In a devastating blow to sociopathic billionaires, the Federal Trade Commission has cruelly demanded that hotels and ticket sellers reveal their actual prices upfront — a move that threatens to end the beloved American tradition of hidden charges at checkout. The heartbreaking ne … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Cut your gas bill and skip the traffic in 2025 by switching out your ride for the SWFT EDGE e-bike, now $799.99 (reg. $999). Ugh. Have you seen the gas prices recently? They're not so horrible (at times), but it seems as though we're paying an arm and a leg just to fuel ou … | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Ambikapur, India resident Anand Yadav, 35, fainted at home and his family rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. During an autopsy, physicians were shocked to find a live chick lodged in Yadav's throat. … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The startling photo below was reportedly taken between Cornfields and Greasewood, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. After generating a buzz in the cryptozoology community, an individual named Lottie came forward to report th … | Continue reading
While offering a correction and admitting they made a colossal math error, the scientists behind the "black plastic kitchen utensils are the tool of the devil" study are not backing off. A recent study set off alarm bells about the amount of flame retardant people are ingesting f … | Continue reading
"If we wanted to do immigration law, we would go work for Border Patrol," said Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot of border state Arizona. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Without paying for the work and having been told by the Supreme Court that enforcing … | Continue reading
Walmart employees are being equipped with bodycams. The company claims it's for their safety, but the point of bodycams is to watch the wearer and the cameras are marketed as a way of preventing shrinkage. CNBC gave anonymity to a Walmart spokesperson who wanted it to insist that … | Continue reading
Billionaire founder of the clothing line Mango died from a fall while hiking near Barcelona over the weekend. Isak Andic, the 71-year-old fast-fashion mogul from Turkey and Spain, was traversing across the cavernous area of Coves del Salnitre in Montserrat when he "slipped and fe … | Continue reading
In 1885, while riding horseback through West Virginia's forests, Civil War veteran Charles McIlvaine had an idea that would either kill him or revolutionize American cooking – he decided to start eating wild mushrooms. His resulting book, One Thousand American Fungi reads like a … | Continue reading
A DJ was working at a club in Oregon when a 29-year-old stripper allegedly stabbed him from behind. She then walked out of the club as if nothing had happened. Surveillance footage captured the traumatic incident, at Casa Diablo Vegan Strip Club in Portland, which shows the woman … | Continue reading
Tired of dealing with hacked accounts, Microsoft is to delete a billion insecure passwords, forcing users to pick better ones. The company now "blocks 7,000 attacks on passwords per second… almost double from a year ago." It has also seen adversary-in-the-middle phishing attacks … | Continue reading
Bequiffed cartoon reporter Tintin is entering the U.S. public domain next month, but only the incarnation found in early publications, badly-drawn and racist as they were. The character would only take his distinctive modern form in later works, as Hergé refined his skills and up … | Continue reading
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Despite being 50 years overdue, a copy of "Baseball's Zaniest Stars" withdrawn from the Warren, Michigan public library will remain in the possession of Chuck Hildebrandt, 63, who borrowed it in 1974 and recently attempted to return it. The library does not want it back. — Read t … | Continue reading
Rory Noble-Turner's 3D-printed Dune chess set suggests simplicity of materials while being the complex product of cutting-edge 3D quartz-printing tech. And I'm not sure I could cope with the combination of minimalist pieces and a curved board, Dune-tastic as they are in cleverly … | Continue reading
Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 has long been a top-notch business-class laptop, but battery life is one area where it (among many others) is way behind the MacBooks. The latest generation, reports NotebookCheck's Benjamin Herzig, more or less solves the problem—and it's still got an x86 CP … | Continue reading
Researchers at MIT set out to study the origins of impenetrable legal language, especially complex sentences that mix definitions with directives—a hallmark of "legalese." Expecting to find that such language results from legislators or officials adding to and editing earlier, pl … | Continue reading
If you're feeling out of luck, you can visit this long-legged good luck frog (Thanks, Atlas Obscura!) in Madrid, Spain, which was a gift from a casino. This giant frog statue was created by Eladio de Mora (alias dEmo). Although I can only afford to observe this frog statue from m … | Continue reading
The White Lotus, named for the color of its target audience, has been a masterclass in holding up a mirror to the upper crust and unraveling the web of hypocrisy that follows each of its often ill-fated travelers. If you like intrigue, danger, and middle-aged white people being c … | Continue reading
President-elect Donald Trump is toying with the idea of nationalizing the USPS, pivoting its mission from getting packages where they need to go to getting money into the pockets of its potential shareholders. Per the Washington Post: President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a … | Continue reading
Many of us can remember having Barbie dolls as children, but did you have the ultimate fashion icon—Mod Ken ? With changeable facial hair, you could give him a 'stache, sideburns, or go for the clean-shaven look. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Mod Ken: … | Continue reading
Watch someone blow three bubble-gum bubbles inside of another bubble. I'd say this is the bubble gum equivalent of Russian nesting dolls. You can see the amazing video here. This seems like such a fun talent to have, and a difficult one to learn. — Read the rest The post Watch a … | Continue reading
