not only did the smug c...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Muslim (@muslim)To say that New York City and Islam have had a strained relationship since 2001 would be an understatement. Following th...

One of the greatest things about vape pens is that you can whip them out just about anywhere, whenever the mood strikes. But they're often so big, they're anything but discreet, and it's hard not to c...

Footage of an 11-year-old Prince Roger Nelson, aka "Skipper," has been discovered in an unlikely place, a 52-year-old news segment about a teacher's strike.WCCO broke the story:The date was April 1970...

Not long after complaining about Twitter censorship and musing about starting a competitor, it emerges that billionaire Elon Musk has bought a 9.2% stake in the company. The shares were worth $2.89bn ...

The Em Dashoften now incarnated without spacesis a hallmark of modern online writing. To some [weasel words] it's become the semicolon of the 21st century, a reckless and overused item of punctuation ...

Over the last few months, Andy from the synthwave group Atomic Ghost and I have been working on some remote remix collaborations. Basically: I send him a vocal track and a guitar track, and he does th...

Very few actors will ever have the immediate impact Bruce Lee created with his brief film career. Once Enter the Dragon was released in August 1973, a month after Lee's death; the film becam...

Every pundit, journalist, blogger, late-night host, and sewing circle has offered their opinion about Will Smith smacking Chris Rock at the Oscars. There aren't new perspectives available to attack th...

Whatever field of endeavor that Japanese people enter, they always perform exceptionally. America invented the concept of comic books, and now most people under 30 correlate the entire artform with Ja...

One of the interesting aspects of David Jenkins and Taika Waititi's wacky pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death, is its exploration of same-sex pirate relationships, both platonic and otherwise. Taika t...

One of the interesting aspects of David Jenkins and Taika Waititi's wacky pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death, is its exploration of same-sex pirate relationships, both platonic and otherwise. Taika t...

After what transpired at the Oscars last Sunday night, I'm sure we've all had our fill of celebrity beef. So, while we're all waiting for the inevitable Oprah interview or Red Table Talk where Will Sm...

Alex Melton has been consistently kicking ass with his YouTube channel of covers songs mostly either doing popular songs (like Journey) in the style of Blink-182, or doing pop-punk and hip-hop songs ...

Taji Ameen adopts a baby werewolf and carries it around NYC in this VICE video. Artist Asia Charity Eriksen has made hundreds of "WerePups" since 2010. The dolls are so well crafted that they look ali...

Competitive nettle eating is not for the faint of heart. The competition involves trying to chew and swallow the most stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) leaves. The painful effect that the stinging nettl...

The Visible Human Project  is a detailed collection of cross-sectional photographs of the human body. It was made to be a tool for medical discoveries. The male and female cadavers used in this p...

Unless you're taking up unconventional hobbies lately, chances are you've spent some time these past two years tinkering with video games like everyone (and everything) else. Whether you sna...

Working out and relaxing while watching TV typically don't go together, but now you can do both simultaneously with the Cubii Smart Sit bundle. This bundle can incorporate your workout into your ...

One of my favorite game magazines is actually not a magazine. Blaster is described by its creators as a games anthology. Each beefy PDF issue ($19.99) contains articles and stand-alone games by some o...

Brand blunder occurs when there is an error with the branding of a product that often stems from a misunderstanding of the language, culture and customer attitudes in the market. Here are some example...

This Baby Secret Doll commercial is a real-life version of The Twilight Zone episode Living Doll (one of the scariest Twilight Zone episodes), which features an evil talking doll named "Talking Tina."...

Warning: This educational video shows a leech sucking someone's blood out. I've never actually seen a leech in action until I came across this gnarly Leech Feeding Time-Lapse. The dude in the video vo...

If you're an online course creator or considering becoming one, it's essential you have a platform that'll help you stand out from the rest. Although it may feel daunting to start, it doesn'...

I recently had to do some furniture shopping and came across Spoken.io, a website that compares prices for the same item amongst the different stores that carry it. You can search by store, or by the ...

Without announcing a date that formal cooperation will end between Russia and the other ISS project participants, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin has vowed the end is near. Unless the international comm...

A large number of stuffies were found littering the shoulder of I5 in Portland. Some lovely person at the Oregon DOT rescued, washed, and is preparing to redistribute the toys. This #ToyStory was foun...

