The most extreme version of a sleeping bag is probably the mummy bag, so named for its sarcophagus-like shape. Designed for cold climates, the tapered form minimizes the interior volume, allowing your body's heat to more easily fill every cubic inch. The mummy bag is fine for tho … | Continue reading
It must have been tremendous fun (and a lot of work) for Australian production designer Colin Gibson, the man tasked with designing the bikes for 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Gibson, known for designing and building fully functional props and vehicles, worked with motocross champ S … | Continue reading
Dan and Tom had to John on Thoroughly Considered to talk one of the most incredible Macs ever made: Today’s guest is John Siracusa, the proprietor of Hypercritical.co and co-host of The Accidental Tech Podcast and Reconcilable Differences. His object is the 2019 Mac Pro. This epi … | Continue reading
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MinuteEarth explains that every person at some point in history will either be related to everyone alive or those who are no longer living. | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: El Salvador’s Bukele Says He Doesn’t Have Power to Return Mistakenly Deported Man (Vera Bergengruen, Tarini Parti, & Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Jo … | Continue reading
That can only favour better-placed wearables companies like Apple, Google and Garmin. The post Sports Watch Tariffs – Which countries and Brands are Impacted appeared first on the5krunner • tri bike run. The full post can be read now at the5krunner • tri bike run. | Continue reading
Andor, Revenge of the Sith, Rebels, and a massive new UCS take on Jango Fett's ship headline Lego's Star Wars celebrations next month. | Continue reading
In Seattle, community assemblies are gathering frontline community members to set their own policies around extreme weather. | Continue reading
Nvidia's $430 RTX 5060 Ti could be incredible for 1440p gaming, but you should watch out for pricing changes. | Continue reading
"These are amazing tips!" Concerned gardener exposes harmful landscaping trend spreading across neighborhoods: 'More does not equal better' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
In a perfect example of gallows humour, a friend shared with me a satirical (I hope?) website about an AI service for performing bulk redundancies. Alarmingly, compared to my recent experience, it doesn't sound completely bad... | Continue reading
The unexpected discovery of Greenland rocks in Iceland hints that a centuries-long cold snap may have helped finish off the Western Roman Empire. | Continue reading
President Donald Trump might clear the way for the building of 21st-century systems and open up the political space for a new way forward. | Continue reading
Scientists on an icebreaker ship have captured a number of weird and wacky animals from Antarctica's ocean floor, including a bizarre pig-shaped creature. | Continue reading
The music carved by Swivvel since their stunning debut "Parlor Trick" in 2021 borrows a lot from the chillwave mastered by Washed Out and continues to add thrilling layers of charm and personality to it. | 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
Maggie Doherty in Harper’s Magazine: On the morning of February 2, 2023, I exited the subway at 57th Street to find the air growing colder. It had been a warm winter. But the first proper cold front was moving in, and I already felt underdressed. I propelled myself toward the war … | Continue reading
Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day.” Join the discussion on kottke.org → | Continue reading
I recently had a leak in my bathroom that resulted in having to do an almost complete remodel, which included buying and installing a new toilet. When I was choosing said toilet at the hardware store, I laughed out loud when I saw the wild claims being made by various toilet comp … | Continue reading
Photos show that comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN) experienced a "major eruption," causing it to become temporarily brighter. However, it's still unclear whether the icy object is a true "cryovolcano." | Continue reading
Laura Tran in The Scientist: Atrip to the grocery store is a sensory adventure, with aisles brimming with eye-catching packages designed to tempt shoppers. Each display promises a delicious and memorable food adventure. “We’ve all experienced this moment where we crave a specific … | Continue reading
A prior Boing Boing post lamented the closing of an institution in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district: Koichi Shimayama's tiny but packed electronics store. The beloved one-man mini-market offered an astounding array of teeny transistors, resistors, radio tubes, kits, parts a … | Continue reading
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It seems AI jobs are here to stay, based on the latest data from the 2025 AI Index Report. To better understand the current state of AI, the annual report from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) collects a wide range of information on … | Continue reading
