Japan Unusual Gashapons from Tokyo: Hilarious and Weird Capsule Toys You Won't Believe Popkin

Science Optical illusion causes whirling blades to appear almost stationary Popkin

art Curious spinning wheel of feet made to test shoes in 1933 Popkin

Kids Mesmerizing supercut of strange woodsplitting contraptions Andrea James

Funny Watch as World's Slowest Saw returns with viewer requests Andrea James

music If you want a good time, rotate polygons on a circle of musical notes Rob Beschizza

politics Rudy Giuliani held in contempt for second time in week Rob Beschizza

911 Here are the dumbest 911 calls of last year Allan Rose Hill

8-bit Word processors on the VIC-20 Rob Beschizza

armed gentlemen Man with a machete arrested at U.S. Capitol hours before Donald Trump set to arrive Carla Sinclair

gadgets Mecha Comet is a handheld everything machine Rob Beschizza

Games Chess engine made of 84,688 regular expressions Rob Beschizza

ecommerce How a bartender turned dick-shaped candy into a $100K business Ellsworth Toohey

Weird Kid jumps on dangerous manhole and falls right through Popkin

science fiction Dark sci-fi genius wrote at superhuman speed — Barry Malzberg Ellsworth Toohey

How the Earth's most isolated tree met its tragic end Ellsworth Toohey

Boing Boing Gadgets The freedom that comes with owning a $230 MacBook (that you won't get with expensive ones) Boing Boing's Shop

music When you listen to Spotify, are you listening to ghost musicians? Ruben Bolling

weird history Iowa's weirdest uprising: The great Cow War of 1931 Ellsworth Toohey