Articles by BoingBoing from June 2022

Early this morning listeners of Kiss Radio 104.9 FM in Vancouver, Canada were treated to Rage Against the Machine killer song, "Killing in the Name." Not once, not twice, but repeatedly, hundreds of t...

Colin Morris noted that on Reddit, a certain form of compound perjorativetwo words such as "buttface", "shitlord", "douchebag"are found in diverse yet formulaic proliferation. So it's timewith appropr...

Congress-preacher Lauren Boebert (QCO) is at it again, using her government position to spread her version of Christian nonsense (see video below). "The world will try to rehabilitate the hell out of ...

Whether you are a professional chef or just a novice making yourself dinner in your kitchen, you should always make sure that you have the best tools at your disposal. You may ensure that yo...

Lev Parnas, one of the various blatant crooks with whom Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani associates, was today sentenced to 20 months imprisonment on fraud and campaign finance charges. The judge told him t...

People in the Star Wars universe only stay dead when the merchandising opportunities deem it so. Apparently, sales of purple kyber crystals have stalled at Disney's Galaxies Edge or something, and so ...

Robert Sylvester Kelly, the R&B icon and celebrity pedophile who married his own underage proteg and was filmed urinating on a 13-year-old girl, was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment today. Kelly...

Defunct blogging platforms collects places where one could once post, but can post no more. Curator Wesley Aptekar-Cassels posted an accompanying essay, How Websites Die.I think a lot about the lifecy...

The English language flips on its head once you step inside MAGAland. For instance, the MAGA definition of "freedoms" is forbidding everyone's right to choose who they marry, what they smoke, how they...

The Huffington Post reports that the knights, squires, players, and stablehands at the Medieval Times restaurant in Lyndhurst, New Jersey will be holding a vote to unionize on July 15, 2022. In additi...

It's always interesting to see which films will ascend into the pantheon of cult classics. In the 90s, Disney had a penchant for cranking out gothic family films that have since become favorites. ...

The mom who ran into an Uvalde elementary school during a mass shooting to rescue her children when the police refused to go in says cops are now harassing her. Mark Di Carlo, the attorney representin...

There goes Rudy G, again. In true MAGA fashion, it appears in attempting to cast aspersion the former attorney to Donald J. Trump mistakenly admits his own guilt. Giuliani did quickly recant his admis...

A couple bought a home in the Seattle, Washington area without checking internet availability. The seller disclosed that the house was not connected to the internet and the couple, who both spend mult...

As seen in this alarming video, a bison at Yellowstone national park attacked a family that had gotten very close to the animal. The bison charged at a small child, and as a man swept up the child, th...

With statements like it'd be great to hear from Jim "Gym" Jordan, Fox News Bret Baier clearly reports from a different reality than I live in. After explaining that known liar and former US President,...

Andrew Giuliani was the most prominent man running in New York's GOP primary election, thanks to his famous father. But Republican voters picked congressman Lee Zeldin instead to represent them in Nov...

Melding Bauhaus's "Bela Lugosi's Dead" with a hyperfast sample of the Amen break resulted in Rez's fantastic Jungle goth remix of the undead's anthem. (Thanks, Lux Sparks-Pescovitz!)...

If you're like most people, you probably feel a little jealous when you hear someone who's multilingual. And that's with good reason. It's an impressive and handy skill to have. Being able to tra...

Thinking about the future helps us make better decisions in the present. That's the dream, anyway. To make the case for why thinking about the longterm is critical, this animated video poses the mind...

Daily Harvest, which sells meal kit subscriptions, is facing lawsuits after 470 people reported severe medical reactions and a dozen customers had their gallbladders removed as a possible consequence...

I couldn't stop watching Daria in the 90s. To give some perspective, I was a nine-years-old at the time. The commentary on how high school breeds social conformity and acerbic critiques arou...

A fellow named Jonathon Pruitt reportedly snapped the photo below of a preserved Burger King "found behind a wall" at Wilmington, Delaware's Concord Mall. I can't locate any additional information abo...

Last night US Congressperson from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke about the congresspeople who essentially admit their guilt and participation in the January 6th insurrection by asking for a p...

They slowly got rid of wooden escalators in the London Underground after they became fuel for a deadly fire at King's Cross Station in 1987, with the last one gone by 2007. The New York Subway still h...

The Supreme Court argues that the right to abortion is up to the states to decide. At the same time, there's a very real fear that if Republicans take over Congress and the White House by 2024, they m...

Republican congressperson and national embarrassment from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene is raging against the January 6th Select Committee and wants to present her own witnesses. Perhaps she will de...

Earlier this week Twitter disclosed that it had complied with an order from the Indian government in 2021 to remove tweets criticizing the Indian government's censorship. From Entrackr:The tweets prom...

Remember Dr. Mario, the wildly popular Mario game that was essentially Tetris but with a transdimensional Italian plumber hocking pills in his new guise as a doctor? Programmers Steven Nass and Ivy Hu...

Recently, Eminem released his new song titled The King and I, which will be featured on the soundtrack for Baz Lurhmann's Elvis film. Given the parallels between the two artists, the so...

In this video, Philip Dyer compares the prompted output of three popular AI image generators: Dall-E Mini, Midjourney, and Dall-E 2. Dyer's interest is photonormative output, but it goes places and yo...

My favorite character in the video below is the man in the blue shirt at the front who waves excitedly even as things start to go south. Perhaps he knows what's coming and is waving… goodbye.Now...

Somewhere in Germany, a manhole cover is slightly misaligned, causing it to wobble 1 millimeter when driven over. This represents anomalous venting under the Deutsches Institut fr Normung standard 427...

Vice President Kamala Harris seems out of ideas for saving abortion rights in the United States. In this CNN interview, she comes off as bored, tired, defensive, and unhappy to be there.CNN:What do yo...

No-one appears to be hurt in this security footage from a park near the mall bombed Monday by Russian forces in Ukraine. But the destructive force of the explosions is clear. At least 18 people died i...

Shakespeare Unleashed is a forthcoming anthology edited by James Aquilone that will feature horror stories and sonnets inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. There's also an accompanying comic b...

Hollywood is finally starting to get it. Or maybe it only appears as if they are. For decades minority roles in film and television were precisely that: minor. The prevailing wisdom in Tinseltown was ...

Hollywood is finally starting to get it. Or maybe it only appears as if they are. For decades minority roles in film and television were precisely that: minor. The prevailing wisdom in Tinseltown was ...

Paulette Carpoff (48) was sentenced to 11 years and three months in federal prison for her role in a scam that bilked a billion dollars from investors in a bogus solar energy company. She was also ord...

Everyone's favorite red muppet monster has been vaccinated because vaccines are safe and not scary.CNN:In a public service announcement released on Tuesday by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educationa...

When a trio of dogs came upon their new doggy door, two stepped through it with no instruction needed. But the third doggo was dumbfounded as she stared at the wall. How in the heck do you get the mag...

Famous Phoenix, Arizona drag queen Barbra Seville recently shared publiclyin response to Kari Lake's attack on drag queens and drag showsthat she used to be friends with drag-queen-lover-turned-drag-q...

If you are still concerned about COVID and want to continue mitigation practices, but are also wary of the CDC and suspicious that its COVID maps and recommendations are influenced by corporate intere...

The sentence is in: Former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell will spend the next 20 years in prison (minus any time deducted for good behavior) for her part in recruiting, grooming, and sexually exploiting...

Are chiggers having a moment? The Stuff You Should Know podcast just released a featured "selects" (where they highlight past episodes) episode on chiggers, which was a chigger trigger for me. It brou...

Grumpy old warrior refinds themself while escorting a sassy young kid.Image: screengrab...

The unexpected Jan. 6 House select committee hearing today, which interrupted a two-week break, focuses not on new Trump documentary footage, as speculated yesterday, but on testimony by former aide t...

Tom Litton, a very stable genius who prides himself on his brawny biceps and strapping back as much as his Mike Huckabee-style sense of incisive wit, entered into an argument with Lake Superior's Twi...

Anti-abortion political commentator Alice Stewart just got owned on the very network she works for in a back-and-forth that left her stammering and evading a question that challenged one of her inacc...

The Republican Dystopian Chorus (aka the U.S. Supreme Court fascists) describes post-Trump America in a nutshell with this overturned version of Woody Guthrie's most famous song. The new lyrics are sp...

The Republican Dystopian Chorus (aka the U.S. Supreme Court fascists) describes post-Trump America in a nutshell with this updated version of Woody Guthrie's most famous song. The new lyrics are spot ...

Years ago, I saw a video where the father of "dungeon crafting," DM Scotty, showed off a cool, characterful wall display he had built for his D&D miniatures. I've always thought it a crime to spen...

I've been out of the loop with all the recent revelations of government reports about UFO sitings and grainy Air Force videos that look like video artifacts. I'm glad I spent 13 minutes watching this ...

I am rolling a joint, then I will pour enough whiskey into my coffee that it becomes mostly whiskey, and I will settle in to watch the first episode of 'Star Wars: LARRY.' I have eagerly awaited the t...

I've been having fun playing the web-based demo version of Townscaper, which lets you build a town just by clicking your mouse wherever you want. It's fun to see what the "instant town-building toy" m...

Having been presented with a ton of evidence and testimony as to his participation in the January 6th insurrectionist's Fake Elector scheme, Senator Ron Johnson has changed his story many times, and n...

Space Camper is a new company rolling out a camper that mounts on the forthcoming Tesla Cybertruck. I like the way the Cybertruck looks much more with this addition. It feels like a 1960s space age co...

A YouTuber wrecked his Tesla Plaid (a super-fast model) by modifying the brakes but failing to upgrade the brake fluid. The high temperatures achieved by braking at 170 mph boiled the fluid, and he lo...

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this beautiful image of the Red Planet's surface. It depicts water ice frozen in channels...

Remember the mysterious dog-human hybrid spotted outside the Amarillo Zoo a few weeks ago? The creepy creature may have made its way south to La Union, New Mexico. A resident sent the above security f...

Germany's Neuruppin Regional Court has convicted an unidentified 101-year-old man of more than 3,500 counts of accessory to murder for serving as a Nazi SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration cam...

In 1967, the UK's Road Safety Act made it illegal to drive with a blood alcohol level above .08. Watch the above clip from a TV news show on location in a bar where they interviewed some habitual drun...

When news of Hayao Miyazaki's upcoming retirement hit the internet, young and old animation fans felt pangs of sorrow as the curtains began to close on the acclaimed director's career. With ...

America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani is still complaining to anyone within earshot about the vicious attack he suffered when a man slapped him on the back. And new details have emerged! Very stable genius R...

Jury nullification is when one or more members of a jurors find a defendant not guilty even though they believe the defendant broke the law. Lawyers spend a lot of time choosing who sits on a jury bec...

One of the grand ironies of life is how naturally inquisitive children are before attending school. At the beginning of their formalized education, children will use knowledge as a form of social curr...

Last week, at Stadtpark Openair in Hamburg, German, Iggy Pop performed a cover of legendary krautrock band NEU!'s "Hero." NEU's co-founder and guitarist, Michael Rother, join Iggy and the band. It's s...

The January 6 House select committee is supposed to be on a two-week break, but new evidence has come up, prompting the panel of nine to hold a surprise hearing tomorrow. Whatever the evidence is that...

Esquire's Tom Ward argues that 1982's Blade Runner (with 1979's Alienwhich is to say Ridley Scott) has defined science fiction since. Visually and sonically assured, intelligent and moody, there is mu...

A mixed-up Lauren Boebert tried to school a Christian audience on how the U.S. government works, but the Colorado Qongresstroll failed miserably."The church is supposed to direct the government. The g...

ANNOUNCING THE BRAND NEW NEW TOM THE DANCING BUG BOOK, available this month! Volume 5 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, it's Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  Order today:...

These 13 corporations are the top donors since 2016 to groups working to elect the Republican politicians who just successfully worked to overturn Roe v. Wade. Together, these 13 corporations donated ...

A recent statement by Utah Republican Karianne Lisonbee, a State Representative, went viral on Twitter. She explains that her support for the overturning of Roe does not mean she doesn't trust women t...

Now when you wake up and lift your head from your "MyPillow," after you stretch, yawn, and face a brand new dystopic day, you can drink a fresh, hot cup of Mike Lindell's new "MyCoffee." It's just wha...

On April 26, 2022, House Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) proudly announced on his website that he had won the "coveted Award for Conservative Excellence by the American Conservative Union Foundation (ACUF...

Target, Gap, American Eagle Outfitters, and other large retailers are reporting that they have a glut of inventory and it's costing them too much to store the stuff. Then there's the pile of inflowing...

After the Roe decision was announced, Republican Governor of Arizona Doug Ducey tweeted, "Roe v Wade was a poorly-reasoned ruling that had no Constitutional basis. The Supreme Court has made the right...

At the US Senior Open Championship yesterday, Tim Petrovic seemingly made a bad putt that went way past the hole. But then…To quote Happy Gilmore, "Did that go in? I wasn't watching, did it go i...

A gravity-defying cat demonstrates how to climb stairs astronaut-style its preferred method of reaching the second floor. In the Reddit comments, its human says the cat practices upside-down climbing...

I hate mayonnaise. Like, really hate it. But not this much. In Atlanta, a Subway sandwich maker was shot and killed and another injured by a customer reportedly infuriated by the overabundance of mayo...

On June 24 Harmony, which operates the Horizon bridge that allows people to move assets across blockchains, announced that a "culprit" stole $100 million by exploiting a software vulnerability.Harmon...

Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K!Keanu Reeves, who giddily laughed it up about NFTs while promoting the last film in the Maxtrix series, is now advising a 'Non-Fungible Labs' project wherein t...

The word pelenti means to move hot food around in your mouth so it doesn't burn your cheeks or tongue in the Buli language (Ghana). The Korean word ib-i simsimhada means that you want to eat something...

"Hey baby, check out my sweet biface!""It's highly symmetrical! Let's mate!"— Conversation between two Homo Erectii in western Asia about 1.4 million years ago. "Why was time invested in making ...

While attending a three-day G7 summit to discuss the war in Ukraine, Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau lightened the mood by cracking some jokes at Vladimir Putin's expense. As world leaders sat around...

Last week, a woman called police to report a suspicious figure lurking in her yard. Apparently a Facebook group for police scanner enthusiasts commented about it being a possible Bigfoot sighting. Fro...

Check out this new video for Ozzy Osbourne's new song, "Patient Number 9." The song features Jeff Beck, and the video was directed by Todd McFarlane and also features his illustrations. Comicbook.com ...

Watch Jordan Durrenberger's recreation of the Battle of Verdun in Lego: nearly seven brick-pounding minutes of stop-motion animation. It's extraordinarily well-made and edited, from artillery batterie...

Snowflake Rudy Giuliani nearly cracked his head and died after being "attacked" by a passerby in a supermarket (see harrowing video above). Or at least that's what the disgraced former Trump attorney ...

A gold miner in the Klondike, Yukon found this incredibly well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth born sometime during the last Ice Age. The miner was digging into the permafrost in the Trondk Hwchin Tra...

Andrew Liptak is a chronicler of geek culture, and all around good dude. In addition to his regular Transfer Orbit newsletter one of my favorite round-up resources for all things sci-fi/fantasy publi...

In a recent speech, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that "We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they're as safe as they are in a classroom". A dire outcome indeed.Sarah Huckabee Sanders after ...

Like any living being, humans tend to focus on attaining security and minimizing danger. This propensity to distance ourselves from risk or, at the very least, our perception of it extends beyond our ...

New York City newspapers reported this weekend that Rudy Guiliani was attacked while campaigning for his son, a candidate for governor of New York. And a man was indeed arrested and charged with assau...

New York City newspapers reported this weekend that Rudy Giuliani was attacked while campaigning for his son, a candidate for governor of New York. And a man was indeed arrested and charged with assau...

Two craters 16m and 18m wide appeared on the moon right next to each other. It's out fault, obviously (obviously?), but the double trouble has scientists aflutter.Astronomers predicted a mysterious ob...

In April of this year, The Kennedy Center hosted the award ceremony for Jon Stewart's Mark Twain Prize. Speakers at the event included his old Daily Show pals, Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Steve Car...

For many David Lynch/Twin Peaks fans, there are few moments of aesthetic exaltation greater than "Gotta Light?," part 8 of 2017's season 3 of Twin Peaks. I swear the room actually became brighter for ...

Comedy films were a fun genre, weren't they? For the life of me, I can't remember the last time I saw two comedy movies released in the same summer. I'm not talking about dramedies, either. I mean ful...

A police officer in Columbus, Ohio, was shot "while trying to shoot a dog" Sunday. Local ABC affiliate WSYX printed a police "notification" that an officer "was struck in the leg after discharging his...

As much as you hate it, sometimes we have to search for things in places we never want to go, like the kitchen sink's drain, the dusty attic, or the spider-web-laden area underneath the house. Your sh...

In this segment from Rachel Maddow she reveals how, when the Roe v Wade decision was first decided, evangelicals and Republicans were not opposed to it as a group. The Southern Baptist Convention even...

The lion's share of the praise regarding a film's craftsmanship typically falls on the shoulders of the lead actor or director. As one of the most collaborative mediums around, it's woefully unfortuna...

The Sega Genesis was the first game console I ever owned. At the time, a 16-bit console was the height of technology, and I was enamored with the "realistic" graphics. And then a curious thing happene...

Whether you have your own cookie business or run a celebrity gossip blog, having an unimpressive landing page can really slow things down. Sure, hiring a professional developer to create a website wou...

ABC News reports that a judge in California has approved the name change requested by Elon Musk's daughter. The woman, 18, filed the legal papers in April."A new birth certificate reflecting the chang...

Jeann Lugo, an off-duty police officer and Republican state Senate candidate in Rhode Island, was arrested Saturday and charged with assault after punching a woman in the face at an abortion rights ra...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)As we teeter towards a future that will render countless jobs obsolete, it's fascinating to note that work culture...

Gundam is one of those franchises I always thought should be bigger- no pun intended. In its native Japan, Gundam is a massive property that boasts no shortage of fans. In America, ...

The Ohio Supreme Court suspended lawyer Scott Blauvelt's license to practice indefinitely after he was caught five times driving naked. Court documents show that Blauveltwho has served as a prosecutor...

