Rick Astley was waiting to be interviewed in the studio for the Canadian morning TV show Your Morning and decided to rickroll Brandon Gonez, the show's weather reporter, on air. At first, the "Never Gonna Give You Up" video started playing unexpectedly during the forecast, then Astley himself appeared. Gonez is apparently a fan of Mr. Astley and kind of freaked when the pop artist started dancing with him.Here's what it looked like from behind the scenes:https://twitter.com/Trish_Bradley/status/983707983044665344Astley is currently on a short tour.(reddit)

Last July, Wisconsin's far-right state government declared victory for its "free market" agenda when it announced that it would transfer $3,000,000,000 in taxpayer-funded corporate welfare to Foxconn, in order to tempt the company to open a factory in the state -- despite the company's long history of broken promises and outright lies about the jobs and spending in other places that had welcomed it in. (more…)

Surfer Magazine recently headed over to Kelly Slater's Wave Company, a humongous wave-generating engine on rails that lays out glassy slab after slab. (more…)

Richard Moss's been working on The Secret History of Mac Gaming [Amazon]for years, and now it's finally out.

If you had a Windows PC with a CD drive in the mid-1990s, the percentages are pretty good that you lost countless hours of sleep to playing Myst. Full of difficult but rewarding puzzles and featuring a captivating story with an ending that was dictated by your in-game actions, the game was cutting-edge stuff, back in the day. Myst's popularity led to five sequels to the game. Now, a Kickstarter campaign is making it possible for Windows 10 users to replay or discover all six games in the series for the first time.According to Tech Crunch, Myst's original development house, Cyan Inc., has bought the rights back to all six of the games in the series and will be re-releasing them to run on Windows 10, to celebrate Myst's 25th anniversary. The games will be released as a set, which can be had as a digital download or as a boxed set of DVDs. The Kickstarter campaign for the games, which has already far surpassed what Cyan needed in order to churn the updated version of the games out, also offers investors the option to own replicas of items used in the original games and hand-drawn pieces of concept art.While I was more of a Warcraft: Orcs & Humans guy, most of my friends back in the day were nuts for Myst. While a couple of the sequels to the original game have been available to play on Windows 10 for some time now, I can only imagine that the ability to play all six games in the series on a modern PC will be attractive to a ton of gamers, both new and old.

The Schwinn Classic Cruiser may well be the coolest indoor fitness bike out there. It's not only snazzy to look at but it's also Bluetooth-enabled.For $799, you get the retro red stationary bike along with an app that allows you to "ride through a 1950’s town while delivering newspapers & avoiding obstacles." For another $99, you get the accessory kit which includes: a "'Cruisin' license plate, Schwinntastic red and white streamers, retro bike horn, water bottle and mountable water bottle holder."https://youtu.be/f5Qdtasg7-4(Pee-wee Herman)

In the spirit of The Dullest Blog comes this YouTube channel -- same mundanity, but somewhat more surreal -- with videos such as kicking a tree, not measuring anything, holding a bottle of mustard, and the viral hit waffle falling over, for which an official T-shirt is available.

This promising new series explores artistic collaboration, and the first episode features Björk and collaborator Jesse Kanda. (more…)

Some folks have a tough lot in life than this, but today let's offer a little sympathy for the bitter comfort of a man whose job it is to inform people what the weather's going to be like in Michigan. Think Sisyphus, but with a giant yellow snowball that keeps melting and refreezing in April.

Eleven-year-old Mason Ramsey has been getting a lot of attention since a video of him yodeling recently went viral. At the end of last month, he performed Hank Williams Sr.'s "Lovesick Blues" for a crowd gathered inside a Walmart in Harrisburg, Illinois and someone posted the video online (which has since been picked up by ViralHog): https://youtu.be/jlmNwjdYVnkThis week, Mason was invited to be a guest on Ellen. The midwestern boy showed up in fancy western duds and when Ellen asked why he performs in a Walmart, he explained, "Well, because, that's the only store we've got." The Harrisburg store where he performed in the video is about 30 miles from his hometown of Golconda.He also told Ellen that he dreamed of performing at the Grand Ole Opry someday.After performing a song on the show, Ellen told him that she snagged him a place on the Grand Ole Opry stage this Saturday. Needless to say, he was thrilled.It looks like he goes on right after Ricky Skaggs:Oh yeah, people from all over have been recreating Mason's viral moment:https://youtu.be/hqY1PgZgfHo

From an ongoing biography of John Wilcock, by Ethan Persoff and Scott Marshall. (See previous Boing Boing posts)Ethan Persoff is currently working on a daily comic book/audio series called The Bureau. Listen to a complete playlist of all current tracks.

