Articles by BoingBoing from April 2023

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Spring is officially here, the sun is shining, and we can fina...

"Okay, here we go. Focus. Speed. I am speed. One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, focus. Speed. Fa...

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq79WIyIgzl/Watching these digital yarn videos by artist Matt Taylor untangled the ball of anxiety in my brain. I wish I could watch this one inside of my head at night on ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mQ_ikMpXQXQWatch a tenrec take a sand bath in a teeny toy bathtub. It's like Calico Critters (those adorable animal figurines and their little dollhouses) come to life. ...

Retrogmz implements a particular genre of classic game–the sort that comes for free with an operating system–for free on the web: "We like to keep things simple. On our sites, you can play...

Playful growling possums, chilling capybaras, and now sneezing seals videos for your enjoyment. The cuteness code collides with audio adorability in this video of seals clearing their nasal passages w...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)There's no way that these "Mirror Men" can be from this dimension. I refuse to believe that th...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by A D R I R E I G A D A (@adrireigada)Adrireigada is a tattoo artist who has an amazing talent for doing tattoos that look as if they ar...

When SpaceX's rocket Starship blew up shortly after take-off last week, questions rose about safety, intentions, and consequences. While company PR posed the vehicle's "rapid unscheduled disassembly" ...

In a new Code Switch episode on NPR, comedians Hari Kondabolu and Hank Azaria had their first public chat since Hari's documentary, The Problem with Apu, came out in 2017. The film took a critical loo...

Choir! Choir! Choir! (C!C!C!) maestros Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman, affectionately known as "DaBu," put on a heck of a show. For years I've been blogging about their famous group singalongs, so wh...

On the Road to Failure collects pitch deks and presentations made by companies that failed thereafter, such as Credit Suisse, or were frauds, such as Enron and Theranos....

It has been almost fifteen months since Russia invaded Ukraine. As civilian casualties continue to increase, what about the indigenous peoples that live in territory occupied by Russia and Ukraine?The...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Funny Memes & Videos (@pettybetches)When I first stumbled upon this video, I thought my eyes must be playing tricks on me. "There's ...

We have all seen the videos. Some of us suffered real-life encounters in the wild. Entitled, arrogant, nosy, pushy… there's a full casserole of traits for one to experience. In "The Mythology of...

Before you go buying IKEA's Markus office chair, this Mastodon user says to make sure it's "compatible with your screen." They bought one and figured out the hard way that it was causing their screen ...

A day after his death, a 2016 Entertainment Tonight interview with Jerry Springer has resurfaced in which the controversial talk show host shares his witty idea for his tombstone inscription. He wante...

Artist and model Charlie Ann Max hosts The Fde Experience, a series of vegan dinner parties at which the guests are expected to dine naked. An article about it (with photos) is in Time Out New York, l...

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Keeping a couple of frisky cats entertained can be exhausting, but this canine babysitter came up with an easy way out. Watch how the doggo found a way to lie down and chill out while keeping the play...

"One thing I've learnt from the past few years… folk will literally comply with anything without asking questions" writes this prankster who stood outside a building door and "scanned" people wi...

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' sense of humor was on display in this 1983 letter he wrote to a fan asking for an autograph."Dear M. Varon," wrote Jobs, who was 28 at the time. "I'm honored that you'd wr...

CNN Business reports that Mercedes-Benz has launched a new subscription service for attainable car speeds. Yes really. And you have a choice to pay a monthly, or annual fee! Mercedes-Benz electric veh...

It was a balmy Tuesday night in Houston, Texas when 29-year-old Erick Aguirre took a date out to the Rodeo Goat. They each took their own cars, and parked near one another in a lot in east downtown, j...

Ever wonder what happened to MAGA darling Madison Cawthorn the white nationalist supporter who promoted Trump's Big election Lie? Well, he's still at it. But instead of spouting nonsense from Capitol...

Quirky White Lotus actress Aubrey Plaza is catching heat for starring in a Big Dairy ad promoting a fictitious tree-derived "Wood Milk." The Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) designed the cam...

The Santa Clara County Superior Court judge presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla relating to its "Full Self Driving" marketing and very public statements by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk. Mus...

Gough Island, a remote British territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is seeking a new field officer to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds for 13 months (plus an additional two ...

In this Wired video, watch as Peter Davis, a champion pen spinner (yes, this is a thing), breaks down the art of pen spinning into 21 levels of difficulty. Starting with the basics, Peter demonstrates...

Oops. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell took a call in January by someone who he thought was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He also thought his chat was part of a TV interview. Instead, ...

I was working part-time at the conspiracy storeMy boss was Mr. QHe told me several times that he'd open my eyesTo a world of secrets and government liesOne day I was scrolling through my chans and sec...

Actor and director Kevin Smith, known for his work on Clerks, is freshly out of a 30-day mental health facility. Now, in a powerful 34-minute video, he courageously shares his experiences and what he ...

Guard horses at Buckingham Palace don't want tourists busting into their personal space. In fact, tourists are warned of this equine pet peeve with a huge sign that reads, BEWARE / HORSES MAY KICK OR ...

Allow me to recount to you an extraordinary tale of a gentleman and his minuscule canine companion. Upon stepping forth from his home, the man ambled toward the hind end of his trusty pickup, with his...

This is a gut-wrenching, sad story, and I hope the lawyers can find a good outcome for Rosemarie Benter. NBC Bay Area reports that confusing paperwork around a small loan against her condo to pay its'...

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Fuminori Tsuchiko, 75, who relocated to Kharkiv, Ukraine last year, has established a free cafe to provide meals for local residents affected by Putin's devastating invasion of the country. Prior to m...

A 13-year-old boy in Michigan took charge of a school bus on Wednesday after its driver became incapacitated. Footage caught by a camera perched above the driver shows her fanning herself before passi...

Rasheem Carter, 25, complained to his mother that a "truckload" of white men were targeting him. His decapitated body was later found in Jackson, Mississippi, where he lived. The cause of Carter's de...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag)The pristine body geometry in this dance by @blackwidow__official is so much fun to watch. These dancers...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by VISUAL FODDER (@visual.fodder)This bizarre pony ride animation is what I'm going to send someone next time they ask how I'm doing, and I...

South Carolina's senate voted 22-21 against a total ban on abortion, and Nebraska's legislature also fell one vote short on stopping a filibuster blocking a similar ban there. Decisive votes came from...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Anonymous Works (@anonymousworksinc)I love these haunting scarecrow photos by John Piper. These scarecrows are the kind that can scare o...

The online "Food Disgust Sensitivity Test" by IDRlabs has gone viral on Twitter, inadvertently shedding light on our perceptions of others' culinary practices rather than our own sensitivities.TODAY:P...

Live at the Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia. The performance took place in late 2005 as part of his "Glass, Concrete, and Stone" tour. As usual, Byrne puts his own delightful spin on the song, a...

Described as "the meowst sassy, all-knowing system powered by OpenAI," CatGPT is a fun feline-filled ChatGPT alternative. It currently offers two settings, GPT-Meow and GPT-Furr. GPT-Meow simply offer...

I do not know what Orange Julius thinks he is doing in this brief, weird, out-of-context moment. Donald J. Trump being offensive, mean, gross, or otherwise just exercising behavior inexcusable for ot...

The Daily Show's current guest host is the fantastic Desi Lydic. Lydic's week in the chair has been another stellar performance, and it further goes to show that maybe they don't need a permanent host...

According to The Beat, IDW announced today that it is being delisted on the NYSE, and is laying off 39% of its workforce."IDW is generally considered to be one of the Top Five comics publishers in the...

Was it Wayne LaPierre of the NRA who first said that, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people?" It doesn't matter. Sure, it's a catchy defense for the gun lobby. But when it comes to the popular S...

Talk about famous last words! The legendary Barry Humphries, better known as his alter ego Dame Edna Everage, left us with a parting gift. The Daily Telegraph shared an amusing, posthumous glimpse of ...

The Mountain Goats announced yesterday on theirFacebook pagethat on that day, April 26, two of their albums were releasedThe Sunset Treein 2005, andIn League with Dragonsin 2019. (It also happens to b...

A beautiful but simple orange cat is no match for a hilariously crafty pup, who pretends to be checking out a floor mat while his feline friend plays with her food. But watch how quick the small dog m...

A new Republican-backed never-DeSantis ad takes a deep dive into the Florida governor's psyche and let's just say the inside of the bobblehead is a very dark place. Juxtaposing DeSantis' flipped-out ...

In Fairfield, California, the Jelly Belly factory cranks out 1,680 jelly beans every second. Every second! Popular Mechanics paid a visit (video below) and you can too. ...

Georgia's foul-mouthed, slandering US Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene is at it again. Interviewed on a dubious straight-to-streaming video outlet, Greene claims to have seen some evidence while ...

Jedi Mark Hamill and Cameron Monaghan had fun filming a promo for EA's videogame Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The commercial looks smooth inside and outside of gameplay. However, the Survivor itself has ...

Lauren Boebert screamed her head off as she told her MAGA "patriots" to "take a stand" and be "bold" with flight attendants, even if it means getting kicked off a plane. And while they're at it, they...

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

Feeling lonely? Head to the Tomodachi ga Yatteru Cafe in Tokyo, where actors and models ply their thespian talents to feign familiarity and affection towards the clientele. Customers are enveloped in ...

Soul music legend Smokey Robinson, now 83, has dropped a new album, a conceptual one about sex called Gasms. With it, he hopes to show that older people are still sexual beings. In this Guardian inter...

Eurovision, the dazzling, larger-than-life musical extravaganza where countries across Europe (and beyond) come together to showcase their catchiest tunes, most flamboyant performances, and unforgetta...

Republicans, in their unending quest to quash the tide of marijuana legalization, have latched onto the peculiar notion of canine unemployment as a rallying cry.The stage for this bizarre spectacle wa...

The UAE Space Agency's "Hope Probe" in orbit around Mars captured this magnificent new image of the Red Planet and its moon Deimos. The most detailed photo of Deimos, it was taken just 100km above the...

A passenger is missing after reportedly falling overboard from the 15th floor of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship while a woman, on the same cruise, died from a medical emergency the day before. The miss...

If you don't have a lot of time to read, check out these tiny illustrated science fiction stories. How tiny are they? One or two sentences. And that's one month down! In 2023, I'm creating an illu...

I have been led to believe that calling 911 is a joke! If the Devil is doing it I may need to check this out.Back in the days before widespread cellular adoption, it seems evil had to resort to other ...

Ron DeSantis was making a political statement when he launched his attacks against The Walt Disney Company, trying to strip them of their Reedy Creek development district. Disney dared speak out again...

A woman suing Texas for its draconian abortion ban which denied her the emergency care she needed during her pregnancy called out Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn during her hearing: "I nearly die...

TV ringmaster and politician Jerry Springer, who cultivated the best that life has to offer on his TV show, is dead at 79. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer, according to TMZ.Jerry hosted the sm...

Republican standard bearer Marjorie Taylor Greene can't shut up about her admiration for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira. She loves him because he "is white, male, christian, and antiwar" and "told the ...

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With the privatization of the space industry and the rise of space tourism, a group of scientists argue there's not enough research on sex in space and the unique challenges that could arise if a baby...

I almost feel sorry for this Trump-adoring twosome, donned in their sartorial symbols of devotion matching MAGA caps as they tie their tongues into Gordian knots, striving to explain to Davram of th...

A 32-year-old man is in court after attempting to sell a dismembered member at a shopping mall in Butterworth, South Africa. The penis did not belong to the seller but rather a 68-year-old man who is ...

Red Team Blues is the newest novel from Cory Doctorow, former co-editor of Boing Boing, and the first of the new trilogy centered on Martin Hench, a forensic accountant who's hacked together a scrappy...

A peacock, roaming the streets of the Bronx in New York City, bit a man in the leg last night–or on the pants. Reports of the incident are unclear. The Gothamist:"I thought I was buggin'," the m...

Ed Sheeran is currently in a civil trial over his song "Thinking Out Loud." The owner of the copyright to Marvin Gaye's 1973 hit "Let's Get It On" is suing Sheeran's claiming his song violated their r...

Can you solve this Wheel of Fortune puzzle? It stumped contestants ("joining the cra… oops!", offered one) and Yahoo News writes that fans of the show were "outraged.""#Angela on @WheelofFortune...

"Hey, how come you ain't got no brothers up in the spandex?" Considering how monochromatic Marvel and DC's roster of superheroes usually tend to be, it's a fair question. Plus, when you factor in how ...

These kids today have no idea how good they have it. They can just waltz right into a movie theater and hand over a few greenbacks, and suddenly they're watching a video game-accurate adaptation of Su...

If there's an emerging consensus that Tucker Carlson's firing by Fox News had more to do with boss Rupert Murdoch's personal whims than anything else, don't underestimate the extremity of Carlson's mi...

If there's an emerging consensus that Tucker Carlson's firing by Fox News had more to do with boss Rupert Murdoch's personal whims than anything else, don't underestimate the extremity of Carlson's mi...

The pad beneath SpaceX's Starship failed catastrophically, says a planetary scientist who has worked on launch pad research for NASA, and environmental activists claim this and the subsequent explosio...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag)Artist Matt Bolinger made an 18 minute painted animation called "Between the Days". This preview makes m...

A teacher and a classroom assistant at Brown Elementary School in Brownsburg, Indiana, were charged with neglect after forcing a 7-year-old boy with special needs to eat his own vomit. Three more staf...

Late Queen star Freddy Mercury owned many splendid things and some of them could soon be yours. Items from his house, until now left as it was when he died in 1991 at 45, are to be auctioned off. Amon...

Today Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), testified in front of Congress on COVID-19 school closures. C-SPAN explains that Ms. Weingarten:testified on w...

Not that the internet needs to get any weirder, but actually maybe it does… and if like me, you're looking for EVEN more weirdness in your life, AND… you're not totally sick of thinking ab...

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My wife often tells amazing stories of her time throwing parties in Miami, in the '90s, but I've never seen any proof those parties actually happened. Not to say I don't believe her! But it's nice to ...

E. Jean Carroll today repeated in court her allegation that Donald Trump raped her as her lawsuit went to trial in New York City: ""I'm here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, h...

In the latest issue of my Book Freak newsletter, I recommended my longtime friend and business partner Kevin Kelly's new book, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. It has hund...

A man in Italy hiked through the Livorno woods in a section that had recently been cleared, and noticed something shiny on the ground between the leaves. Taking a better look, he discovered a few half...

I've done a number of videos over the years about people making game terrain out of trash — usually kitchen trash (plastic containers, coffee stirring sticks, cereal cardboard, and the like). Bu...

It's been a minute since we got a new "Black Mirror" season, so it's exciting to see that Netflix dropped the Season 6 teaser trailer today. For reference, the last season of Charlie Brooker's twisted...

When Sergio Costa (now 23) was in school he saved $30,000 selling Cialis to his classmates. He wanted a larger penis so he flew to California to get a silicone sheath, called the Penuma, into his peni...

'National Enquirer'"Fox News House of Cards Collapses!" screams this week's already outdated cover story.The 'Enquirer' crows about "Fox News' catastrophic $787 million election lies settlement" that ...

A House With Good Bones is a charming story about a young archaeological entomologist and the skeletons her family doesn't know lurk in the closet. I've found every T. Kingfisher novel I pick up to be...

Charlie isn't called a "unicorn" because of a horn on his head; it's because he's so rare. He's a male calico cat.He was found in a Humane Society facility in Loveland, Colorado, which posted a Faceb...

One of the biggest ongoing stories in the entire gaming industry has finally come to a definitive close… for now, at least. Microsoft's massive acquisition of gaming giant Activision has been of...

Burning Shores, the recent DLC for post-post-apocalyptic robot dinosaur hunting game Horizon: Forbidden West includes a completely optional lesbian love interest for the main character.The article sho...

Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founding member of anti-Putin resistance group Pussy Riot, has been named a top enemy of Russia for speaking out against Putin's dictatorship. In her TEDTalk, Tolokonnikova shar...

In this National Geographic video, we see an elephant bull locally known as "the don" take on the role of toll collector. He sniffs out and stops a delivery truck carrying sugar cane to collect a port...

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Watch Kyrsten Sinema dodge questions from a reporter about her lavish lifestyle like an absolute pro. At least part of her lifestyle is funded by the same billionaire treating Supreme Court ...

Larry the great Dane, known on TikTok as the world's largest lap dog, doesn't see a sitting human nearby to take advantage of. So he tries to use his canine buddy as a cushion, but has the hardest tim...

In the summer of 2020, we heard about Boots Riley's new show, "I'm a Virgo." Now, this summer we finally get to see it. Set in Oakland, the quirky comedy revolves around Cootie (played by Jharrel Jero...

"They don't put pretty people like me in jail," Holmes once told a Walgreens consultant, and it appears she is fighting to prove herself true. A last-minute appeal has triggered an automatic delay of ...

A farmer in Ohio was still awake at 9pm last night when he got an unexpected visitor at his door. The 29-year-old stranger walked up to the farmer's house with no car in sight because he hadn't trave...

The Walt Disney Company today sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis, claiming his political campaign against it amounts to unconstitutional interference in its business, a "relentless campaign to weaponi...

A timid Gov. Ron DeSantis has been hinting for months on end that he will run for president in 2024, but like a game of Whac-A-Mole, every time he pokes his head out of his swampy hole, a pissed-off D...

April 24, 2023 Sean Hannity interviewed Tulsi Gabbard, who had this to say about the DNC, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris. I transcribed this so you don't have to actually watch Hannity or Gabb...

Meet Sky Super Cat, described by his humans as "very strange cat," "cat with character," "nonstandard," and "original." He definitely seems all of those things, plus he's also super cool. Check him ou...

With Joe Biden announcing his 2024 re-election campaign, the Biden-Harris official store introduced new merch, including a "Dark Brandon" tee-shirt and mugwhich feature the president with red glowing ...

Starting in the 1970s, the UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has created innovative safety PSAs for TV about how to cross the street without getting run over. One classic is t...

The Texas Department of Agriculture announced two new dress codes for its employees one for those born with a penis and the other for those born with a vagina. The "Dress code and grooming policy," a...

A TikToker by the name of Obscuriousmind has taken AI-generated images of GOP leaders in drag, animated them, and added deep-faked voices. The result is nothing short of spectacular."Let's make Americ...

On Saturday night, the fire-breathing dragon in Disneyland's "Fantasmic!" show caught on fire, destroying the prop, and causing six cast members to be treated for smoke inhalation. New York Times stor...

image: Sotheby'sThe personal possessions of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, untouched in his London home since his death in 1991, will soon go up for auction. Now's your chance to own his Tiffany &...

MAGA pastor Shane Vaughn has a batphone direct to God. And he knows the real reason why Tucker Carlson is gone. It wasn't that Carlson's advertisers had pulled out or that he was on record describing ...

If you read about a rare natural event in California these days, it's usually some disaster caused by global warming. But here's an uncommon phenomenon that's happening this year, and it's great for e...

The Flashis about to hit theaters pretty soon, and the film that will serve as the curtain call for the failed DCEU and the catalyst for the impending DCU. There's a lot riding on this movie's shoulde...

In the video above, a gorilla named Zola has a blast spinning in circles. It's not uncommon for apes to enjoy whirling around but why do they enjoy it? Turns out, it's the same reason that kids get ki...

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THE APRIL 2023 INNER HIVE DRIVE: For every Inner Hive sign-up during the month of April, $25 will be donated to Save the Children, helping children in crisis, including Ukrainian children. Member...

In Swansea, Wales, city contractors repainting the roads outside of Llangyfelach Primary School misspelled the word "school." Apparently, the Welsh word for school below it was also incorrectit should...

A 26-year-old man was stopped by TSA workers at Boston Logan Airport while attempting to bring a metal drinking straw with a sharpened tip in his carry-on luggage. Known as "vampire straws," these ite...

Washington state banned the sale of assault rifles, joining 10 others in enacting restrictions on them."Assault weapons have no reason other than mass murder. Their only purpose is to kill humans as r...

It's always sad to watch legends age. Back in the late 80s and 90s, there were nowhere near as many Black leading men as there are today, and without question, Denzel Washington was the face of the en...

Get ready to be blown away (again) by music prodigy Nandi Bushell, who's becoming a teenager this Friday. The nearly-13 drumming dynamo has put together two videos showcasing her Top 5 rock and metal ...

Indie musician John Vanderslice announced on his social media last week that someone broke into the recording studio he runs, Tiny Telephone, in Oakland, California. CBS News explains:The st...

Mattel's newest Barbie doll, created in partnership with the National Down Syndrome Society, is designed to accurately represent women with Down syndrome. The doll features a shorter frame, longer tor...

An evil genius named Dan Oliver has made perhaps the greatest contribution yet to the current the AI-generated content trend: a pizza commercial.Specifically, a retro-styled ad for a fake restaurant c...

It can't all be bad news all the time! Yesterday, 144 workers at Sega of America chose to unionize in a majority vote, and are now asking for voluntary recognition from the company. Unions are gradual...

Before hitting big fame in Tears for Fears in 1981, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were part of a band called Graduate. The band was formed in 1978 in Bath, England, and had a short-lived run before di...

