I started using a magnetic phone mount for my car over a year ago, and I think it is the best way to secure my phone to the dashboard. I've… Read the rest of the article: Magnetic phone mount for $4

I'm loving it: On Saturday, a fellow strolled into a McDonald's in Falköping, Sweden carrying a dead badger under his arm. The staff asked him to leave, which he reportedly… Read the rest of the article: A man walked into a McDonald's with a dead badger…

Former Syrian National Council vice-president Nour Al-Ameer fled to Turkey after being arrested and tortured by the Assad regime — that's when someone attempted to phish her and steal her… Read the rest of the article: Iranians connected to phishing attempt on tortured Syrian activist

See sample pages from this book at Wink. The White Donkey: Terminal Lance by Maximlian Uriarte Little, Brown and Company 2016, 288 pages, 7 x 10.5 x 1 inches $15… Read the rest of the article: The White Donkey – From the online comic series about the existential crisis of a military experience

Bret Stephens, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal's extremely right-wing editorial page, says that Republican big wigs who support and excuse Donald Trump's sadistic bullying will be lumped with… Read the rest of the article: WSJ conservative says GOPs who support Trump "will always be tainted by association"

Daftmike made a fantastic miniature Nintendo Entertainment System that's 40% the size of the original. It consists of a Raspberry Pi inside a 3D-printed case that he designed and a… Read the rest of the article: Fantastic DIY miniature Nintendo Entertainment System

UK animator extraordinaire Cyriak Harris posted a side-by-side animation of two herds of dancing cows. Harris' cows are on the right, McDonalds' are on the left. I'll bet McDonalds didn't… Read the rest of the article: Animator claims McDonald's commercial creator ripped him off

Media Access Australia is the only Australian nonprofit that advocates for making media accessible to people with disabilities — and they're also a member of the World Wide Web Consortium… Read the rest of the article: Australian media accessibility group raises red flag about DRM in web standards

New Order performs "Ceremony," live in 1981. This was one of the last Joy Division compositions before the 1980 suicide of singer Ian Curtis and the remaining members became New… Read the rest of the article: New Order "Ceremony" live in 1981

"Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell" have been making the best explainer videos on the planet. Their latest one is about gamma-ray bursts, which occur when stars collapse or collide. Gamma-ray… Read the rest of the article: Death from space — gamma-ray bursts explained

Tavie writes, "Kevin McDonald of the classic Canadian sketch comedy troupe Kids in the Hall has just launched a brand-new podcast, 'Kevin McDonald's Kevin McDonald Show.'" It's an old-fashioned variety… Read the rest of the article: Kevin "Kids in the Hall" McDonald has a podcast

Oskar van Deventer made a colorful gearing system with a reduction factor of 11,373,076-to-1. "The application of this type of extreme reduction gears is unclear," says van Deventer. "A patient… Read the rest of the article: 11,373,076-to-1 gear reduction

The Associated Press filed Freedom of Information requests with the US government to find the evidence behind the Surgeon General's admonition to floss regularly for dental health and found that… Read the rest of the article: Flossing is bullshit

….from 1997. On your mark, get set Now we're riding on the Internet Cyberspace, sets us free Hello virtual reality Interactive appetite Searching for a Web site… (Thanks, UPSO!)

Randy Olson, a researcher at University of Pennsylvania Institute for Biomedical Informatics, has taken his genetic algorithm previously used to find Waldo, and has applied it U.S. National Parks. In… Read the rest of the article: The Optimal Route for Visiting Every U.S. National Park

Edinburgh's Tony "Lasermad" Adams is kickstarting a levitating Nixie clock — featuring vintage Soviet deadstock Nixie tubes — that draws power wirelessly from its base, as it hovers magically in… Read the rest of the article: Kickstarting a levitating Nixie clock

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Donald J. Trump is abducted by Russian spies who attempt to brainwash him into becoming an unwitting Russian sleeper agent! Will they succeed??

Recent comers to Game of Thrones may be surprised to discover that the first book in the series is 20 years old today. Though we now know it as the… Read the rest of the article: A Song of Ice and Fire Is 20 Years Old

The New York Times' tumblr of photos from its voluminous archive is full of impactful and gorgeous moments. May 23, 1974: A kiss outside City Hall, where gay rights activists… Read the rest of the article: The NY Times' Lively Morgue

This might be the best/worst compilation of news blunders yet. See also: Part 1 | Part 2