Once in a while, we stumble upon a really amazing product that is available at an almost mind-blowing discount. The A-Audio Legacy Over-Ear Headphones (now $79) are a super high-end pair of headphones. Even the Sound Guys rated these headphones an almost unheard of 8.5/10.These premium headphones even earned a coveted Honoree position at the CES Innovation Awards, and it’s easy to see why. With 40mm drivers, powerful circuitry, and memory foam padded circumaural ear cups, they provide an unparalleled listening experience.[embed]https://youtu.be/U_vKHEJVuMI[/embed]Plus, they come packing patented 3-Stage Technology that lets you toggle between passive audio, bass-enhanced, and active noise canceling modes, so you can curate the sound that’s best suited to your needs. For example, on a plane with a baby crying? Hit noise canceling mode for some peace and quiet.And with chrome plating, anti-vibration aluminum, and zinc hinges, they look amazing and will last for years to come. That's why we finally tossed our sub-par headphones, and upgraded for 73% off.

An intoxicated and shirtless man in Westerly, RI opened fire on his neighbor's home using corncobs he shot with his homemade PVC potato gun. Drunk Rhode Island Man, while we do not condone your actions, we salute you for Making America Potato Gun Again.(more…)

Yoga Joes are a clever series of little green plastic army men in rather impressive yoga poses. Namaste, sergeant. Advanced Yoga Joes are available for pre-order in the following poses:

Powerline ethernet adaptors offer far better throughput, in my wacky home, than wifi range extenders.Powerline ethernet is a standard for running data over your in-wall electrical wiring. Earlier versions hardware was flakey, but now I got months and months without ever having to restart these TP-Link adaptors. You simply plug them into a wall socket and voila, ethernet port.There isn't much configuration to do, unless you intend to have more than 2 ports in your home. Even then it is all very, very simple.For getting the most difficult dead spots live on the internet forget wireless and try Powerline.TP-LINK AV1200 Powerline Adapter, Gigabit, Up to 1200Mbps (TL-PA8010 KIT) via Amazon

So tragic yet I... can't... look... away.

If you were the government and wanted to maintain a state of perpetual war, how would you go about it? (more…)

Maribel Martinez says she was waiting at John F. Kennedy airport for her five-year-old son Andy to return from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic. He was flying as an unaccompanied minor, and Ms. Martinez had paid a $100 fee to put her child under the care of JetBlue's staff. But the boy presented to Ms. Martinez was the wrong boy, even though he was holding Andy's passport."I thought he was kidnapped," Martinez told the New York Daily News. "I thought I would never see him again."And, as you might guess, a similar scene unfolded in Boston when Andy Martinez stepped off the plane and met a family he'd never seen before.JetBlue issued statement:

Decades before the banality of Comic Sans, there was the fantastic hand-lettering of Artie Simek, Sam Rosen, and a handful of other artists with beautiful penmanship.

We've posted about this in the past, but it was brought to my attention that the legendary exploding whale news report was rebroadcast not long ago, meaning that the best quality possible (given the age of the 8mm film) is now available for your whale-exploding pleasure.You can see the chunks much better now, and the audio quality is also improved compared to the older version: a more satisfying boom followed by some nice wet slapping noises as whalebits rain down.

The New York Times' Daniel Victor posted this to the site yesterday, an item soon jokingly hailed as being among the newspaper of record's greatest hits. A clever blog post given the swanky headline font, perhaps Victor's trusted with publish-button privileges and it's just one of those little jokes editors tolerate now and again.Today, amazingly, wonderfully, the Times printed it.The hashtag search Pulitzer is good this morning if you like reading serious journalists lamenting, on Twitter, what this turn of events says about the increasing triviality of their business.

Trump supporter Marco Gutierrez warns Americans that if Donald Trump loses the forthcoming presidential election, there will be a "Taco truck on every corner." (more…)

Ranker made a supercut of Tim Curry laughing in movies. it goes exactly as you expect.

Vugar Efendi takes viewers through a delightful survey of stop-motion animation from 1900 to today. How many of the 39 films featured can you name? (more…)

About 170 years ago, during Japan's Edo period, a 34-foot scroll called Fart Battle (He-gassen) was created by unknown artisan(s). The work lives on in glorious hi-res digitized collection at Waseda University. (more…)

Extreme Drone Circuit built a night course this year that had a dizzying array of LED-lit obstacles. Watch a drone's eye view of zipping arround the challenging course. (more…)

