Articles by BoingBoing from August 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev, whose efforts to reform the moribund Soviet Union only hastened its political collapse and transformation into a hypercapitalist sewer which led right back to cryptofascist oligarch...

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This report of a fantastic hack comes via Twitter:Today, to celebrate Ukraine's Independence Day, dozens of IP cameras with speaker outputs have been hacked to play patriotic music in Russia as well a...

Combining the power of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescopeenabled NASA to capture this astonishing image of M74, known as the Phantom Galaxy. From the European Space Agency:T...

Fox News warned of "armed Antifa members showing up at 'kid-friendly' drag show 'They want to intimidate.'" The Daily Mail called it "terrifying." The Washington Times chillingly reported that "Video...

This guy Rolling Blue does a damn good Danzig. Now I want to eat my Guitar Hero guitar. ...

A rodeo bull stole the show at a Florida State Fair over the weekend when he squeezed out of a gate and ran amok amongst the spectators. The crowd screamed with fear and excitement as the escapee made...

Director Karen X. Cheng used DALL-E and several other software tools to generate outfits on a video of a woman walking down the sidewalk. I really like the blue and black one-piece!She describes how s...

This is a reasonably dead-to-rights Honest Trailer and, much like Top Gun: Maverick, there just isn't that much about it but to say it will be precisely what you already expect. You can imagine what'l...

Canadian TV news anchor Lisa LaFlamme let her hair go gray during the pandemic. The 58-year-old said the station fired her because of it. (The station denies the charges). Wendy's Canada showed their ...

See You at San Diego: An Oral History of Comic-Con, Fandom, and the Triumph of Geek Culture (released next week by Fantagraphics Books) is a fantastic, exhaustive look at the rise of geek fandom and c...

Paul Kram has face blindness, or prosopagnosia, and has difficulty recognizing people by looking at their faces alone. He has learned to remember people's secondary traits to identify them: height, st...

Micky Dolzen, the sole survivor of The Monkees, has sued the US Department of Justice to see the full FBI file on his band. The FBI had released a heavily-redacted file more than a decade ago but in J...

Even far-right hate-monger Ann Coulter is riding on the Dump Trump train, saying that the former twice-impeached president is leaning on "the die-hard, the few dwindling remaining Trump fanatics" that...

Close your eyes and try to guess the sounds in the video below. Of course depending on who you ask, the analog devices depicted in the video have regained their allure, or never lost it in the first p...

City planners love skateboarders and skateboardingin Malmo, at least, "A Swedish skate paradise," according to a 2016 Huck article. The Malmo skate community and local educators founded the skateboard...

In the spring, the folks behind the forthcoming Transglobal Car Expedition were test driving their tricked-out Ford F-150 in the Canadian Arctic near the Tasmania Islands. Unfortunately, one of the tr...

In the spring, the folks behind the forthcoming Transglobal Car Expedition were test driving their tricked-out Ford F-150 in the Canadian Arctic near the Tasmania Islands. Unfortunately, one of the tr...

A popular YouTube "Forex trader," has shockingly absconded with around USD 55 million. Fleeing Thailand to Malaysia, at least one angry investor is offering a reward for information leading to the arr...

Trumpian bloviator Grant Stinchfield, who regularly abuses the electromagnetic spectrum by transmitting his incoherent temper tantrums on his radio program, was puzzled by the fact that a paper compan...

Oregon Live reports on the Oregon State Fair table setting competition. There are only 20 slots available each year, and it fills quickly. There can be only one champion. There are rules, there are "c...

The owner of a popular Michigan restaurant hit his limit with rude customers on Sunday. But rather than put up with the "epidemic of entitlement" that he faced on one of his busiest days, he simp...

The above clip reportedly recorded inside a shop in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, Indian seems to depict the cryptozoological cousin of a bodega cat. What the hell is this mystery monster? A furless civet? Mong...

Joseph Henney has extensive experience with reptiles. He rehabilitates abandoned pets and donates them to zoos. Several years ago, he received three small alligators and was surprised to learn that on...

It would appear that MTV has brought back 21 Jump Street star Johnny Depp. There is speculation about Mr. Depp's returning to his role in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Depp's face was ...

The T-Rex is the University of Texas at Austin's mobile earthquake generator. A massive vibrator, the T-Rex is used to develop "in-situ testing methods that can be used to both evaluate the needs...

A Southwest pilot about to take off to Cabo might not have known what AirDrop was, but by gum, he certainly knew what a nude photo looked like. Footage posted on TikTok caught the moment a pilot amusi...

The bell tolls for proud New Jersey-ian Dr. Oz's US Senate campaign run in Pennsylvania. It is unclear if these people surrounding him are "supporters" or "captives," but there is no sign that anyone ...

The bell tolls for proud New Jersey-ian Dr. Oz's US Senate campaign run in Pennsylvania. It is unclear if these people surrounding him are "supporters" or "captives," but there is no sign that anyone ...

Amanda Booth makes "jizzy jewelry", that being her term for the items she crafts made from dehydrated, powdered cum. Though she has no shortage of clients, its sounds the days are long: "at the end o...

You may add dead fish to San Francisco's signature smells of micro-roasted coffee, avocado toast, and a lack of public restrooms.Fish are washing up across the San Francisco bay area waterways. The la...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.From showing love to family and friends to picking their nose ...

Prior to founding the KONG Company, Joe Markham owned a Volkswagen repair shop in a rough part of downtown Denver, Colorado which had experienced to a string of burglaries in 1970. Due to budget cuts...

Nick Alfieri was born in Oregon but plays professional football in Germany for the Schwbisch Hall Unicorns. When he's not playing football, he's busy cranking out viral videos pointing out the cultura...

C.J. Walker, the daughter of former slaves and a cosmetics entrepreneur, is credited as America's first self-made woman millionaire. And now she is a barbie doll, joining Ida B Wells, Jane Goodall, Ve...

Having halted Russian advances in the six-month war, Ukraine launched a "long-anticipated" counter-attack in the south of the country yesterday. The aim is to retake Kherson, the only regional capital...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)Generally speaking, it's unsportsmanlike conduct to kick a man while he's down. After you've won the battle, it's ...

Before he was Ted, Neo, or John Wick, Keanu Reeves was a cub reporter for CBC newsmagazine Going Great. His beat? The 1984 International Teddy Bear Convention in Canada. He kind of killed it but not b...

The water system in Jackson, MIssissippi's largest city, has failed and is no longer pressurized, report local media. Residents are advised to boil whatever water they can get out the faucet for three...

Biopics are a tricky genre to nail. If a filmmaker veers too far into the celebratory, the movie can venture into idol worship and deify the subject. In addition to being too respectful to their subje...

Let's hear it for Spain! They've passed what's known as the "only yes means yes law." The Guardian:The new law removes the distinction between sexual abuse and sexual aggression (rape) by making expl...

Established IPs and franchises rule the modern entertainment landscape. If you're an up-and-coming screenwriter looking to option a script, it'd be easier if you transform your screenplay into a comic...

You're a student training to be a pilot. It's your first time off the flight simulator and in a plane flying. Your flight instructor says he's going take over the landing but when the moment comes he ...

Modern turbochargers make for excellent hobbyist jet engine fun, but I've never really seen a turbo setup taken to the fun limit quite like this. Watching BobbyMcBoost's whole assembly glowing cherry...

There are many terms from classic and modern SF that remain unresearched, and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will be continually updated, especially as additional resources are put onlin...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Look, as attached as we are to our iPhones, they're not always...

Fortune reports that NFT trading volume is down 99% at OpenSea, citing data compiled by DappRadar.As trading volumes and crypto prices have fallen during a downturn that's been dubbed "crypto winter,"...

Remember when Rudy Giuliani blubbered about being "attacked" in a supermarket that it "hurt tremendously" and could have killed him before security footage revealed that the aggressor had merely giv...

I am highly offended that Ted Cruz thinks that student loans and a bong somehow equate to Slack. These sets barely intersect, and I'd go further to say that people who borrowed money to get a degree f...

Yesterday (August 28) was "National Bow Tie Day." The National Today website explains:National Bow Tie Day, on August 28, is the one and only holiday dedicated to everyone's favorite underrated access...

The new James Webb Space Telescope has shown all of us the most amazing, detailed, and awe-inspiring images from the infinitely expanding universes, a time-traveling telescope that has rearranged assu...

Check out this weird creature, the "wrap-around spider." It's native to Australia (because of course it is) and it gets its name because, well, it can wrap itself around a tree branch for camouflage. ...

Watch this adorably snouted creature sniff sniff sniffing around a trash can. That nose! That tail! Those audible sniffing noises! Gah, it's too cute. What is it? It's a coatimundi, a most adorab...

We've purchased a lot of cat beds, huts, igloos, tents, and so on over the years. It turns out our cats love smallish cardboard boxes the best. Just remove the lid, and add a cutout for entrance/egres...

There's a new plant-based leather on the scene, and from what I can tell, it looks great and performs well. It's definitely a much-needed innovation, as manufacturing real (cow) leather is incredibly ...

If you are diabetic or otherwise trying to eat low glycemic foods and manage your blood sugar levels, and are missing eating rice, the good folks at the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station in Crowley, ...

Behold the Toast cover, wooden armor for modern Macs, phones and fancy brands of PC. Though the M1 iMac skin is the company's new flagship product, they do all sorts. Covering an iMac's chin is $30; g...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There are plenty of times when a knife would come in really ha...

I'm sure you've heard about the new White House social media manager, Megan Coyne, who has recently been delivering zingers and clapbacks to right-wing politicians all over Twitter. I think she's exac...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Energy, a group of researchers from MIT explained how they figured out how to increase the energy output from a wind farm by decreasing the efficiency...

When the Indus river system flooded in 2010, devastating countless villages and agricultural land across roughly one-fifth of Pakistan's land area, it was an extraordinary and terrible catastrophe. Tw...

A quick-acting 10-year-old boy, Gavin Keeney from Oklahoma, rescued his mother who was having a seizure in their backyard swimming pool. Caught on home security footage (below), Gavin dove into the wa...

Are you searching for a cotton blend orange-and-yellow cow-print hoodie? What about cow-patterned Peepy? Or maybe a purple Mega Peepy? What about a star-shaped plush Sucklet? Or a Yellow Clam Peequi? ...

Invented nearly a century ago, the theremin is famously known as the first music instrument you play without touching it. In the 1950s, Bob Moogthen a high school studentbegan building theremins of hi...

In the creepy demo above, a humanoid robot named Ameca imitates a fellow's facial expressionsas captured by an iPhone 12 with Apple's ARKitin real-time. Ameca was build by a company called Engineered ...

Maybe Donald Trump saw William Barr's recent prediction that Florida's Ron DeSantis would beat him and become president if the two were both to run in 2024, and maybe not. But after months of complain...

Kari Lake's number one fan depraved QAnon bully Ethan Schmidt, who likes to "hunt down" LGBTQ people and harass employees at pharmacies and places like PetSmart says it's "weird" when girls say they...

Scholars have long emphasized the relationships between the kidnapping, transportation, and enslavement of indigenous peoples from Africa and the rise of global capitalism, demonstrating the ongoing i...

Post-minimalist artist James Turrellpioneer of installations that create strange and immersive experiences with light and spaceis building a new piece at a Quaker children's school in Manhattan. One o...

What would Madonna's career have been like if she'd stayed with The Breakfast Club?From Dangerous Minds:Hardcore Madonna fans are likely aware of this period of Madonna's development as a pop star tha...

Artemis 1, today's unmanned test flight to the moon, did not fly during this morning's two-hour launch window. Why? Leaks and a possible crack. (And storms rolled in anyway.)As precious minutes ticked...

Some people just have "it." They possess an effortless and ineffable quality that causes them to radiate charisma and charm. We can debate about whether "it" is something one is born with or develops ...

This incredible 42-minute-long video identifies "all of the musical/lyrical/poetic references and samples in released They Might Be Giants & solo project songs," according to its creator, Archivis...

This is Lane Phipps of Blaine, Washington. He's accused of attempted murder for shooting at police officers back in June. While evading police for over a month, Phipps apparently lived his best lifeat...

People should have been born with a skeletal-muscular system that lets them sit in without a chair. One day we might see implants or genetic programming that gives us that capability. Until that time,...

Sometimes it takes more than just confidence-building to teach a dog new tricks. After a man patiently tried to get his golden retriever, Drake, to jump off a diving board with lots of coaxing and en...

The Millennium Tower appears to only have made its problems worse. I can recall a time when famed Millenium Tower engineer Ronald Hamburger reassured the HOA members, and San Francisco's planners, tha...

In June, two Air France pilots got into a brawl in the cockpit. Apparently the flight attendants had to break it up and one of them had to hang out in the cockpit for the duration of the flight to kee...

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If you walk by an Oz campaign office in Pennsylvania, be sure to ask for three yard-signs."hello, dr. oz campaign? i'd like THREE yard signs.""wow authentic grassroots support at last...

Weird Al is a hero. His irreverence was not the existential threat to society our parents thought, and his music lifts spirits while his style sets us all free. Roku, in a desperate attempt to remain ...

For decades, the ndio do Buraco (Indigenous man of the hole) in the Brazilian Amazon, would hide in pits and avoid (or attack with arrows) anyone who tried to contact him. He was apparently the last o...

US Senator Lindsay Graham thinks folks will be rioting in the streets if his idol, the classified document leaking Donald J. Trump, is indicted. People will be celebrating, and citizens of the United ...

As far as President Biden seems concerned, Marjorie Taylor Greene is just another lying, stealing blowhard Republican. I love how he barely has to remind us of "Space Lasers."Biden: I found it absolut...

When a preteen boy at a children's bible camp in Canada was found on a cabin floor twitching and bleeding from his nose, a staff member allegedly performed an exorcism on the child in lieu of calling ...

Britain: from promises of "sunlit uplands" to consuming their own recycled diarrhea."Be 'less squeamish' about drinking reprocessed sewage water", reports Sky News, quoting the "environment chief", a ...

Try explaining something difficult or complex using only the most common thousandsorry, ten hundredwords. The Up-Goer Five Text Editor isn't a new idea (here's a MacOS app from 2016) but now it's on t...

Why is it so hard to get into fighting games? Pretty much every genre of video game has a rough onboarding period, but the process usually lasts a few days. After a quick tutorial and some fun practic...

In this funny Last Week Tonight bit, John Oliver discovers that he's a popular prompt subject in the Midjourney AI art generating program. Hilarity ensues when he further finds out that in a number of...

Nick Cage's appearance on Terry Wogan's BBC1 talk show back in 1990 starts with a front handspring and a few kicks and ends with him shirtless. It's a wild ride! What the heck was going on? Who knows!...

Looking like one of those "Child Stars All Grown Up: Where Are They Now?!?" clickbait articles, Sophie the Giraffe ended up getting classically trained at the conservatory, and shows off those amazing...

Artemis 1 heads into orbit today, Nasa's first step back toward the moon: the launch windows begins ar 8:33 am eastern time and is open for two hours. You can watch it live below with Nasa's official ...

Update: Not today.Artemis 1 heads into orbit today, Nasa's first step back toward the moon: the launch windows begins ar 8:33 am eastern time and is open for two hours. You can watch it live below wit...

Ever think about a dream that 100% made sense while in it, but afterwards it totally didn't make sense? Yeah, this is kind of like that....

With all of the instability going on at HBO Max, thanks to the Warner Brothers and Discovery merger, if you were waiting to watch some of the streaming service's animated content, now might be your la...

The New York Times recently published a deep-dive into the rise of productivity-tracking software since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Full disclosure: I also write for Wirecutter, which is part...

As someone who frequently uses nitrile disposable gloves, I've been looking forward to Todd at Project Farm giving different brands a run for the money. He also tests a few brands of latex gloves.Todd...

Get a jump start on an awesome 2023 with a new Chicken Daddies calendar. As in the past, there are two different calendars to choose from. Last year, it was men with their chickens, wearing either dai...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.National Knife Day is here on August 24th, helping your search...

Why do so many people think that banana candy tastes nothing like bananas? Sneak Break breaks it down for us in their video. Here is a summary of their explanation: There was a variety of banana ...

To anyone clued in to the tech, Walmart's "M.2 Mini Solid State Drive"'s 30 terabyte capacity and cheap price immediately mark it as a scam. Also offered on Ali Express, the gadget is a mix of crude a...

Make your lawn look like a crime scene with these over-the-top gory Halloween decorations. Someone sent me a link to these horrifying Halloween decorations from AliExpress, and they do not disappoint....

The Idaho Potato Hotel may look just like a giant tuber from the outside, but on the inside, you'll find a beautiful and cozy vacation space. It's available for rent at $200 a night plus taxes and fee...

Here's a time-lapse of a gigantic, realistic heart-shaped puppet getting built by the Snuff Puppets group. They make incredible giant puppet people and body parts. It's so much fun to watch the proces...

Enjoy this collection of bizarre looking cats in medieval paintings. There are 60 images of unhinged cats in the collection, and image number #1, a cat carrying a torn-off private part in its mouth, i...

Brooke Weston is a taxidermy artist who incorporates dioramas into her work. She grew up with a love for dollhouses, dioramas, and play sets. She started off creating her own miniature worlds and envi...

Ari the cat has a big personality and is obsessed with a tiny almond. Ari is a black cat that has a unique way of tiptoeing around the house, constantly arches her back, and enjoys jumping and running...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Not every computer is going to pack the newest hardware and be...

Ion Sorvin is an architect who creates micro houses and takes them to the next level. His houses are multifunctional and beautifully designed. A few years back, he created this walking house. It has a...

Police participation at Pride is sometimes fraught, given the history of police violence against gay people, but cops in Lincoln, England, were invited Saturday to join in with one of the gayest dance...

In this footage, a human Kool Aid jug addresses the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District. It's his bloviating demeanor that's made him go viral, but what's said and done here is the map, ...

Curiously, the idea of a cold hot dog flavored "frozen pop", intrigues and revolts me at the same time.Some called it stupid, many called it genius. Introducing the Oscar Mayer Cold Dog, a hot dog-fla...

FanByte recently published a delightful retrospective on Yoda Stories, the 90s Star Wars video game that even I had completely forgotten about. But looking back, there's something oddly refreshing abo...

In this episode of Wired's "Tech Support" series, Neil Gaiman answers Twitter's most pressing mythology questions....

One of the numerous upsides to being an attractive person is that there's no shortage of sycophants that will laugh at your jokes. Even if you float out a dud while holding court at a party, the place...

Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert has a strange idea about what goes on at universities. But it's not surprising since she dropped out of high school and has never taken a college course. In the...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Fitcamx Integrated Dash Cams are tailormade to install seamles...

Exhibit A: Matthew James Taylor's The Art of Sharpening Pencils (Styles & Techniques), a website you can go to right now that gets right to the point.Exhibit B: How to Sharpen Pencils by David Ree...

I am glad to see that Jack Black is another person who drives around singing to themselves. He is amazingly talented, supremely hilarious, and a kind, super nice guy. I also believe this episode is a ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Hold on to your hats: autumn is coming quickly, and we're indi...

The Freakybuttrue Peculiarium is a one-stop shop for oddities and weird art. It's located in Portland at 2234 NW Thurman St. Check out photos of the shop here. Inside you'll find a giant Bigfoot statu...

In this video, ants build bridges in mid-air using just their bodies. The video shows a sped-up version of how the ant bridge gets formed and then crossed by other ants. Some of the ants even carry la...

If you have a fear of heights, then The Royal Gorge is probably not the bridge you'd want to walk across. The Royal Gorge is the highest suspension bridge in the USA, hanging 956 feet above the Arkans...

Arthur Boyt is a connoisseur of cooking and eating roadkill. He doesn't believe in killing animals to eat when there's plenty of roadkill that he doesn't want to let go to waste.He says that he began ...

Here's what Britney Spears' "Toxic" would sound like if it were played in Medieval times. Why is it so much fun to imagine people in the 1400s dancing to this? For reference, here's the original song ...

This abstract video of a person floating away in a wooden chair sparks awe. I hope it brightens up your day as it did for me. The colors, music, and abstracted visuals have the feeling of a psychedeli...

After more than a year of sliding poll numbers, Joe Biden's approval rating has ticked up consistently for several weeks, according to Five Thirty Eight and other number-watchers. Though still hardly ...

This supermarket time machine will take you back to the grocery aisles of 1971. The video includes footage of everyday shoppers inside a USA supermarket 5 decades ago. There's something so uncanny abo...

The Device Orchestra has an awesome cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now." It's played on a couple of toothbrushes, credit card machines, typewriters, and a telephone. It's incredibly satisfying to lis...

IDM Discovery is a community for lovers and seekers of electronic music. The site includes IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), experimental electronic, breakcore, acid, braindance, and glitch music. There'...

The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme is "not a hall of shame" but a wunderkammer of computing peculiarities. Blackle Mori: "hopefully, after reading these articles, you will have learned a lot and will em...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether it's your professional or personal online data, no one...

In this video, shot by Glenn Sherrill and posted by the Canyonlands Natural History Association, water from flash floods in Utah form intricate yet awesome waterfalls in the dry valleys of Canyonlands...

John Grismore is now a former Captain at the Franklin County Sheriff's department in Vermont, having been fired for repeatedly kicking a handcuffed suspect who insulted him.Capt. John Grismore's actio...

Enjoy your weekend with the classics.Previously:...

Trying to protect your novel or comic from the vultures that work in Hollywood must be a rough gig for any author. While a writer might be anticipating a call from Tinseltown, the prospect of a movie ...

To be fair, Sophocles wasn't exposed to the modern nuance of the "unfair advantage", so it's understandable that antiquity's uninitiated would prefer failure over the "success by any means necessary" ...

Prior to the digital age, album covers used to be a big deal. The caliber of art on a record sleeve or CD case was an active participant in creating the mystique around an album. The Beatles' Rev...

Named after a brimless felt cap worn in antiquity, pileus (scarf) clouds primarily occur above cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds. The video below has this excellent description that explains much:Check...

A man in Shuswap, Canada, broke both of his hips and a finger during an unpleasant encounter with what The Mission City Record described as a "gang" of turkeys. The man also suffered multiple lacerati...

Although one can argue that the Marvel cinematic universe is as powerful as it was before 2020, the box office results of Marvel's phase four would tell a different story. Despite initially impressive...

I grew up as a devoted space nerd and model rocketeer, but years ago, I lost most of my interest in crewed space. After covering government and commercial space in the 80s and 90s, going to countless ...

