The Stoneman Family was a lively, talented bluegrass-polka-surf band. "The combination of Donna Stoneman pogo-ing while playing the mandolin, and Ronnie Stoneman's generally dour expression while plucking the banjo, makes for a bizarro mix," says Paul of Weird Universe. https://youtu.be/2zrN-BXfiIYhttps://youtu.be/B_UXGkpD7vg

Electronic Football is the only sportsball I've ever liked! This remake is pretty great!The sounds, controls and rinky-dink electronic screen are back! I am sure I remember there being some kind of passing game in the original, but this running game kept me busy for an hour or so.Relive the virtual excitement!Classic Football Electronic Game via Amazon

When Nintendo suddenly canceled the NES Classic, the surprise hit toy of last Christmas, the roar of anguish and outrage matched any the Internet had seen. Insane! Idiocy! There was only one smart take on the matter: the company must have a SNES Classic up its sleeve, playing even more and better classic games. And that was of course the case, as that exact product was today officially announced.The SNES Classic will hit store shelves in September, Nintendo says, and include 21 games—including the unreleased and legendary Star Fox 2. In Nintendo tradition, it will be sold out in about four minutes and then be available only on eBay from dodgy importers for many times the normal price.Here's the game list:What, no Pilotwings? Outrageous!

https://youtu.be/aqIJcgxEZMQIf you cut a zip-tie tail with scissors, it leaves a sharp-edged stub. In this video, you'll learn how to use pliers to twist of the tail, which creates a stub without a sharp tail.I just tried it (above photo) and it works. On the left is twist method. On the right is the scissors method (cutting as flush to the catch as possible). The tail on the twisted zip tie feels like a smooth, melted lump of plastic. Very cool![via Make's Tips of the Week]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDvy1Ja-WcThe Flux chair is a $130, 12lb "origami-style" polypropylene lounge chair designed by Douwe Jacobs; it sets up in minutes and is stable and lovely (there's also a $65 kids' version and a whole range of furnishings including a bar, coffee table, countertop, end-table, etc). (via Yanko Design)

A teenage girl fell out of a slow-moving Great Escape gondola at Six Flags in Lake George, NY over the weekend, and was dangling and screaming for at least 90 seconds, maybe more, before she dropped into a gathering crowd, to lots of cheers and applause.A man ready to photograph his own family riding in another gondola caught this video. You can hear him shouting, “They’ll catch you! They’ll catch you, honey, go ahead!” According to The Washington Post:It was then that the girl plummeted to the ground, hitting a tree branch before being caught by several people below. The video showed onlookers cheering after the girl was caught and then the girl being carried away, limp.The girl who fell was a 14-year-old park guest visiting from Greenwood, Del., according to a statement from the Warren County Sheriff’s Office. She was treated by park emergency medical staff first, then taken to a local hospital and finally flown by helicopter to Albany Medical Center. She remains in stable condition with no serious injuries, police said.A 47-year-old man visiting the park from Schenectady, N.Y., was also taken to a local hospital for a back injury he suffered as he tried to catch the girl, police said.Accidents on rides at amusement parks in the United States are rare, with only one in 16 million. And luckily this one had a happy ending.

The Australian Attorney General and a key Australian minister have published a memo detailing the demand they plan on presenting to the next Five Eyes surveillance alliance meeting, which will be held next week in Ottawa. (more…)

In this episode of Scam School, Brian Brushwood reveals the secret behind a crooked carnival game called "pricking the garter." In the game, the sucker is asked to place his finger in one of two loops in a rolled up belt. After the belt is unrolled, if the sucker's finger is still inside the loop, he wins. But he never wins because the carny is always in control of the outcome.

