The NRA used advertising agency Ackerman McQueen to transform itself from a pro-gun group into a right-wing media toilet, then fired the firm when it woke up to the consequences… Read the rest of the article: NRA TV was so racist even the NRA says it was racist
Corridor produced this excellent parody of Boston Dynamics' robots and the style of its promotional videos. It could be the trailer for a new Neill Blomkamp or Paul Verhoeven movie,… Read the rest of the article: Bosstown Dynamics, the future of law enforcement
The 11'8" bridge in Durham, N.C., which has brought so much misery to unobservant truck drivers and so much joy to the internet, will be raised to 12'4" this week.… Read the rest of the article: Sad news: truck-eating bridge to be raised this week
Carrion is a forthcoming "reverse horror" game from Devolver Digital where you get to play an amorphous monster, slopping around a remote facility eating the screaming, terrified scientists and guards.… Read the rest of the article: Play a "The Thing"-like monster in this free demo of Carrion
The EFF's Panopticlick tool (previously) is now a general purpose testing suite for browser privacy, checking Do Not Track, the effectiveness of ad- and tracker-blocking, and providing details on your… Read the rest of the article: Panopticlick updated
Remedy Entertainment's Control is a masterpiece of weird architecture and bold design, but a tiring shooter.
Cops in Warrnambool, Australia, broke Chris Karadaglis' neck when they arrested him. But The Age reports this as "man's neck breaks during arrest" because they're afraid of identifying the breakers,… Read the rest of the article: "Man's neck breaks during arrest," reports newspaper
From the Kino Library comes this set of film clips shot on the London Underground in the 1960s and 1970s. View at end of tube platform looking up at crowded… Read the rest of the article: What the London Underground used to be like
William Chyr’s abyss stares back. It's a good puzzle game, too.
In this video, a pair of rams chance across a boxing bag left dangling from a branch in the woods. Battle commences. A day later, they are ultimately victorious. Dodge… Read the rest of the article: Rams vs. boxing bag
In this very relaxing video, a man tends with infinite care to the precise ecology of his unfertilized nanotank: a tiny yet thriving 5-gallon world of flora and fauna. The… Read the rest of the article: In a well-balanced nanotank, dinner is served
39 bodies found in a truck in Essex, England, were identified Thursday as Chinese nationals. Police have not confirmed whether they were victims of a human trafficking or human smuggling… Read the rest of the article: 39 Chinese nationals found dead in UK truck, driver charged with murder
Tan Youhui, a businessman in Guanxi, China, paid a hitman $282,000 to take out a competitor. But that hitman hired another hitman, offering $141,000 for the contract. That hitman hired… Read the rest of the article: Five hitmen jailed after trying to subcontract job to one another
In this recording, embedded below, Trump lawyer William Consovoy tells Judge Denny Chin that if President Donald Trump were to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, he could not be investigated… Read the rest of the article: Trump lawyer: authorities may not investigate him even if he publicly murdered someone
Is UK Home Secretary Priti Patel laughing in this image? She was not, and both the BBC and interiewer Andrew Marr have apologized for his suggestion that she was. It… Read the rest of the article: BBC apologizes after interviewer confuses politician's resting smirk for actual laughter
Tantacrul explains what corporate music is, exactly—"it is designed not to resonate emotionally"— and how to make it. You don't have to be up on your Adorno and Horkheimer, but… Read the rest of the article: How to make bland, soulless corporate music
In this video, Internet Shaquille explains why even downmarket restaurant burritos beat your homemade ones. In brief: • Supermarket-brand tortillas are too small and thick. • You fail to warm… Read the rest of the article: Why restaurant burritos are better
Kate Storey reports on the rise and fall of Gawker 2.0, this week's essential reading for new-media navelgazers. After the smoking remains of the site were auctioned off, the new… Read the rest of the article: Gawker never relaunched, and perhaps never will
Two Proud Boys, members of the violent far-right street gang founded by Gavin McInnes, were jailed for four years Tuesday. Maxwell Hare, 27, and John Kinsman, 32, were convicted of… Read the rest of the article: Proud Boys jailed, obviously
Trump said he was being "lynched" today, an appalling but somewhat successful attempt to distract the media from devastating House testimony that he demanded Ukraine's president publicly announce an investigation… Read the rest of the article: Former national security advisor Susan Rice says Lindsay Graham is "a piece of shit"
