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Friday January 10, 2025. 08:29 PM
Netflix's global phenomenon Squid Game owes a debt to a Japanese movie made a quarter-century earlier, as revealed by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz for Tokyo Weekender. Squid Game's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk openly acknowledges drawing inspiration from Battle Royale, the cult 1999...
A golden retriever in constant need of a loving back scratch decided to recruit the newest member of the family — a baby girl minding her own business on the couch. The doggo knew just what to do, practically sitting in her tiny lap as he began 'training the little human,' ...
Daniel Wirtz thought he was watching a child prodigy at work. The 9-year-old girl on a German game show was solving complex spot-the-difference puzzles in seconds. 'To my eye, both images looked exactly the same,' Wirtz writes in his blog. — Read the rest The post The trick ...
'H. Jon Benjamin's two animated comedies — one full of sex jokes, the other meant for parents to watch with kids — intersected in a 2013 Archer where an amnesiac, mustachioed Sterling finds himself working at a burger restaurant with a wife and kids who look an awful...
[UPDATE Jan 10, 2025 12:14P M. Kaim posted a followup to LinkedIn: 'The university has determined that I have satisfactorily complied with their request to take down the site, and I've said publicly that I do not plan to pursue anything like HuskySwap, so the hold has been...
The new 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 is the company's most powerful and expensive model yet. We first announced Raspberry Pi 5 back in the autumn of 2023, with just two choices of memory density: 4GB and 8GB. Last summer, we released the 2GB variant, aimed at cost-sensitive...
These compelling photos show curved icicles hanging off rooftops. Curved icicles are the result of gravity causing the icicles to form pointed inwards, towards the houses they're attached to. These icicles have a lot of attitude due to their bent shapes, and are fun to look ...
The Yangwang U9, by Chinese automaker BYD, is an all-electric supercar. With a top speed of 244 miles per hour, it is the fastest production vehicle made in China. It can also detect and jump over obstacles. In this video from CarNewsChina, the U9 hops over a giant pothole...
It's official: NVidia's RTX 5090 and 5080 will be out imminently, with the 5090 commanding a head-spinning $1,999 price tag. More economical 5070 and 5070 Ti options will follow in a couple of months; the 5070 will be a relatively modest $549. — Read the rest The post RTX 50...
In a 5-4 split, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Donald Trump can be sentenced following his conviction in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Two of the court's conservatives, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined the liberals in...
TL;DR: Upgrade by downsizing with the NanoPhone, a mini smartphone that's only $89.97 (reg. $199). Check out this tiny phone! The NanoPhone looks like an iPhone and works like an Android, but it's only 3.5 inches long. Whether you want a beater phone you can take anywhere, a...
YouTube has no shortage of videos of bassheads beating the snow by cranking up their car stereos. Enjoy a few below. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! It's nice to know these extreme subwoofers have a purpose beyond annoying other...
Thursday January 9, 2025. 11:17 PM
The ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury yesterday for the sixth time, just 183 miles above the planet's north pole. The images it returned to us capture the breathtaking awe and cinematic drama reminiscent of a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey. — Read the rest ...
TL;DR: Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is your all-in-one productivity suite for PC or Mac—just $159.97 for lifetime access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. If you're still wrestling with outdated software or hopping between free tools that never...
Conservative weirdos are blaming things they consider to be liberal politics as the cause of the massive firestorm currently destroying swaths of Los Angeles. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Steve Harvey is aghast [image or embed] — The Daily ...
Stanford University houses what may be the world's largest online collection of tobacco advertisements — over 62,000 scans spanning three centuries that tell a fascinating story of how the industry shaped public perception of smoking. The Stanford Research into the Impact...
You can't blame Michelle Obama for bowing out of former President Jimmy Carter's funeral today. She had a 'scheduling conflict,' after all. Or perhaps a seating conflict, as it were, as she was scheduled to sit right next to Donald Trump at D.C.'s — Read the rest The post T...
Residents of Jefferson County, Missouri were flabbergasted by the sight of a monkey in a pink tutu frolicking on the side of a busy road. Curiously, the monkey was wearing a pink tutu. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! — Read the rest ...
Federal prosecutors have indicted three executives of PageTurner Press and Media in what authorities describe as a sophisticated fraud scheme that fleeced authors out of millions between 2017 and 2024. According to the federal indictment filed December 20 in the Southern...
Ableton's Learning Synths website has a bunch of in-browser widgets that explain sound synthesis and make fun noises. WeeeewiwiwiWIWIWIWIWIEEERRRRRR, etc. On this website, you'll learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths). No prior experience or equipment is...
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