In Control clothing offeres these computer glitch overalls, perfect for a vaporwave Christmas. [h/t Jeff]

I enjoyed Melania Trump's disquieting 2019 Christmas video, featuring her pacing alone around the symmetrical expanses of the executive mansion, inspecting its coldly festive ornaments. But it needed a certain… Read the rest of the article: Melania Trump's 2019 Christmas Video but with more appropriate music

You can sell anything on Amazon, until you get noticed, and in the age of computer-generated copycats it can pretend not to even know what's for sale there. So it… Read the rest of the article: Amazon removes Auschwitz-themed Christmas ornaments

The Boing Boing Gift Guide has a hundred great ideas for stocking stuffers, brain-hammers, mind-expanders, terrific toys and unbelievably good books. Happy holidays!

In this video posted to instagram, a woman calls the cops on a UPS driver because "I don't understand why you're walking around with a bunch of packages". This woman… Read the rest of the article: Woman calls cops on black UPS driver because "walking around with a bunch of packages" makes her "nervous"

This vaguely comports to the methods I saw and knew in 1990s London. The proper way was to start with oil and use a grill brick [Amazon], but the reality… Read the rest of the article: How to clean a flat top grill, restaurant-style

Comcast, frequent winner of "most hated company" polls, brought E.T. back to Earth to advertise its third-rate services. Comcast, the owner of the Universal movie studio that distributed the creature’s… Read the rest of the article: America's most hated company ruins E.T. for Thanksgiving

Clive James, the Australian writer, broadcaster, comedian and poet, is dead at 80. James was renowned for his pithy turns of phrase. He once likened Arnold Schwarzenegger to "a brown… Read the rest of the article: Clive James, 1939-2019

Dormant Twitter accounts not confirmed before an 11 December deadline will be closed, reports the BBC. Twitter's updating its user agreement, and if you can't agree to it, you're gone.… Read the rest of the article: Twitter to cull inactive users

I got a new 2-cubic-foot microwave yesterday, large enough to accomodate a whole turkey, and just realized that it plays a loud beepy tune when finishing even the shortest runs.… Read the rest of the article: Guitarist performs whimsical counterpoint to dryer's cycle completion tune

The Pursuit of Capyness [Amazon] is a coloring book featuring capybaras, the large and eminently peaceable rodents often observed just chilling, occasionally in hot tubs. The book is by psychiatrist… Read the rest of the article: The Pursuit of Capyness is a capybaras-only coloring book

Two men were arrested in connection to reports of a "latex-clad gimp" prowling a Somerset village and have been released without charge, say local police. No further shenanigans have since… Read the rest of the article: Arrests made in Somerset gimp mystery

The Sound Archive posted a 1930s-era recording of a conversation in a British pharmacy. The received-pronunciation chatter isn't quite reality–it was recorded to teach English as a foreign language–but it's… Read the rest of the article: At the chemist’s: recording of a 1930s conversation in England

In this video, a dad deep-frying a turkey for the first time spots a young family member wandering into the cooking zone, then successfully guides them away from danger. Have… Read the rest of the article: The importance of turkey-frying situational awarness

Tarof is the Persian etiquette of deference, wherein one must both yield to others (you first!) and decline the offer (no, you!). One may not insist or accept until the… Read the rest of the article: Four Persian drivers arrive simultaneously at an intersection

Cthulhu Ventures looks like a parody of the contemporary venture capital fund, complete with glossy website and benignly promotional (but in this case also cosmically horrific) literature. But it's for… Read the rest of the article: Cthulhu Ventures: equity from the depths

This video captures a freight train engaging its emergency brake (about 2m in) and grinding slowly to a stop. Momentum is everything… until it's nothing.

An 8-year-old girl was denied a school photo because her principal singled her out for hairstyle policy enforcement. The unjust treatment, with its racial edge—a middle-aged white man policing a… Read the rest of the article: 8-year-old, denied school picture over cool hairstyle, becomes star of own photoshoot

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President Richard Nixon had the honor of welcoming Earthlings to the moon, but speechwriter William Safire had prepared an alternative for use in the event of a moon-landing disaster. A… Read the rest of the article: Nixon deepfaked to read his prepared speech for a moon-landing disaster