A large number of stuffies were found littering the shoulder of I5 in Portland. Some lovely person at the Oregon DOT rescued, washed, and is preparing to redistribute the toys. This #ToyStory was foun...

A fantastic template letter for Florida teachers to send to families of students regarding the implementation of "Don't Say Gay" is naturally freaking out a conservative group that backed the law. As ...

How To Disappear Completely is a 2019 ambient album by Seraphim that includes an hour and forty minutes of soothing, instrumental tracks. As someone with insomnia, it helps me to slow down my thoughts...

The long, hot, seemingly endless summer nights are looming ahead. Even if you have air conditioning in your home, you're probably dreading getting comfortable in vain with your sweaty head squirming a...

Google is notifying publishers that content that "exploits, dismisses, or condones the war" in Ukraine will not be monetized.Dear Publisher,Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of con...

Roger Stone is now doing Madison Cawthorn's bidding, accusing top Republicans for the GOP's coke and orgy habits. Speaking to Alex Jones, Stone confirmed that Cawthorn was telling the truth, and anyon...

Colbert says what we're all thinking, what the f*ck CBS? CBS has hired Trump thug Mick Mulvaney to ensure access to conservatives after they predict Congress going to the GQP.Tonight, we address the h...

The Academy of Motion Picture's best actor of 2022 offered this advice 30 years ago:...

Just because two people fancy themselves as preachers doesn't mean they will act like the Lord's good shepherds. At least not for the two street preachers that prankster Davram Stiefler of the Good Li...

If you're looking for a new job, a raise, or are planning a total career pivot, you have to be prepared to compete against tons of people with nearly the exact same experience as you. So what sets you...

Apparently, former US President and loser of the 2020 Presidential election Donald J. Trump tried to cut in on his former White House photographer Shealah Craighead's book deal but found a way to be e...

The NWS is enjoying themselves but took steps to ensure no one was actually fooled. I can imagine the GQP deciding to defund NOAA and the NWS over woke systems of measurement had that :P not been ther...

In this excerpt from a 1982 TV show called Wired In, Lily Tomlin shares openly and earnestly about her addiction to Pac-Man. The show, which also featured Bill Murray, unfortunately never made it to t...

A Scottish man who tweeted "the only good Brit soldier is a deed one, burn auld fella buuuuurn" after the death of the famed Capt. Tom Moore was sentenced today to 150 hours of community service. The...

Hundreds of oranges cascaded out of a pickup truck and rolled down a steep road. Two men tried to capture as many as possible. One man laid down across the road and managed to save a few dozen. The ot...

Jen Psaki has been one of the sharpest, most entertaining White House press secretaries in recent times. From her perfectly aimed "Psaki bombs" to her long-running "Jen-and-Peter Show" to everything i...

The US House of Representatives passed a bill to federally decriminalize marijuana. The final vote was 220 to 204. The bill also clears the record of people who were convicted of non-violent cannabis ...

Andre Antunes made a mini-musical for Will Smith, who was downgraded from an A+ to an A star for slapping Chris Rock. ...

Enjoy my new favorite article about what it's like to own an out-of-warranty German automobile. Norman Garrett, Concept Engineer for the original Miata, writes:With the clutch pedal depressed, the eng...

I found this especially interesting as I have an antique gumball machine with a lost key....

This gentleman is furious when he is denied access to a Walmart because he refuses to wear a mask. Hebecomesa tantrum-throwing toddler,fightingthrough employees who try to stop him.No one can stand in...

The many, many lies of Madison Cawthorn. This Daily Show segment exposes accusations of sexual harassment, lies about his education, injury and more. This congressperson from North Carolina is not to ...

This video shows that honey likes to act a little bit silly when it's taken to outer space. In 2014 astronaut David Saint-Jacques demonstrated what happened when he opened a honey jar in a microgravit...

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin of Delaware, speaking in support of a bill to remove pot from the Drug Enforcement Administration's controlled substance schedule, said "I concede our party is not for the k...

Too scared to tell Vladimir Putin the truth about his botched invasion of Ukraine, his military leaders have misled the dictator. Rather than tell him that his war is "using and losing conscripts," or...

In Trump's Flavor Aid Kult, it's a thought crime to say Biden is the president of the United States. Watch David Pakman's interview with Republican congressional candidate Darlene Swaffar, where she ...

