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Monday January 20, 2025. 02:07 PM
These photos from the 1950s, shared by Vintage Everyday, show photos of the incredible time a 'Lipstick Tester' is having. The role of the lipstick tester was to simply sit in a chair while a group of women kissed his cheeks and forehead to see how the lipstick would...
Sunday January 19, 2025. 08:27 PM
It's not who is in charge now that matters, but who will be in charge tomorrow. After president-elect Donald Trump promised to issue an executive order blocking the ban imposed on TikTok by Congress (and found constitutional last week by the Supreme Court), the site allowed...
Sometimes, chimney smoke can rise up in a perfect-looking, unbroken, straight line, high into the sky above. When this happens, it looks as if a white rope is dangling into the chimney from the atmosphere above. This cool phenomenon can happen with the right combination of...
The law effectively banning Tik Tok went into effect today. The ban is unpopular, the Biden administration already said it won't enforce it in its last two days, and president-elect Trump clearly wants to keep Tik Tok around, if only to somehow get it sold to Elon Musk or...
This freaky and cool simulation shows what it might be like to fall into a wormhole, if you could hypothetically stay alive to witness what it looks like. In the simulation, we see how space gets more and more distorted as we approach the wormhole. — Read the rest The post W...
The bizarre toy of the day is this ear shaped toy that allows users to remove fake acne blackheads from it with a pair of tweezers. I'm unsure of the brand of the toy featured in the video, but here's a similar toy on Amazon. — Read the rest The post Bizarre ear-shaped toy...
This vintage Sony Tape Recorder Ad from 1967 boasts about their new videotape recorder that 'goes anywhere you go'. I definitely take the ease of my iphone camera for granted. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest The post...
TL;DR: Stop wasting time scrolling and start learning—Pearls Premium gives you lifetime access to bite-sized, 15-minute summaries of bestsellers for just $29.99. TikTok might get banned, and while it may feel like something's missing, there's plenty of great stuff to fill...
Saturday January 18, 2025. 07:36 PM
Atlanta Public Works killed an unhoused person with a city vehicle during a camp clearing. While tragic, it sounds like the agency doesn't even know what happened. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The man died as the Atlanta Department of Public ...
Is it 1984? Are you trying to port a BASIC ap–sorry, program–from Microsoft BASIC to the newfangled Locomotive BASIC? Well, here's the chart for you. A note on this scan indicates it was inserted in the September 1984 issue of Personal Computer World, the first U.K. — Read...
I had to check the date when reading this press release from General Mills to ensure that it wasn't April 1st. It is not April Fools Day, and Progresso Soup Drops are an actual product. The chicken soup-flavored hard candy drops come in an ersatz soup can with the tagline...
If you've never heard the massive pipe organ at London's Royal Albert Hall at full power, now's your chance—and boy oh boy, are you in for a treat! And when it's played by organist Anna Lapwood, Director of Music at Pembroke College (Cambridge) and Associate of the Royal...
Mike Mignola is back, and this time, the Hellboy creator is inviting us into a wholly new universe of eerie, whimsical, and darkly enchanting folktales. Mignola's Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown introduces a fantasy world bursting with gods,...
A world record for the deepest underwater photoshoot was achieved in 2021. Steve Haining was the photographer of the shoot, Ciara Antoski was the model, and Wayne Fryman had the important role of being the technical diving and safety expert. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT...
The marvelous Grimsby Beach Cottages, also known as the 'Painted Ladies of Ontario', are located in the Niagara region of Ontario. These rainbow, Victorian homes are up to 150 years old and each one is a true work of art. — Read the rest The post The Grimbsy Beach Cottages...
If you needed any more proof that the games industry is cannibalizing itself, look no further than the curious case of Until Dawn. Supermassive Games' 2015 classic took obvious inspiration from just about every slasher flick out there, and the experience of actually playing...
MAGA fans are none too pleased with Donald Trump's decision to move his inauguration to the Capitol Rotunda — and shuttle his followers off to a Jumbotron at a different venue down the road. Especially sore, understandably so, are those who traveled across the country to...
Wikenigma describes itself as 'a wiki-based resource specifically dedicated to documenting fundamental gaps in human knowledge' that lists 'scientific and academic questions to which no-one, anywhere, has yet been able to provide a definitive answer.' LIKE BOING BOING...
Friday January 17, 2025. 11:17 PM
My relationship with David Lynch began as a ten-year-old boy wandering the aisles of a video store. While browsing the shelves for monster movies, a DVD box caught my eye and reeled me in: a cloaked figure with a stitched bag on his head. — Read the rest The post David...
A hilarious cockatoo named Buster acts as silly as a court jester to get a reaction out of his canine brother. But no matter how many times the white-feathered joker hops past the doggo's face with a toy shaker in his mouth, he can't get as much as a smirk from the big guy. ...
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