As a child in the 1970s, I loved Swanson's TV Dinners although we very rarely had them. Reflecting back, I think I liked the idea more than the taste. I… Read the rest of the article: How an overabundance of frozen turkey begat the TV Dinner

"This is how my Auntie blocks ads from her computer screen…" writes Redditor itswallsss. Popups? "She just closes her eyes until it's over." (r/funny)

Disney's Halloween Treat was a special 1982 Halloween episode of the Walt Disney television series featuring excerpts or full vintage cartoons with a creepy, supernatural vibe. The segments include the… Read the rest of the article: Enjoy 90 minutes of creepy vintage Disney cartoons for Halloween

Darren Barnwell, 20, was toting a bag containing $47,000 in cocaine from Dublin to Cork, Ireland when he exited a train without his duffel. Security staff refused to allow an… Read the rest of the article: Man seeks police help in finding his bag containing $47,000 in cocaine

At Seattle's Add-a-Ball Amusements arcade bar, an ingenious employee named Sleepy outfitted a pinball machine with pedals for a touchless gaming experience. Now that's thinking on your feet! (rimshot) (King5)

Reebok is releasing this fun and cartoony Ghostbusters "Ghost Smashers" sneaker design on Halloween. There's also another style in the collaboration called the "Classic Leather" but it's not nearly as… Read the rest of the article: Fun and ridiculous Ghostbusters sneakers from Reebok

An ongoing rash of brazen shoplifting at San Francisco area Walgreens locations is leading to multiple locations closing their doors permanently. Inside Edition was inside one of the stores to… Read the rest of the article: Watch man brazenly shoplift at Walgreens while TV news is in the store reporting on brazen shoplifting

Banksy's 2005 painting "Show Me the Money" sold at a Sotheby's auction yesterday for more than £7.5 million. Five collectors bidding during the final minutes of the auction drove up… Read the rest of the article: Banksy's "Show Me the Monet" painting sells for nearly $10 million

Palm Harbor, Florida resident Kay Rogers says her cat kindly gifted her with a rare two-headed southern black racer snake. The cat performed a good deed as, according to the… Read the rest of the article: Florida cat gifts its owner with a two-headed snake

Happy 100th birthday to bOING bOING patron saint Dr. Timothy Leary! We miss you. Above, "You Can be Anyone This Time Around" from Tim's 1970 album of the same name… Read the rest of the article: Happy 100th birthday to Timothy Leary!

What makes the diabolical ironclad beetle (the insect's actual common name) so indestructible? To find out, researchers at the  University of California, Irvine and their colleagues repeatedly drove over them… Read the rest of the article: How the diabolical ironclad beetle survives getting run over by a car

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) played Among Us on Twitch yesterday to encourage people to vote. More than 400,000 people turned up to watch. Tired: Reddit AMA, Wired: Twitch streams? Here's… Read the rest of the article: Watch the highlights of AOC playing "Among Us"

Archaeologists discovered this darling and massive etching of a cat at the site of the Nazca Lines in Peru, about 250 miles away from the capital city of Lima. The… Read the rest of the article: Massive 2,000-year-old etching of cat found on Peruvian hillside

Spoilers from God via Pat Robertson: Trump will win, two assassination attempts on him, civil strife, war with China, war in the Middle East with God defending Israel, and finally,… Read the rest of the article: Pat Robertson's election prophecy: Trump wins, civil unrest, world war, and an asteroid to end it all

There are many time-lapse security cam clips around of spiders building webs but this one is particularly striking to me because of the angle, lighting, and sound. It feels like… Read the rest of the article: Fascinating time-lapse security cam footage of a spider spinning a web

The 2020 yearbook for Brown County High School in Nashville, Indiana included a photo of a school basketball team with all the students' names in the caption except for one… Read the rest of the article: High school student listed as "Black Guy" in yearbook photo

Neuropsychologists at The Netherlands' Maastricht University and their colleagues report that microdoses of LSD can increase mood and cognition. In their double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 24 participants, the researchers administered… Read the rest of the article: LSD: new scientific study shows microdosing elevates mood and cognition

From the wonderful, weird "pond scum" Instagram account of Jam's Germs: Lacrymaria olor is a beautifully named single-celled organism, its name means "tears of a swan". So poetic, and if… Read the rest of the article: Watch this vicious single-celled predator hunt and devour another single-celled organism

At Thursday night's final presidential debate, the candidate who does not have the floor will be muted while the other candidate delivers his two minute opening answer at the top… Read the rest of the article: Mute button will be used at Thursday's presidential debate

I hope HBO courts Lisa Gilroy for a comedy special so she can name her own price. Original scene below from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).