Had it been adorned with a mounted gun, the Rome Plow, named for the city in Goergia where it was manufactured, could have been categorized a "Shitty Technical". The United States Army Corps of Engine...

From the official synopsis on Steam:The greatest writers of all time are fighting each other in the arenas that were inspired by their work. Each character can summon his own "magic" arena where he be...

I'm sure you've heard of the various aesthetic trends that have become popular over the last few years: dark academia, cottage core, coastal grandmother. Well, a new one appeared on my feeds that I th...

Historic landmark Perseverance Hall, in New Orleans' 7th ward, collapsed this week after heavy rains. The building and those who gathered in it were fundamental to the history and development of jazz ...

In the comic book, Laguardia, by "a writer of strange things" Nnedi Okorafor, the airport by the same namenow an intergalactic way-station that is STILL under constructionis the backdrop for an inters...

First Amazon, then Starbucks and Trader Joe's, and now Chipotle workers have organized a union. Workers at Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan voted to be represented by the Teamsters Union, and on August 2...

The New York Times podcast The Daily recently did a story called "The Rise of Workplace Surveillance," which provided a deep dive into the ways in which companies are remotely monitoring the productiv...

"The Magic of Disneyland" is a 1969 film that touches on the design and development of Disneyland and then tours the park. I think my first trip was likely around 1975, and some of this brings back me...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.What would we do withoutknives? As one of our oldest tools as ...

Watch this horrifying video of a woman in Caroline, New York, being attacked by a rabid fox. She's just standing there minding her own business, and the fox jumps on her leg. She manages to shake it o...

Meet Pipsqueak, a tiny rescue Yorkie who weighs only 1.8 poundsabout the size of a guinea pig. She lives with her human mom and dad along with their 6 other small rescue dogs, all of whom are seniors ...

From September 8-11, 2022, in Seattle, Washington, Skate Like a Girl will host Wheels of Fortune (WOF). First organized in 2009, Wheels of Fortune 11 "is the longest running global gathering of Women ...

E. Bryant Crutchfield, the Mead paper executive who created the Trapper Keeper, has died of bone cancer. He was 85. The iconic binder became so popular in the 1980s that, according to the company, as ...

Two of Paul Newman's daughters are suing Newman's Own, the charitable foundation and well-known food brand founded by the late actor, claiming that it doesn't give enough money to charity.Newman grant...

This anti-vax, anti-mask, Fauci-bashing, God-pushing, far-right TikToker checks all the MAGA boxes except one: she dares to compare Trump to the anti-christ. "I have never seen a human being be worshi...

I just started listening to the new release of Blondie's Against The Odds 1974 -1982, a 3-disc set with 52 rarely and never-heard-before Blondie tracks! It includes a 1974 version of "Heart of Glass" ...

The sorest loser, document stealing insurrectionist Donald J. Trump's Twitter knock-off, Truth Social, is not paying its bills. Trump businesses are famous for stiffing their contractors, with numerou...

After creating a phenomenon with New Jersey's social media presence, Megan Coyne already has the White House offering one-punch knock-outs via Twitter. Yesterday's fantastic clap back at the GOP membe...

You would think that a parishioner at a church called the Prince of Peace would be a peaceful person, not someone who would walk up to a group of Indian American women and say, "I hate you fucking Ind...

You've got only 10 seconds or so (unless you hit pause) to guess which "red apple" below is actually a piece of cake before a knife slices and reveals the imposter. Good thing I didn't have any money ...

En #pozoalmonte, en faena Cala Cala Cosayach se produce una emergencia medioambiental, donde se observa una nube de sublimacin de yoduro, se activa plan de emergencia local. @info_emergencia @redd...

In 1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Brian Jones were arrested for drug possession in the UK. Facing draconian prison sentences, Jagger and Richards wrote "We Love You." The video opens with Jagge...

Looking for just the right amount of squish, but with a firm resounding click? This handy chart will help you identify which mechanical keyboard you are most likely to enjoy. I have been using the sam...

Men experience menstrual cramps for the first time with the help of this simulator, but they can flip a switch and turn the pain off, so it doesn't seem quite right. I enjoy how impressed the cowboy w...

"[I] wake up in the morning, look at my phone to get a million messages … It's almost like every day you wake up and you're like punched in the stomach," says poor Mark Zuckerberg, the billionai...

JG Ballardmaster of surrealist science fiction, dystopian visionary, and brilliant cultural criticis one of my all-time favorite writers. In 1984, the Paris Review interviewed Ballard at his home, and...

JG Ballardmaster of surrealist science fiction, dystopian visionary, and brilliant cultural criticis one of my all-time favorite writers. In 1984, the Paris Review interviewed Ballard at his home, and...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're headed out for the day, or returning after a lo...

Boston police rescued an exhausted 76-year-old man and his son who were found clinging to a plastic blue cooler after their lobster boat sank in the Boston Harbor. The two men lost their 28-foot boat ...

The homeless population in San Francisco's Castro district is vandalizing and burglarizing businesses and harassing pedestrians and residents, said area merchants in a letter to the City of San Franci...

Gulls of Bangor is a melancholic browser-based text adventure game where "you are a seagull living in a small coastal town." This is your opportunity to fly, steal food from a tourist, and scream. You...

Ron Filipkowski posted the following doorbell cam video of two missionaries approaching a home and reacting to a doormat like a vampire does to garlic. We can't be certain but it's possible that this ...

In 2017, a Portuguese man in the city of Pombal discovered fossil fragments in his backyard while working on a construction project. Since then, after calling a research team, excavators have unearthe...

Never will I qualify for membership in the Ejection Tie Club because it's just for pilots "who have emergency ejected from an aircraft using a Martin-Baker ejection seat, which has thereby saved their...

Located somewhere between waking and sleep, saturated in Morpheus' dream fog, interesting conversations like this can happen....

Located somewhere between waking and sleep, saturated in Morpheus' dream fog, interesting conversations like this can happen....

Norm Pattis, One of Alex Jones' lawyers, chose not to incriminate himself when asked about the improper disclosure of the confidential medical records of Sandy Hook victims' relatives. The hearing was...

Drug giant Moderna is to sue BioNTech and Pfizer, claiming that their covid vaccine infringed its patents on the mRNA technology used to develop it. In October 2020, Moderna vowed to forego enforcemen...

The L.A. Times' James Queally acquired texts sent by police officers in Torrance, Ca., which reveal they chatted openly about killing black children and used slurs to identify a black man they killed ...

YouTuber The Unusual Suspect recut 210 movies to create this clever music video set to M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes." Take special note of the scenes he used for the song's gunshot sounds! This video is jus...

Great photographers know how to coach subjects to help them present their best, and then there's legendary photogs like Peter Hurley, who have that magic touch and smoothness that sets everyone at eas...

The court affidavit that convinced a judge to authorize the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago will be released today by noon, albeit with redactions. In his order, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said that after...

Gerry Dee says apologizes for rocket ship's following show and tell skit of Mr. D.I apologize to any teachers whose students bring in "rocket ships" today because of last night's "mr.d...

In Austin, Texas (and really, everywhere), accidental overdoses and deaths from drugs laced with the (extremely cheap and super powerful) synthetic opioid fentanyl are a huge problem. So, a harm reduc...

SFGate recently published an in-depth feature on Sanas, a Bay Area-startup in the burgeoning field of what they call "accent translation" which is to say, make the people working in call centers soun...

On Reddit, u/counter-parts posted the below photo of their prescription sunglass lenses. The internet set upon the post like savages. My prescription sunglasses are like half an inch thick. f...

Imagine mashing up Cardi B's racy hit "WAP" with a GE dryer commercial and, well you don't have to, someone's already done it. "There's some chores in this house."thumbnail: There I ruined it / YouTub...

If you're interested in getting into Old School Renaissance (OSR) fantasy roleplaying, the go-to source for the rule sets that recreate Basic/Expert D&D and AD&D is Old-School Essentials. But ...

This video of racist Mary Nicosia of Rochester, New York, and her attorney is must-see tv. This is actual footage from the press conference Nicosia held to explain her racist party as just poking good...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether it's the bottom of your purse or the back of yourjunk ...

These guys love this R100S. The gentleman claims the R100S was the first bike to have dual front discs, however, he is incorrect. That was the R100S predecessor, the R90S. I am a big fan of the R90S, ...

Perhaps Dark Brandon is a real thing. The White House tweeted a vicious burn on Georgia's pride, US Congressperson Marjorie Tayor Greene. When not complaining about very fishy-sounding SWAT attacks up...

The White House press briefing went haywire today when Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lost control of the room. Apparently, Angolan TV anchor Hariana Veras felt snubbed (it's not the first time) ...

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss a 1970's-era utility module that replicates a core concept in computing since the 1940's: Shift Registers."SWWE #74: Tribut...

Luke Bowen speaking at the Right to Life Panel at the Texas Youth Summitt Sep 19, 2020. See video below.Luke Bowen, the Political Director and the public face of Texas Right to Life, was arrested earl...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Let's face it. Getting what you need from a store shouldn't be...

In the 1980s, Gerald Ratner was the CEO of The Ratner Group, which owned over a thousand successful low-cost jewelry stores across the U.S. and UK called Ratners. In 1991 Gerald was invited to speak a...

Abigail Brocwell was fired as the Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival bratwurst queen after attending a forbidden luncheon, reports the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum. According to the festival's board, Brocwell and ...

In 1983, someone sent a note to Steve Jobs requesting his autograph. Jobs responded in a letter on official Apple letterhead stating: "I'm honored that you'd write, but I'm afraid I don't sign autogra...

Here are a few videos about a liar from New Jersey who lies about how many houses he owns, where he buys his groceries, and lies to you about health care products that'll make him a buck. Famously end...

At age 85, Joe E. Tata, known for his role as "Nat" on Beverly Hills 90210, passed away. Scenes at the Peach Pit were the best, and I frequent the Apple Pan to this day.Daily Beast:Beverly Hills, 9021...

At last week's European Athletics Championships in Munich, Swedish triple-jumper Jesper Hellstrom missed on his run-up and the result is comedy gold. His grin on the way down makes the moment all the ...

At last week's European Athletics Championships in Munich, Swedish triple-jumper Jesper Hellstrom missed on his run-up and the result is comedy gold. His grin on the way down makes the moment all the ...

Disney's Toy Story 4 included a tribute to Evel Knievel and many other stunt-men of the time. Disney ensured that while the character honors Knievel, it is not him, and significant differences were wr...

The ashes of inspiring actor and activist Nichelle Nichols (aka Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series) who died just a few weeks ago will join some of her Enterprise crewmates' remains in...

Illusionist Xavier Mortimer enjoyed some magic moments in a public bathroom, pretending not to notice a man washing up right next to him. Standing in front of a mirror, the Las Vegas performer casuall...

We all know it's inadvisable to attempt detonating a dead whale but in the case of other large animals, sometimes desperate times call for dynamite. In 1995, the US Department of Forest Service issued...

The Muppets weren't always muppeting, back in the day Jim Henson was hired to create some excellent advertising for brands that knew what was cool. I really enjoy Kermit in the 'McGarry's Sausage' se...

The LAPD boasted about seizing 40 cars during a number of raids on illegal street takeovers across the city, but said it will return the cars to their owners after 30 days. That's great news for the t...

Electronicos Fantasticos is the Tokyo-based band of about 70 members that plays converted household appliances (e.g., electric fans, telephones, bar code scanners, CRT TVs, and cameras) to make transc...

I was pretty stoned when I ran across this movie trailer, and I think the writers, directors, and executives who green-lit this monster were also pretty stoned. Image: screen grab...

While promoting the new movie Day Shift with co-star Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx launches into an excellent impression of Trump."What's your favorite Death Row record, Mr. Trump?""All of them. I love the D...

An Australian ram took a disliking to a large plastic bucket that had encroached on its territory. The surly sheep thought it would make short work of it by butting it into smithereens, but the craft ...

Tesla, reports the Washington Post, has demanded the removal of videos that show its vehicles hitting child-sized mannequins. The videos, posted by The Dawn Project, purport to show failures in Tesla'...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're hoping to keep your brain sharp or are trying t...

There are many terms from classic and modern SF that remain unresearched, and the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will be continually updated, especially as additional resources are put onlin...

When we turn our gaze back towards the past, that "20/20 Hindsight" extends out from the nostalgic frequently eschewing the context said nostalgia comes embedded in, setting the stage like the Strange...

On Saturday night, the banks of the Danube river in Budapest was set to glow with what was promised to be the largest fireworks display in Europe to celebrate Hungary's millennial anniversary. But the...

I don't know about you, but inspiring art and culture, and the rarefied air of museums, makes me have to poop. Or maybe it's the boiling and burnt coffee in the museum cafeteria. Either way, I've seen...

Located in Nantes, France, the pavement fatigue carrousel stresses road designs and materials while making one hell of a cacophony, as the equivalent of a megawatt wind turbine spins WOT at ground lev...

Felix Steele designed a 3D-printable 164mm, f/2.5 lens that costs $13 to make. It's the first thing out of his new website, Pixels and Prisms, with more to come. [via PetaPixel, which posted some test...

Comma.ai, developer of OpenPilot open-source AI-based autonomous driving software, was founded by legendary PlayStation and iPhone hacker George Hotz. Axel Nix is an electrical engineer who has a pate...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (QGA) claims she was swatted once again, for the second night in a row. "Swatted again last night," she posted this morning (see below), around 24 hours after reporting the...

So much sewage is being discharged into U.K. waterways that 50 beaches have pollution warnings and France is complaining about it reaching the continent. Poor regulatory oversight and broken monitorin...

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe, was yesterday awarded $16m by a California jury after it heard that Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies took photos of his body and shared them wit...

Wired has a great new piece looking at one of the largest Rickrolls in history an absolutely epic senior graduation prank in Cook County, Illinois.AT 10:55 AM on April 30, 2021, all the TV scree...

If you're a Community fan, odds are you know the series' famous rallying cry. Screaming "six seasons and a movie" whenever you meet a fellow fan of Community is the equivalent of a...

Building on two related viral wins, one for passing the salt and one for passing the pepper, Joseph of Joseph's Machines has created a new Rube Goldberg machine for delivering wine across the dinner t...

Rob Beschizza wrote about "Dramatis personae: Denver Fenton Allen" back in 2016, but if a picture worth a thousand words, then a 9 minute 39 second video at 30 frames per second, not only makes me reg...

Spoiler alert: "A new study describes the Pacific Northwest as 'by far the best place in America to go looking for psychedelic mushrooms.'" Also (and without comment): The Rust Belt, East Texas, Centr...

Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde School District police chief whose incompetent and evasive behavior helped a mass shooter kill 19 children and two teachers on his watch, was finally fired today.Arredondo d...

The Aieve Coffee Pod Adapter, a plastic doohickey available from Amazon, allows one to insert a K-Cup inside an Aeropress and thereby use it to make coffee without a Keurig-style machine. Convenient a...

Bobby Fingers made an exquisitely detailed recreation of Mel Gibson's 2006 DUI arrest in Malibu, and he explains it thoroughly in his lovely Irish brogue.Some of the things said that night were spicy...

Not all dogs have a natural instinct for steps, as demonstrated by this adorable husky who really wants to take a dip in the pool. But dang it, it's an above ground model, and this pooch oblivious to...

Passengers flying on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to San Diego on Monday felt an "unusual vibration" shortly after takeoff. And then this happened: An "unusual vibration" on a busy A...

Welp, I'm adding a visit to Casey, Illinois to my bucket list. With a population of only around 2700 people, it's sure got a lot of big things! Currently, it boasts not one but 12 oversized attraction...

Watch this terrifying video of a crocodile that looks like it fully intends to capture and devour the man running away from it at an Orlando, Florida park. The original video was posted by Gatorland O...

Why is the posterior hippocampus larger than normal in London taxi drivers? According to Dr. Eleanor Maquire, Ph.D., professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University College London (UCL), the rig...

Vogue magazine just published new photographs of United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. The photographs were taken by Annie Leibovitz at...

Meet the viscacha, an adorable creature that is so cute it almost doesn't seem real. What's a viscacha? It's a small rodent that looks a lot like a rabbit. It's related to the chinchilla, lives in Sou...

How does a cat know?  Not simply how does a cat think, but how does it know what it knows? From genetics? Experience? In other words, what is a feline epistemology? Epistemology is multi-syllabic...

Have you ever been in a conversation, and someone (or you yourself) mentions a person, place, event, or another phenomenon; and the other person (or you) pretends to know about it but really has no id...

We're in a golden age of podcasts. And I don't mean that in the "every podcast is amazing" way. I mean it in the " Oh no, King Midas will eventually die of starvation because he keeps accidentally tur...

I remember buying my first Lhasa de Sela CD at Austin, Texas' famed Waterloo records in the late 1990s. Composed in Spanish, La Llorona (1997) contained 11 songs of soul bliss with a range of octaves ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Remember the days when telling time didn't require you to reme...

In July 2021, I posted here about the new smartphone company bankrolled by Blackwater brutalizer Erik Prince.Erik Prince's latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with ...

The Daily Mail recently published an article highlighting exactly how much money many celebrities received in Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans, which were awarded by the US Federal Government in...

I was listening to Dan Savage's latest podcast episode and learned about a phenomenon I had never heard of Christian furries. They are furries who identify as Christian and want to evangelize to the ...

Religion News recently published a, uhhh, interesting article about Evangelical Christians within the Furry movement, such as those who belong to the Christian Furry Fellowship. Furrydom is a notoriou...

A Christian preacher doesn't think keeping women barefoot and pregnant in a post-Roe Vs. Wade world is enough he's now telling women to burn their pants, because it's a sin. And if they won't do it, ...

When Mufasa spoke to Simba about the circle of life, I doubt he was referring to the life cycle of television shows, but the message is still incredibly applicable. When the sun sets on one series, an...

Even though they got Chris Pratt to serve in the film's lead role, it's great that Nintendo is finally ready to make a new Mario Brothers movie. Since the first film tanked in the early 90s,...

Growing up in Louisiana, I always heard this rhyme that was supposed to help me differentiate between dangerous (coral) snakes and harmless (king) snakes. There were a couple of problems, though, with...

I'm nothing if not sophomoric, so of course I giggled when a friend sent me this Reddit link, which features a video of a very odd looking creature. And imagine my delight to have simultaneously been ...

Disney Plus feels like the bizarro version of HBO Max. Or maybe it's the other way around. Whereas Warner Brothers are struggling to fix their ailing superhero universe and refusing to release complet...

The first full trailer for director Robert Zemeckis's live action Pinocchio is fantastic. As usual, Tom Hanks completely transforms into his characterin this case, Pinocchio's creator Gepetto. From Va...

The Absence of Milk in the Mouths of the Lost is the new feature-length film by artist and filmmaker Case Esparros, director of King Baby (2019). You can watch the trailer here. The film stars Hannah ...

A 17-year-old Belgian-British teen has become the youngest pilot to fly solo around the world. Taking off from Bulgaria on March 23 when he was still 16-years-old, Mark Rutherford flew through 52 coun...

A gang of criminals in India's Bihar state established a fake police station just down the road from a real one, and operated the faux precinct for eight months. It's not uncommon for scammers to dres...

Student debt relief for millions: up to $10k for people earning less than $125k a year, and up to $20k for Pell Grant recipients. The president will provide the details of his plan at 14:15 EST (18:15...

Police report that after a suspect successfully called a Police raid on Marjorie Taylor Greene's home by reporting shots fired, the person using a computer-disguised voice then called back to discuss ...

After considering other options like taking away cellphones or creating a "Success Academy" superintendent of the Cassville, Missouri, school system, Merlyn Johnson is very enthusiastic about reintro...

Geckos are famous for their incredible ability to climb smooth surfaces thanks to the microscopic hairs on its feet. The secret to their stickiness is a physics property called van der Waals forces, "...

Cassian Andor looks to be an even more wonderful character than we knew. Rogue One barely introduced the rebel spy before we saw him obliterated, but the speech he gives in this short clip from the up...

This video brings back fond memories of writing BASIC programs on my Apple ][e. Watch how Daniel Shiffman uses Applesoft BASIC to program the game "Snake." He also includes links to the Applesoft BASI...

To heck with the Capitol police. Rep. Matt Gaetz (RFL) wants Colorado colleague Lauren Boebert to carry a gun inside the Capitol. (See video below.) Gaetz, still under federal investigation for sex-tr...

Here's the scene inside a McDonald's in 1992. The restaurants was promoting Batman Returns, a Happy Meal campaign that led to some unhappiness. Batman Returns was a fairly dark film."I think I upset M...

A box truck wouldn't be most people's choice for a getaway vehicle, but this gentleman felt it would suit his purposes as he led police officers on a chase that resulted in damage to more cars than I ...

Draw an iceberg and see what part of it appears above the water's surface on Joshua Tauberer's fun interactive web page.Icebergs are less dense than water, so they always float with about 10% of their...

Red Sonjais one of those characters that I'm surprised isn't more popular. You want a kick-ass female lead?Red Sonjahas your back. Do you fancy stylish action sequences that can dovetail into richly l...

A Seattle resident was surprised by a massive moth hanging around his garage. A University of Washington entomologist asked the homeowner to capture the creature in a bag for positive identification. ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There are holidays that simply inspire shopping: Christmas, Ha...

GOP Arizona governor candidate Kari Lake is well-known for her excellent talents as a drag king. She is now pretending she never had anything to do with drag culture and spends a lot of time saying ug...

To listen to its Mayor, it sounds like Orange Beach, Alabama, is pretty backward. Rather than welcoming commerce that has named itself in a manner honoring the coffee-growing history of Hawaii, a memb...

After the cancelation of Batgirl, fans of DC's superhero films have plenty of cause to be nervous about the future of their favorite films. The DC extended universe has been limping toward the gr...

IT'S the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  ORDER YOURS TODAY: RIGHT HERE AND NOW."God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, a...

Presumably, this sad event occurred in Florida, but US Congressperson and accused sex trafficker Matt Gaetz isn't known for making sense. Unfortunately, Gaetz has won his primary and is likely to win ...

Things are looking pretty good for comedy fans. I mean, Pretty good… Prettaaay, Prettaaay Good. The Warner Brothers and Discovery merger has been causing fans of entertainment to sweat...

Jacob Blair Scotta 40-year-old man who impregnated a 14-year-old girl and was sentenced to 85 years' imprisonment for child sexual exploitationpleaded guilty in federal court Monday to another crime c...

