I keep the Kitchen IQ Edge Grip 2-Stage Knife Sharpener next to my knife block and run a knife through the "Fine" slot almost every time I cut something. The… Read the rest of the article: Tiny kitchen-knife sharpener does the trick

The Night Watch is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt. It hangs in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Today, the museum posted the "largest and most detailed ever photograph of The Night… Read the rest of the article: You can zoom way, way into this incredible photo of Rembrandt's The Night Watch

"Lumen in the Land of Nanite" is a real-time Unreal Engine 5 demonstration running live on PlayStation. The new UE5 has two technologies: "Nanite virtualized micropolygon geometry, which frees artists… Read the rest of the article: Demo of new Unreal game engine is unreal

I despise everything about Las Vegas — the garish resorts, the horrible city planning that makes it no fun to walk anywhere, the overpriced "fine dining," and the oppressive layer… Read the rest of the article: New rules for Las Vegas casinos promise a grim, joyless experience

[UPDATE 4/14/2020 1:52pm: Reader Chris Manderson spotted quite a number of errors in my post! He wrote: "While your content of what was said was correct you were incorrect in… Read the rest of the article: Howard Stern on CNN: Trump "disgusted" by his fan base

The New York City Department of Transportation reports that it's been 58 days since a pedestrian has been killed in the city, a new record that was made possible because… Read the rest of the article: NYC record: 58 straight days with no pedestrian deaths

The cartoonist Richard Sala passed away this week at the age of 61. I always loved his work and own many of his comic books. Cartoonist Daniel Clowes wrote a… Read the rest of the article: Cartoonist Richard Sala (1955 – 2020)

It was an unparalled thrill to have Boing Boing's own Rob Beschizza on the Cool Tools podcast! Read the show notes at the Cool Tools website.

I worked as an engineering intern for a couple of summers when I was in college. I shared a cubicle with a draftsperson named Laura. She was obsessed with two… Read the rest of the article: The time I risked my life borrowing a Draft-Matic Mechanical Pencil

On Jalopnik my friend Jason Torchinsky is writing about his experience ordering a $900 electric car from China using Alibaba. It has been an incredibly long and complicated process, involving… Read the rest of the article: What it's like to buy a $900 electric car from Alibaba

A smart-thinking Boston police officer played a recording of a peacock meeting call on his phone to coax an escaped peacock into a backyard where it was easily picked up… Read the rest of the article: Cop plays recorded peacock mating call to lure escaped zoo animal

Nananana Naaaa:)) In this short video we see a man in the back of a police car singing James Brown's "I Feel Good". The police officer driving the car turns… Read the rest of the article: This man is so happy he is going to jail that he is singing "I Feel Good"

Camila's Tex-Mex, near St Louis, Missouri, installed a piñata in the shape of the Covid-19 virus with a caricaturized face of a Chinese man on it, reports The Riverfront Times.… Read the rest of the article: Mexican restaurant shamed for racist piñata

Somecomputerguy says: "I go from cold boot to playing Lunar Lander on my recently repaired SEL 810A computer. This computer was released in 1967, and was used by the CIA,… Read the rest of the article: Guy plays games on his restored 1960s computer

This $3 handheld magnifying glass has two bright LEDs and is powered by 3 AAA cells (not included). The manufacturer says the magnification is 40X. I think it is less… Read the rest of the article: A very useful illuminated hand held magnifier for $3

People in China can't wait to enter the Magic Kingdom now that coronavirus deaths in that country have declined.

The Moscow Times reports that at least 376 Russian cadets have been infected with COVID-19. They were practicing for a parade to be held in Moscow's Red Square. The last… Read the rest of the article: At least 376 Russian cadets got infected with the coronavirus during parade practice

The great Jerry Stiller died today at the age of 92. Enjoy this blooper reel of Stiller making his Seinfeld co-stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander laugh so hard that… Read the rest of the article: Watch Jerry Stiller (RIP) make his Seinfeld co-stars laugh themselves out of character

Marcel Salathé (epidemiologist) and Nicky Case (art/code) created this fun(?) way to visualize the spread of COVID-19 through a series of increasingly sophisticated playable simulations. The takeaway: "A lockdown isn't… Read the rest of the article: Playable simulations of Covid-19 futures

In 2010 Paul L Vasquez posted a video about a double rainbow he spotted. His emotionally charged commentary briefly launched him into viral YouTube stardom and the video got 47… Read the rest of the article: Double Rainbow Guy, RIP