Most of us are pretty good at wrapping a cube or cuboid box, but this handy video shows how to wrap a bunch of weird shapes, including pyramids, cylinders, and those annoying cardboard-backed blister packs for things like tools and action figures.I needed to wrap a popcorn tin the other day, and this was very handy. It looked way better than my gifts usually do! And as for opening the package itself, that's another matter.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0tNxy35IE8• How to Wrap 10 Challenging Shapes! (YouTube / Paper Guru)

I grew up watching Star Wars. I was bought Star Wars toys for Christmas. I had Star Wars sheets on my bed. At some point, those sheets were made into a quilt that I proudly took along with me to university. Despite having science fiction bed clothes, I still managed to have a respectable amount of sex during my four-year degree program. I love Star Wars!But I'm kinda worried about what Solo: A Star Wars Story is gonna be like.What I've seen of the movie, so far, has me less than excited for the film. I say this, having loved The Force Awakens and Rogue One. I enjoyed The Last Jedi as well. They felt like a part of the same universe that I've been immersed in my entire life. But the way this trailer for Solo is cut along with the other trailer for the film, has me worried. Watch this thing and tell me that you couldn't remove Han, Lando and Chewie out of the story and still have the same damn movie. It looks and feels like every heist movie and every sci-fi film I've seen over the past few decades.Don't get me wrong: I'll still go and see it. Alden Ehrenreich's turn in Hail Caesar is one of the funniest things that I've ever seen:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rDw2YBUz6AWill he be believable as Han Solo? I don't know. But I feel like I want to give him the chance to fill Harrison Ford's massive boots. Donald Glover? As a young Lando Calrissian? Hell yes! I can't think of anyone else who's a better fit for the role. And because Ron Howard directed this thing (after the original directors were canned--I worry about this, too,) Clint Howard's, Ron's brother, is in the movie as well. We have to go see this film, guys--Clint Howard's gotta eat. The rest of the cast looks really solid too. I'm hoping that Emilia Clarke, who's brilliant on Game of Thrones, will have the chance to shine in a huge film like this after being involved in that last turd of a Terminator movie.What do y'all think? Will this thing tank or swim?

Singer-songwriter Chase Holfelder of Raleigh, North Carolina did something cool. He used virtual reality to perform a cover of Jamiroquai's 1996 hit "Virtual Insanity." With an HTC Vive rig, he made all the sounds and instruments needed to play the song.He explains how he did it in this behind-the-scenes video:https://youtu.be/xwfIZaFwJ8s(Likecool)

