1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin
Boing Boing Shop Keep things toasty with this realistic fireplace now over half off, just $165! Boing Boing's Shop
politics Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Fox's Jesse Watters fantasize about mass deportations Mark Frauenfelder
star wars Behold, an over-the-top 'Empire Strikes Back' Christmas ornament complete with Han Solo in carbonite Rusty Blazenhoff
christianity Watch: Michele Bachmann said she spent Christmas telling her 3- and 6-year-old grandkids that the "eternal fires" of Hell await them Mark Frauenfelder
Pee-Wee Herman The Ventures mashed up "Frosty the Snowman" and "Tequila" for Christmas in 1965 Rusty Blazenhoff
music video Max Headroom had a Christmas song and special and they're both weird as hell Rusty Blazenhoff
mathematics This "Weird Units Calculator" can convert watts into T-Rex bites and lightsabers Thom Dunn
police Beware Sin City drunk drivers, "ghosted out" police Ford Explorers are coming for you Kevin Reome
batman I chatted with Danny Elfman about his new MasterClass, and his ventriloquist dummy "Buddy" Rusty Blazenhoff