Hurricane Hermine is making landfall at the time of this blog post, in the early hours of Friday morning in Florida. Millions of people are in its path, and there are related tornado watches throughout the state through mid-day Friday. A NOAA update at 1:55AM shows 2-3 inches of rain have fallen in Tallahassee, where some 70,000 people are without power already. Flash flooding is reported, and more is expected. Isolated gusts of 45-50mph have been recorded in the first two hours of landfall in the “Big Bend” of Florida's West Coast.(more…)

Tropical Storm Hermine officially reached hurricane status on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, reported NASA and NOAA's National Hurricane Center earlier today. When it makes landfall, it will be the first hurricane to hit Florida since Wilma in 2005. Hermine will probably touch down along the state's eastern Panhandle in the wee hours of Friday morning, and NOAA predicts that its force and the associated water surges will be “life-threatening.” (more…)

GQ interviewed everyone directly and tangentially responsible for (Jefferson) Starship's 1985 miasmic megahit, "We Built This City.”

Please offer your theories in the comments. The only idea you are forbidden from mentioning is the one suggesting it's for hanging a gate.

These kids look like they are having fun.Here's what happened when safety was taken into consideration - jail-like equipment disguised as a robot:[via]

This curious glitch in the eco-matrix comes via Crappy Design—presumably the higher number is correct, but each country has different regulatory requirements for describing paper as recycled, so in goes the boilerplate.Or maybe it's just a typo.

Yesterday, Donald Trump met Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto in a bid to look presidential, a credible negotiator. He said later they didn't discuss his plans to "build a wall" between the two countries. But then Nieto said they did discuss it--to tell him in no uncertain terms Mexico wouldn't pay for it--making Trump (and the people trying to professionalize his campaign) look bad again.Trump immediately abandoned his newly-centrist wanderings on immigration to deliver a thumping anti-immigrant speech that delighted white supremacists.The afternoon's sudden volte face took many by surprise, but none so much as the New York Times, which had just published an article describing Trump's Mexico trip as an "audacious attempt to remake his image"—only to rewrite much of it as quickly and quietly as possible in light of his renewed shrieking at Latinos.It's a sharp lesson to media who think they can trust Trump to stick to something long enough to try and build a comeback story around it: he can't, you can't!The strange day's strangest thing, though, was the above hat, seen on surrogates such as Rudy Giuliani: "Make Mexico Great Again Also." Who's gonna pay for that?

An internal memo from a key Democratic Party electioneering group tells candidates to listen but “don’t offer support” for the “concrete policy positions” of Black Lives Matter protesters—and offers tips on getting past it. Whatever you do, don't say all lives matter! "This is the worst response," the memo warns.The 2015 memo was allegedly swiped by hackers supporting Russian efforts to influence election season in America.

My home was built in 1927, and its Spanish plaster walls have deflected every attempt I’ve made at setting up a dead-zone free Wi-Fi network. I’ve tried range extenders, moving large items around and I’ve even had my service provider attempt to tweak my setup. When I first saw the eero Wi-Fi System, I was enticed by their promise of a quick setup and no dead-zones.Wi-Fi waves are just radio waves, and the farther you get from the access point, the weaker they become. There’s no way for one router to get a signal through the walls, furniture and household appliances to every part of your home which is why I need a multi device setup.I contacted eero inc. and spoke directly with CEO, Nick Weaver and what he said was obvious and true:“We keep adding more connected devices to our networks and streaming more content — WiFi is now a core utility for our homes and yet we still don’t have fast, reliable WiFi in every room.”Nick told me about his passion for building something that will change the world and I was sold. I’ve been using the system for about 2 weeks and I can tell you that the setup was simple and I can now manage the network from my phone. As I added more eeros to my network, they automatically connected with each other to create a mesh network.My home is about 1400 square feet upstairs and 1200 downstairs and though my package has 3 eero devices, I really would have been fine with 2. There are absolutely no dead-zones in my house and as a matter of fact, I now get a full wireless signal in both my front and back yards.Pros

Who? Weekly spoofs Us Weekly and other outlets so in need of "celebrity" content that they resort to covering people of questionable renown. (more…)

A delightful series of tiny worlds in glass. (more…)

Donald Trump flew to Mexico just before a highly anticipated immigration speech in Arizona tonight, and met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.After the meeting, Trump says the two men discussed a wall that the U.S. GOP presidential nominee has promised to build along the US/Mexico border. Trump says they did not discuss his often repeated demand that Mexico will pay for it. The Mexican president responded, and effectively said that Trump's version of events was not true.(more…)

This is a good idea: colored ball-end hex wrenches so you can easily tell them apart. Comes in US and metric sets. Go nuts and buy both sets in one package.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a quick trip to Mexico today to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, against the objections of many citizens of Mexico, who have been insulted by Trump pretty much every day of the campaign, for more than a year. (more…)

Japanese artist Makoto Azuma launched a beautiful bouquet and a 50-year-old bonsai tree on a high-altitude balloon 30,000 meters into the atmosphere (about 1/3 of the way to space) to capture a beautiful series of images with Earth's curvature visible in the background. The project is titled "Exobotanica." From a CNN interview with Azuma:

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some of the clearest, and most spot on, observations about race in America. His words on the current 'controversy' around our national obsession with respecting an outdated anthem are some of the best yet.The Washington Post shares his entire letter, here is an excerpt:

I like the way every time the mother moose turns around, the bear pretends to be paying attention to something else.

