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Enola Holmes is a new Netflix film starring Stranger Things' Milly Bobbie Brown. Based on the book series by Nancy Springer, it tells the story of Sherlock Holmes' imagined younger sister, Enola, a teenage detective who brings out a more sensitive side of her famously sociopathic brother. And that's where the problem lies. The character […]

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Where is Allee Willis when we need her? I mean, who doesn't remember the 21st night of September?! YouTubers Tim and Fred Williams (and friend), apparently. They claim this is the first time they're hearing Earth, Wind & Fire's 1978 megahit "September." I'll roll with it but — come on — how is that even […]

Keep America Great is one of Trump's key slogans in the 2020 presidential race, appearing on its merch and media. But his campaign failed to secure keepamericagreat.com, the corresponding domain name. Joe Biden bought it instead, and it now features a list of Trump's broken promises Donald Trump promised to be the greatest jobs president […]

I recently had the laundry moved from the basement to the second floor of our house. We had a small extra room the exact width of a set of machines, with a disused (but seemingly sound) drainpipe conveniently placed in the side wall. What luck! The general work of running water and 240v was accomplished […]

“Hollywood Collapses!” screams the ‘National Enquirer’ cover. "No money! No movies! No jobs!”

"A man arrives at an unknown home with an unknown agenda." As seemingly inconsequential moments keep adding up, this suspenseful piece written and directed by Robert Broadhurst feels all too timely. The title is a reference to the Ambrose Bierce story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," which was the basis for the French film […]

Airplane Mode is a new game that simulates the exciting experience of a long plane flight in economy class. From your seat, you can watch the jet taxi and take off, enjoy snacks and meal service, dig around in your personal item carrier, play sudoko, read a book, fiddle with lights and air, or watch […]

Lake Charles in Louisiana voted only two weeks ago to keep a slaver monument installed on courthouse property. Hurricane Laura had other plans, toppling it like a domino. The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury voted 10-4 Aug. 13 to let the South's Defenders Monument remain on the grounds of a courthouse in Lake Charles. … Twitter […]

Animation legend Joe Ruby is dead at 87, reports the BBC. Ruby co-created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, among many other classic titles, and with Ken Spears founded the Ruby-Spears animation studio in 1977. Both were Hanna-Barbera veterans who saw its dominance of U.S. TV animation as an opportunity to compete. And that they did. "He […]

Babies will grow up. They have to grow up. As adults, we all know they have to grow up. Yet, there isn't a parent alive who hasn't wished their tiny, cooing infant couldn't remain that small and precious for eternity, trapped in time. While that isn't how time, biology or the universe work, the Babyprints […]

Web design apps come with a lot of preconceived notions these days. While once there was an assumption that only hardcore codeheads could figure out how to string enough HTML and CSS together to craft a working website, web building tools have changed the game completely. Now, the ease of many drag-and-drop web editors has […]

I needed a bluetooth amp that'd drive a set of 100W per channel outdoor speakers my father gave me. This Fosi Audio amp is doing a great job! Sometime in the mid-1990s, my father shoved an unopened box of KLH 100W outdoor speakers into a dark, scary corner of his garage. A few weeks ago, […]

Testing in a doctor’s or school nurse’s office can return results in about 15 minutes

I'm typically pretty skeptical of insurance as an industry, though I begrudgingly understand that it does have its purpose. But I found this Wired article on pandemic insurance to be utterly fascinating. Focusing on the work of Nathan Wolfe, who began his career as a virologist before shifting to ways of using data to offset […]

Tired: a plague of locusts Wired: a legion of cybernetically-enhanced locusts trained by the US military to sniff bombs That's the new goal, according to Stars & Stripes magazine: Navy-funded researchers have discovered that a locust's sensitive "horns" can distinguish between the scents of TNT and other explosives — a development that one day could […]

Under the headline, "Six ways to keep sex-mad spiders out of your home as their mating season begins," UK tabloid Daily Star warns: Spider mating season is back, which means sex-crazed critters are preparing to invade British homes looking for a partner. The creepy crawlies can have a colossal leg span of 10cm – and they're looking to […]

Does this mean there's a Butthole Edit of The Batman as well?