Rayshard Brooks failed a breathalyzer test in a 2020 DUI and resisted arrest, struggling with officers, grabbing a taser from one of them, and trying to use it as he fled. Officer Garrett Rolfe execut...

Donald Trump, from whose Florida compound hundreds of illegally exfiltrated classified documents were retrieved by the FBI in a court-ordered raid, wants them back. The demand is, Rolling Stone report...

Multiple stakeholders are applying efforts to keep Asian Carp from affecting the Great Lakes estimated 7 billion dollar fishery industry.The recommended plan involves a layered system of structural an...

Boxing is in a strange spot. It's a Schrdinger's cat of the sports world, in that it's both impossibly popular and less relevant than ever. Through years of meddling and mismanagement, the organizatio...

From Sub-Radio, the band who brought you the "Stacy's Dad" parody I posted a little while back (and who have also released plenty of original, non pop-culture-reference-y power-pop music as well).#dea...

Yeah, it really is Sand Blasting, only with Dry Ice, but the effect less aggressive, and incredibly good at cleaning metal surfaces using sublimation to remove contaminates as the dry ice phase change...

This instance of Cart Narcspersonally confronting people who leave shopping carts in the parking lotis the most astounding yet. Jump to 40 seconds in. The sheer incomprehensible bravery of this man co...

Coach has taken to anthropomorphizing some bags and other related products. They've got faces but also names and personalities. Honestly, I'm here for it. Meet the Coachies:They're not just bagsthey'r...

It's a shame that Dune is only now becoming a cultural phenomenon equivalent to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Although Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel has alw...

Set to release November 8, 2022, "Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm" is about to "carry me back to old Virginny, lawd".Here's the movie poster: Official Poster for 'Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm' fro...

This story is pretty baffling. A woman, Mary Nicosia of Rochester, New York, threw a "parody" Juneteenth party, and from its description, it was super racist. The woman called a press conference to ex...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's hardly anything better than a beautifulwristwatch, but...

Last week, a car cruised down the second-story corridor of an indoor shopping mall near Boston. This week, an adventurous gentleman found himself trapped on a flight of stairs after he drove his stole...

It's a wonder anyone still wants the thankless job of being a teacher. Besides the low pay and "acute challenges of pandemic-era learning" (and teaching), you can add Fox propaganda's hostile accusati...

New Jersey's Dr. Mehmet Oz, a candidate for an open US Senate seat in Pennsylvania, tried to score points with voters by criticizing his opponent, a stroke victim, for not eating his veggies. Respondi...

The book Life is So Good, co-written by George Dawson, is banned at George Dawson Middle School in Southlake, Texas. The same George Dawson who wrote this book is the George Dawson the school is named...

Because classes are starting at schools and universities all over the United States right now, I feel it's necessary to revive this brilliant syllabus lamentation. Truer words were never spoken than t...

Just LOOK at this adorable dog, Brodie! His TikTok page describes him as, "A spunky partially blind rescue pup who looks a bit like a Picasso masterpiece." He does, in fact, look like a Picasso, with ...

If you've spent five minutes on LinkedIn, you've probably noticed that many posts are written in a very formulaic way. Tom Orbach, a growth marketing manager in Israel, noticed too and figured out a w...

In 2019 BoingBoing ran a story about border agents seizing bologna on the Texas border. Well, it's now 2022, and illegal bologna smuggling is still happening. The latest issue of Texas Monthly has a g...

Y'all know I love capybaras. Well, I just found the capybara cute-pics-and-videos motherlode. It's the Nagasaki Bio Park's TikTok which has almost more painfully cute capybara content than I can hand...

True story: Some two decades ago, I was at a party, and my friend said to me as they pointed toward the door, "wow, look at that mullet!" I turned, and without thinking, said, "who brought a fish to a...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.We love the summer, but time is running out, and we need to ho...

Watch this wild video of children being thrown high in the air as they ride a giant slide. The slide is in Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, and the slide was first open for riders on Friday, August 19. It...

What happens when people disappear from a place? What happens in that building, on that seabed, in that deserted cityscape? To find out, check out the Twitter handle Abandoned Places. It's reminiscent...

People in the Phoenix metro area are all atwitter because THE ROBOTS HAVE ARRIVED. The Phoenix New Times published a story highlighting several restaurants in the Phoenix area that are using robots as...

"I prayed, and said: 'Lord, I've got to get this hatred off my heart. It's a miserable feeling. You can't function right. So I forgave." Wilson, recounting his experience watching an interview with A...

In the world of fighting games, a game's difficulty is a selling point. Fans of the genre enjoy touting how demanding their game of choice can be. In this regard, Tekken is in a league of it...

If you are new to caring for an animal whose eyesight is changing, today is a perfect day to get on all fours and see what life looks like from the perspective of your four-legged friend.Barley Thelon...

A copy of Look Magazine from July 4, 1939 will cost you $950, because it has a a six-page photo-illustrated feature by William P. Hitler, called "Why I Hate My Uncle."William Patrick Hitler was born i...

There are still many terms from classic SF that remain unresearched, and, as new resources are put online, the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction will be updated. Boing Boing is syndicating new ...

A very long rat snake couldn't get enough of a house porch, slithering up and down the front door at least three times over the course of 10 hours, as seen in this cool footage caught on a security ca...

Oregon Live shares the story of Kyle Cerkoney, who, with two friends, shipped a lot of marijuana and marijuana products around the United States of America illegally. Having encountered trouble with ...

Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao has banned the sale of merchandise featuring cartoon cats sprawled on comfy chairs, because it violates "public order and morality." Taobao also told the RHR Shangha...

Neal Agarwal (previously) made a surprisingly fancy iPhone "design" toy. Make your perfect phone! Components you can add include cameras, physical buttons, logos and … wheels....

Have you seen the 2018 movie Sorry to Bother You? It's about a young black man who gets a job at a call center and has trouble making sales until he adopts a "white voice."A new company called Sanas s...

The head of an Emergency Medical Service station in Pennsylvania was arrested for secretly recording at least 11 women and girls using a restroom. The EMS chief, Jason McCully, had hidden a recording ...

The Italian Coast Guard reports that all four passengers and five crew members were rescued when a superyacht named "My Saga" sank off the coast of Italy on 20 September.According to Superyacht Fan, t...

Hollywood is going to keep trying until they get this whole "live-action anime adaptation" thing right, huh? For some reason, Tinsletown seems incapable of processing the fact that anime fans actually...

China's Ministry of Education has deemed illustrations in children's math textbooks to be "not beautiful" and "quite ugly" and failed to "properly reflect the sunny image of China's children." Twenty-...

Avatar, the James Cameron movie the world forgot, has a sequel due out. The OG film will be r-rereleased in theaters shortly before the new one debuts. People not wanting to pay for Avatar in the thea...

In the late '90s, several businesses saw how monstrous an entity the internet was becoming and attempted to embrace it. One such business was Web Van- a grocery delivery service. On paper, the idea se...

Chipotle, perhaps the least hated of several US-based Mexican fast food chains, is making a joke that assumes everyone will know: a) what their water cup looks like, b) that people frequently steal le...

I was always an Addams Family fan. The Munsters were more lighthearted and peppy, but the Addams were creepy and odd. This new series from NetFlix looks like it'll cover the bases nicely. Wednesday se...

Delightful polymath Fran Blanche restored this 1966 short film about wheels. "This classic 16mm Coronet film takes us into the modern world of go carts, barrel rides, rotary phones, and hand powered ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The benefits of yoga are well known. According to John Hopkins...

If you want a privileged, Yale frat boy who dresses up in a fighter pilot costume and pretends to be a "top guv" in a cringeworthy campaign ad, this is your MAGA man. Rather than talk about what he's ...

Takao Shito loves his farm, or is hiding bodies for the Yakuza under it, because no matter the amount of money placed before Takao Shito to sell his inconveniently placed plot of land to the airport s...

I Dream of Jeannieis one of my favorite television shows of all time. Even in the face of modern special effects, I can't help but revisit episodes ofJeannie. There's just something endlessly alluring...

In the West, the proverbial jets may have cooled on the Power Rangers franchise. However, in the show's native Japan, Super Sentai– the series from which Power Rangers i...

From Cape Cod to West Palm Beach to Houston to San Diego, real estate developers have been going all-in on mobile home properties. It might sound like a strange investment to some, but it's also one o...

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actu...

Tucked below a Czech Republic highway underpass, the grade 8b Exhumance approach gets its name from the proximity to a crematorium and a cemetery south of Brno, Adam Ondra's hometown. Captured In the...

Work around cars long enough, and you'll start to notice certain products have a ubiquitous presence in garages; certain products like Heli-coil, Bondo, and Loctite, have earned success to the point t...

In this footage from the concours d'imitation de mouton, humans pretend to be sheep. Some excel at this, if not quote enough to be mistaken for sheep.Un concours d'imitation de mouton pic.twitter....

Taking super slo-mo moment to appreciate the beauty of a hummingbird in flight; lapping up nectar up to 18 times a second with its elongated tongue from Damnthatsinteresting When...

Learn MYOGmake your own gearis a website about crafting outdoor and technical apparel. There are patterns for pullovers, backpacks, running belts and more, and basic advice for setting up a workstatio...

The Altar I is a low profile and wireless mechanical keyboard with a very particular aesthetic that reminds me of old-timey Apple, Teenage Engineering and phone handsets designed for the vision-impair...

ShaderGlass is a desktop overlay for Windows that you can drag around like the classic Magnifier. Instead of zooming whatever's under it, though, it makes it look like it's being displayed on an old-t...

Blow Out? Sure. Easy Rider? Definitely! Taxi Driver? 100%, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein? Uh, if you say so. Indiewire published this updated list of Quentin Tarantino's top 40 movies of all t...

If you want your medication to kick in as fast as possible, lay down on your right side. It beats standing up, according to a computer model of the human stomach.From New Atlas:Led by Prof. Rajat Mitt...

"And when we announce the winner, we'd like you all to pretend this is a brand new government, not the exact same one that's fucked you sideways into a full-blown state of social, economic, and ecolog...

Is Apple's M2 Macbook Air a lot better than the M1 model? In this Washington Post video, Chris Velazco and Geoffrey Fowler did a blind test of both machines and decided there's not much of a speed dif...

Two kitties were none too pleased when they discovered their human friend had suddenly grown a cat face. At first it was just one cat who ventured into a room and then bolted out in sheer panic after ...

Diane Luckey, who as Q Lazzarus sang one of the late 20th century's strangest and most compelling songs, died last month at 61. An elusive figure, she worked as a bus driver for many years before surf...

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After 38 years heading up the U.S. agency responsible for fighting infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci is planning to leave in December. His public profile was vastly increased by the Covid pandemic, a...

A gentleman donated a lot and started a foundation to provide tiny homes to folks who needed them in Las Vegas, Nevada. While zoning laws don't exist today for Tiny Home communities, the state of Neva...

Mike Lindell has a great idea! He is ordering Republicans many who serve in the military or are elderly and less mobile not to vote by mail. "Tell everybody you know, you have to vote in person. In ...

You have to give it to him.Jordan Peterson makes a startling confession pic.twitter.com/pl9i3NRFFZ— very tall bart (@TallBart) August 22, 2022...

Once again, we quote Kirby Ferguson: "As Isaac Newton once said, we stand on the shoulders of giants which is what he was doing when he adapted that saying from Bernard de Chartres", since Every...

The evolution of video games isn't as linear as people like to believe. We typically follow the thought pattern that every video game genre improves in lockstep with each other. The truth is that vide...

Discussions over on the BBS about the earlier Trader Joe's cursed licorice "Gourmet Jelly Beans" post, perfectly went every which way one could want, when along comes 5 year lurker, Paddy with this br...

An impatient driver skirts a red light by employing the "red light avoidance technique." This is a method in which one creates a makeshift roundabout to get to the other side of an intersection, as de...

Brock Turner the preppy Stanford swimmer who in 2015 sexually assaulted an unconscious student near a dumpster outside a frat party is back in the spotlight. Over the last month, Turner's name has g...

Applebees has partnered with a lip gloss maker to market a line of chicken wing flavored lip balms. Everything from Buffalo to Honey BBQ appears to be on the menu, and Applebees seems quite confident ...

Last April, Apple began to offer repair manuals, parts, and tools for its current-era iPhone line. Now they're expanding the program to include the M1 line of MacBook Airs and Pros. While you are stil...

In this 1969 footage from the CBC, a group of Druids perform a Summer Solstice ritual while the "hippies" observe with curiosity. "Both virtual defy description," says the newscaster. "They were at it...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology sells a variety of "standard reference materials" for calibrating equipment and developing new measurement techniques. There are a number of curio...

Where I live (and probably where you live), if you wandered outside and looked around at restaurants, bars, shopping centers, airplanes, airports, municipal buildings, movie theaters, universities, sc...

Poor water quality, careless boaters, and MAGA morons carving "Trump" on manatees kill around 10% of their dwindling population each year. Environmentalists paint a bleak picture, and this Orlando Sen...

Do you ever feel lonely? Need advice? Need a friendly 'you can do it'? Well, enter Nick Cho, aka "Your Korean Dad." He's here to help encourage you! He's in your corner! He's on a bunch of different s...

In Lod, Israel, an escaped bull ran through the city streets before storming into the Bank Leumibuilding. You can see brave bank employees attempting to lasso the brazen bovine.According to UPI, "Lod ...

What washes up on beaches always tells a story from seaweed and algae to proverbial messages in bottles. But what happens when the building blocks of a plastic message-carrying bottle, and all the pl...

Dogs may be crying tears of happiness when their eyes well up upon being reunited with their humans, according to new research. The study at Azabu University's Laboratory of Human-Animal Interaction a...

A panic-stricken Alex Jones delivers an "emergency message" to Donald Trump after recklessly backing Ron DeSantis on Thursday. After crossing the MAGA don, Jones desperately backpedals."This is my eme...

NASA's James Webb Telescope isn't just useful for seeing into deep space. NASA just released glorious new images of Jupiter captured using the observatory's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). From NASA:"W...

Here's a hilarious album of panorama photos of dogs gone terribly wrong. If you know me, youknow I'm a sucker for an animal snout. But some of the snouts in this photo gallery are a bitweird even for ...

Aside from the inherent difficulty of a level, video games can induce significant tension through music alone. Anyone who's experienced the anxiety of trying to prevent Sonic the Hedgehog from dr...

I just finished watching the new documentary on Netflix (Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn't Exist) about Notre Dame football star Manti Te'O, who was embroiled in a catfishing scandal in 2012. I have z...

Three cops in Crawford County, Arkansas, are on vacation today after being filmed delivering a brutal beating to Randall Worcester, 27, in a parking lot in Mulberry. Worcestor, seen being repeatedly p...

Millions of Americans who caught COVID have gone on to develop a range of debilitating symptoms that last for weeks, months, or yearsthis condition is called "Post Acute Sequelae of COVID-19," or "lon...

AMC Theaters is selling a new class of shares today named $APE "in a nod" to the hapless financial lemmings to which it will be sold. AMC Theaters's stock is plunging today, down 38% at the time of po...

I've had a fear of giant dogs rational or not ever since hearing about the mauling death of Diane Whipple, who was killed by two Presa Canarios in her San Francisco apartment building, which happene...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's safe to say that we've all wished we could create an app ...

During this turbulent time while HBO Max is in the process of warring with itself like Sgt. Lincoln Osiris turning back into Kirk Lazarus after finishing the DVD commentary for Tropic Thunder, one of ...

Watch this adorable baby seal flopping around the house of marine biologist, Phil Ross. The seal found its way into Ross' home in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand, through one of the cat doors. The poor thi...

It's difficult to process the reality of being a person on this planet. We try to push the thought out of our minds as much as possible, but pretty much every disgusting, horrific act you can think of...

Back in 2008, Mark Frauenfelder broached the miniature cattle topic, and a recent post on reddit brought it back to the fore, warranting an update for when you're only a little bit ready to get a cow....

I feel like we're getting a good picture of what generative art (at least this kind of Midjourney nightmare) undermines when it comes to humans making a living. The stylistic mimicry is amazing, but t...

Outside of Coca-Cola, McDonald's might be the most American brand on the planet. Through an aggressive real-estate-focused expansion plan, McDonald's has become one of the world's largest restaurant c...

Even though the momentum of superhero movies doesn't seem to be slowing, audiences and critics are becoming increasingly more vocal about how repetitive and formulaic the genre can be. Recently, sever...

Even though the momentum of superhero movies doesn't seem to be slowing, audiences and critics are becoming increasingly more vocal about how repetitive and formulaic the genre can be. Recently, sever...

The Polish Academy of Sciences added the domestic cat, Felis catus, to its list of invasive species. Cats won't be rounded up or anything, but their propensity to slaughter everything within acres of ...

It's hard to believe this Family Feud moment from a few years ago actually happened but here we are. When it's her turn, Sheila, one of the contestants, answers in earnest but keeps making a weird mis...

In this performance from last August, at the Acropolis in Athens, Brian Eno (along with brother Roger, Cecily Eno, Leo Abrahams, and Peter Chilvers) performs "There Were Bells," a track from his forth...

In a different reality, the 90s console wars went in Sega's favor as opposed to Nintendo's. For a while, it seemed like Sega was primed to become the biggest console in gaming. Despite possessing the ...

Times change, and the tools we create mold themselves into new iterations pertinent to the times; thus Google's latest Search refinement introduces the "helpful content update".We work hard to make su...

There's a dog bed that's big enough for people! Its called the Plufl and its creators, University of British Columbia students Noah Silverman and Yuki Kinoshita, share the inspiration behind it:The Pl...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Serenity now! That's the phrase Seinfeld MVP dad Frank Costanz...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're studying for a new career or have an exceptiona...

Faith Dickey is a brave soul who likes to walk over giant canyons on a 2-inch wide slackline. Watching her so high in the air gives me butterflies in my stomach. As a pioneer of her passion, Dickey ha...

Don't Keep It In The Family is a public service announcement that attempts to warn teens against the dangers of online chat rooms. It features a guy and a gal that meet on a webcam without seeing each...

Greg Cohen is a sugar smith with a deep passion for his craft. Watch to see how Cohen and the staff from Lofty Pursuits create traditional candy at their shop in Tallahassee, Florida. In this video fr...

WeExpire is a free-to-use website that allows users to create a note that will be read when they die. The note gets attached to a QR code, which a user can give to a trusted person. Here's how it work...

When honey bees need to defend their colony from wasps, they can form a "defense wave". Also known as "shimmering" behavior, the wave happens when bees on the outer layer of the hive synchronize their...

Finland's Ministry for Foreign Affairs this is FINLAND (TIF, not to be confused with TIFU) national image campaign, made it the first country to issue it's own official emojis. The original Finland e...

In this episode of Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, we get to see how the world's most profound psychedelic is made from a certain type of tree bark. Three years ago, "Hamilton learned how DMT, one of the mos...

If Pterosaurs still roamed the earth, this tutorial on how one might be able ride them would come in handy. These flying reptiles were not dinosaurs, but closely related.Although they existed 228 to 6...

To pay tribute to all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name, artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor their souls in an installation in Charlotte, North Carolina, ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The perfect shot usually feels impossible to capture. You can'...

One of my favorite tracks from The Beatles "White Album" has always been John Lennon's "Yer Blues." Part parody of the British blues boom of the late 1960s, part earnest cry of addiction and pain. All...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by RT (@rt)Watching robots evolve has been one of the most bizarre parts of the 21st century. On the one hand, the creativity and innovatio...

17 years old, and Robert Sansone pops onto the scene with a 3D designed and printed novel electric motor he invented a few years ago after hearing about the high fiscal and environmental cost rare-ear...

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In a recent blog, Raymond Chen, a software engineer Microsoft, discussed the surprising discovery that Janet Jackson's song "Rhythm Nation" is powerful enough to physically destroy some computer hard ...

People are starting to get really creative with Midjourney. Case in point: YouTuber SolarProphet fed the lyrics to Electric Light Orchestra's "Mr. Blue Sky" to the AI bot and then made this surreal mu...

Infinite Chapters is a site that allows strangers to write a book together, piece by piece. You can read sections that previous contributors have written and then write something yourself. So far, the...

Juxtapoz magazine recently published a beautiful and disturbing photo essay about Florida, titled "Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans: A Photo-Dialogue on Florida Past and Present." The photos on th...

Leap The Dips is the world's oldest operating roller coaster. It's also the last surviving figure-eight side friction roller coaster. In the video, you'll see that it doesn't have any steep drops or f...

The Museum Of Bad Art is actually full of awesome art. This video about the museum (which is located in Somerville, Massachusetts) is privately owned and has a goal "to celebrate the labor of artists ...

The Wonderful World About Pigs, Horses & Clowns & Especially Dolly Parton is a new album by David Liebe Hart that has blown me away. Leibe Hart is able to sing about his love for a common root...

The Guardian is currently seeking volunteers to share stories about items they've kept after a breakup: "Tell us about the belongings your ex left behind. We'd like to hear from people about the times...

Watch and experience a gut-wrenching dose of second-hand pain as Gregory Foster breaks the record for eating the most amount of ghost peppers in one minute. Ghost peppers (also known as Bhut Jolokia c...

It's always nice to see someone deserving get their proverbial flowers while they're still alive. It's funny how quickly we tend to forget about people the minute they recede from the public eye. For ...

In any art form, specific creators need to become custodians of the medium. While not every creator is up to the task, certain practitioners must graduate to the role of a scholar if quality control a...

If you like tiny animal hands, feet, nails, and paws, you must visit this subreddit! It's called "Lil Grabbies" and is always a palate cleanser and soul booster. The site features small creatures and ...

Not gonna lie, I'm enjoying this almost as much as I enjoy the hops in my beer.From the fine production crew at Yakima Valley Hops....

This Italian farm sits 8 meters under the ocean. It's called Nemo's Garden and was created by the Ocean Reef Group. The underwater farm began in 2013 when the owner's crops were having trouble in the ...

Make My Drive Fun a site that helps you find interesting places to visit on your road trip. Just enter the start and end points to your route, and the map will show you all your options. I typed in Lo...

Burning Man starts August 28 and three-year-old Burner Lily Knight is here to tell you all about it. (Yes, Black Rock City is for families too!)This is Lily's Show:screengrab via Lily Knight / YouTube...

