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Wednesday November 27, 2024. 12:57 PM
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 ...
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...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! With their distinctive duck-billed profile and boxy posterior, they're not the sleekest beasts on the road. But the new electric mail trucks are immediately the joy of those tasked with riding them. —...
TL;DR: Check out now to save over 30% on the ultimate oral care upgrade—this set is only $49.97 (reg. $79) ahead of Black Friday. If you've ever dreaded going to your bi-annual teeth check-up, you're not the only one. — Read the rest The post This electric toothbrush and...
Former millionaire Rudy Giuliani fell into panic mode outside a New York City courthouse today, telling reporters that the $146 million defamation judgement against him has cost him everything. In fact, he said, he doesn't even have enough money to flag down a cab. — Read...
Tuesday November 26, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Mini JBL portable speakers are 33% off with this early Black Friday deal — check out now because inventory is extremely low. Your favorite album sounds great…in your car or through your earbuds. But what about when you want to have a shower concert? — Read the rest...
As a longtime fan of Jono Hey's Sketchplanations newsletter, I was happy to get his new book, Big Ideas, Little Pictures. This collection brings Hey's unique style of visual explanation to print, featuring 136 'sketchplanations' in 10 categories (e.g., 'Nature's Nuances,'...
A Trump-aligned charity hosts auctions of 'rescue' puppies previously purchased from puppy mills at Trump properties, proving they can even grift off puppies. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Medias News reports that Trump-aligned 'Moms for...
I'm not saying Hertz is a criminal organization; I'm just saying it behaves like one. In 2022, Hertz falsely accused 230 customers of car theft. Some of the innocent customers were even arrested and jailed. It has a habit of overselling inventory and extorting stuck...
It's a well-known fact that the best escape artists happen to be huskies. And one such doggo astonished his family with a disappearing act that seemed utterly impossible. Trapped inside a patio, his humans were left scratching their heads when the husky, named Bond,...
In 1936, Georgia's Oglethorpe University president Dr. Thornwell Jacobs initiated the creation of the Crypt of Civilization, the world's oldest and largest time capsule. Located in Atlanta's Phoebe Hearst Hall, the vault was sealed on May 28, 1940, with instructions to...
Enthusiastic theatergoer and proud Congressperson from the State of Colorado Lauren Boebert has removed her 'America First pep talks' and offerings from Cameo. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! My money is on fear of an Ethics investigation, but...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blames the Church of England for the country's obesity rates, on the basis that the lack of spiritual nourishment leads people to binge eat. The obvious projection—Boris being an overweight atheist or agnostic with a history of...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! On November 16, neo-Nazi demonstrators who marched through Columbus's Short North area were shocked that people didn't roll out the welcome mat for their swastika-laden parade through the Short North. —...
A man in South Korea is off to jail after gaining weight to avoid being drafted into the military. The man, not named in reports, gained 44 pounds when his number came up. This placed him in a category that allowed him to do the national service required of young people in a ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — the next U.S. health secretary, if Donald Trump has his way — extolls the virtues of heroin as if he were peddling a brain-boosting supplement on QVC. 'I was at the bottom of my class,' he confessed on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast a few months ago, ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Yesterday a redditor named joshcam posted a photo of a coin cell battery with purple colored dots arranged in three concentric semicircles. They posted: To the naked eye, these dots are an iridescent,...
Enough shoes went missing from a kindergarten in Japan's Fukuoka prefecture that staff at the school set up a video camera to see who was taking them. The culprit was soon revealed: a weasel. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? — Read the rest The post Footage exposes...
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 ...
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