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Rafael Nadal has officially retired from professional tennis. One of the greatest to ever do it. “I’m not tired of playing tennis but my body doesn’t want to play anymore and you have to accept that.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it. | Continue reading
I read this interesting review by Vivian Gornick of a book about the Village Voice. Vivian Gornick is almost 90 years old! This reminds me of our discussion, What’s the best novel ever written by an 85-year-old?, where I wrote: … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Josh found out that you may need the $20USD polishing cloth for your nano texture display because the one included with his computer that he ordered with the nano texture doesn’t work on the computer it came with. This is baffling to me. If Apple has a proper cloth for the displa … | Continue reading
Brushing your teeth with bacteria just isn't the ideal formula for dental health. | Continue reading
This pizza oven is a professional-grade appliance that you can easily take with you anywhere. | Continue reading
Another month, another round of new cars being added to Gran Turismo 7. It’s not a massive Spec III update or something that can match last November’s update. But the good news is, it’s a relatively bountiful amount of new cars, about twice the usual with six new cars added for N … | Continue reading
The incredible rate of construction in Saudi Arabia shows no sign of slowing with yet another ambitious project announced. This time it's a massive sports stadium, which will be one of the world's largest once complete, and is designed to resemble a seed germinating in the desert … | Continue reading
L'articolo TORNA IL MERCATO DEI VINI DEI VIGNAIOLI INDIPENDENTI FIVI proviene da BolognaFiere Group. | Continue reading
An exhibition at the Getty Center shows that the painting's pigment faded over many years, creating the hue that art lovers are familiar with today | Continue reading
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The way this package was placed outside this person's door is mildly infuriating. The package is blocking the door handle from turning all the way downwards, preventing the person inside from being able to open the door … | Continue reading
Remnants of Our Past shared footage of a very clever clothes dryer from 100 years ago with retractable arms that fan out like an umbrella. | Continue reading
I have always heard Tough Guys Don’t Dance (both the 1984 novel by Norman Mailer and the 1987 film adaptation of the same name, screenwritten and directed by Mailer) described as a “noir,” which leads me to call into question NOT the designation of either of those works as noir, … | Continue reading
Kudos to the people in the pre-car age for building places like Sintra, with its tiny streets and bright colors. Modern architects cannot build that. “But where are they going to keep the cars?” | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! I still vividly remember reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my American Studies English class junior year of high school. Not because of the book itself, but because of what happened on the first … | Continue reading
There are plenty of pundits and thinkpieces making the rounds right now, desperately reaching for any angle they can offer to explain why the recent electoral failures of the Democratic Party. But there's only one that's actually worth your time: the new season of Collective Acti … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Back in July 2024, essayist and electronic musician Drew Daniel had a dream about a song—a super crunched out jam in 5/4 time at 212 beats per minute. It was the kind of song that defined a whole new genre, called "Hit ' … | Continue reading
YOU CAN give the gift of Tom the Dancing Bug this holiday season! Volumes of The Complete Tom the Dancing Bug book collection are available for purchase, including THE TOM THE DANCING BUG HOLIDAY SIX-PAK: For a limited two-week long Black Friday, you can buy all six books at a sp … | Continue reading
A 34% price drop on this ultra-popular carpet, car, and upholstery cleaner means more green stays in your pocket. | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Curiosity killed the cat. But the Curiosity rover killed the Martians. Okay well technically is probably one of the Viking landers. At least, that's a new theory presented by Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at the … | Continue reading
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LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The International Association of Chiefs of Police—which is exactly what it sounds like—held its annual conference last month in Boston, bringing together leaders of some 18,000 police departments to talk shop and gawk at … | Continue reading
MSNBC viewers felt betrayed by the supposedly "anti-Trump" conservatives. | Continue reading
