"Sir, have you been smoking cannabis, yeah?""No, not really." This harrowing yet vaguely comical bodycam footage is from a community support officer in[...]

New: Two women tell us how their parents began following QAnon and how it is tearing their families apart. https://t.co/uxqUYzLAoy pic.twitter.com/kCBoHdpvHL— [...]

Martin Gugino spent nearly a month in hospital after a Buffalo cop pushed him over, cracked his head on the pavement and left him to bleed there with a fr[...]

A study into the stigmatization of "gay-sounding" voices found that British and American men expect to be discriminated against if they sound gay and make effor[...]

First spotted in 2018, scientists are now learning more about an orbiting rock that is the furthest known object in our solar system. (True, Voyager 1 is furthe[...]

Drones are taking pictures of real estate properties, running surveillance missions, dropping off Amazon packages, and now, they may soon be fighting fires. [...]

John D. Boswell, better known as Melodysheep, brings us a visually-stunning illustration of the things that can happen in a fraction of a second across th[...]

Boing Boing readers of a certain age will likely remember the opening to The Pink Panther Show and the strange Pink Panthermobile seen in it. This video t[...]

The Blue Estate Group proposes to build an artificial island off Nassau featuring billion-dollar homes, yacht berths, rental accomodation for the help, etc. [...]

Looking at this 13-minute video on Robby the Robot from the iconic sci-fi film, Forbidden Planet, it's astounding to think that this robot and film were c[...]

In this fascinating post on the blog, Uncanny Spheres, indie RPG designer, Ian Yusem, describes his first year producing materials for such games as (the wonder[...]

On Wednesday, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced that younger people who accompany seniors 75 and over to get the Covid vaccine can get vaccinated a[...]

You always wanted to learn chess – and maybe you even picked up a move or two along the way. You know the Italian Game. You can launch a minority attack. You mi[...]

Whether you're hitting the hiking trail or poised for some other outdoor adventure, hydration is key – so a water bottle should always be within arm's reach. Bu[...]

Food made low and slow fascinates me. Chili is such a great, and personal, blend of spices and flavors I had to give it a go. My friend Rob kept talking up h[...]

Citing "the most extreme example of lack of preparation" that they had ever seen, police in Scotland charged a Dundee man with dangerous driving after he didn't[...]

Here's the trailer for a Waffles + Mochi, a new Netflix series for kids that is executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Once upon a thyme, dee[...]

Project Veritas, the right-wing media group known for its unconvincing "stings" on liberal targets, was suspended from Twitter today. Founder James O'Keefe was[...]

Five so-called Proud Boys were today charged with conspiracy related to last month's riot at the U.S. Capitol complex. It is the the most significant claim yet [...]

Grogu is the greatest marketing thing to happen to Disney in forever. I do not need any more mugs, hats, or tee-shirts in my life but I feel compelled by a high[...]

It's every QAnon Karen's fantasy to have an affair with a tantric sex guru and a gym manager, but Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA) got to live the dream, accor[...]

Very early on a Sunday morning, Phyllis Pena of Lake Jackson, Texas spotted a suspected peeping tom peering into her 15-year-old daughter's window. The ma[...]

After constructing a fortress of takeout containers around my laptop, I was ready for the virtual tour of San Francisco Chinatown neon signs this Wednesday even[...]

The Girl and the Fig, a popular "inventive" (as Fodor's called it) French restaurant in Sonoma, California, was displeased with a server who wore a Black Lives [...]

Carote non-stick frying pans are coated with some kind of natural granite material and they have a bakelite handle that stays cool. They heat up quickly. I don'[...]

The Regional Municipality of Durham in Southern Ontario launched a Black History Month "Rise to the Challenge" scavenger hunt for its employees. Some of the[...]

The original audio of the cattorney-at-law – aka the lawyer trapped in a Zoom filter – who participated in an online meeting of legal matters last week is[...]

New Zealand Maori leader Rawiri Waititi called neckties 'a colonial noose' after he was ejected from the parliament chamber for refusing to wear one. Waititi w[...]

For most people, it's free to file your taxes. The makers of tax preparation software lobbied to stop the IRS from accepting such tax filings online, as is done[...]

My favourite species of birds are the ones named by people who clearly hate birds. (thread) pic.twitter.com/81Ztls7B2O— Stu Royall (@stu_bot3000) February 3, 2[...]

NPR reports on a new survey from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) that shows how far a significant percentage of Republicans are willing to go to force t[...]

How do you drive across a river with no bridge? Where there's a will (and two very narrow planks of wood) there's a way! SAFETY THIRD pic.twitter.com/HVT05i[...]

this is a real ad running on Newsmax pic.twitter.com/FRZUpueQGl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2021 Newsmax, a fake news channel whose viewership con[...]

Even Keanu Reeves couldn't save this piece of junk game. Since before its launch, Cyberpunk 2077 has been nothing but a mess. Unready for release, full o[...]

Intrepid vernacular photography collector Robert E. Jackson curated a delightful collection of vintage portraits featuring men with curious hairstyles. See them[...]

Bicycles are a fantastic way to get around. Congresspeople Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) are looking to encourage e-bike adoption and sa[...]