How much of your Mac's storage space is actually stuff you use? Odds are good a significant portion of your hard drive is filled with untouched downloads, duplicate files, and apps you forgot exi...

Over the last two years, multiple pilots have reported spotting someone flying a jetpack over the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). In November, a theory emerged that at least one of the sighti...

In South Carolina yesterday, an alligator emerged from a pond at the Myrtle Beach Golf and Yacht community, grabbed a resident, and pulled the person back into the pond. When Horry County Fire Rescue ...

Below is an image of Thiomargarita magnifica, the world's largest bacterium that scientists just discovered in the French Caribbean hanging out on underwater on decaying leaves from a mangrove tree. T...

If you know me at all, you know I love weird looking dogs. So imagine my delight when I found out the "World's Ugliest Dog" competition was back after a 2 year hiatus! And that the winner is a hometow...

"National Enquirer'It's been more than three weeks since First Lady Jill Biden told Harper's Bazaar magazine that she and President Joe have "occasional" fights via text messaging, playfully calling i...

Personal hygiene is an essential part of self-care. Keeping your body clean and well-groomed not only makes you more pleasurable around, but it can actually help to keep you from getting sick. There a...

I have a complex relationship with Purple Rain. As a Prince junkie, I have to respect how impactful the album was on 80s culture and the career of his royal badness. However, I hate how synonymous it'...

Vampire freestyle rapping, baby Colin Robinson growing up, the group opens a nightclub (Nadja's) to attract high-end food ("Rich humans are basically like veal, conceptually repulsive, but so buttery ...

Not our favorite bridge, but dramatic nonetheless.Image: Screen grab...

As obvious as it always was that #vanlife murderer Brian Laundrie killed his girlfriend Gabby Petito, his own death obscured hers and denied her family any chance of justice. It turns out he confessed...

As cryptocurrency loses its value, less electricity is being used, reports Alex Hern for The Guardian. It's a simple problem: the cost of energy isn't falling, so it's becoming uneconomical to mine cr...

If, like me, you woke up yesterday to the SCOTUS Roe decision with utter despair and white-hot rage burning in your heart, here's a playlist to help you scream it all out. Music always, always helps. ...

Fist of the North Star doesn't get enough credit today. In the early to mid-80s, Kenshiro, Fist of the North Star's protagonist, became the template for shonen heroes. Sadly, most conte...

Kevin Mayes, pilot of a single-engine Cessna, was on his way to Sacramento from Seattle, WA when he suffered catastrophic engine failure at 9,000 feet. Luckily, he was close to an airfield at Hillsbor...

Synthesized Sounds of the Sea is a new project from composer Tomer Baruch a concept album (with accompanying music videos like the one above), comprised of instrumental synthesizer music, with each s...

Celebrated comic book artists Michael Allred (Madman, iZombie), Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing), Jae Lee (Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, The Dark Tower, Inhumans), Nick Pitarra (The Red Wing, The Manh...

Celebrated comic book artists Michael Allred (Madman, iZombie), Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing), Jae Lee (Before Watchmen: Ozymandias, The Dark Tower, Inhumans), Nick Pitarra (The Red Wing, The Manh...

Watching an clair pistache in the making, where every frame is as delectable as the next, is almost as satisfying as eating one. I need to visit Reddit's r/Baking more often. Click to expand Front pa...

"Roe is dead," Elizabeth Warren said in an impassioned speech today at a Massachusetts rally. "And understand this," she warned, "It doesn't stop today with the opinion of Dobbs." (Video below.)But ne...

It's summertime, and you know what that means? Unbearable heat waves are coming, and for some, they're already here! The only way for many people to sleep comfortably during the warmer months is ...

A day after the Supreme Court overturned New York's law that limited people from carrying guns in public, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (QGA) said even children should handle guns. "I think children sho...

Indicted Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton is declaring today a holiday and celebrating the dramatic loss of rights that the citizens in the United States of America suffered today. Star-Telegram:T...

Rep. Andy Levin's (D-Michigan) response to today's Supreme Court ruling brims with confidence in his party's ability to engage practically and purposefully with its political adversaries. If we need m...

Kevin McCarthy made it crystal clear today. After news that SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, the House Minority Leader warned, "As encouraging as today's decision is, our work is far from done." In othe...

A gentleman in Japan didn't mean to lose a work-related USB flash drive stuffed with personal info on every single resident in the town of Amagasaki (pop. 465,177). He simply decided to get drunk whil...

A gentleman in Vermont didn't need a gun to threaten the police who were arresting his son he had himself an excavator. Officers were trying to arrest 24-year-old Brandon Tallman on charges of burgl...

For Black millennials, Dragonball isn't just a cartoon; it's a way of life. The Black community in America has had a long-standing tradition of enjoying Asian entertainment. In my parent's a...

It might not seem like it now that the character has woven himself into popular culture, but Marvel Studios was worried about how the global market would receive Captain America. In the Marvel un...

Complete with a dancing man wearing a mouse head, the musical celebration that inspired an entire generation of EDM fans is now 50! I actually can't stand parades, but I've always enjoyed Disneyland's...

Republican Congressperson from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently wanted to gloat as sickened Americans gathered outside the Supreme Court to protest today's decision on Roe v Wade. A screamin...

Republican Congressperson from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene apparently wanted to gloat as sickened Americans gathered outside the Supreme Court to protest today's decision on Roe v Wade. A screamin...

Today needs this, a super nice guy star playing with super cute puppies!Image: Screen grab...

Enjoy Obi and Ani fighting to the John Williams' score from Revenge of the Sith. This truly was one of the most fun moments in Star Wars. Obi-Wan thumping Vader's chest plate with the butt of that li...

It takes a lot of hard work and discipline to build a web page for a company, freelance business, or product. The same goes when creating the mobile app version. You don't dislike the job; it's what y...

We're in a golden age of modern horror. As much as I love the classic slasher films of yesteryear, the horror genre, in my opinion, has blossomed to its full potential. Films like It Follows,...

I love memes. In my phone's photo gallery, I have an album full of memes, divided by category, that I frequently use during texts. The only drawback to memes is how quickly they become irrelevant. The...

Jordan Klepper once again tries to talk with Trump supporters, who either know everything or are a smirking know-nothing like the brunette around 1:10. The cry of Nancy Pelosi around 2:04 needs to be ...

The Supreme Court of the United States today overturned Roe. v. Wade in a 6-3 ruling which eliminates the right to an abortion. State bans on abortion, on the books or expected imminently in about hal...

The conversation around raising the minimum wage has intensified over the last decade. With the dollar's purchasing power shrinking every year, millions of Americans are beginning to feel like the eco...

Back in April, I wrote about how John Hinckley Jr, the guy who infamously once tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, was trying to make a go of it as a folk singer, and scheduled his first-eve...

Up to 15 women who are in Phoenix, AZ from all over the country have suffered from heat-related illness and were rescued Thursday from Camelback Mountain. The women are in Phoenix filming a reality te...

If you can't get enough of the mesmerizing and often infuriating Teal Swan, who some folks think is a cult leader, and who is the focus of the wildly popular docuseries The Deep End, then you're in lu...

Las Vegas-based occult publishing company Bloodstone Studios has just released a new tarot card set featuring the notoriously fantastical artwork of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. They're kind of nig...

A perturbed gentleman complained that because of masks and vaccines, he lost his job. And the person who fired him? When questioned further, the man who gave him the axe turned out to be himself he w...

A kangaroo pouch has turned into an exit chute for this overgrown joey, who won't take the hint that it's time. I've seen videos of teenage joeys struggling to get inside their pouch, but this is the ...

My latest obsession, my new favorite YouTube video genre, is animal ASMR. I've been so stressed out lately, what with the latest SCOTUS decisions, COVID still raging, the Jan 6 hearings, and on and on...

I've been isolating the past week or so, to make sure I didn't catch COVID on my recent trip to Portugal. It's been fine. I work, write, eat, watch trash tv. It's getting a little boring, to be honest...

Please, I beg you, stop whatever you're doing, and go watch some of these videos of Kevon Carter, a comedian who also describes himself as a "husband, father, brother, musician, intercontinental champ...

As the weather warms up, things tend to get more pungent, shall we say. One wrong move and the fridge gets left wide open, and you're stuck with a house that smells like trash and broken dreams. ...

Check out this doggo zoom zoom zooooooooming on the beach after being taken off-leash. The utter joy! The freedom! The excitement! This is exactly how I feel when I finally step out of the airport and...

On January 12, 2021, just a day before the US House of Representatives voted to impeach Trump for the January 6 riots, Vice President Mike Pence was being interviewed for a documentary film. While sho...

These sweet babies enjoying all of those yummy veggies were at the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica, which, according to their website:is the original rescue center for injured, orphaned and abandoned sl...

Demonstrating a unique way to recognize Pride Month, a Long Island NY library board is banning books and pride displays from the children's sections of four libraries. Everyone not one of the 4 board ...

A raccoon in New York was punished by death for the high crime of living as a pet. Its cover was blown after its bright humans brought it along to buy food at a pet store, where it was spotted by a wo...

NRA darling Lauren Boebert rejoiced in the SCOTUS decision to make homicide shootings as easy in New York as they are in Texas (and most other states). The gushing Qongresstroll and proud owner of Sho...

Juul, the branded vaping experience that rapidly became a favorite of underage Americans has been banned from marketing in the United States of America. The Food and Drug Administration says Juul can ...

The stories in this pretty horrifying but that's-what-you-expect article on an ayahuasca retreat seem to mirror most of what I have heard from friends who have tried this. Several years ago a very clo...

Here's an interesting logic puzzle from MindYourDecisions:Assume that both of the following sentences are true: Pinocchio always liesPinocchio says, "All my hats are green."What can we conclude from t...

My son got to go on his first rollercoaster recently, and it turns out it's one of the oldest coasters in world still in operation. Here's footage from 1920, or therabouts, of Kennywood Park's Jack Ra...

On June 23, 1951, US Navy Commander George Chamberlain Duncan was the pilot for trials of the Grumman F9F-5 Panther fighter jet off the Virginia Capes in the Atlantic Ocean. Following one successful l...

This ain't Top Gun. On June 23, 1951, US Navy Commander George Chamberlain Duncan was the pilot for trials of the Grumman F9F-5 Panther fighter jet off the Virginia Capes in the Atlantic Ocean. Follow...

John Oliver was so certain his friends Jon Stewart would not sit in a public place and be honored, that he decided Stewart must be dead. The resulting 'roast' was heartwarming, hilarious, and well bef...

It's rootin' tootin' shootin' time in New York and anywhere else (i.e. California and various New England/eastern seaboard states) that places restrictions on firearms concealed upon one's personrestr...

Election worker Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and her mother had their lives turned completely upside down for serving the United States. These are the heroes we should celebrate and support, not Mike "Can't f...

Nearly everyone has scrolled through Instagram only to find an ad for the hotel they were just talking about 10 minutes earlier. Whether it was just a coincidence or you were "being listened...

In the new Netflix series How to Build a Sex Room, interior designer Melanie Rose meets with couples who want to have special rooms in their homes for having sex.Couples looking for more spice in the ...

Exhibit A. Reverend Parsley drawing an uncanny line from Numan's Winter of Discontent to Merrie England. Exhibit B. Parralox asks the question "What if Are 'Friends' Electric? was shamelessly upliftin...

SlimFast and caffeine pills were a terrible idea, but in the 90s that was one super popular way to lose weight. The Strawberry, Chocolate, and Vanilla shakes didn't taste awful and were intended to re...

On June 11, 1962, Alcatraz inmates Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin propped up fake heads in their beds, crawled through holes they dug in their cells' concrete walls, and floated off th...

I don't like it when animals are hit, but this Australian lodge owner did what he could to keep his aggressive pet crocodile from attacking his guests. I doubt the alligator was injured, but getting s...

Before the official licensed Star Wars retractable lightsabers hit the scene, slip-it swords were the closest equivalent in the mid-90s. As soon as I laid eyes on the commercial for the toy,...

Here's a fun fact for ya; The Hateful Eight started as a Django sequel novel. Initially titled Django in white hell, Tarantino apparently envisioned many future adventures...

I was lazy and sloppy so it took me four guesses to suss out the prompt for these images generated with text-to-image software. The first word was easy, and I'm sure you can guess what it is. The last...

It's as close to an Amazon Lord of the Rings tie-in you'll get from the deathless J.R.R. Tolkien: a new volume drawn from notes, footnotes and appendices covering the era of Middle-Earth in which the ...

Rather than listen to common sense, Marjorie Taylor Greene told a British reporter to "go back to your country" during a press conference on gun safety yesterday (video below). She was triggered when ...

In 2007, "Carlos Hector Flomenbaum" charmed employees of Antwerp's ABN Amro Bank, becoming a frequent and well-liked customer over a year or so who even brought the employees fine chocolates as gifts ...

Using a clunky old desktop as a dev box? Wasting money every month on the cloud? Trash it all and use an old phone insteadso long as you're OK with its very specific environment and limitations. The i...

The U.S. StormWatch Twitter feed reported that "Iran soared up to a scorching 52.2C (126F) today. That's the hottest temperature recorded on Earth this year and one of the highest 'pre-solstice' tempe...

Sony won't stop releasing or greenlighting spinoffs related to Spider-Man in a desperate bid to destroy everything marketable about webhead. Earlier this month, Sony took notice of Morbius' popul...

Despite how dominant it is in youth culture, rap is old. The "hip" in Hip Hop was initially slapped on the genre as a pejorative term, as early detractors believed rap was a flash in the pan. Almost 6...

Certain moments will forever be emblazoned in the minds of Americans. In these moments, everyone alive to experience the event remembers what they were doing and where they were. I'm talking about Ger...

Depending on your age, you can cite several films as the catalyst that birthed modern superhero films. The 70s made us believe a man could fly with Superman- a film that Marvel Studios head ...

Dogs. I had the extreme good fortune this week to have two all-clear check-ups at the veterinarian for my duo. They would never in 1 million years figure this out and my hat would be gone. Electra, my...

Things are not looking good for Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk, but he has great confidence that the supply chain issues currently capsizing his business will clear up soon. I wonder if sinking Tesla's stock va...

I've never seen an enchanted instrument such as this. As soon as a man launches into a folk tune with his harmonica, his doggo leaps into the most festive of jigs. I laughed out loud with all three vi...

Watch as fishermen and scientists from the USAID-supported research project Wonders of the Mekong capture and measure (and then release) the world's largest freshwater fish. The giant stingray was cap...

The word "the" is about as dull as they come. Until, that is, someone else wants it. Suddenly it becomes the most coveted of all the 171,000-plus words in the English language. At least that's how it ...

Even with today's massive array of innovative gizmos and gadgets at your disposal, getting your hands on professional-grade tech for your home can be a little tricky, not to mention quite ex...

While his most famous dance is none of these, Alfonso Ribeiro selling his dance book is a lot of fun to watch. A fantastic time capsule! If you want to see the Carlton, scroll to the bottom.The Carlto...

Check out the beautifully shot insect below, which I ran across on Reddit. With its yellow and brown-striped body and its extendable, grasping forelegs, it looks like a cross between a wasp and a mant...

I lived in Albuquerque and then Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1990s. I grew up in the Deep South but moved to New Mexico after college to pursue graduate studies. While there I started working at ...

images: KraftAfter 85 years, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is no more. Worry not thoughKraft Mac & Cheese lives on. From CNN:Along with the shortened name, shoppers will notice the box receiving a sub...

Bleeding heart bigot Marjorie Taylor Greene is known for her intolerant stance against anything other than white Christian males (ie., trying to link the Jan. 6 insurrection to BLM, comparing BLM to t...

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. To that end, ...

I was absolutely thrilled at the conclusion of the final episode of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi. After the massive disappointments of their last mini-series, I was super concerned Kenobi would fall apar...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is following in the footsteps or bulldozing trail of his predecessor, crushing 900 illegal dirt bikes and ATVs as if they were aluminum cans on Tuesday. At one point a...

Pythons are enough of a problem in Florida there is an annual python challenge, because of course they are. Brought to Florida as pets, enough Burmese pythons were irresponsibly released into the wild...

This article by Rolling Stone doesn't reflect the reality I have seen at Disneyland, however, it would appear the author is more Florida focused and I have no clue what goes on in Florida. I am willin...

In 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each of these probes is a golden phonograph record...

Things seem to be going well at the old aluminum extrusion facility until a flammable liquid erupts from a piece of machinery. Seconds before the factory becomes a white-hot inferno with falling debri...

90's Malls and Stores"I compiled a large amount of 90's malls and stores from retail books of that era for your viewing pleasure," writes ForeverMozart at r/ObscureMedia. Click through this outstandin...

It's two months since New Jersey legalized recreational marijuana and there's rising controversy about cops using it, even during their off hours. Currently, officers are subject to random drug testin...

Don't Martians know that stone stacking is bad for the environment? NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars captured this image of what appears to be a small stone balanced atop a large rock. How odd. Or ma...

Did you know that 70% of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, specifically tiny plant-like plankton called Pyrocystis? Well, what if you can grow those tiny Pyrocy...

In the video above from Sunday, a man walks into a Detroit gas station shop and points a gun at another fellow with a baby in his arms. The man with the child uses his free hand to brush the gun aside...

Vigo, a lovely ocean resort in Galicia, Spain, has made it unaffordable to all but the very rich to urinate in or around the ocean. Until the city builds more public toilets there, less affluent beach...

Members of Parliament in Canada are to be given panic buttons "amid growing harassment, intimidation and threats of violence," reports the BBC. The buttons, which summon police, were announced by Publ...

In a recent draft study from the journal of Biology titled "Harnessing insect olfactory neural circuits for noninvasive detection of human cancer," a team of scientists describe how they figured out h...

Bill Cosby, released from jail after his rape conviction was tossed in Pennsylvania, was today found liable for sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 1975 at the Playboy Mansion. Cosby does not face i...

A few months ago, John Moe wrote a hilarious article for McSweeney's called "What your favorite sad dad band says about you." It is 100% accurate in every way.Well, I'm not a dad, but my favorite sad ...

Jeff Carlson puts a number of webcams through their paces, including the models tipped by recommendation sites, and demonstrates that all of themeven an expensive Logitech model that costs $200look w...