Why bother breaking fresh news when you can refurbish old stories and pass them off as new?Claiming to expose a “Chappaquiddick autopsy cover-up,” the National Enquirer cover screams: “Ted’s Lover Mary Jo Was Pregnant.” It’s a myth as old as the tragedy 49 years ago, and the Enquirer presents no evidence that Mary Jo Kopechne was even Ted Kennedy’s lover, let alone that she was pregnant. Furthermore, her coroner found no signs of a pregnancy, and there was no autopsy – at the request of her parents.The Enquirer goes even further into the realm of fantasy, however, suggesting that “Kennedy deliberately drove off bridge to save run for the Presidency.” Because it makes perfect sense for a man who can afford a hit-man and who had aides skilled at dirty tricks to risk his own life driving his car off a bridge.Not quite as antique, the Enquirer goes back to 1992 to break the news that “Pilot John Travolta cheats death in midair crisis.” It’s billed as an “Enquirer World Exclusive,” which might amuse the Orlando Sentinel in Florida, which first broke this story in 1995. Kudos to the Enquirer for finally telling the story, under the glorious banner: “FIRST TO KNOW.”The Globe joins in the tabloid stroll down memory lane with its cover story about the heir to Britain’s throne: “Found! Charles’ 4 Secret Love Children!” The story, billed as the result of a “special two-year investigation,” lists four alleged illegitimate children of Prince Charles – two of whom are well known though highly questionable claimants; the other two are apparently new, but their allegations are exceedingly difficult to confirm. One alleged son supposedly asked the Globe “to conceal his true name,” though the article includes what purports to be his photograph; the other alleged daughter is identified as a British aristocrat’s grand-daughter whose supposed photo also appears, yet her mother mysteriously goes unnamed. For a two-year-investigation there are gaping holes wide enough to drive a coach and horses through. The youngest of these “love children” is 33 years old, which passes for fresh news in the tabloids.It seems the Trump-loving tabloids can’t let go of their enmity for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and this week’s Globe runs two pages under the headline: “Crooked Clintons’ Treason Exposed!” According to the rag’s cover, “Crooked Clintons Took Russian Cash! – and helped Iran get the A-bomb.” Well, that’s one grammatically-challenged interpretation. More rational minds have concluded that the Clinton Foundation received money and that Bill Clinton was paid by Russians to give a speech, but evidence is lacking that the payments were made to encourage Hillary Clinton to push through approval of Russian atomic energy agency Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One, which has mines in America. And it’s been clearly established that nine separate U.S. government agencies approved the Rosatom deal, which was of a nature usually handled by lower-level executives and aides than Hillary as Secretary of State. The Globe article is based on testimony given by former FBI informant William Douglas Campbell in November – a story so explosive that it has taken the Globe five months before whisking it into this salacious story. Breaking news, indeed.But this week’s tabloids bring us the usual non sequitur leaps of logic we’ve all come to love and expect: Liza Minnelli is reportedly suffering a bleeding ulcer, claims the Enquirer, which concludes that she must be “facing her tragic final days!”; Prince Harry’s Royal bride-to-be Meghan Markle’s father was spotted reading a coffee-table book titled Images of Britain, leading the Enquirer to deduce that he may walk his daughter down the aisle – because why else would you read a book about the UK? The Globe is outraged that Lisa Marie Presley’s estranged husband “walks on Elvis’ memory” because he was spotted wearing a pair of blue suede shoes. “She won’t be happy to see Michael dredging up her dad’s 1956 hit Blue Suede Shoes that way,” claims an insider, in what may be the most implausible quote from a tabloid source this week. Lisa Marie’s estranged husband had better hide his teddy bear, kennel his hound dog, drink his martinis stirred rather than all shook up, and shouldn't even think about having any mail returned to sender. You know how mad Lisa Marie can get.Us magazine spills the inside scoop on Brad Pitt’s “new girlfriend,” MIT professor Neri Oxman, with an unidentified source – a stalker? reporter? peeping Tom? – claiming the actor “has been spotted going into her apartment building on multiple occasions late at night and emerging the next morning after she leaves to teach.” Pitt is reportedly drawn to her blazing intellect, design skills, and her “extroverted, outgoing, vivacious and loving” personality. But why Prof. Oxman might be drawn to a 54-year-old twice-divorced father-of-six going through a bitter divorce battle having struggled with booze and been investigated by Child Protective Services remains a question that Us doesn’t think to ask. It’s as if any intelligent, self-made woman would fall swooning at the feet of the aging film idol. Not that there’s anything sexist or misogynistic about the magazine that weekly examines what actresses wear on the red carpet, declares who “wore it best,” invokes the “Fashion Police” to issue snarky comments “when bad clothes happen to good people,” and celebrates celebrity style as an end in itself. What female MIT professor could ask for more?Fortunately we have the crack investigative team at Us to put us out of our misery and tell us that Olivia Munn wore it best, that actor Michael Vartan would like to “marry pizza and pasta,” that actress Shannon Purser keeps a Marauders’ Map and Hogwarts keychain in her Zac Posen bag, and that the stars are just like us: they pump gas, buy groceries, and go shopping – just like they do every week in this earth-shattering exposé of the private lives of the world’s most predictable people.People devotes its cover to Mariah Carey’s long-overdue confession: “My Battle With Bipolar Disorder,” which will come as a surprise to nobody who watched her reality TV show Mariah’s World.Finally, I ask myself what demographic the National Examiner is appealing to when it offers readers stories this week on “7 Ways to Stop Arthritis Pain,” “What to X-Pect in an Arthiris X-Ray,” “You CAN Avoid Dementia,” “Burning Cancer Pain comes from food!” and “Why you need more Vitamin D!” Add to that ads for a walk-in bathtub, medical alert monitoring, a computer “designed especially for seniors,” and a lift chair, and you can see that the Examiner has a great future ahead as it grows with its readership.Onwards and downwards . . .

