Here's a sweet little sanity break for your achy-breaky brain. Read the rest

Bill Hader's impersonation of Dateline's Keith Morrison has all but replaced the real Keith Morrison in my personal appreciation of Keith Morrison-ness: a folksy, overeager narrative of tragedy made perversely explicit. So it's a delight to see them in the same room.

Here's the classic parody:

I'd very much like to see the Hader-Morrison deepfake.

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Actor Keanu Reeves answers one of life's greatest questions in the way only Keanu Reeves can. Read the rest

“Feels like summer in Norway,” says Tomasz Furmanek, who shot and shared this serene and beautiful video of kayaking down a lazy river on a beautiful April day. Read the rest

This baby set a hospital weight record at birth. Of course it happened in Texas. Read the rest

You've probably never seen a bowler knock down a strike quite like this. I mean, what are the chances?

Wasn't planned or done over and over, it just happened. Triggers asthma at the end.

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Each of those white dots is an octopus. Read the rest

Hope they made her queen instantly. ALL HAIL OUR NEW MATRIARCH. Read the rest

Wow! I'm quite aflutter.

Worn belts + QSound = ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ

That QSound button widens stereo, adds reverb, and applies other audio 'enhancements' intended to heal (or conceal) typical tape trouble. The official website has a glorious Web 1.0 aesthetic of its own. Read the rest

"My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler. It was just so sketchy that I had to make a review," writes Redditor kibitzor on his office's ION Bottleless Water Cooler.

The video that follows is an amusing takedown of the machine as he tries to dispense a simple glass of "mildly carbonated" water from it.

Let your water system boot. Booting is fun to watch.

Wow.

Previously: $1000 smart teapot discontinued and RIP Juicero, the machine that squeezed juice from packets of juice Read the rest

This is deeply weird but also makes perfect sense. Wow. Read the rest

I missed this story when it was published last Labor Day, but hey: when Steve Bannon was you know, a regular joe working for a scrappy, much-loved, all-American firm called Goldman Sachs, he directed a $60m investment in a company called Internet Gaming Entertainment, which was a marketplace for buying and selling World of Warcraft gold, ground out of the game by botmasters and sweatshop gold-farmers. Read the rest

In the garden behind Tio's Tacos, the owner has created a phenomenal folk art installation.

Comic Book Resources gives our new “extravaganza” a thumbs-up. Come join us for the fun Sep. 18-20, at Southern California's historic Mission Inn Hotel and Spa.

Starting tomorrow the Oceanside Museum of Art plays host to Weekend of Wonder co-creator Baby Tattoo's Carnival of Astounding Art! Read the rest

The Weekend of Wonder will be held at Riverside, California's incredible Mission Inn. Often compared to the Winchester Mystery House, this amazing resort has everything a Happy Mutant could need, from engineering marvels to secret passageways! Read the rest

We are thrilled to announce that our friend Coop, famous rock poster illustrator and fine artist, is joining us at our Weekend of Wonder extravaganza, September 18-20 in Riverside, California.