Watch this video on YouTube Almost every night for the last week, I've been listening to my vinyl copy of Sade's 1985 masterpiece "Promise." Sade's deeply sexy, jazzy soul stands… Read the rest of the article: Watch Sade's stunning TV performance of "Is It A Crime" (1985)
This conversation can serve no purpose anymore.Watch this video on YouTube The young journalists at YR Media (formerly Youth Radio) were curious about "what artificial intelligence means for race, art,… Read the rest of the article: Teenagers interview A.I experts about the future of thinking machines
Fred Armisen Does Every North American Accent | Standup For Drummers | Netflix Is A JokeWatch this video on YouTube If his comedy career fizzles, Fred Armisen could be a… Read the rest of the article: Watch Fred Armisen imitate every North American accent
On November 30 1954 in Alabama, a nine pound meteorite broke through the ceiling of Anne Hodges' living room, bounced off her stereo system, and hit her in the side… Read the rest of the article: This unlucky fellow was the first person to have been killed by a meteorite in recorded history
Why do dogs often walk in circles before lying down for bed? Turns out, it's a survival trait inherited from their evolutionary ancestor the wolf.
These images are from the new Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, the most detailed lunar map ever created. Just released by the U.S. Geological Survey, it melds data from… Read the rest of the article: Gloriously colorful new geologic map of the moon
On Sunday, police in Paso Robles, California were called to Fatte's Pizza after an armed robber made off with cash from the register. Later that evening, the cops apprehended the… Read the rest of the article: Owner of Fatte's Pizza allegedly robbed a different Fatte's Pizza at gunpoint
Bootsy Collins CartoonWatch this video on YouTube "The Name is Bootsy, Baby" is the fantastic 1996 pilot for a cartoon about the interplanetary adventures of Bootsy Collins, otherworldly bass player… Read the rest of the article: Watch this far-out Bootsy Collins cartoon pilot from 1996
Thirty year ago today, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, opening up a new vista on our place in the universe. In celebration of the… Read the rest of the article: NASA released this astonishing image in celebration of Hubble's 30th anniversary
Won't Eat Prunes Again – "Weird Al" Yankovic – Live at Cal Poly July 1980Watch this video on YouTube Here's Weird Al's highlarious "Won't Eat Prunes Again," a parody of… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Weird Al Yankovic's unreleased parody of The Who
DICK-RNN is a recurrent neural network trained with 10,000 doodles of dicks. You start drawing a shape and the AI tries its best to finish it as a penis. Starting… Read the rest of the article: This AI's only function is to draw penises
**Everybody Must Stay Home Video**Watch this video on YouTube The fun "Everybody Must Stay Home" music video is a greatest hits of COVID-19 memes for a song not-by-Bob Dylan. "We… Read the rest of the article: "Everybody Must Stay Home," a memetastic music video with apologies to Bob Dylan
Back in the late 1980s, I would sometimes amuse myself by running a microphone through a digital audio effects processor and twiddle the knobs to transform my voice in very… Read the rest of the article: Try this freaky webcam tool to transform your image in weird ways
Horizontal Spinning Kick Breaking – 720° Spinning Kick Quadruple BreakingWatch this video on YouTube I was already intimidated by his bloodcurling yell. (I just learned that's called a k'ihap in… Read the rest of the article: Watch this incredible Taekwondo 720° spinning kick to break four boards
TEN FORWARD CRANK CALLS NSFWWatch this video on YouTube In 1993, Trekkers took to public access cable television channel Citytv in Toronto with Ten Forward, a talk show all about… Read the rest of the article: Watch the hosts of a Star Trek public access TV show deal with a rash of prank calls (1993)
"The Angel, The Automobilist, and Eighteen Others" is a new collection of early drawings by eccentric illustrator and storyteller Edward Gorey (1925-2000). Over at The Comics Journal, Mark Dery, author… Read the rest of the article: Edward Gorey's new book reviewed by Mark Dery
This project made me famous on the internetWatch this video on YouTube In today's edition of Gareth's Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales, our pal Gareth Branwyn reminds us of The… Read the rest of the article: How to build a hands-free Oreo dispenser
BethWatch this video on YouTube "Beth" is Kiss's biggest hit ever and, interestingly, was co-written and sung by the band's drummer Peter Criss. It's arguably one of the most iconic… Read the rest of the article: Here is the real (fake) story of Kiss's "Beth"
In 1977, Steve "Woz" Wozniak used a neat hack to bring color to the Apple II computer. According to IEEE Spectrum, the obscure trick, called NTSC artifact color, "allows digital… Read the rest of the article: How Pong's inventor gave Woz a hack to bring color to the Apple II
This image shows how a woman's silicone breast implant deflected a bullet fired at close range, likely stopping the slug from killing her. University of Toronto surgeon Giancarlo McEvenue and… Read the rest of the article: A woman's breast implant deflected a bullet, saving her life