YouTube Face is "everywhere you look" on the site, writes Joe Veix: the exaggerated leering, lurching, laughing mugshots used by virtually every YouTuber seeking a mass audience, slapped on as the thumbnail for every last video.

When EFF launched its Catalog of Missing Devices, we invited EFF supporters to come up with their own ideas for gadgets that should exist, but don't, because the Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans breaking DRM, even for the most legitimate of purposes. (more…)

Lanetix is your basic shitty tech company, where your two weeks of annual paid leave is subject to often-withheld managerial approval, where bosses threaten engineers with getting canned if they participate in private Slack channels where they discuss working conditions, and where high-performing software engineers who object to bad management are summarily fired. (more…)

Sam Peltzman proposed a model of regulation where the profitability of firms is in tension with their customers' desire for low prices and politicians' desire to get votes. (more…)

Ken "Popehat" White (previously) is a former US federal prosecutor whose explanations of the minutae of law have been invaluable to my understanding of the legal controversies swirling around Trump and his retinue. (more…)

After Winnipeg's Marion Hotel turned away members of the Manitoba Nomads -- a branch of the Hells Angels, classed as a criminal organisation under Manitoba law -- the gang's president called on Hells Angels affiliate around the world to leave one-star ratings for the business on Facebook, driving both the hotel and its restaurant off of Facebook, seemingly permanently. (more…)

Jamie Allman, a St Louis broadcaster at a Sinclair Broadcast Group television station publicly announced his intentions to sexually and violently assault 17-year-old Parkland high school student David Hogg. "I've been hanging out getting ready to ram a hot poker up David Hogg's ass tomorrow. Busy working. Preparing,” he tweeted on March 26. Shortly after the tweet, several advertisers dropped Allman's popular television show. A spokesman for Sinclair told the Washington Post: "We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation."

This 60-piece precision screwdriver kit is $15, but if you use discount code ORTBHA221 at checkout it's just $6. I have a nearly identical set and it comes in handy at least once a week. And I have this digital multimeter, which I use every time I work on an electronics project. It's usually $8, but if you use code 8IXIP46Q you can get it for $6.

The Eviction Lab is a collaboration between Princeton University and Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Paperback; the lab's team gathered the court records of ever landlord-tenant proceeding in every court in every county in America for the past 16 years. (more…)

Nearly 20 companies pulled advertising from Fox News host Laura Ingraham's TV show after she made an insulting tweet about 17-year-old Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg. She apologized a day later -- solely out of the kindness of her heart and not in response to getting dumped by brands like Hulu, Nestle, TripAdvisor, Liberty Mutual, and Allstate. Nevertheless more advertisers are leaving the show, including Blue Apron and SlimFast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdnTBOBGjiAIt's been a year since someone hacked all 156 of Dallas's emergency tornado sirens, setting them off in the middle of the night, and the security picture for cities' emergency PA systems keeps getting uglier. (more…)

Cambridge Analytica, the British consultancy firm founded by Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer, and whose CEO, Alexander Nix (pictured above), was secretly recorded boasting about using bribes and covert prostitution strings to blackmail candidates, tweeted that it has "instructed our lawyers to send letters to news media who have been covering this story, advising them not to repeat false and unfounded allegations as fact."

NASA just released this fascinating and gorgeous video of Jupiter's north pole -- and its wild, swirling storms.They're not some CGI mockup; these are actual images of the real planet. They were taken by Juno probe that's currently orbiting Jupiter; Juno has an infrared mapping device that's able to probe up to 45 miles below Jupiter's surface, capturing this lush 3D detail.Jupiter's north pole is dominated by a cluster of cyclones: One large central one, surrounded by eight smaller ones – though on Jupiter, "smaller" means these ones are up to 2,900 miles in size. Jupiter is biiiiig man!This second video zooms out a bit further and lets you see how the main cyclone and the eight smaller ones are positioned ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=eG7em_89sigThese videos are so trippy, I could stare at them all day.Figuring out how Jupiter works means figuring out what's happening beneath the surface, so this new phase of infrared imaging is crucial. The planet is still awfully mysterious, because as NASA notes, we're still not sure why Jupiter's atmosphere is divided the way it is:

