An anonymous police officer in Herington, Kansas, claimed he was given a coffee cup with "fucking pigs" written on it by staff at McDonalds. The story went viral, uncritically laundered… Read the rest of the article: Cop "fired" after fabricating story of insulting McDonalds coffee cup

Piet is an esoteric programming language where the programs are encoded as images and resemble abstract paintings. Spot-on Mondrians (pictures) are the hook, but a wide range of pixelated styles… Read the rest of the article: Esoteric programming language coded with images

The futurist and artist Syd Mead died today, according to his partner and business manager Roger Servick. The news was first broken by according to auto industry veteran John McElroy… Read the rest of the article: Legendary sci-fi artist Syd Mead dead at 86

In this photo posted to Facebook, two police officers from Mobile, Alabama pose with a "quilt" made from cardboard signs confiscated from homeless people in the area over the Christmas… Read the rest of the article: Alabama cops gloat over "quilt" made from cardboard signs confiscated from homeless people over Christmas

The theme tune to classic 80s' cartoon Inspector Gadget performed by Riccardo Bonci at St Barnabas with Christ's Chapel in Dulwich, England. Here's He-Man and the Masters of the Universe:

A woman on a bus in Amherst, Ma., objects to young passengers not speaking English in a private conversation she was not party to. Other riders on the vehicle then… Read the rest of the article: Racist lady on bus informed U.S. has no official language

Totally Accurate Battle Simulator [Landfall Games] plays out skirmishes between bands of fighters with a state-of-the-art physics engine. This engine is the "totally accurate" part, but if you know anything… Read the rest of the article: Totally Accurate Battle Simulator not entirely accurate

Though I keep buying the damned things, I've never liked any of the portable bluetooth (or airplay) speakers I've gotten: they're all too large, too daft, too boofy or too… Read the rest of the article: JBL's Go 2 pocket bluetooth speaker is the perfect last-minute stocking stuffer

We received the Charmin Forever Roll with Stand [Amazon] as a joke gift but it has improved the quality of our lives immeasurably due to the sheer enormity of the… Read the rest of the article: Charmin's Forever Roll is the best freestanding toilet roll holder

The Jankó keyboard, named for inventor Paul von Jankó, compresses the standard 88-key piano layout into a thinner, four-row field of 264 keys. If this sounds like a solution to… Read the rest of the article: The Jankó keyboard in action

The New York Times' logo looks like it might be set in a classic blackletter typeface, but it is in fact hand-made. Enter Chomsky, a typeface designed by Fredrick Brennan… Read the rest of the article: Chomsky: a blackletter typeface inspired by The New York Times' nameplate

Someone is going to get a bollocking at the U.S. State Department, because they added Wakanda—the fictional high-tech African kingdom from the marvel Black Panther movie—to an official list of… Read the rest of the article: Wakanda removed from official U.S. list of trade partners

Last-minute stocking stuffer! After many requests I have finally made the Choam-azon logo available on tees, mugs and housewares, with absolutely no-one's permission. Celebrate the crushing monopoly on interstellar trade… Read the rest of the article: CHOAM parody logo tees, mugs and housewares

On a party-line vote, the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Trump on two counts this evening. Trump is only the third U.S. head of state to be impeached, and… Read the rest of the article: Trump impeached: U.S. House of Representatives votes

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth and concluding episode of the Star Wars saga, opens this week. Critics are mauling it, by and large, leaving it with the… Read the rest of the article: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker receives dismal reviews

Jason Stieva (insta) makes elaborate, intense gothic sculptures: skulls with disturbing patterns of growth and embedded machinery, themselves assembled into clocks, ships, and miniature armies of the undead. Amazingly, this… Read the rest of the article: The gothic sculptures of Jason Stieva

This video shows a labrador puppy receiving his D&D alignment examination prior to being put up for adoption. King is adorable. King is a tabula rasa. He'll be two years… Read the rest of the article: Puppy vibe check

Wally Backman, seen here as manager of the South Georgia Peanuts, just wants to know what he said that got him ejected from the game along with his player. The… Read the rest of the article: The best thing about American "sports"

Mark Rober is bad at darts, but he still gets perfect scores, because he's good at engineering. I fulfilled a 3 year long dream to create a dartboard where you… Read the rest of the article: Dartboard moves to ensure perfect shot every time

This video depicts a fish controlling a robot, which is to say the fish is in a tank on wheels and a computer moves it in whichever direction the fish… Read the rest of the article: Fish controls robot