TL;DR: See nature up close and personal in the new year with this microscope that has a 4-inch LCD screen. It's on sale for $69.97 (reg. $100) until December 22. Microscopes quite literally gave us a whole new way of looking at the world, and now you can bring that power anywhere … | Continue reading
TL;DR: You don't need code to build a website, app, or API when you have Twidget, now $39 (reg. $600) for life. Have you ever had a "light bulb" moment where you wanted to build an app, website, or API? — Read the rest The post Here's how your idea for an app, API, or website can … | Continue reading
The visionary artist behind Blade Runner and Tron had a surprising holiday hobby: crafting intricate gingerbread castles. In a recently unearthed home video from 1990, Syd Mead (1933-2019) reveals his process for building these edible architectural marvels, combining his professi … | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! "Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a feeling of melancholy, nostalgia or yearning for something that is beloved but not present," writes NPR's Anamaria Artemisa Sayre. — Read the rest The post B … | Continue reading
Steve Bannon riled up a crowd last night when he suggested Donald Trump run again in 2028. "Donald John Trump is going to raise his hand on the King James Bible and take the oath of office, his third victory and his second term," said the MAGA strategist, suggesting that Trump's … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Biopharma firm Mind Medicine announced that they have dosed the first-ever patient in a Phase 3 clinical trial of LSD. The individual tripped on lysergide D-tartrate, an LSD formulation for which the US FDA granted "brea … | Continue reading
In the 1960s, Wham-O toys nearly gave kids something far more spectacular than the hideously disappointed Sea-Monkeys — an instant aquarium that would spawn colorful, rainbow-hued fish from a cube of dried African mud. Arthur "Spud" Melin, co-founder of Wham-O (the company behind … | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Visitors to the Rockhampton Zoo in Queensland, Australia recently enjoyed a rather memorable moment as staff chased a human dressed as an ostrich around the complex. Turns out, it was a surprise simulation for the zoo st … | Continue reading
Since 2012, five Wikipedia editors have been imprisoned – and one executed – for the crime of contributing to the world's largest online encyclopedia. In Saudi Arabia, editor Osama Khalid received a 32-year prison sentence in 2022 for making edits "critical about the persecution … | Continue reading
A gentleman in a truck confronted a bull elk standing in the middle of a road and asked the creature if he wanted to fight. Hence, the bull took him up on his kind offer, using one of his sharp antler's to pop the man's tire. — Read the rest The post Man threatens bull elk. Bull … | Continue reading
Nothing exposes human folly quite like our willingness to pay more for something simply because it costs more. These "Veblen goods," named after economist Thorstein Veblen who first mapped this peculiar behavior, reveal how deeply status-seeking is wired into our psyche. — Read t … | Continue reading
When a software developer's test program ran wild overnight, he arrived at work to find security guards waiting – and a test account mysteriously filled with a fortune. The incident was reported in The Register's "Who, Me?" Monday morning feature, "in which we share tales of tech … | Continue reading
A scammer posing as MSNBC host Ari Melber has reportedly swindled a former Boeing and University of Washington employee out of $20,000. And her family fears the con ain't over yet. 73-year-old Patricia Taylor, a "huge fan of Ari Melber's," allegedly fell into a relationship with … | Continue reading
Michael Conahan, formerly a judge in Pennsylvania, was jailed for 17 years for selling young offenders to private prisons to be used as forced labour. His sentence was commuted by outgoing President Joe Biden last week, to widespread dismay. Politico gave an administration offici … | Continue reading
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Eight passengers were injured, one of them critically, when driver of the 4A operated by First Bus in Glasgow decided to take his 14'4"-double decker under a 12'6" bridge. Five were transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital and three treated and released at the scene. — Read … | Continue reading
Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz was speaking as an honored guest at the New York Young Republicans Club Gala last night when he collapsed on stage. "I'm forgetting my words," the 27-year-old CEO of consulting agency XStrategies said at the event, where Steve Bannon and reform UK le … | Continue reading
Officials say there's no threat to the U.S. from the drones being sighted. In keeping with America's ufological traditions, it's mostly planes and planets anyway. Furthermore, there's nothing illegal or particularly menacing about flying drones at night. The investigations have a … | Continue reading
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processors made a splash this year with laptop owners, kicking off ARM-based Windows computing in earnest. And now there are rumors the company is developing a "game-changing" desktop version of the chip. You can take that literally, too: Roland Quandt's r … | Continue reading
Did a little teenage girl brutally hack a homeless man to death, mutilate his corpse, then transport it for disposal from one side of Las Vegas to the other while on a methamphetamine bender, leaving no physical evidence of her presence and being seen by no witnesses? — Read the … | Continue reading
Here is the charming original CBS promo for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" from 1965. There's a scene shown in which Charlie Brown tries to play Schroeder's piano and is punched clear out of frame by Lucy. And I've never seen that scene in the special. — Read the rest The post The o … | Continue reading
Absolute Bagels has been an iconic bagel shop on New York City's Upper West Side for decades, regularly making "Best Bagels in NYC" lists. On weekends, the line to buy bagels could go out the door, snake up Broadway, and extend around the block. — Read the rest The post Iconic NY … | Continue reading
Harley Quinn, the animated show on Max, has been one of DC's few consistently good properties and somehow has not been canceled. Kaley Cuoco absolutely kills it as Harley, as does the rest of the cast. Ron Funches as King Shark and Alan Tudyk as the melodramatic Clayface are both … | Continue reading