When John Boehner was Speaker of the House, he described himself as "unalterably opposed" to marijuana legalization, a posture that contributed to the criminalization, imprisonment and ruination of millions of Americans. (more…)

Obstacle course competitor BrandyWine had more fun destroying the hurdles than she did leaping over them during a hopping challenge at the Calgary Zoo in March.[via Laughing Squid]

The world's most popular video game, FortNite Battle Royale, revolves around building forts and shooting chumps. Building can be really difficult, and it is hard to win without learning this skill. Enter the Porta-Fort.FortNite has quickly replaced all other games my daughter and I played. Now we play together, roving the island of death with me insisting we hunt down others, and my daughter trying to find great places to deploy her bush camouflage.I wonder how the Porta-Fort will change things. I am not sure it will, because the crazy build-off fights between experienced players reach for the sky -- but tossing a Porta-Fort may sometimes give you the instant edge you need.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKWpVZ87WdgShooting chumps is still hard. They've recently improved first round accuracy to help with that too.

https://youtu.be/6lZDDHpIJmEWoody Harrelson and Thora Birch narrate this video profile of the great cartoonist Daniel Clowes, creator of Eightball.

Good to see Mumm-Ra still getting work from the Ancient Spirits of Evil, though I'd have preferred it if Gordon Ramsay were on the altar being seranaded with Shimmy Shimmy Ya. I know that it's a tough mashup, but Earl Hammond's voice is so amazing as to be incapable of failure, and Swedemason is a master of the medium. Here's Trump joining Talking Heads:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSuregWhlWk

The Hollywood Reporter published a story yesterday about Marvel legend Stan Lee's horrible living situation. A document allegedly written by the 95-year-old Lee and his lawyer claims that he is the victim of elder abuse being perpetrated by his daughter, her lawyer, and others.

John Boehner's eyes will be bleary, liquid and reddened for another reason, henceforth: he's got a job as a marijuana industry spokesman.

Whoever scripted this hated Belize almost as much as they hated Britain -- it's so sanctimonious, condescending, self-loathingly offensive you suspect it's dark comedy and start looking for Peter Serafinowicz to show up. But it's an old explainer for upper-crust military officers, apparently, a glove that certainly fits all the above. It's gone viral as an artifact of the 1980s, but by then Belize was independent, so it's probably older. The political backdrop: Belize was supposed to become independent in the 1960s, but Britain knew Guatemala would invade if they left, so things got very complicated. It's one of the funny little secrets of decolonization that Britain was responsible for Belize's defense well into the 1990s and never really left.

Most of us make several, if not dozens of attempts to stick the wet tip of a thread into a needle's minuscule hole, and what I don't understand is why the alternative method below isn't more popular. Take a look at Twitter user John Bick's video. As one commenter asks, What type of sorcery is this?

The EU is mooting a new copyright regime for the largest market in the world, and the Commissioners who are drafting the new rules are completely captured by the entertainment industry, to the extent that they have ignored their own experts and produced a farcical Big Content wishlist that includes the most extensive internet censorship regime the world has ever seen, perpetual monopolies for the biggest players, and a ban on European creators using Creative Commons licenses to share their works. (more…)

When Prince died in 2016, California artist Christine Stein painted a piece of plywood in the likeness of the late artist under a shrub outside her Citrus Heights home.It originally looked like this:https://www.instagram.com/p/BExx9aILhjF/?taken-by=christinesaartTwo years later, the shrub is in full bloom and Prince fans are now making the pilgrimage to visit it, according to KTVU:

Late-night talk shows have a lot in common with each other, including white male hosts, scripted political jokes, and "racially diverse" bands.In "Every Late Night Talk Show Ever," comedy channel Smosh puts a spotlight on the late-night talk show genre's formula and mocks it mercilessly. Say hello to Jimmy Whiteguy.[Insert funny anecdote to end the story.]Previously: The surprisingly mathematical formula for writing late-night jokes

Elin Thomas uses real petri dishes and fills them with beautiful crocheted felt and wool spores, mold, and fungi. (more…)

Swedish designer and motion graphics artist Andreas Wannerstedt creates captivating looping animations and uploads them to his Instagram.Here's a look: https://www.instagram.com/p/BhT1PLtA7Xy/?taken-by=wannerstedthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BgqdnvDh_XX/?taken-by=wannerstedthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BfAzMdwhECg/?taken-by=wannerstedthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BcuAMXqBGUD/?taken-by=wannerstedthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BaMKowegCf8/?taken-by=wannerstedthttps://www.instagram.com/p/BbB2vO0huKt/?taken-by=wannerstedtThere's more!

