Dazed Beauty reports on a rising trend in Russia called devil lips, or octopus lips. "[T] he procedure is said to involve inserting filler in the outer lip to create… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy these photos of lips injected with filler to give them a pointy look
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Mark Frauenfelder A coterie of Karens, banded together under the banner "One Million Moms," have called for a boycott of the Hallmark Channel after it ran a commercial that showed a married… Read the rest of the article: One Million Moms, a far-right Christian group, is offended by Hallmark commercial of newlywed women kissing
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Mark Frauenfelder In this MoMA video, Steve Martin talks about two of his favorite abstract art paintings and why he appreciates them.
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Mark Frauenfelder This boat enthusiast was either excited to get his boat into the water, or in a hurry to go home. Either way it doesn't matter, because now he is without… Read the rest of the article: This driver towing a boat made a poor decision resulting in the loss of his boat
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Mark Frauenfelder Uri Rafaeli (83) a retired engineer, underpaid his property tax bill by making a mistake calculating the interest. He paid $8.41 less than he owed. As a result Michigan's Oakland… Read the rest of the article: County seizes man's home because he owed $8.41 in property tax
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Mark Frauenfelder In this video, we learn that children enjoy bullying a mall patrol robot. The kids will kick, slap, surround, and throw things at it. Tests show that kids are more… Read the rest of the article: Mall robot is programmed to detect when kids are about to bully it, and take evasive action
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Mark Frauenfelder https://youtu.be/v0eiTJfsKq4 On Twitter, David Wahl (Archie McPhee's Director of Awesome) shared his latest discovery: the Drawstring Piglet Electric Luminous Concert Walking Doll Crystal Pig. This incredible creature is my new… Read the rest of the article: Behold the Drawstring Piglet Electric Luminous Concert Walking Doll Crystal Pig
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Mark Frauenfelder People in the United States who can't afford medical insurance are resorting to fish and veterinary medication to treat themselves, reports The Guardian. Antibiotics like amoxicillin are available online in… Read the rest of the article: Americans who can't afford health care are taking fish antibiotics
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Mark Frauenfelder Over at Cool Tools (I site I co-run) Sean Michael Ragan made a video about 9 volt snap lights. These are small cubes containing and array of bright LEDs that… Read the rest of the article: What's the best 9-volt snap light?
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Mark Frauenfelder As a kid, I devoured cheap paperback books about “strange but true” phenomena. The short stories were anthologized from men’s adventure magazines of the 40s-60s and recounted mysteries such as:… Read the rest of the article: Mysteries of the Unknown: Inside the world of the strange and unexplained
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Mark Frauenfelder Aliexpress has lots of these little gadgets that rock a phone back-and-forth to fool the pedometer into thinking you are walking on a treadmill. They cost about $2. Why? "Some… Read the rest of the article: Cheap phone rocker for boosting your daily step count
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Mark Frauenfelder It's not surprising that Trump used his own charity like a personal piggy bank. Nor is it surprising that his base loves him all the more for stealing the money.… Read the rest of the article: Trump pays $2 million fine for stealing from his charity
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Mark Frauenfelder Each plate of sushi at this joint has been blessed with the clammy hand of a toddler, at no extra charge. Hands-off parenting at a conveyor belt sushi bar from… Read the rest of the article: Please tell me where this conveyor belt sushi bar is so I can make sure to never go
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Mark Frauenfelder This is something that would happen to me. Now I know to wear mittens around shopping carts.
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Mark Frauenfelder Check out this jerk smacking a @WSAV reporter's ass live on air. And sorry, that's my kiddo making horribly timed weird noises in the background. pic.twitter.com/6tzi6P1Jbo — Tonya (@GrrrlZilla) December… Read the rest of the article: Runner who slapped journalist on butt is Tommy Callaway, a youth minister and boy scout leader in Statesboro, Georgia
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Mark Frauenfelder I use +3.0 to read books, phone, and kindle, and +0.5 when using my computer. My readers of choice are these cheap horn-rim spex. A five-pack costs [amazon_link asins='B00LJR7N26' template='PriceLink'… Read the rest of the article: I buy readers by the 5-pack
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Mark Frauenfelder Galveston County Republican Party Chairwoman Yolanda Waters says her use of the N-word in a text message about fellow party member J.T. Edwards was simply a typo. Edwards, by pure… Read the rest of the article: Galveston GOP Chairwoman says her text message with N-word was a "typo"
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Mark Frauenfelder Three gentleman who tried to liberate a 75-inch television from the wall of a real-estate office in Spain were outsmarted by the cords attached to the appliance, as well an… Read the rest of the article: Burglars fail miserably in attempt to steal a television
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Mark Frauenfelder Unicorn is a scooter company that launched with a lot of flash and hype. Unicorn's CEO Nick Evans is the co-creator of Tile, the GPS tracking app. The company spent… Read the rest of the article: Unicorn takes $699 from 350 scooter buyers, tells them they won't be getting a scooter or a refund
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Mark Frauenfelder In the December 9, 2019 issue of The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman profiles one of the most influential authors in recent decades, William Gibson. Gibson doesn’t have a name for… Read the rest of the article: William Gibson profiled in The New Yorker