Articles by BoingBoing from September 2022

Do you remember this video from November 2012, which features an exasperated, fuming Wisconsite named Angela ranting against Bath & Body Works because she was unable to get candles in the two scen...

Brett Morgen nails it again!Morgen's previous certified hits include Jane, The Kid Stays in the Picture, and most famously, Cobain: Montage of Heck. The former, a project awarded to him mostly by the ...

Hello and welcome back to Spoken Word with Electronics. This week we discuss technology that should be in every garage: a mobile phone! I don't mean a cell phone. Put down that slab of glass. I mean a...

"This coffee smells like …" It's easy to guess what this cat in Italy is thinking when a man sets a shot of espresso in front of her. She immediately gets to work, digging and digging the counte...

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 there's one thing we hate doing, it'slistening to dumb peop...

Pillow peddler Mike Lindell, sued by Smartmatic and Dominion after claiming their voting machines led to election fraud, is now telling voters to only vote on election day to "overrun the algorithms."...

Liz Truss became Prime Minister of a nation of 70 million people by winning an internal Conservative party leadership election of 100,000 members. The Queen died hours after meeting her, and the natio...

She faded away without illness or mishap, leaving only the dark space where rumors grow.The document states that the 96-year-old monarch died at 3.10pm on 8 September at Balmoral Castle, Ballater. Pri...

Stadia is done for, reports The Verge, and service will end January 18, 2023. Stadia vice president Phil Harrison, in a statement:"While Stadia's approach to streaming games for consumers was built o...

The math checks out.there are tears in my eyes LMFAOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/5aYl7srRJH— agent honeydew (@maiyajambalaya) September 28, 2022Image: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons...

From the abstract of "Health and temperaments of cloned working dogs," a study published in the journal J Vet Sci:Only about half of all trained dogs may qualify as working dogs through conventional b...

Not enough people realize how influential the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise was. The idea of turning a theme park ride into a working film series seemed impossible. Once the film became...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Animated Times (@animatedtimes)When rumors about a Daniel Radcliffe-led Weird Al Yankovic movie began to circulate, fans immediately beg...

London's Heathrow Airport can't catch a break. Last night, two airplanes found themselves in a fender bender or wing dinger, as it were on the runway. The minor collision involved a Korean Air plane...

People love to hate Barney, the purple dinosaur ubiquitous in the 1990s thanks to the "Barney & Friends" show on public television in the US. Indeed, "I Love You, You Hate Me" is the title of a ne...

We've covered fair food in the past here at Boing Boing, and we're back with more culinary delights from State and County fairs. This time we're reporting on some of the delicacies from the Arizona St...

What better way for a wet reporter to protect their hard gear than to practice safe coverage with a condom? When NBC's weather reporter Kyla Galer covered Hurricane Ian, she came prepared: @NBC2 is th...

I was in Georgia recently, and the folks I was visiting told me about one of their favorite tourist attractions: Goats on the Roof. Goats on the Roof? I didn't understand. And sadly, I didn't have tim...

I spend a lot of time in Bisbee, Arizona, which is a town known for its funky disposition and artistic vibe. Some local shops sell bumper stickers that perfectly sum up the town: "It's like Mayberry o...

Author and respected music critic Rob Sheffield argues that the year 1982 was a transformative moment in music. In Rolling Stone, he shares his wonderfully-eclectic list of the "100 Best Songs of 1982...

White noise is static, a blend of all audible frequencies. It's hissy and harsh. I prefer brown noise, which attenuates higher frequencies and increases lower frequencies, giving it a richer sound. Ac...

Teenage Engineering, maker of the OP-1 portable synthesizer and the Pocket Operator synthesizers, introduced a $149 device that lets you make 5" vinyl records with audio up to 4 minutes long. It's cal...

A lovely Coolio (RIP) moment from 2013 shared on YouTube by then-university student Kelly Maguire:My house mates and I acoustic jamming sesh of 'Gangster's Paradise' with the one and only Coolio. Afte...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.If we've learned anything from the greatSriracha shortage of 2...

During coverage of Hurricane Ian, Fox Weather meteorologist Bryan Norcross drew a giant penis across the state of Florida. Given Norcross's exemplary reputation, I think it was accidental, but it's st...

Netflix has removed the tag categorizing "Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" as LGBTQ content. For some reason, the people who complained about the tag don't feel like it's helpful or accurate...

Columbus County Sheriff Jody Greene won a disputed election by 34 votes, was improperly sworn in before the vote was certified, failed to meet the office's local residency requirements, and was tempor...

Millions of people in Florida are without power as a result of Hurricane Ian's devastation. This time-lapse of a surgein Fort Myers reveals the catastrophic power of the hurricane. ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivered a blunt message to Russian soldiers, most of whom don't want to fight fight in Ukraine: "If you wanna stay alive RUN. If you wanna stay alive SURREN...

Everyone pretty much knows what's happening with Warner Brother's Flash film. However, before Ezra Miller's bizarre streak of arrests and allegations, the film had other problems. Prior to t...

No wonder Russian men are trying to sneak over to Georgia these videos of a Russian military barracks reveal the squalor that draftees must endure before being sent off to slaughter.The most disgusti...

The Weather Channel has their eye on the hurricane as well as on their TV ratings as they send reporters out to cover Hurricane Ian. Standing in the middle of a near category 5 hurricane is never a ...

The Weather Channel has their eye on the hurricane as well as on their TV ratings as they send reporters out to cover Hurricane Ian. Standing in the middle of a near category 5 hurricane is never a ...

The Weather Channel has their eye on the hurricane as well as on their TV ratings as they send reporters out to cover Hurricane Ian. Standing in the middle of a near category 5 hurricane is never a ...

San Bernardino Sheriffs Department had an unusual reason for closing an Amber Alert this week: they shot dead the 15-year-old kidnapping victim when she ran toward them. Beyond this it remains difficu...

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband, Perry Greene, says that their marriage is "irretrievably broken" and is divorcing her. The Rome News-Tribune:"Marjorie has been my best friend for the la...

It's been a while since we've had a Star Trek film in theaters. From 1979 to 2002, it felt like Star Trek film would always have a movie on the silver screen until the heat death o...

Apparently, this footage of Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard singing and dancing on the USS Enterprise's bridge was never meant to be seen by the public. It was shot in 1991 as a surprise fo...

Behold, the Fart Cloud Halloween costumeyou know, for kids! It comes complete with a handheld machine so your precious darling can "break wind" at will. Of course, you could skip the commercial route ...

Thanks to his brilliant work in Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk has earned tons of acclaim for his acting talents. If anything, now that his turn as the seedy Saul Goodman has come to an end, it's...

Fans have been clamoring for Ryan Reynolds to reprise the role of Deadpool since before the ink dried on the Disney and Fox merger. Towards the end of its lifespan, the Fox X-Men series was ...

You can always play a sample, sure, but the real thing was physical. You felt it in your meat. And now the joy of having a clicking hard drive may once again be experienced thanks to Matthias Werner's...

Tokyo-based Designer Nanako Kume first had to craft a special oversized pencil sharpener to make her pendant light lampshades with its shavings. It's a massive undertaking as you'll see in her process...

In the late 70s, Black superheroes were few and far between, but by the 90s, Black characters became a fixture in comics. Off the top of my head, you had: Icon, Chapel, Spawn, John Stewart, Luke Cage,...

There's a scene in Scott Pilgrim vs the World where Todd denotes veganism as: Scott: [coughs] Vegan?Todd: [psychically moves couch out of the way] It's not really that bi...

Two recent op-eds offer related views on the intentions of the "Framers of the Constitution."Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Berkeley Law School, is not simply concerned with originalism and the intent ...

Rapper, record producer, and actor Artis Leon Ivey Jr., better known as Coolio, is dead at 59. TMZ's sources tell it a heart attack is the suspected cause of death, with no sign of foul play, intoxica...

Andrew Wodzianski is a DC-area artist whose work often riffs off of nerdy pop cultural touchstones and ephemera. His pieces make references to comic books, 8-bit video games, monster movies, and table...

Hurricane Ian, which made landfall in Florida at 3:05 pm ET today near Fort Myers with "150-mile-per-hour winds" and a 12-foot storm surge, is "one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Communication is the key to, well, almost everything. Understa...

When a woman's luggage weighed too much at a Southwest check-in counter, she not only beat the system, she unwittingly put on a vaudevillian act that any traveling circus would be happy to include. (S...

The Santa Clara Men's Cross Country team is a glorious sight to behold. The team's headshots have recently been circulating across social media, and the goofy photos all featuring some sort of ridicu...

I recently saw a post on the Facebook page "Entomemeology" (which bills itself as, "the internet's premier Entomology Meme & Humor Community" check it out if you like bugs, and humor) describing ...

A man serving life in prison for a deadly Las Vegas bombing in 2007 at the Luxor hotel escaped "early in the weekend" but it wasn't until Tuesday that security realized he was missing. Apparently, cou...

A Houston couple with a side hustle of buying and reselling goods from surplus auctions recently purchased more than 100 heavy-duty storage containers from a website that deals in government surplus. ...

We may have hit peak weird potato chips. Lay's makes more than 200 flavors of chips and some of their strangest are in the China market: Spicy Crayfish, Roasted Cumin Lamb Skewer, Yam Crisps (Cucumber...

Joe Bussard, a legendary collector of 78 RPM records and historian of old-timey American roots music, has died at age 86. I learned of Bussard through the exquisite 2005 CD box set Fonotone Records: F...

This spectacular image is the spiral galaxy IC 5332 which is around 29 million light-years from Earth. Its about 1/3 smaller than our own Milky Way. Compare the above to the same view as captured by t...

Cassie, a robot that looks disturbingly like a person without an upper body, ran 100 meters in 24.73 seconds at the Whyte Track and Field Center in Corvallis, Oregon yesterday, breaking the Guinness W...

A Florida CEO of a company located in Clearwater, which declared a state of emergency Tuesday due to Hurricane Ian, asked employees to show up at the office and keep working."Obviously you feeling saf...

It took me a while to figure out which person was wearing the high heels in this photo. I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused. @laughswithsel #greenscreen #jokes #laughs #canadiangirl #memes...

Andor's fourth installment continues the series' fantastic beat of showing the dark side of the Star Wars universe.What does "Mon" mean in Star Wars? Andor episode four puts Mon Mothma center stage. N...

The announcers in this NFC championship football game didn't know whether to focus on the players on the field or the bizarre incident in the stands, where a man in a burning snowman suit was wildly r...

Because there isn't enough scandal in the chess world right now, grandmaster Ilya Smirin uttered sexist remarks while commentating the FIDE Womens' Grand Prix on Tuesdayamong them an admission he thi...

Life can be hectic, which is why so much of our day-to-day activities have shifted to online services. But, one thing that's been difficult to move to the online world is keeping track of your health....

With inflation rising, you might need to finally sell your massive collection of Garfield items. Fortunately, you can refer to this 2012 video created by Cathy and Robert Kothe who apparently have the...

Rarer than a four-leaf clover, a turtle watch volunteer in Thailand found a two-headed hatchling. Even more unusual, they were still alive."We encounter this very rarely. This is my first time encount...

A man who admitted assault a police officer during the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. capitol is off to jail for seven years, with a couple off for time served awaiting trial.Judge Amy Berman Jackson called...

Ohio's new abortion law was designed to please Republicans who want to force children to have their rapist's baby. The law counts fetuses as children and doesn't make an exception for rape victims. So...

Back on April Fool's Day, I posted about The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant, a spooky transmedia project of telepathic Beatles covers c...

"Ai-Da" is an AI robot artist with an uncanny human-like face. Ai-Da has shown a series of self portraits at London's Design Museum. Watch her drawn by holding a pen in her robot hand and listen to he...

Imagine a gaggle of little algae robots maneuvering around inside your body, carrying life-saving medication to target the chemical receptors directly at the point of need rather than an injected medi...

Hurricanes are "scams," according to faux news host Tucker Carlson. "You hate to hype hurricanes, because it's just a staple of TV and everyone is on to the scam," he said on Fox last night. Oh, excep...

Here's EarthCam Live's webcam in Sand Cay, Florida. Hurricane Ian is arriving today with expected winds of 155 MPH....

Tumblr user Gearsphere found this neat CD-Rom of animated GIFs in a thrift store, and uploaded all 22,000 images to a public Google Drive for anyone to download and use. They are gloriously 90s, glori...

Gas prices are back to bananas here in California. Today I snapped this photo of a local gas station's sign teetering on, but just under, $6.66/gallon for regular unleaded. ...

Similar to all of the great horror movie slashers, whose costumes they presumably carry, you can't avoid Spirit Halloween. If the Halloween chain wants to invade your neighborhood, there's nothing you...

Technical reference books can be a godsend when working on a project. Most every maker, big and small, is likely familiar with the PocketRef and similar reference guides.In this Tested video, Adam Sav...

One should never take someone's apparent joy or status as an indication of their wellbeing. As a young man, Anthony Bourdain possessed the life of my dreams. Bourdain apparently felt trapped in that ...

To me, the sign of a good party is the combination of food, fun, and friends. The sign of a great party is all of that plus killer schwag. You can keep your terrible trinkets; party prizes should surp...

Where's the Beef? Time to Make the Donuts.Rule #1 of marketing is brand allegiance. Ronald McDonald, though quite a scary character, had nothing to do with hamburgers and everything to do with childre...

Tom the Dancing Bug ALL-MIGHTY COMICSANNOUNCING VOLUME 4 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG PROGRAM:TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS! Due to be released in late October pre-order your co...

For $30 and shipping you can own a 1980 Soviet telephone that has no keys, dial or any other obvious outgoing capability. It rings and you answer it. To fail to answer it, perhaps, would be a mistake....

Humble Superheroes for the MillenniumChicano Batman invents newly-imagined, guitar-heavy tunes that are smooth and cool, lounge-like, with a deep and capacious 1970s soul vibe. Theirs is a throwback p...

I'm back, with another subreddit you should join if you love cute animals. Check out r/AnimalsMonching, where you'll be delighted by all kinds of animalsincluding this panda, this rabbit, and this tor...

In December 2020, the New South Wales (Australia) Environmental Trust announced that they were awarding a $20.3 million grant to NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to help halt species decline. T...

The new Netflix show Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was recently released, and the family of Dahmer's victims are rightfully angry about it, particularly because they were never contacted about 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.Control your existing door lock from your phone with the Switc...

A couple in Brazil added a large amount of blue dye into the Queima P river to make a waterfall turn blue for their gender reveal party. After posting the video to social media, many people were outra...

It's getting close to that time. You can already see it by the throngs of suburbanites demanding pumpkin spice lattes in unison.Fall is here; there can be no doubt. For some, the season is rife w...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Justin Rasch (@justin_rasch_official)There really isn't an arm of animation that's more impressive than another. Whether it's three-dime...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Many folks would say that a television set is a home essential...

With propagandists like Ron DeSantis likening drag shows to "child endangerment," you end up with stable genii such as the gentleman below. "What do you think is more dangerous for children, going to ...

Musician and programmer Matthew Cieplak, aka Extralife, created the ER-99, a delightful browser-based clone of the legendary Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer. First produced in 1983, the 909 led to the b...

In this marvelous moment below from the 1960s Batman TV series, Adam West has a phone conversation with himself playing both the Caped Crusader and Bruce Wayne. Just more evidence that Adam West's Bat...

Christopher Cross's 1980 song "Sailing" is the archetype of Yacht Rock. It's a spectacular song, and I mean that without irony. As we know, the original was an orchestral number which meant that if Cr...

Mattel offers a second signature Barbie for Da de Muertos. Javier Meabe is again behind the designs, the same creator behind the recently released Gloria Estefan Barbie."I'm excited that we get to exp...

A playful chihuahua holding a bright pink toy can barely contain himself as he patiently waits for his tortoise friend, who is nibbling on some leaves. Perhaps when his buddy is finished eating she wi...

Presidents make the best memes. There's something about the position that makes it the perfect fodder for gags, irrespective of the political party. Obama gave us tons of great Key & Peele
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Video games rake in a lot of dough nowadays. Typically, when the conversation of video games and profit comes up, the focus almost exclusively revolves around triple-A titles likeGrand Theft AutoandHa...

Like all great things that swing in the consumer's favor never last like they should, like Netflix's OG free streaming service accessed via special disc's for PS3, XBox 360 and Wii, or Google Reader b...

Originally broadcast on April 29, 1994. At that point, as host Kate Bellingham points out, US President Bill Clinton had already set up an email address and announced plans to invest in internet infra...

After a suprise defeat, weeks of insinuation and an ostentatious second-move resignation, chess world champion Magnus Carlsen has put his cheating accusation against teen rival Hans Niemann in writing...

Located in Fayettesville, Georgia about a half-hour from Atlanta, and some five hundred miles or so from the fictional town of Hawkins this 1,846 square foot home boasts 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. ...

An affidavit asserts that at least two more minors raped in Ohio were forced to flee the state rather than carry their rapist's children to term, as Ohio law requires. The terrifying stories of dozens...

The biggest movie everyone forgot is back! Avatar made $30 million this weekend, $10 million coming from the US of A. Once the largest grossing movie of all time, Avatar has not had the outside-the-t...

Hoofing through a stormy field with electrically charged eyes, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (QGA) is now posing as a badass going after feral hogs, not in Georgia, where she is supposed to be working, ...

From "down under" comes an idea and technology that creates sustainable electricity, down under the ocean. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, this innovative firm Wave Swell developed a ...

Stephen Cass upgraded his 40-year old Tandy Model 100 (previously at Boing Boing) without completely obliterating its innards: the new CPU is far faster than the original, but the old display is exact...

My recurring college nightmare is when I realize in the middle of the semester that I'd signed up for a class that I'd forgotten about. That day, I have a test to take, and I'm unprepared. I scramble ...

Non-partisan voter registration group the Good Deeds Corps has been hosting a series of backyard movie screenings with the stars in the films. This Sunday, October 2nd, in Los Angeles, CA., Judd Apat...

"There is no room in the drug culture for amateurs." — Uncle Duke, DoonesburyTrump sycophant and pillow salesperson Mike Lindell claims to have once tried to rid Minnesota of drugs by ingesting ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Getting a solid night's sleep is one of the most essential par...

Michael Jackson's falsetto singing and speaking voice was integral to his personality, but on rare occasions he'd drop into a deep baritone. I find it unnerving. Submitted for your review, the above c...

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...

Police arrested a University of Utah student who allegedly threatened on social media to detonate a nuclear reactor located on campus if the Utes football team lost a big game against San Diego State....

The majority of the food concessions at San Francisco International Airport were closed Monday as a thousand workers went on an indefinite strike over staffing numbers and wages, reports The Washingto...

Forced sterilization. Racial discrimination. Coercion. Deception. Abuse. Violence. Bullying. Disdain. Gaslighting. Eugenics. These are just some of the words describing the experiences of women of col...

The University of Idaho has decided to not only forbid staff and faculty from offering any abortion information to students a crime that can get them fired they are also, unbelievably, suggesting an...

On the left is King Charles III's royal cypher, to adorn all relevant things. On the right, the mark imagined for him by the production designers of 2006's Children of Men, the near-future movie whose...

In this segment on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver discusses the unsettling situation in Brazil with their upcoming general election (Oct 2). Current right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro is doing everyt...

Quentin Tarantino's greatest strength as a filmmaker is also the basis of the criticism that hounds him most persistently: his reverence for classic films. Fans of Tarantino love how frequently and lo...

A film crew, making a documentary about Trump pardonee Roger Stone called A Storm Foretold, provided CNN with a pre-election video in which Stone can be heard saying, "Fuck the voting, let's get right...

