This Useless Machine (previously) has a series of strategies to confound and distract the enemy, but knows when it's time to give up. Jeffrey Kohler: Useless Box with several additions:… Read the rest of the article: Useless Machine eventually surrenders

Mike Palliotet (previously) cleans another revolting, darkly shiny diner carpet with his incredibly satisfying high-end steam cleaning equipment. “We live in a primitive time, don’t we, Will? Neither savage nor… Read the rest of the article: Greasy diner carpet cleaned satisfyingly

Australia sits on a fast-moving tectonic plate and is drifting north several inches a year. As its GPS coordinates haven't been updated since 1994, the discrepancy has grown to six… Read the rest of the article: Australia's location corrected

You've seen This Cat Does Not Exist, now behold Hopefully This Cat Does Not Exist, whereby the failings of generative adversarial networks become their horrifying strengths. I'm a big fan… Read the rest of the article: Hopefully This Cat Does Not Exist

It's hard to explain this peculiar supercut of actors screen testing a series of lines; a meme from the late 2000s-depths that somehow broke the surface again this weekend. Some… Read the rest of the article: Screen testing in the 1990s

This video shows a method for "torturing" telemarketers that appears to be as effective as Lenny but much simpler. In fact, it's just one word. Can you guess which one… Read the rest of the article: Telemarketers tormented

Simon Weckert loaded a hand-cart with cellphones and pulled them slowly through Berlin. This fooled Google Maps into registering severe congestion, marking the streets bright red in the service, and… Read the rest of the article: Man creates fake traffic jam on Google Maps by carting around 99 cellphones

A man was kicked off an American Airlines flight Thursday after putting on a gas mask and refusing to remove it. Other passengers began to "panic", according to reports, and… Read the rest of the article: Man kicked off flight for wearing gas mask

When the new civil war kicks off, will you have fourteen 1980s machine gun VHS babes on your side? They're sharper shooters than the F35 Joint Strike Fighter, that's for… Read the rest of the article: 1980s VHS babes shooting machine guns

So you know how I promised not to post the lockpicking lawyer again until he opened something by hitting it, then he opened something by hitting it, and I promised… Read the rest of the article: Safe opened by looking at it

Deadspin, the formerly-Gawker sports and culture site ruined by its new corporate masters and abandoned by its staff, is back in spirit: many of its strongest voices are blogging at… Read the rest of the article: Former Deadspin writers start new blog

Vice asked its readers to tell them about scams they'd been subjected to trying to book and stay at AirBnB locations. It received thousands of stories: enough to generate a… Read the rest of the article: You'll never want to use AirBnB again after reading Vice's investigation into all the scams run on travelers

Philosophia-47: "On the occasion of the Chinese New Year, here is a PJ17 image as seen through the eyes of famous Song Dynasty artist Chen Rong." The source image is… Read the rest of the article: The Jovian Dragon

John Delaney, former representative of Maryland's 6th district, is dropping out of the race to become the Democratic Party's candidate for president in 2020. "It has been a privilege to… Read the rest of the article: John Delaney drops out of presidential race

Paul Barton (previously at Boing Boing) plays the piano for elephants and has been at it for many years. Here he is performing Beethoven's Quasi una fantasia, the Moonlight Sonata,… Read the rest of the article: Man performs Moonlight Sonata for 61-year-old elephant

RCtestflight on YouTube was dissastisfied with only being able to light up entire mountainsides from four kilometers away, so replaced the enormous array of LED lamps atop his truck with… Read the rest of the article: Truck has 480,000 lumen light panel installed on it

This ad features Raphael, the teenage mutant ninja turtle, brandishing pickles. It's not a perfectly on-model Raph — one commenter at YouTube describes it as "my sleep paralysis demon" —… Read the rest of the article: That time a ninja turtle starred in pickle advertisement

Recovered from a burglar's haul, this "distinctive silver ring" was posted to social media by North Yorkshire Police in hopes of returning it to its onwer. They are quite oblivious… Read the rest of the article: North Yorkshire Police seek owner of "distinctive silver ring"

The Museum of London will soon publicly display Charles I's execution vest for the first time. The doomed king wore the silk garment to the chopping block after his defeat… Read the rest of the article: The silk shirt Charles I of England wore to have his head chopped off

The U.K. government has said there will be "no haggling" over the extradition of Anne Sacoolas, the American diplomat's wife who fled Britain after accidentally killing a motorcyclist there. U.S.… Read the rest of the article: Pompeo entertains suggestion of swapping Anne Sacoolas for Prince Andrew; UK says "no haggling"