A pickup truck tailgating a car was unprepared for what happened. Ad soon as the driver got his truck fixed, I'm sure he was back at it again.

Kratom is an herbal supplement that's become popular in recent years in the United States. Kratom users say taking capsules of the powdered herb helps with social anxiety, chronic pain, and post-traumatic stress disorder. On Tuesday, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it intends to place two of kratom’s psychoactive chemicals into its list of Schedule I controlled substances, on temporary basis, citing the necessity "toavoid an imminent hazard to public safety."According to the DEA, substances in Schedule I "are those that have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision."From the DEA's announcement:

The SF Chronicle has found San Francisco remains almost exactly as unpleasant as normal during the non-event formerly known as the Black Rock Exodus.Via SF Chron:

Deep Sadness is an interactive art thingy online. Click the shape to generate a new shape and a sad noise. The vibe is vaguely hauntological, like something you saw once on BB2 at 3 a.m. in 19A0 or so, but for some reason was never on TV again. [via Metafilter] (more…)

Follow @RubenBolling on Twitter and Facebook.Please join Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE, for early access to comics, and more.And/or buy Ruben Bolling’s new book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. Book One here. Book Two here.More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

Sarah A. Topol profiles Mary Wareham and several other experts concerned about the near future of autonomous weapons. (more…)

Lipstick Lex (aka Toronto artist Alexis Fraser) puts on lipstick and kisses her canvasses to create cool portraits. Once they're close, she'll refine things a bit by drawing with the lipstick. (more…)

A tourist who visited Iceland couldn't figure out what address to use to send a letter to someone, so they drew a map. Their letter was mailed to a farm in Hvammsveit, West Iceland, with a cute little drawing instead of an address, and the intended recipient still got it.(more…)

The live Fox 11 helicopter video of LAPD officers surrounding Chris Brown's home is weird enough, but when you add streaming emoji typed in by viewers, it's super hyper weird.(more…)

An unprotected Kingo Solar database with the personal data and photos for thousands of off-the-grid electricity customers was accessible for months, reports Zack Whittaker at ZDnet. “Thousands of remote villagers in Guatemala and South Africa are living off the grid, but their personal information isn't,” he writes.(more…)

Psychologist Lane Longfellow is the go-to expert on how people behave in elevators. After years of research, Longfellow came up with a simple guide to "How to Behave in an Elevator," including suggestions like "face forward," "watch the numbers," and "stop talking with anyone you do know when anyone enters the elevator." While learning about Longfellow, Alex at Weird Universe compiled a collection of fascinating nuggets from ongoing research in this area:

"Alka Seltzer invents a new disease... the 'blahs.'" A classic Mad Men era commercial with the unmistakable voice of the late Gene Wilder.

Ever tried to trick your dog with a cheerful tone but non-sense words? Chances are you dog didn't buy it. Unsurprising to those of us who live with dogs, a new study shows us canines process language in a similar fashion to humans!Via NPR:

Our friends at Dangerous Minds have a piece about a new book coming out called Swim Through the Darkness: My Search for Craig Smith and the Mystery of Maitreya Kali by Mike Stax.Craig Smith, born in 1945, was part of The Good Time Singers, the house pop-folk group on The Andy Williams Show in the 1960s. He went on to become a successful songwriter (“Country Girl” for Glenn Campbell, “Salesman” for The Monkees, and “Hands of the Clock” for Heather MacRae). But in 1968 he took a trip to the middle east, and his life unraveled.From Ron Kretsch's Dangerous Minds story:

These cute cold packs work great, and are easy to clean. Wonderful for lunches that don't fit in my daughter's bento jar.We keep owls and penguins in our freezer, to use as needed. We wash'em off in the sink, and let them air dry. Also good for boo-boos and bonks, when wrapped in a kitchen towel!Fit & Fresh Cool Coolers Slim Character Shaped Lunch Ice Packs, Multicolored - Set of 4 via Amazon

Design website Core77 says, "Industrial designers: Do you find it stings when non-designers invent a successful product that you should have thought of?" The product is called the TubShroom, and it's a silicone ribber gadget that fits into drains to trap hair.