In this old recording, Georgia senate candidate Herschel Walker can be heard claiming that his multiple personality condition is not a disorder, because Jesus also had multiple personalities. "Do our ...

Chip Player JS is a pixel-perfect web-based music player by Matthew Montag that has many of your favorite 90's-era .mods and .mids built-in. There's even a visualizer! Powered by Game Music Emu, LibXM...

Leonid and Valentina Stoyanov live in Ukraine and run a veterinary hospital where they take in and rehabilitate rescue animals, including those abandoned during the ongoing war. On their TikTok they f...

I always thought Sister Bertrille could use a sidekick as she flew on missions around San Juan, Puerto Rico. This goat with 19-inch ears would make the perfect animal companion. "When lift plus thrust...

Mike Judge has been on a bit of a tear recently. A few weeks ago, Paramount + released a new trailer for Bevis and Butt-head Do the Universe that looked to carry on the show's unparalleled p...

Tom the Dancing Bug – Merrick Garland, A.G.ANNOUNCING THE BRAND NEW NEW TOM THE DANCING BUG BOOK, available this month!Volume 5 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, it'sTom the Dancing Bug: Eat ...

Given the lyrical content, it would be more appropriate to do this with pig toys, but still. @evasheldrake comment what song we should do next! #rageagainstthemachine #killinginthename #fyp #musician...

Depending on how you see the world, this Miami-Dade officer says out loud the plain truth of being black around copscomply or dieor is a good egg concerned that the driver forgot to put his seatbelt o...

Let's face it: Life is pretty expensive. And while we enjoy splurging on luxury goods, everyday necessities really shouldn't be breaking the bank. That's why memberships to retail warehouses ...

Most of us would prefer to avoid public toilets altogether. Unfortunately though, the mood may strike at inopportune times. The New York Times asked scientists to respond to the question: "What is the...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marcus Williams (@marcusthevisual)Others may disagree, but I don't think wildly popular characters can become truly "irrelevant." To cap...

In 1968, pioneering composer Wendy Carlos turned many people on to the joys of both classical music and synthesizers with her Grammy-winning debut album Switched-On Bach. She went on to record the sem...

Burning Lichtenberg figures into wood with electricity is a staple of DIY craft compilations knocking around social media. But the instructions contained in some of those videos and how-to guides are ...

Dozens of "God Hates NFTs" protestors showed up in New York City's SoHo neighborhood yesterday. Other signs spotted include "Crypto Is A Sin" and "Make Fiat Great Again." Video below. Unfortunately, t...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)I'm lucky enough to have grown up in the 90s, meaning I can't remember when cameras weren't omnipresent. At every soccer...

In Quebec, Canada, police are outfitting kids with digital radar speed signs on their backpacks that indicate how fast drivers are going in school zones. First tested in Laval, police there said that...

As Roe v Wade appears about to be discarded, Samantha Bee takes a look at the huge inequities the United States forces on women, specifically in this episode pregnant black women. Man doctor's general...

While Dr. Oz is having a hard time convincing folks to vote for him, he is happy to claim that he is winning. A FOX News host pointed out what a giant FU it must be, losing to a candidate who has take...

Security researchers discovered a vulnerability in the network backend for a range of "smart" jacuzzis, reports Matthew Gault for Vice. From the report it seems that hijinks with the tubs themselves w...

I wonder what it is about notorious edgelord Elon Musk that led his transgender daughter to emancipate herself from him upon reaching 18 years old? The BBC reports that she filed paperwork in April to...

Having a pet at home is one of the great joys in life. Unfortunately, even though many of us work from home, we can't stay with furry friends all the time. Sometimes we have to venture outsi...

Mad Men is my favorite television show of all time. There's nothing about the show that doesn't work for me. When I first became a fan of Don Draper's morally depraved misadventures on Madison Av...

Helena Hauss (previously at BB) created this amazing set of handpainted Delft blue ceramics: "An approach to represent the inner strength and fury that comes with being a woman, in contrast to an appe...

Reminiscent of the 11foot8+8 Bridge experience, this dashcam video shows what happened in Broward County, Florida when a truck hauling a too-tall van on a freeway encountered a too-low overpass. From ...

LEGO Star Wars has a wonderful sense of humor.Image: Screen grab...

A raccoon spent Friday atop a tall light pole beside a busy road in Cold Springs, Kentucky. Fortunately, the, um, "wild raccoon," as described by the Central Campbell Co. Fire Department, made its way...

These miniature Brazilian frogs (aka pumpkin toadlets) don't have much balance and thus jump in reallllly awkward ways. Apparently, their inner ears are too small to provide good balance. New research...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)In a strange reversal of parent and child roles, I recently added my mother to my Netflix account. After ending he...

For game nerds 80s, there are few games more beloved and legendary than Steve Jackson's Car Wars. I bought my pocket box edition at Hobby Crafters in Arlington, VA in 1983(?). It was for sale on a rac...

I often marvel over the elegant simplicity of classic video game themes. Tasked with creating a handful of songs to be played on loop, on a limited sound card, no less, the early composers of video ga...

I miss Jerry Seinfeld. Since it's not like he's dead or anything, I should probably clarify what I mean. I miss his brand of observational comedy. Granted, Seinfeld's setups and style did become the f...

As a franchise, I feel like no series has evolved as much as Star Trek. Even though the show's core premise hasn't changed, the settings, characters, and presentation have altered with the eras w...

Street Fighter has one of the most challenging jobs of any franchise in video games. As the flagship series in the world of fighting games, Street Fighter has amassed decades of hardcor...

The Rankin-Bass animation studio is best known for the 1964 television special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as well as The Little Drummer Boy (1968), Frosty the Snowman (1969), and Santa Claus Is ...

Anew ABC News/Ipsos pollfinds 58%of Americans think Trump should be charged for his role in the J6 riot. From ABC News:Attitudes on whether Americans think Trump is responsible for the attack on the U...

Just like the man who couldn't help but heckle Ted Cruz at a restaurant last month (see second video below), another man disgusted with Ted Cruz leaned over the Senator, who was sitting behind a table...

"Weird Al" Yankovic says his friend was recently digitizing footage from his "Eat It" video his 1984 Grammy award-winning spoof of Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and found this "insurance" take (below)...

Let's be honest. Macs are fantastic, and they have been for quite some time. Apple has always done a great job of making sleek, stylish, fun, and downright practical pieces of technology for...

Tesla is conducting layoffs of salaried personnel due to what Tesla describes as overstaffing during a rapid phase of growth. It is usually illegal to use a reduction in force to eliminate employees f...

Floppy drives and stepper motors have been used to make music before, but for live playing I think the technology is underexplored.This video features three separate Commodore 64 computers, colou...

In 1976, Margaret Hamiltonthe Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (1939)donned the green makeup one more time for an episode of Sesame Street. The show's theme was fear and how to overcome ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Timecapsule (@timecapsule_)There was a weird period in the late 80s and early 90s where violent films were expected to cross over and be...

When you gotta go, you gotta go, as one dog demonstrates. Here is a responsible pooch braving tornado weather to do its business where it belongs although from the look of things, keeping said busine...

Above is a Google Earth image of the barracks at the Naval Base Coronado just outside San Diego, California. The buildings were designed in 1967 by an architect named John Mock and the shape didn't ra...

Clive Thompson, our friend and frequent Boing Boing contributor, recently took his 2010 Hyundai Elantra into the service station to repair the air conditioner. He told the service rep to also disconne...

The first rule of Bear Fight Club is that you don't make the ring inside a carport with a security camera. Lisa Quick of South Lake Tahoe, California heard "strange growling" coming from her carport. ...

In 1931, Rome, under control of Benito Mussolini, gifted a statue of the Capitoline Wolfa scene from the legendary founding of Rometo the Ohio city of Cincinnati which was named after the Roman states...

Last night Carla and I rewatched Smooth Talk, a 1985 movie directed by Joyce Chopra and starring Laura Dern as Connie. It's an excellent movie, marred only by the anachronistic inclusion of James Tay...

A black bear wanted to join a couple and their three young kids on a popular hiking trail in Whistler, Canada, following them for about 20 minutes (see shortened 41-second clip below). The family, who...

Votes are still being tallied from last weekend's Texas GOP platform convention, but the outcome is already wild. The Republicans voted on such things as formally rejecting the results of the last Pre...

Via CBS News:History was made in Massachusetts recently when two TikTok stars created the world's largest chicken nugget.Nick DiGiovanni and Lynn Davis, who previously concocted the biggest cake pop o...

The Texas Repuliblican Party announced its official platform today40 pages from the tribal fever swamp lurching deep into election conspiracy theories, homophobia and racism."We reject the certified r...

Bill Clinton was a guest on the Late Show last week and Reggie Watts asked the former president about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. The audience laughed but Clinton responded: "That's a legitimate qu...

I remember the first kit I bought that came with a LEGO brick separator, and I was a bit baffled. I must have dozens of them, and I've never actually found the tool to be that useful — this vide...

The Umbrella Academy is my favorite of the current raft of superhero shows airing across every network, streaming service, and in-flight entertainment channel. I am excited to the week is finally here...

Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right Marine Le Pen in France's recent presidential elections, but his centrist coalition has now lost control of parliament there, its majority stripped to the bone by th...

Threatening to kill Democrats with weapons has become a main staple in GOP candidate ads, but here's a twist: Republican Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens threatens to shoot up his own party as ...

Despite feeling like a dead franchise for years, Avatar hasn't slowed its financial momentum since its release. Breaking the box office during its initial run, Avatar sat at the top of the c...

Having a pair of reliable headphones has become as essential as having your phone, wallet, and keys when leaving the house. However, not all wireless headphones are created equal. Some don't...

In this BBC Reel, they look at the resurgence of a Mayan ball sport, called Juego de Pelota, which is approximately 3,000 years old. It was played by the Maya, the Aztecs, and the Inca. The soccer-lik...

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is one of my absolute favorite comic book series of all time. I fell in love by the middle of the very first issue, when King Mob, Morrison's pseudo-self-insert in the ...

I love Nintendo, but in a weird Stockholm Syndrome kind of way. My affection for Nintendo exists because I have no vessel in which to pour my adoration for Sega. I grew up a Genesis kid. Mario and his...

Like the landscape where most of the genre's stories are set, the Western genre is an arid plain. Hollywood will crank out a big-budget Western that serves as a love letter to the genre every few year...

Anime is mainstream these days. The era of waiting weeks to download fan subs to finish your favorite series may be over, but that doesn't mean modern fans aren't as passionate as their forebears. I'd...

We've abandoned several outmoded elements of sitcoms in the 21st century, and television is all the better for it. However, there's one aspect of older sitcoms that I miss. Remember when sitcoms used ...

In this footage, one is transported to a canoe somewhere in Northern Ontario. One is accompanied by an Akita and all the time in the world....

I have a real thing for weird-looking dogs. To me, they are the best-looking dogs. I've gatheredsome of my favorite weird-looking internet dogs for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!Gus Calhoun View...

At this point, most people have no problem with a grown adult enjoying cannabis. It's 2022, not 1992. That being said, if you're a grown adult enjoying cannabis in 2022, it's probably time to ditch th...

Peruse this list of awesome animal dads, then call your own dad, if you can and/or want to, and say Happy Father's Day! (Shout out to my own terrific dad I'm excited to see you next week in Louisiana...

Golden Retrievers are darling clowns, and this one has a fantastic moral compass. Clearly, the gentleman is messing with the dog and testing its limits, but the pupper has grandma's back never mind th...

A List Of People I Am Mad At is the name of a wildly entertaining weekly newsletter by Scaachi. The latest one, A(nother) Very Special List Of People I Am Mad At, 6/13/22, had me laughing from start t...

An opossum was found in Wyoming hiding under a house. Since opossums don't typically live in Wyoming, animal control experts believe it hitched a ride from another state, possibly on a semi-truck. The...

Secrets From The Future is a song about data encryption by MC Frontalot. Its lyrics have been processed into the MidJourney text-to-image AI. The results are freaky in their dystopian-looking interpre...

The "Awwww" meter goes right off the charts for this super cute dude keeping his buddy's power nap 100% safe. I love how he makes the save and then just goes back to laughing and enjoying whatever is ...

I always enjoy short YouTube videos about engineering marvels, and this one is pretty incredible! The Palace Theater in New York is being preserved by raising it 30' off street level. ...

There is no better way to let your husband know you purchased him a pig than to make an experimental short film like this one Your New Pig Is Down The Road. It's an ethereal visual collage of abstract...

A Boy And His Atom earned the Guinness World Records record for the "World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film." (See how it was created here). What you see on screen are individual carbon monoxide molecules ...

When your week is winding down, and the floor is littered with dog hair, abandoned toys from your toddler, and everyday household dust, the last thing you want to do is summon the energy to plug ...

Andr Deed: Cretinetti che bello! Is a silent comedy film from 1909 about a man who wears an outfit so stylish that he drives the town mad. His fancy white suit, pointy shoes, and powdered nose are too...

Trump-loving Kari Lake, who is running for Governor in Arizona, has recently joined her fellow Republicans railing against drag shows and wanting to "protect" children from drag queens.They kicked God...

This summer, I got invited to emcee a wedding reception in Italy for an old friend from art school and his fiancee. I was honored to be part of their union and especially stoked for the chance to get ...

Abita Springs, Louisiana (which isn't too far from New Orleans), is famous for being the hometown of the Abita Brewery Company, which brews some decidedly delicious beers. If you are lucky enough to s...

Many are still reeling from the May 24, 2022 mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, TX. Since Uvalde, 57 more mass shootings have occurred (up through noon on June 18, 2022), according to th...

This rental truck looked like they considered not smashing into the bridge, and then they goes for it. Oh well, at least the driver didn't try again. I thought they might.Image: screen grab...

VICE recently wrote a profile of Bartosz Bruski and a group of his friends and fellow LARP enthusiasts who have created an "American 4th of July" LARP at a resort outside of Warsaw, Poland. Bruski is ...

Processed cheese brand Velveeta is getting weird, y'all. First, in November 2021, they launched their rebranding and ad campaign, "La Dolce Velveeta," which, according to AdWeek, set outtopivot Velvee...

In a world of easy online shopping and constant Instagram inspo, it can be challenging to find decor and artwork for your home that's truly unique. At some point, it feels like everyone has identical ...

This 1980s Black Flag skateboard commercial features graphics created by Raymond Pettibon, who is also well known for drawing Black Flag Album covers. FYI, if you're not familiar with his stuff, Petti...

This cute and smart chimpanzee knows how to use clippers to cut his nails. It's amazing how confidently he uses the tool. My friend and I were just talking this morning about how animals are much smar...

Stewart's Petrified Wood is a must-see destination along Route 66. There, you'll find dinosaurs and ostriches that have been carved from petrified wood by Charles Stewart. Some of the dinosaurs have m...

The Conceptual comics page on Monoskop is a fantastic resource for discovering and viewing media that blurs the line between fine art and comic books. There are free PDFs of the comics on the page as ...

The bishop of the Diocese of Worcester of the Catholic Church has excommunicated a school or something. I don't know how it works, but because this school hosts symbols representing that people should...

In the continuing drama relating to Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's performative management style being a distraction to employees at his government-subsidized SpaceX legal experts have weighed in, and the ret...

The saga of San Francisco's Millennium Tower continues. An engineering design review of Ronald Hamburger's new plan to only use 18 pilings, vs the prior 52 piling design, found no reason to withhold a...

Disinformation Dozen hall-of-shamer Dr. Christiane Northrup posted yesterday on Truth Social that she has been using what she calls the "Jamaican remedy" to restore her sense of smell.I have no contex...

English band Prefab Sprout had more fun with the early music video genre than most. The frog is really sweet.Image: screen grab...

Even a haven starts feeling like a cage when youre used to roaming....

'National Enquirer'When senior members of Britain's Royal Family talk, they talk to the 'National Enquirer.'At least, you'd be forgiven for thinking so after reading this week's cover story: "Kate Fin...

In what could be an SNL parody sketch if it had been played by anybody else, Donald Trump performed a standup routine, dubbed a "keynote address," at the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Nashville ...

Leo Moracchioli is my favorite metal-covering YouTuber. This is a satisfying cover of a favorite. Image: Screen grab...

Meet Murph! You know the type of zombie which is a human completely taken over by a cordyceps-like fungus? Murph is like that, but the pathology is Morgellons. Murph could star in one of those unsettl...

Sunday is Juneteenth, commemorating the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black people in the United States were informed of their freedom, and to celebrate, NASA is premiering a new documentary abou...

Since 1944, Gallup has polled Americans on their belief in God. Up until 2011, at least 90% of people in the US were believers. Since then, the number has dropped and it's now at its lowest low since ...

I use my Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headset almost every day to exercise using the awesome Supernatural fitness app. I also use it to play Beat Saber, and explore Google Street View with Wander.This...

Take a break from work and watch this mesmerizing video of fireflies (the really cool part kicks in around the one-minute mark). Aeon describes the scene:The Anamalai Tiger Reserve in southern India i...

The only thing worse than a broken heart is a broken planter. You could throw it out with the rest of the garbage polluting planet earth, making us all a little worse for the wear, or you could g...

Over the last several decades, Dr. Christiane Northrup has built a career as a major player in women's alternative healthcare and healthcare advocacy. Johnathan Jarry of McGill University describes Dr...

You need not worry about Heaven having enough sabertooth tigers, wooly mammoths, and pterodactyls to accommodate everyone who wants to ride them. Christian prophet Kat Kerr, an anti-vaxxer and MAGA lo...

In the Back to the Future trilogy, they say "back to the future" with great frequency. Of course, repetition is a classic advertising technique to create durable memories of a brand or product. image:...

A dog happened upon a lone leaf in his yard, investigated with vigorous sniffs, and decided there was cause for concern. Barking ensued as the shady suspect stood its ground. In the end, the dog's hum...

Fifty years is a long time. But Roxy Music, the band's eponymous first album from 1972, seems like a teenager.From The Wall Street Journal:Released 50 years ago this month in the U.K., and in November...

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover sent home a photo of a piece of litter on the Red Planet's surface. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed the trash is from the rover's landing. From a NASA post on Fa...

Kei means light in Japanese. Keitora are ultra compact Japanese trucks. My friend Todd Lappin imported a kei firetruck from Japan to San Francisco. He posts photos of it on Instagram. If you want to ...