In April, Donald Trump ordered a massive strike against Syria to retaliate for an alleged chemical weapons attack against civilians, despite widely circulated US intelligence that said that no chemical weapons had been used. (more…)

As the Supreme Court makes ready to rule on the blatant gerrymandering in Wisconsin, the AP has conducted a study using "a new statistical method of calculating partisan advantage" to analyze "the outcomes of all 435 U.S. House races and about 4,700 state House and Assembly seats up for election last year" and report "four times as many states with Republican-skewed state House or Assembly districts than Democratic ones." (more…)

It's not often that police will post video directly from the scene of a crime or emergency, but this footage from Nicholasville, Kentucky's Officer Baker offers a harrowing and instructive warning about the dangers of poorly-secured shipping containers in transit. It's hard going: twelve casualties, all crushed beyond human hope.

Games Nostalgia is a retrogame site with a useful difference: instead of simply providing files which then must be fed to the often-difficult gods of emulation, it packages the classics as ready-to-click apps for Mac and PC. Examples to eat your morning: seminal Atari/Amiga RPG Dungeon Master, DOS blaster Doom, and 1990's original RTS Dune II. Then there's Populous, Archon, Shadow of the Beast...Previously: Vast collection of Amiga games, demos and software uploaded to Internet Archive

As the hilarious Star Trek: The Next Generation Tumblr “Fashion It So” points out, this dress from eShakti bears more than a passing resemblance to a Starfleet uniform, especially the ones worn during the Deep Space Nine and Voyager eras of the series. Here’s the dress:And here’s a look at the DS9 and Voyager uniforms:The dress also comes in grey and is offered in a couple different cuts.The dresses are available from size XS to 36W and come with a whole bunch of customizable options in terms of size, length, sleeve style, and neckline. You can check out the Starfleet dress and more size-inclusive fashion on eShakti’s website.

Light Balance, a 12-man Ukrainian dance crew recently auditioned for America's Got Talent (AGT). Their high-energy LED dance show especially impressed the show's host Tyra Banks, who pressed the Golden Buzzer. Now the troupe will perform at AGT's live show in August in hopes of winning the grand prize. Here's what the dancers look like with the lights on:

In this new ScreenCrush video, a group of trans actors discuss Hollywood’s lack of trans representation and why it matters. The video was written by Jen Richards, who expands on a lot of these ideas in her article for Logo’s New Now Next site about the pervasiveness of cis (i.e. non-trans) men playing trans women. As Richards writes: I was trapped in the same cycle many of my friends were: We dated straight men who were afraid other people would think they were gay because the public thinks transgender women are just men with good hair and makeup. And the public thinks that because the only trans people they know of are men with good hair and makeup in movies.Despite hundreds of thousands of straight men all around the world consuming trans pornography in massive quantities, driving a high demand for trans sex workers, and crowding Craigslist with non-stop pleas for discreet hookups, every guy acts as if the trans women they’re seeing is somehow the rare exception. “You just feel like a woman,” I’ve heard a million times, “but you know, most trannies look like men.”What they really mean is, “All my friends know is what they’ve seen in movies.”It’s more than frustrating—it’s dangerous. Straight men’s fear that other straight men will think they’re gay because they’re with a trans women leads to violence against trans women. This image of male celebrities in drag is what leads to laws like HB2, which made it a crime for me to use a women’s room when I went home to see my family in North Carolina. Every time a cis man gets applauded for bravely portraying a transgender woman on screen, every time he picks up an award for it while sporting a tuxedo, we’re reinforcing the belief that at the end of the day, a trans woman is still really a man.To see representation of trans women actually playing trans roles, you can check out Richards’ web series Her Story, which she co-wrote and stars in:https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL397e9fZhTd6Jdi6OBv8oMviMY_lowAIm&v=UkHicPm7C6Q

For a Late Late Show sketch, James Corden and Seth Rogen took over a local pizzeria's deliveries to surprise some unsuspecting L.A. residents. At each door, the duo offers them either the pizza they ordered or a mystery pizza box. The mystery one holds either a good surprise or a not-so-good one. From there, hijinks ensue. At one point, English actor Dominic Cooper is pulled in for an impromptu wrestling match against Corden in someone's apartment.However, the big winner in their fun little game is clearly David Rhodes, the birthday boy who got bragging rights to the best Instagram photos ever. https://www.instagram.com/p/BVolTJ4lSj0/?taken-by=davidrhodes