In this video on Dave's Garage, he discusses the "fork bomb," a DoS (denial-of-service) attack where a process replicates itself until it depletes all system resources, slowing or crashing the system....

The ever-bumbling Dr. Mehmet Oz, running for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, generously stepped in to help Democratic rival John Fetterman with his own campaign. Completely out of touch with j...

The ever-bumbling Dr. Mehmet Oz, running for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, generously stepped in to help Democratic rival John Fetterman with his own campaign. Completely out of touch with j...

In his new book, The Breach: The Untold Story of the Investigation into January 6th, former US representative from Virginia Denver Riggleman described his impressions of colleagues Louie Gohmert and P...

K2, an 11-year-old dolphin, died this weekend at the dolphin "habitat" at The Mirage hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It's the third dolphin death there this year, reports KYMA.an 19-year-old dolphin nam...

Nissan brings the love for select models like the venerable R32 Skyline GT-R, using modern metals and fabrication techniques like using two opposing industrial robots with tungsten dies to form body p...

Lemons become lemonade when these actors read real-life Yelp reviews. Here's one about a bad chuck-e-cheese experience, and here's one about a man stuck in his hotel room with a gnarly case of food po...

Founding member of The Byrds Chris Hillman has been busy documenting his career. You'd think you'd have heard it all in his recent (and excellent!) autobiography "Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burr...

One of the best concepts and phrases to emerge from millennials and Gen z is the idea of "giving someone their flowers." As humans, Too often do we wait until the frigid grip of the reaper snatches so...

Like YouTuber Tom Scott, watching Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons as a kid, even as a kid, I remember thinking driving backwards in a vehicle while looking into a TV screen seemed like a bad idea. T...

In super slow-motion, you can really admire the precision, strength and grace it takes to make as a ballet dancer. Directed by Simon Iannelli and Johannes Berger, Le Vent beautifully captures the move...

As soon as I finished listening to this, I printed out a screenshot of the YouTube embed and slid it into the final volume of my Britannia Great Books of the Western World collection, to take its righ...

At 7:14 p.m. ET, 9/26/22, NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission made contact with the asteroid Dimorphos. This is humanity's first attempt at redirecting a celestial body as a strateg...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Are you tired of hearing that robotic, gratingTikTokvoice on j...

A hiker in Sierra Madre (Los Angeles County) kept her cool when a black bear approached her on a narrow trail. While she stood facing the bear as it it ambled toward her, a concerned hiker farther awa...

Another year, another talented beer server going viral as she effortlessly carries (and balances!) more than a dozen overflowing steins without a tray across a busy beer hall during Oktoberfest in M...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Hobbies that don't include a hefty price tag are hard to come ...

I've long been fascinated with metal guitarist Kayla Kent, not only for her amazing talent, but also with her stage presence. As her fingers passionately rip across the fretboard, usually to a Pantera...

Manchester artist Nathan Shepherd of Good Future Music transformed Guns 'N Roses' classic "Sweet Child O' Mine" into the chunky chord-driven style of The Ramones. I wish he'd played the entire mashup....

Netflix Jeffrey Dahmer's victim's sister and the real Rita in 1992 #jeffreydahmer #serialkillers #truecrime #truecrimecommunity pic.twitter.com/t8fZe1S2oT— Carol DaRonch (@CarolDaRonch) Septembe...

"I'm pretty sure that I… can't remember the rest of this line."...

Watch as this gentleman performs a meaningless test, the watch was not on his wrist when he repeatedly struck it with a sledgehammer, so the test doesn't meet real-world conditions. If he wanted to te...

HBO debuted the first trailer for The Last of Us, heralding the arrival of a brand-new post-apocalyptic universe on the network. The series is scheduled for 2023.Craig Mazin, author and creator of HBO...

Continuing to demonstrate how evil the Christian Fascist movement is, in the United States, Central York school district in Pennsylvania has banned a popular book series that helps girls learn compute...

Nosferatufilmmaker Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's German Expressionist masterpiece about a Transylvanian vampireturns 100 this year. (You can watch it below!) To celebrate, Berlin's Nationalgalerie is sta...

As many Russian citizens are fleeing to any country that will take them, trying to avoid serving in Putin's unjust war in Ukraine, Edward Snowden has become a proud Russian national. CNN:President Vla...

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...

James Early Jones has signed over the rights to his Darth Vader voice to artificial intelligence. Respeecher, a Ukraine-based synthetic speech start-up, already used archival recordings and algorithms...

The highlight of yesterday's Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins football game was when the Dolphins' Thomas Morstead made a powerful punt that slammed right into the butt of his blocker, Trent Sherfield...

The Wall Street Journal wrote about the rise in legitimate researchersfrom academics to naturalistswho are "open-minded skeptics" or true believers in Sasquatch. Wonderfully, the WSJ created one of th...

After entering a plea of guilty for vandalizing the "Bewitched" statue in Salem, Massachusetts by painting it blood red, a man will be given 18 months of probation, reports News 4 Jax, which has a pho...

There is no question Mark Meadows was texting with election conspiracy fanboi Phil Waldron and being kept appraised of his efforts to steal the election in Arizona. Who may never know precisely who ca...

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has a plan to make heroin and cocaine more pure so that your children can confidently make a purchase without anxieties over a possible fentanyl overdose. "We will...

Shocking video shows a man, apparently being drafted into the Russia-Ukraine war, shooting his recruiting officer in st-Ilimsk in Irkutsk. Both are alive, according to the most recent reports, with 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.Is there any bond deeper than the one betweenus and our pets? ...

The ethics of de-extinction testedAs NPR reported in August 2022, Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences is working to de-extinctify the Tasmanian Tiger, gone to the world since 1936. Also known as t...

In a superbly edited video, you can see the construction of a player-piano-like device from Lego pieces that causes little mallets to tap switches and play an electronic drum synthesizer. Different rh...

https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/50608432a5b33c07b79ee35a93f254b3.mp4The Guardian reports that Buckingham Palace is demanding UK broadcasters remove clips of recent royal footage, inc...

The Honest Guide YouTube channel asked viewers to send in their videos of scammers trying to rip them off in popular tourist destinations. They include the out-of-gas scam, the fake deaf-mute scam, th...

When police officers in Colorado pulled over a 20-year-old driver who was involved in a road rage incident, she parked her car next to some train tracks. So what did the Platteville officers do? They ...

Artist Claire Hummel, working with Erik Wolpaw and Jay Pinkerton, created an alarmingly convincing set of logos and cover art for games that don't exist. These were easter eggs in the Steam Summer Sal...

Axel C. Cox, 23, burned a cross in his own front yard and directed racist threats at black neighbors. He was last week indicted on charges of criminal interference with the right to fair housing and u...

Kitboga, an entertaining scambaiter who toys with fraudsters trying to bilk him out of money, claims a stunning new weapon at his disposal: a bespoke AI chatbot that's so convincing it has tricked sca...

One of my all-time favorite Halloween projects is milk jug skulls. Using HDPE plastic jugs you simply heat the material over a skull form (easily found online) and shape and cool it with a sponge and ...

Giorgia Melonia is to become Italy's first far right leader since the last one ended up swinging by his feet from a gas station canopy in the Piazzale Loreto. Though her party won only 26% of the vote...

You can always see the influences of others in the work of great artists. Even when creators go out of their way to hide their proverbial brushstrokes, the work of their peers and the legends that hel...

In this Project Farm video, Todd turns his test tools on cordless vacuums. He tests 8 brands that range in price from $99-$750.The cordless vacuums were tested on carpet for deep cleaning, small and l...

Jerry Hsu is a professional skateboarder.It is lore that Taiwanese-American skater phenom Jerry Hsu is best-known for his part in Emerica's 2010 release Stay Gold, where he skates switch for the entir...

We all know the adage "history is written by the victors." Without a healthy dose of skepticism, taking the historical record at face value is a recipe for misinformation. With their seriesAncient Civ...

Traffic signal lights in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and other parts of Canada feature a flashing green traffic light to indicate it as a "pedestrian-controlled" intersection; meaning the traffic...

Traffic signal lights in British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and other parts of Canada feature a flashing green traffic light to indicate it as a "pedestrian-controlled" intersection; meaning the traffic...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alex Toth In Depth (@alextothindepth)As incredible as comic book superheroes are, some of the superheroes designed for television could ...

If you haven't had a chance to read Born to Be Posthumous, Mark Dery's dense and dazzling biography of writer and artist, Edward Gorey, this hour-long lecture Mark did in 2020 is a great appetite-whet...

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 is coming to an end, and you know what that means! The ...

The South Pole Ice Tunnels are a network of passages underneath the Amundsen-Scott Station, a remote research base in Antarctica. The tunnels contain pipes to bring fresh water to the research base, b...

In this video, Cartoonist Kayfabe talks about paintings by Robert Williams, founder of Juxtapoz magazine and ZAP comix artist. It was a lot of fun listening to the in-depth conversation about Williams...

If you've ever had multiple furbies in your home, you've probably had a chuckle watching them speak gibberish to each other. The silliness of furbies talking to each other is taken to a whole new leve...

Have you ever felt ravenous over a can of tuna fish while frantically searching for a can opener without any luck? These lifehacks will help you open the can in various ways that don't involve the use...

Underwater welding is one of the most dangerous jobs out there, and this video explains why. Underwater welders work grueling hours and can sometimes spend 80 hours working per week. They descend as 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.If you're looking to step up your home or office security, the...

Artist LadyBEAST can walk glass bottles like a pro. Did I mention that she's able to do this while wearing high heels? In this video by Ripley's Believe it or Not, LadyBEAST talks about her escape art...

Alex the YouTube French chef likes to go down rabbit holes in search of the perfect recipe for a given dish. In this video, he seeks out the perfect crme brle. The recipe is included in the video desc...

Tihngs is one of my favorite instagram accounts to find inspiration on. It's filled with an incredible assortment of antique treasures. From unique hand-carved wooden spoons to old and unusual dolls, ...

Reports of a military coup in China spread this weekend, claiming that top a PLA general had taken control and that president Xi Jinping was under house arrest. None of it was true, much of it was ins...

Mr. Cherry holds the world record for most nuts crushed in a minute by sitting on them. Cherry is a Japanese comedian who currently holds 26 Guinness world records in total. A few of his records inclu...

Wilkes and Dunn are not a country duo (Brooks and Dunn are on tour) but rather three Texas billionaires: Farris and Dan Wilks from Cisco and Tim Dunn from Midland. Together, they comprise part of a me...

Designer George Gomez and the gang at Stern Pinball have announced the latest in their huge line of baby-boomer-licensed pinball machines. They've already done The Beatles, classic TV Batman, The Muns...

Producers are finally starting to get the credit they deserve in Hip-hop. Although the genre will always place the lion's share of attention on emcees, the producers that provide the music on which ra...

I recently bookmarked this serendipitous video of traffic footage featuring the song Olson (version 3) by Boards of Canada. It's the perfect video to unwind to after a stressful day, or if you need a ...

Marvel has to strike gold with the Fantastic Four, and they know it. Aside from being the cornerstone of the 616, the FF also comes equipped with some of the best antagonists to bedevil ever...

Over coffee this morning, I stumbled on this silly little gem from 2003. The comedic premise: At the first Night of Too Many Stars concert to benefit autism research, Lou Reed is promised the most kic...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When it comes to technology, Microsoft has been on 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.We have all become so inundated with technology that it's hard...

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The great Pharoah Sanders, a pioneering spiritual and avant-garde jazz saxophonist who first gained great acclaim in John Coltrane's 1960s bands, has died at age 81. "If you're in the song, keep on pl...

Hazard Fraught is a cunningly-named independent site that tracks prices at Harbor Freight, home of $13.98 reciprocating saws and other inexpensive workshop delights. I chanced across it because the st...

High tech bowls and spoons use electricity to add the illusion of saltiness to your food, reports Sora News 24. "This works by passing a specific wavelength of electricity from the surface of the...

"La Mano: The Burning of Engraved Wooden Plates" is a film by Adolpho Avril and Fabian Dores Pais. The film is made from footage of a series of wood engravings that I find deeply intriguing. I love th...

This TweetTok comedy bit is pretty funny. A black guy living with a well-meaning but sometimes borderline racist white guy comes up with solution for letting his roommate know when he's entered ingrai...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When people think of terms like innovative, stylish, and sleek...

Join us October 6th at 4pm ET for the teaser trailer premiere of Nintendo & Illumination's upcoming Super Mario Bros. film, releasing April 7, 2023. pic.twitter.com/1jEFnlvCnU— New York Comi...

I've never empathized with a salad before until I watched this video. Flora by Jan Sevankmajer is a surreal stop motion film featuring a creature made from vegetables. The vegetables begin to decay at...

When someone is oblivious, it can manifest as either a cute character defect or an annoying one. We're all capable of missing the forest for the trees now and then, but if the end result is harmless, ...

When it was first announced, Warner Brothers'MultiVersuswas touted as theSmash Broskiller. After Nintendo discontinued service onSuper Smash Brothers: Ultimatelast year, virtually every studio with a ...

Have you ever been struck with the sudden fear that a rat is going to wiggle its way up your toilet and bite your bum? If you were living in bliss, unaware of this phenomenon, I'm sorry for breaking t...

Here's an awesome art film called Faux Plafond by Franoise Vogel. It will make your brain spin around in circles as you watch people inside bubbles walk around a house that operates like a rotating ha...

After the success of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan can basically name his price wherever he goes in Hollywood. Gilligan, who sat on Breaking Bad's unsold p...

Digging in their olive orchard in the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza strip, Salman al-Nabahin and his son unearthed a Byzantine mosaic dating from the 5th to the 7th century CE. The mosaic floor was ...

In this episode of Goobertown Hobbies, Brent gets a chance to visit Archon Studio, a small Polish company that produces miniatures and scenery for the tabletop gaming market. We get to see how the mol...

On this episode of Dave's Garage, Dave looks at the development and history of the PKZip computer file compression program and the sad life and tragic ending of its creator, Phil Katz. ...

Adolf Wlfli (1864 1930) was a visionary artist from Bern, Switzerland. Here's a video compilation of his brilliantly intriciate drawings. I never tire of looking at his work. His drawings are mandala...

Halloween time is approaching us, and Psycho by Eddie Noack is one of my favorite songs to blast during the spooky season. The song was originally written by Leon Payne and this version was recorded b...

Polish Night Music is an ambient album by Marek Zebrowski and David Lynch. It provokes the feeling of being in the middle of nowhere, on a train, in the dead of night.  The Guardian commented tha...

I have to admit that I'm a soft-hearted sucker for the Playing for Change videos of musicians around the world covering a classic song together. This cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Look...

I finally finished reading Luda, the first novel from celebrated comic scribe cum chaos magician Grant Morrison. Anyone who's read Morrison's comics knows that they're a master of mind-bending counter...

Something weird is going on with American Airlines' in-flight announcement system. Multiple passengers say they've heard people making unusual moaning and grunting sounds, and the airline's explanatio...

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 can wait until that new tablet you've been eyeing goes on ...

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 watches to earbuds to computers, Apple products are some ...

In this installment of the TTRPG podcast, The Weekly Scroll, host Ryan sits down with Janaka Stucky, Peter Bebergal, and Max Moon of the new indie RPG publisher, Blazing Worlds. The team is on the Scr...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When purchasing tech, it's important to consider all of your 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.Nearly a year after the industry-recognized TIOBE Index anoint...

'National Enquirer'"Charles Exiles Sex Creep Andrew!" screams the cover story. "Banished to Bahamas with dead queen's dogs! Cut off from royal cash & forced to live on pension! Ingrates Harry &...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When you're out camping or hiking, you may some...

In 1985, Tipper Gore (wife of then-senator Al Gore), formed the Parents Music Resource Center, a ridiculous committee that pushed (and succeeded) to have warning labels on albums that included what th...

The city of Lakewood, New Jersey, eliminated their homeless shelter and made the process of getting access to their remaining services hard for people to navigate, however, their town square wasn't cl...

The United States Central Intelligence Agency has launched a podcast. The mission of The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast is to educate and connect with the general public, sharing insight into the Agency...

A Michigan State Police (MSP) officer's dashcam captured this fantastic video of a deer seemingly leaping right over a speeding car as the small herd races across the road. (Yes, it's possible that th...

After a lengthy investigation of his relationship with a 17-year-old girl, Republican congressman Matt Gaetz is unlikely to face charges after prosecutors decided the witnesses were not credible enoug...

Tinder opened a convenience store in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya . With a design inspired by the Family Mart chain, the Tinder SwipeMart offered free swag, snacks, and a photo area to take profile shots....

Angie's Oyster Bar & Grill in Singapore implemented a $10 "screaming children surcharge" about a month ago and say that complaints about noisy kids have since dropped. (Earlier this year, they als...

After so many years of running his mouth and never paying a price for the lies, the biggest loser, Donald Trump is being asked to put up or shut up. Special Master Dearie seems highly willing to ask t...

Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones got to turn another courtroom into a bully pulpit and advertising platform yesterday. Jones was appearing in the Connecticut defamation case filed by eight of t...

Fraudsters stole $45.6bn in pandemic assistance, says the federal government, a "dramatic" increase in previous estimates that put the total at $16bn. This was not everyday Americans getting benefits ...

A native of San Antonio, TX, and a non-traditional student at Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in San Antonio, Adn Medrano needed a name for the food he grew up eating, a name that was NOT Tex-Mex....

In this outstanding collaboration, hundreds of animators joined forces to reanimate the first episode of the 1990s' show The Moomins. What is the Moomin reanimated project?It's a non-profit collaborat...

Here Cool Again restores a large, handsome cheese slicer from 1905, the kind you'd find in a commercial environmentand now destined for a nice cheese bar or deli.The slicer is made from aluminum, stee...

The Rock might be the biggest, and John Cena might be the funniest, but Batista is the best when it comes to actors that hail from the WWE. Just take a look at Dave Bautista's career. Unlike The Rock ...

NiNi is a Taiwanese musician who specializes in playing classical Chinese instruments. In this video, she covers Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train" on a Sanxian, an ancient type of three-string lute.Thumbna...

Before Scorsese split cinephiles in half like Moses at the Red sea with his comments about Marvel films, there was Alejandro G. Irritu. As he readied his film Birdman for release, Irritu did...

Timothy Hale-Cusanelli was a naval contractor with security clearance. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli joined in the sacking of the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli posed as his idol Adolf Hitler ...

Via Board Game Game comes this video on The Discriminating Gamer where host Cody chooses his top ten favorite tabletop games based on popular video games.Thumbnail: Screengrab from The Discriminating ...

In the modern console wars, Nintendo exists on an island alone. One of the biggest complaints that Nintendo routinely garners is that they alienate hardcore gamers by focusing on family-friendly games...

Nothing Compares, a film looking at the life and career of singer, activist, and iconoclast, Sinad O'Conner, is coming to Showtime. The film is directed by Kathryn Ferguson (Taking the Waters, Space t...

I've been really enjoying the new season of Collective Action Comics, a new-ish podcast that closely examines superhero comics from a radical leftist perspective. While the first season looked at DC C...

Florida's Manatee County School District confirmed Thursday that it had "removed" a teacher from class after a racist tirade went viral on Tik Tok. The video shows a teacher haranguing a student who r...

Florida's Manatee County School District confirmed Thursday that it had "removed" a teacher from class after a racist tirade went viral on Tik Tok. The video shows a teacher haranguing a student who r...

This "Stop The War" Ukraine Flag Scream mask is distributed through Fun World. According to Drowned Boy Productions, the company is donating $1 of the proceeds to some Ukrainian war relief charity, th...