Welcome to another BoxLang quick tip - today I'm going to focus on working with JSON in BoxLang. Now, as you can probably guess, JSON is natively supported and supports what you would expect, going to and from JSON, but there's some particularities of the support that may interes … | Continue reading
Characters hell-bent on reshaping the world, for better or worse... The post Five Books Featuring World-Changing Visionaries appeared first on Reactor. | Continue reading
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Every new technology changes how we think and work. Computers redefined bureaucracy (for better or worse), the internet rewired how we find and share information, GPS navigation changed our mental model of roads, and smartphones annihilated boredom—or at least taught us to stare … | Continue reading
Buying a refurbished device rather than a new one can save you a ton of money. It can also be a savvy method of getting what you want during yet another moment of global trade instability, with the latest blow coming from the Trump administration’s intense tariffs on US imports f … | Continue reading
Most people know that buying a refurbished tech product will save you money compared to buying it new. It also gives a device a second life instead of sending it off to be recycled. Not only that, buying refurbished is sometimes a clever workaround for finding new or tough-to-fin … | Continue reading
"You can only imagine what that means when you buy a ton of it." Little-known company quietly unveils breakthrough that could reshape the EV industry: 'Absolutely dirt cheap' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
On an unassuming Berkeley, California, sidewalk, 128 cast-iron panels (each weighing 55 pounds) display a poem. Former U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass selected the 128 poems for the public art piece on Addison Street between Shattuck and Milvia. Sponsored by the City of Berkeley C … | Continue reading
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Google is rolling out a new security mechanism on Android devices that will automatically reboot locked, unused devices after three consecutive days of inactivity, restoring memory to an encrypted state. [...] | Continue reading
Starch-based biodegradable plastics may cause organ damage and metabolic issues, raising concerns about their safety despite being considered eco-friendly. Plastic products gradually break down through wear and tear, releasing tiny, often microscopic, plastic particles that may p … | Continue reading
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I’m going to offer a few thoughts on why and how I went about writing Return of the Maltese Falcon. But, before doing so, I need to acknowledge a few books and their authors upon whose work I depended. Dashiell Hammett obviously towers over that list. The 1961 paperback edition o … | Continue reading
Consuming cannabis can certainly be a way to deal with some health conditions like chronic pain or insomnia. But when a user goes too far and winds up in the hospital, the negative consequences can reach far into the future, says a new study. Continue Reading Category: Addiction, … | Continue reading
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The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the 10 richest people in the world — including nine Americans — expanded their wealth by nearly $64 billion, the greatest single-day increase in recorded history. Since then, an unholy marriage of billionaire investors, tech bros, … | Continue reading
"Them being transparent makes this so handy." Gardener shares brilliant tip for reusing empty pill bottles at home: 'What a good idea' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Have you ever laid in bed awake at night wondering "what would it look like if a giant banana were orbiting the earth?" Apparently, at least one person has wondered that, because they made this video. The video shows what it would look like if a gigantic banana were floating arou … | Continue reading
Dear Atlas is Atlas Obscura’s travel advice column, answering the questions you won’t find in traditional guidebooks. Have a question for our experts? Submit it here. * * * Dear Atlas, My wife and I are obsessed with ghost stories, so for our anniversary we want to stay someplace … | Continue reading
A study of marathon runners conducted by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), CIC biomaGUNE, and IIS Biobizkaia reveals unexpected behavior in myelin. Prolonged physical exercise forces the human body to draw on its energy reserves. During endurance activities like mar … | Continue reading
Kellie Peterson, in response to Automattic's mass layoffs and the drama that's followed, lays into Matt Mullenweg and others in company leadership. | Continue reading
Xbox players can add 1TB to their console for just $130 with Seagate's expansion card. | Continue reading
Fifteen years ago, achieving meaningful computing power required racks of servers, endless cooling and no small amount of hubris. Today, the phone in your pocket outpaces the supercomputers of that era in terms of raw power. And yet, much of the software we build still treats mod … | Continue reading