Like me, you may have taken an interest in mechanical keyboards only to uncover a world of baffling options. "Can I have a clicky one...
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Biopic of "little old lady" folk artist a hit in theaters
Canadian artist Maud Lewis lived in a tiny house covered in her paintings, which she sold door to door in Nova Scotia. A biopic of her life...
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Path of the Rabbit, a free game where you lead a rabbit to water
Path of the Rabbit is another simple, addictive, beautifully-pixelled game from Daniel Linssen . Lay down the land for your lapine friend ...
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5 things you know about pulp science fiction are wrong, or at least not always true
Vintage Geek offers a list of miscconceptions people have about pulp-era science fiction , whose legacy has warped in the public imaginatio...
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Building demolished in Changzhou
Once the tallest building in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, this tower went down in eight seconds on April 25. This angle gives an excellent i...
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Review: Wolfen (1981)
Wolfen stars Albert Finney as Dewey, a grizzled NYC detective assigned to figure out why a rich developer gentrifying the Bronx got mutila...
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An illustration of the the danger of saying "Play this at my funeral"
TheScreamingFedora sharpened a joke more tamely made here . Previously: Biggie Smalls the Tank Engine from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2q...
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Baptizing praying mantises forces the devil out
In this video, a man partially immerses a praying mantis in water, thereby forcing the hairworms possessing it to leave. That the mantis al...
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The best Snooker break of all time was even faster than its official time
The greatest break in snooker history is Ronnie O'Sullivan's legendary 147 at the 1997 World Championship. He not only sank every b...
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ZX Spectrum Next is an advanced version of the original 8-bit pocket powerhouse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQTC40oVqsk ZX Spectrum Next is more than just a cute retro-looking box or a glorified emulator. It is a ...
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Russia's anti-Nazi women's sniper unit, colorized
These smiling assassins enlisted as snipers when Germany invaded Russia in 1941. "We mowed down Hitlerites like ripe grain," said...
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E-commerce is clogging American cities with real delivery trucks
Convenience always carries costs. In the case of e-commerce, the surge in residential deliveries is causing in urban gridlock. Citylab goe...
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On “Kirk drift,” the strange mass cultural misremembering of Captain Kirk
In this really fantastic long-form essay published in the online magazine Strange Horizons , Erin Horáková digs into the weird way William...
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Guy makes good money farming in other people's yards
Justin Rhodes profiles an urban market gardener who leases other people's residential yards for planting produce, which he harvests an...
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Custom Minecraft figs with glowing eyes and swords
Red Lava Toys is a Detroit-based startup that make super cool, low-cost custom Minecraft figs at a local makerspace: they CNC-milled their...
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April 29, 1992 (Miami), 25 years ago
26 years ago. from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2qjw8km via IFTTT
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New edition of The Book of Miracles, the 16th century's premier guide to the apocalypse
The Book of Miracles (also known as the Augsburg Book of Miraculous Signs) is a compendium of beautiful 16th-century illustrations of cosm...
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Simple interactive Periodic Table on the web
Periodic Stats is a dead-easy web-based Periodic Table to click around, showing all the stats and the history of each element. The only th...
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Synthesized singing voices
The Neural Parametric Singing Synthesizer is a voice synth with a difference: it soars! It's perfectly uncanny; any better and you...
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Artist specialized in paintings of Chase bank on fire
I love Alex Schaefer impasto works depicting branches of Chase bank going up in flames in daytime. They were from a series by him called ...
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Beaver herds cattle
Rancher Adrienne Ivey noticed her 150 heifers were all bunched together, and headed over to find them being herded by a "furry little ...
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Get all three BioShock titles for $30
I don't play a lot of games, but my friend Craig loaned me his BioShock discs for Mac couple of years ago and I enjoyed it. The super ...
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Animation of today's storms flaring on US radar loop
A time-lapse radar loop from Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch shows today's storms billowing like a fire dancing over gasoli...
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Jack Kirby's glorious comic book experiment
I recently re-stumbled across John Hodgman's fantastic review of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus from 2008, which appeared in the N...
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The Primitive Technology guy builds a water-powered hammer
The fellow in Australia, who makes tools and shelters from his bare hands and natural materials, is back with a new video. This time, he ma...
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Sad (but delightful) animals facts
Artist Brooke Barker uses her Instagram to document both sad animal facts and her delightful sense of humor. You can see some of my favorit...
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It would cost more than $10k for a pro sports photographer to switch camera brands
Sony's cameras seem to be in a league of their own. So why do professionals stick with bulkier models from Canon and Nikon? One answer ...
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Turkey blocks Wikipedia
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is inaccessible in Turkey , with officials saying it was blocked as an "administrative measure"...
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Man can flex and move like something nasty from Silent Hill
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How to make Wolverine claws from popsicle sticks
All you need to make these movable Wolverine claws are 15 popsicle sticks, six rubber bands, a piece of paper, and glue. Here’s a second, s...
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Air-free non-pneumatic tires are coming to a bicycle near you
Few things are more annoying for cyclists than changing a flat, especially on a back tire. Non-pneumatic tires that have proven workable fo...
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Wonder Woman as a symbol of progress
In this new upload, video essayist KaptainKristian explores the history of Wonder Woman as a progressive symbol. from Boing Boing http:...
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A look back at The Hags, a 1980s all-girl skate gang
The Los Angeles punk and skate scenes of the mid-1980s produced a brief, shining moment of total badassery in the form of The Hags, a now-l...
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Fist-sized Hercules Beetle pupa
HirokA1007's youtube channel is a menagerie of enormous insects such as this Hercules beetle pupa. Below, a larva, also the size of h...
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Explaining the sun sneeze gene
Whether or not you’re a sun sneezer (I am!), this video from Veritasium is a fascinating explanation of the strange quirk that affects roug...
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The genetics of photosensitive sneezing, explained
If you're among the one in four people who sneeze when you move from a dark place into the sunlight, this nifty little explainer from ...
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The NSA no longer claims the right to read your email in case you're talking about foreigners
For more than a decade, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been suing the NSA over its extraordinarily broad interpretation of its powe...
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The CIA created a "Snowden Stopper" to catch future whistleblowers
The latest Wikileaks release of leaked CIA cyberweapons includes "Scribbles" -- referred to by the CIA as the "Snowden Stopp...
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US government tells Supremes it could strip citizenship from virtually all naturalized Americans if it wanted to
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Maslenjak v. United States , a case about whether minor omissions or falsehoods in an immigration appl...
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Review: High-Rise (2016)
High-Rise , directed by Ben Wheatley, brings J.G. Ballard's classic novel to the screen after a long wait. It's set almost entire...
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Trump's reign is sad for tech, too
The first 100 days of Trump's presidency were a shambolic festival of incompetence and looming catastrophe. But it's not all about ...
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Flying Fox enjoys grape
Megabattie posted a video of a female grey-headed flying fox who is "happy to stuff her face" with grapes. Green grapes, red gr...
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In 1961 an IBM 7094 was the first computer to sing
I had no idea! Evidently HAL 9000 sang Daisy Bell as a tribute, it is the first song ever sung by a computer. In 1961 an IBM 7094 was the...
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