Don't stress over splooting squirrels! It's a warning that bears repeating. If you see a squirrel laying flat on its tummy with its little limbs outstretched, the squirrel is likely just  "sploot...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.You'll never be unhappy to have extralightsaround the house. W...

15 years old, and still I snicker whenever I see this classic."You'll be so fast that Mother Nature will be like "Slow down", and you'll be like "Fuck You" and kick her in the face with your energy l...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Did you know the webcam is a thing because of coffee? Yep, sma...

Georgia's pride, US Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene, has shared proposed legislation attacking health care for people, teen and adult, seeking to transition. This terrible publicity stunt shares...

Death diving, or dds in Norwegian, is an amateur diving belly flop jumping competition managed by Det Internasjonale Ddseforbundet (The International Dds Federation). The World Championship is perform...

It's hard not to anticipate sorrow when you read the words "child star." The pairing of words and their definition may be innocuous enough, but the history of child stars is anything but. Just last we...

Unlike the X-Men and Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four didn't have a popular 90s cartoon that primed Millennials and Generation Z for the onslaught of Marvel films that...

Awww, go look at this cute newborn aardvark, named "Dobby," who is the first aardvark to ever be born at the Chester Zoo in Cheshire, England. Here's how the website The Animalz describes the new baby...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Only 90s Kids Know (@onlyninetieskidsknow)Man, the 90s were weird. I can accept the fact that sitcoms were ubiquitous in the decade, but...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're commuting to class or visiting a sports center,...

Better Call Saul is officially in the books. It feels a little odd that the last remnant of AMC's golden age has finally come to an end. And, no, The Walking Dead doesn't count as AMC's...

This New York Times review of Jared Kushner's, "Breaking History," excoriates the book and I'm here for it. Read these delicious gems:It's a title that, in its thoroughgoing lack of self-awareness, ma...

World Mosquito Day, recognized each year on August 20, marks the anniversary of the discovery that mosquitoes transmit the parasite that causes malaria. On this day in 1897, Sir Ronald Ross discovered...

NASA Artemis Mission Commander, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is currently set for launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled to dock with the International Space Stat...

NASA Artemis Mission Commander, Major, U.S. Marine Corps, Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is currently set for launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft scheduled to dock with the International Space Stat...

Learning about the varieties of flying insects is practically a necessity when you're a kid. Unless you can visually discern the difference between a carpenter bee and a yellow jacket, you may find yo...

J.J. McCullough rocks the truth like a handheld mic without the pantyhose, wielding veritas that cuts so close to the bone that I got a Chidi stomach ache after seeing him explain how other countries ...

After 15 years, the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York City announced that it's closing its doors for goodjust one month before the 21st anniversary of the attacks. The museum that offered a place to "co...

According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the spikey, wrinkly, anus-less, microscopic organism known as Saccorhytus coronarius is not, in fact, an evolutionary precursor to homo sapien...

Comic books have become the saving grace of Hollywood. Even when they don't involve superheroes, comic books are the backbone of Hollywood's creatively bereft system. From Men in Black and&#...

the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 has projected the world's population will reach 8 billion 8.15.2022 and 8.5 billion in 2030, plateauing at 10.4 billion in 2100Photo: UN World Popula...

A new Texas law requires public elementary and secondary schools and higher education institutions to hang a poster or framed sign with the US national motto, "In God we trust," in a "conspicuous plac...

Folks at the University of Michigan's library were highly disappointed to discover that an alleged Galileo manuscript page was, in fact, not a Galileo manuscript page. From reading the article, it see...

Is there a petition we could sign to get an off-season on adulthood? Every time you get your current situation under control, life just randomly decides to increase the pressure. It often feels like y...

I'll co-sign with his encouraging coach, Gary's got some seriously great form going on there. ...

good mellons from Unexpected It's all fun and games till you're spinning, and then the bumper comically detach itself from the front clip. Here's a few dollops of gold from the ...

As a cultural icon worthy of representing Sweden, "lagom" (lah-gomm) is an amalgam of understanding one's existence in the world, the repercussions of our interactions, and the satisfaction of embraci...

An appreciative crow regularly hangs out with a family (and their German Shepherd) who rescued him as a baby after he fell from a tree. After raising him, his human parents eventually encouraged him t...

One D&D is the codename for the next generation of the Dungeons & Dragons game experience. The project has three key aspects: A rules revamp and expansion, full digital/print integration (than...

Some people are just better than the rest of us, ok? Here's a woman who demonstrates how she simultaneously can draw six realistic portraitsupside downusing her hands and feet in just 40 minutes. Her ...

Takara Tomy, the Japanese company behind the original Transformers action figures, has teamed up with a Canon to make a new toy replica of the popular Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera. While you can't s...

Don't be surprised if you need to take an "anxiety from stress-inducing events shower" after reading about Allan Rothstein's "discrimination and harassment in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act...

Incredibly, Washington Post columnist Jason Willickseems to think that if Biden pardons Trump, "it could put the weary president back in the center of the political universe." Also, a pardon would "ma...

Branka Oljaca, 24, decided to quit her job as a dental assistant in Adelaide, Australia to pursue her side hustle of candlemaking. As a goodbye gift to her colleagues, she gave them candles with the w...

There is a lot of awful in the attacks against Boston Children's Hospital, which is suffering awful threats for offering gender-affirming care to folks who need it. Still, analyzing why such violent a...

Another Leo Moracchioli classic to brighten your Friday!Image: Screen grab...

This New York family of four received a $500 voucher from Airbnb after they discovered that the vacation rental home they booked for four adults and two dogs was the size of a broom closet. The daught...

Florida's Sarasota County School District has banned school libraries from buying or accepting donations of any book until January 2023 and this includes dictionaries. When a rotary club in Venice, F...

I don't want to give away the secret inside this ball that rolls down a hill so slow it seems like it is going through molasses. Try to figure it out on your own first. It's pretty easy to make one. &...

Stay Tuned: Season 2 by VetiverAlt-folk auteur Andy Cabic (Vetiver) recorded the delightful cover above of the 1982 theme from "Newhart," originally composed by the great Henry Mancini! The track will...

You might be able to wash away some of the negative psychological consequences of stressful experiences, according to research published inSocial Psychological and Personality Science."When we engage ...

Going through the same monotonous tasks every day can really do a number on your spirit. That's why many adults of all ages take the time to learn something new, whether to a bit of spice to the day o...

Arizona's GOP candidate for governor Kari Lake has a three-step plan to eradicate monkeypox, and it involves putting LGBTQ people in "concentration camps," says her hunting fan, Ethan Schmidt. "Folks ...

A 14-foot giant squid turned up on Scarborough Beach in Cape Town, South Africa. It was the second massive kraken to wash ashore in the area this year. From LiveScience:Without an examination of its i...

In 1947 computer scientist Grace Hopper found a moth that had been electrocuted inside the Harvard Mark II computer. She wrote in her notebook that it was the "first actual case of a bug being found."...

When California police received a 911 call, they took it seriously. So when the caller hung up without saying a word, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office sent a text back, but got no reply. Th...

The science journal BMC Ecology and Evolution published the winners of its annual photography competition featuring images captured by researchers in the field. "The competition attracted entries fro...

Similar to the intense dislike felt by some for Cilantro, Pearl Jam, or Jerk drivers that cut in line, licorice is in my humble opinion: "the antithesis of candy." I understand that some like it, and...

Heist films need a shot in the arm. For too long, heist/thief movies have relied on the performances of a talented ensemble cast to compensate for the weak and convoluted scripts that typically power ...

Going to a flea market with Mitch O'Connell is a bit like trying to get high with Willie Nelson: you can take pride in saying that you did it, so long as you don't get your ass kicked in.I came close ...

Even his own party doesn't seem to like him very much. I'm talking about Dr. Oz, who is running for Senate, and is constantly trolled by his opponent John Fetterman, various celebrities, and even fake...

A travel and vegan writer flying home from Frankfurt to Toronto on Air Canada says she ordered a vegan meal a month before her flight and technically, vegan is exactly what she got. For her first "ho...

Who let the wolves out? At least one wolf is still on the loose after a 'suspicious' incident at Vancouver Zoo, where it appears that someone deliberately cut a hole in a wolf enclosure and set s...

It's just getting too easy. Once again, Dr. Oz is saying misleading and stupid things and getting dragged across the internet. Here's a video of someone asking Dr. Oz how many houses he owns. He answe...

Shopping malls can be chaotic and confusing, and so it was for an elderly woman who entered a shopping mall today near Boston not on foot but while driving her SUV (see videos below). The driver maneu...

File this under: NEWS I DO NOT WANT TO BE TRUE. Two people have died in Florida, one in Fort Lauderdale and one in Pensacola, after eating raw oysters from Louisiana that were infected with Vibrio bac...

Check out this photo tour of the "Monolith of Lake Mead," which is a formerly sunken speedboat that is now sticking straight up out of the dry lakebed along the shoreline of Lake Mead, near Boulder Ci...

What an amazing story! I'm so relieved that it had a happy ending. A Missouri couple lost their dog Abby after she ran away from home on June 9, 2022. She was found, alive, two months later, on August...

Airlines are overselling more than ever, making air travel more miserable than ever. The good news is that you are entitled to compensation if you get bumped and put on another flight that results in ...

One of the hottest careers to get into these days is coding and one of the best parts about it is that you don't need to rack up university bills to learn the skills needed to become a top ...

Randy Rainbow's latest Beatles-inspired ditty, "Lock Him Up, Yesterday," takes a sorrowful look back at Trump's more hopeful days, when a takeover was on the horizon, before whipping up into a fast an...

Life is all about avoiding extremes. Descending too far toward one end of the spectrum in any aspect of life will usually lead to disaster. Working hard is commendable, but becoming a workaholic is al...

In a leaked video, Finland's Prime Minister, Sanna Marin was seen laughing, dancing, and having fun with her friends at a party. Naturally, people who are "obsessed by the haunting fear that someone, ...

Quint BUILDs created this exquisitely-engineered machine to throws knives with laser-guided accuracy. He explains that knife-throwing "in theory is simple. Match the knife's rotation to the distance s...

While Donald Trump's latest FBI scandal has some in the MAGA Party seeking oranger pastures (as in Florida's Ron DeSantis), others point out that hey, there's no law against running for President from...

At CNN, AJ Willingham writes that The Sims, first released in 2000, is a "haven for neurodiverse players, some of whom grew up with the game and continue to revisit it well into adulthood." According ...

Is anyone reading Breaking History, Jared Kushner's White House memoir, besides reviewers getting paid to read it? I'm not, but I sure enjoyed Dwight Garner's review in The New York Times. Garner says...

While Russian operatives discuss trading in Agent Trump for their "Number Two" Ron DeSantis, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has also climbed aboard the dump-Trump train. "I am supporting DeSantis," th...

A couple dozen QAnoners gathered outside the Peterborough, Ontario police station over the weekend to protest Canada's COVID-19 vaccination efforts. According to Toronto City News, some of the QNuts r...

Justin Matthews captured this delightful scene in Avon, Connecticut of a bear family attempting to figure out a hammock. It's like a scene from a vintage Disney True-Life Adventure nature documentary....

The inconvenience of lost/stolen luggage is one of the biggest reasons why I prefer to go carry-on only; however if the plane is small enough, even that won't save one from having to check in luggage....

Reputed billionaire and Russian plutocrat Donald J. Trump claims to have raised several million dollars by fleecing his followers with emails crying how his criminal activities got his cheezy golf clu...

Rick Astley released his mega-viral "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video in 1987. Thirty-five years later, Astley recreated the video for AAA auto insurance. Too bad it's just one minute long! Watch ...

As the number of unhoused people increases in big urban centers, so does the use of hostile design meant to prevent people from getting too comfortable in public places. The classic example are benche...

Republican Rep. Mara Elvira Salazar of Florida is a savvy congresswoman. She knows her constituents require a steady stream of lies to stay happy, so yesterday she gave them a whopper of a fib, claimi...

The Kettle Moraine School Board in Wales, Wisconsin, continues to block the display of the rainbow flag on grounds that it is "political." Locals are aghast, the ACLA seems interested, but where are a...

Whether you work long hours every day or have more free time than usual, taking time to focus on yourself is imperative to your everyday happiness. Even if it's just managing your time more effic...

Disney is prone to take liberties with stories whenever they feel like it. When they aren't undermining decades of meticulous characterization to have formerly serious Marvel characters quip about Bey...

Recently, The Simpsons have earned a curious(yellow) spot in pop culture. No, I don't mean Disney+, but more on them later. Over the last few years, people have started to view The Simp...

So there's a "Pixar filter" that turns faces cartoon-y. YouTuber yo chill bruh used it on several choice clips from Better Call Saul and imagined the show as a Disney-Pixar flick in this trailer. Amaz...

We said goodbye to Better Call Saul this week but some two-year-old "how-to" promos for the show have resurfaced. They're dripping in subtext and worth a watch.First, here's Los Pollos Hermanos' owner...

Pastor Carlton Funderburke of the Church at the Well in Kansas City, Missouri told his congregation that he was "disgusted" with them for not buying him an expensive watch."I ain't worth your Louis Vu...

Workers need better protections, and it is undoubtedly evident to folks in the Los Angeles entertainment industry that organized labor gets people treated better. Congratulations to the Star Garden To...

Google created an Easter egg to help celebrate International Cat Day (August 8), that can be accessed by searching for "cat" or "international cat day", and clicking on the cat paw print button shown ...

Skeptics Eviscerated a Cornell Psychologist Whose Published Evidence Said Yes. A Decade Later, His Data Has Stood Up.More than ten years ago, a prominent research psychologist, Daryl J. Bem, published...

In a crisis-riddled summer of travel that rivals none, I'm not sure if flying on any airline in the near future is going to be chaos-free. Between the massive delays, cancelled flights, soaring prices...

Getting back into the groove of learning can be challenging, especially if it's been a while since you were in school. Hell, it can be challenging even if you're still in school. And with new versions...

A woman has been charged with murder after killing a Tennessee prisoner with a loaded kiss. Apparently, the kiss disguised as PDA (public display of affection) was a way for the visitor, Rachel Dola...

On November 9, 1967, NASA launched Apollo 4, the first uncrewed flight of the Saturn V rocket which eventually brought the first astronauts to the Moon. During its nine hour flight, cameras on board c...

Look at this footage of a giant hammerhead shark thrashing around sooooo close to the beach, right near where beach goers are wandering around some are watching and some seem oblivious (at least at f...

Ah, fare thee well, Ron Watkins, we in Arizona hardly knew ye. Ron Watkins, who lots of folks say is the Q behind QAnon, recently lost his bid he finished dead last in the primary to become the Repu...

The Daily Show, along with former TJ Hooker frontman, William Shatner, has made a short documentary on the wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk. Facts aren't necessarily the strong point of this fil...

This proud Trump-supporting genius knows that Michael Jackson is alive and that The Jackson Five's "ABC" is connected to Negative48 (aka Michael Protzman), a QAnon sage who has revealed that Donald Tr...

This insane 1980 skate documentary features OG Z-boy from DogTown Stacy Peralta with narration by Phil Hartman, some pretty awesome claymation, and a ripping soundtrack. Lots of skating, with some sur...

Ted Cruz says there is a "significant chance" President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland will be impeached if the GOP takes over the House and Senate after the midterm elections (see video b...

"You are only allowed to press TWO times to receive a potentially nice monetary award," writes Cliff Pickover. "Which buttons do you press, and in what order?"buttons: ptashka/ShutterstockCheck the T...

Alex Jones attempted to move the damages hearings for the defamation charges he has been found guilty of into bankruptcy court, where he questionably put his businesses to avoid paying for what he has...

In exciting news, a study funded by the California Grape Commission says adding 2 cups of grapes to a typical high-fat diet can stave off fatty liver disease and increase your lifespan.From Healthline...

I have always been partial to the Porsche 911 and Jaguar E-type; headlights should be cannons projecting from the wheel well. I also never understood why less aerodynamic at night was a good option. ...

I wish I could get back to London for the Guardians of the Galaxy live immersive experience [via NME] going on this month, an all-night show featuring actors, "sensational special effects", LARPing an...

Last week, when a snake bit a two-year-old girl on the lip in Bingol, Turkey, the child reportedly bit back, killing the reptile with her teeth. Neighbors heard her screaming from her backyard and rac...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you're trying to better yourself, finding out where to star...

Ice Cream Dive Bar is a new flavor of ice cream bar meant to taste exactly (ok, maybe not exactly) like the name suggests. A co-brand deal between Tipsy School and Miller High Life, the bar "combines ...

Looks like Rep. Matt Gaetz (RFL) was the FBI informant that led to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago search, says a new campaign ad for Gaetz' Republican opponent, Mark Lombardo. Titled "The Informant," the a...

These stinkbug larvae, still in their eggs, look like kawaii grapes. Tragically, the eggs never hatched, according to the cinematographer of this 21-second video. "I waited/recorded for about 30 days,...

The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) was a beautiful carnivorous marsupial that went extinct in the 1930s in part due to human hunting and encroachment on the animal's natural habitats. (To this day though...

Though I suppose that I could joke about a little death here.(The live keyboard player in the background is a strangely nice touch though) @mariap_poledance Gender party #party #genderparty #rek #rek...

A woman was kicked out of a YMCA swimming pool after objecting to a trans womana member of staffbeing in the women's locker room there. Local news media are presenting her as the victim and are coveri...

MAGA and Pennsylvania resident cosplayer, Dr. Oz, just keeps stepping in it and his Senate candidate rival, John Fetterman, continues to enjoy pointing out the bullshit on his shoe.In his latest blund...

National Pest Management Association's "Will They Eat It" episode, unleashes 100,000 termites on a fast food hamburger, French fries and it's packaging to demonstrate the voracious appetite these pest...

From Vice:The video was taken at "Army-2022," an ongoing arms fair in Moscow. The conference is taking place from Monday until Sunday, has around 1,500 participants, and over 28,000 exhibits, accordin...

A mural depicting Manchester music legend Ian Curtis was painted over with an advertisement for local rapper Aitch's new album, leading to a little angerand a lot of publicity. Aitch himself decried t...

I can lose myself in BeamNG videos for minutes. (previously, previously)...

Liz Cheney (previously) won the 2020 GOP Primary in Wyoming with 73 percent of the vote. Then she turned against Trump, serving on the Jan 6 commission and criticizing his behaviour while in office. T...

Sometimes, it's fun to live in the mystery. Even though one could find pictures that reveal the identities of celebrities like Daft Punk and Banksy on the internet, isn't it more interesting to leave ...

Hip hop recently turned 49 years old last week. Despite standing at the forefront of pop culture as the pied piper of youthful coolness, rap is still an old genre. Even though the current wave of youn...

Successful at reproducing and agreeing to buy companies, workplace lothario Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk has stated he is to buy Manchester United. Hopefully, he will verify the number of bots singing Glory G...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.You've got quite the arsenal of gizmos and gadgets t...

LOL, the constant trolling of Dr. Mehmet Oz The Turkish citizen who "has myriad connections to Turkey and the world of its autocratic president" and is running as a Republican for US Senate from Penn...

Yesterday Arizona Governor Doug Ducey tweeted some photos of a new section of the border wall he's constructing out of shipping containers, with the caption, "Behind the scenes of the 8,800-pound ship...

For fans of the "Would your rather … ?" game, here's a fun one to think about. If you were offered an instant $1 million, or a 50-50 chance at getting $50 million, which would you choose? Mathem...

Even when Boing Boing wrote about the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (HDSF) at its launch, in January 2021, the project was already evolving. The HDSF based on the OED Science Fiction Citat...

A bear in the middle of a road in Alaska entertained a few drivers as it expertly worked a bear-proof trash can. For about a minute the bin-cracker, obviously a pro, stood over the plastic container a...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It's safe to say we all love dogs. How could you not? The...

Back when MTV was music television, 120 Minutes was their alt-music block where you'd catch videos by New Order, Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Afghan Whigs, Sister...

Meet Mark Finchem. He's the Republican running for secretary of state in Arizona against Democrat Adrian Fontes. He's endorsed by Trump, a QAnon believer, a supporter of the big lie (that Joe Biden st...

In Rome on Friday, police responded to a call that a man was trapped in a tunnel that collapsed as he was digging. The tunnel began in a closed shop and police believe it was meant to end inside a ban...

This metal object fell from the sky outside the State House in Augusta, Maine on Friday afternoon. The seven-pound thingamajig just missed crashing on the head of Capitol Police officer Craig Donahue....

Not only is Gov. Ron DeSantis aiming to replace Florida teachers with military veterans, today he announced his plan to also include law enforcement officers and first responders (see videos below). H...

Elvis Presley died 45 years ago today. For most of my life, I didn't appreciate Elvis, even as kitsch. But I changed my tune a few years ago after watching this sublime performance of "Unchained Melod...

Substack recently fired one of their freelance editors, Sam Thielman, in an explicit retaliation for the fact that one of the writers with whom Thielman had been working had chosen not to renew his co...

If you see a squirrel stretched out and immobile on the ground, don't fret. It's likely "splooting," defined as lying flat on the belly with limbs stretched out. I've seen many dogs sploot in my timeI...

Due to the negative associations garnered from pro-wrestling, the purity of wrestling as a sport has been compromised. Although some people acknowledge the legitimacy of wrestling – in its Greco...

In this episode of PBS' Monstrum, they take a look at Siren Head, a modern monster created by artist Trevor Henderson which has become mimetic across the internet. The creature was originally inspired...

A Florida appellate court has upheld an order barring a parentless 16-year-old teenager from having an abortion. The teen has made it clear she lacks the education, job, or support to raise a child an...

I wonder if these Animal Rebellion activists won many supporters by pouring milk on the floor of Harrod's department store in London?At the beginning of the video, we see a woman standing outside the ...

To mark World Hepatitis Day, New Zealand launched the "Stick it to hep C" national hepatitis C awareness campaign on July 28, 2022. New Zealand Ministry of Health declared in a press release:The awar...

Ronny Chieng somehow got an interview with the commander of the United States' newest armed service, The Space Force. Gen.John W."Jay" Raymond sits down with Chieng and explains that he is "absolutel...

A massive tornado-like waterspout graced the waters of Destin, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico early this morning. Lucky for us, the stunning funnel was caught on video (by Ken Creel, see below). From ...

Last week, the Haudenosaunee Nationals traveled to Ireland for the lacrosse world championships and in a tender moment of international solidarity, the Irish government accepted the passports that id...

