When the first glint of light appears beneath the right nostril of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, during another of his bellowing yet sedentary ramblings about Dem frontroller Bernie Sanders, it's an… Read the rest of the article: Chris Matthews licks snot off his own face
Markhacks creates cardboard pendulums and such. Here's one with a bunch of bothersome magnets underneath the weight. I made another pendulum of cardboard. Using multiple magnets with reversed polarity causes… Read the rest of the article: Chaotic pendulum wanders field of magnets
The coronavirus outbreak (previously) has now claimed more victims than SARS, with more than 1,000 dead in China and 45,000 infected worldwide. The Chinese government, illiberal by any measure, is… Read the rest of the article: Purported footage of Chinese people being forced into coronavirus quarantine
"Fire in the hole!" shouts an engineer as a detonator sparks. A second later, the shockwave and the thunder–a close shave with the last sight some people ever saw. The… Read the rest of the article: WATCH: shockwave in a tunnel
Behold the smooth disco of Kirinji. The director is Eisuke Shirota, but the perfectly exquisite dance routine is choreographed and performed by Reijiro Kaneko.
"You are not samurai!" yells murder defendant Todd Winkler, jabbing his finger at the judge presiding over his murder trial in Placerville, Calif. Winkler, a former fighter pilot and pharmaceutical… Read the rest of the article: Murder defendant becomes angry samurai in court
This audio recording shows that Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, remained an advocate of racial profiling long after a federal judge ruled that… Read the rest of the article: In leaked audio, Michael Bloomberg defends racial profiling: "throw them up against the wall"
The Dancing Baby was an early viral GIF, emerging from a place where new and old media first found a common audience, a place that is now filled with darkness… Read the rest of the article: Original 3D dancing baby model found and rendered in high resolution
Governor Thomas Johnson High School in Frederick, Maryland, sported new colors during a recent basketball game: the Nazi Swastika. School officials have apologized for the flag, hung in plain sight… Read the rest of the article: School struggles to explain Nazi flag hanging in window
Flashpoint, by BlueMaxima, is a game launcher that comes with more than 30,000 flash games built-in to a single download. As getting Adobe Flash working moves from "troublesome" to "virtually… Read the rest of the article: 38,000 Flash games bundled in a single, just-works game launcher download
The new Motorola Razr looks like a perfect wedding of old and new: a cutting-edge (and very expensive) foldable smartphone reviving the sleek flip-phone designs of a more civilized age.… Read the rest of the article: Reviewers say new Motorola Razr not great
In 1982, at the height of the first video game boom, the magazine Porn Stars imagined what the porn titles of the future would look like. Bacchus at Erosblog fished… Read the rest of the article: 1982's porn computer games of tomorrow
The replacement of Lamp Cat's jaunty YouTube Music Library track with Era Ameno turns a stupid feline warming its head under a lightbulb into the seraphim Baraqiel, its ceaseless gaze… Read the rest of the article: Lamp connects cat to God
Facebook is designed to make you anxious, depressed and dissatisfied, three states of mind that make you more vulnerable to advertising and other forms of behavioral manipulation. Small wonder, then,… Read the rest of the article: Study: Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety
Isotope geochemist John Andrew Higgins asks a question, and answers it: "What does a 9 inch ice core sound like when dropped down a 450 foot hole? Like this!" What… Read the rest of the article: 9 inch ice core dropped down a 450-foot hole
This video depicts a cat comtemplating at considerable length whether to bop a dog on the head.
Would you just look at the $295 Seletti Banana Lamp [Bergdorf Goodman].
Robert Heaton actually read the license agreement Wacom whas users of its tablets sign up for. Alarmed by the expansive, vague clauses therein, he set about intercepting the data going… Read the rest of the article: Wacom tablet drivers track apps you open
The Guinness Book of Records recognizes Li Longlong of China as the person who has climbed the most consecutive stairs with his head. He's held the record since 2012, but… Read the rest of the article: Man climbs stairs with head
Many of the world's most famous buildings sport spires, masts and other bullshit designed to make them superficially taller without adding to the expense and difficulty of construction. Pictured below… Read the rest of the article: Tall buildings with their lying spires removed