The reports of the demise of movie theaters are greatly exaggerated. During the early days of the pandemic, multiple businesses were forced to contend with a new paradigm that threatened their existen...

I love the "Pedro Pascal as X" trendyou can find lots of examples on Twitter. For example, here's Pedro Pascal as Squishmallows, and here he is, "transformed into Pedro Pathcal, as different...

First rule: don't start shit in LA traffic. Just don't. People are all trying to get somewhere, and it's likely they're already late or otherwise struggling in some distinct corner of their lives.I st...

Damon Albarn may just be one of the most prolific men in modern music, with side projects ranging from the political to the novel (and in some cases, both). Gorillaz, the chart-shattering virtual band...

Who wants to feel old today?! Disney's Animal Kingdom in Florida opened 25 years ago this week. As part of the celebration, a time capsule buried during the park's grand opening in 1998 was unearthed....

April 25 is a national holiday in Italy commemorating the 1945 liberation of Italy from the Nazi-fascist government that held the country during World War II (Wikipedia article here). Apparently, the...

Just when you think you've heard it all, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker (aka Kourtney Kardashian's hubby) has partnered with canned water brand Liquid Death to release the first-ever celebrity-endors...

Earlier this month, a YouTuber going by the name of oldschoolmtg began posting unboxing videos of an as-yet-unreleased Magic: The Gathering card expansion set called March of the Machine: The Aftermat...

The Peter Stone Brown Archive YouTube channel recently posted this restored clip, "Bob Dylan goes Motown." It features two songs that Dylan performed for the Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute ...

A recent NBC News poll affirms the unpopularity of President Donald Trump and his brainchild, the fascistic MAGA movement.A scant 24% of respondents viewed the traffic-cone-colored demagogue's movemen...

Above, Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler plays Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall," at least as imagined by Dutch guitarist Laszlo Buring. It pairs nicely with the clip below of Pink Floyd's David Gilm...

A black puppy became cross with her own leg, which wouldn't let her take a nap. In fact, the uncooperative pest kept dropping towards the floor, even after she growled in irritation for it to stay on ...

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Last week, a Burger King franchise owner from Texas closed more than two dozen locations around Detroit, Michigan. Those shut down left more than 400 people unemployed. That's when Stiizy, a Michigan-...

Well-known ultramarathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski, 47, took third place earlier this month in a 50-mile race from Manchester Liverpool. More impressive than taking the Bronze is that at certain points...

A 44-year-old gentleman in California allegedly spent the last few years impersonating a doctor. Stephan Gevorkian "treated" thousands of patients some with serious conditions such as viral infection...

Mexico's Navy spotted 11,520 tequila bottles filled with liquid methamphetamine on a dock at the port city of Manzanillo. According to authorities, the total haul was around 10 tons of meth. From CBS ...

In "Word Processing: The Pivot Point," an industrial film exhumed from the crypt of 1975, we witness the collision of the countercultural zeitgeist with the inexorable march of corporate mechanization...

Harry Belafonte, Calypso/pop superstar and influential civil rights activist, has died. He was 96. Belafonte was born in 1927 in Harlem, New York to parents who had immigrated from Jamaica. After spen...

If you think families who have lost loved ones to school shooters, or to cancer, or in car accidents, or in a war have it bad, you're living in a bubble. A poor Florida man is living in "hell on earth...

A third-grade teacher named Sophia DeLoretto-Chudy at Becker Elementary School in Austin, TX says she is under fire for teaching kids that they are afforded rights under the U.S. Constitution. In a Ti...

After a year of moonlighting as an intern for Russia State TV, Tucker Carlson finally gets his big break. Russian state media offers are flooding in, asking the ex-Fox host to join their networks. All...

Last week, bargain-hunting travelers seized a rare opportunity to purchase All Nippon Airways (ANA) tickets at astonishingly low prices. Bloomberg reported that excited customers managed to procure fi...

Just two days ago, MSNBC's Jen Psaki asked AOC if media organizations should be accountable "for being platforms of incitement," to which AOC answered hell yeah. "When you look at what Tucker Carlson ...

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Justin O. Schmidt, the legendary entomologist affectionately known as the "King of Sting," died in February at the age of 75, his exit ticket punched not by the venomous critters he so loved to study,...

The Smithsonian Magazine recently reported on the existence of horses on the continent before the arrival of Europeans. This is not a revelation to everyone. As previously posted at BB, the research o...

U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. today launched his campaign for re-election in 2024.He said it was a pivotal moment with freedoms and rights under threat. "This is not a time to be complace...

Anheuser-Busch, the company which produces Bud Light, has suspended two executives responsible for two instagram posts featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. One of the two executives had th...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by (@cow_99857)This family knows how to make the best out of a trip to McDonalds. Why throw your bag away when you can poke eye holes in i...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jake Guzman (@jakeguzman)This rustic cabin in Washington stands alone on a mountain at 7,000 feet. In the video, the cabin is dubbed as ...

Recently, musician Algal the Bard bard-rolled us. Now, here's his catchy cover "Losing my Religion" by R.E.M. on medieval instruments. (The Awesomer)...

After more than 30 years of controversy, the Thomas Fallon statue in San Jose, California is being removed. The bronze sculpture, which was installed in 2002 without public input, depicts Captain Thom...

Move over Cocaine Bear; a soda-guzzling bear has emerged. In a bizarre early morning incident near Earls Cove, British Columbia, a black bear indulged in a soda-drinking spree, consuming 69 cans from ...

After eight years on the air, The Late Late Show is ending for good this week. For the final Carpool Karaoke episode, Adele surprised her friend, host James Corden, by waking him up early with cymbals...

This 60 Minutes interview with Nicolas Cage kicks off in his brand new gilded Lamborghini, which he bought as a nod to a 1968 Fellini-directed short that features a golden Ferrari. The interview doesn...

A deer broke into a home in Melbourne, Australia, much to the surprise of home owner Alexander Hill and his children. The deer made its way inside by crashing through a glass door with its antlers. AB...

Last week, Gorillaz appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform their new song "Possession Island," featuring Beck. The song is off of Cracker Island, their eight studio album. Besides Beck, the 10-trac...

Bebe Rexha got her start when her entry won her the Recording Academy's "Best Teen Songwriter" award, beating out 700 other entrants. She later penned Eminem's Grammy-winning "The Monster" and compose...

On Tuesday, April 18, a fluffy sheep wandered off its farm and found itself at the South Windsor, Massachusetts home of Eric Cormier and his girlfriend Megan DeCosta. MassLive explains:Cormier sa...

On Tuesday, April 18, a fluffy sheep wandered off its farm and found itself at the South Windsor, Connecticut, home of Eric Cormier and his girlfriend Megan DeCosta. MassLiveexplains:Cormier said the ...

British comedian and Murder at the Museum author Alasdair Beckett-King created this delightful satire sketch above, compressing and homaging the entire oeuvre of 50s American sci-fi schlock into 90 se...

Check out the latest project from Danielle Baskin, the talented Happy Mutant behind Branded Fruit, Face ID masks, Blue Check Homes, and more. A product designer, situation designer, and visual artist,...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sal DiGirolamo (@sal_digi)This six-year-old girl is in a league of her own. At her first tee-ball game, Mattea DiGirolamo of Kenilworth,...

Today, we are all Michael Rapaport. In this uplifting self-shot video, the actor/comedian shares his thoughts on the ousting of clownish demagogue Tucker Carlson."Hahahahahahahahahahah! HAH, you fuck!...

On Saturday at the LA Times Festival of Books, Matthew Perry, former Friends star, sought penitence for disparaging fellow actor Keanu Reeves, reports CNN.A panelist at the festival, Perry publicly pr...

In memory of Tucker Carlson, here's a nostalgic montage that highlights the testicle tanner's 14-year shit show at Fox. The tribute includes a short walk down memory lane where we can have a final lau...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Safely and securely store any type of file onPrism Drive...

In the Ozark Mountains hamlet of Tontitown, Arkansas, an alleged act of familial bonding took a bizarre turn when Jeremy Sherland found himself in the crosshairs of local law enforcement, accused of t...

News broke that Tucker Carlson "parted ways" with Fox News today, but the LA Times quotes an anonymous source saying boss Rupert Murdoch fired him. People familiar with the situation who were not auth...

A Belgian Malinois really wants to go outside, even though he's not supposed to. And he is smart enough to work some magic by jiggling the handle of a door until it pops open. But he's even smarter on...

Above, Fox News's Harris Faulkner somberly shares the departure of Tucker Carlson from "the Fox family." Below, she exuberantly reports on Don Lemon's dismissal from CNN.image (cropped): Harris Faulkn...

A cascade of misfortune, with Tucker Carlson at its epicenter, has washed over Fox News, leaving the once-great Goliath struggling to regain its balance. Tucker Carlson, the channel's star propagandis...

England's Blackpool Zoo is hiring for people "comfortable wearing a bird costume" to act as "seagull deterrents." At Blackpool Zoo it goes without saying that we love all animals!" they state. "And as...

Finally, some honest MAGA folk come right out with it on why they don't believe in gun control. The reason the GOP doesn't want any kind of restrictions on purchasing a gun even logical precautions s...

Located in the ritzy Claremont Hills above Berkeley, California, the Saxophone House was built in 1996 for an amateur jazz musician. It's now listed for sale at just under $2 million. See the interior...

Moments after Fox announced that it was parting ways with Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon tweeted the news that CNN had fired him without warning:I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been te...

As we know, Swiss artist HR Giger created incredible concept drawings for Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune project. While that Dune was doomed, KhromAI used Midjourney to generate another visual taste of w...

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity is the name of this stunning drawing by artist Odilon Redon, a Symbolist artist who lived from 1840-1916. This surreal drawing is one of my favo...

Welp, looks like losing $787.5 million to Dominion hit Fox where it hurts. Tucker Carlson is OUT, with his last show having already aired on April 21. "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to...

"These ultra-high definition video scenes, captured between March 2022 and March 2023 during the International Space Station's Expeditions 67 and 68, let you imagine yourself as a station crew member ...

Creative Bay Area types, listen up! San Francisco just launched a neat new initiative called "Vacant to Vibrant" to revive downtown's empty stores with art and pop-up shops. The city's offering free r...

Are cow butts an extraterrestrial delicacy? Madison County, Texas police are investigating a very strange rash of cattle mutilations in the region. A half-dozen cows across the areas were found on the...

International superstar Disney Queen, Grammy award winner, and she who played James Madison's flute Lizzo ignored advice to cancel her performances in Tennessee and instead took the stage in a show of...

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 the iPhone, it's anything but a simple gadget...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: If you've been thinking about a digital nomad life...

"I'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes," Gov. DeSantis, who is in Japan right now, says when asked about polls that show him falling behind Trump. pic.twitter.com/...

Henry Rollins (the glorious dog, not the equally glorious musician) has adopted what we affectionately call the "flat beard." Henry is part Brussels Griffon, or that's what they told us when we a...

A couple in Draper, Utah watched as their $900,000 "forever home" along with a neighbor's house broke apart and slid off a cliff into the valley below on Saturday (see video, posted below by AP). Th...

The folks at Ordinary Adventures are charming, and positive and know their theme park food. Kitra and Peter are my go-to hosts when I need an update on what's good to eat, or not, at any Disney or Uni...

During a softball interview with CBS' Robert Costa, former Vice-President and rabid Christian watchdog Mike Pence shared his view that taking women's rights away nationally is "the calling of our time...

Fantastic Negrito's incredible journey has led him from winning NPR's Tiny Desk contest with a self-submitted tape to earning three consecutive GRAMMYs. Now, he's featured on "The Songbook," a new ser...

We salute you, dishonest governors destroying our country!Sarah Huckabee Sanders is raising funds with a parody of a popular Bud Light commercial series from the 1900s. Her grimace scares me. Real wom...

A homeowner in Florida fired shots at delivery drivers who mistakenly entered his driveway, reports the Associated Press–the latest in a series of unhinged gun attacks on unexpected visitors. Th...

Researchers Fanjun Bu, Ilan Mandel, and Wendy Ju, of Cornell Tech in New York, NY and researcher Wen-Ying Lee of Cornell University in Ithaca, recently presented their new research, called "Trash Barr...

Max Lichtig, also known as "Shaboodle" is an actor and comedian who has made a series of "museum stories"–videos shot in various museums, where he imagines what folks in various paintings, many ...

The third album by the eclectic Swedish garage rock/punk anti-authoritarian music collective "The (International) Noise Conspiracy," A New Morning, Changing Weather included a political essay critiqui...

The most valuable object to have sunk with the Titanic wasn't the Heart of the Ocean necklace from the movie (of course), but rather a Neoclassical painting titled La Circassienne au Bain. Painted by ...

In this road rage incident caught on camera at an In-N-Out drive thru lane in Valencia, California, various characters repeatedly enter and exit the doors of their vehicles. You never know when or whe...

Seven years ago, game designer Mike Hutchinson had several titles he was developing. One was a miniatures-agnostic "rack and flank" fantasy battles game, called Hobgoblin. The other was a post-apocaly...

 This ain't Katrina and the Waves, but this IS heavy metal YouTuber Leo Moracchioli covering their 1983 hit, "Walking on Sunshine."Previously: Pomplamoose cover "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina a...

In this touching CBS Sunday Morning video, we see the incredible story of an unusual friendship. Lamar Johnson, who was serving a life sentence in Missouri for murder, began writing to retired schoolt...

The White Stripes have just premiered the music video for "Black Math," a 2003 fan-favorite song that never had its own video. Directed by underground animator Wartella, the video features a blend of ...

Every few years, Hollywood decides that they're all in on a specific actor. Occasionally, Tinseltown's chosen "star" fizzles out even faster than the duration of their push. However, every once in a w...

Guardians of the Galaxy has built a legacy by pairing its comedic cast of surprisingly layered characters with stunning action set pieces that beautifully sync to classic songs. So it seems fitti...

If you're a film buff, you've probably been keeping up with Ari Aster's new A24 flickBeau is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix. And if you're familiar with Ari Aster, the brilliant yet twisted mind beh...

Ailing retailer Bed Bath & Beyond filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend. The plainly-doomed warehouser of crap (a hot favorite among Reddit's day-trading gambling addicts and the journa...

Delaware's governor, Gov. John Carney, opposes legal weed. But after lawmakers there approved of recreational marijuana, he says he won't veto the bill and the state will become the 22nd to light up."...

My love affair with opossums continues. Check out the adorable growl on this opossum that was recently rescued by the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center in Roanoke. They explain: "We snapped this real...

Square Enix has been far quicker to embrace technological trends than many of its contemporaries, having made pledges to utilize NFTs, the blockchain and even more Web 3 buzzwords in its future endeav...

A guerrilla group called Crosswalk Collective has taken matters into their own hands to improve pedestrian safety in Los Angeles, painting striped crosswalks at busy intersections. Its motto, "The cit...

Australian comedian Barry Humphries, famed worldwide as drag legend Dame Edna Everage, died Sunday in Sydney at 89. Goodbye, Possum."He was completely himself until the very end, never losing his bril...

Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain made him a superstar, and among its many hits, there's the controversial track, "Darling Nikki." The song's explicit lyrics about sex stirred quite a controversy, promp...

During its initial run on NBC, Community was unanimously praised as one of the most innovative and consistently hilarious sitcoms on the market. While the airwaves were being inundated with ...

In Litchfield National Park, Australia, 6 foot towers built by termites jut out from the ground. A termite mound is a delightful little house made from spit, sand, and feces. Termite mounds contain a ...

Elon Musk's new verification scheme for Twitter – in short, 'fork over the money or lose your checkmark' – has met with some backlash, with such notable figures as writer Stephen King, leg...

At the beginning, and throughout the first two years of the ongoing, yet to be over, COVID-19 pandemic, ideas pioneered by disability justice organizations were finally given credence by larger swaths...

Real-time oxygen production on a leaf pic.twitter.com/GFdjN3PX8v— Microscopic Pictures (@MicroscopePicsx) April 18, 2023You may be familiar with the idea that the planet's tropical rainforests ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Rosetta Stoneis an incredible way to learn up to 25 lang...

Since Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow has been in the news recently, this dramatic reading from 2011 of her cookbook, My Father's Daughter, has resurfaced and is making the rounds again. (Nag on the Lake...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by UDUCK (@duck.unity)These ducklings are having the time of their life riding on this mini waterslide. As soon as they get to the bottom ...

High-pitched superstar Mickey Mouse reminded the world that he knows how to handle dragons that pester him, and then Frontierland was evacuated. Having seen Fantasmic before, the entire dragon is not ...

De-stress with this virtual Koi Pond. I love how incredibly simple this interactive website is. Simply click an area of the pond to drop some fish food into it, and watch as the Koi Fish swim over and...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: Don't spend a fortune on a new iPad when thisrefurbishe...

The Fictional Brands Archive is exactly as its name promises. It's thorough, searchable and has filters!Fictional Brands Archive is a collection of many fictional brands found in films, series and vid...

In this footage, a personal computer is purchased in 1995. Filmmaker David Hoffman writes:The first thing I want to tell viewers is that these are 1995 outtakes from a film that I was making on behalf...

It's nice to see stop-motion animation getting the respect it deserves in modernity. As computer-generated animation began to skyrocket in popularity, other "outdated" forms of the medium started to f...

Whenever Disney and Star Wars find themselves in the same sentence, you already know the results will be polarizing at best and horrifically underwhelming at worst. Barring Rouge One: A...

This is the way. Jonathon, aka The Mad Maker, cooked up a delicious portmanteau by making the Mandalorian out of flan. Behold, the Flandalorian! (via Neatorama) @martyimmortal Improved it #flandalori...

In 1973, a group of young musicians from East LA – Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, David Hidalgo, Louie Prez, Steve Berlin (joined in 1984), and the late Francisco Gonzlez formed Los Lobos del Este ...

Every song is an instrumental – if you listen right."A sad fact widely knownThe most impassionate songTo a lonely soulIs so easily outgrownBut don't forget the songsThat made you smileAnd the so...

This might be the funniest news segment I've ever seen. Detroit don't give a fuck pic.twitter.com/IiuTjWPF2l— (@imsoshive_) April 22, 2023For those that aren't familiar, since 2018, ma...

Last month we heard Inuk singer-songwriter Elisapie cover Blondie's "Heart of Glass" in her beautiful Inuktitut. Now, she's taking on Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time," and it's just as lovely. Her ne...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Uni Nguyen (@unipawspaws) They're just like little kids having a slumber party, watching a movie as their eyes get heavier and heavier. ...

"Ni de here, ni de there pero en los dos."With sixty-nine episodes to date, El Pochcast, hosted by Rodrigo Nuez, provides accessible, imaginative reviews and opinions concerning music, movies, sports,...

"I can't hear, I can't see, and half the time I don't know what I'm talking about," quips sassy 106-year-old Doris Brown, who admits partying during World War II. In a hilarious video that's part roas...

Bridget McCarty created this amazing Stranger Things themed miniature. The Miniature can be accessed through a tiny door in a wall (the door is the same size as the wall socket!). Inside of the door i...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Canopic Studio (@canopicstudio)Canopic Studios makes incredible anatomy inspired ceramics. Many of their ceramic vessels are adorned wit...

I want to walk around inside of this dreamscape by Andhika Ramadhian. This artist makes ethereal digital landscapes that are too beautiful for words. I want to stare at their work on a loop until I dr...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Canopic Studio (@canopicstudio)Canopic Studios makes incredible anatomy inspired ceramics. Many of their ceramic vessels are adorned wit...

Ronald Reagan is invoked by many as a transformational president. Barack Obama fashioned his own presidential trajectory after the Gipper. Shrilling for the General Electric Corporation as an influenc...

@1.800.brzy My coworkers and I thoroughly enjoyed watching this throughout the day #hippiehill #sf #sanfrancisco #hippiehillsanfrancisco #april20 #sftok #sftiktok Sensual Seduction – Snoop...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Skoove Premium Piano Lesson Subscriptionis on sale for j...

Question Mark, Ohio, was created by Joe Meno and Dan Sinker and debuted this week. It's already pretty damn amazing. The story follows a young woman searching for answers in a town where things keep d...

How fun would it be to come across David Byrne singing at your local karaoke bar? That's exactly what happened in 2018 to some lucky folks at Portland's Alibi tiki-karaoke bar when Byrne took the mic ...

Debate Devil is a fun toy pick a position and have an ARGUMENT with a machine! This is exactly the sort of thing I imagine would be really useful if you were a member of an amateur debating club (or,...

I'm always fascinated by people who somehow manage to become hate figures not once but multiple times those who seem to not only attract public opprobrium but who actively court it, who would rather ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Thisrefurbished Lenovo Chromebookcan serve as a tablet a...

You may remember from Season 2, Episode 43 of The Trailer Park Boys: Park After Dark series, "The Sunnyvale Snack Company." In this offering, "The Boys are making their own potato chips. Ricky's at th...

Robert Ovetz explains this exact scenario in a recent article for Chief: The Voice for Workers."Last October 31, one of the largest nonprofit organization staff in the country began a two-week long un...

