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Blake Pfeil's abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast is an award-winning audio series that takes a stunningly immersive approach to the trend of urban exploration. Here's the blurb: ​abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast guides listeners through immersive audio fantasies, recreating host Blake Pfeil's experiences exploring abandoned spaces across the United States. — Read the rest The post Listen to this eerily immersive audio tour of a real-life...

I keep my cats indoors for their safety and the safety of all the creatures they would undoubtedly murder outside. I make it up to them by making their lives as enjoyable as possible. One thing my cats love is YouTube. — Read the rest The post My cats go nuts for this YouTube channel appeared first on Boing Boing.

Over the first weekend of 2024 Coachella Festival, BritPop stalwarts Blur made quite the lasting impression with their notably cranky performance. Frontman Damon Albarn (also of the Gorillaz) chastised the audience for their lukewarm interactions, particularly the fact that none of them seemed to know the words to the band's 1994 gender-bending tongue-twister hit "Girls & Boys." — Read the rest The post Vacuum...

Remember that kid's book series Animorphs? With the really cheesy covers? Kids turning into hawks and starfish from the deepest depths of the uncanny valley? The little flipbooks in the corner? These are corny antiques from the late 90s, goofy illustrations of a goofy idea. — Read the rest The post Grandville's early surrealist French illustrations appeared first on Boing Boing.

TV manufacturing conglomerate TCL has just announced plans to release the first ever fully AI-generated TV movie special. It's called Next Stop Paris, because of course it is. Here's the official synopsis (which may as well be AI-generated, if it's not already). — Read the rest The post Watch the trailer for the first fully AI-generated RomCom, coming soon from TV manufacturer TCL appeared...

Here's a feel-good eclipse story that's just too awesome to let slip through the cracks. In 1978, earth science teacher Patrick Moriarty made a promise to his students: to reunite for the 2024 solar eclipse. And he actually pulled it off! — Read the rest The post After 46 years, a teacher made good on his 1978 promise to watch 2024 solar eclipse with...

Residents of Grassy Park—a suburban neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa—sheltered in place on Sunday while a hippopotamus roamed the quiet streets. The massive beast was on the lam from the nearby Rondevlei Nature Reserve. "My 74-year-old mom watched from inside the house, very scared, as the hippo came straight for our door," said Ashraff Schwartz. — Read the rest The post Suburban neighborhood...

No, not the US state, but I could imagine that too. Lawmakers in the Eastern European country of Georgia enjoyed an exciting session of Parliament when member Mamuka Mdinaradze of the ruling Georgian Dream party socked oppositional MP Aleko Elisashvili right in the kisser during a hearing. — Read the rest The post A Georgian legislator sucker-punched another lawmaker, triggering a big brawl (video)...

In Southern California's Riverside County, a driver was racing down a residential street when they lost control and the car launched into the air. It flew across a home's front lawn, over a pick-up truck in the driveway, and right into the garage. — Read the rest The post Incredible video of car flying over a pickup truck right into home's garage appeared first...

Miss Jazzy is a Goldendoodle who has style and sass for days. I can't stop watching videos of her sitting on the back of her favorite chair making hilarious faces, throwing shade, and giving the best side-eye. I honestly cannot get enough of her precious face! — Read the rest The post Miss Jazzy is the sassiest pooch I've ever seen appeared first on Boing...

Turning lemons into lemonade is all well and good, but how about transforming bat poop into antibiotics? Via The Inquirer, we read today that the National Research Council of the Philippines has uncovered smelly gold in a cave in the Philippines — guano that contains the bacteria  Streptomyces spp. — Read the rest The post Bat guano yields antibiotic treasure in Philippines appeared first...

This video from the French YouTube channel Parole de Chat, which translates to "cat's voice" or "cat's speech," was posted nine years ago. That makes it about a hundred years old in internet years, but it is one of my all-time favorites, and I need everyone to see it. — Read the rest The post Parole de Chat: persistent French cat wants in appeared...