It's not a huge surprise that Willie Nelson makes a cameo in the lighthearted (and smoke-filled) new video for Toby Keith's weed-centric country party song, "Wacky Tobaccy." After all, Willie is a known pothead and a longtime advocate of marijuana legalization. What's a tiny bit surprising is that, a few years ago, Keith jokingly sang that he would "never smoke with Willie again." And now here is, toking up with Willie again:That's the power of the reefer, people. One minute you're swearing off the pot and the next you're on your fancy tourbus getting high with one of the coolest mofos on the planet.(Honestly, I think the only thing truly surprising is that Snoop Dogg wasn't invited to this pot party.)Here's a taste of the song's lyrics:Know you can two tote her, you can one hit him, puff it in a pipe and you can twist it in a stem, you can bake it in some brownies, smoke it through a Bong, roll up a great big fat one like ol' Cheech and Chong, Burn it through a hole, in a can of Budweiser, if you can't take the heat son vaporizerThat old Wacky Tobaccy, When you feel it creeping up on you, That old Wacky Tobaccy, Kick back and let it do what it doOne small step for Toby Keith, one slightly-bigger step for mainstreaming cannabis culture.(The Cannabist)

The Apprehension Engine is a custom-made musical instrument designed to produce the scary, tension-building noises associated with horror movies, but without the all-too-obvious digital chopping and synthesizing invariably involved. The result is something organic and seamlessly natural—something that goes beyond fear and fright to nail you to some deep Jungian place so completely you become a part of it. And she says I'm hard to shop for!Christopher Bickel at Dangerous Minds:“The Apprehension Engine,” as it is called, was created by Canadian guitar maker Tony Duggan-Smith as a “one off” for Mark Korven, who is best known for his soundtrack work on The VVitch.Compare to the classic analogue horror instrument, the waterphone:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foSJstDFDfg

Mashable explains why so many people can’t stand the word “moist.” It turns out it has to do with both word association and the bandwagon effect.

I got one of those bug-zapping LED lightbulbs, in hopes of murdering the flies drifting into my office during the increasingly warm and muggy Pennsylvania summer. I got mine from Home Depot, but the bulbs at Lowes, Wal-Mart and Amazon are all obviously identical. There are two lights in each bulb: an ultraviolet one inside an electrified bug-zapping cage, and a standard 60W-equivalent LED element to light the room. You can have one or both lit simply by turning the light off and on repeatedly within a second: it sounds clunky, but in practice is an ingenious way to cycle the options without adding interface elements.But it doesn't matter, because they're useless. I installed my bulb in three locations, moving it every couple of days until a week had passed. As a control, I moved one of those traditional gooey fly strips likewise.Subjectively, neither did much to stop the flies, a job clearly best accomplished by closing the damn windows. Objectively, the death tolls were as follows:Traditional fly strip: 9 bugs, 3 large.Bug-zapping lightbulb: 4 bugs, all tiny. (The bulb is pictured here, without cleaning)VERDICT: Don't be tempted: they're not half as good as fly strips and are many times the price. The only advantage they have is not being quite so gross when you throw them in the trash.

Trump told public lies or falsehoods every single day of his first 40 days in office, and he hasn't stopped yet. (more…)

The CBC asked me to write an editorial for their package about Canadian identity and politics, timed with the 150th anniversary of the founding of the settler state on indigenous lands. They've assigned several writers to expand on themes in the Canadian national anthem, and my line was "We stand on guard for thee." (more…)

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This thirsty gentleman thought he could help himself to a couple of cases of beer, but a smooth cashier thwarted his plans without breaking a sweat. Defensive play of the year (@bethaniebob) (@drunkpeopledoingthings) A post shared by Drunk People (@drunkpeopledoingthings) on Jun 22, 2017 at 7:38am PDT [via drunkpeopledoingthings]

Zola is a gorilla who likes to splash and dance in a wading pool at the Dallas Zoo during his behind-the-scenes "enrichment sessions." He dances better than most people I know!

