This video starts off with dancers grooving away in the streets of Istanbul, wearing what, at first, appear to be regular costumes — cool-looking ones, but made out of ordinary… Read the rest of the article: Gorgeous video of digitally-enhanced dancers cavorting through Istanbul

David Lu spent 11 years working on an incredibly epic course for "Line Rider" — a video game where you draw lines on the screen to create a course for… Read the rest of the article: Creator spent 11 years developing epic Line Rider course

I generally have a few piles of books around my house — I impulse-buy a lot. I start reading most of them, but only rarely finish one. I usually feel… Read the rest of the article: Why it's okay you never finished reading that book, according to Francis Bacon in 1597

You've seen the videos of old-school NASA mission-control from the 1960s, with those huge, wall-sized screens — which displayed bright lines showing the flight path of spacecraft, and flight data.… Read the rest of the article: How the huge displays at NASA's mission control worked

I'm a nervous flyer to begin with, so the news that Boeing is putting its crash-prone Max 737 jet back into service fills me with Lovecraftian dread. I would rather… Read the rest of the article: How to tell if you're flying on a Boeing Max 737

Google has released "Verse by Verse", a AI tool that lets you pick several poets from the past, and then write a poem with the AI suggesting lines composed in… Read the rest of the article: Google AI helps you write a poem in the style of famous poets of the past

I've argued that the video-game "Doom" is a sort of cultural version of Turing Completeness. Given that we're jamming computers and screens into just about any device these days, inevitably… Read the rest of the article: "Anarch", a new, public-domain Doom-like game coded from scratch in <256K

It turns out you can hack into a robot vacuum cleaner and use it sensors to eavesdrop. How? With lasers! Spy agencies since the 1940s have eavesdropped on people using… Read the rest of the article: Hacking into your robot vacuum to eavesdrop on your home

My eyes have been terrible since grade 4, so I use a lot of "dark mode" apps, to try and avoid squinting at my laptop so much. But for some… Read the rest of the article: Dark mode for PDFs

I'm coming a bit late to this one, but Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung recently analyzed Spotify listening trends, and found that people in COVID-19 lockdowns prefer to listen to the oldies.… Read the rest of the article: People in COVID-19 lockdowns listen to nostalgic music on Spotify

The UK watchmaking firm Bremont has just announced it'll be making a limited edition wristwatch that includes small pieces of the desk of pioneering theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. They're not… Read the rest of the article: A watch embedded with pieces of Stephen Hawking's desk

Scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute in the US recently analyzed the DNA from 161 dog breeds to map out how they're all related. The Guardian took that… Read the rest of the article: Interactive dataviz showing how dog breeds are related

Apparently the Italian police own a Lamborghini, and recently they used it to transport a kidney to a new donor — screaming down the highway at an average 145 miles… Read the rest of the article: Italian police use a Lamborghini to deliver a donated kidney 300 miles in two hours

There are an estimated 240 billion lines of COBOL out there, and they're the backbone of your financial life — 95% of the time when you swipe your bank card,… Read the rest of the article: Why COBOL will never die

When books became truly mass-marketed in the 19th century, the cover suddenly took on a new role — it had to sell the book, setting it apart from others crowding… Read the rest of the article: The magnificent early age of book covers

Jeremy Mayer is an artist who makes amazing sculptures out of old typewriters — "the more broken the better", as he notes. He's appeared in Boing Boing many many times… Read the rest of the article: Huge wall art made from old typewriters

I printed a big pile of documents this evening, and when my son picked up the warm stack of paper he commented on how oddly nice it smelled. I agreed… Read the rest of the article: Perfume that smells like ink

Why are our dreams so weird? God knows they are! Scientists have never been quite sure why we dream, though. One common theory is we dream to help consolidate new… Read the rest of the article: New theory of why our dreams are so weird

Some people hate on-demand electric scooters — and some people really hate them. This guy in Florida falls into some third group positioned even further along that axis of disgruntlement.… Read the rest of the article: Florida man arrested for snipping the brakes on electric scooters

These cute little pottery vessels — fashioned in the shape of animals — are about 3,000 years old, and were found near children's graves. A group of scientists hypothesized that… Read the rest of the article: The design of 3,000-year-old sippy cups is totally adorable