Jony Ive, who is leaving Apple after decades as its design chief, once designed a toilet.

Tricksy was hungry, so she ate half a polyurethane frog. The remains appear to be misteleported into the metal worktop, reaching out in desperate frozen horror like a hapless sailor… Read the rest of the article: Remains of dog-eaten chew toy resembles scene from The Philadephia Experiment

BONUS: Man cutting cheese with a chainsaw:

This footage of presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard appears to show a small blemish on her chin–a pimple or bug bite, perhaps–that suddenly disappears as she's talking. Conspiracy theorists suggest MSNBC… Read the rest of the article: Chin pimple suddenly disappears during presidential debate

Jony Ive, Apple's longtime design chief and the creator of countless iconic designs, is leaving the firm to form his own agency. Apple will be his first client. “After nearly… Read the rest of the article: Jony Ive leaves Apple, but will keep it as a client

I lived in the county of Essex for two years as a teenager. It's unique in the English imagination, a place once rural but colonized by Londoners fleeing Germans during… Read the rest of the article: Why Essex is crap, or at least why everyone thinks it is

Bob Shaw's "Light of Other Days", nominated for a Hugo award in 1967, presented the concept of slow glass: a material that takes light days, months or even years to… Read the rest of the article: Mockup of giant TV screen that shows what was behind it months earlier

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore isn't doing well in opinion polls, where he remains stuck in the teens. And that's just with Republicans! The poll from Cygnal shows Moore polling… Read the rest of the article: Roy Moore stuck in teens

A man poured acid on his own face in court in May after he was found guilty of fraud, finally dying yesterday of his injuries. Marshall, who was on bail,… Read the rest of the article: Fraudster dies after pouring acid on own face in court

r/The_Donald still exists at Reddit, but it's been pushed into the site's "quarantined" basement after a series of threats against police were posted there. “Recent behaviors including threats against the… Read the rest of the article: After threats, Reddit finally quarantines Trump forum The_Donald

A good way to understand how something works is to watch how it fails. Forgotten Weapons: Over many years of filming with my high speed camera, I have a decent… Read the rest of the article: High frame-rate footage of vintage guns malfunctioning

"Shhh!" says Gong Master Sven.

The NRA announced that it is firing its longtime advertising firm and spokesperson Dana Loesch. It's the latest episode in the grifter civil war that's engulfed the gun lobby group.… Read the rest of the article: NRA dumps its ad firm, TV crew and Dana Loesch

https://youtu.be/8_rqL_itE5c Sometimes with a cellphone video you'll see cops behave bizarrely, abruptly shouting things like "stop resisting!" or "gun!" when it's obvious the suspect is not resisting and is either… Read the rest of the article: Cop starts yelling "Gun!" during a car stop, until he realizes he's being filmed

After yesterday's news about young Americans' acceptance of queer folk falling sharply, I wanted to take aim at the passivity of mainstream LGBTQ advocacy in the age of Trump. At… Read the rest of the article: It's time for a less compromising queer activism—and media

A GLAAD study claims that the number of young Americans comfortable with LGBTQ people has fallen from 53% to 45%, the second consecutive annual drop. Variety: Scenarios for the survey… Read the rest of the article: Study: Acceptance of queer folk falls sharply among young Americans

They ruled unanimously on one element and 6-3 on another, with liberals and conservatives on either side. The justices ruled in favor of a company called "FUCT" whose trademark was… Read the rest of the article: FUCT: Supreme Court strikes down block on "immoral or scandalous" trademarks

Welcome to the Bike Pump Music Channel. Previously: Jurassic Park Theme Song (Melodica Cover)

In this video, Jim Browning (previously at BB) calls back a tech support scammer, knowing what not to do and what to say to lure them into making revealing mistakes.… Read the rest of the article: Turning the tables on tech support scammers

The fourth incarnation of the wonderful Raspberry Pi is upon us. A faster quard-core CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet and dual HDMI outputs are the upgrades; there's… Read the rest of the article: Raspberry Pi 4