Ameca is an animatronic designed by UK-based Engineered Arts. Last week, Ameca received an upgrade in the form of 12 new face actuators, giving it the ability to form lifelike facial expressions. Here...

I'd never heard of livestock guardian dogs before watching this video. They differ from herd dogs in that they are not trained to control the movement of livestock. Instead, they are bred to become fu...

After six amazing seasons, the final episode of Better Call Saul aired last night. Time to go home … Oh, but wait, here's an encore with a melodic twist. Recapture the dramatic moment in season...

If you are a monster who leaves their dog in a sweltering car you more than deserve the busted window, and everything else that comes along with it. ...

You've probably seen animated GIFs that blink between negative and positive images. They trick your brain into thinking the images are moving. That's the concept behind this GIF of two necker cubes, w...

The Mackay Dam in central Idaho is a mess. The dam is old, poorly maintained, and designed with an inadequate understanding of the geology upon which it sits. This is terrible news as a small town, an...

This is an incredible doggie haircut. My question – is the dog black with bleached white fur, or white with dyed black fur? I have no words. pic.twitter.com/WiS73zYK0d— TG (@TG22110) Augus...

Over the last year or so, NPR's Planet Money has been running a recurring series on the economics of superhero intellectual property. What began as an attempt to valuate and purchase an obscure Marvel...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Is there anything more frustrating than muscle tension and...

IT'S the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  ORDER YOURS TODAY: RIGHT HERE AND NOW."God bless Tom the Dancing Bug! Funny, succinct, a...

A painting by Pablo Picasso worth millions of dollars was recovered recently in a drug raid in Iraq, reports the Iraqi News Agency. But details are yet to released, including the title and rightful ow...

I have already bought my tickets for the Friday, August 26th re-release of Rogue One. My favorite Star Wars film will spend one week on the big big screen, with an 'exclusive look' at the soon-to-rele...

For your breakfast or any other time you have the munchies, Snoop Dogg's Broadus Foods would like you to consider Snoop Loopz. Not only does the superstar of rap and film want you to know that Snoop L...

According to KMGH-TV news report, a spike in thefts attributed to a viral challenge on TikTok and YouTube, has led Progressive Insurance to decline insuring some Kia and Hyundai models built without I...

Thousands of delicious pouches of industrial cleaning solution were found to be contaminated with Wild Cherry Capri Sun and have been removed from the store shelves.Kraft Heinz is recalling about 5,76...

The Satanic Verses [Amazon], Salman Rushdie's 1988 magic realist novel, has raced to the top of Amazon's bestseller charts in the wake of his attempted murder by an Islamic fundamentalist. Rushdie, st...

If ever there was a fun, big bang for the buck Halloween project, it's making yard haunt tombstones out of insulation foam. It's easier than you think to get amazing results without a lot of specializ...

Shoji Morimoto is a man who gets paid to do nothing in Tokyo. Morimoto runs a rental service where clients can hire him to literally do nothing at all. Oftentimes, people hire him to accompany them to...

At the 1973 Academy Awards, winner Marlon Brando sent a young native American woman, Sacheen Littlefeather, to decline and deliver a brief speech on his behalf about the mistreatment of American nativ...

In 2012, hundreds of bikers collided during a catastrophe on the "Mountain of Hell", a downhill mountain bike competition in Les 2 Alpes, France. As people began racing down the icy terrain, what bega...

Life is about indulging in simple pleasures. Don't get me wrong, the bigger pleasures are great too, but nothing beats the intimate slices of heaven on earth our reality is replete with. It's easy for...

Iceland has no shortage of photographers vying for clicks and views of it's majestic rugged landscapes, but every now and again an artist emerges onto the scene, whose unique aesthetic captivates the ...

The WHO announced that a "group of global experts convened by WHO" has:agreed on new names for monkeypox virus variants, as part of ongoing efforts to align the names of the monkeypox disease, virus a...

Remember when the mall was an experience? In the days before smartphones and high-speed internet, wandering around a mall, arms festooned with shopping bags, was the equivalent of mindlessly scrolling...

Here are some of the games that have caught my fancy of late. As always, these are tabletop games that are new and interesting to me, not necessarily new to the marketplace. What are you playing these...

Whenever I'm in need of a solid laugh, I like to look through George Miller's filmography. Not because Miller produces shoddy work, mind you, but because of the bewildering diversity of his projects. ...

In the GQP, not only do facts not matter but neither do words themselves, especially in the gazpacho police-fearing state of Georgia. Following in the steps of stable genius Marjorie Taylor Greene, Se...

Programmer Nao_u made a traditional side-scrolling shoot-em-up using artwork generated by Midjourney. It's a striking example of how AI generators can facilitate and help human artists by providing qu...

My family and I went to Japan House LA a little while ago for the opening of an incredible new exhibit about woven bamboo. It features an installation by bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai IV. (See the t...

An Italian greyhound seems to have caught monkeypox from humans after he slept in bed with his owners, who were both sick with the virus. The four-year-old dog broke out in lesions, "including abdomen...

A recent Vox article, "Trump Is Pushing Us Toward the Abyss," sounded alarm bells about Trump's MAGA movement with a warning that anyone paying attention already knows: "His conspiracy theories about ...

There may be a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping wherein Rudy G can blather on about his innocence and duck into the neighboring sex shop. Anything is possible with the Trump crime fa...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you're embarking on a new scholastic journey, you might fin...

I am not familiar enough with football to know what is going on here, but I am laughing like Beavis and Butthead. You have to like WHAT?! pic.twitter.com/vBV09P57oM— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) ...

If you need a break from work, take a few minutes and go check out my favorite opossum, Gladys. She's got an Instagram, Facebook, and a TikTok. She lives with a family that has many opossums, includin...

I woke up to this awful news. Freya the walrus, who had been spending the summer frolicking around Europe, and most recently had taken up residence in a Norwegian fjord, Freya the walrus by the Norwe...

I woke up to this awful news. Freya the walrus, who had been spending the summer frolicking around Europe, and most recently had taken up residence in a Norwegian fjord, Freya the walrus by the Norwe...

On Saturday, shoppers at an Ikea in Shanghai, China ran for the exits after authorities quickly locked down the building after COVID-19 contact tracing led them to the store. From CNN:In a press brief...

A video that California Kindergarten teacher, who is known as Mrs.Frazzled, made is going viral and for good reasonit's hilarious! It imagines her talking to Trump about the FBI raid like he was a chi...

A large basket of Qnuts, cryptonazis, MAGA cultists, and christofascists have secured GOP nominations that have authority over elections in the upcoming election, reports The Washington Post. In the 4...

A talented woman leaving her house carrying at least four items with one arm including a shoulder bag, phone, and what looks like a binder or tablet showed off her impeccable reflexes when the fourt...

Legendary journalist and ABC News anchor weighs in on the FBI search-and-seizure of top secret classified documents Donald Trump was hoarding at his Mar-a-Lago pigpen: "I thought of Al Capone.""If the...

There's nothing graceful about Qongresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (RGA). In 2021, the Big Lie promoter who cried voter fraud said, "The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who o...

The reigning theory for the origin of our universe is that around 13.8 billion years ago, the entire visible cosmos was a tiny, very hot, and very dense point in space that was just a few millimeters ...

On camera heads at MSNBC discuss a new poll from Fox News showing the GOP losing the support of men and fathers. The shift is most dramatic among "Dads," but Republicans are in danger of losing even "...

TikToker Dalyce is a 58-year-old fitness instructor from Canada. In this video, she records her 30-year-old son interviewing her remarkably spry 90-year-old mother about what it's like being 90. "Li...

Mustafa Gatollari is one of the investigators on the TV show "Ghost Hunters" and host/producer of the series "Haunted Discoveries." While he writes that "there are too many people who've had too many ...

According to the Police Activity YouTube channel, a gentleman named Antoine Sims called 911 after getting into an argument over cold McDonald's french fries. When Kennesaw, Georgia police arrived, Sim...

The dudes at Dude Perfect, an insanely popular YouTube channel, made a wild Rube Goldberg-type contraption: the World's Longest Trick Shot Machine. The Texas-based bros collaborated on the 10-minute m...

The GOP's great divide just got a little wider with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (RTN) attacking Texas Gov. Greg Abbot's free travel service for migrants. "[The migrants] are wanting to get to where their f...

On Saturday morning, a massive boom startled residents of Salt Lake City, Utah and beyond. Turned out, it was a meteor that tore across the sky and exploded. It was likely a remnant of the Perseid met...

The police department in West Point, Georgia, is "taking this matter very seriously" after its officers vandalized someone's security camera while trying to serve an arrest warrant. Unfortunately for...

This thirsty pumpkin is getting fatter by the hour, thanks to a steady diet of water, sunshine, and CO2.Still growing strong: 700lbs and gaining 49lbs a day. pic.twitter.com/FkwiKc0bQd— Interest...

Marc Andreessen sounds like he missed the memo in the few quotes we've got here about why he funded Adam Neumann's new venture. Adam Neumann and his mismanagement of WeWork was so inspired there are m...

Leondra Taylor, a black flight attendant formerly in the employ of Delta Airlines, was fired after posting a cartoon to her Facebook page which likened Trump to the Ku Klux Klan. She's suing the airli...

Andrew Yang launched The Freedom Party with the stated aim of going beyond right vs. left. Unfortunately, this leaves him with no positions to speak of. To state one would land somewhere, after all. I...

FOX News host Steve Doocy and his cohort of Fox bullshit artists are forced to point out that their glorious and orange leader is in the wrong. Rather than examine FOX's duplicity around when they do ...

If you used ShitExpress to send someone a box of anonymous crap, they may know who you are. A hacker was sending someone who had offended them a box of dung when they spotted a vulnerability and took ...

If you're interested in video games, manga, anime, Japanese toys, capsule toys, claw machines, and electronics, then Akihabara, Tokyo is the place for you. This vibrant district is known as Japan's "E...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Education has changed a lot as the tides of technology have ch...

Ronny Chieng keeps me laughing with his 'hot takes' on Summer. This TDS segment is nothing but fun, and I am glad to take a moment or two away from being frustrated with right-wing nutters for all of ...

Georgia officials, including secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, have claimed US Senator from the State of South Carolina Lindsey Graham suggested they change Georgia's presidential election result...

In the heart of Akihabara, Tokyo's legendary "Electric Town," nestled inside the famous Radio Kaikan commercial building, you'll find a tiny booth absolutely packed with with switches, resistors, capa...

Trusting the plan, these QAnoners believed police officers would obey the command, "stand down, you are under citizens arrest." They expressed surprise when the police officers not only didn't do as t...

John Deere uses DRM to prevent its own customers from repairing their own vehicles, pushing them to use the company's own overpriced service options. A new jailbreak for the systems announced this wee...

Qurious Kari Lake joined Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at an Arizona rally, where she cooed about his BDE (Big Dick Energy). "He has the same BDE that we want all of our leaders to have." That guy ha...

Ever since the merger between Warner Brothers and Discovery, there hasn't been a single day where the former company isn't in the news. Whether it's HBO Max's overhaul, Batgirl's questionabl...

It's frustrating being a Nintendo fan. The company has a reputation for producing some of the greatest video games of all time, irrespective of genre. Nintendo's roster of classic characters is almost...

I used to hate Jackie Chan. Bruce Lee was the end-all, be-all of the martial arts world when I was a kid, and Jackie Chan's intentionally playful demeanor rubbed me the wrong. I couldn't stand the ide...

John Mackey, the outgoing CEO of Whole Foods, is angry at young people and the left. They don't want to buy $6 bottles of Asparagus Water and they don't want to help him sell it, either. "They're taki...

Esquire recently published a, umm, interesting piece about the crypto "revolution" that is allegedly coming to the book industry. It's a frustrating albeit strangely fascinating read, in that it prese...

Patmos Library in western Michigan is getting a crowdsourced lifeline after conservative taxpayers voted against a proposal to use tax funds to support it because approximately 90 titles "could be" LG...

Self-proclaimed "Mad Scientist" Lucas Rizzotto wants to experience his own lifefrom his own perspective in virtual reality. So, he wore cameras for a full year and traveled around the world to capture...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Netflix Geeked (@netflixgeeked)Netflix has a fantastic roster of animated shows and movies. Last year, the streaming service unveiled th...

Bubble wrap poppin' love seems near-universal. So, how about automating the process in a player piano-type music box? That was the design brief for everyone's favorite maker comedian, Simone Giertz. A...

The Blindboy Podcast is always a great listen for ridiculously entertaining counter-cultural explorations. Take the June 28, 2022 episode "Teenage Margaret Thatcher Turtles," in which host Blindboy Bo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Summer may be coming to an end, but that doesn't mean your adv...

Mud and merchandise at Woodstock '94 is a CBC news report comparing the event with the original Woodstock festival of '69. The footage shows heaps of tents strewn about in a muddy, trash-covered field...

The Antikamnia Chemical Company Promoted Its "Cures" in the 1890s with skeleton imagery. The skeletons symbolized the pills alleged ability to ward off death. The company claimed that its pills were a...

Someone needs to hire this Death Metal Rooster to scream in their band ASAP. This angsty fellow has quite a pair of lungs on him. As one YouTube commenter pointed out, this rooster seems to have a lar...

Ben Wilson is a London artist who makes incredible paintings on top of littered chewing gum. I'm impressed by the amount of detail that he's able to fit into such small patches of gum. It would be so ...

In this video, a man rescues a tiny parakeet egg from a pet store. The mother who laid the egg had already been sold, so he decided to incubate it himself. The little bird that emerges from the egg lo...

Kitty cats crawl through a surreal landscape in this animation paired with the fantastic Magnetic Fields song "Epitaph For My Heart." The animation has an M.C. Escher feel to it. Black and white cut-o...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Nothing's worse than trying to find that random image someone ...

Watch a horror artist Jordan Persagati re-invent famous logos. I like the way he turns the Starbucks logo into a zombie woman. I think she looks much cooler this way. He also zombifies the Monster Ene...

'National Enquirer'Continuing its relentless coverage of the British Royal Family soap opera, this week's cover story features the Queen's son under the headline: "Unfit to be King! Greedy Charles Too...

As a discipline, acting is both over and underrated. Due to the difficulty inherent in the craft, society tends to foist more importance on the profession than is rational or necessary. The cultural s...

Variety isn't just the spice of life; it's the lifeblood of art. One of art's most alluring aspects is the limitless forms through which it can manifest. In addition to the various mediums of expressi...

Maker, dubious assertions buster, and snake hater…er…lover Allan Pan decided he wanted to right one of nature's wrongs. He decided to try and give snakes legs like most self-respecting cri...

I think Hollywood might belong to Tom Cruise now. Like, I think he owns the whole thing. As if having a lengthy and successful career that has spanned 40 years wasn't enough, Tom Cruise just turned th...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Studying has become incredibly unconventional, starting with d...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There are aton of different hurdles, making getting an educati...

The Man Who Ate Himself (2006) is a film about a Yugoslavian man named Branko Crnogorac Kareli, a former circus and film hero known for his ability to digest nearly anything. Kareli says that his stom...

One Strange Thing is a podcast that investigates unexplainable news stories. I began listening to it last night on Apple Podcasts, and ended up playing 5 episodes. You can listen to a selection of fre...

When you're in a pickle at work, this website offers a list of canned responses. The site's description states, "At some point, we've all been in a situation where we didn't know what to say or how to...

Antirrhinum, also known as snapdragons or dog flowers, look like little dragons that can open and close their mouths when the flower is gently squeezed. When the flowers die, though, there is a wonder...

Dang it, I just missed National Spam Musubi Day–August 8which, according to KCRA.com, is a date that corresponds with the Hawai'i area code 808. Never mind, any day is a good day for the delicio...

As an experiment, this man decided to let a venus flytrap digest his finger for an entire day. First, he shows us how a venus fly trap reacts when it catches a bee. RIP to the bee. Next, he tapes the ...

As an experiment, this man decided to let a venus flytrap digest his finger for an entire day. First, he shows us how a venus fly trap reacts when it catches a bee. RIP to the bee. Next, he tapes the ...

California just became the first state that will provide free lunch to all K-12 students, regardless of income status. ABC7.com explains:With food prices, inflation, and food insecurity on the rise in...

Natalia "The Saw Lady" Paruz shares her badass musical saw playing skills with us in this video. She is a New York City-based musician and founder of the annual Musical Saw festival, which takes place...

In 1938, Mihailo Tolotos died at age 82. He's considered to have been the only man to have lived such a long life "without ever seeing a woman." Tolotos, whose mother died at childbirth, lived all his...

A pet capybara named, appropriately, "Capy," escaped from her home this week and was spotted wandering near the Blue Cat Lodge in Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. I'm so jealous of the person who spotted...

I'm obsessed with this version of Toxic by Britney Spears played by the Device Orchestra. This cover of Toxic is made from the sounds of an epilator, 2 toothbrushes, 3 credit card machines, and 2 type...

Police in Brookville, Indiana, didn't like the idea of Trevin Thalheimer ending up on the town board, because he seemed like someone who might be "anti-police". So they claimed he smelled of weed and ...

In this clip, Lex Fridman's interview with John Carmack gets right to the point: his programming setup! I love his thorough attitude toward using debuggers"your head is a faulty interpreter"and his de...

These absurdly cute sloth babies sit side by side while they enjoy their lunch. I love the way that some of them are lying down as if they can't decide whether to keep eating or take a nap. I feel thi...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.While you do almost everything on your phone today, frombuying...

It's long been rumored that Alanis Morrissette wrote her 1995 rage-filled hit "You Oughta Know" about her ex, Full House actor Dave Coulier. The two had dated for a couple years prior to the song's re...

Anime has become synonymous with quality in the animation world. Since the days ofAstro Boy,Kimba the White Lion,Gigantor, andSpeed Racer, anime has always rivaled and often exceeded the quality of We...

The shadow of the villain still looms large. It's been a couple of years since MF DOOM sadly passed away, but the rapper's legend has continued to grow in the aftermath of his death. Although DOOM has...

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert's husband, convicted for lewd exposure after flashing his penis at youngsters at a bowling alley, is described in The Denver Post as a drunken bully who menaces neighbors ...

Tucked away in a Minokamo City workshop located in Gifu prefecture Japan, a father and daughter team repair damaged clothing using "kaketsugi", an "invisible mending" technique that uses a needle, thr...

Miami prankster Thomas Kennedy commissioned a plane to fly over Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home pulling a banner with a special message: "HA HA HA HA HA HA." The four-hour stunt cost him and some frien...

From Deadline:Wanda Sykes is knocking on the door of syndication with a new series that features videos taken from Ring doorbells.The comedian is to host Ring Nation, a new twist on the...

Enter your road trip's "Point A" and "Point B" and the web app Make My Drive Fun will offer cool stuff for you see and do. I started playing around with it and it pointed out some "sites unseen" in my...

Cartoon food, at least in the West, always tends to look a little shoddy. I've watched The Simpsons my entire life, and I can rarely ever make out what they're eating. Unless their cuisine i...

Over the decades, I've come to appreciate Pearl Jam. But as a kid in the 90s, it hit my peer group hard and left me cold. They couldn't understand why I was not into it, and I could never quite illust...

Have you ever felt like life is an RPG and did a poor job allocating your experience points in your youth? Instead of pouring all of that time into mindlessly consuming television or trying to catch f...

The 1981 Heavy Metal anthology film, based on the popular science fiction / fantasy magazine of the same name, was the stuff of legends amongst my friend group growing in the late 90s. It had the edgi...

Twitter Events reports that the "US Justice Department is investigating whether former President Donald Trump violated the Espionage Act, which prohibits retaining national security information that c...

Has someone been spiking Steve Doocy's coffee mug with Sodium Pentothal over at Fox & Friends? Or has the co-host been cloned by a Democratic body-snatching pod sent to Earth by space-lasers? All ...

As we posted earlier, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade tried to pass off a defamatory fake photo of U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart who signed off on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago FBI search as the rea...

Here's an artist you should know if you don't already: Mdou Moctar. He is an outstanding self-taught guitarist who plays music that transcends borders and labels. His website describes his eclectic mu...

Angry? Wanna smash something? Well, watching this video might be almost as cathartic. Check out this video, "Giant Hammer vs. Cars," and watch a giant hammer smashing all kinds of vehicles, from a VW ...

Watch this video, featuring an adorable "parrot daddy" and his six blue and gold macaws. Johan Devenier, who lives in South Africa, hatched and raise the six macaws, who are now like his babies. In th...

With around a million people using American Sign Language in the U.S. these days, there's a chance you'll encounter someone who uses this way of communication, even if you don't personally know a...

Check out this HILARIOUS "political ad" by a man who calls himself "Dixon Butts," from Gilbert, Arizona (a suburb of Phoenix). In the ad, Dixon Butts, wearing a black cowboy hat, a blue cowboy shirt, ...

Check out this new app, SetJetters, that lets you visit the locations where your favorite movies were filmed! Here's the description of the app on the SetJetters website: SetJetters is the app th...

Whenever I encounter the word "nemesis", I can't help but think of Alan Ford delivering this line as Brick Top in the movie "Snatch":Do you know what NEMESIS means? A righteous infliction of retributi...

In this fantastic 2013 Esquire article by Anthony Boudain on what he brings and does when he travels, he included a tip for finding the best places to eat in a new city:[P]rovoke nerd fury online. Go ...

In the third installment of his fascinating four-part essay about depersonalization, the strangeness of the self, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, Mark Dery describes his lifelong angst and his...

"There is no climate crisis!" says far-right conservative Rep. Bob Good (RVA). "It is a hoax!" Phew, glad to hear that this summer's global record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires affecting millions ...

Most people tend to move toward a happiness "set point" after good things or bad things happen to them. Philip Brickman and Donald T. Campbell coined the term "hedonic treadmill" to describe this phen...

It took him 22 years, but Tungnath Chaturvedi (66) finally got his 20 rupees (25 cents) back after he'd been overcharged for a train ticket in 1999. He'd purchased a Mathura station in Uttar Pradesh t...

Three weeks ago, a man in Rockland County, New York was diagnosed with polio, the first US case in nine years. Unvaccinated against the virus, the man is now paralyzed. Today, New York City health off...

That young bear above is tripping balls. It apparently ingested too much deli bal, aka "mad honey." The honey comes from the nectar and pollen of certain rhododendron flowers that are rich in grayanot...