In what appears to be a case of Trump rage driving, a 46-year-old Massachusetts man made short work of a Trump merchandise store when he crashed into it on Thursday. The driver sped his Volkswagen Jet...

Just look at the fine work that concreter Shane did on this driveway and steps leading to a house."Two o'clock and I finished the job," he says as he takes a selfie video with the house behind him. "W...

From the "no duh" files, NORML offers information on a recent study of pot smoking and distracted driving. The study reveals that people who smoke pot on a daily basis drive better when under the infl...

The Verge has gotten ahold of a purported open letter from "a spectra" of SpaceX employees to company President Gwynne Shotwell, who recently defended CEO Elon Musk from harassment claims, complaining...

"A few months ago, a source called with a totally bananas tip," tweeted Daisuke Wakabayashi, a reporter for The New York Times. "An ex-contractor was suing Google, saying he was fired for complaining ...

As the United States suffers increasing fires, floods and droughts and even house-slippage into rivers and seas Rep. Brad Wenstrup (ROH) thinks it's "bizarre" to tackle climate change as if our liv...

Do you like reciting "you know nothing" to random people in a northern English accent? Today is your day.Kit Harington is attached to reprise the role should a series move forward. The actor was twice...

"Kung Fu, Karate, Ninjitsu… nothing more than shadows. Sinanju is the sun." –ChiunHerein we see a true master. The student may bow deeper and appears prepared, but surprise strikes and the...

While sentencing anti-vaxxer and Capitol insurrectionist Dr. Simone Gold to 12 months of supervised release after 60-days in prison, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper also castigated her for usin...

You may not be a techie, per se, but when it comes to Apple products, you know your stuff. Ever since those colorful iBooks hit shelves back in 1999, you've been hooked, and with so many awe...

A study in the Journal "Computers in Human Behavior" showed that funny memes encouraged people to get vaccinated until COVID-19 vaccines were actually announced, and then the joking stopped and anti-v...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)To paraphrase the great and powerful George Carlin, we spend an inordinate amount of time discussing our differences. Wh...

A portrait of impunity and indifference: after killing Michael Trappett, the mentally ill man she was summoned to help, Sheriff's deputy Brittany Brokop is annoyed at the realization she will not be a...

Last August, sensational kid drummer Nandi Bushell was asked to play "Everlong" with the Foo Fighters at the Forum in Los Angeles (see video below). Now the 12-year-old, who jammed with Lenny Kravitz ...

Do you ever feel like they made a movie specifically for you? Because that's how I've felt about Netflix'sBlondesince they announced the project. I love Marilyn Monroe.That's a matter of public record...

Julian Assange, the alleged sex pest and confirmed poseur upon whom the most shocking relevations of government misconduct in decades were wasted, was nonetheless right about one thing above all other...

The comics world lost another legend. Following the tragic deaths of George Perez and Neal Adams, it breaks my heart to report that Tim Sale passed away at age 66. Sale, who frequently collaborated wi...

Gravity Falls is now an animated classic, produced by Disney Television Animation in the early 2010s. Creator Alex Hirsch, with some trepidation, posted an amusing collection of the company's objectio...

Every shot is perfect, up until the very end.Market Basket is proud to continue to serve our valued customers at our Billerica stores at 199 Boston Road and 700 Boston Road. Thank you @MattWBZ @wbznew...

The full title of Brian Doherty's new pseudo-art-history book is a mouthful; it's also a perfect microcosm for the author's popping prose style, while telling you everything you really need to know ab...

We fans of Gerry Anderson can't get enough of his Brit puppet shows. Even in a time of AI art, deep fake videos, and CGI technology breakthroughs, we still love his "Supermarination" (super + marionet...

Today (June 16) is Ziggy Stardust's 50th birthday, or rather the 50th anniversary of David Bowie's epic concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. To celebrate, Parlo...

343, the purveyors of Microsoft's Halo franchise, had the awesome idea of offering some sort of in-game trinket to celebrate Juneteenth, the US holiday that commemorates emancipation. Sadly, 343 someh...

I do not have any entertaining IE stories as I have been a Linux, and then an OS X user, since the early times. Design for IE has been a problem my entire career as no one I know has the browser. R...

CNN's new president Chris Licht told management and executive producers he'd like his team to steer away from using the term "Big Lie" when referring to, well, Donald Trump's big lie. You know, the fa...

"I think my mailbox is magnetic," said Reddit's u/fatjammin, and after looking at this video, I see what they mean. There is something about this little mailbox, first on a white post, and then a brow...

After a lot of whipsawing remarks about staffing in response to a recession that rapidly disappeared, and then asking their staff to prepare for a crazy end of quarter delivery push, Tesla is rising p...

When you live your life on the go, finding time to cook is challenging. You might resort to unhealthy and unappetizing snacks just to make it through the day. It doesn't have to be that way, though. Y...

While visiting John S. Taylor Park in Largo, Florida, Foster Thorbjornsen noticed a large alligator in the lake. This is the same lake where just two weeks ago another gentleman was looking for frisbe...

In a recent interview at TechCrunch 2022, Bill Gates once again expressed his opposition to cryptocurrencies and NFTs, stating that average investors should not follow the lead of celebrities who are ...

Moscow-based musician and luthier ArtMayer so loves McDonald's french fries that he fashioned them into the body of a Les Paul-style electric guitar. From Louder Sound:"I dedicate this video to all fr...

Moscow-based musician and luthier ArtMayer so loves McDonald's french fries that he fashioned them into the body of a Les Paul-style electric guitar. From Louder Sound:"I dedicate this video to all fr...

"Cheap" is in the eye of the beholder, or rather the wallet of the spender. At the same time, the cliche that you get what you pay for does't always apply, especially when it comes to restaurants. So,...

Justin and Hailey Bieber have had a rough time lately. Justin recently suffered facial paralysis and has been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, a complication of the shingles virus that can lay dor...

During the first part of the pandemic, I started a new hobby: visiting roadside attractions. It's been such a fun way to see the glorious weirdness that's often hidden right off the beaten path. One o...

It looks like Mike Lindell's pillow empire as finally lost all its stuffing, as the MyPillow peddler announced last night that Walmart dropped his products. This comes after a petition with 100,000 si...

For better or worse, the United States has never been a democratic nation. It is supposed to be a republic, one in which the people elect those who represent them and make the laws that govern them. H...

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk reminded folks of his chosen nickname, "Techno King of Tesla," in what was probably the most normal moment of his All-Hands meeting with Twitter employees. The meeting has been de...

Over at Instructables, atossa has posted instructions for making a lot of cool things, such as a gravity-defying ramen cake, a zombie Snow White cosplay costume, and homemade cleaning putty. She recen...

Georgia's Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who revealed on Tuesday he had a second son a kid he reportedly never sees just admitted that, presto!, he actually has two more children never disclosed ...

How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan's excellent book about his experiences with psychedelic drug therapy, has been adapted as a four-part documentary series for Netflix, hosted and co-produced bt ...

On Star Trek: The Original Series, if a character is wearing a red uniform, there's a good chance they be did within the hour. From Memory Alpha:In the era regularly depicted in Star Trek: The Origina...

These email excerpts from Disney's censors to Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls, show the joys of working with corporate legal departments. Having had to deal with internal legal approvals for adv...

If you've checked fares on flights lately, you may be surprised at how expensive air travel has become. Delta CEO Ed Bastian told attendees at an industry conference last week that airfares are 30% mo...

The Smithsonian reviews some of J.R.R. Tolkien's most lavish and enchanting artwork, as painted for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.Audiences can now view a selection of Tolkien's rarely seen Lor...

My parents spared no expense to instill the putrid reality of American racism into my mind. I studied W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey extensively while I was memorizing my multiplication tables. Th...

It would seem the latest set of emails from disgraced Trump lawyer John Eastman have finally got the January 6th select committee curious about the seditious spouse of a Supreme Court Justice, Ginni T...

A reportedly unoccupied garbage truck in Pittsburgh on Wednesday tried to make a quick getaway but lost control, tipping while careening down a hill (video below) and causing "major damage," according...

Summer school participants at Glacier Valley Elementary School in Juneau, Alaska, received glasses of floor sealant for breakfast in place of milk at a summer school program.Juneau School District Sup...

Regulatory data shows that Tesla's "autopilot" feature was involved in 273 crashes in the last year, far more than previously reported. Worse, the reason autopilot's involvement went unreported is bec...

If you like to live by the phrase "work hard, play hard," then Muff Waders has the perfect product for you. This lifestyle brand was started by Taylor "Earl" Nees, who defines himself as a simple...

The Wall Street Journal reports thatVince McMahon, chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment, paid a woman who used to work for it $3 million in hush money.World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s board i...

As the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender inches closer to release, fans have become increasingly apprehensive. To be fair, can you blame them? The last time there was a li...

I find old photos endlessly entertaining. Or, to be more specific, the wacky fashion trends that run rampant in old photos. Outside of the one year when I bought the tall white tees that were fas...

Bitcoin's teasing its holders with a sub-$20k valuation for the first time in 18 months, reports NBC News. It's at $21,013 this morning.The world's largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 7.8 percent t...

At a point in my late teens, I would randomly quit jobs for preposterously trivial reasons. If the wind blew too hard while I was leaving the house, it was a sign that I should stay homeindefinitely. ...

Happy Pride month everybody! Bloomberg just reported that Starbucks' latest union-busting efforts include an explicit threat to the healthcare benefits of trans employee, in order to protect their cap...

Next month, Amazon Prime TV will release the first episode of Paper Girls, the phenomenal coming-of-age 80s time travel adventure comic by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang. Paper Girls launched right...

CNN Travel recently published an article about a new "conceptual" double decker airline seat arrangement that's had the industry buzzing. The "Chaise Longue (sic) Airplane Seat" is currently on displa...

A TikTok video ostensibly showing footage of thousands of dead cattle, accompanied by a dark, instrumental version of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," is currently making the rounds ...

This "house-ground cacao," vegan, organic sea salted dark chocolate is my current favorite.Most evenings 2 squares Hu's 'Salty Dark Chocolate' are my daily 'treat.' I try to keep refined sugars out o...

Like a child trying to concoct a good one after skipping a homework assignment, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (RGA) was seen today coming up with some creative reasons on why his "tour" group snapped photos o...

I had the great fortune to be in Porto, Portugal last week, and while I was there, I ate my very first (gooseneck) barnacles. They are bizarre and delicious sea creatures that you really should experi...

Want to give your brain a boost? Want to overcome mental blocks and brain fog? Think clearly? Stop procrastinating? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you might want to try something a lit...

I saw this most asinine bumper sticker today on a car in Phoenix. It's so painfully stupid I literally can't even. I'll just point out, though, that whoever created these stupid stickers misspelled mi...

Even in the coldest months of December and January, Mexico City's temperature doesn't usually drop below 44F. Until last Sunday, that is, when a freak storm covered Mexico's capital city in a white sl...

Tesla leaned hard into Bitcoin, purchasing $1.5B of the non-fiat currency in 2021. Since the time of Tesla's investment bitcoin's price has fallen dramatically, and it will be interesting to see how t...

Check out Drew Friedman's fantastic portrait of Brother Theodore. It's available in a limited edition of 15 signed and numbered prints.Born in Germany and a survivor of the Nazi death camp Dachau, The...

Hello everyone, welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week, after a short stay through customs, a wonderful box arrived from Italy: the GRP V22, an all-analog vocoder. GRP Synthesizer is ...

I live in Arizona. And it's hot. Like, really hot. Like, stupidly hot. Like, oppressively, infuriatingly, mind-blowingly hot. The Southwestern United States has recently been experiencing record-break...

Striking a blow against "homosexual colors", police in Saudi Arabia have expanded their crackdown on rainbow-coloured children's toys and clothing.The commerce ministry tweeted separately that its tea...

Another house has fallen into the water because of climate change and the extreme weather it is causing. This time, the house collapsed into the Yellowstone River, in southern Montana, On Monday June ...

People in Japan hurling "online insults" will now be thrown into jail for up to a year, or fined 300,000 yen (about $2,200), according to CNN. The new law, passed yesterday, was triggered when wrestle...

There's a funny meme about Louisiana's approach to invasive species that periodically floats across my social media feeds. While I currently live in Arizona, I grew up in Louisiana, and this meme defi...

After losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump told his supporters to give him their money for the "Official Election Defense Fund." They gave him $250 million. Of course, there was no such thing ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis who banned critical race theory in schools because he thinks educating children on systemic racism is "indoctrination" considers Elon Musk to be an African American. When told he h...

The fifth and penultimate episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi pretty much delivered what everyone knew it had to, with few added surprises. All the story elements people kind of care about but aren't really cor...

The World Health Organization says it will give a new name to the disease formerly known as monkeypox. They haven't announced the new name yet, but they said it will be "neutral, non-discriminatory an...

It appears that Britain also has that type of gentleman, ideotypically white and wholly confident in the forbearance of law enforcement, who likes to initiate hostile conversations with police officer...

New York's highest court has ruled that Happy, the 51-year-old Asian elephant who resides at the Bronx Zoo, is not a person. The Nonhuman Rights Project brought the case that Happy should be recognize...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican congresswoman often in the news for her outlandish and bizarre proclamations, last night outdid herself by blaming the tampon shortage on transwomen."Men...

The new Moog Mavis is a build-it-yourself semi-modular analog synthesizer with a budget price of $349.From Moog:With Mavis, users of any skill level can quickly build their analog synthesizer with min...

Herschel Walker is a constant source of delight to his fan base, which demands heavy doses of dishonesty and hypocrisy from their GOP Senate Candidate from the Peach State. This time, Walker pleased a...

Video released by the January 6th Committee (below) shows a Capitol "tour" led by Rep. Loudermilk (RGA) on Jan. 5th that, according to the Committee, focused on Capitol entrances, hallways, staircases...

Going on vacation is supposed to help you take a break from your real life and relax. But if you've ever spent hours hunched over your laptop looking for flight deals, it probably ...

The American Muckrakers PAC, Inc. (the same political action committee that leaked damning photos and videos about Rep. Madison Cawthorn), issued a press release claiming Rep. Lauren Boebert was an u...

Firewalkingstepping across hot coalsis a classic stunt popular among magicians, motivational speakers, and in some religious rituals and cheesy teambuilding programs. The secret is that the layer of e...

This is Lemu, a baby emu from Wisconsin who suffered a slipped tendon and was apparently kept in a tote bag. In very poor health, Lemu was rescued by Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary where they hoped ...

This is Lemu, a baby emu from Wisconsin who suffered a slipped tendon and was apparently kept in a tote bag. In very poor health, Lemu was rescued by Bella View Farm Animal Sanctuary where they hoped ...

French physician Paul Nogier (1980-1996) is considered to be a pioneer of auriculotherapy, a modern form of acupuncture in which the human ear maps to the entire body. In 1957, Nogier suggested that t...

When Futurama first hit the airwaves, I never thought the series would be as pivotal to my development as it became. Episodes like Jurrasic Bark helped me learn how to work through...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters in DC's Watergate Office Building that ultimately led to the resignation of disgraced President Richa...

Dall-E is among the most capable and pseudohuman of AI image generators, and what are we asking it to paint? Weird shit, obviously. There's a nice mix of the refined, convincing full model's work and ...

Remember the funny home video shows? In this footage, a cat opens five doors, four more than any of the relatively stupid felines that Arsenio Hall dug up....

PowerWash Simulator was released a year ago but is growing in popularity. In it, you powerwash things. "Players are looking to be soothed rather than exhilarated," writes The Economist's critic [archi...

The internet is responsible for a ton of negativity in the world. However, watching fandoms flourish because of how easily the net allows passionate people to connect might outweigh the web's unsavory...

Remember when almost every superhero movie sucked? With the genre's dominance in modernity, it seems like a lifetime ago, but there was a point when Hollywood couldn't crack the nut on the c...

Tom the Dancing Bug – Super-Fun-Pak Comix!Tom the Dancing Bug – EAT THE POORANNOUNCING THE BRAND NEW NEW TOM THE DANCING BUG BOOK, available this month! Volume 5 of The Complete Tom ...

No one could've predicted Squid Game's impact on the culture- not even Netflix. Prior to Squid Game, Netflix built a small catalog of Korean dramas under their ever-ballooning content umbrel...

Someone out there had Lady Gaga starring as Harley Quinn on their bingo board, and I'm vicariously excited for them. Fresh off the rumored reports of his promotion to a critical position in DC films m...

Hundreds of drivers took advantage of a 1979-era gas price "sale" when a Shell station manager in California accidentally set the price to 69 cents per gallon. The gas was supposed to cost $6.99 but t...

An acrobatic stunt went haywire last week when Spider-Man at Disneyland California Adventure Park tried to land onto a building but instead crashed into it. Not only did he drop out of sight, but he t...

Is your living space a little boring? Trust us you're not alone. It can be frustrating to come home after a long day of work to a home that, well, lacks pizazz. Perhaps your style is a bit out o...

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at Georgia's wackiest US Congressperson, Marjorie Taylor Greene. She wants to be sure you know that food feeds people, sheeple!Marge Greene presents her scie...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Neil Patrick Harris (@nph)For most people, Neil Patrick Harris' career revival came fromHarold and Kumar going to White Castle.Watching ...

Police officers in Coeur d'Alene, who arrested 31 alleged members of a white nationalist gang called Patriot Front on Saturday for conspiring to riot at a Pride parade, say they are now receiving deat...

Police officers in Coeur d'Alene, who arrested 31 alleged members of a white nationalist gang called Patriot Front on Saturday for conspiring to riot at a Pride parade, say they are now receiving deat...

There is apparently a horse race in Wales that's been held every year since 1980, pitting human beings against the mighty Equus. And this year, a human actually won, finishing a 22.5-mile race in 2:22...

Disney's Ms. Marvel just hit the company's streaming service this month, and the promotional machine for the series touted its "positive representation" of Southeast Asian Islamic culture. I...

If there's anything MAGA folk enjoy more than handing over their hard-earned money to hypocritic grifters, it's gobbling up lies from wildly unqualified candidates. Take former sportsball icon and GO{...

