In this Vice video we meet Daniel Rushing, the Florida man who was arrested in 2016 on felony charges when police thought crumbs of donut glaze found in his car… Read the rest of the article: Interview with the man arrested for possession of donut glaze
"I got all these doll heads from a scrap market in Cairo," says artist Dinaa Amin, "collected by sellers who collect them from garbage bins." She took out the eyes… Read the rest of the article: Harvesting eyeballs from discarded doll heads for a stop-motion film
Amazon has a good deal on the Rotring 500 0.5mm Mechanical Pencil. It's [amazon_link asins='B00C1YNBQS' template='PriceLink' store='boingboing' marketplace='US' link_id='4f29a100-962d-4299-802a-4b3bc218b0b2']. Here's a video review of the 500:
Corey Curnutt (25) and Savannah Grillot (29) of Visalia, California were arrested on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon and conspiracy charges, reports Fresno's ABC 7 News. The… Read the rest of the article: Married couple arrested for planting "bait bikes" then beating thieves with baseball bats
Cartoonists Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg take a look at the booklets that come with Criterion Collection's Crumb and Ghost World DVDs and Blu-rays, both directed by Terry Zwigoff. I've… Read the rest of the article: Review of Criterion Collection's "Crumb" and "Ghost World" DVDs
One of the treats of being sick as a kid was staying home from school and being able to watch The Dick Cavett Show. He was a talk show host… Read the rest of the article: You can watch over 270 episodes of the Dick Cavett show online
From our friends at Futility Closet: Fit two identical 90-degrees cones base to base, slice the resulting shape in half vertically, and give one of the halves a quarter turn.… Read the rest of the article: Watch these cool sphericons roll across a table
I found "Dimensions of Dialogue" (1983) on my favorite subreddit r/ObscureMedia. It's an 11-minute stop-motion orgy of garbage, flesh, mastication, digestion, eructation, and decay by Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer.
How often have you seen news stories and videos poking fun at people who have trouble locating where a certain country is on a world map? The latest iteration of… Read the rest of the article: "People are idiots because they can't locate country X on a map" articles are idiotic
Maxwell Johnson (56) has been a customer at the Bank of Montreal (BMO) in Vancouver, Canada since 2014. On December 10 took his 12-year-old granddaughter to the bank to open… Read the rest of the article: Cops handcuff man and his 12-year-old granddaughter for trying to open a bank account while being indigenous
Ever since I started using these nylon mesh zipper bags, my travel experience has improved. I have one bag for paper stuff and pens, one for medicine and first aid,… Read the rest of the article: Must-have travel gear – inexpensive zipper bags
According to former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow, the Secret Service started during the US Civil War to deal with the influx of counterfeit US money that the Southern states… Read the rest of the article: How to detect counterfeit money
About 15 years ago I got a plastic ukulele (The Fluke). It cost under $200 and sounded as good or better than any uke I'd ever heard. I also have… Read the rest of the article: The move towards making musical instruments out of plastic
A strain of viral pneumonia that causes troubled breathing and invasive lung lesions has affected at least 59 people in China. It's suspected that the culprit is a never-before-seen virus… Read the rest of the article: Never-before-seen virus could be cause of pneumonia outbreak in China
Everyone knows Facebook is doing the opposite of helping ensure the integrity of the 2020 election, so it makes sense it would pay Teen Vogue to run a fake article… Read the rest of the article: Facebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake article praising Facebook for "helping ensure the integrity of the 2020 election"
Almost 100 people working for CollegeHumor in Los Angeles and New York were let go yesterday, reports Bloomberg. The owner, Barry Diller's IAC, sold the brand to its chief creative… Read the rest of the article: CollegeHumor laid off almost everyone because they trusted Facebook's inflated metrics
I just bought a copy of Sid Meier's Civilization VI for Nintendo Switch because it's selling for [amazon_link asins='B07HH8ZSMM' template='PriceLink' store='boingboing' marketplace='US' link_id='a046c09a-5dee-4d89-89fd-faa90c3f599e'], which is a lot less than it… Read the rest of the article: Sid Meier's Civilization VI for Nintendo Switch is selling for a deep discount today
In 2017, three people drilled 26 holes into a UNESCO world heritage protected landmark in China called Python Rock so they could climb the 420-foot natural rock spire and take… Read the rest of the article: Climbers fined $860,000 for drilling holes in a UNESCO protected rock formation
Mistaking an open fishtank for a bench in a restaurant, a man on a phone takes a seat there to have a conversation. Unfortunately neither the surface tension of the… Read the rest of the article: Gentleman on iPhone sits on open fishtank and falls in
Jimmy Kimmel started out last night's monologue by complaining how difficult it is to cancel a subscription to an app on the iPhone. He's right. There should be a menu… Read the rest of the article: Jimmy Kimmel pokes fun at congressman who got caught tweeting fake photo