Skill. Skull. Shirt. Skirt. Are. Them. Take. And maybe not surprising, a lot of words for violence: slaughter, ransack, club, knife, berserk. In this RobWords video, Rob looks at the significant influ...

There is an exciting piece deep inside this Daily Beast article regarding just how hard the 11th Circuit slapped down Judge Aileen Cannon whatever the game she is playing was. Cannon took the hit so h...

In the 1980s, the Choose Your Own Adventure book series was all the rage among kids. From "Journey Under the Sea" to "Your Code Name is Jonah," "The Abominable Snowman," and "Deadwood City," each nove...

Word salad and meaningless statements are like spinach to the MAGA Popeye! Watch as some dude pays money for one of these tee-shirts.We sold "Let's F**k Brandon" shirts outside the Trump Rally. pic.tw...

Photographer Steve Birnbaum visits the locations where iconic images of musicians were taken and then photographs those familiar photos in that context. He recently visited the abandoned Hollywood Hei...

This saxophone duo has an incredible time playing the Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk length. Dancing and wailing down the boardwalk on a beautiful day, this video is a treat.Image: screen grab...

Disney has released a short tribute video to all the Imagineers who have made it so special: I enjoyed the 2019 Disney+ series The Imagineering Story, it is a fantastic deeper dive into the history of...

Trombone Champ is a new video game available on Steam in which you play trombone. No, seriously:Trombone Champ is the world's first trombone-based rhythm music game. Unlike most music games, you...

Episode 5 of Auralnauts' masterpiece "Star Wars: Larry " includes my favorite shout-out in their entire book of work, Anakin recommending Jumbo's Clown Room. Episode 5 is packed with dance fighting an...

Try as they may, violence will likely not solve this disagreement. Perhaps it was solved by Vodka.Not the Three Stooges pic.twitter.com/lQbpNXjUOC— Outspoken (@Out5p0ken) September 21, 2022Via ...

Trump's adult children, aged 44, 40 and 38 years old, should not be charged in the NY Attorney General's case against the crime family because they aren't responsible adults. Eric and Don Jr supposedl...

Last night on the Masked Singer, the mysterious and bizarre Knight was revealed to be the great William Shatner (aka James T. Kirk of Star Trek: The Original Series). In perfect Shatner style, he sung...

When the mantle of James Bond passed from the dashing Pierce Brosnan to Daniel Craig, people began to prophesize the franchise's end. Brosnan's definitive take on the character helped Bond retain his ...

In the next decade, NASA is counting on private space stations to replace the International Space Station. One of those in development (with $160 in early-stage NASA funding so far) is called Starlab,...

Interstate 40 in Oklahoma was covered in sex toys after a truck spilled them during a crash. The helicopter cameraperson was able to get a decent enough shot to allow folks at home to ID they toys.The...

Yesterday, in his first TV interview since the search of Mar-a-Lago, Trump reveals that he can declassify documents "even by thinking about it." From the Washington Post:"There doesn't have to be a pr...

RollingStone has published a deep dive into the leadership example set by Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk and the harassment suffered by seven women bringing lawsuits against his EV carmaker, Tesla. The lawsuits...

Tesla is recalling more than a million vehicles in the U.S., it announced, over fears the windows might pinch fingers on their way up. No-one, the company says, has reported being hurt.Description of ...

Recognized with 3-Star culinary acclaim by the Michelin Guide since 2006, The French Laundry is one of the rarest of gastronomic gems with a genesis story that extends back to the rustic beginning of ...

Impossible Science shows how to build a DIY enclosure that uses science to cloaks packages from porch pirates. Artifice relies on craftsmanship for maximum effect, and Jason Latimer brings the necessa...

Philadephia police officer Eric Ruch Jr. shot an unarmed black motorist dead, seconds after arriving at the scene of a 2017 car accident. A federal jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter on W...

It may not seem like it now, but there was a time when Star Wars was the most popular franchise on Earth. In the distant year 1980, after Empire Strikes Back hit theaters, Sta...

It may not seem like it now, but there was a time when Star Wars was the most popular franchise on Earth. In the distant year 1980, after Empire Strikes Back hit theaters, Sta...

Imagine how grim it is in the Belk in Columbia, S.C., for the presence of a corpseone of the store's own workersto go unnoticed for four days.The Lexington County Coroner's Office said there are no si...

Scanners (1981) wouldn't be my personal first choice for a TV series based on the work of Canadian body horror auteur David Cronenberg, but it certainly makes sense when you think about it. A war betw...

Scanners (1981) wouldn't be my personal first choice for a TV series based on the work of Canadian body horror auteur David Cronenberg, but it certainly makes sense when you think about it. A war betw...

Thomas Lane, the Minneapolis cop who held George Floyd's legs while Derek Chauvin choked him to death with his knee, was sentenced to three years imprisonment Wednesday on state charges of manslaughte...

The turkeys are at it again! Boing Boing reported last month about a gang of turkeys causing trouble in Shuswap, Canada. Now we've got news from Woburn, Massachusetts about another group of about five...

exCUSE me, who taught the raccoon on my back porch how to use a HAMMOCK??[Filmed from INSIDE my house] pic.twitter.com/1Z4UytqBvG— Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D (@SarahMackAttack) September 9, 2022What w...

In this video, YouTube LARPer from Germany, Sonja, gives us a tour of Drachenfest, the second largest live action roleplaying festival in the world. Some 5,000 attendees spend 6 days in a German field...

News of prominent, wealthy or ostensibly powerful officials dying in falls has become a crunchy drumbeat to Russia's disastrous invasion of Ukraine. The latest defenestration is of Anatoly Gerashchenk...

We can all admit that Hollywood is scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point, right? With blockbuster budgets reaching absurd amounts- and their expected box office gross reaching equally dizzyi...

Inspired by a MIT's 2018 ionic thrust airplane, Jay of the Plasma Channel wanted to see if he could create a next-generation design for an ionic thruster. Ionic thrust, aka electrohydrodynamic thrust,...

https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Nanzen-ji-temple-_-Kyoto-Japan.mp4With the recent announcement of projected border easing measures including visa-free travel, discussions about where...

With comedian Chris Redd's announcement that he is leaving SNL, eight cast members will not be returning for season 48. Redd joins Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney, Pete Davidson, Alex Mof...

A sharp, reliable knife is one of those tools most folks don't think about carrying around, but there are countless everyday situations where a blade might be useful. You can use it to slice through&#...

Is there any feeling as satisfying as the one you get after demolishing a tough stain? A clean house is a happy house, but anyone who's only wielded a vacuum cleaner or a broo...

Star Wars funfact: George Lucas himself designed the original X-Wing and it was inspired by a dragster. In fact, the first model for Lucas' X-Wing was build from a kit-bashed dragster model. But Georg...

Talk about not practicing what you preach. In a move that would make Jimmy "the Gent" pushover a phone booth, Rockstar games apparently forgot one of life's most essential rules. They didn't keep...

The number of celebrities that are also Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioners is kind of immense at this point. On the more obvious end of the spectrum, you have tough guys like Jason Statham and Vin Dies...

NASA released this stunning image of Neptune, the ice giant located 2.687 billion miles away from us. It's the best view of Neptune's rings since Voyager 2's flyby in 1989. "It has been three decades ...

Andor is delivering on the promise of Rogue One in a big way. Finally, we are three episodes into a story not about kidnapping, stealing, or training a Force-sensitive kid. Instead, we see the dark an...

Shaun King is like spam: the obviousness, to most people, is precisely why it works on the few. It selects the ignorant and vulnerable and Sen. Cory Booker and becomes invisible to everyone else. The ...

Soon, it will be the 21st night of September.Here's the story behind the song, as told in 2014 by NPR:Allee Willis was a struggling songwriter in LA until the night she got a call from Maurice W...

Perhaps the phrase "curious culinary concoction" is both a bit redundant and over confident when discussing any new fast food menu item. This is not simply to invoke the Slow Food movement, but to con...

Two colleagues of Wayne Couzens, the London police officer convicted of raping and murdering Sarah Everard, have themselves been found guilty of "sharing offensive messages" over group chats the men s...

In 2021, nearly 300 million people visited the United States National Parks. At some point, many of those visitors had to poop. And depending on where they were in the park, that could mean a trip to ...

In a recent study from the journal Palaios, a group of paleontologists announced that they discovered a "small regurgitalite" from the Jurassic period in southeastern Utah. In other words, it's dinosa...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a massive civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, Eric, Ivanka, Donald Jr., and the Trump organization. The suit follows a three-year investigation ...

Tom the Dancing Bug – ALL-MIGHTY COMICSANNOUNCING VOLUME 4 IN THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG PROGRAM:TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS! Due to be released in late October — pre-or...

Everybody likes to add a touch of luxury to their lives, right? The good news is it doesn't have to be expensive to do that. Adding a little luxury to your day can be as easy and a...

Voicechanger.io makes it a snap to change your voice to sound like an alien, chipmunk, demon, or many other options. Just upload an audio file or give it permission to access your mic, and you're on y...

In a televised address today, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced a mobilization of troopsits first since World War IIand threatened the use of nuclear weapons in defense of Russian. "I'm...

The ultimate manhole covers website features 8107 different covers, from 63 countries and 576 cities, yet is far from complete. Under the city's surface there is an underground city, a city that its o...

The US military's Space Force has an official song and it's titled Semper Supra (Latin for "always above.") Here are the lyrics so that you may sing along with pride:We're the mighty watchful eye,Guar...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is in "big, big trouble". Gone in 2022 is $71bn of Mark Zuckerberg's own wealth, tied up in the social network even as it tries desperately to make Virtua...

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is in "big, big trouble". Gone in 2022 is $71bn of Mark Zuckerberg's own wealth, tied up in the social network even as it tries desperately to make Virtua...

Migrants flown by Ron DeSantis from Texas to Martha's Vinyard in a spectacular if hardly successful political stunt are suing him, reports NBC News, claiming they were tricked into the scheme and defr...

GQ recently published a fascinating look into the world of elective leg lengthening. I had no idea that cosmetic leg lengthening was a booming business, that hundreds of men in the U.S. are getting th...

Jordan Sanchez filmed Fetish in 2017, his last video as a professional skateboarder and team rider for Welcome Skateboards. As reported in 2021 Jenkem interview, "Today, Jordan is a family man with a ...

Today I learned about an amphibian called the "Budgett's frog." It looks like a cartoon character, and has the most ridiculous scream. Everything Reptiles describes the curious creature:These unique f...

Did you know the second "t" in Toronto is silent? I didn't (either?) for about 80% of the time of my existence on the earth the beginning marked by my birthday. The accurate pronunciation, in any acc...

If you're ever in the northeastern area of Arizona, you should make plans to stop at the Petrified Forest National Park. I've been a couple of times, years ago, and highly recommend it. It feels like ...

I cannot get this cute little doggo's oddly creepy and oddly mezzzmeriiiiiziiiiiing image out of my mind. I remember seeing Clive Barker's Hellraiser in 1987. Pinhead is seared, no, nailed into my min...

Even though a large part of illustration depends on craft, most connoisseurs of the visual arts demand deeper emotional stimulation than pure beauty. Seasoned art fans like to search for pieces that c...

Although most modern consumers tend to correlate horror to movies, the genre's contributions to the world of literature are equally impressive. From genius minds like Edgar Allen Poe to H.P. Lovecraft...

Hell's bells, Trudy, can't we get excited about anything? Alison Brie, a veteran member of the cast ofCommunity, doesn't appear to be as optimistic as series creator Dan Harmon about the prospect of a...

The news is out! We couldn't be more thrilled to collaborate with @MarvelGames on an all-new single-player, action-adventure Iron Man game. While we're still in early development, this is an excit...

My wife and I were watching TV the other night and noticed that, on the show we were watching, family members talking to each other on the phone never said "I love you" or even "goodbye." Then, we wer...

My wife and I were watching TV the other night and noticed that, on the show we were watching, family members talking to each other on the phone never said "I love you" or even "goodbye." Then, we wer...

Brick Experiment Channel drives 20 mechanisms with a single motor, coming one or two mechanisms short of Adult Swim's "Too Many Cooks" la Lego. Seeing all those mechanisms animated concurrently feel...

Dawid "Zales" Zalewski (pronounced "ZAHL-esh") knocked the everlasting Scheie out of Koa "Da Crazy Hawaiian" Viernes to win the 2022 Arnold Classic Slap Fighting Championship. The winning slap's repo...

Horror films have been on an upswing as of late. With movies like It Follows, X, and Hereditary leading the pack, scary flicks found new life post-2010. Horror fans from the 90s an...

For the horror movie studio or goth clothing company that has everything — except these conference room coffin chairs.Artist and maker, Chairbox, created The Last Shift Office Chair as a stateme...

Many people don't realize it because of how commonplace they are, but a good knife is a huge necessity in your day-to-day (even if you don't want to look like this). And if you fancy yo...

The Special Master attending the Trump v USA classified documents clearing wants to know why Trump thinks the documents aren't classified. Either Trump magically declassified them, which may be a crim...

In the summer of 1991, Al Jourgensen of the industrial band Ministry had a song that he was convinced could be a hit. But he wasn't happy with his lyrics and vocals on it. A chance backstage meeting w...

Turns out, humor has not changed all that much through the ages. Fart jokes, fat shaming and sexual innuendo were just as common in the Middle Ages as they are today.Thumbnail: Screengrab from Medieva...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill this week making it legal to use human remains as compost, starting in 2027. Human composting is an eco-friendly alternative to cremation which, in the U...

Kurt "Mountain Man" Steiner, 56, is a master stone skipper. He's spent most of his life practicing and now he's the best in the world at it, having skipped a stone 88 consecutive times for a Guinness ...

From the official website of the Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America:A recent social media video challenge encourages people to cook chicken in NyQuil (acetaminophen, dextrome...

At this point, it's safe to say that cloud computing is not only here to stay but also here to grow (and no, we don't mean these clouds). But if you're someone who feels behind the eight bal...

I love learning about new subcultures that I had no idea existed. Just recently I learned about a sport called "Trampwall," or "trampoline wall running." I stumbled across some videos posted by YouTub...

Stop what you're doing right now and go watch the cutest tiniest puppy 'singing.' It just might be the cutest thing I've ever seen. Mysterious-Slice-498 recently posted it in the awesome subreddit /ra...

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...

NASA InSight Captures Sound of a Meteoroid Striking MarsListen above to the first recorded sounds of meteoroids hitting the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's InSight lander captured the seismographic...

The Chief Operating Officer of Beyond Meat is accused of biting the tip of a man's nose in an altercation outside of an American football game. Doug Ramsey is described as having thrown quite the fit ...

In the United States, there was a 26% rise of syphilis infections and 16% increase in HIV cases reported last year. According to David Harvey, executive director of the National Coalition of STD Direc...

A sheriff in Texas has opened an investigation into Florida Gov. DeSantis' shipping of migrants legally seeking asylum around the nation. While the states that Desantis and Texas Gov. Abbott have sent...

The Michelada is a fantastic drink. I describe it to friends and family who are somehow unfamiliar with this Mexican superstar beverage as essentially "a beer bloody mary." Now, you can get them with ...

Republicans are suddenly concerned that just being near a drug will turn you into a foaming-at-the-mouth addict. The National Chairperson of the Republican party acts as if she believes that touching ...

Is your haggard old laptop on its last knees? Maybe it's time for an upgrade. Or perhaps you just need a trusty device to browse your favorite website while traveling. During our Refurbished...

Jerry Seinfeld has a funny bit (below) in which he reveals the absurdity of giving the finger: "Someone shows me one of their fingers, and I'm supposed to feel bad." Of course, it isn't just any finge...

The most interesting thing about this new revelation revealed in yet another tell-all Trump book, that FOX News Host Brett Baier wanted the outlet to lie and claim Trump was winning an election he was...

When a bombardier beetle is swallowed by a frog, it will excrete boiling chemicals from its anus to make the frog throw it up. Basically, these beetles know how to fart their way out of death. If you ...

The leaps in adult animation over the last decade have been consistently impressive. Streaming services have not only increased the accessibility of adult animation but allowed for enough healthy comp...

Officials in Montana, says Judge Michael Moses, have engaged in "legal gymnastics" and "calculated violations" to avoid complying with an earlier court order to update transgender people's birth certi...

Fair warning: This footage isn't for the faint of heart! BBC's Frozen Planet II used a drone to capture the tactics a pod of orcas deployed to get their prey, a lone seal on a big chunk of ice. They r...

It's hard not to be jealous of kids once you hit your 30s. Aside from their ability to live rent-free and have a pair of servants that act as chefs and chauffeurs 24/7, kids always have access to the ...

The Kansas City Star reports that police in Platteville, Colorado went full-on Western movie villain on a woman following an alleged road-rage incident. After pulling the 20-year-old woman over near s...

From a climate crisis standpoint*, Florida is in trouble. To highlight the growing emergency, Florida nonprofit The CLEO Institute staged a unique gift shop in Miami Beach, and then flooded it with 5,...

Looking back at the history of sports is always entertaining. For example, the dramatic shift in how basketball players wear their shorts today as opposed to forty years ago. Or, staying on the subjec...

How are we still allowing Disney to create those awful live-action remakes of their classic films? For the most part, the quality of those flicks lands somewhere between abysmal and kinda alright. The...

The more things change, the more they stay the same. No matter how much we progress as a species, our core, primal desires rarely change. Moreover, some would even argue that our insistence on distanc...

Presented without comment, 'cause honestly it speaks for itself:Hey Utah, District 12, listen up right hereThere's a new name on the ballot for the Senate this year My name is Linda PaulsonRepublican ...

My friend Peter Sugarman recently pointed me to this amazing gem. In 1965-1966, Pete Seeger had a local NYC TV show called Rainbow Quest. On it, he would sing and play guitar and banjo and he would ha...

My friend Peter Sugarman recently pointed me to this amazing gem. In 1965-1966, Pete Seeger had a local NYC TV show called Rainbow Quest. On it, he would sing and play guitar and banjo and he would ha...

Nicolas Winding Refn, aka NWR, is known for his neo-noir films (Driver, The Neon Demon). From this Netflix trailer, it looks like he'll be bringing his hyper-stylized, neon-lit sensibilities to Netfli...

A standard lighter can give out in the wind, run out of lighter fluid, and burn your finger with the flint wheel. Sounds like a lot of obstacles and inconveniences just to get a fl...

It sounds like Lady Diana, people are saying. On one hand, it sounds much more like a crude technical error with feeds and tracks. On the other hand, she would know.I'm obsessed with this what the hel...

When you've got money, you make a deposit at the bank. When you have a stack of important files, you stick them in a file cabinet. But what about your tiniest valuables you can't just store them...

Adnan Syedsubject of the original Serial podcast documenting the legal saga surrounding his conviction for murdering his high school girlfriend in 1999was released from prison today after 23 years. Sy...

I have shopped at Mami Wata. Their clothing and surfboards are incredibly beautiful. It is a shame that such a cool little local boutique suffered such a bold smash and grab. I haven't seen more on th...

Sony PIctures has announced a new Karate Kid film on the horizon. According to Variety, it's slated for release on Jun 7, 2024, it's the first Karate Kid franchise film since the Jaden Smith reboot in...

A few years ago, TV editor Vera Drew decided to take a friendly bet too far, and announced her wildly ambitious plans to create a full-length satire of Todd Phillips' Joker film, combining pre-existin...

I'm frankly ashamed that I've only just recently learned about the Battle of Blythe Road, an actual real-life magical duel between WB Yeats and Aleister Crowley that ended triumphantly when Yeats drop...

Max Woolf: "The Ugly Sonic object concept, once loaded into the text encoder, can be invoked by including <ugly-sonic in the prompt where you'd normally include an object. Let's test it out with a...