This 'Daredevil Stone' was recently demolished after tourists kept taking photos on its edge.  The rock protrusion, located in Anyang City, stuck out over a dangerously steep cliff. One wrong mov...

This 'Daredevil Stone' was recently demolished after tourists kept taking photos on its edge.  The rock protrusion, located in Anyang City, stuck out over a dangerously steep cliff. One wrong mov...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Joseph's Machines (@josephsmachines)Joseph's Machines recently posted this contraption made of paint rollers that will steep and wri...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag)Artist Wayne White never ceases to amaze me with his creativity. I love this recent video where he ...

Take a creepy crawly trip to Chicago's wondrous Insect Asylum. In this interview with Nina Salem, the owner and founder of the Insect Asylum, we get to see and hear about her gigantic collection of ta...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Theo Jansen, Strandbeest (@theojansen_official)See artist Theo Jansen's out-of-this-world sculpture "caterpillar" in action. Jansen is a...

Watch a brave soul take a dip in a freezing ocean of needles, aka Lake Baikal. Located in Russia, Lake Baikal looks this way during the winter when the structure of the ice changes and breaks apart in...

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The most recent episode of the Titans TV show inspired by DC's Teen Titans comic books featured a particularly surprising cameo. While traveling through the multiverse, Gar "Beast Boy" Logan happens...

Police bodycam footage nowadays doesn't do much but instill an unpleasant, creeping sense of dread in me. As police brutality becomes more well-documented, more and more bodycam clips of police commit...

There's something about this video that makes me laugh so hard. Here's Rox and Lee, bloggers from New Jersey, who describe their Instagram channel as, "Inspiring you with our love while spreading...

There's a lot you can say about YouTuber Mark Fischbach, better known as Markiplier, but he's certainly not one to rest on his laurels. He's well-known for going from ambitious project to ambitious pr...

Once again, German photographer Jens of Another Perspective gives us just that a fresh and unique perspective at what would otherwise be an ordinary sighting. In his latest video, using an extreme ma...

I've never eaten Taco Bell and I can't imagine I ever will, but thanks both to trips to the US in the past, and the cultural flattening of EVERYTHING due to the web, I am familiar with the brand, its ...

Mound Metalcraft was Tonka's original moniker in 1946, established in Mound, Minnesota, where a 3 man startup focused on manufacturing gardening tools using WWII surplus machinery, tools and materials...

Last week, I wrote about the new "Ultra Right Beer" a $35 six-pack of light lager grift masquerading a protest against Bud Light's marketing partnership with trans woman influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Up...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Tykr Stock Screenerteaches you the ins and outs of inves...

Shortly before every terminally online person in USAmerica got distracted by Elon Musk's prematurely exploding space phallus, there was a much more exciting space adventure happening in French Guiana....

I recently stumbled upon the "Temple Bus," an art car (or "mutant vehicle," in Burning Man parlance) created by David Best, the so called "Godfather of art cars." The vehicle, which was a staple ...

Health codes prohibit dogs from entering most restaurants. But there's a new trend in restaurants that are actually for dogs, or at least feature dog menus. For example, at Dogue in San Francisco, the...

"If the original Pokmon was remade with HD-2D technology, this is what it would look like," writes pixel artist Dott. For those not hip to the HD-2D scene, it's a style of videogames first created by...

Twitter's former top advertisers fled the platform soon after Musk turned it into a sewer of far-right harassment and antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now Musk is threatening remaining advertisers to ...

Forget gold digging. Wanted bandits stole a shipping container in Toronto worth nearly US$15 million in a good ol' fashioned "gold heist." The spoils which included not only gold but undisclosed othe...

London-based Sounds Like These is a creative audio company which means they do commercial music composition, sound design, and post-production. Their clients include Nike, Netflix, and Google. As Matt...

Yesterday, the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles began auctioning 20 cannabis-themed vanity license plates. Six days remain to bid on the following plates, ending on April 27 at 4:20 p.m. The auct...

In shocking news, it seems Justice Clarence Thomas' excuse for failing to disclose all the gifts, trips, and free rent his family received from his billionaire, dictator-enthusiast sponsor Harlan Crow...

Meet Cristhian Zapata, the third man arrested for threatening Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who has taken a stand against an extremist group called the Goyim Defense League. Similar to the oth...

The CEO of Clearlink, James Clark, wants employees to return to the office. Citing stories that sound more made up than genuine or even plausible, Clark should find himself answering many questions fr...

The University of Minnesota's Voyageurs Wolf Project released this trailcam video of a gorgeous black wolf wandering in the woods of northern Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park. The International Wol...

Have you ever wondered how tall famous people throughout history were? If so, check out this fun video that lines up historical figures from the shortest, Alexander the Great (4'9ft), to the tallest, ...

On Tuesday in Istanbul, day turned into night for several minutes as a creepy dark cloud blanketed the sky. Is the end of the world nigh? Maybe, but this was likely caused by an unusually huge cumulon...

Only six million first-generation iPhones were produced, and finding one in its original sealed box is extremely rare. Typically selling for tens of thousands of dollars, the highest recorded price fo...

Never has an interviewer looked more engaged than scam queen Kimberly Guilfoyle, who fancies herself a news personality. Too bad her fierce attention paid to brushing schmutz out of her hair and maint...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Thisrefurbished MacBook Procould make learning so much m...

A fatal car crash left a pickup truck stalled over train tracks in Odessa, Texas. And while the Department of Public Safety was investigating the scene, what came along but a train, blaring its horn b...

A school bus driver in Colorado was furious that the children he was driving were acting like children, so he "taught them a lesson" by slamming on the brakes. The Castlerock Elementary School student...

A school bus driver in Colorado was furious that the children he was driving were acting like children, so he "taught them a lesson" by slamming on the brakes. The Castlerock Elementary School student...

Dominic Raab, Britain's notoriously unpleasant deputy Prime Minister, resigned today after learning an official report into his bullying behavior would confirm accusations of "persistently aggressive ...

Before society entered the current zombie boom that we can't ever seem to escape, Shaun of the Dead hit the zeitgeist like a brick through a glass window. Although seasoned fans of British c...

A Sukhoi-34 jet fighter bombed Belgorod, a Russian city 40 miles from the border with Ukraine, in what authorities there describe as an accident. The explosion catapulted a car onto a nearby roof and ...

Alleged psycho of the day is Robert Louis Singletary, hunted by police after shooting a little girl and her parents after they entered his yard to retrieve a basketball that bounced there. The trigger...

Batman is one of those characters that just works. Certain characters have a unique ability to survive the ravages of time and remain as impactful among audiences as the day they were created. In prev...

We're in the middle of a golden age for animation. In addition to the bounty of offerings from traditional animation studios producing 2D masterpieces, 3D animation has consistently created some marve...

DOSED 2: The Trip of a Lifetime tells the story of Laurie, a mother of four and terminally ill cancer patient who was granted legal access to psilocybin "magic" mushrooms, to alleviate her end-of-life...

After watching Bezos, the painfully low-budget and overtly hagiographic biopic of the Amazon founder's early years, I have a few questions. My first question is why is this film, based on the 2021 chi...

The game industry moves fast nowadays, paradoxically at odds with how long development cycles have become. It can be hard to keep up with what's delayed, what's cancelled, and what's stuck in eternal ...

When I moved across the country in 2021, I sold off many of my vintage games and RPG books. I am still stinging from that experience. I had come to the decision that I was not a proper game collector ...

Between Dying Light 2 and Dead Island 2, it feels like the market is a bit oversaturated with zombies at the moment – it's like 2009 all over again. Still, Dying Light (and Dead Island 1) develo...

Jeffrey Stephenson's Streamline is a masterpiece of useful craftsmanship: a small form-factor PC case that echoes and abstracts classic locomotive design. Colors are Cherokee Red and Storm Gray on a b...

Every resident in the state of Florida who is a wireless subscriber was greeted with a jarring alarm at 4:45am this morning. The early-bird wake-up call was actually just an emergency alert test meant...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:WithNatureID Plant Identification, you can easily figure...

What happens when worms use weed? Turns out, they get the munchies. University of Oregon neuroscientists soaked tiny nematode worms in liquid infused with cannabinoids, the active substances in the ca...

Civil War reenactor Gerald Leonard Drake, 63, of Winchester, Virgina pleaded guilty this week for placing a pipe bomb on the pretend battlefield. The bomb didn't explode but caused the organizers to c...

I'm sorry-not-sorry for bringing you more opossum content. It's not my fault they've been so newsworthy lately! Today, I'm sharing news about Grubby, an opossum who found its way to Homer, Alaska on a...

I'm probably the odd one out here, but I truly, unironically, love a good circus peanut. I love the flavor (weirdly, it tastes way more like a banana than a peanut), and there's something about that s...

Today is April 20, 4/20, a high holiday for cannabis enthusiasts. The story goes that fifty years ago, a group of high school students in San Rafael, California, about 40 minutes north of San Francisc...

I'm not sure what got into Kevin McCarthy, but the so-called Speaker seems to be in high spirits on April 20th, and it's not even 4:20pm yet. And if anyone can make sense of his long-winded, disjointe...

A few years ago, my wife directed a fantastic production of Grounded, a one-woman play by George Brant about a fighter pilot who becomes a single mother, and gets re-assigned to a "safer" role as a mi...

In December of last year, we wrote about Malakai Bayoh, a then-12-year-old treble singer who hit an impressive high note. Now, his angelic voice has earned him the coveted "golden buzzer" from Simon C...

Apparently without a human to play with, a resourceful pup found a way to go solo with an exciting game of fetch. The rules were simple drop a ball down a subway staircase, fetch the ball, then retur...

Apparently without a human to play with, a resourceful pup found a way to go solo with an exciting game of fetch. The rules were simple drop a ball down a subway staircase, fetch the ball, then retur...

The Japanese philosophy of kaizen, which emphasizes continuous improvement and refinement, can be seen in various aspects of daily life, such as public transportation, urban planning, and customer ser...

A 56-year-old North Carolina man was pulled over for his poor job switching lanes around West 39th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan yesterday. But rather than face a standard driving ticket, the gen...

I like to reuse bacon grease to fry things in, but if you don't, this tip for getting rid of it might come in handy. Pouring the grease down the drain can clog the pipe, and throwing it in the trash c...

Popular GOP commentator Anna Perez, Host of Wrongthink with Anna Perez on LFA TV, is proud of herself for devising a test to find out if someone is a true patriot or a RINO. She inserts the word "f*gg...

I love Auralnauts' work and support their Patreon. They are celebrating the season finale of Disney's streaming Star Wars fan cameo vehicle, The Mandalorian, with a song comprised of every time the ch...

A binding arbitration panel has ordered Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a cybersecurity expert who proved that Lindell's evidence that China interfered in the 2020 Presidential election was bogus. T...

Former Vice President Mike Pence didn't make a good impression on the American people. In fact, Trump's White House doormat made no impression at all. To prove this, the Jimmy Kimmel Show conducted an...

Remember Viktoria Nasyrova, the dominatrix who tried to kill her lookalike Olga Tsvyk with a poison cheesecake and steal her identity? Yesterday, a judge sentenced Nasyrova to 21 years in prison. On h...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: Access bite-sized book summaries in 15-minute sess...

At the US Pentagon yesterday, the Department of Defense shared video (below) of a strange sphere zipping around above an unidentified location in the Middle East. The footage was captured by a surveil...

Microsoft has recently announced that Twitter will no longer be included in its ad-planning service. The company's Smart Campaigns service, which advertisers use to place ads on social media, has refu...

Self-proclaimed "theocratic fascist" Matt Walsh who has previously claimed that anime is "satanic" and that mermaids are scientifically incapable of being black had his Twitter account hacked on Tue...

SpaceX today launched Starship, the largest rocket in history. The unmanned vehicle exploded after takeoff–a disappointment to onlookers, but one that came after what SpaceX described as a succe...

Following 2023's earlier docu-exploitation The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, Netflix has continued a strange tradition of capitalizing off of older, viral news that's far beyond its expiration date. Wi...

The headline on the Reuters story "Dead Birds Get New Life" deserves an award. The dead birds are not only taxidermied, but stuffed with drone technology and other mechanical marvels. They even flap!D...

Clock, by saharan, is a beautiful, striking example of the capability and expressive potential of modern web technology. It's also an instant headache....

'National Enquirer'"King Charles' Battle With Mental Illness Exposed!" screams the front page headline.The evidence is hard to refute: "Talks to plants & his dead uncle! Actually fears he'll becom...

Erryn Rhoden, a 48-year-old Ohio mom who works at her family's roofing company, is unexpectedly dominating the Candy Crush Saga All Stars Tournament. After accidentally entering the competition, she q...

A distinctive feature of English (and the English) is that it, and they, grwan their glamour through appropriation and assimilation. Even successful invaders end up feeling thoroughly shaken down. But...

Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, was a convicted felon and prohibited from possessing firearms. Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, posed with a handgun on social media. Terry Kristopher Flournoy, 23, is hea...

A recently unearthed video shows a 15-year-old Billie Eilish performing at her first festival in spring 2017, before she gained massive fame. At the time, only a few spectators were present, but notab...

To quote John Locke–the bald dude from Lost, not the philosopher–"There are two sides; one is light, and one is dark." Or, to quote a more respected source of wisdom than a largely forgott...

Junnn11 has contributed dozens of beautiful, precise yet adorably cartoonish Creative Commons-licensed illustrations of arthropods to Wikipedia. [via Hacker News] ...

The conversation around The Super Mario Bros. movie from Illumination Studios has taken more twists and turns than a stuntman's car on a film set. When the movie first unveiled its, let's say, un...

TL;DR: If you need a little help understanding Excel in all of its forms, this bundle will give you a specific set of skills and tools to totally own your way around Microsoft.Though we all may f...

Please meet Tripedalia maipoensis, a newly-discovered species of box jelly fish that researchers found in a brackish shrimp pond in Hong Kong's Mai Po Nature Reserve. The box jellyfish (scientific cla...

Here's some fresh footage of Murphy and his adopted eaglet that World Bird Sanctuary tweeted today. So far the eaglet doesn't have a name, but lots of folks are suggesting "Rocky," which to ...

Whenever people think about the Fantastic Four-which is a rarity in itself as the group is nowhere near as popular as their peers in the Marvel universe- most people tend to consolidate their focus on...

It's the end of an era. Netflix is set to end its DVD-by-mail rental service, a once-revolutionary concept that paved the way for its popular video streaming platform. The service, which delivered fil...

Foo Fighters have announced a new album, the first since the tragic death of beloved drummer Taylor Hawkins in March 2022. Described as "the first chapter of the band's new life," But Here We Are...

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 the iPhone, it's anything but a simple gadge...

As every cat owner knows, no item in the house is immune to becoming repurposed and thus trashed by your four-legged fiends. Like my childhood kitties, who used the couch as a scratching post, the t...

After a frothy couple of weeks in which people have spent an awful lot of time talking about AI and What It Might Mean For Us without in any way spending time thinking about what, to my mind, is The B...

Yesterday, Dustin Cain of Topeka, Kansas was the subject of a viral video in which he smashed a bunch of cases of Busch beer at a Walmart, presumably in protest of Anheuser-Busch's "woke" policies. (B...

I recently wrote about the opossum that's taken up residence in the Oakland Athletics'' visiting team broadcast booth. The possumnicknamed "Rally Possum"was spotted at th...

In a vile example of the depths to which anti-abortion activists will stoop to push their agenda, Cincinnati Right to Life leader Laura Strietmann employed misinformation during her proponent testimon...

Video editor Ewzzy Rayburn discovered the concealed gag in the 1992 Simpsons episode "The Otto Show." In this episode, Homer's tinnitus drowns out Marge's words, leaving viewers uncertain about her di...

Is it the sports coat? Is that the sin? I remember something about an amazing technicolor dreamcoat but this is not that cool.Minnesota Republicans having a normal one today. #mnleg pic.twitter.com/3l...

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A 26-year-old man in Cowlitz County, Washington escaped from prison on Monday by impersonating his cellmate, who was supposed to be released that day. It helped that his cellmate was sound asleep when...

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Marjorie Taylor Greene spiraled out of control today at a Homeland Security Committee hearing, shouting with pointed finger that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was a liar. In her polit...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR:Scrivener 3is an award-winning app used by writers of al...

Pretzel sleeps a lot, and she snores. Her favorite place to sleep is on my pillow, right atop my bald old head, so I hear a lot of this and wanted to share. Enjoy, friends! View this post on In...

First introduced in 1972, Boggle is a delightful game in which you try to find words on a grid of shaken dice (with each die having six letters on it). In 1987, manufacturer Parker Brothers quietly up...

Wandering Planet Toys  the company that previously brought you those gorgeous licensed The Prisoner action figures has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a retro-sty...

On April 19, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman ingested 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide, a curious compound he had synthesized for possible use as a respiratory and circulatory stimulant...

Sweeping the streets and shoving people in camps isn't a particularly creative solution to "helping" the unhoused; I hear it all the time from privileged folks who have a home and don't want to look a...

Prices at Elon Musk's faltering EV startup are dropping yet again. Struggling to create demand in a market saturated with their CEO's gaffes and foibles, Tesla does not signal strength with its sixth ...

On a recent flight, a passenger found himself unable to tolerate the prolonged wails of a distressed infant, and rather than sympathizing with the child's plight, chose to throw a temper tantrum of hi...

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The gaslighting knows no bounds! The Dominion/Fox settlement was barely announced when Empty G lept to social media, crying foul. Her poor friends at Fox have been mistreated! The lies Fox created to ...

Married couple Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and wife Hansaben, 35, of Gujarat, India, reportedly killed themselves in a sacrificial ritual using a homemade guillotine over the weekend "The couple first prepa...

"I think if anyone would know about aliens on Earth, it would probably be me," Elon Musk said in yesterday's interview with Tucker Carlson. "And I've seen no evidence of aliens. I would immediately tw...

"Is there really a difference between indica and sativa or is it all in the head?"That's a question a Wired viewer asked chemistry professor Amber Wise, PhD in a recent YouTube video. Her answer is i...

A so-called elite runner won third place in an ultramarathon by sitting in a car for part of the race. Of course she was disqualified once her unique way of winning a 50-mile race was discovered.Joas...

America and guns, we're really screwed. Jordan Klepper has the experience you'd expect at the biggest gun show in the country. No shooting Tony Hawk. Featured Image: YouTube/TDS...

According to the National Priorities Project, the average taxpayer in the United States paid $1,087 to Pentagon contractors and just $270 for K-12 public education in 2022.Other tax facts:The average ...

For all the amazing games Valve has produced (and they are amazing, make no mistake), they also kicked off the lootbox trend with microtransactions in Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike. Even their ma...

Rep. Lauren Boebert's challenger Adam Frisch raised $1 million more than the GQP lawmaker in the first quarter of 2023, with money pouring in not just from Colorado but from donors across the country....

In the bustling neighborhood of Bangkok's Chinatown, an unassuming street food vendor, nestled amid the vibrant chaos, employs an arsenal of fresh ingredients to craft a symphony of flavors in her lar...

2019's Days Gone was pretty good. A competently-made game with a satisfying central loop, but not much besides to really hook players. It's come up in the news a few times since its release, notably f...

Pedro Tello Rodriguez Jr., 25, was arrested Tuesday in Elgin, Texas, after shooting two young women who got into his car by mistake. He also fired at two others but missed, reports ABC News. Rodrigue...

Billy Idol and his band, joined by notable special guests, performed a historic concert at Hoover Dam on April 8. The event, captured for a concert film by Lastman Media, will be show in theaters late...

This is the only kind of sports news I'm interested in, because it involves one of my all time favorite creatures, the magnificent opossum. A couple of days ago, Front Office Sports tweeted, "MLB...

With The Super Mario Bros. movie close to earning a billion dollars at the global box office, it's safe to say that Hollywood will be flooded with video game adaptations soon. It's crazy to think...

Twitter users noticed that the company has removed language from its hateful conduct policy protecting transgender users. Deadnaming and misgendering trans people, banned by Twitter in 2018, no longer...

I recently discovered this awesome dance group from Italy called Urban Theory. They specialize in a form of movement called "tutting."  In an interview with Arts Help, they describe...

THE APRIL 2023 INNER HIVE DRIVE: For every Inner Hive sign-up during the month of April, $25 will be donated to Save the Children, helping children in crisis, including Urkrainian children. Members ge...

Tennessee's Attorney General says he will not prosecute people 18 years old or older who carry guns without a permit, reports Action News 5. In the Volunteer State, those ages 18 to 20 can now carry a...

The world was a drastically different place twelve years ago. In 2011, YouTube was only beginning to emerge as a major player in the entertainment world instead of being the juggernaut it is today. Th...

In 2006, Ms. Lockwood, an English teacher at Xavier High School in NYC, gave her students an assignment to write persuasive letters inviting their favorite authors to the school. Five students chose K...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by (@__mohu_c)Watch an absurdly cute dog react to a plush toy that looks like a tiny version of him. I like the way that the dog looks sli...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gunn (@jamesgunn)As the world inches closer to James Gunn's Superman movie, fans of the Man of Tomorrow are becoming increasingly ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by James Gunn (@jamesgunn)As the world inches closer to James Gunn's Superman movie, fans of the Man of Tomorrow are becoming increasingly ...

