Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer decided to get grossly overweight so he could claim a disability and work from home? Once he'd achieved his dream, the largely immobile Homer's tool of choice was his "reaching broom," a normal broom Homer would use to tap the keys of his computer while he sat […]

Raconteur animator sWooZie shared a cute story about a blind date that has lots of twists and turns. It's a long driveway to a small house, but it's well-told and interspersed with his trademark cute animations, a modern tale of love and fame. Image: YouTube / sWooZie

Hurricane Laura is expected to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday near the Texas-Louisiana border. Winds are already in excess of 150 miles an hour, making it close to a category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center says "large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage" to a roughly 150-mile stretch of the Gulf […]

Terrorist Brenton Tarrant will spend life behind bars, no parole

The YouTube channel Boxlapse exists primarily to show timelapses of plants growing (it's like ASMR for your eyes). Here's a compilation of their "best of" videos — 190 days of growth crunched into three minutes. screengrab via Boxlapse/YouTube (Geekologie)

Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Mark Ramos reconfigured of Google's "ReCaptcha" software to "train the population on what is deemed 'unacceptable uses of force" by police who are paid to protect the public.'" "To Protect and Server" utilizes the ReCaptcha system but re-appropriates a randomized selection of 30 perceived images of "Police Brutality" in an attempt to train the population on […]

Breaking news: Scott Adams has uncovered the truth about Joe Biden as a disciple of Satan! From Right Wing Watch: "Build back better—BBB. If you were going to imagine '666' and you wanted to show it to people and disguise it at the same time, can you think of any letter that the numeral six […]

California's popular ski resort, Squaw Valley will change its name to something else. LA Times: "While we love our local history and the memories we all associate with this place as it has been named for so long, we are confronted with the overwhelming evidence that the term 'squaw' is considered offensive," Ron Cohen, the […]

The American Bystander is a superb humor magazine now in its 15th issue (buy a copy here or subscribe via Patreon). The latest issue has a story by Jennifer Finney Boylan, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of 16 books. The story is called "The Assassin" and all I […]

There are those who wear their masks properly, those who don't wear them at all, and then the strange category of folks who sport a mask with their entire snout hanging out. Apparently they missed Poppy's video back in 2017, and should take 32 seconds out of their day to study it now.

Back in January, Mark wondered if the new coronavirus would wipe out Corona beer in the same way AIDS killed the anti-suppressant candy Ayds in the 1980s. After all, days before Mark's post, David posted about a Google Trends graph that showed a spike on "the words corona, beer, and virus." And memes about "corona […]

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, I wrote about my interest in nontransitive dice: Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth trilogy is set billions of years in the future when our sun is a red orb on the verge of blinking out. Earth's few thousand remaining inhabitants practice different kinds of magic, including […]

Ethan Rosenthal is "particularly fond of peanut butter and banana sandwiches." As a data scientist, he wondered if he could "maximize the packing fraction of the banana slices," the amount of banana coverage, using computer vision and machine learning. Months later, he succeeded. Now, Rosenthal has written a deep description of the project and released the code […]

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special offers here. "I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It makes me laugh and think of course but it makes […]

The massive swimming pool at the Aveda Resort and Spa in Kumarakom, Kerala, India is busy with guests these days. The resort is still closed due to COVID-19 and the swimmers are actually pearl spot fish, a delicacy in India and the Middle East. From The National: "We have had zero revenue, so in June, we […]

Joel Johnson once edited the gadgets blog here at Boing Boing, but now he's a Vice President at Dashlane and a "comms veteran" with some useful working-from-home tips to share with PR Daily's Ted Kitterman. 4. What's a tool you couldn't live without right now? Johnson: I know you mean a digital tool. But those […]

For one week in 1992, video and performance artist Christian Jankowski visited supermarkets to hunt down his groceries with a bow and arrow. From the description of "Die Jagd / The Hunt": To rebel against modern society, to return to nature: in pursuit of these primeval instincts, for one week, Jankowski lived off goods he […]

"This is sports rather than music," says Hayato Sumino (aka Cateen). From the video description: BPM160: Easy BPM190: OK, I can play BPM220: My fingers will cramp… BPM250: I don't understand why my fingers are moving so fast