This is doing the viral rounds described as a Google technology, but it's actually Apple's VisionCore in action. It runs offline on the local device, requiring no number-crunching help from the cloud. Here's a breakdown of how it identifies things through code.You will need the beta version of xCode and a device running the iOS 11 beta (make sure you only install the beta software on a test device!).I liked watching it contemplate whether a metal ruler was a meat cleaver or a "chopper." Whispers of the ACLU lawsuits of tomorrow: I think you'd better do what he says, Mr. Kinney.

Nearly two weeks after the Tories lost their majority in an own-goal election lost despite the use of allegedly unassailable media-manipulation techniques, Prime Minister Theresa May has been edged out in the polls by Jeremy Corbyn, who is now the person the largest proportion of Britons would like to see in Number 10. (more…)

This. is. awesome.Go to Noah Levenson's Weird Box site and enter your Instagram handle. Then sit back and enjoy the ride. Mr. Levenson, respect.(The World's Best Ever)

p>I have a nice espresso machine (a Rancilio Silvia) but I hate using the frother to make foamed milk for my cappuccino drinking guests. On our last trip to Ikea I bought this battery-powered milk frother. Wow, is it great. It whips up milk to a voluminous foam in a matter of seconds. It also makes matcha, cocoa, and butter-coffee with ease. Just stick the business end into the mug and turn on the switch. It's better, quieter and cheaper than one of those blender sticks. Amazon sells them for $6 including shipping. It takes 2AA batteries (not included).

On her Vegan-themed Instagram account Tropically Lina, Lina Saber uploads a delightful series called “fruit cards” where she arranges produce on paint card-style displays. I find these immensely satisfying to look at.https://www.instagram.com/p/BUW3CHplys7/https://www.instagram.com/p/BT_rBV5FVps/https://www.instagram.com/p/BUJ-IvjF7Fv/https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSy9K5FXVb/https://www.instagram.com/p/BUjvEhalDgf/

Yesterday at 4:51pm The Los Angeles Times reported on a 6.8 earthquake in Santa Barbara. That's a shaker size that nobody would miss, and yet nobody felt it – because the earthquake happened 82 years ago.Usually human error is to blame on an erroneous news story, but in this case, the reporter was Quakebot, a robot that has been reporting on earthquakes since 2014. Quakebot almost always gets it right, but this time it accidentally reported on the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake that killed 13 people and caused $8-million in damages.According to Gizmodo:The newspaper’s algorithm, called Quakebot, scrapes data from the US Geological Survey’s website. A USGS staffer at Caltech mistakenly sent out the alert when updating historical earthquake data to make it more precise.Seismologists have reportedly complained about some of the historical data being off by as much as 6 miles, and this staffer was simply updating the location of the old quake from 1925. But it shows how quickly misinformation can spread with just a few clicks.

This gentleman had a bit of difficulty breaking into a garage. Fortunately he found it easier to get back out.

Did you buy a useless $400 "smart" juicer and now feel the need to accessorize it with more extrusions from the Internet of Shit timeline? Then The Leaf from Teaforia is just the thing: it's a tea-maker that uses DRM-locked tea-pods to brew tea in your kitchen so you don't have to endure the hassle of having the freedom to decide whose tea you brew in your tea-brewing apparatus, and so that you can contribute to the impending environmental apocalypse by generating e-waste every time you make a cup of tea. (more…)

In this security footage from a bank in Chapalita, Mexico, three masked men approach the doors with the clear intent to rob the place. A fleet-footed member of staff locks the glass doors. The masked men stand on the other side a little while, looking in at him. Then they walk off.