After losing her last attempt to delay her prison sentence while she continues to file appeals, former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is expected to begin her incarceration on April 27th. Rather than j...

A little over two weeks ago, writer Tom Scocca published a story on LED light bulbs for New York Magazine that went surprisingly viral (previous BoingBoing coverage here). Apparently, a lot of people ...

Despite their jovial demeanor and colorful appearance, clowns can evoke a deep-rooted fear in some people, with the unpredictability of their actions being a significant contributing factor. A recent ...

Sheriff Kevin Clardy of McCurtain County, Oklahoma, was recorded talking about murdering a local reporter and killing black people–a recording made by McCurtain Gazette newspaperman Bruce Willin...

Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5m to avoid a defamation trial it expected to lose. The case centered on Fox News' broadcasting of lies and conspiracy theories about the company's ...

Flordia Gov Ron "Ol' Puddin' Fingers" DeSantis tried to pretend he has the upper hand in his continuing battle with Disney. DeSantis wants to force Disney to agree with his biases and continues to thr...

Like the dorm room drinking game in which you have to say a sentence without laughing (or lose and take a swig), CNN's Jake Tapper challenged himself to read Fox News' Dominion settlement statement wi...

Coffee connoisseur James Hoffman was curious instead of roasting coffee beans, what if you deep fry them? So he took 100 grams of raw Ethiopian coffee beans, poured them into a basket, and set it all...

Boris Eldagsen's photo won the creative open category in the prestigious Sony World Photography Award whose winners were announced last week. Turns out though, Eldagsen was being a "cheeky monkey," as...

Well this is gross. In New Zealand, the North Canterbury Hunting Competitionunveiled a new category in which children under the age of 14 are encouraged to kill as many feral cats as possible. The win...

A Budweiser factory in Los Angeles was forced to clear out its workers after anti-LGBTQ conservatives sent in a bomb threat by email on Thursday one of several bomb threats targeting various Anheuser...

The ocean, often considered a silent and vast expanse, is in reality a cacophony of mysterious sounds, some of which remain unidentified to this day. One such enigmatic noise, known as "The Bloop," wa...

There have been no reports of anyone breaching the White House complex in recent years since the surrounding fence was doubled in height in 2019. But today, a person did manage to slip through the met...

In Washington State, Clallam County commissioners have officially proclaimed that their county is a "refuge for Sasquatch" and should provide protection and security for the cryptids if any choose to ...

Colin Davis McCarthy, 38, tossed $200,000 out of his car window on a Eugene, Oregon highway last week and encouraged drivers to stop and grab it. He told police he wanted to "gift" the money. From NPR...

Between 1933 and 1945, the Holocaust was a systematic, state-sponsored program to murder over six million European Jews, Romani, and countless others by the Nazi German regime and its collaborators. T...

Two members of UK's "Just Stop Oil" activist group caused a ruckus at the World Snooker Championship by climbing onto a snooker table and covering it with orange paint powder.I don't know enough abou...

Today is April 18th, and former Blackrock executive Morris Pearl, standing at a "Tax Day press conference" in front of the U.S. Capitol with Dr. Abigail Disney and about a dozen other millionaires, ha...

Southwest Airlines has asked the FAA to pause all of its departures. When The Points Guy reported the issue, over 30% of Southwest's flights had already been delayed. Expect it to worsen as the day go...

Some of my favorite black-and-white films are Paper Moon (1973), The Killing (1956), The Night of the Iguana (1964), Detour (1945), Drive a Crooked Road (1954), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Invasi...

Disney is treating Ol' Puddin' Fingers like a joke. Shortly after DeSantis detailed his newest plans to take over the Reedy Creek special tax district, Disney ignored his threats and announced it woul...

Rep. Jim Jordan (ROH), who never cared about crime in his own gym, is so afraid of New Yorkers, he is holding a "field hearing" to stop Manhattan's violent crime which is lower than the crime in Mans...

Anticharismatic authoritarian Ron DeSantis is pretending to be upset with Disney because they support LGBTQ kids. He's been trying his best to ruin Florida's economy by crippling Disney as part of his...

Incredible, hilarious, and brave Jordan Klepper has been responsible for many of the best TDS segments over the last few years. Here Klepper gets "the chair" for the first time:Klepper is a fantastic ...

Elon Musk went on Fox to discuss his latest project, a fantastic AI that he says will seek out the truth about life, the universe, and everything. While asking the rest of the world to stop working on...

Following similar action by NPR and PBS, CBC–the Canadian Broadcasting Company–has suspended use of Twitter after the site attached the "government-funded media" flag to its account there....

Mountainous Louisiana? Sam's Club T-shirt raises eyebrows https://t.co/3Kkb8G3HNi— NOLA.com (@NOLAnews) April 17, 2023NOLA.com recently tweeted this photo of a t-shirt being sold at some Sa...

In 2021, Ukrainian photographer Alexander Ladanivskyy captured this drone footage of the iconic Great Pyramid of Giza. In collaboration with Egypt's Ministry of Tourism, Ladanivskyy offers a unique, t...

Kaylin Gillis, 20, went into the wrong driveway looking for a friend's house in Hebron, New York. The homeowner shot her to death. Kevin Monahan, 65, was charged with murder and booked into Washington...

Black teenager Ralph Yarl went to the wrong house looking for his siblings and rang the doorbell. The homeowner shot him in the head, then shot him on the ground where he fell. Yarl wasn't dead, thoug...

Black teenager Ralph Yarl went to the wrong house looking for his siblings and rang the doorbell. The homeowner shot him in the head, then shot him on the ground where he fell. Yarl wasn't dead, thoug...

Like the Uropyia meticulodina, the buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) is a master of disguise. While the former looks like a dead leaf, the latter takes on the form of a snapped-off silver birch twig t...

These trees are taking "leaning in" to a whole new level. Cook pines (Araucaria columnaris) tilt south in the northern hemisphere and north in the southern hemisphere but always leaning towards the eq...

Check out musician Moises Alves blowing a trumpet through a Rubens tube, which uses fire to provide a visual demonstration of sound waves. It's so cool! What's a Rubens tube? Science Facts provides an...

I am truly, deeply, sorry for recently assaulting your eyes and ears with "music" from QAnon: The Musical. As penance, I'm offering up this actual gem: Steve Goodman and John Prine Stev...

Watch this wild performance by Ilia Savosin, an incredibly talented inline skater. He usually posts videos like this one, where he's wearing inline skates and performing pretty wild tricks. But&#...

Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis cop who choked George Floyd to death by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes, has lost his appeal against his 2022 murder conviction in Minnesota. Chauvin was al...

Rockstar then, rockstar now. A few years before he was Nirvana's drummer, a young Dave Grohl played for Mission Impossible, a punk band from Springfield, Virginia. Amazingly, there is footage of him a...

Andi Owen, CEO of furniture company MillerKnoll, took home about $5 million in compensation in 2022, about $1.3M of which came from a performance-based bonus. In a recent company-wide Zoom call, Owen ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)In this fun surreal video, a woman plays with a house cat that looks perfectly realistic despi...

In my recent post about YouTuber PointCrow and his truly revolutionary Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod, I made a half-joking remark about the famously litigious Nintendo coming for him over it. Now...

Here's an unusual collaboration: Netflix and Lacoste have teamed up on a preppy clothing line. The Lacoste x Netflix collection adapts the iconic crocodile to suit the vibe of eight of the network's s...

CuNiFe is an alloy comprised of 60% copper, 20% nickel, and 20% iron (the later of which is sometimes mixed with cobalt). It stands out not only because of its magnetic properties, but also because of...

A recent tweet from "*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer," Nnedi Okorafor reveals the new cove...

County officials were allegedly caught in an audio recording talking about assassinating a journalist and lynching Black people in McCurtain County, Oklahoma. (Listen to audio below, posted by Heartla...

Paul "Dril" Dochney, the best Twitterer of all, is profiled in The Ringer.Active since 2008, the Dril accountsimultaneously known by the profile name "Wint"with its grainy Jack Nicholson avatar, has b...

After an astounding 35-year run, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera took its final bow on Broadway Sunday night at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. The emotionally charged closing ni...

Rainn Wilson, the actor who played Dwight Schrute on "The Office," is a deep thinker when it comes to spirituality. I recently listened to his interview with Rich Roll where they discussed the need fo...

Italian police found nearly two tons of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $450 billion, floating in the sea off Sicily. (Maybe Niccol lost it.) Police spotted the haul during a routine survei...

Italian police found nearly two tons of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $440 million, floating in the sea off Sicily. (Maybe Niccol lost it.) Police spotted the haul during a routine survei...

Stanley Omondi, 25, donned a burka as a disguise to enter this month's women's chess championship in Kenya, Africa. A strong player who had done well in previous competitions, Omondo registered under ...

Most dogs are happy to do tricks for a savory table scrap or doggy snack. But this adorable Chihuahua-mix eagerly runs in circles, squats, leaps, speaks, squats again, "chills" on its side, sits, wave...

In Texas, the Mesquite Independent School District has fired teacher Natally Garcia for organizing a fight club in her middle school classroom. A 13-year-old girl secretly recorded video of Garcia enc...

This map has the price for Big Macs in hundreds of locations around the United States. At $3.49, the cheapest Big Mac is in Stigler, Oklahoma. The most expensive Big Mac is in Lee, Massachusetts, and ...

Yesterday in Aston, Pennsylvania, police were chasing an alleged car thief when he crashed into a pole. The suspect jumped from the vehicle and took off on foot. Moments later, a pizza delivery guy, i...

Anheuser-Busch desperately switches gears after facing backlash for going "woke." In a panic after collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney led to a predictable MAGA meltdown, the syco...

Marilyn Inglis was walking along a beach in Littlehampton, UK when she spotted this weird creature on the sand. She said that the bizarre animal was approximately two-feet long and "muscly." Based on ...

Apple has announced that it will begin offering a savings account with a 4.15% interest rate. "With no fees, no minimum deposits, and no minimum balance requirements, users can easily set up and manag...

The owner of an Airbnb in South Korea received a massive utility bill after a disgruntled couple left the water and gas running for 25 days straight because the owner didn't honor the guests' request ...

Last November, mega MAGA donor Thomas Peterffy dumped "three time loser" Trump for "fresh face" Ron DeSantis. But six months later, the disenchanted billionaire is turned off by DeSantis' authoritaria...

There are hundreds of places around the world where round objects seem to roll uphill. They are often referred to as "anti-gravity hills" (or sometimes "gravity hills," "magnetic hills," and "mystery ...

In the case of Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network, there will be a brief delay before the trial begins. In a four-minute hearing, the judge said "Things happen" and not much else. Fox has als...

I still refer to one of my cousins as Balki. He is capable of doing the Meeposian dance of joy, but I really have to ask. Inspector Gadget will never get old. View this post on Instagram ...

Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't take kindly to being called "irresponsible" by Lindsey Graham after she praised arrested Pentagon leaker Jake Teixeira. And so the churlish Qongresswoman did what she doe...

Here's another video by the infamous creeper who goes around harassing people who wear face masks. This time, his target is a park ranger operating an angle grinder near a metal pole planted in the gr...

Did you know that there are at least two musicals about QAnon? They are both rather unimaginatively named "QAnon: The Musical." The first satirizes QAnon and was created by comedy music group Un5...

Bullet-resistant, rather, as Hacksmith Industries reminds us time and again. The YouTuber collective, focusing mostly on bringing fantastical creations from film and TV to life with real-world science...

My friends and I have been fans of Raising Cane's (albeit sparingly) since high school. We're certified Caniacs, if you will. Still, I don't think any of us could have seen this coming: as part of a b...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag)I can't get over how cool this wheat paste animation is. The artist is Michael McAfee (@mcafee.desi...

Classic computer mags Maximum PC and Mac Life are going out of print. Harry McCracken, writing now for Technologizer–a website–heralds the End of the Computer Magazine Era. But I'm not wri...

Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, an Air National Guardsman from Tennessee, chanced across rentahitman.com and tried to sign up despite it glowing like the sun. He submitted his ID, his resume, and a cover ...

Christopher Mims poses that the reason that Apple remains top of the pile in the U.S. phone business is the used-carification of the market. "It's not just lavish marketing and the threat of green bub...

Game developer and publisher Sega is to buy Rovio, maker of the "Angry Birds" game series and related merch including a successful movie. The price tag is $1bn, reports the Wall Street Journal. Given ...

Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, an Air National Guardsman from Tennessee, chanced across rentahitman.com and tried to sign up despite it glowing like the sun. He submitted his ID, his resume, and a cover ...

Reggaeton hit "Gasolina" by Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee, aka Ramn Luis Ayala Rodrguez, made history as the first song of its genre to be inducted into the National Recording Registry at the Libra...

I recently saw these cool photos of the reproductive structures of the Poinsettia plantthey're called "cyathia"and was immediately struck at how much they look like Muppets. First, though, s...

Police in Massachusetts arrested seven men this weekend and charged them with running a catalytic converter theft ring covering much of the state and New Hampshire too. The angle-ground revenues top $...

I recently discovered Joshua Ellingson's youtube channel, and I have found myself completely enamored with his approach to combining electronics and code with a futurist vision of world-building that ...

This funny stingray put on quite the performance for the unsuspecting visitors at this aquarium.  I'm alway surprised at how cute and cartoonish these creatures' faces look. I love how it eats th...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)Today, I stumbled upon this devilish knife-wielding robot lady.  If you want to enhance y...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag)Howard Lee is the mastermind behind this floating tree optical illusion. Watch his step by step process ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)These wild Coke-can costumes are so much fun. Not only do the costumes look terrific in motion...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: If you're looking for self-improvement ideas that ...

US Representative Katie Porter was a guest on Bill Maher's show. Porter, a well-known defender of truth, was still nearly struck dumbfounded by Piers Morgan's attempts to compare an armed insurrection...

A public school teacher in Naples, Florida, shared pro-Confederate propaganda with their students because of the glorious losers. In addition to praise for successionist trash, the school teacher rebr...

Remember when MAGA's band of stable scientists proved that the COVID vaccine turns us into human magnets? Well, apparently the government is now secretly inoculating raw meat against the coronavirus a...

Spotted in Studio City, no expense was spared to create this stunning work of art on wheels....

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Banana Bruiser (@banana_bruiser)Some people don't mind eating a banana with a few dark spots (aka bruises) on it, while others prefer co...

2004's Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is still considered one of the best games ever made. It's packed with tiny details, features an all-star cast of villains and a tight, James Bond-inspired story ...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: You can avoid racking up an insane phone bill from...

In this 2018 video interview with John Kennedy from Radio X, legendary guitar artist and composer of orchestrated soundscapes Johnny Marr explains and plays the genealogy musical inspiration for the i...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Got Weird (@gotweird)Here's an awesome vintage photo (1948) of a double-decker, four-person bicycle. One person sits on the bottom while...

This is one of the coolest things I've heard lately. It's a group called Klangphonics, a trio that produces and performs live electronic music. Their website provides this description:By using a ...

As someone's dash cam video shows, a loose tire bounced down the freeway for much longer than it should have, forcing the car to drive slowly so as not to get hit. The tire faced many obstacles such a...

Enbiggen created a contraption that plays music from Miyazaki's iconic film Spirited Away. The metal ball roll down a maze-like structure of metal keys that play the song when hit in order. The song s...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cat videos (@thecatvibess)My cat's could surely take a lesson in generosity from these two polite kitties who pass a bowl of food back a...

Check out this cutest little baby bear meeting this precious tiny baby deer. I love how the cubwhose name is Boogupon first laying eyes on the fawn, stands up on his wobbly hind legs, trying...

Recently, another batch of 25 culturally significant recordings were added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. Among them? Koji Kondo's "Ground Theme", which has served as the the...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)There is a fellow named @james.prestwood who enjoys wearing a suit and tie as he casually flie...

ABC News Australia recently reported that scientists from the University of Sydney have discovered that two types of fungiAspergillus terreus and Engyodontium albumare effective at...

Some folks on the Boing Boing bulletin boards expressed dismay that the "Will Smith eating spaghetti" AI-generated video wasn't as horrifying as I sold it to be. One kind user suggested we check out a...

This video of filthy street signs getting power washed was my therapy for the day. Everytime the grime gets cleared away from a new sign, I let out a sigh of relief. These signs were cleaned by Andrew...

Almost a year ago, our pal Jimmy DiResta tore up the 100-year-old porch on his upstate New York house to build a new one. Rather than throwing away the lovely Douglas Fir deck boards, Jimmy turned th...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag)This animatronic toddler was used in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events film. Watching i...

Ben Palmer, the hilarious mastermind behind PalmerTrolls, has taken his comedic talents to a new level by trolling people on a fake ChatGPT website made by a friend! Known for his antics as a faux-cor...

In a delightful update from San Francisco, Emperor Norton I, the charming 19th-century eccentric, is being honored with a street named after him in Chinatown. The 600 block of Commercial Street, locat...

In this Dicebreaker video, Maddie Cullen previews 20 RPGs coming to the tabletop this year. The Monty Python game, which blew up on Kickstarter, will be released. We will also see a six edition of Cha...

Republicans are proving just how for sale their outrage is. Initially, the National Republican Congressional Committee used the outrage over Bud Light working with a transgender actress to raise funds...

Marjorie Taylor Greene's supporters will likely be thrilled to hear their donations helped fund her new security fence. Spending campaign funds on personal security is legal, however, this is one cost...

Rocksteady seems to have gotten the hint. After the initial deep-dive of their upcoming live-service Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, all bedecked with battle passes and six kinds of premium cu...

Dave Portnoy was recently invited by everyone's favorite lying-liar-who-lies George Santos to try some pizza in the "NY-03", and responded with the most satisfying clap-back. Portnoy, founder of Barst...

I recently stumbled upon a pair of TikTok videos by an indie artist named Sugar Pit. He managed to create a music video, which was split into two separate videos (1, 2), for his song "Customer Service...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: The InCharge X Max 100W Charging Cable p...

Montana lawmakers banned Tik Tok late Friday, demanding that tech companies prevent it from being downloaded in the state. Welcome the new poster child for stupid, ill-considered, posturing laws that ...

Patrick McCaughey III, was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment Friday for using a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer. Its the second-longest sentence so far handed down to the Trump supporters...

This cat's coat makes it look like it's wearing a tiny little cow costume. This beautiful critter is informally known as a as "cow cat". The actual name for this kind of kitty is a "Bicolor cat". I've...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: The 13-in-1 USB-C Docking Station with Dual H...

Not the character, of course – Andy Serkis did a wonderful job bringing Tolkien's creepiest creature to life and firmly cemented his legacy as The CGI Character Guy. I'm referring to the somewha...

The Hidealoo is kind of like the Murphy bed of toilets when it's not in use, it tucks away hidden from sight. Its inventor, Monty Ravenscroft, created it 10 years ago for his dad who was bedridden wi...

In the summer of 2022, Phoenix, Arizona-based professional skateboarder Ryan Lay floated the idea of recreating the Pushing Boarders skateboard event that had taken place in Malm, Sweden, in 2019, bef...

Musician Bob Strachan takes his spot-on Johnny Cash impersonation down an unusual path. Rather than simply covering Cash's classics, he's put his own twist on Coolio's hit, "Gangsta's Paradise." The r...

I believe that learning comes from life and living. Life and living can lead to a classroom or workshop, a fascination with reading, movies, or documentaries, or the joy of listening to others' storie...

'National Enquirer'There's so much wishful thinking behind this week's front page headline: "Melania Trump $3.2 Billion Divorce Showdown!"Trump would love to be worth that much. 'Forbes' estimates his...

This awesome cat furniture is created for both humans and cats to enjoy. I can't get over how cool the dining room table is. The table has a hole in the middle and a platform underneath so your kitty ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by ITISARTIME Art Magazine (@itisartime)I adore these digitally rendered insects by Richard Wilkinson. The sharpness of their design makes ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jordan Flom (@jordanflom)You've probably seen the videos of consumers trying to fit a large electronics purchase, often a large TV scree...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag)In this fun video, a digital character's gown is cut-out and replaced with whatever the camera is pointe...

Primates- they're just like us. As much as I love primates, watching them for extended periods of time becomes a little unsettling after a while. The similarities that primates share with human beings...

AsOne Pieceinches closer to both its conclusion and 30th anniversary in a few years, the series has finally started to receive the respect it deserves. The quality of theOne Pieceanime from Toei Anima...

Torry Nielsen from Lincoln, Nebraska knows how to celebrate life's small victories. After winning just $10 on a scratch-off lottery ticket, he nonetheless insisted on having a victory photo taken with...

Check out this rare ABBA gem: "Dancing Queen" originally had an extra verse sung by Agnetha and Frida! It didn't make the final cut, but this clip from a 1975 recording session gives us a glimpse of w...

I absolutely love this story! Meet Murphy, a 31-year-old bald eagle that lives at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri. According to their website:World Bird Sanctuary was fo...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.TL;DR: The VYSN IntelliPen Anti-Aging EMS Electric V...

