It's just been revealed in a (must-read) Los Angeles Times article that Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh spent his summer battling COVID-19. He was not only isolated from his family for three months but the virus caused him to have delusions while hospitalized. Los Angeles Times: Mothersbaugh's delusions lasted more than two weeks during his time […]
Ohio-based Michael Dutko must be nuts about squirrels, or maybe he's just a little nuts. Either way, he's crafted an amazing "Nutty Bar" that offers seven kinds of nuts on tap for his backyard bushy-tailed critters. Hilarious! KDKA: Dutko said he built it to help his neighbor with her bird-watching hobby. "The whole reason I […]
YouTuber Seth Everman plays just four notes on his piano and asks, "What's the name of this song?" <clickbait voice>The answer may surprise you!</clickbait voice> (The Awesomer) screengrab via SethEverman
8ØHÐ · 1987 San Francisco Surf and Foghorns This 1987 field recording of the San Francisco Bay's surf meshed with the sound of four separate foghorns surprised me. I found it to be more calming than alarming. 8ØHÐ: In the late '80s, my dad recorded the foghorns of San Francisco on tape for my mother. […]
Disney is working on another live-action Haunted Mansion, Variety reports. The first, you'll remember, was in 2003 and starred Eddie Murphy. Disney is conjuring up a new "Haunted Mansion" live-action movie, based on its 51-year-old Disneyland theme park ride, with "Ghostbusters" writer Katie Dippold attached. Producers are Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich through their Rideback banner. Lin has extensive producer […]
Sir Elton John expressed his disappointment with the lack of actual writing in modern pop songs in a recent interview with BBC Radio 6 Music. COS: "[Father John Misty] reminds me a little bit of me, the way he writes songs," he praised, adding, "Conan [Gray's] from America and he's the only person in the […]
Where is Allee Willis when we need her? I mean, who doesn't remember the 21st night of September?! YouTubers Tim and Fred Williams (and friend), apparently. They claim this is the first time they're hearing Earth, Wind & Fire's 1978 megahit "September." I'll roll with it but — come on — how is that even […]
A lot of things suck right now, but not this. Every night I would get an alert from my driveway security camera, and at first I was a bit annoyed, but then I found myself looking forward to the evening alert. And then inspiration struck, in the form of my wife giving me this great […]
Stare into the black circle in this video to get a lesson in chromatic adaptation from scientist Andrew Steele. This is definitely my favourite optical illusion—it's mind-bendingly effective but infuriatingly ephemeral, vanishing as soon as you try to look straight at it—and a fantastic illustration of how our eyes and brain together conspire so […]
While it appears that Billie Eilish and brother Finneas are performing at NPR's music offices for a Tiny Desk concert, they are, in fact, not. They recorded this at home in front of a convincing cardboard re-creation of Bob Boilen's desk. Love it! NPR: Of course, due to safety concerns, even the NPR Music staff […]
The YouTube channel Boxlapse exists primarily to show timelapses of plants growing (it's like ASMR for your eyes). Here's a compilation of their "best of" videos — 190 days of growth crunched into three minutes. screengrab via Boxlapse/YouTube (Geekologie)
My pal Hugh D'Andrade mocked up this "2020 Funpocalypse" bingo card in response to humorous social media posts he was seeing by artist Isabel Samaras. With each disaster, she's been joking, "OK, who had {insert terrible thing} on their 2020 Bingo card?" What is it missing? Oh, other terrible 2020 stuff like "police murder of […]
A reality hacker in the N. Spokane, Washington area used darkened pieces of cardboard to make several of the city's green traffic lights look like cannabis leaves. This person, who signed some of the pieces as the "Mad Signtist," appears to be taking a page out of the Pablo Rochat playbook. screengrab via KREM/YouTube Thanks, […]
In today's "everything old is new again" news: The CW Network is developing a live-action Powerpuff Girls series — with a twist. Buttercup, Blossom, and Bubbles are now "disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having lost their childhood to crime fighting." Huh, ok. Deadline: The network has put in development The Powerpuff Girls, a live-action series based on the […]
YouTuber Adam Emond likes to mess around with audio, often changing the beats of songs in unusual ways. In this particular video, he takes Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and arranges its beats in reverse chronological order. The result is strange but listenable, and the captions are gold. Bonus: A year ago, he took the same […]
YouTuber Emmy of emmymadeinjapan grilled the head of a sunflower and ate it like corn on the cob after her followers shared a video from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds doing the same. Basically, to prepare it, you remove the head's flowers, coat it in oil, and cover and grill it face-down on medium heat for […]
IKEA in Taiwan used the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons to recreate some pages in its new 2021 catalog. As an avid player of the game, I am so tickled by this and appreciate how much effort went into doing it. Some of the substitutions they had to make for the recreations are really […]