Stare into the black circle in this video to get a lesson in chromatic adaptation from scientist Andrew Steele. This is definitely my favourite optical illusion—it's mind-bendingly effective but infuriatingly ephemeral, vanishing as soon as you try to look straight at it—and a fantastic illustration of how our eyes and brain together conspire so […]

From The Indianapolis Star: Eight elementary school teachers who were shot with airsoft guns "execution style" during an active shooter training drill last year are suing the sheriff's department that conducted the training. The controversial training drill, conducted at Meadowlawn Elementary School in Northern Indiana last year, became national news after teachers reported being left bruised, bloodied and traumatized. […]

I had expected to be tagging this one with "mistakes" but everyone still has their feet at the end of the video, so it's all good.

Seen a movie when the goodie and the baddie are sword-fighting and they push their swords against one another and struggle in this position? Nonsense, says Nikolas Lloyd. "Why would anyone do that in real life? It's untenable. If I'm so close to my opponent I'm pressed against him with blades meeting at a point […]

Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic watched Fox News for 64 hours straight to understand more about Kamala Harris. Her report is very eye-opening. The whole Foxsplaining series is a hoot. Cancel Culture: Coronavirus: Image: YouTube / Daily Show with Trevor Noah

A 9-year test in Norway found that painting just one wind turbine blade black can decrease birds deaths by about 72%. Via Ars Technica: At the Smøla wind farm, regular checks of four particular wind turbines—each 70m tall with three 40m-long blades—found six white-tailed eagle carcasses between 2006 and 2013. In total, the four turbines […]

Unfriended was that 2014 supernatural horror film that was set entirely on a computer screen, and was exactly both as fun and as dumb as you'd expect it to be. Sad13 is the dark dance-pop side project of Sadie Dupuis, the singer/guitarist of indie band Speedy Ortiz. Combine those two things, and you have a […]

We already know Trump is a liar, cheater, and misogynist, and we already know that Mike Pence is a bible-totin' hypocrite. But this Lincoln Project anti-Trump ad, "Adultery," is still an entertaining reminder of just how vile the gruesome twosome really are.

The teenage X-Men spinoff film The New Mutants was originally expected to be released in April of 2018. But that date kept getting pushed back — over reshoots, corporate licensing debates between Disney and Fox, and ultimately, COVID-19. The film will finally be released in theatres this coming weekend. No one will be there to […]

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Talented graffiti artist Kyle Bryce Monteiro, aka KBMER, painted a Nissan 350Z so it looks like a cartoon. He did it freehand with only spray paint and markers. Don't miss KBMER's other fantastic work posted to his Instagram: @kbmerone

Léa Kyle's performance on Penn & Teller: Fool Us is mystifying. As a YouTube commenter said, "If you slow it down to 0.25x, you can actually see that I have no idea how she does any of it." (via r/videos)

Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer decided to get grossly overweight so he could claim a disability and work from home? Once he'd achieved his dream, the largely immobile Homer's tool of choice was his "reaching broom," a normal broom Homer would use to tap the keys of his computer while he sat […]

Raconteur animator sWooZie shared a cute story about a blind date that has lots of twists and turns. It's a long driveway to a small house, but it's well-told and interspersed with his trademark cute animations, a modern tale of love and fame. Image: YouTube / sWooZie

Hurricane Laura is expected to make landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday near the Texas-Louisiana border. Winds are already in excess of 150 miles an hour, making it close to a category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center says "large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage" to a roughly 150-mile stretch of the Gulf […]

Terrorist Brenton Tarrant will spend life behind bars, no parole

The YouTube channel Boxlapse exists primarily to show timelapses of plants growing (it's like ASMR for your eyes). Here's a compilation of their "best of" videos — 190 days of growth crunched into three minutes. screengrab via Boxlapse/YouTube (Geekologie)

Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Mark Ramos reconfigured of Google's "ReCaptcha" software to "train the population on what is deemed 'unacceptable uses of force" by police who are paid to protect the public.'" "To Protect and Server" utilizes the ReCaptcha system but re-appropriates a randomized selection of 30 perceived images of "Police Brutality" in an attempt to train the population on […]

Breaking news: Scott Adams has uncovered the truth about Joe Biden as a disciple of Satan! From Right Wing Watch: "Build back better—BBB. If you were going to imagine '666' and you wanted to show it to people and disguise it at the same time, can you think of any letter that the numeral six […]

California's popular ski resort, Squaw Valley will change its name to something else. LA Times: "While we love our local history and the memories we all associate with this place as it has been named for so long, we are confronted with the overwhelming evidence that the term 'squaw' is considered offensive," Ron Cohen, the […]

The American Bystander is a superb humor magazine now in its 15th issue (buy a copy here or subscribe via Patreon). The latest issue has a story by Jennifer Finney Boylan, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of 16 books. The story is called "The Assassin" and all I […]

There are those who wear their masks properly, those who don't wear them at all, and then the strange category of folks who sport a mask with their entire snout hanging out. Apparently they missed Poppy's video back in 2017, and should take 32 seconds out of their day to study it now.

Back in January, Mark wondered if the new coronavirus would wipe out Corona beer in the same way AIDS killed the anti-suppressant candy Ayds in the 1980s. After all, days before Mark's post, David posted about a Google Trends graph that showed a spike on "the words corona, beer, and virus." And memes about "corona […]

In the latest issue of my newsletter, The Magnet, I wrote about my interest in nontransitive dice: Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth trilogy is set billions of years in the future when our sun is a red orb on the verge of blinking out. Earth's few thousand remaining inhabitants practice different kinds of magic, including […]

Ethan Rosenthal is "particularly fond of peanut butter and banana sandwiches." As a data scientist, he wondered if he could "maximize the packing fraction of the banana slices," the amount of banana coverage, using computer vision and machine learning. Months later, he succeeded. Now, Rosenthal has written a deep description of the project and released the code […]

The two Tom the Dancing Bug books, Tom the Dancing Bug: Into the Trumpverse, and The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader, are now available. Information about the books, including how to order, and special offers here. "I am a HUGE fan of Tom the Dancing Bug! It makes me laugh and think of course but it makes […]

The massive swimming pool at the Aveda Resort and Spa in Kumarakom, Kerala, India is busy with guests these days. The resort is still closed due to COVID-19 and the swimmers are actually pearl spot fish, a delicacy in India and the Middle East. From The National: "We have had zero revenue, so in June, we […]

Joel Johnson once edited the gadgets blog here at Boing Boing, but now he's a Vice President at Dashlane and a "comms veteran" with some useful working-from-home tips to share with PR Daily's Ted Kitterman. 4. What's a tool you couldn't live without right now? Johnson: I know you mean a digital tool. But those […]

For one week in 1992, video and performance artist Christian Jankowski visited supermarkets to hunt down his groceries with a bow and arrow. From the description of "Die Jagd / The Hunt": To rebel against modern society, to return to nature: in pursuit of these primeval instincts, for one week, Jankowski lived off goods he […]

"This is sports rather than music," says Hayato Sumino (aka Cateen). From the video description: BPM160: Easy BPM190: OK, I can play BPM220: My fingers will cramp… BPM250: I don't understand why my fingers are moving so fast

Harrods is a fancy department store in London and the largest in Europe, with an illustrious history to go with its sprawling floor plan—and similarly enormous catalogues. The 1912 Harrods for Everything book is 1,525 pages long, illustrates more than 15,000 products, and was backed by a then cutting-edge logistics operation that included telephone ordering […]