Painter and director David Lynch has a nice home workshop, and in this video, he shows his hand-made iPhone holder, which can be attached to a tripod. It's nice-looking, and my favorite part is when he shows a plastic iPhone holder he bought online and says that it works well, but it was more fun [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/david-lynch-shows-the-phone-ho.html

Writing in The Week, Ryan Cooper says, "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has collected data for the week ending July 21, before super-unemployment expired, and found that 12 percent of households were regularly short of food, 21 percent of renters were behind on their payments, and 28 percent of children were in households with one [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/the-risk-of-going-hungry-in-th.html

No one: Brach's: "We have candy corn that tastes like Thanksgiving foods!!"  Turkey Dinner candy corn is described as "A full course meal presented in a unique mix of candy corn flavors. BRACH'S Turkey Dinner includes all of the traditional Thanksgiving favorites. From roasted turkey, green beans and stuffing to ginger glazed carrots, cranberry [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/candy-corn-in-thanksgiving-fla.html

This "house boat" for sale on Mercer Island, Washington was once the USS Manzanita, built for the US Coast Guard in 1908 and later part of the US Navy. It's now for sale for $2 million. From Realtor.com: n 1949, the boat was going to be scrapped, when a local librarian and her father bought [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/for-sale-home-built-into-the.html

GPT-3 is a machine-learning trained language model that generates text based on a text prompt. Cory Doctorow has been playing around with a closed-beta implementation of Sudowrite, which he describes as a "GPT3-based text generator for fiction writers. You give it characters, plot summaries, dialogue, or twist endings," and Sudowrite generates one of more paragraphs [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/cory-doctorow-experiments-with.html

Chameleons have evolved a superfast and long tongue to grab insects in an instant. Inspired by this marvelous bit of nature, engineers at Seoul National University of Science and Technology created "Snatcher," a robotic tongue design that could someday be mounted on drones to pick up packages. From IEEE Spectrum: "For example, a quadrotor with [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/snatcher-a-superfast-robotic.html

Seeya! Rough Google translation of the tweet: "It's a mini 4WD that has been tuned to be crisp."

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/watch-this-hilarious-video-of.html

There are many aspects of American culture that are secretly or not-so-secretly rooted in something absolutely abhorrent. I'm not just talking about the "original sin" of settler colonialism, or even the institution of slavery itself — although those things certainly help to inherently taint the nation's origins. No, I'm talking about all the other things [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/the-sats-were-literally-invent.html

The question was asked by Huffington Post correspondent SV D'ate, who told the Guardian: I don't know why he called on me, because I've tried to ask him before [in March] and he's cut me off mid-question. Maybe he didn't recognise me this time. You know, he has this group of folks that he normally [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/14/reporter-to-trump-do-you-re.html

President Donald Trump requested a mail-in ballot for Florida's Tuesday primary election, despite weeks of spewing hot lying garbage all over the place about how voting by mail means cats and dogs and zombies will get the vote. On Wednesday, ballots for POTUS and for FLOTUS Melania Trump were sent to the Trump Mar-a-Lago resort. [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/trump-asked-for-mail-in-ballot.html

Epic Games has rejected Apple's 30% app tax. In the past Epic has owned every single partner or vendor and managed to hold on to all the value. Anyone remember Twitch? Or the streamers? Or organized eSports? Epic took the whole pie. Epic may be close to winning the next round of the entertainment advertising [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/free-fortnite.html

Epic claims Google forced OnePlus to break deal in which Fortnite launcher would be preinstalled on OnePlus phones

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/epic-games-sues-apple-antitru.html

One million Americans use American Sign Language as their primary means of communication. But as you'd expect, even though ASL is the sixth-most used language in the US, it isn't just any old language like English or Spanish or French.  According to Communication Service for the Deaf, 98 percent of Deaf people don't receive education [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/if-youve-ever-thought-of-le.html

If I was at a drive-in movie in 1979 and this commercial for the snack bar played, I'd have secretly wished it was the actual film we were there to see. (via r/ObscureMedia)

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/drive-in-movie-snack-bar-comme.html

Police in St. Petersburg, Florida arrested a homeless fellow who had been living in a luxury suite in Al Lang Stadium. He was apparently wearing Tampa Bay Rowdies clothing swiped from the merch shop and ate from the concession stands during his two week stay. He's now in jail on charges of burglary and "resisting [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/homeless-florida-man-lived-in.html

The US Pentagon is forming a task force to investigate military reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (aka UFOs). Over the last few years, the New York Times broke news of a similar program in the Office of Naval Intelligence, examined curious videos depicting aerial encounters between Navy jets and UFOs (above), and reported a theoretical [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/pentagon-launches-ufo-task-for.html

The 'Good Ghost' is an amazing BMW R100 project currently being featured on BikeEXIF. DIRK OEHLERKING HAS a portfolio of incredible builds, but there are two machines that stand out. They are the White Phantom and Black Phantom—two classic BMW boxers, with exquisite hand-formed bodywork and an unusual art deco vibe. Dirk refers to his Phantoms as "two that [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/a-ridiculously-beautiful-bmw-r.html

In Munich, Germany, the Circus Krone, closed due to the pandemic, is trying out a new revenue stream: They're selling jars of lion poop for use in gardens to fertilize and also deter other animals from nibbling. According to UPI, "the circus erected a large sculpture dubbed 'Mr. Poo' outside the business to celebrate the [&]

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/circus-sells-jars-of-lion-poop.html

I have gone deep into Leo Moracchioli's Frog Leap Studios youtube channel.

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/leo-moracchiolis-metal-cover.html

Lydia Cambron brilliantly recreated the final, enigmatic scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. My god, it's full of droplets. (via Daring Fireball)

https://boingboing.net/2020/08/13/watch-2020-an-isolation-ody.html