Yesterday in Taoyuan Taiwan, a group was playing badminton in a sports facility when a 6.8 earthquake struck. They fled in the nick of time as the roof completely collapsed. According to CNN, nobody w...

Matt Gaetz appears to have been worried about the investigation into his alleged sex crimes. While Gaetz and his friend former President, Donald Trump, claim no pardon was requested, many close associ...

In Texas, a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy was taken to a hospital after consuming seized drug he says he thought was "candy." The stash came from a safety sweep of an apartment that resulted i...

In Texas, a Harris County Sheriff's Office deputy was taken to a hospital after consuming seized drug he says he thought was "candy." The stash came from a safety sweep of an apartment that resulted i...

Around 4.5 billion years ago, an asteroid likely collided with a dwarf planet spewing meteorites into space including some that contain a strange kind of diamond. Called lonsdaleite, these space diamo...

Here's one to file under "mistakes": dreassing up as The Joker, "threatening" people in a bar, and landing yourself in the clink for months awaiting trial only to be given a sentence substantially sho...

"Look, my intention as I said to begin with is that I would run again," Biden said on 60 Minutes last night. "But it's just an intention. But is it a firm decision that I run again? That remains to be...

Unable to respect the Constitution of the United States of America, to which she has sworn an oath to defend, Georgia's most outspoken member of congress wants to end the separation of church and stat...

The Atacama Desert is home to mountains of fast fashion garments, the final resting place for clothes made in the developing world, unwanted both by American consumers and customers of Chilean last-ch...

There has been a recent surge in attempts to ban books across America. Conservative political groups seeking to block books with storylines about minorities and LBGTQA+ folks are mounting more organiz...

In this footage, you'll see a simplified but fully functional 3D version of Minecraft running on a 1MHz CPU running inside Minecraft, complete with a monochrome display. The output is running much fas...

Everyone knows the awful feeling; you have an important thought, but you don't have anywhere to jot it down, and before you know it the thought is gone. For those of us without a photographi...

He might say "I would prefer not to."Written in the middle of the 19th Century, two years after the publication of the magisterial novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville's short story, Bartleby, the Scriven...

The UK's daylong funeral services in the UK for Elizabeth II are being broadcast live by the BBC online (open to worldwide viewers). David Dimbleby:These are the final moments for the public to see th...

How bout dat?Need any more proof that we're a society on the verge of collapse? Danielle "Bhad Bhabie" Bregoli, whose meme-worthyDr. Philappearance has bestowed more than the obligatory 15 minutes of ...

No peyote tourism, gracias.The effect and affect of sadness, regret, and lament transcends language. The musical language of the Blues, the unrequited, the sacrifice and betrayal circulates the hearta...

Regenerations in Doctor Who are always bittersweet. The transformation sequence is quite literally a death and rebirth for the series and its enigmatic lead. Fans of the departing Doctor wil...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Simu Liu (@simuliu)Simu Liu has one of the most entertaining backstories in film. It's no secret that most actors find themselves workin...

It's a shame that the Sunday comic strip is going the way of the dinosaur, even as webcomics likeCyanide and HappinessandThe Perry Bible Fellowship become the modern answers to strips likeGarfieldandT...

The struggle of railway workers was at least three years in the making. The recently-announced agreement between freight rail workers and the corporations that oversee their labor contracts, reached a...

European comics are a trip. Without the smothering hand of the Comics code stifling its creativity for decades, as it did in America, the European comics scene suffers from no shortage of creative sto...

A post suggesting a Twitter handle about invertebrates could have begun with the adjectives and nouns that invoke the uncomfortable feeling that imagining an insect brings forth. But if you have entom...

Need to find a recipe in a pinch, based on the contents of your fridge? This website allows you to type in a list of ingredients that you have on hand, and it will present a list of possible recipes. ...

Street Fighter 6 could be the top game of 2023, with buzz around Capcom's forthcoming sequel hitting fever pitch after footage debuted at last week's the Tokyo Game Show. Fans of theseries, many annoy...

The 660 metric ton Tuned Mass Damper within the Taipei 101 skyscraper moves effortlessly in the video above as a 6.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Taiwan on September 18, 2022, but the Taipei 101 skyscr...

Well-known YouTube makers (and besties) Simone Giertz and Laura Kampf have created a new product. If you've ever seen recipe dice, their set of Build Dice work similarly. One six-sided die suggests ob...

We're now almost a decade out from the release ofGrand Theft Auto 5, and we've yet to hear an official peep from Rockstar about a sequel. In contrast, we gotted two newGod of Wargames since 2018. This...

I'm not ashamed to say I love vegan chicken nuggets, mostly because I can pretend that they aren't just totally junk food and because they are quick and easy to make. Sometimes I don't even put them i...

Several years ago, Sam Battle, aka LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER, did several episodes of a show called Junk Rock TV. The premise was that Sam would go to a European city, find some inspiration there, then fin...

Quick, Draw! Is a site that helps train a neural network how to recognize doodles. To participate, you'll have to doodle different items in a short amount of time. The neural network will try to guess...

You may have hopped around and landed many jobs in your career. And while your tasks at these various gigs may have been different, you likely used Microsoft's slew of apps and programs to g...

We think everyone can unanimously agree that, while nature can be absolutely stunning, there's danger afoot everywhere you walk. That's not to say you're primed forbecoming a tasty bear snackevery tim...

If you're in the market for a new laptop but are on a tight budget at the moment, don't fret. You can still find a quality notebook that's less expensive and works just as well as a brand-new laptop w...

I recently wrote about one of my favorite internet stars: the Opossum Lady, who calls herself Georgette Spelvin (which is likely not her real name, as it's a traditional pseudonym long used in the wor...

Sundial Zone offers instructions on crafting a DIY sundial. You'll need a printer, a pair of scissors, a sheet of paper, your rough location, and an unoccluded main-sequence star. You do not need a re...

Back in 2005, when Warner Brothers released their live-action Hellblazer adaptation with Keanu Reeves, I wanted nothing to do with the film. Based on Reeves' American accent and aesthetic al...

Rotoscoping, invented by Max Fleischer in 1915, revolutionized movement in animated film. It allowed real human motion and dancing to be translated into frame-by-frame animation, such as turning Cab C...

Yeshiva University didn't want to officially recognize the students' LGBTQ+ club, claiming this would infringe its religious rights. But the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justices Kavanaugh and Roberts sid...

If you're feeling bottled up, this website will let you scream your grievances into the void. Simply type out what you need to get off your chest and click the "scream" button. Repeat as many times as...

Whenever you think about the sword and sandal genre, you can't help but correlate it to whiteness. Sure, some of the greatest and most entertaining films of all time are within the subgenre's bracket,...

Enjoy this video compilation of 100 different cuckoo clocks going off. I love the way each one is hand carved and unique. Each bird seems to make a slightly different cuckoo sound. The sounds that com...

At the time of its debut, the Cartoon Network seemed like the culmination of an impossible dream for animation fans and a handful of stoners. An entire channel dedicated to cartoons was beyond the pal...

Radiohead's collective hatred of "Creep" is well-known. But "Pop is Dead," a non-album single from the same early 90s Pablo Honey era, is so despised by the band, they want to erase the track from exi...

Radiohead's collective hatred of "Creep" is well-known. But "Pop is Dead," a non-album single from the same early 90s Pablo Honey era, is so despised by the band, they want to erase the track from exi...

The lioconcha heiroglyphica is a species of saltwater clam that looks like it's covered in symbols. Check out an image of this fascinating sea creature here. It's amazing that the intrictuate, symbol-...

Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism by Tracy E. PerkinsIn some views, environmental justice and California might be synonymous. Yet definitions concernin...

In this Stiltbeast Studios video, Allen Hopps creates a very effective skull mask using little more than spray foam and hot glue (to create the teeth). The results are pretty impressive and look like ...

You never forget your first. For millions of television junkies, James Gandolfini's turn as the devilishly compelling and tragically flawed antihero Tony Soprano was their first example of a morally g...

The longer you watch the pug in a rug, the higher your ranking will climb. At the bottom of the screen you can see how many seconds you've been watching the pug, and what level you're reached. Prove y...

As I've commented here on Boing Boing before, I want to like RPG entertainment, but it so often bores meor makes me feel a little embarrassed for everyone involved. I just stumbled across this first e...

If you're rushing on your way out the door, one of the most frustrating things that can happen is not remembering where you left your keys. Althought there are many keychain accessories out there, hom...

Whether it's a little doodle for a video game you're designing or a great quote you don't want to forget, having a pen and some paper on hand is always ideal. But when you feel ins...

Within a few decades less than half of Americans may be Christian, reports Pew Research. Many scenarios are explored in the research, but even the most "unrealistically" slow disaffiliating projection...

Ethereum's blockchain switched successfully this week from using proof of work to validate transactions to using proof of stake. The immediate results: a massive drop in its carbon footprint and a slu...

Jeremy David Hanson, 34, of Massachussets pleaded guilty to sending bomb threats to a dictionary. Hanson was upset about its definitions for "woman", "girl" and other things that are none of his busin...

Across the globe, we humans throw away more than 80 billion pairs of chopsticks every year. AtlasObscura explains:For more than 5,000 years, chopsticks have been the preferred dining utensil of asizab...

Apple has always been doing, and making, cool stuff. And even though the tech giant continues to improve its products, there's no questioning that they already have it figured out with the i...

Our friend, Tina Roth Eisenberg of the blog swissmiss, shared that the community she founded, CreativeMornings, is hosting a "24-hour global wander marathon" with Street Wisdom.It's called World ...

The resurgence of Satanic Panic is another red flag about the spread of irrational, hate-fueled nonsense on the right. But a small town's legal effort to silence a malicious conspiracy theory that spr...

I marveled at this compilation of "Rare Raid Commercials," animated in days of yore for our forerunners heading in the great American wilderness (or their backyards.) [via Metafilter]...

Arizona recently banned filming police within 8 feet, even on private propertya law notable both for its clear intent to help police get away with misconduct and its unconstitutionality. Already block...

Who doesn't love Fred Armisen's "jokes for musicians" schtick and his musical impressions? In this segment from a recent episode of The Tonight Show, he shows how his drumming style has changed throug...

Beware the globster! A globster, aka a blob, is a mysterious mass that washes up on the shore. Globsters are different from your average beach carcass because they are hard to identify. Oftentimes, th...

"Look at what we saw during class today. This is a blue crab molting."Have you ever seen a molting blue crab up close? Well, join these joyous and excited marine biology students discovered this blue ...

"Look at what we saw during class today. This is a blue crab molting."Have you ever seen a molting blue crab up close? Well, join these joyous and excited marine biology students discovered this blue ...

Two new resources expose the violence of solitary confinement, and the dignity and will of people struggling to survive incarcerationFlying Kites: A Story of the 2013 California Prison Hunger Strike"E...

The first time I visited Willis Wonderland, the incredible pink Streamline Moderne home in North Hollywood of Queen of Kitsch Allee Willis, I was completely awestruck. I had been invited to a daylong ...

Charlie Baker is a craftsman who weaves huge wooden sculptures. Baker collects branches and sticks from the forest floor and transforms them into incredible looking structures. He works by creating a ...

Faustino Barrientos has lived alone in the wilderness for over 40 years. He's now in his 80's and still lives off his land without any help. He has very few modern amenities and lives 25 miles away fr...

If you're in the mood to slap a guy in the face with a virtual eel, then Eel Slap! (previously at Boing Boing) might be just what you need. The game is quite simple: drag the cursor across the screen ...

YouTube engineer and comedian Estefannie was afraid that her cat, Teddy Bear, was eating plastic. Fearing that she couldn't afford the expensive surgery, her doctor told her that she needed to monitor...

If you've ever wondered how a gas pump nozzle knows when to shut off when your tank is full, this video reveals the clever design. Venturi tubes, Bernoulli principles, negative pressure — it tur...

In a delightful new piece of humorous short fiction in The New Yorker, writer Ali Fitzgerald explores a nightmarish scenario that has certainly haunted me for many a night: what if Joe Rogan was a mul...

If you've ever picked up a loaf of Dave's Killer Bread, you may have noticed an intriguing story on the package. It shares that its cofounder, Dave Dahl, was once in prison but got his second chance b...

In Ontario, Canada lies a small town called Moonbeam. According to legend, the town got its name when one night, people saw beams of light coming down from the sky. Some believe that the people were s...

Sim City (and similar "sim" games) gives you the power to create and manage cities, but what would happen if you encountered NIMBYism ("not in my back yard") at every turn? Such is the premise of Sim ...

As humans, we like to look at nice things. Whether it's a website, a brochure, or an Instagram account, poor-quality images can really make an impression. In fact, according to this report on...

Let's face it, we all love television, and why wouldn't we? It's literally designed to keep us entertained. What is frustrating, though, is not being able to enjoy television at its absolute...

My daughter is training her cat to use the toilet. Surprisingly, she has had some success! Perhaps for her next trick, the cat will learn to roll over on request. Note that I purposely didn't use the ...

NASA has announced that its Perseverance rover on Mars collected samples that included organic matter, a possible signature that life existed on the Red Planet. This isn't the first time organic matte...

Patagoniathe outdoor clothing and gear company founded in 1973is making huge waves at the moment, in the wake of its founder, Yvon Chouinard, announcing that he and his family are transferring their $...

Oh, what I wouldn't give to meet and be able to feed a capybara! Jimmy Fallon is one lucky guy! Check out this video, where Robert Irwin (also a lucky guy!) introduces Javier the capybara to Jimmy Fal...

At Germany's Duesseldorf Airport, customs officials intercepted a stash of nearly 100 giant snails illegally smuggled out of Nigeria and on their way to an "African goods" shop in western Germany. Fro...

Last night on the Tonight Show, magician David Blaine promoted his Las Vegas residency with a freaky card trick involving slamming Jimmy Fallon's palm onto a pin. For dessert, Blaine ate a bowl of nai...

If I were walking around NYC and encountered this man in a highly realistic bear costume, I probably would have had a heart attack. See passersby in the video react in horror as the person in the bear...

Via KLTV-7:A woman was arrested after walking into a bar in North Dakota carrying a raccoon, according to the Benson County Sheriff's Office.Erin Christensen, 38, was charged with North Dakota Game an...

How amazing does this look? In this Tom Scott video, he takes a trip to France to try and fly the Aroplume, a one-person helium blimp.Thumbnail: Screengrab from video, Tom Scott....

Catalytic converter theft is always in the news, expensive metals are expensive and people have found a way to make some money. Catalytic converter cages and other anti-theft devices are all the rage ...

Marianna Pecora, the Deputy Director of Voters Tomorrow, shares this video wherein she claims MTG kicked her. It is easy to believe the anger-based representative to US Congress from Georgia would kic...

Yesterday outside the US Capitol, Marjorie Taylor Greene argued with young gun control activists. Later, MTG tweeted a clip of their heated argument that also appears to show her, ummm, kicking one of...

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...

As many people continue to prioritize financial independence over the standard 9 to 5 office jobs, ridesharing has become a serious contender for side or even full-time income with...

Ospedale delle Bambole is an antique doll hospital in Rome. It's located near the Piazza del Popolo in a cobblestone alley. The store window features an array of doll parts, and the inside of the doll...

Hats off to this awesome lady who took a stroll through an Australian supermarket on giant stilts. I love the way she's casually making her way down the aisle as shoppers stare, flabbergasted. After w...

Today I came across this gem of a short film, "A Date With Elvis" (not to be confused with the Cramps album of the same name), which is about a monster and a witch who bring Elvis back to life from hi...

A skyscraper reported to be the offices of China Telecom went up in flames today, reports the BBC, with footage showing one side of tower consumed by fire and blanketed in thick smoke. In another vide...

In one of the weirdest decisions of all time, Sony is about to make aGran Turismomovie withStranger Things' David Harbour in the proverbial driver's seat. One element that makes video games notoriousl...

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have repurposed a Microneedle drug manufacturing and delivery method to painlessly apply tattoo inks in pixel perfect arrays. Song Li, Youngeun Kim, ...

It's hard to believe that Saturday morning cartoons no longer exist. The weekend tradition of waking up at dawn to ingest sugary cereal and mind-rotting cartoons felt as intrinsic to the childhood exp...

As much as I love retro games, there are a host of aspects of the 16-bit era I'm more than happy to leave in the past. The mind-numbing tedium of having to replay a game from the beginning every time ...

Somehow this impressive 1973 Roxy Music performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test has never crossed by transom. Until now. "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" has always been a disturbing song (about a g...

According to the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), "Patient care and workers suffer because of the private equity business model."These two phrases are vital for anyone who is spendin...

According to the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), "Patient care and workers suffer because of the private equity business model."These two phrases are vital for anyone who is spendin...

One of my favorite academic books is Professor John Willinsky's "Learning to Divide the World." In this book, Willinsky describes what he calls "imperialism's educational project" (p. 56). He traces t...

Scientists are working hard to figure out the mysteries of COVID-19, including whether or not some people who have never had it are immune. But experts currently disagree on whether these so-called "s...

Vice recently reported on a new trend that entails Chinese youth posing as "American Teens" in front of the blue lockers at Ikea. Chloe Xiang explains:IKEA's blue locker rooms are being used not to st...

One of the many endearing things about Adam Savage is his nerdy obsessions. When Adam falls in love, Adam falls hard. In this video on Tested, he talks about his infatuation with unique and weird stor...

There I Ruined It takes two disparate sources and makes them harmonize like the Bene Gesserit power of "the Voice". When asked on earlier if There I Ruined It produced music professionally, the follow...

"Again, again." Those two words are the bane of almost every parent's existence. As soon as they discover the concept of language, children immediately learn how to weaponize it against their parents....

The Texas board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request that George Floyd, the black man murdered by a police officer, be posthumously pardoned. The request concerns Floyd's 2004 drug arrest in Ho...

XiaoQianFeng is one of my favorite YouTube makers. Her work is always jaw-dropping and her videos are produced in a super-chill, relaxed style that makes her builds look effortless. It's visual ASMR.I...

From CNN:Extreme heat in California has left Twitter without one of its key data centers, and a company executive warned in an internal memo obtained by CNN that another outage elsewhere cou...

After living through a global pandemic, it's safe to say we're all way more aware of cleanliness than ever. Unfortunately, the world is a dirty place. For example, the ATMs and touch screens...

Before you leave the house, it's important to take a moment to remember if you have all the essentials: a water bottle, your wallet, and, of course, your favorite earbuds. But if you could use a new w...

You may have heard it was especially dusty at this year's Black Rock City. Welp, now there's photographic evidence of the extreme whiteout conditions and it was taken from space. The dramatic shot was...

We already knew that Rochester, N.Y. cop Charles LoTiempo angrily charged and arrested an EMT, Lekia Smith, after her ambulance door grazed the vehicle he'd left parked in an ambulance laneeven though...

Famous for buying companies without due diligence, Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's demands that employees return to the office as working from home was "phoning it in" do not apply to his direct reports. While...

Ironically, the first time I experienced seasickness was after cackling with schadenfreude while layering smoked salmon and cream cheese on a bagel as our captain with 2 metal hooks for hands announce...

"What's happening in Minnesota right now will probably never happen again in the United States."The question mark could be for various reasons. Surprise that it is the state of Minnesota? Surprised ab...

Since the show has gone on to become one of the most legendary series in the Star Trek franchise, it's hard to imagine that Deep Space Nine was ever considered risky. Before D...

As hype builds around Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid, far-right troll Matt Walsh explains why it's scientifically incorrect to have cast a Black person in the role:"From a scientific perspective, ...

