Bill Hader's impersonation of Dateline's Keith Morrison has all but replaced the real Keith Morrison in my personal appreciation of Keith Morrison-ness: a folksy, overeager narrative of tragedy made perversely… Read the rest of the article: Bill Hader meets his and our god, Keith Morrison

Three cops in New Jersey were filmed repeatedly punching a teen in the face. They demand he rolls over onto his stomach while clearly pinning him on his back, as… Read the rest of the article: Harrowing video shows New Jersey cops beating up pinned teen

Apple announced the long-awaited modular Mac Pro yesterday. It's expensive, starting at $5000, but the faithful wanted some truly pro equipment and they got it. Even the 6k monitor to… Read the rest of the article: What the crowd made of Apple's $1000 monitor stand

Another incredible deepfake execution. Ctrl Shift Face reports that his videos are demonetized due to ContentID claims by the original filmmakers: "Since I cannot monetize any my videos on youtube… Read the rest of the article: Terminator 2, but with Sylvester Stallone instead of Arnie

In this clip, an Englishman circa 800 A.D. is asked to chatter about his life. He understands the eallníwe léasspellung but prefers the old talk. A fun little thing to… Read the rest of the article: What old English perhaps sounded like

Here's James Burke reporting on the 20th August 1977 launch of Voyager 2. It ends with an amazing 20-second shot that would be ridiculously difficult to execute with a modern… Read the rest of the article: Is this the greatest shot in TV journalism?

Axios reporter Jonathan Swan has a reputation as a fawning interviewer, but he made Trump son-in-law and nepotism hire Jared Kushner very uncomfortable this weekend. A particularly excruciating moment: Q)… Read the rest of the article: Watch Jared Kushner squirm

I chanced upon Sheldon Ebbeler's hand-drawn fractals, and now plan on tattooing my entire torso, leaving only a tattered self-similar void around the navel.

"In this video I'm restoring an old French Wonder lamp," writes MyMechanics (Patreon). "My good friend TysyTube Restoration bought this Wonder lamp on a flea market in Paris. He asked… Read the rest of the article: Watch a rusted flea-market lamp get lovingly restored

Chernobyl, the five-part HBO/Sky dramatization of the 1986 nuclear disaster, is filled with more dread, tension and horror than any Hollywood movie I've seen in years. The most unsettling part… Read the rest of the article: Footage of Chernobyl liquidators

The ClockworkPi Gameshell is a portable game console you make yourself, coming as a modular kit and assembling to form a GameBoy-like gadget with a quad-core CPU, 2.7-inch color display,… Read the rest of the article: GameShell: hackable portable game console for indie devs and retrogame fans

This morning, Trump went on a rant about special counsel Bob Mueller, who reiterated yesterday that his investigation did not clear the President. He then tweeted that Russia helped him… Read the rest of the article: Trump finally admits Russia was "helping me get elected", then denies it

5MadMovieMakers shows us the perfect way to ruin a xylophone: "A total of 374 black-and-white '65 Ford Mustangs hit some black-and-white xylophone keys to play the world's first die-cast song.… Read the rest of the article: Hotwheels Xylophone

Julian Assange, imprisoned at Belmarsh on a 50-week sentence for jumping bail, was said by his lawyer to be too ill to appear by video link at a court hearing… Read the rest of the article: Assange "too ill" for court hearing, says lawyer

AdAge reports that North Face successfully placed advertising into articles at Wikipedia, without other editors of the publicly-editable encyclopedia noticing. This effectively allowed North Face to co-opt the site's enormous… Read the rest of the article: North Face boasts of defacing Wikipedia with ads (Updated with statement)

The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump ordered the locally-anchored USS John McCain to cover its name in tarp and stay hidden while he was visiting Japan. Sailors, who… Read the rest of the article: In Japan, Trump orders USS John McCain to cover its name and get out of sight

Data scientist Tim Hopper noticed that Google Maps displayed a humungous word in the outback of Magwi County, South Sudan: "DEMO". ? https://t.co/TOJvHsxdD9 pic.twitter.com/UtHG6Jpgxz — Tim Hopper ?? (@tdhopper) May… Read the rest of the article: The Sudan "DEMO", a phantom landscape feature only found in Google Maps

Army National Guard Sergeant Franklin Richardson and his wife, Jessica, took their dog to Oktibbeha County Lake in Mississippi to enjoy a picnic by the water. As soon as they… Read the rest of the article: White woman pulls gun on black couple at campsite: "you don't belong here"

Amazon sells pig fetuses now. Twenty bucks and change. How about a sheep's brain? Delicious, I hear. No true connoisseur of the animal kingdom, however, would be caught without a… Read the rest of the article: Own your very own pig fetus, sheep brain, or large bucket of animal scat

Fans of The Witcher are up in arms after leaked set photos suggest that … changes … have been made to the beloved game series' fantasy milieux. Darren Lim Geers:… Read the rest of the article: Witcher fans mad about set photos