John Plant of Primitive Technology continues his explorations of Iron Age technology. In this video, he attempts to remove the carbon (decarburize) from some iron prills he produced using a… Read the rest of the article: More Primitive Technology's explorations of the Iron Age
Over on Adafruit, our pal John Edgar Park has a fantastic tutorial up on replacing the brains of a Fisher-Price See N Say toy with a CircuitPython-powered KB2040 microcontroller so… Read the rest of the article: How to give your See N Say toy a brain transplant
Many years ago, someone gave me a desktop Zen garden as a gift. I thought it was kind of silly. Until I set it up and began using it. I… Read the rest of the article: Meditating on Zen-gardening geometric shapes
On his Jan 30th episode, Stephen Colbert revived his segment, "The Word," from his Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report. Here, The Word was "See No Evil" and was directed… Read the rest of the article: Stephen Colbert responds to the Tyre Nichols murder with a word: Evil
Actor Billy Crudup, who's making the rounds promoting his upcoming retrofuturistic Apple TV+ series, Hello Tomorrow!, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday. During the segment, Jimmy typed a prompt… Read the rest of the article: Billy Crudup performs a scene written on the spot by ChatGPT
Patti Smith remembers her friend, Television guitarist Tom Verlaine, who passed away on Jan. 28th. He lived twenty-eight minutes from where I was raised. We could easily have sauntered into… Read the rest of the article: Patti Smith's touching tribute to guitarist Tom Verlaine
Wow. Speechless. Phenomenal. Sui generis. This video got shared with me yesterday with no introduction. I've never heard of this guy. I have since been learning all about him and… Read the rest of the article: Discovering the intense, refreshingly unique music of Ren
For your regular dose of inspiring handicraft, here is a Korean pottery using an embossing technique on a style of traditional pottery known as buncheon ware (characterized by a coating… Read the rest of the article: Watch the process of making traditional, carved Buncheon ware pottery
In this Hot Ones video, host Sean Evans talks to pepper farmer Ed Currie about growing some of the worlds hottest peppers. Like the Epicurious video I posted about earlier… Read the rest of the article: Sean Evans of "Hot Ones" talks to Smokin' Ed Currie, the "Michael Jordan of hot chilies"
Breaking nerd news: Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast has done a complete about-face on their controversial plans to deauthorize the Open Gaming License 1.0 and replace it with a far more… Read the rest of the article: Wizards of the Coast changes course, gamers win
This is a Cartoonist Kayfabe I've been waiting for, where Ed and Jim talk about their all-time fave cyberpunk-themed comics. In it, they look at Akira (natch), The Long Tomorrow… Read the rest of the article: Looking at 5 top cyberpunk comic books
On Tuesday, I wrote about the trailer to the forthcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves. In this episode of DungeonCraft, Professor Dungeon Master looks at the impact (or… Read the rest of the article: Will player boycotts hurt the forthcoming D&D movie?
There's something captivating about people who have a Field of Dreams moment and decide to do something that seems utterly crazy to the rest of us. Such is the case… Read the rest of the article: Building a boat to sail around the world when you don't know boat building or sailing
With the recent kerfuffles over the forthcoming One D&D and Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro's designs on revoking the original Open Gaming License, Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts could use a little… Read the rest of the article: New trailer for the forthcoming D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves
Well here's something I didn't know I needed in my life that I now need in my life. A new series is coming to Apple TV+ where the infamously indoorsy… Read the rest of the article: Eugene Levy steps out of his comfort zone in The Reluctant Traveler
Via our pal Steve Silberman comes this little gem from late last November. While on The Tonight Show, comedian and SNL castmember, James Austin Johnson, runs through the different ways… Read the rest of the article: James Austin Johnson sings "Jingle Bells" as Bob Dylan through the decades
The Main Squeeze, a rock funk band known for their phenomenal covers, has delivered again, this time on a powerful rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." Corey Frye's vocal are… Read the rest of the article: Listen to The Main Squeeze's killer rendition of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb"
Watching this trailer for the upcoming season 10 of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, two things jump out at me. It's amazing that this program has been on the air… Read the rest of the article: Season ten trailer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Iconic actor/comedian, Dick Van Dyke, now 97, was going through some papers and discovered a speech he had delivered in 1964. Entitled "A Most Non-Political Speech," it was written by Rod… Read the rest of the article: Dick Van Dyke re-reads the Rod Serling speech he read at a 1964 MLK civil rights rally
More mesmerizing work from the world's great handcrafters. Here, in a 90-year-old Korean shoe factory, a customer gets a pair of hiking boots custom-made for them. Previously on Boing Boing:
