creepy dolls Blowing up a Stretch Armstrong doll (and other indignities) Gareth Branwyn

DIY A hot dog is neither a sandwich, nor a taco — it is a synthesizer Thom Dunn

undead Grandpa Pudding Brains gleefully describes his experiments in necromancy Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing Gadgets Finally, a way to stop wrangling five different AIs at once Boing Boing's Shop

language A fart is a "poofoofus" and other "next level" slang from the Heaven's Gate UFO cult Allan Rose Hill

New documentary about John C. Lilly, the scientist who used LSD to communicate with dolphins and invented the sensory deprivation tank (video) Allan Rose Hill

News Strange 1996 "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" Usenet posts remain a mystery Ellsworth Toohey

memes Collection of Demon Core memes Rob Beschizza

artificial intelligence Keep A.I. weird! Allan Rose Hill

Science Incredible image of two particles entangled into quantum yin-yang symbol David Pescovitz

Weird The Testut-Latarjet Museum in Lyon, France is a must-see for lovers of the weird and the macabre Popkin

physics Scientists win 2022 Nobel Prize by proving that reality is not locally real Thom Dunn

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

AI AI tries to generate chain restaurant signs with hilarious results Thom Dunn

music The Music of the Beatles as Channeled in 1958 by the Echo Lake Home for the Potentially Clairvoyant is a fascinating experiment Thom Dunn

CIA CIA releases new documents about Russian telepathy experiments in the 60s Thom Dunn

music Richard H Kirk, co-founder of Cabaret Voltaire, RIP David Pescovitz

AI Artist trains AI to generate new pictures of herself Clive Thompson

toys The hilariously practical reason why He-Man has a giant green tiger Thom Dunn

art Lovely photocopier art made with a desktop scanner and a lightbulb David Pescovitz