Simon Stålenhag's (previously at Boing Boing) unnerving blend of social realism, misty landscapes and alien technology is coming to TV in the form of a series based on Tales from… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for Tales from the Loop

A Sydney veterinarian pulled an entire beach towel from the snake that ate it. The snake, Monty Python, an 18-year-old carpet python, is recovering; no word on the towel. "A… Read the rest of the article: Beach towel pulled from hungry snake

Uri Tuchman explains how to make a very tiny but realistic-looking mattress from a block of maple. "Don't ask any questions," says Uri. "We are going to carve a mattress,… Read the rest of the article: Tiny mattress carved from wood

Police in Grass Valley, California, released bodycam footage showing an officer pulling a man from a burning building. In the video, emergency services arrive to find the blaze well-underway and… Read the rest of the article: Bodycam footage of man being pulled from burning building

Created by Promobot, a startup in Russia, this electronic Arnie isn't going to be murdering its way through all the Sarah Connors in the L.A. phonebook. It might find its… Read the rest of the article: Arnold Schwarzenegger robot won't be terminating anything yet

A woman dressed as Cookie Monster was arrested this week after being found overdosed in a car after dropping her daughter off at another person's house. Police found [Monster] wearing… Read the rest of the article: Cookie Monster found OD'd in idling car, charged with child endangerment

Clearview, the shady facial-recognition firm with links to law-enforcement and alt-right internet trolls, reports that its entire client list has been stolen. In the notification, which The Daily Beast reviewed,… Read the rest of the article: Clearview client list "stolen"

Chris Pattle's The Simpsons in CSS is exactly as promised: thirteen of the show's characters rendered and animated using style sheets: no javascript or image files to be found. (In… Read the rest of the article: The Simpsons in pure CSS

Petnet is a $300 internet-of-things pet food bowl. Its network went down and stayed down for a week, leaving some pets to go hungry. The BBC reports that owners are… Read the rest of the article: Internet of Starving Pets: animals go hungry after "smart feeder" fails

Assembling LEGO's official Star Destroyer kit [Amazon] is no mean feat: it has nearly 4,800 pieces and retails for $700. But Matt Benner, aka TheBrickWiz, went 30,000 better, constructing a… Read the rest of the article: Huge 35,000-piece Lego Star Destroyer

With the illustrious name Temporarily Captured Object 2020 CD3, Earth's new moon might not be entertaining a manned landing at any time in the future. Especially since it's only a… Read the rest of the article: Earth has tiny temporary second moon, after "capturing" asteroid

Tesla calls it Autopilot, but it didn't help Walter Huang's Model X avoid the crash that killed him. Huang was playing a video game on his phone, according to a… Read the rest of the article: Tesla Autopilot crash driver died "playing video game"

At last night's South Carolina debate of Democratic Party candidates, Mike Bloomberg quickly corrected himself after saying he "bought" recent Dem congresspersons. "I bought, I—I got them."

https://youtu.be/ND63UPelkIw Meet Ryker, Happy Mutants. Ryker, a Belgian Malinois, studied at the Double H Canine Training Academy, and here is footage of his failed test to become a service animal.… Read the rest of the article: Dog fails service animal test

Posted to Reddit, Twitter and Facebook with already-obscure origins — if you know who deserves credit, do tell — this photoshopped promo photo of the Star Trek: TNG roster gives… Read the rest of the article: If everyone on Star Trek: TNG wore the same uniform as Counselor Troi

In 2007, James Grundy dropped his pants in a pub and exposed his genitals to onlookers. James Grundy is now the Conservative Party member of parliament for Leigh, footage of… Read the rest of the article: Conservative MP apologizes for showing everyone his penis

Can you tell which of these products is counterfeit? Wirecutter had manufacturers send them the real thing, then bought the same item from Amazon. There were, of course, differences to… Read the rest of the article: Wirecutter compares popular products to counterfeits

Available in black, camo, "coyote brown" and "ranger green", the tactical diaper mat [Amazon] turns any battlefield location into a "fully-fledged changing station". There are extra pockets for "cargo" and… Read the rest of the article: Tactical diaper mat

Firefox announced today that DNS over HTTPS will be on by default in new versions of its browser, adding an extra layer of security for people browsing the information superhighway.

Behold the chipsteak, here presented in an extremist British incarnation but also popular in the United States until about that time. Perhaps it's time for a chipsteak renaissance? Meet Major… Read the rest of the article: Chipsteaks are unique and delicious, with tremendous protein value