Former Trump-sycophant Mike Pence tried to sound peppy as he addressed MAGA folk at the NRA convention today in his own home state of Indiana. "Why hello NRA!" he said with forced enthusiasm. To which...

With Twitter itself under the control of a wealthy reactionary twerp, the right-wing alternatives are withering for good. Parler reports that it has "Temporarily Shut Down" and is being sold: "No reas...

By far the best thing to come out of the entire MAGA movement, this marvelously unpleasant political ad highlights Trump rival Ron DeSantis's alleged habit of scooping pudding out the tub with his fin...

An explosion and fire at a Dimmitt, Texas dairy farm killed 18,000 heads of cattle and left one employee in critical condition on Monday. The South Fork Dairy employee and the animals were trapped in ...

On Friday night in 1987, this was the scene at most local video rental stores… before the dark times, before Blockbuster. That's Aliens playing on the screens. Below, two photos from inside The ...

LEGO master Nick Lever made this fantastic 1:1 model of the original Nintendo Game Boy. You can swap in cartridges he made including Pokmon Red,Pokmon BlueThe Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening,and, of...

Musab Kaya is an Istanbul-based denim designer who has mastered the art of folding jeans. So efficient! Not sure laying the pants out on the floor of his storefront is ideal but his swagger makes up f...

In Fairfax County, Virginia, police are investigating two incidents when drivers of "suspicious" buses attempted to pick up elementary school children. In one case, a citizen attempted to talk with th...

Aluminum foil is a household staple with a peculiar characteristic: it has a shiny side and a dull side. But why? Some argue that the shiny side reflects heat better than the dull side, making it idea...

Sixty-two years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to go into orbit. Before getting into the Vostok 1 spacecraft, the Russian cosmonaut wrote a letter to his wife and daughters for them to rea...

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I love the smell of corporate synergy in the morning. As more details emerge about HBOMax's impending rebrand to just Max, we're starting to understand exactly how Warner Brothers and Discovery will c...

Listen, we all love Stan Lee. Without Lee's signature sense of humor and turn of phrase, pop culture as we know it wouldn't be the same. Sure, Marvel's continued insistence that Lee was the sole maste...

A displeased California gentleman who threatened Merriam-Webster over their definitions of "woman," "female," and "girl" was sentenced to one year in prison. Jeremy Hanson, 35, was also hit with 30 da...

What Star Trek fan wouldn't love to be a fly on the wall when the writers and producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation realized the depths of Brent Spiner's talents? Although
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The GOP has taken to calling everything Democrats do "grooming." Sensible gun regulation? Grooming! Questioning a highly corrupt Supreme Court Justice? Grooming! Addressing college debt? Groooooming!!...

Fifth Avenue was packed curb-to-curb with hundreds if not thousands of passionate New Yorkers shouting a special greeting outside of Trump Tower. "New York hates you! New York hates you!" At a differe...

The BBC reports that "staff cuts" are responsible for pro-Russian and pro-China trolls and bots running "unchecked" on Twitter. It strikes me that this editorializes a cause that may have more to do w...

Fort Lauderdale was hit with a historical two feet of rain Wednesday and Thursday, with officials responding to more than 900 rescue calls, while their so-called governor was nowhere to be seen. Ron D...

A pregnant woman suspected of shoplifting at Walgreens was pursued to her car by a staff member. She, or another person with her, sprayed him with mace. He pulled a gun and shot her. She's in critical...

In the 90s, comic books arguably reached the apex of their relevance in pop culture. Some would contest that with the rise of the Marvel cinematic universe and the success of shows likeThe Walking Dea...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a near-total ban on abortion into law after the state's legislators passed it this week. The law bans abortion after the 6th week of pregnancy. NBC News reports th...

For spontaneous lovebirds, tying the knot takes a fun twist as Oscar Mayer converts their famous Wienermobile into a Las Vegas wedding chapel called the "Wienermobile of Love." On April 15 and 16, cou...

This week, metal icons Metallica have been the musicians in residence on Jimmy Kimmel Live! In a cute skit for the show, the four musicians went to the Bob Baker Marionette Theater to learn actual mar...

I'm still on the lookout for Cadbury Creme Eggs, and it's a damn shame that something this delicious–probably the peak of human ingenuity–has already vanished from store shelves. Though th...

Even though the fourth film ends with a perfect resolution for the character and a sense of finality for the series as a whole, we all knew that John Wick Chapter 4 wouldn't be the last stop...

Substack is a complicated platform. There's certainly value in its approach to reinvigorating blogging and providing an opportunity where writers can get paid for their work without giving up the rig...

Substack is a complicated platform. It is reinvigorating blogging and enabling writers to get paid for their work without giving up the rights to it. That's why I signed up for a Substack of my own (...

In a hilarious web-exclusive called "Last Squeak Tonight," John Oliver of Last Week Tonight dives into the dark side of Chuck E. Cheese's, exposing the iconic family entertainment center's seedy under...

Prepare to be "bard-rolled." Algal the Bard brings a medieval twist to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." In the cheekily titled video, "You Have Been Bard Rolled," he offers a bardcore take on ...

John Prine's eighteenth and last studio album, The Tree of Forgiveness, turns five today. It was released on April 13, 2018, and included guest vocals from Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires, and Brandi...

In recent weeks, conservative activists have thrown an epic tantrum over the fact that Bud Light launched a Pride promotional campaign with a trans influencer because we live in capitalism and it is p...

In the 90s, Nickelodeon decided to create a brand for its diverse array of original cartoons. Referring to their animated offerings as Nick Toons, Nickelodeon forged a unique identity within the rapid...

This a wild way to promote a new show. After years of being mistaken for each other in photos, there's a chance that Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson might be more than just bestiesthey could b...

A truck driver picked up a load from the Philadelphia Mint yesterday that were meant for delivery to Florida. Needing a rest before the trip, the driver parked his truck in Walmart lot and went home f...

The Church of AmbrosiaOakland's controversial church dedicated to the psychedelic sacrament of magic mushroomsis opening a location in San Francisco. It costs $5/month to join the Oakland churchcalled...

It didn't take long for people to discover that "Claudia" is an AI creation, but most people on Reddit don't seem to mind being tricked by a digital persona. Rolling Stone interviewed the two computer...

With only a month to go before The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom releases, Nintendo has done away with the coy teasing of the last couple of years and gone all in on marketing. After the very ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has tapped Kathleen Corradi to deal with New York City's massive rodent problem. As the city's first-ever "rat czar," she's been tasked with reducing the rat population and making...

This will make you laugh, I'm sure of it. And it will be especially funny to anyone who has a dog who's just a little bit extra. Meet Casper, a singing Chihuahua. He lives with his human, Pa...

Passengers got more than a thrill when they boarded The Big One the UK's highest rollercoaster on Tuesday. High winds caused workers at Blackpool Pleasure Beach to stop the coaster in its tracks, ri...

In 1996, Paul Temper, then-28, was leading photographic safaris in Zimbabwe and loving life when a hippo swallowed him up to his waist. He was leading a group down the Zambezi river when they spotted ...

Tucker Carlson's private text messages reveal what he really thinks about Donald Trump: "a demonic force." Carlson also said of Trump, "I hate him passionately."But when Carlson interviewed Trump on F...

Following NPR yesterday, PBS is also quitting Twitter after it was tagged as government-funded."PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at th...

Snoopy is a beagle and Bayley is a Mini Sheepadoodle but the resemblance is striking. View this post on Instagram A post shared by B A Y L E Y (@bayley.sheepadoodle) View t...

Last week, tech executive Bob Leecreator of Cash App, former CTO at Square (now Block), and chief product officer at MobileCoinwas stabbed to death in San Francisco in the middle of the night. San Fra...

WB Discovery will attract more viewers to "Max" by dropping HBO as its too associated with premium content. Rather than be a place for the good stuff, WB wants you to open up "Max" and watch the paint...

The leaker of highly classified U.S. military documents recently showing up in chat rooms has been described as a 20-something gun enthusiast who worked in the military and who went by the name "OG," ...

In this video, we see a man who is being detained by police as they examine a small plastic bag of white powder found in his sunglasses case. "White crystal substance," says Officer #1. "Probably gonn...

The Orange Menace has never cared much for the truth as a factual reporting of things that were and instead considers "truth" to be whatever serves him at the moment or it is the name of his crappy so...

No matter how many times Yellowstone National Park tries to warn its visitors to keep a respectful distance from it wild creatures including the strong, horned bison the "tourons" never seem to get ...

It turns out the Brentwood, California "pothole" that Arnold Schwarzenegger filled with concrete earlier this week was not a pothole. It was a permitted service trench being used by SoCal Gas, accordi...

A street in Houston was left with a dangerous three-feet-deep hole after private contractors illegally dug it out for a water connection. While neither the developers nor the city came to properly fil...

The amazing Drew Friedman, author and illustrator of many of my favorite books, including Old Jewish Comedians, Heroes of the Comics,More Heroes of the Comics, and Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underg...

The perpetually "pissed" Lauren Boebert along with Elon Musk calls to defund the FBI, er, the Department of Justice, oh wait, now it's NPR. While gun violence, climate change, and inflation are some...

Joshua McLemore, a man suffering from severe mental illness, was left for 20 days in the Indiana jail cell where he died of malnutrition. When they took him in, during a psychotic episode, they skippe...

Germany's Nazi past means it now has strict restrictions on Nazi rhetoric, symbols, antisemitism and hate speech in general. Elon Musk, while indifferent to free speech in general, made a point of rep...

Specific sectors of the US population are angry, hurt, and vengeful that corporations are marketing and selling libations – whiskey and beer to all customer bases, angry at capitalism trying to...

I've been a fan of Jonathan Hickman's labyrinthine storytelling style since he wrote and illustrated The Nightly News in 2008. Since then, he's established a reputation as a bit of a comics visionary,...

Wintergatan (previously, previously) makes spectacular musical machines. Not only do these machines look incredibly cool (I love the way that all the moving parts are exposed so you can see how it wor...

The 90s were positively stuffed to the brim with talented Black comedians. In the immediate aftermath of Eddie Murphy's run as the top stand-up and movie star, Hollywood instantly sought to replicate ...

In this Dungeon Craft video, Professor Dungeon Master shares his thoughts on the recent D&D Creators Summit (where some 30 D&D content creators were invited to Wizards of the Coast to learn wh...

The three bands/musicians I've seen most often live are: Billy Bragg, The Mountain Goats, and Dinosaur, Jr. I love all three, but nothing beats Dinosaur, Jr. when you really want to blow out your eard...

Does nature nurture us to care for specific presentation of sentient beings animals, insects, plankton, and humans? How does this socialization happen? Is there a code for cuteness? Have animals adap...

Fox News illegally withheld evidence in the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit filed against it by Dominion Systems, the maker of voting machines that Fox's presenters falsely and knowingly claimed were rigged...

On Songs Like X, you can find new music that sounds similar to your favorite songs. Simply type in a name of a song you like in the search bar, and you'll be presented with a list of songs that the si...

What in tarnation?! Someone has gone ahead and made a bicycle with square wheelsand it works! That someone is an inventor on YouTube who goes by The Q. Watch this crazy thing in action. (Nag on the L...

In a new paper published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology titled, "The scrotum: a comparison of men's and women's aesthetic assessments," researchers Paula Albrecht MSc, Carolin Eimer MD, and Er...

The GQP can fume all they want over the fact that Bud Light is chumming up to the LGBTQ community, but Budweiser knows exactly what they're doing. While transphobic Kid Rock and the foolish MAGA mob t...

Acclaimed musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away on March 28 of this year, leaving behind a formidable legacy of musical innovation, activism, and genuine beauty. Those interested in a ful...

Qongressman Matt Gaetz has discovered the culprit to deadly shootings in America. Don't blame the daily carnage in the United States on angry shooters with access to assault weapons when the real dang...

TL;DR: Forget annoying monthly payments with this license to Microsoft Office for your Mac or Windows computer, just pay $49.99 once.Even if you have the latest Mac or PC, you may be mi...

If you'd like to apply for a position on a state board or commission in Arkansas, you must write out what you admire about Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders's leadership. Seriously. The specific questio...

In early April, a triggered Kid Rock took an assault rifle and shot up Bud Light cans in protest of the beer company's collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. To protest further, the...

Yes, the first tip for proper kitchen cutting is to make sure you have a very sharp knife. But even then, there are easy-to-learn techniques to improve your slicing, chopping, and dicing. In the below...

The placebo effect is well-established. When people are given sugar pills for an ailment, their symptoms are often alleviated. What's less well-known is why placebos still work even when the people ta...

A huge, "definitely toxic" fire at a recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana broke out yesterday, forcing two thousand people living within a half-mile to evacuate. One of the main items burning is plast...

Japanese power tool company Makita has introduced the world's first portable microwave oven that's powered by the same rechargeable batteries used in its cordless drills and other tools. The Makita MW...

This incredible "Grimace karaoke" performance set to the tune of "This Kiss" by Faith Hill was created by Alex Schulman of Eclectic Youth Films. And I gotta say, it's it's something. But definitely...

On Tuesday, April 11, Florida State Representative Webster Barnaby was discussing the state's most recent pending bathroom bill aimed at oppressing trans people for absolutely no reason with any basic...

In this video, watch a man demonstrate the art of Peruvian whistling vessels ("huaco silbadors") intricately designed, ceramic animal-shaped instruments that remarkably produce animal-like sounds whe...

DJ Fred again…'s Tiny Desk concert is worth the 26 minutes of your time. He faced the challenge of translating his electronic music for a Tiny Desk concert, a more intimate setting than he's use...

On Saturday, residents of Washington County, Maine reported a bright fireball and sonic booms in the sky. According to NASA, this meteorite, the first in the state tracked by the space agency's radar,...

I can't wait for this new memoir (and the screen adaptation) by Scott Andrews, a career US soldier and intelligence officer with quite a tale to tell. Apparently, Andrews was doing global counterroris...

On the July 27, 1971 broadcast of the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported that Pan Am would no longer allow safari hunters to fly on its jets.Pan American World Airways will no longer make the ...

Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger grew tired of waiting for the Los Angeles Department of Public Works to repair a large pothole on his street, so he bought packages of asphalt and fill...

Elephants usually eat bananas whole but that's far too gauche for Pang Pha, an Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo. She taught herself to peel bananas before eating them, most likely by watching her care...

An enormous cowboy hat just tossed itself into the Senate election ring. If you look closely, you can see a man inside the hat, who speaks on its behalf. The hat intends to run for Arizona Senator Kyr...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee a staunch Republican signed an executive order yesterday to make it (a little bit) tougher for criminals to buy guns by strengthening background checks. It's doubtful the hyp...

TL;DR: This sleek BirdBike eBike (A-Frame/Stealth Black) is $999.99 instead of $2299– that's 56% off savings. If you've been commuting to the office for a while or are planni...

Last week, Elon Musk labeled every NPR post as "U.S. state-affiliated media." When a reporter informed Musk that NPR receives about 1% of its budget from the government, he replied "Well, then we shou...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by I want to leave (@iwanttoleaveok)I've seen plenty of wild things at the metro station before, but I've never seen a sign warning people ...

It might not come as a surprise that oil companies knew that energy consumption of fossil fuels negatively drives climate change and increases pollution on earth. Just like tobacco companies knew for ...

Prettypegs and Superfront [via Hacker News] make Ikea bits you can put on your Ikea furniture to make it look nicer and impress friends who don't know a Malm when they see one. Even fancier is Plykea,...

County commissioners in Llano, Texas, wanted to remove various books from its public library, ranging from one book describing the Ku Klux Klan as terrorists to kids' fare such as "I need a new butt" ...

Morale at Meta is suffering under layoffs, absentee leadership and "bad bets", reports the New York Times. The "year of efficiency", as Mark Zuckerberg euphemized, is sinking in.Employees at Meta, whi...

Y'all, it's almost World Tapir Day! On April 27, tapir enthusiasts around the world devote their time and energy to raising awareness about tapirs and their conservation. I know you'll go all out, so ...

Roy Lichtenstein's pixelated pop art is sort of the go-to example for early American comic art. And his work is certainly notable within the canon of American art history for the way that it married s...

Imagine if a tiki bar and Lost Horizon Night Market had a lovechild the result would be Tiki Mirage, an immersive mobile speakeasy experience in Los Angeles created by Aaron Girard, Max Masuda-Farkas...

Rusty Blazenhoff here at Boing Boing recently shared news about the new collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama that has resulted in an audio-animatronic Kusama in th...

Join the Inner Hive during the month of April, and $25 will be donated to Save the Children, helping children in crisis, including Urkrainian children. You get Tom the Dancing Bug comics, before they...

Trump provided Tucker Carlson's geriatric fear-junky viewership with quite a show tonight. He started by telling them that the United States' biggest enemy is "from within":One of your fellow journali...

A puffed up Marjorie Taylor Greene boasts about her part in reshaping the Republican party aka turning the already broken GOP into a more overtly racist, cultish, dumbed-down party than it was 10 yea...

TL;DR: Learn how to make money on the side when you buy the 2023 Build a Passive Income Online Business from Scratch Bundle, originally valued at $1,200, for only $29.99 now.Inflation is imp...

I don't remember enough about Avatar to have wanted to watch a second installment. I know its Disney, and I think they've invested heavily in the Avatar EU in their Florida themepark — but I am ...

Sunday, April 23rd, at Los Angeles' Dynasty Typewriter "Weird Al" Yankovic will screen and discuss his film Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Prior hosts have been Sandra Oh, Jack Black, Will Ferrel, Jud...

Most elephants love bananas, and they eat them whole. But one proboscidean foodie, whose name is Pang Pha, taught herself how to peel a banana most likely by watching humans at the Berlin Zoo, accord...

Last week, Makenzie Lystrup was sworn in as the new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She's the first woman director there. In a wonderful gesture, Lystrup chose not to swear on a bible ...

Now here's a must-see documentary: Little Richard: I Am Everything explores the life and career of the trailblazing rock 'and 'n' roll pioneer, Little Richard. Known for his flamboyant appearance, hig...

A woman got upset for some reason while at a Chick-fil-A drive-thru and decided to get out of her car to argue with the hardworking staff who were serving her. She ended up losing the argument when he...

Tucker Carlson launched a tirade against California Governor Gavin Newsom, which unexpectedly turned into a rare self-scolding. Tucker began with a bizarre insult about Newsom's physical appearance: "...

A fisherman in Texas called a tow truck after he noticed a black Jeep almost entirely under water at a lake in Marion County. Little did he know there was a person in it who was still alive. But, acc...

There's a bit of cognitive dissonance that comes from using the word "punk" and "museum" in the same sentence. But it's nearly fifty years since the emergence of the New York Dolls, Ramones, Sex Pisto...

Andrey Gein, a Russian resident who worked at Yandex, a Russian search engine and web portal, spent several months interviewing for a position at Google's London office. After passing five technical i...

In a survey about upcoming music festival attendance in the Netherlands, one in five of the respondents said they expect to take more drugs this year than usual because with the exorbitant ticket pric...

A study by theIndian Veterinary Research Institute shows that fresh cow urine can often harbor dangerous bacteria and you should not drink it. Instead, try buffalo urine, reports epidemiologist Bhoj R...

Twice convicted of prior bank robberies Bonnie Gooch, 78, presented bank tellers at a Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Goppert Financial Bank with several polite notes demanding the cash and apologizing for s...

The racist move to oust two Black Democratic lawmakers from the dark red Tennessee House of Reps backfired spectacularly. After days of statewide and national outrage over the expulsion of Rep. Justin...

The racist move to oust two Black Democratic lawmakers from the dark red Tennessee House of Reps backfired spectacularly. After days of statewide and national outrage over the expulsion of Rep. Justin...

In India, a team of blind and partially-sighted women with amplified sense of touch are conducting breast cancer screenings with incredible results. Right now, only 1% of women in the country undergo ...

Trump's popularity is falling apart. While he might be able to win a Republican primary, it seems highly unlikely that the indicted fraudster, who is also on trial for rape, could win a general electi...

The video opens with a picturesque scene: a house situated on a grassy lawn beside a beach. The yard features a flag, outdoor furniture, and an equipment shed. A charcoal barbecue emits a vertical col...

Since the pandemic, Disneyland's annual pass program has been in flux. Renamed "Magic Key" and subject to massive price increases, the tickets have rarely been available to purchase. There are four pa...

The Moscow Times reports that Russia's workforce lost 1.3M young people last year. If it invites the question "I wonder where they went?" the answer is the obvious one: they're fled or buried.Working ...

Heavily restricted on Twitter, its CEO publicly accusing Elon Musk of lying about it, and running out of money after failing to raise more capital, Substack is on the ropes.It tried to raise last yea...

After links to Substack were heavily restricted Friday on Twitter, the newsletter platform's CEO publicly accused Elon Musk of lying about it. At The Verge, Elizabeth Lopatto writes that it was runnin...

TL;DR: Double Barrel Digital Night Vision Binoculars are on sale for just $129.99 (reg. $297) that's 56% off! If you're a lover of all things outdoors, then it's imperative to have...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was denied bail yesterday while she appeals, meaning she will soon begin serving time in federal prison on her fraud conviction. The judge, Edward Davila, determined ...

