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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Nate the Neoconservative is the only Serious Thinker about policy and strategy! "Sigh!" Read the rest

"First there is the pause, then the slight smirk or raised eyebrow and finally the stale joke … “Ha ha, you’re fired! Such is the life of Dr. Donald L. Trump, an oncologist" (more…)

LA Weekly compiled a wonderful list of ambient albums that will serve as a perfect primer for the uninitiated, or as a trip down memory lane for those who heard some of this performed live. Several are on my permanent read/study playlist, like Eno's Ambient 1: Music For Airports. Read the rest

Ever wonder how they make unsettling dissonant sounds in sci-fi and horror films? Some are made by waterphones or synths emulating them. Portland-based Robb Bockman demonstrates an analog waterphone, gawdyphone, and dopephone in this video. Read the rest

Australian architect Max Pritchard's Tree Top Studio looks like the perfect place to work while surrounded by the sights and sounds of trees and water. Read the rest

"The IBM Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more." Watson found Trump "boisterous." Read the rest

Well, you hardly even need to watch Popular Mechanics' 10-second video now, do you?

The Guardian followed The Autistix as it rehearses and heads off on tour: "We don't want people to feel bad or sorry about us. We want them to come to our gig and enjoy the music. You can also headbang if you like."

Jenn Fujikawa posted a recipe to make these fantastic-looking taunton cookies with candy guts spilling out. "I thought they smelled good, on the outside!" Read the rest

The amazing Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Theodore Gray created a fantastic embroidered stop-motion animation of my favorite traditional Passover song "Chad Gadya." (more…)

"Overshare: The links.net" is Justin Hall's biopic telling the story of how he became one of the earliest, most prolific, transparent humans of the net and one of the first real web-writers. Read the rest

Adventure Time meets Fury Road. CHROME. SHINY. WITNESS. (via Waxy)

Cute pictures of cats are such a big part of what makes the internet great, to Boing Boing anyways, that we couldn't possibly put on the Weekend of Wonder with out "kittehs" being involved. Read the rest

"Like many other jocks in Moscow, Idaho, I did my drinking at Mort's Club." A true story from the 1970s. Originally published in Real Stuff #8, August 1992. Illustrated by Tony Fitzgerald Read the rest

The Gross Smoker's Prankster Mug ($7 on Amazon) is meant to be filled with coffee, tea, or milk, and then offered to a friend. It has a bunch of fake cigarette butts at the bottom to surprise them as they finish their beverage.

Body soap that looks just like classic Nintendo 64 cartridges! "Soapy Mario Bathers" indeed. Available in Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong 64, and Super Smash Bros.

If you are breastfeeding your kid and your friend's kid is hungry, why not breastfeed them both? Jessica Anne Colletti of Pennsylvania does just that and it makes sense. Of course some people are freaked out about it for all sorts of reasons, but Colletti defends her decision on Mama Bean: Read the rest

An extraordinary scene took place on Saturday last at a small village within three miles of Middleton. A half-witted fellow named James Driscott had cruelly ill-used his donkey. Read the rest

Earlier this morning David posted a photo of a woman on Mars. We now know why she's there. Her 4-wheeled pareidoliaopede broke down and she is walking home. Read the rest

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

A phone slams into an acoustic coupler on the desk. Screeching beeping sounds. Two people sitting side-by-side in front of a computer. Read the rest

Tiny Hamster (previous/tiki bar - also in book form) visited Walt Disney World, but not the same one you and I visit -- this one was replete with tiny cardboard replicas of churro stands (with pouchable mini-churros!) and Dole Whip stands and a tiny shoebox Haunted Mansion (!) (Thanks, Eli!)

Tummple! has been described as reverse Jenga. That seems pretty accurate. Both games share a similar wooden-block aesthetic, and in both games the object is to keep things from falling. Read the rest

Caitlin Flanagan has written the funniest and most incisive glimpse into what it's like for today's road hacks whose livelihoods depend on navigating the treacherous waters of the college comedy circuit. Read the rest

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is buying 80 million 4-inch black polyethylene balls to cover the surfaces of three Los Angeles reservoirs that serve 4 million residents. Read the rest

In the video below, we gain a peek inside the mind of Waller County Sheriff R. Glenn Smith, who runs the jail where Sandra Bland was found hanging from her cell in July. He is seen here asking United Methodist Church Rev. Hannah Adair Bonner, who is keeping a daily vigil at the jail, "Why don't you go back to the church of Satan that you run?" Read the rest

A dark, distant planet is slowly coming to life with a colorful ecosystem of flora and fauna. Will you tend it? Read the rest

National Geograph explores the magic and mystery. Read the rest

In 2005 Xeni wrote about this Ashleigh Nankivell's Helping Johnny Remember, a "fabulously creepy remix short, sliced and diced from an old public domain social guidance PSA and re-animated with AfterEffects." Read the rest

I don't expect a $200 grill to last a lifetime. But it has to cook meats and veggies evenly, with good temperature control. And I found a pretty affordable grill that does that reliably. Read the rest

Bioengineers are developing methods to grow new arms for monkeys using human progenitor cells that can become blood cells, vessels, and other tissue. Read the rest

The iPad Air 2 may be light as a feather, but it packs more power than tablets quadruple its size. It’s fast, it’s vividly clear, it’s the ticket to surfing, shopping, writing, reading, and beyond. Read the rest

It's called The End of All Things, and it's book six in the series (here's my review of book one); he's touring it all over the USA. Read the rest

To appear young, use Emoji. We already knew that haha and hehe are indicators of age, but according to Facebook, lol is oldest of them all, spoken mostly by the truly decrepit: people over 25.

Within hours of Google announcing Sundar Pichai as CEO and reconfiguring itself into Alphabet (AKA abc.xyz), the proliferation of amusing abc.[TLD] domains begins. Read the rest

A judge has refused to dismiss ZeniMax Media's claim that Oculus VR stole code and expertise from it when it hired famous coder John Carmack from its iD Software subsidiary. Read the rest

By kicking himself 134 times in the head in 60 seconds, Nepalese teen Puskar Nepal has booted the previous champion from the record books. Read the rest

Facebook's privacy settings remain mysterious and ever-changing. The idea is to lead users into a state of pervasive self-exposure that's fit for aggregation, without us realizing we've lost control. Wired's guide to raising your Facebook privacy shields will be good until at least this afternoon.

Only a deviant would talk about ... her wherever. Previously.

"From Maori tattoos to the golden age of Hollywood, from David Bowie to being considered a "disruptive force" in schools, black lipstick has been around much longer than Hot Topic and the Kardashian Krew."

Wired's Brian Barrett reports on how the company became worth less to stockholders than the cash in its own pocket: "a smartphone market that simply doesn’t have room for more than a handful of players, one in which being different no longer counts for much."

If you've played Tom McHenry's Horse Master, share this cool piece of art with all your pals. If you have not played Horse Master I berate and entreat you. Read the rest

VPRO backlight looks at the current state of androids in Japan, including an interesting segment on geminoids, or robot twins made in the likeness of a human counterpart: Read the rest

ACPAD is a touch-activated MIDI controller that can be overlaid on an acoustic guitar face, allowing a range of effects and rhythms while playing. Read the rest

There's about $60 trillion in public government debt worldwide, and the folks at Visual Capitalist created a chart to show proportions and debt-to-GDP ratio in one handy image. Read the rest