Trailblazing filmmaker Spike Jonze made this short film, titled "The New Normal," about how America's relationship to cannabis has changed from the days when George Washington grew hemp. Co-written and… Read the rest of the article: Watch Spike Jonze's short film about cannabis
Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, has died. He was 64. While the UK "post-rock" band may be best known for their 1984 synthy single "It's My Life," Talk… Read the rest of the article: Mark Hollis, lead singer of Talk Talk, RIP
In a now-viral Facebook post, Terry Robinson of Spring Texas (jokingly?) explains why when he and his wife get "old and too feeble," they will check into a Holiday Inn… Read the rest of the article: Man claims it's cheaper to spend your old age in a Holiday Inn than a nursing home
From the scary movie documentarians "You're So Cool Brewster: The Story of Fright Night" and "Unearthed & Untold: The Path to Pet Sematary" comes "Pennywise: The Story of It."
When Moira Boxall returned to Glasgow from Queensland, Australia, she unpacked her suitcase and was surprised to find a small python had accompanied her on the trip. The snake had… Read the rest of the article: Python smuggles itself out of Australia by hiding in a woman's shoe on an airplane
In Eugene, Oregon yesterday, the Buck Buck Food Cart exploded in a spectacular fireball due to a malfunctioning gas line. Fortunately, nobody was injured. From the Register-Guard: A battalion chief… Read the rest of the article: Watch this food truck explode
Ja Rule, who claims he hasn't watched either of the Fyre festival documentaries, is ready to rise like a phoenix from the, er, flames: "(Fyre is) the most iconiq festival… Read the rest of the article: Ja Rule has plans for to Fyre up another music festival. Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RananKlDyoI According to Digg, this bus driver in China realized he wouldn't make it through a toll plaza so he pulled a u-ey. I think he actually wanted to grab… Read the rest of the article: Watch a bus do a u-turn on a busy highway
Brilliant culture critic Rob Walker, author of the forthcoming book The Art of Noticing, just launched a new column at Lifehacker about "navigating the modern workplace," a continuation in some… Read the rest of the article: How to deal with getting fired
Something odd is afoot. There have now been 15 disembodied feet inside shoes that have washed ashore in southwest British Columbia over the last 12 years. (Previously.) From CBC: Since… Read the rest of the article: Yet another disembodied foot in a shoe washed up on a British Columbia beach
Founded with a grant from the from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Apeel Sciences is a California-based startup that's developed a thin "second skin" for fruits and vegetables to… Read the rest of the article: An edible "second skin" to preserve fruits and vegetables
All you need is love, love / Love and paper is all you need
Ard Gelinck poses celebrities with their younger selves. Fantastic. More on Instagram at: photo_time_traveling (via Kottke)
The video for Weezer's cover of A-ha's "Take On Me" stars Calpurnia, the rather wonderful indie rock band fronted by Finn Wolfhard who plays Mike on Stranger Things. The song… Read the rest of the article: Weezer's video for "Take On Me" cover stars Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard and his band Calpurnia
In another example of life imitating Seinfeld, Melville, Saskatchewan citizen Dave Assman (pronounced Oss-men) applied for a personalized license plate of his last name but the Saskatchewan Government Insurance (like… Read the rest of the article: The real Assman was denied his personalized license plate
The latest addition to the US Mint's Native American $1 Coin series celebrates "American Indians in the Space Program." The heads-side of the coin still features Sacagawea. From Space.com: The… Read the rest of the article: New US dollar coin honors Native Americans' contributions to the space program
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Will Burrard-Lucas | Wildlife (@willbl) on Feb 13, 2019 at 3:05am PST In central Kenya, biologists and wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas… Read the rest of the article: This is a real African black panther and it's incredibly rare
Sir Patrick Stewart doesn't play the Reskian flute, or any flute for that matter. The trick worked on me at least, because I hadn't noticed even after seeing this episode… Read the rest of the article: On Star Trek: TNG, those aren't Captain Picard's hands holding his flute
On Sunday, UK-based backyard astrophotographer Szabolcs Nagy captured a series of images of the International Space Station transiting the moon and combined them in the captivating GIF above. Nagy's tools,… Read the rest of the article: Incredible video of space station flying in front of the moon
In 1947, an extraterrestrial spacecraft and its crew (or a weather balloon, or a nuclear test surveillance device) crashed on a ranch about 75 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico.… Read the rest of the article: Roswell UFO crash site sold to new owner