With popular anti-Trump groups like the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump, and Republican anti-Trump outspoken individuals like Mitt Romney, A[...]

Lindsey Graham: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it? pic.twitter.com/Af4QNNU744— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) February 11, 2021 QAnon fellow travele[...]

Last year, National Geographic aired a documentary about the search for Amelia Earhart's plane that hasn't been seen since she and her navigator disappeared ove[...]

Yesterday, the value of a single bitcoin hit a record high of $48,000. The higher it goes, the greater the incentive for bitcoin miners who earn bitcoins by[...]

Upon hearing that one of the greatest TV shows of all time, Time Team, was staging a revival I immediately became a contributor. Time Team is a fantast[...]

"Joss was the vampire," writes Charisma Carpenter, reporting that the director was an abusive presence on the sets of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. In[...]

During the boat parade Super Bowl celebration in Tampa, Florida winning Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady threw the Lombardi trophy from his boat to a neighboring[...]

Anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got banned from Instagram for spreading conspiracy theories, reports The Guardian. Facebook confirmed on Wednesday that it [...]

Singer, songwriter and artist Björk Guðmundsdóttir gave a tour of her home studio in 1994, about the time she moved to London and released her spectacular[...]

Another fun video by Xyla Foxlin. She has memorialized a road trip and relocation west with a map made of wood grown in each state she passed thru. We[...]

A hang glider was rescured, critically injured, from a beach near San Franscisco this week. There's no footage of what happened, yet, but the footage embe[...]

NASA's fifth Mars rover Perseverance launched in July of 2020, and is scheduled to land on Mars on Thursday, February 18th. The purpose of the rover is to look [...]

In this installment of Frank Zappa stories on TheAaronChannel, Frank talks about the novelty record he produced for Burt Ward who starred on the Batman TV serie[...]

Here's an amazing fact. More Japanese-language copies of Chaosium's classic horror RPG, Call of Cthulhu, are sold in Japan than all other languages combined. Co[...]

The MIT Technology Review has a comprehensive new piece on China's rapidly-growing private space industry—which is apparently doing pretty well! China is se[...]

At 2021's digital CES conference, GM introduced renderings for a Cadillac-branded, battery-powered "air taxi." CNet reports: The sleek, electric vertic[...]

If you don't have a background in creating web pages, it's easy to misunderstand how the process of creating a site and making it available to visitors on the w[...]

Rocket League, a fun game of soccer with automobiles, has introduced America's favorite truck: the Ford F-150. The F-150 has been atop the best sellin[...]

Larry Flynt, the pornographer who launched Hustler magazine in 1974 and became a fierce First Amendment activist, has died of heart failure. He was 78. Hustler [...]

Using ultra macro lenses, photographer Jens shoots gorgeous footage of up-close snowflakes melting in reverse, and it's stunning.

It's being called the largest digital security breach ever. Earlier this month, a leaked database inconspicuously titled Compilation of Many Breaches was made a[...]

A family in Australia went out for a day of fishing and caught a kangaroo instead. They saw the western gray kangaroo struggling in the deep water and fou[...]

(This is an item from my newsletter, The Magnet. It's only $30 a year. Subscribe here! — Mark) Vilmonic is an artificial life simulator and genetics an[...]

After I mentioned my family's newfound love of darts in my newsletter, The Magnet, reader Maury Estabrooks told me to check out this group of teens from F[...]

Get a load of this Sackler Drug Cartel shill pushing OxyContin. Once you found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain don't be afrai[...]

During a stint of extended pandemic depression, I fell in love with The Curse of Oak Island. After watching untold hours of the team barely finding anything, I [...]

A an impatient Karen at an Australian McDonald's in New South Wales blew a gasket when her meal didn't instantly appear in front of her (video below). "Twent[...]

Appropriately named after the artist Salvador Dali and Pixar's WALL-E, OpenAI's GPT-3-trained DALL-E is an AI artist "trained to generate images from text descr[...]

Rebecca Black's viral hit "Friday" is 10 years old, and she's celebrating by issuing a remix. In the words of Adam Clark Estes, "it sounds like a panic at[...]

Unreal announced its MetaHuman Creator, "a new tool that will empower anyone to create a bespoke photorealistic digital human, fully rigged and complete w[...]

No matter what, Trump will not be allowed back on Twitter, according to its CFO, Ned Segal. Here's what he said about it on CNBC's Squawk Box: "Whe[...]

Jem Finer was one of the founding members of the Pogues, typically playing banjo and writing many of the band's most popular songs (including, yes, co-wri[...]

This is my first experience with a dog who loves remotes. Electra is 70+ lbs at 8months old and has been taking remotes off the top of my dresser. [...]

The people of Massachusetts have spoken. Podokesaurus holyokensis was the clear winner over Anchisaurus polyzelus, garnering 60% of the votes in a recent electi[...]

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, the deplatformed Trump supporter who spread lies about voter fraud and held an 11th-hour meeting with Trump to pitch him on an author[...]

I love how tickled Mary Trump is when asked by SiriusXM's Dean Obeidallah about the future political careers of Ivanka and Don Jr. "I think it's over," s[...]

It's quite the week for government publicity stunts promoting space efforts! First was the mysterious monolith marketing Turkey's new space program. And then la[...]