Unfortunately, anyone who spotted the Loch Ness Monster in the last few days will be disappointed to learn that what they saw may have been an alpaca. Apparently a small herd escaped from their pen at...

A woman was none too pleased with a snake who greeted her as she walked out the front door. After accidentally stepping on the visitor, she let out a horror-pitched shriek prompting a child to scream...

Ah, classics.Image: screen grab...

God is an American, according to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. The remaining 95% of the world's population (not to mention the intelligent lifeforms who live on planets orbiting the 200 billi...

Kelli Rogers recorded this magical clip while paddleboarding with her grandchildren on the Salt River in Arizona's Tonto National Forest. Some might have you believe that this is just illusory motion ...

The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie was attacked this morning as he was about to give a lecture in New York. As Rushdie the writer who received death threats from Iran 1989 was being introduced...

If this were real, it may have eased the challenge for me of getting through the first few episodes. And yes, the last few episodes made it all worthwhile. ...

However much money all our little indie game projects make, even if they come with special surprises for the customer, it's not defense contractor money, is it? Zack Zwiezen:As announced earlier this ...

Whether it's Jimmy Page, Slash, or Jimi Hendrix, watching your favorite rocker can make those fantastic guitar riffs sound easy. But if you've ever picked up a guitar before, you know that acquir...

It's so bizarre to see the "shamanic" wing of the QAnon cult which draws upon veganism, ayahuasca ceremonies, native shamanism, and Western occult practices to justify their right wing QAnonsense. Cas...

It's stunning to think that we live in a world where aKarate Kidspin-off serieswhich started as a YouTube original, no lesshas become one of the most popular television shows around. The unfathomably ...

Fox "News" did what it did best last night when Tucker Carlson's guest host Brian Kilmeade pretended that a photoshopped image of U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart who signed off on Donald Trump's...

There's a clip of "Macho Man" Randy Savage from a 1992 Arsenio Hall Show interview making the rounds. Arsenio asked the WWE wrestler, "Have you ever cried?" Savage confirmed that, yes, he does c...

Following up on Colorado Governor Jared Polis' June 9, 2022 "100 ways" to save you money initiative, a new landmark bipartisan law (House Bill 22-1055) was signed on August 8, 2022. The effective sta...

One of my favorite things on The Late Show is when Stephen Colbert sings with his guests. In this clip, he joins James Taylor (guesting with the show's Stay Human band) on the beautiful lovers lullaby...

A metal band performing a song titled "Burn in Hell" may not seem like an obvious choice for a Pee-wee Herman vehicle but the character's creator, Paul Reubens, would disagree. In a recent interview o...

You can always have too much of a good thing. Drinking water is essential to, ya know, the whole surviving thing, but if you drink too much, you can "overhydrate" and die. Bruce Lee famously said...

Vsauce host Michael Stevens, delves into the active ingredient (hydrogen sulfide) that makes a fart pungent; and explains what happens at different orders of magnitude above the typical fart concentra...

This is a post about a lowly kitchen sink strainer. Hear me out. I'm fascinated by what, years ago, I dubbed "homely tools." These are things that we use every day that are so unsexy, so simple and pl...

I hate to be "that guy," but they don't make movies like they used to. Where are comedy road trip films? What happened to the American gangster movie? And above all else, why did they stop making (ins...

For a limited time leading up to the theatrical release of "Toy Story 4" in 2019, Disney/Pixar created this "Toy Story Window" ( ) as part of it's promotional campaign in Japan. Playing off the Japan...

The Boston Globe recently printed an op-ed by former Ithaca, NY mayor Svante Myrick, who talks about his own city's approach to police reform. Myrick was originally elected when he was just 24 years o...

Never underestimate the power of nostalgia. I'm sure it has not gone unnoticed that The Golden Girls, a sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1992, has been experiencing a resurgence in interest in the past fe...

As summer comes to an end, getting your kids excited about their education can be as hard as convincing them to eat some broccoli along with their pizza. But with helpful and dare we say fu...

In the early 1990's Drake Mallard's masked identity, Darkwing Duck, protected St. Canard, and was the terror that flapped in the night and the scourge that pecked at your nightmares. I loved The Shado...

Being comfortable when you travel is one of the simplest and most important ways to make any trip easier. And by any trip, that means a trip around the world or even a trip to the grocery st...

We're always looking for ways to make sleep more comfortable and efficient. And when it comes to upping your snooze game, there are a number of ways to do it. Our preferred way to kick ...

Watch this video of monkeys, one by one, coming to sit on a man's lap, and then rubbing onions all over themselves. Daily Motion describes the scene:Occurred on May 2022 / Misahualli, Ecuador. "There ...

I love eating and looking at photos of delicious and beautiful food. However, it's also really fun to look at food that has failed spectacularlythat's neither delicious nor beautiful. In this spirit, ...

Roberta Salmi, a primatologist at the University of Georgia, has discovered a new sound that's being made by gorillas at Zoo Atlanta. Salmi describes it as a "snough" a cross between a sneeze and a c...

Here's a very detailed article on Mashed about all of the food rules, norms, and practices at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion. Some of the rules included:Scratch-made desserts were always on handThere w...

Donald Trump, though presumably smart enough to decline drinks offered by Steve Bannon, was nonetheless marked for death today by his former employee. The "deep state may try to assassinate Trump", Ba...

I was in the hipster neighborhood Silver Lake (Los Angeles) recently and wandered into a shop called "Golden Age," which sells "French Workwear." The shop contained racks full of thick, cotton jackets...

Ever noodled? I haven't, and I probably never will. What's noodling, you ask? It's a way of catching fish (and especially catfish) by hand. According to Baton Rouge, Louisiana's The Advocate:Noodlers ...

Lake Powell, the most important water reservoir in the Western United States, is at the lowest point in its history. Dangerously close to "deadpool" a level wherein the generators stop being able to s...

A gentleman wanted for car theft thought he could outsmart Greater Manchester Police officers searching a house by hiding in a Teddy Bear. But the 18-year-old's ruse failed when an officer "noticed a ...

This guy really wants this first date to work out but finds it increasingly difficult to go on agreeing with her outlandish beliefs about vaccines, flat suns, and Mitch McConnell the Turtle Prince. ...

After two days of violent threats against law enforcement by Republicans following the FBI's search of Donald Trump's house (presumedly to look for missing classified documents that might have followe...

Even an AI Mark Zuckerberg paid to produce finds his business dealings to be ethically challenged at times. You'd think the engineers at Meta would have foreseen these questions, but I guess I felt ho...

Michael James wanted to inspire his students with images of leaders they could identify with. One day he returned to his classroom to find that a district employee had removed posters of Martin Luther...

Anti-government Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia congresswoman who, ahem, works for the government, is now trying to cash in on "enemy of the state" t-shirts and other merch, including black caps t...

In an obvious publicity stunt, a man was recorded smoking a cigarette as he lay sprawled across a row of seats on a passenger jet in India. I think the guy who recorded the video was in on the stunt, ...

In an obvious publicity stunt, a man was recorded smoking a cigarette as he lay sprawled across a row of seats on a passenger jet in India. I think the guy who recorded the video was in on the stunt, ...

Cyberpunk pioneer RU Sirius of Mondo 2000 magazine infamy has released a delightful new ditty taking the piss out of NFTS. The song, titled "I'm Against NFTs," is available for free until August 14 at...

The great part of these Klepper segments on The Daily Show is that aside from risk his mind, body and soul at a MAGA rally Klepper doesn't have to encourage them much.Image: screen grab...

Cenzoo the silverback gorilla has the best slide and swagger in the animal kingdom. Tina Flick caught the monkey (ape) shenanigans below at the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina. @its_just_...

Two cats demonstrate two different ways to comfortably sit inside a box that's half their size. As you can see, one is the standard method while the other is a bit more fanciful.they're polar oppo...

Say whatever you want about Mortal Kombat's janky gameplay; no one can take away from the franchise's ability to create stellar character designs. One of the primary reasons Mortal Kombat
...

Back to the Beach, the eighties nod to the beach flicks of the sixties, turned 35 this week. For the milestone, UPROXX interviewed the movie's director, Lyndall Hobbs. She talked about what it was lik...

A husband and wife in Huelva, Spain have been ordered to repay 529,900 after stealing 7,000 Jamn and reselling them on a messenger service between 2007 and 2013. According to the Guardian:The man, wh...

The Jargon File is "a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor." The first version was compiled in 1975 by a computer scientist at S...

J Mascis of the mighty Dinosaur Jr has launched a jigsaw puzzle company. Called Puzzle Heads, it's a subscription service that delivers a fresh puzzle to your door three or six times a year, for $81 o...

The World Health Organization urges people to stop attacking monkeys; it won't stop the spread of monkeypox. Apparently an increase in monkeypox in Brazil has led to the poisoning or injury of monkeys...

Two Wisconsin cops responded to a break-in with apprehension and perhaps a bit of fear. It wasn't a human they were dealing with, after all, but a turkey on the loose. Armed with gloves and a net, the...

New York police have busted multiple drivers in recent months driving around with rather poorly-rendered fake inspection stickers on their cars. The specimen above was apparently drawn on a piece of a...

A 53-year-old doctor in Irvine, California suspected his wife of poisoning him when he became sick for over a month with "significant internal injuries," so he set up cameras in his house. And his sus...

Some ambitious Harry Potter fans have begun to translate the series into Gen Z talk. Yes really. Just take a look at the infamous opening page:What would happen if we just updated the vibe a little b...

Deep down, we knew it was going to be Disney. It's always Disney. When Disney announced they were going to make a streaming service, reality started a stopwatch to time how long it would take the hous...

Sure, Watchmen might be generally revered as the greatest graphic novel of all time. But I'm sure one or two people have wondered: how much better could it have been if Dave Gibbons' art had more pouc...

In it's 246 year history, the U.S. Marine Corps have sworn it's first 4-star general in, after President Joe Biden nominated General Michael E. Langley on June 9, 2022.U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. ...

For the past 58 years, John Waters has spent his summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This summer he hosted a "once in a gastronomical lifetime" meal in its dump. The 10-seat dinner was a benefit f...

Though his time at the top was long, Joe Arpaio's racist policies as Maricopa County Sheriff eventually got him beaten at the polls and convicted in courta charge for which he was pardoned by then-pre...

Vince Gilligan personifies the classic phrase, "an overnight success is ten years in the making." Before Breaking Bad became a phenomenon, Gilligan spent decades working in television writer...

Badlands is "a true crime podcast that dives deep into the real stories of the famous at their most infamous," spinning off from the immensely popular Disgraceland podcast (which I believe is the...

Waterfall rebirth from gifs Watching a dry waterfall roaring back to life can a beautiful and possibly deadly affair. The comments section of this reddit post, contains first ha...

It's the end of an era for a beloved diner in Emeryville, California. Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, which boasts Green Day's Mike Dirnt as a co-owner, has shuttered its doors for good. (Their second locatio...

Beto O'Rourke spoke to a group of Texas voters about the law that allowed an 18-year-old to buy an AR-15 to shoot to death 19 children and two educators. As Beto explained that an AR-15 can penetrate ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.It'snever too late to get an education, but reteaching yoursel...

Everyone expected The Daily Show to do this, mash-up FOX News talking about Hillary with footage of the insurrectionist loser of our last Presidential election, which is as excellent as we expected. I...

Despite its left-wing-sounding name, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is conservative, and many high-ranking members have ties to the right-wing cultish Unification Church (aka "Moonies") founded in S...

Despite its left-wing-sounding name, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party is conservative, and many high-ranking members have ties to the right-wing cultish Unification Church (aka "Moonies") founded in S...

Far-right extremists, aka MAGA Republicans, are now violently threatening the judge who allegedly signed the search warrant allowing the FBI to raid Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. Using platforms suc...

As Frank Herbert wrote in Dune, "On Arrakis, water was money." And in the case of France, the lack of water is costing the country's taxpayers a fortune. Many parts of the country are experiencing sev...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you've ever tried to create a visual on acomputer whether i...

A travel agent who helped people plan their great escapes to places all around the world ended up escaping herself with their money. The 58-year-old scammer, Julie Ann Mincey, ran an "agency" in Nort...

Blink and Tipping Point Author Malcolm Gladwell is a funny fellow. Remember the time he explained to New York magazine about his trip on Jeffery Epstein's plane like this: "I don't remember much excep...

When Comcast wanted an exorbitant $50k for a $10k fiber run to his home in rural Michigan, an Akamai engineer built his own ISP. Now he has received government funding to expand and service more custo...

As a Duolingo addict, this Reddit user's accomplishment is something I can only aspire to. Rather than jump from one language to another the way I do once I'm halfway through (Spanish, French, Portugu...

I love the Outer Bay Wing of the Monterey Bay Aquarium so much that I once held a wedding reception there. Hey, I might again but it seems pretty unlikely.Image: screen grab...

Disney is sharing a young Groot vs young Groot dance-off to promote the release of its new streaming event, "I am Groot." This series of five new cartoon shorts will be available on their streaming se...

Monkeypox cases are climbing fast, as you can see in this chart from Our World in Data. Fortunately, of the 30,000 plus confirmed cases, only about 10 people have died from Monkeypox.Reuters has an in...

With a rebound in the share price of Tesla and a lot of legal jeopardies, Musk showed us how confident he is in the outcomes of the 4D chess game his fans claim he is playing. Selling high is brillian...

Trump and his MAGA sycophants in media and government are trying to get ahead of the news about what the FBI collected during its search of Mar-a-Lago by suggesting anything incriminating was planted....

This morning Donald Trump took the Fifth Amendment during a New York deposition. Thus, according to Trump's own criterion, the former twice-impeached president is not innocent. "Taking the Fifth, I th...

Software developer and artist Ange Yaghi built a virtual simulation of an internal combustion engine "to produce engine audio and simulate engine response characteristics." Demo video above and you ca...

Trevor Noah gets some help setting his personal "Which hot takes can I publish on Twitter?" from The Daily Show's audience. I always wonder what it'd be like if people were to start gym yelling like t...

Guga Foods is one of my favorite YouTube channels because he tries fun stuff with steak and barbeque. This video shows what happens when Guga forgets he is dry-aging prime rib in Maple syrup.You can e...

Police arrested 47-year-old Kristy Malzi of Hollsopple, Pennsylvania for reckless burning, terroristic threats, and simple assault. According to authorities, Malzi confronted her ex-boyfriend with a l...

A 17-year-old girl and her mother, Jessica Burgess, are being charged with felonies in Nebraska after the teen took Pregnot, a medicine to induce abortion. And it was the teen's DMs on Facebook which...

In 1977, a New Mexico judge reading The Amazing Spider-Man comic in his daily newspaper had a flash of inspiration. In the strip (excerpted above), Kingpin is seen slapping an "electronic radar device...

This incredible rock face was spotted in the below image of a Martian valley captured in 2014 by NASA's Curiosity rover. Here is the high-res version. While it may remind you of the debunked "Face on ...

Schools in Upson County, Georgia went on lock-down yesterday after a student told his parents that he saw a boy in the restroom point a handgun at another student in the restroom. Fortunately, the han...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Technology is supposed to be awesome and constantly making our...

bit.ly/DancingBugBooksIT'S the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  ORDER YOURS TODAY: RIGHT HERE AND NOW."Delve into the dementia, the dre...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.In the modern world, we're practically dependent on the intern...

Last October, hyperpop artists 100 gecs delivered a tweet anxiously anticipated by their growing number of adoring fans who had fallen in love with the duo's highly-praised debut "1000 gecs" album, re...

Fear and panic erupted at a minor league baseball game when the fireworks display went awry. Audience members were forced to flee as balls of fire rained from the sky, as roman candles were pointed in...

Safe-tech advocacy group Dawn Project claims that Tesla's Full Self Driving technology is not yet safe for children not passengers but pedestrians because it does not detect them. And to prove their...

Andrew Van Dam at The Washington Post recently conducted research using Airbnb listings as his primary data. He analyzed how the listings described the properties on offer, with the ultimate goals of ...

Remember the last time you juiced up your iPhone using that short little charging cable it came with? The phone probably rang mid-charge, and it was a call you absolutely had to take. Of course, if yo...

Just hours after the FBI raided his home, Donald Trump slapped together a get-out-of-jail-free video in the style of a Christofascist campaign ad (that doubles as a maudlin fundraising ploy), which he...

Bored with Covid-19? There's a new virus on the loose! Global Times reports that a "new type of animal-derived Henipavirus (also named Langya henipavirus, LayV) that can infect humans has been found i...

"A breast-shaped hill is a hill in the shape of a breast," Wikipedia helpfully says in its titularly-titled article about breast-shaped hills. It goes on to list and describe mammorous mountains and h...

Anyone who uses a pseudonymous Twitter account should read Twitter's statement about a significant security breach that has resulted in a for-sale list of millions of Twitter handles and their associa...

The extraordinary Motown songwriter Lamont Dozier who co-wrote such iconic songs "You Can't Hurry Love" and "My World Is Empty Without You" for The Supremes, "Heat Wave" for Martha and the Vandellas, ...

When Mila the chihuahua was practicing tricks, her human motioned for her to roll over and play dead. But a sudden urge to do yoga overcame the pup, who popped into downward dog instead. And, looking ...

Kandy-Korn Kolored Kaligula's aggrieved reaction to yesterday's FBI search of his vulgar mansion was fun to read, but it's even funnier when Caitlin Reily reads it, capturing every one of the elderly ...

Michael Steele has a different name for MTG's Christian Nationalists and other MAGA morons: "shitforbrains Republicans." The outrage over the FBI doing its job is too apparently too much.https://twitt...

Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner-turned-convicted felon who was pardoned by Donald Trump, went on Newsmax pretending he is scared to death the Democrats will assassinate the form...

A nurse at a psychiatric hospital in Scotland was given a two-year "caution order," essentially an official warning, for knocking on the door of a patient with paranoia and then hiding. According to t...

Former Vice President Mike Pence, the target of the Trump-led team of trained insurrectionists who wanted to assassinate him at the Capitol on J6, paid obsequious fealty to the dictator of Christofaci...

One clue that dogs, cats, and other animals are dreaming is that their legs sometimes twitch as if they're running. Now, scientists have recorded video (below) of jumping spiders doing the same thing,...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Let's face it. Getting what you need from a store shouldn't be...

The Ficihp mechanical keyboard [Amazon] has an unusual feature: a whole-ass monitor built in to it. You'll be needing the right kind of cable and the right sort of hole on your computer for it to func...

More than forty years after Pac-Man fever burned through the United States, a live-action film starring the character is now in the works. Of course, the insatiable Pac-Man previously spawned two TV s...

From the Natural History Museum:Rising from the ashes of the wastebasket taxon, 49 Bowie spiders have been reclassified from Ctenus. Other species, meanwhile, have had previously unknow...

Everyone's favorite Gen X Jedi, Obi-Wan Ben Larry "Steve" Kenobi, is suffering the after-effects of partying too hard and caring too little, and a hard-working Vader gets an awesome entrance. However,...

Tour company Ukraine.Today is inviting visitors to see the country's "destroyed cities and brave people fighting" and experience life during the Russian invasion. From CNN:It says anyone signing up fo...

The average jump height of a person on earth and its equivalent in other worlds of the solar system pic.twitter.com/SopsmB2LFq— Tansu YEEN (@TansuYegen) August 8, 2022How high can a human jump o...

Abrams ComicArts has just released the second volume of its Dune graphic novel adaptation, with art by Ral Alln and Patricia Martn, and text adapted by Frank Herbert's son, Brian, and frequent collabo...

At Saturday's Outside Lands concert in San Francisco, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong asked, "Alright, who knows how to play the guitar? I need a guitarist. I need a guitar-ISH. It's only three fucki...

Fox host Laura Ingraham not only dropped the network's charade of "news" and objectivity last night, she did it with fascist flair. Following the raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago house, she threatene...

Jury Nullification is when jurors refuse to apply the law, typically by acquitting a defendant they know is guilty. The reasons are many, countering just and unjust laws alike, but you can't have a cr...

Bridal celebrations are muscling in on the spaces created by queer and marginalized folks, effectively forcing them out and appropriating the safety therein. Researchers studying venues in Provincetow...

Super Punch-Out is a very old-school boxing game released for the Super NES in 1994. Coming late in the system's life cycle, it was overshadowed by its Mike Tyson-branded predecessor and by a new gene...

From Mighty Coconut:The Jim Henson Company has signed a deal with Mighty Coconutthe entertainment studio behind the best-rated multiplayer game on the MetaQuest: Walkabout Mini Golfto develop a 36-hol...

Via our friend Erik Davis comes news of this somewhat unnerving tale of an AI that was pressed into service as a chaos magician."You become aware of nonrationality. You fear how close nonrationality i...

Archer wasn't supposed to run this long. That's not to say series creator Adam Reed didn't engineer a pitch-perfect premise that had the potential to run for 13 seasons. It's just that no one sus...

If you've had tickets to Black Rock City mailed to you in the past 20 years or so, you've probably wondered why a lone piece of spicy candy, an Atomic Fireball, was included in the package. The Projec...

Trevor James of Hollywood, California charges $95 an hour to cuddle. There's a two-hour minimum but you can choose from eighty different cuddling positions. Nudity is forbidden. From The New Yorker:A ...

Donald Trump says his Mar-a-Lago home is "currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents," according to CNBC, and that the FBI showed up "unannounced."Trump's statement, Mo...

Not only did a Texas church put on an illegal production of the Broadway musical Hamilton last weekend by adding proselytizing Christian lines that were not included in the original script but the b...

Olivia Newton-John, universally beloved pop singer and star of the musical movies Grease and Xanadu, died today at the age of 73. The English-Australian singer and actor had seven Top 10 hits on Billb...

I use my Apple Watch for a lot of health and fitness tracking, messaging, reminders, and navigation. I love my mechanical timepieces, but the Apple Watch ties my integrated lifestyle together. This vi...

Popeye doesn't get enough love these days. As far as the younger set is concerned, the only nautical characters that matter are Spongebob, Moana, and Monkey D. Luffy. Considering Popeye's im...

A Tesla "driver" loses it when his invisible chauffeur slacked on the job, causing his car to hit a highway drum, trashing his side view mirror. "Oh shit! Oh my God, dude! … I wasn't paying att...

Just try to "unsee" this clip from a 1995 live-action Wallace & Gromit. Screenrant rants:The unique look and feel afforded to the pair's adventures by stop motion is irreplaceable – but that...

