The incredible museum exhibition David Bowie Is included a list of 100 books that were not necessarily his favorites but rather those that influenced him the most. Author John O'Connell… Read the rest of the article: New book about the books that changed David Bowie's life
A couple weeks back, I posted about the the Nepal government's new tourism campaign featuring 100 huge yeti statues designed by Ang Tsherin Sherpa to be painted by various artists… Read the rest of the article: The yeti is no longer Nepal's official tourist mascot because it didn't look like a yeti
Most Western music is based on a twelve-tone octave with the smallest interval being a half step (or half tone, or "semitone") up or down. Microtonal music contains intervals smaller… Read the rest of the article: Classical guitarist built a microtonal guitar from LEGO and it sounds beautiful
Last week, charter fishing boat captain David Stokes was fishing off the Daytona Beach coast when he reeled in a capsule door and two parachutes that were part of a… Read the rest of the article: Florida fisherman catches parachutes and capsule door from SpaceX crew capsule
French video artist Thomas Blanchard created "Mini Planets" by mixing paint, oil, inks, and soap to stunning effect. It reminds me of the psychedelic alternate universes manifested in the 1960s… Read the rest of the article: Video of incredible planetary system created from paint, oil, and soap
Don't miss the license plate. (Elon McFly)
A couple years ago, my son was watching an an online live chat with Gaten Matarazzo and asked the Stranger Things star if he digs Green Day. Matarazzo answered with… Read the rest of the article: Watch the new Green Day video starring Stranger Things' Gaten Matarazzo
Los Angeles streetwear brand Pleasures celebrated the 40th anniversary of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" album with a licensed line of apparel including this puffer jacket. The clothing, including hats and… Read the rest of the article: Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" puffer jacket
I get overly frustrated when I'm browsing Netflix and it autoplays previews. Finally, they've enabled a way to turn that off (and also the autoplay of the next episode of… Read the rest of the article: How to turn off Netflix autoplay of previews
Esteemed toy collector Joel Magee of Pawn Stars fame has acquired a prototype of an original Hot Wheels Camaro that was part of the 1968 "Sweet 16" series of the… Read the rest of the article: Hot Wheels Camaro valued at the same price as four real Camaros
Lonnie Johnson, age 70, was always a maker. As a child, his experiments with rocket fuel nearly burned down his house. While in high school, Johnson was the only black… Read the rest of the article: Meet the rocket scientist who invented the Super Soaker
Ludus Latrunculorum. Senet. Chaturanga. And don't forget Hnefatafl. These were just some of the board games that ancient people were into thousands of years ago. Over at Smithsonian, Meilan Solly… Read the rest of the article: The ancient world's greatest board games
For a decade, people have been destroying public toilets across Tokyo. Over the last six years, vandals have broken 85 toilets just in Hikarigaoka Park. What a pisser. Now, Tokyo… Read the rest of the article: Tokyo installing public urinals made from iron to stop a rash of toilet smashing
Gareth's post yesterday about the mysterious shortwave numbers stations used by spies to communicate happily reminded me of this article I wrote for bOING bOING Digital back in 1999 about… Read the rest of the article: Listen to spies' shortwave radio broadcasts
An iconic 1990s junk food, Betty Crocker's Dunkaroos are packages of cookies and sugar paste, I mean frosting, for dipping. They were discontinued in the US in 2012 but will… Read the rest of the article: Dunkaroos are back and here's a 1997 TV commercial for them
Astronomers captured this incredible image of a double-star system where a red giant star appears to have "engulfed the other (star) which, in turn, spiraled towards its partner provoking it… Read the rest of the article: Breathtaking image of a red giant star swallowing another star
Chinese acrobat Li Longlong holds the Guinness World Record for the "most consecutive stairs climbed on the head," a total of 36 steps. Guinness World Records states that "the strict… Read the rest of the article: Watch this fellow bounce up 36 stairs on his head
Cubicall, makers of contemporary telephone booths like those you might see in the offices of momentarily flush startups, have created an official replica of the time machine phone booth from… Read the rest of the article: You can now buy a replica Bill & Ted's time machine telephone booth
A Michigan State University gift shop displayed a collection of miniature dolls of black leaders like Michelle Obama and Harriet Tubman by hanging them from a small tree. Upset by… Read the rest of the article: University gift shop displayed black leader dolls by hanging them from a model tree
Content creator and filmmaker Ani Acopian says: "I wasn't having much luck with dating apps so I partnered with @amazon to make a better one." This is Amazon Dating! (No,… Read the rest of the article: Amazon Dating!
