The Really Rude Map is a Glitch app that renders customizable maps of the world featuring only the rudest place names. Zoom in to reveal more geographical grotesquery!

Bookstores don't have it on sale yet, but Amazon is already shipping out Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, her long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. The impromptu exclusive—apparently Amazon breaking a… Read the rest of the article: Amazon breaks embargo on Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale sequel

Ashley Feinberg's "brief history of overreaction" hilariously chronicles the New York Times' current roster of columnists and their haters. Many readers of the New York Times were astonished by Bret… Read the rest of the article: A 'brief history" of the New York Times' pompous, thin-skinned columnists

After two solid days of failure and crisis, including three lost votes and a disastrous performance at Prime Minister's Question Time, the government of Boris Johnson is already floundering badly.… Read the rest of the article: Boris Johnson's own brother quits his floundering government

Birdspotting looks like the ne plus ultra of walkabout games, putting the player in a remote yet pleasant section of country and handing them a pair of binoculars. It's by… Read the rest of the article: Birdspotting, a forthcoming game about exploring the countryside in search of avian delights

This video shows two fellows building a small cabin out of pallet wood, hand tools and cinematic depth-of-field, but no dialog whatsoever. We build a cheap off grid cabin using… Read the rest of the article: Pallet wood cabin

The Most Dangerous Writing App is a simple, attractive text editor on the web. But there's a twist to Manuel Ebert's design: if you stop typing before 5 minutes is… Read the rest of the article: Stop typing and "The Most Dangerous Writing App" wipes everything

Jacob Wohl is among the more baffling right-wing grifters to grace social media. So inept and comical are his antics (framing politians for impossible crimes, false claims of location belied… Read the rest of the article: Right-wing troll Jacob Wohl finally charged with a felony

Today was a bad day in court for Alex Jones and Infowars, who lost an appeal in the defamation case brought against them by parents of children killed in the… Read the rest of the article: Infowars loses legal effort to get Sandy Hook defamation case dismissed

Get over it! Despite the mockers and complainers, and even attempts to make it illegal to perambulate while looking at your own damned phone, science concludes that the risks of… Read the rest of the article: Study finds that texting while walking is fine

Meet Chanel Miller, the woman who was Emily Doe in the trial of rapist Brock Turner, a man treated with absurd leniency by the courts. The New York Times: For… Read the rest of the article: Stanford University sexual assault survivor Chanel Miller to release memoir

Only the very first version of Tetris, by Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov, doled out bricks at random. The result is a pure puzzle, but one with a high likelihood… Read the rest of the article: Tetris gives you random tetrominoes, right?

Kristen Stewart, in a wide-ranging interview with Harper's Bazaar, says she was told to hide her sexuality if she wanted to get a Marvel movie role. Stewart identifies as bisexual… Read the rest of the article: Kristen Stewart was told to hide her sexuality if she wanted to be in a Marvel movie

Here's a perfect frame from the UK parliament's video feed. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Secretary of State Andrea Leadsom and Home Secretary Sajid Javid are realizing one of their MPs… Read the rest of the article: Amid critical Brexit debate, Conservative MP defects to Liberal Democrats

Satellite monitoring company ICEYE composed this image, based upon satellite shots of the storm-drenched Bahamas, which shows how much of Grand Bahama went underwater as Hurricane Dorian arrived.

From the headline, you're probably expecting some AI-powered, creepily realistic image of a person who either doesn't exist or isn't really in the photo. #Faces, though, is all about old-timey… Read the rest of the article: Online face generator

Journalism is a tough job, especially when they won't pick up the phone!

PayPal suspended an account used to raise funds for the Ku Klux Klan Monday. PayPal was criticised for allowing the white supremacist group to accept donations through its service, despite… Read the rest of the article: After pressure, PayPal takes down Ku Klux Klan donation account

May your monday be as charming and as thoroughly moistening as this crew of puppies.

Leon Sans is a generative typeface for the web, meaning that its weight and other characteristics can be animated, colorized, fine-tuned or otherwise messed with on-the-fly using javascript. Check out… Read the rest of the article: Leon Sans, a font generated by code