The gaping butthole that keeps on giving, internet shock image "Goatse" has been shared with parents all over the United States via the school messaging app Seesaw. Seesaw claims to create "a powerfu...

Garage/thrash band Brother O Brother's new album Skin Walker will see a limited edition release on a vinyl record that's also a guitar pedal. Yes, it's a very thick platter but you can play it on most...

I would love to have been in the meeting where the administrators at the state-run Taoyuan Veterans Home in Taiwan when they decided the best way to celebrate this year's Mid-Autumn Festival was with ...

The qualifications of current-era Republican candidates are baffling. Alek Skarlatos is in a race for congress in Oregon. Recently a podcast resurfaced wherein Skarlatos jokes about killing women duri...

The qualifications of current-era Republican candidates are baffling. Alek Skarlatos is in a race for congress in Oregon. Recently a podcast resurfaced wherein Skarlatos jokes about killing women duri...

Inspired by the work of William S. Burroughs, Black Lodge is a startlingly beautiful rock opera. This trailer instantly caught my attention and I can not wait for the entire production, which their re...

I'm not sure why, but Batman just works in every medium. One look at the character's costume, and you'd think that any human rocking a live-action variant of Bruce Wayne's batsuit would look embarrass...

A lecturer writing on a chalkboard gets an unpleasant surprise, and quickly remarks "Wow! Phew! I hope there is a video!" There is a video....

Yesterday in Beirut, Lebanon, a woman held up a Blom Bank branch at gunpoint before finally leaving with $13,000 in cash… from her own account. From NASDAQ.com:Lebanon's banks have locked most d...

Most people today love efficiency, and we appreciate it any way we can get it. And when it directly makes our lives better? Sign us up. If you are someone who enjoys efficiency and mult...

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis proudly claimed credit for putting more than four dozen migrants on airplanes and sending them to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. There is no indication th...

Testifying in congress, Tik Tok Chief Operating Offiders Vanessa Pappas did not reply directly to a pointed question from Sen. Rob Portman (ROhio): "Will TikTok commit to cutting off all data and data...

In San Francisco, the brazen theft of cars' catalytic converters has reached a new low (high?). This week, the San Francisco Police Department experienced a rash of thefts of the catalytic converters ...

Hans Neimann, a young player rocketing up the ratings, recently handed chess champion Magnus Carlsen a surprise defeat. Carlsen quit the tournament, posting a video of soccer manager Jos Mourinho sayi...

Sound of the Earth is a global interactive soundscape by sound artist Yuri Suzuki. The piece involves both an interactive website and a physical installation that is part of the Milan Triennale 23rd I...

My old Make: colleague, Becky Stern, has a new video series that she's doing for the electronics component company Digi-Key. Becky has always done an impressive job of explaining what can be intimidat...

Benjamin Sago writes on a problem of distant youth: the almost invisible blue displayed by terminal emulators restricted to the classic RGB pallette of those ancient machines. A particularly lethal Ne...

In China, the use of incense smoke to tell time dates back to the 6th century CE. Incense would be lit at the bottom of a maze and burn its way through, with outlets to vent the smoke and indicate the...

Ben Paik of Woby Design in Los Angeles upcycles thrashed skateboards by turning them into furniture. His latest piece is a cool and colorful pill-shaped tambour cabinet that gives off a fifties vibe. ...

Adult animation has become a little formulaic. Since The Simpsons took pop culture by storm in the 90s, several television shows began to ape the show's format to great success. Consequently...

Boing Boing contributor Clive Thompson has a specialty search engine which allows you to search on public domain books published prior to 1924. Clive is a big proponent of "rewilding" our attention an...

As a self-diagnosed hoarder, having a cultivated taste for some aspects of Marie Kondo's method is an odd amalgam that somehow works for me. Prior to finding this folding technique, fitted sheets were...

Unlike its American counterpart, the Japanese comic industry is all about paving the way for new characters. In the States, characters like Iron Man, Superman, and Deadpool have become so dominant tha...

While the Exxon corporation might be the most infamous propagandist (read: liar) among the Big Oil companies when it comes to climate change, there are plenty of other guilty parties, too. Chevron, as...

This is a pretty wonderful story from the Belfast Concert Photographs Facebook group. Back in 1983, the iconic English electronic act Depeche Mode played the Ulster Hall in Belfast. A man called Brian...

Until reading this piece in The Atlantic, I was not aware of the fact that the Mars Perseverance rover has a device onboard, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization ExperimentMOXIE, that has been...

Every year, as the leaves turn for autumn, drivers along Oregon Route 18 highway get a big grinning surprise. Near mile marker 25, a giant smiley face made of trees can be spotted in the hillside! Ore...

Following his 30-year sentence for sex trafficking earlier this year, disgraced R&B star R. Kelly was today found guilty of child sexual abuse in his second federal trial.The artist, whose real na...

David Sinclair and Cameron Sinclair run fishing expeditions off Midcoast Maine in which his guests have the chance to catch and tag sharks. On one recent excursion, a 7-foot mako shark got impatient f...

After Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's defense team unexpectedly rested their case today, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer rendered unto them a bollocking for the ages."We're not playing chess," Scherer...

Following Elizabeth II's death, Netflix'sThe Crownhas seen a massive uptick in viewership.Viewership of Netflix's hit series The Crown skyrocketed around the world over the weekend following the death...

You oughta know that Alanis Morisette's hit single, "You Oughta Know," was allegedly inspired by Morisette's relationship with comedian Dave Coulier, who perhaps most famously portrayed the fun-loving...

Opened March 18, 1967, Pirates of the Caribbean has long been my favorite attraction at Disneyland. I have vivid memories of it as a child in the early 1970s, as on one of my very first rides, my gran...

The Sanderson sisters are back in this Fall's "Hocus Pocus 2." A movie about goofy witches that drink kids' souls seems right for 2022.Image: screen grab...

Here is one of the many GOP talking heads who want to end abortion, completely support what Lindsay Graham's proposed National ban on abortion does, but know it will be bad for them at the polls.Vote ...

A group of 7th-grade boys tired of a creepy teacher overstepping the line and making gross suggestions and comments to the girls in their class. Receiving no help or feedback from the school administr...

Former Vice-President Mike Pence doesn't want you to forget that overturning Roe and stomping all over women's rights to their own bodies is just the start! Regardless of how badly the tide may be tur...

Burningman isn't a giant enough display of disposable income, so "Future Proof" has been organized to give wealthy folks room to play in a less dusty and dry environment, California's conservative enc...

This article reads like 41-year-old Blimp owner Patrick Walsh is playing stupid with the Court. The guy bought an island in Mexico and a cabin in Jackson Hole with nearly $8 million fraudulently taken...

In Cinco Ranch, Texasa suburb of Houstona huge alligator wandered out of the bayou and into a residential neighborhood. The 10.5-foot gator wasn't bothering anyone but apparently had no immediate plan...

Patrick McCaughey III, 25, of Ridgefield, Connecticut, used a riot shield to crush a cop against a door frame during the Jan. 6, 2021 sack of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. On Tuesday he was co...

A gentleman who intended to restore Trump to his "President King of the United States" status was arrested at a Dairy Queen. The pistol-packing MAGA was wearing a rainbow clown wig, a bright yellow sa...

UK supermarket Morrisons has turned down the volume of the beeping sound that's heard when ringing up purchases at the checkout as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II. This follows them turning o...

A classic mystery, via Arpit Gupta on Twitter. No-one has any idea what happened to these men! Lots of falls, but the given cause of death for Alexander Subbotin is a corker:"drug-induced heart attac...

Wine revolutionizer Fred Franzia, creator of Trader Joe's "Two Buck Chuck" (aka Charles Shaw wine) and co-founder of Bronco Wine Co, has died. He was 79. Of his famed inexpensive wine, he once said, "...

In the 2007 cult comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox, we saw the Beatles played by Justin Long (George Harrison), Paul Rudd (John Lennon), Jason Schwartzman (Ringo Starr), and Jack Black (Paul McCartney)...

Pieper Lewis, a 15-year-old sex-trafficking victim, stabbed her rapist to death in 2000. Now 17, she's been ordered to pay $150,000 to the family of Zachary Brooks and sentenced to five years' probati...

Congressmoron Lauren Boeber (R-Colorado) reads a scene from her beloved Bible describing how the Romans apparently destroy their enemies with delicious dumplings:"'And then, all hell broke loose. Ramp...

Congressmoron Lauren Boeber (R-Colorado) reads a scene from her beloved Bible describing how the Romans apparently destroy their enemies with delicious dumplings:"'And then, all hell broke loose. Ramp...

So, what do cream cheese, beef brisket, jalapeos and bacon have common? Well, perhaps depending on where your live and in what time period there are different possibilities that are probably equally m...

Tom the Dancing Bug – EAT THE POORIT'S the new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG PROGRAM: R...

Check out the footage for Breath of the Wild's sequel, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. From IGN:A press release for the game included a description that confirms the floating...

In a perfect world, Morbius wouldn't even exist. Had Sony allowed their vice grip on Spider-Man's film rights to loosen after the failure of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Marvel studios wou...

The fighting game community is a very niche corner in the world of video games. The demanding nature of the fighting games typically alienates casual players, as the genre requires a steep time commit...

As the Western world increasingly deviates from a purely Eurocentric vision of history in the classroom, millions of people are starting to discover the rich tapestry of events that comprise African h...

Check out the trailer for Damien Chazelle's new filmBabylon,about Hollywood in the 1920s, starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, and Tobey Maguire.Despite the seemingly endless sea of banal a...

This provocative question concludes the introductory paragraph to the special section on Skateboarding in Vol 4 no. 2, of Portable Gray, published in the Fall 2021. Portable Gray, edited by Zachary Ca...

"Can a commodified and centralized subculture remain an outlet for the weird and uncanny?"This provocative question concludes the introductory paragraph to the special section on Skateboarding in Vol ...

48 years ago this month "The Rockford Files" debuted. Its LA street scenes and 70's vibe remind me of living there back then.About seven years ago I was back in LA on business and had some time to kil...

YouTuber Lars von Retriever almost had me fooled with this amazing "rare footage" of the North Korean military band** performing Rage Against The Machine's hard-driving hit "Killing In The Name." It m...

Christian Moullec, also known as the Birdman, likes to soar through the skies around Europe with geese. Moullec is a meteorologist who loves birds and hang-gliding. He's been at it for two decades. In...

The New York Times reports that, due to the ongoing and seemingly endless threat of "supply chain issues," the makers of Totino's pizza rolls, those delicious bite-sized freezer snacks, have to had to...

Ken Starr, the lawyer who spent much of his career trying to bring down the Clintons, is dead at 76. His famous report on Bill Clinton blew up the then-president's lies about his sexual relationship w...

Ukraine astronomers have reported a slew of UFOs observed in the country's airspace. They've reported their findings in a preprint paper published by Kyiv's Main Astronomical Observatory Ukraine's Nat...

I think we can all agree that Saturday morning TV got immeasurably better with the premiere of Pee-wee's Playhouse this week in 1986. Who could forget the first episode when Pee-wee makes 'Ice Cream S...

Check out this wild storycomplete with photos and videoabout an artist, Leslie Charleville, who makes "gyotaku"-style prints from ALLIGATORS. And, yes, she lives in Louisiana. On her website she descr...

I've been taking selfies for as long as I can remember. Back in the early 1980s when I started taking selfies with film cameras, it was exciting because you had no idea what you were capturing until y...

Behold! First posted (and presumably crafted) by @GuillaumeTC. When I saw it, I could not help but hear the dialogue from a certain scene from Deadwood. @jaketapper Each time I hear about Bolton. pic....

Twitter's shareholders have wisely accepted Elon Musk's good faith offer to purchase their company for $44 billion. Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk, who waived his rights to further due diligence at the purchase...

While other Republicans try to bury their records on opposing women's rights, Trumpist sycophant Lindsay Graham has said the quiet part out loud and is doing his best to help Democrats bring people to...

I made the mistake of seeing this movie in the theaters. I will not waste the effort or take the risk on something I should have expected to be mediocre anyways. ...

Yikes. This past weekend a kangaroo killed a 77-year old man in Western Australia, and also prevented paramedics from administering life-saving help. This marks the first deadly kangaroo attack in Aus...

Some infants cry excessively and have trouble falling asleep for no apparent reason, and there are countless methods and recommendations for how to sooth them. Now, researchers from the Riken Center f...

Franco-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, an icon of La Nouvelle Vaguethe French New Wave film movement of the 1960shas died. He was 91. Breathless (1960), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le fou (1965) a...

As a booster began to fail, emergency systems took over and ejected the unmanned capsule on a Blue Origin flight. Carrying only scientific equipment, the eject system worked; the capsule separated and...

Crazed with gun and god fever, Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz (GQP,) went on a non-sense rant about her Christian god's founding of the United States of Firearms. I don't know what point t...

Meet Tom Persky, the "last man standing in the floppy disk business." His business, after decades of success as an industrial duplicator, "is now 90% selling blank floppy disks."He is the time-honored...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Some people do itprofessionally, and some people do itrecreati...

Every once in a while, there's a new must-see movie that cinephiles the world over rally behind. Even though every film market- from Hollywood to Nollywood to Bollywood- has specific cultural tastes a...

Jared Kushner was recently on Sky News attempting to promote his new book. Journalist Kay Burley took it as an opportunity to ask Kushner, and ask him again, and ask him again, about why Trump thought...

Grupo Fantasma was legend in Austin in the late 1990s and early 2000s, particularly at Antone's Night Club. Adrian Quesada, a former leading member of Grupo, with whom he won a Grammy, went on to crea...

In West Hartford, Connecticut, Laura Majidian's two-year-old son was celebrating his birthday at a party outside the family home when an uninvited guest arrived. Maybe it couldn't bear to miss the fes...

The Cobrahead line of garden tools are the most useful and accessible tools I have every used for purposes other than gardeningand top notch for all gardening purposes, too. Based in Cambridge, Wiscon...

Listen to this beautiful new song by Tommy Prine, the 26-year-old son of the late John Prine, who is one of the absolute best songwriters of all time, and one of my favorite musicians. John Prine sadl...

After the Queen died, John Chapple, the official Palace beekeeper, was charged with the task of "telling the bees." He literally went from hive to hive telling tens of thousands of the Queen's bees th...

French magician Markobi is the new world champion of card magic after performing the astounding act above at this month's Fdration Internationale des Socits Magiques competition. ...

Stable Diffusion is the hot new AI art tool, not least because you can run it yourself. But this also adds the complexity of winding up colabs or VMs or what-have-you, all things that aren't making AI...

Following an "emergency" measure, Montana is prohibiting changes to birth certificates. Health officials there described recorded sex as "immutable", even after gender-affirming surgery. The context: ...

Barring the comic book faithful, Moon Knight was an unknown character when his eponymous television show got announced. In the aftermath of the exciting Disney + series, Moon Knight...

Casting the perfect actor for She-Hulk was always going to be a tall order. Unlike her cousin Bruce, Jennifer Walters' version of the Hulk is responsible for spinning several plates in the personality...

I love the added sound effects that play every time a crater is carved into the wood. It's trippy to watch. I would also love to have a tray like this in my home! I think I'll try and make a similar o...

Movie theaters are going through a rough patch. Last week, Regal Cinemas' parent company filed for bankruptcy, highlighting the dire situation the business finds itself. One of cinemas' few selling po...

Squid Game can't stop breaking records and making history. Since the show's debut on Netflix last year, Squid Game has been the focal point of several relevant conversations about moder...

In the 60s, Hanna-Barbera had the magic touch. After inventing new techniques that revolutionized animation on television, Hanna-Barbera started cranking out hits faster than the industry could keep u...

I'm back with more opossum content! Today I'm here to share a new Facebook group you should know, if you love opossums like I do. This one is called "Hardcore Possum and Opossum Posting." It's a priva...

In the last year, community doula Jasmin Danae has been featured in the June 2022 issues of both Shout Out Arizona and Canvas Rebel , and the October 2021 issue of Voyage Phoenix. Each feature highlig...

Looking back towards the past, the stories told over the years about the Chupa Chups logo have woven themselves into the tapestry of society like half truths told with good intentions and a lack of fa...

In addition to spinning one of the most acclaimed narratives in shonen manga history, One Piece is trying to complete as many side quests as possible. Eiichiro Oda's long-running pirate mang...

Latinometrics recently posted some statistics on their Facebook page about how many people are watching YouTube videos made by various chefs, including Martha Stewart and Gordon Ramsey. Turns out Doa ...

Dendrocnide moroides is considered to be the world's most painful plant. Don't be fooled by the pretty, pink berry-sized fruit it produces. Touching the plant causes a severely painful and long-lastin...

Australian actor George Lazenby starred in one James Bond movie fifty years ago. Today, he was fired from a Music of James Bond tour after regaling his audience with remarks media describe as "offensi...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.More people are working from laptops than ever these days. Whe...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Between the stresses of work, classes, and home life, when was...

39-year-old school teacher Julie Hoover has now been accused of twerking upon a student at their prom. Previously Hoover had been reported to authorities after a mother found text messages on her son'...

"Everybody is going to get to know each other in the pot."Brian Baumgartner, "Kevin" from The Office," reveals a secret from the chili scene (below), one of the most beloved moments from the show....

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...

To sum it up, he has a good day when he wakes up with the sunrise, goes to bed once it gets too dark to read, and doesn't have any social obligations. He doesn't own an alarm clock, either. I like Bur...

In a CNN "exclusive" from a forthcoming book by a New York Times reporter (published by Penguin Books) we learn that Trump said 'I'm just not going to leave' the White House after his defeat in the 20...

An officially-verified Twitter account operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protectiona federal agency of the United States governmentwas shuttered today after it retweeted a Trump crony's rant about P...

Many animals signal to each other vocally or by banging on things, but new research in a Ugandan rainforest shows that each chimpanzee pounds on tree roots with its own individual signature drum beat ...

In the US, almost all automobile speedometers go up to 160 mph even though very few cars can go that fast, not to mention it's almost twice the highest posted speed limit in the country. So why the 16...

Last month, Warner Brothersput the kiboshon the new Batgirl film, starring Leslie Grace and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. I expect the nearly-finished film will eventually make its way o...

Bob Godfrey (1921-2013) was a celebrated British animator behind the cartoons Roobarb, Noah and Nelly in… SkylArk, and Henry's Cat. But it's his 1984 TV commercial for the chocolate bar Trio th...

Despite being one of the most beloved characters in the history of Disney movies, I doubt there was a single fan of the originalLion Kingthat thought, "you know, I wonder how Mufasa became lion king."...

Cunningham's Law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."The concept is named afterWard Cunningham, the inventor ofwikisoftware....

These waves with sheets of broken ice floating in them are pretty lovely and supremely dangerous looking. These are waves of ice shards that occur when water begins melting beneath the ice, causing a ...

It's gotta be fun to be a voice actor. I mean, getting paid to act in any capacity has to be a fun gig, but having your voice vivify an animated character is undoubtedly the coolest job in Hollywood. ...

Check out Science Girl for posts about the most wondrous and unanticipated images and stories of fish with transluscent heads, wildebeest migrations across the Sarengeti in Tanzania, unexpected forest...

A rampant blaze, started by an overheating lithium-ion battery, destroyed a dozen Tiny Homes at the West Los Angeles' Veteran's Administration encampment. The speed and intensity with which the fire s...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.From paying your rent to sharing pics of your adorable dog to ...

For Konishiki, the first foreign-born athlete to gain zeki status, sumo is an arduous path of dedication and sacrifice. "It's not two big guys, fat men, in diapers,' says Konishiki. "There's so much t...

Kids at Jackson Junior High School in Amador County, California, were sat outside in record temperatures to punish them for making a mess in the school gym, reports ABC News: one parent describes it a...