Elon Musk, the poor little rich boy who thinks his weak Twitter posts are sick burns because his large following of incels and sociopaths hit the like button, wants to debate Twitter's CEO about the b...

Georgia's GQP candidate Herschel Walker liar extraordinaire who "forgot" he had children but did remember earning a college degree that he never earned appeals to his MAGA cult members, who never mi...

Austin's la Barbeque was struck again. Brazen brisket thieves pulled up, cut a chain link fence, and took off with several thousand dollars in smoked beef. I hope it was wrapped. Sadly it appears that...

Euronews reports police in London strip-searched 650 children aged 10 to 17 between 2018 and 2020.Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England, said many of the strip searches were un...

Wang Yekun is skilled at stacking bottles, wrenches, and other ordinary items into arrangements that seem to defy gravity. Some people on Reddit express doubt that the videos are genuine, but it seems...

The Ninja Creami is a kitchen appliance that micropurees blocks on frozen liquid into sorbet or ice cream. It's on my holiday wishlist. In this video, coffee YouTuber James Hoffman uses a Creami to ma...

The Dehumidifer Buyers' Guide helped me select a new dehumidifer after the old one rattled its last, and it struck me as a good old-fashioned gadget site by someone interested in a particularly mundan...

I remember the first time I saw this video, and I am still floored by the skill of these double dutch troops. Bonus: Image: screen grab...

Last week, we learned that Warner Brothers put the kibosh on the new Batgirl film, starring Leslie Grace and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. I expect the nearly-finished film will eventual...

Roger Waters of Pink Floyd got into it with CNN's Michael Smerconish in the above interview during which Waters called President Joe Biden a "war criminal" and insisted that "Taiwan is part of China."...

A Toronto man is trying to cash in on the ol' trading-up trend, popularized in 2006 when a man successfully started with a bobby pin and traded it up to a house. But the 48-year-old, whose start item ...

There is no greater blessing, in the eyes of a MAGA cult member, than to be hoodwinked by anyone even remotely connected to their carrot-colored god-emperor. Trump is the master of the sloppy scam, th...

Synesthesia is the fascinating neurological phenomenon whereby stimulation of one sense involuntarily triggers another sensory pathway.For example, some synesthetes can "hear" colors or shapes. Henry ...

This incredible drone footage from Discovery's "Shark Week" programming depicts three orcas hunting and killing a 9-foot great white shark. It's the first time this incredible food chain moment has be...

The LockPicking Lawyer tears through some cheap locks and shows you how useless they are while praising Masterlock. I think my puppy could pick these…Image: screen grab...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by AsianFeed (@asianfeed)We need to step our theme restaurant game up in America. I'm getting tired- or rather, appraising the feeling more...

Located in Torreilles, France, Frenzy WaterPark bills itself as "Most Extreme Waterpark of Europe ", where this guest went for extra distance by jumping off a pergola onto the "JUMP XTREM" water slide...

When excavator guy shows off theyr skills. pic.twitter.com/44inkS2FN3— Next Level Skills (@SkillsLevel) July 30, 2022On the Next Level Twitter feed, they posted this compilation of insane excava...

It's been weeks since receding Lake Mead offered up another suspiciously placed body. The one found Saturday was, at least, not found in a barrel with conspicuous gunshot wounds.While the grim discove...

After systematically abusing her victim for three years, 32-year-old Marka Bodine pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a child under 14. Prosecutors asked for a 20-year sentence. Judge Greg Gl...

Remember when watching television was supposed to be a leisure activity? Now, with an endless torrent of streaming services pouring into our living rooms, watching television has become a job. Friends...

The "Mandela Effect" is a term used to describe the phenomenon (read: conspiracy theory) wherein groups of people collectively mis-remember things, but continue to insist that their (incorrect) memori...

As the finals forTekkenat EVO (the biggest event on the fighting game Esports calendar) drew to a close, fans got to watch Jae-Min "Knee" Bae, arguably the most legendaryTekkenplayer, finally win his ...

Sixty-one years ago today, Marvel Comics started their morning as yet another publisher fighting for space on the newsstand. By day's end, their reputation as a mediocre company would never be the sam...

If you peek inside of the toilet hole at Meow Wolf, you'll see a tiny little being staring up at you. Look closely, and you'll see that this little dude is also waving his arms back and forth. I think...

This woman's giant bunny rabbit behaves like a dog. Guus lives in Amsterdam and is one very intelligent, big bunny who loves his human mama. He goes on leashed walks like a pup and hops around the hou...

There's a lot of reasons to buy a new smoking piece. Maybe you dropped your old one and that cool glass octopus build doesn't work so well when it's in a million pieces. Perhaps you're making the...

See where musicians are located in the Music Galaxy based on the overlap of their listeners. The greater the overlap between audiences, the closer the musicians/bands will be located in the galaxy. Fo...

This Flying Saucer McDonald's in Roswell, New Mexico is unique. It's the only McDonald's on earth that's shaped like a UFO. It includes a playland, which interrupts the saucer shape and sticks out fro...

EVO is the Superbowl of fighting games. For those that aren't initiated, EVOor Evolution Championship Seriesis the annual event where the top fighting games, developers, and players come to show off t...

Here is a tombstone dedicated to an unknown man who died in 1908 from eating paste. The grave is located in the Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery of Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA. The gravestone s...

There must be a team of face planting attorneys sitting around a conference room at one of Elon Musk's companies right now. Musk has declared that the representations around bots made by Twitter in th...

Dude Chilling Park is the nickname of Guelph Park, a popular community gathering spot in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. In 1991, a sculptor named Michael Dennis instal...

Album By Mood is a site that recommends users an album based on their mood. You can choose from a long list of moods, including aggressive, angry, energetic, explosive, fun, ironic, passionate, relaxe...

Brit Eaton is a daring mine explorer and fashion archaeologist who searches deadly mines for treasure . When Eaton ventures into a mine, he's on the lookout for old jeans aka "denim gold." He explains...

From ensuring you have enough money for gas this week to keeping up with today's politics, life is far from easy. And everyday things like making dinner, commuting to work, and even lighting...

In this fun stop motion video, a salad is constructed out of cooking utensils. A plastic colander, condiments bottle, vegetable peeler, spatula, and even the cutting block itself are all seamlessly ch...

Former Nickelodeon child star Jennette McCurdy has been outspoken about the various forms of psychological trauma she experienced during her time as a teen sensation. For years, McCurdy has detailed h...

Netflix's animated series Arcane is a curious paradox. The show was somehow an unexpected hit and a guaranteed success simultaneously. Based on the sprawling world of Riot Game's hit franchi...

The old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words", requires a few orders of magnitude extra words to begin describing the powerful collage images Uur Gallenku creates, to raise awareness about "the ...

Hollywood has slowly started to alter their bizarre history of whitewashing characters and casting white actors to play minorities. It's weird that it took this long, but, hey, better late than never....

From Vice:Before her death, 99-year-old Catarina Ordua Prez had one final wish: a giant statue of a dick on top of her grave.Her family unveiled the completed monument a 5-and-a-half-foot-tall cock a...

Ever since John Plant has been back from a two year hiatus of his hugely popular Primitive Technology YouTube channel, viewers have been carping that he was basically remaking all of the same tech he'...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Pearson plc CEO Andy Bird discusses the benefits of moving digital textbook sales to blockchain and Non-Fungible Token (NFT) technologies as a mechanism to capture port...

'National Enquirer'What happens in Las Vegas stays in Vegas, but we're supposed to believe that private conversations in Buckingham Palace end up on the front page of the 'National Enquirer,' which th...

Gaming is something that most people can appreciate. Whether you're into the classics, a casual gamer, or a die-hard who plays all the time, there are many different ways to enjoy the hobby....

In this video we learn about gravers, aka "geriatric ravers" who are still dancing at festivals and getting loaded. It's awesome to see people of all ages dancing and having fun. On the contrary, ther...

Watch an army of dancing cat figurines put on a performance via stop motion animation.This video must have taken forever to make! It takes some major talent to coordinate the movements of so many tiny...

There are plenty of simple pleasures in life, but if you're a coffee lover, you know you can't measure the value of that little brown bean. From making mornings bearable to aiding ...

The Rakotzbrcke devil's bridge was constructed to create the illusion of a circle when it is reflected in the water beneath it. Check out some stunning images of the optical illusion here. The bridge ...

A toast sandwich consists of a piece of toast in between two slices of untoasted bread. The slice of toast is allowed to be buttered. According to Wikipedia, an 1861 recipe directs people to add salt ...

Anyone who could make it halfway through a "Fool's Gold Loaf" sandwich in one sitting is a champion in my book. Finish the entire thing in one sitting, and I will believe you are a superhuman. This sa...

Visit your local creative reuse center to donate or discover used art supplies. This website offers a list of creative use centers in various cities around the U.S., so check it out to find one near y...

Mepaintsme is an online gallery of contemporary art. If you're looking to follow more artists on Instagram, you'll find brilliant art from all types of artists on their page. You can visit the online ...

Check out this young person waxing philosophical about all the reasons corn is absolutely the best. I gotta say, I totally agree! Just yesterday I got some delicious elote from a local restaurant and ...

Oregon State police responding to calls of two cars hooning around found some folks who took Disney Bounding to a new level. The two offending vehicles were made to look like Lightning McQueen and his...

Trans-Millenia Consort is an awesome ambient album by Pauline Anna Strom. Strom was also known under the pseudonym Trans-Millenia Consort. The album was released in 1988, and released on Ether Ship Re...

Look at these cute white squirrels that live in Brevard, North Carolina, a town that has received the moniker "The White Squirrel Capital of the World," by the good folks at the website "Only in your ...

There's no argument that you'll be using Microsoft Office applications at one point in your life. Whether you're a student using it in your classroom or a professional using it in your&...

Check out the spectacularly impressive corn mazes that Treworgy Family Orchards in Levant, Maine have been creating every year since 2001. They state on their website that "Treworgy's Award-winning co...

Memory Hole has gifted us with this video of a mysterious cryptid covered in shaving cream that has a message for humankind. it's unclear to me what that message is, but it's obviously one of great im...

Meet Phil E. Chinchilla. His Instagram page describes him as: "a floof from Pennsylvania who loves his mommies." He's adorable, all fluffy and big-eared and tiny-hand-and-footed. He's so chill, and I ...

I love listening to comedian Patton Oswalt nerding out over just about anything. Here he takes a quick, thoughtful, and funny look at his 5 favorite sci-fi films and the 5 that annoyed him the most. Y...

Years of movies and TV shows have conditioned me to think that rice is planted by hand as seen in this picture below:Photo: Some rights reserved by anaruI've always felt that there must be a better wa...

Amazon just released its 2021 Sustainability Report, in which Kara Hurst, the company's VP of Worldwide Sustainability, boasts:As part of our efforts to decarbonize our business, we became the world's...

While working on a project to refurbish a 1970s teletype machine, Ars Technica writer, Cameron Kaiser, unearthed a manual and a cache of teletype printouts from The Source, the online service that pre...

Following the overwhelmingly positive reception of the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer, Marvel fans began dissecting every strip of footage for plot points and easter eggs. Although i...

National Ocean Service, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) agency announced that rising temperatures related to climate change have led to a change in Florida sea turtle hatchlin...

It may seem evident that acquiring non-verbal communication skills will benefit you and those you care about. So why aren't more of us learning American sign language (ASL)? Though it isn't taught as ...

Similar to what it might be like for someone living in the 1980s to stumble across an iPhone from the future, Chicago's ABC7 meteorologist Greg Dutra was utterly amazed to find out, while reporting li...

After a dramatic court proceeding, the jury has awarded the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis $45.2 million in punitive damages to be paid by Alex Jones for his horrible attacks and de...

CPAC has taken to the arts, featuring an installation of a forlorn MAGA man sitting in his prison cell contemplating the idiocy that led to this new reality. Passersby are offered a headset that plays...

Summer is beloved by most people as the greatest season. With just a single trip to the beach or even to a local park, it's easy to see why. The warm weather and time off from work and school make rea...

The US Army is designing a tactical bra that will be its first official uniform bra in the military branch's history. Now in refinement at the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Solider C...

We don't take enough time to thank the various workers in the food industry. The rigorous health inspections that restaurants and food manufacturers go through are essentially all that stands between ...

At California's Pismo State Beach, Calli Brooks was taking photos of whales off the shore while she waited for her son to complete a junior lifeguard camp. Then, something strange leapt high out of th...

Almost 25 years ago, Diana Armstrong's teenage daughter Latisha died from an asthma attack. One of Diana's fondest memories was when Latisha would manicure her mom's fingernails. So after her death, D...

On July 18, 2022, the CDC ended its COVID-19 monitoring program for cruise ships leaving from and sailing to the United States. As part of that program, the CDC had shared COVID-19 outbreak numbers an...

Check out this insane booth at CPAC, where a man sits in a 'jail cell' weeping, and where visitors/viewers don earphones and listen to "harrowing testimony from people arrested for participating in th...

Glass Half Full started from a want to divert local glass bottles from ending up in the local landfill, out of frustrations because no local glass recyclers existed in New Orleans, LA in 2020; two yea...

Anime thrives on exaggeration. There isn't an aspect of anime and manga that isn't heightened to the most absurd proportions. Whether it's characters with preposterously verticle hair and eyes the siz...

Nearly 30 years after it's inception, Mike Judge has relaunched the Beavis and Butt-Head series today with the season 9 premier episode of "Escape Room."The animated series "Beavis and Butt-Head" have...

Speaking at CPAC, the annual main event for American conservatives, pillow mogul Mike Lindell said that "54 countries have now been taken by the machines" and that "Venezuela and Australia are gone!" ...

Jack in the Box fired Mark Hamill when he worked at the fast food joint as a struggling actor many decades ago. Back then, the food chain didn't appreciate it when Hamill got into Jack-in-a-box charac...

Jody Serrano interviews David Bohnett, the founder of GeoCities (previously, previously)."It really was a forerunner of the social networks to come, as you learn. One of the things that has surprised ...

Fox News can make anything bad. This post on DailyKos shares some wacky headlines, statements, chyrons, and the like employed by Fox News to keep their audience certain the Biden Administration is fai...

French scientist tienne Klein Tweeted a photo of a slice of chorizo against a black background, commenting, "Photo of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, located 4.2 light years from us. It...

Some of these hacks to save MPG are hilariously stupid, some dangerous, but the video is fun. The most useful fact, IMHO, was ripped from Mythbusters, a 6-10' rafting zone behind trucks. The explanati...

Trevor Reed, an American citizen and Marine veteran, who spent nearly three years in a Russian prison told CNN what Olympic medalist Brittney Griner can expect after being sentenced to nine years in p...

A highly alarmed Tucker Carlson was the first to report on the breaking news about Jon Stewart last night. The comedian is shrinking! "He's shrinking, and disheveled, and very short! Really short! Too...

If you happen to be driving through the lovely port city of Geelong in southeastern Australia, keep a sharp eye out for a shirtless man brandishing a boomerang. As you can see in this video, he lacks ...

Boing Boing readers are likely familiar with the incredible metal covers of popular songs that Leo Moracchiolo shares via YouTube. I enjoy them all, but this video is something special: original work ...

A new award-winning encryption standard is crackable by a PC with a single-core processor in under an hour. Naturally, the cryptographers who invented it were shocked!Gizmodo:Last month, The National ...

Qongresswoman Lauren Boebert really stretches with her latest conspiracy warning: monkeypox is part of a government conspiracy to skew the midterm elections. "I think it's interesting, we have midterm...

I wonder if these guys have been flying around near LAX? This Superman RC is pretty stellar!Image: screen grab...

Asus's Zenbook 17 Fold is a foldable 17" Zenbook from Asus. The detachable OLED touchscreen is only 12.5" across when thusly halved, making the device no larger than a Chromebook when carried (though ...

Life's expensive these days, which likely means you've picked up an extra side hustle or two. And while that's great for your bank account, it's not so great for your home since putting...

The Beastie Boys are rap royalty. The average rap fan may not want to admit it, but the Beasties helped the emerging genre access the suburban and punk rock markets. In addition to their marketability...

One of the main takeaways from Matt Reeves' The Batman was Colin Farrell's mesmerizing performance as the Penguin. The talented actor was so thoroughly caked in makeup and prosthetics that u...

Redditor u/96dpi posted their recipe for Chipotle's chicken, titled "An Obsessive-Compulsive's Guide to Chipotle's Chicken" in the r/TopSecretRecipes subreddit with this intro:I've spent the past few ...

Boy, this Road House remake has been clamoring for a UFC star to anchor the film for years now. Back in 2014, when Ronda Rousey was tearing through pop culture and the UFC women's bantamweig...

The MIT Technology Review has a surprisingly fascinating piece about a US Navy veteran who lost his everything below the waist when he stopped on a landmine during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in 2...

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a proposed rule for public comment, seeking to strengthen protections for airline consumers, where U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated:"...

Being mixed in any country isn't a picnic, but it's a nightmare in China. Or, rather, being mixed in China is a nightmare if you're half Black. Despite gobbling up land in Africa with a speed that wou...

Biopics are usually drab. Humans are complex and complicated creatures, and that typically goes double for famous people. Biopics rarely ever paint a complete picture of the historical figure they're ...

Today's Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement marks a much needed step towards holding four current and former Louisville Metro Police Department officers accountable for the 2020 killing of Breonn...

Balenciaga's back at it, with another ridiculously overpriced item. This time it's an accessory that looks just like a trash bag. Yes, a bag for trash. Yes, one of those trash bags you put in a trash ...

Ever since you were a kid, you've loved getting lost in games. And while there are plenty of great ones to pick from these days, you tend to gravitate to the same handful of them, and quite frankly, t...

Alex Jones, who falsely claimed that parents of children shot dead at Sandy Hook elementary school hoaxed the massacre, must pay $4.1m in damages for defaming them. The Texas jury is yet to determine ...

Archie Roach has died, and the world has lost an amazing musician and activist. According to the Guardian:The Indigenous Australian songwriter and activist Archie Roach has been praised as a "courageo...

A Southwest passenger flying from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas posted a bizarre-looking video on TikTok that showed her sitting next to a shattered window that had a large piece missing (see video bel...

I live in the Phoenix area and wow, have we been getting lots of rain lately, via monsoon storms that show up quickly, dump a lot of rain, generate a lot of lightning and thunder, and move on. This mo...

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week, we discuss 'The Upside Down' theme from Stranger Things, and how it was created including a possible patch sheet & equipment lis...

From classic role-playing adventures to fun apps that help you pass the time, the world of games is pretty vast these days. That's why becoming a game developer is understandably a...

Watch Christofascist Lauren Boebert on the show "FlashPoint" say that she wants to require "Constitution Alive!" and biblical citizenship training in schools. She says, specifically: "Maybe we ne...

Riders on the iconic "It's a Small World" boat ride at Disney World experienced "torture" last week when they were stuck for an hour inside with the song playing over and over and over. According to t...

I just can't get enough of the parody/satire site, "Your Childhood Ruined," where they take old or classic children's books and provide new titles to make them extra hilarious. I think my favorite is ...

Last month it was "Biden's woke military" that enraged Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now Georgia's top conspiracy theorist is fuming at the FBI for allegedly releasing a warning list of symbols hijacked by ...

Israeli researchers have generated the first synthetic embryo without sperm, egg, or a womb, starting with mouse stem cells in a petri dish. By the eighth day, the heart was beating, blood was circula...

Starbucks plans to unveil its new NFT program at its upcoming investor's meeting. Perhaps these NFTs with "perks" will distract folks from the store closings. I think that Starbucks may find it has mi...

Until today, I never knew rabbit show jumping was a thing. But it definitely is, and in fact, seems to be pretty popular in some rabbit circles. What is rabbit show jumping? According to the UK's RSPC...

A sinkhole 105 feet in diameter opened up near the Chilean town of Tierra Amarilla in the Atacama Desert. The sinkhole, bigger than an NBA basketball court, appeared near Lundin Mining's underground M...

You're probably familiar with white noise generators, which insomniacs often find useful as a sleep aid. White noise is a blend of random frequencies with a flat spectrum any frequency band has the s...

Attorney Mark Bankston, representing Sand Hook parents that Alex Jones' falsely accused of hoaxing the gun massacre that killed their children, told a Texas judge today that Alex Jones' phone contains...

Remember the mysterious mound of strange spaghetti spotted in an image captured by the Mars Perseverance rover? NASA confirmed that it's just more space litter from Perseverance's touchdown on the Red...

Remember the mysterious mound of strange spaghetti spotted in an image captured by the Mars Perseverance rover? NASA confirmed that it's just more space litter from Perseverance's touchdown on the Red...

I expected this cooking lesson to involve George Foreman's legendary Grill, but his method does not and is nearly identical to how I prepare steak. Foreman is pretty hilarious and loves cooking. Forem...

In a Yale laboratory, researchers managed to revive the cells in the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys of pigs that had been dead for more than hour. The technique involved pumping a fluid of a synthet...

The Notable People world map uses data from a cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD to display the birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. The site says, "Data ha...

Remember Madison Cawthorn, the bible-thumpin' gun-totin' lawmaker who tried to bring a loaded firearm through airport security not once but twice? The sore loser voted out of Congress after he ratted ...

Little Miss is having a moment. Surely you've seen the new "Little Miss" memes floating all over the internet, and showing up on your news feeds. Have you wondered what's going on? Why are Little Miss...

Troy Hunt, creator of the useful Have I Been Pwned site, wanted to exact revenge on spammers who waste his time, so he created a form that wastes their time. When a spammer emails him, he replies by s...

In one of Randy Rainbow's more passionate and catchy parody musicals (set to A Chorus Line's "Dance: Ten, Looks: Three"), the singer arms himself with gallows humor as he takes aim at NRA-fearing Repu...

Move over, bikes, and skateboards: There is a way more fun and relaxing way to travel around your neighborhood now. Yep, we're referring to hoverboards, which make you feel like you're actually glidin...

The Rolling Stones have performed "Jumpin' Jack Flash" over 1,100 times in concert. I've probably listened to it as many times, and still feel a thrill every time I do. This video (known as the "makeu...

Monkeypox continues to spread across the globe and across the United States. Current estimates from the CDC (which are likely undercounted) show almost 5200 cases in the United States, and that number...

At his damages trial, Alex Jones is doing a splendid job of showing the world that he's a pathological liar. Here he can be seen being questioned by the plaintiff's lawyer about the way he hasn't been...

