kubrick Kubrick wanted a clear monolith for 2001: A Space Odyssey Mark Frauenfelder

Delightful Creatures The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Bathyphysa conifera, is for real Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Become Clark W. Griswold with this Kodak scanner Boing Boing's Shop

music "NPS Front Desk" showcases talented Rangers Jennifer Sandlin

gay Documentary highlights the men that Abraham Lincoln slept with Thom Dunn

museums See Bigfoot's "buttocks imprint" in Blue Ridge, Georgia Jennifer Sandlin

Entertainment Disney announces huge theme park expansions Ruben Bolling

Vintage Weird Graham's 3-Wheeler: a 1929 science-fiction movie car that defied convention Popkin

television Video from the set of Stranger Things season 5 Allan Rose Hill

money 5 most evil con artists in history: Their shocking scams revealed  Ellsworth Toohey

california Venusian time machine: the strange tale of California's "Giant Rock" Mark Frauenfelder

immigration In 1974, two daring students explore abandoned Ellis Island (video) Yoy Luadha

art Extreme Beachcombing is a beautiful short film about a collector Popkin

forest Doodletown is a ghost town near NYC Popkin

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

movies Restored Beatles film "Let It Be" to start streaming on Disney+ tomorrow Ruben Bolling

News First major AI music video divides fans: "creepy" or "artistic leap"? Mark Frauenfelder

education Field trip to Willis Wonderland included in UCLA's summer kitsch & camp course Rusty Blazenhoff

sports One More Try is a hypnotic video about skateboarders who refuse to give up Popkin

1960s Prepare to cringe: Liberace's far-out "Feelin' Groovy" from 1968 Mark Frauenfelder