This elder dancing at an electronic music festival is cooler than all of us. He looks like he's having the most fun out of anyone in the video. While he's happy and grooving all by himself, everyone e...

There's nothing quite as unsettling as realizing that the device you spend most of your day using might be ten times dirtier than most toilet seats. And there are other reasons that people f...

U.K.'s Bier Company a beer subscription site lured people into claiming a prize of "free beer for life," then charged the "winners" for a beer subscription of $30 per month, calling the trick an Apr...

Pandora's Toolbox is a wicked ambient album by David Torn containing a goldmine of creepy samples which have been used in Resident Evil 4, Postal, Silent Hill, and more. Although this album is full of...

nothing.tech is an amusing fake ad for yet another generically minimalist smartphone.JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE: JUST ANOTHER ( 1 ). You've seen a phone just like this before. Experience edge-to-edge mon...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)It shouldn't elicit any excitement from me at this point, but I'll always flip my proverbial lid whenever I see ro...

Dyson finds things to add vacuum cleaner motors tofans, hand dryers, hairdryersthe way a kid with a hammer goes around looking for things to bash. The latest striking item is the Dyson Zone, a set of ...

A few weeks ago, Truth Social was still having trouble with its launch. A few weeks later, it is having trouble with traffic: signups are reportedly down 93% since it came stumbling into being. Antoin...

Mihai Parparita's Infinite Mac presents classic Apple operating systems (Mac OS 8, System 7) in the browser: "They boot instantly, are filled with useful programs, allow data import, export and persis...

'National Enquirer'"Joe Biden Criminal Cover-Up Exposed!" screams the cover story. "FBI protected president and crooked son Hunter!"It's the same old allegations of Hunter Biden's drug abuse and quest...

In a short period, Daniel Warren Johnson has become one of the most exciting creators in comics. Johnson's pencils feel like the cornerstone of a new visual identity for American comics with...

How did the Beatles do it? How did those four English chaps have the right interpersonal chemistry to revolutionize the music industry with mellifluous harmonies, transcendent experiments, and catchy ...

Most people who have even a passing knowledge of the 3D printing space are likely familiar with Thingiverse, the 3D design files repository that grew up alongside the consumer 3D printer marketplace. ...

A uniformed police officer filmed masturbating in public was charged today with outraging public decency, reports Dagenham News. The man remains in custody.A man, in PCSO uniform, was recorded perform...

Heartbreaking, but Obi-Wan Kenobi will be delayed 2 days to Friday, May 27th. The Jedi Master will serve up two episodes instead of just the premier to make the delay easier to swallow.Double the Obi-...

One day after anti-abortion activist Lauren Handy was indicted for wreaking havoc on a Washington DC reproductive clinic, police searched her home, following a tip about possible bio-hazard materials ...

In a 2020 episode of Howard Stern, Chris Rock talked about how he was bullied and sexually assaulted as a black kid in a white school. "It was a horrible existence," he says. "Every day was hell." He ...

The past two years have brought us new hobbies we never thought we'd sink our teeth into. Some of us became bakers, others podcasters, and some people created truly innovative and useful technolo...

As shown in the clip below, Tucker Carlson lies about bio-weapons in Ukraine. Then he lies about his lie. Then he lies about his lie about his lie. All in one month. Like a carnival-goer who's had one...

This video about how Microsoft would design the iPod box is as funny and relevant today as it was when it was uploaded to YouTube way back in 2006.(Via Jeff Atwood)...

Trump was raising funds at Mar-a-Lago when someone in the crowd shouted "gays for Trump!"Trump, standing on a platform, peered into the crowd and said, "Where's gays for Trump?" When he spotted the pe...

Two years ago, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to enact a ban on conversion therapy, describing it as "abhorrent" and having "no place in a civilized society." But today it emerged that his g...

Two years ago, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to enact a ban on conversion therapy, describing it as "abhorrent" and having "no place in a civilized society." But today it emerged that his g...

If you've got your eye on a $25 Pop N' Play "interactive" toy for your kitty, you might want to check out this cat's scathing review of it first. No words were needed. Click to expand ...

This Southwest passenger who wanted to "take a stand" against mask mandates appears to be gleeful that her refusal to wear a mask results in everyone on the plane having to get off and miss their flig...