Harrods is a fancy department store in London and the largest in Europe, with an illustrious history to go with its sprawling floor plan—and similarly enormous catalogues. The 1912 Harrods for Everything book is 1,525 pages long, illustrates more than 15,000 products, and was backed by a then cutting-edge logistics operation that included telephone ordering […]

The broad outlines of the Lebanon blast's cause is known—3000 tons of impounded ammonium nitrate neglected in a warehouse for years after the unseaworthy ship transporting it docked in Beirut. But the details are harder to nail down. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project traces the individuals, companies and connections behind the MV Rhosus […]

Portable projectors feel like a technology that should have died out in the 1990s. But even in an era of 4K resolution and 100-inch screens, a trusty projector is still the most effective means for delivering presentation-style video and graphics quickly and simply without hiring your own audiovisual team to set it up. As a […]

A reality hacker in the N. Spokane, Washington area used darkened pieces of cardboard to make several of the city's green traffic lights look like cannabis leaves. This person, who signed some of the pieces as the "Mad Signtist," appears to be taking a page out of the Pablo Rochat playbook. screengrab via KREM/YouTube Thanks, […]

In Central Massachusetts, in a town called Shrewsbury, in a body of water called Mill Pond, sits a small outcropping called Busta Rhymes Island. It is not known by any other name — and yet, due to byzantine naming laws in the United States, it is not formally recognized as Busta Rhymes Island either. Not […]

In today's "everything old is new again" news: The CW Network is developing a live-action Powerpuff Girls series — with a twist. Buttercup, Blossom, and Bubbles are now "disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting." Huh, ok. Deadline: The network has put in development The Powerpuff Girls, a live-action series based on the […]

Watch this cute cat go on a nice walk in the sunshine. I adore HosicoCats, and this fun video from the Japanese kitty-blog is a nice little escape from behind the computer. About that cat: Hosico — Scottish fluffy cat. Hosico is a gold scottish cat, boy. He was born on August 4, 2014 in […]

Boeing said Tuesday it plans a do-over of its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station (ISS) in December or January, and that if it's successful, a crewed mission may follow as early as summer 2021. A post-certification mission would then follow, in winter, the company added. Above, video from that […]

"I want to put my hand on my son's cheek and kiss him on his forehead, and then I'll be OK. I'll kiss him with my mask. The first thing I want to do is touch my son." — Jacob Blake, Sr. Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot multiple times by police in […]

• Trump reportedly dreamed up medieval plots "to pierce human flesh" of migrants. • Wanted to "maim" "gas" and "shoot" migrants. • On family separation, Trump said, "I want to make it ten times as bad." IN WHICH one Mr. Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, tells The […]

German doctors' initial diagnosis of poisoning is not yet conclusive, the Kremlin says. Sure. In what is one of the least surprising news developments of 2020, the Kremlin is resisting calls to investigate the mysterious illness that befell noted Putin critic Aleksei Navalny, and why would you even think that it was a poisoning, that's […]

After the emergence of a racy photo and allegations of a racy lifestyle, Jerry Falwell Jr. quit his post as president of Liberty University late monday. Falwell made it official after flip-flopping back and forth all day, first promising to resign, then rescinding the offer, and finally making it official. Things have changed now, but […]

When the recent fires in Vacaville, California approached the home of Chad Little, he decided to stay and try to protect his house himself. Apparently though, Little's water supply was ultimately shut off so when the flames moved toward his welding workshop, he grabbed the only liquid source he could find: some cases of Bud […]

Jerry Falwell Jr. just confirmed that he has resigned as head of Liberty University. He did so in the most disgusting and dishonorable way possible, by smearing the name of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior in his resignation. Jerry Fallwell, Jr., people. What a guy.

Facebook plans to soon launch its Facebook News tab in countries beyond the U.S., to include Brazil, France, Germany, India, and the UK, the company announced on Tuesday. Facebook News will will launch in the coming months in those countries. Users in the United States got it last year. Sara Fischer [@sarafischer] at Axios tweeted […]

My friend Chris D'Amato is raising money to film a web-series adaptation of his play The Information War, which he co-wrote and performed in for a sold-out run in the 2018 New York Fringe Festival. Here's the official synopsis: America. Present Day- the age of misinformation. Madness has besieged the nation. What is fact? What […]

