When you want to enjoy a good smoke, the last thing you want to do is spend time rolling up a fat one. We know your pain, and that's why… Read the rest of the article: The Twisty Glass blunt makes rolling papers obsolete

Jacob Laukaitis made this wonderful video that shows what it's like to be a tourist in North Korea. In the past 3 years I traveled to over 50 different countries,… Read the rest of the article: Video of a 7-day vacation in North Korea

When a woman who'd been arrested for failing to complete a diversion course stemming from a shoplifting charge was brought before Louisville, KY judge Amber Wolf with no pants on,… Read the rest of the article: Woman judge discovers that female arrestees are frequently denied pants, feminine hygiene products

ASAPScience just put out this fun sex ed video comparing orgasms between women and men. Some of the exciting points from the video: 1. Men's orgasms usually last only 3-10… Read the rest of the article: Who has better orgasms – men or women?

I love Randall "xkcd" Munroe's latest book, Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. The list price is $24.95 and it is on sale today for $10.93 on Amazon. I… Read the rest of the article: Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer for $11

Last week, the ACLU announced that Chelsea Manning had been charged with a series of bizarre sounding "administrative offenses" involving her recent attempt to take her own life.

These latest examples of abuse and neglect are, frankly, just what Chelsea has come to expect, as she has been systematically mistreated by the U.S. government ever since she was first taken into custody in 2010, including long stretches of solitary confinement, which the UN considers to be a form of torture.

Around 3,000 sex offenders on parole are now banned from playing Pokémon Go in New York. In fact, they aren't allowed to play any "internet enabled gaming activities." According to… Read the rest of the article: Sex offenders banned from Pokémon Go in New York

Not that it would stop the TSA from rifling through your clothes, but I do think the transparency of Crumpler's Vis-A-Vis clear suitcase makes a fun statement. The clear polycarbonate… Read the rest of the article: Transparent suitcase

My favorites from Rolling Stone's list "25 Worst Original Names of Famous Bands": • The Salty Peppers —> Earth, Wind and Fire • Smile —> Queen • The Pendeltons —>… Read the rest of the article: Weird and/or bad original names of now-famous bands

When Times-Union Editor Frank Denton sued the Jacksonville Police and Fire Pension Fund over breaking the law by meeting secretly to negotiate pension benefits, the fund and the city blew… Read the rest of the article: Jacksonville police pension fund blows $1.8M worth of tax-dollars fighting open records requests

See sample pages from this book at Wink. How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neiman Gaiman (author), Gabriel Bá (illustrator), and Fábio Moon (illustrator) Dark Horse Books 2016,… Read the rest of the article: How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Neil Gaiman at his best

Tokyo-based Masayoshi Matsumoto takes "balloon animals" out of backyard parties and into the colorful arena that falls between highbrow craft and art. The 27-year-old balloon-artist, who studied at Tokyo Institute… Read the rest of the article: Amazing "balloon animals" – not seen at your ordinary kids party

We've featured David Dutton's 8-Bit Cinema many times over the past 8 years, but this astounding showreel demonstrates that his canon is wider, deeper and cooler that you might realize.

Andy Greenberg's colorful and nuanced profile of Moxie Marlinspike offers some insight into the young, talented cryptographer whose tool, Signal, is now part of both Whatsapp and (shortly) Allo —… Read the rest of the article: A profile of Moxie Marlinspike: the seagoing anarchist cryptographer who brought private messaging to millions

British funnyman Peter Serafinowicz (Shaun of the Dead, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace) loves to tease Trump by redubbing Trump's exact words with funny voices. This time,… Read the rest of the article: Hilarious redubbing of Trump's voice in Stephanopoulos interview

Card Caddy is a cool invention: a $6 snap-lock case that holds your card-game cards securely in your bag, but unsnaps and reconnects to form its own discard pile; a… Read the rest of the article: Card Caddy: a card-game box that's also a discard pile

If Trump was a smart terrible person, says Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, his response to Khizr Khan's speech at the DNC would have been, "I grieve for the… Read the rest of the article: Trump's Khan flub proves he's not a smart terrible person. He's a dumb terrible person

Twitter's openness is its strength, and also its weakness: the ease with which new accounts can be created makes it into an amazing tool for free expression, and also a… Read the rest of the article: Instagram announces anti-harassment tools, overtaking Twitter

Logos from Hell is death metal illustrator/designer Mark Riddick's massive compendium of heavy metal band logos that he's gathered from across the globe. These are the sigils printed on foreboding… Read the rest of the article: The design of extreme heavy metal logos

When Pagan Kennedy wrote her 2012 New York Times Magazine history of home pregnancy testing, it didn't mention Margaret Crane, the product designer who created, designed and championed the test… Read the rest of the article: The history of the home pregnancy test is a microcosm of misogyny, chauvinism, and erasure