Question: This rare, unaired pilot predates the March 30, 1964 premiere of one of the greatest TV game shows of all time.Answer: What is the Jeopardy! pilot episode seen above?...

Clearly out of fresh material, Senator Ted Cruz, self-described as "frankly dumb," is using his very own pre-insurrection words and behavior meant to encourage the Big Lie and anti-democracy back in ...

Rishi Sunak is Britain's finance minister, presiding over the economic fallout from the Covid pandemic, Brexit and a decade of austerity policies. His wife is Akshata Murphy, owner of a 400m ($525m) s...

"My name is Prince, and I've come to play with you."On March 30, 1985, Prince and the Revolution played a legendary concert at Syracuse, New York's Carrier Dome. It was broadcast live on the radio, an...

Once again, a study from the Brazilian clinical trial known as TOGETHER published in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that Ivermectin has no positive benefits for people suffering COVID-...

A lawsuit has been filed to disqualify Marjorie Taylor Greene's candidacy for US Congress due to her involvement in the January 6th "Moron's Rebellion." In the spirit of her great leader, the failed D...

Unlimited Dream Co. is a "collaboration between a UK-based artist and artificial intelligence." They make amazing art, which you can see here. I also follow their Twitter feed, and saw this weird imag...

Earlier this week, Alex Tan found this bizarre humanoid creature washed up on Maroochydore Beach in Queensland, Australia. From News.com.au:Step forward University of Queensland Associate Professor St...

The world was shocked when Russian troops laid siege to Chernobyl on their way to Kyiv. Predictably the Russian occupying force in Chernobyl has poisoned itself. The world hopes they do not poison oth...

After a flight on the low-cost IndiGo airline, Nandan Kumar, a 28-year-old software engineer, determined that another passenger had accidentally taken Kumar's bag from the baggage claim belt. (As the ...

My daughter will be thrilled to learn that the Minions are returning. I think she was a Minion for Halloween last year....

"Russian agent" Tulsi Gabbard has entered Russian state TV's inner circle, along with "co-host" Tucker Carlson and "partner" Donald Trump.Earlier this week, host Vladimir Soloviev of Russia's propagan...

"Russian agent" Tulsi Gabbard has entered Russian state TV's inner circle, along with "co-host" Tucker Carlson and "partner" Donald Trump.Earlier this week, host Vladimir Soloviev of Russia's propagan...

From Comic Book Resources:The new project comes from Japanese YouTuber and motorcycle enthusiast Ayato. The builder, who is also known by their YouTube screenname Teruteru Boizu, began the project abo...

In a recent study published by Nature Communications, scientists from the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, Switzerland shared remarkable new details about a human being using a brai...

Former San Angelo, Texas police chief Tim Vasquez was found guilty of receiving a bribe and also mail fraud after a security company paid his Earth, Wind and Fire cover bandFunky Munkyfour times their...

It happens to us all basically every day: You're scrolling through your phone, working away on your laptop, or checking stats on your smartwatch… and it dies. (Always at the most inopportune tim...

The USAF is investigating a C-130 Hercules belonging to the 403rd Wing's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, based in Mississippi, that was spotted picking up a motorcycle in Martha's Vineyard, Mass...

A Houston-area student won a $90,000 settlement after being "harassed and bullied" by a teacher there over her refusal to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.The student abstained, according to her law...

Londoner Eric Taylor says he's now been stopped twice by police on the pretext that he must "account" for the heavy coat he's wearing in March in Englandand that on the second occasion an officer conf...

Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist who claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax and was sued by the victims' families, is refusing to show up to a court-ordered deposition. A judge set a $25,000 fi...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Munya Chawawa (@munyachawawa)It's been a rough couple of years for the royal family. Well, about as rough as things for a generationally...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mental Health Advice (@noteforself)The duality of being a fan of animals essentially boils down to, "you can look, but you can't touch....

In response to the horrible new Don't Say Gay law in Florida (banning classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary schools), makers on Instagram, spearheaded by @atcharl...

I wish that real-life cereal box toys looked like the ones in this fictional screen test for "Organic Smiles Cereal Commercial." This analog horror video was made by Nathan Frost, and features a serie...

A woman who worked as an administrator at Yale University lived the high life as she cheated the school out of more than $40 million. For more than ten years, 42-year-old Jamie Petrone enjoyed three h...