My herb grinder collects a lot of pollen, and I had forgotten it was there. This handy pollen press lets me efficiently store and use it!Read the rest

What a fine fruit hack! (more…)

New research suggests that traffic noise (apart from pollution and general hectic motion) degrades the natural habitat of songbirds, and perhaps other animals. Boise State University biologists created a "phantom road" using speakers to create traffic noise in a natural, roadless songbird habitat. Read the rest

In the garden behind Tio's Tacos, the owner has created a phenomenal folk art installation. Read the rest

Jorge Ramos, the Univision reporter/anchor who was famously thrown out of a Donald Trump circle jerk for practicing journalism without permission has a long history of pissing off dangerous, rich, powerful criminals. Read the rest

Delve into the lives of the digital cougars, deer, rabbits, hawks, coyotes and cows of GTA V in this strangely realistic nature documentary. Read the rest

James Maxwell's Enchantress is an engaging, dense fantasy that drew me right in.Read the rest

The group plans to develop a new generation of royalty-free open source digital media formats for video, audio, and still images. Read the rest

Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics! (more…)

"The Crazy Never Die" is a 30-minute, straight-to-video documentary from the late 1980s about Hunter S. Thompson in which we see the good Doctor on the loose at several speaking engagements, The Examiner newspaper, the infamous Mitchell Brothers' O'Farrell Theater strip club where he was night manager, Tommy's Mexican Restaurant, and inside the old Survival Research Laboratories compound! Read the rest

IMO Paul Rand's best work in 20 years. I would have gone for something traditional, myself, like Zapfino, but I guess they're going for that classy slick design look.Previously.

Amazon ratcheted up the streaming video competition stakes today, by offering downloadable videos to Amazon Prime video customers. Read the rest

It's all about looking better on increasingly smaller devices. Read the rest

Deep Web, Alex Winter’s new documentary about Silk Road founder Ross William Ulbricht is out on video-on-demand today at Vimeo. Read the rest

Wired picked Offworld among its 20 must-follow entertainment feeds, alongside actress Olivia Wilde, The Pitch, Tim Schafer and indie comic hit Saga. Read the rest

I recently started rock-climbing and have been wanting to find a trainer. This one will do nicely.

Boing Boing's barbecue gadget reviewer found a good, cheap grill on Amazon. But which add-ons, like an automated rotisserie, are worth buying? He investigates and tells all, right after this bite of chicken. Read the rest

Such things usually come with beautiful and pointless greebling, but this one is a simple 5-inch cube made from three choices of finish: white ash, brown ash, and elm. Read the rest

A psychedelic substance advocate who goes by the handle Psychedsubstance makes videos of himself under the effects of different mind-altering drugs. In this video he takes 15 shots of hard liquor and tries to do things like catch a ball, do squats (holding his girlfriend on his shoulders), and take an IQ test. Then, on a different day, he takes LSD and tries the same things.

Afloat on the seas of fate (and on the actual sea) for a century, a message in a bottle released from Plymouth, England, has finally washed up in Amrum, an island off the coast of Germany. Read the rest

A "study" into pizza-eating habits "reveals" what sort of "person" you are. Read the rest

Pittsburgh has its robots and even Detroit has its dreams, but some rustbelt cities have nothing much left. Flint, Michigan. Read the rest

For me, it's bouncy Erasure hit Sometimes. But we don't, individually, decide what becomes truly timeless. It's a generational thing, writes Matt Daniels. Read the rest

Make sure the legendary sasquach never really appears on film in this sweet "reverse stealth" minigame. Read the rest

Named for the founding father's plan to create a nation of "yeomen farmers," the "Jefferson Grid" is a beautiful piece of Instagram real estate. [via Kottke]

The pop star has announced his 2020 presidential run, but it remains the least interesting thing about him. Read the rest

Eff it up hardcore in this all-girl project from New York. Read the rest

I can't survive the fist. I don't know if I've killed the children. Help me out with this one. Read the rest

Kid or adult, parent or not, you should already be reading Ben "Zita the Spacegirl" Hatke for some of the most rollicking, science-fictional kid-friendly comics between two covers, but now you've got no excuse: Little Robot, a nearly wordless graphic novel about a little girl and a fugitive robot, will fill you with terror, laughter, wonder and joy. Read the rest

What happens to a town founded explicitly to reject Christianity?Read the rest

Here are some pictures of tumors, colonoscopy and viscera for reference. Enjoy your next two years of work! Read the rest

A cameo-filled page from John Wilcock, New York Years. With Ed Sanders' Arts Magazine, Edie Sedgwick arriving in NYC, and Nico fainting on stage. Read the rest

Alternative title" "Man gently comforts increasingly agitated duck army."Previously

His face says it all.

Pioneering lowbrow artist The Pizz (Stephen Pizzuro) has died at age 57, a tragic loss of a great underground talent. Read the rest

Alt-rock legend and renaissance man David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, my favorite band of the 1980s, continues his series of occasional living room live shows on September 11, 2015 at a home in Petaluma, California. Read the rest

“An Apple representative declined comment,” but you knew that was coming. Read the rest

“I can see it now!” Read the rest

China's state broadcast network today aired footage of Wang Xiaolu appearing to announce to the world that he solemnly regrets writing his influential story. Read the rest

Viagra is not a controlled substance but that didn't stop Brooklyn police offficer David Esparragoza from arresting Earl McLeod, 33, for possession of a single Viagra pill. Read the rest

Construction has been okayed for a 3.2-gigapixel digital camera, which would be the world’s largest, at the heart of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. Read the rest

The US Army graciously requests your assistance in locating their lost missile.(more…)

Never change, New York Times.

“A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.”Read the rest

Mental Floss has a list of the 31 "most adorable" terms for sexual intercourse from the last 600 years, complied from the massive Green’s Dictionary of Slang. Read the rest

This little blade-less multitool called the Shard is TSA safe (depending on the mood of the TSA behavior detection officer who is inspecting your baggage and scanning your brainwaves). Read the rest

On Saturday, Elinor Dempsey, 54, was surfing Morro Strand State Beach near San Luis Obispo, California when she noticed a great white shark approaching her. Read the rest

Chris Christie hopes to win the Republican nomination by being the biggest plain-speaking asshole of the pack. It's not working, though, because the absentee New Jersey governor can't rise above Mini Me status next to Donald Trump. Read the rest

Woods--who insults people on Twitter with comically hyperbolic accusations of drug use--is suing someone on Twitter who insulted him with a comically hyberbolic accusation of drug use. Read the rest