tabletop gaming Create a new map for your next D&D campaign with this automatic dungeon generator Thom Dunn

computers Defunct 19A0s Computer Company Name Generator Rob Beschizza

text The Idiomatic generates random idioms to annoy and confuse your friends Rob Beschizza

All short viral video suspect now Rob Beschizza

Technology Math, not artificial intelligence, powers new infinite world generator Ellsworth Toohey

mechanical engineering Watch this loud contraption shake coins to create unhackable crypto wallets Ellsworth Toohey

Science From lava lamps to quantum dice: how random numbers rule your life Mark Frauenfelder

health White noise could be damaging your brain: study Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics The Role of Analog Shift Registers in Electronic Music Ethan Persoff

Spoken Word with Electronics The Music of Stranger Things and "Universal Event Generators" Ethan Persoff

noise What is your favorite color of noise: white, pink, brown, blue, violet, gray, or black? Mark Frauenfelder

utilities This monster name generator spits out 10 random names for monsters every time you click it Popkin

Spoken Word with Electronics ELECTRIC TOOTH! Hear a Synthesizer recreate getting a Dental Crown Ethan Persoff

police New Pentagon IG report finds that police don't need all those hand-me-downs of military hardware Thom Dunn

The Colors of Noise: different kinds of static have distinctive tones Mark Frauenfelder

Internet "Overly descriptive" color pallettes Rob Beschizza

boing boing 20 years of blogging at Boing Boing Rob Beschizza

music THE BUREAU: Part Ten, "Your Death" — with a Turing Machine, Bouncing Ball Envelope, and Other Randomized Voltage Ethan Persoff

education The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless Cory Doctorow