In October, thieves in Everett, Washington smashed the window of a comic book store and swiped a 4.5 foot Funko Pop! statue of Batman. Since then, Everett Police detective Adam… Read the rest of the article: Batman guards police station in Everett, Washington

The State of Colorado is auctioning off personalized license plates with cannabis references. If you live in Colorado and love weed so much you want to announce it to the… Read the rest of the article: Colorado auctioning off vanity plates "GANJA" and "BONG"

Just a few days before John Lennon and Yoko Ono's historic Bed-In-for Peace in Montreal on May 31, 1969, the couple were chilling out in the Bahamas where this rehearsal… Read the rest of the article: Watch wonderful new footage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono rehearsing "Give Peace a Chance"

The nutcase who placed two pipe bombs near the Capitol in Washington, DC, is still on the loose. The FBI asks if you might recognize the way the person walks… Read the rest of the article: FBI: Do you know someone who walks like the suspected Washington DC pipe bomber?

John Sheahan, 48, of County Cork, Ireland evicted tenants from a home he owns after they set up a shipping container in the back yard as an unlicensed cannabis grow… Read the rest of the article: Man evicted home renters for growing cannabis and then set up his own grow operation there

Thickey Forrest makes wonderful, blown-out artwork using his desktop scanner, physical objects, and lightbulbs. His creations remind of late nights at Kinko's in the 1980s when the employees (aka our… Read the rest of the article: Lovely photocopier art made with a desktop scanner and a lightbulb

New Jersey State Park Police were alerted to a UFO detector installed in the woods and dispatched a detective unit and bomb-sniffing dog to the area. According to a police… Read the rest of the article: Police disarm "UFO detector" in New Jersey State Park

If you're temporarily tired of making meals in your multicooker, you can use it to create a self-contained greenhouse-like environment to germinate seeds for your garden. Along with the Instant… Read the rest of the article: How to use an Instant Pot to germinate garden seeds

In India, a massive surge of COVID-19 cases has led to a 21-day lockdown to control the spread of the virus, but in Rishikesh at least ten tourists from outside… Read the rest of the article: COVID lockdown violators' punishment: write "sorry" 500 times

Aman Tuleyev, governor of Siberia's Kemerovo Oblast region from 1997 to 2018, admitted to hoaxing Yeti sightings to boost tourism. Along with enlisting a staff-member to wear a fur coat… Read the rest of the article: Longtime Russian governor admits to hoaxing Yeti sightings to boost Siberian tourism

It was late in the evening and Penn Powell was crossing a bridge on his way home from Fort St. John to Hudson's Hope, British Columbia when he spotted a… Read the rest of the article: Man tells captivating story about the time he was attacked by a beaver

Adidas is releasing a new sneaker design with a 3D-printed sole and fabric upper that's woven by a robot from as many as 10 different yarns. The first commercial versions,… Read the rest of the article: These sneakers are woven by robots and have 3D-printed soles

For 43 years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has played every Saturday night at Portland's Clinton Street Theater. The pandemic forced the theater to shut the doors, but the movie… Read the rest of the article: For the last 54 weeks, The Rocky Horror Picture Show played in this empty theater every Saturday night

The artists behind some prehistoric cave paintings have been hallucinating due to a shortage of oxygen, according to a new archaeological study. Tel Aviv University archaeologists Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar,… Read the rest of the article: Prehistoric cave painters may have been hallucinating due to lack of oxygen

Mechanical engineer Yuto Kuroki of Meiji University and colleagues hacked a 3D printer head system to be a 3-axis robotic manipulator. They've demonstrated its use assembling various items like the… Read the rest of the article: Watch a robot make a sandwich

Tesla owners have determined that saying "Open butthole" to their Teslas opens the charge port at the rear of the vehicle. Demonstration below. Apparently, "open bunghole" and "close bunghole" also… Read the rest of the article: If you say "Open butthole" to a Tesla, the charge port opens

In this 1977 episode of the BBC2 current affairs program Brass Tacks, we meet the punks of Manchester. This is the scene from which Joy Division, The Smiths, The Fall,… Read the rest of the article: TV news report on the punk scene in Manchester, 1977

Yesterday, Zeus unleashed his wrath on a poor pine tree outside Wautoma High School in Wautoma, Wisconsin. (US National Weather Service Green Bay Wisconsin, thanks Bob Pescovitz!)

This is Martin Culpepper, better known as Ztorm, star of Pokémon VHS and DVD guides like The Advanced Pokemon Master's Guide and Becoming a Master: The Ultimate Pokémon Experience. Ztorm… Read the rest of the article: The "Pokémon Combat Rap" (2000) will get you pumped for battle

Engineers and product designers refer to "feature creep," the ongoing addition of new features or options to "improve" something when it would often be better to be subtractive with any… Read the rest of the article: People have a tendency to add stuff to make something better even when subtraction makes more sense