In a paper for IEEE Security, researchers from Cyberpion and Israel's College of Management Academic Studies describe a "Password Reset Man-in-the-Middle Attack" that leverages a bunch of clever insights into how password resets work to steal your email account (and other kinds of accounts), even when it's protected by two-factor authentication. (more…)

A popular French blogger was killed after a pressurized whipped cream dispenser exploded and struck her in the chest.French media reported she had died of cardiac arrest after the incident, despite medical attention.The popular fitness and travel figure was well-known in France, with some 55,000 Facebook fans and 154,000 followers on Instagram.One of Ms Burger's family members took to Instagram, warning readers not to use the dispenser, saying that tens of thousands of "defective devices" remain in circulation.

You might think every American state is overrun with tech billionaires, given the amount of press they get, but Forbes shows that the richest person in each state is more likely to have made their fortune in fashion, retail, finance, or investing: (more…)

Henry Segerman takes a brisk stroll through the world of four-dimensional objects with some really cool 3D-printed sculptures, like this sphere that projects a square grid when lit: (more…)

Nardwuar the Human Serviette has been a music journalist since the 1980s. Some musicians don't appreciate his unusual personality (look at members of Blur bullying him*), but no one has ever accused him of not doing his homework, as evinced in the video above.Here's Nardwuar at TEDxVancouver in 2011 explaining how he does his work:https://youtu.be/HkSUazeI2nMPunk Rock Journalist Nardwuar the Human Serviette wants to take you on a journey into his do-it-yourself world of investigation and adventure. Through hard work, meticulous preparation and a tremendous passion for finding out interesting facts and tidbits, he sets the stage for unexpected situations and spontaneous reactions. It is an upfront and unconventional style that has resulted in verbal attack, physical threats, desertions, and some the most insightful and genuinely engaging conversations with the biggest names in music and popular culture you might ever witness.[*Update 6/21/2107: In 2011, Blur drummer Dave Rowntree (who became a politician for London's Labour party, apologized for bullying Nardwuar. He wrote:There has been some speculation as to why I accepted a recent blog comment linking to a clip of me bullying the Canadian journalist Nardwuar in 2003. 
The reason is, that I can't take the credit for the things I've done that I'm proud of, without taking the blame for the things that I'm ashamed of.And this is definitely one of the things I'm ashamed of.There's no excuse for my bullying, and the reason I did it is perhaps nearly as sordid.As I've written in the past I became addicted to cocaine during the nineties. Now I've no idea if it has this effect on anyone else, but for me, the day after a cocaine binge I'd sometimes fly into a murderous rage, and take it out on whoever happened to be around. In this case, it happened to be the journalist.To be clear, Nardwuar didn't do anything to provoke me. I sent an apology to him the next day, but I didn't hear anything back from him, so I assume he didn't accept it.These days I keep a clip of the interview on my phone. I don't drink, smoke or take drugs, and if from time to time I wonder if I'm doing the right thing treading this (sometimes rather lonely) path I play it, and have the answer. According to Exclaim, "Nardwuar responded to the apology on his Twitter page, where he wrote, 'Thanks to Dave of Blur for this apology... I do appreciate it!'"

I recently came across a subreddit called "Expectation vs Reality." It's a place to post side-by-side photos of something promised compared to what was actually delivered (usually a smaller, crappier than expected).A taco I actually got from taco Bell last night....This is supposed to make my daughter happy, not frighten her.This is supposed to make my daughter happy, not frighten her.

