The sous vide cooking process has been growing in popularity over the past decade. You can get a lot of wonderful flavors by slowly pressure cooking foods under water for… Read the rest of the article: How to Sous Vide wieners with a condom

"My name is Brinsley McNamara and welcome to Weird Island." That's the flat, almost unaffected introductory line to every short Instagram reel posted by the eponymous Brinsley McNamara since January… Read the rest of the article: "Weird Ireland" offers a wonderfully whimsical tour of the Emerald Isle

We've all seen the video. It's one of those timeless hallmarks of weird Internet virality — a public access recording that's somehow both of the '50s and '80s, with a… Read the rest of the article: The secret history behind that infamous "Jesus Is My Friend" song

Indie artist Denis Kitchen has a long and storied career in the comic book industry that goes well beyond the page, and into the annals of legal history. Kitchen was… Read the rest of the article: "Oddly Compelling" explores the life of comic artist and CBLDF founder Denis Kitchen

I always get a kick out of a good metafictional genre story. Give me a crime/horror comic that reflects on the nature of storytelling within the crime/horror genres, and I'm… Read the rest of the article: "You'll Do Bad Things" might be the most gorgeous horror comic you read this year

Once upon a time, the Nielsen Ratings were the alpha and omega of TV viewership ratings. For decades, the marketing firm had the most reliable methodology for figuring out how… Read the rest of the article: No one knows how many people are actually watching TV anymore

Stereogum recently published a fascinating retrospective on Neil Young's doomed hi-def portable music device, the PONO. Released in 2015 after several years of painstaking development, Young aspired to create a… Read the rest of the article: Is Elon Musk the reason why Neil Young's hi-def music player never caught on?

Over the past few months, I've had the unique experience of testing out a Bitcoin-mining space heater—literally a cryptomining rig with some radiant heating coils stacked on top of it… Read the rest of the article: Can a Bitcoin-mining space heater offset crypto energy costs?

When I hear the words "cast iron," I typically think about frying pans, and how I know I'm supposed to season them but never quite do it right. I've certainly… Read the rest of the article: A fascinating look at the Nambu-tekki cast iron process

ElevenLabs is a company that provides text-to-voice services that essentially you to "clone" your own voice using generative AI. This is a potentially positive use of this kind of technology,… Read the rest of the article: Woman banned from assistive AI app after teaching it to say "arse"

Into The Unbeing is a new comic series from writers Zac Thompson and Hayden Sherman which centers on a group of rogue climate scientists as they stumble upon … something… Read the rest of the article: "Into the Unbeing" offers 80s-style sci-fi horror for the climate change era

A group of scientists recently found something new and terrifying in a cave in the North of Ireland — the fuzzy corpse of a zombified spider, infected with a mind-controlling… Read the rest of the article: Newly discovered fungal zombie spiders named for Sir David Attenborough

The fine folks at 404media have published a harrowing report on the proliferation of AI-generated "true crime documentaries," collectively garnering millions of views on YouTube — without clearly disclosing the… Read the rest of the article: Fake AI "true crime" documentaries are taking over YouTube

The newly elected board of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC has decided to cancel a planned two year tour of the new childrens' musical Finn, which premiered at the… Read the rest of the article: New Kennedy Center leadership censors award-winning musical about a sparkle-loving shark

On February 12, 2025, Disney sent an email to users of their online streaming services, announcing a newly updated "Subscriber Agreement." These changes — which affect not only Disney+ subscriptions,… Read the rest of the article: New Disney+ TOS can force ads on "ad-free" subscribers, but that's not the worst part

Every year around Valentine's Day, musician Andrea Neuenfeldt puts together a delightful cover compilation of themed love songs to help raise money for different causes. This year, the seventh volume… Read the rest of the article: Fun compilation featuring covers of movie love songs

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music, so they used to say. But all things considered, the so-called King of the genre, Elvis Presley, seemed to be a pretty wholesome… Read the rest of the article: New book explores the secret occult history of…Elvis Presley?

Infamous comic book artist Rob Liefeld is over Marvel — for real this time, not like that time he split from the company in the 90s to help launch Image… Read the rest of the article: Rob Liefeld denounces Marvel: "treatment of creators has never been their strength"

BBC reports that Google had to scramble to fix its big Super Bowl advertising campaign for the company's Gemini AI tool. To show off the capabilities of the tool, Google… Read the rest of the article: Google's AI-generated Super Bowl ad is no gouda, and gets a secret re-edit

If you're the kind of person who's ever wondered, "What the hell happened to Glenn Greenwald?" or "Damn, I liked Matt Taibbi during the Iraq War, but what happened?," then… Read the rest of the article: Eoin Higgins'"Owned" is a harrowing history of the right-wing billionaire tech takeover