I remember my mother attending Tupperware parties in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She'd come back with those plastic storage containers that were frequently microwave safe and that amazing pitcher....

I've been publishing zines for over 20 years, mostly in response to a world gone way too digital, so I love that Manual, a company specializing in beautifully-designed objects, launched the Snail Mai...

"Well, here is another Gen X thought of the dayWe invented the playlist."The inherited world in the 21st Century is partly the result of what the Baby Boomers did to create the existential threat to t...

On Sunday evening, April 9, emergency crews in Edmonton, Alberta were called to a public art sculpture called "Talus Dome," to rescue a 26-year-old man who had crawled inside and gotten trapped. Talus...

I just got back from an amazing trip to Mexico and while I was there, I came across an interesting street corner up in the hills above Lake Chapala in Jalisco. It's where Malcolm X Drive and Martin Lu...

"Ooo, a public recharging station!" you think, your phone's battery life indicated by a slim red line. Let it die, says the FBI: that USB port might be a digital honeytrap, hoping to infect your gadge...

The Party is a new D&D-themed web comedy series from Margaret Borchert, Geneva Willis, and Tori Chancellor. When a double-dealing newbie joins their D&D campaign, five friends are jolted out o...

In their brand-new book (which I highly recommend), "Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat," Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker (who are also the hosts of...

ECHO: A Survey at 25 Years of Sound, Art, and Ink on Paper is a stunning new coffee table book celebrating the visual design of rock & roll. The book captures the history of Higher Ground, a renow...

I'd like to think that the reason a sword fight erupted during a game of Monopoly was to relieve its banality. But apparently the dispute began when others intruded upon a loud 5 a.m. session–on...

Since Arcane, Netflix's animated adaptation of the hyper-popular League of Legends video game franchise hit screens in 2021, Hollywood has started to produce a handful of quality video ...

Do you remember the McCain Girls and their viral hit, "Raining McCain"? If not, you should go watch it, it's quite.something. The video was released during the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, when Jo...

As you probably know, the great Al Jaffee died this week at the age of 102. In 2011, Ruben Bolling (creator of Tom the Dancing Bug) and I interviewed Al Jaffee, who was in his 90s and drawing the MAD ...

This fun site allows you to browse reddit in 3D, as if it were a museum. The posts appear like works of art with captions beneath them on the walls of the space. You can walk around the museum to brow...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by RuPublicans (@rupublicans)At this point, most of the novelty and shock around AI-generated curiosities is going away, and frankly, it's ...

In 1986 this AT&T commercial aired, voiced by Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. by u/Sfphiynckxs in superman With how wonderfully evergreen Superman's premise and myt...

Neil Gaiman broadcast this tragic news over the weekend: Rachel Pollack, an icon of fantasy literature, an expert on tarot and the occult, and a trailblazer for trans rights, passed away from Hodgkin'...

From NASA.gov:There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This s...

From NASA.gov:There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar system, it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. This s...

A MAGA man, whose mind has clearly been zapped space lasers, freaked out about Jews, shrieking, "They control Wall Street, they control the banks, they control Hollywood every fucking building in New...

The amazingly prolific artist and long-time contributor to MAD magazine Al Jaffee is dead at 102. Al Jaffee, the ingenious Mad magazine illustrator who was as adept at creating wacky cartoon gags as h...

Valuable artworks, particularly those with a rich history, can be worth a fortune. Unfortunately, many people, including museum curators and private collectors, may not realize or want to acknowledge ...

Less than two miles away and just hours after this morning's Kentucky bank shooting that killed five and injured eight, another gunman (possibly with another suspect) shot and killed one person and in...

Sally O'Malley is back and she still likes to kick and stretch. Molly Shannon brought her famous-for-being-fabulously-50 character back in a Saturday Night Live sketch where she replaces Nick Jonas in...

As expected, the U.S. saw another mass shooting today, this time at Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. At least five people were killed, including the shooter and two friends of Gov. Andy Besh...

A die-hard Jack Daniels fan made a video of himself throwing away his prized memorabilia collection in protest of what he perceives as the brand "going woke." The man, a self-proclaimed supporter of J...

In March 2023, a group of BandCamp employees announced that they had formed a union:Forming our union is critical to our ability to do our best work and make good on the promise and mission of Bandcam...

Last Friday, indie artist Maggie Rogers gave her fans in various cities the chance to purchase tickets for her summer tour the "old school" way, by standing in line at the box office. She made the ann...

Last Friday, indie artist Maggie Rogers gave her fans in various cities the chance to purchase tickets for her summer tour the "old school" way, by standing in line at the box office. She made the ann...

Over the weekend, The Great Algorithms deemed to bless me with this little cartoon:Which I shared with some friends, who informed me that Filk singer Tom Smith had already taken a crack at a Cthulhu-t...

When you get off the plane with the legendary Joan Baez you know it's a movement of the spirit. She stands with us in our struggle in Tennessee and said she's hopeful to see young voices leading. "WE ...

Today, over 90% of the global population indulges in some form of caffeine every day. This stimulating molecule evolved from xanthosine molecules to keep plants safe, thriving, and sexually active.Not...

Following Bud Light's announcement last week of a partnership with transgender TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney, transphobic conservatives called for a boycott. Jumping in with the anti-trans idiocity...

Remember last year when Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer invited animators to imagine scenes from the series as Saturday morning cartoons? (See above.) Netflix has just announced a full-o...

Elon Musk has decided to play games with the Twitter headquarters lease in San Francisco. Looking for ways around building signage obligations to service an immature joke, Musk has painted over the "W...

If you thought the Chihuahua was the smallest purebred dog, you're like me. But according to this fascinating video that compares adult dog sizes, the title for the smallest breed actually goes to the...

Equestrian photographer Kenza Attouche posted this wonderful compilation below of spectators at a horse-riding competition so emotionally involved in the action that they reflexively move like the hor...

Anti-vax leader Christopher Key, the "Vaccine Police" who drinks his own urine to ward off Covid, desperately wants some "one-on-one time" with Donald Trump apparently Key doesn't think Trump is frin...

Boston police responded to reports that an individual armed with a long gun was lurking around a busy train station on Friday night. Turns out, it was Boba Fett. What was Boba doing in Beantown? Multi...

"A Lad and His Lamp" is a 1929 cartoon from Van Beuren Studio about a courageous mouse on a daring quest to save his kidnapped girlfriend from a haunted dungeon. Remarkably, the characters and storyli...

A woman in Washington state was infected with tuberculosis and instead of isolating and accepting treatment, she hopped on a public bus and hit an area casino. Now, a judge has issued a civil arrest w...

Women, do you consider abortion rights an important healthcare issue? Well, you should stop that nonsense right now, according to professional mansplainer Tony Gonzales (GQP-TX). Gonzales appeared on ...

Some hair found in an ancient funerary cave on the Spanish island of Menorca has been found to contain traces of ephedrine. Deep inside the burial site, over 200 bodies were found, along with a collec...

Donald Trump was arrested for a crime after ample evidence was gathered, but the former one-term twice-impeached once-indicted president doesn't think it's fair. In fact, arresting Trump would be "pol...

TL;DR: Regardless of what browser you use, you can run windows applications with Crossover+, which is just $50 right now.Everyone at this point has their tech affinities, whether they be bred out...

HOAs are where High School student government aficionados go to live out their dreams. Having been subject to Home Owner's Associations twice, I would never subject myself to such rules lawyering agai...

NumeralJoker's amazing edits of Star Wars into better, or more complete, versions of itself are lovely. Here all the scattered bits of "Order 66," the plan to rid the galaxy of Jedi, are brought toget...

@erikjohn93 This guy just bought military gear off Amazon #protest #sketch #comedy #fyp original sound – Erik John Set to Five Finger Death Punch's version of "Bad Company," Johnson reminds...

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird will no longer provide emergency contraceptives to victims of rape. Get birthin', girls!"As a part of her top-down, bottom-up audit of victim assistance, Attorney Ge...

The whole media establishment loves the Dalai Lama, a lovely religious leader that promotes nonviolence! *5 decades later* We regret to inform you the Dalai Lama has asked a child to suck his tongue.I...

Twitter inaccurately added the "state affiliated media" tag to NPR, which isn't state-affiliated but receives a small portion of its funding from the public. The application of this tag, reserved for ...

Every decade produces a song that is impossible to avoid and becomes a drunken karaoke favorite. The 80s have a ton of them, but in my personal opinion, the crown has to go to Journey's Don't Sto...

The Super Mario Bros movie from Illumination just made all of the money last weekend. The final estimates from the film's opening weekend put it at a staggering $377 million global box offic...

This story is amazing! A Reddit user recently stumbled upon some footage from July 28, 1995 (one week after his sophomore album was released) of Elliott Smith performing on a morning show called Break...

Researchers Jun Ye and David Nesbitt and their team at JILA have been working on an exciting new diagnostic tool that could revolutionize healthcare. JILA was created in 1962 as a research lab jointly...

When it comes to fighting games, the genre is ruled by three kings: Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and Tekken. Each game presides over a segment of the fighting game community for different ...

I love everything about this, from the nails, to the daughter's excitement, to Twitter's enthusiastic support, to the matchmaking attempts, to the amplification of a small independently-owned business...

I'm always amazed when I see a cat being nice to a much-smaller animal. My cat would devour the little chick in an instant, but the mellow cat in the video just sits there as the bird rests on its hea...

On guitarist Adrian Belew's Facebook page, he shared this hysterical story about a surly encounter between David Bowie and Frank Zappa:In 1978 I did my first tour of Europe as "stunt" guitarist and si...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Learning to speak a new language can be beneficial for many re...

Nora Forster, German rock music promoter and wife of Sex Pistol and PiL founder John Lydon, is dead at 80 after years of battling Alzheimer's.Forster, a German-born publishing heiress and music promot...

I admire the idea of this Bon Jovi-badged VW Golf, but I wouldn't want it. I marvel that VW wanted to market this, and Bon Jovi said yes to the licensing rights. More fascinating is that someone chose...

If you need a reminder of just how intelligent pigs are, this little guy figured out how to stop his owner from vacuuming. The pig can't stand the noise of the vacuum, and unplugs it from the wall usi...

For several years, one YouTube channel and director has helped steer the hip-hop zeitgeist as the modern equivalent of MTV. Music video director Cole Bennett has become synonymous with contemporary ra...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.After a long day, sometimes a simple remedy is online shopping...

I can't recall the source, but I remember reading that you can only become a New Yorker when the phrase "I remember when New York used to be" leaves your lips. Prior to that moment, even if you've spe...

Olga Dies Dreaming is an award-winning novel by Xochitl Gonzalez, published in 2022. War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis is a history of the Puerto Rican Independence movements. These boo...

Isn't it weird when you listen to an actor in real life, and they're nothing like their roles? Obviously, that's the whole point of the profession, but there's something inside of us that subtly hopes...

Messing around Generative AI… What if Mad Men had been made by Pixar? by u/Grizzluza in madmen With the announcement of Disney making a live-action Moana...

I've watched this eleven-second video, titled "Me looking at my dog doing absolutely anything," at least three dozen times. I'm simply obsessed. The video was posted on the Instagram "I'm Jax the...

Like painting a Groucho Marx mustache on the Mona Lisa, the much-lauded remake of the even more-lauded Resident Evil 4 has introduced post-launch microtransactions. Alongside Mercenaries mode, Capcom ...

Last October, at an event at The Magic Bag in Ferndale, Michigan, Robert Fripp was asked how he and bassist John Wetton (King Crimson, Uriah Heap, Asia, U.K., Roxy Music) met and how did John come to ...

Here's a great podcast that tells a bizarre, disturbing, and incredibly sad story. It's hosted by Pauline Dakin, and is based on her 2017 memoir, "Run, Hide, Repeat," which won the 2018 Edna Staebler ...

By now, we've all seen so many examples of what AI can generatesome of it is intriguing (did Sydney actually fall in love?), some of it is helpful (thank you, ChatGPT, for writing mindless emails so I...

These funky monsters can be found in Beaver Meadows, PA [Atlas Obscura]. The absurdly cool roadside sculptures were created by Joseph J. Woitko. You'll find a fantastic collection of "great goblins, d...

Want to visit a whimsical forest of gnomes in Seattle? If you find yourself near Seattle's Madrona Neighborhood, check out the "Valley of the Gnomes". Scattered throughout the woods are dozens of gnom...

I like this Kinetic sculpture that makes jarring sounds as it swells in and out. The piece reminds me of a gigantic wind chime. One with sounds that could possibly make the entire neighborhood think t...

Oh, bless their hearts. Meet Rollo (Rottie/Shepherd mix) and Sadie (Husky/Shepherd mix), who are best friends. They met in 2020 when their moms moved into the same house and became fast friends. Rollo...

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 your home, a messy, cluttered space can take ...

Don Jr is unhappy that ABC didn't share his father's grift on TV and help them fundraise. I wonder how much of the Trump family empire is now supporter donation-funded and when we'll start seeing laws...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and his infamous wife Ginni, have been the benefactors of many, many luxurious trips and gifts from "close personal friend" Harlan Crow. In addition to private ...

How can rap be dead if Wu-Tang is forever? Although the preceding phrase could come off as a simple slogan designed to call attention to the strength of the Wu-Tang Clan's impregnable brand, whenever ...

Tsunamis are a specifically destructive force. A Hollywood trope and historically-charted natural phenomenon, the long waves are one of many reminders of the power of the earth's ocean.This 3-D comput...

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 easy to assume there is no such thing as privacy online, ...

Twitterers are complaining that posting links to their Substack newsletters and blog posts results in tweets that can't be liked, retweeted or replied to, even by themselves. Substack itself complaine...

DPReview is one of the best camera sites on the net, with years of reviews and user comments and a vast database of technical information and photography. Amazon bought it in the 2000s, forgot why, an...

In this footage, a moose wanders in to the lobby of a hospital in Anchorage and helps itself to a plant there. The moose has reportedly been "hanging around campus""We received a call from one of our ...

Trauma Day at Dr. Philips High School in Orlando went great.Psychology teacher Jeffrey Keene told NBC News he believes he used proper judgement for the assignment to 11th and 12th-graders during first...

If you've ever thought the picturesque vistas of Breath of the Wild's Hyrule were just a little lonely, a new fan-made mod may just be the solution to your problems. The mod comes courtesy of YouTuber...

Feast your eyes on these 4 different hypnotic domino effects. The people who made these must have had incredible patience and the steadiest of hands. My favorite in the series is the first  video...

Whoever had the smart idea to shine two lights on the plant and give it creepy glowing "eyes" is awesome. Imagine walking down the street in the dead of night and seeing this wicked silhouette. This i...

Forget about carving a pumpkin next halloween. This creepy watermelon head will surely spook more people than a jack-o-lantern ever could. Here is the cursed image of a lady wearing the watermelon hea...

Here's an invisible cabinet painted by Howard Lee, posting under @howard__lee on Instagram. If you need a hiding place for certain items, or you have an ugly cabinet, you can make it blend into its su...

King Linus, an adorable chinchilla, and his human have a very important message for everyone: please don't buy a live animal for Easter. Too many rabbits and other small animals end up being abandoned...

I think I've found my next travel destination! I'm intrigued by Dresden's Neustadt Kunsthofpassage ('Art Courtyards'), which are a group of five small courtyards that were turned into an art experimen...

Two friendly doggos were out to make some friends, wagging their tails as they greeted a pack of wolves. But the frozen wolves did not reciprocate, giving their uninvited guests long cold stares. The ...

Two friendly doggos were out to make some friends, wagging their tails as they greeted a pack of wolves. But the frozen wolves did not reciprocate, giving their uninvited guests long cold stares. The ...

GQP troll Candace Owens joined the long line of malicious conservatives who have tried to accuse George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, asking on her Daily Wire show today, "Is it plausible that h...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Back in the day, people had to keep important information or m...

In a delightful moment captured on video, a curious cat discovers the fascinating properties of water in a bathtub. The feline's playful exploration of this foreign substance is equal parts heartwarmi...

Peeps' psychedelic pink color is the best thing about the marshmallow treat, but a spoilsport state lawmaker wants to ban erythrosine, a food coloring known as Red No. 3 that's used to give Peeps thei...

A pilot flying a small plane in South Africa with four passengers aboard felt a "cold sensation underneath my shirt at my hip area," and thought it was a leaky water bottle. Until he glanced to his l...

This is a wild story! So, in the late sixties, George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic crew were tripping balls on LSD on their way to a gig in Pittsburgh. Billy Bates, one of the founders, thoug...

'National Enquirer'Twisting the facts and stretching the truth are time-honored traditions in the tabloids, but this week the 'National Enquirer' goes above and beyond the call of duty with its cover ...

Florida man Blake Tokman proved to be a slippery suspect. Naked and smeared in wheel-bearing grease and peppermint oil, the 34-year-old gentleman took Volusia sheriff's deputies on a wild late-night f...

After yesterdays's expulsion of two Tennessee state lawmakers Rep. Justin Jones (D) and Rep. Justin Pearson (D) for leading gun control rallies following the Nashville shooting, a third lawmaker inv...

EJ Montini of USA Today suggests that Biden should channel his inner Gerald Ford and pardon Trump for the good of the nation. In his mind, pardoning someone who was impeached twice and has a number of...

Americans are obsessed with fame. You could lay the aforementioned claim at any generation's feet, but few generations embody the American fascination with notoriety as potently as millennials and Gen...

They say it's all about "location, location, location" when it comes to real estate. In this dead quiet Philadelphia home, a viral video tour briefly revealed a surprising twist in its location: a cem...

Just because a company like, say, Tesla promises that your privacy "is and will always be enormously important to us," doesn't mean your privacy is important to them. Nor does it mean your privacy ...

Journalist Matt Taibbi made a name for himself in 2010 with his brutal takedown of the finance companies that orchestrated and profited from the crippling mortgage meltdown, which ran in Rolling Stone...

They say that health is a halo that only the sick can see. Grappling with the randomness of existence is one of the most challenging aspects of being a person. At a moment's notice, life has a strange...

If the movie holds true to the trailer this movie will have all the right Indiana Jones feels. Nazis are back and they'll be bad guys, so I assume there will be some morons protesting. Featured Image:...

No matter how unlikely it seems, Elon Musk claims not to know that NPR is not a state-run media institution. A series of NPR's email exchanges illuminate the decisive and well-informed decision-making...

Honest Trailers predicts a whole lot more game adaptions. Lacking a PlayStation, I haven't played Last of Us the game, so I didn't know exactly what would happen in Last of Us the show. Having played ...

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 retire your sluggish, underperforming old...

Star Wars Celebration must have started as the Ahsoka trailer has finally dropped. This looks to be the epic continuation of the Star Wars: Rebels story fans have hoped for.We've got new dark force wi...

A woman kidnapped in New York was "found dead" after a shootout between her captor and police. The use of passive voice and exonerative language in the report makes it sound an awful lot like the cops...

Between Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Brothers, it looks like video game movies are making a comeback – and this time, they're actually half decent! Not to be outdone, it seems Capcom is vy...

This is an amazing story of an orangutan named Zoe, who needed help breastfeeding her new baby. Her firstborn had to be hand raised by zookeepers because Zoe was unsuccessful in nursing him. Zoo staff...

'Challenge runs' are a strange and simultaneously irresistible thing. Take a suitably open-ended and pliable game, like Dark Souls, Minecraft or Fallout, impose a set of arbitrary restrictions on your...

In response to the ridiculous "David statue" fiasco that recently happened in Florida, Mississippi artist Mitchell Gaudet channeled his incredulity and rage into an art project featuring "symbolically...

Meet Wade Fowler, a very kind human who cleans gravestones that have fallen into disrepair. He's based in Iowa, and documents his projects on Instagram, where he calls himself "Millennial Stone Cleane...

Having a rough day? These disappointing affirmations should cheer you right up! They're created by writer Dave Tarnowski, who describes himself on his Instagram as: "Bipolar/ADHD/mental heal...

How do you solve a problem like Superman? For the last 40 years, Superman's popularity has declined significantly from its former glory. Unlike his Justice League cohort Batman, Supes' stature as a pi...

Among the layoffs at Meta, the company formerly known as and dependent upon Facebook: the staff whose job it was to mange and support influencers. If one is tempted not to care–it suggests that ...

Idaho legislators yesterday placed restrictions on leaving the state to get an abortion, making it the first state to explicitly prohibit out-of-state travel on these grounds. Gov. Brad Little, a Repu...

Florida governor Ron DeSantis learned recently that Disney had already legally neutered the planning board he stocked with cronies in an effort to punish it for criticizing his anti-gay policies. His ...

In Farmington, New Mexico, police "mistakenly approached the wrong house" and when 52-year-old Robert Dotson appeared at the door with a handgun, they killed him. They claim to have announced themselv...

Check out the very cool artwork of Maarten Baas, a Dutch designer whose work sits at the intersection of art and design. His website describes his work:He occupies a unique position in the f...

