I will go on record and say that I think OK Go is an incredibly underrated band. Sure, everyone talks up their fancy music videos — which are certainly great!… Read the rest of the article: OK Go: cereal giant and indie rockers in legal battle over name the band had first
Bloomberg published an article this week about Bryan Johnson (previously), who sold his payment processing company to eBay, Inc. for $800M in cash back in 2013. Naturally, he used his… Read the rest of the article: A 45-year-old tech mogul spends $2M a year to make his body 18 again
From NewScientist: A miniature, shape-shifting robot can liquefy itself and reform, allowing it to complete tasks in hard-to-access places and even escape cages. It could eventually be used as a… Read the rest of the article: A group of scientists made a working liquid metal robot
YouTuber @on4word meticulously recreated all 42 minutes and 26 seconds of Radiohead's infamous 2007 pay-what-you-want album In Rainbows — using nothing but audio samples from MARIO 64. Which makes you… Read the rest of the article: Radiohead's "In Rainbows" album, recreated entirely with sounds from MARIO 64
I'm kind of mad I didn't think of this first, considering how much time I spent in high school doing this exact same thing with my friends.
A group of scientists just created a mobile cybernetic entity using robotics and the manipulated muscle mass of a dead animal. Neat! Here's the abstract from the paper, titled "Remote… Read the rest of the article: Scientists create new biohybrid robots that are definitely not cyborg zombie mice
Acclaimed "Anarchist Anthropologist" David Graeber passed away in 2020, leaving behind an incredible legacy of scathingly insightful examinations of economics and human culture. In addition to being credited with coining… Read the rest of the article: David Graeber's posthumous new book explores how pirates created liberalism
Chinese streaming video service Tencent Video has finally started serializing its live-action TV adaptation of Cixin Liu's award-winning sci-fi epic The Three Body Problem on YouTube (not to be confused… Read the rest of the article: China's own live-action adaptation of The Three Body Problem is live now, with English subs
From SkyNews: Ranger Kylee Gray said her team were "blown away" by the "monster" cane toad which weighed 2.7kg and is believed to be female. She told the Australian Broadcasting… Read the rest of the article: Seriously huge-ass toad found in Australia
Around this time last year, I wrote about my love for The Department of Truth by James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, a sort of meta-level X-Files riff about conspiracy… Read the rest of the article: "The Nice House on the Lake" is a cozy riff on cosmic horror
I've never been to Australia. I hear it's lovely. I know some lovely people there, too. Still, I recognize that it's sort of a crazy natural death trap that also… Read the rest of the article: Flat Earthers: "Australia is fake and all Australians are actors paid by NASA"
I normally try to be attentive to the actual creative forces behind the meme'd cartoons that dominate our social media lives. But I'll be honest: I hadn't thought much about… Read the rest of the article: An interview with KC Green, who made the "This Is Fine" cartoon
Screw Midjourney, forget about ChatGPT — ChatYPT is the most impressive AI content generator I've seen so far. There are no weird hands or awkwardly stunted language turns. It's just… Read the rest of the article: Incredible new AI can accurately chat like a 1-year-old
The Mill is a new wifi-enabled trash can. Yes really. Or, perhaps more accurately, it's a plastic bin with an incinerator on top and a wifi chip to take your… Read the rest of the article: This smart trash can will incinerate your waste before scheduling a pickup
I saw this tweet the other day and uhhhh yikes: So naturally, I clicked through to the article. And uhhhh yikes: Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have… Read the rest of the article: New study shows how to use wifi signals like sonar to spy on people
The BBC reports that the Church of England — founded to break from the Catholic Church after it refused to grant a divorce to Henry VIII, who wanted to wed… Read the rest of the article: Church of England, founded specifically to undo sanctity of marriage, will not recognize same-sex marriages
Spy thrillers are funny things. As a life-long fan of genre fiction, I've always had a soft spot for a good espionage thriller. But as an adult and a journalist… Read the rest of the article: "Spy Superb" is a fun new comic about the best and worst spy in the world
The New Republic reports that at a recent gun industry trade show in Las Vegas, not far from the site of the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in US… Read the rest of the article: Gun manufacturer pitches the "JR-15", a rifle for kids styled on the AR-15
The United States' Office of the Director of National Intelligence just released its official 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. According to the 2021 Annual Report, there had been… Read the rest of the article: New official US government UFO report released, and sightings are way up
The most recent issue of The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features a Silver Age-parody backup story in which the Joker, cursed by magic-wielding superhero Zatana, grows a clone… Read the rest of the article: Fox News invents a fake Trans Joker controversy to have a melt down over
