David Byrne and St Vincent are touring Contemporary Color, a concert accompanied by a huge, choreographed color guard show. Read the rest

Legendary voice actor and artist Sonny Straight spotted this outside the offices of Funimation in Flower Mound, Texas.

A man who was anesthetized for a colonoscopy in Reston, Virginia was surprised to hear a recording on his smartphone of the anesthesiologist and others on the medical team acting like total assholes and mocking him while he was unconscious. Read the rest

Ben Porter started @Pixel_Dailies, a pixel art club on Twitter, and the collected results are wonderful, like an inventory of memories from a computer you never owned.

It's only Android 1.6, but still, that's impressive! Naturally, the sourcefiles are on Github. Read the rest

I've written about the Alphasmart before, but David Kadavy explains succinctly why it's so good: the creative focus of a typewriter, and you get a text file. Read the rest

Ellen DeGeneres is apparently interested in adapting Naomi Novik's Uprooted as a film. But, we all know there's a long road from "interest" to "released." Just ask Neil Gaiman. Read the rest

I was too harried, when my classic BMW motorcycle died on the side of a busy highway, 150 miles from home, to visually test both the plugs. This simple tester would have saved me from my own laziness.Read the rest

In 1961, new parents David and Doris Wagner had a baby and Doris went on the birth control pill, just approved by the FDA the year before. Quickly though, Doris and David realized that it was too easy to forget a day and not realize it, so they invented a calendar dispenser that was the basis for the compact-shaped dial packs still common today. Read the rest

There's much YouTube evidence of wild animals swimming in our man-made swimming pools, as more of our homes encroach on the land they once roamed. (more…)

What's the difference between RUSHING past a dangerous trap and it CRUSHING you to a pulp? Just a tiny sliver of alphabet. Read the rest

“What would a nature documentary be like if the animals were armed with our favorite weapons?”(more…)

Years of below average flows have exposed caches of sediment, and gold, that have been inaccessible for years.Read the rest

The origin of this "large face" on the side of a cliff remains unknown. (more…)

After his daughter complained her toy car was not fast enough, YouTuber ThatHPI GUY decided to mod it so it could pop wheelies. Read the rest

Superhero movies are nothing new (Superman, Batman, Spiderman...) but they began to snowball in 2000, after the success of X-Men. Read the rest

The city is nearing a settlement with several Muslim clerics who filed a 2013 federal discrimination lawsuit alleging illegal NYPD spying. Read the rest

Another southern state tears down the popular symbol of racism and slavery. In this Reuters photo, state workers take down a Confederate national flag on the grounds of the state capitol on Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala.

Luhu is a kitty whose naturally droopy eyes make her look like a sad cat from a 1960s Gig (Girard Goodenow) painting. Read the rest

The so-called unlimited cash out operations used hacked debit cards with withdrawal limits removed to make ATMs spew money. Read the rest

The fields of bioinspiration and biomimetics look at animal evolution to improve machine function. Chen Li at UC Berkeley's Poly-PEDAL Lab found that an oval cockroach shell atop a small robot helps it squeeze through tight spaces more easily. Read the rest

A 40th floor view of the crowd instantly filling NYC's Bryant Park on Sunday night for a free showing of Ghostbusters. (more…)

This cute sampler box of Tea Forte's herbal collection makes a lovely gift. Read the rest

The world’s 15 youngest countries are all in Africa. Read the rest

Built with extreme attention to detail, right down to imported mud from the festival site. Read the rest

This year, minimalist music pioneer Terry Riley celebrates his 80th birthday and in his honor, my favorite avant-garde classical group Kronos Quartet are honoring Riley with a three-day festival starting on Friday in San Francisco! Read the rest

LIFE photo editor Liz Ronk and writer Eliza Berman looked through their archives, writing with clear-eyed hindsight of LIFE's Truman-era collection of Confederate flag photos. Read the rest

Brodudes in boat chase down a frightened moose and one of them jumps on the moose's back for a ride. They aren't very smart, as evidenced by the fact that they shared this inhumane stunt on video.

Architect Andres Jaque's Office for Political Innovation has installed Cosmo at MoMA. The whimsical water filtration sytem on wheels is designed to make people think about municipal water delivery systems that are generally invisible in our daily lives. The firm said in a statement: Read the rest

Primitive Technology's handyman starts with a stone axe and a fire-stick, then painstakingly builds up a 2m^2 hut with a bed, fireplace, chimney and thatched roof. Read the rest

Vivian Gabb, 59, of London, was in the middle of buying a house and somehow a criminal learned of the details, impersonated her solicitor, and emailed her with instructions to wire the money to the "bank." After she lost the money she went back and looked at the email and noticed that the email address the scammer used was missing an "s" in "partners." She lost £50,000, her life savings. Read the rest

Christophe Szpajdel rebranded the hopefuls with more elaborate and distinctive imagery than is permitted by the blandly inoffensive standards of election campaigning.

The perception is that they finish last, but "jerk perks" are overrated, reports Olga Kazan: "other research shows that in many situations, it pays to be nice. Read the rest

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Super-Fun-Pak Comix features Percival Dunwoody, Chaos Butterfly, Marital Mirth and more! Read the rest

Even excluding the Charleston massacre, white supremacists and their like are way ahead of Muslim extremists, reports The New York Times. Read the rest

Christopher Ferguson's Comcast bill was bullshit. When he complained, the company offered him alternatives that cost more. So he turned them in to the FCC and got relief. Read the rest

Most people in the United States and the rest of the west have easy access to iodine, an essential chemical for our health. Read the rest

Paul writes, "Pogues founder Jem Finer created Longplayer in the late 1990's, a one-thousand-year-long piece of transcendent music which started playing at the stroke of midnight as the year 2000 started. It's finally available as an app, so you can hear it whenever you want and contemplate what it will take to keep the song playing for the remaining 985 years it has to run."

The action starts around 25 seconds in. (more…)

Over at Backchannel, Andy Warner's delightful comic about how a naval engineer invented The Slinky. Read the rest

I would like to know Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's thoughts about this outsider musician's YouTube masterpiece: a cover of 'Stairway to Heaven,' played on this dude's hands.(more…)

Okay, it's an “intake vortex” of water in an Oklahoma waterway, but it looks like a giant endless black hole of sludge, which is how human interaction on the Internet feels sometimes. Read the rest

Dang, Jon Stewart sure has grown up over those many seasons. Read the rest

“Boils! Cow Plague! Frogs!”(more…)

What a terrible person this man is. I mean, we all know already. But come on. Read the rest

A lot of games are about explosions, but rarely is it this joyful and whimsical to make people explode. Read the rest

A cop in Karlsruhe, Germany was in no mood for playful art installations. None too pleased with artist Erwin Wurm's red Mercedes truck arching up against a building, he issued a ticket. And what's the going rate for parking halfway up a wall? Apparently $33 (or 30 Euros). That'll teach the sculpture from blocking a pedestrian sidewalk!

Following the announced removal of the popular symbol of slavery and racism from state capitols, license plates and big box stores, online retail giants are following suit. Read the rest