Our family broke down and got a stinkin’ puppy. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
“About 1 second remaining” is the new beachball spinner. ✏️ Handwritten by Geoff Graham on November 26, 2024 Post navigation 👈 Previous | Continue reading
The fight to capture ex-X users heats up, as Meta, the sleeping giant, wakes up and realises that it has a blue butterfly problem… | Continue reading
Relying on a chart from USA Today and a Reader's Digest article on weird things the government spends money on, Elon Musk's analysis can only be intended to distract. Either corporations can pay their fair share, or we can start cutting the military budget. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Digital hardcore duo Machine Girl, with the late-October release of their new album MG Ultra still echoing, is making heir way across the United States. At Saturday's San Francisco show, the packed crowd was eager to dan … | Continue reading
Folks with limited mobility or those who just like more ride stability could find new freedom by sliding onto the comfort seat of an electric trike. Startup Meet One Trike has followed the launch of a folding electric trike in October with a dual-motor model called the Tour. Cont … | Continue reading
The following is excerpted from “Ingenious Mechanicks,” by Christopher Schwarz. This book is a journey into the past. It takes the reader from Pompeii, which features the oldest image of a Western bench, to a Roman fort in Germany to inspect the oldest surviving workbench, and fi … | Continue reading
Welcome to the latest edition of Food52 Founder Amanda Hesser’s weekly newsletter, Hey There, It’s Amanda, packed with food, travel, and shopping tips, Food52 doings, and other matters that catch her eye. Get inspired—sign up here for her emails. Photo by Julia Gartland Something … | Continue reading
Engineers took to a competition pool to test robotic prototypes for an ambitious mission concept—a swarm of underwater explorers seeking signs of life on alien ocean worlds. NASA’s upcoming missions to Europa will deploy advanced robots to probe its icy oceans for life. The robot … | Continue reading
As if travel during Thanksgiving week wasn't hectic enough, planes collided at Boston's Logan International Airport on Monday — not once but twice. First, at around 11:00 a.m., an American Airlines flight that had just landed from London got too close to a Frontier Airlines fligh … | Continue reading
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Some of the best advice I ever received was an admonition against burning bridges. An old co-worker told me that when I was getting ready to leave a job at which I was unhappy. The immature side of me wanted to leave in a blaze of glory, letting everyone know what I thought of th … | Continue reading
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For most of human history, we’ve lived in the shadow of the gods. Every century before ours was a far, far more religious one. People would pray daily to divinities that were never far away. They would see the divine in everything. Gods made the world, and that made the world mea … | Continue reading
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A study reveals that while levels of common contaminants are low, other elements are found in high concentrations in waters associated with an abandoned lithium mine. A new study suggests that lithium ore and mining waste from a historic lithium mine west of Charlotte, North Caro … | Continue reading
The Evolution Continues. GlassFish, which used to be a popular application server, free to use and reliable, is evolving again. If you’ve been holding onto your old GlassFish instances, there’s good news—things have gotten a lot more exciting recently. Since we ... The post Glass … | Continue reading
JavaScript is the name of the most popular and widely-used programming language. Due to a series of historical absurdities, such as the decision to name it after Java, a completely different language, JavaScript is now also a trademark registered to Oracle. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
Today, we’re excited to share two free printable cut and paste worksheets that kids will love. These engaging activities encourage… The post Cut and Paste Worksheets For Kids of All Ages appeared first on Kids Activities Blog. | Continue reading
Understanding strace and its Origins A Look Back: strace and dtrace Originating from Sun Microsystems Technical Functioning of strace The Role of ptrace in strace Comparing with DTrace Practical Usage and Advantages Ease of Use and Accessibility Favored in Linux ... The post stra … | Continue reading
Ownership and control of social media platforms is a first-order concern for both domestic politics and international conflict. The most important battleground in the Russia-Ukraine war is elections in NATO member states. And there, Russia is clearly winning. Trump, obviously, bu … | Continue reading
The star of this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show was the Hyundai Ioniq 9, a rounded-off colossus of an EV that puts Hyundai’s signature EV styling on a three-row SUV cavernous enough to carry seven. I was reminded of two years ago, when Hyundai stole the L.A. show with a different E … | Continue reading
With each upgrade of the .NET platform, developers may decide whether to upgrade or wait until the rest of the ecosystem upgrades first. Here is my experience when I wanted to understand if it’s ok to bump up my projects to .NET 9 while some of the NuGet libraries I depend on are … | Continue reading