Lizzie Pugh, a black woman who scored a $10k win at Soaring Eagle Casino in Michigan, was turned away by Fifth Third Bank in Livonia, Michigan, when she tried to open an account to deposit her winning...

The New York Times reports that hailstones are having a banner year which is not something to celebrate.On Aug. 1, a team of scientists from Western University in London, Ontario, collected a giant h...

This week, Reed O'Connor, a Federal judges in Texas, ruled that it is unconstitutional for the Affordable Care Act to mandate free coverage of drugs used to prevent HIV infections. He claimed that the...

In a piece for Post-Colonial Politics, cultural critic Mark Dery explores our now seemingly never-ending collective American horror story and what it's like to "live in a nation permanently on edge, a...

Mezcal is to be sipped. It is savored so as to enjoy all the everything that comes with the fermentation of the agave cactus, in all its glorious varieties, into an elixir that shape-shifts in taste a...

I was driving through Tombstone, Arizona recently and stumbled upon this spectaclethe Trump Store Tombstoneright on the edge of town. It's really no surprise that Tombstone would support such a storet...

File this under: another stupid gimmick, or, when will corporations stop trolling us? Velveeta tried to sell us nail polish that looked and smelled like cheese, and Balenciaga offered trashbag-inspire...

Nancy Pelosi was not at Lauren Boebert's debate this weekend, but her "con game" was the body of Boebert's responses. Her opponents' frustration is pretty clear, how do you debate someone who doesn't ...

Don't mess with this badass group of praying mantis pals. These bugs look like an alien species. I love the way they're holding their little arms up in the air. When the dude in the video offers up hi...

I've written about the work of artist and composer, Noah Wall, on Boing Boing before (here and here). In his latest project, Speech Patterns, Noah derives music from the rhythm, tone, and timbre of 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.Who can't relate to having a job that they don't like, and wis...

Roger the Rat is a film by artist Roger Ballen that was created during the pandemic lockdown in South Africa. His artwork constantly blows my mind. It excites and terrifies me all at once, and always ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Timecapsule (@timecapsule_)Fandom isn't what it used to be. Prior to the internet becoming the backbone of human civilization, fandoms- ...

For all of its various successes, the MCU has committed an almost equivalent number of sins. Although there are a host of problems plaguing the modern MCU, the franchise's insistence on forcing a homo...

On a recent episode of Cartoonist Kayfabe, the guys dive into Dave Mckean's artwork in the collected Sandman Covers. I love Mckean's multimedia approach to designing covers for each issue of Neil Gaim...

Unless a total shift happens to shake up the norm, most people spend their lives waking up, going to work, eating dinner, going to bed, and repeat. And, yes, there are some variables th...

See how stamps are made inside NYC's iconic Casey Rubber Stamps. The shop has been owned by John Casey for nearly 20 years. It's located on East 11th Street in downtown NYC. I loved watching Casey mak...

Carlos Ginzburg first published The Cheese and the Worms [Amazon] in Italian in 1976, and then in English four years later. It has now been published in more that 100 languages, marking a reference fo...

In this Behind the Seams episode, host Gavia Baker-Whitelaw looks at the evolution of fashion in the Star Trek universe and the complicated dance, back and forth, of both reflecting sexism within our ...

Captain America becoming an iconic character, recognized worldwide, is something few lifelong comic fans saw coming. Outside of his initial comic series in the 40s, the character never became a massiv...

Mary's Gone Wild Visionary Folk Art Museum & Doll Village is a visionary-art oasis located on a country road that runs between Wilmington, NC and Myrtle Beach, SC. Mary Paulsen says that she began...

I'm a big fan of Flogging Molly (surprising absolutely no one who's spoken to me for more than 30 seconds). For the band's latest single, "A Song Of Liberty," they hired Ukrainian animation team Mad T...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pubity (@pubity)When the conversation around artificial intelligence taking away human jobs began to intensify, the one industry that se...

The dudes are not so young anymore. This year, "All the Young Dudes," the warhorse glam rock anthem penned by Bowie and made a hit by Mott the Hoople, turned 50. Is it a song about youthful disaffecti...

According to a piece on Vice, drug dealers in the UK are feeling the loss of her Majesty and are passing the condolences (and the savings) on to their customers.Drug dealers are marking Queen Elizabet...

You would think a former President of the United States would have attorneys lining up around the block to represent him.The real ones. Not the ones that play lawyer on TV.But here we are. pic.twitter...

Jon Pichaya Ferry is a 22-year-old Tiktoker who pays his rent by selling human bones. In this 13 minute video, Vice talks with him about his shop, JonsBones. He runs the entire shop out of his apartme...

This video explains how to properly feed a two-headed-snake. It can be a tricky process. When a two headed snake is fed, both of the heads will usually want to eat at the same time, but this can be da...

From your favorite prime-time shows to the local news, watching some TV shouldn't have to be all that complicated. But between tons of streaming services and cable, you've racked up som...

The question of whether you will need to use Microsoft Office at some point in your life is all but guaranteed: yes, you will. Whether it be for school, work, or just for fun, the Office suite of...

The only disappointing thing in this trailer is the release date. This is Star Wars at its best, or as many recognize it, "The Way." Image: screen grab...

This video making the rounds on Twitter is allegedly Team Trump scurrying to put 8 document boxes on a private jet running from Florida to New Jersey. If real there could be more warrants and searches...

The high-class British bank Coutts (~1m minimum balance) has told its customers to turn off phone updates. Despite its 690m annual revenue, its app breaks in the latest version of iOS and that's its i...

After directing four entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Russo brothers are no strangers to massive budgets, and according toThe Hollywood Reporter, they're importing the practice to televis...

This "spinning dots optical illusion" will fool your brain into seeing the dots spin in reverse. Just stare at the little white dot above the wheel of spinning black dots, and they will suddenly begin...

Laying your head down next to your partner each night can be incredibly comforting and relaxing until their snoring makes you want to pack your things and move as far away as possible. We all deserve...

pic.twitter.com/BPZfLveBQt— Rob Beschizza (@Beschizza) September 10, 2022Just in case you were wondering. Only when Lilibet is defeated are more revealed....

Buzz Aldrin was already an old man when he socked moon landing denier Bart Sibrel, and he's still ready to beat your conspiracy-theorist ass today at 92....

Police responded to Boston Children's Hospital late Friday after another phoned-in terror threat, reports NBC News 10, the second in two weeks. The nature of the threat was undisclosed, but it follows...

Lithium-ion batteries have allowed us to make some pretty impressive advancements in energy storage.They're not the most environmentally sustainable option, as they still lose capacity and degrade ove...

How did Raoul Cantero III, a Harvard-trained lawyer and great-grandson of the US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencia Batista, and who represented Orlando Bosch, the "unrepentant anti-Castro extremist who ...

Julia: So, corn's in the hot water. The water's off the heat. Put the lid on.Becky: That's right, we're going to let it sit for 10 minutes.Julia: And that's it.Becky: How hard was that?Julia: Barely...

Hamtramck Disneyland is a folk art environment in Michigan created by Ukrainian Immigrant Dmytro Szylak. Here are the directions on how to get there.  Szylak moved to the United States with his w...

Some people have more than two nipples. These types of nipples are known as supernumerary nipples, and this video explains why they exist. Oftentimes the supernumerary nipple just looks like a mole, b...

Brian Vollhardt, a now-former school principal in Florida, was (eventually) charged with misdemeanor child cruelty after shoving an 11-year-old austistic boy. Earlier this week the Fresno Unified Scho...

Brian Vollhardt, a now-former school principal in California, was (eventually) charged with misdemeanor child cruelty after shoving an 11-year-old boy with autism.Earlier this week the Fresno Unified ...

In this segment from The Late Show, Stephen Colbert and James Taylor perform a song, inspired by "You've Got a Friend," but written for work colleagues and others you're not really that close to....

The John Fetterman campaign continues to reap the rich rewards of the seemingly endless absurdity of Dr. Mehmet Oz's run for the US Senate from Pennsylvania. After creepy, bizarre comments from Dr. Oz...

A nearly 179-foot-tall wall of 54,321 dominoes (out of over 100,000 total) fell in Sprice Machines' creation, FALLDOWN. The feat earned the team a Guinness World Record for "Longest Domino Wall." The ...

I really enjoyed watching filmmaker Elvis Deane talk about his experience in creating a comic book using the Midjourney AI art program. I love some of the analogies he usesthat working with a current ...

The Dutch city of Haarlem, which is roughly 20 miles from Amsterdam, is taking a controversial step to fight the climate impact of meat by banning ads promoting it in public spaces. The move, the worl...

Vantablack is one of the world's darkest materials. It absorbs up to 99.96% of visible light, which is why it makes this basketball look so weird. I stared at the image for a few minutes straight, try...

In this excerpt from Secrets from Another Place, a Twin Peaks DVD collection, series Composer Angelo Badalamenti recounts a story he allegedly heard from Paul McCartney. Queen Elizabeth II's staff org...

When you think of taking notes, you likely envision yourself with a sore hand, furiously scribbling as your teacher, colleague, or boss presents many more words than you're able to jot down. ...

Who says people can not improve and grow with experience? Georgia's MAGA darling Marjorie Taylor Greene has done the seemingly impossible and used "Gestapo," in a sentence. It is still unclear if she ...

As much as 85 feet long and weighing 80 tons, fin whales are the second largest animals on Earth, after the Blue Whale. Previously at risk of extinction thanks to idiot human hunters, the species is b...

Death Cab for Cutie's new album Asphalt Meadows will be released next Friday (9/16) and to celebrate, they're playing a free livestream concert from singer Ben Gibbard's house. Gibbard writes:I starte...

An eighth grader was pulled from his Texas middle school and grilled by state inquisitors from the Department of Family and Protective Services, an agency charged by Gov. Abbott to terrorize people re...

In Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, dignitaries were cutting the ribbon to celebrate the opening of a new footbridge when said bridge collapsed. Fortunately, nobody was i...

Studio Drift brought their drones back to Black Rock City for another incredible show. This year's performance had the Man talking some steps before regrouping and becoming a tribute to Burning Man Co...

One of the most epic advertising campaigns of all time, "Gorilla" rescued Cadbury Schweppes in 2007 after a "leaking pipe at Cadbury's Marlbrook plant, near Leominster, Herefordshire and this was disc...

On September 3, 2022, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German was found stabbed to death outside of his house. Much of German's work involved deep and intricate investigations into the city's cr...

So, I don't know about the soul selling the market conditions are a bit uncertain these days given the predatory nature of capitalism, the ongoing destruction of the planet in the name of progress an...

Authorities in Damascus, Syria seized an assortment of hummus bowls that were made from crushed amphetamine pills. More than 50 pounds of fenethylline hydrochloride tablets (brand name: Captagon) had ...

President Biden has had enough of the GOP members of congress and is finally calling out their BS in no uncertain terms. Perhaps he should start showing up in the back of their Town Halls and yelling ...

Federal Judge Donald Middlebrooks spared no mercy upon Trump's rambling, conspiracy theory-filled lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and others. The lawsuit attempted to somehow prove that folk...

Yet another fun cover by Leo. Bonus:Image: screen grab...

AMC is to screen a fresh telling of Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire beginning October 2, and the trailer has dropped. Fans seem happy.A luxury apartment covering an entire single floor of a hig...

The well-known snake-oil salesman from New Jersey, Dr. Mehmet Oz, leaned into anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment before any studies proved it was not helpful. Oz and his wife own st...

Janus the two-headed tortoise just celebrated his 25th birthday. Thought to be the longest-living two-headed tortoise, Janus has a lot of hearttwo, to be precisealong with four lungs. He resides at th...

If you're a modern person, there's no shortage of things keeping you stressed and, as a result, causing you to experience muscle pain. And while there may be plenty ofmethodsto try and alleviate stres...

What will happen when the galaxy's most underachieving superhero IP meets one of the Earth's most beloved superstars? The Rock makes good movies.I have a hard time even paying attention to anything g...

Glass Onion is part of the Knives Out universe. It's being billed as sequel, though it seems that Daniel Craig's Detective Benoit Blanc is the only continuing character from that film; it certainly se...

Have you ever had a random mushroom sprout up in your bathroom, or laundry room, or living room, or basement, or kitchen, or, really, anywhere else unusual? If so, the subreddit "Bathroom Shrooms" mig...

Michigan's Supreme Court ruled Thursday evening that the state's residents can vote this fall on adding abortion rights to the state constitution. The ruling ends a legal effort by GOP officials to pr...

Even with its three women Senators refusing to toe the party line, Republicans in the South Carolina Senate had the votes to pass a total ban on abortion. But it could not stop a filibuster threatened...

U.S. prosecutors suggest that Donald Trump may have more classified documents in his possession, reports Reuters. That revelation came in a Justice Department court filing asking U.S. District Judge A...

Years ago, when my son was little, one of his favorite books was "Don't Call Me Pig!: A Javelina Story." It was a delightful little book all about javelinas, and how they aren't pigs, but, rather, col...

Videos like this (previously at Boing Boing) are a fantastic reminder that even though sampling is an incredible art form in-and-of itself. I've done a little bit of this sort of remixing in my life, ...

In this Rick Beato video, he sits down with Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, and producer Jack Endino to talk about both bands and the grunge heyday.Bonus track:Thumbnail: David ...

The teaser-trailer dropped yesterday for The Peripheral, the latest sci-fi series from Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan (Westworld), and adapted from William Gibson's 2014 sci-fi mystery thrilled of the sa...

Good news, everyone. According to Rob Larter, marine geophysicist at the British Antarctic Survey, Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, nicknamed the "Doomsday" glacier because of its potential catast...

My campmates swear by Meal Ready-to-Eats (MREs), individual food ration packs, for their main food source at Burning Man. While the main entre choice is printed on the outside of the sealed package, n...

Like many of us, I assumed online dating was a fairly recent invention certainly something that came about post-2000, right?But apparently that's not the case (or at least, not entirely). In a great ...

The title of this charming little animation might be a bit of an overstatement, but its point, that cats are awesome, is always worth making. You've got to love any cat video that opens with the Terry...

While visiting the dentist is anything but a good time, the way your mouth feels after a regular cleaning makes it all worth it. And it just makes you realize how dirty your mouth feels during the tim...

Trump-pardonee Steve Bannon's chronic logorrhea flared up as a result of being handcuffed and perp walked after being arrested for ripping off MAGA dupes in a Trump border wall scam. "For every conser...

In Puducherry, India, a woman was arrested for allegedly poisoning her teen daughter's academic rival, killing the 13-year-old boy. The mom passed off a tainted soft drink to the boy but claims she on...

"Oh, has the world changed, or have I changed?"image: emiraksoy/Shutterstock...

Queen Elizabeth II is dead, reports Buckingham Palace in a brief statement."The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and the Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening an...

A man in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province was reportedly floating in a hydrogen balloon collecting pine nuts from tree tops when he accidentally floated away. The fellow, surnamed Hu, was mi...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by (@kimiko_nishimoto)Check out the awesome self-portraits created by photographer Kimiki Nishimoto, who has been creating images since sh...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by (@kimiko_nishimoto)Check out the awesome self-portraits created by photographer Kimiki Nishimoto, who has been creating images since sh...

Very stable genius Kenneth Copeland, who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, appeared on a television special last night to educate the world on why there are so many school shootings. It's not ...

The Lincoln Project has released another ad, and this time the infantile ex-President and worst loser in history freaked out enough to throw threats at them. Trump now says he will sue the Never Trump...

The Miami-Dade school board has declined, 8 to 1, not recognizing October as National LBGTQ+ history month. Naturally, it sounds like Christian Fascists were there to scream at folks. Orlando Sentinel...

We all have things we love to do at home when nobody else is home, like chowing down on our favorite guilty pleasure snack or walking around in our birthday suits. But most of the time, it's...

At the international airport in Lagos, Nigerian authorities seized thousands of donkey penises on their way to Hong Kong. According to the Nigeria Customs Service area commander, the phalluses were "f...

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Sheriff Grady Judd was shocked to discover deputy chief Jason DiPrima of the Cartersville Police Department had offered to pay an undercover officer $180 in cash and ...

Tilden Township, Pennsylvania police have charged Ryan Boria and Amy Schaner, who both work at the same Wendy's restaurant, for allegedly tampering with railroad tracks. According to police, they pull...

I have always loved the irreverent and hilarious card game, Cards Against Humanity. And now I love it even more, after finding out that the company is donating money from sales of the game to the Nati...

There's a line in Altered Carbon where Rodrigo Bautista fills in some backstory on Elias Ryker over drinks in the Hendrix:"Ryker." The cop jetted smoke out of his nostrils and sat back. "Was working w...

I had a friend that once told the story of how she got pulled over by a cop the same day she flew back to Seattle from Korea, and when the cop asked for her license she got out of the car and said "To...

Like a lot of sentient beings, The Beatles' Revolver is one of my all-time favorite records. It is a timeless piece of art as it is. But, at the end of October, we will get the chance to hear the reco...

In this touching and sad Erik Swanson video, he befriends a man, Carlos, who lives in a former sewer tunnel below New York City. As Carlos begins to trust Erik, he lets him see his home (and help with...

Meet Big Tex, the "World's Tallest Cowboy," who stands at 55 feet and is the mascot of the State Fair of Texashe's greeted visitors entering the fairgrounds in Dallas since 1952. The State Fair of Tex...

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James Stanley devised a subtle way to cheat at chess (and presumably similar games) with a custom gadget concealed in his shoe. It's slow and difficult to use, but there's plenty of room for optimizat...

Dormant for half a century until the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the federal right to an abortion, Michigan's 1931 abortion ban sputtered back into life this summer. But a judge there snuffed it out W...

For some, understanding the mechanics of filmmaking completely takes them out of the immersion. For others, it deepens it. I am definitely of the latter camp, so I appreciated this little tutorial on ...

By comparing U.S. data on life expectancy here to OECD data on life expectancy in China, Quartz reports that China's exceeds the U.S.'s for the first time: 77 years to 76 years. U.S. life expectancy h...

From the "Remember-tini" with key lime rum and whipped cream to the amazingly named "2977 chowder" tallying the dead "with creamy crab", the 9/11-themed menu at a Virginia country club restaurant has ...

"This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween! Halloween!" In this MechanicalFiend video, Devon painstakingly attempts to recreate Jack Skellington's house from Tom Burton's The Nightmare Before Ch...

Hundreds of ancient mounds are scattered all over Louisiana. The mounds hold cluesin the forms of artifacts like projectile points, pottery, axes, grinding stones, fired earth objects, and moreabout t...

Brian Eno's YouTune channel just uploaded another track from his forthcoming album, ForeverAndEverNoMore. This piece, called "We Let It In," is as lovely and captivating as "There Were Bells," which I...

Pennsylvania's Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has announced that he will debate reality TV's Mehmet Oz. Both are candidates for an open US senate seat in Pennsylvania. Fetterman explained that lingering audi...

The photos were shared on Reddit by user VanillaBean5813, who explained, "Our sea urchins like to cover their heads so we 3d printed them some hats." They went on to share the original hat prototype, ...

While life has been made infinitely easier by being able to look up just about anything on your phone, there are just some calculations you could never figure out on that thing. Whether you have to
...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, "Corn Kid", whose name is Tariq, is the gift that keeps on giving! Last week an action figure featuring his likeness was revealed. And this week, he's been n...

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...

There's a right way and a wrong way to quit a job. Thing is, the wrong way is often more satisfying and funnier. For your consideration, a few examples of not-so-quiet quitting stories collected by In...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University and their colleagues have identified two antibodies they report can neutralize all of today's known COVID-19 variants with up to 97% efficacy in a laboratory setting...