Breaking up is hard to do, and in the tabloid world it’s prohibitively expensive too.Prince Charles and Camilla are in the midst of a “$250 million divorce,” claims the ‘Globe’ front page, though the story inside admits: “ . . . she’s telling friends she’s willing to settle for $25 million.” So it’s not a $250 million divorce at all, is it?Meanwhile, bombastic broadcaster Rush Limbaugh is in the midst of a “$470 million divorce shocker,” claims the ‘National Enquirer,” which suggests - erroneously - that Limbaugh is worth more than Prince Charles. And what would his wife Kathryn settle for?Not to be left out, Julia Roberts has a “$225 million divorce looming,” asserts the ‘Globe,’ which has been flogging this dead horse for several years. I imagine that Roberts stays with hubby Danny Moder just to spite the tabloids. Or perhaps divorce is simply too expensive?Sabotaged planes are also on tabloid minds this week. After actress Jennifer Lawrence’s private plane was forced to make an emergency landing recently, the ‘National Enquirer’ asks: “Was it sabotage?” Could her jet have been tampered with “by a shadowy group of revenge-seeking hackers” after she has spoken out vociferously against hackers?There’s a simple rule in the tabloids: If a headline ends in a question mark, then the answer is always: No. These publications are routinely willing to state with categorical assurance anything that they vaguely suspect could have happened. When the tabloids are dubious enough about their own stories to end the headline with a question mark, you can be sure that even they can’t believe they’re writing this crap.There’s yet more plane tampering alleged by the ‘National Examiner,’ whose cover story declares: “JFK Crash Mystery Solved! It was a Bomb!” Perhaps somebody should gently point out to the ‘Examiner’ that JFK was killed by a sniper’s bullets, and that it was his son, John Jr, who died in a plane crash. I know, it seems petty to quibble, but I’m pretty sure that JFK was in a Lincoln Continental, not a Piper Saratoga, when he died. Who wanted John Jr dead? “It was murder at the hands of the Mafia,” says the ‘Examiner,' though it seems sadly confused. At first it reports that JFK Jr was slain as “an act of revenge” against his father’s battling the mob. But later the story asserts that Jr was killed because he was investigating his father’s assassination, and “The mob feared its involvement would be revealed.” Make your mind up, guys.While White House press briefings increasingly reveal nothing of merit, the ‘Enquirer’ continues to bring us the big political stories: President Trump is poised to fire top advisers including Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer, Ben Carson and special counsel Robert Mueller, who will all be axed on a “bloody Sunday” in July. Why wait until July? And why a Sunday? The ‘Enquirer’ doesn’t enlighten us. “What’s more, at least FOUR of those individuals will not only be slapped with a pink slip, but also a criminal charge of treason!” That’s big talk from the ‘Enquirer,’ which claims to have close ties with the Commander in Chief. The ‘Enquirer’ captions its exclusive “What The Mainstream Media Isn’t Telling You!” Perhaps there’s a reason for that..The ‘Enquirer’ continues its war on Fox TV -defector Megyn Kelly, branding her “America’s Most Hated Mom!” following her interview with Sandy Hook massacre denier Alex Jones. Why “mom,” I wonder? Why not ‘America’s most hated woman?’Could it be because Hillary Clinton already claims that crown? How does being a mother affect Kelly’s work as a broadcaster, and how does her interview with Jones reflect on her abilities as a mother? It’s unadulterated sexism from the ‘Enquirer.’ I’m shocked . . . shocked, I tell you.Fortunately we have the crack investigative squad at ‘Us’ magazine to tell us that Sara Sampaio (Who she, Ed?) wore it best, SNL’s Leslie Jones hates people who put chewing gum on their plates, actress Sutton Foster (Seriously - who she, Ed?) carries Kind bars, Larabar bars, and Orbit gum in her Marc Jacobs tote bag (can you say “oral fixation?”), and that the stars are just like us: they eat pizza, shop, get mani-pedis, and feed parking meters. Unlike us, however, the stars are stalked by paparazzi as they perform these quotidian tasks.‘Us’ mag devotes its cover to TV’s "Bachelor in Paradise Scandal" asking “Who’s Telling the Truth?” As always, the presence of the question mark means that they haven’t the faintest idea. It’s also a cover story eclipsed by events after going to print, since the production company has since concluded that nothing “inappropriate” occurred, which on a TV show that plies contestants with alcohol, encourages sexual promiscuity and rewards outrageous behavior with screen time, may be technically accurate, since they set such a low bar that only serial murder might qualify as “inappropriate.”‘People’ magazine devotes its cover to Chip and Joanna Gaines, who claim to be “Living Our Dream.” If I knew who the heck these people were I might care more about their dream, and I’m not much the wiser after reading that they host the HGTV series ‘Fixer Upper,’ but I’m glad they’re happy and living the dream.Both ‘People’ and ‘Us’ mags are obsessed with Beyoncé’s newborn twins, each devoting two pages to their birth, though neither has a scrap of real information. “They’re here!” is the best that ‘People’ can muster, which can’t even guess at their gender. At least ‘Us’ mag has a stab, claiming it’s a boy and a girl. Seems reasonable. How wrong could they be?Leave it to the ‘Examiner’ to bring us word that “Aliens are out there - and right here too!” Before we leap to condemn such fantastical reportage, it should be noted that they are quoting billionaire space entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, who made these comments on CBS’s ostensibly respectable show ’60 Minutes.’ Apparently there’s no need to look for aliens in space, because they are already "right under our noses,” said Bigelow. Well, if you can’t trust ’60 Minutes,’ who can you trust? Enquiring minds want to know.Onwards and downwards . . . .