Hidden Folks is a hidden object game. Like any hidden object game, it can be infuriating, but this game makes up for it with humor. There are weird or funny noises when you click on some things and tons of the objects are interactive. — Read the rest The post I did not expect a Voight-Kamff test in Hidden Folks, a cozy hidden object...

For this 1968 performance featuring Liberace and a troupe of flower-power performers probably rescued from a cult compound, the set designers of The Red Skelton Hour went all-out with a mod staging of "The 59th Street Bridge Song" (aka "Feelin' Groovy"). — Read the rest The post Prepare to cringe: Liberace's far-out "Feelin' Groovy" from 1968 appeared first on Boing Boing.

For the last few months, I've been working on a fun new project—a kid-friendly music-themed fantasy adventure podcast called Musicland Stories. The first 12-episode season was written by Bob Proehl, author of the Nobody People superhero book series, with two episodes by me. — Read the rest The post Musicland Stories is a delightful music-themed fantasy adventure podcast for all ages appeared first on...

See how the world's cutest cows react when their human friend pretends to faint. After their friend drops to the floor, pretending to be in peril, the cows act startled for a few seconds (their little jumps are so cute). The cows quickly forget about their grief when they notice the tasty snack in their human friend's hand. — Read the rest The post...

In the realm of musical classics, few tunes are as instantly recognizable as The Champs' 1958 hit, "Tequila." With its surf-rock vibe, the song has embedded itself in the cultural fabric for generations. However, what sets "Tequila" apart is its minimalist lyrics – there are only three words in the entire song, all of which are, as you most likely know, "Tequila." — Read...

It's a good time for Star Wars games. Just look at the excellent Jedi Survivor and try to ignore the Battlefront Classic Collection. Conversely, it's really quite a bad time for titan of video game mediocrity Ubisoft- ratings of their formulaic, shallow grindfest games have been declining in recent years as even the most mainstream gamers get sick of their schtick, culminating in the...

In Star Wars Outlaws, an upcoming action-adventure game, you play Kay Vess, an up-and-comer in the criminal underworld of the Outer Rim. The game takes place in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi when the Empire is too busy trying to crush the rebellion to worry about low-level riff-raff. — Read the rest The post Star Wars Outlaws gets a...

The latest project from the always-clever technology artist Nicole He (previously) is The Crush House, a thirst-person (sic) shooter video game that plunges into the shoes of a reality TV producer. The goal is not to murder the vain and selfish contestants (as tempting as it may be) — but rather, to shoot them on video. — Read the rest The post THE CRUSH...

Start your week with the best bit from a NSFW clip of a woman blocking traffic and abusively declining to move her car into a parking space. Ultimately, she utters an unpleasant remark about Hawaiians and resumes shrieking. https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/screaming.mp4 Assume that this person is voting all year! — Read the rest The post Upset driver gives others her thoughts appeared first on Boing Boing.

So, you've seen Blue Eye Samurai, right? Because it's fantastic. If not, go watch it now. I'll wait.  OK. Now you can fully appreciate this brilliant edit of Mizu in all its glory. Mizu's beautifully animated swordplay perfectly synchronizes with "Ainsi bas la vida." — Read the rest The post Check out this gorgeous Blue Eye Samurai supercut appeared first on Boing Boing.

Paul Di Filippo's latest science fiction novel, Vangie's Ghosts (Blackstone Publishing), is an impressively entertaining, deeply compelling speculation on the multiverse and the boundless potential of the human mind. The novel invites readers into the vast noodleverse inside of Evangeline "Vangie" Everett, a character who, at first glance, presents as a strange looking, completely silent 3-year-old girl. — Read the rest The post Review:...

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Matt Damon shared this wonderful story about a cat he and his family took home from Costa Rica. (Don't worry, fellow cat lovers. It sounds like the story will be sad, but it will be OK. — Read the rest The post Matt Damon has a death-defying jungle cat  appeared first on Boing Boing.