Security footage shows a dog poking around the family kitchen in Missouri, probably hoping for some tasty scraps, when it stands on two legs to check out a greasy pan sitting on the stove. The video b...

A Google Engineer named Blake Lemoine was placed on leave last week after publishing transcripts of a conversation with Google's AI ChatBot in which, the engineer claims, the ChatBot showed signs of s...

A Google Engineer named Blake Lemoine was placed on leave last week after publishing transcripts of a conversation with Google's AI ChatBot in which, the engineer claims, the ChatBot showed signs of s...

In this segment from 1987s Pillow Talk, host Emma Freud (great-granddaughter of Sigmund and niece of artist Lucian Freud) does everything she can think of to rattle Lemmy Kilmister's cage. She insults...

Security camera footage from inside Kansas City, Missouri home shows a curious dog standing up at the stove to check out a pan containing some leftovers and accidentally switching on the stovetop. Or ...

In Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & The Internet, Brian Knappenberger (director of The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz) looks at how terrible people use the Internet to do terrible...

Even though people employ the concept of navel-gazing as a pejorative insult, I still find my belly buttons remarkably intriguing. Ever since my mother elucidated the reason behind my belly button as ...

I had to make peace with a troubling fact, friends. I am an oldhead. In the world of Hip-hop, I'm a dinosaur that fondly remembers Lil Wayne as the most junior member of the Hot Boyz. Where once my op...

I've been cutting peppers in a way that closely resembles the chef's method. It's a great way to neatly cut the pepper into strips and not have to deal with the mess of getting seeds stuck to the Pep...

English speakers typically write hahaha to express laughter in an online message. They'll also use LMAO and LMFAO. In Nigeria, there's LWKM and LWKMD which means "Laugh wan kill me" and "Laugh wan kil...

I had to order a replacement charging case for my Airpods Pro.I have the AirPods Pro earbuds themselves, but I misplaced the charging case somewhere between putting them in my ears and returning home ...

I am famously on the record as an opponent of everything Journey. I hate that band. And I especially hate "Don't Stop Believing," to the point that I even included this little factoid in my profession...

The mother of Patriot Front member Jared Boyce, one of the 31 assholes detained before they could violently disrupt a Pride event in Idaho, has kicked him out of her house. Having tried all she can, t...

Rudy Giuliani has told so many Big Lies, the confused suspended lawyer can't keep them straight anymore. Such as yesterday, when he said 100,000 fake ballots were all for Donald Trump. (See video belo...

Here's a nod to more Milwaukee wackiness: it's home to the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. It's a crazy collection of thousands and thousands of bobbleheads. Sure, there're the usual spor...

I do not know much about the holy sacrament, except that I wasn't supposed to take it that one time I got in line at a friend's later-in-life first holy communion. This awesome pupper gets the whole t...

I'll never forget when I saw my first piece of Ruth Bader Ginsburg merchandise. On almost every New York City subway during 2016, I saw throngs of women, and several men, boldly wearing Notorious RBG ...

Here's something every smoker knows: While the quality of the product you're enjoying is crucial, the item you're smoking out of also plays a vital role in the enjoyment factor. For many smokers, that...

The only surprising thing about the Depp-Heard defamation trial was how it managed to sustain the crazy for so long. Heard apparently has not had enough, is still talking, and is passing some blame ar...

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission is using a one billion pixel orbiting camera to generate a 3D map of more than a thousand million stars in our Milky Way. The researchers have just released a ...

Above, the only known TV appearance of The Stick Men, a hyperkinetic, erratic, frenzied No Wave band from Philadelphia that made the scene in the early 1980s. This is their only known TV appearance, o...

The Jan 6th Hearings are a painful but necessary watch. Thankfully, we have a raft of late-night tv comedians who can point out the funny parts. One funny part you probably didn't miss? Rep. Liz Chene...

"Oh, it's just moved," said a man in Montana recording a weather-worn house perched over the Yellowstone River on Monday. A weekend of heavy rains and fast-melting snow in Yellowstone National Park an...

The US House committee has postponed Wednesday's scheduled episode of The January 6 Hearings. "It's not a big deal," said Representative Zoe Lofgren.She promised the show will return on Thursday ...

On Sunday, a stray dog jumped into a gorilla habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The gorilla appeared to be in no mood for guests. Fortunately, zoo staff managed to keep the two apart and rescue...

While I always find John Oliver right on, and right on topic, his Bing Crosby joke is a high point of this one for me, although dolphins. Mostly, it is just sad how beholden we all are to these few te...

A decision that either demonstrates a whole lot of confidence Musk will still be purchasing Twitter or is just extremely reckless, has apparently been made by Twitter CEO Para Agrawal. Certainly, Agra...

If your stress levels are affecting your sleep, you're not alone. According to the American Psychological Association, more than three-quarters of adults report symptoms of stress including headaches,...

A group of people described as "Proud Boys" disrupted a relatively new but beloved Bay area tradition, "Drag Queen Story Hour." Hosted at Bay area libraries the Drag Queen Story Hour program encourage...

At age 80, Senator Bernie Sanders has still got it. In fact, the sharp and spirited Independent from Vermont might be the only democratic politician who can swiftly put a Republican in their place. Wa...

It's white-knuckled time watching a house cat ward off a coyote that's at least three times its size. The poor tabby, caught on security footage, is cornered on a deck, and even when it attempts to es...

We live in a golden age of being able to watch television and movies. All of the best shows and films are right at your fingertips. But with this technology, we also face a new, modern dilemma: W...

Dr. Oz promised in a tweet Sunday to "end illegal immigration" if he wins the Senate seat in November. "As your United States Senator, I will fight to end illegal immigration and soft-on-crime policie...

Justin Fogarty generously gave step-by-step instructions for making a giant popsicle prop. I love the way the hot foam cutter carves through the insulation foam in the video....

A gentleman working in a Seattle police department will receive $1.52 million for joking about the Holocaust, sporting a Hitler-style mustache, and hanging Nazi SS insignia on his office door. Derek K...

New Zealand-born Kieran Wright was laid off from his marketing job and "decided to tap into his passion for the classic architecture of Los Angeles" by making stunning miniature models of iconic LA bu...

Until 1963, people were able to go into the Lascaux Cave in France to look at the ancient paintings there. But the moisture and CO2 from their breath began to destroy the paintings, so now it is forbi...

A pest exterminator company is offering $2,000 if you'll allow them to release 100 American cockroaches into your home and let them roam free for as long as a month. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based ...

In Odisha, India, an elephant that escaped from an animal sanctuary reportedly trampled a 70-year-old woman who was collecting water at a well. The woman, named Maya Murmu, was taken to a hospital whe...

Junior's eyes are riveted to a cue card as he shouts about Good Ranchers' steaks. According to the BBB, Good Ranchers' accreditation "was revoked by the BBB's Board of Directors due to failure by the ...

University of Tokyo researchers created a robotic finger that's covered in living human skin cells. Demo below. The technique involves soaking the robotic finger in a solution of collagen and human de...

What are the TSA rules on breast milk, camping stoves, human remains, live fish, antlers, baseball bats, shot-puts, skateboards, unbottled prescription medicine, cannabis, fireworks, gels, garment ste...

Belgian waffles are a blank template for unforgettable weekend breakfasts. From savory creations with avocado, bacon, and goat cheese to the traditional sweet kinds with berries, powdered sugar, ...

Above is "Windy day. Claude Monet," a 2012 painting by Ukrainian artist Oleg Shupliak. An "ambiguous image" optical illusion, there are four distinct images within the painting. According to Indy100, ...

Salem, Mass. police arrested Daniel Damien Lucey, 42, for attempting to burn down the city's Satanic Temple. Luceywearing a t-shirt with the word "God" emblazoned on itwas seen on surveillance video p...

Rep. Lauren Boebert (QCO) is now doing stand-up, laughing at her own "joke" over the weekend after telling a Christian group in Colorado that she hoped President Biden's "days be few." "I do want you ...

On a recent trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin I was reminded of the city's love of unpretentious, wacky fun. (Milwacky?) I met a friend for breakfast but he said first he had to drop off a VCR to be r...

The music cues, the color grading, the command of terror and irony alike: all the signifiers of an A24 trailer feast here on the remains of Mike Myers' numbing 2003 production of Cat in the Hat. YourM...

Brad Buxer, a keyboardist who worked with Michael Jackson, recently answered a query about the King of Pop's involvement in the soundtrack to Sega game Sonic the Hedgehog 3, which has many oddly Jacks...

A man was rushed to hospital after an explosion Saturday at a house in Warren, Michigan, which investigators claim was full of bombs. He lost his arms in the incident and was listed in critical condit...

In this footage, the UK's "fastest ferry" tears into Belmont Port in Unst in the Shetland Islands. This was years ago, yet "Shetland Drift" is still not a major motion picture or video game franchise?...

Living in an urban environment for most of my life has certainly impacted the way I look at cars. Carbon emissions aside, I accept that there is a need for them sometimes, even in a city. But in my ex...

I'm not ashamed to admit it; I watched more of the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard trial than I probably should have. Once the memes related to the trial started pouring into my Instagram feed, I figured ...

There is a glistening Shit Fountain in Chicago, Illinois, reminding you to pick up after your dog. It also serves as a tribute to doggy doo.Actual shit doesn't come out of the fountain (it's just plai...

Summer is here, which means we're spending less time under blankets and more time under stars. And, while we're no longer chasing the sun quite as fast, sometimes random household chores do need an ex...

This Game Boy that Survived a Bombing is on display at the Nintendo NYC store in Rockefeller Center. It was damaged when barracks were bombed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Despite its worn-down, part...

The Wave Organ is a huge musical instrument situated on a Jetty in the San Francisco Bay. This ocean-powered organ was built in 1986 by artist Peter Richards, in collaboration with the Exploratorium. ...

The Adventure Playground in Berkeley, California was built by children in 1979. Take one look at the photos of the playground in all its haphazard glory, and you'll see why it's a helicopter parent's ...

The Peephole Cinema is a literal hole in the wall that plays silent movies in San Francisco, California. This tiny theater is tucked away in an ally and plays a constant stream of silent movies. It ru...

Not far from a Pride event in Cour d'Alene, Idaho, Police stopped and surrounded a Uhaul loaded up with 31 folks with masks, shields, and who "looked like a little army." Police have confirmed that th...

The Ballad of the Grays is a song about alien abductions that played on Coast to Coast AM, Art Bell's paranormal late-night radio show, in 1998. The song is by the Dana Ray Band, who specialized in pa...

If you've ever come across a tiny horse figurine tethered to a ring on the ground in Portland Oregon, you've likely encountered one of the Portland Horse Rings. These metal rings on the sidewalk remai...

From your music streaming subscriptions and bank accounts to your work laptop, passwords unlock the most vital things in our lives. Unfortunately, that's a mess to track unless you...

The Smallest Museum In The World is a curated display of artifacts located inside a freight elevator in NYC. Visit the Mmuseumm website for hours and directions. I love the museum's emphasis on object...

Yahoo News reports thata Missouri woman sued her ex's car insurance company, Geico, after contracting an STDwhile having sex in his car. Thanks to the Missouri council of appeals, the woman won a $5.2...

A new report from the MIT Technology Review serves as perfect microcosm of everything wrong with the carbon credit system here in these United States of America. The article explores the case of the M...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and almost every popular adult animated sitcom can be traced back to The Flintstones. The Simpsons have been incredibly open about how much they ...

Whenever I watch documentaries, there's one thought that I can't shake: "how are these people filming this?" Moving toward the action is a required impulse for documentarians. No matter how horrifical...

Last month, for the second year in a row, maker-event doyen, Sherry Huss, and her husband, maker-musician, Joe Szuecs, along with a growing global community of maker-musicians, turned the virtual hous...

Thanks to social media, one can make a fortune through shameless publicity stunts and infamy. In any other era, Danielle" Bhad Bhabie" Bregoli couldn't have built a multi-million dollar...

I never imagined when watching the first episode of Key&Peele that America's next great horror director was sitting under my nose. During the first season of Jordan Peele's sketch show, ...

This footage of 1920s Paris in color is pretty amazing to watch. I've seen plenty of films from this era, but not much raw footage of people walking around the streets. It gives me this strange feelin...

In Florida's cadaver factory, expert artists and craftsmen work together to build artificial cadavers that look extremely realistic. In the video, you can see inside Syndaver Labs and watch the proces...

National EnquirerA week late and several dollars shot, the 'Enquirer' front page declares: "Johnny Beats Lying Amber!"It's a crude double entendre, subliminally suggesting that Depp "beats" his ex-wif...

From tripping on your shoelace to dropping your phone in the toilet, life is full of disappointing moments it's just the way it is. But why is it that your car never breaks down when you have a day f...

MTV Unfiltered was an American tv series that aired on MTV in the 1990s. Each episode featured a half-hour segment of viewer-produced footage. The footage would be sent in by viewers from around the c...

This adorable Orangutan Rambo is a musical genius. Watch him whistle into a recorder, strum, shake a tambourine, and play the xylophone. He's grooving. I love Rambo's little outfit, too. I want front ...

A while back, I posted this 1982 documentary about people in Gloucestershire, UK tumbling down a dangerously steep hill to try to catch a cheese wheel. The passion for cheese rolling is still going st...

Magnet Fishing is exactly what the title suggests. This activity includes casting a magnet into a body of water and seeing what it pulls out. The stronger the magnet, the more you'll be able to find, ...

At Ars Technica, Jeremy Reiner looks back on Apple's Newton Messagepad, a groundbreaking device that failed forward.The primary feature of the device, the handwriting recognition, did not work well ou...

Duke Nukem shone brightly, then shone not at all for a long time, then shone dimly again for a cathartic if unmemorable moment. And now he shall shine again, as a movie.Legendary Entertainment, the co...

Artvee is a free site where you can browse and download high-res, public domain artworks. You can search by artist, category, or keyword. In the abstract art section, there are 6,357 pieces of art to ...

Dog Mountain, a private 150-acre area in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, is always open to people and their pet dogs. Stephen Huneck and his wife, Gwen, bought the property in 1995 and then created the Dog Ch...

Since the start of the pandemic, there's been a big jump in marijuana use. However, the world is healing, and we're no longer stuck at home. So most of us can't toke up whenever we'd like. Unless that...

Goldens are goofy and the puppies are just the cutest. My Golden, Electra is the first puppy who was such a ridiculously cute baby that she's made me miss the puppy times and kinda want another. Howev...

The unbridled passion and creativity of artistic fans is one of my favorite elements of the internet. Whether it's fan fiction or cosplays, the level of talent possessed by "everyday folks" that aren'...

On this installment of Cartoonist Kayfabe, Ed and Jim do a deep dive into Jamie Hewlett's hugely influential 80s/90s comic, Tank Girl. As is always the case on a Kayfabe vid, the dynamic duo of comic ...

Stories about people sitting on heirlooms that could net them thousands have a special place in my heart. There's something so intrinsically alluring about people overlooking a prized valuable for dec...

When it comes to the subject of acapella music, I think Mr. Marshall Mathers said it best. In "three verses," his acclaimed treatise on verbal evisceration, Mr. Mathers claimed that he was "more towar...

Don't let the Pixar propaganda fool you, folks. We have to remain woke on this one. The new Lightyear movie is a hoax. The Disney and Pixar media machine will try and tell you that this upco...

Marvel has the Midas touch right now. On every front, the brand has become synonymous with superheroes. In some cases, Marvel characters-like Thanos and Deadpool- have become more recognizable than th...

A passenger is holding his phone out the window of a moving train as he records the Ganges river below him. And then suddenly his phone is gone. When viewing the below video at regular speed, it's alm...

Conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene outdoes herself once again, whipping up one heck of a potboiler that gives her Jewish space laser phantasy a run for its money. When fretting about the Jan. ...

Drawing is a beautiful skill to have, but for many people, their illustration prowess begins and ends with stick figures and barren trees. Creating lifelike scenes feels like an impossible task. But d...

After Alex Jones' various courtroom defeats, his companies declared bankruptcy. The effort, widely understood to be an attempt to delay and limit Jones' financial liability, hasn't gone well, and toda...

Rep. Elise Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, tweeted on June 3: "I am proud to announce my endorsement of my friend Carl Paladino in #NY23." Yesterday, an interview with candidate ...

Get ready for sriracha resellers gouging you for a fix. Huy Fung Foods, makers of the classic Sriracha you know and love, was forced to suspend production due to a chili pepper shortage. From Bloomber...

Patrons of the Scottsdale, Arizona restaurant The Mission are encouraged to lick the pink brick walls inside. The bricks are made of Himalayan rock salt.According to WLBT, "the head chef brought the r...

This image of a strange creature has been making the rounds on the weird Web for a couple weeks. It was purportedly taken just outside the Amarillo Zoo. Now, the City of Amarillo wants answers."We jus...

Yesterday, a fire crew rescued two people who had fallen into a vat of chocolate the Mars M&M factory in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. "Fire crews have eliminated pulling them straight out of a tan...

J.S.G. Boggs (1955-2017) is an artist we've featured many times Boing Boing. He drew semi-realistic-looking currency (on one side only) and then invited cashiers at stores and cafes to accept the draw...

After having been scammed online, Seth Green bought his Bored Ape back for $300k. Green may now continue with the television series he has planned around the NFT, while they were separated Green had l...

After having been scammed online, Seth Green bought his Bored Ape back for $300k. Green may now continue with the television series he has planned around the NFT. While they were separated Green had l...

When a jaywalker armed with a megaphone (gasp!) protested for women's rights in front of President Biden's empty motorcade, she was treated as if she were a dangerous criminal. Secret Service roughly ...

I unironically like the Brady Bunch's version of "American Pie." It's from Meet the Brady Bunch (1972), the pop group's second studio release.Other songs on the album include:We'll Always Be FriendsDa...

A real-life Charlie and the Chocolate Factory moment has apparently hospitalized two victims, however only one got a helicopter ride. CNN:Two people were rescued after falling into a tank full of choc...

Christopher Schurr, the Grand Rapids officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyola after he ran from the scene of a traffic stop, was charged with second-degree murder Thursday. Schurr unsuccessfully trie...

Christopher Schurr, the Grand Rapids officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya after he ran from the scene of a traffic stop, was charged with second-degree murder Thursday. Schurr unsuccessfully trie...

