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The last time The Cure released a new album, George W. Bush was still the President of the United States of America. Much has changed in the intervening years—but, based on the band's newest single, "Alone," the band's emotionally pining synthesizer symphonies might be a consistently cathartic constant. — Read the rest The post Listen to the first new The Cure song since 2008...

Researchers at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) recently discovered a new species of deep-sea Ghost Shark (previously at Boing Boing) in the Chatham Rise off the coast of New Zealand—roughly 1.6 miles under the water. — Read the rest The post New species of ghost shark discovered just in time for Halloween appeared first on Boing Boing.

Ahead of the November release of his 73rd solo (and roughly 153rd album overall?!), singer/songwriter Willie Nelson posted his newest single—a cover of the Flaming Lips' 2002 hit, "Do You Realize." Speaking of "Do You Realize," I did not realize that Nelson was 91 years old, and still so damn prolific. — Read the rest The post Willie Nelson covers the Flaming Lips appeared...

Announcing the brand new Tom the Dancing Bug book: Volume 8 of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book program is "IT'S THE GREAT STORM, TOM THE DANCING BUG!" Now accepting orders right HERE! "Intricate, incisive, shape-shifting"  – The New Yorker JOIN THE INNER HIVE and get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug  comic at least a day before publication! — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: How it started,...

A 65-year-old man in Boston was arraigned on Friday for a murder that happened in 1988, all because he spit on the sidewalk outside of his home. A 25-year-old woman named Karen Taylor was stabbed to death in her Roxbury home in 1988. — Read the rest The post Man arrested for 1988 murder after spitting on the sidewalk in 2023 appeared first on...

A group of researchers at the Seoul National University of Science and Technology have presented a proof-of-concept for the first flying shopping cart. It's just a platform or wire basket mounted on drones to help you transport your groceries or other items; this is The Pallentrone, a portmanteau of "pallet" and "drone." — Read the rest The post Still no flying cars, but now there's...

LOST: Back To The Island is a new book from TV critics Emily St. James and Noel Murray that offers an insightful retrospective on one of the most iconic television shows of the 21st century so far: LOST, which first premiered almost exactly 20 years ago, on September 22, 2004. — Read the rest The post New book looks back on things we lost...

Backstage at Warped Tour in 1998, Fat Mike had a stroke of genius. The NOFX frontman had formed his own record label, Fat Wreck Chords, about a decade earlier. In the mid-90s, they started releasing a series of compilation albums called Fat Music For Fat People—basically just samplers featuring various bands from the label lineup. — Read the rest The post 25 years of...