During what sounds like a routine sweep of Madison, Wisconsin's downtown bars, one establishment was found to have 98.5% of its customers too young to be drinking. Somehow 137 of 143 patrons were unde...

A creepy and toxic orange animal with bad hair has returned to Florida. According to the Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida, "Puss Caterpillars," frequently found in the fall and spring, should...

The Chandelier Tree is a 276-foot-tall coastal redwood tree in Leggett, California, that visitors can drive through. This fun road-side attraction has a 6-foot-wide hole at its base, which is believed...

Chichi the chimpanzee escaped her home at the Kharkiv, Ukraine city zoo and poked around the nearby streets before ending up in a public park where zoo staff found her. From The Guardian:…When i...

Everyone loves Dolly Parton, she's an angel. And just when we think we can't love her any more than we do, because she's already literally perfect, she goes and does another awesome thing! She's just ...

I recently learned about a horrifying creature called the venomous bloodworm. What's that, you say? Are you sure you want to know? It's a worm that has a proboscis that emerges out of the front of its...

Richard Michetti, the Pennsylvanian insurrectionist turned in by his girlfriend, has been sentenced to 9 months in jail. Michetti angrily told his girlfriend she was a "moron" for not believing Trump'...

It would appear that this bridge was not quite ready for its ribbon-cutting ceremony as the ribbon itself was loadbearing. I hope everyone got off the contraption safely. Image: Screen grab...

A small study on the effects of microdosing shows, shockingly, that people who could tell they were on a psychedelic had better effects. The study also failed to connect the effects of microdosing wit...

When it comes to making your tech setup work best for you, especially if you are on the work-from-home grind, it's all about serving your day-to-day functions and the things you're working on. One...

Near Jerusalem, Israel, police arrested a man who allegedly allowed his dog to drive his car. The fellow had posted video (below) of the dog driving to social media. According to police, another issue...

Seen a video lately where an old video game console, knife, tool or other seemingly ruined item is "restored"? You likely suspect fakery now and again, but you likely don't know how systematic the fak...

After a judge declined her appeal on September 1st, Holmes has a new reason her guilty judgment should be thrown out: a witness purportedly feels bad about their sworn testimony. Holmes has been found...

Hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, including police chiefs, are on a list of members of the far-right "Oath Keepers" militia published by the Anti-Defamation Leaguea list that also includes el...

One of the last projects of the late Thch Nht Hnh was to offer to the world a new translation of the Heart Sutra: The Other Shore. Completed in 2014, and published in 2017, the presentation of a new t...

People feel very strongly about Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza. When the company announced it had run out of the item earlier this year, fans were very upset, and began petitioning Taco Bell to bring them ...

In a 2014 interview, Mehmet Oznow a Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvaniasaid that that sex with second cousins is nothing to worry about. Oz: If you're more than a first cousin away, it's not a...

IT'S the new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  CHECK OUT THE COMPLETE TOM THE DANCING BUG PROGRAM: RIGHT HERE AND NOW."… I still obsess...

The Washington Post reports that foreign nuclear secrets were among the documents found in the FBI raid on ex-president Donald Trump's Florida compound.A document describing a foreign government's mil...

https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_2394.mp4Video: Andrew YiThis magnificent crow was captured at the Torrey Pines Gliderport near San Diego, California.The Torrey Pines Gliderport, ...

Who wants to learn how to write the Latin alphabet in Egyptian hieroglyphs? I do! Here's a little tutorial on how to do it.Thumbnail image: Clio20, CC BY-SA 3.0....

It must have been hard for German propagandists to try and present D-Day in a positive light, but they did their best. Here, the U.S. Navy's Industrial Incentive Division and the Office of Strategic S...

Bill Nye has a new series on Peacock called The End of Nye. In each of six episodes Bill covers a type of global disaster (climate change, asteroids, hydra storms), how such an event might play out, a...

Three men were murdered in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 11, 2011 the tenth anniversary of 9/11, though the question of whether that's relevant or not might be the least interesting part of the...

Son of Eddie Van Halen, Wolfgang, joined the Foo Fighters and other musicians to celebrate the life of the Foo's fallen drummer, Taylor Hawkins, on September 3, at Wembley Stadium. Playing amazingly l...

Vape juice company Juul marketed nicotine to children. It will now pay $438.5m to settle an investigation into it. The FDA has already banned its key products, a ruling which is on hold as it appeals;...

It's hard to believe that it's been 25 years since mankind achieved the pinnacle of first-person shooter video gaming, but here we are. GoldenEye 007 was released for Nintendo 64 on August 25, 1997, a...

I have vague recollections of some of these old ommercials for McDonaldLand (previously at Boing Boing) as a kid but damn, they are even more trippy and surreal than I remember.What's your favorite ...

In this Kaz Rowe video, she takes a look back at how the holiday of Halloween was celebrated, in the US, in the early years of the 20th century. What she finds is a very different emphasis than today....

Nathan Apodaca, aka DoggFace, entered into the global collective imagination in 2020, while skateboarding home from work, sipping on Ocean Spray cranberry juice, and singing Fleetwood Mac's, "Dreams"....

Check out this absolutely wild video of a newly hatched cuckoo bird pushing the other unhatched eggs over the edge of the nest, destroying their chances for survival. When I saw it on the subreddit "N...

One of the top complaints of tech users is the overwhelming amount of spam, ads, and viruses that continuously cause issues when it comes to privacy and productivity. Pesky malware and track...

It's the hot new thing on TikTok, although its origins can be traced back to at least 2010. What's a dirty soda? Food Network explains:It's basically an alcohol-free "mocktail" made with diet cola, co...

If there is wind in famed New Jersey snake oil salesperson Dr. Mehmet Oz's sails, they come from Donald Trump's endorsement of him. Following this logic, it is natural that Oz just dumped all over Tru...

Meet the Honey Island Swamp Monster. According to legend and supposed eyewitness accounts, it's a 500-pound beast, part man, part animal, with bright yellow eyes, covered in hair from head to toe, and...

There is nothing more adorable than Rico the baby porcupine eating corn. The way he holds the corn cob in his tiny paws is too cute for words. I hope he gets to eat as much corn as his little heart de...

An astonishing report from CNN:"I went and talked to my son and I told him, 'They're gonna have more cops. They're gonna have higher fencing. And he wasn't having it," said Zayon's father, Adam Martin...

As a critical deadline for SPAC Digital World Acquisition Group's planned merger with failed insurrectionist Donald J. Trump's Trump Media and Technology Group approaches, the acquisition corp's share...

In New Mexico, Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin is the first public official to be removed from office for violating their oath to support the Constitution of the United States of America since ...

LG is joining Samsung in making NFTs available to their smart TV owners. If free screensavers and art aren't good enough, I guess you could buy an NFT that is also functionally and visibly identical, ...

Is there any moment of panic like the moment when you realize you may have lost something important on your phone or laptop for good? Whether it's an iPhone full of trip photos that was damaged or a w...

Watch the above video. As your Borg friends say, "resistance is futile."Episodes used… *TNG: The Best of Both Worlds Part I, I Borg, Descent Part I *DS9: Emissary *Voyager: Scorpion Parts I &...

An airline SNAFU caused a United flight to spend hours taxiing around the tarmac, boarding, deboarding, reboarding, and finally, after 8.5 hours of this, cancel. I hope they played the Benny Hill the...

Tucker Carlson insulted country music singer Maren Morris, who took issue with another country music person's comments about transgender children. Morris, not seeming particularly concerned about what...

On Friday, Fort Worth, Texas police descended on Our Lady of Guadalupe Church after 911 callers reported a man waving a gun around inside. According to the 911 records, the man entered the church with...

At a carnival in Mohali, India over the weekend, a drop tower ride malfunctioned and the platform suddenly fell 50 meters to the ground. Nearly a dozen riders were injured and taken to the hospital, b...

Romualdo Macedo Rodrigues was fishing off the coast of northern Brazil when his boat began to sink. He climbed inside a cooler used to store any fish he caught. After eleven days in the shark-infested...

More than 110 years ago, the RMS Titanic sunk to the bottom of the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles from Newfoundland, Canada. It's still there. And if you aren't up to spending $250,000 to join an ...

If you like documentaries and the creative and often unexpected use-value of design, check out Rebel Architecture from Al Jazeera: "A six-part documentary series profiling architects who are using des...

Sanago sells a 3D printing pen with a WYSIWYG sales pitch in video format that has created a following on YouTube. The Red Light Green Light doll singing Micro Machines Man fast then spinning it's he...

This article from 2010 concerned the buses that snake through central Copenhagen, which were then covered in larger-than-life boa constrictors crushing the vehicles in its powerful digital grip. The g...

These giant neon pink slugs can be found on the top of Mount Kaputar, an extinct volcano in Australia. They can't be found in the wild anywhere else in the world, so seeing one in person is a special ...

Given the recent premier of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, now might be a good time to brush up on your knowledge of Trolls in Tolkien's Middle-earth. Like, did you know that Trolls were c...

What is capitalism? What is a corporation? What is the relationship between one's desires for consumption, capitalist notions of the individual self, and the power of corporations? The following docum...

Copyright scholar Rebecca Giblin joins forces with erstwhile Boing Boing editor Cory Doctorow to excoriate Big Tech and Big Contentnot for the everyday sins of privacy invasion and surveillance but fo...

BugGuide.Net is a useful website that helps users identify bugs. It also provides information about all sorts of bugs if you're interested in learning more about them. Today, I learned that dragonfly ...

https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IMG_1304.mp4Captured on the trail to the Hall of Mosses in the Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park, this video shows flowing aquatic life dance a...

There are few hand tools that people seem to have more opinions about than ratcheting screwdrivers. And, now we have some decent testing of this everyday tool by Todd at Project Farm. He tests 14 dif...

Random Street View is a site that allows users to teleport to a random street view somewhere on planet earth. Just click the "random location" button to teleport to a new place. Similar to google eart...

by: Hillary GoldsmithThere's plenty of incredibly questionable things we'd much rather do than jam away at our computer keys while the outside world just rolls past us. But, alas, you n...

Recently, a video began circulating purporting to be MAGA Marjorie Greene auditioning on the first season of American Idol, under the name Stefanie Sugarman. It certainly looks like her, and the conte...

Have you ever sat on a merry-go-round, only to have a giant reptile emerge from the sea and start spinning you around at lightning speed? That's what happens in this short animation, Scratchzilla, by ...

Animation in the West is in a precarious position. On the one hand, the caliber of creativity and the range of storytelling potential in contemporary animation is staggering. Shows like Bojack Ho...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When it comes to computers, it's always worth investing in the...

This husky wants absolutely nothing to do with this stinky durian.Wikipedia:An acquired taste, some people regard the durian as having a pleasantly sweet fragrance, whereas others find the aroma overp...

Living through a transitional era is weird. Anyone over 20 has the bizarre privilege of watching the analog world melt away in the face of digital tech. As a result, several industries have started to...

How anyone pays attention to Tucker Carlson is beyond me, but the frozen food heir is edited into an entertaining segment here:Image: screen grab...

Scientists are working on Google Translate for Animals. Perhaps, finally, someone can understand that goddamn fox.NY Times:Machine-learning systems, which use algorithms to detect patterns in large co...

Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria and Honorary Professor, Macquarie University; and Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor's Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, ...

People throw the phrase "one in a million" around too liberally. Granted, with billions of people on the planet, the maxim isn't statistically absurd when referring to talented or uncommon individuals...

What does a multi-millionaire professional football quarterback, a former professional wrestler, a horse farm and a volleyball complex have in common? Well, in Mississippi, the poorest state in the U....

On U.K. show This Morning today, a "Wheel of Fortune"-style game was played in which one of the prizes was paying the contestant's energy bills. The U.K. is about to deregulate energy pricing, just in...

I'm old enough to remember when you could redeem soda caps for prizes. Prior to the late 90s, you could win pretty much anything under the sun with the right soda cap. However, once the internet came ...

The EGOT has become the ultimate feather in a creative's cap. In previous eras, just winning a single award was enough to embed one's name in the pantheon of great artists. However, after decades of O...

Liz Truss has won the U.K. Conservatives' internal leadership ballot and will become Prime Minister tomorrow. Her win over rival Rishi Sunak, though, turned out to be much closer than the wipeout that...

Self-defense is an essential skill that every human should have. Even if it's minimal, the ability to intelligently navigate physical combat can provide one with a massive psychological boon. Instead ...

Many regard Westerns as an "old man" genre. Not so much in terms of the characters, but rather the demographic that enjoys them. After the popularity of Westerns collapsed in the late 20th century, th...

Instagram has suspended the official Pornhub account on their platform.Before the sex site's account was removed from Instagram, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts. Reps for ...

In the first episode of Rick and Morty, we were promised that the show would run for a hundred years. After almost ten years and six seasons, the promise might've been more accurate than anyone w...

@serein0913 I have the magic pen #3D #3dpen #repair #useful #magic #satisfying #fyp #foryou #foryoupage original sound – Serein This 3D Pen repair time-lapse video uses sped up sound effect...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Even in today's super-advanced world, traditional an...

Spender Elden, the now-31-year-old man who as a baby appeared on Nirvana's iconic album cover for Nevermind, has lost his lawsuit against the band. Though content to highlight his appearance as a youn...

This couldn't be sweeter and more touching. During the Foo Fighters tribute concert to their fallen comrade, drummer Taylor Hawkins, Taylor's 16-year-old son took the drummer's stool to perform the ba...

From the same region of the country that brought you Johnny Appleseed and the Pink Lawn Flamingo comes this unofficial Back to the Future museum. Christopher Lloyd even visited the barn back in 2020, ...

Lego rules the world of toys. Without question, Legos are the most popular toy on Earth, and it's easy to see why. Unlike other toys that have a specific use, Legos have infinite potential. The brand ...

The official results aren't in until Monday, but Liz Truss is all but certain to win the race to become the U.K. Conservative Party's new leaderand the country's new Prime Minister. Her rival, Rishi S...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Being in a scientific industry, where you have to st...

This crane was not weighed down appropriately to handle the load in a most spectacular way. It does appear as if no one was injured.Image: screen grab...

On June 15, 2022, Nick Tobler, owner ofReel Life Aquatics, a reptile and fish store in Crescent Springs, Kentucky, after much fanfare and anxious waiting from TikTok viewers, released a video of actua...

Check out the mysterious three-eared quokka spotted and photographed recently on Rottnest Island, near Perth in Western Australia. The photo was taken by Redditor Moondyne71. One clever commenter on R...

The Scary Meter is a website where people can rank movies on their creepiness, gore level, and how much "jumpiness" they induce. All of these three categories factor into the film's overall rating on ...

A California judge gave Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes an early "nope" on overturning her convictions, but scheduled his final decision for Oct. 17, her sentencing date. If the four felony counts of fraud...

I like this silly Dunkin Donuts commercial from 1994. The commercial was made for Quebec and features slapstick, absurdist humor. The playful special effects make the Dunkin' Donuts store seem like a ...

Dolphins "kinda pee their names", reports Sci Show on YouTube, summarizing cross-modal perception of identity by sound and taste in bottlenose dolphins and press coverage of the study.Do we really nee...

Pushpa Mangade is a "speed cuber" from Indian. She has solved a 3×3 cube in 27.9 seconds. On her Instagram feed she shows the many different ways that you can solve a Rubik's Cube. View th...

According toThe Hollywood Reporter, lip-synch legends Milli Vanilli are slated to get their own biopic soon. Several attempts have been made to bring the duo's story to the big screen, and it seems li...

"Dinotopia" artist/author James Gurney interrupts one of his YouTube art demo videos to announce his own beta access to AI art program Dall-E 2. It's interesting to have a professional artist like Jam...

I definitely wasn't familiar with any of these sites and web-based tools. But then, I don't follow a lot of productivity apps. Someone in the comments provided a list of the apps covered:1. Witeboard ...

Snuff Puppets is an art group that puts on amazing parades of giant body parts. I only came across their work recently, and I'm obsessed with it. They are based in Australia and tour around with their...

Kiwi Farms, the web forum centered around harassing peopleespecially trans peoplewill no longer benefit from the web services of Cloudflare, which today gave it the boot. After being implicated in mul...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.As a web developer or entrepreneur, every busin...

United States congressperson from Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene stoked insurrectionist fires in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Declaring that Trump won the 2020 election, to the cheers of similarly misl...

After the announcement a few weeks ago about the bold new direction Dungeons & Dragons was taking, as you might imagine, the Nerdiverse went nutso. Anytime you have changes that look so sweeping (...

In this 30-minute episode of the YouTube channel, Esoterica, host Dr. Justin Sledge tries to tease out the various roots of H.P. Lovecraft's fictional mythos. Lovecraft was fond of quoting from source...

Via metalsucks.net:Fred Durst, yes the frontman of Limp Bizkit and lover of big ol' armchairs, is going to be hosting a special, one-night "immersive Halloween party experience" onboard...

Idaho is a hotbed of Q-crazed bigotry. Crazy Christian fundamentalists have targeted the Boundry County Library with invented claims of corrupting children, with books the library does not have. Local...

This gerrymandering explainer is pretty great. Using congressional districts as Rorshach blots is pretty great, and Trevor Noah's impression of Mickey Mouse picking a fight is perfection. Image: scree...

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 says a good night's sleep like waking up in the middle...

A 9-year-old California girl bought a baby goat at auction from a county fair, with the expectation she would raise it to be returned and slaughtered. When the time came, though, she decided to keep i...

A 9-year-old California girl bought a baby goat at auction from a county fair, with the expectation she would raise it to be returned and slaughtered. When the time came, though, she decided to keep i...

Death Valley's Furnace Creek thermometer hit 127 degrees fahrenheit this week, breaking the world record for September heat. But the heat wave is just in its third day Friday, and is expected to last...

The Innocents is a Norwegian supernatural thriller directed by Eskil Vogt. It was inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream. It's about a group of children who live at an apartment complex a...

Recently, in Gilbert, AZ (a suburb of Phoenix), a man pulled a gun on some skateboarders who were riding in a church parking lotand it was all caught on video. @tizzyent So I have the full story of ...

Check out one of my favorite Redditors, "Office Drummer." His real name is Richard Ray, but he uses "Office Drummer" on social media. Dressed as an "office worker," with a white button-up shirt, khaki...

During the Depression and just before the advent of television, kids in Japan enjoyed a unique form of entertainment: Kamishibai ("paper play"). Traveling storytellers would roll up to a street c...

During the Depression and just before the advent of television, kids in Japan enjoyed a unique form of entertainment: Kamishibai ("paper play"). Traveling storytellers would roll up to a street c...

The Atlantic has a piece about the sad, rusting remains of Trump's anti-immigration boondoggle, a southern border wall. Giant piles of construction materials in staging areas, worth at least a quarter...

This video is basically a glorified ad for subscribing to Ben Milton's Questing Beast YouTube channel and newsletter. But I'm OK with that. As he points out, the beating heart of OSR gaming online is ...

It's called gastric brooding and several species of now-extinct frogs employed the strategy. The mother frog would swallow her eggs and keeps them in her stomach through the tadpole and early frog pha...

Quantum Leap must be one of those once-in-a-lifetime premises for television showrunner. The show provides you with an overarching plot to keep long-term viewers riveted while offering self-conta...

Cat brings her baby doll to automatic feeder because she thinks it's hungry from aww Watching this cat anthropomorphize a doll, makes me feel a Dave Skylark "We have different fa...

They waited until the coast was clear, and then every penned-in pooch at a doggie daycare made their great escape except for one that is. A napping Labrador woke up all alone, looking dumbfounded to ...