Who knew car insurance companies could be forced to cover sexually transmitted infections that are caught while inside an insured vehicle? In a bizarre court ruling, insurance company Geico must pay $...

I still try not to think about my Great Pyrenees, Nemo, too often. He passed away around 2 years ago. This video reminds me of what life was like living in the woods with a giant dog as your best pal...

AP reports that nonprofit org Global Witness bought 12 ads on Facebook that "used dehumanizing hate speech to call for the murder of people belonging to each of Ethiopia's three main ethnic groups th...

Here Congressperson Kevin McCarthy gets all screamy over Congress not staying in session to protect the conservative members of the Supreme Court who are gearing up to eliminate long-standing human ri...

A woman cut into her green (as in free range) chicken bought at a Brisbane, Australia supermarket on Tuesday, only to find the meat was literally green on the inside. "Picked up our fresh Lilydale Fre...

Luxury watches can often be seen as unaffordable and unattainable for the everyday consumer, making it impossible to own or gift one. Sthrling is a watch brand that chall...

It's that time again. Every few years, the Jurrasic Park franchise stomps into cinemas and upends the dominance of superhero films. For a few weeks, in either direction of the film's release...

I have never actually taken the time to watch this 'show' at Disney California Adventure, because all the YouTube, Twitter and TikTok clips pretty much show you what it is all about… waiting for...

The look on this little girl's face is just precious, and the dance battle is epic. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eggs Tyrone (@eggs.tyrone)...

The Comics Journal has assembled many wonderful remembrances of the late cartoonist Justin Green. Fellow cartoonists, former editors, friends and familyand his sign painter peerscontribute storie...

Ikea's Obegrnsad lineup, allegedly heading to stores this fall, includes a turntable designed with Swedish House Mafia.The OBEGRNSAD record player celebrates the timeless joy of the listening experien...

Though this is a parody, posted by Asher Puls, I'm absolutely certain it happened. ...

Years ago, actress Margot Robbie and Vogue spoofed the classic scene from American Psycho introducing the murderous and/or delusional Patrick Bateman. Here it is alongside the original, performed by C...

Dall-E Mini, by Boris Dayma and others, is a fast, accessible online version of the popular but invitation-only image generator Dall-E. Though the images it creates are not as refined or convincing, t...

The latest edition of the US Environmental Protection Agency's annual interactive air report was released on June 1, 2022, tracking trends in air quality and emissions data as well as overall environm...

I remember the conversation like it was yesterday. "So let me get this straight," I asked my dad, "your skin can grow back after you cut it, but your arm can't?""Nope, never," he said. "But they can g...

Prepare to be blinded by some serious flower power! In this clip from 1968, Liberace and the gang are feelin' groovy, and performing it. I checked, born in 1919, he was in his late forties when this w...

"This was no tourist visit to the Capitol," Rep. Bennie Johnson (DMNS) said as he introduced the Jan. 6 hearings last night with footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. And he warned that the vide...

Business Iceland has a fun new campaign to drum up international hype about their delightful little fae-inhabited island nation: outsourcing emails to Icelandic horses while you travel.No seriously th...

It's been interesting to see career politician Elise Stefanik morph from a plain old Republican into a rabid MAGA sycophant in a few short years. Stefanik, who chairs the House Republican Conference, ...

A tiny truck bit off more than it could chew when it tried to lug a large pipe twice its size. Not only did the heavy load cause the truck to stall, it also forced the little guy to pop an impressive ...

A man in Louisiana stops on the side of the road to rescue a stranded kitten. But as soon as he picks it up, a pack of at least 10 kittens come out of their hiding places and surround him, all mewing ...

"It's all fake!" the GQP's Marjorie Taylor Greene says about the Jan. 6 hearings, which haven't even started yet (they start tonight). Isn't that what guilty people do accuse the accuser with a preem...

There's never been a better time for the game of golf. According to popular golf publication Golf Digest, interest in the sport has peaked over the past two years as it added half ...

In his newsletter, Mike Elgan explains why Musk will do everything he can to squirm his way out of his impulse decision to buy Twitter. Not only would it be financially disastrous for the world's rich...

Marjorie Taylor Greene angrily insisted that the January 6 insurrectionists' "due process rights are being so fragrantly and horrifically violated." Call to odor! Something stinks in DC!(Thanks, Bob P...

When it comes to November 2022 candidates, the GOP sure knows how to pick 'em. As in leading candidate for governor Ryan Kelley, who was arrested this morning for his alleged involvement in the Capito...

Federal agents are now allowed to physically assault you with impunity if you live within 100 miles of a coast or border in the United States, thanks to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. From Governme...

Baby Yoda remains the cutest member of a pretty insane cast of cute Star Wars monsters. I have pre-ordered this solar-powered, waving The Child as a gift for my child's coming 16th birthday. Image: ma...

Adtech watchdog Check My Ads, which launched a successful campaign to convince major advertisers to stop running commercials on the insurrectionist propaganda machine Fox News, is now setting its sigh...

Part of Discovery's Undiscovered program, Dr. Delirium & the Edgewood Experiments is an 80-minute documentary covering a 20-year experiment by the US Army of test psychoactive drugs on its own tro...

NASA announced that the agency is commissioning a new independent study of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, also known as UFOs. In their statement, NASA states that "there is no evidence UAPs are extra-...

"The FBI knew that Larry Nassar was a danger to children when his abuse of me was first reported in September of 2015. For 421 days they worked with USA Gymnastics and USOPC to hide this information f...

Ryker Webb, age 3, spent Friday through Sunday lost and alone in a part of rural Montana where mountain lions and bears roam. On the night he vanished, the temperatures dropped into the 40s and severe...

On Monday in Riau, Indonesia, Hasanal Arifin jumped a guardrail at the Kasang Kulim Zoo so he could get closer to an orangutan for a video that he intended to post to social media, according to Tribun...

Big companies patent their ideas for all sorts of reasons. "Because we plan to actually make and sell it" is much lower on the list than most of us realize. In honor of this fact comes a funny and fas...

A photographer captured this battle off the Australia's Ningaloo Coast in which a tiger shark went after a sea turtle. Impressively, the sea turtle flipped itself over in the water so its shell was do...

With timeless artist Kate Bush enjoying mainstream success thanks to her enchanting 1985 number "Running Up That Hill" (below) featuring prominently in the new season of Stranger Things, it's a fine t...

Taking care of your teeth is never a one-and-done sort of thing. It's something you do upkeep on, and most people know the broad strokes of what you're supposed to do. Brush regularly, floss hopefully...

Eric Weyda, 50, a police officer in Cincinnati, had the words "PURE EVIL" tattooed on his knuckles, reports The Enquirer. They first reassigned him "to limit his exposure to the public", then fired hi...

I wore my copy of Tenacious D's self-titled debut down to the bone in my teen years. You could wake me up from a medically induced coma and ask me to sing Double Team, word for word, without fudging a...

I, for one, am thunderstruck....

It took me a minute, but I finally watched Being the Ricardos. My reluctance to watch the film wasn't tied to apathy around the movie's subject matter. I'm a Superman, Star Trek, and, m...

Watching technology develop, albeit glacially, throughout my life has been spellbinding. During the halcyon days of my youth, an anthropomorphic hedgehog collecting rings was the pinnacle of video gam...

Kate Bush's "breakout" 1985 hit, "Running Up That Hill," is back on the global 2022 charts, thanks to the track's use in season 4 of Stranger Things. NPR:By last Tuesday, the song had reached the Top ...

In this recent interview, Tom Power of Q on CBC talks to auteur filmmaker and body horror OG, David Cronenberg. Among many other fascinating subjects (the future of eating plastic, a world that no lon...

My main exposure to Black Adam comes from DC's 2006-2007 miniseries 52, in which the anti-hero's plotline mostly involves starting a family and learns what it means to protect his home. It's a compell...

I've spent the last 15 years actively trying to forget high school, and it's actually been going pretty well. Whenever I flashback to the era, I see a haze of faces and events that thankfully become h...

If you've been wondering what direction goremeister Rob Zombie might take his Munsters film, wonder no more. From this teaser trailer, things look surprisingly true to the original series. And it's ra...

I love intentionally atavistic entertainment. And I don't mean atavistic from the lens of irony, mind you. I like work that tries to modernize the tropes and genres that used to captivate millions of ...

When a slew of respiratory ailments tied to vaping started popping up in news outlets across the country, I couldn't say I was surprised. During the peak of vaping's initial popularity, my smoke-spewi...

From the Tropiquarium Zoo in Servion, Switzerland, where this rare white reptile was born (via Google Translate):We were surprised to discover a baby albino among our giant baby turtles in the Galapag...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (RTX), always the ignoramus, thought he found the solution to ending gun violence in America today: more thoughts and prayers. "Look, maybe if we had more prayers from leaders in th...

An altercation during an arraignment in Albany, New York turned pesky yesterday morning when someone released hundreds of cockroaches into the courtroom. It's not clear who opened up the plastic conta...

CPR News can not confirm that all of the 3,700 democrats in Western Colorado who have switched their party affiliation to unaffiliated, did so to vote against the bloody diarrhea-inducing pork slider ...

In real life, you would never recite your credit card information or Social Security number in public. But online, that's what we do all the time: We constantly have to plug in our financial reco...

I recently took a class at Harvard in (big breath) the International Political Economy of Decarbonization, taught by the fantastic Juergen Braunstein, author of (big breath) Capital Choices: Sectoral ...

A cyclist won the third stage of an annual road race in Colombia before running over his wife, sending her to the hospital. Luis Carlos Cha can be seen on video (:34 below) victoriously holding his ar...

Signaling even more trouble for Colorado's GQP Congressperson and reputed long-distance driver Lauren Boebert, the same folks who released tons of awful and career-limiting information about Madison C...

Comedian Jason Alexander, known for his role as the hilariously lazy and insecure George Costanza in Seinfeld, has made a PSA-style video (see below) urging people to pay attention to the January 6 he...

Along with TV and movies, videogames are slowly (albeit too slowly) catching up to reality with representations of diversity including LGBTQ+ characters. In celebration of Pride Month, Wired's Reece R...

In this video, Rafael Vital and his vulture companion fly over Serra Aratanha Pacatuba in Brazil. After a little while, the vulture takes a break and hitches a ride on Vital's shoe. View this p...

In celebration of World Oceans Month, NASA used sonofication software to transform images of the ocean captured by satellites into pleasant New Age and ambient music. "Experience the swirls off the co...

Sounds like Twitter's management, in an attempt to unstick the deal to sell their financially unsuccessful microblogging platform, is handing over all the data Elon Musk has been publicly insisting is...

Kudos to the uncredited artist here who starts by drawing pictures of what some might misinterpret as naughty bits and finishes with drawings that would be acceptable in a coloring book. Click to exp...

Gov. Greg Abbott is fine with 18-year-olds buying AR-15s over the counter in Texas without even a background check. Rep. Ken Buck (RCO) thinks he needs an AR-15 to protect his chickens. And Sen. John ...

Suna Karabay (45) has driven the No. 15 city bus on Denver's Colfax Avenue for almost ten years. Eli Saslow of The Washington Post rode the route with her. Every paragraph of his story has something s...

While this attempt at jousting from bicycles ends as expected, I still had to watch it two or three times. These aficionados of medieval battle experienced a good, old-fashioned highspeed impact. Luck...

Colin Morris, who has written a few Wikipedia articles that don't get many views, was interested in finding the least-viewed article on Wikipedia. He performed an interesting data analysis of Wikipedi...

On Monday in Salem, Mass, a man took red paint to the town's iconic statue of Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha from the classic 1960s TV show Betwitched. The statue was installed in 2005 amid controve...

I woke up early, because like Obi-Wan I'm not staying up late in my 50s, but I urgently wanted to watch this show. The episode gives you some of the "Obi is coming back" that you are looking for, whi...

Bo Burnham pretending to be both Joe Rogan and one of his edgy comedian guests is more of a reenactment than parody.Bo Burnham just summarized every episode of the Joe Rogan podcast pic.twitter.com/rk...

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that people have been buying, and renting units in San Francisco's ever more leaning Millennium Tower undeterred. There are many fairly obvious reasons I would walk...

Michael Edwards created a modern trailer for Aliens (1986). It's quite thrilling, and hopefully won't inspire a studio to "remake" the film.image: gorkem demir/Shutterstock...

Let's face it, life can get hectic with trying to stay on top of your busy schedule and remembering every task that pops into your head. Well, now it's time to breathe a sigh of
...

The Foo Fighters and the family of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died suddenly in March, announced two tribute concerts in his memory. The showsSeptember 3 in London and September 27 in Los Ang...

According to Deadline, aSesame Streetmusical is set to hit Broadway on September 22nd of this year. The show will run until November 27th and is a product of director and producer Johnathan Rockefelle...

Via Perfect Union:Strippers in Los Angeles are trying to form America's only unionized strip club. Dancers at Star Garden started organizing with Strippers United after two workers were fired for voic...

You likely knew that the original Emperor Palpatine in 1980's Empire Strikes Back was performed by Clive Revill, but he in fact provided only the audioas a quick favor for director Irvin Kershner, a f...

Last March, I shared a piece from Aaron Reed's delightful SubStack newsletter 50 Years of Text Games about the original 1982 Hobbit text adventure. Reed ended up covering a full 50 years worth of text...

Cory Doctorow writes about the appalling reality of DRM wheelchairs. When these devices fail they trap people in their homes and beds, and manufacturers use copyright law to prevent them being repaire...

ANNOUNCING THE BRAND NEW NEW TOM THE DANCING BUG BOOK, available this month! The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug program keeps on chugging with Volume 5, Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor! Info: RI...

The innumerable claims about George Orwell's prescient genius are now clich. It should be easy to dismiss the correlations that people draw to Orwell's masterpiece and our societyif only they weren't ...

I liked Joker; I didn't love it. I'm more fascinated by what Joker represents for the future of cinema. I'm sure you've heard the chorus of filmmakers chiding Marvel for ruining mo...

Retro Renovation's Pam Kueber presents a brief history of steel kitchen cabinets, with lots of ads and other old photos to tell us what we're missing here in our dismal MDF future.Frank Lloyd Wright w...

Netflix has uploaded a teaser trailer for Wednesday, a spin-off of The Addams Family franchise, co-produced and directed by Tim Burton. The teaser description reads:From the imagination of Tim Burton ...

There are plenty of valid reasons to criticize Val Kilmer's turn as the Caped Crusader in Batman Forever. The same goes for its follow-up, Batman and Robin, which saw George Clooney take up the cowl a...

When I sit back and think about the sheer number of sitcoms from the 80s and 90s, my head starts to spin. I'm not one of those Millenials that has since turned my nose up at the concept of traditional...

The headline sounds like a snake oil ad, but Tirzepatide, a newly-approved drug to treat Type 2 diabetes, has been shown to help people without the disease lose dozens of pounds over just sixteen mont...

With the daily barrage of negative news coming at us 24/7, it's wonderful to find drone footage like this spectacular scene above the clouds as the sun rises in Virginia. Originally posted by Billy Bo...

Every time you turn around, it seems another celebrity is hawking cryptocurrency or NFTs. Influencer Kim Kardashian, boxer Floyd Mayweather, and former NBA athlete Paul Pierce have all promoted Ethere...

Two trucks tried to corner a loose cow that was running on an Oklahoma City highway, but the bovine escapee found an easy way to skirt around the trap. And then two cowboys entered the picture. COW ...

If you're in the market for your first laptop, looking for a change or business equipment, but don't want to drain your bank account, then you're in the right place. These ten refurbished laptops...

At New Jersey's Adventure Aquarium, a hammerhead shark cohabitating with a stingray decides the tank isn't big enough for the both of them. "Don't do that! That's mean!" exclaims one of the young onlo...

As anyone with a cat can attest, kitties have a high-jump superpower that kicks in when chasing a toy. (Or a wall-traveling laser pointer, which sets my own feline superhero into high gear.) The frisk...

Watching a skilled surfer skillfully navigate overcrowded waves in Bali looks like a challenge level from a water sports videogame. (Bonus shot of pro surfer Usman Trioko catching a wave at 2:06.)fron...

It's about time! Apple users including drunk texters and those with fat clumsy fingers prone to typos will now be able to unsend regrettable texts. They will also be able to edit texts that have alr...

Maarco29 is a FedEx driver. He was about to deliver a package to man in Washington state who started screaming about how he didn't want Maarco on his driveway. "I own this driveway and I own that driv...

This is certainly a catastrophic failure! Tweets further down the line suggest no one was hurt when this industrial extruder gave up and took out the building around it.Catastrophic failure at an alum...

The story goes that Michael Jackson dug "Weird Al" Yankovic's parodies of "Beat It" ("Eat It") and "Bad" ("Fat") but Jacko wouldn't let him release his take on "Black or White," titled "Snack All Nigh...

For all the things Beavis and Butt-Head represent that are reprehensible, somehow these guys just keep me laughing. The trailer seems to pick up right where we left the boneheads, and they just keep g...

For all the things Beavis and Butt-Head represent that are reprehensible, somehow these guys just keep me laughing. The trailer seems to pick up right where we left the boneheads, and they just keep g...

This brave chimp just can't stop itself from touching that gorilla butt. I guess no matter thespecies, butts are a universal joke....

The latest issue of The New Yorker has Patrick Radden Keefe's incredible story about Joshua Schulte, a former CIA coder who is threatening to expose CIA secrets if the government decides to pursue chi...

In Mysuru, India, a judge reflected on a recent case in which a husband and wife divorced because "the husband said his wife did not know how to prepare any food other than Maggi (instant) noodles." "...

Indicted on charges of fraud years ago, but not yet having stood trial, Texas AG Ken Paxton is demanding Twitter provide him data regarding spam and bot accounts. This number and Twitter's methods for...

Japan's IHI Corp has spent the last ten years developing a prototype of a 330-ton subsea turbine that converts powerful deep ocean currents into electricity. Yahoo Finance says "The tests proved the p...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's new unpaid intern is right up the Georgia GQP Rep.'s alley. Besides Milo Yiannopoulis's history of being a loud-mouth bigot and misogynist (to put it mildly) as well as a hate...

After you get tired of listening to wealthy fascist-adjacent bloviators complain to their millions of listeners about how they are being hurt by cancel culture, you can relax by tuning into one of man...