Thieves cut a hole through the bathroom of a coffee shop in Washington State's Alderwood Mall to gain entry to an Apple store. They stole 436 iPhones valued at around $500,000.Apple will deactivate th...

Rep. Justin Jones, who is facing expulsion by GOP representatives because he legally protested against gun violence, spoke on the House floor to ask why legal protesting can get you expelled while GOP...

There's a number of strangely placed elements in Chupa, Netflix's latest sci-fi kids' adventure. Least of those issues is the film's title, which, in Spanish slang, can mean fellatio. Hardly the assoc...

A man in Pennsylvania had quite the adventure on Tuesday that involved two car chases with two different stolen vehicles, a dead deer in the trunk, a foot chase, and a naked arrest. It started early i...

This week Episode 6 of The Mandalorian was a lot of fun. Ep6 moved the story along in a huge way and had tons and tons of Baby Yoda being cute bullshit. I think I am supposed to hate this episode beca...

NIRCam, the near-Infrared camera aboard the Webb Space Telescope, captured this handsome high-resolution image of Uranus. It looks so clean!This zoomed-in image of Uranus, captured by Webb's Near-Infr...

When it comes to ordering cakes, you can't say Costco doesn't pay attention to detail. A post by Mike Sington (below) shows what a customer wanted:"No writing, no designs. Only request red frosting 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.Finding a powerful and seamless computer for your office or wo...

Here a Fire Captain chose the written word over just smashing the window of a Tesla. A woman who ran her rental Tesla dry found out the doors default to locked, and she was trapped. For heat, the woma...

With New Order's groundbreaking track "Blue Monday" celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, it's a wonderful moment to revisit Orkestra Obsolete's rousing cover of the song using instruments of th...

Some Dems are demanding something be done about the complete lack of accountability in the Supreme Court. Notably, Senator Dick Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promises "action" ov...

Twitter's treatment of "blue check" verification and what it means–including Elon Musk removing the New York Times' check out after it publicly refused to pay for it–makes sense if you ima...

Sheikh Walid Mehsas maintained his meditative state even as a mosque cat clamored for attention during a nightly Ramadan prayer gathering outside of Algiers, Algeria. For those who observe, Ramadan Mu...

FBI and other federal agents barged into the wrong Boston hotel room in the middle of the night during a training exercise, where they handcuffed an airline pilot, put him in the shower, and interroga...

Nothing illustrates the endemic doublethink of the GOP better than Anthony Scaramucci's description of Donald Trump: "This is a family guy. Whether you like Mr. Trump or not, he's sort of the Logan Ro...

On Tuesday in Queensland, Australia, surveillance video captured footage of an idiot who seemingly captured a wild platypus and carried it onto a commuter train wrapped in a towel where he tried to im...

Pilot Rudol Erasmus was in the air above South Africa on Monday when he felt "something cold"slither across his lower back. Looking down, he spotted a highly-venomous Cape cobra "receding back under t...

From the Tesla website:Tesla GigaBier is designed to emulate the form of Cybertruck while honoring the 500-year tradition of German Reinheitsgebot beermaking. Enjoy this limited edition pilsner-style ...

Klepper's fantastically entertaining interviews of MAGAs and QOP morons illustrate the types of folks who can maintain misconceptions despite logic or proof. It seems the numbers of supporters willing...

You may have heard about the TicketMaster fiasco surrounding Taylor Swift's ERAS tour, which recently kicked off with a series of shows in Arizona, Nevada and Texas. But what you may not have heard is...

I grew up in New Haven County, a place which is known (among other things) as being the birthplace of American pizza, and home to some of the first if not finest pizza establishments in the country. S...

A new report by ProPublica claims Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been accepting and not reporting pretty lavish gifts of travel and lodging from a Republican megadonor. Justices are not he...

A red-capped gentleman took time off from his busy day protesting Donald Trump's arrest to explain the "three levels of MAGA." According to the stable genius, there is "MAGA, Ultra MAGA, and Ultra Ext...

TikTok'er Max Cooper aka MrPianoMan is the mad genius behind this wonderful mashup of the Super Mario theme and the Jackson 5's evergreen hit "I Want You Back." I can already envision the plumber sing...

Twitter once used NPR as an example of what was not "state-affiliated media," but new ownership clearly brings fresh ideas to the table. NPRs CEO John Lansing quickly spoke out about this poorly recei...

Of all the insane theories that unctuous Marjorie Taylor Greene has shared with her mouth-breathing worshippers, this one is the most sickening. She took a portion of a video of President Biden asking...

If you've grown tired of seeing the tiny Shiba Inu in the upper left corner of Twitter, here's how to get rid of it (at least on Chrome). Right-click on the image and select "Inspect" from the menu. 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.There's nothing worse than trying to get the perfect aesthetic...

"Breathe sewer gas to survive the choking fumes of a fire" is a dire option indeed, but this patented breathing tube (via Reddit) suggests dire circumstances.Comments KnudsonRegime, convincingly enoug...

"Breathe sewer gas to survive the choking fumes of a fire" is a dire option indeed, but this patented breathing tube (via Reddit) suggests dire circumstances.Comments KnudsonRegime, convincingly enoug...

Miners found this strange wrinkly leather ball near Dawson City, Yukon in Canada and brought it to scientists to examine. After X-raying the object at a veterinarian's office, Yukon paleontologist Gra...

Michigan's 1931 ban on abortion is history after gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a law repealing it. Though a Federal judge already blocked its enforcement, getting the ban off the books prevents it from...

Simulate a galaxy in your browser with the aptly-named Galaxy Simulation, which generates beautiful images of space based on a baffling array of variables you can tinker with. There's a mode normal fo...

As a graphic designer, I can say with extreme authority that this logo is *very* nice....

To say that game developer and publisher Konami is much-maligned would be an understatement. It famously fired Hideo Kojima, the mastermind of their popular and lucrative Metal Gear series, rushed a h...

When I was growing up, I was obsessed with stop-motion films! I was so curious about the process and patience required that my first years of college study focused on puppet making and video art–...

As a species, creativity will always live on the border of our understanding. Despite how lavishly our culture rewards those capable of tapping into their creative faculties, we still have minimal com...

There's a phrase that is commonly employed in the more youthful circles of the internet. The youngins love to say they're "giving someone their flowers" whenever they extend compliments or respect to ...

Making aDunemovie is a herculean task. The narrative takes place largely within the minds of the book's central cast, and the action that occurs in the corporeal realm is glacial. At the same time,Dun...

The lukewarm reception of the PSP and the PS Vita has not dissuaded them: Gaming insider Tom Henderson reports that a third PlayStation handheld console is in development. Codenamed the Q Lite, it's m...

Last week, a 60-year-old manager of a movie theater in Georgia allegedly tried to kiss a teen employee, and then tried to destroy the evidence but the gentleman failed at both. He has since been arre...

Two men in Osaka wanted to make a "funny" video to post online, so one recorded the other using his chopsticks to eat pickled ginger out of a communal bowl at Yoshinoya a popular fast food restaurant...

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 a business-minded individual, then perhaps you want ...

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

This is the Sphinx Observatory atop the Jungfraujoch, a glacier saddle between two peaks in the Bernese Alps in western Switzerland. The astronomical observatory is 11,716 above sea level and reachabl...

Fox News is known for its long and rich history of constant lies, one of their biggest and most recent whoppers being the election lies scandal. And they get away with it because they know their indoc...

Former US President Donald Trump, known for his speeches in which he urged police to use excessive force against arrested individuals, is now advocating for the complete abolition of federal law enfor...

In January, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders tweeted a promise that she'd keep the Yankee revenues away from the Razorback state."As long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping...

The Guardian compiled a delightful collection of clips gathered at the surreal circus outside of Trump's arraignment in New York City yesterday afternoon. Unsurprisingly, the Naked Cowboy was on-scene...

Tech executive Bob Leecreator of Cash App, former CTO at Square (now Block), and chief product officer at MobileCoinwas stabbed to death overnight in San Francisco. He was 43. No arrests have been mad...

Lindsey Graham dressed up as Donald Trump, sporting a new Barbie-blonde hairdo and smeared in orange bronzer as he worked himself up into an emotional lather over the former president's arrest.The sen...

At Sunday's Country Music Television (CMT) Music Awards, musicians Slash, Wynonna Judd, LeaAnn Rimes, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and Bad Company's Paul Rodgers honored the 50th anniversary of Lynyrd Skyn...

In 1971, artist Harold Cohen (1928 2016) became a visiting scholar at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. There, he created a computer program called Aaron to answer the question, "What ar...

It's hard to believe you can get a nice haircut in Tokyo, but this scruffy-haired guy did. He went into a clean and pleasant-looking salon and showed the barber a photo of Brad Pitt and asked for a si...

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. You've definitely sat in front of yourlaptop,st...

Long COVID is a condition that affects individuals who have contracted COVID-19 and experience symptoms that persist long after the initial infection. Loss of taste and smell is one of the most common...

i hooked up chatgpt to a furby and I think this may be the start of something bad for humanity pic.twitter.com/jximZe2qeG— jessica card (@jessicard) April 2, 2023This is nightmare material…...

I love how unfazed the child in this photo looks while sitting atop a two headed calf. The kid looks deep in thought, like they have completely forgotten about the mutant cow beneath them. Imagine ano...

Artist Victor Pierre LeBlanc (@vic_pie_art) designed an amazing ancient-looking sketchbook and then "excavated" it in this video. The alien-like mythology in the drawings is incredible to observe on i...

There is one chair with a face that I would gladly invite into my home anytime, and that is the lovely Chairry from the iconic television show Pee Wee's Playhouse. Unfortunately, not all chairs with f...

Get up close and personal with this snail feasting on a blade of grass. I've never seen a snail open its mouth and reveal its little tongue in such a clear and detailed close-up shot. I love its bumpy...

Street Fighter is in the middle of a massive boom in popularity. The collapse of the arcade scene at the dawn of the 21st century caused a plethora of video game genres to fall from grace. One of...

People love to throw around the term "renaissance man" whenever an artist exhibits even a moderate level of competency in a creative arena outside of their usual field of endeavor. Similar to how the ...

There's a number of strangely placed elements in Chupa, Netflix's latest sci-fi kids' adventure. Least of those issues is the film's title, which, in Spanish slang, can mean fellatio. Hardly the assoc...

Check out this hilarious advertisement for "Red House Furniture," a furniture store in High Point, North Carolina that became famous when the ad went viral in 2009. At the time, NBC News...

I spent last weekend spring cleaning out my fridge and pantry. I found the dregs of a bottle of pomegranate juice that I've added to my sparkling water the last few days, to perk it up. I also found s...

The new Disney+ series The Muppets Mayhem will supposedly drop all 10 episodes on May 10, 2023. The miniseries will follow the members of the epic rock legends known as Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayh...

What if life in plastic isn't so fantastic? That seems to be the vibe of the upcoming Barbie movie directed by Greta Gerwig. The latest trailer brings us inside a technicolor hellscape of cheery naiv...

It's refreshing to be able to review and download a well-researched (pdf) report on a subject absolutely surrounded by an incredible amount of disinfo, speculation, hype, and curiosity.Thankfully Stan...

Artist Stefen Visan combines everyday objects to create deeply compelling scenarios. In this video, Visan stops time: watch as the ticking hand of a clock collides with a mousetrap. Mousetraps scare t...

Oh, the sweet scent of desperation in the air. Donald Trump Junior, paragon of moral fortitude, decided to take justice into his own hands on Truth Social by posting a photo of the daughter of the jud...

This is so predictable, it's hardly a news story, but in case you aren't dialed in to the conman called Donald Trump, the former twice-impeached president was arrested and, naturally, pleaded not guil...

The below video recorded by a passenger on a commercial flight has garnered millions of views on Twitter and TikTok. The person who uploaded the clip says it appears to depict a "structure built into ...

The latest events in the White House press room hearkened back to the amusing Jen-and-Peter Show of yesteryear when Press Secretary Jen Psaki never failed to put Fox's Peter Doocy in his place. But in...

Former Oklahoma County jail guards Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles pleaded guilty to misdemeanor cruelty charges for punishing inmates by forcing them to stand handcuffed for lo...

A man leaves his house at night, casually making his way down a flight of porch steps as he remotely unlocks his car, only to rush back up the steps. Saying "Oh my …" he peeks over his shoulder ...

"The reason why we hear about mass shootings is because we have taken God out of our schools," said Republican Arizona State Senator Anthony Kern in a transphobic tirade commenting on the Nashville sc...

As an introvert who sometimes suffers from social anxiety, this TikTok video speaks to me. It highlights a conversation (with both characters played by "Brave Dave," who runs the channel) between an i...

Danny Huynh Creations shoehorns a metric shit-ton of life into incredibly detailed remote-controlled projects that meld motion, sound, and action into pure unadulterated fun. When it comes to animatr...

Given Avatar's extreme (and inexplicable, if we're being frank) popularity and (attempts at) a large, lore-filled universe, it seems odd that there's only been one tie-in video game. 2009's somewhat b...

Here's some wholesome content for you that'll bring a smile to your face! Check out Brett Goldstein who writes forTed Lassoand also plays the character Roy Kent playing hide and seek with Sesame Str...

After Vince McMahon's litany of sexual misconduct and misuse of company funds allegations became public last year, WWE's board of directors insisted that the once and future chairman shouldresign from...

Doctor Whohas always been funny. After all, when you have a character that travels throughout time and space in a police phone box to battle mutant alien fascists that use plungers as a weapon, you ha...

Congress clown Marjorie Taylor Greene paid no attention to a warning issued yesterday by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who said, "People like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is known to spread misinform...

If you're ever in southern Arizona, you should make a plan to head to Douglas and go see the fabulous "Art Car World," a non-profit museum that features a permanent collection of 42 spectacular art ca...

Wanted on charges of embezzlement and wire fraud, Roy McGrath failed to show up for court last month and had been on the run. Spotted by FBI agents in Tennessee, the former chief-of-staff to former go...

"Lord" Miles Routledge is a self-proclaimed "danger tourist" a 20-something Brit who chronicles his travels on YouTube and achieved some viral notoriety for his journey to Afghanistan in 2021. Back i...

With the new Super Mario Bros movie coming out this week, it should be no surprise that the franchise merchandising promotional motion is running at full speed. What is surprising, however, is that so...

Japanese space tech company ALE has scheduled the world's first artificial meteor shower for 2025. The Sky Canvas uses small orbiting satellites to release "shooting stars"tiny metal particles about t...

Like most of us, DC Comic's film division is starting to do some spring cleaning. Before the James Gunn and Peter Safran era of DC can officially begin, several films commissioned and produced under t...

The Scared is Scared is a film by Bianca Giaever that revolves around a kid's honest answer to Giaever's question "what should the film be about?" The entire narration of the film is a recording of th...

Rebecca Watson, the founder of the Skepchick Network, discusses long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome in this video. Specifically, she highlights Dianna Cowern's (Physics Girl) battle with long COVI...

Here's a funny tool to help you kiss tiny bugs. It's called "Bugkiss," and has the tagline "Little Lips for Bug Lovin's." Here's a description of Bugkiss on the Legboot website:I created a protot...

For just $30 on Amazon, you can purchase the Holy Spirit Board, a ouija board that will enable you to "communicate directly with Jesus Christ." According to the product description, it's "perfect for ...

I think I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey when I was 17 years old. I liked it the hard science and special effects aspects of it but I didn't remotely understand it. I saw it several times immediate...

This sweet baby dolphin was tangled up in a fishing net, but luckily this kind fisherman was there to rescue it and release it from the net. This event happened on December 30, 2020 in Guaruj, So Paul...

Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Times published one of the most harrowing stories of American authoritarianism that I've read in quite a while. A young girl in Northern California was given a pet go...

One can't help but feel that there's some sort of cosmic irony behind the fact that The Last of Us, a game long touted as one of the main selling points of the PlayStation consoles, has immediately cr...

I'm more amused than a grownup should be by this collection of photos featuring crude, odd, and wacky restaurant signs. Why don't I ever get to see entertaining signs like these ones when I drive down...

Rejoice! The giant red spoon that was stolen last week from a Phoenix DQ has been found and returned to its original location. A Phoenix resident namedMichael Fosterfound the giant spoon when he was a...

Tom the Dancing Bug – Republican Circus: IndictmentVolume 4 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug!  TOM THE DANCING BUG: ALL-MIGHTY COMICS!  Books currently being personalized,...

Triggered by a can of Bud Light that celebrated transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, Kid Rock panicked. So he did what all MAGA men do when their fragile masculinity wobbles: he slapped on a MAGA ca...

After the fountain of youth, Cape Canaveral, and my maternal grandparents, I can think of nothing more Florida than the massive tourist attraction of Walt Disney World. Ron DeSantis has been trying to...

The Orange Menace, Donald J. Trump, has been moved to New York, where he will face a judge and presumably plead "not guilty" to a long list of crimes. Melania, the wife he was not with while having an...

Miles Morales and Gwen Stacey are back! Finally, some Marvel I find interesting.Image: YouTube/Screen Grab...

This study does not mean you should chug a bunch of those little airplane travel bottles of your favorite booze.A study published in JAMA Network Open and conducted by scientists in Canada and the UK ...

In what Starbucks Workers United, the union representing workers at a Buffalo, New York location, calls "retaliation at its worst," Starbucks has fired union organizer Lexi Rizzo. Rizzo is ostensibly ...

Proving Florida can be less restrictive, rather than more when it suits his fascist needs, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a permitless gun carry law. DeSantis also held a book signing at a Georgia gun shop ...

Former Trump advisor and political consultant Roger Stone is back in the news again. He was convicted in 2019 on seven felony counts for obstructing an official proceeding, witness tampering, and maki...

Former Trump advisor and political consultant Roger Stone is back in the news again. He was convicted in 2019 on seven felony counts for obstructing an official proceeding, witness tampering, and maki...

Elon Musk will be remembered as the John Galt of the 21st century. Not for being the brilliant thinker and philosopher like the hero portrayed in Ayn Rand's simplistic, tiresome melodrama, but for bla...

An "unhappy" mom in Georgia got into an argument with her daughter's middle school staff and, assumedly, did not get her way. So she thought she'd try another strategy and hurl some threats, and when ...

A MAGA man is seething in the little boys' clothing section of Target, pointing out a dinosaur T-shirt that has been desecrated with rainbows. And that's not all. Other boy shirts on the same shelf ar...

"It was my album so the drums could be as loud as I wanted," Collins told Dan Rather in the below interview from 2013. (While they don't get into the song's lyrical content here, I regret to inform yo...

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have named the four astronauts who will be the first humans to take a trip to the moon in 50 years. Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specia...

After Donald Trump incited the Capitol insurrection and then ignored his imprisoned MAGA soldiers even calling them antifa as they pleaded for a pardon his lawyer is now praising the mad Qult leade...

A customer's plot to discredit a Bay Area boba tea was foiled by surveillance footage. Watch as the Boba tea saboteur's sneaky tactics are exposed in this video. At around the 2-minute mark of the vid...

People online are trying to figure out what made this laundromat dryer explode with such force that it knocked out the front of the building. The security camera footage shows a customer leaving the l...

Just seven years after Moana's release, Disney is remaking it. This time, it will be live action. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who starred as Maui in the 2016 original, is back again. Johnson, whose mot...

I saw this story on April 1, and it took a little research to determine whether Dairy Queen was playing an April Fool joke on us. Turns out, it's real. Last week in Phoenix, someone stole a 15-foot-ta...

In Akita, Japan, there's a hot new vending machine in town. Pay, press a button, and you'll be treated to some delicious bear meat. (This on the heels of a Japanese whaling company stocking vending ma...

Writer Abraham Josephine Riesman has a remarkable knack for honing in on the essential humanity and sociopolitical impact of real-life pop culture icons, from her interviews with Art Spiegelman to her...

Grandmaster Flash is not only a hip-hop pioneer but also a groundbreaking DJ who invented myriad mixing techniquesfrom cutting to backspinningthat are core to the art of playing the turntable as a mus...

It's hard to believe that any school in America these days would shrug off warnings by multiple students and teachers that a student was packing a gun on campus. But that's what administrators at Rich...

Over the weekend, the Punk Rock Museum finally opened its doors to the public for the first time. The brainchild of 10-person punk rock collective lead by Fat Mike from NOFX along with Fletcher Dragge...

Watch this hilarious and heartwarming web series, featuring a grandson and his 84-year-old Chinese grandpa as they taste-test Americanized Chinese foods. You won't want to miss their genuine affection...

Researchers have captured on film and caught the world's deepest fishspecies of snailfish. A research ship from the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep Sea Research Centre found the animals ...

The small Bolivian town of Huarina is abuzz with reports of a dead extraterrestrial spotted in a gutter following a weird UFO encounter. Unfortunately, the corpse of the ET has since vanished. Residen...

The hills (and the sand and the trees) have eyes! These photos highlight some pretty spectacular eye-shaped formations naturally occurring in various nature landscapes. I love pareidolia. My favorite ...

The congressperson from Georgia intends to travel to New York City and demonstrate on behalf of her God-Emperor, Donald J. Trump. She is making sure, in pretty hard-to-understand terms and broken Engl...