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2024 The disorder is also in Us: This morning, Ed Luce takes his place on the pile. There he is, in the Financial Times, beating up on a famous madman and on the horse he rode out on. His column begins as shown: Trump’s demolition of the US state It is tim … | Continue reading
Manuel Moreale helps remove a new blogger's fear of having no readers by committing to be the first. Count me in too. | Continue reading
[] Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. —Robert Baden-Powell One Foot Tsunami has always been a labor of love. Since 2009, … | Continue reading
Elden Ring. | Image: FromSoftware Reports that Sony was in talks to acquire Kadokawa, the Japanese media conglomerate that owns Elden Ring developer FromSoftware, have been confirmed. Kadokawa has released a short statement acknowledging Sony’s intention but stating that no decis … | Continue reading
Current conditions: The northern Plains states could experience blizzard conditions this evening • A brush fire disrupted traffic in Upper Manhattan yesterday • It is about 60 degrees Fahrenheit and very windy in the Italian village of Ollolai, which is offering cheap houses to A … | Continue reading
A single AirTag now costs only $19. | Continue reading
When I arrived in the city of Perm in the Ural region in 1994, I went to live in a students’ hostel. It was certainly not for the first time in my life. I had lived in undergraduate rooms at the University of Bologna, where the main activities were staying up all night, smoking a … | Continue reading
When I tell folks I have two degrees in sport management and an adult thriller coming out soon, I know the question I’m going to get before it’s even posed: How do those go together? During the summer of 2021, my two lifelong loves met up in Casper, Wyoming. I was 21 and had neve … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! After almost 30 years without a substantiated sighting, researchers have concluded that the slender-billed curlew is extinct. It is the first mainland European bird to go extinct in the last 500 years. — Read the rest Th … | Continue reading
Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Netflix is following up the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight with NFL games and WWE’s Monday Night Raw. Continue reading… | Continue reading
XPENG has gone a slightly different route with its electric aircraft than others inching into this space. It has developed a 2-person quadcopter drone that fits inside of a 6-wheeled electric van. It makes me think of the Transformers, even though it’s not really that. You can wa … | Continue reading
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Cigarette smoke has been found to worsen influenza A infections by disrupting the natural balance of throat microbiota, suggesting a significant link between smoking and respiratory disease severity. Cigarette smoke exposure is associated with many different respiratory diseases. … | Continue reading
Plus, Tawny Newsome discusses the progress on her untitled Star Trek comedy series. | Continue reading
In April of 1066, a streak of cool fire appeared in the heavens. The comet, called a “bearded star” back then, had appeared before. There are mentions of it around the world dating as far back as the fifth century B.C. It’s now called Halley’s Comet, for the 18th-century scientis … | Continue reading
Image: GSC Game World GSC Game World’s long-awaited survival epic delivers the ultimate stalker fantasy — if you can look beyond the plethora of glitches. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Axon's AI innovations promise to free officers from desks, but not without questions of ethics. CEO Rick Smith addresses concerns and community trust: | Continue reading
Paul Migrom has an Emmy, a Nobel, and a successful company. There’s one more big problem on the to-do list. | Continue reading
Much like land wars in Asia and dealing with your in-laws, ordering a cake is all about keeping certain information to yourself. You don't leak state secrets, you don't say you hated last Sunday's casserole, and you never, EVER, tell a baker what size to write the 75: BIG MISTAKE … | Continue reading
"Flying with us might feel more like getting into an SUV than boarding a plane." Toyota is pouring half a billion dollars into its air taxi startup — see the incredible vehicle that has the company so pumped up first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Too late to save the ivory-billed woodpecker, Arthur Allen changed science forever with his seemingly simple idea | Continue reading
The thorny origins of the yuletide canoodling ritual | Continue reading
Despite its name, Futago Park in Inzai City isn't much of a park. It was designed to be a rest stop for cyclists riding along Lake Imba. There's not much to see, except for a pair of elephant statues and a public restroom. Both, however, happen to be noteworthy for different reas … | Continue reading