Although Paris is the City of Love, Disneyland Paris is the Kingdom of Ruined Marriage Proposals.This video shows a man and woman standing on a platform with Fantasyland's princess castle in the backg...

The gentleman in a contract to buy twitter discovers the true nature of the internet. YouTube seems to be nonstop scam ads— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 7, 2022...

Don't these guys treasure the free speeches? I am confused as to why covering a murder trial and exposing sadly newsworthy actions to the public is something we sue over? Two people are dead.Rittenhou...

Twitter provides this video showing us some of 100+ people's cobbled together living spaces, doing the best they can to survive in a moment, and it shows us some homes of the hundreds of neighbors sur...

Ice? Check. Decorations? Check. Good music? Check well, kind of, as long as you have good speakers to pump it through. Whether throwing a small dinner party or a full-on backyard blowout, no par...

An auction of CryptoPunks was called off at the last minute earlier this year. The "audible gasps at Sothebys"-tier event was brushed off by the seller as "nvm, decided to hodl" but that only poses mo...

Just when you thought mankind's best friend couldn't get any better for our healththey already boost our immune systems and sniff out illnesses with their hyper-sensitive noseshere come the Covid-snif...

Did you know that the original Top Gun movie, starring Tom Cruise, was based on a magazine story? It seems quite possible that Paramount Pictures, in making this year's Top Gun: Maverick, did not know...

North of the Border decided that what the world needs is a realistically-rendered Lego man, replete with wrinkles and other signifiers of human frailty and decay. "I'm sorry," he says....

One of my favorite scenes in Batman Begins is when Bruce escapes from the League of Shadow's HQ. No matter how many times I've seen it, the scene remains as pulse-pounding and exhilarating a...

Sequels have it rough. If the creative team behind the sequel for a successful movie plays things too safely and barely deviates from the original film, fans become disenchanted with the franchise. Pa...

Even though we're knee-deep in the era of comic adaptations, I'm shocked by what Hollywood has left on the table. After the glowing reception that The Walking Dead and Invincible h...

So, you've probably heard of truck nutz by now, or, if you live anywhere with lots of trucks, surely you've seen them in all of their naked glory. Well, move over, truck nutz, there's a new set of bal...

Honey thieves have recently targeted a Whole Foods in La Jolla, CA. They are specifically going after the Manuka honey, which the store sells for around US$60 per small jar, and which is now kept safe...

U.K. Sky News anchor Sophy Ridge has a way with words, turning the ordinary into risqu bloopers. While talking about Boris Johnson's confidence vote of which he narrowly won today, Ridge had a slip of...

Like a scene out of a 1920s Charlie Chaplin film, an unruly car takes off without its driver, flattening three young trees as it attempts to make a quick getaway. Suddenly a woman enters the picture, ...

Last night, Coldplay performed at MetLife Stadium in E. Rutherford, New Jersey. And when your band is playing in Jersey, there's always that chance the Boss may show, especially when you're Coldplay a...

Whether you're answering emails, writing documents, or whipping up complex expense reports, a fast, efficient processor is necessary. After all, if jumping from task to task causes your computer ...

Henry Tarrio, the Proud Boy leader and sometime FBI informant not even six months out of jail, was today charged with seditious conspiracy over his role in the 2020 sacking of the U.S. Capitol by supp...

On May 28, 2022 Sean Bickings, a 34-year-old man drowned, in Tempe, Arizona's town lake while police officers stood by, watching. The Tempe Police Department just released body cam footage and a trans...

Boris Johnson is widely loathed by the British public after lying to parliament about his Covid lockdown parties and sundry other bullshits. He nonetheless retains the confidence of his parliamentary ...

An unpaid internship for US Representative from the State of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene is all a failed social media pundit can achieve these days. After an older video of the pundit resurfaced wh...

I have a Golden and a Cavalier King Charles. Between the two of them, something cute is always going on. Golden Retrievers certainly show an ability to be good-natured goofballs who pretty much expect...

In the UK today, the world's largest trial of a four-day workweek has begun. More than 3,000 workers across a range of companiesfrom fish and chip shops to bankswill go from five to four work days for...

Staff from the Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica found a baby sloth all alone and crying on a beach last month. Its mother was high up in a tree, climbing toward the canopy. So after having a vet che...

Having seen Top Gun 2 I was saddened the only plot they could come up with was old man in old plane shows them young guys in newer planes what its like to be cool. The movie is a lot of fun, the sound...

There's nothing that young women leaders like more than to be told by a man what kind of man they should be attracted to. Thankfully, there was a man at the Young Women's Leadership Summit telling the...

This Week Tonight can and does go on and on and on about the stupid things people say and the stupid things that we as American's do instead of addressing the elephant in room: guns. Pretty much any o...

An article from the April 18, 1963 edition of the Massfield News-Journal promised "You'll be able to carry a phone in pocket in future."Right now, it's a laboratory development and it's workable, allo...

Miami isn't known to have more tourist scams than other U.S. cities of its size, but it does have a few traps to avoid, especially in the South Beach area, according to YouTube's Wolters World (see vi...

Dave Smith co-created the world's first microprocessor-driven polyphonic synthesizer in the '70s, co-authored the seminal engineering paper that led to the development of the Musical Instrument Digita...

Of all the koo-koo cults percolating across the American landscape today, "Sovereign Citizens" are probably one of the funniest, at least when you watch them spout their nonsense in videos like this o...

In Frederick County, Maryland, Heather Fletcher, a candidate for the Board of Education, was dismayed by a display of LGBTQ books at the public library. So she checked them all out in an effort to mak...

I recently spoke about how I grew up on cigarette ads in the 90s and 2000s, but the brands I mentioned in that piece were only the Black ones. I grew up on white cigarette ads too. On some l...

On June 30, 2012, Chris Cornell (1964-2017), of Soundgarden and Audioslave fame, performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival. With his haunting cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," Cornell does exact...

Uber released its annual Lost & Found Index with an analyses of numbers and trends regarding the items that riders left behind. The most commonly forgotten things are obvious: phones, wallets, key...

Bertrand Fan, an engineer at Slack, bought a used payphone on ebay and installed it in his house. The payphone had come from a Las Vegas casino ("which probably explained why it appeared to have perso...

The app put out by Tim Hortons turned out to be constantly recording movements, illegally collecting "vast amounts of location data" without users' knowledge or consent."The app also used location dat...

MAGA darling Kyle Rittenhouse posed as a silk purse last week, boasting on The Charlie Kirk podcast that he'd be attending Texas A&M University. But the university says they did not admit the youn...

Set to present a summary of their findings, the January 6th Committee is suggesting we're going to get a big reveal. Committee members remarks seem to be readying the public from some convincing if no...

Five-year-old Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani started playing the piano during the early days of the Covid lockdown in Italy, and now look at him. He recently won first place at the 10th International Mus...

It's fair to say that most of us are always looking for a way to find more comfort and lower our stress levels. And with good reason! Why shouldn't we feel good and comfortable mos...

Elmu, through his lawyers, today told Twitter that he plans to scrap his deal to buy the company if it does not provide him more information on the extent of its spambot problem. Jacob Kastrenakes:...

I got to The Sopranos party a little late. I probably could've gotten into the series when it was airing, but I think some of the themes would have eluded my 12-year-old brain. Also, Th...

It's been dubbed Dirty Bertie's Throne, aka the royal sex chair of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII of England (1841-1910). Edward…was famous for his outsized lifestyle and ...

In this amusing and all-but-flawless deepfake, CTRL ALT FACE not only gives us the Sylvester Stallone Terminator of longstanding parallel-universe imagination, but throws in a dozen other celebrities ...

Any fan of comics will let you know that it takes a lot to keep a superhero down. Even the most strategically brilliant villains like Doctor Doom and Lex Luthorwho have seemingly killed their rivals o...

One aspect of horror films that I can't help but enjoy is how effortlessly the genre can tackle any subject. On the one hand, you can get specific and use subgenres- such as body and cosmic horror- to...

I have always had a great amount of respect for Jack White, for his intelligence, his creativity, and obviously, his musicality. In this hour-long interview, fellow musician and radio host, Tom Power,...

Diablo Immortal, the new mobile incarnation of Blizzard's classic Diablo series, is an extremely polished action RPG that hits all the right notes. Better still, the vibe evokes Diablo II in particula...

Diablo Immortal, the new mobile incarnation of Blizzard's classic Diablo series, is an extremely polished action RPG that hits all the right notes. Better still, the vibe evokes Diablo II in particula...

With spring cleaning underway and summer coming in hot, its a great time to start looking at how to add life to your walls. For Fathers Day gifts, birthdays, and yourself, Fine Art America has a large...

The Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia is a collection of objects from relationships that didn't work out for one reason or another. The museum is a place to donate objects that remind ...

It's true. What animals do in their personal time is none of our business. But alas, fish have to swim, birds have to fly (and sleep, apparently), and humans have to be nosey. Speaking of ou...

A bezoar is "a ball of swallowed foreign material most often composed of hair or fiber. It collects in the stomach and fails to pass through the intestines." Based on that definition, one wouldn't exp...

After years of hunching over a table to draw, I began experiencing back pain that would keep me awake at night. As a solution, I began using this wooden 5-Position Wood Drafting Table Easel. Now, I ne...

This armed robbery of a convenience store by a 12-year-old in Hartford, Michigan is wrong on just about every level. Guns are simply too easy to come by, this one was apparently his grandfather's.ABC:...

Elon Musk recently tweeted a photo of John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd.). The photo shows John Lydon with a quote that says, "I never thought I'd live to see the d...

It seems that it isn't that they wouldn't like to, the SEC simply lacks the tools to combat fraud and market manipulation in the digital age. Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk, the billionaire who suggests he is a...

Part of Pride Month is learning about historical events and how they have shaped the lives and experiences of LGBTQ communities and influenced action and activism in their wake. One such event that he...

The Time Travel Mart of Echo Park is a convenience store for time travelers. This nonprofit shop sells "goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension." If you're in the middle of a jour...

After seeing the stock market reaction to his attempts to manipulate the economy, the billionaire son of an emerald miner, Elon 'Pedo Guy' Musk reversed his position on a 10% reduction in force at Tes...

Explore The Web's Timeline from 1989 to present times. It's a wild ride to see how much has happened in the past few decades on a timeline like this. You can browse the timeline by year and dig throug...

At the time of publication, you will spend more than 61 dogecoins, which is still less than $5, to buy this cheeseball commemorative dogecoin. The transaction costs around turning your 'doge' into som...

US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg slams the idea that the design of school doors in these United States is somehow to blame for the incredible number of gun-enabled slayings that occur in ...

We love that our mobile phones make sure entertainment is always easily accessible, but sometimes it's challenging to decide what we're actually in the mood for. Do we want to listen to a true-crime p...

This Wednesday, June 8th, a number of fantastic musicians are getting together to raise funds to register voters in Texas. The more people registered to vote, the more people who can. Encouraging eve...

As the crypto market crumbles the folks behind one of its largest brokerages, Coinbase, are proving they have the same ethical lacks as the non-fiat currencies they represent. Stories about Coinbase ...

To quote one of the most influential mentors I've ever had in life, Son Goku once said, "all things must pass, Vegeta, even the dragon balls." Now, I want to clarify that I do not wish ill on...

"Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" and "if I can do it, so can you" are the monetary maxims of billionaires across the country that are as fictitious as Santa Claus. Believing that you're only one ...

Scientists discovered the world's largest plant, a seagrass that covers more than 200 square kilometers (77 square miles), just over three times the size of Manhattan. The single seagrass Posidonia au...

On Thursday at North Carolina's Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a gentleman attempted to roll through customs with 23 pounds of cocaine stuffed in the seat of his electric wheelchair. The sus...

Jeff Dieschburg is a Luxembourgish artist whose strikingly-modeled oil paintings quickly brought him a little fortune and a lot of fame. His "Turandot", exhibited at the Strassen Stroossen Culture Cen...

There's no better feeling than the start of summer when the weather is finally enjoyable enough to sit back and relax with your favorite bottle of wine. You can sip on your glass o...

Samantha Bee's coverage of pro-choice issues and the assholes who want to take long-held rights away from women over made-up reasons is always powerful. This piece is only more relevant now that Roe v...

Redditor magpiephotos is the hero we didn't know we needed. They recently posted some new photos they took of shelter dogs, on the r/rarepuppers subreddit. The photos are exquisite and perfectly emana...

The LGBTQ+ news, entertainment, and advocacy website them sifted through the deluge of corporate "HAPPY PRIDE" tweets that appeared on June 1, 2022, and that in recent years seem to usher in the begin...

Taste Atlas is a map to find delicious local food around the world. Next time you embark on a trip, consider checking the taste atlas site to locate a tasty treat or meal. For each food item on the ma...

The Butter Stick Type may look just like a glue stick, but it makes way more sense to butter your toast with one of these instead of a knife. When your butter stick begins running low, just turn the k...

Songwriter Andy Stone co-wrote a song titled 'All I want for Christmas is You' five years before Mariah Carey's 1994 hit by the same name. Nearly thirty years later he is suing her for $20m, claiming ...

Last year Disney held a poll and the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order star Cal Kestis' lightsaber was selected for production and sale. My general glossing over of reviews is that the Cal Kestis saber is ...

There's hardly anything better than a beautifully manicured lawn. It comes with a sense of pride because a luscious green landscape can make you feel wonderful just by looking at it. However...

DALL-E and Midjourney are the AI image generators du jour, but most of us seem to put them to use manufacturing weird, disturbing or outright horrific imagery. So Scott Alexander's Guide To Asking Rob...

A key challenge for purveyors of AI text generators is finding large bodies of text to train them on that aren't full of garbage. But the makers of GPT-4chan just went right ahead and created one fine...

Oskar's Treasure Chest [Amazon] is a Rubik's Cube with a twist: solving it opens a hidden compartment inside where you can conceal your drugs, plastic explosives, cursed items, etc. In this video, the...

In this Vice video, they look at the neo-Nazi festival scene in Europe and how these events are used to fund and recruit new members to far-right extremist groups.Photo: Goran Kati, CC BY-SA 2.5...

The concept of "Blaccent" or African American Vernacular English will always elude me. I don't mean that on a conceptual level, but rather a practical one since I "talk white." My voice has been a sou...

A California woman already thought she was lucky when she found a free set of sofas and a matching chair on Craigslist. But that was nothing compared to the hidden $36,000 she discovered inside one of...

Oooh nuts! A Florida man who was driving an SUV while enjoying a BJ Thursday evening didn't see it coming when he crashed into a FedEx truck. He and his accumplice in the passenger seat found themselv...

"There's vomit on his sweater already, Mario's spaghetti."image: Nicescene/Shutterstock...

The owners of the new shop Your Brother's Bookstore in Evansville, Indiana were replacing the floors before opening when they discovered a trapdoor under the floor boards. The trapdoor led to a room b...

Rats sure do get a bad rap. In truth, they are amazing creatures, incredibly smart, and highly affectionate. And in Tanzania, some rats are also currently in training to become "Hero Rats." These rats...

Wired's Geoffrey Cain had a moment with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Kyiv presidential palace during which they talked about Big Tech, Starlink, social media, and Ukraine's IT Army. Fro...

How exactly do you say "Happy birthday" or "Congratulations"? Sure, a simple card will often do the trick but sometimes the occasion calls for something a little more festive and livelier.That's why ...

The Country Music Association has banned the display of Confederate flags at its music festivals. A symbol of hatred, oppression, and exclusion the Confederate flag is now closely associated with such...

High school student and weather geek Nicholas Krasznavolgyi of New Point Richey, Florida was watching online radar of a nearby storm develop on Tuesday when he noticed a tornado forming outside his ow...

Only 811,604 babies were born in Japan in 2021, almost 30,000 less than 2020. On the other hand, because of Japan's aging population, 1.44 million people died, the highest number since World War II. T...

In response to Musk's "super bad feeling" about the US economy President Biden listed out a number of Musk's competitors staffing up to compete in the EV market and then wished him a nice trip to the ...

The Integratron is an "acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert." Aircraft engineer George Van Tassel began construction o...

A Jack Russell terrier tries to squeeze through a doggie door with a huge plush toy in her mouth, but try and try as she might, she can't muster the courage to do it. Meanwhile, her frisky pal is rari...

Maryland State Police officers have a tradition of making offensive challenge coins that denigrate women and minorities. Its newest challenge coin makes fun of the fact that people think their coins a...

I don't know who Grandpa Witmer is, but around our compound, he's a SubGenius ShorDurPerSav and a Discordian Saint.We use Saint Witmer's Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Mixer to mix peanut butter quickly ...

Junior makes a big deal out of the fact that the "Fuck Joe Biden" caps he peddles on his website are "Designed & Embroidered in the U.S.A!" Like Daddy Trump, Junior thinks China is a very bad coun...

Bleeding heart Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene applauds the Johnny Depp verdict, relieved that a man was able to come out on top again. "It's a good victory for men, because there's not many victori...

'National Enquirer'"Hollywood's Fakest Boobs & Bottoms Exposed!" screams this week's cover story, with the promise of "Implants! Lifts! Nip/tucks!"Doing what it does best – ogling vast expan...

The State of Florida threatened to withhold $27.5M in funding from the Special Olympics if they did not lose their vaccine requirement. The Special Olympics capitulated with a statement "We don't want...

You've probably seen art made by machine learning systems like Midjourney. I've been experimenting with them and posting my favorite results to my Instagram account. We also used them from time-to-tim...

Austin Harvey, who works at a bookstore says, "I see a lot of books. Most of them, I'm afraid, have terrible covers." They all look like the books in this collage, which he assembled for his Medium es...

A 21-year-old Texas man became cross with his girlfriend, so he did the logical thing and destroyed more than $5 million worth of ancient artifacts at the Dallas Museum of Art. The angry gentleman, Br...

Looking online for your next vacation destination is all fun and games until you take a quick gander at the fine print. Between general rates, fees, and other expenses, a trip out of town can really p...

Masks that read "Stop killing Black people" and "Defund police" were purchased by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and were intercepted mid-shipment to D.C., St. Louis, New York City, and Minneapol...

Samantha Bee sent Amy Hoggart to Houston to talk to attendees of the NRA's poorly timed convention. Hoggart encounters a humorless bunch of folks who think they are being victimized, rather than the s...

