Scotty Allen, a former Google engineer, successfully machined an entire iPhone housing from a solid block of aluminum — a feat that took 11 month accomplish. "This is the start… Read the rest of the article: Man spends year creating aluminum iPhone housing from solid metal block
"There is one woman who mostly edits about hamsters, and always on her phone. She has never interacted with anyone else. Who is she? She's not part of any community… Read the rest of the article: Wikipedia's 7-year yogurt spelling war was longer than three Shakespeare plays
For the last several years, Tom Whitwell, has written an annual list of 52 things he's learned that year. He just posted his new one. Here are five samples: There… Read the rest of the article: Tom Whitwell's annual collection of 52 fascinating facts returns, featuring expensive calculators and trademarked scents
There's a scene in Quentin Tarantino's 2015 Western, The Hateful Eight, where Kurt Russell grabs Jennifer Jason Leigh's guitar and smashes it against a wooden column. Turns out that wasn't… Read the rest of the article: Famous movie prop "accident": 1870s Martin Guitar destroyed during filming of "The Hateful Eight"
"I'm acutely aware that I could go any day now but — I don't know why — it doesn't concern me. I'm not afraid of it. I have that feeling… Read the rest of the article: 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke dances barefoot in new Coldplay video
Bluesky is being overrun by AI-powered disagreement bots, as YouTuber Hank Green says in this video. After posting his thoughts about Twitter and Bluesky differences to Bluesky, he received a… Read the rest of the article: Bluesky's bot invasion: AI accounts argue with everything you post
Want to be that person who gives cool and unexpected books this season? Or maybe you're looking to treat yourself? Here are six titles that range from political satire to… Read the rest of the article: An anti-boring book guide: six great gift picks
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! A mystery illness has killed dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two weeks. Health experts… Read the rest of the article: Unknown disease kills up to 143 in Congo
A 70-centimeter (27-inch) asteroid lit up the sky over Yakutia, Russia a few minutes ago as it burned up in the atmosphere. Here's a video. Alan Fitzsimmons, a professor who… Read the rest of the article: Small asteroid creates spectacular light show over Russia just hours after discovery
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a feature that allowed users to directly upload videos to YouTube from their… Read the rest of the article: Time capsule of 5 million random iPhone videos reveals life before Instagram
Drew Friedman' latest book, Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy, contains over 160 portraits of quirky, forgotten, and famous icons of American pop culture. I'm a longtime admirer… Read the rest of the article: Drew Friedman's latest book: Shtick Figures: The Cool, the Comical, the Crazy
Allee Willis may be the most influential artist you've never heard of. A new documentary, The World According to Allee Willis, reveals a renaissance woman who blazed trails across music,… Read the rest of the article: Allee Willis — genius behind "Friends" theme song, finally gets her incredible story told
Don't let your inability to draw well hold you back from drawing. The activity of drawing can "reduce anxiety, elevate mood, improve quality of life and promote general creativity," says Darren C Fisher, Lecturer… Read the rest of the article: Mindless drawing is good for your mind
As a longtime fan of Jono Hey's Sketchplanations newsletter, I was happy to get his new book, Big Ideas, Little Pictures. This collection brings Hey's unique style of visual explanation… Read the rest of the article: This "sketch book" helps you understand complex ideas
I'm not saying Hertz is a criminal organization; I'm just saying it behaves like one. In 2022, Hertz falsely accused 230 customers of car theft. Some of the innocent customers… Read the rest of the article: Hertz's pattern of customer abuse: 230 false arrests, Tesla gas charges, and now a $10k threat over unlimited miles contract
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Yesterday a redditor named joshcam posted a photo of a coin cell battery with purple colored dots arranged in… Read the rest of the article: What are those blue dots on coin cell batteries? The real story behind them
Each holiday season, I look forward to the new batch of Seth's Christmas Ghost Stories series from Biblioasis. This year marks the 10th anniversary of these beautifully designed pocket-sized books… Read the rest of the article: Seth's pocket-sized ghost stories are bringing Victorian chills back for Christmas
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! It's the 50th anniversary of Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That Go and there's a new edition… Read the rest of the article: Why Richard Scarry chose animals over humans in his revolutionary children's books
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The MIT Press's Radium Age series continues to unearth fascinating proto-science fiction from the early 20th century. Series editor… Read the rest of the article: Lost sci-fi masterpieces return with stunning cover designs by cartoonist Seth
The Kim Sisters, formed in 1953, were "the first South Korean music group to achieve success in the U.S." according to Wikipedia. Sue and Aija's parents were Kim Hae-song, a… Read the rest of the article: Meet K-pop's forgotten pioneers: The Kim Sisters who conquered 1960s America