It was a scorching hot day in Buckinghamshire, UK when 20-year-old Joey Barge decided to wear a respectable navy pair of shorts to work. He knew he was pushing it, though, and tweeted this:If women can wear skirts/dresses at work can I wear smart shorts like so? pic.twitter.com/UD0AQ6ZCbP— joey (@jBarge_) June 19, 2017 Shortly after the tweet he was sent home for going against the company's dress code, and was told to change before returning to work. Outraged, he went home and dressed in proper work attire – proper for women, that is. pic.twitter.com/tIvA7UvDoN— joey (@jBarge_) June 19, 2017 See you soon, twitter. I'll be sent home soon. pic.twitter.com/XfFyxDeBAK— joey (@jBarge_) June 19, 2017 Barge thought his company would bounce him back home again, but instead they questioned the color of his dress, and said he could change back into his shorts. Looks like his protest had a happy ending for every sweat-laden employee at the office. But on this particular day, Barge decided to remain in the dress.Thanks Mashable!

My friend Gabe created these fun "Fuck Trump" and "Immigrant" hats! All profits go to the American Civil Liberties Union! Gabe says:On a personal note, making these hats has been a profound and grounding exercise in connecting with others from across the world that I would not have connected with otherwise. I know that the issues we face are complex and that Trump represents much greater forces than just him alone. I also know that this is but a small way to make a difference, but I do believe that it's important to express our dissent and let people know where we stand; that we will not be bullied by him or his supporters.(And yes, that's Helena Christensen rocking the "Immigrant" hat below.)Buy "Fuck Trump" and "Immigrant" hatsAnd follow Fuck Trump on Instagram!

Last week, high school valedictorian and class president Peter Butera was giving a speech at his graduation when the school cut off his mic for speaking his mind. But last night, Butera was able to finish his speech to the much larger audience of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Speed flyer Joseph Innes headed to Romania for this pulse-pounding speed flying trip through canyons and gullies. The low-visibility flights in fog are especially thrilling. (more…)

FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and much more. GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue” -Publishers Weekly) Book One here. Book Two here. More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

Though it might not be the most obvious film trope, this new Fandor video points out that movies in the ’80s and ’90s were filled with scenes in which characters went down some kind of slide. Fandor posits that these scenes were designed to mimic the feeling of an amusement park ride or water slide, which were becoming increasingly popular at the time. And they provided a kind of thrilling visual escapism from the turbulent social and political climate of the era. You can watch the full video essay right here:https://youtu.be/qxWMqblu-8Y[via The A.V. Club]

Earlier today, Mattel announced its brand new line of Fashionistas Barbie and Ken dolls. These 40 new dolls come in a variety of body sizes (which now includes Ken's "slim," and "broad" figure), as well as a bunch of different skintones, hair colors and hairstyles. The most notable hairstyle, in my opinion, is Ken's MANBUN.Yep, Barbie's boyfriend (they are dating, right?) is finally sporting last summer's hottest hairstyle. Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger.(The WOW Report)