Frank Drake, the celebrated radio astronomer and SETI pioneer, has died. He was 92. Frank spent his life seeking out evidence of extraterrestrial transmissions. In 1960, he carried out the first SETI ...

President Biden's speech Thursday night defending democracy really hit a nerve with former Trump strategist (and Trump-pardoned) Steve Bannon, who responded with angry threats to the president and his...

I have watched a lot of brisket YouTube, and this guy makes trimming a brisket look insanely easy. In mere moments he's explained and executed trimming a brisket into a perfect-looking ball of protein...

Contrary to popular myth, weed doesn't make you lazy, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. "Users of cannabis showed no difference in motivation, pleasure taken from rewards, or the brain's...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.When you have friends over, you want them to feel comfortable,...

The J6 committee is humbly requesting dark triad exemplar Newt Gingrich to talk to them about how he worked with Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller to create television ads designed to incite people int...

About 30 seconds into Dick Cavett's 1971 interview with George Harrison, we learn what he thinks of Yoko. Cavett tells George that Yoko sat in the same seat George is sitting in, and George jumps up i...

The FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago turned up secret documents in Trump's personal office, included dozens of empty folders marked "classified", and it wall all mixed in with random personal trash. The deta...

Oxford Astrophysicist, Rebecca Smethurst, aka Dr. Becky on her popular YouTube channel, has a new book out, A Brief History of Black Holes. In it, she talks about the many misconceptions about black h...

Giant pop culture phenomenons have a stunningly short shelf life. One minute, a movie, band, or television show is on top of the world and rules every algorithm, only to be usurped by the next fad wit...

Argentina's vice president, Christina Kirchner, today found herself looking down the barrel of a handgun. The gun jammed when her would-be assassin tried to fire it, and he was immediately taken into ...

This story is pretty wild. A guy saw Dominion voting machine up for auction on a Goodwill website. After buying it for $7.99 he resold it via eBay for $1200. Naturally, authorities in Michigan, from w...

Let's be honest: poop is funny. It's a silly word on its own, regardless of your maturity level; and of course, the social taboo of bodily functions makes them even funnier. Kids have no shame in ackn...

According to Variety, Corman's action-comedy film Virtually Heroes premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival then failed to find any broader distribution, despite featuring Mark Hamill in a lead r...

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 ...

Watch conservatives freak out as President Joe Biden and other less conservative United States politicians are rightly calling them fascists. The GOP's march towards destroying the integrity of our el...

"Please read this and then listen to the song," writes Cait on Twitter, citing a thread on Reddit's "Today I fucked up" forum. "you are not prepared for the song"Exhibit 1: an excerpt from the post:I ...

Timothy Ferrisis a master of literary science writing. He illuminates, challenges, and inspires. The sense of wonder that Tim conveys in his work, like the critically-acclaimed booksComing Of Age In T...

Several surviving members of the original cast have returned for A Christmas Story Christmas, but that doesn't guarantee anything. A Christmas Story is one of those movies that is just perfect as itse...

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 old enough to remember using fax mach...

Brandy Bottone's first ticket, which made national news, was dismissed by a judge when she argued that Texas laws designate her unborn baby as a person and thus they should be allowed to use the carpo...

Credit for a hack that sent hundreds of Moscow taxi cabs to the same mid-town address and created a traffic nightmare is unclear. The Anonymous Collective and OpRussia have taken some credit for the c...

Nicol Falcone is the world championship of Monopoly. Whenever my kids want to play Monopoly, I attempt to dissuade them because the game bores the pants off me and it takes forever. But to each his ow...

You might consider the Netflix reality show Too Hot to Handle a guilty pleasure, something you wouldn't want to admit to anyone, a prism of cringe entertainment. You might deny knowledge of it to some...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is enjoying a specific pattern in a famed actor's social life that has become notable even if it is not yet statistically significant. It gets hard not...

A family in Ellerby, Yorkshire, England was renovating their kitchen when they found a pleasant surprise under the floorboards and concrete: an earthenware cup filled with gold coins that dated from 1...

A 7ft-wide pool of blood, confirmed to be human, was found on a street in Silver Spring Township, Pennsylvania. Locals have no idea where it came from or whose it was, and no corresponding crime or ac...

Here's Trump on Wendy Bell Radio yesterday talking about the fine individuals who attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021:"I will tell you, I will look very, very favorably about full pardons. If I...

An easy payday for retired NFL star Brett Favre: $1m from the state of Mississippi for speeches he'd never have to deliver. The money came from the welfare system, taken from the neediest residents of...

At a recent benefit Judd Apatow hosted for VictimsFirst," Beck, Jack Black, and John C. Reilly played the Seals & Crofts classic "Summer Breeze." Then Dave Grohl joined in. And the rest is "you ha...

It's always great to discover some small shard of history that you knew absolutely nothing about. Such is the case for me with rescue buoys. During WWII, the English Channel was peppered with these bu...

Whether you're an activist in a small town or an insurrectionist who stormed Capitol Hill, America's police have a system for tracking you down, cobbled together from all the data we blithely agree to...

Last night President Biden gave a speech calling for "Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans" to "make our nation free and fair, just and strong, noble and whole." He said they must defeat th...

The Indus river has overflowed to such an extent that a huge in-land lake has formed measuring 62 miles (100 kilometres) across where there used to be homes and agricultural fields. Satellite photos f...

Musicians have a greener way to make their records now that Evolution Music is offering non-PVC, bioplastic pressings. Michael Stipe and Beatie Wolfe are the first two artists to release music on this...

What was sex like for those living in Europe during the Middle Ages? In this History Hit video, Dr Eleanor Janega and Dr Kate Lister (from @whoresofyore) look at sex practices 500-800 years ago, from ...

It's fascinating to watch this process by which primitive technologist, John Plant (previously at Boing Boing), turns creek sand into usable iron prills. I love the ingenious sluice that he makes usin...

"Do we have a right to be hopeful? With political and ecological fires raging all around, is it irresponsible to imagine a future world radically better than our own? A world without prisons? Of beaut...

In this old (but hardly vintage) footage, Blake Mastersan Arizona Republican and Thieling running for U.S. Senateraps about the war paint he's wearing. He makes plain that it should be interpreted as ...

Sometimes, being popular pays off. Since the character's introduction in the early 90s, Harley Quinn has been a fan favorite. Considering that she was originally intended to be a one-off henchman in t...

NC-17 is typically regarded as the kiss of death when it comes to movies. The rating dramatically limits the number of people in a film's potential audience. Whenever a studio gets wind that one of 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.It's hard out there for an investor these days, especially one...

When Michael Jordan ruled pop culture, the world made more sense. At least, that's how I used to view it through my rose-colored nostalgia glasses. Now that I've gotten the chance to judge the 90s obj...

Touching the keypad number sign (#), also known as the pound key or the hash symbol, to confirm inputting credit card numbers or Social Security numbers or pin numbers or really the termination of any...

The legendary Danny DeVito, star of stage and screen, discusses many tattoos that people have gotten of him with his daughter Lucy. Danny's highly expressive face shows puzzlement, horror, and maybe e...

Here in the Phoenix area we have a rat problem. Specifically, because of the citrus trees that are all over the valley, we have a lot of roof rats that just love hanging out in people's houses. I shou...

After many years of faithful service, my homebrew Peloton kit finally needed attention. Unsurprisingly, improvements in the Peloton App software over the years have simplified my configuration and mad...

During this century, you're going to see a lot of classic characters slide into the public domain. It's already starting to happen, and it isn't going to slow down any time soon. For example, Superman...

When I read Peter Bebergal's amazing sword and sorcery anthology, Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the stories I was most struck by was C.L. Moore's "The Black God's Ki...

When I read Peter Bebergal's amazing sword and sorcery anthology, Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons & Dragons, one of the stories I was most struck by was C.L. Moore's "The Black God's Ki...

On this episode of Maker Update, Donald Bell does a walk-through of Sili-Con, Adam Savage's annual nerdfest at the San Jose Convention Center. Robots, props, cosplay, electronics projects, 3D printing...

As we gaze near and ber far, either at the 174 Megapixel images of the moon, or through the new telescope named after NASA bureaucrat James Webb, take note of this new documentary Behind the Name. As ...

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) dogs sniffed out 1,500 pounds of cocaine on a tractor-trailer crossing the Laredo-Colombia Solidarty Bridge between Laredo, Texas and the Mexican state of Nuevo ...

Disney has more fans than they know what to do with. Last century, Disney's breadth was practically minuscule compared to the multimedia leviathan its become in the 21st century. They were always big,...

JFK's addiction to imperialism was a strong as his need for H. Upmann Petit Coronas, the cream of the crop of Cuban Cigars. On February 6, 1962, the day before the United States imposed a total embarg...

For most of the year, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending home mysterious system data. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1and itsGolden Record, the iconic message for extraterrestrialsis currentl...

In 1982, The Clash's Joe Strummer secretly ran off to Paris, drank 10 pints of beer at a pub, and the next morning ran the Paris Marathon. It may have been a publicity stunt to promote the band's new ...

In 1982, The Clash's Joe Strummer secretly ran off to Paris, drank 10 pints of beer at a pub, and the next morning ran the Paris Marathon. It may have been a publicity stunt to promote the band's new ...

Apparently, 50 years spent fighting against abortion were never supposed to end. Having achieved their glorious goals, Republican candidates are now scurrying to hide their positions on women's rights...

After going a bit deep on Cool World, ObiWan Ben Larry "Steven" Kenobi gets too chill for his own good. Facing a dance fight at the worst time, he draws upon deep midi-chlorian reserves to keep the pa...

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, even though there's so muchmodern technologytha...

For around US$1 million, you could have an incredible instant collection of most videogame consoles from the last 50 years. French collector Kario30 has posted the lot of more than 2,400 items on eBay...

At long last, Twitter is fixing the most famously bad thing about Twitter: the inability to edit typos.if you see an edited Tweet it's because we're testing the edit buttonthis is happening an...

Aaron von Ehlinger, a Republican lawmaker who represented Lewiston in Idaho's House of Representatives, must serve at least 8 years of a 20-year prison sentence before receiving parole. Von Ehlinger w...

I love Guga's channel, but reseasoning some cast iron is no big deal, and the damage done by his nephew is minor. I would generally not bother with the vinegar step. Image: screen grab...

The above Ku Klux Klan plaque is mounted to a building at the US Army's West Point military academy. The plaque was listed in a report issued yesterday to the US Congress by a special commission exami...

Corn Boy is the gift that keeps on giving. I previously published a post on Boing Boing featuring this amazing young gentleman who absolutely adores corn. Well, the good folks over at Sir Collect-a-Lo...

Meet Trey DeGroodt, a Phoenix drag queen who just got over monkeypox thanks in part to friends who sent care packages. Now Trey is paying it forward, creating care packages and sending them to others ...

The appeal of cinema is astonishingly multifaceted. While one person may be drawn to the drama inherent in a script's narrative, others may watch a film solely for the special effects and action seque...

In my unbridled youth, I was in a punk/new wave band. One night, someone threw a Stretch Armstrong doll into the crowd. A tug-of-war ruckus ensued with Stretch's arms and legs. As we bashed away onsta...

Dick's Drive-In is one of those Emerald City landmarks that quietly stands quietly in the B-Boy pose at the back of the room, adding that Seattle flavor to the scene like Uncle Roger slinging MSG. We...

The high five, as Wikipedia defines it, is "a hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand each, about head-high, and push, slide, or slap the flat of their pa...

Am I wrong or does Igloo's Luxe line look more like knockoffs of luxury handbags than soft coolers? Elevate your look and everyday carry with the fashion-forward Igloo Luxe collection of cooler bags. ...

In collaboration with Capgemini and Google, the Direction Gnrale des Finances Publiques comissioned an AI in 2021, to scan aerial photographs for swimming pools and cross reference the findings agains...

To celebrate the release of their space-themed adventure setting, Spelljammer: Adventures in Space, Wizards of the Coast/Dungeons & Dragons launched an iconic 20-sided RPG die into space.Set to th...

Nicholas Cage has signed on for a new a24 comedy titled Dream Scenario, with Ari Aster serving as the film's producer. Cage is no stranger to comedy: his most recent film,The Unbearable Weight of Mass...

So long, Ravil Maganov. The president saw you, and you saw air.The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say. Maganov i...

When I was a kid, I was isolated from extended family by my unwell mother, whose paranoia and fear led her to do and believe irrational things. I rarely saw my paternal grandparents, and it was a grea...

Shamima Begum was a 15-year-old girl who traveled to Syria and became an "ISIS bride". She was subsequently stripped of her citizenship by a politician as a form of extrajudicial punishment, despite b...

Mary Peltola, winner of today's special election in Alaska, is the first native and the first woman to hold the seatand the first Democrat to win a House race in the state for decades. She beat Republ...

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 SunShader is a laptop sunshade, heat shield, and privacy s...

I am a big fan of this Black + Decker cordless vacuum. All the things one might want a dustbuster for, this does well. When lots of small-size dog kibble gets spilled into a tight corner, this vacuum ...

Astonishing, alarming and as incoherent as ever, the AI's brush now fills in spaces beyond the original canvas, replicating the artist's style and subject.DALLE's Edit feature already enables changes ...

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 this: the power has gone out and you are scrambling ar...

Jason Allen aka Sincarnate on Discord, used Midjourney to /imagine a series of images that were entered into the Digital Category of the Colorado State Fair, with the disclaimer that the images were g...

Flip over a box of juicy Palisades Peaches and you'll find a friendly 9/11 conspiracy rant emblazoned on the cardboard. Visit their website maybe you want to find out some details about the petting f...

Outscoring opponents 60-5 over the course of a six game winning streak, Hawai'i (West Region) dominated the competition to win it's fourth Little League Baseball World Series title.The final game ende...

Linus kesson (previously at BB) made a theremin with a Commodore 64 and a spoon. [via MeFi] He performs it well, and explains the electrical principles at work even better.(kesson created A Mind Is Bo...

Newspapers in Texas report that social workers, tasked with investigating families of kids who seek gender-affirming care, are being ordered to keep their work secret, making no written communications...

Jeff Guenther, aka "Therapy Jeff" on TikTok and Instagram, wants to help you have better relationships. Based in Portland, Oregon, he's been a therapist since 2005. He does individual therapy and coup...

Check out this video of Kristina Makushenkoworld champion in synchronized swimming turned social media starperforming an underwater upside-down moonwalk. She's on TikTok as "Aqua Queen on heels," and ...

The life expectancy of people in the United States fell dramatically in 2020 and 2021. It was the deepest two-year dive in a century, obviously tied to COVID-19 but also driven by heart disease, liver...

Bauhaus is one of my all-time favorite bands and I was fortunate to have caught their San Francisco show in August. I hadn't seen them live since 1998 and, once again, they were absolutely phenomenal....

Found at Reddit's "Oddly Satisfying" forum, this is, indeed, satisfying to watch on a loop. It's mesmerizing, even. I searched around online and found out that the video features "Kostya," who goes by...

Failing miserably in the polls, Dr. Mehmet Oz, candidate for New Jersey's hall of fame, has leaned deeply into mocking his opponent for having survived a stroke. Abandoned by Mitch McConnell as a low-...

This sounds like something out of a 1990s episode of The Simpsons, but… In South Carolina at North Charleston High School, a program is underway to provide free belts as part of a campaign again...

Crypto.com, known for buying naming rights to an arena and hiring Matt Damon as a spokesmodel, mistakenly over-refunded a woman in Australia. While the courts appear to be on Crypto.com's side, the re...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Whether you're looking to get away before the cold starts or n...

Controversy surrounding the cause of a 2010 airplane crash that killed 20 passengers has now been put to rest. "Loss of control on final approach was due to the movement of several passengers in the c...

As Snap is laying off a lot of its sales force, its ineffective-looking sales leaders are leaving to sell ads for Netflix's new ad-supported membership tier. This bodes well for neither company, howev...

Tom the Dancing Bug – EAT THE POORIT'S the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book -> Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor!  ORDER YOURS TODAY: RIGHT HERE AND NOW."The fact...

George Lucas explains Jar Jar to Robin Williams, but he explains his complete failure to understand what people like about his most significant creation to us all. I guess these are just two very misu...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the final leader of the Soviet Union, died yesterday at 91. Among his great accomplishments was starring in this Pizza Hut commercial from 1997 when Gorby needed some dough. Of cour...

Via Kyle Cheney, the horror underfoot mounts. Horrid taste in carpet, though, is not illegalTrump's alleged effort to conceal the classified documents he took from the White House, and his team's lies...

Interstate 55 in Tennessee was closed to traffic late Tuesday due to an enormous spill of Alfredo sauce. Authorities have no idea how long it will take to clean it up, reports WREG News out of Memphis...

As one of those who writes exclusively in draftsman style block letters, I've long been on the look out for the boldest mechanical pencil, to make my chicken scratch look like that chicken meant somet...

Cyberpunk:2077 has experienced a rollercoaster of press since the debut of the game's first trailer. Initially, fans were excited about the prospect of a video game set in the Cyberpunk ...

Did you grow up learning that the world looked like this?Though not a map of a "flat earth" even as the map was flat, it also not in any way accurate. If you are interested in checking out other ways ...

Last month a truck filled with over 100 watermelons and cantaloupes, on its way to the Louisiana Watermelon Festival in Farmerville LA, got into an accident that caused all of the fruit to fly off the...

By its very nature, art is subjective, but certain works are so idiosyncratic in their design that they create two massive factions comprised of equally ardent fans and detractors. The concept isn't u...

In this Closer to Truth interview with computer scientist and futurist Jaron Lanier, he's asked why we haven't detected other signs of intelligent life in the universe. Jaron does a decent job of expl...

After 20 plus years, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are permanently moving back to their Buckinghamshire, UK residence, citing the rising trend of United States gun violence, taxes and a want to return to t...

Being a film fan is an expensive hobby. If you're trying to keep abreast of the major film releases within a single month, you'll probably end up forking over close to $150. And that's not even factor...

As the Warner Brothers and Discovery merger continues to sweep through Hollywood like a tornado, one franchise has garnered more attention than most: the DC comics extended universe. Unlike their dist...

Duane Hansen from Syracuse, Nebraska is hoping to have earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for "longest journey by pumpkin boat." Hansen beat the current recorda measly 25.5 mileseasi...

Visuals of Earth (@EaRT_VisuaL) will reorient your entire internal map of this planetor create one anew for you on this rock we share, hurtling through time/space toward disaster and extinction. Or to...

My family and I loved the movie We Are Little Zombies (see my 2020 post about it). I just found out that on September 1, Japan House Los Angeles is streaming a live conversation between the film's di...

I can't imagine what it's like to be a parent in Uvalde, Texas, sending their kids back to school to be in the presence of the same useless, posturing school district cops who cowered in the hallways ...

This picture shows a Republican National Committee member's own calculation of what would happen if voting districts were determined by independent commissions instead of partisan legislatures. The lo...

Watching this cute hedgehog beaming from an ear massage pulls up grainy memories from vintage Star Trek episodes, of watching Ferengi getting Oo-mox performed.Smile for timeline.. pic.twitter.com/iE5...

It's easy to look back at Eddie Murphy's box office run in the 80s and 90s with indifference after his string of duds in the mid to late 00s. During his initial run, Murphy redefined what a comedic st...

It's the law in Texas that schools must display donated signs saying "In God We Trust." I wonder what it is about the ones with rainbows and Arabic text that led the Carroll school district to defy th...

Rolling through the vineyards of Arizona with art, skateboarders and Cousin Id?Chateau Tumbleweed, or "The Weed", as proclaimed on T-shirts in their online store, was founded in 2011 in Clarksdale, Ar...