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk has "a super bad feeling" about the economy. In a letter leaked to Reuters Musk calls for Tesla to immediately stop hiring, and to prepare for a 10% layoff.Yahoo/Reuters:Tesla CE...

There are a lot of interesting watches, but this Rolex is certainly a storied one. The pre-Daytona reference 3525 "Prisoner of War" model is already highly collectible, but the provenance on this watc...

Janelle Shane is an AI researcher and the author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place. In one of her more recent AI ...

The city of El Segundo, California saw a whole lot of police action on May 30, 2022 without much rhyme or reason to it.According to a Facebook post, police received a report of a "male slumped over a...

Via SFGate:The California Department of Fish and Wildlife says they received an anonymous tip that crab traps were being placed near the Farallon Islands, an ecologically fragile archipelago with...

This isn't even stooping past the normal levels of Flordia's not saying gay Governor Ron Desantis depravity. Desantis will block the funding for a new spring training facility over the Tampa Bay Ray's...

A semi-truck plowed into an abandoned pickup truck that was parked on a Minnesota highway, causing the pickup to careen across the highway and explode into flames. Knowing that the burning truck was e...

The Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) emits the stink of death and appears to have whiskers, fur, and a pair of teeth. This parasitic plant is the world's biggest flower and often grows to be 8 f...

Essai d'ouverture is a 1988 short French film by Luc Moullet. It's about a man and his many bizarre approaches to opening a Coca-Cola bottle. He tries to pry the lid off with the metal tip on his belt...

Dinosaurs: The Terrible Lizards is a short film created by artist Wah Chang, who is known for his work on the original Star Trek and the 1970s TV show Land of the Lost. This educational film about din...

Fox's Peter Doocy hasn't lost his touch in the White House Briefing Room. As in out-of-touch, that is. When he asked one of his most incredibly clueless questions yet, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pier...

Abdullah is a cardboard modeler, and he generously posts step-by-step instructions on how to make things out of cardboard on Instructables. His latest creation is these cardboard sneakers. As a work o...

Every Father's Day, there comes a feeling of extreme love for the fathers and role models in your life. But right behind that feeling is often a feeling of dread not because you don't love celebratin...

People are sunning their anuses, guzzling their own urine, and drinking semen, all to stay young and healthy and vibrant. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. Well, it always does. 41-year...

Someone drove a car over a motorcyclist and stopped, trapping one biker under the car and sending a passenger flying. Police and other onlookers lept into action. Apparently, everyone survived. All th...

Back at the tail end of the aughts, I was on a team designing a monitoring system for cell phone towers. It was during that time a cell phone tower company executive regaled us with tales of craziness...

I grew up believing that Salisbury Steak was just a way for a cheap TV dinner company to sling hamburgers with gravy at me. The Salisbury Steak, however, has a far more interesting history. The steak ...

One of Disney's most popular non-official events is Gay Days, when tens of thousands of LGBTQ+ folks converge on Florida's number one attraction to celebrate themselves and enjoy the wonder of the Dis...

A man named Cliff Des tried to scare off a six-foot kangaroo in Australia who was harassing his dogs. But rather than take a hint, the kangaroo took aim at Des, leading to a drawn-out round of fisticu...

A Very Stable Genius brimming with smug confidence told Jason Selvig of the Good Liars that hammers kill more people than guns and challenged Selvig to look it up on Google. Selvig looked it up on Goo...

A curious bear followed a man through a forest for five minutes, becoming increasingly aggressive. The man recorded his interaction with the bear. He tried saying soothing things to the bear as he ret...

In March, Rep. Ken Buck (RCO) stood in his office with an AR-15 while daring President Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke to "come and take it." (How easy it is for frightened men to act tough when clutching...

Nathaniel Chastain (31), a former product manager at OpenSea, the largest online NFT market, was arrested and charged with insider trading. The Department of Justice described his alleged offense as a...

Nomadico is a new weekly newsletter with tips for working travelers. (It's published by Cool Tools Lab, which I run with Kevin Kelly). In the latest issue, editor Tim Leffler recommends a Twitter acco...

If you happen to be trapped in a mine with a busted ventilation system, an oxygen candle could save your life. The candles contain sodium chlorate, barium peroxide, and iron powder. When ignited, the ...

Michael Avenatti, already a convicted felon for trying to extort footwear giant Nike, is also a convicted felon for stealing money from his client, Stormy Daniels. He was sentenced to 4 years in priso...

My best friend Jennie has a corgi named Cinder, who is The Cutest Thing EverTM. I love that Jennie is a corgi lover, because she's always sending me news of all things corgi. And I think the news stor...

At least two manhole covers in Boston's Financial District exploded and caught fire this morning, shattering a window, causing the evacuation of two buildings, and sending one person to the hospital. ...

It's hard to dispute that one of the best innovations of the past twenty years is the iPad. It's revolutionized the way people consume media on the go, including how they read and scroll timelines in ...

The court of appeals in the third appellate district in the state of California has ruled that bees are, in fact, fish. From the court document (emphasis added):The California Endangered Species Act (...

I like my music with a little bite. There's a time and place for soothing, mellifluous ballads and slow jams outside of the bedroom, but I generally seek out music with a kick. Suffice it to say; that...

Enjoy this delightful Twitter thread by Heaven's Last Angel, who used DALL-E to put Kermit the Frog in all sorts of different movies. The results are incrediblethe future is weirder than we expected. ...

Pride events around the country are losing their taste for having uniformed cops participate, reports Russell Conteras for Axios. Given the long history of police violence directed at queer people, su...

Despite my youthful reluctance, my mother routinely tried to steer me towards healthy dietary practices. It must've been tough to defeat the twin titans of colorful advertising and sugar-saturated jun...

When I was a kid, there were several Star Trek: TOS aliens that gave me vivid and terrible nightmares. One of them was the Gorn. Besides a few appearances in The Animated Series, Lower Deck, and Enter...

The fighting game communitycommonly known as the FGCis my favorite among esports scenes. First of all, it doesn't take much for an outsider to understand what's happening during a fighting game match....

Johnny Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages after weeks of a humiliating televised defamation trial, while Heard was awarded only $2 million in compe...

It seems Owen Wilson, a movie star with a catchy nickname, had the wheels stolen off his Tesla. This bold caper took place in front of his home and is not particularly remarkable however Wilson has a ...

Mattel has collaborated with actress Laverne Cox to release the first transgender Barbie doll in their collection. The Street:In other Mattel news, the company recently introduced a Barbie in the like...

Jon Bernthal is one of those celebrities that I can't help but root for. Like most people, I became aware of the actor during his breakout role as Shane inThe Walking Dead. In the comics, Shane is a t...

If you're looking to learn business finance but don't want to head back to college, you might want to peruse the wide world of e-learning. There are countless qualified educators who you can study und...

A couple walked into a Florida art gallery and spent a mere $125,000 on what they thought were two pieces by Andy Warhol: "And I Love You So" and "Converse Sneakers in Conversation." The problem was, ...

In flagrant disregard of posted no swimming in the lake signs, a Florida man was swimming in a lake when an alligator attacked and killed him. Apparently, the Florida man was looking for frisbees.NBC:...

When a possum made its way into Temkin's Bar in Brooklyn, the patrons all panicked except for a no-nonsense woman from Alaska. She expertly grabbed the critter by the scruff, which was hiding in a co...

I was reading Lloyd Kahn's excellent Gimme Shelter newsletter in which he announced his newest book Rolling Homes Shelter on Wheels. It's 272 pages and loaded with photos of people who have converted...

Heritage Auctions is selling a slew of space artifacts that once belonged to Michael Collins, the heroic astronaut who in July 1969 piloted the command module above the Moon while Neil Armstrong and B...

The Human Rights Campaign announced last year that 2021 was the worst year for anti-LBGTQ legislation in recent history. Sadly, 2022 is shaping up to be even worse, as there are currently over 300 ant...

A couple of us have been using AI to make featured images for our posts. Instead of reaching for stock photos, I sometimes take the time to imagine what a great image would look be, and then talking a...

Although data scientists say that remote working which surged after Covid hit two years ago is here to stay, according to Forbes, Elon Musk is having none of it. In fact, in leaked email (see below)...

During last night's Washington Nationals-New York Mets baseball game, Alan Alcantara was holding his baby when the Mets' Starling Marte hit a home run. Alcantara caught the ball empty handed with his ...

"Ayo, lemme get a chopped cheese, and do it the Ocky way." I don't care how long you've lived in the city; if you've never heard or uttered the previous sentence, you're not a real New Yorker. I'm ser...

I always felt like Disney was trying to keep me at arm's length when I was a little boy. Despite how much adults tried to push Disney flicks on me, I never found the majority of the company's offering...

Arizona Republic news reporter Mary Jo Pitzl shared photos today from a packed Arizona Senate hearing room, where legislators and onlookers have gathered to hear a presentation on alleged ballot harve...

On a sunny Friday afternoon in Wellston, Missouri, a guy went to the grocery store, open carrying a rifle "in a sleeve underneath his shirt," according to local NBC affiliate KSDK. It's not clear what...

If you haven't spent wasted all of your money yet on NFTs, you could scrounge up another $1850 to buy these cool designer sneakers from Balenciaga. Who would buy these utterly destroyed, filthy, rippe...

"Trump's four-year reign of terror and error was a gut-lurching mix of farce and nightmare," writes Mark Dery in Medium, " and it was that rollercoaster of absurdity and atrocity that made those endle...

You might want to grab on to the edge of your desk before looking at the image above. If you're like most people, the black oval will appear to expand, as if you're falling into a hole. At least that'...

My friends in Death Cab for Cutie have just released a new video for "Roman Candles," the first single from their forthcoming album Asphalt Meadows out September 16. Influential indie filmmaker Lance ...

The third episode of Obi-Wan sets up the next three perfectly and delivered plenty of what I have been enjoying seeing: shattered Ben coping with all this crazy shit. As one of the pillars of the form...

Someone noticed a curious tiny humanoid creature make a quick appearance in their home surveillance video, seen above. Look closely at the bottom right side of the image at around the five second mark...

Legendary chronicler of the strange, Fortean author John Keel (1930-2009) is best known for his 1976 book The Mothman Prophecies, an investigation into bizarre phenomena that reportedly occurred aroun...

The way they created special effects in the old days gave movies a dreamy, magical quality. In this short video of unknown provenance, you can see people walking up a stegosaurus' back, an old steam l...

It's common knowledge that anyone associated with Donald Trump eventually (if not immediately) gets burned, but one Proud Boy didn't get the memo. At a Trump rally last weekend, a Proud Boy who said h...

Have you tried Bionic Reading? It's a patented and trademarked process that ostensibly makes text easier to grok by boldfacing the first few letters of each word. From the website:Bionic Reading revis...

Displaying her singular command of human evolutionary genetics, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says that heterosexuals are facing extinction in the near-term future. "Probably, in about ...

Summer is right around the corner, and that means a lot of things to different folks. You might be gearing up for camping, picnics, or pre-game tailgates. On the other hand, it's also the perfect...

Gaming culture website hard drive made fun of Elon Musk after he tweeted a screenshot from one of its articles without attribution by responding, "hey i'll give u a horse if u stop cropping our name o...

Yes, you can make bagpipes out of trashbags. And they sound lovely! Embedded here is a scintillating performance of Amazing Grace, posted online long ago (but viral today) by groomeister. Below, instr...

Levi Borba is from Brazil but he says he left to "escape the violence." He now lives in Europe. He recently analyzed crime databases in 16 European countries to find the most dangerous city in each co...

Yesterday, it emerged that, contrary to what police claimed, a teacher did not leave a door of Ross Elementary School propped open, and did not thereby allow a gunman to enter the building and kill 19...

If you are (or were) a Weedian of a certain age, chances are you're at least passingly familiar with the Proto-Pipe. This brass pipe with a lid, a resin trap, and tamping and cleaning tools built into...

Tu n'es pas un "streamer", petit monsieur. Tu n'es pas un joueur-animateur en direct.France's culture ministry told the AFP news agency that Anglicisms were "a barrier to understanding". But gamers ha...

I didn't watch a Monroe movie until I was well into my 20s. I figured that she wouldn't be able to match the feverish devotion that her name and visage conjured. Then I sawGentlemen Prefer Blondes. In...

About a decade ago, a masked vigilante called Phoenix Jones began to prowl the streets of Seattle, breaking up bar fights and other small-scale crimes in his self-proclaimed role as the world's first ...

Over on Hyperallergic, cultural critic and long-time Boing Boing contributor, Mark Dery, takes a breathtaking dive into the symbolic waters of Winslow Homer's "The Gulf Stream." As the headline deck s...

Anime and manga are inherently ridiculous, and that's part of its charm. That's part of the reason why Hollywood struggles to perform proper adaptations of manga and anime. A dude in a bat suit may re...

Hollywood will never leave any meat on the bone. If an idea has even the slightest potential to be milked dry, you can bet money that Hollywood will find a way to do so. In practice, this may not be g...

Lately, the old beach volleyball game and corn hole tourney have gotten stale. Of course, we know a bad day in warm weather is better than a good day cooped up in the cold, but there are ways to ...

YouTube channel We Love Animals shares the story of Benny, a young puppy just waiting for his family and home to come along. At first, he is confused and scared, but the little guy sure figures out so...

The trend in bike for local kids in my late 1970s neighborhood was BMX or 'dirt bikes,' but one of my neighbors had the Stingray with the stick shift and daaaaaaamn if it wasn't badass. There was no b...

The lone rugged cowboy as a symbol of American self-reliance is based on pure fantasy, says Stefano Boscutti in his newsletter, New Old Age:Ronald Reagan – actor and former head of the actor's u...

Claudia Dawson says "How to say nois a collection of email templates that you can use to decline social events, meetings, dates, phone chats and other work-related requests you might get. Some of thes...

Big Clive, has a YouTube channel where he opens up electronic products (often dodgy ones that make fraudulent health claims) and explains what makes them work (or don't work). In this video, he shows ...

Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, Netflix's 4-part documentary about the ultra-creepy religious cult headed by child rapist Warren Jeffs, debuts on June 8, 2022.When Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison for...

In countries with unstable currencies prone to hyperinflation, some people keep their net worth in the form of stablecoins, which are pegged to the U.S. dollar. Unfortunately, many of them bought Terr...

While the title and the trailer give away everything, this new Mr. Bean comedy seems the kind of mindless slapstick physical comedy that allows me to turn my mind off for an hour or so. However, I am...

I bought a set of four of these 8 x 11" flexible cutting boards a few years ago, and they've held up very well considering how much I use them every day to chop carrots, cabbage, turnips. and rutabaga...

Lying to the police should not be a crime in the first place, but a jury today decided that Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussman didn't do that in the first place. They acquitted him on ...

The Good Liars trolled Wayne LaPierre and the entire NRA convention with this fantastic speech about the effectiveness of their actions: thoughts and prayers, in fighting gun violence. The panel and P...

I absolutely remember when Olestra was being marketed as the way to enjoy your favorite carbohydrate-rich snack foods without the fat, you just had to accept "Anal leakage" as a side effect. This fat ...

Rep. Mo Brooks says we have just got to have all these guns to keep the government in line, I guess the children do not matter very much in this case. "Stop the motivation" would not be necessary if t...

I have long considered off-the-shelf DNA tests to be a cute gimmick. If someone's too cheap to buy your non-anonymized data from a DNA service, they can just steal the database. 23andMe however has do...

Abandoned America [via] is a sprawling collection of places to explore, organized into neat galleries and themes (churches, schools, misc.) There's a podcast and a patreon to follow, offering higher-r...

Uggg. Not the strawberries! Trader Joe's strawberries are a big part of my kid's diet.Fresh organic strawberries branded as FreshKampo or HEB and sold in a number of markets (see quote below) are susp...

The Atlantic has a wonderful piece on the difficulties of recycling plastics. The multitude of formulations, colors and differences in various plastics, which is part of their usefulness, makes them e...

Behold the DeLorean Alpha EV, the first vehicle from the revived DeLorean Motor Company! Emma Roth at The Verge:The Alpha 5 could come with a 100kWh battery, offering an estimated 300 miles of range a...

Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk has always struck me as the son Donald J. Trump wishes he had, as opposed to his own or Kushner. This description of Musk by Jackson Palmer, whom Business Insider identifies as a ...

Some Bluetooth earbuds are affordable. Some Bluetooth earbuds provide incredible sound, almost like you're live at a concert. Others still are soft and comfortable. It's easy to find earbuds that fulf...

The Harmony of the Seas, the third-largest passenger ship in the world and still its longest, crashed into a pier in Jamaica last thursday. The enormous boat suffered only "cosmetic" damage in the col...

Serving at Waffle House was the worst job that I ever had. The hours were punishing, and the intentionally archaic setup of the restaurant made what should've been a simple job unreasonably difficult....

In this video, the YouTube channel wolfcrow talks about the often overlooked 60-30-10 percent rule of color hiding in some of your favorite movie scenes. The rule isn't unique to film, but its promine...

When I first got into weight training, I had a simple goal. I wanted to look like Schwarzenegger. As a child of the 90s that grew up on superhero comics, action movies, and pro wrestling, Schwarzenegg...

An old lady in England got a voice assistant as a gift. A devout Catholic, she asked it to say the Hail Mary. Delighted when it did so, she made it a daily habit.And Amazon was charging her for it, wr...

Loom (previously) is a classic Lucasarts adventure game from the early 1990s, hitting shelves just as PCs were making the EGA-to-VGA transitionthe leap from 16 to 256 on-screen colors. The game's beau...

Researchers at Northwestern University developed a remote-controlled robot that is so tiny, it can comfortably travel along the edge of a penny. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, t...

I grew up with South Park, starting when I was in fifth grade with the 9/11 episode. South Park's longevity comes from how well-rounded is cast has become over 25 seasons: unlike the Simpson...

Online drum teaching platform Drumeo created a cool little challenge for legendary funk drummer Dennis Chambers (Parliament/Funkadelic, Santana, George Duke). They had him listen to Tool's "Schism" on...

Have you ever wondered what Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies would have been like if they were more like his Evil Dead oeuvre? Welp, this is about as close as you're ever going to get. The 4-minute short...