John Alfred Tinniswood (previously at Boing Boing) died Monday at 112. He was the world's oldest man. His family said Mr Tinniswood's final day was "surrounded by music and love". Mr Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK's oldes … | Continue reading
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European Parliament's hemicycle in Strasbourg. Photo credits: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union The European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research, and Energy (ITRE) backs the creation of new independent councils in FP10, a concept proposed in the Read more here | Continue reading
Lava tubes on Earth have been studied for signs of ancient microbial life, providing a model for searching for life in similar structures on Mars. A comprehensive study of lava tubes—caves formed by cooling lava after volcanic eruptions—has shed light on how Earth’s ancient envir … | Continue reading
Lady Mercedes's music dwells on hope and positivity, performed with grace and elegance that is captivating and utterly enthralling. | Continue reading
Being intellectually alive isn’t only about being open-minded when presented with new ideas and perspectives. It’s about proactively seeking out these experiences. It’s about fighting to break free of the bubble that’s so easy to create for ourselves to understand how the other 9 … | Continue reading
After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global corporations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course. I’m bringing all of my experience of helping teams — both as a consultant and a design agency founder — not just to write better … | Continue reading
From a handheld soldering gun to the 'playbird mansion' and, of course, the marvel of a smartphone microscope, there are some gadgets that we come across that we instantly want – and this wireless ultrasonic cutter is definitely another. Continue Reading Category: Electronics, Co … | Continue reading
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Rainfall stopping by sunrise. An oak leaf comes sailing out of the woods and spirals down onto the porch. Holes in the clouds open and close like blue wounds. | Continue reading
In the new mid-infrared image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the Sombrero galaxy (technically known as Messier 104 or M104 galaxy) appears more like an archery target, instead of wide-brimmed Mexican hat Sombrero as it appeared in earlier visible light images taken Spit … | Continue reading
Current conditions: Parts of southwest France that were freezing last week are now experiencing record high temperatures • Forecasters are monitoring a storm system that could become Australia’s first named tropical cyclone of this season • The Colorado Rockies could get several … | Continue reading
Researchers at INRS have developed a synthetic photonic lattice capable of generating and manipulating quantum states of light, paving the way for promising advancements in applications ranging from quantum computing to secure quantum communication protocols. A study co-directed … | Continue reading
The launcher is being axed and 'removed from every game that used it on Epic and Steam.' | Continue reading
The latest of some 5,780 exoplanets so far discovered outside our own solar system is described as a "young" planet that may develop into a super-Earth: a world compositionally similar to our own but much larger."Astronomers got lucky," writes Mark Kaufman. — Read the rest The po … | Continue reading
Asbestos was the material that built the future! Strong, long lasting, fire-proof, and - above all - completely safe for humans. Every house in the land had beautiful sheets of gloriously white asbestos installed in the walls and ceilings. All the better to keep your loved ones s … | Continue reading
Researchers at Australia's Monash University are close to solving one of the biggest challenges with eVTOL aircraft. The team's new lithium-sulfur battery tech is designed to deliver roughly twice the energy density of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, as well as speedy charging an … | Continue reading
Allegories using classical deities, by Tintoretto and Rubens. Accounts of how the Sabine women brought peace to Rome, and peace treaties of Charlemagne and Barbarossa. | Continue reading
I guess something has changed with the Joe Rogan / Spotify deal and now all the old episodes are on YouTube again, which means the gems from the archives can now pop up. I was alerted to this conversation between Joe Rogan and John Carmack, and it’s pure gold. I know I’m five yea … | Continue reading
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! And if not, it's certainly a contender. Put the neon-green Cyberbeast out of your mind and feast your eyes on the Cyberdoge, a unique meeting of Elon Musk's terrible cars and Elon Musk's ancient taste in memes that would … | Continue reading
Discovery hints at wide-ranging potential for enhancing brain function Although it is widely recognized that sleep boosts cognitive performance, the neural mechanisms underlying this effect—especially those associated with non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep—are still not well un … | Continue reading
This is from 404 Media: The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data from all modern iPhones that run iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1, which are two recently released versions of Apple’s mobile oper … | Continue reading