3D BotMaker's King of the Mountain returns for a forth season of head-to-head racing with modified 1/64 scale die-cast cars. This season they are in "Racing City, Japan," a huge… Read the rest of the article: Big fun with tiny car racing
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3D BotMaker's King of the Mountain returns for a forth season of head-to-head racing with modified 1/64 scale die-cast cars. This season they are in "Racing City, Japan," a huge… Read the rest of the article: Big fun with tiny car racing
Arizona Sate University in Tempe hosts a hip and smart exhibit Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas. I really enjoyed seeing all the historical artifacts, photos, costumes and masks, toys, posters… Read the rest of the article: Lucha Libre's history and art
What better way to remember the late Richard Belzer than this hilarious episode of Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast? Gilbert is joined by fellow standup/actor Richard Belzer along with bandleader… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy one last blast of Belzer
Wizard and True (Rock) Star Todd Rundgren tells Jesse Thorn which song influenced his young life in a recent episode of Bullseye. "The Song That Changed My Life" segments have… Read the rest of the article: Can you guess which song changed Todd Rundgren's life?
Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist and humorist James Lileks shared his AI "rejects." He usually combs web sites, thrift stores, auctions, Google Maps, etc. to find interesting visual inspiration for his… Read the rest of the article: Humorist shares AI dream image rejects
One of the most unusual shows in my memory of early 70's television offerings is "The Great American Dream Machine," a magazine-format series from the age before PBS educational television.… Read the rest of the article: The Great American Dream Machine: a look back at 70's Americana TV
Australian skateboard manufacturer Globe has announced a collaboration with Eames Office on their line of new skateboard decks with midcentury designs and wood bending techniques of Charles and Ray Eames.… Read the rest of the article: Dig these Eames-inspired skateboard decks
On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the comic "Love and Rockets" is being saluted by publisher Fantagraphics with a ma$$ive compilation of the first 40 books. Fans will enjoy… Read the rest of the article: Legendary comic creators the Hernandez brothers speak
Right from the get-go Taschen's massive 475 page book "Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir" is visually arresting. The 50's black & white crime scene photo on the triple-thick book… Read the rest of the article: Take a lurid look at LA noir
Beloved Seattle-area burger stand chain Dick's is celebrating their 69th anniversary by rolling back prices to 1954: 19 cents for a hamburger! Much to the consternation of Seattle transplants, local… Read the rest of the article: Seattle area folks might like this inflation-busting burger sale
Clean off your goggles and take a gander at the steampunk fashions and vintage gear in today's Seattle Times photo essay. The Seattle Steamrats tour the Georgetown Steam Plant and its… Read the rest of the article: Steampunks tour steam plant
For his birthday my son requested a special cake from a specific bakery. Turns out the cake is kind of famous among gamers. The cake promised at the ending of… Read the rest of the article: The cake is NOT a lie
This photo essay of car designer Hideo Kodama doing car renderings is fragrantly nostalgic for me. We learned these tools and techniques in design school in the 70s: drawing with… Read the rest of the article: Dig this old-school illustration demo by car designer Hideo Kodama
The BBC series The Detectorists has released a special single episode/movie in December 2022, now streaming on Acorn. Mackenzie Crook (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Toby Jones (The Hunger Games)… Read the rest of the article: Found again: BBC's The Detectorists
Our long, national nightmare is over: finally, a IOT solution to rewinding VHS tapes! Enjoy this nifty spoof by Eric Drysdale, a writer, comedian and 3-D photography enthusiast in New… Read the rest of the article: Still rewinding your VHS tapes manually?
Sex advice columnist Dan Savage uses AI to write his latest piece—but with a clever twist. Can you, the reader, tell his actual advice from an AI-generated response? To find… Read the rest of the article: Dan Savage's AI challenge
Among 2022's "Top 5" lists was KTLA's "5 of the Worst Happy Meal toys over the years." Not on the list is my favorite "clunk" Happy Meal toy: the unironic 1991… Read the rest of the article: Worst Happy Meal toys ever
In his column on the future of the comics business ICV2 contributor Rob Salkowitz included a section about the impact of AI-generated art and writing. This caught my attention: "In… Read the rest of the article: Columnist uses AI to write review about AI
Here's the story on how Gerry Anderson's Brit TV show UFO (no puppets!) led to the 1970's US sci-fi TV show Space: 1999. The use of interspersed clips from each… Read the rest of the article: The story of how cancelled sci-fi show UFO led to hit series Space: 1999
British DIYer Colin Furze is well-known to boingboingers for his crazy projects and his even more crazy/fun YouTube videos. Here's a recent doozie: an over-2-hour-long compilation of building a secret… Read the rest of the article: Real-life secret tunnel digging video