Thousands of SF marijuana convictions to go up in smoke, DA applying new pot legalization laws all the way back to 1975 Unknown 18:31 Add Comment Edit San Francisco plans to retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to thousands of pre-existing pot related convic... Read More
The Awl bids farewell Unknown 18:31 Add Comment Edit Alex Balk: The Awl, 2009-2018 . The surprise shouldn’t be that The Awl didn’t last, it should be that it lasted as long as it did. And no... Read More
Reality TV is the New French Novel Unknown 18:31 Add Comment Edit I’m a Reality TV producer. I make the stuff. Oh, go ahead, scripted television snob, snark away, I’ve heard it all before. If it makes... Read More
'Florida Man' pleads guilty to child porn charges, then goes full 'Florida Man' Unknown 16:46 Add Comment Edit Baffling. Boggling. Florida. This story has everything from a hitman named 'the Rabbi' to a child pornographer asking his mom to a... Read More
Tory Council Leader's son gets plum job with government contractor, teen constituent damned as an "appalling little child" for asking about it Unknown 15:31 Add Comment Edit Kevin J Davis is the leader of the Council for the London Borough of Kingston-Upon-Thames; his son Cameron Davis's Linkedin profile sho... Read More
Find your Garbage Pail Kid name Unknown 14:01 Add Comment Edit This exhaustive database of Garbage Pail Kids is structured to make it almost easy to find one with the same name as yourself. Meet the un... Read More
Restaurant preferences mapped Unknown 14:01 Add Comment Edit Simon Rogers, a data journalist and data editor at Google, created a series of maps showing the regional popularity of certain kinds of res... Read More
Split images into individual pixels, then stack them neatly Unknown 13:31 Add Comment Edit Pixel Chart splits images into their constituent pixels, then organizes them in various interesting ways that you can define. [ via ] fr... Read More
Mural is subtle reminder of Mexican restaurant's former national cuisine Unknown 13:16 Add Comment Edit It's El Sol in Harrisonburg, Va. , according to Bombaskos on Reddit. [ via ] from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2rXUxB4 via IFTTT Read More
Monopoly: Cheaters Edition is indicative of our times Unknown 11:41 Add Comment Edit "A recent study conducted by Hasbro revealed that nearly half of game players attempt to cheat during Monopoly games, so in 2018, we d... Read More
Dumbledore to stay in closet for new Fantastic Beasts movie Unknown 11:16 Add Comment Edit A decade ago, J.K. Rowling famously told the world that Dumbledore was gay. Just don't expect it to be shown any time soon. “Not exp... Read More
An ode to the audio jack as an engineering marvel Unknown 11:06 Add Comment Edit Plenty of folks have bemoaned the disappearance of the audio jack from phones. Among other problems, it'll create "DRM for audio... Read More
Celebrity UFO sightings, secret witnesses, and cold cases solved in this week’s tabloids Unknown 11:06 Add Comment Edit What’s old is new again in this week’s tabloids, which plunder the past for today’s headlines. Child pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey was mur... Read More
Microfluidic LEGOs for scientific research Unknown 11:01 Add Comment Edit Microfluidic systems that move and mix tiny amounts of liquids are used in laboratories for biotechnology, chemistry, and even the developm... Read More
Twitter's daily gun death tally is a reminder that America has a problem Unknown 10:51 Add Comment Edit A mass shooting is defined as four or more people shot in one location, but Seattle ad agency Cole & Weber believes that mass shootings... Read More
United Airlines denied a woman trying to fly with her emotional support peacock Unknown 10:41 Add Comment Edit United Airlines barred Dexter , an emotional support peacock, from boarding a flight at Newark International Airport on Saturday. From the ... Read More
Train carrying GOP lawmakers crashes with trash truck, killing one - no lawmakers or staff injured Unknown 10:36 Add Comment Edit An Amtrak train carrying GOP lawmakers and their staff to a retreat has collided with a garbage truck, killing at least one person. This is... Read More
The earth's magnetic poles may be getting ready to flip Unknown 10:36 Add Comment Edit So, geophysicists have been studying the earth's magnetic field, and they think it's getting ready to "flip" -- with the ... Read More
HAPPY WORLD and its dark underside is a game you'll want to play more than once Unknown 10:31 Add Comment Edit Earlier this month, a game called HAPPY WORLD by Jimi Masuraki was released on itch.io . When I first downloaded it, I honestly thought I m... Read More
Watch how to make homemade glow sticks Unknown 10:16 Add Comment Edit Oil of wintergreen makes for lovely glowsticks, but the secret ingredient is the solvent used to create chemiluminescence. (more…) from... Read More
Trump's new lawyer: Harvey Richards, Lawyer for Children! Unknown 10:16 Add Comment Edit FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book . IF you like Tom the Dancing Bug, be part of the team that makes it happen: INNER ... Read More
Watch an impressive series of crashes avoided by autonomous vehicles Unknown 10:16 Add Comment Edit Some of these near-misses would probably have been catastrophic and unavoidable without predictive autopilot. (more…) from Boing Boing ... Read More
Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Nancy Pelosi: "I think she should smile a lot more often" Unknown 09:46 Add Comment Edit White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fancied herself an expert on etiquette this morning during an interview on CNN. While di... Read More
CDC chief Brenda Fitzgerald quits after outed for buying into a tobacco company Unknown 09:36 Add Comment Edit Brenda Fitzgerald was Donald Trump's Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, charged with reducing smoking among Am... Read More
Sous vide blackened salmon fillets Unknown 09:31 Add Comment Edit Surprise! Making perfect blackened salmon is easy. (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2rUbNXR via IFTTT Read More
In-depth investigation of the Alibaba-to-Instagram pipeline for scammy crapgadgets with excellent branding Unknown 09:26 Add Comment Edit Artist Jenny Odell created the Bureau of Suspended Objects to photographically archive and researched the manufacturing origins of 200 obje... Read More
Nerf's new blasters are pretty danged badass Unknown 09:11 Add Comment Edit Nerf has unveiled six new blasters that will ship in fall of 2018, with some pretty amazing features , as detailed in Josie Colt's Wire... Read More
California joins Montana and New York in creating state Net Neutrality rules Unknown 08:56 Add Comment Edit The FCC's order killing Net Neutrality in December 2016 also includes a prohibition on states making their own telcoms rules that resto... Read More
What living in a dictatorship feels like, and why it may be too late by the time you notice it Unknown 08:51 Add Comment Edit Comics writer G. Willow Wilson, who previously lived in Egypt and wrote for the opposition weekly Cairo Magazine , writes movingly and haun... Read More
Popehat's new First Amendment law-podcast is great! Unknown 08:36 Add Comment Edit Make No Law is a just-launched podcast hosted by Ken "Popehat" White ( previously ), a former Federal prosecutor who writes some... Read More
Investors throw $300m at dog-walking startup that hired ex-CEO of fraudulent anti-fraud company Lifelock Unknown 08:36 Add Comment Edit Before being hired to serve as CEO of Wag, a dogwalking startup that just received a $300,000,000 investment from Softbank, Hilary Schneide... Read More
The carnivorous moon-worm story hiding in plain sight in the diary of early Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson Unknown 08:16 Add Comment Edit Australian science fiction author Sean Williams ( previously ) is an Australian Antarctic Division Arts Fellow , who got to live in the Ant... Read More
Australian government's worst-ever state-secrets leak: accidentally selling filing cabinets full of classified docs in a surplus store Unknown 08:11 Add Comment Edit Australian national broadcaster ABC has gotten hold of a massive trove of state secrets that were inadvertently sold off in a pair of cheap... Read More
Nutella riots spread in France Unknown 07:21 Add Comment Edit France is in turmoil. Heavy discounts of Nutella have resulted in "scenes of violence" at supermarkets as shoppers vie to obtain... Read More
The story behind Toto's 'Africa' Unknown 06:41 Add Comment Edit Love it or hate it, Toto's 1982 soft rock mega-hit "Africa" is here to stay. But how did a band from Los Angeles get famous f... Read More
This is not a giant pair of jeans, it's a sleeping bag for two Unknown 06:36 Add Comment Edit This might very well be my new favorite thing. While the "Super Big Wrapped in Warmth Happy Furry Jeans Sleeping Bag" looks like ... Read More
President Nixon ranting about homosexuality Unknown 06:13 Add Comment Edit It's hard to imagine that contemporary discussions in the White House are even dumber than those between Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman... Read More
It took 83 engines to get to the moon Unknown 06:13 Add Comment Edit Amy Shira Teitel of Vintage Space shares lots of cool facts about the golden age of space exploration. Here, she enumerates the engines (a... Read More
David Byrne teamed up with Choir! Choir! Choir! to cover Bowie's 'Heroes' Unknown 05:53 Add Comment Edit At the Under the Radar Festival in New York City earlier this month, a crowd of soon-to-be singers rehearsed "back ups" for Davi... Read More
The heads of Darth Vader and a stormtrooper as robotic vacuums Unknown 05:38 Add Comment Edit There's SO much Star Wars merch out there and few galactic items catch my eye anymore. Well, that is until I came across this robotic... Read More
Glenn Payette, CBC News, St. Jooooooooooooooohns Unknown 05:38 Add Comment Edit Glenn Payette is a TV news reporter for CBC in Newfoundland and Labrador. Over the years, his pronunciation of the name of the province... Read More
Watch how 19th-century Genaille-Lucas calculating rulers work Unknown 05:08 Add Comment Edit Multiplying large numbers before calculators led to a number of ingenious inventions to make things easier, like these Genaille-Lucas ruler... Read More
Ready to finally learn Photoshop? Unknown 05:08 Add Comment Edit Whether you aim to work in marketing, fashion, or even game design, one of the tools you'll need to get comfortable with is Adobe Photo... Read More
Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Unknown 05:08 Add Comment Edit (more…) from Boing Boing http://ift.tt/2FvmQZs via IFTTT Read More
Watch this Beatles-themed vinyl jukebox get designed and built Unknown 05:08 Add Comment Edit Vinyl jukeboxes are making a comeback, and Sound Leisure built this incredible Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band vinyl jukebox to celeb... Read More