A 14-year-old female shoebill named Abou is currently at the Exmoor Zoo in Devon, England waiting for a male to be born through an international breeding program. The program was created in order to b...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature titled "A time-resolved, multi-symbol molecular recorder via sequential genome editing," a group of researchers from the University of Washington desc...

The war between streaming services has been a nail-bitter recently. Despite securing an early lead by, ya know, pioneering the concept, Netflix has been hemorrhaging money and users like no tomorrow. ...

The mercurial nature of human understanding makes history both a compelling and horrifying subject. When human ignorance is benign, it usually manifests in the form of silly beliefs, like flat Earth. ...

Due to a mild hoarding tendency, I've gathered a collection of calendars over the years for a good reason. Given a long enough timespan, annual calendars will repeat the same day of the week sequence...

I will be making popcorn if Walker doesn't just deny that he has agreed to commit campaign suicide in the Georgia US Senate race. Raphael Warnock is one of the most eloquent speakers in the US Senate....

There was a time when white supremacists were shunned and ostracized from national politics. Today, the KKK's messaging is part of the mainstream GOP. Look at this video of KKK members of the 1970s sa...

Aw, there's nothing I love more than interspecies animal friendships! Check out this adorable Chihuahua and pig pair, who live outside of Phoenix, Arizona at Better Piggies Rescue, a rescue pig sanctu...

MAGA-loving, Trump-backed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake recently got into a big Twitter fight with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister. I'd go look and report back to you, but, alas, Fake Lake bl...

Here's a shop you should visit if you're ever in Silver Lake or Eagle Rock (Los Angeles). They also have an online presence, so you actually can 'visit' from anywhere. It's called Vinovore, and it's a...

Passengers aboard a Veuling flight heading for Rome on Sunday traveled not into another dimension, exactly, but at a low altitude around the wondrous land of England's south coast before the plane re...

Meet Brett Maupin. He's a farrier-turned-social-media star whose videos on TikTok have gone viral. What's a farrier? According to the Farrier's Registration Council:A farrier is a skilled craftsperson...

One of the greatest ways to take full advantage of the summer is to get outside, fire up the grill, and throw on some meats and veggies. Indeed it seems summer was made for grilling. Whether...

Meet Esther, the world's most wonderful pig. I've been following Esther on Facebook for years and years, and from day one, she's been a delightful addition to my social media feed. On her website, she...

Looks like Qari "Fake" Lake might win the Republican primary, and be on the ballot for the general election for Governor of Arizona. Earlier this week Lake got into a Twitter fight with Dee Snider (of...

Ron Watkins, who many believe is the "Q" behind the QAnon movement, has lost theRepublican primary for Arizona's 2nd Congressional District. And he didn't just lose. He lost big.He lost hard. He faile...

Google's constellation of online products has long confused me. There is/was Hangouts, Hangouts on Air, Hangouts Chat, Google Chat, Google Workspace, Google Spaces, Google Talk, Google Allo, Google Cu...

Arizona's slippery Big Lie supporter Kari Lake, who earlier this year called abortion the "ultimate sin," was near mum on the topic at a press conference today one day after Kansas voters made it cle...

A white cop chasing a white suspect ran up to a black man, pulled his gun on him, threw him face-first to the ground, then held him down under his knee. Johnson saw the [suspect] jog past him before [...

Years of Alex Jones's texts and emails were mistakenly leaked by his lawyers, demonstrating that he lied at deposition and hid evidence from the court. But that trial only concerns how much has to pay...

We try not to think about it, but there's an enormous amount of social trust we rely on for daily interactions. A trip to your favorite fast food spot could quickly become tragic if the clerk behind t...

Robert Zemeckis is best known for directing Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, and Castaway. But his real interest was in making movies using famous movie stars as motion-capture actors for CGI puppets...

Honking at a pickup truck who nearly sideswipes you in the Sunshine State? Probably not a good idea, at least not for this Reddit user, who quickly realizes his mistake. Watch how the Reddit user reac...

Alex Jones is just having the worst time ever. His lies, buffoonery, and obstruction of justice will likely not work out well. Here he is taken by surprise as a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents tells...

IT'S HERE! The brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!   Order your RUBEN BOLLING-SIGNED/SKETCHED book(s) today (8/6), and they'll be in the ma...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and helping encourage anti-vax attitudes of distrust and conspiracy leading to COVID-19 becoming endemic and now a forever part of our lives, there was a gang of peop...

The iconic "Don't Tread On Me" flag, aka the Gadsden flag, originated during the American Revolution in 1775 as a statement against British rule. Over the years though, it became popular among liberta...

Cruel actor Alex Jones looks utterly confused in court, shaking his head with the most knitted brows one will ever witness, as the judge patiently tries to teach him the definition of "hearsay." Of co...

Let's assume Juan O. Savin is successful in his plan to install QAnon election officials in key states, effectively putting an end to free and fair elections. That would be unfortunate. But you can fi...

I love Project Farm testing commonly used tools and infrastructure, his work is detailed and easy to understand. Spending money will generally get you a better extension cord, but the $20 Harbor Freig...

Sam the Eagle gets his groove on. Nothing picks me up mid-week like the Electric Mayhem. Image: screen grab...

Alex Jones, whose extraordinary disregard for human life has made him a multi-millionaire, shook his head in doubt, denial, and disagreement as one of the parents of a child murdered in the Sandy Hook...

If you have ever wanted a Rolex Daytona or a Patek Phillipe wristwatch, now may be the time. As so many crypto millionaires have lost their nut, the market has been flooded with second-hand luxury wat...

Using strategy from the Claire McCaskill playbook, the Democrat Party helped Michigan's Trump-backed congressional candidate John Gibbs beat incumbent Rep. Peter Meijer one of 10 Republicans who vote...

In this day and age, most people have a website. If not for business, then probably for personal needs. Whatever the reason is, though, they are seemingly ubiquitous. The tricky thing with w...

Teddy Pendergrass offers some salient advice on his classic track Be for real, from Harold Melvin & the Bluenote's album I Miss You. Pendergrass says, reminiscing about his mother's wisd...

In San Jose, California at the heart of Silicon Valley, you need to earn roughly $330,000 to buy a home. In Memphis, Tennessee, that number is $52,000. I've spent time in both places and Memphis is fa...

The Daily Grail perfectly prefaced today's News Briefs with the following truth: "If you're a science fiction writer and you can't come up with a plot from the first five news brief headlines today, w...

The video above was created by the small town of Hongseong, South Korea to promote their local garlic. Unfortunately, farmer groups in the region think it's in bad taste, claiming it's "suggestive," "...

Kansas voted "No" on changing its state constitution to allow an abortion ban. It was the first electoral test of the issue since the US Supreme Court allowed states to ban the procedure. If the ballo...

An inmate at Wichita, Kansas's Sedgwick County Jail revealed how he created a hole in the thick window of a cell in order to pass contraband. Apparently, he used hemorrhoid cream as a hot-burning fuel...

No company is ever really too big to fail. However, Disney might be the closest any company will get to fitting the description. Prior to the acquisition of 20th Century Fox, Disney was already well o...

Even though the Marvel cinematic universe predates the DC extended universe, the latter is showing signs of deterioration, whereas the former is only building momentum. DC's struggles with constructin...

The police departments who responded to the Uvalde schoolshooting are still getting caught in lies, weeks later, as evidence is analyzed and uncovered. A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper prev...

A Georgia Department of Revenue (GA-DOR) press release titled "Guidance related to House Bill 481, Living Infants and Fairness Equality (LIFE) Act", outlines GA-DOR's recognition of "any unborn child ...

Here's a children's book I did roughly a decade ago with my friend Dana Nacer, about a broken-hearted ostrich who becomes so emo that he turns into an emu. I was never able to find an agent or publish...

One of my favorite things about language is the quirky way cultures interpret animal noises. Dogs for example bark "Woof, Woof" here in the US, "Mong, Mong" in S. Korea, "Av, Av" in Serbia, "Ghav, Gh...

Fred Rogers: veteran, aspiring minister, searching for a way to tap into the hidden potential that all children have. Then an accidental encounter with television alters his destiny. And now, whe...

Let's face it: It's hard not to be stressed out lately. There's just so much going on, and regularly scrolling through social media or having our cell phones always on us certainly...

Two overzealous cops and a third companion in Land O' Lakes, Florida went up to the front door of a house when nobody was home and took it upon themselves to pry off the lock. They saw nothing wrong w...

The already gruesome InfoWars host Alex Jones just got a little more gruesome today when he eagerly asked the judge at his trial if he could show her something from his mouth that nobody should ever s...

Snake oil grifter Mehmet Oz, a Turkish citizen living in New Jersey who is running for Senate in Pennsylvania, is attempting to scare people away from voting for Democratic candidate John Fetterman be...

Like something out of a natural disaster movie (a common theme in weather clips around the world these days), footage from Alberta, Canada (below) shows hail taking out an entire car window as passeng...

The Ramones' live shows were the best. I saw them a few times in the mid-80s. They had incredible energy and played lots of songs. This video, not seen for 40 years, was surreptitiously recorded on a...

The Ramones' live shows were the best. I saw them a few times in the mid-80s. They had incredible energy and played lots of songs. This video, not seen for 40 years, was surreptitiously recorded on a...

Employing AI-art generator Midjourney, Los Angeles-based Artist Jon Alloway imagines a monkeypox outbreak at Burning Man in a collection titled, "Monkey Pox hits the orgy camps!" If you're headed to t...

When I was a youngster, my mom wouldn't buy me Stretch Armstrong because she insisted his rubbery skin would tear and the gooey gel inside would get all over everything. (She probably wasn't wrong.) N...

Born in 2016, Erin and Abby Delaney are twins who were born conjoined at the top of their heads. When they were 10 months old, neurosurgeon Gregory Heuer and plastic surgeon Jesse Taylor led a team of...

Even though insurrectionist Guy Reffitt was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 with a handgun, and even though his own teen son reported him to the FBI a...

On Saturday, the US killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike when he stepped onto a balcony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Thing is, locals report that there was no fire or smoke. That has l...

On Saturday, the US killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike when he stepped onto a balcony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Thing is, locals report that there was no fire or smoke. That has l...

The tragic fire aboard Apollo One during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967, forever changed NASA. All three crew members, Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chafee, perished in what was con...

Nearly six months after attacking Ukraine, Russia is desperate for fresh blood, as seen in this ludicrous attempt at wooing expats (see video above). Sounding like a Tucker Carlson pitch calling out t...

Polls reveal that a plurality of Arizona Republicans is all-in for subverting democracy and instituting a theocratic dictatorship. Big Lie spewer Mark Finchem holds a double-digit lead over his closes...

Trump confused the field in the GOP Missouri Senate primary. There are three candidates named "Eric" running, and ostensibly, he could have endorsed any of them when simply encouraging voters to vote ...

YouTuber CC Suarez, who exposes scammers and sleazeballs on her channel, has just launched a new video series called "Manosphere Mondays." Here's how CC introduces the series:The interwebs has a bunch...

In the polls and on the system of tubes we call the Internets, Pennsylvania's John Fetterman continues to batter New Jersey multi-millionaire and Turkish suit aficionado Mehmet Oz in the race for US S...

The United States killed al-Qaeda's 71-year-old Ayman al-Zawahiri yesterday, as announced by President Biden. In 2011 President Obama announced the death of 9/11's terrorist Osama bin Laden. And then ...

The United States killed al-Qaeda's 71-year-old Ayman al-Zawahiri yesterday, as announced by President Biden. In 2011 President Obama announced the death of 9/11's terrorist Osama bin Laden. And then ...

Yesterday, Capitol insurrectionist Guy Reffitt was sentenced to seven years in prison. In this CNN interview, his 18-year-old son Jackson talks about how he was so concerned about his father's behavio...

In the below clip from the July 27 episode of The Balanced Blonde//Soul On Fire podcast, host Jordan Younger's guest is "intuitive astrologer and spiritual healer" Danielle Page who reveals that Lyme ...

A paraglider's GoPro recorded his terrifying experience of getting entangled in a parasail. He tried to deploy the reserve chute, which also got tangled in the cords. With seconds to spare, he popped ...

A largely unvaccinated county in New York has seen its first case of Polio in a decade. Rockland County has a miserable 60.5% vaccination rate among 2-year-olds, and it is feared that hundreds if not ...

At the Shoppers Value market in Kenbridge, Virginia, Kimberly Slaughter was hankering for some popcorn. But when she picked up a bag off a shelf, she saw what she thought were mouse feces on the bag. ...

Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist at the Australian National University, enjoys investigating reports of possible space junk that's fallen from the sky. Last week though, two shepherds in Dalgety, Austra...

Following the example of Lizzo several weeks ago, Beyonce Knowles is to replace the word "spaz" from her album Renaissance. The word is a commonplace slur in the UK, reflecting the recent and widespre...

NuScale's small modular reactor (SMR) design will be the 7th design certified since the inception of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) on January 19, 1975. With the expiration o...

Marketers have long used Sonic IDs to associate brands with a desired behavioral response that resonates on an emotional and subconscious level. Sonic IDs can be transient, leaving a vague affinity t...

I stumbled across this Twitter thread the other day, of some web3 profiteer pitching ideas for how to extract value from existing brands, using blockchain tokens. Most of them are monetized loyalty pr...

I love the duality of North and South Korea. The two countries almost feel like the real-life version of the Animaniacs' "good idea, bad idea" segments. However, instead of silly gags, it's about...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance garbs sheep in animal costumes, to help illustrate the irreplaceable nature of wildlife once it's gone. Here's AdAge.com's description of this advertising campaign:Cre...

As manufacturing trends have progressed from offshoring to nearshoring to onshoring, California seeks to go a step further with manufacturing low-cost biosimilar insulin with the launch of the in stat...

In a Reddit video titled "The most dangerous place is the safest place," a house cat is stalking a mouse when the little critter just plumb disappears. The befuddled cat hilariously whips its head fro...

Capybaras are such cool animals. So chill, so patient, so generousso much so that they let all kinds of animals just walk around on them, sit on them, and nap on them. In fact, there's a whole Tumblr ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.There's something mesmerizing about drawing. You're creating y...

Meta's mascot should be the "NOT ME" imp that appears in Family Circus comics when none of the kids are willing to take responsibility for spilled grape juice, broken furniture, and other mishaps arou...

A Brazilian man wanted to change his nose, so he performed rhinoplasty on himself after firing up a DIY YouTube video. Disinfecting himself with rubbing alcohol, using superglue to help close the woun...

I hope someone compiles the hundreds of responses to this LA-based Reddit user's request for a bad expensive restaurant in Los Angeles.The most upvoted pick so far is Nusr-Et Steakhouse Beverly Hills....

Having warned us of Jewish Space Lasers, Georgia's 'Gazpacho Police' fearing, super screamy, and in-your-face US congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks the horrible events at Uvalde, Texas' Robb...

The curse of winning the lottery includes family feuds, lawsuits, crooked money managers, bad investments, drug addiction, gambling debt, extortion, people begging for handouts, loss of privacy, publi...

A self-proclaimed "influencer" and "traveler" who goes by Amanda Marie @artvangrowllc on TikTok not only harassed a Home Depot worker, using the word "fag" and telling him to "Go back to your country,...

Project Farm torture tested 15 different 5-foot extension cords to find the best one. I enjoyed watching the plugs and cords fail under the punishing and ingenious tests they underwent.15 extension co...

Congress's stablest genius, Lauren Boebert, appeared on America's finest news network, NewsMax, to tell the world's second-crabbiest shitlord, Sebastian Gorka, that banning assault rifles will lead to...

Last week, San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos sent four officers from the San Francisco Bay Area all the way to Indiana to raid a garage licensed to make custom Batmobiles modeled on the classic ...

Shopping can be exhausting, as it was for Sparky, a TikTok famous mini bull terrier who decided enough was enough on a recent trip to an indoor mall. Leaving his human to do all the work, the tuckered...

Space scientists have determined that there are areas on the moon where lunar pits and caves keep a steady temperature in the 60s Fahrenheit, making them perfectly hospitable for humans. The pits, and...

From the "who didn't see that coming?" files is the sale of SPICE DAO's copy of Jodorowsky's Dune. They bought the tome intending to reproduce and distribute it without the permission of the actual ri...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Imagine if your door automatically unlocked when it sense...

For all you humans who secretly salivate when serving your cats a Fancy Feast, now is your chance. The cat food brand is offering a fancy cat food feast for people at their trattoria, "Gatto Bianco," ...

When some Tibetan Buddhists die, their bodies are given what's known as a "sky burial." The corpse is set at a high elevation and vultures are invited to carry away and feast on the remains. From the ...

The original theme tune from Thomas and Friends is a frequent subject of sampling, remixing and mashups. The comic posing of its jaunty Englishness against, say, Biggie Smalls belies the underlying tu...

Carpet bagging Mehmet Oz, Donald Trump's endorsed candidate for US Senator in the State of Pennsylvania, can be seen discussing his roots in New Jersey and his expertise of things classically New Jers...

After Star Trek: The Original Series was cancelled, Nichelle Nichols, aka Lieutenant Uhura, volunteered her time to help NASA recruit women and minorities to join the space agency. The 1977 video abov...

A gentleman flying from Bali to Australia was looking forward to a delicious breakfast of McDonald's Egg McMuffins when customs agent turned them into an unhappy meal. Australian authorities have begu...

It used to be that you could tell Google Search to make a countdown timer and it would, just as it will solve math sums, convert units or plot graphs. Alas, it is no more.Google is yet to formally ack...

It would appear the Earth has sped up a little bit, and we may need some "negative leap seconds" to keep our artificial system of measuring "time" in order. The folks measuring the speed with which ou...

Rogue One introduced us to rebel operative Cassian Andor and his kickass droid K2S0. Now Andor is back in his own series. K2 to come later.Rebellions Are Built On Hope. Image: screen grab...

In Jean Cocteau's 1952 16mm film, La Villa Santo Sospir, his only film in color, he gives a tour of a patron's villa on the French Riviera. The patron, Francine Weisweiller, had made her entire fortun...

A very curious bear cub from Eyebleach This bear cub's wobbly steps is a short Unicorn Chaser to help lighten your day. As always, the real gold is in the reddit comments:Commen...

The Atlantic published a story praising the "Quiet Courage of Joe Biden's Negative Growth Economy." We know because conservatives such as Dinesh D'Souza screencapped it and insisted that it was real, ...

Newborn alpaca are known as "cria", and the birthing process is known as "unpacking"; which can be seen in the video above , that details the unpacking of Archimedes the cria, and the tiny milestones ...

Another day, another ridiculously thorough product testing from Todd at Project Farm. Here, Todd turns his homemade testing rigs on 15 different brands of extension cords.The cords were tested for vol...

Sylvester Stallone can easily be associated with any number of characters. Throughout his lengthy film career, Stallone has embodied many iconic heroes that have become tethered to his name. Although ...

Following attacks on at least 42 people in Japan's Yamaguchi prefecture, police have taken up arms in a bid to quell the insurrection of macaques. One among them has already been put to death, though ...

Electrofishing is exactly what the name alludes to, but it's more nuanced than just using electricity to stun fish. Sciencedirect.com has an excellent breakdown on how the process works, in their syn...

In this Last Word segment, Lawrence O'Donnell lays out the cold hard truth that no one wants to hear. Donald Trump will likely never hear the sound of prison bars closing in on him. It would be unprec...

Art and commerce are strange bedfellows. The most romantic vision of art exists outside of the idea of commerce or censorship. However, great art is rarely ever created outside of either constraint. T...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.The Nebula Cosmos 4K Portable Laser Projector is a cinephile's...

This Hawaiian Cat Loves Surfing With His Human Parents. Hokule'a is a kitty who loves the rain, ocean, pool, and catching waves. His parents first realized he liked the water when he would choose to s...

Nichelle Nichols, whose performance as Star Trek's Nyota Uhura broke barriers in our world as in Starfleet's, is dead at 89. Her son, Kyle Johnson:Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If you're still trying to get your news from social media feed...

Omega Mart's Tattoo Chicken is the perfect meal for lovers of art and poultry. Do you ever feel bored while staring at a plain chicken at the dinner table? Omega Mart has a solution: a raw chicken cov...

Recommend Me a Book is a site that presents the first page of a book without revealing the author or cover. If the text sparks your interest, you can click the reveal button to find out the title and ...

Dr. Evermor's Forevertron is said to be the biggest sculpture made from scrap metal in the world. It stands 50 feet tall, 120 feet wide, and weighs 300 tons. Evermor built this futuristic-looking wond...

Stop motion woodworking is addicting to watch. This is a video of someone who spent 22 days making a box, and recording 791 photos of each step of the process. The stop-motion format allows us to view...

The Emoji Supply Kitchen is a fun site where users can combine two existing emojis into a new concoction. Just click on two emojis from the list, and see what they look like when mixed together. I com...

The Fiberglass Mold Graveyard of Sparta, Wisconsin is a zoo full of discarded animal-, creature-, and people-shaped molds. This field of plastic carcasses lies behind the FAST building, aka the Fiberg...

Underrated doesn't begin to describe the Ninth Doctor's tenure in the Tardis. Christopher Eccleston's time as the Doctor often gets overlooked when fans discuss the best modern version of the characte...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As the greatAlbert Einsteinonce said,"I have no special talent...

The Church by the Sea resembles a chicken with big, cartoon eyes and is located in Madeira Beach, Florida. It sits Off of Gulf Blvd, Across from the Madeira Beach Condos. It was built in the 40s, and ...

Watching the world's growing obsession-no pun intended-with butts is interesting from a Black perspective. I can clearly remember a time in the 90s and 2000s when having a more prominent posterior was...

Since 2008, David M. Bird has been crafting and refining his photography series "Becorns", which zooms into the small world of acorn people interacting with nature. View this post on Instagram ...

Meet George Jetson. No, I'm not signing the theme song. I mean, get ready to meet him, because he is supposed to be born today. Or, ya know, maybe not. Welcome to one of the weirdest debates on t...

Hot on the heels of comedian and first responder/vets rights advocate Jon Stewart's eviscerating take-down of GOP Senators who did a shameful about-face on the PACT Act (which would have expanded heal...

Readers of NPR Morning Edition were asked to send in poems in the form of handwritten letters ("epistolary"), addressed to anyone they'd like. Their Poet-in-Residence Kwame Alexander turned (some of) ...