Previously featured at Boing Boing as the titular "revenge porn shitweasel" in Mark Frauenfelder's classic post Revenge porn shitweasel abuses DMCA in vain effort to take down his own photos,… Read the rest of the article: Revenge porn shitweasel and U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain has a "racist texts" problem
Atari's Lynx was a full-color portable 16-bit game console released in 1989. It was doomed in the face of Nintendo's all-conquering GameBoy, Atari's poor support, and its own overpowered hardware–given… Read the rest of the article: 11 new games released this year for … the Atari Lynx?
augmented-ui is a stylesheet (a javascript library is in beta testing) that lets you apply cyberpunk styles to your web designs. Just include it in your HTML and tweak your… Read the rest of the article: Make your website look like a cyberpunk user interface
A company scraped information from public profiles on LinkedIn and LinkedIn sued it under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. LinkedIn lost, and now it loses again. Moreover, the court's… Read the rest of the article: 9th circuit: scraping publicly-accessible websites is fine
On the iconic PlayStation game controller, a design refined but fundamentally unchanged since 1994, the main buttons are an ◯, ⬜, △ and ✕. The last of these is called… Read the rest of the article: Sony insists the X button is actually the "cross" button
Andy Riley compiled and tabulated a full breakdown of jobs & occupations by the frequency of their mentions in the lyrics of David Bowie, of which the top 5 are… Read the rest of the article: Occupations by frequency as mentioned in the lyrics of David Bowie
david.li/paint is a spectacularly gloopy painting app online. You can set paint fluidity, bristle count and brush size, and of course pick any color you like. What I like about… Read the rest of the article: Fluid paint simulation on the web
Sid Meier's Civilization, significantly refined in sequels by Brian Reynolds and others, is a true classic of computer gaming. And now you can play the elaborate historical strategy game as… Read the rest of the article: CELLivilization: Civilization implemented in Microsoft Excel
Goatse straddles the internet like a colossus, a majesty of horrors half-forgotten amid the shifting sands of the web. Yet it retains its capacity to amuse and surprise. Good work,… Read the rest of the article: Swarovski Goatse bracelet
Jeffsum generates placeholder text in the distinctive idiom of famed actor Jeff Goldblum. [via @littlenono] God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates Dinosaurs.… Read the rest of the article: Jeffsum: placeholder text drawn from the literary corpus of Jeff Goldblum
Which face is real? is one of those sites where it makes you choose between real and fake things to test your powers of acuity and perception. Though the face-generating… Read the rest of the article: Which face is real?
Driving near Pittsburgh, PA, my wife Heather noticed this excellent billboard featuring a woman saying "Scared of the dentist? No, I called and got SEDATED!".
Robin Houston reports that 42 is the sum of three cubes. It's special in this regard not because it is alone, but because it was for an obvious reason the… Read the rest of the article: 42 is the sum of three cubes
A Brooklyn company is supposedly offering at-home "metoo"-branded rape kits, complete with official-looking "EVIDENCE" tape. Such kits would be legally useless, according to experts. The kits are not yet available… Read the rest of the article: Please note that the at-home "metoo"-branded rape kits aren't real products
Howard Schultz is ending his bid to become President of the United States of America—or at least blackmail Dems into supporting a billionaire-friendly centrist over more popular left-leaning candidates.
The entries at the dumb-password-rules hall of shame are truly dreadful, especially the banks. My favorite ones are sites whose security measures run in the user's browser, which means it… Read the rest of the article: Collection of sites with dumb password rules
Yarn does one thing very well: return a brief video clip of a movie based on the dialog you type in. I especially like that if you paste in a… Read the rest of the article: Yarn: search for a snippet of dialog, get a clip from the movie it's in
Dan Bell's YouTube channel features explorations of moribund shopping malls, all set to vaporwave aesthetic moments and clips from 1980s and early-1990s television culture. #DillardsLife
The Frying Pan Tower is an old oil rig 34 miles off the Carolina coastline, now an adventurous and rather expensive bed and breakfast. I don't think anyone's staying at… Read the rest of the article: Hurricane Dorian: Live feed from the Frying Pan Tower, an oil rig off the Carolina coast
Following Walmart yesterday, retailer Walgreens is prohibiting customers from openly carrying guns in its stores. It posted a succinct press release, quoted here in full: We are joining other retailers… Read the rest of the article: Walgreens bans openly carrying guns in its stores
