The town of Cheltenham, England, is ablaze with speculation among locals scandalized by "wobbly" road markings on a local street corner. Gloucestershire Live reports that mystery surrounds the yellow lines,… Read the rest of the article: New road markings in English town suspiciously wobbly
The Precious. The BBC reports that the coins had to be melted down and reminted after Brexit was delayed. The coins bear the inscription "Peace, prosperity and friendship with all… Read the rest of the article: British chancellor shows off commemorative Brexit 50p coin
Famed LA Laker shooting guard Kobe Bryant died along with eight others in a helicopter crash Sunday morning. The shocking incident has fans reeling—and trying to figure out what went… Read the rest of the article: Details of Kobe's helicopter crash emerge
Check your mental health at the door: YouTube moderators are forced to sign an agreement acknowledging the risk of PTSD if they want the job. The Verge's Casey Newton: “I… Read the rest of the article: YouTube moderators must sign agreement acknowledging they might get PTSD
Terminal Phase is a side-scrolling shoot-em-up in the Gradius and R-Type tradition, but in text mode. In the terminal! It's free software created by Christopher Lemmer Webber [Patreon]. The game… Read the rest of the article: Terminal Phase: side-scrolling shooter in the terminal
As soon as I saw it in my alert feed for weird and/or unpleasant unicorn-themed merchandise, I knew I have to have this very weird and/or unpleasant shirt from Amazon.… Read the rest of the article: Unicorn skull rainbow tee shirt
English actor Laurence Fox told an interviewer that it was "oddness" to see a Sikh soldier in World War I epic 1917, agreeing that shoehorning people of different ethnicities into… Read the rest of the article: Racist remark about Sikh soldiers leads to apology from suddenly-famous English actor
Teleporter, motion-detection compression algorithm, editing shenanigan? You decide!
Royalty Now paints over classical portraits and statues to depict famous leaders as they might appear in the modernized flesh. Above, Julius Caesar. Below, Caligula.
Petrick Studio's Instagram for Windows 95 imagines a world where nothing has changed, but for one app alone. Click through for the GIFs.
A popular, official Tetris app is going to get bricked. Users of Tetris Blitz fired up the game yesterday to be given a smarmy "it's time to say goodbye" message… Read the rest of the article: EA to brick Tetris phone app
Restorativland is "A restored visual gallery of the archived Geocities sites, sorted by neighborhood". NOTE: some sites may have embedded MIDI files!
Monty Python star Terry Jones, master of countless characters such as Mr. Creosote and Cardinal Biggles, director of Life of Brian , is dead at 77. The BBC reports he… Read the rest of the article: Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame, dead at 77
I post the Lockpicking Lawyer so frequently I decided not to do so again until he opened something by hitting it. This he has in fact done, it turns out:… Read the rest of the article: Popular gun safe can be opened by knocking it gently on its corner
https://youtu.be/cU8O7tPdjiw Enjoy this excellent and perfectly viral work of video editing. Spot the one "mistake", win a cyber oreo.
Do not insult the dog, even if the insult is technically correct. (Insult is NSFW)
Twenty years ago today, Boing Boing became a blog. Mark Frauenfelder's first post linked to Street Tech, a now-dormant gadget blog. Now there are 160,000 more posts just like it… Read the rest of the article: 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing
"Pirate", a man let out of jail after serving a four-year sentence, has settled in Redding, California. Police say he has fears for his safety. "We are aware that Daniel… Read the rest of the article: Freed sex offender hopes to blend in
You may think you haven't heard The Typewriter, but I bet you have! Wikipedia: The typewriter was modified so that only two keys work to prevent the keys from jamming.… Read the rest of the article: The Typewriter, by Leroy Anderson
https://vimeo.com/386112660 Gordon took an episode of The Price is Right and edited it down to gameplay. The resulting video is an eleven-minutes long blast of pure Price is Right. Price… Read the rest of the article: Edited down to the essentials, this episode of The Price is Right is only 11 minutes long
