Most people tie their shoes with the inefficient "bunny loop" shoelace knot. Let kindly Professor Shoelace show you the superior “Ian Knot."

I can't get your love, I can't get a fraction. Uh-oh, little girl, psychotic reaction!

Game-making apps tend to evolve into intimidating tools aimed at pros. Beginners need something useful to non-coders—and Nintendo has the right idea. Read the rest

Follow the desperate journey of 20 surviving seamen stranded a thousand miles from land. Read the rest

Machines will "steal our jobs, but give us new ones," writes Cade Metz. Read the rest

This grim little flat in Manhattan is practically uninhabitable, but someone's paying $1,100 for it. Read the rest

Once again, with feeling: Body Mass Index doesn't tell us much about who is and is not overweight. Albert Sun weighs in for the NYT:The illustrations here were created from scans of six people, who were all 5 feet 9 inches tall and 172 pounds. Read the rest

A simple methdology: compare the IMDB rating of the final episode vs the show's average. Dragonball Z and Dexter share bottom spot, but who wins?

Granted, by "top" they mean "top 1000," but still: what on Earth are you thinking, parents? Read the rest

Charlotte Shane reports on women-on-woman harassment cases and their relationship to the false intimacy of the internet. Read the rest

It's Monday, which means an amusing and blistering John Oliver segment! Last night's subject: that it's legal to remove someone from their job or rented home on grounds of their sexuality.

Last week we pastiched some nightmare dinosaurs, learned some Chinese vocabulary, and had a serious chat about piracy and poverty. Make Monday less dreary with wonderful memories of last week. Read the rest

Perhaps this massive eagle thought the ball was a strange egg? Regardless, that's some impressive claw control.

This video is 100% accurate. My brother has two pit bulls. They're awesome—but he's an ass.

I hated this song, but it's growing on me now.[via]

The Land Art movement was part of the anti-gallery uprising of iconoclastic artists in the 1960s and 1970s. This new film by James Crump is an excellent primer, and it features the movement's largely-reticent voices, including Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, and Michael Heizer. Read the rest

SunCalc is a nifty site and app by Torsten Hoffman that allows visitors to enter any location and date and find out all the details of that day's local solar path: Read the rest

It only takes 90 seconds to tell the story how we wish it had been told. Read the rest

Kevin Norton and James Stumbo were arrested this weekend near the Pokémon World Championship after showing up with a 12-gauge shotgun and an AR-15 they boasted about on social media. Read the rest

"You poop uncontrollably. Your purpose is to poop on things." Read the rest

The homophobic, anti-semitic morons of Westboro Baptist Church were protesting outside the Foo Fighters' Kansas City concert on Friday, so the Foo Fighters drove by in a pickup truck and rickrolled them.Below, the time the Foo Fighters trolled the Westboro protestors back in 2011.

"Match Head Bomb at 2500fps." (more…)

A beautiful and strangely haunting trip to a compilation of the Geocities-era web, made of carefully-rearranged bitmaps & bitrot. Read the rest

Face to face, out in the heat! Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry!

The Snowflake’s ($39.99) smooth maneuvers, flawless 4-way flips, and 360˚rolls in any direction make it truly best in class. Soar, hover, flip, and tilt with ease or join a fleet of drones, thanks to advanced anti-collision technology. Read the rest

There’s a better way to listen to your favorite jams…Oust the obnoxious wires and cumbersome buds, and opt for the Jarv Nmotion PRO earbuds ($29.99). Read the rest

Good god.

Already sold: most of Greece's airports -- for sale: gas transmission, oil refineries, power company, post office, national highways, water company. Read the rest

The jet crash at the Shoreham airshow near Worthing, England, also left one person critically injured and 14 in hospital. The BBC has more. Read the rest

Rogue archivist Carl Malamud writes, "I got mugged by a bunch of Boston hooligans. Readers of Boing Boingmay be familiar with my FedFlix project which has resulted in 6,000 government videosgetting posted to YouTubeand the Internet Archive." Read the rest

The classic Rider Back deck, recyclable with organic finish and inks!Read the rest

The Slow Mo guys are back at it with an amazing, totally unsafe, possibly illegal homemade pyrotechnics display. (more…)

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"We were in Avid Life Media a long time to understand and get everything,” Impact Team said. Read the rest

Darren Dutton outdoes himself with a very funny pastoral pastiche, handmade from 100% recycled materials.(more…)

Starting tomorrow the Oceanside Museum of Art plays host to Weekend of Wonder co-creator Baby Tattoo's Carnival of Astounding Art!Read the rest

Naturally the DVD for this incredible, baffling movie is only $6.48!Read the rest

In honor of the game's 30th anniversary, you can apply for a chance to clear 38,799 mines from a massive Minesweeper board that stretches across 24 screens—on expert mode. Read the rest

I stopped using an inkjet printer a couple of years ago because I don't think the prints looked good and the cartridges needed replacing frequently. Read the rest

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Even though it's a federal offense to shoot a drone out of the sky, Snake River sells shotgun shells marketed for that purpose. They admit it's really just "high end goose or turkey load," which doesn't sound as bad ass.

These machines look like they are doing all the work.