I spy (a brand new junk portrait of) Pee-wee Herman at the :29 markExciting news: Jason Mecier, the artist who makes celebrity mosaic portraits in junk (or other objects like candy or cereal) has announced his first book. It's called Pop Trash: The Amazing Art of Jason Mecier and it's due out July 17, 2018.

When the English concert pianist Joyce Hatto died in 2006, she was remembered as a national treasure for the brilliant playing on her later recordings. But then doubts arose as to whether the performances were really hers. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review a surprising case of musical plagiarism, which touched off a scandal in the polite world of classical music.We'll also spot foxes in London and puzzle over a welcome illness.Show notesPlease support us on Patreon!

YOU MUST FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book.YOU MUST JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the Proud & Mighty INNER HIVE, for exclusive early access to comics, extra comics, and much more.YOU MUST GET Ruben Bolling’s new hit book series for kids, The EMU Club Adventures. (”Filled with wild twists and funny dialogue” -Publishers Weekly) Book One here. Book Two here.More Tom the Dancing Bug comics on Boing Boing! (more…)

If you're not already wearing a tinfoil hat, it may be a good time to start: a pair of engineers based out of the University of Michigan have figured out a way to create a light-powered camera sensor that's only a millimeter in size: small enough to be practically invisible to a casual observer.According to a paper published in IEEE Electron Device Letters by Euisik Yoon and Sung-Yun Park, the new camera has the potential to not only be insanely small, but also, self sustaining, thanks to a solar panel placed directly behind the camera's image sensor, which is thin enough that light, in addition to what's needed to create an image, is able to pass right through it. This could provide the camera with all the power it needs to be able to continue to capture images, indefinitely. At a maximum of 15 frames per second, the images it captures aren't of the best quality, but they're more than adequate for creeping on an unsuspecting subject.The good news is that, for the time being, the camera is nothing more than a proof-of-concept. In order for it to be deployed in the real world as a near-invisible surveillance device, someone a lot smarter than me will need to figure out how to store image data and transmit it using hardware that's just as discrete as the camera's image sensor and power source are.Fingers crossed that it'll take them a while to work those issues out. Image via pxhere

British Adventurer Nick Griffiths sustained severe frostbite in three of his toes while mucking about in the Canadian Yukon a couple of months ago. He'd been competing in the Yukon Arctic Ultra race when exposure to the damp, extreme cold of Canada's far north did to him what it does. Despite the time he'd taken to convalesce from his injuries, Griffiths was told by doctors in England that they would have to amputate three of his toes to stave off infection. Griffiths asked to keep his dismembered digits and his surgeons were happy to comply. They gave Griffiths his three detached little piggies, preserved in liquid-filled bottles.The question of what to do with the toes was an easy one for Griffiths to answer. According to the CBC, the adventurer has offered to donate them to Dawson City's Sourdough Saloon to be served up in cocktails for punters with a taste for human feet.As any Canadian will tell you (I'm pretty sure they include the fact on our citizenship test), the Downtown Hotel serves up a unique cocktail: The Sourtoe. The ingredients of a Sourtoe Cocktail are simple, but kind of hard to come by: a shot of whisky and a severed human toe. Once the drink has been downed, it's tradition that the toe be returned to the Sourdough Saloon's bartender to be reused. But that doesn't always happen. People have run off with one of the toes in the past and, in 2013, some tool decided to swallow it along with his booze.So, for the having more than one toe, um, on hand at any time, is a win.When the hotel heard of Griffiths' offer, they gratefully accepted. All that remains is for Griffiths to figure out a way to legally send his severed digits from England to Canada.Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Since the passage of the 1975 Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers and other policies that put restrictions on third party repairs have been unenforceable in America, but that doesn't stop companies from putting deceptive tamper-evident stickers on their equipment in an effort to trick or intimidate their customers into going to a manufacturer-authorized service depot. (more…)

You've probably seen the Youtube Face; it's that extreme facial expression (disgust, ecstasy, hilarity, etc) depicted in the thumbnails of Youtubers' would-be-viral videos, especially reaction videos. (more…)