That One Matt Bors Comic is a book entirely about how a single-panel drawing "conquered the discourse" in the mid 2010s. You know the one! Bors' strip perfectly captured the… Read the rest of the article: A whole book about That One Matt Bors Comic

The Social Reckoning is Aaron Sorkin's sequel to The Social Network, his 2010 drama about the founding of Facebook. The original starred Jesse Eisenberg as petulant boy genius Mark Zuckerberg.… Read the rest of the article: The Social Reckoning trailer

Francis Cadell was one of the four Scottish Colourists, a painter of Edinburgh interiors, Iona shorelines and poised women in black hats. When art teacher Helene Plotkin spotted an eyecatching… Read the rest of the article: Francis Cadell painting bought for $100 in thrift store fetches more than $250,000 at auction

Cardinal Robert McElroy, the Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C., removed a prominent priest as an exorcist of the archdiocese after he claimed that most UFO sightings are the work of… Read the rest of the article: Catholic church fires exorcist who said UFO sightings mostly the work of demons

News media typically omit links to the lawsuits they're reporting on. The reasons range from the practical (they've been given early access by litigators) to cynical (they want readers to… Read the rest of the article: Browser plugin adds link to the actual lawsuits news media report on

A Nantucket resident presented the town's School Committee with laxative-laced brownies at its meeting last week, prompting school officials to file a police report. No-one appears to have suffered from… Read the rest of the article: "Laxative" brownies turn Nantucket School Committee meeting into Schrodinger's shitshow

An Iowa man faces up to 10 years in prison after he allegedly threw a ninja star at a woman in Independence, writes Michael Hohenbrink at the Oelwein Daily Register.… Read the rest of the article: Man jailed after throwing ninja star at woman

A South Carolina cop was so infuriated by another officer microwaving fish that he aimed his service firearm at him. Michael Debiase, 46, was fired, arrested, and charged with pointing… Read the rest of the article: Cop fired and arrested after pulling gun on colleague who microwaved fish

John Rooney's The Birds of Palestine is a beautiful collage of avian species residing there. It's available as a print from his Etsy store (and from Shop Palestine, though the… Read the rest of the article: Poster of The Birds of Palestine

In-restaurant statues of Ronald McDonald are largely a thing of the past, McDonalds having stepped back from using its famed mascots in marketing aimed at children. The vintage items fetch… Read the rest of the article: Desecrated Ronald McDonald statue yours for $2500

Since the 1960s, Britons have been growing up with Quentin Blake's fabulous illustrations to books by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Elizabeth Bowen, Sylvia Plath, William Steig, and even the first… Read the rest of the article: Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens this week in London

A song lyric from rapper Fetty Wap, attributed to the principal in a school yearbook published by Trout Creek Academy in St. Johns' County, Florida, has scandalized local parents and… Read the rest of the article: Everybody hating on Florida principal over Fetty Wap yearbook quote

Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra this morning, which it described as the most powerful Surface laptop yet and the first to run on Nvidia's new ARM-based RTX Spark platform.… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft Surface Ultra laptop features Nvidia's new Spark platform

Teddy Warner created Heard Recently, a website showing the birds heard near his apartment. Unlike our Bird Buddy (a smart feeder with a camera) it uses audio to identify avian… Read the rest of the article: $80 DIY bird listening device creates painterly collages of avian visitors

Dell just announced the new XPS 13, a well-timed response to the wildly successful MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 through September, but only for students and educators, and everyone… Read the rest of the article: Dell counters the MacBook Neo with a $599 XPS 13

Various business stiffs wheeled out lately to tell graduates to "deal" with AI were surprised to find themselves booed and jeered. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, private equity strategist Gloria… Read the rest of the article: Harvard students cheer graduation speaker encouraging them to mercilessly destroy AI

A man was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after admitting he took shots at police in Milwaukie, Oregon, while fleeing a traffic stop. Loony Tune, 43, pleaded guilty to four… Read the rest of the article: Loony Toon sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting at cops

Diplomat Elementary's school yearbook has parents in Cape Coral, Florida, upset after it included a photo of a toddler extending their middle finger to the reader. The kid's mom (and… Read the rest of the article: Florida parents scandalized by toddler flipping the bird in yearbook photo

When online shopping was the wild west, you could buy delights such as male-to-male power cords, but they disappeared as retailers and platforms refined their policies. Big tech having outgrown… Read the rest of the article: Amazingly dangerous tech easily bought online

A mysterious boom heard across New England yesterday was a meteor entering the earth's atmosphere, say scientists. The rocky visitor came in off the coast of Massachussets and was large… Read the rest of the article: Mysterious New England boom was meteor