In 1987 I subscribed CBS Video Library's Twilight Zone episodes on VHS cassettes. Once a month, I'd get a cassette with four-half episodes on it. It cost $29.95 for each… Read the rest of the article: Great deal on 25-DVD set for The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Devon Zuegel, the former editor in chief of The Stanford Review, outlines her technique for dealing with Twitter trolls. Usually, the maxim "don't feed the trolls" is a good rule… Read the rest of the article: How to deal with unreasonable or mean people on Twitter
This video and website from Una Kravets presents ten website layouts that use just one line of CSS. Beautiful and amazing!
Japan Today reports that 42-year-old Japanese rapper Kan a.k.a. GAMI (real name: Kunihiko Kawakami) was arrested for possessing a half gram of cannabis. Police say informant contacted authorities to let… Read the rest of the article: Japanese rapper Kan a.k.a. GAMI busted for 0.5 grams of weed
Of COURSE one of the first people to understand the power of HyperCard was @kevin2kelly! Now I want to find a copy of the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog and spend… Read the rest of the article: Kevin Kelly talks about the Electronic Whole Earth Catalog in this 1980s news segment
New ad: "Has Your Party Left You?" pic.twitter.com/AQl8wgzfWA — Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 7, 2020 As the name of their group suggests, Republican Voters Against Trump is a… Read the rest of the article: Republican Voters Against Trump use Reagan speech to slam Trump
California hospitals saw a surge in coronavirus admissions over the 4th of July weekend, reports Reuters. California Governor Gavin Newsom said the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients increased by 50%… Read the rest of the article: Covid-19 hospitalizations increased 50% in California
La Télévision is a short film from 1947 that imagines what the world might be like if everyone had handheld wireless devices. It shows people using them in restaurants, on… Read the rest of the article: 1947 film about the future shows handheld TV users bumping into each other
When one Boing Boing editor posts about something another editor already posted, we hide it from the front page. But you can see all the duplicated posts here. If we… Read the rest of the article: If you like Boing Boing, you will love our page of "dupes"
My Russian grandmother had these Soviet calendars from the 1960s. I was fascinated with them when I was a small child and studied them almost every time I visited. The… Read the rest of the article: Look how cool these old Soviet calendars are
My father introduced me to the "Cross the Network" puzzle when I was a kid. Here it is, as described by Martin Gardner in one of his early Mathematical Recreations… Read the rest of the article: A surprising solution to the (in)famous "Cross the Network" puzzle
Jerry Seinfeld once quipped "There's no such thing as fun for the whole family." He probably wouldn't have changed his mind after seeing Ed Emberley's series of simple step-by-step instructional… Read the rest of the article: Ed Emberly's drawing books are fun for everyone
Mr Beast, creator of Finger on the App, a game in which players vie to be the last one to keep their finger on their smartphone screen (and occasionally move… Read the rest of the article: Finger on the App creator tells 4 remaining players that they are all winners of $20k
A man tried to hitch a ride on a jet by hiding in one of the engines. It's a good thing he was caught before the pilot started it up.… Read the rest of the article: Man attempts to stowaway in jet engine
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt went on MSNBC to express his outrage over Trump's shocking inaction against Russia's well-documented program of paying bounties for dead American soldiers in Afghanistan: We've had… Read the rest of the article: Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt: "Trump's betrayal to U.S. troops is impossible to overstate"
Eric Trump posted a photo of Chelsea Clinton's wedding in which suspected pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell can be seen in attendance. “Birds of a feather,” he wrote. Almost immediately, people responded… Read the rest of the article: Trump's dumbest son deletes tweet
Yesterday I posted about Finger on the App, a game in which players must keep their finger on their smartphone screen (and occasionally move it to a new spot indicated… Read the rest of the article: After 48 Hours, only 15 players remain in the "Finger on the App" challenge
What is Arduino? It's a credit card size electronics prototyping platform that lets artists, designers, and others add interactivity to their projects. (My book Maker Dad, has a useful Arduino… Read the rest of the article: Cheap Arudiuno clone kit
A Joe Rogan lookalike thought he could win a chess game by intimidating his 16-year-old opponent through insults, and gaslighting, and patronizing disdain. Unfortunately for the mouthy gentleman, the kid, who… Read the rest of the article: Trash-talking chess player's ass handed to him by 16-year-old
The Professional Advertising Regulatory Authority (ARPP) of France has banned the airing of a television commercial for VanMoof electric bikes. From a statement by VanMoof (Via Core77): According to the… Read the rest of the article: French ad authority bans e-bike commercial because it "discredits the automobile sector"