This rusty safe turned up on the edge of farmer Kirk Mathes's field in Barre, New York. Apparently a note pasted to the safe said the contents belong to whoever can crack it. While Mathes was traveling, words of the safe spread and a crowd attempted to pry it open to no avail. Apparently police […]

"Anime food is an escape for a lot of people. It has a very soothing effect," says Christina Song, curator of the anime feed Instagram @anime_food. Indeed, food is treated like a character in many anime films and TV shows, including the wondrous work of Studio Ghibli. For example, see My Neighbor Totoro (above) and […]

IKEA in Taiwan used the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to recreate some pages in its new 2021 catalog. As an avid player of the game, I am so tickled by this and appreciate how much effort went into doing it. Some of the substitutions they had to make for the recreations are really […]

No stranger to IP gaffes, Brewdog brewery reacted perfectly to Aldi's clearly humorous broadsides. How will Aldi respond? Takes a few weeks to brew a new beer… Techdirt: Yeah, this is actually happening. Consider the back and forth here for a moment. Brewdog makes a Punk IPA in a blue can. Aldi decides to release […]

A Michigan man transforms his grandparents' unassuming rural home into a module-stuffed control center dedicated to contacting alien life forms in the Netflix original, John Was Trying To Contact Aliens. Weighing in at under twenty minutes long, this short documentary nevertheless provides us with a powerful story of a life spent yearning for connection. Beginning […]

BLK SHP is a conspiracy of radically creative folks—successful entrepreneurs, authors, emerging artists, philanthropists, freaks, designers, musicians, social activists—working collaboratively on initiatives to make the world a better place. On the latest episode of the Black Sheep Podcast, my pal and BLK SHP founder Peter Sims and esteemed pianist/composer Harold O'Neal, years ago the first […]

A 20-year-old woman, declared dead at her Detroit home, was zipped up into a body bag and taken to a funeral home to be enbalmed. But she had other plans. "They were about to embalm her, which is most frightening, had she not had her eyes open … The funeral home unzipping the body bag, […]

With most summer travel cancelled this year, outdoor excursions like camping trips are on the short list of approved getaway alternatives. Since sleeping on the hard, cold ground is never a blast, air mattresses have become increasingly popular among outdoor types and adventurers. What still isn't popular is having to blow up those mattresses repeatedly […]

In 1939, as the shadow of war spread over Europe, British stockbroker Nicholas Winton helped to spirit hundreds of threatened children out of Czechoslovakia. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe Winton's struggle to save the children and the world's eventual recognition of his achievements. We'll also consider some ghostly marriages […]

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have lost one of their own. Jack Sherman, an early guitarist for the band, has passed away at the age of 64. The band made the announcement on Twitter, "We of the RHCP family would like to wish Jack Sherman smooth sailing into the worlds beyond, for he has passed. […]

Remember the Del Rubio Triplets? The three sisters who played guitars, dressed alike and wore too-short dresses…? You probably recognize their campy act from eighties shows like Pee-wee's Playhouse ("These Boots are Made for Walking" and "Winter Wonderland"), Full House ("Whip it!"), and Golden Girls ("Neutron Dance"). However, Milly, Eadie, and Elena didn't start performing […]

A gentleman saved his home from the Northern California wildfires by spraying them with Bud Light. The Mercury News: Last Wednesday morning was a very harrowing time for Chad Little and his family, but he was thankfully able to find a bit of light in the situation. Light beer, that is. As the LNU Lightning […]

KFC blurred the slogan on old billboards and signs in a cheeky YouTube video

Project managers have a lot of responsibility on their plate when they're hip-deep in a major project. They have to ride herd over the project, but they also need to constantly gather data, analyze the results, modify their processes, and report back on all of it to the various project stakeholders. This difficult position has […]

At the RNC tonight, Patricia McCloskey, who is the lady half of a notorious St. Louis couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters, says Democrats want to "abolish" the suburbs. She goes on to praise impeached U.S. President Donald Trump for pushing against "low quality apartments" and crime. They're talking about non-white people. They are […]

Dr. Stephen M. Hahn [@SteveFDA], is the 24th Commissioner of Food and Drugs for the @US_FDA under Donald Trump. Tonight, on Twitter, Hahn admitted he misled the public on the promise of convalescent plasma for COVID-19 patients. "I have been criticized for remarks I made Sunday night about the benefits of convalescent plasma," he tweeted […]