A gentleman who participated in a meme where gun enthusiasts point loaded handguns at their junk (safety off, finger on trigger) shot himself in the junk. This instantly made him… Read the rest of the article: Facebook gun nuts point loaded guns at their nuts. Guess what happened?
Lewis Del Mar has released a video for "TV" that feels like a zoetrope of collaged art. It's a follow-up to "The Ceiling," which visually feels like a variation on… Read the rest of the article: Watch Lewis Del Mar's hypnotic animated collage for "TV"
Russell Kirsch (previously) the American computer scientist who created a digital image of his son Walden in 1957, has died of Alzheimer's disease at age 91. The image, created on… Read the rest of the article: Russell Kirsch, developer of the pixel, 1929–2020
Bad Lip Reading took on the daunting task of making Trump's bizarre and combative Axios interview even weirder, but they succeeded. The scary part is that some of Trump's dubbed… Read the rest of the article: Trump's Axios interview gets the Bad Lip Reading treatment
Nosey Mungo, aka Helen Burgess, is a ceramic artist who has created a menagerie of delightful creatures, not least of which is this charming blobfish. It turns out that making… Read the rest of the article: Ceramic blobfish
"Jingle Bells, Batman Smells" is one of the most significant documented viral songs among English-speaking children. Because it was spread as an oral tradition for its first quarter-century, many variants… Read the rest of the article: Fascinating deep dive into the global variants of "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells"
During the January 2019 total lunar eclipse, astronomers trained the Hubble Telescope on our moon in order to calibrate how future telescopes will look for possible life on exoplanets by… Read the rest of the article: Watch how Hubble Telescope used a lunar eclipse for detecting life on exoplanets
YouTuber CalebCity hilariously demonstrates the infuriating tendency for those craptacular image grid CAPTCHAs to pop up at the worst time. My 2018 petition for karmic retribution, Let's build a robot… Read the rest of the article: YouTuber illustrates why "I am not a robot" image CAPTCHAs are universally hated
In a win for those forced to navigate the rideshare gig economy, a California judge has ruled that Uber and Lyft must treat drivers as employees, not independent contractors.
Judas and the Black Messiah examines Black Panther Fred Hampton's betrayal by William O'Neal, Hampton's bodyguard turned FBI informant. Hampton was a rising star in the revolutionary arm of the… Read the rest of the article: Timely trailer for Fred Hampton biopic 'Judas and the Black Messiah'
Robin's Wish explores beloved comedian Robin Williams' final days as he struggled with the devastating effects of Lewy Body Dementia.
Piloting a craft through Jupiter's atmosphere would be very hard due to massive bolts of "shallow lightning" and the equally scary giant "mushballs" of water and ammonia that fall like… Read the rest of the article: Cool NASA illustrations of Jupiter's lightning and atmospheric "mushballs"
In movies of yesteryear, characters knew they were at a low point in their lives if Jay Leno is discussing them, brilliantly shown in this Buck LePard supercut. Movie characters… Read the rest of the article: Supercut of movie characters watching Jay Leno's monologue on the film's events
A Japanese water beetle swallowed by a frog has figured out a great survival trick. It starts walking. In as few as six minutes, 93% of them walk right out… Read the rest of the article: Beetle species swallowed by frogs just exits alive via the old dirt road
Wavy Boats is a Miami-based YouTuber who chronicles the weekenders, vacationers, drunks, and other landlubbers who ply the large local waves in boats they have no business piloting.
Ode to Desolation is Lindsey Hagen's thoughtful and intimate short documentary on Jim Henterly, an illustrator who mans of one the 60 remaining US fire lookout posts, down from 9,000… Read the rest of the article: Pensive short film on one of America's last fire lookouts
After four people died and three lost some or all of their vision from drinking hand sanitizer containing methanol, the CDC issued a warning. Despite the ruminations of the President… Read the rest of the article: A gentle reminder from the CDC and FDA: drinking hand sanitizer can blind or kill you
Creem: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine looks at the freewheeling Detroit-based publication that was as gonzo as the artists they covered. As Craig S. Karpel observes, "There was no… Read the rest of the article: Watch the documentary trailer about rock mag Creem
Over the weekend, SpaceX successfully completed its first manned mission carrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. The thrilling coverage by the Los Angeles Times is a reminder of… Read the rest of the article: Watch the SpaceX splashdown, NASA's first recovery at sea since 1975
Behind the sensationalist headlines about the largest pullback in US history, there's a lot of nuance and complexity, but the overall message is clear: the US economy is in big… Read the rest of the article: Troubling explainer on how the US economy lost 33% of its value
