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The 'Halloween Whimsey 3D Latex Mask Head Mask for Party Cosplay Costume Prank Joking', available at Amazon, is this season's de rigeur trick-or-treat outfit. • Great for Masquerade Parties, Costume Parties, Carnival, Christmas, Easter, Halloween or any other parties •...
To enable 'further research of information operations on Twitter', the company today published a dataset of tweets posted by known Russian and Iranian troll farms. In line with our strong principles of transparency and with the goal of improving understanding of foreign...
Iowa Republican Steve King is graduating from retweeting white supremacists and earsplitting dogwhistles to openly endorsing the matter of their movement. Faith Goldy, an excellent candidate for Toronto mayor, pro Rule of Law, pro Make Canada Safe Again, pro balanced...
The Trump administration is very proud of the US's historically low unemployment figures (lowest in 50 years), but statistics are deceiving, especially labor statistics. The most obvious fact about the low unemployment numbers is that employment statistics exclude...
The FCC justified its Net Neutrality-killing order by claiming that comments it received showed strong public support for dismantling the rules that stop your ISP from deciding which parts of the internet you get to use; but it was widely reported that the comments in the...
Weed is legal now in Canada. Here's what it'll cost ya. Some places are banning smoking it in public and there are other bumps expected, but the business windfalls are expected to define an emerging market by attracting global brands previously leery of associating with...
Sarah Gailey's micro-short-story STET is a beautiful piece of innovative storytelling that perfectly blends the three ingredients for a perfect piece of science fiction: sharply observed technological speculation that reflects on our present moment; a narrative arc for...
View this post on Instagram Dublinia and realism. A post shared by Jason Weisberger (@jlw) on Oct 17, 2018 at 5:31am PDT Today I experienced full immersion while enjoying Dublin's terrific history exhibit 'Dublinia.' If you are in Dublin, this...
Boing Boing is proud to welcome Outvote.io as a sponsor. Want to get Dems and progressives elected in the 2018 midterm elections? In 5 minutes? From your couch? There’s an app for that. The majority of registered voters missed the last midterm. Unsurprisingly, most...
Nick Douglas explains that 'No One Needs Hot Glue Shoes.' This is apparently a thing. That said, the video trend of 'bad hacks' is wonderful and must be feasted upon. But you don’t need to block bad hacks videos. Instead you, and me, and everyone, we need to watch them. We ...
Several years ago media sites began firing writers en-masse to hire video people instead, because Facebook and other social media companies told them that this was the future. 'Pivoting to video,' some called it. But what Facebook actually delivered was 'fraudulent'...
It's been a little over three months since the 12 boys and their soccer coach were rescued from a Thai cave. On Monday, Ellen DeGeneres had all 13 of them, plus a translator, on her show to give their first interview after their frightening incident. They report that they...
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Garden gnomes are great but, hey, it's October. Doesn't your yard (garden/stoop/desk) deserve something more seasonally appropriate? Enter Casper and Sadie Revenant's handmade Garden Nightmares. They're kind of like garden gnomes but much scarier. Each one is inspired by...
A two-foot-tall, 50-lb. nose prop went missing overnight Sunday in Portland, Oregon and its family just wants it back. The Oregonian: 'We woke up this morning and the nose was gone,' Delia Albert said. Delia Albert said her husband, who works for an advertising agency,...
YouTuber The Q spent 200 hours crafting a rideable bicycle out of wood, the glue that holds it together, and a handful of metal pieces like washers. Why? I don't know, but it's pretty cool. (The Awesomer)
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, is an Eastern European territory with a strong Soviet vibe. Technically, the country does not exist. Transnistria is considered a part of the Republic of Moldova, and isn't an officially recognized nation of its ...
In this video, Caltech demonstrates the Rabbit Illusion, a 'time-traveling illusion trick.' It tricked me. Caltech researchers have developed these two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other—in particular, how sound can give rise to visual...
https://d2pvyxdw30n8fd.cloudfront.net/KY3/v5bc55ad79bb1b/SD.mp4 You can see this cute bridge in California sag ominously as a heavy bus passes over it. According to the person who shot the video, 'This is the 2nd bus to cross the 10-ton limit one-lane Beaver bridge.' I don't ...
Our friends at Core77 recently found a Tumblr devoted to aesthetically pleasing arrangements of knobs, buttons, sliders, and blinking lights. What is it about a well-designed control panel that makes it so appealing? Image: a VCS3 Putney, which sold on eBay in 2017 for US...
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