One of the products that Snapchat owner Snap Inc. is developing as “a modern-day camera company” is a drone, reports the New York Times to...
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Uber CEO snaps at driver complaining of pay rates, later vows to 'grow up,' get 'leadership help'
After Bloomberg News published a video of Travis Kalanick being a total dick to an Uber driver who complained about how poorly Uber drive...
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Trump threatens to publicly release private data of immigrants and foreign visitors, ACLU responds
President Trump wants to dox all the brown people. (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2lUPevH via IFTTT
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Xenomorph tiki mugs
Mondo Tees has announced a line of Aliens xenomorph tiki mugs, ("in space, no one can hear you drink"), available for pre-order n...
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Update: The Future of HOME
Here's a brief audio update on the immediate future of HOME: Stories From L.A. The TL;DR version is, I'm slowing down the product...
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New secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross has ties to illicit Russian finance
Billionaire Wilbur Ross, 79, was sworn in today as secretary of commerce. According to DC Report , Ross' "role as Vice Chair and a...
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Best boxer briefs: Calvin Klein
My wife started giving me Calvin Klein boxer briefs for gifts a while ago, and now they are my favorite. No weird tags or seams to irritat...
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Inside the Cup Noodles museum
In Yokohama, Japan, there is a museum dedicated to Cup Noodles (カップヌードル), the iconic brand of instant ramen created in 1971 by Momofuku An...
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Live: Spewing eruption of Mount Etna in Italy
Here's a live video of fiery Mount Etna, on the east coast of Sicily, Italy. The tallest and most active volcano in Europe erupted Mond...
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Small dog fails to convince big dog she is big
Nemo barely has to move to fend off Zuul's most powerful attacks. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2mHycQK via IFTTT
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1991 Radio Shack commercial for computers
Looks just like the Apple Store. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2m9XhXT via IFTTT
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Small-molecule cocktail could reverse hearing loss
Scientists conducting research into hearing loss have come across a compound the regenerates cochlear hair cells, which could lead to a cur...
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Watch: The Trump Song, a parody of The Village People's YMCA
Last week East India Comedy performed "The Trump Song" to the tune of The Village People's "YMCA." I'm not sur...
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Watch these sea lions play vollyeball (quite well)
You might say they have a nose for it. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2mpEFDG via IFTTT
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Barry's tea is pretty great
When Nietzche suggested staring into the abyss, he meant an over-steeped cup of Barry's Gold Blend . (more…) from Boing Boing http:/...
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Xeni passionately credits the ACA in helping her survive cancer
Our Xeni visited MSNBC's ' All in With Chris Hayes ' to explain that the Affordable Care Act helped her survive cancer, and why...
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As anti-Semitic bomb threats continue, ADL office evacuated in San Francisco
The terror attacks against Jewish folks in America continue. No one seems to care. (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2mB8Q81 via ...
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The U.S. government has a "conscience fund" for repayments from those who have defrauded it
For 200 years the U.S. Treasury has maintained a "conscience fund" that accepts repayments from people who have defrauded or sto...
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People take photos of their drug stashes
The Drug Stashes subreddit is nothing but photos of people's impressive recreational drug collections. I don't know what most of t...
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This is the first jazz record
Some scholars would prefer the honor of the first jazz recording to go to the African-American instrumental quartet the Versatile Four, wh...
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Tucker Carlson argues with Bill Nye about climate change
In this video, Tucker Carlson keeps saying Bill Nye is not a scientist, but a "popularizer," which Carlson seems to think means g...
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New $10 Raspberry Pi comes with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
The Raspberry Pi Zero W is is a tiny Linux computer that costs $10. It has built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Mini-HDMI, a USB On-The-Go port, and ...
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Ilya Repin's "Ivan the Terrible and His Young Son Ivan" 1885
I have not seen this painting before. It's called Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 , and was completed in 1885 b...
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Taser ships a pistol-holster sensor that triggers record mode in all nearby bodycams when cops draw their guns
The Signal Sidearm is a sensor designed to be fitted to a police pistol holster: when triggered, it wirelessly signals all nearby police bo...
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Arizona House of Reps kills bill that would let cops take your home if you planned a protest that turned violent
SB 1142 is a bill introduced last week in the Arizona Senate that would allow the cops to charge participants in demonstrations with racke...
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Freaky vigilantes of the 1880s Ozarks
As a child, writer Lisa Hix visited Silver Dollar City, a surreal theme park in the Ozark Mountains that I have been fortunate enough to ex...
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Alex Jones roars
"Alex Jones Is Definitely a Human and Not a Reptilian." from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2m3iD99 via IFTTT
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Adam Savage goes behind the scenes of Ghost In The Shell
Adam Savage visits with Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor for a glimpse of the mecha-geisha masks, animatronic amazement, and far-out fabr...
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Collapsing "connected toy" company did nothing while hackers stole millions of voice recordings of kids and parents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxNHgYUz6s Spiral Toys -- a division of Mready, a Romanian electronics company that lost more than 99% of...
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New Boston Dynamics bot has arms and wheels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c Every time I post one of these, I see the near-future nightmare where conspicuously Boston-Dyna...
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Wonderful 30-second Rube Goldberg videos from Japanese children's TV
NHK's children's show Pythagora Switch features fiendishly clever, astoundingly amusing interstitial segments with beautiful littl...
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Men upset by cartoon
This cartoon, published in The New Yorker , is upsetting men today. The cartoonist is Will McPhail , who is good at capturing the moment. ...
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Scenes from classic westerns featuring genderswapped gunslingers
In Re-Western , painted Felice House reimagines scenes from classic westerns with the likes of James Dean, Clint Eastwood and John Wayne re...
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Coding beginners and experts alike can and should still master Python 3
Python is such a commonly used general-purpose programming language and features such (comparatively) simple syntax, that most veteran prog...
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Milo Yiannopoulos was taken down by a 16 year old Canadian woman
"Julia" is a 16-year-old Canadian high school student who "leans right" on economics and foreign policy, and is general...
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Watch racists blubber in court as judge sentences them for threatening black child's birthday party with shotgun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QLs8Z8GgE Jose Torres and Kayla Norton terrorized a black kid's birthday party by leading a convoy of...
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