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Wednesday November 27, 2024. 03:00 PM
When the Pilgrims first landed at Plymouth Rock, they were met by Ousamequin, the Massasoit or Great Sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy. Ousamequin and the Pokanoket people aided the refugees who landed on their shores, and it was he who signed the Pilgrim-Wampanoag Peace...
In a fascinating new essay for The Paris Review that expands upon a speech he gave this summer, MacArthur-winning author Jonathan Lethem explores the age-old question: Did Philip K Dick dream of Palestinian sheep? Okay, well I suppose the central thesis is slightly more...
Bitcoin is hardly known for its environmental qualities, nor its affiliation with, uhh, conservation efforts. But a strange situation has arisen in the Congo. While other mining initiatives continue to ravage the country, the practice of Bitcoin mining—which is to say,...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Even if you know nothing about rap music, you've likely heard of the feud between arguable greatest rapper of all time Kendrick Lamar (new album out now!) and Degrassi star Drake. — Read the rest The...
When I first joined the BlueSky social network last year, I remember being struck by the notion that I could select a custom hosting provider. I didn't fully understand what this meant, beyond the fact that it allowed me to link my account to a privately-owned domain name. —...
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 ...
Cyberpunk 2077 has had a rocky history, perhaps more so than most other games in recent memory. Wher deadlines resulted in the game originally being rushed out as a buggy mess back in 2020, many gamers declared it dead on arrival, or worse, a cheap cash grab put out by a...
The National Park Service does it again! I've written before about their awesome social media accounts, and I'm back to share more. This time it's Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota that's posted their take on the hottest movie of the week—Wicked. — Read the...
I really like the designs that artist Henry Taylor creates for his Theme Park Preservation Society project. He devises illustrations and objects that look like perfectly authentic artifacts from the universe of Disney theme parks. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? —...
In 1987, a female orca near Puget Sound began wearing a dead salmon on her head. Other whales in her pod, along with two other pods, joined in on the fashion trend and also started wearing salmon hats. Fashion trends among cetaceans must be fleeting because no more salmon...
Have you ever wanted to learn to play the mouth trumpet? I recently stumbled upon Emma Nissen, a singer/songwriter who plays a mean mouth trumpet—her mouth trumpet is so good, I swear it sounds like an actual trumpet. It kind of blows my mind, actually. — Read the rest ...
Windows Recall is an AI-based feature that will be built into new Copilot+ PCs. Recall takes snapshots of your screen every few seconds and uses that data to make a searchable index of everything you’ve ever done on your PC. But, since that first controversial announcement ...
The cybersecurity landscape is more complex than ever and that means enterprises need to have a real-time picture of their exposure. We spoke to Nadir Izrael, CTO and co-founder of Armis, to learn what this should look like and how security teams can evaluate and evolve...
A US federal judge indicated that the trial addressing the Department of Justice’s proposals to curb Google’s dominance in online search will proceed as scheduled in April 2025, even if DOJ officials under President-elect Donald Trump seek to revise the remedies. The...
Tomorrow, we in the US celebrate Thanksgiving. So today seemed like a good time for me to recognize the people and technologies in the software development world that I’m most thankful for. I’m thankful for Alan Turing and computer programming I don’t think many folks ...
The ability to perform multiple operations simultaneously is one of the most important aspects of any programming language. Orchestrating multiple paths of execution is inherently complex and there are various approaches to taming this complexity. Kotlin is a JVM language...
Cython is the most convenient way to bridge C and Python languages and tools in Python programs. Developers use it to write C extensions or wrap C libraries for use in Python. Now, a major new release is on the way. While it’s in early stages, Cython 3.1 adds powerful new...
A Trump-endorsed candidate to replace a Congressperson Trump has appointed to his cabinet showed he has zero understanding of the classic Hannukah film or its titular hero, 'The Hebrew Hammer,' and is actually running to be Washington's new Andy Dick. LIKE BOING BOING BUT...
Bang & Olufsen has launched the Beoplay Eleven wireless earbuds, building on its Beoplay EX with upgraded performance and luxurious design. The Danish brand aims to redefine its audio lineup with these new earbuds, offering improved Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), better...
JetBrains plans to drop some scripting-related technologies from the Kotlin language, including REPL functionality, an obsolete API for Java scripting, the KotlinScriptMojo Maven plugin, and the kotlin-scripting-ide-services library for implementing code completion...
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