I stumbled across this Reddit thread the other day of intentionally terribly designed volume control UIs, and there is some truly awesome UI work at play. And to be clear, I mean "awesome" as in, they...

There's always been a few defining differences between Marvel and DC, and it comes down to how the two publishers structure their universes. The divergence that typically drums up the most discourse i...

Seinpeaks is a TikTok account dedicated to one perfect mashup: adding Laura Palmer's iconic theme from Twin Peaks into scenes from Seinfeld where the laugh track used to be transforming the stunted s...

I am flabbergasted by this video of a horse with two flailing human hands that have seemingly sprouted from it's head. I think someone needs to call the veterinarian and have this horse examined. A ma...

For unknown reasons, a Tesla with four passengers drove off Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and hit a lamp post, then a tree, and subsequently burst into flame. The driver escaped before the car caught ...

Here's a restaurant you should know: The Frontier, an Albuquerque tradition since 1971. When I was in graduate school at University of New Mexicowhich is right across the streetI spent countless ...

Randy Rainbow is a national treasure.Image: YouTube/Screen Grab...

I remember my parents thought 60 Minutes was required to watch every week. Every Sunday night, we had to quiet down and let my parents have the big TV in the family room so they could settle in and wa...

I recently crossed over the 12-year mark as an Audible user, a whole Chinese Zodiac cycle's worth of audiobooks consumed from the Year of the Tiger [2010] to the Year of the Rabbit [2023]. As an Audi...

For an unknown reason, a passenger on a Delta flight from LAX to Seattle decided to open the door and pop the emergency chute. The plane had just pulled away from the gate when the passenger acted in ...

AI is creeping into *every* aspect of our digital lives, and while some applications feel mildly terrifying, others just make sense. To see what I mean, call Samantha at 640-225-5726, and ask her anyt...

Here's some pretty spectacular drone footage of 64,000 sea turtles from a birds eye view. According to Sea (@sea) Instagram photos and videos on Instagram, this is the largest turtle gathering ever c...

Tesla's executives tell one story, but the numbers tell another. After a quarter of drastic price cuts where Tesla hoped to outperform all the bad news about their not Full Self Driving cars, and thei...

Dr. Bronner'sthe "All-One" soap companyturns 75 this year. The Bronner family began making soap in Germany in 1858, and Emanuel Bronner founded the company in 1948. I've been a huge fan of D...

This mini bathroom diorama by Mozu is too cool. What at first appears to be a seemingly normal tiled wall is actually a portal to a miniature world. One of the tiles is removable, and behind it is a t...

I recently saw thisvideoof a giant salamander posted by Ed Beaulieu, who calls himself "The Pond Professor." The salamander is HUGEan absolute beast!and, depending on your perspective, it's either inc...

Avuncular inventor Tim Hunkin of Cabaret Mechanical Theater and Exploratorium fame shares his explanatory videos of mechanical stuff. His latest is "Secret Life of Components Pneumatics," a witty and...

For my 23rd birthday, my sister got me the thing that every recent college graduate desires: toilet paper. In this particular case, it was a vintage box of Spider-Man toilet paper, with a comic book p...

Here's a delightful YouTube channel I stumbled upon recently "Pasta Grannies." It's run byVicky Bennison, a former international development specialist turned travel and food writer. For the Pasta Gr...

The dogs will play when the humans are away, as in the case of this frisky malamute-husky mix who was busted when her owner caught her on live video frolicking not near, not underneath, but on top of ...

A Texas man used an Apple AirTag to track down the apparent thief of his truck, and killed him. No charges.Police said that, at this time, they believe the car thief victim is the only person to have ...

I found Ryuichi Sakamoto through the Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence theme that turned up on late-90s Pure Moods-type albums, drawing me to the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Yesterday his March death was repo...

An explosion in a Russian cafe killed a prominent pro-military blogger there, reports the BBC. The ambiguities over who is responsible are causing quite a fuss.Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin)...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hi-Fructose Magazine (@hifructosemag)Do you ever have a bad night sleep and wake up to find that your eyes have turned into little mouth...

Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, ranted today about the New York Times and took away its blue check. He was taking revenge after the company said it wouldn't pay for verification, thereby diminish...

Who misses the days when the sitting U.S. President would bestow his wisdom on the world? For example, insisting that drinking chlorine would cure the non-existent COVID-19 virus, intentionally made i...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Spring has finally sprung, and it's time for you to deep clean...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dr. Of All Things Bizarre (@bizarredoctor)This morphing skull video is seriously trippy. It's beautiful and a tad horrifying. I love the...

It's not every day you get to see something like this: Spindle, a 41-year-old North Atlantic right whale, and her calf, were filmed swimming together in Cape Cod Bay. The footage, captured by the Wood...

Artist Andrea Love (@andreaanimates) makes super cool stop motion animations using felt. I love the way that the felt candle inthis video really does look as if it's melting. It even lets off a tiny p...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Avid Pro Tools (@avid.protools)Philip Bull is a dude of many talents. He has an instagram page where he posts videos of himself performi...

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 was ever a time to thrive as acontent creator, it's n...

"Do a kickflip." This may be a familiar phrase from a video or life. You may have seen the "do a kickflip" video series from the Berrics, featuring Eric Koston and a host of homies, including Tony Haw...

Remember when Peter Parker was the only Spider-Man? Since Spider-Man hit the scene in the 1960s, Marvel has tried several times to replicate the Wall-Crawler's success. In the 70s, the House of Ideas ...

You know, even though the new Dungeons & Dragons movie looks like a soulless cash grab in the vein of the Marvel cinematic universe(and, more specifically,Guardians of the Galaxy), the film is gar...

Who doesn't love a good classic movie trailer? If you look at any trailer from the late 50s all the way up to the early 2000s, there are a handful of tropes they all possess, irrespective of the genre...

If you happen to own an old copy of The Police's "Synchronicity" record, here's a fun thing you can try: take it out of its sleeve and put a light to it. At first glance, it might just look like your ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Guillermo Galetti (@ladrondechatarra)Guillermo Galetti makes incredibly fun, moving scrap metal sculptures and posts videos of them on t...

I promise you will be dancing by the end of this post, whatever dancing may mean to you: cutting the rug full spin, moving your hips on the chair, or just a gentle rhythm nod.There is a self-evident r...

Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to outlaw feeding people who are hungry? Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to target people who provide people who are hungry for criminal prote...

This sculpture by CLETstudio (@cletstudio) features two cut-out figures on a wheel that shift into various NSFW positions as the wheel turns 'round and 'round. The wheel, framed within a black wooden ...

I am not sure what it is I was looking for on Etsy, but I discovered the strange world of Dwayne Johnson 3D-printed objects. From Pokemon pieces, to "Rocktopuses" and "Rock Lobsters", there is somethi...

I just got a wonderful recommendation from our friend Donald Bell. He emailed me about a new and unusual ramen shop in the Brooklyn Basin area of Oakland, California and gave me the okay to share it h...

Behind President Joe Biden's desk in the White House, there is a golden frame without a photo inside. This empty frame in the Oval Office has sparked curiosity, as people question why it exists withou...

What started as a one-off tweet, exposing me to a new world, became a dive into the Youtube rabbit hole. Indian bass competitions have me questioning my entire commitment to sound. And while I fear fo...

In Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond, the Pulitzer prize-winning Princeton Sociologist explains how, in a capitalist society based on consumption, profit, and greed, wealthy people benefit from t...

Back in January, I was gobsmacked by indie Welsh musician Ren Gill and his moving, painfully personal song and video, Hi Ren. A few days ago, Ren released his latest track and video, Illest of Our Tim...

We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views.Learning to code is one of the most lucrative skills we c...

I love this person-powered whirlygig crown by Isabel + Helen. It features a tree-like formation of different sized whirligigs that spin when the wearer begins to walk. This wearable sculpture is mesme...

I love the way that these two fish spit sand in each other's faces. They remind me of two toddlers, fighting over something silly. Their sass levels are through the roof. I couldn't stop laughing as 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.Microsoftcomputers have held a firm grip in the laptop space, ...

Bad news, vegans! Plants emit an ultrasonic "scream" when cut. When stressed, they "click frantically." Business Insider, summarizing a scientific paper I haven't read, reports on the existential univ...

Street Fighter, released to arcades four years before its blockbuster sequel, originally came with huge pads to punch. Though brilliant marketing, they sucked so bad it made the game unplayable, and a...

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealshas upheld the National Labor Relations Board's March 2021 order that Elon Musk must delete an anti-union tweet threatening to eliminate stock options for unionize...

I got sucked into the fascinating story of the Tombstone Epitaph's 'Thunderbird.' On April 26, 1890 the paper published a story of six gunmen bringing down a legendary Thunderbird. More interesting t...

An army of troll dolls sit inside of the crevices of this wooden bridge in Portland. The origins of this fun project are unknown, but the fact that this happened in Portland of all places is a good en...

I think great names for a Disney gang would be: Dapper Donalds, Street Sweepers, Pizza Planeteers (the pizza sucks, tho,) Nemo's Mouseketeers, Cheshire Brats, and the Swiss Street Gang Robinson. I te...

A Federal judge in Tennessee temporarily blocked the state's new ban on drag shows, citing First Amendment rights, after the law was challenged by a theater group. Judge Thomas Parker wrote that "If T...

Members of the team sent by the CDC to study the health impact of the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, themselves fell sick while nearby the site. CNN reports that the researchers ...

A baby was born in a Costco parking lot in Livingston County, Michigan on Saturday, March 25. MLive news provides some details:The fire department and Livingston County EMS arrived around 1:...

French street artist Marcel Delaville, aka Bisk, is over in Paris doing the Lord's work. He's taken it upon himself to anthropomorphize mounds of trash that are accumulating in the sidewalks and stree...

Guess which Wiki article is longer in a game called Whichipedia. The rules of the game are simple- try and guess, solely based on the title, which of the two articles is longer. You'll gain a point ev...

Oh, to be one of Marissa Monteleone's dogsthey are treated like royalty, as all animals should be! Marissa runs an Instagram called "MyDogsDope," highlighting her two dogsPluto, who is an American Bul...

Long Furby Farm is a treasure trove of Furby themed weirdness. I am delighted yet mildly frightened by the existence of these videos. Here's one of a Furby with tentacles giving to fuzzy worms a bath ...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Juxtapoz Magazine (@juxtapozmag)Street Musique is a 1972 animation choreographed to the music of street musicians. What an awesome conce...

Can I just say how much I love Justine Bateman for calling bullshit on society's unrealistic beauty standards? At 57, the actor, writer, and director has faced her share of cruel comments about her a...

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lost Found Art (@lostfoundartny)I love this bench that makes you look like you're sitting inside of a gigantic slingshot. It's by artist...

One common criticism ofFamily Guyis how shamelessly the show mimicsThe Simpsons' tried and true formula. And while there is some salience in the point, we can't forget thatThe Simpsonsis equally guilt...

I saw Erykah Badu live with The Roots at the Hollywood Bowl in 2008, touring for the album New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). Badu played what I have always assumed was the theremin on several tra...

"Nature is our teacherAll we have to do is pay attention"Before the garden of Eden was privatized by Christianity, it might have been a socialist cooperative. Ok, there were only two humans, one made ...

I'm obsessing over the coolness of these circus-esque monster dolls by Catherine Z. Look at this fantastically spooky trio of misfit critters. They are handmade with so much love. The artist has a won...

Tiktoker alexandriaokayy was walking down a street in Japan when two police officers stopped her and asked if they could look in her bag. She asked them why in Japanese, and they said, "There are peop...

It's strange how many parallels one can draw between the history of DC's film division and its comic book publishing arm. Both wings of DC burst into the mainstream with monstrous success in the form ...

The leathery Tyrannosaurus Rex of vintage imagination has given way to the feathered horror of modern paleontological speculation. But science has one more adjustment to make to our understanding of t...

A second hospital in the state has announced it will no longer deliver babies: "It has been increasingly difficult and unsustainably expensive to recruit and retain a full team of high quality, broad-...

You have to give Disney credit; when they make a decision to do something, no matter how ill-advised, they'll always go down with the ship. Although a decent idea at first, Disney's live-action films ...

Fox News' effort to get Dominion's $1.6bn defamation case against it tossed out was itself ended today by Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis. The lawsuit will now go to trial–which looks l...

I love the "dog skit" genrewhere dogs cleverly "act out" scenariosand the Instagram account "Layla the Boxer" is about as good as it gets! The site is run by Samantha Copley and features her two dogs:...

This one made me laugh, and I hope it delights you, too. I'm in a great Facebook group called "Dogspotting Society," where I first saw this video. It features Mr. Frank, an adorable golden retriever w...

After a 47-year-old patient arrived at a Manhattan hospital for "observation," he decided he preferred the ambulance ride over the medical facility. So at 5am, when no one was paying attention, the ge...

Senator Lindsey Graham, who aspires to live out his twilight years as Donald Trump's yapping lapdog, suggested Trump engage in violence ahead of his arraignment in New York on Tuesday: "smash some win...

That incredible show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is completely sold outbut there are more Vermeers to see beyond its walls, and there's a terrific documentary from 2017, which aired on PBS. Great ...

Here's a new interview with 102-year-old toy inventor Eddy Goldfarb. He's easily my favorite toy designer (for inventing the Mattel VacUForm), but maybe you have a different favorite classic toy? Eddi...

Allow me to share something I've only recently discovered that's been tickling my funny bone: it's called "Interpretative Dance," a hilarious segment from BBC Two's 2011 improv show, Fast and Loose. T...

Here's a case where sticking to the old proverb, "Ignorance is bliss," really comes in handy. Unless you're like me and don't care if you eat harmless, invisible bugs, remain oblivious! You don't need...

Jordan Simons has found a creative way to turn Dr. Seuss books (non-controversial ones) like Fox in Socks and ABC into rap songs. He adds a hip-hop beat and starts rapping the words. It's amazing how ...

Mathematicians have long wondered if there was an "einstein tile" – a tile that could be used only to make a non-repeating pattern on an infinite surface. An amateur mathematician named David S...

Cry-bully Donald Trump blows his MAGA-mob whistle as he points his little finger at the New York City judge assigned to his arraignment on Tuesday. "The Judge 'assigned' to my Witch Hunt Case, a 'Case...

'National Enquirer'"Trump Orders New Civil War!" screams the cover story.The former president, anticipating his indictment last week, told supporters to "PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST," and to "Take our n...

Dungeons & Dragons has been a staple of pop culture since its creation in the early 1970s. A recent article in The Smithsonian magazine explores the history of this iconic game in the form of 14 f...

Space start-up Astrolab Inc. is building a robotic moon rover the size of jeep to the lunar surface sometime in the next few years. (The particular prototype shown above has room for passengers.) The ...

Los Angeles Dodgers fan Ricardo Juarez thought it would be romantic to run onto the field yesterday during the seventh inning stretch, drop to one knee, and propose marriage to his girlfriend Ramona S...

Billions of dollars in debt, advertisers fleeing, revenue dropping, and each new paradigm-shifting 4D chess move of a new product a laughable and unthought-out result of impulsive management, one numb...

A law-and-order MAGA man struggled to answer a simple question about Donald Trump and accountability.The question was straightforward. "If Trump did do this, should be held accountable?" the Good Liar...

Former "genius" and CEO of failed crypto exchange FTX, Samuel Bankman-Fried, is hoping to use FTX's 'Directors and Officers' insurance to pay for his legal defense. FTX debtors and unsecured creditors...

Cut placed a stripper pole on a busy sidewalk in Seattle on a rainy day. As William Gibson said, "the street finds its own uses for things." And in this case, the use is mostly as a stripper pole, alb...

It's always heartwarming to see the Trump family sticking together when one of them is facing criminal charges. Eric Trump, the epitome of a privileged, clueless heir, went on TV last night to express...

After news broke that a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald Trump, Fox News flew into a theatrical tailspin to keep their angry viewers entertained. The mock outrage, denialism, Democrat-shaming, rep...

Apo Whang-Od, 106 years old, appears on the cover of this month's Vogue Philippines. She's the oldest person ever to be on the cover of Vogue. Whang-Od is a master of an indigenous "hand-tapped" tatto...

A few years ago I had the awesome opportunity to see Puppet Up! an improvised live stage show put on by some Henson Puppeteers. The incredible talent and artistry of what they do was a mystery to me b...

Plants that need water or are injured may audibly "cry," according to new research. Tel-Aviv University's Lilach Hadany and colleagues determined that thirsty or recently-cut plants produce ultrasonic...

Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, a micro-blogging platform that has been losing money, had an idea to turn his company's fortunes around: "I'll charge businesses $1,000 a month to keep their verified ...

Already sued by the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania and unwilling to do much more than have its loathsome executives offer empty apologies and insulting promises to those affected, Norfolk Southern ha...

Here's a food you should know, if you don't already: the muffuletta! It's a giant and delicious New Orleans classic that you really must try if you ever have the chance. But what, exactly, is a mufful...

Give yourself time to digest The A. I. Dilemma, a reality check from March 9th, 2023. I stress the date because AI's moving so fast that some concepts are outdated as soon as they are discussed, and i...

Author, media mogul, and transphobe JK Rowling's theater business made much less money in 2022 than in 2021. Her organization points to COVID restrictions for the drop. However, that seems fishy as re...

Scott Pilgrim vs the World is coming back! The acclaimed graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley was adapted to the screen by Edgar Wright in 2010, with an all-star cast featuring Michael Cera as t...

After five years of anticipation, the indie rock supergroup known as boygenius has finally released their first full-length album. The trio, comprised of acclaimed singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Pho...

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 truth about cloud storage is that it's low on everyone's l...

The current holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's largest digital image is a 281 gigapixel picture of a zebrafish embryo, comprised of 26,434 individual electron microscopy images. NASA ...

Whatever you fucking don't like, this fucking t-shirt company probably has a tee for itfuck yeah! swissmiss:My friend Scott and his wife built F*** Shirts as part therapy, part dealing with...

Oh, do I miss Samantha Bee's Full Frontal! In a nation where the truth about our society can only be discussed if someone is making a joke, Samantha Bee's show laid it all out. Bee took to 'The Last L...

Fox's Russia Cheerleader, Tucker Carlson, thinks enforcing the rule of law is worse for democracy than a gang of lightly armed rabble breaking their way into the Nation's Capitol. January 6th was an a...

In 2018, in anticipation of Tesla's Cybertruck announcement (remember how that went?), comedic maker, Simone Giertz, did a project that went global. She took a Tesla Model 3 and converted it into the ...

In 2018, in anticipation of Tesla's Cybertruck announcement (remember how that went?), comedic maker, Simone Giertz, did a project that went global. She took a Tesla Model 3 and converted it into the ...

In the latest Ted Lasso episode, Adriano Celentano's catchy 1972 Italian pop tune, "Prisencolinensinainciusol," makes a few auditory appearances. You might remember the song is designed to mimic the s...

For decades, The Venture Bros has been one of the finest examples of quality in the world of adult animation. Although the series always possessed a spark of brilliance, thanks to its ingeni...

Actress and Goop entrepreneur Gwyneth Paltrow has won her court case against the man who sued her after the two collided on a ski slope. Terry Sanderson claimed $300,000 in damages and sought to blame...

Parting Stone, a "death curious" start-up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is doing something pretty cool. They believe that when someone we love dies, we should be able to keep a connection with them in a me...

Thrilled to learn that National Geographic is creating a new documentary about the renowned astronomer, and that it's a love story. Described as an "intimate and cinematic portrait" of the visionary s...

From the wonderfully weird mind of Conner O'Malley, who sets out to "embody" Mickey Mouse in the wild.Edited by Jason Harvey Executiveproduced by Reggie HenkeProduced by Mackenzie JamiesonFootage sho...

As a character, Batman has never remained static. Even the seemingly immutable elements of his mythos, namely his code against killing, are a production of constant revision throughout the years. In h...

When the Marvel universe as we know it first hit the scene in the early 60s, the brand established itself by creating superheroes that had problems reminiscent of our own. Unlike the characters at DC,...

Here's a very good boy you should know: Harlso the Balancing Hound. He's a dachshund who lives in Belfast, Ireland with his humans, Paul and Jennifer Lavery. He wears a bowtie, and he knows ...

We've posted Jonathan Moffett (playing drums on "Smooth Criminal") here on Boing Boing before, and we're back to share a newly recorded video. Drumeo provides a brief bio of Moffett:Jonathan...

This is the collab no one saw coming. Build-a-Bear Workshop (which World of Wonder hilariously calls the "WERKshop") has a RuPaul Bear complete with a wig, gold dress, and gold heels!Start your engine...

Hot off the heels of news that E3 2023's last remaining big names had pulled out, the inevitable has happened. The 2023 Electronic Entertainment Expo has officially been cancelled, which likely spells...

Upon meeting a popular TikTok transphobe, Congressperson from New York Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez immediately called them out for it.You bet I did. NYC doesn't play with bigots and transphobes and neith...

Ron DeSantis has leaned hard into the GOP playbook of racist dog whistles. Alvin Bragg is not a black man controlled by a Jewish George Soros. I am not certain DeSantis has much choice about what happ...