Enjoy this video collection of hot rivets being put in. I must say, from beginning to end, I was … engrossed. Hot riveting is an efficient joining method in which… Read the rest of the article: Riveting video compilation of rivets being riveted

Two corgis do battle in this epic video confrontation posted on YouTube by Defacto Sound, which I suspect is exploiting the Corg Wars to show off its audio design talents.

Birds Aren't Real is an amusing parody of conspiracy grift merch, which is to say it is a site where you can buy t-shirts and other things emblazoned with a… Read the rest of the article: Birds Aren't Real

laptop.css provides "laptop CSS for the modern world," which is to say, GIFs playing inside of monospace-typed drawings of laptops. There are three sizes: sm, classic, and lg. Use laptop.css… Read the rest of the article: Embed images in adorable ASCII laptops

At the EFF's Deeplinks blog, the foundation posts a copyright takedown demand sent to it regarding an illustration used on an earlier posting. Given that the EFF is paramount among… Read the rest of the article: The EFF received a false copyright takedown demand. Bad mistake.

The Verge reports that top YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is rescinding a $50,000 pledge to the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that opposes antisemitism and supports Israel. The donation, made… Read the rest of the article: PewDiePie rescinds donation to Jewish group after fan outrage

Buzzfeed's Vanessa Wong declares that Tim Cook Will Have To Pry My iPhone SE From My Cold, Tiny Hands.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Ohio State University's trademark filing on the word "The." The AP reports: OSU submitted the trademark application last month. The patent office cited… Read the rest of the article: Ohio State University loses its attempt to trademark the word "The"

Daniel Beckwitt, a channer with a trust fund, began digging a bunker under his house after his mother died. Driven by survivalist paranoia and reinforced in adjacent ideologies by like-minded… Read the rest of the article: Bizarre story of a millionaire hacker's secret tunnel system and a tragic death

Amazon offers this selection of delightful penis-shaped gummies, but critics claim that the tasty treats in fact resemble lighthouses, a perverse symbol of the shipping industry, long-associated with press-ganging, slavery,… Read the rest of the article: Critics claim penis gummies look like lighthouses

The Cheney School in Oxford, England, apologized this week after asking students to write suicide notes as part of their English homework. The assignment generated complaints. GCSE English students at… Read the rest of the article: High school apologizes for assigning suicide note as English homework

Natalie Beach recounts her time as the friend, then gofer, then ghostwriter for Caroline Calloway, an Instagram influencer who (for reasons that eventually become clear) is famous only in retrospect.… Read the rest of the article: The Devil wears Etsy

The MIT Media Lab is in crisis after the extent of child-abusing billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's donations became clear. Its director resigned in disgrace after an article at The New Yorker… Read the rest of the article: What should become of the MIT Media Lab?

Announced yesterday, the new iPhones' most interesting feature is its triple-lensed imaging system, making the tiny gadget comparable to much more expensive cameras. But the holes are making people shudder… Read the rest of the article: Triple-lensed new iPhone "triggering trypophobia"

I'm looking forward to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's memoirs, Permanent Record, (previously) and just pre-ordered a copy on Amazon. Given the title, I thought it might be interesting to share… Read the rest of the article: Things that people who bought Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" also bought on Amazon

Scientists drilled into the Chixclub crater in the Gulf of Mexico to learn more about the end of the mesozoic era. They learned more than they expected, reports Katherine Kornei… Read the rest of the article: New timeline of dino extinction day, 66m years ago

President Trump this morning fired John Bolton, his national security mustache. Trump cited various disagreements with him over policy. I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no… Read the rest of the article: Trump fires John Bolton's moustache

Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered by agents of the Saudi royal family at the country's embassy in Turkey. This video reconstruction by… Read the rest of the article: Mini documentary about how Jamal Khashoggi was murdered

Geoffrey Boycott was once a famous sportsman, but is now a domestic abuser convicted of beating up his girlfriend in a French hotel and leaving her to pay the bill.… Read the rest of the article: UK awards knighthood to girlfriend-beating cricketer who complained he'd have to black up to get the honor

Here someone states the obvious, because it must sometimes be asserted in the face of caviling over the ethics of stating the obvious: the president is not well. Accepting the… Read the rest of the article: Trump is "not well"